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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
ABOUT FOLKS YOU KNOW.
Savannahians and Other People Who
Come and 60.

savannahians and Other People Who
Come and Go.
L. K Dick of Augusta is at the Screven.
c. C.'Stubbs of Augusta is at the Screven.
J. P. Warning Of Charleston is at the Sore
ven.
A. S. Canuet of Guyton is at the Har-
nett
Messrs. r. NJ Fremont and L. L. Owens
of Atlanta are stopping at the Pulaski
House.
Charles B. Stacy of Richmond is at the
Screven.
n. Emanuel of Brunswick is stopping at
the Screven.
E. NJ. Jones of Box Springs is stopping at
the Marshall.
J. F. Gravity Of Townsville is registered
at the Harnett.
j. W. Williams of. Cambellton, S. c., is
at the Harnett.
John g. Solomon of Brighton, S. c., is
at the Marshall.
John G. Solomon of Parachucla, s. c., is
at the Marshall
F. r. Wallace of Quitman is stopping at
the Screven house.
I. j Orr of Davisboro is in the city, stop
ping at the Marshall.
j. ID. Herman OF Eastman is registered
at the Marshall house.
Rufus Carter of Danville is in the city,
stopping at the Screven.
j. II. Blount Of Waynesboro is in the city
registered at the Pulas Il.
Paul f. Canova of Sanderson, Fla, is
registered at the Mars all house.
T. NJ. Willink came up from Brunswick
last night. He is at the Marshall
Col G A. Mercer left for New York last
night via the Atlantic Coast Line.
Messrs. p Miller, NJ. Eadel and w. f.
Ben EFT of Gainesville are guests at the
Pulaski.
Messrs. J. NJ Lawton and r. r. Peoples
Of Lawtonvile, S. c., are stopping at the
Marshall.
MeSsrs. Thomas VI. Barker and Charles
Manigault Of Charleston are registered at
the Marshall.
Howard Tinsle Of Miledgevile arrived
in the city yesterday. He is stopping at
the Marshall.
Mrs. II. H. Smith and Master Cuyler,
wife and son of Capt. H. H. Smith, havo
returned from Rome and will spend the re-
mander of the winter in Savannah. Tdey
are guests Of the Pulaski house.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
THE QUARANTINE wHARvEs.
Better Facilities for the Discharging of
Ballast Needed.

The outcome of the aldermanic visit to
the quarantine wharves last week, it is
understood, will be a recommendation to
the city council by the joint committees on
harbOr and Wharves and health and ceme-
terry for better facilities for the discharge of
ballast from vessels at quarantine The
present facilities are entirely inadequate.
The three wharves which were built last
year on Long Island are insufficient under
the slow method of discharging ballast that
Is now employed.
The sanitary board at its last meeting
recommended to the council the building OF
two additional VIII rves, but the int com
mittees 70 which the recommendation was
referred are Of the opinion hat the present
gharves, with an improved ystem of hoist
ing, are sufficient. What is needed, and
what the c mmlttees win probably recon-
mend is hosting engine and apparatus to
facilitate tue work which IS now done by
hand. and is necessarily slow and unsaUs-
factory.
There are at present three vessels at the
wharyes dischargng ballast, and one at an
Choir in the oliing waiting to discharge. The
wharves are narrow aud extend from the
stream back some 200 or M re feet on the
island. The ballast, after having been hoisted
from the vessel in tubs, Is dumped int
tram cars aud carried back on the
"haryes where it Is piled. Only one hatch
can be discharged a a time and owing to
the narrowneS, OF the 7harves and the un-
evenness of the rough wooden track upon
which the cars are run, req Iiring half a
dozen men to hanlls the car, the work is
tedious and II every way uns itisfactory.
1t takes "a vessel with 200 to 300 tons of
ballast from ten days to two weeks to dis
charge. With an iron or steel rallied track
on the wharves, and with steam hosting
apparatus, the same work could be done in
twenty four to thirty-six hours and with
much less labor on the part of the crew. In
this wav there would be little, if any delay
to vessels through waiting to discharge,
and the work would be quicker done ald in
every respect more satisfactory.
The lack Of facilities at quarantine has
been the subject of a great deal of COM
plant among shipping men, aud there is
little doubt that the council will at once
take steps to secure better facilities and to
improve the wharves 50 that there will be
no cause for further complaint.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
THE SUNDAY REST LAW.
Rev. Wilbur F Crafts Coming to Sc
vannah This Week.

vannah This Week.
Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts will be in Sa-
vannah tomorrow, in the interest of the
Sunday rest law, and will speak at the Inde-
pendent Presbyterian church tomorrow
night The Sunday Rest League has been
formed at Washington. Speaking of the
prospects of organization, Rev. Mr.. Crafts
says:
1.-THE south has better Sabbath obser-
vance than the north, and 50 has been less
active in the movement for Sunday rest, in
which it is hoped to interest thsm for the
sake Of those sectio that are less favored
in this matter. Senators have already for
warded TO their document room nea ly a
hundred THOUSAND requests for free copies Of
the hearing on the Sunday rest bill, and
they are coming in with promise of reach
ing half u mill on--an unprecedented d.
mand for any document on an bipartisan
topic"
The particular object of Mr.. CRAFTS visit
is to ecure as many slgners as possible to a
petition for the passage of the Sunday law
bill, which was read before the Senate Jan.
10 by Senator Culum as a memo ial from
the Woman's CHRISTIAN Temperance Union
Of Illinois, and several other bodies of other
states. The bill is to the effect that the
government cease to run Sunday trains,
drills in the army, and like dissertations OF
the Lords day. The bill was sent by the
Senate to the committee on labor
The following is a copy of he petition to
be signed. Tw1 Of these is given each per-
son, one to be sent to the Senate. and the
other to the House of Representatives:
To the United States Senate: The under
sign d, adult residents of the United States u
years Of age or more, hereby earnestly petition
your honorable body to pass a bill forbiddng
In the nations mail and military service, and in
Interstate commerce, and in the D strict of Co
lumbia and the territories, all Sunday traffic
and work, except works of religion and WORKS
Of real necessity and mercy.
The following is the appeal which accom-
panies the blank:
The American Sabbath Union hereby appeals
to all labor organizations and churches and to
all others who are opposed TO needless Sunday
work, that have not already indorsed the petit
ton to Congress for a national Sunday rest law
to indorse the petition suojoined at the earliest
possible day.
1t is claimed that already fifteen millions
Of names have been signed to the petitions
and sent to Congress
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04

Tie MORNING News is prepared to re-
new expiring yearly advertising contracts
or make new contracts at its usual low
rates for that class Of business Under this
system advertisers can secure a certain
amount Of space in the paper, with the
privilege Of changing the matter from time
to time, as may be agreed upon, at reduced
rates. They can thus keep their business
before the world at all seasons at a nominal
average expense. Newsp lpers can afford
to make liberal concessions to contract ad-
vertisers because Of the regular and in
creased business secured thereby.
few hundred dollars expended yearly
in advertising will make an out-of-the-way
store a good stand for business, and give
the advertiser a name among the energetic
and enterprising business men of the city
and put money in his pocket The success
full men Of to-day are those who invest as
much money in printers INK as they do in
store rents.
The MORNING News circulates every
where in the city, and the country where Sa-
vannah's business mel expect to find buyers
for whatever they have to sell. 1t is read
by rich and poor alike, has thousands Of
readers who never look at any other paper,
and will give better results for money paid
to it for advertising than any other invest
ment business man can make.
While the MORNING NEWS solcits yearly
contracts, it will also be glad to make con.
tracts by the week or month, and also re.
ceiye business for its cheap or zone c ent-a-
Word" columns.
Advertising rates furnished on applica-
ton at the business office, MORNING NEWS
Building, or by calling up telephone 36l.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
PIE EATING RACES FOR N1oKELs.
One of the Things that Negro Boys
Like to Do for Fun.

Among the many phases OF African char
acer the happygo-lucky characteristic is
one Of the most anu ing, and there is no
better opportunity for studying 1t than at
the j notion of the City and Suburban
rail ay at the depot of the company at
Whitaker and Second streets.
At that point the colOred car drivers stop
off trip, and it is amusing to listen TO their
sayings, see them dance, hear them sing and
exchange repartee. Two wags in pal ticular
attracted the attention Of waiting passen-
gers the other day in pie contest witnessed
by MORNING NEWS reporter. Each one
of the negroes had pie about the size Of
dinner plate, and the match was to
determine which could dispose of
his respective pie in the fewest
number of bites. The first pie eater stood
up, and opening his mouth to its utmost
to sion, and with a shout of "Woe-ee,"
closed down on the pie. He bit out about
one-fourth Of the pie at the first jump.
This was repeated thrice more, aud g pie
had disappeared Nickel bets were freely Of
fered, with no takers, thai he would wiz
The other contestant grinned as he crossed
Whitaker street and leaned back against a
tree. As he opened his mouth clear back
to his ears, with an ''ee-oh-ee, " he thurst the
pie between a double row of worries and
bit off third of it.
HE ar guine ter do 1T III free bites, fer er
nickel g." said one of the spectators.
The pe-eater cast glance Of whitening
scorn at the speaker, placed the back of his
head against the tree, and with that same
quaint cry of 'ee-oh-een his mouth began to
open until it looked like its extremities
would meet on the other side of the tree,
and into the almost boundless cavern he
placed the rest of the pie.
Dat niggah could have did it in one
bite" said tue little darky who wanted to
bet a nickel on three bites.
"Dat's de fort pie dis AFTERNOON, said the
pie-eater. "When | is real pie hungry pie
is only one moufful. Yah, YAH
After the pie contest was over a witty
car driver improvsed a song with local
hits which kept the crowd in a roar, and
when he began to personate "Bruvver
Barnum," and his show, doing unheard of
slight-of-hand performances with a pair of
five-pound cobble stones, the boys
fairly howled with deli yht. The enter
tainment wound up with Juba
and breakdown dance, in which the
dancing was fully up to the best seen on
the mi strel stage, and one little darby, not
over years of age, danced like an automa-
ton to the ''pattingn of an older hand at
the business. The author who wrote "there
Is music in a Negroes heel" did
not overshOot the mark. There are
hundreds of negroes in Savannah from
6 years Of age to 60 who can lay over any
of the burnt cork artists on the road, and
the northern tourists drop many nickel in
the caps # the little rascals who dance I'M
der the electric lights Of the hotels to the
music of the French harp, aud dance to the
infinite amusement Of the visitors. As a
daucar the negro is a T1rOdipU
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
PATRICK o'oONNER BURIED.
His Supposed Slayers Arrested and
Taken to Beaufort.

His Supposed Slayers Arrested and
Taken to Beaufort.
The funeral of Patrick r. O'Conner took
place from No. % Gordon street, at 8
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The Ancient
Order of Hibernians escorted the remains
to the Cathedral cemetery, where Rev.
Father Colbert conducted a short funeral
service.
Mrs. O'Conner received information last
night, in answer to dispatch which she
sent the South Carolina officials two days
ago, announcing the death of her husband
and requesting them to hold Barrett and
his fat err from one of her friends who
spent We terday at Vaudeville, that Bar
rett, his father, his cook, Nellie johnson,
his servant, Jack Grant, col red.
and Joe Middleton, all of whom
are charged with being accessories
to the crime, were re-arrested about md
night on Saturday by Justice Haywood at
Hardeeville and were committed to jail at
Beaufort. They were taken up GA the 3
o'clock train yes erdaY afternoon. The
court convenes in Beaufort during the COM
ing week ana it may be possible, Mrs.
O'Couner's friends think, that the grand
jury will deal with the matter in time for
the case to come up during the coming
session
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
Counting the Cost Of War.
From the PhiIddelDhia Times

Four years of the war rendered necessary
to save the . litsd States from dsunion
taught our people a lesson of wars yostli-
ness which will not be forgotten during this
century. We are still paying in interest,
in principal and in pensions the enormous
debt incurred by the war, and will cNntinue
to pay for many years to come. Yet we
know very little Of the costliness Of war In
general When the civil war ended we
quit fighting or pretending to fight. Our
armies were disbanded, our forts dismantled
and suffered to fall into decay, and our
navy was allowed to grow old aud useless.
The %, 900 men composing our army on a
peace footing are scarcely sufficient to police
the frontier and the annual cost of this lit
tie army Is but fraction of the amount we
pay IN pensions to the veterans of the late
war.
In Europe, where the peace footing of the
nations amounts to a virtual preparation
for war at a moments notice, the cost of
military establishments is simply enormous
The Westminster ReuietU rece fly presented
the military statistics Of Europe where no
war is in progress. Its figures show that
$3.50, 5l3 men in the best and m st product
i've period of their lives compose at pre- emit
thu standing armies of Europe. Assumi le
that each of the men thus Withdrawn from
the productive industries is capable of earn
ing IS weekly, the loss from this s URGE
alone amounts to S3,120OOO.0 900. or $780,
600, 900 more than the amount of our public
debt at the clio Q of the civil war. Add to
this as much more for the maintenance of
this vast army and the grand total is some
thing over 1000, 900, 900.
If peace costs Europe $4,000, 000, 900 a
year, what would war cost? At least three
times as much, as the military systems of
its various nationalities provide for putting
1900, 900 soldiers into the field if necessary.
But assuming that the existence of nearly
100000 soldiers ready to kill and be killed
at the tap Of the drum is efficient to secure
perpetual peace in Europe, what shall be
said Of such costly peacemaklng? A system
that withdraws the best life blood of
nation from it's productive industries, I'D
compels the rest Of the nation to support
these men in enforced idleness scar ely
merits the blessing pronounced upon peace
makers
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
FELL FROM THE TENDER.
a Colored Fireman on a Charleston
Train Fatally Injured.

a ColOred Fireman on Charleston
Train Fatally Injured.
A colored fireman named Sanders on
train No 80 on the Charlest IN and Savan-
nah railroad, while tying the bel-rope on
the engine, fell from the tender and was
fatally injured yesterday. The accident
occurred mile this side of Green Pond. The
fireman was not missed until the train had
reached the next station about three miles
this side. The train was backed up to look
for the missing man and he was found in
sensible in a ditch of water by the side Of
the track. He was picked up and brought
to the city.
Upon the arrival of the train, DIR. Dun
can had the wo nded man placed in an
ambulance and taken to the Georgia In
tirmery, where an examination was made.
The fireman's back was broken and he was
badly bruised about the head and shoulders
The train mon say that Sanders was tying
the bell rope, which had become unfastened
when the wood in the tender on which he
was standing gave way and preciptated
him TO the ground. The train was running
at full speed, and the man was thrown some
distance from the track
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
HOW HE LOST HIS TICKER.
Friends Who Explained They Were
Taking Care of 1t for Frank"

Friends Who Explained They We're
Taking Care of 1t for Frank"
Two men, giving their names as Mcdowell
and Gray, we're arrested Saturday night by
Officer H. NJ. Morgan, assisted by Detective
Basch, ana were lodged in the barracks
Their actions were so suspicious over a man
sitting on q stoop overcome by liquor that
Officer Morgan charged them at the time
with trying to go through the clothing Of
the intoxicated man, which they iudig-
nantly denied. Morgan took the inebriate
to the barracks, where ne evinced as much
signs Of having been drugged as of being
intoxicated. He rallied sufficient t.
state that he had watch and
chain and some "a or So on
his person. AS these articles were miss
ing and he could give no intelligent ac-
count Of their disappearance, Officer Morgan
and Detective Basch started out to look for
the two men who had been seen fooling
about the prisoner. When found aud
ordered under arrest one of them spoke up
and said, taking the articles from his
pocket, "he'e is watch and chain and
knife our friend Frank gave me to take
care of for him. The officers were not
satisfied with the explanation and conveyed
the two men to the ba racks where they
will have a hearing this morning on a
charge of larceny from the person. The
watch chain is of gold and the watch a
silver one
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
e. g. KIRKLAND CLOSED UP.
One of the Alleged Sweinsboro lRob-
bers i'll lore Trouble

DcAb III LII = 4 4 CACAN'
The developments ii the Rountree rob
berry in Emanuel county on Jan. 10 seem
TO have affected the business of L. S. Kirk
land in this city. He was one of the par
ties under arrest for alleged completely in
the robbery. Allen Rougtree was robbed
of s. 100, Of which 81 800 was in gold and
81 100 in 500 bills OF this amount, as
stated in the MORNING News, 81 1913 were
recovered but when the time came on for
an examination of those no we're sus-
pected Of knowing all about the robbery
the prisoners, among whom was h. ;.
Rountree. were discharged.
+. S. Kirkland was, al the time of the
robbery, proprietor Of a saloon at No. lS4
st. Julian street in this city, and was on a
visit to relatives in Emanuel county about
the time Of the robbery. Since that time
ho has not been seen here, and on Thursday
last the creditors Of Kirkland bad alta h.
ments issued from Justice Russelrs office for
their claims. they we g none to soon
alb ut it, for on the following day Mr.. Dan
iels, the counsel for the Kirklands during the
investigation, came down to savanna with
power of attorney to take charge Of KIRK
lands stock. He found it closed no and IN
the hands Of the levying officer, with claims
for a debt due F. H. Ward, represented BY
Lester &, Ravenel, claim for debt due
Ehrlich 81 Bro, represented by 0arcard q
Meldrim. aud rent lien IN favor of James
McIntyre.
The heaviest claim is that of Mr.. Ward,
Of whom kirkland bought between $500 and
$500 worth Of goods, of which he had only
paid about one-flurth. 1t is understood
that the stock has been so far depleted that
it will not bring over $3.50 to 5000, and when
court costs are deducted aid attorneys fees
paid the creditors are not likely to realize
much out of their attachments.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
ONE HUNDRED MORE
Mathushek Pianos for Savannah

Mathushek Pianos for Savannah.
Notwithstanding the large number of our
special offer-$325 Mathushek Pianos
placed in Savannah homes since August
last, the demand still keeps up, and up to
date has &C tually exceeded the supply.
Mathushek Pianos are tavorites wherever
pianos are sold and the factory has for
months been b hind on orders for all styles,
so that we have been unable to get over
half we wanted.
Our order for ONE HUNDRED MORE
MATHUsHEKs has been in some time, and
they are beginning to come along freely.
T o trouble is over, and the disturbance
will now commence.
One hundred homes to be made happy,
and that right early.
s. cash aud 81 weekly, until 1925 is paid,
will secure genuine $500 Piano, guaran-
teed from the ground up, and good for
lifetime
$40 actually saved. No mistake or ex-
aggeTation about this statement. We mean
just what we say. ONE HUNDRED OF these
particular Pianos are to-day ia Savannah
homes, aud one hundred more are going in
quickly.
Cal aud see the greatest Piano ever sold
for 1925 by any house in the United States.
Aud it's a MATHUsHEK. Sold ny
LuDDEN a. BATES ). NJ. II.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
IN cARoL1NA,s CHIEF CITY.
Happenings on the Other Side Of the
Savannah

The old Charleston B ok and Tract So
clety, established In 1921, has been reorgan-
lied under very suspicious circumstances.
The contract for the new revenue cutter
to be stationed at Charleston has been
awarded, and the vessel is to be completed
by August l.
An investigation is being made by the
citizens Of Charleston concerning the recent
importation of Swedish emgrants for work
at the Bradley phosphate mines. These
men are, it is stated, scattered over this
neighborhood, aud have bean found in twos
and threes, some OF them in most pitiable
condition
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
The Emma Ahbott Onera.

The sale Of seats for the Abbott opera
season next week, six nights and two matt
nees, will open on Thursday morning, Feb.
Z, at the usual place. Matinee seats will be
put on sale together with the night SALE so
that parties making sci ections can purchase
all at the same time. The season will ope n
next Monday evening, Fob II, with Rose
Of CASTLE, one u the most beautiful operas
N the AbbU't rsnertoire Of forty.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
BRISK FEBRUARY WEATHER.
Cold In the Northwest and Fast and
Showing in New England.

Cold In the Northwest and Fast and
Showing in New England.
The weather was much warmer yesterday
than the two days previous, the maximum
temperature being 56.5' and the minimum
AZ. Pedestrians took advantage Of the
balmy air, ande,he streets and park we're
full Of promenaders.
The temperature is low in the northwest
and the New England states, the mercury
being down TO 10 at Marquett. Mich, 1T 5
o'clock last night, and Ia at st. Vincent.
IL was clear last night in the South Atlantic
and Eastern Gulf states. cloudy and raining
in the Western Gulf states aud showing in
the New England states aud upper lake
region The indications f1r to-day are:
Fair, warmer weather and southwestesly
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