davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
$4,000 FOR A HUSBAND.
A Verdict Against the Ocean Steam
ship Company.

A Verdict Against the Ocean steam
ship Company.
Asjury in the city court last night rem
dered verdict for 81, 500 damages in favor
of Elizabeth Burns (colored), as against the
Ocean Steamship Company for the death
of her husband. The plaintiff was repre-
sented by P. w. Meldrim, and LawtoH &
Cunningham conducted the defense. The
case occupied the entire session yesterday
and went to the jury after o'clock last
night.
The suit was for $4,000 damages for the
death of Anthony Burns, late husband of
the plaintiff. Burns was a longshoreman
employed in unloading the cargo of the
steamship Dessoug on Feb. 81 last While
he was engaged in the hold of the ship
there was being hauled up by chain two
car wheels and an axle. The plaintiffs
claimed that the chain was, by the negli-
gence and default of the company, con-
structed unsafely, was in bad repair, unfit
for use, and of defective and improper ma
terial, and was In an unsafe condition, caus-
ing 1t to break and give way, the car wheels
and axle falling upon Burns, killing him.
Burns was 40 years old, and as he was earn
ing 81 rs d. at the time of his death, the
probable duration of life, and his earning
opacity figured in the trial Judge Har-
den, in charging the jury, gave some figures
OF his own compilation on the subject.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08

board of naval officers, appointed TO ex-
anime and report on ties for navy yard on
the South Atlantic coast, and which visited
Savannah, that there is reason TO believe
that the members Of the board are i'm
pressed with the advantages OF the port for
the navy yard site.
Improvements for the quarantine station,
the president said. are urgently needed. The
new station on COckspur Island should be
ready TO receive vessels by the beginning
OF the next cotton season.
THE BAGGING QUESTION.
The use during the present season Of two
kinds Of coverings for cotton differing ma
terially in weight, strength, and text
ure, the president says, has caused
no little Inconvenience. The exchange
had the matter brought TO its
attention early III the season by the Liver
pool exchange in letter, in which cotton
b6gging was condemned. The directors
caused letter to be addressed to the Liver
pool exchange, in which it was pointed out
that the farmers had already decided to use
cotton bagging; that the adverse opinion OF
trade organizations would not prevent it:
and the Liverpool exchange was asked
TO take such action as would
result in a fair adjustment of the
question of tare so that there might be no
discrimination against cotton baggi1g.
Inls the Liverpool exchange and the ex-
changes in other controlling markets de-
cllned to do. Until the matter of tsre is
adjusted In controlling markets no change
can be made here in the custom of selling
cotton by gross weight.
IN A PROSPEROUS CONDITION.
The president alluded to the fact that the
business transactions in the exchange dur
ing last year were characterized by harmony
and concord. Nothing, he says, has been
more characteristic of the history of the
exchange, and possibly nothing has con-
trlouted more TO its influence and use
fuiness than the cordial relations
which have always existed between
the members If these relations
have been temporarily disturbed by
differences of opinion in tho conduct of our
affairs, or by rivalries which are insepara-
BILE from active competition, whatever
feeling has been engendered has passed
away with the occasion which gave rise to
It, With such kindly relations among its
members the exchange enters the eighteenth
year OF its existence with good promise of
continued success and of enlarged useful
ness
The entire physical affairs of the ex-
change are in fairly prosperous condition.
During the year twenty-one members and
attorneys were received, two members died,
and eleven members and attorneys resigned
ana withdrew, leaving a net gain of eight
during the year. The total number of
members and attorneys is now 1874, the
largest number reported in the last five
wears
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
CITY BREVITIES.

The Oglethorpe Club held its anniversary
celebration last night at the clubs rooms on
Bull street.
The Jasper Mutual Loan Association will
hold its ninety-fifth monthly meeting at
No. 1856 Bay street night.
The new band was organized at Armorv
hall last night with twenty-five members.
The first rehearsal will be held next week.
1t is semi-officially stated that out of re-
spect to the distinguished guests who will
honor the city next week, there will be no
artillery punch offered during the visit of
the legislature. This is not prohibition, but
precaution.
A coiored man working on board the
British steamship Sapphire, lying at
Lamar's press wharf, yesterday evening
was struck by bale of cotton, which was
being hoisted into the hold of the vessel.
and knocked against the combing of E
hatch, crushing and bruising him consid :
erably. He was sent to his home
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
ALL THE BIDS REJECTED.
THE CITY's PROPOSITION TO THE
BRUSH LIGHTING COMPANY.

II the Company Will Cancel It's Pree-
ent Contract the City VIII Enter
Into Four Years Contract for 200
Lights at $4,000 a Year - The
Proposition Compromise in the
Council.
A special meeting Of the council was
held last night, and after a lengthy caucus,
at which the street lighting question was
exhaustively discussed, the council rejected
ali the bids for street and lane illumination,
after taking them from the table where
they had been laid at previous meeting,
and the follonin resolution by Alderman
Cam was unanimously adopted:
RESOLVED. That all bids for lighting the city.
now before council, be rejected, and that the
contract be offered TO the Brush Electric and
rover Company for furnishing 200 lights of 600
cdnuIe power each, standard, for a term of four
years from the first day of January, 1890, at the
rate OF $4,000 per annum, under the specifica-
lions upon which the bids have been based pro-
Vl1ea tnat tins company will agree to the can
collation. OF the existing contract under which
the city is now being lighted.
A MORNING News reporter, in interviews
with Mayor Schwarz and Aldermen Nc
Donough, Cam and Falligant, after council
adjourned, learned that the action of coun-
Gil was not based upon any previous under
standing with, or proposition from, the
Brush company, but that the resolu-
ton was rather the outgrowth of
a compromise among the members of
the council. They were not prepared
to say that the utimatum of
the council will be accepted by the Brush
company, but 1t is believed that the propo-
sition will be accepted. The figures fixed
by the city are said by the members of the
council to be about 81 900 lower per annum
than the bid which the Brush company
made.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
ARCHITECT PRESTON SICK,

He VIII Start for Savannah Next Week
If He is Well Enough to Travel.
Architect Preston is expected here some
time during next week. A private letter
received here yesterday stated that Mr..
Preston had been i'll for some time, but that
he has recovered sufficiently to be up, and
ne expects to leave Boston next Tues
day or Wednesday for Savannah. He
will have two or three matters
to engage his attention here. He will in
spect the work en- the De Soto, and also on
the court house, and will meet the building
committee of the Independent Presbyterian
churco. 1t is understood chat the esti-
mates are being received by the committee
as rapidly as possible, and it is thought that
they will all be in by the time Architect
Preston arrives.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
PREPARING FOR ITS GUESTS.
The City to Be IN Trim for the Legisla-
tors Next Week.

The City to Be IN Trim for the Legisla-
tors Next Week.
The general committee of citizens charged
with arranging the prellminaries for the
reception of the legislative visitors next
week met at the city exchange yesterday
noon to decide what committees shall be
charged with invitations to citizens to par
tcipate in the railroad excursions to Tybee
on the first day and the excursion by river
on the second day.
it was decided that all local invitations to
the Iybee excursion should be extended By
the Iyoee excursion committee, of which
Capt. ID. Il. Purse is chairman, and all local
invitations to the steamship excursion
should be extended by the river excursion
committee, of which Gen. G.. M. Sorrel Is
chairman The general committee on in
vltation, composed of Mayor Schwarz and
Messrs. F. d. Bloodworth and John R.
Young, has nothing to do with the local in-
vitations, its province being to invite guests
from abroad.
Gen. A. H. Lawtou has been invited to
deliver the speech of welcome to the visit
ors in behalf Of the people of Savannah.
The guests will meet at Masonic hall, at
Whitaker and Liberty streets, at 8 o'clock
Tuesday morning, whore the address of
WeiCOtno Will De delivered, dIter Wnlch the
programme, heretofore published in the
MORNING NEWS, will be carried out.
There will be joint meeting, at the city
exchange at noon to-day, of the joint COM
mittees on invitation, reception, accommo-
dations and conveyances to complete the
details of the programme.
The general committee on invitation has
not ascertained exactly how many men,
bers of the general assembly will be here.
There is one gentleman, however, who says
positively that he will report for duty. He
is Representative Alfred of Plckens county.
Representative Alfred is veteran legisla-
tor. He was a member of the House in
1851, and although 81 summers and
winters have passed over his
head he has not yet forgotten the visit which
that legislature paid Savannah Brother All
red is now one of the pillars of the religious
| community of Pickens, although his name
| is not built so as TO create that impression,
but in his younger days when the fires of
youth burned vigorously he doubtless. like
| the majority Of mortals, had good time
when the opportunity offered. In fact,
| Brother Alfred says he knows he had good
| time in Savannah in 1851, but what it con-
sisted Of he don't exactly remember 1t is
| so long ago that it is difficult for his men,
ory to serve him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
COURT Officials Complimented.

United States Deputy Clerk Gillespie was
complimented upon the manner in which
he discharged the duties of his office in the
court room yesterday morning. 1t was his
first time to administer the oath to the
jury, but he had memorized the form and
went through without a halt.
Judge Speer took occasion, in an inter-
view with a MORNING NEWS reporter, to
compliment United States District ATTORNEY
Erwin, whom, he says, has been making q
good record since his promotion to the
office. Judge Speer says that MIR. Erwin
has been quite successful, and is well posted
on federal law
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
Must Remove the Debris.

Health Officer Drummer informs the
MORNING NEWS that he has notified the
underwriters that they must remove the
decaying vegetable matter from the ruins
of the compress property of the Savannah
Cotton Press Association. This refers to
unburned cotton and the unconsumed lutte
bagging which was long submerged, and
the offensive smell from which debris COM
plant was lodged with Alderman Harris.
chairman of the health and cemetery com
mittee of the council
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
THE GOOD TEMPLARS.

Christian Temple Lodge Installs
Officers for the Next Term.
Christian Temple No. GO of Good
Templars installed the following officers
last night:
Chief Templar-O. b. Perry.
Vice Templar-Miss Annie Carr.
Past Chief Templar-C. c. Hill.
Recording Secretary-H. S. Purse,
Financial Secretary-Mrs NJ. E. Hill.
1reasurer-Mrs. A. O'Rear.
Chaplain--Mrs. NJ. j. Carr.
Marshall. L. Stokes.
Deputy Marshal-Mrs. Forsyth.
Guard-Joseph Carr.
Right Supporter-Mrs. f. B. Strate
Left Supporter-Mrs. o. B. Perry.
Orgauist--J. s. Evans.
The installation was conducted by Deputy
Grand Chief Templar j. S. Evans.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
CITY COUNCIL MATTERS.

Alderman Falligant's City Assess
ment Ordinance.
Alderman McDonough offered a resolu-
ton in the city council last night instruct
ing the committee on assessments to assess
all improvements, not heretofore assessed,
in accordance with the existing ordinances.
The resolution, on Alderman CAMS
motion, was referred to the committees on
finances and assessments.
The ordinance of DR.. f alligant, provid-
ing for the remodeling of frame houses in
the fire district, after amendments was laid
on the table,
Permission was granted the Wilcox &
Gibbs Guano Company to construct a
vault under the street fronting their now
building nearly completed on Bay street.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
LOCAL PERSONAL
Dan of Bailey is in town.


L J. Leavy of Brunswick is here.
W. ID. Deane Of Atlanta is in the city.
Lewis I. Goodrich of Atlanta is here.
William Alderman of Melrose is here.
j. p. Coffee Of Offerman is in the CITY.
H ii. Sharp Of Valdosta is in the city.
j. p. Hill of Perry, s. c., is in the city.
ID. G. Carmichael of Manor is in the city.
W. B. Ellington of Saussy is in the CITY.
P. J. Palmer of Davisboro Is in the city.
G. D. Parker of Richmond is in tie citys
r. p. Dnss of Thomasville is in the CITY.
r. J. Patterson of Doctortown is in the
city
r. F. Hensalt Of Waynesboro is in the
city.
B. F. Coleman of Swainsboro is in the
city.
J. F. Weissinger of Charleston is in the
city.
Max Low came up from Brunswick yes
terday.
M. G. and j. NJ. Powell Of Pearly are in
the city.
F. c. Shepard came up from Pensacola
last night.
Taylor Bum and son, of Waresboro, are
in the city.
W. L. Story and R. L. Miller of Hepzibah
are in the city.
Edward Brinding of San Antonio, Tex,
is IN Savannah.
George P. Howard came down from At
lanta yesterday.
c. B. Parker of Longview came up to Sa-
vannah yesterday.
L. +. Davis and family returned from
Atlanta yesterday.
Judge John G. Coleman came in from
Swainsboro yesterday.
w. j. Evans and wife, of Barlow, are
guests of the Marshall.
A. w. Terrell and wife, of Lynchburg,
are guests Of the Pulaski.
William Letford and wife came into the
city from Bryan county yesterday.
Mrs. c. A. Reitze left for New York yes.
terday, via the Atlantic Coast Line.
Ex-Congressman Witthorne of Tennessee
is q patient at the Savannah hospital.
Miss Dora Smith and w. F. Symons, Of
Brunswick, are guests of the Marshall.
W. R. Kelly, w. B. Meyers and j. F.
Wood OF Blackville, s. c., are in the city.
Thomas Staufield and son and Miss Ii. M.
Whittier, of Fort Meade, Fla, are in the
city.
G. L. Livingston, and wife and w. s.
- Va At~A AOhf ehAO 6uOoOo VI bl0 L u
laski.
Miss Eva Meyer Of New York is visiting
her aunt, Mrs. F. Cohen, on McDonougR
street.
J. T. Donaldson, I. E. Lanier, G. R.
Youmans and d. Salisbury of Waycross
are in the city.
Capt. John Snyder, who spent the sum.
mer Ia Michigan and Pennsylvania, re-
turned yesterday.
Capt. John Lawton and daughter, Pauline,
and Miss Lizzie Morrison of Lawtonville.
s. e., are guests of the Marshall house.
Cards are out for the marriage of Mr..
Lawrence 7. Doyle and Miss Annie E,
Mccormick at St Patrick's church Thurs
day afternoon, Nov. IA, at o'clock.
Col r. d. Walker returned yesterday
from Charleston, where be went to spend
the gala week. He expected to remain
until Saturday, but some indiscriminative
person picked lis pocket and he concluded
to return to Savannah, where pickpockets
are unknown-at this season.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
First-Class Pianos,

When examining Jirst-clasS pianos re-
member the following improvements: LIST.
Steel frame (pot from. I'd. Steel agraffes
mot brass or IRON. Sd. Moth and water
proof hammers; body of all gray color,
with white tips. 4th. Hammer rail, upon
which the hammers rest and operated by
the soft pedal, made out of steel, with hard
wood filling. These are part of thirty five
patents only found in SteinCay pianos.
Prices not higher than other first-class
pianos, and still superior to all others; the
best an the world.
SCHEINER'S Music House
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
At Lowell g. I.attimoro,s

Persons in want of all kinds of articles
for domestic use will, without doubt, find a
larger and better variety at Lowell & Lat
timore's than elsewhere in the city. This
firm, in connection with its hardware trade
makes a prominent leader of stoves and
ranges, having had for many years the sole
agency OF such celebrated goods as the
Farmer Girls, Acorns and others, for wood,
coal, oil, etc. Handling such large uuan-
tity Of stoves necessitates their going ex-
tensively into every style of kitchen ware.
household hardware, etc. A visit to their
stores will repay auy one.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
S57,S77 10 S52,25O SO


For the month of October the Savannah
Office RENTED s13,376 II to Washington,
including repositories, while the Macon of
flee, for comparison, RENTED only 8, 2S4 81.
The increase In the Macoa office, whose ap-
preparation was S129, 900, while Savannah's
is Sl65, 900. IS 81, 600 more than for the same
time last year, while the increase in the
Savannah Office receipts are more than
5000 for the same length of time. The
number Of employees in the Macon office is
eighteen, while thirty-five are employed in
the Savannah office. This number does not
include the postmaster.
Savannah is the depository for over 500
small Offices in the southern and southwest
ern portion of the state.
While the receipts of the Savannah Office
appear very large, Assistantant Postmaster
Waring, who made out the above state
ment, said that the receipts from the special
request stamped envelopes is not included.
This included, he said, will swell the re-
ceipts up to $500 more per month.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
Abraham Minis Funeral,

The remains Of Abraham Minis, who died
in New York the day before yesterday, left
that city yesterday in charge of his son,
A Minis, Jr., and accompanied by Mrs.
Minis and her two daughters. The body is
expected to reach Savannah by the At
lantic Coast Line tomorrow morning, and
If there is no delay in arrival, the funeral
services will be conducted Sunday after
noon at 3 o'clock at the family residence,
No. "a Jones street. The interment will be-
in the family vault at Laurel Grove Gem
etery
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
INJURED BY A RUNAWAY.

Port Warden Virgins Knocked Down
and Considerably Hurt.
Capt. Louis Virgins, one of the port
wardens of the city, was painfully but not
seriously bruised yesterday afternoon by a
runaway team. Capt. Virgins was crossing
Bay street in front of the city exchange,
when horse attached to sulky. owned
by Mr.. Strobhar, clerk on the Bay, came
dashing madly dowa the street. The sulky
struck Capt. Virgins on the shoulder, knock
ing him down, and one of the wheels ran
over him. He was picked up in an uncon-
scious condition, but soon revived from the
shock. The horse was stopped couple of
bl1cks away, and no damage was done to
the Sulky
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
Shot in the Foot.

John Coxy (colored), living at::Eden, on
the Central railroad, was taken to the Geor-
gia Infrmary yesterday with a gun-shot
wound in his left foot. The wound is a
serious one, and the physicians have been
unable to extract the bullet. Coxy said
that two colored boys were skylarking with
winchester rifle when the gun discharged,
the bullet taking effect in Coxy's foot.
Coxy was some distance from the gun when
it was discharged. The bullet will be re-
moved TODAY
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
A Splendid VintnRa.

Dispatch frsns RetnpS, NoU. 5. 1888.
This years vintage of Champagne has
been completed, and has also produced such
excellent wines that the decade of 1880 to
1890 will show more fine vintage, than any
other. Among the largest buyers, the
house which secured the most desirable
growths, and whose cellars since the cele-
brated 1884 vintage hold the finest and
largest stock in the entire Champagne dis
trict, are G.. H. Mumm & Co. The prices
paid throughout are very high.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08

Notice to Contractors and Builders.
have 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-
isfaction than any other lime. ! am also agent
German Portland Clements, Calcinsd Plaster,
Plasber1ng Hair, etc, which can furnish in any
quantity and on short notice. keep on hand the
largest stock In the south of White Pine Doors
Sash, Blinds, Builders Hardware, Paints Oils
Glass. LubPicating Oils, Packlngs Of ell kinds, q
complete assoTement OF steamboat and mill
supplies. Get my prices before purchasing
elsewhere. Estimates cheerfully furnished
ANDRvW HAxzAX
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
PosToFFICE FIGURES.
Big Increase in the Business Of the
Savannah once.

An argument for those who are striving
to secure an increased appropriation for the
new public building to put forward is the
phenomenal growth Of the bust
ness of the Savannah postoffics.
Postmaster Lamar gave a MORNING
News reporter yesterday a comparative
statement of the receipts and expenses Of
the office, so far as the postage part OF it
goes, from the year 1856 up to the present
year and up to the present month.
For 1856 the gross receipts Of the Office
were $63, 40 50; the net receipts for the
same year were $40, 7S5 n.
For 1887 the gross receipts were 500, 5O7 "a
and the net receipts $41, 233 80.
For 1888 the gross receipts were S12, 246 50
and the net receipts $500 40.
The following, for 1889, shows the receipts
for each month compared with the same
months in 1888:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
A Pointer for Notarias.

1t appears that several commerce ial
notaries public are acting officially since
the expiration of their time, and this fact
having come to the knowledge of Clerk
Carr of the superior court. he gives them
notice to examine the date of their commits
sions, as they cannot act legally after the
commission expires without reappointment.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
WEDDINGS.

Wedding invitations and cards printed or en-
graved at the shortest notice and in the latest
styles. we carry an extensive and well selected
stock of fine papers, envelopes and cards es-
pecially for such orders. Samples sent on an.
plication. MORNING NEWS Printing House,
Vannah, Ga
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
Covering Up the Walls.

Supt, Peck is having the walls of the pub
lie building covered over with weather
boards so that the material will not be
damaged by the weather. The material
necessary to complete the walls up to the
first floor level continues to arrive, and is
being stored away under the shed in the
yard. Lane & Maluatti, the contractors,
are now in Washington. but they are ex-
pected back this week, when Supt. Peck
will settle with them for the work so far
completed
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
The Hayward Hand Grenade.

The Hayward hand grenade for extin-
gushing fires, advertised in another col
umn, is glass globe containing a pint or
more of a chemical fluid which generates a
volume of fire-extinguishing gas when
brought ia contact with fame 1t is claimed
to be cheap, simple, durable and reliable
fire extinguisher. The price is $40 dozen.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
Shot in Climbing a Fence.

Dick Washington, a colored boy, was
fatally shot on Wednesday on the Spring
field plantation on the Ogeechee river. He
and another negro had been out shooting and
we're returning home, when the gun which
Washington was carrying exploded while
he was getting over fence. He was taken
to the settlement on the plantation and died
during the night