The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-28
SEIZURE OF THE CAROLINA.
Some of the Ways whisky Gets Into
Carolina.

Carolina.
The Morning News Charleston dispatch.
| yesterday, giving an account of the seiz-
ure of a lot of whisky from the schooner
| Carolina at Charleston, supposed to have
been shipped from this city. caused con-
siderable talk among the wholesale liquor
| trade. Inquiry among the liquor dealers
| failed to discover who shipped the goods.
All Of the dealers acknowledged that they
had frequently filed orders for whisky to
! be shipped to Carolina, but none had any
knowledge of the schooner load which
had been seized.
The News and Courier of yesterday stat
ed that the liquor seizure is worth prob
ably $780, and with the schooner, will be
held under the dispensary law.
The Carolina is a two masted schooner
about sixty feet long. She has been en-
gagged in the coasting trade for some years
and is owned principally in Charleston.
She left here last Saturday morning, but
her departure was not attended by any
demonstration; in fact, she was like unto
the ships that pass in the night" and no
body saw her pass.
~ - a wei hilpWH TACT IndL the trade
in liquor between Savannah and South
Carolina has been going on for some time
but the greatest precaution has been OBJ
served by the dealers. The arrival and
| departures of the small craft engaged in
| this trade are seldom moored along the
| principal wharves in front of the city.
| They tie up at some distance above the
/ city or along the river between the city
and Thunderbolt where they take their
| cargo marked bacon" lard" Shoes"
clothing" etc, and slip away quietly.
/ Detectives from South Carolina are fire.
quently seen along the wharves, in search
of falsely packed stuff" but the Ship
pers" have been too sharp for them.
1t was stated in the Charleston dispatch
that the cargo and vessel are worth over
$500. and that the loss of the whisky
would fall on the consignors at Savannah.
The latter is scarcely a fact, as all of the
dealers here claim that, although they
have frequently sold liquor to parties in
South Carolina, they invariably get cash
for the goods or have a contract that
their responsibility for the delivery of them
falls upon the purchaser after they leave
the warehouses in Savannah. These ship
ment by the Carolina might have been
from some northern point, and delivered to
the schooner here, as the Savannah deal
ers deny having any knowledge of it, A
case of this kind was cited by a drummer
for Louisville, KY, whisky house yes
| terday. He said his house recently shipped
several barrels of liquor to {. point on the
railroad just across the border from South
Carolina, where the parties for whom il
was intended went in the night and hauled
it away, after paying the draft which was
attached to the bill of laden
other means of getting whisky into
South Carolina have been taken. Ere
quently carriage is driven up to a whole
sale liquor house, with a trunk on the
drivers FTba 80
rage alights and orders his trunk to be
placed in the Office Of the merchant, while
he goes of to purchase some new "clct hes''
for himself and family At night the
hackman takes the traveller back to the
train-the trunk goes, too-its rather
heavy with the weight of the clothing. but
an extra quarter satisfies the hackman,
and the baggageman checks the trunk at
the depot unsuspectingly..
The cargo of whisky which was seized
at Charleston, was sent to Columbia and
will be converted into Straight goods
to be dealt out in regulation bottles to
those who respect the dispensary laws.
The captain and crew of the Carolina were
taken before a magistrate on a war-a Mt
served by Constable Levy, charged with
violating section 80 of the dispensarv
law. They gave bonds and were released.
The schooner is held by the authorities
and win probably be advertised as confs-
Gated and sold in a few days. The section
under which the Carolina is held refers
to seizure Of vehicles or any means used
in transportation Of contraband whisky.
In Vienna they still talk in whispers
about the tragic death of Prince Rudolf
and no one dares TO refer only to it as a
case Of suicide.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt is munifcent
in her charities and untiring in her good
works but she does not go upon the house
tops to advertise what she is doing for the
poor. !