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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

built in Alabama Two cargoes of iron
we're imported through Brunswick for It..
The import duties on these alone was $34,-
000 Previous to 1893 there was duty inn
posed on salt, cotton bagging and ties.
This ran the import duties up considera-
bly,. Since 1898 the importation of these
commodities through Brunswick has been
on the increase. There being no duty on
them, however, they fail to show In this
statement. In the items OF customs du-
ties collected for tonnage tax the decrease
in amounts Is easily accounted for or
late years the tonnage tax on vessels from
many foreign countries has been reduced
from &c per ton. TO &c. On Norwegian YES
sells from the Netherlands, and on German
vessels. this tax has been removed entire
~. Until 1888 tonnage tax was imposed upon
all vessels from foreign countries. Since
then a. has been cut down one-half at
least. The statement in regard 10 exports
for foreign countries is exceedingly cred
table
The figures show slight decrease since
1891, but the decrease in values of commod-
tiles for export, almost one-half. accounts
for that CThe same ratio applied TO 1896
would make an ncreasel. IL will be OBJ
served that the first six months of the fis-
cal year 1897 Is above the average, The
entire record for these months bear evil
dence of a big increase for the year ending
June 20, 1897 over any for five years pre-
vious.
The statement relates solely to the port
OF Brunswick. II is a fact not generally
knov-1 that the business al the support
OF Darien Is almost entirely transacted
through the Brunswick office. All Of Sap
clos Immense lumber shipments are re-
ported to Brunswick through Darien. All
OF Darien's documents are issued at the
Brunswick custom house.
None OF these latter transactions refer
red to are included IN this statement. The
statement Is Of foreign business only.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28
A FINE CHESS PLAYER.
Judge w. w. Montgomery Played
with the Famous MOrphy.
From the Augusta Hers

from the Augusta Herald.
Judge William w. Montgomery, who
died last week, was one of the finest chess
players the south has ever produced, and
a friend hands us the following clipping
published several years ago in The Chess
World, of Washington City:
Judge w. W. Montgomery of Augusta,
recently visited Atlanta and contested
several off-hand games of chess with the
strong players of the local club. He won
about one-haf of the parties, some of
which were hard-fought and interesting.
Judge Montgomery was one of the pio-
neer chess editors in the United States.
He conducted for a year or more the
chess department in Frank Leslie's Illus
trated Newspaper, and was one of the pro-
jectors and liberal supporters of the first
American chess congress.
When Paul Morphy was in New York
soon after the close of this tournament,
enjoying with becoming modesty the
fruits of his triumphs, he played a dozen
or more games with Judge Montgomery,
who was then a brilliant lawyer and lit
erateur of the metropolis, first at the odds
of a knight and later at the odds of pawn
and two moves. Honors were about even
ly divided, the youthful champion pro-
nouncing his erudite antagonist one of
the ablest players he had met among the
New York amateurs.
Montgomery moved to the south and
was elected one of the associate justices
of the supreme court of Georgia. For
many years he has been esteemed one of
the ablest and purest jurists in the United
States. He is a polished gentleman, and
his learning knows no bounds. Despite
the fact that for d quarter of a century
he has practically eschewed the game, he
is to-day a player of great ability. He is
a proponent of the Morphy school of chess
and holds its founder to be facile princeps
among the masters of our royal game.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28
BALTIMORE'S BALL CLUB.
The Itinerary of the Spring Trip of
the ChamniOns.

INV
Baltimore Md. Jan. 27.-Manager Han
lon has completed his schedule for the
spring trip and exhibition games Of the
champion base ball team. Unless there
should be some unexpected hitch the
itinerary Will be as follows: Leave Balti-
more March H. arriving at Macon, Ga.
Ca the 18th, aud practicing there until the
S'h' games in Savannah, Ga, March Y
aAl ~ Charleston, March 30 and 81; Au-
slsja' Ga April l and .; Atlanta. Ga.
1pIA . and .; Athens. Ca. April 6; Char.
,'.e, ~ G. April z; Richmond, va. April
. ano y Norfolk, Va, April 10; arrive at
,ss.tmore April IL. At Union park. with
.,oIIoik' April Il and 10: with
,,5lacuse' April IA and Is: with Princeton
.G'eTslty April Is; with Toronto April n
r ,- w III Washington with Georgetown
,.....'sis!ty' April 20; at Union Park. with
'eol se'own April u. The championships
son VIII begin April %, and the openinr
,gi,H az Union park will be arranged for
ever before. 'Hdii
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28
RUBBER WORK HANDS STRIKE.
Three Hundred Men Go Out mt the
Factory at Newton.

Bridgeport, Conn. Jan. 27.-Three hun
bred employees of the rubber works in
Newton laid down their tools this morn
ing and left the factory. This was due
to an order received from the executive
committee of the shop union. John Nc
Namara refused TO pay for a piece of
work damaged by him, and was discharg.
ed. The union committee investigated the
case and decided that Mcnamara was aot
to blame. Supt. Sloane refused to remit
the fine and a strike was ordered.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28
SILK FACTORY HANDS STRIKE.
The Demands of the Men Who Went
Out First Acceded to.

Paterson, N. J., Jan. 27.-Three hun
dred and fifty hands employed in the
Phoenix silk mandatory, refused to go
to work this morning
The Golden Rod mill employees were the
first to strike. The employers conceded
their demand by increasing their wages
20 per cent
The Golden Rod workmen winning their
strike, has led the employees in all the 9TH
err factories to believe that they, too, can
get their wages restored to last falls
rate.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28
BRUNswICK's COMMERCE..
IL Is shown In Her Exports and Inn
ports and Her Shipping.

Brunswick. Ca, Jan. 26-Local Gus
toms officials have just completed state
ment Of transactions at the port Of Bruns-
wick for the ten fiscal years ending June
30 1866. In addition to this. the trans
actions from July l, 1896, TO Jan. /, 1897.
are given. This latter statement includes
the first six months Of the fiscal year Of
1897. The abatement reads:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28
sEELEY,s DINNER Ar SHERRy.S
Plea of Not Guilty Entered For the
Accused.

New York. Jan. 27-This afternoon a
lawyer appeared in the general sessions
court and, showing a power of attorney
from Herbert B. Seeley. Theodore Rich
and James Phipps, indicted yesterday in
connection with the Seeley dinner, enter
ed plea of not guilty, with leave to with
draw it and substitute any other motion
he saw fit None of the accused men were
in court. Bail was fixed at $780, and will
be furnished in day or two.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28
Al EARTHQUAKE IN MAINE
"''hias and Adjoining Town. r..,
the Vibrations

90 ''-, mas Me, Jan. 27.-An earthquake
c., was telt here yesterday about II 40
.o - There was a heavy rumbllne.
AKA mat lasted half a minute. II was
ton y.s. IN adjoining towns. The direc-
i'oin The south toward the north.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28
IN THE RAILROAD WORLD.
Matters of Interest to Savannah and
Elsewhere.

Matters of Interest to Savannah and
Elsewhere.
Mr.. A. o. MacDonell, general passenger
agent of the Florida Central and Peninsu-
lar, was here yesterday.
Mr.. Smith d. Pickett general agent for
the Southern at Jacksonville, is in the
city.
Mr.. c. E. Taylor, travelling freight and
passenger agent for the Florida Central
and Peninsular, with Ocala headquarters,
was in the city yesterday.
Col B. w. wrenn, passenger traffic
manager of the Plant system was in the
city for short while yesterday en- route
4, to Tampa from Columbia.
Mr. Daniel II. Hillman, general South
ern agent for the Evansville and Terre
Haute, with headquarters at Atlanta,
spent yesterday in Savannah.
Mr. Frank p. Jeffries. general freight
and passenger agent of the Evansville and
Terre Haute, was here yesterday.
The business men of Chattanooga are
trying to learn why Nashville gets such
low freight rates as to allow her ship
ments to enter the formers territory at
lower rates than Chattanooga can obtain.
This condition of affairs has lasted for
quite a time. and the reason for 1t Is not
altogether clear. Nashville has what Is
known as tho official classification"
while Chattanooga is in the Southern
Freight Association classification. Nash
willie Is classed as one of the Ohio river
ha trT1fp af % f.tp
ed in this way. Tho officials Of the roads
doing business In the territory Of the two
cities do not seem to thoroughly compre-
bend tho reasons for the difference In the
rates. but they know that Nashville has
the advantage over her sister city.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28
BIRTHDAY OF THE KATsrp
"' 'oniers the Black Eagle Imam
Two Of His yviDts.o

, pg'l'o1 Jan. T.-To-day the emperor ,s
,.. ..o''''ns his SSth birthday with bis
Emmy at the sehloss, and in commence
'''oh OF the day has conferred the dooo
~ ,.,'oN r oi the Order Of the Black EapIo
jis,v,s ' oi,. Won Mucanus, chief of his ma
prn5 eNH cabinet, and DR.. MiaueI ~
Truss IAN minister Of finance t'ei' inc
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28
"oLcoTT GOES TO FRANCE.
" work in the Interest of Bimef-
allism to BE Continued.

a.. 1lroon' Jan. a-United States seua-
~ l. o. Wolcott, with his family. started
D0'e' thls morning en- route for Par
ne H. "nere he viii continue his mission in
rs.s. interest Of bimetallism. Among the
io- Wy, eIs on board the train With Sena-
Bos,or' '-o'J' was Gen. Charles Paine of
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

Crucial--Yabsley--"T truest test 90
q mans friendship is his Willingness to
lend you money" Mudge-"Oh, most any
body will lend money. The real test "
when you strike him for second loan
Indianapolis journal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28
-Ethel-"so your ladies whist club /

--Ethel-"So your ladies' whist club has
disbanded?" Penelope-"Yes. You see ar
ter the third or fourth trick, we couldn't
remember what were trumps." Ethel
"Why didn't you leave the trump card on
the table. them" Penelope-'We tried
that. but after the third or fourth trick
we couldn't remember who 1t belonged
to."-London Figaro
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

While the ten years statement contains
figures during certain years, noticeably
1883. for imports and 1890 and 1891, for ex.
ports, larger than those of more recent
date there is an explanation In regard to
them which will convince reasonable
minds that there has been no falling of
In business. but rather a steady increase
Of late years. In 1sss, railroad was being
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

Mr.. c. E. Taylor, travelling freight and
passenger agent for the Florida Central
and Peninsular. with Ocala headquarters
was in the city yesterday.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

Mr.. Smith d. Pickett, general agent for
the Southern at Jacksonville, is in the
city.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

Col B. w. Wrenn, passenger traffic
manager of the Plant system was in the
city for short while yesterday Ell route
, to Tampa from Columbia.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

Mr.. A. o. MacDonell, general passenger
agent of the Florida Central and Peninsu-
lar, was here yesterday.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

Mr. Daniel II. Hillman, general South
ern agent for the Evansville and Terre
Haute with headquarters at Atlanta
spent yesterday in Savannah.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28
No. of No. Of Total
foreign c'stwise amount Value
vessels vessels of duties OF

Transactlons from June %, 1895, 20 Jan.
1, lsg7-six months period:
- az 1877 A2es 2 eqe 100
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

Denison, Tex, Jan. 2.-Prominent stock
men of Indian Territory and the Panhan-
Gle report that the recent blizzard has re-
suited in the death Of thousands of cattle
on the range For the first time in a num-
Der OF years large water courses are fro
zen over.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 27.-It began showing
early this morning, and at IL o'clock to-
night about four inches is on the ground.
The snow is still falling fast. Street car
traffic has been considerably impeded. It
IS thought that considerable damage will
result TO shipping off the coast.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

Mr.. Frank p. Jeffries. general freight
and passenger agent of the Evansville and
Terre Haute. was here yesterday
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

Richmond, Va, Jan. 27.-Four inches of
mow fell here to-day. Reports from all
sections of the state are that the snow is
pretty general Staunton reports five
inches, Fredericksburg five inches,
Blacksburg five and Woodstock three
inches.
The Winslow mail., 1897-09-25
Jowett's Sense of Hum OF

The late master of Balliol College,
Oxford, Doctor Jowett, loved a good
story, especially one which exhibited
the comic side of things. During 4
sickness from which he suffered many
ills. he was asked by friend how he
was.
Jowett replied by quoting the words
of Sydney Smith, then canon of ST.
Pauls, who, when at the point of
death-"which," said Jowett, Il am
nOt''-declared that there was not as
much left of him as would make a
minor canon!
To another friend, who urged him to
permit the publication of some of his
sermons, Doctor Jowett said:
publish nothing that is not quite
good. Don't be moved by peoples
opinion. There is story of Bishop
Darlington and PhilpOttS, afterward
Bishop of Exeter, who was at the time
Barringtons secretary. The bishop
said, 4 wish you to select for publica-
think will do me least discredit.' Short
ly after, when the sermons had been
chosen, the bishop asked, DO you think
that these will do me credit? L prefer.
my lord answered Philpotts, 'to ad-
here to your lordship's former express
sion.' The sermons were not pub
EShpd"
The Winslow mail., 1897-09-25
AGRICULTURAL NEWS
THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
FARM AND HOME.
The Price of Hay Is Regulated by It's
Color, Not Its worth-Green Fodder
Good for Stock - Keep the Fence
Corners Clean
NJ arketab1e Hay,

There may be markets that will take
the richest hay at a sufficient advance
in price to repay the farmer for fur
nishing it, but | know of none, and am
sure that there are not many. 1t sells
by color, and there is more danger of
having some of the hay blackened and
dusty when the grass is cut in full
bloom than when it is sufficiently ma
ture to require only short exposure to
the weather in the swath. 1t is a big
and risky job to cure a large amount
of grass that is as full of sap as tim
othy in full bloom, and consumers in
most local markets are not inclined to
pay for all the extra labor, risk and loss
in weight of the total product due to
early cutting. Dead-ripe timothy is not
wanted, of course, and it's color con-
demns it, but there is a middle ground
which should be taken. There may be
glory in furnishing the market with
timothy cut when in full bloom, but
there is rarely any profit from the ex-
ira effort and risk. In the long run
just as attractive and a more prOfita-
BILE lot of hay may be put upon the mar
ket when the bloom is shed. The feed
ing value is less, but this is doing unto
others as they would do unto us, which
is the silver rule of commercial trans
actions.-National Stockman. -
The Winslow mail., 1897-09-25

The death of II. NJ. Higgins at San
Diego. Cal. removes from the world
of music a man who played a some
what important part in the early m1lsl-
cal history of Chicago. He was not
the first musical dealer in the city, as
has been stated. There were two or
three who preceded him. but he was
the first one who published music the1e
TO any extent Prior to his location i'll
Chicago he had taught music both in
New York and Wisconsin. In 1850, in
conr ection with his brother, A. f. Hlg-
gins lie opened a music store on Kan
dolph street which soon become the
musical headquarters. The trade was
largely devoted to sheet music, and
the firm published many songs ana bal
lads of the popular sort. Though Rot
a trained musician in any sense, he was
sufficiently up in the business to know
what suited the popular taste, and the
firm made some money. The business
was closed out about 1871, and ii. Nj.
Higgins went to California, where he
invested his earnings in a fruit rancn,
which he named Bonnie Brai," few
miles south of San Diego. He became
quite well known in Southern Callfor-
mia by seedless lemon which he rails
ed. though for some reason it never
made the success in the market he had
anticipated. He was man of eccen-
tric disposition, had been for years a
radical spiritualist, had domestic trou-
bles, finally lost much of his property,
and died comparatively poor. His
death will cause much sorrow in the
region where he lived, as he was wide
ly known and was much esteemed for
his geniality and hospitality, nOtwith-
standing his many reverses and disap-
pOintmentS.
The Winslow mail., 1897-09-25
Early Opposition to Anesthesia

Every discovery has met with an
tagonism. Each advance In medicine
has been opposed until the proofs
have been so manifest that the great
majority of antagonists have been over
whelmed thereby The Ninteenth Gen.
tury has an article on ''The Advance of
Medical Science During the Victorian
Era" from the pen of Malcolm Morris,
F. r. G. S., in which the opposition to
the use of anaesthetics is described.
DR.. Simpson was its champion. After
depicting the attacks of the daily
papers and the refusal of suffering pa
tents to have ehloroform administered
to them it says:
''These feelings were by no means
confined to the nonscientific public.
There was strong opposition from
some surgeons who held that pain was
wholesome stimulus; on this ground
the use of chloroform was actually for
bidden by the principal medical officer
of cur army in the Crimea. The clergy
naturally bettered the instructions Of
these enlightened professors of the art
of healing / need only to quote one
philanthropic divine who anathematiz-
ed chloroform as "a decoy Of Satan ap-
parently offering itself to bless women,'
but which will harden society and rob
God of the deep, earnest cries which
arise in time of trouble for help"
Simpson answered those fools accord
ing to their folly. He quoted scripture
to prove that the Almighty himself per-
formed the first operation under an
aesthesia, when he cast Adam into a
deep sleep before removing his rib.
He fought the battle of common sense
with such convincing logic and such an
overwhelming mass of evidence-chem-
ical, physiological, clinical, and sta
tistical-that he finally shamed his OPP
ponents into silence"
The Winslow mail., 1897-09-25
EUoS by the Pound.

If eggs were sold by the pound It
would revolutionize the breeds. AS
we have before shown, the hen that
lays the largest number of eggs may
not really be performing as much seS-
vice as one that lays fewer eggs, but
which are of larger size. Suppose a
hen lays 120 eggs in a year, the eggs
averaging ten to the pound, her proc
uct would be twelve pounds of eggs il
one year Now, let us suppose that an
other hen in the flock laid 104 eggs, the
eggs averaging eight to the pound. In
the first case the hen that produced 12O
eggs would be the most valuable, yet
she has not performed as much SER
vice as the one which produced but
104 eggs. as the eggs of the latter are
a pound heavier, and, If eggs were sold
The Winslow mail., 1897-09-25
To Ward Off Fruit Rot.

When fruit rot has attacked the
peach crop. the best method is to re-
move and burn all dried or mummi ied
fruit from the trees, in winter, snd
spray early in spring with bluestcne.
When the fruit buds begin to swell,
spray with Bordeaux mixture, @nd
again just before the blossoms open.
Repeat the spraying when the Los
SONS are falling. adding a little paris
green to keep off the curculiO. Two
weeks later, spray again. AS the B1r-
deauX mixture coats the fruit with he
lime mixture, use copper acetate, a
colorless solution. for the last two
sprayings. In Delaware, a ten-fOld tl-
crease of sound fruit has been OBJ
tanned by this process, at a cost of
about II cents per tree.-The Agricul-
turiSt.
The Winslow mail., 1897-09-25

One of the characteristics of yellow
Journalism is that it overdoes every
thing. One of the eXponents of the vel
low in New York City really succeeded
in accomplishing something brilliant
recently In four days from the discov-
cry of the dismembered fragments of
a man in the river it had identified
him, proved that he had been murdered
and pointed out the supposed guilty
persons. Its reporters gave rapid and
brilliant aid to the police, and for that
much the paper was entitled to credit,
although many persons will believe
that it is not the province of news
paper to uSurp the duties of the detec-
tives. However, no fault might have
been found with that if the yellow
journal had not spoiled its coup with
an anti-climax. 1t proceeded the other
day to tell how it did the work. It's
methods were plain to any of its read
ers from day to day, but it insisted on
telling how Jones called the office on
the telephone and informed the Office
boy that another leg had been found in
the river, and how the office boy start
ed back in horror, and how the city
editor acted with dispatch by assigning
Brown to the morgue, Jones to police
headquarters, and Robinson to drag
the East River The public was told
how the piece of oilcloth which sur
rounded the fragments of the murder
ed man was photographed in colors
and used as evidence, and let into all
the petty details of the investigation
step by step. At the finish everyone
knows what the reporters had for
lunch, and the seething brain of the
city editor is an open book to the for
tunate readers of the yellow journal.
The account reads for all the world
like an installment for one of those
penny dreadfuls which engage the
rapt attention of messenger boys. The
whole effect of the newspapers work
is spoiled. But that is the way of vel
low journalism.
The Winslow mail., 1897-09-25
A Farmers Outfit.

The better machinist farmer IS, the
more time and money will be saved.
He should understand thoroughly ev-
cry machine he uses, and be able to re-
pair all but the most serious breaEs for
himself. and avoid being dependent
upon paid service 1t is wise fore
thought to keep on hand duplicates of
such parts as are most liable to break,
thus saving valuable time, especially
in the haying season. A well-equipped
tool chest, with screws and nails of all
kinds, should be part of every Farm
er's outfit. If one of the boys SHOWS
a taste for mechanics, give hi, n a
chance to develop it. He will be val
liable man to have in the neigbbor-
hood and will probably be able to turn
many an honest penny by helping out
his less skillful neighbOrs- -Massnchu-
SettS Ploughman.
The Winslow mail., 1897-09-25

The story of Kaiser Williams late
injury to his eye is exceedingly charac-
teristic of that eccentric potentate. As
told in a cable dispatch, it was due to
his insisting upon the performance of
Il difficult and dangerous task on board
his yacht in face of the protests of the
officers under him. The work was avow-
edly designed to show that nothing
was impossible" with him. e.. when
performed by Others-and. while it was
successfully accomplished with consid-
cradle injury to the vessel and great
peril to the crew. there sens sort of
''poetical Justice" in the fact that hC
was the only person actually injured
If he has learned. as the result. that Z
German emperor is as likely to be hurt
by a blow from a ropes end as any or
binary mortal the lesson may not bt
without its value.