The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-20
THINGS GoSSlPPED ABOUT.
LIES OF THE TOWN TOLD on THE
-rprrTS AND IN PUBLIC PLACES.

D-,fnsd-HoVv Demcnted Girl
,,os cared For by a. Charitable
s,vannahian-It Costs Money to
Spend the Summer Away From
uome-other Live Local Topics.
n vhets the use complaining,
INST because it's raining,
II I'D mourning down in torrents every day!
No use to try to alter
The drainage of Buckhalter,
"A matter how petitioners may pray!
No use to be a-frowning
In fear of sudden drowning
rrto YOUR tale of woe they'll never marx
So don't cry out for pity
While "A sea surrounds the city
%, On ana build yourself little ark.
90 have heard it said many times in my
NJ. that tbs an ill wind that blows nobody
m,j' remarked well known city Of
t,,l Yesterday. standing in the center of
grogn If citizens on the corner of Bryan
.,5 Buu streets. The sage who got this
,Y might have gone further and said that
d Is an m rain that rains nobody good,
md these rains we are having now are
w,ying great benefit.
.rn what respect?" ventured one of the
aowd.
aTbev have served to show how inef-
saent IS the system of drainage around
The city Of Savannah, and this should be
great benefit just at this time, when an
nvestieation has been made during the
5ry season of the long summer. The
IDEAS of drainage at the time they nave
been taken by special committee from
me grand jury are not TO be relied on as
accurate. This committee of investiSa-
lion saw the swamps around Savannah
3ner a lengthy drought, and of course,
fsy found them at their best. If they
we're to take a trip now they would find
that the condition of the swamps close
around the town is not at all what it
NAV nave seemed to them at the time
hev took their trips in the tally-ho
which they engaged for the purpose. A
Hiy-ho ride i'm the outskirts of Savan-
nah since the rains through the places
where the investigating party was then
enabled TO take would prove an impossi-
bity The rains have filled many of the
places which seemed dry a short time
ago and it is safe to predict that the
water will be standing on these places
for quite awhile to come.
I believe there should be a regular force
Of hands kept at work on the drainage
around the city all the time.
In this opinion of the city official there
are many, who will readily concur.
The rarity of Christian charity does not
apply in Savannah.
In Yesterdays Morning News there was
an account of the arrest of a poor unfortu-
nate white girl, Annie Rochita, who was
said to q violent and dangerous lunauc as
well as a deaf mute. According to the
law there was nothing left to be done but
have her sent to JAIL for members of her
own family certified that she had made
fierce attacks upon them al times when
her lunacy amounted to imbeciity and
Violence. IL seems that the people of the
.lashborhood rose up against the move
ment to commit her to jail on the testi-
nony Of the family, for they claimed that
ile girl was not in the condition she was
alleged to be in at the time. One gener-
ols-nearted Savannah man became inter-
ested IN the case and took the woman out
= JAIL hrst procuring the consent of the
lamHy. She will he cared for awaiting fur
Aer developments in the case
IN this connection the case of Jacob
Ifanck is a striking illustration of how
a''dHHdhians are ever ready to befriend
we poor The sailor came to this city
aoodrl German vessel and became de-
Menlel While here. He was taken in hand
ny me charitable people of the city and
s5nt TO a private asylum, not being admit
ecu TO the Georgia state asylum for the
reason that he was not a subject of this
Co0ntry The recent efforts on the part
charitable ladies' to raise sufficient
.u'llS 10 send the unfortunate man back
~ Germany where he can be treated in
IND uC asylum, is meeting with liberal
recognition. The ladies who have the
',"liehdable undertaking In hand have
ne'er tred and have persistently gone
u"'Gl loelr task. The money is neatly
=. III Aand now, and if satisfactory ar
easements can be made with the officials
II presenting the German government in
a. C9uhiIy and the department of state
a. asAlngton whereby the transporta-
W. Sou Oh Franck back to his native land can
si, o,glHe'ed, the man without a country
W.. ue restored to his Fatherland. 1t will
q. ttgHlenoered that the German minister
4 Washington at first refused TO allow
-o man TO be sent back to Germany. Then
siaHlel an order allowing him to be
~ uacE provided his passage should be
i,I,' MIs. f.. j. Thomas and the other
s1a5 ny the head of the movement TO
eo, CO. Ae aemented sailor back TO his home
StiE nave written to the Secretary of
60 ' Washington and to several of the
+. s OF me German government in this
viI n.y. ana hope that some definite plan
,.. soon be arrived at by which Franck
!. 'an oe sent home.
H. l.iduc seems to be a man who has
h. 'PtoI '3nlties for a thorough educa-
Ia ne speaks several languages fluent
1 e3is his keeper at the ial for
ns ne mas great child-like fondness.
II, tz-EngeW-safety angel
IS hoped that within a short tirne
&gri 5, "l' pc perfected by which the sailor
oH MS journey homeward.
NJ ". man who went away last June.
H. 'I while on pleasure bent.
H.. turn win find too soon
H. ,.'ut was not quite all he spent.
4 V,2' GRATIS he draws so free.
through the pleasure lands he
were better far had he
5., ln the ranks with 'stay-at
f one thing 20 80 off for the sum-
ana ia is quite a different thing to
'.'h remarked one Of the witty
b. homes standing on the corner OF
~, and Bryan Yesterday.
h.. ..'.r TO be safe than sorry" he
.''.l 'and have determined that I