The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-12
BRUNswICK's NEWS BUDGET.
The Site For the New Court House.
survey of the Bar.

survey of the Bar.
Brunswick, Ga, April 1.-THE county
commissioners have selected the vacant
lot in front Of the jail property on which to
locate the new court house 1t will have
100 feet frontage on Newcastle street. on
the three. other corners where Mansfield
street crosses Newcastle are respectively
located the fire department headquarters.
city hall building and unfinished portion
OF the city market. These four corners
occupied by public buildings Will make an
impressive sight.
The engineers of the coast survey steam
er Bache have about completed the sur
Vey of Brunswick's ocean bar. Col. c. p.
Goodyear, who has been dynamiting the
bar down for deep water, expresses him
self as ssanguine as to the result. He is
good for $4,000 bonus from the government
for each foot gained and expresses him
sell as confident of showing several feet
of gain under the present survey. The
Bache has been at work on the bar for
three months. 1t is the first survey made
under the auspices Of the coast and geo.
detic survey. Heretofore the army en-
gineers have conducted the surveys.
The city authorities are making long
needed repairs to the shell roads and
streets Several thousand bushels Of oys-
ter shells have been placed IN bad holes,
and the change has made the streets more
desirable for vehicles.
Government agents have Just completed
an interesting report on 200 dozen bot
ties of champagne re-eXported to England
Wine drinkers in this country can learn
from IL that the Brltlshers drink better
stuff than they do. The sale of 10000
quarts created great excitement in the
wine trade, and II was feared that the
market would be injuriously affected on
the other side. The bottles bore labels of
a New York wine house, and the wine was
the production of Piper HeidsieclS, pre-
mler quality, having been warehoused In
New York early In 1894 So serious was
the sale taken by the French wine export
ers that they gave warning to their Eng
fish clients that the wine was not up to
the standard consumed In England. Even
Messrs. Piper-Hedseck notified their
English customers that the wine was not
theirs in the sense that the brand was un-
derstood in England This brought state
ments that an agent of the house In Lon
don said Il should never have been
brought TO that country
IL was represented as containing 10 TO
Y per cent. Of liquor sweetening, which
rendered 1t entirely unavailable for the
English market. The English connot5-
seurs tasted and then asked whether the
wine was OF the average quality American
consumers put into their stomachs. Not
withstanding this the sale was considered
satisfactory and II Is supposed purchases
were made largely by speculative dealers
10 export again to this and other foreign
countries at big prices, or TO dispose of
TO foreigners resident Of England The
prices varied according to sizes and lots,
but the sale is estimated to have brought
from $50, 900 to $4,000 to the New York
banks, who exported II.
on May Surgeon r. f. l.. Burford win
go into his annual voluntary retirement
for six months at the national quarantine
station. This means that the extraordn-
airy and rigid precautions used by the
United States government "a protect this
city from contagious diseases via vessels
from foreign countries will be resumed.