The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-02
HOTTEST DAY IN TEN YEARS.
MERCURY MOUNTED UP TO THE 1O2
DEGREE NOTCH.

1S70-June's Record Will Be Insig-
nifcant IL July Keeps Up the Why
1t Has Started.
Oh, Mr.. Weather Man.
Please wont you, do;
Give us something better than 1902?
Please to make change of it:
The men who make the ice
Have put us out of range of 1t
BY running up the price!
The behavior of the mercury In Savan-
nah yesterday cannot be passed by with
out notice. Surely it is getting time for
Mr.. Quicksilver to stand his ground"
1t was the hottest day Savannah has
known for ten years. This is no joke
The figures are taken from the books of
Uncle Sam up in the weather mans Of
flee. On July IS. 1873. the thermometer
went up to 1O2, the same notch that was
reached yesterday at 1:30 o'clock, and
these records are the highest that have
been known in Savannah since the wealth
er bureau was established here more than
twenty-five years ago. with the exception
of the time when it went up to 1O5. That
was July u, 1879.
The hottest day last year was July 30,
when the thermometer took a leap up to
the 101 mark. People in town kicked at
this. They were dead sore, and rallied at
the antics of Uncle Sol. Some of them
swore that it was the hottest weather
they had ever felt. This, perhaps, was
due to the fact that there was an I'M
usually large crop of mint harvested last
year by the drink mixers. 1t is a well
established fact that mint juleps and
weather prophets, when they get together
in June and July, are somewhat reckless
in figuring out statistics,
The truth is, however, June just ended
has been the hottest on dead stretch
Savannah has known for many a day.
The excess of temperature for the month
was rs degrees. This means that Savan-
nahians have had to suffer each day dur
ing the month of June two and a half de-
grees more of heat than was their rightful
share-than was normal The month of
May was cooler than usual. In the sci
ence of making calculations on the wealth
err, it is a well established principle that all
things tend to equalize during the year.
This being the case, it was reasonable to
presume that there would have
weather to make good the cool
weather in May. This does not necessar-
lily mean that it should have come in June,
nor does it mean that it will be cooler in
July than in June to eQualize the weather
June brought. 1t may be deferred until
August 1t may be that there will be
more hot weather in July TO follow up the
dead heat" so long on.
1t certainly is to be hoped that the worst
Is over 1t is moreover very likely that
yesterday will be the hottest day of the
summer, since there has been no other
day like it in Savannah since 1887, period
fOf ten years.
The scarcity of ice just at this time
has made the weather all the more severe.
The statistics in the weather bureau also
show that there was a scarcity of wind
during the month of June. Deprived of
the breeze to some extent and of ice at
the same time with the thermometer rang
ing up around any old place it chose no
wonder there has been considerable com
plant Of the weather.
IT see they have had an earthquake up
in your good old state of Virginia." re-
marked a Congress street lawyer yester-
day to a native of Virginia.
"Only a little shake to mix the juleps
for the boys" said the old-tlmer and the
drinks were on the Congress street law
yer.
The serenaders stood beneath the win
dow singing in harmonious concord. The
cooling night breeze as it swept from
over the park extension and stirred the
palmetto leaves with RECALLING rustic, and
waited the strains of the troubadours
softly away, and the air was sweet with
song. One voice was particularly pa
thetic, and when it led off with the soul
killing, plaintive, dreamy love song of
Tolsti, entitled "Beautys Eyes" there
was a slight noise above, and a fair hand
turned the lattice to look down. She
knew that voice must be from lips
more divine than human, but alas, when
she beheld in the songster the ebon-faced
vender of crabs and shrimps, whose ago
nizing cry of Grabs gwine by yer" had
Weakened her many an unromantIc morn
ing, she sank back, dsilusioned, to think
how rare are real ideals in this world.
The movement started a few days ago to
raise enough money to send Jacob Franck,
the insane German sailor. back to his ma
tive land has not been abandoned, and it
is safe TO say that it will be successful.
In this connection 1t is we'll to give the
exact history of the treatment of this un-
fortunate since he has been a lunatic on
American soil. Judge Hampton Ferrill
has never had him arraigned before COM
mission of lunacy as has been stated, for
the reason that he had no power to do so,
Franck being not a citizen Of this state.
The exact history of the case may be
outlined as follows: on Dec. 10, 1885, d.
r. Kiley made affidavit that Jacob Franz
was crazy and dangerous. Upon this he
was arrested and confined in Jail by Con-
stable Nathans, he recovered sufficiently
and was released from jail by the ordina-
~. IL was brought to the attention OF the
ordinary that Franz was a citizen OF Ger
many and could not be tried before the
ordinary, but upon the request OF a num-
Der OF German citizens he was rearrested
and put In jail again by the ordinary as a
protection to the lunatic and the preser-
walton Of the public peace. The German
consul was appealed 10, but could do moth
ing FOR Franz. then the German ambassa-
dor at Washington city wrote In reply
to a letter from the ordinary, that he
could not help the prisoner. but sent $40
subscription 10 help the fund that was
being raised to send Franz 10 private
asylum, the money was raised by the
clerk OF the court Of ordinary. Mr.. Il. A.
Gelseler, and Mr.. Earnest Elchhorn. aud
others The sum so raised was used TO