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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27

silver IS only worth its weight in metal;
it is only !n gold currency countries that
piece OF silver has a face value DIFF
forenl from its intrinsic value as metal.
Thus, the banks being compelled to con-
duct their business in a hundred ports on
one uniform system as a homogeneous
Who.e, have TO take silver merely as metal
mat is TO say, as a commodity whose
value huctuates from day to day, as much
as Che barometer Thus Il happens that
people who have American silver dollars
usually lose on them, because they are not
made legal tender by any notification
having the force OF law. If they were
made legal tender IL would settle the
question at once. and until the question
is settled there VIII be incessant trouble
and i'll feeling among the soldiers, whose
pay Is due to them in gold dollars, while
they usually receive il in silver which
they cannot compel anybody to take as the
equivalent Of gold Practically il means
mat the soldiers are being deprived of a
percentage Of their pay not for anybody's
benefit, but simply through force of cir
cumstances IN the absence of a currency
law"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
Mig Ben's Ponderous Mechanism.


The striking mechanism of Big Ben is a
Brobdingnagian affair in every way. IL
is some thirty or forty feet up above the
clock, which occupies a room in the center
of the tower. The striking machinery Is.
driven by weights of about a ton and
half, hanging in a sort Of chimney shaft
ia feet deep and to wind them up from
bottom 10 top-though, of course. they are
never allowed 20 run quite down--is fair
days work. When fully wound up, Big
Ben's tormentor-the massive iron hammer
head-wlll go on pounding away for four
days without further attention. 1t needs
a pretty ponderous hammer TO fetch the
full tone out of a bell weighing fifteen or
sixteen tons, and the marvellous thing Is
that this massive mechanism keeps such
beautiful time as it does. The clock. with
which IL is connected by iron rods, gives
It's its cue with such astonishing precis-
ion that the chimes get through their pre-
hmlnary performance and the great ham,
rner falls on the mighty Ben within one
second Of Greenwich mean time-at least.
that is what 1t is supposed TO do, and the
Astronomer Royal. who keeps vigilant
eye upon the great public timepiece. says
that It does not vary a second a week all
the year round. The only unsatisfactory
thing about the whole performance is the
horrid bad e. that Ben sends forth.
The wonder Is. not that a sick person finds
ID torture 10 him to have VI booming out
all night long. but that people who are
doomed TO be continually hearing 1t are
not made III by II.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
a YOUTHFUL THIEF.
DIR. Sibbett Caught II Young White
Lad in His Store at Douglas.

DR.. Sibbett Caught Young White
Lad in His Store at Douglas.
Douglas, Ga, July 2G-I'or quite while
past, Or. w. f. Siboett has been missing
small amounts of money from his cash
drawer. Last night he had his clerk lock
him up in the store and so to supper at
his usual hour.
Within a very few minutes after secret
ing himself he heard some one at the back
window and then heard him enter, and he
to his utter surprise, caught a young white
lad. the son of a widowed mother of one
of The first families of the county
When caught the boy was trying to get
the money drawer open. Through com
passion for his mother and relatives and
on account of his extreme youth, the dos
tor refused to prosecute the boy and left
his chastisement 10 his sorrow-stricken
mother. Douglas needs a curfew law. for
the benefit of the numerous boys that are
nightly lettering on the streets
Before Ordinary Young yes erday DiGey
Mitchell and Eddie Summerset, both col
ored, were adjudged insane and commit
ted TO the asylum.
j. >. Belts & Co are stll buying all the
saleable timber in Coffee and Appling
counties near the railroads
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
THE RAINFALL is PARTIAL.
Some Examples of 1t Noted in john
son County.

Wrightsville, Ga, July 26.-After a
drought of more than three months this
section got a shower yesterday afternoon.
We have not had a seasonable rain since
April last, and only two or three hsht
showers since that time. The corn crop is
practically made and will be benefited lit
tie by the rain. though corn Of late plant
ing viii be considerably benefited. Num-
bers of farmers have cut down their corn
for foraSe while others who fertlized
highly and expected a large yield will not
get more than a half or a third of a crop.
Cotton has suffered severely from the
effects of the drought. Some farms that
last year made from ten 10 fourteen bales
to the horse, will this year get from four
to six. Young cotton, as youns corn, VIII
be benefited by rain now.
The disposition of rain in this
section of the state has been
decidedly partial, there being three
or four districts in this county that have
not suffered a day for rain, and as many
districts dry. The dry ones are sharply
divided from the wet. one man reports
that during a shower on his place the rain
ran off one side of his house and the other
side was left dry. Another man says he
went into field with rows four acres long
TO plant peas, and at one end the ground
was too wet and the other too dry to
plant.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
a PROMINENT DOCTOR SPEAKS

He Is not tdktuB ABOUT medical ethics
quite the contrary. The scientist Is eager
10 grasp truth in whatever field II NAV be
found. and the fact That Tyners Dyspep-
sia Remedy Is so meritorious calls forth
from him a testimonial:
"Chipley, Ga, Aug A. 1S94.-Dr. c. q.
Tyner Atlanta, Ga. | think il is due Won
that / should say that Tyner's Dyspepsia
Remedy has done more for me than all
other preparations that have tried.
think II is valuable remedy for chronic
dyspepsia indigestion II has cured me /
hope you may be able TO cure all dyspep-
tics. They are .egion. DR.. Q. T. Pursell"
Price SOC per bottle. For sale by an
druggists Send &c IN stamps TO ray post-
age for sample bottle free. Address
TYNER DYSPEPSIA REMEDY CO,
Atlanta. Ga.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
NEWS FROM TALLAHASSEE.
Statistics Showing births and Deaths
in Florida During May.


I'm Florida During May.
Tallahassee, Fla. July 25-The following
facts are collected from the published
mortuary statistics OF Florida for the
month of Nav:
There were reported fi2 births, At mar
riages and 1874 deaths There were fifty
births in Monroe county. forty-two ia
Duval, twenty-nne i'm Eseambia, nineteen
in Columbia. nineteen in suwanee and four
teen in Hlisboro. No births were reported
in Taylor county, and only one in Ham
ilton. HillSOoro had forty-eight marriages.
DuVal twenty-siX. Alachua twenty-five,
Monroe twenty-five. Esoambia twenty
four, OsceOla one, Baker and Hernand two
each. There We're no deaths il Hamilton.
Liberty, Madison, Taylor Wakulla and
Walton, and one each in Baker and
holmes counties.
The number of deaths under one year
was IS; between 1 and 5. 40: over GO. Sc;
between 50 and so, u, between 90 and 100
one; over l0o one. There were seven
deaths by violence.
The birth rate per 1C'o per annum was
1905; death rate per l.o31 per auuum. 1877.
Orlando has new corporation, the
Ford-Acree Company, for which letters
patent were granted to-day The capital
stock is $1,000, and the company will CON
duct a general grocery, hay and grain bus
mess
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HOW COMBINE WAS MADE.
Fresh Revelation Is of Interest
Among whisky Men.

Cincinnati July 26.-The Enquirer will
say tomorrow:
The absorbing topic OF conversation
among whisky men is what seems a fresh
revelation in regard TO the formation of
the Distilling Company of America, which
is a consolidation of the four great sub
ordinate whisky combines.
According to gossip, the Whitney syndi-
cate gave financial backing to the extent
OF 100000 cash. which made the forma-
ton OF the big combine possible. This
syndicate-so the gossips say received
pay in stock at face value as follows: Pre-
ferred stock, SlOOOOO0O: common stock.
100000; total, $23,00O,OOO.
1t is said that the aid of this syndicate
made possible the purchase of the Erie
berg ~ Workum and the Elias Bocum
4 Sons plants in this city. which are ne
cessary in rounding out the combine. The
100000 paid for the Freiberg plant was the
highest price paid any concern in the COM
bine.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
cR,vE RIOTS AT EVANSVILLE.
qroubie Trecipitated by Boys Jeer-
ing Negro Miners.

,,.srsville. Ind. July 26-Rioting pre-
-r.4 ar two of the local mines to-day.
rho negro non-union miners employed
.,-s FIRST Avenue mine came from work
T.y were met by a crowd of small boys
a,o followed the miners for a block and
tsnt un a continual yell.
FINALLY the negroes turned and pulled
,,.ir pistols. They fired several shots into
,ta crowd, but no one was hurt.
The boys jumped behind trees and
tsrenbone poles for protection
.,,o there were several hundred people
,ra-..rt On the scene, and many of them
fsrrisd Nyinchesters. The police dispersed
,-s crowds with difficulty. Nearly ! .000
,,,1- gathered at the John Inglee mine
md when the negro miners stopped work
+bay were surrounded by strikers and
s,.,,,atbizers. Both union and nOn-union
miners rushed through the iue and We're
h-o-shr to the city on a tug boat.
Tr4 men paraded the streets with their
rms and the police made no effort to
.ton them. Mayor Akin issued a procla-
nation tonight forbidding the miners
ram p3rading the streets. The situation
l. extremely grave tonight, and the Of
f..rs ind themselves unable to control it,
Tho negro miners at the First Avenue
rt-, saw they will take Winchesters with
,t.m as they go to work in the morning
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27

THE PEST OF GRASSHOPPERs,
EntomOIOgist Reports on Mississip.
pts Visitors.

Washington, July 26.-Mr. ]. S. Hine of
the chronological bureau of the agricul-
tural department has returned from an in
spection of the section o. the state of Mis-
sissippi which has recently been suffering
from the grasshopper pest. He found that
the grasshoppers were largely confined
to Bolivar county, and that, while they
had done great damage there to growing
crops, they were of the non-migratory spe-
cies known as the differentials and were
not therefore, liable u prove dangerous
10 other communities.
The greatest damage has so far been
done on The Dahomey plantation, where
300 acres of cotton in one field were totally
destroyed and 200 acres In another greatly
damaged.
The agricultural department is also In
receipt Of information of a threatened in
vasion of hoppers in North Dakota and
Minnesota. These are of the migratory
species and breed in the Turtle mountains.
1t is probable that the department will
cooperate with the state authorities of
the section affected in dealing with the in
sects in case they prove damaging.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
CAROLINA's NEW TARIFF.
What the Roads viii Get After Aug.
- for Hauling Cotton.

80 luE hssbAAEA-s NpAA''
Columbia. S c.. July 26.--The State Rail
road Commission to-day made public its
new standard tariff of freight rates on cot
ton, which becomes effective Aug. %. The
tariff provides for reduction of from p
to 35 per cent. on the present rates, which
were established when the state was pro
ducing not more than 100000 bales of cot
ton.
Starting out with a rate of cents for
hauls of ten miles and under the tariff in
creases five miles at a time, the rate in
creasing with it ! cent at each jump up
to 100 miles The mileage then jumps by
tens up TO 200, the 80 to 100 rate being %
cents, and increasing cent for each jump
until the 200 mark is reached-that being
the same as 10 TO $50 rate-34 cents Be
yond 200 miles the mileage jumps are twen-
ty, and the rate increases a cent for each
twenty miles, the final 300 to 800 rate being
40 cents.
This is said to be the lowest local cotton
freight tariff of any now in operation in
the United States II was prepared ana
adopted by the commission only after
thorough study of the question and after
numerous hearings accorded the railroad
traffic managers. The new rate will mean
much to the farming and the cotton mill
interests.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
FLORIDA'S DAIRY PRODUCTS.
Quantities Disposed of and the
Prices They Brought.

Prices They Brought.
Tallahassee, Fla, July 25.-The dairy
products of Florida make the following
showing, according TO the latest published
reports:
The average price of 80 23S mich cows
was $3.50 and 1885 gallons of milk
brought an average of q cents a gallon;
567 SOS pounds of butter were sold at 22l4
cents a pound and 9245 pounds of cheese
sold for over 10 cents pound.
Chickens to the number of 922,33O were
sold at 26 cents each, while S,6O4 ducks
brought 40 cents apiece; 22OS geese aver
aged 50 cents EACH % 1913 turkeys sold for
9S cents per bird, and 2,233 ,631 dozen Of
eggs averaged 141s cents.
The wool clip aggregated 74402 heeces,
averaging nearly three pounds, and was
sold at en- average price of 161s cents per
pound.
The honey product was 543,036 pounds
and the average price was about ga cents
per pound.
The wine yield was 9,777 gallons, and
the average price per gallon was 80 cents.
Eight hundred and tWenty-three tons OF
moss Melted $1022 per ton
The Dade County State Bank was in
corporated yesterday. 1 will be located
at West Palm Beach with $4,000 capital.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27

Central Federated Union Issues a
Call in New York.

Central Federated mon issues a
Call in New York.
New York july 26.-The Central Fed
Grated Union, through its corresponding
secretary tonight issued call for a
meeting Of representatives. of labor organ
izauons in this city to be held on Monday
evening. Aug. Z, at which plans are 10 be
formulated for the organization of new
labor party. The call follows:
TO All Trade and Labor Organiza tons
Of Greater New York, Greetings After a
considerable and interesting discussion at
a regular session of this body on July %
1892 relative TO the strike of motormen
and conductors, both in Brooklyn and
Manhattan, and during which il was
shown that the ten-hour law had been and
was being violated by the trolley corpora
tons and that the authorities We're appar-
eudy dormant and made no attempt to
enforce the said law, it was unanimously
Dc ided to call a conference of ali trade
and labor organizations to be held Mon
Gay evening. Aug. 7. at s o'clock in Clar-
eu3on hall, for the purpose of formulating
a platform on which labor candidates can
ne nominated.
You are, therefore. earnestly invited to
have Two representatives of your body in
attendance at this conference"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
HOHENsTEIN HOME BURNS.
Destroyed in WaycrOss with the
Loss of Old Family Relics.


Waycross, Ga, July 26-The old Hohen-
stein building, occupied by c. H. Black
shear as a grocery store, on Albany ave
nue., was destroyed by fire last night. By
hard work the firemen succeeded in saving
the kitchen and dining room, which were
attached to the store building. The up
stairs had been used as a residence, but
was not occupied at the time of the fire.
1t was in this building that the late Mr.
and Mrs. l.. Hohenstem, well known in
Savannah, and whose deaths occurred
within few weeks of each other, lived for
many years.
The furniture, pictures, silverware and
valuable household relics of the Hohen-
stein family were stored in the upper part
of the building, and not a single thing was
saved. Mr.. Blackshear had a $1,000 stock
of groceries, all of which were lost.
The estimated loss on building and con-
tents is as follows: On building about 81
500; on furniture, pictures, etc. 81 500 in
sured for $500 on the Blackshear stock of
groceries about $1,000, insured for $1,000.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27

Big Rubber Concern Buys Out the
Tire Manufacturers.

New York, July 27-The Press says:
1t is announced that the Rubber Goods
Manufacturing Company has absorbed the
Dunlap Rubber Tire Company. This con-
Germ is one of the largest of its sort in the
country, and was organized as an indie
pendent company, but in connection with
the Dunlap Company of England, a con
Germ with 100000 capital.
Charles R. Flint admits that all of the
capital stock of the Dunlap Rubber Tire
Company has been purchased by the Rub
Der Goods Manufacturing Company, which
was organized by Mr. Flint.
lie refused TO make the terms public
The Rubber Goods Manufacturing Com
lIuy already owns several companies
That make a speciality of manufacturing
tires, and the absorption of the Dunlap
company, the officials say, VIII be followed
by Inc purchase of nearly every company
l1 the field The prospect is that the bust
ness OF making bicycle tires win be entire
M ITS hands, and that il viii cooperate
with The bicycle combine
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
OFFICERS ron DENTISTS.
Those Chosen by the Virginia Assoc
citation at Old Point.

Newport News, Va. July 26-The Vir-
sna Dental Association at its session to-
night at Ola Point elected the following Of
i1ers.
Irasdent-R. w. Walker, Norfolk
tde. Vice President-W. Z. Norris,
Charlottesville.
second Vice President-B. Bridgeport,
Richmond
Ihird Vice PRESIDENT. B. Smith, Rich
mund.
Ire3surer-William E. Edwards Ports
mouth
CoFresponding Secretary-J. Hall Moore
Richmond.
Executive Committee-F. w. Stiff of
hy"mond, T. H. Parramore of Hampton
'nl j. d. Calvin of Charlottesville.
me selection Of the place for the next
meeting was left over until tomorrow
morning.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
AFTER THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS.
A Captured Confederate Soldier Re-
turns 10 His own.

Columbia. S. c., July 26.-Elijah Brown
created sensation by his sudden appear
ance to-day in Anderson. Thirty-eight
years ago he was soldier in Company G.,
Twenty-second South Carolina Regiment,
and was last seen by comrades at vi
dette post on the firing line in front of
Petersburg His family and friends MOURN
ed him as dead
His son, whitaker, a man of 40, recog-
nized his resemblance 90 a photogra ph.
MANY Confederate comrades also recog-
nized him. Elijah came to Anderson from
New Jersey in a buggy. He was cap
tured and sent to New York He spent
three years in Connecticut. three in New
York and thirty-two on farm in New
Jersey.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
NEWS FROM THE KLoNDIKE.
Consul McCook Gives Information
to Washington.

Washington, July 6.-lnformation from
the Klondlke mp to June % has reached
the state department from United States
Consul McCook, ar Dawson. The consul
says that 100000 instead of S2o.0o0.Oo0 in
gold Will cover the gold product for the
past twelve months, and adds that To-
ports from Alaska indicate that more gold
VIII be found there than ever viii come
out OF the klondike
Typhoid has broken out six weeks earlier
than last year. and there are several hun
dred destitute persons in Dawson without
means to get out
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27


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he attemnted Ia take be- .',o,,bra y,
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/ heard a story last night that was new
10 me. and one think worth repeating.
IL seems while IN camp al san Francisco
the ladies' OF the town, where certain
company was recruited sent its captain
box Of home made pajamas
Not hearing from him, tho sood ladies'
'tleSraphed: Anxious 70 now If you got
me paJam&s last week.
me captain had been out with the boys
the might before When the message was
oanHed MN ne was trying 70 reduce his
swollen mead with a towel and ice water,
so ms NINA was somewhat confused.
Inc ladies' of the relief society We're
amazed as wen as puzzled on receipt OF
'h'9 message;
story is lie made of whole cloth by
some "AnGl'us member Of company. Am
no, a total apstainer' but aover had the
P9J4n'aS last week or any other time;
VIZ I'hiiueH'al surgeon Tor proof of my
statement
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judge Hun DISPOSED OF two casss x.,st,r-
day morning. Narciano cru was con-
victed of theft, and for one year. and until
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Some one says Aguinaldo declares the
language of his republic shah be the Span
ish An right; he has 1t on wheels. and
his people who speak II may he found in
his hat. Aggie might present II to Ma
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
IN MEETING AT MEMPHIS.
Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers Hear
Their Presidents Address.

Memphis, Tenn. July 26.-The Interstate
Cotton Seed Crushers' Association met in
regular session at Montgomery Park to-
dav. Delegates from New York, Pennsyl-
vania Illinois and the Southern states are
in attendance. To-day's session was de-
voted to the annual address of the presi-
dent and the reading of the annual reports.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
DEFENDED HIS MOTHER.
TVveIve-Yenr-OId Boy shoots and
Kills Woman.

Fitzgerald, Ga, July 26.-Yesterday af-
ternoon, at Robitzsch's turpentine still,
six miles from this place, Charlie Will
uams. a 12-year-old negro boy, shot and
instantly killed a negro woman, named
Jane Ford.
The Ford woman had made an attack
on the boys mother and was beating her
with a hammer when the boy fired on her
with a shot gun, tearing off one side of
her head. Her brains were spattered over
the room.
The Ford woman went to the shanty,
where williams mother was alone with
an eight weeks olr baby and made the
attack. when the boy, hearing his
mothers cries, ran to her rescue.
The slayer Is an intelligent mulatto and
saws he shot the woman to protect his
mother. He is now confined in the jail
here awaiting trial.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
FIERCE FIGHT REPORTED.
Sheriff and Deputies Meet Outlaws
in Indian Territory.

independence, Kan. July Pa fierce
fight is reported to have occurred in the
Wichita mountains ip the Indian terri
tory. between Sheriff Morrison and two
deputies and Taylor Kirk and four of his
followers. who recently escaped from the
Washita county jail.
The outlaws were all well armed and
when the officers came on them at once
opened fire one deputy sheriff was serf-
ouslv wounded while one outlaw was
killed and two others. one Of whom was
Kirk. were wounded and captured. The
others escaped.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
TWENTY-FIVE DELEGATES.
All the South Carolina Farmers AL.
lance Could Muster.

Columbia, S. c., July 26.-The annual
meeting of the State Farmers Alliance
convened in the state capital tonight. At
midnight discussion of the financial end
Of the organization is In progress. To-
morrow there will likely be fight on the
continuance Of the alliance exchange.
There are but twenty-five delegates
In attendance.