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8 KEEP ONE DAY IN SEVEN. TBK SUNDAY RK3" MOVEMENT IN THE SOUTH. The American Sabbath Union Seeking National Recognition of the Sabbath as a Day of Rest—Hev. Wilbur T. Craft’s Mission—Hie Address at the First Presbyterian Church Las: Night—He Explains the Movement and the Union's P;an and Purpose- Tbe First Presbyterian church v com fcrtabiy filled iat r .gbt w .th pe.pie to hear Rev. Wilbur F Crafts, field *cre'a r y of the American Babtatb Union, speak on the Sunday rest bill. On the rostrum and occupying the fr nt seats were K*v. J. IV Rogan, pastor of the First church. Rev A M. Wynn of Wesley Monumental church. Rev. J. R, McCleskey of Trinity church, Rev. J. E. I. Horacs of the Firs' Baptist and Rev. W 8. Royal of the Duffy Street Baptistcharcbea. Rev. K Q Wav of the Ar dersou Street Presbyter an church, and Mee t R. B. Reppard. 8. B. Adams, Ci?m ent Seussy and .Tames Farie. Jr. P,ev A. M. Wynn opened the *rvic s with praye . after which Mr Farie intro duced 'he Rev. Ur. C af’.s, 'ii j spcse for over an hour on the subject of tin life-work, toe roak ng of Su.'.iay a day ' rest in the Unite I 8 a e, Mr. Crafts began by saying that lie and: 1 not urns s itb a.- a missionary. “In fa t." he said, "f u’ would be bringing c ial to Newc tle You have the i-. • Sabhath keeping :.- ri in the United States Therefore, j seal of bringi; g coals to New Castle, 1 bring coal from Ne Castle. You have in the south the bed Ssbiieth ' bi“rrar.c“, t. r.c ,it nearly perfect keeping of t o Lord’s d.v that 1 ha>e found, it i unlike toe n'T’ti. from where 1 came. There, the Babbitt, has been seriously threatened, hers tae law Is more respected." SSVAMNAR’S t.ARGEST ROOM. The s;ieaker said, however, that while this is the cae in the s uth, lie found upon reaching >avatioah that the largest room in t e city u roo u for improvement. a room altogether too large, in reference to rbe question of Sunday re-t. i?e spoke of ’he saloon traffic on Sunday. 1 oat. he said, is perhaps Savannah s most serious violation of the holy day. Bsi les, he understood, that there ts otter toii:ng done hereon Sun day. He gave a sketch of the Amen an Hal,hath Union, the m st trulv naiooal of any in the country. emhra mg leaiiing me”, of ail demouinaU 'us. In tfc ur.io:, ffic.al indoreement are tne Presbyterian churcbe north and south, the Methodist church north end south, Reform church of the north and the signature and indorsement f Cardinal Gibbons, which, he ‘aid, is indirectly the indorse ment of the Roman Catholic church. Tie indorsement of the Catholic church swelled tne number f signatures to about 14,000,- Otk). The Sabbath Union, he sail, nee's to be nationalised, it needs to be mere c ncentrav-d. A na tional evil needed a national remedy. THt SL'XDAY MAILS •‘As to Sunday mails,” he w-nton, “what we ask is a law instruct* g the Postmaster General to make oofurther contra ts whicn shall include the carnage of the mails on the Sabbath, and to provide that hereafter no mail matter shall le collected or distribut-d on that day." “VVb t if a lett*r ' ailing a son tothe bed side < f his dying mother should be delayed twentv-fonrs?" you ask. Did you ever hear of the t* legraph, soon to be the nati n’l last roan! To use the telegraph for such letters Dee 1 not incr.-ase the Sunday work of telegraphers, for a letter that would have been delivered on the Sabbath must have beun mailed not later than Satur day, when a telegram would hav ■ carried the mre-sage lefore the Sab bath; and a letter mailed on Sunday will not roach its de tination any sooner than a Monday telegram. You say, “To stop the mails twenty-four hours in these days would cause a concestion of busine *.” The answer to this prophecy is not a counter prophecy, but fact'. Toronto, the Queen City of the world in Babbnth observance, and hard y second to any in its rapid growth and solid prosperity, a city of 140,- 000 population, allows its poaiai -ervar.ts to share the general red, closing its postofflee tothe public from 7 p. m. ot Saturday to 7 a. m.. < f Monday, and stopping all work except that of the watchmen t,rough the entire twenty-four hours of the Sablath. and find-, that this gam to the postofflee employes results m no loss to any one. THE WAV LONDON DOES. ,- If a larger city is wanted, taka thU: “Within a radius of five mil* from the general post office, London, no i laud loi ters are collected, carried, sorted or dis patched on the Lord's day.” If all mail trains stopped over the Sabbath, and tue day were made in fact a dies non, it would be equally fair to all competitors, auu give a man the same average mail on Monday morning as on Saturday, instesd of flood ing him wi ll a double portion. The watchman is the only j> stal servant whose Sunday work can be justified either by divine or American law. “The argument against interstate Sunday trams, a g eater evil born of the Sunday mail, isshortand conclusive. After somucri recent interstate legislation, it is ha-dly necessary to say that a train which crosses a state line enters national jurisdiction. At the time of our hearing iu Washington the Senate was debating at great le g li an in terstate commerce biil to protect t o health of cattle in transit. We suggested that it would be fitting to give as much attention to our proposed Interstate commerce law to protect tne health of 000,000 Sabbatuless railroad men. IN THE NUTMEG STATE. “In working out the recent railroad reforms in Connecticut, which leads ►■ll !he states in this matter, for bidding all n-ursion and freight trail s for the whole of Sunday, and all othersalsoexcept such morning a I even ing train* as the r ulrcad comm ssioner* think arc required by law of mee iity and mercy, reforms by which lO.fXK) teen h ive been e am-ipatei from Sunday toil, in worki-g out these great ref rim the inter •tate difficulty of uatio .al jurisdiction wis ►occubtered at oierv point. Some railroad manager* claim that they cannot refuse to h.rry on freight and passengers received Sun-lav without being liable for u .mages, u lv protected by a national law against inter state Sunday tram*. This would pro ect them against competitor- also, a id enable ail to re t without loss. Kxcus.- them bow you will, these trami are ruu simply and only to make m -ncy to fatten the bank accounts of uitllio :airt3 already too much favored by our laws. If any work for gam, not al io a work of nceessity or mercy, is to be allowed < n the Sabbath, all such work should be equitably allowed. WHEN LAW IS A CRIME. '* The law that, forbids u poor widow to sell wholes >me books on the Habbuth, while permitting a millionaire to sell railroad ticket*, is itself acime. Ana: chy f •t*-ns on ‘ueb injusee. “But,” yo i sav, '"what if a father, hastening to the bedside of a dying son, should be stopped twenty-Rnir hour on Sunday, and so should he too late?” I answer tb tit is better that a sou should die, now and then, without the c <mfort of his father’s presence, which could not save his life, than that hundreds of railroad men should die every year, iu more senses than one. through the exhaustion and demoralization of their Sunday toil. Some excuse the Sunday train by saying: “The public demands' it.” Say ra’ther: "Tbe poc*el demands it, in blindne-:-. to its own interests.” H is deaf indeed to the signs of the times who does cot hear in the railroad riots, now Increasingly freqtie it and increasingly violent, a demand loud as the roar of Waterloo, not for more Sunday trains, but for more culture of conscience among railroad men, who have in their power tbe property which is at onoo tb moat exposed and the rood important to the general welfare of aDy in the country. ONLY THE WORD WASTING. “Recently t ire was wanting only what was for a ti ne feared, a word ' f command from the rsi road siag, Arthur, orde i.ig a genera* st ika of the locomotive engineers, t / plunge the whole nation into it ccrame - cial ant social anarchy, of which IS, < and tne ■ tucago boob- and the New York bl.z iard are but gentle I rots. I relieve tte fear* were groundless, and tnat our King Arthur wi 1 use his authority only in k-irtiv justice to all. He told roe r“c*-ntly that if he had the fewrr he would "stop every wheel on Sunday. The only reason that more f squad apDeais for Hu dty rs’ ar* rot made by railroad men it that post appeals have been in vain. The ' piea of Pol eng neers of the New York Cen tral railway, a few years since, for ti.e.r r;g:.t to Sunday rest and their rights of ! conscience, f*r their own physical be- eflt aid the moral benefit of the r families, stands as the perpetual a- i pitiful app a of | all t-uuday toilers for their lost Sabbath; j and, t ougn trat appeal "as rejected by the railroad company t whom it was *e t. it should le hee-l'd by congress, one of wbitie chief functions it is to save our citizens fr >ro being crushed between the upper and net er mi: is tones >.{ competing corpora tions, with f earls of rock. GEORGIA IV THE MAS. “At the '■nnvantion of esgineers recenr’y , the question relating t ■ the rtcck train, which, it was -aid, could not be stoppel <n I the Sabbath wi'hout cruelty to anima's. ! But here are cars now provided m which st' r k could lie f• i ani wat-red as if in the ‘ta e. on such trips as were t-o long to a - coa.pliau between Sabbaths. In mv ca—. nu-c should u t he -r cuttle. O e freight eug ue-r from Georgia, w 1.-re tie av igaiust Sunday freig ts is enforced, -aid emphatically tia: he never would 1 a-e Ge .rgia wniie a rail, oad job could be had there, ogr eatiy did he prize ins Sunday j rest. “,n order to recover the 1 At day of rest for 'hose who have ioit it, r even to h Id it for those who sti 1 have it. we must secure first and most of all a c orrect example on the part of the nation, winch, a* :he cn.ef employer, ought Pa be a nodel to all others. But 1 hal occasion to say to the Hecate’s ccmmii’ee on education an 1 lab*:-, ,t a bear gin beha f< t tne petitio er against Sunday w rk. that Congress, vith all is bun ombe re-olutions in favor of lelior re form, was “the very Puaraoh amoug em ployers.” At that time some postme hi; 1 sixtoeu-bour days, and many an unlucky thirteen, besides Lightwatchiug an 1 Suad sv work —not even being ai.owed unbroken Sabbaths to get acquainted with their chil dren, whom, tnrougu the week, they seldom saw awake. THE NEW POSTOPFICE LAW. "The new t.ght-hour law i r Carrie's has mitigated this abuie, but a six-day law, that is a Sunday law, ii still aure needed b th for the sake of the petmen and for the infl ,e;.ce of a correct national exam;'le. While the nation opens its postofflee for business on Sunday, right m the cent -r of the princi(ml street of the town, it will be hard for local reform to close the shops on both side* of it that an- only follow,ng the nation's example, only trying to 'a'ch a little trade from those who arc going for their Sunday mail. While the nation sends its Sunday mail ;nur. crashing through tne laws of God and man it will be hard for local reform to stop tte other trains that follow m its wake. The argument against Sunday parades of national troops is bri-f but imjxirtaut. These soldiers and marines are the employes of the nation, aud, in tunes of pea*." 1 , in spections and parades constitute th-.r “work for gain.’’ To our old “regulars," Sunday parades are not even Sunday amuseme t. Their inspections and parados shouid be intermitted oa the Sabbath out of regard to the soldi-rs right to rest and bis rights of con science. When the Sunday inspections and parade* are in the wiidernoe* whore they disturb no < ue else, they should aud often do disturb the soldier himself. When there is neither war nor ii surrection nothing beyond necos-a'T guard or police duty should lie required if soldiers on the Sab bath. In thee “piping times of peace” the U iteu States army is u small affair, but a correct national example isagr-at mattr.” At the conclusion of the address petitions were circuited and were largely signed. The Sunday Rest Movement. Rev. Crafts arrived by the Charleston train yesterday, and was met upon his arrival by Revs. A. M. Wynn and J. W. Kogan, and Janies Farie, Jr. He was seen at the Soreveu H< use by a Mormxs News reporter. Respecting mi tour throu h the south, Mr. Crafts sail that after CJinp’.eting a few of the cities in Florida, he will have spoken in twenty-one states, and by Octob-r he will have visited every state iii the union. He ii on : is seco and tourthroug i the south. After he has returned north he will start out ou auother trip, taking in the middle and western states. Every state has a vice president "f the Sabbatn Union, and Georgia bad an able and sincere one in Rev. A. G. Haygood. Senator Colquitt is au honorary member of the union. Mr. Crafts eulogized the Georgia senator in the highest manner. He sad that he is the most Chris'lan senator in congte-s aud weilds a powerful influence for good. He added that the union is omoosed of republicans ai well as democrats, and colored people as well as whiles. The colored people are only on the executive committees. None of them hold office. Tne union issimilar tothe Ev angelical Alliance, only it is more complete. “I find tie vv rk tngrnen m re largely church members in the south than in the north,” he added, “and this is the working men’s movement, not an eccia.U-t.C4I movement.” TheSenate.hesaid,has orderol printed 42,000 copies of the Sunday rest bill This is the largest edition of auv public document, except the agricultural reports. Notwithstanding this enormous number bus t eou printed, Mr. Crafts thinks that there will be a call for more copiss. The law, he explained, wid not touch local matters. For it.slauce. in Savannah, it can only close up the postofflee and slop the passenger trains. WHARF THIEVIC3 3&NT UP. Two of the Baltimore Steamship Rob bers Convicted. Two of the prisoners charge 1 with being principals in the system of larcenies from the Baltimore steamships in this port were convicted iu the superior court yesterday. Deunis Sausty was sentenced to live years in the penitentiary and Stepney Myers to four yeats. Dan Gilbert was put on trial )a>t : igh’. and after all the testimony was in court took a r esi until 9:30 o'clock this morning when the argument of council will he beard. Ben Green pleaded gui.ty earlier in the term and was sentence 1 to four years. All the purl it * are colored. Detectve Mowatt workei up the case against the thieves, and it was neces ary for him to go to Bal :more to make identi catiOii of the property certain and conclu sive. I) >;oc ive Wetherhorn wa* called in the case by Detective Mowatt aud effected the arrest of the parties ad the recovery of tho goods. Tba stealings bad been t eq.ient for a year or more prior to the arrest of tho thieve , whoso plunder was principally composed of clothing, bats and sh es. Tho Chambor of ior lure Is the apartment to which the unhappy suffer er from inflammatory rheumatism iscoutla 'J. If, ere the crisis of pain Is rescued that tine pre ventive, Hostetler s Stomach Bitters, is used by persona of a rheumatic tendency, much un neoesaary suffering is avoided Nervines, ano dynes and sedatives, while having n ne but a specific effect, a'e yet very desirable at times, let can tney produce no lasllhg effect upon rheumatism, because they have no power to eliminate from the blood the rheumatic virus. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters does t tie. ami checks at the uuuei a disease w hich, if allowed to (tain headway, it Is next to Impossible to dis lodge or to do more than relievo. Rheumatism, it should be remembered, is a disease with a fatal tendency from Its pronene..* to aiiuck tho heart A resort to the Hitlers should, thrr fore, be prompt. Dyspepsia, kid .ey complaint, malaria and uervousuoss are relieved bv it. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY fi, 1889. TO IMPROVE THE STREETS THE NEW STREET AND LANE DE PARTMENT’S PLANS. Chairman Harmon Taking Hold of the Work in Earnest—The Unsanitary Lanes and Alleys Being Cleaned up and Got Beady for the Summer— Yamacraw, Robertaviiie and the Cid Fort Districts to be Looked After —A Proposition to Pa7e Jefferson Street No Asphalt Paving Likely to be Done After the Present Con tract la Completed. Alderman R. F. Harmon, the new chair man cf the s'reet aud lane committee, is taking a decided interest in the duties of hi' office, and since his appointment has been a most übiqatious about the city where street work is in progress. A Morvino News rpo-ter made a trip through the city w.;h Alderman Harmon on one of hi; r unii v'Sho-day, and was surprised at his familiarity with the many u-glected p'scey in sirei-t* a”d iaae--, which it w.d be the policy of the new committee t give attention to at the eari.est piactica- Ue moroe-.t. The new street and lane committee found River st-esit and Factor* walk in a very u -ani'ary condition, and Alderman Har mon ha* a f ice < f men and carls cleaning up un :r 'he Lluff. As far as the work has been completed it presents a much more sandery app- arance. It will 1> the policy of the co mil tee rot to wait until the bea-.ed erm to c en up the u sanitary por t.oi.i of tb* city, but to do it thoroughly this mont- aud ext, and c mpel tbs keep ing of the itre-ts and lanes clean. Toe Factors’ a k and River street have been dumping for all sorts of u- - -acitary garoage and rubb sb, especially in Factor*' walk from M -ntgomery to Wh iVer street, and after the city clean* up tm* dirtv and dingy ailey, parties who c' unue to dump their rubbisa and garbage in it will find their names on the infurma ti C'ck’-. p,enairs on River street are needed e. and will no doubt l>e made soon. TO CLEAN UP THE BY PLACE3. The'e i. alio necessity for some action to bs r .i. -. with r-gard to tne sickening seep st the f-> tof gas bcuse hill on Randolph street, a:: 1 wtnle t::e ku.d of remedy has in yet been de'ermined upon, it has been dec. led that the nuisance must be remove!. A force of v orkmen is repsuring the plank road leading from Randolph street to the Savannah, K.or. la and Western railway wcarves. T e continuous repairs to this rr ad make it very expensive to keep it in order, an 1 it is only a question of time when paving must bo resorted to. Toe condition of the street at the South Bread and Randolph street crushing is such that not lemthan two cesspools will Le re qu red t > drain that immediate section. At West Broad and Duffy streets the water accumulates in a heavy ram nearly knee and ep. and two or three Sundays ag i the ci'izens had to turn cut with shovels, spades and boss to ditch to save their premises from overflow. This locality, like a grea* many others in th same condition, has been brought t > the atten ion of Alder man Harmon, and no le-s than two cess pools will be required to give proper drain age. The drai age of West Boundary street, Margaret street and Lumber street is ba l. TANARUS: ere is a lack of cess pools, or catch traps, and to add to the inefficient drainage, the W t Boundary s ree: sewer is stopped up with :ani. Vlderman Harmon says that this can lie reme lied only by an expensive excavating to the sower ad cleaning the latter out by section*. This, it is ooutem pla ed, will t>e done next mouth. THE SUBURBS TO BE LOOKED AFTER. There seems to have been an unequal dis tribution of the street work to the advan tage of the central part of the city, and as the later is in c irujaratively g,iod condi tion, the eastern, western and southern por tions are to tie given a good cleaning up and steps taken to put tnem in better con dition to carry off the storm water which now accumulates in so many sections. This, however, can only be done in propor tion to the am mnt of funds available. City Surveyor \V inn will be cousulted and the street work, such as is done her. after, will be practical, an 1 has and upon such recom me dat.ons as the engineering officer of the civ may make after proper investigation. The new committee realizes that it will not be able to do ai that it would like to do in street aud lane improvements. In fac‘. Alderman Hirmon said, as he pointed to the many buildings recently erected in the southern and western portions of the citv, th-city is growing beyond the financial ability of the corporation to give it the street and lane improvements and drainagj it demand*. He stated that there are but $37,000 available for street and laae work, a sum SB,OOO less than the street and lane committee had last year, and $10,500 less t: au in 1887. O ily SIO,OOO is available for Street paving this year. JEFFERSON STREET MAY BE PAVED. It ii understood that the committee will recommend the paving of Jeff rson street wita giaywaeke, laid iu coal tar n* a cement, and not with sand as ou the Bay street extension an l as it is laid on Wacl.ey street City Surveyor Winn will be asked to make an estimate of the cost. As two thirds of thee st will come off of property holders where lot- abut on the street, it is believed that the available funds will enable the committee to pave Jefferson street as far south as Liberty stre t or farther. In a iditton to giving the city a cleaning up, the public squares, many of whicu, after a rain, are uot much better than lakes, w ill require s line grading. T:.*'re are ab -ut 81 men in tho employ of the street and lane committee, and cross ings are b dug laid oa Lincoln street, north of Soutn Broad, and on Whitaker vvhe: e they have been very much re dei It is the intention of the committee, after finishing the cleaning up uuder the bluff, to flea up Yamacraw, through to Frogtowu and R bertsviile, ad the Oil Fort i* to bi put in the Levf sanitary condition possible. A force of in-n is rebuilding tho bridge on Railroad t> reet across tie canal, and another forev is at work doing same grading at Liberty and Habers am streets. DEFECTS JX THE ASPHALT PAVING. The &*pbalt pavement--have not escaped the eyes of the committe ■. Tho disintegra tion of the War en-Bchaarf pavement on (.'ingress street and the deore-sions in the Breugbto i street piveme.it of both tho Wane i-sehaarf and the Vulcanite com panies have i een noted, and the contractors will be required to remedy all defects. Aldermm Harmon savi tho Warr.i- Schtvirf company is uuder bond to keep) its paving in lepair for five years. The aide: inau was not inclined to lie quo ed on a possible extension of tiui ’to the Vulcanite Compauy to do the Liberty street work, nor as to what will be the course of council with regard to the ex to siou of Bay street. The council, he said, is now, and a great many things have to bo considered yet, a id the wi-has of bis com mittee and the council li st learned. It may be set down, however, as extremely doubtful if any men’aspuali pavement will bo laid after the pavement of Liberty street is completed. Tins would seem to settle the paving of Bull street from Liberty to Harris, which has been discussed, aud also tho paving of Barnard from Broughton to York street as was at one time contem platsd. To be Brought Here for Burial. The remains of High Chief Ruler B. H. Webster of the Independent Order of Kechabites, will be brought to Savannah for interment. They will be accompanied by Messrs. J. R. Coffin and J. W. Trout, both cf whom are of advanced rank in the order. The funeral arrangements are in the hands of a committee composed of Mi ser*. '1 nomas B. Marohe, L. H. Rutterson, C. W. Blears and J. E. Minnix. Buggy Rob.is and Wraps, Closing out ohcap, at La Far’s. THROU3H TH3 CITY Items Gathered Here and There by the News Reporters. Winfield Scot? Hancock post, Grand Army of the Republic, will hold a regular meeting to-night. The Equitable Loan and Building Asso ciation will hold the tweety-mnth regj.ar monthlv meeting to-cig ,t a: the secreiarv’s office, No. 118 Bryan street. In the case of Geo. W. Williams, con victed at the present term of the su- erior court of assault with intent Pi murder, a supersede** was granted vesterday until Feb. 16. The stockholders of the Title Gua-antee and Iyoan Company will boll a spsc.ai ineet ; ing at the Guards armory t -nignt to take the final steps toward elAL.ui*.ng a dime savings deportment The city council will meet to-night. A number of important mea-urei, among j ’-hem the drainage question and the i improvement of the quarantine wharves, it is extreme i, will be brought up. The corner stone of the new Sb John's Er icopal mission churcn, at Barnard and Duffv streets, wiilbeiaiia: 4 o’clock this afternoon. The prograrums, as outlined in Sunday’s Morsixo News, wij ;_e carried out .The steamer Maggie Belle, from Abbe ville, did not arrive Monday night, accorl icg to ter usual schedule. On toe way she sprang a leak in Wilmi g’on river, and was run up om sand bank. Assistance has bean sent to her. A white woman, keeper of a stall in the market, i laims to have seen robbed of $9 in_ currency aud as9 check on a Camden (N. J. bank. Sue says that the money was in her pocket aud somebody cut her pocket and t-rok it out without her knowl edge. She charges two c.lored women who keep stalls near her with taking her money. Lee Jordan, the colored man in the Jesup jail charged with the murder of the peddier Lugroan, notice of which apioeared in the news columns of yesterday’s Morsixo News, is said by a detective in this city to be an old offender and a i all-round crook, woo was suspected of being one of Hartlees W. Bacon’s gang. He Las often been shad owed. the detective says, ad two or three years ago Detective Ryan had him arrested, and stolen goods were found m Jordan's cabin. George Lilienthal colored;, living at No. 23 Minis street, was snot yesterday after noon through the accidents, discharge of a ptstol in the hands of Ed Johnson, another colored man. The men were “pranking" with the w apou when it was discaargei. The ball struck Lilienthal in tne abdomen. Drs. Sc ley and Corson were summond and dresse-i the wound. The physicians do not conaider it dangerous a- the ball entered the abdomen, ranging uud-r the kin without entering the flesh further. One of the batches in pipe-laying, which Alderman Falligant s ordinance regulating the laying of gas and sewer pipes in the stre-ts will remedy, is the laying of a gas pipe in Whitaker street, neir the Morxixo News building, so close to the surface that the cobble pavement, after having been dug uo by the gas company employes to ailow an excavation for tte pipe, could not be replaced even with the surface of the sum unding paveme .b The cobblestones were replaced over the pipe, resting upon .t ad making a ridge in the center of the street COMING WITH A HOWL. The Coldest Wave Yet to Sweep Down on Savannah 10-Nighb Another, and it is believed the coldest wave yet, is close by. At 10 o’clock yes terday morning Chief Signal Officer Greely sent out an order to “hoist the cold wave signal. Temperature will fall,” sad the telegram, “to the freezing point by 8 a. m., Feb. 6.” That means that it will be at the f eezing point ttiii morning at that hour, and Signal Observer Wright said last nignt at 11 o’clock that to-night may reasonably be expecte i the lowe t ternoerature of the season. The minimum so far has not bee 1 below 28.fi*, but it is likely to go below tuat this time. At 8 o’clock yesterday morning the mer curv at Sb Vincent, Minnesota, had gone to .58* below z“ro, the coldest ri-cor led dav of the winter, and the thermometer is 10* to 15“ below zero throughout the northwest. Toe cold wave is advancing in a south easterly direction, and Savannah is directly in its path. The mercury did not t egin to fall here until 8 o’clock last night, when a cold northwesterly wind set in. aud all through the early part of the nignt it whis tled dismally and rattled the window panes, growing colder and colder, until at mid night tne wind velocity had gone from eight miles an hour to twice that velocity, and the mercury had tumbled tullv 10”. Througaout the Middle, Eastern and New England states there have been heavy snow storms during the last two dav*. and the cold wave wiil spread from the lakes to the gulf and from the Siuth Atlantic t < the New England coast. Pedestrians to-dav will do well to be warmly clad, for a fall of over 20* in twenty-four hours is a thing not to be trifled with. VICTIMS OF THE OOUfiTR “Bill” Henry Sent Up for Two Years for Burglary. William Henry (colored) was found guilty of burglary in the superior court yesterday and sentenced to two years in the peniten tiary. Henry is the thief arrested a short time since for burglarizing the residence of Joh i N. Maupas the dairyman, during the absence of the family at church. Jesse Willi mis was acquitted in the supe rior ourt la t night, after a weli-eonte ted t: ial, on the charge of robbery. Williams had taken a revolver from the tow i mar shal of Thuude. b ilt, while the officer was seeking to arrest Williams. Walter P. l*aßoche, counsel for the prisoner, plead iu defe ne that the weapon wa* taken fi mi the officer in siCf-Jefeuse, as the lifeof Williams was in jeopard ’. The fact that Williams did no re urn the weaoou seemed to have lit 1 le weight with the jury, for it was not out over an hour until it came in w.th a verdict of acquittal. BOUIAL YOUNG MSN. An Evening at the Young Men’s Chris tian Association. The association parlor was nearly filled last evening with young men in attendance at the monthly business meeting. The meeting opened with a social progrumtna co.isisti gof a piano sol i by George Frier son, songs by Missis. Falconer and What lev, a banjo soio by Prof. Frank Delay aud a piano silo by F. D. Bloodworth, Jr. i’he committees of ttie association submit ted tneir monthly reports, ail of which showed the work to be in a healthy con diti n. If a stianter had walked into the association rooms be would have sen that the association was doi g its true work, and that it was sucees<- ful iu it. Uo auywuere, there were young men. In tne parlor the monthly mooting was going on. Y ung men were in the game room playing chess, checkers und dominoes. The reading room had its por tion. ami a visit to the gymnasium found that, too, well attended. Ibo total attend ance reported by the reception committee for the evening was ninety. The ladies' auxiliary held an important meeting in the afternoon, and among other business it was decided to bare a imisicale on toe evening of Wednesday, Feb. 20. An entertaining progra nine, consisting of vo cal and instrumental music, will le ar ranged, and refreshments will i e served. Dr. M. Schwab, The well known Optician, has returned to Sa vannah after a lapse of ten years, and has openail a permanent Optical Institute, No. 2! Bull street, second door from Broughton street, where he will be pleased to suit the public eye with glss-es best adapted to improve and re lieve the sight. No charge for examination. The doctor Is assisted dv hi* son, Dr. I. M Schwab, a graduate of Dr. C. A. Buckleu’s School of Optics of New York. XOT INCLINED TO TALK. THK GRAND JURY NOT FINDING out all it wants to. Four Witnesses Refuse to Tell What They Know about Buying: Votes and Keeping Saioons Open on Election Day—To Ee Given an Opportunity to Explain to Judge Adams Why They Are Not in Contempt—The Grand Jury to Continue Its Investigation. ; There will be added interest to the pro | ceedicgs m the superior court to-day. At 2:30 o clock this afternoon Mersr a Charles F. Prendergast, 9. L. Lazaron. D. Y. Dancy and Charles P. P.ossignol will be | brought before Judge Adams by Solicitor ! General Fraser to show cause why a rule : for contempt should not be issued against j them. The anticipated proceedings grew oat of the action of Messrs. Prendergast, Lszaron, Dancy and P.ossignol in declining to answer certain iaterrogatjries p-opounded to them before the graud iury vesterdav touehii.g the charges of bribery at the recent elec tions, and the opening of saloons on election days. Mr. Prerdergast was the first recusant witness, and wnen interrogated declined to ans - er. Tae solicitor genera! was called in and the refusal communicated to him i/V Foreman Taliaferro. The solicitor general, taking a copy of the questions which M . Prendergast had declined to answer, had a private conference with Judge Adams, at the close of which Mr. Prendergast was re called to the grand jury room, and the solicitor general re-propounded the inter rogatories. and having met with a refusal toairew.r, was disenarged until 3:30 o'clock to-day. at which time he was notified that be would t-e required to answer to the court for his ref ..sal. THS WITNESS MAT TALK. Solicitor General Fraser said last night that while that which transpires in the grand jury room is held to be a secret, which no grand juror can divulge, there is no restriction upon a ltness. It is known that the recusant witnesses, taking the cue from Mr. Prendergast, de clined to answer any question not particu larly directed to toe case pending. Tne summons to all of the witnesses was to ap pear and give testimony in a case of the state vs. Percy Moulden, for misdemeanor, and they refused to testify except in the Percy Moulden caso. As none of them claim 1 1 know of any misdemeanor Percy committed, they are unwiLing to toil what they know of the misdemeanors of others. The Percy Moulden is supposed to be a man of straw from u der whose mantle the state seeks to smoke out a number of saloon-keepers who sold 1 quor on election day, and a number of bribers and bribed, who did a field bu-iness on the days of the city and county election. Mayor Schwarz, his late opponent, ex- Alderman D. R. Thomas, and a dozen ether witnesses were in waiting, but they were not ca led before the grand ju y after its experience with the four recusant witnesses. WHY HE P.EFCSED TO ANSWER. Mr. Prendergast was seen last night, and he sa.d he regretted that the matter had been maie public, and especially in the manner with which his name had been con nected with ti e public.ty. He d-.toiled his pcsi ion as follows: “I was called before the grind jury at about 10:30 o'clock, and certain questions were pr pounded to me by the foreman, Mr. Taliaferro, and others of the grand jurv, some of which questions I answered and some of which I de clined to answer. Among the grounds of my declination was the decisi n of the supreme c >urt ia re. Lester, mavor, 77 Georgia Reports, p. 143, in which the prin ciple is laid down that no Witness before a grand jury can be compelled to testify ex cept in a particular case then and there pending, and then only with reference to that particular case. TO MAKE A TEST CASE. "I expressly disclaim any intention of disc urtesv to the grand jury, and I stated, - ’ Mr. Prerdergast added, "that my refusal was based upon what I co ceived to bo just grounds. The solicitor general was called in and I was requested to retire, and a little later I was informed that I might stav about the building within call. About 12 o'clock I was recalled and some f the same questions I had declined to answer were again propounded to me, this time by tin solicitor genera! himself, wh ch elicited ibe same answers I had previously given to the grand juro 3. and bared uoon the same grounds. My continued refusal to reply crew from the solicitor general a notifica tion to appear at the court house on Wud nesiay at 3:30 o’clock p. m., before Judge Adams. "I also disclaimed, a second time, any thing in tbe nature of a discourtesy to the grand jury, and I certainly intended none to Solicitor General Fraser or Judge Adams, for both of whom I have the highest respect and regard. My conceptions of principle alone guided my course.” Tne grand jury will meet again at 3:30 o’clock this aiternoon, and this circum stance bas given rise tc the belief that Judge Adams will require the witnesses to answer the objectionable questions, or show cause why they should not be he.d for contempt of court. OViH IN CHARLESTON. Happenings on the Other Side of the Savannah. The Charleston Schuetzen Fest will take plaoo May 1, 2 and 3. The cold snap of last week killed all of the tir-t shoots on the great a-paragus farms near Mount Pleasant. The loss has been great and will cans • a postponement of the first mesa < t a-narngus on the t bias of t e gourmands of New York for about tea days. There is considerable commotion among the United States commissioners in Scut , Carolina, on account of the cutting down of fees and charges, which they allege the department of justioa has been Systemati cally and lug for some time past. Tne most serious complaint, however, seems to bo concerning the manner in which this is done. Amounts are allowed in tho charges of some of tho commissioners, while wit,i regard to others the same fees and charges have been refused, although they have Ireen up o this time always paid by the depart ment. L. T. Parry of Charleston, who is an ex pert lineman and electrican, his bee i en gaged as sufierinteudent of tho c nstruction gang of the ue* Post tlTslegraph Company, and is now employed making drawings aiid lavi g out the route between Columbia aoi Richmond. He will start immediately with the construction of the lino from Rich uio dto Raleigh, aid it is expect-d that tho connection to Charleston will be com pleted by July 15. It is said that J, NV. Kates, forme ly of the Southern Telegranh Company, will te superintendent or tho line. The company expects to start with fire wires between New York and Charles ton and to increase the number in time to fourteeu. Mr. A. B. Laformk, Boston, Mass., says: I ordered and distributed one dozen large bottles of Bradycrotine among my friends afflicted with Headache, and in every case it has afiorded almost instantaneous relief. Virginia Club, Lewis ’6O and Durham Rye NVhlskey, Imported Sherry and Port Wines and El ModeloCigsrs. J. S. F. ll a a Bora, Now Houston anil Harnard streets. Oak, Pine and Llgfitwuod. Have removed my wood yard ti corner Gwinnett street and Savannah, Floridaand Western railway. Telephone 77. R. B. Cassbls. Foster's Flue Kid Gloves, Finished and Undressed. Elegant Silk and Lawn Ties, for evening wear, at LaPar’a. THiJ NEW COURT HOUSE. Arrangement of the County Offices in t'ae Whitfield Building. The county officials and th- superior court and city court officials will remove from the old court house into tte Whitfield Luildii g the latter part of the month, to occupy it for about a year ar.d a half, until tbs new court house i, ready for occupancy, which it is exrected will be about July 1, 1890. A vitit was made to t e Whitfield build ing yesterday afttrnoot, and tbe location o: the different offices agreed upon. Mr. J. F. Smith, the contractor, and tbe super vising architect of the building, a-com panied the Msiting committee which con sisted of Judge Harden, of the city court; J. O. P. Carr, e!e k of the superior court; Judge Ferriil. of the court of ordinary; Capt. John R. DilLn, tax receiver and chrk of the b- ard of county commissioners; and Capt J. J. McGo <■ a . tax collector. The following was agr-fd up J i a 5 the location of the different effic.s m the build ing: County commissioner* and receiver of tax returns and ordinary’s office o i first floor no th side of the building, the omn ti.issioners l aving the ea t room and the or titiary th** west room. Office ot the clerk of the superior court on ’.he south side, firs floor. In the east end with the following offices ia the rear, in tbe order name.!: County treasurer, cl-rk of the cit c urt, t x collector. In addition to the Wh.taker street entrance, doors on Stare street ope i into the offices of the ordinary and county commissione s, arid doors on P esideut street open into tue offi ces of the cl“rk of tae superior court au j the tax collector. Ou the second floor, on tbe south side of the building and fronting on Whitaker, is the super.or court room, witn tbe following rooms in the rear: Judge's private office, sheriff's office and jury room in the order mentioned. The north side of this tloo will be occupied by the city court, and there is the same arrangement of room for judge, sheriff and jury as on the superior c. urt side. The third floor will be used for a grand jury room. The fire-proof brick vault for the archives of the courts and cou ty officials will be in Telfair place, and Clerk Carr will keep two deputies there, the city court clerk •_ne and the court of ordinary one. ABOUT FOLKS YOU KNOW. Savannahians and Other People Who Come and Go. C. C. Grace of Screven is in the city. * W. M. Durden of Math is at the Screven. Y. E. Morel of Sylvauia is at the Har nett. Benjamin Lee of Scarboro is at the Har nett. J. O. Whitcomb of Atlanta is at the Mar shal L J. J. Hays of Bainbridge is at the Pulaski ho se. H. C. Stockdell of Atlanta is at the Pulaski. C. A. Robbe of Augusta is at the Screven. B. M. Lovett of Scriven county is at the Screven. B. F. MeCale of Valdosta is at the Harnett W. J. Thagard of Halcyondaie is at the Harnett. J. F. Griner of BrunsoD, S. C., is at the Marshall. W. J. Brinson of Screven county is at the Harnett. E. Strong and wife, of Starke, Fla., are at the Pulaski. M. C. Wilkinson of Quitman is stopping at the Marshall house. Mr. Hugh Comer left for Memphis last night via the Central railroad. J. A. Ousley of Ousley is in the city, registered at the Pulaski house. J. G. Solomon and H. R. Box of Para chucla, S. C., are at the Marshall. Cel. H. R. Christian, general soliciting agent of the Ocean Steamship Companv, and family arrived yesterday from New York on the Tallahassee. J. S. Baxley of Notasulga, Ala., passed through the city last night en route from Florida to his home in Alaba na. He ha* been engaged in furnishing ties for the Mid dleburg. Highland and Lake Butler rail road. H. McK. Twombley and wife Mis E. O. Davidren of New York, with their servants, arrived last night in t eir private car and wiil be guests of the Pulaski house for the three or four days which the tourists wi!l spend in Savannah. From here they will go to Thomasville. Mrs. Twombley is a daughter of W. K. Vanderbilt. Messr-. Charles Peacock and T. B. Mar shall left for Bainbridge yesterday morning to attend the welding of Mr. J. E. Pea cock, manager of the Western Union Tele graph Company and also mans ger of t e Southern Bell Telephone Companv of St. A gustine, Fla., ar.d Miss Lilia Williams, one of Bainbridge’s most interesting young lames. An Old Established House. One of the greatest conveniences to the house keeper* is the old reliable house of A. 31. & C. W. West, dealers in Staple and Fine Groceries Ther place of business is at the corner of Lib erty and Whitaker streets. They are tbor ughly identified with the interests of Savannah, and f■ r the past twenty-three vears have catered s access! ully to the liest else, of trail- While they do a retail b -iin - , tney are prepared to furnish families with ail kinds of t.r-xieries ia auy quantities desired a* wholesale prices they keep no liquors, hut make a specialty in handling the finest Teas, Coffees, Chocolate and Cocoas. Domestic and importe 1 tab re lux uries are a specialty w-ith th m. havinz gained a reputation which is wide-spread in this par ticular style. Tbe Park & Telford imported Cigars, one of the best cigars sold in this city, can Ire had at this store. Neatness and order is a marked feature of tnis house, and a vis t to their store is a treat to any one. All orders poi’iiptlv attended to. and the most polite at tention given to all. Don t fail to give them a call. Dunlaps and Nascimento’a Fine Silk Hats, All sizes, at Ia Far’s. You Should not Fall To visit the crockery house of James S. Silva, if in search of a wedding or anniver sary present, or anything fre home use. 5 u will find there the largest stock and greatest variety, while tbe prices are gua - an.red ns low as the lowest. Rich cut piasrware, plain and decorated china, lamps of every kind, and a variety of other denimble goods, which only a personal in spection caa give an idea of. Warner’s Sanitary Underwear Aud Buckskin Unuerve.ts at LaFar's. Oak Pine and Lightwood. Have removed my wood yard to corner Gwinnett street aud Savannah, Florida and Western railway. Telephone 77. R. B. Casskls. Elegant Umbrellas and Rubber Coats And fine Driving Gloves a: LaFar’s. Max O’Rell. The New York 6 Unclay World of Jan. 20, besides other interesting urticles, c uitai s Max O’ReilL new book entitled "Brother Jonathan aud His Continent.” For sale at Eitill's News Depot, 21>d Bull street. Waddings. Wedding invitations and cards printed or encra\od at tbe shortc-t notice aud In the latest sty.es. We carry au extensive and ! wed (erected stock of fine papern, envelope* I end cards especially for such orders. iSuin ple* sent on application. Morn eta News! Printing House, Hava inah. Ga. , V 1 ENTS A WEEKTiiThave the / BURNING NEWS dd.vered tmj a Lou *® tarl * LVLRY MORN- j A bsol ute I y p u re. Th!* Powder never varied, a marvel of Pre, Strength and V> holesomeness. Morel-' cal than the ordinary kinds, and cannot b-?i in competition with the multitude of'low ,l. short weight alum or phosphate powd -i4 only m can*. Rotal Baking Powdir c A , J Wall street. New York. “ u -> M . UfDDEN Jt BATES S. v~ n [?(i sill! YES, ACTUALLY SAVED IN PURCHASE I OF A PIANO. OCR SPECIAL | Mathushek Sale STILL BOOMING. A superb 7V-oct*ve Parlor Upright three Springs, Rich Case. Genuine Ifory Keys, and all improvements, hitherto sold regularly at *395,n0 w offered at only ■ S32d !- —- Payable $5 cash and $2 weekly un fi] paid for. A clean S7O saved each pur chaser and terms ever known. One Hundred ordered for Savannah trade and to be shipped as needed. Every steamer wiil bring them. No more delays. Every home in Savannah can now be prompt ly supplied. Luddenißates SouthernMusicEoase TTRMTTKE AND CARPETS. fKeep II Inis BY Keeping lew Stott \V~E are constantly replenishing our stock ▼ ▼ with the newest, brightest, freshest goois to be had. aa 1, among other things, call atten tion to our FRESH STRAW MATTINGS, in the choicest patterns to be had. also to an line of BABY CARRIAGES. We have some goods tba r we don’t want to carry over, viz: CARPETS. WINDOW SHADES, LACK ' CRT A INS and PORT I* RES. THIS MEANS SPECIAL BARGAINS, as they must Ikj sold. Don't make a mistake in failing to visit us. We can interest you every tuaa and our close prices will save you money. i J. MILLER S K Furniture and Cirpet Emporium HOTELS. THE SEMINOLE, Orange County, Florida. r riIIS elegant hotel is located on tho highest 1 gr*und in Florida, mi Ist tbe most t>w:;ti.ui scenery in the state. Eleven lakes in view or the house. SICKNESS UNKNOWN. NO MAKSH. NO MALARIA. HOTEL NOW OPEN. BENT'S CELEBRATED ORCHESTRA FROM NEW YORK. Drawing room cars through v. i • bout changa Send for guide. W. F. PAIOK_ THE MORRISON HOUSE / *EHTTCALLY /ccatai, on Moe ef V 7 offers pI-M#ant south rconu) with • board, low eat rates. With new ath- •* • and vrntiiati n perfect, the coßdi** of the house ia of the bct. Corner Brou* c aud Drayton utrtet*. Savannah. I DAVIS lißO>. Put lour House in Order. Home, sweet home : wtat wouin._ fe without a horns? Then bouse* ’ - , It attractive aud comfortable L foil ■ Piano or Organ go directly to vY ' . .help lay tne matter b fore them, and ih ,_ r you out In the matter. If vouh-'o don't have it out of tune and at.e-n- * t r awav w.th It dull care from the ■u ' • ~ io ed • nre: it won't work, re 1M •1' - about it. By k eping your il>‘ o t it tune, you not only get tue cor-"* 'L?'.|. ’. K .*r preserves th instrumejt and UI m longer. We gua: antee our tuner and ,* 1 Knabe, Conover aid Barrington Story A Clark aid Kimball 0r?* 3J • Mrs. V M STAHL the rth ’•*?, Wg. Monday last iu No. 1. DAVIS BROS-, 42, 44 AND 4 BULL STBIUT-