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BEAUTIES OF BOLOGNA.
"VENERABLE MONUMENTS AND
RARE TREASURES.
The Leaning ToweM-Its Memora
ble Churches—Some of the Works
of the Old Masters—Ouido Ra
phacl—The Sampler! Gallery and
Other Objects of Interest.
Bologna, April 15.—Editor Morning News:
1 fltid that the famous author of "'The Inno
cents Abroad” gives the following cursory
comment on Bologna: “I find no mention of
Bologna in my memorandum book, except
that we arrived there in good season, but saw
none of the suasages for which the place is so
justly celebrated.”
If Mark Twain ever visits Bologna at an un
seasonable time, lam sure he will appreciate
more highly the blessing which was ones his
of arriving there “in good season.” For of all
Italian cities this is certainly the coldest in
winter, the hottest in summer, and at other
times with weather to the last degree uncer
tain and capricious. Thus, in the spring
time, we have left the sunniest of skies, the
balmiest of breezes behind us at Pisa
and Florence, and find in Bologna
a blustering March wind using its utmost en
deavors to persuade a bleak and sullen winter
that it is not time to leave.
As for the sausages, our experience is in flat
contradiction of that of our gifted writer. The
veritable eau de cologne is perhaps made an
object of more prominent attention to the un
happy visitor of that givat city of the Rhine,
butonlv because the appeal is directly to one’s
olfactories, whereas the Bologna sausage is to
be gazed at from a respectful distance, and
oaten with care. Bologna boasts, as perhaps
its greatesi curiosities, two leaning towers.
They are also curiosities of ugliness, and,
standing close together, seem to vie with ouch
other in the exhibition of this quality. They are
of perfectly plain brick and mortar, and rise up,
square aud uncouth, like nothing more famous
tbau the chimneys of some large manufactur
ing establishment, which had burnt down and
left them standing, knocked awry. Os course
no comparison can be instituted between the
Tower of liadiont Beauty at Pisa and these
brick piles of Bologna ; except as possessing
in common th3 single quality of “leaning.”
The Torre Asinelli, the tallest of ail, has of ne
cessity the least incline; it is about twice the
’ heighth of its companion, the Torre Garisen
da, which is some fifteen feet lower than Pisa’s
Tower, while the latter, by the excess over ail
in its incline, asserts its right to be called, par
excellence, the Penning Tower.
The fact that the Garisenda Tower
was built intentionally to be a leaning tower,
and yet defied its builders to rear it higher,
whereas that at Pisa is of greater altitude and
more out of the perpendicular, should afford a
weighty argument (if it were needed) to the
many others advanced in support of the propo
sition that Pisa’s Campanile does not lean by
design. * * *
St Petronto, the largest church edifice in
Bologna, was begun with a grand flourish of
trumpets and proud proclamation that it
should outdo the famous Cathedral of Flor
ence. The spacious nave gives evidence of the
ambitious design thus contemplated—a design
that has never been consummated. So that it is
not surprising to find that my most enduring
remembrance of St. Petronio will be a* of a
grand series of chords from a full organ,
which, by a sudden collapse in the 1 ollows,
terminate with a few spasmodic gasps.
The Church of St. James the Greater we
found very bleak looking and barren of attrac
tion. I cannot except the chapel behind the
choir, containing the masterpiece of Francia,
whose merits as a painter we made another
careful effort to appreciate here, and then gave
it up in despair.
The custodian of this church, who had ren
dered us literally no service beyond removing
the drop curtain from Francia’s Madonna (it
might well seem to have been painted for the
sole benefit of a custodian’s pocket) flew into
a violent passion at the smallness of the fee we
presented to him.
We thereupon suggested that if it did not
please him he could return it; which, acting
upon the impulse, he very foolishly did. Then
he got nothiug, and cut a remarkably sorry
figure as he followed us down the nave and out
or the door of this house of Divine Worship
with blatant imprecations. We have met his
like before, but he must be written down as
the worst of an altogether contemptible class.
We shall remember the church of St. Domen
ico, not so much as containing the ashes of
the founder of the Inquisition, or for the hand
some sarcophagus that enshrines them; al
though we shall not forget the two marble
angels that kneel above it, one designed by
Michael Angelo. Os these angels one is far
more attractive than the other and great is
one’s chagrin to bo informed that that great
master, who ought of course to have designed
the attractive angel, designed the other. No;
our interest in this edifice centres in the fact
that it is the last resting place of the great
painter, Guido Reni.
At that master’s name what visions of
beauty pars before the enraptured mind, as by
the waving of a magician’s wand!
His reputed masterpiece, the Aurora, proud
est ornament of the Rospigliosi Palace; the
Beatrice Cenci, in the Palace Barberini, a face
that appeals, as does none other on canvass,
to the deepest sympathiesef the human heart;
the triumphant beauty of the conquering
Archangel, in his painting for the Capuchin
Church; the wonderful crucifixion, that rivets
the gaze to the high dtar, in the church of
—Lorenzo in be graqd fresco gif the
martyrdom PISu. -raw opposite theyjamp
subject by his rival Do.uinichino in St.
rv’s Church; the majesty of the dSteruar
Father, loftiest ornament of St. PeterSrflome.
These ahd countless others, that would cover
pages in the mere recital, appeal to our re
membrance of Guido, from his works in Rome.
And here in Bologna, his home, we have
studied many of his important and elaborate
works, bearing the impress of great
thought and skill and evidently the pro
duct! of his mature effort. We have
seen many unworthy paintings from this
master’s brush in the course of our travels;
many the outcome of that greed of gain,
born of the besetting passion for gaming that
clouded with shame his later years. It Is not
for us to judge him in the matter of human
frailty and error; and as for those unworthy
productions, he would be the first to join in
the censure given them, and to blot them out
if he could. His ashes repose here in a church
to whose adornment his brush has largely con
tributed ; and the altar of the chapel of his
rest supports a painting whose frame is a
series of panel pictures by him and others.
The memorial tablet gives us the date of his
birth and death, and so reminds us of the mor
tality of human genius. But the paintings
there bid us know that the master lives, and
straightway the magic wand is waved, and
there pass before the mind those great
works-some of which I have cited—that shall
continue to instruct and enliven the souls of
men; works that can never die.
1 have spnken of our study of Guido’s
paintings in Bologna; the most important and
interesting are to be found in the Academy
of Fine Arts. They are all large paintings.
One, of the Crucifixion, with the Magdalene
and another at the foot of the cross, did not
impress me as forcibly as his smaller picture
of the same subject, in the Lorenzo in-Lucina
Church, in Rome, where there is but the solita
ry cross with its Divine burden, after the expir
ing “It is finished” had passed away amid the
convulsion of the elements. In both paintings
the background of lurid tempest is in grand
accord with the subject.
Os greater dramatic power is his Massacre of
the Innocents, a subject as favorite with the
painters as that of The Chaste Susanna, if not
as frequent as Sf. Sebastian. The hgure of the
dead infant in the foreground (it has the flesh
tints peculiar to death, and the inactivity of
death, as distinct from that of sleep
as life itself could be,) is in strik
ing contrast with the terrible despair
the distracted fury of the mother beyond.
Those figures of the agonized mothers, con
tending with the slayers of their babes, who
will out them down audstab or strangle them
before their very eyes and at their very
breasts, have been criticised as exaggerated in
this and in every other presentation of the
scene, not excepting that in Raphael’s tapes
try-cartoons. If the critics would just stop a
moment and imagine the scene enacted before
them ; their own wives or mothers or sisters
or daughters the despairing actors, their own
flesh ana blood the innocent victims, I think
they would feel the horror of that scene could
never be exaggerated. I rank Guido’s con
ception of It here wi h Raphael’s, and
I have seen no finer.
The Madonna della Pieta is one of the most
important by Guido in this collection. It is
thus mentioned by Mr. Hillard: “A noble pic
ture of some twenty-five or thirty feet high,
nearly filling the end of the hall. It is in two
parts. Below are the patron saints of Bologna,
and the city in the background; above, the
Saviour is lying on a bier, partially draped,
the Madonna standing on the farther side,
facing the spectator, her face raised to heaven
and filled with the deepest grief and the most
trusting resignation.”
I must confess to having wished this paint
ing bad not been in two parts; and that the
beauty of the upper subject had not been dis
turbed by the incongruous conjunction of the
saints and the city of Bologna.
Paul Potter’s “Bull” and Paul Veronese’s
“Feast at the House of Levi,” are each master
pieces. What -would they look like taeked to
gether? And, yet, the Bull would be just as
appropriate an adjunct to the Feast, as are the
collection of Patron Saints in Bologna, as spec
tators of the grief of the Madonna over her
Divine Son.
I have not touched on half of Guido’s works
in this one room; I cannot even dweiionhis
Sampson Triumphant; “not so much a strong
man as a seraph,” who has “slain his foes by
an effort of the will, and not by strength of
a *No; the adjoining room draws us to Bolog
na’s greatest art treasure—to a treasure for
which the world is grateful—Raphael’s St.
Cecilia.
Let us pause for a moment to think of the
subject Raphael had to conceive and portray;
and so contrast the blank canvas with the fin
ished work of art. His subject is to be a
saint, whose legendary history is intertwined
with the spirit of music in its highest and truest
type He is to present her as the Patron Saint
of Music, and the painting is to adorn a church
of the Living God, whose praises she had
chanted below, and for whose Faith she suf
fered a Martyr’s death.
This is the subject upon which all the facul
ties of the great artist are concentrated.
What will he do with it?
He places as the central figure of a group
of five a maiden whose hands are clasped
about an organ, with the fingers upon some
of its keys, and whose countenance is up
turned.
Nearest this figure, on the one
hand is Bt. John the Evangelist; and on the
other, and nearer the spectator, Mary Magda
lene bearing in her hands an alabaster box es
ointment. In front of Bt. John, and nearest
us, is St. Paul, who leans upon his sword:
while beyond the Magdalene and to the left of
Cecilia appears the figure of St. Augustine.
“The youthful and beautiful patron saint of
music has just ceased playing the organ to her
friends, and a heavenly echo falls upon their
ears. Six angels, resting on the edge of a
cloud, have caught up the melody and con
tinue it oy singing. Raphael’s painting depicts
the impression produced by the celestial music
The saints on earth are silent in presence of
the heavenly choir. St, Cecilia lets her hands
rest mechanically upon the organ, but,
with head and eyes turned upwards,
listens entranced to the song. St. Paul,
to her left, is differently affected. Sunk in deep
meditation, he also seems completely oblivious
of the actual world. In pleasing contrast to
these two figures, Mary Magdalene * * * *
shows her delight simply and openly.”
I think the Magdalene manifests something
more than delight. The echo from the heaven
ly choir must bring to her soul the memory of
the angels’ joy over one sinner repentant, and
to her in very fact
“How sweet the truth those blessed strains are
telling
Os that new life when sin shall be no more.”
The presence of John, the Disciple of Love,
who doth not recognize its perfect fitness? His
gaze is fixed upon Saint Cecilia, as though the
Harmonies of Love she had awakened had
carried him back to a blessed time
when there walked, witii the Master, the disci
ple whom Jesus loved; and as the heavenly
strain began, the largest measure of surprise
it brought him was not so much that angels
were singing as that the gentle Saviour of all
was himself not visibly present again. And
as the anthem swelled on in its divine beauty,
there came to him, perchance, the thought he
has given us in the precept, “Beloved, let us
love one another, for love is of God.”
Sff. Paul is the apostle of intellectual prow
ess, of elevated tastes, of the culture, refine
ment and courtesy of the perfect gen
tleman. He represents in this scene
that intellectual grandeur in music which I
may illustrate by some of Bach’s fugue move
ments or Beethoven’s symphonies.
St. Paul is well placed in this group, and the
meditation into which he is so deeply sunk:
may it not also partake of his words to us,
“For we know in part; but when that which is
perfect is come, then that which is in part shall
be done away.” Surely his utterance was
realized in the scene before him; that which
was imperfect had been lost in the harmony
of the perfect which had come.
And then of this surrounding group finally
Saint Augustine—he who with Saint Ambrose
gave inspired utterance to the Te Deum Landa
mus.
“To Thee Cherubim and Seraphim continual
ly do cry’’—this was the prime meaning of
the celestial anthem to tha apostle of Praise.
And of St. Cecilia herself, to whom these
four figures (appropriate ns is each one of
them) are but adjuncts, I cannot find many
words to speak.
The author from whom I have quoted al
ludes to her upturned countenance as en
raptured; it ismore.it is seraphic, and the
seraphs knew how near herspirit.was to theirs
when they gave echo to her strains.
Thus, then, the entire group of Raphael’s
Symyhony, the queen of all music divinely
pure; about her tne types of praise-music, of
intellectual harmonies; of the melodies of de
votional love, and of repentant gratitude.
It was a sublime conception, and is perfectly
presented. Its chords ring out from the dumb
canvas, as from no other of its kind; and they
will resound forever.
We were much interested in the ceiling fres
coes, by the Caracci and Guercino, that adorn
the rooms of the Sampieri gallery. They repre
sent different adventures of Hercules, and
in their remarkable boldness and
vigor (notably the contest with An
taeus by Guercino), were suggestive of
Michael Angelo’s own productions. I believe
the Church of St. Stephen here exceeds in in
terest that of St. Clemente, in Rome, with which
alone it may be perhaps compared. Think
of a spot of ground on which had flourished a
temple of Isis from the dim ages, without a
date, to the fifth century of the Christian era.
Tnereafter no less than seven churches sprung
up about the temple’s site (one of which is
modeled after the Holy Sepulchre); and they
constitute a very honeycomb for Christian
worship.
The same blustering cold wind that greeted
us prevented our lingering, as we should have
wished, about the beautiful courts of Bo
logna’s Campo Santo. But it could not pre
vent our appreciation of the justice of its
claim to be considered one of the finest, if not
the finest, in Italy.
Very striking is the system of burial, observ
able here, into recesses in the walls numbered
for future purchase, excavation and occupa
tion; and, when already appropriated, bearing
the usual inscription on the slab within the
corridors. Except that they are not amid un
derground passages, these resting places of the
dead are exactly as those in the catacombs of
old.
The wind blew even more strongly at us as
we took our leave of Bologna, and it seems to
have lingered with me for a continuous infla
tion of this my record. But it is spent at last;
as possibly has been sometime since the pa
tience of my readers. Haply, less prolix next
time will be your,
Scythian.
Mrs. Louisa G. Allan and Edgar A.
Poe.
New York Times.
.Mrs. Louisa G. Allan, who has just
died at 83, iu Richmond, and whom the
dispatches declare to have been the fos
ter-mother of Edgar Allan Poe, was not
the first wife of Mr, AUan, but the sec
ond, and appears to -la great
deal to do with the ' *-
rupture between,
whom he had, 1
-most of his biographers
have in saying that
when she uieTl v a turning point
in his fortunes had been reached.
She loved him more than her husband
did, who seems to have been proud
ather than fond of him. The public
will probably never obtain a satisfactory
explanation of that unfortunate quarrel;
but If Mrs. Allan, who died the other
day, had always remained Miss Patter
son, and Mr. Allan had remained a
widower to the end of the few years
then left to him, Poe’s fortune
and career would beyond doubt
have been very different from what
they were. When he was adopted
by the Allans they were childless,
and their ample fortune was gener
ously drawn upon to educate, amuse,
and pamper the brilliant boy. He grew
up with the notion that he was to be
John Allan’s heir, and had the first Mrs.
Allan lived five years longer he probably
would have been. She died in 1829,
and her husband in 1834. The
second marriage took place about 1830,
and Poe’s troubles then grew
apace. The new Mrs. Allan did not like
him—if not from the start, especially
after her first child was born—and the
sensitive Poe naturally resented her un
just treatment. Three children came of
this marriage, all boys, who, while mere
babies, found themselves heirs to John
Allan’s estate. Poe was cut off without
a dollar. One of the many recent writers
on Poe —Mrs. Weiss —who knew him in
his last days at Richmond, has declared
that the quarrel wa3 simply a
family affair, which was not in
the first instance the fault of
Poe; that “he received extreme pro
vocation and insult, and that of all the
parties concerned it appears that he was
the least culpable and the most wronged.”
It is generally believed that Poe left the
house and never returned to it as a mem
ber of the family or a guest. When Mr.
Allan was on his deathbed Poe learned
that his foster-father had spoken kindly
of him and expressed a desire to see him,
and accordingly went to the house. But
he sought an interview in vain. Mr.
Allan, Mrs. Weiss says, was not even
informed of his call, and died without
seeing him.
H ■
A Fight Between Army Officers.
Arizona Democrat.
A duel was fought at Fort Douglas,
Utah, on March 20, in which Captain
Western and Surgeon Lecompte were
principals.
The duel arose over a lady—the pretty,
high-tempered wife of one of the officers
ot the post. While the officers and their
ladies were dining one day Dr. Lecompte
awkwardly stepped on her dress and re
ceived a sharp rebuke for it, whereupon
he apologized. Captain Western was
drawn into the quarrel which ensued,
and he and the surgeon were placed in
antagonism, and it became noised about
that a challenge to fight a duel had been
issued, and that shooting would grow
out of the affair the first time that they
met. After matters had reached this
stage both went armed and on their
guard, and after a word or two, while
both were at close quarters, revolvers
were drawn and fired.
The Captain’s shot passed through the
Doctor’s right hand and entered his side,
while the surgeon’s bullet missed its
mark. At the next fire the surgeon’s
shot shattered the Captain’s arm, and the
next entered the Captain’s side. The
Captain fell, and the Doctor, whose pis
tol hand was wounded, discontinued the
duel. Since that time Capt. Western
has been practically incapacitated for
duty
HORSFORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE
111 Depression from Overwork,
I find Horsford’s Acid Phosphats bene
ficial in nervous depression and anxiety re
sulting from overwork.
W. R. Pace, M. D.
Sandusky , 0.
A TALK WITII COLONEL COLE.
Wliat tlie Great Railroad Builder
and Developer Says of tlie Southern
System,
Louisville Courier Journal.
Colonel Cole is as busily engaged in
building up railroads as ever he was. He
is now in New York looking after the in
terest of some of his lines. It is surmised
that be is anxious to secure control of
the Cincinnati Southern. Colonel Cole
is a very reticent man, difficult to inter
view, but when he is comfortably seated
in a Pullman sleeper he talks more freely
than elsewhere. On his way to New
York Tuesday Colonel Cede talked freely
concerning railroads in the South, and
he spoke hopefully of their future. “Af
ter the war,” said Colonel Cole, “through
no fault of the managers, most of the
Southern roads were ruined. They had
no rolling stock, no credit—nothing
much except their charters. The work
of reconstruction was necessarily slow,
and the difficulties great, but they have
been overcome. The Louisville and
Nashville _suffered less than others by
the war, but more by the panic; yet to
day it is one of the best pieces of rail
road property in the country. When I
took hold of the Nashville and Chat
tanooga the stock was selling at
15, stock dividends having several
times been declared, and the stock
is now in neighborhood of 85. The East
Tennessee and Virginia Road has had a
similar experience during the past year.
We are steadily improving its road bed,
replacing iron with steel rails, increasing
its rolling stock and paying good divi
dends all the while. So with the Mem
phis Slid Charleston; that property is
steadily improving, and the stock is ad
vancing. We are using a gravel ballast
found in Mississippi, absolutely free
from dust, aud it makes the best ballast
in the world.”
Referring to the recent combinations
in Georgia, Colonel Cole said it had
long been a favorite idea with Mr. Wad
ley, and steps looking toward such a
combination were taken before the pur
chase of the Nashville and Chattanooga
by the Louisville and Nashville. He
thought it would result satisfactorily to
all parties concerned.
At Knoxville, said Col. Cole, we are
actively at work building a road to the
Kentucky line to meet the Louisville
and Nashville. We also expect to reach
Asheville, via Morristown, by Septem
ber, and so open a short route to that
section of the coast country. This is of
interest to Louisville, but your city is in
terested more in a Texas connection than
in anything else. There in the South
west lies an empire fiom which St. Louis
excludes both Memphis and Louisville.
Your citizens must give their earnest at
tention to this matter. They should
secure a Texas connection, and secure
it now.
Concerning the future of railroads,
Colonel Cole said their prosperity de
pended on the prosperity of the country.
Railroad companies should concern
themselvess less about the price of stook
iu Wall street and more about improv
ing their physical condition, increasing
their earnings and decreasing their ex
penses. The danger is, the boom has
made money easy, and managers are apt
to give less attention to expenses than
they did when times were hard. Ex
penses should be watched at all points.
When asked if he wished to secure
the Cincinnati Southern, Colonel Cole was
non-committal. He said he was not very
hopeful concerning its earning capaci
ties —at any rate, he would rather un
derstand something more about the size
of the elephent before he purchased.
The De Lesseps Canal.
Washington Correspondence N. Y. Tribune.
“How is work on the De Lesseps canal
advancing?” asked a Tribune 'cones
pondent to-day of John M. Wilson,
United States Consul at Panama, who
has lately arrived in Washington.
“It is making very little progress,” was
the reply.
“How many men are employed, and
what are they doing ?”
“There are about forty Frenchmen
down there, about half of whom appear
w ’-•••rious directions,
■'missaries,
||V .iAj —. s about _a|
hundred Jamaica negroes engaged ins
cutting brush. Wyse has returned to
France ”
“Then nothing like serious work has
yet been attempted?”
“None whatever. Six stations have
been established on the proposed line
across the isthmus; but no houses have
■been built, ttys men are living in
tents. The'rainy season has begun, and
the men will soon be driven out of their
tents by the storms. The truth is, it
does not look to me as though
De Lesseps ever intends to dig a
canal there. He estimates that it will
cost 90,000,000, when everybody
else who knows anything about such
matters, says it will cost nearer ten times
that sum; that the canal will be finished
in ten years, and that in the meantime
people who buy stock shall receive 5 per
cent, interest upon its par value. Thus
interest alone will add from 5 to 40 per
cent, to the cost of the canal. But I
don’t believe any canal will be built
there. De Lesseps is a great diplomat,
but a poor financier; and if he really in
tends in good faith to dig a canal, I
think he will fail. ”
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Beaconsfleld’s Home Life.
London Standard, April 21.
Lord Beaconsfield lived so thoroughly
in politics that little remains to be said
of his private or domestic life. He was
a man of very kind and genial nature;
particularly fond of children, and though
addicted to silence, was not remarkable
for reserve. At bis own table he desired
others to talk rather than himself, and if
he caught a remark which seemed to
possess any merit he would immediately
call attention to it, and take care
that it was properly appreciated. His
style of living was comparatively simple,
and at Hughenden, though he and Lady
Beaconsfield took grea delight in the
beautiful woods which surrounded them,
there were no appliances for field sports.
Lord Beaconsfield neither kept hunters
nor preserved game, leaving it toTiis ten
ants to supply him at their own discre
tion. But he felt all a politician’s
interest in the Chiltern Hills,
and was fond of driving among
them with an appreciative stranger,
showing him Great Hampden and
Chequers Court, and repeating anecdotes
of the Great Rebellion, which, as he
used to say, was hatched in these re
cesses. The Chiltern Hills are rich in
natural beauty and historic associations.
But neither their green glades nor their
ancient mansions will yield anything in
future more attractive or interesting to
the tourist than the picturesque old
Manor House henceforth and forever to
be associated with the name of Beacons
field.
Mr. Edwin Cowles, of the Cleveland
(Ohio) Leader, is the victim of a singu
lar infirmity of hearing. He says that
it partakes somewhat of the nature of
color-blindness as that affects the eye,
he being unable to hear certain sounds
at all. For example, he has never heard
the sound of a bird’s song in his life. A
whole room full of canaries might be in
full song, and yet he could not hear a
note, hut the rustling of their wings
would be distinctly heard by him. He
can hear all the vowels, but there are
many consonant sounds which he
has never heard. He can hear a man
whisper, hut could not hear him whistle.
The upper notes of a piano, violin, or
other musical instrument he never hears,
but the lower notes he hears without dif
ficulty.
Ten years of experience has firmly rooted
Tutt’s Pills in public estimation. Their
wonderful adaptability to the various forms
of disease is a marvel to medical men of all
schools. They are largely used in hospitals
in Europe and America, as well as in the
army and navy. Cuba and other countries
where yellow fever prevails, consume mil
lions of boxes annually.
THE SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS. SATURDAY, MAY H, 1881.
SCINTILLATIONS OF SCIENCE.
Cariosities and Discoveries in the
World of Progress.
Prepared Specially for the Weekly News.
The deepest known worked mine is in
Australia—a shaft having been sunk
3,200 feet.
A very successful experiment with the
electric light was lately made in a Paris
theatre. So manifest were the advan
tages secured that the subject of com
pelling all the theatres in the city to
adopt some electric light is being con
sidered.
Experiments at Woolwich have de
monstrated that the transmission of de
tonation from one mass of gun cotton to
another not in contact is so rapid that a
row of gun cotton reaching from Lon
don to Edinburgh could be fired in two
minutes.
Replying to the question whether or
not our ancestors were acquainted with
the peculiar physical condition known to
us as somnambulism, Dr. Regnard, of
Paris, said in a recent lecture that one of
the most accurate descriptions of som
nambulism in existence was that in the
sleep-walking scene of Macbeth.
In a communication to the St. Peters
burg Technical Society, Prof. Beilstein
recommends the use of sulphate of
alumina as the best practical disinfectant.
He states that the best method of mak
ing the salt for disinfecting purposes is
to mix red clay with four per cent, of
sulphuric acid, and to add to the mixture
some carbolic acid for destroying the
smell of the matter to be disinfected.
A model of a'proposed electric railway
for mail service was recently exhibited
in Vienna. According to the plan
suggested miniature lines of rail
way would be built along the
passenger lines, and on them, at a
very high • rate of speed, would be
run small electric engines and cars to
take up letters. It would have the ad
vantage of being entirely independent of
the regular passenger road, and could be
used at any time.
M. Alfred Dumesnil claims to have
made an interesting and useful discovery
—how to preserve plants in a perfectly
vigorous state without any earth. Dur
ing a constant trial for several months he
has never found the least interruption or
disturbance of the vegetative functions
of the plants treated by him; but, on the
contrary, many of the plants have blos
somed with a vigor which, as an experi
enced horticulturist, he has never seen in
his garden. Further particulars con
cerning this alleged discovery will be
awaited with interest.
Late researches are showing an aston
ishing vitality of disease germ 3. Pas
teur has investigated a case in which
cattle died of carbuncular fever twelve
years ago, and were buried at a certain
spoting a walled garden. Guinea pigs have
been inoculated with the matter secured
by washing samples of the soil, and
died quickly with well marked symp
toms of carbuncle. Os seven sheep allow
ed experimentally to pass a few hours
daily on this spot, two died of the same
disease in the course,of six weeks, the
rest of the flock remaining unaffected.
This seems to prove beyond a doubt the
existence of disease germs for a space
of twelve years.
Says a recent writer: “What has been
the ultimate fate of the Egyptian mum
mies stored with care iu the rocky vaults
and pyramids on the banks of the Nile?
They have in these later times been
dragged from their recesses and ground
into powder, as an article of commerce
to be exported to Europe. The cereal
crops of England are partly produced
from the mummified remains of human
beings who walked about the streets of
Thebes ‘three thousand years ago.’ The
bodies of venerable Thebans —swells in
their time—laid to rest in fond anticipa
tion of securing a mortal immortality,
sold at so much a ton to fertilize the ex
hausted soil of an island in the German
Ocean! That is what the ancient Egyp
tians have got by all their skill in pro
tracting the dissolution of mortal re
mains. Their marvelous preparations
have ended in a favorably quoted—ma
nure!"
There is one thing ir 'jHafiptish
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unalloyed pie V*uie »ulo a.- W?'
can editor dues it * nun cl-U
pet light, and that is in
the discoveries and
theories of Brother Jonathan. A lIH
London journal—an authority in its 1
special field —indulges in considerable
editorial ridicule of certain partially de
veloped Yankee projects. On another
page of the same sheet a local correspon
dent seriously declares it to be his belief
that the time will come when individu
als will be transmitted by telegraph! He
argues that in certain electrical and vital
processes molecules are by gradual depo
sition made to build up bodies of con
siderable proportions—certain kinds of
molecules tending to produce certain in
avariable forms. He would apply this
principle to man. He would * first get
the “elementary molecule” of a man,
and then build him up from it by the ad
dition of other like molecules, as a pyra
mid is produced by the piling up of can
non balls. Success having been achieved
thus far, the man might be dissolved by
electrical means in London, sent by cable
to New York, and then rebuilt from the
solution by the successive deposition of
his molecules at the New York end of
the electric circuit. This somewhat
novel scheme—not a “Yankee nqji
but a plan for which Johnny Bull
be held fully responsible—is ntfijLjfT
mainly to show the beam in the eyeC
our contemporary across the water* bSt
partly for the benefit of the traveling
public, as the suggestion of this means
of traveling with the velocity of thought
must produce such a panic among rail
road monopolies as shall result in a ma
terial reduction of their tariff.
Nihilist Bombs. —The bomb that kill
ed the Czar, according to the Gavlais
which publishes a “sac-simile, natural
size,” showing the internal arrangements
of the explosives, was a tin cylinder, six
inches long by three broad. Down the
centre was a copper tube, filled with
Bertholet’s salt and antimony, and
through this ran a glass tube, hejweii
cally sealed, containing sulphtiffc acid.
A leaden weight was so placed as to
break the glass tube when the bomb
struck. The flame occasioned by the
contact of the sulphuric acid with Ber
tholet’s salt passed by a small channel to
a cartridge with a fulminating composi
tion at the head and pyroxyline below.
The fulminate fired the”pyroxyline, and
the explosion of the pyroxyline ignited
the nitro-glycerine with which the cylin
der was charged. If one of the tubes
had been choked, the future of Europe
and Asia might have been altogether
different from that which is now in
course of development.— London Truth.
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Society Notes. —Miss Diffenback, the
accomplished and beautiful cantatrice of
West Hill, slapped her old mother over
the head with the dish rag last Tuesday
evening because the old lad/ wouldn’t
let her go down and sing in a Dutch
chorus at the masquerade in Bogus Hol
low. Miss Diffenback has the true
temper of a lyric artist, and our city will
yet be proud of her. —Burlington Hawk
eye.
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The Chicago ladies have organized
tramp clubs, and an exchange says “they
frequently take walks into the suburbs,
covering twelve miles or more.” We
have heard some pretty big stories of the
Chicago ladies’ understanding, hut when
they talk of • ‘covering twelve miles or
more,” we really must draw the line be
tween credulity and unbelief. —Boston
Transcript.
Although winter, that hoary old monarch,
with his crown of snow, and his sceptre
gemmed with icicles, affects mankind with
such evils as coughs and colds, happily they
can be cured by Coussens’ Honey gs Tar, a
most excellent remedy for diseases of the
Throat and Lungs, Bronchitis, Croup and
Hoarseness. my6-F,M,W&wlt
SILK CULTURE IN LOUISIANA.
Tlie Industry Reviving and Prom
ising to be ot Consequence In the
State.
A New Orleans dispatch says silk
culture was first introduced in Louisiana
by the “Company of the West” in 1718,
and in Georgia about the same time.
The first export of silk from the South
was eight pounds in 1734. Soon after a
silk house was erected in Savannah. In
1760 the cocoons amounted to 15,000
pounds. This house is supposed to
have received all the silk from the Gulf
States. The product in 1760 was 20,000
pounds, but then Parliament reduced
the price from 3s. to Is. 6d., and the
product fell off so rapidly that the total
amount in 1770 was only 290 pounds.
South Carolina had also made commend
able progress in the art, but the revolu
tionary war put a stop to the culture of
silk in the South.
The reports of this spring’s hatching
in Louisiana are encouraging. Interest
in the industry is growing here, and in
ducements are offered to silk workers to
come from France and engage in the
silk business. Mr. L. S. Crozier, of
Bayou Sara, one of the most energetic
silk growers in the State, says, in speak
ing of pebrine, a disease of the silk
worm: “This plague and philloxera
have reduced the ci-devant rich farmers
of Provence so much that they begin to
emigrate. It depends upon us to at
tract this new current of emigration to
Louisiana. Here is no disease, and the
mulberry tree grows so rapidly that, in
stead of waiting five years to get a crop
of cocoons, the careful planter can begin
the first year after planting.”
The frosts did not hurt the mulberry
trees, and the worms are in various
stages of growth. Some are nearing the
last moult, and others are not yet hatch
ed. All are healthy. One good tree
will feed enough worms to produce
seven pounds of silk, and ten pounds of
leaves will&roduce one pound of silk.
One ounce of good eggs will produce
enough worms to eat 1,200 pounds of
leaves. They cost from fifty cents to $6
per ounce. Thus at $5 per pound for
silk, the allowance for labor and expense
is very large. The secrets of silk
culture are pure air, warmth, dryness,
and proper food. That the
climate is warm enough is proved by the
fact that a lot of 1,500 silk worm eggs
were wintered here at the outside tempe
rature by Mrs. Laywaud, aud are now
hatched. The mulberry tree flourishes
and the workers are careful. When it is
wet they keep a fire in the house of the
silk worms, and dry the leaves on the
branches cut from the tree before they
spread them on the worms. They avoid
the dew, and it is a rule to have two
meals of leaves in advance. This State
has great advantages over European
countries in the matter of raising the
mulberry.
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YU) More Scotts at Abbotsford.
London News.
Everyone will be glad to hear that the
new occupation of Abbotsford will not
interfere with the admission of visitors
as before to the rooms where Sir Walter
Scott worked, and the curiosities which
he gathered together. Romantic, pictu
resque, delightful, is the spot in which
Abbotsford stands; the associations of>
the house endear it to every heart, and
yet there is always something intensely
melancholy and depressing about the
place, it speaks of such dreams and such
disappointments. “ Unmindful of
the , sepulchre, you lay out
houses,” says the Roman poet.
“Why dost thou build the hall,
son ot .the winged days?” is Ossian’s way
of puMfag'it. _To have a great house, to
found a great family, was the ambition
to wiliek in Scott’s breast all thought,for
the farfuqof his works played but a very
secondary part. The house helped to
ruin ittaMmer, and the family was not
foundefUftnd for such short time as
there r***jfchead of the family there of
late yellßhe ’ representative of the de
voted tHSEBant Sir Walter Scott was a
RomanflHßflic. The very portrait of
son > in As brilliant uni
form, ■BPwith his charger, carried
with it.
sc P asses away into the
/Smt ,L:
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* ?*.•}!?;it ■ f m .fc®> t,j-va
‘ # as well aa^he
*Jrn U'om every
Australians
are m®n tnore anxious, it is said, about
Abbotsford and Newstead than sight
seers from any other part of the world,
even fjv '•Uygland, Ireland or Scotland
herse!ff‘“ s glad to hear that the
new occupant of Sir Walter Scott’s house
is nog going to close his gates against
those I who would fain stand in the
rooms where the Border Minstrel worked
and played.
CiuiNms Effects of an Earthquake.
-yap <Cal.\ Independent, April 11.
Th ; most curious circumstance con
nectqj with yesterday morning’s earth
quake' was the stoppage of all the pendu
lum cfoeks hanging against eastern walls,
showing that the vibration was north
and south. Clocks hanging against
were not affected. In the
of Charles Haas there is a
calendar clock, which, on Saturday
night, was about five hours fast. It was
impossible to put the hands back with
out disarranging the gearing, and the
only way in which it could be regulated
hands forward until
JS remartbiiiftie right time. As this
Ijfvocess required about fifteen minutes,
id was exceedingly tedious, Mr. Haas,
ben he left at nine o’clock, stopped
. J) pendulum, intending to regulate the
ofock on the following day. The earth
quake saved him the trouble. When he
came to his store yesterday morning
tl#q timepiece was ticking away
like a pawnbroker, and, what is still
more remarkable, it was correct to a
second. The town clock is propelled by
and tackle, and consequently
suttr a mild convulsion as that of yes
terday morning did not disturb the se
renity of its equanimity. The final
cataclysm will probably set the old
Janus-faced chronometer back a few
moments, but earthquakes never will.
No material damage was effected by
the trembler, as far as we can
learn, except the shattering of a few
nerves and the loss of sleep attendant
upon the excitement. The plastering of
ceilings in several houses was badly
cracked, crockery thrown from shelves,
chimneys toppled from lamps, besides
numberless unimportant occurrences of
a similar character. At the jail, Officer
Fields thought, on awaking from a sound
sleep, that the prisoners were trying to
break out. The prisoners thought some
body was trying to break in.
■
An old woman, picked up in the street
in Louisville, in the most wretched and
filthy condition, and apparently dying of
starvation, was taken to the hospital,
where, her daughter coming to see her,
it was discovered that she was wealthy
and owned considerable real estate in
the city. But she was a veritable miser,
and made her home, all alone, in the
garret of one of her empty houses.
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, is
nearly done with the settlement of the
riot losses. Up to this time $2,750,000
have been paid—sloo,ooo in cash and
$2,650,000 for which bonds have been
issued. The unsettled claims amount to
about $15,000.
To the Liebig Company:
Hospital fob Ruptubed and Cbippled, i
42d St. and Lexington Aye., N. Y. j
Your “Witch Hazel” has afforded many
of our suffering patients most decided re
lief, for which I am truly grateful.
James Knight, M. D.,
Surgeon-ln-Chief.
Beware cheap of imitations. Ask for Lie
big Co’s Arnieated Extract of Witch Hazel.
Invaluable in Spinal Irritation and all pains
of Ruptured, Paralyzed and Crippled. Gives
rapid relief.
Sold In fifty cents and dollar sizes.
For sale by O. Butler, Savannah, Ga.
Fashion Dots.
Dark greens are evidently very popular.
Dresses and suits contiuue to be tight
fitting.
A gay little novelty in round hats is the
Olivette.
The new ginghams are colored and plaid
ed with rare taste.
The newest nun’s veiling has its edge
wrought in open-work designs.
There is more satin manufactured at pres
ent than any other goods made of silk.
The new purple is not heliotrope but iris,
and is taken from the fieur-de-lys.
Carmelite, or old silver, is a favorite color
with English girls for spring dresses.
A sunshade adorned with the romantic
name of Robinson has fifteen ribs and is
embroidered with flowers.
The shirts of all short dresses, though
very narrow, are much more elaborately
trimmed than last season.
The handles of some of the new sun
shades are very elegant and entitled to be
classed among works of art.
Eight big roses are worn as a belt bunch
by New York girls. Daisies and Capucine
roses are combined for breast knots.
A Philadelphia shopkeeper remarks in his
advertisement that some persons know
nothing of beauty or of propriety, and buy
like Modoes.
Shirring is the capital feature of all
dresses at present. Dressmakers seem to
have shirring on the brain. To plait is hu
man, but to shirr divine.
A “concatenation of detached wings of
birds” is the pattern of a new style of surah,
according to an advertisement published in
another city.
Chenille embroidery is recommended as
possessing the great advantage of being very
easily and quickly worked, while producing
a handsome effect.
The Kate Greenaway is the name of a
new juvenile hat which has a brim of fine
kilt plaiting bordered with cream lace and
is very soft and becoming.
Some of the narrow pokes projecting very
far above the face, worn by little girls, give
demure children an old-fashioned look which
is both comical and winning.
Some manufacturers are trying to intro
duce sunshades with two (lowers instead of
the tassels on the handles, but they will try
in vain, we venture to predict.
The gradual disappearance of kelt plait
ing from fashionable gowns is a thing for
which women should be thankful, but they
seem determined to use it as long as they
can.
The button of 1881 is in no way extrava
gant either in size or shape. I is of modest
proportions and a simple circle, the ovals,
squares and hexagons having been quite dis
carded.
The London World, speaking of Mother
Hubbard cloaks, says that it prefers the
tight-fitting costumes of last season, to the
style of draping the figure so as to make It
'ike a barrel.
The perfection attained by American
manufacturers of satin is especially notice
able in the goods exhibited this season.
The satins equal in lustre those imported,
and being all silk are soft and pliable, and
therefore do not crush nor rumple easily.
One of the things over-decorated nowa
days says Harper's Bazer, is the tidy, which,
made ostensibly to protect lounges and
chairs, is so elaborately done that if time
and eyesight be worth anything, it is far
eostilier than the upholstery it is meant to
cover.
The new black grenadines are of the most
modest armure patterns, or else with square
meshes, or perhaps the smooth-faced sew
ing silk grenadines, but are made up over
red, olive or green satin, or perhaps black,
and are trimmed with Spanish lace, and
with the gayest striped satin surah.
The old autograph alb? n has become ob
solete, and in its place ha» been introduced
a new social instrument of torture —an au
tograph fan. It Is of plain white parch
ment, handsomely mounted, and on it, says
a French paper, “the ladies ask celebrities
and nonentities to write their names and a
few applicable lines.”
It Is difficult to account for the present
rage with ladies for the details of military
costumes. First came passementerie epau
lettes and tags, followed by velvet collars
and cuffs embroidered with gold. This year
the officer’s collar is indispensable. It must
match the remainder of the toilet and be
worked with jet, steel, gold or silver beads.
Simple and pretty combination dresses for
young ladies to wear in the soring have
pleated skirts of the inexpensive Louisine
silks that cost 90 cents or $1 a yard, with
the basque and overskirt of cashmere. The
new refined dahlia shades of purplish red,
the cinnamon colors —both brown and red—
and the various olive greens, are chosen for
these suits.
Striped watered silk Is a novelty for lower
skirts. This is not the"satin striped moke
■ but is watered all over, with
naking the ' -" £t not
This comes m ombre s ripes of one color,
and in contrasts as well, of the latter, one
of the prettiest has dark,red, olive and creitfen
stripes, and is made up Svitb golden brown
cashmere for the overdress.
A new popular fabric is French gingham
and it is being made into elaborate summer
toilets. It is fine, 60ft and delicately col
ored. Blue is the prevailing hue, but it is
combined with others, and usually the bor
der of something brighter. Some have ecru
grounds with borders. There are also stripes
and plaid 6, and they can be kilted with
good effect by turning the kilt to show one
stripe or the other in the alternate flounces.
Additional variety is given in the cheap
laces and wide cotton trimmings which are
so generally used with them. These ging
hams are almost a yard wide, and sell for
thirty to forty cents. Coarser qualities
come lower yet, and are good enough for
children’s clothes.
At the large furnishing stores are shown
new white muslins with the designs like em
broidery woven in to represent dots amid
hem-stitching, Greek squares and stripes.
These will be much used for graduating
dresses, and also forbrldesmalds’toilettes at
summer weddings. They are being made
up very simply as far as the waist is con
cerned, with a belt to which the full surplice
waist is gathered. The skirts, however, are
elaborate beyond description, with pyra
midal rows of embroidered flounces on the
left side, or else across the front and sides,
with wrinkled aprons above that are scarcely
more than panlers. The back is bouffant,
and the skirt may be short or demi-trained,
but not with full train of great length. The
sleeves reach to the elbow, where they have
cuffs turned back 'made of the embroidery.
Handsome suits for the summer are be
ing made of black velvet grenadine over
underskirts of black surah. The Imported
costumes shown in the toniest establish
ments this week in New York are daring in
combinations and intricate in designs. A
striking thing is a light olive satin, with a
tile pattern brocade of olive and white
hues, in which the two materials are com
bined in a deep kilted flounce. Another is
a wine colored satin surah, mingled with
pink and wine colored brocade. An em
broidered pongee has drapings of red sou
lard, whose surface is 6trewn with red ap
ples. A black satin has drapery of net em
broidered with steel, and is flecked with
steel tassels among the draperies. A gray
satin with brown velvet Is trimmed with
Irish point lace over the velvet, while the
lace over a shirred front is gathered in
three festoons by cut steel clasps.
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A University Chancellor as Forger.
Count Iluming Hamilton, Chancellor
of the University of Lund and Upsala
in Sweden, and director of a num
ber of public institutions, has been
peremptorily dismissed from all his of
fices and deprived of his dignities, on
account of forgery and embezzlement
to the amount of 700,000 crowns, which
had been collected in the country for a
national monument. One lady of the
aristocracy has also lost her whole
fortune of 200,000 crowns, which she
had entrusted to the Count’s manage
ment. The affair has caused the most
painful impression at Stockholm, more
especially as the names of the King and
Queen have been abused. Count
Huming Hamilton belongs to one of the
first noble families in Sweden, and is
related to the Hamiltons of Scottish
fame. He was at one time Councillor
of State, head of the ecclesiastical de
partment, and later on Swedish Minister
at Copenhagen, where, in 18G3, he
endeavored to bring about an alliance
between Denmark and Scandinavian
countries.
It is remarked that the elephant is one
of the few travelers who succeeds in
going through the country without get
ting his trunk pasted all over with hotel
cards.
Trickling past the delighted palate, Hub
Punch, with hot or cold water or milk, is
very agreeable, and diffuses an ecstatic
glow through the system. Punches brewed
at request are far behind it ‘in flavor. Sold
by grocers, wine merchants and druggists,
myll-lt&wlt
BUflictoal.
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DROPSY, BRIGHT’S DISEASE, LOSS of ENERGY, NERVOUS DEBILITY, or any OBSTRUCT
TIONS arising from KIDNEY or BLADDER DISEASES. Also for YELLOW FEVER, BLOOD and
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tains positive diuretic properties and will not nauseate. Ladies especially will like it, and Gen
tlemen will find KIDNEGEN the best Kidney Touie ever used 1
NOTICE.—Each bottle bears the signature of LAWRENCE & MARTIN, also a Proprietary
Government Stamp, which permits KIDNEGEN to be sold (without license) by Druggists, Gro
cers and Other Persons everywhere.
PUT UP IN QUART SIZE BOTTLES FOR GENERAL AND FAMILY USE.
If not found at your Druggist’s or Grocer’s, we will send a bottle prepaid to the nearest ex
press office to you. LAWRENCE & MARTIN, Proprietors, Chicago, IU.
3E3C. IVEyei*® <r So Bros.,
Sole Agents for Savannah and the State of Florida.
Sold by Druggists, Grocers and Dealers everywhere. For sale by SOLOMONS * CO., am'
LIPPMAN BROS., who will supply the trade at manufacturers’ prices. janls-weowly
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OUR Sc. LACS AND 10c. EMBROIDERY SALES FOR THE PAST WEEK HAVING MET WITB
SUCH A DECIDED SUCCESS, WE HAVE DETERMINED TO OFFER THIS WEEK:
50,001) YARDS OF YERY FIE LACES,
Ranging in value from 15c. to 50c„ andfcomprising all the fashionable, desirable and latest
styles, at the
umroßfys price of id cents!
We will also place the bilance of our EMBROIDERY, which we sold last week at our Special
Sale at 10c., with a great many new styles added thereto, on a Special
Counter, and sell the entire lot at the
UNIFORM PRICE OF 7c. !
We guarantee that these goods are good value at 10c. to 30c.
Our reputation for advertising the Truth and Facts only, without the slightest bombast is an
established fact, and that is why our House is always thronged with Customers. ’
25 Dozen 40 Inches Long Towels, Pure Linen!
We will sell at the low price of 15c. each. As we have only this small lot, those interested are
advised to call early.
40 NEW STYLES OF SUMMER SILKS
Just received and marked down exceedingly low.
3PeATTI<3L Weisbein
Pineal Wat*r.
BUFFALO LITHIA wJI.T
FOR
Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys, the Gouty Diathesis, Nervous
Dyspepsia, Etc,
DF. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, OF NEW YORK,
Surgeon General TJ. S. Army {retired)' Professor of Diseases of the Mind andJfermus
System in the V nicmiMrof New York, etc. '
“I have for made use of yI** 1 **
' «lor ninnv • -vrs lieen a -A ..if..' I—M * . .( -
A case stated by Dr. DAVID F-. SMITH, oS>*y!SrSSt ',®Kew York: l-gfilSgJl
from BRIGHT’S DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYYS, coiSfSSlEied with hereditary GOUT and STONE**
of the BLADDER. The limbs were very oOdernatous and would pit on pressure with the finger,
leaving an indentation after its removal. The urine was loaded with the URATES twenty-five
per cent. ALBUMEN, and the Microscope revealed CASTS I prescribed Buffalo Lithia Water,
four goblets a day. In a short time the patient passed a STONE five-eighths of an inch long bu
one-fourth inch in diameter. Under the continued use of the Water there has been continued
improvement, until the urine is now in a condition nearly normal, no, CASTS can be discovered,
and there is but little trouble from the GOUTY AFFECTIONS.”
Springs open for guests JUNE FIRST. Water in cases of one dozen half gallon bottles $5 00
per case at the Springs.
Springs Pamphlet sent to aDy address. THOS. F. GOODE, Proprietor,.
Buffalo Lithia Springs, Va.
Resident Physician—Dß. WM. H. DOUGHTY, of Augusta, Ga., Member Medical Association
of Georgia, American Medical Association, late Professor Materia Medica and Therapeutics,
Medical College of Georgia. . apßo-w3m
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Couplings, forms the most successful well
boring and prospecting outfit now manufac
tured. Guaranteed to make good wells any- ,
where. Send for circulars.
O. RUST,
sep4-wly St. Joseph, Mo.
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A RARE CHANCE!
DO NOT LOSE IT! BUT MAKE USE OF IT
IT IS A FACT!
8. H, LEVY, THE CLOTHIER
IS selling out his entire stock, consisting of
Ready-Made Clothing of all descriptions—
Shirts, Underwear, Linen Collars and Cuffs,
Hats, Boots, Shoes, Trunks, Umbrellas, etc.— j
at New York cost, in order to made room for
his extensive Spring and Summer stock. This J
is no newspaper talk, but real facts. Mr. LEVY
is well known to the trade as one who always
says what he means and does as he says. Par
ties visiting Savannah should not fail to call
and be convinced of the above. Remember
the place, 191 and 193 Congress Savannah, Ga.
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T. P. BOND. W. D. SIMEJNS.
BOND & SIMKINS,
TYTHOLESALE DEALERS in FLORIDA
VV ORANGES, Nos. 15% 153 and 155 Bay st„
Savannah, Ga. Consignments solicited. Refer
ences—H. L. Hart, Palatka, Fla.; Jno. Clark,
Jacksonville, Fla.; G. W. Lyle, San Mateo,Fla.;
T. Hartridge, Jacksonville, Fla.; R. G. Cole,
Orange Mills, Fla.; G. W. Wyliy, Fort Reid,Fla.
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E.L.NEIDLIEGER
DEALER IN
Saddles, Bridles and Harness.
Buggy Harness
Os all descriptions.
SADDLES,
English and American, Northern and Home
manufacture.
Trunks and Traveling Bags,
RUBBER AND LEATHER BELTING.
Prices as low as the lowest. C. O. D. orders
carefully filled.
E. L. NEIDLINGEIt,
150 St. Julian and 153 Bryan streets,
sepl Savannah, Ga.
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GREENE & THOMAS’
Improved Vertical Grist Mills.
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>f%EL6!N WATCHES.
uL > sjaAU style*, Gold, Silver and Nickel, $G to $l5O.
HSLaX Chains, etc., sent C. O. D. to be examined.
Write for Catalogue to STANDAKD AMER
ICAN WATCH CO., PITTSBURG U, PA.
Rifle., Shot Gunj, Kevobei., teat c. Ml, for examination,
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