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VOL. 11.
KEWLY fitted up.
laboringlen’s home
Restaurant & Lodging,
Wm. B. Brown, Proprietor,
182 Bryan St., SAVANNAH, GA.
Meals st all hours. Choicest brands of
wines, Ihjuort cigars always on hand.
f 5 INETT’S
HUMAN HAIR EMPORIUM.
Ladies 1 and Gents’ wigs made to order.
Also Fronts, Toupees, Waves, Curls,
frizzes and Hair Jewelry. We root and
make up ladies’ own combings in any
liesirable style. We have character Wigs
snd Beards of all kinds to rent for Mas
querades and entertainments. Ladies and
children Hair cutting and shampooning.
Also, hair dressing at your residence if
•equired. We cut and trim bangs in all
of the latest styles. Cash paid for cut
tair and combings of all kinds. All goods
willingly exchanged if not satisfactory.
Kid Gloves Cleaned.
R. M. BENNETT,
No. 56 Whitaker St. Savannah, Ga.
FRANK LUST F. JONES
AT STALL HO. 31, IN THE MARKET,
Announces to his friends and the public
that he keeps on hand a fresh supply of
the best Beef, Veal and Mutton, also all
kinds of game when in season, and will
be glad to wait on his customers as usual
with politeness and promptness. His
prices are reasonable and satisfaction is
Biaranteed. Goods delivered if desired.
ON‘T FORGET, STALL NO. 31.
GREEN GROCERY.
—o —
HENRY FIELDS
THE OLD RELIABLE
greengrocer
WOULD inform his friends and the
public that he still holds the fort
t his old stand corner South Broad and
East Boundry streets, where he keeps on
hand constantly, a full supply <’f fresh
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Fish, Poultry,
Eggs, Game and all kinds of Vegetables.
Prices reasonable—to «uit the times.
Soods delivered if desired.
am Jones Answers Questions.
A gentleman who recently met Sam
Jones on a railway train repeats part of
the conversation as follows: —
Said I—“ Adam and Eve were the
first two people on earth. According to
the Bible they had two sons—Cain and
Abel. Cain slew Abel and then fled in
to the land of Nod and took unto himself
a wife. Adam and Eve, the first Cain
and Able, next Cain fled. We under
stand from ‘fled’ that he ran and got
away from his awful crime as quickly as
his legs would cany him. Then,” I con
tinued, excitedly, “right in the same
sentence the Bible says he took unto
himself a wife. Where did she come
from?” I sank back thinking I had giv
en him a poser. ' * . .
His eyes twinkled, his lips parted in a
smile.
“An’ nary one of them preachers could
tell you?” he. asked.
“No, sir, not one.”
“Well,” he continued, “that’s funny,
for that’s a mighty easy question.” He
smiled again and said: —“Why Cain got
his wife from his father-in-law.”
I was done up.
‘ ‘Where is hell that you preachers talk
so much about,,’ I asked.
“I dunno,” he said. “I don’t want to
know. I aint headin’ that way. I’m go
ing to let them fellers as are goin’ thar
find out.”
“What’s your idea of backsliders!”
1 ha said, “thar was a inan
walkin’ along a country lane in Arkansas
onoe with a pitchfork on his shoulder,
and a very vicious dog jumped over the
fence and made at him. He jabbed the
pichfork through the dog and impaled it
io the earth. The dog’s owner came
vunnin out:—‘What d’ye mean, sir,’ he
shouted, ‘by stickin’ yo’ pitchfawk
through my dog?’ ‘He was goin’ to bite
■e,’ said the other, ‘Why didn’ you
hit him with the other end then?’ ‘Why
didn’t he come at me with the other
end ?’ was the answer.”
After I had ceased laughing the Rev.
Mr. Jones said:
“Just like the dog, backsliders are go
in’ wrong end to, and consequently get
into trouble.” — Kansas Citg Times.
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Governor St John said at the recent Cooper
restitute (New York City) meeting that the
• C. T. U. was the greatest organization in
♦be world.
Dr. Kate C. Bushnell is in New Jersey lec
vurmg ou the White Cross movement, aud re
•en«y addressed a conference in New York
on that subject
Forerunners.
All mo and down the mountain sides,
And through the breezy hollow,
The grasses grow .'the leaf buds blow,
And blossoms soon wiUfollow;
They follow, —they follow—
On upland and in hollow:
The soring is here—sweet pioneer!
And Siimmer sooii will follow.
Then Summer comes; and overhead
The nightingale and swallow
Pursue tbeir flight to airy light,
And call their mates to tollow;
They follow—they follow
Sweet Orpheus and Apollo,
And Boreas blows in away that shows
That Winter soon will follow
Then W inter comes with cloudy face
Adownthe hill and hollow;
And rain and sleet their marches bea%
And snow and ice will tollow:
* They follow—they follow
There’s no path through the hollow,
But 10l ere long there’s the cuckoo’s song,
And the Springtime’s sure to tollow!
HOW I WASJPROMOTED.
“Tom,” said the chief, there has been
a rather mysterious robbery at Barrow
town, and its likely to give the ‘locals’
some trouble. So I wish you to go down
as soon as possible.”
This order I received one hot day in
August, on the day after the robbery
had taken place. Os course, I did not
| let much time pass before I was at the
i station and fairly started. Once there,
i Barrytown is a quaint, picturesque little
| town. It seemed almost too dull to be
j able to boast the doubtful honor of hav
' ing had a full-grown robbery. Still I
j like the quiet town, for it was there that
i I gained my first promotion. I was met
: at the station by the local inspector, a
i stout, pompous, excitable little man,
I who looked doubtful as to the prudence
! of the Scotland Yard authorities in
I sending down such an ordinary looking
mortal as myself.
“Oh,” he remarked at last; “so it’s
' you, young man, is it? I don’t think
we are likely to trouble you much this
time. The fact is, ahem! we have
, caught the culprit ourselves.”
I merely bowed, and expressed a wish
to see the prisoner; and we both set off
for the country jail, perhaps a mile or
so away.
Well, it certainly seemed as plain as
day to me that the unhappy wretch on
whom Inspector Muggridge had laid
his fell grasp could easily have proved
an alibi had not that worthy officer con
tinually interrupted him with:
“Better keep that for your examina
tion, my good fellow; or it ’ll all be
brought up against you, my man, you
know.”
I told him seriously, as soon as I
could in private, that the man he had
arrested was no more guilty than 1 was;
but be simply smiled incredulously, and
, asked who else could be the culprit, as
this was the only really abandoned
character of the town, and it was plain-
I ly the work of some one who knew the
place.
“Besides,” he added, “it isn’t very
likely that any one could beat me on my
own ground, where I know everybody,
i you know; and if he didn’t do it, who
did?”
With which really unanswerable argu
t ment he accompanied me to the scene of
the robbery, where we were shown over
I the premises by the mistress of the
j hOUSA
When I saw the ground-floor window
, by which access had been gained to the
house I quite agreed with the worthy
“local” that it was not the work of a
“new hand,” and that from the fact that
his footprints, wherever we could trace
! them, showed no hesitation, but rather
’ a thorough acquaintance with the
j grounds; the culprit, whoever he was,
I must have had some opportunity of vis
| iting the scene of operations, an 1 prob
ably lived somewhere in the neighbor
hood.
It seemed that the thief had
entered the bouse by a window in the
rear, and carried off a small box of val
uables from the room of the master of
the house, who had been staying at a
friend’s that night. Both these facts
showed an intimate knowledge of the
premises on the part of the culprit, and
atrengthened onr former belief.
SAVANNAH, GA.. SATURDAY, JULY 2.1887.
We were informed that the lost casket
—an ordinary tin cash box—bad been
almost filled with various articles of jew
elry, and, therefore, the loss was rather
heavy. Os course the knowledge that
there would be a good reward lor the re
covery of the missing property did not
abate my zeal. Still, in spite of my
eagerness to discover the culprit, I could
make but little of the case, and might
even have to come over to the opinion of
the “local” but for one very important
fact, namely, the footprints in the gar
den-bed were all smaller than those of
the prisoner. Now, although a man may
wear boots several sizes too large for him
on occasion, yet he can hardly walk with
comfort m shoes an inch or so too short.
Very much annoyed at my want of suc
cess, and dreading the chaff I would be
sure to get when, compelled to give it
up, I should return to town, 1 was not
particularly delighted next morning to
see Mr. Muggridge coming up the road
to the house, accompanied by the editor
of the Barrowtown Banner, who had de
termined, he said, to write up the ac
count of the robbery himself.
But there was no escape, and so, pre
pared for a host of questions, I was
walking slowly to meet them when my
eyes were caught by something bright
among the bushes by the roadside. Yes,
there could be no doubt of it; there lay
the lost box, empty, of course. Without
stopping, however, 1 walked as calmly
as possible on to the inspector, and was
introduced to Mr, Shears, the editor.
It was simply wonderful how obliging
I had become. I even, when Mr. Mug
gridge hinted that, he was pressed for
time, volunteered myself to give Mr.
Shears the information he wished, and
to go over the premises with him. Once
left alone with the zealous representative
of the press I gave that gentleman all
the points of the case, and a few more,
as you shall see.
The next afternoon, as soon as a copy
of the Banner came io the house where
the robbery had occurred —I had for
the last two days spent from the fore
noon to the dusk there—l turned to the
end of the column devoted to the
“Great Robbery,” and read, with a
chuckle, the announcement that “the
loss of the jewels would be less felt had
there not been between the two bottoms
of the box almost two hundred pounds
in bank notes, of wlrch, unfortunately,
the numbers had not been taken.”
That evening, as usual, I left the
grounds at dusk, after spending most of
the day in watching—though apparently
engaged in something else—whether any
one went near the spot, a few hundred
yards from the grounds, where lay the
box on which J specially depended as a
bait to hook the thief. By walking
slowly I managed to let the shades of
evening close around me before I was far
beyond the spot where I had made up
my mind to watch and await develop
ments.
Eight! Nine! Were they never coming,
and was my trap laid and baited in vain?
Ten! Surely they should have come by
this time. Still—was that a sound on
the road? Yes, and coming from the
village, too. There were evidently
several of them, and I began to regret
not having brought some one to assist
me.
Nearer they came, laughing and talk
ing, as 1 cautiously drew further back
from the road. An<X now they were op
posite the spot where the box lay hid.
But—what! They’ve gone by; and in
the hearty guffaw of the man farthest
away of the three I recognize Farmer
Lobbins, an honest fellow, whose ac
quaintance I had made. After this sell
1 had almost given up, and was actually
making up my mind to abandon the
affair, when a faint sound from down
the road, made me crouch as low as pos
sible once more. It was no hoax this
time. A short, thin man, whom I easily
recognized as a man-of-all- work who
had been helping the gardener that day,
was creeping stealthily down the road,
close to the bushes. As soon as he
reached the spot where the box had been
thrown he iit a small lantern to aid him
in his search. This time I felt sure; and
so, when the man blew out the light
after securing the supposed treasure, the
capture was made.
“Oh! why—yes,” observed the worthy
Mr. Muggridge, who was in the office
when 1 brought in the prisoner that
night. “I’ve had my eye on that fellow
all along.”
The man made confession; indeed, he
was caught in the act, and could not
deny it. The jewels were all recovered,
and the reward proved very useful in
helping me to marry and settle down
quietly when, one month later, I received
my promotion.
Methods of Spanish Briganils.
The way in which the robbery is car
ried out is this, says a Madrid corre
spondent: The brigands signal to the
engine-driver to stop, and he does so,
being generally “in” with the brigands.
Then these these gentlemen, called in
Spanish, saltedorcs de caminos, or road
jumpers, approach the carriage, raise
their hats to the passengers, and, in the
most polite language, request them to
give up their money aud jewels. The
guardias civiles are stopped from firing
at the robbers by the affrighted
passengers as the rascals have previously
explained that if they are fired at
they will shoot at the passengers in re
turn.
The chief of the brigands usually ad
dresses the passengers in those terms:
“Ladies and gentlemen, please deliver
your money and valuables of every des
cription. We do not wish to push you to
the indignity of a search, but shall rely
upon your honor. But as soon as you
tell us you have given up everything we
shall search one passenger of each class.
If upon either we find a single coin or a
single valuable we shall shoot one pass
enger in each compartment. Ladies and
"entlemen, do not hurry youselves. Our
time is yours.”
You can imagine that under these cir
cumstances there is very little Kept back.
The passengers beg and pray of each
other to conceal nothing. As soon as a
complete surrender has been made the
brigands raise their hats again and bid
the passengers farewell in these words:
“Vapa ustedes con Dios”—may you go
with God—and as the train moves off
they add, with beautiful and simple
piety, “and may we all meet again some
day in God’s big parlor.”
A New Gem—The Golden Beryl.
Jewellers, mineralogists and connois
seurs of precious stones arc much inter
ested in a new gem lately discovered in
Connecticut. It is a beryl distinguished
by a peculiar golden tint which renders
it, in the opinion of experts, unique.
It was found attached to a rock com
posed of quartz, spar and mica, a com
bination which appears to be the natural
matrix of beryl stones. Others have
been found in the same locality pre
viously, but they were of the ordinary
variety and of very poor quality, quite
unfit for use as gems. The golden beryl,
however, attracted immediate attention,
was pronounced a new mineral and
placed in the hands of a lapidary to cut
into gems. The result did not dis
appoint expectation. '1 he stones proved
exceedingly brilliant, with much of the
fire and play of light and color, hitherto
believed to belong to the diamond only.
Three shades of the golden color have
been obtained, ranging from a pro
nounced i it, to one scarcely yellower
than that of a slightly off color dia
mond.
The new stones have made quite a stir
in the trade, and rank in value with
rubies, emeralds and other colored gems.
They have been set in ornaments, gener
ally in association with small diamonds,
and Lave been much admir 'd, both
here and in Europe, where a few have
been sent.
The hardness of the stone is 8 1-2,
as compared with the diamond stand
ard, 10. Its density is next to that of
the diamond, while its specific gravity
is 20 per cent Less. It retains its bril
liancy. It is especially interesting as
the only precious stone found exclu
sively in this country. —[New York Com
mercial.
The Rotundity Explained
Stranger—“ What causes your police
men to have so much circumference/”
Native—“ You see they have to be
’round so much.” [Biftinge.
(t 1.25 Per Annnm; 75 cents for Six Months;
J 50 cents Three Months; Single Copies
| 5 cents—ln Advance.
PEARLS OF
Reaction is the law of lifa
Those who have known real grief
seldom seem sad.
The failure of one man is the opportu
nity of another.
Most mon know what they hate, few
what they love.
What all men should avoid ia the
“shabby genteel.”
The mind hath not reason to remem
ber that passions ought to be her
not her masters.
A man that studieth revenge keepetlx
his own wounds green, which otherwise
would heal and do well.
Thou art either gold, or iron; if the®
art gold trial will chasten thee, if thou
art iron, it will rust thee.
Compliments of congratulation are al
ways kindly taken, and cost one noth
ing but pen, ink and paper.
A man loses all that lie leave# aftet
him in this world whilst ha taken
with him the fruits of his charity ami
arms.
A good action performed in thia world
receives its recompense in the other, just
as water poured nt the root of a
tree appears again above in fruit and
flower.
There is nothing which contributes
more to the sweetness of life than friend
ship; there is nothing which disturbs
our repose more than friends, if we
have not the discernment to choose them
well.
Opportunity is in respect to time, in
some sense, as time is in respect to eter
nity; it is the small moment, the exact
point, the critical minute, on which
every good work so much depends.
Valuable Autographic Letters.
An autographic letter of Washington
of two pages, simply referring to a sale
of land in Virginia, sold within a few
weeks by a gentleman of this city fo*
$52, and one which would refer to some
well known military movement in the
Revolution would bring a much higher
rate. It is the character ami contents of
the adtographic letter that determine it®
value. The mere fact that a document
signed by Napoleon brought but $6.25
by no means indicates the value of Na
poleonic autographs. A letter of the
great soldier laying out his plans for ths
battle of Leipsic, and giving directions
to Prince Murat with regard to the dis
position of troops, owned in this city,
would probably bring twenty times th®
price mentioned above. —[Boston Bulle
tin.
Sour and Sweet Apples.
The New York Tribune recalls a story
which Mr. Lowell tells in his essay on ;
“Cambridge Thirty Years Ago.” “At
one of these groceries the unweaned
(Harvard) students used to play a joke
handed down from class to class. Enter
A. and asks gravely:
“ ‘Have you any sour apple?, Dets- ’
con?'
“ ‘Well, no, I haven’t any just now
that are exactly sour, but there’s the ,
bell-flower apple, and folks that like a
sour apple generally like that.’ (Exit A.)
“Enter B. ‘Have you any sweet apples,
Deacon?' «
“ ‘Well, no, I haven’t any just dow
that are exactly sweet, but there’s th®
bell-flower apple, and folks that like *>
sweet apple generally like that.’ {Kxit
B.
Human Sacrifice in India.
A strange stcry of human sacrifice
comes from the Madras presidency. 'A
woman was sup] o-ed to be possessed
with a devil. Her father consulted a®
exorcist, who said that a human sacri— ;
fice was necessary. Accordingly on«
night her father, the exorcist, and five
or six others met, and after some re
ligious ceremonies sent for the elected
victim. He* came without suspecting
treachery, and was plied with drink till
he was senseless, when his head was cut.
off. and bis blood, mixed with rice, was
offered to some deity. The body was
then hacked so os to deceive the polio®
and thrown into a tank. The mur lev
ers having been arrested, have made a j
full confession. --[London Globe.
NO. 37.