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LABORINGIffI’S HOME
Restaurant & Lodging,
Wm. B. Brown, Proprietor,
182 Bryan St., SAVANNAH, GA,
Meals »t all hours. Choicest brands of
wines, liquors and cigars always on hand.
15K IN N ETT ’ S
HUMAN HAIR EMPORIUM.
Ladies’ and Gents’ wigs made to order.
Abo Fronts, Toupees, Waves, Curls;
(Frizzes and Hair Jewelry. We root and
piake up ladies’ own combings in any
[desirable style. We have character Wigs
and Beards of all kinds to rent for Mas
querades and entertainments. Ladies and
children Hair cutting and sliampooning:
Also, hair dressing at your residence if
required. We cut aud trim bangs in all
of the latest styles. Cash paid for cut
hair 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 LIN F. JONES
AT STALL NO. 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 al!
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!
Siaranteed. Goods delivered if desired.
ON‘T FORGET. STALL NO. 31.
GREEN GROCERY.
HENRYFIELDS
THE OLD RELIABLE
GREEN GROCER
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 of fresn
Beef, Veal, Mutton. Pork, Fish, Poultry,
Eggs, Game and all kinds of Vegetables.
Prices reasonable—to «uit the times.
Soods delivered if desired.
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SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 17,1887.
A Song to Sing.
: A song of yesterday: Love,shall we sing it,
j. Tuned to the pulses of hours that are past?
A song of yesterday: Love, shall we bring it
, Baek fro:i* he life where it ran too fast?
i ■''ays toat are dreams to us now as we won
der
' How we could fancy we loved well then?
Days and dreams that are put asunder
For dreams and days that are sweeter
again.
A song of t<xlay: O love, shall we sing it,
IV arm with new kisses upon the lips,
j With Time wrung dry as great hearts can
wring it,
And Life blown fair like yon white ships?
I What strong song can we build and fashion
To sing how love hath girt us round?
VV bat wide world is there made ’for passion
That reaches beyond the gates of sound?
, A song of tomorrow: Love, shall we sing it,
Looking across the nights and the days,
; Where our two souls together shall wing it
Beyond the measure of Fancy’s gaze?
. Yes, dear love, let us sing of tomorrow,
Each one fuller of loveliness,
Days without measure of tears or sorrow,
Only the sweeter as life grows less.
—[W. J. Henderson.
CAU&HT IN A TRAP.
A detective’s story.
Ten or twelve years ago, when I was
on the detective force of Cincinnati, two
or three very shrewd rascals “hung up”
the town for thrqe or four weeks in a
way which annoyed us not a little. They
were chaps known as porch climbers, and
the way they did their business was
simply slick. Porch climbing was then
in its infancy. A sneak thief might be
ready to take advantage of an open door
or window on the lower story, but as for
“shinning up" a column to reach a bal
cony, or using a light ladder to enter a
chamber window, no one had ever tried
it.
The very first job done by the gang
resulted in a haul of S6OO worth of jew
elry. Your common thief no sooner has
any plunder in his hand than he hastens
off to the pawnshop to make a raise.
This jewelry was not put up, neither
were the second and third hauls. Then
we knew that wc had to deal with ras
cals who had come well heeled and were
holding on to their stuff or shipping it
to some other city for sale. The first
three robberies were made at the supper
hour, when all the family were in the
dining room or downstairs. The papers
made such an ado about it as to place
citizens on their guard, and the thieves
changed their hours. It was in summer, !
and very hot weather, and all up-stairs
windows were open for ventilation. They
went into three or four houses through
second-story windows in the evening or
up to as late as midnight, and cleaned
out jewel cases without being seen or j
heard.
Perhaps the boldest feat was the sixth i
job undertaken. There was a small one- 1
storv house standing beside an elegant !
mansion. The little house was on a
corner. One of the fellows mounted to
the roof, crept along to the larger house,
and then ascended the tin conductor on [
the big house to a bath room window. ■
The blinds inside were locked, but he
huno- to the sill with one hand until he
o
could open them with the other. Peo- J
pie on the street saw him, and a police- I
man called out to know what he was
doing. The fellow was then sitting in '
the window dangling his legs in a care- I
less way, and he replied:
“Jim and Ido that for expreise every
night.”
With that he disappeared into the
bath room, and proceeded to ransack I
the various rooms on that floor. It
seemed that all the family except a
daughter were away to a neighbor’s, and
the young lady had a beau in the parlor.
The servants were out on a rear veranda,
and the rooms were thus at the mercy of
the thief. He took his time in making
his search, and, while he was after
money and jewelry first, he did not de
spise laces, opera glasses, and valuable
bric-a-brac. He made up a large bundle
es stuff, took a cigar which he found on
a mantel, and was puffing away in the
coolest manner when he descended the .
front stairs. The girl heard him end ,
came out into the hall and asked:
“Did you want to see papa|”
“Yes, my dear,” was the ready reply;
“but he seems to be out. Tell him I
called, will you?”
“What is the name?"
••Wilcox—Judge Wilcox. I brought
my Egyptian curios over for him to look
at, but some other night will do as
well.”
She saw him depart withoot a thought
of how he entered, and the robbery was,
of course, discovered later on. The de
tectives were instructed to let everything
drop to hunt down these slick fellows,
and there was any amount of jawing over
our ill luck. We had every hotel aud
boarding house under strict scrutiny,
but we could turn up no suspicious char
acters answering to the description of
these. The man who sat on the sill of
the bath room window was said to have
long black whiskers. The one who
passed for Judge Wilcox had auburn
Burnsides, and was an unctuous sort of a
fellow. Five hundred men could have
been found in a day’s hunt to answer
these descriptions. For many days the
Post Office was watched, strangers were
dogged about, depots guarded, and gar
dens aud concert halls looked after, but
we made no arrests. At least ever?
second night there was a fresh robbery,
and every second day the papers had
opportunity to come out with a fresh ar
ticle and belabor us. We were seeming
ly doing all that men could do, aud our
position was truly uncomfortable. The
climax came about in the oddest sort of
way. On one of the fashionable thor
oughfares lived an old maid—that is,she
was one of a family, being,,if I remem
ber right, the man’s sister. She was
pretty well off, and always had several
hundred dollars in a bureau drawer in
her room. She had read about the
work of the gang, and was in a state of
terror for fear the house would be visi
ted. One day a brilliant idea occurred
to her. She would capture one of the
mob. She planned it that one of them
would climb up to her corner window
by means of the conductor, enter with
out disturbing her, as she was a sound
I sleeper, and go for that money. What
did she do but go out and buy a steel
trap —-something big enough to hold a
fox. She got one of the servants to set
it for her, and the open trap was placed I
in the top bureau drawer, and the chain
led out through the back side and made
fast.
Two nights passed without another
depredation. Wo were keeping such a j
sharp lookout that the fellows had to be j
more fly. On the third night, at exactly {
a quarter of 12, the old maid was !
aroused from her deep sleep by a human !
yell of pain, and she was no sooner on I
end than she saw that she had caught j
her man. He was down on his knees in
front of the bureau, and both hands i
were fast in the trap. His first yell was j
his only one. When he found the i
woman was awake he calmly observed:
“Excuse me, but I think I’m in the i
wrong room. Please don’t make any i
disturbance about it.”
“Who are you?”
“A friend of Will's, and we both
came home a little sprung. Won’t you
please help me to get my hands loose?”
There was a Will about the house—
the man’s own son—but be had not been
out that evening, nor was he in the habit
of drinking. Without getting out of
bed the woman touched an electric but
ton, and within ten minutes the house
was aroused, and two policemen had the j
man in charge. The jaws of the trap j
had caught him about the wrists, and he
had suffered a good deal of pain. lie
was the Judge Wilcox chap, Burnsides,
unction and all. When taken to the
station his whiskers were found to be i
glued on, and he also had a false wig. !
When these were removed he stood
forth as pert and trim a thief as you
would wish to overhaul. He turned out :
to be a New Orleans man named Davis, |
and was only 26 years old.
The capture of Davis’s partner fol
lowed swiftly, and also in a curious way.
As a train was about ready to leave for
the North, a spruce young fellow came
into the baggage department at the depot
to get his trun? checked. It was there
all right, and he got into a jangle with
[ the expressman alxiut the charge for
bringing it down, and the depot officer
finally arrest'd both. On the way to the
station the young fellow tried to bribe
, the officer, and that settled him. We
went for the trunk, and when it- was
opened every dollar's worth of property
which had been stolen was found therein.
If there was a third man in the party,
which some of us believed, he saved his
bacon and got out some other way. In
the baggage of the second man. whom
we never identified, were three different
wigs aud whiskers to match. Both had
been in disguise when abroad, and it was
little wonder we could not spot the right
men. Both are still in prison, or have
not been at liberty over a year.—[New
York Sun.
Facts Concerning Tinfoil.
“What was that be threw away?”
“Oh, only a piece of tinfoil from his
tobacco.”
Only a piece of tinfoil. Did you ever
consider how large a manufacture of that
article, apparently of so little value, is
carried on? Will you believe it when
vou are told that more than 1.000,000
i pounds of the foil are used annually to
' cover the smoking and chewing tobacco
manufactured i:i the I oiled States alone.
The method of making it i> interesting.
The tin is of course first taker out of the
mines, the best of which for this purpose
arc in Australia and the Dutch posses
sions of the East Indies. The metal is
found in veins or fissures called lodes,
though it is often found in a dispersed
form in loose stones, which, when found
continuously are called streams. The
rock containing the ore is blasted with
gunpowder aud carried to the stamping
mill, where it is pounded and washed.
llt is next smelted and the tin run
! into blocks containing from 200 to 400
weight, each. This is the condition in
which the metal is kept for ordinary
use. Two means are use 1 to reduce it
to the necessary t hinness. The old man"
nor of hammering by hand after first
being cut is still used to a great extent.
By this process, however, only one
surface could be produced, and to obvi
ate this difficulty, rolling mills were in
vented. Prior to their invention nearly
all the tinfoil was imported, but their
use has completely revolutionized the
tradfc. The metal is now placed between
two heavy rollers, which gives it a fin
ished surface on both sides. It is then
cut into widths of from twelve to fifteen
inches, rolled upon wooden reels and
carried to cutting machines where it is
cut according to order. It is then packed
in boxes of one hundred pounds each,
being laid in without pressure. There
is another difference between the foil
which is beaten and that which is
rolled. The former is full of small holes,
but the foil to be used for tobacco wrap
pers must be airtight.
Strength of Timber.
A discussion is going the rounds of
the press as to the relative strength of
wet or dry timber. The Scientific Press
says: We do uot believe there is much
to be made out of the discussion. Some
kinds of timber are stronger dry,
while other kinds are stronger when wet
or green. It is safe to say that all woods
are Harder and less liable to bend when
dry than when wet or green. But most
hard woods when wet w ill possess more
tensile strength than when dry. Tim
ber thoroughly seasoned is more brittle
than when green, and with the necessary
force will break square off, while the
same timber green will stand about the
same pressure by bending more or less
without breaking, ’lake a hickory
ipling that is almost impossible to
break in its green state, although it may
bend double, and thoroughly drv it, and
you may easily break it almost “square
off,” as the boys say. So with almost
any kind of timber. Drying makes it
stiffer, more unyielding, but in a very
few instances stronger.
A Nii ni her of Sin i les.
Young Ted Castle—Quite a lot of
girls smiled at me on my way down the
avenue just now. Jack; chawming girls
they were, too.
Jack —1 don’t wonder they smiled,
Teddy. Your accktie is way rcuad under
your car.
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Senator Fair’s Skull.
The Chicago Tinies tells the following |
story of Senator Fair: A number of ■
years ago, when ho was engaged in j
actively superintending one of his min- 1
ing properties, he directed the boss in
I one of his mines to have a wrought-iron i
crank made at a certain angle. This
foreman told him it was impossible.
Mr. Fair then went into the works at
j the mouth of the mine, put on a work
man’s apron and cap and began the
work of making the crank himself, at
the angle which he had described. The
foreman in charge of the room, coming
around, saw a workman, as he supposed,
disobeying orders in wasting property
by trying to make what had already
been declared to be an impossibility;
he picked up a piece of iron and knocked
the amateur workman down, just
as he was completing the piece of work*
' This blow fractured Fair's skull. 1114
life was saved only through trepanning.
Mr. Fair to-day has a small silver plate
in the top of his head. After he had
recovered he felt very uncomfortable.
He felt symptoms of a brain trouble.
i Altera time he went back to the surgeon
■and said: “I am certain that that job
i was not well done; there is a splinter
feft in that wound -I can feel the prick
, of it.” The surgeon at first would not
listen to Mr. Fair, but he insisted on
I having it done over again. The surgeon
then discovered that there was a splinter,
: and that if the .senator had not himself
discovered the cause of his trouble,*his
brain would have been affected in a short
time beyond the hope of recovery.
Walking Sticks.
To break off a branch for defensive
purposes, as Crusoe did on finding him
self on an unknown island, would be oue
of the first ai ts of primitive man. A
rude support of this kind would soon be
followed by the pilgrim’s staff, familiar
to us in the pictures of the patriarchs;
and from these early staves down to the
gold-headed cane of our modern dandy,
what a variety of walking sticks have
been produced, according to the fancy
and fashion of the time. When in 1701,
footmen attending gentlemen were for
bidden to carry swords, those quarrel
some weapons were usually replaced byj..,
a porter’s staff, with a large silver handle,"
as it was then described. Thirty years
later gentlemen were forbidden to carry
swords and to carry large oak sticks,
w ith great heads and ugly faces carvei I *
thereon. Before very long a competi- 5
tion arose between long and short walk
ing sticks ; omc gentlemen liked them ,
long as leaping poles, as a satirist of the
day tel ft us, while others preferred a
yard of varnished cane “scraped taper,
bound at one end with wax taper, and
tipped at the other with a neat turned ’
ivory head as big as a silver penny.”—
A Heartless Skeptic.-
“How people do change,” said the’ -
beggar. “Some men get spoiled by ‘
riches. There’s a man who never ro ’
fused to give me a half when I told him
my wife was dying, or my child was ill.
—no, not in five years, and now, Just
because he’s made a lucky strflcc in land.
and I raised the limit to $2.50 he turns
around and calls me a liar and sayt I
hain’t got no child and I hain't got ncv.
wife, I ain’t,” and the beggar wipeu **
away a tear. “’Tain’t so much th|t lie> .
didn’t give me the money that nuikes
me feel bad. It’s for him to call me ti
liar now, after he’s believed me for five ’ »
years.” As J
- ’Wy..;
Archery Practice,
Mi s Hood--Three in the gold, cap-’
tain! I’ve outshot you this time. , >■.
Captain Angus-Yes; Lut what’s be-* j
come of my other arrow? I shot three. ' C
Voice of Tram ]> in Bushes—When you *
folkegit through countin’ up I wish you’d
jest come in an’ unpin my car fioin this
hickory tree; ’taint gold, bat it's got
feclin’ in it. Tid Bits.
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The Latest Luxury.
“Gubbius have you heard what the'
latest luxury is?” ■'
“No, what is it ?”
7• i .
•‘Why it's the one you enjoy last.
Good evening.”—[Danville Breeze,
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