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i PrOTHAM’S POLICE FORCE. WHERE BREACHES OF DISCIPLINE ARE TRIED. Sketches of the Commissioners- How the Cases Are Inquired Into The Politicians Returning: Broadway’s Railroad Grease and the Big- Schemes. New York, May 21.- -Every Wednesday • drama, much' more interesting than many plays, is performed in a room on the second floor of the big graystone building on Mul burry street known as Police Headquarters. A sign over the entrance designates it as the courtroom. It is the place where the police are tried for breaches of discipline. No out siders except reporters ami witnesses are in the room, whose benches are occupied by a hundred or more policemen in full uniform, gome of these are witnesses, but fifty or sixty are defendants, and it is easy to pick out the latter from their gloomy counten ances. Every week about fifty of New York’s 3,003 police have to be tried in this room for offenses of various degrees of gravity. One of the four Police Commis sioners, whose offices are on the floor below, sits in judgment on the offenders. If it happens te be courtly Fitz John Porter's day to try cases or mild little Commissioner McClave’s or Commissioner Voorhis, the offender congratulates himself, but if Commissioner French, the President of the Board of Police, takes thq beuch, the most calloused officer trembles in his boots in a way that would please the “toughs” of his precinct if they were allowed to see it. Commissioner French looks like the pic tures the Gaborian draws of the stern, griz zled, keen-eyed Prefect of Police. His sharp, black eyes appeal- all the darker in contrast with his long, gray moustache. His bronzed face, free of ail wrinkles, nor liis thin lips furnish any index to the offender of his opinions. A man with a formidable blonde moustache arises at a signal from the Com missioner and reads so rapidly that no one unaccustomed to him can understand what he says the charges against a policeman. The latter and the witnesses in the case step forward. The patrolman wears on his sleeve, midway between the hand and the elbow, bands of blue braid which indicate his term of service, every five years adding anew bar so his sleeve. Up to a certain point the officer takes pride in these blue oars, hut when four or more of them have encircled his sleeve and he hasn't been able to exchange them for the gold braid that in dicates the officer they become a source of an noyance. The clerk with the big blonde moustache, who sits beside the Commissioner is often able to tell why the blue bars have not been exchanged for the gold. He is the record clerk, and he keeps in his relentless fashion the history of every policeman’s shortcomings. V digest of the record is entered on the back of the charge againste each man. When the charges have been read the Commissioner in a quick, imperious voice orders the offender and all witnesses to Htaud up and take the Bible. They cluster About a small well-worn Bible to which each clings with his right hand. Suu.-timee a dozen witnesses are thus clinging .to the sacred book. The Commissioner administers the oath. When citizens apix-al* as witnessed an average of one in twenty refuse to lies (trim and stand apart from the group about the Bible. After the ret* have takenpt&e oath the witness makes hi* affirmation. The chief witness for the proweution is usually an officer of the precinct from which the offender como%| The Comnir- rincr asks him eurtlv: t* ‘ gg/Are fin >e charge* true - r ;U*ljiiMK4ai<’w nlmut the case." Ek&SVc officer mail's 1 ■ m .i m n JfrjlßOt.-fajot way and the Commissioner then ' gWhnt lpT~ T r 11 to say for yourself I” JgiipAjpoilfreman is allowed to make a full ynjrflr Tn'ftpmtr ' n 1 He may have .1 lawyer JOB* *t olftMs, but he seldom indulges in fH luxury. The commonest cause of com ojam* te absence from ljost. The stereo ■HttflijigSieuv' of the offender is, “I was sick, jfiuft JMmr, had l>ecn taking medicine and a saloon to sit down a moment.'’ ■BlfUtird clerk, who has heard this excuse !!?*(; nail‘it's or moro every Wednesday, ■Qh,'oiH the Commissioner's black eyes Jjjfrly gjtei *e the offender as he saj*s: praf didn’t you rejiort sick and go jiiliaMwWonder ninkes more excuses, and un /MFjflktßerce glare of the Commissioner's prettv sure to entangle himself in of the case. The Commissioner ’ Hddenly exclaims: “Closed!’’ makes an entry in his book and die offender goes away in a state of sus pense. He will not know his fate until after the Commissioner and his three colleagues, who meet Tuesdays and Fridays, have con lidered and passed upon the case from the svidence adduced at the trial on Wednesday. He may be fined one or twenty days, or his mpeador officer may announce to him the terrible verdict that lie must hand over his dub and badge and retire from the service to private life. The latter punishment, how sver, is seldom inflicted. One remarkably self-possessed policeman explains his absence from post by giving his Movements through a labyrinth of streets while the roundsman was looking for him. There are more than 000 miles of streets in New York, but the Commissioner knows every one of them, and he allows the de fandnnt to tell his ingenious story and then iestroys his evidence by showing conelu lively that a snail could have traversed the route in the time that the defendant pro iends to have taken to walk over it. Then the Commissioner says: “Your record is bad. You liave been tried seven times for absence of post during four four years’ service on the force, ana rou havo told the same story each time. iTou ought to invent anew excuse. Case dosed!" The offender goes away feeling pretty sure that if he gets off with twenty lays' line after such a speech from the Com- Missioner he will be fortunate. “You failed to report at roll call; what txcuse have you to offerf” demands the Commissioner of another complainant. A jomety woman standing beside the stalwart officer says: “I am his landlady and I forgot to call Uni up in the morning.'’ The Commissioner gives the landlady a tort but severe lecture and tells the officer: “You may go," which means, “I will not lne you this time. ’’ ‘A handsome policeman, charged with taili ng nn official of the post offioe, with whom oe has had a political quarrel, hard names, .s arraigned, and a letter carrier who rut lies off his testimony in the stilted, studied tones of an amateur tragedian testifies and ind supplement! his words with: ‘Such language pained me very much uid ” “Oh, this is the merest lxxh,” says the Commissioner. “Case closed.” The police man lias said little except to deny tlio marge, but his manly face and positive Banner contrasted with tlio effusive con flict of the complainant have won the case tor him. None of the fifty detectives on the New Fork force are ever formally tried. Their iestiny depends on one limn, and, and he is Inspector llyrne, a rtian nattily dressed in a lU'ipod business suit, who sits in au inner worn at I’olice Headquarter*, reached by a i confusing labyrinth of passages guarded ▼ uniformed supernumeraries. The French leteetive has been praised much in print, ™t exports and criminals will admit that hi* French Vidocq does not equal the keen letertivo of the New York force. When ibc funeral of Grant took place thieves from ill over America came to New York. They were spotted by dt 'ectives on incoming E™?*’ w !° allowed them to land in New ♦ n<l th ‘'" “Terted them. As mamas TW**n in a herd were arrested and locked *P at one time and the rolls or the city pri •wu were fuU of thieves. A million stranger* •re la the city, but tile only wt <>l theft reported during the obsequies was the robbery of an old German in a remote part of the city, who lost a cheap silver watch. At 9 o’clock in the morning the fifty de tectives, a motlv throng representing all nationalities, gather at the Inspector’s office. Some of them who work in the aristocratic parts of the city are fashionably dressed and others w ho explore the slums and docks are appareled like coal heavers. One is a Bohemian, another an Italian and another a Hebrew. They make their reports to the Inspector, and if one has been derelict in his duty lie is pretty apt to find that somebody's eves have been on him and that the In spector knows about his movements. The Inspector is the court to try his case and no outsider hears it. Ho may lie reprimand ed or quietly dropped from the force, but there is no appeal from the Inspector’s de cision. When anew detective is needed a patrol man is sometimes flattered w ith an invitation to put on citizen’s clothes and report to the Inspector. He may have been patrolling a forlorn beat in the outskirts of the city, but the Inspector who watches the record of every promising policeman has heard of his making a clever arrest and wants to give him a trial. The Inspector lias his truisms, one of which is that a man who is to make a detective will show something of his fitness in his face, and another being that he must first possess a great ambition to be a detective. Ambition is the mainspring and secretiveness and perseverance the bah mice of a good detective. The Inspector has also a tradition that no woman makes a good detective. “They are too npt to fall in love,” he says, “and a woman in love will tell all she Imows. I sometimes have to em ploy a woman, but I tell her no more about the case than is absolutely necessary.” Amos J. Cummings. 11. The politicians are returning to town from Albany and Washington, and the cafes and barrooms are crowded at all hours of the day and night by little groups of emphatic talkers. •Th 6 emphasis of the average poli tician is his distinguishing characteristic. Theutrical men, when they get into a dis cussion in a public place are apt to bang their lists, wag their heads and pound the bar up to a certain period, but after that they fall into a plaintive state of mind, and appeal to their mends for support in their arguments. Croups of brokergme invaria bly pervaded with a know-it-alL,air, and their talk is not so winks, gestures and nods. But when Con gressman. Asseuilih inan qj- fSeftgTO? returns to Now York his presence 'lff 'ieSf rroni the day of his arrival until far itfto the summer season. He h:- .vtuct the gombl its c;i!! --a dead sinoh” on everybody else in all political discussions, andyrfuia irate, he is not slow to take advantage uf ill He wears his new beaver hat sqiiare upon his statesmanlike head, braces back flnnlv against the bar, shakes hands profusely with everybody who cornea his way, *nd reveals important state secrete, with every breath. This is the com manor type oHKc local stateman. There are, qf course, quiet and domestic men who are unostentatious in their manners and not overt swing in their talk. But they are nsithiy picturesque nor interesting. It is pS#JßWdiloquent, flowery, assertive, doni- ImsSrag, emphatic and suave politician wh# is suraounded from morning till night tjwgroupsof friends. In one of these groups in the Hoffman House yesterday were E. S. ’Stokes, Col. Tom Ochiltree, E. G. Gilmore, Harry Miner, Gov. Dorsheimer, ex Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, Henry E. Dixey and Congressman Tim Campbell, listening with thorough amusement to a local politi cal light. It was a difficult audience to amuse, too, for all the men were good talk ers, but they stood in wrapt interest as the New York politician spoke. At one point of his address he insisted that the coming man in Albany or Washington is the one who will stand in defense of the rights of corporations and big companies, instead of the alleged rights of the people. He said that then> had l>een such a hue and cry over the Broadway investigation, the Pan-Elec tric exposure and the Pacific Mail investiga tion that what might be called a stampede of terror had set in, and representatives of the people were actually afraid to vote as their senses dictated for fear of finding them- selves concerned in a job. He said: “Neman with a grain of sense attempt* to deny now the extraordinary usefulness and value of the Broadway railroad. If anybody should try to rip up the tracks and remove the road it would result in a riot from one end of New Y'ork to the other. Those big schemes can oidy be pushed through by greasing the proper channels, for, as soon as you start to promote an en terprise legitimately and squarely you are hampered by a thousand drags. In Albany this winter a body of Philadelphia capital ists had an experience that illustrates this. They subscribed $5,000,000, and began to build a bridge across tin* Hudson at Pough keepsie. They went about the matter in good faith, under the impression that, as the charter had been in existence fifteen year*, there would be no trouble übout the bridge in having nn (extension for one year more, particularly as tin* bridge would help all the middle section of New York State. But they had no sooner begun than they became the prey of the most extraordinary attacks from till sides. They decided that they would fight tho thing out on a square issue, and not list* a cent in smoothing things over, ami the result is that they havo liad about as bitter a fight as I can recall. They finally came out ahead, but it was a big struggle. There was scarcely a man in Albany who dared stand up and protest against the at tack on the vested rights of that company, and yet every Ixxiy knew that the company was iu the right from begining to end. That is whe, I thiiik, that the man who goes to a national or State Legislature with the idea of prefix-tinga big public interest is liable to create a large and amiable reputation. Blakely Hall. A COMPLETED RAILROAD. Some Interesting Points About a Flourishing Florida Town. Plant City, Fla., May 21.—The Florida Railway and Navigation Company, under the able management of Receiver 11. R. Duval, is at last finished into Plant City, and in two weeks through trains will bo run to Jacksonville, Savannah, and Montgomery, Ala. This is the greatest success South Florida has achieved since it was opened to settlement. Iu the neighWirhood of this town arc found some of the finest orange groves in tho Htate, and the shipments of oranges, strawberries and vegetables are immense. This year’s crops of uorn, oats, sugar cane and other field crops are very fine, and the yield will lx* very great. Peaches are ripe, and are sold in stores at 20e. per dozen. Watermelons are also being marketed. Two acres planted in strawberries by Messrs. rates, Jett & Cos. last October have paid all expenses and some money Ixs-ides. Some of these berries sold In New York at $2 50 jkt quart, and there is no liner strawberry garden in the South to-day tiian this of two acres. The railroad from Plant City to Bartow is to lie built during the summer, and the J. M. and G. railroad is to be built from here to Sara Sota on the Gulf; and we hear of a road tieing built, or iibnit to be built, from Macon, Gu., to Plant City. The people of Plant City and neighbor hood will unite on the opening of the Florida Railway and Navigation and give a grand reception to the officers of the road and strangers. The committees are hard at work. A Bonanza Mine of health is to be found in Dr. 11. V. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription,” to the merits of which us a remedy for female weakness and kindred affections thousands testify. A MULATTO, who went into a Boston liarlier shop the other day to have his hair cut, was re fused service because, os an attendant said, “They don't run the place for colored men.” A jKiflce olfa er, who wds informed of the case by the mulatto, accompanied Ike Ulttir Uakto tfi“ shop and beard the rnfmui) > cpoiuoii.. .Xho. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1887—TWELVE PAGES. SUICIDE FROM A TRAIN. A Daughter’s Flight' Causes a Man to End His Life. A Boston dispatch to the New York Herald says: It was French from the be ginning to the end. Dramatic as a Porte St. Martin play was to-day’s culmination of a wretched career. Shortly before the fast 10 o’clock express for New York via the Shore Line should roll out of the big iron train shed of the Providence station Friday morning a re porter who was near the engine observed a young girl, accompanied by a middle aged woman, bot h well dressed, and the pair ap peared equally nervous and overcharged with apprehension. Now there arc plenty of young girls to be seen in the Providence station—thousands of them <svery day for that matter—but there was something that attracted more than l>assing attention in the one in question. She was well dressed, as previously mentioned, but the cut of the garments indicated that they were shaped in a foreign land, and a closer insj icction led to the mental conclu sion that provincial France was the country in which the maiden's modiste wielded scis sors and needle. The wearer was blonde, blue-eyed, round-walsted, indite, 13 years of age, apparently, and chic despite her agita tion. Her little bottines with narrow toes and high Gallic heels clicked on the pave ment as mademoiselle embarked with her companion on the Now York express. A BROKEN UP PURSUER. B|Tho blonde young lady had scarcely en tered the railway carriage when a small, middle-aged man with disarranged gar ments ran to the gateway and accosted Con ductor Richardson in broken English. His suspenders hung down behind and appeared beneath a brow n overcoat. A hat, u pair of trousers and shoes without stockings com pleted the stranger’s attire. His hair was dark and his fine, with its restless, keen black eyes, had a French cast. “Where is my daughter?” he cried. “She is running away from me. I must go in and spoak to her. lot me in, I say?” The gate-man permitted him to pass. “I scent news,” soliloquized the reporter. “I will go, too." AN UNDESIRET> MEETING. The excited littlo man ran through the crowded train. Soon he espied the young French girl, who was seated with her com panion. When the hastily dressed man came in sight the young woman appeared ns if de sirous of crawling beneath the seat. The interview which followed was conducted in French, and was —putting it mildly—excit ing. The man gesticulated and declaimed. He importuned and threatened. The young lady cowered in her seat and regarded her persecutor with aversion and terror. Meanwhile the fast express was speeding along on its forty-five mile run to Provi dence where it was due an hour later. The little man soon fell into the clutches of the conductor. To the latter he explained that his daughter was running a way from him; that he discovered her departure and had time only to make the hasty toilet in which he appeared, and he did not bring money for his unanticipated journey. “Blie is going to New York,” he cried, “1 will follow her to the death.” The conductor informed him that the fare must be paid or ho would be put off at Providence. “Ah ha!” shrieked the stranger. MENACE AND SUICIDE. Soon he returned to the pretty blonde. “I will kill you!” he hissed in her ear. She shrank away, and the look of fear,'of horror, of loathing, she gave him seemingly touched him deeply. In milder, almost imploring, accents he exclaimed: “Will you return with me, Marie? I will kill myself if you do not.” Marie sobbed, “.Yon, non,” and turned away to her companion, who endeavored to soothe her. The man deliberately walked to the door of the car and disappeared. The Gain was flying along over the smooth steel: Fifty; live miles an hour is the speed at that pointy as a train hand explained. The reporter observed a brown cbfet seemingly roll and tumble amid a cloud of dust on the down track. On sped the express. The old man was no longer a passenger. ( i Mr. A. How, of Boston, who occupied a front sent, said of the old man’s jump: “I saw him walk out on the platform as calm as going to a picnic. He grasped the rail ings and lowered himself between the two cars The dust was terrible, owing to our great speed, but after he lowered himself I saw him raise himself again and cast a look in through the window toward the young lady. Then he let go. All was done-iu a few seconils.” A PAINTING GIRL. The girl did not see her father take the awful plunge, but she suspected it. With a fearful shriek, that caused every traveler to spring up, and which was blood-curdling iu its intensity, off she went in frightful con vulsions. A. call was made for a physician. Stimulants were administered, and after awhile consciousness and quiet were re stored. “.1 foil prre. ,v the poor thing whispered, the tears suffusing her big blue eyes. “lie got off when you were unconscious,” was the well intended fiction that was told her. Meanwhile the 1 xlv of the suicide was lying between the iine of rails in a cutting near Canton Junction, surrounded by rude track laborers, who gazed on the crushed blood bespattered face and tlte mangled body, and wondered who it was and what it was all about. TOE EXPLANATION. The reporter returned as speedily as possi ble to Boston. From information obtained from the companion of the weeping French damsel, a strange and terrible story was brought to light—a talc of crime and of its penalty, of an unnatural father and a virtu ous daughter, of shame auil unmentionable horror. M. do la Jourasse, memlier of an excellent family, was a trusted notary ten years ago and an advocate of Toulouse, in Kouthern France. He ran away with over 700,000 francs belonging to his clients, lieggaring his wife and leaving her with helpless chil dren. Society in Toulouse sustained a great shock. Hieng him to America M. de la Tourasse became M. Auguste de Hempey, and an nounced himself a teacher of languages. M. de Sempey was unaccustomed to work except in his profession and he niqienred to have met with ill success. Finally he brought up in Boston and lived with a French woman not his wife at No. Oil Cbnp mnu street. Two mnifths ago sho died, leaving a little girl of 5 years and a few davs old infant. l’hen M. de Soinpey, formerly de la Tourasse, wrote to Toulouse and requested his daughter, Marie, to come over and vist him in his "elegant home” in tho New World. AN CNHAPPY DAUGHTER. Leaving her mother, who is now well pro vided for, and her brother, an officer in the French army. Marie trustfully embarked on the steamer Chutau Margaux on that ship's last trip to this country, and in due time Inndisl nt New York. Speedily the proems of disillusion followed the young lady s arrival at Boston. Instead ofa pleats tnt home and a prosperous father, she ascertained that her domicile was to lx* a garret and that she was to take the charge of two illegitimate children. Then tier honest pride became aroused, but it did not burst forth in liaines until she was coini**lled to seek the friendly offices of the priest of the French Church of Notre Dome. “MORE THAN KIN AND LEM THAN KIND.” The offense attempted of which she tear fully told the good lather was the same as that which history teaches was the cause of tho murder of the .head of the inodiirvHl Roman house of CencJ, for which the lovely parricide Beatrice Ccnei suffered a cruel death. to sell her to a certain wealthy libertine of this city. The priest of Notre Dame promptly ad vised Marie to fly as quick!}' as possible, and the Italy, her companion, was selected by him to accompany her to New York. Discovering the departure of his daughter the miserable man followed her to the sta tion, only to meet his doom. A MISERABLE HOME. The reporter visited this evening the squalid apartment iri which Professor de Semper existed and where lie introduced tenderly nurtured Marie. The baby, a young thing, lay on a dirty bed wailing for food. A pretty little girl of 5 tearfully whispered that she had nothing to eat since yesterday. The [<oor thing grasped the doughnuts and cakes purchased lor her as if half famished. Meanwhile the dead father lay in the little undertaker’s shop at Canton, and blue-eyed Marie was resting in happy unconsciousness of her father’s end in flew York. The orphans here will be cared for by the French Church. BLOSSOM’S FRIENDSHIP FOR PATTI. Her Guests in Her Castle in Wales. New York, May 21. —Nobby young men in dress suits, who drop into up-town bil •lianl halls for a quiet game after the theatre, handle their cues with a dreamy air nowa days, and when they score a round-the-table shot, or a cushion follow, they sigh and whisper: “Wonder what Patti would think of that?” They amuse themselves by im agining that the divinity of Italian opera at $7 a seat is present in spirit watching the play with a tienign and sympathetic in terest. And it is all on account of the friendship of Patti for George Slosson, the Chicago billiardist. Everybody knows by this time that the expert is ac companying the singer to her home in Wales as an invited guest. A few days more and they will be knocking the bolls around the table in that delightful Country, and there will be an Palmndance of caroms and strictly technical kisses. And when Slosson places Nicolini’s tall hat on the table, and cues his liall so that it jumps clear over the hat and collides with the red liall near the rail, and then bounding into the air again makes a point op the spot ball lying on the window seat in an adjoining room, Patti's dainty hands will come together with a resounding spat, and her wonderful voice will ring out a merry “Yglaggdebabgejabwg ap-punk” (which is Welsh for “good shot I s ) For Patti always speaks the vernacular no matter what land she may be in. Nicolini cannot, and’there was where ho was at a disadvantage in making the acquaintance of Slosson. It began in this city when Patti was singing her first season hero under Abbey's management. She and Nicolini were quar tered at the Windsor, and the first thingput into their suite for their especial use was a billiard table. The second was a piano. Dur ing the winter several noted billiardists were in town and Nicolini was a regular spectator at the matches thev played. He wandered one day into the billiard room of a leading hotel and found Slosson practic ing there. An introduction was readily ar ranged, although it was necessary to retain the services of an interpreter. Their con versation was of a rather formal character and consisted mainly in the exchange of compliments. On tile same day Nicolini sent Slosson a request that give a private exhibition of his skill at the Wind sor. Slosson, of course, consented, and the exhibition took place oil an afternoon with in a week. ■ Nicolini and Patti were the only spectators. Slosson performed a number of fancy shots, made long runs from given positions at straighs billiards and cushion caroms, and talked with Patti about the game. At Nicolini could not speak English he had to keep still, but his lingers were all the time aching for the cue, and eventually, with the assistance of Patti as interpreter, a game was arranged between the tenor and the expert. Slosson discounted the tenor and beat him. The entertainment was re lieated on several other afternoons during tho season, and once or twice Dion, who was also in the city, took part in the exhibi tions. How much Slosson was paid for his services is not known, but when the singers reached Chicago he courteously invited them to a private exhibition, and they saW’ a good deal of each other. Nicolini and Patti found him a true gentleman, anil the commercial character of the private games soon disappeared. Slosson became a fre quent guest at their hotel whenever they were in the city. He has played many a game with Patti hci’self, who is very fond of the diversion and is a fair player. John Field. THE LATEST INNOVATIONS In What is Now Called Feminine Gear. New York, Mnv 21.—'There have been several inLovations, many of them startling enough, made recently in tho matter of feminine gear. We have grown accustomed to towering bats covered with the most ridiculous ornamentations in the shape of flowers and feathers; we havo watched calmly; if not approvingly, the evolution of tho bustle and the gradual appearance of tho leg-of-mutton sleeve: but I confess to hav ing experienced something very like a start the other day on visiting the establishment of a fashionable French corset maker to tee the latest importation of Parisian stays manufactured of no ordinary material such as contil, sateen, silk or satin, but of eonunon blue-striped bedticking! These stays were of the most perfect cut and workmanship, elaborately trimmed with lace or ribbon and cost no less than sl(> a pair. Considerable ingenuity and taste were displayed in the cutting of the stuff, so that the stri]x* should follow the curves and outlines of the figure. They were rather chic, on the whole, and I fail to see why in the future bedticking should not be used for v arious purposes be sides coverings for mattresses and pil lows. Every women of fashion nowadays has on her toilet table a pretty little feather duster, set in a beautifully embossed silver handle. These dusters are really useful as well as ornamental, and it is no uncommon sight to sis* a lady occupy a spare hour in bruhsing off the dust that we all know wall collect with lightning rapidity on bureau, desk and table. Most of these duster* are so made that the feather portion can be put securely away inside the silver handle thus forming a convenient article for the pocket or trav eling bag. They can be purchased from a leading house iii this city for th" trilling sum of Juki apiece. ' Clara Lanza. The San Franeiso Examiner calls upon all adult male citizens to boycott the plug hat and to indulge in the use of hair oil. “Much,” it says, “as we sometimes laugh in our sleeves at the vanity of using hair oil, yet the experience of the African Nubians, who consume all the grease they can get on their woolly heads, would seem to favor tho practice in preference to witter, which most generally contains more or less matter that is injurious to the hair. There is no bald ness among the Nubians, whose hair is greased stiff all the time, beside living iu the scorching sun.” Rough on Rats,” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bedbugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rab bits, sparrows, gophers. 15c. At druggists. "Rough on Corns*..” Ask for Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” Quick reliof, complete cure. Corns, warts, bun ions. 15a "Rough on Itch.” “Rough on Itch” cures skin humors, erup tions, ring-worm, tetter, salt rheum, frosted feet, chilblains, itch, ivy ixiison, barber’s itch. 60c. jars. ' • "Rough on Catarrh” Corrects offensive odors at on<*e. Complete nire of worst ehronic ease*; also unequaled GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS. Matters of Money and Management About Vadous Lines. Treasurer Rauh, of the Richmond and Danville Extension Company, gives notice that a dividend of 35 per cent, on the capital stock of the Georgia Pacific Railway Com pany, at par, will be paid on and after May 20, on which date the books of transfer will close. An 1 election has been ordered by the County Commissioners for Newberry town ship, S. C., on subscribing .JIO.OOO to the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad. The requisite number of signatures was se cured to the petition in about three days. The election will be held on June 0. There will be littlo opposition. Twenty legal firms are said to have be come independently rich from the litigation that the Philadelphia and Reading i;oad lias been subjected to within the last twelve years. Once a week during this period the lawyers have turned out to fight over some claim, and to listen to each other’s argu nients. IV. J. Sein worth has been appointed South ern Passenger Agent for the Michigan Cen tral railroad. His territory extends over Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Caro lina*, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Illinois south of the Wabash railway, extending from State line to East St. Louts, Missouri south of St. Louis and Iron Mountain line, including St. Louis, and that portion of Louisiana east of the Mississippi river. Central’s Summer Schedule. The Central railroad’s summer schedule’ will go into effect to-day. The principal changes are in tho day express, which will leave at 7 a. m. instead of 10, arriving at Macon at 1:30 p.m., and Atlanta at 5:40. The same train returning will leave Atlanta at 0:50 a. m., Macon at 10:35 a. m., arriving at Savannah at sp. m. The mountain ex press will leave 1 Savannah at 5:15 p. m., ar riving at Augusta at 9:35, and returning will leave Augusta at 0 a.m., arriving in Savannah at 10:30. The Guyton extra will leave Savannah at 2 p. m., arriving at Guyton at 3 o’clock, and returning, will leave Guyton at 8:10, arriv ing in Savannah at 4:25. This train will not be put on until to-morrow, and will run only on week days. Favorable Railroad Earnings. Railroad earnings continue to foot up fa vorably, and, taken as a whole, the roads were never doing better. Early in the year there were indications that this year’s business would be the heaviest in their his tory. Great earnings were predicted, until the new law took effect: then everybody was down in the mouth. Transportation lines were to be ruined, and some went so far as to say it was unwise for the roads to undertake to do business under its provis ions. These fears are proving groundless. At all events reports show that on most of the roads more freight and passenger traffic is moving than ever before in the month of May. The Heaviest Locomotives. There has been an interesting discussion among railroad men, both in California and in the East, as to which were the three or four heaviest locomotives built in this country. The Canadian Pacific has the heaviest. It weighs 160,000 pounds. It is used to haul freight through Kicking Horse Pass in the Rocky Mountains. Tho Southern Pacific has the next largest, weighing 154,000 pounds. Then there is a locomotive on the Northern Pacific of 145,000 pounds. The Brazilian government had an engine built in this country a few years ago, wliich is thb fourth largest, weighing 144,000 pounds. A Much-Made-Up Man. _ A much-made-up man is described in the Lewiston (Me.) Journal: It isn’t every day that I see a man take off his spectacles to give them a rub and off with them comes his nose. Such a combination of spectacles and proboscis did I see while taking an ex cursion in the elevator car of the Mutual Insurance building at Portland Friday morning. The man told me when he took off his specs that I needn’t be scared, so I wasn’t. When he was in tho army, cold deprived him of a Roman nose of his own, and plaster paris was better than nothing, lie has false teeth and false hair. One leg was a cork leg. He can see out of but one eye. The other is glass. Three fingers and one thumb is all he possesses in the world. One of his ears are lalse. But for all this; he is the liveliest man in Portland. He walks ten miles every day, rain or shine. He has had three, wives and survives them all, and has refused five chances to get mar ried again, so ho says, since he buried his last wife, about a year ago. Weather Indications. Special indications for Georgia: RAIN Threatening weather, light local Irains. light variable winds, general ly easterly, nearly stationary tem perature. Comparison of mean temperature at Savan nah, May 21, 1887, and the mean of same day for fifteen years. Departure Total Mean Temperature from the Departure Mean Since for 15 years,May 81, ’B7. -|- or . Jan. 1,1887. 70.5 i _T2.3 4.3 816.9 Comparative rainfall statement: ssss nr W .098 .0 — r ' Maximum temperature 80.0, minimum tem perature 67.0. The height of the river at Augusta at 1 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time) was 6.2 feet —a fall of 0.4 feet during the past twenty-four hours. Cotton Region Bulletin for 24 hours end ing 6p. m., May 31,1887, 75th Meridian time. Districts. | Average. Name Max. Min. Ratal■ Name. TempTerap . m 1. Wilmington | 11 85 08 2. Charleston 8. 88 84 .02 8. Augusta 12 85 82 .02 4. Savannah 13 84 68 .02 5. Atlanta 18 4 82 .12 6. Montgomery 8 85 84 7. .Mobile 7 88 63 i .06 8. New Orleans 14 88 03 .01 M. Galveston 80 fit 64 10. Vicksburg 5 87 04 11. Little Rock 4 88 88 12. Memphis 18 I 87 63 .14 Average*. • m I 185 < n s .os Observations taken ut the seine moment of time at all stations. Savannah. May 21, r. si., city time. ; Temperature. Direction. < L , ac j Velocity. 9 Rainfall. Name OF Stations. Norfolk Htl, F. Clear. Charlotte 70 K I Clear. Wilmington 70 S E 1 1 Clear. Charleston | 72 NE: fair. Augusta j 72 S Cloudy. Savannah 70IN Kill . . . Clear.’ Jacksonville 70,N E 01 Clear. Key West 7<iiNW 14 ... 'Clear. Atlanta M|SEi.. 01 Cloudy. Pensacola TSi E ill ... Clear. Mobile 70 E | .on Clear Montgomery 728 E . 02 Cloudy. New Orleans 72. E .. Clear. Galveston 70 8 til Clear. Corpus Christ!.... 70 8 E' 15 .... (tear. Palestine 74 SF. : . . Clear. Hrowtieavllle 74.8 E1..1 I Clear. G. N. Salisbury, Signal Corps. U.S. Army. A fairy lost a precious charm To keep the rosy gums from harm. To keep from teeth decay and death. To sweeten and purify the breath, MARRIAGES. JOHNSON —BROWN. —Married, at the resi dence of the bride’s mother, No. 26 Harris street, Thursday, May 5, Mr. James W . John son, formerly of Macon, Ga., to Miss Mary Ella Brown, of this city. DEATT rsT BARNWELL.—Died, at Savannah, Ga., May 20th, 1887, in his fifty-second year, Dr. John S. Barnwell, a native of Beaufort, 8. C. In the valley, in the shadow of Death, Peace hath come to Unrest. FUNERAL INVITATIONS. MACK.—The friends and acquaintance of Mrs. Sarah Mack and Mr, William Mack, and Mr. and Mrs. Grant R. Lee are respectfully in vited to attend the funeral of the former from her late residence, Gaston street, first door front Roberts. THIS MORNING at 10 o’clock. MEETINGS. TRAVELERS’ PROTECTIVE ASSOCIA TION. The Annual Convention of the Georgia State Division of the Travelers' Protective Association will lx- held in Macon on MAY 23(1 and 24th next. ' T. P. A.'sand all other traveling men are re spectfully invited and cordially requested to at tend. Reduced rates will be given from your town. SPECIAL NOTICES. GRAND SUNDAY EXCURSION. STEAMER POPE CATLIN Will leave Kelly's wharf, foot of Bull street, ON SUNDAY, MAY' 22d, 1887, at 2:30 o’clock, for atrip around TY'BEE BELL BUOY, returning via LAZARETTO CREEK, THUNDERBOLT and Music and refreshments on board. Fare round trip, 50c. This steamer can he chartered for excursions by applying to the Captain on board or at the GOLDEN ANCHOR, corner Broughton and Drayton streets. CAUTION. All persons are warned against giving money or aid to any person asking or writing In ELLEN M. RANKIN or MAGGIE RANKIN’S name. We are not in need of money, and the parties ask ing for it are frauds. ELLEN M. RANKIN, MAGGIE R. RANKIN. REMOVAL. DR. B. S. PURSE Has removed his office and residence to 140 Liberty, lietween Whitaker and Bull streets. SOME PEOPLE DO NOT TUMBLE. Skilled labor, cheap rent and first-class mate rial will enable any man to make money. TOWNSEND IS MAKING MONEY. If you want good work you can get it at TOWNSEND’S. He intends to keep at the head of the procession. He will double his business in the next twelve months. YOU KNOW IT. HE KNOWS IT. TOWNSEND, FINE PRINTER AND BINDER, 86 and 88 Bryan Street, Savannah, Ga. “Telephone 341,” FAUST BEER, CHEAPEST AND BEST. Cheapest because bottled here in the city, saving middle charges to the consumer. Best, because it is the favorite brewing of the renowned Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association. For sale by all grocers and dealers. It is a mild tonic; just the thing for delicate persons. GEORGE MEYER. 75 Bay street. NOTICE. Savannah, Ga., May 18, 1887. The Lumbermen's Association , to Whom it May Concern: , We, the Association, met arid agreed that on and after the 25th day of May, 1887 we would w ork under and about the wharves for 25c. and 30c. per hour. R. 11. PARKING, W. B WILLIAMS. RICHARD POOLER, Committee. FOR SALE. T2O Horne Power ENGINE for sale at a bar gain. Cylinder 20x30. About new and in per fect order. A. B. HART. Lake City, Fla. DR. HENRY S FOLDING, I DENTIST, Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. 3 BULL STREET, Over W. U. Telegranh Office, SAVANNAH, GA. WANTED. Wool Wanted The highest cash prices paid at all times for WOOL. Shippers will save money by consulting me before selling. M.Y. HENDERSON, 180 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Mowing Machines AND HORSE HAY RAKES. EDWARD LOVELL I SONS, 155 BROUGHTON STREET. City Delivery —OF THE— SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS. The undersigned I* prepared to deliver the Mouxino News (payable 4n advance) at the fol lowing rates: One Year $lO 00 Six Mouth* 5 00 Three Mouth* 2 50 One Mouth l 00 WILLIAM ESTILL, (Lai ill's News DeDot. No. 28 HUIIW.4 Stats OF Weathkh. j AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATRE MONDAY, MAY 30th, 1887. SOIREE MUSICALE —FOB THE BENEFIT OF— BETHESDA ORPHANS’ HOME —by— MAD. ST. ROQUES-PLAYTER And her Pupils, assisted by Distinguished Mna cal Talent of Savannah. Reserved seats at Davis Bros. -Box Sheet Saturday, 28th. ‘Admission 50c. No extn charge for reserved seats. Tickets for sale at Davis Bros.’; Wm and Ludden & Bates’. ’ ' u ’ BASE BALL TQ-MORROVT New Orleans SAVANNAH! Tickets on sale at FERNANDEZ’S CIGU STORE. Game called at 4 o’clock. D- : 1 ~ ‘ Charleston and Savannah Railway Ca 3ST aijioxLal DRILL AND ENCAMPMENT AT WASHINGTON, D. C. f * May 22d to 27th. SPECIAL EXCURSION RATE OF sl2 05 PER CAPITA J Savannah to Washington and Return. Will be given to parties of TWENTY-FIVE 01 MORE traveling in a body on a solid ticket. TICKETS ON SALE MAY 18th TO MIDDAY MAY 221 Good only when presented for passage on day of sale. Not good after departure of 12:15 p. m. train May 22d. Good only TO RETURN when stamped and signed by Ticket Agent Pennsylvania Railroad at Washington. rr EXTP.EME LIMIT JUNE SIXTH. Single Tickets S2B 95. On sale from May 18 U 23. Good to return not later than June 3. For Tickets and organization of parties, call on WILLIAM BREN, Ticket Agent, Bull street E. P. McSWINEY, General Passenger Agent. PROPOSALS WANTED. Proposals Wanted. BIDS will be received up to the Ist of JUNB for the buildings on the eastern half of lot on the corner of Whitaker, President and State streets, and also for excavating to the depth ol feet the lot above mentioned, measuring 60bj 90 feet. The buildings to lie removed within ten days and the exca'vating to be finished by the first of July, 1887. Bids must be, made separately. The right ,i . reserved to reject any or all bids. J. H. ESTILL. D. R. THOMAS. T. M. CUNNINGHAM, RUFUS E. LESTER, Committee Union Society. City of Savannah, 1 Office City Marshal, > Savannah, May 19th, 1887. ) PROPOSALS YYTILL be received at this office from Plumbers v i until May 25, to repair or replace water boxes on sidewalks. Specifications furnished. The city reserves the right to reject any and all hida ROBERT J. WADE. City Marshal. RAILROADS. SCHEDULE CENTRAL RAILROAD. Savannah, Ga., May 22, 1887. ON and after this date Passenger Trains will run daily unless marked t, which are daily, except Sunday. The standard time, by which these trains run, is 30 minutes slower than Savannah city time: No. 1. No. 3. No. 5. No. 7. Lv Savannah. .7:00 am 8:20 rnn 5:15 piii 5:40 pm Ar Guyton 0:40 pm Ar Milieu 9:40 am 11:03 pm 7:30 pm 8:45 pm Ar Augusta. .t1:45 pm 7; 144 am 9:35 pm Ar Macon 1:30 pm 3:20 am Ar Atlanta 5:3u pm 7:30 am Ar Columbus..s:so pm 5:30 pm Ar MOntg'ry 7:09 Ar Eufaula.'.. ... .... 3:sopm Ar Albany 2:45 pm Train No. 9+ leaves Savannah 2:00 p. m,: ar rives Guyton 3:00 p. hi. Passengers for Sylvania, Wrightsville, Mu ledgeville andEatonton should take 7:00 a.m. tram. Passengers for Thomaston, Carrollton. Pern - . Fort Gaines, Talbotton, Buena Vista, Blakely and Clayton should take the 8:20 p. m. train. No. 2. No. 4. No. 6, No. 8. Lv Augusta 10:00 pm 6:00 am Lv Macon... 10:85 am 10:50 pm .. Lv Atlanta.. 6:soam 0:50 pm Lv Columbus 8:25 pm LvMontg’ry. 7:25 pm 7:40 am * Lv Eufaula. .10:18 pm 10:49 am Lv Albany.. 5:05 am : ••••• Lv Milieu.... 2:28 pm 3:10 am 8:00 am 5:20 am Lv Guyton . 4:o3pm s:olam 9:27 am 0:55 aui Ar Savannah 5:00 pm 0:15 am 10:30am B:osair Train No. lot leaves Guyton 3:10 p. m.; arrives Savannah 4:25 p. in. „ Sleeping cars on all night trains between sax vannah, Augusta, Macon and Atlanta, also Jin' con ana Columbus. Train No. 3, leaving Savannah at 8:29 p- m., will stop regularly at Guyton, hut at no other point to put off passengers between Savanuan and Milieu. Train No. 4 will stop on signal at stations be tween Millen and Savannah to take on passen gers for Savannah. . Train No. 5 will stop on signal at stations Be tween Savannah and Millen to take on passen. gers for Augusta or points on Augusta branen. Train No, 0 will stop between Milieu anu vannah to put off passengers from Augusta aa* points on Augusta branch. „ . Connections at Savannah with Savanuan, Florida and Western Railway for all points it Florida. , h Tickets for all points and sleeping car berm* on sale at City Olllee, No. 2(1 Bull street, anv Depot Office 30 minutes before departure o each train. _. _ ' J. C. SHAW. G. A. WHITEHEAD, Ticket Agent. Gen. Pass. Agent. _ STOVES. * CONGRESS STREET FOR P& WE CAN SHOW ALMOST ANY STYLE ANT , KIND OF Stove or Range At price* below the reach of competition. LOVELL & LATTIMORE. Hardware and Stove Dealers, Kavannahrij^. I AWYERS, doctors, ministers, I j mechanics and other* having book*. '•■ * zinc*, and other printed work to* oe bound bound can have such work done intteljetJ ,yj of the binder’s art at the MORNING BINDERY. 3 Whitaker street