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2 NEW YORK’S JUDICIARY, SOMETHING ABOUT THE LUXURY OF A LAWSUIT. The Laws Protect the Poorest As Well as the Richest Citizen The Working’ Women's Protective Union and How It Has Broken Up Impositions Upon Poor Women. New York, May 38. —The District Courts of the city of New York do not furnish much material for the picturesque news paper writer. Occasionally a case will be tried in one of them which, on account of some odd or unusual circumstances con nected with it, is deemed worthy of brief no tice, but, as a rule, these inferior tribunals sit day after day and week after week dis posing of their hundreds and thousands of cases, unnoticed by the press, their very ex istence unknown to nine-tenths of the people. And yet I do not exaggerate when I say that there is no branch of our civil judiciary that is more important, none that we could not better afford to have abolished. It is frequently said that a lawsuit is a luxury that the rich only can afford to in dulge in. It isn't so in Sew York. The law here not only extends its protecting arm over the meanest citizen, but there is no one so poor that he may not invoke that protec tion. If a person desiring to liegin a suit is able to pay the small fees of the court and its officers and to employ counsel, he is, of course, xjxjuired to do so. and will recover hack his expenses from the defendant if lie wins his suit. But poverty alone does not close the doors of the District Courts to anv man or woman on Manhattan Island. All that is necessary for the person who thinks he is wronged to do is to make an affidavit that he is not possessed of SIOO worth of property aside from the claim he desires to prosecute and get a lawyer to cer tify that he had examined the claim, and is of opinion that the petitioner has a good cause of action, and the Judge not only al lows the suit to be begun without the pay ment of a penny, but assigns an attorney and counselor to prosecute it and deputizes an officer to serve the summons. The veriest tramp in the street, if he lias a good cause of action against a millionaire for 5c., may have his claim prosecuted, and if he wins it, is given a special allowance to pay him for bis trouble. In tmth, it is the glory of the New York judiciary that justice is as free as the air or the water. But there are instances in which not alone the open courts and the freedom from ex- Eense prevent oppression—at the dividing ne where justice is done in the name of the law and justice is violated under the forms of law. And it is just at this point that an organization that ought to be more widely known than it is steps in. Ignorance, timid ity, dire necessity often causes a poor woman to submit to wrromg and imposition. To take charge of such cases the Working Women’s Protective Union was estab lished in 18(53. This society declares its object, among other things, to be “the prevention and redress of frauds and im positions upon working women who obtain livelihood by employments other than house hold service,'’ ana “the enforcing by legal proceedings, free of cost to working women, the payment of wages which tney have earned.” And how well the society has ful filled its mission is shown by the fact that it has extended its aid to 46,000 women and answered 345,000 applications. It not only employs counsel to prosecute the claims of working women, but, in case an appeal is taken, it follows the cause into the higher courts and attends to it there. I have not space to teH how this society has suceoded m breaking up some of the worst impositions upon working women. Those who before grew rich by swindling these poor creatures when they supposed they were helpless now have a wholesome respect for the Working Women’s Protec tive Union. The judiciary of the city of New York has not always been as pure as it should have been. All the world knows of tlie corruption of the Tammany Judges years ago, nut is nothing sensational or ex citing in stories showing how justice is •lone even to the meanest man or woman. The most beneflcient of our institutions are frequently those that make the least display, and our district courts are in that category. Z. L. White. WOMEN AS TYPEWRITERS. A Field of Labor in Which the Demand is Greater Than the Supply. New York, May 38. —Here is a bit of good news for girls and young women. It' was told me of the teacher of the best tyjie writing school in the city, a woman of the highest integrity, ability and an expert shorthand writer and typewriter. She says the demand for young women who can use the typewriter is "far m excess of the supply. Avery superior class ot young women have adopted the typewriter busi ness as a profession. Many of a class who formerly adopted teaching as a profession are now' taking up the business of stenogra phy and typewriting and an* occupying very nigh positions as such in insurance com panies, law o(fict and in most of the large corporations. Experts in these offices earn from sl3 to S2O a week. The salary of one who understands typewriting alane dots not usually go beyond sls, although there are some expert typewriters who earn as high as S3O a week. Exjiert typewriter-; who can take dictation are even more rare than stenographers. Many jiersons engaged in other professions, such as artists, music teachers, etc., purchase a typewriter and do piecework, thus supplementing their income. . It is a great mistake to suppose that tylie writer operators need no special training. The ease with which the keyboard and the mechanical part of the typewriter is learned leads persons into the error of supposing that no instructions are required to make a good typewriter operator, on the con trary, to do neat work oil the typewriter and also to take dictation requires a special kind of fingering and touch almost, as well timed as is required in the manipulation of the piano. Persons familiar with type writer copies will notice a great difference in the work of different operators, and. the good work ran almost invariably lie traced to an operator who has hud a thor ough, systematic training, the jioor work to an ojierut or who has taught herself. There is a great difference in the individuals in re garato the tine roqulied to make an ex jiert operator. An operator who can take a maximum of seventy-five words a minute must have had two years’ practice from the time she commenced to study. The sjieed at which a woman can take dictation depends on the amonnt of practice she lias had m dic tation and also on her acuteness of hearing. A person of superior hearing would reach this speed in less time. The typewriting business is almost en tirely in the hands of women, although within a Tew yeaix it has been entered into by a few of the other Sex. Several women in this city have offices in different build ings and employ a large number of opera tons. One woman has six offices in six different buildings, employs about fifteen young women on salaries, and has connected with her hundreds of stenographers and operators who work by the piece. These operators are supplied from a large training school connected with the business. They spend from three to six months in the school room. They are then taken up in the businuss office and put under an office training Most of them remain in business offices until they are either received in that, business or placed in other positions. Alter this office training they command excellent salaries. The wo man referred to was obliged to commence this office training in order to have opera tors for her own offices. A large number of persons are rushing into the typewriting copying business, but as two-thirds of them are poorly trained, out of every 500 who attempt to learn it there are probably not more than fifty good, well-trained instructors. At the present time the large typewriter offices in the eftyare triable to get extierts enough to suu ply the demand. Hundreds of people who nave managed to scrape together enough money to buy a ripe writer have advertised themselves as instructors in typewriting, and as a result many poor girls' have spent all the money they could borrow or obtain in any other way in fitting themselves for the business, and have afterward, in applying for work, discovered that both tanle and money have been thrown away, and that they were utterly unprepared for work. Foster Coates THE WOES OF MILLIONAIRES. Deception About Their Happiness— Jay Gould on the Rack. New York, May 38. —Jay Gould was not an object of serenity, tranquility and ease when the government investigators had him on the rack the other day. He announced at the beginning that he would have to speak in a low tone, as he was differing from neuralgia. But it was not neuralgia that disturbed him. When he entered the room there were no traces of it, and as he sat for half an hour waiting his turn he was apparently as well a man as could be found. But when he sank into the chair and realized that he was in for a rigid in vestigation at last, one that would lay his methods hare and expose the deal that had added millions to his fortune his hands shook, and his first answers w ere given with the half chocked utterance that can never be mistaken for anything else than fear. 1 believe that mere is more deception about the happiness of the average million aire than the most skeptical of us imagine. Last Sunday I went to a Baptist church presided over by an old-fashioned clergy man whom I heard first when 1 was <5 years old. He isn't exactly the fashion, but he preach** sermons of the good old orthodox style that are to me more acceptable than the vain frippery and resonant conceit of the two preachers who are just now the idols of tne town. The usher took me half way up the aisle, and I sat down behind a man who was perhaps 4* years of age. He wore the conventional frock coat. 1 was struck first by the magnificent contour of his head. It might have been modeled after that of the greatest of the Csesars. But he looked very much out of health. His skin was colorless, his eyes heavy and his brow wrinkled. From every quarter of the church eyes were strained at him from time to time. What struck me particularly was his restlessness. It seemed an utter impos sibility for him to remain quiet even for an instant. He shifted his seat, t waited his head and twitched his fingers all through the service. I have no doubt he would have resented such a sentiment on my part, but I mfist say that I pitied him —and be tween you and me its an exceedingly pleas ant thing to be able tojpitv a man who is worth $100,000,000. Mr. Rockefeller is the head of the Standard Oil Company and one of the rich men of the world, but I would Dot take his nervousness, responsibility and ill-health if the capital stock of the whole of the big monopoly went wlth it. Another millionaire who is somewhat known sits about in hotel corridors and cafes, lonely, crabbed and curt. One after one his friends have left him, till now not even an old schoolfellow looks at him as he parses by. He is a rank drunkard aivl nothing more. The vice has brought out all that is repulsive in his character and driven even his family from him. Russell Sage entered an elevated car the other dav and sank into a scat near tlie door, looking like a frowsy and ill-kempt fanner. I wondered at the time if the volley of ill natured remarks that greeted his arrival reached the old miser's ears. Perhajw iwverty has some advantages after all. Blakely Hall. KILLED BY HIS OWN HAND. A Rash Act Results in the Death of a Young Man. From the Washington Post. Herman Sehimmelfenning, a young clerk in the Pension Office, accidentally shot and killed himself about midnight last night, at the house of Mrs. Doughty, 1007 Thirteenth street northwest. Sehimmelfenning hail been calling on one of the young ladies in Mrs. Doughty’s house and was preparing to leave. As he put on his overcoat something in tlie pocket of it attracted the attention of the girl, and, finding that it was a pistol, she upbraided him for carrying so danger ous a weapon. “Why, it’s not loaded,” he said, laughing. “An unloaded pistol can do no harm,” and to reassure the frightened girl, he placed the pistol to his mouth and pulled the trig ger. The result was a loud report, a scream from the young lady and the next mo ment Schhniualfenninc fell headlong on the floor with a bullet lodged in his brain. Mi's. Doughty’s house was in an uproar in a moment. The lady, herself, attracted by the shot, rushed immediately to the room just in tune to meet several gentlemen who had come in from the street. Schimmel feuning wus bleeding freely and was uncon scious, but, os he still breathed, he was nicked up and laid on the sofa. Drs. Ford Thompson and Fry were summoned, and for an hour or two did all they could to restore him, but idle ball hail pierced his brain an* 1 about 3 o'clock this morning he expired without having uttered a word after the fatal shot. The peculiarity of the accident gave rise to the belief that Sehimmelfenning had committed suicide intentionally, hut this does not seem to have been the case, and he evidently believed that the pistol was not loaded when he pulled the trigger. His mother and sister, with whom he re sided at No. 100!) N street, northwest, and who were summoned immediately after the accident occurred, stated that he was in the best of spirits on leaving home, while his conduct at Mrs. Doughty’s was bright and cheerful. He was 37 years of ago and much respect ed among his acquaintances. WKAT A FATE IF INNOCENT! Mrs. Zimmerman in Jail Fifteen Years On Mere Pretense of Evidence. A dispatch from Madison, Wis., to the New York World says: “Gov. Rusk has issued a pardon to Mrs. Aurelia Zimmer man, who has served over fifteen years-of a life sentence in State prison for murdering her husband in 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Zim merman were living happily on their farm in Washington county. At the breakfast table one morning Zimmerman was taken violently ill and (tied shortly afterwards. A post mortem revealed strychnine and it was ascertained that he had drunk it in his coffee. The wife was rrrest<sl. She ac knowledged having purchased strychnine to kill rats, but denied having administered any to her husband. On the trial the pros ecution s. night to prove the existence of a criminal intimacy between Mrs. Zimmer man ami a young schoolmaster and thus show her motive for committing the mur der. This was not successful, but she was convicted. Several attempts have been made to secure her pardon. One of the most earnest advo cates for the pardon was the wife of Deputy Warden Wliite of the State prison. The jjrisoner was attended by Mrs. White during a dangerous illness. Tlie patient was told that the physician had given her up, that she could not live until midnight, and she was asked by Mrs. White to tell the truth regarding Zimmerman's death. In fpeble voice she renewed her protestations penee. Mrs. White was convinced that she spike the truth. Gov. Rusk had an inter view with the prisoner soon after her re covery from tins sickness, ami was also con vinced that she was innocent of the alleged crime. He began a thorough investigation, which to-day resulted in the pardon. Judge Pulling, who sentenced the woman; all the jurors who served on the trial and several prominent officials petitioned for the pm don. Mrs. Zimmerman is now over 70 years old] Bhe has three children, all prosperous, re siding in Greene county, who will see that their mother is marie comfortable for the remainder of her life. Dr. Remedy surpasses all. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MAY 30, 1887. HETTY GREEN’S GRIP. Confusion in the Plans for Reorganizing Houston and Texas Central. From t!ie Few York Herald. Mi's. Hetty Green, the woman with a terrible grip on many millions, which she wields as a club, has lifted her arm to strike a deadly blow. C. P. Huntington, whose comprehensive and powerful grasp takes in thousands upon thousands of miles of railroads, from ocean to ocean, with branches everywhere l is the object of her attack. It is a giantes* against a giant. She wants him either to let go his hold on the Houston and Texas Central railroad, with its splendid land grant rights, or eLse pay her a grand sum to leave him to his purposes. The facts leading up to the present crisis may be briefly stated. HUNTINGTON’S scheme. Mr. Huntington some vears ago decided that the Houston and Texas Central rail road. which runs through a rich country and has a land grant of 10,340 acres for every mile of road constructed, would be a good property to hold. It would help his South ern Pacific and other less productive roads out of their difficulties. So he went to work buying up the stock and finally got control at, it is said, a cost of about $lO a share. But the funded debt of the company was very large, and to make the stock valuable it would have to be reduced. On Jan. 1, 1885, the company defaulted, and on Feb. 33, 1885, i> a suit brought by the Southern Development Com- I>any. which is another name for Hunting ton and associates, receivers were appointed to take charge of the road. This suit was brought for sijoO,ooo advanced to pay in terest. but on May 36. 1886, it was dis missed, and new receivers were apixiinted on the suit of the first mortgage bond holders. REAR BONDHOLDERS TO TIIK FRONT. But Mr. Huntington was not permitted to have entirely his own way. There were $3,446.(100 of general mortgage loads out standing, and the ownei-s thereof insisted on saving something for themselves. Finally the best Mr. Hnr.tington could do was to sub mit to an aiTongmeent by which these bond holders would purchase tne property. They appointed the following as a committee of purchase and reorganization: Henry Budge, of Hallagarten & Cos. • William • Mertens. of Van Hoffman & Cos.; Thomas L. Manson, Jr., of Chas. Head & Cos.; Frederick Taylor, of Frederick Taylor & Cos.; H. K. Pomroy, of Pomrov Brothers; Charles Rob inson Smith, and William J. Quinlan, Jr., of the Chemical National Bank. Mrs. Hetty Green owns $1,000,000 of the bonds. She agreed that when $1,350,000 of the bonds had been deposited with the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company she would de posit her million also and leave jthe pur chase of the property and reorganization of the company to the committee. Mr. Quin lan signed the agreement for her. MRS. GREEN DRAWS BACK. Yesterday was the last day for depositing the bonds. Two million, one hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars were deposited and more were on the way from California. But Mrs. Hetty Green did not deposit hers. On the contrary', she refused to go into the syndicate because she wanted better terms. 7 he plan agreed upon by the committee was that the general or third mortgage bonds af ter foreclosure and sale were to bear 4 per cent, interest, instead of 6 per cent., with de bentures at 4 per cent, for past due cou pons; the second mortgage bonds to bear 6 per cent, interest, instead of 8, with like, de bentures, and the first mortgage bonds, which fall due in 1801, to bear 5 per cent, and be extended fifty years. The interest on the first mortgage bonds was to be paid in cash. Under this scheme Mr. Hunting ton’s stock rose to 41, showing a gain of about%l above the price he paid. When Mrs. Green lifted her aim against the scheme yesterday Huntington's stock dropped to 34, and the bondholders were thrown into the greatest consternation. MRS, GREEN MUST BAY But the members of the committee w*ho were seen by' a reporter claimed that Mrs. Green assumed her warlike attitude too lnte. Said one of them: “We have a clear major ity—nearly two-thirds in fact—and Mrs. Hettv Green can do nothing with her mil lion.” “But she has other millions in cash. Can she not bid against y'ou at the sale?” “Oh, yes. She can buy the whole road if she wants to bid enough.” “Suppose she relents and ngress after all to come in, will you let her ini” “Not with any special privileges, that is certain. She agreed to come in like the I'est, and at the last moment she has held back to be treated with separately. Wlint do you think of it? No sir; she will have to pay up like a man.” Tho agreement declares that the commit tee may impose additional terms on any holder wishing to come in after the time to sign it has expired. WHY MRS. GREEN IS ANGRY. Mrs. Green's representatives claim that the property is very valuable, and can be made to pay' far better returns on the bonds than the plan of reorganization would se cure. They assert that Mr. Huntington’s scheme is to bleed the Houston and Texas Central road through his Southern Pacific and other lines, ana to make his Houston and Texas Central stock valuable at the ex pense of the bondholders. They say she owns not only third mortgage bonds, but large blocks of the other and lietter bonds of the company, and that she intends to have her rights to the last dollar. Mrs. Green treats Mr. Huntington and the committee as if the were one in interest, but members of the committee do not acknowl edge any privity between themselves and the Southern Pacific magnate. If Mrs. Green takes any legal steps in the matter it will l>e through her counsel, Messrs. Sullivan & Cromwell. They re fused pesterday to give any intimation wliat her plan of procedure w ould he. Where the Mining Fever ia Hot. Avery entertaining article in the June number of the Choutauqvun is entitled “The Black Hills of Dakota,” written by Coleman E. Bishop. He says that one of the strangest studies in human phenmenn to be seen in that country is the mining craze, and relates this incident - “One morning at Custer, when I came down to breakfast, the landlord, clerk and liartender of the hotel were missing, the hostler lieiug in charge. The streets were deserted, the stores, ofth-es and bank closet!. ‘Why, is this Sunday? Where is every body f “ ‘They’re pretty near, out proper ting.’ “ ‘Out prospecting!’ “ ‘That's what, they are. Everybody that could rustle a cavuse (get a horse) left the camp be fore daylight.’ “ ' Where are they gone ” “ ‘O, you’re too lab*, cap’ll, for a show in that deal. It's in the Limestone range, 15 miles from here. By this time they ain’t enough prospect ground left there for a go pher’s ranch. A couple of fellers came in. hist night and give it away to some of their old pan filers and they lit out before mid night; but the rest of the camp was watch ing ’em and trail's! ’em to the new digging. You oughter seen thf* stampede before dav. They’ll all be back before night rich ns Rothschild—ln their minds—and the chances is not one of ’em will ever go out there again or even put up a dollar for recordin' their claims. You're a tenderfoot, and don't know what fools a lot of men are in such a race. Why, stranger, I’ve seen this snme country staked over in mining crazes half a dozen times, for four different min erals in the same ground—gold, mica, tin and silver—and no one has made a nickel out of any of them.” Sam Jones, the revivalist, says: “I don’t know where hell is. I don't want to know, for 1 ain’t headin' that way. I'm goin‘ to let them fellers as are gmn' there find out.” It was supposed i hat the misalou of ail evangelist was to snatch •■them fellers" who are heading that way nnd put them on the straight and narrow mtb lead ing to the other place.— Norristown Herald. STARVING A SENATOR. GOING TWENTY DAYS WITHOUT FOOD OF ANY KIND. Discovery of a Medical Ponce De Leon at Washington—Noted Men Readily Take to the New Cure-All Levy’s Falling Away. Washington Correspondence of Chicago Fetes. Ex-Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, is the latest convert to the starvation cure, and thinks there never was anything like it. The Senator has always been a high liver, and has eaten more good dinners than any other man in Washington, except, perhaps, Ben: I’erley Poore. His cook has always been famous, and Mrs. Pomeroy’s table has been the best in town. No one ever enjoyed good living bettor than tho Senator, and therefore his friends will be surprised to learn ho has gone entirely without food for twenty day's—not a mouthful of anything but the juice of an orange or grape fruit, and the elixir‘which a doctor in this city gives. “I never felt so well in my life,” said the ex-Senator, when I saw him the other morn ing. “I am as chipper as a squirrel and as proud as a fighting cock, and I haven't been hungry', either. The first day or so I felt a little hunger, and several times when I have sat down to carve a roast or something like that for the rest, of the folks I have felt like cutting off a good slice for myself, but when I say I have not felt any hunger. I mean that I linve not suffered from the craving appetite people talk about. I have slept better than since I can remember. I fall asleep as soon as my head touches the pillow, and do not wake till morning.” “What are you starving for?” “I am 70 years of age. I have never taken a drop of medicine in my life till a few weeks ago, when I got all stopped up in my bronchial tubes and was troubled with a dreadful cough. I went to a homeopathic doctor. I don’t believe in medicine, any how, and as he gave as little as anyone I know I went to him. He gave me a bottle full of little pills marked A and another bot tle full marked B. He told me to take three of A and the next hour three of B. I took them honestly, but they did no good, and it occurred to me that it could not pos sibly do any good to put a little medicine into the stomach on top of .a big dinner. On an empty stomach it might do some good. I had heard of this starvation fellow and went down to talk with him. I was im pressed w'ith the conversation and com menced to fast twenty day's ago. Now I am better than I have been for years. My' weight has been reduced from 334 to 307 pounds. I was weighed the first day and every subsequent day except Sunday since I began. The second day I weighed 339 pounds, the third 936, the fourth 234, the fifth 321: then 320, 219. 318, 317, 310, 315, 315 1-2, 314, 314 1-3, 211, 209, and to-day 307. THE DOCTOR’S GREAT DISCOVERY. “This doctor has a wonderful discovery. I have taken a spoonful of his liquid three times a day, and I know it has sustained me, for I tried several times to get along without and could not do so. It is pleasant to the taste, and I do not believe it is in any way' harmful.” 'The discoverer of this my'sterious mixture lias an office near the Efihitt House, and when 1 asked him for an interview he said he had nothing to coni oal. “Well, then,” I exclaimed, “what 'is the drug you give your patients? What is the stuff made of?” “That 1 cannot tell you,” he replied. “I have discovered a drug which must revolu tionize our medical practice. I will keep its elements a secret till it is recognized bv the profession, which now scoffs at it and pro nounces me an impostor. When the profes sion is willing to give it a fair trial and it is demonstrated to possess the properties which I claim for it, then will I give the secret of its composition to the world. I am content to wait, however. I have a number of patients who are trying it and my suc cess with them is extremely gratifying. Of course it is not absolutely certain in its results. If it were I should claim omnipo tence in medicine, but in every case in which it has tieen fairly tried it lias met my expectations.” ‘ ‘The doctors say it is a preparation of coca —a form of cocaine?” I suggested. “It is nothing of tho kind. There is no trace of coca in it, and I do not claim that it has of itself curative properties. All I claim for it now is that the use of a small quantity in regular doses enables me to control the nerves of the stomach so that there will be no desire for food, and at the same time maintain the strength of tho patient while he is under treatment for whetever disease he may suffer from. It is not a medicine. It is not a stimulant. It is simply a nutrient. It sustains life w'hile other curative agencies are at work.” THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE TURNED ON. “What is your theory'?” “My theory is perfectly simple. It can not tie questioned. I beliove. as all civilized men do, that the source of all diseases lies in the impurities of the blood. When the blood is perfectly pure the body is perfectly healthy—disease cannot exist. The next axiom is that it is impossible to entirely purify the blood while tne stomach is re ceiving food which furnishes impurities. To suspend the functions of the stomach, to enable him who is suffering with disease to live and receive treatment without food, simplifies tho problem and enables tho cura tive agencies free anil perfect action. My nutrient does that. It takes the place of food for a time, while other remedies are being applied, and thus the most obstinate case will yield to the treatment readily.” “How long will it sustain life? How long can n man go without food by taking your nutritive?" “It depends upon t he physical condition of tho patient. Ino not recommend it as a per manent substitute for food nor would I ad minister it to a person who is weak and wasted. One must have a constitution of average strength to work upon—a reserve force that mav be employed while the cure is going on. 1 recommend it especially in chronic coses of rheumatism, diabetes, scrofula, asthma, and other diseases which are directly traceable to impure blood; but, as I have said, standard remedies must be use*! to accomplish the cure while my nu trient sustains life. “How long have you known of it?” “I discovered it in 1882 while I was a student in California. I have used it suc cessfully for two or three years in Sharon, I J a., where I first hung out my shingle, and here in Washington, although l have patents in Chicago, St. Paul, New York and else where.” OK COURSE CHICAGO IS ON THE LIST. “What patient.-; have you in Chicago f” “It is scarcely professional to lunation my patients by name for publication, but I think I am at liberty to refer to Mr. Fred erick E. Brown of the firm of Shields & Brown, 78 and 80 Lake street. In St. Paul I am treating the wife of the publisher of a newspaper. In New York I have a patient in the family of one of the most prominent bankers, also an actress who is well known, and members of the family of the late Gen. Hancock. Here in Washington I can refer you to the family of Justice Wood of the Supreme Court: to the family of George W. Monnypenny, formerly Commissioner of Indian Affairs; to Gen. Colston, formerly of the Egyptian army and now employed in t he i iffice of the Surgts in General of t he army; to Mr. Moses, the furniture dealer; to cx- Senator Pomeroy; to Mr. Ayres, the cor resjiondent of the Kansas City Timex, who is now- under treatment, Mr. Ayres has eaten no food for several weeks. “The most conspicuous case I have at present is that of Col. I/hvy, a clerk in the Post Office Department, whom I am treat ing for asthma. I also have several patients whom lam treating for oliesity. Mine is one of the most popular and easy methods for reducing flesh. It is absolutely certain and harmless. A man who will fast nnd take my nutrient can reduce his flesh enor mously, and by proper <-are may keep it down. Of course, if he goes hark to hearty eating at once, he will become fleshy again, as the same consequence will follow the same cause; but a man of 300 pounds can remove the surplus of 100 in thirty days, and keen it removed, if he will take my treatment and not gormandize again." HOW MRS. GREEN B. RAUM FARED. I went to see some of the people to whom the doctor referred. Among others he asked me to see Gen. Green B. Raum, of Illinois, whom he thought would condemn him and his treatment. The doctors story was that he had been called to treat ilrs. Raum. who was considered a chronic inva lid, and had been confined to her bed for more than a year. She had little strength, and he attempted to treat her with many misgivings. She fasted fifteen days, during which time she suffered dreadfully and purged herself of enormous quantities of bile. Then she became salivated, and at tributed it Do the nutrient, which she claimed contained mercury. The doctor, to convince her it did not, drank the contents of a large bottle of his mixture, with no evil effects. The treat ment was suspended, and the doctor was discharged, supposing that Gen. and Mrs. Raum would condemn him and his treat ment, hut the General tells me they do not. He says that he believes the doctor's treat ment did Mrs. Raum a great deal of good, for she is much better now and is able to be out for the first time in eighteen months. He says the doctor has a wodderfui remedy, something of the utmost 'importance, but that he did not diagnose the case of Mrs. Raum correctly or did not apply his treat ment skillfully. Something" was wrong about it, he would not pretend to say what, but the result was beneficial. The doctor says that the trouble was that Mrs. Raum’s system was saturated with drugs, and as soon as she commenced to fast their effect was noticed in a powerful and distressing manner. THE STRANGE CASE OF COL. LEVY. The case of Col. Levy of the Post Office Department is, ns the doctor says, a very re markable one. The Colonel was very obese. He weighed over 300 pounds and suffered distressingly from the asthma. For years he has been unable to sleep lying down, but always maintained a sitting posture. He lias not been able to take exercise either, but has always ridden wherever he hail to go. He commenced the starvation treat ment two months ago. For sixty days he has taken no food whatever. During this time he has lost eighty pounds of flesh, and his asthma is entirely gone. He not only sleeps naturally and enjoys such rest as he has not known for years, but his strength has increased without food so that he now walks to and from the depart ment night and morning, something he has never done before. He takes a teaspoonful of tho nutrient three times a day, drinks water and milk, eats oranges and grapes, being careful not to swallow any of tho seeds or pulp, and says that ho suffers no hunger whatever. For tho first two or three days he craved food, but soon lost his appetite entirely and feels better in every wav than he has for years before. The regular practitioners in town of course say that the doctor is an impostor and his nutrient a fraud. One regular physician with whom I talked said that he was willing to admit that the nutriant was an impor tant discovery, and one which would be rec ognized soon, but the doctor was not a reg ular graduate and should not be allowed to practice. He said that he had spent but two years in study at an eclectic school in San Francisco. It is worth watching, how ever, and if the regular physicians here would drop their etiquette mid make a thor ough examination of the subject it would at least demonstrate how much humbug there is in it, and how much merit. FRKIPHT RATKS. The State op Georgia, 1 Office of the Railroad Commission, - Atlanta, Ga., May 85, 1887. j Campbell Wallace, Chairm'n) L. X. Trammell, > Commissioners. Alex. S. Erwin, ) CIRCULAR NO. 84. MONTHLY REPORTS. RAILROAD COMPANIES doing business in this State are hereby required to forward all back monthly reports required by the rules of the Commission to this office by June 15th proximo, and said companies are notified that such reports must be hereafter forwarded by the twentieth of each month as required by General Rule No. 2. On failure to comply with this circular, the Commissioners will take steps to cause the penalty prescribed by Section 16 of the act es tablishing the Commission to be enforced against such company or companies as may be in de fault. By order of the Board. CAMPBELL WALLACE, Chairman. A. C. Briscoe, Secretary. The State of Georgia, ) Office of the Railroad Commission, > Atlanta, Ga., May 25, 1887. j Campbell Wallace, Chairm'n) L. N. Trammell, r Commissioners. Alex. S. Erwin, I CIRCULAR NO. 85. CHANGE IN CLASSIFICATION. ON and after JUX T E 15th, 1887, the following change in the Commissioners’ classiflca tion will take effect: Class. Riee, rough, any quantity. times C “ clean, in barrels, L. C. L., ltd times.. C “ “ C.L C “ in boxes or kegs, L. C. L 3 By order of the Board. CAMPBELL WALLACE, Chairman. A. C. Briscoe, Secretary, State of Georgia, 1 Office of the Railroad Commission, > Atlanta, Ga., May 25, 1887. j Campbell Wallace, Chairman,) L. N. Trammell, Commissioners. Alex. S. Erwin, ) CIRCULAR NO. 80. ON AND AFTER JUNE 26, 1887, the following correction of errors contained in Circular No. 82 will take effect. C R | Released. 1. Brass, N. O. S 1 3 2. Meal and ashes, cotton seed, L. C. 1., (see cotton seed) 3. Corn meal D. 4 Meal, corn D. 5. Axel grease 6 6. Omit: •Wool, N. O. 8., pressed in hales S” * By order of the Board. CAMPBELL WALLACE, Chairman. A. C. Briscoe, Secretary. The State op Georoia, ) Office of the Raiuioal> Commission, \ Atlanta. Ga., May 35, 1887. | Camfbeli.Wallace, Chairman, ) L. N. Trammf. l.1., \ Commissioners. Alee. S. Erwin, ) CIRCULAR NO. 87. AMENDMENT TO FREIGHT RULE NO. 23. / AN AND AFTER JUNE 15th, 1887, RULE No. ' / 33, of the rules governing the transporta tion of freight, will rein 1 as follows: . WEIGHTS—A ton is 2,000 pounds. A car load is 20,000 pounds, unless otherwise specified. For loads above 20,000 pounds, pro rata at car load rates. Provided, That when a ear is loaded over its marked capacity by the shipper at a flag station, the railroad companies are left free t<>c!'.'<r,:e for the excess a rate that will effectually stop a practice fraught with so much danger to life ami property. By order of the Board: CAMPBELL WALLACE, Chairman. A. C. Briscoe, Becretary. STOVES. TREMENDOUS DEMAND OUR sales for this present season in the STOVE and HOUSE FURNISHING LINE s away in advance of what we have lief ore had. The steady growing popularity of our ACORN and FARMER GIRL STOVEs wo are certain is the main cause, and the call for them includes a run for HOUSEHOLD GOODS. We have no experiments to offer in STOVES anil RANGES. All are of well tried and responsible makes. For everything of this description call on us. LOVELL & LATTIMORE, HEADQUARTERS. DEATHS. SAVARESE.—Died in this city yesterday at 6:30 p. I,ocis SaVARESE. Funeral announce ment later. FUNERAL INVITATIONS. LINDSAY.—The friends and acquaintance of W. J. Lindsay and family are invited to attend the funeral of their son, Herbep.t, from their residence. 44 Jones street, at 5 o'clock THIS AFTERNOON. MEETINGS. DeKALB LODGE NO. 9, 1.0. O. S’. ( A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8 o'clock Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers are cordially invited to attend. By o*ier of J. S. COLLINS, N. G. John Riley. Secretary. CUA.VTHE LODGE NO. 28. K. OF I*. A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at iC J* V 8 o'clock. The second and third ranks KLyjLjjy will be conferred. Visiting Knights \aSjSy and members of other Lodges cordial ly invited to attend. G. H. MILLER, C. C. W. Falconer, K. of R. and S. GEORGIA TEXT NO. 151, I. O. H. Attend a regular session of your tent THIS (Monday) EVENING, as news of importance from High'Tent will he received. Every mem ber requested to be present. Bv order. C. O. GODFREY, C. R. Thos. M. Hoynes, R. S. SPECIAL NOTICES. I MASONIC TEMPLE.' TUESDAY, MAY 31st. ____ * GRAND ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC AND TABLEAUX. For the benefit of the Cathedral Choir. Doors open 7:30. Admission 25c, TO THE PUBLIC. We, the undersigned dry goods and millinery merchants, do hereby agree to close our respect ive places of business at 6:30 p. m.. prompt, from June Ist to Sept. Ist., Saturday excepted: A. R. Aitmayer & Cos., Crohan & Dooner. J. P. Germaine, Gustave Eckstein & Cos., I. Dasher & Cos., D. Hogan. Jacob Cohen. F. Gutman, David Weisbein, B. Golinsky, L. Fried, Gray & O’Brien, K. Platshek, P. J. Golden, S. Krouskoff, L. E. Byck & Son. luidies will kindly co-operate with us in this movement and make their purchases earlier in the afternoon. CITY TAXES. City Marshal's Office, I Savannah, May 27th, 1887. f The real estate of all persons in arrears for City Taxes for 1886 has been levied on, and will be advertised for sale on the 7th day of JUNE next. Titles will be made to purchasers the day after the sale, or as soon thereafter as con venient. ROBERT J. WADE, City Marshal. FOR SALE. 120 Horse 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 8 GOLDING, DENTIST, Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. DR. MONTAGUE L. BOYD Has removed his office and residence to 159 LIBERTY STREET, between Whitaker and Barnard. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR. This vegetable preparation is invaluable for the restoration of tone and strength to the sys tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot he excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul mer’s Liver Corrector and take no other. $1 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist, Savannah, Ga. RAILROAD BONDS. The undersigned offers for sale at par ex-July Coupon *.¥K).o<)o of the MARIETTA AND NORTH GEORGIA RAILWAY COMPANY'S FIRST MORTGAGE 6 PER CENT. FIFTY YEAR BONDS, in multiples of 81,000 to suit buyers. r |''HESE lionds can be safely taken by inves- I tors as a reliable 6 per cent, security, which will, in all probability, advance to 15 points above par within the next three or four years, as this road will traverse a country unsurpassed for mineral wealth, for climate, for scenery, for agricultural purposes, and for attractiveness to the settler. The company has mortgaged its franchise and entire line of railroad, built and to be built, and all its other property, to the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company to secure its issue of 50-year 6 per cent, bonds. These bonds will be issued at the rate of about $17,000 per mile, on a line ex tending from Atlanta, Ga., to Knoxville, Tenn. A sinking fund is provided for their redemption. It will be one of the best paying roads in the South. It will he of standard gauge and will develop a region of country extending from Middle Georgia, through North Carolina to Knoxville. Tenn., where it will connect with lines leading to Cincinnati, Ixmisville, St. Louis and Pittsburg. The road is now completed to Murphy, N. C., and is to be pushed on to Knoxville as fast as the nature of the country will permit. The high financial standing and energy of the men prin cipally interested in it sufficiently guarantees its early completion. Further information will be furnished upon application to A. L. IIARTRIDGE, Savannah, Ga , or to BOODY, McLELLAN & CO., 57 Broadway, New York. INSURANCE. The Savannah Fire L Marine Ins. Cos. CAPITAL $200,000. OFFICE 93 BAY STREET. WM. GARRARD. LEWIS’ KAYTON, President. Vice President. W. H. DANIEL, Secretary. DIRECTORS. JNO. S. HAMMOND, HERMAN MYERS, GEORGE J. BALDWIN,SAMUEL MEIXHARD, J. H. ESTILL, L. KAYTON, WM. GARRARD, I. G. IIAAS, W. H. DANIEL, ANDREW HANLEY, J. B. DUCKWORTH, DAVID WELLS, C. R. WOODS. Nots.—On July Ist the office of the company will be at 97 Bay street, the building now occu pied as the Cotton Exchange, HOTELS. DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE. 'TWIIS ItIPULAR Hotel Is now provided with I a Passenger Elevator (tho only one in the city)and has been remodeled and newly fur nished. The proprietor, who bv recent purchase is also the owner of the establishment, spares neither pains nor expense In the entertainment of his guests. The patronage of Florida visit ors is earnestly invited. Tho table of tho Screven House is supplied with every luxury that the markets at home or abroad can afford. THE MORRISON HOUSE. Ono of the Largest Boarding Houses In the South. AFFORDS pleasant South rooms, good board with pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit those wishing tab!", regular or transient accom modations. Northeast corner Broughton and Drayton streets, opposite Marshall House. 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 w cal Talent of Savannah. ■“’***' PROGRAMME; PART I. 1 Overture r Mis*s holey, Tupper, George and HershUeif* 2. “Swallows Homeward’ piolTd , Lilia Exley. Solo 3. “Robert,” „ Miss Isabella Sternheimer ( vocal' bon ® 4. Musical Box Twe!v*w„j Misses N. Cohen, Sternheimer. Krtt„*‘'‘ s O’Connor, Samuels, Master Sullivaji ’ 5. “Lucretia Borgia” odd. ~ . Miss Boley. Sol ° 6. “Pilot Brave” Dnotv Messrs. McDonough. oca^ 7. Song jf p „ 8. Piano and Violin. Master and Miss Perbmlri 9. Norma (two Double Misses Georz. 10. Scotch Medley • Ri-rv,„a. Misses Weisbein and Cohens a ™ 8 11. “Salut de Pesth” _ . . Master Krouskoff. 6010 Recitation Misses Cohen PART 11. 1. Battle March, “Priests of Athalia” Master krouskoff Misses Georzs and han<l3 Hersiibach. 2. “Only Thee” Vocal iw Messrs. McDonough and Miss Sternheimer 3. “Rigoletto” t j) . Miss Perlinski. 5. “Murmuring Fountains”....... Miss^wS 6. “Fra Diavok)” “trh^dS Misses Roos, Cohen, Exley. Miss Sternheimer (vocal), pupil of Mad St 5 Roques-Playter. 8. “Galop Chromatique” raj* Miss Tupper. 10. Home Sweet Home” Double Solo Master Sullivan and Miss Muhlberg. Reserved seats at Davis Bros. Box Sheet now open. Admission 50c. No extra charge for reserved seats. Tickets for sale at Davis Bros.’, Wm EsHllv and Ludden & Bates'. 8 BASE BALI. To-DAY. SAVANNAH —vs. A in ateurs At Base Ball Park for Benefit of Savannah. Base Ball Club. Game called at 4 o’clock. Tickets on sale at Fernandez's and Marshall House Cigar Store. S l AIM ER RESORTS. MONWALE SPRINGS, Blount County, - Team • THIS Health Resort will be open May 15t,1887. The most celebrated Dyspeptic Water known. Elegant Hotel and Grounds. Excellent Table. Telephone connection with Knoxville. Rates: $1 per day: $25 per month for May and June: $2 per clay, $lO and sl2per week, s3sand S4O per month for July and August. Half rates for children. J. C. ENGEL, Prop. Silt Spring ltd, AUSTELL, GA. THIS New Resort Hotel, especially adapted for families, has reduced tts rates to $7 per week. The accommodations are first-class in every respect. For further information ad dress T. J. MAY, Proprietor, Austell, Ga.^ (TLA FT ,TN HOUSE Among the “Berkshire Hills.” BECKET, MASS. Twelve Hundred Feet above the sea. Savan nah reference. Address A. O. CROSS, Proprietor. THE WHITE SILPHUR SPRINGS, GREENBRIER COUNTY, W. VA. The most celebrated of ail the Mountain Resorts, and one of the oldest and most populai of American Watering places, will open for the season June 1. Elevation above tide-water. 2,000 feet: surrounding mountains. 3.500 fret. Send for pamphlet describing hygienic advan tages. B. F. KAMLE, Sup t. THE COLUMBIAN, SARATOGA SPRINGS, THE FAVORITE HOTEL OF SAVANNAHIANB Opens Tune 25th. JAMES M. CASE, Proprietor. CLARENDON HOTEL, Saratoga Springs, IN. Y, OPENS JUNE 25th. Popular rates $3 00 per dV . P. STEIN FELD. proprietor^ /“(APON SPRINGS AND BATHS, All#* Vl Lithia and Superior Iron W aters, HaiuF shire county, W. Va.—This celebrated moun resort for health and pleasure: Baths or ~ temjierature; a summer climate unsurp• charming summer home with its many ni'P’” . ments, accommodating 800 guests, ope*“j Ist. Send for circular and rate shed I for ® cal and other testimony). WM. H. sale, prietor. -—- DUTCHEH HOUSE. PAWLING. N. Y., on the Harlem railroad; large brick structure, first class m . particular. Now open. Terms reasonable’ Lr circulars. WM. H. BUKROUOH^ HOTELS. WASHINGTON HOTEL 7th and Chestnut Streets, PHILADELPHIA, PA JOHN TRACY, PROPRIETOR. RATES, &2 50 PKB D^. na Centrally located, only a short wnlk renn’a and Reading Depots. New • Elevator, Electric Bella, hew Dm not K _ r . a <* all modern Improvements, lohte a and unsurpassed table. — 7" NEW HOTEL TOGNB (Formerly St. Mark's.) Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville. THE MOST central House In Mm&'Ss*. Post < mice, Street Cars and all Ferri New ami Elegant Furnltur.. Elec Baths, Etc. Propria. 8. A. UPSON, Manager. MARSHALL HOUSE. SAVANNAH, - - pKO. D. HOIKIES, Proprietor. Form w^tM ( T the Metropolitan Hotel, New ' ‘ ’ jon <*o - Union, Saratoga Springs. f inter tral. All parts of the city Lafirt re: accessible by street cars ***•* A yu* the doors. Special Inducements h lug tho cltv for business or oleisuiw