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NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
GARLAND DETERMINED TO RETIRE
FROM PUBLIC LIFE.
Blaine’s Friends Destroying His Pros
pects With Whispers—The Presi
dent’s Proposed St. Louis Visit—A Re
tired Navy Officer’s Experiments
With a New Explosive.
Washington, June 11. —The President is
back from his trip to the mountains and is
in harness again. He looks and acts as if
bis little vacation had done him a great deal
of good. It is by no Ricans cei-tain that ho
will go either to the South or West this
summer, though the matter is as yet undc
dded.
OFFERED TO GART.AND.
It is said on what appears to be pretty
good authority that the President offered to
Attorney General Garland the vacant, place
on the Supreme bench, and that he declined
it. In a conversation, a day or two ago, the
Attorney General said that when this admin
istration came into power and it was sug
gested that he should go into the Cabinet,
the suggestion was a pleasant one to him,
and his friends, with his concurrence, in
terested themselves to that effect. His
relations with the President hail been uni
formly agreeable; hail they not been he cer
tainly would not have remained in the
cabinet. But he had, for reasons satisfactory
to himself, determined to retire from public
life at the close of his present service, and
not to accept any other public position.
He confirmed the report also that he could
have had a place in the interstate commerce
commission. The President now thoroughly
understands Mr. Garland’s views, although
he did not fully until after the interview
which Mr. Garland gave out a few days
since, and of which the President knew
nothing until he saw it in print.
A BLAINITE TALKS.
Mr. George C. Gorham, one of the most
practical and straightforward of stalwart
Republicans, expresses the opinion that the
Republican National Convention will not
dare to nominate Blaine. Blaine, ho says,
is being whispered out of the canvass, and
does not himself know what to do. Some of
Mr. Blaine’s friends, and Mr. Gorham is not
one of them, think really t hat, one of the
principal reasons why he has gone to Europe
is because he wishes to be out of the way and
let events shape themselves. The doubts
thrown around the prospects of Republican
success in case of the candidacy of Mr.
Blaine are what worry him and his
immediate adherents, and this is what
Mr. Gorham meant when he says he is lieing
whispered out of the canvass. ‘Mr. Gorham
thinks the Republicans can elect the next
President, bufc-to do it they must nominate
John Sherman. He says Sherman is alxmt
the only' great leader the Republicans have
left, and if they do not nominate him and
adopt the principles laid down in his last
two groat,peeohns the party will cease to
exist. This is a very candid confession, and
is significant, as tho' opinion of such a man
as Mr. Gorham that the Republican party
must continue to be the sectional organiza
tion which it has been from its first founda
tion, or else go out of existence.
THE PRESIDENT’S PROPOSED ST. LOUIS
VISIT.
Gen. Burdette, of this city, has been talk
ing about the President's proposed visit to
.St, Louis and the row in the Grand Army
of the Republic on account of it. He says
that he does not think that the President’s
presence in St. Louis will result in any un
pleasantness so far as the Grand Army Is
concerned. The whole matter is simply
this: The Grand Army is not a political or
ganization, and any effort made to drag it
into polities is discountenanced by every
member. Some years ago the Grand Army
of the Republic was involved in politics,
and it resulted almost in its obliteration.
The organization, however, was saved after
a struggle, and from that time out the mem
ber* resolved that, no matter what occurred,
the Grand Army, as an organization, should
be non-political. Accordingly when the
President determined to visit St. Louis
during the Grand Army encampment, it
was immediately thought that he was do
ing so for political purposes, anil the Grand
Army of the Republic did not want to lie
taken advantage of in that way.
The Grand Army is a large organization
and is scattered throughout Hie country. In
lowa the sentiment generally seems to lie
hostile to the President’s visiting St. Louis
at this time, but bow it is iu Indiana or
mauy other States no one can say. Person
ally ,~if I had been able to suggest a few
things to the citizens committee at St. Louis
I would have advised against inviting the
President. If all tilings had been taken into
consideration I think it would have been
found better to let him pay a visit some
other time. However, the thing has been
done now. and Ido not believe ,thnt any
thing unpleasant will result from it.
A NAVY OFFICER’S NEW EXPLOSIVE.
Lieut. J. AT. Graydon, a retired navy offi
cer, has lately been making some experi
ments in quarries near this city with anew
explosive, intended to supplant dynamite
for blasting purposes. So far his' experi
ments have met with remarkable results,
and quarryraon say the new oopipound de
velops a power three or four times greater
than dynamite. Lieut. Graydon, within a
year or two, while with dy
namite for the government at San Fran
cisco, and tho Russian government at St.
Petersburg, and succesalully solving the
problem of firing dynamite shells from can
non with u powder charge behind the shell,
discovered his new explosive, which he
claims is cheaper than dynamite, not near
*o dangorous to manufacture and handle,
and ut the same time six or seven times
more powerful as ;m explosive. Actual ex
periments made here within the past two
■weeks, in the presence of arm} - officers,
militiamen and officers who attended the
national drill and quarrymen seem to liear
out and support ins claim for having dis
covered the most powerful explosive known.
Lieut. Graydon goes to Sandy Hook in a
few days to make further experiments for
the government of firing dynamite shells
with a powder charge from large guns. He
feels confident that, liesides utilizing his
new explosive for blasting purposes, he can
use it in guns and cannon and shells as a
substitute for both powder and dynamite.
STRANGE CRIMINAL TRIAL.
A Man Who Evaded Justice for Eleven
Years.
The New York Times has the following
dispatch from Detroit, Mich: One of the
most singular criminal trials, considering
the curious and remarkable circumstances
attending it, ever known in the history of
the courts of this State has just come to a
conclusion in the Circuit Court of Calhoun
county. Twelve years ago James AT. Pugs
ley, of Battle Creek, was a well known
character of that village. Ho had acquired
quite a comfortable propert y as a fanner
and moved into town, partly to take life
easier, but. more to indulge in a natural
propensity for sjieeulation. He spcvdily
developed into a note shaver, loaner of
money on mortgages and a man ready to
take advantage of other people’s neces
sities to drive a hard bargain, and in this
line developed a great deal of shrewdness
and addisl rapidly to his accumulations.
Otherwise ho was a grossly ignorant man,
know nothing of books, and made the most
ludicrous blunders in the use of the English
language. About the jieriod already nil'll*
tinned the death occurred ol n man named
Jb V la, k - a long-time resident of
battle C reek, noted both for his great
wealth, Ins method* of acquiring and hang -
ing on to liis money, his aversion to the tax
gatherer, mid his fondness for dealings his
friends callisl 3hrewd and ills enemies
sharp practice. Clark held a moil
gage of w„kki upon a farm owned
by one Calvin P. White. Pugslrv
u-'sertod that lie had heard Clark sav that ho
intended to discharge the mortgage in return
loi ,su vices rendered by White, and he con
ceived the idea of forging a receipt and dis
charge. He urgisl White and a man named
E. B. Morey into the plot and procured some
blank paper upon which he caused Morey,
who was an expert penman, to forge Clark’s
signature under liis dictation. The forgery
was eventually discovered, but not until
Pugsley, in the course of some legal proceed
ings connected with tlin mortgage, had com
mitted deliberate perjury in the endeavor to
carry out the original scheme.
Morey was subsequently convicted of tho
forgery, and has been in State prison for
seven years.
Pugsley was also indicted for the
crime, but for eleven, years lias succeeded
in baffling the courts by a series of the
mast astounding and successful perform
ances, until it had come to be accepted in
the general belief that he would never lx'
tried at all. He readily succeeded in giving
bail, and has been ail this time at liberty,
but has lived suspected olid largely shunned
by his neighbors and acquaintances. For
forty-four successive terms of the court has
this ease lieen on the calendar for trial, only
to lxi put over each time, generally through
the cunning of Pugsley. All this time wit
nesses were liable to die or move away,
while the facts of the ease had altogether
faded from general knowledge. Had not
the crime itself been so largely a matter of
record and written evidence it is doubtful
if these tactics would not have eventuated
in the filial dropping of the case. But the
court has insisted throughout the whole
affair that, there should be a trial, and when
often defeated in its purpose has simply
postponed the trial and refused to discon
tinue it.
Pugsley always responded when his case
was callisl, or produced sufficient showing
under the rules of the court to put it over
the term. He claimed to bo the victim of a
species of fits which would attack him
without a moment’s warning. At all times
his hands would shake ns though he was
suffering a violent fit of ague. AVhen taken
with this fit he would fall ujioii the floor,
writhe in convulsions that were really
frightful to witness, clutch at anything
within liis reach, bark, yelp and whine mar
velously like a dog, froth at the mouth, and
present such a spectacle as quickly to empty
the court-room of spectators, jurors and
witnesses. Over and over again was this
game played, and every time with the
greatest success. The court was compelled
to adjourn the trial or give up doing busi
ness. Between terms of court these fits
never attacked their victim, but he asserted
that any imdue excitement would surely
bring them on. and proceeded to produce
indisputable proof when occasion demanded.
Suspicions grew apace that all this was a
most cunningly and wonderfully executed
piece of deception, until it became the set
tled belief. Nevertheless, the performance
would unfailingly empty the court room
every time, so startling and revolting was
it in all its details, (and carried out with
such phenomenal perfection. Finally, it
was determined that the ease should be tried
at the present term, and the case came on
this week. Pugsley responded as usual.
Apparently a man over GO years of age, his
head was bent down to his chest, and from
under his constantly moving gray eyebrows
peered a pair of keen eyes, the lids of which
dropped and raised with a fluttering motion
every few seconds. His hands shook, and
his whole appearance was that of a man
laboring under some severe nervous
difficulty. This time he found that the
court meant business of an ironclad sort.
Upon being asked if he had counsel ho re
plied that be desired none, and would man
age his own case. The court suggested that
he would probably need the services of a
lawyer, but he persisted in refusing to have
anything to do with one. During the im
paneling of the jury he shrewdly questioned
them to discover anv latent prejudices they
might have, but the panel was filled with
little difficulty anil the trial proceeded. The
forged {lajxirs were produced and evidence
of Pugsley’s perjury clearly shown. In his
cross questioning he displayed a very clear
and accurate memory of facts anil dates, and
frequently put the most intelligent wit
nesses at fault by his superior knowledge.
Finally the prosecution produced Morey,
the forger, as a witness, bringing him from
prison for the purpose. Pugsley’s attention
for the moment had been attracted else
where about the room. He had no intima
tion of Morey’s presence in the town, no ex
pectation of seeing him on the trial. Turn
ing suddenly he caught, a glimpse of the
witness. The effect demoralized him for the
rest of tho day. He went off into a fit
straightway, exciting t.ho greatest alarm in
the court room. The spectacle of the old
man wallowing upon the floor, gnashing his
teeth, yelping, barking, digging his fingers
into the crevices, and writhing as it' the
clutches of a demon was too much for the
nerves of the most hardened and indifferent;
oid}’ the Judge and the Prosecuting At
torney maintained their equilibrium. They
were determined that the trial should pro
ceed, no matter at what cost of delay and
tremble. A recess was taken until the lit
was over and the trial resumed. But Morey
hud not proceeded five minutes in this nar
rative or events before another fit waltzed
Pugsley off his chair and sent him trembling
about tho floor, again causing a general
stampede from the court room. This was
repeated several times during the giving of
Morey’s testimony, but the court was pa
tient and firmly persistent, and the evi
dence, after several recesses, was finally
concluded, while Pugsley’s legal rights
wore at the same time carefully protected
by the court.
White, the other dupe of the defendant,
was also produced and gave his testimony.
The prosecution made out their ease with
out. a flaw. Pugsley introduced several
witnesses in liis behalf, finally calling his
son-in-law to the stand, which was the sig
nal for another demonstration, with vari
ations. Suddenly Jumping from liis chair,
l’ugsley rushed out of the room, ran down
staii>, w’ent back to the court house, and
lay down on the grass. Here he writhed,
twisted, rolled liis eyes alxmt., and gave
voice to growls, snarls and suppre-ssed
shrieks. It was the sumo distressing sight
witnessed by the crowd in attendance at a
safe distance. Twice before during the
afternoon he had gone through similar per
formances; the first time the cries of his
wife mingled with the other noises and add
ing to the general unpleasantness of the sit
uation. The last, exhibition was about 5
o’clock in the afternoon, and the court ad
journed till morning.
At the opening of I’ourt yesterday Pugsley
did not appear, and sent word that he was
in too feeble a condition to be present. Tho
Judge, however, ordered his attendance,
and he was brought in by two officers, but
was hardly placed in his chair before lie
fell to tlie floor with unasual emphasis, and
went off in his writhing, snarling and gib
bering. The court then ordered him car
ried into the witness room, where he kept
up a series of yells and contortions through
out the forenoon. But afternoon still found
the Judge quietly insisting upon trying the
case, and Pugsley’s witnesses finally com
pleted what little testimony they really had
to give. The prosecution then introduced
four physicians, all of whom
testified that tho fits were simu
lated and not real, and the ease
was closed. This was at 5 :30 in the after
noon. It was time to adjourn, but the
court proposed to see the thing through.
Short work was mudo of the charge and the
jury had equal brevity in arriving at their
conclusion that the defendant was guilty in
manlier and form as charged, whereupon
the Judge, without waiting to five him the
benefit of another exhibition, promptly
sentenced him to State prison for ten years.
A great sigh of relief went up from oeuch
and jury Ixix and court room at this ending,
after a threeduys’ struggle,of oneof the most
unique trials known to tile criminal annals
of the State. Justice hail her triumph ut
lost.
Brookaville Dots.
Btiooksville, Fla., Juno 12. General
satisfaction seems to prevail over the divis
ion of Hernando county into three counties,
the other two being named respectively
Pasco and Citrus. The present Henmndo
county is the choicest of the three, and
Brexiksville is the county seat.
The question of having an artesian well in
Brooksville is now being, earnestly dig
ousecu.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1887.
THE TELEPHONE SWINDLE.
Disappearance of the Manager—A Con
gressman in the Toils Also.
AVasihniitox, June ll,—Vice J ’resident
and General Manager Tyrcr, of the Ameri
can Telephone Company, the discovery of
whose prison record has stopped investment
in the stock of the company, admitted last
week that the company had not yet secured
the alleged concession from Venezuela which
w’as the basis of all its claims. |Even if the
concession hail lieen secured it woufd Ix>
useless anil valueless, as tho Beil Telephone
Company has withdrawn its telephones
from Venezuela as unprofitable. The scheme
seems to have been a swindle from beginning
to end. It will hurt Congressman Ben But
torworth, the President of the company.
He will return here from Cincinnati Tues
day when a meeting of the board of direct
ors will be held and Tyrcr will be deposed
in short order.
AN INGENIOUS REVOLUTION.
The Japanese Premier’s Plan for Ob
literating Social Distinctions.
A Tokio correspondent of the London
Times sets up an ingenious and powerful
defense of the threatened revolution in
Japanese dress. The news that the court of
the Mikado had determined to adopt for
ladies European fashions excited the keen
est regret in all persons of good taste.
Japanese dress is not ideal like that of an
cient Greece. Some absolute merits it
possesses. In simplicity, and, in most re
spects, in ease and sanity qualities, it is ex
cellent. It has its defects in point of beauty.
As Japanese art in general, its quaintness
sometimes impresses before its grace. I.i
one point of supreme importance it
is unassailable. Though its claims
upon tho homage of sculptors and
painters may be open to question, it is,
beyond the possibility of dispute, exquis
itely appropriate to Japan. Whatever her
class, the Japanese dress belonging to her
rank is sure to suit the woman who wears
it. Nothing could be more becoming to her
or more convenient to the vocation she fol
low’s. To imagine her in any other garb
is equally difficult and painful. As our
correspondent remarks, Japanese women
are not less fond than those of other coun
tries of plentiful wardrobes. They have
had the zest, in their accumulations, of a
sense of security that no sudden change of
fashion will turn their store into old clothes.
Tho effect of the change in progress, if, as is
probable, the example of sublime quarters
lx' loyally imitated, must lie. in tne first
place, to destroy the value of all this species
of wealth.
Count Ito, the Prime Minister of Japan,
according to our correspondent, is the real
author of the new heresy in taste. That, at
least, explains the parailox of the Empress’
resort for her European dresses and bonnets
to Berlin, of all towns, and not to Paris or
Vienna. The change is a statesman’s pol
icy, and not a feminine caprice. Count Ito,
though a politician with views which would
embrace the world, is also a Japanese with
an abundant share of the national refine
ment of eye. He is not to be charged with
a deliberate preference for Western unpic
turesquoness in costume. He uses fashions
anil their modifications as an instrument
for the accomplishment of objects
he has at heart. Probably the mo
tive which our correspondent places
last will have been foremost in the Count’s
plan. He resents distinctions between East
and AVest. He feels that, as their modern
fate is to be in contact, so long as a differ
ence is preserved between them it will not
be tlie West which will take the second
rank. While they are twain the AVest will
be first. He desires, therefore, so far as
Japan is concerned, to have them treated as
one. Dress is an obvious badge of a division
of class; and his aim is to efface an outward
sign of Japanese inferiority. He is not to
bo supposed to like European millinery. *Ho
would see as little charm in the triumphs of
Parisian dressmaking as in the painstaking
efforts of Berlin. He masses the whole of
European styles as an identical type, and
asks his countrywomen to adopt it as
a warning to its inventors everywhere
that Japan means to lx> treated and
thought of as on the same plane
with them. This is the intention of the
change externally; and external relations
are known to occupy an engrossing part in
the Count’s projects. With relation to in
ternal progress, though more vaguely, his
meditations may tx: plausibly presumed to
follow the general direction traced by our
correspondent. The merits of existing Japa
nese dress are hardly merits to him. It pre
supposes acquiescence in tho old tenor of
Japanese ideas, and he perceives that to lie
no longer practicable or safe. In particu
lar, it ki-ejis the women of Japan outside the
influence of the social revolution which, for
good or *ll, or both, is bearing onward their
fathers, brothel’s and husbands. Its sim
plicity and uniformity impress foreigners
as delightful. They are, in his opinion, lia
ble to tho fault of corresponding to the en
tire six-ial system which relegates women to
the jxisition of mere accessories to national
life. He wishes , women no longer
to keep to the groove marked out
for them beside tlie broad highway of
national development. Ho needs them as
auxiliaries in the adjustment of the empire
to its new character in the world at large.
The strange idea of the possibility of a dif
ferent fashion in dress from that to which
their ancestresses adhered he casts among
them as leaven likely to create a lasting
effervescence. He is one of the courageous
reformers who are prepares! to spread be
wilderment and discomfort in order to eom
jxd minds to bestir themselves. He lias the
self-sacrificing heroism to shattern bewitch
ing model, that hisstudent-s may be eoni
tx'lh'd to form a standard for themselves.
He does not even mind recommending the
extravagance of expenditure on worthless
trash in the place of permanent artistic
fabrics, to make Japanese women look for
ward and sideways instead of backward.
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THEY GO BY FAVOR.
And There are So Many Kinds of
Kisses That a. List is Interesting.
From (Ac Pliilndelpia Newt.
There was all old lieliof that unless a
maiden was kissed under the mistletoe at
Christmas she would not lie married during
the ensuing year.
When Fox was contesting the hard-won
sent at Westminster the beautiful Duchess
of Devonshire offered to kiss all who voted
for the great statesman.
In the ceremonial of lietrothal a kiss has
played an important part in several nations.
A nuptial kiss in church, at the conclusion
of the marriage services, is solemnly en
joined hy the York missal and the Marti m
Manual.
The beautiful Lady Gordon, when the
ranks of the Scottish regiments had Iss-n
sadly thinned by cruel Hadajos and .Sala
manca. turned recruiting sergeant, and to
tempt the gallant lads placed the recruiting
shilling in her lips, from whence who would
might take it with his own.
11l Finland, according to Bayard Taylor,
the women resent as an insult a salute ti|>on
the lips. A Finnish matron, hearing of our
English custom of kissing, declared that did
her husband attempt such n liberty she
would treat him with fuc’a a box upon the
ears that he should not readily forget.
In Wesley's journal, dated June 1(5, 17.58,
is given tile following in description of a
duel bet ween two officers at Limerick: “Mr,
11. proposed tiring at twelve yards, but Mr.
J. said: ‘No; six is enough,’ So they kissed
one another (poor farce!) and before they
were five paces asunder both flrod at the
instant.'’
The code of Justinian savs “that if a man
betrothed a woman hy the kiss, and either
party died before marriage, the heirs were
entitled to half the donations and the sur
vivor to tlie other half, but if the contract
was made without the solemn kiss the whole
of tlie espou al gifts must be restored to the
donors and their heirs-at-law.”
The Mohammedans, on their pious pi),
grimage to Mecca, kiss the sacred black
stone and the four corners of the koaha. I
The Romish priest kisses the aspergillum, I
and Palm Monday the palm. Kissing the I
Pope’s toe was a fashion introduced by one
of the Leos, who, it is said, hail mutilated
his right hand and was ttx> vain to expose
the stump.
In Iceland kissing had deterrent penalties
of great severity. For kissing another
man’s wife, with or without her consent, the
punishment of exclusion or its pecuniary
equivalent was awarded. A man rendered
himself liable for kissing an unmarried
woman imder legal guardiahship without
her consent, and even if the laxly consented
the law required that every kiss should be
wiped out by a fine of 3 marks, equivalent
to 140 ells of wadmal, a quantity sufficient
to furnish a whole ship’s crew with pilot
jackets.
In Russia the Easter salutation is a kiss.
Each member of the family salutes the
other; chance acquaintances on meeting
kiss; principals kiss their employes; the
general kisses his officers; the officers kiss
their soldiers; the Czar kisses his family,
retinue, court and attendants, and even his
officers on parade, the sentinels at the palace
gates, and a select party of private soldiers
—probably elaborately prepared for this
“royal salute.” In other parts the poorest
serf, meeting a high-born dame in the street,
has but to say: “Christ is risen,” and he
will receive a kiss and the reply: “He is
risen truly.”
Hone, in his quaint old “Table-Book,”
gives an account of a curious kissing festi
val held in Ireland: “Easter Monday several
hundred young persons of the town and
neighborhood of Potsferry, county Down,
resort, dressed in their best, to a pleasant
walk near the town called ‘The Walter.’
The avowed object of each person is to see
the fun, which consists in the men kissing
the females, without reserve, whether
married or single. This mode of salutation
is quite a matter of course; it is never taken
amiss, nor with much show of coyness. Tho
female must be ordinary indeed w ho returns
home without having received at least a
dozen hearty busses.”
How the Kaiser Escaped.
From Blackwood.
I had myself been in Berlin w’hon both
attacks were made upon the life of the
Emperor —when Hoedle shot at him from
the crowd, and Nobling from a window
overlooking the celebrated street, Unter den
Linden. A curious little incident occurred
upon the latter occasion. As the Emperor
was going to his afternoon drive in the
Thiergarten, he asked an attendant stand
ing in the hall of the palace why such an
unusual and gayly dressed crowd thronged
the streets.
“They go to see the Shall of Persia, your
Majesty,” was the answer.
“Ah, then I also must put on gala attire,”
the Emperor remarked, smiling, and forth
with took from a table his Prussian helmet,
replacing with its steel plating the military
cloth cap which he had before placed on his
head. When a few hours later he was
brought back to the palace, wounded and
bleeding, the helmet was dented in several
places where the mixed shot used by Nob
ling had struck agaiast the metal. Had the
unresisting cloth been there instead, who
can tell how different the ending of the
tragedy might have been ?
Two or three days after the attempted
assassination, the old monarch asked to see
the clothes he had worn on that fatal day.
Ixxiking at the military cape, riddled with
shot, and the dents in the eagle-capped hel
met, he turned to those standing by his bed
side and with tears in his eyes said, pointing
to the marks of tho bullets: “Thank God
it was not one of my own Berlin men who
did that!”
Weather Indications.
(Special indications for Georgia:
FAIR Easterly winds, fair weather, sta-
Itionarv temperature.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nah. June 12, 1887, and the mean of same day for
fifteen years.
i Departure j Total
Mean Temperature | from the | Departure
—a ! Mean Since
for 15 years June 12, 'B7. --or Jan. 1,1887.
79.* 07.3 —11.9 - -7: 7
Comparative rainfall statement:
Mean Daily Amount
Amount for • for Melul kinoe
lb Years. June 12, 87.; __ or _ j an . I fc jBB7.
.231 ! .0 231 | -i-0.583
Maximum temperature 75.0, minimum tem
perature 00.0.
The height of the river at Augusta at
1:33 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time)
was <5.3 feet —a fall of 0.5 feet during tho
past twenty-four hours.
Cotton Region Bulletin for 34 hours end
ing (5 p. m., June 12, 1887, 75th Meridian
time.
Districts. j Average.
Wi „„ Max. Min. Rain-
lions. Temp Temp fail.
1. Wilmington 8 ! 77 j 5.5 j ...
2. Charleston 8 1 79 j 55
3. Augusta 11 i 80 ! 57 I ..,
4. Savannah K l 2 83 05 .12
5. Atlanta 8 | 79 j 59 j ...
. Montgomery 7 1 83 09 ...
7. Mobile 8 92 | 71 \ ...
8. New Orleans 8 90 ! 72 ; .33
9. Galveston 18 j 91 ! 09 02
10. Vicksburg 3 85 71
11. Little Rock I 12 j 87 ; 09 j .02
12. Memphis j 17 jB9 08 j .08
Averages I I 84.0 04.8 | .05
Observations taken at the seine moment
of time at all stations.
Savannah, June 12 9:30 p. si., city time.
Temperature.
Direction. <
_ as
Wltx'ity.
Rainfall.
Name
of
Stations.
Portland j MtSW; 7 floor.
Boston i tit K i k; iClear.
Block Island 54 S K (Clear.
Now York city ... i 02, S Clear.
Philadelphia j 8 E tij Clear.
Washington city.. OR X E Clear.
Norfolk 02 N E 12 Clear.
Charlotte OINK Clear.
Hattera* I .. j.... j...... j
Wilmington j 04 N E ?! Clear.
Charleston 70 N H Clear.
Augueta 1 72 N K 1 ... Clear.
(Savannah I 00 s' E; H Clear.
Jacksonville 70 NE. .91 Fair.
Key West <6 S W 11'.... iOloudy.
Atlanta (IN E 18 Clear.
Pensacola NO E 10 .... Clear.
Mobile j 80 X E .1 Cloudy.
Montgomery | 74 E Clear.
Vicksburg 70 E H Clear.
New Orleans 70 E .05 Clear.
Shreveport 70S E 18 Cloudy.
Kurt Smith 74!K E N .11 Fair.
Oalveston 78 K .. ... Clear.
Corpus Christ!.... NON EIN Fair.
Palestine. • 72 E 20... Threatening
Brownesville 7(5 E '(.dear
Hiohirnndn ?P E ..1 ... Clear.
Knoxville on lot. . Iclear.
Memphis 70 E . Clear.
Nashville I 74 X K Clear.
IxiulsviUe I 72 E 8.... Clear.
Indianapolis 70 E :i Clear.
Cincinnati | 70 S E 7 Oku A
Pittsburg 1 Rhine 7 Clear. J
Buffalo oo n E clear. Jr
Cleveland M! K j 7' ,oi Clear. J.
Marquette 74
Dulutu US fe 10 . Cloudy
fit. Paul on J .Fair.
Davenport 78 K Clear.
Cairo 78 E 1 .... Clear.
St. I/mis H 2 S Cloudy.
Leavenworth... . 72 S .45 Cloudy.
Omaha | 70:N E OOiCloudy.
Yankton I ; 1 , I
Bismarck I 72; E 12 .... 'Cloudy!
Deotlwood 1 OS S Fair.
Cheyenne 02 S 82 ... ('lear.
North Platte i 04 S El 2 Clear.
Dodge City 70 E (IN Fair.
<3. X. SALISBUST, Sigal Corps, U.B. Army.
Cheap Information,
The United States Hotel Company, of Boston,
publish the moat elegant set of maps of the
.city proper and harbor, together with the most
complete history of the city and suburb* ils-nu
lifully lUuat rated), evw sent out ae an advcrtiar
mem Ten cent* in stauqm pays the postage
Order it.
FUNERAL INVITATION'S.
HUBER.- The relatives and friends of Mr.
and Mrs. Jehn C. Hither are rcsi eetfully invited
to attend the funeral of their only son, Charles
F., from their residence on Lorch street, be
tween Jefferson and Montgomery streets', at
4:30 o'clock THIS AFTERNOON.
ROLEY.— The relatives, friends and acquaint
ances of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Roley are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral of their son
Harold, from their residence, Charlton and
Montgomery streets, THIS AFTERNOON,
at 3:30 o'clock.
MEETINGS.
DeKALB LODG E,YO 9, I. 670. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o’clock.
There will lie an initiation.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of J. S. COLLINS, N. G.
John Riley, Secretary.
GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting of this Society
will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, in
Turner's Hall, at 8 o’clock,
W. SCHEIHING, President.
A. Heller, Secretary.
THE SOUTHERN MUTUAL LOAN ABSO
CIATION.
SERIES “B.”
The eleventh (llth)regular monthly meetingof
this Association will lie held at Metropolitan
Hall THIS (.Monday) EVENING at 8 o'clock.
M. J. SOLOMONS, President.
William D. Harden, Secretary.
METROPOLITAN SAVINGS AND LOAN
COMPANY.
The fifth regular monthly installment is now
due and payable at the Company's office, 42 and
44 Bull street.
H. C. DAVIS, Treasurer.
NOTICE.
The Manufacturers of Naval Stores who do not
approve the action of the “Naval Stores Protec
tive Association” at Jesup, on April Utb ult.,
are respectfully requested to meet at the Mar
shall House, in Savannah, on JUNE 23d, there
to take such action as they may deem best to
protect their own interests.
WILLIAM LETFORD,
JOHN MORRISON,
B. T. OUTLAND,
R. S. THIGPEN,
J. C. POWELL,
McNEIL & PAXTON.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
~CAI>ET ANNUAL SHOOTING
AT GREENWICH PARK TO-DAY.
A car will connect at Bonaventure wdth trains
leaving Bolton street at 4 p. m., for friends of
the corps wishing to attend.
R. E. COBB, Supt,
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Neither the Captains nor Consignees of the
Barks GIOVANNI, PETRUS and ITHURIEL
will be responsible for debts contracted by any
of their crews.
STRACHAN & CO.
NOTICE TO RAILROAD CONTR \CTORS.
We, the undersigned, have contracted for
building the Savannah, Dublin and Western
Railroad. All who wish to make contracts for
grading, trestling or furnishing ties, will apply
to
CARPENTER, GRANT, MUNDAY & CO.,
Pulaski House, Savannah, Ga.
Good prices paid for same.
NOTICE.
The LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION,
hitherto represented in this city by Mr. C. G.
FALLIGANT, is now in the hands of Col. R. J.
DAVANT, who will be glad to serve the patrons
of the Corporation and the public generally.
Office 104 Bay street.
im IOEND NO. 49.
August* and Savannah Railroad, [
Savannah, Ga., June 7, 1887. f
On and after THIS DATE a Dividend of
THREE DOLLARS AND A HALF per share
will be paid to the Stockholders of the Augusta
and Savannah Railroad, at the banking house of
CHARLES H. OLMSTEAJ) & CO., between the
hours of 10 a. m. and 1 p. m.
______ W. S. LAWTON, President.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
The Satannali Fire and Marine Insurance
Company.
A call is hereby made upon stockholders, in
accordance with the charter, for an installment
of TWENTY-FIVE (25) DOLLARS pel-share of
the capital stock of this Company, being the
Iwilance due on said stock, payable at Ihe office
of the Company, No. 03 Bay street, Savannah,
Georgia, to the Secretary, on or before the 15th
JUNE, 1887.
By direction of the Board of Directors.
W. H. DANIEL, Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
From this date and until further notice the
STEAMER KATIE will be withdrawn from the
Savannah river, for the purpose of general over
hauling. Due notice will be given of the re
sumption of her route.
JOHN LAV,TON,
Manager.
A. KRIEGER,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER, JEWELER
AND ENGRAVER,
Formerly with the late F. D. Jordan, and for the
last ten years with M. Sternberg, informs his
friends and the public that he has opened busi
ness lor himself, and is now located at No. 13(1
Broughton street. Anything entrusted to him
will be promptly attended to, and satisfaction
guaranteed Charges will be according to the
times, as I do the work myself.
OR. HENRY S FOLDING,
DENTIST,
Office comer Jones and Drayton streets.
State
of
■Weather.
DR. MONTAGUE 1,. BOVR
Has removed his office and residence to 159
IJBERTY STREET, between Whitaker and
Barnard.
Akh s Liver corrector!
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to the sys
tem. Foe Dyspepsia, (Constipation and other
dlls, cans'™ by a disordered liver, it cannot be
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.,
MOLASSES.
MOLASSES.
500 BARRELS MOLASSES
Foa SAI.E BV
C. M. GILBERT & CO
KIESLING’S NURSERY;
White Bluff Hoad.
PLANTS, BOUQUETS, DESIGNS, CUT
I FLOWERS furnished to order Ijeave or
ders at DAVIS BROS.’, corner Bull and York
streets. Telephone call MO.
EXCURSION'S.
Cliaiieston & Savannah Ry.
lo! lortliefflitains!
Through Pullman Service.
COMMENCING June 12th a through Pullman
Buffet service will he rendered daily be
tween Savannah and Hot Springs, N. C., via
Spartanburg and Ashville.
Leave Savannah ' 12:28 p m
Leave Charleston t:4opm
Leave Columbia 10:20 p m
Arrive Spartanburg 2:20 am
Arrive Asheville 7:00 am
Arrive Hot Springs 9:00 am
EXCURSION RATES.
To SPARTANBURG sl:3 30
To ASHEVILLE 17 15
To HOT SPRINGS 17 15
Sleeping car reservations and tickets good
until Oct. 31st, 1887, can be had at BREN'S
TICKET OFFICE, Bull street, and at depot.
E. P. McSWINEY,
Gen. Pass. Agt.
FRUIT A N dTIrOC Elf I IM.
I WILL SELL
The following articles cheaper
than can be bought elsewhere:
Raisins, Starch,
Nuts, Soap,
Figs, Clothes Pins,
Dates, Clothes Lines,
Dried Apples, Soda,
Dried Peaches, Olive Oil,
Tea, Toilet Soap,
Extracts, Pickles.
LEMONS BY THE BOX.
LEMONS BY THE HUNDRED.
LEMONS BY THE DOZEN.
Call and get prices before buying elsewhere.
K. POWER,
Comer Congress, Bull and St. Julian.
I IA V.
CHOICE EASTERN HAY.
FANCY WESTERN HAY.
Ocrw- Peas.
SPECKLED, BLACK EY’E, CLAY' and MIXED.
LEMONS.
FRESH STOCK MESSINA LEMONS.
CORN, OATS, BRAN. CORN EYES.
PEANUTS, ONIONS, ETC.
Close Prices on Car Lots of Hay and Grain.
109 BAY.
W. D. SIMKINS & CO.
INSURANCE.
The Savannah Fire & Marine Ins. Cos.
CAPITAL $200,000.
OFFICE 93 BAY STREET.
WM. GARRARD, LEYYIS KAYTON,
President. Vice President.
W. H. DANIEL, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
JNO. L. HAMMOND, HERMAN MYERS,
GEORGE J. BALDWIN,SAMUEL MEINHARD,
J. 11. ESTILL, L. KAYTON,
WM. GARRARD, I. G. HAAS,
W H. DANIEL, ANDREW HANLEY,
J. B. DUCKWORTH, DAVID WELLS,
C. R. YVOODS.
Note. -On July Ist the office of the company
will be at 97 Bay street, the building now occu
pied as the Cotton Exchange,
PROPOSALS WANTED.
City of Savannah, 1
Office City Surveyor, v
June (sth, 1887. j
P R OPOSALB
\T7ILL BE RECEIVED at the office of the
M Clerk of Council until 12 m., MONDAY,
JUNE 13th, for paving the eastern walk of
Abe room street through Lafayette square, two
w alk.s of Macon street, running east and west
through Madison square, two walks of Barnard
street, running north and south through Chat
ham square, with best quality Savannah gray
brick, or best quality Chattahoochee, Atlanta
or Macon paving brick or patent stone; curbing
to be eithe r blue stone or patent stone. Bids
must specify each square separately.
The right to reject any or all bids reserved.
JOHN B. HOWARD,
City Surveyor.
ELECTRIC 1!E LTS.
Electric Belt Free.
IYO INTRODUCE it and obtain Agents we will
for the next sixty days give away, free of
charge, in each county in the United States a
limited number of our German Electro Galvanic
Supensory Belts —price, $5. A positive and un
failing cure for Nervous Debility, Varicocele,
Emissions, Impotency, Etc. S6OO reward paid
if every Heir we manufacture does not generate
a genuine electric current. Address at once
ELECTRIC BELT AGENCY, P. O. Box 178,
Brooklyn, X. 7 .
< OMMISHION MERCHANTS.
1C years estabushf.d.
<3r. S. PALMER,
Wholesale Commission Merchant.
SOUTHERN PRODUCE A SPECIALTY.
16 Reade Street, New York.
Consignments solicited and returns made
promptly. Stencils and Market reports furnished
on application.
References:— Chatham National Bank, Tluir
ber, Whyland St Cos., New York. Also, Banks
and established Produce Merchants of Now
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston.
PRINTER ANI) BOOKBINDER.
GEO. N. NICHOLS,
TIIK OLD A> RELIABLE
PRINTER and BINDER,
The reputation acquired hy
more than half a century at
the business, and thirty.sea en
years Sia conducting It, will be
maintained.
IT III.K A i lOW
City Delivery’
-OF THE—
SAVANNAH HORNING NEWS.
The undersigned is prepared to deliver the
Morning News (payable in advance; at the fol
lowing rates:
Ono Year sio oo
Six Months 5 qq
Three Months ..... a6O
One Month j oo
WIPLI AM ESTILL,
‘l’.MiUrj Nuwh T)o v}t No, ‘sTi “■
SUMMER RESORTS
MIME fIGS,
Blount County, - Tennessee.
Tms Health Resort will he open Mav Ist
The most celebrated Dyspeptic \vVo,l
known. Elegant Hotel and Grounds. Excedw
Table. Telephone connection with KnovvAL?
Rates: Si per day; $25 per month for May
June; $2 per day. $lO and Sl2 per week $45 an,
S4O per month for July and August. Haff mtJ
for children. j. C ENGEL Pr,™
BIEMANFS HOTEL
Walhalla, S. C.
ITUATED at foot of the Blue Ridee
V * alns - Delightful summer resort "gSS
climate. Excellent water. Also a diW ilrX
line to Highlands, N. C. Terms rcasoMble^
D. BIEMANN & SON,
_ „ Proprietors.
THE WHITE SDLPBDR SPRINGS
GREENBRIER COUNTY, W. VA.
The most celebrated of all the Mountain
Resorts, and one of the oldest and most popub?
of American \\ atenng places, will open for thA
J ' m 1- Elevation above tide-water
2,000 feet; surrounding mountains, 3,500 feet
Send for pamphlet describing hygienic advam
J - F. EAKLE, Sup Y t
CLARENDON HOTEL,
Saratoga Springs, N". Y,
OPENS JUNE 25th.
Popular rates $3 00 per da*
I. STEINFELD, •
Proprietor.
DAGGERS WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
(Gala Post Office.)
BOTETOURT COUNTY, VA.,
\T7 ILL open JUNE 20. Circulars to be had
vv at this office.
BEAN & TAY'LOR,
Managers.
THE WATAUGA - HOTEL, Blowing RocFn
C. In the mountains of North Carolina!
4,000 feet above the sea. Easily accessible. Mecfi.
cal graduate on the premises. Terms the low
est in North Carolina. Opened June Ist for the
season. For information address WATAUGv
HOTEL CO., Blowing Rock, N. C.
DITCHER HOUSE.
PAWLING, N. Y., on the Harlem railroad; a
large brick structure, first class in every
particular. Now open. Terms reasonable. Send
for circulars. WM. H. BURROUGHS,
Proprietor.
r |' , H(>USAXD ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel,
1 Westminster Park, Alexandria Ray, N. Y -
"Unquestionably the finest location in the
Thousand Islands."— Harper's Magazine, Sept.,
1881. Send for descriptive pamphlet. H. F.
INGLEHABT, Proprietor.
HOTELS.
Fifth Avenue Hotel,
MADISON SQUARE, N. Y.
r J''HE largest, best appointed, and most liber
ally managed hotel in the city, with the most
central and delightful location.
HITCHCOCK, DARLING * CO.
A. B. DARLING, formerly of the Battle House.
Mobile.
HIRAM HITCHCOCK, formerly of the St.
Charles Hotel, New Orleans.
WASHINGTON HOTEL
7th and Chestnut Streets,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
JOHN TRACY, PROPRIETOR.
RATES, $2 50 DAY.
Centrally located, only a short walk from
Fenn'a and Reading Depots. New Passenger
Elevator, Electric Bells, New Dining Room and
all modem improvements. Oolite attendance
and unsurpassed table.
NEW” mdtelTt ognl
(Formerly St. Mark's.)
Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla.
rUHE MOST central House in the city. Neat
1. Post Office, Street Cars and all Ferries.
New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bella,
Baths, Etc. $2 50 to $3 per day.
JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprietor.
S. A. UPSON, Manager. _
MARSHALL HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, - - GA.
(A EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly ol
T the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, and th
Grand Union. Saratoga Springs. Location cen
tral. All parts of the city and places of inter
est accessible by street cars constantly passing
the doors. Special Inducements to those visit
ing the city for business or pleasure.
DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE.
r pHIS POPULAR Hotel la now provided with
1 a Passenger Elevator (the only one in the
city) and has been remodeled and newly fur
nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase
is also the owner of the establishment, spares
neither pains nor expense in the entertainment
of his guests. The patronage of Florida vict
ors is earnestly invited. The table of the
Screven House is supplied with every luxunr
that the markets at home or abroad can afford.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
One of the Largest Boarding Houses in the
South.
\FFORDS pleasant South rooms, good hoard
with pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit
those wishing table, regular or transient aecom
modations. Northeast corner Broughton and I
Drayton Btreots, opposite Marshall House.
IRON WORKS. _
Iciii k BaliH
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blacksmiths,
MANUFACTUHEBS OF
STATIONARY and PORTABLE ENG INIS#,
VERTICAL UNDER-RUNNER and
TOY’-RUNNER CORN Ml LI A.
SUGAR MILLS and PANS on hand ana
sale, all of the best material and lo*™
prices. Also Agents for the Chicago Tire atid
Spring Works, and the Improved Ebbern a.
Boiler Feeder.
All orders promptly attended to.
C OM MI9SION M I'HCII ANTS.
33. HtTLL
WAREHOUSEMAN
AND —
Commission Merchant,
WHOLESALE GROCER,
FLOUR, HAY, GRAIN L PROVISION DEALER.
IT'RESH MEAL and GRITS In white sacks. an<*
P mill stuffs of all kinds always on barn ■
Georgia raised SPANISH PEANUTS, also PEAS,
any variety. Special prices on large I'' l ’ B -, ... .
Office, 88 Bay street. Warehouse. No-4"*
ley street, on line C. R. R.. Savannah, Ga.
DRUGS and Mi:i>l< IM—•
COUGH REMEDIES
4 YERS’ CHERRY PECTORAL, Jayne *
1 \ pectorant, Hale's Honey and Tar. Bosth -
German Syrup, Bull's Cough Syrup, P*s° R
at
BUTLER’S PHARMACY,
HUM. AUD CONGRESS tTRKETS.