The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, June 18, 1887, Page 3, Image 3
A ROMANCE <jF CRIME.
Thrilling Story Recalled by the Releatso
trom Prison of Charles Backer.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Tlio interesting career of John Doe, the
Commercial Bank forger, now serving a
long term in tins Ohio penitentiary, is re
called by the release from the New York
penitentiary of his old partner, Charles
Becker, who is one of the cleverest forgers
and counterfeiters in the world. Doe’s
crime, for whirl', he is now doing time, is
too well known to recall in detail. His
right name is Ivan Siscoviteh. He and
Fred Marker were sent up from this citv
for forgeries on the Commercial Bank.
Marker died some time ago, It has always
been understood that Doe would ire claim
ed by the authorities of England for the
MURDER OK MRS. I.VDIA CHAPMAN',
in London, in 1812, as soon as his term ex
pired at the Ohio Pen. The story of t hat
crime will he found in the following inter
esting history of Becker. Becker was sen
tenced to six years and six months’ impris
onment on Dec. 14, 1881, for his 1,000-franc
note forgery on the Bank of France, His
skill as a counterfeiter brought him into
close association with Charles O. Brockway
Jr., E. Brockway, R. S. Bullard, Billy Ogle’
Joseph Cook, Fred Elliott, George
Wilkes, Albert Wilson and other
notorious forgers. When he was
E laced in prison nearly six years ago
e and his friends o]x'iilv boasted that he
was entirely too valuable a man to be
allowed to spend six yearn in enforced re
timnent, and that neither the penitantiary
nor any other prison in the country was
strong enough to hold him. Before he was
a year in the prison he planned a skillful
scheme to oscajic by having duplicate keys
of his cell and of the doors of the corridors
in which he was locked up made. Warden
Green discovered the plot a few days before
it was to be put into execution, and Becker
since then has been a very obedient prisoner.
HIS ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE
reduced the commutation to which he
would otherwise have been entitled by
nearly a year. He lias worked almost con
tinuously in the shoe shop, but the manner
in which he has made tip Warden Green’s
annual statistical reports show t hat his pen
manship is still perfect, and that his fingers
have not lost that delicacy of touch which
made him famous among his counterfeiting
associates.
He is not yet 40 years old, and he looks
as stout, fresh and rosy ns he did before his
long sojourn on Crow ' Hill. He is 5 feet 6
inches tall, has iron-gray hair, hazel eves
and a light complexion. Becker came with
his parents to this country from Germany
when he was a lad, and learned the en
graver’s trade. His expertness attracted
the attention of George Eugler, George
Wilkes, and other celebrated forgers, and
be soon became their valuable ally. His
connection with the
ROBBERY OF THE THIRD NATIONAL BANK OF
BALTIMORE,
in August. 1873, brought him into notoriety,
and, finding that the detectives were on his
track, he fled to Europe with Joe Elliott,
and united with Joe Chapman. Ivan Sisco
vitch and others to flood Turkey with
forged drafts. They were all arrested, and
each wns sentenced to three years ami six
months’ imprisonment in Smyrna. They
were transferred to a more secure prison in
Constantinople, from which Becker, Elliott
and Siscoviteh made their escape, leaving
Joe Chapman behind them. Becker and
his two companions fled to Loudon and
lived for a while at, Mrs. Chapman’s house.
One morning Mrs. Chapman, who
knew their secrets and who
was supposed to be incensed
against them for leaving her husband be
hind in Turkey, was found dead, with ali
her money anu je welrv missin g. Siscoviteh,
who was suspected of murdering her, fled
to America. Becker and Elliott soon fol
lowed, arriving in New York in July, 1856.
Becker, Joe Elliott and Clement Herring
were arrested in this city on April 10, 1877,
for the $64,000 forgery on the Union Trust
Company, and Becker saved himself by
turning State's evidence. Becker was again
arrested in January, 1881, on suspicion of
heing engaged with George Wakes and
others, then under arrest in Italy, in a
gigantic scheme to forge mercantile paper
in Europe. The effort to have Becker ex
tradited failed and he was soon released.
BECKER’S NEXT EXPLOIT
was the forging of the 1,000 franc note on
the Bank ot France. He and Nathan Marks,
a constable, who was soon released, were ar
rested on Sept. 16, 1881, in a pretty little cot
tage in East New York, wnere Becker hud
established a complete counterfeiting estab
lishment. His work on the 1,000 franc note
was almost complete, and in a few weeks a
very perfect counterfeit Bank of France
note would have been in circulation. The
President of the Bank came over to testify
at the trial, and he pronounced Becker’s
engraving even more perf t Hum the origi
nal. A singular incident in the case is that
the genuine 1,000 franc note, from which
Becker made the forgery, disappeared from
the safe in the District Attorney’s office soon
after the trial, and It has never been discov
ered. Gen. Gatlin was District Attorney at
the time, and Becker threatens to sue for
the note when he rogains his liberty.
Becker married a pretty East New York
girl soon after his return from Europe, and
he suspects that one of her relatives in
formed on him and was well paid by the
Bank of France. His wife, to whom he is
much attached, lias visited him regularly
since his imprisonment. Becker thus relates
the particulars of
BIS ESCAP" FROM THE PRISON IN CONSTAN
TINOPLE,
which he describes as a prison of the old
fashioned sort, with walls four feet in
thickness, solid cell doors and cast-steel grate
bars an inch and u half square:
‘■The cell doors locked with top and bot
tom bolts, and, though each hurt its key.
there was a general key that fittert all oi
them. A key like that was useful, and it
was by mere accident that we got one. It
happened one day that tho prison Marshal
came rushing in to have a prisoner sign
wtne lepers, and ho rushed out again, leav
ing his key sticking in tho key-hole. It
wasn’t vcry'long before we had an impres
sion of it, anu it was back in the locks
rgsiD. After getting the shape of the key,
we hart Mrs. Siscoviteh bring us two blank
Wys, samo littla flies, some Turkish caps,
and thru* lanterns. Chapman. Elliott anu
I wore in one cell, and Siscoviteh was in
with H*tno MiiliMK around tho corner of the
corridor. I waa tho last mnu to bo locked
up at liight; so, when we were ail ready aud
had put enough rope where it was wanted,
I slipped around ntul unlocked the door of
Blxeontoh’s apartment, mid then went back
to be looked up. About midnight, when the
guards were snoring, Siscoviteh gets out
and unlocks our door. Chapman was asleep
Red wo didn’t waken him, for if we Inal
he'd have hollered murder and spoiled our
plana
l 'We broke open tho store-room, got our
clothes, and tneu found our way mto the
>m\i. Too prison wall was forty-two feet
high, hut we boosted little Elliott up to an
archway, r.nd with tho aid of a rope man
aged to get to the top. As luck would have
it, ho stepped on the wire of the prison bell
mid set it jingling in n way that froso us
stiff. Wo, however, had fooled with that
bell before, and tne keeper, with whose
riioin the wire communicated, if he awoke,
must have concluded that it w.ut another
Joke, and have gone to sleep again.
WK FIXED TIIE ROPE,
and down it we scrambled. Another trou
ble then confronted iu>. We woke up about *SO
Mohammedan dogs, and I never heard cm u
hark louder. When wo hail lighted our lan
terns the dogs stopjed howling. Finally,
after a night’s wandering anil many narrow
escapes, wo got settled down with Mrs. Sis
covitoh. Soon a Greek friend appeared and
kept us concealed in his house for two
months. I sent Elliott to England after
some money, aud when it cauie we all went
to London'. }J. ~. HUoovitch was arrested
and held for a w hile, but got off and joined
her husband ir. Lonaon.
“Elliott, and I wi nt to board with Joe
Chapman's wife. She did not feel angry
that we had leit her husband behind for she
knew that, he had no courage, and wonld
give us away to earn the commutation.
Siscoviteh and his wife came to board with
Mrs. Chapman. 1 left then, as I did not
trust him. I whs in Paris and r.ot in Lon
don, as has been said, two months after
ward, when 1 heard that. Mrs. Chapman
had been murdered, and I went straight to
London to testify, if need be, When tho
inithorities decided to drop the case Elliott
and 1 came to America. I hardly know
what to think about Mrs. Chapman’s death,
whether she was murdered by Siscoviteh or
not. He left her house shortly before her
death, and I shall always think he took her
jewels and money. A friend of mine met
him a year or so later in the Bowery loaded
down with rings and pms.”
QUEER HOTEL HAULS.
Things Which Going' Guests Leave Be
hind Them in Ilostelries.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
“Heah am a set ob false teef from a hun
d’ed an’ fo’teen,” remarked a bell boy in one
of the city hotels as he deposited a small
parcel on the clerk’s desk.
t “One hundred fourteen,” said the clerk;
‘‘that’s the old gentleman who was called at
o’clock to make a train, lie'll be sending
for them in a day or two.” And the clerk
dropped the masticators on his desk.
“Do you gather in many such treasures?”
asked a reporter.
“Oh, yes. People are always forgetting
something— night shirts, watches, revolvers,
suits of clothes, toilet brashes—almost every
thing. The articles are at once brought to
the office, and a card is put on, showing the
number and occupant of the room. It' the
loser is a regular visitor, he gets the article
when he comes around again, If not, the
article is kept in the office about a month,
anil then, if not claimed, is put away in a
store room and kept. Almost always, if the
article is of any value, we get a telegram
front the owner, directing us what to do
with it; but it frequently happens that they
forget where it is left, and never know un
less they come back and are told about it.
“I received a telegram from a man one
day, saying: ‘Left $lO in my room. Save
till I come.’ I couldn't find any $lO, but he
had left a suit of clothes in the room. These
1 kept until he showed up, about a month
afterward. He had found the $lO supposed
to have Ix'en lost, but had entirely forgotten
where tho suit of clothes had been left.”
Corkscrews and pocket flasks are fre
quently left behind and rarely called for;
and a conscientious clerk in one of the most
prominent hostelries still preserves a little
silver-clasped Bible and an empty half-pint
flask with a silver top, which were left on
the dresser in one of the rooms of the house
occupied by a clerical-looking man with a
Prince Albert coat and a white tie.
Clerk A1 Kane, of the Central Hotel, tells
of an amusing experience he had some time
ago. A long-haired German came out of the
reading-room shortly before 5 o’clock and
said that he was going to leave at 6 o’clock,
and they were to have him called if he didn’t
come down. About 5:50 the man rushed up
to the desk and said: O! has anypody leaf a
pig red pocketbook mit you?”
“No, I think not,” said the clerk.
“Mein Gott!” was all the gentleman said,
as ho ran both hands up through his long
hair. Then he darted into the reading-room.
In a few seconds he came back laughing
and clasping the big red pocketbook in his
hauds.
“It was rlghd der blaca in where I left id
pefore, und 1 vhasn’fe got another cent,” he
said, as he opened ib and counted out $485.
The pocketbook haij lain an hour on the big
writing-table, in plain view from the street
or corridors, and it was really a very lucky
thing for the gentleman that he had found
it.
Pocketbooks, watches and revolvers are
among the most frequent finds, owing to the
custom so many people have of putting these
articles under their pillows. Hotel men say
that traveling man (drummers, etc.,) rarely
leave anything behind. It is only those not
used to travel, as a rule, that forget their
belongings.
Where Are Tom Paine’s Bones?
From Notes and Queries.
Some six or. seven years ago I was return
ing from Winchester to Waterloo, when a
London bookseller got into the train at Farn
ham and, recognizing me us a customer of
his, we entered into conversation. He told
me he had been to the sale of the effects of
Cobbett’s sister, who, I believe, had recently
died, and among the articles he had pur
chased was a trunk, which he believed to be
full of Cobbett’s pamphlets, but upon un
packing after purchase he found a paper
parcel ut the bottom of the box containing
human bones, and marked “The Bones of
Tom Paine.” Having them in the train, ha
said he would sell them to me at a reasona
ble price if I was willing to purchase; but I
declined the offer.
“I cannot recollect the bookseller’s name,
but the date of the sale, which could no
doubt be ascertained, would fix the date at
which they changed hands. What become
of tho bones afterward I never knew, not
feeling sufficiently interested to inquire.
Georg k Bottrr.”
The mortal remains of this philanthropic
but calumniated individual have probably
not been reinterred since they were brought
to this country in 1819. A similar inquiry
to that of M. A. Oxon has previously been
made in Notes and Queries. Following up
tho remit of that inquiry, I made a pil
grimage to Guilford in 18<6 or 1877 and en
deavored to trace the “bones,” As 1 was then
preparing a biography of Cobbett. I suc
ceeded so far as to discover a tradesman
who recollected that his father jKisses-iod tho
box of relics, which had come into his pos
session after the sale of Cobbett’s effects in
18,85. But no information could he obtained
definitely as to what had become of the box
or its contents, arid I had no subsequent op
portunity of following up my researches on
the spot.
I may add to this memorandum a record
to the effect that a lock of hair from Paine's
desecrated skull came into my possession
some years ago, which had previously be
longed to Mr. Tilly, Cobbett’s secretary.
Edward Smith.
A Boy’s Composition on Bones.
From the Popular Educator.
Bones is the framework of tho body. If I
had no bones in me I should not have so
much shape as I have now. If I hud no
bones in me I should not have so much mo
tion; and teacher would bo glad; but I like
to have motion. Bones give me motion be
cause they are something hard for motion to
cling to. If I had no bones, my bi'ains.
lungs, heart and larger bfixxl vessels would
lie lying round in me and might get hurteil,
but now my bones get hurteil, but not much
unless it is a hard hit-.
If my bone- wore burned I should be brit
tle, because it would take the animal out of
me. If i was soaked in acid 1 should be
limber. Teacher showed as a bone that had
boon soaked; 1 could bond it easily, I should
rather tie soaked than burned. Homo of my
bones don't grow dose to my others, snug
like the branches to the trunk of a tree, and
I am glad they don’t, for if they did 1 could
not play leapfrog and other good games I
know. The reason why they don’t grow
that way is lieeausc they have joints.
Joints is good things to have in bones.
There are two kinds. The ball and socket
joint like my shoulder is the best. Teacher
showed it to me, only it was the thigh of a
cow. One end was round, smooth uud
whitish. That is the hall end. The other
end win hollowed iu deep. That, is the socket
and it oils itself, it is the only machine that
oils itself. Another joint is the lunge joint,
like my elbow. It swings back aud forth,
and it oils itself. It never creaks like the
school door. There is another joint tlmt
don’t seem much liko a joint. That is the
skull. It don’t have no motion.
All my hones put together in their right
places makaa skeleton. If l leave out any,
or put wrong ploces.it oint no
skeleU'n. Nome animals liavo their skoloton
on the outside. lam glad I ain’t thorn ani
mals, for mv skeleton like it is on the chart
wouldn’t look well on my outsldo.
Tha Engndtno
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THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JUNE IS, 1887.
BAKED BEANS.
They Are Said to be a Panacea for
Every Human 111.
From the Chicago Netcs.
The members of the Boston Commercial
Club are charming gentleman They are
now the guests of tho Chicago Commercial
Club, and are heing shown every attention
that our market affords. They are a tine
looking lot, well dressed and well mannered,
with just enough whiskers to bo impressive
without being imposing
“This is a darned likely village.” said
Beth Adams last evening. “Everybody is
rushin’ ’round an’ doin’ business as if his life
depended on it. Should think thoy’tl git all
tuckered out'fore night, but I’ll lx* darned
if there ain’t just, as many folk* on tho street
after nightfall as afore. AVe're stoppin’ at
the Palmer tavern, and iny chamber is up so
allflredhigh that I can count all your nieet
in’-house steeples from the winder."
Last night five or sjx of these Boston mer
chants sat around the office of tho hotel and
discussed matters and things. Pretty soon
they got to talking about beans—this was
the subject which they dwelt on with evi
dent pleasure.
“TV aal, sir,” said Epharim Taft, a whole
sale dealer in maple sugar and flavored loz
enges, “you kin talk ’bout your new-fash
ioned dishes an’ high-falutin’ eatin', but
when you come right down to it, there nin't
no better eatin’ then a dish o’ baked pork ’n’
beans!”
“That’s so, b’ gosh!” chorused the
others.
“The truth o’ the matter is," continued
Mr. Taft, “that beans is good for everybody
—’t don’t make no difference whether lie's
well or sick. Why, I’ve known a thousand
folks—waai, mobile not quite a thousand,
but.—waal, now, just to show, take the case
of Bill Holbrook—you l emember Bill, don’t
ye?”
“Bill Holbrook?” said Mr. Ezra Eastman;
“why, of course I do! Used to live down
to Brnnfield, next to the Moses Howard
farm.”
“That’s tho man,” resumed Mr. Taft,
“Waal, Bill fell sick, kinder monad round
tired for a week or two an’ then tuck to Ills
bed. His folks sent for Dock Smith—ol’
Dock Smith that used to carry round a pair
o’ leather saddlebags—-gosh, they don't have
no seeb doctors nowadays! Waal, the dock
ho comean’ he looked at Bill’s tongue and
felt uv his pulse, an’ said that Bill'hacff
typhus fever. Ol’ Dock Smith was a
very careful, eonserv’fcive man, and he
never said nothin’ unless he knowed he was
right.”
"Bill began to git worse, an’ he kep’ a git
tin" worse ev’ry day. One tnornin’ ol’ Dork
Smith sez: ‘Look a-here, Bill, I guess you’re
a goner; as I Jigger it, you can’t hoi’ out till
nightfall.”
“Bill’s mother insisted on a oon-sul-tatjon
bein’ held, so 61’ Dock Smith sent over for
young Dock Brainerd. I calc’lale that
next to ol’ Dock Smith, young Dock
Brainerd was the smartest doctor that ever
lived.
Waal, pretty soon along come Dock
Brainerd, an’ he an’ Dock Smith went all
over Bill an’ looked at his tongue an’ felt uv
his puls-' an’ told him it was a gone case an’
that he had to die. Then they went off into
the spare chamber to hold their eou-sul-ta
tion.
“Waal, Bill-lie lay there in the front room
a-pantin’ an’a-gaspin’ and a-wond’rin’
whether it wuz true. As he was thinkin’,
up come the girl to git a clean tablecloth
out of the clothes-press, an’ she left the door
ajar as she coma In. Bill he gave a sniff
an’ his eyes grew more natural like; he gath
ered together all the strength he had, and
he raised himself up on one elbow an’ sniffed
again. #
“ ‘Sary,’ says he, ‘wot’s that a cookin’?’
“ ‘Beans,’ says she, ‘beans for dinner.’
“ ‘Sary, 1 says the dyin’ man, ‘I must hav
a plate nv them beans!’
‘‘Bakes, alive, Mr. Holbrook.’ says she,
‘if you was to eat any o’ them beans it’d kill
ye!’
“ ‘lf I've got to die,’ says he, ‘l’m goin’
to die happy; fetch mo a plate uv tnem
beans!’
“Waal, Sary she pikes off to the doctor’s.
“ ‘Look a-here,’ ays she, ‘Mr. Holbrook
smelt the beans cookin’ and he say’s he’s got
to have a plate uv ’em. Now, what shall I
do about it?’
“ ‘Waal, doctor,’ savs Dock Smith, ’what
do you think ’bout it? !
“'He’sgot to die anyhow,’ says Dock
Brainerd, ‘an’l don’t suppose the Leans 'll
make any diff’rcnce.’
“ ‘That’s they way I figger it,’ says Dock
Smith: ‘in all my practice I never know of
beans hurtin’ anybody.’
“So Sary went down to the kitchen an’
brought up a plateful of hot baked beans.
Dock Smith raised Bill up in bod, and Dock
Brainerd put a piiler under the small uv Bill’s
back. Then Sary sat down by the bill an’
fed them beaus into Bill until Bill couldn't
hold any more.
‘"How air you feeling nowi’ asked Dock
Smith.
“‘Bill didn’t say nuthin’; he jest smiled
sort uv peaceful liko an’ closed his eyes.
“ ‘The end hez come,’ said Dock Brainerd,
sof’ly; ‘Bill isdyiii’.’
“Then Bill murmured kind o’ far-away
like (os if he was droamin*); ‘I ain’t dyin*;
I’m dead an’ in heaven!'
“Next mornin’ Bill got out uv bed an’
d&ne a big day’s work on tho farm, an’ he
hain’t lied a sick spell since. Them beans
cured him! 1 tell you, sir, that beans is.”
etc., etc. _
Testimonial From Assemblyman Ed
ward A. Darragdi.
State of New York, Assembly Cham
ber. Albany, April 16, 1884. —Some years
ago I was thrown from a wagon and frac
tured two of my ribs. I was so badly hurt
that I hail t.o sit up in a chair for four days
and nights. The fourth day my mother
placed two Allcock’s Porous Plasters over
my broken ribs. The next day my suffer
ings diminished and I was able to he down.
I continued to improve ever}’ day. Two
weeks after the accident I got up and at
tended to business. I renewed tho plasters
twice, and found myself almost entirely
well in a month, when I sailed for England.
My wife is subject to'periodic pains in tho
back that give her rest neither day nor
night, but iu two hours ufter applying
two Allcock’s Plasters she exixjrienct s relief,
and in two or three days sac is well. She
also duds them effective in neuralgia and
rheumatism.' Edward A. Darßaoh.
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WM. BOUHAN, Huntingdon and Mercer
streets.
IPOR RF.NT, six-room house on Harris street,
near Montgomery. Apply 160 < ingreaaat.
JT'OR RENT, brick residence on Bolton street,
' bet wren Barnard and Jefferson; possession
given immediately. Apply to WILLIAM P.
BAXLEY, at Gazan's cigar store, Bull and
Broughton streets,
lAOR RENT, two brick dwellings, recently
1 repaired, with water anil bath room; situated
on Gaston street, south side, direct!}' west of
Barnard street. Apply to DANIEL I{. KEN
NEDY, IT4 Bay street.
I NOR RENT, 140 Hull, on northwest corner of
Whitaker. Apply to Dn. PURSE, 140 Liberty
street,
FOR SALE.
V'EIDUNGF.R & RABUN are still selling Sara
is toga Trunks. Satchels and Buggy Harness
very cheap. Garden Hose at Bc. per foot.
C'OR BALE very, cheap, elegant six-light
1’ chandelier. Call at GAZAN’S, Bull and
Broughton.
IP LAOS of all kinds and nations made on short
notice at No. 50 Bryan street, Savannah, Ga.
IRONIES FOB CHILDREN; safe for small
J children to ride, at COX'S STABLE.
IdOR SALE OR LEASE, the Phenix Hotel,
. Palatka, Florida. Has 55 sleeping rooms,
elegant parlors, diuiug room. etc. Completely
furnished; lighted with gas. Sanitation perfect.
Terms easy. Apply to S. J. KEXNERLY, l'a
latka, Florida. __
TPOR SALE, one share Workman's and
1 Trader's Loan Stock. Address STOCK, this
office
J'rtOß SALE, Laths, Shingles, Flooring. Ceiling,
Weatherboarding and Framing Lumber.
Office and yard Taylor and East Broad streets.
Telephone No 211 REPPARD <fc CO.
TJROKE TEXAS HORSES.-Gentle Horses for
1> sate at lilt. COX’S STABLES.
J7OB SALE. ROSEDEW Lots, 60 feet on
I Front street along the river and 500 feet
deep, at $125, payable $25 cash and sl2 50 every
six months,with interest. FIVE-ACRE I/its iu the
TOWN OF ROSEDEW, with river privileges, at
SIOO, payable S2O cashand $5 every three months,
With interest. Apply to Du. FALLIGANT, 101
South Broad street, 9 to 16 *. m. daily.
IPOII SAI.E, Old Newspapers, just the thing
for wrappers, only 15 emits a hundred, 200
for 25 cents, at the business office.
HUMMER RESORTS.
COLORADO. Ocean Beach, N. .1. Now open.
Has one thousand feet piazza; within fifty
yards of ocean. Boating, Lathing and Ashing
(It. M. C. BTEWARDBON.
NEW YORK CITY. N. Y„ nicely furnished
rooms with board: central location: one
block off Broadway. M. A. BEVAN, 108 East
Twenty-third street.
H’EALIN<*PKLNGS, Both county, Vn_ Km.
H. C \ IreKR EUBANK. Bend for descrip
tive pamphlet.
FMRST CLASS Board aud Lodging at ELM
WOOD HALL. Saratoga Springs; $7 to Sl2
per week; location excellent.
PHOTOGRAPHY.
c phteTALNoTiri; PHOTOGRAPHY Price*
C reduced petite* $1 50, Cards $2, Cabinet
$3 per dozen, aud larger work iu the same pro
portion. *
J. N. WILSON,
21 Bull street.
MISCELLANEOUS.
N O drink has equaled the celebrated Egg
Phosphate at IiEIDT'S. It is delicious!
refreshing! exhilarating! invigorating!
I \<>N"T FAIL to go to NEI DLINGEIt A KA
-1 ' BUN'S for bargains m Trunks, Satchels,
Harness and Garden Hose.
IJRK'KLY Heat and Chafing Powder, “Bora
cine.” a superior toilet uud nursery powder.
Kept by all druggists.
ARTIES excavating uud wishing a deposit
for their surplus soil ran duuipsainc on m.v
lot, southeast corner Bolton and Abercorn
etreeta v J, USDSAV
| ).vt KING MATE! IALB. Burin , Excel* u
I and Twine for sale cheap hy A. J. MILLER
A CO.
/ ' F\'TB bring in your winter suits ntid hue
I I them cleaned before parking away, to pre
vent moths SAVANNAH BTEAM DYE
WORKS, 184 State street.
I ACE CURTAINS cleaned at Savannah Steam
j Dye Works. 131 State street.
nON'T fall to call and see our Children's ('.ar
riages. Our goods are bought direct
from factories anil It enables us to sell them
lower than you can buy ut any public sale. We
also carry it complete line or house furnishing
goods at NATHAN BROS . 181 Congress si reel.
lS Savannah Fire £ Marine S£ Gfl.
CAPITAL $200,000.
OFFICE 93 BAY STREET.
WM. GARRARD. LEWIB KAYTON,
President. Vie# President.
W. H. DANIEL. Secretary.
DIKECTORB.
JNO. L. HAMMOND, HERMAN MYERfI.
GEORGE J. BALDWIN, SAMUEL MKINHARD,
J. H. EMTII.L, L. KAYTON.
WM. GARRARD, (. G- HAAS,
W H. DANIEL, ANDREW HANLEY,
J. B. DUCKWORTH, DAVID WELLS,
U. R woods:
Sotx. -On July Ist Che office of the company
will be at 97 Bay street, tho building now occu
lted 09 the dotted ixcttaftge.
Lt T t*T>EX <fc HATES S. M. H.
.... rj ■
c
iWlli
THE HOUSE THAT
Big House, Ain't It?
!
VNP within its walls you will find an army of
dorks, who, 1101 withstanding the hot
weather, aiv pushed to their utmost to keep up
with the orders flowing in upon us from Maine
to Mexico. Yea! It seems that the hotter thfl
weather the greater the stream of orders.
Hence we are
BIZZY AZ BEZE!
Still \vp. like tho much abused conductor, can
make mom for on more, and if you want a
PIANO or ORGAN wr'il crowd your order in
rather than disappoint. Now is your tiou* tr>
make a purchase ami tuivo
BIG MUZICK
oil summer long, fiive tie n call and we'll
astonish you li.i.i crniitH heretofore unheard of,
almost, endless time and minute installments to
help you out in making a purchase, while our
line embraces the (‘HICKERING, MASON A
HAMLIN, MATHUSHEK. KENT and AKIO.V
I*IANOS. MASON A HAMI.IN. PACKARD OR
CHESTRAL and BAY STATE ORGANS.
DROP AROUND AND SEE US.
hidden & Bates Music House, Savannah, fin.
GROUND BENTS.
ARREARS Mr 6iiDli!.
fiTY Treasurer's Office, I
Savannah, Ha.. .June Ist, IRS', f
r PHF. following lots are In arrears to the city
1 for ground rents, of which lrs.a esore hereby
notified. CHAS. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
DROWN WARD.
Lot No. 18, 2 qrs.: east one-half lot No. 41, 2
qrs.; lot No. 50, 4 qrs.
CALHOUN WARD.
Lot No. 0, 8 qrs.; lot No. 21, 2 qrs.; lot No. 23,
2 qrs.
CHARLTON WARD.
Lot No. 1 2 qrs.: lot No. 18. 3 qrs.; northwest
one-eighth lot 23, 2 qrs.; northwest one quarter
let 24, 2qrs.; north one half lot No. 83. 2 qrs.;
lot No. 2, 2 qrs.; south ono-half lot No. 14, 21
qrs.: lot No. 10. 2qrs,:south one-half lot No. 23,
24 qrs.; lot No. 32, 2 qrs.; lot No. 36, 4 qrs.
CHATHAM WARD.
East one-third lot No, 12, 2qrs.; lot No. 17, 0
qrs.; east, one third lot No. 23, 3 qrs.; lot No. 32,
2 qrs.; one-third lot No. 87, 2 qw.; west one half
lot No. 13, 2 qrs.; lot No. 21, 2 qrs,; west one half
lot No. 23, 2 qrs.; two-sixths lot No. 33, 2 qrs.
COLUMBIA WARD.
Lot No. 10. 1 qrs.; south one-iialf lot No. 22. 2
qrs.; lot No. 3U, 2 qrs.; east part lot No. 30, 2
qrs.
CRAWFORD WARD.
'Vest one-half lot 3. 2 qrs.; north one-half lot
No. 21, 2qrs.; lot No. 33,2 qrs.; lot No. 85, 2
qrs.; lot No. 0, 11 qrs.: lot No. 23. 2 qrs.; lot No.
81, 2 qrs.; east one half lot No. 71, 2 qrs.
CRAWFORD WARD, EAST.
One-half southwest part lot No. 1, 2 qrs.; por
tion lot No. 15, 10 qrs.
ELBERT WARD.
Lot, No. 8, 2 qrs.; lot No. 27, 2 qrs.; lot No, 7,
20 qrs.; lot No. 10, 2 qrs.; east two-thirds lot No.
84, 2 qrs.
FORSYTH WARD.
Lot No. 1. 2 qrs.; lot No. IS. 2 qrs.; south one
half lot No. 17, 2 qrs; lot No. 21, 2 qrs.; lot No. 2,
2 qrs.; north one-half jot 17, 2 qrs.; lot No. 20, 2
qrs.; lot No. 58, 2 qrs.
FRANKLIN WARD.
Lot No. 25, 2 qrs.; west one-half lot No. 39, 4
qrs.
NEW FRANKLIN WARD.
East one-half lob No. 1,2 qrs.; lot No. 8. 2 qrs.;
lot No. 17. 2 nrs,; north part lot No. 7,2 qrs.; lot
west one-halt No. 14, 2 qrs.
ORKENK WARD.
Lot No. 4, 2 qrs.; lot No, 20. 2 qrs.; lot No. 30,
2 nrs.; three-fourths lot No. 18, 2 qrs.; west one
half lot No. 18, 2 qrs : north one-half lot No. 22,
2 qrs,; south one-half lot No. 40, 2 qrs.
JACKSON WARD.
Went one-half lot No, 7, 2 qrs.; north one-half
lot No. 24, 2 qrs,; lot No. 36, 0 qrs,; east one half
lot No. 41, 2 qrs.; west one-half lot No. 40,2qr.j
lot No. 46, 8 qnf. .
JAHPKIt WARD.
Lot No. 40,3 qrs.; lot No. 47, 2 qrs.
LLOYD WARD.
West or,o third lot No. 41, 3 qrs.; east one-half
lot No. 02, 31 qrs.; lot No. 52, 2 qrs.; north part
lot No. SS, 4 qrs.
I-AfAVETTf: WARD.
Last one-half lot No. 1, 2 qrs.; west one-half
lot No. 4:1. 2 qrs.; cart two thirds lot No. 10, 2
qrs.; lot No. 14, 0 qrs.
LIBERTY WARD
Lot No. 1, 2 qrs.; lot No. 8, 2 qrs.: lot No. 10, 2
qrs.: lot No. 12, 2 qrs ; east one-balf lot No. 2(1. 2
qrs.; lot No 4, 2 qrs.; lot No. 9. 2 qrs.; lot No. 11,
2 qrs.; southeast purt lot No. 24, 2 qrs.
MONTEREY WARD.
East one-balf lot No. 2, 2 qrs.; lot No. 4,2
qrs.: west otic tilth lot 11 and cast one-fifth lot
12, 2 qrs.
PI'LAHKI WARD.
Lot No. 5, 2 qrs.; lot No. 9, 2 qrs.; lot No. 6, 2
qrs.
TROOP WARD.
Northeast part lot No. t>. 2 tfhs.; west part, lot
‘Si, 4qrs.: southeast part lot No. 5, 2 qrs.; lot No.
17, 2 qrs.: we:-.t ono half lot No. 14, 19 qrs.
WARREN WARD.
1 sit No. 2, 2 qrs.; Mat ono-half lot No. 15, 2
qrs.; lot No. 8, 2 qrs.
WASHINGTON WARD.
Pouthone-half lot No. 1, 2qrs.;west one-half
lot No. 7. 2 qrs . lot No. 8. 2 qrs.; northwest one
fourth lot No. 19, <1 qrs : west one half lot No 85,
2 qrs.; lot No. f>. 2 qrs.; south two third* lot No.
". vqr.: east part lot No. 18, 2 qrs.; we-t oue
half lot No. ;jd, 2 qrs.; east one-balf lot No. 3j, 2
qrs.
WESLICY WARD.
Middle one third lot Noil, 2qrs.; lot No. 15, 8
qrs.; west one half lot No. 5, 2 qrs.
KPItINOFIEt.n WARD.
Lot No !, 2 qrs.; lot No. 3. 2 qrs.; lot No. .1, 2
qrs.; lot No, 2 qrs.; lot No. ill, 2 qrs.; lot No.
44, 2 qrs.; lot No. 4 qrs ; lot No 2,3 qrs.; lot
No. 1. 2 qrs., lot No. 8, 2 qrs.; lot. No. 34, 3 qrs ;
lot No. 42. 2 qrs.: lot No. 49, 2 qrs.; lot No. 58, 4
qrs.
All persons having intrrost, in the above lots
are hereby notified tliut if the amounts notv
due nre not paid to the City Treasurer on or
liefore the 21st Umlaut, 1 will on t(ie morning of
the 28d inst. proceed to re enter according to
law. ROBERT J. WA DK,
City Marshal.
"
Cargo Eastern Hay!
WESTERN HAY.
2f).n00 husbcU CHOICE MILLING WHITE
COltN'.
S,iXM bushel* MIXED CORN'.
|,01H4 bushels HEAVY MIXED OATS.
100,nOOpounds WHEAT HHAN.
100.000 FRESH CORN EYES.
1,000 bushel* COW PEAK.
CLAY', speckled, white and mixed.
Grits, Meal, Lemons,
Oranges and Vegetables, i
STOCK FEED, ETC., ETC.
C&l) for priest oo c-arknwis.
T. P. BOND & CO.,
XO& liu-v Street. ___
AITTION SAI.ES TO-DAY.
BOOKS! BOOKS!
By J. IffcLAUGHUN & SON,
THIS DAY AT 11 O'CLOCK.
Several Hundred Volumes Standard Worts.
THE BOTIN LIBRARY.
BANCROFTS l’. S.
RABELAIS.
LIFE (iK ROE,
c‘i 'MISERS' LITERATURE.
D I'O'CS WORKS.
HtyufNCY'S WORKS.
11l NitY'S EXI'OsmON.
Paul dekock’s works.
MAOAULY'S ESSAYS.
CARLYLE'S ESSAYS.
FESI US.
Theatrical Works; SCARON, MOLIERE,
BOISSY, VOLTAIRE, BARTHE. ROUSSEAU,
La FONTAINE, BARON VANCOURT, Etc.
20 years BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, ED
INRL'RO REVIEW. Etc.. Err, Etc
M IT AUCTION.
Daniel R. Kennedy, Auctioneer.
THIS DAY, at 11 o'clock, at Duckworth's
Warehouse, opposite Planters’ Rice Mill,
82 bales NORTHERN HAY. Sold for the
benefit of all concerned, and in lots to suit.
AUCTION SBYI.ES FUTURE DAYS.
Unclaimed Freight.
Central Railroad and Banking Cos., of Oa., {
Savannah, 'Juno 18,1887. f
Daniel R. Kennedy, Auctioneer.
r J’'HE following unclaimed freight will he sold
1 at public outcry at the Down Freight Ware
house of this company on MONDAY. JULY
18th at 11 o'clock, for the benefit of whom it
may concern, and to pay chargee thereon.
E. A. JONES,
O. A. WHITEHEAD, D. F. Agent.
G. F. and P. Agent.
1. CL W Parish. 2 Sugar Mill Rollers.
2. W F. Na* worthy, I box H. Ware.
3. B 11. Rice, 1 box Mdse.
4. G. W. Parish, 1 Sugar Mill.
5. P .1 Crosby, 1 l>ox P Matter.
6. J Barnes, i Valise.
7. Ohlauder Bros., 24 bdls, Cots and 1 bale
Moss.
8. J. E. Wooten, 1 Iron Safe.
9. II C. Imboli. 1 Valise.
10. W. K. Moore, 1 box Cheese.
11. f). W Parish, 1 Mill.
12. M. K. Moore, 2 boxes Soda.
18. F. W. Harman, 26 pkgs Chair Stuff and 1
pkg Moss.
14. M. K. Moore. 1 box Soda
15. Order, 1 crate D. W. Machine.
16. A. L. llradwell, 1 pkge (2 boxes;,
IT Mrs. F. Henry, 1 Box Md.se.
18. M. K. Moore, I box Soda..
19. L. C. Keeler, I Plow and 6R. R. Soopa
20. J. N. Platt, 1 piece IMpe.
21. J. Newton, 4 Gravestones and 1 box H.
Ware.
22. J. C. Martin, 1 box Seeds.
23. M. K. Moore, J.jj box Soda.
24. 0., 1 Box.
25. F. W. W., 2 bbis Grits, 1 bbl Vinegar and
1 sack Cotton Seed.
24. No mark, 1 Tub, 1 Box and Contents.
27. No murk. 1 Box.
28. No mark, 1 hhl Rosin Chips.
20. W. & (!., 1 Cultivator.
30. No mark, 1 lot Jugs, Buckets and Traps.
31. No mark. 2 Pots.
32. YV. C. 1 Wheelbarrow.
S3. No mark, 1 pkge Buckets and Baskets.
81. W. W. Randall. I box A. Matter.
83. No mark, 1 Wasflstand anil Chair.
86. No mark, 11 bars Iron and Steel.
37. Ohlauder Bros., 1 bbl Lamps,
38 No mark, 1 pkge Brooms and 1 pkge
Buckets.
30. No mark, 1 dozen R. Traps.
40. No murk, 3 pieces Plows, 2 bales Slats, 1
pkge Sash.
41. G. E., 1 crate Empty Bottles.
42. No mark. 2Empty Cans and 2Kegs.
43. F. A. J . !qj bbl Vinegar.
41. No mark, 1 box Bedding.
45. W., 1 box Hooks, No. 46, 1 sack Cotton
Seed.
—ALSO™
Various articles left on passenger trains and
not called for consisting of Overcoats, Umbrel
las. Parasols, Cloaks, Hats, Dusters, Walking
Canes, Gold Eye Glasses, Watch Charms, Milk
Caps. Clothing, Waterproofs, Physician's Case
of Instruments, Night Shirts, Valises, Shoes,
Pocket Knives, Rubber Coats, Shawls, Veils,
etc., etc. Also, Silver Plated Cups, Waiter,
Plates, etc., etc.
L.&B.S.M.H. BUILT.
LEGAL SALES.
’ CITY MARSHAL'S SALE."
City Marshal’s Omni, l
Savannah, June 7, 1887. f
f TNDF.R AND BY VIRTUE of a special tax
V i execution placed In my bends by C, 8.
H ARDEE, City Treasurer, I nave levied on, and
will sell in accordance with law. on the FIRST
TUESDAY IN JULY, 1887, between the le'/ul
hours of sale, before the Court House door, in
the city of Savannah, Chathuui county, Geor
gia. Hie following property, to-wit:
(me Fool Table, Cues and Halls, levied on as
the property of J. L. MURPHY,
Purchasers paying for titles.
ROBERT J. WADE,
City Marshal.
■ 1 ■■'■.ii... . -
DRY goods.
New Goods
By Steamer Chattahoochee,
NEW LAWNS, NEW ORGANDIES, NEW
CRINKLE SEERSUCKERS,
\ COMPLETE LINE of Lad.es Children'*
and Gouts' Bummer Undershirts.
A full assortment of Empire Htate Shirts,
size from 18 to 17RJ. Boys' Shuts, from 18 to 18^.
I/idies' and Children s Lisle Thread Hose, In
black and colored.
Gents' Lisle thread and Balbrlggan Half Hose
in plain and fancy coloiw.
Gents Collars and Cuffa, with a complete line
of Black ami Second Mourning Goods, compris
ing everything new and desirable.
GERMAINE’S,
Next Fnt'hcr's.
PRINTER AVI) BOOKBINDER.
1834-FIFTY-THREE YEARS-1887.
At the nuftlneNit, and up
with the Nlumlc all tlie Time.
GKO. N. NICHKfKS,
PRINTING, BINDING
AKD—
BLANK BOOKS.
Hvcrythlng complete for the
Rest Work. No aloucliy work,
men, No poor work,
LADIES I
DO your own Dyeing, at home, with PEER
LESS DYES. They will dye everyt. eg.
They ore sold everj'wbere. Price 10c. a package
-40color*. They have no equal for strength,
brightness, amount in jackaies. or for fastness
of color, or non-fading qualities. They do not
crock or smut. For sale by B. F. Ulmer. M. IX.
Pharmacist, corner Broughton and Houston
streets; p. H Rmid, Druggist, and Ai>otho
rary, corner Jones and Abercorn streets;
Edward J. KtErr*R Druggist, vomer West
Broad and tRw art si touts.
C . H. nORSETT’S COLUMN.
TWO NEW
RESIDENCES
FOR SALE!
I have for sale the
two new two-story
residences just being
completed, situated
near the White Bluff
Toll Gate.
These houses con
tain four bedrooms,
parlor, dining-room,
and kitchen and have
a large yard.
They are well built
and finished, and are
being offered very
low.
The location is very
desirable and is im
proving rapidly.
gooiTlots
J^JSTJD
CHE A.P-
I have some very good
lots left in the sub-division
of that high and well
located land, on the corner
of West Broad and Gwin
nett streets. Terms: One
third cash, one-third in one
year and one-third in two
years, with interest at>
seven percent, per annum.
C. H. Dorsett,
REAL ESTATE DEALER.
A Large House and Splendid Locality.
C. H. DORSETT, Auctioneer.
I have for sale a moat desirably located rest
flence on Taylor street (No. 110), between Dray
ton and Bull street. The house contains seven
bedrooms, parlors, dining room, closets, pantry,
hath room and water closet, water on each floor,
and a two-story outbuilding, with stable and
servants’ rooms. The neighborhood and sur
roundings are good enough for the most critical.
--ALSO--
A half lot, with two-story outbuilding In the
rear This is a good location, and a fine build,
iug site.
—ALSO-
Two well-built one-story houses in Yamarraw,
now rented to good tenauts who pay ill 50 per
month in advance.
—ALSO—
A few first-Mass residences on popular street*.
—ALSO™
A good stand for business. Lot No. 1 Crawford
ward, east, corner of East Broad and Wheaton
streets. The Improvements consists of two.
story and a half house, containing store and
three rooms down stairs, and four rooms be
sides garret un-stairs. This is on a good thor
oughfare, and lias proven an excellent stand for
business.
WAREHOUSE PROPERTY.
A fine piece of property, 150x280, with large
storage capacity, on the line of the River street
railroad and east of the canal.
Coininbsioners’ Sale for Partition.
G. 0. DORSETT, Auctioneer. *
Under and by virtue of an order granted by the
Honorable Superior Court of Chut ham county,
in the case or B.VRAH A. WALTON versus
HETTY E WHALEY and the MERCHANTS
AND MECHANICS' LOAN ASSOCIATION,
petitition for partition, we will sell, before the
Court Honan door In Savannah, during the
legal hours of sale, on TUESDAY, JULY X
1887,
All of that certain portion of land and the
tenement* then-on, known ae sub-division* Noe.
1 and 2of lot Number 18 Trustees Garden, hav
ing a front on Reynolds street of seventy seven
feet and six inches, with a depth of elghty-two
feet for sub-division No, 1, and of sixty-five loj*
for No. 4 Terms caah.
C. H. DORSETT.
J.L WHATLEY,
ti. H. McLAWS,
3