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THE BIGGEST PENSION.
iow Over $13,000 was Paidlb a Blind
VagTant.
A dispatch from Elmira, N. Y., to tha
Sew York Evening Post says: Recently
jie newspapers made a note of the fact that
i large back pension, said to have been the
argest ever paid on an ordinary claim, was
obtained from Pension Agent J. T. Poole,
of Syracuse, for a resident of this city,'
There is a story involved in the transaction
which implicates some prominent men here
in a way that can hardly fail to be detri
mental to their standing In the community.
The pensioner is named Francis Patterson,
and the amount that was obtained for him
was f13,000 and $lO fees. Patterson is in
competent to manage his own affairs. He
was a soldier in the civil war, and the big
pension that has just been paid to him was
obtained on the ground of his having been
so injured as to lose the sight of both his
eyes. He has been a vagrant about Elmira
for many years, supported sometimes by the
public and at other times by his wife and
children, who have always been a thriftless
get. Peopleof Elmira are familiar with the
spectacle of this man being led about the
streets bv a dog, which had a cord attached
to it. The man’s habits were as dissolute as
they could be in his impecunious condition.
Every cent he could get he spent for liquor,
so that his existence was divided between
the alms house and. the lockup, as want and
whisky dictated.
Patterson’s application for a pension was
pending in Washington a good many years,
A. B. Galatian of this city being for most
part the vagrant’s attorney for this pur
pose. When, two weeks ago, news was re
ceived here that Patterson's enormous claim
had been allowed, Dr. N. R. Mills, a phy
sician of this city who had been interested
in pushing the claim, went to the Overseer
of the Poor, and, informing him of the
fact, told him ho need not afford the va
grant any more assistance, and that he (Dr.
Mills) had become guardian to Patterson.
The Overseer went to the City Attorney,
Hosea H. Rockwell, with Dr. Mills’ story
and asked "him what if any steps were need
ed to protect the pensioner in the possession
of his money. Knowing the irresponsibility
of Patterson, City Attorney Rockwell ad
vised that a comniision be obtained in the
legal way. Application was thereupon
made to the County Judge for ascertaining
the pensioner’s mental condition and for the
appointment of a proper guardian in case it
was declared to be necessary. Several citi
zens and Patterson’s daughter, Mrs. Ellen
Dobson, joined in the petition to the court,
and affidavits were mode by competent phy
sicians. On these representations County
Judge Dexter appointed a eommision to take
testimony relative to Patterson’s lunacy and
his character as an habitual drunkard.
Meantime City Attorney Rockwell noti
fied Pension Agent Poole, at Syracuse, of the
situation, and suggested that he withhold
payment of Patterson’s money till its safety
could be provided for. The agent replied
that it was the largest pension ever paid by
the United States to an individual, and that
he would not hand over the money until ad
vised In’ the Elmira authorities. The no
tice of the appointment of the Lunacy
Commission by Judge Dexter was made on
June 7. On June 9, Dr. N. R. Mills,
Charles H. Knipp, of the law firm of You
mans, Mills & Knipp, taking the blind Pat
terson, went to Syracuse and demanded the
£IB,OOO. The agent showed them the City
Attorney’s letter, and declined for the pres
ent to pay over the money unless ordered to
do so from the Pension Bureau at Washing
ton.
Knipp thereupon telegraphed to his former
law partner, E. B. Youmans, who is Chief
Clerk of the Treasury Department, with
reference to the refusal of Agent Poole to
pay. In due course of telegraphic corres
pondence between Syracuse and Washing
ton an order came from the Commissioner
of Pensions to the agent to pay over the
money. The agent thereupon made pay
ment to the pensioner, or to Mills & Knipps
for him, in five drafts of $2,500 each, and
one of SBO2, retaining $lO in fees.
When the jury met to hear tesmony in
the lunacy proceedings, Mills & Knipp ap
peared as attorneys to object to the pro
ceedings on the ground that the Sheriff had
not been able to find the subject of the in
quiry. Adjournment, was thereupon had to
yesterday. Meantime the blind vagrant
Wl been found by the Sheriff secreted at a
low place known as the Halfway Hoase, be
tween Elmira and Horseheads. When the
inquiry opened yesterday, Lawyer Knipp
again asked for an adjournment until Sat
urday, producing a telegram from one Bis
sell in Washington, saying that the sender
had seen Chief Clerk Youmans, and that
lie (Bissell) would be here on that day if an
adjournment could be had. The Commis
sion refused the adjournment, and abun
dant evidence was produced to prove the
blind pensioner an habitual drunkard and a
lunatic, incompetent to receive the pension
money or to manage his own affairs. The
testimony was reported to the county
Judge, who will appoint guardians for Pat
terson.
Before the Lunacv Commission the Presi
dent of the First National Bank testified
that on Friday last Dr. Mills appeared at
the bauk with the pensioner and deposited
the pension money, taking one certificate
for SIO,OOO, and another for $2,500; that the
next day Mills brought the $2,500 certificate
endorsed by Patterson's mark and drew the
money, saying he intended to buy a house
and lot for the old man: that on Monday of
this week Mills & Knipp both appeared at
the bank with a sachet and demanded the
$10,000; that the bank refused to let the
money go; that the next day they reap
fiearea, converted $3,000 of the money into
duly assigned to the lunatic
Patterson, and took anew negotiable certifi
cate for $7,000. Hoon after this transaction
John Laidlaw of this city, procuring a liv
ery team, took the pensioner and his wife—
she had returned to the old man—and drove
them to Troy, Fa., about thirty miles south
of Elmira. Dr. Mills took the uext train
for Troy, but instead of stopping there he
kjvent on to Williamsport, from which point
pie telegraphed laidlaw to come on with the
old man and his wife.
While in Troy Laidlaw and the imbecile
pensioner and wife lived in high style, hav
ing their meals sent to their rooms, and in
dulging in the luxuries of the season. These
latter facts were sworn to lief ore the Lunacy
Commission yesterday by a Rochester com
mercial traveler uanied F. F. Hinkston,
who encountered the well-moneyed party at
l’ray.
Tho case has created a good deal of talk
bere on account especially of the active con
nection of the lawyer, who is Chief Clerk
Youmans’ partner. Tho friends of Mr.
Youmans are anxious to hour an explana
tion of how tho Pension Bureau came to
Order the big pension paid so soon after
Lawyur Knipp telegraphed to Mr. You
mans.
METHODS OF A MESMERIST.
Ho Tries to Find the Rahway Murderor.
and Thinks Ho Knows Whoro He la.
PYom the New York Sun.
“Tho murderer ot the girl at Rahway last
March is at present employed as a waiter in
a saloon on tlio Bowery.”
This statement, made with a positiveness
that aroused the interest of those who heard
It, was uttered by a Williamsburg mes
merist, who adds:
“The subject who made the discovery is
the best subject that ever came under my
notioo. Indeed, she often drops off into un
consciousness when alone. <'uo
day during the excitement attending the
discovery of the body of the unknown girl
in Rahway she fell into tho mesmeric stute.
Her mind at the time was on the subject of
murder., When she returned to conscious
ness sho was unable to describe anything
she had soon, but her husband and I, think
ing that may bo she had been in Rahway,
took her with us to that city. When she
mw the place slie told us that she thought
•no had seen it before. Now I was much
Interested in the unknown girl, and I do
omed to test the art, science, or mystery.
Whatever you may call it, of medmorwm. I
rasarsjrfte
i^ nUa Thftfc test was acknowl
edged, the mesmerist averred, “to be a suc
cess.
“JSbt I put the subject under con
. her g0 > “ miad j to Rahway.
u i V?f, re are y° u now? ’ 1 asked.
“ ‘At the depot.’
Irvingstrpet to Central, and
until you come to two houses
• hand side of the avenue. You
are there? Very good. Now go to the
IWh a o? V t aU( L ßtand there - It >s now
twenty minutes past 9 o’clock
SJ' mg .. ou do not see anything?
lti3 n ° W U:20 ’ d0 you s “ any
, * si l9 replied. Here comes a top
D “ g S7- A man and a woman are in it.’
he “ T She , to shiver. ‘What’s the
matter?’ I asked.
struggling with each other.
o l£ the carriage, and the man
strikes her. Now he is cutting her with a
unite. He wipes his hand* on the weeds and
and now he crawls through a fence
and throws the knife away.’
is he now?’ I asked.
driving oIL’ etting int ° the buggy and 18
“ ’follow him. Where is he now?’
~ He ,is passing through Milton, and is on
the road to Plainfield. He stops at a bridge.
He is taking off his rubber boots and clothes
now he puts a weight into the trunk and
drops it into the water.’
“ 4 Describe his clothing.’
“ ‘ Yes. He has a neat pair of pointed shoes
and a big coat with a cape. He wears a fur
can.’
J ‘Follow him.’
“ ‘H O retraces his way. He runs back,
and comesrwithin ac block of the corpse. Ah,
there Ive lost him. No; there he is at the
depot.’
“ ‘What time is it?’
“ ‘lt is 12:15 by the clock in the depot. He
is getting on a train now. He is in the city
and is walking toward the Bowerv. He
enters a house on the Bowery.’
<i for the number.’
“ ‘lt is . He goes up stairs to a room.
It is room 21.’
“ That,” said the mesmerist, “was my
first work. When I next put the subject
under control, about a week after, ‘Go to
Bowery,’ I said, ‘and tell me if you
can see the man. ’
“ ‘Yes, there he is. He has got an apron
on and is acting as a waiter in the saloon.
Some of the men who were fthere when he
came the first night are there. Every one
seems to kuow him, but he does not have
much to say to them.’
“As my friend the policeman,” the mes
merist continued, “was unwilling to make
an investigation, I went alone over some of
the ground, and found that the subject had
described everything accurately. And now,
to give what I have discovered the fullest
test, I am willing to go with the subject over
all the ground described, find the clothes,
and then v isit the Bowery and point out
the man who committed the murder. If
nothing comes of it, well and good, but if it
results in the detection and conviction of
the murderer, who will say there are not
things in life we wot little of, and that to us
through mesmerism is given a power to hunt
down evil doers?”
HE TACKLED THE WRONG MAN.
Showing That It’s a Cold Day When a
New 1 ork Lawyer Gets Left.
From, the Kingston Freeman.
One of the conditions upon which an Ul
ster county man consented to lease his
grounds to a New York fishing club was
that of being employed as a watchman
along the banks of the stream. His demand
was complied with and he entered upon his
duty with a large amount of brag and blus
ter. He carried a pistol, a good-sized ciub,
and had his pockets well filled with stones
besides. A New York lawyer, whose re
taining fee, as a rule, is not less than
SSOO, and who is extremely fond
of fishing, visited the west branch of the
Neversink not long ago to indulge in his
favorite sport. He went upon the club
grounds, and, being one of the most expert
fly fishers in the State, began >to fill his
basket rapidly.
“Get off my land, and he blank quick
about it, too!” fell upon his ears in tones of
thunder, just as he had hooked a fine trout
and was reeling it in. Seemingly he did
not pay the least attention, and it was only
after he had placed a lusty trout in his
basket that he looked up and smilingly
asked:
“Were you speaking to me, sir?”
“Yes, I was speaking to you, and I want
you to get off this stream at once. Didn’t
you see notices up all along this land that no
fishing was allowed? Come, git!”
The attorney did not pay the slightest at
tention to the order, but 'cast his fly with
great skill upon the water, and was re
warded with tuiother fine fish, which ho
reeled to his basket with tha utmost non
chalance.
The rage of the guardian of the stream
knew no bounds.
•'l’ll find out your name before you leave
this town and will have a warrant served
upon you, see if I don’t,” he exclaimed.
“I will save you the trouble of finding out
my name,” said the lawyer ns he walked to
tho shore. “Here is my card, sir, and be
kind enough to have the warrant made cor
rectly and in that name.”
The card read.
“JolinF .Attorney and Counsellor at
Law, New York city.”
“Now, my friend,” continued the coun
sellor, “you have made yourself pretty
fresh with me to-day, but being a stranger
I will forgive you. I am pretty well posted
on the fishing laws of this State, having
gone to the Court of Appeals with a case,
and the club which sued my client never
dared sue anybody since. But, never mind
that—be sure and get my name right.”
“I ask your pardon,” replied the guardian,
apparently somewhat crestfallen; “asyou
are a lawyer and are posted, I would like
to consult you on tho fishing laws of this
State.” , .
The attorney then, in a most concise man
ner, furnished him with the information.
He then commenced to fish the stream again,
and his parting words were:
“Keep my card, and be sure to get my
right name ou that warrant."
The next day tho vigilant sentinel of the
stream was thunderstruck when a constable
of the town served a summons upon him to
appear before ’Squire , and answer
why ho should not pay John F. a cer
tain sum of money. He hurried to the vil
lage and found the attorney at a hotel.
“There must be some mistake about this,
he said, handing the counsellor tho sum
mons. “I do not owe you anything that I
“Oh! yes you do,” said the man of law,
with a bland smile; “you asked to consult
with me professionally, and ray usual fee
for consultation is SSO, but 1 have been ox
11*01110]y trt'ii*'rous with you, ond will only
charge you $25. You must pay mo my fee,
Sl The!nani)loadi hard, but it did no good.
He i>aid the lawyer his fee. The next day
the lawyer intended to leave for New York.
Before ’doing so ho walked to the humble
home of tho minister who preached in tho
little church in tho neighborhood.
• Dominie,” he said, “I learn your salary
is but a mere pittance and your church is
Accept this littlo contribution from
Half i for yourself and the
‘othtwS? the benefit of the church.” At the
■iv. the lawyer placed a package of
tX into the hand of tho astonished minister.
The lawver shot out of tho yard. Tho dom
liwia t [j o pi-esonce of Ins
idhugwdfe*' 1 A* the hot tears fell upon
, t .<•. iia hissod hor, ftnd ss-id?
hel and wm ncv r agaii. preach that all men
are bad, aX that there is uo good in the
human heart. ”
‘Bn* turncdamUed,
THE MORNING NEWS : TUESDAY. JUNE 28. 1837.*"-
SOME SNAKE STORIES.
A Monster Serpent Killed After a
Long Fight.
The New York Times has the following
dispatch from Allentown, Fa.: A snake that
measured 16.2 feet in length, and of propor
tionate circumference, and which has been
pronounced a king snake bj T local natural
ists, was killed by Elias Moser, a well known
resident of Lynn township, this county, a
few days ago, in the woods near his
farm house. When Moser first saw the
reptile only its head was visible between
the rails of a fence. He supposed it was
a large specimen of the ordinary blnck
suake, and, picking up a stone threw it at
the protruding head. The stone missed its
mark, and the snake, instead of making off,
began to make itself more prominent, and
rapidly unfolding itself to the eyes of the
astounded farmer. After a snake bigger
than he had ever seen had come through
the fence and the end of it was not yet Far
mer Moser turned and ran.
The snake followed him. and so closely
that the farmer mounted a high stone wall
and jumped down behind it. The snake
glided up the wall also, and without delay
came down on the other side. Moser saw
there was nothing for it but to fight, and he
grabbed a stone from the wall and hurled
it at the serpent as it approached him.
Fortunately the stone hit the snake near
tho head, which the reptile carried
high above the ground, and knocked it
down. Before the serpent recovered Moser
seized another stone and tossed it square on
its head, fastening it to the ground. The
weight of the stone prevented the serpent
from releasing itself, and Moser took ad
vantage of the situation to hurl other heavy
stones on the one that held the snake fast
until the gradual ceasing of the twirling
and coiling of the great body indicated that
the reptile was overcome.
Moser did not venture to remove the
stones, however, until he went home and got
his hired man and a gun. When he
returned thus reinforced the stones were
taken off. The snake was dead. The head
was long and flat. The upper part of the
body was of a bluish black except two broad
white bands araund the neck. The belly
was yellowish white. The great size of the
snake is something unheard of for serpents
known to abound in this latitude.
On the same day Charles K. Henry and
Daniel Schroeder, of the same township,
killed two blacksnakes on an adjoining
farm which measured nearly 8 feet each.
Lehigh county is not the only one in this
part of Pennsylvania where the serpent
family is productive of excitement to the
farmers. Ou Saturday Jeremiah Brady, a
farm hand in the employ of J. S. Strick
land, in the vicinity of Senator Don Cam
eron’s Donegal farm, in Dauphin county,
was harrowing in a field, when an immense
blaeksnake came out of a hollow stump and
attacked one of the mules which Brady was
driving. Brady struck at it with his whip,
when the snake turned and made for him.
Brady ran to a stone pile in the field, fol
lowed by the snake. The stones which
Brady threw did not hit the serpent, and as
it came nearer and nearer he mechanic-ally
made a stroke at it with his whip, which he
still retained. The lash curled around the
snake’s neck and fastened itself there. This
seemed to take the reptile by surprise, and
it turned to get away. Brady held on to
the whip, and bringing stones again to his
aid soon dispatched the snake. It was a
very large one of the racer species. Before
he "finished work for the day Brady killed
ten other snakes, two of them copperheads.
The rest were large blacksnakes.
In Lycoming countv there is a creek
called Rattlesnake creek. From reports re
ceived from there during the past few days
it richly deserves its name. Squire Clark
and John Liggett, who were surveying
some woods lots along the creek on Friday,
killed thirteen large yellow rattle
snakes. Liggett stepped on two of
them before ne saw tliein. One turned
to strike him in the foot, but not
being coiled its aim was not true, and it
sank its fangs in its own body. William
Reinhold and Frank Joy, of Philadelphia,
went to the head waters of the creek to
camp for a few days’ trout-fishing last
week. They came back to Lock Haven the
next day with six rattlesnakes which they
had succeeded in killing, and said as many
more which they saw had got away.
THE POPULATION OP CHINA.
A Matter of Much Doubt—Now 450,-
000,000 People in China.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
The population of China has been a mat
ter of much discussion and doubt among
foreigners. It has been claimed that the fig
ures of the Chinese census are much too
high. There is, however, no Known reason
why the officials of that country should ex
aggerate then- population. There is no dis
puting the fact the means existing there for'
arriving at an accurate census are most am
plo. Every house must have a list of its in
mates hung at its door, and a violation of
this is visited with punishment. The impe
rial and local taxes are based in part upon
the numbers of the people. The most diffi
cult task imposed upon the provincial rulers
is the furnishing the amounts of money de
manded by the imperial government, and
any excessive census return would only in
crease that difficulty. It is only a fair pre
sumption that if tlie census returns are in
correct, they are too small rather than too
large.
The census of 1875 gave the population of
the empire at 435,000,000. Since that time
Tonquin has been lost, with several million
people, and Kashgaria has been reconquered.
Among no people with any degree of civili
sation is the birth rate so high as in China,
and, although the death rate in the densely
crowded districts is very great, there is
every reason to presume there are now 450,-
000,000 people in China.
These figures represent more than one
third of the population of the globe. It is a
greater population than that of all Europe,
and three time the number of people on the
western continent. Even at these enormous
figures the averago number of people to
the square mile for the whole empire—Bs—
not so high as in some parts of the United
States.
In the great mountain ranges, on tho arid
plains of Kashgaria and the snowy regions
of Mongolia ana Manchuria tho population
is sparse, but in tho eight central provinces
of China proper—in the fertile, alluvial soils
—the population is denser and more crowded
than in any other region of equal extent on
earth. The villages there are almost beyond
enumeration, and the numbers of walled
cities incrediblo to those who havo not seen
them. In the two Kiang provinces, at the
mouth of tho Yungtz river, an area of
DO,OOO square miles, the pops '%ou in 1875
was ft;, 000,000, and there walled
cities. ,pB
The census of 1875 was tf s pe<M'hen tho
richust portions of theso hud
been devastated and dopopnjtJy by the
Taiping rebellion. Since thero
has been a great inpouring or people from
other regions of tho empire, especially from
those districts where the famine of 187s pre
vailed. Tho natural incroaso of population
has also been voi-y great, and it would be
gafo to say that these 00,000 square miles
have now more than 80,000,000 people.
A Wonderful Machine But it Will
Wear Out.
There is no doubtthat man is a fine mech
anism, but like every machine ho wears
out by friction. It is said tliat he is born
again overy two or three years. His body
is virtually remade from food. To re
tard this making over is radically wrong, as
a man loses so much vitality in the delayed
princes that it takes a long time to recu
perate. The pracess of making anew is ho
accelerated by purging with Bhandokth’s
FlUl that anew man, as it were, may be
made in two or three months, and tho
change in the mechanism Is such tliat the
wornout part is replaced by the new with
out the usual running down of the entire
machine. You don’t have to stop ter re
pairs. . Purge away with Biianuhktu’s
I'liafi the old, dixeiL/jd and wornout body.
All But Hanged.
From the New York Sun.
The story of a man who is reprieved
while standing on the scaffold with the
noose about his nock, must always thrill.
Tho fact of any oue standing in the. presence
of death for u moment has a strange fasci
nation about it, and his follow men are anx
ious to know what his thoughts and feoliugs
were ns he expected to le ushered into eter
nity. It has boea my ill luck to look squarely
into the eyes of grim death on several occa
sions, and my good luck to preserve my
life against the fate which seemed to
hunger for it: and some of the incidents
may prove interesting to the general
reader.
During the siege of Yorktown by McClel
lan I was detailed from my company to do
scout work. While my reports no doubt
went to tho commander himself, 1 reported
directly to a division coimnander, whom I
never met without being forced to notice
the fact that he was the worse for liquor.
Later on in the war there was a chief of
scouts, but at this time there were half a
dozen of us taking orders direct from this
General and reporting back to him in per
son. On my third trip I was very nearly cap
tured by the Confederates and
in the squeeze I got rid of nil
my paper, including the pass which
gave me entrance and exit to the Federal
lines. Therefore, when I finally reached the
Federal picket post I luui lathing by which
to identity myself. The officer in command
of the reserve picket post was a smart Aleck,
who thought to add to his importance by re
fusing to believe my story and sending me
to the headquarters of the brigade. There I
was regarded as a veritable Confederate spy,
and the general in command was extremely
pomjxuis in his demeanor toward nie. I can
remember the conversation as vividly as if
it took place yesterday. By the time I
reached ills tent my grms had been tied be
hind me, and I was looked upuu as a very
dangerous fellow.
“So you are tho and spy captured
down there at the picketl” shouted the Gen
eral as I stood before him.
“I am no spy, sir.” I replied.
“Oh no, of course not; but don’t you talk
back to me, you infernal traitor 1 Who sent
you spying into our camp?”
“I am a Uniou soldier, sir, and belong
“Shut up, you scoundrel 1 Don’t think
that you can stand there and lie to me.
What rebel command do you l>elong to?”
“None sir. lam a Union scout, and was
detailed ”
“Stop!” ho shouted, while his face grew
crimson. “While the truth may not help
you, I hate to see you stand in the presence
of death with a lie upon your lips. Guard,
remove him.”
I was taken away and confined in a guard
house, but not for long. In about an hour
I was taken to another tent in the same en
campment, and I entered it to find four or
five general officers present. It was to be a
drumhead court martial. As I afterward
learned, a report of my capture had lieon
sent to headquarters, and McClellan had
replied: “Try him by drum-head court
martial; and if found guilty hang him at
sunrise.” A drum head court martial
is a dignified farce. It is convened to con
vict. The idea is that the victim is guilty,
but must be disposed of according to the
regulations of the War Department, The
fact that I openly and boldly approached the
Union picket,and that I was coming from the
enemy’s lines carried no weight in my favor.
The officer of the picket said I was certainly
a spy, and that settled it. When they final
ly condescended to hear my explanation I
gave my name, and stated that the General
to whom I made my reports would identify
me. I stood in neither awe nor fear, know
ing how easily I could be identified. Koine
of the memtiers of the court were opposed to
giving me this chance for my life, but it was
finally decided to dispatch an orderly and
adjourn the court for an hour. I was con
ducted back to the guard house to wait, and
when again taken before the officers I ex
pected to be discharged without delay. You
can therefore imagine my feelings when I
was informed that Gen. utterly repu
diated me. My regiment and company were
a dozen miles away and I felt that it would
be useless to ask further delay. In ten
minutes I was found guilty, and sentenced
to execution at sunrise, anil before midnight
a scaffold had been prepared.
Why had Gen. denied my identity?
The only excuse I could offer for him
was that he was drunk when the
messenger reached him, and such proved to
be the case. Roused from his stupid sleep,
he had winked and blinked at the communi
cation and made out a portion of it, and
then fluug it down with the assertion that
he knew no one of my name. The gallows
was erected within a few rods of where I
was confined. Some beams and boards
were taken from an abandoned house, and
the Structure was a very rude affair. I
could plainly hear every blow struck, and
the fellows engaged in putting it up seemed
to want me to overhear their unfeeling re
marks. About an hour before daylight a
curious change took place in me. I began
to wonder if I was really the man I claimed to
be, and it wasn’t fifteen minutes before 1 had
come to the conclusion that I was someone
else—in fact, a spy, as they declared.
This idea took such firm lodgment, in my
mind that I would have honestly denied my
real identity. I felt that I had been fairly
tried and honestly convicted, and that I
ought to suffer death. There was no partic
ular terror in the idea. The only thought
about hanging which made ire cringe was
the fall through the trap. It seemed to mo
as I reflected on it that the pain would be
something awful, but I was consoled at the
same time with the reflection that it would
soon be over.
Half an hour before sunrise I was brought
out and escorted to tho foot of the gallows.
If I remember right there wua about half a
company of infantry on the ground. Only
a few or the soldiers in camp were out to
witness the proceedings. They had gra
ciously provided me with spiritual consola
tion in the jiersou of a chaplain, but,
though the goal man talked to mo for ten
minutes, I did not hear one word in twenty
he uttered. I was all the time wondering
how long before it would be over, anil every
minute of delay made me impatient. When
the time came for me to mount the scaffold
I was really glad of it. There wiis nothing
in the sight of the dangling rope to chill me.
I took my place on the trap, the chaplain ut
tered a prayer, and then a soldier quickly
tied my elbows and ankles and pulled a cap
over my beud. It was a matter of seconds
uow, and I said to myself:
“It is coming now —good-by to all—it will
soon be over.”
They had to cut a rope underneath to
spring the trap. My sense of hearing was
so acute that I located the man who stood
with an ax ready to do this service at a
given signal, and I heard him whisper to
himself:
“Why, in God’s name, do they keep the
man so long in sus[>ense?”
“Then I begun to count one—two—three,
and so on, and bad got up to nine, when
I hoard ashouting not far away, and min
gled with it, the sounds of horses coining at
a gallop.
“Don’t cut that rope!” commanded the of
ficer in charge, and I said to myself:
“Something has gor.e wrong, and there
will be a further delay. Perhaps lam to
bo shot. That would be an easier way to
die.”
Thero was some loud talk around me,
two or three people came up the ladder to
the platform, and directly a band pulled the
cap off my head and a voice said:
“Captain, there is some terrible mis
take In ire. Tliis is Roberta, one of my
scouts. ’
“But you did not know hint last night?”
“I know him now, and you will release
him at once.”
It was Gen. . As he awoke from his
drunken sleep at an early hour a dim re
membrance of tho messams crept into his
mind, and be rolled out of las! and found
the inquiry sent by the court martial. He
could not remember what word he had sent
in reply, but he jumped into his clothes and
then into the saddle, and be came just in
time to jikevent a military murder. W bat
was the effect of this dose calif Well, I
went to the hospital for two weeks with a
fever, and it was a full mouth before I was
posit ively certain of toy idsaLty.
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MILLINERY. "*
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KROUSKOFFS
Mammoth Millinery House.
We are now offering immense lines of New Straw Hats,
Ribbons, Feathers, etc., which are now being shipped daily
by our New York buyer, and our Mr. Krouskoff, who is now
North to assist in the selection of the Choicest Novelties in
the Millinery Line. It is astonishing but a fact, that we sell
fine Millinery cheaper than any retail store in New York. How
can we do it? Cannot tell. This is our secret and our suc
cess. Perhaps on account of large clearing out purchases or
perhaps from direct shipments from London or Paris—but no
matter so long as the ladies have all the advantages in stock
and prices.
We are now ready for business, and our previous large
stock will be increased, and we are now offering full lines of
fine Milans in White and Colors, for Ladies, Misses and
Children in an endless variety of shapes.
RIBBONS, RIBBONS, new novelties added and our regu
lar full line entirely filled out.
We knock bottom out in the price of Straw Goods.
We continue the sale of our Ribbons at same prices as
heretofore, although the prices have much advanced.
We also continue to retail on our first floor at wholesale
prices.
B. KROTJSKO UU.
DRY GOODS.
F. GUT MAN.
118 BROTJatITOISJ' ST.
We Will Continue to Sell All Goods at Cost Until
JULY Ist.
We Will Then Move to Our Old Store,
141 BROUGHTON, NEAR WHITAKER.
All Goods Will Then Be Sold at Regular Prices.
If. GUT M A. TsT .
SILVERWARE.
SPECIAL ATTENTION
IS CALLED TO OUR NEW AND ELEGANT STOCK OB’
Sterling Silverware,
Consisting of the usual combinations of pieces in handsome coses, largely increased by
the Latest Productions, in
TEA CADDIES, SWINGING TEA KETTLES, BERRY BOWLS, PUNCH BOWLS, WATER
PITCHERS, SUGAR BASKETS AND CREAM POTS, BON BON DISHES, PEPPER
AND SALTS IN PAIRS, MUSTARD POTS, SALT CELLARS, ICE
CREAM SETS, EPERGNES, COFFEE SPOONS, ETC.
Many of these goods are specimens of the highest grade of Art Work in Metal. We invite critical
examination.
THETIS BROS.
MOSQUITO NETS.
SHOO ELY!
DON'T BE TORMENTED WITH MOSQUITOS, BUT CALL AT
LINDSAY Sc MORGAN’S STORES
169 and 171 Broughton. Street,
AND SECURE AT ONCE A MOSQUITO NET OF SOME KIND. On hand LACE and GAUZE
NETS, FOUR POST, HALF CANOPIES. TORN OVER and UMBRELLA
MOSQUITO NET FRAMES.
REFRIGERATORS of several kinds. Prominent among them is the ALLEGRETTO also the
EMPRESS, TOM THUMB, SNOWFLAKE, ICE PALACE and ARCTIC KING.
BABY CARRIAGES. About twenty-five different styles to select from. Prices very low.
Our stock of CHAMBER and PARI.OR SUITES Is full.
STRAW MATTING. Big stock, low prices.
I¥* Orders Villed "With Dispatch.
LINDSAY & MORGAN.
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC.
SAVANNAH, GA„
MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN
Mi, Doors, ills, lilels, Pew Ends,
And Interior Finis',) of all kinds, Mouldings. Balusters, Newel Posta. Estimates, Price Data. Mould
ing Books, and any information in our line furnished on application. Cypress, Yellow Pine, Oak,
Ami and Walnut LUMBER on hand and In any quantity, furnished promptly.
VALE ROYAL MANUFACTURING- COMPANY* SavaauaU* G&
swings sWcinc,
Jr_ official.
qi : arastineNotic£
Or ncr. Htalth Cirnco, I
Savannah, Oa., May T 1887. f
From anil after MAY Ist, 1887, the city aril
nance which specifies (he Quarantine require
ments to bo observed at the port of Savannah.
Georgia, for period of time (annually) from May
Ist to November Ist, wUi bo moat rigidly en
forced.
Merchants and al! other parties interested
will bo supplied with printed copies of the Qua*,
online (ordinance upon application to office of
Health Officer.
From and after this date and until further no
tice all steamships and vessels from .South
America, ('antral America. Mexico, West India*.
Sicily, ports of Italy south of 10 degs North
latitude, and coast of Africa be ween
10 degs. North and 11 degs. South latitude,'
direct or via American port will be sub
jected to close Quarantine and be reouir*#
to report at the Quarantine Station and be
treated os being from infected or suspected
ports or localities. Captains of these vessel*
will have to remain at Quarantine Station until
their vessels are relieved.
AH steamers and vessels fl ora foreign pori*
not included above, direct or via America*
ports, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise,
will 1* required to remain in quarantine until
boarded and passed by the Quarantine Officer.
Neither the Captains nor ary one on board of
uWt vessels will l>e allowed to come to the city
until the iv.wl* are. inspected and pasted t,y the
Quarantine Officer.
As ports or localities not herein enumerated
tue reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori
ties, Quarantine restrictions against same will
be enforced without further publication.
The quarantine regulation requiring the flying
of the quarantine jlcuj on vessels subjected to
detention or inspection will be rigidly enforced.
J. 1 ■ Me F A|{|...N~i>. M. It. Health officer.
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ORDINANCE.
Am Ordinance to amend article LX of the Sa
vannah City Code, adopted Feb. ffl, 1870, so aa
to require all occupants of houses, merchants,
shopkivpers,grocers and tradesmen occupying
E remises to which no yards are attached to
eep within their promises a box or barrel of
sumoient tise. Iu which shall be deposited all
otTal, tilth, rubbish, dirt and other matter gen
erated in said premises, orto put such i>ox or
liarrel in the streets or lanes under condition*
gnwcrilied herein.
notion 1. He it ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the city of Savannah iu Council
assembled, and It Is hereby ordained by the
authority of the same, That section i of said
article Ist amended so as to read os follows: The
owners, tenants or occupiers of houseshaving
yards or enclosures, and all occupants of houses,
all merchants, shopkeepers, grocers and trades
men occupying premises to which no yards are
attached shall keep within their yawls or
f 'remises a box or barrel of sufficient size, in
which shall be deposited all the offal, filth, rub
bish, dirt and other matter generated in said
building and enclosure, mid the said filth of every
description as aforesaid shall Is) placed in said
box or barrel, from the llrsi day of April to the
first day of November before the hour of 7
O'clock a. m., and from the first .lay of November
(Inclusive) to tiie lust duy of March (inclusive)
before tli" hour of 8 o'clivk a. m., and suoh mat
ter so placed shall lie daily removed (Sundays
excepted) by the Kiiis'rtntendent, to
such places two miles at least
without the city as shall Is) designated by the
Mayor or u majority of the Btfeet and I ,ane
Committee. And it shall be unlawful for any
occupant of a bouse, merchant, shopkeeper,
grocer or tradesman to sweep into or to deposit
in any street or lane of this city any paper,
Irtish, or mhhish of any kind whatsoever.but
the same shall he kept In boxes or Iwirrels a*
hereinbefore provided, for removal by the scav
enger xa the city. Any person not having a yard
may |WI the box or barrel containing the offal,
rubbish, etc., in the gki-eet or lane for removal
by the scavenger, jwovided the box or liarrel so
put in the street or lane shall lie of such char
acter and size as to securely keep the offal, rub
bish, etc., from getting into the street or lane.
And any person other than the owner or scaven
ger interfering with or troubling the box or bar
rel so put in the street or lane shall be punished
on conviction thereof In the |>olice court by tine
not exceeding SIOO or imprisonment not exceed
ing thirty days, either or both In tho discretion
of officer presiding In said court.
Ordinance passed in Council June Ist, 1887.
RUFUS E. LESTER, Mayor.
Attest: Frank E. Ukbahek, Clerk of Council
City Marshal s office, l
Savannah. April sßd, 1887. f
'THE City Treasurer has placed in my hand*
1 Real Estate Executions for 1880, privy Vault
Executions for 18Hfi, stock in Trade and other
(sTsonal property executions for 1889, and Spe
cific or License Tax Executions for 1887, com
manding me to make the money on said writ*
by levy anil sale of the defeintaiita' pro|>erty or
by other lawful means. I hereby notify all per
sons in default that, tho tax and revenue ordi
nance will lie promptly enforced If payment is
not made at my office without dt-lay.
Office hours from 11a. m. to 2 p. m.
ROBT. J. WADE,
Citv Marshal.
<ll All AMINE NOTICE.
OFFICE HeAI.TH OFFICER, I
Savannah, April sth, 1887. (
Notice is hereby given that the Quarantine
Officer is Instructed not to deliver letters to ve*.
scls which are not subjected to quarantine de
tention, unless the name of consignee and state
ment that the vessel is ordered to some other
port appears upon the face of the envelope.
This order Is mode necessary In consequence of
the enormous bulk of dnmmilug letters sent to
the station for vessels which are to arrive.
J. T. McFarland, m. i>„
Health Officer.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Office Health Officer, I
Savannah, March 25th, 1887. (
pilots of the Port of Savannah are informed
that the Kai lo Quarantine Station will be open
ed on APRIL Ist. 1887.
Special attention of the Pilots is directed to
sections Nos !id and 14th, Quarantine Regula
tiims.
Moat rigid enforcement of quarantine regula
tions will be maintained by the Health authori
ties. j. t. McFarland, m and.,
/ Health Officer.
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King Solomon's Treasures 260
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Mu 260
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