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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. *18361 1 ISWIFT’S*SPECIfre:i I IIBBC >' A REMEDY HOT FOR A DAY, BUT FOB toT HALF A CENTURY BELIEVING SUFFERING HUMANITY! SSS SSS SSS SSS AN INTERESTING TREATISE ON BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES SENT FREE TO ALL APPLICANTS.* IT SHOULD BE READ BY EVERYBODY. * ADDRESS THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. OH. MILLINERY. "* S iirw >m i<: 11 v A'r 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. SSS SSS SSS SSS 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. PUBLICATIONS. NEW BOOKS AT Estill’s News Depot, No. 23 Bull Street. To Cali Her Mluo 250 On Her Wedding Mom iVs) The Great Hesper Sfio Knight Errant 26<; The Squire’* Darling 26c The Golden Hope 26c This Man's Wife 2So Sweet Oymbeline 260 King Solomon's Treasures 260 Claribel’s Love Story aka Open Sesame 26c Karina 25c The Woodlander* 26c Pa. 26a King Solomon’s Wive* 26c Mu 260 Her Word Against a Lie 25c A Girl's Heart * . 260 Wee Wifle ...260 Elizabeth's Fortune. ...,26c Mystery of Oolde Fell .*.... 260 A Hidden Terror 26<J Thu Rival Cousins 350 She 260 He 26c It 260 Me Wo Hornet's Nest 90c From Jest to Earnest .90s Without a Home 90c Mias Churchill 50u Address all orders to WILLIAM ESTILL. Savannah, Ga. Any of the above mailed on receipt of adver tised price. J IKON WORKS. USBT Bali® IRON FOUNDERS, Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blacksmiths, ■—luimrxcTVßSM or STATIONARY and PORTABLE ENGINEER VERTICAL aud TOP RUNNING CORN MILLS. SUGAR MILLS and PANS. 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