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FIGHTING AXKfIIAPPING. BUFFALO BILj/l HILLS ALL ABOUT , THETA OUT WEST.. Some Information Gfaciously Vouch. •e<‘i.ied to Her Majesty's British Sub jects-Early Blood-Letting in Bleeding Kansas—Bill a. Trapper—Hair- Breadth 'Scapes. IP. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") in Murray's Mag azine for June. lam frequently asked whether the In dians who have accompanied me “to this country are old friends of mine, accustomed ■by a long course of training to the parts they play in my exhibition of the “Wild West.” It would be moye correct to call them old enemies. Their rehearsals have talced j)lace on the war-path, and possibly they may some day return to it. Their expe rience of civilization is their services are at my disposal for a Jimited period, never exceeding a year, after which they return to their reserves, richer and possibly wiser men. It is indeed only by obtaining a constant suc cession of untutored braves that I can in sure that freshness, of incident and spon taneous action which are so peculiarly char acteristic of the red red men. Civilization has very mixed effects upon an Indian; if he once learns to speak English he will soon forget all his native cunning pride Of race. I find no difficulty in persuading (f sufficient number to join me. I explain to them what I want done, and they have perfect confidence in my word” that whatever agreement is made will be carried out to the letter. They know that they will lie well paid and well fed; in other matters, clothing, for instance, their re quirements are small. It is, of course, only possible to arrange with them during a period of peace; if they ever go on the war path again our relations will perhaps be of a different character. But yi peace their most relentless enemies can safely traverse their country. Thoy abide honorably by Sledges once given, and among them, when le hatchet is buried, treachery is unknown. This is more, than could always be said for the white men in my young days. My father was killed before my eyes by a coward’s hand stinking treacherously from behind. I was but a boy of 10 at the time; we were living in Kansas, and there was a struggle between tfie Free State party and the slave, owners as to whether slavery should be permitted or not. In some States it was allowed, in others prohibited. As new Territories were bought from the Indians ,or opened up to settle ment, pending their subsequent creation into fresh States, the. two parties dis puted the question so hotly that a kind of guerilla war commenced between those who were trying to extend slavery into those Northern Territories and the Free State men, who opposed it. My father was a strong Free State man, and in the political agitation which preceded the outbreak of actual hostilities he took a leading part. One day, in 1865, he was speaking at an open air meeting, I believe the first political meeting held in Kansas; the pro-slavery party mustered strong, but my father made no secret of his view*t ; the temper of the crowd grew violent and threaten ing ; they began to press round the dry goods box on which he was standing before a frontier store; while he was trying to pacify tho angry mob one of the scoundrels, Charles Dunn by name, jumped on the box behind and stabbed him in the back with a bowie-knife. He died from the wound, and for the mo ment the murderer escaped, for the sympa thy of the mob was with the crime. But a tew years afterward, when the civil war broke out, I had my revenge. The pro slavery party of Kansas joined the South ern cause; Charles Dunn was killed, and out of all those who held participated in my father’s murder there was only one who escaped death at the hands of the free-State men. Thus I had to shift for myself at an early age, and tho6e were days when it was almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with Indians at every turn. I drove a stage, rode the ponv-express, took freight, across the plains, aid whatever I eotild for a living, and gained a knowledge of every mile of coimtrywhich none could beat; I got to know the ways of the Indians, too, and they soon knew me. I went trapping and hunting all over their country; they hated the trappers and were always on the lookout for them, so that it was a dangerous game, and a man always carried his life in his hand on such expeditions. One or two of us would penetrate up the stream in the wildest part of the country, far from any settlements and only inhabited by roving banrft of Indians. Choosing the ground. we would build a log hut, or dugout, as it is called, and set about trapping beaver or hunting buffalo and wapiti. Hundreds of trappers have been killed while setting their traps along a stream or skinning the game they have caught. I have had many a tussle myself, but been as lucky as a man who goes unhurt through a battle in which thousands are killed. When the Indians “jump” you, if you have been on the look out, tnere is generally time to get behind a tree, and then make the best fight of it you can. I remember one occasion, however, when the red men treated me quite generously. It was an experience I shall never forget. I was 14 years old—still only a boy trapper, as one might say—and started on an ex pedition with a man named Dave Harring ton. We went right away, 125 miles from anv settlement, with a yoke of oxen and a light wagon to carry supplies and haul our furs back. We found a creek where there was lots of game, and there we made Our winter camp. On the side of a hill we built a dug out, jmd turned the oxen out to graze upon a small island, where we left them; then we began trapping, and did splendidly for a few weeks, everything going well. But one day, while we were out after elk, as we were going round a sharp bend of the creek, I. fell so heavily upon a slippery hill slope that I broke the shin-bone of my leg. Dave Harrington managed to carry me back to the dug-out; but, unluckily, not long before this one of our oxen had slipped upon the ice in trying to cross from tne island and received injuries which obliged us to kill it. We had thus only one left, and he was not strong enough to haul me back in the wagon to the settlement. So Dave had to leave me lying in the dug-out and started off upon his journey of 125 miles to get help, promising to be back in twenty days. I had plenty of food and snow water, so there was no fear of my starving. On the eighteenth day, hearing a.noiso outside, I supposed it was Dave returned before his time, and sang out to let him know I was all right. For. answer there sprang into the little dugoul a "party of Indians; J was soon surrounded by as many as the hut would bold, and I saw at a glance thpt they wero on tne' war-path.. They began threatening me with knives and tomahawks, and things did ndt look very bright; then the chief look ed In, and I recognized him as “Rain-in-tbe- Fnce,” an old man whose camp I hail once visited. I called out to him that I knew him, and that a year ago I had lived in the same place as he did, and had played with his children. He remembered me; and, jumping into the midst of his war riors, stopped them just as they were about to kill me. “This Is only a papoose—a boy!" he exeluiined; “wo do not fight with boys, but with •nieu." Bo they spared my life; but everything I ha'd in tho hut, except some meat, they took away. After this the days came and weut, but no Dave Harrington appeared. "I feared he must have perished in a storm or been caught by the Indians, for tho twentieth day was long past. But he came at laflt on the twenty-ninth day, bringing a yoke of oxen. He had suffered terribly in thesnow drifts; but he persevered through even' thing, and, nutting me in the wugen, con veyed me back safely to the settlement, where I finally reooverod. Dave was a brave fellow; be imperiled his life to rescue me, and showed wliat one man, whose nerve does nob fall him, will sometimes dare for another in that wild country. During the late war the Indians took ad vantage of the defenseless state of the’ frontier, and tiecame much bolder in their raids - upon our Territories. They made no distinction of parties, but saw their oppor tunity while the whites were fighting, and let themselves loose upon us, as there was no one to stop them. As soon, therefore, as the North had whipped the South our troops were sent straight to the borders to quell the Indians. I knew that part of the coun try better than most men, and was employed on scouting duty. The difficulty was to find the euemy, who had no tlxed quarters; and men well acquainted with their habits and customs were required to guide the troops in their haunts. Even when the whereabouts of a tribe was known it was not easy to come up with them. To follow the trail over dry grass needed much care and patience. A single hoof mark sometimes gave the only in dication; this must be followed until it led to others, where the main body had passed. No tricks such as turning back along the track ought to deceive a clever trailer; and he must be able to move along quickly, or he would never overtake the In dians. The troops often got near them in the evening too late for an attack; all night the men would lie in wait, holding their horses by the bridles, while the scout steals forward on foot to discover the best side to approach. Disguised as an Indian, he can often get close up to the encampment, unper ceived, and thus enable the commanding officer to form his plans with certainty. Cunning as the Indians are, the white man can beat them at their own game. Indeed, whether it be in shooting, or riding, or trail ing, or anything else, it is my experience that a white man who is up to his business can always outdo men of any other race in the world, even on their own ground. Not that I moon to underrate the fighting powers of the Indians; our troops have often enough had to retire, as every one knows. Capture is the worst thing to be feared. For this reason the Indians made but few prisoners. Men knew that it was better to die fighting than to bo taken, with the fate in store for captives of being tortured and burned at the stake. Yet it was Hot always possible to avoid capture, and . there have been friends of my own who suffered that awful death. I have been caught myself more than once, but my good for tune has stood by me each time. On one occasion, while scouting in 1868, a tribe with whom we were at peace suddenly took to the warpath. I had been in their company in the morning and found them perfectly friendly, but happening to visit the comp again in the evening I discovered that their attitude had changed during the day, and without anything to warn me I rode straight into the midst of t.he enemy, as they had then become. ~ Instantly the warriors closed ir. upon me, circling round and beating me with whips and clubs. The surprise was so unexpected and I had no time to use my rifle or make any attempt at escape, so I had recourse to a stratagem. Putting a bold face on, I told them that I was bringing a number of cattle as a present from the commanding officer, who believed them to be still friendly. They knew that if I were killed all chance of ob taining the cattle would be gone, and I was allowed to retire for the purpose of collect ing the herd and driving it into the camp. Once out Of sight I made a bolt for it and succeedeiMn reaching the fort, seventeen miles off, leaving the Indians to wait for the cattle as long as they pleased. Although their usual method of warfare is by means of ambuscades and surprises, the Indians are not afraid to meet their enemies in a stand-up fight in the open. In the war of 1876, when I was chief scout under Gen. Carr, we came one day face to face with the Cheyennes, and the two forces were drawn up opposite each other in regu lar line of battle, about half a mile apart. I had been employed in so many expedi tions by this time that I had acquired a high reputation among the Indians as a “warrior,” and while our troops were halt ed preliminary to an attack the Cheyenne chief, Yellow Hand, rode out in front of his line and challenged me to single com bat. He shouted out that he was the great est warrior in his own tribe, and honored me by saying that I was reputed the greatest warrior among the whites. If I dared he wanted me to come forward and fight it out with him, to see which of us proved the better man. I accepted his challenge, of course, and rode to meet him Mrithout delay. .We both had rifles andjioth our horses were soon shot under us. Then we continued the battle on foot, he with a tomahawk, I with a bowie-knife. But 1 was too quick for him, and at last as he was raising his arm to strike I seized hold of it and held hint ntil I could deal a decisive blow. I have nis scalp now; had it ended the other way he would have had mine, for one of us must have been killed. That affair was thought a great deal of by the Indians, for Yellow-Hand was a fa mous chief, and after it I was looked upon as a mighty warrior indeed, although, as I have said, a white man does not really de serve any special credit for beating an In dian when they meet on equal terms. Still, it is a good thing for a man who has to deal much with Indians to gain their respect ns a fighter. When peace is made they will always come in first to the man that has fought them hardest. They are great ad mirers of bravery and skill on the war path, and although they will devise every possible means for killing an enemy and taking his scalp, yet the ortener he defeats them in battle, the further he outwits them in trailing, and the more of their braves he slays, so much the more do the}’ look up to him as a great warrior, and when the war is ovep pay him all honor if he visits this country. I have frequently proved this to be the case during the hunting expeditions I have organized, when we have been right through tho Indian country without any mishap. When the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia came over to the United States, I took him out in the buffalo country, and we had one of the largest hunts I can remember. Of course we were escorted by troops, although the Indians were pretty quiet at the time, so there was no danger on that occasion. But it was an instance of the confidents which the tribes plats in a man they know and resjsct that I was able to fetch 150 war riors from a district 300 miles away, who were willing to accompany me all that dis tance in order to give the Grand Duke a war dance on the plains. Only a few years before I had been hunt ing buffalo under very different circum stances. It was when the Kansas Pacific railroad was being graded, and I had under taken to supply the workmen with meat. Troops were stationed all along the line to protect the works, which were being carried through a dangerous Indian country... It was not safe to go even a few miles from the soldiers; but meat had to be procured, and I used to take my chance, often travel ing six, ten or even fifteen miles after game without an escort. A wagon accompanied me, with one man to drive and allotner to cut up the mfct; all the shooting I did myself. We were often “jumped” by the Indians, but I arranged with the officer • commanding tho troops that whenever this happened I would, if possible, set the grass alight, and as soon as he saw smoke rising he sent a company of soldiers to my rescue. Until they came we managed to keep the Indians off as best we could. Directly we found that they were upon us we used to throw the buffalo hams and hind-quarters, the only parts we kept for meat, out of the ■ wagon, and make a sort of breastwork out of them, from behind which, lying under neath the wagon, we kept shooting away at the Indians as they rode found us. I also set tie grass on fire, and'we never failed to keep them at bay until help arrived, for they did not find it easy to come to close quarters over the open prairie with men who could shoot as well as we did. The actual hunttog-was easy enough to a man who knew his business. There were hundreds of thousands of buffalo, and the only difficulty lay in the rough ground over which it was neicessary to gallop at full speed in orderto como up with them. Some times a wounded Hull would turn upon you, but In all kinds of hunting, whether of gm riies or buffalo or anything else, it is gener ally only tho greenhorn who gets mauled through his ignorant*. In every phase yf life in the Wild West THE MORNING NSYS: THURSDAY. JUNE 30. 1887? good horses are essential. The best shot can not bring down buffalo unless he has a fast horse to carry him up to them. The bravest man cannot fight a whole tribe of Indians; his only chance is to run, and to do this suc cessfully his horse must have the speed of its pursuers. I used to get the best horses to be bought for money; some of them have become quite celebrated, notably, “Brig ham,” “Buckskin Joe,” and lastly “Old Charlie,” now 30 vears old, who has come with me to England. When there were Indians about I rode another horse and let my own run by my side; in this way he was always fresh, and ir I was “jumped” I slipped off the first horse, mounted my favorite, and with a very small start could soon snap my lingers at the enemy. It was not only from their speed that my horses were so useful to me; they were wonder fully clever. Wherever I went there was never any trouble about hobbling <>r fasten ing them; I used to let them run joose, and they would follow me like a dog. Out on the prairie, when you are quite alone with a hoi , se for days together, ho seems to get regularly attached to you, and likes to keep close to you for company. •Wht'n I was oqt scouting, I used often to Jie down in the shade after dinner and smoke or go to sleep, leaving Old Charlie to graze round about; and he generally would come and lay hirti self down by my side before long. He could hear, too, better than a man, and became so accustomed to the approach of Indians that he would come up and nudge my elbow with his nose if a sound reached him before I beard it. But it does not answer for a man to sleep too soundly in that business. When he knows that his life depends upon acuteness of hearing sleep is a very different affair to tho unbroken rest he enjoys in a settlement. In fact, a scout never really sleeps; he only dozes, with his senses on the alert for every sound or movement around him. Plenty of men have been taken by surprise and killed, while I have escaped. Both in hunting and scouting the same qualities were needed; readiness for emergency, quickness and ac curacy of shooting, knowledge of the coun try, were what you wanted, and could only gain by experience. The life was always dangerous, but those who knew their busi ness thoroughly had the best chance. I am speaking of a time that, in the opin ion of many people, has passed forever, and I confess that I look back with some regret to those exciting days before the West had filled up with settlers. The buffalo has now disappeared and the Indians are diminishing fast. But there are still enough left in the Northwest, in Arizona and Montana, to give trouble; aud I think myself that they will make one more desperate fight iiefore they finally give up the struggle with the white man. Then it may become my duty to take to the prairies again; if the govern ment needs my services, I shall not oe long in answering its call. SIGNS_AND OMENS. Odd Ideas and Superstitions About Good and Bad Luck. From the Chicago Tribune. “A black cat came to my house this morn ing,” said a well-known gambler to a friend the other day, “and I’m bound to make a win, sure.” “You’re in great luck and I’m glad of it. That infernal Shorty came behind my choir the other day and ‘hoodooed’ me and I’m gone broke.” Such is the kind of talk that one hears constantly in gambling circles. For incre dulity and superstition your thorough gam blers exceed all other men. They believe in lucky and unlucky days, in lucky and un lucky numbers, in lucky and uni ucky clothes, and every chance or passing event is sup posed in some way to influence their fortune at cards. Jeff Hankins had a lucky mouse, rat Sheody had a lucky suit of clothes, oth ers have lucky hats, or shoes or charms of some kind Some believe they cannot win if certain people are in the room whore they are playing. Ordinarily it ought to be in ferred that those who are most familiar with the actual results of a long series of chance games would form the most correct views respecting them and would l>e freest from superstition as to chance or luck, but the reverse is the case, and when superstition is finally driven headlong from the world it will find its last ditch and die the hardest in the mind of the gambler. But however black cats and hoodoos may influence the fortune of gamblers, the su perstitions of people generally are singu larly curious and seem so deeply rooted as to be ineradicable. Even the most intelli gent and educated persons have ono or more pet superstitions which they mention only to laugh at but still fondly cherish. It is, in fact, a feature of our social life not alto gether unworthy of study. From the cradle to the grave we are l>asct on all sides by signs and portents and omens. At the very thresh old of life we are told that to be born with a caul is lucky. Readers of “David Cjpp perfield” will remember that he was born with a caul. A child born Christmas day will be able to see spirits and an old rhyme runs: Born on a Sunday, a gentleman. Born on a Monday, fair in face. Born on a Tuesday, full of grace. Born on a Wednesday, sour and gram. Bom on a Thursday, welcome home. Bora on a Friday, free in giving. Born on a Saturday, work hard for your living. Children with much down upon their arms or hands are bound to be rich, while a child that does not cry at baptism is too good to live. If several children are baptized to gether and the girls are taken to the font before the boys, the bovs will have no beards when they are men. If a child's finger nails are cut before it is a year old it will live to be a thief. If your cheek burns somebody is talking scandal of you. If you hear a singing in your right ear somebody is prais ing you, while if it is in your left ear some body is abusing you. You can punish this evil speaker bv biting your little finger sharply. In so doing you bite his evil tongue. To pick up a pin with its head towards you, or find an oid horseshoe or a four-leaf ••lover, will surely bring you good luck. Indeed, to see a pin as you pass along may prove a very serious matter indeed, according to the old rhyme: See a pin and pick It up, All the day you'll have good luck; See a pin and let It lie. All the day you'll have to cry. It Is not pleasant to stumble up stairs, but if you do it is sonic const nation to know that, you will not only have good luck yourself nut that a wedding will take plane in the bouse inside of a year. A maiden who has bad luck at cards will be sure to have a good husband and will play tlie game of life suc cessfully. “Happy tne bride the sun shines on” is n saying so old thafepeople really be lieve it, the record of tliHdivoroe court to tho contrary .For it can not be true that the all mar ried in rainy weather, Among the myi* |mfe,:im enta 1 itii -s .by which fate is leather holds a time-lionfl*fd*Tui jUpninrnt, place. The custom of shoe after a departing fFiendJff ajneiTly married couple is so old that it is wntjs mentioned here to re mind intending throwers that the shoe should belong to the left foot; there is nd virtue in the other. Whether the shoe should be thrown so as to hit tho departing friend is again a question concerning which the old women differ. Borne maintain tliat the re cipient should be hit, and. the harder he is hit the greater will be his fortune; while others quite as plausibly maintain that if the person is hit the journey will be a dis astrous one, probably ending in death. However, whichever way ft is, any bad or evert fatal results may be avoidisl by the traveler pocketing a piece of coal, and as black diamonds are plentiful tnere ought to be no difficulty in bringing about a satisfac tory result. Indeed there are an abundance of ways by which Chance’s freakish daugh ter may be compelled to do us service. Whitsunday has just passed for this year, but if you were thoughtful or wealthy enough to put on something new that day gissl fortune will attend you the remainder of the year. If you want to be assured of success in all your undertakings take the first spider you igiine across in your fingers and throw him over your left shpulder. If you are afraid of the spider a black snail, should you happen to meet one in your early main* walk 11 tie* park, will do quite as we "fake him by the horns just, as you wql a bnll and throw him by the left fln| behind you. If that don’t bring ytm gofiuck never put faith again in signs and onk 'iuble will nover come near fplks whose eyeows meet; and, while a lady’s mous taois a perplexing and an annoying thing, ttnjis some consolation to the possessor in kming that it is nature’s own guarantee thahe is sure to bo rich some day. It is a surign that some kind-hearted soul is lay ing i money for you if your keys or pock etkih or any of your steel belongings get rust} If you wish to keep vour luck you mqsie sure to not let your ieathor bed lie turn! on Sunday, and you must refrain fromtilling the innocent little cricket on the Iktli, for crickets bring luck to a house If yt spill salt on the tablecloth you will have tuarrel on your hands shortly, and if yotrop a knife, fork or spoon it is a sign siebody is coming. A maiden who tied 11*0 know which of her lovers cares the nit for her should name each one of them. ; she throws an auple seed into the fire. 1 the seed cracks the love is hearty. If in filing peas a girl finds a pod with nine pain it, she should lay it on the thresh old of (8 kitehen door. The first young man w> crones it will fall in love with her. Likewf, in breaking the wishbone of a fowl, I she gets the larger part and lays it over 0 top of the doorway, she will not only gdiertwish, whatever it may be, but the fir man who passes under it will bo come If own true love. Tlierhaa always been a widehprend ten dency t tiqjiove in lucky numbers. Even numbej are said to*be nplueky because they can bqivided by two, thereby denoting death ijd dissolution. The number seven is consulted a lucky number, because a lm man bag sheds his teeth at seven, become® a youtpt twice seven, a man at three times seven ad reaches hi# grand climai Ceric at nine tjies seven. Careful farmers’ wives will nier set a hen an even number of eggs, jecause a ben is too superstitious to hatchjut an even number. Three is also a luckyti umber, and to sit at a three-sided table! a sure harbinger i A fortune. If le wishes to know alfthe vagaries that can I indulged about numbers thoy should visit “policy shop” and study the methods of tl players. As nearly everybody knows thainteresting game as played in Chicago tori upon the drawings of someone of the Kefucky or Colorado lotteries. Twice a day there are drawings at Frankfort or Cojngton of thirteen numbers out of a sons running from one to seventy-eight. If thy layer guesses one, two or three of these mpliers he is entitled to an amount of mpey reaching from fivefold to two hun dipfold the amount he has staked. Nutn bi then form the constant thought of the paey player, and all the passing accidents a a incidents of the day are of interest to hti only as they give him a clew to a lucky nfnlier. The dream book is his constant cnipanion, for that ingenious work fur rshes numbers to correspond with all the Eldest fancies of dreamland, and if he can oly strike the right numbers tho purse of Brtunatus will be surely bis. And so the (instant chatter of the policy shop is con- qrning luck and lucky numbers. .Many odd incidents are related about lidky numbers in the lottery. A grocer in L<uson bought four consecutive numbers. Filling this would be unlucky he exchanged one U them and the rejected number turned out to be a large prize. Charles Lamb tells n story if a gentleman who had purchased No. 1,09. Passing a lottery office he saw a placard announcing that that number hail drawn £30,000. Ho took a long walk to cool ht agitation before entering the office. On gqig back he found that lie had mis takenio,o69 for 1,069. In tte lives of all successful men there has undoutedly been a large element of chance or link, but if the matter be carefully looked at it rill lie found that they bud the ability or repurees to profit by what chance had brought to them. It was not because the nppbfeli on Newton’s head that he discov ered/the laws of gravitation, but the inci denf imply called nis attention toa problem he lid the ability to solve. Lord Erskine, the ;eerless English advocate, was called a luely man because in his very first case he mad a widespread sensation and retainers imtediately crowded upon him thick and fast But if he had not had the ability to male the sensational speech the chance of- to him would have amounted to noth ing) Chance happens to everybody, and a cerkin amount of good fortune falls to the lotf all in very equal proportions. It comes eary or it comes late, but the difference is tbit one man can profit by it aud another ea<not. .. JJ l!!LL BROWN’B IRON BITTERS. WOMEN Needing renewed itrengtb, or who suffer from Infirmities peculiar to taelr ocx. should try j|TTEjjs This medietas combines Iron with pure vexetablo tonics, snd is invslu.bls for Diseases peculisr to Women, and all who load sedentary Uses. If En riches and Purities tho Blood, Stimulates tho Appetite, Strengthens tho Jlnscles aud Nerves in fai t, thoroughly InvigpriUes. Clloarti the complexion, and makes the- win smooth. 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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. llow 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 arc now offkrino 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. 8. KROUSKOFF. SWIFT’S SPECIFIC. 1836111 SWIFT’S SPECIFIC.! 111886 A REMEDY HOT FOR A DAY, BUT FOR' - HALF A CENTURY RELIEVING BUFFERING HUMANITY! sjss 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, QA. DRY GOODS. F . GU T MAN, 118 BROUGHTON ST. We Will Continue to Sell All Goods at Cost Until JULY Ist. We Will Then Move to Our Old Store. 11l BROUGHTON, NEAR WHITAKER. All Goods Will Then Be Sold at Regular Prices. U. Cl U T MAN. MOSQUITO NETS. 8 H O O FL Y! DON'T BE TORMENTED WITH MOSQUITOS, BUT CALL AT LINDSAY & MORGAN’S STORES 109 and 171 Brou'irhtoii Street, AND SECURE AT ONCE A MOSQUITO NET OF HOME KIND. On hand DACE and GAUZE NETS, FOUR POST, HALF CANOPIES, TURN OVER and UMBRELLA MOSQUITO NET FRAMES REFRIGERATORS of several kinds. Prominent among them la the ALLEGRETTI, 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 sUttk of CHAMBER and PARLOR SUITES is full. STRAW MATTING. Big stock, low prices. OT Orders Billed 'With I) in patch. _sFl LINDSAY & MORGAN. SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC. Vale Royal Manufacturing Cos. sivvA-isnsra_h, g^.., MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN Mi, Doors, Ills, Mantels, Pw Ills, And Interior Finish of ail kinds, Mouldings. Balusters, Newel Posts. Estimates, Price LtaW, Mould inK Books, and any information in our line furnished on application, (.jrprws, Yellow rlno, U*K A*b and Walnut LUMBER on band and in any quantity, furniahed promptly. VALE ROYAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Savannah, Ga IIARDW A Hl'.. EDWARD LOVELL i SONS, HARDWARE, Iron and Turpentine Tools. Office: Cor. State and Whitaker street*. Warehouse: 188 and 140 State street. i . '■■■-■ " .i'..—— CONTRACTORS. P. J. FALLON, BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR, 23 DRAJITON STREET, SAVANNAH. '(.MATES promptly furuiahetf for building J of any Clwa. S.S.S. PRINTER AND BOOKBINDER. Old in Years—Not Old Fogy. GEO. N. NICHOLS, PRINTER and binder. To the Manor bom—full of year* and expert , enoe -still young: In energy and aMltty-wlth * all the atxeaeoriea neoeemry to mtlxfantorlly conduct the biutl new to which tie ha* given hit life. Grateful for put farora—hopeful of other* to come. BARKS. , KISSIMMEE CITY BANK, Klwtimmee City, Orange County, Fla. . CAPITAL - - - $-50,000 ■'TRANSACT a regular banking huslneee. Give 1 particular attention to Florida collection* Correapoadenoe nolicited. lute- Exchange on New York, New Orica tut, Savannah and Jack ttnnville, Fla. Ke*Ment Agent* for Coutt* ft Cos. and Melville, Kvaittt ft Cos., of Loudon, England. New York correttpoadeut; The Seaboard National Bank. OFFICIAL. Sit ' QUARANTINE NOTICE. Office Health Omcra, I Savannah, Ga., May i. 1887. f From and after MAY Ist, 1887, the rftyonU* nance which specifies the Quarantine require ments to be observed at the port of Savannah, Georgia, for period of time (annually) from May Ist to November Ist, will be moat rigidly en forced. Merchants and all other parties interested will l>e supplied with printed copies of the Quar antine Ordinance upon application to office of Health < Xficer. From and after this date and until further no tice all steamships and vessels from South America, Central America, Mexico, West Indies, Sicily, ports of Italy south of 40 (legs. North latitude. and coast of Africa beween 10 clegs. North and II degs. South latitude, direct or via American part will be sub jected to afcae Quarantine and be reauired to report *t the Quarantine Station and bo treated os being from infected or suspected ports or localities. Captains of these vessels will have to remain at Quarantine Station until their vessels are relieved. All steamers sml vessels from foreign porta not include-.! above, direct or via American pojrta, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise, will I j required to remain in quarantine until boardM and passed by the Quarantine Officer. Neither the Contains nor any one on board of stii‘h vessels will be allowed to come to the rity until the vessels are inspected and passed by the Quarantine Officer. As (Hitts or localities not herein enumerated arc 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 ffuc; on. vessels siibjected to detention or inspection trill be riaidta enforced, J. T. McFARLAND. M. D.. Health Officer. ORDINANCE. An Ordinance to amend article LX. of the Sa vannah City Code, adopt,xl Feh. 18, 1810, so a<l to require all occupants of houses, merchant*, shopkeepers.grocers and i radesmen occupying premises to which no yards are attached to keep w itliiu their premises a box or larrel of sufficient size, in which shall lie deposited all offal, filth, rubbish, dirt anil other matter gen erated In said premises, or to put such box dr barrel in the streets or lunes under condition* prescribed herein. Section 1. Beit ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah In Council assembled, and it is hereby ordained by tna authority of the same. That section 2 of said article 1* amended so ns to read as follows: Thu owners, tenants or occupiers of houses having yards or enclosures, and all occupants of house*, all merchants, shopkeo|ient, grocers and trades men occupying premises to which no yards am attached shall keep within their yards or premises a box or Isirrel of sufficient size, in which shall lie deposited all the offal, filth, rub bish. dirt and other matter generated in said building and enclosure, and the said filth of every description as aforesaid shall be placed in stbd box or luirrel, from the first day of April to the Hint day of November, before the hour of 7 o'clock a. in., and from the first day of Novem>>er (inclusive) to the last day of Murch (inclusive) lief ore the hour of 8 o'clock a. m., and such mat ter so placed shall lie daily removed i Sunday* excepted) hy the Superintendent, to such places two Hides at least without the city as shall I- designated by the Mayor or u majority of the Street and lan* Committee. Ana it shall be unlawful for any occupunt of a hous.', merchant, shoptaMpTC grocer or tradesman to sweep Into or to deposit In any street or lane of this city any paper, l rash, or rubbish of any kind whatsoever, DUG the snnie shall lie kept in boxes or barrels as hereinbefore provided, for removal by the scav enger of the city. Any iierson not having a yard may put the box or Imrrel containing the offal, rubbish, etc., in the street or lane for removal by the seai eugar, provided the box or barrel so put in tlie street or lnne shall be of such char acter and sire as to securely keep the offal, rub bish, etc., from getting Into the stMet 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 thn police court by fine not exceeding SIOO or Imprisonment not exceed ing thirty days, either or both in the discretion of officer presiding in said court. Ordinance passed in Council June Ist, 1887. RUFUS E. LESTER. Mayor. Attest: Frank E. Rkrarer. Clerk of Council SSS SSS SSS SSS Cmr Marshal s omc*, I Savannah. April 2*d, 1887. f THE City Treasurer has placed In my band* Real Estate Executions for 1880, Privy Vault Executions for IHH, stock in Trade and other personal nro(ierty executions for 188#, and Spe cific or License Tax Executions for 1887, com manding me to make the money on said writ* hy levy and sale of the defendant*’ property or by other lawful means. I hereby notify all per sons In default that the tax and revenue ordi nance will tie promiitly enforced if iiayment it not made at my office without delay. Office hours from 11 A. M. to 2 r. u. - ROBT. J. WADE, City MarshaL ill All ANT INK NOTICE. Omn Health Oysrrxa, 1 Savannah, April sth, 1887.) Notice is hereby given that the Quarantin* 1 Officer is instructed not to ileliver letters to vs*, sels which are not subjected. to quarantine de tention, unlHSMthe name of consignee and state ment that iHW vessel is ordered to some other port, appears upon the face of the envelope. This order is made necoHaarj' in cousequeuce At the enormous hulk of drumming letters sent to the station for vessels which are to arrive. j. T. McFarland, m. and.. HeriMOwilfcrS QUARANTINE NOTICE. Omra Health Omen, l Savannah, March 26th, WB7. t Pilots of the Port of Savannah are informed that, the Sapelo Quarantine Station will be open od on APRIL Ist. 1887. . . , W H|s-clal attention of the Pilot* Is directed to sections Nos. 3d and 14th, Quarantine Regula tions. Most rigid enforcement of quarantine reguns* tions will oe maintained by the Health authori ties. J. t. McFarland, m. and., Health Officer. PUBLICATIONS. Jjgv, 1 ) NEW I JOOIvS . 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