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REFORM.
What Annie Jenness Miller io Doing in
Its Behalf.
New York, July if. — Ono of the prettiest
suburbs of New York is East, Orange, and
one of the prettiest houses in East Orange
is that occupied by Mrs. Annie Jenness Mil
ler, known for her advocacy of hygienic
dross for women. Shades of Amelia
llloomer! 'flic first dress reformers were
plucky but luckless. Could anybody asso
ciate Mrs. Bloomer with a Queen Anne cot
ngeand c green rolling lawn? Could anv
luiy imagine her in such a study as I found
Mrs. Miller in yesterday, polished floor rug
strewn, delicately tint<sl walls hung with
etchings and rare engravings, portieres in
odd but artistic color combinations, and sum
mer curtains blowing in the wind? Does
one usually picture Amelia Bloomer as
hoarding her spare dollars for quaint and
curious bric-a-brac and taking pride in her
diningroom with its dainty table ware? I
trow not. And yet could anybody influence in
the smallest degree the dress of the American
woman who did not like beautiful things as
well as the American woman or even a
little better because with a finer apprecia
tion than she?
Mrs. Bloomer was a heroine, a greater
than Mrs. Miller to me, but she was not the
kind of heroine that succeeds. Mrs. Miller
will go no faster than the average woman
can follow her. Instead of presenting re
form in the guise of a duty thatone must be
martyred by the laughter of one’s kind in
doing, she appeals to every woman’s innate
wish to lie more attractive than she is.”
I don’t know that I should have supposed
myself talking to a “reformed” woman as I
6at opposite Mrs. Miller. In her simple
house gown of some soft yellow-tan material
that fell in long graceful lines from neck to
heel, gathered at the waist line bv the folds
of a red silk girdle and relieved by slightly
puffed sleev.4 with long cuffs at the wrists,
she looked tome more like one of the beau
ties of the Directory with sense enough to
wear a high-necked dress of a morning and
not. to abbreviate her waist to an unbecoming
extent. A modified and modest gown of the
period of the Consulate was what she seemed
to be wearing, and it would be hard to find
anywhere a prettier or more sensible attire
than that is capable of being.
Mrs. Miller's wardrobe indeed amply illus
trates the possibility of putting on nothing
that is inconsistent with health, and at the
same time of being in no way conspicuous
in ordinary society,except ill so far as a well
dressed woman is always conspicuous and
usually rejoices in being conspicuous among
her kind. The tea gown lias risen in
good season to assist her. Now that
a dress has been accepted for after
noon occasions which permits a
woman to clasp her hands Dehind her
hair, the further changes which Mrs. Miller
has adopted to fit a loose gown for morning,
evening and the street as well, are made with
comparative ease.
A navy blue surah silk is made, like all her
dresses, in one piece, the draperies being
hung on the foundations, alike in every case,
of a simple princess gown form. It has a
full, soft Greek front, something after the
style of the fedora, but in even longer lines
and giving a more graceful sweep. The
back is fitted closely like a basque, but the
full draperies are shirred on to it, taking
the weight off the waist and keeping the
bodice smooth and in place. The sleeves are
fulled enough to get rid of the baroness of a
plain coat sleeve, ami a beaded collar sup
plies the garniture. Neither corset nor bustle
is worn with such a gown, which follows
the natural lines of the figure and would
satisfy an artist’s eye.
A white silk lace dress for summer wear
has the gown form of white silk rhadzimir
with low neck and short sleeves. Upon this
the lace is draped in full folds across the
front of the skirt, mid with it is worn a little
lace jacket with full fancy sleeves. Another
summer dross of black llama lace and surah
has an entirely different though equally ef
fective arrangement of the drapery in long,
simple lines. A velvet gown is rich with
brocade of mauve and black, and an experi
ment in foulard for July and August has
full neck and puffed sleeves of white laee
and full draperies, never cut off at the waist
nor chopping a woman into three sections
after the usual basque, overdress and skirt
plan.
For office wear, and as a suggestion to the
business woman, Mrs. Miller attires herself
in a blue and gray basket cloth mixture,
male with a deep yoke of dark blue velvet
about the throat, side pieces of the bodice
drawn toward the front in plaits support
ing the form, basque back and draperies
gathered on behind. A plain walking dress
of dark wool goods in an olive mixture
with a touch of gold in it has a fedora bod
ice front of plaided surah ami is made short
enough to clear any sort of underfoot
weather, high boots made for the purpose of
going with it out of doors.
The principles of her dress system, so far
as it is complex enough to be called a sys
tem, carry nothing with them which a good
conservative cannot approve. Taking it for
granted, in the first place, that woman’s
body is not to be improved upon by tortur
ing it with that engine of bones and steels,
the corset, nor yet by piling a mountain of
humps in the shape of bustle springs upon
its back, she tries to clothe it in a natural,
healthful way, that shall at the same time
be more artistically satisfactory than any
thing that a woman has worn before. If
she would not coin such a barbarous word
as "leglettes” for the divided skirt worn be
neath the gown, that garment would be a
more than satisfactory substitute for the
petticoat, with the additional advantage to
that conservative creature, a woman, that
nobody would ever know you had it on.
For the gowns themselves, most of them are
of delightfully light weight, compared with
the conventional costume, and all of them
dispense with the close-fitting biased waist
which necessitates the corset to keep it
smooth. For the rest there is as much va
riety in them as to the usual wardrobe, and
they are much prettier for n good figure, and
no wdrse for a poor one. Mrs. Miller has
been wiso enough in her day and generation
to turn her attention first to dresses that
would attract women of leisure, leaders of
women, and her dresses for the reception
room are bettor worked out than those for
counting room, schoolroom *• street. But
all in good time. She has an idea of a cer
tainty and the working of it out can be left
safely to time. In two years, I venture to
prophesy, she will use less trimming and
produce 1 jotter results. Her cardinal princi
ples are long Greek linos like those that
make Mary Anderson’s draperies more
graceful than those of any other actress on
the stage, the use of materials that are pic
turesque in themselves, and attention to
sleeves. I suppose she is looking at. her ven
ture more or les> from the business point of
view, but it is high time that somebody
tried to make a business of teaching women
to reform in the only way that in this cen
tury is practicable, not by trying to scold
them out of corsets, for no woman ever
changed a button or a pin of attire for scold
ing, but by showing them something that
they can’t help acknowledging is prettier
than the old way. Mrs. Miller is a pretty
woman herself and thoroughly enjoys con
triving beautiful things, which is a great ad
vantage.
The first time I ever saw Mrs. Jenness Mil
ler on a Massachusetts lecture platform she
wore an ultra fashionable gown. It was
small wonder then that I said to her yester
day, “and how came you of all women in
the dress reform fieldr
“That is easily told,” she replied. "I never
wore corsets, have inveigheo against them,
indeed, all my life. But I did what is worse
after all. I liked to look as my neighbors
did, and I wore the conventional gown with
out any protection of iwset, underneath.
By and by rnv back ached. Then it ached a
little more. 1 had a horror of lieing an in
valid anil went to a doctor, who told me I
was well enough if 1 would only stop load
ing myself down with heavy gowns. I went
borne and weighed anew velvet costume —I
had worn it hut once and it cost me s.’ls0 —it
tipped the beam at twenty-five pounds. I
never wore it again, but try as I might, I
could not find a dress maker who would
take the trouble to devise for me what I
wax coming to see wus the only healthful |
sort of dress. They told uie 1 was too young :
a woman to he a crank, and that was all
the satisfaction I got.
“I could use needle and thread myself,
and with my maid’s help I manufactured in
time w'hat f wanted for my own wear. I
had no intention of making the matter
public in any wav. But one or two Wash
ington society women took to my gowns.
Mrs. Breckinridge, the wife of the Kentucky
Congressman, had some like them, and Mrs.
James, the wife of the Brooklyn Congress
man, liked the idea, too. One day I woke
up and found myself a column and a half
long in the paper. Then I began to have
letters, such funny letters, too, from
cranks, a good many of them, and in the
end they pushed me forward to setting my
scheme before the women of the land.”
“You say people wrote to you; what did
they say?”
"Oh, they came to me as well as wrote.
There was a Kentuckian, a man and a per
fect stranger, who posed on my parlor car
pet and told mo he had a sick wife, and he
wasn’t going home till I cut him some pat
terns of dresses that would make her well.
‘But, my good man,’ said I, ‘I never cut a
paper pattern in iny life, and I don’t know
how big your wife is, nor how to begin.’ ‘lt
was of no use. He kept coming till my sis
ter and I in desperation at his persistence
spread out some gowns on the floor and
cut patterns for him as well as we could.
“Then there was a woman out West who
said she was one of the original wearers of
the bloomer; she was old and infirm now
and if I really sympathized with women she
was sure I would send her money enough to
build a frame house to live in in her old age.
I was besieged with letters and my mail ran
up so that I got a secretary to attend to it
for me. I think I have had correspondents
in every English speaking country of the
the globe. Everbody asked me what to do,
and I was amazed at the amount of rebel
lion that seemed smoldering against corsets
and long skirts. Women don’t really like
them, you know, but they don’t want to be
odd and they don’t know what else to put
on.”
“And what do you think of the prospect
of final success?”
“Of course I can’t tell, but they look
bright, just now. Nothing was ever less
sought than the prominence this has thrust
me into. I was satisfied with clothing rfiy
self, so as not to be a burden to myself and
my husband, but if it is to be a public work,
I may do some real good to a few other
women at least.”
“And have you any ultimate ideas beyond
those you advocate now?”
“Yes; but it would not do to advance
them. One must win people, not repulse
them. For my own part, I believe the dress
of the future woman will be very beautiful
and a very graceful dress, but not altogether
according to our present ideas. I believe
our limbs were made for practical use, and
that in a couple of centuries or so women
will wear no drapery at least below the
knee. But that is wholly a thing of the
future. I shouldn’t think of advocating
it because it wouldn’t be practicable
now.”
A pattern agency for the manufacture
and sale of Mrs. Miller’s patterns will prob
ably be opened in New York some time
next fall, and it remains to he seen what re
sults the new dress reformer will bring
about. Eliza Putnam Heaton.
“NOTICED” BY REQUEST.
The Change Wrought by a Year’s
Theatrical Experience.
New York, July 2. —The same peculiar
and gruesome influence that causes a man
to strut like an ass and tulk from the husky
depths of his boots, simply because he has
adopted the stage for a livelihood, moves
and distorts womankind violently. One of
the most charming and agreeable women I
ever knew went on the stage last autumn.
She was well born, and had been gently
reared. Her manner was essentially femi-
the soft, caressing, and ingenuous
quality that causes men to expand and grow
amiable in spite of themselves. She
would sit with her hands clasped, her head
bent forward, and her big eyes shining with
mellow interest, while she murmured and
chatted away with au air of utter and de
lighted absorption. Even if her companion
were the veriest dolt, she seemed to adore
him. Women called her “sweet” and
“charming.” Men looked content, inflated
their chests, pulled their moustaches,
glanced into contiguous mirrors, and
hazarded the opinion that she was “a
devilish, handsome, elevah, and fetching
sort of a girl, y’know.”
One night I met her in the foyer of Daly’s.
It was raining, and her escort was afar,
making frantic efforts to get his cab. The
firl sat alone on one of the small divans. I
rifted up, and she made room for me beside
her. Dozens of the storm-bound theatre
goers stood apart and stared at her with evi
dent admiration. She was the daintiest,
prettiest, and most demure woman there.
“I’m in a condition of phastly depression,”
she said, with her usual confidential air.
“The play was dull, and the storm —”
“No,” she said, sadly, “they had nothing
to do with it. It is a resolve that I’ve made
to-night. It has worried me for two sea
sons. Now I’ve mado up my mind, and I’m
at ease, but depressed.”
“I’ve no doubt he’ll make the best of hus
bands,” I said, vaguely.
“Oh, I’m not going to many,” she said,
quickly, “I’m going on the stage.”
Then it was my turn to lie depressed. I
wandered out m the rain mournfully.
There was a great uproar in her family, of
course, and every effort was made to dis
suade her, but like most of the soft and gen
tle women of the world she had au iron will.
She went out on the road with the com
pany of a well-known emotional actress,
playing soubrette parts. I lost track of her
completely.
Shortly after 2 o’clock yesterday after
noon I was wandering down the shady side
of Broadway, when my attention was di
rected across the street by the commotion
in the crowd ahead of me. A girl had just
emerged from the entrance of a dramatic
agency. She wits swinging across the
street. No wonder tho populace stared.
She wore a bright green gown with a bit of
brown drapery over it. So tight was the
skirt that the satin clung to the limbs ami
outlined them with amazing sharpness.
Tho skirt was shy of the ground and
revealed a pair of very high-heeled shoes of
white leather. Abovejthem was blue hose
with heavy gold clocks over the ankle. Tho
girl was laced very tight, hod on a mon
strous hat, and all her hair was gathered up
from the neck and showered over the fore
head in a mighty band. She looked litre a
bizarre and brazen caricature in La vie Par-
Menne, or as Sara Bernhardt dressed by
her own fantastic fancy for a masquerade
ball. She had crossed the street and swug
ferod up to mo before I ri-eoznized the girl
had talked with in Daly's that night.
“How do, ole’ chappie.” said the girl with
a grin, holding out the little finger of her left
band and falling into a pose of studied ec
centricity. “You seem abashed.”
“Haven’t soon you in so long”
“ Yuas,” she drawled, glancing consciously
at a group of men, who lino stopped ah
ruptly to look at her, “you mean that I’ve
changed from the bread and butter miss you
once knew, eh? Aye. One has to hustle in
this bizness, m’ boy. There are so many
jay* pushing their way in that, if you don't
make a stir, you’ll be snowed under.”
“Where are you playing now?”
“Season'sclosed,” she said laconically, and
with an indescribably rough accent, “but
I’ve just signed with th’ ‘Dizzy High Rollers
from Boarding School’ company. Goin’t’
do th’ merry little song and dance act, you
know, and show mv fat calves to th’ bald
headed darlin's in th’ front row. Good-by.
Gimme a notice, will y’u?”
“I will,” I said, mournfully, as she swag
gered away. This is tho “notice.”
Blakely Hall.
“Mawnin' Willyum: you dressed up like yo’
gwlne to one ob yere collyldge eommenc-
Fngs. What degree yo’ gwine to take?”
"Ef yo' doan’ stop you talk I'll rec’mend you
fo’ de degree what Jawge Jonsing died ob.”
“What’s dat>"
"bat's murder In de fust degree."—lndepend
ent. _
No one should go Into the country for the sum
mer without a supply of Fred Brown's Jamaica
Gimrcr. rUUaiteiutua. 1~.
TTIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JULY 4. 1887.
JAY GOULD’S VICTIMS.
An Interesting: Account of His Tilt
Against His Foes.
New York, July 2. —Henry Hart, who is
mentioned as one of the victims stung by
that cobra of the financial jungle. Jay
Gould, is a fat, coarse little man, vulgar a~
the Indian Giaour in the Persian tale of
Vathek, and seemingly as well fitted for as
suming the shape of a ball and rolling out of
difficulties, despite the kicks and cuffs of the
speculating caliph and his crowd of eager
followers, seen on Wall.street. Henry Hart,
short, squat, unetious, loud, positive and
filthy-tongued, might be taken for a
fairly successful dealer in suspenders
and shoe strings. He could buy a good
deal of that kind of merchandise. He came
originally from London, and is worth at
least $10J)00,000. He is a shrewd, pushing
man of business. He didn't know the shib
boleth, however, when Gould's mine, which
had been run under his earthworks, was ex
ploded and he came near being knocked on
the head. He is about 05 years of ago, gray
eyed and round featured, and about as
short in stature as Jay Gould, who
would attract no notioe on the street, but
Hart is powerfully built. He usually has a
cheap looking black silk hat perched on the
back of his head. His talk is in many re
spects curious, to express the idea mildly.
He will go into Russell Sage’s office and tell
the clerks to inform Sage that he had called
and to say that he couldn’t wait all day
either, at the same time characterizing Mr.
Sage in language that would make
that individual stare with horror. He
will go to the tape, and seeing the
market for Pacific Mail running down
rapidly, will talk of d— thieves and scoun
drels, not to mention unprintable epithets
that make tho clorks look pale and nervous.
His opinion of Gould is expressed in terms
that at least lack nothing in emphasis, and
would delight a tough from the Sixth w ard.
His trouble over the Pacific Mail matter
dates back to tho time when he began a
tight against President Houston, of
that company, whom he succeeded in
driving from the presidency. Hart
lias for some years been u very large stock
holder in the Pacific Mail, and at the last
election succeeded in installing a number of
his cronies and tools as directors in the com
pany. Having got control of its affairs he
found that young Gould, contrary to expec
tations, would not accept the position of
President in the company, as he would be a
mere*figurehead under the circumstances.
Hart’s lawyer, Lautorbach, declined to
accept it, and thereupon Hart had
himself elected to the place. He hail appar
ently thrown the Gould party completely
into the shade, and he thought he had made
a grand coup. To-day he finds that the
biter is bitten. Hart , it seems, basides his
large holdings of Pacific Mail as an invest
ment, was carrying considerable of that
stock on a margin at the time of the recent
crash. He found that the price of the stock
was not only vigorously attacked, but that
his loans were called in very sharply.
The president of a trust company
in which Gould is interested ex
plaining to Mr. Hurt tho necessity of call
ing some loans made to him, was extremely
polite, saying: “At any other time, Mr.
Hart, we should lie most happy to oblige
you; we are really very sorry indeed to call
this loan, and only the most urgent circum
stances compel us to do so, etc.”
Mr. Hart eyed him a second and then, so to
speak, spattered the smoothspoken financial
officer witn a wealth of vulgar, not
to say obscene abuse. He went
around to 71 Broadway, to see Gould,
and, meeting Sidney Dillon, a very courte
ous old gentleman, with not a little refine
ment of speech and maimer, the latter asked
Mr. Hart where he was going. Mr. Hart’s
reply cannot be printed. It showed the na
ture of the man. Not but that his condem
, nation of Gould and his confederates was
’ just enough, aside from its needless vul
garity. He had had little sympathy, how
ever, because it was merely a game of finan
cial checkers, in which Hart mado the first
move and thought he was to be the winner.
Gould made the next move and jump
ed clear to the king row. He will be
supreme in Pacific Mad hereafter, and may
have more to say about the Third Avenue
Surface Railroad than Mr. Hart will relish.
As Mr. Gould is largely interested in the
Manhattan Elevated road, any interest
which he may acquire in the Surface road
will tend t<> minimize its hostility to the
Elevated, and the suits brought against tho
Manhattan by the Hart faction may not
prove so dangerous as was at
one time supposed. Hart used to
be a pawn broker here. He had'
two shops in Park Row and the
Bowery, and made a great deal of money.
He started the Third Avenue Horse railroad
largely on borrowed money, and it has
proven a mint. The Elevated hurt the sur
face road and Ilart has been eager for re
venge, but his ardor may now Vie somewhat
cooled. The stories about the losses of
Cyrus W. Field are very conflicting, and it
is probable that he has not been so great a
sufferer as was at one time supposed.
He is a locomotive in trousers for
energy and push, and it is doubtful
whether he could ever be perma
nently relegated to a side track in the
railroad world. He probably acquired
much of his Manhattan stock at a low price.
Henry 8. Ives, the meteor of finance, struck
a planet in the downward rush of specula
tion, and the meteor got rather the worst
of it. Gould, it soems, called a number of
loans on young Ives, who looks like a
sophomore, but has a jaw indicative of an
iron will, and cool grey eyes that meet his
enemies with a look that has no fear. Au
dacity seems to be a prominent character
istic. When Gould colled some loans for
the purpose of crippling the youngster, ho
sent back word to Mr. Gould: “Go to
sheol!” with other d< llant expressions. He
seems, however, to have renewed the loans
at higher rates. Gould never showed him
self a more wily or bloodless Machiavelli of
finance than lie has of late. For a dead or
an insane man—as repoi-ts have made him
—he has done wonders. Like a financial
general, he has moved on his victims by
several roads at once, and he remains a
victor on the field covered with shameful
glory, and richer by millions than before
the fateful Black Friday, June 21.
Oscar Willoughby Riggs.
A French thermometer has been devised
of such sensitiveness that it will even de
note. by a deflection of the index needle of
nearly two inches, the entrance of a person
into the room where it is placed, and by
putting the hand near the bulb the n**dfo
is deflected tho whole extent of the gradu
ated arc. The apparatus consists of a bent
tube, carrying at one end a bulb which is
Coated externally with lamp black. Tho
tulje is filled to a certain extent with mer
cury and is supported by arm* pivoting on
a spx-1 knife blade. Just aliove the pivot is
fixed an index needle which moves across a
graduated are, and tieneath the pivot hangs
a rod, to which is attached bv friction a
small weight that serves to balance the
needle so as to cause it to point to zero on
the arc. When the temperature rises, he it
ever so slightly, the heat being absorbed by
the lampblack dilates the air in the bulb ami
drives the mercury forward. The centre of
graqity of the apparatus being thus dis
placed, the needle will immediately turn to
ward the right, and when, on the contrary,
the temperature decreases, tho needle will
point toward the loft.
Comparatively few persons are aware that
the diameter of a circle or a pip*; with an
area equal to that of any two otlier ones
may lx- found liy means of nothing but the
square corner of a ls>ard and a rule, with
out the aid of any calculation. Tho process
consist* simply ill laying off tho two diame
ters on two edges of the board and measur
ing diagonally from one to the other. If a
carpenter's square is handy the process is
reduced to the simple diagonal measure
ment. In case there are three or more pipes
to be led into one, any two of them may be
converted into an equivalent one, and this
one may be added to the other.
Hteel-framed cat* are now being manu
factured in England, with a view to light
ness and greater durability thou if wood
were used lor the dui'doso.
BUFFALO BILL’S EARLY DAYS.
How He Whipped an English Bully in
the Red-Hot Days.
From the Kansas City Journal.
The Hon. William F. Cody, whose ex
hibition has recently been visited by Her
Majesty the Empress of India, was a
protege of the famous border hero, Wild
Bill, with whom he hunted and scouted,
and who made him first deputy when hold
ing the responsible and dangerous position
of fit} - Marshal of Abilene, Kuu. Buffalo
Bill had achieved a reputation on the plains
ixfore Ned Buutiine brought him, in his
Wild West dramas, prominently before tho
people of the East its a typical frontiersman.
A little liefore this time he figured in an
exciting pugilistic encounter in Kansas City.
He \\ us a young man, then, as now, sujjerbly
developed physically, of undaunted courage,
renowned for his exploits in the killing ot
buffalo and ns a government scout in times
of Indian troubles, and doing at leisure
intervals a little work, conspicuous for its
conscientious attention to details, in ti e
way of painting frontier towns in hues of
scarlet and vermilion.
Kansas City was at that time the rendez
vous of the buffalo hunters and general out
fitting point for expeditions over the
plains. It was au ungainly, overgrown
settlement, strung along the (steamboat
wharves at the foot of the bluffs on the
Missouri river, opposite the mouth of the
Kaw, but giving even then some promise of
its subsequent marvelous growth. It was
in the red-hot stage of local development,
and had a population fearful and wonderful
to contemplate. Here were gathered ex
bushwhackers of the war just finished,
Union and Confederate, with animosities
yet unhealed'buffalo hunters and trappers
from the plains and mountains, Mexican
freighters from jpver the Santa ,'Fo trail,
roustabouts from the steaßilxmt landings,
and gamblers from everywhere, who
mingled, caroused and fought on tho drop
of the hat while, attracted like camp follow
ers to the field of carnage, painted, showily
dressed women practiced their allurements
in numerous dance-hails and lent a gaudy
adornment to the muddy streets. Almost
every man carried weapons, and was prompt
to use them on occasions, with, aim often
without, provocation.
Here in this frontier paradise appeared
an athletic and bumptious Englishman,
who soon made himself objectionable to tho
community by his fondness for fist-fighting.
He possessed both strength and science, and
courted encounters at fisticuffs, from which
he invariably coino out victorious. He had
“done up” successively every man who
could be found to meet him, from those who
made pretensions to ability under the rules
of the prize-ring to the unpromising boat
men, half horse, half alligator, who fought
viciously, rough and tumble. Ho was
bullying and overbearing of demeanor, and
had become a source of chronic, exaspera
tion to the fighting population of Kansas
City. He went ostentatiously without
weapons, and there existed in the minds of
many a prejudice against shooting an un
armed man, which interfered with the
adoption of the ordinary methods of getting
rid of an obnoxious party in the community.
A popular sentiment had arisen, however,
and was rapidly extending, favorable to
hi* assassination, when in informal conclave
it was concluded, after some discussion, to
await the coming of Buffalo Bill, who was
daily expected to arrive from the plains,
and to then contrive that a hostile meeting
should occur between them.
In course of time Buffalo Bill appeared in
town, and as soon as possible after his arrival
a meeting was effected between him and the
Englishman in a saloon, a quarrel easily
started and a fight arranged. A back rrxjm
of the saloon was the arena, and both men
set to business with promptness ami energy.
For the first fifteen minutes Buffalo Bill,
who was as lithe and quick as au Indian,
fought on the defensive, and did little but
dodge and parry the blows of his antagoni st,
who followed him about the room, hitting
heavily, but generally ineffectively, and
■who soon got warm and Ixgan to lose wind
and temper. Then Buffalo Bill, who, though
somewhat punished, had kept his coolness
and temper, assumed the aggressive.
Avoiding a terrific blow at his lace, lie
sprung with the movement of a panther
under the Englishman’s guard and caught,
him with both hands by the throat in a
grip like steel. For a few moments the
Englishman rained short arm blows on him
ami struggled to break his hold, but his
efforts could not loose the grasp on his
windpipe, and presently he grow black in
the face and fell to the floor. Buffalo Bill
held his grip until his opponent was motion
less and apparently dead, and then relrased
him and walked away, bearing some marks
of punishment, but victorious. It took a
long time to bring the Englishman to, and
for a whilo the task seemed hopeless. He
was shaken and rolled, deluged with ice
water, and strong hartshorn was hold to
his nose: but under these provocatives he
lay like a log. It seemed ho was gone be
yond recall, but under the most strenuous
efforts he revived, and was eventually, as
far as physical injuries went, all right.
The encounter, however, broke the reign of
terror in Kansas City, and was one of the
occurences that went to establish the
prestige of Buffalo Bill.
PAIN KILLER.
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IRON PIPE.
RUSTLESS IRON PIPE.
EQUAL TO GALVANIZED PIPE, AT
MUCH LESS PRICE.
Weed & Cornwell.
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FREE TO ALL APPLICANTS.’ 1 IT SHOULD BE READ BY EVERYBODY.
ADDRESS THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA, GA.
I)KV COOOS.
ECK ST BIN'S!
The Old Established and Reliable Wholesale
and Retail Dry Goods House.
ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY!
SILIvS, SILKS, SILKS.
HPRUE it is a little out of season to sell Silks, and that is why wo are offering such an extraordi
-1 nary inducement. Wo have an immense stock of Pine Silks that we Are anxious to clear out
liefnre tno fall season goods arrive. We have, therefore, arranged for sale in one great lot about
5,000 yards of Silk, in black und colors, all reliable makes, in first-class condition, and offer the
choice of the lot at 75c. yard. This is a tremendous bargain.
Wliitel^iiil>r<>i<lered I tobes
In elegant and fashionable designs, the largest stock in the city, from $1 T 5 up.
Two Great Drives in Embroideries.
lM pieces from 1-inch to 4-Inch wide at 12Ue. 200 pieces from 3-inch to 6-incb wide at 25c.
LACK FLOUNCTNUH and ALL OVER LACE Si up.
WHITE and COLORED TRIMMING LACES to match 10c. up.
WHITE GOODS.
Fine White Goods and novelties in Plaids, Stripes and Checked Lace F.ffects
25c.
Fine Cheeked and Plaid Nainsook yard.
Bargains in Plain White and Tinted Muslins.
There will !*■ a rush for those 4 eases of Bleaehed Shirtings, yard wide, yard.
Wo sell only the best brands of tine Printed Lawns, new patterns, se. yard. They are the
cheapest goods in tin* city; no trash.
All the best, brands of ('alico at sc, yard. Seersuckers, Ginghams and Shirting Cambric.
The balance of the great sale of L uther Goods marked at still lower prices to close out.
Great HANDKERCHIEF sale going on -fx;., 10e., 12Mk\, 25e
Mosquito Nets and Canopies ready for use 75c. up. Nets all colors 40c. piece.
Another drive in Towels at
REMEMBER our advertisement will not disappoint you. We have the goods all the week.
ECKSTEIN’B.
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MILLINERY.
IN is W MI I1 I A NEIIY AT
KROUSKOFFS
Mammoth Millinery House.
We are now offering immense lines of New Straw Hats,
Ribbons, Feathers, etc., which are now being shipped daily
by onr 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. llovv
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 largo
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. KROIJSKOFF.
IKON WORKS.
KEHOE’S IRON WORKS,
Broughton Street, from Reynolds to Randolph Streets,
Sa-v-annali, - - Georgia.
CASTING OF ALL KINDS AT~LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES.
THE RAPIDLY IMCRF.ASING DEMAND FOR OUR
SUGAR MILLS AND PANS
a B IT AH Induced us to manufacture them on a more extensive sea le than
II i'vt/r To ttiat end no palm or expense has been spared to maintain
M their lilt;II STANARD uF KXCF.I.LENOE.
These Mills urn of the BEST MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP, with
heavy WROUGHT IRON SHAFTS (made long to prevent (hinder to the
M He operator , and roller* of the host chansial pig Iron, all turned up true.
l' *" ,lV j' f 1 j' 1 durable. ntn light and even, ami ure guaran
WE GUARANTEE OUR PRICES TO BE AS LOW AS ANY OFFERED.
A Large Stock Always on Hand for Prompt Delivery.
A\m. Kelioe & Cos.
N, B. The name “ KEHOE’S IKON WO RICH,’ is cast on all our Mill* and Pan*.
SAMI, DOORS, BMNDS, ETC.
Vale Royal Manufaefuring Cos.
SAVANNAH, GkA.,
MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN
Mi, tors, lids, laitels. Pew Ends,
And Interior Finish of all kind*, Moulding*. Bah inter*. Newel Poets, KatimatOß, Priee Lists, Mould- I
lug Rook*, and any information in our line furnished on application Cypie**, Yellow Pine, Oak, I
Ami and Walnut LUMBER on hand and In any quantity, furnished promptly
VALE ROYAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY. SaYawuOi. Ga. ‘
OFFICIAL.
QUARANTINE NOTICE. *
Office Health Officer. 1
Savannah. Ga., May l, 1887. i
From and after MAY Ist, 1887, the city ordi
nance which specifies the Quarantine require
ments to be observed at the port of Savannah,
Georgia, for period of time (annually) from MaT
Ist to November Ist, will be most rigidly en*
forced.
Merchants and all other parties interested
will be supplied with printed copies of the Quar
antine < >rdinance upon application 6b office of
Health Officer.
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 Gogs North
latitude. and coast of Africa lcween
10 degs. North and 14 dogs. South latitude,
direct or via American port will be sub
jected to close Quarantine and bo required
to report at the Quarantine Station and be
treated as l**ing from infected or suspected
ports or localities. Captains of these vessel*
will have to remain at Quarantine Station untd
their vessels are relieved.
AU steamers and vessels from foreign port*
not included abov% direct or via American
ports, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise,
will be required to remain in quarantine until
boarded and passed by the Quarantine Officer.
Neither the Captains nor any one on board of
such vessels trill be allotted to conte to the city
until the vessels are. inspected and paused by the
Quaran tine (er.
As ports or localities not herein enumerated
are reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori
ties, Quarantine rest notions against same will
be enforced w ithout further publication.
The quarantine regulation requiring the flying
of the quarantine flag on vessels subjected fa
detention or inspection will be rigidly enforced*
J. T. McFarland, M. D.. Health Officer.
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ORDINANCE.
An Ordinance to amend article LX. of the Sa
vannah City < ’ode, adopted Feb. irt, 1870, so as
to require all occupants of houses, merchants,
six >pkee]>erß,grocers and tradesmen occupying
premises to which no yards are attached to
Keep within their premises a box or liarrel of
sufficient size, in which shall be deposited all
offal, filth, rubbish, dirt and other matter gen*
•rated in said premises, or to put such box or
barrel in the streets or lanes under conditions
preacrilied herein.
Section 1. Bo it ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council
assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the
authority of the same, That section 2 of said
article be amended so os to read a*< follows: The
owners, tenant* or occupiers of bouses having
yards or enclosures, und all occupunts of houses,
all merchants, shopkeepers, grocers and trades
men occupying premiss to which uo yards are
attached shall keep within their yards or
premises a box or barrel of sufficient size, in
which shall be dejxisited all the offal, filth, rub
bish, dirt aud other matter generated in said
building and enclosure, and the said tilth of ♦•very
description as aforesaid shall be placed in said
box or barrel, from the first day of April to the
first day of November, before the hour of 7
o'clock a. m., and from the first day of November
(inclusive) to the last day of March (inclusive)
before tlie hour of 8 o'clock a. rn., and such mat
ter so placed shall be daily removed (Holidays
excepted) by the Superintendent, to
such places two mlleH at least
without the city as shall lie designated by the
Mayor or a majority of the Street and Laos
Committee. And it Khali be unlawful for any
occupant of a house, merchant, shopkeeper,
grocer or tradesman to sweep into or to deposit
in any street or lane of this city any putter,
trash, or rubbish of any kind whatsoever, but;
the same shall bo kept in boxes or barrels us
hereinbefore provided, for removal by the scav
enger of the city. Any person not having a yard
may put the box or Uirrel containing the offal,
rubbish, etc., in the street or lane for removal
by the scuvengar, provided the box or barrel so
put in the street or lane shall be of such char
acter and size os 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 l>ar
rel so put, in the Htr**t or lane shall be punished
on conviction thereof in the police court by fine
not exceeding SIOO or imprisonment not exceed
ing thirty dim either oi both in the dlsoratlfll
of officer presiding in Kuid court.
Ordinance passed in Council June Ist, 1887.
RUFUS E. LESTER, Mayor.
Attest: Frank E Kkhaiuui, clerk of Council
City Marshal k Office, i
Savannah. April 28d, 1887. f
r |MIE City Treasurer has placed in my hand*
1 Real Estate Exivutions for 1886, Privy Vault
Executions for 188(1, Stock in Trade aud other
personal property executions for 18**>, and Spe
cific or License Tax Executions for 1887, com
manding me to make the money on said writs
by levy and sale of the defendants' property or
by other lawful means. I hereby notify all per
sons in default that the tax and revenue ordi
nance will bo promptly enforced if payment is
riot made at my office without, delay.
Office hours from 11 a. m. to 2 f. m.
ROBT J WADE,
City Marshal
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Office Health Officer, l
Savannah, April sth, 1887. f
Notice Is hereby given that the Quarantine
Officer Is instructed not to deliver letters to ves
sels 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 Lpon the face of the envelope.
This order is made necessary in consK|uence of
the enormous bulk of drumming letters sent tu
the station for vessels which an; to arrive.
J. t. McFarland, m. and.,
Health Officer.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Office Health Officer,
Savannah, March 25th, 1887. S
Pilots of the Port of Savannah ore informed
that the Sapelo Quarantine Station will bo alien
ed on APRIL Ist. 1887
81 hr*ial attention of the Pilots is directed to
sections dd and 14th, Quarantine Regula •
Horn
Most rigid enforcement of quarantine regula
tions will be maintained by the Health authori
ties. j. t. McFarland, m and..
Health Officer.
RAILROAD BONDS.
The undersign--d offers for sale ut par ex-July
Coupon jhno.ooo of the MARIETTA AND
NORTH GEORGIA RAILWAY COMPANY'S
FIRST MOKTOAOE 0 I’EK CENT KIFTY
YEAK BONDS, in multiplea of SI,OOO to suit
buyers.
cpHESK bonds can be safely taken by inves-
I tors us a reliable 0 per cent, security winch
will, in all probability, advance to 13 points
above par within the next three or four years,
an this road will truverse a country unsurpassed
for ininerul wealth, for climate, for scenery, for
agricultural purposes, ami for attractiveness to
the settler.
Thu company ha* mortgaged its franchise and
entire line of railroad, built and to be built, and
all Its other property, to the Boston Safe Deposit
and Trust Company to secure its issue of 80-year
0 per cent, bonds. These bonds will lie issued at
the rule of about #17,000 per mile, on a line ex
tending from Atlanta, Ga., to Knorville, Teua.
A sinking fund is provided for tlieir redemption.
It w ill be one of the best paying roads in the
South. It will be of standard gauge and will
develop a region of country extending from
Middle Georgia, through North Carolina to
Knoxville, Trim . where it will connect with
linos h ading to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louie
and Pittsburg.
The road is now completed to Murphy, N. C.,
and is lo be pushed on to Knoxville us fast as
the nature of the country will permit. The high
financial standing and energy of the men prin
cipally interested in it sufficiently guarantees its
early completion.
Further information will he furnished upon
application to A. L. lIAKTRIDOE, Savannah,
Ga , or to BOODY, McLELL.CN * C0.,57
Broadway, New York.
IKON WORKS.
McDonoQg.il & Ballantyne,
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blacksmiths;
STATIONARY and PORTABLE ENGINES,
VERTICAL and TOP RUNNING CORN
MILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
AGENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, the
•amplest and moat effective on the market;
Gullett Light. Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the
beat In the market.
All order* promptly attended to. Send for
I Vice List.
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COM Miss ION >IEROHANTB.
10 VILA US EBTAHUSHKO.
Gh S. PALMER,
Wholesale Commission Merchant
SOUTHERN PRODUCE A SPECIALTY.
Ifi'i Reiuie Street, New Vorlc.
Consignments solicited and returns mane
promptly. Stencila and Market reports furnished
on application.
RnrF.RKM *.s. —Chatham National Bunk, Thur
her. Wh.vlaud & Cos., New York. Also, Banka
and- -stabllahed Produce Merchants of New
York. ITul&detokia. Baiumoiu aud Boston.
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