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AN INVISIBLE GHOST. Tho Terrible Adventure of a Famous Actress. From the Religio Philadelphia Journal. The annals of modern psychical research save failed to discover a case at once so well authenticated and so terribly sugges tive of a spiritual life beyond the grave as that which happened to M'lle Claire Joseph Loyris de LaTudo, better known as M’lle Clairon, the famous actress of the Comedie Francaise. This noted woman, whom Rachel perhaps alone eclipsed on the tragic stage, was born near Conde in 1723, and died at Paris in 1803. Certainly she owed more to art aid study than to nature, for however pleasing and attractive, and although gifted with the rarest powers to stir an audience, she could not be said to rival any of the handsome women of her time. Yet she wielded an empire contrasted with -which that of Sarah Ben hardt, however legitimate, sinks into insignificance. M'lle Clairon became not only the star of the the atre, but tho queen of Paris. When the public flocked to see her play, and followed her with adulatii n. she ret ired in a manner bordering on contempt; and when her stage companions rebi ked her for appearing so unfrequently on the boards, she retorted with the dignity of a sovereign: “However seldom I may perform, you and tho public are equally obliged to me; remem ber that an evening of mine gives you your living for a whole month!” An anecdote will show the importance and [lower of this remarkable tragedienne. Freron, a well-known critic, gave a carica ture portrait of the actress which was too life-like not to 1 recognized by all. Mad emoiselle Clairon at once applied for redress to the gentlemen of the King’s chamber, and threatened that if this was denied she would retire from the stage. An order was granted by Louis XV. for the conveyance of the satirical journalist to the prison of Fort l’Eveque. As the poor fellow was at that time suffering from a severe attack of gout, his friends interfered and obtained for him a suspension of the order till he was in a fit condition to be removed. Of course, the literary world exclaimed, as well it might against this unprecedented exertion of the Kingly prerogative in favor of a mere actress, and the affair was for a long time die subject of conversation of court and capital. Freron had powerful friends, but the Minister declared he would yield to no intercession in favor of the journalist un less it came from M’lle Clairon her self, Every one soon took part in the quarrel. The Queen herself at length in terfered in Freron’s favor, and obtained his pardon. In 1743, when M’lle Clairon was in all the splendor of her youth and talent, she was beset by a crowd of admirers, among whom were a few upright single-hearted young fellows whom she distinguished from the crowding throng Of these the one who most deeply touched her heart was M. de S., the son of a rich merchant from Brittany. He was about 30 years of age, tall and S assessed of a handsome face and fine figure. e wrote keen and clever verse, his conver sation and manner indicated a most careful education, but bis readiness to serve her on all occasions and his expressive eyes alone revealed his deep-rooted affection to the al ready great theatrical queen. After ad mitting him to the green-room she allowed him to be one of the guests at her house, and soon left him no longer in doubt as to the genuine friendship which she felt toward him. He, however, in candidly replying to every question which her reason or curiosity suggested, ruined himself forever in her eyes. She learned, that, wounded at the thought of being a commoner, he had rented his estate in Brittany to como to Paris to squander it under a more sounding title. This displeased her. To blush at one’s origin, she thought, justified the scorn of right-minded people. His mood, moreover, was melancholy and malignant; he was too well acquainted with men generally, he would say. not to despise and avoid them; his object in life was to see no one else but her whom he loved, and bring her to see none other but himself. This displeased her still more. From the moment she discovered these ruling traits in his character she saw the necessity of reducing his hopes of consola tion that way to a minimum. The invita tions she hart at first so freely tendered were gradually reduced until they got to be quite few and far between. This wrought so powerfully on his mind and feelings that ho fell ill, when the renowned actress nursed him with every possible attention. But her constant refusals to receive him as a sup pliant and to relegate him among her friends and acquaintances deepened his wound and poisoned his life. Finally he recovered his property in Brit tany, but never his health; and convinced that she would render him service by sever ing connection with him altogether, M’lle Clairon strenuously refused to receive both his letters and himself. Two years and a half elapsed between the day on which M. de S. first met the actress and the day of his death. As his last mo ments drew near, lie wrote imploring her to see him one more; hut her engagements and surroundings prevented her from doing so. He died, in fact, with nobody near his couch except his servants and an elderly lady, whose company ho had enjoyed for long time past. “At the time this occurred,” says M’lle Clairon in her memoirs, “he was living on the Rampart, near the Chaussee-d’ Antin, where people were beginning to build. My house was in the line de Buci, near the Rue de Seine and the Abbey of Saint-Gormain des-Pres. I had my mother with me, and several friends who had come to supper. My daily guests were a theatrical director, who constantly transacted my business for me with the" gentlemen of the chamber and the actors; the good Pipelet, whom you have known and cherished, and Rosely, a young gentleman of good birth, full of wit and talent, who was a friend of mine. I had just sung some pretty pustoral lays, which delighted those who were present, when on the stroke of 11 o’clock a shrill, piercing shriek was heard. In gloomy modulation and length it astonished every body. I sank into a swoon, and remained unconscious for noarly a quarter of an hour. “The director, who was in love and jeal ous, said with much humor, when I recovered my senses, that my love-signals were too noisy. “I answered him that, being free to re ceive whom I chose at any hour, signals were unnecessary; and that what he called a love-signal was of too plaintive a sort to lie the announcement of the sweet momenta that I might wish for. My [tailor and trembling, and tho tears that came into my eyes unbidden, coupled with my earnest re quest that tho guests should stay by me a part of the night, showed that I was at a loss to account for the noise. There was a great deal said about what manner of cry it might bo, and it was divided to ]">st persons in tlie street to detect its nature and author, should it again occur. “All mv servants, friends, neighbors and even the police, heard this withering shriek, which arose always at the same hour under my windows, and seemed to come out of tho air, I could not bring myself to think that it was intended for any one else but myself. I seldom supped out of my house; but as often as I did nothing was heard; and moro than once when, upon entering the room, I inquired of my mother and servants whether tho phenomenon had occurred, the same shrill, unearthly shriek was suddenly sent into our midst. “One evening the President of 8., at whoso place I supped, acccmponiod mo homo. Just as he was bidding me good by at my door the shriek came between him and me. He knew the story, as in fart did all Paris; but he was so startled at the wild, weird sound that he had to l*e lifted into bis carriago more dead than alive. "Another time I requested my friend Rots'ly to go with me to the Rue Saint Honore to choose some stuffs and to call upon M’lla de Saint F., who lived at tho Porte .Saint Denis. The sole subject of con versation that [Kissed lx-twoen us on the way to thMh-platx* Mas alsmt my ghost, as it was called. The young man, who was fuil of quip and joke, and disbelieved in spirits from another world, had, however, been much struck by my adventure. He pressed me to evoke the phantom, promising his im plicit beli f if it responded to my call. Either from boldness or weakness, I did what ho asked; the shriek was repeated three tinifs in succession, in a most terribly loud and racid manner. On reaching our friend’s door it required the whole house to get us out of the carriage, where wo were both found in a fainting fit “After this dreadful scene I was some months without hearing any thing more. I thought I was forever delivered from this mystery, but I was mistaken. “All the theatrical company had been ordered to Versailles to attend the marriage ceremony of the King's eldest son. Wo were to be away for three days. In the hurry and confusion of arrival "some persons were unprovided with rooms. Mad. Grandval had none. I waited with her until one should be found, but in vain. At 3 o’clock in the morning I offered to accomodate her witii one of the two beds in the room pro vided for me in the Avenue de St. Cloud. She accepted. I gave her the smaller bed; and as soon as she had retired I got into mine. While the chambermaid was undress ing to rest beside me, I said to her: ‘We are here at the other end of the world; the weather is abominable, and the ghost, I fancy, would have some trouble to seek us out here.’ “A frightful shriek followed. “Mad. Grandval, who made sure that hell had been let loose in the room, ran, terror-stricken, with nothing on but her shift, up the stairs and down the stairs and all over the house, where nobody could be found to close an eye the whole night. “But I never heard the shriek again. “A week or so after this happened, while chatting with my guests at home as usual, just as 11 o’clock sounded on the bell, the re port of a gun fired under my window at tracted every one’s attention. We all heard the report and we all saw the flash. The window, however, had re ceived no damage. We concluded that some unknown person had attempted to take my life, and having failed, certain precautionary measures must be had for the future. The director flew to the house of M. de Marville, the lieutenant of police, who was a friend of his. The soldiers lost no time in coming. All the houses in front of my own were searched; they were closely watched the days following; my own house was also carefully searched; the street was filled with all manner of police spies; but, do all we could, for three whole months the same loud report was heard, always at the same hour, directed toward the same window pane, without any one ever having been once able to detect the place whence the firing proceeded. The fact stands recorded on the police registers. “Accustomed as I was to my ghost,whom I found good-natured enough after all, since he did no further harm than play on me his hocus-pocus' tricks, I one day, feeling very warm and oblivious of the hour, opened this identical window, when the director and I leaned on the balcony outside. Eleven o’clock sounded; the explosion occurred, aud we were both flung violently backward into the middle of the room, where we fell as though dead. On recovering our sonses and finding that no bones were broken we looked at each other, and agreeing that we had each been gratified, he on the left cheek and I on the right, with the most awful slap in the face any human being ever received, we set up laughing like mad. The next day nothing occurred. The day after, however, invited by M’lle Dumesuil to be one of the guests at a select evening party, which she gave at her house near the Barrier© Blanch-.', I got into a cab at 11 o’clock and started with my chambermaid. It was a bright, clear night; the moon shone beautifully, and we were dri". en along the boulevards, where houses were being built. We were looking at the works going on there, when iny chamber maid said: % “‘ls it not somewhere out here that M. de S. died ?,’ “ ‘From what I have been told it must be,’ said i pointing with my finger, ‘in one of those two houses there before us.’ “At the same moment an explosion like those I had so often experienced burst from one of the two buildings, and went like, a gunshot clear through our carriage. The coachman, thinking he was attacked by thieves, gave the reins to his horses, and we reached our place of having scarcely recovered our senses, and, as re gards myself, in a state of fright which, I admit I was a long time getting over. “This was the last achievement of the kind with firearms. “I next experienced another visitation. It was as if a clapping of hands took place; the hands were clapp'd in a measured way and with reduplication or increase. The noise, to which the goodness of the public had accustomed me, long prevented my making any remark about it. My friends, however, who had heard and watched for me, asserted that it took place at 11 o’clock, almost under my doorway. ‘We hear it,’ they said, ‘but can see nobody. It is evi dently a continuation of what you have already experienced.’ “As the noise this timp had nothing terri ble about it, I took no heed of its duration, nor of tho melodious strains which I after ward heard. It was like a celestial voice that gave the prelude of the noble and ten der tune it w-as about to sing; the voice be gan singing some distance off, at the Carre four de Buci, and finished at my door; and, as in every preceding case, I could hear and follow the notes, but nobody could be seen. “Finally, after two years and a half, all noises ceased. “One day somebody came to tell me that an eldorly lady was outside who desired to st* my apartments. When she came in 1 was seized with a fit of trembling, which it was impassible for mo to control. I looked at her a long time from head to foot, and my emotion increased when I discoverei that she also felt as I did. AH I could do at the time was to ask of her to take a chair; she accepted, for we both had need of a seat. Our silence continued, hut our eyes left no doubt of our wish to s|>eak. She knew who I was, but I hail never seen her before; so she felt that it devolved on her to sp'ak first, and this is what she said: “ ‘I was the best friend of M. de 8., anil the only jiefson he consented to see during the last year of his life; we both counted the days and hours in our converse aliout you, wiio seemed to us now an angel, now u devil. I pressed him constantly to try and forget you; he as constantly protested that he would love you even beyond tho grave. Your last refusal to see him hastened his death. He counted the minutes, when at 10:30 o'clock his lackey came back and said that decidedly you would not coine. After a minute of silence he took my hand, with an increase in his despair which alarm ed me. “The unfeeling creature! Hhe shall get no good by it,” said he. I shall pursue her after I am dead as often as I did when I was living!" I sought to quiet him, but found that he had breathed his last.” When these words we have quoted fell on M’lle Clairon’s ears their effect may bo im agined, corresponding as they did with all the apparitions, her whole being was literal ly wrung with anguish and terror. Ho Probably Saw It. FYom the Detroit Free Preen. There was a blind man sitting at the cor ner of Michigan and Washington avenues the other day when a woman came along, halted and looked, and as she began to feel in her pocket she asked: “So you are blindi” * “YesV" “Can’t see at all?" “No, ma'am.” “Sure?” “Very sure.” “Won, that’s good. I’ve got a lead nickel which I’ve wanted to work off on somebody for tho last six weeks, and here it is. ” Anil she dropped it into his cigar-box and walked off in a way to prove that she was greatly relieved in tier mind. The Engadme Bouquet, Atkinson's new perfume. This superb distillation sweetly recalls fragrant Swiss flowers. Bright jewels in a setting of perpetual snow. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. JULY 6. 1887. THE HEROISM OF REPORTERS. Feats That Have Been Performed by Brave Men in Seeking News. The points I wish to dwell upon is the he roism that has frequently been shown by men in search of news, said L. O. R. Mtek ins, of the Baltimore American in a recent address at Maryland College. Not many months ago tho Oregon was sunk. Particu lars were Drought from the scene of disaster by another steamer. Three reporters met her in a tug far out in the ocean, got on board, secured full details from eye-wit nesses, aud started to leave. The captain dumbfounded them by declaring that no one should leave the steamer until it arrived in New York. That meant delay. It meant defeat. A consultation was held. One of the three was jnst up from a serious illness. He was ruled out. The other two drew straw’s. The one on whom the choice fell quietly passed his watch and money to his comrades and took their notes and inter views. Night had come on. The sea was rough. They called the tug boat ostensibly to instruct it to proceed to New York. When it came near the reporter, to the hor ror of the passengers, leaped over the steam er’s rail into the darkness. He had a chance of success out of a dozen probabilities of death. He took that chance and won, but tho people who read the stirring account published five hours later never dreamed of tho bravery that made its publication possi ble. Two yeare ago the cholera was raging in the south of France. Details were lacking. Public interest became impatient. Harold Frederick, an American newspaper man, left his home and family, went all through the worst districts, examined every hospital, talked w’ith tho patients and cabled column after column to his paper in New York, and furnished Europe, by way of America, with the first accurate Intelligence of the epi demic. Several years ago a case of yellow fever arrived off one of the Atlantic seaports. No corroet report being obtainable, a repor ter went on board the ship and interviewed the patient. When people were Hying from Charleston after the earthquakes, tin* news paper men were flying towards it. The only business that the earthquakes did not sus pend there was the publication of the news papers. During the most terrible days of Paris Commune, a historian says: “Reporters jotted down observations in their note-books a.s unconcernedly as if they were reporting the proceedings of a reform meeting. ” During the war there were hundreds of in stances of bravery on the part of newspaper men. They took every risk to get news and to put it on the telegraph wire. They went through all the hardships of the camp and the sufferingsof imprisonment. Efforts were made to hang six of them; but to the dis gust of their enemies, six men lived to write vivid accounts of six hangings that never took place. James J. O’Kelly was an American news paper man before he settled in Great Britain and became elected to Parliament.. He re ported the Cuban insurrections. He was hand in glove with the insurgents, fought with them, believed in them. The Spanish government chafed under the scathing vigor of his relentless facts, and when the fortunes of war threw him into their hands, he was packed off post-haste to Madrid, to be exe cuted as a spy. His courage never forsook him. In a very hiatter of fact way he made arrangementstd writeup the full ac count of his own execution, entrusting the climax to a friend. Castelar saw what kind of a man he was, and pardoned him at the last moment. He was thankful, of course, but he had the audacity to re mark that a very good item of news had been spoiled. Archibald Forbes is another hero of jour nalism. Within the last sixteen years his life has been in jeopardy hundreds of times. He went through the Franco German war. His travels took him wherever war raised its wrinkled front. He saw two Emperors un der fire, and witnessed the surrender of a third. His services in the Russo-Turkish war were splendid proofs of his courage. News came of serious indications atSeliipka Pass. For that point he made. He arrived in time to see the great battle. Bv night the Russians had demonstrated that they could hold their positions. Forbes saw it. His next thought was the telegraph office. The nearest one was at Bucharest, 180 miles away. He pitched at once ahead of all his rivals. At every station he mounted anew horse, but was off in an instant. One bite of black bread was all he ate in over twenty four hours. Every moment was precious, and he made the most of the time. He ar rived at the office, his matter went singing over the wires, and the world was electrified by the greatest newspaper special known in the history of journalism. This ride made Forbes famous. The Great White Czar of Russia sent for him. They had a long talk. At the end of the conver sation the Czar paid the highest tribute to the correspondent’s pluck that words could express. “Mr. Forbes.” he said in conclusion, “I have had reported to mo the example which you showed when with our forces on the sad day before Plevna, in succoring wounded men under heavy lire. As the head of the State, I desire to testify how Russia honors your conduct by offering you the Order of tho Stanislaus, with the ‘crossed swords,’ a decoration never conferred except for per sonal bravery.” And now we come to another American who should to enshrined as one of the he roes of the century. His name is J. A. Mac- Gahan. Like many other great men, he was from Ohio. He went to Europe to complete collegiate studies. The Franco-Prussion war broke out he entered the field as a correspon dent. He did good work, and when the war closed he was in journalism fpr life. He vis ited Siberia and described its life. Infor mation reached him that Gen. Kaufman and the Grand Duke Nicholas were about to make on nssult on Khiva. It was Russia’s boldest move towards India. He deter mined to witness it. He hurried South, but missed the moving column. Then he pre pared for what proved to to one of the most daring rides ever made by man. It was a journey of (DO miles through silent desola tion, with 300 miles of desert. Many times he lost his way. Several times he and his men were prostrated by the heat and thrown upon the sand, only to be revived by the coming of the night. But despite the loss of horses, despite tho daily rebel lion of his attendant*, despite frequent ex haustion ami semi-starvation for nearly two months, lie pushed through the arid wastes. All through that region tie was called “Mo lodyety”—a brave fellow. After he bad started, the Russians wanted him back. Twenty-live Cossacks, splendid horsemen, were dispatched to overtake him. For nearly 600 miles t hey eh,used him aeross that terrible country, but when they arrived at a halting place they ulways found tliut MacQahun had left it a few hours before. The people even laughed at the idea of their trying tocateh such a bravo fellow as the young American. Nay, more, they went so far a* to put MacGalmn's pursuers off the track, and ill the town from which they started, the admiration for the correspond ent's pluck was so great that a celebration was arranged to welcome him should he to overtaken and brought back. But he was not overtaken. Ho had started for Khiva, and to Khiva he would go. He entered tho Russian camp a spectre of himself. Officers stopped in the midst of buttle to express* their ail mira tion. He had one chance in a hundred of getting throught that desert alive. He ac ceptor it, ami he not only won, but he eluded the Cossacks. lie saw Khiva taken. Ho wns one of the first to enter Us portals, and his description of it and the fight stands cm record as a masterpiece of its kind. Why did ho risk his life in this way? Every step he took, every pound of flesh he lost—and no lost nearly all of it—was for one purpose, and one only, to got the news, to reach Khiva, to lay before the world the story of Russia’s first step toward India. Nor was this bis last achievement. In the spring of 1878 ho was in London. I’icking tipapaiior he road a brief despatch telling or the Turkish massacres In Bulgaria. He saw the tremendous importance or tho item. In an hour he hail arranged to go to Bulgaria, lie hurried to the scene of the crimes lie painted them in master strokes. He pic tured the dead girls in the pillaged towns. He went everywhere, cheering the people, assisting them, pleading their cause with his lien, telling them that the Czar would avenge tho outrage, and bidding them take courage. In thirty days he changed the whole com plexion of European politics. His letters were the sensation of the world. Beacons field, the friend of the Turk, arose in the House of Commons and denounced them as false; lie hail official denials telegraphed from Constantinople. But MacGahan rode on and wrote on, un til the Russian army crossed the Pruth, and then, attached to the staff of the command ing officer, he went through the tire and smoke, writing his splendid descriptions in the midst of battle; fighting and laughing and writing, and electrifying the words ho placed on the telegraph wires. He saw Plevna fall; he was wounded in Sehipka Pass; he saw all the big events of the war. When Ignatief drew the famous treaty at San Stefuno, he said that it would not stand, and ho lived to see it torn up and laughed at. He never made a prediction that was not fulfilled. No charge, except the futile denial by Disraeli, was ever made against liis veracity. No man in Europe enjoyed a higher esteem and respect than did he. And when, nine years ago last Thursday, a swift fever carried him beyond nil eartly wars, the Russian Gon. Skobeloll closed Ins eyes and shed tears at his grave. The Ohio Legislature had his remains removed to his native Stato. When the Grand Duke Nicho las heard of the death he said: “Too laid? Hi< would have been Gover nor of Bulgaria." And, as regularly as the oth of June comes, every hamlet, every village, every city ot Bulgaria commemorates his death and sends up prayers for the repose of oue of the no blest souls that God ever made, “The Court of Public Opinion.” From the North American Review. Many, who are neither the friends nor legal champions of the New York Aider men or Chicago Anarchists, do not consider it one of the “admitted duties” of the press to arraign upon rumor, try on hearsay evi dence, and pass judgment upon one charged with a crime. The arrogant assumption of such a tribunal is equaled only by tho fu tility of its attempts. * * * It matters not how heinous the offense charged, or how degraded the, offender, no circumstances can alter the unalterable rule that it is the sole and exclusive province of court, jury and counsel to conduct the trial of alleged criminals, and reach a decision. Any attempted interference with the exer cise of these duties by the press is presump tuous, unwarrantable, and often productive of a great wrong. Many egregious blunders made by this “infallible” court might bo cited, but one will suffice for the present purpose. In the summer of 1883 Mrs. Carlton, of Boston, was brutally murdered, and Roger Amero was charged with the crime; extradition proceedings were instituted to bring the ac cusal from Nova Scotia. The justice lief ore whom the proceedings were held was of the opinion that the evidence was insufficient, but yielded to the force of public opinion and the clamor of the press. Amero was taken to Boston and imprisoned. For days the columns of the press teemed with “evidence” against the accusal, the shrewdness of the detectives was praised, and the speedy Conviction and exe cution of the accused demanded. After a six months’ imprisonment Amero was re leased upon the statement of the prosecuting attorney that there was no evidence upon which a trial, much less a conviction, could be had. Then the opinion of the “infallible” court was reversal, and so great was the sense of the wrong committed against the accused that a bill for ooimionsat.ion to him was introduced in the "Legislature, and barely defeated upon the sole ground that it would be a bad precedent. PAIN KILLER. (moierdi Morbus P ramps Folic fpiarrhoe^ Y^Hunmer complaints ||YSeritery c All Cured by# teaspoonful of PerryDavisPain filler in a little f(iU<;or Sugar and Water All Druggists Sellit. /.ON W KISS CItEA M . IHWKM ORBAM FOR THE TEETH U mad* from Vac Uaterinle, contalnt no fields, Hard uni, or injnnuue matter It IS ri B, RSriXKtl, FXSXKCT. Notoixo Lik* It Kvib Known. From Hennlor rnggrnbnll.- "t lakeptr*!. on- In recoiunji'ntlinu Zuuwclsa ou account of 111 elflc&cy and purity _Froiu .11 rs. Gen. I.oven's Demist. 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Seersuckers, Ginghams and Shirting Cambric. The balance of the great sale of Leather Goods marked at still lower prices to close out. Great HANPKERt 'HIKF sale going on—sc., 10k*.. Mosquito Nets and Canopies ivody tor use 76c. up. Nets all colors 40c. piece. Another drive in Towels at 12f^c. | ’ REMEMBER our advertisement w ill not disappoint you. We have the goods all the week. ECK STE IN DOWN 'T I I K Y (GO. MATTINGS AT REDUCED PRICES AT LINDSAY &, MORGAN’S. IN order to close out our Summer Stock we are selling STRAW MATTING AT VERY LOW PRICES. M<)SQUITO NETS, REFRIGERATORS, BABY CARRIAGES, and all other season able goods MARKED DOWN TO PANIC PRICES. BODY BRUSSELS CARPETS at NINETY CENTS A YARD. Rheumatism and Neuralgia Kept Off by Using Glass Bed Rollers. Our General Stock la Complete. Call on us Eurly, LINDSAY & MORGAN. 100 and 171 Rronghton Street, IRON WORKS. KEHOE’S IRON WORKS, Broughton Street, from Reynolds to Randolph Streets, Sa-vannali, - - Georgia. CASTING OP ALL KINDS AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. THE RAPIDLY INCREASING DEMAND FOR OUR SUGAR MILLS AND PANS m W ITAS induced us to manufacture them on a more extensive scale than VvMfP 1 I ever. To that end no palim or expense lias been spared to maintain HP their HIGH BTANAKD < F EXCELLENCE. ■j These Mills are of Hie BEST MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP, with Hi heavy WROUGHT IRON SHAFTS (made long to pievent danger to the Jgj operator), and rollers of the best charcoal pig iron, all turned up true. They are heavy, strong and durable, run light and even, und are guaran teedcapoble of grinding tin heaviest fully Matured WE GUARANTEE OUR PRICES TO BE AS LOW AS ANY OFFERED. A Large Stock Always on Hand for Prompt Delivery. "Win. Kehoe <Sr Cos. N. B.—Tlie name " KKlir IK'S IRON WORKS ' is east on all our Mills and Pans. . SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC. Vale Royal Manufacturing Go. SAVANNAH, GA., MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN fell, Hours, Ns, Mantels, Pew Ends, And Interior Finluh of all kinds, Moulding*, Bahwtem, Newel Post*. Estimaten, Price Lists, Mould ing Books, and any information in our line furnished on application. Cypress, Yellow Pine, Oak, Asn and Walnut LUMBER on hand and in any quantity, furnished promptly. VALE ROYAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Savannah, Ga 1 NDKUTAK Lit. '~ v wT I>. DIXO N\ UNDERTAKER DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF COFFINS AND CASKETS, 43 Bull street. Residence 59 Liberty street. SAVANNAH. GF.OROIA. WOOD. WOOD. Bacon, Johnson & Cos. Have a fine stock of Oak, Pine, Lightwood and Kindling, Corner Liberty and East Broad street*. Teiei/tioue 117- EYK-GLAriSKS. PK OF. H AWKFS^ YlflTH another expert Oculist, will lie at ' Butler’s Pharmacy for a few days, where HAWKKS' CRYSTALLIZED LENSES can bo had. All Eye? fitted. BUTLER’S PHARMACY, COE. BULL AND CONGRESS STREETS. IRON IMP*. RUSTLESS IRON PIPE. EQUAL TO GALVANIZED PIPE, AT MUCH LESS PRICE. Weed & Cornwell. OFFICIAL. QUARANTINE NOTICE. Office Health Officer, I Savannah, Ga., May 1, 188? f 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 Mav Ist to November Ist, will be most rigidly eu forced. Merchants and all other parties interested will be supplied with printed copies of the Quar antine Ordinance upon application to offleo 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 degs. North latitude. and coast of Africa beweea in dogs. North and 14 degs. South latitude, direct or via American port will bo sub jected to close Quarantine and be required to report at the Quarantine Station and bo treated as being from infected or susiiecusl ports or localities. Captains of these vessels will have to remain at Quarantine Station until their vessels are relieved. All steamers and vessels from foreign porta not included above, direct or via Americas ports, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise, w ill is' required to remain in quarantine until boarded and passed by tho Quarantine Officer. Neither the Captain* nor any one on hoard of such vessels will Ite allowed to come to the city until the vessels are inspected and passed by tho (Quarantine Officer. As ports or localities not herein enumerated are reported unhealthy to tho Sanitary Authori ties, Quarantine restrictions against same will be enforced without further publication. The quarantine regulation requiring tho hying of the quarantine flag on vessels subjected to detention or inspection will be rigidly enforced. J. T. MCFARLAND. M. I)., Health Officer. ORDINANCE. An Ordinance to amend article LX. of the Sa vannah City Code, adopted Feb. 16, 1870, so as to require all occupants of houses, merchants, shop lice] sirs, grocers and tradesmen occupying premises to which no yards are attached to keen within their primuses a box or barrel of sufficient size, in which shall be deposited all offal, tilth, rubbish, dirt and other matter gen erated In said premises, or to put such box of barrel in tho streets or lanes under conditions prescribed herein. Suction 1. Belt ordained by tho Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, and It is hereby ordained by tha authority of the same, That section 2 of said article Is* amended so as to read as follows: Tha owners, tenants or occupiers of houses having yards or enclosures, ami all occupants of houses, all merchants, shopkeepers, grocers and trades men occupying premises to which no yards ara attached shall keep within their yards or premises a box or barrel of sufficient size, in which shall lie deposited all the offal, lllth, rub bish, flirt aud other matter generated in said building and enclosure, and the said filth of every description as aforesaid shall he placed in said box or barrel, from the tirsi. day of April to tha first day of November, before the hour of 7 o'clock a. m.,and from the first day of November (inclusive) to tho lasi day of March (inclusive) before the hour of H o’clock a. m., and such mat ter so placed shall Is; dully removed (Sundays excepted) by the euiierintandent, to such places two miles at least without the city as shall lie designated by tha Mayor or a majority, of the Street and tone Committee. And It shall lie unlawful to 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 paper, trash, or rubbish of any kind whatsoever, but the same shall bo kept in boxes or barrels aa hereinbefore provided, for removal by the scav enger of the city. Any person not having a yard may put the box or barrel containing the offal, rubbish, etc., in the street or lane for removal by the scavengar, provided the I six or barrel 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 txi punished on conviction thereof in the police court by fine not exceeding fib) or imprisonment not exceed ing thirty days, cither or both In the discretion of officer presiding in said court. Ordinance passed in Council June Ist. 18W. UUFU.S E. LEBTER, Mayor. Attest : Frank E. Rebarbk. Clerk of Council City Marshal s Office, i Savannah, April Md, 1887. j r I 'HE City Treasurer has placed in my hands 1 Iti'ul Estate Executions forlHKts, Privy Vault Executions for 1886, Stock in Trade and other personal property executions for IHNB, and Spe cific or License Tax Executions fur 1887, com manding me to make the money on said writ* by levy anil saleiif the defendants’ property or by other luwful means. I hereby notify all per sons in default that the tax and revenue ordi nance will be promptly enforced If puyment is not made at my office without delay. Office hours from 11 a. m. to 2 e. M. Rout j. wade, City Marshal QUARANTINE NOTICE. Office Health Officer, I Savannah, April sth, 1887. j Notice is hereby given tliut the Quaruntlna 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 upon the face of the envelope. This order Is mode necessary in consequence of the enormous bulk of drumming letters sent to the station for vessels which are to arrive. j. t. McFarland, m. and.. Health Officer. QUARANTINE NOTICE. Office Health Officer, (, Savannah, March goth, 1887. | Pilots of the Port of Savannah arc informed that the Haiielo Quarantine Station will be open ed on APRIL Ist. 1887. Sjsieial attention of tho Pilots Is directed to sections Nos. 3d uud 14th, Quarantine Itegula ■ lions. Most rigid enforcement of quarantine regula tions will bo maintained by the Health authori ties. j. t. McFarland, m and.. Health Officer. KAIL ROAD BONDS. The undersigned offers for sale at par ex-July Coupon $.700,000 of the MARIETTA AND NORTH GEORGIA RAILWAY COMPANY’S FIRST MORTGAGE 6 PER CENT. FIFTY YEAR BONDS, in multiples of $l,OOO to suit buyers. rpiIKSE bonds can be safely taken by inves -1 tors as a reliable 6 per cent, security, which will, in all probability, advance to 15 points above par within the next three or four years, as thin road will traverse a country unsurpassed for mineral wealth, for climate, for scenery, for agricultural purposes, and for attractiveness to the settler. The company bos mortgaged its franchise and entire line of railroad, built und to be built, and all its other property, to tho Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company to secure its Issue of 50-year 6 [B*r cent, bonds These bonds will be issued as the rate of about $17,000 per mile, on a line ex tending from Atlanta. Ga., to Knoxville, Tenn. A sinking fund is provided for their redemption. It will lie one of the best paying roads m tho South. It will tie of standard gauge aud will develop a region of country extending from Middle Georgia, through North Carolina to Knoxville, Teuri., where It will connect with lines leading to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Pittsburg. The road Is now completed to Murphy, N. C., and is to be pushed on to Knoxville us fast as the nature of the country will permit. The high financial standing aud energy of the men prin cipally Interested In it sufficiently guarantees Its early completion. Further information will be furnished upon application to A. L. HARTRIDGE, Savaunah, Ga , or to BOODY, McLELLAN & CO., 57 Broadway, New York. I ROM WORKS. KcMoigi k Ballaitm IRON FOUNDERS, Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blacksmiths, KANUFACTCnKRS OF STATIONARY and PORTABLE VERTICAL ami TOP-RUNNING CORN HILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS. AGENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, tha stoniest and most effective on the market; Gullett Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin. tha best in the market. All orders promptly attended to. Send for Price List. COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 16 YEARS KHTAHLJMHKD. Gk S. PALMER, Wholesale Commission Merchant. SOUTHERN PRODUCE A SPECIALTY. 180 lieade Street, New York. Consign menu solicited and returns maua promptly. Stencils and Market repoixa furnished on application. Repkkkncss: Chatham Notional Bank, Thnr br. Why land St Cos., Now York Also, Banka and established Produce Moreiututs of Now York, t'h'Uiistoliur'k* ' '.wiADGni'kißwten. 5