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WAS HE A DEAF MUTE ?
The Mysterious Case of George Mor
rison.
the fioston Globe.
Xu the issue of the Journal of Education
of June Si. A. i’ Marble furnishes an article
under the title of “The Murder of a Mind,”
which recalls all the mystery and strange
associations in the caso of Caspar Hauser,
the man who 50 years ngo was the puzzle of
all Europe.
Mr. Marble’s story deals with a fuse under
his own observation, which he alleges oc
curred in Massachusetts within a few years.
In the details of the ease there is described
the murder of a mind, unlike in many re
spects that of Houser, but nonetheless
atrocious. The victim appeared for a short
time, was studied, like Caspar Hauser, to no
end, and the perpetrator eluded all attempts
at discovery.
The victim, too, disappeared and left no
clew as to who were his persecutors; the ob
ject of their scheme, however, was apparent.
Beyond a doubt there was but one motive,
that of preying upon the benevolent, making
deaf mutes the victims and instruments of
fraud.
It seems that late in the fall of ISS4. Mr.
Marble received a slip from a Pittsfield
paper, describing one George Morrison, who
had gone about the town, bearing a letter
with his (Mr. Marble’s) name attached, com
mending him to the charitable. He was
deaf and dumb, and claimed that he was
raising funds with which to educate himself.
Mr. Marble had no recollection of writing
such a letter, but at the timo paid no atten
tion to the matter.
Again in the spring of 1885 Mr. Marble
heard of this same Morrison through Mr.
Flint, of Palmer, who wrote asking whether
he had furnished the letter of commenda
tion. He could not remember having writ
ten any such letter, though in the pres
sure of business such might have been pos
sible. He made answer to Mr. Flint to this
eifect.
Soon Mr. Palmer, a sheriff of Hampden
county, called on Mr. Marble and told him
the circumstances. Morrison had called on
Mr. Flint, and presenting the letter bearing
Mr. Marble’s signature he had received lib
eral aid; further, Mr. Flint gave him a let
ter to a uumber of his friends.
Armed with this the hoy visited North
Adams, Pittsfield, and other towns and re
turned to Mr. Flint saying he only lacked
$8 75 of the SSOO necessary to send him to
school. Mr. Flint gave him the remainder,
but was much surprised within a few weeks
to hear of the boy in Connecticut, still so
liciting aid and for the same avowed pur
pose. He began to grow suspicious aud
CAUSED THE BOY’S ARREST,
he being brought to Palmer.
Mr. Marble was present at the prelimi
nary trial, not without misgivings as to the
treachery of his memory.
When the lad was produced he was found
to be about lb or 17 years of age, pale of
countenance, but by no means full of
anxiety. He was dressed in common clothes,
checked shirt, without collar or cravat. He
evinced no surprise, intelligence or anxiety.
He looked upon those about him as a
chimpanzee might upon the crowds at the
menagerie. When his gaze rested on Mr.
Marble lie showed no sign of recognition.
Could it be possible Mr. Marble had forgot
ten both the meeting with him and his face
likewise?
The case was called; the charge, obtain
ing money under false pretences; the
prisoner pleaded not guilty. Someone com
municated the proceedings to him in writing
and guarded his rights. The witnesses bore
their testimony, and Mr. Flint produced the
scraps of paper on which were his conversa
tion with Morrison.
When Mr. Marble was called, the pris
oner seemed not to know his name, or ever
to have seen him. The letter was produced,
and it was found to be not in tlio handwrit
ing of Mr. Marble, nor was the signature
genuine. This vindicated Mr. Marble’s
memory, but his interest was excited.
It appeared that Morrison had attended
school at Worcester, had been in the institu
tion at Northampton, and again in the
asylum at Portland, Mo. It was shown that
he had at times sums of money reaching into
the thousands, but when arrested he had
only $3 or $4 and a bunch of keys to five
Yale locks.
Whence he came, no trace could be found.
The schools which he claimed to have at
tended knew nothing of him. There he was
with $3 in his possession, the keys and noth
ing more. Where did the keys belong? What
had become of the money lie had collected?
All was a profound mystery.
The boy would answer with great prompt
ness any question about the schools ho at
tended, and when he made any inconsistent
statement he quickly framed an explanation.
Ho was cunning and as cool as if he wore
used to addressing courts.
Finally he was told that ho would be sent
to jail unless he told the truth. Ho said:
“I tell the truth; I have not cheated.”
Mr. Marble asked him who was his friends.
He said; “Let them find out, they are so
smart. ”
At last he said he had an uncle in Hya
cinth, P. Q. This led Mr. Marble to think
he could speak French, and so asked him.
He replied:
“Non, je ne par la pas, mais je, l’ecris”
(No, I do not speak it, but I write it).
He knew something of two languages, he
knew of several schools, he was quick
witted, ho had much money at times, and
the
STORY ABOUT BEING ROBBED
was inconsistent. About the letter over Mr.
Marblo’s name, he said it had been given
him by someone at the Waverley House in
Worcester.
The lad was committed to await the ac
tion of the grand jurv, and lay in jail in
Springfield during the summer and until
late in the fall. It was found he had been
at one of the hotels under four different
names, had played at billiards and went
about soliciting money, always inquiring
when he cainebaek whether any one, par
ticularly the police, had beeu looking for
him.
On hearing of the boy Mr. Snell said he
knew of a similiar ease occurring in Tren
ton, N. J. Morrison, however, did not corre
spond with the man Mr. Snell hail seen.
Again, a similar incident, a deaf and
dumb l)oy soliciting money in order to at
tend school was heni'd of in New York
State, but he could notrbo identified as Mor
rison.
The only other incident during the sum
mer that hoars upon the subject was that a
stranger stepped from a train at Springfield
anil inquired for Morrison. This was the
guilty party whom Morrison’s imprisonment
was to bring to light.
Finding Morrison was in jail, he boarded
the train and was never seen again. The
Eerson whom ho addressed did not know the
nportance of causing his arrest. While
in jail Morrison had been surprised once or
twice in uttering sounds, which led the keep
ers to believe ho could hear'and speak. In
the main, however, he was as a deaf and
dumb person. He neither wrote nor received
any letters nor were any inquiries made for
him, save luone instance. Ho was cheerful
and contented and took his confinement of
six months with a display of indifference
and unconcern.
He was brought to trial in November, and
watched the proceedingsnsone would u play
upon tile stage. He was depressed only when
he saw the prisoners, who were sentenced,
removed and he was left alone.
A Miss Ilarton, whom he claimed to know,
principal of the Portland school, came to the
trial. She pronounced him a deaf mute, and
showed great sympathy in his case. She
sought to find out his antecedents without
success.
The district attorney had sufficient evi
dence to show that he was the tool of some
man or men who used him for their gain,
llr. Flint hud died since tho preliminary
trial, and tile forced letter could not. bo
found among bis effects. The copy that Mr.
Marble had made of the letter was ruled
out as evidence, and as no other evidence
could be produced the prisoner whs set at
liberty. He left the court room, and no ono
interested in the case has board of him
since.
Beyond a doubt this mute and the others
were working under tho direction of the
man who made the inquiries at Springfield,
and, too, there is little doubt that they are
working the same game in another part of
the country.
It is impossible that a boy could conceal
his identity so absolutely 'unless he was
trained to it. He hod been taught in Can
ada, for he could use neither the sign lan
guage nor his voice, after the manner of the
New England trained pupils. At that age,
top, special training was necessary to ac
quire twi i languages.
The last doubt as to his being a tool of
some conspiracy is removed by his own con
fession that he could tell who were his
masters were he convicted of fraud. This
had been his lesson, to keep silent until con
victed, and perhaps he had further means
to cover the principals so that they might
not suffer the punishment they deserved.
This certainly is a strange case of a mind
turned into an infamous channel —of im
pulses strangled that the man might become
the instrument of fraud and deceit. A cer
tain portion of his intelligence had been cul
tivated—-his mind as a whole was a wreck.
Of truth and honesty he knew nothing. He
had no idea that he was defrauding, as Mr.
Marble says. His conduct had no moral
quality—the mind had been murdered; and
this murder of mind is no better than tho
crime against Caspar Hauser.
INCINERATED.
Dominick Steinbauer’s Body Reduced
to Ashes.
FVoni the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The first thorough test of the workings of
the new Cincinnati Crematory was made
yesterday with the body of Dominick Stein
bauer, who was burned to death in Gerko’s
Brewery on last Tuesday. The wife of the
unfortunate man is desirous of returning to
her home in Switzerland and wanted to take
her husband's body with her. The cost of
transportation is too heavy and so she con
cluded to have the corpse cremated. Mrs.
Steinbaeur applied to the officials of the cre
matory and, although the institution is not
yet completed, they agreed to accommodate
the woman, who said she would take her
husband’s ashes across the ocean-to their
former home. The incineration was set for
2 o’clock yesterday afternoon. It was in
tended to make the affair
AS PRIVATE AS POSSIBLE,
and only a few invitations to witness the
strange, spectacle were sent out. However,
a crowd of perhaps two hundred gathered
about the door of the building, but were not
permitted to enter until the ceremonies had
been concluded. Shortly after two o’clock
an undertaker’s wagon arrived at the cre
matory, which is located on Dixmyth ave
nue, Clifton. The body of the victim was
removed from the coffin in which it was in
cased and placed on an iron cradle carriage.
A white sheet saturated in alum water en
veloped tho entire body. Mrs. Steinbauer,
attired in deep mourning, entered the build
ing, and present on the occasion were Mr.
Benn Pitman and several ladies, Dr. T. C.
Minor, ex-Mayor Charles Jacob, Mr. Mein
inger and most of the officers of the society.
At nine o’clock yesterday morning Mr. R.
Conway, engineer of the crematory, lighted
the fires and work of heating the retort be
gan. He used coke and perfumed oil in
combination, which produced an intense
temperature. The walls of the furnace were
so thick that no heat was radiated into the
rest of the building. A window six feet
square discloses the upper partjof the retort,
but the body cannot be seen. At three
o’clock everything was in readiness and the
inanimate
WHITE-ROBED FIGURE
was rolled into the retort on the iron cradle
carriage. The spectators maintained a pain
ful silence, but in about two minutes a beau
tiful blue flame was seen in the retort. It
was caused by the burning of the alum sheet,
for the heat had reached 1,800 degrees Fah
renheit. While the little company gazed in
awe mingled with admiration at the gor
geous coloring, Mr. Bonn Pitman relievea.the
stillness by a few remarks. He said that
his wife’s body was the first ever cremated
in this country. He told of the great preju
dice against cremation existing then and
now, but he spoke glowingly of the advan
tages of it, and predicted that the time
would come when incineration would be the
only means of disposing of the dead. Mr.
Pitman spake for about five minutes. In the
meanwhile a bright, red flame lighted up the
retort and the body was burning rapidly.
As the mica window at the front was above
the retort the spectators could not see the
body, but through the small mica window
in the rear where Engineer Conway was
standing, the process of annihilation was
observed by two or three gentlemen. When
the remains were first put in the enshrouded
body looked like a piece of white marble.
Then a blue flame arose leaving a halo around
the corpse. It was
A WONDROUS SIGHT,
and not in the least revolting or harrowing.
Then tho figure seemed to bo caught up in a
fire and a glow like that of a glorious sunset
pervaded the retort. Presently the flesh was
almost burned away and the skeleton was
visible for a few minutes. The bones were
very white and there was absence of the
ghastliness which usually attaches to cadav
ers in the medical colleges or in doctors’
offices. It required some! time to burn tho
carbon out of tho liones, but the form of tho
mau disappeared twenty minutes after being
placed in the fiery retort. The livid fire kept
up until tho body was reduced to ashes. Then
it died away The widow and those sur
rounding her felt not the shock or feeling of
horror which follows the dropping of clods
of clay upon the coffin of tho beloved dead.
Mrs. Steinbauer showed the grief she felt in
her face, but there were no moans or wails
or cries. It was to most of those present a
surprising revelation of the advantages of
cremation. The little group at the rear
mica window, which was on a level with
the retort, watched the process of incinera
tion oagerly. Tho bones parted impercepti
bly, the rills holding together longer than
any other part of the skeleton. The work
was accomplished in just one hour and
NOTHING BUT THE WHITENED ASHES
of Dominick Steinbauer remained. He
weighed at the time of his death 180 pounds.
Owing to the extreme heat of the retort, and
at tho request of the widow, the ashes were
not removed last night. They will lie taken
out to-dnv and turned over to Mrs. Stein
liauor. The incineration was an entire suc
cess and highly satisfactory to those who
witnessed it. When the cremation had been
finished about ono hundred and fifty people
from the outside were admitted to the build
ing. They inspected everything and gazed
curiously at the small heap of ashes in tho
retort. The iiros in the furnuce were al
lowed to die out, but the retort will not bo
cool liefore to-niglit. It is a noteworl hy fact
that there was no odor arising from the ixxly
and no sound whatever from the burning
flesh. The ladies who saw the novel spocta
clo, among whom was Miss Pitman, declared
that their experience wus not at all unpleas
ant. It didn’t affect them with the same
sense of horror us standing by a grave in
the cemetery. One fault which has been
found against the crematory is its inaccessi
bility. It is located on the topof a hill some
distance from tho street car terminus, but
the directors hope to have fine driveways
made and induce the street car company to
.extend its lines to within a short walk of the
building.
THE FURNACE OF TIIE CREMATORY
is of the most improved pattern and the
body in no way comes in contact with tho
fuel. As soon as the arrangements are en
tirely completed the board of directors will
give a public exhibition of the successful
operations of the institution. They were
not expecting such a crowd as was present
yesteraay, and it was impossible to oliey
strictly trie request of Mrs. Hteinhauer, who
wished to have only half a dozen present.
When the crematory is completed a blower
will be used to remove the ashes into a box,
which will not cause the delay and Incon
venience necessitated by waiting for the re
tort to cool. It was stated that tho crema
tory dh-ectors paid the expenses of the in
cineration, but this is not true. Mrs.
Steir.bnuer paid the $25 fee. Her husband,
who was 65 years old, left an insurance of
$6,000 on his life for her benefit, and she
will have sufficient funds to take her back
to Switzeriaud.
HIE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1887.
A KING OF COUNTERFEITERS.
Tho President Sets the Noted Thomas
Ballard Free.
Regarding tho pardoning of Thomas Bal
lard, the counterfeiter, already reported in
the Morxing News, the Washington corre
spondent of the New York Times says: The
President’s pardon sets at liberty a man who
was m his day unquestionably the most
skillful counterfeiter who lias ever operated
in this country, but whose present condition
is such that Mr. Brooks, Chief of the Secret
Service, who never before recommended the
pardon of a counterfeiter, favored his re
lease, and when the fact of tho pardon was
announced to the Secret Service Bureau
this afternoon there was a general and
hearty exclamation of pleasure.
Thomas Ballard was born in New York
State m mo. His parents were from Bos
ton, and all their associations were thor
oughly respectable, except that after the
boys took to counterfeiting a sister of the
mother was for years mixed up with them.
There were five sons and every one of them
took to counterfeiting. The father was a
carriage painter, and when Thomas was 18
he went to work for a carriage builder in
Now York named Uinman. Hiumuu was
connected by marriage with Joshua Miner,
a powerful politician and a rich city' con
tractor. Miner saw that Ballard was a
remarkably bright fellow and had him
spend four years in one of the bank note
engraving concerns in New York learning
engraving, and be also enabled him to ob
tain a good deal of information about tho
way things were managed in tho treasury.
From 18(52 to 1870 a wholesale manufacture
and distribution of counterfeit money was
carried on by Miner und Hhinian as capi
talists, Thomas Ballard as engraver, paper
maker and general scientist; John and some
other Ballard boys as assistants, and Cole
and others as agents and general distribu
tors. Thomas Ballard solved the mystery
of the fibre paper used by the government.
He could make the paper, engrave
the plates, make the ink und print the
notes, and his engraving is said by ex
ports to have been equal to and often supe
rior to any that in those early days was done
in the government Bureau of Engraving.
His fibre paper was just as good as that
made for the government. This concern
was ready to counterfeit anything. Bal
lard’s first work was a plate" for the $1
greenback: then followed a 82 note on tho
Shoe and Leather Bank of New York. Then
came plates for $lO bills of three national
banks in Poughkeepsie; $2O Shoe and
Leather bills, and finally plates for printing
$lOO and $5OO Treasury notes, and this is
not an entire list.
Ballard married an estimable woman, the
lady to whom tho President makes such a
graceful reference, and who supposed tor
years that her husband was a reputable car
riage painter, working in Hinman’s shop.
Ballard never drank or smoked; he was per
fectly regular in his hours and fond of his
wife. Her suspicious wore never aroused till
the detectives got after him. Every morning
he left his houso, 225 West Fifty-third
street, ostensibly for Hinman’s shop,
but went to 256 Rivington street, where
the counterfeit money was made, There he
shut himself up in his room, and staid there
till toward night. On Rivington street he
was understood to be a night watchman in
the custom houso, who of course slept all
day and went to work as evening ap
proached. Ballard lived this double lue for
years without exciting suspicion. Ballard
was arrested in October, 1871, with some of
his confederates, and was locked up in Lud
low street jail, but the next month he
escaped, whether by his own ingenuity or
Miner’s money and influence is not known.
Miner was afraid of his testimony.
For nearly throe years Ballard was a
fugitive from justice, and no trace of him
cpuld’be found, although a reward of $5,000
was out for him. Finally the police of
Buffalo got hold of George Ballard, and by
threats and by promisos of immunity they
induced him to point out the houso "where
his brothers, his aunt and another woman
were carrying on their business. The house
was surrounded and all the occupants oap
tured. In the house was a scientific
library, a fine chemical laboratory, quanti
ties of plain and fibred bank note
paper, and every appliance for counter
feiting on a large scale. The plates were
not very good, far inferior to the work of
Thomas Ballard, except one extremely fine
plate on a Canadian hank that Thomas was
at work on. Five men divided the reward
between them, among whom was Reed, who
had distributed the “queer” money, but
whose daughter had been betrayed by Ben
Ballard, and who wanted revenge. Ben
Ballard was sent to Michigan; George was
allowed to go West free; William Ballard
had, about the same tune, been arrested ill
Lock port, N. Y., for passing counterfeit
money, and Thomas was taken to the county
jail at Auburn. He picked tho lead
out of the settings of a grating, cast
a key, opened the doors, and walked out of
jail. 11c telegraphed to Miner for money,
and Miner sent it, hut when Ballard went
to tho express office he was arrested and
taken to the county jail in Albany. In
January, 1875, he got out of that jail, but
was very soon captured. He was tried the
same month before Judge Wallace and sen
tenced to two terms in tho Albany jieniteii
tiary of fifteen years, one to begin as soon
as the other was completed. Martin I.
Townsend, the Prosecuting Attorney,
thought tho sentence too severe,
and is one of tho persons
who recommended the pardon. In prison
he has been perfectly docile, has worked
bard, and never made any trouble except
that lie has twice made savage efforts to kill
liimself. In 1878 lie tried to eviscerate him
self ami to bleed himself to death, and in
1879 he partly cut his throat. His health
has failed greatly and his melancholy has
deepened till fears were entertained that his
mind would give way entirely. All these
years his wife has strained every nerve to
secure her husband’s pardon. When Bul
lard was tried lie said that ever
since he passsed from Ludlow street
jail he hud been trying to get an
honest living at his trade, but the detec
tives had dogged him, and he had had
to keep moving constantly. He said that in
the house where he was arrested, ho
was simply experimenting witli a view to
discovering a way of making paper and
printing notes that would defy counterfeit
ing, ami when his work was completed lie
meant to offer it to the government as a
means of settling up the old account against
him. At various tunes since his incarcar
pe ration he has made overtures to the Troas
urry authorities with a view to trailing his
information for a pardon, but no attention
has been paid to these offers.
There are no estimates of fho whole
amount of counterfeit money that Thomas
Ballard and his associates put into circula
tion, blit John Ballard h-stifird in court
that lie worked with his brother in the Kiv
ington street establishment for three of the
eight or nine years that concern was in
operation, and while he was there the output
was usually about 810,000 n month. The
.Secret Service people estimated that
tho Buffalo establishment, with
which Thomas hod little to do,
had inflated tho currency $250,000
and when the place was raided $115,-
000 in bank notes some finished plates and
some in various stages of progress, were
seized. Of the counterfeits the flve-hun
drwl-dollar Treasury notes printed from
the plates Thomas Ballard • in Kiving
ton street passed through several hanks and
were finally redeemed without suspicion,
and this fact was only discovered when the
history of the genuine notes was traced
through the Treasury books. One of those
notes ws> redeemed in 1875 by a United
States depository in Chicago.
On tho petition for the iwirdon of Thomas
Ballard the President to-day wrote the fol
lowing indorsement:
“This prisoner was sentenced for thirty
years in 1875 iqion a conviction of counter
feiting. Ho wns sumxwod to he one of the
most expert counterfeiters in the country.
He has now been in prison equivalent to
more than fifteen years, allowing tho deduc
tion he has earned for good behavior. His
conduct has tjeen such as to cause much in
terest to be felt in his case by many good
citizens of Albany, a* I personally learned
while residing in that city. The prison
offieials, the officers concerned in his con
vietiou, the late district attorney and
officers from the Department of Justice
have visited the place of confinement
and acquainted themselves with tho cir
cumstances of the case anti many other
humane and sulistantial citizens pray for his
pardon. His wife, who has clung to him
with a true woman’s devotion all these
vears, and who has almost worn herself out
in her efforts to support and educate her
daughter, just now reaching womanhood,
pleaded for her erring and penitent hus
band's release. There is a universal belief
on the part of those acquainted with the
ease that the prisoner’s reformation is coin
ple'e, and that in no circumstances could
this broken down man, whose mind is fast
giving way with his body, be a menace to
society if liberated. lain of lhe opiniou
that in this case the law has been fully vin
dicated.”
THE VOLUNTEER IS OFF.
Launch of the Beautiful Steel Sloop at
Wilmington.
A Wilmington dispatch to the New York
Star says: When the whistles announced
knocking off “timo” last night in factories
and ship yards near Christiana creek, every
mun and woman, as if by common consent,
quickly made their way to the I’usey & Joil* s
shipyard, where Gen. Paine’s new stool sloop
the Volunteer, was to bo launched.
Everybody in the quaint old town was in
terested in and proud ot the handsome yacht
that tho strong arms of Wilmington’s
mechanics had fashioned into anew defender
of tho America’s cup. The gates of tho yurd
were thrown open to the public before 6
o’clock, and at 0:80, when Mr. Pusey gave
the orclcr, “Wedge up!” a couple of thou
sand people surrounded the Volunteer. The
scene was an impressive and picturesque
one. Women and children in holiday at
tire, perched high up on plank or scaffold,
sat in rows one above the other, forming a
semicircle around the yaeht, while men
standing in groups below, with folded arms,
discussed the study in steel in front of them.
From the rail to the water line the Vol
unteer was painted white, and below thut,
a dark rod. lu shape she differs radically
from either the Mayflower or Puritan, hav
ing the appearance of greater soil-carrying
power. Her bow, with its saucy clipper
stem, is higher than the others, the rail
making a graceful sheer aft to tlio stern,
which in its pronouneed overhang is some
what like the Mayflower.
No flags floated over the sloop's deck, and
the only persons who were launched in her
were her designer, Edward Burgess, who
came on from Boston for the purpose; Mr.
Fairman Rogers, owner of the stenm yaeht
Magnolia, and Second Mate Kennison of the
Mayflower, who will accompany tho Volun
teer to Boston.
“Take down your shores,” shouted Mr.
Pusey at 6:85, and five minutes later four
men with a cross-cut saw were sawing in
two the plank that held the big cradle-in
place. Everything had been done methodi
cally and quietly. It was just the top of
high water. Two tugs with spring lines
waited in the stream to check her. The
plank was sawed apurt, and the thousands
ashore in silence breathlessly waited. A
couple of turns of a “jack-screw” under her
“fore foot” was enough.
“She moves!” “There she goes!”
“Splendid!” was heard on all sides at 6:45
as the largest American sloop ever built
plowed a white furrow in the placid creek,
throwing a wall of water above her sliajiely
stern, and a moment later floated majesti
cally in her native element. Tlie multitude
cheered itself hoarse.
The crowds rushed to the shore and
climbed up on the ways the Volunteer had
just left to get a good look at her afloat and
every word spoken was a compliment to the
noble looking craft. As she lay still after
the launch she was “down by the stern,”
but it was evident that with her anchors on
tho bow and spars aboard she would “set
just right,” as an old sailor on tho wharf
put it .
The now sloop was not christened ns she
left the ways, but Mr. Burgess assured the
reporter that Gen. Paine hail decided to call
her the Volunteer. She will probably be
christened in Boston, where she will lie
towed to receive her spars, rigging and in
terior fittings, leaving Wilmington on (Sat
urday.
Tho following comparisons of the princi
pal dimensions of the new candidate for the
defense of tho America’s cup with three of
the other big sloops will prove interesting
to all:
New May- Puri - Allan- Pris
sloop. flower, tan. tic. cilia.
Length over all 106.0 lUO.O 95.0 95.1 95.0
On water line, 85.9 85.0 81.1 81.0 85.0
Extreme beam 33.3 38.5 33.7 83.3 35.3
Extreme drau’ht 10.0 9.6 8.3 9.3 8.0
Outside ballast
tons 50.0 37.0 27.0 45.0 45.0
Inside ballast . 20.0 11.0 13.0 5.0 45.0
Displacement... llO.O 102.5 126 0 114.0
bail area
Area amidsbip
section 82.0 82.0 102.0 86.5
It will be noted that while the new boat
is six feet longer tliuu tho Mayflower over
till, she is only one foot longer on tho water
line; that she has three inches less beam;
that she has six inchi-s more draught, and
that she carries twenty two tons more bal
last. Strictly speaking she carries no out
side ballast, as none of it is below her keel,
hut her keel consists of steel plates three
quarters of an inch thick, curved upward
into a trough-like shape, and into that fifty
tons of melted load wore pound. Besides
that she will carry twenty tons of pig-lead
as movable ballast to regulate her trim.
Her centre-board is 80x22 feet, and as it
will have a drop of about twenty feet, tl e
yacht will draw about thirty feet with it
down.
Gen. Paine gave the builders the order for
the sloop on April 5, and in just eighty-six
days she was completed. Mr. Burgess says
he is well satisfied with her, but lii-s love for
the Mayflower is yet very strong, anil will
probably remain s<> until the steam sloop
takes first, place in a race with tho wooden
yacht. In tho Volunteer the cutter Thistle
will have a yacht very hard to lieat, and no
American yachtsman believes that .(ho
stranger can take the cun back to England.
BROWN’S IKON lUTTEKS.
DYSPEPSIA
in it rlangwouH an well aw dintrehsing complaint. D
o*ylHot4xl, it tend*, by impairing nutrition, and de-
tho tone of tho ayateui. to yropuro tho wttf
for Rapid Decline.
mgm |U |
I
ijj! 5 jfmwli? ?
Quickly and completely i 'nr w l>yt.p*pflfi in nil
Uf forma. Ilrurtbiiri), ItrfrbluM. TH()ng tli*
Food* etc. At wuricues and puritie* uto blood,at imu*
lnt*H the appetite, and aidw the aawixaUation of ffxxt
J T KtXitrrKß, the honored pawtor of the
Firm. Reformed Church, Baltimore, aid., wi/a:
“ Having naed lirown’a Iron Bittern for D/r.pHirie
and Indigewtion I take great ple.-wum* in rec.om
mondinif it highly. A Iwo consider it a rplendid touio
ami lnvhconioir. arid very atron^thoning ”
How. Joswru G Nun* Judge of Circuit Court,
fJlinton Go., Ind . wayti: ’ I bear mof* eh' *rful terti
riony to tho efficacy of Brown’* Iron lb fieri for
h'wpepeia, and aa a tonio/’
Genui no haw above Trade Mark and r roewod redli/iaf
on wi.pivrr Toko no oilier. Made -nl> by
BKOH .N UIhMM ALtU., UAL'i DlOhh. Mi*
KIESLING’S NURSERY,
White Bluff Road.
PLANTS. BOUVUKTB, DEMONS. CUT
FLOWERS firTutebed to ofder. Lmv* or
dera at DAVIH BK< *B.’, corner Bull uuU Yurk
MUooU. Nopfceot call
SWIFT’S SPECIFIC.
CANC y^~
V* . n BCa3eS **
Promptly and
wonderful V ULCERS,
remedy. <9
MILLINERY.
IVE\V Mil A dA 101 AT
KROUSKOFF’S
Mammoth Millinery House.
We are now ottering immense lines of New Straw Hats,
Ribbons, Feathers, etc., which are now being shipped daily
by our New York buyer, and our Mr. Ivrouskoff, who is mow
North to assist in the selection of the Choicest Novelties in
the Millinery Line. It is astonishing but a fact, that we sell
line Millinery cheaper than any, retail store ii*New York. How
can we do it? ( annot tell. This is our seoret and our
cess. Perhaps on account of large clearing, out purchasiei or
perhaps from direct shipments from London or Paris—but no
matter so long as the ladies have all the advantages in stock
and prices.
We are now ready for business, and our previous large
stock will be increased, and we are now offering full lines of
tine 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 lull 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.
aKROUSKOITPT.
IRON WORKS.
KEHOE’S IRON WORKS,
Broughton Street, from Reynolds to Randolph Streets, 1
Savaimali, - - Georgia.
CASTING- OF ALL KINDS AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES.
THE RAPIDLY INCREASING DEMAND FOR OUR
SUGAR MILLS AND PANS
T TAS induced us to manufacture them on a more extensive scale than
II ever. To that end no pains or expense has been spared to maintain
their HIGH BTANARD OF EXCELLENCE.
B Those Mills arc of the BEST MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP, with
heavy WROUGHT IRON SHAFTS (made long to prevent danger to the'
operator), and rollers of the best charcoal pig iron, uli turned up true
B They are heavy, strong and durable, run light “and even, and are guarau
teed cui>uh!e of grinding the heaviest fully matured
cane.
ii ■ ’■(, Hi* I Ml "111 'll'!- 11 •• tulle tv.II rallied ..r one year.
>iir Pons ln'ing east will) die bottoms down.
ill i C * flB (II ISM Hs STIIooI Ilia -1 ■ 1 .11.11 1111 l v uinl lillli orin il v Ilf A®HSMfa3Pf^
Having unsurpassed facilities,
WE GUARANTEE OUR PRICES TO BE AS LOW AS ANY OFFERED.*
A Large Stock Always on Hand for Prompt Delivery.
Wm. Ivehoe & Cos.
N. B—The name “ KEHOE’B IKON WORKS,’ is cost on all our Mills and Pans.
Simplest, Safest and Most Durable. All Machinery fully Guaranteed. Reliable Ma
chinery at reasonable prices.
Do not buy without first seeing us, or writing for our prices, naming just what you want. Address
RICHMONIh'vA. i TALBOTT & SONS, Macon, Ga.
,T. C. AVKAVKK, Manager.
DOWN THEY GrO.
MATTINGS AT REDUCED PRICES
AT LINDSAY Sc MORGAN’S.
IN order to close out onr Summer Stock we are selling HTRAW MATTING AT VERY LOW
PRIM'S. MOSQUITO NETS, REFRIGERATORS, BAUY CARRIAGES, and all other Reason
able goixiH
MARKED DOWN TO PANIC PRICES.
BODY BRUSSELS CARPETS at NINETY CENTS A YARD.
Rheumatism and Neuralgia Kept Off by Using Glass Eod Rollers.
Our General Stook is Complete. Call on rs Early,
LINDSAY & MORGAN.
If >9 anti 171 Jlronghton St root,
Vale Royal Manufacturing Cos.
SAVANNAH,
MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN
Mi, Doors, lulls, Hails, Pew Ends,
And Interior Finish of all kind*, Moulding*. Baluster*, Newel Posts. Estimates, P’-'.ce List*. Mould
ing Book*. and anjr Information In our lin furnished on application CvpreM, Yellow Pine, Oak
Ash und Walnut LUMBER on bund and In any quantity, furnished promptly.
VALE ROYAL MANUFACTURING OOMrANY, SuvaunaA, Ga,
‘TALBOTT”
Engines, Boilers,
Saw and Grist Mills,
And Machinery of All
Kinds.
OFFICIAL,.
aCARANTINE NOTICE “*
Office Health Officer.
Savannah. Qa., May 1, 18W7. f
From and after MAY Ist, IHB7, the city ordi
nance which si>ecifles 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 eo
forced.
Merchants and all other parties interested
will be supplied with printed copies of the Quar
antine Ordinance upon application to oiflee 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 o? Africa bcweou
10 degs. North and 1 i degs South latitude,
direct or via American port will be sub
jected to close Quarantine and bo required
to report at the Quarantine Station and bo
treated as being from infected or suspected
ports or localities. Captains of these vessel*
will have to remain at Quarantine Station until
their vessels are relieved.
All steamers and vessels from foreign port*
not included above, direct or via American
ports, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise,
will Ik* required to remain in quarantine until
boarded and passed by the Quarantine Officer.
Neither the Captains nor any one on hoard of
such vessels will lye a thrived to come to the city
until the I'esselg are inspected and passed by the
Quarantine OflU er.
A* p*rtii or localities not herein enumerated
ore 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 Hag on vessels subjected hi
detention or inspection will be rigidly enforced.
J. T. MoFARLANIJ, M. D.. Health Officer.
ORDINANCE.
Ah Ordinance Go amend article LX. of the Sv
vunnali City Code, adopted Fel). lfl, 1870. so a*
to require nil occupants of houses, merchants,
shopkeepers,grocers'and tradesmen occupying
premises to wbhffi no yards ate attached to
keep within their premises a box or barrel of
euluoient size. In wldeh shall he deposited all
offal, filth, rubbish, dirt, and other matter gen
erated in said preiriisea or to put, spell box or
barrel In the Htreets or lanes under condition*
prescribed herein.
Sect'ion 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Aldenpen of the city of Savannah in Council
assembled, and it is hereby onltcined by the
authority of the same, That section 2 of said
article be amended ho us to road as follows: The
owners, tenants or occupiers of houses having
yardsor enclosures, nod all occupanls of houses,
all mercbmits, shopki>e|iera, grocers and trades
men occupying premises' to whioh no yards ore
at tached slrnll keep witbiu tUelr yards or
premises a box or barral of sufficient size, in
whioh shall he deposited all the offal, filth, rub
bish, dirt and other matter generated in said
building and enclosure, and the said fllthofvveiy
description as aforesuid shall be placed jn said
box in- 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 dailpf November
(inclusive) to the last day df March’'(lnclusive)
before the hour of 8 o’clock a. m., arid’such mat
tor so placed shall lie daily removed (Sunday*
(excepted) by tbo Superintendent, to
'such places two miles at least
without the city as shall ho designated by tits
Mayor or u majority of the Btroet and Lane
Committee. And it slndl be unlawful for any
occupant of a house, merchant, shopkeeper,
ftrocer or tradesman to sweep into or to depot!!
n any street or lane of this city any paper,
trash, or rubbish of any kind whatsoever,but
the same shull bb kept in bpxes or barrels a*
hereinls'fore 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 scuvengqr, provided the box or barrel so
put In the street or lane shall, be of such,c liar
actor and size us to securely keep the offoi, rub
bish, etc., from getting into the street or lane.
And any jierton other than the ouper or scaven
ger Interfering with or troubling the box or luir
rel so put in the street or lane shall be punished
on conviction thereof in the poHco court by fine
not'exceeding SIOO or imprisonment not exceed
ing thirty days, either or both in tho discretion
of officer presiding In said court.
Ordinance passed iu Council June Ist, 1887.
RUFUS E. LESTER. Mayor.
Attest: Frank E. Hvtuntit, (fork of Council
City Marshal, s Office, I
Savannah, April 28d, 1887. (
r |''llE City Treasurer has placed in my band*
1 Real Estate Executions for 1888, Privy Vault
Executions for lHßii, Stock in Trade and other
pertonal property execution* for 1880. and Spe
cific or License Tax Executions for IHB7, coln
nuuiding me to make the money on said writ*
by levy and sale of the defendants’ projierty oh
by other lawful means. 1 hereby notify all per
sons in default that the tax and tjevemm ordi
nance will be promptly enforced If (Miyment i*
not made at my office without delay.
Office hours from 11 a. x. to 2 p. x.
ROBY J WADE,
City Marshal.
UIARAVriHE NOTICE.
Orpifß Health ( ikkicer, I
Savannah, April sth, JBB7. (
Notion is horniiy given that the Quarantine
Officer iarinsttuctod not to deliver letters tp ves
*els which am not subjected to quarantine de-
Rention. unions the name of oonslgmsi ami State
ment tnat tlie vessel is ordered;,to sorneot her
port appears upon the faro of the envplopo.
This order is made MyrcHwiry In ciauie<j,umieo of
Rbe enormous bulk of dnmiinlng letters sent to
the station for vessels which are to arrive
J. T. MoFAiiLAND; m. and.,
Health Officer.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Omen ilvAt/rn OrwcEit, £
Savannah, March Hth, IW7. i
Pilots of tho Port of Savannah are informs**
that the Saiielo Quarantine Stutlou will be open
ed on APRIL Ist. ls*7
Spociui attention of the Pilots Is directed to
sections Nos. 3d and 14th, Quarantine ltegula-
Rons.
Most rigid enforcement of quarantine regular
tions will do maintained by tho Health authori
ties. j. t. McFarland, m and..
Health Officer.
RAILROAD BONDS.
Tho undersigned offers for sale at par ox-Juljr
Coupon $5*0.000 of the MARIETTA AND
north Georgia railway company-9
FIRST MORTOAOE i! PER CENT. FIFTY
YEAR HOND6, in multiples of $l,OOO to suit
buyers.
r pHEBE bontis can tic safely taken by invea
1 tortf as a reliable (1 |**r cent, security, which
will, in all probability, advance to 15 points
above par within the mat three or four years,
us this loud will traverse a country unsurpassed
for mineral wealth, for climate, for scenery, for
agricultural purposes, and for uttractiveness to
the settler.
The company has mortgaged Its franchise and
entire line of railroad, built and to be built, and
all its other property, to the B< wton Safe Deposit
and Trust (ran pony to secure its issue of 50-year
t> jKir cent, bonds. These bonds will Is; issued as
tlp* rate of about sl7,nun per mil"', on a liDe ex
tending from Atluuta, (ia., to Knoxville, Tenn.
A sinking fund is provided for their redemption.
It will ls a one of the ts'st paying roads in the
South. It will Iks of standard gauge and will
develop a region of country extending from
Middle Georgia, through North Carolina to
Knoxville, Tuhn . where it will connect with
lines leading to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis
and Pittsburg.
The mail is now completed to Murphy, N. C.,
and is to Is-pushed on to Knoxville us fast a*
the nature or the country will permit. The high
financial standing and energy of the men prin
cipally Iptermtea in it sufficiently guarantees it*
early completion.
Further information will he furnished upon
application to A. L. HAIITRIDUE, Savannah,
fla., or to RODDY, Mt LELLAN & CO., 37
Broadway, New York.
IRON WORKS.
McDowsfOalilm
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blacksmith*
MA.wrACTi'REas or
STATIONARY and PORTABLE
VERTICAL and TOP-RUNNING CORN
HILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
AGENTS for Alert and Union Injector*, tho
simplest and most effective on tie market;
Gulletl Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the
best in the market.
All orders promptly attended to. Send for
Price List.
ELECTRIC BELTS.
This Belt or Regenera
/vJraffiW'h. tor is made expressly
dp ~ fertile • ere of derange-
W Lqo CHEE l moots ot tlie generativ*
PctTMtolr oti V-lorgans A continuous
atXvVi HltjpthfJ stream of Electricity
Vjvw/ POrIV permeating thro’ thn
k tSw , * rt!l must restore
Ia vtlj jX u them to healthy action.
■NRi? iTSSieJ .if V Do not confound this
lIIFKIV-fi'/Tfiliil I with Electric Belts ad-
I VIL IN ViaviF UnLI vertis.il to cure all ill*;
It 1# for the one ne<-7nc purpose For full In
formation addreas CHKKVER ELECTMO
BELT CO., 108 Waaiiiugwu til., Chicago 111
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