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am hereditary curse.
AtHt-tics Rhowme the Drink Habit is
-pransmltted From Father to Son.
frmit the Philadelphia Judical Reporter.
Tlie latest investigation of the subject of
drunkenness ami its effect upon humanity
j ~v i , n made by Dr. T. D. Crothers, the
superintendent of Walnut I/vlge, Hartford,
C'ouii. 11° ‘1 notes Dr. Russ as relating
t , nt t i,e minors of Westphalia, who live
front their wives, are generally
intoxicate! when they come home on visits.
Tit,, result is that a large proportion of the
'l.;i,irei, born of these families are idiots
.„{ fecble-miuded. In the study of the
ip. 'litv of inebriates many cases appear
"li,the parents were greatly disturbed
in jioalth and their social relations prior to
t i,o birth of the child, which grew up and
Ixvame an inebriate without any special
exciting cause.
Ina number of cases which he cites, Dr.
Others has directly traced inebriety
bark to the parents at a time prior to the
ciiihl s birth. In one instance the father
was i, s ea captain, a healthy, robust man,
who never drank except on shore, and then
in great moderation. His ship went to
China and the South sea, and was away
twelve or fourteen months at a time. He
me Tried in middle life, and on returning
from a long voyage would go to his country
Mnnc and be intoxicated with his wife for a
„.,vk or more on wines—then recover and
start away again. His wife would drink
with him and be partially iutoxicated.
Several children were born, all of whom
died in infancy except one boy, who grew
„p and became aperiodic drinker, and came
under Dr. Crothers’ care. He was a nervous,
melancholy young man, who could not
follow any steady work long, and ©very
two or three months he would rush away to
join the most dissolute compan
ions, with whom he would re
main, in a room, and for days
drink to a condition of continuous stupor.
Finally he would become exhausted and lie
attacked with gastritis. Under the care of
a physician he would quickly recover, and
then he would go back to the shipping-house
w here he was employed, and exhibit great
energy and industry for a long time. His
mind was unstable, and he was incredulous
of all things outside of his business. If he
became angry and excited he would stagger
and talk like a man drunken, his face would
prow red. the pupils of the eyes dilate, and
the lids swell, and he would be more or less
cupid for a long time. The approach of
the drink paroxysm was marked by great
business activity and anxiety to help some
one. Then suddenly he would And an evil
companion and go away and drink as before.
His earl} r life, the doctor found, was un
eventful. He was a good student, of quiet,
retiring manners, and held up as a model
for bis companions. When about 14 years
of age he sunned from a low, nervous
fever of several weeks’ duration. He lived
in his uncle’s family, and had tho best
society and the most temperate surroundings,
when suddenly one day he disappeared. A
week later he was found in a low den, where
he had been intoxicated from tho time he
came in. He gave no reason why he
did this, and seemed indifferent to all
counsel and advice. For a year after, he
was temperate and exemplary in every
respect. Then ho disappeared as before,
and drank wine in a room to stupor for a
week or more, then came back. Then from
this time these drink paroxysms were
noted hy the great secretiveness to go
where he could not >,j found, and also by
never drinking until V „ found such a place
and an evil I'omy .moil to join him. He
was 2d years of age when placed in Dr.
Crothers’ charge, who finally, so far as
appearances went, effected a cure. The
young man inherited a large property, mar
ried, and went to the West Indies. “In
this case.” says Dr. Crothers, “a most strik
ing similarity was apparent between the
drink paroxysms of his parents, which were
marked hy a continuous use of wine, to
stupor, for days in a room alone. In his
case, beginning at youth, it seemed to burst
nut as an inherited impulse, using the same
spirits and lasting about the same time.
Why he should suddenly and without
premonition go away and drink to excess
m a peculiarly unusual wav for a bov, and
ever after keep it up at intervals under the
same circumstances, can only be answered
from a study of heredity.”
In another case the physician cites the
father as a temperate man. The mother
had drank beer at meals all her life. After
her wedding, however, both were intoxi
cated, and remained in that condition for a
considerable period of that time. The first
child was a little fretful creature, which
cried night and day for tho first year. By
accident whisky was found to produce the
most perfect relief. From this time nothing
but some form of spirits would allav the
nervous irritation, and as he grew older he
would cry for it and refused to
be satisfied with any other fluid.
At 10 years he drank beer regu
larly every night, and at 15 he drank to
great excess. In appearance he was feeble
and imperfectly developed. His mind was
uncertain and changeable. The taste and
effects of spirits, gave him, ho said, the
greatest pleasure. When he could not get
spirits he was delirious, and after using one
or two glasses he became stupid and aughed
at everything until he fell asleep. l r e was
placed in the care of a physician, win tried
to withdraw the use of spirits by reducing
it from day to day. After the spirits were
withdrawn ho developed mania and de
lusions of persecution during which he es
caped from control and drank to stupor.
The mania disappeared. Again the effort
to break up the use of spirits was tried, but
tbe mania returned more violent than ever,
and tho spirits were resumed and continued
tip to death, at 20 yearsof age. Three other
children w ere born to this couple, who were
temperate and of average strength and vigor.
1 lie parents never used any spirits after tho
first year of marriage.
A man was placed in his care who had
occupied a very respectable position of
bust, and who, with an insane indifference,
bad drank to great excess, and forfeited all
honor and respect. He was educated, and
Wils il man of talent and great energy. He
"ns temperate up to 40 years of age, when
suddenly he drank to intoxication, and he
Wus Sl ’ e|l on the streets shouting in a deliri
ous way. In two or three days he became
temperate, and seemed to have no regrets or
sorrow for the past. He manifested no
interest in the advice and counsel of his
mentis and made no remarksof explanation,
hew gave any reason for his conduct,
bc'erai months later he drank as before,
and returned to his work with the same
co °l indifference as to his conduct and its
consequences. He was forced to resign his
Position as officer of a bank, and gradually
l- iit down lower, until brought to Dr.
brothers. He drank periodically, the free
interval being from three to eighteen
months, the drink paroxysm lasting from
tmee to sjx days. During this paroxysm he
''- s mapiacal and reeled up and down the
b'cct, or was seen in an open carriage, al
'l-Vs going where he was most prominent,
ann making public speeches. Ho seemed
possessed with delusions of power and
grandeur, and placed himself in the most
P‘eminent pluses, interpreting the at tention
no received as evidence of his greatness.
' ln n he recovered he seemed to have a
paralysis of all conception of the nature and
raaraoter of his conduct. On all other
ihi u was clear and intelligent, but on
1 j silent and reserved. He recovered
j'"l to tho far West to live on a cattle
ranch.
Investigation of this man’s history re
tbe fact that his father, who was a
inpeniu,, healthy planter, married for the
nst time at 40. Soon after ho drank to
wit, excess, and was alter this a periodical
Tn 7 until bis death, ten years Inter.
nt ber was delirious during these
anil spent, his time on the street
1 , ln prominent places preaching anil
. ’ ?[’ ln g m a maudlin way. When he recov
‘o no was strangely oblivious to any past
u , " mid did not remember or believe he
is intoxicated. The lat ter years of his life
j n _ Was very angry if talkodtoaboutdrink
. Si anil would not listen to any counsel or
toTite ho f bank to his injury. Referring
Jb'acase Dr. Outliers says: “The ro
. | table similarity of tho symptoms of
Hu.;’ mid sou, coining on at the same time
ot life and following periodically, noted bv
delusions of power and grandeur and desire
to appear prominent, and the loss of eon
sciousness of Che past of its relation to the
) 1 esent in his own ease, seemed to indicate a
direct, heredity from father to son. - ’
MATHIAS SPLITLOU.
How a Full-Blooded Indian Became a
Millionaire.
A Neosho, Mo., letter to the Missouri
Republican says: Occasionally the institu
tion of a law suit, the construction of a rail
road or the transfer of real estate brings be
fore tho public men whose history would
form an interesting romance; but few of
this class have had a more varied and peou
lar experience than that of Mathias Split
log, the millionaire Indian,” whose recent
sale of seventy acres of land for *sts,oUo in
Kansas, near Kansas City', caused so much
comment in the local papers, Mr. Splitlog
is a full-blooded Wyandotte Indian, and was
born in an Indian village in Canada, and
shortly afterward moved to Ohio. While a
boy he was apprentioted to a carpenter and
millwright, and, although his wages were
only $7 per month, young Splitlog thought
he was getting rich. He imbibed a love for
machinery and inventions, which has caused
him to lend a helping hand to many ft poor
fellow who had a useful invention which
only needed money to develop it and make
it pay
Splitlog’s first venture was to build a
steamboat, which he did in company with
his brother. They launched the boat upon
the St. Clair river and started in the fishing
trade. Uncle Sam soon became jealous of
the boys, and confiscated the boat on a
charge of smuggling.
moved west.
In 1842, the Wyandottes, who were the
last of the Indian tribes then in Ohio, by
the treaty of the Upper Sandusky, ceded to
the United States their lands in that, State,
and received in exchange land in what is
now Wyandotte county, Kan. In 1843
Splitlog came West with some of his tribe,
and found, after his arrival at West Port
Landing, (now Kansas City), that Ijo only
had 50c. in his pocket. He induced an old
Indian to go his security for the price of an
axe. With this ax he cut cordwood
for the steamboats at the rate
of 25c. per cord, and after pay
ing for the ax, which then cost $3,
he soon saved enough to buy a pony, and
shortly afterward we find him with a herd
of horses. About 1850 Splitlog was mar
ried to the granddaughter of tlio old man
who went his security for the price of the
ax, and shortly afterward he began to build
a mill. At this time he had no money to
pay for labor, so that he did the work him
self. He selected the timber, cut and hauled
the logs, and then he had a “raising;” that
is, had his neighbors come and help him
raise the building. He
FINISHED THE MILL HIMSELF,
with everything but the burrs. These
would cost at that time .8150 and Splitlog
had no money: still he was determined not
“to give up the idea of running a mill.”
When in this dilemma a steamboat, which
was unloading a pair of burrs at the ‘ ‘land
ing,7’ accidentally let them fall overboard (
and they sank to the bottom of the Missouri
river. Splitlog, learning of this, contracted
with the owner to pay him $25 for the
burrs and take them up himself, which
he eventually did after much trouble
and hard work, and having got the
burrs out ot the river it took but a short
time to get ready to start the mill. The ma
chinery was rigged for horse-power and the
day that Splitlog started ho hitched in eight
unbroken horses from his herd and earned
85c. in cash, and in the evening he gave
this money to his wife and told her to go to
Northrup’s (Splitlog’s present bankers in
Kansas City) store and buy them something
good to eat, as ho now had that much money
that he did not need.
Splitlog’s mill was a success, and in 1855
we find him one of the leading men of his
tribe. By the treaty of the Upper San
dusky the Wyandottes were not allowed to
i alienate their lands, but in the year 1855 a
new treaty was made between the Wyan
dottes and the United States which severed
the tribal relations of the Wyandottes and
fixed their status as citizens of the United
States. The first section of this treaty
reads as follows:
“The Wyandotte Indians, having become
sufficiently advanced in civilization, and de
sirous of becoming citizens, it is hereby
agreed and stipulated that their organiza
tion and their relations with the United
States as an Indian tribe shall be dissolved
and terminated on the ratification of this
“agreement, except in so far as the further
continuance of the same may tie necessary
to the execution of the stipulations herein;
and from and after date of such ratification
the said Wyandotte Indians and each and
every one of them, except as hereinafter
provided, shall be deemed and are hereby
declared to be citizens of the United States
for all ihtents and purposes, and shall be en
titled to all the privileges and inununities of
such citizens and shall in all respects be sub
ject to the laws of the United States and
the territory of Kansas in the same manner
as other citizens of said territory.”
A SPECULATOR.
After the adoption of this treaty Splitlog
began to speculate in real estate, and, al
though he can neither read nor write, he
has been one of the most successful specu
lators in the neighborhood of Kansas City,
and is to-day worth over $1,000,000. About
fourteen years ago Splitlog moved to the
Indian Territory and located on Elk river,
near the Missouri line, and about four miles
from Tiff Citv, and recently he became in
terested in' a silver mine in Mc-
Donald county, Mo. With his char
acteristic energy he began operations
at once. He hired a mining expert
named B. F. Requa from Chicago to super
tend the operations at the mines, and, be
coming convinced that to develop the mines
and build up the town of Splitlog a railroad
was necessary, he, together with his partner
in the mines. Moses W. Clay, commenced
negotiating with the projectors of the New
Orleans, Natchez and Fort Scott Railroad
Company, and soon that company was
formed for the purpose of building a rail
road between tho terminal points named in
their title and running by way of Neosho
and Splitlog City. This company lsang
too slow to meet the vigorous ideas of Split
log and Clay, they severed their connections
with the same, and Mathias Splitlog,
Moses W. Clay, Oeorge Hub
bert and others organized the
Kausas City, Fort Smith and Southern
Railroad Company, with a capital of $3,-
000 000, for the purpose of building a rail
road from Kansas City to Fort Smith, pass
ing through Splitlog City and Neosho. This
road is now graded for at*nit thirty miles
between Splitlog City and Joplin, and it is
only a question of a few months when the
cars will run southward from Joplin to Fort
Smith, and Mathias Splitlog, the millionaire
Indian, who is probably the richest man of
his race will be known all over the country
as the only Indian railroad man in the
United States.
PERSONAL.
Mr Splitlog has five children—four boys
and one girl—and now lives at Splitlog City,
McDonald county, Mo. Ho is like most
men of his rare, very taciturn in his habits,
seldom sinking in more than monosyllables,
still he is far from being disagreeable, be
cause be call make himself clearly under
stood in very few words and is a good list
ener and quick to-catch a point ini the-dis
cussion .of any question; ami when he deter
mine what course to pursue, he begins at
once in the execution of his plans and never
ceases until he has accomplished his ends.
Advice to Mothers. •
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used when children aro cutting
teeth. It relieves tho little suffer at once; it
produces natural, quiet sleep by relieving
the child from pain and tho little cherub
awaken as “aright as a button.
It is verv nltAMint to tasU 1 . It soothes tuo
&SCSS the gums allays all pain, re
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THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1887.
UP IN A BALLOON.
Two Cincinnati Aeronauts Who Will
be Famous.
From the Cincinnati Times-Star,
Charley Williams and Harry Young are
two aeronauts of whom Cincinnati may be
proud. Sober, clear headed, gentlemanly
young follows, they have had extraordinary
success as skyscrapers, and in all their nu
merous voyages through the air have not
once sustained an injury. This is a remark
able record.
At 11:30 o’clock on Fourth of July night,
Mr. Wiliams made an ascent, which was
the first of the kind ever made. He and
his partner, Mr. Young, have a hot-air bal
loon seventy-five feet high and fifty feet
greatest diameter. At Coney Island, on
the night of the Fourth, Mr. Williams made
an ascent in this balloon, taking a great
quantity of fireworks and red lights with
him, which were touched off as lie passed
through space. It was a magnifi
cent sight, and not onlv enter
tained the on-lookers at the Island, but
startled the farmers of the country
who were much surprised to see rockets,
candles, and all that set off up in the clouds.
The balloon passed ovor in the neighbor
hood of Turkey Bottom and descended in a
rye field, and if the wrathful owner of the
rj-e reads this it will lie his first information
as to the cause of tho tornado-tossed aspect
of his field.
Mr. Williams was asked to-day if he did
not sometimes get scared when above the
clouds with a frail balloon his only support.
Said he:
“I never become frightened, nor do I
think that many people do. If you were to
go up with me you would not for a moment
feel uizzy as you would if looking down
from some high building. The most beauti
ful view in this world Is obtained from the
basket of a balloon. Looking straight down
the earth seems ns flat os a board with a
thousand variations of color made by the
woods and the fields. High hills and their
intervening valleys all seem to lie on a level,
and it is only by looking off toward the
horizon that any difference of height can
be noticed. Up to a distance of a mile
or so from the earth sounds can be distin
guished readily, but on ascending to greater
altitudes not a sound can be heard One is
in a part of the universe then where every
condition is different from anything he lias
ever before experienced. The air is rari
fied and produces a peculiar sensation, a
sort of exhilaration, and a feeling of abso
lute independence comes over one. He
feels that he is the absolute monarch of all
ho surveys; that there is none his
right to dispute. At last he has got
away from the restrictions of terrestrial
life and is in a region where freedom to do
anything is unquestionable. The part of
the body that is exposed to the sun gets very
hot, while the other side is cold. Turn the
palm of thehaudtothesun, and while it will
literally burn the back will literally freeze,
and the silence is almost oppressive. There
is not another living being near, not even a
bird. Butterflies have been found three
miles above the earth, but nothing else. To
be up in a balloon for a distance of two or
three miles is worth a little risk.”
Mr. Williams says that these big, black,
cumulus clouds that take possession of the
sky and darken the earth look even more
sustantial when approached than they do
when viewed from the ground. When fifty
feet away from them they seem so solid
that one is almost tempted to step out of the
basket and take a stroll along its smooth,
dark surface. He said:
“Their thickness varies from a few hun
dred to 3,000 feet, and in going through
them the light of the sun is obscured, so
that when in the midst of a very thick
cumulus it is quite impossible to see any
thing. The moisture, too, is disagreeable.”
“You read about that reporter who as
cended 2,000 feet in a ballon and, holding to
a parachute, jumped out and descended to
the earth in safety?”
“Yes, I read about him,” replied Mr.
Williams, “and I think he showed poor
judgment to jump out of the balloon until
ho had his parachute open.”
“You are not making any parachute de
scents yourself, I suppose?’
“I would if called upon. Ido not think
there is any particular danger in descending
in a parachute provided it is properly con
structed and that the descent is started prop
erly. I think it necessary to have a para
chute from 20 to 35 feet in diameter. It is
of the general shape of an umbrella, you
know, and should be made of heavy cloth
with gores narrowing upward and ribbed at
the seams with heavy cords, which are to be
continued down and fastened to tho basket.
Care must be taken not to get too much or
doo little curve to the top. If I ever make
a parachute for my own use I shall, as
an extra precaution, put a ring 10 feet
in diameter between the cords con
necting the top with tho basket and that
will make sure of the top opening
out when I make the descent. You see tho
Karaehute is attached to the basket of the
alloon, and in the ascent it is closed up by
the force of the air. That reporter out
West had a narrow escape, for his para
chute did not open until he had gone down
‘2OO feet or more. The only proper way to
E repare for a descent in a parachute is to
ave someone go up with you in a gas bal
loon and then, when up 1,200 or 1,500 feet,
pull the valve cord of the balloon and let it
down quickly, so as to cause the inflation of
the parachute, then have your partner in
the balloon cut the connecting rope anil let
you down. The safety all lies in getting
started right. If you don’t start right,
you’re gone, for tliere is no half way station
at which to stop and make repairs.”
A Dreadful Dilemma.
From the St. Paul Globe.
It was in a leading Third street dry goods
store yesterday afternoon that two ladies
stood Wore the counter and kept the dap
per clerk busy pulling down dress goixis and
draping them over his arms that the light
might strike them favorably. One of tho
ladies had passed the meridian of life, while
the other was just budding into sweet wom
anhood. She chatted slyly with the clerk,
commenting on tho styles of the different
dress patterns, and alter half an hour
of dilly-dallying she selected a few yards
of one piece, and the clerk wrapped it up
neatly.
“That will be sls fi7,” he said, as ho
laid the bundle down on the counter in front
of her.
The young lady smiled sweetly, and drove
her right hand down into tier dress pocket.
She felt around in its depths a half a min
ute, when a strange look came over her face.
She blushed painfully, and her eyes wan
dered to the race of the elder lady, who, sur
prised at the expression on the young lady’s
lace, came ovor to her. Still painfully
blushing, tho young woman whispered some
thing to the elder and blushed deeper than
ever. The elder lady thought a minute,
then walking over to'where the clerk stood
drumming on the counter, asked:
“Are vou married!”
“Yes,” replied tho clerk.
Taking hold of the lapel of his coat she
drew his ear down to her mouth and whis
pered a few words.
“Why, certainly,”said tho clerk; “right
liehind that pile of prints.” And turning
his back on the two ladies he saun
tered carelessly down the store. Catching
the young girl by the shoulder, the elder
lady pulled her beliind the pile of prints,
ana when, ft minute later, they came out
and the clerk strolled back, the elder lady
held a pnrketbook in her hand and paid the
clerk for tho goods the young lady had pur
chased. Then, smiling sweetly on him, they
went out. When they had got well away
from the store door the young woman said
to the other lady:
“I never felt so ashamed in my life. I
don’t see how I came to forget it. "That’s tho
last time I'll put my pocketlxxik in my stock
ing.”
There were 60,036 births in Paris last year, of
which more than 17,000 were illegitimate. There
were 57,098 deaths during the same period, of
which more than 10,000 were due to pulmonary
diseases.
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NEW TREATMENT FOR LOCKJAW.
Medical Men Think They Have Found |
a Remedy for the Dreaded Disease. j
Fi-om the Sew Fort Sun.
Chicago, July (5. —John Kelleher ran a '
rusty nail into liis foot, ntwut an inch back
from his big toe, on May 20. He washed
the wound out with cold water, tied a piece
of cotton over it, and in a day the foot was
comparatively well again, the nail having
just punctured the skin. Yesterday morn
ing he complained of a sore throat. When
the physician asked him to open
his mouth it was discovered that
lie had traumatic lockjaw. An hour
later it became apparent that extreme
measures must be resorted to. Kelleher
was put under the influence of ether. The
sponge had barely been applied to the suf
ferers nostrils when the initial tetanic con
vulsion displayed itself. He jump 1 from
the operating slab and made a mad rush for
the window. His jaws wore set, his eyes
protruded, and he fought with a frenzied
strength which the combined efforts of four
men could hardly overcome. Again the
anaesthetic was given to him, this time with
better effect.
An incision four inches long and three
inches deep was made an inch and a half be
hind the hip bone. The sciatic nerve was
then exposed. Here a strong metallic sound
was passed beneath the nerve, and it was
stretched downward from the spinal cord
with a pressure of 175 pounds. The gash was
dressed with iodoform ami antiseptics and
sewed up. An incision three inches long
was next made in the groin, the knife cut
ting downward past the femoral artery until
the crural nervo was exposed. Here the
sound was again used and the nerve drawn
downward from the spinal cord with a pres
sure- of 50 pounds. This idea of
treatment for lockjaw is anew one and was
first successfully attenmtedln Euro]ie about
six months ago, and the .case of Kelleher is
the first in the West. It was the left foot
which was injured. The two nerves treated
are those supplying - , locomotion and sense
tion from the nerve centre to the seat of the
wound. The stretching was done to destroy
the nerv e enrreut which conducted the sen
sations froiji the scar in the left foot pro
duced by the nail to the base of the brain,
also to prevent the conveyance of the irri
tation from the pymmic foot to the brain.
The case is being watched with great inter
est by the medical men of Chicago, as it
promises to become a remedy for the dread
ed disease.
Nightmare,
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want of ambition are symptoms of a dis
eased liver. The lungs, stomach and bowels
are all in sympathy. Life is only a living
death. Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Dis
covery” acts upon the torpid liver and ef
fectually removes all these difficulties and
disorders. Nervous feelings, gloomy fore
bodings and irritability of temper all dis
appear.
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NIGHT SHIRTS, Plain *p<l Fancy,
HAMMOCKS, with Stretchers, for comfort.
CHINESE, CORK HELMETS and BARK
HATH.
SUN UMBRELLAS, GINGHAM and SILK
UMBRELLAS, anil the GLORIA CLOTH that
wearn so well. All sizes and nil priced.
RUBBER PILLOWS, RUBBER COATS and
LEGOINS, SATCHELS and VALISES, WALK
ING CANES and BATHING SUITS, at
LaFar’s New Store,
l> HULL, STREET.
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A REMEDY NOT TOR A DAY, BUT FOR'
Heir HALF A CENTURY "’ton
RELIEVING BUFFERING HUMANITY!
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AN INTERESTING TREATISE ON BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES SENT
FREE TO ALL APPLICANTS.* 4 IT SHOULD BE READ BY EVERYBODY.
ADDRESS THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA.
MILI.INKKY.
KROUSKOFFS
Mammoth Millinery House.
We arc now offering immense lines of New Straw Hats,
Ribbous, Feathers, etc., which are. now being shipped daily
by our New York buyer, and our Mr. Krouskoff, who is now
North to assist in the selection of the Choicest Novelties in
the Millinery Line. It is astonishing but a fact, that we sell
fine Millinery cheaper than any retail store in New York. llow
can we do it? Cannot tell. This is our secret and our suc
cess. Perhaps on account of large clearing out purchases or
perhaps from direct shipments from London or Paris—but no
matter so long as the ladies have all the advantages in stock
atid prices.
We are now ready for business, and our previous large
stock will be increased, and we are now offering full lines of
fine Milans in White and Colors, for Ladies, Misses and
Children in an endless variety of shapes.
RIBBONS, RIBBONS, new novelties added and our regu
lar full line entirely filled out. ,
We knock bottom out in the price of Straw Goods.
We continue the sale of our Ribbons at same prices as
heretofore, although the prices have much advanced.
We also continue to retail on our first floor at wholesale
prices.
8. KROUSKOFF.
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 ■ TTAS induced us to manufacture them on a more extensive scale than
J 1 ever. To that end no pains or exiiense has been spared to maintain
OP their HIGH STANARD OF EXCELLENCE.
These Mills are of the BEST MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP, with
heavy WROUGHT IRON SHAFTS (made long to prevent danger to the
S H? operator), and rollers of the best charcoal pig iron, all turned up true.
They are heavy, strong and durable, run light and even, and are guaran
|, ’d
WE GUARANTEE OUR PRICES TO BE AS LOW AS ANY OFFERED.
A Large Stock Always on Hand for Prompt Delivery.
Win. Ivelioo Cos.
N. B.—The name “ KEHOIC'S IRON WORKS,’ is cast on all otir Mills and Pans.
BmOnov
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
riotmon’ilVa. | TALBOTT & SONS, Macon, Ga.
,r. C. WKAVER, Mnnager.
MATTING.
L)OWNT I I EY GO!
MATTINGS AT REDUCED PRICES
AT LINDSAY &. MORGAN’S.
I N onlor to close out our Summer Kfoek we are r* llin • STRAW MATTING AT VERY LOW
PRICKS. MOSQUITO NETS, REFRIGERATORS, I>aRY CARRIAGES, uud 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 is Complete. Call on us Early,
LINDSAY & MORGAN.
SASII, HUGHS, BUNGS, ETC.
Vale Royal Manufacturing Cos.
SAVANNAH, GAI.,
MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN
Wi, Doors; Ills, Ms, Pew Ms,
And Interior Finish of all kind*. Moulding., Baluster*, Newel Poet*. Estimate*, Price Lists, Mould
ing Books, and any information in our line furnished on application. Cypress, Yellow Fine, Oak,
Ain and Walnut LUMBER on hand and In any quantity, luruisbed promptly.
VALID ROYAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Savannah, Ga
SWIFT’S SPECIFIC.
OFFICIAL.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Office Heai.th Office*. I
Savannah, Ga., May 1, 1887. (
From and after MAY Ist, 1887, the city ordi
nance which specifies the Quarantine require
ments to lie observed at the port of Savannah,
Georgia, for period of time (annually, from Maw
Ist to November Ist, will be most rigidly en
forced.
Merchants and all other parties interested
will lie supplied with printed copies of the Quar
nn'ine i mliiiauce upon application to office of
Health Officer.
From and after this date and until further no*
tic,' all steamships and vessels from South
America, Central America, Mexico, West Indies,
Sicily, ports of Italy south of 40 degs. North
latitude. and cast of Africa beweon
in dogs, North and 11 degs. South latitude,
direct or via American port w ill he sub
jected to close Quarantine and lie required
to rtqxirt at the Quarantine Station and lie
treated as being from infected or stupefied
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 ports
not included above, direct or via American
ports, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise,
will Is l required to remain in quarattin' until
boarded and passed by the Quarant ne Officer.
Neither the Captain* nor tiny one tu b .cirri of
rueh vessel* will he allowed to come to the city
until the vessels are inspected anil passed by the
Quarantine Officer.
As ports or localities not herein enumerated
are reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori
ties, Quarantine restrictions against same will
bo enforced without further publication.
The quarantine regulation requiring the flying
of the tpuirantine /log on vessel* subjected to
detention or inspection will be. rigidly enforced.
J. T. McFarland. M. D.. Health Officer.
ORDINANCE.
An Oroinanoe to amend art icle LX. of the Sa
vannah Cit y Code, adopted Fell. 18, 1870, *o aa
to require all occupants of houses, merchants,
shopkeepers,grocers and tradesmen occupying
premises to which no yards are attached to
Keep within their premises a box or barrel of
sufficient size In which shall lie deposited all
offal, filth, rubbish, dirt and other matter gen
erated In said premises, orto put such box or
barrel In the streets or lanes uuder conditions
proscribed herein.
BEorroN 1. Belt ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council
assembled, and it is hereby oi.laineil by the
authority of the same, That section a of said
art icle he amended so as to rend as follows: The
owners, tenants or occupiers of houses having
yards or enclosures, and ml occupants of houses,
all merchants, shopkeepers, gr.s-ers and trades
men occupying premises to which no yards are
attached shall keep within their yards or
premises a Ihix or barrel of sufficient size, in
which shall Is, deposited all the offal, filth, rub
bish, dirt and other matter generated in said
building and enclosure, and the said tilt h of every
description as aforesaid shall lie placed in said
box or barrel, from I lie first day of April to the
first day of November, before the hour of 7
o'clock a. m . mid from the first ilay of November
(inclusive) to the last day of March (inclusive)
before the hour of 8 o'clock a. m., and such mat
ter so placed shall be daily removed l Sundays
excepted) by the superintendent, to
such places two miles at least
without the city as shall lie designated by the
Mayor or a majority of the Street and Lane
Committee. And it shall bn unlawful for any
oceupuut of a house, merchant, shopkeeper,
grixer 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 he kept in boxes or barrels as
hereinbefore provided, for removal by the scav
enger of the city. Any )ierson 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 box or barrel so
)iut in the street or lone shall be of such char
acter and size us to securely keep the offal, rub
bish, etc., from getting Into the street or lana.
And any person other than the owner or scaven
ger interfering with or troubling the box or bar
rel so put in the street or lane shall be punished
on conviction thereof in tho police court, by fin*
not exceeding SIOO or imprisonment not exceed
ing thirty days, either or both in the discretion
of officer presiding in said oourt.
Ordinance passed in Council dune Ist, 1887.
RUFUS E. LESTER, Mayor.
Attest: Fiiank E. Kkbakeh, Clerk of Council
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City Marshai, s Office. #
Savannah, April 23d, 1887. (
’TMfE City Treasurer has placed ill my bands
1 Reul Estate Executions for 1880, Privy Vauls
Executions for 1880, Stock In Trade and other
personal property executions for 1880, and Spe
ckle or License Tax Executions for 1887, com
manding me to make the money on said writs
by levy and sale of tho defendants' property or
bv other lawful means. I hereby notify all per
sons in default that the tax ana revenue ordi
nance will lie promptly enforced if payment ia
not made at my office without delay.
Office hours from 11 A. h. to 11 1>. M.
ROIiT. J. WADE.
City MarahaL
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Office Health Offices, I
Savannah. April sth. 1887. f
Notice Is hereby given that the Quarantina
Officer is in.it meted 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 made necessary in consequence of
the enormous bulk of drumming letters seut to
the station for vessels which are to arrive.
j. t. McFarland, m. and.,
Health Officer.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Office Health Officer, l
Savannah, March 25th, 1887. t
Pilots of the Port of Savannah are informed
that the Sai>elo Quarantine Station will be open
ed on APRIL Ist. 1887.
Special attention of the Pilots Is directed to
sections Nos. 3d and 14th, Quarantine Regula
I ions.
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 undersigned offers for sale at par ex-July
Coupon fcou,OKl of the MARIETTA AND
NORTH GEORGIA RAILWAY COMPANY’S
FIRST MORTGAGE PER CENT. FIFTY
YEAR BONDS, in multiples of SI,U(W to suit
buyers.
T’ll EKE bonds can be safely taken by tnves
-1 tors as a reliable i per cent, security, which!
will, in all probability, advance to 16 points
above par within the next throe or four years,
an this road will traverse a country unsurpassed
for mineral wealth, for climate, for scenery, for
agricultural purposes, ami for attractiveness to
the settler.
The company lias mortgaged Its franchise and
entire line of railroad, built and to be built, anj
all its other property, to the Boston Kafe Deposit
and Trust Company to secure its issue of 60-year
0 )><T cent, bonds. These bonds will be issued aB
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 Is' one of the best paying roads in thej
South. It will be of standard gauge and will
develop a region of country extending from
Middle Georgia, through North Carolina to
Knoxville, Tenn., where it will connect withj
lines leading to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Loui
and Pittsburg.
The road is now completed to Murphy, N. C..
and is to Ist pushed on to Knoxville as fast an
the nature of the country will jsirmlt. The high
llnanelal standing and energy of the men prin
cipally interested in it sufficiently guarantmm
early completion.
Further information will be furnished upon
application to A. L. HARTRIDGE, Savannah,
(la, or to BOODY, McLELLAN & CO., 57
Broadway, New York.
IRON WORKS.
Mcloib & BiiS
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blacksmith^
MANTFACTt RERS OF
STATIONARY and PORTABLE ENGINES,
VERTICAL and TOP-RUNNING CORN
MILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
AGENTS for Alert and Union In lectors, the
simplest and most effective on the market;
Gullet! Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the
best in the market.
All orders promptly attended to. Send for
Priee List.
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ELECTRIC’ KELTS.
@ Tills Belt or Regerieras
tor is made expressly
for the cure of derange
ments of the generative
organs. A continuous
stream of Electricity
permeating thro’ the
parts must restore
them to healthy action.
Do not confound thii
with Electric Belts ad
vertised to cure all ilisl
It is for the ok* specific purpose. For full inj
formation address CHEEVER ELECTRIO
BELT CO., 103 Washington t., CUp#g Mi
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