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2 WOMEN PHYSICIANS. Some Points of Interest About Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi. New York. July 16.—“ Can you conceive What it would feel like to I** one of the members of ‘lvi: ig Thebaws Wonderful Saere.l Hairy Family, Positively the Ij>st Survivors of this Hextruordinary Racer" And Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi lifted her fan, for the afternoon was sultry, and swung to and fro in a business like rocker in her business like consulting room. “I have just returned from a conference with a doctor a brother of my ] tatient, I believe, from out of town, who assured me that he laid never mot a woman physician liefere. Positively he remir.deil me of twenty five years ago, when the few women who were timidly be ginning to practice were stared at as it they ought not to lie allowed out of then* cages in the menagerie. They were veri table curiosities then, and it seems that in all eves we arc not the ordinary, commonplace mortals we seem to ourselves yet." Dr. Jacobi is not a commonplace mortal herself by any means. Though not the first woman to practice medicine, in America, she was t he first of her sex who obtained ad mission to the Paris L’Ecole de Medicine and completed its course, holding first rank in a class which reckoned many students, since eminent, den. Putnam, of revolutionary fame, was her ancestor, and the same traits of firmness and quick resolution of charac ter which marked him crop out again in her, temp-rod, especially since the birth of her children, by a womanly sympathy that gives the competing touch to a character that is, perhaps, a typo of the intellectual worn an at her best. Dr. Jacobi's face expresses tin- woman perfectly. Acute, logical, bravely truthful, it fits well upon the shoul ders of the most scientifically exact of the women physicians of America. Since her marriage to Dr. Jacobi, himself a distinguished physician, whose name she has added to her own, Dr. Mary Put, as she is sometimes dubbed, half affectionately, half in allusion to the old Connecticut hero, has led a busy life in New York, where, in spite of tlie curiosly untruthful adage about women not trusting women, she en joys Ik practice not exceeded by any physi cian of either sex and running up to a fabu lous number of thousands yearly, besides writing extensively for medical and scienti fic publications and holding the position of professor of materia medica and thera pm tics in the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary. Her encounter of the morning had touched a vein of reminiscence, and it needed but a question or two to bring out recollections of Hie past and facts of the present of women physicians in the city. “When I began to practice, not a medi cal society anywhere admitted women to membership. A handful of physicians only, barely worth counting, allowed the claims of a woman to rank as a regular practi tioner. Not one physician in 500 would consult with a woman if called in joint attend ance. A woman who ventured to inquire into the mysteries of her own Ixxly, who had peeped within the doors of the dissecting room, was something abnormal. to Ik- frown ed down righteously and discouraged out of existence. And yet 1 was not the first, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell—she has lived abroad for many years now—opened her New York office in 1851, the first regularly graduated physician of her sex, not only in the city but in the country, and Emily Blackwell, the present Dean of the Woman’s Medi cal College, was but two years Iwhind her. “To earn a diploma in medicine in those days required abundant capital of fortitude and endurance. It meant braving the opin ions of those you held dearest and running counter to your whole little world. Yet it was worth it. The woman physician has her place in the universe and somebody had to blaze a path to it.” Dr. Jacobi’s face was serene as she spolje, looking back over the experiences so little and yet in many ways so great a distance behind. There are 150 women physicians, or there ahnuts.’in New York to-dav,l>r. Jacobi says, and Brooklyn and adjoining cities have their proport ion as well. In many cases the profession offers the lost opportunities to an educated woman of any work now open to her. Her chances for usefulness among women, an increasing projKirtion of whom are yearly coming to prefer the services of their own sex, are hardly to be calculated. From a financial pointer view women phy sicians find it easier to get a start than men, because t hey are less numerous, and incomes Of SIO,OOO a year, are enjoyed by several, while $15,000. $20,000 ana $25,00(1 are not unknown. Their reception by the mascu line members of the profession is surtiris ingly cordial, taking into account the brief time in which their welcome has I wen won. The County Metical Society gives rhein the right hand of fellowship; other special medi cal societies, sucli as the American and New York Neurological Societies and the American Society for Physical Research take them in. I*llo Infant Asylum has a woman in charge of its lying-in ward. The Mount Sinai Hospital has a woman among its resident physicians. There are women nt the dispensaries. The working girls’ clubs of the city make a special feature of their organizations to secure the services of wom en physicians on stated evenings every week. In Brooklyn the Lucretia Mott Hospital was founded by a woman physician and is offi cered by women. For the record of the women physicians. Dr. Emily Blackwell, who keens a cosy men age with her adopted little folk in the house once made the salon of New York, by the Cary sisters, Alice and Phoebe, is a charm ing example of a woman past middle life, white-haired, strong-faced, kindly and se rene, useful, and knowing herself beloved by a large eii'cle. She is at the head of the Woman's Medical College and mother con fessor of all its students. She has a large practice. In Brooklyn, Drs. Eliza M. Mosher and Lucy M. Hall, of the younger generation, work together in a partnership that only of late would have lieen counted possible to women. Dr. Hall, was until a few years back resident physician of the Woman’s Re formatory at Sherborne, Mass., almost tin first institution of its kind in America, and Dr. Mosher was its Superintendent, iicing succeeded upon her resignation by Clara Barton, who tilled the position for a brief period. The partners have been physicians to Vaxsar College, residing alternate terms then- forthe post two yearn, nut their growing practice will keep both at home in future, though their leave-taking makes a void that the college authorities will find it hard to till. Dr. Kate Parker is the resident physician at the New York Infant Asylum,and statis tics of the lying-in wards, under her care, show the best record of any in the city. Dr. Annie Daniels is one of the Ixet known phy sicians of New York in quarters where to be well known means labor and self sacrifice. During the summer months when the infant mortality mounts up to half the deat h rate of the city, the dwellers m the tenement dis tricts conic to rely upon her with absolute trust, and her acquaintance with their needs has prompted the State Charities Association to call upon her for papers on related topics several times. Dr. Elizalieth Cusliior is the first suoessfnl ovuriotomist among women physicians. Nho is a morsel of a woman who doesn’t stall impress you ns a devotee of anatomy at first glance. Dr. Mary Wattles- Faunce, who fills the chair of anatomy at the Woman's Medical College, lives in Brooklyn, where she has the daintiest of homes with tiiree or four chubby, rosy cheeked children rioting als-ut. it. Dr. Grace Peek ham, is making her mark as a writer on the stuff of several of the medical journals and Dr. Sarah Post has invented several at tachments to medical electrical machines. Dr. Lozier, the two doctors, Sarah unci Julia McNutt and scores more, have found that the world has room for them and makes place cordially for their work. The woman graduate of the medical schools averages some years younger now than she did a dozen years ago. Kbe is never. Dr. Jacobi says, overdo nowadays, usually about 2d, and this (act she thinks promises well for the permanence anil the multiplication of woman’s woMc by the bedside. Dr. Jacobi certainly lias done much to vindicate the soman physician's usefulness and can look to the past with pride and the future with h °pe. Eliza Putnam Heaton. PERSONAL GOSSIP. Points Furnished by Prominent Men Who Visit Gotham. New York, July lti.—Rotund and burly Tom Corrigan, of Kansas City, who sur prises all by the softness of his voice, which, like the late John Morrissey, he seldom ex erts above a whisper, looks admiringly on Jake Sharp’s canary cars on Broadway from the portals of the St. James Hotel. Before Sharp’s legal misfortunes Tom used to he styles! the “Jake Sharp of Kansas City,” because before he sold out to the Boston syndicate ho used to control the city railroad interests in Kansas City. It is to be said for Corrigan that ho obtained his concessions qnd franchises by dint of hard work, and in this respect he is entirely unlike Sharp, as he used to personally work in tin* street in building and running his roads, while that gentleman never per formed any duty that he could deputize. Corrigan evidently does not feel at ease in the big city of New York, and is not in dined to talk to any but his intimates; nor is lie disposed to discuss any subject with winch ho is not entirely familiar. "New York is a great city,” he says reflectively. “Its street car system is no greater than mine used to Ik; considerin’ the service, but it’s a great city of magnificent bouses and elegant streets. And what a place Coney Island is! What a big thing the ocean is! Beats all tlio prairies I ever see for extent of view.” Tom’s safely invested capital received from the Boston syndicate inclines him to be con servative in his views in regard to the big real estate boom in the Vest. He says real estate in Kansas City, which he believes to he more like New York than Chicago, will hold and increase its value, but the boom elsewhere is a balloon that will burst. When in a talkative moodCorrigan tells some amusing stories of his early experiences in tracklaying in Kansas City, and his bobtail cars winding about the city, until "Corri gan's consolidated” got too big for bin* to Control with his limited financial adminis erative experience. There is an inward chuckle of satisfaction when he says he sold out, adding: “But the biys ’ll make big money." The redoubtable Col. S. S. Smart, so well known in departmental and speculative cir cles in Washington, and who probably knows more about Western land specula tion and location than any man outside of the Land Office, is to Ik; seen almut the cor ridors of the Grand Central when he is not to be encountered in those of the Fifth Ave nue Hotel. He is spending the summer in the city watching the market —the Wall street market. He strokes his long mous tache complacently, and there is a gleam in his eye as he says there is money to be made this summer in the rises and falls of the mar ket pending the settlement of the combines in railroad and telegraph matters, prelimi nary to the bull movement in the full. He is just now watching the telegraph deal with faith eyes, confident that the deal will soon mature, when he experts Western Union to jump to 80 and waits to get a lot of it at 76. Col. Smart is no Sellers, because ho is often a winner. He thinks John Sherman will receive the nomination from the Republi cans. Henry Watterson, who has steadily im proved since his serious illness of last year until he looks better and healthier than he has for years, bad hardly registered his name at the Everett House before the re porters were after him to interview him on the political situation. He believes Cleve land will be nominated by the Democrats and can be elected over Blaine or Slier man. Mr. Watterson believes New York city is n natural summer resort, but in order to obtain the sea bath so much enjoyed by those from the interior he will take his wife to his usual haunt, Block Island. Mr. Watterson predicts for the South a great boom in all its interests and de clares that the present improved senti ment prevailing wifi grow stronger. Ex-Senator Mahone, lean, lank and languid, the very opjosite in appearance and manner to Gov. 100, who was so re cently here, like him speaks of “ole Virgin ny” as in a prosperous condition, only he lias some complaints to make of the hard ships of the internal revenue on the tobacco fanners, who are largely in the ascendant in the State. A short while ago the anti-Ma hone faction in the State felicitated them selves that the “old man” was settled, but the ex-Senator intimates, as far as Ins char acteristic caution will permit, that he lias his linos well in hand and he can read his title quite clearly, which is a_gentle intima tion that he can control sufficient votes to satisfy his ambition, whatever it may be. He did not seem inclined to talk on national (Kilitics, merely observing Blaine was mag nificently advert ising liimself by his foreign tour and escaping local complications. The story is whispered that the famous Biircharil campaign speech was the work of a son of the notorious divine, who was at the time connected with one of the metro politan papers. Dr. Burchard discussed the speech with this son, who was much given to alliteration and the sensational in his writings, and the father allowed kim to prepare the political or concluding portion of the speech, which was a bombshell not only in the Republican ranks, but in those of the Democracy. Blaine said in a recent interview that he did Hot hear Burchani’s remarks or he should have replied. It should be added that a proof copy of Burch ord’s spee<*h was supplied to tne reporters present, which, it is averred, was furnished by the son, who was present in his report,o nal capacity. Henry James. A Parson Driven out of Town. Adel | (In.) Cor. Alapaha Star. From a gentleman who was in Valdosta, at the learn of the following sensational episode which took place there last Friday: From 'that we can gather it seems Parson F not long since married a young lady of Valdosta, but the union not being sur rounded by the halo of domestic felicity the young wife separated herself from her husband and returned to her former home. ()n the day mentioned Parson K arrived on the train. He had not been in town long before a perfect brigade of both white and negro lioys were organized for his special reception. The toy shops were ransacked and every conceivable variety of musical toy, bell, jangling and jingling ap paratus available were brought into requisi tion. A large banner, with the gaudy in seription "Salvation, Army ls>ad by'Par son F was waving at the head of their column. They gave him an enthusiastic re ception. The white lioys blowed him, the negro boys belled him. They all Invited, tooted, rang and cheered at him. They followed him up and down the sidewalks, holding the Hag in front of him, jumping at him and grreting his ears with the screeching blasts of the toy trumpets until he sought refuge in Stuart’s Hotel. Even hore he was not free from them. They entered the hotel with him and surrounded him like so many blackbirds around a hawk. Finding no relief from his persecutors at the hotel, he next lient. his steps towards the depot, the brigade of boys still increasing in number and noise until it seemed that all the demons and evil spirits from (lark re gions of pandemonium had assembled to pay him tribute. All the way through he appeared to hour his persecution with an air of Christian fortitude, and even leisurely puffed away at his cigar while the young urchins would spring up before him and send deafening blasts into his face. While at the depot ,at which place some 300 or 400 of the citizens had assembled, the hoys kept up their til'esome serenade, and even followed him to his seat in llie train, and only left him, with an extra flourish of the trumpet, as the train moved off which liore Parson F to more genial climes, feeling, no doubt, that he had escaped from the demons of a temporary hell. When on Your Vacation, If you think of spending a week, or even less time in Boston, and want comfortable quarters, convenient location and moderate charges, no house in the city is so well prepared to give you all those as the United (States Hotel; located within live minute* walk of all the Western and Southern depots and steamboat landings, as well as the great retail establishments and pUi ces of amusement and interest THE MORIS ITS It NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 18, 1887. JUST ABOVE GROUND. S An Old Lady Who Owns Her Own Cof fin Plato. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. The words were engraved upon a silver coffin plate, but there was no coffin under them. Mrs. Purroy, an elderly lady, visit ing friends living in Clinton avenue, Ala meda. but whose home is in Williamsburg, Long Island, N. Y., looked with an air of mingled pride and reverence upon the carv ing; for her name was once Elina Griffin, and the coffin that was made to hold her re mains until dust returned to dust has proba bly commingled itself with the mortality of somebody else long ago; but the original owner of the name upon the plate was still alive to tell her friends a gruesome story. “On my nineteenth birthday,” she said, “my mother invited a party of acquaint ances to our house to celebrate the day. We lived some distance outside of Williams burg, as it, tavern was, and the ground was a little soft and tioggy. One of my friends remembered this as she was about to start for her home with her brother, and she laughingly congratulated ino on Ix-ing housed already and having no occasion to brave the swamp. I was a wild young girl in those days, and I declared at once that, I would go witii them and return alone. Ev erybody present tried to dissuade me—ex cept the girl’s brother. “We started, and when we readied my friend’s house I was conscious that my feet wore quite wet and that a disagreeable chill had crept over me, but I declined an invita tion to go in and went away at once. Of course Rob —the brother, I mean—came with me, and, somehow, I forgot the cold and damp as I walked home. THE ILLNESS. “I think we must have talked for a long time as we stood on my uncle’s doorstep, for suddenly Rob —my escort, I mean—suid: ‘Elina’ (or Miss Griffin, or something, I have forgotten how he calk'd ine), ‘your face is very pale. Have I kept you standing here too long!’ He talked to me for ton minutes after that and then wished me a good night and left me. I rang the bell, and when my mother opened the door I told her, what I might have known an hour sooner if I had given it a thought, that I was really ill. She hurried me to bed immediately, and when she came to call me the following morning she looked very anxious. By noon I was de lirious, but 1 could hear the doctor tell my mother I had typhoid fever, and that lie could not hold out much hope for my re covery. I knew that my mother was weep ing, liut I was always a selfish girl, and l could only cry oat ‘Robert, Robert! where is Robert f and they told me, hardly think ing that I heard them, that Robert had been suddenly called upon to start for California early that morning, and had not even heard of my illness. He sent a letter to me, how ever,'but 1 did not see it until many weeks later. “I grew rapidly worse, and gradually the knowledge of all outward tilings passed from me. I fancy that I had a certain con sciousness, but not of matters around me. I was in another state of being, in which the person acting and speaking—always strangely speaking—was myself, and yet not myself. Then came an utter blank, from which I awoke, after nearly three weeks of oblivion, to see my mother and the doctor standing by my bedside. The doctor said the crisis was past, and l shonld prob ably recover, but I did not feel any interest in what he was talking about. “The quiet days of convalescence fol lowed, and the doctor, seeing that I was very weak, regarded me seriously, and warned my mother that a relapse should lie carefully guarded against. I used at that time, too, to fall into curious physical con ditions that I suppose were trances, in which I knew all that was going on around ine, but from which I did not seem to care to arouse myself by moving or speaking. These periods of inactitude lasted longer and longer, but they were not observed, and as they were rather pleasant than otherwise I said nothing about thorn. DEATH. "One morning I awoke from what seemed to he a natural sleep, and lay with mv eyes closed, listening to sounds 'that I could not at first interpret; but slowly the knowledge came to me that my mother was sobbing beside my bed. I tried to ask her why she was grieving, but I could not move or speak. The trance was upon me. 1 was sensitive, however, and I knew that I was lying upon a hard substance, and not upon the comfort able mattress of my bed. I could feel, too, very little covering over me, and, despito my eyelids I icing down, the gloomy darkness of the room could be detected. “Where in the world have they carried me to;” I thought. “Presently I heard my mother’s voice, and I knew that she was speaking to my cousin Mary, who was staying in the house with us. “ ‘Poor Elina,’ she said, ‘I was so sure that God would spare her to me. She strug gled through that dreadful illness only to die quietly in her sleep at last. It is very hard, Mary.’ “I have often wondered since that I did not really die of horror at that moment, as I realized like a lightning flash, that they thought I was dead and had put me in my eoffln. They were going to burv me! I strove hard to speak, but the sphinx was not more dumb than I. I tried to stir, but the rock of Gibraltar might have moved as easily. ‘Must niy life be smothered out in a grave for want of a little speech or action now?’ I thought. “ ‘lt is hard, indeed, dear aunt,’ replied Mary, ‘but His will lie done. You must arouse yourself. The undertaker will close the coffin in a few minutes. Do you think Roliert —Mr. Purroy—will be here C “‘I hardly think so now.’answered my mother, wearily. ‘Something must have happened to delay him. He was to have arrived at home yesterday, but he did not come, and 1 post|>oiied the burial until to dav. He had not heard of her death. Poor fellow! The news will nearly kill him. There is one person in the world, I think, who loved poor Elina as dearly ns I did.’ “‘Oh, Robert, Robert,’ I cried with a silent voice, ‘come quickly. If you look at me you will know I am not dead.’ ‘“I heard a knock at the bedroom door. Was it Robert! No, it was only tho under taker.’ “ ‘May I close it now ladies Vhe asked, in professionally mournful, but very business like tones. REVIVAL. "Nobody but tnyself knew that my heart was heating, and even I hardly knew it as the undertaker spoke. A second afterward it seemed to me that it throbbed loudly enough for every one to hear it, for some 1 Msly rang the door-liell, and I knew ns well that It was Robert ns though mv sealed eyes could have lookixl through brick and wood and mortar, to see him standing outside. Softly and quietly he entered trie room; gravely and calmly he asked my mother and my cousin to leave him for tr few minutes alone with his dead. He closed the it sir after they had gone out, and, stooping over the coffin, gently kissed mo. Then he started. I hoard the quick, nervous movement, and I knew that I was saved, "lie hastily called my mother, and the doctor was quickly summoned. He saw at once that lito was not extinct, though he Itnd been just as isisitive four days earlier that 1 was quite dead. “My husband declares that an old woman may say it now—that I blushed and smiled when lie kissed me. At all events, I lived to marry him, and he would not part with that silver coffin-plate for ton times its weight in gold.” There are several effectual means of tak ing out grease spots. Chloroform will do it. So will salt dissolved in alcohol. So will an equal mixture of alcohol, pin and ammonia. Or you can wet the place with ammonia water; then lay white soft paper over it and iron with a hot iron. Or rub French chalk on the wrong side; let it remain a day: split a visiting card: lay tho rough side on the spot and pass a warm iron lightly over. Or try’ the old-fashioned “grease-balls,” a stiff paste made of fuller's earth, saleratus and strong vinegar, molded into balls and dried. Wet the spot; scrape the ball over it; let it dry and then wash it off with tepid water. HOW GREAT MEN WRITE. Something About the Manuscripts Sent to the Public Printer. One of the brightest printers of those em ployed on the Congressional Record gives me some interesting facts about how our Congressmen prepare their speeches, as serts a contributor to the Washington /‘oat. He says that out of the 325 members of the House less than ten now furnish their own manuscripts to the printers, and that of these Warner of Ohio is the worst writer, while Breckenridge of Kentucky is about the best. “Warner’s copy,” he says, “is full of interlineations and revisions. It looks like the tracks of a drunken hen or an intoxicated fly who has crawled in irreg ular lines across the sheet. It is readable, however, by those who are accustomed to it, and it looks much better in the Record than it does in manuscript. Breckenridge writes a very nice hand. He dictates some of his speeches to the type-writer and furnishes others in pen and ink. Holman, the great objector, writes very well for an old man. He shows his character in his handwriting and makes the letters small and puts the lines close together. He does this, I suppose, to save ink and paper. Wo never see Tom Reed’s copy at all. He always speaks ex teinporaneously, and his chief work in Con gress is in making short speeches. His average speech is a line and a half long, but bo sometimes rises to the occasion and makes a fiery political speech which reads as smoothly as though it had been carefully prepared. “Knute Nelson developed into a promi nent sjieaker this year. Last year he didn’t say one word. This year he and Hepburn were, next to Holman, the most chronic ob jectors. Dick Townshend, of Illinois, is a good friend of the printers. He writes a good hand and his copy is well prepared for the press. Sam Cox furnishes as poor copy as any that comes into the office. His hand is a running scrawl and any kind of paper suits him. He ust-s old envelopes, news I >aper wrappers and scraps of any deserip iion. He pastes his manuscript together. He interlines it, recorreets it, and some of his copy looks as bad as the hieroglyphics on the tomb of Ti. He is a great fellow to correct proofs, also, and though his speeches are very good it costs tho government some thing to get thorn. “Senator Call, of Florida, is another man who is not particular as to his pa) icr. The back of an envelope, a piece of a circus bill or common printer’s paper suits him as well as anything else. Call’s hand is very hard to read. He writes the first letter of a word very plainly and then makes a running dash with his pen for the rest. Half of his words are alike and none of them are easy to make out. Dan Voorhees writes many of his speeches. Ho uses large sheets of printing paper of the same size and neatly cut. Hawley furnishes splendid copy. He is an old editor and knows how to get his stuff up for the press. “We seldom get anything from Randall or Carlisle. Randall’s matter comes from the stenographers of the House, and Car lisle doesn’t make the long speeches, so full of statistics, which he used to make several years ago. Morrison didn’t appear on tho floor very often during the recent session for a leader of the House. He has his lieuten ants speak for him, and thus you see that Randall, Carlisle and Morrison, who arc considered the leaders of the Democrats, furnish as little matter as the country mem bers from Way back. “The three Republicans who furnish the most copy are Burn mgh, Hiscoek and But terworth, and a great many of the members never speak upon the floor at all. Hutton, of Missouri, last year made a speech of one line in length, ft was: ‘Mr. Chairman, I submit the following report.’ ” “Most of the long speeches are printed in pamphlet form, are they not?” “Yes; I should say that 09-100 of them are so issued. The members get them printed at about cost price, and thus they distribute them over their districts and throughout the United States. Beck’s speech on silver had a big run, as had also the eulogies of Henry B. Anthony. When ever a big speech is made we always have to get out a lot of pamphlet copies of it. “Speaking of Beck, he is well liked at tho government printing office. His copy is always rightly paged and it shows study. “As to the other Senators, Edmunds never writes a speech, and Morgan, of Alabama, is known in the Government Printing Office as ‘Old Perpetual Motion.’ He is always talking and never lacks something to say. Senator Sherman’s speeches are largely dic tated to his private secretary. He writes a rather plain hand, almost effeminate in its character. He is more particular about its expression than he is about the comfort of the printer, and lie is particular to have himself well reported. Lamar used to bring a secretary to the Gov ernment Printing Office whenever he made a big speech, and the two would stay there and correct and recorrect the proof until they got it just to suit them. Lamar has an elegant style, and his speeches always read like classical essays. When Jones, of Nevada, delivered his great silver speech he brought his private secretary to the office with him. The speech was a long one, and it covered 150 pages, I think, of the Con gressional Record. During the reading the secretary ventured to advise some change, when Jones asked: ‘Who in the d—l is making this speech, young man, you or me? ” A Vast Pile of Gold and Silver. From thr Sprinijfleld Republican. The United States Treasury to-day is a vast bank in metallic money and money metals. Probably it has the greatest hoard of the precious metals, coined and tmeoined, anywhere gathered on the face of the earth —and this is not all gathered in one place. On July 1 the Treasury of the United States had $378,000,000 in gold, $85,- 000,000 lieing in bars, and $:!15,000,000 of silver, of winch less than #4,000,000 was un coined. The amount of Treasury notes on hand was less than 000.000. The Secretary of the Treasury has been able, by carrying gold bars, to keep down the amount of cash takenfromthe monetary circulation to the lowest limit. It is amaz ing, when we think of the monetary condi tion of this country forty years ago, when the supply of both metals was very small; thirty years ago, when money as good as gold was unknown between Pennsylvania and California; and twenty years ago, when this side of the Rocky Mountains not a silver piece was visible, and gold was the centre of a vast daily circulation, in which the Treas ury notes passed current at 60c. on a dollar or less, it is amazing, in view of tho past, that to-day our national Treasury is a vast bullion bank. A Savannah Lady’s Laurels. Miss Fedora Isabel Wilbur, of this city, graduated at the Elmira. N. Y., College Wednesday last and won high honors. Be sides her high class standing Miss Wilbur creditably served as the editor of Sybil, tho college journal, for the last year. The Elmira Gazette , in its account of tho commence ment exercises, lias the following concern ing the fair representative: The essay of Miss Fedora Isabel Wilbur, of Savannah, Ga., was one of the most original which has been read from the college com mencement stage. It was in a humorous vein and on the topic, “The Natural History of Genius." The essayist advanced the theory that genius is propagated by u form of liacterin, as fever and diphtheria arc spread by g-rtns. She liebl that llie genius deserves little praise for what he does, only for supplying the germs with solid food upon which to feed. The rever ence we feel for the belongings of the great and the desire to possess them was accounted for by the theory that some of the germs may have remained about them and we may catch the disease. The crank differs from tho genius only In degree, the essayist thought. The former received the germ front nature, the latter received the germ from genius, and by that time it had lost some of its viru lence. Tile crank communicated the luictcria to others and the hobbyist results, thence eccentric people. There are different orders of the germs. The poetic order is particularly virulent about stiriugtline, and poems on spring are the result, The germs work until November, when poems on autumn result, and the germs lose their pow ers for the remainder of the year It would tie a blessing the writer thought. If the theory could t>e proved by science, as an institution could he founded far inoculating for genius, the only difficulty being to And a genius from whom to secure the virus. Tic essay caused much amusement and was loudly applauded FUNERAL INVITATIONS. KIEFER.—The friends and acquaintance of Mk. and Mas. Gras. KiErzaareinvited to attend the Funeral services of the former at 5 o clock THIS AFTERNOON at residence. No. 11l York street. MEETINGS. CLINTON LODGE NO. 54, P. A* A. M. A regular communication of this Jk Lodge will beheld at Masonic Temple— THIS (Monday) EVENING, July IS, at 8 o'clock. ' The M. M. degree will be conferred. Visiting brothers are cordially invited to meet with us. HENRY BARTLETT, W. M. War!no Russell, Jr.. Secretary. IL K VI.H LODGE NO. f*. I. O. O, F. A regular meeting will he held THIS (.Monday) EVENING at - o'clock Amendments to By-Laws to be acted upon. The Third Degree will be conferred. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers are cordially invited to attend. By order of H. W. RALL, N. G. John Riley, Secretary. GEORGIA TENT NO. 151, I. O. R. Attend a regular session of your Tent THIS (Monday) EVENING, at 8 o'clock, as business of great importance will he before the Tent. Members will come prepared to pay dues. By order of C. O. GODFREY, C. R. Thomas Moynes-, R. S. ATTENTION GERMAN VOLUNTEERS. You are hereby summoned to appear at Jji your Armory THIS AFTERNOON at 4:30 0) o’clock in Fatigue Uniform, with Side Arms.Kn to jiav the last tribute of respect to your de-Wfl ccA-srrl brother private (’has. Kiefer , 1 f By order of JOHN DEEST, If Captain Commanding. icat Attest: M. G. Helmken, O. S. ATTENTION TURNERS. You are hereby summoned to appear at your Hall THIS AFTERNOON at 4:30 o'clock to pay the last tribute of respect to our deceased brother, Chas. Kiefer. By order of JOHN WOHANKA, President. Emil J. Rall, Secretary. IIVILROVR LOAN ASSOCIATION. The forty seventh regular monthly meeting of the Railroad Loan Association will be held on THIS (Monday)EVENING at 8 o'clock at Metro politan Hall. WILLIAM ROGERS, President. H. C. Ciinninobam, Secretary. SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE TO TAILORS. CITY OF SAVANNAH, 1 Office Clerk of Council, V July 12th. 1887. ) Bids will he received at the office of the Clerk of Council until 12 o'clock m. MONDAY, 25th inst., for furnishing the police force with Win ter Uniforms in accordance with specifications to be seen at this office. The citv reserves the right to reject any or all bids, fey order of the COMMITTEE ON POLICE. Frank E. Rebarek, Clerk of Council. DR. HENRY S COLDINU, DENTIST, Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR. This vegetable preparation is invaluable for the restoration of tone and strength to the sys tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot be excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul mer’s Liver Corrector and take no other. $1 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D„ Pharmacist, Savannah, Ga. PROPOSALS WANTED. Proposals for Sewers and Culverts. Office of the City Surveyor, ) Savannah. Ga.. July 15th, 1.587. f 1 PROPOSALS will be received until WEDNES DAY NIGHT, July 27th. at 8 o'clock, directed to Mr. F. E. Reliarer, Clerk of Council of the city of Savannah, for furnishing mater ials and building three hundred and sixty-one feet of forty-two inch sewer, seventy-five feet of thirtv inch sewer, forty-one feet of sixty inch half round culvert, together with sundry catch-basins and bulkheads as may be required. The said sewers, culverts, bulkheads and catch-basins to be built on the Waters Road, near the property of Mr. John Schwarz. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of the City Surveyor. The city reserves the right to reject any or all bids. All bids must be signed by two sureties, before a Notary, for the faithful performance of the work. J. deBRUYN KOPS, C. E., Acting < *ity Surveyor. Proposals for Culverts and Ditches. Office of the City Surveyor, 1 Savannah, (4a., July 15th, 1887. f IJROPOSALS will (a- received until WEDNES DAY NIGHT, July 27th, at 8 o'clock, directed to Mr. F. B. Rebarer, Clerk of Council of the city of Savannah, for the furnishing of materials and building forty-one feet of forty eight inch half round culvert, aud forty-one feet of thirty six inch culvert, together with such bulkheads and catch-basins ns may he required. Albo, for the digging of three hundred and sixty-one feet of ditch, two and one-half feet wide at the bottom, seven feet wide at the top and live feet deep: and, also, seventy-five feet of ditch, two feet wide at the bottom, five feet wide at the top and four feet deep. Plans and specifications may lie seen at the office of the City Surveyor. The city reserves the right to reject any or all bkls. All bids must he signed by two sureties, before a Notary, for the faithful performance of the work. J. deBKUYN KOPS, C. E„ Acting City Surveyor. BRICK. Wm. P. Bailey & Cos., BRICK MANUFACTURERS, KEEP CONSTANTLY on HAND, in large quantities, at their yard on the SPRINO FIEI-I > PLANTATION, and will deliver the same in any part of the city upon the shortest notice. The best Well Brick, Pressed Brick, Hard Brown Brick, Gray Brick, Soft Brown Brick. Office— Corner BitlJ and Broughton, at SI MON GAZAN’S CIGAR STORE, where all or ders will receive prompt attention. iron WORKS. McDonoflil k BaMtyne, IRON FOUNDERS, Machinists, Boiler Mahers and Blacksmiths, MANUFACTURE US OF STATIONARY and PORTABLE ENGINES, VERTICAL and TOP-RUNNING CORN MILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS. \ GENTS for Alert ami Union Injectors, I lie simplest and most effective on the market; Oullett Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the best in the market. All orders promptly attended to. Send for Price List Bath Tubs AND TIN TOILET SETS. A LARGE SUPPLY TOR SALK CIIEAP AT LOVELL& LATTIMQRE’S Hardware and Stove Stores 155 and 157 Congress street, near the Market. AMUSEMENTS. SAVASSfAH THEATRE Thursday and Friday, July 21 and 22. Success Follows Success! AGAIN TRIUMPHANT! THE FORDS In 11. T. Craven's Beautiful Comedy Drama, Meg’s Diversion Miss CLARA BAKER in her original creation of MEG. Strong Cast, New Scenery, etc. Prices 75c., 50c. and 25c. Reserved Heats on sale at Davis Bros.’ without extra charge. t ex X & AT TI IUNDERBOLT, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1887. HPHE TROTTING RACE for Texas Horses 1 advertised to come off over the Thunder bolt Park Course on the above date fora purse of SSO, divided—s2s to first, sls to second, $lO to third horse -closed with the following entries: Zaek Cade enters s. g. White Stockings. James Dorsey enters hr. m. Betsy. John Burney enters b. m. Nelly Dennack. Jim Smith enters b. m. No Name. E. I). Campbell enters b. m. Rosa Moore. Charley Levy enters s. m. Fanny. Tins is a splendid field of Horses, evenly matched in size and speed. Owners. Drivers and Horses all amateurs. Best Horse will win. The race will commence at 3:80 i*. m. Mr. W. B. Brou n has the bar privileges. Pools will be sold on the grounds by experts. The best of order guaranteed. M. J. DOYLE, Proprietor Thunderbolt Park Course. EX( l RSIONS. Warsaw Excursion BY THE Stewards nf New Houston St. M. E. Church, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHURCH, Thursday, July 21, 1887. Steamer POPE CATLIN will leave wharf foot of Lincoln street at D a. m., sharp. Refreshments on board. Whole tickets, 50c.; Half Tickets, 25c. For sale at Ludden & Bates’, Davis Bros.’, and by members of the Commit tee—George P. Wiggins, Chairman: L. W. Rob erts, W. L. Mingledorf, C. E. San berg, T. H. McGillis, H. W. Clark. Charleston i£ Savannahßy. lo! ferltojintas! Through Pullman Service. (COMMENCING June 12th a through Pullman J Buffet service will l>e rendered daily be tween Savannah and Hot Springs, N. C., via Spartanburg and Ashville. Leave Savannah 12:26 p m Leave Charleston. 4:55 p m Leave Columbia 10:20 p m Arrive Spartanburg 2:20 a in Arrive Asheville 7:00 am Arrive Hot Springs 0:00 am EXCURSION RATES. To SPARTANBURG sl3 30 To ASHEVILLE IT 1 5 To HOT SPRINGS XT 15 Sleeping car reservations and tickets good until Oct. :11st, 1887, can be had at BREN’S TICKET OFFICE, Bull street, and at depot. E. P. McSWINEY, Gen. Pass. Agt. Charleston and Savannah Ry. Reduction in Rates —TO— NEW YOEK. 'T'HIS company has now on sale tickets V at sls to New York via Atlantic Coast Line and the magnificent steamships of the Old Dominion S. S. Company, sailing from Norfolk. Va., every Monday. Tuesday, Wednes day. Thursday and Saturday, arriving at New York on following evenings. Meals and state room on steamships maluded. Passengers should take train 78 leaving Savan nah at 8:23 p. M. on days previous to those men tioned above. This rout- ■ affords a delightful sea trip, avoid ing Cape Hatteras. Pullman accommodations and elegant state rooms secured on application to Wm. Bren, T. A., 22 Bull street, or J. B. Oliveros, T. A., Depot. E. P. McSWINEY, Gen. I'ass Agent. TV BEE RAILROAD. SAVANNAS AND TYBEE RAILWAY. Standard. Time. /COMMENCING SATURDAY, July 16, 1887, the V following schedule will be in effect: No. 3. No. 1. No. 5. No. 7.* Lv. Savan nah 10:30 am 3:01 p m 6:00 p m 0:50 p m Ar. Tybee.4:ls p m 11:45 a m 7:00 p m 11:05 p m No. 2. No. 4. No. 6. No. B.* Lv. Tybee.7:oo a m 4:05 pm 9:15 pm 8:00 pm Ar. Savan nah .. 8:15 am 5:30 p m 10:25 p m 9:10 pm •Trains 7 and 8 Sundays only. All trains leave Savannah from Savannah and Tybce depot, in S., F. and W. yard, east of pas senfier depot. Leave Tybee from Ocean House. Tickets on sale at depot ticket office, and at Fernandez's Cigar Store, corner Bull and Broughton streets. ’ C. O. HAINES, Supt. Savannah, July 15, 1887. CITY BONDS. CITY BONDS! WE will receive proposals for thirty days for 7 * the purchase of Fifteen Thousand Dollar* of the bonds of the Town of Thomasville, (eor gia. The Bonds are in the sums of Five Hun* dred Dollars with coupon* learing five per cent, interest, payable January and July of each year, nnd have thirty years to run. They are tnc only bonds ever issued by the town and they offer a rare opportunity for investors. A. P. WRIGHT, Chairman Finance Committee. URO< KKIES. Going Out of Business. FOR SALE, GROCERIES. FOR RENT, STORE. IC - PO-WER Corner Bull and Congress. P. J. FALLON, _ BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR, 22 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH. IJ'STIMATES promptly furnished for building J of any clasa. SUMMER RESORTS. biemaNn’s hotel; Walhalla, S. C. / SITUATED at foot of the Blue Ridge Mou* tains. Delightful summer resort. Good climate. Excellent water. Also, a direct hack line to Highlands, N. C. Terms reasonable. D. BIEMANN & SOs, _____ Proprietors. The Sweet Water Park Hotel, AT SALT SPRINGS, GA., I S NOW OPENED for the reception of guest* Rate of board from sl2 50 to $lB per week. In architectural design, finish and general appointments the Sweet Water Park Hotel has few equals in the South. Th* fame of the Salt Springs water as a cur*, t ive agent of great value in the treatment of all forms of dyspepsia and indigestion, blood, skin, bladder and kidney diseases is now fully estab lished. For all information, etc., address J. D. BILLINGS, Manager, Salt Springs, Ga. S. G. HE All Y & ca; PROPRIETORS, SALT SPRING, NEAR AUSTELL, GEORGIA. A WATER almost a specific for Dyspepsia, Kid rv ney Trouble and Cutaneous Diseases. Orders for water and all information addressed to the firm at Austell, Ga. THE COLUMBIAN, SARATOGA SPRINGS. THE FAVORITE HOTEL OF SAY A N N A H IAN & Opens June 25th. JAMES M. CASE, Proprietor. rrqiE WHITLOCK HOUSE, in Marietta, Ga., L combines privileges and conveniences of a first-class hotel, and the comforts and pleasures of a home. Capacity, about one hundred and fifty guests. large, handsome, well furnished rooms: best of beds; table good; large shaded grounds, covered with blue grass; Lawn Tennis, Croquet, Billiards and Bowling Alley, all free for guests. Prices more moderate than any other house in Georgia for the accommodations. M. G. WHITLOCK, Owner and Proprietor. FJSHE WATAUGA HOTEL, Blowing Rock. N. I C. In the mountains of North Carolina. 4,000 feet above the sea. Easily accessible. Medi cal graduate on the premises. Terms the low est in North Carolina. Opened June Ist for the season. For information address WATAUGA HOTEL CO., Blowing Rock. N. C. 1 THOUSAND ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel, Westminster Park, Alexandria Bay, N. Y.— “Unquestionably the finest location in the Thousand Islands.’ Harper's Magazine , Sept., 1881. Send for descriptive pamphlet. H. F. INGLEHART, Proprietor. HOTELS. Fifth Avenue Hotel, MADISON SQUARE, N. Y. fJ'HE largest, best appointed, and most liber ally managed hotel in the city, with the most central and delightful location. HITCHCOCK. DARLING & CO. A. B. DARLING, formerly of the Battle House, Mobile. HIRAM HITCHCOCK, formerly of the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans. NEW HOTEL TOGNI, (Formerly St. Mark's.) Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla, WINTER AND SUMMER. r |''HE MOST central House in the city. Near I Post Office, Street Cars and all Ferries. New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bells, Baths, Etc. $2 50 to $3 per day. JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprietor. DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE* r piIIS POPULAR Hotel Is now provided with 1 a Passenger Elevator (the only one in the citv) and has been remodeled and newly fur nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase is also the owner of the establishment, spare* neither pains nor expense in the entertainment of his guests. The patronage of Florida visit ors is earnestly invited. The table of the Screven House is supplied with every luxury that the markets at home or abroad can afford. MARSHALL HOUSE, SAVANNAH, - - GA p EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of " I the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, and the Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen tral. All parts of the city and places of inter est accessible by street cars constantly passing the doors. Special inducements to those visitr ing the city for business or pleasure. THE MORRISON HOUSE. One of tho Largest Boarding Houses in tha South. \FFORDS pleasant. South rooms, good board with pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit those wishing table, regular or transient accom modations. Northeast corner Broughton and Drayton streets, opposite Marshall House. MILLINERY. Platshek’s, 138 Broughton St. Positive Clearance Sale OF OUR ENTIRE REMAINING STOCK OF SUMMER GOODS IN Millinery, Parasols, Gloves, Hosiery, Embroideries, Laces, Collars, Infants’ Lace Caps, Ladies’ Muslin Underwear, Canton Mattings, Linen Ulsters, Knit Underwear, Jerseys, and Oar Great Line of Novelties Those wishing to buy real, live bargains can never avail themselves of a better chance than we are now offering, for what we state is posi tively bona fide. N. B. -Country orders will receive the same benefit of reduction given to our home trade. Your orders we respectfully solicit. IAWYF.RS. doctors, ministers, merchants. j mechanics and others having hooks, magi zines. and other printed work to tie bound or re Itound can have such work done in the best style of the binder's art at the MORNING NEWS BINDERY. 3 Whitaker street.