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2 IN DERBYSHIRE, ENGLAND. Observations of a Georgian Who Keeps His Eyes and Ears Open While Travel incr. CIIESTEKXIELD, Exo.. July 5.--(xoing from London into the hill country in the North of England, l stopped for several days at Chesterfield, in Derbyshire. It is one of the old towns of the United King dom. Its existence dates back to the ‘'good old times" in England's history, “Seated m a dale compassed in w ith oruggos and roekes,” and watered bv tin* Mother and Hipiier, two thickly shaded trout, streams, surrounded with a wild aud picturesque country. Ihe .Romans, at an early day penetrated to this quiet retreat and huilt an elegant road to it from the southern seaeoast, which has been a lasting moiunneut to their enterprise and skill. Next came the fair-haired Saxons, who took possession of the hamlet and erected a strong castle, which threw its imposing shadow over the few buildings that shei tcnsl its inhabitants. They also gave the town its name. They called their castle Cestre, and the town Cestrc-in-the-fleld. The Briton, so fond of using an li where it is not intended, inserted one in this appella tion and called it Chesterfield, which has nil In-ml until the present day. t\ illiam the Conqueror come from N< >rmnn<ly,and the battle of Senlac was fought here, where, it is said, the conquering 1 hike “sat down to eat and drink among the dead.” The Con queror gave this section of country to one William Fever ly, a noted Norman warrior, who ended his oareei - and forfeited his prop erty by flight for poisoning the Earl of Chester to get possession of the Earl's pretty wife. ]u I 'JO 1 King John gave the posses sion to William Briwere. .loan, the “Fair Maid of Kent,” owned Chesterfield at an early day of its history. Under the reign at James I. it was the property of \\ illiam Cavendish, and in 17SK2 it passed into the bands of tli - Duke of Devonshire, whose fie scendants still have possession of it. The old Duke resides at Cliatsworth, some eight or ten miles away, and his most famous sou, Lord Hartiugton, who succeeds to the dukedom at. the old man’s death, lives at Hardwick Hull, noted as once the prison of Mary Queen of .Scots, which is only about six miles from Chesterfield. IN 1580 THE TOWN LOST about one-fourth of its inhabitants by the plague. In 1004 King Charles I. was the guest of the Duke of Newcastle, just four miles from Chesterfield, at Malsaver Castle. The celebrated Ben Jenson in describing the scene closes i with the following: “Such a King As men would wish, that knew not how to hope llis like, but seeing him.” The first public execut ion took place in 1637, when five men and one woman took “that fearful leap into the dark,” which well may make the stoutest heart to quake. There were hundreds from all parts of the country present to see the novelty—the refined and elevating novelty of seeing five miserable wretches dancing upon air. But times hav changed, and public execu tions are prohibited by law, and by the ad vancement in education and public Aiorals, Chesterfield has beome one of the most pleas ant towns in England. The plot for the overthrow of King James by the Prince of Orange, was concocted in a building which still remains with its time-worn walls and thatched moss-grown roof. The conspirators were the first Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Danby and John D’Arcv. This was in 1688, nearly 300 years ngo. There will t)o a grand celebration of this event next year, 1888, in Chester field. The old house ■ will ho the grand centre of observation. It will be a kind of Fourth of July to the “Englishcrs” and many a spread eigle eulogy will l>e pronounced upon the memory of the three great “asserters of British free dom. ” There are many points of interest left yet to those who are seeking antiquities. Among others is the “Old Angel,” on I'aekar’s Row. This was tho most cele brated “Inn” between London and Man Chester, in the good old days of “coacli-ami four.” And there are not a few who, with John Ruskin, detest railway carriages and Westingliouse brakes. There is a lingering fondness to be guided through dusty by ways by sleepy post boys, rather than be carried fifty miles an hour in a Pullman palace car. And their sorrow is not feigned however unwise it may seem. The hotel faced the market square, and the court in the rear was the s, vne of many a strange and winrd spectacle. Tho arrival of tho stage coach was the great event of the day, and it did not make its appearance until about 3 o’clock in the morning. There was a continual bustle and lite risible in and around the Angel even at that unseemly hour. I will quote from Mr. Joseph Hatton a description of an arrival and departure: “the grooms at the angel had led out Into the market place four sleek greys, with shining coats and polished hoofs, and at the same moment you heard a distant horn. Suddenly the precincts of the Angel were alive with loungers and lookers on. The topers in the smokoroom came to the window and looked out, tho landlord brought his pij>o into the street and re garded the proceedings with pride, the horses <-hamp<si their hits, and presently from the eastern comer of the market place came toiling along tho mail coach front London to Manchester, a picture of light ami life and elegance. A whip flourished harmlessly over the steaming team, a horn blown merrily behind, a flash of red and gold, and black and silver, and the coach pulled up under the Angel window , there was a rush of grooms and stable helps and luggage, horses and passengers almost altogether poured into the inn yard, and in less than live minutes the fresh team was harnessed. It was a sudden bustle and ex citement, which lasted no longer than the arrival and dciiarture of a railway train en route, ami had the advantage of 1 icing more picturesque. * * * While we are thinking of tho sights tho passengers have seen, tho ‘whip' is on the box again. ‘Now, Bill, let go their l’.i•mis. So, ho! Beauty, steady old lass. Away you go! Forward dashes the team, the guard swings up behind, anil Mary Kirk, standing with Susan Hardwick at the post office door when the mail bags had just bvn carried in and out, said it was r bonny sight to see the fast coach change horses at the Angel.” How different now. Tho old inn, in its age and dilapidation, has a sleepy and un inviting appearance. The crowds that used to gather there have passed away, and it Is only the old |S'oplc who delight in the le gends of the "Old Angel.'’ George Ste phenson lias lived in Chesterfield since then. This poor herd boy, who b .•came the orig inator of the English railway system, spent his last days in ( hesterfleld, ami left his im press in the establishment of broader edu cation for the masses, and in the improve ment in every department of life. And now, instead of the old lumbering stage coach, ten or twenty railroad trains leave the station every day. It is strange that in tins day of hero worship that no im posing monument bus beon erected to the memory of George Stephenson. A plain in scription, simple as liis own life, indicates his resting place within the chancel of Trin ity church. Pcrhaiw no grand: r memorial could be erected than this marvelous railroad system, for every engineer will 6'll the story of his greatness and of the resources of Ins inventive mind, which throbbed through difficulties as unresistingly as the locomotive under his charge, a- with it he flies from stn tion to station. Men come hither from nil lands to look upon the quiet resting place of him who was t he father of the loess motive, and the grandeur of whose fife rests solely u j sin himself and his own exertions and not on outward help and circumstances. the grandest relic of the age departed is the parish church and its twisted steeple. Like the leaning tower of Pisa, it is one of the world’s curiosities, and it is visited by travelers from every land, and no greater insult could lie offered to the citizens of the town than to speak of this wonderful spire in tones of disparage ment. it has an eventful history. t*i4' buffi in the div the Norman conquest. But in tho thirteenth century the cruciform shape w as given it. It is 170 feet long; the breadth across the transept is 100 feet, and the | height of the spire is 330 feet. There are marks of remarkable talent in the long ago days in its decorated style and delicate i tracery. The proportions of the church aro ! justly'balanced and would have, if nut for i the spire, a most symmetrical and har monious effect, but the citizens who have for a generation grown up within the shadow of the “twisted spire of lead-covered timber” know better than to sacrifice it on tho altar of symmetry. The steeple with its grotesques, ridges, and flecks of black and grey, and white, may lie ugly to some eyes; but even as a mother lavishes her ten derest love upon her deformed child, so tho people of Chesterfield are sensitive about the crooked steeple, and see beauty in its sha[xi, although it may lie an “architectural singularity.” .Singular it is in appearance. It was built of wood and covered over with )pad to shelter it from the storm and sun. Mr. Cox, in his history of old churches, says the slinging pressure of the lead may have caused au irregular subsidence in tnetim ters, which also have been powerfully warped by the sun heating through the lead on tho green paint on the woodwork. The tim- Ists are almost displaced and twisted from their original position on the south side, the side most exposed to its rays.” It is twisted until it looks like a corkscrew, i made an ascent into its towers and saw- the twisted timbers, and was astonished to know what kept it in its place. Some local poet ex presses the scene graphically: “Whichever way you turn your eye It always seems to tie awry; Pray, can you tell the reason why? The only reason known of weight Is that the thing was never straight, And while it stands, must ever be An emblem of deformity." SOME OP TIIK MOST EMINENT ARCHITECTS on the continent have examined it, hut no satisfactory conclusion has ever been reached as to how it became twisted. About eighty years ago the people living near the church became alarmed, thinking the old steeple whs about to fall. That generation has passed aw ay and the crooked steeple still bears the fiercest storms and shows no more signs of giving away than it did 100 years ago. Chesterfield contains the largest tobacco factory in the United Kingdom. It. is sur rounded hv a large number of coal mines, which employ thousands of hands, and every morning the slumbers of this Ameri can pilgrim are disturbed hy the everlasting clamor of the colliers’ clogs as they rush over the stony pavements on their way to work every morning at 5 o’clock. Fifty of these colliers, with their heavy shoes on, make a noise equal to a troop of horses on a turnpike road. The streets of Chesterfield, like the steeple, aro twisted fearfully. They were all made to converge to one point—the market place. This sixit has drank in more blood than that of bulls and goats, for many a hard conflict in early days took place here, when some of the best of English blood was spilled. The people aro courteous and hospitable, both of which the American pilgrims have shared. Ram LeUevp infectious DRUNKENNESS. Reformed Men Who Have Shown Signs of Intoxication from Contagion. There are cases of reformed men who show signs of int< ixication from the conta gion of others who are drunkards. The fol lowing is an example, says tho London Ex change: A prominent ex-military man who had drunk moderately onee, while attend ing a dinner with his old comrades, where most of them were intoxicated, suddenly be came hilarious, made a foolish speech, set tled back in his chair in a drunken state, and was finally taken home quite stupid. He had not drank any spirits and had only used coffee and water, and yet he had all the symptoms of the others, only his was intoxi cation from contagion; the favoring soil had been prepared long ago in the army. Another case was that of a man who had been an inebriate years ago, but had re formed. He was recently elected to office, and gave a dinner to some friends. Among them was a physician who has beon greatly interested in these studies. He sent me a long report, the substance of which was this; On the occasion referred to many of the company lieoamo partially intoxicated, and the host, who drank nothing but water, became hilarious, and finally stupid, with them. He was put to lasl with every sign of intoxication, but recovered, and next morning had only a confused notion of these events. Tho third case occurred four years ago. A reformed man, of twelve years’ sobriety, went on a military excursion with a drink ing company, and, although ho drank noth ing but lemonade, became as much intoxi cated ns the others. This event was the sub ject of much comment and loss to him, so cially and otherwise, although he protested, and others confirmed his statements, that lie did not take any spirits at this time. In these cases two conditions were present —one in which some special unknown nerve state was inherited, which readily reflected alco holic states from contagion; the other, in which this particular alcoholic state hail been ac ]uired, and moro rc idily responded to contagious surroundings than otherwise. Thus actors who essay to represent insan ity or inebriety are successful in proportion as they inherit a nervous organization pre dis|>osmg them to these affections. A single glass of spirits may awaken a latent nerve defeat and soon after merge into inebriety. Ho the effort to imitate the manner and con duct of an intoxicated person may give im press and direction to an organism that will be permanent. An actor, greatly praised for his skill as ‘•Hamlet,’’ was obliged to leave the stage for the reason that this char acter was becoming so intimately his as to suggest insanity at an early day. A man who acted the part of a drunkcN man was, after a. time, so completely intoxicated as to bo unfit for his part. Ho could not use spirits and had to give up his part in the play for the same reason as mentioned above. A remarkable incident of this kind came to my notice. A temperance writer of great pocr and vividness of detail said that he lived all the details of the hero he was de scribing in his own mind. When the char actor \Mis intoxicated he had all the symp toms and had to go to he i after writing that the hero did so. He suffered, was exhaust ed, luwl pain, mental agony, was joywis, happy, contented, and lived over every event which he described. This man was strictly temperate, but had a drunken fajher, from whom lip inherited a peculiar nervous organization that gave him power to realize ‘the toxic state from alcohol and throw himself into it most per fectly. He says that it would impair his health to write more on this theme, for he would lie intoxicated most of the time while writing. Many of these stabs may be termed emo tional trams'states, and in some future time will tie the subject of some curious and won derful psychological discoveries. For in stants', reformed men, or those who have re cently stopped tho use of spirits, cannot safely listen to a recital of the sufferings and struggles of others to become temperate without taking on some form of mental shock that is fatal totlioir own resolutions. The more vividly ami accurately the strug glesof a drunkard are described the more certainly the will of the hearer is weakened and rendered impotent h* help itself. Tern lH-raiice lecturers who hoist by painting the horrors of drink so vividlv to deter any one in tin' audience from falling in that way are deceived, and produce the very effect they seek to remedy. Thkrk was a feud between the 4 year old young ladjyttiil her aunt, which came at last to declared In Utilities. But the little lady knelt down at niijlit r.nit said her prayers: “Bless papa and bless mamma, and" there came an omi nous pans' "bless auntie; but if you can't bless her it doesn't matter.’’— Judge. If you are hiiious, bike Dr. Pierce’s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets,’” the original " > TJcv I'iib ” Of nil drn.’irist./v the MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1887. GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS. Matters of Money and Management About Various Lines. Arrangements are i>eing m/ule at the Louisville and Nashville .shops in Iliming ham to put extension fronts on all the mo gul engines of that fhvision. None of the freight’engines on the road have these ex tension fronts at present, and they will bo put on the engines of that division first. President John C. Printup, of the Romo and Decatur railroad, reports that the road will be finished and trains running to Cedar Bluff, Ala., by Aug. ‘JO, and to Gadsden by Sept. 10. The t rack is being laid at the rate of three-quarters of a mile |>er day. Sev eral furnaces aro being erected on the line of road lx tween Home and Gadsden. Presi dent Printup is pushing the work with the utmost dispatch; and says bis hcaduuarters will he “in the saddle” until the road is com pleted. W McCoy, General Passenger Agent of the South Florida railroad, Sanford, passed through the city yesterday en route home from Old Point Comfort. The Southern Railway and Steamship Association and the Southern Passenger Association finished their deliberations there Saturday. No very material changes will lie made in the rates. The Savannah representatives were Messrs. William 11.l 1 . Hardee and C. P. Owens, of the Savannah. Florida and Western railway, and G. A. Whitehead and C. A. Shellman, of the Central railroad. The Massachusetts Railroad Commission has now before it the unusual question of compiling a railway company to operate its road which it had abandoned on account of unprofitableness. Citizens and summer residents of Nantasket have complained against the Nantasket Beach Railroad Com pany on account of the inconvenience and loss which they have suffered by the recent discontinuance of trains on that rood. On the other hand the company represent that the road is unprofitable, is out of repair and cannot tie put in order without a large ex penditure, and that negotiations are in progress for its sale to the Old Colony Kail read Company, and they state that if they are ordered to operate it they will seek an injunction from the Supremo Court. The hoard has the matter under consideration and evidently finds it a difficult problem, with two sides for consideration. WOMEN AND COCKROACHES. Said by a Scientist to Act in Much the Same Manner. George Hay in Science. Bring before the notice of your readers the following curious instance of the ojiera tion of instinct in the cockroach (Blatta). During the hot months of tho year my laboratory is to some extent infested by these active insects, and I have been for several years observing their habits. At the distance of two feet above one of the benches, and iixed to the wall, is a double gas bracket, the outer arm of which is 17 inches long from the joint to the burner. On more than a dozen occasions I have ob served that a fullgruwn cockroach would climb ttp tile gas pijie and along t he bracket toward the burner, hut, finding the bracket a few inches from the flame too hot to traverse, would crawl back a few inches, wait a second or two, anil then return toward the flame. If uninterfered with, he would, after a few trials, leave the bracket altogether and return down tho pipe and run off at full speed. But I wished to see how lie would act un der peculiar circumstances. I therefore heated the bracket by the flame of a Bun son lamp at a point fourteen inches from the tip and three inches from tho joint, and waited. The bisect, as usual, tried to leave the bracket by walking back toward tho wall, but finding his retreat cut off by the heated metal became very much excited, anil commenced running rapidly between the distal end of the bracket and the parts which 1 had heated. After doing this several times, he selected the coolest part of the bracket, midway between the illuminating flame and the part heated by the Bunson, crouched for a spring, and leaped on to the bench. He was running off rapidly when I swept him from the bench and crushed him on tne floor with my hoot. Tho insect deserved to escape, but I killed him 1 iecause I wanted to observe the action of a fresh cockroach every time under the same circumstances. On more than a dozen occasions has the same performance been gone through. By many people such action would bo accounted for by the mere word “instinct,” but it seems to me singularly like the operation of reason. This is exactly what takes place when a fire occurs in a high building. Tho inmates (particularly women) jump wildly from the upper windows without waiting to see whether nil other means of escape are exhausted—and get smashed on tlm pave ment. Our friend “the unspeakable Turk” says that women have no souls, and yet, although much higher in organization t han the cock-roach, they act, in similar circum stances, precisely in the same way. Fatal Result of Gorman Music. A Philadelphia dispatch to tho New York Herald says: “Committed suicide while un der the influence of a German band.” That is about the verdict that the Coro ner's jury will find in the case of Christian Lindworin, 40 years old, a boarder at No. 434 West Cumberland street, who was found dead upon the pavement in front of the house referred to at about 4 o'clock this morning. Tho police and the residents of the neigh borhood are of the opinion that Lindworin committed suicide by jumping from his bed room, a third-story front, while haunted by a (lermaii hand. The unfortunate man, it is said, originally blew blasts upon the trombone in a wander ing baud of German music torturers, but doubtless out of remorse for the many pangs 11111101111 upon suffering humanity, find for some time [inst shunned tho musical crowd and fled from the approach of his companions in crime. Ijiti'r Chris began to act strangely, and spouted tortured with the idea that ho was pursued by a hand of nmsie, and that tho musicians insisted upon surrounding him and blowing shrill and discordant notes from their instruments into liis ears. To stop this ghostly dill Chris was in the habit of stuff ingcotton iutohisear; but alas! the imagi nary German bandits were apparently equal to the task of piercing any quantity of cot - ton, and thus poor Lindworm's despair in creased. Then ho took to tallow candles, and finally to lieeswax, but the German music laughed nt all such barriers and the serenade contin ued. Thelmnd which still pursued him was a kind of ago as-you please liand. Kaeli pet former tried liis Im-st to “get there” regard less of style or manner. Thus tho French horn would bulldoze “Ermiuie,” the flute piped the “Waeht mil Rhein,” the trombone raised a gale with “Pinafore,” the cornet wrestled unsuccessfully with “I.z Mar seillaise,” and the piccolo made a terrible mess of “Sweet Violets.” Such a combination of outrages wns more than Lindworm. though well seasoned and apparently music proof, omlj stand. So he jumped out of his window and died, a sad warning to musicians in general and Ger man bands in particular. Rough on Rats,” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bedbugs, iHvtles, insects, skunks, jack rab bits, sparrows, gophers. 15c. At druggists. “Rough on Itch.” “Rough on Itch” cures skin humors, erup tions, ring-worm, tetter, salt rheum, frost*it feet, chilblains, itch, ivy poison, barter's itch. 50c. jin's. “Rough on Catarrh” Corrects offensive odors at onee. Complete cure of worst chronic eases; also uneqnald as gargle for diphtheria, sore throat, foul breath. 500. “Rough on Corns.” Ask for Wells’ “Rough oil Corns.” Quick relief, complete euro. Corns, worts, bun ion 1 , •. VITRIOL IN THE CARGO. j It Causes a Fire on a Schooner—a Panic-Stricken Crew. The eighty-one ton schooner Minnie Ir win, Captain Thompson, lying at anchor off Bellocs Island, N. Y., says the Herald of July IS, came very near going skyward at 10 o’clock yesterday morning and carrying her crew with her. The vessel, loaded with I'jO kegs of gunpowder and a lot of hay in hales, was about to leave pen t for Tampa, Fla. A carboy containing oil of vitriol on the deck suddenlv hurst and ran down upon the hay below. The liay at once blazed up and the crew, panic-stricken, rushed for the yawl Isiat swinging at the stern. The men tumbled pell moll into tho boat, which was cut loose, hut swamped before she was ten feet away from the Minnie Ir win. The crew of the German hark Robert picked up the frightened and half-drowned sailors. | {Meantime Captain Thompson, finding him self deserted save by two of his crew, set to work and succeeded in putting out the fire. The men were afterward put back on the schooner by the revenue cutter Washington. A Fortunate Brakesman, Once of Scranton, Pa. Mr. Frank Corcoran, in the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad, in this city, was interviewed. He drew $lO,OOO on two tenths of ticket No. To.Mifi, which took the second capital prize of $50,000 in the Louis iana State* Littery in the drawing of May 10th. lie takes his good fortune as a matter of course, not being,elated thereby. He was well off, financially, before. He expects to continue right along as he has been for many years, brakeman on tho steam trucks. He is a bachelor, about 48 years of age, is of Irish parentage, and came from Pennsyl vania m INsJ. Ho has two brothers and two sisters in Scranton, Pa., all in easy circum stances.—Cairo, 111., Argun, May 23. The Savannah Weekly News. t Sixteen. Pages. For Saturday, July 23, 1887- READY THIS MORNING. CONTENTS. First Page —A Very Serious Objection; Nora of the Adirondacks; Facts About Men; A Farm ers Cruel Deed; The Baths of New York; A Batch of Anecdotes. Second Page —Cleveland at Clinton; Civil Ser vice Tests; A Pitched Battle; Vive Boulanger; Stabbed on the Street; A South Carolina Ro mance; Commencement Over; Tariff Perplexi ties: Struck by a Train; St. Augustine's Regatta; Prohibition in Kansas; Hydrophobia Cured; The Bride Will Have $1,000,000; Sharp's Tottering Steps; Changed Husbands. Third Page —President and Pastor; A News paper Change; Paris Escapes a Riot: Convicts in Georgia; Robbed by a Cashier; Sharp Given Four Years; Gordon’s Exoneration; Southwest Georgia; Disgorging New Bills; The Rings in Trees; Scorched by Old Sol; Reads Like a Romance. Fourth Page— Cleveland Indisposed; Dying by Hundreds: A Fog Caused her Loss; A Cattle Company’s Suit; Boston’s Budget; Dead on ‘Change; Caught in Blazing Oil; Georgia's Mili tary; Columbus Chronicles; Tallahassee Topics; A Georgian in London; Dun's Review of Trade; The Stomach; Awful Thought; Georgia’s Lines of Kail; Laurens'Veterans. Fifth Page —Panics at Two Fires; An Orphan Asylum Blaze; A Midsummer Gale; Col. Papy Resigns; Ware's Sunday School; Looking Into the Books; Cleveland in Peril; An Unhappy Actress; Fiddling it Out; Ontario’s Fatal Crash; .The Coming Eclipse; Germany’s Two Enemies; Never Heard of it. Sixth Page Come all ye Thirsty: United at Fourscore; Riding on the Elevated; The Fate of the Children; Jim Arnott's Oath: The First Caterpillar. Seventh Page— Agricultural Department: Pear Trees from Cuttings; Chicken Cholera; How to Fight a Common Enemy; Balky Horses; Household; Farm Notes; Popular Science; Struck Down by the Sun; Cleveland's Escape; Temperance at Tampa; A Big Speculative Bat tle: Women Physicians; Hung in a Court Room. Eighth Page. A Body of a Murdered Man Found atTybee; Willie Wingard on Trial for Killing Edward E. Thomas; Spanish John Con victed; She Looked Under tho Bed; A Bear Among the Bees. Ninth Page A Cool Wave on the Way, No lYospect that it will Tarry Long, However; Cleveland's Old Home, Fayetteville Gives Him a Warm Welcome; Felton’s Wine Room Tax, A Motion to Submit it to the People Voted Down; In the Convict Camps, Oapt. Smith Goes Before the Committee; Other Telegrams. Tenth Page— The News in Georgia Gathered from Correspondents and Exchanges; Railroad Betterments; Matt Ryan Dead; A Savannah Negro Shot; Women and the Missions; A Faith less Wife's Suicide; Stabbed from Behind. Eleventh Page -Round About in Florida; South Carolina; Scores Slain by the Sun; A Cruel Clergyman; A Murderer Lynched: Killed on a Peach Tram; Hawaii's Revolt; Cheers for Cleveland. Twelfth Page— Editorial Department; Sher man's Plan in Ohio; The Race Question North and South; The Penitentiary System; Dema gogue Tuttle; One Woman's Work; Railroad Foreclosures and Receiverships; The Grand Army a Political Organization; Sharp's Sen tencc; Brief Telegraphic Summary; Mexico's Hero. Thirteenth Page— Local Department; A Very Pretty Wedding; Suicide or Murder; Through to the Sea; The Death of J. D. Budds; Central's Directors; Sweltering in tin* Sum: Wanted Her Rights; Railroad Clatter; Base Ball; In His Bedroom; Railroad at Outs; Cut Down by an Engine. Fourteenth Page The New Fangled Fash ions; An Hereditary Curse; Mathias Sp!i:l Married at Midnight; From Distant Russia; Senator Vest's Story; Miss Cleveland on Patriot ism; Seeking a Servant. Fifteenth Page An Awful Experience; A Hungry Place; A Mouse Singing Solo; “Rats He/.Genius;" A Hateful Man; Slept in a Bath Tub; A Strange Meeting; California's Olive King: A Woman’s Soul; His Moral Lecture Not Appreciated; Mans Typical Woman; Current Comment; Bright Bits; Personal; Items of In terest. Sixteenth Page, Financial and Commercial Review of the Markets; Other Telegram*; Ad \ ertisements. Just the paper to send to your friends. Single copies 5 cents. For sale at K*t ill's New* Depot and at the of • flee, 3 Whitaker street. FOR SALK. Desirable Property for Sale r |'IIU. residence of the late ('apt. John Ciwper. 1 No. 2i.18 South Broad street,a nd vacant half lot adjoining. (City lot, ground rent only $25 ;er annum.) —also — House No. 209 York street, and vacant half lot adjoining. - AtiSO- Two houses, Nos. 190 and 192 State street. ALSO Seven houses on lots Nos. 15 and 16 Walton ward. —ALSO Tract of land. 12 acres, with improvements, sitiuited on Ogeeehi'e nvid, near Battery Park, half under cultivation, other half good hum mock and well wooded. Apply to R. F.. MIMS. Savannah, Ga., Or JOHN COOPER. * * - .-*rN ■ • hi MARRIAGES. GARRARD—LAWTON.—Married at Christ 1 Church. Savannah, on the evening of the 14th of , July, th** Rev. Dr. Stroug officiating. Mary Rob ert Lawton to Col. William Gakkabd. I t NKRAL INVITATIONS. REID.—The friends of Michael Reed, and liis family, are requested to attend the funeral of his son. Peter B. Reid, from the family resi dence, 4BK. East Broad street, at 4:30 o’clocic THIS AFTERNOON. meetings] I. O. O. F. • MAGNOLIA EN- A CAMPMENT No. X. ..-id * .'Hows' T.-m- , n mm p pie, N. W. comer Bar- U.ri nard and State streets. ffjt Mr-Bk Regular in eet in g ir / A,' THIS <W ed n sd n viTBB*;,/ .HBt-JSPNW EVENING at 8 o’clock. Election of Representatives. JOHN RILEY, C. P. J. S. Tyson, Scribe. GOLDEN HI LE LODGE NO. 12, I. O. O. F. A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held THIS EVENING at ft o'clock. The unwritten work will he exemplified by our representative, Bro. J. W. Jackson. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers arc invited to attend. By order of FRED EINSFELD, N. G. B. F. McCoy, Secretary. TEUTONIA LODGE KO. 7, K. OF IV The members are earnestly requested to appear THIS EVENING at 8 o’clock, h \ sharp, at Castle Hall. Considera- g, tion of anew ball, important to every By order of MjapF H. F. G. KRAMER, 0. C. Attest: John Juchter, K. of R. and S. JOURNEYMEN PAINTERS ATTENTION. Journeymen Painters will bold a meeting in the ball over J< >YCE & HUNT'S office, corner Whitaker and Broughton street lane, THURS DAY-, THE 21st OF JULY, at H o'clock p. in. All house painters are cordially invited. By or der of the President. SPECIAL NOTH ES. PINKEI HOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH. An excursion train went from Savannah to Brunswick yesterday, under the auspices of the above church, and after paying $215 for tho train realized the handsome sum of sllis. In addition to this Rev. F. E. Washington presented to the church SIOO, which was made from the sale of refreshments, REV. F. E. WASHINGTON, Pastor. Atiest: Geo. Bunyan, Church Clerk. DIVIDEND NO. 7. Office Mutual Gas Ligiit Cos., ) Savannah, Ga., July 10th, 1887. f A quarterly dividend of one and one-half per centum on the capital stock of this company lias this day been declared, payable at this office on and after August 15th, next, to stockholders of record this day. LEWIS C. LILLIE, Secretary. MELONS! MELONS! TWO CARS FINE WATERMELONS to arrive this day, and for sale in LOTS TO SUIT. J. S. COLLINS & CO. DIVIDEND. Office Savannah Gaslight Company, 1 Savannah, July 18th, 1887. ( A dividend of TWO AND A HALF PERCENT, on the Capital Stock of this company has lieen declared, payable on and after WEDNESDAY, the UOth inst., to stockholders as of record this day. A. G. GUKRARD, President. NOTICE TO TAILORS. CITY OF SAVANNAH. ) Office Clerk of Council, > July 12th, 1887. 1 Bids will be received at the office of the Clerk of Council until 12 o’clock m. MONDAY, 26th inst., for furnishing the police force with Win ter Uniforms in accordance with specifications to be seen at this office. Tile city reserves the right to reject any or all bids. By order of the COMMITTEE ON POLICE. Frank E. Rebaher, Clerk of Council. UK. HENRY 8 COLDING, DENTIST, Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. I LMKH’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 rnen. 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. EXCURSION'S^ Charleston and Savannah Ry. Reduction in Rates —TO— NFAV YORK. T'IHS company has now on sale ticket? I at sls to New York via Atlantic Coast Line and the magnificent steamships of the Old Dominions. S. Company, sailing from Norfolk, Va., every Monday, Tuesday, Wednes day. Thursday and Saturday, arriving at New York on following evening*- Meals and state room on steamships in eluded. Passengers should take train 78 leaving Savan nah at 8:23 p. m. on days previous to those men tioned above. This route affords a delightful sea trip, avoid ing ('ajH Hatteras. Full man accommodations and elegant state rooms secured on application to Wm, Bren, T. A., 22 Bull street, or J. B. Oliver**#, T. A., Dei>ot. E. P. McSWINEY, (ilcn. Pass Agent. SAlGfffillNT -of- SAVANNAH BANK t TRUST CO. 4% Allowed on deposits, subject to Bank regulations mid contract. PLUMBER. l. a. McCarthy, Successor to Clias. E. Wakefield, PLUMBER, GAS and STEM FITTER, 48 Barnard street, SAVANNAH, GA. Telephone 373. NURSERY. KIESLING’S NURSERY, White BluiF Itomi. PLANTS. BOUQUETS, DESIGNS, CUT 1 FLOWERS furnished to order. Leave ur <fors at DAVIS BROS.\ corner Full *< 4 York ts Tel • '*• AMUSEMENTS. SAY AN N A HTU K VT I! E Thursday and Friday, July 21 and 22. Success Follows Success! AGAIN TRIUMPHANT! THE FORDS In H. T. Craven’s Beautiful Comedy Drama, Meg’s Diversion Miks CLARA BAKER in licr original creation of MEG. Strong Cast, Now Scenery, etc. Prices 75c., 50c. and 35c. Reserved Seats on sale at Davis Bros.’ without extra charge. THIRD ANNUAL PICNIC OF THE J. E. SOCIAL CLUB WILL BE GIVEN AT GREENWICH PARK! Wednesday, July SO, WHOLE TICKETS 50 CENTS (COMMITTEE- J. D. Kehoe. Chairman; E. A. J Leonard, J. Kelly, J. O’Brien, M. J. Cash, J. J. Foley, J. J Dinon. Cars leave Bolton street at 10: JO a. m. and 2,3, 4, 5 and 7;30 p. m. Returning, cars leave Park at 6, ft and 10:30 o'clock. Committee reserve the right to reject the holder of an3 r ticket. SECOND ANNUAL PICNIC OF THE BETHESDA UNION GREENWICH PARK, Thursday, July 21,1887, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BETHESDA ORPHANS. WHOLE TICKETS, 50 CENTS. Cars leave Junction at 2,3, 4. 5, 7:30 p. m. Returning, leave Park 0:15, 7:30, 0. 11 p. m. The Guards Brass and String Band has been engaged. Rifle practice for ladies and gentle men. Prizes for the best shots. Committee reserve right to reject holder of any ticket. COTTON SEED WANTED. COTTON SEED WANTED UR IE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL COMPANY I will pay the highest market price for clean sound COTTON SEED. The Company will have mills in operation at the following points in time to crush this sea son's crop of Seed, viz.: Savannah, G-eorgia. Columbia, South Carolina. Atlanta, Georgia. Montgomery, Alabama, New Orleans, Louisiana. Memphis, Tennessee. Little Rock, Arkansas. Houston, Texas. For sale of Seed, or with reference to Seed Agencies, address SOUTHERN COTTON OIL COMP VNYatany of the above points, orC. FITZ SIMONS. Traveling Agent for the CARO LTNAS end GEORGIA, with headquarters at ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO. PRO PUS ALS WA X T ED. Proposals for Sewers and Culverts. Office of the City Surveyor, l Savannah, Ga., July 15th, 1887. ( f PROPOSALS will be received until WEDNES- I DAY NIGHT. July 27tlf, at 8 o'clock, directed to Mr. F. E. Rcbarer, Clerk of Council of the city of Savannah, for furnishing mater ials and building ttiree hundred and sixty-one feet of forty-two inch sower, seventy-five feet of thirty inch sewer, forty-one feet of sixty inch half round culvert, together with sundry catch-basins and bulkhead* as may l>e required. The said sewers, culverts, bulkheads and catch-basiiLs to l>e built on th** Waters Road, near the property of Mr. John Schwarz. Plans and specifications maybe seen at the office of the City Surveyor. The city reserves the right to reject any or all bids. All bids must lie signed by two sureties, before a Notary, for the faithful performance of the work. J. djeBRUyN KOPS, C. R., Acting City Surveyor. Proposals for Culverts and Ditches. Office of the City Surveyor, i Savannah. Ga., July 15th, 1887. t 1 PROPOSALS will be receive! until WEDNES DAY NIGHT, July 27th, at 8 o'clock, directed to Mr. F. E. Rcbarer, 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, and forty-one feet o( thirty-six inch culvert, together with iucb bulkheads and catch-basins as may be required. Also, for the digging of three lyindred and sixty-one feet of ditch, two and one-half feet wide at tho bottom, seven feet wide at the top and five feet deep; and, also, seventy-five feet of ditch, two feet wide at th** bottom, five feet wide at the top aud four feet deep. Plans and siteeifications may be seen at the office of the City Surveyor. The city reserves tho right to reject any or all bids. Ail bids must be signed by two sureties, before a Notary, lor the faithful performance of the work. J. DbBRUYN KOPS. C. E., Acting City Surveyor. HOT ELS. Fifth Avenue Hotel, MADISON SQUARE, N. Y. rjA lIE largest, best appointed, and most liber ally managed hotel in tho 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.) New nan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla. WINTER AND SUMMER. MOST central House in the city. Near I Post Office, Street Oars anil all Ferries. New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bells, Batiib, Etc. ftf) to $3 per clay. JOHN B. TOG NT, Proprietor. DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE. r |MUS POPULAR Hotel is now provided with In Passenger Elevator (the only one in the city land has been remodeled and newly fur nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase isaUothe owner of tho establishment, spares neither pa inn nor expense in the entertainment of hi* guests. The patronage of Florida visit *>rs is earnestly invited. The table of tin* Screven House is supplied with every luxury that t.Le markets at home or abroad can afford. MARSHALL HOOSEj SAVANNAH, - - GA. f N V". T>. lIOIHiI'.-i. Proprietor. Formerly of ' * the Metropolitan Hotel, Now York, and the Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen tral. All parts of the city and p'ori-s of inter ••Kt accessible by street cars constantly passing tl.i'doont. SiKwial Inducements to those vioit lug the city tor justness or pl-as uc. THE MORRISON HOUSE. " One of tho Boarding Houses in the South. \FFORDS pleasant South rooms, jfood board with y u** Artesian Water, at prices tomtit the*** wishing table, reijlilar or transient accom modation* Sort lca • corner BrourMon and *. . '-•laauMu,, ( SUMMER RESORTS ELDER HOUSE INDIAN - SPRING, Ga. \\T A. ELDER, Proprietor. Season of ,sot > > . Our bedrooms are large and airy and have been much improved by repainting them and placing blinds on the windows. Thetable i. first-class; service prompt and polite- climato good; no mosquitoes or sandflies; good band music through the season. The water j s un equaled in America, and we refer with confl deuce to anyone who has given it a trial. Foi analysis, terms, etc., address ED. A. ELDER Manager. The Sweet Water Park Hotel, AT SALT SPRINGS, GA., TS NOW OPENED for the reception of guests I Rate, of board from sl2 50 to jig p,,, week. In architectural design, finish anil general appointments the Sweet Watei Park Hotel lias few equals in the South. Th fame of the Salt Springs water as a cura. five agent of great value in the treatment of all forms of dyspepsia and indigestion, blood, skin bladder aud kidney diseases is now fully establ lished. For all information, etc., address J D BILLINGS, Manager, Salt Springs. Ga. S. G. HEALY & CO., PROPRIETORS, SALT SPRING, NEAR AUSTELL, GEORGIA \\ r ATER almost a specific for Dyspepsia, Kid } y ney Trouble and Cutaneous Diseases Orders for water and all information addressee to tht* firm at Austell, Ga. THE COLUMBIAN, SARATOGA SPRINGS. THE FAVORITE HOTEL OF SAVANNAH IANS Opens .Tune 35th.. JAMES M. CASE, Proprietor, fpilK WHITLOCK HOUSE, in Marietta, Ga., I 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 fivf for guests. Prices more moderate than anj other house in Georgia for the accommodations M. G. WHITLOCK. Owner aud Proprietor. rpHE WATAUGA HOTEL, Blowing Rock, lij 1 C. In the mountains of North Carolina,' 4,000 toot above the sea. Easily accessible. Modi' cal graduate on the premises. Terms the low. est iu North Carolina. Opened June Ist for tin season. For information address WATAUGA HOTEL C<)., Blowing Rock, N. C. rpHOUSAND ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel I Westminster Park, Alexandria Bay, N. Y.-l “Unquestionably the finest location in th* Thousand Islands.'' Harper's Magazine, SepC IKSI. Send for descriptive pamphlet. H. F! INGLEHART, Proprietor. Mountain lake, giles county, v.v Elevation 4,000 feet. Pure, cool air and water. No hay fever or mosquitoes. Grand scenery. Unequaled attractions. Rates pel mouth S4O to S3O. Write for pamphlet. Ad, dress MANAGER. EXCURSION’S. International Steamship Cos. Lint —of— “ Palace Steamers’ 1 BETWEEN Boston, Portland, East port and St. John, N. 8., With Connections to all Parts of th# Provinces. PORTLAND DAY LINE. Steamers leave Commercial Wharf, Boston 8:30 a. m., every Monday, Wednesday and Fri day for Portland, making the trip in 7 hours affording excellent coast scenery. EAST PORT AND ST. JOHN LINE. Steamers leave Boston 8:30 a. M.,and port’ 5 p. m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for Eastport and St. John. ST. JOHN DIRECT LINE. A steamer will leave Boston every Thursda; at 8 a m. for St. John direct. ANNAPOLIS LINE. A steamer will leave Boston every Monday an< 1 Thursday at Ba. m. for Annapolis. N. S., coa nectingfor Yarmouth, Digby, Halifax, etc. J. B. COYLE, Jr., ft. A. WALDRON, Manager. Portland, Me. Gen. Pass. Agt Mil aid Savanna! Slimmer Excursions Commencing SUNDAY, MAY 15th, this Com pany will still round trip tickets to CHARLESTON, BEAUFORT AN[ PORT ROYAL, By following Trains and at following Rates: By train leaving Sundays only, at 6:45 a. m.: re turning, leave Charleston at 3:35 p. m., Pop Royal 3:30 and Beaufort 3:45 p. m. sami day $l 01 By train leaving Sunday only at 6:45 a. m, : ra turning, leave Charleston Monday morn ing $2 01 By train leaving Saturday at 8:23 p. m. ; return ing, leave Charleston Monday morning. $2 S By train leaving Saturday at 12:26 p. m. ; return ing, leave Charleston Monday morning.. $3 0> Tickets for sale at WM. BREN’S, Bull street and at Depot. E. P. McSWINEY, Gen. Pass. Agent. ChariestoQ <£ Savannahßy. I(i! for ilcJoiiiitaiiis. Through Pullman Service /"TOMMENCING June 12th a through Pullii'ai V I Buffet service will lie rendered daily ba tween Savannah and Hot Spriugs, N. C., vi: Spartanburg and Ashville. Leave Savannah P 11 lAjave Charleston 4:55 pn lA'ave Columbia. 10:20 p n Arrive Spartanburg 2:20 a c \ • :• rtlle 7:00a n Arrive Hot Springs 9:00 a r EXCURSION RATES. To SPARTANBURG I? 13 3* To ASHEVILLE. 17 li To HOT SPRINGS 17 If Sleeping car reservations and tickets gou until Oct. 31st, 1887. can lie had at BREN' TICKET OFFICE, Bull street, and at depot E. P. McSWINEY, <li'n. Pass Agt. PAINTS AND OILS. JOHN Gr. BUTLER WriTITF. LEADS, COLORS, OILS, GLASS W VARNISH, ETC.; READY MIXLI PAINTS: RAILROAD. STEAMER AND MILI SUPPLIES, SASHES. DOORS, BLINDS AN) BUILDERS’ HARDWARE Sole Agent fj GF.ORUIA IJME. CALCINED PLASTER, CJ | MENT, HAIR and LAND PLASTER. 6 Whitaker Streat, Savannah, Georgy m im murphy, mi * , House, Sign and Ornamental Paintinj TT'XF.CUTED NEATLY and with disnatcl \ j Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, Wind" ' Glasses, etc., etc. Estimates furnished on a| | plication. CORNER CONGRESS AND DRAYTON STS F 11* 4>* * *ni M* Ihhsrrjvh