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CONVICT LIFE. Thrilling Description of a Prison in Eelgiuin Which is Only a Living Tomb. From the Missouri Republican. In the whole of Europe there is but one prison in which the systeme cellulaire or absokite isolation by day and by night is still enforced, and it has on that ground a strange and sad celebrity. That one prison is the Maison Centrale of Louvain. In England and in France prisoners are subjected to less severe penalties, for al though they arc condemned in silence, they at least work in common, walk m common, pray in common, and confinement in their cells is only a tempo- ary measure recurred to in case of insubordination or misbe havior. The question now pendant in France of replacing the actual penitentiary system by the solitary system adopted in Belgium, gives interest to the details of a visit paid to the prison of Louvain. The buildings are situated on the anterior boulevards, nearly outside the town. They all converge to a central apsis, whence a warder can easily survey the six immense avenues or wings, consisting of two stories of cells. While some slight repairs were be ing done to one of these cells, a figure sud denly appeared standing motionless at the door —a mysterious and ghastly apparition, clad entirely iu white linen, head and face closely masked by a hood of the same ma terial. Air wars admitted to eyes, nose, and mouth by four holes. Obeying a rapid sign from the warder, the figure turn ed to the wall and crossed its hand behind its back. It was a convict Even through the apertures of his concealing headgear the prisoner of Louvain must never catch a passing glimpse of auy human face beyond his keepers, and no breath of the outer world must pass upon his shrouded cheek. He wears his linen hood summer and winter, but during the cold ho is provided with warm brown woollen clothes. Labor is compulsory in the prison, and the days are spent in one unvarying monotonous round of self-same duties. At 6 o’clock the peals of an organ wake the convicts. They come from the chapel, all the doors of which are thrown open, and the prisoner who can play the organ strikes the first chords. This is the signal for ail the others to rise, dress and make up their beds and bedding. The music lasts for fifteen minutes, and may, at the will of the player, consist of religious anthems, operatic airs, waltzes, or polkas—notes that must strike with dreary significance on the cars of some of the wretched beings clois tered there. They do not belong to the dregs of society. At the last sound of the organ the warders must find each man at his work. Breakfast consists of half a pint of coffee and bread, and the two other meals of the day of soup and vegetables. Three times a week the convicts have fresh meat, but never wine. The convict who has earned a certificate of good conduct, however, can procure some at the prison canteen, as well as beer and to bacco in stated quantities. Each day the prisoners are taken out of their cells in rotation for solitary exercise in separate yards. The rest of the time is entirely given up to the accomplishment of their allotted portion of work, except on Sunday, which is a day of absolute rest. Between the religious services the convicts are at liberty to employ then- leisure iu their cells as they think proper. The prison library contains a considerable collection of books of travel, from which each man can make, a selection. Only those who can neither read nor write are compelled to at tend school for instruction between mass and vespers. This takes place in the chapel itself. Nothing can be more striking than the construction and internal arrangement of this chapel. It is a large, cycle or wheel, con sisting entirely of superficial flights of steps, like a circular and reversed amphitheatre, the centre of which forms a raised stage, on which stands the altar, towering far above the heads of the phantom-like congregation. Each row of stop;- is divided into compart ments or pigeon holes just large enough for a man to sit and kneel. When the hour for divine services lias come the first cell is opened by a warder, and convict No. lis led out, conducted to the chapel, and, entering the row to which he belongs, walks to the farthest compartment, which at once closes upon him. Then only No. 2 leaves his cell and goes through the same performance; and so on till all are settled, no man being permitted to move till the one immediately preceding him has entered his alloted pen. After mass they are all taken back into their cells in the same or der and with the same precautions. There are about twelve flights of steps, containing sixty scats each, but as the cir cle of the chapel is divided by five or six immense partitions, into each of which the prisoners are carried simultaneously, the operation takes comparatively only a short time. From his stall each convict is able to see and follow every movement of the priest who officiates at the altar on the central platform, while he cannot catch even a glimpse of his right and left hand neighbors, owing to the height of the dividing doors, nor eon he look over at the opposite row, which is hidden by a boarding higher than himself, and which as effectually shuts out from his yiew those above or below, before and behind him. The cells are clean and well arranged. Daylight is admitted by a small window be yond the prisoner’s reach, The ventilation is perfect. In winter the mouth of a hot air pipe gives sufficient heat, and in the evening the necessary light is procured by a gas jet to which there is no access from the interior of the cell. The furniture consists of a washstand, a commode on the best sani tary principle, a shelf supporting some pew ter utensils und an iron bed. The bedding is a foundation of sacking, a mattress, two sheets, one blanket in summer and two in winter, and a bolster. The convict has to fold and put these things away. The bed itself Is taken to pieces and placed against the wall, forming a table, in front of which is a stool. The remainder of the space is taken up by the implements necessary to the convict’s obligatory daily work. of the convicts are shoemakers, oth ers bookbinders, tailors, carpenters, even sniit hs. The new-comer who knows no trade is taught one. Those who have had a supe rior education arc employed in copying students’ essays. The product of each man's labor is divided equally between the State an 'l himself. This latter portion is again sub-divided, one-half being put usidefor the day of his liberation, if not incarcerated for •he, and tlie other deposited at the canteen for his private use. His earnings never ex ceed 2c. or 3c. a day. In the evening, labor ended, ho dines and goes to bed. To the dreary silence of the day succeeds tho dreary silence of durkness. Ihe rules of tho prison are such that tho convicts must replace their hooded masks K so,)| > as the doors of their cells open. They cannot expose their faces oven to their warders. If perchance a face is seen by a doctor, it is puled by the long sunless shadow in which it lives and tho want of bracing, blowing air, for even the daily walk of an hour in the prison yards is at Ix-st only exercise in cramped passages be tween two high walls, partly roofed, shut in by iron gates, stretching out like tho sticks of a gigantic fan, and where u few stunted plants soon whither and die. The prisoners hove that flaccid fleshiness which comes from absence of movement uad stimulating activity; yot, in contradio t'ou to tho opinion prevailing in France that no man could stand solitary confine ment for ten years without succumbing or Rotting insane, it has been found not to bo too case at. Louvain, Two of tho inmates J lll ve dwelt there since 1804, tho date of its ["'nidation, I wing transferred to the central noiise after a ten vaarf’ unprisonment at •heat. They hod been condemned to death, , out owing to tho virtual abolition of tho iwnalty of death in Belgium tho king hud commuted their sentence to tho perpetual entombment of their present abode. When prisoners have deserved an alleviation of their penalty by ten years of uninterrupted t'>od conduct, tnoy are sent to Ghent, where •he mli* of the prison allow of their work teg common. *k) wuonuarjr buildihi* contain the in- J firmary, laundry, linen-rooms, bath-rooms, bakeries and kitchens, all kept with a scru pulous cleanliness, remarkable even in that kind of unrivaled cleanliness. Huge iron pots contained an abundance of excellent potatoes boiling for the evening meal, and the bread, although brown, was sweet, crisp and of bettor quality than that ra tioned out to the army. None but isolated cases of revolt have ever taken place at Louvain. These are punishable l>v incarceration in a subter ranean dungeon containing nothing but a single wooden bench, where nearly total darkness prevails. The time of retention within its walls cannot exceed eight days, during which the prisoner is kept on bread and water. This mode of puuishment is rarely resorted to, as there is another which is viewed with far greater dread—the pri vation of work! For those silent recluses this labor is the only link wnieh connects them ever so remotely with the living world. It is more than an occupation —it is a favor, a recreation, almost a pleasure— and the threat of taking his tools from him rarely fails to insure the submission of tho rebel. It is impossible to leave the Maison Cen trale of Louvain, admirable as its adminis tration is in the minutest details, without a feeling of almost superstitious horror at the vision of those miserable beings cloistered in eternal isolation, doomed to unbroken silence, buried in their livery of infamy as in a shroud, the face of each remaining as sealed to his 600 companions of crime and shame, dropped into the same tomb with himself, as if the lid of a coffin had closed upon it and the hand of death forever obliterated its features. A PRUSSIAN LIEUTENANT. A Typical Man of His Class-The Pride of the Berliners. What would Berlin be without the Prus sian Lieutenant? asks Bliss Perry in a letter to the Springfield Republican. It is hard to imagine, so thoroughly incorporated does he seem with the whole social structure around him. He and men like him .have made the city what it is, and Berlin is prompt to recognize its political maker, though not otherwise over-religious. This homage is received by our lieutentant with self-consciousness,or he would not lx-German, and with an additional stiffness which comes of being Prussian. It is a fine sight to see him on Unter den Linden, as he saun ters majestically through the crowd, with immovable face like Von Moltke, with vacant eyes that nevertheless always notice the hurried sulutes of the privates passing, and with a self-certainty that is out of place in this world of confused men and women. The Berliners make way for him with tenderness, for they pay his bills, and often with a smile, too, at his harmless affectation. Such a one came down Unter den Linden yesterday afternoon, a typical man of his class, for here was the erect, even gait, the inexpressive blue eyes, the rosy cheeks, waxed moustache and shoulders broad enough not to have needed the padding un der the smooth-fitting coat; here was the half-seen cavalry sabre, the tight trousers, exquisite boots with tiny spurs—in a word, here was a bit of that perfect machine which Von Moltke declares to be the foun dation of German culture. A part of a machine. It is curious to think that this is the best use to be made of a thinking man in the heart of Europe to-day, but “Von Moltke knows” and we must believe him, and here was a specimen of the machinery, which would have moved to its death just as it moved through the light rain that was falling—with trained indifference. A minute before he reached the Wilhelm strasse, a droschky rounded the corner and the horse slid and fell upon the treacherous asphalt. The driver cursed and pulled at the reins and the horse straggled powerful ly to l'ise. but slipped with every effort. The driver, stupidly drank, clambered down and took his whip. All this happens every rainy day on the Berlin streets, and there is nothing in it to detain for a moment the most careless lounger, to say nothing of an officer whose dinner is waiting. Crack! cut the whip on the horse’s head, once, twice—“ Stop, you cursed hound!” and his whip was snatched by a white-gloved hand and tossed into the middle of the street. '‘Stand back!" And the Lieutenant, his blue eyes all ablaze, seized the blanket from the box, spread it earefullv under the horse’s fore feet to give him a better foot hold, took him by the bit and spoke in East Prussian dialect something that the horse, though a born Berliner, understood, for he stretched out his hoofs,-felt the blanket un der them, struggled to his feet, and stood panting. “Driver,” said the honest young voice, “do you understand me, No. 3,217?” No. 3,217, scared into a sobriety beyond that of any of his 5,000 brethren, saluted, but dared not speak, and the wrathful cavalry man strode on again. Has a Prussian lieutenant a heart ? This is the question that runs through the acts of anew play at the Deutches Theatre, and both actors and audience seem as doubtful about the proper answer at the end as they are when the curtain rises. If you wore to ask No. 3,217 he would not understand you. His horse knows, but, like a cunning beast, says nothing, and Berlin is none the wiser. THE REAR GUARD OF LEE’S ARMY. Company G., Orr’s Rifles, at Falling Waters—The Second Thermopylae. From the Abbeville IS. C) Medium, July 14. People who have never done any soldier ing may not know that a heavy raiu falls immediately after a battle in the country near the scene of conflict. It is a fact, how ever. It was the case after Gettysburg. Our army left the field in a drenching rain, the night being as dark as pitch. The rains continued until we left Hagerstown on the night of July 18, 18(18, on our march to the Potomac. The whole country was a vast sea of mud, in places knee deep. Through the dismal night we marched steadily forward, and arrived at Falling Waters about noon of the 14th. Wo fell ill exhaustion upon tho soggy ground, and went to sleep in the rain. We were aroused by a body of Yankee cavalry charging through our lines with pistols anil drawn sabres. A momentary confusion en sued, Gen. Pettigrew was killed, but the cavalry was decimated. The cavalry was followed closely by Yankee infantry and artillery. Company G. Orr’s Rifles was thrown out ns a skirmish line, and then ensued one of the most gal lant fights ever made by the company. They held back tho advancing hosts of twenty times their number until two divisions hail crossed the Potomac into Virginia. Then, surrounded on all sides, in front and rear, tin- company surrendered nineteen men. In the conflict they had killed two officers and twenty-eight men and wounded, perhaps, five times that number. The pontoon bridge was out louse and the company sac rificed to save the rear divisions of tho army. To-ilay is the twenty-fourth anniversary of that engagement. How many of the gallant hand survive? They Never Fail. No. 3 Fulton Market, ) New York City, Jan. 20, 1884. f I have been using Bkandreth’k Pills for the last ten years. They are a wonder ful medicine. There is nothing equal to them as Blood Purifiers anil Liver Regu lators. But I wish to state how remarkably they cure rheumatism anji how easily. I was affected by rheumatism of the legs. My business (wholesale fish dealer; naturally leads me to damp places. I was so Ivel I could not walk, and at night I suffered fear fully; I tried Balsams, Sarsaparilla* and all kinds of tinctures, hut they did mo no good and I was afraid of being o cripple. I finally commenced using Braiwreth’s Pills. I took two every night for tan nights, then 1 began to improve. I contin ui taking them for forty days and I got entirely well. Now, whenever sick, I take Brandrkth's Pills. They never fail. w J. N. ll arms. THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JULY 2(1, 1887. A YEAR OP PROHIBITION. The Experiences of Atlanta as a Dry City. Atlanta(Gci.)Correspandent Xews and Courier. The Georgia local option law whereunder Fulton county (which includes Atlanta,) held the election which resulted in prohibi tion, provides that after prohibition has been carried in any county no after election on the subject shall be held within two years. A year - and a half has now passed since the election was held here, and in six months, of course, another election may be held. Moreover, the law has now been in operation a year, one-half the necessary period. A sort of mile-post in the prohibi tion experiment has. therefore, now just been reached, and the subject, which has for two or three years at all times been prominent, is for this reason now a little more prominent than usual. Both sides are reviewing the year under prohibition. There is tho greater significance to this because the success or the failure of the experiment in Atlanta will very largely determine the success or the failure of tho whole State experiment, so far as it has gone. There is the same conflicting testimony here as to the value of the law that there is in every other city that has tried prohibition; but there is not tho least doubt but the prohibition side has gained popular strength, and gained greatly since it won the day by a narrow margin a year and a half ago. One reason that it has gained strength is because to a certain degree the Prohibitionists are so strong and they hold in their hands cards so well politically packed, that the politicians are afraid to oppose the cause openly. The work has been carried beyond that point which the Prohibitionists in most places have reached and stopped—the point where membership in the party was m the more worldly circles of society evidence of former inebriety, of quackery or of crankism. Prohibition here is respectable. The solid business men of this city—many of whom, by the way, take their grog —are generally strongly in favor of the continuance of the law for a variety of reasons. Some main tain that the business of the city has been made better. This, of course, is vigorously denied by others. Some who say that while men will and ought to drink liquor, any who are not at bottom in favor of a cast-iron pro hibitory law for the whole country have be come convinced that the closing of the low groggeries is so excellent a thing that they are willing to sacrifice what they once re garde'! as their objection to “sumptuary legislation” for the practical good. There is a very great probability that an election, tike the forthcoming Texas election, or on a law like the Maine law, would be very vig orously opposed in Atlanta. The local option method of trying prohibition by counties, and for a limited period of time, has won as its friends men whom a sweep ing and perpetual law could never win. For this reason the “Georgia plan” is unique. For instance, a National Prohibition ticket in 1688 will not got anything like as many votes in Georgia as the local option cause has got here. The State will still he Demo cratic. It is not that kind of prohibition, br the purpose of speculation that now en gages attention is as to the future of local prohibition in this county and in Georgia. Unless all signs fail, the chances are decid edly in favor of the continuance of the law, at least for some time to come, over a great part of the State. It has boen accurately described as a rich man’s law directed against the poor man. At least this is true from one noint of view. A “rich” man in a prohibition countv can get grog In some he can Buy it by the quart without any trouble, but the poor man who can afford to buy it only by the drink is the man who is generally “left;.” The effort has been made to arouse sympa thy for the poor grog drinker, but it has not been as successful as it was expected to be. There are coining county battles to t>e fought, but the chances in most of them are decidedly in favor of the Prohibitionists. The Constitution, which has been, if not hostile, certainly not friendly in a partisan way to prohibition, has caused something of a sensation throughout the State by a long review of the year under the law, which concludes with the confession that “our experience has demonstrated to us bevond a doubt that a city of 60,000 inhabitants cap get along and advance at a solid and constant rate without the liquor traffic.” The status of prohibition now is as follows: 115 out of 137 counties are under prohibition. Among those that are not is Chatham county, in w hich Savan nah is situated. There are eighteen coun ties, mostly in the southeast portion of the State, where prohibition is secured by the local authorities placing the license fee so high that no one can afford to pay it. For instance, Tatnall county charges $2,500, Berrien $3,000, Charlton $53X10, Putnam $5,000 and Ware SIO,OOO. This is high license carried to a prohibitory point, and is not, properly speaking, the “Georgia plan.” The secret of the Prohibitionists’ success in the other counties has been the chance the plan gives at every stop for the people who are immediately concerned to do as they wish. It is the principle of home rule and local government applied to the liquor traffic. It wifi require eight or ten years to prove conclusively the permanence of the success of the plan, or its failure. In that time there will lie fluctua tions in counties. Some “dry” ones will become “wot” again, and vice versa, anil within that time it can lie seen how much of the present, success is due to mere fitful agi tation. As the matter stands to-day, the “Georgia plan” comes nearer to success in prohibiting the liquor traffic than any shape that prohibition has taken. Such, at least, is the judgment of the mass of the men here who voted against the law as well as of those who voted lor it. A FIGHT TO THE DEATH. Fierce and Fatal Battle Between Two Alligators. From the Philadelphia Record. A fierce and bloody fight lietwoen alliga tors was the rare sport witnessed at Coatos ville, a few days ago, by one of the attend ants in Dr. Huston’s garden, in that bor ough. Each of the combatants inoasureil over five feet in length, and had been living for eight years peaceably together in a great tank which Dr. Huston had constructed for them near his house. They were natives of Florida, and were brought from that coun try when small tiy Dr. Huston, For some weeks, however, tno two great reptiles hail been showing signs of discontent with each other, but no one anticipated the terrible and fatal termination of this curious quar rel. ()ne day the uttention of tho gardener, who was at work near the tank, was attracted by a commotion in the water, and looking up he saw that tho two alligators wore en gaged in a desperate struggle. The man rushed to the spot, but was jmwerloss to stop the fight, which was raging so fiercely that the water was lashed into foam and the green-house was splashed in every direction. The largest of tho combat ants was seeking to got tho body of the smaller alligator in his wide open jaws, but the latter was always too quick to lie caught, and moved round and round, striking the big reptile with his tail and sometimes getting his enemy's logs in his jaws and biting them. Tho tank was soon reddened with blood which flowed from tho wounds inflicted iu this curious contest. Tho gardener attempted to sojiarata tho maddened contestants by boating them with a long pole, but they paid no attention to this attempt, at diversion and went on with their fight only more desperately. They rolled over each other, some times in tbe water and at times on the liank in the mud, bnt always lashing with their tails. The smaller and more agile of tho two continued to bite the legs and body of the big alllgutor, and the latter moved about slowly, seeking to make a suc cessful grub at his opponent's body. Their sleepy eyes had become bright anil snappy, and n was evident that the fight, was to tie to the death. At last:, in an effort to snap at the swinging tail of the larger, the small alligutor fell over on his side and before ho I could get out of the way the big jaws of his enemy was closet! upon hint with tt snap. Then occurred the most, curious part of the battle. Raising himself slightly upon his forefeet the big alligator lifted the smaller one from the surface of the water and shook him ms a dog would shake a rat shook him until it seemed that his tail would be hurled off, and until, in fact, his back was broken and he lay dead and limp in those great jaws. Then' the big animal dropped the body and moved off to sun him self. ABE LINCOLN’S FIRST FIGHT. How His Originality Enabled Him to Overcome a Sangamon Bully. from the Fmxytto, f 1t7.0 Censor. There does not live in the United States to-day one wno was so actively associated with Lincoln as John White, who lives down the Bishop Branch, town of Viroqun. While in the office Friday, Mr. White re-, luted many amusing incidents of his boy hood days in Illinois, when he and Lincoln were fast friends, split rails, did surveying and went to husking bees together. Lin coln was his Senior by a number of years, and for that reason every act of the lament ed President remains fresh in the memory of Mr. Vhite. :‘I remember well,” said he, “when the bully of Sangamon county, induced by some good natured wag, came to the spot, where wo were chopping rails and challenged Abe to a prize fignt. The great brawny, awk ward boy laughed and drawled out: 'I reokon stranger, you’re nrter the wrong man. I never lit in my whole life.’ But the bully made for Abe, and in the first fall Lincoln oame down on top of the heap. The champion was bruising and causing blood to flow down Lincoln’s face when a happy mode of warfare entered his original brain. He quickly thrust his hands into a convenient bunch of smartweod and rubbed the same in the eyes of his opponent, who almost instantly beggod for mercy. He was released, but his sight, for the time be'ng, was extinct. No member of the trio possessed a pocket handkerchief, so Lincoln, with usual originality, tore from his own shirt front the surplus cloth, washed and bandaged the fellow’s optics and sent him home. “I was also present at the first lawsuit he ever conducted in a justice’s court. Here served hint well the inexhaustible supply of original ideas and ways which characterized his past, and future life. In boyhood days he was as true to his friends as his great, career proved him to be true to his coun try.” Prematurely Aged. 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We are now ready for business, and our previous large stock will be increased, and we are now offering full lfnes of fine Milans in White and Colors, for Ladies, Misses and Children in an endless variety of shapes RIBBONS, RIBBONS, new novelties added and our regu lar full line entirely filled out. We knock bottom out in the price of Straw Goods. We continue the sale of our Ribbons at same prices as heretofore, although the prices have much advanced. We also continue to retail on our first floor at wholesale prices. s. i\ Konmcc >kig ikon Works. KEHOE’S IRON WORKS, Broughton Street, from Reynolds to Randolph Streets, - - Georgia. CASTING OF ALL KINDS AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. THE RAPIDLY INCREASING DEMAND FOR OUR SUGAR MILLS AND PANS 1 W I FAS induced us to manufacture them on a more extonHivo scale than 1 I ever. To that, end no |niuß orexixmse has been spared to maintain their HIGH HTANARI) OF KXGKLLKNCE. Thcw Mills arc of tin* BEST MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP, with heavy WROUGHT IRON SHAFTS (made long to prevent danger to the flk Ijf operator), and rollers of the lwst charcoal pig iron, all turned up true. W Tnev art* heavy, strong and durable, run light and even, and are guaran t r< *d capable of grinding the heaviest fully matured r ~ | ~JPgRM— , WE GUARANTEE OUR PRICES TO BE AS LOW AS ANY OFFERED. A Large Stock Always on Hand for Prompt Delivery. Win. Ivelioe <fe Cos. N. B.—The mime “ KF.HOE’B IKON WORKS,’ is cast on nil our Mills and Pan*. DOWN THEY GrO. MATTINGS AT REDUCED PRICES . AT LINDSAY &. MORGAN’S. IN order to <;Toro out osjr Summer Stock w<* are STRAW MATTING AT VERY LOW PKK TH. MOSQUITO NETS, liEI KHiKitATOKB, BABY CARRIAGES, and all other season able good* MARKED DOWN TO PANIC PRICES. BODY UHUSHKI.S CARPETS at NINETY CENTS A YARD. Rheumatism and Neuralgia Kept Off by Using Glass Bod Rollers. Our General Stock is Complete. Call on us Early, LINDSAY & MORGAN. SASH, DOORS, BUNDS, KiC. Yale Royal Manufacturing Coi SAY ANNAH, GA, MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN Sri, Doors, lulls, Mutels, Fw Inis, And Interior Finish of all kinds, Mauldin**, Balusters, Newel Post*. Estimate*, Price Lists, Mould in* Uaok.i. arid any inforamtian In anr line fnrnislied an application. Cypres*, Yellow Flue, Oak, Anii and Walnut fjUMBKK on hund anil in any quantity, furnished promptly. VALE ROYAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Savannah, Ga ENGINES, BOILERS, ETC. Simplest, Safest and Most Durable. All Machinery fully Guaranteed. Reliable Ma chinery at reasonable prices. Do not buy without llrst seeing us, or writing for our prices, naming Just what you want. Address mcSSWVa. i TALBOTT & SONS, Macon, Ga. J. C. WiliAVlil.it. .Vluiuamr. SWIFT’S SPF.CIFIC. TRADE MARK. CEMENT. liTimmil JUST ARRIVED A CARGO OF ALSI-:.N*H German Portlaii Cemeol FOR SALE LOW BY ANDREW HANLEY, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. COTTON SEED W ANTED. COTTON SEED WANTED r I''IIF. SOUTHERN COTTON OIL COMPANY I will tiny the highest market price for clean, sound COTTON SEED. The Company will have mills in operation at the following iM.lms in time to crush this sea son's crop of Seed, viz.; Savannah, Georgia. 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 C'OMI’AN Y at any of the above points, orC. FITZ -BIMONS, Traveling' Agent for the CARO LINAS and GEORGIA, with headquarters at ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO. 1 1 ""■llitl'lLLUli.Jß. OFFICIAL,. ORDINANCE. An ordinakcx, To authorize Hie Mayor and Al dermen, in Council assenil.led, to grant per mits for tile excavation and erection of areas in the lanes of the city, and to prescribe cer tain conditions for the same. Section 1. Be it ordained try the Mayor and Aldermen of the Citu of Savannah in Council tuwemhled, That It shall and may Is’ lawful for Council, at any time and from time to time to. grant, by n-solutiou or otherwise, permits to owners of lots and Improvements within the city 1 to excavate, construct and use areas extending, into the lanes of the city. Ski . 2. Tlwt JI sueli jiennits, unless otherwise therein provided, shall lie granted subject loth* condltiotis herein named uud ttie acceptance of such permit, or the excavation, erection and use of such area hy any property owner, shall be taken and construed as an acceptance of the said eomfitions, and binding u|sni the said prop erty owner and his assigns, future owners of the said property. Sac. i). All such areas, including all walls and material of any sort in the construction of the same shall not ex tend into the lane for a dis tance greater than four (4) feet from the line of said lot. They shall lie set at such grade as the tiroper officers of the city may designate, and ept and maintained at such grade as may front time to time Is. determined on for the said lane without any expense to the city. They shall be used only for the purposes of light and ventila tion, and for no other puiqiose what soever, and shall be covered with a substantial wrought iron gratlDg of such form as shall be an nmole protection to jiersona and property passing through said lane, which grating shall be stationary and immovable, and not set upon hinges or other devices ar ranged for entrance and exit into the buildings through said area. Site. 4. Tliat the owners for the time being of any property, adjacent to w hich areas may is- erected under the provisions of this ordi nance shall indemnify aud hold harmless tho Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, of ami from any and all loss or damage that may accrue against it by reason of the excava tion, erection, use or occupation of the area herein provided for, or tlij obstruction of the lanes of the city. Sec .5. That all ordinances or parts of ordi nances conliieting with tliia ordinance he and the same are hereby repealed in so far as they so conflict. Ordinance passed in Connell July 18, 1887. RUFUS E. LESTER. Mayor. AI text: Frank E. Uxiiareh, Clerk of Council. Ml AHAVTINE NOTICE. Omra He Man Officer, 1 Savannah, Ga., May 1. tftfl. f From and after MAY Ist, IMM7, the city ordi nance which spesrlAes the Quarantine reqitlre mentstobe observed at the port at Savannah, Georgia, for ported of nmo (annually) frotu Mar l*t to November l*t, wBl bo must rigidly on forced. Merchants anil all other parties Interested will lie supplied witli printed copies of the Quar ant inn i iriliuanee upon application to office of Healt h Officer. From and after this dab; and until further no tice atl steamships and vessel* from South America, Central America. Mexico, West Indies, Sicily, ports- of Italy south of 40 dogs. North latitude. and const of .Africa be ween 10 dogs. North and I I dogs. South latitude, direct or via American port will be sub jected, to close Quarantine and be required to report at the Quarantine Station and lie treated a* being from Infected or suspected ports or localities. Captains of these vessels will have to remain at Quarantine Station until their vessels are relieved. All steamer* and vessel* from foreign ports not .included above, direct or via American port*, whether seeking, chartered or otherwlae, will be required to remain In quarantine until boarded and passed by the Quarantine Offioer. Neither the Captains nor any mo on board of such visual* will be allowed to come to the city until the Iteasels are inspected and passed by the Quarantine Officer. As ports or localities not herein enumerated are reported luibeulthy to the Sanitary Authori ties, Quarantine restrictions against same will be enforced without further publication. The quarantine regulation requiring the flying of the quarantine flag mi vessel* subjected to detention or inspection will be rigidly enforced. J. T. MCFARLAND. M. D.. Ifealth Officer. quarantine notice. Orfiok Health Officer, 1 Savannah, April sth, I*7. ( Notice Is hereby given that the Quarantine Officer is Instructed not to deliver letters to ves sel* which art' not subjected to quarantine de tention, unless the name of consignee and state ment that the vessel is ordered to some other port appears upon the face of the envelope. This order Is made necessary In consegaenoe ot the enormous bulk of drumming letters sent to the station fur vessels which are to arrive J. T McFarland, m. and„ • Health Officer, QUARANTINE NOTICE. Office Health Officer. I Savannah, March 25th, 1897. ) rHots of the Port of Savuunab are informed that the Hatielo Quarantine'Station will be open ed on APRIL Ibl. IHKT. Special attention of the Flints is directed to sections Nos. 3d and 14th, Quarantine Regula lions. Most rigid enforcement of quarantine regula tions will no maintained by the Health authori ties. j. t. McFarland, m and., , Health Officer. WOOD. WOOD, Bacoji, Johnson & Cos. Have a fine stock of Oak, Pine, Lightwood and Kindling, Oomer Liberty and East Broad strsste. Telephone 117. rp 1 COUNTY OFFICERS Bi-'ks and Btaakß 1 required by county officers for the use at the courts, or for office use. supplied to order b* the MORNING NEWS PRINTING HOUSk k Whitaker streak Savannah. 5