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A WESTERN STORY. The Narrow Escape of Sol Taylor from Torture and Death at the Stake. I came West when I was IT years of aye (said old Sol Taylor/of Georgetown, Col., j,.. other day), and. now I'm a bit over (50. You can figger that up and see how long ['ve been skirmishing with Indians, grizzlies, panthers, rattlesnakes and the other pesky varmints of mountain, plain and prairie. There hasn’t been an Indian war for the last half century that I haven’t had a hand in, and 1 reckon I've had as many stand-up flights on my own hook as any scout or hun ter you can name. I have been captured and put to the torture twice, and been cap tunHl and got away without torture three or four times. In times of pea<-e I have lived with the Pawnees, Kiowas, Apaches, Sioux, Cheyennes and Blackfeet, and in times of war I have fought all these tribes. Mebbe I am, therefore, a purty good judge of In dian natur’, and when you ask me which tribe of redskins has the most honor I re ply that I never yet saw an Indian whom I would trust a rod. The only reason that Borne of ’em have served tlie government as scouts and traitors is because they happened to hate their own kind just then a little wuss than they did the white man. How ever, you want some of my own adven tures, and I v ill give you one. Before the days of railroads in the West a man who was spilin' for an Indian fight could get it within rifle shot of Fort Kear ney, and this state of affairs continued up to 180(5 and later. The last time 1 was cap tured was on the Smoky Hill fork of the Kansas river, and it was while the railroad was being pushed across the State of Kan sas. A r-lit road through the Indian coun try meant good-by to game and good-by to tlie Indian. The redskin realized this as forcibly as the white man, and ho was on hand to fight the progress of the road. He was foolish enough to suppose that the kill ing off of a few scouts and surveyors would stop all work, aud by the time the road was half way across tlie State of Kansas every Indian who had any patriotism about him was in front of it and doing battle. The contractors had to employ a great many scouts and fighters to protect tne advance men, and I was one of those thus engaged. In the five months of my employment I Killed thirty-nine Indians and brought thirty-nine scalps to camp,,and there were other scouts who did as well, or better. We did not lose near as many men in propor tion, as we fought entirely on the defensive, and had all the advantages. My capture occurred one morning in Sep tember. One of the engineers of the road had been on a spree, and while verging on delirium tremens had left camp and wan dered off. He had been gone two or three hours before he was missed, and at mid night of a rainy, gusty night six of us started out on foot to hunt him up. As no one knew the direction he hail taken, each of us went his own way. There were plenty of Indians around us, and a scout had been wounded that afternoon within half a mile of our camp. Each man of us who went out took big chances of being captured, but there was no hesitating or hanging back on that account. Our camp was close to the river, and my first move was to cross the stream. The water was no more than waist deep, and I had no trouble in reaching the other bank. The engineer, whose name was Sewell, hud gone off in his shirt and trou sers and boots. He was bareheaded, out of bis senses, and had no weapon of any sort. My only hope in finding him was that he would become exhausted before going far, and sit down. Once across the stream, I held to the north for about a mile, and then turned to the left and kept on until I hail described a quarter of a circle and come to the river again. I then went back to the starting point and bore to the right, and it was while on my w ay to the river that four Indians suddenly rose up from the grass at my feet and seized me. I can’t say that I was off my guard, but it did seem a bit queer to me as I thought it over afterward that I should havo let the skunks get such an advantage of me. I could see fairly well for 20 feet or more around me, but the fellows hugged the earth bo closely, and I happened to walk so straight into the trap, that I was done for before I knew wiiat was going one. Not a yell was uttered—not a won't spoken. Two of them tripped me up, and tho other two piled on to me and disarmed me, and in less than a minute my arms were jerked behind me and made fast, aud away we went to the northwest on a trot. This was maintained for about a mile, when wo came ujion a party ol’ fifty mounted redskins, and in the midst of them I found Sewell. He was prostrate with exhaustion and fear, and when I spoke to him, which act the Indians seemed rather to encourage, he began cry ing and sobbing like a child. I was lifted up behind a warrior and off wo went at a gallop, riding to the west and keeping close to the river until we had made at least fif teen miles. Thon we came upon an Indian village as it was growing daylight. My feelings during tho rido were any thing but agreeable, I can assure you. The fact that I was not lulled at the moment of my capture had a significance which I w ell understood. I was just as certain to go to the stake for torture as I .remained a prisoner, and I did a heap of thinking in hope-, to get a plan for escape. Mounted behind an In dian, my arms tied so tightly that 1 was a constant sufferer, and obliged to keep my balance by tlie use of my legs alone, there was no earthly show for me to carry out any scheme. Sewell was mounted on the horse just ahead of me, and his conduct went far to distress and unnerve me. He kept up a constant la mention, and was continually be seeching me not to let the Indians harm him. Brink had lost its effect on him, and to come out of his spell and find himself in the hands of tlie releiltioss redskins had token all tlie [duck out of him. He was doing the very "’erst thing he could have done, for 1 heard tlie Indians gloating over theprosiiect when he should come to tho stake. There was considerable hurrah when we rode into the village, ami lual I not lieen able to under stand a word of tho dialect, tlie looks and actions of tlie Indians would havo been suf ficient to tell mo wlmt fate they intended to m<’te out to us. Sewell was placed in one lodge and I in another, and tlie war party vvi i e soon engaged with breakfast. It was Pt yet fully daylight when I was pulled off the horse, and therefore I lnwl not yet been recognized. 1 was pretty generally known to all the tribes, and they hail named me .‘'The Long Death.” I got. the name by kill hig some of them with a rifle which knocked tiH-m over when they sup)H>sed themselves tar beyond range. My only hope was that no one in tlie crowd would bo able to iden tify me, as I had lately lmd my hair cut dose and my whiskers entirely removed, tmt daylight had only come when throe war riois looki-d in on me, gave n start of sur prise, anil one of them called at tlie top 9f Ills voice; “It is Tho Long Death! We have got, Mm at last. Hero in the white hunter who Has silled so many of our people.” Dim cut was out of the ling, ms the old sav hhC goes, and ! stood then' und fared them and knew that, T was doomed to the most hor- I'ihle tortures they could invent. , They ,|id not hoop me long in walling. 1 he knowledge of my identity w hot ted their ■avuge appetites, and white the warriors tflio raptured us were eating breakfast tho mst of tin- village was astir .vith prepara tions. The camp was in e bit of valley, on me left bank of Smoky Hill Fork, and two rees were out dowu, trimmed to a proper “ngth, and then driven into tho ground in the centre of the village. The one intended mr mi' was almost in front of my tepee, and I stood nt the ontranco and saw the young nu n drive it into the earth. Mom than that, I suim out to them in a steady voice, in their wu dialect: “ V stake like that to hold Tho T-ong Until! You shall sec how ho will tear it up!” My words wire reeoivod with shouts of satisfaction. No p'ople on earth respect cjjuroge in a man iik much ns the Indians, x hoy ore no less cruel to a game man, but msgamonoas will shorten his torture. Foel -I,IK ’hat my time hud come, and hoping to provoke some of tliem to shoot or toma hawk me, I call.si out tint tin nun of half a wo<ie.i of Lite Uib whom I had tent to -he happy hunting grounds. Gome of tho young men fairly raved to get at me, but the order of the chief was to wait. I boasted that I could outshoot,- outride, and outrun their best men. and offered to fight any six of them if they would turn me loose, but all this talk only gave them the more satisfac tion in thinking of the torture in store for me. On the same principle that people eat their pie last, the Indians led Sewell out first. His condition was such that but little fun could he anticipated from his torture. He was a large, fine-looking man, but the result of his capture was to break him down. He had no more courage than a child, and it was pitiful to see him weep and hear his la mentations. I begged of the Indians to let him go, stating that he was a civilian who had never injured them, and was so broken down that he could not live long, and but for the hot-headed young men in the tribe I should have got him off. They urged that he was assisting to build the railroad which was driving the game and the Indian out of the country, anil that the wli ite men never spared a warrior because he was ill. Such talk as this settled it, and the engineer was led out, stripped of his clothing, and tied se curely to the stake. Had I refused to look on it would havo been taken as an act of cowardice on my part. Realizing this, I stepped outside the lodge and stood within ten feot of the stake. Sewell wept and begged while being made fast, but when they stepped back he suddenly grew calm and asked of me: “Taylor, what does this all mean? What are they going to do with me?” “They are going to torture you, Mr. Se well.” “Are you a prisoner, too?” “Yes, and they will torture me after fin ishing you.” “My God! but this is awful. I havo SBOO at the camp. Won’t they take that and re lease us?” I replied that if we were worth a million dollars apiece we could not purchase our liberty under the circumstances, and ad vised him to call-up his courage and seek to die like a man. Any sign of weakness on his part would excite contempt and in creased torture, and the better way was to defy them to do their worst. 1 believe he tried his best to brace up, but his nerves were dreadfully shattered, and after three or four minutes he began crying again. This had jnst the effect 1 predicted. Half a hundred boys were sent off to cut switches, and when they returned they were told to go ahead and apply them to the engineer. The idea was to whip some courage into him, but it was a flat failure. Almost at the first blow the man cried out like a woman, and, his feet not having beeu tied, he danced around like a puppet. I called out to him to kick his tormentors, but he paid no heed to my voice, and after a time stood stock still and let the boys whip him until blood was drawn in a score of places. All this time he cried like a boy 4or 5 years old, and I heard some of tho old warriors say that he was the most cowardly white man they had ever met. He may have lacked courage, but I always believed his conduct to have been the resu’4 of his shattered mental and physical condition. After the boys hail switched him for ten minutes they were called off, and a couple of warriors advanced with their muzzle loading rifles and began to fire charges of powder into the poor fellow’s flesh. Does it hurt? Well, sir, hell can’t be any worse. I’ve had a dozen charges fired into me, and I never felt any pain to equal it. I’ll take two bullets in preference to one cnarge of powder every time. The first charge set him to dancing and screaming, and at the third or fourth he kicked one of the war riors over, and became so savage that they hail to fully bind him to the stake. They fired thirty-four charges in all, and by tlie time they had finished you could not have told that Sewell was a white man. His agony was something awful, and he writhed about with such strength that the stake had twice to be driven deeper. His shrieks and screams, as I afterward knew, wore heard a disyi\e of more than two miles, and yet this the beginning of what they hail in store for him. The next move was to apply the burning sticks. Some green sticks had been put upon the fire on purpose, and three or four warriors applied the burning ends to vari ous portions of the engineer’s body. The pain fairly drove liim crazy, and in a short time he fainted. Water was brought from the stream and dashed over him, and during the interval many warriors crowded around me to see how I was bearing up. “Dogs! Do you think you can make The I.ong Death cry like that?” I shouted at them. “Here, pull up my trousers and see where the cowardly Sioux shot powder into my legs. Pull off my boots anil find where the Cheyennes applied tho fire sticks. Did I weep like a woman? Go ask them. And when you ask that, inquire who killed the Black Eagle, lied Horae, Big Mountain, Great Buffalo, and Black Feather. They will tell you, The Long Death.” But for tho presence of four or five chiefs I should have been done for on tlie spot, so excited were the young men. By this time Sewell hail regained his senses, and was sob bing and waiting again, and they went back to their sport. A warrior approached him with a sharp knife and lashed him in 50 different places, eachcqt being deep enough to lie painful, but nuie of thorn very serious. The gush of blood soon turned the man into a horri ble-looking object, and several times he would have fainted had they not had water at hand to throw over him. He had screamed so loud and long that his voice was now entirely gone, and the only sound he could utter was a groan. He had long seemed unconscious of my presence, and I was glad of this. Ido not think he was in his full senses after tlie burning. After the warrior had cut and slashed with his knife he fell back to give place to another. This second one meant to do finer work. He meant, as a first move, to cut the victim’s tongue out, but as he reached for it with his left hand Sewell snapped at him like a dog, got the black hand firmly between his jaws, and then there was a grand uproar. Everybody enjoyed the fix the Indian was in. and whenever he motioned ns if he meant to use his knife they shouted to him to give the victim fair play. Sewell held to him for fully live minutes; lacerating the hand like a bulldog, and then three or four warriors seized him and made him let go. The bitten warrior relinquished the knife to another, and during the next quarter of an hour Sewell suffered the loss of his nose, ears, fingers and lips. He shrieked out in agony when his nose was slashed off, but after that ho never even groaned, aud Icon soled myself with the hope that he was dead. The Indians finally lieoaino satisfied that they could got no more “fun” out of him. ami ho was scalped, and the faggots at his feet were lighted to consume tlie body. My time had come. There was a grand yell from every warrior as the two guards led me to the stako. How did it feel? Well, 1w as recklessly desperate. I hated to go without having revenge oil some of them, and, as there was no other way, I guve tliem a tongue lashing. I called them w om en and cowards; 1 cited lictitious cases, when one hunter had licked six of them; 1 dared anfl dolled them to do their worst. 1 had them worked up until they fairly screamed for my blood, and 1 reasoned that t bi'torture would not last long. 1 was stripped of every vmtigeuf clothing, bound hand and foot to the stake, ynd, as in the engineer’s case, two warriors mode ready to shoot, powder into me. They were loading their guns when, out from tho the heavy growth of cottonwoods behind the ramp, cumi' a line of forty men on a run, and just in tho rear of them seventy five army troopers. I saw tho men before any one else in camp. Indeed, they were not pistol shot away when the alarm was givon. it was the quickest and bloodiest tight on record Six of the dismounnted men pushed straight for me, knowing I was likely to be killed by some savage, and I was cut loose and a revolver was given to me before the hght was hardly on. In ten 111111111** not a living buck wua left in camp. We killed twenty-two, and the rest broke out of reach. Seven or eight old men, nine or ten votin ' fellows, and six squaws were like wise killed. Wo capture 1 ninety two ponies a gn ut lot of powder and lead, sev errl hundred dollars’ worth of rolx*, and j , .... w’U * -flow i|, poor recovered TITF, MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1887. from. What we eoutd not carry away wo burned, and not an article they could make useful was left. CURIOSITY CAME HIGH. A Soldier Trick to Securo New Hats in War Times. From the Atlanta (tia.) Journal. Col. John C. Reed, of Atlanta, gives tho following account of the unique plan put into practice by the bareheaded soldier boys around Petersburg to eke out tho slender Confederate commissary and supply them selves with white hats: “One day,” says Col. Reed, “a friend of mine came up to a group of our officers m which I was standing, and calling me aside put up his hands and whispered in my ear. “Go away! you don't mean it,” replied I. “Don’t I though! Come with me and see.” Without a word to the other officers—for the affair in which we were interesting our selves could hardly have been reported at headquarters without getting somebody into trouble—we set out. Choosing a retired path through the bushes we took our way toward a point on the rail eoad track a mile or moro to the eastward of the Petersburg station. It was nearly train time. In a few mo ments we expected to hear the shrill whistle of the engine as tho long train dashed by at full speed on its way from Norfolk to Rich mond. The latter city was in that day something more than a cigarette manufactory; it was the capital of the Confederate States, and the centre of interest for the Southern coun try, consequently everybody who could get there went there, and tho trains were al ways crowded. Reaching a point on the edge of the woods, which commanded a full view' of the railroad, my companion and I stopped to look on. We did not care to go further, for it would not do for us to be known to have witnessed what was about to transpire. Discipline would have required us to report tlie mat ter, which we felt little inclined to do. For some time we waited in silence, watching with much amusement tlie prepa rations then progressing. Close to the railroad there had gathered a great crowd of the most ingenious scape graces of the camp, who cared about as much for other people’s rights, where then own wants are concerned, as the average man does for those of a hen when his appe tite is whetted for eggs. A number had long brushwood brooms in their hands, and those who had not were eagerly providing themselves from the un dergrowth at hand. The explanation given me of tlie business in hand had designedly been meagre. Just enough to whet my curiosity. “What will they do with the bushes they are in such a hurry to get ready ?” I in quired. “Wait a little; you’ll see presently.” J ust then a number of men were seen to fall on their knees beside the track. “What are they doing now?” “Only putting powder and caps on the track.” “They are i c going to blow up the train P’ “Oh, no; the train won’t lie hurt. They only want to attract the attention of the passengers.” A shrill whistle announced that the loco motive was at hand. Round the curve she came a moment later gliding majestically and hurrying along a serpentine train of crowded passengers. Everything was excitement the moment the whistle sounded. Hither and thither rushed the men in two lines, taking up then position, brush in hand, up and down the track. Nearer came the engine. Every brush was drawn back over the shoulder and the rascals that held them stood breathless and excited in attitude to strike. Into the crowd, between tho tw-o long files of men and brushwood lining the track on both sides, dashed the puffing train. “Bang! Fiz! Shoo! Bang,” The caps had exploded, setting the pow der train on fire, which, with a loud report, enveloped the flying cars with an inqieno trablo cloud of smoke. Out of the windows came the passengers’ heads, arrayed in good new hats fresh from the shops of the Norfolk hatters. Now was the auspicious moment. “Slash! Vip! Swish!” come the brush wood switches across the heads and faces of the passengers. The train is gone; it was here but an in stant; but tlie ground is covered with the latest styles of the Norfolk hatters’ art, and the bareheaded boys are on their ragged knees scrambling to find a comfortable fit from the plentiful supply of nobby shapes thus suddenly provided. In the meantime the passengers for Rich mond can wipe the blood and perspiration from their lacerated faces and curse their curiosity at leisure. They can buy new hats at Richmond, and need not grudge the lost ones. The enterprise which won them deserved reward, and tho heads they now cover ap preciate the luxury. A Voice Strangely Like His Own. From the San Francisco Examiner. I had a singular experience in the Ycrba Buena Cemetery. I used sometimes to go into it at night. It is a way I have. I love the d 1 ad, and their companionship is in finitely agreeable. It was one of those half dark flights of the winter time. There was a moon somewhere—l am uncertain if 1 saw it or heard it. Oreat banks of black clouds drove rapidly across tlie sky, extin guished whole constellations, which unex pectedly flamed out again, looking strange ly unfamiliar, as if their stars had lieen re arranged. The place was full of shadows, and some of them when merged in the broader gloom thrown from the clouds re appeared in another place. Many of them had no corresponding substances; they were foot-loose and could go where they would. I lay on a flat granite sluh. supporting myself on my elbow. Suddenly—so suddenly as to startle—a man stood before me, within n pace. 1 had not seen him approach, did not know from what direction no had come. He was hat less, and wore, I think, neither coat nor waistcoat. He seemed unaware of my presence. I iny in the shadow of a low oak, he stood in the light. His side was to ward me aud his fa-e averted. Aside from the "start” he gave me by his sudden ap ]H>aranee, I was not conscious of any feeling akin to fright. 1 thought him drunk—that ever ready and useful explanation of mas culine eccentricity—and lay still to sue what he would do. He did not turn his head; he did not move—not for a period that seemed to me some ten minutes. Then he looked at me over his shoulder and said: “Who the devil are yon !” For my life I could not have replies 1, for the voice sounded exact ly like my own, and I was thoroughly fright ened. As if I bail answered, and asked a similar question, he added—but in a wholly different voice: "lam Josh Hil.xby.” Then with a slight bow and an upward and out ward motion of tho hand—a gesture liko that with which an actof sometimes with draws from tho stage—he wnsgone. I re mained some time longer, but Imd not the happiness to moot him again. To this day 1 am unable to say what them was in all tin's, aside from my fancy, about the voice, that was odd. The sudden appearenoe ami disappearance could have been managed by stepping out of and lutck into a contiguous clump of bushes. 1 believe n little in the Kiijiernatural. but the name Josh iSilsby— if l havo rightly recalled it—seems ludi crously unghostlike; it resembles the inven tion of a humorist. Cei-tainly I Inal never heard it before, nnd have never beard it since. That I was not asleep is uiso very certain. “Gentle ao the Breeze of Evening.” This line of an eld hymn is quite appro priate when applied to ‘‘Pleasant. Purgative Pellets.” “I don’t like to take pills if I can avoid it,” we often hear persons say, “be cause they constipate me so." Now the “Pellets’’ never do this. Tiioy are so gentle and mild that their effect is almost pre cisely similar to a natural movement of the towels, and no unpleasant effect* are left behind. MILLINERY. NEW MI LLrSf EIIY AT KRGUSKOFF’S Mammoth Millinery House. We are now offering immense lines oi‘ New Straw Hats, Ribbons, Feathers, etc., which are now being shipped daily by our New York buyer, and our Mr. Krouskoff, who is now North to assist in the selection of the Choicest Novelties in the Millinery Line. It is astonishing but a fact, that we sell line Millinery cheaper than any retail store in New York. llow can we do it? Cannot tell. This is our secret and our suc cess. Perhaps on account of large clearing out purchases or perhaps from direct shipments from London or Paris—but no matter so long as the ladies have all the advantages in stock and prices. We are now ready for business, and our previous large stock will be increased, and we are now offering full lines of fine Milans in White and Colors, for Ladies, Misses and Children in an endless variety of shapes RIBBONS, RIBBONS, new novelties added and our regu lar full line entirely filled out. We knock bottom out in the price of Straw Goods. 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NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY MI’SH, FINF ARTS,ORATORY, Literature, English Branches, French, German, Italian, etc. I*argoHt ami host equip ped in the world: 100 Instructors: 8,186 Stun nta last year. Hoanl and room, with Steani Heat and Electric Litfht. Fall term I logins Kept. 8, 1887. Ill'd Calendar free. Address E. TOUIt- JEE, Dir., Franklin, Sq., Boston, Mohs. / MVII„ MECHANICAL AND MINING ENol- V ' NEKRINU at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. The oldest engineering school in America. Next term logins Beptem lier 14th. The Register for 1887 contains a list of the graduates for the past OSS years, with their positions; also course of study, require ments, qmiiwH, etc. Uanoidateh from a dis tam e or those living in distant Ktutiss, by special examinations at their homes, or at such schools as they may be attending, may determine the • question of admission without visiting Troy, lo r Register and full information address DAVID w OREENI Director. Bellevue High School, BEDFORD CO., VIRGINIA. A thoroughly equipped School of high grade for Hoys and Young Men. r TMIE22d Annual Session opxus Sept. 15, 1887. I For Catalogue or special information apply t" W it. ABBOT, Thin.. Bellevue 1\ 0., Va. EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL, Near .Alexandria, Va. L. M. BLACKFORD, M. A . Principal; L. HoXToN, Associate Principal; With able Assistants. A Preparatory School for Hoys. Founded 1839. Session opens Sept. 28, 1887. Catalogues sent on application. Lucy Cobb Institute, ATHENS, GEORGIA. r l'!IK Exercises of this School will lie resumed 1 KKIT. 7, ihk; M. RUTHERFORD Pnntcnm. Rome Female College. (Under tbe control of tin* Synod of Georgia.) K<me, Ga. Rnv. .T. M. M. CALDWELL, President. r |MIIKTYT’IHST year Ijcfriiis Monday, 5, X 1887. For circulars and information atldivhH S. (J. CALDWELL, Ronif.Ga. CT 'l \ RY’B - <!H(X>L F<>R GIRLS, Fsatab lisii-d in 1842. For ( ataloguo uG'litm tho R<*(‘tor, Kkv. 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YIT’HY don't walk our tony street* with that or Grease Spots In, to which the Savannah dust sticks ‘‘closer than a brother," when Japanese Cleansing Cream will tuko them out clean as anew pin. 25c. a buttle. Made only by J. R. HALTIWANGER, At lik Drill? Stores, Broughton and Drayton, Whitaker and Wayne street*. COTTON KEEI> WANTED. COTTON SEED WANTED rpHE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL COMPANY* I will pay the highest market price for clean, sound COTTON SEED. The Oomuany w ill have mills in operation at the following points 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 COMPANY at any of the above points, orC. FITZ SIMONN, Traveling Agent for the CARO LINAS and GEORGIA, with headquarters at ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO. DIRECT iiTARON! JUST ARRIVED A CARGO OF ALSKN’S German PortM Cement FOR SALE LOW BY ANDREW HANLEY, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. OFFICIAL. ORDINANCE. " An ohdinanck. To authorize the Mayor and Ai* dermen, in Council assembled, to grant per-! mils for the excavation and erection of urea* in tiie lanes of tbe city, aud to prescribe cer tain conditions for the some. Section I. lie it ordained by the Mayor anS Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That it snail and may he lawful for Council, at any time uml from time to time to grant, by resolution or otherwise, permits to owners of lots and Improvements within tyecity to excavate, construct and use areas extending into the lanes of the city. Bec. x*. That all such iiermita, unless otherwise therein provided, shall no grant™! subject to the conditions herein named and the acceptance of such jiermit, or tbe excavation, erection and use of such area by any property owner, shall ba taken and construed as an acceptance of tha said conditions, and landing upon the said prop erty owner and his assigns, future owners of tha said property. Sec. 8- All such areas, including all walls and material of any sort in the construction of tha same shall not extend into the lane for a dis tance greater than four (4) feet from the line of wild lot. They shall lie set at such grade os the nrdper officers of the city may designate, and Kept and maintained at such grade as may from time to lime lie determined mi for the said tuna without any expense to the city. They shall lie used only for tne purposes of light and ventila lion, aud for no other purpose what soever, and shall be covered with! a substantial wrought iron grating of such, form as shall Is 1 an ample protection to peinous aud property passing through said Uuje, which grating shall is- stationary and immovable, and not net upon hinges or other devices ar ranged for cut runce und exit iuto the buildings through said area. • Sec. 4. Tluo tho owners for the time being of any property, AMacent to which areas may Isi erected under tße provisions of this ordi nance shall indemnify and hold harmless tb* Mayor and Alderman of the city of Savannah, of ami from any and all loss or damage tliat may accrue against It by reason of the excava tion. erection, use or occupation of the area herein provided for, or the obstruction of tha bines of the city. Sec. 6. That all ordinances or parts of ordi nances conflicting with this ordinance lie aud the same are hereby rcp-aled in so far as thejt so conflict. Ordinance passed in Council July 13, IKB7. RUFUS E. LESTER, Mayor. Attest: Frank K. Rebaker, clerk of Councilj QUARANTINE NOTICE. Office Health Officer. I Savannah, Ga., May 1, iW. f From and after MAY Ist, ISHT, the city ordi. nance which specifies the Quarantine require ments to Isi observed.lt tbe port of Savannah, Georgia, for period of time (amaiaily; ttoui May Ist to November Ist, will bo most rigidly on forced. Merchants and all other parties interested will lie supplied with printed copies of the Quar ant me Ordinance upon application to oiilco of Health < iflicer. From ami after this date and until further no tice nil steamships and vessels from South America, Central America, Mexico, West Indies, Hielly, porn of Italy south of 40 degs. North latitude. and coast of Africa beweea in degs. North and It degs. South latitude, dlreet or via American port will be sub- Jected to close Quarantine and he required to report at the Quarantine Station and bd treated as ls-ing from Infocted or snspenej ports or localities. Captains of these vessel* will have to remain at Quarantine Station until their vessel* are relieved Ail steamers and vessels from foreign ports not included above, direct or via American ports, whether seeking, chartered orotbeivfia will Is- required to remain in quarartln * until boarded and passed liy the Quarantine Officer. neither the. Captains nor any on, on b mid of nu.ii rennets will be, allowed to come to the city until the rennets are inspected und passed by thy (Quarantine Officer. As ports or localities not herein enumerated are retorted unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori ties, Quarantine restrictions against same will be enforced without further publication. The quarantine regulation requiring the flying of the guarantiee pay on vessels subjected to detention or innpeetinn will be. riyidly enforced. J. T. McFARLAND. M. D„ Health Officer. HUH IVn.SK NOTICE. Orricx Health Omen, Savannah, April sth, POT. f Notice Is hereby given that the Quarantine Officer Is instructed not to deliver lid ten, to ve*- sels which are not subjected to quarantine de tention, unless the name of consignee anil state ment that the vessel Is ordered to some other port iipimarK upon the face of the envelope. This order is made necessary In consequence of tlie enormous bulk of drumming letters sent w the station for vessels which an- to arrive. j r r. McFarland, m. and„ Health Officer. m nt unm Nonci. Ovrica Health Ovriom, I Savannah, March 85th, I*l7. t Pilots of the Port of Savannah are infonnod that the Kapelo Quurantluo Station will bo opuu oil on APRIL Ist, HOT. Btiecuil attention of the Pilots Is directed to sections Nos. 3d and 14lh, Quarantine Regula tiuns Most rigid enforcement of quarantine regula tions will be mainiaiurd by the Health authori ties. j. t. McFarland, m. and.. Health Officer. WOOD. ~ Bacon, Johnson & Cos. Have a fine stock of Oak, Pine, Lightwood and Kindling, Comer Liberty and Last Broad streets. Telephone lit. . ItO COUNTY OFFiOKRR-Book* and Blanks required by county oAoerv for the utie of the courts, or for offtco use, supplied to order by the MORNING NLWS PKINTINU UOL'dS. ft Whitaker :w.,rn,i. 5