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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Claims of the Augrusta Cotton
Mills for Dower Freight Rates to be
Further Investigated—Eight Persona
Have a Narrow Escape from Being
Killed by Lightning at Augusta.
oKonrsiA.
Black rust on cotton is reported in many
farms in .Stewart county.
Robert Blakely entered a store on Capitol
avenue, at Atlanta, Saturday and informed
the proprietor that lie iuuUkilled an infant.
He then disappeared. He said the child
was his sister's awl lived two miles front
the city. No murder has been reported,
and the man was probably demented.
The new bridge, just built last vear, on
Turner's creek near Florence, has lieen car
ried away by the high water. It seems to
be an impossibility to get a bridge to stand
long on that side, as the back water from
the river always floats it off when there is
a freshet sufficient to cause a rise in the
river twenty or thirty feet.
William Wiggins, of WigginsviUe. Schley
county, has 180 pair of white rabbits, and
his wife can call them up by the hundred.
In a few months he will have them by the
thousand, as they arc quite prolific. He will
go into the white fur business, as soon as he
has a good lot on hand, and make a fortune
selling furs for cloak-linings, etc. He gets
$2 50 a pair for them now.
“Last Chance,” as it is familiarly called,
was the scene of a row on Saturday. Mar
tha Ward, a disreputable white woman,
took to the warpath, and cursed anil
abused, and snapped a pistol at Mrs. Jainas
Adams. Warrants and counter warrants
were sworn out by both parties and Justice
Wallace gave the case a hearing Monday.
Mrs. Adams was discharged and Martha
Ward was bound over to the next term of
the Superior Court in a bond of SSO.
Avery dusky damsel walked leisurely into
the post office at Dahlonega the other day
and called for Porter Springs postal cards.
The clerk informed her that he kept cards
of all the other offices, but ho was just out
of the Porter Springs variety. She walked
out and came back in a short while to know
if he had gotten any yet. He informed her
that he had, and gave her a few of the reg
ulation postal cards. She was much dis
pleased, and said that she didn't believe these
would do, as her husband used to have some
with Porter Springs painted on them.
Some uneasiness has been felt about, the
Savannah. Florida and Western railway
bridge at Albany since the river has been on
its present tear. An old bridge, or some
thing of the kind, came floating down the
river and lodged against the middle pier of
the trestle two or three days ago, and is
there yet. The strain on this pier has had
the effect of throwing the track a little out
of line, but this lias been remedied, and
Willis Moore, the Supervisor of that division
of the road, who spent Saturday at Albany,
says that there is not the least danger of the
bridge giving way.
The meeting of the rate committee of the
Southern Railway and Steamship Associa
tion at .Asheville on Aug. 8, 4 and 5 still
leaves the matter of cotton goods in statu
quo. The associated presidents of the Au
gusta cotton mills, by petition, complained
that under the present classification they
could not comjieto with Northern manu
facturers in Western fields. The |>etition
was fully considered, and at the close of the
session the matter, not having sufficient
light on it, was left in the bauds of a special
committee, when the claims of the cotton
men will be investigated and, if based on
substantial claims, lurther concessions will
be made.
Comptroller General Wright Saturday re
ceived the annua) digests from the following
counties: Lincoln county returns $(>62,(580,
an increase of $5,020: Clayton county re
turns #1,318,718, an increase of #22,553;
Effingham county returns $938,582, an in
crease. of $113,(53.). The total increase Sat
urday was $141,307, which added to the
$3,819,593 previously received, makes a
grand increase up to date of $3.9(58.80).
Only one county that has unusually large
valuations has made returns so far, that be
ing Chatham. When the returns from Ful
ton, Richmond, Bibb, Muscogee, Floyd,
Clerke and others arrive a large increase
will be noted.
A man by the name of Ovorby was
arrested at Rom<\ Saturday, and lodged in
the county jail on a charge of bigamy.
About one year ago, Overby, who lives in
Floyd county, near the Bartow line, was
converted to the Mormon faith by one of
the elders who travel through the country.
Shortly afterward he courted and won a
young woman of the neighborhood, and
was married to her by the Mormon elder.
It afterward leaked out that he had a wife
and child in Tennessee, and soon as proof
of this could be had, bis arrest followed.
One of the strangest parts of the whole
affair is that the discovery that he had two
wives was made by the Mormon elder, and
it was by bis instrumentality that tho
arrest was made.
Avis Langston, an 11-year-old negro girl,
daughter of Dllsy Langston (colored) of
Dahlonega, died last Friday of typus fever
and wounds inflicted from a bursting cart
ridge. It seems that where Dilsy lives there
is a lot of negro children of all ages and
sizes. About three weeks ago several of the
children went out to the woodpile and picked
up a basket of chips to throw on the lire.
After tho children had put the chips on
the Are they went outsid to play.
Avis, being sick, remained by the
lire place, shortly after an explosion was
heard and on going inside Avis was found
bleeding about the face. She said that
something had exploded in the fire-place. It
is thought a cartridge hail been accidentally
thrown into the chip pile by some of the
negroes, and that the children had picked it
up and threw it on the fire with the chips,
and it exploded, pieces of the shell striking
her in the face. Dr. Jones probed the
wounds, but could not And anything.
Tuesday night eight persons were sitting
in the parlor of D. A. Mayo’s residence at
Americas. While they wore conversing a
sudden stroke of lightning struck the house,
demolishing a window frame of the room
they were in, driving the broken glass,
frame, curtain ana facing through
tho room, extinguishing the lights
*l*d knocking tho coin|>any to the
floor. Some of the chairs the per
sons were sitting in wore broken. The
organ was brokon, but, strange to say, with
the exception of one or two slight scratches
no tme was hurt. It seems that the light
ning struck a rod, shriveled and broke it.
divided, one jkirt going down the rod and
knocking a hole through tho brick founda
tion. while the other (mid a visit to tho
family mid visiting friends. Joseph A. Cobb,
who was going into the gate of \V, 11. Speer's
residence at the time, was picked up by the
electricity and carried about sixty root and
depositof on the veranda of the house,
unhurt, but terribly frightened.
Last Saturday a boy. apparently about.
19 yeain old, come to Dahlonefa barefooted
and without a coat. He marched straight
to Ordinary Williams' office and asked for
a license to marry the daughter of a well-to
do farmer in that county. The Ordinary
asked him if the whs of nge. and if her
;at rents were willing. He said that she was
ltt, nnd that the old man was willing, but
he didn’t know about the old lady. Mr.
William* doubted Ilia statement.
beoau*e he knew the family and
knew that the girl was very
young. He told the young man if he would
bring an order from the young lady's father
lie would grunt him a license, ail’d besides
that wish him good luck throughout his lite.
The young fellow left, und in about two
hours returned with the order, It is five
union to the gentleman's house, and the Or
dinary a gum doubted the t>oy. liecause be
knew lie could not have walked five miles
nud back again. So he refused the young
man the license. It lias since been learned
tliat the young man or someone else forged
the name of tho parent to the order, and
there is talk of having the young fellow
Kl t.toJ lor forgery.
FLORIDA
The cost of the Welborno block at San
ford is $89,000.
Rev. John McKean, pastor of the Con
gregational church at Interlaehen, died Sat
urday.
There will be held in Dade City in the
early fall a Masonic gathering on a grand
scaie, lusting several days.
At a meeting of the trustees of the An
thony graded school a few days ago. F’rof.
John W. Paine, Jr., of Colliei-stown, Va,
was elected principal of the school; Miss
May Jenkins, of Eustis, Fla., first, assistant,
ami Miss Emma Bnnth, of Anthony, second
assistant.
Ail object of curiosity to tho average pe
destrian on Bay street, Jacksonville, is “One
of the Finest,” w’ho goes around armed with
two chibs. He carries a 2t>-inoh locust in
his belt, and in close proximity to this he
has a shorter billy. The supposition is that
when he makes an arrest (if such a contin
gency should ever arise! he carries one for
the accommodation of the other fellow, so
that each will bo on an equal footing with
the other.
At Blnckwator, Judge John Chain, who
died at his home in Milton, Fla., Thursday,
was buried Friday by the Masonic order.
Judge Chain was very old, but notwith
standing his extreme agedie never used eye
glasses, and walked erect and without a
stick. He had fllhsl the < >ffico of Judge of
Probate for a number of years. George
Marquis, Sr., will lie his successor, he hav
ing been appointed by the Governor a few
days ago, Judge Chain’s tune having ex
pired.
The first county officers of I) Soto county
arc; County Judge, Oscar T. Stanford;
Court Commissioner, E. B. Carlton; Cleik,
Charles \V. Carlton; Sheriff, Owen H.
Ileshong; Assessor, B. O. Granger; Col
lector, H. E. Carlton; Treasurer, F. B.
Hagan; Surveyor, Bud P. Clark; Commis
sioners, Peter Brown, S. T. langford, M. G.
Carlton, T. O. Parker, B. F. Richards;
School Board, W. L. Carlton, J. W. Hen
dry, 11. H. Norris, William Smith, M. F.
Gideons; Superintendent of Schools, Rev.
T. J. Sparkman.
The following is a correct list of the post
offices of DeSoto county, and their distances
from Fort Ogden: Arcadia. T. J. Herndon,
11 miles; Bowling Green, W. J. Mason, 89
miles; Calvina, J. C. Langwell, 28 miles;
Castulia, Mrs. Harris, 22 miles; Charlotte
Harbor, T. S. Knight., 12 miles; Cleveland,
Alice Holloyman, 10 miles; Crewsville. I).
D. Crews, Jr., 40 miles; English, McCon
nell, 85 miles; Ft. Green, A. \' r . Hendry, 35
miles; Ft. Ogden, J. O. Carr; Grove City,
Frank 11. Hafer, 28 miles; Liverpool, John
Cross, 3 miles; Noeatec, E. H. MoQuady, (5
miles; Pine Level, J. M. Bourland, 12 miles,
Trabue, 15 miles.
At Chattahoochee the river is still rising
and the rain cohtinues. Reports received
from points on the Flint and Chattahoochee
rivei-s ntiovo are not encouraging, anil it is
feared there is a big rise to follow. The
overflow is already a most disastrous one, as
all the crops on the river lands, which were
so promising a few days ago, nnd also a large
number of stock are destroyed. The passage
of trains over the railroad bridge at Chatta
hoochee is suspended on account of an ac
cumulation of drift timber against the piers,
which may eventually sweep the bridge
away. The mails and passengers for the
West are transferred in small boats.
Sheriff Holland lias received a long letter
from some of the United States prisoners
who were recently removed from tho county
jail in Jacksonville to that in Monticello in
pursue no' to orders from Washington,
begging him to use liis influence to nave
them transferred back to tho Duval county
jail. The writer says that they have not
had a square meal of palatable food since
they have been there, that tho jail is not fit
for beasts to live in, to say nothing of
human beings, and that they are not even
furnished with soap and water with which
to bathe themselves when they desire to do
so. They say that they are anxious to get
back there, where they can get plenty of
good substantia! food, good health, fresh
water to drink and bathe in, and some fresh
air to breathe.
Walter Noble, a young colored man, was
up in the city hall at Jacksonville Saturday
to inform the authorities of the condition
of an old and helpless white woman, living
about two miles out on the road to Ever
green Cemetery. He was passing her house
when her feeble cries for help were heard
by him, and upon going to the house lie dis
covered this woman, Mrs. Triny, lying in a
helpless condition. A son of about 25 years
was lying in the room, entirely helpless
from the effects of paralysis. Another
woman was staying there, but, like tho
other two, she was crippled, and unable to
work. The room was in a very filthy con
dition, from the fact that none of them
were able to do the necessary cleaning.
Mrs. Triav told hlni that all the food that
they had bad in four days was some hominy
which had boon given to them. Tho case
being out of the jurisdiction of the city au
thorities, lie was referred to Dr. A. W.
Knight, of the County Health Board.
Two of La Villa’s policemen are in trouble.
Mayor Bowden has had reports for sotno
time that members of his force were in the
habit of deserting their posts every night
anil going to houses occupied by fast women,
and only coming out long enough to answer
their hourly calls and going back again to
the houses. He put spies on their tracks
with orders to watoh them for three or four
nights and report to him. Haturduy night
he decided to take the matter in nls own
hands. He made the tour of the beats and
found Isaiah .Small, officer No. 1, and
Roliert Johnson, officer No. 2, both colored,
gone from their respective jvjsUt. By
making a slight search he found them in a
house of ill-fame. He demanded their clubs
and badges, which was complied with by
Small, but Johnson claimed that, he had lost
his. Small is a hard case. He was up before
tho police commissioners last week, charged
with robbing a prisoner of 90c. The evi
dence was convincing, but fur some reason
lie was retained.
James McGuire, who disappeared on
Monday last frotn St. Augustine in a state
of insanity, caused by excessive drinking,
and whose clothing was found on tile rail
road nine miles from Jacksonville, has been
discovered. A colored woman by the name
of Fanny Turner, who lives at Bowden,
while driving cuttle home utdusk Saturday
last, discovered McGuire in a nude state in
the woods about three miles away from the
railroad. She immediately went to tlie
house of Anderson Arnold nud notified him
of tho fact. Mr. Arnold called on
F. R. Bowden, and, mounting their
horses, the two went in search of the de
mented unfortunate. They found McGuire
crouching near the foot of a pine tree, en
tirely naked. On being approached he
seemed much frightened, but on boing as
sured that he would not lie harmed lie be
came calm. Mr. Arnold asked Mr. McGuire
what he was doing, and he answered t hat he
had got on a little spree and lost his way.
He said that lie had not hail anything to eat
in five days, and was trying to find the way
to St, Augustine. If they would only |siiiit
out the road to him lie would take it. Mr.
Anderson took tho poor fellow home and
provided him with loot! and raiment, anil
sent him to St. Augustine Sunday on the
first train. His mind was still apparently
much affected, mid his body was in a terri
ble condition from the effects of sunhuru.
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THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. AUGUST 9, iB7.
THE MAN WITH A BLACK EYE.
Ho Took Everybody's Advice, nnd Tried
Leeches and Paint in Vain.
From the Sue Fork Kuenina Sun.
One night a fortnight ago a quiet, re
served literary gentleman, who is the soul
of dignity nnd who is not upon drinking
terms with Bacchus, returned to his apart
ments from a recept ion. The ball was dark
and the door to hi* rooms seemed to have
secreted itself somewhere efse About the
premises than the place where it is accus
tomed to hang out. The literary man
reached for it, failed to find it. and then
made a dash for the interior of iiis apart
ments. The door had been lying in wait for
him, and it came out to meet him with its
sharpest comer. It struck him in the left
ere, and at once the suburban territory of
that organ became puffed up with resent
ment at the door's interference.
In the morning the literary man awoke to
find that he had a very dark coniplexionod
left eye. When ho went down to breakfast
his fellow-boarders looked askance at him,
and after the meal a fellow-txjarder who is
an actor and was one of Mrs. Langtry's sup
port, called him aside, assumed a look of ex
asperating familiarity, and asked: “Did
you have him arrested?”
The literary man explained the cause of
his dusky disfigurement, but the actor
smiled in an incredulous manner nnd said:
“Come up stairs and I’ll give you some face
powder to put on your eye that 1 use in my
make-up.”
The surroundings of the eye were fres
coed with powder until itassumed a ghastly
look, and the literary mun concluded that a
white eye was about as unattractive as a
black one. He wont to his office, being
careful to conceal his eye under the brim of
a slouch hat. Humidity frotn without and
perspiration from within conspired to re
move the face powder, and it seemed to the
sufferer as if the gaze of every man in New
York was fastened on his brunette eye.
He went to luncheon at the Astor House
and one of the cashiers of that caravan
sary said to him: “I hope you knocked him
out.” The victim explained the situation,
but the cashier smiled and said; ‘‘Same old
story | They always lay it to the door.”
A dozen times during the day the emi
nently dignified literary man was insulted
with the imputation that he was a liar In
the meantime the eye had changed its com
plexion from the color of anew stovepipe
to a striking olive-green hue. The owner of
the eye called on his druggist and begged
him to offer some relief. The druggist took
a large black damp worm known as a leech
out of a white jar and turned him loose on the
eye. The leech is a gore guzzler, and while
lie reduces the swelling from a black eye, he
doesn't take out the blackness. When the
leech was removed the eye was found to be
of the same ornate and attractive color as
before.
The victim went to the Morton House,
anil Mr. James Collier suggested: “Go and
get a stick of grease paint, such as actors
use. Put that on your eye, ami it will look
as good as new.” Tho victim went to a
dealer in ready-made hair and cosmetics
near the Rialto and purchased a 25c. stick
of grease paint of a color to match his com
plexion. On his way home to apply it he
met another actor, who said: “Don’t put
grease paint on your eye if you have had it
leeched, it might poison it. There is a place
over on Fourth avenue where you can have
it pointed with harmless pigments.”
The victim found the eye artist. Ho was
tho first man encountered during the day
who had not assumed a heartless, idiotic
grin at the sight of the eye. He conducted
iho victim to a seat, produced a marble
palette daubed with oolors, took up some of
them with a soft brush, and painted the stir
rounding territory of the eye a lovely pink.
Then he produced the glass, and tne vic
tim said: “For pity’s sake, paint the other
eye. It looks haggard and commonplace
beside the one you have just ornamented.”
The artist frescoed the other eye, the victim
paid him 81 j and then walked away.
As the paint dried ho felt as if his eyes
had been glued into his head. This sensa
tion was soon removed by perspiration and
humidity. Home of the mint went with tho
sensation. Little gullies were washed
through the pigments, revealing the sub
stratum of olive black beneath.
In the evening the victim took his black
eye to the Hoffman House. Col. Taylor, of
Texas, and Dick Williams consoled hint and
each offered a remedy. Col. Taylor in
sisted that nothing will reduce a black eye
to its normal condition so soon as to give it
a beefsteak. Mr. Wiiliatm emphatically
disagreed with Col. Taylor and recom
mended that tho eye lie embalmed in a
lnrge damp oygter.
The victim, unable to decide which treat
ment to adopt, went up to DelmonicD’s and
consulted the dignified deportment tnnin
taiuer, sometimes called a bouncer, who
stands at the entrance to the place. He
used to be nn athlete. He said: “Don’t put
n beefstoak or an oyster on your eye. Both
are cold and help congeal the blood. Bathe
it in warm water.”
Billy Edwards, master of ceremonies at
the Hoffman House, was next consulted.
He said that warm water was good, but
Prof. Kean was better. The victim went
over on Thirty-third street, climbed two
Rights of narrow stairs, entered a neat
apartment, and confronted the robust pro
fessor, who talks with an English accent and
seems to take a black eye as one of the bless
ings of life. Ho used to be a trainer of prize
fighters.
He liado the victim fie down on a sofa in
his office. Then he brought forth a recep
tacle full of pieces of roots as large around
as one’s wrist, The roots grow on marshy
ground in England, and cannot he found
here. The Smithsonian Institute was re
cently asked to search for American speci
mens of the growth, but it was impossible
to unearth any. The Professor refused to
give the name of the root. He scraped a
liberal allowonce from a big root, and laid
the pulp about the eve. It smarted some,
and the victim lay flat on his back, feeling
as if someone had hit him in the face with
mashed potato. When the pulp had bran
in place awhile it was removed and a fresh
dose applied.
As the victim lay on his back he con
versed with the doctor, who said; “I can
cure a black eve better when I begin treat
ment say twelve hours after the accident
than to take it at once. From three to five
hours is the time required. When an eye is
first hurt it becomes black, then olive col
ored, and then yellow. The worst kind,
nnd the hardest to cure, is a bloodshot eye.
You would naturally think that colored
persons couldn’t get black eyes, but such a
online on them looks worse than It does on
a white person.
“It is another curious fact that, I treat
more women than men. A poor woman,
whose htisbund had Marked her eye and who
Imd to go out to work to-morrow, was just
here, and I treated her eye. A fashionably
dressed woman, whose face was covered
with bruises and scratches, was here tho
other day. She implored me to make her
look presentable, so that she could go to the
races. I treated her face, and removed tho
blackness and the disfigurement of the
scratches. She was delighted, ami gave me
$lO. I never treat an eye less than SB. I
am called up at all hours of the night, and
frequently have to go out. to attend patients.
“The other day a young clerk, who works
in a fashionable up-town dry goods store,
called here with a terribly black eye. He
hadn’t time to wait for treatment, and if
he should apjienr nt the store with hi* dis
figured face lm knew that ho would bo dis
charged. Nothing remained but, to paint
his eye. He looked all right, but when lie
went to the store and liegan to perspire he
was seized with n longing to wipe his fnco.
He didn’t dare do it for fear he would re
move the paint. He managed to get through
the day in abject agony. Tneu he came
here and hail his eye doctored with the
rooot.
"I sometimes treat red nose*, but a cure
can only he effected by giving medicine to
act upon the stomach as well as making out
ward applications.”
At this juncture the doctor removed the
pulp from fils patient’s eve and triumphantly
Iwle the victim look at "himself In the glass.
The eye had a somewhat careworn expres
sion, but it ho longer was luck. Tho vie-
t’m paid his fee. went home, eluded the ob
trusive door in his dark hall, and retired,
thankful that one of the darkest qftperi
enees in his lite was over.
SEVENTY THREE YEARS AGO.
Capt. Statham’3 Budget of Early His
tory and a Sketch of Hie Life.
Written for the A bbeville ( Go. l Times by J. E. B.
Our hero was born in W ashington county,
Georgia, in the year 1705. We will say
nothing of hit life until 1814, at which time
his father moved his family to Telfair coun
ty, Georgia, near the Ocmulgee river in the
Pondtown district. Being of an udventur
ous disposition, and the Creek Indians being
just across the river on the west side, he was
soon afforded adventure and fun, as he
often calls it, their depredations lieing
quite significant, stealing, pilfering, carry
ing off hogs, cow s anil occasionally a horse.
No particular notice was taken of this until
they killed old Mr. Burch and scalped hi*
son, in the spring of 1818, when the white
settlers became infuriated at the outrage
and determined to hnvo some revenge, at
least, if they could not rid themselves en
tirely of the heartless savages.
Ho the settlers resolved themselves inton
company of soldiers under the command of
Capt. John Wilcox, and on or about
March 5, 1818, crossed tho placid
waters of tho then unuavigablo Ocmulgee
River in search of the mad red men, only
leaving a few men to look after Sallie and
the children. But their search was fruit
less for some two or three (lavs. They had
been about twelve miles frotn the river,
scouring the country far and near for In
dians, but no trail of them could be
found until that eventful morning,
March 9, 1818, when soon after leav
ing camps and returning to the river to go
home, they came upon about fifty or sev
enty-live red-skins at. what is known as the
Breakfast Branch. Two and one-half miles
Southwest from Jordan Bluff and six miles
from Abbeville is where the first Indian
battle was fought, on the West side of the
Ocmulgee river. They could have passed
unmolested by them, hut w'anting some fun
and revenge for their long hunt, and the
loss of property and friends, they opened
fire on them, causing considerable demorali
zation among them.
THE RESULT OF THE BATTLE.
The firing commenced briskly nnd was
kept up perhaps two or three hours. The
whites that were killed were Mitchell Grif
fin, Jake Nobles, Mike Burch, William
Mooney and a Mr. Morrison, whose given
name we have forgotten. The wounded
were Mose Roundtree, John Lawson and
Mark Wilcox. Ido not know bow many
Indians were killed, but the chief, who was
known as the Big Indian, was killed by
the gallant Captain, John Wilcox,
who always hit where he aimed, and
our hero, who was considered the
best marksman with the rifle in this coun
try. They were both shooting at him from
their shelter, and he was also trying to get
a chance at them from behind a small pine
tree. One being on the right and the other
on the left of him, and knowing the skill of
both men, imagine the size lie would like to
have been just then. Uncle Nat being 70
or 80 yards, and Capt. John about 125 yards
away, he naturally leaned too far toward
the latter, and the keen report of" his rifle
announced the Big Indian. He had re
ceived the ball just above the left hip,
which, ranging through the spine, killed
him instantly.
The other Indians fled the field at once,
and the whites also picked up the wounded
and crossed the river as soon as practicable
for fear of Indian recruits. Uncle Nat be
ing the ablest bodied man and most willing
of any, placed young Mark Wilcox upon
his back and carried him safely to the banks
of the same smiling Ocmulgee, and all
crossed safely, and found Sallie and the
children all well.
MADE FROM COAL TAR.
Some of the Commercial Products from
tho Commonest of Carbons.
From the Pittsburfl Dispatch,
“So you eat coal, do you?” said a smart
high school girl, in Hagans a few nights ago,
to the beardless young man with a high
collar who was buying the ice cream.
“Aw, eat coal? What do you mean, Miss
Ethel?” replied the unsophisticated youth
with astonishment.
“Why, I see that you take vanilla flavor
ing,” replied the high school girl with a
smile.
"Weally, Miss Ethel, I don’t aw, exactly
understand you,” the young man with the
high collar responded.
“Why, vanilla flavoring is made almost
entirely from coal tar,” said the smart high
school girl, and she was just starting with
“Why, we learned all that in our chemistry
class last ” when tho fire bell commenced
ringing, and she stopped for some reason or
other, and nn inventory of all she knew was
lost. The vanilla idea was a good one, and
a reporter asked Dr. F. L. Hloeum, the
chemist, aliout. it.
“Is vanilla extract a product of coal tar?"
said Dr. Slocum. “Why, of course it is,
and a better article is furnished from coal
tar than from the bean itself. Vanilla is
made from tolulo, one of the products of
coal tar. It is used for flavoring ice cream
and confectionary, and is a chemically pure
product, which vegetable vanilla extract is
not
“There are a good many products from
coal that the majority of people know noth
ing of,” continued Dr. Hloeum. "Their
number will go into the thousands, and re
search in this particular branch of inorganic
chemistry is bringing new and rich rewards
to scientists every year. One of the hydro
earbous distinctly produced from coal tar is
benzole. This is the base of magenta, red
and blue coloring matters, and of the oil of
bitter almonds. This oil formerly came en
tirely from the vegetable product from
which it takes its name; but now it is to a
lurge extent made froni benzole, and a
chemically pure product is secured. The
vegetable oil of bitter almonds contains a
certain amount of prussic acid, which Is a
poisonous substance.
“Toluene or tolulo is another product
from coal tar, which is the base of a great
many chemicals. Benzoic acid, which used
to be made almost entirely from plants, is
now readily made from toluene. Carbolic
acid is another product of tolulo. The latter
is a colorless fluid with a smell very much
like crude petroleum, while carbolic acid
and salicylic acid, two of its products, are
far from being sweet smelling compounds.
Yet this same tolulo is the basis of a num
ber of very flagrant products. Winter
green oil, much purer than from the plant,
and generally preferred by confectioners
and others woo use it, is one; oil of cinna
mon, cinnamic add, oil of doves are among
the middle products which aro ill great de
mand.”
As yet the products of coal tar have not
been made use of for medicines to any great
extent, except ns disinfectants, but, from
experiments now going on. it is hoped to
jiroduee pure quinine from chlnolene, one
of the coal tar products, and scientists sav
that, it is only a question of t ime when all
alkaloids known, and probably others not
now known, will be made from coal tar.
It would take a good-sized book to even
begin to give nn idea of the_ commercial
liroducts alone of coal tar. Nearly every
mown color, except cochineal, red and indi
go blue, are made, and the latter was pro
duced after nine rears of experiment by the
eminent German scientist Byer, of Munich,
lint tho manufacture was no expensive that
it has never been done except for scientific
pur|Kises. The logwood and madder dyes of
our grandmothei s’ days are rarely seen in
the market now, owing to the cheapness
with which they are manufactured. Rod
ink, which formerly was made almost ex
clusively from carmine, is now made from
eosine, one of tho numerous coal tar pro
geny.
* * * * _>\ll diseases of lower bowel,
including pile tumors, radically cured.
Bool; of particulars 10 cents in stamps.
World’s Dispensary Medical Association,
OGo Mutu street, Buffalo, N: Y.
DRY GOODS, ETC.
Exceptional Reductions
IN
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AT
Wan 4 tors,
SUCCESSORS TO
B. P. McKenna & Cos.,
137 BROUGHTON STREET.
FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS.
\\TK will close out the remainder of our stock
1 1 of these flue goods, formerly sold at 180.
a yard, now reduced to lSTtjc.
25 pieces Figured I.awns, 33 inebse wide, regu
lar price ISRjc. a yard; now B>se.
75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at 3Vsc.
50 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular price
10c. ft yard; now G^c.
One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regular price
15c. and 17c. a yard; now l2Vsc.
One lot of Drees Ginghams, choice styles,
regular price 1 a yard; now 10c.
36 Imported Marseilles Quilts, slightly soiled,
formerly sold at $3. We will close the lot out
at $1 85 each.
75 10-4 Honeycomb Qui’ts, good value at GOc.
each. Wo have marked them down to 35c.
Hosiery id Underwear.
100 dozen Unbleached Black and Colored Hose,
regular price 1214 c .; now 9c. a pair.
A mixed lot of Misses’ Fine English Hose,
Ribbed, Plain and Silk Clocked, regular price of.
these goods from 25c. to 50c. We will close the
lot out at 17c. a pair.
50 dozen Ladies' Gauze Undervests, regular
prices 25c. and 350.; now 19c. each.
35 dozen Ladles’ extra fine quality Gauze Un
dervests, regular prices 50c., 65c., 75c. and 05c.
We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low
price of 47c. each.
Onr SI Unlanndried Shirts Reduced to 90c.
75 dozen Gentlemen’s Unlaundried Shirts, re
inforced back and bosoms, the best $1 Shirt
manufactured. In order to reduce our large
stock we will offer them at 90c. each.
CROHAN & DOONER.
HAMS.
ASK YOUR GROCER FOR
IND BREAKFAST BACON
none
BtARIHQ our patcntkd trade-marks, a liqmt
mctallio seal, attachkd to tmc strinq. anq
THE STRIPED CANVAS, AS IN THS OJT.
TYREE RAILROAD.
SAVANNAH AND TYBEE
Standard Time.
I~ COMMENCING SATURDAY, July 16,1887, the
V following schedule will be in effect:
No. 8. No. 1. No. 5. No. 7.*
Lv. Savan
nah. 10:30 am 3:00 pm 6:00 pm 9:50 pm
Ar.Tybee.ll:4s a m 4:lspm 7:00 pm 11:05 pm
No. 2. No. 4. No. 6. No. B.*
Lv.Tybec. 7:ooam 4:ospm 9:lspm 8:00pm
Ar. Savan
nah. . B:lsam s:2opm 10:25 pm 0:10pm
♦Trains 7 and 8 Sundays only.
All trains leave Savannah from Savannah and
T.vbee depot, in S., F. and W. yard, east of pas
seuger depot. Is-ave Tyltee from Ocean House.
Tickets on sale at depot ticket office, and at
Fernandez's Cigar Store, corner Bull and
Broughton streets. C. O . HAINES, Supt.
Savannah, July 15, 1887.
SUBURBAN RAILWAY.
City and Suburban Railway.
O Savannah, Oa., May 31. 1887.
N and aftrr WEDNESDAY, Juno Ist, the
following schedule will be run on the Out
side Line:
LEAVE I ARRIVE LEAVE ISLE LEAVE
CITY. I CITY. OF HOPE. MONTGOMERY
•6:55 6:42 C:<o
10:25 0:40 6:la 7:50
♦•3:23 2:00 1:30 1:01)
♦7:15 6:40_ 6:15 5 45
There will be no early train from Ule of Hope
on Sunday morning.
♦For Montgomery only. Passengers for Islo
of Hope go via Montgomery without extra
charge. This train affords parents a cheap ex
cursion before breakfast tor young children
with nurses.
♦♦This 3:25 p. M. traiu last out of city Sunday
afternoon.
tOn Saturdays this train leaves cltvat 7:45
P m J. H. JOHNSTON.
STOVES.
T T‘ ~nT
IlieliiiMk
\VE HAVE RECEIVED the agency for this
' popular Stove (over 100.000 in use), and
take pleasure In offeringtbeui to OUT customers
It is heavy, tlmuble. and took flrst prize at
Pennsylvania State Fair for baking It has all
the latest Improvements, Including ventilated
oven.
CORNWELL & CHIPMAN,
Odd Fellows’ Building.
PLUMBER.
l. a. McCarthy,
Successor to Chas. E. Wakefield,
PLUMBER, CAS and STEAM FITTER,
48 Barnard street, SAVANNAH, GA.
Tele obvue 379. 1
SHIPPING.
WEAN STEAMSHIP COMI’ANV
—for—
New York, Boston and Philadelphia.
PASSAGE TO NEW YORK.
CABIN $29 on
EXCURSION 32 00
STEERAGE 10 00
PASSAGE TO BOSTON. *
CABIN £2O no
EXCURSION 32 00
STEERAGE 10 00
PASSAGE TO PHILADELPHIA.
(vi* New York).
CABIN £22 50
EXCURSION 36 00
STEERAGE 12 50
r pHE magnificent steamships of these lines
1 are appointed to sail as follows—standard
time' •
TO NEW YORK.
CHATTAHOOCHEE, Cant. H C. Daggett,
TUESDAY, Aug. 9, at 9:30 *. if.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. F. Kempton, FRIDAY,
Aug. 12, at 12 m.
CITY OF SAVANNAH, Capt. F. Smith, SUN
DAY, Aug. 14, at 1:30 p. m.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt, W. H. Fisher, TUES
DAY, Aug. 16, at 8:30 p. M.
TO BOSTON".
GATE CITY, Capt. E. R. Taylor, THURSDAY,
Aug. 11,11 A. M.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. 11. 0. Lewis, THURS
DAY, Aug. 18. at 5 p. M.
TO PHILADELPHIA.
(for freight only.]
DESSOUG, Capt. N. F. Howes, SATURDAY,
Aug. 13, at 1 p. a.
JUNIATA, Capt. S. L. Aseins, SATURDAY,
Aug. 20, at 6:30 p. m.
Through bills of lading given to Eastern and
Northwestern points and to ports of tho United
Kingdom and the Continent.
For freight or passage apply to
C. G. ANDERSON, Agent,
City Exchange Building.
Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Com’y.
For Baltimore.
CABIN ...£l2 50
SECOND CABIN 10 00
THE STEAMSHIPS of this Company are ap
pointed to sail from Savannah for Balti
more as follows—city time:
WM CRANE, Capt. Billups, TUESDAY', Au
gust 9, at 11 A. M.
WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Snow, MONDAY,
August 15, at 4 p. m.
WM. CRANE. Capt. Billups, SATURDAY,
August 20, at 8 a. m.
WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Snow, THURSDAY,
August 25, at 12 m.
And from Baltimore on the days above named
at 3 p. m.
Through bills lading given to all points West,
all the manufacturing towns in New England,
and to ports of tho United Kingdom and the
Continent.
JAS B. WEST & CO.. Agents,
SKA. ISLAND ROU TE,
STEAMER DAVID CLARK,
Capt. M. P. USINA,
YITILL LEAVE Savannah from wharf foot, of
” Lincoln street for DOBOY. DARIEN,
BRUNSWICK and FERN AN DIN A. every TUES
DAY and FRIDAY at 6 p. m., city time, con
necting at Savannah with Now York. Philadel
phia, Boston and Baltimore steamers, at Fer
nandinu with rail for Jacksonville and all points
In Florida, and at Brunswick with steamer for
Batilla river.
No freight received after 5 p. m. on days of
sailing.
Freight not signed for 24 hours after arrival
will be at risk of consignee.
Tickets on wharf and t>oat. •
C. WILLIAMS. Agent.
SEMI-WEEKLY LINE FOR COHEN’S BLUFF
AND WAY LANDINGS.
THE steamer ETHEL, Capt. W. T. Gibson.will
leave for above MONDAYS and THURS
DAYS at 6 o'clock p. m. Returning arrive
WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS at 8 o’clock
p. . For information, etc., apply to
W. T. GIBSON, Manager.
*' half foot of Drayton street.
For Augusta and Way Landings.
ST KAM HR 1< A TIE.
Capt. J. S. BEVILL,
WILL leave EVERY WEDNESDAY at 10
”” o’clock *. M. (city time; for Augusta and
way landings.
All freights payable by shippers.
JOHN LAWTON,
Manager.
PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE.
Tampa, Key Weiet. Havana.
SKMI-WKICLLY.
SOUTH-BOUND.
Lv Tampa Monday and Thursday 9:30 p. m.
Ar Key West Tuesday and Friday 4 p, m.
Ar Havana Wednesday anl Saturday Ha in.
NORTHBOUND.
Lv Havana Wednesday and Saturday noon.
Lv Key West Wednesday and Saturday 10 p.m.
Ar Tampa Thursday ami Sunday 6 p. m.
Connecting at Tampa with W est India Fast
Train to and from Northern and Eastern cities.
For stateroom accommodations apply to (,'ity
Ticket Office S., F. & W. lly, Jacksonville, or
Agent Plant Steamship Line, Tampa,
u o ~. GIVENS, Traffic Manager.
H. b. HAINES, General Manager.
May 1. 1087.
Bluff ton and Beaufort Line
Wharf Foot of Abercorn Street.
CTEAHER SEMINOLF. leaves for Bluffton,
1 ' Beaufort and W ay landing* EVER Y TUBS
DAY at 9A. M. EVERY TIIURBDA X for Beau
fort and 3Vay Landings at 11 a. m. For Bluff
too EVERY SATURDAY at 2 p m
H. A. STROBHAU.
RAILROADS.
S O H ED TJ L JbT'
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Ravannah, Oa.. Julv 3, 1887.
ON and after this date Passenger T rains will
rim daily unless marked t, which ure daily
except Sunday.
The standard time, by which these trains run,
is 36 minutes slowhr than Savannah city time:
No. L No. 8. No” 5. NoTt - "
Lv Savannah. .7:10 am 6:20 pm 5:15 pm s:4<i pm
Ar Guyton 8:07 am 6:40 pm
Ar Milien 9:40 am 11:03 pm 7:30 pm 8:45 pm
Ar Augusta ,tl :13 pm 4:00 am 9:83 pm
Ar Macon— 1:40 pm 3:20 am
Ar Atlanta—s:4o pm 7:lsam
Ar Columbus..9:3o pm 2:45 pm
Ar Montg ry. .7:23 am 7:09 pm
Ar Eufaula.. 4:33am 3:sopm ""
Ar Albany 10:00 pm 2:45 pm
Train No. 0* leaves Savanuuh 2:0.) p. m,- ur
rives Guyton 2:55 p. m.
Passengers for Sylvania, Wrightsville, Mil
letlgcvilla and Eatonton should take 7:10 a m
train.
Passengers for Thomaston, Carrollton. Perry
Fort, Gaines, Taibotton, Buena Vista, Blakely
and Clayton should take the 8:20 p. m. train.
No. 2. No. 4. No. 6. No. B.*
Lv Augusta 10:00 pm 6:00 mu
Lv Macon.. .10:35 am 10:50 pm
Lv Atlanta.. G:soain 6:50 pm
LvColumbus 11:00 pm 12:45 pm .....
Lv Montg ry. 7:23 pm 7:40 am .]
I.v Eufaula .10:15 pm 10:49 am
Lv Albany.. s:osam 11:55am
Lv Milien— 2:2Bpm 8:10am 8:15 am s:2olira
Lv Guyton.. 4:oßpm s:olam 9:4oam 6:sßam
Ar Savannah 5:00 pm 6:15 am 10:30 am 8:00 am
Train No. 10+ leaves Guyton 3:10 p. m.; arrives
Savannah 4:25 p. m.
Sleeping cars on all night trains between Sa
vannah, Augusta, Macon and Atlanta, ulso Ma
con and Columbus.
Train No. 8, leaving Savannah at 8:20 p. m.,
will stop regularly at Guyton, but at no other
point to put off passengers between Savannah
and Milien.
Train No. 4 will stop on signal at stations be
tween Milien and Savannah to take on passen
gers for Savannah.
Train No. 6 will stop on signal at stations be
tween Savannah and Milien to take on passen
gers for Augusta or points on Augusta branch.
Train No. 6 will stop between Milien and Sa
vannah to put off passengers from Augusta and
points on Augusta branch.
Connections ut Savannah with Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway for all points in
Florida.
Tickets for all points and sleeping car berths
on sale at C’itv Office, No. 20 Bull street, and
Depot Office 30 minutes before departure of
each train.
J. < ’. SHAW. G. A. WHITEHEAD,
Ticket Agent. Gen. Pass. Agent.
Savannah, Florida k Western Railway.
[All trains on this road are run by Central
Standard Time.]
Time card in effect june is, istt.
Passenger trains on this road will run daily
as follows:
3VEST INDIA FAST MAIL.
READ nows. READ CP.
7:00 am Lv Savannah Ar 12:06 pm
12:30 p m Lv Jacksonville Lv 7:00 a m
4:4opm Lv Sanford Lv I:lsara
9:00 pm Ar Tampa Lv 8:00 p m
PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE.
Monday and I , Tamna Ar Thors and
Tburs pm | Gv.. iampa. . .Ar { gun pm
Tuesday and 1 . K , V f , I 3Ved. and
Friday, pm( Ar. Key \\ cst. I.v J- Sat pm
YVednes. and I . T ANARUS„ | Wed. and
Sat ami Ar... Havana... Lv Bat _’ n ““
Pullman buffet cars to and from New York
and Tampa.
NEW ORLEANS EXPRESS.
7:o6am Lv Savannah Ar 7:sßpm
B:42am Lv Jesup Ar 6:l6pm
9:50 am Ar Waycross Lv 5:05 pm
11:26 a m Ar Callahan . . T..Lv~2:47 p m
12:00noonAr Jacksonville Lv 2:06 pm
7:00 a m Lv Jacksonville Ar 7:45 pm
10:15 am Lv YY'aycross Ar 4:40 p m
12:04 pm Lv Valdosta Lv 2:56pm
12:34 p m Lv Quitman Lv 2:28 p m
_l:22pm Ar Thomasville... Lv 1:45 pm
J*:B5 pm Ar Bainbridge Lv 11T25 a m
4:04 pm Ar Chattahoochee Lv 11:30 am
Pullman buffet cars to and from Jacksonville
and New York, to and from Waycross and New
Orleans via Pensacola.
EAST FLORIDA EXPRESS.
1:30 pm Lv Savannah Ar 13:06 pm
3:2opm Lv Jesup Lv 10:32am
4:lopm Ar Waycross Lv 9:23 am
7:45pm Ar Jacksonville Lv 7:ooam
4:lspm Lv. Jacksonville Ar 9:45am
7:20 pm Lv Waycross Ar A>:33 aTS
8:31 pin Ar Dupont Lv 5:80 a m
3:25 pm i.v i-ak-c (Tty. Ar 10:45 am
3:45 pm Lv Gainesville Ar 10:30 a m
6:55 pm I.v Live Oak At 7:10 am
B:4opm Lv Dupont Ar 5:25am
10:56 pm Ar Thomasville Lv 3:25 am
1:82 am Ar Albany Lv 1:25 am
Pullman buffet ears to and from Jacksonville
and St. Louis via Thomasville, Albany, Mont
gomery and Nashville.
ALBANY EXPRESS.
7:Bspm Lv Savannah Ar 6:loam
10:05 p m Lv Jesup Lv 3:15 am
12:40 a mAr .Waycross., Lv 12:10am
5:30 am Ar Jacksonville. ." Lv ""9:oopm
9:00 p m Lv Jacksonville Ar 5:30 a m
1:0.3 a in Lv Waycross ArTi:3o p m
_2:Boam Ar Dupont I.y 10:05pm
7:loam Ar Live dak" Lv 6:55pm
10:30 a m Ar Gainesville Lv 3:4.3 p 111
10:45 a 111 Ar Lake City. Lv 3:26 p~m
2:55 a m I.v Dupont. Ar 9:3$ p m
0:30 a m Ar Thomasville Lv 7:00 pra
11:40 a ill Ar Albany Lv 4:00 p m
Stops at all regular stations. Pullman
sleeping cars to and from Jacksonville and Sa
vannah.
THOMASVILLE EXPRESS.
6:osam Lv Waycross Ar 7:oopm
10:26 ain Ar Thomasville Lv 2:15 pin
Stops at all regular and flag stations.
JESUP EXPRESS.
3:45 p m Lv.... Savannah Ar 8:39 ara
6:10 p m Ar. lesup Lv 6:25 a m
Stops at all regular and flag stations.
CONNECTIONS.
At Savannah for Charleston at 6:45 am. (ar
rive Augusla via Yemassee at 12:50 p m), 12:26
p ni and 8:23 pm; for Augusta and Atlanta at
i :00 am, 5:15 p m and 8:20 pm; with steamship*
for New York Sunday, Tuesday and Friday; for
Boston Thursday: for Baltimore every fifthday.
At JESUP for Brunswick at 3:30 a m and 3:35
p m; for Macon 10:30 a ni and 11:07 p m.
At YVAYCKOSSfor Brunswick at 10:00 a in and
5:05 p ni.
At CALLAHAN for Fernandina at 2:47 p ra;
for Waldo. Cedar Key, Ocala, etc . at 11:27 auk
At LIVE OAK for Madison, Tallahassee, C LC.,
at 10:58 a in and 7:30 p ni.
At GAINESVILLE for Ocala, Tavares, Brooks
ville and Tnmiia at 10:55 a in.
At ALBANY for Atlanta. Macon, Montgom
ery, Mobile, New Orleans, Nashville, etc.
AU’II ATT AII l >OCH EE for Pensacola, Mobile,
Nf*w Orleans at 4:14 p tn.
Tickets sold and sleeping car berths secured
at BREN'S Ticket Office, and at the Passenger
Station.
WM. P. HARDEE, Gen. Pang. Agent
It. O. FLEMING Superintendent
Charleston k Savannah Railway Cos.
('CONNECTIONS made at Savannah with Sa-
J vannah, Florida and Western Kailway.
Trains leave and arrive at Savannah by stand
ard time (00th meridian), which is 36 uunutss
slower than city time.
NORTHWARD.
No. 14* 38+ 66* "*
Lv Sav’h . 12:26 p m 4:00 p m 6:45 a m 8:23 p m
Ar Augusta 12:39 pm
A r Beaufort 6:98 p m 10:15 am
Ar P. Koval 0:20 p m . . . . 10:90am
Ar Al’dnle. 7:40 p m B:lspm 10:20a in .....
Ar Ckaaton 4:43 p m l':20 p ni 11:40 a m 1:25 a a
SOUTHWARD.
33* 35* 27*
Lv Cha'ston 7:10 a m 8:33 pm 4:00 am
Lv Augusta 12:35 p
I,V Al dale. s:loam 3:01 pm
Lv P. Royal. 7.nu a m 2:60 p ra
I.v Beaufort 7:12o 111 2:15 pm ....
ArSov'h.. 10:15am 6:83 v m 6:41 a m
•Dally between Savannah and Charleston.
tSnndays only. . . _ m
Train No. 18 makes no connection with Port
Royal and Augusut Railway, and slops only
Biugelalid. Green Pond and Kavenel. Train 14
stops otih at Yemassee and Green Pond, and
connects for Beaufort and Port Koval dally, and
for Allendale daily, except Sunday. Trains ■
nnd #0 connect from and for Beaufort and Pori
Royal dally ....
lor tickets, deeping car reservations and au
other information apply to W3U BREN,
Siie-'ißl Ticket Agout. 22 Bull street, sod st
Charleslon and Savannah railway ticket office,
si Savannah, Honda anl Western Railway
depot 0. H GADSDEN, hups.
tuNsi). isar. v
Cos
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