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STRANGE STORY OF MR. BECK.
He Has for Twelve Yeare Worn the
Paint and Feathers of a Sioux.
From, the Washington Star.
Sebastian Beck, a man who has a strange
story to tell, has been in the city some days.
He is a sort of Rip Van Winkle, having re
turned to civilization after twelve years,
not exactly of sleep, but, as he says, of life
ns a captive among the Indians. His bro
ken English, vagabondish appearance and
somewhat dilapidated attire also suggest a
resemblance of his case to that of Km Van
Winkle. His story has been told officially
to the Commissioners of Indian Affairs and
unofficially to a reporter. In brief, the
story is that he and his family were cap
tured by the Sioux in Dead wood Gorge m
1875; that he was then separated from his
■wife and children and held in
captivity twelve years until he
made his escape this spring. He
believes iiis wife and children are still held
as captives, and has invoked the aid of the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs to find
them. While a captive among the Sioux he
was required to marry a squaw, so he has
in the Wild West at the present, time a red
wife and four papooses. In ease Hock does
not succeed in recovering the pale-face Mrs.
Beck he wants the Indian office to help him
to a reunion with the red-skin Mrs. Beck.
So the situation is somewhat interesting.
Beck is al>out 50 years of age, has a worn
expression and a watery look about the
eves, and a general appearance of tough
ness. due undoubtedly to twelve years of
dieting on jerked buffalo ment. He is ap
parently in destitute circumstances He
talks in broken English, which is the more
difficult to understand as he occasionally
throws in a sentence or two of the Sioux
dialect.
SEBASTIAN BECK’S STORY.
His story, as ho told it to a reporter, is
substantially as follows: Sebastian Beck is
a native of Hohenzollern, Prussia. He en
listed in the United States army Aug. 11,
1807, served in Company E, Ninth Infantry,
and was honorably discharged at the expi
ration of his term at Fort Laramie, Neb.,
in August, 1870. After his term expired he
returned home to Philadelphia. He re
mained there until the spring of 1875, when
he joined a party of swenty-five families
that emigrated to the Dcadwood Gorge, in
the Black Hills, in search of gold. Beck
took his family with him, consisting of his
wife, a daughter, Annie, aged 18; a daugh
ter, Lucy, aged 1(5, and a boy, Anthony,
aged 11. The party of miners were quite
successful at the start. The camp where
their families lived was situated about three
quarters of a mile from the point where the
men were mining. In about three months
they had accumulated over SI,OOO as
the" result of their industry. Then they
moved to work another vein about three
miles away.
CAPTURED BY TF" SIOUX.
On July 22 a band of Sioux, numbering
about .‘l.OtiO warriors, swept down upon the
gorge while the men were at the diggings,
separated from their women and children.
The whole party was captured—the men by
one band, the women and children by an
other. The men were blindfolded and se
curely Ixnind upon Indian ponies, and thus
made to rave! for ten days. The other
band of Indians took the women and chil
dren in a different direction, and since that
day Beck has not heard from or seen his
wife and children. His wife, Beck under
stands, was taken away by Chief Black
Moon’s band. He supposes that she and her
daughters have been married to Indians, as
is the custom with the Sioux. Beck tel is
an interesting story of his twelve years of
life among _th > Sioux. He was taken first,
with the other male captives, to tho Rose
bud country. After being held a prisoner
eleven months he was married to an Indian
squaw, a Cheyenne woman who was in cap
tivity.
HIS REDSKIN BRIDE.
This was Monica, a young squaw, then
not 18 years old, and. Beck says, a great
beauty. He was compelled to marry and to
adopt the customs of the Indians or die. So
he made the best of it, and became much at
tached to his Cheyenne squaw. Monica is
now at Fort Laramie, in the land of the set
ting sun, surrounded by tour little half
breed Becks, waiting for her pale-face bravo
to return to her. When first with the In
dians he wigs treated roughly by them. They
had an unpleasant habit of circling about
him in thou- war dances, wit V> their scalping
knives uplifted, and of flourishing their
tomahawks over his head. Within a few
weeks, however, the redskins changed their
treatment. Beck and his fellow prisoners
were clad in Indian attire. Beck was
adopted into the tribe when he took an In
dian wife. He was first put to trial by
being thrown from a rock into deep water.
He showed his si ill and strength by swim
ming from the water and climbing the face
of the precipitous rock to a place of safety.
The Indians howled and crooned and daueod
a wild kind of a jig about his dripping fig
ure, and Beck was thus initiated as a mem
lier, but not exactly an active member, for
he was always kept under watch and never
fully trusted.
PAINTED RED BY HIS SQUAW.
I\ hen he had been thus baptized he was
turned over to his squaw, who helped the
thing along by painting her husband a eop
pery red from the crown of his head down
to his toes. Then he was given buckskin
leggings, a wig of raven hair, which had
lyeu torcibly taken or “lifted" from tho
skull of some r(siskin enemy of the Sioux,
and a full equipment of primitive weapons,
a tomahawk, knife and liow and arrow,
leathers were stuck into the cincture that
bound his wig on. Plain Mr. Beck emerged
from all this in outward semblance a Sioux
warrior, though any visitor to the tribe that
ran across an Indian brave, volubly lament
ing his fate in broken Englssh of the Frit z
bonnet style, might have boon greatly
amazed at the singular combination. The
• mux, however, seemed to like tho style of
Warrior, and they gave him the name of
Toucli-tbe-Cloud," ana called him a chief.
He, with other prisoners, were required to
practice with tho bow and arrow, but were
not allowed to have guns. These imita
tion .Indians lived in every way liko the
genuine redskin, and occasionally wore the
Wa ’’ paint, their faces being besmeared with
yellow stripes and bare Beck’s chief was
bitting Bull, the great Sioux warrior.
HF. WITNESSED THE CUSTER MASSACRE.
AI tor a few months on the Rosebud the
jTox- started on their travels, and it was on
this expedition that, they encountered and
•JimhifaUsl (.t ii. Custer's command on the
J.ittle Bjg Horn, n tight that Book witnessed
‘tom a distance. The Indians were in-
Inrined by spies, Beck says, that. Custer was
turning. The redskins were formod'on the
nioiuitain-top u waiting the waning of Custer
Hi tho valley below. The entrance was by
8 '‘anon, through which only four cavalry
nicii could ride abreast. Bitting Hull sat
on Ins horse, on the mountains, where lie
coiiid gut good view, spy-glass in hand.
J h"N the old chief niuttered in adimo novel
. “Hal Custer! (rood!” He at once dis
-1 !of Ids moil. He built, up camp tiros,
win about it by means of poles, wigs, buf-
I o robes and blankets, made n lium-
J*r of dummy Indians. When Cus-
Jf r s men came on, Beck says,
theyexhauutod their ammunition tiring at
Jhe dummies. Then 5,00(1 redskins poured
111 ii]K>n them from every sine and
■wissncivd tho whole command, only one
Wan escaping with his life. Curing the
"gilt the prisoners were kept in tho rear
under guard and could not communicate
* , i the brave band of soldiers that were
tjdmg into .Silting Bull’s trap. Bock says
hat he found < leu, Custer’s watch on the
81 cue of |he mamatre, a or! also the watch
•’‘ longing to Ceil. CY ere ■, i- son, who was
, tii Custer. V ..i.tchus he gave
to Chief Raiu-in-the- .v . The Crittenden
*a'.cli was sold by Pam in-thn-face to a
Manitoba ranchman, who, by writing to
the London maker of tin 1 watch, ascertained
, "'honi it had lailonged, and sold it in turn
t 'he family of Gen. Crittouden.
f'ARRIEn INTO THE BRITISII DOMINIONS.
From tho Little Big Horn the Indians
traveled to the Red River country, crossing
■‘to the province of Manitoba, and pitching
•heir camp uar Fijrt VVaUU. In this couu-
try Beek spent the remaining years of his
captivity and found consolation in the little
family of half breeds that began rising
around him. He and his fellow prisoners
were never fully trusteed, even after they
had established families of very respectable
size. They were not allowed to wander
more than a mile and a half from camp.
The camp was always picketed by Indians.
Lank and savage Indian dogs were always
lui king about ready to nuuce a charge on
any bogus Indian who attempted to escape
Ibis spring Beck and the five prisoners,
with Rain-in-the-face’s band, planned to
escatie. They had lived so long with the
redskins in api>arent contentment that
Rain-in-tlie face ceased to lie as watchful as
ruch a wily savage is generally supposed to
be. Beck went to him and appliea for per
mission to go on a hunting expedition for
fifteen days. Then others of the prisoners
made similar applications. They were to
take their squaws with them, a fact that
rendered Rain-in-the-face unsuspicious.
THE ESCAPE FROM CAPTIVITY.
They were granted then fifteen days
leave of absence, and started off in high
spirits. While in their hunting camp one
morning they heard the sharp clicking of a
troop of horses on a rapid trot—horses they
knew at once to be those of pale faces, for
they were shod. Presently a company of
Canadian mounted police dashed into sight
and Beck signalled to them. The company
halted, and Beck told the captive’s story to
Maj. Walsh, the commanding officer, inti
mating that after twelve years of such life
they were somewhat tired of it. Maj.
Walsh, who was then on his way to
Rain-in-the-face’s camp, instructed the
captives to get their buffalo
and antelope meat—the spoils of their
hunt—packed up, and said ho would return
that way for them in four hours. He kept
his word, and the captives were conducted
by their liberator to Fort Walsh. On the
way they were pursued by the Indians, but
reached the fort in safety. At tho fort they
were permitted to enjoy for the first time in
a dozen years the luxury of sleeping in a
lied. After thoy had rested Major Walsh
sent them under escort across the border,
and they were taken to Fort Buford. Beck
and the copper-colored Mrs. Beck and the
papooses went from Fort Buford to Stand
ing Rock Agency, then to Fort Laramie,
and then to Denver, where Monica and her
papooses parted with Beck.
PARTING WITH MONICA.
She would not come East with her white
brave, because she feared that the white
men would kill her. So Mr. Beck, having
picked up here and there bits of civilized
toggery, took a sad leave of his Pocahontas
at Denver. They shook hands, and the dusky
matron wept, just as her fairer sisters might
under similar circumstances, Monica re
turned to Fort Laramie. Mr. Beck came
East, and, as stated, has applied to the In
dian Office to assist him in finding his wife
and children.
VIEWS THE SITUATION PHILOSOPHICALLY.
He takes a very philosophical view of the
fact that the white Mrs. Beck is probably
united in savage wedlock with some grunt
ing and taciturn Sioux warrior, and the pos
sibility of her having a number of half
breed encumbrances like those ne left at
Denver. He says that if she is married it
was not her fault, The daughters and son,
too, he supposes, from his knowledge of the
Indians, have been adopted into the tribe by
the way of matrimony. His wife he believes
to be among the Indians of the Standing
Rock Agency.
AS FALSE AS FAIR.
How the Pet Delusion of a Prominent
Gas Man Sadly Faded Away.
From the Pittsburg Times.
“TIjP illusions of our youth cling closely
to soiffeof us. Eveninthelightof matureex
perienoe we part with them reluctantly, and
every such parting causes pain,” said a solid
old iron manufacturer, who sat in the midst
of a group of friends enjoying the shade of
one of the most popular of our road houses
yesterday.
“Now, here boys, don’t look at me that
way. I won’t have it,” he went on. “No
fair and fickle one has played me false—re
cently. No, I was thinking of . You
all know him, and though I never said he’d
trade a mother's blessing for a last year
ulster, when I come to think of it that is
about the only tiling he wouldn’t trade.
“He.tliinks well of natural gas, being a
prominent official in a successful com
pany, and he is director of enough banks to
have a proper appreciation of finances, but
if there be one thing on earth that he has
believed himself up on it is horses. He loves
a horse and he delights in boasting of the
animal’s fidelity. That is, he did delight in
that sort of thing, but it’s ‘1 never loved a
dear gazelle’ with him now.”
“Tell us about it,” the solid old fellow’s
friends chorused.
“Sure, that’s what I started to do. It
isn’t a long story, but it is running over
with pathos thinks a good (leal
about his brother-in-law, and so he foil easily
into a proposition to lend him enough to
make up his shortage in the price of a hand
some Kentucky driving mare whioh he cov
eted. After the purchase was made tho
mare showed up so well that Mac’s respect
for his conjugal relative greatly increased—
for awhile. She had not liven in her new
quarters very long, however, before she be
gun to take on flesh with annoying rapidity.
Her feed was cut down, but she continued
to expand as if starvation agreed with her.
Then the relatives made a discovery that
made both of them mad. The mare wus in
foal. The man she was bought of was
brought up and pilloried for duplicity. He
swore he didn’t know anything about it.
He, too, had been deceived by the Ken
tucky owner, to whom ho proceed to write
a letter hot enough to scorch the envelope.
“The Kentuckian was game, though, and,
as events proved, he didn’t eat grai,
though hayseed sprouted in his hair. He
paralvzed liis Pittsburg correspondent by
eoollv replying that he was glad of the con
dition of affairs, as the colt could not help
being the son of one of the greatest thor
oughbred sires in the country, and he ex
pressed a perfect willingness to take the
inare bock at the last buyer's price, or even
at a figure a couple of hundred dollars
higher. This cheerful news was imparted
to , whereupon he said to his brother
in-law's friend that he guessed the deal
could stand. Ho wanted to do the fail
tiling by his relative, and so he told him he
would take half of the animal and her
progeny.
“Then both became anxious for the birth
day. It arrived at midnight. The owners
were informed. Their excitement was in
tense. Dr. Jennings was sent for. When
ho arrived said to him:
“ ‘lt’s too bad to pull you out of bed at
this hour, but this will boa great colt and
there must lie no accident.’
“ ‘Don’t neologize ,’ said the doctor.
‘This is my business.’
“Tliri he went down to tho stable, tho
godfathers, as it were, remaining outside.
After a while he emerged smiling.
“ ‘Well,’ both cried in one voice. ‘How is
itr
“ ‘Go inside and look at your colt.,’ the
doctor replied, and he smiled again.
“They went inside, and the doctor fled into
the night. In the stall was a promising,
well-developed mule.
“That’s why is now sad-eyed and
suspicious. ”
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THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. AUGUST 11, 1887.
HENRY MORGAN.
The Famous Buccaneer of the Six
teenth Century.
From Harper's Magazine.
The greatest of all the buccaneers, he who
stands pre-eminent among them, and whose
name eveu to this day is a charm to call up
his deeds of daring, his dauntless courage,
his truculent cruelty, and Lis insatiate and
unappeasable lust for gold, was Capt. Henry
Morgan, the bold Welchman, who brought
buccaneering to the height and flower of its
glory. Having sold himself, after the man
ner of the times, for his passage across the
seas, he worked out his time of servitude at
the Barbadoes. As soon as he had regained
his liberty he entered upon the trade of
piracy, wherein he soon reached a position of
considerable prominence.
The first attempt that Capt. Henry Mor
gan ever made against any town in the
Spanish Indies was the bold descent upon
the City of Puerto Principe, in the island
of Cuba, with a mere handful of men. It
was a deed tho boldness of which has never
been outdone by any of a like nature —not
even the famous attack upon Panama it
self. There they returned to their boats in
tlie very faco ot the whole Island of Cuba,
aroused and determined upon their exter
mination. Not only did they make good
their escape, but they brought away with
them a vast amount of plunder, computed
at 300,000 pieces of eight, besides 500 head
of cattle and many prisoners held for ran
som.
But when tho division of all the wealth
came to be made, lo! there were only fifty
thousand pieces of eight to be found. What
had become of the rest no man could tell but
Capt. Henry Morgan himself. Honestv
among thieves was never an axiom with
him. Rude, truculent and dishonest, as
Capt. Morgan was, he seems to have hud a
wonderful power of persuading the wild
buccaneers under him to submit everything
to his judgment, and to rely entirely upon
his word. In spite of the vast sum of money
that lie had very evidently made away with,
recruits poured in upon him until his band
was larger and better equipped than ever.
Tho next towns to suffer were poor
Maracaybo and Gibraltar, now just begin
ning to recover from the desolation wrought
by L’Olonoise. Once more both towns were
plundered of every bale of merchandise and
of every piaster, and once more both were
ransomed until everything was squeezed
from the wretched inhabitants. Here af
fairs were like to have a turn, for when
Capt. Morgan came up from Gibraltar he
found three great men-of-war lying in the
entrance to the lake awaiting his coining.
Seeing that he was hemmed in in the nar
row sheet of water, Capt. Morgan was in
clined to compromise matters, even offering
to relinquish all the plunder he had gained
if he were allowed to depart in peace. But
no; the Spanish Admiral would hear noth
ing of this. Having the pirates, as he
thought, securely in Ins grasp, he would re
linquish nothing, but would sweep them
from the face of the sea once and forever.
That wrts an unlucky determination for
the Spaniards to reach, for instead of para
lyzing the pirates with fear, as lie expected
it would do, it simply turned their mad
courage into as mad desperation. A great
vessel that thoy hail taken with the town of
Maracaybo was converted into a fire ship
manned with logs of wood in montera caps
and sailor jackets, and filled with brimstone,
pitch and palm leaves soaked in oil. Then
out of tho lake the pirates sailed to meet the
Spaniards, the fire ship leading the way and
bearing down directly upon the Admiral's
vessel. At the helm stood volunteers, the
most desjierate and the bravest of all the
pirate gang, and at the ports stood the logs
of wood in montera caps. So they came up
with the Admiral and grappled with his ship
in spite of the thunder of all his great guns,
and then the Spaniard saw, all too late,
what his opponent really was.
He tried to swing loose, but clouds of
smoke and almost instantly a mass of roar
ing flames enveloped both vessels, and tho
Admiral was lost. The second vessel, not
wishing to wait for the coming of tho
pirates, bore down upon the fort, under the
guns of which the cowardly crew sank her,
and made the best of their way to shore.
The third vessel, not having an opportunity
to escajx', was taken by the pirates without
the slightest resistance, and the passage
from the lake was cleared. So the buc
caneers sailed away, leaving Maracaybo
and Gibraltar prostrate a second time.
And now Capt. Morgan determined to
undertake another venture, the like of
which had never been equaled in all the
annals of buccaneering. This was nothing
less than the descent iqxvn and the capture
of Panama, which was, next to Cartagena,
perhaps, the most powerful and strongly
fortified city in the West Indies. Down
they poured upon Panama, and out came
the Spaniards to meet them—4oo horse,
2,500 foot and 2,000 wild bulls which had
Ix-en herded together to be driven over the
buccaneers so that their ranks might tie
disordered and broken. Tho buccaneers
were only 800 strong; the others had
either fallen in battle or had
dropped along the dreary pathway
through tho wilderness; but in
the space of two hours the Spaniards were
flying madly over the plains, minus 000 who
lay dead or dying behind them. As for the
bulls, as many of them as were shot served
as food there and then for the half-famished
pirates, for the buccaneers were never more
at home than in the slaughter of cattle.
Then they marched toward the city. Three
hours more lighting and they were in the
streets, howling, yelling, plundering, gorg
ing, dram-drinking, and giving full vent to
all the vile and nameless lusts that burned
in their hearts like a hell of fire. And now
followed the usual sequence of events—
rapine, ci%elty and extortion; only this
time there was no town to ransom, for
Morgan had given orders that it
should be destroyed. The torch was
set to it, and Panama, one of the
greatest cities in the New World, was
swept from the face of the earth. Why the
deed was done no man but Morgan could
fell. Perhaps it was that all the secret
hiding places tor treasure might lie brought
to lignt: but whatever tho reason was it lay
bidden in the breast of the great buccaneer
himself. For three weeks Morgan and his
men abided in this dreadful place; then they
marched away with 175 beasts of burden
loaded with treasures of gold and silver and
jewels, lies ides great quantities of merchan
dise, and 1100 prisoners held for ransom.
Whatever became of all that vast wealth,
and what It amounted to, no man but Mor
gan ever knew, for when a division was
made it was found that there was only 200
pieces of eight to each man.
When this dividend was declared a howl
of execration went up, under which even
Capt. Henry Morgan quailed. At night lie
and four other commanders slipped their
cables and ran out to sea, and it was said
that these divided the greater part of the
booty among theinselvos. But tho wealth
plundered at Panama could hardly have
fallen short of $1,500,000. Computing it at
this reasonable figure, tho various prizes
won by Henry Morgan in the West Indies
would stand as follows: Panama, $1,500,-
000; Porto Rico, $800,000; Puerto del Prln
riiie, $700,000; Maracaibo and Gibraltar,
s4oO,OiiO; various piracies, s2so,ooo—making
a grand totul of $5,050,000 as the vast har
vest of plunder.
With this fabulous wealth, wrenched
from the (Spaniards liy means of tho rack
and the cord and pilfered from his eom
iianions by the meanest of thieving, Capt.
lenry Morgan retired from business, hon
ored of ail, rendered famous by his deeds,
knighted by the good King Charles 11. and
finally apiximted Governor of the rich
Island of Jamaica. Other buccaneers fol
lowed him. Campeche was taken and
sacked, and even Cartagena itself fell; but
with Henry Morgan culminated the glory
of the buccaneers, and from that'time they
declined in |x>wer and wealth and wicked
ness until they were finally swept away.
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on Duffy street, third west from Bull; nine
rooms, modern conveniences; twenty-five dol
lars per month. Apply H. F. TRAIN. New
Houston and Bull streets.
I TOR RENT, new built house, with modern
improvements; gas fixtures, cooking ranges,
hot and cool water; rout moderate. SALOMON
COHEN.
SIXTEEN DOLLARS will rent eight room
IO house, with bath room and water on pro ini
se„s. Apply to WM. BOUHAN, Huntingdon and
Mercer.
I .''OR RENT, that desirable store 185 Brough
ton street, corner Jefferson; possession Oet.
Ist C. P. MILLER.
1 VTR KENT, from Oct. Ist, No. 13? Liberty
I 1 street. THOS. A. FOI.LIARD, West
Broad street.
IJJVJR RENT, from Nov. Ist. stores in the Odd
Fellows'Hall, also rooms in odd Fellows'
Hall: possession given at once. Apply to A. K.
FAWCETT. Market square
vpwo STORES for rent. 73. and 73td Bay
1 street, three floors and a cellar. No. 73 has
a good engine, boiler, and shafting. J. H.
RUWE.
I TOR RENT—That desirable residence, 106
York street, with modern conveniences.
Possession Oct. Ist. C. P. MILLER.
lITOR RENT, 140 Hull, on northwest, corner of
1 Whitaker. Apply to Du. PUREE, 140 Liberty
street.
FOR SALE.
I UMBER FOR SALE. About liftCO feet
! j sawn cypress lumber at T. L. Kinsey's mill
(city mill), about 28,000 feet of which are 2-inch
deals, 90,000 feet of which are 114-iueh boards,
7.000 feet of which is refuse. Above lumber can
be inspected Thursday, Friday and Saturday
between 9 and )8 a. it, Particulars at th
ITOIt SALE or lease, good paying grocery
store on east side of town, together with
stock on hand; sold for no fault; rare chance
for investment. Address CONFIDENCE, this
office.
I TOR SALE. Bar in good business location,
owner wishing to change business. Address
QUICK, Morning News.
U'OR BALE, stock drugs and fixtures In one of
A the best towns In Central Georgia. Hus
ness w 11 estab ished and can Ire ineroased.
(Store well situated. A fine o, port uni:, for
anyone desiring to engage in that lin" of bust
ness. For information address DRUGGIST,
cure Savannah News, Savannah, Ga.
ITOR SALE, a large, double door, iron Safe, in
perfect order: two Pianos, elegant Pier
Mirror, fine Parlor Suite. DANIEL R. KEN
NEDY’.
|,M dt SALE, MATCH ft 'NIKS Pair l>d Bays,
I safe for anyone to drive: style iro and move
well; price $9OO. Also, Pair Steel Grays; only
broke to handle; large ponies Price jlfid. At
COX'S STABLES.
TT'Olt SALE, Laths. Shingles, Flooring, Ceiling,
I Weatherboarding and Framing Lumber
Office and yard Tnylor and East Broad streets.
Telephone No. 811. REPPAP.I) ft 00.
J7*OR SALE, TEXAS HORSES -largest and
I 1 best lot Texas Horses ever brought here;
14W ami 1614 hands high; all gentle stock. At
COX’S STABLER
I TOR SALE ROSEDKW Tans. fin feet on
Front sheet along the river and 600 feet
deep, at $126, pa yank $26 i ash and $l2 90 every
six mouths, with interest. FIVE-ACJtK. Lute In the
TOWN OK ROSEDEW, with river privileges, at
$lOO, payable $2) casliand ssevery three months,
with interest Apply to Da FAI.LIGANT, 151
South Broad street, Oto 10/. x. daily.
LOST AND I Ol’N D.
ITOUND, Wednesday morning, a silver watch
I and chain. The owner can have same by
calling at 180 South Broad street anil proving
property.
lOST, gold earring, on Habersham or
J Broughton streets: Finder will lie rewarded
if required by leaving same at 40 Habersham
street.
ITOUND. a Gordon setter about two years old,
r which the owner can hare by proving
properly nnd paying for t his advertisement. K.
T. BARBOUR, Price anil Hall streets.
T OST, on Saturday n gold pencil; finder will
Ia be rewarded by returning s me to M. L.
SCREVEN, H. P. Knott.-r & >' o.'s office.
I*H Ol'tM i KA PHY.
{SPECIAL NOTICE -PHOTOGRAPH! Pi ces
iJ reduced Petite* $1 W, Cards $2, Cabinet \
$3 per dozen, and larger work In the same pro- I
portion.
J. N. WILSON,
91 Rill itneet.
MIicKLLA NEOLTB.
JUST RECEIVED, Bai ■anas, Oocosnuts and
Gunonsal K POWER 6, )3H< ’ongreez >1 reef
| WANT twenty-five houses to rent to twenty
-1 five customer*. ROBERT H. TATKM, Real
Estate Agent
MULES FROM TEXAS-Fine lot two and
three year old Mute* COX* STABLER.
MISC EI.LAX EOUS.
HHO EXCUKSK )MBT8 —Steamer Pope ( atlia
I can be chartered for twcursions by apply
ing to the Captain on board or at the Golden
Anchor, corner Drayton and Broughton afreets.
I)KACIIE8 for preserving. peaches for brandy
ing, peaches for eating, peaches for every
body. Dice and cheap; call early. A. H. CHAM
PION
El DDEN A BATES 8. M. H.
L.&B.S.M.H.
The Longest Pole
Knocks the Persimmons
TI7E OFFER BETTER INSTRUMENTS.
W LOWER PRICES and EASIER TERMS
than can be offered by any other house in our
line aud in consequence we are Hooded with
orders and "correspondence requiring
Knights of Labor
AND
Days of Toil
to keep up with the rush. Can it he possible that
in this hot weather, with the thermometer ho
high as to endanger its sufetv, that jeople are
really purchasing Pianos ami Organs?
YEA. VERILY YEA!
If you have any doubts as to this, call in and
let us show you indisputahle proofs of what we
Ray, and convince you that orders at home and
from abroad are ACTUALLY CROWDING US.
We offer you a superb lino from which to
select.
Ohickering,
Mason & Hamlin,
Mathushek,
Bent & Cos.,
and Arion Pianos.
Mason & Hamlin, Packard and
Bay State Organs.
UNTIE "W
Organs $24, Pianos $2lO
Second Hand Pianos and Organs
Almost Given Away, to Make
Room for New Stock.
BIG BARGAINS
AT
hidden & Rales Southern Music House,
SAVANNAH, GA.
FURNISHING GOODS.
Go to Liars New Store
AND SEE HOW CHEAP HE SELLS
Summer Hats.
If AVE your measure taken
At the same time, and
r r
X RY a set of his excellent
made to order.
& WHILE THERE INSPECT HIS LINE OF
I j NLAUNDRIED SHIRTS,
Monarch dress shirts,
Boston garters in silk and cotton,
Kubrer garments of all kinds.
Embroidered night shirts.
I vINEN HANDKERCHIEFS AT ALL PRICES.
Eisle THREAD UNDERWEAR.
A FINE ASSORTMENT OF SCARFS.
Shawl straps and hand satchels,
Anew line of HAMMOCKS, with PILLOWS
and SPREADERS, just In; also a lot of NEW
BATHING SUITS, at
L a, IT a,!*’ s,
29 BULL STREET.
ACE!
Now is the time when every
body wants ICE, and we
want to sell it.
PRICES REASONABLE!
20 Tickets, good for 100 Pounds, 75c.
140 Tickets, good for 700 Pounds, $5.
200 Tickets, good for 1,000 Pounds, $7.
50 Pounds at one delivery 30c.
Lower prices to large buyers
I C K
Parked for shipment at reduced rates. Careful
and polite service. Full ami liberal weight.
KNICKERBOCKER ICE CO.
14 1 HAY ST.
STOVES.
MiesMSta,
VVTE HAVE RECEIVED the agency for this
V? popular Stove (over 100,000 lo use), and
lake pleasure In offering them to our customer*
It is heavy, durable, and took flint prim at
Pennsylvania State Fair for baking. It ha* all
the latest improvements, Including ventilated
oven.
CORNWELL & CIIIPMAN,
Odd Fellow*' HulMtng.
1 ■—
WINES AND LKJUOH*.
FOR S A LI-:.
I? Select Whisky $4 00
Maker Whisky 4 00
Imperial Whisky . 8 00
Pineapple Whisky 8 00
North Carolina Com Whisky g 00
OW Rye Whisky 1 Ml
Rum New England and Jamaica. $1 Ml to 8 0t)
Hye and Holland (Hu 1 Do to 8 00
Brandy -Domestic and Cognac 1 SO to 0 00
W IN EH.
Catawba Wine $1 no to $1 60
Blackliernr Wine 1 00 to I DO
Madeira. Ports and Sherry* 1 .’>o to 800
PLEASE OIVE ME A CALL.
A. H. CHAMPION,
144 CONUBESS STREET.
AUCTION SALES TO-DAY.
CRAWFORD WARD PROPERTY
AT AUCTION.
Daniel R. Kennedy, Auctioneer.
THIS DAY. AT 5 O'CLOCK, on the premises.
Hull ami Wheaton streets, I will sell:
Lot No. 1 Crawford Ward and improvements,
which consist of two two-story frame houses
ami store on corner. This property Is in good
repair ami under u good rental: just the place
for small families and very convenient to 8., F.
A* \V H\v. Must bo sold as the owner is break
ing up. Terms cash.
Kemeniberthe hour and day of sale.
By I. D. Laßoche’s Sons.
THIS DAY, at 11 o'clock, in front of store:
8d RALES HAY AND LOT OF SUNDRIES.
AUCTION SALES FUTURE DAYS.
Household and Office Furniture.
SAF E , Etc.,
A. Auction.
Daniel R. Kennedy, Auctioneer.
TO MORROW, at 11 o'clock, at my salesroom,
1 will sell:
A NICE LOT OF FURNITURE, moved to my
place for convenience.
—AISO—
A FINE IRON SAFE, combination lock,
RROWN'S PATENT LETTER FILE, LETTER
PRESS AND t'FPROARI) AND ONE VERY
NIUE SITTING DESK, Etc., Klo.
See advertisement In full next issue.
Dili HOODS, KT( .
Exceptional Reductions
IN
Soil* 1 Goods
AT
bln 4 Diner’s,
SUCCESSORS TO
B. F. McKenna & Cos.,
137 BROUGHTON STREET,
FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS.
117 E will close out the remainder of our st ock
t V of these fine goods, formerly sold at 18c.
a yard, now reduced to l2VfeC.
25 pieces Figured lawns. 33 inches wide, regu
lar price i2Vfc. a yard; now
75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at
60 pieces Wide Width l*awns, regular price
10c. a yard: now o^e.
One lot (’rinkled Seersuckers, regular price
15c. and 17c. a yard; now
One lot of Dress Ginghams, choice styles,
regular price a yard; now 10c.
80 Imported Marseilles Quilts, slightly soiled,
formerly sold at $3. We will close the lot out
at Si 86 each.
75 10-4 Honeycomb Qui ts, good value at 60c.
each. We have marked them down to 35c.
Hosiery and Underwear.
100 dozen Unbleached Black and Colored Hose,
regular price : now oc. a pair.
A mixed lot of Misses' Flue English How*
Ribbed. Plain and Hilk Clocked, regular price or
these goods from 25c. to 50c. Wo will close the
lot out at 17c. a pair.
50 dozen I oodles' Gauze Undervests, regular
prices 35c. and 35c.; now l®c. each.
35 dozen ladies' extra tine quality Gauze Un
dervesth. regular prices 50c., 65c., 7.V*. and KV.
We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low
price of 47c. each.
Oor SI Uidaiindricd Shirts Reduced In 90c.
75 dozen Gentlemen's Unlaundrled Shirts, re
lnforeed liack and bosoms, the liest $1 Shirt
manufactured. In order to reduce our large,
stock wo will offer them at Vbu. ewH*.
HUMAN & DOOMS.
PBOPOffA L* \v A SITED.
Proposals for Paving.
City of Savannah, Oa., 1
Office or the City Kchvkyou, V
Julyasth, IW. (
I'JROPORALS will be received nut il WEDNES
DAY, August :ilth. at 8 o'clock p. M.,
directed to Mr. F. E. itubarer. Clerk of Council
of the city of Savannah. Ga., for tie; paving of
that portion of Congress street In said city lying
between the cast property line of West Broad
street ami tho west property line of Drayton
street; also, that portion of Bull street In said
city lying between tho south line, of Congress
street and the nortb line of State street, tieing
a total urea of about eight thousand square
yards.
The proposals may be for granite, gra wacko
or asphalt blocks or for sheet asphalt, the *|ee|
Meat lons of which will be the same os given by
the Engineer Depart mfnl of the District of Co
lumbia In their report for 1888.
Any person desiring to bid upon the above
work, but use different specifications from those
enumerated übove, inay do so provided tliut a
copy of Ihe specifications upon which they bid
Is enclosed with their bid.
All bids for grawacke, granite or asphalt
block*imiKt, lie ucompanled by a sp<xilmcn of
the blocks intended to lie used.
Separate bids will also be received for the fur
nishing and laying of uhout thirty-five hundred
running feet of curtmtone, of either blue stone
or granite of the following dimensions: four
Inches broad, sixteen inches deep, and in lengths
of not less than five feet.. The curbing to be
dressed on the top ten Inches from the top on
the front face and four inches from the top on
the rear face: to be perfectly straight and
square on the ends.
The rigtit to reject any or all bids is reserved.
For further information address
J. DkBRUYN HOPS, Jr., C. E ,
Acting City Surveyor.
DA N H
KISSIMMEE CITY BANK,
Kissinuiiee City, Orange County. Fla.
CAPITAL - - - $50,000
r |' , KAN!?ACT a regular banking business dive
1 iiartieular attention to Florida collections.
Correspondence solicited. Issue Exchange on
New York, New Orleans, Savannah and Jack
sonville Flu. Resident Agents for ('null* A' Cos.
and Melville, Evans A Cos., of London, England.
New York correspondent: The Seaboard
National Rank.
LEO \ I. NOTH K.
('EORtiI.V. Chatham Cotnrrr. In Chatham
I Superior Court, June Term, IHS7. MARY
J JOMCS vs. WM. A. JONES. Libel for
Divorce
It appaartog to the Court by the return of the
sheriff In the hliovc stated case that the defend
ant docs not reside Iri Chatliatn county, lt
further apfemrlng that he dies not reside irrtbe
State of lieorgia, it la therefore ordered by tlie
Court that nefvloe of said libel for divorce be
porfeen*d ou the defendant by the publication
of this order once a mouth for four montlis. be
fore the December Term. 18W, of tills tjourt, in
the Savannah Morning Ness, n public gazette
published In Chatham county. Ueorgln.
In open Court, this June loth, IHHT
A. P. ADAMS,
Judge 8. C , E. J. C. (la.
O. E. BEV'ANS, Libellant n Attorney.
A true extract from the minutes, tins 10th day
ol June, A, D. UJtff. JAMES K. P. CARR.
lh*ut,y Clerk S. C.. C. C.
C. n. DORSFTT’S COLUMN.
Ml ESTATE
OFFERINGS.
SOME GOOD CORNERS.
At private sale I am offering some very
good corner places, suitable for business or
for residences.
One on West Broad and Hull, near the
offices of the Georgia Central Railroad.
This is an excellent location for a boarding
house, and unsurpassed for retail business.
The house is roomy and tho lot large,
110x90, with much of tho space unoccupied,
A splendid stand for business in the im
mediate vicinity of the S., F. & W. Ry, just
on the thoroughfare leading into the ware
house and offices. This consists of a large
dwelling, with store attached, well built and
convenient. Its proximity to the Depot
gives special value to this property for em
ployes, or for [KM-sons desiring the patronage
of employes.
A West Broad and Jones street corner is
tho last on the list. This is among the best
of West Broad corners. Particulars can be
liad at my office.
A Few Residences
A double house in the eastern portion of
tho city, near the Bay. This is an exceed
ingly pleasant location, facing a square. 11l
will lie an admirable home for persons doing
business in that section.
A two-story dwelling on Bryan street,
near Farm. In this locality homes always
rent well. This is particularly reoom>
mended to persons desiring a small, snugf
investment, and those drawn in Loan Asso
ciations.
A neat and comfortable cottage In the
southwestern portion of the city. Thai
just the place in which to commence TinnM<
keeping life.
ON SALT WATER.
0
1 have for sale the most complete prop
erty of this description in this vicinity.
Good water aqd air, cool breezes, fertile
land, plenty of shade, abundance of fruit,
ilsh in abundance, all within an hour's rid*
of tho city.
C. H. Dorset},
REAL ESTATE DEALER.
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