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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. ” Skinny Men. Wells’ “Health Renewer” restores health and vigor, cures dysjiepsia, impotence, ner vous debility. For weak men, delicate worn en. sl. _____ Wells' Hair Balsam. If gray, restores to original color. An elegant dressing, softens and beautifies. No oil or grease. A tonic Restorative. Stops hair coming out; strengthens, cleanses, heals scalp. 50c. "Rough on Piles.” Why suffer piles? Immediate relief and complete cure guaranteed. Ask for “Rough on Piles.’’ Hure cure for itching, protrud ing, bleeding or any form of Piles 50c. At druggists w nuuiecL 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. You cen t afford to liurli. door *irl. 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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. 3