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6 GEORGIA AM) FLORIDA. NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS. Death of a Gentleman Once Well Known in Railroad Circles- One of Capt. Burke’s Excursionists Writes an Indignant Letter from Antwerp —Tax Digests Still Rolling In. GEORGIA. The County Commissioners of Thomas are advertising for bids to make improve ments on the court house to cost about *7,000. John W. Masury, of New York, has some contractors at Thomasville figuring on a *40,000 hotel to go on one of the business blocks near the court house. J. N. Ridgeway, of Oconee, hns a gamier that follows him around like a dog, and will sound the alarm when a stranger enters the yard, and attacks the intruder with its wings and beak. The Mcßride bridge over the river near Tallapoosa washed away last week. Mr. Garner, living near Draketown, built the bridge last year and insured it for five years, for which he received *440. Capt. Jas. W. Collins, while clerk of the court of Fulton county made an abstract of all the lands and lots in the county. It took him twelve years to get up the abstract, but it has paid him handsomely for his ■work. He has lately sold it to a company for *30,000. Later returns from Butts county show that the election held last week resulted in defeat to the Prohibitionists. The majority was only do. Two years ago, at nn election held for the same purpose, the “wets” won by a majority of 100. Thus it will be seen that, the “drvs” have made a clear gain of 100 votes. Maj. Thomas A. Grace, an old and highly honored citizen, and well and favorably known in this State, and who for several years was President of the Savannah, Grif fin and North Alabama Railroad Company, and for several other years President of the Georgia Manufacturing and Paper Mill Company, a distinguished member of the order of Free Masons, and also prominent in Utah- and county politics, died at Newnan Tuesday in the 77th year of his age. Fort Gaines in 1883 contracted to have an artesian well bored. After boring about <SOO feet by accident a steel drill was drop ped in the orifice and all attempts to remove it proving abortive, work was suspended, ami finally thought by the public to be abandoned. Last week, under the direction off lic City Marshal, an excavation was made around tlotubo, a steam pump placed in position and Saturday morning steam was applied, and for thirty hours poured upon the streets a stream of cool, limpid water, varying in quantity from 60 to 100 gallons )ior minute, according to tlie speed of the pump. A passenger on the up Port Royal train from Yemassee to Augusta Tuesday re ported that a negro man at that place. Jake Terry, was bitten by a rattlesnake during the morning. The incision was in the calf of the log, which was terribly swollen. Shortly alter ho had been bitten a live rab bit was secured and cut open, and while it ■was yet alive and its flesh quivering it was applied to the wound In a few minutes the warm organ lmd absorbed largoly the poison, and the head of the rabbit was as green as gl ass. At last accounts the negro was in a precarious condition. The snake wax killed and measured about 3 feet. The Thomasville National Bank, with a capital of *IOO,OOO, was opened for business Tuesday. 8. L. Hayes is president, J. A. Brandon cashier, and W. S. Rockwell teller. Their place of business is I*s Broad street, a building that has just been re juvenated and elegantly fitted up for the use of the batik. O. I*. Wright & Cos., 1 winkers of Thpmasville, Tuesday took the entire issue (*15,000) of Vs me Is for water works at 5 per cent. They will probably sell them. The contract for erecting the tower and laying the mains for tho water works has been let, and Roinmerdnll & Thompson are getting up their material to get to work. Among thoso who called upon His Excel lency the Governor, Tuesday, was Judge James 8. Hook, of Augusta. Popular ru mor has it that Judge Hook was in the city in tho interest of Messrs. Bondurant it Jop lin, who were very recently prohibited by executive order from having anything to do with the control and management of the convicts on the Augusta and Chattanooga railroad. It is said that the object of Judge Hook’s call upon JF.a Governor was to in duce him to motJTfy or rescind the order relative to the control and management of convicts by Bondurant & Joplin as to take away the stigma that might rest upon those gentlemen by reason of the action of the Executive. It is generally believed that Gov. Gordon will not interfere with the ex isting status. Tuesday Comptroller General Wright re ceived the following tax digest*: Baker county returns $535,010, a decrease of slll,- ‘200; Lumpkin county returns $656,300, a decrease of $33,884; Bibb county returns *13,807,677, an increase of *580,172. The in crease shown Tuesday amounted to *436,088, which, added to that previously noted, makes an aggregate increase of something over *4,000.1)00. Bibb county was expected to have shown a much larger incrensc than it did. Those who wero familiar with mat ters Ldievod that Bibb’s increase would at least be over $1,000,000. From all indica tions it is believed that the aggregate in crease from the whole State will not exceed *8,000,000 of dollars, which is considerably lower than the first estimate. B. James, of Eufaula, Ala., is in Macon trying to secure bail for his son, Lee James, who is iu jail for lynching Jim Moore. Lee James is the last of the men indicted by the grand jury for lynching Moore. Ho is a youthful looking man, not quite of age, and was for two and a half years an apprentice in the Central railroad shops, where ho bore a good cliaracter. After tlie lynching he left the shops and went to his father's home, and from there wan dered around until he reached Chattanoo ga, where he obtained employment, and was arrested lact week. Mr. James was raised near Americus, Ga., lost his right arm iu the war, and since t hat time lias held various positions in Eufaula. Ho was marshal, a member of the city police, and •leputy sheriff at different times, tieing in office for nine years. The bonds of the other lynchers wero placed at SI,OOO each, and there is no doubt that Lee James will secure equal terms, as he has not lieen proven any guiltier than they. Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock the heaviest rain fell in Newton district that Jackson county had ever known. Tlie drops seemed to molt into blinding sheets, and the whole district was swimming. The rain continued until 6. Creeks were all up. lmt the strang est occurrence was ut Daniel Math >ws’ mill, which sits ujion u little branch about two nnd a half in lies from Outer and ten miles lrom Athens. This was a two-story struc ture and the wheel was supplied with water from a little branch ulsiut live l'eet wide and übout two nnd a half miles long. It was utterly impossible tor this branch to make such a flood iu so short a time. During all tlie high water last wi“ok, when mills wore washed away and dams broken, this Mathews' mill kept on grinding and did not stop a day. At 6 o’clock Sunday evening there was hardly a pier* of the mill to be found. The place looked u if there had never lieon such a thing as a mill on the branch. The water was fully fifty yards wide: the mill was gone, washed or wrenched from its pillars, and tho rock foundations were scattered in every direction. It seemed liko a cyclone liad struck it. The huge mill stones were washed 300 yards beiow. The mill race was torn away, end the wheel, w hen found, was shattered. Water stood ten feet deep around the old mill site. Tho pooplo in that neighborhood declare they never saw anything liko it, and never want to again. Thetulk about the “water spout” is very froe. F. L Freyer, of Atlanta, his wife and a small party of Georgians tonight tickets fivui Capt Burke fur the excursion of tho Gate City Guard to Europe. Mr. Freyer and his party left Atlanta on June 12 and sailed from New York on June 18 on the steamship Pennland, which bad been so , graphically described as “one of the finest | ocean steamers in existence. ” A letter just received from Mr. Freyer, slated at Ant werp, says. “The trip across was a dread ful, tiresome one, and Capt. Burke ought to he tarred and feathered for selling tickets on such a lino nnd such an old and worn-out vessel. We had to sleep four in each room on the ticket sold by Capt. Burke, the price of which was *l6 too much, besides our hav ing to sleep on tho sofa beds with passengers above ns.” The writer proceeds to describe the reception of the American party when it reached Antwerp. A reporter of the Boston Herald and several Parisian jour nalists canto all the way from Paris to meet the Gate City Guard and Capt. Burke. A brass band was in waiting and a delegation of prominent citizens and a deputation of tho municipality, besides a vast throng of others, wore at the wharf. Everybody was expecting tho Gate City Guard and ('apt Burke and a magnificent banquet had been prepared for them. There was great dis appointment when it was learned that the company was not on board, and Capt. Burke and the Mayor of Atlanta were cen sured for not having apprised the city au thorities of Antwerp of the miscarriage of the project. FLORIDA. The election for town officers of Leesburg comes off there on Aug. 2!*. At Mayport rain is needed badly, tho cis terns are all dry, and water retails around the beach at 60c. per barrel. J. W. Gadoway, formerly Sheriff of Sumter county, hut now of Tate, has moved his family from Sumterville to Leesburg. Tho St, Augustine Press. in its last issue, brings to the front for the Governorship the name of Hon. B. F. Oliveros, of Bt. John’s county. • The military company at Leesburg failed to lie one of the ten companies that const! tute the State’s militia. They have dis banded and returned their accoutrements to Tallahassee. A man by the name of Boip, a buggage master on tho Florida Southern railway, was riding on the pilot of an engine on the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West rail way, near the ice factory, and slipped off to the ground and broke his leg. The Jacksonville News-Herald has lieen sued for *IOO,OOO damages for libel by Ed ward H. Lewis, of Malden, Mass., as an out growth of the publication of insinuations that Lewis and a woman named Calvanno were instrumental in causing his daughter's death. Wilbur McCoy, General Passenger and Ticket Agent of the South Florida railroad, says he is getting requests from all parts of the country for copies of the pamphlets re cently published descriptive of South Flor ida. Seventy thousand of those books were printed. Mr. Ross, the jetty contractor, now at Mayport, improves very slowly. It has been discovered the internal injuries to his head woro much greater than at first ex pected. As soon as ho is able to travel he will take a trip to the mountains of North Carolina to regain his usual health. An inquest was held Mondav at Rochelle over the body of Reuben Thompson, the colored man who was shot Saturday night by Leon Bimmons, also colored. Thompson died Sunday night. Sheriff Wiengas and Attorney A. J. Cone held the inquest, in which they justified Simmons in his action. Thompson threatened to kill Simmons and was advancing with an ax wheu the shot was fired. Should tho idea of removing the Sanford House, at Sanford, to the park lot, on the opposite side of Commercial street, be car ried out, and the block on which the house now stands put on the market, a revolution in building could lie reasonably looked for, particularly as the union depot is a denied fact. The lots would bn in the midst of the business portion of the city, and persons seeking business property would be glad of an opimrtunity to invest in and improve these lots. The Florida Nurserymen’s Association met at Palutka Tuesday, with A. J. Botich in the chair. An essay on the “Fig and Pomegranate” was read by L). Redmond, agricultural editor of the Yews- Herald, and was ordered to be printed, and a committee of three were apjioiuted to classify and name the best and most desirable of these fruits. A rare exhibition of lemons, oranges, grape-fruit, oitpon, etc., was dis played, and nn instructive lecture on the same was delivered by Rev. Lyman Phelps, of Sanford. The attendance was largo and much interest was manifested. Mr. Kaufman was Plea ed. From the San Francisco Examiner. I am not surprised that California has such a fine reputation for hospitality. There is one man gone back to Cincinnati from San Francisco fully persuaded that the Californians are the most kindly, generous people under the sun. A worthy gentle tleman of this city while in England last year was the recipient of very kindly at tentions from an Australian we met there named—well, say Kaufman. Ho had been informed that Mr. Kaufman would pass through San Francisco on route for Australia, and a few days ago ho read in the patier as a guest at a prominent hotel tho names of A. Kaufman and wife. He proceeded with all duo haste to pay his Compliments to them. Ho went up to the clerk., “Is Mr. Kaufman of London here?” “736,” said tho clerk without a moment’s hesitation. “Mr. A Kaufman, of London?’’ “736. Front!" And with that ineffable grandeur, with which only a hotel clerk can dazzle you, he waved the colored gen tleman up toward the roof with the gentle man’s card. Somewhere about a week passed and the boy returned. “736 not in.” My friend went to a florist’s and hnd n handsome basket of flowers sent to 730. He went to the market and had the finest fruit he could buy carefully packed up to Mrs. Kaufman, 730. Next day had gone and no note or message came from his frieud. Ho wpnt up to the hotel again. “Is Mr. Kaufman, of London, in?” “780. Front!” again without n wink. Ami Front took the card nnd disappeared. In about ten days the boy came down stairs and said: “736 not in.” My friend went on to his store nnd had some fine wine sent up to 736. Somebody brought him in a wonderful rose grown in a hothouse in Oaklaud —description need not further go. Ho catlloil a messenger and sent up this elegant roso to his friend’s wife. Next day went by and no note, no message. He waited another day and then ho went up to tlic hotel. “Mr. Kaufman of London in?” * ‘736. Front 1” And front disappeared again with another card. “Mr. Kaufman will be down presently,” was the answer this time. Presently a stout German gentleman whom my frieud hail not known camo up to him. “You vas the gentleman as wanted to see me?" “I beg your pardon.” “My name vus Kaufman.” “You Mr. Kaufman? Oh!" “I vas from Cincinnati. My wife and mysoif we vas very much obliged for the flowers am} the fruit, ami the wine. Most beautiful!” “Then you got them all?” “Yuan; and my wife was crazy about that big row —I never see such a rose. You was kind tieoplo in California. Joost for a loetle kimuiowi to the Knights Templar boys,” My friend hail not the heart to disabuse hlni.uml he does not dream to-day that the excessive hospitality of California arose from a mistake in “736. Front!” Chronic nasal catarrh positively cured by Dr, Stiuc’s UourecU', THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. AUGUST 11, I*B7. SICK AND SAD. Thomas Woolfolk Suffering With a Severe Cold. Finm Wednesday's Atlanta Constitution. Monday night was almost a sleepless one for Wo.) If oik. Some of the inmates of the prison, who occupy cells near the one in which the supposed murderer is incarcer ated, say they heard him GROANING SEVERAL TIMEB during the night. Ho talked to himself, but what be said none of them could catch. Evidently ho is badly worried. Ho lias grown sullen and restive. It remained for a representative of the Constitution to entice Woolfolk into tho perils of an interview. But he was com pelled to resort to a little deception in order to draw the reticent prisoner. “Are you a reporter?” asked Woolfolk, as the interviewer piked his head through tho half opened door and looked through the bars into the cell. “Oh, no; I am a lawyer.” This appeared to remove some of the re straint which held the culprit and ho pro ceeded to talk freely. He would answer any question on any other subject than the killing. Said lie: “Don't ask me any questions about that. I have boon trying to brush all thought of it off my mind. Home of my former Bibb county friends—l don’t know that 1 have any friends now—have sont me word that they wished to see me, hut I sent hack word that I didn’t want to sec them. The reason of this is that I don’t want to be drawn into talking atiout the particulars of the affair. It can’t do me any good and might hurt my case. •'You will lie able to pay a lawyer well, will you ?” “No doubt of that, Tho property that I will come into is valuable. Lit mo see, Futher had a good sum of money in the hank. He owned considerable property in his own right. And then made over some *25,0)0 on my stepmother—his wife—and shortly failed. I think that when I get the property I will be worth in the neighbor hood of *40,000.” “Well, are you certain of getting this property?” “Yes, otherwise, that is to say I will get it, I suppose. Oh, yes, of course. Why not ?” “I am told,” continued the reporter, “by some of the ablest lawyers in Atlanta that even if you are innocent of the fearful crime laid to your charge that you will not be en titled to one dollar in this estate.” “Is that so?” asked the prisoner in a weak voice, as his chin dropped half an inch. “Yes, it is, Woolfolk,” was the reply. “I ain’t a lawyer,” said tho man liehind the bars, “but I think I ought to have it, don’t you?" “So you see that, after killing your whole family to get this inheritance the law will not let you have it.” “1 didn’t do it," exclaimed Woolfolk, his eyes glistening with pent-up l uge. “lam just as innocent as you are. If the Sheriff would come and open this door and say: 'Here, Woolfolk, you’re a free man; go out into the street,” I wouldn’t do it. 1 would stay right here. I know I will get justice some time. If I don’t get it in this world I will get it in the next ” Saving which he angrily turned from the reporter and went back to his stool in the rear of the cell. WILL HE INHERIT? In accounting for the horrible crime, those people who believe Tom Woolfolk the guilty party declare there must have been some motive that prompted him to do the deed, and it is freely declared that the es tate was tho object he had in view. Wool folk has by his expressions at various times since the murder in talking about the mat ter given force to the belief, for lie seems to go out of his way, as it were to montion the estate and its probable worth. If lie was the murderer, did be make his eulntions correctly, and will he get the prop erty if he escajioi the gallows! It is said that sometime ago the plantation of Richard Woolfolk was sold at Sheriff's sale for taxes, and was bought iu by Ben. Howard, Mrs. Woolfolk’s father, and subsequently deeded to her and her children by Mr. Howard. If this be true, Woolfolk has no prospect on earth of getting a share of the estate; for when tin place was sold at Sheriff sale, the title left the Woolfolk family and was vested in the Howard family. The deed by which Mrs Woolfolk received tho place came from a Howard, and if by her death, her hus band’s and her children there were left no direct heirs, the property goes back to Mr. Howard, the grandfather and original holder before Mrs. Woolfolk. If it could bo shown that Mr. Richard Woolfolk, the father of Tom, was the last one killed, it might appear that he was the natural heir of his wife and children by that wife, and dying last, the title being in him for a brief moment, the estate would then go by the laws of inheritance to his chil dren living, namely, Tom Woolfolk and sis ters. But everything goes to show that Richard Woolfolk died before either his wife or her children, and thus the prospect of Tom inheriting through his father is bad. A gentlemen suggested last night that the place and ISO acres of laud had been set aside as a homestead for tho wife and minor children. The homestead lasted as long as the wife or any of the minor children lived. It would have terHiinated the moment of the majority of the children anil tho death of ttie mother, or it would have terminated at the death of all, as it did do, provided there was a homestead set apart. Now the homestead must revert in such a case to someone, and as a matter of course would go to Richard Woolfolk’s estate, to be subject to his debts, etc. If after adminis tration there was anything left, Tom Wool told would come in perhaps for a share. Rut it seems from the most reliable sources that the circumstances attached to the estate were that it was settled on Mrs. Woolfolk nnd children by Ben Howard, her father, and as a matter of course her death, that of her husband and children would cause the estate to* return to Mr. Howard. Richard AVoolfolk’s personal property, money in bank, etc., is subject to his debts bofc any inheritance can lie paid. Tom Woolfolk’s inheritance from that source may be great or small, as tho amount is groat or small, and as the debts arc few or many. A Macon correspondent called on Wool folk’s wife Tuesday. She said; “In tho first place, Tom Woolfolk fooled me. Ho said lie had a plic-e ready for mo and everything to mako a wife comfortable. 1 thought front my knowledge of the family that lie was toiling the truth. I wont to live with Mrs. Edwards, his sister, in Macon. Three days afterward I found that he had no place ’to carry me to. After two weeks, during which time Mr. Woolfolk did noth ing, I began to find out his true nature. lie then began to mistreat me, and he frequently told mo that I would not liko his parents. Finally, during the third week Ills tin rents visited us. Tom Wool folk was ntxseiit and they met me very pleas antly nnd received me as a daughter. After ho camo back I told him wbnt nice people they wore and he said, 'Wait till you m v man of them.’mid began cursing and said, ‘The property shall not do them any good, T will burn them up first.’ After that he threatened them, nnd fre quentlv hail something to say about his being kept out of his rights. I had then ceased to have anything to do with him, as I could not stand his evil ways. Finally my mother came and brought, me home, after three weeks’ stay. I was dissatisfied tne next morning alter I married him. and would have come homo had I had an oppor tunity, “This evening Mrs. Edwards, his sister, told me she knew he had mistreated herself mid me both badly, and that she was afraid he would kill me.” Some of Woolfolk’s letters to his wife were read by the correspondent They were poorly written and hard to read. They con sisted mostly of love verses, “Some Day” and others iieiug quoted iu full. In tne body of his letter he remarked: “Two little lives are soon to go out of the I world—out of the sunshine forever." He then expresses bis undying love for his I wife, comutw'ui ilia own hard and rowdy career with her angelic purity, and winds up with a love verse. He signs his name nowhere, and his initials only one: “T. G. W.” The most singular portion is where he quotes a peculiar prayer at full length and admonishes Georgia to read it every night. These letters are undated, but are post marked “Hart, Ga., August fi." The oldest one is dated July 25, and is the poem “Some Day,” with no comments. Mr. Byrd, father of Mrs. Woolfolk, was then talked with, and he said: “I was under Capt. Dick Woolfolk in the Georgia militia in 1863. I thought there was hardly such a man as Capt. Woolfolk, but I would not put up with Tom on his own account when he came to see my daugh ter. Yet I treated him as a gentleman for his lather’s sake. After my daughter came home he came frequently to see her until I forbade him the house. He then came to meet mo at my field gate, after having sent my daughter a note by two negro boys, and on my refusing him the house, and after ho read a note from Georgia, considering his coining, he held out his hand and said: "Papa, shake hands with me. I want you to shoot me right through tho head. ” “On Friday, a week before the crime was committed, he swam Town creek, came to my father’s ami sent for me. I told the messenger to tell him to come to the house, Ho camo and I called Georgia to talk with him, and she said she had no talk for him. Ho mounted his horse and rode off. I toll him if he came hack here any more ho would come in danger. I never saw him since. ” Mr. Byrd is a ivoll-to-do-farmer, and stands as high as any man in Jones county. He says if Tom Woolfolk is guilty he wants to see him suffer for it. To-day Charles W. Howard was granted lettoi-s of temporary administration on the estate of Mrs. Mattie E. Woolfolk and the property will bo looked after by him. Tornadoes and Cyclono3. From Scribner's Magazine. When the conditions of atmospheric in stability have given birth to a tornado, tho fact is announced to the observer by a sud den 'gathering of dark, swift, whirling clouds from which denond a writhing ser pent-like body formed’ of condensed vapor. This writhing column extends rapidly downward until it touches the earth. When it attains the surface it becomes au dible from tho violent rending actions which it creates upon that surface. As soon as tho whirl is created it begins to move away—generally toward the north east—for the evident reason that the upper cold layer of air against which it originates has, in tho northern hemisphere, a move ment in that direction. In its path over the surface the circling movement of the writhing air and the sucking action of the partial vacuum in the central portion of the shaft combine to bring about an extreme devastation On the outside of tho whirl of air, which rushes in a circling path toward the vortex, overturns all moveable objects, and in the centre of these objects, if they are not too heavy, are sucked up as by a great air pump. Tlius the roofs of houses, bodies of men and animals may be lilted to groat elevations until they are tossed by the tumultuous movements beyond the limits of the asconding currents and fall back upon the earth. Where the centre of a whirl wind passes over a building the sudden decrease in the pressure of tho outer air often causes the at mosphere which is contained within the walls suddenly to press against the sides of the structure, so that these sides are quickly driven outward as if by a charge of gun powder. It is not unlikely that the diminu tion of the pressure brought about by the passage of the interior of the whirl over a building may be about as much as is indi cated by Nile fall of 4 inches in tho 1 areome ter. This is equivalent to a change in the pressure amounting to about 300 pounds to the square foot. This force operates to burst out the walls of a building. It is not improbable that the diminution of pressure may be much greater than this, but even the amount named is sufficient to account for tho burstit g out of tie frail-wailed structures which those devastating move ments encounter in the western parts of the United States. The way in which these tornado-whirls are farmed differs in certain essential par ticulars from the way in which whirlwinds are created, as has been well shown by Prof. Ferrel. The most important points of difference are as follows: The dust-whirls are due to the heating of a thin layer of air next the ground. The small mass of this layer prevents its upward whirling from bringing about uny powerful movements of the atmosphere. In the tornado the heat of the lower air has a different origin. When a cyclone passes over the surface of the country certain peculiar movements ol the atmosphere winch it produces brings large volumes of the warm and moistened air to tho earth’s surface and overlay them by a cool stratum. The layer of warm, moist nir tends to rise up for the same rea son that the thin layer of dry air which forms tho dust-whirl is impellod upward, hut on account of its great mass the inten sity of the upwaid urgence is far greater. Iu the sand wh rl. tho upward motion beii g close to the eat th’s surface, for the reason that the stratum which is impede 1 upward is very thin, hut in the tornado the stratum of heated air is usually about 1,000 feet thick; therefore, its whirling action natur ally originates at the upper surface of the hot layer, for it is at that point the upward motion begins. Starting in this uppjr region, the whirl extends piogros sively downward, just as in the hath tub the whirl extends progressive ly upward from the point at which the mo tion originated, until the whirl may touch tte surface of the earth. When those whirls begin they only involve a small part of the air about tho point of origin, and so the ac quired velocity of the particles when they come to the centre is not groat; hut grad ually they suck air from farther and farther away. As tho field of supply becomes larger, and the particles move from a greater distance, they approach that centre with greater and greater sjieed, Hnd the spiral widens and turns with accelerated velocity. Tho longer the journey of the particle, the swifter its whirling motion becomes. Fortunately, the paths of tornadoes are ordinarily very narrow —the widest have a diameter of less than two miles, the narrow est of only forty feet. In most cases a tor nado is seriously destructive over a width of not exceeding 000 feet. The length of the tornado’s path across the country does not commonly exceed thirty miles and it gen erally traverses the distance in about an hour. When the upward corkscrew motion of tho outer part of the spiral and the swifter uprusli of the air through the central shaft have drain'll away the most of tho warm air which gave birth to tlio motion, the tornado dies away. The equilibrium of tho air-masses Is for a time restored, tho heavier air has fallen down upon the surface, and the warm air, spreading laterally as it attains tho level to which it tends, comes into a state of quiet. Assuming the width of the destruction brought about by tho storm at tIOO feet, and the length of its journey at, thirty miles, we find that tho area of its devastation amounts to about 2,000 acres, or to a square area about two miles on a side. Over this area the destruction is ordinarily more complete than that which occurs in tho most severe earthquakes. Tiit;UK is a divinity student in the White Moun tains who acts as a waiter in a summer hotel week days and preaches in the little village church Sundays. Last Sunday he informed the astonished congregation thnt “the usual colla tion will now be taken up."— Burlington Frtt Frau. A Boon For Travelers. The traveler who guards against sudden attacks of cold, headache, indigestion, di arrhoea, etc., ailments not infrequently brought on by changes of climate anti wnter, is the sensible far-seeing man. Always have handy in your valise or trunk a box of Allcock's Porous Plasters. Worn on the pit of tho stomach they will so strength en the digestive organs ‘that you can eat almost anything, and travel without tear of taking evid. CtTTICURA REMEDIES. OUR LITTLE GRANDCHILD. Cleansed, Purified and Beauti fied by the Cuticura Remedies. It affords me pleasure to give you this report of the cure of our little grandchild by your Cu ticura Remedies. When six months old his left hand began to swell and had every appearance of a large boil. We poulticed it, but all to no purpose. About five months after it l>eoame a running sore. Soon other sores formed. He then had two of them on each hand, and as his blood became more and more impure it took less time for them to break out. A sore came on the chin, beneath the under lip, which was very offensive. His head was one solid scab, discharging a great deal. This was his condi tion at twenty-two months old, when I under took the care of him, his mother having died when he was a little more than a year old, of consumption (scrofula of course). He could w alk a little, but could not get up if he fell down, and could not move when iu l>ed, having no use of his hands. I immediately commenced with the Cuticura Remedies, using the Cuti cura and Cuticura Soap freely, and when he had taken one bottle of the Cuticura Resol vent. his head was completely cured, and he was improved in every way. We were very much encouraged, and continued the use of the remedies for a year and a half. One sore after another healed, a bony matter forming in each one of these five deep ones just before healing, which would finally grow loose and were taken out; then they would heal rapidly. One of these ugly lone formations I preserved After taking a dozen and a half bottles he was completely cured, and is now, at the age of six years, a strong and healthy child. The scar* on his bands must always remain; his hands are strong, though we once feared he would never be able to use them. All that physicians did for him did him no good. All who saw the child liefore using the Cuticura Remedies and see the child now consider it a wonderful cure. If the above facts are of any use to you, you are at liberty to use them. MRS. E. S. DRIGGB, May 9, 1885. Gl2 E. Clay St., Bloomington, 111 The child waa really in a worse condition than he appeared to his grandmother, who, being with him every day, became accustomed to the disease. MAGGIE HQPPING. Cuticura Remedies are sold everywhere. Cuticura, the great Skin Cure, 50 ets. ; Cuti cura Soap, an exquisite Skin Beautifier, 25 ets. ; Cuticura Resolvent, the new Blood Purifier, sl. Prepared by the Potter Drug and Chemi cal Cos., Boston. Send for “How to Cure Skin Diseases.” Trpf“iTTl> G, Scaly, Pimply and Oily Skin 11UX1 beautified by Cuticura Soap. My Back Aches! /Ti% Back Aches, Kidney Pains and Weak /A-J*. /sness, Soreness, Lameness, Strains and l'ain relieved in one minute by the 1 “y— Cuticura Anti-Pain Plaster in m fallible, COTTON SEED WANTED. COTTON SEED WANTED The southern cotton oil company will my the highest market price for clean, sound COTTON SEED. The Comnany will have mills in operation at the following points in time to crush this sea son's crop of Seed, vi i.: Savannah, Georgia. Columbia, South Carolina. Atlanta, Georgia. . Montgomery, Alabami, New Orleans, Louisiana. Memphis, Tennessee. Little Rock, Arkansas. Houston, Texas. For sale of Seed, or with reference to Seed Agencies, address SOUTHERN COTTON OIL COMPANY at any of the above points, or C. FITZ SIMONS, Traveling Agent tor the CARO LINAS und GEORGIA, with headquarters at ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO. GRAIN AND HAY. Eastern Hay. PRIME BRIGHT OLD CROP EASTERN HAY, POTATOES. LEMONS, ONIONS, CABBAGE, FEED AND SEED PEAS, VIR GINIA BLACK EYE TABLE PEAS, PEANUTS, GRAIN AND FEED, EYES, BRAN, FEED MEAL. Get our carload prices on GRAIN and HAY. 169 BAY ST, W.D. SIMKINS&CO. DYES. ~ LAD IBS I DO your own Dyeing, at home, with PEER LESS DYES. They will dye everything. They are sold everywhere. Price lUo. a package -to*colors. They hare no equal forstrengtu, brightness, amount iu packages, or for fastness of color, or non fading qualities. They do not crock or smut. For sale by B. F. Ulmer, M. I)., corner Broughton and Houston streets; I’. B. Keid, Druggist and Apothe cary, corner Jones and Abereorn streets; Edward J. Kikk-pbr, Druggist, corner West Broad aud Stewart streets. l’ltl.Vl'Klt AND BOOKBINDER. Old in Years—Not Old Fogy. GEO. nTnICHOLS, PRINTER and BINDER. To the Manor born—full of years and experi ence —still young In energy and ability—with all the accessories necessary to satisfactorily conduct the business to which he has given his life. Grateful for past fa\ ors—hopeful of other* lo come. TV BEE RAILROAD. SAVANNAH AND TYBEE RAILWAY. Standard. Time. Commencing Saturday, July 16, 1867, the following schedule will be in effect: No. 8. No. 1. No. 5. No. 7.* Lv. Savan nah. ..10:90am 3:oopm 6:oopm o:sopm Ar.Tybee. 11:45am 4:lspin 7:00 pm 11:05 pm No. 2. No. 4. No. 6. No. B.* I.v.Tyhee. 7:ooam 4:ospm 9:lspm 8:00pm Ar. Savan nah. .. B:lsani 5:30 pm 10:25 pm 9:lopm •Trains 7 and 8 Sundays only. All trains leave Suvaimah from Savannah and Tybee depot, in S.. F. and W. yard, east of pas senger depot. Ix-ave Tybee from (X-ean House. Tickets on sale nt depot, ticket office, and at Fernandez's Cigar Store, corner Bull and Broughton streets. C. G. HAINES, Supt. Savannah, July 15, 1887. SUBURBAN RAILWAY. City and Suburban Railway. Savannah, Ga., May 31. 1887. ON and after WEDNESDAY, June Ist, the following schedule will be run on the Out side Line: LEA VB I ARRIVE I LEAVE IRLE LEAVE CITY. j CITY. jOF HOPE. MONTGOMERY *6:55 ! 6:42 6:20 10:25 ) 8:40 8:15 7:50 ••3:35 2:00 1:30 1:00 +7:15 | 6:40 6:15 545 There will be no early train from Isle of Hope on Sunday morning. •For Montgomery only. Passengers for Isle of Hope go via Montgomery without extra charge. This train affords parents a cheap ex cursion before breakfast for young children with nurses. ••This 3:25 P. M. train last out of city Sunday afternoon tOn Saturdays this train leaves city at 7:45 r- 8- J, H. JOKNbTUK. SHIPPING. OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY FOR New York, Boston and Philadelphia. PASSAGE TO NEW YORK. CABIN S3O 00 EXCURSION 33 00 STEERAGE 10 00 PASSAGE TO BOSTON. CABIN S3O 00 EXCURSION 33 00 STEERAGE 10 00 PASSAGE TO PHILADELPHIA. (via New Yore). CABIN $32 50 EXCURSION 36 00 STEERAGE * 12 50 THE magnificent steamships of these lines are appointed to sail as follows—standard time: TO NEW YORK. 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 3:30 p. m. CHATTAHOOCHEE. Capt. II C. Daqgett, FRIDAY, Aug. 19, at 6 p. m. TO BOSTON. GATE CITY, Capt. E. R. Taylor, THURSDAY, Aug. 11, 11 A. M. CITY OF MACON, Capt. H. C. Lewis, THURS DAY, Aug. 18. at 5 p. M. TO PHILADELPHIA. [for freight only. 1 DESSOUG, Capt. N. F. Howes, SATURDAY, Aug. 13, at 1 p. m. JUNIATA, Capt. S. L. Askins, SATURDAY, Aug. 20, at 6:30 p. m. Through bills of lading given to Eastern and Northwestern points and to ports of the United Kingdom and the Continent. For freight or passage apply to C. G. ANDERSON, Agent. City Exchange Building. Merchants’ aud Miners’ Transportation Coni’v. For Baltimore. CABIN sl* so SECOND CABIN 10 00 THE STEAMSHIPS of this Company are ap pointed to sail from Savannah for Balti more as follows—city time: WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Snow, MONDAY, August 15, at 4 p. m. WM. CRANE. Capt. Billups, SATURDAY, August 30, at 8 a. m. WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Snow, THURSDAY, August 25, at 12 m. WM. CRANE, Capt. Billups, TUESDAY, Au gust 80, at 5 p. M. And from Baltimore on the days above named nt 3 p. M. Through hills lading given to all points West, all the manufacturing towns in New England, and to ports of the United Kingdom and the Continent. JAS. B. WEST & CO.. Agents, SKA I SI, A NL> UOU TE. STEAMER "dAVi:T CLARK, Capt. M. P. USINA, VT7TLL LEAVE Savannah from wharf foot of “ Lincoln street for BORO-Y, DARIEN, BRUNSWJt ’K and FERNANDINA, every TUES DAY und FRIDAY at li p. m., city time, con necting at Savannah with New York, Philadel ptiia, Bosion and Baltimore steamers, at l-Vr nandina with rail for Jacksonville and all points in Florida, and at Brunswick with steamer for Satilla river. No freight received after 5 p. m. on days of sailing. Freight not signed for 34 Hours after arrival will be at risk of consignee. Tickets on wharf and boat. C. WILLIAMS, Agent. SEMI WEEKLY LINE FOR COHEN’S BLUFF AND WAY LANDINGS. 'T'HE steamer ETHEL, Capt. W. T. Gibson, will X leave for above MONDAYS and THURS DAYS at 6 o'elock r. m. Returning arrive WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS at 8 o'clock p. m. For information, etc., apply to W. T. GIBSON, Manager. Wharf foot of Drayton street. For Augusta and Way Landings. Slisfel BTEAME R KATIE, Capt. J. 8. BF.VILL, WILL leave EVERY WEDNESDAY at 10 o'clock a. m. (city time) for Augusta aud way landings. AU freights payable by shippers. JOHN LAWTON, Manager. PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE. Tampa, Key AVeat, Havana. SEMI WEEKLY. SOUTH-BOUND. Lv Tampa Monday and Thursday 9:30 p. m. Ar Key West Tuesday and Friday 4 p. in. Ar Havana Wednesday and Saturday Bum NORTHBOUND. Lv Havana Wednesday and Satuniay noon. Lv Key West Wednesday and Saturday 10 p m Ar Tampa Thursday and Sunday 6 p. m. Connecting at Tampa with West India Fast Train to and from Northern and Eastern cities. For stateroom accommodations apply to City Ticket Office 8., F. A W. R'y, Jacksonville, or Agent Plant Steamship Line. Tampa. C. D. OWENS, Traffic Manager. H. 8. HAINES, General Manager. May 1, 1887. Bluff ton and Beaufort Line Wharf Foot of Abereorn Street. CTKAMER SEMINOLE leaves for Bluffton, Beaufort and Way landings EVERY TUES DAY at lU. ii. EVERY THURSDAY for Bean fort snd Way Landings nt 11 a. m. For Bluff toa EVERY SATURDAY at 2 p a H. • RAILROADS. SO 11 ED TJ LE ~ CENTRAL RAILROAD. Savannah, Ga., July 3. 1887. ON and after this date Pasr-enger Trains will run daily unless marked t, which are daily, except Sunday. The standard time, by which these trains run, is 36 minutes slower than Savannah city time: No. 1. No. 8. No! 5. No! ?." Lv Savannah. .7:10 am 8:30 pm 5:15 pm 6:40 pm Ar Guyton 8:07 am 6:40 pm ArMifien 9:40 am 11:03 pm 7:80 pm 8:45 pm Ar Augusta. ,t1:45 pm 4:00 am 9:85 pin Ar Macon 1:40 pm 3:30 am Ar Atlanta .. .5:40 pm 7:15 am Ar Columbus .9:30 pm 2:45 pm Ar Montg'ry. .7:35 am 7:09 pm \ Ar Eufaula...4:3Bam B:sopm Ar Albany 10:00 pm 2:45 pm Train No. 9t leaves Savannah 2:00 p. m,; ar rives Guyton 2:55 p. m. Passengers for Sylvania, Wrightsville, Mil ledgeville andEatonton should take 7:10 a.m. train. Passengers for Thomaston, Carrollton, Perry Fort Gaines, Talbotton, Buena Vista, Blakely and Clayton should take the 8:20 p. m. train. No. 2. No. 4. No. 6. No. AT Lv Augusta. 10:00 pm 6:00 am Lv Macon.. .10:35 am 10:50 pm Lv Atlanta . 6:50 am 0:50 pm LvColumbus 11:00 pm 12:45 pm Lv Montg’ry. 7:25 pm 7:40 am Lv Eufaula. .10:15 pm 10:49 am Lv Albany.. s:osam 11:55am Lv Millen 2:28 pin 3:10 am 8:15 am 5:20 am Lv Guyton.. 4:08 pm s:olam 9:40 am 6:58 am 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, also Ma con and Columbus. Train No. 3, leaving Savannah at 8:20 p. m., will stop regularly at Guyton, but at no other point to put off passengers between Savannah and Millen. Train No. 4 will stop on signal at stations be tween Millen and Savannah to take on passen gers for Savannah. Train No. 5 will stop on signal at stations be tween Savannah and Millen to take on passen gers for Augusta or points on Augusta branch. Train No. 6 will stop between Milieu and Sa vannah to put off passengers from Augusta and points on Augusta branch. Connections at Savannah with Savannah, Florida and Western Railway for all points in Florida. Tickets for all points and sleeping car berths on sale at City Office, No. 20 Bull street, and Depot Office 80 minutes before departure of each train. % J. C. SHAW. G. A. WHITEHEAD, Ticket Agent. Gen. Pass. Agent. Savannah, Florida & Western Railway. [All trains on this road are run by Central Standard Time.] trUME CARD IN EFFECT JUNE 19, 1887. I Passenger trains on this road will run daily as follows: WEST INDIA FAST MAIL. READ DOWN. READ UP. 7:06 am Lv Savannah Ar 12:06 pm 12:30 pm Lv Jacksonville Lv 7:00 ara 4:4opm Lv ..Sanford Lv I:lsam 9:00 pm Ar Tampa Lv 8:00 p m PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE. Monday and) , Tamna Ar j Thursan! Thurs ...p m f lv. . rampa.. .Ar , Sun pm Tuesday and I . K w t T I Wed. and Friday, pmf Ar. .Key West. .Lv f sat, pm Wednes. and I . Havana Tv l Wod - an<l Sat amt Ar... Havana... Lv J- gfaKt.. noon Pullman buffet ears to and from New York and Tampa. NEW ORLEANS EXPRESS. 7:06 a m Lv Savannah Ar 7:58 p m 8:42 am Lv Jesup Ar 6:16 pm 9:soam Ar —.Waycross. Lv s:o6pm 11:26am Ar Callahan Lv 2:47pra 12:00uoonAr Jacksonville Lv 2:05 pm 7:00 am Lv Jacksonville Ar 7:45 pm 10:15 am Lv Waycross Ar 4:40 pm 12:04 pm Lv Valdosta Lv 2:56 pm 12:84 p m Lv Quitman Lv 2:28 p m 1:22 pm Ar Thomasville... .Lv 1:45 pm 8:35 pm Ar Balnbridge Lv 11:35 a m 4:04 p ni Ar—Chattahoochee Lv 11:30am Pullman buffet cars to and from Jackson villa and New York, to and from Waycross and New Orleans via Pensacola. EAST FLORIDA EXPRESS. 1:30 pm Lv Savannah Ar 12:06 pm 3:2opm Lv Jesup Lv 10:32am 4:40 pm Ar Was-cross Lv 9:23am 7:45 pm Ar Jacksonville Lv 7:00a ra 4:lspm Lv Jacksonville Ar 9:45am 7:20 pm Lv Wnyrross Ar 6:85 a~tn 8:31 pm Ar Dupont Lv s:3oam 3:35 pm Lv Lake City Ar 10:45 a ra 3:45pm Lv Gainesville Ar 10:30am 6:55 pm Lv Live Oak Ar 7:10 ara 8:40 p m Lv Dupont Ar 5:25 am 10:55 pm Ar ThoinasviUo Lv 3:25 am 1:22 am Ar Albany Lv 1:25 am Pullman buffet cars to and from Jacksonville and St. Louis via Thomasville, Albany, Mont gomery and Nashville. ALBANY EXPRESS. 7:3spinLv Savannah Ar 6:loara 10:05 p m Lv Jesup Lv B:lsam V:2O am Ar Atlanta Ev 7:05 p m 12:.0am Ar Waycross Lv 12:10am 5:30 am Ar Jacksonville Ev 9:00 pm 9:oopm Lv Jacksonville Ar s:3oam 1:05 am Lv Waycross Ar 11:30 pm 3:Boam Ar Dupont Lv 10:05pm 7:loam Ar LiveGak Lv (T:55 p m 10:80am Ar Gainesville Lv 3:45pm 10:45 qin Ar . .Lake City Lv 3:25pm 3:36 a m Lv Dupont Ar 9:36 p m 0:30 ain Ar Thonutsville Ev 7:00 pm 11:10am Ar Albany I,v 4:oopm Stops at all regular stations. Pullman sleeping cars to and trum Jacksonville and Sa vannah and to and from Savannah and Atlanta THOMASVII.ee EXPRESS. 605 a m Lv Waycross Ar 7:00 pra 10:85 ara Ar .Thomasville Lv 2:15 pm Stops at all regular and flag stations. JESUP EXPRESS. 3:45 p m Lv Savannah Ar ?:30a ra 6:10 p m Ar Jesup Lv 5:25a ra Stops at all regular and Hag stations. CONNECTIONS. At Savannah for Charleston at 6:45 a m. far rive Augusta via Yemassee at 12:30 p m), 12:26 p m and 8:23 pm; for Augusta and Atlanta at 7:00 am, 5:18 p m and 8:20 p ni; with steamships for New York Sunday, Tuesday and Friday; for Boston Thursday: for Baltimore every fifth day. At JICBUP for Brunswick at 3:30 a m and 3:35 pm; for Macon nnu Atlanta 10:30a m and 11:07 p m. At WAYCROSS for Brunswick at 10:00a mand 5:05 p in. At CALLAHAN for Fernandlna at 2:47 p ra; for Waldo, Cedar Key, Ocala, etc , at 11:37 a m. At LIVE OAK for Madison, Tallahassee, etc., at 10:58 r. m and 7:3 ) p ni. At GAINESVILLE forOcala, Tavares, Brooks ville and Tampa at 10:55 a m. At ALBANY for Atlanta, Macon, Montgom ery, Mobile, Now Orleans, Nashville, etc. At CHATTAHOOCHEE for Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans at 4:14 p m. Tickets sold and sleeping car berths secure! at BREN’S Ticket Office, and at the Passenger Station. WM. P. HARDEE, Gen. Pass. Agent. R. G. FLEMING Superintendent Charleston & Savannah Railway Cos. CONNECTIONS mode at Savannah with Sa vannah. Florida -and Western Railway. Trains leave and arrive at Savannah by stand ard time (90th meridian), which is 36 luinutoil slower than city time. NORTHWARD. No. 14* 38+ 66* 78* Lv Rnv’h.. .12:26 p m 4:00 p m 6:45 a m 8:23 pin Ar Augusta 12:80 pm Ar Beaufort 6:08 pm 10:15 inn Ar p. Royal 6:20 pm 10:80 am Ar Al'dala.. 7:40 p m B:lspm 10:20 a ra Ar Cha sum 4:43 p ni 9:20 p m 11:40a m 1:25a in SOUTHWARD. 33* 85* 27* Lv Cha’ston 7:10 a m 3:-65 p m 4:00 a ra Lv Augusta 12:85 pm Lv Al’dale.. 5:10 a m 3:07 p Lv P. Royal. 7:00 a in 8:00 pm Ev Beaufort, 7:l2am 2:lßpm .... ArSav’b., 10:15 am 0:53 p m 6:41 ain • Daily between Savannah and Charleston. •Sundays only. . . _ . Train No. 78 makes no connection with Port Royal and Augusta Railway, and stops only at Rldgeland, Green Pond ana Kaveuel. Train 14 stops only nt Yemassee and Green Pond, and connects for Beaufort and Port Royal daily, and for Allendale daily, except Sunday. Trains 35 and 66 connect from and for Beaufort and Port Royal daily. .... for tickets, sleeping car reservations and all other information apply to WM BREN, Siss iul Ticket Agent, At Bull street, and at Charleston aud Savannah railway ticket office, at Savanuab, Florida aui Western Railway depot. C. 8. GADSDEN i Supt- Jvmi. 1847.