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2 SALE OF THE STATE HOAD MR. DEAN OPENS THE DEBATE ON HIS BILE. Many Reasons Given Why the Road Should Be Sold at the Earliest Prac ticable Moment The Appropriation for the Asylum at Cave Springs Dis cussed in the House. Atlanta, Ga.. Aug. 17.—1n the Senate to-day the special order was Air. Dean's bill for the sale of the State road. Tho bill was read. Mr. Butt., of the Twenty-fourth district, moved an amendment submitting the act to the people, the vote to lie taken at the elec tion of the next Legislature, The opening argument for the bill was made by Mr. Dean. His advocacy of the sale of the road was bast-d on the idea that the State should not own property and thus compete with its own citizens, offering the temptation to tho State to use its sovereign power to obtain advantage over competi tors, who have no such power. He also argued that it is a bad business policy for a State to own property and owe debts, the interest on the debts amounting to more than the rental derived from tho road, when by a sale of the property tho entire debt can be paid. Ho claimed that the ownership and management of tho road by the State was a disturbing element in the politics of the State. Every political campaign for the past forty years has been burdened with discussions about this prop erty, fraud and corruption being charged time and again upon those in charge of it. ■Whether or not these charges were true they were made repeatedly, and bad feel ing and political acrimony was engendered. I I CONSUMED MUCH TIME. The time of the Legislature has been taken up, amounting to days and weeks, in dis cussing the road and its management, and its lease has not prevented either the bitter ness in the campaign or the debates in the General Assembly regarding the proposition to submit the sale to a vote of the people. He said the members of the General Assembly' were elected to act for the people, not to refer questions back to the people. He said the constitution of 1877 directly authorized the sale by the General Assembly, and that delay in the settlement of the question under discussion until next November would force upon the State the very thing he was anxious to avoid, viz: a forced sale or lease when no time could be had to properly mature plans Then the sale would have to be made in such a short time before the lease expires that in his opinion only a bad one would lie made, and as there would lie no competition the road would not bring half its value in a sale or lease. Now a magnillccnt sum could be obtained if the Slate will begin in time and allow purchasers the opportunity to form companies with sufficient capital to buy so large and expensive a property. The Legislature will lx- held directly responsible for the delay and consequent depression in price. Again, the interest now being paid on the bonded indebtedness of the State is $887,000, and the rental amounts to $:>00, 000, a difference against the State of $587,- 000. 810 MONEY EXPECTED. The price offered by purchasers, provided the bill passes, will be more than $8,500,000, the minimum price named in the bill. The present plan of paying the debt of Georgia will require eighty-five years to complete it, and $42,000,000, principal and interest will lie the amount required. It is true the rental from the road will lx' some set off, but it is nothing on the principal of the debt, and who knows but thut the road may boa financial wreck long before the State's debt is mid, and in that event the rental will .be stopped. Again, as soon as this road is sold it becomes subject, to the burdens of government and the owners will pay taxes just the same as other roads. Now the Btato receives as taxes from the lessees the sum of SA3S. If owned by others than the State the amount of taxes will be annually about ANSWERING OBJECTIONS. Senator Dean then proceeded to notice the objections to the sale of the road. The first was that the bill recognized the claim for betterments. Be denied this,and proved by the reading of the bill that it contained no such recognition. It would not bo well for Oe >rgia to sell tho property until the State hail an understanding with the leasees about the betterments. lie said to do lay the passage of tho bill for that reason would be to encourage the lessees to believe that tin'll claim for betterments was valid. He argued that the inventory furnished by the com missioners at the time the lease was made is the basis of settlement between the State of Georgia and the lessees, and there can be no other. This bill recognizes this and no more, and does not presup pose the payment of betterments. Bend lug this argument tho Senate adjourned. IN THK HOUSE. In the House to-dav the privileges of the floor were tendered the Agricultural Con vsuuon delegates. The sjiecinl order wus the I'esolution to appropriate $12,01)0 for the completion of n new building, and for re- i wiring and refurnishing the Deaf and himb Asylum at Cave Springs. The report of the finance Committee redncoil the amount to $O,OOO. The hill was considered in committee of the whole. Mr. AVheeler, of Walker moved hi amend by striking out $9,000 and substituting $6,000. jli-. Denny narrated the circumstances under which the first appropriation fort in new building was made and he progress made toward its completion. He said the building could not he utilized until a small additional appropriation was made to com plete it. Ho stated specifically the work for which the appropriation was needed and the necessity for it. He said the institution was greatly crowded. In one room there were thirty pupils. He insisted on the import ance of the institution and the duty of the .State to support it. To provide properly for the enlarge ment of the main building s<;,<XHi was needed. Ho compared the appropriations made for the deaf and dumb asylum and those for the lunatic asylum und the asylum for the blind, showing that the State had been much more libera) towards the two latter than towurd the former, und tlmtjtlie cost per capita was much less in the former than in either of the others. ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. Mr. Stewart, of Itockdnle. explained why committee t hought $9.000 sufficient. He said that the appropriation was absolutely necessary. Mr. ( Giv, of Cobb, said that thej-e was not u single dissenting vote in the Finance Committee to the appropriation of $O,OOO. After Bearing the statement of the princi pal of the institute he insisted oil the neces sity of making it, The sum of $3,000 was Mated to complete the new building, and $O,OOO for the repairing and enlargement of the old building. Mr. Harrell, of AVebster, said that the comparison of expenses showed that there was a vast deal of extravagance in conduct ing some of the Stab- institutions. WANTS IT WATCHED. He offered an amendment requiring the appropriation to tie expended uiidw the supervision of the Governor, and no more of it to tie used than was necessary. Mr. Denny accepted this amendment. The amendment of Mr. AV heeler was re jected. The committee's amendment was adopted. Mr. Harrell's amendment was .also adopted. The i-oinmitfee rose and reported in favor of the hill as amended and it was passed by 13*$ yens to 1 nay. Mr. Ham’s bill prohibiting the sale of to bacco and cigarettes to minor* was another special order, but was referred to th" Com mittee on the State of Republic The following new I vis were introduce!: by Mr. Huriey,of Ci uipbeli—To prohibit the manufacture or sale of spirituous or malt liquor in Campbell county. Bv Mr. Perkins, of Burke —To authorize the Town Council of Miller to levy a sjx*cial tax for school purposes. By Mr. Adams, of Elbert--To incorporate the Cleveland Manufacturing and Improve ment Company. By Mr. Harrell, of Webster —A resolution for the sale’ of ISO shares of the Georgia Railroad Company held by the State By Mr. McGehee, of Murray—To pay R. E. Wilson, clerk of a railroad commission during Gov. Bullock's administration so‘.lo. By Mr. Olive, of Oglethorpe—To provide for the additional supervision of railroads in this State, etc. By Mr. Smith, of Gwinnett —To incor porato the Great North and South railway, from Atlanta, by Lawrenceville, to the South Carolina line. By Mr. Morgan, of Pulaski —A resolution for the relief of E. A. Pollock, Tax Collec tor of Pulaski county. By Mr. Bray, of Fulton —To amend an act to incorporate the Pulton County Street Railroad Company, so as to authorize it to use steam or other power. By Mr. Hollman, of Taylor—To prohibit the running at largo of stock in a district of Taylor county. By Mr. Howell, of Fulton —To amend an act to incorporate the Atlanta Insurance Company, changing its name to the Atlanta Banking Company, etc. A FLEET THIEF. He Outruns a Sheriff and Hie Deputy With Handcuffs On. Calhoun, Ga., Aug. 17. —Thursday even ing Thomas Wilkerson, a 14-year-old negro boy, stole $5B 10 and a silver watch from H. A. Dorsey, who is selling whisky for J. M. Ballew, just outside of town. The boy I icing suspected of the theft, was closely watched, and finally arrested and told that he had stolen the money and watch. He denied the charge, but Mr. Ballew told him there was no use in denying it. “Just show me where the money is and you may go.” The boy led the way to an old stable near by and told Ballew the money was buried there by the comer of the stable. On examina tion every cent of the money was found, but no watch. Tho loy was put in jail early this morning. The negro told Sheriff McGinnis that if he would take him up on the mountain near by ho would show him where the watch was buried. .Sheriff McGinnis handcuffed him, and accompanied by Deputy (Sheriff Durham, took Tom up the mountain. While searching for the supposed burial place of the watch Tom broke away and ran like a scares 1 rabbit, pursued by McGinnis anil Durham. Mc- Ginnis sexin came down the mountain put ting and blowing, calling for help to catch the uogro. The wexids for miles around were searched but no tidings were re ceived of the negro until the southbound train urrivod this evening when Claud Nesbitt with the negro in charge got off here. Nesbitt says lie met the boy near Resaca walking up the railroad track and sex;ing the handcuffs he asked the* boy what he was eloing witli them on. The Lxiy re plied thut ho had found them and put them on anil could not get them off. The boy is in jail, but McGinnis lias not yet found the watch. FLORIDA’S THIRD BATTALION. The Major Greatly Pleased With Its Appearance. Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 17.— The Escam bia Rifles, of this city, and Santa Rosa Rifles, of Milton, forming the Third liat talion of tho Florida State troops, were mustered in and drilled at Milton to-day preparatory to the encampment of Florida State troo]is at Pablo Beach, near Jackson ville, Aug. 23. Maj. W. F. Williams, battalion com mander, was much pleased with the appear ance and proficiency of the two crack com panies of liis battalion, and West Florida may Ihi justly proud of its soldier repre sentatives at Pablo Beach. Warren & Cos., fish dealers, of this city, have received intelligence of tho safety of tho smack Leonora, which was supposed to have been lost in the recent gale. As vet there is no news of the smack Charles Henry, which lias now been out twenty eight daj\, and there is every reason to be lieve the unfortune crow of six men liuvo found a watery grave The Charles Henry was owned in New Orleans and Pensacola, nnd was valued at $2,000. There is no in surance. Killed by the Cars. Madison, Fla., Aug. 17. —Henry Mc- Donnell (colored), a biakomau on a west bound freight train, was run over while uncoupling cars at. this place, this evening, and instantly killed. The wheels passed en tirely over liis hi sly and head. No fault whatever attaches to the railroad company, as he fell under the train, after being told by the conductor not to go lietweeu tho cars until the train hud stopped. A Temperance Rally. Aladison, Fla., Aug. 17.—A rousing temperance mass meeting was held here to-day. It was probably tho largest meet ing of tlie kinil ever held in the State. Groat enthusiasm was manifested. Stirring speeches were made by Col. A. J. Russell, J. C. Gallagher, D. W. Gilleslee und others. A vigorous campaign lias been started, which will lie pushed to victory for tem perance at. the election, Sept. 13. JOSEPH SMITH’S SON. A Story With Romantic Marks, But Lacking Confirmation. St. Louis, -Vug. 15.—The Qlobe-Democrat prints a sensational story about the blood successor of Joseph Smith, of the Mormon church, that has the marks of a romjuice, but lacks confirmation. Alsnit twenty-five years ago the little town of Nauvoo, 111., the headquarters of the Mormon church of the Mississippi valley, wus startled by a story iu which Joseph Smith, in 1812, fig ured as the lover of a dashing English mai den of a wealthy family, believers in Mor nionfsm, who were traveling in America. The prophet wished to take the girl ns his spiriiiuil wife, and she consented with the condition that if she bore a son he in the fullne-s of time should become the head of the Mormon church. The child was born, nnd, for fear of foul piny from other chil dren of the Smith family, the mother and child hastened to England, nnd there edu cated the child in Cambridge University, proper credentials having been given to secure all rights. The story is now being published bv I,e Baron Ila\ inton, a man of note in the Mor mon Church at Salt Lake City, for the pur pose. it is thought, of injuring the prospects i t the ambition* Smith of the present day, and perhaps with tho intention of springing the central figure of the story, who would now be 45 years old, lief ore the church as a claimant to the head. Dr. George Hall, of St. Louis, and Mr. Crawford, of Hancock, 111., claim to lie tho only ones who know of the origin of the story, and they pronounce it a myth. It is reported that the story was concocted twenty-five years ago in Dr. Hall's office, to liis knowledge, but not by him He claims to have ample evidence in liis possession to prove the whnlo thing n myth. Deaths in the Alps. London, Aug. 17.—Four fatal accidents to Alpine tourists are reported from Zu rich, making eighteen deaths in the Alps within a month. Advice to Mothero. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should always lx* used when children are cutting teeth. It relieves the little suffer at once; it produce! natural, quiet Jeep by relieving the child from pain and tho little cherub awakes as “bright as a button. * It is very pleasant, to taste. It noothi the child, softens the gums, allay* all pain, re lieves wind, regulates the bnivc!s, and is the best known remoiO ior diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or otliar cause* cent* a bottle. | THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1887. ILL-LUCK SAVED HIS LIFE. Talo of a Counterpart of the Famous Robert Macaire. From the Chieatjo Time a. Olio evening in tho summer of IST2 I was sitting in one of the manj- gardens which Philadelphia at that time provided for the comfort and entertainment of pooplc who take their music with beer. My attention was attracted to a man about (15 years old, whose appearance was the nearest approach te> the traditional make-up of Robert Mai'aire that I hail ever seen off tho stage, not omitting the blackened eye. lie wandered about the gardep swing ing an old umbrella in a nonchalant way for some time, not exactly oblivious to the strains of Behrens’ aelmirabto orchestra, hut in a manner betokening satiety of every thing commonplace, yet still evincing a willingness to endure his surroundings in elcfault of something more to his taste. I wateheel his movements for awhile, and, finally losing sight of him in the crowd, or dered a “nightcap” and arose from my chair to go home. As I did so I felt a gentle tap on my shoulder, and a well-modulated voice said: “Excuse me. sir. Are you a believer in the doctrine of predestination?” The question, the man anil the manner struck me as so excessively ridiculous that I laughisi outright, but, recovering myself, replied: “You mean, I suppose, to ask if I believe that a man who was born to be hanged can't jiossibly be drowned." "Something like that, yes. I have a theory that I wasn’t born to lie drowned, but we won’t discuss the hanging.” “We won’t discuss anything,” I said, “I’m going.” “My dear sir,” said the typical Robert with a Chesterflelijian bow, accompanied by a wide and graceful sweep of his umbrella, “that is really' too bad. You should by all means remain and hear my story, a story without a moral. It isn’t a ghost story or a fairy tale, but a true account of the only niece of good luck I ever encountered in my' life, and that came about through niv losing all my money at faro; hadn’t a cent left.” Tho fellow’s evident sincerity impressed me, and my' curiosity to hear his paradoxi cal experience grow stronger as I gazed into bis imperturbable countenance and re pressed a laugh* I had been a sort of a rounder for many years, and considered myself invulnerable to assaults upon my credulity, so I invited my companion to lie seated, resumed my place at the table, or dered some refreshments and told him of my burning anxiety to lx* added to the list of victims. Casting toward me a look of in jured innocence at the suggestion of guilo conveyed by my last remark. he composed his countenance by' inserting a portion of it into tho beer mug he held in his hand, and began his story: “I will not boro you with an account of my early life, “said he, “further than to say that I was born in ill luck. My father, whose hopes during a few months prior to my nativity had lieen set upon the pinnacle of desire to bo parent to a daughter, dently' fancied that I was solely responsible for my sex, und could never tolerate me in his presence. At the earliest moment that I attained the age at which l would be re ceived in a boarding school I was sent away from home and kept away, in school and out, until I was 18 years of age, when I re ceived from my father the sum of S(MO and a letter informing mo that I must from that time forward shift for myself. I shifted. The first thing I did was to lose the $BOO, wuich feat I accomplished before leaving the * school. I have alway's thought the ja’iitor took it. but have never been uncer tain of tho fact that 1 didn’t take it when I left. “My first practical experience in shifting for myself was confined to easy stages of pedestrianism in search of employment, which I obtained on tho third day after my departure from the school in a carpenter’s shoji. I had worked two hours carrying lumlior to tho planing-bonch, when I fell through a hole in the floor into tho cellar ami broke ono of my legs. This episode dulled the keen edge of my desire to learn the carpenter's trade, and as soon as I was able to travel I set out in quest of an easier, or at least a safer, way of earning a living. With varying success, and always getting the worst of it in the long run, I turned my hand to almost everything until the spring of 1801, when the war broke out, I was at that time enjoying one of the brief periods of fair luck that commonly sucoeded the violent and protracted paroxysms of ill fortune to which I was sub ject, Jand in requital of my services in assisting to raise a volunteer company in re sponse to President Lincoln’s call for 75,000 men I was commissioned a first lieutenant. I then believed my star was in the ascend ant, but there was in store for me, as I speedily realized, worse luck than I had ever before experienced. On the evening before tho day fixed for our departure from tho Ohio town, in which I was then living, I called to say farewell to the only girl I hail ever lieen able to induce to tolerate my at tentions, and who had promised to marry me. Fancy my feelings when I was in formed by her brother, who met me at tho il< Kir, that sho had married a feller from Mansfield that morning and was at that mo ment on her way to her now home. I rushed away from the liquse with full determina tion to die on the battle-field, but my ]x>r vorse luck Interfered to prevent even that one of my desires from arriving at consum mation. “On the following morning my company starti si for Columbus to join the regiment to which it was attached, and for awhile war like enthusiasm took the place of dis appointment and chagrin within my breast; tmt the unfaithfulness of my sweetheart was of too recent occurrence to enable me to banish the pangs which seized me, and my arrival at Columbus was signalized by an unprecedented draft upon the alcoholic resources of the town, resulting in my so journ in tho guard-house and the loss of my shoulder straps. 1 continued with the regi ment as a private, however, having nothing else to do, and living still strong in my de sire to die a soldier's death, until the expire tion of mv three months’ term of enlist ment, when f re-enlisted for three y ears, and served after a subsequent, enrollment, each time in a different command, until the close of the war, without receiving a scratch. “In 1865 I was discharged at Jackson, Miss., and obtained employment in that town, which, at that time it npjieared to me the Almighty hail overlooked in the distri bution of His bounty, and remained there three months in the combined capacity of salesman, porter ami principal and junior assistant in the only clothing store in the place. There I was rejoined by my hered itary luck (I wasn’t Ixirn a girl you'll re member), and for the heinous offense of charging only $155 for a $l4 suit of clothes I was summarily ejected from tho clothing business just ns I was beginning to tielieve that I had at last placed my feet firmly upon the ladder of success. ‘•Remaining in Jackson only long enough to imck my limited wardrobe iii an old lashioncd carpet bag, I tixik a train in tho Southern railroad of Mississippi for Vieks liurg. At a place called Bovina, eight miles from Vicksburg, the railroad bridge had lieen destroyed during the war and peason gers were transferred across tho big Black river by stage, crossing that dirty little bayou, neither big nor black, by means of a pontoon bridge. Anew railroad bridge was in com-se of construction, and, as I felt, like stretching my legs and seeing the country, 1 walked across that in preference to the pontoon bridge. Arriving at about the middle oi the bridge I notion! a plank projecting about ten feet from tlie outer springpleoe, its inner end being pushed some five or six feet under that stick of timlier. I walked out to the end of it and sat down, my legs swinging idly over tlie water, mid my gaze directed to "every point except the one 1 should have guarded. As 1 sat down 1 noticed four negro laborers ring under the weight of a piece .if tunlier winch they were carrying to its place in the structure, but bestowed no lurhior attention upon than until I hoard them immediately in my rear. I was alxmt to look over my shoulder at them when they dropped that stick of timber square on the end of the plank I was sitting on, and niy little carpet-bag und I shot about ten feet into the air, parted company as each described a curve and began our descent, and disappeared beneath the muddy waters of the Big Black. I think I struck the wnter first; anyway. I’m sure I got out first, since no authenticated account of the rescue of the bag has ever come to my notice. As I reached the bank, covered from head to foot with mud, slime and the sweepings of the pontoon bridge above, those four darkies greeted me with a chorus of laughter as indicative of enjoy ment as any sound I ever heard, and I started for the train on tho Vicksburg side of the bridge on a dead run, my speed being accelerated more by a desire to escape the darkies’ mirth than to retch the train, which, I may remark, I didn’t catch by about ten car-lengths. Why that place was calledßovinia tho Lord only knows, unless, perhaps, because the man who nmned it thought, as I did, that it wus n bully place to get away from. “There was now nothing left for me to do but to walk to Vicksburg or wait six hours for another train, and I wasn’t long in mak ing up my mind to walk. The weather was warm, and by the time I hml covered the eight miles my clothes were dry, but heav ens, how dirty! Tlie investment of $1 brought into requisition the services of a stout negro lioy, and by dint of much rub bing, brushing and scouring I was made to look quite presentable. I then started for the wharflxiat of the Atlantic and Missis sippi Steamship Company at the foot of Clay street so ascertain the time of depar ture of the first boat for St. Louis and was told that tlie steamer William R. Carter would arrive from New Orleans at about 8 o’cloek in tlie even ing and leave about an hour later. It wus then about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and I looked alxnrt for some way of killing time until the Carter should arrive. I went into the Prentiss House bar, got a drink and a cigar, and, counting my money, found that I had just $33. I sat down to enjoy my cigar, when the idea struck me that it wouldn’t lie a bad scheme to piny what money I had above my steamboat fare against the bank. Reflection and recollec tion of the adverse results of most of my former enterprises of a similar character told me that it was a particularly bad scheme, however, and for the tiino I abandoned the project. I took a walk up the hill and down again and tried in every way I could think to rid myself of the Idea of risking what little money I had, hut something seemed to tell me that I would win, and I finally yield(d to a power I couldn’t resist and asked tile barkeeper of the hotel where I could find a game. He di rected me to ono a short distance front the hotel, and in three bets I had reduced my capital to an amount just sufficient to pay my passage, without meals, to St. Louis. I watched the remainder of the deal with out playing until there was a single ‘turn’ left in the box, the fateful ‘something’ that had lured me into tho place meanwhile urging me to resume, and I yielded again. I put $5 on the ‘turn’ and lost. I was then desperate, and in my en deavor to quit even on my faro went broke. There didn’t seem to lie much of a prospect of my getting out of tho town, or staying in it either, for that matter; hut as you may suppose, I was pretty well used to hard luck and didn’t cry over spilled milk. I went back to the hotel, which was situated on the levee, and in due time saw the Wil liam R. Carter swing away from the wharf boat and make her way up the river with out me. Having nothing else to do I walked down to the wharflxiat, and sat looking into the dark current of the Mississippi, specu lating as to how I should bo able to stem that current. “About 10 o’clock a little boat called the Evening Star came up the river, bound for Memphis, and landed. I went on board and found to my inexpressible delight an old army acquaintance, a member of a fiy-by night, minstrel party that had been “doing” the small river towns. To him I explained my plight, and I was overjoyed when he agreed to lend me money enough to pay my fare to Memphis on the doubtful security of my word. Half an hour later wc startl'd, and as we rounded Milliken’s bend we dis covered a sheet of flame ahead that to river men was a too well-known sight that a ves sel was burning. There was a great clang ingof Ix4ls, increased vehemence and puffing of the exhaust pipes, and a deter mined vigor in tlie song of the colored firemen as they piled fuel into the furnaces, and every effort was tient toward reaching the burning wreck with the least possible delay. We finally drew close enough to tho blazing ixiat to discover that no living thing could exist for a moment on board of her, and devoted our efforts to keeping at a safe distance from her whilo endeavoring to dis cover and pick up survivors. Of tho pas sengers and crew of the flame-devoured steamer wo picked up thirty, many of them badly burned, and ascertained that the roaring column of flame before us was all that remained of the William R. Carter, the boat I did not take because I kst all my money at a faro bank, and whoso noiler ex ploded within loss than two hours after leaving Vicksburg. “A large number of the passengers and crew of the ('arter were burned or drowned, including Capt. Hurd, and, singularly enough, on the same night in the Ohio river, near Paducah, Ky., the steamer Missouri, of the same line, exploded her boiler and burned to tlie water’s edge, and among the many persons lost was the captain, a brother of the commander of the Carter. The boilers in use on the steamers of that line were of tho “tubular” pattern, which were afterward condemned by the government inspectors and their removal front the re maining Ixiate of the fleet, enforced. "If you are not now convinced that the luckiest thing that ever happened to me was brought about by what people com monly regard as absence of luck I’ll treat— that is to say I would if I had the price of the drinks. I had listened to the man’s story without uttering a word except to remind the waiter that our glass's needed replenishing, and as lie recounted the circumstances of the loss of the Carter, las implicitly believed in the truth of his tale as I did in my own existence, for I was a resident of Vicksburg at tlie time. As I arose to go I slipped a dollar into his hand from m.v very slender purse and felt sorry that I wasn’t able to give a stronger lift to a man who had played life’s game in such Horrible luck. I bade him gmxl night and walked into the street, stripping at the corner opposite the gas-light to wait for a car. While standing there my late companion and entertainer, for whom l still felt most compassionately, sauntered up to the corner upon which the light was situated, uud, apparently not ob serving me. called out: “lie)', Jim, another sucker swallowed the old bait and gave up tho case. He died hard, and bloody near drowned me w ith brer. Let's go and get something proper.” While my unlucky friend was delivering himself of this speech. "Jilu” emerged from the doorway around the corner, where lie had been keeping vigii while his partner “worked me for a ease,” and the twain disappeared down the street, heaving me to wish that the man who wasn't born a girl had been sitting on the Carter’s ixiiler when the bolts let go. Mosquitoes Also Love the Girls. From the Albany (On.) Keren and Advertiner. The mosquito crop is never a total failure, in this city, even in time of drought. Mos quito nets arc essential to undisturbed sleep at this season of the year, even ill ordinary circumstances, but since the recent freshet a hungry army of the buzzing little ]x>s;s have made their appearance in such num bers as to lx' troublesome even in the day time. The dear plump winged girls who wear tight sleeves and thin sleeves and deeolette sleeves are the ones who suffer the most from the ravages of this hungry army. Tlfß scrub girl, whose duties are to rise with l lie sun mid clean t he hotel office anil parlors on top of Mount Washington, was for ten years a toucher iu the puttin' schools in England She isagi.Mi l imisiciau ami an excellent scholar in the languages. French und I sit In IsKikuare her constant ebumanfons when off duty. SAVED BY AN OLD AUNTY. With Her Brown Apron She Blagged the Express on the Brink of a Chasm. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 15.—The Courier- Journal says that, at about the hour of the terrible railway disaster at Chatsworth, Amanda Barker, an aged negress, was walk ing along the track of the Cincinnati, Ham ilton and Indianapolis road, near Wen wood, Ind., on her way to a farmhouse, "where she was to work during the day. She had just passed the small station at Wen wood, which is a lonely, dismal spot between In dianapolis andConnersville, freijugnted only occasionally by the farmers living around, when, on turning a sharp curve in the road, she was horrified to see, some distance ahead, the smoldering remains of what had a short while before been a stout, substantial bridge, connecting embankments 650 feet apart and spanning a chasm 95 feet deep. The bridge had evidently beeu burning during the en tire night, for the superstructure was en tirely eaten away by the fire, and only a few weak timbers and tho three stone piers were left. The old negress could not collect herself for several moments, but it suddenly dawned upon her that a train imssed that point some time in the early morning. She knew that it was a fast one and never stopped at Wen wood. She turned her step backward, intending to flag the train at the station, but had gone scarcely 100 yards when she heard tho shrill scream of the whistle, as she thought, directly ahead of her. It was tho east-bound lightning ex press, due at Wenwood at 5:45 o’clock. She tried as hard as she could to get around the bend which obstructed the train from view, all the time tearing and tugging away at an old brown apron she wore, which she wanted to use as a signal flag. Stumbling and falling, she was kept back considerably, but she Anally broke the apron strings, which never seemed so tightly tied before, and almost dropping to the earth with sheer exhaustion, she rounded the bend, and saw the train thundering down upon her, only a few hundred feet away. The burning bridge was about the same distance behind her, and she knew that to'let the train pass meant certain death to many on board. Raising the flag high above her head, she forgot her exhaustion, and waved it frantically, standing in the middle of the track, where her presence could not go un noticed. For a while it seemed to her that no one saw her, but she kept her position, determined to stop the train or die on the track. At last the engineer saw her and reversed his engine, bringing it to a standstill a few yards in front of the old woman. Leaning out of the cab window, and thinking the negress drunk or crazy, he called out: “Well, well, what is it?” “For God's sake, mister,” she answered, •‘don’t go any further. The bridge is burned d.own, and it is right in front of you; in deed it is.” The trainmen had by this time been at tracted to the front of the train by the stop page at this out-of-the-way place, ami, from the sincerity of the old woman, believed her story. A number of them followed her around the bend and there verified the truth of her statement. All of the passengers were around the spot in a short while, and when they saw how narrow their escape had been they could scarcely speak. A large purse was maijp up for their ben efactress, but she positively refused to take any money, and said she was too happy to touch anything—that money would only make her feel bad again. When everyone on the train was congratulating themselves on their escape, the old negress became so happy that she burst into tears, and was so joyful for awhile that she hugged several of the ladies and gentlemen, and danced an old-fashioned jig. Weather Indications. I - ] Special indications for Georgia: FAIR Fair weather, south to west winds, _____ slight changes in temperature. Comparison of mean tekiperatu-a at Savan nah. Aug. 17, 1887, and themean of same day for fifteen years. | Departure j Total Mean Temperature j from the ! Departure .—-- 1 ileau I Since for 15 years Aug. 17, ’ST.i - or j Jan. 1,1887. 30 0 86.0 I 6.0 | 125.0 Comparative rainfall statement,: Jlean Daily Amount j D e ™*i re Amount for for \x an ' 16 Years. Aug. 17, *B7. | Ij^WT. .26 ! .00 1 .26 | 1.54 Maximum, temperature 08.0, minimum tem perature 7.0 The height of the river at Augusta at 1:33 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time) was 9 5 feet —a rise of 0.1 during the past twenty-four hours. Cotton Region Bulletin for 34 hours end ing 6p. m., Aug. 17 18S7. 75th Meridian time. Districts. Average. Max.) Min. Raiti * lions Tem P Temp, faU. 1. Wilmington !0 00 70 j .0s 2. Charleston | 8 WC 72 .08 8. Augusta j 12 06 | 72 j .07 4. Savannah 13 90 I 74 ; .02 5. Atlanta i 13 92 I 72 ] 25 6. Montgomery I 9 91 , 72 03 7. Mobile t 8 96 72 ] .00 8. New Orleans : 14 i 34 70 \ .06 9. Galveston ! 21 96 74 ! .05 10. Vicksburg 1 5 9-1 76 j .00 11. Little Rock I 74 90 70 I 34 12. Memphis I IS, jBB 70 j .34 Averages I | .... | .... Observations taken at tho semo moment of time at all stations. Savannah, Aug. 17, 9:36 p. city time. i Temperature. Direction. | Velocity. ! c Rainfall. Kami or Stations. Portland j 62 l 8 j Cloudy. Bouton A'ij S Clear. Block Island liiCSW Clear New Vorlt city 14 * K ... I Clear. Plillaflelphia > 71 & K Cloudy. Detroit ; Of! N 1 .281 Raining. Port tlufonl .. TO E Cloudy. fit. Vincent 6t.| N 1 ... Clear. Washington city 7-1 S 08 cloudy. Norfolk 7r S E 8 . Cloudy. Charlotte VO S 6 Oft Raining. Hattenw WHS 12 .. |Clear. Titusville Till W 6 Cloudy. Wilmington so S Clear. Charleston | HSiS W;..! Clear. Augusta TONE. 1 .06 Cloudy. Savannah , S4I 8 10 Clear. Jacksonville . .. 82 s ...... near. ( edar keys 8t 8 W HI Fair. Kev Went.... | ..J j..| ] Atlanta 78; 8 8 Clear. Pensacola 81 w 6 Clear. .Mobile J 80 8 W 6.. Clear. Montgomery 1 S 6, 'Clear Vicksburg j Bft N\V j Clear. New Orleans j Bft 8 W , ,j . Clear. Shreveport I , . Port Smith 80 N ...... Clear. Galveston 82 8 W 10 Clear. Corpus Chriatl HIS Eld Clear. Palestine | Bft NW 6 Cloudy. BrownesviUe WE Clear. UioOramlo 76 8 E IS Clear. Knoxville 78 8 W 06 Pair. Memphis 58 W Clear. Nashville V 8 f . Clear. Indianapolis 6*o NW , 01 Clear. Clneinnati 70 N S * Cloudy. Pittsburg I V2SE 28 Pair. Buffalo Its 8 .10 liaming. Cleveland #8! E j 1.02 Raining. Marquette (is W .10 Clear. Chicago its Clear Duluth 7*o W 01 Clear. bt. Paul 72 W Clear. Davenport 68 NW oi clear. Cairo 78 NW 01 Cloudy. St. Lout* 78 NW Clear Leavenworth ... 74 Clear. Omaha 74 N .. .. . Clear Yunkton 74 Clear. Bismarck 70fN E Clear. Deadwood 64 SW Cloudy. Cheyenne 36 p, 04 Cloudy. North Platte 72 E Fair Dodge City 78 S E Pair Santa Fe 62 P. 16 Raining. 0. N. Salishuuy Signal Corns. U.S. Arrnv. SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE. To Water-Works Hutlder* and Contractors. Sealed proposals will lie received at the office of t he Mayor of the city of Americas, Ga., until 12 m. the Ist day of September, 1887, for the fur nishing of all the material, and doing all the work necessary to complete a system of water works for said city, according to plans and specifications prepared for same.and which can lie si-en at the City Council room in said city. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check for j 51,000 to secure good faith on part of contractor. The city reserves the right to re ject any and all bids. The Montgomery Adi'ertiser, Enquirer Sun, Mobile papers and Atlanta Const Hut ion please copy and forward bill to J. B. FELDER, Mayor, Americas, Ga. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. Office of The Brush Electtiuc Light and I Power Cos., Rooms 8 and o,Odd Fellows' Uall, r Sa VANN AH. Ga., Aug. 18, 1887. ) The subscribers lo file stock of this company are notified that the first-installment of 50 per cent, is due and payable at this office. A prompt response is necessary. SAMUEL P. HAMILTON, President and Treasurer. NOTICE TO WATER-TAKERS. OFFICE WATER WORKS, I Savannah, Aug. 18, 1887. f There will be a reduced supply of water to consumers for the next ten or twelve days, owing to the necessity of using the small engine while connecting the larger pump ends to the large engine. A. N. MILLER, Superintendent. NOTICE TO GAR CONSUMERS. Office of Mitttal Gas Light Cos., ) Savannah, Ga.. Aug. 17, 1887 f Mr. T. B. Catherwood is no longer in the ser vice of this company. Consumers of gas are notified that Mr. Catherwood has no authority to collect bills or accounts. HENRY BLUN, President. BARE BALL TO-DAY. AMATEURS - vs. - MONTGOMERYS, —AT BASE BALL PARK. 4:00 p. M. Admission 25c. Ladies free. NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the Swedish bark “Anna Maria,” Martenson, mas ter, will be responsible for any debts contracted by the crew of said vessel. IIOLST & CO., Consignees. Savannah, Ga., August IT, 18n7. 17 DOZEN FELT HATS, Both stiff and soft, just opened and for sale very low, at JAUDON'S, 150 St. Julian Street. THE MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE, 3 Whitaker Street. The Job Department of the Morning News, embracing JOB AND BOOK PRINTING, LITHOGRAPHING AND ENGRAVING, BOOK BINDING AND ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURING, is the most complete in the South. It is thorough ly equipped with the most improved machinery, employs a large force of competent workmen, and carries a full stock of papers of all descriptions. These facilities enable the establishment to execute orders for anything in the above lines at the shortest notice and the lowest prices con sistent with good work. Corporations, mer chants, manufacturers, mechanics and business men generally, societies and committees, are requested to get estimates from the MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE bete*e send ing their orders abroad. J. H. EBTILL. OIL HENRY 8 COLDING, DENTIST, Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR. This vegetable preparation is invaluable for the restoration of tone and strength to the sys tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot be excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul mer’s Liver Corrector and take no other. $1 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist. Savannah. NOTICE Central Railroad Bank. ) Savannah, Ga., August 8, 1887. f I am instructed by the Board of Directors to notify the public that this bank is prepared to do a general hanking business and solicits ac counts. T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier. PROPOSAL.-* WANTED. Proposals for Paving. City op Savannah, Oa., ) Office of the (tit Surveyor, July 29th, Itt-C. i PROPOSALS will be receive ! unlil WEDN’fcS- I DAY, August 24th, at 8 o'clock i\ m , directed to Mr. F. K. Rcbaror. < lark of Council of the city of Savannah, Ga., for the paving of that portion of (’ongrens street in said city lying between the east property line of West* Hroad street and the west projierty line of Drayton str*Nst ; also, that portion of Hull street in said city lying between the south line of Congress street and the north line of State street, being n total area of about eight thousand square yards. The proposals may be for granite, grawacke or asphalt blocks or for sheet asphalt. the speci fications of which will be the same as given by the Euglnecr Department of the District of Co lumbia in their report tor 1&8H. Any jiersou desirtng to bid upon the above work, but use different specifications from those enumerated above, may do so provided that a copy of the Hfiecifications upon whiqh they bid is enclosed with their bid. All bids for grawacke, granite or asphalt blocks must lx accompanied by a specimen of tnc blocks intended to be iced. Separate Mils will also be received for the fur nishing and laying of about thirty-five hundred running foct of curbstone, of either blue stone or granite of the fallowing dimension,': four inches broad, sixteen inches dtvp, and in iongt us <>l 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 arid Bfiunre on the ends. The right to reject any or all bids is reserved. For further information address J.deHAUYX KOPS, Jit., C. R., Acting City Surveyor. State or IV BATHER, Notice to Contractors. r> IDS for the building of the extension of the > Eufaula and ('layton railroad from Cl iyton to Oiark, forty nulr- iinuv or less, will !• i-. celved hy the undersigned, at his oflloo in So vnimah, (n.. not later than .Vug. Hist 1887 Spooihculloiu. plans and profiles on file at Sa vannaii, Ue. Right reserve l to reject a'*y or nil bids. M. S. BELKNAP, (ieneral Manager c. K K and H i o OEALED PROPOSALS will bereceived at the omee of the Custodian of the U. s. Custom House nl Savannah, Georgia and opened at 13 m. of Ihe 23d day of August. 1887. tor relaying pavement, repairing uud painting, in accordanoo with specifications, in the above named building Each proposal must he nccotuptmied by a eer tilled cheek lor 5:1. made payable to the order of the Treasurer of the United States. The right to rejtvt any bids is reserve I. Th • ajiecifications rau he seen, and any Information ohvined hy applying to JOHN F WHPA I ON. _____ Custodian. lAWYF.RS, doctors, ministers, merchants, j mechanics awl others having boon ~ uiaga fine*, and otlier printed work lo ie> hound or '• > bound can have such work done in the i*t * of the hinder s art at Hie MOK.Ni.ati *. e„ BINDERY. 3 Whitaker street EXCURSIONS. Central Railroad of Georgia. ) General Passenger Department, > Savannah, Aug. 15th, 18S7. } EXCURSION TO Augusta, Ga. $2 50 FOR THE ROUND TRIP. 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