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BILLS BY THE CART LOAD.
ANOTHER LARGE BATCH DUMPED
ON THE HOUSE TABLE.
Mr. Duggan Calls Attention to the
Tardiness of the House in Putting
Through Bills, and Demands an In
vestigation—The Dean Bill Briefly
Discussed.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 22. —In the Senate
to-day Mr. Brantley’s bill to regulate the
inspection ami sale of naval stores, was read
the third time and passed without discus
sion. The bill has already appeared in the
News.
The resolution for the relief of the Life
Association of Virginia passed.
The unfinished business was the Dean bill,
on which Mr. of the Nineteenth dis
triet spoke in opposition to the sate. Ho
was followed by Mr. Hand, of the Ninth
district, who favored the bill and believed
that it was the best policy for the State to
■ell the ioad. Further consideration of
tlie bill was suspended till to-morrow.
A bill to amend section 3583 of the Code,
limiting lien of judgments on transferred
property, and a bill extending the provis
ions of the act permitting ex-Uonfederates
to peddle without a license, to Mexican sol
diers, were read the second timo with the
adverse reports of committees and lost, the
reports being agreed to.
In the Hpuse.
• In the House to-day Mr. Duggan, of Han
cock, introduced a resolution for the ap
pointment of a committee of live to ascer
tain and report the cause of the slow prog
ress of the House with its business. Mr.
Duggan said the House had been in session
forty-eight days, and bad yet sent only
eleven bills and'resolutions to the Governor.
The resolution was referred.
Mr. Wheeler, of Walker, offered a resolu
tion fixing the hour of meeting of the
House ut 9 o’clock and the hour of adjourn
ment at 1 o’clock till otherwise ordered.
Mr. Griffith, of Oconee, offerml a reso
lution for the appointment of a joint com
mittee to report upon the condition of busi
ness. It was referred.
Under the call of the counties for now
matter, the following bills were introduced:
By Mr. Wheeler, of Walker—A bill to in
corporate the Chattanooga and Southern
Railway Company.
By Mr. Cameron, of Telfair—To amend
the act for the registration of voters in Tel
fair county.
By Mr. Griffith, of Oconee—To authorize
defendants convicted of any offense in the
county courts to give bail instanter in ap
plying for certiorari.
"By Mr. Matthews, of Houston—To pro
vide for the election of bailiffs of the county
courts. Also, a bill to amend the guano in
spection laws so as to prevent the inspection
of bulk lots, etc., and to abolish the use of
tags, substituting brands on the sacks or
other packages.
By Mr. Howell, of Fulton—to exempt 125
members of the Atlanta Rifles from jury
duty.
By Mr. Rawls, of Effingham—To prevent
the civil officers of this State from serving
on juries.
By Mr. Mixon, of Coweta —To amend the
act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors
in Coweta county.
By Mr. Gordon, of Chatham—By request,
to amend an act to extend the limits of the
city of Savannah.
By Mr. Holland, of Carroll—To amend
an uet to consolidate and supersede the act
incorporating the town of Carrollton.
By Mr. Wilson, of Camden—To amend
section 1819 of the Code, making Octolier
the month for the election of county officers.
By Mr. Felton, of Bibb —To amend au act.
to prescribe the time of holding tbo Superi
or Court of the Macon circuit.
By Mr. Huff, of Bibb—To require rail
road companies to lav out ways of ingress
and egress to their stations and depots.
By Mr. West, of Habersham —To amend
section 1456 of tho Code, relating to the
filing of woods.
By Mr. Franklin, of Thomas—To amend
ns to Thomas county section 930 of the
Code. It relates to the commissions of tax
collectors.
Bills on third reading fared ns follows:
To amend section 1977 of the Code in rela
tion to landlords' special liens for rents,
giving them liens on crops and other prop
erty of tenants superior to any other lions,
except for taxes, Passed.
Tho bill of Mr. McCord, of Richmond, to
limit the lioui-s of work per day in cotton,
woolen or other manufacturing establish
tnents to ten hours was mode tho special
order for Wednesday, Aug. 31.
The bill of Mr. Harrison, of Franklin, for
the relief of William J. Hayes and V. F.
Addison, of Franklin county, releasing them
from liability on a surety bond ia-'sed
The bill to adopt, the provisions of tho
stock law in the 790th district of Stewart
county passed.
Tbo bill of Mr. Atkinson, of Coweta, to
require all toes from inspection of oils to bo
(laid into the State Treasury, und go to the
educational fund, came up. A substitute
rejicirted by the committee provides for the
appointment by the Commission of Agricul
ture of Insjieetors of Oils in the cities
of Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Macon,
Columbus, Rome and Athens, the inspectors
to lie paid one-half the fees collected by
them for mak i lg the inspection. For inspect
ing lots of 40l gallons and upwards, t£e. per
gallon; for 800 gallons, 10. |ir gallon, and
for l<*ss than BOii gallons, 2c per gallon. The
Inspectors arc also to lie allowed ntsvssary
traveling expenses. The hill was uiaie tho
Ipocial order for Thursday of next week.
ARGONIA’S WOMAN MAYOR.
How Mrs. Susannah Mndora Balt.ar
Guides the Destinies of a Little Town.
From the .Veto York World.
Kansas City, Aug. 17. — Argonin, a quiet
little town iu Sumner county, Kan., wlieie
One would never look for a sensation, is nev
ertheless just at present as noted in its way
as Kansas City or Chicago, and all because
Df a woman Mayor, the only one of the kind
known in the history even of the progressive
State of Kansas, which just ut present seems
desirous of trying all possible experiments.
Mrs. Mayor Susannah Madorn Salter, or
Major Mis. Susannah Madora Salter, as one
may choose to call her, is only 37 years of
age, of about the average feminine height,
and weighs 138 pounds, according to her
confession. She is, however, a typical fron
tiersman's wife, possessed of brawn and
sinew rather than pleasing plumpness and
roundness of form. She talks in an e-isy,
confident stylo, in fairly good English, in
whicli the W estern mixture of tenses some
times becomes prominent. She is always
properly dignified, and in all the experience
of Argonin has never been known to crack
a joke in the Council chamber. Her eyes
are dark gruy aryl very deep set and deter
niitied looking, while tier hair is inclined to
golden and is worn parted and crimped. She
makes all her own clothes, as well as those
of her four children, the second of whom
was the first child born in the town. The
youngest is a little girl a year old.
Mrs. .Salter was born of Quaker parents
or a farm near Ltunira, Belmont county,
Ohio, in INK), but when 13 yeursoi age went
to Kansas with her parents, and there was
given a limited schooling at the Kansas
State Industrial College, of which Congress
man J. A. Anderson was then president..
There she met Liuis A. Balter, son of an
ex-Lieutenant Governor of the Htuto, who
was working his wav through college by
running errands and doing other work.
The future Mayoress studied the nit. of
dressmasiug, and now boaata that, she Ims
I >uid for the making of but one gown iu her
ife.
11l the fall of IKBO the present political
lender of Argoma’s destinies married Mr.
Balter, aud in I*B3 she. her husband
and her parents moved to the town over
whose governnr ut she now presidos. The
firs! Mayor was Mi’s. Halter's father. The
fiiwt winter Mr. and Mrs. Hu Iter lived in a
dsowted corn house, the windows of which
! were the chute holes, while the cooking was
] done on a gasoline stove, a portable heater
furnishing warmth. Mr. Salter engaged in
business and the couple liegan to prosper,
j They organized a Baptist church, the first
| in the place, and the wife took a leading
part in the formation of a WOman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union lodge, the meetings
of which she always insisted on having con
ducted according to the approved parlia
mentary rules of debating societies, with
which she had been made more or less fa
miliar at the industrial school.
Mrs. Salter was nominated for Mayor by
the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
la-t. spring on a strictly Prohibition plat
form. The nominating convention was
held in the Baptist church the Saturday
evening liefore the election and was alien
ed by tlie singing of “America,” followed
by the reading of a Psalm and liy prayer.
A ticket was nominated. On election 1 lay
the anti-Prohibitionists ordered their tickets
printed with Mrs. Salter's name ns the can
didate for Mayor as a burlesque. The tem
perance workers thereupon waited on Mrs.
Salter, finding her at the washtnb. She
was exceedingly angry when informed of
the insult, but after n council of war con
sented to take the office if elected. Her
friends then went to work with a will, and
whon the polls closed she had received
three-fourths of the votes cast. She, how
ever, stoutly disclaims any predilect ion to
ward woman’s rights, and in all family
matters she defers to her husband, a well
to-do attorney and real estate agent.
Mrs. Salter declares that one term is all
she wants, and that sho is not ambitious for
any furtlier political preferment. She says,
whenever questioned on the subject, that
she will lie glad when hor term is ended, as
sho wants nothing better than private life.
She receives the princely salary of $1 a
year for guiding the affairs of the town.
The people, as a rule, are not overmuch
pleased with her administration, and it is
safe to say that next spring she will not bo
called upon to take a second term. Jn the
Council chamber it is said that she presides
with becoming severity, checking all incli
nations to levity with magisterial frowns.
TOPSY IN THE PULPIT.
An Appeal that Powerfully Moved tho
Mourners’ Seat.
From the New York Tribune.
Egypt, Va., Aug. 18.—“Muixlah! He’p!
Lo’d sabe dis niggnh! Fo’ Gawd, she am a
killin’ dis chil’. Oh! sabe me, Massa Jesus,
sabe ms!” These startling cries, punctuated
by blood-curdling shrieks, breaking sud
denly upon tho still Sabbath air, brought
every occupant of tho porch to their feet
with terror-stricken faces,oxccpt our hostess,
who, never breaking the peaceful sway of
her rocker, complacently remarked: ‘‘Oh,
its only Sally beating Topsy.” Then she ex
plained: “It’s my gardener’s wifo subju
gating her nurse. .Shi- keeps one, as do all
my hired people, though Ido not. A new
phaseof the much agitated question of capi
tal and labor, you soe.” “But she’s
killing her!” nervously suggested the latest
arrival from the North, as tho cries con
tinued and increased in violence. “Oh, no.
Topsy’s cries are more a matter of preven
tion than cure. When the actual work of
chastisement liegins there will ho less noise.
She has not caught her yet.” A fact proven
by Topsy's suddenly precipitating herself
from the front window of the gardener’s
cottage, well in advance of the corpulent
figure of her irate mistress. “You little
brack a(ie! You regenerate imp
o’ darkness! I ebor git iny
ban’s on you I break eberv bone in your
body, Kuah 1" cried the latter, nearly tum
bling out of tho window after her refrac
tory servant in her excitement. “Yah!
yah! You eber gits yo’ han’s on me,” piped
Topsy, from the lower limb of a cherry
tree on which sho was safely perched.
“When yo' does yo’ know it. Reckon dis
nigger will, too! Mrs. Saroh Atm Jiukins!
Mrs.! When I calls yo'Mrs. it’ll be when
(lahttn’B no white ladies to redress by dat
ins|ietablo numnah. I calls yo’ ol’ Sal
Jinkins. Dat’s wha’ I calls yo’, en dais vvha'
yo’ Is!"
A space later I saw the mistress compla
cently walking off to church with her dusky
spouse. Topsy watehod them safely out of
sight and then dropped to the ground,
where her small charges gathered around
her and wore immediately joined by tho
fair-haired daughters of my hostess. “Now,”
said Topsy, “you little ladies jis wait till I
puts up dis mou'ners’ bench, an’ den I’s
goin’ ter call do ineetin’ to o’dali.” Evi
dently a mourners’ bench is the first requis
ite of divine service in her estimation.
“Now, den,” she announced, taking her
place on mstuinp, “while I lines de hymn
do breilren an’ sist’s will walk up an’ take
dah places on da anxious seat,” It must, in
truth, be an anxious seat, for it shakes and
trembles alarmingly as the small congrega
tion comply with her request. Meanwhile
Topsy lines and slugs with a deep-voiced
solemnity:
“No use fo’ to weep an’ fo’ to try in de mo’niu’;
Ol’ Satin’s a coinin', but don’ you run.
Put on de amor an’ lefile up yo' guu.
An’ yo’ll all be angels by am by."
And with great enthusiasm her small con
gregation, especially the colored portion,
sweeps into the refrain:
“Come, lien sis'ts don’ yon cry,
Yo’ll all be angels by aui liy,
A wailin' ob de a mor ob de Lo'
By am by.
Yo" all be angels by aui by.”
Then Topsy continues in solo:
“Put on de robe, an' frizzle up yo’ hah,
(tit out vo’ ticket fo’ ile gospel c'y'r.
Watch fo' de train an’ jump on bon'd,
An' yo'll all be angels liy am by."
Again the rousing refrain swells out, and
then Topsy, exchanging tho oak leaf that
has served her for a hymn book lor a larger
one, supposed to be tho divine law, ex
pounds:
“My bredoren an’ sist’s, I takes fo’ my tex’
<le (Irtccnth ehentah ob de twentyf vnrse oh
St. Mn’Fue: ‘De rlebil am a roah’in’ lion,
watchin’ roun’ fo’ ehcry nlggali ho kin keech,
to’vour’em.' llat ajn do wo’d an’datam
de law, my hoar’s. Oh, yes! Dat am afac’.
Ho am a lavin’ fo’ us all, mychil’en; a
reachin’ out an’ a grabbin’ artcr us, an’ of
ho eber git lie grip in our naps we is gone
niggahs, snail. He neber let up till he yank
ns (low'll inter dat, brack liolo, woh —wan we
dun burn up, but we jist laj's an’ sizzels fo’
cher an’ ober.”
This the embryo pastor evidently consid
ers a strong jioint, and waits for it to take
effoot; but tile congregation sit inopen-eyed
and open-mouthed attention, unmoved by
auglit but astonishment.
"Oh. yes? iny beloved hearers,” goes on
Topsy, "ilat am wall we stall,’ on’ ilali altl’
no scape sept to fly st raight to de Lo’d while
dedoo’ am open. Now! Now! my ehil’en,
now am de ’eopted timet" But the flood of
eloquence is exhausted, and the obdurate'
flock still sit, unmoved. After a momen
tary pause Topsy turns upon them fiercely
with: “Look yere, dun yo’ know it’s ’bout
time some oli _vo’ fool niggahs wall n gettin’
do powalii” This unexpected reminder
of a neglected duty causes a slight
flutter in the congregation, not serious
in itself but too much for the “anxious seat"
which suddenly tips over, occasioning
a general backsliding of the flock, and con
verting the erst devout congregation into a
mixed mass of limbs, black, brown and
daintily shod. The pastor, after n gasp of
astonishment, crioa: “Htvih, ilah, you brack
niggahs, dun’ yo’ move till 1 tish dose little
while ladies out!” Then remarks to the
white sheep of the Hock. “Dein tool nig galls
dun know union. Di am’ got no fetch up.
Da dun ebeu know how to git happy when
dethue cornea Les’go down ill <fe cawn
house an’ hah a circui. P’raps da’ know
how to reform in dat liettah!"
Gitst—l rang for some ice cream. Send me
up SMV) worth.
Waiter -Hut, sir, nobody can cat SIOO worth
of Ice cream.
due,st,—Who said 1 was going to eat Itf I'm
going to put tt iu the tiuLh luh unJ sit in it.—
Toton TtrniH.
“Tnzv arc just running the thing Into the
ground," observe! Amy. in a discussion on some
, topic of mutual Interc.t.
'Yea." replied the high school girl, ! thmk
| myseh" that they are forcibly projecting it into
, <% ■ Pi ltxhitrtt Chronicle.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, ISB7.
TESTING A GREAT LENS.
A VISIT TO THE WORKSHOP OF
THE LATE ALVAN CLARK.
Polishing Glass With the Palm—The
Rough Machinery He Used to Test
Telescopes Small Telescopes of
Greater Value.
From the New York Sun.
In 1882 I called to see Alvan Clark, the
distinguished constructor of telescopes, who
has just died. I found him at his home in
Cambridgeport, Mass. His sons were busy
putting the finishing touches to the great
telescope object glass then being made for
the Russian Astronomical Observatory at
Fulkova. The Pulkova objective was to he
placed in a temporary mounting that very
evening to lie tested for the first time on
celestial objects.
I found Air. Clark a genial, intelligent old
man, who had relinquished all manual in
lair in the business, liut was still bale and
hearty, and personally directed tho work.
He tola mo of his visits to England, and his
interviews with Kir John Herschel and with
J/ird Ross, who built the great reflector in
Ireland, in au upper story 1 found the
Rochester telescope, mode by Prof. Lewis
Swift, the cost or which wan paid by Mr.
Warner of the same city. Tliis objective
was sixteen inches in diameter. One of
the sons showed tho workshops and ex
plained their methods. Tho o|ieration of
grinding these object glasses was carried on
m the basement, and it appeared to Is- a
very simple matter in its earlier stages. An
assistant was rubbing with both hands a
disc of glass about eight inches in diameter
upon a prepared surface covered with a red
jKilishing material. The work seemed very
monotonous. Mr. Clark said that any oneof
common intelligence could grind a lens, and
he showed me one that hail been sent to him
by ati amateur. Mr. Alvan G. Clark said
it was a very creditable performance.
It is in the after correction and iierfecting
of the objective which calls for the special
skill which has male Alvan Clara’s name
so famous. The largo objectives, such as
the Pulkova and Lick glasses, are ground
and polished by machinery. Two levers
work in opposite directions, and are so ar
ranged that any part of the glass surface
may be reached, doing the work. Tho final
polish, which is of the most delicate nature
imaginable, is done with the surface of the
hand. Mr. Clark went so far as to say that
one revolution of the hand in excess would
change tho correction.
On a table was the finished Pulkova lens,
which weighed 450 pounds, and consisted of
two lenses, each 30 inches in diameter. Gen
erally theso lenses are made to accurately
fit, and are joined together witn Canada
balsam, but in such large glasses as the Pui
kova and the Lick, they are fitted in a
motal frame with an adjustment so that
they can be made to approach each other,
or otherwise. If a single lens were used,
the object inspected would lie fringed with
various artificial colors and other defects
duo to spherical aberration, but by the
simple artifice of using two kinds of glass
these defects are cured to a certain extent,
and a nearly perfect imago is secured.
When the evening was sufficiently ad
vanced the grout Pulkova glass was placed
in its temporary fitting in the garden There
was no moon and the darkness was intense.
The glass was brought out on a four wheel
hand truck and lifted into the tube by five
men and fixed by revolving it in the screw
fitting. The tube was 45 feet long and
weighed with the attending fittings about
seven tons. Two piles of brickwork sup
ports the whole. There was no clockwork
movement and tho roughest apparatus was
employed, the telescope was raised and
moved by a guide rope, the motion of an
equatorial movement being imitated by
using a common windlass. As tho motion
of tho earth caused tho object to pass across
the field of the telescope, the observer gave
tho order “follow,” wfien a slight turn of
tho windlass kept the object in view. Such
were the rough appliances used to test this
$60.00;) lens.
The planets had all set, anil I had to bo
satisfied with a view of a fixed star, which
is an excellent object for testing the opti
cal properties of a lens, but very uninter
esting otherwise, as the largest telescope can
make little impression on a fixed star; no
disk can he seen, merely q speck of light.
The star selected was a small one, and barely
visible ns a pale, minute object. On look
ing at it with this magnificent instrument
its wonderful light-gathering powers were
at once evident, for the star shone with the
lustre and brilliancy of an electric light. It
was an object which brought out ail the im
perfections of the glass, and to the eyes of
Mr, Clark and his sons many were evident,
anil, it was said, two months’ work was
necessary to correct them. During the trial
the lens was lowered and five men revolved
the glass in its fitting. On its being placed
in position again, one of tho sons was about
to make another test when the old man
shouted: “Wait boys, let her cool.”
I was curious to know what this could
mean, and Alvan Clark explained that tho
correction was so delicate that the heat
from the hands of the five men holding the
metal case of the objective would change
the correction, so it had to "cool.”
On the front, or crown glass lens was a
very marked flaw, due to tlio lapping over
of a strata of glass in cooling. By measure
ment I found it to lie IV inches long by >£
of an inch in diameter, almost in the centre
of the lens, near the front surface. This
was a very provoking circumstanco in a
$60,000 glass. Mr. Clurk had ordered an
other disc of glass, but Prof. Von Otto
St,reuvo decided to accept the damaged one,
at least for a time, as it seemed vorj' doubt
ful when another glass might lie expected
to lie made in France. This fla w would not,
alter the definition of the lens, but would
merely stop n fractional part of light pass
ing through the lens.
In a conversation with Mr. Clark on tho
advantages of immense telescopes, such as
this one, he admitted that the telqxcopos of
moderate aperture, say from 10 to 15 inohos,.
were preferable for general use, even for
tho highest purposes. He spoke with pride
of such an instnjnient he liad made, with
which lie had seen all that could be seen
• von with colossal tolescseopes. Only one
discovery has le-cti made with the Washing
ton telescope of 36 inches diameter during
its many years of use. The Russian Pul
kova instrument, delivered bv the Clarks
iu 1883, has never bean heurtl from, and
those who ex|>eot immediate and extraordi
nary results from the Lick HH-inch objective,
will probably be disappointed. These huge
telescopes are great light gatherers, nijt
useful for photographic and spectrosoofue
w ork, but t heir definition of tho surface of
the moon and the plunets is disappointing.
A .story is told of a French astronomer
who traveled hundreds of miles to took
through the gr<-at Ross telescope. When
asked what he would like to see, he called
for the planet Saturn, which was then in
good position. Oil looking through the tele
scope finding the wretched definition of the
object, he said:
“You toll me 1 have looked at the planet,
Saturn, so I must believe I have done so,
but 1 was not aware of the fact.”
John Michels.
A Virginia Snake Story.
Fi'om the Charlottesville Chronicle.
A lady living not many miles from Charlottes
ville is very much afraid of snakes. She had
always i card that when a snake is going to
strike it wraps the tip of its tail around some
object to give itself leverage. The other even
ing she retired to her room without n light, the
weather I icing extremely warn. She had Usui
there but a moment when her piercing shriek ;
ar mvd the other Inmates. who were iiiformeJ
that a snake was on lier lied. In passing her
hand over her bod the snake had wound the tip
of his tail around her linger, preparatory to
striking the denth-de.ilinx blow. When a light
was brought the family found the young lady in
u fainting condition with !ir finger iiiocrtcu in
the riug of u shoe but toner.
fiKN. Tow Yoi'No, of Ohio. Ins lately boon suf
fering from severe attack of rbemmtlkon. and
goes about leaning ou a hanusotne gol,tdi >ded
enne mode from the top of the Itagstatf that
was brought down by tho first guns fired ou Fort
Sumter
SHOPLIFTING IN PARIS.
Two Beautiful Young Women Arrested
for Pilfering.
From the London Telegraph.
Paris, Aug. 12, —This has been a regular
field day at the police courts. On the bench
allotted to tho prisoners were seated two
ladies. The one, a handsome blonde of 35,
with features of remarkable delicacy, spoke
French with an excellent accent, and com
jxirted herself with the utmost dignity.
She was no less a personage than Mine.
Mario Nasimoff, daughter of Prince Via
zimski and Countess Tolstoi. The lady is
therefore a bona fide Russian Princess. She
was divorced from her husband seven years
ago by a special ukase of the Czar. The
gentleman had been in the habit of knock
ing her about, and had actually been con
demned at Nice for his shortcomings
toward his spouse to three months
imprisonment. The Czar’s ukase settled
the matter in a way satisfactory to all
parties, and thenceforth Mine, de Nasimoff,
free as air, was able to enjoy life without
any apprehension of blows and bruises. Khe
shone like a star at Nice, delighting her
numerous friends and acquaintances with
her concerts and receptions. Her voice was
much admired, and in her intervals of re
pose from social engagements she climbed
tho Mount of Parnassus, and contributed the
results of her draughts from the Pierian
spring to the local newspapers. One of her
pi inis was entitled “Lo Regard,” and treated
of the “Timid Virgin” andof “Chaste Plea
sure.” Another ■ was headed “Confidenze a
Domain," while “Deception” was the title
of a third. Melancholy seems to have tuned
Mine. <lo Nasimoff’s lyre. Besides these in
spired works, tho minions of the law had un
earthed a whole budget of correspondence
with “crowned heads,” which, it is to bo
feared, have since been shaking ratlior om
inously.
The other tenant of the prisoners’ bench
was Mile. Nadodja de Fomine. She is 36
years old, the daughter of the late Gen.
Dometri. of the Czar’s Guards, and to this
day she receives from his imperial majesty
a yearly allowance of .£l2O. Moreover, sho
writes for some of the Muscovite papers,
acts as interpreter occasionally, and when
she got into the scrape which launched her
in the Police Court was playing the further
role of dame de comjiatjnie to Mme. Marie
de Nasimoff. What, had brought these Rus
sian ladios of high degree to this unpleasant
predicament? A visit to the big Louvre
shops on July 15, the day after the national
fete and the grand review at Longchamps.
They had liven watched closely by two in
spectors. One of them stated that the ladies
had bought a few tilings, hut had helped
themselves to many others. Ho warned his
comrade who arrested the Princess in the
Rue de Rivoli, while be took her companion
into custody. When they’wero searched a
quantity of articles for which they had not
paid were found on their persons. They
formed a miscellaneous collection, including
scissors, cigarette holders, pencils, cigarette
papers, cheap watches and chains, soap, card
cases apd toilet powder. Tlio ladies were at
once imprisoned pending their trial. In
court to-day Mme. do Nasimoff declared
that she had had nothing to do with the
thefts, and that she thought that, all the
articles taken had been paid for. Her com
panion pretended that she had possessed
herself of the things in a fit of absent
mihdislness. Finally the Princess was ac
quitted, while Mile, de Fomine was sentenced
to a moffth’s imprisonment.
SCIENCE AND DECAPITATION.
Testimony Regarding the Instantane
ousness of Death by the Guillotine.
From the Ilritixh Medical Journal.
The Progres Medical publishes a paper by
Drs. llegnard and Loye on tho examination
of the head and body of a convict immedi
ately after Ills decapitation by the guillotine.
The prisonor was calm to tho last, and
not pale, even when his neck was fixed
ready to receive the fatal knife. Two sec
onds after decapitation tho cheeks were still
rosy, the eye's wide open, with moderately
diiatel pupils, the mouth firmly closed.
When a huger was placed close to one eye no
change of expression took place; but on
touching an eye or the tips of the lashes dur
ing the first five seconds, the lids closed just
as in life. This reflex action could not lie
elicited from the sixth second after decapi
tation. The jaws were tightly clenched anil
could not lie opened by manual force. No
similar muscular contraction could be de
tected in the trunk or extremities. One
minute after death the face began to turn
pale, the trunk remained flaccid, the carotids
continuing to throw out blood remaining in
the circulatory area. At the end of four
minutes tho face was quite pale, the upper
lids wore half closed, the jaws less firmly
clenched than liefore. The knife passed
through tlio lower part of tho fourth cervical
vertebra.
These researches show that not a trace of
consciousness remains two seconds after be
heading : that reflex movements of the
cornea can be excited for a few seconds;
that the heart may beat for an hour, the
auricles continuing to pulsate alone for over
half that period, aud that, putting aside the
reflex movements of the eyelid, tho contrac
tion of tho jaws, and the jets of blood from
the carotids, it seemed in this case as though
a corpse hud been decapitated, so inert were
the remains of the convict. Drs. Regnard
and Loye note how calm and free even from
physiological death-struggle symptoms is
death by the guillotine. There is not oven
asphyxia.
Royal Brother3-in-Law.
FYom London Society.
The l’rince of Wales wivs thoroughly sor
ry to lose his cherry brother-in-law the
King of Greece, at the termination of the
King’s jubilee visit. Though they have
met for a day or two occasionally during
the 34 years of their relationship, the two
men had never had an opportunity of sw
ing what sort of stuff the other was made of
till now, and it is satisfactory to know that
the King’s visit to Marlborough House lias
sown the seeds of a close friendship. The
King of Greece tvas brought up in the
same hard school of poverty as his sister,
and is proud of it. Indeed lie carries his
home lines i to the verge of affectation, for
not only dons he dispense with the services
of a valet, but he does a great many things
for liiuiself that other men who don’t keep
a valet would never dream of doing. The
King always brought his work basket into
the smoking room liefore retiring for tho
night, so that he might use the half hour de
voted to the nocturnal "nightcap” in replac
ing missing shirt buttons. But the mon
arch wasn't allowed to ’nave it all his own
way, for I’riuco George of Wales, like most
saifoi-s. is pretty handy w ith the needle, and
ran his uncle very close in some of the
wagers they had together ns to who could
sew a button on quickest. The King is said
to lie equallj- proficient in the art of claming
hoi ’lts, though of course he t hrows them
away when tlmv get like' that now.
IKON WORKS.
Hill i BalMlym,
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blacksmiths,
MANrFAcTrliras or
STATIONARY and PORTABLE ENGINES,
VERTICAL and TOP-RUNNING CORN
MILLS. SUGAR Mi 1.104 and PANS.
\ GENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, the
simplest amt most effective oa the market;
Gullet l Light Draft. Mugnoha Cotton (Mu, the
best tn the market.
All orders promptly attended to. Send for
Price List.
’WOOIX
Bacon, Johnson & Cos.
flaw a line block of
Oak, Pine, Liohtwood and Kindling,
( •>mr l.tljeriy and JviAfc Broad dirueU.
TH*ohrm ] 17.
FUNERAI, INVITATIONS.
HAINES.—The relatives, friends and ac
quaintance of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Haines are in
vited to attend the funeral services of their
youngest son, Hknrv S. Haines, Jk. , at the
Cathedral of Our lady of Perpetual Help at 1
o'clock (city timei THIS AFTERNOON.
Charleston IVeins and Courier please copy.
CANTWELL.— The friends and acquaintance
of Mr. William Cantwell and family arc re
spectfully invited to attend his funeral, from
bis late residence. No. 7* Habersham street, at
4:80 o'clock THIS AFTERNOON.
New York Herald please copy.
FLEETWOOD.—The friends and acquaint
ance of W. H. Fleetwood and family and ( 'has.
(irons and family are respectfully invited to at
tend the funeral of William W. Fleetwood
from his late residence, No. 80J4 Habersham
street at 10 o’clock THIS MORNING.
MEETINGS.
CHIPPEWA TRIBE HO. I, I. O. OF R. 81.
A regular meeting of this Tribe will be held
THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock (and hereafter),
corner Buil and Bay streets.
Visiting and transient brethren fraternally in
vited. A. W. STOKES. Sachem.
C. F. M. Bernhardt. Chief of Records.
CATHOLIC KNIGIITK OK AMERICA.
Savannah, Aug. 23d, 188 T.
To the Officers find Members of the Catholic
Knights of America:
It is requested that all officers and members
of Branch No. 38 attend the funeral of our lata
brother. William Cantwell, Recording and
Corresponding Secretary, assembling informally
at his late residence, on Habersham street, near
Liberty, at 4 o'clock THIS AFTERNOON, and
upon arriving there, forming In a body to escort
his remains to the church. W. F. RE1I),
President,
SPECIAL NOTICES.
" BANANA*, BANANAS.
Will receive by steamer this day 100 Bunches
Extra F:ne Bananas, which will be offered to
the trade cheap by .1. H. COLLINS & CO.
Market Basement.
CABBAGES, CABBAGES,
ONIONS, ONIONS.
POTATOES, POTATOES.
Fresh stock received by every steamer.
J. 8. COLLINS & CO.,
Market Basement.
ORANGES, ORANGES,
PEARS, PEARS,
25 Barrels Extra Fancy Jamaica Oranges.
20 Kegs Extra Fine Bartlett Pears.
For sale cheap by J. S. COLLINS & CO.,
Market Basement.
\V. G. WOODKIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Savannah, Georgia.
—o mes wit it—
MESSRS. JACKSON & WHATLEY
-118 Bryan Street.
DENTAL notice.
DR. ROACH
Will be out of the city until August 27th.
NOTICE.
Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the
Norwegian bark THETA, Narbom, Master, will
be responsible for any debts contracted by the
crew of said vessel. HOLST & CO., Agents.
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 23, 1887.
NOTICE.
All persons are hereby cautioned against har
boring or trusting any of tbe crew of the Aus
triun'bark MELCIIIOU YIDULICH, Capt. Te
net! i, as no debts of their contracting will be
paid by Master, Owners or
M. S. COSULICH & CO., Agents.
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 22, 1887.
PARIS GREEN,
LONDON PURPLE,
PATENT WATER CANS,
—AND—
FOUNTAIN PUMPS
For applying same.
A cheap and sure method of destroying cot
ton worms. Send orders or correspond with
WILLIAM M. BIRD & CO
SO,') East Bav. Charleston S. C.
NOTICE TO W ATER CONSUMERS.
City ok Savannah, (
Office Clerk of Council, Aug. 20, 1887 (
During the succeeding ton days, required io
make necessary repairs to the large pump at the
Water Works, the small pump wul be relied
upon to furnish our citizens with water, ami in
order to assist the Water Works Department in
maintaining as much pressure as possible,
water takers are requested to desist from sprink
ling the streets, and are also earnestly requested
to confine their use of water to their actual ne
cessities.
By order of the Mayor, pro tem.
FRANK E. REBARER,
Clerk of Council.
NOTICE TO WATER-TAKERS.
OFFICE WATER WORKS, t
Savannah, Aug. 18. 1887. f
There will be a reduced supply of water to
consumers for tbe next ten or twelve days,
owing to the necessity of using the sruull engine
while connecting the larger pump ends to the
large engine.
A. N. MILLER, Superintendent.
.METROPOLITAN SAYING* AND LO AN CO.
The first semi annual dividend will be payable
to stock holders on and after MONDAY, the 22d
day of August, 1887, at the office of the Treas
urer, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and
2 o'clock p. in.
H. C. DAVIS, Treasurer.
UK. HENRY s HOLDING,
DENTIST,
Office corner Jones and Drayton streets.
I LIIKR N LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to tbe 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. Ga.
TUB MORNING news
STEAM PRINTING HOUSE,
3 Whitaker Street.
The Job Department of the Mormxo News,
embracing
JOB AND BOOK PRINTING,
LITHOGRAPHING AND ENGRAVING,
BOOK BINDING AND ACCOUNT BOOK
MANUFACTURING,
isthe most complete in the South. If 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 ami the lowest prices con
sistent with good work. Corporations, mer
chants, manufacturers, mechanics and business
men generally, societies aud committees, are
requested to get estimates from the MORNING
NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE hetore send
ing their order.* abroad. J. 11. EsTILL.
COTTON MARKING INIC
141 GD AND 81-A-OK.,
PREPARED ON CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES.
CHAS. RATZ UVF HO'ISF!.
DR,Y GOODS.
CLEARING OUT SALE.
To Make Room for Fall Stock,
I will offer Special Inducements in
MV ENTIRE STOCK,
With exception of my Empire State Shirt.
nPHE following poods will he sold cheaper than
X ever offered in Savannah?
Summer and India Silks.
Cream, White and Light Shades of Albatross.
Colored and ft lick all Wool Dress Goods.
Black Camel’s Hair Grenadines at 85e.; 40-inch
wide.
Printed Linen Uwns at. less than cost.
Real Scotch Ginghams at less than cost.
Black Henriettas at $1 40 and $1 75; sold at
$2 and $2 2.*>.
Ladies' and Children's Silk and Lisle Thread
Howe in black and colored.
Ladies' and Children's Undervests; best gooda
in the market.
Linen Sheeting and Pillow-Case Linen.
Cream and White Table Damask.
9-4 White Damask at $1; former price $1 50.
Napkins and Doylies in cream and white.
Linen Damask Towels in white and colored
bordered.
Linen Huck in white and colored bordered.
Pantry Crash Doylies at great reduct ion.
The above goods will be offered at prices to
insure quick sale.
J. P. GERMAINE,
Next to Furber's, 132 Broughton street.
ICE.
ICE !
Now is the time when every
body wants ICE, and we
want to sell it.
PRICES REASONABLE!
20 Tickets, good for 100 Pounds, 75c.
1 4 0 Tickets, good for 700 Pounds, $5.
200 Tickets, good for 1,000 Pounds, $7.
50 Pounds at one delivery 30c.
Lower prices to large buyers.
I o E
Packed for shipment at reduced rates. Careful
and polite service. Full and liberal weight.
KNICKERBOCKER ICE CO.
144 BAA >ST,
AGRICULTURAL I.MPLEMEN Is.
i ipi
Lawn Mowers, Three Sizes,
Ladies’ Garden Hoes,
Hand Plows, Hedge Shears,
Pruninng Scissors and Knives,
Garden Trowels and Weeders,
Fountain Pumps,
Rubber Hose and Reels,
—FOR SALE BY
Palmer Bros
148 and 150 Congress Street.
PROPOSALS WANTED.
Proposals for Paving.
City of Savannah, Ga., 1
Office of tiie City Surveyor, >
July S39th, 1887. j
I PROPOSALS will be received until WEDNES
DAY, August 24th, at 8 o'clock p. m.,
directed io Mr. F. E. Rebarer. Clerk of Council
of the city of Savannah. Ga., for tbe paving of
that portion of Congress street in said city lying
between tbe east proj>erty line of West broad
street and the west property line of Drayton
street; also, that fiortton of Bull street in said
city lying between the south line of Congress
street and the north line of State street, being
a total area of about eight thousand square
yards.
The proposals may be for granite, grawacko
or asphalt blocks or for sheet asphalt, the speci
fications of which will be the same as given by
the Engineer Department of the District of Co
lumbia in their report for 1888.
Any person desiring to bid upon the al>ove
work, but use different specifications from those
enutneraUni above, may do so provided that a
copy of the specillcations upon which they bid
is enclosed with their bid.
All l ids for grawaoke, granite or asphalt
blocks must be accompanied by a specimen of
th<* blocks intended to be used.
Separate bids will also be received for the fur
nishing and laying of about thirty-ilve hundred
running feet of curbstone, of either blue stone
or granite of the following dimensions: four
inches brood, sixteen inches deep, and in lengths
of not less t han live leet. The curbing to be
dressed on the ton ten inches from tbe top on
the front face and four inches from the top on
the rear face; to be perfectly straight and
stiuare on the ends.
The right to reject any or all bids is reserved,
l'or further information address
J. deDRUYN KUPH, .Tit,, C. E.,
Acting City Surveyor.
Notice to Contractors.
BIDS for the building of tin* extension of the
Eufaulaaml Clayton railroad from Clayt on
to Ozark, forty miles more or loss, will lx. re
ceived by tbe undersigned, at his office in Sa
vannah, Ga., not later than Aug. :l!st. 1887.
Speeificatious. plans und profiles on file at Sa
vannah, Ga. Right reserved to reject any or
ali hills. M. s. BELKNAP,
General Manager C. R. li. and B. Cos.
DRUG! AND MEDICINES.
Don’t Do HI Don’t Du Wkat?
YI7HY don'twalk nur tony streets with that
▼ v nice dress or suit of clothes on with Stains
or Grease Spots in, to which the Savannah dust
sticks “closer than a brother, ’ when
Japanese Cleansing Cream
will take them out clean as anew pin. 25c. a
bottle. Made only by
J. R. HALTIW ANGER,
At bis Drug Stores, Broughton and Drayton,
Whitaker and Wayne streets.
FOR sai.l'.
FOK S A LE,
TYOSSESSION given Oct. Ist, that desirable
Residence southeast corner of Gaston and
Abercorn streets. For terms apply to HENRY
BLUN, Blttn’s Building.
IT BLH A i IONS.
To-wn Topics.
THE JOURNAL OF SOCIETY.
ptRCHTI.VnON 20,(too nnd rapidly growing.
V' In every s^utw the i.lgntewr, mot
original, m 0.4 etit* rtaimng Jc*iiru.>i <>r the day.
An review of hot iri it-4 people and
tneirdoing*, irico 10centFor
’ TTT I X f rv ' *
TEA AND COFFEE.
TEA!
A A7E have just purchased and received a large
v lot of SAMPLE TEAS, mixed. Lovers of
good mixed Tea can now enjoy the best at same
price ordinary has been sold. We offer the
same at only Site, per pound; worth sl.
STRAUSS BROS.,
S2 AND 22J4 BARNARD STREET.
Piokled Salmon.
Boneless Corn Beef.
Loose Chow Chow.
Freeh assortment FANCY CRACKERS just
received, at
STRAUSS BROS.’,
22 AND 22J4 BARNARD STREET.
COFFEE.
JAVA ami RIO COFFEES at lowest market
prices.
STRAUSS BROS.,
22 AND 2274 BARNARD STREET.
FRUIT AND GROCERIES.
Best Raspberry Vinegar, Qt. Bottles, -60 c
Best Lime Juice, Quart Bottles, 35c
Best Syrups,. Pint Bottles, ■ • -45 c
Best Vanilla, 4-Ounce Bottles, - • 25c
Best Essence Lemon, 4-Ounce Bottles, -20 c
Good Essence Vanilla, per Bottle, -10 c
Good Essence Lemon, per Bottle, - * 100
•AT—.
IltS'Ll'S,
19 BARNARD STREET
L E M O IST S .
Cabbages,
Potatoes,
Onions.
30.000 bushels COF.N, 15.000 bushels OATS,
HAY, BRAN, GRITS. MEAL,
STOCK FEED.
Grain and Hay in carload a specialty.
COW PEAS, all varieties.
RUST PROOF OATS.
<our STOCK FEED is prepared with great care
and is just the thing for Horses and Mules in
this weather. Try it.
T. P. BOND & CO.,
155 Bay Street.
SUMMFH RESORTS.
Ocean llousie
TYBEE ISLAND, GEORGIA.
EA B ATHING unsurpassed on the Atlantic
f ’ coast. Comfortable rooms, neatly fur
nished. Fare the best the market affords.
Bathing suits supplied. Terms moderate.
GEO. D. HODGES, Proprietor.
ti ik bristcxlL
A SELECT FAMILY HOUSE,
15 EAST 11TH ST., NEAR STH AVE., N. Y.
Well furnished, superior table.
Ladies traveling alone or with children receive
careful attention. VOICES AS REASONABLE
AS A BOARDING nOUSE.
NXUAV YORK BOARD.
1 e-i j • AND 1,70* Broadway, corner .54th.
f • t '/•) House kept by a Southern lady; loca
tion desirable. Refers by permission to CoL
John Screven, Savannfch.
THOUSAND ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel,
Westminster Park, Alexandria Bay, N. Y.—
"Unquestionably the finest location in the
Thousand Islands."— ■Harper's Magazine, Sept.,
1881. Send for descriptive pamphlet. H. F.
INOLEHART, Proprietor.
HOTELS.
NEW HOTEL TOG-NI,
(Fonnarty St. fTark's.)
Newnan Street, MSr Bay, Jacksonville, Fla.
WINTER AND SUMMER.
THE MOST central House in the city. Near
Post Office, Street Cars and ail Ferries.
New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bella,
Baths, Etc. 52 50t\. s'i per day.
JoIIN B TOGNI, Proprietor.
DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE.
'THUS POPULAR Hotel Is now provided with
X a Passenger Elevator (the only one in the
city)and has >een remodeled and newly fur
nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase
is also tbe owner of the establishment, spares
neither pains nor expense in the entertainment
of Ills guests. The patronage of Florida visit
ors is earnestly invited. The table of the
Screven House “is supplied with every luxury
that the markets at home or abroad can afford*
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
One of the Largest Boarding Houses in the
South.
\FFORDS pleasant South rooms, good board
with pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit
those wishing table, regular or transient accom
modations. Northeast corner Broughton and
DraytoD streets, opposite Marshall House.
HARDWARE.
EDVARD LOVELL k SONS,
HARDWARE,
In ami Turpentine Tools.
Office: Cor. State and Whitaker street*.
Warehouse: 1.18 and 140 State street.
PRINTER AND BOOKBINDER.
ORDERS FOR
RULING. PRINTING. BINDING,
OR BLANK BOOKS.
Will always have careful attention.
GEO. N. NICHOLS,
PRINTER AND BINDER,
3tf Hay Street.
RIESLING'S NURSERY.
White Bluff Road.
IYLAYT3. BOUQUETS, DESIGNS,
I FLOWERS furnished to order. Len*J <>£
deraat DAVIS RROe.’ . nraer Bull ami Y, * r *
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