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2 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 * 1 ’IW-rdv i " • )>•