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A BURGLAR IN A ‘ COFFIN.
Thrilling Fight in a Littla Vermont
Depot.
A letter from South Woodbery, Vt.,
to the Chicago News says: North Cal
ais is a small town on a branch of
the Wells River railroad, but it has a big
sensation. A desperate attempt was made
last Wednesday night to rob the express
messenger’s safe in themilroad stationofflce,
which was frustrated in a manner so myste
rious that it sepnied to border on the weird.
The hero of the day , the station agent, sta
ted to-day to a correspondent that he was
yet still uncertain which frightened him
most, the robber or the strange wanting.
Herman 8. Benjamin, a sturdy Gi-een
Mountain boy, who' lives in Woodbury,
three miles away, is the station agent, and
he has on his hands as a memento of the af
fair a large stained cdffln loft behind by the
robber, which he will give with a handsome
bonus to any one who will give him some
clew to either the burglar or the individual
who sent him the startling warning.
There had been a thunderstorm early in
the evening, and the night was dork and disa
greeable when he came on duty at 8 o’clock
Ho was not at ull flattered at.'tlie prospect
before him, for it was what is known as
‘•quarry eve,” the date being one of the
regular periods that tho monthly money for
the stone quarries near by is sent up by the
banks in Montpelier, and its safety was his
responsibility. Upon the night in question
Benjamin had taken the keys of the safe
from the day agent and assmuod his duties
for the night, and proceeded to make him
self comfortable. The station is nearly a
mile from the village, and after the 8:30
o’clock accommodation passes there is no
traffic except the 11 o'clock night express,
which does not stop, and possibly a through
freight or two. When tho day agent handed
him the keys this night be remarked that
the quarry boodle had come. Said he: “It’s
in the safe there—s3B,ooo in bills. The silver
will be up on the way train.”
Benjamin said good night and thought no
more about the money until the accommo
dation arrived at 8:30, when an iron-bound
box, aliout a foot square, was delivered him
by the express messenger. Tho box was
filled with silver dollars, and was quite
heavy. Herman placed it in the safe, as
was his custom, for he had done this same
thing for several years. After the train left
he set his signals and lights for the express,
which was due at It o’clock, and then en
tered the ticket office and sat down to road.
The telegraph ticker, close at hand, occa
sionally ticked off a through message
of no particular importance,
and he paid little attention to
the instrument until suddenly his
office was called three tirnas rapidly. He
sprang to the key and answered, for his
duties as an operator were part of his re
quirements. No reply to the answer came,
and, after waiting some time, he shut off
the key and went back to bis reading.
Again he was called, with the same result,
and this was repeated twice, until, angry
and disgusted, he had decided that someone
was playing him a trick, and he sat glaring
at the offending sounder, his book in hand,
when a message began to rattle out, its very
meagerness being startling. It said: *
“Watch the box 1 Watch the box! Watch
the box!”
After a short interval the message was
repeated again three times, and although
Benjamin cut in and tried to ask who was
the sender, all he could get was:
“Watch the box.” “Watch the box.”
At last he suriliised that it meant the box
of silver. He opened the safe and looked in.
It was ail safe there, and while he was won
dering what it was all about, the whistle of
the express was heal'd. He went out as
usual and was surprised to see that it was
slowing up to stop. No passengers alighted,
but several of the employes lifted from the
baggage-ear a coffin, the outer covering of
stained pine. They *aid they had orders to
stop and leave it, to be called for in the
morning. It was marked “Care of the Sta
tion Agent,” and “To be called for.” The
box was placed it the express-room near the
safe, and the train departed, but no sooner
had its rumblings ceased than the telegraph
ic instrument began again in its most lively
manner the old roundelay:
“Watch the box!” “Watch tbe box!”
“Watch the box!”
All of a sudden, by instinct it seemed,
there flashed through Benjamin’s brain the
thought that perhaps it was the sombre
looking casket that the mysterious message
referred to. He examined it carefully, but
there was nothing suspicious about it. It
was heavy, there was no sound within and
the lid seemed securely screwed down. It
did not seem to be at all suspicious, but Her
man determined to tie on tho safe side, and
decided he would keep bis eye open. The
key by this time had suddenly ceased
to rattle, and ho made preparations
for getting some sleep. He made up his
v ual impromptu bed on a bench, and, after
seeing that bis revolver was all right, he
placed it under his head and laid down. He
watched the coffin carefully for some time,
but grew drowsy, and flnafly without know
ing it, dropped off into a sleep. How long
he slept he does not know, but he was
a-.akenod suddenly by what he couldn’t tell,
but heard the telegraph instrument in the
next room rattling away furiously and ex
traordinarily lofid:
“Watch the box!” “Watch the box!”
“Watch the box!”
He was fully awake in an instant, and,
tinning his gaze to where the coffin lay, he
saw by the dim light of tho station lamp the
lid rise slightly. He watebyd breathlessly,
and a cold sweat broke out all over him as
he saw the lid slowly and noiselessly rise and
a man sit up in the coffin. His heart beat
quickly as the man got up and slipped out
of the box and looked about him. He was
evidently a burglar, as he wore a crape mask
and carried a bull’s-eye in one hand and
some tools in the other. He was a power
fully built fellow, but so was Benjamin, who,
seeing his visitor was flesh and blood, re
gained his courage. His policy was best to
lie still and watch developments, and,
although the robber came up close to him
and shoved his lanleru into his face, he never
moved a muscle.
Taking it'for granted lie was asleep, tlie
burglar stole over to the safe and knelt
down before it with his back to the agent.
Now was Benjamin’s time for seizing his
revolver. He stepped from tbe bench, and
with a hfmnd was on the burglar’s back.
Then there ensued a terrible struggle, but
Benjamin had lain about the neck and was
slowly strangling him. when tbe man drew
a long knife and lunged at his antagonist
To save himself Benjamin pressed his
revolver against the robber’s shoulder,
and fired. With n howl the thief rolled
over, on bis bark, the blood pour
ing from his wound. Believing him to fie
dying, Benjamin left him add ran down the
road with all speed to tbe village, reaching
the residence of Dr. Holt all out of breath.
lh‘. awoke the physician, to qlioin he hur
riedly told the tale, and with less than ten |
minutes’ delay the two men were running
toward the station. Half wav there they
were passed by a top wagon being driven
furiously toward the village. They railed
to the driver, but he paid no attention to
them.
When they entered tho station, to their
surprise they found the supposed dead man
K“Ue. • There was the empty rofttn and the
burglar tools, just as tho robber dropped
them, Isoldes a poo! of blood on tho noor,
but that was all. Drops of blood led along
the floor to the door, showing how the thief
had gone, and fresh wagon wheels in tho
'•urtii at the door showed the means of os
rape. He hud evidently had au accomplice.
The coffin, upon examination, was found to
have been bolted on tho inside,
the supposed screws being bogus.
It was furnished comfortably and
the air hole* in the side mode Ids life inside
almost a luxury. Next day the matter was
reported to the railway official*, who re
warded Benjamin handsomely, and liegan
an investigation. The stranger who got the
order to stop the express at ilia station, mid
"‘ho shipped the ratlin train Montpelier,]
could not l>e found, mid eluded capture.
The company then examined every opera
tor along the line as to who rent the warn
ing message, but one aim all declared that
they did not, and the affair is shrouded iu
the ureatest luvnUnv.
The matter is the sole topic of conversa
tion in this neighborhood, and a raft of peo
t pie have come from all sections to visit the
station, and see the coffiu, tools and blood
stains, which decline to tie removed, and
which the station agent politely points out.
The total amount of mauey saved was s>!s.-
000. ’
THE CORSET IS QUEEN.
About the Waist-Embracer That La
dies Love.
The corset is an object of so much interest
and importance that an article in a copy of
the London Telegraph, lately over, is worth
producing:
On a recent Thursday, according to that
journal, an inquest was held on a single
woman 51 years of age, residing in the
Gloucester road, Regent’s Park, who had
died suddenly on the preceding Sunday even
ing as she was leaving Park Chapel. The
house surgeon of the Northwest London
Hospital, who had made an examination of
the body, testified before the Coroner that
she was a woman who had laced very tightly.
In fact she must at all times have found
ordinary respiration a task of extreme diffi
culty, aud ultimately the lungs, not being
allowed free play, a blood vessel burst, pro
ducing syncope and death. The jury
returned a verdict in accordance with the
evidence, and we are entitled to ask whether
the most recent addition to the list of vic
tims of tight lacing 'rill have anv influence
in staying the prevalence of a barbarous and
mischievous fashion. It is much, however,
to be feared that all the homilies of the
medical faculty, reiterated over and over
again, will fail to persuade ladies that tight
lacing is a sure means of ruining their
health, and very often has fatal results;
while it will be quite as difficult to presuade
tho fair sex that tho vast majority of sensi
ble men look upon an “hour-glass” or
“wasp” waist as not only ugly but ridicu
lous. The instrument of constriction applied
to the chest was an invention of depraved
vanity, with a view of giving to the
female figure a supposed lightness which
it ought not to possess, or to conceal some
deformities, which stays very frequently
aggravate instead of allaying.
ROUSSEAU’S INFLUENCE.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, with all the power
of his genius and ull the warmth of the
interest which he took In youth, exposed the
lamentable corruption of taste which asserts
t hat the figure is excellent in proportion to
the waist. The philosopher of Geneva exer
cised more social influence, perhaps, in his
time than any writer in Europe, and for a
while stays went out of fashion in France.
Stiff corsets were still worn by the ladies of
the old court; but sensible jnothers came to
a common agreement that their daughters
should subject themselves to this voluntary
punishment at as late a period as possible,
and not until thejr wedding day were they
allowed to wear stays.
IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
Tho Revolution swept away the corset al
together, as well as hoop petticoats, but
stays again mado their appearance toward
the end of the First Empire. Avery harm
less affair, scarcely broader than the “fasciae
mamillares” of the Romans, was the imperial
bodies; for waists were then worn exces
sively short, aud the stays were without
busks, stiff pieces of whalebone or steel
plates. Modified, however, as they were,
the strong common sense of Napoleon re
volted against the reint.roduction of the gar
ment. “Corvisart,” said the ruler, whose
business it was to know everything, to his
physician, “the corset is coquetry of the
worst taste; it tortures women and maltreats
their progeny; it means frivolity: it heralds
decadence.”
ONCE MORE A LA MODE.
These words were full of sagacity, but
when the mysterious decrees of fashion—
decrees which are as occult as those of fate
—brought, about tho revival of long waists,
tight stays became once more tho mode, and
the female chest was bruised by that dread
ful instrument of torment the steel busk,
which had originally been brought into
France, in 1532, by Catherine de Medici. The
busk was a long, flat, rigid strip of wood or
whalebone, and sometimes of nietal. Tlie
old Surgeons Roderick and Ambroise Pare
had inveighed against it; Montaigne and
Riolau had laughed at it; tho Abbe Quillet
had preached against it, and the Emperor
Joseph had striven to drive it out of Austria
by ordaining that all women leading im
moral lives should wear stays with stiff
busks. Medical warnings, satire, sermons,
edicts of police hc.d all beeu in vain. In
the present epoch, although tight lacing is
fearfully prevalent, and is shying its thou
sands of silly votaries every year, the busk
has ceased to be an. instrument of tor
ture.
THE OLD BUSK AND THE NEW.
It is an integral part of the corset, where
as the old busk, which was covered with
chamois leather, could be made to slide in
and out in a vertical tuck in the front of the
stays. Tlie modem busk is fastened and
divided down the middle, like the tree of a
Mexican saddle: it is made of very flexible
steel, which should give to every movement
of the body, and, per se, it is a wholly in
nocuous portion of the corset. The mischief
and the peril are at the back. Fifty years
ago a London stay-maker named Mills in
troduced an improved formation of stay
making, the texture elastic, aud wholly ban
ishing upright pieces; but the greatest of
evils escaped and continues to escape rem
edy. Nearly all stay-makers render the
structure of tlie corset sufficiently nar
row to allow of its being drawn at the
back far too tight for the health of tho
wearer.
THE PERMANENT LACING.
Sensible ladies leave the permanent lacing
of the interval at the back of their stays un
touched. That interval, according to a high
authority, should not be less than an inch in
breadth, so as to leave the spinal column un
covered by the corset. Ladies, however,
who lack common sense, strain, tug. pull and
haul at the lacing at the back of their stays,
or they hold on ton horizontal bur put up in
their dressing-room while their maids tug,
pull and haul at the stay-laces until the re
quisite “hour-glass” or “wasp” effect is pro
duced. Are there any other results, it
may be asked, from this elegant process of
garroting tbe female form ? There are a
good many, and we will venture to enumer
ate a few.
EFFECTS OF TIGHT LACING.
On the authority of the most eminent phy
sieians and surgeons of tho last two genera
tions, it may be stated that in tho head fight
lacing produces giddiness, headache, pain in
the eyes, ringing in the ears and bleeding at
tho nose. Habitual tight lacing will pro
voke That most undesirable addition to the
fqaialo complexion, a red nose. Tight lac
inf is quite ns mischievous in tho region of
tlie thorax, to which it gives a false support,
impelling tho development of the natural
support. It displaces the bones, deranges
the circulation. Induced scirrhus in tlie main. 1
mary glands and ultimately cancer, and it is
a tolerably sure provocation of lung disease,
palpitation of the heart and water in the
chest.
In the abdominal region tight lacing may
lie reckoned upon with tolerable confidence
to bring about loss of appetite, squeamish
ness, indigestion, induration of the liver,
nieUnchonn, drops, and rupture. Carnpin
closely associated tight, lacing with squint
ing ; Itonnnud said that it led to polypus;
I’lutner maintained that to tight-lacing
mothers unhealthy children were born;
Josephi warned tlie lover of stiff corsets
their children would lw ugly: Worrne*
remarked that one of the trifling incon
venience* of tight lacing was swollen feet;
and Winslow showed that there was an
intimate connection between tight lac
ing curvature of the spine and hunch
back.
ANCIENT STAYS.
Every scholar is aware that stays are ar
ticles of attire of the very highest antiquity,
and tlmt the cestui of Agale was practically
a corset. Some autiquanans have even con
tended tliat even the girdle which Juno wore,
when she wished to appear her loveliest, in
the eyes of Jupiter, Was a pair of stays. Tho
Einpreas Mossalina was wont to have her
body cravat adjusted very tightly 1 ref ore
she proceeded to pat* a happy evening iu the
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1887.
suburra, while in the reign of Augustus an
improved coi-set was introduced called a
“costula;” it fittxi closely to the form, and
had the agreeable addition of a dress-im
prover,
JUSTAUCORPB.
Tbe ladies’ stays of the Middle Ages were
known as “justaucorps,” and subsequently
as “co ties hardies;” but Isabeau de Baviere,
the consort of Charles VI. of France, totally
repudiated stays, and, besides, laid it down
as a sumptuary canon that there should lie
as little drapery as possible between the
necklace and the lace. When the Italian
Catherine brought in the execrable busk,
which was first of wood or of ivory, the cor
set successively developed in rigidity and
obduracy. It became a cage, it became a
cuirass, and it had to tie so tightly laced
that the muscular power of the ordinary
“femme de chamber” being inadequate to
the pulley-hauling required, tlie Court Indies
used to send for the strongest of tho Forts
de la Helle to tug at their stay laces, and
oven these athletic creatures could not ac
complish their task to the entire satisfaction
of then- fashionable employers without
pressing one.foot firmly against the bedpost
in order to obtain the necessary purchase or
leverage. The corsets of the present day,
whether they be machine-made or hand
fashioned from accurate measurement of
the customer, invariably present the same
general characteristics of fastening in
front and profusely boned at tbe sides,
while at the back there is that disastrous
interstice, with its permanent criss-cross
lacing, which can be pulled and hauled at
until the vain and silly wearer commits con
structive suicide.
SEA DOGS’ BARKS.
Storleß of the Deep Blue Sea, Showing
That All is Not Music in Its Roar
Prrmthe New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The offices of the branch United States
Hydrographic Office and the Now Orleans
Maritime Association are in tho same build
ing in the Varieties alley. The two com
bined draw together all the local seamen,
ex-seamen and visiting seamen that drop
this in way.
The assembled collection on various occa
sions present an aggregation of characters
never seen outside or just such a knot of jolly
old tare. When the humor finds them in
the mood it is many a fine and thrilling tale
that they tell, with animation and gusto,
too.
One day last week when the thermometer
was vi resiling with the hundreds, and there
was nothing to do but see who could tell the
biggest yarns and warmest stories, two old
retired sea captains dropped in and joined
iu the contest. The .subject drifted off to
adventures and strange happening* of the
sea. One old fellow, with the smell of salt
water still about him, just back from a trip
around the Horn,shifted his cud and wanted
to know if anyone ever solved the mystery
of the brig Mary Celeste. “That,” said lie,
“was about the most incomprehensible
thing that ever came under my ken. It
was along aliout ’75. or thereabouts, that
the Mary Celeste sailed from New York for
Gibraltar with a cargo of petroleum.
About two months afterward she was pick
ed up between the Western Indies and Gib
raltar. Every sail was set and flapping in
the wind; tho captain’s cabin was in perfect
order, his money on the table, his wife’s
sewing machine open as if it had just been
used: but not a soul anywhere. Nobody
could ever imagine or give any reason for
hor strange abandonment; nothing was
heard, from that day to this, of a single
member of the crew, although the govern
ment offered time and again 55,000 for any
member of the misusing crew. That brig
is sailing out of New York to-day, and when
ever I see her arrival in any of the papers I
always wonder what has become of those
who sailed her away from there ten years
ago.”
“Yes,” said Capt. Boulanger, another old
salt, things do happen. 1 remem
ber when I was down at Panama, aud the
bark Petty, Capt. Henry, was at anchor
there. He was a man who had a bad name
as a regular sundowner, and before he left
it was clearly shown. One night nine of his
crew abandoned that ship and swam four
miles to the shore, when everybody knows
that Panama Bay swarms with sharks.
Well, every one of them got ashore all
right, and that man had to leave for Callao
short-handed. Ho followed us down there,
and came in two weeks after we had anchor
ed; and a rougher looking ship you never
saw. He hadn’t been out from Panama
three days when the crew began to take
down with yellow fever. He says that the
last be remembers was the steward nutting
a poultice on his breast, and when fie came
to that poultice was still there, caked hard
and dry lie staggered up the hatchway
and looked up: there the ship was going
along easy on the port tack, under lower
topsails and jib, the foresail hauled up, and
not a soul about the deekrs. He looked aft
and saw the wheel lashed. Presently an
old sailor with a stub of a pipe in his mouth,
came pandering aft, and took a look at the
compass. When he spoke to him the old
fellow thought he was a ghost, but lie reas
sured him, and found out that this old man
and the cook were the only ones that were
not down with tlie fever. Well sir, they
worked that ship into Callao, and you can
bet that from that time on that skipper was
u changed man. 110 took the Petty around
to Boston, and there wasn’t another master
there with a bettor name.”
“I remember” said a tall, raw-boned chap
“the time the crew of the ship Ann Alexan
der was picked up off Cape Good Hope.
They had started out with two Malays in
the crew, and these two scoundrels had
taken a spite against all hands: so one night
they got the crew barricaded in the fore
castle, knocked the captain down and put
him below. The captain was u strong fel
low, and as soon as he recovered he irmn
naged to get on deck with a gun and make
for them. They had set fire to the vessel,
and, as they saw no further chance for
them, they jumped on the rail, shook their
fists at tiie captain in impotent, rage and
jumped overboard. The crew had to aban
don the ship, and were picked up by us in a
half-starved condition.”
“O come off,’’said some skeptical land
lubber; “let’s go get, a drink.”
That seemed to take them all flat aback;
so they wore short round for the nearest
saloon, aud when last seen were heaving
down.
A Successful Seance.
From the Omaha World.
Omaha Medium —Was it you who player!
the accordion?
Spirit—Yes; did you like the selection?
The beautiful air in called on earth, “Tom
my. Make Room for Your Uncle.”
“Oil, it was delightful. Did you haveany
assistance f”
“No.”
“Did you make all that screeching on the
trumpet yourself?”
“Every note of it. ”
“And war it you* who played ‘Yankee
Doodle’ on the flute?”
“Yes; and it was I who gave ‘Fisher’s
Hornpipe’ on tho fiddle.”
“Wonderful I I suppose you wore fond of
music when on earth ?”
“Very.”
“By the way, what wa* your name whoa
in the body ?”
“Beethoven.”
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M IT.LINERY.
MiiiV MILUNKItYAT
KROUSKOFF’S
Mammoth Millinery House.
We are now offering immense lines of New Straw Hats,
Ribbons, Feathers, etc., which are now being shipped daily
by our New York buyer, and our Mr. Krouskoff, who is now
North to assist in the selection of the Choicest Novelties in
the Millinery Line. It is astonishing but a fact, that we sell
fine Millinery cheaper than any retail store in New York. How
can we do it? Cannot tell. This is our secret and our suc
cess. Perhaps on account of large clearing out purchases or
perhaps from direct shipments from London or Paris—but no
matter so long as the ladies have all the advantages in stock
and prices.
W e are now ready for business, and our previous largo
stock will be increased, and we are now offering full lines of
fine Milans in White and Colors, for Ladies, Misses aud
Children in an endless variety of shapes
RIBBONS, RIBBONS, new novelties added and our regu
lar full line entirely filled out.
Wc knock bottom out in the price of Straw Goods.
We continue the sale of our Ribbons at same prices as
heretofore, although the prices have much advanced.
We also continue to retail on our first floor at wholesale
prices.
S. KROUSKOFF.
SWIFT’S SPECIFIC.
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& S. S. S. vs. POTASH.
I hTe had Mood poison for ton years. I know I have taken onn hundred bottles of
lodide of potaeli in that time, but it did rae uo good. Last summer my face, neck, body
and limbs were covered with sores, and I could scarcely use my arms ou account of rheu
matism in my shoulders. I took 8. S. S., and It has done me more good tiiuu all other medi
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r TNI VERS ALTA' CONCEDED to lie tbe greatest improvement ever attached to a Cooking
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CLAItKK A DANIELS,
DEALERS IN
PORTABLE RANGES, COOKING STOVES AND HOUSE FURNISHING SPECIALTIES,
Ct IT Altl3 S AItMO RY,
Corner Whitaker and Yorlc Streets, Savannah, Georgia.
TELEPHONE 264. ,
TRUNKS AND SHOES.
i)ur Trunks Have Arrived,
And we are ready to show you the largest assortment ever
brought to Savannah. If you propose to take a summer va
cation don’t wait until you are ready to leave, but come
around to see us at once and make your selection while our
assortment is complete.
Trunks, Trunks.
Ladies’ Louisa Leather Saratoga Trunks, Ladies’ Lady
Washington Leather or Zinc Saratoga Trunks, Gents’ Sole
Leather Trunks, Ladies’ and Gents’ Leather Satchels, Ladies’
and Gents’ Leather Club Bags. All styles and at Hock Bot
tom Prices.
Don’t Fail to examine our Gents’ Calf s.‘s Shoes, in Con
gress, Lace and Button, best in the eity, at
JOS. ROSENHEIM & CO.’S
ZE’OIPTXL.A.IR, SHOE STORE,
135 BROUGHTONSTREET.
N. B. The repairs in our store having been completed we
are again ready for business.
Simplest, Safest and Mott Durable AH Machinery fully Guaranteed. Reliable Ma
chinery at reasonable prices.
Do not buy without first seeing ua, or writing for our prices, naming Just, what you want. Address
bISSWva. I TALBOTT & SONS. Macon, Ga.
J. C WJBaAVKU,
CAUTION.
Consumers should not confuse our Specific
with the numerous imitations, substitutes,
potash end mercury nu rtures which are got
ten up to sell, not en their own merit, but on
the merit of our remedy. An imitation is
always a fraud and a cheat, ami they thrice
only as they can stealfivm the article imitated.
Treatise on Stood and Skin Diseases mailed
free. For sale by all druggisU. .
TUN SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
n>T r rAVTO\AL.
for hull information ot the Above
CALL ON on ADDRESS
HOKN BTKIN Ac MACCAW,
101 Bay Rtiwt, Suva mint), Go.
ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE.
Fordham, N. Y.
UNDER the direction of Jesuit Fathers; is
beautifully situated in a very picturesque
and healthy part of Now York county.
The College affords every facility for the best
Classical, Scientific aud Commercial education.
Board and Tuition per year, ’s3oo.
Btudies will be resumed (September 7, 1887.
For further particulars applv*to
Kkv. THOMAS J. CAMPBELL, S. J.,
President.
\riRGIN!A MILITARY INSTITUTE, Owing
> ton, Virginia. The forty ninth session of
tins well-known Stole Institution will open on
the Bth September, proximo. It provides a sys
tem of the rough military training, a distinctive
ucadejnlo course of instruction. and technical In
struction in the several branches of applied
science which enables a graduate in the aca
demic school to attain to a professional degree
.is Bachelor of Science or Civil Engineer. These
advantages ure secured on terms not exceeding
Jttti per month, including clothing in addition to
the ordinary collegiate necessaries. For cata
logue a{>ply to
Ueneral FRANCIS H. SMITH.
Superintendent.
I aORANOE FEMALE COLLEGE, laGrnnge,
Is Gu. 41st Annual Session begins Sept. 21, 1887.
Heat advantages in Health, Morals, Literature,
Mudlc anil At t. Book keeping, Elocution, Vccal
Music and Cal sthenics taught, fiee in regular
course. No incidentals or extra chargee. Expen
se moderate. SIO,OOO now lining spent In im
provement*. Send for C atalogue ami he oon
vincod. RUFUS W. SMITH, Pres.
EULER B. SMITH, Secy.
Bellevue High School,
BEDFORD CO, VIRGINIA.
A thoroughly equipped School of high grado
ror Boys and Young Men.
r pHE 22<1 Annual See&km o|**ns Sept. IS, 1887.
I For Catalogue or tqMX'itil information apply
i" W. R ABB< )T, I'mn . HHl*vuo I’ < >.. Va.
EPIS C 0 PAL HIG H S CHO OU
Near Alexandria, Va.
L. M. BLACKFORD, M. A., Principal,
L. HOXTON, Associate Principal;
With üble Assistants.
A. Preparatory School for Boys.
Founded 1830. Session opens Sept. 28, 1887.
Catalogues sent on appheation.
IfAUQUIER FEMALE INSTITUTE, Warren-
I ton, Va., opens its if'tb annual session Sept.
14, 1837. Situated in the Piedmont, region of Vir
ginia, unsiirpaßsed for Its beauty, fertility and
healthfillness. Only 60 miles from Washington.
The grounds, ten acres in all, are tastefully laid
out. The building is one of the tlnest. school
edifices in the State. A full corps of teachers.
Term* reasonable, and mode known on amilloa
tlon. For catalogues address GEO. O. BUTLER,
A. M., Principal.
MONROE FEMALE COLLEGE,
FORSYTH, GA„
\\ni.l. resume exercises MONDAY, SEPT. 19,
* lBB7. The departments of Literature,
Science, Music. Draw ing and Painting are sup
plied with the best of teachers, under the best
of management. For catalogue apply to
It. T. AfIIJUKY, President,
or I. It. BRANHAM, Secretary.
Lucy Cobb Institute,
ATHENS. GEORGIA.
r |' , HE Exerclres of this School will bo resumed
I SEPT. 7, !KB7.
M. RUTHERFORD Principal.
Rome Female College.
(Under the control of tbo Synod of Georgia.)
Home, Ga.
Kev. J. M. M. CALDWELL, President.
r r*HIKTY-FIRST year Monday, Skit. 5,
-I- 18b7. For circulars and Informal lon address
S. U. CALDWELL.
Rome. <*a.
GORDON INSTITUTE.
THE BEST SCHOOL IN THE STATE.
| NSTLI < TION is the most thorough. If *, pu
I pi Ik ur * the Lent prepared for oiudDem or
college. Take the honors at the viniverdtiti.
1 ,- KKL TUITION. Send for Catalogue to C HAS.
K. LA MB DIN, President, Barnes vi lie. (la.
Moreland park
ILITARY ACADEMY.
Near Atlanta, Oa. ('baa M. Neel. Kupt.
A BHEVILLE MILITARY ACADEMY. North
J\ Carullna. 8. K VENABLE, Princhsil; W.
PINCKNEY MASON, Commanderof OatiaU*aitd
Associate Principal. Kor information and (
logo- address either Principal or Associate Prin-
HA.Mb.
ASK YOUR GROCER FOfi
and breakfast bacon,
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" ".AH.aa UN TATtNIta TSAOI-MAAKA A LiaHT
Mlr.LLi, •(.. ATTACH, TO TH STSimJ. AM*
TMI StSietQ CANVAS, AM IM TM* OUT.
S Tills Halt or Rcgenera
tor is mad* expressly
for the cure of derange
ment* of the generative
organ*. A continuous
stream of Electricity
permeating thro’ the
part* must restore
them to healthy action. :
Do not confound this
with Electric Belts ad-
IJIII.I verltsed to cure all ills;
It i far the on* specific purpose. lor full in
formation ail. Jr.-r CHEEv’EB ELECTRIC
BJ7LT CO., ldd VVusmux'luu Ibt., Chicago ill
DRY* GOODS, ETC.
E.\cepM Keducfioos
IN
Smwr Goods
AT
Will 4 Hit's,
SUCCESSORS TO
B. F. McKenna & Cos.,
137 BROUGHTON STREET.
FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS.
\V r K will close out the remainder of our stock
▼ ▼ of rhcs fine jbtooflk. formerly sold at 18c.
a yard, now reduced to 12V£c.
25 pieces Figured Uwas, 88 inches wide, regu
lar price riVijc. a yard; now rt^c.
75 pieces Figured I-awns, choice styles, at
60 pieces Wide Width I-Awns, regular price
10c. a yard; now’(%e.
One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regular rio©
16c. aud 17c. a yard; now
One lot of Dress Ginghams, choice styles,
regular price a yard; now 10e.
86 Imported Marseilles Quilts, slightly soiled,
formerly sold at 83. We will close the lot out
at 81 86 each.
Hosiery and Underwear.
100 dozen Unbleached Black and Colored Hose,
regular price 12^c.; now ftc. a pair.
A mixed lot of Misses' Fine English Hose.
Ribbed, Plain and Silk Clocked, regular price of
these goods from 25c. to 50c. We will cloaftbo
lot out at 17c. a pair.
50 dozen Ladies' Gauze Undervesta, regular
prices 25c. and 36c.; now 10c. each.
8B dozem Ladies' extra line quality Gauze Un
dervest*, regular prices 50c., 65c., 75c. and 85c.
We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low
price of 47c. each.
Our $1 Unlaundried Shirts? Reduced to 90c.
75 dozen Gentlemen's Unlaundried Shirts, re
inforced back ami bosoms, the best $1 Shirt
manufactured. In order to reduce our large
stock we will offer them at 00c. each.
C.ROIIAN & DOQNF.R.
GROCERIES.
APPLES
Northern Apples, Cabbage, Potatoes,
Red and Yellow Onions, Lemons, Lemons,
Eastern Hay, Western Hay,
Corn, Oats, Bran, Eyes, Feed Meal,
Field Seed, Feed and Table Peas.
Get our carload prices on GRAIN and HAY.
169 BAY ST,
W. D. SIMKINS & CO.
< ON TH AI -TORS.
P. J. FALLON,
BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR,
22 DRAYTON STRESS!, SAVANNAH.
1 ESTIMATES promptly furnished for building
J of any class.
J OFFICIAL
ORDINANCE.
an obdinanck -To amend tin- Police rules and
Regulations und to relieve Private E. F. Davla
from the operation of the role amended.
Section 1, Re it ordulned by the Mayor and Al
dermen of the city ot Savannah.in CotUicil assem
bled, that Rule Ilk of the police rules and regu
lations adopted on the tho 17th day of March,
1880. lie so amended ns to road as follows:
Policemen won mV* I or diaabled whilst in the
performance of duty, or made ill by unusual ex
posure or service, will receive their pay for (bo
period thus lost Inordinary cases of ‘ xloknes*
if shall Is- discretionary with the Oiler of Po
lice, w bether or not to recommend pay for the
time thus lost, and his recommendation for such)
payment shall secure the same If the recom
mendation is concurred In by the Police Com
mittee, but not otherwise. Time lost in every
case ahull he so stated on the pay roll.
Kkc. 2. H-‘ It further oriialried that the sum of
twelve dollars anil ninety-six cents, deducted
from the pay of Policeman E. F. Davis, shall lx)
refunded to him.
See. 3, That all ordinances, rules and regula
tions in conflict with this ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed In Council August 10th. 1887.
RUFUS E. LESTER, Mayor.
Attest: 8 hank E. Rkharck. Clerk of Council.
UIJAHA VII\E NOTICE.
Ornc* Health Omru i
Savannah. Oa.. May 1, 1887. (
From and after MAY lt, 1887, the city ordi
nance which specific, the Quarantine require
mentstobe observed at the port of Sav*nnah,
Georgia, for period of time (auuually) from Maw
Ist to November Ist, will be most rigidly
forced.
Merchants and ail other parties intnrnstnd
will be supplied with printed copies of the Quar
amine Ordinance upon application to office at
Health Off)<;er.
From and after this date and until further no
tice all steamships and vesaels from South
America, Central America. Mexico, Went Indies,
Sicily, ports of Italy south of 10 dpgs. North
latitude. and coast of Africa beweeu
in clegs. North and 14 degs. South latitude,
direct or via American port will be sub-
Jectert to close (Quarantine and be required
to retain at the Quarantine station and bo
treated as brine from Infected or suspected
ports or localities. Captains of thme vessels
will liave to remain at. Quarantine Station until
their vessels are relieved
All steamers and vessels from foreign pons
not. included above, direct or via American
ports, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise,
will lie required to remain in quarantine until
boarded und itassed by the Quarantine Officer.
neither the Captains nor any one on board of
such ischsclb will be alloweti to conus to the city
unjit the vessels are impecteci and passed by (As
Qua routine Officer.
A* ia.ru or localities not herein enumerated
are reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori
ties. Quarantine restrict ions against same will
be enforced without fur.her publication.
The quarantine regulation requiring the tlyir.fi
of the guarantiee nag on vessels •subjected (a
detention or inspection will be rigidtu enforced.
j. t. McFarland, m. and. Health omoer.
(HARWTIAE NOTICE.
Orrtet; Hkalth Ornrsn, |
Savannah. April sth. 1887. (
Notice Is hereby given thsi tbe Quarantios
Officer Is instructed not to deliver letter* to ves
sels whih lire not subjected to quarantinede
tentlon, unless the name of consignee and stnte
inenttliat the vessel is ordered to some othof
port appears upon the face of the envelop*.
This order is made necessary in consequence at
the enormous hulk of drumming letters sent t*
tbe station for vessel* (vhich are to arrive.
J. T McFarland, m. and.,
Health Officer.
ai Alt A NTI\E NOTICE.
Omen Health Qmctt, i
Savannah, March SSth, IW7. f
pilot* of the Port of .‘tar annuli are informed
that the Sajiclo Quarantine Station will bo open
ed on APRIL Ist. 1887.
Special attention of tbe Pilots Is directed to
sections Nos. 3d arid 14th, (guarantiee Regula
tions.
Host rigid enforcement of quarantine reguia
(ions will bo maintained by the Health authori
ties. j. x. McFarland, m and ,
Health u Ulcer.
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