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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.” Skinny Men. 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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, in' o r\r a-: cj- x; iv u i isr pj " ".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. 5