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2 POWELL ON DUN'S MU. THE STATE ONCE ANXIOUS TO SELL FOR $1,000,000. Ono Vote in the House All That Pre vented the Sale $8,000,000 the Price Put on the Property Seventeen years Ago—The Funding Bill Passed. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 28. In the Senate fecv-day the Funding l>ill was read the third time and passed. Mr. DoJarnette introduced a bill provid ing for the registration of voters in Morgan county. Mr. Jamas introduced a bill to amend the act incorporating South Rome. Discussion of the Dean bill was then re sumed. Mr. Northcutt of the Twenty-fifth, the Atlanta district, made an argument against the hiU. Mr. Powell, of the Twenty-second, favor ed the passage of the bill. He reviewed the early history of the State road. He re called the fnct that after fifty-throe miles of the road had been built, at a cost of $3,000,- 000, the people got tired of it, and a prono sit.ion was made in the Legislature to sell it for $1,00,),000. It passed the Senate by 14 majority, hut was defeated in the House by a majority of one. Seventeen years ago there was another procuration introduced in the Legislature to sell the road.and the price fixed at $0,000,000. It would have been better for the Stab*, better for the people, and better forour financiers if the road hud been sold for $7,000,000. He said this much in reply to the expressions that the proposi tion to sell the road was something new. mr. Powell’s explanation. Mr. Powell said the question was used against him in his election that ho would lie in favor of selling the State road. The question was also not unknown in the Gor don-Baeon campaign. It is no new ques tion. The only question is whether the road has paid as an investment, and whether it is paying anything into the Treasury. The Senator from the Thirty-sixth had not dealt fairly with this question. Mr. Powell said the financial reports demonstrate that this road ought to pass out of the hands of the State. He quoted some of the figures ns to the value of the road, placing it at the minimum figure of $8,500,000. It has for the last forty years paid about per cent., while the State has paid in interest charges 8 and 10 per ccut. So the road has paid fir st ate practically little or nothing on the in vestment. Pending the completion of this speech the Senate adjourned. In the House. In the House to-day the special order was the bill introduced bv Mr. Denny, of Floyd county, to amend, revise and consolidate the common school laws of Georgia. The bill was considered in committee of the whole, and Mr. Denny made a four-and-a half-hour speech explaining its provisions and urging its passage. When Mr. Denny finished, Mr. Stewart, of Roefcdaie, moved that the committee re port the bill hack, with a recommendation against its passage. Mr. Gordon, of Chatham,in a few forcible remarks, opposed the motion, insisting on the need of changes to make the school sys tem more effective and the need of the little additional money asked to make it so. He said: Let amendments be made if de sired, but do not in this summary way cast away the industrious labor of months devoted to the elevation of the character end qualifications of teachers, for that is the chief feature of the bill. He lielievisl the people would cheerfully stand the ad ditional expense. He moved that the com mittee rise and report progress and ask leave to sit again. Mr. Stewart's motion prevailed, but when the bill was reported it was recommitted to the Committee on Education. Mr. Kenan, of Baldwin, offered a resolu tion empowering the sj>eciai committee to visit and investigate tho lunatic asylum ■ and to employ a stenographer and clerk, which, after some discussion, was agreed to. Mr. McCord, of Richmond, presented a memorial against the convict lease system, which was referred to the Penitentiary Committee. The House then adjourned. PABLO’S ENCAMPMENT. Crowds of Visitors Watching the Evo lutions of the Soldiery. •Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 28. Pablo Beach to-day has been crowded with visi tors watching the troops’ manoeuvres. This evening the companies were reinforced by the Pensacola and Milton Killes and the St. Augustine Guards. The total number of troops is estimated at 350. All the society people of Jacksonville and many towns in Florida are present, and the week will Ik* u gala one. The Board of Trade to-day sent a formal invitation to President Cleveland to visit Jacksonville. Judge Loton Jones opened the Criminal Court to-day. Nothing of importance was done, and the time was spent in getting cases readv. Suwannee Goes for Prohibition. Live Oak, Fla., Aug. 23.—The liquor question was settled here to-day, the Pro hibitionists carrying the day !>v a large majority. Six districts give a majority of 806 for prohibition. Eight distnrts vet to hear from will swell the majority to 500. The day passed quietly. Both parties exerted themselves to the utmost. Anvils are booming, and the greatest rejoicing is going on. Capt. Richard Recovering Starke, Fla., Aug. 23.—Capt. J. C. Richard, who was shot Sunday morning bv George Mtllen, is resting quietly, and will probably recover, although the bull has not been found, having entered the bones of the face between tin* eyes, and ranged down ward and toward the left ear, passing back of the left eye, and perhups severing the optic nerve, and consequently destroying that organ. Saw Mills Burnell Crescent City, Fla., Any. 28.— The Crescent City Saw Mills, owned by L. K. Willis, were burned on Saturday night last. The loss is estimated at #20,000, with no in suranee. He will probably rebuild. The dry weather still continues and orange trees are suffering some. ONLY FOUR YEARS OLD, But His Being Several Milos from Home Did Not Worry Him. From the flmoldt/ii Engle. “My name is Davy Roche and T winter go home.” said a bright-looking little lad to Sergt. Bropliy, as he entered the Seven teent.h Precinct Police Station yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock. The child car ried an uncovered basket in which was n large louf of bread. ‘Tut down your basket and come here to me,” said tlie sergeant kindly. “Now, where do you liveT “At 57 Elm street,’’ was the prompt re ply. “and I walked all the way up here.” “What’a your father's name!” “His name’s Dave, too.” Davy was planted on a stool behind the desk, where ny devoured a large pie which had been sent lor by the sergeant. It was nearly 6 o’clock when Davy's mother. wlw> lino learned of the boy’s whereaoouts through the police of the precinct in which she lives, entered the station and reclaimed the runaway. “I sent film for a loaf of bread at 7 o'clock this morning,"explained Mrs. Roche, “and have not seen him until now." "How old is hef" iisled the sergeant. “Onlv 4 years," whs tin- reply “He'D get along,” said the officer, as the W>v snd lii- L-sio t followed bis mother A SNAKE IN HER BED. | Kate Hennessey's Brave Deed When Her Feet Touched a Rattler. From tlie San b\anci*co Cail John Hennessey is the father of a bloom ing daughter of 15, who resides with him on the ram'll, eleven miles south of Jnckson, Amador county. The old gentleman was iu town yesterday and wore a broad smile on liis face. When tho clerk at a down town hotel, where he stopped, introduced him to a reporter, remarking at the same time that he could probably give the scribe some news from his section, Mr. Hennessey srniied more than ever. “And that’s just what I ran,” said he. “Sure ami I’ve got the bravest girl that there is, just about. I have heard much of bold deeds, nut I guess Kate's is equal to most any of them, fora little girl, too. “Snakes bother us some in Amador. You wouldn’t think that a mining country like that would lie troubled with them much, but it is, in places, and in rny vicinity more than ever this year. There are some rat tlers there, as well as a variety of others that are not poisonous. At work on my ranch last work I ran across two rattle snakes and killed them. “It was close to my cabin, and I tokl Kate about it, and told her to keep an eyeoutfor them, for they were vicious fellows, what I had seen, anxious to bite, of good size, and very ugly every way. “1 am a widower, and have only one other child, a lx>y 4 years old. Monday I drove over to Jackson, cautioning Kate to keep a good lookout that everything was straight. “when I was gone, as the day grew warm, Kate spread a coverlet down on the floor inside the door for the baby to play on, and at length little Fred wandered out into the garden to play and was about con siderable with her on the outside. “I was delayed in getting my horses shod in Jackson that night for some heavy haul ing 1 was going to do, and had to stay all night. "Kate waited a good while with supper on the table for me, but finally gave it up and concluded to go to bed. She had mean while, some time before, taken the coverlet from the floor and placed it on the foot of the bed, and tucked Freddy away. So she went to bed. “Well, it must have been two hours after, so she tolls me, when she was awakened by a whirring sort of noise, as of a big grass hopper. It sounded down at th** foot of the bed. and Kate began to kick around vigor ously to roust the grasshopjier, or whatever it was, off. “Blest if her foot didn’t collide with a snake, and a rattlesnake at that! She recol lected what 1 hud said, and knew what it was instantly. In a second she had loaned out of bed, and pulled the boy with her Fred was howling some considerably by this time, and I judge Kate was pretty well scared herself. But she struck a light, und then, reaching for the tongs, she went prospecting for that snake und got him. “Well, she just roasted him in tho fire place till he was done brown and dead. A ripper, 1 should say' He was 2 feet long ami almut as thick as a hlucksnake whip. You see, he had got into the folds of the Coverlet during the ilav and lieen flirted up on th.* bed with it. Slightly disturbed, I sup pose, by one of the children, ho had ut tered his war cry and my daughter heard him. “But gracious me, I don’t know how one or the other of them escaped being bitten. Yes, Kate kept the roasted rattler for me to see. Wasn't that a plucky deed, now?” SIX QUARTS AT A DRAUGHT. The Mighty Deed of a Yankee Skipper —Great Drinkers of Rum. FYum thv London Telprjraph. Drinking is a sea eustom not yet dead—at least if it is dead, the fault is not Jack’s. But, even though the economical principles of owners had suffered perpetuation of the practice on shipboard, I question whether the most bibulous of the present race of sailors could carry it to the height to which it was formerly raised I suppose the very biggist drink on record is that related bv I lam pier. He relates that there came oil board his ship one Capt. Rawlins, the com rnander of a small New England vessel, along with a Mr. John Hooker. They were asked into the cabin to drink, and a bowl was made containing six quarts. “Mr. Hooker being drunk to by Capt. Rawlins, wfiio pledged Capt. Hudswell, and. having the bowl in his hand, said that he was un der an oath to drink but three draughts of strong liquor a day, und putting the bowl to his head, turned it off at one draught, and so making himself drunk, disappointed us of our expeetatations until wo had made another bowl.” Twelve pints to a swallow, without a sigh between! But then hard drinking was the custom, not on the privateers only, but of the whole seafaring races of early times. They were educated to it by liberal doses of grog. The allowance sometimes rose to a pint of rum per man a day. In the French, Spanish and Portuguese ships, and very often in the Dutch, the sailors’ courage be fore an action was nearly Invariably helped with jacks of brandy, and the doses were repeated while the fight proceeded, a bum per being handl'd between the guns. The man, frenzied by drink, would mix gun powder with the spirits, supposing .that , thus prepared, there was no better liquor for he roes. I think it need not be doubted that more actions were lost than gained by this custom. How should a drunken gunner aim his piece, and what mischief (save to one another) could a mob of inebriated small arms men do in the tops or along the qur.r ter-deek? But if privateersmen could he found able to swallow six quarts at a draught, they had customs besides that of drinking which must have tended to mnke them desperately hardy-seasoned men. It. was their practice to keep their ships clear, so that flic dock was the only lie,l they hod to lie upon. No hammocks were idlowed, no chans or tables; they took their meals upon the deck and lay upon It; preserving in this direction, the old tradition of the buc caneers, who denied themselves every imaginable comfort ami convenience that they might never be mistaken for anything else than t he savage beasts they were. Removing Old Landmarks. Ftcm n New York Ist try Asa rule Now York cares very little about the post. Its soul is filled with the present and its cares, and even the relics of the past are rapidly and reckle-sly oblitera t si to make room for the demands of trade and s| km dilation. In tlie boginning of the present century the block of land bounded By Whitehall, State street and the Bowling Green, was occupied by a stately dwelling known as the Government House, which had been erected by the city ut the time when it expected to - remain the capital of the country. It was never occupied for that purpose, and was afterward use I for public office! and a public hospital until it was sdd by the city in 1815, to privute citizens with the proviso that tho buildings erected there should be of a uniform height, to tie approved by the authorities of the city. A block of red brick houses, surrounded by dor mer windows, substantial in build and" com fortable in aspect, were erected, with stables in the rear. Here dwelt, when 1 was it boy, Hteplien Whitney, who, next to John Jacob Aster, was our wealthiest citizen, and other local nobilities. A quarter of u century ago they were made over iuto business building!'., without having been changed in their structure. Now the rage for lofty office buildings has seized ujion the present occupants, and they have asked the Aider men for tne privilege of erecting new struc tures on the lots that shall be “Suited to modern ideas.” Of course, if they -nail make it worth their while to the City Futli ors (whose first question is always: “What is it worth to you I’) the privilege will tin accorded them. Yet 1 think that the men of 1815 were in the right when they wished that the Bowling Green should not lie over shadowed, und that a distant glimpse of the Battery and the bay, to suy nothing of the blue sire's, should be caught from lower R"on Ivvnv TITE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1887. lIKNWHO BORROW MONEY WHAT A GROUP OF PHILOSOPHERS SAY ABOUT THEM. The Mon Who Borrow and the Men Who Lend, They Both Fulfil their Destiny—A Peculiar Fact Worthy of an Explanation. From the Washington Post. A group of gentlemen were standing in front of the counter at AVillard’s talking to gether,and with the clerk behind the counter aliout impostors, money borrowers, and dead beats. All seemed to agree that there was no season of the year when there were not plenty of these around Washington, and it was the general opinion that there was no American citizen so poor in acquaint ances as not to have made tho acquaintance of at least ono. “One hundred,” the hotel clerk suggested, believing from his own ex perience that that was about the smallest number of deadbeats encountered by any man out of a prison cell. Th"y all reflected a moment, and each admitted that he had been “beat” over a hundred times, over a hundred times lie had vowed that he would never lend a dollar again, and over a liun dred times ho had forgotten the good resolu tion and given himself away anew to other deadbeats. Another tiling, which was dis covered on comparing notes, was that not one in the group had ever borrowed a dollar in his life. “Which goes to show,” said the principal interrogator, “that there are only two classes of people—l sirrowere and lenders, or, as they are sometimes called, deadbeats and suckers. You must either he one or the other or keep clear of both. There is no reciprocity about it, no mutual accommoda tion in it; tlie lender to-day is not the bor rower to-morrow. Not at all. The bor rower to-day is tho borrower to-morrow, and next day and always. The other fellow, without any effort on his own part, has his affairs shaped for him so that he is always con fined to one branch of the business; lie is a lender always, never gets a chance to !>or row. and never falls into the habit of l>or rowing. Friends are always coming to him for money. They are always friends at that stage of tlie game, but friends never again. Either they drift out of sight ami are forgot ten,or they are known afterward as sneaks, arid skins and dead-beats. Every new dead beat, presents himself in the character of a friend. HE CAN’T RESIST. “The chronic lender, made so by constitu tion, by circumstances and by habit, never doubts a friend. He would bruise the head of u fraud, fmt it so happens that no amount of experience enables him to know a fraud until after the act, and then the lutost fraud lias drifted away in tile wake ef his long line of predecessors. You look after him at a distance, and swear that if you hud only known the sort of fellow he was you would have made it hot for him. But you don’t think so unkindly of the other h and, ho is waiting his opportunity to re peat the old trick: your indignation is all against the * fellow who has got your money and gone. 110 is, perhaps, not half as mean as the fellow who hasn’t yet got your money, hut who will soon get it. If you are naturally a sucker, no amount of experience will teach you how to refuse a loan. The most dis reputable bum iri existence may strike you, and you may be perfectly aware of his rep utation, but still you will let him get the best of you. If an impulse to refuse the bait rise , in you, another impulse puts that down ilium di.itoly, and with a generous stu pid'seiitiment. a feeling that it would lie mean to a fellow in need when you could help him, you let your money go, even though you say the next moment: 'Well, that's a sneak und I’m a tool.’ It seems once a lender always a lender.” one consolation about it. “And then,” said another member of the group, “comes in this consoling reflection, that the fellow who is always willing to lend is generally able to lend; tlie fellow who is alway willing to borrow is not always so well off. 8o there seems to ho something, whatever it may lie, that always makes the sucker more than even with the sneak. I have often thought that after all, it is per haps best to be tlie sucker. At all events, there’s no use in kicking: some of us have got to be suckers. Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.” a remarkable fact. “It's a remarkable fact,” said a Chicago man, “that the handsomest, the most accom plished and the most lovable follows I have over met were dishonest. Some aro disbon est in private affairs and as public officials exact to a hair’s breadth. Others would cut a hand off before they would cheat a friend out of a cent, but aro utterly unscru pulous with public money. New, there is McGarigle, Van Pelt, Muck in and the entire gang of Chicago boodlers, the nicest, the cleverest fellows you could meet; the best of friends to their friends; you couldn’t help liking them, you know. There was not a bank iu Chicago that wouldn’t have trusted any of them with thousands. Not ono of them was ever known to bor row a dollar from a friend without paying it liack. The soul of honor in personal re lations, every one of them, but unmitigated scoundrels hi regard to public money. That reminds me, by the way,” suid the same speaker, diverging and addressing himself to the hotel clerk. “You know Brown thut I introduced to you the other fclay? ‘Yes.’ Well, Brown is a first rate fellow. I know him very well, und I think an immeuse (leal of him, out I think I ought to say to you that if he should ask you for any money I would hardly lot him have it.” “Why in blazes didn’t you tell me that !*- foref" said the clerk, considerably roused, “He borrowed S2O from me just last night ” All laughed except the hotel clerk. why the major is unhappy. Then Maj. Peabody, whose large figure is familiar in the lobby of the Ehbitt House, struck in with some remarks u|hjii bis ex perience as a money lender, but he sjiokc irom a different standpoint. The Major, like many another shrewd business man, lias lent his money systematically and made profit by it. But tilings are not running as well with him as formerly. While n Re publican presided at the White House nud Republicans ruled the departments, and the departments were manned by Republicans almost exclusively, the Major djd a thriv ing business among the department clerks and other public servants. And he had very little trouble in making his collec tions then, for he had only to pre sent the note bearing the borrower's name, and the department would Collect it for him. Now the major does not. enjoy tlie same facilities, and he is more or less vexed about it. The heads of departments in the present administration exclude all professional money-lenders from the gov ernment buildings, and give them no hear ing at all, no facilities to ply their trade on government ground. They also refuse to act as collecting agents tor the money-lend ers iu those few cases where clerks who had previously paid high rates of interest took advantage of the change of administration and didn't pay up. Now that the ad minis tration stands between these and the major, the major is somewhat wroth, and lie x|s*iids a good deal of Ins time about, the lobby in explaining that 1 lie Democrats are totally iiiceiii|x?teiit to govern, and that the Re publican party must lie reinstated. A HOTEL CLERK’S EXPERIENCE. Col. Frost, tlie clerk at Willard’s, has been a money-lender to a certain extent, but not lor profit. Every well regulated hotel clerk advances small accommodations to tlie guests of the hotel, and, of course, more or less of these are dead losses. The number of | s'iipic who Hang ulsiut a hotel lobby und becoming sufficiently familiar to ask for a small loan is entirely out ef pro|K>rtton to the comparative!v s'maii number of hotel guests proper. Willard's management is very generous The fellow who is known at all at Willurd's and cannot borrow a five or ten dollar lull must bo in a very Iwei wav. so tar as financial credit is concerned. fe r the manager at Willard’s makes it a point, of distributing some thousands of dol lars every year among the deadbeats who are not decent. TfIEV TELL THEIR OWN STORY. The conversation led Col. Frost to goto the safe and pull out a number of little tickets, on which wore written acknowledg ments of loans and promises to pay on dates mentioned. The collection is very peculiar and a perusal of the tickets must make any one laugh—anyone but the lender of tho money. The 'acknowledgments are all so cordial, the promises to )>ay are all so em phatic, the dates are all so exactly fixed, and tlie payments are all to bo made so soon. Sometimes little statements of reve nue are made to show clearly just how the borrower can certainly pay on the par ticular day mentioned. Sometimes the loan is only for an hour or two, sometimes for a day or two, hardly ever so long as a week. Some are written in very shaky hands, on account of intoxication; quite a large number contain very solemn oaths, und terrible imprecations; these, of course, in order that there may lie no doubt about prompt payment. One read as follows: “Loan even fifty cents, nnd. as God is my judge, I will return on Monday.” That, of course, was written last year. Tho sub scriber lias never yet returned, and the hotel man's only prayer is that he never may. Tlie Savaanah Weekly News. Sixteen Images. For Saturday, Aug. 27, 1887. READY THIS MORNING. „ CONTENTS. First Page— Waiting; Morning News Library No. 26, “Nora of the Adfrondacks,” Chapters xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix; A Trage dian's Way; How Miss Lillian Smith, the Beau ful Wild West Rifle Shot, Got Married; A Rat Story, Funny and Singular. Second Page Senator Colquitt Addresses the Interstate Farmers' Convention; A Fleet Thief; A Cyclone at Athens; Milledgeville's Earth quake; The legislature Considering the Sale of the State Road; Colorado’s Outbreak;Cars Raze a Building; Blaine Given a Boost by Pennsyl vania Republicans; Stanford Replies to the Railroad Comrnissiqners; Minor Telegraphic News Items. Third Page— The Legislature Considering the Sale of the State Road; Florida’s Metropolis; The Farmers' Convention; Saved by an Old Aunty; Colorow's Campaign; Railroad Disasters Epidemic All Over the Country: More About Woolfolk; Seizure of the Sealers: Stanford s Silence; A White Girl Stains Her Face to Marry a Negro. Fourth Page— A Steamer Burns at Sea; Tlie Business of the Country Trembling iu the Bal ance: Chicago's Corruption; Henry George for Office; Outlawing the League; Improvement of Southern Rivers and Harbors; Proud Pensacola; Mrs. Cleveland at Marion; The State Road Sale Bill Under Fire; Mangled by Gins; Two Very Old Women; Engines Run Wild; How a Brass Pin Brought Oood Luck. Fifth Pace—The Secret of Lion-Taming: $70,001 in Money and Bonds Found in a Dead Beggar's Room: liow ?4iss Robins Won the Man of Her Choice; How Tiny Dispose of the Dead in Siam; A Kiss and a Kicking; Bill Nye's Observations on Monkeys Divorced from Music; Vilas in Disguise; How Wilkins Was Caught; A Man Who Has Rescued Many from Watery Graves; Cured by Faith. Sixth Page -How the Young Man of Society Contrives to Look Pretty and Portly ; Late Sum mer Amusement*; Bombarded With Hail; Sta ley's Last Letter; Georgia’s legislature; Jollity at Jesup; Jacksonville Jottings; An Old Couple; He Rose from the Dead; Rice on the Altamaha; An Incident of the Freshet; A Bust of Mrs. Cleveland. Seventh Page— Agricultural Department: Saving Money on Cotton Bales; Kelsey’s Plum; Fall Chickens; Harvesting Tobacco; The Un pardonable sin; Pecans in Florida; Household; Farm and Stock Notes; PopularSeieuee. Facts About Henry S. Ives and His Partners; In a German (*ife; Rich Men of Janitors' Town; Braddon at Home; Mexico's Aborigines; A Gem Bonanza. Eighth Page— Rev.Talmageon “Witnesses for Christ": Starke Has a Sensation; A Fight for a Bride; Scenes at Bathing Hours at Newport; Know-Nothingiflin's Revival: Minister Hanna Wants a Line of Steamers to Buenos Ayres; Minor Telegraphic News Items. Ninth Page— lTnrtington in a Huff,He Was Not Forewarned of the Proclamation Decision; An Indian Camp Raided. Peace or War Depends on the Safety of a Squaw; Bald Knobbers Weaken, Several Willing to Testify for the State; Augus ta’s Scurvey (’amp; Gov. Gordon Decides Against Bondurant & Joplin; Other News Telegrams. Tenth Page— The News in Qeorgia, Gathered from Correspondents and Exchanges; South Carolina Items; Georgia's Legislature; The Asylum at Milledgeville Thoroughly Investi gated; Columbus' Crack Shots; Gordon County's Prohibition Fight. Eleventh Page—Round About in Florida; Ku-Klux in Florida; Spanish Ground peas; Sta tistician Dodge on the Defensive; Toryism's Last Bullet; Russia and Bulgaria; Human Mad Dog; Great Darqage to Shipping Off North Carolina; A Bank Cashier Flees; Shot by a Woman. Twelfth Page.— Editorial: Cotton Mills at the South; Ives' Asset* and Liabilities; Henry George's Party; The Proposed Board of Par dons; Mr Davis and Prohibition. Money For All; An Alligator Tackles a Bull; Brief Tele graphic Summary: Genera! Railway News Tiurternth Page \ Rapist Jailed; Drown ing of Willie Fleetwood: Oatherwood Short in His Accounts; Negroes Suffering for Food on Account of the Crop Failure: MurdertHl on the Ogeechee Road; Doings of Odd Fellows; Caught in a Hurricane; A Florida Yachtsman Chal lenges Savannah fora Race. Fourteenth Page— A Balloon’s Awful Drop; Pill Nye Challenges a Rural Editor in a Truly Chivalrous Way; Big Stakos at Baccarat; That Stranger in the Sky; A Cataleptic Recovering From a Seven-Months' Trance; Comanche Pete's Conversion: Pom Fedro and Victor Hugo. Fifteenth Page How Arnlier is Carved; “Darn a Wasp;" Explaining a Machine-Made Ij/ingurtge; He Changed His Mind; To Encour age Babies; Nancy Fat; The Father of Forty- One Children Killed When 69 Years Old; A Sur prising Reception; Current Comment; Bright Bits; Personal; Items of Interest. Sixteenth Page Commercial Review of the W.*k; Powell on the I>ean Rill, the S?at Once Anxious to sell for fl ,000,000; Other Na Items; Advertisements. Just the paper to send to your friends. Single copies 5 cents. For sale at Est ill's News Depot and at the of fice, 3 Whitaker street. Removal. Tho Famous New York Clothing House lias removed to 144 Congress, northeast eor n r of Whitaker street. Anew line of Gloria Umbrellas at Bol singer’s, 24 Whitaker street. Open-front Shirts a specialty at Pelsin p-rv, 2i Whitakerstreet. CNDEKTAK Eft. W. D. DIXON, UNDERTAKER DEALER IN ALL KINDH OT COFFINS AND CASKETS, 43 Hull street Residence Ml I.tlierty street. SAVANNAH. HKOROIA- DEATHS. MOLONKY.—Died. John Moloney, of the firm of Power A Moloney, on Aii£. SM, at 12:30 a. m. Burii*l 4:Bm p. at. ~~ F V N'K RAL HrVITATIO & . WEIIRENBERO. -The friends and acquaint - ance nf William A. AVehrenberg un<l family and Charles Sei er and family are respect fully in vited to attend the funeral of William A. WEiuiENnERo from 'Tiis late residence. 96 Hrouphton street, at 4 o'clock THIS AFTER NOON. M EKTIXOS. OOLDE > RI LE LODGE MO. 12, I. O. O. F. A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held THIS EVENING at ft o'clock. Members of other lodges and visiting brothers are invited to attend. By order of FRF.D EINSFELD, N. G. B. F. McCoy. Secretary. GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIETY. The mernljers of this Society are requested to meet THIS (\Wdnesdny) AFTERNOON at 3 o'clock at Turner Hall, to attend the funeral of our deceased brother, W. Wkhrenijrro. W. SCHEIIIING, President. A. HsLUER, Secretary. _ SPECIAL NO i'IC KS. IMPORTED PIANOS. The first Piano was invented by a German. The first Pianos used in this country were Hold by Jacob Astor, a German. They were imported from Europe long before a Piano factory was established in the United States. To-day the best and principal Piano makers in the United States are Germans and their descendants. Our country manufactures more Pianos than all the rest of the world combined, for the simple reason of the-great growth in its popula tion. It is for this cause that our factories are larger, being equipped with the best labor saving machinery. There is no question that American Pianos stand in the front rank of all the makes in the world. It has been our re peated experience while in Europe to hear Piano-makers candidly admit that Steinwav & Sons, New York, make the best and most artis tic instruments in the world, and that the Euro pean makers have adopted the STEINWAY SYSTEM. Steinway & Sons' Pianos were in such demand that they established a factory in Hamburg —the only American factory in Europe. This is the bright side of our American Piano manu facture. Unfortunately there is also a very dark side, viz: The rascally and fraudulent imitation and Stencil Piano business. There are makers who manufacture what th*y call a Piano, but what properly must bo styled a “rattle box.” Unseasoned lumber for the cases, the poorest stuff for the sounding boards, iron frames from the cheapest iron, the iowest quality of felt, leather and cloth for the hammers, in fact the entire, a bogus affair. After that box receives a few* coats of cheap varnish it deceives the pur chaser unacquainted with the article. Outside new% bright varnish; but oh, the inside! Like a grave, flowers on the outside, decay underneath. Generally these makers sell their boxes without guarantee, selling only to dealers, preferring to mark them with the dealer's name, or an}'name the dealer may order to have on them—in many cases a fancy name, or one in fraudulent imitation of a genuine and well known maker. We, knowing these swindles and frauds, had either to become a party to it, by selling such trash or quit the business. Happily, European Pianos, honestly and conscientiously made by old established house's, furnished us instruments superior in quality and at a less price, on ac count of cheapness of material and labor, good, honest work and good material. Thes * are our reasons for importing this season a larger quantity, because they have given excellent satisfaction, and purchasers stand ready to testify to these facts. We claim to have studied the Piano business thoroughly, and know’ whereof we speak. We conduct our business on the good old ante helium principles, and not on the principle ‘‘the end sanctifies the means.” In a few’ years my son will enter into our busi ness, and he must and will find the same princi ples of honesty and truth as are now taught him by a firm a century old. SCHREtNER'S MUSIC HOUSE. We have to-da} T opened several new styles of Imported Pianos, which are lovely in tone and case. Please call; glad to show them, and with pride, too. SPECIAL NOTIC E. A. S. COHEN will, between Sept. Ist and 15th, open a Shoe Store at No 139V£ Broughton street. He will sacrifice his stock of Fancy Goods and Notions so as to have these goods sold by that time. Would advise the ladies to c 11 early and secure bargains. DENTA L NOTICE^ DR. RcTa C H Will be out of the city until August 27th. PARI# 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 A: CO., 206 East Bay, Charleston S. C. NOTICE fJTw UKK CON AIT MERE. City of Savannah, \ Offick Clerk of Council, Aug. 20, lftsr. f During the succeeding ten days, required to mak * necessary repairs to thelurge pump at the Water Works, the small pump will Ik* relied upon to furnish our citisens witn water, and in order to assist the Water Works Department in maintaining as much pressure as possible, water takers are reoimwted 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 Mavor. pro tern. Frank e. rebarer, Clerk of Council. [NOTICE TO WATCH-TAK-UUS. OFFICE WATER WORKS, I Savannah, Aug. 18, IKS7. f There will be a reduced supply of water to consumers for the next fen nr twelve days, owing to the necessity of using the small engine while connecting the "larger pump ends to the large engine. A N. MILLER, Superintendent. ULMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR. This vegetable preparation is invaluable for the restoration of tone and strength to the sys tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other ills, caused by a disordered liver. It cannot bo excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. 21 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D„ Pharmacist, Savannah. Ga. THE MORNIMO MCWs STEA.M PRIVTIVG HOUSE, 3 Whitaker Street. The Job Department of the Mornino News, embracing JOB AND BOOK PRINTING, LITHOGRAPHING AND ENGRAVING, BOOK BINDING AND ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURING. is the most complete in the South. It is thorough ly equipped with the most improved machinery, employe a large force of competent workmen, and carries a full stock of fiapers of all descript lons. These facilities enable the establishment to execute orders for anything in the above lint's at the shortcut notice and the lowest prices con sistent with good work. Corporations, mer chants, manufacturers, mechanics and business men generally, societies nnd committees, are requested to get estimates from the MORNING NICWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE liefore send ing their orders shroud. .1 p ■ TILL. INSURANCE. A Great Financial Institution. The New York Life Insurance Cos. Record for 42 Years, 1845-1886 The new vork life insurance com pany began business in 1315 on the purely mutual plan, having neither capital stock nor stockholders from the beginning. Received from Policy-holders in Premiums, in 42years, 18-10-1830. $159,525,913 92 Paid to Policy-hold ers and their rep resentatives, 1840-1886 1886 $96,714,644 67 Assets held as se curity for Policy holders, January 1, 1887 75.421,453 37 Total Amount paid Policy-holders, and now held as secu rity for their con tracts $172,138,098 04 Amount paid and held exceeds amount received.. $ 12,610,179 12 Received from Inter est, Rents, etc., in 42 years, 1815-1886.540,251,099 32 Death Losses paid in 42 years, 1845-1881) 36,678,744 66 Interest and Rents exceeded Death Losses paid $ 3,572.354 66 Dividends paid in 42 years. 1845-1886 .. .$30,294,550 63 Legal Surplus over Liabilities, under State Law, Jan. 1, 1837 15,549,319 53 Amount saved Policy holders from table rates $45,813,870 15 AN IDEAL LIFE INSURANCE CONTRACT. The New York Life Insurance Company', 346 and 348 Broadway, New York, with cash assets of over seventy-live million dollars, lias lately perfected a Non-Forfeit able Five-Year Dividend Policy, which provides for— First. A surrender value in paid-up insurance at any time after three years. Second. A stufender value in cash at the end of any five-year period after issue. Third. An accumulated dividend in cash, paid-up insurance, or annuity, at the end of each five-year period. Fourth. Freedom of action with respect to occupation, residence and travel. Fifth. Death Claims under these policies are payable immediately upon the receipt, and ap proval by the Com any, of the required proofs of death, and with every Death Claim is paid a Mortuary Dividend equal to fifty per cent, of all premiums paid during the five-year jieriod in whicli deatli occurs. R. H. PLANT, General Agent Ga., Fla. and Tenn., Macon, Ga A. T. CHAPMAN, Asst. Supt. of Agencies Ga., Fla. and Tenn. J. F. BROOKS. Local Agent, 185 and 137 Bay street. CLOTHING. CAUTION! Unscrupulous dealers in woolen fabrics, seeking to take advantage of the Ever-Increasing Poplarilv OF OUR SANITARY \RE putting upon the market spurious articles, manufactured in imitation of Dr. JAEGER'S Goods and Brand. All persons are, therefore, warned against purchasing any of fh“se goods unless stamped with our TRADE MARK as exhibited on every garment manu factured by us, with Dr. Jaeger's Photograph and fac simile Signature. A complete line of our goods can always be had of our Agents. A. Falk & Son, SOLE AGE IN TS FOR DR. JAEGER'S SANITARY WOOLEN CO. 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. 140 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 C Tacked for shipment at reduced rates. Careful and polite service. Full and liberal weight. KNICKERBOCKER ICE CO. 1-44- BAV ST. FRUIT AND GROCERIES. Z i: m o 2sTs . Cabbages, Potatoes, Onions. 30,000 bushels COP,N, 15,093 bushels OATS HAY. BRAN, GRITS, MEAL, STOCK F EED. Grain nnd Hay in carload a specialty. C< iW PEAS. HII varieties. RUST PROOF OATS. Our STOCK FEED is prepared with great cam anil is just the thing for Hordes and Mule* in this weather. Try it. T. P. BOND & CO., 1")5 Bav Htrc^et. FOR SALE. FOE SALK |>OSSEBSION given Dot Ist, that desirable Residence southeast corner of Gaston and Abercorti streets. F'or terms apply to HENRY BLUN, Blun's Building. COPARTNERSHIP NOTICES. NOTH NOTICE is hereby glv'ei that, the copartner ship herulofoi. ext. ting between JOSEPH D WEED and UE< >RoK n (UNWELL, un m the firm style of WF.ED CuRNWK .1 ,is ihis iluy dissolved by mutual enusont. Mr.’wEKD is Hill hortaed to settle tbeatTuirsoi ,ai I Hnn. mid will eotiHnue the hmiii*. i.unities., at the sane- j lace. under the tire, name and style of Joseph and. weed and company. Savannah. Ga.. this 23d dry of Aniriist. 1887 EXCURSjOMB. Charleston ISayamlßy. Through Pullman Service. /COMMENCING June 13|J| a through Pullman V' Buffet service will Ijfc reader i daily be tween Savannah and Him ajwiags, N. C., via Spartanburg and Ash villa Leave Savannah 12:26 pm Leave Charleston 4:55 pm Leave Columbia 10:20 p m Arrive Spartanburg 2:2oam Arrive Asheville 7:ooam Arrive Hot Springs B:00am EXCURSIOO* hates. To SPARTANBURG * 013 30 To ASHEVILLE 17 15 To HOT SPRINGS .....k 17 lo Sleeping car reservations and tickets good until Oct. 31st, 1887, earn be had at BREN’S TICKET OFFICE, liuil street, and at depot E. P. McSWINEY, Gen. Pass. Agt. Cliarlsston aii Sami® RAILWAY. Summer Excursions Commencing SUNDAY, MAY 15th, this Coro pany will sell round trip tickets to CHARLESTON, BEAUFORT AND PORT ROTAL By following Trains and at following Rates: By train leaving Sundays only, at 6:45 a. m.: re turning, leave Charleston at 3:35 p. m.. Port Royal 3:30 aud Beaufort 3:45 p. u. same day $1 00 By train leaving Sunday only at 6:45 a. m, ; re turning, leave Charleston Monday morn ing $2 06 By train leaving Saturday at 8:23 p. m. ; return ing, leave Charleston Monday morning... $2 56 By train leaving Saturday at 12:26 p. m.: return ing, leave Charleston Monday morning. $3 06 Tickets for sale at WM. BREN'S. Bull street and at Depot. E. P. McSWINEY, Gen. Pass. Agent. SUMMER RESORTS. Ocean I louse TYBEE ISLAND, GEORGIA. LEA BATHING unsurpassed on the Atlantic to coast. Comfortable rooms, neatly fur nished. Fare the best the market affords. Bathing suits supplied. Terms moderate. GEO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. NEW YORK BOARD. I l 7||‘ AND 1,707 Broadway, corner 54th. I . 1 House kept by a Southern lady: loca tion desirable. Refers by permission to Col. John Screven, Savannah. II THOUSAND ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel, I Westminster Park. Alexandria Baj, N. Y “Unquestionably the finest location in the Thousand Islands.”— Harper's Magazine, Sept., 1881. Send for descriptive pamphlet. H. F. INGLEHART, Proprietor, HOTELS. Fifth Avenue Hotel, .'HIM SQUARE, N. Y. r J-'HE largest, best appointed, and most liber ally managed hotel in the city, with the most central and delightful location. HITCHCOCK, DARLING & CO. A. B. DARLING, formerly of the Battle House, .Mobile. HIRAM HITCHCOCK, formerly of the St. Charles Hotel. New' Orleans. NEW HOTEL TOGNI, (Formerly St. Mark's.) Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, FW WINTER AND SUMMER. THE MOST central House in the city. Near Post Office, Street Cars and all Ferries. New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bells, Baths, Etc. $2 50 to $3 per dav. JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprietor. MARSHALL HOUSE, SAVANNAH, - • GA. ( 5 EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of V T the Metropolitan Hotel. New York, and the Grand Union, Saratoga springs. Location cen tral. All parts of the city and places of inter est accessible by street cars constantly passing the doors Special inducements to tlioso visit ing the city fc • Justness or pleasure. DUB'S SCREVEN HOUSE. r I''HIS POPULAR Hotel Is now provided with 1 a Passenger Elevator (the only one in the city > aiul has been remodeled and newly fur nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase is also the owner of the establishment, spares neither ]>ains nor expense in the entertainment of his 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 Hoarding Houses in the South. \FFOTIDS pleasant South rooms, jarnod board viirh pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit t hoe wishing table, regular or transient accom modation*. Northeast corner Broughton and Drayton strut* m, opposite Marshall House. TEA AM) COFFEE. TEA! \\ r E have just purchased and received a large *v lot of s VMFLK TIiAK, mixed. I/ivers of good mixed Tea can now enjoy tin* ixvst at same price ordinary hat been tout. We offer the same at only f*)e. pur pound; worth sl. STRAUSS BROS, 22 AND BARNARD STREET. Pickled Salmon. Boneless Corn Beef. Loose Chow Chow Fresh assortment FANCY’ CRACKERS jus received, at STRAUSS BROS.’, 22 and 22H Bernard street. COFFEE. JAVA and RIO COFFEES at lowest market prices. STRAUSS BROS., 92 AND 22'tj BARNARD STREET MERCHANTS, manufacturer*, mechanic, eorpnrji ions, and ud utbein in need of printing, lithographing, ami l lank bnok* can bare their unlen* promptly Hik’d, at nuxleraW priori, at the MORNING NEWS PRINTING HOUSE. 8 Whitaker street.