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2 A SUPREME COURT JUDGE THE ELECTION TO BE HELD NEXT WEDNESDAY. Senators Devote a Little Time to tie Brady Bill, But Fail to Come to a Vote The Pilc.e Spirituous Liquor Sale Bill Discussed in the House. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 81. —In tlie Senate to-day the House resolution fixing the elec tion of a Supreme Court Judge for next Wednesday was concurred in. The special order was the Brady bill Mr. James, of the Thirty-sixth district, presented memorials from citizens of his dis trict against, the passage of the bill, but made a speech in favor of it. Mr. Lewis, of the Nineteenth, and Mr. Wright of the First district, both opposed the bill. Mr. Wright, made a strong and forcible argument which was evidently carefully prepared. He regarded the bill as revoltionary, changing the recognized standard of ail commercial transactions. Mr. Monticutt, of this district, opposed the lull in Ha present shape. Further con sideration was postponed till to-morrow. The bill to amend the charter of South Rome passed. The bill to amend section 4578 of the Code, so as to poiwdt uninterrupted trans portation of n -M-ir- and other perishable fruits was pending at adjournment. In the House. In t he House to-day Mr. Simmon* moved to reconsider the vote of the House yester day on the bill to probipit the sale of seed cotton in Butts county from .-Vug. Into Doe. 15. This lull yesterday had a majority of the votes east,, but not a constitutional vote. Messrs. Simmons and Terrell supported the motion in short speeches. The motion prevailed. Mr. Fonte offered a joint resolution for the election of n Judge of the Supreme Court., to succeed Judge Hall, deceased, on Wednesday, Sept. 7.—This was adopted. TROHIRITION IN PIKE. The House resumed consideration of the bill pending yesterday at adjournment. Mr. Gardner's bill to amend an act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquor in 1 ’ike county. Mr. Gardner suppprtod the bill. He said a majority of the people of Pike county do sired its passage. It was not his bill, but the hill of every man in Pike county who voted for himself and his colleague. The question of prohibition or no prohibition was not the question in volved. The question was whether the ma jority should rule. Prohibition in Pike county hail been imposed bv an act of the Legislature, which he read. Before its pas sage no county in the IStute had a more peaceable or moral people than Pick. THE CAUSE OK COMPLAINT. Subsequently a local bill was passed for submitting the question of prohibition to a vote of the people of Pike county. The people of the county voted 2fit> majority against prohibition, but u. returning board, constituted wholly of prohibitionists, by the most extraordinary proceedings ever heard of, changed the vote so ns to givo a small majority for prohibition. The people of the county had never sanctioned this act. One man constituted the board, drew the hill and made no provision for an appeal from the acta of board. The courts were power less to interfere. The Isiard was constituted more one-sided than 8 to 7. THREE TO NOTHIN!!. It was three to nothing. The majority of the people were cut off from a successful contest, the com" having decided that it bad no jurisdiction under the bill. He claimed that the good people in Pike county were in a majority, prohibition or no pro hibition. He said that this question was made the issue in Pike county in the elec tion for Representatives last year, that he an 1 his colleague, Mr. Madden, ran upon (lie platform of anew election on the prohibition question under the local op tion law. and lie read a certificate of a num ber of citizens of Milner to the affect that Mr. Murphy, one of their opponents, declared during the canvass that he too was on that ulatform, though nominated as a Prohibitionist. The result of the election was the choice of hiinielf and Mr. Madden by a majority of J<?o. Ou motion of Mr. Evans, of Washington, the bill was recom mitted. NEW 11ILLS. The following new bills were intro duced : By Mr. Foute, of Bartow—To allow Sea born Nally, a citizen of Bartow county, to peddle without a license. By Mr. Wilson, of Camden—To provide anew system of working the public roads in C'amden county. By Mr. Gordon, of Chatham (by request of the Finance Committee)—To make addi tional appropriations for the years 1887 and 1888, to supply deficiencies. By Mr. Denny, of Floyd—To incorporate the Print up City Land and Improvement Company. By Mr. Bragg, of Fulton—To require the County Commissioners of Fulton county to refund to th - 1363d and 1548th districts of Hie county the money collected from the sale of the fences, the money to be applied tb the building of Justices’ court houses. By Mi. Btewart of Mitchell—To fix the jiay ot jurors and bailiffs in Mitchell counCv'. By Mr. Hawkins, of Newton—To confer police powers ou church officers and super Interdviits of Sunday schools. Bv Mr. McCord, of Richmond—Toaniend ND uct t o constitute the Jutjge of the City Court of Richmond one of the County Com missioners. Also to amend the act to incorporate the Planters' Izian and Savings Bank By Mr. Simmons, of Sumtei—To incor porate the Buena Vista and Ellaville Rail road Company. By Mr. Dubose, of Wilkes—To regulate the sale of spirituous liquors in any county of the State not under the control of the general, or r special local option law. By Mr. McCord, of Richmond—To ex empt, fifty members of the Clark Light lu fautrv.of Augusta, from jury duty. Bills on third reading fared as follows: To provide for registration voters In Campbell county. Passed. To declare null and void all notes or other obligations for the ]>ayinent of money con taining stipulation to [lay commissions on Interest higher than 8 per cent. Ixust. COMMITTEE REPORTS. The Finance Committee this afternoon adopted tlie report of the sub-committee to which was referred all bills mid resolutions relating to the sale or lease of the State l oad. The sub-committee reported a reso lution instructing the Governor to advertise for bids for the sale or lease of the road all liids to he submitted to the next legislature subject to their acceptance or rejection. There will lie a minority report, striking out •very thing looking to a sale. The House Committee on Education rec ommends the passage of the bill to levy a special tax of one-tenth of 1 per cent, for common schools. Dr. Orr says it will raise over $500,000. The Penitentiary Committee reixirts ad versely on Mr. Pickett’s bill to employ State convicts iti making guano. The Committee on the state of th? Re public reports adversely on Mr. Harris’ bill prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors. A Miraculous Escape From Death. Hai,cyondale, Ga., Aug. 81.—A negro boy nlsiiit 7 years old wus struck by the Central's Asheville train at, Oliver at 0:50 o'clock this morning, and thrown several feet, against the embankment. By nooil he could walk. Dr. I .Miner, who attended him, lays he received no serious injuries, Straight Heats. Hartt'orii, Conn., Aug. 51.—Patron look the fit's' , second and third bents in the #lo,ooh trotting race to-day. Prince Wilkes i **> a good Mvoml in all three heats. NO PASSION PLAY. Richmond County Authorities Prevent tho Presentation. Augusta, Ga., Aug. 51.—The cofored people resident on the Hand Hills had billed for to-night a series of tableaux, for elee mosynary purposes. Among tho tableaux was a representation of the Crucifixion, to getlier with the ten virgins. A crowd went out to-night to witness the performance, but it was soon noised around that the authorities had decided that such a repre sentation as the crucifixion of our Lord should not be tolerated. Tin Judge of the County Court and the intendant and Coun ciimen of Summerville met during the day and arrived at the conclusion that any such impersonation would be sacrilegious and detrimental to public morals, and ordered the Marshal to summarily put a stop to any such proceeding. The audience was large,and representatives of thirteen newspapers were present. Everything passed off quietly, and there was no attempt to present auy portion of the passion play. A mass meeting of negroes called for to night, announced for the purpose of in dorsing Gov. Gordon’s net ion in regard to the convict, question, fell through. The loaders in the movement explain that the assemblage was not held for prudential reasons. DR. HAWTHORNE’S REPLY. The Document Not Considered Suc cessful as a Refutation. Augusta, Ga., Aug 81.—'The long ex pectod reply of Rev. Dr. Hawthorne to “Anxious Enquirer” appears in the Chroni cle to-morrow. It fails to answer the deadly parallel column*, and the clerical gentle man insists that the whole affair is an attempt of the whisky ring to counteract his work in Augusta by showing him up as a purloiner of litera ture. The reverend orator assures the people of Augusta that his work in Augusta is only begun and warns them that the whisky people will need several anxious enquirers liefore long. The reply proves only a terrible indirect denunciation of “Anxious Enquirer.” The paper bears marks of the desperation of its author and will not relieve the popular impression that “Anxious Enquirer” has made out a plain case against tne great Prohibition orator. It is reported ou the streets to day that the Augusta Doily Gazette is tocomeoutas u strong prohibition paper, and that the whisky battle is to bo waged in Augusta this fall. MILLEDGEVILLE’S ASYLUM. Two Investigating Committees at Work Simultaneously. Milledokvili.e, Aug. 50. —The investi gation of the State Lunatic Asylum by two separate and distinct committees creates as much interest and excitement as did the recent investigation into the management of some of the State’s convicts. Tho joint committee of both branches of the < Jeneral Assembly, composed of Sena tors Jackson, Powell and Pringle, and Rep resentatives Stewart, Smith, Walker, Fa gan and Hunt, is now in session at tho asylum. Representative Kenan’s committee was for some days in secret session, while the other, upon its arrival yesterday morning, condemning the methods of the Kenan Committee, spread wide their doors for a fair, open and impartial investigation. Kenan’s committee, which has returned to Atlanta, being only of the Lower House, without the sanction and concur rence of the Senate, is considered by the Joint Committee (of which Senator Jackson is chairman) as acting without the sanction of law. The Joint Committee, after receiving yesterday morning an ad dress from the trustees and officers of the asylum requesting and urging a most thor ough and minute investigation, de termined to begin in May, 1883, at which time a former joint committee had made u thorough examination and report, and bring their investigation down to tho present time, taking that investigation and that report as,part of their work. The afternoon was consumed m hearing the reading by the secretary of the com imttee some very voluminous testimony taken by that 1883 committee.. Now, after the lapse of years, and since the cause for remaining silent no longer exists, and be cause of Dr. Kenan’s attacks upon tho offic ers and trustees of tho institution, this evi dence was brought forth. The joint committee issued a subpoena, citing Dr. Kenan to appear before them this morning at 10 o'clock, but it is not known if he will comply, as there seems to be in the minds of the committee sonje doubt as to whether they can compel his at tendance. They also sent a polito written request for a list of the witnesses examined by his committee, which they deenued to furnish. So it seems there is likely to arise a conflict of right or authority between them, but, of course, u joint committee of both houses must, necessarily take rank over one of the lower house. The investigation is growing interesting. Interesting develop ments are expected. APALACHICOLA'S NEGRO RIOT. Many Shota Fi-ed. but No One Killed or Wounded. Apalachicola, Fla., Aug. 31.—0n Mouday night a lot of negro gamblers took pa-sage on the steamer Thronateeska. When about twelve miles from tho city they became engaged in a quarrel with a lot of negro raftmec. Pistols were drawn and a fusilade of shots liegan. The captain of the steamer, assisted by his crew, attempted to quell the disturbance. A negro drew a weapon upon the offi cer and told him to vacate the lower deck. The Captain and his crew, being unarmed, retreated to the upper deck. The steamer was then put about and headed toward the city. Just liefore she made a landing at the wharf Capt. Rand lotto ordered the jxiliee to let no man come ashore. The negroes then took a small boat, when the officers liegan firing upon them. The firing was returned, but was without effect. About 200 other negroes had congregated upon the wharf armed with sticks and weapons of various kinds, and several of their numtiers were urging the blacks to pitch into the whites. Several arrests were made. Some thirty shots were fired. The militia were ordered out, and it was only by the coolness and determination of the whites that a serious riot was prevented. Yesterday and to-day the police made nr rests, uncf appearances now indicate that the trouble is at an end. CAROLINA’S RICE. The First Parcel Brings Five Cents Per Pound at Charleston. New York, Aug. 31.—Dan Talmage’s Sons & Cos., of Charleston, S C., telegraphed us follows: “\Ye linve just received tho first of the new crop of Carolina rice. The parcel consisted of t hirteen barrels of strictly prime quality, and was sold atsc. |xt pound. The reports from all the rice sections in the Caiolmus are more encouraging than here tofore. Early in the season, owing to the ilrought, the prospect* were gloomy, but the threatened loss has all been overcome by magnificent glowing weather since. Crops are said to Iv* the finest that have been seen for years past. Soldiers to Be Dined. Pensacola. Fla.. Aug. 81.—The Third Florida Battalion of State troops, Mnj. W J. Williams commanding, have returned home so covered with laurels of success, that the lady friends of the Escambia Ri fles, Pensacola’s contribution to the batta! lon. will give to the soldier l>oy, on to-mor row evening, a grand siip|ier, which will be grac'd bv the presence of the fair uni's. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1887. FLORIDA’S METROPOLIS. Import and Export Statistics for the Past Month. Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 31. —This afternoon the Executive Committee of the Bub-Tropical Exposition held its regular weekly meeting, at which they gave per mission to Senator A. S. Mann and Capt. Thompson, two prominent citizens of Her nando county, to build on tho exposition grounds a structure for the productions of Hernando, fiasco and Citrus counties. The building will (>e put up at the expense of citizens of these counties. The records in the custom house show that nineteen coastwise and three foreign vessels have arrived in jiort during the month. Six of the fourteen were steamers. For the corresixmding period last year there | were were twenty-four coastwise nml no foreign farrivals. The departures for the month are twenty-one, nil except one sailed for domestic ports, and live of the number were steamers. Last year for tho same month thirty-two vessels entered, all being from America. The total tonnage of the vessels departing was 13,822, of which 28:1 was foreign. Of those arriving the tonnage was 15,0:17, only 05 being foreign. There were 3,954,873 feet of yellow pine lumber shipped from here during the month, 3,913,8,5 feet going to domestic and 41,000 feet to foreign jxirts. Most of the lumber went to New York. For the same month last year there were but 3,087,000 feet shipped, all to domestic ports. Last month there were 5,840,000 feet only sent away, which it will lie observed is nearly doubled this month. There were also 850 bundles of cypress shingles and 15,500 cross-ties shipped tins month. Besides miscellaneous merchandise freight there were brought into this port this month 5,500 tons of jetty stone, 1,085 tons of ice, 3, !0o barrels of lime, 300 barrels of fertilizers. 55 tons and 1,370 lades of hay, 200 tons of railroad iron and 141 steel rails, 280 tons of coal and 1,570 barrels and 75 cases of oil. To-lliglit at tho Christ ian church Miss Josephine Dos Roches and J. W. Miller, two prominent young society people, were mar ried. A large mid fashionable crowd wit nessed the ceremony. CEDAR KEYS CHIPS. A Cool Wave-The People Blessed With Good Health. Cedar Keys, Fla., Aug. 31. —The cold wave predicted by the News, reached this place Sunday night. It was preceded by a copious rainfall. The health of the place is remarkable, though we had on Sunday tho unusual scene of a child’s burial. N. Sehlemmer & Son, bakers, are erect ing a fine double-front store of two or three stories. An ioe factory and cold storage warehouse will be built here during Septem ber, with the almost certain addition of salt works. Two of our energetic young men have gone into the canning business, and w ill shortly erect a factory. The Mor gan line of steamships are confidently ex pected to begin running between this place and New Orleans about Oct. 1. The lied Cedar Advertiser , anew advertising paper, will be issued shortly The new railroad is one of the certainties, and work will lie be gun by Oct. 1. The public school officials me new wrestling with the teacher prob lem. The school has over 100 pupils, and the Countg Board has appropriated SIOO per month to pay teachers, and given it a five mouth term. A teacher is wanted who will give such satisfaction as will, when the pub lic school closes, admit of establishing a pay school of high grade for girls; a gentleman and wife, or capable grown up daughter, could make a success of this matter. MONEY IN A TROUGH. A Stage Driver's Rich Find in a Mas sachusetts Barn. Dedham, Mass., Aug. 27. —Theodore Colburn, a young man employed ns a stage driver by Frank Fisher, of West Dedham, made a rich find yesterdy. Mr. Fisher’s father, who was an eccentric man, died a short time ago, leaving property valued at several hundred thousaud dollars. Yesterday young Colburn, m company with David Haley, went to an old and dilapidated looking barn on High street, directly opposite tho handsome sale stable that belonged to Mr. Fisher, for the purpose of removing some old rubbish which had been accumulating thore for years. The barn was the property of the grandfather of Frank Fisher. After removing considerable of the stuff the men came to an old trough, formerly used for mixing feed. Young Colburn went to work at one end of the trough re moving the articles that it contained and placing them upon the floor. He finally eame to a box which contained two or three bundles, besides other useless things. Cur iosity led the young man to examine its con tents. Breaking the string he undid the bun dle, and was almost dumbfounded to have disclosed to his eyes a large pile of green backs. . The pile made the largest lot of money he ever saw, Colburn says. He carefully rolled up the money again and announced the dis covery to his companion, and also to Mr. Fisher and some of his neighbors. He will not disclose the amount of his Hud, but he says it was a big pile. He was asked if there were several tnousand dollars in the bundle. “Yes, there was,” he replied. How the money came there is a matter that has not been decided, but the most generally ac cepted theory is as follows: Mr. George Fisher, who died suddenly, carried at times large sums of money. He died of apoplexy. He went to bed in ms usual health, and in the morning he was found dead. It is thought that on that night he lmil a large amount of money about him, mid, being afraid of burglars, as he had been troubled by them before, he placed the money where it was found, for safe keeping,until morning, when he probably intended to deposit it in bank. Buchertown’s Terror is Mild. FVem the St. Louis Republican Jack Hayes has been taken to the insane asylum. About six years ago Hayes en tered the jail a big, burly, brutal desperado, with a voice as hoarse and harsh us a slave driver’s, and with the blood of PliiliD Muel ler on his hands. Yesterday ho tottered to the gate a poo: - , weak, halting wretch, palsied in every limb, his face expression less, his voice a childish treble, aiul his mind a blank. “Do I leave my little house?” he piped as the guards called at his door. “Yes, Jack, you're going home.” “Poor, poor little house!" and he rail his thin, long, clammy hands along the iron walls, and then sat down on the old lied he had picked to pieces, and gave vent to a tremulous sound from his throat, which kept time with the patter of his palsied foot upon the stone floor. “Come, Jack! Come on!” said the guards. He went hack to a little cigar box in a cor ner of his cell, and took therefrom a little sparrow Ho stroked it with his hand and mumbled ou it, and then put it down upon tlie floor. It raffled It* wings and strutted about, and he watched it wilha smile which behind the black hair streaming ou his face gave him a ghastly appearance. The guards neli>ed him on with his coat, and then, lean ing on their arms, he was led totteriugly, mumbling ull the while in his dreary, high key ed tone, to the gate. It was opened be fore him, and he was led out. It shut be hind him, rather sharply, and bestartel: “My poor little house; 'my bird, 1 ' he said, an i he continued repeating than words while he was lifted into the ambulance. He was then rattled away to Bedlam, and a few hours ufter the guard came liuck and liaudid to the jailor a receipt from the sup erintendent of tho insane asylum for “one insane patient, Jack Hayes.” This is the end of a criminal as vicious and brutal a* ever the )iolicetmd to do with, a murderer of the coldest blooded kind. The terror of Hutrhertnwu is now mi mild not even a sparrow fern-* to perch upon his finger, A ROMANCE FROM LIFE. Strange Story of a Philadelphian's Three Marriages. Prow the Philadelphia Press. Jamestown, N. Y., Aug. 38. —A remark able story lias just come to light here in the office of a local attorney-at-law, and is the result of the publication in a local newspaper of a Supreme Court summon* in the suit of Theodore AY. Sterling as trustee and devisee under the last will and testament of John M. Sterling, deceased, against Marcie M. Woodworth, Marie Overton. Eliphlet Mitch ell, Ester Fenton, Caroline H. iSpear, Kian tone Industrial Association alid Thomas Gallivau, and addressed especially to Caro line H. Spear, who is supposed to be living in Philadelphia. This act, on is for the purpose of recover ing from the trustees of the Industrial Home of Iviantone, N. Y., a plot of 170 acres of very valuable farming land, located in one ot the richest spots in Chautauqua county. These lands were deeded in trust to the above-named trustees by the late John M. Sterling, on the condition that, a complete and fully equipped industrial home and sanitarium should lie in existence and opera tion within six years from the date of liis death. The specified time having now ex pired the trustees are anxious to set aside the provisions of the will and seek to gain time in the case. a . revelations in a trance. The story which has lieen developed dates back to 1857. Early in the winter of that year a party of six gentlemen, among them John M. Sp ar, formerly of Boston, sat at a small table in a Chicago cottage, not far from where the depot of the Illinois Central railroad is now located. At that time the strange phenomena of spiritualism were just tieginning to attract the attention of the public. During the conversation in the cot tage the question was taken up and discussed at considerable length. Suddenly Spear turned deathly pale and fell to the floor in what appeared to be a death-like stupor. His friends were greatly alarmed and sum moned a physician. For several hours Spear lay like one dead. When he revived he was so overcome that he did not leave his lied for several days. When he finally recovered his health he re lated tc his friend* a wonderful story of the sensations he had experienced while in his apparently lifeless condition. He described to them, even to minute detail, a certain lo cality near Kiantone, Chautauqua county, , New York, which he hud seen in a trance. SPIRIT SPRINGS. Spear asserted that while in the trance he had been informed that this locality was the head centre of the spiritual universe, and t hut the springs of water, which übounded in tlie vicinity, were controlled by the spirits, and would prove to be tho fountains of perpetual youth. So impressed was Spear with the alleged revelation that he came East, and some weeks later visited Kiantone and vicinity He found every thing just us it had been pictured to him in his dreams, and he set about at once to her ald the glail news among Spiritualists every where from New England to the far West. The news spread rapidly, and as a result a great camp-meeting of Spiritualists was held in Kiantone in tho summer of 1858. Men of that (lay estimated the number of people present at from 4,000 to 5,000. Some weeks prior to this great meeting, by the di rection of the spirits acting through the" mediuiiiship of Spear, the early followers of the new religion sunk a shaft four feet wide into the earth a distance of 150 feet and at an angle of 45". A large force of volunteer workmen were employed in the undertak ing. They were told that at a depth of 150 feet they would find material evidences of the existence of pre-Adamite man, possessing web feet and other peculiarities. They failed to make the promised discovery, but found instead a gushing fountain of water, which filled the shaft to the surface, and nearly drowned the workmen. It was strongly im pregnated with sulphur and iron, and in valids afflicted with chronic diseases drank of it freely, and went upon their way re joicing. When the people had gathered from all parts of the country in vast num bers, a day was set apart to bless the waters of the springs, and no rites of the Oriental surpassed the pomp and ceremony with which the service was performed. Buildings of wood had been erected upon the grounds anil not a few of the converts to tho new religion forsook home and family ties and took up their abode in this new Jerusalem. Men and women herded prom iscuously together, and the free love doc trines were practiced. The great camp meeting broke up in a riot. THE PHILADELPHIA CONVERT. Among those attracted to this Mecca of modern Spiritualism was one John M. Ster ling, a prosperous merchant and real estate speculator from Philadelphia. He came to Kiantone, saw the wonderful flowing spring and was conquered. Sterling was a man of note in that day. He had a wife and three children, two sons and a daughter. After repeated visits to Kiantone, he appeared one (lay accompanied by his lawyer, and im mediately purchased the tract of land upon which the wonderful spirit springs were lo cated. Soon after this he took up his resi dence in Kiantone, leading his family, who refused to come with him into the wilder ness, in Philadelphia. He began in a sys tematic and business-like manner to further develop the spirit springs. A brisk demand for the sulphur water arose in all parts of the country. As the bottling business had not then been devel oped. the waters were boiled down and the sediment put up in small packages and sold to confiding purchasers at a high figure. It has been said that a clav pit not far away frequently supplemented the sediment from the simmering pots. Even to this day the water is used for medical purposes. At the camp meeting which was held in the following year, John M. Sterling met. for the' first time, Miss Josephine Paxley, of New York City. She was 18 years of age, and was not only peculiarly mid strikingly handsome m face and form, but was a most winsome and entertaining girl. Little is known of her further than that she came of good family and was beautiful. Although Sterling had a refined and intelligent wife and an interesting family, and was then past 40 years of age, he fell desperately in love, or more truthfully speaking* became rashly infatuated with the beautiful Jose p :i:n Hi I affection for the girl grew apace, and in a short time he practically abandoned his firs; wife. He made a farewell trip to his home in Philadelphia, and in the settle ment of his family affaire which followed, he deeded to his wife a large amount ot property. Tlie bulk of the property given to Mrs. Sterling consisted of many acres of land lo cated in Cleveland, and now very valuable. Sterling avenue runs through them. In consideration of this settlement Mrs. Ster ling released nil claims upon her husband and signed an agreement not to interfere with his future movements in any way. The two sons and the daughter remained with their mother, and Sterling return! alone to Kiantone. Thus relievi-d from family claims and responsibilities, the gray-haired mail sought the lair young Josephine, and they were married. Sterling with his bride sailed for Europe. The attentions which t hey received at the hands of titled people in London led the old man into dissipation. Then, closely following upon this condition of affairs, t.lie gay young bride, unwatched, liegan a brilliant but dangerous career. She Siam became the petted companion of mon whose escapades nave since made them the subject of the world's gossip. DESERTING A SECOND WIKK. Some mouths later this year of revelry in London came to a sudden end. Josephine becume the mother of a girl, a puny, sickly child whose features bore tne beauty marks of the handsome young mother. The parent age of the babe was tor uncertain to guar antee it a welcome, and Sterling, having tired of his dashing child-wife, made her the unhappy victim of a cruel desertion. He hastened to Liverpool, leaving pretty Josephine almost |H>miilcss, with a I win- in her arms, in a strange city, surrounded only by those false friends who had lured her to min. Thus deserted by her husband, the poor girl was east adrift bv those wno pro fessed to be her friends. She naturally drifted into the lower stratas of society. She rented a garret room ill Black Friars, and made a noble struggle to care for herself and child, but sadly failed in the attempt. Her baby died at the end of IS months, and she was thrown upon the world almost a mental and physical wreck. It was but the repetition of the old, old story. Lower and lower shedrifted, an out cast of London. One moonlight night she ended the struggle by leaping into the Thames. Hailing from Liverpool with his servant, Sterling returned to America. He immedi ately repaired to his farm and the spirit springs at Kiantone, where he remained for some time. He eventually married an Irish girl, who is described as bright and comely, but not to be compared with either his di vorced wife or poor Josephine. He re mained comparatively fai’hful to the latter Mrs. Sterling, and soon after his death, which occurred some six years ago, she mar ried a well-to-do young farmer in Kiantone, and is still living in a farm house on the hill overlooking the spirit springs. The former residence of Sterling is now a deserted, barren spot. Lena grass covers the former camp meeting grounds, nothing remains of the wooden building, and rank weeds rear their heads about tho wonderful spirit springs. Just before his death John M. Sterling made his will, making the trust already stated. In the event of the failure of the trustees to comply with his request, the property was to go to his eldest son, Theo dore IV. Sterling, to whom he had already bequeathed all his other real and personal property. Theodore is a bachelor, past 50 years of ago, and a member of the Lotus Club, of New York City. Spear, who was at the bottom of the whole trouble, married a Miss Carrie Hinckley. She survived him and is now supposed to lie living iu Philadelphia, and it is for the pur pose of reaching her, as one of the trustees of the Kiantone Industrial Home, that the legal summons is given publication. At the next term of tho Supreme Court, to be held iu Chautauqua county iu Septem ber, Theodore \\ Sterling, of New York City, will ask the court to restore to him the property in Kiantone, around which is woven this remarkable story with its super stitions, its romance and its tragedy. A JAPANESE EXECUTION. Wonderful Skill of the Executioner with the Sword. From the Gentleman's Magazine. As each man stepped from the path on to the plateau his eyes wore firmly bandaged with white paper, the only act of mercy I saw vouchsafed that morning. Finally they were ranged in line, the two cripples huddled on the ground, their poor heads as they drooped from shouldor to shoulder being roughly buffeted to a proper angle by the policemen in charge. This accomplished, amid a silence so absolute that ive could al most hear our hearts tear, the great man on the camp stool rose, and unfolding n largo document read in a loud voice what we sup posed to be a description of tho crimes for which the poor fellows were to suffer and the process of condemnation and sentence. This was a very long business, and before it had nearly finished the native spectators were laughing and joking upon the appear ance of the doomed men, with that callous nes> to human suffering which so much blackens the otherwise amiable and pleasing character of the Japanese people. At last it was finished. As there were but five holes for seven prisoners, two would be obliged to remain in blind agony while their compan ions were being dispatched. Five men were accordingly thrust forward with the staves and lists or the police; each man was made to squat on a mound, his clothes—if filthy, tattered rags could be called clothes— stripped from his shoulders, his hands tied behind his back, and his head pushed for ward over the hole. Our feelings at this awful moment can better Le imagined than described, but I think we felt quite as much pity for the two poor wretches left alone to listen to what was going on without that artificial aid to fortitude which the sight of a crowd sometimes gives, as for their com panions on their dentil seats. Undoubtedly execution by the trenchant Japanese sword is as merciful a death as can be desired; but the oriental nature, as if to compensate for this erring on the side of mercy, counterbal ances it by an undue prolongation of the preparations for death, which is worse than a hundred deaths. So in this case. As the poor fellows knelt over their holes the execu tioner slowly and deliberately tooK off his coat and bared his arms. Then he took from its silk casing the fatal sword, examined it fondly and lingeringly from the Yasuri me, or tilings on the hilt to keep the grasp from slipping, along the Kirimon, or groove in the blade, to the point, held it over a pail while a coolie trickled water down it,'and with a great deal of settling of his feet was ready. I felt sick and giddy, but I kept my eyes fixed on the scene. At a sign from the oificial on the camp stool, the executioner raised his sword slightly, hardly half a dozen inches, and almost before I could real ize it the man’s head was hanging over the hole by a single ligament, and the blood was gushing forth in torrents. I then saw why the executioner had not completely severed the head; and the wonderful skill of the Japanese swordsmen, using as they do the most perfect weapons in the world, can be imagined in so airanging the force of the blow tliat absolute decupitation does not take place, lie tore the head off and held it toward the four sides of the square; then he gave it to a coolie, who roughly plastered the severed portion with clay and stuck it on a kind of elevated shelf. In the meanwhile two coolies were thumping on. the back of the prostrate body to hasten the rush of blood, after which one of the coarse mats was thrown over it and it was laid aside. I hail seen enough,’and I turned my head away as the executioner, after wiping his blade with paper, approached the second poor wretch, who was shouting out some thing at the top of his voice, whether a con fession or a denunciation of injustice I was not scholar enough to understand. Commodore Vanderbilt and Bissell. From the Detroit Free Press. One of the best railroad executives in this country of great men in that department of human industry isC. M. Bissell, Suprintend ent of the Harlem railroad. He rose from the rear rank, as it were, having begun in the most menial station. It was thought when he became a fnll lledged passenger conductor that the highest peak of ambition had been scaled, but there was no keeping him in a subordinate place. One night Commodore Vanderbilt, who owned the road, came down from Saratoga and Conductor Bissell lmd him in charge from Albany to New York. The distance is 150 miles. Bissell kept a sharp eye on his duty and tho despotic Commodore sat silent. Not a word did he address to that train master during the journey. Just as the special train hauled into New York the old man asked: ■‘How long have you lieen on this road'” “About twelve years,” was the reply. “Come to my office to-morrow morning ato o’clock.” Bissell didn’t know what he had done to offend his employer, but beiug a plucky man he whistled away his apprehension anil at the appointed hour api>oured in the dread presence, “Ha! humph!" grunted the Commodore, “you’re here, hey ? Come out to the yard.” Bissell followed the ogre, quite unable to guess what was in tho wind. “How much does that rail weight” abruptly inquired the Commodore. Bissell (who was one of the tiesr, informed employe* in the service) made satisfactory answer to that and other questions •elating to tlie minutiae of railway construction. Still without the slightest relaxation of his stern features tile old man blurted out: •♦How would you like to be Superintendent of the Harlem railroad !" “First-rate,’’said Bissell. “Well, by ! you are Superintendent,” was the Commodore’s vigorous and clutrac tertristir termination of toe interview. (*pen-front Shirts a specialty at Belnili eor's. 34 Whitaker stisot. MEETINGS. THE WORKMAN'S A\D TRADER'S LOAN AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION. The forty-sixth (USthi regular monthly meet ing of this Association will be held at the office of Jackson & Whatley THIS (.Thursday) EVE NING at 8 o'clock. GEOROE W. LAMAR, President. J. L. V. hati.ey, Secretary. Sept. 1, 1887. SI-El 1A I. N OTI CBS. NOTICE. The New Home Sewing Machine Com puny have moved their office to the corner of Whita ker and State streets, nearly opposite tho old stand of Joyce & Hunt. Anew lot of nice Ma chines just received. Call and get one. A. J. PURSLEY, Agent. t3T"Agents wanted. NOTICE. I have this day associated with me in the Brokerage business my son, Mr. J. 11. REID STEWART. JAS. T. STEWART. Savannah, Ga., Sept. 1,1887. run onion sets: WHITE AND YELLOW* JUST RECEIVED AT SOLOMONS A CO.'S DRUG STORE. NOTICE. I have ibis day admitted my son, W. deBRUYN KOPS, as a partner in my business, which will be continued under the name of deBRUYN KOPS & CO. J. deBRUYN KOPS. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS HALL ASSOCIA TION. Savannah. Ga., Sept. 1, 1887. The first installment on the Preferred Stock of the above Association is now due and pay able to the undersigued, who will be at the cigar store of Simon Gazan corner of Bull and Broughton, on the evenings of TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY from 6 to 8 r. M., until the 15th inst, WM. McHARRIE, Treasurer, NOTICE. Tbe partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned under the name of CHARLES GREEN'S SON & Cos., has this day been dis solved by mutual consent, Mr. H. H. GILMEIt retiring. Mr. E. 51. GRF.EN. who assumes the liabilities of the old firm, will continue the busi ness under the name and style of CHARLES GREEN’S SON & 00. ICD. 51. GREEN, H. H. GILMER. Savannah, Sept. 1, 1887. Dll. HENRY S COLDINC, DENTIST, Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. FOR BENT OR LEASE. That three-story store with dry, airy cellar, comer Bull, Congress and St. Julian streets. Possession when desired. Also, from Oct. Ist, 11-room brick bouse, with stable and servants' quarters, No. 3b State street. J. V ROWLAND, 96 Bay street. NOTICE. I will be unavoidably absent from the city until the first of October. Consignments of Rice, intended for me, may be made to MESSRS. W. W. GORDON & CO., who have kindly consented to attend to busi ness for me during my absence. FRED A. HABERSHAM, Rice Broker. ULMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR. This vegetable preparation is invaluable for the restoration of tone and strength to the sys tem. 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SAVANNAH STEAM LAUNDRY A. CARD. H AVING passed my first anniversay in this new enterprise, I cannot refrain from thanking a kind public for tbe patronage extended to me, also for the patience displayed in overlooking shortcomings on the part of my employes. Having now solved the mysteries of artesian water and the use of difficult machines, I can promise an indulgent public that hencefort h my work will equal tue test and surpass the most Steam Laundries in this country. My call and delivery system will soon lie improved, and ask ing a continuance of the patronage so largely extended, I am. respectfully, M. PKAGKR, Proprietor. PLUMHEIt. l. a. McCarthy, Successor to clias. E. Wakefield, PLUMBER, GAS and STEAM FITTER, •18 Barnard street, SAVANNAH, GA Telephone 67A HOTELS. NEW HOTBL TOGn£ (Formerly St. Mark's.) Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla. WINTER AND SUMMER. THE MOST central House In the city. Near Post Office, Street Cars and all Femes. New and Elegant Furniture. 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