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6 GEORGIA-AND FLORIDA. NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS. An Attempt to Assassinate a Man Near Bremen -A Crazy Man’s Strange Hallucination--Monroe Sends in Her Tax Digest The Gate City Guards Going to Philadelphia. liKOIUiIA. A Board of Trade lias been organized at Griffin. Brunswick has six artesian wells and work on tbe seventh has just been begun. The cotton compress at Americas was put in operation for the season Tuesday. It is said that the buck rabbits on Murder creek, Jasper county, were all drowned by the great freshet. Capt,. Usina and Mr. Murphy, of this city, are making arrangements for a coal depot at Brunswick. It is reported that the extensive mills at Josoelyn, now owned by Messrs. Dale & Cos., will soon be in active operation. The Dublin Post wants the county to issue bonds to build bridge across the river there and open it for use free of tolls Thomas Fears’ residence, in Butts county, was burned by incendiaries, a day or two ago. A negro and bis wife are suspected. Senator Brown, it is said, has at last de cided to divorce him..),' from his pair of black colts, which, for the jmst twenty years, have been pulling him around Atlanta in his ark-on-wheels. Warren Frazer, a negro brnkenian on the Georgia railroad, fell between two box cars Tuesday as the train was passing Grove town, and was instantly killed by the wheels passing over his body. A call is out for anew publishing com pany to meet in 7“ ■ lin on Sept, ti for the purpose of effecting an organization to pub lish anew weekly in Dublin. Two are already published there. The tax digest of Monroe county for 1887 was received "at the State Comptroller’s office Tuesday. Monroe returns taxable property to the amount of $2,7(50,331, a handsome ' ..crease over last year of $382,- 871. Joe Heard, one of Dooly county’s prosper ous fanners, brougi • to Macon Tuesday seven bale, of cotton from his farm near Vienna. The distance is fifty-six miles, anti four days are required to make the round trip by wagon. Tuesday the Comptroller General sent out the instructions to the tax collectors of the State. These instructions have refer ence to their duties, the methods of conduct ing their business, and the manner of making their returns The instructions are neatly printed in boo>, form. It is said that Jackson county lost the first son in the late war. J. A. Williamson, who belonged to the Banks County Guards, died of measles before any blood was shed in the Confederate army. Should a monu ment be erected to the memory of him who first lost his life for the lost cause, Jefferson wants to have it. On Thursday night of last week a grown daughter of Samuel Turner, living in Tatt nall county, was struck by lightning and was so completely paralyzed that she did not speak until Tuesday of this week, but had tne appearance of being dead, from the effects of tne electric shock. A blue streak can be seen all the way down her. body. It is now believed that she will recover. There being a decided diversity of opin ion as to the causes which loti to the death of John Salter, who died at his home a few miles from Americas, Monday, a number of physicians went out Tuesday morning for the purpose of making a post mortem ex amination. An overdose of morphine and foul play are among tbe rumors in the air. Mr. Sal ter was well-to-do and well-known. Dr. P. L. Hitman, of Albany, has a Spanish ooin hearing on the obverse side image of Carolus 111. with the inscription “Pie Gratia, 1772.” On the reverse side is the Spanish coat of arms with a column •ntwined by a snake on either sida The coil of the snake around the column forms a letter S, and hv some authorities it is the source of the idea of the dollar mark ($) of the United States. Dr. Hilsman took the ooin in change from a negro several years ago. The coin, perhaps, was brought to Florida by a Spanish adventurer. The killing of the jack of J. W. Echols by Mr. Wheeles created quite a sensation down in Oglethorpe, and a big law suit is threatened. Tbe people of the county are divided on the issue. Mr. Wheeles’ friends assert that the jack was no uceount and the killing of the animal was a good riddance. Mr Echols' friends state that it was a most outrageous act, and thut Mr. Wheeles will certainly be punished; that he can be in dicted for trespass, for malicious mischief, and for cruelty to animals, and they intend to see that the extent of the law is meted out to him. Notice has been given that a bill will be introduced in the present Legislature to incorporate the Oconee Bridge Company, a company formed for the purpose of erect ing a bridge across the Oconee river at, Dub lin. The experience of the past freshet teaches that nothing short of SIO,OOO will span the Oconee in anything like a substan tial way, and that wood alone will not suf fice, hut must be worked in with iron, gran ite or brick and mortar; and the new com pany which proposes to put such a large amount of money in this structure is seek ing protection under a charter from the Legislature. Hon. James M. [Smith has his convicts and a large number of fret* laborers at work bailding a levee on his bottoms in Ogle thorpe county. He estimates that by an expenditure of SIO,OOO he can keep the banks of Beaver Dam creek within bounds. He has built more than a quarter of a mile of levee on a branch that empties into his big bottoms. The embankment is 22 feet broad at the bottom, 8 feet at the top, and 7 feet high. He allows 100 feet for the branch to spread. The levee on his creek he will make 27 feet at the bottom and K feet tall, giving 300 feet for the stream to 3 read. By this moans Mr. Hmifh will re lim 150 acres of very rich bottom land. Augusta Chronicle: The Bonanza saloon, opposite the Chronicle office, had a rush of business yesterday, and the crowd that went in and out wss very noticeable. lawyers were conspicuous amongst the number. After some inquiry it leaked out that it was a question as to who was running the es tablishment, and a number of complicated circumstances mixed up the reporter, who was endeavoring to ascertain the cause of tbe rush at the Bonanza. The strange part is that the attorney of a prominent liquor firm is opposed to the bar being kept open, and has put in charge another lawyer, who is said to be a good judge and will add to tbe patronage, while a prohibition lawyer Wants to put the other two out and take possession of the liquors. It, is projiosi'd to establish telephone con nection with Augusta on the Georgia rail road at Grovotown. Thomson, Warrenton, CrawfnrdviUe, Union Point, Greeneslioro, Madison, Conyers, Warrenton, Sparta; MilledgeviUe utid Washington; oil the Char lotte, Columbia and Augusta, Graniteville, Edge I laid and Johnstons; on the South Carolina road, at Langley, Aiken, Hlack ville, Barnwell and Branehville; on the Port Royal at Allendale, Brunsons, Hamp ton, Beaufort and Port Royal; on the Nar row Gauge, at Gibson and Bandersville; on tbe Central, at Waynesboro and Milieu, and these points in South Carolina, Allen dale, Anderson, Abbevillo, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg, Greenwood, New berry, Ninety-Six and Due West. Monday morning, a few moments after 11 o’clock, as W. J. Reaves, of Bremen, was on his way homo from his mill, and Just after crossing a fence in the field, was fired upon by an assassin, who was concealed in • thicket only a few feet from the trail in which Mr. Reeve* was walking. He was fortunately unhurt, and turned quickly, fired with a sbotgnnat tbeuasassin, but being . earned missed hun. Dr. Cheney and oth- I ora went lack with Mr. Reeve* to the nlace f where uw suoobrig was uouu. uua louod that every arrangement had been made for ! concealment, and that a narrow trail i through the brush had been cut from The , place of concealment to where Mr. Reeves j had to cro&j the fence and to the path he j was walking in, which was only eleven ! steps. Tuesday Mr. Reeves swore out a j warrant for John Cash, but the Sheriff ; failed to find him. The Milledgeville correspondent of the ! News, under date of Aug. 30, writes as fol ! lows: About forty editors of the weekly pa pers of the State met at Milledgeville to j day. The convention was called to order i by Mr. M. D. Erwin, of the Conyers Solid South, and Mr. T. H. Mims, of the Milledge ville Chronicle, acted as Secretary. Col. R. H. Hunter, of the Milledgeville Union and Recorder, was elected temporary chairman. An address of welcome was delivered by Mr. Joseph E. Pottle, local reporter of the Macon Telegraph, which was responded to by Col. R. J. Jordan, of the Bandersville Middle Georgia Program. The convention has been tendered a grand banquet by the people of Milledgeville. They will probably visit the asylum to morrow in a body, when, it is said, an address will be delivered and nesponded to. They will probably attend, a portion of the time, the deliberation of oiie or both of the legislative committees now in session there investigating the asylum. Cartorsviile Couranl: Our citizens have probably noticed old man Poor wandering aimlessly over the streets. His condition needs attention from the proper authorities beyond doubt. He is no doubt crazy anil seems to labor under the hallucination that tie is night watchman at the rlejiot, and as he says, “empowered to arrest any one on the square.” He says that he was appointed in Atlanta and marie to come up and await for his commission. Ho has been at the post office every mail asking for his com mission for several days. He got tired of this, however, and yesterday morning began frantically yelling for some body to come forward and receive his resignation. 'The promise of a commission was no doubt a ruse of the At lanta policemen to get rid of the old man. He will be sent back to Atlanta, where lie belongs, where, it is hoped, the Ordinary will discharge tiis duty in inquiring into his mental coudition and providing for his transportation to the Lunatic Asylum. Tuesday the Governor issued an order di rected to the Sheriff of Chatooga county in regard to Henry Pope, now confined in Ful ton county jail under sentence of death, for the alleged rape on Miss Minnie Kendrick. The order recites the fact that Pope was tried and convicted and sentenced to death on July 8, 1887, but was respited on June 28 until Sept. 2, 1887. Inasmuch as there is a motion for anew trial [Minding in Pope’s case, and it is impossible for that motion to be heard and determined before Sept. 2, for the reason that the Superior Court of Chatooga county does not convene until Sept.. 5, the Sheriff is ordered to delay the execution of Pope until Friday, Nov. 4, 1887, and “unless you are otherwise legally di rected you will proceed to execute the law upon that day.” John Taylor, now confined in Chatooga county jail, is said to have con fessed the crime for which Pope was sen tenced. Upon the re-trial of the case his confession will be investigated, and Pope will be given every advantage to display that innocence he has always proteste. 1 in the matter. The Gate City Guards, of Atlanta, will make the trip to the Philadelphia centen nial. That fact was settled Tuesday. About forty-five members will go. Some doubts having been expressed as to whether the young men would be able to get off from their business long enough to make the trip, Gov. Gordon (who is very anxious for the company to accompany him as an escort), took upon himself the task of removing all difficulties in the members’ way. Tuesday he made personal appeals to the young men’s employers to grant them a leave of absence, so that they could go on the exour eion. His request met with a favorable response in every instance, save one. Gov. Gordon is doing his best to secure a fitting military representation for Georgia at the approaching Constitutional Centen nial celebration to lie held in Philadelphia on Sept. 15, 10 and 17. Tuesday he issued a personal letter to a number of military companies in the State that he thought were more likely to accept an invitation of the kind than the others, making a personal request that if it was possible they wqgld so arrange matters as to be present in Philadelphia on the occasion. Two miles below Stearnesville, in Spald iug county, is a colored church by the name of Free Liberty. Regular services were held at night, and among the congregation was one I)avo Dickson. After services Dickson, in company with several others started home, which is within two miles of Zebulon. The party had gone some little distance when they were met by Hilliard Connally, an employe on the Atlanta and Hawkinsville road with camps near Zebu lon. Dickson began teasing Connally about a bet that had been made in which the latter hail held stakes, the same being a pistol and $5. It seems that Connally had lost the pistol, and consequently did not like to bo joked about it. The two negroes began a friendly tussle as all thought, when suddenly Con nally pulled a knife and began to whack away at Dickson. The first stub was under the left ann, and extending to within an inch of his heart, while the second was a few r inches lower, but merely cutting the surface. The third, but most dangerous wound of all, was a stab in the left side of the bowels, from which his entrails pro truded. Dickson, at the last stab, fell to the ground in a faint, but in a few moments recovered consciousness. Connally, evi dently, did not realize the enormity of his crime, for he made no effort to esca[ie. but quietly submitted to arrest. Dickson’s wounds are fatal. Adjt. Gen. Kell received n delegation of Decatur gentlemen Tuesday in regard to an important matter. On last Saturday night, in view of the fact that trouble was appre hended in Decatur, a military company was quickly formed, and the Captaincy ten dered to Capt. Edward Cox. An applica tion was made to the Governor for arms and ammunition. Under the law the mat ter was referred to the Adjutant General, who was obliged to refuse the request for the following reasons; The Military Ad visory Board’s consent must be obtained be fore any new company oan be foi mod, and when this is done a captain has to lie elected, five days’ notice being given of said election. None of these requirements were complied with. Again tne military complement of the State is already full, the law allow ing only fifty infantry, seven cavalry and three artillery companies. In onler to obtain the consent of the board the applica tion has to hi* sent to each member for his approval or disapproval, and it requires considerable time for this to lie done. There were other arrangements to he complied With liefore the law would lay Vi been obeyed, nnd while the Governor and Adjutant wore very will ing to accommodate the Decatur people, and even went so far as to submit the mat ter to the Attorney General, for the pur pose of finding out if the law could by any possible inouus be forestalled, it was im possible to grant the request. There is a hill now pending before the General As sembly to increase the number of infantry companies from fifty to seventy-five. Capt. Couch, of Atlanta, now has in hands a peculiar case, which may become very interesting before his work is com fleted. It is the disappearance of an heiress, laniel Maddox is a well-to-do negro man living near Washington, Wilkes county, where he runs a plantation. Several months ago Maddox went to Atlanta to visit a sister, taking with him his ten-year-old daughter, ’fho girl is quite bright and en tertaining, and soon won the good will of her aunt, who owned a house and lot in Atlanta The aunt begged Maddox to leave the child with her, promising that she would raiso her, seud her to school, and then, at her death, will her the house and lot. The child's father saw the good op portunity. and after his sister had bound herself to tbe contract by signing a pap>r, left tbe child and went home A few weeks ago the aant died, and Monday Maddox arrived at Atlanta THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1887. to secure his daughter and see that she got the property. When he reached his sister’s home, lie found the place in charge of a negro, Sam Johnson, a distant relative of liis sister’s huslmtid, but his daughter was nit there. In response to Maddox's ques tions, Johnson asserted that the child ran away the day after her aunt died, and that she hud not, been seen since, notwithstand ing the thorough search which had been made for her. Maddox soon ascertained that Johnson would fall heir to the property if the daughter were out of the way, and reported the matter to Capt. Couch. The Captain arrested Johnson, hut soon became satisfied that the child bad not been injured and was alive. He then agreed with John son to release him if the child was produced. The prisoner agreed to produce the girl by noon yesterday, and was released. FLORIDA. Mt. Dora will give SIO,(XX) to be made the county scat of Lake county. The Marshal of Ocala has succeeded in collecting SIOO of street tax money, the largest amount ever collected. The first number of Pasco county’s new paper, the Democrat, published at Dade City, has made its appearance. At W inter Haven a contract has been let for a general cleaning up of stumpi and rubbish on the town si6i and vicinity. All peanut roasters are ordered off the streets of Palatka. The vendors will have to do their cooking in the back yard now. The Finley Guards of Ocala have received their first installment of guns. They are the newest puttern of globe-sights Spring field rifles. D. L. Snooks, of DeT.and, is in Gaines ville to have the city put in electric lights. He is representing the Brush electric light, of Cleveland, O. He proposes to sell the plant to the city. The registration books of Orange county will be open on Friday. Sept.. 2, at tbe va rious precincts throughout the county, nnd will remain open until Sept. 11. The elec tion on prohibition is the cause. Sunday evening Capt. Killian, of the Brooklyn House, at Orlando, hearing a dis turbance in his hen house, found there an opossum eating eggs. Calling assistance, he captured it and served it up lor dinner with all the delicacies of the season. Quite a storm of wind and rain visited Candler Sunday, doing oonsiderablo dam age to property. The wind blew the new dwelling house of J. R. Wright off of its foundation. The blow did considerable damage in the country, such as blowing down fences, etc. Clem Bailey, of White Haven, recently killed two bears of large size, and is now looking cross-eyed at the presidential chair in the “Bear Club.” He took advantage of the new law and received $lO from the County Commissioners, and says he is now solid for another month. During a thunder storm at Orlando Sun day afternoon a horse belonging to Jacob Summerlin was struck and killed by light ning. He was tied to the fence at A. M. Jernigan's, only a few feet from the house. Several members of Mr. Jernigan’s family felt the shock quite sensibly. Temperance people, Saturday, put in the hands of the County Commissioners a peti tion praying an election to decide whether or not intoxicating liquoi-s shall be sold in Escambia. The Commissioners will take action upon it at their next regular meet ing, and it is probable that the election will be ordered for an early date. Palmer Gregory, colored, who killed a boy in St. Augustine about three weeks ago, w as arrested by Marshal Manucy and Officer Wise at Palatka Sunday morning at 1 o’clock. He was found asleep at the junc tion of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West and Florida Southern railroads. He was sent to St. Augustine yesterday after noon. At Winter Haven Sunday morning while the superintendent was reading the Sunday school lesson in the Baptist church, a tame sandhill crane stalked in at the front door, walked up the isle to the superintendent, and, looking him squarely in the face, com menced chanting a hymn in some unknown tongue that set the scholars laughing woi-se than Mary’s little lamb did, and not with the same fate. At Orange City the election for municipal officers, held on Saturday, passed off quietly. The following ticket was elected: Mayor, H. H. DeYarinuii (re-elected); Aldermen for two years, H. H. Neal, M. C. Wheldon and M. Lent; Aldermen for one year, E. D. Spencer (re-elected), John Benson (re elected) ; Clerk and Treasurer, S. M. Cham lierlin (re-elected); Marshal and Collector, Felix Motsinger. At Winter Haven the college Campus has been cleared of all unsightly timber ready for the improvements. Trie necessary papers and plans are being perfected as fast as possible, and it is now probable that work will be started in October. The buildings are to lie made of brick, and will be elabor ate nnd attractive. Architects from many points, including Chicago and Louisville, are submitting plans, competing for prefer ence. The plans adopted by the hoard of trustees only will be paid for. On Sunday evening about 5 o’clock a severe thuhderstorm parsed over Gaines ville, coming from the west During the storm the house of James Pardue, in North Gainesville, was severely ii|jured. The bolt struck the kitchen chimney at the south end of t he house, completely demolishing it, passing down the stove pipe and breaking the stove, also knocking off some of the boards and breaking a window. In passing out of the room it split the sill and tore a hole in the floor about 30x15 inches and passed through the trough at the pump on the porch. Another [laid of the fluid passed along a crack in the floor the whole length of the room, and another passed out under the door sill just as his daughter Ida was stop ping out of tho door, knocking her down ana also stunning Mi's. Pajduo and Mr. Pardue, Sr. It burned several holes in some tin cans, broke several dishes and stopped theclock* in the house. Another shock passed in at the stable door, tearing up a stall, knocking down one horse and young Sam Pardue. It set fire to some paper near tho stove, which was put out by some of the family as soon as they recovered from the shocks. Mr. Pardue, who was standing near the stable, was also somewhat stunned by the shock. It was a narrow escape from death to some of the family, as Mis* Ida hail just stepped, away from the stove. The house was injured blit little beside knock ing down the stove chimney. A house sit uated in the west purt of the town known as Shivery's Quarters, occupied by a colored man named Carter, was struck about the same time, knocking down Carter and two children and killing a dog lying under the house. Carter was severely stunned. He Took a Gun to Shoot the Earth quake. Frdmthe Harlan tfla.) Sentinel. On Sunday evening last quite an amus ing conversation took place at the boiling well between a gentleman of this place and an f* negro in which the sable son was called upon to go down in the well, make an investigation, return and explain the mystery, whereupon Cliffy replied: ’’l des tell ye, bo*s, do mystery am too fur down for mo. I wouldn't go down in dat well fur all de money in Harlem.” On seeing someone go down in the well he remarked: “Dar now, see, white folks ain’t ’fraid o”uuffln\ You git Cuff to go down in dar if vou dare.” This same Cuffy took his shotgun to the great shake last August, but he doesn't care to tackle a boiling well. Dlptberla. “I am living in a lioighliarhood sur round ed with Diptheria and was attacked with Ulcerated Sore Throat. lat oner commenced to use Darby'* rrophylatic Fluid diluted about one-half, ns a gargle, when great clots of hard membrane and uiucoua came from my throat, and the attack pawed off. lam natisrled or it* efficacy a- a preventive and cure for Diptheria.”—-W. P, Woodward, Frauiuord. Pa. BARTLETT’S SWEEP. His Total Defalcation Amounts to Nearly SBO,OOO. Sum ter (S. C.) Special to the Sews and Courier. Col. Tate, the bank examiner, has finished his report of the condition of the bank, and will forward it to Comptroller Trenholm to night. Bartlett’s defalcation amounts to $79,352 01. All tho correspondents of the bank have been heard from, and this is a full and correct statement of the defalca tion. The capital of the bank was $50,000, and the surplus and undivided profits about $!t,000. It is thus seen that Bartlett stole every cent that the bank was worth, and over SIB,OOO besides. Considering his op portunities Bartlett perpetrated undoubt edly the most stupendous bank steal on record, and his system of robbery must have been a most ingenious one to have escaped detection so long. An express money package was received this morning by the bank from Henry Clews & Cos., of New York, containing •82,700 07, tbe amount held by that bouse to Bartlett’s credit. There is in a desk in the bank a drawer which Bartlett alwavs used for bis private papers. It is secured by a Yale lock, and cannot be opened without being broken. It will probably be forced to-morrow, and its contents may develop something which* will lie of considerable interest. Below is a full schedule of the.property belonging to Bart lett, which has been attached by Sheriff Sanders. It is impossible to arrive at the exact worth of the property until it is sold, so tliat the values attached to each item are merely approximate: Seventeen shares National Bank stock and seventeen half shares Sumter Cotton Mills stock $ 850 00 'fell shares Building and Loan stock. 330 00 Check and Mercantile National Bank, of New York city 150 00 Household furniture 125 03 Louisiana State Lottery tickets (cost $144) 000 00 Total $1,475 CO Bartlett owened twenty-eight half share* in the Sumter Cotton Mills, but the Sheriff has been able to secure only seventeen of them. It is supposed that the others have been hypothecated. The check ou the Mer cantile Bank was received in the package with the lottery tickets, and is supposed to have been a winning Bartlett made in the lottery. The drawing in the lottery for which the bank holds $144 worth of tickets, will take place on Sept. 13. It would be a strange freak of fate if they were to draw a sufficient amount to make good Bartlett’s defalcation. Col. Wallace informs your correspondent that lie has made arrangements to open a banking house here in a few days. lie is now prepared to do any collecting or ex change business, and will lie ready to make loans, etc., in about a week. The organization of anew bank is being discussed by the business men of the town, and the plan will take definite shape in a day or two. They realize that the be. t way to inspire confidence in the pubi c mind is to go right ahead and work haid to retrieve the loss. Although the bank failure is a heavy blow to the town, the business men are by no m :ans disheartened or in any way dismayed. They have every confidence in the indom itable spirit and pluck of the people. Asa matter of course all the stock will be a dead loss to the holders, and they may in all probability be required to pay an assess ment on it. Several of the largest stock holders are ladies who had nearly all their property invested in the bank, and who were dependent on the interest for their liv ing. In these cases the loss will be partic ularly grievous. Ten days ago 118 was refused for the stock. THE COMING CAMPAIGN. Senator Brown Sounded on the Prohi bition Question. Senator Brown was seen by an Atlanta Journal reporter Tuesday morning with re gard to the report that he (the Senator) would lead the anti-prohibitionists in the approaching contest in that city. Senator Brown said that he was not at the anti meeting last night, as he was engaged else where. He is not in sympathy with the prohibition movement, voted an open ticket against it and would not hesitate to advise upon any policy in the line of his convic tions, but does not feel that it would be proper for him to engage personally in the campaign. Sjieaking for himself alone, he thought that high license furnished the best solution of the temperance question. It would de crease the dives and groggeries, reduce the saloons to a basis more easily amenable to the law, and would further allow those peo ple determined to drink to do so without the temptation to a secrecy and hypocrisy demoralizing to the tone and sentiment of the people. He thought it would be a good idea to remove the green blinds from saloon doors, and allow the public to see all that transpired within those saloons. He favored rigid rules in regard to minors. He thought it better, even if spirituous liquors were sold only wholesale, that they should be sold openly in tho city in which they were consumed, without sending money out of the city to purchase them, or driving people to devious ways to obtain them. In tne course of an interesting personal conversation, the sub stance of which is merely summarized, Sen ator Brown quoted the leading Oongrega tionalist church paper of Chicago as saying, among other things, that after many years of experiment, “the most advanced thought of New England favored high license in preference to absolute prohibition.” This, Senator Brown thought, was significant of a reaction of sentiment in the very centre from which the prohibition movement originated. A Boiling Well. Prom the Ilarlem (Ga.) Sentinel. A boiling well has recently been discov ered near Harlem. At the earnest solicita tion of Mr. John R. Willingham, a reporter of the Sentinel was induced to go out and view the great curiosity. After about a three-quarters of a mile hare-back ride, we dismounted at the well and, before we had tied our steed, a noise could be distinctly heard down in the well, resembling the sound of n swarm of bees. A glance down in the we 1 plainly showed that it was boiling fu riously similar to that of a pot, only a great deal stronger. A bucket was let down, as tho crowd desired to taste the water, when it reaobod the top all took a sip and pro nounced it good. A lighted torch was (lien lot down in the well to see jf it contained gas, but as no explosion took place below it is evident there is no gas In that well. This well was dug about one year ago, and has been acting like other wells until about three weeks ago, when it began to boil and has continued to boil incessantly ever since. Speckled With Frogs. Front the Milledgeville Union and Recorder. Mr. Edward B. Brown, of Hancock coun ty, informed us that as he was coming along the public road near Black Springs on Saturday morning last, ho passed a depression in a field shaped like an im mense saucer, which tho recent rains have nearly filled with water, although it had a good crop of cotton on it at the end of the long drought. 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Send for “How to Cure Shin Diseases.” niMPLES, Blackheads, Skin Blemishes, and | |lf| Babv Humors, use Cuticura Soar KIDNEY PAINS~ With thetr weary, dull, aching, life f Ih less, all-gone sensation, received in 1 ah ONK MljruTE by tho Cuticura Anti \ Ji Jse|’*iN Plaster. Warranted. At drug gists, 35 cents. Potter Drug Cos.. Boston. OFFICIAL. Ql VR WTINK NOTICE Office Health Officer, 1 Savannah, Ga, Aug. 29,1887. f From and after this date, the city ordinance which specifies the Quarantine requirements to be observed at the port of Savannah, Ga,, will be most rigidly enforced. Merchants and all other parties interested will be supplied with printed copies of the Quar antine Ordinance upon application to office of Health Officer, and are requested to keep copy of t his publication. From and after this date and until further no tice all steamships and vessels from or having touched at South America, Central America, Mexico, West Indies, Italy, Sicily. Malta, Mar seilles and the Guinea coast of Africa, direct, or via American ports, wtll be subjected to Quaran tine detention and be treated as from infected or suspected ports or localities, viz.: Section 9, Quarantine fiegulations. Captains of such vessels will have to remain at the Quarantine Station until their vessels are relieved. All steamers and vessels from foreign ports not included above, direct or via American ports, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise, will be required to remain in quarantine until boarded and passed by the Quarantine Officer. Neither the captains nor any oue on hoard of such vessels trill he allotted to come to the city or land until the vessels ave inspected and passed by the Quarantine Officer. As ports or localities not herein enumerated are reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori ties, Quarantine restrictions against same will lie enforced without further publication. The quarantine regulation requiring the flying Of the Quarantine flay on vessels subjected to detention or inspection trill he rigidly enforced. Notice is hereby given that the Quarantine Officer is instructed not to deliver letters to ves sels which are not subjected to Quarantine de tention, unless the name of consignee and state ment that tho vessel is ordered to some other port, apjiears upon the face of the envelope. This order is made necessary in consequence of the enormous hulk of drumming letters sent to the station for vessels which are to arrive. Ship chandlers are informed that provisions in large quantity caDnot be received at the Quarantine Station, unless for vessels ordered from this port, and it must then bo sent down by the tug boat at the time when vessel is to be towed to sea. J. T. McFARLAXD, M. D., Health Officer. BAKER’S COCOA. emu. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. BAKER’S fe^BreaWCocoa. Warranted absolutely pore Cocoa, from which the excess of jjg Oil has been removed. IthasfAr<*< Sms il times the strength of Cocoa mixed fltf Iji \ ' with Starch, Arrowrootor Sugar, Ifljf j if \ln and is therefore far moreeconom- M I : ijj ; Jnu leal, costing less than one cent a HI 1 I fi Klncn/). It is delicious, nourishing. Ml j f i I jlstrcngthenlng, easily f 11/ 1! [land admirably adapted for irival- 1 jfjjjids as well as for persons in health. “ , sp® Sold bjr Grocers ererywhere. V 7, BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. BAY Hirst. Imported Bay Eum, A FINE ARTICLE, AT STRONG'S DRUG STORE, Corner Bull and Perry street lane. TY BEE RAILROAD. SAVANNAH \ND TYBEE RAILWAY? Standard Time. /COMMENCING SATURDAY, July 16,1887, the v following schedule will bo in effect: No. 8. No. 1. No. 5. No. 7.* Lv. Savan nah 10:30am 8:00pm 6:oopm 9:sopm Ar.Tybee. 11:45 a m 4:lspm 7:00 pin 11:05 pm No. 2. No. 4. No. 6. No. B.* Lv.Tybee. 7:ooam 4:05 pm 9:15 pm 8:00 pm Ar. Savan nah 8:15 am 5:20 pin 10:25 p m 9:10 pm ♦Trains 7 and 8 Sundays only. All trains leave Savannah from Savannah and Tvbee depot, in 8., F. and W. yard, cast of pas senger depot. G uv,* Tybee from Ocean House. Band plays at Tybee Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, leaving Savannah on the 3 p. a. train, leaving Tyliee oil last train. Tickets on stile at depot ticket office, and at Fernandez's cigar Store, corner Bull and Broughton streets. C. O. HAINES, Supt. Savannah, July 15, 1887. SUBURBAN RAILYVAY. City and Suburban Railway. Savannah. Ga., August 38. 1887. / \N and after WEDNESDAY', August 21. the " / following schedule will be run on tho Out side Line: I.UVI I ARRIVE UEAVK. ISI.K LKAVR CITY | CITY. OK HOPE, j MONTOOHEKY •6:55 I 6:42 6:20 I 10:26 i 8:10 | 8:1.3 i 7:80 *•8:25 I 2:00 1:30 [ 1;0() +*:( | 6:25 6:00 j 690 There wtll lie no early train from Isle of Hope on Sunday morning •For Montgomery only. Passenger* for Die of Hope go via Montgomery without extra charge Tin* train afford* BMMBthSObMPM cunffivn before breakfast lor young children with nurse*. ••Tills 3:25 p. a. train last out of city Sunday afternoon tOu Saturdays ttu* train leant* ,-itv at ju ■ * J. U. JOHNSTON, i SHIPPING. OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY FOR New York, Boston anil Philadelphia. PASSAGE TO NEW YORK. CABIN S2O 90 EXCURSION 23 00 STEERAGE 10 <3 PASSAGE TO BOSTON. CABIN S3O 00 EXCURSION 32 00 STEERAGE 10 00 PASSAGE TO PHILADELPHIA. (via New York). CABIN ~..522 50 EXCURSION 30 00 STEERAGE 13 50 fPHE magnificent steamships of these lines X are appointed to sail as follows—standard time* TO NEW YORK. CITY OF SAVANNAH, Capt. F. Smith, FRI DAY, Sept. 3, at 6 p. m. TALLAHASSEE. Capt. W. H. Fisher, MON DAY, Sept. 5, at 7:30 A. M. CHATTAHOOCHEE. Capt. H C. Daggett, WEDNESDAY, Sept. 7, at 8:30 a. a. NACOOCIIEE, Capt. F. Kempton, FRIDAY, Sept. 9, at 9:30 a. M. TO BOSTON. CITY OF MACON, Capt. 11. C. Lewis, THURS DAY, Sept. 1, at 5:30 p. m. GATE CITY, Capt. E. R. Taylor, THURSDAY, Sept. 8, 9:80 a. m. TO PHILADELPHIA. [fob freight only.] JUNIATA, Capt. S. L. Askins, SATURDAY, Sept. 3, at 7 a. m. DESSOUG, Capt. N. F. Howes, SATURDAY, Sept. 10. at 11 a. m. Through bills of lading given to Eastern and Northwestern points and to ports of the United Kingdom and the Continent. For freight or passage apply to C. G. ANDERSON, Agent,, City Exchange Building. Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Com’y. For* Baltimore. CABIN jv.*lß 50 SECOND CABIN 10 00 •JUTE STEAMSHIPS of this Company are ap~ I pointed to sail from Savannah for Balti more as follows—city time: WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Ss-ow, MONDAY, Sept. 5, at 9 A. M. WM. CRANE. Capt. Billups, SATURDAY, Sept. 10, at 12:30 p. m. WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. S.vow, THURSDAY, Sept. 15, at 5 p. M. WM. CRANE, Capt. Billups, TUESDAY, Sept 20, at 9 a. M. And from Baltimore on the days above named at 8 p m. Through bills lading given to all points West, all the manufacturing towns in New England, and to ports of the United Kingdom and the Continent. JAS. B. WEST & CO.. Agents, 114 Bay street. SEA ISLAND ROU TK. STEAMER DAVID CLARK, Capt. M. P. USINA, Y\7ILL LEAVE Savannah from wharf foot of m Ijncoln street for DO BOY, DARIEN, BRUNSWICK and FERNANDINA. every TUES DAY and FRIDAY at (5 p. m.. city time, con necting at Savannah with New York. Philadel phia, Boston and Baltimore steamers, at Fer nandina with rail for Jacksonville and all points in Florida, and at Brunswick with steamer for Satilla river. No freight received after sp. m. on days of sailing. Freight not signed for 34 hours after arrival will be at risk or consignee. Tickets on wharf and boat, C. WILLIAMS, Agent. SEMI-WEEKLY LINE FOR COHEN’S BLUFF AND WAY LANDINGS. THE steamer ETHEL, Capt. W. T. Gibson,will leave for above MONDAYS and THURS DAY'S at 6 o’clock p. m. Returning arrive WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAY'S at 8 o’clock p. m. For Information, etc., apply to Y\ . T. GIBSON, Manager. Wharf foot of Drayton street. For Augusta and Way Landings. ST lA \I KHt K ATI K, Capt. J. S. BEVILL, \l7 ILL leave EVERY WEDNESDAY at 10 m o’clock a. M. (city time; for Augusta and way landings. All freights payable by shippers. JOHN LAWTON, Manager, PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE. Tampa, Key West, Havana. HFMI-W!tEKI.Y. SOUTH BOUND. Lv Tampa Monday and Thursday 9::10 p. m. Ar Key West Tuesday and Friday 1 p. m. Ar Havana Wednesday and Saturday 6 a. m. NORTHBOUND. Lv Havana Wednesday and Saturday noon. Lv Key West Wednesday and Saturday 10 p.m. Ar Tampa Thursday and Sunday ti p, ni. Connecting at Tampa with W est India l ast Train to and from Northern and Eastern cities. For stateroom accommodations apply to City Ticket OmceH., F. A W Ky, Jacksonville, or Agent Plant Steamship Line. Tampa. C. D. OWENS, Traffic Manager. 11. S. HAINES, General Manager. May 1, 1887. Blufft* in and Beaufort Line Wharf Foot of Abercorn Street. SI MINGLE leaves for Biuffton, Beaufort and Way Loading* EVERY TUESDAY and FRIDAV •* o±. g, Al. A. hiF.GGU.iJt. RAILROADS. 'soil K D U LK CENTRAL RAILROAD. Savannah. Ga., Aug. 28, 1887. ON and after this date Passenger Trains will rim daily unless marked t, which are daily except Sunday. The standard time, by which these trains run is 3(5 minutes slower than Savannah city lime: ’ No. 1. No. 3. No. 5. NoTE Lv Savannah 7:10 am 8:20 pm 4:10 pm 5:40 pm Ar Guyton 8:07 am 8:40 pm Ar Mi Hon 9:10 am 11:03 pm 6:25 pm 8:45 pm Ar Augusta..t :" pm i : sam 9:20 pm Ar Macon 1:40 pm 3:20 am ”* Ar Atlanta.. 5:40 pm 7:15 am Ar Columbus. .9:30 pm 2:45 pm Ar Montg ry..7:25 am 7:13 pm Ar Eufaula.. .4:88 am 4:03 pm ' Ar Albany . ..11:05 pm 2:45 pm [ ""* Train No. 9+ leaves Savannah 2:00 p. m ■ ar rives Guyton 3:55 p. m. Passengers for Sylvanla, WrightsviUe, Mil ledgevule and Eatonton should take 7:10 a m train. ” Passengers for Thomaston. Carrollton, Perrv 1-ort Games, Talbotton, Buena Vista, Blakely and Clayton should take the 8:20 p. m. train. No. 3. No. 1. No. 6. NoT’ Lv Augusta. 9:30 am 10:00 pm 6:00 am Lv Jlacon. ..10:35am 11:00pm Lv Atlanta.. 6:soam 7:lspm . . LvColumbus 11 :00pm 13:45pm Lv Montg’ry. 7:25 pm 7:40 am Lv Eufaula. .10:15 pm 10:49am Lv Albany.. 4:soam 11:55am * Lv Millen.... 2:28 pm 3:20 am 8:1 5 am 5:20 am Lv Guyton.. 4:03 pm s:osam 9:40 am 6:sßam Ar Savannah 5:00 pm 6:15 am 10:30 am 8:00 am Train No. 10+ leaves Guyton 3:10 p. m. ; arrives Savannah 4:25 p. m. Sleeping cars on all night trains between Sv vannah, Augusta, Jlacon and Atlanta, also Ma con and Columbus. Train No. 3, leaving Savannah at 8:20 p. m , will stop regularly at Guyton, but at no other point, to put off passengers between Savannah and Millen. Train No. 4 will stop on signal at stations be tween Millen and Savannah to take on passen gers for Savannah. Train No. 5 will stop on signal at stations be tween Savannah and Millen to take on paasen gers for Augusta or points on Augusta branch Train No. 6 will stop between Millen and Sa vannah to put off passengers from Augusta and points on Augusta branch. Connections at Savannah with Savannah. Florida and Western Railway for all points in Florida. Tickets for all points and sleeping car berth* on sale at City Office, No. 20 Bull street, and Depot Office 30 minutes before departure ol each train. J. C. SHAW. G. A. YVHITEHEAD, Ticket Agent. Gen. Pass. Agent. Savanna]], Florida & Western Railway. [All trains on this road are run by Central Standard Time.] TIME CARD IN EFFECT JUNE 19, 1887, X Passenger trains on this road will run daily as follows: YY’EST INDIA FAST MAIL. RKAD DOWN. REAP UF, 7:o6am Lv Savannah Ar 12:06 p ia 12:30 pm Lv Jacksonville Lv 7:00a m 4:4opm Lv Sanford Lv I:lsam 9:oopm Ar Tampa Lv 8:00 pn* PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE. SK’.J’St Mednes. and I A H T I Wed. and bat ami Havana.. I,v J- noo „ Pullman buffet cars to and from New York and Tampa. NEW ORLEANS EXPRESS. 7:06 ain Lv Savannah Ar 7:58 pra 8:42 am Lv Jesup Ar 6:16 pm 9:50 a m Ar .. Wayeross. Lv 5:06 p m 11:36 a m Ar Callahan L* 2:47 pn 12:00 noonAr Jacksonville Lv 2:06 p m ':00 a m_liv Jacksonville Ar 7:45 p m 10:15 a m Lv Wayeross Ar 4:40 pra 12914 p m Lv Valdosta Lv 2:56 pm 12:34 p m Lv Quitman Lv 2:28 pm 1:22 pin Ar Thomasvilie... Lv 1 :45 p m 3:35 pm Ar... Bainbridge Lv 11:25a n2 4:04 pm Ar Chattahoochee Lv 11:30am Pullman buffet cars to and from Jacksonville and New York, to and from Wayeross and Naif Orleans via Pensacola. EAST FLORIDA EXPRESS. I:3opm Lv Savannah Ar 12:06 pn* 3:20 pm Lv Jesup Lv 10:32 am 4:40 pm Ar Wayeross Lv 9:28 am 7:45 pm Ar Jacksonville Lv 7:00 a m 4:15 pm Lv. Jacksonville Ar 9:45 am 7:2opm Lv Wayeross Ar 6:35~a7m 8:81 P m Ar Dupont Lv 5:80 a m 3:25 pm Lv Lake CityTT.. Ar 10:46 an* 3:45pm Lv Gainesviftj. Ar 10:30a ra 6:55 pm Lv Live Pag, Ar 7:loam 8:40 pm Lv Dupont Ar s:2saTn 10:55 pm Ar Thomasville Lv 3:25 am Albany Lv 1:25 am Pullman buffet cars to and from Jacksonville and St. Louis via Thomasville, Albany, Mont* gomery and Nashville. ALBANY' EXPRESS. 7:35 pin Lv Savannah Ar 6:10a m 10:05 pm Lv lesup Lv 3:15 am 7:20 ain Ar Atlanta Lv 7:05 pm 12:40a m Ar. . . . YVaycross Lr 12:10am 5:30 am Ar lacksonviilr; Lv 9:00 p m 0:00 p m Lv.. Jacksonville Ar 5:80 am I:osam Lv YVaycross Ar 11:30 p ra 2:3oam Ar Dupont Lv 10:05 p m 7:10 a m Ar Live Oak Lv 6:66 p m 10:30 ain Ar Gainesville Lv 8:45 pm 10:45 am Ar I,ake (Tty. ... .Lv 8:26 p m 2:55 am Lv Dupont .. .Ar 9:Bspm o:3oam Ar Thomasville Lv 7:oopra 11:40am Ar Albany Lv 4:oopm Stops at all regular stations. Pullman sleeping cam to and from Jacksonville and Sa vannah and to and from Savannah and Atlanta THOMASVILLE EXPRESS. 6:osam Lv Wayeross Ar 7:oopn* 10:25 a m Ar Thomasville Lv 2:15 p m Stops at all regular and flag stations. JESUP EXPRESS. 8:45 p m Lv Savannah Ar 8:30a m 6:lopm Ar Jesup Lv 5:25am Stops at ail regular and flag statia> CONNECTIONS. At Savannah for Charleston at 6:45 am, far rive Augusta via Y’emassee at 12:30 p m), 12:2* P m and 8:23 pm; for Augusta and Atlanta at i :00 am, 5:15 pin and 8:20 pm; with steamship* for New York Sunday. Tuesday and Friday; for Boston Thursday; for Baltimore every Illtnday. At JESUP for Brunswick at 3:30 a m and 3:15 pm; for Macon and Atlunta 10:30 a m and 11:07 p ni. At WAYCROSS for Brunswick at 10:00 a mend 5:05 p til. At CALLAHAN for Fernandlnaat 2:47 pm; for Waldo, ('edar Key, Ocala, etc , at 11:27 am. At LIVE OAK for Jladlson, Tallahassee, etc., at 10:58 a m and 7:30 p m. At GAINESVILLE for Ocala, Tavares, Brook* ville and Tampa at 10:56 a m. At ALBANY for Atlanta, Macon, Montgom ery, Mobile, New Orleans, Nashville, etc. At CHATTA HOOCHEE for Pensacola, Mobil*, New Orleans at 4:14 p ni. Tickets sold and sleeping car berths secured at BREN’S Ticket Office, and at the Passenger Station. WM. P. HARDEE, Gen. Pass. Agent. R. G. FLEMING Superintendent. Charleston & Savannah Railway Cos. C+oNNEt’TIONS made at Savannah with Sa vannah, Florida and Western Railway. Trains leave and arrive at Savannah by stand ard time (90th meridian), which is 30 minute* slower than city time. NORTHWARD. No. 14* 38 + 66* 78* Lv Sav'h . 12:26 p m 4:00 p m 6:45 a m B:Si piu Ar Augusta 12:80pm A r Beaufort 6:08 p m 10:1.3 a in Ar r. Royal 6.20 p m 10:80 am Ar Al’dalc. 7:40 pin B:lspm 10:20 a Ar Cha stun 4:48 p in 9:20 p ni 11:40 a ni 1:25 a m SOUTHWARD. 31* 3.5* 27* LvCha ston 7:loam 3:3.3 p m 4:00 a m Lv Augusta 12:85 pm Lv Al'uale. 5:10 a m 3:07 pm Lv P. Royal. 7:ooam 2:oopm Lv Beaufort 7:13 a in 2:15 pm Ar .Sav’h,. 10:15 am 6:68 pni 6:41 aIU ♦Daily between Savannah and Charleston. +Btiiidays only. Train No. 78 makes no connection with Port Royal and Augusta ltuilwuy, and stops only at i’J.igelan I, U'eon Pond and Bavenol. Train 14 htiijis only at Y'enmasee and Green Pond, and eonnot u fur Boauiort and Port Royal dally, and ler Allendale dully, except Sunday. Trains 35 and 66 connect from and for Beaufort and Port RoyuDlrdly. l or tiei.eG. ( looping inr resorts) inoa and all ol(i, i rileru alioti api ly to 3VM. BREN Special Ticket A-'.oni. 22 Bull slie*>t, and at (xiarie.ilou ami Savannah rail, ay ticket effios, si Savannah, Honda ant Wreiern Rallwof dm-a. - C. tt. GADbDEN. bupk