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A TYPICAL FRENCH DUELIST. Conscientious Scruples About Insult- j Ins? a Creditor and Their Result. Several years ago, writes Auguste Ville- I mot. we were supping, after midnight, at ! the Vaudeville coffee house Among those present wore Bouft'o, t he lessee and manager of iho Vaudeville Theatre; Briffaut, the journalist; Dr. Lallomnnd, who was the proprietor of the Passage Radziwill; an old notary of the name of Dubois; Armahd Marrast, then a writer on the staff of the Tribniu•: an old Sheriff's officer called Mou ton, and Chop mart. The latter had, as usual, grown tender over the fate of the Princes j belonging to the elder line, and Mouton, the 5 Sheriff's officer, whose political sympathies inclined toward the republic, went so far as to say that Charles X. was an old idiot. At this Choquart, pale with rage, rose from his seat and said to Mouton: “I have takon an oath to slap the face of any man who insults my King. I shall now, therefore, slap yours.’’ The situation was exceedingly grave and everybody felt dreadfully uncomfortable. Choquart suddenly stopped short and said: "Dear me! I own Mouton a louis and can not strike him without first reimbursing the money. It would be ungentlemanly in me to act otherwise. Briffaut, lend me a louis, wilt you, that I may slap Mouton’s face?” ‘‘l nave 110 change,” answered Briffaut. “Bouffe, quick, lend me a louis, that I may cuff Moutoa’s ears!” “My dear Choquart,” replied Bouffe, “I shall only be too happy to lend vou four times the amount outside of this place, but I cannot lend you a louis for the purpose you mention." At that moment I entered the coffee house. “Ah! here comes Villemot,” exclaimed Choquart, and bounding toward mo ho said hurriedly, “Lend me a louis. Quick! I want to box Mouton’s ears, and delicacy re quires that I should first give back the louis I owe him.” I was at a loss to make out what he meant. “Don’t lend it, don't lend it!” cried out the-.*' who wore present. At that tim9 of life, especially, I had a strong reluctance to lend a louis, so I drew back. The most amusing part of the story is that Bouffe persuaded Mouton to believe that he was no longer in safety. “A louis, you see, is no large sum,” said Bouffe; “Choquart is bound to have a spare one some day, and he will carry out his threat. If I were you I should lend him do louis; he’ll never be able to give back so large a sum and you are safe for the rest of your life.” So, after supper Mouton offered to lend Choquart 30 louis, who was dumbfounded at the proposal He saw the danger, but danger had special attractions for him. He pocketed the gold pieces and said to Mouton as he did so: “Never mind; we are notauits yet. The first time I receive my pension you shall get vour ears boxed all the same.” Choquart, however, was never able to command so fabulous a sum as 20 louis at any one time nor to wreak righteous ven geance on the offender who insulted his King. VOLTAIRE, THE EMANCIPATOR. A Page of Priestcraft Recalled by the Unveiiing of a Statue. From the Manchester Guardian. A statue of Voltaire was recently un veiled at St. Claude, the pretty town moun tain locked in the French Jura. The in habitants are all Voltaireans, and this is what their saint did for them. The valley in which St. Claude is situated contained, in 1770, a population of 12,000, completely mountained out from the world. They were serfs, owned by the Benedictine monks, by a treaty alleged to have been granted by obsolete Popes and allegorical Kings. The inhabitants assorted that the monarchical title deeds had been forged. In 1770 the original charter of the peasants was acci dentally discovered and a suit ws instituted to eject the wealthy and powerful Benedic tines. Dr. Christin pleaded the legal side and Voltaire held the monks up to scorn for their oppressive cruelties towards their 12,000 serfs. This was the only part of France where the secular yoke of the church ruled. Voltaire drew the attention of Louis XV. to the fact that their petitions to his majesty had been unheeded. “Your ancestor St. Lou is,” he said to the King of France, “went to the East toemnn cipate Christian slaves while there were 12,000 in bondage in France; the church sent missionaries to Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria to rescue Christians from Moham medan pirates, while no mercy messenger was delegate! Ito Saint Claude.” The land agents ot the monks indulged in the juris prudence of the Goths and Huns. On the death ot a husband tho widows and orphans were ejected and their goods and chattels wld to pay doctors, apothecaries and cleri cal fees; the children wore beaten into cyip p’.es if they murmured; the parents, were not allowed to possess arms to defend them selves against the wolves, so that often they had to assist at these animals devouring their children under their eyes. The butcher declined to give credit for meat, the baker for bread and the draper for cloth, because the serf’s property was claimed hy the monks as the legal hqjrs. If a serf died in debt, alter he was interred he was exhumed, his hand cut off—hence “mort-main”- -and pa raded as an example to the living not to de prive tho monks of tneir expectations. Again, if a girl, on being married, did not pass the bridr.l night under her father’s roof, but preferred to go to her new home, she became forever disqualified to inherit any parental property. A stranger if he resided one year and a day in the valley became a serf, and by the right of pursuit the monks claimed on his death all his in heritance, no matter where situated. Voltaire, in his La Voir du Cure, set forth all these wrongs in thoughts that breathed and words tnat burned; he gave the names of these serfs, victims of these oppressions, and in 1771 tho serfs won their emancipation. HOW A SIOUX DIES. The Strange Sight That a Traveler Saw in a Lonely Tepee. Corresponds nee of the WmkingtoH Star. In 1881 I was hunting some lost horses in the broken country west of the Big Horn river. I hail ridden nil the morning over a country that wns strange to me. About 11 o'clock I crossed a plateau, and wns sur prised to come suddenly to the edge of a canon, the existence of wnichl had not even suspected. In the canon was a stream with clumps of cottonwood timber along its banks, and in one of the open spores was an 1 ndian lodge. The Indians that hunted in that country wore peaceable, but the war war, just over, and the Sioux were feeling rather sore. It they were Crown or Arapa lioes I might get some information ulxuit my horses. 1 lay down and watched, No smoko capie from the tepee; no one moved around it; half a dozen ponies grazed a few hundred yards distant. Time was not even a dog, which looked rather suspicious. After waiting iivo minutes I knew no more than at lirst. Suddenly throe whfte tail deer came from ti e timber and walked leisurely across the opening. Then I knew that the camp was deSßideu, and the strange ness of it startled me. I mounted ami rode down to tue creek, and straight to the tepee. J threw back tlie flop, and l shall remember " hat 1 saw until death. In the centre of the tepee was sprpud a buffalo robe, and oil tlw robe wore guns nisi m-hljis hisl many arrows: and there was also food done up ns f r a journey; and, sitting cross-legged 111 a circle aromul the robe, ware sis braves of the Nmux Nniiou. All were in their prime --all decked out in war jwunt, and trioh one held a bow iiud arrow in ids hand. On every fain was an esprewsiou of cairn m didtraiw. a of one who iieltlu-r miffer* nor enjoys, neither lio|irs nor fears The fanes "cm these of detwj tush, and Ih*-•iiwllf l ”* had marked them with its awful mark. Tlwy to><k tlieo iiiuwiy With tie*)l Iwwla uti. and even Urn nuiTois ,f tins dhM.lcould leave u |ui their liuaila IS> Main of tier. U|sm tlteir hr-w mo murk of u'Taring. And tills tlusi Uuyr (iud might judge them men. •.1 /.i H.-m i . ~, 11 ■ i, lle ir • Mine m the tnms aawf giuvu Sold* of I'aeiWt The Best Way of Destroying a Railroad Gen. Slocum, in his account of Sherman’s march through the Carolinas, in the On tunj for October, touches upon the burning of Columbia, which he surmises was due to the too free use of whisky, and the respon sibility of which should not be charged to Sherman. In his article he gives these suc cinct directions as to the destruction of a railroad in time of war: “A knowledge of the art of building rail roads is certainly of more value to a coun try than that of the best means of destroy ing them; hut at this particular time the destruction seemed necessary, and the time may again come when such work will be necessary. Lest the most effectual and ex peditious method of destroying railroad tracks should become one of tho lost arts, I will here give a few rules for the guidance of officers who may ip future be charged with this important duty. It should be re membered that these rules are the result of long experience and close observation. A detail of men to do the work should be made on the evening before operations are to com mence. Tho number to be detailed being, of course, dej>endent upon the amount of werk to be done, I estimate that one thou sand men can easily destroy about five miles of track per day, and do it thoroughly. Be fore going out in the morning the men should be supplied with a good breakfast, for it has been discovered that soldiers are more efficient at this work, as well as on the battlefield, when their stomachs are full than when they are empty. The question as to the food to bo given tho men for break fast is not important, but I suggest roast turkeys, chickens, fresh eggs and coffee,.for the reason that in an enemy's country such a breakfast will cause no unpleasantness lie tween the commissary and the soldiers, inasmuch as the commissary will only lie required to provide the coffee. In fact, it has been discovered that an army moving through a hostile but fertile country, having an efficient corps of foragers (vulgarly known in our army as bummers), requires but few articles of food, such as hard tack, coffee, salt, pepper and sugar. Your detail should be divided into three sections of about equal numbers. I will suppose the detail to con sist of three thousand men. The first thing to he done is to reverse the relative positions of the ties and iron rails, placing the ties up and the rails under them. To do this, Sec tion No. 1, consisting of one thousand men, is distributed along one side of the track, one man at tiie end of each tic. At a given signal each man seizes a tie, lifts it gently till it assumes a vertical position, and then at another signal pushes it forward so that when it falls the ties will be over the rails. Then each man loosens his tie from the rail. This done, Section No. 1 moves forward to another portion of the road, and Section No. 2 advances and is distributed along the portion of the road recently occupied by Section No. 1. Tho duty of the second sec tion is to collect the ties," place them in piles of about thirty ties each —place the rails on top of these piles, the eentro of each rail being over the centre of the pile, and then set fire to the ties. Section No. 2 then fol lows No. 1. As soon as tho rails are suffi ciently heated, Section No. a takes tne place of No. 2, and upon this devolves the most important duty, viz.: the effectual destruc tion of the rail. This section should be in command of an efficient officer, who will see that the work is not slighted. Unless closely watched soldiers will content them selves with simply bending the rails around trees. This should never oe permitted. A rail which is simply bent can easily be re stored to its original shape. No rail should be regarded as properly treated till it has assumed the shape of a doughnut; it must not only be bent but twisted. To do the twisting Poe’s railroad hooks are necessary, for it has been found that the soldiers will not seize the hot iron bare handed. This, however, is the only thing looking toward the destruction of’property which 1 ever knew a man in Sherman’s army to decline doing. With Poe’s hooks a douiile twist can be given to a rail which precludes all hope of restoring it to its former shajie except by recasting.’’ He Suffered From the Drought. . From the Detroit Free Press. On the ever glorious Fourth, a confiding shopkeeper, on Michigan Grand avenue, mixed up a tub full of lemonade and took his seat behind it, with tho exclamation to the public: “Nice, cool lemonade and the old-fash ioned tin dipper! Come and drink all you can hold for oc!” He was speedily patronized, but the tenth or eleventh man who came up was a negro. He was built with a basement and bay window, and he had a mouth on him which would take in Billy Kersand’s whole head. “How much for five cents j” he carelessly inquired. “All you want.” “No chokin’ off ?” “No, sir. Pick up the dippar and drink away.” The stranger put down his nickel and took off his hat and drank a full quart. Then lie uttered a long-drawn “y-u-m!” and took off his coat and got away with two more dippers. “Hain’t you about full?” anxiously in quired the owner of the tub. “Purty full, but not quite, sail.” Off went the vest and the dipper was filled and emptied three times, with only a breath between* “Say! you’ve got away with a whole gallon!” called the lenionads man as a tnunder-cloud worked along his brow. “I specks I hev, but dar’ was to be no chokin off. All dese gem’len heard de bar gain.” , Ho sat down on a barrel, removed his shoes, crossed his legs, and it did seem as if he imbibed another gallon before he lot up long enough to remark: “Does seem powerful good to hev Fo’th of July come again." “Say, man, do you proposo to empty tho tub f 1 ’ “Can’t say, sah. Reckon I’ll put in about an hour mo' heali.” “Are you a hog ora man?" “A man moos’ alius, but when I strike a snap like dis I kin drap a few pegs. Please stir updat mixture, fur I’m awful dry again!” “I’ll be hanged if I do! How much to quiti” “Fifty cents, sab.” “I’ll give you thirty.” The negro swallowed another pint, ex plained that he ha 1 been dry for six weeks, and he finally took 30c., six pieces of lemon and a chunk of ico and agreed to haul off, saying to the crowd; “Gem’len I reckon I’ze got to fill up de rest of do space wid cl’ar water, an’ if any of you kin tell me whar’ dnr’ is a hydrant open I shall ho greatly obleeged.” Once the Major Didn’t Match. From the Aeiv York Sun. “Major Bluffkin, tho matcher,” hi* friends call him. and lie is almost as much devoted to the delights of matching coins as was the late John T. Raymond. He stood at the bar, having iloatcd in to get a cocktail and change a lull. He got a silver dollar in the change and it was yet in his hand, when a voice at his olbow in the usual terms soli cited “A little help, please, General.” The lull-keeper was about to run the tramp out when the M*!or said; “Hold on, I will gjvo him a chance.” He, spun tho dollar on the liai- and slapped hi* hand down over it. “Heads, I win; tails, it goes to you,” said be lienignuntly to the tramp. Tile latter’* Interna scarce) vexi’wded that hy tlie Major and tho bartender ns the hand was raised and tho spread eagle that is op |smite the bond on tiMSM piece* vumiiibdoseil. A* t lie coin di-oppeil into the extondi-d flat, of the m<-icy tramp the Major waMurtoumb-d at the proposition: “I'll go you again, this ilullai agin another mm." And now It is of i-issinl Pint the Major has wtuailv refused uii iliviLutuui fi> motiil Klin*, lilit tlie tramp still cjulclusi tlw doiiar wls-ii lie found him seif a iiuHiient later oo tlw sidewalk At tiw HanwU Hous*, hsmiMli, fit., vim got sii ttis <*eufofte of tiw iusliffton ho oU. uiel save fro* 1 to|< parday Try , it and l igwvuMMuL—Boston Uum Jor- I Mi ' THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 3ft, 1887. EDUCATIONAL. SCHOOL FOR BOYS. OGLETHORPE BARRACKS. JOHN A. CP.OWTHER, Principal. CHAB. A. L. MASS IE, A. M„ Assistant. NT'EXT session begins Oct. Al. Careful and IN thorough instruction in ail the departments of a lies! -class preparatory school. Special attention to Mathematics and English Natural Philosophy, with apparatus Principal refers hv permission to following pat roas: Cant John Flannery, Oapt W (J. Raoul. Hev Thomas Boone, fir. Osceola Butler, 001. C. D. Owens, C'apt James 11. West, Col. H. M. Crane. Messrs George C. Freeman. W. K. Ouerard, A S Bacon, and \\ W. Chisholm. Catalogues at offices of Morning News, Unity Times, at EstilFs News liepot, Butler's, Strong's and Thornton's drug stores. For further information address the PRINCIPAL, Savannah, Ga. The Savannah Academy • i Will open its Nineteenth Annual Session on MONDAY, the 3d of October. Instruction given in Ancient and Modern Languages, Mathematics and English. Catalogues at all of the book stoics. Office hours from Ba. m. to 5 p. m., commenc ing the 26th. JOHN TALIAFERRO, Principal. CHARLES W. BAIN, Fniv.Va.,Ell’s! Assistant. University of Georgia. P. B. MELLM, Lift, Chancellor. THE 87th session of the Departments at Ath ens will begin Wednesday, October 5, 1887. TUITION FREE, except in Law Department. LAMAR COBB, Secretary Board of Trustees. WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE, Macon, Ga. THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL SESSION BEGINS OCT. 5, 1887. Location beautiful. Life home-like. Eduoa tion thorough. Health, Manners and Morals carefully guarded. The best instruction in Literature, Music, Sci ence and Art. 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TO-DAY, 500 dozen Felt Hats, in all the new shapes and colors, at 35 cents. S. KROUSKOFFS MAMMOTH MILLINERY HOUSE, BROUGHTON ST. FURNITURE, CARPETS, MATTING, ETC. E. & E. Enterprise and Energy Will Tell, and that Accounts for the Steady Increase in Business —at the— MAMMOTH STOIUES LINDSAY & MORGAN, 169 and 171 Broughton Street Call and see their magnificent display of Furniture and Carpets. . Having an experienced buyer for each department of our business we tliinK we can secure for our customers bargains, and keep up with the changes in style. Neither trouble nor expense spared to plcass our patrons. of workmanship and very low prices. LINDSAY & MORGAN. TRUNKS AND SHOES. jew Quarter Shoes at Cost In order to make room for our Large Fall Stock, which will soon be coming in, we have concluded to make a rushing sale of the balance of our stock of GENTS’FINE LOW QUARTER SHOES. We have sold our stock of these goods down closer this season than we have for years past, and being determined not to carry any over to next year, we offer to close them out AT MANUFACTURERS’ COST. Remember the old saying, “the early bird catches the worm,” so don’t wait until the best lots are gone. JOS. ROSENHEIM & CO., 185 BROUGHTON STREET. J AS. S. SILVA & SON LITHOGRAPHY. THE LARGEST LITHOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT IN THE SOUTH. T HE Morning News Steam Printing House SAVANNA 11. GEORG IA. THIS WELL KNOWN ESTABLISHMENT HAS A Lithographing and Engraving Department which is complete within itself, and tho largest concern of the kind In tho South. It la thoroughly equipped, having five presses, and all the latest mechanical appliances In toe art. the iMdit of arti.-as and the most skillful lithog raphers. all under the management of an experienced superintendent. It also has the advantage of being a part of a well equipped print lug and binding house, provided with every thing necessary to handle orders promptly, carefully and economically. Corporations, manufacturers, bunks and bankers, mer chant.! and other business men who are about placing orders, are solicited to give this house an opportunity to figure on their work, when orders are of sufficient mag nitude to warrant it, a special agent will tie sent to make estimates. . J, H. ESTILL. OFFICIAL. ORDINANCE. ” An Ordinance concerning the width of the sidewalk on Congress street, between Drayton anil West, Broad streets Ski tion 1. He it ordained hy the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the sidewalk on the south side of Congress street. in the city of Savannah, be t ween Drayton anil West Broad streets.is hereby required to lie of the uniform width of eight feet mid six inches, and on the north side of said Congress street, between Bull and West Broad streets, of tho uniform width of seven feet and six inches, Sec. 2. That if the owner or owners of any property on either side of the said Congress street, Ilet ween Drayton and West Broad street, shall fail to make the sidewalk in front of the property of such owner or owners of the width herein required, the city shall proceed to do so, after the lapse of thirty days from t lie time of notice of the requirement, of this ordinance given to sueli owner or owners, which notice shall he given by the Marshal of said city. Sec. 8. That in the event the city shall pro oeed to do the work as provided in the preced ing section, said work shall be done at, the ex- Ilease and cost of such owner or owners, in the evr nt a bill therefore shall remain unpaid ten days after it* presentation to such owner or on nors, tlieu said bill for said cost and expenses shall lie turned over to the City Treasurer, who shall issuo an execution for its collection, to gether with all costs, against said owner or owners and the abutting property, which execu tion shall ho levied and made in the mauner ixilntcd out liy law fur the levy and making of the tax executions issued for taxes due the city of Savannah. Sec. 4. That all ordinances and parts of or dinances In conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed In Council Sept, 7, 1887. RUFUS E. LUSTER, Mayor. Attest : Frank K. Kkhaiikk. Clerk of Council. ORDINANCE. An ordinance to provide for the paving, grad ing and otherwise improving Bull street, from the south side of State street to the south side of Congress street, in tho city of Savannah, and for the assessment on the property front - Ing on said Bull street, between the south side of State street, and the south side of Congress street, of two-thirds of the cost thereof. Whereas. The persons owning more than one half of the real estate in the city of Savannah, fronting on Bull street, between the south side of State street and the south side of Congress street, in suid city, have petitioned the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah,, by pe tit ion tiled May 18th. 1887, to pave, grade and otherwise improve suid portion of Bull street, and Whereas the petition of the said parties has been approved by a two-thirds vote of the said the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savan nah at a regular meeting of Council. Now. therefore the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, do hereby ordain Section 1. That the Committee on Streets and Lanes lie and it is hereby authorized and di rected to have Bull street f'-nm the south side of State street, to the south side of Congress street —the entire width of the street between the curb stones, graded and paved with sheet asphalt, and have proper side drains, cross drains anti crossings plans! in said strix-t between the points named, and also to place such new curbs ami curbing between said points as may tie In the judgment of said committee proper and ad visable. Sec. *2. After the total cost of said work shall have Is-eii ascertained, one third of such cost shall Ist |><ii<l out of the city treasury, and the other two-thirds hy the is-rsons owning real estate fronting on said Bull street, from the south side of State street to the south side Con gress street; that is to say, one-third thereof from the owners on each side of said street at the date of the passage of this ordinance, ac cording to the frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of said work is hereby assessed against such real estate and its owners as afore said; and if such assessment is not paid within ten days after presentation of a hill for the same, the amount of such hill shall be furnished by the Committee on Street* and lanes to the City Treasurer, who sliull immediately issue execution for the amount against the person and property as aforesaid, and place the aame in the hands of the Marshal, who shall levy the same on the property described In the execution, and after advertisement and other proceeding! as In eases of sales for city taxes, sliull sell such property lal the time, place and In the manner provided by law for city tax sales) at public outcry to the highest bidder, ami such sales shall vest an ale solute title in the purchaser; and the amount of the execution and costs shall go into the City Treasury and the remainder tie paid to the owner or held subject to kueh owner's order. Sec. 3. All ordinances and parts of ordinances conflicting with this ordinance are hereby re pealed. Ordinance passed In Council Sept. 21, 1887. RUFUS E. LESTER, Mayor. Attest: Frank E. Rebareh, Clerk of Council. ORDINANCE. An ordinance concerning appointments to the police force of the city of savannah, the pen sioning of disabled members thereof, and for other purposes connected with the said police force. Rection 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That no )>erson shall ever he ap |xiinted or re-appointed to membership In the police force of the city of Savannah, or continue to bold mcmltershlp therein, who is not a citizen of the Uuited States and a resident of the State of Georgia for at least one year next preceding his appointment, or who has been convicted of crime in tills State or elsewhere, or who cannot read anil write understandingly in the English language. Sec. 2. That no person shall lie appointed a policeman of tlie said city who shall ho at the date of such appointment over thirty-live <3A) years of age. Skc. 8. That any tnemlier of the said police force who has or shall have performed duty therein for a continuous period <if thirty years or upwards shall, upon the certificate of the Surgeon of i’olice, concurred in by Council, that such member is |x*rmanently disabled, physic ally or mentally, so as to be unfit for duty, lie placed on the retired roll, and shall receive an annual pension from the treasiuw of the city of Savannah during his lifetime or a sum of not less than one half of the full salary or oompena*- tion of such members so ret ired. Sec. 4. That any member of the said police force who has or shall have performed duty therein for a continuous period of twenty years or upwards and less tliun thirty years shall, upon the certificate of the Surgeon of Police, concurred in by Council, tiiat such tnemlier is permanently disabled, physically or mentally, so as to lie unfit for duty, lx* placet! on the re tired roll, and shall receive an annual pension during his lifetime of a sum not less than one third of the full sulary or compensation of such memlier so retired. Skc. A. That In determining the term of ser vice of any member of said |xjllce force no ser vice rendered prior to tlie organization of the present police force on tlie first day of Novem ber, 180.1, shall be counted. Sec. 8. That every member of said police force who dies in service from natural causes, shall Ixi buried at the expense, not to ex ceed flfty (SBO 00) dollars, of the said city at Sa vannah. and the dn|iendeiit family of such mem ber sliall receive his monthly salary for three months after his death. Every mem ber of said force who is killed while in the discharge of his duty, or dies from the effects of wounds received in the discharge of his duty, shall lie buried at tlie ex pense, not to exceed flfty dollars, of the said citv, ami the dependent family of such member shall receive his monthly salary for six months after his death. Sec. 7. Any member of said IVlce Force who may he permanently disabled bv reason of wounds received in tlie discharge of his duty,and thereby made unable to earn a support, may be placed on the retired list on one-haffpay. Sec. h. Tiiat all ordinances, and parts of ordi nnmes in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed In Council Sept. 21st, 1887. RUFUS E. LESTER, Mayor. Attest: Frank E. Kebaiieh. Clerk of Council. ORDINANCE Ordinance m<l the tirst 11 mo March M, IW, read a anrond time April . l*r, and laid on the table; read a third time Sept 81, IHH7, and panne 1: An iliitiitUN'K to provide for the naving, grading and otherwise improving of rVmgresa street between the cant side of Went Hroad street And the west side of I>rayton street, in the city of Havaunun, and for the ageeneuient on the iiroperty fronting pn said Congress ntreet between said cant tide of Went lfroiul ntreet and went side of Kraytou street of two-thirds of tlie cost thereof. Wnif.ar.An. The persona owning more titan one half of the real estate In the city of Buvan nah !tontine on ( ongre** street, he!ween the east Hide of Wet Itroad street and the west aide of Kraytou street, in said elty, have petition-sl the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of .Satan nail to pave, grade and otherwise improve said |si lion of Congress street; and Whsmkas, Tue petition of said parties haa been approved by a Iwo thirds vote of the (Apt, the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Ha van nan. ut a regular meeting of Ouunetl, now, therefore, tile Mayor and Aldemiefl of tiwelty of Savor.uah In UutioriJ aaneinblad do barshy ordain' sacrum I Tltal the t 'on.nntte* on Ht re.ua and lAt ww In and It M heathy authorised to have t 'Wigrea. etnwU, lew Wse.i iluapt sole of west Hroad and the west st.la.g liaylonstrew ihemi tnr wail it of said street, leu wwwtt the* grl. auwesi, j aia.t.-t awd paved whit sheet asphalt awl be proper side patna, efaat dial ns and rnuMafs fda , <d ml sal I at real teawasu. the leant* named awl in ylsia new rarha and vie lunge heSws awd iwdata I OFFICIAL. Sec. 2. That thp City and Suburban Railway Company is hereby required to pave between the tracks of its road and for three feet on each side thereof where its track crosses Congress street, as the paving to be done on said street by the Committee on Streets and Lanes progresses, anil with ttie same material, ;uid should said railroad fail to commence said work and carry the same forward, the same shall be done for said company by said Committee on Streets and I nines, and the cost thereof, if not paid when a bill for the same is presented, collected by exe cution, levy atui sale of the said property at the said company, as provided hy law and ordi nance in the case of abutting property owners. Sec. 3. After the total cost of said works shall have been ascertained, exclusive of any work done for said street railroad company, oue third of such cost shall be paid out of the City Treasury, and the other ttwo thirds by the per sons owning rival estate fronting on said Con gress street between the east side of West Broad street and the west side of Drayton street; that is to say. one-third thereof by the ow tiers on each side of sail 1 street, at the date of the passage of this ordinance, according to frontage. Srfnl the pro rata amount of the cost of said work is hereby assessed against said real estate and Its owners as aforesaid. And if such assessment is not paid within ten days after presentation of a hill for the same the amount of such bill shall be furnished by the Committee on Streets and lours to the City Treasurer, who shall Immediately issue an execution for the amount against the person and property aforesaid, anil place the same in the hands of the Marshal, who shall levy the same on the property described in the execution, and after advertisement and other proceedings as in cases of sales fur city taxes, shall sell such property) at the time, place, and In the manner provided hy law for elty tax sales) at. public outcry to the highest bidder, and such sale shall vest mi absolute title in the purchaser, and the amount of the execution and cost shall go into the City Treasury, ami the remainder paid to the owner or be held subject to such owner - * order. Sec. 4,-All ordinance* and parts of ordi nances conflicting with the above are hereby re peated Ordinance iiassed in Council Sept. 21st, 1887. RUFUS E. LESTER. Mayor. Attest: Frank E. Rehahek, Clerk of Council. ORDINANCE? ’ An Ordinance to regulate signs in the city of Savannah. Section 1 Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council as sembled, Tiiat from and after the (mssage of this ordinance it shall Is* lawful to erect or put up signs in the city of Savannah upon iron or wooden lusts, provided such posts are securely and safety placed immediately within the curb ing of tne sidewalk, and in front of the place of business of the person or i>ersons using the same, that such |usts, if made of iron, shall tie not less tlinn two nor more than tea inches in diameter, and if of wood, not less than four nor more than ton inches in diameter, that such signs shall he aL least eight feet above the |>avenient or sidewalk and shall not be exceed ing four feet in width and live in height; and, provided further, that said signs shall tie His-urely and safely fastened to the said posts, ami t lint the erection of the said signs and poet* shall Is* under the direction and supervision of the City Surveyor. Sec. 2 Bo it further ordained. That it Rhall also be lawful from and after the passage of this ordinance to suspend signs from the sides of buildings In the city of savannah, provided such signs are securely and safely fastened to the sides of said buildings, at the place of busi ness of tho person or jiersoim using tile same, are at least eight feet above the sidewalk, and do not overhang said sidewalk exceeding three feet, and provid ed, also, that said signs shall he put up under the direction and su{srvlion of the City Sur veyor. Sec. 3. Be It further ordained. That from and after the passage of this ordinance it shall not be lawful to erect or put up any sign in the city of Savannah, save in full and strict con formity with all tho provisions of the preceding section of this ordinance. Hec. I. Be it further ordained. That all post* elected id tin* time of the passage of this ordi nance sustaining signs, if said [K>sts are not im mediately within the curbing, shall within thirty days from the |lassage of this ordinance, be securely and safely placed immediately within the said curbing: and all sigus which, at the time of the passage of this ordinance, are lower than eight feet, or aro on awning frames shall within thirty days from the passage of tills ordinance lx* securely ami safely placed at least eight, feet above the sidewalk or street, ami he removed from said awning frames. Rec. A. He it further ordained, That it shall not be lawful to erect or put up in the city of Savannah, or to continue erected, or to have or use, any sign that, is unsafe or dangerous to life, limb, |ierson or projierty, no matter how said sign may have been originally constructed or erected. Should any sign now erected, or which may hereafter be erected, be or become unsafe oi* dangerous, within the meaning of this section, the |xrson or Demons owning or using such signs shall be notified of this fact by the City Marshal, and it shall thereupon become tho dqty of sueli person or persons to forth with make the said sign secure and safe, or to remove the same. Sec. tl Be it further ordained. That should any sign Ixi abandoned or disused the same may Ixt removed at the discretion and upon the direction of the Committee on Streets and Lanes, and at the expense of the person or per sons so abandoning or last using the said sign. Sk.c. 7. Be It further ordaiued, That any per son violating the provisions of the preceding sect inns, or any of said provisions, shall, upon conviction before the Police Court, of the city of Savannah, be fined hy the mid court in a sum not excelling fifty dollars and in addition to this the sign found to be in violation of this ordi nance, or of any ixirt thereof, shall be removed by the City Marshal at the expense of the said person so convicted, which removal shall be directed and required In the Judgment of said court convicting the party accused. Szc. 8. Be it further ordained, That the city of Savannali reserves full and entire jiolice cuntrol over all signs erected, or which may be erected, their location, use and continuance, in so far tiiat no vested right shall accrue to any person or personx because of the erection of said signs, as against the said city of Savannah, touching the said signs or any matter or thing connected therewith Sec. H. Be It further ordained, That so much of the ordinance approved April 24, 1872 (to he found on pages 181 add 1115 of Rebarer’s Digest of city ordinances as relates to signs, and sec tion tour of the ordinance approved March 12, 1873 to be found on pages 18 and ID of Kebnr er’s Digest), which said section four also relates to signs and all ordinances and parts of ordi nances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance {Hissed in Council Sept. 21, 1887. RUFUS E. LESTER. Mayor. Attest: Frank E. Rebarku, Clerk of CounciL QUARANTINE .NOTICE. Office Health Officer, 1 Savannah, Ua., Aug. 22, 1887. f From and after this date, the city ordinaneo which s(ieciflc* the (Quarantine requirements to be observed at. the port of Savannah, Ga., will be most rigidly enforced. Mereliauts ami aii other parties Interested will lie supplied with printed copies of the Quar antine Ordinance upon application to ofllce of Health < Ifticer, and are requested to keep copy of this publication. From and alter this date and until further no tice all steamships and vessels from or having touched at South America. Central America, Mexico, tne West Indies. Italy.Sicily.Malta, Mar ■elites and the Guinea coast of Africa, direct, or via American ports, will be subjected to (Quaran tine detention and be treated as from infected or suspected ports or localities, viz.: .Section W, Quarantine Regulation*. (apiains of such vessels will have to remain at the (Quarantine Station until their vessels are relieved. All steamers and vessels from foreign port* not Included above, direct or via American ports, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise, will he required to remain in quarantine until boarded and passed by the (Quarantine Officer. Neither the cnptrrmx nor anyone on board of ruck vessels will be allowed to come to the city or land until the vessels are inspected and paused by the Quarantine Officer. As ports or lixiulit ies not herein enumerated are reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori ties, (Quarantine restrictions against same will be enforced without further publication. The quarantine regulation requiring the /tying of the Quarantine flail on veneris subjected to detention or inspection will be rigidly enforced. Notice in 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 the vessel is ordered to some other port ap|iears ujxin the face of the envelope. Tills order is made necessary in consequence of thr enormous hulk of dramming letters sent to tlie stat mu for vessels which are Li arrive. Ship chandlers are informed tiiat provisions In large quaniity cannot lie received at the Quarantine station, unless for vessels ordered from tlus |xirt, si.;l It must then be sent down by the tug Inal at the timo when vessel ta to be towed to sea J. T. MrFAHI.AND. M D . Health Gffiosr. ELRCTIttC UKLTB.' Kl< ric* He'll Freo. 'l'' iIN I it* iid '< Kit and <-twain Agents wa will I for tue twit sixty days give away, free at charge, in each county tn Ue> tulled dtates a itndiisi ti'unher of our Kerman Electro fialvathu n.iis-oeMy Hrlu is be, $A a tvdnvv and un fading coie he Nervous ISelHiiiy. Vartmasda, Mnasioui. iinpoteocy, Els' (t'sri reward paid if every Met* niMsfetigs dues not MMMMUii a sue..- elect re- .urn... AWdrwsa at isum gStjUb* Mtf AuZSCX t W. Ikm if* 5