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2 TRAPPED_AT LAST. AFTER TEN YEARS TWO MURDER ERS ARE TRACKED. Young: Stain Couldn’t Keep Quiet—He Confesses to the Detectives How His Father Slew Bank Treasurer Barron—‘‘My Son" Good God!” Piom the .Vet o York Herald. Needham. Mass . Oct. 13.—After ten /ears of waiting the secret of a great mur der mystery has come to light, and to night two gray-haired men are behind the liars in station No. 2 because the conscience of a young man away up in Augusta, Me., goaded him into a confession of his own father's guilt. It is a dramatic and start ling story, full of the old moral that innkder will out. It was about ten years ago that the Dexter Bank, of Maine, was plundered and Treas urer.!. W. Barron was found in the treasure vault gagged, bound and dying. His head was covered with ghastly wounds and his garments were saturated with blood. Mr. Barron died before he could tell the story of the crime. The whole country was in a roar of excitement instantly. Bank men shiv ered at the thought that any one of them might be the next victim. But iu Dexter there were some deep minded persons whose wagging tongues spread broadcast a suspicion that the faith ful treasurer had committed suicide in order to cover up financial irregularities. Soon the whole little community was in a wrangle over the mystery. Those who knew Mr. Barron declared that a frightful murder had been perpetrated. Those who did not know him shook their heads and shrugged tlieir shoulders. The detectives agreed that it was a murder. In time the excitement died out, the town folks ceased to quarrel over the case, and the Barron murd >r was almost forgotten. But so deep rooted was the suspicion against the dea l man that his widow and children were treated coldly by many. HIS CONSCIENCE COULD NOT HOLD IT. But the wheels of justice were moving al! these years. A young man in Augusta be gan to talk. He strug led to keep his lips closed, but conscience was too much for him. As the secrets of great crimes buret from their hiding places in the hearts of great cities, so the story of this cruel assassina tion found utterance in Augusta. The young man was uneasy in his bed at night. His secret haunted him in the day time. It dogged his steps and sat on the table when he ate. At last he communicated with the officers of the law, and to day the rope is made that will strangle the Dexter mur derers out of existence. THE PRISONERS. These two old men have for the past ten years been leading a rather checkered career which now lias come to a rather startling climax. The detectives took them to Boston from Needham at 7 o'clock to-night, and to morrow morning t hey start without a requi sition for Dexter, the scene of their alleged crime, to meet the widow of the murdeaed man ami Charles Francis Stain, who accuses his father of murder. Oliver C. Smith, alias Oliver Cromwell, is old and hoary headed, with jutting, shaggy eyebrows, knotty iron gray hair and a coarse, heavy beard. He looks weak physically and men tally, and the detectives believe that before morning he wilt wilt and confess what he knows about, tl., altar'. David L. Stain, his fellow p, isouer, on the contrary is sturdy and determined looking, and evi dently knows how to keep Ins mouth shut. Pi ecious little the officers have succeeded in g“ttlg out of him. The correspondent has followed every move made by the detectives since tiny came into this State, and is now able to give the readers an authentic ac count of tin- story of the movements of the detectives from the verv outset. On Feb. 22, US7B, tile Dexter Savings Bilik was robbed ami the body of Treasurer B irron found bound and gagged in the vault. Charles Francis Stain, of Augusta, Me., now a man of about iJO years, comes forward and confesses that Ins father and Oliver Cromwell murdered Barron, and that he heard them talk the whole matter over. THE ASSASSINS ENTER THE BANK. “While 1 waited with the team,at Bing ham. and next day at Solon,”*he says, “Cromwell and father went into Dexter and made a reconnoissauce of the bank. Andrews, Thompson and Keeiy had made impressions of all the outside and inside doors of the building, which contained both the national and savings banks, several private offices and a Masonic hall- in the top story. During the day the building was almost entirely deserted, and father and tho rest of the gang, by means of their skeleton keys, entered the building and made a tour of inspection. During the forenoon Biilv Scott entered the building by means of a skeleton key ar.d toon a po sitiou in the Masonic Hall in the top of the building, where he could watch those who came'in and out. of tli% building. While Scott was on watch in the Masonic Hall father and Cromwell were in an office which Andrews had taken right opposite the bank. He pretended to lie an agent for a Connecticut firm. Scott remained on watch all day in the Masonic Hall, and father, Cromwell and Andrews kept close in the latter’s office across the way. They saw a mail go into the building. Ho was an insurance agent who had an office there. In a short time this insurance man came out again and, as the\ supposed, everything was clear, in some way, however. Treas urer Barron had entered the building dur ing the day unobserved. “After the insurance agent left his office, father and Cromwell came down from An drews' bogus office across the street, let themselves into the bank building by their false keys and locked the door after them. They proceeded up stall's. Father produced a key, opened a door which led into the bank, and when they had entered, locked the door again. This was the outer room of the bank, and father walked through it to the door that enters the vault room. A HORRIBLE SCENE. “He put his hand to the kneb, opened the door ami suddenly stood face to fare with Treasurer Barron, who, at the same moment, had his hand on the knob on the other side, on his way hack from the coal closet, carrying a hod of coal in one hand and a fire shovel in the other. Instantly and without a word father pulled a-lung shot from his pocket and struck Mr. Barron on the right side of the face. Barron stag gered. und in another moment father struck him another blow with the slungshot on the top of the head and Barron fell to the floor. He was not, however, unconscious, and tried to rise, when father leaped forward and struck him a third blow, again on tile head. Cromwell then jumped forward, grasjied him by the throat, slung a noose around his neck and pulled it tight, while father forced a gag into the prostrate man’s mouth, and knotted it at the back of his head. The v then proceeded to handcuff his hands In tend his back, and laid tile handcuif key on the floor behind him. At this time lie was unconscions. Father took Barron's kev from his pocket and thrust them into his own pocket. Then Cromwell and father to gether lifted Barron, carried him into the vault and laid him on the floor. The gre.r iron door of one of the safes was open, but neither father nor Cromwell dared to make an examination of the contents of the vault. They hastily closed the door. Father drew Barron’s keys from his pocket and unlocked the money drawer in the front room of the bank. Ho gat he" 1 up what loose money there was there, hiAOUluiny to a little less than S2OO, and thrust a SSOO bond which which wus lying in the drawer into his pocket. THE ESCAPE. “At this moment Scott, who had been on watch In Masonic Hull above, hurried down stairs and knocked on tho door of the bank. Father and Cromwell bo .h together n-k<d, ‘What’s the matter Billy?’ He replied. ‘l'm afraid somethin.' is wrong: we had better g?t out of here.’ Father unlocked the door and tpld Scott that they had surprised Bar ron in the bank and had knocked him down and gagged tern. Scott sa:d immediately, ‘My God! boys, we've got to get out of this, and there’s no time to lose, either. His friends or somebody will be around here be fore long looking for him.’ Father and Cromwell passed down the main staircase, opened the front door with false keys, locked it after them and walked unconcernedly down the street. Scott let him self out of the back window of the building and joined the other two farther down t e street. Andrews joined the throe on tin street and secreted them somewhere in Dexter until after sundown. The three then came out of their hiding place and got into a wagon that was wait ing for them and were driven rapidly to Solon, arriving there about midnight. I didn’t arrive untill 4 o’clock with my team, in accordance with the orders given me by my father. Cromwell and Scott stayed at Sehleii Thompson’s hotel, at Solon, that night. I took father into my wagon at 4 o'clock and drove to North Anson. The next morning Cromwell and Scott took the early stage to North Anson and joined father and myself. I drove the three to Skowhegan. During the drive I heard the full history of the attempted robbery and the murder. “We did not know until we reached Skowhegan that the assault on Treasurer Barron had proved fatal. On arriving there my father bought a copy of the Daily lileyram, and there found the announce ment of the murder. The only thing my father said when he looked at tho paper was, ‘For God’s sake.boys, what’s to be done?' Scott and Cromwell seized the paper, and a glance at the headlines showed them w hat they had done. It was immedi ately agreed that the gang should,Separate. I drove the team to Gardiner, forty-two miles away, and when I reached home on the cars found the gang there.” THE HERALD TRACES THE STORV. Step by step the correspondent lias traced the statements made by young Stain, ami they are found to corroborate. For in stance, he told where the teams had been hired, and the correspondent found that the stablemen confirmed his statement. Then gain, he told where the keys to the vault f the bank were hidden in a certain stone wall in Franklin, in this State, and to-day the correspondent leaned that they had been fouud in the spot indicated, and that they are now in the possession of the detective. FINDING THE BANK KEYS. The man who actually found the keys in the wall isaF' ii klin farmer named Nel son. Nelson, in miking with the detectives to-day, stated that on three or four occa sions when he was at work tearing down the wall Cromwell came about and would casually ask if he had found anything. “What do you expect I shall find here in this old wall?” Nelson asked him. “Well, Stain has lost some of tho keys of his house, and I didn’t know but tiiat some of them hod been dropped in here.” Nelson says that when he did find the keys he said nothing to Cromwell about it, but of course never suspected anything wrong in connection with the affair. So far the Sheriff felt that young Stain's story was cor roborated, and he therefore felt justified in arresting the principals. Accordingly iu the afternoon of yesterday warrants were sworn out by him against Oliver Cromwell, of Walpole, and David L. Stain, of Frank lin, charging that on Feb. 22, 1878, they wil fully murdered Treasurer J. W. Barron. These warrants were Issued by Trial Justice Emery Grover, and tin.; morning Cromwell and Stain were arrested. Stain was taken from the shop where he was at work. In his coat pocket was found a bulidog revolv er loaded, and several cartridges in his pockets. Cromwell is altogether a different sort of man. When he was corralled he be came terribly frightened, and for a long time lie could not articulate a syllable so frightened was he. MV SON I GOOD GOD! Both men were taken before the trial Justice this afternoon and arraigned. Be fore called upon to plead they were told their rights in the premises and informed that they need not go to Maine without a requisition from the Governor of Maine. Stain was very brave and in talking with his captors asked where they got for all this information they seemed to have. “Your son lias confessed it all,” said Sheriff Mitchell. “My sonf cried Stain. “Good God! I haven’t heard from him in ten years! 1 sup posed lie was dead.” "It is my duty to tell you what you may expect and have a right to expect as your rights under the laws of Massachusetts,” sai 1 the Justice. “Stain says he will go to Maine without a requisition,” said the Sheriff. “Yes, 1 11 go,” reiterated Stain. “Will the other prisoner go of his own free will!” asked the Judge. “I won’t go.” said Cromwell. After a consultation with the detectives, however, he rescinded his decision and agreed to go hack to Dexter. That settled it. and all the Jus: ire ha 1 to do was to make out the papers, which the prisoners signed, waiving all claims to their rights under the laws of Massachusetts. TWO TOUGH MEN. The correspondent to-day made an exten sive investigation into the character of the two prisoners since they came into this State to reside. They arc tough birds, and have lieon frequently before the court in Needham. Slain is what i known in po lice parlance as a “fence.” Ho has on more t han one occasion been arrested on a charge of receiving stolen property, and if he had lmd a trial to-ilhy the men who had stolen the property would have been present to tes tify that they had more than once in talking with Stain aud Cromwell heard them say that they had “done jobs” in Dexter. On one occasion, when a quantity of jewelry had been stolen from a young lady tele graph operator in Needham, the property was traced to Stain’s house and some of it was found secreted in the leg of an old fashioned shoemaker’s bench. He was held for this offense in the sum of $l,OOO, and not finding sureties he went to jail and served his term of senteuce. At another time Cromwell was arrested and served three months’ sentence for the larceny of a quan - tity of corn, tiie property of Maj. John H. Gould, a member of the Republican State Committee. So quietly was the arrest made in Wal pole and jFranklin that no person there ever dreamed that the two men were being taken away to lie tried for their lives. At !) o'clock to morrow morning the officers and their prisoners start for Dexter. Stone-Scratching Posts. Letter to New York Journal of Commerce. 1 went by carriage from Penzance to the “jumping-off place” at Land’s End. It is a drive of eleven miles, with nothing of par ticular interest along tiio road, except ing the “Merry Maidens,'’ the "Blind Fiddler” and “Pipers.” These are the names popu larly given to tall, upright slabs of stone, the placing of which in the fields is attrib uted to the Druids. Their purpose aud date of their erection are matters of pure con jecture. In the center of every large pas turing tract may be seen a stone of smaller size, which nobody calls “ Druidical,” although in general appearance it would pass for a genuine antique. It is only a scratching-post humanely provided, within the times of living men, for the en joyment. of cows and sheep. Now suppose that 500 yeaiss hence all this land should cease to be pasturage and become tiie site of towns, and that a few of these scratching stones should survive the general trans formation of things, and that the knowl edge of their original function should lie lost. It is entirely conceivable that in such a case antiquaries might trace them to the Druids, it some hair or wool were found in crevices of such a stone —rubbed off by the animal in hisecstacy of scratching —it might lie claimed as sufficient pres if of the sacrificial object of the slab, to which the victim was tied up bv the Druids and slaughtered there. All of which teaches us to “go slow” iii interpreting the develop ments of antiquarian research***. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1887. FAST RUNNING. Cool Weather Puts Life in the Flyers at Jerome Park. New York, Oct. 14. — Cold and uncom fortable weather prevented the usual crowd from attending Jerome Park races to-day. The track was iti good shape, and the races fast and interesting. Following is a sum mary of the events: First Race Three-quarters of a mile Ktuy vesant von, with Mamie Hunt second and W il fred third. Time 1:17. second Rack Half a mile. Emperor of Nor folk won, with LeoH. second and Cascade third. Tune 0.49 W Third Rack— Three-quarters of a mile. Theo dosius won, with Ontario second aud Nita third. Time 1:17G. Fourth Race —Stile and one sixteenth. Rich mond won. with Stockton second and Eoliun third. Time 1:5134. Fifth Race—Five furlongs. Howland won, with Armstrong second and Skoblekoff third. Time 1:03. Sixth Race— Steeplechase over the short course. Wellington won. with Harborough sec ond and Hercules third. Time 3:15. Sea Foam and Alex T. fell, but neither horses nor jockeys were injured. AT LATONIA. Cincinnati, 0., Oct. 14.—This was the twelfth day of the Latonia Jockey Club’s meeting. Following is a summary of the events: First Race -Six furlongs. Galelir won, with Harodsburg second and False Alarm third. Time 1:15. Second Race— Five furlougs. Irinia H. won, with Julia Miller second aud Buckey third. Time 1:01*4 Third Race— Six turlongs. Liantlia won, with Kermese second und Quotation third. Time 1:17*4. Books paid 30 to I on Liantha. Fourth Race —One mile. Alfred won, with Gen. Hal! second and Governor third. Time 1:4414 Fifth Race— Mile and half a furlong. Gleaner won, wi: b Glen Fisher second and Alumo third. Time 1:50*4 _ THE DILLIARD FORTUNE. A Rich Windfall That Seems to be Hard to Find. Asheville IN. C.) Special to Charleston News and Courier. Quite an agreeable sensation was produced here some weeks ago )>y the announcement in the local papers that the two children of our fellow townsman, George IV. Dilliard, has been left each a legacy amounting in the aggregate to ovor $1,500,000. Mr. Dil liard decided to remove tiis children from Laurens, or Pickens. S. C., their present residence, to this city. As soon as this was determined upon two wealthy and prominent gentlemen of this city, after consultation with Mr. Dilliard, filed applications for letters of guardianship. Some incredulity existed in the minds of many in regard to the legacies. But the attorney for one of the applicants stated that he had given the matter an investiga tion and that there was no doubt about sl,t>oo,ooo lieing left to the two children by a rich uncle in California. Placerville was the town at which he was alleged to have lived and where he was reported to have died, and his name was James MeCurry. The Daily Citizen is in receipt of a letter from an attorney by the name of W. A. Curtis, of Rabun county, Georgia, where MeCurry’s relatives now live, stating that at the instance of these relatives he investi gated the matter, writing to the Clerk of the Court at Placerville, El Dorado county, California. He enclosed to the editors of the Citizen a copy of the letter received in reply. The purport of this letter is that the will of no such man has been presented for probate; that the Clerk has not heard of such person dying in his county, and that so far as he knows no party of that name lives there. The letter itself is not sent to the Citizen, hut only a copy, as stated. So that the whole matter, it seems, is yet in volved in doubt. A special dispatch in regard to this Me- Curry estate and the Billiards has gone out from Atlanta, purporting to give an ac curate and full account of the Billiard windfall, and stating, among other things, that George W. Billiard is an old planter in Rabun county, and that two of his sons re cently passed through that city en route to Placerville. Mr. Billiard is not old, not a fanner, and does not live in Rabun county. He has hut one son, who is only 14 years of age. The whole special, frequently repub lished in different Southern papers in the last week or so, reads like a romance, and is almost totally wanting ih truth in any of its statements. AN ORANGEMAN’S SIDE OP IT. Thomas Sinclair, of Belfast, Explains Why Ulstermen Oppose Home Rule. From the New York World. Thomas Sinclair, of Belfast, Ireland, who is Chairman of the Ulster Liberal Unionist Committee, delivered an address last night in the lecture room of Dr. John Hull’s church, at Fifth avenue and Fifty-fifth street, on Presbyterianism in Ireland. Mr. Sinclair was introduced by Dr. Hall, who said that during a sojourn in this country in 181 U and 18*5;! he was an attendant at his church, and therefore known to many of the congregation. Mr. Sinclair, after remarking in a pref atory way that he had been induced to ad dress the congregation only by the persua sive eloquence of Dr. Hall, said that the Irish Presbyterian church was not progress ing in point of numbers or the increase of m iteriul wealth, but in other respects was never in a more healthy condition. The missionary spirit was active and there was growing up within its limits a class of young men who promised to be earnest and power ful exponents of the truth. Interest in for eign missions had attained a pitch it had never reached before and a great work was doing in the support and education of poor children who had lost one or both of their parents. The Irish fondness for attending funerals was taken advantage of by the churches in the south and west of Ireland to do evangelical work uinong the Catholics, not in the controversialist spirit, but in the way of presentation of doctrine. Speaking Of the attitude of the Irish Pres byterians toward home rule, he said that the General Assembly of that, church, the General Synod of the Protestant Episcopal church, the Methodist Conference and vari ous Unitarian bodies had all opposed it. It hud lieon said that this opposition was liased on the bigoted no-popery sentiment. Speaking for the General Assembly of the Irish Presbyteriau church, lie might say that the vast majority of that body were Liberals in politics, and being co lseiotis of how Presbyterians, in common witli Catho lics, had suffered under the penal laws, and remembering their common struggles to get rid ol the disabilities under which they alike labored, it could not he said that Pres byterians were actuated by any unworthy hostility. They would feel, however, very keenly the injustice of transferring their allegiance from the British Parliament to a Parliament in Dublin, -seing that for almost .’MX) years they hud lived in Ireland, founded their indusiries there and invested their capital in the faith of the British crown, by whom also they had been brought into the country. They objected to the domination of a Parliament the majority of which would lie influenced by men familiar witii the methods adopted by the national league. The Presbyterians objected to home rule because they believed that it would seriously injure the prosperity of the country. For example, he stutod tiiai in the interval be tween the promulgation of homo rule by Mr. Gladstone and the defeat of his bill, the value of the shares of undertakings con nected witli Belfast, and of railways run ning into Belfast, fell almost .85.000,000. From the moment the bill was defeated these shares began to rise. The Presby terians also feared that in a Parliament in which Roman Catholics would be to Prot estants as three to one, the example of Irish politicians in New York and elsewhere might lie followed and large sums raised by taxation and applied indirectly to sectarian purposes. And thus Ulster, as the richest province, would have to bear the largest share. They also believed that in any set tlement yet proposed of the question no ele ment of flnalitv had np[ieared, and that any so-called settli neat would bo but the signal lor liesh u::il,u,ion. A QUEEN OF THE COWBOYS. Thrilling Adventures of a Flaxen- Haired Saxon. Prom the New York Times. Augusta Loesner, a beautiful, buxom blonde of 20 years, who came from Saxony in 1884, was met and wooed and won almost immediately by Xavier Gramer, a widower with six children, and about fifteen years her senior. He took her and a little child she had brought with her from Saxony to his modest home in the rear of 40 Bartlett street, Brooklyn, and installed her as mis tress of his household. The husband was a hard-working painter, much of the time away from home, and the wile was of a very vivacious temperament. The young men of the neighborhood were not long in singling her out among the belles of their social circle for more than ordinary atten tions. One among them was tall and straight and dark—her jierfect foil—and him she soon selected as a favorite. The baby died and she lost interest in her household du ties. Her husband’s children were not con genial companions, and he had already been supplanted in her affections. When, there fore, her lover came to her and told her of his bright pros;iects and undying de votion, and pleaded with her to leave all and go with him to his new ranch in tho West, where lie was to indulge in stock raising, where all that she wished would he provided for her, and she should bo queen of his ranch and of Ids heart’s best affec tions, she was willing to listen ami to yield. The painter returned to his home one night to find that his wife had gone. She left no word, hut tlm departure of her lover at the same time furnished a sufficient ex planation of her flight, and the husband gave her up as forever lost to him. Not so, however. In about three months after her flight the husband, on returning home from work at night, found her lying abed with a baby by - her side. She said that she had been deserted by tier lover in Detroit, and, protesting her innocence of any greater wrong than flight - in his company, she begged to be taken back. But the husband was incredulous. He would not turn her out in her predicament, but he told her she would have to go as soon as she was able to travel. The child lived only a few days, aud within a little while the woman again disappeared, this time alone and no one knew whither. A few months ago Gramer received from his wife a letter dated at Walla Walla, Washington Territory, reciting an almost incredible story of adventure and nomadic life that, while it was interesting, showed Mr. Gramer a way to a permanent release from the matrimonial bonds which still the oretically bound them together. She wrote that she had returned to Detroit and joined interests with a party of emigrants bound for Idaho, where they proposed to engage in farming. On the way across the plains she learned howto ride and how to shoot, as became a pioneer woman. The emigrants were disappointed about getting the laud they had intended to settle upon as home steaders, and so determined to go on further and engage iu stock raising. Mrs. Gramer went with them, assisting at the cooking and camp work when they were in camp, and at driving and herding while on the march. One day the party learned that buffaloes were in herd not far distant, and the men were wild to get a shot at them. Mrs. Gramer insisted upon going with them, and although they tried to persuade her to re main with tho wagons, she was obdurate, an<l they concluded to take her along. Mounted" on au ugly little mustang and carrying a light rifle across her saddle, she rode with the men untill the game came in sight, when in the consequent excitement and commotion she became separated from the party and her mustang chancing to stumble she was thrown and had her leg broken. She lay helpless for several horn's in a slight depression in the ground, suffer ing excruciating pain, when a hand of Snake Indians who had been hunting the buffalo came along and discovered her. They took her up tenderly and a half-breed medicine man among them managed to set the broken limb. Making a litter for her of long poles and wicker work, that was trailed along the ground behind a pony, the Indians took her with them on their journey toward the Columbia river. During her convalescence -he was the recipient of distinguished at tentions from the chief of the band, wiio proposed to install her as the head of his household. But feigning greater weakness and suffering than were real she threw the Indians off their guard, and when opportu nity presented itself she seized a mustang and effected her escape to a party of cow boys in the near neighborhood, by whom she was given an enthusiastic welcome. She was the only woman within many miles, and was treated with the utmost gal lantry by the semi-civilized stockraisers, who handed over to her the charge of their camp. She writes that she is delighted with the wild free life she is leading among the cow boys, by whom she is treated like a queen and whom she invests with a nobility aud gallantry she did not find prevalent among the denizens of Williamsburg. She said she wi uid never return to civilized society again. Mr. Gramer had begun an action for a divorce absolute and tho summons by publication having been returned properly executed the case was set down for an early hearing. GUNNiNG FOR PICTURES. An Invention With Widespreading Promises to Amateur Photographers. Prom the New York Times. Amateur photography has made another long stride forward. Anew invention was displayed at the meeting of the New York Society at 123 West Thirty-sixth street last evening, whose widespread results can scarcely be conjectured. By means of it, photographs will henceforth lie taken as easily and accurately at night as in the (laytime, and the photographer will, in the blackest darkness, be able to literally take an unerring shot at his subject with a pho tographic gun. Hitherto the only means of photograph ing at night have been by means of the kerosene, calcium, or electric lights. Ail of these demanded more or less paraphernalia and were not portable to any available de gree. Magne-ium wine, when burned, was known to produce a light of strong actinic quality, and a lamp had been devised with which to burn it for photographic purposes. It was not a satisfactory light., however, as it was unsteady and liable to go out. From magnesium, however, Dr. H. G, Pif fard, a physician residing at 10 West Thirty fil th street, has devised exactly the tiling desired, and he last evening explained his invention. It consists in powdered magnesium spread upon guncotton. The ignition of the gun cotton furnishes the heat necessary to set lire to tlie magnesium, and the result is a brilliant flash, powerful enough to expose tho plate, and easily available under any circumstances. The photograph is instan taneous. Tlie doctor first discussed a Ger man powder invented for tlie purpose, stating tiiat while its light effects wore ex cellent its very explosive quality made it a dangerous article eiiiier to handle or have about. He next discussed and exhibited a mixture of four parts of gunpowder and one part of magnesium, which, when (lashed, answered tne purpose desired. It was neither as convenient nor effective, however, as the guncotton combination. After burning samples of these aud shoe ing their effects, he fired a car tridge of magnesium and gunpowder from an ordinary revolver, showing that the flash wus quite sufficient for uti instantan eous photograph. He then proceeded to darken the room aud to photograph Mr. Robert Roosevelt. The camera was ad justed, and ire the cap was removed the doctor touched a match to it siuull piece of powdered cotton. The light flashed in the darkness, and when some minutes later the developed plate appeared an excellent negative of Mr. Roosevelt was the result. Several portraits, taken the night before, were exhibited, and the practical value of the invention was indisputably established. The result win beta ,t the amateur oho- tograpber will henceforth go a gunning in the darkness and lay out ou a plate every thing he may choose to shoot at. The camera will be fitted to a pistol barrel or the pistol barrel to the camera, and cocking the weapon will expose the plate. As soon as the weapon is aimed the flash from the muzzle will instantly serve to photograph the object, and the game will be securely bagged in a moment. The fleeing thief, the expression of the man who treads upon the unforeseen carpet tack, as well as that of the husband out late who is trying to as sume an expression of indifferent sobriety before he lights the domestic gas, will now adorn the albums, where they have hitherto been unknown. The invention is valuable commercially, one photographer stating that he had concluded to make use of it in his gallery as soon as the winter sun light b gan to weaken early in the after noon. It will also greatly widen the fleld of amusement and experiment which have attracted so many thousands to amateur photography. The evening was generally interesting. President Walker announced that all the societies of the leading Eastern cities were preparing to interchange with one another sets of 1(X) lantern slides for exhibition pur poses. These are to be ready by Nov. 1. A number of slides were exhibited, which had tieen developed with hydrochinon, a hydrocarbon salt, which produces wonder fully delicate effects. They were perhaps the most beautiful results in art photography that have yet been produced. Dr. Higgins read a clear and practical dissertation on the “Finder,” an instrument which is placed on top of the portable camera, and enables the operator to adjust the lenses for a given subject by simply gazing into the top of the machine and turning screws. Dr. Valen tine Maggs, a London amatedr, made a brief address, and an exhibition of film plates destined to supersede the much heavier giass articles followed. FINDING A STORE OF SILVER. The Curious Discovery Made by Two Women in New Mexico. From the Ims Vegas (A*, it.) Optic. An Optic reporter this afternoon called on Mrs. George H. Miles, the lady who, In company with Mrs. A. R. Rumble, found the buried money at Santa Fe on last Wednesday. These two ladies had been to visit old Fort Marcy, and were returning by a shorter and more precipitous route than the one usually followed by pedestri ans. When about half way between the plain and the fort at the base of a large stone lying beside the path, Mrs. Miles de scried a quarter, or what seemed such, lying upou the ground. Mrs. Rumble picked it up, and both ladies instantly another. Putting down Mi's. Rumble's babe, whom Mrs. Miles was carrying, the ladies began to rake the ground with a stone, and the more they raked the more other coin came to ligh t. From about 1 o’clock till 0 they labored, and in that time they recovered 800 pounds of coin of various denominations and ages. The oldest was of the date of 1424, before America was discovered, and evidently brought to this 'country by the earliest Spanish immigrants. This piece was bought by .I.Gold,of Santa Fe, for S2O, not a moiety of its value. Two pieces coined under the administration of Gov. Vargas were pre sented to the New Mexico Historical Society. The remainder of the SOU pounds was equally divided between Mrs. Miles and Mrs. Rumble. The most of the coins were of the eighteenth century, though the latest was as modern as 1826. The probability is that the money was buried at the time when Santa Fe was captured by the Ameri cans. Simply as bullion silver, the find will amount to nearly $10,01X1; but in view of the age of much of the coin, the real value will be greater. Half of it goes to Denver, and the other half comes to lias Vegas. A Few Facts. Allcock’s are the only genuine porous plasters. They act quickly and w ith cer tainty, and can be worn for weeks without causing pain or inconvenience. They are invaluable in cases of spinal weakness, kid ney and pulmonary difficulties, malaria, ague cake, liver complaint, dyspepsia, strains, rheumatism, sciatica and nervous debility. Other plasters blister and inflame the skin so that the pores are closed and often cause serious injury. You risk health and waste time and money by buying in ferior plasters made to sell on the reputation of Allcock’s. Notice to Advertisers. Contract advertisers who desire their ad vertisements changed for the Sunday issue of the Morning News, must have their copy in not later than five o’clock Satur day afternoon. P. P P MANUF ACT UR INO CO. The weather to-day will be fair, with slight changes in temperature. POISON OAK, A Plague for 25 Years, But Cured by the Use of Prickly ash, Poke root, Potassium Dear Sir— ln 1861 I broke out with an attack of I’oison Oak. Whether or not it came back on me during the next three or four years I do not remember, but from about 1865 to 1885 I suffered most severely from repeated attacks of this eruption. The use of some external remedies pave a relief—twas only tem porary—till in ISril I found that lodide of Potassium and Syrup of Sarsaparilla benefited me not a lit tie-. However, even then I was not cured, for from 1882 to 1885 the attacks were more severe, pro longed and frequent than ever, coming upon me as many as four, and even five times during the year. In the spring of 188.) I took a course of P. P. P., and from t at time I have t>een free from eruptions of this poison. Only once, early in this month, a few bumps ap peared on my wrists, but dried up in a day or two. living the dying throes, a,- it were, of this horrid and loathsome uis ease. After being plagued for about twenty-live years with Poison Oak 1 con sider myself cured, and by the use of about one bottle of P. P. P. D. WATSON WINN. Rev. Mr. Winn is rector of Grace Church, Waycross, Ga., and adds his indorsement to the curative powers of P. P. P. Take P. P. P. and gain flesh and strength rapidly. It gives in creased appetite, aids digestion and restores perfect health. It is sold in 2 sizes, $1 and $1 75, and is the cheapest as well as the best Blood Remedy made. ForSaie by All Medicine Dealers TIKKMi ilKUbllT. mmw pm l fit IUeIMLMi, A FIXE CONFECTION IMPORTED FROM CONSTANTINOPLE Try a Small Box, at A. M. & ('■ IV. WESTS. WANTED. lAA AAA HEART PINK R. R. TIES, l Vu.VfUu hewed or sawed on four sides, 7xß and BJ4 feet long, delivered on vessel's rail in Savannah or Brunswick. Apple to • I 0. ■ ■ NAUGH’rdN & CO., 228 Dock Stieet, Philadelphia. I'niunumiu. Oct. 5, it#?. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements inserted under “Special Mot ices" will be charged $1 00 a Square each insertion. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DR. U. B. HARRIS Has removed his residence and office to 152 LIBERTY STREET, One door west of the Masonic Temple. THE BRL'MtI ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY. The SECOND INSTALLMENT of 50 PER CENT, upon the stock of this Company will lie due and payable at the office of the Company, on or before the 25th INST. Stockholders will return their receipts for first installment. By outer of the Board of Directors. SAMUEL P. HAMILTON, President and Treasurer. NOTICE. All bills against the British steamship JOHN DIXON must be presented at our office by 12 o'clock noon THIS DAY', or payment will be de barred. WILDER & CO., Agents. THE LADIES, Mlf-Es AM) MASTERS Are respectfully invited to visit the reopening of SHERWOOD’S DANCING ACADEMY, THIS (Saturday) AFTERNOON, at Masonic Temple. NOTICE. Office op Commissioners ) AND EX-OFFICIO JI'DOES CHATHAM CO., Ga., > Savannah, Ga., Sept. 1, 1887.) Ordered, that the Tax Collector C. C. be, and he is hereby directed and authorized to assess and levy, for county purposes for the year 1887, the following percentage of the State General Tax for said year, to wit: For Superior Court 26Vjg $ 16,858 13 For Education 8655,027 48 For Jail and Chain Gang. 30 19,1)84 67 For County Officers 12 7,033 87 For City Court.. 8 5,089 25 For general purposes— 33 2-13 21,091 00 Total 196 2-13 $121,784 40 WILLIAM S LAWTON, C. C. C., C. C. CASEY', C. C. C., J. 11. ESTILL.C. C. C., C. H. DORSETT. C. C. C. Attest: John T. Ron an, Actiug Clerk C. C. C. 1)K. HENRY 8 FOLDING. DENTIST, Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS. CITY TREASURER’S OFFICE, I Savannah, Ga. , Oct. 1, 1887. f The following taxes arc now due: REAL ESTATE, Third Quarter, 1887. STOCK IN TRADE, Third Quarter, 1887 FURNITURE, ETC.. Third Quarter, 1887. MONEY. SOLVENT DEBTS, ETC., Third Quarter, 1887. Also GROUND RENTS in arrears for two or more quarters. A discount of TEN PER CENT, will be al lowed upon all of the above (except Ground Rents) if paid within fifteen dags after Oct. 1. C. S. HARDEE. City Treasurer. SPECIAL NOTICE. CITY' OF SAVANNAH, I Office Clerk of Council. October 13, 1887. ( The following ordinance is published for the information of all concerned, and the members of the Police Force are hereoy directed to strictly enforce the ordinance and arrest all persons found violating the same. By order of the Mayor pro tern. FRANK E. REBARF.R, Clerk of Council. ORDINANCE. An Ordinance prohibiting smoking on the wharves, in railroad depots and other places, and on loaded vessels at the wnarves within the city of Savannah, where cotton, naval stores, hay, oil or other inflammable merchandise is stored, or where it is being loaded or unloaded, prohibiting smoking or use of matches in holds or on deck of vessels, loading or unloading cot ton, naval stores, hay, oil or other inflammable merchandise, and providing for the erection of sign boards and prescribing penalties for violating the same. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the au thority of the same. That from and after the passage of this ordinance it shall be unlawful ror any person to smoke any pipe, cigar, cigar ette or tobacco ignited in any way by tire, upon any of the wharves in said city, where any ves sel”or vessels are loading or unloading cotton, naval stores, hay, oil or other inilammaole mer chandise. or where cotton, naval stores, hay, oil or other inflammable merchandise is stored, or in any of the railroads, depots or yards in said city where cotton, naval stores, hay, oil or other inflammable merchandise is stored temporarily or permanently. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, anil it is hereby ordained by the au thority of tho same. That it shall be unlawful for any person to make or to use matches in any way in the holds of vessels of any descrip tion, or on the decks of the same during the time the said vessels may betaking in or un loading cargoes of cotton, naval stores, hay, oil or other inflammable merchandise. Sec. 8. Be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby ordained by the au thority aforesaid. That there may lie pre pared and put up inconspicuous places upm the wharves or oilier places used for loading or unloading or storing cotton, naval stores, hay, oil or other inflammable merchandise, sign boards or notices to the effect that no smoking allowed under penalty of the law, and it shall be unlawful for any person except the owner, lessee or agent of the building or wharf upon which said sign is placed to remove or take away any such sign or notice so erected. Snr. 4. Re it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, anil it is hereby ordained by the au thority of the same, That any person violating any of the provisions ot this ordinance shall, on conviction thereof in the Police Court of .Savan nah, be lined ia a sum not greater than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not longer than thirty days, either or both in the discretion of the officer presiding in said court. Ordinance passed in Council .March 11, 1885. RUFUS E. LESTER. Mayor. Attest: Frank E. Reraker, Clerk of Council. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR. This vegetable preparation is invaluable for the restoration of tone and strength to the sys tem. For Dyspepsia, Coustlpation and other ills, caused by a disordered liver, It cannot be excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. Jfl 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D„ Pharmacist. Savannah, Ga. GROCERIES. THE Mutual Co-Operative Association, UNDER ODD FELLOWS' HALL, —IS HEADQUARTERS FOR— New [flackers!, Household Ammonia, Cross & Blackwell’s Preserves, —AND ANYTHING IN— Staple and Fancy Groceries. John R. Withington, Agt. WOOD, A. S_ BAC ON, Planing Mill, Lumber and Wood Yard, Liberty and East Broad sts., Savannah, Ga. A Planing Mill work correctiv and prompt IX ly done. Good stock Dress ■ 1 and Rough Lumber HUB WOOD, Oak, Pine, Lightwood and Lumber Kindlings. CLOTHING. weTre pleased to an nou nce THAT OUR Fall Stock is now complete and we will be pleased to show our friends and the public the prevailing and correct styles in CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS & HATS For the season, whether they call to supply themselves or only to see “what is to be worn.” Respectfully, I. FALK 4 IS, Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Outlitlers. Our Fall and Winter Catalogue is now in the hands of the printer and wil I be ready for distribution about October 20. At the Head of the Heap! \ND only our second fall season. Being very busy since Sept. Ist with onr Custom De partment. we have neglected to inform our friends and the public at large that we have on hand and ready for inspection one of tne most complete lines of CLOTHING For all shape men, boys and youths ever ex hibited in our Forest City. Our style of doing business STRICTLY' ONE PRICE TO ALL. with each and every article MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES (which has met with so much favor since we commenced busi ness) is sufficient to guarantee satisfaction in every respect. YVe have every department complete, Hats, Trunks, Valises, Gent’s Furnishing Goods, to which we call particular attention to styles, assortment and prices. Our specials this season are as follows: Special Custom Department—Armenian Natu ral Wool Sanitary Underwear (recommended by all physicians), Screven's Patent Elastic Seam Drawers [to seatm> them is to buy them], Karl A’ Wilson's Collars and Cuffs, Ward's Reversible Linen Covered Paper Collars, Chocolate Color Imitation Camel Hair Underwear, Miller's New York Fine Stiff and Silk Hats. Our buyer is at present in New York, where he wdl b * tor the next ten days, and the public can depend on anything new or novel m our line which has come out since the season opened. Remember the number. IG3 CONGRESS STREET, opposite the market. APPEL &SCHAUL, ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS, HATTERS AND GENT'S FURNISHERS. AN AI.VWOOL SUIT WITH EXTRA PANTS ACAP TO MATCH FOR BOYS FROM 4 TO 14 YEARS FOR 101 CONGRESS ST., B. H. LEVY & BRO. EXCURSIONS. Clrleia and Sari® Summer Excursions Commencing SUNDAY, MAY 15th. this Com pany will sell round trip tickets to CHAR LESION, / By following Tralnsand at following Rates: By train leaving Sundays only, at 6:15 a. >t.; re turning, leave Charleston at 3:35 p. m., same, day $1 00 By train leaving Sunday only at 6:45 A. m.: re turning, leave Charleston Monday morn ing 00 By train leaving Saturday at 8:23 p. M.: return ing, leave Charleston Monday morning.. -Vi 50 By train leaving Saturday at 12:28 p. m.; return ing, leavo Charleston Monday morning.. $3 00 Tickets for sale at WM. BREN'S, Bull street, and at Depot. E. P. MrSWINEY, Gen. Pass. Agent,, PRINTER AND BOOKBINDER. THE OLD RELIABLE! GEO. N. NICHOLS, Printing and Binding, Hay Street. New Machinery! New Materials! Best Papers! Best Work! No TiraQ. No Blunter. JXn HumbuQ. CONTRAt TORS. ' P. J. FALLON, BUILDER AM) CONTRACTOR 22 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH. TT'STIM.VTES promptly furnished for buildk* X j of any class ,