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2 JUST LIKE MISS FLITE. Wie Last Move in the Celebrated Suit of Myra Clark Gaines. From the New York IForM. Washington, Oct. 18.—The long drama in which Myra Clark Gaines was the cen tral figure will shortly come to a close. To day the Supreme Court of the United States heard argument on the final phase of the litigation between Mrs. Gaines and the city of New Orleans, and in rendering its de cision will settle this famous controversy forever. There has been no more picturesque figure In legal history than this woman fighting almost single-handed the power of a great corporation for fifty-three years, and there has scarcely been a case in the jurisprudence of this woii l so full of romantic interest. Mrs. Gaines herself was a most interest ing character. During her later life she was looked upon as a garrulous old woman, half-crazed with continuous brooding over her imagined or real wrongs. Dickens might have had her in partial mind when he descrilied Miss Flite, only Miss Elite never had that tenacity of purpose winch was Mrs. Gaines’ dominant characteristic. However much her mind was unstrung, it vibrated clearly when it came in contact with her great cause. She never for an in stant lost track of the multitudinous turns and crossings of her litigation. It is said that up to the day of her death she could remember every date and name and number ill the voluminous record made by fifty three years of ceaseless litigation. In fact, remaining oil the scene as attorney after attorney passed away, she became indis pensable to each new lawyer who took charge of her case. Up to tlie present moment the city of New Orleans has hail the w orst of the fight. The isspe now pending before the Supreme Crurt is nti appeal taken by the city from a judgment of about &J,000,000 rendered against it in 1888 by Judge Hillings, of the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern district of Louisiana. This judgment was the most signal victory that Mrs. Caines had over won, as the court immediately is sued a mandamus compelling the city to levy a tax in order to satisfy the judgment, but an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court on both the original suit and the man damus proceeding. That was four years ago, and yet so far behind is the Supreme Court in its work that the appeals have just been reached. Mrs. Gaines died in 1885. Her death oc curred on Jan. 8, which, as the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, is set apart a.s the municipal day of celebration. Much comment was made ujioii the coincidence, and the friends of the city looked upon it as a good omen. But she left her judgment aud her litigation behind her, a doubtful inheritance, as her hen’s, in the scramble over her succession, have begun a litigation that promises to be before the courts long after the original suit is disposed of. The judgment was the only thing of possible value that Mrs. Gaines possessed at the time of her death, having spent the fortunes of two husbands in her litigious career. She was supported tor a number of years prior to her death by relatives who had great ex pectations, and she died in poverty. The judgment of two millions at present under consideration represents the value of certain property in New Orleans thut Mrs. Gaines claimed. Tiiere was considerable more besides for which she also brought suit, but she compromised the cases from time to time with the contemporaneous holders, aud thereby secured means to carry on her central fight. As is so-often the case, this celebrated litigation sprang out of a second will and a doubtful parentage. Daniel Clark, the father of Myra, died in New Orleans in ISI :j. He was borii in Sligo, Ireland, in 1700, and was a man of large fortune. At the time of his death he had no relatives in Louisiana, but his mother lived in Germantown, to whom, under a will made in Kill, lie loft all liis property. This will was duly probated and executors were appointed and (piaUtied. In 1821 the executors sold lor a cer tain piece of property, now known as the “Blanc Tract,” which is the property in dispute, to Evariste Blanc, who, in his turn, thirteen years after, sold it to the city. The city divided the property into sixty squares and sold them at public auction. Consequently the original Blanc Tract is held by different parties, all of whom derive title from the city. * In 1884 Myra Clark, who had just married William Wallace Whitney, caine into the ] Louisiana courts and offered to prove, first, that she was the legitimate daughter of Daniel Clark, and, second, thatshe inherited from him under a will which he had made in 18i:i, the year of his death, and which had lieen lost. She asked that the probation of the will of INII be set aside, thut the acts of the executors under this will lie de clared null and void and that she be put in possession of the property. These demands the city resisted, and thus fifty-three years ago the issues were distinctly joined. Myra’s first and most difficult task was to prove her parentage, or rather to prove that the relations existing between her father and mother were lawful. The exact date of her birth is not known. In the earlier stages of the litigation she alleged that she was bom in 1805, but later on she fixed the year as 1806. It is said that she found it expedient to make this change in'order to avoid proscription. Her mother was Zu lime Carriere, or Mme. Des Granges, or Mme. Clark, or Mine. Gardette, as the time and case happened to be. Five days after her birth she was removed from her mother and taken to Philadelphia, where she was placed in the care of Col. S. P. Davis, of that city. Mho was reared as Col. Davis’ child, and in that period of her life was known as Myra Davis. Her origin was kept from her. In" 1808, two or three years after Myra's birth, Zulirne went, to Philadelphia, and by the rites of the Catholic church was in due form mar ried to .lames Gardette, a practicing dentist residing in that city, and for years lived within a few blocks of the residence of Davis, where Myra, her offspring, was being reared by the bounty of others. Zulirne seems to have been a woman of many marital eccentricities. Before she met Clark she had been married to one lies Granges in Bordeaux, and there is no record of any divorce having lieen obtained at any stage of her career, Myra did not learn of her origin until she was tjti years of age and about to marry Whitney. Two years afterward she instituted her first suit. Owing to her mother's peculiar domestic relations she hail great difficulty in proving her legitimacy. (She succeeded, however; at least the courts decided, after several years of litigation, that Clark had the doubtful honor of being Zuliine’e husband. This settled, there still remuined the difficult task of proving the will of 1818, It was lost, and hi. 4 only lieen seen by two or three persons. But Mrs. Gaines’ persistency triumphed over all obstacles, and she had the existence of the will established. She then had the probation of the will of 1811 set aside, ami step by step neared ultimate victory Whit ney died, and she married the distinguished Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, who in his turn died, leaving the little woman to make her fight alone. If tlie decision or the lower court is re versed by the present Supreme bench tlie case will probably never lie heard of again. If it is sustained the city will attempt to find some other any to avoid the judgment. Electric heat indicators are valuable means of preventing spontaneous combustion at sea. They consist of thermometers, incased and protected by iron tubes, provided, in a well-known manner, with platinum wires, and connected to a system of electric bells and indicators on deck. These thermome ters are distributed among such dangerous cargoes as coal, cotton, etc., liable to spon taneous combustion. Should any undue heat arise in any part of the cargo, tlie mercury in the thermometers will rise, make contact with the platinum wires and give an instantaneous alarm oil deck, at the same time indicating the exact spot where such dangerous heat may exist. The largest variety of Children’s, Boys' and Men's Hats in the city at Appel & belaud s, One Pries Clothiers A TRUE STORY. A Game of Euchre Interrupted in Har rodsburgln 1863. D. S. Browu in Mercer Sayings and Doings. It was when we were stationed at Har rodsburg, Ky., in 1808. Opr regiment, the gallant Seventh Ohio, was pitted against John Morgan and his followers, and wo were kept busy as a nest of wasps watching Duke, Cluke and their chief, the “Kentucky Raider.” Every turnpike ill the Bluegrass region echoed the hoot beats of our well trained horses. \Ve rode through their plantations like specters in the liigtit, and many households in gool old Bourbon county were startled from ther beds at early cock-crow by the noise and confusion attendant ui>ou the camping of a whole "critter company” in their orchard. The black people were our friends and always willing to guide us to the exact house where Morgan was sleeping at that very minute, sah. “Old Uncle Mose knows de rascal woll, an’you can't fool dis chile.” It was always the old story, however, Morgan had been there but was gone, and we had our night’s vigil for nothing. Once we were quite sure of him in Lexing ton. He had couie into the city in citizen’s clothes, and was housed with a relative. Two hundred of us rode into the town at 8 p. m.. and set about to hedge in this , roat skipper. I i “It was two by the village clock When we galloped into I>exington; We heard the crowing of the cock, The barking of the tanner's dog, And felt the damp of the river fog That rises after the sun goes down.” We watched the night out, being re warded by the capture only of that portion of the Morgan family that could not “bear arms;” and that same day the great raider himself attacked a detachment of our com mand away in the southern part of the State. We camped next at Somerset, and Basil Duke’s pickets sang “Dixie” to us from the opposite side of the Cumberland for several days. Finally we crossed the river one night when there was no moon, and captured his outiiosts. The firing alarmed the camp, however, and a wild chase to the foot-hills of the mountains was the result. Here the rebels made a determined stand, and finally chap eroned us in a very vivid manner back across the Cumberland. This last crossing of the stream was not made in as good order as the one in the early morning, and for several days subsequent our folks made no move whatever to find Kentucky’s great lover of horseflesh. Deserters and stragglers from his com mand were continually coming to us with reports that the forces of their chivalrous chieftain were fading away and that only a handful of men were with him. We en countered this “handful” in various parts of the State, and to us their numbers always seemed to grow greater instead of less. His raiders wore always “goin’ homo” and “cornin’ back,” and it did seem to us as if they all returned before we found them. To tell just how a social game w. s inter rupted one night in Harrodsburg by two of them “coinin’ back” unannounced is the ob ject of this “ower true tale.” The writer, a real Sergeant, but a Brigadier General in his mind sat playing euchre with the sister of two of Morgan’s flyers—the latter sup posed at the time to be with their chief some where in the mountainous portions of the State. Hand after hand the seductive game had lieen playe l .when the conversa tion turned upon the war and its terrible consequences. "Just think of it.” said tho fair sister. “Here you areto-nigntin my house, profess ing the greatest friendship for me, mid yet the fates may compel you to engage in mor tal combat with those dearer to me than life.” The Sergeant hoped the fates might al ways hurl him against some other girl’s brothers. "But you can’t tell,” said the sister, whom you are lighting, and you might kill both my brothers before the week ends.” The Sergeant hero glanced at the i’hover ons on his cavalry jacket and said if be did kill them he hoped lie would never know. “Or your regiment might capture my brothers and hold them both prisoners of war, right here in sight of their own house,” continued the girl. Tho Sergeant here said that if’ the last picture ever came to be a reality the sister should see her brothel’s every night; and that, if he could help it, they should never be sent away to a military prison, so help him Moses, or words to that effect. “That settles it,” said the deep, quiet voice from behind the sitting-room door, and both brothers stepped into the parlor, armed, booted and spurred, but smiling exceeding ly “childlike and bland”—two handsome and good-nutured looking raiders as could tie touud between the Potomac and the James. For once in his life the Sergeant ft it as if his clieverouvi indicated asnmc.i, if not more, than all the military rank lie possessed. He declared himself as having always been in favor of that great factor which m due time is not only to be the salvation of individuals, but of nations as well; namely, arbitration. The big brothers did arbitrate, and to such an extent that a four-handed game of euchre, a social lunen and tne firing of jokes instead of pistols was the consequence for the evening. The next day the brothers were miles away among the bills, and the Sergeant was just across tho street; where his regi ment wai quartered in the grounds of tue old Harrodsburg Mineral Springs Months afterward the Seventh Ohio met Morgan m battle at Cyniliiana, captured many of his command, driving the raiders, iududing the chief, into and across the river. Among the captured were the two brothers, and, though the Sergeant did what he could to prevent it, both of them were sent away with the rest of the prison ers to Gamp Chose. Ohio. Another un romantic truth wnich we are obliged to record, and which is out of the usual vein of story-writing, is that the sister never became tho Sergeant’s wife. RACING IN THE FALL. The Baltimore and Lexington Meet ings in Progress. Bai.timokk, Oct. 18.—To-day's racing events here were as follows: First Hack—For two-year-olds; five furlongs. King ('rah won. with Vail e second and Speed well third. Time 1:02*4. Second Race— For three-year-olds and up ward; three-quarters of a mile. Stuyvesant won, with Bradford second and Patroeles third. Time 1:15*4. Third Hack— Oriole handicap for all ages; one mile and a furlong. Kingston won, with Firenzi second and Velante third. Time t :st>. FofaTH Hack— Breckenridge stakes for 8-year olds; one mile and live furlongs Hanover won, with (llenmound second and Stockton third. Time 2:58*4 Finn Race- Dash of one and a quarter miles ; for all ages. Elkwood won, with Jennie B. sec ond and Vosburg third. Time 2:11*4. AT LEXINGTON. Lexington, Ky., Oct. 18.—The weather was clear and the track fast. Following is a summary: First Race— One and one sixteenth miles. Poteen won, with Nick Fiuzer second and Libret to third. Time 1:50. Second Rack- Three-quarters of a mile. Hyp ocrite won. with Ocean second and Princess Blandina third. Time 1:1614. Third Race. Five-eighths of a mile. Flitter won, with Balance second and Jack (locks third. Time 1 iOSW. Fourth Race. One aud one quarter miles. Flouucie won. with Wary second and Longalight third. Time 8:00*4. AT MEMPHIS. Memphis, Oct. 18.—The track, benefited by yesterday’s shower, was in good condi tion to-day. Following is a summary of the events: First Race—Three-quarters of a mile. Ere bus won, with Pearl Jennings second and Hoi. Owens tiiir.l Time 1:18K- Second Rack- -Three-quarters of a mile. Clara L. won, with Little Bess second and Jim Nave third. Time 1:1854. Third Rack—Three quarters of a mile. Quotation won. with Hilda second and Ten penny third. Time 1 :lN*r, Kocrth Race—Steeplechase over the short course. Tennessee w on, with Ascoli second and Ch.-atf How third. Time 8:08*4. niE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Ifl, 1887. A FAMILY FEUD. | Heirs to an Estate of a Million With out Means for Their Support. From the IStiladelohia Record Oct. 2. About eleven years ago Charles Clare, a well-known resident of Southwark,who hud amassed considerable wealth and raised a large family of children, died and left all his property, amounting then to $450,000 to his wife, Elizabeth Clare, for life. The will, however, instructed her to look after her children and provide for them. Mrs. Clare is now about 75 years of age, resides at No. 1317 South Tenth street, and her children and grandchildren number nine teen. A bitter feud exists between the old lady and some of her family, and it is claimed she is indulgent with some and neglectful of others. Two years ago the Solicitor of the Board of Guardians of the Poor had his attention directed to the condition of Mm. Martha Smart, one of Charles Clare’s children, who was living with a widowed sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Kam merly. Neither of these sisters is on friendly terms witii the mother. Mrs. Smart is sub jected to epileptic fits, and lieing unable to provide for herself, Mr. Cavin put himself into communication with the mother, and she agreed to give her daughter $8 per week for her support. At that time the Solicitor did not know of the valuo of the old lady’s property. Since the death of Charles Clare, it is said the estate has grown in value to about $1,000,000. Some weeks ago Martha Smart went to the house of her mother and asked for money, explaining that she bad to pay $1 50 per week for her room, aud that $8 was not sufficient to maintain her. Words passed between them, aud it is alleged that the mother caught the daught t by the throat, and that the latter was violently assaulted by her sister, Josephine, and her brother, John. A police officer was called in, and Mrs. Smart, with her face covered with blood, was taken before u magistrate and committed to the house of correction as an habitual drunkard on the testimony of her assailants. The solicitor, ascertaining how his client had been treated, secured her discharge by applying to the Board of Charities, and instituted against the mother, son and daughter criminal proceedings for assault and battery. For four weeks old Mrs. Clace refused to give Mrs. Smart anything for her support, and upon her applying for money t} buy a pair of shoes she had her daughter again arrested and recommitted to the House of Correction upon the old charge. The lawyer was determined this time to have the matter passed upon by the court, so he pro cured a writ of habeas corpus, and Mrs. Smart was brought before Judge Reed for a hearing. After listening to the testimony tho Judge arrived at the conclu sion that the relator had been wrongfully committed and be released her. The dis charged woman immediately proceeded to the grand jury room, and under her testi mony a true bill of indictment was found against the mother, sister and brother. The Solicitor intimated that he would shortly bring proceedings which would secure to his client sufficient funds out of the estate of her father for her support. ELEVEN DAYS IN SWAMPS. Railway Trains Passing' Within a Few Feet of the Helpless Sufferers. Halifax, N. S., Oct. 5. —Thomas V. Woolerieh, formerly a prominent Halifax merchant, started by train Sept. -4 last for Mount Uuiacke Station ou the Windsor and Annapolis railway. From that place he in tended inspecting a farm at Lakelands, in the interior. He insisted on going through the woods, although warned not to do so. Three men. had already made the experi ment, and were never heard of after enter ing the swampy woods. No one in the dis trict would undertake to pilot him, so he started alone car rying an umbrella with him. There are fouanules square of alder bushes, swamps, an{^lakes. Woolerieh walked through the swamps and around lakes until he thought he ought to be near his destina tion. That night he slept on bushes, and next day started on the tramp again. He walked around dozens of lakes and through innumerable swamps. There was not even a berry to lie found with which to satisfy the cravings of hunger. On the third day his sufferings were terrible. lie drank a great deal of water and sustained life in this wav for eleven davs. For eight days he wandered around the shores ot lakes and through swamps. Day after day he heard tho trains pass up and down the road, four miles away, and made desperate efforts to roach the point without success, until Saturday, the eighth day. when, almost prostrate, his clothes torn off his limbs, and feet swollen and bleeding, his mouth and tongue ulcerated from the effect of the spruce wood in the water, lie at last dragged himself to the railway track. That night the express train passed and it was dark and the passengers did not hear his moans. No train passed Sun day. Monday half a dozen trains passed, but no one saw tho signals of distress lie made with the rags attached to Ins um brella. The eleventh day ho heard the rumtiling of a freight train. Making one last supreme effort he waved his tattered flag and shouted. The conductor saw the emaciated form. Ho stopped his train, picked up the poor fellow and carried him to his family at Halifax. He is now occa sionally able to speak in whispers, but it will be days before he is able to relate in de tail hts frightful experience in the swamps. Shamming: Seven Minutes. h'roni the Mew York Time*. A remarkable cose of imposture, and of capital shrewdness in exposing it. came to light a few days ago at the State prison at Jackson, Mich. A convict named Brott, was sent up in July of last year for three years for the crime of larceny. Seven months ago he began to develop symptoms of paral ysis. He would suddenly full to the ground while at work, and Claimed that he could not oat for long periods, all of which ended in his taking to his bed. The mus cles of his face became rigid, the eyes fixed, and he ceased to eat or speak only as food was fed him with a spoon. He was appar ently deaf , and could not see. In the mean time physicians from different parts of the State while visiting the prison had exam ined him, aud all pronounced his malady paralysis. Dr. Williams, the prison physician, a few days ago, became satisfied that Brott was feigning all his symptoms, but at the same time he deemed it nearly impossible for him to do so. The doctor hit upon a novel and amusing plan by which to expose the im posture. Calling the attendants into the hospital in a very matter-of-fact way, lio told them in the presence of Brutt that tile case was n peculiar one, and that the con vict could not live beyond a few days any way, and that day lie should proceed to chloroform Brott, saw into his skull, and see what the disease was. The doctor then left, and very soon Brott began to move, and, calling the hospital attendant to him, he told that officer that he hail been sham tiling from the start in order to gel a par don, and took this course'to elicit sympa thy in ins behalf. 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Louis and Detroit base ball teams was played in this city to-day, and was won easily by Detroit. Caruthers was not nearly as effective as usual, and the Detroiters kept tlie ball going all over the field, their batting throughout the contest lieing terrific. The St. Louis players fielded very brilliantly at times, but at others their playing was rather loose. C aruthers fielded ins position splendidly, and his playing, with that of Robinson and Bushong, com prised the chief features of the association’s champions. Tlie score by innings follows: Detroit 0 3 1 00320 0—!) St. Louis 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 o—2 Base hits—Detroit 17, St. Louis 12. Errors— Detroit B,St. ladis 5. Two of Fortune’s Favorites Happy. Mrs. Henry Helfrich, at 64 Shipley street, Nan Francisco, said: “Yes, indeed, it is true, my husband won $2,000 in the Louisi ana State Lottery drawing of the ikh ult., aad wo are both very glad of it. My hus band has bought a nice little property on Turk street, where we intend to live in a short time.” lie is foreman confectioner of Messrs Nchroth & Westorfiekl. He con firmed his wife’s statement. He had never expected such a stroke of good luck as this. After considerable difficulty in finding Wil liam Dowling, a workman in the employ of the Oakland Gas Company, he said: "Yes, when the list was published I looked for mv ticket and found it crumpled up into a ball in one corner of my vest pocket. I unrolled it and compared it with tlie list, when, for a moment, I thought I must bo drunk or crazy, but when t looked again I found that I was right and my number iiad got me $2,000.” He is said by bis employers and fellow-workmen, to be an honest, hard working man, and all seem to rejoice at itis good fortune. —ban Francisco (Cal.) Call, Sept. 9. Look at those beautiful Premium Gift Frame Pictures at Appel & f-'chaul’s, One Price Cloth iers. Extra sizes in Shirts. 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Third Page —The President's Visit to Kansas City; Kout's Crash; Questions of Finance; Tel escoped at a Depot; Railroad Supervision; One Death at Paintka: Florida's Metropolis; Madi son Items; A Shocking Crime Recalled: Vivid Illustration; Boulanger in a Corner; The Visit Caused a Wedding; Cure for Insomnia. Fourth Page—Dead in a Doorway, Thebe Guest Falls with a Bullet in His Bowels; The Great Bond Forger: Water as a Medicine: Lon don (iossip; A Remarkable Criminal; The Oaf farel-Limouzin Case; A Cossack Knight Errant; The Guillotine; The First on Record; Clara Belle's Gossip; Mastodons in Alaska. Fifth Page— Cleveland in Dixie; Lamar to be Judge; A Train Robber Shot; Fishery Comniis sioners; The Billiard Fortune; Four Deaths at Tampa; To Remain a Graveyard; Gordon and Colquitt; Unable to Agree; Trapped at Last; Prices Fail to Advance; Übiquitous Israelites. Sixth Page— Cleveland in Sorrow: Charles ton's Burned Wires; Last Year's R ttes Restored; France's Big Scandal; Florida's Fever Fight; A Resolution Repealed; Other Telegrams. Seventh Page -Agricultural Department: Ro tation in Crops: Rival Breeds of Cattle; Profit able Cucumber Planting; Facts About Fruit Trees; Home-Made Fertilizers; The Sweet Po tato Crop: Household; Farm and Stock Notes; Popular Science. Dudes With Plug Uglies. Il lustrated; Sex in Education; A Persuasive Ken tucky Girl. Eighth Page—Sin's Forbidden Honey, Multi tudes of People Perish by Indulging in it; A Gang of Robbers Fight: Manning's Successor; How the Money Goes; Shot at a Church Door; Bismarck Fintxl; Suuday at Belle Meade: An Italian's Revenge, Ninth Page Piedmont Hospitality, The President Spends tlie Day at the Grounds; More Hoik* iu Florida, A Pause in the Onward March of the Fever; Bangs' Fatal Fusilade.lt Develops that McWilliams Fired Only One Shot; Other Telegrams. Tenth Page -The News in Georgia, (lathered from Correspondents and Exchanges; A Fatal Fall; Run Down by a Steamer; Yellow Jack Less Mild, Five Deaths and Eleven New Cas?s in Twenty-four Hours; William Mac Williams Shot. Eleventh Page— Round About iu Florid i, The News of the State Told in Paragraphs; Cleveland in Georgia, He Runs into a Rain Storm at Chattanooga; Powderly's Power; Huff's Bill I*aid Aside, the Members of the House (Jot Addled in Discussing It. Twelfth Page— Editorial: Henry George's Theories; The Virginia Coupon Case; Increas ing the Supreme Court: A Postal Telegraph: A Faithful Public Servant;Shakespeare Fountain; Harmless Yellow Jack; Minor Telegrams. Thirteenth Page— Local Department; Shot by a Negro Fireman; R. J. Larcombe Dead; Neatly Ready for the Iron; Quarantine to be Established; Origin of Cotton Fires; Flames on a Lighter; Ashore and in Flames; Kennedy’s Pretty Haul; Gone Down with the Tide; Rail way Notes. Fovktkenth Paoe— My Boy Still; An Awful Death; Tippti Tib's New Mansion; A Cowboy; The Samoan Islands; Cinchona Culture in Re union; Secrets of the Sen; Dr. Hall's Offer;Only a Dream; A Sham Battle in the Orient; Murder of Uncle Jack llardnut. Fifteenth Page— The Indiana White Caps; A Big Game of Draw; Scene on a Train; Hetty Green in Chicago; Now, She Can Make a Speech; A Phosphorescent Toe; A Bad Man With a Bowie; Curious Grave Robbery in France; His Life a Sad One: Lady and Burglar; How Cleveland Sold His Knife: How She Hid Her Morphine Vice; Current Comment; Bright Bits; Personal: Items of Interest. Sixteenth Paoe —Financial and Commercial Review of the Week; General News; Advertise ments. Just the i>aper to send to your friends. Single copies 5 cents. 9 For sale at Estill's News Depot and at the of fice, Whitaker street. EUfiC TRIG BELTS. Electric Holt Free. r |''o INTRODUCE it and obtain Agents we wilt 1 for the next sixty days (five away, free of < iarye, in ,ach county iu the United States a limited number of our Herman Electro Galvanic Kupensory Belts—price, $5. A positive and un ianiny cure for Nervous Debility, Varicocele, Emissions, Impotency, Etc. SSOO reward paid if every Bell we manufacture does not generate a genuine electric current Address at once ELECTRIC BELT AGENCY I*. O. Box 178, Brooklyn. N. Y. DEATHS. EHRLICIIER.--Died, suddenly, on the 7th inst., at Girard, Ga., Adolph D. Ehblicher. in the 58th year of his age. His remains were placed at rest at Bethany Oemetery, Girard, Ga. M KETINGB. '„ 0 F MAGNOLIA EN- Jt CAMPMENT No. 1. Odd Fellows’ Tem- . _ pie. N. W. corner Bar- I. . R nard and State streets. rfHwi Regular meeting f / flmi - Tsix THIS iWfilnexlatilWi.* flats iSiSns EVENING at 8 o’clock “L- 1 '■ - FRED. FICKEN, C. P. J. S. Tyson, Scribe. GOLDEN HULK LODGE AO. 12, I. O. O. F. A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held THIS EVENING at 8 o’clock. Members of other Ixxlges and visiting brothers are invited to attend. By order of FRED EINSFELD, N. G. D. F. McCoy. Secretary. MUTUAL CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. The regular quarterly meeting of the Mutual Co-operative Association will be held at their hall THIS (Wednesday) EVENING at 7:30 o’clock, standard time. By order of the PRESIDENT. William P. llabdee, Secretary. CHATHAM REAL ESTATE AND IM PROVEMENT COMPANY. Savannah, Ga., Oct. 18, 1887. The Annual Meeting of this Company will be held at the Metropolitan Hall, on THURSDAY EVENING, 20th INST., at 7 o’clock, at which time the report of the officers will be presented to the stock holders, and an election of officers for the ensuing year will be held. By order J. H. ESTILL. President. M. J. Solomons, Secretary and Treasurer. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements inserted under “Special Notices ” will be charged $1 00 a Square each, insertion. NOTICE. Tho public are invited to inspect a large stoek of MILLINERY GOODS that we have just re ceived from New York, which we will offer at Auction in a few- days. These goods are now on exhibition at our salesrooms, 110 W and 118 Broughton street, between Bull and Drayton. MARSHALL & McLEOD, Auctioneers and Commission Merchants. STATE AND COUNTV TAXES, 1887. Office Collector State and County Taxes, 1 Chatham County. Georgia. ,- Savannah, Oct. 19, 1887. 1 The digest is now open for the collection of the above Taxes on all property, real and per sonal; the Speeifix Tax on Professions; also, the POLL TAX for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, on all MALE RESIDENTS of the City and Coun ty, between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years. Office at the Court House. Hours from 9 a. m. to 2 p.m. jas. j. McGowan, Tax Collector C. C. NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor the Consignees of the British steamship MAUDE, whereof Claxton is Master, will lie responsible for any debts con tracted by the crew. A. MINIS & SONS, Consignees. NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the British steamship GLEN TANAR, whereof Easson is Master, will be responsible for any debts contracted by the crew. A. MINIS & SONS. Consignees. NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the British steamship WYLO, whereof Rogers is Master, will be responsible for any debts contracted by the crew. A. MINIS <fc SONS, Consignees. NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the British steamship ELPIS, whereof Burnett is Master, will be responsible for any debts con tracted by the crew. A. MINIS <6 SONS, Consignees. NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the British steamship GLADIOLUS, whereof Sin clair is Master, will be responsible for any debts contracted by the crew. A. MINIS & SONS, Consignees. SPECIAL NOTICE. All bills against the steamship WICK BAY must be left at our office before 12 o’clock THIS DAY, or payment will be debarred. STRACHAN & CO. SPECIAL NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the British bark PRESIDENT, Captain Corbett, will be responsible for debts contracted by any of the crew. STRACHAN & CO.. Agents. SPECIAL NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the Norwegian bark CHONDOR, Danielson, Master, will be responsible for debts contracted by any of the crew. STRACHAN ,7 CO., Agents. NOTICE. Neither the Master nor the Agents of the Brit ish steamship WETHERBY will be responsible for any debts contracted by the crew-. WILDER & CO.. Agents. DR. T. H. CHISHOLM HAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO lo<t TAYLOR STREET. I ; EMEU’S LI V EK EOKKEL'TUK. This vegetable preparation is invaluable for the restoration of tone and strength to the sys tem. For Dyspepsia. Constipation and other ills, caused by a disordered liver. It cannot be excelled. Highest prises awarded, and in dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. $1 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist. Savannah. Ga. SHOW CASK*. SHOW CASES Ez CASES ARTISTIC STORK FIXTURES. CABINET WORK. CEDAR CHEST. State Wants. Ask for Pamphlet. Address TERRY SHOW CASE CO., Nashville, Tenn. ~ W -A- IST T IE 3D “ lAA AAA HEART PINE R. R. TIES, l VJI/.UVfV/ hewed or sawed on four sides, 7x3 and S’ri feet long, delivered on vessel's rail in Savannah or Brunswick. Apply to J r. naUGHK'N & CO., skS Dock Stie.-t, Pliiladelphia. I*ni!KM>SLFH.*. >v, f. I S7. AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATER THREE NIGHTS, COMMENCING THURSDAY, OCT. 20. SATURDAY MATINEE. APPEARANCE OF MR. KE E N E, SUPPORTED BY JOSEPH WHEELOCK and an imposing company selected from the the ranks of the best legitimate artists in America, under the direction of Mr. ARIEL BARNEY, in the follow ing BRILLIANT REPERTOIRE; THURSDAY NIGHT HAMLET. FRIDAY NIGHT RICHLIEU. MATINEE MERCHANT OF VENICE. SATURDAY NIGHT RICHARD HI. Seats on sale at DAVIS BROS. Next attraction: Mac Collin Opera Cos., Oct. 20, 27, 28 and 29. ANDRE'S ALPINE CHOIR, UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, Thursday Evening, Oct 20, Commencing at 8 o'clock, in the ODD FELLOWS’ HALL, Corner State and Barnard Streets. Admission—Non-Members, 75c.; Members, 50c. Tickets at Davis Bros.’ and Y. M. C. A. Rooms. EXCURSIONS. Charleston ai Savannah RAILWAV. Summer Excursions Commencing SUNDAY, MAY 15th, this Com pany w ill sell round trip tickets to CHAR LEST ON, By following Trains and at following Rates: By train leaving Sundays only, at 6:45 A. M.; re turning, leave Charleston at 3:35 p. m., same day $1 00 By train leaving Sunday only at 6:45 a. m. ; re turning, leave Charleston Monday morn ing $2 00 By train leaving Saturday at 8:23 p. m. : return ing, leave Charleston Monttey morning. $2 50 By train leaving Saturday at 1t:26 p. m.: return ing, leave Charleston Monday morning S3 Oil Tickets for sale at WM. BREN'S. Bull street, and at Depot. E. P. McSWINEY, Gen. Pass. Agent. • I*. P P. MANUFACTURING CO. The weather to-day will be raining and cooler. SCROFULA! GIVEN UP BY PHYSICIANS! A Lady in Milton, Fla., Whose Life had Been Despaired of Saved By Prickly ash, Poke root, Potassium Milton. Fla.. Jan. 20, 1886. This is to certify that I have been af flicted with Scrofula, or Blood Poison, for a number of years. The best physi cians of Mobile ami th s city said noth ing could lx- done for me. 1 also took a large quantity of S. S. S., but found no relief in anything that I took. My limbs were a mass of ideeis. and when I was sent to a physician at Mobile my entire body was a mass of sores. I had given up all hopes, and as a last resort tried P. r. P. (Prickly Ash. Poke Root and Potas sium), and after using four bottles (small size) the sores have <- ni irety disappeared, and my general health was never iietter than at the present time, and people that know me think it a vonderful cure. Respectfully, ELIZA TODD. P. P. P. \s Ihe only perfect cure for all Blood Diseases. It will cure when all other remedies have failed. P. P. P. gives new life to the sick, increases the appetite, aids digestion and builds up the entire system. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. DR. WHITEHEAD can be consulted dsilyat the office of tno Company, Odd Fellows’ Hull Building, without charge. 1 Vest-riot ions and examination free. All inquiries by' mail will also receive his personal attention. GROCEUIEwT - Canned Goods! PIE PEACHES, GALLON PEACHES, GALLON APPLES, 2 and 3 1h TOMATOES, 2 and 3 ih OKRA and TOMATOES, EARLY JUNE PEAS, EXTRA SIFTED PEAS. Abcve ate new packing (1837), and for sale at STRAUSS BROS’. HAMS -Our 12*4 3-nd 15c. Hams give good satis faction. BREAKFAST STRIPS only per pound. BONELESS CORN BEEF. CODFISH in 1 and 2 1b bricks. MACKEREL in kits and half barrels. HERRING at lowest prices. Call and inswct our stock and learn our prices. Goods delivered promptly. STRAUSS BROS., ttncl J 1 Hurnarrl Street. ASK YOUR STATIONER FOR IT m by^A h DING , BUSlNEßgr t S 3lft ’- Indor “* . ,'*• BECKER & CO., f , 1 r,v '" ' ones St., New York City. Send for Cm.mar. J BOYS’ CLOTHING, CARPETS, ETC. Daniel Hop BOYS' CLOU. <8 We will place on sale on MONDAY MORNING 500 as handsome Boys’ Suits as can be found south of New York. Prices of tailor-made and per fect-fitting suits are for better grades $6 50, $7 50, $8 50, §9 and $9 50. Also a large variety, fully 500, just as durable, but not as fine, at the following prices • $1 75, $2 25, $2 50, $3 50, $4, $4 50, and $5. SPECIAL SALE OF Tapestry anil Ingrain Carpets DURING THE ENSUING WEEK. One lot Tapestry Carpets at 65c. per yard. One lot 3-Ply All Wool Car pets at 85c. per yard. One lot All Wool Extra- Supers at 60c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 55c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 50c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 40c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 22 Ac. per yard. 500 Smyrna Rugs RANGING PRICE FROM 85c. Each to $lO. 100 rolls fresh Canton Mat ting, ranging in price from 20c. to 50c. per yard. Special tops M ill also be found in the fol lowing goods during this week: Silks, Satins, Bfess Goods, Cloaks, Shawls, Lac<s Curtains and Curtain Goods, Flannels, Blankets, Bed Com forts, Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Ladies’ and Gents’ Silk Umbrellas, etc., etc. Daniel Slogan. PRINTER AN’l) BOOKBINDER. --- - - ,-v.- ORDERS KO R EULISG. PRINTING, BINDING, OR BLANK BOOKS. Will always have careful attention, GEO. N. KICHOLS. PRINTER AND BINDER, Bay Street. SOAP. SOAPS! SOAPS 1 PEARS', RIEGER'S, COLGATE'S, CLEAV- A.... KKL'KELAER’S, BAYLEY’S, lu BIN S, PEMBLE'S MEDICATED just received at BUTLER’S PHARMACY. LIU t AIiOVAI.. MAUPIN’s UNIVERSITY SCHOOL, .KUirott City, Md. VIATIi SESSION miens 15tn Hepteinlior. For C address CHAPMAN MAUPLV, M. V Prtiwhvil We want AGENTS in every city and town. BIG COMMISSIONS.