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2 THE CHEROKEETROUBLE. HOW IT AROSE AND WHAT IT IS ABOUT. Ballot-Box Stuffing 1 Alleged—The Cattle Companies Thought to be Putting Up Boodle- The Votes for the Rival Chiefs to be Counted To-Day. In our dispatches yesterday there was published a card from Chief Bushyhead and prominent citizens of Tahlequah,the capital of the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, that the report that half of the citizens of Tahlequah had left their homes in expecta tion of a resort to arms to-day between the contending factious was not in all respects true. There is a great deal of excitement, however, and it is impossible to say that there will not be serious trouble to-day when the canvassing of the vote begins in the Council. A special from Tahlequah gives the following history of the trouble: A disputed election is tlio issue. At the national election held three months ago Joseph Bryant Mayes was the Downing party candidate for principal eliiet, and Rabbit Bunch was the candidate tor the same office of the National party. Bunch has been assistant principal chief for the past four years. He is a half-breed, am! Mayes is a white man with a bare trace of Cherokee blood. The election resulted in Raves’ election by a majority of 131 in a total vote of less than 5 ;000. In the elec tion of Mayes the unexpected happened. Bunch was supported by the nresent (Bushy, head) administration, and the Nationals felt certain that he would be elected chief. There are nine districts in the Cherokee Nation, and according to law the Sheriff of each district forwards to the Higli Sheriff at Tahlequah the election returns. About a month ago the returns were taken from their depository to it private house in Tahle quab. and there, it is claimed, doctored so that Bunch, instead of being in a minority, came out 140 votes ahead of Mayes. This announcement had the same effect on the Downing people that Zack Chandler’s famous declaration that Haves was elected had on the Democrats of the country in No vember. 1870. Th ) Downiugs cried fraud, the Nationals wh -i If-.- an honest ballot. There is no legal i. *"pinery in the nation by which the ho 'es'y o the vote could be tested. The Cherose. - -nstitution and laws make no pro - ■! ■>. f..V ballot-box stuffing or a disputed ele The popu’iV, of the nation is less than 2b.000, and th; voting strength is about 5,000. The voters are divided about as fol lows: Mixed blood, 2,200: full blood, 1,000; naturalized citizens, 1,000; negroes, 500: Delawares and Shawnees merged with tile Cherokees, 500. Politically, the population is evenly divided and in case of civil war, which now seems inevitable, it will be neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother, son against futher. The officials of the nation are also divided politically. Five Sheriffs are Downingites and four Nationals. THE NATIONAL COUNCIL will canvass the vote next Monday, and if Bunch is declared elected the Downings will immediately appeal to arms according to present appearances. The National Council is made up of two houses and has sixty-four members in joint session. The vote for Chief will have to be canvassed in joint ses sion. The Nationals have three majority in tlu*Council oo joint ballot—the Downings controlling the House and the Nationals the Senate. Because of the National majority in the Council the Downings presume that Bunch will be counted in. The Nationals are really Republicans and the Downings Democrats. Party divisions are much the same as in the States, but Chero kee pride forbids the use of the United States party names. The great issue in the contest for chief is the leasing of (1,000,000 acres of Cherokee lands to a cattle syndicate. The Cherokee territory is com posed of 11,000,000 acres of land. Of this 0,000,000 have tieen leased to a cattle syndicate at a rental of SIOO,OOO a year for a number of years past. The lease expires this year, and the real battle is for its renewal. The National party is in favor of renewing the lease for ten yeurs at the same rental, the Downings advocate a lease for the 0,000,000 acre strip to the highest bidder. The Downings claim that if the leasing of the lands is submitted to competition, $300,000 a year can be easily obtained It is hardlv necessary to state that the cattle barons who are the present lessees of the 0,000,000 are in favor or the inauguration of Bunch as prin cipal chief. Bunch is an ignorant half breed who can neither read nor write, and who does not understand a word of English. Maves, the Downing candidate, is a gradu ate of the University of Virginia, and has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the nation. There is hardly a doubt that boodle is playing a considerable ]<nrt in the contest. The cattle syndicate can well afford to spend SIOO,OOO to get Bunch in augurated principal chief, and keep Mayes and the Downiugs out of power. If Bunch succeeds to the chieftaincy the renewal of the syndicates lease of 0,000,000 acres of land will almost crtainlv follow. If Maves is inaugurated it is almost certain that the lease ol the lan ( will be offered to the highest .bidder The land is leased by- the National Couicff i h the advice and con sent of the •>. ef. Without the chief’s advice and con -nt the lease cannot be made. Hence it can be seen that the cattle barons are unxious to keep Mayes out. It is no secret that the money of the cat tle barons and the advice of land sharks from Texas, Missouri and Kansas are re sponsible for the entire row There is not a reasonable doubt that Mayes was honestly elected. The land sharks' however, think t hat if a civil war can be precipitated it will result in ABOLISHING THE STBTKM of holding the lands in common and force allotment. This would provide a rich {ma ture for land sharks, as the allotment of the lands would inevitably breas up tiie Chero kee Nation as it now exists, and throw the Territory open to settlement. In this con nection it might lie stated that there is no Keat reason why the Territory should not thrown open to settlement. The Chero kee is a humbug, pure anti simple. You would have to rake the nation to find 500 full-blooded Cherokees, The people are as white as they are in Missouri, Kansas, Texas or Arkansas, and just as intelligent. They have been dead-beating on the general government for years, and there is no rea son why they should have privileges and immunities that are denied to the people of the neighboring States. Bushyhead, the present chief, is a pretty sharp customer/* He has had his till of tiie honors and emoluments, and if accounts are true, would welcome a breaking up of the present Cherokee system. When he re tires from the chieftaincy, as he will in a few days, ho would like to open a land agency. He is avaricious and ambitious. The opening of the territory to general sentiment would create opportunities for him. The lands would be on the market, and to a man like him, who understands the people and the country, that would mean plenty of golden dollars. That he has any sentimental patriotism is not at all likely. He has only a bare trace of In dian blood in liis veins, and he has only re sided here for twelve or fifteen years. He spent a number of years in California and is familiar with the wavs of tile wolTi. The opening of the Territory would mean a rush of white men to capture the fine pastoral, agricultural ana mineral lands iii the na tion. The erection of the nation into a Ter ritory by the United States would lollow. and no doubt Mr. David Bushyhead has visions of lieing sometime in the future a delegate to Congress. He is able, ambitious and moder ately rich. The opening of the Territory would give hilh an opportunity of increas ing his wealth He Las a charming wife, wbo is also ambi t iow.and who has had a taste of W-ishingtoo lifea'r'-adv. She is a ni<v-e of Senator Butler of Woatb Carolina. Un der trewe cfrearosliuy -e* there is a well grounded belief hare, that while Bum yf.ead may deplor* tha turn events have taken in public, in secret he is hoping that a convulsion may ensue that will smash the tribal relation of the Chero kees, break up the system of holding land in I common, and convert the Cherokee princi | pality into a Territory of the United States. ! Hence, Bushyhead is supporting Rabbit Bunch for chief. Perhaps there is more , than one reason for this. If common report | here has any foundation in fact, Bushyhead I is not anxious that his politieal opponents I should huve an opportunity to “look jnt the books.” There is u little matter of $25,000 that mysteriously disappeared a couple of years ago, and Mr. Bushyhead w'as tlio Jast person in whose company it was seen. The Downings made a good deal of noise about that during the campaign, and it is believed that its venti lation iiad much to do with the success of Mayes at the polls. But whatever may be the causes, whatever may be the motives of the lenders, there is no doubt that the public mind of the Cherokee Nation is badly agi tated at present. A row is expected, and there is a general belief that it cannot be averted. The PEOPLE ARE ALL ARMED, and ammunition has been quietly distrib uted during the past week. Tw<etliirds of the people of the nation will be in Tahlequah next Monday, and if the National Council counts in Rabbit Bunch to the chieftaincy the Downing people will immediately com mence hostilities. If war ensues it will be a bloody one. It will be carried on in the Indian fashion in all likelihood, though the participants will be largely white men. Bushyhead has everything in readiness to turn over the chieftaincy to Bauch, and consequently the Nationals will be apt to have the law bn their side and tiie Dowii ings wifi be dubbed rebels. Rabbit Bunch is ignorant and unscrupulous. He is as near being a Cherokee with all the native in stincts as anv man in the nation. He served in the Union army during the war, and lias always been a politician. Joseph Bryant Mayes, the Downing leader, was a major in the Confederate arniv. He has a splendid plantation about thirty miles from Tahlequah, and was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the nation for ten years. A NARROW ESCAPE. A Wild, Weird Tale About a Man, a Snake, and a Fireproof Safe. From the Xe'o York Sun. Twenty years ago I was the managing clerk in an English merchant’s office. My work was heavy. Many nights I sat at my books until into the small hours of the morn ing. Once or twice I actually dozed off into a sleep, to be awakened by the woman who cleaned the various rooms coming to her work. The house I was connected with had a branch establishment in India doing a large business, and many curious consignments of goods, quite outside of our usual articles of commerce, passed through our hands. Priceless cloths and native fabrics, brass and gold ornaments set with precious stones, collections of stones, botanical specimens, birds, animals—everything, in fact, until at times the contents of the r ases, if opened and spread out, would have made a very average mus urn. One afternoon a large box was delivered from one of the ships labeled, “To be kept in a moderately warm place.” I was away from the warehouse at the time of its arrival, and the rnen placed it in the outer office. On my return I c lsually noticed the case in passing, and saw that one end was slightly crushed, as if by some heavier case faffing on it. This was a mere acci dental observance. My private office was just four walls, hung with maps and charts. A writing bu reau in the centre of the floor behind the door: behind the bureau a large iron fire proof safe some 6 feet high and 4 feet square, standing 12 or 14 inches from the wall, and a case of books and three or four chairs completed the inventory. I was going to work late, and in a short time I was alone in the large building. I worked steadily until midnight. 1 arose and paced about the room for a few minutes. A sound, as of a chair being moved in the adjoining room, startled me. I stepped to the door, and opened it. Tiie light from a street lamp lit the room fairly well, and after a glance I concluded it must, have tieen fancy, and returned to my desk, leaving the door open. A few minutes afterward a faint, harsh sound came from the same direction, a curi ous, rubbing sound, undeniably within the next room, and quite as undeniably mov ing toward the door leading to where I was sitting. I rose to iny feet, and as I did so the head and neck of a Uugesnake protruded through the doorway into the well-lit room. I stood transfixed with horror. When the reptile saw me it stopped for a second, its eyes grew more and more aflame until they resembled two lurid balls of fire, its tongue darted in and out of its mouth, and the head raised higher and higher until nearly level with my own. I could hear its body coiling and recoiling in fury in the darkness beyond, and there I stood power less, unarmed, and apparently unable even to move. I looked once around in a despairing search for some outlet of escape, and, as l took my eyes from those of the horrible reptile it lowered its head and darted toward me. Another second and it would have caught me, when, seeing the open safe. 1 rushed in and shut the door. A small {jetty cash book fell to the floor, half in, half i mt of the safe, holding the door open about half an inch. But for that book I would have speedily been suffocated. Not thinking of that I stooped and tried to draw the book inside, but the snake, moving simultaneously with myself, had dashed itself against the safe, and in its brute fury, thinking the safe part and parcel of myself, had thrown its coils around it, compressing the door so tightly that 1 fortunately could not remove the book, which was ray sole means of ventilation. Half crazed with fright I pulled and lugged at it without avail. The perspiration rolled down mv face, my heart beat almost to bursting. and ever with the book holding the door ajar I seemed to be a! the point cf suffocation. Gasping for breuth and utterly nerveless, I fell against the door and slid to the floor in a dead faint. How long I remained so I cannot tell— jierhaps a tew minute-, perhaps an hour. At last my senses returned, and although dreadfully cramped by the position into which I hail subsided in the narrow space, I felt 1 had not the power to rise, and lav there gazing through the narrow openiug at the two folds which encircled my refuge, feeling a horrible fascination that I shall never forget. I even passed my finger out and touched one, feeling a quivering move ment that told me the reptile had drawn its coils to their utmost tension, in the hope of crushing the shell that held the precious kernel of myself. By an effort l collected my ideas, and, re membering the box and the crushed end, could readily account for the presence of the intruder. I knew that it was customary to feed them to satiety before shipping, send them off, and as a rule they arrived here still in the state of stupor. This one might have had a iong passage, and coining out of the sleep wanted water, grew furi ous, burst the wi'hlc end of the case, and finding me attacked me by instinct. I grew calmer anil investigated my posi tion thoroughly. I rose to my feet, and as I did so my foot leited on something un even. 1 picked if up aud found it to be one ol those long ink era sera, having a blade about four inches long, sharp as a razor, tempered like a Damascus blade, tiie handle lx*iag about five inches long and flat i:i. sha;ie. It must have fallen out of the cash Ixxik. these knives frequently lining slml in the books by the careless" clerks. Tak ing tlio knife'in my right hand I thrust it into the thinnest fold with all my strength. There was a horrible, sickening tearing sound, and quickly withdrawing the blade. 1 thrust it again and again into the folds, until at the third or fourth stab I saw the folds relax and so sliding down the sides of the safo to the floor, lying there squirming and writhing in convulsions I dared not move for nearly an hour, until rilE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1887. all seemed quiet; then opening ilie door, I (lashed across the room into the outer office, banged to the door, locked it. and, halless, rushed to the nearest police station. At first my story was discredited, and I was almost locked up as being drunk, but event ually four officers armed with revolvers camp with me. We found the reptile nearly dead, hut st ill tremulous when touched, the cuts with the keen knife, owing to the extreme tension of the coils, having nearly severed the body in half. It measured just 33 feet 5 inches from head to tail. MRS. POTTER'S DEBUT. —————— The Engagement Likely to Prove a Success. New York, Nov. s.—“ Have you been to the beauty show I” is what they say now, when what is meant is have you been to see Mrs. James Brown Potter display her re spectable mediocrity of latent and warmth of physical charm upon the stage) As an ex-amateur Mrs. Potter challenges ! comparison with Mrs. Langtry, of course. She is a woman of slighter physical propor tions than Mrs. Landry, and looks much smaller and less warmly beautiful upon the stage. (She has a figure and face expressive of refinement and good breeding and is full of grace—in a drawing room. Can she act? What a question. She has beautiful gowns. Is she beautiful herself? Certainly she is in u way, but there are many more beautilui women oil tiie stage who can act to boot. She may develop talent. Indeed, it is not unlikely that with practice she will. But nobody cares about that now. People didn't pay thousands of dollars in first night premiums and exhibit, some millions of dollars in jewels, making one continuous fiasli from boxes to orchestra chairs when the curtain w ent up out of any anxiety about her acting. Dear no; they wanted to see if her relations were there, and if “so ciety” would countenance her. They wanted to see if Mrs. Burton Harrison, who promised to stand by her, would lie in the house, and if Mrs. John Sherwood was there, and if the aristocratic tribe of Potters and their kin applauded or the reverse. They had tieen trying to find out if her cousins had called on her and would at least see if they sent up flowers. New York, is never above curiosity. Liberal advertising of the kind that isn't paid for—that began as long ago as “Osier Joe,” worked up to the Prince of Wales and culminated in a picture of wifely devotion at her husband’s bedside, wifi always tell. The Potter engagement is going to be a success, and after all though there is plenty that is meretricious and belongs to a shoddy civilization about it, there is less scandal than in the Langtry case to live down. K. P. H. SOME REMINISCENCES Connected With the Old Brick Bibb County Jail. Macon (Oa.) For. Atlanta Constitution. Capt. Simpson grew reminiscent Friday during his nooning, and told some addi tional stories concerning the old jail. There have been enough tears shed within its ancient walls to furnish water for making up the mortar for a similar build ing. In the basement was located the “buck ing” place, where slaves were beaten in the olden times. When one grew unruly he was taken down there, stripped and the lash applied in a manner more or less vigorous, according to the taste of the whipping boss. One of the saddest stories connected with the jail history was the suicide of Maxwell, a young man who came to Macon with a considerable amount of money, got among dissipated companions and squandered it. He became infatuated with Nellie Hutch ings, and after getting into the lockup, he was ' eleased without money or friends, and he and Nellie started to walk to Atlanta. Capt. Simpson was then captain of the police force, and he met them out near Vine ville, and succeeded turning them back from their wildgoose ramble. Maxwell returned, almost delirious with drink, and he and Nellie separated, she get ting tied of his conduct. Later in the day he walked into the office of the jail, wrote a short note, and picking up a large navy revolver, he placed it to his temple, fired, and sank oa to a chair dead. When Mr. Upton was assistant keeper of the jail, he had to cut Sam Bass, a burly negro, with his knife to prevent his escape. Bass was a pretty rough character. He had gone through the war as body servant to his master, a Mr. Bass, who lived in South west Georgia. After the war Smart got to being a regu lar thief, and he was arrested by an officer near Butler and put on the train for Macon. Conductor Cozott had charge of the train, and when it slowed up at Butler Bass shook loose his captors, and springing from the train began a race for liberty. Several started in pursuit, among them Conductor Cozott. 'lhey were gaining on Bass when lie turned and fired as he ran, the shot striking Cozott and kiihng him instantly. Bass was recaptured and placed in Macon jail. One day he seized on a favorable op portunity and rushed past Keeper Upton, who struck him as he ran, plunging the blade of a long knife into his spme and breaking it oil Bass fell paralyzed and after that was never able to move himself. Finally, although wasted to a mere skele ton, he was carried to Butler and hanged. When Tinny was jailed, and Mr. Noutz, who Is still alive, was one of the guards, a big negro tried to escape and was shot and killed on the stairway. The old jail wifi tie torn down now, as it stands on two of the lots purchased by Messrs. Jaques, Horne and Solomon, and wili make room for either residences or business houses. FOR MAIMED VETERANS. Provisions of the Bill Relative to Reparation for Injuries. Capt. W. Harrison, of the Georgia Execu tive Department, has had printed copies of the act “to carry into effect the last clause of article 7, section 1, paragraph 1, of the constitution, and the amendments thereto.” The act provides that anyone who en listed in the service of the Confederate States, or of this State, who was a citizen of Georgia on Oct. 20, 1880, who lost a limb or limbs while engaged in said service, and by reason of said service, or who may have received wounds which afterward caused n loss of limb or limbs, or who may have been permanently injured while in said ser vice, and who may be a bona fide citizen nt the time of making application for the benefits herein provided for, shall be entitled to receive once a year the following compensation for the purposes expressed in article 7, section 1, paragraph I of the constitution, to wit: Total loss of sight, 100; loss of one eve, 815; for total or partial loss of heariug, disabling party from ordinary pursuits, sls: loss of leg above the knee, ski; loss of leg below the knee, $2.5; loss of arm above the elbow, S3O; !. . loss of arm below the elbow. S2O; permanent injury from wounds, rendering le ; or arm substan tially and essentially useless, $25; perma nent injury to any part of the body, render ing party permanently and practically incompetent l’or the |ierforinance of ordi nary manual avocations, $25. Applicants an? required to make affidavits stating com)any, regiment and brigade serving in when Jo-s or injury occurred, and setting forth all the attending facts and cir eunis uives. Upon the filing of the affidavit aid ie; t fi' atc s required the Governor draws his warrant annually in favor of tho applicant for the sum he is entitled to. Par ties that have heretofore received compensa tion from the State shall participate m tho provisions of this act until the expiration of the time for which compensation lias been paid, lias expired, which will lie Sept. fSi, 1 SMi. Parties who have heretofore made proof ol' their injuries will only be required to submit proof of continued citizenship. < 'KANT Johnson, h colored resident of West Chester, Pa., has lieen living three months with bullet in his brain. Ho is totally paralyzed, being unable to move a muscle or talk A BAN HIT’S NERVE. AN HOUR WITH VAbQUEZ ON THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS DEATH. A Polite Cut-throat Who Took the Events of Life Philosophically-He Chats, Inspects His Coffin, and Dies Like a Gentleman. From the San Francisco Examiner. I saw Kernaghau's neck stretched on Fri day, and it recalled another hanging of thirteen years back —that of Tiburcio Vas quez. Sheriff Adams, afterward murdered in Arizona by friends of the bandit, so it is supposed, let u party of San Francisco re porters into the San Jose jail the night be fore the execution. The little brigand, who had robbed and slaughtered with his band through Santa Clara, Son Benito, Fresno, Tulare, and the whole southern country, until he hail achieved a notoriety as high as that of his great predecessor, Joaquin Murietta, was sitting absorbed in a newspaper when the reporters entered. He had been permitted to leave his ceil and take the freedom of the asphalt paved corridor. His chair was fashioned from a dry goods box, and his lamp stood on tho equally rough table, where there were also pons and ink. He had been writing his last letters. Vasquez rose and nodded pleasantly to his curious visitors. There were half a dozen of them, and each presented him with a cigar or two, so that lie had a handful. "I’m afraid,” he said with a smile, “that I shan’t have time to smoke all these.” He was a very polite bandit, and re mained standing until all the strangers were seated. He was not only self-posrsessed but cheerful It pleased him to see new and not unfriendly faces, for no doubt his soilitary thoughts had been anything but agreeable company. As he stood there, one hand on the arm of his chair, the newspaper in the other, and showing a courteous interest in the efforts of the bustling deputy to find seats for his guests, he was far from formidable in ap pearance. However terrible he may have looked when, shotgun in hand, he rode up to the stage coach, or the wayside store, the lonely traveler, or the isolated ranch house, with his clattering, criminal cavalry behind him, as ready to blow out brains and cut throats as to take plunder, he was now but a short, broad-shouldered, durk-skinnod, pleasant-faced Mexican, with nothing what ever forbidding about hitn. Indeed, his manner was engaging. The fellow was a gentleman. He showed it not only in his politeness, but in the cool courage with which he faced his dreadful end. "I would rather talk of something else, if it is agreeable to you gentlemen,” he said, when tne reporters fell to business, and questioned him about the state of his mind. “lam to be hanged to-morrow. Very well. I don’t like it, but I have no choice. •SeeT And he shrugged his shoulders and smiled. “Do vou feel that you deserve your fate?” solemnly asked the dullest reporter. • “Well, that does not matter,” he an swered, lighting a cigar. “While I never killed anybody myself. I permitted my men to do so, and in the eye of the law that is the same thing; so I suppose I deserve what is going to happen. Since I cannot help myself I am content." His English was not nearly so good as this, but it was not so bad as an attempt to render his Mexican accent in print would make it. “Do you believe in a hereafter?” asked the solemn reporter. “Urn —floyoui’he asked in return, his black eyes twinkling. The solemn reporter grinned, and so did Vasquez. “1 he priest he has been here. He says there is another world. He is a good man and believes it. Very well, Ido not know. But,” seriously. “I die a Christian, a Cath olic, as I have lived. W ill you pardon me, gentlemen, if I ask you to talk about some thing else than myself. I am glad to see you; I like company. The weather is pleasant, eh?” He leaned back in his rude chair with an animated countenance, ready to chat, like one who wished to while a way dragging hours. He had about fourteen of them left. The man’s face was strong and firm. He was in the prime of life, and in perfect health. His courage bad tieen proved in many a bloody fight, and if by murdering ail his visitors it would have given him one chance in a thousand of escape that, chance would have been taken, a id God thanked for it. As it was, tie smiled cordially, and accepted the inevitable with manly compo sure. His politeness was inexhaustible. The toiv-lieaded editor of one of the local pa pers came in, greeted him with a boisterous hilarity meant at once to cheer the con demned and display to Ihe metropolitan journalists his superior intimacy with a cel ebrated character. The editor actually took a copy of his paper from his {xx'ket and with the remark: "I suppose you want to hear what I said about you to-night,” sat down and read to Vasquez three solid col umns about his crimes, the preparations for the hanging, and a minutedascription of the galiow.s, with mention of tiie other crimi nals who had stepped upon it. This p< rformnnee ap|>nlled the callous re porters. but Vasquez bore it in silence, with out a wince or a frown. Shi riff Adams appeared, and the Mexican retired into the shadow with him. They whispered together, and the Sheriff seemed to be trying to dissuade his charge from some purpose. But Vasquez was resolute, and the officer retired with a deprecatory show ing of his palms. Soon there wus a tramping of feet with out, the key turned, and the iron doors were thrown open, clanging. Two men liearing a coffin, and followed by a black coated undertaker with a pair of trestles in his hand, came in. Tne coffin—a fine one, studded with silver headed nails —was placed on the trestles, and tho brigand, cigar in teeth, stopped up and inspected it with lively interest. He half squatted aud ran his hands along the side. “It's too short,” he said, with surprise, looking nt the awed undertaker, who as sured him it was all right—that it should lie measured at the top, not near the bot tom. ••It’S high." cried Vasquez, with a wave of his hand, pleased at the quality of the coffin, which had been provide! by his friend*. The undertaker thought he re ferred to tho lid. which was rounded, and said that it was the fashion to make them thut way. •‘Oh, he doesn’t mean that,” said the local editor, scornfully. “Wlmt he means isthat it’s nifty.” “Yes' niftv,’ - agreed the Mexican, glanc ing gratefully at the San Jose journalist for supplying the right word. “Yes, yes, it is nifty.” He put his hand inside, felt the padding, press,si the lirtlo pillow, and, with an up ward llirt of Ins cigar, observed: “Well, I shall sleep there very well for ever.” He turned away toward his chair. “Devil take me. Vasquez, if you haven t nerve,” exclaimed u reporter, admiringly. “What would be the use of being tho other way V lie said, calmly enough, but there was a sharp thrill in his tone that hinted of tho agony in the caged man's heart. On the morrow he walked out into the sunlit jail yard, climbed the stops of the scaffold, gazed indifferently at the gaping mob of men below, threw a" wistful glance beyond the walls at the blue hills, on which he hod ridden on many a fray with his cut>- throats, and then gave ail his attention to the ghastly business of the moment. They sought to unbutton his coat and collar. He waved them aside politely and did it himself. He assisted the hangman in adjusting the alraus and roue, ulanceddown to see that his feet were precisely on the crack, kissed the crucifix held out to him by the priest, and bore himself with patience and dignity while they drew over him a white shroud and placed on his head and shoulders a (treat black hood. “I am ready,” he said, serenely, closing his eyes. And that was the last of Vasquez. WHAT SOBERED HIM. The Experience of a Man Who Wanted One More Drink. From the Macon ( Wo.) Telegraph. Many amusing things occurred during fair week, when the city was filled with people that were lost sight of in the general rush. A story is told of an old veteran who made a gallant soldier during the war and who lives in the country now, coming to town only on state occasions. These occa sional visits are invariably the times when the old soldier does all his drinking, and being done all in a lump generally unlim l>ers him to that oxter.t that he loses sight of everything except the fact that he wants moro liquor. It seems that the last drink taken before he fell by the wayside was at Vannuoki’s, on Mulberry street. After that was a blank until Sunday# afternoon. I u his perambulations he met up with a triend who had some whisky left over from the Saturday night supply, and as a matter of course the old soldier was as drunk as a lord again. In a short while he wanted one more, and he remembered Vannucki’s place. He managed to elude the police, and seeing the door of Keating’s undertaking establish ment open, mistook it for Vamiueki’s next door, and which, of course, was closed. He walked in, and seeing no one around, sat down in a chair to wait for the barkeeper. \\ hile waiting he lowered his head between his knees and fell asleep, his hat dropping to the floor. Seeing him asleep, someone placed a little coffin at his feet. After an hour’s slumber he awoke, and looking down for his hat, discovered the coffin. He opened his eyes wide, to make sure he was not dreaming, and looking steadily at it for tully a minute. Then he arose from the chair slowly, keeping his eyes upon the coffin, and made a brisk start for the door. As he was going out, he gave one more look at it, and then, with hat in hand, ran as fast as he could to the depot, arriving there os sober as a judge. He took the first train for home, and it will probably be many moons before he will get drunk again in Macon. A SPRINT-RUNNER’S LEGS. It is the Length of the Muscle and Not the Thickness That Counts. D. A. Sargeant in Scribner's Magazine. We feel prepared to maintain* that rela tively long limbs, with a short body, full chest and small bones, will characterize the typical short-distance runner wherever he may be found. Short races (100, 200 and 440 yards) are often won by a few inches, and the value of an inch or two in a run ner’s stride is of the greatest importance, for, other qualifications being equal, this man is bound to be nrst at the goal. The small girth of the legs of runners is often mystifying. From the girth of a muscle we get a correct idea of its volume or transvere diameters, but learn little of its length and the extent of its contractile fibres. Whereas it is the length of the mus cle, and not the thickness, that is of signifi cance to short-distance runners. Given the physiological fact that a muscle can con tract about one-third of its length, it will readily be seen that the longer the mnsele the greater will be the movement of the part to which it is attached. To the runner the desired movement is in the elevation of the thigh and the extension and flexion of the leg and foot. An instantaneous photograph of sprint-runners shows that the range in the movement of the limbs is very extensive—the stride of a fast walker being from 4 to 6 feet, and that of a fast runner from 6to 8 feet. If the stature is short, it is necessary for the runner to get a greater elevation from the ground at each step in order to maintain a long stride. When this is done a relatively long lower leg is of the greatest advantage This fact is admirably brought out in the case of Myers, the professional runner. With a height of 5 feet '!% inches, which is a little below the mean," or 50 per cent, class, he lias a length of lower leg which corresponds to a man over 5 feet 10 inches in height, a length of thigh usually found in men of 5 feet 9 inches, while the sitting height is the same as that which makes up the stature of men of 5 feet 4 inches. AN HONEST SHEEP THIEF. He Protected Large Sums of Money for His Master but Stole Mutton. English Illustrated Magazine. Such tracts of open country, moors and uninclosed hills were the haunts of high waymen till a late period, and memories of the gallows and of escapes from them are common. A well-to-do farmer, who used to attend Bristol market and dispose there of large quantities of stock and produce, dared not bring home the money himself lest he should be robbed. He intrusted the cash to his drover. The farmer rode along the roads, hut the drover made short cuts on foot and arrived safely with the money. This went on for years, in which time the honest fellow—-a mere laborer —carried some thousands of pounds for iiis master, faitii fully delivering every shilling. He had, however, a little fading—a dangerous one in those days, when the gallows was the pun ishment lor sheep stealing. He was known to be a sheep stealer and actually, after bringing home THHJ, would go and put his neck in danger the very same night by tak ing a sheep. This went on for some time; people shut their eyes; but at last patience was exhausted and efforts were made to catch him in the act but without success. One night he came home in the usual manner from market, delivered the cash and went to his cottage. Next day a little girl was sent on an innocent errand to the cottage, with orders, while she was there, to look sharply round and observe if there were any ashes on the floor. She came back with the news that there was a In -up of wood ashes. Immediately a j>osse set out and the drover was arrested. The use of the ashes by sheep stealers was to suck up ami remove stains of blood, which were certain to be left in cutting up the animal. Sufficient proof wns found in the cottage to condemn The honest thief to he hanged; great exertions were, however, made in his behalf, and principally, it is supposed, on account of his character for carrying large sums of money untouched he was saved. Tourist Rates to the South. Cincinnati, Xov. 0. —A meeting of the Southern Passenger Agents Association was held yesterday to ilx rates from Birming ham to Kansas City ami to agree upon Florida and New Orleans tourist rntes. The only thing accomplished was fixing New Orleans tourist rates from Cincinnati at k-T, good until June next. Another meeting will probably be called for Atlanta Nov. 15 by Commissioner Slaughter. 250 dozen pure Linen Towels at the uni form price of 10c., worth nil the way from 15c. to 35c. each. Sale will take place at AVeisboin's Bazar ■ n Monday, Nov. TANARUS, and continued until disposed of. NOTICE. and after the 10th instant the business now conducted bv me will be carried on by Messrs. T. J. DAVIS & CO., and I beg for the new firm the patronage of my many friends who have been so liberal to me, ami feel assured that the now firm will give them the same at tention as they received from mo, Mr. DAVIS having been mv head man for the past four j years. Messrs. T. J. DAVIS and J. G. HARDER J are authorized to collect all bills due the retiring firm G. S. McALi’lN. • DEATHS. COLLINS—Died, in Albuquerque, N. M., on l Nov. 3d, Frank L. Collins, oldest son of Mr. ami Mrs. Charles Collins, of this city. Funeral , announcement later. MEETINGS. DekALB LODGE, AO. 9 I O. O. F. A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8 o’clock. The Second Degree will be conferred. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers are cordially invited to attend. By order of H. W. RALL, N. G. John Riley, Secretary. CALAXTHE LODGE NO. 28, K. OF P. A regular meeting of this Lodge will XITX be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at Aj-D \ 8 oYlock. Third rank will be con-fej'SHa Members of other Lodges cordially \3£&yr invited. NgiiSe J. GARDINER, C. C. W. Falconer, K. of R. and GEORGIA TENT NO. 151, I. O. R. Attend a regular session THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8 o’clock. The INSURANCE feature of the Order will be finally acted upon, and every member requested to be present to cast his vote. C. O. GODFREY, C. R. Attest: Thomas Hoynes, It. S. GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOI I ETA’. The regular monthly meeting of this society will be held at Hodgson Hall THIS EVENING at eight (8) o’clock. CHARLES N. WEST, Recording Secretary. Sl-ECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements inserted under “Special Notices ” will be charged $1 00 a Square each insertion. PEW RENTING. The Pews of Savannah Baptist Church will be rented on MONDAY, 7th inst., at the Church, from 3 to 5 o’clock p. m. Where notice is not given to the contrary, pews will be considered retained for the next year. Rents are payable quarterly, in advance. VENISON, STEAK AND JELLY, New York Oysters, Fried, Stewed, Panned and Raw, New York Chops and Steaks, at the Mer chants’ Exchange Restaurant, 140 Congress street. C. F GRAHAM, Proprietor. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES ANU CAP TAINS OF VESSELS. Office Health Officer. I Savannah, Ga., Nov. 1 1887. j From Nov. Ist to May Ist, unless otherwise ordered, Captains of vessels having clean records, will be allowed to come to the city after their vessels have been inspected by the Quaran tine Officer. Captains of vessels which are subjected to un ballasting at the Quarantine Station, will re turn to their vessels when unballasting is com menced, and there remain until this work is completed, in order to expedite same. J. T. McFARLAND, M. IX, Health Officer. UR. HENRY s FOLDING, DENTIST, Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. NOTICE. Savannah, Ga., Nov. 3, 1887. The shareholders of the GERMANIA FIRE COMPANY, of Savannah, Ga., are hereby noti fied to present their shares within thirty days from date, to the undersigned to receive their pro rata from the sale of the Germania Fire Com pany's Building. Office hours from 10 until 2 o'clock at 147 Con gress street JOSEPH ROOS, President. ILMEK* LIVER CORRECTOR. 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 prizes awarded, and in dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. Si 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D„ Pharmacist. Savannah. Ga. THE MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE, 3 Whitaker Street. The Job Department, of the Morning News, embracing JOB AND BOOK PRINTING, LITHOGRAPHING AND ENGRAVING, BOOK BINDING AND ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURING, is the most complete in the South. It is thorough ly equipped with tbe most improved machinery, employs a large force of competent workmen and carries a full stock of papers of all descriptions. These facilities enable the establishment to execute orders for anything in the above lines at the shortest notice and the lowest prices con sistent with good work. Corporations, mer chants, manufacturers, mechanics and business men generally, societies anil committees, are requested to get estimates from the MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE before send ing their orders abroad. J. 11. ESTILL. PORTRAITS. The Great Southern Portrait Company, SAVANNAH. GEORGIA. L. B. DAVIS, Secretary and Manager of the Great South ern Portrait Company. VN inspection of samples of our Portraits at our office, with Davis Bros., 42 and 44 Bull street, will greatly interest those who contem plate having small pictures of themselves, their friends, living and deceased, copied and enlarged In.OIL, WATER COLOR, INDIA INK, PAS TELLE and CRAYON. \Y guarantee a per fect likeness and excellcnct of work. We have about TWENTY DIFFERENT STYLES AND GRADES IN SIZES OF ENLARGED POR TRAITS from Bxlo to 30x90, and our prices are from to S3OO each. EMPLOY FORTY ART ISTS; been twentv-six years in the business have a 6,000 candle-power ELECTRIC LIGHT* arid are fully prepared with all proper expedi* tion and Skill to execute all orders promptly and satisfactorily. We respectfully solicit your orders- L. B. DAVIS. Secretary and Manager The Great Southern Portrait Cos. PROPOSALS WANTED" PROPOSALS W 1 r ' lj received at the office of the Clerk of Council until 12 m. MONDAY, Novem ber 7th, for rebuilding the city's wharf at the foot of V hitaker street. Specifications may be seen at the office of the City Surveyor. The right to reject any or all bids reserved JOHN D. HOWARD, City Surveyor. BANKS. KISSIMMEE CITY BANK, Kissimmee City, Orange County, Fla. CAPITAL - . . $50,000 r pRAN*SAOT a regular banking business. Give * particular attention to Florida collections Correspoudenee solicited. Issue KxchaiiLre on New York New Orleans, Savannah and Jack sonville Fa. Resident Agents for Courts & Cos. and Melville, Evans & Cos., of London, England New York correspondent: The Seaboard National Bank. Kloctric Bolt Free! TX) IN'THODUi ;; it ami obtain Agents we wih 1. for tne next si.;ty days give away, free .■* charge, m eaeh eoiuity in the United Suae- a limited number of our German Electro Galvan,j Sllpeinory belts—price. A lmsnive and mi tailing cure for Nervous Debility, Varicocele Emissions, Impotenoy, Etc. |snd reward paij if every Belt we manufacture does not generate * r“mu n< ' electric current. Address at once Brokly*'N.Y? LT AUKNUY R °- Box W* j BOYS’ CLOTHING, CARPETS, ETC Daniel Hogan. boys’ mm. WE Will place on sale on MONDAY MORN V ING SUO as handsome Boys’ Suits as can be found south of New York. Prices of tailor made and perfect-fitting suits are for better grades £h 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 *t ra $2 23, J 2 50, $3, 83 50, $4, 84 50 and $5 * ‘** SPECIAL SALE OP Tapestry and Inpin Carpets DURING THE ENSUING WEEK. One lot Tapestry Carpets at 65c. per yard. yard' 6 Wool Carpets at 85c. per yard* ' ot AII Wo °* Extl ' a Supers at 60c. per 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 2210 c. per yard. 500 Smyrna Rugs RANGING PRICE FROM 85c. Each to $lO. Canton Matting. 100 rolls fresh Canton Matting, ranging in price from 20c. to 50c. per yard. Special Bargains Will also be found in the following goods during this week: Silks, Satins, Dress Goods, Shawls, Lace Curtains and Curtain Goods, Flannels, Blankets, Bed Comforts, Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Ladies’ and Gents’ Silk Umbrellas, etc., etc. Daniel Hogan. CLOTHING. $$ OFF .$$ “DOLLARS OFF” IS WHAT IT MEANS. We find in running over our immense stock of GENT’S AND YOUTHS’ FINE SUITS, two and three suits of a line left on hand, tl’e have gathered up all of these broken lines (not “broken suits’’) put them on one table, knocked THREE TO FIVE DOLLARS OFF tils price of each to RUSH THEM OFF. We want tbe room for other lines, and must have it. UNDERSTAND that these suits are NOT BROKEN. ARE STYLISH MATERIALS. ARE THIS SEASON’S GOODS. Why they are left Is probably because they are odd sizes. Yon may find what you want on this table, anr can get it under value. NEW GOODS BY EVERY STEAMER. We are doing our best to keep up with the un precedented demands that have been made on us this season. IGI CONTGTiTCSS ST. B. H. LEVY & BRO. WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT OUR Fall Stock I is now complete and we will be pleased to show our friends and the public the prevailing and correct styles in CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS I RAIS For the season, whether they call to I supply themselves or only to s** I “what is to be worn.” I Respectfully, I l Fill 4 SIS Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Outfitters. I Our Fall and Winter Catalogue is I ready for distribution. I PRINTER AND BOOKBINDER. I NICHOLS— job PRINTING. I NICHOLS— BINDING. I NICHOLS— BLANK BOOKS. I NICHOLS —GOOD WORK. I NICHOLS— PINE PAPER. I NICHOLS— LOW PRICES. I NICHOLS—Q.*u bay STREET. I DESK si. PSSTYLER DESKCO ST. LOUIS, MO. v' HsnuFACTUHf ns or fin! Best Work and Lowest Price freshlbtjlbs. Hyacinths, tulips, crocus, bno DROPS and JONQUItfI. Also PANSY and VIOLET SEED. iSTRONGr’iS DRUG STOR-E*