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AN INGENIOUS PRISONER. A Sing Sin? Convict Who I ossesses feat Inventive Genius. /"V,,iii Oil* 5' , 1 rl .j, .a. How .0 break out of is often as much a matte. >i starry villi Die habitual offend pi- a > bow to get into it. The exploit of Dan Driscoll. the condemned H’hvo, fashioning a jimmy troin his iron bed and preparing to nig hi- oav out with Pan Lyons, the mur derer ot qiuinn, did not impress the public asat ail wonderful. There was no ingenuity displayed, and the fact that the plot was bt travel to the ward-n stamps it ns clumsy. Expert jail breakers have no confidants, aud lwnce no betrayals. Beside# the attempt was unsuccessful, aud the veriest tyro can at least try to get out of jail. Hast week a reporter had a long talk with "French Gfls," a real jail-breaker, a genuine wizard with locks, bolts und bars, who has broken out of thug Sing three times, out of the city prison in Montreal once, tho jail in Troy once, and who looks upon a prison much as wo look upon a hotel—as a place to walk into or walk out of, just as the fancy jnav ru a. • Fre’ : h Gus,"’ or “Fronchy,” or “Frank Savoy, 1 or “Isadora Marshall,” or “Kindt," for, tie is a perambulating directory pf aliases, if he had been situated us was Driscoll, there would have been no betrayal or discovery, except the discovery of an empty cell, and; pet haps, that of a keeper or two lying unconscious in the yard, for ho does not allow trivialities to impede his way. "French Gus” was tound iu the engine room at Sing Sing. He is of medium height, heavy, but not corpulent, ha- brown hair which has been liberally silvered, a sallow complexion, a high forehead, which time is rapidly making higher, and quick graynyes, which are bright as a boy's, and never at rest. He spoke English with a mar-ed accent, but flueutlv. Notrifler, he. A man of iron strength and great nerve, of patience, industry, self-reliance, and, above all, of brains. He has ingenuity amounting to genius, and it is said no better mechanic lives. Yet for eighteen years he has been at constant war with society —a professional burglar, a manufacturer of cracksmen’s tools, a fitter of skeleton keys and an expert land pirate of. high degree. He is now serv ing a six-years’ sentence given him by Judge Barrett in Oyer aud Terminer June 4, 1885, for cracking the safe of Smith <fc Go., No. 45 Park place, and robbing the store of G B. Horton & Cos., No. 59 Frank fort street. Allowing commutation for good conduct, which he is industriously earning, he has about twenty months yet to serve. Inspector Byrnes and other eminent authorities declare that no safe, however fortified with chrome iron, time-locks aud combinations, could withstand this man's attack for half an hour, so learned she in his craft and so powerful the tools he manu factures specially for each great job. It is small wonder then that French Gus should be honored with extra care by his keepers and what would seem superfluously strong quar ters and yet despite these complimentary precautions itis believed he remains from from choice than necessity, lieing anxious to serve his time and be free to reap the reward of some marvellous inventions he has made while a convict. He imi led broadly when asked to tell tho Story of his escapes, sat down, rubbed his hands together slow ly, laughed, shrugged his shoulders. He considered the escapes merely as good jokes, but not as anything worthy of his skill. "The first time I escaped," he said, “was from Si g Sing. It was an oasy matter: a little saw—poof!—l cut through the bars. I walk out, I get on the railroad. I would have got away, but a coDvict saw me go, and to get favor with the warden, he yelled to the guard, aud I came back. It was so easy done I laughed. That was two mouths after my sentence in 'O9. I was in for ten years. "For eight months I think and think. I do not know whether it was better to re main or to go. But I get tired, and—well, I walk out again. Howl do that? Very easy. My keeper was about to be dis charged. I know that. I get some money. I give it to him. He forgot to count me in the company when we go in to sapper. It mas in February. I steal a coat from one workman. I stsal a pair of overalls from another. When the conqiany go to supper I hide. It was dark. I Like a crow bar. Igo to the big iron fence. Brum-m-m—l break one bar. Brum-m-m! —I break another. Then I look out. There is one man with a rifle near the river bank. I watch till he turns his back aud I slip along a little. When he tummy way I keep very stitl. He turn again, I slip along. So I get to the river and I cross on the ice. Igo to Hackensack. Bah! it was nothing.” It may be related in justice to French Gus that he was not really guilty of bribery in this tranaction, for tho four fifty-dollar bills which he paid to the keeper were after wards discovered to be counterfeit. "After eight months 1 was arrested in Hackensack for a little trick 1 played on a jewelry store at night, Detective Jackson, pf Sing Sing, he come down and recognize me. and very glad to see me. Ho take me back. Now I know I lose all my short fime” (his commutation) “and I know it not easy to get away again. Ia n put in a strong cell. l'iie keepers they all say, ‘Watch French Gus.’ (Veil, I think and tliink. By and by they put me in tho workshop. 1 work very steady. Every body watch me. My coil is searched all the time. Well, I work steady. By and by I make a grand invention, i invent a prison lock by which all the doors can lie thrown open at once, or five, ten, fifteen or twenty doors yr only one door. I complete that iu one year—lB74. I offer it to Gov. Tilden for tree use by the State if I get my pardon. AU the prison authorities they write to say it is the best lock ever known. It is per fectly sure. The doors open all by lever, not by a lock, and no one can get them open. Well, Gov. Tilden he think over everything and he say no. The prison au thorities ali surprised". A* man get a pardon for an invention that is nothing—a man with twenty years—for a little table he make to hang the tickets showing the num ber of men each keeper have!” ‘Well?” “I make up my mind l will stay no longer Next day I begin work on a sec tional jimmy. I make one piece this week, one piece next wees, and hide them. I make a little drill—very hard, very sharp— to cut through stone. 1 get a flat bottle, qnd I fill him with nitric and. muriatic acid—equal part of each. I steal some more clothes. All is ready for my coup.” “Then?” "First, I take the bottle of acid and the drill to my cell. With the drill I bore a small hole through the stone to the bolt, I pour in a little acid. The bolt is held in by lead. The acid eat the lead. Ido this little by little. Finally I know tho lead is all dust, That night, I take my new clothes under my stripes and the jimmy in pockets I had made down-my legs. lam locked up. My ceil is on the ground floor. Opposite is a row of little windows with heavy bars— you would uot think a cat could go through.” "How did you?” “The keeper comes around to count and I answer. By and by, about 12 o'clock, I think the time has come. The patrol pass mv door. He will not come apiin for naif an hour. I screw my sectional jimmy together. I place it to the door. I listen. No sound. I push—one. t wo, three times— the rotten lead give and the door is open. 1 look. No patrol in sight. I hear him on the upper corridor. Now the window. I force one bar. I listen. I force the other bar. I listen. Igo hack and close tho door of niy co l. I throw the broken bars and the jimmy outside. J listen. Now! up! I squeeze through like a cat, and I am out side in the yard.” "Well?” “The guards are ou the Mgh wall. I creep, creep, creep around the buildings to the iron fence near the river. I jack the bars again with the jimmy. lam away. When 1 cross tho river on the ice I sit down and laugh.” “And then:’ "J go to Montreal ' I opou a Jewelry store—w ith ray tools. Next day 1 am ar rested. l’hev have no evidence, but lam locked up because they know who lam. i he; put me in the .strongest .-ell in the city prison and station a keeper outside my door. I hear they Hud some diamonds with mv daughter in New York, and so 1 say to myself. ‘Gus, you must not Slav here longer.'” “Well?" "That night 1 make a saw out of mv k ife. ! fix a dummy in mv bo-1. 1 got under the bed to cut, through the floor. Every time the keeper looked in mv cell he see the dummy and he think that, is me. I cut, cut, cut very softly. The keeper he look from time to time. He see dummy and lie satisfied. Finally 1 cut a hole. I drop through in the cellar. At one end there is cord wood and a window. I use the wood ns a jack and bend the bars. Then 1 walk out again, ll is nothing. But the keeper who watch all night outside my door be no did like the joke.” “Do you t ink you could escape from here again?" was asked him. “Foot ; 1 could get away any time, but I do not want. 1 would be caught again. No, 1 have only twenty months if I am quiet, and then—ah, I have a grand inven tion, and 1 shall come back to prison no more.” These are only a few of the incidents of this remarkable man’s criminal career. He % as recaptured after this last exploit and served three years in the penitentiary there, where he introduced his invention. It is still in use, and is pronounced by prison ex perts absolutely perfect. After serving out his time he went to St. Albans, Vt., where he was arrested by State Dei active Jackson as an escaped convict. At Troy, after mid night, in the railway station, Jackson aud he were aloue together waiting for the train going to Sing Sing. Upon a pretext French Gus had his hand cuffs unlocked a moment, aud instantly seizing Jackson, was fast strangling him, when the little detective drew his revolver and fired two bullets into the convict’s head. One passed through the mouth, the other lodged near the base of the brain, where it still remains. He was taken to Sing Sing unconscious, but his iron consti tution enabled him to recover, and he is now as well as ever. His lever lock is patented, and be wishes to sell his rights He has made other inventions since, which he claims are vastly more valuable, aud to which he wijl devote his time when he is free. Here is an interesting subject for study— an expert mechanic, sober and industrious, capable of earning a good liv ng anywhere, vet follow ing a career which has practically kept him iu prison for eighteen years; a notable inventor expending most of his in genuity upon burglars’ tools; a genius who, after years of penal servitude, is about to come before the world as a solver of some great mechanical riddle which will make him noth fortune and fame, having taken ali the best of his life to learn that the way of the transgressor is hard. THEY DID NOTHING BUT STEAL. And Some of Them Passed Themselves Off lor Noted Men. Fred Carruth in Chicago Tribune. “Can we water our mules here?” asked Briar of a sad-looking man who was trying to drive a nail into the fence with a stone, near a house not far from Gordon, Neb. It w-as on the direct trail over which thous ands of settlers going to Western Nebraska, Dakota and Wyoming had been traveling for the last year or so. “I have n > objections,” replied the man as he dropped the stone, put his thumb in his mouth, and looked paiued. “Your well is very handy,” continued Briar with an engaging smile. I suppose all movers on the road stop at it. Water seems to be scarce iu this region.'’ “Hammers and monkey-wrenches, and water pails and tin cups and eggs and chick ens and ’bout ev’rytbing else must bo scares in this region too, I reckon,” returned tko man gloomily. “What makes you think so ?” “I jedgo by the way you fellers goin’ through in covered wagons steal ’em. I’ve bought three new hammers this summer and still have to drive a nail with a stone and my wife tacks down the carpet with the stove-lifter.” “Do the boys steal?” “Steal!” echoed the man as he picked up the stone and gazed at his thumb, “they don’t do nothing else but steal! Each ham mer jes’ disappeared inside of a week. Then I’ve lost two water-pails and have to water my own bosses now in a tin pan. I’ll bet they’ve lugged off a good dozen tin cups. Last week I caught a feller climbin’ into his wagon with my monkey-wrench and he drove off laughin’ and shakin’ his fist at me, and I couldn't catch him either. Day be fore yesterday I lent my ax to a man that had broke down, and when he got his wagon fixed he drove off and took the ax with him. The same day, in the afternoon, a big Missourian come long that had busted something, too. and threat ened to lick me ’cause I tol l him 1 didn’t have no ax. He said lie b’lieved I had one and wanted to know if 1 was ’frnid he’d steal my old ax. He said he could pound any man that had got an idee he was a mis erible sneak thief. I went into the house to git rid of him, and he took my buggy w hip out of my wagon and drove away with it They’ve stole our eggs all summer aud have got all the chickens except two old hens that roost on the ridge-board of the house, and I caught one feller that was camped near by tryin’ to climb the lightuin’ rod one night and git at them, too. Yesterday morning a man that was going through to Wyoming stole the clothes line, and my wife caught another trying to get our cat into a covered basket aud lug it off. Then it’s a solemn gospel fact that I came out in the afternoon in broad daylight aud caught a big, red-headed cuss irom low a lifting on the pump! Yes, sir, tryin’ to snake it out of the well and load it in bis wagon!” “You've had a hard time of it,” said Briar, consolingly. “Yes, but I'm goin' to watch ’em after this. I ,-ee your partner there a sizin’ up the grindstone out o’ the back end of the wagon, but it won’t do him no good, ’cause I’m goin’ to stay right out here and watch you both till you drive on!” We lingered some little time to talk with this Nebraska sufferer. “It beats anything 1 ever seen,” continued the gloomy indi- 1 vidual, “the amount ot gall a man al’ays 1 has when he’s travelin’ West iu a covere-1 wagon. They’ve got the gall over a crab apple tree agent. Last spring a big raw- | boned cuss from Missouri, with a team of : mules as poor’s whip-er-wills, turned up to I water, like you fellers. He had his wife and six tow-headed young ’tins in the wagon, and three dogs and a spotted cow behind. While ho was pumpin’ the water he began to 'buse the govern ment for not fixin’ the road. He seemed to think it orter provide a big national highway, all turnpiked up and trimmed j with shade trees just for him to move West on I stood up for the country, and says I: ‘I think the government does pretty well for you when It makes you a free gift of KK) acres of land, if it don't fix the road.’ ‘Yah, free gift uothing,’ says he, as he put my pail into his wagon mighty careless like; ‘the land’s jes’ as much mine as ’tis the gove’n ment’s! How in Mazes does tbegove’iimeDt happen to own aU this ’ere land?" ‘ W'v,’ says I, ‘them old reverlutionary heroes fit. ail'd bled, and died, and hove off the yoke of England and set up the government, and all this land jes’naturally tell to ’em. You’re under big obiergatioos to all them old fellers that fit the roverlution so’s you could bo free.' ‘Don’t talk to me tnat way,’says he; ‘I don't owe 'em a cent, not a red! Their old rev’lution never done me no good; rny ancestors had a rev’lution of their own! ‘Where?’says I. ‘ln Missouri, of course,’says he; ‘licked the English and fir.idled up ev’rything in 1700, ’tore them | otnor old moasbacks bought their guns. We set up our gove’nmeut right in Mis souri, and all this country belonged to us.’ •Then you must ’a’ been a’nexed to the United States:' says I. ‘’Nexed nothing?’ says lie; ‘we 'nexed them and give 'i m this land, and now Mioy'iv goin' round niakf.i’ a grout siiculiu’ oo .f gif.a’ van u u.i a THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JANU VRY 3,188 R. little oruery quarter section' You're a pood 'uu to talk ’bout some rev’lution you jo*' load 'bout w hen we had one all of our own that beats the one you heed of all holler!’ Then l made him piss out my pail, and he drove on.” “Another time,” continued the victim of the emigrants, "a little squint oved pom men stopped and sai-t he was \ underbill, and that lie was lookin’ over the lay of the land to see what the prospect was tor run ning another rail land through here. 1 was a little doubtful all the time, but 1 didn't know,’cause he talked so smooth and rat tled away’!><>ut 'ten millions o'dollars' or 'thirty millions o’ dollars’ jes* like you or i would talk ’bout the price of a pair o’ boots: but l afterwards caught him whistling at my dog and tryin’ to coax him oil', and then I snowed it wasn’t Vanderbilt. “A year ago a man with a long ueek and leg uose come along and said he was Gen'r'l Sheridan. He drove a team of mules that looked as if they had been livin'on h n grass, and he had n good-sized dry goods box with slats nailed 'crust it tied on his wagon behind full o’ chickens. I thought it war’ll'; a very- likely storv that Geu’r'l Sheridan would be packin’ chickens Vrost Northern Nebraska, but I noticed both the mules was branded ‘U. S.,' and he h id on a blue soldier’s overcoat, so I didn't know but mebbv it was the Gen’r’l after all. He said he was goin’ through from Fort Niobrara to tamp Rob inson. and was thinkiu’ strongly of estab lislun’ another military post round here. He wanted to know what I’d take for my farm in case he decided to put in a big fort here with 200 cannons and 5,000 soldiers, ‘all white,’ says be; ‘l'm down on nigger soldiers; and I’ll see that their pants and the rest of their clothes fit ’em, and that there ain’t no West Point dood otPcers that don't know enough to throw stones at the chickens sent here. Privately, Mr. Walker,’ he went on awful close and confidential like, -'tween me ’n' you 1 tliink I shall take holt o’ this here fort myself. I shall also name it Fort Walker.’ He drove his mules up to my haystack and let ’em stand aud eat. and went all ’round the house and barn sev’ral times, lookin’ over the ground aud sbowiu’ me where he intruded to throw up fortifications and put in the double-barreled cannon. Ho said he had a new style of six-shootin’ cannon, seif cockin’, that never failed to knock the enemy. He said this kind was pizen ou In juns, and the Injuns when they come down oll'n the reserve was what he was after. When his team had jes’ a! out finished my haystack he stump. <1 me for a trade 'tween his off mule and mv sor'l bos- I looked bis mule over and found it was ring-boned and spavined, "sides lx-in’ loiuulered and blind of one eye, and had the horns aud poll-evil, and looked'sif it mightprobabtv be lialky as a goaf, so I told him 1 couldn't swap for less than $75 to boot. ‘ls that ti.e best you can do ?' savs the Gen’r'l. ‘The very says T. ‘Aint you got no pntritism "bout you,' says ho, ‘so you can ’fordto give the War Department a little better trade than that ?' ‘Couldn't do it,’ says I. ‘Can't you gne mo an even trade?’ says ho, ‘so I can hurry 'long through aud give orders tor massin’2o,ooo troops here and begin buildm’ Fort Walker?’ ‘l’m sorry, Gen’r’l, but I couldn’t,’ says I. ‘Then you can go plumb to blazes!’ says he. ‘You think I’d a’ spent all this valerable time a-tailin’ you ’bout my mil’tary plans if I'd ‘a’ sposed you was goin’ • to play me and the department such a dirty trick as this? I won’t build the fort here a-tall if this is the way you’re goin’ to act! Hero I am, straight ns a greenback, Commander-in-Chie! of the United States army and navy, aud you, a granger from the back counties, won’t give me a lair trade on my mule? Good-bye; -ir! Git your hayst wk out of my way or 1 11 drive over it! When I build another fort < n your place you’ll know it!” Then he drove off the road a-jawin’ an' a-sweerin’ at the mules. .1 day or two nfter some men came T >ng from the fort lookin’ for n man of ’bout, his style, that they said had two gov ernment mules that lrad been stole, an’ they said he wa'n’t Gen'r’l Sheridan a-tall—and I’d been expectin’ he wasn t all the time after begot so mud ’but the trade.” False Pretenses. Venders who by specious representations as to worthless articles for the teeth, induce the unsuspecting to use them fruitlessly or with positive injury to the enamel, should be punished. Buy SOZODONT only, es cape their snaros and beautify the teeth. 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AH tli**** cost very little, and in n twinkling delicious Buckwheat Cakes are ready for the table -light, wholesome and perfectly agreeable to the most delicate digestion. HECK Kirs SELF R AISING BUCK WHEAT is for sale by all groeers. Take no other. ll< i l Ki,\ PULASKI HOUSE, - Savannah, Ga, Under \gw Management. HAVING entirely refitted, refurnished and made such extensive alteration* and re pairs, we cau justly suy that our friends and patrons will find THE PULASKI first class in every respect. The cuisine and service will lie of the hi guest character. WATSON ,<• POWERS, Proprietors* fomierlv of Charleston Hotel. THE MORRISON HOUSE! N EWLY fitted up offers pleasant. South rooms and dxcedeiiti>ourd to those wishing regu lar. transient, or tal l • accommodations. Central ly located on line ol street cars, affords easy ac cess to places of business, and subiu*!aii resort*. Prices mod *rate. Corner Broughton and Dray ton stivers, opposite Marshall House. NEW HOTEL TOGNI, (Formerly St. Mark's.) New-nan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla. WINTER AND NU MM Kit. '•pfJK MOST central House ill the flty. Near J Post Office, Street Cars'and all Ferries. New and ideyaiit Furniture. Electric Beils, Baths, Etc. St: is) to S; tier day. JOHN B. TOIiNI, Proprietor. CKOC FRIES. O. DAVIS. V A DAVIS. ( f. DAVIS & fS<)N, WHOLESALE GROCERS, Provisions, fir-niii anrl Hoy. V ESI >, FEED STB I' , Kl< K FUJI' li. Will. \T il BK VN, BLACK COW PEA . BI.AI PE\S liHOI.'IHA CKOWDEKS. CI,AY BANK PEAS, V IKOiNIA and GEORGIA I'KANUTH. Orders by mail solicited. (. DAVIS ASi IN. ll.iti and HIS Bay street, .Savannah, Ga. Om W. TI EDEMA N, WHOLESALE- — Grorer, Provision Dealer & Com'n Merchant, NO I#l BAY ST., SAVANNAH, r, A. COMMISSION MKK! HANTS. W. W. cdllOON. F. I>. ULOObWORTU. lIKIIIMi GORDON. W. W. GORDON & CO., GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Cotton, Rice, Naval Stores, H 8 BAY STREET SAVANNAH, OA. JOHN K. CMKNBTT. 'i'HC 'MAS K. Si'f 'jsb WM. B.TJHON. Garnett, Stubbs & Cos., COTTON FACTORS aji>—- Commission Morohantss, M BAY FT., SAVANNAH, li \. Liberal advances made on consignments of •■ " ■ "I < ItOCKKU Y, ET < . GEO. W. ALLEN, IMPORTER OF CROCKERY, CHINA AND GLASSWARE, Nos. 3115 and Broughton Street., SAVANNAH - GEORCHA. FIS II AN I) <>Y S’l liliN ESTABLISHED 1858. M. M. SULLIVAN, Wholesale Fid and Oyster Dealer, 150 Bryan st. and 182 Bay lane. Savannah, Ga. Kish orders for Cedar Keys received here have prompt attention. RUSTLESS IRON PIPE. EQUAL TO GALVANIZED PIPE, AT MUCH LESS PRICE. J. D. WEED & CO. PRY GOODS. David Weisbein Will inaugurate a clearance sale of all winter goods before taking an annual inventory of stock, and will offer unprece dented bargains to purchasers. Ladies’ Walking Jackets. 350 Ladies’ Walking Jackets, worth $3, at $ 1 .*O. 225 Ladies’ Walking Jackets, worth $1 50, at 2 75. 175 Ladies’ Walking Jackets, worth $0 50. at 3 25. 25 Ladies’ Plush Walking Jackets, worth $2O, at 16 00. 50 Ladies’ Plush Wraps, worth $25, at 15 00. The above goods have been marked down to a price that will not tail to suit any one that wishes to purchase. DRESS GOODS. We have the most varied assorted stock in this line in the city and have marked the whole stock at prices that will sur prise customers. OUR HOUSEKEEPING GOODS, Table Damask, Napkins, Doylies, Table Covers, Sheetings, Pillow Casings, Bleachtngs and Blankots are certainly beyond a question the best for the monoy in the city. HOSIERY, HANDKERCHIEFS AM) CLOVES. We have all the LATEST STYLES and at prices that will undoubtedly sell them. B A Z A A 11 On our Second Floor will be found replete with all the Latest Novelties in Ladies’ and Children’s Under wear, also Crockery, Glassware and Boys’ Suits. The Balance of Our Holiday Goods will be Closed Out Far Below Actual Cost. DAVID WEISBEIN, 153 15 roi i <r\ i ton Street. MILLINERY To the Public. Praptiis Ik Sfriiij ami Sinner 1888. The unprecedented trade in our Millinery Business dur ing 1887 is owing to the constantly adding of Novelties and the immense increase of our stock, which is doubtless the Largest of Any Retail Millinery' in America, exclusive of New York, and our three large floors cannot hold them. Already our importations, Direct from Europe, are ar riving, and on Our Third Floor we are opening Novelties for Spring and Summer in Ribbons, French Flowers and Feathers in the Most Beautiful and Novel Shades. We are sorry to be compelled, for want of room, to close our W inter Season so soon, which has been so very successful, and from to-day all our Felt Hats, Fancy Feathers and Trimmed Hats will be sold at any price. Our Ribbon Sal© will continue until further notice. S. KROUSKOFF, M A MMOTII MILLINERY HOUSE. FURNITURE, CARPETS, M A I I I Mi, F.T( . CARPETS! CARPETSf CARPETS! Now is the time for Bargains in Carpets. A fine selection of Cotton Chains, Union s Extra Supers, All Wool, Two and Three-Plys, Tapestries and Body Brus sels just arrived. Our line of Furniture is complete in all its departments. Just received, a carload of Cooking anti Heating Stoves. So call on us for Bargains. We,don’t in tend to be undersold, for cash or on easy terms. TEEPLE & CO. 193 and 195 Broughton Street. SASH DOOHS, BUNDS, ETC. I'ro.ident. SAVANNAH. GA. LUMBER. CYPRESS, OAK, POPLAR, YELLOW PINE, ASH, WALNUT. MANUFACTURERS of BAKU, DOORS, BUNDS, MOULDINGS of all kind* and dMoripMK?* CABINOB and TKIMMINCS for all clawww of dwellings, I*liWß and PKW ENDftof our nwUI design and manufacture, TURNED auc. SCROLL BALUSTERS, ASH HANDLES £or Cott JU Hooks, t KILINU, FLOORING, WA JNBCOTTINU. SHINGLES. Warehouse and Up-Town Office: West Broad and Broughton Sts Factory and Mills: Adjoining Ocean Steamship Co.’s Wharves 5