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NASSAU'S WILD BEAUTY.
A LADY TOURIST DESCRIBES THE
QUAINT ISLE.
Built on a Coral Strand with a Bolt of
Blue and Emerald Around It—Home
of the Tamarind and the Almond
Tree- A Mixed Regiment of Zouaves
—Hotels and Hospitalities of the
Island—Thrifty Commerce During
the War -The Female Fruit Venders
of Nassau—American Hotel Wanted
There.
Three weeks ago the steamship Cienfue
gos, from Nassau for New York, arrived in
Tybee roads and landed a number of tour
ists at Khvu nimh. Some of them went on
to Florida, but the surroundings here were
so pleasant and enticing that quite a num
ber remained. Among them was a p ;rt,y
consisting of the sisters Misses L. S., J. A.
and H. C. Converse, of Burlington, Vt.,
who are still in the city and stopping at 114
South Broad street.
Miss L. S. Converse seems to have lost no
opportunity to study life in Nassau while
wintering there, and talks very pleasantly
of the place. In an interview with a
Morning News reporter yesterday she
said:
ON A CORAL STRAND.
“Nassau is a place which once seen is never
likely to be forgotten. It is a tiny West
Indian city, built on and from a coral
strand, half submerged in the Atlantic
ocean. It is unique both in formation and
civilization. Situated on the slope of a hill
it verges gradually by easy descent to I lie
harbor below, and with its belt of blue and
emerald water offers to the eye of the
traveler an exquisite harmony of glowing
color. Its narrow streets, white as if chis
eled from the snow-drift of the last North
ern blizzard, wind up and around the lull,
many of them over-arched with the glossy
leaved foliage of tamarind and almond trees.
The houses cream, yellow and chocolate,
and chinmeyless, with gabled or hipped
roofs are not, perhaps, architecturally beau
tiful, but seen through the long, jiendeut
branches of the eocoanut trees, with their
red roofs half hidden in the verdure, are ex
ceedingly quaint and picturesque. T. e
heart of the city presents a foreign appear
ance, as if French or Spanish, and the lower
part of Bay street, with its esplanade and
long-calleried barracks, with Fort Char
lotte in tlie distance is said to be much more
Spanish than English in aspect.
THE TURBANED SOLDIERS OF NASSAU.
“Marching through the quiint old streets
the West Indian regiment in their gay uni
forms may be daily seen, their zouave dress
as unique as picturesque. Witli their tur
bans of scarlet and white, with the long
tassels swinging over their shoulders, their
blue trousers, yellotv waistcoat and scarlet
gold-laced coat, and above all, with their
beaming, ebony faces, they afford a brilliant
bitot color against the white coral of the
streets. This zouave regiment is comp i-ed
of East Indians, Jamaica (colored) troops
and Congo Africans, and are as well dis
ciplined soldiei-s as one often sees. They
are commanded by English officers, sent
over for the purpose from England.
“On approaching Nassau, as we rounded
the point in the harbor, whereon stands the
lighthouse, we discovered that we were
floating in water as transparent as air, and
could distingui h the bottom thirty feet be
low us. It is a strata of white coral, colored
hero and there witli the yellows and browns
of the sea weeds, and it is so clear that if a
nickel lay at the bottom It could be easily
distinguished. Ascending the corai steps
w hich lead to the pier, we were greeted by
so many black faces and so few white ones
that we seemed to have fallen into the very
midst of an African colony. Negroes of
every description and age, from 3 to 83, and
varying in shade from baker’s chocolate to
an Indian ink, swarmed around us, all eager
to carry our luggage and earn an honest
pAiny.
HOTELS AND HOSPITALITIES OK THE ISLAND.
The Royal Victoria Hotel, our hostelry,
is situated near the summit of the hill, and
overlooks the entire city and harbor below
it. It was built by the Colonial government
at an expense of $1125,000, and is large,
commodious and picturesque, and with the
attentive kindness of the proprietor, affords
to the traveler a delightful resting place.
At the head of George street, on the high
est elevation, stands the Government House,
approached by several flights of marble
steps, at the head of one of which is a co
lossal statue of Columbus, a lsrge but un
pretentious mansion, surrounded bv hand
some grounds. Sit* Ambrose Sliea, the
newlv-made Governor, resides there, and
both he and Lady Shea unite in courteous
hospitalities to English and Americansalike.
“Through the thoughtful kindness of our
American Consul, Hon. T. J. McLain, our
winter on the island was rendered very de
lightful. A true American gentleman, he
unites the highest scholarly attainments
with great personal refinement.
“Much clemency is displayed here as re
gards the position of the vicegerent and
chief officials, and a certain degree of state
is sustained by every English Goveruo .
The entrance to his mansion is always
guarded by soldiers of the West Indian
regiment and an escort of the same accom
panies his carriage when on official duty.
The new Governor is a practical, sensible
man. and so tar lias been very successful in
hi office. At the opening of‘Parliament lie
stronglv advocated many effective meas
ures for increasing the commercial pros
jierity of the islands, one of them being the
establishment of telegraphic communication
with the United States by means of a sub
marine cable.
HAS OUTLIVED ITS COMMERCIAL ROOM.
“Nassau for the last hundred years has
had but a moderate commercial interest,
with tlie exee"*km of the four years of our
civil war, when the harbor was full of iron
clads and business rushed like a lightning
express. The wealth of tlie place to-day
lies almost exclusively in the hands of those
who coined their money by their strict
neutrality. But these days are long since
over, and the island is again taking a siesta.
Thrice happy land, where wars and rumors
of wars arc unknown and one needs go to
the post, office only twice a month! There
is rest, in the air, repose in every breeze and
tranquility in the wings of theirade wind!”
THE NATIVE FRUIT VENDERS.
“A feature in tho $i tssau landscape,
almost Oriental in aspect, is tlie market
house in early morning. The colored jieo
j>le. many of them pure Africans, and, it is
said, retaining among themselves the real
African language, each female bearing on
her head a tray of sapodillas. oranges and
pineapples, her shoulders draped with a
scarlet or yellow scarf, with, perhaps, a
bright-iiued handkerchief bound about her
bead; the foreign sailors, with huge gold
earrings gleaming in their ears, their ma
hogany-colored skins showing through the
o|xni front of their blue shirts, and here
a :d there a zouave in his scarlet, blue and
gold, mingling with the crowd, present a
b.zarre mid brilliant spectacle. Over all,
against tho background of blue sky and
bluer water, swings the long, feathery
branches of the eocoanut, mid the fragrance
of fruit and flowers fills the air.
AN AMERICAN HOTEL NEEDED.
But the city is not yet an Eden, for to the
stranger in this sunny laud the place offers
no sufficient resting place. With theexeep
tlon of the Royal Victoria and Mrs. < 'or*
sou’s smaller hotel only verv meager accom
modation* may be looked for. The Ro.nl
Victoria is charming but expensive for a
long sojourn, and Mrs. Corson’s house de
lightful, but so popular that it is aUvavs
over full. There is a second-c'a.s- inn. kept
by a West Indian, but not altogether desira
ble, so the management is not satisfactory.
Now, if one of our enterprising, energetic,
American landlordswould go down there
and open a medium-sized hotel, home-like
and pleasant, how s-on It would be
thronged with an influx of American tour
ists!’’
Mias Converse is a lady of no common lit
erary' attainments, having been a contribu
tor to quite a number of the popular East
ern publications. The winters in b.eak Ver
mont are detrimental to a throat affection
from which she suffers, and nonce her win
ters are spent in the tropical islands, eiuli ig
with a month or two in Savannah. During
the summer in the refreshing breezes of her
Green mountain home, she contemplates
writing what must prove to be an interest
ing retrospect of her w inter tours in a laud
of p. rpetual summer.
SHE LOVED NOT WISELY.
A Tallahassee Woman Deserted Here
by Her Betrayer.
A sad case of loving not wisely but too
well has been brought to light in the west
ern part of the city. A young woman here
tofore respected, and moving in respectable
society in Tallahassee, Fla., is now at tho
house of an old colored woman on Orange
street in jienury and want, with a two
weeks old child to care for. Her betrayer,
she says, is a dry goods and grocery clerk
of Tallahassee, and last night the proper
authorities at that place were notified by
telegraph to take the necessary measures
to comjiel the man who wronged her, and
whose name was given, to make reparation.
After her betrayal the young woman says
that her betrayer sent her to Savannah and
promised to come on himself in a day or
two and look after her. She came here,
paying for her ticket, and stopped at a pri
vate boarding house, where she remained
for two weeks. Her false friend had sug
gested to her that she should give her name
as Annie Lee Jones, which die did. But the
two weeks passed and he did not come, in
stead, he wrote to her, suggesting that she
find some quiet place with an old colored
woman, and when her child was borti to de
sert it aud return to Tallahassee and the
world would be no wiser. The
girl does not say in as many
words that her betrayer counseled
a more cruel treatment for the child than
desertion, but from her conversation the in
ference is plain that this was tlie first sug
gestion—tuo last one, of desertion was per
sistently made in tlie letters lie wrote her.
She found a lodging with a colored woman,
Annie Gaston, at Farm and Orange streets.
Tlie child was born two weeks ago, but the
maternal instinct was too strong for the
mother to follow the counsel of her betrayer.
She wrote him earnest letters asking him to
rescue her and Iter child from the poverty
and misery which surrounded them. To one
of these piteous ap|>eals lie sent her Jill but
coarsely refused to care lor the child, and
repeated liis counsel that she snould desert
it and come back to Tallaha s-e so that
himself and she should never bo suspected.
Sixty dollars is all that she had to pay for
her board and meet her other expenses.
That this was inadequate need n t be told.
When a Morning News reporter saw her
last night she was sitting in a low rocker
by a rude bed in the corner of a scantily
furnished room. A chinmeyless lamp re
vealed the pallid features of a petite bru
nette of 18 or 30 years, whose large brown
eyes seemed to have been recently wet with
tears. Often she bent over the bed where
her little blue-eyed daughter lay innocent
of a mother's sufferings and a mother’s
wrongs. The old negro woman left the
room and the girl told her sad story.
She had hesitated up till then to expose the
villain who bad sent her among strangers
and into such rude and uncouth associa
tions, promising to shield her from ruin
and deal justly by her, and only when she
learned that she was likely to be turned out,
even ft om this shelter, in helplessness and
weakness, moneyless and friendless, anil
with her child, did she consent to reveal by
what a thorny path she had come to her
present state, and give her real name and
the name of her lietrayer.
She said that both of them were mem
bers of the Methodist church in Tallahassee
in good standing; that her name had, until
now never lieen impugned, and while she
felt the stinging disgrace shv would not
consent to add the worse crime of murder
or desert her child to shield the father or
herself from the unfriendly criticisms of tho
world.
Her sad case was brought to the attention
of one of the Justices of the Peace in this
city last night aud a sympathizing friend
persuaded her to be governed by iiis coun
sel, which resulted in the telegram to the
authorities at Tallahassee alluded to aboVe.
THE SUNKEN ALICE CLARK.
Blowing Up the .Wreck with Dynamite
—Finding a Phosphate Bed.
The wreck of the steamer Alice Clark,
which was sunk in tho Stono river at
Church Flats, South Carolina, some time
ago while on her way from Charleston here,
is being removed.
The first work done on the wreck was the
cutting into three portions the hull of the
sunken steamer, which was done by njeans
of dynamite discharged by an electric bat
tery. This feature ot the |ierforiuance was
accompanied with much trouble and con
siderable danger. Avery large pile driver
and holster is at the wrecu and tiie hull,
alter having been blown in twain by dyna
mite, is being lifted out of the mud and
water. It will take at least three weeks to
accomplish the work, and a great deal of
labor and money will have to lie expended
in removing the obstruction entirely from
the river.
Tlie removal of tho wreck is a big under
taking, and withal exceedingly interesting.
It is tedious, aud those iu charge say it w ill
take a great deal of patience as "well as
money and labor.
The Alice Clark was owned by a com
pany in Brunswick, and after ‘removing
what there was left of her cargo, and all
available timbers and other paraphernalia,
the owners of the boat abandoned ttie
wreck to the government. As soon os this
was done the authorities at Washington
advertised for bids to remove tlie wreck
and thereby clear the channel of a danger
ous obstruction to navigation. Several
bids were sent in and the contract for re
moving the wreck was awarded to Capt.
Kirby S. Tupper, Ins bid lieing the lowest
and amounting to $9,545. Capt. S. W.
Rhodes is in charge of the work, and he
lias discovered under the wreck anew
phosphate bed. In driving piles around tho
wreck the t mbers, w hen down a few feet
under tho mud, struck sonic very hard sub
stance and refused to go dotfn anv further
although a pressure of 3,(HHI |>ouiids was
being driven on them. This hard substance
proved, on examination, to Ik* a bed of
phosphate rook, and it is supposed it is a
continuation of the stratum disc ivernt and
worked years ago in Church Creek, some
distance from where the new deposit has
i)i*i*n found. The Church Flats extend over
a large area of marsh land and water, and
of course belong to the State of South
Carolina.
Sudden Death.
P. J. Mahoney, a switchman employed
at the Central railroad, dropped dead at
his residence on Bay street, near Farm,
last night about 13 o’clock. He leaves a wife
nnd three children. His funeral, will take
place to-morrow .
Florida Railroads.
Jacksonville, Fla., April I.—Shernmn
Conant, general nnmugrr, and John W.
Candler, Preside't of the Florida Southern,
and Capt. D. K. Maxwell, general Superiii
dont, and A. 0. MacDouneJl. general pas
senger agent of the Florida Railway and
Navigate n roads, went to Tallahassee this
afternoon to ap|K*nr before the Railroad
Commissioners to-morrow in an effort to
increase the rates on their roads.
It is said to-night that tho Peninsular
division of tut* Florida Railway and Navi
gation road will l* sold to morrow by the
master as advertised. The sale of the other
branch will probably lie po-stjMinol.
The only black hosiery that gives perfect
sal isfaction ami will not crock U'ars the
name of Smith & AngelL Sold by the best
dealers
TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1888.
THE OCEaN STEAMSHIP LINE.
General Manager Corrol Chats About
the Company's Aff Ur3.
I Gen. G. M. Sorrel, General Manager of
the Ocean Steamship Company, his re
| turned from it recent visit to the North in
| the interest of the company. In an inter
i view with a Morning News reporter he
expre-sed himself as highly pleased with the
dock facilities of the company at New
York and Boston. He says that tho New
York docks are now in good condition and
are tho best in the country, and admirably
arranged for the prompt and comfortable
handling of passengers. The docks are on
the North river and are 600 feet in length.
The Boston pier, lie says, is 650 feet in
length and has recently tieen completed,
j The and. cks are heated by steam and ligh e l
by electricity, with steam power for load
:i ngand unloading vessels. The company
j is completely equipped for handling the
crowing business, its terminal facilities
being unsurpassed. Its business is increas
ing with a steady growth. Gen. Sorrel
thinks, howoVer, after comjiaring the offices
at New York anil Boston with that of Sa
vannah, that the latter will soon have to be
enlarged to facilitate the requirements of
their Southern terminus, increased dock
facilities at Philadelphia w ill also be re
quired at an early date if the incr ase of
patronage continues to grow as it steadily
lias in the recent past.
The change of schedule in sailing from
Monday, Wednesday and Kridav, to Sun
day, Tuesday and Friday, Gen. Sorrel says,
was done to meet the demands of the deal
ers East, and the wants of the truck farm
ers of Savannah and Florida. It insures
certain delivery for the New York Satur
day market, and does away with the com
plaints of the New York dealers who coin
plained of tho Wednesday vessel’s getting
there to late for the Saturday markets.
While he was North Gen Sorrel visited
Chester, w here the City of Birmingham is
building. He says that tho work is pro
gressing favorably, and that the new ship
will bo one of the best carriers of the Ocean
service. She is now two-thirds plated, and
will be ready for launching by June 1. She
will cost about $380,000. She is to be 330
feet long, and 43" j feet beam.
She is a three-decker, and will be provided
with tiie most complete mechanism for tlie
handling of cargoes. Her engines and
boilers are to lie well forward, and her cast
ings will be of the bast. She is to be of
d,(K)O tons gross capacity, and designed for
3,300 tons dead weight. Her bulk capacity
will be from 6,500 to 7,IKK) bales of cotton.
The vessel will id ready to put to sea about
the first week in August.
Local Personal.
J. A. Powell, of Jesup, is at the Harnett
House.
Win. Wynn, of Louisville, Ga., is at tho
Marshall.
W. S. Mallord, of Darien, is at the Mar
shall House.
J. T. Stevens, of Kite, Ga., is registered
at the Marshall.
D. F. Kirkland, of Way cross, is at the
Marshall House.
Hon. Martin V. Caloin, of Augusta, is at
the Screven House.
Messrs. I. T. Tiehenor and R. A. Guy,
of Atlanta, are guests of the Screven.
Messrs. Robert J. Davis and J. A. Streno,
of Columbus, are guots of the Harnett.
Miss Julia Whippier, of Macon, is visit
sng Mrs. J. J. Carolan, ou Montgomery
street.
Wm. O. Wadley, agent of the Central
railroad at Rogers, also a prominent saw
mill man of Burke county, is in the city,
registered at the Screven.
W. B. Somerville, Esq., Press Agent of
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
arrived in the city yesterday from New
York by steamer, en route to attend the
annual meeting of the Southern Press Asso
ciation, which meets in New Orleans April
4. Mr. Somerville will leave this morning
for his destination via the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway.
LOST IN THE BREAKERS.
A Lady Browned, but Her Two Com
panions Rescued
St. Augustine, Fla., April I.—James
C. Kerr and wife and Alfred Mitnseu went
to North Beach this afternoon in a small
sailboat. While returning the boat was
capsized and all of the party were carried
out into tlie breakers by the strong tide.
Mr. K rr held his wife in his arms, but the
boat rolled over and carried the unfortu
nate woman underneath, drowning her.
After clinging to tlie boat until nearly
exhausted the two survivors were
rescued by pilot Dan Allen and others in a
lifeboat. Messrs. Kerr and Munson are
from New* York. Mi s. Kerr was formerly
Miss Lillie Brown, of Palatka, where her
father still resides. She was born in Brock
ton, Mass. Her body has not vet been re
covered. Mr. Kerr lost considerable money,
money, which was in his pockets.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
Facts Picked up by a Physician.
Neiv York, March 31. —Tho revival of
persons apparently dead may often lie ac
complished by mechanical action of the
heart, this being better than electricity, as
the latter may destroy the last remaining
contractile power of the muscle. This
method has done good service iu cases of
drowning and of asuhyxia from coal gas,
and in one cascof apparent death from
chloroform.
The latest antiseptic is sodium fluosilicate.
It is not poisonous and has no smell; is
sparingly soluble in water, and lias only a
very slightly saline taste.
A now cure for habitual constipation is a
three to five imundcannon ball rolled about
upon tho abdoiueu for five to ten minutes
daily.
Transplanting of the rabbit cornea to the
eye of man lms Ikimi several times success
fully acc mplished and sight thereby re
stored. This is even more remarkable and
more useful than transplanting teeth.
Anew remedy fore tape-worm is the fruit
of the Kmbeliaribes.
It is now proposed to use sugar for pre
serving meat, as it absorbs less of the juice
and flavor of the meat than salt. does.
The bolt rifle seems to be behaving badly,
judging from recent English tests.
The advocates of wire guns are again
pushing their arguments. For American
manufacture, it may be said that ordinary
cast metal will be the principal material of
eonstru tion until Mqiereedeii by compressed
castings, and these will perhaps hold the
day until their place is tukcu by hydraulic
forgings.
A portable railway switch has been in
vented, and should prove useful in many
cases upon both steam and horse railways,
The Mediterranean railway, of Italy, has
succ- ssfullv applied the water jet for iu
creasing the traction of its locomotive
wheels in the place of sand. Tho c ist for
water isnbout one-eighth that for said. Gf
course, it will not answer for cold climates.
The Gothard railway has fifty-five engine*
fitted with the water jet for traction in
creasing.
The Russian armored cruiser Souvenir de
l’Azoy will lie able to steam t wenty miles
an hour, aud to carry enough coal for n
voyage of 30,000 miles without entering
jKirt.' The or *w nutnliers 535.
Hollow iron masts have b-*en shown to
act like chimneys in promoting spontaneous
combustion of a coal laden vessel.
Robert Grimshaw, Ph. t>.
Bass Ball Under Difficulties.
New York, April I. Despite the rain,
sno .v and sleet, over 5.000 people saw the
opening Im e ball game of the season at
Ridge won 1 Park, Brooklyn, to-day. The
score was: Newark ", Brooklyn 3.
A SiottX City man who had been bald for
years, was surprised lately to discover a hatch
of flerv red hair about the size of a silver dollar
growing from the crown of his head. It came
forth with surprising rapidity, and iu a few
dais was several Inches in length.
THE TOMB OF A MILLIONAIRE.
The Stanford Mausoleum Will Fclipse
Those of Vanderbilt and Gould.
l-'nmi the Pittsburg Press.
Washington, March 34. —The architect
who planned the magnificent mausoleum of
Senator Stanford at San Francisco was in
Washington last week. He says that it
will bo the most elaborate repository for
the dead ever built in this country. The
beautiful mausoleum of Jay Gould at
Wooillawn, and the magnificent tomb of
the Vanderbilts at Huguenots, Staten
Island, will be eclipsed by this work of
monumental art.
In stylo of architecture, the simple but
effective methods of the ancient Egyptians
will bo followed. Massive, imperishable
granite of a light shade of gray, with an
interior lining of the
will tie employed. The item of expense has
not been considered, the designers being
given carte blanche as to cost, and directed
to secure the best of material and work
manship to be had. The total outlay nec
essary to complete the tomb and prepare
the surroundings will reach $109,000, and
may considerably exceed that amount.
The item of transportation alone will be a
large one, ns the granite will all be ship
ped from Vermont aud the marble from
Italy,
The site selected is a beautiful four-acre
plot in the Senator’s grounds just outside
of San Francisco. It already contains
handsome shrubbery, and occupies an alti
tude commanding a magnificent view of
the bay. A driveway sixty feet wide will
be made, circling around a slight elevation,
on the brow of which will be the tomb.
The art cf the landscape gardener will be
employed to beautify the approaches and
render even more effective the vistas of the
park.
The structure will be in the form of a
temple and will tie twenty five feet square.
There will boa double row of massive gran
ite columns supporting the roof of the
portico at the front. (In each side of the
entrance will be a majestic sphinx carved
from a single block of granite. Heavy
bronze gates close tho entrance, and within
are solid doors of polished granite. The
roof and side are also of granite, and are
to be built in tho most substantial man
ner. The stone employed is the Barre
granite, from Barre, \'L Tt has a slight
bluish gray tint which shows delicate carv
ing to advantage, ad retains its color with
out change. Each block was cut the requis
ite shape at the quarry, and marked to desig
nate its position. They were then boxed to
prevent injury, and shipiie 1 to San Fran
cisco. All of the main portions of the struc
ture have been sent on, and work on the
excavations for the tomb has been com
menced.
The carving of the sphinxes and the more
delicate portions of the stonework have been
done in this city under the direction of
Messrs. Caterson & Clark, tlie designers of
the tomb. The two majestic sphinxes are
admirably done, and as worthy guardians
of the ashes of an American money king as
their prototpyes were of the remains of the
ancient Ptolemies.
Tho interior of the mausoleum will be
done in white marble. The ceiling will be a
single arch of marble with a span of
twenty-five feet. There will be no crypts
or vaults, and provision will be made for
the remains of only three persons —those of
the Senator and Mrs. Stanford and the son.
These will occupy sarcophagi placed on the
three sides of the chamber The body of
tiie son, over which Dr. Talmage preached
the funeral oration nearly two years ago, is
now' in a receiving vault in San Francisco
awaiting the completion of the tomb. The
sarcophagi are b ing made in Italy. Each
one will be hewn from a single block of
the purest white marble. The lid will be
made of a separate piece, and the exterior
ornamented with the most exquisite carv
ing. The,casket containing the bodies will
tie enclosed in a leaden cadng liefore being
placed in tiie sarcophagus. Each recep
tacle will contain an appropria e inscrip
tion, and the name “Stanford” will appear
over the entrance.
The mausoleun will be completed during
the coming summer, and when finished
will be a fitting abode for the remains of
one of th* most successful men of the day
—a railroad magnate, a milliouaii#, and a
philanthropist who is building a university
that will cost between $15,000,009 and S3O -
000,000; a man who lives magnificently,
with wealth and friends and everything
that makes life worth living, yet who has
had the great sorrow of losing his son, his
only chilli, aud when he and his wife are
called to another world and their remains
occupy their stately tomb, the family his
tory w ill end.
GEORGIA UNIONISTS.
The Demand that is Now Made of Con
gress.
Atlanta (Ga.) S/yecial to Augusta Chronicle.
It is not generally known, but neverthe
less true, that Georgia furnished one regi
ment of infantry to tlie Federal service dur
ing the civil war. It was not a full regi
ment, and somehow the otih ers and men
were never paid for their services, although
they did hard fighting and a number of
them were killed and wounded. They are
before this Congress with a petition. This
Georgia command was made lip among the
hardy Uni nists of Whitfield, Murray,
Fannin, Dawson and Pickens, the
last two counties furnishing the
majority of the recruits. When Jonnstnn’s
army abandoned its position about Dalton
and debouched across the Gostanaula, one
James 11. Brown, of Whitfield, was author
ized by Gen. Thomas, commanding the army
of the Cumberland, to raise and equip a
regiment for guard duty along the line of
the Western and Atlantic railroad. Col.
Brown half accomplished his mission, or-*
ganized several companies and proved a
valuable ally to tlie Federals during
the stirring campaign that followed.
When Shernmn had approached very
near tiie gates of Atlanta Col.
Brown and his command came to sudden
grief. One evening, while he was in camp
near the town of Cartersville, Gen. W. F.
Wofford, who commanded a detachment of
Confederate troops, raided his bivouac and
killed, captured or scattered his men. No
one ever heard of them from that time un
til they approached this Congress with the
demand taut their muster rail* bo re-estab
lished and they be paid for their services.
They are represented by W. 11. Walker, an
attorney at Belton, and Mr. Candler has
introduced a bill for their relief.
Funny Things Remembered by an Old
Book: Canvasser.
S’. 11. Keaeh in Hartford Times.
An old canvasser, whose memory goes back a
lon-: way. tells some funny anecdotes, of which
1 will transcribe a few. lam assured they were
actual occurrences.
It frequently happens that persons from whose
apjiearaiioe tiie reverse might tie exacted Ik*-
tray the densest ignorance the moment they
speak, the canvasser once exhibited a litho
graph to a lady iti a New England city, amt ex
plained that it was th<* likeness ot Gen. Grant,
then nearing the zenith of his fame, haying just
captured Vicksburg. He was astonish ’d by the
lady's sober question:
“What's he, the one that’s crossin' th* Alp?”
In another instance the canvasser began to
show a lady a nundier of photographs, and tho
first one opened to happened to lie the immor
tal author of "Paradise Lost."
“Milton," said she. “that’s tho one that got
up tin* Panorama of Heaven, ain't it?"
And about a copy of Dm lse *r's painting—
" The Rescue" in which a bov is saved by a
noble Newfoundland, who is panting on the
sh- ire. an old lady is said to have reuiarko l sym
pathetically, I should think the poor little
child would be tired of pulling that lag dog out
of the water."
A lady was told by the agent that the work l.e
had was miseellaneous in character.
“Oh! Miss Laney is the author of it, is she'"
was tlie response.
A young canvasser, boasting to a friend that
he had "buzzed" a deaf and dumb man and se
eured bis subscription on a slate, was encour
agingly advised to try canvassing in a neighbor
ing graveyard after a little more experience.
A mdy having seen a picture of "Christ Be
fore Pilate." told tlie canvasser, some time
afterward, that there was one particular pic
ture which she greatly admired and desired him
to obtain for her, and that was “Christ liefore
King Philip,"
Verily, I believe it is a canvassing agent's own
fault if lie doesn't touch nnd crow fat."
A TONBORIAL ARTIST.
Wherein He Differs from a Plain Ordi
nary Barber.
From the Chicago Newt.
There is a tonsorial artist in this city by
the alliterative name of Willie Wilton.
The word tonsorial artist is not chosen
from any love of verbal display. It is used
advisedly and discriminatingly.
A barber is a man who gets 15c. for a
shave or 35c. for a shampoo. A tonsorial artist
is a man who arranges to keep a gentleman’s
head in repair for so much a month.
That is w hat Willie Wilton does. He has
the patronage of thirty very rich and fash
ionable gentlemen of this city, among whom
are two most prominent merchants, several
well known board of trails men, three dis
tinguished pork-puckers, one of whom has
the handsomest beard in the city, and a
popular clergyman and a number of legal
gentlemen whose profundity is only equaled
by their fastidiousness. K v ery morning at
an early hour Willie begins his duties. In
the course of the day he visits, at convenient
and prearranged hours, the houses of his
thirty fashionable patrons.
Bu t Willie’s duties do not consist alone in
keeping the head of the house neatly
trimmed and scraped. He also dresses the
hair of madams when she goes out in the
evening. He goes further and improves
the curve of mailame’s brows and the color
of madame’s cheeks. He shampoos the heads
of the young aristocrats and keeps their locks
cut in the most becoming and fashionable
manner.
Ho can give a psyche knot a twist that is
simply anacreomc. He can make a Paris
ierme out of a Chicago girl whose ancestors
were a line of dry-goods clerks.
He can shave a lawyer in a way best
calculated to make him look judicial, and
he has a trick of forcing an imperial to
suggest bonds and coupons which is
very gratifying to his patrons.
But his accomplishments do not stop here.
He has one talent which outweighs all of
these. He can paint a black eye till it looks
as white as the driven snow and as harm
less as a cooing dove. He will do this in
five minutes and for $5, and, though he
only shaves millionaires, he is willing to
paint any one’s black eye. Moreover he
never strikes.
It will be seen that Willie Wilton is not
merely a tonsorial artist—he is a philan
thropist—and he has thirty regular cus
tomers, each of whom pays him $lO a mouth
for his artistic services.
Weather Indications,
~1 Special indications for Georgia
FAIR and Eastern Florida: Light to fresh
l____|southwesterly winds, becoming
variable, slightly warmer, fair
weather, followed in northern portions by
falling temperature.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nah, April 1, 1888, and Uih mean of same day
for fifteen years.
Departure Total
Mean Temperature from the j Departure
Mean Since
for 15 years Apr. 1, ‘BB -|- or Jan. 1,188&
STo i 67 0 -I- 4.0 —37 0
Comparative rainfall statement:
I^ y [ j Des?L
AmounlfOT for Mean & mce
16 \ears, Apr. 1, 88. or _ Jan ;. m
J 5 | !i" I— .15 3.15
Maximum, temperature 80, minimum tem
perature 57.
The height of the river at Augusta at
1:33 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time)
was 31.7 feet—a fall of 8.1 during the past
twentv-four hours.
Observations taken at the same moment
of time at all stations.
Savannah. April 1. 3:36 p. city time.
Temperature.
j Direction. J ?
Velocity. ! F
Rainfall.
Nam*
OF
Stations.
Portland S'.j S Cloudy.
Boston MW .. 08! Raining.
Block Island 38 SW T* Cloudy.
New York city. .. 42 SE .. 01 Cloudy.
Philadelphia 44 E .. Cloudy.
Detroit... 38.N K Clear.
Fort Buford... ... 201 E Cloudy.
St. Vincent 10 NAV Clear.
Washington city.. 4* S Cloudy.
Norfolß 58 S E 6 ... Clear.
Charlotte 68jSW 6 .... Clear.
Hatteras 01 S 16 Clear.
Point Jupiter, Fla 74 Sj6 T* Fair.
Titusville 78 S 0..... Clear.
Wilmington fii 8 W 10 . . . Clear.
Charleston 04 SW; 0 T* Fair.
Augusta. 68 S .... Clear.
Savannah 06 S i 8 (dear.
Jacksonville 0" SE| .... Clear.
Cedar Keys 70 BW, 10 .... Fair.
Key West 76 NE . ... Clear.
Atlanta.. 66 SW 10 . I Clear.
Pensacola 66 SW 10 (dear.
Mobile... 60 S ,10... Cloudy.
Montgomery .. 68 S Clear.
Vicksburg 72 SW (dear.
Now Orleans 72 SW Hi.... Cloudy.
Shreveport TO W ..! Clear.
Fort Smith 70 SW Clear.
Galveston 70 S 8 .... Clear.
Corpus Ohristi .. 70 SEI2 Clear.
Palestine 72 S 12 Clear
Brownesviile 72 S 12 Clear.
Rio Grande 4
Knoxville 08 SW . (dear.
Memphis 74 S W Clear.
Nashville 74 S Clear.
Indianapolis 64 W .00’Cloudy.
Cincinnati 7oSW Clear.
Pittsburg 08 S . Clear.
Buftaio 84 N E . 24 Raining.
Cleveland > N E Cloudy.
Marquette. 21 NW . .10 Snowing.
Chicago 88 NW Clear.
Duluth 20 NE .. .04 Cloudy.
St. Paul 84 NW Cloudy.
Davenport 44 NW Clear.
Cairo 74, S W Clear.
St. Louis 68} W .. Clear.
Leavenworth... . 58 N (dear.
Omaha 44 N ...... Fair.
Yankton
Bismarck 18 NW . Clear.
Deauwood
Cheyenne i
North Platte !
Dodge City 62 N E Clear.
Santa F e 54 N Clear.
T* denotes trace of rainfall.
G. N. Salisuury Signal Corps.
"Deliberate workers are those thae accom
plish the most in a given time, “says a leisurely
authority. Did the gentleman oversee a hand
of carpenters happily engaged in building a
house by the day?— Somerville Journal.
MEDIC \F.
Be Sure
If you have made up your mind to huy
Hood's Sarsaparilla do not be induced to tako
any other. A Boston lady, whose example Is
worthyjmitation, tells her experience below:
“ In one store where I went to buy Hood’s
Sarsaparilla the clerk tried to Induce me buy
their own instead of Hood’s; hetoldnietlicir’s
would last longer; that I might take it on ten
To Get
days’ trial; that if I did not like it I need not
pay anything, etc. But he could not prevail
on mo to change. I told him I had taken
Hood's Sarsaparilla, knew what it was, was
satisfied wjth it, and did not want any other.
When I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla
I was feeling real miserable with dyspepsia,
and so weak that at times I couidTrardly
Hood’s
stand. 1 looked like a person In consump
tion. Hood's Sarsaparilla did me so-much
good that I wonder at myself sometimes,
mid my friends frequently speak of it.” Mbs.
Ella A. Gofk, 61 Terrace Street, Boston.
Sarsaparilla
Sold by ail druggists, fI, six for J 5. Prepared only
by C. 1. HOOD A t'o.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Masi.
100 Doses One Hollar
FUNERAL INVITATION’S.
BRYAN.—The friends and acquaintance of
Maj and Mrs. L. C. Bryan are respectfully in
vited to attend the funeral of the former from
his late residence, corner Hull and Barnard
strets, THIS AFTERNOON at 3:30 o’clock.
McOUIRE.—The friends and acquaintance of
Mr. and Mrs. John McGuire, of Francis McGuire
and family and of Mrs. Honora Honk ins are in
vited to attend the funerals of Walter and
Charles, sons of the former, from the family
residence, New Houston, between Drayton and
Aoercorn streets, THIS AFTERNOUaN at 4
o’clock.
MEETINGS.
DeKALB LODGE NO. 9, I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o’clock.
The First Decree will lie conferred.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of ROBT. aM. HICKS, N. G.
John Riley, Secretary.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
The regular monthly meeting of this Society
will be held at Hodgson Hall on MONDAY even
ing at 7:30 o’clock.
Gen. will deliver a lecture on “The
Maryland Campaign of 1862. including the Cap
ture of Maryland Heights and Harpers’ Ferry.”
Members of the Society aud the public geu
erally are invited to attend.
( Has. x. WEST, Recording Secretary.
TITLE GUARANTEE de LOAN COMPANY
OF SAVANNAH.
The Stockholders will hold the regular an
nual meeting at Metropolitan Hall, corner of
President and Whitaker streets, on MONDAY,
April 2d. at 7:30 o’clock p. m The Directors
will submit their actings ami doings for confir
mation. A full attendance is requested.
Directors—D. B. lister. Henry Bluu, Chas. H.
Dorsett, Geo. H. Stone. Geo. N. Nichols, Jacob
Cohen, A. K. Fawcett. M. J. Solomons.
ISAAC BECKETT, Secretary.
OGLETHORPE REAL EtfTATB COM
PANY.
A meeting of this Cempany will be held at
Metropolitan Hall on TUESDAY, April Bd. at 8
o’clock p. m. It is earnestly desired that every
Shareholder be present in person or by proxy,
as important business will be presented for
final action. By order of
E. A. WEIL, President.
En. F. Neufville, Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisements inserted under “Special
Notices" will be charged $1 (X) a Square each
insertion
NOTICE TO WATER-TAKERS.
Office Water Works, f
Savannah, April 2d. 1888. \
The water will be shut off at U o*clc*ek
a. m. TO-DAY (Monday) in the district bounded
on the north by Bay street, on the south by Hull
street, on the east by hast B.oad street, and on
the west by Abe room street, for the purpose of
moving fire hydrants on Broughton street, and
will be off for several hours.
A. N. MILLER, Superintendent.
NOTICE TO WATER-TAKERS.
Office Water Works, )
Savannah, April 2d, 1888. j
The water will be shut off at 1) o’clock TO
MORROW (Tuesday) MORNING in the district
bounded on the north by W'aldburg street, on
south by Anderson street, on the east by Price
street and or. the west by Whitaker street for
the purjxwe of moving fire hydrants on Aber
eoru street, and will be off for a few' hours
A. N. MILLER. Superintendent.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Department of Savings. )
Southern Bank of the State of Georgia. V
Savannah, April 3d, 1888. S
Interest for the first quarter of the present
year is now due and will i>e paid on demand.
Depositors w ill please leave their books to be
balanced on and after the 10th Inst.
JOSEPH COPPS, Accountant.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Saavnnah, Oa., March 31, 1888.
On and after April 2 proximo, and until fur
ther notice, the undersigned Banks and Bankers
will observe the following hours:
OPEN, J A. M.
CLOSE, 1:80 P. M.
THOS. GADSDEN, Cashier,
"Merchants' Nat ional Bank of Savannah.
JAS. BULLIVA N. Cashier,
Southern Bank of the State of Georgia.
JAS. H. HUNTER. Cashier.
Savannah Bank and Trust Cos.
THOS. F. THOMSON, Cashier,
The National Bank of Savannah.
GEO. C. FREEMAN, Cashier,
r Citizens’ Bank of Savannah.
CHAS. H. OLMSTEAD & CO.
SPEC I \L NOTICE.
CHRIST CHURCH.
The annual election of Wardens and Vestry
men of this Church will be held in the basement
of the Church building on M< >NDAY, 3d day of
April, 1888, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 2
p. m. By the Vestry.
State
OF
Weather.
DKITBCHKS theater.
A dramatic performance in the German lan
guage will be given at
TURNER HALL
On EASTER MONDAY EVENING, at 8 o'clock.
After the performance,
HOP.
Admission, 50 cents.
CHANGE Of DEbIGXATIOxT
On and after April 2, Messrs. W. T. Seward &
Cos., Brokers in
CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZER MATERIALS,
will trade under the firm name of
SEWARD, LANG & CO.
W. T. SEWARD,
J. 3* LANG.
FOR BALE.
TWENTY FIRST-CLASS MULES.
Also, A FEW GOOD HORSES.
Apply to JAMES E. MORAN,
EASTEII EGGS lit KB.
FIVE COLORS FOR FIVE CENTS.
For Kidney and Liver Complaint us > Kieffer's
Liver Specific. An infallible remedy for all dis
eases of the Kidney and Liver. Dyspepsia,
Headache, Heartburn, etc.
EDWARD .1. KIEFFER'S,
Drugs and Seeds, corner West Broad and Stew
art streets.
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OVV XEIIB.
City of Savannah, |
Office City Surveyor. March 2d, 1888. (
The ordinances of the city of Savaunah re
quire that the City Surveyor shall establish the
line and grade for sidewalks.
All property owners are hereby required to
notify the City Surveyor of their intention to
set curb, in order that he may establish the
proper line and grade.
The above will be done without cost to the
property owners.
No grades or lines will be given until the curb
intended to be set is upon the ground.
J. df. BKUYN KOPS. c. E.,
Acting City Surveyor.
ELECTION NOTICE.
CiTY of Savannah, i
Office Clerk of (TJt’ncil, f -
Savannah. Ua.. March 42d. 1888. I
Under and by virtue of a resolution adopted
by Council at meeting of March 7th. 1888, Coun
cil will elect at its next regular meeting, that is
to sav, on WEDNESDAY, April Ith, 1888, an
HEALTH OFFICER, to fill vacancy occasioned
by the death of Dr. ,1. T. McFarland. Salary,
SI,MO per annum. Applicants must hand in
their applications to the Clerk of Council ai or
before 2 o'clock p. u. WEDNESDAY, April tth,
1888,
By order of Council.
FRANK E. REBARER,
Clerk of Council.
MIXES FOR ba L K
—AT—
MARGARET AND FARM STREETS.
L. M. RAWLS.
I'LMEH’H LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is Invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to tbo 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. 8100
• bottle, Freight paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER, M. D.,
Pharmacist, Savannah Oa I
F. R. & N. CO.
IMPORTANT
TO
Tourists M Setilers.
THE F. R, & N.
THE FLORIDA RAILWAY AND NAVIGA
TION COMPANY makes daily connection
with the Savannah, Florida and -Western Fast
Mail train at Callahan (connection sure), and
with all other trains at Jacksonville, leaving tha
latter place- at 9 a. m., 12:30 p . and 8:30 p. m
for all points in South Florida, viz: Hawthorne’
Gainesville, Cedar Key, Silver Springs, Blue
Springs; Ocala, Wildwood, Panasoffkee, St.
Catharine's, Owensboro. Dade City, Plant City"
Tampa, Bartow, Puuta Gorda, Leesburg, Eido:
rado. Tavares, Apopka, Orlando, Titusville, and
the Indian river country.
The ouly line giving a choice of three route*
to points ou the west coast of Florida, viz:
Through Cedar Key, Lacooohee, Plant City and
Orlanuo. The most beautiful and picturesque
portions of the State are traversed by this line.
Hundreds of hearing orange groves are passed
and seen from the curs. The lovely lakes—Loch
losa, Orange, Harris, Griffin, Eusti-, Dora
Panasoffkee and Apopka—are located on this
line.
The only line reaching most of the points
named, and close aud direct connections made
to ali others. The famous Silver Spring.*the
head of the Ocklawaha. river, can only be
reached all rail—via this line. The short and
direct route to the beautiful Homosaasa coun
try, abounding in fish and game, and passing
Blue Springs, the head of the Wekiva (Blue
river).
The only line to Fernandina, with the cele
brated beach of twenty-two miles’ drives, and
only thirty-six miles from Jacksonville; three
daily trains. The only line to Tallahassee, the
capital of the State, Madison, Mouticello and
Quincy. Florida's great tobacco industries are
located on this division of the Florida Railway
aud Navigation. In fact, there is hardly an im
portant point in the State not reached by this
Great Trunk Line System. First-class road
beds and excellent train service. Through
tickets at low rates, and baggage checked to ail
points.
Don't fail to semi for elegant Indexed town
ship map of Florida.
For information regarding rates and routes
inquire of any of the company’s agents or the
following officers of the road:
Jacksonville Ticket office. 86 Bay street.
A. O. MACDONELL, G. P. A.
D. 2. MAXWELL, Gen. Supt.
DUNLAP’S
NEW
Spring Hats,
NASCIMINTO’S
FLEXIBLE HAT
SMITH AND ANG-ELL’S
FAST BLACK HALF HOSE,
We warrant every pair. Should they dye or
stain the feet money refunded.
THESE FAST BLACK HALF HOSE HAD
ONLY AT LaFAR’S.
An Elegant Line of New Scarfs
Just Open.
La F A R,
29 Bull Street.
FOOD PRODUCTS.
Forest City Mills.
COW PEAS, COW PEAS.
Carload Just In.
50 cars White and Mixed Corn,
30 cars White and Mixed Oats,
10 cars Wheat Bran,
40 cars Eastern and Western Hay,
AT
REDUCED PRICES.
GRITS, MEAL,
CORN EYES,
STOCK FEED, FLOUR,
PREPARED FLOUR.
ALL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY
AND SATISFACTION GUARNTEED.
Jill, Uaiis Hit
(I
IRON WORKS.
MtOoioiif & Bailantm
ISON FOUNDERS,
Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blacksmith*
: MANUFACTURERS OF
STATIONARY and PORTABLE ENGINES,
VERTICAL and TOP RUNNING CORN
MILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
A GENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, the
1 simplest and most effective on the market;
Gidlett Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the
beat in the market.
All orders promptly attended to. Bend fat
Price List.
I.UOM K, I b AND LIQUORS^
B. SELECT WHISKY, per gallon $4 00
BAKER WHISKY, per gallon 4 00
IMPERIAL WHISKY, per gallon 8 t
PINEAPPLE WHISKY, per gallon * 00
OLD RYE WHISKY, per gallon 1
N. E. RUM and RYE GIN 2 00
MADEIRA, PORT and SHERRY WINES 82 <
to $3 00.
CATAWBA and BLACKBERRY WINES $1 00
to 81 50
OKO('FRIES of all kinds cheap.
FRUITS of all kinds cheap.
MAUON SAUSAGE, nice, fresh,dally.
BANANAS from 75c. to f 1 25 per hunch*
—FOR HALE BY
A. H. CHAMPION
15* CONGRESS STREET.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS".
CULTIVATORS
$550
FOR. SALK n V
J. D. WEED & CO.
mil 13 MORNING NEWS camera reach
I I I IV every part of the city early. Twenty*
iII 1 1 five cants a week pay. for the Dte*