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XflE ELECTRIC DEATH.
keMMLEK’S EXECUTION A NEW
£BA IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
EoW Other Nations Do It-The Guil
lotine the Most Widely Prevalent
Xcde in Europe—Execution in China,
Japan, Turkey, Morocco, Russia,
js/-:ca, Persia, Siam, and Elsewhere.
Frightful Barbarities that Prevail in
Savage Lands—Criminals Trampled
by Elephants, Clubbed, Burned
_ , ;ve , impaled, Bowstrung and
Knou'ted- What Civilization Has
Accomplished.
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>‘e\f York, April S2S.—WitbJ the execu
tion of Joseph Kemtpler, the convicted
murderer, at Auburn prison this week, a
rf ,, v era in capital punishment begins. It
Fas been reserved for the humanitarians of
imerica to lead the way in the abolition of
old and barbarous method of taking
Ives that have been forfeited to the law,
and to substitute for strangulation by the
ro p 6i the speedy, paiuless and effective
death by the electrical chair, in which the
condemned may pass away without afford
ing a sp £Ctac l® at once unscientific and re
volting.
The electrical contrivance bv means of
which Kemmler will be executed was con
structed under the supervision of Harold P.
Brown, anelectrical engineer of New York.
The machines are Westinghouse dynamos,
and the current to be used is known as the
alternating current, which comes In pulsit
ing waves, and which recent experiments
demonstrated to be the most deadly of all
currents. The “death chair” is con
structed on the model of an inva
lid’s reclining chair. This chair, with
tfce necessary apparatus, has been
placed in a cell to which Kemmler will be
conducted on the morning of the execution.
Before seating him in the chair the guards
will fasten bis hands in front and put a
strong leather strap with buckles under the
armpits. These buckles, when the con
demned is seated, will be connected with the
rings on the arms of the chair, and a sponge
with wire connection placed at the base of
the spine. Then the cap—a peculiar affair
constructed of black rubber—will lie ad
justed. Inside the cap is a spiral of copper
vtire, five inches in diameter, which fits
well over the crown of the head, and which,
belore being finally adjusted will be cov
ered with a sponge wet with salt water.
From the ceiling of the room and immedi
ately over the chair hang two flexible wires,
while on the ceil wall is an electrical dial to
indicate the intensity of the current, and
which is operated by a small and mblo switch,
similar to those used in telegraph offices for
turning on and off the current. One of
these wires will be adjusted to the connec
tion in the top of the helmet-like cap and
the other to the sponge at the base of the
spine.
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FROM A NEW PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ELECTRI
CAL DEATH CHATR.
All is now ready for the execution. But
before the final touch is given to the switch
that shall send the victim to eternity, a
connection is made with an instrument in
an adjoining cell and the subject feels a
slight electric thrill, by no means painful or
unpleasant. This is done to apply what is
known as the “Wheatstone Test,” for the
purpose of ascertaining Kemmler’s electri
cal resistance, and occupies only a moment.
The black cloth is then pulled over Kemm
ler’s face; the officers staud back while the
last prayer is said by the prison chaplain;
the signal is given; the executioner gives
the switch a little push to 'no side and
1,000 volts of the alternating current pass
through the murderer iu the chair. There
is a muscular spasm, a faint quivering of
the limbs and “it is over.” There i3 noth
ing like a convulsion; hardly any thing more
perceptible than the fluttering of the
need,e in a compass box. The duration
of sensibility is hardly to be measured even
by seconds. The brain is instantly paral
yzed, before even the nerves can communi
cate any appreciable sense of shock. Prof.
Helmholtz estimates that 1-10 of a second is
the time needed to produce death; Prof.
Tyndall says 1-1000 of a second, and Prof.
Elihu Thompson has declared that it is abso
lutely impossible that any pain cau bo felt
by the subject condemned to an electric
death,
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THE CITIZENS’ DEATH IN CHINA.
Vext to the electrical chair, tbe most per
fect penal instrument for taking human
life is the guillotmo. It is the mothod most
Popular among the civilized peoples to-day.
Its inventor, Joseph Ignace Guillotin, a
pbyßician of Lyons, is said to have become
so mortified at the notorious use to which it
w as put that he died of vexation, and not as
unveracious chroniclers assert, as a victim
of his own device. The guillotine, with its
two upright posts. Its couperet, or ax, de
pending from a cross-beam, and its lunette
for steadying the head of the victim till the
ax is released by a rachet spring. Is, next
to the electric chair, the most expeditous
of modern instruments, the swiftly de
fending steel severing the head instantly,
j urln S the reigu of terror, when Marat,
; ? nton .> Robespierre, and Fouquier
l hienviUe were filling Paris with blood, one
guillotine has been known to destroy sixty
wo victims in forty-five minutes. It is
nown under various names. Among the
jermansitis the “Panto,” in Scotland,
v ;i ero 11 w ; as used to decapitate the nobility
rniulf ®^ <iurin K the Jacobite wars, it was
f , Maiden,” and its cold kiss
Sr,™* . : even sang its praises: in
r.„, ®.P‘*J', ! ' 9 £lf France it was baptized “Mile
tnu* ■ Fbobelieu was the last to make
, “ “ an administrative way for tbe
of n ? We victims. In Italy it
Ton 7lV or , a similar purpose as lato as
has i° Q I been a mooted question
among physicians whether sensibility re
mains after the blow of the guillotine has
trinb h * id is released from the
trunk but aU agree that this death is al
most, if not absolutely, free from p iin. j
Death oy the sword, which in Prussia,
Turkey and Japan is held to be an honora- .
ble method of extinction, is in China re
garded as a disgrace. Among the Mongols. |
it is a terrible indignity to have the head
separated from the body and the remains
not consigned to the grave iutact. Yet the
sword is the most universal !
weapon of execution in the celestial empire, j
rewardth. close of the great Taeping re
bellion, Yeb, the famous war governor, de
capitated the rebels iu gaugs of 100 at a
time. The culprits were brought out
to the military execution ground and
made to stand m two lines, facing each
other. Then, having heard their sentences i
read, they were forced to kneel in front of j
the holes dug in the earth to receive their ;
bodies. The headsman, a powerful mat j
with a great two handled sword, at a signal
from the governor, began his work of de
capitation. He moved between the Hues,
and, seizing each victim by the queue as he
passed him, with a sweep of the blade made
him shorter by a head. This frightful
butchery was kept up until the whole line
had been hewn down, after which the bodies
were hurriedly interred and the heads ex
posed as a warning to other traitor*.
THE IMPERIAL DEATH BY THE SILKEN CORD
IN CHINA.
There are nine crimes on tbe Chinese cal
endar calling for capital punishment, and
as a consequence executions are far from
being infrequent. On the fatal day, the
condemned are feasted at the expense of
the governor of the district and given an
abundant supply of wine. Tbe revel gen
erally lasts several hours, and as the crimi
nals know well what is to follow, th9y gen
erally make the most of their remaining
time and do not stint themselves. The
Chinese have no fear of death. Drunk or
sober they are, like the fatalist Turk, ever
ready to meet their fate. When the summons
cotnes from tbe executioner, they march
with him in a half-drunken stup >r. At
the door of their cells they are disrobed
and their hands and feat are bound with
ropes, while they are gagged and lifted into
bamboo baskets aid trundled off like so
much merchandise, to the scene of execu
tion. On the way they aro escorted by the
troops and by the headsmen with drawn
swords, while a man with a solemn-toned
gong up the reir. Somewhere on
tbe outskirts the execution takes place. The
condemned beings taken from their baskets
are placed in front of those ominous cavi
ties that will soon receive their bodies.
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DEATH BY THE BOWSTRING IN TURKEY.
The townspeople form a semi-circle at a
proper distance from the criminals, the
soldiers stand on guard, and the headsmen,
with their long double-edged weapons
drawn, stand by for the signal. It is given,
and the chief swordsman begins the
butchery. Both his hands grasp thbig
sword, there is a flash through the air, and
the next instant a head falls forward, and a
stream of blood spouts upward, until the
body drops into the hole and out of sight.
Such is the dexterity of the Chinese
swordsmen that they rarely need more
than one stroke in decapitation. One
after another of the shivering wretches
is dealt with in tbe same way, and not till
the arm of the headsman tires does he give
place to an assistant, who steps forward and
iiuisbes the work of carnage. Throughout
the whole scene the gong booms mourn
fully. When all is over the chief swords
man advances, and, with his dripping
weapon raised, salutes the presiding judge,
who then gives the order for the dispersal
of the gathering. The soldiers stay behind
to bury the bodies, which they carelessly
fling into a ditch. The heads are exposed in
wire cages on the walls of the city. The
Ching Chee, or death by the sword, is
not granted to women in China, They are
either strangled or hacked to pieces. The
latter is the punishment inflicted for ex
ceedingly severe cases, s ich as the murder of
a husband,a father, mother or other relative.
The victim, after being fastened to a stake,
is literally carved to pieces, her flesh being
cut off in small fragments and the vital
Sarts avoided so as to prolong her suffering.
ilsmemberment and finally decapitation
end her agonies.
THE MOORISH METHOD.
There are two other m ides of capital
punishment iu China, but they are reserved
for statesmen of high rank and princes of
the royal blood. When the reigning empe
ror conceives that it will lie to bis interest
to remove certain princes, he sends them a
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present of a silken cord, which is a polite
invitation to self-iestruction. Tue invita
tion is rarely disobeyed. The unlucky
victim of royal disfavor goes to
his chamber and adjusting too cord
about his neck, two of his attendants pull
at it till he is black in tbe face. The other
method is the Hari-kari, or "happy dis
patch,” whic l high offi -ials are invited to
give themselves w hen they get into the bad
books of the monorcb. With that fearless
ness, which is a strong trait of oriental
natures, the official prepares for death.
He summons his household and his near
relatives, and informs them of his dis
grace. He attempts no justification nor
do they try to dissuade ’him from his
purpose, which is only too ai parent.
Finally all is explained, and the adieus are
spoken. With a single twist of his hand,
tbe doomed statesman, raising his silken
garments, plunges the short sword like knife
into his bowels aud drops ox- uing to the
floor. Such a death is considered highly
honorable and laudable on the part of the
victim.
Iu Japan, also, the sword is the na
tional weapon of execution. There is
something picturesque about a Japanese
execution. The condemned is taken
from prison, where he has probably
been half starving and neglected for days,
and placed on horseback. On either side
rides an official, bearing a placard, one an
nouncing the crime and the oilier the name
and nativity of the culprit. Ho is tied se
curely to his horse, liis arms are pinioned
aud about his waist is a rope, the end of
which is held by a man who walks along
side. He rides bravely and shows no fear
whatever. Oa reaching the ground, he eats
a hearty meal with wine, the last half hour
of his life being devoted to the feast,
which he enjoys keenly after his
fast, Then he is summoned to die.
He is mads to kneel, sitting oa his heels,
and if he takes the troubio to glance be
hind him he will see the fateful pit where
his body will shortly lie. The judges sit in
front. Now his hands aro pinioned and a
cloth is drawn over his eye3. Still his lips
are free, and he raises his head and with a
last long cry of “Syonara! Syonar.i! (Good
by! Good-bv !i he receives the blow of the
headsman’s keen sword. The head is picked
up, washed and placed where it can be seen
by the people, while the body is interred
where it fell.
DEATH BY THE SWORD AND TREE IN BANG
WOLO.
While executions in Turkey are commonly
conducted by the sword —except in military
circles, whore tbe gun is used as in England
and this country —tbe bowstring is not
neglected. This is an institution peculiarly
Turkish, and although often talked and
written about, comparatively few outside
the Moslem dominions know anything at
all about it. The executioners with the
bowstrings are generally mutes. They
work in pairs and are very expert. Many
of them are dwarfs, ugly, mis-shapen
Deople, creatures who seem to have lioen
formed by nature expressly for their
hideous work. The condemned man
or woman sits on a divan, while
the two mutes approach behind, bearing
with them a stout bow. Oue of them bends
the bow almost double with his strong
sinewy arms while the other with a dex
terous motion of the wrist, casts the loop
of the bowstring around the victims neck,
which has been considerably bared for the
occasion. It settles across the larynx; the
bow is released and the mutes each grasp a
hand of the victim now struggling in tbe
throes of strangulation. Motion ceases iu a
few seconds and a moment or two iater the
spasmodic actions of the muscles tells that
the life has gone out.
The bowstring finds a fitting companion,
as far as refined oriental cruelty is con
cerned, in death by strangulation, and the
sack, which is yet practised in some parts of
Turkey, Persia, and Svria, aud which was
a common method of punishment iu an
cient Greece and Rome. The victim, half
or wholly dead, is sewed up in a sack,
weighted, aud cast into the river.
Among the Moors capital punishment is
administered with the sword. The culprit
is taken to the steps of the hall of justice
and made to kneel on the top, facing the
populace. A couple of guards stand near.
The exe utioner —a brawny Moor—dis
patches him with a blow, and the head rolls
down the steps, followed by a stream of
gore, at sight of which a chorus of “Abs!”
and supplications to Allah ascend from the
crowd. The swordsman coolly wipes the
weapon on his skirt and justice is avenged.
There is very little red tape or waste of
time on condemned criminals in Morocco,
and new trials aud appeals are unheard of.
THE “ELEPHANT DEATH” IN INDIA.
In the czar’s realm, the extreme penalty
is inflicted, in various forms, the musket and
the gallows predominating. Where tbe
knout is used, the victim is stripped half
naked —sometimes wholly so—and with
hands bound and cords cutting deep into
tbe flash, is laid flat on his stomach upon a
wooden frame. To this the hands and
feet are securely fastened by iron rings,
which are tightened till tbe bones are dislo
cated. Then come the stinging, cutting
blows of the knife-like thongs that slice out
deep furrows in the flesh and leave rod-and
blue ridges wnere the skin is not yet broken.
Tbe knout can be made as fatal as the ax or
sword if such be the purpose of the execu
tioner, or the punishment can be dr iivu out
so as to torture the victim horribly, yet
leaving the vital organs unharmed. The
knout itself is a knotted bunch of thongs
made of hides. Tbe word is Tartar, and it
was that savage race that invented and
brought it into use iu Russia at the time
they overran that country. In the hands
of a stro: g man, a single, well directed
blow will lay bare tbe ribs, end continued
strokes ou the same place will kill in a few
minutes.
Among some of the more savage nations,
frightful barbarities are devised for the
punishment of condemned criminals. The
Bangwolo, on the Aruwimi river in Africa,
, have a peculiarly cruel mole of ridding
themselves of such people. The culprit is
taken from the rule native prison, and bis
head is covered with a t asket, which is
fastened around his neck, but not si as
to impede breathing. He i> conducted
to a grove where the axecu:ionrs have
already been at work. The limb of a
young tree has beon beat low to the
ground, and is held there either by the j
united efforts of a number if men or by
ropes tied to larger twer. A rope is fas
tened to the basket about the prisoner’s
head end also to the end of the bended
limb. He is then ordered to stand with
body erect and neck slightly bent. In this
attitude the blow is pvn with a iwird in
the hands of tbe native headsmau. and at
the same instant the ropes thut court is the
limb of the tree are severed and it springs
back to its original position, bearing on its
point tho bas te’- containing the dripping
head. Hundreds of tTf rß are adorned
with this hideous human fruit along
the Aruwimi. In Java and Borneo, also,
the head is exposed a* a terror to other evil
doers, the nude of eXeeutio i being by
sword and dagger. Id Niam tbe prevalent
mode is impalement, although tbe sword is
not infrequently used. The criminal is
striped and male to lie flit with his face
downward, when a woodeu stake is driven
through the body till it oauios out between
the shoulders. He is then raised and the
end of the stake is driven into tlw earth,
where it is left until the body is cold. Of
course life is extinct tong before the brutal
vivisection is accomplished. Still another
Siamese way of disposing of surplus
criminals is to crush them under
the feet of elephants. Sometimes
ai many ns a dozen malefactors have Lean
thus dealt with in a single day at Bangkok,
the capital city; but missionary influences
have somewhat mitigated the frequency of
these horrible scenes, although the “ele
phant death” is still employed and counts
probably as many victims as tho sword. In
some of the Eist India islands a horrible
custom was in use until a very recent
period, condemned men being suspended by
a hook of iron or a sharp-pointed wooden
beam penetrating under the shoulder or
the breast bone. They hung, enduring
nameless torture, and assailed by insects,
burned by tne tropical suu and maddened
by hunger and thirst, until death came to
their relief. This is as near an approach to
the old form of crucifixion, that gentile
device employed for the punishment of the
Jews, and by which Vespasian’s soldiers put
hundreds of Jews to death, as can well* bo
imagined. Strangely enough, the inven
tion of the cross is attributed to a woman,
Queen Semiramis. It was abolished in Eu
rope by the Emperor Constantine, and has
now taken its place in tho dark limbo
of barbarities, side by side with burn
ing at the st ike, as practiced in England
and Spain; the “led death," in which torne
tiines half a hundred human beings ware
packed in a huge wicker basket and tbe
whole placed on a woodpile and set alire,
tho shrieks and cries of the victims rending
the air. and the “Pao-Lo” of China, where
the victim was placed within a brass cylinder
with a grate beneath, the fire lighted and tho
man or woman inside reduced to ashes.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AMONG THE HOTTEN
TOTS,
It is among the older nations that the
highest refinement of cruelty must bo
sought. The presont Persian method of
puuishing the condemned is by burying
them alive with the head exposed, or by a
speedier dispatch with the sword. But
what more fiendish death could he conceived
than that devised by a Persian shah who
gave to the world what was known as the
•'illuminated Body ?” A condemned crimi
nal, preferably a traitor, was .stripped
naked and, after being bound hand and foot,
was laid upon a marble slab. Holes were
drilled all over his body, cara being taken
not todtill him in the process. These were
filled with oil and flue tapers
were set in each, after which
all were lighted and the room being dark
ened otherwise, the monarch and his coun
cillors gloated over the sufferings of the
offender who, when, the lights had burned
low, expired in the greatest agony. Such
devices were doubtless prompted by im
pulses of revenge rather than a desire for
justice.
One of the most impressive methods of
execution in Europe at one time was the
“passer par les armos,” used both in France
and Germany. It was reserved for soldiers
of rank and was a noble death. The con
demned was placed in tbe center of a group
of spearmen, where he stood with folded
arms. At the blast of a trumpet, the spear
men fell back some distance and formed a
c.rcle. Again the trumpe: sounded, and this
time they faced toward the prisoner and ad
vanced, their spears levelled straight at his
breast and the circle gradually narrowing
till he was transfix 'd. Among the Hotten
tots to-day a somewnst similar custom pre
vails. The condemned is taken outside the
kraal or village and surrounded by a circle
of warriors. All save the victim aro
armed with clubs. Tbe circle begins to
wheel, the warriors singing as they go.
Nearer and nearer they come un
til they are almost within
arms’ length of the victim. Then they raise
their clubs and, no longer trotting, but
running at full speed, strike him as they
run. each blow being accompanied by a
savage shout. It need i but a few minutes
to beat the wretch to the ground; but they
do not leave him until tne life has departed
and the body is a mere shapeless mass.
THE GARROTTE AS USED IN SPAIN.
In Spain and its ooloaies tbe garrotte is
the instrument of capital punishment. The
condemned man sits on a seat resembling a
cobbler’s stool, with his back against an
upright post. His feet are strapped to the
legs of tho stool. The upright is pierced by
two holes at a point jwt above tbe man’s
shoulder, in each of which a steel bar is in
serted. These, with a cross-piece in front,
form the collar. ! the upright, back of the
neck, is a bar of metal, which is operated
by screws worked by a lever.. The head of
the condemned man is enveloped in a cloth,
his arms are tightly strapped, and, at the
signal, the lever is turned and the bar is
driven home through the nervous Auers and
ganglia connected with the spinal cord. The
neck is broken and, with a few revolutions
of the lever, the man is dead.
The gallows, which recant efforts have
succeeded in abolishing in this country, and
which is no longer tbe popular medium of
execution among civilized nations, is of
Roman origio. It was used very early in
tbe history of that nation for the dispatch
of malefactors, a nobler death being re
served for the soldier. There are tnsny
forms of the gallows. The English gibbet
consists of two uprights aud a cross beam,
from which a rope depends. Before
the days of platf rms and drops at
public hangings, tbe custom was to
drive the criminal up to tbe gibbet in a
cart. Oa reacning it, the noose was ad
justed, and the cart moved forward, leav
ing tne mm dangling in tne air. Another
style of gallows is in the shape of a “T.”
and it is made to do the duty of double
hangings. Still ano’her, more commonly
used, is the braced upright, from which ex
tends an arm at the end of which hangs the
rope. Tbe modern gallows is a very .-light
improvement on the old-fashioned one, the
mai l difference being tne drop, which is
regulated by weights, and is calculated
to break tho neck of the criminal and
shorten his sufferings. Physicians estimate
that the average execution on tho gallows
occupies fifteen minutes from the time the
trap is sprung until life is extinct. The
immediate cause of death is cerebral
apoplexy, resulting from suffocation; tbe
nerves and vessels are compressed; the
odontoid process is disloe ited; tho trachea
and larynx lacerated, the ligaments of the
neck are ruptured, and asphyxia precedes
dissolution.
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DEATH BY THE GUILLOTINE.
This barbarous metnod, unworthy of an
enlightened nation, his numbered its last
victim in New York. In place of the rope
comes eleotricity, death by which is sure
and instantaneous. The report of tho
special commission appointed by the legisla
ture of New York Btato to investigate the
subject in 1888 showed that of all methods
yet submitted electricity te tho most humane
for inflicting capital punishment. In all
likelihood its success in this country, when
fully demonstrate and will be followed by its
adoption by othor nations. Tne following
table shows the standing of the different
countries of the globe to-day on the capital
punishment question:
Australia The gallows
Bavaria The guillotine
Belgium .... The guillotine
Chins The sword and cord
Denmark Tbe guillotine
France The guillotine
Hanover The guillotine
Holland The gallows
Morocco The sword
Tortugal The gallows
Switzerland The sword and guillotine
Spain The garrotte
Prussia The sword
Russia Musket, knout and gallows
Turkey Sword and bowstring
Japan The sword
Siam Elephants, fire and sword
India Gun and gallows
Java The sword
In spite of the pleading of tender humani
tarians for the abolition of capital punish
ment, the death penalty is now, and always
has b en, the extreme resort of human law
among both civilized and barbarous races.
It will probably remain so till the end of
time. H. Sandison.
A BIG REPTILE AT LARGE.
Uncle Zeke King Tells Why He Did
Not Btay In the Country All Sum
mer.
From the Xashville American.
Uncle Zeke Ki ng (colored) came in Sat
urday night from Baker’s station, where ho
went a week ago to spend the summer
working in the country. Zeke is getting
alone in years, though not an old man. He
lives on North First street, and is still
lingering along in his fifties. His counte
nance is besprinkled with crows feet and
wrinkles, and he has a peculiar splay-footed
gait which makes him appear venerable.
He was sitting in a chair without any back
out on the pavement yesterday af ornoon
leaning back against tho red brick wail
with tho slanting rays of the afternoon sun
streaming into his face, as an American
reporter, with whom Zeke had tor soma
years past been on friendly terms, pa-sad
fcy. "Hello, Zoke,” said he, “I thought you
bad gone to tbe springs to spend the sum
mer?”
“Look byar, boss, doan you come a
pokin’ any fun at me, Yor se9, I did git
tired of dis here town, and, sez I, I’ll just
quit whitewashin’ and triramin’ lawns and
go out and work all summer in de country,
i thought I’d like to drap corn and hle
’taters onet mo’. But, no, sirree, I ain’t
a-gwine out in that ne.ghborhood agin dis
summer.”
“What’s the matter, Zoke, didn’t they
treat you right?’
"O, vaas, dey treated me sufficiently
enough.”
“Wasn’t there plenty of work?”
“ I.ots of it.”
"Didn’t they nay you?”
“Got no cumnlaint ’bout dat.”
“Well, what was it, then* Have they got
spotted fever, or the chills out there, or did
you have snakes or see ghosts?’
“Weil, now, boss, yous a leetle distance
off, but you is b.-ginniu’ ter spocerlate
around de facts in de case.
“You reckerlect bouton dat circus dat
wus recked up at Bakers Friday night.
Well, dey wus sura annimuie and reptiles in
dar— OH OuchII! Git out, Tiger. Old
oman, why doan’ yon keep dat dog fastened
up while Ise talkin’ ter de gemmen? It
makes me feel like my flesh was a crawlin’
fer him to sneak up and suff his nose agin
my han’ when Ise tailin’ annecktodotes.
"Dat dog alius did make me feel nerveless.
But dey wus a snake. Lord a massy, be
wuz as long as across de street. Ho got
outen de cage an’ struck across de field like
a streak er lightnin’; an’ when ho went ter
dim’ over a ten-rail fence be knocked de
rider off wid his tail. When he got ter
whar 1 wuz cuttin’ sprouts he wuz gitten
putty tired. HU tongue wuz a-bangin’ out
aud ho looked like he had do thumps. He
kinder stopped an’ smacked his lips, an'
opened his ruouf big enough fer a yearlin’
calf ter jump in. ‘Good-by, honey,’ sed I.
Dat’s do reason I didn’t stay all de suonma.
“An’ sav, boss, is any of yo’ friends have
got any whitewashin’ ier do, jest sen’ um
f aroun’ ter de ole nigger an’ he will be much
' erbleged tor you.”
On being questioned old Zeko stoutly
maintainea that bis story was true. He
said that it was the next mor.iiDg after tbe
wreck, when the cars were being straight
ened up, that the big snake got out, and
that as far as he was concerned the wealth
of the Indies would not tempt him to that
neighborhood again this season. He gives
it as his opinion that tbe reptile will die
next winter, because there is not auy cave
around Baker’s station big enough to shelter
himself in duripg the cola weather.
COTTON COMPRESS.
MOESE
COTTON COMPRESS,
TIE most powerful and effective In the world,
exerts a pressure on the bole of &,tXX),OUO
pounds.
EIGHTY of them have been introduced in the
last ten venrs. which are now corn pressing
over Half the American crop.
Several of those first erected have pressed
over ONE AND A QUARTER MILLION BALES
each, WITHOUT DEFEI T OR APPRECIABLE
WEAR. Their immense weight and strength
have rendered them the ONLY DURABLE
COMPRESS in use.
Sole Owners aud Patentee*.
• S. B. STEERS & CO.,
Cotton Exchange, New Orleans.
GRO< EBIES.
MERCHANTS’
MAY WEEK.
HOTELS, boarding houses and other* enter
taining guests will do well to visit our
store before purchasing their groceries.
Wo Have the Stock.
Our Prices Are Low.
We Deliver Goods Promptly.
Befit Hams and Strips,
Butter and Lard,
Coffees and Teas. .
Our Display of Shelf Goods In
Cans and Bottles Unexcelled
in this City.
Use Our Brands of Flour.
Try Us on Rice.
We Are Headquarters
for Baskets.
STRAUSS BROS.,
t2 and 2211, BARNARD STREET.
FLOUR.
ALWAYS READY.
ALW AY S~RELI ABLE.
perfectly" HEALTHFUL.
HECKER’S
SELF-RAISING
FLOUR
Will be found the
CHEAPEST AND BEST
for making the the most Superior
Bread. Biscuit, Light
Pastry, etc.
Ask your Grocer for it.
GEO.V.IIKCKER&CO.
LIQUID GOLD.
Williams;. f*
"r*
(irOLD .
Heady for Instant Use.
WILLIAMS' LIQUID GOLD insures the
splendid effect of Solid Gold, no matter where
applied, and it can be used by the most inexpe
rienced amateur. It was employed to decorate
the magnificent homes of W. ILVANDERBILT,
JAY GOULD, JUDGE HILTON, and many
other wealthy and distinguished Now Yorkers.
It Gilos Frames, Wood, Silk, Mktai., Paper,
etc., etjual to Gold Leaf, and LADIES can
find no more charming Art Work than gilding
with Williams’ Liquid Gold.
Camels’ Hair Brush in every box. PRICE sl.
Avoid trashy imitations. Sent bv mail on re
oeipt oy THE PRICE. Circular free.
New York Chemical Meg Cos., 3 E. 4th st., N.Y.
Bold by DRUGGISTS and ART DEALERS,
COTTON FACTORS
Thomas F. Stubbs. William S. Tison.
STUBBS & TISON,
/
Cotton Factors,
86 BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH. - GEORGIA
Liberal advances made on consignments of
cotton.
CORN I CL'S.
CHAS. A. COX
4t BARNARD ST., SAVANNAH, GA-.
—max UFACTmaa of—
GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES
—AHD 1 ■■■
TIN ROOFING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES
Estimates for city or country work promptly
furnished.
Agent for the celebrated Swedish MetalUa
Faint.
Agent for Walter's Patent Tin Shingles.
HARDWARE,
HOSE,
REELS,
SPRINKLERS,
STICKS,
TROWELS,
HOES AND RAKES.
TILE.
GARDEN
FOR SALE BY
Edward Lovell’s Sons
155 BROUGHTON ST.
FLU MURK,
l a McCarthy,
44 Barnard street,
(Under Knights of Pythias' Hall),
PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING.
STEAM HEATING A SPECIALTY.
mTT Th MORNING NEWS carriers reach
I H F every part of the city early. Twenty-
JL liAJ five cents a week pays for the Daily.
LOTTERY.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTIONT
OVER MILLION DISTRIBUTED.
Louisiana State Lottery Company.
Incorporated by the Legislature, tor Educa.
tional and ('haritable purposes, and its frao
chis- made a part of the present State Consti
tution, in W. bvan overwhelming popular vote.
It. VIA MMO I’ll DRAWINGS take place
Semi- Annually (June and December), and it*
GRAND eI.AGLE NUMBER DRAWING*
take plaee la each of the other ten months
of the year, and are all drawn in public, at
the Academy or Music. New Orb-ana, La.
FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS
For.lntegrity of Its Drawings and Prompt
Payment of Prizes,
Attested as follows:
“I Ve do hereby certify that tor supervise the
arrangement* for all the M.mihly and Semi.
Annual Drawings of The Louisiana State Lot
and in person manage and con.
trot the Drawings themselves, and that the
some are conducted with honesty, fairness,
and in good faith toward all lartiesfandum
//
fommltifnnftrv
We the undersigned Banka and Ranker* wi*
tHiy <HI Prizes drawn in The leouisiana Statn*
Lotteries which may be presented at our cour*
ters.
R. M. W4LWSLKY, Lmilaiinn 4&|. gY
I‘IEHKG LA A \L\, Urei. Mate \at'l Bit)
i-i&'sxs:
Grand Monthly Drawing
At the Academy of Music, New Orleans,
Tuesday, May 13, 1890.
Capital Prize $300,000-
100,000 Ticket, at 010 each; Halve* $10;
Gunner. 03; Tenth. 03; Twentieth. 01.
Mfvr op pitizss.
1 riUZK OF 0300,0)0 IK mn
1 PRIZE OF 100.000 is " ino'.un
1 PRIZE OF 60.000 is sn‘o;!i
1 PRIZE OF tf.OuOls ; SSK
2 PRIZES OF 10,000 are S’ vl,
6 PRIZES OF 6,000 are * fUSi,
26 PRIZES OF 1,000 are gv’ooo
100 PRIZES OF 600 are.....
200 PRIZES OF 300 are re,™
600 PRIZES OF 200 are loo'.ooo
APPROX [IfATIOV PRIZES.
100 Prlz'-s of S6OO are ya nn
100 Prises of 800 are "" •£> m
I<X) Prizes of 200 are *
TEHMINAI. PRIZES. ’
900 Prises of ioo are nr-vm
WWPrisesof 100 are o 900
8.1.14 Prises, amounting to. . . . slo6l^oo
Vt T, i7 T i C “ l ! fTutMitireujß
entitled to Terminal Prizes.
AGENTS WANTED.
ITT - Fob Cum Rates, or any further fa.
formation desired, write legibly to the under
stKriwl cloarly stating your residence, with
State, County, Street and Number. More rapid
return mail delivery will be assured by your
enclosing an Envelope hearing your full address*
IMPORTANT.
Address M. A. IHCPHW,
New Orleans, La.,
or M. A. DAUPHIN, *
Washington. D. O,
By ordinary letter containing Money Orrios
Issued by all Express Companies, New York Es
change. Draft or Postal Note.
Address Registered Letters Contain
ing Currency to
SEW ORLEANS NATIONAL H A YE,
New Orleans, La.
“•REMEMBER, that the payment of Prison
Is GLAKAiATKED IIV FOUR NATIONAL
HAN KB of New Orleans, and the Tickets are
signed by the President of an Institution whom
chartered rights are recognised In the highes#
Courts; therefore, beware of all imitations off
anopym- his schemes. ”
ONE DOLLAR Is the price of the smallest;
part or fraction of a Ticket ISSUED BY IS
in auy Drawing. Anything In our name offered
for less than a Dollar is a swindle.
COPPER WORKERS.
McMillan bros.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.
Turpentine Stills
AMI FIXTURES
General Copper Workers,
Repairing a Specialty.
.IKW ELK v .
AiliOlLLiS
HAS A FINE SELECTION OF
Diamonds, Earrings, Finger
Rings and Unmounted
Diamonds,
Which He Sells at Very Close Figures.
Also, FINE STERLING - SILVER WARE in
elegant rases, aud FINE TEA TABLES, genu
ine Verms Martin, a beautiful thing for a wed
ding present.
18-KAKAT PLAIN RING a specialty.
21 BULL ST.
MACHINERY.
McDofloogti & BaUantyn^
IRON FOUNDERS,
Boiler Makers and Blacksmith
KANtJFACTURkRS Of
STATIONARY AND PORTABLE ENGINES
VERTICAL ANDTOP RUNNING CORN
MILLS, SUOAK MILLS and PANS.
AGENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, tha
simplest and most effective on the market;
Gullett Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, tha
best in the market.
All orders promptly attended to. Send for
Price List.
A r CENTS will pay for THE DAILY
It MORNING NEWS one week, delivered
M .1 to any part of tbecitv. Send your ad-i
ms V dress with 25 cents to the Business
Office and bare the paper delivered regularly.
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