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THE NEW POSTAGE STAMPS.
tovcrnment Presses Are Taming Thera
Out by the Ream.
processes of Production—Devices for
and Perforsting-A Sav
in* to Uncle Sam of $50,000 a Year.
ton Corespondents Philadelphia
Times.
I ncle Sam is beginning to print his own
s!; , e e stamps at the bureau of engraving
> irinting. The wheels have started
ticfore many days the machines will
br turning out the parallelograms of red,
b ie ani green paper at a rate to supply
[.nstofflee department with the re
uir, t 40,000,000 sheets per annum. Each
hce t. as furnished to the government,
*ili consists of 100 stamps,
phe printing is done on queer-looking
presses each of which produces I.tX)O
stamps a minute, or about 100,000 on hour,
tich press has an endless chain that car
ria four plates, on which the designs of
the 'tamps are engraved. On each plate
rtOfisCamps are represented. The sheets
primed from theso plates are Intended to
pecut into quarters eventually, in which
ihape they will be sold by the postofflee
department.
iiacb Olate is carried by the endless
(S&ii-flrst under an ink roller, from which
It receives a coating of ink of the proper
color. Then it passes beneath a pad of
canvas, which oscillates so as to rub the
ink in Next it pauses for a moment
rod >r the hands of a man who polishes
the plate. Finally a sheet of white paper
Is hua upon the plate, both pass under a
v ier. and the sheet comes out on the
#t Jh r - ide 400 printed postage stamps.
The plates revolve in a circle, as it
*(h‘ More accurately speaking, they
mure around the four sides of a square
fii a tloi i.ontal plane. While one is being
Idled, another is being rubbed by the
uarvas, another is being polished and
the fourth is passing under the printing
roller The circuit takes about a minute,
during which f)sxr sheets of 400' stamps
sre printed.
Tbejnost important part of the work,
featuring the greatest skill, is the polish
ft is done with the bare hands, no
dirtier method being equally efficient. The
gbject is to leave exactly enough ink for
a good impression and no more. One girl
lays the white paper sheets upon the
plates, while another young woman re-
moves them, as fast as they are printed
anJ sticks them up in a pile. This pro
cess gives the results of hand-press work.
Half a dozen presses working together,
each turning out UiO.OOO ati hour, can pro
duce a good many millions In a day.
jliirce hands are Required for each press
- thajjrinter, who does the polishing, and
twpjjiMs The printer must account for
every sheet Of blank paper that be re
ceives. The sheets ure counted in the
v etting division before they are delivered
to him After they are printed they are
counted before they are sent to the exam
ining division, where they are couuted
again.
-Spoiled sheets are counted as carefully
as perfect ones, because they represent
money. If lost or stolen they could be
used. On each sheet appears the special
mark of the printer who turned it out.
An allowance of 1 '•* per cent, is made for
spoilage If he exceeds that allowance
he must pay for tho extra loss at the
actual cost of the paper, ink and labor
represented. This rule does not apply
yet, for the presses are hardly adjusted,
and hundreds of sheets have been spoiled
In experiments.
If a sheet is lost, it must bn traced
hark "to tho last person who handled it,
and that individual will be required to
pay face value for tho stamps repre
sented If tho person responsible can not
be Pound, the division which last handled
the sheet must pay. ISp loophole is left
for the loss of a single 1-cent stamp. Af
ter being examined, the sheets are counted
again and are put between strawjboards
under a hydraulic press to make them
lb tint. Thus they are counted more
caslh- and can be made up into smaller
bundles.
After undergoing this process they are
counted once more arid are sent down
stairs to be gummed and perforated.
For these purposes the bureau of engrav
ing has purchased entirely new ma
chinery, and tho means employed are
won than ordinarily interesting. The
%irfliod of gumming in particular is a
(is i ll.y, being wholly different from that
filled hitherto in such work, it is much
more rapid and efficient, and before long
will doubtless supercede the old plan,
which is even now applied to tho gum-
Biing of cigarette stamps for the internal
revenue.
The paste is applied to the cigarette
•Heap by hand, with brushes. As fast as
they arc gum mod they are laid sheet by
beet on slatted frames, which are piled
itistacks. The stacks arc wheeled on
tr.u ks into a room, where they are placed
in front of electric fans, so that the cool
air may dry them. Hot air would accom
plish the purpose more quickly, but it
would be hard on tlip workwomen. For
tins reason the slower process is adopted.
The new method, to be applied to the
Tmstage stamps, will be an immense im-
SOd'ement in every way.
The machines for this purpose have
just been set up. There are two of them,
exactly alike, and one will do for descrip
tion, Imagine a wooden box nearly sixty
tf: long, four feet high and three feet
v. ule From end to end runs what might
betaken for the skeleton of a trough.
• 1 is skeletoji projects from the box for a
'p'v leet at either extremity. Tho box is
traversed by two endless chains, running
by sido two feet apart, into one end
tm duets of printed stamps are fed ono
by one.
•A it is fed into I.ho machine each sheet
passes under a roller like tho roller of a
printing press, tb which a gum made of
“'■xtrine is slowly supplied. The sheet
rises up 3 coat of this mucilage ou its
lower side and is carried on by the end
less riialu throqgh the long box. The
vis n hot-air box, being heated by
pipes.' At the other end of it the
■ Is are delivered at tho rate of cigh
‘‘en a minute. Just one minute is re
jiuire l for a sheet to pass through the
box, and it is delivered perfectly dry.
Ihe gummed sheets thus delivered are
pop' ll over |o a long table, where girls
pp k them up in pairs, and, placing the
-Jhy'o .ed sides together, put them between
of straw boards. Arranged in this
they are pjaced under a steam press
’ Tattcu them, the mucilage having
' a ‘ 'd them to curl somewhat. On
‘ußiiug out of tiui press they arc counted
“O n, and now they go to the perforating
' ; nines that makes the pin-holes by
it is rendered easy to tear the
* ~s apart,
. ' 1 perforating machine is an arrange*
''' ’ little wheels revolving parallel to
• i otte r ann just far; enough apart to
'he perforations as one seen them in
“ 1 1 of iltijajied stamps fresh bought
* postofflce. After tho perforations
T* ■ • n •made across the sheet one way
‘ machine, the sheet must pass
/ha set-end machine for the cross
f, "atlons lu the middle of ouch ma
' i a knife wiioh < uts the sheet in
' i ht the sheet of duo comes out of
v Na. I to two sheet, of kOUeach.
'c h Oindod into Uiur sheets of
, h by the second perforating ma
, I '* old though not well noth' nil
o'i Inattvlieu the Ilrttish govern
i “ -shek ty titseover a way to tear
* ‘ X e-M. rriuiliy it offered f/XMSSJ for
• - PU|rl<- auggifstiou A poverty-
” J l ii,g* niu <>. Englishman prof
, " IvviS hi perforatji.y tin statap
i>d re(ved tho fortune Tha
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tagged in packages of 100 sheets before
being sent out. Each package of 100
sheets bolds lo.ilOO stamps, of course.
But stay ! There are one or two more
preliminaries yet. After receiving the
perforations, the sheets of one hundred
are put under a press to removed the
‘•burrs'’ around the little holes. Other
wise theso would greatly increase the
thickness of a packages. Then they are
counted and are placed in stoel clad vaults,
from which they are drawn as the post
office department may want them. The
bureau of engraving has not yet began to
furnish stamps to the government, but it
is all ready to do so. In response to or
ders received from the postofflee depart
ment it will put the stamps up in pack
ages. address them to postmasters who
require them and deliver them at the
postofflee at Washington for mailing.
The postofflee department now has an
agency at the bureau of engraving. When
a postmaster wants stamps he makes out
a requisition upon the department. The
latter will communicate with its agent in
the bureau, who will draw upon the bu
reau every day for as many stamps as ho
requires to till the orders thus transmitted
to him.. All this business used to be done
in New York city, where the stamp agent
received the stamps from the American
Bank Note company in bulk, his business
being to put them up in packages and
send them off by mail.
The inks used for printing the stamps
are manufactured at the bureau of en
graving. The materials are bought in the
shape of dry colors and linseed oil. The
colors come in the shape of powders. The
only stamps turned out thus far are two
cent red and the one-cent blue. For the
former carmine is employed and for the
latter ultramarino. Both colors are
“toned” by the admixture of other ingre
dients -the carmine with paris white and
white lead. Pure carmine would be very
costly.
Ultramarime is not very expensive, but
it is too “strong,” in the printer's phrase
—that is to say. too dark. It used to be
the costliest of colors, being made from
the precious iapis lazuli. But in recent
years chemists, having analyzed the lapis
lazuli, have produced in the laboratory a
successful imitation of the color stuff.
For making the ink the color powder is
combined with linseed oil and ground be
tween rollers. Each printer receives
every morning his allowance of ink, and
sharp account is kept of every bit used.
Uncle Sam will save about $50,000 a
year by printing his own postage stamps.
Congress has given to the bureau of en
gravings $168,000 for this purpqse for the
fiscal year beginning July 1. Out of this
appropriation some machinery must be
nought. Tho expense used to be $208,000
per annum. Of course, the government
had nearly all of the required plant
ready at hand. About fifty new people
have had to be engaged to do the extra
work. The plates used by the American
Bank Note Company for printing the
stamps were the property of tho govern
ment.
The postofflee department has made re
cently 500 sets of fae-simile stamps for
distribution among member of congress
and high officials. Each set includes
specimens of all of the issues from the
earliest to tho latest. They are printed
on thin cardboard, being intended for
curiosities und not for the payment of
postage.
A DOG’S FUNERAL.
Four Hundred Children Followed the
Body Two Milea—A Mass of Flowers.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Chicago, July 27.—Four hundred boys
and girls formed a funeral procession to
day. and followed the body of a dog two
miles to a grave through tho streets of
Chicago.
Harry Flood, aged 8 years, lives at 937
Norman avenue, In Humboldt Park. He
had a dog, a scarred-up, homely-looking
mongrel pup. but which lie thought was
a prize. When he came home last even
ing he found his dog lying dead in the dry
goods box dog house.
“• He called a council of his nearest boy
chums and broke the sad news to them.
They were much affected.
One finally suggested that no common
burial would do for the noble animal
and this was agreed to by all. So Harry
turned over the matter of arrangements
to his nearest friend and the other lads
went out to tell all the other boys of
the neighborhood about the funeral. So
about dark last evening dozens of boys
gathered in the Flood back yard, some
of them bringing candles, others flowers.
The boys sat around and talked and had
a good time for an hour or two, and this
went for a wake.
Then at 10 o'clock this morning they all
gathered again and prepared for the
funeral. A hearse was rigged on a little
express wagon. The dog house was torn ;
down and a coffin made of the hoards and
the dead dog was placed in the coffin and
in the hearse. A great mass of flowers,
to which every flower garden in the neigh
borhood had contributed, was placed on
the coffin and in the midst of these Harry
Flood, the chief mourner, took a seat.
Thirteen boyß took hold of a rope at
tached to the wagon and Btarted down
the road Fully 400 boys and girls fol- !
lowed tho remains of the dog two miles (
on the prairie, where a grave was dug. a
short prayer said and the rude pine box
lowered into the earth.
PAWNED HIS WIFE’S TEETH.
James Gray of Pittsburg Wanted a
Little Spending Money.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Pittsburg, July 27.—When Mrs. James
Cray of Stockholm avenue awoke this
morning, her husband and her set of false
teeth were missing.
An hour later the husband np|>eared
ami informed her that he had pawned the
teeth pi order to get a little spending
money, hut that he would get them again
If she would turn over her rings to him.
As Mrs Gray was unable to eat with
out her teeth she gave reluctant consent
to this arrangement, and parted with
mm* Jewelry. • ira> brought back the
teeth and left lha bouse lII* wife bur
rir4 to Magistrate Hrauduer's office and
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JULY 80. 1804.
made an information against him, charg
ing him with larceny of her teeth. Cray
could not be found.
Shortly after Mrs. Gray left the office
word was received from New York that
Gray has a wife and children there, and
asking that he be held for bigamy if
caught. He married his Pittsburg wife
some time ago. Both have figured in po
lice circles.
BURNS FOR TWO MONTHS.
Unique Feature of the New Light
houee In France.
An almost unique feature in the new
lighthouse on one of the estuaries of the
Gironde in France, is the use of a lamp
which, burning continuously for two
months, without being trimmed or re
plenished, obviates the necessity of any
keeper or attendant. The description
stales that the burning fluid used in this
lamp is an ordinary mineral oil; the tube
in the interior of the lamp is furnished
with a wick having a thickness three
times as great as that employed gener
ally in lighthouses : and around the burn
ing surface of the wick is a cake made of
a special preparation, consisting largely
of carbonized tar. this protection assuring
the duration and uniformity of the flame.
A chimney made of tyica is placed
around the flame, which insures an in
crease in the power of the light. The
supply of oil is secured by moans of a
reservoir containing 100 quarts, the lamp
consuming fifty grains per hour; and, to
provide always for the reservoir having
a sufficiency, a gauge is fixed at the side
which governs the, supply flowing in
from another reservoir from a distance,
this gauge permitting just fifty grains
I per hour to percolate through tho little
t supply pipe into the supply reservoir.
The diamoter of the lantern is fifty-six
i inches.
The intensity of the light keeps equable
! until the expiration of two months, when
j it is necessary to visit the light house and
| replenish the wick ; the latter is cleansed
and drawn up gradually by the action of
the tar cake at its mouth.
THE SOLDIER ANTS OF AFRICA.
A Terror to Man, Elephants and
Dions.
Dr. Eugene Muray Aaron in Scientific Amer
ican.
Monsieur Coiilard, a French missionary
in the Barotse valley of South Central
Africa, thus writesof these terrors there:
“One sees them busy in innumerable bat
talions, ranked and disciplined, winding
along like a broad black ribbon of wa
tered silk. Whence come they' Where
are they going! Nothing can stop them,
nor can any object change their route. If
it is an inanimate object, they turn it
aside and pasfS on ; if it is living they as
sail it venomously, crowding ono ou top
of the other to the attack, while the
main army passes on, business like and
silent, is the obstacle a trench or a
stream of water! Then they form them
selves at its edge into a compact mass. Is
this a deliberating assembly! Probably,
for soon tlie mass stirs and moves on,
crosses the trench or stream, continues
in its incessant and mysterious march.
A multitude of these soldiers are sacri
ficed for the common good, and these le
gions, which know not what it is to be
beaten, pass over the corDses of these
victims to their destination.”
Against these tiny enemies no mac, nor
band of men, no lion or tiger, nor even a
herd of elephants, can do anything but
linrriedly get out of the way. Among the
Barotse natives a favorite form of capital
punishment is to coat a victim with grease
and throw him before the advancing army
of soldier ants. The quickness with which
the poor wretch is dispatched is marvel
ous, when it is considered that each ant
candb tadthing mefre thau merely tear but
a small particle of flesh and carry it off.
Yet in a surprisingly short time the writh
ing victim will have been changed into a
skeleton of clean and polished bones that
will make the trained anatomist en
vious.
All are familiar with the tales of how
these armies of ants enter a tropical vil
lage and take entire possession of it, driv
ing its inhabitants out in terror, and at
last in a few hours or a day or two aban
doning it cleaner than the arts of the
most orderly housekeeper could over
make it. Theso are not travelers’ tales.
The most gifted pen must fail to give an
adequate idea to the uninitiated of just
how thorough and searching these
creatures are in ridding a house of every
bit of animal or vegetable matter in it.
Perhaps, however, the narration of the
following bit of personal experience may
help to illustrate it. I had returned
from a day's tramp in the hills, laden
with trophies in the shape of
tropical insects, some of them, perhaps,
new to the eyes of scientists, and all of
certain Value, when I was called out of
my house by tho cry, “The driver ants,
the driver ants.” Hastily placing most
of my collections in glass jars and tin
boxes, so as to he out of the reach of the
invaders, and gathering such clothes as 1
would need for a day or two, I made a
rather undignified retreat. After I had
done So I remembered that I had left some
rare bees pinned in a box that was in the
pocket of my collecting coat, but as the
coat li ad been placed in a strong chest
and this chest was heavily scented with
uaphthalin or “tar camphor,” and the lid
fitted down very tight, I
felt that they were safe.
The next morning when I went back,
after a night spent in my hammock in a
tamarind tree, I found that of a bunch of
bananas, consisting of a thick stem and
about 100 of the fruit, there was no trace
whatever, save the dangling string with
which it had been hung from the ceiling;
and not a vestige of bread, chocolate,
coffoe and other eatable odds and ends
could be found on the thoroughly cleaned
shelves, on which some food had been left.
Even tne cracks between -he floor boards
had been cleaned out, the particles of edi
ble matter having been carried away or
devoured and the mere dust left where it
could easily be swept away.
This was not so bad, for a good clean
ing never hurts a house in the tropics;
but when I came to examine my chest
and found that a hole quite two inches in
diameter had been torn in one end through
an inch board of hard wood, that the box
in my coat pocket had also been pierced,
and every one of the pins on which tc;,
beetles had been arranged stood in place
as empty and clean as when taken out of
the paper. I had a better idea of the
thoroughness of these tiny scavengers
than ever before.
“He doesn’t amount to a row of pins.”
declared Spatts, speaking of an individ
ual of whom ho entertianed a poor opin
ion. “What sort of pins do you mean!”
usked Bioobuiuper. “What difference
does that make?” “it would make quite
a difference if it were a row of diamond
pins, for instance.”—Truth.
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TROLLEY LINES IN GERMANY.
No Poles, No Conductors and All
Fares 2 1-2 Cents, Including Trans
fers.
With the large number of street, rail;
ways in Savannah and the low fares now
in vogue, anything about street railways
in general is interesting to Savauuahians.
The United States consuls abroad are
having a good deal in their reports about
electric systems. The consul at Chem
nitz, Saxony, has a recent report on the
subject. In Chemnitz the trolley wires
use no poles to support the wires.
The method of stringing wires is by
means of ornamental rosettes fastened
into the woodwork or walls of houses,
having projecting hooks to which tho
wires are attached. These hooks arc
firmly fastened and are tested with seven
times the weight they will bo called upon
to bear. Owners of houses without ex
ception preferred to allow the use of their
houses lreo rather than have pasts on the
sidewalk. The railway tracks, in con
formit.v to tho law. are level with the
pavement, and accidents to vehicles of all
kinds are rare. The gauge is narrower
than in America, but the cars keep the
track and run as rapidly and smoothly
us in the United States. In the heart of
the city they run 220 yards per minnte,
and in the suburbs 330 yards per minute.
The cars have no conductors. The mo
tor man is the only person on board who
represents the company. By doing away
with conductors the company saves 44,000
marks annually. The fare is only ten
pfennigs, or a trifle less than two and
one-half cents, on all routes, in
cluding transfers. Shouldi 150,000
persons evado payment in twelve
months, the loss would be only 15,0011
marks. It would take 450,000 evasions in
faro to offset the company's saving by
dispensing with conductors' salaries.
Culprllstin this regard when detected
are punished by having their names ad
vertised in tho newspapers as a warning
to others. Fare boxes are attached to
both ends of the ear., so there can bo no
such excuse offered as "difficulty in get
ting forward.”
CHINA IB ALL RIGHT.
Sam Lee and Ching Clian Say She Can
Lick Japan.
Savannah’s Chinese residents are not
worrying very much about the war which
appears to have been begun between
China and Japan. They regard the
mother country as big enough to take
care of itself. Sam Lee, the Broughton
street laundryman, says he does
not believe the war has begun
yet because tho last newspaper
he had receivedifrom China said; there
would be no war. He and Ching Chang,
who was with him, both expressed the
opinion that China would wipe up tho
earth with Japan when she got on her
fighting clothes. Both of them appeared
to have read the newspaper reports*)!
the racket and to be pretty well posted on
the state of affairs in that part of the
world.
“China got more soldiers than Japan
got people,” said Ching Chan. “China
just eat Japan up. Got plenty of soldiers.
China got as big army as Russia.’'
Ching admitted that Japan seemed to
have the Lest navy, but he was pretty
sure China would come out on top as soon
as she got her soldiers into Japan.
HAS A DOZEN OFFICES.
The Policy Shop Raided Saturday
Night Said to Have Numerous
Branches.
. Detectives Bossell, and Kavanaugli say
that the policy 'shdt> raided by-them ih
Congress street lane Saturday night was
the head office of the Savannah Lottery
Company. This company, they say, has
about a dozen policy shops scattered
throughout the city.
They were unfortunate, they said, in
raiding the shop when they aid, as if
they bad waited an hour later, the man
agers, or venders, from all the branch
offices would have been at the headquar
ters making their reports, and they would
have been able to catch the whole lot.
The raid was not prearranged, how
ever, but was made ou the infor
mation of a negro who approached tho
officers on the street and informed them
that the drawing was in progress. Tho
rules of the company, which were posted
on the wall of the room, showed that the
venders from all the offices were re
quired to be present when the drawings
were made, and that each vender was re
sponsible for any mistakes or omissions in
his list. Julius Hirsch is said to be the
head of tho company, whose office was
raided, but he denies this.
Said to Have Been Robbed.
A report was brought to the police bar
racks late night before last that two ne
groes coming to town on the Tybee rail
road had been waylaid and robbed just
below the Tybee depot. Two policemen
were sent out later to arrest any suspi
cious parties found in the neighborhood,
but found no one except a negro, who
was said to have stolen some watermel
ons at LePagoyille. This is the second
affair of this kind which has been re
ported at the barracks as occurring in
this locality.
WAYOROSS ITEMS.
Personal Mention of Well Known
People.
Waycross, Ga., July 28.—Dr. J. J. Jones
of Monroe, Ga., came near dying last
night from the effects of an ovcT dose of
morphine. Dr. J. H. Redding of this place
was called to his assistance, and there is
strong hopes of his speedy recovery.
The young men of Waycross gave a hop
last night at Smith’s hall in honor of the
visiting youug ladies.
Mrs. J. A. Jones has been seriously sick
for several weeks.
Miss Hattie May S.vdboten of Austin,
Tex., is visiting her brother, Mr. James
S. Sydboton.
Miss Kate Johnson is visiting In Bruns
wick.
Miss Maud Braddock is visiting Miss
Annie K. Barnes on Jane Street.
Miss Gussio Chustine has returned from
a visit to friends in Brunswick.
Mrs. S. W. Hitch and family are spend
ing the summer at White Sulphur
Springs, Va.
Miss Louise Grace is visiting friends at
Tate, Ga.
Mrs. Dr. J. L. Walker is on a visit to
North Georgia.
Miss Hattie Graco is visiting friends at
Valdoslu.
Miss Mav Britton, a beautiful young
lady of Beach, Ga.. is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. T. M. McConnell, at Manor.
Miss Eunice R. Uordy has returned to
Baltimore.
An office boy in the employ of a real es
tate agent on Glark street struck for
higher wages a week or two ago, und, ou
the refusal of his employer to grant the
increase, he walked out. Last Monday
he went back to the office and suggested
that tho ease be arbitrated. have
nothing to arbitrate.’' was the answer.
He went away and returned yesterday.
"Will you arbitrate to find out whether
there'# anything to arbitrate!” lie in
quired. "Kee hero, my hoy.” said the real
estate agent, taking a handful of papers
out of a pigt ouhole in his desk. "The
only things to be arbitrated aru these
bills. 1 can't iiy them If you tan you
way lake my job auu I’ll walk out"' lliu
hey is still considering the proposition
Chicago Tribune
Official Record for the Morning News.
Local forecast for Savannah ami vicinity
fiil midnight. July SO. 1891; Showers:
warmer during Monday; variable winds
Forecast for Georgia: Generally fair;
varta'-le winds
Com pa-ison ot mean temperature at Savan
nah. Ga., on July 2v 1814, with the normal for
tho day:
_ | Departure I Total
Temperature. ; from the departure
“ ft 1 normal j since
Normal. I Mean. or— Jan 1.1881.
j H) Ia" ”| -| SI
rainfall statement
[Departure i Total ~~
Normal ! Amount from the departure
I for normal. since.
July 89. *94. * or— I Jan. 1,1894.
•19 I .U) j - .09 ! —145
Maximum temperature, 87minimum tom*
perature 74°.
The hitfht of the Savannah river at Augusta
at 8 a nc >7sth meridian time - yesterday was
7.2 feet, a fall of 1.7 feet preceding
twenty four hours.
The Cotton Bulletin for twenty four hours
eqdintf 6p. in.. July 39, 1894, 75th Meridian
time.
Observations taken at the same moment of
time at all stations:
Districts. j avkhacjb.
Names. I s° ,: *?■!>*■■
I tton lem TomjfaH-
Atlanta 6 DO ! 70 08
Augusta it fle | 7| 07
Charleston... 5 sx i 72 if>
Galveston 21 92 72 .05
Littlo Rock 12 Sl4 |“8 lo
Memphis 15 90 fit'. ot
Mobile 9 60 70 07
Montgomery fi 90 70 .18
New Orleans li yo ok (H
Savannah IS 81 72 17
Vicksburg 7 ro 08 T
Wilmington 19 82 72 T
Stations op Max. I Mlm Raln-
Savannah district. Tem. Tent, fall
Albany no 72 01
Alupnka lie 72 05
Atnericus po 72 08
Haiti bridge go 74
Cordnlc icj 72 ST,
Kastman 92 72 T
Fort Gaines sn 72 .09
Gainesville, Fla , 92 72 09
Millen 94 72 07
Quitman S8 70 L 93
Savannah 97 74 .10
Thomasville Mi 74 .26
Waycross „ bo 72 T
Observations taken at the same moment of
time at all stationsfor the Mokncn'O Nkws:
Rainfall
Velocity..
: c
£ Direction..
Temperature.
Name
or
Station.
Boston 80S EiL| 001 Vt’Jycloudy
New York city... MNW id .OOOlobdy
Philadelphia 8s W Jg OjjCloudy
Washington 72 S 61 iqjKalnlng
Nor.oik 84; S 8j .00 Pt 'ly cloudy
Hatteras so! S JO 1 00|Cleur
Wilmington 801 SW 8 oo.l’t'lycloudy
Charlotte fOClui I oojCloudy
Raleigh 84 SW 1,1 00 Clear
Charleston ho S l| .02 Pt’ly cloudy
Atlanta 78 NW 6| T .Cloudy
Augusta 78iiS E 6 02 limning
Savannah 80| S rtj OB Pt 'ly cloudy
Jacksonville 80S B io! Oo C’loudv
Titusville 8()'S Ela OOPt’lycloudy
Jupiter. 80 S E B'.oo.dear
Key West 82 S K | .00 Cloudy
Tampa 78)SW (,| 02 Pt'ly cloudy
Pensacola 80; W 8 OOPt'ly cloudy
Mobile 8u! N 8 00 Cloudy
Montgomery 761 nK licioudy
Meridian 761NE1, TiCloudy
Vicksburg HpNW t,| OOCtoudy
New Orleans 80| S 1, uo Pt'ly cloudy
Fort Smith 80, S 6' .14, Cloudy
Galveston 78 E 8! .22 Cloudy
CorpusChristl.. hsnE iii. .84! PV ly cloudy
Palestine 82] E [t,j OJ’CJoudy
Memphis 81 S E 1,, 00 Clear
Nashville 74! E | s| .02 Cloudy
Knoxville 76:fj Pi! 6! T 'Cloudy
Indianapolis 7|BW q,! oo Pt’ly cloudy
Cincinnati 84 NW! 8 tut Pt’ly cloudy
Plttsiiurg 72. N j 6j .ftSjPt’lycloudy
Buffalo 74' W !l| .06Clear
Cleveland B!)SWjft] .OS.Cloudy
Detroit 78 NW' 8 00,Cloudy
Chicago 7O N K; 6r (WClear
Marquette 72 NW lo ! Oo Clear
St, Paul 88| N K 6! 00 Clear
Davenport 82 S I 8j OOiClear
I St. Louis 76! S jl. .u 0! Pt'ly cloudy
Kansas City 80 S E Ltl .04 Clear
Omaha 88 S E 8j OOOlear
North Platte 88,8 E|lo oolpt'ly olotidy
Dodge City 72;S E 10 .02 Cloudy
Bismarck 02SW|L| .00|01oar
P, H Smyth.
Observer, Weather Bureau.
TRAVELS OF A NEEDLE.
It Was Out from Mr. Kerrigan’s Ab
domen by a Surgeon in Brooklyn.
p rom the Philadelphia Press.
Brooklyn, July 25.—Thomas A. Kerri
gan, proprietor of the historic house in
Willoughby street which lias so long
been the headquarters of Hugh Me
ijuighlin, is showing to his friends a lit
tle cambric needle. A week ago he be
came conscious of a sharp pain in the
side of his abdomen. (examination
stiowed a small, nngrv-looking red spot,
quite painful to the touch. Dr. A War
ner Shepard out down into the rod spot
and found there the needle, about I>§
inches long.
Mr. Kerrigan remember* that Just af
ter taking a Turkish bath about a month
ago he had felt a pang in the leg on the
same side as that operated on. There
was a scratch on the calf, visible to the
naked eye, but Mr. Kerrigan had at
tached no jiarltcular importance to it.
Dr. Shepard believes it almost certain
that Mr. Kerrigan and tho needle had
come in contact in the (tool.
luooking up tho case in medical works
one of Mr. Kerrigan's friends found that
Sir Astle.v Cooper, the famous English
surgeon of the last century, explains that
when the needle is thoroughly embedded
beneath the skin there is a wound at its
base on the end with the eye. At the
other end, where the point is. there if no
wound, but as the wound at the large end
heals tho healing process forces
the needle on, point up. So there is a
continuous progression of wounding and
healing, always in the direction of the
needle point.
"You will have to bo careful with your
Ash stories now." said Bloomfield and Heele
nt Hi.
"Why?”
"The Senato has Increased the duties on
yarns."—Pius burg Chronicle-Telegraph.
A pure antiseptic, ,
•nedicinal toilet
Soap for daily use. !
Drnggiuts sell ft. Sjei. k 1
a arn of imitations. s*iK, ' (oI
A book on Dermatol- V JL
offy with overy cuke. ■ iiwgpiMi
■
PAINTS AND OILS.
JOHN G. BUTLER,
Headquarters for Plain and Decorative Wall
Paper, Paints, Oil, White Leads. Varnish,
Glass. Railroad and Steamboat Supplies,
Sashes. Doors, Blinds and Builders Hard
ware. Calcined Plaster, Cement and Hair.
SOLE AGENTS PX)R LADD’S LIME.
lSOGougraan street and I3U St. Julian street
Savannah. Georgia. .
Molasses.
267 hogsheads Muscovado Mula.sua
21 tierces Muscovada Molaeass.
Just landed and for sale by
C. M. GILBERT & CO., Inporten,
Corner Bay and West Broad
PROPOSALS
rfb LKT vtlfd* w)U b* nH'mivwi tor two
M lho* f*>rt morn or > nulkiM Ut I
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traci<r I
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A R MONEY 18 BUI RNED.
CHEAP ~ ADVERTISING.
ONE CENT A WORD.
ADVERTISEMENTS, 16 words or more,
in this column inserted for ONE CENT A
WORD, Cash in Advance, each insertion.
Anybody who has any want to supply, any
thin* to buy or sell, any business or aecorn
mentations to secure; indeed, nv wish to
gratify, should advertise in this column.
DQWKAK NOT” Separable collar buttons
Scents; improved Water bury fid M); 15
years’ guarantee gold tilled Addison watch
ftf,so; 15 years guarantee gold-filled Elgin
watch fll; solid gold non magnetic watch
939; plain gold rings from $1 up to 912.
FegeaH, the reliable jeweler, 112 U rough ton.
rPTIE Savannah Employment Agency is pre-
I pared at all times to furnish clerks, me
chanics. workmen, servants. No charge to
employers.
Do you want money? If so. you can get ell
you want on your diamonds, watches,
jewelry, clothing, tools, guns, pistols, etc.,
and on almost any thing of valuo, at tho Old
Reliable Pawnbroker House, 179 Congress
street, E. Muhlnorg. manager.
HELP WANTED.
\irANTED, agents to take orders by sum
▼ ▼ pie at home or travel; expenses aud
good salary or commission to right party.
Samples sent on application. Address, with
stump, Lock Box 430, New York city.
HOUlil S WAN i ED.
\\T ANTED. Hat of rooms on first or second
it floor; state lowest price. Address it..
Burroughs, Ga.
ROUMSJOJiJNL
VITKLI. furnished south rooms forgontle
ii men ou Monterey square; use of bath.
Address 138. News office.
LIOK RENT, ono or two furnished rooms to
I young men only; private family; excel
lent neighborhood; good home. Address
box 114 Morning News office.
Ip LEG ANT rooms on the first floor; large
-4 hall, third floor, In Lyons block. John
Lyons.
EMPLOYMENT WANTED^
WANTED, by memt er Confederate Veto
Vi ran Association, some work at which
he can make living; appeals to members in
opuiance to procure by their influence work
for one who deserves It. Address Vet, Morn
ing News.
"ly ANTED, by a settled iady. a house to
ii take care of during euipmer; best of
references given. Address Reliable, this of
fice.
T*
HOUSES AND STORES FOH RENT.
EpOR KKNT, from Oct. 1, the following
J deMruble residenc es: HB4 Duffy ntreot.
being 1 etween Hull and Drayton ntrecis.
I*4 Jonea afreet, being lot ween Druyton and
Abercorn street*. I ’I attnuli Htreet. corner
of Liberty street. "he above houses all have
modern improvements aud will be put In
thorough repair. Apply to Champion &
Germany, 118 iiryan street.
J7V)R RENT. No. 85 Jefferson street, house
and out houses; alsi very large lot
with stables for twelve horses or cows. Ap
ply J. L. Mehrteps.
IjlOR KKNT, house, 182 Drayton street, one
south of Gwinnett. Apply to Dr. Dunn,
corner Abercorn and York.
TELEGA NT brick house in excellent repair.
northwest corner of Jones and Abercorn
streets, fronting Jones street; rooms large
aud comfortable, with modern conveniences.
J. F. Hrooks & Fripp.
lilOR RENT, No. 208 Drayton street, north
-T east corner of WahKurg, hue residence
with ail modern conveniences. Apply J. F.
Hrooks, 1 JGyi Hay street.
KKNT, several desirable houses, all
modern improvements, in good loca
tion. Salomon Cohen, C Hull street.
FOR SALE. _
luV)R SALE—Does anybody in Savannah
w ant a seventy-tt ve hundred dollar house
for 96.000? If mo. let him call on John L.
Archer. 118 Hryan street.
nEFORE you buy or sell property consult
Robert H. Tatcm, Real Estate Dealer*
No *; Hull street.
IJUXTUHES for sale cheap, comprising
grates, awning, signs, curtains, chan
deliers. settees -ISJ stock boxes, shelving,
lineoleum. matting window display fixtures,
desk, stove, pipe, and screens. Will be sold
separate or as a whole to suit purchaser.
B.yck Bros.
/IYPKKSS SHINGLES for Tybee and
\J other coast points last longer and are
cheaper; boats can load at the mill; prices
are reduced to sl.Zb and #1.60 per thousand
Vale Royal Manufacturing Company.
OATS— Haled unthrashed oats is forage
und grain; you only pay for the oats, get
the straw free, at flfl ton: retails at $1 per
hundred at warehouse, T. J. Davis’ or W. D.
.Slmkinh'; cheaper than any other feed. J. F.
Guilmartin & Cos.
LUST.
1 OST. pointer bitch puppy, lemon and
I J white, 7 months old, answers to name
Snipe; reward. F. Lingg, Hull and Waith
ker streets.
IOST. yesterday at Hotel Tybee pavilion,
J Mile umbrella. Reward if returned to 81
Hryan street.
ED U CATJON aL.
K GOOD record for ono day—Six students
-/A find positions In one day. We take
great pains to secure employment for compe
tent and worthy pupils. Richmond's Com
merelai Institute opposite postofflee.
SU W M fcR^RtSORTS^^
SI’MiMKK board. Ingleside, Asheville. N.
C\; all modern conveniences; terms to
suit times; write.
M SCtLLANEOUB.
/lEORGE (Jong s Chinese restaurant has
* X removed from 27 Drayton street to 109
Hroughton street third door Train Drayton;
everything m first class order; would like to
cater to our gentlemen friends; satisfaction
guaranteed
LEGAL NUTiCES. ~
/ lEOKGIA. CHATHAM (VirxTV Mr*. Oliva
Vf Ketilau 11 ah uwilled to the Court of Or
dinary for t. twelve mouthe support for her
te'li aiui minor i tiililreri out of lL tuto of
JACOB It. I- KK i MA V deruaiMMl. Appralaers
have made returne allowing name
hcae aie. there lots to cite all whom It
mu. . urn orn to appear before aul court to
make ooteclluu on or before the fit at Motely
in Auiruat next, otherwise same will tm
■mated.
witness Die Honorable Hampton L Kerritl.
Ordinary tor Chatham tounty. this the 7th
day of July, lew
rttAKK K. KKILMACIf.
Clerk C. U.,0 C
State
of
Weather.
AUCTICN SALES.
Handsome Walnut and
MAHOGANY HKMIIHK. ANTIOt’B
KKI.ICS, AT AUCTION.
C, H. DORSET!, Auctlo.iesr.
Will a* 11 on MONDAY. BUth inst.. at 11 am.,
at 142 ( engross street, a large lot of very
elegant and massive furniture, belonging to
one of tne oldest families in the city, and
removed to my rooms for convenience.
FIRST FLOOR.
I Walnut Dwarf Hook Case. 3 Massive Wal
nut Hook Cases, turret style; Dust of Hon.
Jefferson Davis Bust of Jen. Albeit Sidney
Johnston. Elegant Marble Pedestal, Large
Double Clothes F’ress, 2 Cedar Wardrobes, L
hall set of three Chairs. 2 Antique Hail Chairs,
2 Heavy Walnut Chiffoniers. Large Engraving
Portfolio and \\ a nut .stand. 3 Elegant Plate
Glass Mirr-rs. in walnut frames, 7 feet high;
1 Walnut Extension Table. I Antiouo Secre
tary, Lot of Oil Paintings and Steel Engrav
ings. Z Walnut Card rallies, 4 Walnut Hu
rt aus mar ole top. 4 Walnut Wash Stands,
marble top; 1 \t alnut Silver Cabinet, l Wal
nut Corner Desk very curious; 1 Mahogany
China Closet, l M&howany Table, 1 Iron Wine
Closet, 7 Single Bedsteads.
SECOND FLOOR.
5 Hair Mattresses, n rolls White China Mat
ting, 1 set extra large Walnut Dining Room
Chairs, 18 Common < hairs. 3 Walnut Kockor*.
8 Willow Rockers 2 Rosewood Sofas, hand
somely upholstered; 8 Antique .U a hog an v
Chairs, leather seats; 2 Willow Screens. U
Walnut Bedroom Chairs. 3 French Work Ta
bles. 3 Marble top Commodes 2 Jnrdinere
Stands. 3 Walnut Card or side Tables, 1 Wal
nut Lounge in blue silk 1 Walnut Library To*
bin. marble top; (Walnut Table, very mas
sive and twenty feet tong: 1 Ebony Stand; 5
extra size Cane Seat Walnut Chairs. 10 Kitchen
Tables, 1 Walnut Wardrobe, 3Common Ward
robes, (1 Walnut Office Arm (’hairs. 10 Walnut
Leather Seat Library Chairs. 5 pairs Brass
Andirons 10 Chamber Sets. Gold Bund Dlnne®
Sot 1 Valuable Barometer. Inlaid Desks and
Work Holes. Handsomely Upholstered and
Massive Settees and Arm hairs,also a largo
lot of Hound Volumes and Maga/.ines.
Household Furniture
AT AUCTION.
I. D. LaROCHE, Auctioneer.
On TUESDAY, the 3lst day of July, 1891. at
II o’clock, on premises on Second stroet,
third door east of Abercorn street, l will
sell for cash:
All the household furniture contained
therein, consisting of bedroom suites, pnrlon
suites, upright piano, parlor mirror, lurgft
plush oaky chair, hat rack, carpets, pictures,
extension dining table and chairs, wire safe,
2 clocks, coal vase, blue and gold plusli
lounge, fiak sideboard, lamps, crockery and
all the kitchen furniture. Goods can be In
spected on Monduy.
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
61 J. MCLAUGHLIN & SON.
On WEDNESDAY, Ist August. 1894. at 11
o'clock, at 28 Hull street, ilrst house east of
Price,
All tho Household Furniture, Brussels
Carpets, Mirrors, Iteds, Itcddlng, Springs,
Parlor Furniture. Fine Stove and Utensils,
etc. Halo positive and unreserved.
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Dictionary, is cents extra If sent out of
the city.
Two coupons different numbers and 10
cents for any ono part MEMORIAL
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you want.
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