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Preparatory to going North for my fall stock, I Will sell, for the next thirty days, my entire stock of summer clothing at ACTUAL COST. This is
a bona fide closing out sale, as the goods must be sold to make room for fall purchases. This sale will be for the Spot Cash only.
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REMARKARLE DISCOVERIES.
Some of the Curious Things Found in
Egypt-
The results ofclearance of the Prya-
mid of Amenenihat III. by Flinders
l’ctric were detailed in the Sun last
spring, and it was then stated that
Mr. Petrie would next attack the brick
Pyramid of Illahun, which enjoys the
reuptation of having never been open
ed. As the pyramid in question in
closes the tomb of a Pharaoh of the
twelfth dynasty, Mr. Petrie went to
Illahun last February with every pros
pect of interesting discoveries. Inter
esting discoveries were made, but the
explorer left Illahun at the end of
May without having found the en
trance to the pyramid. The site of
the pyramid chapel and the remains
of an adjdcent shrine, yielded many
fragments of the cartouches of User-
tesen II., thus proving grandfather of
Amenenihat III., but the secret of the
main structure will not be revealed till
next year. The pyramid chapel
stands at the edge of the desert, hall
a mile distant from the cast face of
the pyramid. Its boundry walls arc
still traceable, and its position is de
fined by a square area containing a
deep bed of limestone chips. Foun
ded by Usertesen If. about 2960
years I!. C., and razed to the ground
by Ramses II. some 1,500 years later,
it was the fortune of this ancient site
to be used for a Christian cemetery
during the fifth and sixth centuries of
our era. In excavating tlu- bed ol
chips Mr. Pel lie came upon bodies
clad in garments, which, owing to the
dryness of ihq spot, arc admirably
preserved. Some ol these garments
were of fine material, trimmed and
embroidered in a most tasteful man
ner. Below the chnsiian graves Mr.
Mr. Petrie discovered the foundation
deposits of Usertesen II. in a square
hole sunk in the bed-rock of the des
ert. The hole was covered with a
square block, which attracted the ex
plorer’s attention. ‘.There was a sec
ond block, in fact, beneath the first.
When both were removed there were
found the deposits made by the bull
ders at the corner-stone laying—as we
should say—4,849 years ago. lie
sides some pieces of pottery there
were four pairs of sandstone corn
rubbers, eight bronze knives with
pointed blades, eight with ordinary
blades, four small chisels, four large
chisels, four bar chisels, four axe-
heads, three pieces of copper ore, one
piece of zinc or tin ore, and twelve
strings of exquisite carnelain beads,
uniform in size and color and of the
richest translucent red. The beads
were placed there, in Mr. Petrie’s
opinion, probably as specimens of the
currency of the time, and he calls
attention to the tact that beads are
still a well recognized article of barter
throughout Africa, The tools arc
samples of those in use in Usertcsn’s
rime. The ore—probably a tin ore—
will perhaps on analysis qnablc us to
identify the country from which the
Egyptians got their tin at that early
date. Near the chapel are the re
mains ol a town of. the same period.
The place is symmetrically laid out
and was all built at one time, proba-
b’y for the architects, artists, officials
and workmen employed in the con
struction of -the pyramid and chapel.
In the ruins of the town, which has
been cleared from end to end, Mr.
Petrie found the domestic utensils and
furniture of persons who lived, labored
and died over 4.800 years ago. He
has come upon curious traces of their
manners and customs. Dozens of-in-
valuable papri have been found, some
of them rolled up and scaled. In one
house a rubbish heap of papyri was
found, .consisting, apparently, of ac
counts in ruled columns and lines,
and ail in an exquisitely neat, clear
hand. The quality of some of this
early papyri is marvelous. It is form
ed of two layers of crossing fibers,
but is as thin as foreign note paper
Other finds were flint flakes, basket-
work pottery, ivory castanets, bronze
mirrors, knives, chisels and cups,
wooden boxes, combs, boomerangs,
spoons and bowls, spindles and thread
in abundance, the stocks of bowdrills,
beads, peg-tops and other toys, sever
al draught boards and a beautiful
alabaster cup. beneath the floors
of the chambers the remains of many
new born infants were found buried,
usually in boxes not intended for burial
purpose—a revelation not very credi
table to the customs of the civil ser
vants of the twelfth dynasty. With
some of these unfortunate babies were
found traces of affection, such as
necklaces of garnets and green-glazed
beads, with pendants of silver fishes.
One box contained the remains of
three infants and necklaces made lrom
cylinders of Usertesen III. The
most interesting, however, of Mr.
Petrie’s discoveries, is the pottery with
incised patterns, in imitation of basket
work, and with inscriptions neither
hieroglyphic nor hieratic, but early
Cypriote or Greek. The letters on
the pottery of Illahun are distinctly
Cypriote. At Tell Gurob, a town
some five miles distant, founded dur :
ing the eighteenth dynasty, and in
decay in the time of Menepthah, the
supposed l’haiaoh ol the exodus, Mr.
Petrie later found pottery partly of the
Cypriote and partly of the Mycenman
types, with Cypriote and Phoenician
inscriptions. These facts will some
what astonish Greek scholars, as they
indicate the presence in Egypt as far
back ns 2960 B. C. ,-hgcan Greeks,
who brought with them the rudiments
of the Cypriote, and perhaps also of
the Phoenician alphabets. It has
been believed that Homer, living
about 1,000 years B. C., was unac
quainted with the art ol writing, and
that his‘‘Iliad’' existed for hundreds
of years in llie memories only of
rhapsodists, who earned a living by
wandering through the countries that
dbnslituted the old Greek wor ld and
reciting his verses to popular audi
ences. This m-.y be said to be the
accepted belief, the earliest dale as
signed by scholars lor the introduc
tion of a knowledge of letteis in
Greece not going further hack than
850 B. C. Mr. IVlirc’s "discovery how
ever, shows that the beginnings ol
the alphabet were already in existence
some 2,000 years B. C., and that the
Iliad might after all, have been com
mitted to writing in Homer’s lifetime.
SAYS SHE’S VIRGIN MARY.
The Divine Craze has Struck the Negroes
of Brunswick.
Brunswick, Aug. 9.—Brunswick
is just now wrestling with a problem
in the shape of a negro woman named
Sarah Holland, who is playing the
Virgin Mary racket on a small scale,
but much to the discomfiture of many
citizens. She came here some days
ago and pitched her tent in a clump
of trees in the suburbs.
overshadowed r.v tiie iioi.y ghost.
Each night since then she has held
forth, professing to be the Virgin
Mary overshadowed by the Holy
Ghost, and thus being able to work
miracles, such as making the blind
sec, the deaf hear, the lame walk,
etcetera.
BULL-FROGS IN SOLID ROCK.
The Infamous Trusts.
The following from the Marietta
.Journal is strong and clear:
“Trusts are legalized thefts. They
arc robbery by lawful process. They
arc a siand-aiul-d.-liver, of which 110
court cun take cognizance. They in
vest a few with authority to levy and
collect a tax from many. They give
men the power to oppress sixty million
men, women and childred. They en
able fifty million dollars to earn twenty
million in one year. They compel
people to pay interest on money they
never borrowed and never bail. The
leading trusts have earned from fifteen
to twenty per cent, per annum on the
money invested, yet they have manu
factured nothing, built nothing, ere
ated nothing. It owns a staple article
of production and permits neither
competition nor reduction in price."
THE VIRGIN" COINING MONEY.
The ignorant classes (lock tojicar
her, and seldom it is that they fail to
plank down so for the sake of being
eternally blessed by the professed
Virgin Mary. The excitement dur
ing these meetings is intense, hut so
far they have not violated the law
and so have escaped arrest.
TO CAGE THE VIRGIN.
The bettor class of colored people,
however, are beginning to sec the
harm she is doing and are taking
steps to stop her. Some of them speak
of appealing to Governor Gordon for
aid, hut the local authorities will
probably stop Sarah before his aid is
asked. She says that the Holy Spirit
will keep all evil from her, despite
what is being done to stop the ser
vices.”
We still insist, and repeat, that a
leather strap, properly and judiciously
applied, is the remedy. About 89
would cure the Vi I gin Mary of her
hallucination.—Eh.
Up a Tree to Pray.
Another false Christ came to the
surface yesterday, and like Zacharia.-
of old, he hud climbed a tree on the
wild idea that lie was about to ascend
to heaven. This anti-Christ was Ed
ward Bay, a colored fanatic of about
Id years of age upon whose mind the
Liberty county religions craze had
worked until it had unseated it.
About M o’clock yesterday morning
Officer Croniu discovered Bay iq
tree half preaching and half praying
lait could not succeed in getting the
lunatic down until Officers Ik-lford
and Bussell came to his assistance.
Bay was then brought down by main
force and dragged to the barracks,
where he was held subject to a war
rant for lunacy issuing out of the
court of ordinary, and about noon
Deputy .Sheriff Higgins, assisted by a
police detail, took Bay to the jail
Savannah News.
Jury Exemptions.
"I'lie wholesale system of jury ex
emptions in Georgia has been carried
to such an extent that, in numerous
instances, it is found extremely difficult
j to get a jury. We give the exemptions
■ in Bibb county:
i Military
l-iovyc
T reatment of Patients Uuder Choro -
form.
In France, when a patient is under
chlroform, on the slightest symptom
appearing of failure of the heart, they
turn him nearly upside down, that is,
with his head downward and his heels
in the air. This, they say, always
restores him ; and such is their faith
in the efficacy of this method, that
the operating tables iti the Paris lms
pitals arc made so that in an instant
they can he elevated with one end in'
the air, so as to bring the patient into
a position resembling that of standing
on his head.—Scientific American.
Il.iuril ol' Kiliu'iition. I
Hiiitists
Railway Mail Clerks ‘1
A potta-euries 1
Hot-tors 1,
Itailroa.l Engineers Hi
Ministers of tin-Gospel V
Telegraph Linemen
I'otice ::
Itotnl Commissioners 2
Tom!.,
When to this is added the exemp
tions in the other 137 counties in
Georgia, it will be seen what .1 long
list it is. The legislature should rem
edy the trouble. It is to be hoped
that the bill which has already pjssed
one house, looking to this end, will
become a law.
“Mow still and calm the moon is,”
exclaimed Amy feelingly.
“Yes,” replied George ; “it is sober
uow, bill it will be full in two weeks.”
Patron—“This set of teeth you
made for me is too big.”
Dentist—“Yes, sir. Sit down in
the chair and I will enlarge your
mouth a little.”
A Remarkable Discovery on the Columbus
Southern.
Columiius, Aug. 9.—Dr. T. 1). Mc-
Kown, of the Chattahoochee Brick
Company, was in the city to-day. lie
attends the camps on the Columbus-
Southern road, now located between
Retifroe’s Gap and Gobbler’s Mill. He
informed me this morning of a won
derful discovery which has been made
along the line .between these two
points, and which may lead to fine
results.- The country is very hilly, the
hills being sharp peaks of very unequal
height and forming a kind of chain for
a considerable distance. A number
of convicts are now engaged in cutting
these hills.
phosphate discovered.
One of the cuts is about one hundred
and fifty feet long and thirty -five feet
deep. Within the past few days an
amount of soil resembling rich phos
phate has been turned out. The soil
contains skeletons of very curiously
tormed animals, totally unknown in
these parts at the present day. Oyster
beds have been discovered, and sharks’
teeth of various other animals have
been found in abundance.
1 ROGS IN SOLID ROCKS.
The most curious discovery ol all
was two live green bull frogs taken
from an excavation iq the solid rock.
How they got there and how long they
have been there the doctor could riot
give any idea. One tiling is certain,
that this country must have formed
part of tlie sea bed in nasi ages,
large quantities of sea shells have been
found at different points in the cut,
Here is a field upon which some ex
perienced geologist might build up a
name.
Porry's Terrible Fall-
In our last issue wc made brief
mention of the collapsing of a balloon
in North Carolina, at a height of 700
feet, and the terrible downward shoot
of l’rof. l’erry. The following is the
press report of the accident:
Charlotte, N. C., Aug. 9.—There
was an exciting scene at Mount Holly
fair grounds this afternoon. Professor
W. K. Perry, the celebrated aeronaut,
ol the American Balloon company,was
to make his marvelous leap to the earth
alter ascending to the height ot three
quarters of a mile, descending by the
aid of a parachute.
At five o’clock, everything being in
readiness, the dazzling feat was attemp
ted, in the presence of fifteen hundred
people. The crowd watched the man
climb into the air with bated breath.
When the balloon had traveled up
wards about seven hundred feet, the
crowd discovered that it was bursting ;
gas could be seen shooting out, and
soon the canvas cloth began to drop.
As Professor Perry was holding on
under the parachute, he was not aware
of liis terrible situation, -'i'lie crowd
became frantic with excitement. Veils
went up and pistols were fired to at
tract the turn’s attention, but all of no
avail.
Soon, however, all the gas and air
in the balloon was exhausted, and
twitchjng, jerking and whirling, it be
gan to tall downward. It was too late
to loosen the parachute from the
wrecked balloon, but for some distance
it was successfully engineered. The
balloon causing the parachute to cap
size, all came down with a terrible
crash to the earth.
The crowd rushed around to the
unfortunate man, and every attention
was given him, but for twenty minutes
he did not move or give signs of life.
The fall is variously estimated at
from one to lout hundred leet. Pro
fessor L’erry was brought here to-night
and is being treated by the best medi
cal skill in the city. Many ot his
hones are broken, but physicians think
it is possible for him to recover. He
weighs 1S0 pounds.
li p. 111.—At this hour the chances
for Professor Perry’s recovery are not
good. Physicians think it is hardly
probable that he can recover.
Mrs. Amateur (accompanying the
gardener over the new farm) —“What
is that plant, Davis?”
Davis- -“Milkweed, ma'am.”
Mrs. Amateur Ttcu minutes later,
bursting excitedly into her husband's
den)—“.Jack, there's no earthly need
of our keeping so many eows; this
place is overrun with milkweed, and
we may as well economize a little.”
PRICES!
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Our Mr. Levy is now
in New York making
Fall purchases, and
he has sent us word
to KNOCK DOWN
PRICKS on all sum
mer goods, and make
room for our immense
Fall and Winter stock
that is coming. So,
from now on, all
Spring and Summer
<•’ 0 0 d s H’o at old
“Knocked Down
Prices.
Remnant table full
of choice bargains
every week.
Lovys
Drj Ms Hoist
Mitchell House Corner.