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PRIVATE LINES
OF TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
BETWEEN TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
A Feasible Scheme Which Can Be Put in
Operation at a Moderate Cost —Some-
thing f<jr the Young Folks
5J --Details.
[Cor. Detroit Free Press.]
In the state of Indiana there is a telegraph
line in operation which places three or four
farmhouses in communication with each
other. The benefits thereby derived are of
great value, and the young folks take great
pleasure in this mode of communication.
The Free Press some time ago mentioned a
line which is in operation in the southern
part of this state. It is several miles in
length, and places eighteen or twenty resi
dences in coinmurtication with each other.
The line runs to a village and is connected
with a doctor’s office there, thus giving each
“office,” or house, provided with an instru
ment direct connections with the doctor, a
,reat advantage in case of sickness or an
emergency. In case of fire or burglary, any
family can summon and obtain assistance at
once from the neighbors.
Farmers have no idea of the feasibility of
a scheme of this kind, and the cost is very
alight, compared with the benefits they may
gain thereby.
We will suppose that there are four or five
farmers, who wish to build a telegraph line
and connect with the pastoffice or telegraph
office. Suppose the line is to be about one
mile in length. Let us figure up the cost
Na 12 galvanized iron wire is very well
adapted for a line of this length, and one
mile of it would cost about sls. The glass
insulators, and brackets to fasten on poles
and attach the wires to, will cost
but a few dollars. The poles are a
email item to farmers, as the wire
need be carried only high enough to keep
it out of easy reach of mischievous boys, ex
cept in passing over gates, roadways or any
where that people are liable to drive under
it. In such places it must be high enough
to clear a man standing upon a load of hay.
Your boys will be glad to have the privilege
of cutting the poles, and to assist in building
the line, because they are to have lots of fun
in chatting over the wire, playing checkers
by telegraph, eta, during the long winter
evenings.
The “gravity battery,” as it is called, is
the best and cheapest kind to use for this
purpose. You will need five “cells” or jars
of this battery for the line and an additional
“cell" for every instrument attached to each
line, half of the battery to be attached to
each end of the line, and none anywhere
else. Thus if your line is connected with
five buildings, you will want ten jars, which
will cost you about 75 cents each.
The best instruments to use are those in
which the “sounder” and “key” are on one
base. In case you have children who are
apt to meddle with it, you can make a cover
to lock over it, after the fashion of a sewing
machine. The instruments will cost you
about $5 each. It will not pay to get the
cheapest, neither will it be necessary to have
the high-priced ones.
You will also need a “cut-out” and “light
ning-arrester” combined, so that you can
switch off the instrument during heavy
thunder storms, and effectually protect your
property. There are several kinds of cheap
ones which will answer very well, and cost
about $1 each.
During my five years’ experience as tele
graph operator on different lines, I know of
only one inst _.ee wherein an office was dam
aged by lightning and that was probably
due to the operator’s neglect iu not “cutting”
oi' switching out hi> instrument before go
ing home in the evening.
To sum up the expenses would bo about as
follows:
One mile of wire sls 00
Insulators, about 3 00
Battery, 10 cells at 75 cents 7 50
Instruments, 5 at $5 25 00
Cut-outs, or switches, 5 at $1 5 00
Total $55 50
This sum divided by five leaves each farm
er's expense sll.lO, a small sum to compare
with the good you will get out of it.
After putting up the lino and getting it in
running order, the next thing to be done is
to learn the Morse alphabet. The firms that
manufacture instruments send cards with
this alphabet printed on them, and a book
of instructions with the instruments, so that
a person of ordinary intelligence can put up
a line and master the alphabet by following
the directions given therein.
It takes from three to twelve months, ac
cording to the aptness of the learner, to be
come sufficiently proficient to get along on a
railroad wire, but on a wire of this kind a
few weeks’ practice will enable you to con
verse slowly with your neighbors, and you
will improve in proportion to the length of
time you practice. Agree with your friends
upon the hours to practice and let one in
each house “send” in their turn about fifteen
minutes at a time, and all the rest copy
what he or she sends. It will be a pleasant
pastime for the family and serve to keep
your boys more at home.
If you can get an operator to instruct you
a few times you will get a better idea of it
to begin with, although it will not make
much, if any, difference in the end.
In a great many localities the barb wire
fence may be used, but it is not so reliable,
as it is not very well insulated and will work
badly in very damp or wet weather. In
dry weather, and provided the posts are
dry, it will do almost as well as an insulated
wire. Be sure that the joints are scraped
until bright before connecting the ends to
gether. If the wire is well painted it will
work tolerably well, even in wet weather.
Why He Left the Cracks.
[Chicago Ledger.]
A south side man was building a new side
walk in front of his house, and was placing
the planks about an inch apart.
“Why don’t you put the planks close to
gether!” inquired a neighbor.
“O, you see,” replied the sidewalk builder-,
•my boys must have a few nickels and pet
Mies for candy money, and when people dro[
them on the sidewalk they go through thi
cracks and become prey for the boys.”
The neighbor went away a wiser man.
The Dade Collar.
[Chicago Times.]
The dude collar this season, it is authorita
tively announced, will be narrow, and will
have the corners slightly turned down. He
will have an opportunity of looking around
him, and of seeing what is going on in the
world. _____
Economical.
It was Kitchener who economically re
marked: “What capital things oysters
would be if we could only feed our serva*ts
upon the sheila.”
THE SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES: SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1885.
THE MY6TERV OF NIAGARA.
Branding the Canon—Tremendous Depth
of the Water at Whirlpool Rapids.
[New York Times.]
The mysterious and awful depths of Ni
agara’s canon are fruitful subjects of com
ment. Some portions of it are reasonably
supposed to be bottomless. When the first
railway bridge was constructed here some
ambitious persons attempted to sound the
canon directly beneath it They filled a
large tin pail with stones and lowered it
The currents merely played with it Then
they took a stronger cord, attached a bar of
railway iron to it, which actually floated,
owing to the fierce counter currents.
A few years ago the United States lake
survey came here, and, as recorder of the
survey, I know of the remarkable data ob
tained. We saw at once that the current
would buoy up a large sinker, and proposed
to test the smallest possible surface with
the greatest possible weight We took a lead
weight in the form of a plumb bob, weigh
ing thirteen pounds, and attached it to a
small but strong cord. Then we secured the
services of one of the ferry boatmen and
started out into the stream. The boatman
was ordered to row as nearly under the falls
as possible, and the result will never be for
gotten by a member of the party in that
skiff.
As we approached the falls the roar be
came more and more terrible, until we were
not only unable to hear, but the lips posi
tively refused to open and utter a sound.
For several days afterward some of the
party wore so deaf as to be unable to dis
tinguish one word from another. The lead
was cast first near the American falls, where
bottom was found at eighty-three feet
Near the main falls we found 100 feet of
water. Here the oarsman’s strength failed
and the little craft began to dart down
stream.
At every cast of the lead the water grew
deeper, until in front of the inclined railway
the old guide and most of the party became
terror-stricken and refused to go further
down stream. Here the lead told off 193
feet We were then able to compute the
depths lower down by simply ascertaining
the width of the stream. Directly under the
lower bridge the water narrows considerably
and deepens to 210 feet Lower down, at
the Whirlpool rapids, the gorge becomes
very narrow and the currents terribly fierce.
Here the computed depth was 350 feet One
place in the gorge is still narrower, and
would exceed a depth of 400 feet
When the depth of water is taken into con
sideration the height of the canon wails
above the surface must not be forgotten.
These walls range from 270 to 360 feet in
height, often perpendicular, so that the total
depth of the canyon ranges from 350 to 700
feet This great depth of the gorge leads
directly in imagination to the canon’s wear.
Novel Features of a “Tailors* Reception.**
[St. Louis Globe-Democrat.]
A firm of London tailors for women are
giving a reception in the New York estab
lishment. The evidences are many that they
have reckoned on taking very profitable ad
vantage of the Anglomania among our
women of fashion and wealth, for they take
especial pains to announce their employment
at home by aristocrats. A feature of the
occasion is the exhibition of garments on
living models—not pretty girls hired here
for the service, but genuine English
beauties, imported so freshly that their Lon
don accent is not yet in the slightest degree
impaired. There are fifteen of them, and
all young, with handsome faces and slender,
lithe, shapely figures, on which the clothes
are displayed to the best possible advantage.
They chat agreebly with the crowd of shop
pers, strike effective attitudes, and walk
about with a gait presumably that of the
most approved London belles.
But there is a still more remarkable de
vice for catching the fancy of New York
wearers of fashionable garments. In the
»nter of one room stands a hobby-horse as
oig as life, covered with a real equine skin,
and supported in such away on springs as to
rise and fall like a galloper in motion. The
odes of the apartment are mirrors. This is
the department for riding habits. The
woman who seeks a new costume for eques
trianism is asked to select several models,
and these she may test as to effect by donning
them, taking a seat on the back of the imi
tation steed, and contemplating herself in
the mirrors while in a saddle. In case she
does not care to mount the hobby-horse her
self, one of the imported girls corresponding
most nearly to her size and shape perforins
the feat.
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300J4 N. Tenth St., ST. LOUIS. MO.
E3ll QTURED PERSONS!Not a Truss.
JTK W ■ Ask for terras of our Appliance.
WE GIVE FILELE
“He who is false to present dyty,” says
Henry Ward Beecher, “breaks a thread in
the loom, and will find the flaw when he may
have forgotten its cause.” A case in point
occurs to us. Mr. Wm. Ryder, of 87- Jeffer
son street, Buffalo, N. Y., recently told a re
porter that, “I had a large abscess on each
leg, that kept continually discharging, for 20
years. Nothing did me any good except Dr.
Pierce’s ‘Golden Medical Discovery.’ It
cured me.” Here is a volume expressed in
a few words. Mr. Ryder’s experience is en
titled to our readers’ careful consideration.—
The Sun.
Mr. E. D. Parsons, of Rochester, N. Y., is
a well knit, fine looking, hearty appearing
gentleman. One day he was prostrated with
pain from the small of his back to the abdo
men. He says: “I wrote the person whose
'name appeared in Dr. Kennedy’s ‘Favorite
Remedy’ advertisements, and he confirmed
it. From that little incident I discovered I
had stone in the bladder and gravel in the
kidneys. I used the medicine and am happy
to say I am now a well man.”
If you want good satisfaction for your
money, call at L. Freid’s and be
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LADIES’ TESTIMONY.
Rheumatism and Neuralgia.
“1 suffered severely from Rheumatism in
my limbs and Neuralgia in the head, my kid
neys were not performing their proper func
tions. I resorted to Hunt’s [Kidney and
Liver] Remedy, and was completely cured.”
Mrs. L. G. Tanner, Providence, R. I.
“Prosperity gtffns friends, adversity tries
them.”
Another Lady.
Mrs. Thomas Atkinson, of Providence, R.
1., says: “I was confined to my bed. A friend
urged me to try Hunt's [Kidney and Liver]
Remedy. I had taken less than three bot
tles, when I was able to resume my household
duties.”
“Be devoted to one thing at a timp ”
The Weaker Sex.
My kidney’s became afflicted and weak ;
Hunt's [Kidney and Liver] Remedy gave me
the desired benefit. I consider it a cure.”—
Mrs. Florence L. Wood, Bridgeport, Conn.
“True friendship is eager to give.”
Mrs. Rockwell’s Heart Disease.
“1 have been severely afflicted with heart
disease for a number of years; my trouble
was caused by inaction of my kidneys. I
cheerfully recommend Hunt’s [Kidney and
Liver] Remedy to all who may be afflicted as
I have been.”—Mis. A. O. Rockwell, Pearl
street, Providence, R. I.
“Without health all men are poor.”
Minus 156 lbs. Water.
“I was tapped eight times. I had one hun
dred and fifty-six pounds of water taken out
of me. Was treated by seventeen different
doctors, and Hunt’s [Kidney and Liver]
Remddy has cured me. —Mrs. David North,
Ecorse, Wayne county, Mich., May 30,1883.
25 at Druggists 4GT*Take no other.
bend for Illustrated Pamphlets of Solid Tes
timonials of Absolute Cures.
HUNT’S REMEDY CO., Providence, R. I.
C. N. CRITTENTON, Gen. Agt., New York.
DEAF AND BLIND.
How an Atlanta Woman was
Made to See and Hear.
AX INTERESTING STORY.
Miss Minnie Wallace resides with Mrs.
George Flckland, 41 McAfee street, Atlanta,
Ga., and from her own lips a Constitution re
porter learned the following story:
Several months ago she became almost to
tally blind and deaf, and could not taste any
thing except salt. Her bones became the seat
of intense pain, her joints were swollen and
painful, and eventually her whole body and
limbs became covered with splotches and
small sores. Her appetite failed, and she
gradually lost flesh and strength, and had but
little use of herself, as her limbs and muscles
were paralyzed She, as well as her friends
and those with whom she lived, despaired of
her recovey. Her sufferings, combined with
loss of hearing and taste, and blindness, were
truly heartrending.
All treatment from physicians and the use
of medicines seemed powerless. Her dis
ease was blood poison and rheumatism.
As she now seemed well and hearty the re
porter asked what wrought such a wonderful
change.
“I used a medicine recommended by a
friend,” she replied, “and before one bottle
had been taken I began to see and hear. The
second bottle relieved all rheumatic pains
and improved my appetite. When I had com
pleted the use of six bottles my eyesight and
hearing were fully restored, sense of taste re
turned, and splotches disappeared, soresail
healed, and my strength and flesh restored.
I now feel as well as I ever did, and my
friends, as well as myself, are astonished.”
“What was the Medicine?” asked the re
porter.
“Botanic Blood Balm—B. B. B. was the
great remedy that acted so powerfully on my
disease and cured me. I never experienced
any unpleasant symptoms from Its use, and
Us action is so quick that it surprises all.”
The reporter then sought a physician who
knew the case, whereupon he handed us the
following lines:
“1 examined the above case of blood poison
and rheumatism, before and after being
cured, and certify to the main facts above
stated, and must acknowledge that the B. B.
B. effected a most wonderful cure In this
well-known case.
[Signed] “J P. DROMGOOLE, M. D.”
Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga., will mail a
32-page book free, filled with magical effects.
For sale by
OSCEOLA BUTLER,
Savannah, Ga.
Without Money
AND
Without Price!
We have just issued a most wonderful and valuable
new book, which treats o£ diseases “peculiar to the
female sex,” and have spared neither pains nor money
to make it worthy the perusal and confidence of the
women all over the land.
Every Wither, wife, sister and daughter in this
c uintry is deeply, aye, vitally interested in this grea
work, and should send for it without delay.
It will be sent to any address in the United States
Free of Cost!
Read it carefully, study it well and you will glean
from its pages information that may prove more valu
able than all the wealth of all the Rothschilds, more
precious than all the gems of Europe’s royalty I
IT Mil M II 11!
Give Post Office and write name plainly, and ad
dress
The Bradfield Regulator Co.,
P. O. Box 28, ATLANTA GA.
Bradfield’s Begulator and Mother’s
Friend
For Sale by OSCEOLA
and Congreee.etraeU.
COLUMBIAN HOTEL,
Saratoga Springs, - - TVew York.
MR. JAMES NT. CASE,
Os the Pulaski House, will open this superior Family Hotel about June 15th. Elaborate im
provementshave been made. Cuisine under PROF. FELIX LOUMENA, late of Windsor
Hotel New York. Rooms beautifully furnished, facing Congress Spring Park. Attendance
and appointments unexceptionable.
Terms: $3 per Day; $12.50 to S2O per Week
Bellmc Hotel and Summer Garden
JACOB LUTZ, - - PROPRIETOR.
Special arrangements made with Committees for Picnics and Parties. A fine Brass and
String Band always on hand.
Bathing. Suits for Hire. Board. L>y the
• Month or Day.
GOOD COOKS AND THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. •
Music l>y Jung’s Brass Band Dirtily.
AN EXTENIVE ASSORTMENT OF
Spring’ & Summer Goods
AT
A. J. MILLER & Co’s
1
Furniture and’Caipet Emporium.
EFRIG ERATORS and ICE BOXES with latest improvements. MOSQUITO NETS in
Gauze and Boblnet. TESTER and VICTORIA FRAMES, including
Reichert’s Victoria.
The simplest and most complete yet Invented. SPRING BEDS, including National, Braid
ed Wire, Imperia], Aetna, Telephone, Dunk’s Noiseless and Brighton. We
continue the manufacture of Fine Bedding, especially adapted
for Summer use.
STRAW ANDCOCOA MATTINGS
We unhesitatingly say that we are showing the choicest line of these goods ever offered
in this market at BOTTOM PRICES. WINDOW SHADES, LACE CURTAINS and LAM
BREQUINS of newest designs. „ t ,
N. B.~We are showing a choice line of FURNITURE suitable for Summer Resorts, which
we will sell at popular LOW PRICES. Give us a call.
Y. Al BIA ACI? CO.
GREAT RED FLAG SALE
OF
BOOT'S _AJNI> SHORS.
=coheo co - e =
Change of Business! Change of Business!
OUR STOCK to be sold at less than AUCTIO ST PRICES. No holding back. Our immense
Stock comprising BOOTS and SHOES, BLI.PPEXS, TRUNKS, VALISES, CLOTHING, Etc.
MUST BE SOLD
To enable us to close up our present business. Everything Marked Down in Plain Figures
Call and examine. We mean business.
NO NONSENSE. STOCK MUST POSITIVELY BE SOLD.
COTJEKT rife 00.
BEGINNING MONDAY, MAY 1!,
AT
JACOB COHESKT’S
152 Broughton st.. Great Sale of Domestic and
Imported
TOWELS. TOWELS. TOWELS.
Having a larger stock than needed, we propose to sell at a sweeping reduction Towels
that cannot be duplicated in this city at double the prices. We quote:
100 doz. Figured Towels at 50c doz.; cost 84c.
100 doz. White, Colored Border, at $1 doz.; cost St 43.
86 “ “ “ “ at 20 doz.; cost St 68.
52 “ “ “ “ at 01 50 doz.; cost $2 08.
30 •’ “ Fancy “ at 25c apiece, $3 50 doz
18 “ “ Imported, worked border, sOc apiec-, $6 doz.
12 “ “ Hand Embroidered “ sOc “ ss»B 50 doz
No charge for showing good
MOTHS MOTHS I MOTHS I
We have now on hand a full supply of the well known MANAHAN TARINE MOTH
PADS, for preserving woolen goods and carpets. It is also an exterminator of Bugs,
Roaches and Mosquitos. One Pad in a box or trunk will keep It free from moths, Bugs,
Roaches, etc , during the summer season. For sale by
Jacob Cohen, 152 Broughton Street
Remember our 50c. White Damask, worth sl,
rarammw
P. MANNING, Prop’r.
Northern Meats,
FISH & GAME IN SEASON.
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SAVANNAH MARKET.
WE read occasionally of Invitations to buy
Meats and Vegetables at other places
but the market. Now, Is not the market
the place to buy your Meats and Vegetables ?
Isn't It run for that purpose ? If you cannot
find what you want at one stall, you can get
it at another. We guarantee to keep the best
and freshest the market affords in Choice
Northern Beef, Boneless Corned Beef and
Pickled Tripe, Fish, Game, etc. Every
steamer from the Northern Markets brings
fresh supplies for us. You will serve your
own Interest by examining our stock. You
can leave your order for the whole week at
first call. Orders will receive best attention
and prompt delivery. ■
Logan & Calder,
67 & 68 MARKET.
FOLKS
WILL TALK!
ALAS, ’tis true. And how news does ever- U|
lastingly travel in Savannah ! If a fellow In J I
Yamacraw kisses his best girl at 10 a. m. [
(standard time) Its known at the 8., F. & W.
wharf by 10:01. And the rumors that are
floating In the air! Why, Its even reported
that Ludden & Bates’ Music Hl use Is to move
Into the Altmayer New Block In October
next.
w, m ra m
Hear of such a thing? Haven’t we got a
great big store now, well located and hand
some, and haven’t we moved already five
times, and what more do we want ? Well,
we ought to be happy, but we ain’t. Our
present stand is not half large enough for our
trade, and if all creation must deal with us
we must provide a store that will hold them.
Moving is nothing after one gets used to it,
aitd
We Shall Move
October 1 to the New Altmayer Block, east
end, 48 feet front, 4 stories and basement,and
if we don’t make a Handsome Mmlc Tem
ple of it, it will be because we have lost our
grip. Every department of our business will
there be enlarged and several new ones
added. In fact, there’s no telling what may
happen—
We Haven’t Let Out Half
Our Strength Yet.
Only give us room and see what we can do* 1
Ludden & Bates
MUSIC HOUSE.
TYBEE ISLAND.
STEAMER ST. NICHOLAS,
M. P. USINA, Master.
Leaving wharf foot of Abercorn street.
Regular Schedule.
1 From Tybee wharf 7 a. m., 12:30
SUNDAYS rFrom City 7 Wharf !0 a m.,3p.
J m. and 9 p.m.
} From Tybee Wharf at 7a.
THUBSiFaYS^ 8 ) From City Wharf at 6p.
FRIDAYS J m '
IFrom Tybee Wharf at 7a.
From City at 10a. m. I
and 6 p. m.
The Steamer is open for charter on all days ’
except Saturdays and Sundays. Parties
chartering must arrange excursion schedule
so as not to interfere with regular schedule.
No Freight received later than fifteen min
utes before departure of steamer.
Fare, including Railway to Capt. Blun s
residence, whole 60e.; halves 30c
JNO. F. ROBERTSON, Agt.
ICE! ICE! ICE!
$5.75 Per Ton.
Delivered in SAVANNAH in CAR
LOTS of Ten Tons. Estimated
Shrinkage in Transit, 10 Per Cent.
Dealers can form Clubs and order in Car
Lots, or force your Local Companies to sell at
above prices.
Henry Bayer & Son,
114 Meeting St., - Charleston, S. C.
Tools! Tools!.
Morse’s Twist Drills, Bailey’s Patent 1
Planes, Disston’s Hand Saws.
A FULL LINE OF
Carpenter’s Tools.
For sale by k
PALMER BRO’S. /
51 IL LI N EltY
MY STOCK IS NOW
OpiJ sd Esdy for lispsdici, >
Comprising a very handsome and
COMPLETE LIINH
Os the latest and most
Fashionable Styles, j
P. 3. GOLDEN, |
34 Broughton Street. I