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2 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. I’XAOXP- A Y>Tt»TC!’!RS^P9 lii! ‘ iANlC Weakness XAZi-EXXvAO Decay .and numerous —. _ __ Wg e wobacurediseases, bas- I f “^ 6 S 6d f?o h £ v,* g /youthful indiscretion, A RADICAL CURE FOR vt®/too freo indulgence, or wir over brain work. Avoid JtfJuXv VUuo csfesthe imposition of preten- a Organic Weakness PHYSICAL facta before takingtreat- & elsewhere. Take a ® DECAY, TONSURE Remedy that HAS lnYO A u "Mi dd,e ngBU r.itjiu fcJ “ation to business, or causa Tpo-- or inconvenience in I ESTED FOR CVtHOixwpgi y . Founded on X EAR 3 BY USE IN MANYhslJigcientific rnedical princi- ThoUSAND CASES, B-Sb pica. By direct application wan 1 the seat of disease its aryl specific influence is felt £A w&w? without delay. Thenat- tV TP 1/M {Rsaural functions of the hu- W Herman organism is restored. animating elements TItTEATALENT. One Month, - s3.ooitL®Jthe patientbecomescneer Two Months, - 5.00t3-*£?ful and rapidly gains both Three Months, V.OOfifrfrjgstrength and sexual vigor. HARRIS REMEDY CO., M'FCChemiBTB 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 A EMBITTER Prompt in Action, mwrniSl UNEQUALLED [Tp —lN— it results 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. m, wm tn m 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