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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-12
SHE WAS OSSIFIBD.
Strange and Agonizing Sufferings OF a
Lady Ended by Death,


From the Lockport IN. " Dispatch.
Mrs. Elizabeth Burridge Bullock, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Benjamin Burridge, of this city,
who died Tuesday and was buried to-day,
was sufferer from a strange ailment. She
was, so to speak, in an almost complete state
OF oSsification for the last five years and her
joints mad become stiffened so that 1t was
impossible for her to live She was most
intense sufferer from the pain attendant
upon the advances of the disease. The con-
tracing and drawing of the bones and cords
of the body was agonizing. Tosee the fright
fully distorted and emaciated remains OF
what was once beautiful and perfect
woman would give only partial idea OF
what Mrs. Bullock suffered.
The lady was 30 years old at the time Of her
death. When 10 years of age she was
plump girl, attendant upon the Washburn
street school here. One day. with other
playmateS, she climbed a tree in the neigh
borhood of the school and was dared to
jump from one of the branches. This she
did, breaking her collar bone and injurlng
her right knee. Aswelling appeared on the
inside OF the knee which troubled her more
or less as the years advanced. In 1913 med
ical aid was first called in to treat her for
her knee, the pain from which had grown
to be quite severe, she having caught cold
She married in 1874. Some years later
her bones began to stiffen and trouble her
some. Five years ago the joints became
hardened and osSifed, and she was helpless.
Her teeth were all drawn out from the up
per jaw and both jaws set. Physicians in
serted a piece of thin wood between the
lower set of teeth and the gums to keep the
teeth from injuring them. 1t was about
three months after the first appearance of
of hnnnC hOdV
was completely affected. Her health was
completely undermined and the last five
years she has been failing gradually from
day to day. The effect can be realized when
from a strong, hea thful woman weighing
los bounds she faded away to almost mere
skeleton, weighing only 81 pounds when she
died.
Her joints not only hardened, but the
cords of the body contracted and drew them
into all manner Of shapes. The hip joint
on the right side was completely out OF the
socket and protruded frightfully. The left
linn b was drawn all out of shape, as were
the hands and head. She subsisted on food
prepared Tor her. She fed herself, tooth
in the lower set being removed to admit the
nourishment. Her right hand was notion
less but her left side was able to guide a
little. She was thus enabled to write some.
She read easily and talked readily to the
time of her death.
For the last three years Mrs. Bullock re-
sided with her father in this city. She was
patient and never known to complain. The
only similar case, and then it is not in such
amarked degree as this. is that of Jonathan
Bass, the ossified man of Lewiston, this
county. Bass is perfectly rigid but has not
the contraction of his joints. Mrs. Bullock's
disease is called chalky govt and chalky
rheumatism, and many other names per-
tanning to diseases of the bone.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
OFFICE HEALTH OFFICER,
SAVANNAH. GA. April Both. 1888


SAVANNAH, GA, April Goth, 1888
From and after MAY 1st. 1898, the City Ordi-
nance which specifies the Quarantine require
ments to be observed at the port of Savannah
Georgia, for the period of time annually from
MAY LIST to NOVEMBER list, will be most
rigidly enforced.
Merchants and all other parties interested
will be supplied with printed copies of the
Quarantine Ordinance upon application to office
of the Health Officer From and after this
date. and until further notice, all Steamships
and Sailing Vessels from South America, Cen
trail America, Mexico, West Indies, Sicily ports
OF Italy south of 400 north latitude and coast of
Africa between 10o north and l4o south latitude
direct or via American ports, will be subject to
close quarantine and be required to report at
the Quarantine Station and Ue treated as being
from infected or suspected ports or localities
Captains of these Vessels will have to remain
at the Quarantine Station until their vessels are
relieved. All steamers and sailing vessels from
Foreign ports not included above, direct or via
American ports, whether seeking chartered or
otherwise, will lie required to remain in quaran-
tine until boarded and passed up by the Quaran-
tine Officer. Neither the Captains nor any one
on board such vessels, will be allowed to come
to the city until the vessels are inspected and
passed by the Quarantine Officer
AS ports or localities not herein enumerated
are reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori-
ties Quarantine restrictions against same will
be enforced without further publication
The Quarantine regulations requiring the
flying of the Quarantine flag on vessels subjected
to detention or inspection, will he rigidiy en-
forced. w. f. Drummer, NJ D..
Health Officer
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SALVATION SINNERS.
The Army Liable to be Driven from
Atlanta by the Police.

The Army Liable to be Driven from
Atlanta by the Police
ATLANTA, GA, May lit is probable
that the Salvation Army will have TO leave
Atlanta. For some time past reports have
been circulated about there being more
deviltry than religion about the army head
quarters. Hundreds have visited the Mayor
aud Chief Of Police and begged that some
thing be done TO save their wives. Women
have pleaded for their sons ana husbands,
and now the Chief of Police will make a thor
ough investigation, and If the army is the
nuisance it Is claimed to be it must go.
Time and again the Recorder has been
called upon u punish persons who had
raised disturbances in the army headquar-
tiers; and while the guilty parties were
not members of the army yet
they were part of the audience
who regularly attended the meetings The
Recorder has always treated the army as a
religious body, and has shown the soldiers
every consideration. This morning a lady
called on Chief Connolly and told him that
her husband had deserted his family and
spent his time in the Salvation Army's
headquarters. Several persons have been
TO the Mayor and Chief Of Police with
stories OF moral deDravity existing among
the members of the army, and have
named witnesses by whom they
say the charges can be proven. All of these
things have had enough weight with the
Chief of Police to cause him to decide that
an investigation of the army and its doings
is necessary, and it will be most thor
ough. Mayor Cooper. who has always had
an antipathy to the army, says il must go.
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ONLY IA YEARS OLD,
But He Killed Three Bears in Ten
Minutes and Thought Nothing of IT,

But He Killed Three Bears in Ten
Minutes and Thought Nothing of IT,
From the Ne,o York sun.
PoCoNo, Pa, May 6.-Willie Altemose,
aged IA, son of Jacob Altemose, living on
clearing in the woods of Tunkhannock
township, went out one day last week to
chop wood a half mile or so from the house.
He was gone half an hour, when he re-
turned and coolly asked his father if he had
time to go and help him carry in the car
cases of three bears he had killed The
elder Altemose was surprised and skeptical,
but the boy showed him the bloody blade
of his axe and assured him that he had just
killed three bears with it. Altemose went
with his son, and at the side of big fallen
hemlock, almost within sight of the house,
he saw the bodies of three BEARS one very
large one and the others yearling cubs.
The boy said he had commenced chOpping
on the fallen tree, when the big bear jumped
out from beneath it and made a rush for
him. He buried the ak in its skull and
another blow killed the bear The boy then
looked in under the tree and saw the two
smaller bears crouching there He routed
them out ana attacked them. One of them
showed fight, but the other slouched away.
The boy killed the one as quickly as he had
the big bear, and then gave chase to the
other and dispatched it in the same way.
He seid he was not more than ten minutes
in making away with the three bears, and
he did not show the least excitement over
his exploit. He seemed to regard it as
something any one could have done under
the circumstances, and after the bears had
been carried to the house he returned to his
work as if nothing had happened. The old
bear weighed over 800 pounds.
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STOLEN FROM sANDERsvILLE.
Negroes Arrested at Macon Who Are
Believed to be Bad Ones.


MACON, GA, May 1.-THE police arrested
and lodged in the barracks to-day a negro
boy, named Thomas Hooks, suspected of
being implicated in the recent b'rning of
Sandersville. Yesterday afternoon two
negro boys. named Thomas and Will
Hooks, appeared at the broker shop of s.
Blowenstein with ten or twelve pairs of
pants that seemed to have been recently in
water and tried to pawn them, but Mr..
Blowenstein, suspecting that the goods had
been stolen, refused to receive, and the
boys left and Mr. Blowenstein reported the
matter to the police viii Hooks escaped
arrest by running, but Richard Hooks,
another brother, was arrested soon after the
arrest of Thomas Hooks. 1t is thought that
the two Hooks boys either had some CON
nection with setting fire to Sandersville or
whil1 the flames were under Roadway, and
in the midst of the great confusion attend
ing the fire, stole the pants and came TO
Macon to sell them, arriving here yester-
day. Thomas Hooks at the barracks denies
having come from Sandersville, but says he
is from near Atlanta. Richard Hooks says
that the two boys are his brothers and the
three slept together last night, and that they
came TO Macon from Sandersville Thomas
Hooks, on the contrary, says that Richard
Hooks is not his brother. This assertion is
false, Judging from letter found this
morning in Richard Hooks room, in which
Thomas Hooks strongly connects himself
theoretically with the conflagration. Both
will be held to await developments.
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Charleston and Berkeley.

CHARLESTON, S. c., May 1.-THE new
Charleston Cotton Mill Company to-day
agreed to issue $4,000 worth Of bonds
The present company bought out the old
company very cheaply.
The Berkeley Democratic Convention,
met to-day. There was good deal of dis
sension in the ranks and the meeting was
long and stormy; compromise was finally
effected however. All the contesting
delegates were seated and Capt. S. Percher
Smith was unanimously elected County
Chairman and a delegation elected to the
State Convention
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FORTY-FIvE DAYS OF FASTING,
Mrs. Weidler's Long Abstention from
Food in the Lancaster Hospital.
Erou1 the PhiL1dIeIDhin Press

From the Philadelphia Press
LANCASTER, May 6.-This is the forty
fifth day in which Mrs. Weidler, an inmate
of the Lancaster County Hospital, has
tasted, and the Press correspondent found
her sitting on the side Of her bed and in
good spirits this morning. She is rational
on all other subjects, but insists on living
on air and water. She is 50 years old and
is the mother of a G-year-old girl, whose
birthday she names with accuracy, although
she had not seen her child for months
Yesterday she refused Strawberries that
were offered her. She is under lock and
key and the transom above her door has
been removed and boards nailed in its
place so that no food may be slipped to her,
the object being to compel her to eat as
others eat, at the table, and to disabuse her
mind of the hallucination that she cannot
eat.
She is terribly thin, but her face looks
well, and DR.. Sensenig, the resident physi-
clan, will no. force food on her until he sees
evidences of prostration, which are not APP
parent yet. He believes the unfortunate
woman can abstain from food fully week
longer without serious detriment. Mean
while she is cheerful and seemingly happy
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Knights Of Honor O@cors

CLEVELAND, o., May 1.-THE following
officers were elected yesterday by the Su-
preme Lodge of the Knights Of Honor:
Supreme Dictator-L. A. Gratz, of Ten
neSsee.
Supreme Vice Dictator-A. r. Savage,
of Missouri.
Supreme Assistant Dictator-Samuel
Klotz, of New Jersey.
Supreme Reporter-B. F. Nelson, of Mis-
souri,.
Supreme Treasurer-J. w. Branch, OF
Missouri.
Supreme Trustees-F. A. Pennington, Of
Philadelphia, Pa; l.. S. Ledbettet, of
Cedartown, Ga, and S. Z. Lawrence, of
Fitchburg. Mass
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FLORIDA'S METROPOLIS.
CALAMITY LIARS TO BE VIGOR-
OUSLY PROSECUTED.

Commission Merchant Davidson's
Telegram to the Tomato Growers
Repudiated-S aloonkeeper Houston
Obtains Another Postponement-A
Possibility that Davidson will be
Prosecuted by the Board.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. May 1.-THE ca Sc
of the city of Jacksonville against
Samuel Houston, charged with selling
liquor on Sunday, which was first called up
Tuesday and then postponed till to-day, at
the defendants request, was called in the
Municipal Court this morning. Judge E.
NJ Randall, City Attorney, asked for con-
tinuance till Monday, which was granted
There were many whisperings in
the court room at these postpone
ments, and it is said on the
streets that it seemed as if the authorlti es
were afraid to tackle the question, as Hous-
ton had determined to make Lees eligi-
bility to his present seat test question. 1t
certainly seems very strange that, by some
means or other, gamblers in jacksonville
are seldom indicted or punished.
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
At noon the County Board Of Health
held a meeting to consider the unauthorized
use of the boards name by A. Davidson,
commission merchant. Mr.. Davidson,
some days ago. sent telegram TO Lake
WORTH saying: 81 cannot receive any
more tomatoes. Board of Health. A.
Davidson" As a consequences the schoon-
ers refused to load them at Lake Worth,
understanding that the Jacksonville Board
OF Health had refused to allow them to be
landed, and 800 to 600 bushels decayed ON
tie ground. The growers there be-
gan to growl at Jacksonville,
and the County Board Of Health
failing to find any authority for the use Of
their name, summoned Mr.. Davidson before
them He said that an inspector had for
hidden him to throw the rotten ones into
the river; that they were coming in faster
than he could dispose Of them, and so he
sent the telegram to shut off further ship
mentS.
THE ACTION TAKEN.
After questioning Mr.. Davidson at
length the board finally resolved to tele-
graph the Lake Worth parties that MIR.
Davidson's action was entirely without
their knowledge or consent, as there were
NO restrictions upon tomato receipts or ship
nfents. A committee was then appointed
TO wait upon County Solicitor Owens and
ascertain whether or not this board has au-
tEority to prosecute violations of the above
nature, and if not, to what authority
should such matters be carried.
A communication from w. w. Thomp
son, Marshal at Orange Park, was read
relative to the reports of sickness in Jack
sonvile, that he had been accused of circu-
latlng. MIR. Hnrtridge was instructed to
see j. H. Murphy and ascertain if he would
make an affidavit to what Thompson said to
him about the matter, 50 proper proceedings
could be taken against Thompson. The
TO rd intends to prosecute all parties circu-
lating all such false reports.
Charles 5. Cole, brother of Mrs. Joseph
Rivas, died in LaVilla to-day The
deceased was well-known in this Gig and
had been an invalid several years.
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p. NJ. WHITMAN,

Graduate Optician, ia South Broad, CIiss Nc
Alpin's). Office hours-9 A. NJ. to 2. p. NJ.
p. NJ. to 5 p. NJ. Fits lenses for errors
of refraction and accommodation and mus
cuIar defects Prof. WHITMAN is a scientific
optcian, and claims for his system of testing
the eye for glasses that it is the latest and best
in use.
His INSTRUMENTS for diagnosing ASTIG-
MATISM have no superior.
No charge made where he cannot improve
vision, or where he cannot improve on the
glasses person is using.
The public are invited to call and be convinced
that he is no humbug, but gentleman of pro-
feSSinnaI ability.
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A Horse Prisoner Hanged.

BOWLING GREEN, KY, May ia mob
composed of about 100 men went to the
farm of Joseph Smith, in this county,
Wednesday, aud took n negro farm hand
and hanged him. Martin SiosS IA farmer.
has had about twenty horses poisoned dur
ing the past year, and the negro is supposed
TO have been the guilty party, rs he was
once in the employ of Sloss and discharged.
He made threats against SlosS several times
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Having appeared IN our village, Darbys
Prophylactic Fluid was used for disinfect-
ing the College buildings. The disease
never went beyond single case, either in
the College or elsewhere, where the Fluid
was used.-REv. PRES. G. F. PRICE, Au-
burn, Ala.
Darbys Fluid dispels all forms Of cpl
demic diseases by destroying the spores or
germ poison That cause contagion.
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BRUNSWICK DISAPPOINTED.
The Editors VIII Not Visit Her in a
Body at This Time.

BRUNSWICK, GA, May 11.-Brunswick
was looking forward with much anticipa-
ton TO the visit tomorrow from the Geor-
gia Press Association, but the intelligence
is received tonight that their trip to North
Carolina has been so prolonged that they
cannot reach Brunswick tomorrow. Their
visit In party is, therefore, abandoned,
though many of them will doubtless come
down in the next few weeks in small par
ties, the courtesies Of the railroads having
been SO extended to them. Brunswick feels
greatly disappointed, as arrangements had
been made 10 make their visit pleasant
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Found DrOwnad-

AUGUSTA GA, May 1.-The remains of
found at the water gate of the Warwick,
mills. on the canal where it had LODGE.
Coroner Picquet held an inquest, but the
identity of the man could not be learned.
The remains had evidently been in the
water for long time, as the body had 10
be put in a bag before it could be removed
from the canal.
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End of a Drought.

GREENvILLE. s. c., May 1.-THE long
continued drought in this section was
broken yesterday by good rain, which
still continues. The NEWS correspondent
having passed through Anderson, Alb VILE,
Edgeteld, Lautons Spartauburg and Green
willie counties, finds that the rain has been
general and that crops are in splendid
condition. The fruit crop is also good and
indicates nm abundant Weld
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A Hanging in areena.

ATLANTA, GA, May 1l.-Rev George
McDufiie tcolored) was hanged to-day at
Greensboro for the murder Of William
Cheney (also colored). McDufiie, though
married, was enamored of Sarah Haiues,
whom Cheney was counting. He waylaid
the couple on their way from church, and
shot CheneY down
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Stuck on Nashuana Island.

NEW BEDFORD, MASS, May 1.-THE
schooner Fannie A. Gorham, from Bruins
wick, Ga, for Boston, struck on Nashuana
Island, Buzzards Bay, yesterday afternoon,
in thick fog. The tug William o. Brown
has gone from here 20 her assistance. She
is loaded with Southern pine.
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Guerrero. the Mexican. has

Guerrero, the Mexican, has gone wrong.
At l205 o'clock he came staggering around
the track, and fell at the Madison Square
entrance. 1t is believed that he has been
drugged. His trainers deny anything of
the kind, however. He walks along in a
vague, wandering way, and continually
rubs his head as if he wanted to brush away
some cloud that was gathering about him.
He left the track at 1912 o'clock. His
trainers say that he was simply tired and
CONSEQUENTLY hPht-headed
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TYDEE NOTICE.

To our Friends and the Public Generally
We beg to announce that we have fitted up a
firsJ-class resort between Furber's and the
Ocean House. Drinks and lunca served at city
prices. We also have supply of f1rst-class
Bathing Suits. A call will convince you. Re-
Spectfully, BLACK BROS.
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In DESPERATE STRAITS. Tramp ito woman)--
Can you give me something to eat madam y
Womau--Naw; there amt n thing in the
house; and, besides, I've got couple of letters
TO write an no time 20 bother.
Tramp pleadingly)-Madan, let me lick the
stamps: J can't starve - 'er YOfI. San
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

Boston Beef We wish to inform our patrons
and the general public that as the Tennessee
Beeves are out of season, f, ON this date we will
receive by every steamer the best New York
and Boston Meats, also fine rice-1eld Lambs
and Veals ISAAC ROOS & CO.,
Central Market, corner hacOn and Drayton
Streets, Savannah, Ga. Telephone $50.
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The Polite Little Boy.
FI.on Tho Kin 1ston Fteenlon

"My little boy is wonderfully polite" said a
doting mother the other day, Aud yet II Is re-
corded OF the very polite little boy tnat he left
a lady caller standing in the hall Of his mothers
home one day while he went tina rounds of the
house and grounds, yelling at the ton of his
voice: Mother. mother, where be you? Where
be you. | say? The new minister's wife Is here
and forgot to tell her You wasn't home"
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B. F. ULMER, NJ. D.,
Savannah Ga
PAINTS AND OILS.

Agent for Devau's Ready Mixed Paints, and
will furnish all colors at New York prices; also
a full line of Leads, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes
and Window Glass.
EDWARD ]. KIEFFER,
Druggist, Corner West Broad and Stewart
or
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MEETINGS.
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SAVANNAH YACHT CLUB.

SAVANNAH, May II, 1888.
A special meeting of the Savannah Yacht
Club will be held SATURDAY, 18th inst, at ~
noon, at Office of j. j. Dale, Esq., National
Bank Of Savannah building), for election of
members and other business. prompt and
full attendance is requested. By order Of the
COMMODORE