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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-31

and large and small rooms,
T bluffs Of rapid descent. winding stair
wSvs formed BY nature and vel
made seats as If made by hand Beyond
I these another stream Te1ds It's way. but
I with rapid murmurIugs. clear IS diamonds,
vita little wal Of hmestons on sacl SIDE,
( which seems q act as guide for this Dal-
bling brook as il wends It's way over IT'S
pebblv bed We cannot saw how faT THIS
cavern eX-enfs. but 80 yards only carries
you q new scenes, new wlndlngs, new
SHAPED shells, new curiosities which show
that tLls might nave once bsen the bed or
bottom II some marine body or the hablts-
tiOa q marine animals
There is standing al the southeast corner
4 Broad and Center streets. IN Augusta.
solitary brick pillar, mortar covered and
whItewasled- What history 10 has.
few citizens, the policemen and the neHsDs-
per reporters were the only people who
knew, one night II 1877. that cyclone had
visited Augusta; that buildings had been
wrecked, fences laid, trees razed and lives
lost. Next morning the town aTyoks 10 ind
that the hurricane had done disastrous
work. The market house, a large structure,
was in the path of the wind, and was
lsveled. One Of the stone pillars was all
Of 1t that vas left standing. After view
ing the wreck the city authorities decided
that the lone pillar should T. q preserved.
The mayor ordered that il BE- taken from
the middle Of the street, where it stood,
and placed at the sidewalk corner The
street superintendent ordered his negro
labOrers TO begin the work Of removal.
NO, no, boss; emit touch them bricks.
Oars death ia EN- Then it
was discovered that there We're the
widest kind Of stories afioat among
the negroes as to the cyclone and pillow.
Some one OF them had started the report
that a colored evangelist had, two years
previous, fOretOd that the market would
be destroyed in a hurricane and that one
pillar would be left standing. To touch
the pillow. the story ran, would be to bring
untold bad luck upJn ones self, followed
by death at no long period. No negro
could be prevailed upon tc touch the souve-
mir, and white men Lad to b. employed t.
move it to the position in which it now is,
and where 1t is carefully guarded by the
police authorities.
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Ct us crime. He vas shot in the back while
examining map In the Magnolia house
The shot was fret through a. open door by
some person from the outside II ever there
was 3 case II cl,d-hlooded. deli berate
ASSASSINATION. tie killing Of Griffin was one
Carter was convicted upon c.rclulstentlal
evidence, but his own statement was
virtual admission u the crime. After his
conviction, he freely stated that he killed
Griffin, and expressed regrets that he had
not killed two - three more men In Or
lando. Carter was we'll connected by MAJ
rage here, and the sympat1les OF the en-
tire community went ont for his young
wife. whose lie was bl.ghted by his crime.
and her family, who shared in the dlsgracs
which he had brought uDon them.
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SHIPPING.
ComPagnie Generate Transatlantique
--French Line to Hawe.

BETWEEN New York and Havre, from pier
~ No. ~, n. R., foot of Morton street Tray
eers by this line avoid both transit By English
railway and the discomfort of crossing the
Channel in small boat. Special train leaving
the Company's dock at Havre direct for Paris
on arrival of steamers. Baggage checked at
New York through to Paris.
LA BOURGOGNE FRANGUEI, SATURDAY,
Aug. 3, A. NJ.
LABRETAGNE, DE JOUSSELIN. SATURDAY
August 10, A NJ
la CHAMPAGNE, BOYER, SATURDAY, Aug,
II. $3.50 NJ ~
La NORMANDIE, G. Collier, SATURDAY,
Aug. a. 4A.M
PRICE or PASSAGE dncludinr wine,.
10 HAyRE-First Cabin $l2O and 800:
Second Cabin, 800 Storage from New York 20
6laYre, go Steerage from New York to Paris
~, including wine, bedding and utensils
A. FORGET, General Agent, 3 Bowling Green,
foot OF Broadway, New YORK
%. or X W HUNT, Esq, 30 Bull street MEssRs
WILDER * Co, l26 Bay street, Savannah
AGENTS.
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Plant Steamship Line.

sEAI-wEEKLY.
lam pa, Key West and Havana.
SOUTH BOUND.
LV Port Tampa Mondays and Thursdays IO:so
p NJ. -N'0'
Ar Key West Tuesdays and Fridays4P
ar Havana Wednesdays and SATURDAYS A. n
-, NORTH BOUND
~ havana Wednesdays and Saturdays Pm
~ heys west Wednesdays and Saturdsys9P u
al orr Tampa Thursdays ana Sundays 500
Connecting a. Port Tampa with West India
r aSt Train TO and from Northern and eastern
cl'es. Sog statsroom accommodations, apply
VILE OF Agent Plant Steamship Line, Tampa.
Q. D. OWENS, Traffic Manager.
n. :. HAIRES. General Manager
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Charleston and Savannah RaIViE
Schedule in Effect May 18th 10
NRA1NS leave and arrive at Savannah
Il Standard Time, which is 80 minutes SOW
than city time.

TRAINS leave and arrive at Savannah
Standard Time, which is 80 minutes So''
than city time.
NORTHWARD a.
No. Cos No IA No. rs Nea
Lv Saw. Gas am 12:39 pm $40 p m S'"P-
Ar Beuf'tt10:11 am ..... .....,.- .''"''
Ar All'dTel0:25 IN .. .....,.- ''''''
Ar Aug. 12:40p pm ......... $3.50. o;.,S a
Ar Char, 1910 pm $50 p m lbs m 9'T'F'
SOUTHWARK.
No. 15.* No. 3j.* No ~ 49,"
Lv Char. 7:20am 3:iOp m 400 a m '''',.
Lv Aug. ..... 12:45 pm .....-'' -
Lv Au'd'le+5:3O am 1856 pm .......- ''''
Lv Beu'f't 7:22am 200 b m ....... -
Ar Saw. . 1O:40am ZOO pm ga N Sii,n 1idI
*Da1y. +Daily except Sunday. Jun
only. hstVsal
Train No. IA stops at all stations O7'''
Savannah and Yemassee. -.,;.b Hsrjf
vile, Ridgeland, Green Pond. II u..+ions
Trains Nos 81 and &c stop at all stations ..ons ssi
For tickets, Pullman car rese p EIsY Toki
other information, apply to VIM. pi'r'-'
Agent, q Bull street, and at dePo96; Arsrt
f. p. MCSWINEY, Gen / S90'
c. S. GADSDEN, Superintendent -
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JACKSONVILLE TAMPA And KEY WEST SYSTEM
t H E T r Q PICAL TRUNK -,


liant for West III
char
D. F. JACK CD
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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS

Murder Near McRae IN q Family
-Coldblooded Killing OF Ne
gro on the Fulton County Line-A
Mule Goes TO Church Hogs Pros
Srsted by the Sun.
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Key West Democrat: 1t is reported here
that the ice factory in Matanzas, Cuba. has
broken down and that the Havana factory
cannot make ice fast enough to supply the
Cuban market, aud the price of that luxury
is now worth 5 cents per pound in Havana
at the factory. If this is true it is hardly
probable that we will use much Havana icC
| in Key West this summer
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Mlen accommodation
al NTn
leaving
JOHN B0RDLEy 3lge
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JOIu LOWS, eusdCOIdS COIOTbunIuuIe-
weight, is matched to fight Tom McGrath,
also colored, Aug. is, at Kupfrian's park,
for S25 side. Ten rounds Will be fought,
Marquis of Queensbury rules to govern the
contest. Lewis says if he shall be victori-
GUS in his battle with McGrath that he will
will challenge any colored middle-weight
in America to fl ght him for the champion
ship. Lewis. upon one occasion, knocked
out Wiley Evans, the California middle
weight champion, in four rounds. The
fight took place Feb II, 1886.
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ArtemuS Wards Humor,

have met and heard many professional
humorists, but none, off or on the stage, could
equal Artemus Ward. His appearance was
quaint He looked like smaller BARLEY
Campbell. His manner was systematically
grave and earnest. His fun was not in his
msspelling, it was in the apparently uncon-
scous association of the most ineongruous
ideas The humor was not spontaneous. He
lahored over every word until he had it just
right, and then committed it to paper or
memory, and never varied it. One of his
rules was always to make a joke plain and
clear to his audience. Another was to wait
for the laugh. Sometimes the audience would
not see the fun. He told me that the great
est compliment he had ever received was from
stranger stopping at the same hotel, who
asked him whether he had been to hear that
fellow, Artemus Ward, lecture.
''No," replied Artemlus, 'have yous What
do you think of hims'
'NVhy, he is tho blamedest fool ever saw
] just sat there and roared to hear him max
ing such show of himself. wouldn't have
missed it for $40"
At his first lecture the New York audience
did not know what to make of him. He
seemed SO nervous; fidgeted about so, lost his
place, never said word about the advertised
subject of his lecture. "Call me pet napes,
love; call ME q bird" he murmured, "and l
called her {, boiled OWL" Then he waited for
the laugh 1t came very slowly; first soli-
tary smoker, then two or three chuckles.
"When | said that in Chicago" continued
Artemus gravely, 81 had to go before jus
tice of the peace and take my solemn affIi-
davit that a boiled owl was q bird before one
of them could catch the point. Then every
body roared. New Workers We're not going
to be duller than Chicagoans. Musical
Journal
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Remarkable Figures.

Longevity extraordinary can certainly be
claimed for the inhabitants of Chill, if the
Gillian census of 1885 is to be believed. From
ME statistics there presented it would appear
that nearly 500 persons, out of total Of
$780, 900, are upwards OF a hundred years old.
This proportion is perhaps not too great, but
the astonishing ages recorded put strain on
the strongest credulity. One man coolly re-
turned his age at l50 and this would make it
very probable that he is, as the editor of the
census remarks, the oldest man in the world
Next after him comes woman aged 1888; two
women and one man report themselves as 1876;
1872, 100 and l27 each have representative,
while there are seven 1875 years old. Below
that age the numbers mount rapidly, showing
twenty-eight persons of the age of $780, twenty
seven aged lis, and no less than ninety-one
aged ITO Of course this is all deliciously alb
surd
The returns carry their own discrediting
on their face, with their marked preference
for the decades and half decades-twenty-
eight, for example, set down at 100, while but
two are given to 119 and only one to III,
ninety-one put at ITO, while but eleven reach
100. If this does not mean fuddled memory
vaguely feeling after big figure best capable
of expressing belief that one must be very
old not to remember things more clearly,
then the indications are misleading. Our
own census bears witness to the untrust-
worthiness of the testimony of the ignorant
as to their age; but two out of 100000 white
persons giving their ages as above 100, while
forty five out of 100000 colored persons claim
that distinction. The surprising thing is not
to find Gillian Indians making themselves
rivals of Thomas Parr, but to find Gillian
census officers gravely accepting the impossi-
BILE figures. Washington Letter.
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Trout That Remembered.

"Some time before the death of Seth Green,
the celebrated fish culturist and naturalist"
said gentleman who takes great interest in
piscatorial matters, recently, 81 paid a visit
with him to the fish hatcheries at Caledonia.
In one of the ponds there, at that time, there
were 5000 large brook trout, every one of
which had been captured with the fy-in UNI
frequented brooks in the Adirondack region.
These trout, Mr.. Green said, had convinced
him that fish had reasoning power and mem
DRY. When they were hooked he said, and
were reeled slowly in by the careful fishermen
who were capturing them for the state pond,
they had time and opportunity to note the
form and character of the tackle that made
them prisoners. According to Mr. Green
they never forgot that experience. The trout
had been in the pond long time, the females
never being allowed to spawn there and
would follow Mr.. Green as he walked along
the edge of the water, tossing bits of liver
into the pond To show that his theory
about their memory and reason was correct
he would carry cane and a fish rod conceal
ed behind his back If he took the cane from
its concealment and held it out over the wa
ter the fish paid no attention to it, but the
moment he produced the rod with its reel
and line attached away the trout scampered
like flash to distant parts of the pond. Mr..
Green told me that he would permit any one
to cast fly in that pond to his hearts con
tent, as he was satisfied that not one of the
trout would come near it, so wildly did they
remember their enemy of five years ago.
New York Star.
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A Mental Shock.

The effects of mental shock on the mind in
causing permanent bad health of mind are
easily inflicted in the period of infancy, early
life and school life, of which let one illustra-
ton suffice, writes DR.. B. W. Richardson in
Longman's Magazine. A gentleman who for
many years was under my observation as
confirmed mental invalid, strong man in
many respects, but utterly irresolute and in
the end OF disordered mind altogether, ac-
quired his mental disease from sudden dis
trust. He had in his childhood an innate
time a tutor for whom he held the warmest
affection coupled with the most absolute
trust and confidence.
In a thoughtless and unhappy moment this
tutor became possessed with the idea that he
would break his pupils dread of deep water
by pitching him into pool where they were
ACCUSTOMED to battle together at the deepest
part. There was no actual danger, TOR the
depth was really not great, the pool was calm,
the boy could swim little, and in an instant
the tutor, q strong and skillful swimmer. was
in the water himself rendering succor and
support. The lad was brought to shore safely
enough, but the mischief to the mind was in
ficted beyond repair. The surface of trust
was obliterated, and a fixed distrust in the
mind of the youth was set up forever. If n
skillful psychologist could have discovered the
seat of trust IN that youth, and could have
destroyed it mechanically, he could not have
inflicted more severe injury nor one more
determinately lifelong in its effects
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sTAUNTON, VIRGINIA, AUGUST 9, 1888

Branch OF the Potomac; and then, before
. he could recover from it, he turned upon
( Banks, who, as soon as he heard of FIRE.
mOnt's defeat, had fallen back in haste to
Strasburg, where he was overtaken by
Jackson. who gave him a similar love
tap" that sent him on sixty miles farther,
clear across the Potomac. The moral effect
of these two defeats was not limited to those
Immediately engaged; it stopped Mcdowell
who was on the march with 10000 men to
take part in the campaign against Rich
mOnd-a movement which was Immediate
| ly arrested, that he might be held in posi-
| ton to cover Washington. Having thus
defeated two armies and paralyzed third,
jackson obeyed the injunction to gather
up the fragments that nothing be lost At
! Winchester the Government had accumul-
ated enormous StOreS-the wagon train that
took them up the valley was fourteen
miles long all of which fell into Jack
sons hands, and was removed to Staunton
to furnish supplies for the Confederate
army. No wonder that they nicknamed
Banks their Commissary General! But
JacksOn'S work was not over, for other
forces were gathering against him. Nc
Dowell was preparing to cross the noun
tains; while Fremont, who had been rein
forced, was returning to the attack, SO that
men advancing from opposite quarters. In
the advance of such forces he fell back till
he could place himself between the two;
and then, facing about at Cross Keys, he
gave Fremont second blow as stunning
as the first; and the gery meet d4y fought an
equally decisive battle with McDowelIs
advance, under Shields, at Port Republic.
This was the famous 'tValley Campaign"
and l leave it to the students of both to
say, if there was anything more brilliant
in the Italian campaigns of the First
Napoleon.
son the 9th of April, 1862, Banks reported
% ,093 men present for duty. Ten weeks later
dune 10TH he reported nearly ten thousand
less, or 1891
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How 1t Was Settled.

The novel fact that Gen. George L. Becker
was once elected to congress, but was beaten
out of his seat by game of seVarrup, is prob
ably known by vary few at the present time.
II was in the fall of 1857. The territory of
Minnesota had just been organized, prepare
tory to admission as a state the following
year, and three men were elected to the lower
house of congress- to wit: George L. Becker,
of ST. Paul, James M. Cavanaugh, of Chat
field, and W. W. Phelps, Of Red Wing, all
Democrats When the census Of the terri
tory was taken for the benefit OF congress it
turned out that the new state would be en-
titled to only two members of the lower
house. There were three very much discon-
certed young men, for they were trimming
with life and ambition, and neither of them
relished the idea of giving up the captured
prize. However, after a siege Of contriying
as .nldf ppiseEkering, in which neither gained a
ps0inpt oyer the other, young Becker laughing
y suggested that they decide the matter by a
three handed game of seven-upl The other
two Jumped at thu proposition, and in less
than two hours proved to Mr.. Becker that he
had made very bad suggestion for his own
interests. Becker accepted the defeat grace
fully, but was unable to restrain a feeling of
contempt for the hands the other fellows
plaped. st. Paul Pioneer Press, -. S.
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makes disease wherever it goes Now it shall
wander forth no longer" He put it into one
of his walls and fastened it up. Then he
went on with dust mote after dust mote from
the air about him, and showed the audience
pictures of the heart atoms of each, which
thrilled and convinced every man and woman
there. The assembly laughed and cried
They yielded to his mighty spell; they ac-
cepted the stupendous secret. The ultimate
atom was no more profound mystery, but
a creature to be captured, named, analysed
and imprisoned by star eyed science.
Then the professor was asked to cast the
magnified reflection of an atom on the screen
without first examining it himself. He looked
at the audience again with that indescribably
sad expression.
"Not yet; perhaps never" he said; 81 see
more than am able to tell you, more than
any man, with the heart of man, could de-
scribe. l read your hearts, l know your
thoughts, see the record of your sins as
look upon these atoms which float in your
atmosphere. Now my only happiness is that
each one of the diseased atoms | can bind, by
SO much | lessen the folly the falsehood, the
evil of all sorts that fills every atmosphere,
even here, even now 1t is our heritage,
the sad heritage of the whole human race,
through ages of wretchedness and crime.
will only show you what you can bear; the
rest will carry alone" He closed his labor
atory and left the stage.
The audience rose with great sigh and
went out; some few were rejoicing, but most
were oppressed with the vast and mysterious
forces thus newly given to the human race.
The professor, wrapped in profound sad
ness, sat alone in his study; and here the
president of the university found him some
hours later, with his head on his desk-dead.
He had written on piece of paper:
"After all, think we were too ambitious.
The atoms will make all of us enemies to each
other. My old heart disease is coming back,
but tomorrow shall ask the faculty to wait
another fifty years. CHARLES Howard Shinn
in The Argonaut.
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A COW THAT GAVE MILK PUNCH.
The Wonderful Product of an Illinois Jer-
sew and Its Disastrous Effect.

The Wonderful Product of an Illinois Jer-
sey and Its Disastrous Effect.
Charley Wheeler, of the chamber of COM
merce, tells this story:
II have married cousin who lives on a
nice little place in the suburbs Of Peoria, Ills.
His homestead includes an acre or so of
ground, and he is thus enabled to enjoy the
delights of fresh drawn eggs, new laid milk,
and garden sass He keeps one cow-a fawn
colored jersey with pedigree a yard long,
and blue ribbons on her finely polished horns.
Distillery mash was just then coming into
use as feed for stock, and my cousin con-
cluded that he would experiment with it.
Distillery mash which is the residue of the
grain after it has served the distiller's pur
pose, is supposed to be innocuous, although its
value on the bovine bill of fare has been
questioned. Well, my cousin had load de-
ivered at his house. and the next morning
he began feeding it to his Jersey. 1t was
cheap, and he did not stint in the quantity.
sit Mapped that his wife's uncle from
Oquawka was billed to visit them that day,
and when my cousin went home he found the
old gentleman ensconced on the front piazza
as comfortably as you please. The old fellow,
by the way, was a strict Prohibitionist, and
he could hardly forgive his niece for marry
ing man who lived in the distilery town of
Peoria. My cousin was very attentive, for
the Oquawka sage was well fixed, and my
Cousins wife was his favorite niece. At din
ner the old man would drink neither tea nor
coffee, and so my cousin pressed upon him a
huge bowl of milk fresh from the Jersey cow
Uncle drained it to the last drop and called
for more.
Tell ye,' said he, that there's the stuff
ter drink. 1 don't see how any body kin
drink Peory whisky when they kin get this
'After dinner all hands adjourned to the
veranda My cousin noticed that quite a
change had come over the old man. His eyes
sparkled, his face flushed and in few min
utes he began singing For I'm Jolly Good
Fellow to the horror of his niece, who had
never heard anything lighter than Aud
Lang Syne' from his lips. The hired man
happened along just then, and the old man
challenged him to 'wraslin' match, side
holts.' Then he wanted to run foot race
with my cousin, who thought he was crazy,
and was about to telephone to town for a
patrol wagon when the old man jumped off
the piazza and sprained an ankle.
"After they got the old man safely to bed
my cousin began to investigate. He hap
pened to think of the milk, and went to the
pantry and tasted of it. 1t was as good
milk punch, barring little sugar, as he ever
tasted. He saw it all now That distillery
mash had done the business. He fed it to the
COW, and she produced milk punch.
1.-THE old man got well in the course of a
week, and went home, but he never forgave
my cousin. He insisted that liquor had been
put in the milk to fool him. He cut his
niece out of his will, and left all his money for
the constant distribution of temperance tracts
in Peoria Minneapolis Tribune.
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ORGANIZED 1882.
A Woman's Discovery.

"AnOther wonderful discovery has been MADE
and that too by a lady in this county. Disease
fastened its clutches upon her and for years
she wthstood its seyeYest tests but her yital Of
gans were undermined and death seemed immi-
nent. For three months she cOug'led necessarily
and could not sleep. She bought of us bottle of
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consumption and
WAS mneh relieved on taking the first dose that
she slept all night and with bottle has been
misaeulously cured Her name is Mrs. Luther
IMtZ." Thus write w &C. HamFiak & Co, of Shell
by, n. c. Get a free trial bottle at Hughes A. Bells
Drug store. mar 22=lt.
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Rats Stole the Pigs.

J. D. Smith, of Sunnyside, a few weeks age
had one af tbe ffiaast iats qf Falana Ch tlflq
pigs IN the ec{omIiiHpity, but every night or
two one Of the porkers would disappear MI.
Smith decided to watch for the thief and dis.
covered q large ret come come up through t .la
floor and quickly grab pne of inc little pigs
and carry it away. Mr.. Smith procured a
rifle and succeeded in killing seventeen OF the
thieves. Remington Democrat