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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
is THIS THE COMING GUN.

No Powder Used-A Drop of M. Gift
fard's Liquid Does the Business.
Paris Correspondence ofthe Ne,o York Tribune.
Saint Etienne, near Lyons, is the French
Springfield. Here are tried and expert
mented upon all inventions relating to the
armament of French troops, and designed to
work for French defense what the first in
stallments of Springfield guns did for the
preservation of the union. There is a gov
eminent manufacture of small arms here as
well as many private manufactures of
sporting guns. The chamber of commerce
recently granted TO NJ. Paul Giffard, the in
Ventor OF new gun, prize Of s., 900 and a
gold medal, and trials of the new weapon
are about to be made i'll Paris under the
direction of the military inspectors. the
Gitfard gun uses neither illuminate nor run
powder, not even the so-called "smokeless
powder" so much talked about. These are
replaced by single drop of a volatile
liquid, which, falling into closed chamber
behind the projectile, develops, by vaporiz-
ing, great pressure, and thus gives
impetus to the projectile. The fluid is a
liquetied gas, inclosed IN a steel cartridge
provided with an escaping valve regulated
by movable screw. By pressing on the
hammer the valve is opened and the shot
| discharged.
The cartridge contains 100 grammes of
the liquid. One-third of a gramme is a
| sufficient charge for one shot in an ordinary
hunting gun like the one presented by Nj.
| Giffard to the chamber of Commerce of ST
| Etienne. The same cartridge is good there
| fore, for 800 shots. After every shot new
| bullet is introduced, but it is certain that q
repeating mechanism will soon be added BY
which the supply of bullets will be continu-
| Gus. There is no fear of oyerheatinp the
| gun, for the shooting rather cools 1t, the
| condensation of the gas absorbing the cal
| orlc, just as the ammonia in the ice-makine
machine. Moreover, the hquefed gas doe,
not evaporize instaneously, but expands
| gradually, SO that the projectiie acquires its
| greatest velocity only at the moment of
leaving the mouth of the weapon. Conse-
quently there is nothing to fear from violent
and sudden pressure upon the sides of the
gun, and thus the projectile force can be
utilized to its maximum.
The detonation is something like that of
the uncorking of a champagne bottle.
sharp, short pop, and nothing more. OF
course there is no smoke and no fouling of
the gun. The liquid by its volitilization
! gives out no disagreeable odor like that of
the snokeless powder of the Austrian army,
which asphyxiated some of the soldiers dur
ing the trials in rapid firing.
| Such is a rough sketch of the new gun.
Its real value will soon be determined by
the trials ordered by the French govern
ment,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
M'KEE RANKIN's MISTAKE.
The Actor Declined Fortune Offered
Him by Mr. Westinghouse

The Actor Declined Fortune Offered
Him by Mr.. Westinghouse
From the Ne,o York Dramatic Mirror.
Some years ago, when Mckee Rankin
was leading man in the stock company at
the theater in Pittsburg, he was visited
every few days throughout the entire sea-
son by long, lean man, who looked like a
typical couutryman. He tried to induce
him to advance money for the putting of q
patent before the pubic. The visitor only
had one way of stating his case, and this he
rehglously did on an average of three
times a week for about thirty weeks He
would lounge up to Rankin, and, after bid
ding the actor good morning." aud chat
ting for awhile, would incidentally remark:
"Pve got patent out of which untold
wealth can made-if only had about $500
to get started. Now, Mac, III give you a
half interest if you'll advance the money!"
The same speech was repeated so fire.
gently that it became a standing joke in the
company, and the young fellow who gave
utterance to it was looked on as crank by
one and all. Other people not members of
the company joined the actors in their es-
innate Of the mental balance of the inven-
tor. The season closed. Rankin came to
New York and his friend from Pittsburg
was forgotten until some wears Ia ,er when
The Danites" was in tine flush Of Us success
RANKIN was playing the part of SANDY
IL PIttsburg, when he received a call at his
hotel from one of tpe millionaires of the
Smoky City. He was greatly surprised to
think that this man should call on him, but
few moments conversation soon put him
straight The visitor was George Westing-
house and the patent" he tried TO get
Rankin interested in was the now univer-
sally used ''air-brake." the royalties from
which amount to more than $500. 900 per
annum.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
Some Shook Stories.
From, the Pittsburo Dispatch

from me FlttSOurQ DlSQutCn.
A woman died under very suspicious cir
cumstances in a small house near Marshall.
ILL.,, last November Since then it is said
that form in white has been seen to pass
in AMI out of the house at the same hour
each night.
On farm near Springfield, Mo-, spect-
raj rabbit fingers about an old we'll, into
which the dead body of murdered paddler
was thrown many years ago. The animal
is bullet-proof. No matter how many shots
are aimed at it it maintains its position day
after day.
A New York widower, on the night of
his marriage to another woman, was sur
prised by visit from the spirit of his first
wife, who delivered to him lecture on the
evil of his ways, giving him to understand
in the most emphatic language that she
strongly disapproved of his course.
As Maine judge was riding past grave
yard one moonlight night no thought he saw
a ghost. There was something white on
top of tomb and it moved. Getting nearer
he saw its eyes CLEAN. But determining to
solve the phenomenon he advanced into the
graveyard and discovered That the spectral
object was only stray sheep.
A correspondent of a Cincinnati paper
says that while he was in the army in 1868,
he awoke one morning on hearing his name
called by his sisters voice. No one else
heard the voice and the occurrence passed
from his mind A few days later he re-
ceived letter from home stating that his
sister had died on the very day he was so
strangely awakened.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
DEATH ENDS Love AFFAIR.
A Pensacola Swain Takes a Fatal
Dose of Laudanum.

PENSACOLA, FLA, July 25.-John Crick
more, a white man about % years Of age,
who had been residing in this city for about
three months past, committed suicide last
night ny taking laudanum. He was engaged
to be married next month, but it is said
that the young LADY yesterday broke the
engagement on account of the Incorporate
habits OF Crickmore. This Is supposed to
have been the reason why he swallowed the
fatal dose The deceased came to this city
from Virginia and has IA brother who is q
stevedore In Savannah. His remains were
inferred this afternoon
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 4, 1889.

DR.. Kirk:
DEAR DoCToR-I had violent attack of
gravel, afterward had pains across small of
my back, extending around my sides; my
stomach was disordered, bad taste in my
mouth, tongue coated: was compelled to
stop work for few days. I took the Mi
crobe Killer according to your directions,
and was soon feeling all right again. We
always keep jug on hand TO take when
we get cold. or for any emergency.
r. P. MoGRJDGE with B. Shoemaker.
For sale by Buffers Pharmacy.-Adu.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
The Melon Movement.

The Central railroads daily report of
melon shipments passing through Mont
gome-y, Birmingham. Atlanta and Savan-
nan, for points named below on July "a:
Cincinnati. Z; Atlanta, Z; indianapolis,
birmingham, 5; Louisville. s; Nashville, S:
Savannah, l; Pitrsburg, 2; Chattanooga, s.
Fort Wayne, /; Knoxville, 4; Lexington. /;
Macon, 10; total 81. Via Savannah, Isl
via Albany, Montgomery. Birmingham and
Atlanta, 1, 40l: total, 4. 1872 cars
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
THORPE OUT OF JAIL.
He Effects a Settlement With His
Prosecutors.

EIOECCubOLS.
ATLANTA, GA, July 25.-J. T. Thorpe,
the dry goods man who was arrested in
Savannah and brought back to this city q
week ago for uttering worthless checks, to-
day effected al arrangement with his cred
itors and was discharged from custody.
Thorpe has furnished very salty card for
publication denouncing j. p Stevens, the
jeweler who he says tried to extort from
him money to which he was not entitled.
Mr.. Stevens character is known to be ex-
cellent. Thorpe claims to have had bank
bausted
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
PROTECTION FOR a CONSUL.
SPANS Representative in Key West
in Imaginary Danger.

SPANS hepreSenIatiVS IN Key West
in Imaginary Danger.
TALLAHASSEE, FLA, July "a tele-
gram from Washington signed by J. B.
Moore, acting secretary, and addressed TO
Gov. Fleming, was received at the execu-
tive chamber to-day. 1t is to the effect
that the Spanish charged 'af-
flares at Washington complains
hat the Spanish consul at Key West has
been offered pc. sonai indiguitIes and his
life Threatened. The telegram further says
that tie state authorities will take all avail
able measures to extend protection TO the
consul. Gov. Fleming has instructed the
sheriff at Key West to furnish the consul
all necessary protection and bring TO punish
ment any violation of the law.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
a Superior Court Clerk Dead.

ROME, GA, July ga. E. Ross, clerk
of Floyd superior court for the past twenty
years, died to-day at 1880 o'clock. He was
one of the most prominent ana esteemed
citizens of this section. For some time he
has been suffering from nervous prostration
from overwork
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
SUGAR TRUST REORGANIZATION.
Names of the Men Who Have the
Work in Hand.

Work in Hand.
New YORK, July 25.-The trustees of the
sugar trust to-day issued circular to the
certificate holders announcing that Theo-
dore Havemyer, Thiesen ]. B. Thomas. F.
0. Matthisen, j. c. Searls, Jr., and J. A.
Sturseberg, together with such bankers as
they may select, had been appointed a COM
mlttee To form a new organization for the
purpose of protecting holders, aud had
selected the Central Trust Company as the
depository for the certificates pending re-
organization. No details of the plan under
which it is proposed t. reorganize are given
in the circular
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.

SWEAT.-The friends aud acqusintances OF
Mrs. ANNIE SWEAT. Mrs S, T. Ulmer. Mr.. and
Mrs. John 4 Bell. Mr. and Mrs J. P. UImer and
Mr.. aud Mrs. Charles Martin are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral Of the former
Hull and jefferson streets, THIS AFTERNOON
at 4 O'Clock.
Waycross papers please notice.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
SIROCCO TEA.

Selection, Inspection, Protection.
These explain its choice quality. special
curing, guaranteed strength and purity.
Long known in Europe, and now obtanable
here. Davidson & Co., 1886 Broadway.
New York. Savannah agents, Llppman
Bros -Adu.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
Eatontons Compress.

EAToNToN, GA. July 25-Dirt was bro
ken yesterday for the new compress. The
compress has been let to Messrs. Roush &
Fitch of Atlanta, and work will be pushed
now to handle the coming crop of cotton
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
War On the Anachas.

CITY OF MEXICO, July 25-A vigorous
campaign is preparing in Sonora against
the Apaches, who will be between two fires,
the United States and Mexico.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
CAROLINA'5 HONOR.
The Democrats of williamsburg
County to Meet.

CHARLESTON, S. G., July 25.-An official
call will be published tomorrow for con-
vention of the straightout democrats of
Williamsburg county to be held at Kings
ton on July %. to confer together and take
counsel of each other as to what measure
should be used as best calculated to save the
honor Of the state, and the integrity of the
Democratic party. The call is signed by
forty prominent farmers of the county.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
Americus to Have Editor Winter

,AMERIcUs, GA, July 22.-Capt Albert
Winter of Thomasville was to-day elected
enitor Of the Times, 10 Jake the place Of Mr..
BTumby, deceased.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26

The Importance of purifying the blood can
not be overestimated, for without pure
blood you cannot enjoy good health.
At this season nearly every one needs
good medicine to purify, vitalize, and enrich
the blood, and Hoods Sarsaparilla is worthy
your confidence. 1t is peculiar in that it
strengthens and builds up the system, creates
an appetite, and tones the digestion, while
it eradicates disease. Give it a trial.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists.
Prepared by C. l. Hood g. Co., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26

Ayers Sarsaparilla cures liver complaint,
rheumatism, aud all diseases Of the blood. -
Adv.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26

Health is wealth. Take simmons Liver
Regulator for all sickness caused by disea sed
liver ADJ
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26

WHERE have you been, dearest?''
I've just been shopping"
Where are your bundes?''
why, didn't l say had been simply shop
ping ''-Brooklun Life
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-26
SPECIAL NOTICES.

THIS SATURDAYS
SPECIAL PRICES
TODAY:
15c. Chocolate Creams.
15c. Pure Sugar Mixed Candy.
25c. Special Mixed Candy.
35c. Fine Mixed Candy.
45c. Whitman's Finest Assorted Chocolates.
Csc. Id. Chinese Camphor.
25c Id. Powdered Borax
SOC. ID. Powered Insect Powder.
1Oc. Hair, Nail Tooth and Shoe Brushes.
Try HEIDT'S Eggnog Soda.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-17
J. z. Liggett's
EARLY HARVEST SALE OF
FALL AND WINTER DRY Goods.

Special the coming Dress Goods and Trimmings
Surely dawned a the missing links Of the
have been joined complete and attractive stock of Fall and
Winter Glor Our Dress Goods stock menonwhat hare
what yu All that is mention few strong facts
regard aomen things that cannot be found
selections.
Combination Suits in conceivable novelty from s. 90 high
Plain Cloths P Stripes Bocaes and
city that you could the Dress Goods line Of ALL Paids and
Stripes be the votes This will be the greatest Plaid
anticipated the popularity these goods and placed orders early and
have secured startling values Our 36nch Wool Plaid Flannel at
ct coorngs think the cheapest
lines shown this market have only had them few days and they
getting POPULAR specially for Chdren they worth look
at BLACK GOODS will not be forgotten in fact this going be
Black Goods Ladies beginning find out that nothing
eore dresses will buy Black this prepared this line
Sege Mohar lenrieta and Boeae Stripes will all be vole,
will find stock each perfect both regard style and price
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-17
A Florists COMPLAINT.

''The business looks pretty and smells
sweet, but it is hard one to rum" said a
Harlem florist to a friend who praised the
punches of gladiolus, tuberoses and other
autumn flowers that filled his windows,
and who added, by way of a moral, that it
was much pIeasanter way of making a
living than selling beefsteak or dishing up
dry goods. Thus the florist took up his
parable again and continued: 1T is the
cash that makes the trouble Chance buy
ers and people who live in flats pay ready
money for all they have but those who
own their houses want unlimited credit.
One spring made over hundred gardens
for rich men in this city and set plants out
for them Their families went to the coun-
try, and have not been able to collect my
bill from one in ten.
Gas for weddings, there was one wealthy
man in this street who filed his house
with flowers when his daughter was mar
ried, and wanted everything of the best.
The bride stood under a bell of camellias,
and roses were banked up everywhere, re-
CARELESS of expense, but when presented
my bill at the end of SIX months he or
dered me out of the house for my pre-
sumption. 1t is nearly a year since l
filed the order, and l expect there'll be a
birth and funeral in the house before l
get my money. That is what makes me
tired of flowers, and l am thinking of sell
ing out and going into something not
quite SO pretty-stoves, for instance"
Then the florist, who had snapped a five
cent rose off its stem in his wrath, fastened
it on with a bit of wire, making it look as
good as new, and sold it to an unsuspicious
dude for quarter.-New York Sun.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-17
The Way Men Light Cigars.

A surgeon on Cunard liner has been
noting the peculiarities in cigar lighting
practiced by men OF different nationalities.
He declares that there is no better place in
the world to note these little oddities than
in the smoking room of an ocean steamer,
adding: ''Now take a Frenchman. If
party are sitting down for a smoke he will
scratch match, wait till the birthstone
has exhausted itself, and, with smile and
gracious bow, will pass it to his nearest
neighbor before lighting his own weed.
The German, after igniting the match, will
first light his own cigar and then offer the
match to his friend. But the oldest char
acter of all is the Englishman. His weed
ready for use, he will strike his match,
light his cigar, and without thought of
the others will deliberately drop the lucifer
into the nearest receptacle. Chicago
Herald
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-17
Dangerous Navigation.

To the average New Yorker there is no
place about the metropolis that inspires as
much awe as does the mad rush of water
between Astoria and the east shore of this
city. Thousands of excursionists pass
through the narrow channel daily, and
other thousands are carried through before
sunrise and before sunset by the great
sound steamboats,. Every passenger looks
at the racing water and the helplessness of
craft of every kind upon its surface. Even
the unrivaled Pilgrim, Puritan, Providence
and Massachusetts, careen and swerve with
the force of the tide in the main channel.
When the tide is at its height on the out
ward flow the engineers of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey estimate its velocity at
eight miles an hour, but the narrowness
of the channels and force of the whirl-
pools and eddies are sources of greater
danger than the strength of the tide.
Since the last explosion the pass has been
more dangerous than ever, and today few
sailing vessels venture through the chan
nels without q tow lne.-New York Tele-
gram.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-17
c. A. GLADKE.
Mrs. Gladke is Agent for H. s 2''t Ss. and
Patterns Cream of the Toilet Imperial Shoe Polish
bes in the worldly French deble Stamping at short
notice. 49,.
Not All Of Them.
Have we not noticed within the last few

Have we not noticed within the last few
years change in the demeanor OF society"
girls toward the other sexp How shall we
define it.? A kind Of brusque audacious-
ness in conversation, with soupcon OF
slangy chaff; an aff6ctation Of assuming to
know more of what is what than their
mothers and grandmothers were ever per-
mitted or supposed to know. Do they not
often go perilously near to the border lima
which convenience prescribes shall not be
overstepped?
We do not mean this last in the sense In
which it is alleged, and truly, that our an
cestresses of the last century thought 1t no
shame to call spade a spade, and when
young demoiselles of sensibility and vi
vacity used to sigh over the misfortunes OF
Clarissa Harlowe or divert themselves
with the adventures Of Tom Jones and
Sophia Western. 1t is something quite
different from that that the present race Of
young women affect. It is rather a total
want of sentiment that prevails. In form
er days the sex were wont to appeal to
men from their softer, gentler, weaker
side. Now it is the reverse.
They appear to aim at meeting men on
their own platform, and consorting with
them as like to like-from mans stand
point rather than from a woman's. A girl
nowadays will, unabashed, chaf her male
partner, rally him, amuse him, in his own
coin, in his own manner, and in the way he
would her. This is what we understand
as the female mannishness SO noticeable in
the beau monde Of today, and, we may add,
SO unlovely. It seems to be forgotten that
what man desires in woman Is contrast,
not a caricature of Observation-Disclosures q
MapaZine
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-17
A Benevolent Singer,

The principal singer of the great theatre
at Lyons one day observed a poor woman,
with her four children, begging in the
street. Her decent and respectable appear
ance, in the midst of extreme poverty, in
terested the kind hearted vocalist. He de-
sired the poor woman to follow him into
the Place Bellour, where, placing himself
in a corner with his back to the wall, his
head covered with his handkerchief and
his hat at his feet, he began to sing his
most favorite opera airs. The beauty of
his voice drew crowd round; the idea of
some mystery stimulated the bystanders,
and five franc pieces fell in showers into
the hat.
When the singer, who had thus in the
goodness of his heart transformed himself
into street minstrel, thought he had
enough, he took up the hat, emptied its
contents into the apron of the poor woman,
who stood motionless with amazement and
happiness, and disappeared among the
crowd. His talent, however. betrayed him,
though his face was concealed; the story
spread, and the next evening when he APP
peared on the stage shouts of applause
from all parts of the house proved that a
good action is never thrown away.-New
York Ledger,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-17
Addresses of Correspondents

Whoever has lost valuable hour or two
in hunting for old letters in order to find a
necessary address which a correspondent
has carelessly neglected to give, and has
not lost his temper, is gifted with a rare
degree of patience. In these busy days no
person has q moral right to levy upon the
time of another by writing a letter upon a
sheet which does not contain the printed
address of the writer When people ap-
preciate this truth it will be a sure sign of
the dawning of the millennium.
Until then we must endure the evil with
the best grace possible. and devise such
means of individual relief as we can l
find much assistance in an indexed blank
book AS soon as read a letter containing
an address down goes the address into my
book, and though my correspondent writes
me dozen times and never again gives
me his address he cannot compel me to
waste my time going over files of old let
ters The same is true of all addresses
which desire to preserve for future refer
ence No consideration would induce me
to dispense with this-to me-necessity.-
Cor, Writer
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-17
The Indians of Canada.

Canada appears to have practically solv-
ed the Indian question. Instead of that
disappearance before the advance of the
white man" which some theorists find it
convenient to represent as inevitable, they
increase in number in the eastern prov
inces, while even in the far northwest
they show a tendency to adopt the meth
DDS of civilization. A striking token of
progress is the fact that 1900 more chill
dren are at this time in the Indian schools
in Manitoba and the territories than were
receiving instructions in 1881, and the
number is stated to be increasing The eff
feet of this increasing contact with civil
izing influences is shown in the improve
ment in their dwellings, the gradual
abandonment of many of the old heather
celebrations, such as the sSun Dance"
etc., and the increasing number who stay
on the reserves and endeavor to get some
thing out of their land.-Chicago Herald.