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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-11
THEY CONFESS THE CRIME.

The OcaIa Police Have Caught the
Pullman POrter's Murderers.
Ocala, Fla, Aug 1O-Will Latimore yes
terday confessed numbering J. 7. Green,
the Pullman porter here, Saturday morn
ing, claiming that VIII Carter was his
accomplice.
Both are colored and are now in Jail
The coroner's jury has not yet found a
verdict.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-11
TRYING TO SAVE DRIGGERs.
sympathy for the Family of the
Murderer Excites the Public.

Murderer Excites the Public.
Jacksonville, Fla, Aug. 1O.-Sheriff Bow
den received secret information to-day
that M. NJ. Driggers had received saws
and was soon TO make an attempt to
break jail The sheriff made a careful
search and found a brace and several
saws in a crocus sack between the bath
tub and the wall. He accused Driggers
of being the recipient of the saws, but
the latter emphatically denied that such
was the case.
Driggers is under sentence of death for
murder of Tax Collector Bowling, a very
popular man of Bradford county. His
case was appealed to the supreme court,
but the judgment of the lower court was
affirmed.
The condemned murderer has a wife
and fve small children almost utterly
destitute. They have excited the sympa-
thy OF the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union here, the members Of which
are circulating a petition which is grow
ing into mammoth affair for a pardon.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-11
FIRE IN KEY WEST.
A Handsome Residence Burned-Its
Occupants Barely EScaDe

Key West, Fla, Aug 1O.-The handsome
residence Of Charles B. Pendleton was
completely destroyed by fire this morning
between and 4 o'clock. The fire. il is
supposed, was caused by electric wires.
Mr.. Pendleton and family had a very
narrow escape from cremation. They were
all compelled to fee in their night robee
Mrs. Pendleton was slightly burned an
the arm IN escaping from the building.
Inc building was valued at between Slz.-
Wv ana $l5,VO0 The insurance is ST.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-11

-Bargain-Counter Flnance.-Mrs. Fligh-
ty, don't you think every dollars worth
ought to be worth a dollar?
Yes, If one is selling; but when one is
buying one should always expect to get a
dollars worth for IS cents.-Chicago Re
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-11
THE STATE TO BE PAID.
Fulton Superior Court Orders the
Brown Estate to Settle.

Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 1O.-The ruling Of Full
ton superior court. in which joseph f
Browns estate was sued for $780, an
amount due for the hire of state convicts
was to-day affirmed by the supreme conrT
The property levied on for the debt bv
the state will be sold in thirty days. II
settlement is not made.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-11
FORsYTH IMPRovEMENr 60
SPECIAL NOTICES.


NOTICE TO THE CITY COURT GRAND
JURORS.
The grand Jurors of the City Court need
not appear until Thursday, the 18th inst,
at p. m.
By order of Thos. M. Norwood. Judge
c. C. S.
J. S. COLLINS, Clerk C. c. s.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-11

NOTICE.
Savannah, Aug. 4. 1S96-An persons hay
ing claims (secured or insecured) against
the Greenwich Park Association are re-
quested to present them to the under
signed within the next thirty days
FRANCIS S. LATHROP, Trustee
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

SPECIAL NOTICES.
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FOR ICE CREAM =
$ AND sHERBET, s
Use the Concentrated Syruu 9
of Pineapple, Raspberry g
$ Peach and Lemon. You save 9
S time and trouble. These :
syrups are made from the g
s JUICE OF THE FRUITS :
and are warranted free from s
S adulteratiOn. :
S SOLOM0NS & CO., q
Congress st. and Bull st. :
Branch Store. s
S. s. s. s.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-11
PROPERTY OWNERS, ATTENTION

PROPERTY OWNERS, ATTENTION
Now is the time to make ar
rangement to have your property
rented, rents collected. ETC.. for
next year.
We would like to attend to it for
you
We may charge you more than
others. but we will do our very
best to get you good tenants and
have your repair work looked af-
ter so carefully as to save you
money.
JOHN L. ARCHER & co.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-11

THE IRONS HOT.
Let us have your work right now. We
guarantee satisfaction-and that's a good
deal, coming from a laundry. We've
made up our minds to make this the best
one there is, and we are doing it by re-
tanning the patronage of every one who
comes here. We have never lost a. GUS
toner through fault of ours.
SAVANNAH STEAM LAUNDRY,
131 Congress Street,
Savannah, Ga.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
A Splendid Military Spectacle.

The journal of Miss Mary Grace
Thornton, daughter of the British
Ambassador, describing the corona
ton of the late Czar OF Russia, is
printed in the Century. Miss Thorn
ton says:
The programme hero announced
representatives of the haute noblesse.
I didn't see them. did see sixty foot
men, the Emperor's Arabs, and twen-
ty-fve chasseurs on foot, all looking
very much out of place. Then began
a long line of State carriages, contain
ing various State diynitaries. These
carriages had each six white horses,
and were very we'll appointed. Indeed,
the number of fine horses, fine car
riages, and fine things altogether, and
the sumptuousness of all the arrange
ments, were very remarkable, as were
the quantities of troops collected in
Moscow an army in themselves. Then
came blaze of color, the first de-
tachment of the Chevaliers Gardes, in
their whrte uniform, with shining
breastplates and helmets, above which
scared the imperial eagle, followed by
the Garde Cheval on their splendid
black horses, their uniform in every
point the same except that Of COLOR
To see these troops sweep up toward
the Kremlin, the light catching their
shining silver and gold, and their red
and yellow pennons futting In the
wind, was magnificent sight. Two
military men who were wit b us were
much impressed; and though in mat
ter OF detail these men are nowhere
near ours at home, yet they thought
it remarkable that such numbers
should be turned out so we'll and that
the horses. for instance, fari surpassed
ours.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
Charing Cross.

In reading English history you VIII
happen across numerous references to-
Charing Gross, but the chances are
you will wonder if the allusion is to 8
real cross erected as memorial or,
simply cross roads. Charing Cross
was formerly one of the noted land
marks of Britian, and its history is as
follows: In November of the year
1891, "Good Queen Eleanor" as she
was called by her loyal subjects, was
called to join her husband, who was
then making an expedition into Scot
land. When Eleanor had gotten as
far on her way as Grantham she sick
ened and died. The remains must, OF
course, be buried at Westminster, and
the funeral corGege started in that di-
rection. During the time this royal
funeral procession was slowly winding
it's weary way toward the capital thou
sands of people focked to the wayside
to get glimpse of it. 1t was great
event in the history of the rural dis
tricts, and they did everything possi-
BILE to make the solemn occasion @
memorable one. Wherever the pro-
cession halted for the night or for
other cause the people afterward set
up q memorial. One of the longest
stops was made OF Charing, and sub
sequently richly carved memorial
cross was erected on the site of the
camp. This was the Charing Cross
history. It stood until 1647. when
the last vestige of it was destroyed
during the Civil Wars of Charles, the
vandals who destroyed the relic claim
ing it to be monument of Popish su-
perstition. Charing Cross as seen to-
day was erected by the Southern Rail-
way Company in the year 1866. st.
Louis Republic.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
Strange Legislation.

"The strangest thing have ever
known in legislation, said T. G.
Walker, of San Jose, Cal, at the
Riggs. sis the defeat of Santa Monica
and San Pedro harbors, or rather the
defeat of the first and cutting down
the appropriation for the last named
from $500. 900 to $4,000. These har-
bors are within few miles of each
other, and Santa Monica is nearer Los
Angeles than San Pedro is. Both were
provided for in the Rivers and Har-
bors bill, Santa Monica with 50, $780,
900 and San Pedro for $500, 900. The
advocates of San Pedro made fight
against Santa Monica, saying that they
would rather neither got dollar than
to have Santa Monica made the deep
harbor, although both were free. The
trouble was that c. P. Huntington's
railroad owned the only line to Santa
Monica, and the fight shows how un-
popular Huntington is with the people
of Southern California. Hence rather
than have him succeed, the representa-
tive citizens of Los Angeles preferred
not to have over S3,000,0 900 expended
in their vicinity. The case is without
parallel IN Congress. Washington
Star
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
Fighting the Squirrel Pest.

s'It seems strange that squirrels
should be so plentiful as to be pest
in any settled country" said E. 3.
Breed, of Spokane, Washington, at the
National, "but such is the case in the
northeastern part of the State of Wash.
ington. They ruin vegetation, and
farmers can find no way to get rid OF
them. A favorite plan is for the owner
of ranch to have squirrel shooting
match. Sportsmen's clubs from Spo-
kane, Tacoma, Seattle and elsewhere
are invited to a squirrel hunt. The
ranchman entertains them royalty, and
prizes are given for the most squir-
rels, while the club having the smallest
number pays all of the expenses of the
trip. Rivalry runs high, and the clubs
send their very best men to compete
for the prizes. 1t is not at all uncorn-
mon ior the leaders to have several
hundred to their credit..at the end OF
a six days match, and thousand a
day, where several clubs compete, is
by no means big record. Yet, not
withstanding this wholesale slaughter.
there does not seem to be any percep-
tible diminution in their numbers. -
Washington Star.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
Real Fire is Invisible.

No eye, says scientific writer, has
ever seen real fire. The flame is leap.
ing in strange, fantastic form, fifteen
or twenty inches upward from the'coaI
and with it is a good dead of black,
sooty smoke The sopty smoke and
the flames are one and the same, with
only difference of temperature. The
SCOT which forms the flame is red hot.
Every particle of the flame is red
hot coal or particle of carbon. Tho
real fire we do not see. The instant
that the carbon atoms become really
burned, eaten up by the oxygen of
combustion. they are invisible. In
burning three pounds of carbon,
the heated state of which gives us
flame, the fire work is doneby eight
pounds of oxygen. The oxygen we do
not see. The carbon we only see just
before it is burned; and the result of
the burning is eleven pounds of the
compound of oxygen and carbon which
is invisible.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
Bed0uin characteristics.

There is no record of the costumes
of the Syrian Arabs having changed
the period covered by human history.
either as regards male or female dress
Ut adornment. Saving only for his
firearms, there is no reason to believe
that the Bedouin of the desert does
not clothe and adorn himself exactly
as he did in the days of the patrisrchs.
Arabs in the desert have contracted
strange prejudice against running
water and they will only drink what
they find in some stagnant pool So
much has this become matter Of hab-
it with them that, while the most
poisonous looking water agrees with
them admirably, pure running water
will make them violently siok
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
Salt for Catarrh.

The late DR.. Loomis was o high
authority on the treatment of all varie-
ties of catarrh and throat affections,
and he recommended the Insulation
of few grains of common salt, and it
proved efficacious in many cases of
long-standing catarrh. The salt, held
in the hand and ''snuffed up" causes
no more inconvenience than pinch
of snuff; but still less disagreeable
way is to have strong solution OF
salt on the dressing table. and insult
fate portion of this poured out into
the hand. The medical journals give
this simple remedy, faithfully applied,
credit for curing headaches, eye
strain, toothache, ear affections and
even bronchial asthma. New York
independent. 4
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
WORDS OF WISDOM,

Wit, like cutlery, needs whetting
occasionally.
Some people marry bad luck, and
others inherit it.
The man who never kicks is pretty
sure to be kicked.
The best memory is the one that
knows how to forget iudiciously.
No man likes to hear his wife talk
of what she will do after he is dead.
There is no more dangerous disease
than wanting to get rich in a hurry.
When two discourse, if ones anger
rise, the man who lets the contest fall
is wise.
The trouble with cute children is
they soon outgrow it and become i'm
pudent.
No man ever criticises his wife's
coking until they have been married
some time.
A man gets so that an alarm clock
has no more effect on him than his
conscience.
To convince fool against his will
is on par with arguing with a mule
not to kick.
A mans tendency to give advice is
in indirect ratio to his ability to mind
own business.
1t is only the habitually silent man
that can occasionally realize that he
talks too much.
Thousands of people would appre-
ciate sympathy and help who never
ask for it and never get it.
Some people have moral sentiment
who have no moral sense..t There Is q
distinction and difference.
When girls pass the giggling sge,
they reach period when they talk
furiously about an affinity"
There is a good deal of satisfaction
to be had from comparing other peo-
ple's faults with our own virtues.
We'd be much more thankful for
the things we have if there were not
SO many other things that we want.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Camphor and gun cotton are the
chief constituents of celluloid goods.
Tho eyes of fish and birds are
round, with no angles at the corners.
Alloys of iridium and osmium are
now very generally used to point gold
pens.
Double flowers are generally the re-
suit of cultivation, and always an alb
normal growth.
Monazite, a rare mineral which
neither melts nor burns, is found in
the rich metallic heart of the Appal-
lachian Mountains that lies in North
Carolina.
Platinum has been drawn into
smooth wires SO fine that it could not
be distinguished by the naked eye,
even when stretched across piece of
white card board.
Nearly every English flagship car
ries eight and every cruiser four fully
qualified divers, whose duty 1t is to
repair any damage sustained by the
vessel below the water line, clearing
the propellers and recovering The an
chors.
An evidence of the striking uni
formity of size among the japanese is
found in the fact that recent measure
ments taken of an infantry regiment
showed no variations exceeding two
inches in height or twenty pounds in
weight.
It is said that women's voices do not
give results in the long distance tele-
phone their high notes, excellent in
short lines, as all city telephone sub
scribers know, are an obstacle to clear
transmission in lines of considerable
length.
Professor Wightman, of Chicago,
who claims to have discovered that
the x rays are fatal to consumption
and other diseases, has inoculated
some Guinea pigs with the consump-
ton bacillus, and when the disease
gets thorough hold of them will pass
the rays through them and note the
effects.
The copper wires which conduct the
electric current in q submarine tele-
graph cable are protected from the
action of the water by heavy coat
ing of gutta percha, and the latter is
itself wrapped with heavy steel wires
to shield the core and insulating ma
terial from injury by friction against
rocks or by an anchor getting afoul of
the cable. Its own weight keeps the
thing in place on the ocean bottom.
A writer in the Revue des Sciences
Naturelles makes the following calcu-
lations in regard to the work done by
the honey bee: When the weather is
fine worker can visit from forty to
eighty flowers in six or ten trips. and
collect grain of nectar. 1t it visits
200 or 400 flowers, it will gather five
grains. Under favorable circum-
stances it will take fortnight to OBJ
tain fifteen grains. 1t would, there
fore take it several years to manufac-
ture pound of honey, which will fill
about 5000 cells.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
A New Cure for Badness.

George Il. Sims, the incarnation of
cocknevism and the most successful
English author of melodrama, startles
the world with a cure for badness.
He has tried it himself with success,
and declares that he has caused hair
to grow on $4,000 bald heads. His
recipe is petroleum oil, the benfcial
qualities of which were discovered in
this way: A lamp cleaner at Padding
ton Railway Station had perfectly
bald head, and instead of wiping his
oily hands on his clothes-as some
lamp cleaners do, out of respect for
their tailors-he always wiped them
on his head, the consequence being
that in the course of time he became
the possessor of luxurious crop OF
hair. New York Advertiser.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
Wonderful Career of a Great Trotter.

Mr.. Jonas Hawkins, of Orange
County, obtained from q stroliing
gypsy band brown mare, l5.2, with
four white feet. He used her Tor
family nag and by Seely's AmeE1can
Star got black finG. fooled isfs3a
which was named Clara. The. nv Be-
came the property of his son, Jppa-
than Hawkins, and she grew into q
mare OF 14.3. She had star, snip
and three white feet, and was driven
pretty hard on the country roads by
her young master. In 1857, BY Rys-
dyk's Hambletonian, she haA the
paragon, Dexter. The brown /gelding
with blaze and four white< feet was
purchased by Mr.. George B. ALLEY for
:s4OO, and he subsequently bedtame the
property of Mr.. A. F. Fawcett\ Dex-
ter, under the tutorship of Miriam
Woodruff, made his first publicA ap-
pearance at Fashion Course, MaAy 4,
1864 He met and defeated, DURING
his short but brilliant turf caree y,
such horses as General Butler, Georgte
NJ. Patchen, Jr., Lady Thorne and Y
Goldsmith Maid. and he probably was
n the enjoyment of more worldwide
same than any hcrse foaled on Ameri-
can soil. He brought Budd Doble
into public notice, and the sight OF
the white-faced gelding coming with
tremendous force down the home
stretch inspired the loftiest dreams.
The people swung their hats and
shouted, "Hurrah for Dexter! Long
live the horse of the century !"-Scrib-
rer's.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11

ington. els there's anything ! hate,
it's bargains !"
Little Phoebe Primrose stayed on at
the farm. She liked the daisies and
red clover, the sound of running
brooks, the smell OF the cows breath,
And. Ezra Pilkington liked her.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11

time are common in every locality in
Southern California. Some of the
bushes about ten years old in Pomona
Valley have for several years borne
annually from 10000 to 10000 BIOS
SONS ct time. New York Sun.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11

Michigan's Oldest practicing physi.
clan is DR.. William Sprague, of Cold
water. He is ninety-nine years old,
and has praeticed in thai. town more
than halt century.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11

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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11

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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
FITCH IN ROSES.
yATlD1sE'S Observation-Disclosures
INsSOUTHERN CALM ORNIA.
Wonti ierfu1 Lux,lriance Of the Rose
Everywhere - Rose Covered
'Bowcrs-Plants Tha Bear
10000 Flower 5.
% picture, no VIC I'd painting,

no poetry eve /: adequately
told the beauty and luxuri-
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11
,E ! HANDKERCHIEF.

ARGAINS, eh?" said
M rs. Pill k j n 6 t on.
"Guess I'll q look at
'em."
OF oil things, Mrs.
Pilkington was least
able to resist o bar
gain.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11

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Pilkington hain't rems nout
and meet us I shall be- ri,
RS. Pilkington, stretch I =
rward the better to sur !
ring curves of the road. n.
ton is always forgetting
y, gracious me, what's
le stopped to recover eets
hich she had inadverter Tets
handkerchief, ma'am. Z
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hand dkeFchief "she
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-04-15
RAILWAY PROSPERITY.

The observations Of President Perkins
in his forty-Second annual IMPORT OF the
chicago. Burlington n Quincy railroad
are pregnant with sense n reason. The
railway business has become TO be re-
garded as the legitimate prey Of the
bucolc legislator. II there is a desrth
Of subjects for the rural Law maker to
regulate he turns to the railway corpor-
atoms as a rich ield for the employment
Of his genius for legislation. He pro
seeds on the strange presumption that
the railways are a standing TO
the public good-the recognized foe OF
the state. Acting OF this presumption
he does not hesitate to cripple their earn
ing power with all sorts Of arbitrary
legislation.
Nor Is the rural legislator entirely to
blame. He merely shares in the general
notion that railways are organized for
public plumber. He is not real certain
that he can specify the basis upon which
he predicts such a theory. He gets the
idea from association ard by absorption.
There seems to be an impression that
dividends earned by a railroad should be
no larger thar the interest received for
o loaned on good security. This is
an egregious fallacy. Railroads must
take the risk Of crop failures and bust
ness depression. II railway building
must take such risks in addition to hos
tile legislation and be content with
profits that are no greater han the in
terest on an ordinary loan, railway build
ing will soon cease in this country.
The Burlington paid out for wages and
material during the year 1895 sls,OO0,Ooo.
The disbursement OF so much money in
one year by n road means a great
deal to the multitudinous interest de-
pendent directly and indirectly upon the
business.
Many communities and many indus-
tries are affected by the earning and
paying power Of the railroads. When
the railroads are prosperous the whole
country is prosperous. 1t is a great mis-
take to assume that statutes which are
designed to reduce the profits Of a great
branch of business like that Of transpor-
tation can benefit the country at large.
An era OF greater and more reasonable
f~riendliness on the part Of the public
toward the great railway properties OF
the country is needed II the transporta-
ton business is to be kept up TO the pres
emit superb standard of efficiency and gen.
oral axraIIence-