The morning news. [volume], April 20, 1891, Page 3, Image 3

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THE SIX BIEL RAINESES.
A p.CTURE QUE HALF-DOZEM TEN
NESSEE XIOCJSTAINEEaS.
c o w Big Foot Bill Raines Dug Down
to tie Eni of the World—The fcc ra
of Slim Bill Baines for the New
fangled Fixln's cf Clviiization-Hcw
$30,000 Were Scattered Around.
From the -Veto York World.
HASHO3ATE, Tenx., April a—lf, instead
of going °:T down into Mexico and getting
1 : *t, Rider Haggard had come here into the
mountains of Tennessee and devoted him
self to the study of tne primitive moun
taineers, more interesting even than those
wb>m Charles Egbert Craddock made
famous in the Great Smoky mountains,
whose misty outlines form the southern
barrier of the landscape here, he might
well have struck a much richer lead of ro
mance.
here are hills as everlasting as those
which bold “King Solomon's Mines.” Here
are simple children of nature, as tall and as
brawny and as destitute of fear as Umslop
cgaas. Here are caves as weird and en
enauting as the great cavern of the dead in
which the royal mummies of u thousand
years held thoir ghastly state. Here are
landscapes which have been for their wild
beauty fatnou3 since the time of Daniel
Boone. Here are great rivers whoso names
even are almost unknown to the ordinary
reader. Here are the descendants of the
soldiers of the revolution, who, after the
naace of Paris, came out here about
1783, drove the Indians into Kentucky and
i,ailt cabins and tilled the hillsides aud val
loys in much the fashion of to-day. Here
they were joined by fugitives from justice,
the scapegraces of noble houses, whose Lilac a
sheep were sent to Virginia from England,
the ne’er-Jo- wells of the old estate all up and
down the Atlantic c oast, all of whom were
by the irresistible prosecco of natural causes
forced down towards the famous Gap, which
is the only highway over this great con
tinental divide.
NUTS FOR HAGGARD,
Until within the last three years, when a
flood of foreign capital has engulfed the
shacks and redeemed the clearings of these
picturesque natives, who were, and still are,
for tbe matter of that, living just as their
forebears did a hundred years since, no
vehicle more fashionable thau a two-wheeled
ox cart had penetrated these mountain
roads; the shriek of the steam whistle
was an unknown sound, since not
even such magnificent altitudes could
carry its echo sixty miles from the
nearest railroad; store clothes and store
“fixins” were alike despised and unused,
and the land on which $10,000,000 steel and
iron plants aud $3,000,000 hotels and
casinos are now being erected was to be
had for $1 an aero or less.
There are stories enough here to keep
Rider Haggard busy five years. Let me try
now to tell the story of the Bill Raineses.
Some younger son of the distinguished
Raines family of England, whoso successes
atthe bar and in parliament are well known,
was no doubt the progenitor of the 3ix Hill
Raineses. The Raineses have boou living
here ever since anybody has, and like their
neighbors have intermarriod and preserved
m even monotony of life—barely enlivened
at short intervals with rifleshots, which has
resulted in a type of man so peculiar as to
be instantly recognizable and almusfc in
digenous jlto this locality. The intermar
riage of the Raines family soon exhausted
the rather limited stock of Christian names
which was in use here aud there came in
time naturally enougn to be six Bill Raineses.
Easily the most famous of these is “Big
Foot” Bill Raines. No explanation of how
he came to get this appellation is necessary
to any one who has ever soon him. “Yank”
Bill Raines, so named because, during the
war of the rebellion, which most of tbe
mountaineers looked upon as a bushwhack
ing spree, Yank took sides against his
namesakes with the union forces, and at
once and involuntarily acquired the dis
tinction which enables us to diff.ro itiate
him from his fellow Bills. “Slow” Bill
flames got his name early in life when
he was sent to mill with a sack of corn one
line fall day and didn’t come back with the
meal until early the following spring,
"rtkeeter” Bill Raines—for mosquitoes in
these altitudes are so rare as to be objects
of curiosity—developed when quite a lad
into such a leggy specimen of humanity
that h 9 was promptly named for the leg
giest of all insects, a solitary specimen of
which on a particularly warm day in Au
gust—a warm August day here means about
about 70 c —his mother had shown her for the
first time in her life.
“Monk” Bill Raines.it is generally con
ceded, was named from his facial resem
blance to some particularly ugly specimen
of the ‘ 'monk” in metropolitan parlance
associated with the “org.” How in the
name of Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson a
monkey ever got loose in these hills or was
overseen by one of these mountaineers it is
hard to say. The nearest city, when Bill
was born, at least, wa3 Knoxville, seventy
miles away, and strolling Italiaus, like
strolling circuses, were rare enough then
even there. In the handsome museum at
the new city of Middlesborough jqst across
the Gap, is a > embalmed monkey so much
like Bill, that is, this Bill Raines, that one
of his little children, who accompanied its
mother there on a shopping excursion, cried
bitterly to bo taken to its father.
CAN EAT BREAKFAST OFF THE ROOF.
“Slim” Bill Raines is tall enough to eat
his breakfast off the roof cf the Harrogate
railway station. XV hen these new-fangled
people, with new-fangled clothes and ideas,
came hore a couple of years ago and bought
all this valley and built railroads through
it, aud tunneled the mountains to Kentucky,
and projected hotels and sanitariums,
“■Slim” Bill Raines was one of many others
who felt and expressed the most unmiti
gated contempt for the “whole circus” as
he called it, and if he had imagined that by
ea ing his breakfast off the top of Harrow
gate railway station, or jumping like
Remus over the foundations of the Cumber
land Gap Park casino he could have
humiliated the “ blarstod foreigners” and
frightened them away, it is by no means
impossible that he would have done so.
“Bacon” Bill Raircs is the last of tbe six,
and his traditional fondness for the well
smoked hams of the country and perhaps
some extra knack of his own in smoking
aid curing inountaiu pig gave him his
Christian name readily en >ugb. There they
a j’®> a H six of them, each differing from the
o'her in stature, but ail with the sunn gen
eral cast of countenance, long shambling
gnu, hardy constitution, and absolute de
nance of convention and bullets.
The six mountain rifles with which the
six Bill Raineses habitually go armed are as
elute as six peas in a pod. Any one of them
b five feet long easily, and heavy enough to
mash iu the skull of a bear. The photog
rapher who could get a picture of the six
Bill Raineses all in a row, leaning on their
six rifles, might launch the work of hiscatn
era on a sea of success more glittering even
than that which floated the photographic
of the Seven Sutherland Sisters. It
L not known that the six Bill Raineses with
their six rifles were ever seen all in one
group except on one occasion. F. Randolph
Curtis of New York, brother of Dr. Hol
brook Curtis of that city, had piloted
oTer the mountains from Knoxville
a little group of Englishmen
w ho had ridden on horseback
°ut of this beautiful wilderness iu
of coal and iron mines, virgin for
esti, natural building sites and wonderful
mineral springs. Among the Englishmen
werb A. A. McAuthur, who has since be
come the leading spirit in the wonderful
mechonical and industrial enterprises of
Middlesborough, and H. Pollock, a swarthy
ux-foot-threer, w,,0 is said to be lineally
trended from the author of “The Course
“f Time.” Mr. Curtis had brought with
mem from his plantation in North Carolina
• trained cook whom he had taken from
■>ew York city originally', aud who never
trawled without his little portable French
Gtcaen with its dozens of dainty little
utensils and devices, as well as a s'.out little
kitohen tent.
THE NEWS SPREAD.
The news that strangers had arrived in
the vioinity and had actually had the
audacity to camp out and say they were
going to stay there and see how they liked
the country soon spread among the Raines
family, the Turners, the Lanes and the other
aristocrats of these parts. Tacitly the lead
ing and longest-rifled specimens of these
families drifted down the mountain paths
to Aar is the camp of the strangers, where
two great tents had been put up with infinite
care, blooded horses had been picketed and
French cooking had been oegun. The cook,
with his snowy cap acd apron, the dainty
looking dining table iu tbe dinner tent, the
curious savory odors that came from the
camp tire, the glittering linen and silver
that was laid out for these highfalutin'
newcomers—all these things did not evoke
a single word irom the six Bill Raineses,
who stood silent, with eyes and mouths
Open, iu the bushes near by watching the
strauge scene. The rifles of the Raines
brothers were unpleasantly conspicuous
from the camp fire, and it Beemed to Mr.
Curtis and Mr. Arthur not at all desirable
to conceal the fact that there was in the
party some sixty or seventy thousand dol
lars in American currency, with which
it was proposed to purchase some of the
beautiful lands thereabouts.
Dinner was sorved by the French cook in
his cap and apron, and as course after
course of viands of which the Bill Raines
family had never heard was put on the
table, the eyes of the Raines brethren opened
wide, but they leaue.it on their .riflts and
said never a word. Nor would they sit
down and be sociable. They simply stood
and looked because they wanted to.
After dinner the strangers began
playing p kor, and after one or
two jiek-potg had been opened and some
body wanted some small change, for the
stakes were small, Mr. Curtis offered to
supply the want, aud put his hand, cau
tiously enough, as he thought, into the
inner pocket of his vest, where just $33,000
in greenbacks was pinned to his flannel
shirt. He ran his fingers over the roll,
smoking all the while in a nonchalant man
ner, for a roll of $30,000, properly magni
fied by moumaln dew, might easily enough
have caused the slaughter of the entire
county, and was trying to peel off some
sl-bills without exposing the roll to view,
when suddenly the hind legs of his camp
stool sunk into the soft soil, and, falling
backward, Curtis threw both of his arms
up, and scattered the entire $30,000 over the
adjacent shrubbery.
HEARTS STOOD STILL.
For a moment the heart of everybody at
the camp fire stood still, but it is safe to" say
that British self-control conquered even
such aa emergency, and nobody gave any
evidence that the usual eveniug oustom of
the party was not to distribute $30,000
around the catnp fire. The reserve of the
six Bill Raineses, the absolute perfection of
their blase indifference, the intense scorn of
their nil admiran gaze were superior even
to the before-mentioned British self-control.
The Bill Raineses never moved a muscle nor
a muzzle, bat went on leaning on their
rifles and looking. Tne money was picked
up as carelessly as possible and put away,
but if the rifles of the Bill Raineses had
begun to crack just then nobody would
have been surprised. After awhile the Bill
Raineses filed away through the bushes and
disappeared ia the darkness. They didn’t
know the Englishmen aud thought they
were land pirates. Tne Englishmen did
not know them and thought they were
highwaymen and cutthroats. They all
know each other better since.
At 2 o’clock the next morning a diabolical
noise was heard in the rear of the English
men’s sleeping tent and they awoke with a
start, grabbed their pistols and propared to
sell their lives as dearly as possible. Their
sentinels had gone to sleep, the oamptires
had gone out, it was dark as piten, but in
the midst of the iukv blackness they could
feel the tent swaying from side to side and
the hoarse breathing of some huge brigand
as he strove to force an entrance. Without
waiting for the intruders to make them
selves known, the Englishmen dashed head
long through the flap of the tent without
waiting to untie it, prepared to face the six
Bill Raineses at least,and discovered, to their
intense disgust, a large cow of the country
fast entangled in the tent rope3.
STORIES OF “BIG FOOT BILL.”
After awhile the Bill Raineses and the
Englishmen got to be on more friendly
terms, and the $63,000 in greenbacks began
to be utilized in baying title bonds on the
lands of the Bill Raineses and their neigh
bors, A title bond is an agreement under
seal for which so much cash is paid down
that the owner of the land will convey it to
the holder of the bond, and make perfect
legal title to it within a specified time on
the payment of a certain additional sum of
money. In order to secure a title bond
from Big Foot Bill Raines Mr. Curtis, on
one occasion, rode up to the Big Foot Bill
Raines residence aud, checking his horse
some twenty feet away from the
front door—there was only one door—
shouted out “Hello!” Repeated shouts of
“hello” finally brought a large and boxum
looking mountain iady to the threshold.
Mrs. Big Foot Bill JRaines had a high color
and was an unusually attractive looking
specimen of mountain femininity. She cast
a suspicious eye at the riding costume and
new fancied “fixing” of the stranger at her
gates and, on being requested to ask her
husband to come out as he was wanted on
business, she suddenly conceived a heroic
resolution and answered innocently enough:
“My ole mau, he done gone up de moun
tain to salt cattle and he won’t bo coinin’
back heah for puttv|nigh a rnont.”
Argument and explanation wore useless.
Curtis was perfectly sure that Bill Raines
was somewhere in the neighborhood, and
was equally certain that if Big Foot Bill
had the same ideas that his wife evidently
had about his (Curti>) being a revenue
agent, the report of Big Bill’s rifle might be
expected any moment.
All the while Big Foot Bill was lying
hidden in a blackberry patch about fifty
feet away, and when it finally dawned on
his mind that the strange' had come to pay
him some money, and didn’t moan him any
harm. B g Foot Bill called calmly and
composedly from his form in the brier
patch and made his appearance on his
hands and knees.
After some little dicker Big Foot Bill
went round to the rear of the cabin and,
removing with his jack knife two or three
loose stones from the chimney, quickly
drew from his private safe-deposit box his
title deeds. Along with them came a pack
age of musty, smoke-begrimed papers with
a leather shoe string tied around them.
“What are those, Bill?” asked Mr. Curtis.
“Them,” said Bill, “them are my requisi
tions on the Treasury Department for meat
and provisions and things I furnished the
soldiers durin’ the war.”
Twenty-three years bad passed since Big
Foot Bill had received his requisitions in
return for fodder furnished the union sol
diers. He knew they were always good, he
said, and he didn’t have any me for the
money anyway, so he naturally ju3t stuck
thorn in his hiding place in the rear of his
chimney, taki g chance on the h use burn
ing down, and various other little contin
gencies of that sort. After their business
had been transacted Mr. Curtis and Big
Foot Bill had a conversation on matters and
things in general.
WHY NOT TRAVEL!
“Bill,’’ said the young New Yorker, afte
paying Big Foot his cash prioe, “you’ve got
money, now, why don’t you travel arouud
and see the world?”
“Why, I have seen the world,” answered
Bill, “I’ve been up on the Pinnacle,” point
ing to the famous peak that towers over
Cumberland Gap, and from which five
states are visible. “I looked all over the
world,” said Bill, “and do you know they
told me the world was round and I be
lieved them till I got up there. Why, Mr.
Curtis, it is i flat ns a hie cake; ths lies
some folks tell are a caution.”
“And all this talk about it bein’ hundreds
and hundreds of miles through the world to
the other other side, that’s all a lie. (Bill’s
dialect will he translated into English.)
Why, I bored a well for Ben Turner once,
and 1 went down forty-eight feet, 1 did, aud
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1801.
I came to sand, and that was ths end of tne
world, sure, when you come to sand!
“But the biggest lie I’ve beard yet was
told by some survivors who were digging
that tunnel from Cumberland Gap to Mid
dlesborough right through the old Cumber
land mountain. They told me that the
world moved round the sun; now I know
better than that because I’ve been watching
the sun ail my life, but X thought I’d get the
dead wood on them. So one dav when they
?uit work and went into the tent to dinner
just took a look at the sun through that
three-legged telescope of theirs (Bill meant
the theodolite), and when we cam. out from
dinner I tock ’nother look at the thing, and
what do you think' Why. that old sun had
moved forty feet, at least.”
THE MAFIA IN NEW YORK.
How the Bandits Stick and Slash One
Another In Mulberry Bend.
I' Copyright, 1891.1
New York, April 18.—A feature of the
Mafia, the famous organization of banditti,
which,driven at the bayonet’s point from its
birthplace in Sicily, has established a home
in New York, New Orleans and the other
cities of the United States, is the deter
mined and unscrupulous opposition it
offers to the officers of the law.
A counterfeiting case tried some time ago
well illustrates this peculiarity. A Sicilian
was arrested for uttering base coin. The
officers of the government were secretly
warned that the prisoner belonged to the
Mafia, and in consequence took every pre
caution to prevent an escape and to insure
a conviction. The first move by the crimi
nal was offering bail. This appeared good
at first sight, but on a careful investigation
prove! to be “of straw.” Nothing daunted
by the failure, the friends or colleagues of
tde counterfeiter attempted to falsify the
dies and coin which were to be used in evi
dence. This was also prevented by ihe
officers of the law-.
A third step was an endeavor to oorrupt
the complaining witnesses. This proving
ineffectual they tried intimidation, but with
no greater success. A conspiracy was next
hat bed to kill the chief witness, a id like
wise turned out abortive. The governmou t
attorney began the trial feeling certain of
securing a conviction, and presented a very
stroug oase, from which there seemed to be
not a loophole of escape. Unpon the defonse,
witnesses were produced by the accused,
who swore that he was innocent, aud that
hW daughter, a girl of about 2Q, was the real
offender. The girl herself confirmed tho
story, and no contradictory witnesses could
be obtained by tho prosecution. The jury
found the prisoner innocent and convicted
tne woman, whom neither the judge nor
the officers believed to be guilty of the
crime!
In speaking of this society Georgs Rid
dle, a New York detective, said: “One of
their oddest habits is to settle their own
quarrels without appealing to the courts.
The system they follow is neither the duel,
the vendetta nor blood feud, but altogether
original, 1 recall a case in Mulberry Bend.
A gambler belonging to the Lonit ai di gang
at No. 59, ia that street, robbed a member
of the Franci gang at No. 35 6f a watch,
revolver and considerable cash. The victim
was asleep when it occurred, but on awak
ening went resolutely to work to find out who
was the thief. Iu twenty-four hours he h and
identified the thief to his own satisfaction.
Getting two friends to join him, he am
bushed the plunderer and, with his knife at
tho latter's throat, recovered the revolver,
but not the watch. As this had, in all
probability been disposed of, he took what
money and valuables his captive had and
went back to his home. The vanquished
thief swore to have revenge, nnd a few
nights afterward, when he found his enemy
alone in a low dive, attacked and slashed
the latter with a razor. The police
appeared upon hearing the outcry
occasioned by the brawl, but the assailant
escaped. The wounded man was car
ried to the station house, where his
cuts were treated by the police surgeon.
Though questioned and threatened by the
sergeant he refused to give any informa
tion concerning the affray. Tho following
week, when he had recovered his strength,
he put his traveling arsenal into good order
and went with his friends in search of his
too. The latter had anticipated a retal
iatory attack, and never went anywhere
without a body-guard. On this occasion
the forces were equally matched. They
met at night in a dark alley, which was so
narrow that only two of each side could reach
one another with their weapons. A quick
exchange of blows and stabs resulted iu the
thief and his pal on cne side and one
of the other being severely out. The noise
drew a crowd, on whose appearance the
combatants separated as quickly. The po
lice appeared in time and captured two of
the injured, who were streaming with
blood. They behaved exactly as had the
other member of the quarrel whan he was
arrestod. There being no evidence against
them the authorities were compelled to dis
charge them with a slight fine for disor
derly conduct and carrying concealed
weapons. The thirst for blood wag still un
assuaged. In the ensuing fortnight the
two crowds had a third and much more
serious encounter, all being injured and two
being almost killed.
During all this time Fracoi and Lom
bardi sat still enjoying the tragedy going
on under their eyes. Tho skill of the
bravos, their fortitude, bravery and blood
thirstiness were discussed and lauded or
deprecated according to the faction to
which the critic belonged. After the third
assault there was so much comment and
gossip in the neighborhood as to attract
the attention of both the press and police.
Then and not until then did Franci and
Lombardi interfere nnd make peace.
Mutual forgiveness was swi.rn by the late
enemies and quiet again reigned in the two
cellars where the cut-throats live when they
are not drinking, gambling or committing
robbery.
There is a comical side to these knaves,
While they are not afraid of the revolver,
and realiy enjoy a knife or a stiletto, they
have a holy horror of tbe human flst and of
the club. Capt. McC'ullagh nnd Detectives
Crystal and Gerow of tbe Elizabeth street
precinct, which includes the low Italian
colony, seldom resort to weapons of any
sort in governing and punishing those mis
creants. On several occasions they have
individually hosted two armed ruffians by
well directed blows from the shoulder.
Such action deserves more than comment on
account of tbe cool courage required. These
brawlers are seldom satisfied with a single
weapon, but always go provided with an
armory. The loose pockets of the coat, the
seams of the baggy trousers, and the folds
of the great belt or sash with which they
gird the waist, give every opportunity for
the carrying of a weapon which cau be used
instantaneously*. One fellow who was ar
rested iu this precinct capped the climax
in this regard. He earriod upon hU person
not less than two revolvers, two razors, a
case-knife, hunting-knife and a stiletto.
W. E. 8. Pales.
A FIRST-CLASS SNAKE STORY.
Poison From the Reptile’s Fangs Used
by Physlclane.
Thomapville, Ga., April 19.—Dr. F. H.
Humphreys, the great homeopatbie|medi
cine man who has a winter home in this city,
was in tbe office of the News correspond
ent a day or two ago. Among the 4.000
medicines which his firm manufacture is
tbe poison of tbe rattlesnake, which the
doctor said was a homeopathic drug. It is
often used in treating yellow fever as well
as other oiimente. The doctor said
the flist of this poison was
one drop brought by a distinguished
homeopathist from Assam. The fang
of tbe reptile was drawn and the poison
allowed to drop on a little sugar of mlik.
The whole was then thoroughly titurated,
when tbe sugar of milk was increase 1 many
thousand fold. This single drop of snake
poison was used by the whole homeopathic
school of physicians for a period off irty
years, and with perceptibly good results.
The doctor seem-d perfectly unconscious
that be was telling a first-class snake story.
A SLICK OPERATOR
MO?.TGAGE3 ANOIHER MAN’S CAT-
AND SELLS LIS FARM,
And Then Leaves the Country With
the Proceeds of His Work—Piece of
Business Remarkable for its Au
dacity.
Fort Worth, Tex., April 19.—There has
jnst come to light a couple of twiu actions
which for audacity cau hardly be beat in
Texas. Frank Ward, a cousin of L. B.
linboden. who was his security on two or
three bonds before lmboden’a first trial,
and who ran a dairy farm uear the city, is
the principal party to the transactions and
the only ono who has so far been benefited
by them, while all others who had any
thing to do with them came cut at the little
end of the hern.
The flr.-t transaction was tho mor'gnfti: g
of 110 head of cattle to one of the banks in
the city, on which, it is said, ho secured
$1,200. The cattle were worth a great deal
more than that sum, and the transaction
would have been perfectly safe had the
cattle that Ward mortgaged belonged to
him. As it was, the cattle were the
property of Jesse Pittenger, a well known
stockman, who bad them in a pasturo just
across tbe read iu front of Ward's place.
Ward made an application for the loan to
the bank, and two parties were sent out to
look at the cattle before the money was
advanced on them. The cattle wore re
ported good for tho amount of money asked
for, but no report os made on tho titlo, in
fact that was never brought into question,
notwithstanding the same bank had loaned
money to Pittenger on the same bunch of
cattle about six months previous. As soon
ns Ward got the money he left these parts,
saying that ho was going off for the pur
pose of making bond for Imboden. That is
the last tba: lias been seen of him in or
about Fort Worth.
A LAND DEAL.
After Ward loft another of his transac
tions came to light which for boldness and
audacity equals his cattle trade. He mot
au Italian who wanted to buy* a small farm
near Fort Worch on which to raise fruit
and vegetables. Ward said he had just such
a place as would suit the mau, and took him
out into the country aud showed him a farm
belonging to a gentleman named Farmer.
The property suited the Italian and a
bargain made. A dood was made out and
signed by Ward, who received, suit is said,
$750 in money from the Italian, who at once
went to work setting out fruit trees < u the
place. Renters occupied tile (dace at
the time and when tho Italian told them
that he had purchased the place they went
to see Farmer about it aud to a*k why he
would sell the pla e and put them out with
out any notice being given. This was all
news to Farmer, aud an investigation was
made, which resulted in the above facts
coming out. Whore Ward is no one knows,
but one of tho leading banks and an Italian
in tho city would like for him to come for
ward and explain.
PALATKA POINTERS.
A Civil Knsrlnaer nt V/ork on tho Site
of th® New Depot.
Palatka, Fla., April I<>.—A civil en
gineer is surveying and platting the prop
erty of the Georgia Houtiiorn and Florida,
and the erection of a handsome depot will
begin as soon as this is done. It will i e
located, probably, whore tho wharf touches
the sh re.
The senatorial contest excites great at
tention. Palatka is nnti-Call.
There is a widespread rumor that when
the proper tinyj cornea the jffiiUr of Put
nam's delegation will place in nomination
Justice Ruiuey of the supreme qoijrt, and
this rumor is constantly discussed arid takes
wonderfully. Everybody is expecting that
Senator Calhoun will nominate the next
senator.
BEAT 813 DYING MOTHER.
She Refused to Let Him Have Her Life
Insurance Policy.
Chester, I’a., April 19.—Washington
Woodward of South Chester assaulted his
mother on her doath-bed while under the
influence of liquor.
The son and mother lived together at
Second and Morton streots. She has her
life insured aud the son demaudod that she
should give him tho policy. She refused
and he set to and heat her. Tho weak
woman’s cries attracted the attention of a
neighbor, who sent a policeman, who ar
rested tho a >n, and ho is held for court to
uwait the effect of his mother's injuries.
BATTLES WITH THE BAT.
Results of the Ball Gamas Between the
Country's Eig- Clubs.
Washington, April 19.—T0-day’s ball
games resulted:
At Columbus— r. r.n. e.
Columbus 4 e 4
Cincinnati . h ,j
Batteries Knell and Dowse; Crane and
Kelly.
At Louisville— r. b.h. e.
Louisville ..5 7 5
Bt Louis 7 7 j
Batteries Ehret end Cook; Griffith and
Boyle.
A Noted Case'ln Tattnall,
Rsidsville, Ga., April 19.—Among the
most celebrated criminal cases ever tried in
Tattnall was that of tho state against New
ton Cownrt, charged v/ith the murder of
David Gibbs. It was trhd last week.
Cowart shot Gibbs Dec. 15 at Ohoopee
station. The trial, which was commenced
Thursday morning and continued all day,
resulted in the acquittal of Cowart. The
jury was out only forty minutes. The
defense showed that the killing wtw ia self
defense, although tho state made a strenu
ous effort to prove that the defendant pro
voked tho assault.
GOETHE’S VISIT TO CARLSBAD!
ITis LiUe Greatly Prolonged.
There is no doubt that tho
life of the great poet was
greatly prolonged by drinking
the waters of tho Sprudel
Spring. In our day we have
the Sprudel Spring brought to
us in the form of Salt, which is
obtained by evaporation from
the waters of Carlsbad.
The natural Carlsbad Stru
del Salt (powder form) is in
no sense a mere purgative, but
is an alterative and eliminative
remedy which dissolves tena
cious bile, allays irritation and
removes obstructions by aiding
nature. It acts soothingly and
without pain, and is, therefore,
far superior than all pills, pur
gatives and other remedies. It
is best taken during the Spring
and Summer months. Beware
of imitations. The genuine ar
ticle has the signature of EIS
NER & MENDELSON CO.,
sole agents, 6 Barclay Street,
New York, find the seal of the
city on every bottle.
GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY.
People Should Lite 100 Dm* and Enjoy
Life All Ihe While.
‘To srr'WoM #rracrully,'' say*the well known
Pr. Gardner, **i not the common lot of ail.
V’lth advancing years come Increased infirmi
f they arc by n > means unavoidable aod
their presence is due to failure to keep up to
their work the various organs of the
body Th > study of tho body by scientists
furaigh.es unquestionable evidence that the
duration of human life may be prolonged to 100
} earn."
So says Pr. (Gardner, and yet wbat more com
mon thau to s o a prematurely aged, withered
and broken down man. or a pale, weak and
emaciated oki lady. The spirit is broken; ail
interest * gone fr in life, an 1 they I,k>* fur
vard only to death. Ihe ad test thing of all
Is that this premature age and breaking down
is ne dies*. It can easily be avoided by a little
car \ and assisting nature just a little, aud It is
upoiT is point that Dr. Gardner again speaks
inoat clearly.
He says: Science, common sense, and all ex
perience testify to th*' benefits to t e derived
from the use of alcoholic stimulants.'' It should
|bo remembered, however, that they mi flit be
pure, end that of all stimulants, whisky is prefer
able. The word whisky is derived from an an
cient word meaning “water of life." and it is a
most appropriate name, nit hough there is so
much that is unworthy in the market. The
highest authorities -doctors, chemists and scien
tists -agree, however, that huffy's Pur© Malt
Whiskey ia pure and cannot harm even a child.
Its effect is to build up the system, renew the
life and replace weakness and weariness by
hea’thy vigor. Re very careful, however that
you secure only the genuine; insist on your
drug/ist furnishing you with It. and you will
certainly tind great benefit from its use.
CHEAP ADVERTISING.
ONE CENTTa WORD.
jtprirjjrrSK.VK.YTS. IS Worth or
•wore, in lAu column mrUd for ONE
CKirX JA K tC'njwh mi advcMoi, oooh
inmrCiornm
Everybody who has any want to awnpty,
anything to bn y or sett, any (msnMi or
acwsmfnodat urns to soours; indooii,any wish
to gratify, rkoxtld advert ios 4m this ocUumsA.
PXBSOHAU
pHOTOGRAPHY Cabinet* a specialty AU
* stylbs and si/.es, from stamps to life size.
Finest photographs rrmdo in Savannah at fair
nnd reasonable prices J. N W ILSON, 31 Bull
street Business oatahlished June 4, IMHO.
thirty-eight years the purity and excel
louce or our brand* of liquors have been
commended by a discriminating public. M.
LAVIN‘B ESTATE.
SF you are is nacd of money and
want a lilxeral loan, for any length of
time, at lowest rate of interest, on Diamonds,
W atches, Jewelry, Clothing, eto., and if you
want your valuable** returned iu the same oon
dltion ns left, patronise home enterprise and
call at the Old Reliable Karannah Licensed
Pawnbroker lious<\ I7y Congrean street. E.
I BERG, Manager,
(CHANGEABLE woatlier makesbicltneux prev
ia alent, so our w ines and liquor* nr*' not
only luxuries but necessities. M. LAVINM
ESTAI r, Telephone 54
/ i IYKN AWAY, one handsome almost Ilf©-
v * eizo picture with each dozen Cabinet Photo
graphs. Call and fee samples. LAUNEY A
GO ft BEL, Savannah. Ga.
HELP WANTED.
YITANTED, German girl who speaks English
m to oook. Apply P. bOHAFJCB, 58 Jef
ferson street.
UT ANTED, a competent nurse to lake care of
infant ami assist in charge of other chil
dren; none need apply without good city refer
ences. Apply 105 Charlton street.
YI T ANTED, a good cook. Apply at 163 Liberty
▼ r street.
\\ ' ANTED.a fired daß ironer at the SAVA N
NAH STEA.H LAUNDRY, Lumber street,
between Zubiy and Margaret streets.
UJ ANTED, young men an 1 smart lads. Call
8 'i Broughtonstreet, 6 to ? p, m.
\ITANTED. first-class city Half anion to toll
V Watches and Diamonds on an entirely
new plan. Call r.t rooms 1 and B, Odd Follows’
building.
I CAN PAY a alary of a week and increase
it, for ladies to open letters at their homes
and assist me In a quiet and agreeable way
among friends. Nice little sum of money made
by a few hours' work each clay. References
given. I can give pleasant employment to n
few ladies, \ddrens, with stamp, MRS. MA
RION WALKER, 511 Fourth Avenue, Louisville,
Ky.
UjT ANTED, experienced solicitors to repre
sent the MARION RANKING AND IN
DUSTRJAL COMPANY of Marion, N. l\, in
Georgia, Florida and South Carolina; local and
traveling agents wanted; good pay and easy
work; for terms, etc* address W. HENRY
ROBERTS, President, Marion. N. C.
Mls< ELLA NEOT A w \ MS.
AIT ANTED, the public to get the l>rieflt of
low prices and superior goods which our
large purchases and mutual co operation render
possible. M. I.ay IN’S ESTATE.
IX7 ANTED, to save our customers the cost of
▼ ▼ casing goods, and also the freight and
duty on glass We buy our liquors In bulk and
bottle them here under our own label, which 1m
n sufficient guarantee of their purity. M. LAV
LVS ESTATE.
ROOMS TO KENT.
{TOR RENT, one large furnished room on
second lloor. 13 Lincoln street.
}?LAT of four rooms. Duffy street, suit*
able for light housekeeping.
HOUSES AND STORES FOR RENT
I TOR RENT, a 6-room house, uiso on© room
with kitchen. Apply 17 York street.
I?OR RENT, four story brick house, conven*
I lent to business; immediate possession. Ap
ply to E. S. ELLIOTT, 114 Bryan street.
LTOR RENT, that elegant residence, 57 Jones
I 1 street, Cohen’s new block. Apply a A LOMON
COHEN.
DWELLING forre::t. 155 Gordon street. Ap
ply at 14'j Liberty street.
IjTOR RENT, store No. 181 Congress street,
three doors east Jefferson. Apply at DKY
FU6 BROS.*
I'< >K UK‘ 1, and sirable 11 r—story i
derice, Montgomery street; every
cor,venience;in excellent order. W.H.DOONER,
lo“ Broughton street.
LTOR RENT, that desirable four-story and
I cellar and brick building, kO feet front, on
Ddll street, corner York; the most advanta
geo us stand In the city. Will give long lease and
good terms to desirable party; immediate pos
session. Will rent either or both stores and
will allow alterations to suit lessee. JOHN
SULLIVAN & CO., 102V* Ray street.
iOR EEH MIBCXLLAXIBOI
FpHE flfft floor of Uie Whitfield building Is
1 now being lilted up for the Postoffice; the
unper floors are for rent, and will i*e rented
either as a whole or divided up to suit tenants.
Apply to JNO. SULLIVAN & CO.. 102 H Bay
street.
FOR SALK.
HOUSES, mules, inaree. best in city; carriage,
draught, business, big and medium mules.
Nice drags, buggies, and saddle horses in livery.
.1 K GUILMAKTIN & Cos., Boarding, Sale,
Livery Stahl—. Telephone 261.
FTOR SALE, a big bargain—Knabe Piano,
tint-class order; also, two plate glass win
dows 5x4. M. G., thiH office.
IjTOR SALE, House with eight rooms; kitchen
l and bath room a tacheJ. Good stables and
outhouses. Apply to DR. LANIER, Guyton,
Ga.
\r A BUSHELS SEED RICE for sale Clear
IIU of volunteer Apply to R. OASSELS
<t SONS, Mclntosh. Ga.
f CARRIAGE. glas front Landauiet cheap.
KJ OUILMARTIN A CO., Sale, Livery and
Boarding Stables.
TTOR HALE, a large and well selected stock of
F Wall Papers, in all grade*, styles and pat
terns. Prices ranging from 10 cents a roll up
to the highest price. Am prepared to hang
papers, have a full and competent set of men
for this clomh of work. Any one contemplating
papering their houses, rooms, or room, would
Arid it to their interest, and also have tbeir
tastes gratified, by selecting from my stock.
ANDREW HANLEY.
FORSALE
I .''OR SALE, the two chemical laboratories of
the late Wni. Pringle Frost, in
and Savannah; ala * a valuable collection of
phosphate frasi!* and other mineral*. Apply to
F. L FROBT. ad mimstrator. charleston, S. C.
IT'OU SALE. California Claret in small kegs
i also incases. All kinds of imported and
domestic Wine* and Liquors from f 1 per gallon
up to $lO. M. LAViN’S ESTATE, 45 East Broad
6treet.
AVAGONET, carries 9 passenger*, just the
▼ A thing for beach and picnic pa. tint. UUIL
MARTIN & CO.. Btables.
HARNF.SS— bnggy harness in good order
GUILM ARTIN A CO., Saie, I.ivory and
Boarding Stable*.
A \ FOR fo t rubber hose with nozzle
I */•> and couplings. KEIDLIKGER
RABUN
/ \LI NEWSPAPERS—2OJ for v!5 cents—a*
A " Business Office Morning News.
LOST.
IOST, Sat unlay, a white poodle puppy. Re
-J ward paid if left at 155 Perry street'
I>UPPY L< >ST. a rod Ir.sh setter p ip: v with
white face, and about three months old.
Return to 175 Bolton treel and be rewarded.
IOST, pug dog; answers name of 8pot; lil>-
J ora) regard by returning him to JULIUS
KAUFMAN
BOAIDIIB,
Y r OU can get good b ard. with or without
I rooms, at 13 Habersham street.
\\f ANm>, couple to board; large, pleasant
▼ ▼ room, nicely furnished. 200 South Broad.
MISCELLANEOUS.
I7OR PAPER H ANGING it. all of its branches
I see J. H. GRAWF* >UI>, *2 H Liberty street,
or at LINDSAY A MORGAN’S, Broughton aud
Barnard.
/ \LD NEWSPAPERS 200 for 26 cents at
A f Business Office Morning News
r BEAUTIFUL ROSES and other flower*
> brought in daily to Strong's Drug Store;
handsome floral work to order. GEORGE
WAGNER, relephone 158
\ r OU will find a great variety of stork at our
I store, hut in every case the quality will
warrant the price, M. LA YIN'S ESTATE.
I> EF“ORE you buy or sou property consult
> ROBERT H. TAT KM, Real Estate Dealer
and Auctioneer.
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CLOTHING.
Cflr>VKiS M i / 1
IX'C
hesitation
Perhaps it may be true that the man who
liesilates is lost, hut we <lon t believe It.
Don't he in too much o£ a hurry unless you
want to ho sorry for It. lie sure you are
right anil then go ahead, for it Is the hasty
man who makes the most mistakes. There
are times, however, When it is easy enough
to niako up your mind. Somo things re
quire a good ileal of study; others can be
Roen at a glance. The figures wo are now
quoting for our Clothing tell their own
story and don’t require ouy deliberation.
Look at our prices before you make your
purchase; don't Jump at conclusions. If you
buy of "THU FAMOUS” you wili get good
Clothing anil save money. Kememberne
are not used to charging fancy prices, but
you can always depend to get tne most for
your money at
“II FAUX"
CLOTHING HOUSE,
148 BROUOHTON BTKEET, SAVANNAH, GA.
BENNETTHYMES.
HOTELS,
THE
DE SOTO,
SAVANNAH, GA.
On) of th© most elegantly appointed hot©!*
In tho world.
Accomodations lor 500
(jriiestts.
OPEN ALL YEAR.
WATSON & POWERS.
THE MARSHALL
By req:;esf of mv numerous patrons I will
from this date on conduct
THE MARSHALL
on both the American ami European methods.
RATEB: fr* 50 and upward per day,
EUROPEAN RATES. Rooms 50 cent*, 75
cents, Si 00 per person.
H. N. FISH, Proprietor.
PULASKI HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, GA,
Management strictly flrst-chua
Bttnatod In the business canter,
L. W. 300 VILLA
THE MORRISON HOUSE
Cl ENT RALLY LOCATED on line of street
J cars, offers pleasant south rooms, with ex
cellent board. Now baths, seweraye and venti
lation perfect, tbe sanitary condition of the
bouse is of the best.
Con. Broughton and Dravton 8 r rusts,
rum AND UX*X£RSk
ESTABLISHED 1881
M. M. Sullivan & Son,
Wfaoiesals Fish and Oyster Deaiari,
ISO Bryan st. and ISS Bay lona Savannah, Go.
Fish orders for Punta Garda received Bert
h*v proaupt MtoolAua.
AUCTION 5A1.29 TO-DAY.
J. J. OPPENHEIM, Auctioneer,
Will sell THIS DAY' at 10:30 o'clock,at hi* saleflt
rooms, corner Bryan and Y/hitaker street*,
•
Furniture, consisting of Marble-top Cental
Tables. B*detea ?*. Mattresses, Feather Pillows,
Springs, Matting new and second-hand—one
Parlor Set, Cooking Stoves. Ranges, Gas
Stoves, Cnairfl, Extension Tables, Safes; also
Groceries, consisting oi Hams. Shoul iers. Can
Peaches, Tobacco smoking and chewing
C gars. Allspice, Black Pepper, Barley, Scales,
Toilet one lot Hardware These good*
must t* §<>id to make room for others.
AU; riox SALES FUTURE DATS
Furniture at Auction.
parlor, dining and bed-room—desks.
MIRRORS aud RATTAN FURNITURE.
C. H. DORSETT. Auctioneer.
Will Bidl on TI’ESDW, 21st in3t.. at No. 161
Jones, between Barnard aud Tattnall, com*
me.icing at 11 a. m.,
The FURNITURE belonging to a family
about leaving the city, and confuting of FINE
PARLOR SKI'. MIRK RS. TABLE. RUGB,
RATTAN SETTEE AND CHAIRS. CHERRY
TABLES. BRIC-A-BRaC. CABINET. LARGrt
CENTER Ri GB, SCREENS, SHALL BUREAU*
ROLLER TOP DKftK, WARDROBES, COL
ORED GAS GLOBES. MIRRORS, POR
TIERES AND RODS, PIANO LAMP, BED
STEADS. CARPETING, SPRING MATTRESS,
BUREAUS. AN ELEGANT WALNUT BED
ROOM SF.T. Bit ESS FENDER AND AND
IRONS. LEATHER UPHOLSTERED ADJUST
ABLE CHAIR. LADY'S DESK. COT, MAT
ting, twelve cherry diningroom
CHAIRS. CtIKRRt EXTENSION DINING
TABLE' CROCKERY. SIDEBOARD. TABLE,
CHINA. GLASSWARE. SILVERWARE. FLY
KAN, WINDOW SHADE*. GAS- )LLNK STOVE.
LEGAL noth l>.
/'NEORGIA* 1 ia THAI vvhereas,
* * POMPttY BU TLEK haw applied to Court of
Ordinary for letters of Administration on the
estate of EYE CAMPBELL, decerned
Those arc, therefore, to cite and admonish all
whom it may concern to lim and uppoar before
said court, to make object ion (if any they have)
on or before the FIRST MONDAY IN' MAY
NEXT, other wise said letters will be
granted.
Witness, tho Honorable Hampton L. Ffrrill*
Ordinary for Chatham comity, this the 4th
day of April, lttwi.
FRANK K. KEILBACH.
Clerk U. 0., C. O.
N >TK’E TO Di C. >R ; AND CREDI TOM.
l GEORGIA, <‘Hatt? 4 * County.—-Notice Is
" I hereby given to all pasties huving dr*
mands against HA UAH S. SULLIVAN, late of
Haul county, now drerased, to ir”Bnt them to
the undersigned properly made out, within the
time prescribrd by law. ho a*s to show their
character and amount; and all ia*
a- bted to said deceased ar<* her*by required to
make immoduue payment to me,
JAMES SULLIVAN,
Administrator Estate of Sarah Swau Sullivan,
deoeased.
Savaknaii, April llth, ISOI.
APPLICATION FOR OYSTER LEASE.
\ f OTICK D hereby given that tbe OEMLER
i ? OYSTER COMPANY lias applied to the
County CommiHHipncrH < f Chatham county,
under the terms of the statute, for a lease of
tnree hundred and fifty-seven and thlrty-llvo
huudredtha aor.\s of oyster bottom iu the
county of Chatham, state of Georgia, described
a* follows: Beginning at a buoy in Wilmington
river, about 3,00) feet below the mouth of Tur
ner'H cieekssaid buoy tieing l.oOOfeet from low
water murk on either side, and at a point where
the river widens to 2,000 feet between low water
marks on opposite siiorew; thence southerly by
various courses and parallel with low water
line on the at side or MAid river 4,22) feet to a
buoy; thencosouthwesterly by vanou* courses
and parallel with low water lino on tb east Hide
of aaid river 7,400 feet to a buoy; thence south
easterly by varhius courses and jiualUd with
low water line on the want Hids of said river
1,310 feet t<> a buoy; thence soutnousterly by
various courses ami parallel with lw water
lino on the east side of said river 7, DO feit to
a buoy: (henoe south 27 oo*t 640 feet to a buoy;
iheneo north westerly by various courses and
parallel with low water line on tho west side of
said river 7,300 feet to a buoy; thence north
westerly by various courses and parallnl with
low watnr lino on tho west side of Maid river
4.HN) feet to a buoy; thence noth easterly by
various courseK and parallel with the west side
of said river 7,800 foot to a buoy; thenco north*
orly by various courses and parallel with the
low water lino on tho west side of sal 1 river
4,160 foot to the point of beginning; sail land*
opposite Wilmington Island and between
Wilmington aud Hkidaway Islaixdtt.
1 ■■ 1 i"m
OIL MILLS.
Cotton Seod Oil Mills.
We are making varloun else*, from !i to
30 tone per day capacity. Our rnlllß em
brace all tne modern Improvements in ma
chinery and will give ths bent rrifeultH. Wo
will erect the mills and turn them overcom
ploteund guarantee thrdr capacity.
Hydraulic Cotton Presses
HIM PLE, COM PAC T and very POW
ERFUL? worked either by Hand or
Steam Power. Not liable to get out of
order, and are very durable.
THEY ARE THE BEST COTTON PRESSES MADE,
The Cardwell Machine Go.,
RICHMOND, VA.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
SEED PEASE7
CORN, OATS, HAY,
BRAN,
Cotton Seed Meal
T. J. DAVIS,
1,56 Bay Street.
Solo Agents for Orsor’s Manhattan Stock
Food.
PORTUAND CEMENT.
All Builders' Supplies.
RIVEK BAND, Portland Cement, Koeendal
Cement, Rockland Lime. Georgia Lime, all
styles Hrick, Calcined Plaster, Nassau Fibre,
Roofing Paint, Roofing Paper.
Orders filled promptly In carload lota and InM
at lowest prices. GEOROE SCHLEY,
Telephone No. 479. Broker. 138 Bryan Bt.
paints and oi us.
JOHN G. BUTLER,
WHITE LEADS, COLORS, OILS, GLASS,
VARNISH, ETC.: READY MIX‘,O
PAINTS: RAILROAD, STEAMER AND MILL
SUPPLIES; BASHE , DOORS, BLINDS ANB
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE. Sole Ag-ot tot
LADD LIME, CALCINED PLASTER, CEMEX'S,
HAIR AND LAND PLASTER.
UtOaagreas atreet nod 189 St Julian MNSA
Savannah. Goorsfia
i it i ——Mi
NURSERY. •
KIESLING'S NURSERY,"
WHITE BL.LTF’F ROAD.
IJLANTH, Bouquet*, Designs, Cut Flowaiw
furnished to order. Lear* orders at DaVLS
BKOB.’, cor. Bull and York sts. Che Belt Rail
way passes through tbe nursery, '1 elephonaZtO
INSURANCE
CAH ARLES F. PRENDEROABT
j itiucoeasor to R. H. Footoaj* H Co.J
FIRE, MARINE AND STORM ITERANCE,
108 BAY STREET,
[Next Weat of tha Cotton Exchanged
Talaphona Coll No. 31 SaTonnah, Go,
WEDOI.VUe.~~
Wedding Invitations and cards printed or ea
grareu at the shortest notice and in the latest
tylea. W e carry an extensive and well selected
stock of fine papers, envelopes and cards ee
peciaily for such orders. Samples sent on ap-
Sllcation, Motuttso Nsws Printing House
aroanah, Ua.
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