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Alluding to the disposition in certain
quarters to attack President Garfield 8
memory, the Boston Herald (Ind.) asks:
“Are there no lire men to fight, that the
valiant, anonymous stalwarts must throw
stones at an honored tomb'
Gorham’s paper, the Washington Re
publican, remarks “that if Bourbonism
could catch a prophetic view of itself as
it will appear in the light of history, it
would die of disgust.” Thereupon an
exchange remarks “if Gorham could
catch an actual view of himself at the
present time, as the decent portion of
the public regard him, he would hang
himself to the most convenient projec
tion.”
As everything, even Chinese, seem to
flourish in California, it is proposed to
hereafter devote considerable attention
to the culture of cotton in the southern
portion of the State. Efforts made down
about Los Angeles have proven en
couraging, and from Keen county
ninety-six bales have recently been
shipped to San Francisco, the staple of
which is pronounced of superior quality.
Jute is also another industry from which
the Californians expect to realize much.
In a recent interview with a Herald
correspondent, Hon. Alexander H. Ste
phens reiterates his intention of retiring
permanently from public life at the close
of his present Congressional term. His
reason for thi9 he states to be that his
declining health and physical debility
render it proper that one more capable
of performing the duties of the position
should take his place. He still announces
that he Is a Democrat of the Jeffersonian
stripe, however, and in that faith he pro
poses to live and die.
Mahone’s independent repudiating fac
tion in Virginia is fast dropping to pieces
of its own accord. Massey’s defection
was a serious blow to the mongrel or
ganization, and a few days ago Senator
Robert Bolling Wilcox, Readjuster from
Prince George county, openly announced
in a speech his intention of henceforth
supporting the “National Republican
party.” Hts declaration created a gen
uine sensation. The Democrats were
delighted that he took the stand, as they
believe that other Readjustee will
speedily follow suit, and the people will
soon get their eyes fully opened to the
fact that repudiation, readjustment and
Republicanism in \ irginia are synony
mous terms.
An expert in the process of manufac
turmg woolen dress goods attributes the
dullness of the trade in them to the mer
cenary designs of manufacturers who,
having once secured reputation for their
productions, impose, for the sake of
realizing larger profits, inferior articles
under the approved marks or brands
upon the market. This has disgusted,
and not infrequently ruined buyers, who
trusted in the reputation of manufactur
ers for the genuineness of their supplies
and were cheated. Incompetent man
agement of manufacturing establish
merits, in the matter of tbeir productive
details, and the false economy which
prefers cheap, unskilled labor, are also
believed to have had their shares m de
pressing the woolen dress goods trade.
Commenting on the address of the
Georgia Independents recently issued to
the voters of this State, the Boston
Advertiser says that the said Independ
ents enunciate many principles which
commend themselves to Republicans*
Among them is cited that plank of the
platform which favors the “honorable
payment of all honorable debts, both pub
lic and private.” We don’t see how
any such principle as this can be com
mended by the Republicans. Mahone
in Virginia enunciated exactly the con
trary doctrine, and the Federal admin
istration and the Republicans of the
whole country indorsed him. It is,
therefore, impossible for them now,with
consistency, to go back on their record
and indorse honesty. No man or party
which blows hot and cold out of the
pgmT uuuutb Ww tvuotc<i.
The English army estimates have just
been issued, and contain some interest
ing figures bearing upon the military
expenditures of Great Britain. The in
crease of expense during the year
has been |1,575,000. The effective
strength of the regular army remains
about the same, the number standing at
132,905 against 134,060. The pay and
allowances-for the regular force are
$22,230,000. Divine service in the army
costs $269,000; the administration of
military law, $186,000; and the medical
establishment, $1,505,000. The cost of
the auxiliary and reserve forces for the
year will be $6,783,000. The salaries
anrl miscellaneous charges at the War
Office foot up $1,191,000. A sum of
$1,000,000 for military manoeuvres is
alan included, and many of the English
papers are recommending that this sum
shall be still further increased, so that
mana uvres may be set on foot like those
oa the Continent. It is also shown by
the estimates that while something like
20,000 men are discharged annually the
reserve is only strengthened by one-tenth
that Dumber.
The new pooling arrangement of the
five trunk line railroads is regarded as
rather a fragile compact as it stands,
notwithstanding the attempt to give it
strength by a deposit of money to be for
feited in case it is broken within five
years. It seems that it is thus far only
an agreement for a pooling arrangement,
the terms of which are not settled, and
which, moreover, is to be void if the de
cision of the Advisory Commission on
[ the differential rates question is not ac
cepted. The New York papers are evi
' dently looking upon it with suspicion,
and already it is being asked if it goes
into effect and it should become greatiy
to the interest of one line or another to
violate its terms, how great would be
the deterrent force of a forfeiture of
$150,000, more or less? If there should
be a dispute as to who was re
* sponsible for the violation, as there
was in the case of the last pooling
agreement, how would the question of
responsibility be settled? The agreement
f provides not only for a distribution of
traffic on a basis yet to be settled, but an
'adherence to rates not yet definitely
f T d Suppose the competing power of
the Erie canal should be materially in
■creaaed or anew through line of railroad
“f ro m New York to Chicago should be
*,successfully established, or from any
or combination of causes there
I jjjould be a strong tendency of business
i 0 jf cw York in preference to the other
t ermini, could the Erie and Central
i toad* hold to the agreement without m
tay to their interest*, and would they
.old to it if their interests suffered?
Peee various suppositions it is
tiat the railway troubles of the
|irv are not considered as
|M n. Wholly and finally settled
Legislating Against “Corners.”
The New York Legislature is trying
the experiment of preventing “corners
in grain and other articles of prime ne
cessity, by making all speculation of
that kind unlawful under severe penal
ties. It is argued in defense of a law of
this character that a “corner” in any
article of food, cbthing, or anything
which is a necessary of life, is particu
larly to be condemned, for when the
price of & commodity is artificially en
hanced by this means, it is not the dealer
or speculator who is “long” in the arti
cle who alone suffers, but every con
sumer who, in this way, is forced to
pay exorbitant prices for his purchases,
more or less suffers also.
There is no doubt that in this reason
ing there is much of truth, and, as a gen
eral rule, “corners” are to be depre
cated. But the great question is, can
they be prevented by law? A corner is
created by a man or set of men who
have the means of buying largely of the
article in which they desire to speculate,
and holding it until a scarcity is created
in the market, and the price, on that ac
count, advances. This, it is clear, every
man has a perfect right to do if he pays
for what he purchases, and we cannot
see how any law can restrain such opera
tions.
“Corners,” like everything el9e, must
be governed by demand and supply, and
the only restrictions which can be sue
cessfully thrown around them must be
the natural laws which govern trade.
As an exchange well says, men
will buy cheap and sell dear, will
regulate their operations in the market
according to the varying conditions of
competition and the law of supply and de
mand, no matter what may or not be
“enacted'to the contrary; but where
there are “bulls” there are also “bears,
and in the ups and downs which these
two classes give to the market hoofs as
well as paws get crushed. Legislators
may go on proposing laws for the cor
rection of. all such abuses as "corners,”
and now and then 6ome of their ideas
will get on the statute books; but to en
force them would be as impracticable as
it would be to enforce a decree that
money shall be plenty or scarce.
Gas Still Holding Its Ground
One need not be astonished at anything
these days, for we have scarce time to
recover from the surprise of one inven
tion before another equally as startling
is heralded forth. It was only a little
while ago that gas stock received a “black
eye” from electricity, and predictions
were numerous that its days were num
bered as an illuminant, but now we find
these stocks rapidly regaining their for
mer values from the introduction of
new processes and wider fields for con
sumption. The latest we notice is the
following from a recent issue of the Oil
and Drug Eeirs, of New York:
“The Equitable Gas Company has
been incorporated in this State with a
capital of $2,000,000. It is proposed to
manufacture gas under the' new patents
of the late Jessie Du Molay. The pro
cess extracts the hydrogen from water,
enriches it with naphtha, and it can be
so enriched that a light of fifty-candle
power is attainable. The cost, it is said,
will be less than $1 50 per thousand feet.
Besides giving this light, the company
proposes to run a main alongside of the
gas pipes, which will conduct gas of less
purity for the purposes of heating and
cooking. The invention, it is claimtd,
will create a complete revolution in arti
ficial lights. Experiments which have
been made at the water gas works of the
Municipal Company, in this city, have
been,successful. It is probable that the
Fulton Municipal Company, of Brook
lyn, which is also making water gas,
will commence the manufacture of the
illuminant under the new process.”
We notice that at an Art Loan Exhi
bition recently held in Memphis, a paint
ing by Captain C. Miles Collier, at pres
ent of that city, entitled “Silence,” at
traded a great deal of attention. The
Appeal says of it that “it is one of the most
expressive and telling bits of still-life
portrayal on the walls. No living thing
—man, beast, or fowl —disturbs the dead
silence; and the waveless sea seems as
though its sheen had never been broken
by leaping fish or darting gull. A strand
ed hulk, battered into picturesque ruin
by the warring elements, has been at last
driven upon a stranded beach, where the
rage of the conquerer bas been stilled
and the endurance of the victim comes to
an end. As Mr. 5. A. Coale, Jr., of St.
Louis, Mo., an art student of more than
twenty five years experience, said: ‘lt
seems instinct with the tender grace of a
day that is dead, and many great paint
ers have died without having made so
great an epic.’ ”
Captain Collier is a Virginian by birth,
and was during the war stationed both
at Augusta and Co.umbus, in which
cities he has still many friends, who will
be glad to hear of his success as an artist.
His wife was a Miss Shackelford, of
Southwest Georgia, and this will add to
the interest with which Captain Collier’s
future career will be watched in this
State.
The reports to the State Department at
Washington show that in the year 1881
more iron vessels, both sailing and steam
craft, were built in Great Britain than in
any previous year of her history. The
Tyne sent out 123 vessels; the Wear, 88;
the Tees, 34; Hartlepool, 32: Blyth, 10;
Whitby, 5. In addition a large number
of vessels were built on the Clyde, at
Aberdeen and Dundee, on the Mersey
and the Barrow. The building for the
year foots up the enormous total of
889,531 tons. England is fast obtain
ing the ascendancy in the carrying trade.
At the close of 1880 she had 19,972
vessels, aggregating 6,344,577 tons. The
number of seamen employed was 192,-
972. Commenting on these statistics, the
New York Herald is led to remark: “If
there is any statesmanship left at Wash
ington these figures should arouse atten
tion at once to the humiliating condition
of our carrying trade. A large portion
of these vessels are engaged in trans
porting American goods. The profits
all go into British pockets. It is estima
ted that we spend more than one hun
dred million dollars a year in this way.
Is not that a little too much to pay
foreigners for the benefit of Mr. Roach
and his ‘infant industry?’ ”
The experiment of female suffrage, in
Vermont, bas been-* failure. The last
Legislature enacted a law conferring
upon women who paid individual taxes
the right of voting for School Superin
tei dents and other school officers, and
making them eligible for such offices.
The first year (1881) a few voted for
school officers, but this year only five
voted for School Commissioner m Bur*
lington, and at no other place in the State
did any woman avail herself of the privi
lege, thus indicating that Vermont
women are not anxious for the elective
franchise. A&to their office-holding, only
fifteen towns in all chose women super
intendents of schools. The Legislature
also passed a law enabling women to
hold the office of Town Clerk, but only
two towns in Franklin county, and the
city of Vergennes, the oldest and smallest
city in Vermont, have chosen women to
these offices.
GENERAL NOTES.
A man In Knox county, Me., who wanted
to vote against a projected high school,
wrote his ballot “Know.”
Ex-Congressman John T. Wilson has pre
sented Adams county, Ohio, with $50,000
for the foundation of a Children’s Home.
The ancient town of Fredericksburg, \ a.,
allowed the centennial of Its incorporation
to pass Saturday without public celebra
tion.
George Blggerstaff, of Glasgow, Ky., hav
ing lost an eve in an election day row In
November, 1830, sued his assailant for $20,-
000, and a jury has just given him $1,500.
It Is now urged against the anti-polygamy
bill that “the granting of Sheriffs and In
spectors of elections what is virtually an
arbitrary power of disfranchisement will
fall to serve the purpose which the author
of the bill meant It to serve.”
An aged man applied at an express office
In Chicago to be sent In a box to Boston
He had made a box with sla‘s on the side,
and found that, with himself and his food,
it would weigh two hundred pounds, on
which the charge to Boston and back would
be ten dollars. When told that his plan for
cheaply visiting his family was impracticable
he wept and pleaded piteously.
Twoconvlcts In the California State prison
took delight in torturing a timid fellow
whose cell was between their own, by pre
tending at night that they saw ghosts. They
talked to each other about It, describing the
most awful sights, and counterfeiting ex
cessive fright. A week or two of this treat
ment drove the victim crazy, and he imag
ined that he was hannted by the creatures
which they conjured up.
The funeral of the Comtesse de Montali
vet, the widow of the well known minister
under King Louis Philippe, took place on
March 6 at the Church of 8t Philippe du
Rou!e, Paris. The ladv, who was seventy
seven years of age, died on th previous
Saturday evening, at the house of her son
ln law, Guvot de Vllleneuve. She leaves
four daughters, all married.
The Connecticut House of Representatives
recently rejected a bill exempting from tax
ation $l,OOO worth of property of veteran
soldiers, sailors and marines. The chief ar
gument against It was that, while the bill
would benefit hundreds of soldiers who had
property, It would be of no use whatever to
equally worthy veterans who were not so
fortunate as to own any property which
could be taxed.
Probably the most useful Invention of the
late Zacharia Allen, of Providence, R. I,
who died Saturday, was the automatic cut
off value for steam engines, which was
patented In 1833, and is still employed, with
some improvements. In 1821 he constructed
the first furnace for the heating of dwelling
houses. A system of mutual Insurance for
mill property was his invention, and he
framed laws for the regulation of the sale
of explosive oils.
To the painful mystery of the death of
the I'aliau Minister to Mexico, Count Jou
annl, Is added the Inexplicable delay in for
warding the news from the City of Mexico.
The death, which is said to have been self
iLfliefed and brought about by excessive
brooding over financial losses, happened on
the 2d, but the first Intimation of It comes
from the City of Mexico on the 24th. It
has a suspicious appearance of foul play as
It stands, and will bear clearing up.
The statement of General Robert E. Lee’s
friends that Mr. Lincoln once offered him
the command of the armies of the United
3tates has been questioned repeatedly, but
the fact Is reasserted in tbe Philadelphia
Weekly Times by the Rev. Dr J. William
Jones, Secretary of the Southern Historical
Society. Dr. Jones produces a copy o f a
letter written by General Lee, wherein the
latter explains how the command was
offered him.
The Springfield (111.) Register of the 19:h
Inst, says that a few days ago Mrs. Mary
Rolla, a sprightly old lady of elghty-two,
residing a few miles south of Lincoln, in
that State, fell from a veranda, striking on
her face. The stem of a clay pipe, which
she was smoking at the time, was forced
through her tongue ard nearly to the sur
face below the jaw, iAiding a very serious
Injury. She received other bruises in the
fall, but, notwithstanding her advanced
age, she is considered not to be fatally in
jured.”
“General Grant signed,” r.-.s an ex
change, “unconstitutionally, a doubling
his salary for the period for wr.eh he had
been elected in 1872, and giving him one
hundred thousand dollars in clear money
by his own official act. This bill was passed
and signed after his second election. The
one hundred thousand dollars given to him
was the consideration which secured the
Ex*cntive approval of the Increase of pay,
and of the back pay, which tbe Congress
men had given to themselves.”
The Paris correspondent of the Philadel
phia Telegraph, writing on March 9, says :
“The typhoid fever is very prevalent In
Paris now. One of Its latest victims Is the
beautiful Mrs. Mitford, daughter of the late
Horace Clark, of New York, and grand
daughter of the late Commodore Vander
bilt. Her charms and her diamonds have
rendered her a noted per*onage In the
Parisisn world for some years p't. I am
told that she fainted at tbe opera a week
ago, that she was carried home insensible,
and that her pbric!ans now pronounce her
to be In Imminent danger.”
Some thirty years ago Mr. Green, r.n
amiable Englishman, seeing a rather shabby
old man looking for a seat In church,
opened his pew door, beckoned to him, and
placed him in a comfortable corner, with
prayer and hymn books. The old gentle
man, who carefully noted the names in these
latter, expressed his thanks warmly at the
close of the services. Time had effaced tbe
incident from Mr. Green’s recollection,
when he one day received an intimation
that by tbe death of a gentleman named
Wilkinson he bad become entitled to s3o,
000 a year. Mr. Wilkinson was a solitary
old man, without relatives.
There are signs of revival In the whaling
business. Sperm oil, which stood at 80
cents a gallon a year ago, is now worth
$1 07, with prospects of a still farther rise.
The stock on hand in this country on Janu
ary 4. 1882, was about 16,500 barrels, against
27,500 at tbe same time the previous year,
and in Europe 3,500, against 6,500 barrels a
rear ago, showing a total reduction of
17,000 barrels In stock at home and abroad
as compared with last year. These facts
have greatly encouraged owners of whaling
vessels, who will likeiy return to the arctic
trade seme of tbeir ships that have in past
years been withdrawn from that Interest and
either Did up Id deck or engaged in other
lines ofcommerce.
The defacement of tbe Andre monument
at Tarrytown has been followed by a myste
rious mutilation of the statue of tbe soldier
on guard surmounting the monument erect
ed by the Seventh Regiment to the memory
of the fifty-eight of its members who lost
their lives during the civil war. Tbe statue
was erected In 1874 at a cost of $45,000, and
is one of the most conspicuous adornments
of the Central Park. The mutilation is sup
posed to be the work of thieves. The bronze
sword, hilts, scabbards and 6prigs of laurel
fastened to four bronze shields on the sides
of the pedestal have all been torn off. The
regiment, it is said, will offer a reward for
the apprehension of the guilty party or par
ties. The time of the defacement or mutila
tion Is uncertain, but it is thought to have
been early on Wednesday morning.
Advocates of the franking privilege say
that “the postal service is Intended for the
public,” and that therefore “there Is neither
sense nor reason tn compelling members of
Congrees to pay postsge on thousands of
letters to tbeir constituents in answer to in
quiries.” Tbe answer to this is that it is as
much the business of a member of Congress
to answer the inquiries of his constituents
as it is that of a merchant to send out cir
culars and answer the letters of his corre
spondents. It is all In the line of business,
and if one has the right to send his mall
matter free the other 1* equally entitled to
the privilege. The talk about one being a
public and the o’hsr a private interest is all
bosh. Running for Congress is a business
occupation as much as practicing law,carry
ing on a store, or running a factory, and
should be put upon precisely tbe same foot
ing as those pursuits.
Anna Dickinson has been making a horri
ble failure as “Hamlet” in New York. A
critic says of her: “She began to speak in a
shrill voice that became a shriek when she
attempted to express anger, a whine when
sollloqa’zing, a scream in conversation, and
a cracked, stilted, wbane doodle croak when
trying to talk in heavy tones. It was impos
sible to sit still under that voice. She fre
quently forgot her lines and gave wrong
cues with great fecundity. Her killing of
‘Pclonius’ will never be forgotten. How
she seized the sword as though it was load
ed with dynamite, went through a sort of
Incipient Indian club exercise, and then
gently touched the end of the weapon to
tbe curtain as though avoiding any chance
of hurting the man she was supposed to be
killing, can never be explained. Bhe ranted
and panted like an old maid in ‘a slate of
mind,’ until there was only a few people
left in a bouse that was a sea of empty
benches.”
Mr. Clifford F. Hudson, of Elmira, N. TANARUS.,
says : “My aged mother suffered greatly
from poor digestion and general debility.
Bbe was always complaining of her liver,
and her bowels often pained her greatly.
She was very weak. I bought her a bottle
of Brown’s Iron Bitters, and she says: ‘lt
goes right to the spot, Clifford.’ She has
greatly Improved since using this excellent
mocUciiii.”
Hon. George R. Black.
We are permitted to publish the sub
joined letter, received by a gentleman of
this city yesterday, from Mrs. George R.
Black, giving late and reliable informa
tion of her husband’s condition. It
will be read with much interest by that
gentleman’s many friends:
“Washington, March 25, 1882.
“Mr. :
“Deak Sir—Your letter of kindly
sympathy has been received, and I thank
you for your thoughtfulness in writing.
Every one has done all that we could
ask, and I feel very grateful for the love
manifested towards my husband on all
sides.
“Contrary to the expectations of all
his physicians his life has been spared.
Being a perfectly temperate man his
system yielded immediately to the medi
cines used. But for that fact, under
God’s mercy, he could not have lived.
“Now he is doing nicely, and is more
comfortable than since the beginning of
his attack, but the return of his muscu
lar power is very slow, and of course our
hopes are mingled with fears.
“With many thanks for your sympa
thy, I remain, yours very truly,
“Mrs. Georg* R. Black.”
IN HEMOKIAM.
Colonel William T. Thompson.
Philadelphia Record.
The death of William Tappan Thompson,
the founder and editor of the Savannah News.
takes from the ranks of the profession one of
the most genial gentlemen in it. He was born
in Ohio in 1812. one of the first white children
in the Western Reserve. His father was a Vir
ginian. and his mother the daughter of an
Irish patriot., who found <-la id too hot for
him after the rebeUion of The boy and the
man gave token of his breeding He was tbe
soul of honor and humor. We think his "Ma
jor Jones’ Courtship” as sterling a piece of
humorous writing as ever came from tbe pen
of any native author. His ripe age made him
a not unfit victim for the universal slaver of
men, but none the less we are grieved. We
shall not see his like again.
Griffin Sun
Colonel W. T Thompson, editor of the Sa
vanah News, died at his home in Savannah
Friday evening, at half-past eight o’clock, after
a long illness.
He was born in Ohio in 1612. and was nearly
seventy years old at the time of his death. As
an editor he was well known throughout Geor
yria and the South He was one of the found
' ers of the Savannah Morning News in 1850, and
has since then heen connected with the paper
as its editor. He was an author of considera
ble fame, his chief production being “Major
Jones’ Courtship,” a work known in every
State of the Union, as well as in foreign coun
tries. He has several other works more or less
known to fame. Asa political writer he was
known and appreciated, and one of the
strongest supporters tha Democratic party
ever had. The press of the State will miss
him. He was a great man and a good one.
Rome Courier.
We regret to learn from a Savannah dispatch
that Col. W. T. Thompson, the veteran and able
editor of the Morning News, died in that city on
Friday evening, after an illness of several
weeks. Colonel Thompson was the oldest edi
tor in the State, and had been longer connected
with the press than anv other editor in Georgia.
He made a fine reputation in his early years by
h ! s humorous productions—“ Maj ir Jones’
Courtship.” “The Chronicles of Pineville,” etc.
—but for many years past his labors had been
devoted to the sterner tasks of daily journal
ism. He has made his mark in the political
history of Georgia, and has gone to his rest
after a long life of usefulness and honor. He
was in the 70th year of his age.
Atlanta Constitution.
Accompnying the announcement of the
death of Colonel W. T. Thompson, editor of
the Savannah Working New*, printed in yes
terday’s Constitution, was a brief,’and, in some
respects, an inadequate biographical sketch
Sketches of this kind are interesting, as far as
they go. but bo sketch could do justice to the
charming indivk ualitv of Colonel Thompson,
which manifested only to his most in
timate friends. In politics his convictions
were so pronounced—his own mind was so
thoroughly made up—that he was apt to ex
press himself strongly, sometimes even bitter
lv. But his bitterness was the bitterness of
rhetoric merely. He was in earnest, and, in
these latter days, the quality of earnestness is
sometimes confused with prejudice. People
ho had occasion to test the temper of Colonel
Thompson's editorial pen concluded, as a gen
eral thing, that he wag full of bigotry and
narrow-mindedness. And yet it would be diffi
cult to find a simpler, sweeter nature than
that which was the chief characteristic of the
creator of' Major Jones.” Many of his traits
were as charminglv pastoral as those which
he has immortalized in the well known citizen
of Pineville. To sav that he was as simple as
a little child would not, in the minds of those
who are in the habit of preying upon tbeir
kind in tbe vast jungles of trade and commerce,
be paying him a very high compliment, and
yet the truth must be told. He was far sim
pler than a great many children of the pre
sent day, and this was not the least attractive
feature of his character. He was social, even
convivial, but those who found him social
were compelled to break down the barriers of
a remarkable diffidence. These barriers once
broken down, there was revealed a most
loveable nature.
The biographical sketch alluded to says that
Colonel Thompson held no civil office. He
was. if we are not mistaken, one of the ward
ens of the port of Savannah many years ago,
and was a member of the Constitutional Con
vention of 1577. He was not heard from on the
floor, but he was an nntiring worker in the
committee room, and he made his influence
felt in the interest of the strictest con
servatism. He was in favor of reforms,
both political and social, but be was opposed
to experiments in either direction.
Colonel Thompson always had a fondness for
the stage, and he was the depository of many
of its traditions He was the member of an
amateur company in Philadelphia which bad
the honor of calling public attention to Mr.
Forrest, and he was full of the most interest
ing reminiscences of those early days. H e
possessed the dramatic faculty in a very high
degree, and would have won fame and fortune
as a comedian. Circumstances, however, led
him in another direction, and if he did not
make a fortune he certainly made reputation
as an editor.
His most enduring fame, however, is based
on ‘‘Major Jones’ Courtship,” the only prose
pastoral in our literature, and one of the first,
if not the very first, contributions to a distinc
tive American lite-ature. Colonel Thompson
made little or nothing from the remarkable
success of this book, but the warm apprecia
tion of the public delighted his diffidence.
But these things are over for him. Death
came to him gently as death should come to
one so gentle: he has passed away, and the
pity of it is that life should know so few such
men.
Pinrral srattr.
, Apollinaris
“THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.”
British Medical Journal.
“ Exceptionally favoured. Pure
and agreeable. A great boon to con
tinental travellers:’ •
New York Medical Record.
ANNUAL SALE, 10 MILLIONS.
Of all Grocers, Druggists, and Min. Wat. Dealers.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
Saranack Mineral Spring Water
r T , HE only water which possesses all the virtue
J- of the Saratoga and imported waters.
Cures Constipation, Debility, Indigestion and
Kidney Diseases. For sale wholesale and re
tail at
OSCEOLA BUTLER’S.
FKESII GARDEN SEEDS
A FULL assortment at the lowest prices.
BEANS, CUCUMBERS, TOMATO EB,
EGO PLANTS, NUTMEG MELONS, CORN,
PURE RATTLESNAKE WATEHMELONB,
etc., etc. Parties purchasing in large quanti
ties will be offered special inducements.
J. GARDNER, Agent,
301$ Bull street
GENUINE RATTLESNAKE
WATERMELLON SEED.
Grown especially for us from purest and
choicest stock At wholesale.
G. M. HEIDT & CO.,
Corner Congress and Whitaker streets,
S
e
WAG-NBB-’S
f
w
Opposite Pulaski House*
FULL STOCK OF GARDEN SEEDS
AT WHOLESALE.
G. M. HEIDT & CO.
Cmnnpagnt.
MUMM! MUMM! MUMM!
JULES MUMM
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
See that the corka are branded JULES MUMM
& CO.
I OFFER to my customers, and the public in
general, these really superior Dry and Ex
tra Dry Wines at lowest prices. These reliable
champagnes need only a trial from connois
seurs to be appreciated.
DRINK THE WINE AND NOT THE LABEL I
O. 3EJ. STULTS,
BOLE AGENT FOB SAVANNAH, GA.
gntlfura Enatfltoi
(pLtiCUl^
tWolvet 11
SALT RHEUM,
Covering the Body for Ten Years, Resisting
all Methods of Treatment, Cured by
Cuticura Remedies.
Law Office of Chas. lloughton,
17 Congress St., Boston, Feb. 28,15T9.
I feel it a duty to inform you, and through you all
who are interested to know the fact, that a most
disagreeable and obstinate case of Salt Rheum or
Eczema, which has been under ray personal obser
yation from its first appearance to the present time,
about ten (10) years, covering the greater por
tion of the patient's body and limbs with its peculiar
irritating and itehing scab, and to which all the
known methods of treating such diseases had been
applied without benefit, has completely disappeared,
leaving a clean and healthy skin, under a lew days
of proftise application of Cuticura.
I can and do heartily advise all &iniil&r!v afflicted
to try the reinedv which has* Been ao effectual in
this case. Viry truly ROVQRTO^
VARICOSE ULCER.
Sores from the Knee to the Heel —An
Extraordinary Ca#e Cured by
Cuticura Remedies.
On the 23d of August. 1577,1 had the misfortune
of having my leg broken, in front of illiam
Sterna's dry-goods store, by a case of goods being
thrown on me. The bone was set by a physician ot
this place. Upon removing the splints, sores broke
out from my knee to the heel, and several physician*
called it varicose veins, and ordered me to wear
rubber stockings. After wearing out about $25
worth of different makes without any signs of cure,
I bought the Cuticura Remedies. Before half had
been used, I was astonished to see the sores heal up
one by one, and now not one sore is to be Been.
HENRY LA NDECKER, Dover, X. H.
Corroborated by Lothbofs £ ITnrham, Drug
gists, Dover, X. H.
ITCHING HUMOR.
Covering the Body, Skin Copper-Colored.
Intolerable Itching and Terrible
Humor Cured.
I have been afflicted with a troublesome ekin
disease, covering almost completely the upper part
oPmy body, causing my skin to assume a copper
colored hue. It could be rubbed off like dandruff’,
and at times causing intolerable itching and the most
intense suffering. I have used blood purifiers, pills,
and other advertised remedies, but experienced no
relief until I procured the Clticcp.a Remedies,
which, although used carelessly and irregularly,
cured me, allaying that terrible itching and restoring
my skin to its natural color. I am willing to make
affidavit to the truth of this statement.
6. G. BUXTON,
Milan, Mich.
CANKER
And Nursing Sore Mouth —The Sufferings
of a Mother.
No pen can describe what I suffered from a
Nursing Sore Mouth and Canker; none bnt a
mother who had it can possibly believe what it is,
and none but those who have used it can possibly
believe the efficiency of the Cuticcba Resolvent
in entirely curing it.
HATTIE J. FOSTER,
Cambridgeport, Mass.
CUTICURA RESOLVENT,
The New Blood Purifier,
And Cctictra and Cctictka Soap, the great Skin
Cures, will cure every species of Humor, from a
pimple to scrofhla. A!1 other remedies may be tried
and found wanting, but in the end the Ccticcra
Remedies must be used to effect a cure.
Ccticcra Remedies sold by all Druggists.
Principal Depot, \Veeks & Potter, Boston.
rnuvs.
ffilnEßS
(Sftalg: SitterS)
A FOOD ASD A MEDICINE,
The Purest, Safest and most Powerful Restorative
in Medicine for Feeble and Exhausted Consti
tutions, Nervous and General Debility,
Consumption and Wasting Diseases
et the Kidne>3 and Liver.
P SPARED without fermentation from Cana
dian Barley Malt :.:ui Fre-li Hop,combined
with Qcinine Bark, and warranted more Nour.
iahing, Strengthening, Vitalizing and Purifying,
bv reason of their richness in Bone and Fat Pro
ducing Material, than all other forms of mail or
medicine. One bottle of Malt Bitters equals in
nourishment fifty bottles of lager beer, ale or
porter, while free from the objections urged against
malt liquors, alcoholic “ tonics,” “ bitters,” etc.
MALT BITTERS bnild up anew the nervous,
osseous (bone) and muscular system. For
feeble digestion, sick headache, consti
pation, dyspepsia, bronchitis and deep-seated
coughs, consumption, weakness of the kidneys,
liver and urinary organs, emaciation, dropsy, men
tal, physical or nervous debility, delicate females,
nursing mothers, and the aged, and every form ot
decline, thev are truly marvellous.
Put up In German quarts and warranted gen
uine when signed by the Malt Bitters Company,
bold Everywhere. Malt Bitters to., Boston.
Gmttits M f rorisioos.
Bittere landeln
KARTOFFEL MEHL.
KOSCHER SAUSAGE.
KOSCHEB BEEF.
KOSCHER FAT.
PEANUTS.
RAISINS.
NICHOLAS LANG & BRO.
ITNU TEAS.
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FRESH
LOT OF FINE TEAB—both Green an t
Black—which we sire selling at prices from 50e.
to $1 40 per pound.
FRESH DEBBICATED COCOANUT VIOLET
PRUNEB in 2-pound jars.
CALIFORNIA APRICOTS in 3-pound cans.
CALIFORNIA PLUMS in 3-pouod cans.
PUKE OLIVE OIL.
MACK’S MILK CHOCOLATE.
F. L. GEORGE & CO.’S,
Corner State and Whitaker streets.
J W. SCHLEY, WM. BCHLEY,
Savannah, Ga. New York.
JAS. W. SCHLEY & CO.,
WHOLESALE DEAUEBB HI
Hay, Grain and Provisions,
172 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
GEORGIA AND CAROLINA RED RUBT
PROOF OATS.
YT7 E call the attention of our country friends
YV to our large and assorted stocks of
CORN, HAY. OATS, BRAN, BACON, FLOUR,
FEEDS. All orders will receive immediate
attention. Inquiries promptly answered.
(Easter (garfls,
HOLY LEMM BOOR
—AND—
EASTER CARDS
-AT-
J. G. POURNELLE’S,
1352 Broughton Street.
ilTicli
at
Estill’s News Depot,
No. 47 Bull Street.
BICE BEILIS.
Kentucky Rice Drills,
RUBBER TUBES AND REPAIRS.
For sale by
PALMER BROS.,
148 CONGRESS STREET, SAVANNAH.
fry gooflfl, at.
B. F. Men
Without advertising
special “opening days” I
am now making an ex
ceedingly elegant and at
tractive exhibition of
the most recent novel
ties, consisting in part or
BLACK Ai FANCY
MKIM
Foulard Silks, French
Ginghams, Illuminated
de Baiges,Checked Satins,
Laces,
EMBROIDERIES,
Dress Trimmings and
other goods of the best
styles and newest fash
ions.
As some of the most
elegant styles and de
signs cannot be duplica
ted, the advantage of an
early call is apparent.
B, F. McKEMI
Tin Gniliit Eilitii
mill ns!
EVER BHOWN IS ANY CITY SOUTH OF
NEW YORK WILL BE
OPENED on March 28,29 S 30,
—at—
JACOB COHEN’S,
152 BROUGHTON STREET.
Such a stock of goods was never before
brought to this city, and the prices marked in
plain figures will astonish all that will favor
us with a call. Respectfully,
JACOB COHEN
152 BROUGHTON BTREET.
liattr fitters.
PURE WATER
—is—
Conducive to Health,
IS THE BEST.
ALSO, A FEW
EeQzle’s Filters k Coolers
COMBINED.
FOR SALE AT
Store & Hardware House
—OF
(MICK HOPKINS,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
fliUUitnt (goofls.
LACE CAPS.
50, 50,50, 50, 50,
VARIETIES OF
CHILDRENS LACE CAPS!
—ALSO—
SUN BONNETS,
DRESSES, BIBS,
Sun Bonnets,
Fashionaole Millinery.
Zfifc Worsteds, Crewels
STAMPING TO ORDER.
MRS. POWER,
l6B BROUGHTON BTREET.
iurttttttrt, &r.
Where Shall I Go
TO GET
GREATBARGAINS
TO
SOUTHERN
Furniture House,
yy HERE you will And BEDROOM SUITS
and WINDOW SHADES, PARLOR BUITB,
MIRRORS and CHROMOS, CRADLES, CRIBS
and BABY CARRIAGES, BEDSTEADS and
MATTRESSES, KITCHEN FURNITURE,
BTOVES, HOLLOW WARE and TINWARE.
. HERMAN,
170 Broughton. Street.
lira € tSi.
HEADQUARTERS!
LACES I EMBROIDERIES!
CAMBRICS,
MULLS,
ICAUNTSOOKLS.
Plain, Figured & Dotted Swims
EMBROIDERY SILKS.
The Celehrated Lonsdale Caihrics
We offer at 12 l-2c. by tli© yard or piece.
■m
DAVID WEISBEIN & CO.
DRY ID FANCY GOODS.
OUT MAN BROS.
HAVE NOW IN STOCK A COMPLETE LINE OF
Persian Lawns. Checked Nainsooks. Plain Rwiss.
Victoria Lawns. Plain Nainsooks. Dotted Swiss.
Linen Lawns. Plain Nainsooks. Lace Piques.
India Linens. Soft Finished Cambrics. Assorted Piques
Which we offer at prices that cannot be equalled. The largest and finest assortment of
LADIES’ UNDERWEAR
IN THE CITY.
CHEMIBES from 40c. to $lO CO I NIGHT GOWNS from 85c. to $3 50
DRAWERS from 40c. to 175 CORSET COVERS from 50c. to 325
SKIRTS from 50c. to 600 | DRESSING SACQUES at 50c. and upwards.
SPECIAL NOTIC E We have THIS DAY redaced our “C. P. ALA SIRENE” CORSETS,
in white and colors, to $2 50 per pair.
NEW LACES. EMBROIDERIEB. HOSIERY. BUTTONS, JEWELRY, NECKWEAR, HAND
KERCHIEFS, BAGS, PARASOLS and GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS.
ptlUorrg aod m artftg <&oo<ts.
MONDAY & TUESDAY, April 3 and 4.
1 l ILTIAYER & CO.’S
OPEISTIISTG DAYS!
liprted Trimmed Hats & Bonnets
Our Millinery Department this season will be very elaborate
and comprise the largest variety of Shapes, Btrles and Colors
seen in the city in many years. High novelties in every depart
ment will be displayed. FANS, PARASOLS. Our favorite
brands of
KID MOTES! KID MOTES!
An elegant souvenir will he distributed on the occasion.
SFatrbfS. swrttjt, it.
1. L. DKSBOUILLONS,
JgWKLKR AKD DEALER IN
Waltham and Elgin "Watches,
FINE GOLD JEWELRY, DIAMONDS,
AGENT FOB THE PIONEEB WATCH.
BTEBLING SILVERWARE. TRIPLE-PLATED WARE.
FRENCH AND AMERICAN CLOCKS. GOLD-HEADED CANES.
BTAB SPECTACLES, OPERA HANDFACTURER OF FLORIDA
GLASSES. JEWELRY.
21 BVLL STREET. OPPOSITE SCREVEN HOUSE.
153 BAY ST. T. P. BOND. I 155 BAY ST.
9,090 Bushels Maryland White Corn.
CARGO SCHOONER HATTIE E. GILES.
500 bushels Clay and Speckled Peas, 15 cars Western White
Corn, 20 cars western Mixed Corn, 15 cars Western Mixed
Oats, 80,000 pounds Wheat Bran, Virginia and Tennessee
Peanuts, Apples. Onions, Florida Oranges, 100 sacks Real Irish
Potatoes, 2,000 bales Western and Northern Hay,
SAWS’Curth & Cos.
Jg gg ■ 811 to 819 North Second Street, St Louis, Mflk
PMMiMtanra o i *wj teeriptioß of Circular, Rill, and CWMCat Sawn Whohrti MfeStß
•■Mot *ml Leather Baltins, File., Mandrels. Cant Hooka, Saw Gnmnera, UfaMßt
Ml las u 4 Plaaias Mill Sapplies; Sol. Manufacturers of IstrkwMd’i PMMS HM
OmhrMaw. EVERY SAW WARRANTED. tVCarsful att atkm to repair ■■% ASMOTOT
TANITE EMERY WHEELS*^<SSSP
Oat Kmr lilusu itttxl Catnlogae mailed free on apf liciMMoa
frown.
Mdgetltnnd pay for tSa ndvertte^!;
TY7ANTED.-A young
* I penenoe in a country atari **•
situation in a dry goods or grocery *
glre good references as fo charact* r^? :
ty. Address J. F. H„ DavigboroTot and
yy r ANTED.-Young man (mArrt^dUTT~
' ’ , ope correspondent, manag(,,^>• number
ble of filling position of trust, dcßirL rV> Ii. c * p *-
Can give good reasons and refer^il Chi Dr.
C., this office. references, a. B.
WANTED. —We desire to establish .H
agency in Savannah or vieinitv .* eeoer !
the sale of a staple article of daily
tlon. Any energe’ic man with
may secure a permanent. h„^ pIUI
For particulars address GREE < WTcn u
FACTURING CO,, 48 VeseysTreeT
W ANTED, by a young ladv a
small children Kn'd take 'i
3"W2S? SSISr =g
WANTED by gentleman and
consisting of three or four room, r h
location, furnished or urfurnishM ( J2S?
Address of Moinl
WA - B p CHANAN m^
TIT ANTED, a good cook, at 9* Ba v stre ITT
? * Permanent place to a good man. 4
W public to know~that th*
TIT ANTED, consumers of wood to know thu
r * I keep on hand a Urge stock of o*g
PINE and UGHTWOOD, cut or in .tick Or
ders sent me by telephone, through boxes
teft at office, Taylor and East Broao streets
will be promptly filled. R. B, CASSELA
io r iSnrt.
TO PENT, several desirable rooms with or
1 without board, at 56 Barnard street Or.
leans square. s w
TTOR RENT. Store and Dwelling House cor.
1 ner Sims and Guerard streets.
FOR BENT, two suites of moßt desirable
W offices on Bryan street Apply to E F
NEUFVILLE, Real Estate and Insurant; I
Agent 2 Commercial Building.
F o ?jssss , 2fT£"sr-jr°go^
Market square. *“•
jfor iau.~
Cow, with young calf, CHEAP, at southeast
corner Bull and Charlton street lane.
Jj'Oß BALE, Manure by the load or by the
W. J, DONNELLY,
U'CRf ARE. 80 Lots at a bargain, on East
A Broad and near Anderson street. An
ply to R. B. REPP ARP. No. 70 Bay street.
'J'HE CALIGRAPH—THE MODEL TYPE
WRITER, writes one to twenty copies at one*,
in clear type, and THREE TIMES as fast as
person can write. Call and see the machine
at 61 Bay street, or address Lock Box 101.
Lots, building lots.—a few d^lc*
Building Lots for sale, south of Anderson
street, three minutes’ walk from Barnard
Street Railroad, by 8. F. KLINE,
KINDLINGS, OAK, PINE and
LIGH’I WOOD. For sale by
BAOOX A BROOKS,
Yost.
IOST. —The finder of the Macrema bag con
-J raining pair of Gold Spectacbs, adver
tised in yesterday’s Issue, will be rewarded by
leaving game at this office.
ggfggj.
SOUTH ROOMB and board can be had from
the Ist of April at 140 Liberty street.
flr, Walter,
CANCERS. Tumors, Malignant Ulcers, suc
cessfully treated. Changes for this class
$lO first month, $5 per month thereafter, be*
DR SALTER at Marshall House SATURDAY
NEXT.
Stxtti gailrcßS;
SCHEDULE.
8 up la nmxD ert’s Omc* 8., 8. 48. R U. 1
MONDAYS, TUESDAYS; THURSDAYS AND
FRIDAYS.
OUTWARD, I INWARD.
LEAVE j ARRIVE | LEAVE I LEAVE
6AVA.VNAH | SAYAJCtaH , ISLE HOPE. | MOSTGOH’T
6:25 r. u. I 5:38a.m.1 8:10 a, . | 1:88 m.
Monday morning early train for Montgom
ery only at 6:25 a. M.
WEDNESDAYS, SATURDAYS AND SUN-
DAYS.
LEAVE ARRIVE LEAVE ISLE LEAVE
BA YAKS AH. SAVAKXAH. OF HOPE. HOKTO'Bt.
10:25 A. M. B:SS a. K. 8:10 A. U. 7:35 A. u.
•3:25 P. H. 1:20 p. il 12:50 p. l 12:15 f. I.
6:52 P. M. 6:09 p. u. 5:38 p, M.I f:O3 P. Y.
•Sundays this is the last outward train.
Saturday nights last train 7:10. instead of 6:50.
EDW. J. THOMAS.
Superintendent.
fgatcmg, &t.
Waltham Watches
w
GOLD AND SILVER GASES.
' AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF
DIAMONDS, JENBtH
-AND
SILVERWARE,
the lowest possible price®, at
M. STERNBERG’S,
24 BARNARD STREET.
iron
Ptaii Iron WortK
We are now lan3in*five hundred tons superior
quality of
ENGLISH PIG lON
CARGO of bark Gna, of our own direct im
portation, and have also cn hand several
Choice Brands of Scotch and American PIG
IRON, all of which were purchased by us from
the producers for cash. We desire to call at
tention to our unsurpassed facilities for tne
manufacture of all descriptions of
IRON CASTINGS,
Sugar Mills and Pans,
ARCHITECTURAL IRON WORK OF ALL
KINDS, IRON RAILING, Etc., Etc.
WM. KEHGE & CO..
gAYASNAH,GA.
EimnoMi
—WILL—
Dje Worsted, Ribbons, Feathers, Etc.
Sc. EACH, 6 COLORS FOB 85c.
G.M. HEIDT & CO., Druggists,
Corner Congress and Whitaker streets.
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