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“ONLT A BISTER TO HIM.”
ROBERT J. BI KDETTF..
He lifted his face in the starlight dim.
And all that he saw was a round. dull sky;
And the stars that twinkled looked to him
Like the phosphor gleams of toe tire-fly.
The new moon hung in an awkward shape
And was crooked and bent like the horn of
a ram;
The sombre maples seemed hung with rraj>o
And the garden gate hanged to with a slam.
The brook oozed over the slimy stones
From stagnant pools in the meadow marsh;
Or it crooned along with plaintiff moans.
And tin song of the whip-poor-will was
harsh.
Me jabbed liis ribs on the clumsy stile,
For dart as pitch was the ously lane.
And in- tlnu lips curved in a bitter smile
As be smote the weeds with a spitelul cane.
Rough and ugly and long was the way.
The ki< - were dull and the earth was cold;
He hated the night and he dreaded the day.
And his heart seemed a hundred centuries
old.
With the dirge of his sighs he timed his tread,
As one who ponderetli bitter tilings;
Rut h on!> whispered, wiih drooping head.
\ud i heart that wondered—" Kicked, by
jingsT
(UHMOYLK AMI FOKTKSCUE.
The Engliath Journals Still Full of the
Scandal An Attack on Lawrence Bar
rett—l he Peasant Festival.
The papers are still full of the Gar
mo}k'-Fortescue scandal, says the New
York Sun's London letter of the 23d of
February. Garmoyle has £2,000 a year in
his own right, and the general expectation
is that h" will lose half of it. The defense
will probably Ire that the jilted lady her
self jilted a socially inferior suitor in
order to catch the future Karl, and per
haps there may be evidence of certain
opera lartiffe freaks in the bosom of the
Cairns household, which nearly broke the
hearts of the Puritanic father and mother,
tiariiioyle’s letters, on the other hand, are
expected to Ire highly amusing. William
■scin-nck Gilbert, the dramatist, who is
Miss Forte bo tie's patron, cointemplates
making money for himself and her by
bringing her out in an emotional play;
but few people think the young lady ’s
talents above the level of the prettily
dressed fairy. Mr. Brandon Matthews’
new play, ot which there were such exalt
ed expectations, has totally fizzled out.
-lotin L. Toole is giving a splendid adver
tisement to Wilson Barrett's “Claudian”
by a clever burlesque, in which he wears
a false Unman nose, modelled by Richard
Belt, the hero of the great sculpture ease.
Lawrence Barrett is written down in
soini English papers, through the follies
attributed to him by some American
Journal sts. Mr. Laboucbcre, in Truth,
comes to his rescue by declaring him a
quit t and unassuming gentleman.
The throat of scandal is hoarse with
ugly comments on the late so-called pea
taut festival. The universal verdict of
the s fifty journals is that there was
net r such a display of paint and powder,
of doddering old duchesses and rickety
marchoncsses, tight-laced, powdered, aid
painted, down to giggling youthful ness,
while the young and pretty women are
denounced for the too wanton revelation
whi<-b they are said to have made of their
(-harms. Lady Wolseley. formerly Mis
Murphy, of California, was dressed* In the
mobi magnificent peasant costume ever
dreamed of, and went about selling pop
corn .mil giving no change. Mary Ander
son, wiiu characteristic discretion, prom
ised to go, and then pleaded illness,
though Niie was able to visit the Speaker’s
gallery in the Commons on one of the
nikiits of the festival. The epitome of the
wtn.ie business is that charity has become
the < leak lor the display by fashionable
laoies ot the manners of an unmentiou
ablc sc..;ion oi their sex.
Ih< Lady Offered $50,000 to Compro
mise.
The Mew York Times' London letter
has the following: “.Society is still greatly
exercised by the Garmovle-FTtescue
•caudal. The latest report is that Miss
Fortescue has been offered £IO,OOO to com
promise the affair, but that she demands
£60,000 and is determined to bring the
matter into court. Lord Cairns, the father
of Lord Garmoyle, is by no means a
wealthy man. Whatever he may have he
earned by his practice at the bar, which,
although it was considerable, he gave up
•omi'wiiat curly in his earner tor those
polir -al and judicial posts which, how.
r>vi i -list uguished, art* not very lucrative.
Lor ' cairns was Vailed’ in 1814, and in
1866 if \* as raised to the Bench as Lord
•Ins’i f of the Court of Appeal, and in
1*458 he heeauie Lord Chancel lor; so that
tor the last ’JO v* sirs or so his main
sou re- of income has been his
salary and pension, amounting sis
Cord Chancellor to £IO.OOO, and as a Judge
;o £.'>.ooo a year. Thus unless he has been
exceptionally frugal he cannot have
amassed such a lara. fortune as to make
even the payment ot £ 10.<K>0, not to speak
f £‘>o,ooo, for his son’s indiscretions a
■tatter of indifference to him. It is
•hruaht that great as Miss Fortescue's
wrongs hare been—aud there can be no
doubt that she has been shamefully
treated—she would do well not to In* too
•xneDng. Her character, ot course, is
above reproach; still there arc one or two
little wek points in her case <f which
her opponent might take advantage. For
instance, Lord Garmoyje is not ‘the
anh man she ever lov' d.’ It is well
known that before she accepted his
off r she engaged herself to Mr.
Quilii’v, of Quitter, Ball & C’o.. an eminent
brm d' accountants, a gout lonian of wealth
and taste, who is note I for liis elegant
•mokiiig paities, which he gives at his
heaimtul i!• >iiS‘■ at Chelsea, which he pur
chas'd of Mr. Whistler, the artist. Miss
Forteseue threw over tiie accountant for
fti" 1 r lling, and on doing so wrote to Mr.
Gilbert acquainting him of her new at
tachment. and at the same time annminc
iag te r intention to leave the stage. The
author of •Patience’ wrote to her in repiy,
ihar.ivtcristicallv, to the following effect:
Mv dear Miss Fortesou*; Allow me to
•on ululate you on > our engagement to
—. 1 leave you to till up the blank as i
you please, and am yours faithfully, W.
ii. Gilbert.’ Little incidents like these may [
•r may not be brought out at the trial, it {
it <v r comes off. Mr. Charles lius- 1
tell, Queen’s Counsel, is to be the
lady’s principal counsel, and it is i
rumored that he has promised to
undertake the case without charging any '
fees being delighted to have the oppor- >
mult, of assailing a political opponent
who c unmands great influence in a part
•t Ireland in which he is particularly in- 1
forested. Another point which may be ;
made in tlie case is that, notw ithstand
sig his rank, Lord Garmoyle has not
much more to boast ot m the way ot !
fannlv than Miss Fortt-scue herself. The
sense of v aims is by no means an illus
trious one, and soinet>od> lately remm ked,
l r member the present Lord’s graml
fatn* r when he was selling dips (candles)
at di. a pound.’ Miss Fortescue’s par
ser i is at least as good as this, and it is
rein raftered, to her credit, lliut she went
•n the stage to earn her living when her
father fell into difficulties in business.
Still, for all ttiis. she would b_ well tul
vis. u not to demand too much as a so
latium for her grievances.
Fruplc nil the Inland of Nlwe.
Th. r<> i-. an island in the Pacific ocean,
lying westward of the Society Islands,
which is still marked on many maps as
• v 3.iv is;.- Island,” although Us real nauc
Is Niue. The inhahitants, numbering I
\tiou! 0.000, were formerly tierce and in*
tractable. About fllty years ago a nuni- :
*er. ffii'.t converts at the Society Islands, 1
is the joy of their new life, determined to •
wake in attempt to introduce the gospel j
into ihis terrible place. The result was 1
fatal to the whole company. About three
years afterward a native convert was !
taken, at his own request, as near the
island as the ship dared go. and then j
deliberately bound his little bundle j
•f clothes and his Testament on
ais head, and plunged into the surf
and swam ashore. Lie was immcdiuelv
seised and carried back into the island
fur sacrifice. By si - ris and a tew words
oumntou to the language of the isiatid and
his own language, he induced the people
to hear a story, and told them ihe story of
the eioss. They were so much interested
that th v spared his lilt* til! the next day,
when he told them more about Christ.
They were soon won, and mad- their cap
tive '.heir teacher. Two or Hires years
later the little missionary shij ventured
sear the island attain, and to the aston*
isba. nt and delight of those onboard.it
was found that the whole island was rev
olutionized. Heathenism was renounced,
and the people were eager to In instruct
ed. A white missionary was left among
them and in due time they became thor
oughly evangelized.
Th suggestion has been made that san
itary liv.intuges would result front the
use "of sevi i r pi pi sof glass. They would,
doubtless, Ik? expensive, but they would,
prob ,biy. lie very durable and their hard,
smooth surface would offer no lodgment
for refuse matter, thus offsetting tile ques
tion ol cost.
IN MINCING LANE.
THE CURIOSITIES OF ENGL AND’S
GREAT IMPORTING TRAFFIC,
Docks or Gigantic Area and Business
Transactions Which Implicate Lon
don’s Greatest Merchants and Finan
ciers—The Ups and Downs of the
“Street.”
Next to dabbling in stocks and shares
perhaps the most respectable business in
the city, and one which is largely in
favor with the wealthy, says a London
lettei to the l’niladelphia Press, is that
branch of commerce which is carried on
in Mincing Lane. This is England's great
wholesale shop for tea, coffee, sugar and
spice; cotton aud jute; indigo, gums, dry
j salteries and woods. Many of these arli
i cles come to us from some part of
America, and also from the East Indies
! and our colonies. For very many years
this department of trade has centred
round about Tower Ilill. and Mincing
Lane has always been famous for its fine
houses occupied by merchants. These
houses nave now given place to offices,
i built on a scale which is not to be sur
passed by blocks in any other part of
, London. As samples require to be in
spected under a good north light the sky
lights are placed conveniently and the
architect prepare#his plans accordingly..
Some long while ago, so the historians
relate, the uuns of Bisbopsgate—“Minch
eons,” they were called—owned some
tenements in the Lane, which thereby
: took the name of the gentle sisters, and in
course of time the corruption “Mincing”
Lane came into general use. The Cloth
workers Company—one of theriehestof the
city guilds, w hose existence is now threat
ened— had their quiet hall standing in a
[ court off Mincing Lane at the
time of the great tire of London; indeed,
the conflagration stopped short at this
point. The present building, as regards
its interior, is lavishly decorated with
gold, and near by is the commercial sales
rooms, the headquarters of Mincing Lane
; men.
These commercial salesrooms, where
the bulk, ol the pioduceis disposed of,
consist of eight or ten auction rooms,
open to the public, and a room to which
subscribers only are admitted.
Principals ot tinn are admitted to the
“rooms" as members, and they have the
right to propose "nominees” to represent
them. “Market’ clerks are C’-ploved to
pay particular attention to one article,
, and “pupils” are taken on for three years
to learn the trade, the premium often be
ing SI,BUO. There are a lot of unscrupu
lous firms who pocket this money and
give nothing in return except the right of
using a stool in their office. At the end
of the term the pup.l is turned adrilt, hav
ing learned nothing, save it be to kill
time.
j There are no warehouses at Mincing
; Lane, for the goods are stored at the docks,
j and the warrants, which the dock cmn
j panics issue, are the tokens dealt in. The
j docks on the north bank of the Thames
are now almost continuous, and year by
1 year they are marching down toward the
i stuary. The docks at present mostly
Used by Mincing Lane importers are the
London and St. Katherine, the London,
and the Last ami West India.
The import dock of the West India
docks is 2.000 feet long, 500 feet wide, and
20 feet deep. If is connected with the
Lime-house basin by an entrance thirty
six feet wi ie, and it also opens into the
Black wall basin, and thence into the
river by an entrance 190 feet long and 45
feet wide. The export dock is 2,000 fe< t
long and 1,400 feet wide. The third dock
is 2,050 feet long. The import dock lias a
. noble range of warehouses. There are
j some roofs covered with eopper, the re
! suit ot limiting the original dividend to 10
percent. The company, so Mr. Clark
I Russell says, accumulated £400,000 and.
not knowing what to do with it. spent it
in covering the roofs with copper.
Last year the inward tonnage into the
dock amounted to *75,000 of tons. I may
1 say that ships of 1,200 tons of miscellane
ous cargo are usually discharged in thir
teen to sixteen hours. From 1,500 to 3,500
men are employed daily, the weeklv
wages exceeding £5,000.
Take a staple commodity, indigo, for
example, which is not actually sold at
the liupks, but is placed “on show” in tip:
dock sheds; there maybe viewed a very
cut ious scene. Owing iO its dusty na
ture, ruinous to good tailoring, every
body concerned clothes himself in old
garments or in long blue blouses and
w bite paper caps. It is rather difficult
in this guise to recognize the chief an- j
thority on matters relating to indigo—Mr.
Lavers. There may be seen similarly !
grotesquely attired the rapid valuer—Mr. i
llale—who runs over strings of samp’es i
in the time taken up by a bewildered i
pupil in puzzling his brain over one.
When the valuing is completed, at an I
early day eomes the sale, which is held
in Mincing Lane. At 10 o'clock sharp the
auction room is filled with buyers. The
seats are raised tier above tier in the
form of an amphitheatre, the auctioneer’s
pulpit being in the well. Perhaps 400 or
500 persons are present, and they vent
their impatience by stamping their feet,
whistling and indulging in that peculiar
shrill and vulgar cry which is mostly
heard at theatres on boxing night, and
goes by the name of a “eat-eall.” At live
minutes past the hour, perhaps, an iioni
cal burst of cheering announces the arri
val of the broker whose catalogue is first
on the list. The brokers are their own
auctioneers, and they show considerable
variety of style.
Mr. Peat, who is the first to mount the
rostrum, is a genial man, fond of his joke,
and imperturbably he unfolds bis cata
logue, chooses a quill, moistens the nib,
takes a dip of ink and plunges in media*
res bv crying out:
“Lot 1. gentlemen. What do you say
for lor 1 f Put it in, please. I’m going to
sell!”
f-ometimes the bids will le lively. “Five
shilling', penny, two, three, lour, live and
live. Thank you,” and down come* tue
hammer.
“Cuti h,” another staple article, is used
for dyeing and tanning purposes. It is
imported in boxes, and tile liner kinds are
always prepared in slabs about nine
inches long by tive inches wide, and one
and one-halt inches thick. Each slab is
wrapped in paper shirtings. Oambier is
also used for tanning, and it is more rapid
in its action than oak bark. It is packed
in bales, which have the appearance of
hardened mats of sugar. This is called
black gaiubier. Free gambler is worth
more, and is called free because the cubes
do not stick together, as they do in the
cheaper sorts.
Bankers of Lomltard street might almost
he termed sleeping partners in the Minc
ing Lane business, which, without their
assistance, would he a difficult one to
finance. Every Saturday i-> more or less
a pay day, as much uroduce is sold at
fourteen days’ ••prompt” or credit. In
addition, there is me quarterly prompt or
settling day, on which all goods are sup
posed to he paid for, or arrangements
in.tde tor carrying over the liabilities liy
postponing payment. Strange to say the
••prompt” falls invarialil' on n Saturday,
a day when the usual half-holiday has had
the effect of shortening nankiiig hours by
sixty precious minutes. The business
mainly to be done on tlie prompt is Ihe
exchanging ot dork warrants tor cheeks,
the Operation going on from hand to hand
until me warrants reach the last pur
chaser. who, by this meats alone, can „et
his goods.
Loans must be given and taken, and,
disappointed in expected remittances, the
broker, short of capital, must pledge his
warrants with his banker. Advances on
warrants are quite regular, within a mar- i
gin. but it often occuis that the loan i
manager in the Lombard street establish- i
inent is unexpectedly asked for more i
money just at closing time by a clerk who j
has rushed with a bundle of warrauts from |
Mincing Lane, and who throws the onus j
of delay u|h>ii his employers.
Lombard street, within a stone’s throw i
of the Royal Exchange and Bank of Eng- j
land, has beeu the rendezvous for bankers j
ever since the Jews from Lombardy first
set tiieir three golden balls there.
One w ho knows bis wav about town bas
no difficulty in discovering the “local hab
itation” of different classes. Bankers in
Lombard street, shippers in Leadenball
street, old clothes dealers in ll>>undsdilcb,
diamond merchants in Hatton Garden,*
coach builders in Long Acre, dentists in
bt. Martin’s Lan * and Ludgate Hill, tan
ners in Bermondsey, jewelers in Cheap
side, publishers and printers in Fleet
street, Imok sellers in Paternoster Bow,
government officials in Whitehall, gold
workers in Clerkenwell, match manufac
turers and soap boilers in East London,
etc., etc. Sometimes the history of the
association of a certain trade w ith a lim
ited locality is curious. For instance, the
dentists of St. Martin’s Lace and of Lud
gate Hill are the modern survivals of the
ancient nostrum sellers whoso stalls for
merly line and the road to the shrines close
at hand, to which “tillable pilgrims found
their way.
Mincing Lane is a fearful place for the
“ups and downs” of life, and among its
! habitues are a class ol men who have
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 2,1884.
“gone to the wall,” and who subsist on
stray half dollars. Belonging to this set
were two men who bad oace occupied
good positions, but bad tailed several
times. An intimacy sprang up between
them, and they contrived to get hold ot
little bits ot business, sharing the pn tits.
Suddenly one of them grew “swell,” that
Is to say, his dress was irreproachable,
and his spirits were of the most buoyant.
He was asked the reason of the change,
and he answend: “Oh, lam with Mr.
Green now. His partner' lias left him,
and I’m a full blown broker.” “And
where is your friend?” was the natural
question which followed the congratula
tions. “Oh, poor old D ,” was the
reply; “he’s driving a Hansom cab, and
I’m going to give him a dollar to drive me
home.”
A Steamer that was a Forty-Niner.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The recent saleot the hull of the steamer
Seuator for a coal hulk to New Zealand
finishes the active career of one of the
most successful vessels afloat. She was
ouilt at New York in 1840 by W. H. Brown,
and ran for a short time on the Eastern
coast, but during the gold excitemen of
California she was sent to San Francisco,
where sue arrived in September, 1*49,
with over 500 passengers. Soon alter
arriving here she was placed on the Sac
ramento river, making three trips a week,
and, with $25 cabin passage and sls tor
standing room on deck, she soon paid for
hersell ten times over. In laet, her re
ceipts averaged c ose to $20,000 a trip,
ami lor four months, or until the steamer
New World arrived, fully $50,000 a week.
Her first Captain was Lafayette May
nard, who was succeeded by Van Pelt,
and he in turn by the famous old Edgar
Wakeman, who continued in her until
superseded by Sam Seymour. The Sena
tor ran on alternate days with ihe New
World, and this continued until 1854,
when the combination known for many
years afterward as the California Steam
Navigation Company was effected, and
the Senator, drawing more water than
necessary tor the safe navigation of the
river, was withdrawn, and, after be
ing laid up at Sacramento for
several months, was brought down
and fitted out for outside business.
She ran to San Diego under com
mand of Tom Seely for several years. He
was killed by an explosion at San Pedro,
and Captain Butters took charge, and
continued so until old Bob Haley, wbo
atterward lost the Brother Jonathan, took
her. She was afterward purchased by
Men Holliday, and continued on the
Southern route until purchased by the
Pacific Mail Company, which subse
quently sold her to Goodal, Nelson &
Perkins, who afterward incorporated the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company, and
she finished her days of steaming with
that company.
Although she had new boilers on sev
eral occasions, her engine, a vertical
beam, continued in her from first to last,
and her after-cabin through all changes
was never touched, as the joiners on all
occasions declined, for the reason that t. e
highly-polished rosewood and mahogany
could nut be improved on. She was built
ot the choicest Eastern oak, and an ex
amination recently made shows that the
old timbers are as’ sound now as in 1848,
when they were first put in. Estimates
have been made frequently as to the num
ber of people who have traveled on
her, and the lowest calculation places the
figure at over a million, and some idea
of the money made oy her on the Sacra
mento may be formed when it is known
that over 170,000 passengers traveled on
her in that trade, and with passage at
from S:SS to S2O the proceeds would buy
her many times over. She has made more
gold than she could carry, and has out
lived scores of the finest steamers afloat
which were engaged in business here,
which were wrecked or went to decay,
while the old Senator, one of the few re
maining link.-, that bound us to the “days
of old. the days of gold, the days of ’49,”
plodded along successfully, until she
finally had to give way to the march of
improvement and to the new and more
economical style of craft, the steam pro
peller.
Tired Birds.
St. ytchobfx for if arch.
Many of our birds fly several thousand
mites every autumn, passing not only over
Florida, where tliev might find perpetual
summer, hut over the gulf and far beyond
into the preut summer land of the Amu
zon; after a short stay, returning again
to the North, some penetrating to the ex
treme shores of the Arctic seas. How the
small birds fly so great distances is almost
incomprehensible, but I have seen many
of our small feathered friends on the little
Key of Tortugas, two hundred miles or
more from Cape Florida, the jumping off
piaci of the United States. Great flocks
of them would alight upon the walls of the
fort, especially during storms, evidently
thoroughly tired; but the next day they
were up and away off over the great
stretch of the gull and the Caribbean sea.
Numbers of the English birds and many
from Northern Europe make yearly voy
ages down into the African continent, and
careful observers state that they have
seen the great storks, so common in Ger
many, moving along high in the air, bear
ing on their broad backs numbers of small
birds that had taken free passage, or were,
perhaps, stealing a ride. In these won
derful migrations many birds are blown
out to sea and lost, while others become
so fatigued and worn out that they w ill
alight upon boats. A New England fish
erman, who in the autumn follows his
calling fourteen or fifteen miles ont from
shore, informed me that nearly every day
he had four or five small birds
>is companions. They had wan
dered off from shore, or were
flying across the great bay on the lower
coast of Maine, and had dropped down to
rest. One day the same fisherman fell
asleep while holding his line, and upon
suddenly opening his eyes, there sat a lit
tle bird on his hand, demurely cocking its
head this way and that, as if wondering
whether he was au old wreck or piece of
drift wood.
Hunting Flat) With Dogs.
Capt. Mayne Reid in his last story, “The
Land of Fire,” now appearing in St.
Mir,hulas, gives in the March installment
the lollowing interesting description of a
peculiar Fuegian manner of fishing: “By
this, the four canoes have arrived at the
entrance to the inlet, and are forming in
line across it at equal distances from one
another, as if to bar the way against any
thing that may attempt to pass outward.
Just such is their design; the fish being
what they purpose enfilading.
‘‘Soon the fish-hunters, having comple
ted their ‘cordon’ and dropped the dogs
overboard, come on up the cove, the wo
men plying the paddles, the men w ith
javelins upraised, ready for darting. The
little foxy dogs swim abreast of and be
tween the canoes, driving the fish before
them—as sheep-dogs drive sheep—one or
another diving under at intervals, to in
tercept sueh as attempt to escape out
ward. For in the translucent water they
can see the fish far ahead, and. trained to
the work, t hey keep guard against a break
from these through the inclosing line.
Soon the fish are forced up to the inner
end ot the cove, where it is shoalest: and
then the work of slaughter commences.
The dusky fishermen, standing in the ca
noes and bending over, now to this side,
now that, plunge down their spears and
fizgigs, rarely failing to bring up a fish of
one sort or another; the struggling vietim
siiaken off into the bottom of the canoe,
tiiere gets its death-blow lrom the boys.
“For nearly an hour the curious aquatic
chase is carried on; not in silence, but
amid a chorus ot deafening noises—the
shouts of the savages and the barking and
yelping of their dogs mingling w ith the
shrieking ol the sea-birds overhead. And
thrioe is the cove ‘drawn’ by the canoes,
which are taken back to its mouth, the
line reformed, and the process repeated
till a good supply of the fish best worth
catching has been secured.”
She Sold Her Kabv.
Elizabeth West, of No. *27 Croshv street,
says tlie New York <S ot the 26th inst.,
was arrested last night on the charge of
intoxication, and was taken to the Prince
street station. It was learned that she
was the mother of a baby twelve days
old, which she had abandoned at Tyner’s
liquor store, at Thompson and Broome
streets, prior to her arrest. An officer
found the infant in the custody of a col
ored woman named Virginia Taylor, who
insisted on her right to keep the child.
She exhibited in support of her claim a
document executed by the mother of the
child, by which she surrendered -to the
colored woman all her right, title and in
t rest in the property in ques
tion." The instrument was signed
bv ten witnesses. The officer, how
ever, doubted its legality, in
spite of the fact that it stated that a val
uable consideration had passed between
the partit’9, and took possession of the in
fant.
UORHFOKU’S ACID PHOSPHATE.
In Night Sweats and Prostration.
Dr. R. Studhalter, St. Louis, Mo., says;
“I have used it in dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and in night sweats, with
1 very good results.”
A BOGUS GHOST.
How Mr*. .Jentener was Cheated by a
Wizard Under an Oak Tree.
Mrs. Caroline Jentener, a stout, ruddy
complexioned middle-aged woman, with a
good-natured expression of face and a so
ciable manner, says the Baltimore Sun,
came to the office of Justice I’ilert, at the
county police station, near the Frederick
road, Tuesday morning, accompanied by
ht-r husband, a quiet-mannered elderly
man, and charged Mm. Elizabeth Weber
with conspiring with others, to her un
known, to defraud her bv false pretenses
Of $lO.
Mrs. Jentener unfolded to the justice a
strange tale of witchcraft and deceit. She
lives at No. 272 Fulton street. Her mo
ther, Mrs. Ludwig Schutnac ier, died some
months ago, and Mrs. Jentener believed
that she left $4,000 in money, which Mrs.
Jentener and her brother would have
been entitled to. She took some steps be
fore the Orphans’ Court in this city to
discover if her mother uad left anything,
as she supposed, but no discovery was
made supporting her She thought
that perhaps her brother might have hid
den the money away, and hearing that he
visited at Mrs. Weber’s residence, at Sex
tonvllle, .Baltimore county, Mrs. Jentener
cultivated Mrs. Welter's acquaintance,
and finally made her a promise ol S2OO if
hu could find out where the money was
hidden. Mrs. Weber did not find where
the money was, but found a wizard who
agreed to discover the concealed treasure
by the exercise of his occult arts.
An agreement was made that if Mrs.
Jentener would come to a large oak tree
near Sextonville Monday night, the wiz
ard would call up the spirit of the mother
bf Mrs. Jentener, who would bring her the
money, and Mrs. Jentener was to pay the
wizard $lO for his services. On last Mon
day night, at the appointed time. Mrs.
Jentener, accompanied by her husband,
repaired to the edd oak tree, where they
were met by the wizard. Suddenly a
form robed in black, but with a white
shi oud over its head, emerged from the
gloom and stood before Mrs. Jentener,
reaching out a tin box. The wizard took
the t>ox, saying to Mrs. Jentener in a
thrilling whisper, “Your money is in this
box, but you must not open it till you get
home.” Meanwhile the ghostly visitant
disappeared. The wizard got his $lO and
departed. The Jenteners hurried home
and opened the box. It had in it only
paper aud rubbish. Indignant at the
fraud, she hastened next morning to lay
the charge against Mrs. Weber.
When Mrs. Weber was brought into the
station house she had her baby in her
arms. She said she was talking "one day
to a man who stands in one of the markets,
w hen a man pa.-sed bv whom he pointed
out as a powerful wizard, Thinking the
wizard could help her Lo Hud Mrs. Jeute
per's money, she spoke to him about tne
matter. The wizard said that be could
call up the spirits, and by means of cards
he told Mrs. Weber some facts of her
iainily history, which he couldn’t have
known if he hadn’t been a wizard, and so
she got him to help Mrs. Jentener. Justiee
I’ilert held her in S3OO bail, which was
turnished, for a hearing.
Betore 4 o’clock, the hour for the hear
ing,. Mrs. Jentener and the Justice be
came pretty well satisfied that some
swndler had played upon the credulity of
Mrs. Weber, and that she had no intention
of defrauding Mrs. Jentener, and on the
payment to Mrs. Jentener of the greater
part of what she had been defrauded of the
charge against Mrs. Weber was dis
missed. Efforts will be made to capture
the wizard and his confederates.
A ULlUol ft. tit STORY.
How Bruin Tender.y Cared for a Child
He Had Carried Off.
Corresfmmtence Glasgow llerald.
Mr. George Swift, a ranchman in the
Grand Valley, tells a story which shows
how unenviable is the life of the stock
raiser in that wilderness. A short time
ago Mr. Swift let his 3-year-old daughter
ride upon his horse, and after she had rid
den about torty rods from home he lifted
her off the animal and toid her to run
home. On returning about an hour later
he found that the little one had not reach
ed home, and, going to the place where fie
had labt seen her, he found bear tracks in
the sand. A posse was formed, and all
night was spent in searching for the lost
child.
1" the morning, as the searchers were
passing a swampy spot where the under
growth was thick, they heard her voue.
They called to the little girl to come out
of the bushes, but she replied that the
bear would not let Iter. The men then
crept through the brush, and when near
the spot heard a spiash in the water,
which the child said was the bear. They
found her standing upon a log, extending
hail way across the swamp, and it seemed
as though the bear had undertaken to
cross tue swamp on the log, and, being
pursued, left the cnild, and got away u
rapidly as possible. She had received
some scratches about the face, arms, and
legs, and her clothes were almost torn
iron, her body, but the bearhad not bitten
her to hurt her, only the marks of his
teeth being found upon her back, where
he had taken hold of her clothes to carry
her. The child told her rescuers that the
bear had put her down occasionally to
rest, and would put his nose to her face,
whereupon she would slap him and he
would hang his head by her side and
purr and rub against her like a cat. Her
father asked her if she had been cold dur
ing the night, and she told him the old
bear lay beside her and put his “arms”
around her and kept her warm.
in redaction of itraw Bidet, in England.
) ounj Ladies’ Journal.
Attempts are being made at the several
county mansions in t,be eastern counties
to introduce, —by way of variety from the
gig, tue barouclie and tlie tandem —the
American lashiuti of the straw ride, which
tor tfie last two seasons has obtained
lavor among the aristocratic belles of
Newqiort, Saratoga and other fashionable
watering-places of the States. The straw
ride lakes place by moodligtit. A large,
heaty harvest wagon, drawn by lour
stout horses, conveys the party of youth
ful pleasure-seekers over the hill and dale,
down rutty lanes and through unplougbed
fields until the bones seem shaken to pieces
and the sides acne with laughter. To les
sen the violence of the shock which now
and then would otherwise rend the tender
I mines of the delicate girls the wagon is
piled with straw, in which the party sit
or recline, beguiling the way with re
cherche refreshments and killing time
with song and anecdote, and, above all,
with sentimental flirtation, to which the
surroundings lend themselves with "such
appropriate fitness. They say that the
first trial ot the straw-ride made m Eng
land at castle, in Suffolk, was so suc-
Cesstul in this last respect that a most
brilliant wedding has been announced as
the result ot the moonlight diversion. The
wadded hood, the swan-down muffler, the
sweet voice he heard, the bright eyes of
the beauty as seen by the young heir of
the broad acres belonging to the castle,
while enjoying the delights of a straw-rule
one evening ar 8., made an everlasting
impress,on. Tue innovation may be
worth trying, as, perhaps, there are other
counties it would equally as well suit.
The Feet.of M.tny Pretty Women.
New York Journal .
“What nationality ol women have the
smallest and prettiest feet, according to
your observation?” asked the reporter.
••Without considering a few Creole la
dies —ot course, l refer to white ladies of
West Indian stock—who occasionally
come here, and who have feet like little
children,” said he, brightening up, “1
think American women—l ineau
real American women by right of several
generations —have the "most uniformly
pretty and elegant feet. Irish leet, are,
likewise, mostly handsome. The French
have homely feet for the greater part,
while German women have, with the
usual exceptions that tend to corroborate
a fixed rule, undoubtedly the ugliest feet
—broad, splayed, shingle-flat, and wholly
devoid of instep—that seek the seaboard
of free America from a foreign strand. In
regard to this flat-footed, thrifty nation
ality, there will be no mistake, ages
hence, as t>. the footprints it leaves upon
the sands of time. Strange, but true, to
say, however, the gem of a loot, the very
daintiest and most perfect foot that ever
treads this carpet strip, belongs to a
quadroon from New Orleans, a burber’s
wile, who lives in a cross-street tenement
only a few blocks away. The size isn’t
so fairy-like—she wears a three—but the
loot ts faultless, a perfect Arab, and so
slender that she has to have her threes
made to order. Ready-mades of her sort
in stock would last a century.”
The People’s World-Wide Verdict.
Burnett’s Cocoaine has been sold in
every civilized country, and the public
have rendered the verdict that it is the
cheapest unit best Hair Dressing in the
World.
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are in
variably acknowledged the purest and the
best.
Wood and Coal
For sale by R. B. Cassels, Taylor and East
Broad streets. Telephone No, 77,— Adv,
MONTE CRISTO.
An Inspection of a Prison Made Famous
l>y Duma*.
Across the beautiful bay from t.e city
an hour or such a matter, saeg Nashy in
a Marseilles letter to the Toledo Blade, is
the famous lie d’lf, on which is the
famous State prison which Dumas made
famous by his immortal romance of
Monte Cristo. Everybody knows the
foundation of the novel. Edmond Dantes,
a young master of a vessel sailing from
Marseilles and betrothed to Mercedes,
falls into a trap laid by a powerful lover
of the girl, and is accused of conveying
letters from the Emperor Napoleon, then
confined at Elba, to his partisans at Mar
seilles. He is entirely innocent, but bis
accuser is powerlul in the government,
and poor Dantes is torn lroiu the arms
of his love and hurried to the Castle
d’lf. The young sailor was immured
here for years, and had given upHlI hope
of ever again seeing the outside world,
when one day he was surprised to hear a
scratching noise on the other side ot the
wall ot his dungeon. He answered it,
and found that it came from an old abbe
who had also been confined in the prison
for years, and who was digging a bole
through the wall, rot knowing or caring
what the result might !>e. A few days
sufficed to widen the aperture so that
they could converse, and the result was
the abbe, who was well-nigh gone with
years, confided to Dantes the secret of the
Isle of Monte Cristo, near Naples, where
fabulous wealth was concealed.
The abbe immediately expired, and
Dantes determined to make a bold stroke
for liberty. The custom was to envelop
dead bodies in a sack and throw them
over the precipice into the sea at night.
Dantes pulled the corpse of the dead ab
be into his cell through the opening and
enveloped himself in the sack, secreting a
knife about his person. The two soldiers
came at the proper hour, carried the sup
posed abbe, but reallv the living Dantes,
to the precipice and threw it over. The
moment he struck the water Dantes liber
ated himself with his knife and swam to
a rock in the neighborhood—there are
plenty of them—and escaped by a miracle.
As everywhere else, the people now in
charge of the island aud the disused pri
son have made the most of the celebrity
that Dumas’ great work gave the place.
They have selected two diTngeons as the
identical ones occupied by the abbe and
Dantes. They dug the hole between them,
and you are shown the cells ami the open
ing as though the great novel was a his
torical fact instead of yie revelation of the
most wonderful romancer France has yet
produced.
However, it might have happened; the
island is simply a rock in the sea, its
summit crowned with a prison as horri
ble as one could Imagine. There are eel's
below cells. There arc dungeons in to
which tile rays of the blessed sun never
penetrate. There are others through
which all the light there ever is is what
may come through a Barrow slit in the
thick walls, and it is so situated that es
cape any other way than suggested by
Dumas would be impossible.
As it was used as a prison of state dur
ing the old regime, and by the Republic
afterward, a great many tragedies have
taken place within its walls, which still
show mementoes. Mirabeau was confined
here for a long time, a brother of the King
of Poland was here for twenty years, till
death relieved him, “detained.” ns the
records say, “by request of the King.”
The brother was probably troublesome,
and Kings were in the habit of obliging
each ither in this way. He was safe
enough here.
Now it is entirely unused, the place be
ing it; the guardianship of a dozen in
valid soldiers and an old woman with a
handsome daughter, who make a living
by exhibiting the place and retailing the
lies that others have invented. They have
cut the great story of Dumas down to a
very fine point, and they have photographs
of the good old ablie and Dantes, and an
engra'ing of Ihe escape, allot which you
are uiged to purchase. Whether you in
vest in illustrations ot the fertile brain ot
Dumas or not, you must drink a bottle ot
very bad wine or beer, and you must
likewise disburse a franc or two tor their
services. This, however, is the best use
the hoary old record of crime was ever
put to.
He Didn’t Engage Her.
Detroit tree /‘t est.
A young lady went to an intelligence
office the other day, and, as there was no
girl in at the time, sat down ti wait tor
one. She is a Jetfer on avenue belle and
leads (he gay procession in society cir
cles; she is also a good daughter and
model housekeeper, taking all the care of
a large establishment off her mother’s age
ing shoulders.
As she sat and waited in the intelligence
office a gentleman w hom she knew came
in to get a girl; she had met him at a so
cial reception a few nights previous, he in
full evening dress, she in a costume of
pink silk and Spanish lace, with roses in
her hair. He bad whispered sweet words
of admiration to her, and she had blushed
beneath bis too ardent gaze. Xt was onlv
a rehearsal of ’ that foolish old play,
“Love’s Young Dream,” hut it had left
pleasant memories w ith both.
She could not help showing she was glad
to meet him again, and half rose. But
he passed her to speak to the woman at
the desk, who supplied “help” to domes
tic Macedonia.
“My brother’s family are in need of a
girl, Mrs. . Can you send one up
there to-day ?”
“No, sur,” said the woman stolidly,
“tbu’ an’t one in now.”
“Why won’t this one do?” asked the
gentleman curtly, turning upon the young
lady, who in her plain walking dress and
veiled turban sat trembling with appre
hension.
“La, now, she an’t no girl,” said tlie
mistress of the intelligence, but the cus
tomer paid no attention to her.
“See here, Miss, or Mrs. what’s /our
name,” be asked abrupt y. “can you do
general House-work, wash, iron and cook ?
tf you can and are worth your salt, you
can get a place—d'ye hear?”
The girl shrunk hastily from his ex
tended hand, and he asked:
“Are you a German ora Swede? Be
cause il yotiean’tspeak English, we don't
want you. What’s the matter with you?
Ain’t deal anu dumb, are you?”
By this time the indignant girl had col
lected her wits, and, rising from her chair,
she walked out, leaving him stariug after
her.
“She will meet and she will miss him,
There will oe one vacant stare.”
But he will never know what fate did
for him 1:1 the intelligeuce office.
Unusual Extension of Atlantic Ice.
Ifew York Herald.
Reports of the weather and ice floes en
countered by incoming European steam
ers this week indicate that there has been
a partial break up of winter in the sub-
Arctic seas. 17ii 11 i the 18th only ice iio,do
or small icebergs had been reported in tue
Atlantic, hut the log of tlie steamer
Switzerland, which reached this port on
Monday, mentions an iceberg 500 leet long
and 100 feet high, having been passed on
the 13th inst., in latitude 45 degrees 45
miuuus north, longitude 45 degrees 2U
minutes west. Tile Wisconsin passed a
large iceberg on the 17th inst., in latitude
40 degrees. 47 minutes, longitude 48 degrees
45 minutes.
The Britannic on January 31 passed
through several patches of heavy field ice,
compelling the stoppage of the ship at
times and obliging her to haul to the
southward to clear it. This largo field
was sighted in longitude 46 degrees 40
minutes but tbe next day the Holland, in
longitude 38 degees 30 minutes, pusst and an
ice field fifty uules long, with several
small icebergs. The Holland’s longitude
given is probably a niispriutfor 4iSdegrees
30 minutes, as the assigned position tor
the field and bergs would be Several hun
dred miles east of the area marked on the
Admiralty charts within winch ire is
found in the first three months of the
year.
Nevertheless, the Switzerland’s obser
vations show tbat tbe present ice belt is
extended unusually far to the eastward
lor so early a period of the ice season.
The Hydrographic Office pilot chart lor
February states that icebergs and floatin g
ice “may be met as far south as 42 degr es
and to the westward of 50 degrees west
longitude.” But it is evident Iroin tlie
above data tbat the present glacial drill
in tne chief steamer routes lias already
exceeded the normal limits of its easterly
extension. The safest of navigation,
therefore, requires that steanir-rs should
henceforth during the ice months avoid
the northern transatlantic passage.
The complicated diseases brought on by
iutense study, thought, care, anxiety, etc.,
are often ol the most serious nature. Heed
such symptoms as loss ot memory, uni
versa! lassitude, heart disease, kidm y
complaints, liver troubles and a general
breaking down of health and strength.
When thus afflicted, when the least > x
eition causes great fatjgue, Wtu ire
seems a burden, use the reliable streatt.l
- tonic, Brown’s Iron Ritters.. It
will afford you sure relief,
BUTLER A ' n “’’’HIDAY.”
* —_____
The Grand. Glootn . ,„u Peculiar Poli
tician on the Rail.
In the front end of the same car with
me as I was coming over from Boston the
other night, says the “Idler” in the New
York World, sat Gen. B. F. Butler. No
body had the slightest knowledge that he
was aboard the train until, about an hour
out of New York, he got up and went to
the rear end or the car for a drink. The
old gentleman seems to be aging very rap
idly. 1 noticed as he went through the
car and again as he was being helped into
his carriage that he walked with a limp
of a very decided kind, and that it was
hard for him to move about at all without
assistance. In the car he sat all huddled
down in a heap, and the only time he paid
the slightest attention to anvthing going
on about him was when he " turned and
talked for a few moments, of bis own vo
lition, to a gray-haired man who sat be
hind him. I could not help reflecting upon
the extreme probability that if the man
had opened the conversation with Gen.
Butler, instead of having had it opened
by that doughty warrior, he would proba
bly have been taken up with a pretty
short turn._ Butler is queer about some
things. Worse than anything, he hates to
have his privacy intruded upon. If he
chooses to open his batteries of conversa
tion on anybody else, that is altogether
another matter. 1 judged the other night
that he didn’t find the gray-haired gentle
man ve.y entertaining company. At any
rate, after two or three sentences had been
spoken he plunged back into his corner,
pulled his big gray cap over his face and i
played possum. When we reached New !
York I saw for the first time that Butler’s
colored man Friday was with him. The
man doesn’t bother himself much about
w aiting on bis master. He never 6o much
as offered tj take down his bat for him
from the peg where it hung, but said, in a
gruff tone, “There it is, up there,” and
Benjamin turned meekly and put it on
without a word. *
tempting Til-mis.
Delicacies of the Market and what They
Cost to the Purchaser.
Great big, fat, juicy, red tomatoes, de
licious and luscious, suitable to be cut up
iu slices for tue Prince of Wales, says the
Boston Globe, are plenty in the market at
only $1 60 a pound. Specimens from
Florida are worth from 25 to 50 cents.
There are cucumbers, too, rather scarce
and high, but just as effective in their re
sults as a full-fledged jolly July cucuui
her. They Beil to millionaires for the
paltry sum of $5 a dozen. Fresh mint is
on deck at 10 cents a bun”h, awaiting the
slaughter o’, tne innocent spring lamb.
Moreover, the cook can now be supplied
with fresh rhubarb from 15 to 18 cents a
pound, a Very reasonable price for this
time of year, and cheaper than rhubarb
at the drug store;
Buildings are erected nowadays es
pecially lor the culture of the mushroom,
w hich commands the sumptuous price of
$1 25 a pound. The gently tapering
salsify, or oyster plant, brings 12 cents a
bunch, while its thinl cousin, tin*parsnip,
is worth only 40 cents a peck. The davs
of the sweet potato are numbered; they
are going out of the market at a nickel *u
pound. The cranberry, which has come
to be So intimately associated with our
national holidays and Sunday dinners,
passes into the hands of the consumer at
25 cents a quart. Anew variety of Florida
oranges, called the Malta blood, has been
introduced on the breakfast table as a
stepping stone, so to speak, to the more
substantial chops and buckwheat cakes,
and they are much esteemed for their
erispracy flavor. Oranges are worth
nearly double what they were a fortnight
A Man Who Beat a Gas Company.
Cincinnati Enquirer .
I have a friend in Ihe clothing business
who denoun-.es his gas bill as exorbitant
and sometimes comes to my office to see
about it. He lives in a palatial residence
•m Eighth street, and when he came in
last wee*. r-' minded me his bill I saw at
once that it was aft t... ......
t r such an establishment ai L 8 ' ll ,. ‘ ),u '
Being somewhat familiar with the fiV*-
rangements and number of burners in his
house, l determined upon catching him at
bis own game and stowing tbat he was
Imieutcvl to the company for more gas
even than the biil called for, but he was
too much lor me. Taking the bill from
him, 1 said:
“Well, Mr. , you have a burner in
the cellar?”
“Yes, Sneneral, dare’s a purner in the
cellar; hut, holy Moses! who efer heard of
li. hi ing gas in de cellar ?”
“You have a laundry?”
“Laundryl laundry, you say! Who
efer heard of people vashing py gas
light?”
“Well, you have burners in tbe kitchen,
haven’t you ?”
“Yes, day are dare, but ve nefer use
’em; we hat' 5 o’clock dinners.”
“Well, don’t your servants use any in
the evenings?”
“Yell, I’ll tell you, Sheneral, ve haf the
vorst hiret girls you efer seen. They are
nefer in the house; dey are out all tunes
of night alter dark.”
“How about the dining-room?”
“Didn’t I tells you ve haf 5 o’clock
and nners, and the childrens alvays plays in
dark.”
“Well, there’s your sitting-room?”
‘■Sitting-room? Ve nefer light the
gas there; ve alvays sits on the front
schteps.”
“Well, you surely have a light iu the
hall?”
“Vy, vould you vant to break a man
up?”"
"Well, there’s your handsomely furn
ished pallor?”
“Yes, ve haf nice parlors and elegant
furnisher, but ve haven't hat a visitor for
oler a year.”
Becoming discouraged, I skipped the
other apartments in the bouse and came
to a point where I thought l would be sure
to cateh him. and I uskcii:
“How about ycur bed-chamber? You
surely use gas in that apartment?”
Imagine my chagrin when, after a mo
ment's hesitation, he answered:
“My ped-ebamber? Vy, 1 tells you,
Sheneral, ve haf burners there, but ve
n>-fer use ’em. My vit'e, she is very mod
est voman, and always goes to ped in de
dark.”
He got a rehate.
Three DrenfleM of Princ**H* Troimneau.
Boston Traveller *
In the Princess Kotschoubey’s trous
seau is one dinner and opera dress which
is considered to be a marvel of grace. Tbe
skirt of white latnpas is w rought with
great bouquets of iris. The train, lully
draped, is of rose velvet lined with ivory
satin, the same velvet making a puff
around the edge of the skirt. There are
two corsages, one cut low, of the rose
velvet, with fichu trimming ol white tulle
glistening with tine pearls. The other
corsage is half high, buttoned with great
pearls, with a Watteau, fichu of while
gauze.
Another of her dresses, for grand re
ceptions, has a daring but successful
coloring. The skirt is of turquoise blue
satin, with large fan drapery in trout of
Venetian red latnpas, with great roses in
Velvet figures. The low corsage and the
train are of gremit velvet lined with old
rose satin.
Another costume in mandarine red
velvet, which is nearly orange color, has
two corsages, both ot the red velvet; the
low one has a bertha of gold lace, anil the
other has transparent sleeves ot gold lace
with square-necked opening and goldlace
fichu.
Air. Dolman and the Olit ticket.
Kew York Times.
Mr. Holman said in conversation tbat
lie thought the majority of the delegates
would be in favor of the old ticket as the
strongest that couid be placed in the field.
‘•Should,” he said, “his physical condi
tion prove equal to the strain, and he will
consent to serve, Mr. Tilden will un
doubtedly relieve the nomination.”
■•Do you thiuk the old ticket could be
elected?”
“It could,” was the prompt reply. “It
would, beyond a doubt, lie the strongest
ticket that could be placed in the field.”
“Will tbe place of meeting have any
effect upon the choice of the convention?”
“Not in tbe least,” said Mr. Holman.
“There is a tradition hanging about St.
Louis in favor of the old ticket, but that
does not signify anything. Wherever the
convention is held, Tilden will get the
nomination if he will accept it.”-
\1 vie** to >loiiir.
Mbs. Winslow’s Slothing Syxup
should always be used when chilfirsn are
cutting teeth. It relieves the little suf
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sleep by relieving 'the child from pain, and
the little cherub awakes as “bright as a
button.” It is very pleasant to taste. It
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- all pain, relieves wind, regulates
tue bowels, and is tbe best known remedy
. 1 >r diariduea, whether arising from teeth
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YI T E alsoh vc special faril tics for overhauling LOCOMOTIVE. TRAMWAY sad LOGGING
ENGINES. Our facilities for building SAW MILL MACHINERY is unsurpassed,
being the builders of t 'C McDONOI till MILL, at Hiirrencv, (is, t’.is mill hawing sawed in
one day 1'ti,390 feet of lumber. Heavy and lig it CASTINGS in Iron and Brass; also. PAT
TERNS >n short notice. We a'so keep a full lino of W 'OUGHT lit' N and PI PE and PIPE
FITTINGS, GLOBE VALVES, CYLINDER LUBRICATORS, INJECTORS; in fact, all
other machinery and fittings to be found in any first class, shop in the South, all of which wc
sell at manufacturers’ price-.
In publishing this card we desire to call the attention of the pnhiie to the fact that we have
engaged the services of an EXPERT MECHANICAL ENGINEER AND DRAUGHTSM \N,
who wil have charge and |r*onally superintend all work intrusted to us, using nothing but
the best materials and employing ski led mechanics. WE GU ARANTEE ALL WORK. Wo
so ici the Boiler and Mach nc work of our friends and the public, with assurance that it will
receive prompt and satisfactory attention.
McDonough ballantyinie,
Uiatrtjro, (Ptr
Watches, Diamonds,
JEWEL! I V,
Sterling Silverware, Plated Ware,
OPTICAL GOODS, FRENCH CLOCKS, GOLD CANES,
FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
Prices Low, Quality Correct and Assortment Ljirge. Save Money
by Haying at
A. L. DESBOUILLONS 5 ,
NO. !JI STIiEKT.
iilntrral JUatrr.
CONGRESS SPRING
The Standard Mineral Water.
Cathartic, A speeillc
for disorders o! the Stomach, Liver
and Kidneys. Eczema, Malaria and all
imparities of the Blood.
So enviable a name has this famous Mineral
AVater that the managers of inferior mineral
springs, desirous of imitating the natural
purity of the bottled water of Congress Spring,
inject a powerful acid in their bott ed water
to preserve the crude ingredients iu solution
being so heavily laden with
TIMK AND IBON DEPOSIT.
With such contrivances, bogus testimonials
and doctored analysis cards they seek to rival
the pure medicinal waters of Congress Spring.
The regular season visitors to Saratoga fully
understand these crude, harsh waters, many
of them after painful experiences, in proof
of this fact we can produce a great many re
sponsible names. But the Saratoga visitors
without experience, and many who use the
waters (often labeled as curatives for
should remeHfol. tlie y positively aggravate),
waters produce hcadarftßVU’’ harsh
and internal irritation, and do irfepTtiG! 1 .' 11
jury to the digestive organs and kidneys.
Congress Water Pure, Natural and
Reliable.
NONE GENUINE SOLD ON DRAUGHT.
For sale by Druggists, Grocers, Wine Mer
chants and 'Hotels.
BOTTLE “O” MARK.
2ciortt Jriltrr.
~ .FEWEII’S
WATER FILTERS
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—AND —
Filter and Cooler
COOKING” STOVES,
C * ROCKERT,
GLASSWARE and TINWARE.
For nale by
JOHN A. DOUGLASS & CO.,
I-" 7 BROUGHT* >X ST. SAVA\V ML ii A,
Publication*.
Georgia State Gazetteer!
Business & Planters’ Directory,
1884.
3d Velum*, containing 1,282 Pages..
r r , IIISk volamc contains more information
1 ttian any book of the kind ever published
ill this country. It is invaluable to business
men who desire information concerning Geor
gia, her eities and towns and her people. Ex
amine the table of conteuts and see if it is
not just the hook you want for reference:
ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS.
ALPHABETICAL LISTS OF TOWNS.
BC-INESS OH COMMERCIAL DIREC
TORY.
CENSES.
CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
CLERGYMEN.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS..
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
COURT DIRECTORY.
DKP VRTMENT OK STATE.
DIRECTORY OF TOWNS.
EDUCATIONAL.
FARMS AND IMPROVED LANDS-aam
ber of Acres.
.FISH CULTURISTS.
FINANCIERS OF COUNTIES,.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
GOVEUMENTAL.
LEGISLATURE.
MINES.
NEWSPAPERS.
PLANTERS AND FARMERS.
PRODUCTS Of COUNTIES.
RAILROADS.
UAILROAD ABBREVIATIONS.
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
STATE OFFICERS.
i SUPERIOR AND SUPREME COURTS.
TEACHERS.
, UNIT fell STATES COURTS.
The priee U only s.'> delivered, i„ savannah.
)or it will be seat post paid to. H ny address in
the V"’ted 'ta'.esjor Cana<’.a for f > 40.
J. 11. ESTILL,
l Savannah, Ga.
(lotion (Tontprroo.
MOHSF
COTTON COMPRESSOR
Exerts a pressure on the bale of 5.000,000
Pounds, the m >st powerful in the world.
[.'w toodo.l tl. larpest cargoes, per ton
port . ever taken from an American
■he whole mimbei Cotton compressors
in use >- tips country is to. *r eight itinerant
kinds. 4s oi n.,-,,.. ' ar , MOltkn, ., u< | rt p in
troduced in the la-t mx years. In 0... last
three years. 20 MORSE have been built,
and only Sour of all other kinds com
bined.
OVER ONE-HALF OF THE AMERI
CAN C TTOK CROP IS NOW COM
PRESSED BY MORSE COMPRESSORS.
Its use is saving Four to Five Million Hol
lar-* Annually to the cr >p, in freight charges.
Several of those erected six years ag -h ive
now compressed 600.000 to soo.tMS ales
each, without breakage or appreciable wear.
Not it single breakage or defect lias
ever occurred in any one of the MORSE
COMPRESSORS, built of Cold Blast
Charcoal Iron.
It has made the business of cotton com
pressing the safest and most profitable of any
in the -outh.
Those wanted for next season should ho or
dered at once. For par.iculars address the
Bole proprietor.
S. B. STEERS,
NEW ORLEANS.
?ti& (6louro.
GENTS~BI ACI'T'anTSTcOLOKED
K 11) GLOVES,
Worth 41 50, reduced to 75c. per pair.
Just received per steamship Tallahassee,
New Zephyrs, Frenh Satiues,
with Plain to match.
Widow's Cloth Tamise, Camel’s
Hair Grenadines, etc.
—ALSO—
A Fresh Lot of that $1 50 Black Silk.
A full line of the
lipraved Empire State Shirt!
The best filling and cheapest Shirt sold.
I’rice 41 each; Roy’s 75c. each,
GERMAINE’S
NEW STORE,
NEXT FERRER'S.
• lloti.ll (Gil&titn.
IRUBYS ROYAt!
GILDING
Ready for Instant Use.
“Useful in every heme in the land.”— Arons.
This magnificent Liquid Gilding may be
tow'd wherever Gold adds beauty.
It instantly gives a surface resembling Solid
Gold, no matter where applied.
It is in constant use bv over 1,300 Manufac
turers, Decorators, Giluers, etc.
FOR HOME USE.
RUBY’S ROYAL GILDING is invaluable
for Gilding Household Ornaments, Frames,
FurniturCyCciUngs, Baskets, Kang,
Etagere Objects, Decor Alive Painting, etc.
Most fashionable articles are more than
doubled in value by the merest touch of Gold.
A Camel's /fair Brush in e-oA Box.
ANY ONE CAN USE IT.
Price, 50e. Refuse all substitutes. Sold by
JOHN G. BUTLER, 6 Whitaker, A. HAS.
LEV, corner Whitaker and Y'ork. JOHN
OLIVER, 5 Whitaker, O. P. HAVENS, HS
Broughton, and ntosl other leading houses.
New York Chemical M’e’g Cos.. New York.
itmrit’o goofto.
Attention, Sportsmen.
Come and Examine.
JUST RECEIVED
Finest Breech-Loader!
Revolvers
P. O. KESSLER & CO.’S,
174 BROUGHTON ST., SAVANNAH. GA,
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