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SOUTHERN LEAUEU9HI P.
Fearful Forebodings of a Truly Loyal !
Scribbler.
In case the Democrats should carry the
Presidential election, says a AYashington
letter to the Cleveland leader, it is not
hard to conjecture which element of the ]
party will rule. The South lias succeed
ed at every point in the present Congress.
A Southerner occupies the Sjieaker’s
chair, and an editor, Henry AVatterson.
who was a soldier in the Confederate
army, and who published a paper called
the Hebei during the war. dictates the
policy of his party. Jeff Davis, in a j
speech lately uttered, referred to the j
fast-recuperating South, and hinted at a
second great struggle between the sec
tions. These facts should arouse the peo- ;
pic of the North to a knowledge of the
possibilities of Democratic rule, and the i
fact that millions of dollars of Southern j
claims are being pushed for payment j
should lead the business element of both
parties at the North to a question whether
they are willing to put the entire control
of the government into the hands of a par
ty whose rulers so lately attempted to de
stroy it.
The Solid South, say all classes of Dem
ocrats. may l>e relied upon for any candi
date and for any platform, and the fact is
patent that its leaders feel there will be
no difficulty after an election of throwing
platforms to the winds and manipulating
the candidates to suit themselves.
To show the foundation for this growth
of Southern power here at Washington it
is only neceseary to look at the Congres
sional directory, which contains the ten
or fifteen line autobiographies of the For
ty-eighth Congress. The Confederate ele
ment controls every Southern State, and
in these pages of their lives, penned by
their own bands, the proudest boast they
make is that they have borne arms
against the government from which they
now draw their livelihood.
From tins directory I extract tlio follow
ing. The reader can judge for himself how
much is written between the lines:
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, was a
delegate in Pkil to the State Convention
which passed the ordinance of secession;
joined the Confederate army in May, 1861,
as a private in Company I; and when
that company was assigned to the Fifth
Alabama Regiment, was elected Major
and afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel of that
regiment; appointed Brigadier-General
in 1863, and served to the close of the
war.
Senator Pugh. of Alabama, retired
from the Thirty-sixth Congress when Ala
bama ordained to secede from the Union;
joined the First Alabama Regiment as
a private; was elected to the Confed
erate Congress in 1861, and re-elected in
1863.
Senator Garland, of Arkansas, was a
delegate to the State Convention that
passed the ordinance of secession in 1861;
was a member of the Confederate Con
gress, serving in both Houses, being in
the Confederate Senate when the war
closed.
Senator AA r alker, of Arkansas, in the
late war espoused the Southern cause and
was Colonel of a regiment.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, was a Se
cessionist in 1860, and was active and en
ergetic as War Governor after the State
had seceded.
Senator A. H. Colquitt, of Georgia, en
tered the Confederate service in 1861, and
rose to be a Major-General. Tope Bar
row, his predecessor, was also a Confed- i
erate officer.
Senator AViliiams, of Kentucky, entered
the Confederate army as Colonel in 1861; ;
was made Brigadier-General in 1862, and j
surrendered with the army of Gen. Joseph '
E. Johnston in Georgia.
Seuator Jonas, of Louisiana, joined the 1
Confederate army as a private of artil- j
lery, served as such and as acting Ad- |
jutant of the artillery of Hood’s corps in ;
the Army of Tennessee until the end of
the war.
Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, was aid
■ho the Governor at the commencement of ;
the civil war, and served until its close in ;
the * onfederate army.
Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, resigned i
from the Congress of the United States i
tu 1860 to take a seat in the secession j
Congress of his State. In 1861 he en- j
Acred the Confederate army as Lieuten
ain-tiolonel in the Nineteenth Regiment, j
and was promoted to the Colonelcy. In
1863 he was intrusted by President Davis
with an important diplomatic mission to
Russia.
Senator George, of Mississippi, enlisted
in the Confederate service in 1861 and
commanded a regular regiment ot cav
alry.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, was a mem
ber of the House of Representatives of the
Confederate Congress for two years, and
a member of the Senate for one year.
Senator Ransom, of North Carolina,
entered the Confederate army, serving as
Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier-
General, and Major-General, and sur
rendered at Appomattox.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina, en
tered the Confederate army in May, I*6l,
And was made Colonel in August, 1861,
was elected Governor of North Carolina
in 1862, and re-elected in 1864.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, en
tered the Confederate service in June,
1861, as Captain of cavalry in the Hamp
ton Legion, and became Major-General
through the regular grades. He lost his
right leg at the battle ot Brandy’s Station
the 9th of June, 1*63.
Senator Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, served in the Confederate army
during the war.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, was a
volunteer aid upon the staff of the Com
manding-General of the Confederate
Army of Tennessee for the last three
years of the war.
Senator Maxey, of Texas, raised the
Ninth Texas Infantry lor the Confederate
army, of which he was Colonel; he was
promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General
in 1*62 and Major-General' in 1864. He
was also Superintendent of Indian Affairs
and remained in the service until the sur
render of the trans-Mississippi Depart
ment May 26, 1865.
Senator Coke, of Texas, served in the
Confederate army as private and after
ward as Captain.
So much for the Senators, now for the
Congressmen. The Confederates among
them are legion. First we have from Ala
bama, 11. A Herbert, Confederate Cap
tain. promoted to Colonelcy.
W. C. Oates entered the Confederate
army as Captain, appointed Colonel “for
valor and skill’ ’ displayed on the battle
field, wounded four times slightly and
twice severely, losing his right arm in
front of Richmond.
C. M. Shelley entered the Confederate
service in 1861 as Lieutenant, commis
sioned Brigadier-General, served under
Joe Johnston and Hood throughout the
war.
G. W. Hewitt, Confederate private in
1861, promoted Captain in 1862, and severe
ly wounded at Chickamauga.
W. 11. Forney, Confederate Captain
in 1863, and successively promoted Ma
jor, Licutenant-Colonelj and Brigadier-
General.
James T. Jones, private, and after
wards an officer in the Fourth Alabama
Regiment.
Next comes Arkansas, which furnishes
James K. Jones, who was a private soldier
in the Confederate army.
John 11. Rodgers joined the Ninth Mis
sissippi Regiment of Volunteers as a
private and rose to be First-Lieutenant,
while Samuel W. Peel, the last member
from Arkansas, entered as a private and
came out a Colonel.
Florida has but two Congressmen, but
one of them, Robert H. 31. Davidson, was
Lieutenant-Colonel of the sixth Florida
Infantry in the Confederate army.
In the Georgia delegation there are a
number of Confederates.
Col. Hardeman, of the Forty-fifth Geor
gia Infantry, announces that he was
wounded at the battle of Frazier’s farm
in the seven days’ fight around Rich
mond.
Lieut. Charles Frederick Crisp, of the
Tenth Virginia Infantry, entered the
Confederate army in 1861 and served
until 1860, when he became prisoner of
war.
Hugh Buchanan entered the Con- ,
federate army in June, 1861, and Col. j
Allen D. Candler went iuto the Con
federate army a private and came out a
Colonel.
Joe Blackburn, of Kentucky, served
throughout the war in the Confederate
army', and two of the Virginia Congress
men held important positions.
Carleton Hunt, E. John Ellis, and J.
Floyd King, among the most prominent of
the Louisiana members of the present
Congress, were all officers in the Confed
erate army.
Of the six members from 3larvland two
•were privates in the Confederate army,
and of the seven from Mississippi three
served with the Confederate army, and
another. Ethelbert Barksdale, serVed in
the Confederate Congress and can also
lioast of being the author of Mississippi
bulldozing.
Five of the eight Congressmen of North
Carolina were < -onfederate officers, and
four of the seven in South Carolina served
in the Confederate armv.
There are four ex-Confederate soldiers
in the Tennessee delegation, and among
the Congressmen from Texas, with other
Confederates, we find Mr. Reagan, a mem
ber of the Cabinet of Jeff. Davis.
LINCOLN’S RELIGIOUS LIFE.
His Former Private Secretary Tells of ;
If is Abiding Faith in God.
At the weekly meeting ot the Baptist
ministers Monday, says the New York
World, Mr. AA*. O. Stoddard, formerly the
private secretary of Abraham Lincoln,
delivered the following address on the re
ligious life of the famous President:
“About seventy-five years ago, in a mis
erable little cabin built of logs, with a
floor of mud. in the wildsof Hardin county,
Ky., there was born of poor white parents,
illiterate, ignorant to the last degree, de
graded, worthless, godless, an infant boy
of a father who to his dying day could not
earn a living on the best farm that could
be given him and of a mother who disap
pears from history so early that we have
little means of knowing who she was or
what she was, and only know that to the
present day her grave is unmarked. From
that cabin to another cabin like it, and
from that place, at the age of nine, after
picking up, nobody knows how, reading
and writing, his father moved to the Ter
ritory (it was then) of Indiana, and from
that they were raised to the dignity of a
new log cabin. There was no glass in the
windows, neither floor nor bed nor chair,
and lor miles around there were no other
settlers, and up to lull manhood in that
community he obtained, all told, includ
ing his Kentucky schooling, twelve months
of tuition. His first writing was upon a
shingle or on the back of a wooden shovel,
and his first associations were with this
rude backwoods community. Two years
after he got there his father brought a
stepmother into the cabin, the only mother
he ever knew. It was winter time, but
barefooted in the snow he went to meet
her—this boy that I am talking of, un
kempt, unwashed, of whom rears after
wards she said, ‘The first thing I under
took was to make him look a little like
human, and that was when he was eleven
vears old. Into that cabin the stepmother
brought a Bible, and it is of record it was
the only book there, and of course be be
came familiar with it; and info that cabin
there came a little while later a preacher,
and the only preacher that came there for
years. It was a preacher who had died
in England long before, but who had
preched to every one ot us, and his name
is Bunyan, and it is of record that the
boy’s rniud received every line of that pil
grimage.
“His father moved to Illinois and built
another log cabin, and he took another
trip down the river, and on his return
settled at New Salem, where at that time
there was neither law nor order; a town
where there was neither house nor store
that cost over SIOO. There was a mill
there, with a dam typical of the prevail
ing conversation in the community. Pass
ing through such a school, studying such
books as he could find, at the age of twen
ty-four he obtained a copy ot the works
ot A'olney and Tom Paine, and their in
fluence was such that he must needs write
a hook to prove that the Bible was not the
word of God and that Jesus was not the
Christ. lie read the manuscript to some
friends, and there was among them one
who had strong convictions, and he took
the manuscript trom the readei’s hand
and threw it in the fire.
“There was another preacher came to
him and he was betrothed. He gave his
whole life to her and she died. The teacher
had come and another process in his spir
itual development had arrived. Ilis brain
gave way. He who could lilt 1,100 pounds
dead-weight and could shake the cham
pion wrestler of Illinois became insane
for. weeks.”
-Mr. Stoddard continuing told how. when
Mr. Lincoln’s partner-in-business ran
away with the funds ami left him with
the debts, he worked hard and religiously
to pay every dollar. “The first work he
ever wrote,” said Mr. Stoddard, “was on
cruelty to animals, the second was on
evils of intemperance, and the third on
the necessity for popular education, and
although be was a member of a commu
nity degraded, reeking with impurity, I
never heard a word uttered against his
personal purity.”
The remainder of Mr. Stoddard's address
was confined to a retrospect of Mr. Lin
coln’s political career, showing by ex
tracts from his public speeches arid docu
ments that his nature was thoroughly
imbued with spirituality, and that his
trust in all emergencies was in the Lord.
A PANTHER HUNT,
Exciting Sport in the Jungles of Florida.
This sort of sport we imagine is very
risky, says the Madison Recorder, and now
and then in the frontier country we hear
some sturdy pioneer give his experience
of hair breadth escapes from their dread
ful teeth and claws. The Puma or Ameri
can lion belong to thisjamily. We seldom
meet with the panther in the portions of
! Florida pretty well settled. They soon
! recognize that man’s hand is against
! them and seek the solitude and shelter of
| the swamps and denser everglades, cora
; ing now and then to the settlement to carry
j off a fine calf or bullock.
A gentleman named Land with bis little
I son a couple of weeks ago was out with
i his dog 6 trailing deer not far from his
: place which is situated near Kettle Creek
; in lower Taylor county, when the dogs all
( at once left the trail apparently for larger
' game. For lour miles through tho
i swamps and marsh, boggy ground, the
i hunters followed the trailing of the
! hounds, when all at once they ceased to
trail, and commeneed a furious baying.
I The hunter, with his little son, who also
j had a gun, following in hot pursuit soon
found that he had no common enemy to
deal with, and becoming more cautious
advanced within view of his game. He
saw the dogs were barking up a pine tree
which had fallen and lodged in mid-air on
; another some distance from the ground.
High up he saw an animal which he
knew to be panther snarling at the dogs
i below. It was a powerful looking brute
and if wounded only the hunter knew that
1 his life would not be of much value.
When he saw the animal it was about
forty yards from him and raising his gun
; fie took deliberate aim and fired. The
; l*east seemed only wounded and running
i down the trunk of the tree came toward
the hunter with open mouth and eyeballs
glaring like coals of fire. For the hunter
this was a trying time, but'with a con
fidence begotton by experience in frontier
, life alone, he again had his gun to his
shoulder and when the brute had gotten
almost near enough for its hot breath to
be felt on bis face he fired, this time strik
ing it in the shoulder, the ball reaching
the heart, and it rolled over a few feet in
front of him. In its dying throes the beast
struck out its huge paws and an unwary
dog coming too nearwas crippled for life.
The hide measured eight feet from tip
to tip. It was not weighed but standing
Mr. Land said it was as large as a buck.
In speaking to a friend about it he said
that when the panther was running to
ward him he felt that every hair of his
head stood straight and alone.
He says that he knows of some more
dow T n there in the vicinity of where this
one was killed and if any one wants ex
citing sport they can get their heart's
desire right there.
Royalty in the Nursery.
“C 'rest" in the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Not long before she died 1 saw the old
white-haired nurse of Queen Victoria, and
she told me some interesting incidents
connected with her long service, among
them how bitterly the then young, high
spirited Queen wept when she found that
state etiquette consigned her first-born to
the tender mercies of a wet nurse, and
how vividly the memory of that time was
recalled to Her Majesty when the bell rang
out in celebration of the birth of her
grandson, the future King of England.
Then she and the fair young Princess cried
together like any two simple women of
warm maternal hearts, and the latter de
clared if she wasn’t allowed to nurse her
own baby nobody should prevent her
washing him, and so she did, donning a
flannel dress for the purpose and
putting the tiny Prince in his tub
herself. It was this same faithful
servitor that first told “the pony
story.’’ Whether it has ever been put in
print on this side of the water I know not,
but take the risk. It seems the day the
Princess Beatrice was born the Prince
Consort went into the nursery where the
royal children were having a good time.
“Mamma sends you a message,” began
Prince Albert. '“She is going to make
you a beautiful present, and wahts to
know which you would prefer, a little
brother or a little sister?’ This was a
domestic conundrum, when the young
Duke of Edinburgh’s tace suddenly lit up
with the joy of a satisfactory solution.
“Ob, papa,” he exclaimed, “pray tell
mamma if <=he had just as soon we would
much rath r have a pony.” For a long
time afterward the Princess was at quite
a discount with her brothers, who per
sisted in regarding her as a might-have
been small Shetland.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEAVS: SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1884.
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
SUMMER DESIGNS AND SUMMER
FABRICS
For In and Out-of-Doors AVear —The
Difficulty of Choice—White Washing:
Dresses —The Fall of the Draperied
Overskirt—Smniner and Linen Under
wear—Farasols and Yachting Suits.
Correspondence of the Morning Seses.
New York, May 2.—The ingenuity ex
hibited in creating novelties in fashion, or
variations that pass for such, is certainly
wonderful, and deserves better recogni
tion than it receives. It is true that good
or bad ideas are accepted and much money
spent on very perishable articles; but
women always buy, wear and speak of
dress as if it were something to be apolo
gized for—a weakness which society de
mands of them, but which they would
willingly get rid of or relegate to a sec
ondary place if they could. 3lany women
are in reality very proud ot their own
taste in selecting their attire, or they are
proud of it costs or its individuality;
but I never knew but two women who
acknowledged it. One,a beautiful woman,
had lieen all her life cramped for means,
hut married rich, and her delight in all
the lovely things for her own adornment
was so naturaland genuine, so free from
vanity and ill-will, so purely the outcome
of her love of beauty and pleasure in all
that was fairest and best in this world,
that it did not seem in her a fault or even
a weakness, but only a part of her frank
and honest nature. The other believed
dress to be part of the mission and duty
of woman, one of the means—like Bart
holdi’s statue—of enlightening a dark and
stupidly dreary world. Her dress was
less spontaneous, and, therefore, less joy
ous than that of the first mentioned lady,
and had a moral aspect, as if gotten up
with a purpose, and with a determination
to be equal to the occasion.
THE DIFFICULTY OF CHOICE.
Dress was never more difficult than it
is to-day, simply because choice is so
abundant—the resources so large that it
Is almost impossible to decide between
what you want and what the Fates seem
to have provided for you. A’ou look in
vain for something ot which you have
read and which seemed to be* just the
thing you would choose for yourself.
You see nothing like it. Everything
strikes an average—is hopelessly common
place, or so sensational as to suggest the
caricatures in a French comic paper.
AVhat you lack is Individuality and lack
ol adaptation to special tastes. But this is
incompatible with the modern demand
for cheauness and the necessity lor turn
ing out everything by machine and in
quantity. This cheapens and raises the
general standard of attainment, but it
produces an average of mediocrity which
rises or falls only a few inches above or
below its level.
GRAY AND WHITE.
It was remarked last season that soft
shades of gray and gray and white were
in high vogue, and some examples of gray
refinement in these tints were given. This
season gray and white is more fashiona
ble than ever, and indeed it has become a
sort of furore among young ladies in so
ciety, whose gray morning dresses with
square tucker of white muslin or transpa
rent lawn, delicately tucked, straight
skirts, and small tucked or embroidered
white aprons,* constitute somewhat de
mure but most certainly very charming
toilets. Other gray dresses are used for
traveling, and are very effective, yet sim
ple and not necessarily expensive. The
models are imported, and they are made
of a fine silky gray mohair, trimmed with
a white mohair braid more silvery than
silk itself. Silver braid is used for the
same purpose, but the mohair is preferred
by the best dressmakers as more refined.
The skirt consists of a plaited front (up
right) surmounted by a short draped
apron, sides finished differently, and
straight back, consisting of two full
slurred breadths; short habit basque. The
braid is wide, is put on upright between
the pleating in front in a flat single row
upon the apron, and also upon the edge of
the basque. The buttons are small and
silvered, or hematite set in silver.
The effort to re-introduce mohair is the
entering wedge to the anticipated revival
of the whole class of stiff silk-finished
w oolen fabrics which have been striving
for so long a period to regain their lost
prestige. That they are durable, dust
proof and economical, there is no denying;
and it is a stroke of wisdom to reintro
duce them in the soft grays, in which they
are more attractive than in any deep or
positive color. Of course gray is fashion
able in many other materials beside mo
hair, but these mohair traveling dresses
are distinctly new, and the few brought
over by importers have been snatched up
as soon as seen. Poplin belongs to the
same family as the mohair, and they rise
and fall together. Several of the hand
somest of the new dresses made this sea
son have been made from poplin, and have
won extravagant eulogiums. One of
these, a dull golden bronze; a russet shade,
was combined with dull gold satin which
formed a vest and pauiers. The round
skirt was full anti straight at the back,
and the overskirt, carried to the sides
only, formed a diagonal line descending
very deep on one side, and on the other
reaching only to the line of the panier.
The trimming was wide flat Persian braid,
solid gold, mixed with Persian colors in a
very rich Persian pattern.
A beautilul dress of gray poplin is worn
by Miss Georgia Cay van’in “May Blos
soms.” It is very simple, as are all Miss
Cayvan’s costumes. She is singularly in
dependent of clothes, or rather the con
ventional forms seem to be entirely lost
upon her. She wears several different
and prettv gowns in “May Blossoms”—
one a chintz cotton, another a soft gray
indoor dress, a third a white satin surah,
and the fourth a very handsome gray pop
lin. All of them are made with straight
skirts, without a suspicion of overskirt;
and how pretty and graceful they are!
how well they suit her! The fullness is
of course massed at the back, the sides
and front being gored and draped or pleat
ed. The cotton and surah bodices were
both full, and the latter had a Turkish
sash, the silk folded about the hips on a
line with the bodice, where it was attach
ed with the “accordeon” pleats of the
skirt.
THE FALL OF THE OVER.
SKIRT
is presaged, and when the event really
occurs there ought to be a general mil
hearty Te Deum sung over its departure
anti the deliverance of woman from its
tyranny. If poplin effects this, and it
must or go to the wall, we can welcome
back poplin, the unadaptable, with re
joicing. The part that the draperied
overskirt has played in dress and fashion
for the past twenty-five years is certainly
curious. The changes in it have been the
only ones of any moment that have taken
place. The “tailor-cut” has heightened
the shoulders and shaped more closely
the basque and jacket; but the overskirt
has been the terror, tbe pivot upon which
the fate of dress hung, and the interior
cat’s cradle of strings upon which its
“effect” depended, has brought many a
fair lady and many an apparently fault-’
less toilet to grief. Now all the changes
have been rung upon it over and
over again. It has been cut
so as to suggest everything under
heaven that is used to cover something
else. Awnings, lambrequins, curtains,
fluted linings, portiere and mantelpiece
draperies. Doubtless it will die bard, but
it will be something to get rid of it 60 as
to admit of the real skirt asserting its
claims to supremacy, for of late the over
skirt has not been content with covering
up the real skirt, with concealing it. It
undertook to reduce it to a fragment, a
mere flounce, and boldly usurped its
place. For some time past the most ele
gant trained dresses have been made with
single skirts, or skirts trimmed in
front and at the sides; but with only the
slightly draped or plaited fullness to’give
distinction to the train; but the round
skirt, with straight full back, is an un
dertaking that demands a fabric with
backbone ar.d that is yet supple, and all
of this can be said for the new poplins.
SI MMER LINEN AND UNDERWEAR.
The “diamond” effects produced by put
ting together two layers of clear linen
lawn or batiste and cutting away the
superfluous portions from the outlines,exe
cuted by stitching or embroidery, are
greatly admired upon trousseaus upon
which they have been lreely used. The
very large quantities, the several dozens
of everything which used to be thought
recessary are no longer considered even
desirable, the want of space as well as
the changes in fashion limiting expendi
ture in this direction. But the styles are
enchanting, and it is not surprising that
they excite intense desire on the part of the
average young woman who is born with a
liking for pretty things. The finest of the
fabrics of which fine trousseaus are com
posed is now so soft and sheer that it is
almost like the finest silk muslin. Baby
busts (full) of real lace are set
into the chemises and the deep
square yokes or long lines of the night
dresses 'show the diamond effects, alter
nating instead of tucks with exquisite
needle work. Flannel skirts of striped
pink and white, or pale China blue and
white, are trimmed with deep Florentine
lace, and upon matinee robes of foulard
or China silk Is expended fabulous quanti
ties of Mechlin—not real, of course—but
an excellent imitation. At the health ex
hibition, to take place in Loudon ’this
month, a novelty for underwear is an
nounced, which, it is expected, will at
tract great attention. It is anew silk
“long cloth,” warm, soft, gentle, and
sj>ecially adapted to those who cannot
bear contact with flannel or any woolen
material. It is difficult to see how silk
which is cool and repellant can be made
warm and absorbent as the new
fabric is said to be, but as most things
are possible now-a-days, this may be. It
is ecru in color and has a plain or twilled
surface, as preferred. The Health Con
gress will revive the interest on the sub
ject of dress and afford an opportunity to
Lady llarbertou’s active Rational Dress
Society to make another display of “ra
tional” costumes, which, if not generally
acceptable, serve to popularize many good
ideas.
An annual congress or dress’exhibitlon,
in which all sides would have an oppor
tunity to be represented, the new things
would be brought before the public, and
the whole subject opened as one capable
of individual modification and improve
ment and not subject to arbitrary law,
would be useful and educational, and
sometime New A’ork may be big enough
and original enough to have one of its
own.
AX INFANT OUTFIT.
The other day a cheek was sent in to
the “special order” department of a large
Broadway house which, it was explained,
was the payment for an outfit provided
lor an infant which had been left mother
less and taken charge of by a rich and
doting maternal grandmother. Only two
years before the same house had furnished
ihe trousseau for the lovely young bride.
Now the grief of the mother at the
the daughter she loved found consolation
in a lavish outpouring of rich gifts upon
the head of the unconscious baby she had
left. It was five months old now and to
be short coated. This was the occasion
for the outfit, which included nundeen
real lace dresses, a coat of white corded
silk hand embroidered and trimmed with
fine wide duchess lace, a w hite cloth coat
lined with silk and trimmed with Floren
tine lace, and a lace cap, a marvel of soft
waves of lace and narrow satin ribbon
and marabout feathers.
In the department where this order was
executed hung a silk quilt of very dainty
workmanship—some of the pieces embroi
dered; some hand-painted. This quilt
was made on and sent lrom the “free
bed” of a hospital by a woman once rich,
who had spent thousands ot dollars at
this same store, but now thankfully avail
ed herself of the interest of oix* of its pro
prietors in an “institution” to procure a
shelter, a place’to die in, and the means
to die decently. Iler husband bad speculat
ed and lust, lier health had declined. She
had no friends willing to take iu and pro
vide for a woman used to luxury and dy
ing of cancer, and it was through the in
terest of this pitying merchant, who had
known her in her prosperous days, that
she was so far relieved from her terrible
position as to be placed under shelter and
kindly cared for.
IMPqKTED COSTUMES.
This is an “oir’ year and all the buyers
from Paris agree that it is very difficult ;
to find attractive novelties. Fashions
abroad, when they “catch on,” as one
slang phrase puts it, always last two
•years, so, although there may be an effort
to get up something striking to please
American buyers, there are no decided or
revolutionary changes. Even the imagi
nation of a French milliner must liefal
! low sometimes or it would not be capable j
of tbe great efforts which are expected of \
! it. 'There is no lack of distinction, how
ever, in the costumes as exhibited by a
! young ond enterprising firm of importers
i and dressmakers in West Thirty-fifth
street. Among the most noticeable was a
lovely toilet of golden brown changeable
| silk combined with heliotrope also shot
with gold and covered with white lace.
The lighter shade, lace-covered, formed a
plaited vest and narrow front, the lower
sides of the front being flounced in deli
cate Mechlen in a maiden-hair fern pat
tern, and the upper portions covered with
paniers of the golden-brown silk, which
1 also formed full train and basque. A dark
shot silk in ruby and bronze shades was
covered with tine black Llama lace, pro
ducing tho color effect of old Venetian
glass, and a velvet dress of Ottoman com
bined with rich velvet figured grenadine
was dazzling with showers of sparkling
jet. which covered the entire front. A
great deal of lace is used, principally
Mechlin, or rather an admirable imitation
of it. Some charming white dresses were
of surah or Ottoman covered in front with
ruffles of delicate lace in the maiden hair
pattern, which is a great favorite, and
combined with embroidered crape, the
embroidery in small dots, satin finished.
A thick satin-wood brown, was made
with plaited front, sufmounted by a small
apron bordered deeply with an exquisite
network and fringe oUgolden brown and
bronze beads. The basque was covered,
excepting the sleeves, with a similar net
work ; but below it at the back the full
skirt hung in rich folds quite plain. A
singular dress was of uncut velvet m bis
cuit color upon mulberry satin. A fichu
of China crape crossed’ the breast in a
quaint, suggestive fashion, and extended
to the skirt, where it formed a pointed
apron which was embroidered and caught
up with a clasp of odd filagree workman
ship. There were several poplins, one
gray with narrow feather band trimming,
another cinnamon brown trimmed with
, broad, flat Persian embroidery. A ball
j dress, made for Easter, was of gauze crape
i over white satin, the trimming fine,
] wide, white silk embroidery flounced and
! laid in plisses. The front was covered
j with this embroidery, caught up on one
i side with bunches of white lilac. The
bodice was of full gauze crossed over
| the satin, and the drapery of the same was
: almost concealed under wide sashes of
satin ribbon. A calling dress was of
dull terracotta, satin brocaded, with gray,
uncut velvet, and made as a coat cos
tume, with lining ot satin and border of
gray feather trimming. A pearl gray
cloth was trimmed with flat, silver braid,
very wide, and more like a line canvas
than braid.
THE NEWEST IN HATS AND BONNETS.
It is not known how much of the im
ported millinery comes now from Eng
land and Is not uufrequently sold as.
French. The English styles are credited
with being more practical—less fussy and
more specialized. The coaching hat is
distinctively English. It is large, of fine
split straw, with moderately high crown
and straight brim, which ’is faced with
velvet, olive or bronze. The exterior
trimming is a mass of soft lace and
feathers, with enameled flies or bugs
nestling in their folds, the insects being
real, of tho most brilliant tints, and
riveted upon perforated gold plates to
which the pin is attached, which fastens
them and renders them eligible for dress
decoration. The walking hat is more
round and less boat-shaped than formerly.
It is always in colored straw, dark or
gray-blue, brown or rock gray, or ecru.
The’ trimming is velvet In two colors or
shades, and a large wing, birds or a group
of mushrooms.
The English bonnets are small and cot
tage-shaped. A favorite trimming upon
straw is two narrow rouleaux of velvet,
gray, black or ruby, wound about closely
with twisted silver cord. Bunches of
white lilacs, buttercups and daisies, min
gled with real meadow grass or natural
white clover, are the principal features in
the decoration; and to these is generally
added coquilles of soft white lace anil
white lace strings, which are tied in a
large bow under the chin. Instead of the
small gold pins used last year, long slen
der darning needles are employed to fasten
ribbons or lace, many of the brilliant lit
tle flies and butterflies having no pin at
tachment. The French hats and bonnets
are more striking and sensational. They
have the tall narrow crowns and often a
lace cape pleated on and headed with a
band of satin ribbon. High up against
this sugar loaf rests a mass of lace and
flowers, or flowers and soft gauze crape,
the silver-leafed geranium or mustard and
cress in quantities being found very effec
tive.
Feathers are disappearing, and it is
time, for they have been literally trailing
in the dust.
The new gauze crape is a lovely
material for millinery purposes, and much
used in white, pale pink and blue, for
bonnets for evening wear. For this pur
pose it is embroidered or brocaded in long
bots or leaves, and the crown is shirred
so as to form upright cords. The brim
is closely puffed and sometimes speckled
with fine gold or silver, but the dotted
crape effect is more refined, particularly
as the marabout feathers, wuich consti
tute the principal part of the ornamenta
tion, are powdered with gold and fall in a
shower over the front. These bonnets
are exquisitely light, soft and delicate—
much prettier with a light toilet than the
gold braided crowns which every one is
tired of seeing.
WHITE TOILETS.
Great quantities of white dresses are
being sold, so doubtless many will be
worn. There is one comfort about them—
they have established a sort of standard
for washing dresses, and the variations
from year to year are not important. This
year "the favorite style for girls is very
simple. It consists of a round tucked
skirt and tucked blouse, waist put inside
the skirt and worn with a ribbon or velvet
licit. A rosette of narrow velvet or satin
ribbon is attached to the corsage. The
overskirt is often only an apron with wide
tucked sash, the whole of course trimmed
with embroidery, some of which is very
fine and beautiful. A pretty style for
making these white washing dresses is
with the lower front iu upright tucks,
with w ide embroidery between a round
apron edged with handsome embroidery
and a sash tied over three deep, kilted
flounces at the back. In silk, muslin,
gauze, crape or an unwashable material
the draped apron would form a sort of
lambrequin over the hips and a drapery,
slight, graeetul and irregular, terminat
ing in a point on either side the pleatings
at the back.
AA’hite washing dresses, more or less
handsome, are much used for graduating
dresses, and at one house, where a spe
cialty is made of them, a very re
spectable one can be purchased for about
sl2. Thousands are sold every season.
It is quite time the schools that rank as
colleges and confer honors discarded the
white namby-pamby graduating dress
and adopted some sort of academic gown.
It need not be black nor clerical looking;
but it ought to have a certain character
and dignity which white muslin has not
and never can have, because it is essen
tially characterless, and needs something
to save it lrom milk and water. It is
said that velvet will be used again upon
white lawns, muslins, and thin silk ma
terials; not in black alone, )>ut also iu
colors—garnet, terracotta, myrtle green,
and heliatrope upon white, black being
used more upon ecru and gray.
Gray muslins or thin wool trimmed with
narrow flounces, edged with several rows
of very narrow velvet, is extremely pretty,
and upon this young girls may wear the
masses of small poppies, buttercups, or
white and pink daisies, which are the
recognized badge of young womanhood.
Thin gray and black or gray and white
dresses would form very suitable styles
for graduating purposes," as each member
of the class could be distinguished by her
favorite flower without marring the'gen
eral effect, and they would make modest
and useful evening dresses afterwards.
SUMMER WRAPS AND PARASOLS.
The small richly trimmed mantles, the
half cloaks anil the fussy garments of
every description are carefully avoided
by stylish young women, who ciing faith
fully to the close-fitting jacket, the jersey
redingote and the small high-fitting shoul
der cape. Iu this they are guided by good
taste and correct judgment. •Eiclnis and
fussy things, as a trimmed basque or
bodice, add to the apparent age of the
young, or rather detract from a fresh and
youthful appearance, and should be left
to older women who wish to distract at
tention from the evidences of their ad
vancing age. The new mantalettes are
extraordinarily rich and effective. They
are made of velvet figured grenadine
lined with shot silk, always in some shade
of brown or ruby or violet, with gold.
The body part is a mass of glittering em
broidery in amber and ruby and bronze,
or the embroidery may be executed in
hollow jet, aud the edge finished with soft
full silk chenille and jet fringe above
ruffles of lace.
More severe styles consist of small capes
and mantles of eseurial lace, which is ef
fective in itself and does not require the
addition of either lace or Iringe. Small
capes and collars ot lace or jetted
net fitted to the shoulder are among the
things which are not exactly new, but are
constantly taking on some little variation
of form, and are so convenient as an out
door addition to- a toilet that does not re
quire a garment for warmth or drapery
that they always find purchasers.
Summer ulsters and dusters will be
made largely of light gray mohair or al
paca. It is cool, does not take dust, and
is serviceable in traveling so long as it
does not get rained upon. Thin water
proof silk is most useful for protection
from showers, as it is hardly a feather in
weight and can be put up in the smallest
compass.
Silk parasols are now almost universal
ly covered with piece lace cut to fit the
gores and stitched into the seams—not
made whole as formerly. Around the
edge is a full ruche (not ruffle)of lace,
the pendant edge being often formed of
flowers. This floral adornment is rarely
seen upon any but secondary parasols,
such as are used for races or an excur
sion by coach. The finest things are al
ways simple, and real lace would be vul
garized by artificial ornamentation. There
are many parasols of cream-colored lace
and surah, with bamboo sticks, and a
great variety in flowered satine with lace
border, natural orange wood or olive wood
sticks, and a bunch of white clover tied
to the point where it closes.
Tbe greatest novelty in lace-covered
parasols iollows the fashion of the fronts
of some of the new dresses, and lays side
pleats in silk covered with lace. Parasols
of this description are necessarily small,
and the pleats form a fluted fan-shape,
something like the fashionable “aeoor
deon” plaits. The effect is novel and
pretty, but they are expensive.
YACHTING OUTFITS
are attracting attention, as so much
yachting is to be done this year. A lady
who is to accompany her husband upon
an extended trip has just had a suit made
of terracotta flannel trimmed with gray,
and embroidered upon the gray with blue,
yellow bronze and terra cotta’shades, the
embroidery forming the monogram and
insignia of the yacht. For a dinner dress
she has had a short costume of Jacquemi
not satin very richly trimmed with ruby
bronze and amber beaded trimming, and
finished with gold embroidered lace ar
ranged at the neck as a Marie Stuart
collar. A wrapper of white opera flan
nel, lined with soft silk plush, is for cabin
use. The material is embroidered all
over with little figures in silk and gold.
Suits of white flannel are to be much
used, mounted with terracotta, or gray
worked with terracotta. The blouse
waist with kilted or pleated skirt is
largely used; but the case is one which
calls for Lady Haberton’s divided skirt.
Nothing could be more suitable as a com
promise for a yachting dress.
Jenny June.
AUSTRIA’S EMPRESS.
A Royal Beauty, and Iler Whims and
Sacrifices.
The Empress is at once proud and ca
pricious, says a Vienna letter to the Lon
don Daily Sews, and in some ways is one
of the most interesting, as well as extra
ordinary, women of her rank that the cen
tury has produced. She is equally proud
of her hair and her figure, the first being
as abundant as a Magdalen’s—the latter
as slender as a girl’s. The former she
wears as loosely as possible; the latter
she tightens as much as she can. Her
waist belts used to be shown as curiosi
ties in exhibitions. They measured only
eighteen inches in circumference. I can
remember but one other woman with a
waist so small.
The Emperor has always been a model
husband, so far as admiration for bis
wife’s beauty is concerned. He is re
ported to have said on one occasion that
“the Empress Eugenie might be the
most beautiful woman in the world if
there were not my wife.”
When the Shah of Persia traveled some
years ago in Europe, the Empress of Aus
tria was the only sovereign who would
not receive him. She shut herself up in
a country castle all the time that he was
iD Austria. She never could be induced
to go Paris during the empire, the style of
living at the Tuileries not being to her
taste. A short time ago, also, when pass
ing through Paris, she would not go to
the Elysee to return the President’s visit.
She never follows a fashion, it is said, but
makes fcer own fashions, and, as all her
inventions are suited to her own peculiari
ties of person, they do not. become many
other women. It was she who introduced
the abominable fashion of high shouldered
sleeves fulled in on the shoulders, a
fashion which does little credit to her
artistic taste, to say the least.
Altogether, however, Austria is proud
of its Empress, who, take her all in all, is
a wonderfully attractive woman for her
age. I must add that no woman ever
studied her own beauty so much as the
Empress does. Every hour ol the day is
employed in its conservation. She rises
at daybreak and goes to bed at dark, to
keep her complexion clear, and she spends
tbe day on horseback to keep her figure
trim. Her food and drink are carefully
regulated, and for the same object. This
is certainly better than painting her face,
but it is a life of sacrifices which few
women would be willing to lead, even for
beauty’s sake.
HORSFORB’S ACII PHOSPHATE,
lleware of Imitations.
Imitations and counterfeits have again
appeared. Be sure that the word “Hors
ford’s” is on the wrapper. None are
genuine without it.
SAVED BY WILD PIGEONS.
With the Help of a Big Beech Nut Year
and a Delaware ltiver Freshet.
A flock of wild pigeons, flying very high
in a northwesterly direction, says a Mgr 60-
ton (X. Y.) special to the Sun, attracted
the attention of that village’s population,
and the flock was watched with in
tense interest until it disappeared in the
di9tar.ee.
“Now, that’s what I call a genuine cu
riosity,” said an old resident. “That’s
the first flock of pigeons I’ve seen in ten
vears in these parts.and yet lean remem
ber when they came here by the thousands
every spring and fall. They used to nest
in our woods in the spring, and came back
again every other fall to feed on the beech
nuts. They came every two years because
they knew that the beech trees were bar
ren every other year, and they never made
a mistake in the year, either.
“If it hadn’t been for wild pigeons some
of the richest men in this county and in
neighboring counties would have been
poor to-day—that is, if they had stayed
where they were. AVe used to have some
big pigeon years, but the season of 1837
beat any two we ever had. Lumbering
was the only business in this part of the
county then, as that and tanning are now.
The lumber was rafted down to the Dela
ware, and then to Philadelphia and other
markets. In 1837 times were bad. That
was the year of the great panic. Lumber
couldn’t be sold for what it cost to get it
to market, and lor what was sold it was
hard to get pay. To make matters worse,
all crops failed in this region that'season.
The fall opened with prospects of starva
tion for the hundreds of people who de
pended for support on the lumber busi
ness. Employers had no money to pay
workmen, and there was no way to obtain
tbe necessaries of life.
“It happened that 1837 was the beech
nut year, and nobody remembered when
the nuts have been"so plenty for many
years. That was the salvation of the re
gion. People were beginning to talk in
earnest of making raids upon the sur
rounding towns and villages to obtain
supplies, the news of the bread riots in
New A’ork having reached liereHind given
them the cue. But before any act of this
kind was committed the wild pigeons be
gan to arrive in the beeches, and in a very
few days the woods were alive with them.
To say that there were millions of them
does not approach the number. Every tree
seemed to be loaded, and the ground was
littered with the branches broken off by
their weight as they thronged in the tree's
at night toToost." The noise made bv
their wings and throats was so great that
the report of a gun could not be heard 100
feet away. A jierson could go anywhere
in the beeches, shut his eyes and" shoot,
and never fail to bring "down pigeons.
The whole region turned out to kill pi
geons. They were shot, clubbed, netted,
and killed and captured in every known
manner by men, women and children, and
carried away by the boatload and sold
about the country.
“There was a splendid rafting Leshet
in the Delaware at the time, but, although
there were many rafts ready to run, it
isn’t likely one would have been started
down the "river if it hadn’t been for the
wild pigeons. Old raftmen and others
agreed to run these ralts to Philadelphia
free of charge to the owners if they would
grant them the privilege of loading the
lumber with pigeons. The offer was gladly
accepted and every raft was run heavily
freighted with pigeons. Some of the rafts
were stopped at different points along the
river, where, hard as the times were, prof
itable markets were found for the birds.
Others ran through to Philadelphia direct,
where the pigeons were quickly sold at
good prices. The freshet kept up so well
that some speculators made several trips,
clearing as high as SI,OOO atrip. Before
the pigeons left the jieeches, which was
not for weeks, more money was brought
back to the region from their sale than
was received for all tbe lumber that went
to market. Men who, with their families,
had been on tbe verge of starvation, were
made comparatively rich almost in a day,
and the foundations of big fortunes were
laid. One of the biggest grocery estab
lishments and one of the wealthiest leather
firms in New York city to-day owe their
existence to the big pigeon year of 1837,
for the men who own them were started
in business by their fathers.'wfio made the
money by rafting wild pigeons down the
river in that memorable fall,
“Speaking of beech nuts and specula
tion, another big year for nuts was 1820,
and that year a man named Conroy went
into a speculation that had quite a’ differ
ent result from the one in wild pigeons
that followed. In those days peoplewere
in the habit of letting their pigs run in the
woods and fatten on the nuts. Conroy
conceived the idea of lattening hogs iii
this way by wholesale, and then gathering
them up and driving them to market. He
calculated that he could easily make a
profit of at least $5 on every hog thus fat
tened. lie scoured the country and bought
up at least a thousand pigs and turned
them into the beeches. They got along
finely; but a week or so before he intended
to collect his bogs and drive them to mar
ket the weather turned terribly cold and
a foot of snow fell. When he went into
the woods to get his hogs he found them
scattered about dead, in groups of a dozen
or so, where they had huddled together to
keep warm. A few only survived the
colei, an;! they ran wild. "Descendants of
theirs lived in the woods for years and
were so wild that they afforded many ex
citing hunts for the sportsmCll Of that
day.”
NOHDENSK.JOLD’S J APAN BOOKS
A Remarkable Collection in tlie I*os-
Fcstion of tlie Great Explorer.
Among the varied spoil brought home
by Baron Nordenskjold from tlie memor
able voyage in the Vega around Europe
and Asia, says the London Times, was a
large collection of Japanese books, the
largest, we believe, ever introduced into
Europe. During the Vega’s stay at
Japan, Nordenskjold devoted most of his
time to bringing together a representative
library of Japanese publications, and his
success may be estimated from the fact
that the catalogue of the library, which
has been -printed in Paris and recently
issued, covers upward of 350 pages. This
catalogue has been compiled, revised and
annotated by M. Leon de Rosny, the emi
nent Professor in the Special School of
Oriental Languages at Paris, with an in
troduction by the Marquis ct’Hervey deSt.
Denys, Professor at the College deFrance.
From this introduction we learn that
Nordenskjold's collection of Japanese
manuscripts and books is one of the most
numerous and valuable ever - brought to
gether in any public or private library of
'Europe. Japanese books have, until re
cently, been of the greatest rarity in Eu
rope, and the specimens which existed
were generally of little value. The Na
tional Library of Paris,’ so rich in Chinese
works, had only about twenty volumes
from Japan twenty years ago. Since the
opening up of Japan’to the outside world,
however, many of the great public libra
ries of Europe have made considerable ac
quisitions of the literature of the country,
though, from a want of knowledge of the
language, these collections have been
mostly made at haphazard. The catalogue
of the Nordenksjold collection, then, may
be regarded as an important step toward
the acquisition of a thorough knowledge
of the literature of an unusually interest
ing country. Some of the works in this
catalogue are of very ancient date, and
Jiot to lie obtained through the usual chan
nels of commerce. Some of the manu
scripts reproduce printed texts not other
wise to be obtained, while others contain
original works which may turn out to be
invaluable.
The catalogue was originally put to
gether by a native, but it contained so
many errors that Baron Nordenskjold
asked and obtained the assistance of Prof,
de Rosny, not only to revise the catalogue,
but to superintend its printing at the
national printing office of France, at the
expense of Dr. Oscar Dickson. In ac
complishing his task M. de Rosnv has
taken endless trouble; he has classified all
the works under a considerable number
of headings, given them titles which af
ford some idea of the nature of the con
tents, and in many cases added notes
which will be of the greatest service to
the serious student. Dates have, more
over, been added to the works, indicating
as nearly as possible the time of composi
tion or publication, while an attempt is
made to indicate the size in terms of
European bibliography. Prefixed to the
catalogue is a list of books that will be
serviceable to the student of Japanese in
acquiring a knowledge of the language
aud literature. The library is divided into
twelve sections by M. de Rosny, as fol
lows: 1. Religion; 2. Philosophy; 3. Ex
act Science; 4. Natural Science; 5. So
cial and Political Science; 6. Language
and Philology; 7. History; 8. Geogranhv;
9. Belles Lettres; 10. Arctneology "and
Fine Art; 11. Education. Industry and
Useful Arts; 12. Encyclopedias, Bibli
ography, Journals, etc. We are unable
to give further details concerning this
unique catalogue, but have probably said,
sufficient to give those interested in the
subject an idea of its value.
Pm IllUUttrrti, etc.
A. R. ALTMAYER & €O.
135 BROUGHTON STREET.
JERSEYS! JERSEYS! JERSEYS!
BARGAINS THIS WEEK.
Having exhausted our immense stock of JERSEYS which we hail placed in sto. i
for this season’s trade, we were compelled to reorder again and received b\
Saturday 500 dozen of JERSEYS, in Plain and Fancy Colors, and in all si/. ! r ‘
eluding Misses’ and Children’s. To the many of our Ladv customer, w
disappointed last week in sizes, we will have no difficultv in fitting them now e
REAR THIS PRICE LINT.
LADIES'. lhulweek. LnJ'\\w k
25 dozen Black and Colored Jerseys $1 50 * >
25 dozen Black aud Colored Jerseys 1 75 7,
25 dozen Black and Colored Jerseys 2 00
15 dozen Black, Extra Fine, Jerseys 2 50
15 dozen Black, Special Line, Jerseys 3 00
10 dozen Black Braided Jerseys 3 50 4 jq
5 dozen Black Beaded Jerseys. 4 25 5
1 lot of Silk Imported Jerseys, worth from sl2 to $lB, reduced to $8 and $lO. a most
superb bargain.
CHILDREN’S JERSEYS.
A full line of Misses’ and Children’s Jerseys, in plain and fancy colors, at astoni-h
--ingly low prices.
IN OUR
MILLINERY DEPARTMENT,
Trimmed Hat3 and Bonnets, Untrimmed Hats aud Bonnets, Feathers, F10w.;.,
Ornaments, Pompons, etc., are to be found. Misses’ and Children's Straw Hat, in
all shapes and shades. Boys’ and Y’ouths’ Straw Hats in endless varieties, not t
surpassed by any House in" the State, at AA T holesale and Retail. AVe cordially invite
the Ladies when visiting our store to examine our Millinery, whether desirine t i
purchase or not.
A. R. ALTMAYER Ac 00.,
135 BROUGHTON STREET,
-E SHOE DEPARTMENT =-
AVe take pleasure in announcing to our many patrons the immense success of this
Department, aud also the appreciation shown by them in realizing the advantage
they receive in purchasing their Boots and Shoes in our establishment. AVith an
extensive stock to select from and a One-Price and No Credit System, we certainly
can afford to undersell any Shoe House in the city and give a better article for the
least money. This week we will begin a series of AVeekly Bargains, and by reading
this Price List carefullv will prove to you we mean what we say.
LADIES’ LIST,
Price Price
Here. Elsewhere.
Ladies’ French Kid Button Boot $5 00 $6 00
Ladies’ French Kid Button Boot 4 50 5 50
Ladies’ French Kid Button Boot 3 50 4 25
Ladies’ Curacoa Kid Button Boot 3 00 3 75
Ladies’ Curacoa Kid Button Boot 2 50 3 00
Ladies’ Curacoa Kid Button Boot 2 00 2 75
Ladies’ Straight Goat Button Boot 2 50 3 50
Ladies’ Peb. Goat Button Boot 2 75 3 50
Ladies’ Peb. Goat Button Boot 2 00 2 50
Ladies’ Peb. Goat Button Boot 1 50 2 00
Ladies’ Kid, Fox, Button Boot 300 350
Ladies’ Kid, Fox, Button Boot. 2 00 2 50
Ladies’ Kid, Fox, Button Boot. 1 50 2 00
Ladies’ French Kid Ojiera Slippers, Newports, Alligator, A'assar Ties, Oxfords aud
the celebrated Fedora AA’alking Shoe in endless varieties.
MISSES’ LIST,
Price Price
Here. Elsewhere.
Misses’ French Kid Buttons $3 50 $4 50
Misses’ French Kid Buttons 2 75 3 50
Misses’ Straight Goat Buttons. 225 * 300
Misses' Peb. Goat Buttons. .. 200 275
Misses’ Peb. Goat Buttons. 1 50 2 00
Alisses’ Peb. Goat School Shoe. 1 25 J 75
Boys’ School and Dress Shoes in ever}' variety. Children’s Spring Heels, an exten
sive assortment. Also, a full supply of Infants’ Fine French and American Kid,
sizes oto 6. Call and examine; no trouble to show goods and no misrepresentation.
A. R. ALTMAYER & CO.,
135 BROUGHTON STHEET.
AT PLATSHEK’S THIS WEEK!
A CIGANTEAN DISPLAY
OF OA’ER 500 DIFFERENT STYLES
PARASOLS! FANS! PARASOLS!
In all the New Shades and Textures, to which 110 other establishment can compare.
Our lines of Parasols and Fans are specially selected to match the
shades of dress now in vogue. The following are
PKICES THAT SHALL PREVAIL!
10,000 Palmetto Fans, onlv lc. each.
5,000 Japanese Folding f'aus, from sc. to
15c.. worth double.
100 pieces Handsome Folding Chromo Fans,
35c„ worth 50c.
250 pieces Magnificent Cretonne Folding
J'an, carved handle, only 25c.
200 pieces Silk Embroidered Silicia Fans,
Chameleon Handles, 50c., worth $1 00.
150 pieces Colored Sateen Chromo Folding
Fans, Chameleon handles, 75c., worth |1 50.
225 pieces Handsome Folding Feather Fans,
carved bone handles, only 75c.
100 pieces fine Satin Folding Fans, in all the
new shades, Tortoise and plainshade handles,
|1 00, worth *1 75.
200 Gingham Parasols, 40c., 50c., 60c., worth
50c., 65c., 75c.
Besides the above, our selection embraces
everything new in Mourning, Black Satin,
Bnssian Leather, Bridal and High Color Fans,
Hand Embroidered. Plain and Painted, at
prices that undent'll all others.
gW LADIES SHOULD TAKE THIS GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY.
Jurititm-r.
ALWAYS AT THE HEAD,
Southern Furniture House,
170 BROUGHTON STREET.
MATTING! MATTING! MATTING!
CARPETS, WINDOW SHADES,
A M) LACE CCBTAIIVS
In endless variety, at popular prices.
Everything, from a Hobby Horse to the finest Black
Walnut Bedroom and Parlor Suites, to suit
the pockets of all.
MY stock of FURNITURE is now complete in all departments, and I respectfully invite w
friends and the public generally to give me a call, inspect my goods and hear'vra- prices
before purchasing anything in my line. I also carry a fine assortment of STOVKSTbotti
Cooking and Heating), with Utensils, which I will sell at hard time prices.
TIIK GREAT AMERICAN RENOVATOR.
Do not forget to patronize my PATENT FEATHER RENOVATING MACHINE; old
Feather Beds and Mattresses renovated and made as good as new. Recommended by the
best physicians and citizens of Savannah.
S. HERMAN, 170 Broughton Street.
DtaiitoitOo, iUatrljro, Sir.
A. L. DESBOUUZONC
SAVANNAH, CEORCIA,
Dealer in WATCHES, JEWELKY and SILVERWAEE,
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.
Rockford, 111., January 1, 1884. j.
This is to certify that we have an
pointed A. L. DESBOUILLONS Sole
Agent for the sale of the Rockford Quick % 'v. rew
Train Watch in Savannah, Georgia, and c/lL
that we will, to the lullest extent, sus- /-/ > / V, *
tain the usual warranty given by him to sarVcll. !Znm TtV. m
purchasers of our movements. N ’ n —~.-TifcLA.LLi
warranty whatever attaches to these
goods when offered for sale by others ' 7zr- -j j*~r;r — OCv
than our duly appointed agents. r **• Jm
ROCKFORD WATCH CO.,
Satli (soodo.
EXTRA FINE BATH SPONGES,
BATH TOWELS,
FLESII BRUSHES. ETC.,
—AT—
Strong’s Drug Store.
2,000 Japanese Parasols, from sc. to 25c.,
worth double.
300 All-wool Serge Parasols, warranted fast
color, 90c., *1 00, 41 10, worth |1 25, 41 50. 41 75.
150 Lined Brocade Parasols, onlv |1 25,
worth 42 00.
225 Twill Silk Parasols, $1 00, $1 25, $1 50,
worth 41 25, 41 50. 41 75.
125 large lined Black Satin Parasols, 41 50,
worth $2 60.
100 22-inch Colored Satin Coaching Para
sols, only 41 50, worih 43 00.
250 Black Satin Parasols, lined and trimmed
with Silk Lace, large size, only $3 00, worth
$5 00.
160 AVhite Satin Parasols. Lace trimmed aud
lined, from 43 00 to 415 00.
500 Children's Figured Sateeu Parasols, only
50c., worth 75c.
260 Children’s Satin Parasols, in all colors,
41 00, worth fl 50; and a large variety out
side of the mentioned Children’s Parasols at
uniformly low prices.
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li\(ON, JOHNSON A: 0)7,
Planing 3Iil! and Lumber Yard,
Keep always a full stock of
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
SHINGLES, LATHS, etc
Also, VEGETABLE CRATES.
SAVE YOUR BEDS AND PRESERVE YOUR
HEALTH.