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6 MV FIRST t.' rr - I itit first lovo in 3 w -Ik to-day, "Of Mur-e eho's changed—has grown a grCSt •leal nontcr. i m anxious what my wife would say \ K she bat knew I only thought about her.' Vince I had seen her seven years had passed, ’and Mere I’ve lowed four times and once have married; • ate uii-'ortune I hare charged this last A t o flirtation that I bad miscain^.; • ar eyes met once, I almost think she blushed, 'She. no. is married, for she had three habips; I ot have spoken had the voungeet hn-hed— ' A Hjuallicg infant drives me to the rabies. I wonder if her heart has ever charged? fl well remember when she said it couldn't. • that from meshe be ameestranged — j XU odd to have to marrv when you wouldn’t.) A r o, too, I wonder is the happy now As I m matrimony couid have made her. ff sht is not, upon my life I vow The Kates have most confoundedly betrayed her.) I worshipped once her face. h-?r eye-, her hat. fTher- never was a more angelic figure. But see La- grown unbeautifully fat— There’s no l>utch fishwife that’s a scruple bigger. Tctt fir.-t love’s shadow still is in my heart. That heart of mine is a mysterious packet— B t j that policeman's very suadtn start. Anti mat the cause of that infernal racket', I .bought it meet that I investigate The row across the street, the basement uc a- r. lives down there, and with her dating mate. Was nly raising some domestic thunder. Texas Siftings. A FOE TO CHRISTIANS. ii: -phic Details of a Terrible and Powerful Mohammedan Society. the following extracts from a letter of tee London Standard’s special correspon dent in the Soudan will give an idea of the strength of the Mohammedan pawer with which Great Britain is now coping. The correspondent writes about this ter ri. !o organization as follows: •‘Thou shalt be in the hands of Sidi Mohammed as a dead body in the hands of a erp6e washer.” Such is the form of initiation into the great Senoussi Secret Society, which in point of numbers, power and influence far surpasses the Society ; of Jesus, even in the palmiest days of that confraternity. In !**>*> Mohammed 1 Achmed, the Soudan Mahdi, was initiated as a knonan, or brother preacher of the ! *id Ab-el-Kader-el-Djiiani fraternity, which Inrms one of the principal anil ' most direct affiliations of the Senoussi society. It is, in fact, at the instigation of b>-Grar.d Master of the .senoussi that ; Mnumured Achmed commenced his revolt with tie- Kagarrm tribe in 1881. The Grand Master of the Senoussi boasts 1 that he has. more or less, at his command about 30,000,000 of Mohammedans—that is, over a third of the total number of the ' faithful. The greater portion of these be- j ing more or less subject to Christian pow er, dream of nothing but of the universal j empire promised by the Koran. The feeL I mg of intense hatred against the Chris- : tian is deeply engrafted in their hearts,! and, whether latent or irruptive, the i work wnich goes on is permanent. They j h/c at any moment prepared to seize the opportunity of a struggle with civilized ■atlons. Their sole aim is a holy war, with n.other truce nor mercy, against the unbelievers and against all those who covenant with the infidel. Tne headquarters of the society are at, Berhboub. latitude 30, longitude 'ill' on *n- short s of Lake Faregda. on the ! •g) pu*-Tripolitan trontier. Serhbotib, 1 rsamled in I*6l by Sheik Senoussi, res* m- ! Lies an immense fortified convent. Even . tan years ago it had sixteen big guns, purchased at Alexandria, and several large factories where gunpowder was j produced at ‘d small arms, obtained in . Bgypt. remounted and repaired- In Feb ruary last the number of big guns had j increased to over a hundred, and there j were, besides, twenty mitrailleuses of ! •rerritan manufacture. According to j trustworthy information, two Italian and ! three Austrian vessels anchored during l tbeTinriihs of June and July last in the tf Tabroyk—which belongs to the srder—laiten with arms, snot and shell, which were immediately forwarded over the 2<io kilometers separating the poit Bona derhboub. Tuere are also at the latter j place a splendid library, transported thither from Mecca, the former head quarters of the fraternity, stables contain- . in£ ~v* 'r VWO >POa ni liC Ot reser- j veira, p'auWt;6ns, CtC. According 16 i Htd stinguished French author Duvey- : rier the bodyguard of the master who re- i idles there e insists of over 3,000 Algerians. Fortified convents and sta tions, but on a less extensive scale, ex.st near Sivtah, in the oasis of Jupiter Am- j ißf.n, at the important o.isis ot Furafra, j an., at u*K>ut twenty other places in Bgypr, mostly in the various oases ol the ■ Lytiiun desert, while five or six hundred j #ftm se . entres of action nre known to be ! •r. cxi t nee in Turkey, Tripoli, Tui,is. ; Algeria, Morocco, the IJedjaz, India, j Venice. Afghanistan, the Somali coast, | and in fact wherever the Mohammedan i religion has taken ro it, in Central Airica ' •specially, at 6ueh p'ac s as Tinibuctoo, j ar.d in the kingdom of the Wadai. The agents of the order at Alexandria j nro will known. Moreover, it has its j -ep.es-nlntives at Constantinople and in j Y.-am-c. To give ore solitary instance of j the aet.vitv of these ag. nis, I may state ' that during the Commune one of the v £ tuv i sta f toued at Paris managed to purloin from the Mirisuy ot Foreign Affairs, in the Quai d’Orsay, a document oi a compromising nature, stamped with j the seal of the chiefs of the Touareg of ; U’dnmcs trite. who rank among the mo>t ] fervent adherents of the order. Only the otter day the well-known Arab news paper. the Xuiret, published a letter i tr'.tn u native doctor, in wnich the latter relates that the Mahdi asked him ' -whether it was true that Sultan Wißiam, of Prussia, had sent his Grand Vizier, Bismarck, to London to tell the English Ministers that Germany. Austria and Russia would not tolerate an English occupation of Egypt,” and tiiat be bad atterwards sbor.n him letters Loin agents in Cairo, Alexandria, and Europe. The administration of the affairs of the order is confided to four “W nzeers” or Ministers, residing at Serhboub, and acting under the immediate direction of the Grand Master, who is supreme. The members of the order, whose names are carefully registered, owe absolute aud unquestioning obedience to the Mokka riem, i. e., the rector of the community or of the convent of the district. The Mok kadem is,in his turn, subject to the Agha, or IX an, w hose immediate superior is the Vakil, or apostolic prefect of tho pro vince. Everv member of the order be comes, ipso facto, a. kind of missionary, who only awaits a sign from bis chief to become a preacher, a soldier, a brigand, or even an assassin. For, just as in the case of the Jesuits, so It is with tho Stiioussi—!c but ju stifle les moyenc— ind they have recourse even to the most outrageous means to at. tain the object they keep in view, the 'Grand M ister, who styles himself, among other things, the -Khalifa,” or lieutenant of God, corresponds with bis subordinates by means of relays of special messengers, who in very confidential cases convey ver bal messages only. To such a perfection arc the means of communication carried among the Arabs that the Bedouins of the pvranii.is of Gist li announced the massa cre of Col. Su wart's party at Merawl twenty-f nr hours before the otli dal news of it reached Cairo. In the same way the bombardment of Berber, the surrender of Tokar and the massacre at binkat were known here In the bazars long before the official news of it was received. The order was founded only forty-six years ago, by an Algerian of the tribe ot Med iafcer. named Mohammed Ben Ali-os-Si n oussi. At an early ace he adopted the philosophical tenets of the Uhadholistic school, which has much of the Wahbi doctrines about it. On the death at Mee •a of bhelk Ahmed Ben Edris, who was the chief of the school in question, Sen oussl, who nad been his favorite disciple, was appointed to succeed him. and soon evolved, partly out of the Koran and partly from bis meditations, a purified kind of Chadhelism, which he caused to be adopted by the members of the sect as being the true and reformed Islamism, •leansed from ail the superstitions and unorihodox practices which twelve ce_n •enturies of theologians hadgralted on if. The uoctriue ot this most intolerant of all reformed creeds is pretty much as fol lows: In the irst place, the glorification ot God, who alone is to be worshipped. Living saints way be venerated, but this veneration must cease immediately they die, and no pilgrimages to their tombs nor invocations of their names in prayer are permitted. The prophet Mohammed is no exception to the tule, although ad t mined to have been the most perfect of human kind. Unquestioning obedience is strict*' enjoined, and even the sultan and all other chiefs of Mohammedan State® is list *(ntorm tc the precepts of Is'am.em as interpreted by the order, at the risk of hostility against them being declared as justified. All embroideries, gold or silver ornaments, or jewelry are strictly forbidden in the case of men, but *re permitted to women. Tobacco and Coffee are likewise severely prohibited. Tea is al!dr?d- but it must’ be sweeten ed with brown su£?.r ? n “ f! with white, for the latter is drfiled by the | bones of animals, killed by unbelievers. . which are used to refine it. Members of : the order are forbidden to spear, salute, ; trade with, or serve either Jews or Chris * tians, and according to the precepts con i lained in a 6ermon” preached in March. 1881, by HadJ Ahmed Ben Bel-Kas*n. Mok kadec> of tbe t*wn of Rbat, any Jew or Christian who :s no longer a rayah—that ! is to say. who is no longer subject to a Mohammedan government—becomes an adversary whom it is lawful, nay, whom it is necessary, to rob and kill at all times and in all places. The members of the order who possesses a capital of over £5 pay annually per cent, thereon into tne tresi-i ry, which receives in addition vast <’ natio s of cattle, lands, slaves, ani money. B;h the Turkish, Egyp tiin, and fu.d-sian governments have been most liberal in granting it subsidies, lanti6. slid fiscal immunities. Sidi Mohammed Ben Ali-cs-Senoussi, who, during the last years of his life, usfd always to hide his face with a veil, lest the brilliancy of his aspect stould uazzle his disciples, died a few years ago in the odor of sanctity. Before his j death he solemnly proclaimed his son not only as his successor as chief of the order, but also as the Messiah or Mahdi. Ac cording to Koranic tradition, the true Mahdi was to make his appearance in the 1300th year of *he hegira— i. e., A. D. 1883—at which date be was to have at tained his majority. Ills father's name was to be Mohammed, his mother's Fati ma. The present Grand Master of the Senoussi fulfills ail these requirements, and is known throughout the Mussulman world bv the name of Stdi Mohammed el ! Mahdi. It may be urged that since Se- | noussi claims to be the true Mahdi, there | i can be no co-operation on his part with • the Soudanese Mahdi, Mohammed Achmed. This is a mistake. The Koran distinctly stages that several Mahdis will arise simultaneously with the chief one, but that they will all in the end submit to the latter. It is probably with a view of verifying this prophecy that the So- I noussi has called forth false Mahdis in i the Yemen and Uedjaz, in Syria, as well : as in the Soudan. If native accounts—the only ones we have at our disposal—are to be relied upon, it would appear that Mohamet Achmed no longer claims to be the Mahdi, but rather the'principal forerunner, the St. John the Baptist, of the latter. It must not be forgotten that Mohammed Achmed belongs to the Sidi Ab-el-Kader-el- Djiiani fraternity, which, as stated above, is one of the most direct affiliations of the Senoussi, and hence entirely subject and obedient to the Senoussi el Mahdi. There is no doubt but that the greater part of the clertry here at Cairo, aud especially at the El Azar University, which is tbo great centre of orthodox Islamism, either be long to the Senoussi or to one of the nu merous affiliations of the order, such as the Sidi All Asadheli (which is tbe prin cipal school of Mohammedan philosophy), the Sidi Mohammed Ben Aisa, the Sidi Abd-e!-Rahman Bod Xoberin, the Sidi-el- Madani. the Derkawa, etc. One thing at least is certain, that all who belong to the creed ot Mohammed are more or less sunjt-ct to the influence of Senoussi, who teaches that no engage ment, no oath, however sacred, can be considered as binding when contracted with a Christian. A SMART REPORTER. How He Learned the Secrets of a Legin lal ure Caucus. The Louisville Courier-Journal, in a sketch of Joseph J. Eakinp. a young re porter who has been made clerk by the new 51 ayor, relates 6ome illustrations of Eakins’ journalistic enterprise while be was serving at Frankfort as capital cor respondent of the Louisville Commercial: He was only 19 years old then, but he attracted the attention of Col. Kelley. When the session of the Legislature began in October the Colonel resolved to send him to Frankfort as that paper’s corres pondent. He instructed hiui to go there at once and make a red-hot partisan j fight for tbe “the only Republican daily” in Kentucky. There was never a better show for an active reporter. Col. Kelley told Joe that previous correspondents hail always been afraid to attack the State government, and that he wanted him to niafcA' Bb such mistako, Joe was a D.-mo erat. as all his people were before him, but he knew what his duty to a Republi can paper was, and he promised to carry out the Colonel’s instructions. It he made any mistake in hia vigorous fight, he did so’ becaus- he was obeying orders. He went to Frankfort with the determi nation to unearth sensations, and he sue- , ceedfd. Many were the devices to whieh he nad to resort to obtain the news in spite of the hostility of the members. One of the cleverest and most amusing was the way in whieh he obtained tbe proceedings of the Democratic caucus. For the purpose of excluding him, it was resolved to admit no newspaper rnen. A reporter is not easily daunted, however, | and Eakins considered that all things were fair in the enemy’s camp. The first I evening thereafter he went into the upper ■ gallery of the House and hid under a row ] of back seats. When the caucus was assembled, however, a search was order ed. and Joe’s feet were discovered stick ing out from under the bench by a Ser geant-at-arms. The official, with a laugh, ordered him to come out, and when he emerged, covered with dust and humilia tion, he w-as greeted with an enthusiastic chorus ot derisive yells. He walked out, hut he did not give up the light. A pipe from the stove in the House passed back into the cloak-room. Securing a step ladder he mounted aud, placing his ear to 1 the pipe, heard every word that was uttered. The voices ol the members 1 were perfectly familiar to him by this rime, and bis dispatch was unusually lull and complete. There was great wonder the next day. ar.d this was intensified when that evening’s caucus proceedings were also reported in detail. It was at first thought that ho was in the confidence of some member, but the next day the secret leaked out. The door in the cloak room was locked and tbe step-ladder removed. Still, this did no good. Eakins found means to be introduced into the House early the next afternoon, and se creting himself behind a book-case, where, at the cost ot some personal discomfort, he remained during the caucus session. He was able to do so only that time, as the person by whose connivance he had effected it was afraid to longer assist him. Another resource was discovered, and for two more nights the faithful reports of the proceedings were kept up. The third evening, after the roll had been called, the Hon. Laban T. Moore arose and 6tated that the secretary had omitted the name of one who had always taken a deep in terest in their delilverutions. He desired to suggest the secretary call the name of Joseph Eakins, member from he .State-at large. IDs words were greeted with cheers and when the secretary called out the name a voice sawt “Here” front one of the windows. Looking out they found the indefatigable correspondent seated on the limb ot a huge tree which crew at a distance of forty or fifty feet from the win-low. He had climbed the tree and crawled out on a buge branch, whose extremity almost touched the shutters. It was not a comfortable position up there, but the reporter had a piece of soit paper and was writing up the proceed ings as they went on. As fast as a sheet was finished he dropped it to the ground, when it was picked up by a messenger and taken to the- telegraph office. The spirit ol opposition bael not quite died out the next evening, and a guard was placed over the tree. The day following, how ever, it was resolved to hold the session with open doors, and when Eakins came in a little after 8 o’clock he was greeted with a perfect ovation of shouts, yells, and cheers. His plucky tight had won the hearts of all present, and he had much smoother sailing the remainder of the term. A Valuable Hint. Tea is Siftings. “What arc you buying now?” asked Ned Stevenson ol Andrew Powell, on meeting the latter in Bell’s jewelry store. “I am looking lor 6ome present to give my wife on her birthday. I tell you. making presents cost heap of money.” “Why don’t you do as Ido? I have never failed to make my wife a present on her birthday every year lor twenty-five years, and 1 am not out a cent thus far.” “U-iw do you manage it?” . • “It is very simple. After we Were mar ried, when her birthday came around I gave her a twenty dollar gold piece. When my birthday came around she gave me the twenty dollor piece back, and wo have kept that up ever since, and neither of us are out a cent.” “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” are excellent tor the relief of Hoarseness or Sore Throat. They are exceedingly effective.—Christian World, London, Eng. THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1885 - A ROYAL FATHER TIRED OF IT. The Prince of Wale* Glad that his Son Albert Can Assist Hina—Albert's Lit tle Joke. On his return from kl* visit to ment House, which was so recently Guy Fawkesed, and where journeymen car penters are now working day and night with saw and hammer to make anew House ot Commons.says an alleged London telephone to the New York Journal, the Prince of Wales espied a can of milk in his basement and was taken with a sud den faintness. A bdok agent who hap pened to be nnging the front doorbell, and the cabman who had brought the Prince carried him up the front steps of his handsome brown6tone palace, which is in the most fashionable part of Maryle bone. The book agent tripped down the front steps to get the Prince’s coronet, which had fallen on the sidewalk and then rolled into the gutter, and which an Italian rag-picker from Seven Dials was now putting into his bag. The book agent wrested it from the rag-picker ar.d threat ened him with a State trial for treason. The coronet was pnt back on the Prince’s head and the book agent left him and a sample copy of the ’’Life of P. T. Barnum.” A few moments later young Prince Al best, who is just turned 21. arrived flushed with pi ide from the opening of the new Whittington Club in Whitechapel. He had behaved very handsomely and was much elated. The old Prince" and the young Princeling 6hook hands warmly. ‘■Did you make that $5 speech I bought you in Fleet street?” asked Wales of his son when the first transport of their meeting was over. ! ”I did,” said young Prince Albert with i pride, “and it was a big success. Three j or four lines of it slipped out of my mem- I ory, but I threw in a poem which’l once I learned at school as a quotation and got j along all right.” “Well, Albert, I'm glad to hear it,” re plied Wales. “I’ve been selling pin cushions at charity fairs and laying the corner-stones of foundling asylums tor 30 years, and I am glad that you may now enjoy it for a while. I have walked with the blind and talked with the deaf, and flattered the feeble-minded and bowed to beadles, and dined with provincial Mayors till lam heartily tired of it. The greatest pleasures clog after a time, and perhaps some day you will turn with longing from the brilliant gayety and ex citement of this kind of a life. Y’ou will some day be weary of being dressed up iike a cavalier in Sanger & Wambell’s menagerie to lay the corner-stone of anew Masonic Temple in Seedville, Somerset shire; you will grow tired of laying the first brick in the new pier at Herringville, which has a fleet of thfee boats anu four teen inhabitants, who move away in the winter. Y’ou will become fatigued with eternally committing flashes of wit, in spirations, bright repartee, spontaneous thoughts and extemporaneous speeches to use aipuDlic dinners, which you will have to attend from eight to nine times a week. Y'ou will soon regard three public dinners in twenty-four hours as a small day’s '\ork. When first I was Prince I tried to Lave my brother Albert take these public duties off my hands, but he said it was too big an assignment and the public wouldn’t have anybody but me. Then 1 tri> and 10 divide up the work, to have one Prince take the blind asylums, another the charity fairs, a third the hos pitals and foundling homes, a fourth the public dinners and parades, but they all said that they would run away from home and go to sea, or do something else that would have broken your grand mother’s heart; so for 30 years l have been a peripatetic advertisement for everybody and everything.” “Very good, lather,”said young Prince Albert; “we will divide the cares ot State. 1 snail go to the . üblic dinners and you go to the dynamite explosions.” AN OLD WOMAN’S REMEDY. Gen. Cltngman's Tobacco Cure and Beverly Tucker’s Cancer Remedy. A pamphlet by Gen. T. L. Clingman, of North Carolina, says the New Y’ork Tri bune, has just been issued in which re markable cures are set down as the re sult of applications of tobacco leaf. About every disease under the sun is said to have yielded to its charm. Chatting with a Southerner yesterday he said; “Tobacco has been classed among the old woman’s remedies ever since I can remember. Why, trom boyhood I can re member its simple applications in various forms. When 1 got stung by a bee, my father, who was an inveterate chewer. would take a cud from his mouth and bind it on tne wound. Tnat was tne end of tne pain, if my eyes got sore they were bound up at night in the same poul tice, and when I got a black eye in alight one day, I got the tobacco as well as a licking when I got home.” Beverly Tucker, of Virginia, said yesterday on the same topic: “It is remarkable what tobacco will do, when applied as Gen. Clingman directs. Why, it will even take out a corn. Mills, ot Texas, and John Hancock both tried it a short time ago for corns, and after two eights’ applications they were able to pick the corns out with their fingers. Bunions, too, those eternal afflictions, are retnov and by it. Gen. Ciingman is re markably well posted on its merits, and oi* litt e pamphlet will prove a valuable tiling to the public.” The talk, turning on Gen. Grant’s re cent malady, Mr. Tucker said: “Now, if* it was cancer and external, we have a dead sure cure for it in Vir gin ia—redwood bark. They pound it fine and make a paste of it, which is applied like a poultice. It beats anything ever heard of. In fact, it’s like tne story Ned Burns used to tell of a fellow who was about to be tried tor a criminal offense at Richmond. He sat in the back part of the room, under bail. He had hired a 6crub of a lawyer to keep hita posted as to what was going on. Presently the prosecuting attorney got up and moved a nolle prosequi. The lawyer went back to nis client and save: ‘He’s moved a nolle prosequi.’ ‘What’s that?’ asked the ac cused man. ‘I can’t explain fully,’ said the lawyer, 'but it just scrapes hell.’ And with that the fellow jumped the court room, straddled a horse and fled the town. When he got to Philadelphia he paid another lawyer $o to tell him what a node prosequi was. Well, red wood bark lor cancer and tobacco as a general remedy are like that nolle prosequi V EGGS FORTY YEARS OLD. How the Value of the Luxury Increases with Age. We had beche-de-mer soup, alias sea slugs, which does not sound nice, says the Cornhill Magazine, but. which really is like calf’s head. Then there were sweet soups and small stews and ragouts of every conceivable meat except beef, whieh is never seen at a Chinese table, oxen being accounted too valuable to tbe farmer to be consigned to the butcher. As to cat, rat, aud dog, those curious in such matters may procure them at res taurants in the city; but I understand that they do not grace the festivals of Chinese gentry. What with turtle soup, soup of ducks’ tongues, macaroni, fatry rice, skins of pig’s month, dragon whisker, vegetables, etc., we found an ample succession of gastronomical inter est. No bread is eaten, but all manner of delicate little preserved fruits and pickles ar“ brought to each guest on tiny silver plates to play with between the courses. One of the greatest delicacies provided for us were ducks’ eggs, hard boiled,. quite black, and of incalculable age, antediluvian perhaps, as nothing is con sidered respectably old in China unless it. dates back some thousand years. But, joking apart, it appears that the value of these black eggs really increases with their age. The Chinese epicure discri minates between the eggs ot successive decades, treating his most honored guest to the oldest and most costly, just as the owner of a good cellar in Britain brings forth his choicest old wines. The charm of a lightly-boiled fresh egg is quite un known to tbe Celestial palate, which only recognizes eggs when hard boiled, and much prefers them in an advanced age. For ordinary use, and especially as a light diet for invalids, esrgs are simply pre served bv being steeped in salt water mfeted w'ith either soot or red clay, in which they are baked when required. But the truely* refined process is to prepare a solution of wood ashee, lime and salt, mixed with water in which some aromat plant has been boiled. This paste is run into a tub, and the newly-laid eggs are therein imbedded in layers. The tuo is hermetically sealed, and at the ‘end ot forty days the eggs are considered fit for use. but at the end of forty yeara they will be still better. They become black throughout, owing, I suppose, to tbe ac tion ot the lime; but the white becomes gelatinous, and the whole tastes rather like a plover’s egg. HOT BOURBON FOR EGYPT’S HERO. Gen. Stewart’* Former FondnesJ f o r American Drink*. Oca. Stewart, who is now a figure throughout Christendom for his marked pluck and determination in fighting the Arabs, sajs the New York Morning Jour nal, was well known in this country just betore the war. He made a tour of the country and went on a hunting expedi tion to what was then known as the far West. After that he rejoined his regi ment. the Sixtieth Rifles, in wnich he was a Captain, at Quebec, Canada, and was in garrison there for two or three years. He and R. E. J. Miles, the present manager ot the Bijou Opera House, were great friends. Capt. Stewart had taken quite a fancy to America and liked the Americans. Miles at that time ran a ho'el in Quebec called the American, and Capt Stewart used to drop in every even ing and remain very often until 3or 4 o’clock the next morning. ‘•He was one of the j*>lliest Englishmen I ever knew.” said Mr. Miles yesterday | to a reporter. “lie was a fine, handsome young fellow, and evidently full of life and dash. 1 remember well that he used to come to the cafe of the hotel and call for hot Bourbon puuch. He had taken a great lancy to Ameri an whisky and dropped hot Seotcn, which was then the favorite drink, liis example set all the officers of the garrison drinking hot Bour • bon, and, curiously enough, the American House became their only resort. Capt. Stewart, who w as a good deal of ahorse lover, soon found out my knowl edge of that animal, and together we or ganized the first regular course of races that ever was run in (Quebec. He was a very good rider and won some of the prizes. The example of the officers got the men coming down to the hotel to get their drinks, and 1 was rather afraid this might drive away the officers, but Capt. Stewart told me that he would soon set tle that, and one night, as the soldiers dropped in one by one, he stood at the end of the bar and looked at them in such a way that they got uncomtortable and left. ‘•From that time lorlh I was not troubled with the men; go<d enough peo ple, no doubt,but rather apt toge t noisy and sometimes uproarious. 1 remember, too, well the particular room in the hotel they used to go to, sometimes sitting around and telling stories and drinking hot Bour bon until the dawn appeared. “But this business was rather curious ly broken up when the Mason and Slidell affair happened, in which it looked at one time as if the North would have ta* go to war with England, as well as the South. I noticed that my army custom began gradually to drop off'. Oue by one the crowd dispersed, tut Capt. Stewart and one other were the last to go. One night he explained to me that the regiment thought, under the bitter feeling that had grown up at the constant insults that were being passed to and lro, that it was not st wise thing for them to patronize al most exclusively an American house. “I told him I perfectly appreciated the position. We shook bands over it and took a last hot Bourbon. I only saw him a few times after, as I was compelled to leave Quebec because 1 had interests in the circus business, and 1 never met Stewart since. After the officers left off coming, they, one bv one, sent down tor the bills they owed, and their accounts were paid to the last dollar. They were a fine, jovial set of people, and Stewart was the best among them." THE FIRST STEAMBOAT. The Amazement Which the First Boat on the Teonegxee Created. Mr. Josh H. Nichols in the Chattanooga Times contributes a very interesting article on tbe first steamboat that ever passed up the Tennessee above Decatur, Ala. He obtained his tacts from Wm.C. Hollis, of Giles county, Tenn., and relates them as follows: “The first steamboat that ever passed up the Tennessee river above Decatur, Ala., was in the year 1828 or 1829. Seve ral other gentlemen, and myself, were on the river some distance above Decatur, fishing. The night was dark and we had just run our lines, and returned to our little tire on the bank. All was quiet, when boom went a big gun away down the river. Our whole party started to our feet with wonder and excitement. ‘Did you hear that?’ ‘What does that mean ?’ and various other questions, remarks and suiri/estions were made, and nothing was thought of for some time except.tbat big gun and what it cou and mean. After some time we became more quiet, when sud denly the air was rent with another boom, evidently much nearer. At triis the whole party became intensely anxious concern ing the matter and some of us could scarcely be persuaded to remain longer. Very soon we saw a iisrht down the river. We looked with amazement, and as it approached we heard a strange sound— ‘pshu, p&hu.’ We moved back from the river some distance, where we thought it safe to stay and see w hat the great mon ster was. All on tiptoe we stood, looking in breathless silence until tbe boat got opposite us, and boom went the biggest gun we ever heard. This proved too much for an old gentleman ot the uarty, and thinking it time to take care of num ber one, he started at a lively gait tor the nearest house. Very soon he was going at break neck speed. He went by the nearest route, ignoring all roads, plunging into a lagoon ot considerable width, some times in deep mud, then in water to waist. Nevertheless be made his way to the house on quick time. Next morning circulars were found mi the bank at a terry landing, inviting tbecitizens to meet the boat the next day at a little town a Short distance up the river and take a •free ride,’ but the old gentleman who made his escape by flight the night be fore could not be induced to go to town that dav.” Mr. Hollis said he was sixteen or sev enteen years old at that time, aud though he went to town intending to enjoy th“ “tree ride,” his courage failed and he did not go in Hit/ yards of the boat. Many people went to town, but only a few had l the courage to get aboard the boat. Those who did enjoy tne ride thought it a long one—they went five miles up the river and back. The south side of the river was then inhabited by the Indians, and so terrible was their tright that they re moved their tents from near the river to the mountains. Everj body talked of the great Doat and the big gun, and wonder ed what would come of this running a steamboat up the Tennessee river. He 4Va* not to be Imposed Upon. “A Colorado Cowboy" in Boston Commercial Bulletin. “Steer his name was,” said Tex, “Jim Steer, ’n’ he wouldn’t never be imposed on by anybody. Nobody mopped the floor with him, now, you bet. He started once to drive a bunch up from San Antoine to New Mexico, follerin’ the Colorado river up t’ where’t rises, crossin’ the staked plains ’n’ the Pecos ’n’ follerin’ along that. There was 3,500 head in the bunch, ’n’ he’d got 11 men—an arnery crowd of Guasces’n’ niggers. Well, it all went well ’nough till the second day on the plains. The bunch had stopped feedin’ ’n was uneasv ’n’ hard to hold, ’n’ the men was put on short allowance of water ’n’ was nearly crazy for sleep, ’n’ them Guasces began to jaw ’n’ cus, ’n’ bime bv they struck. They could ride back to water in 10 or 12 hours without ho cattle to drive, ’’ they concluded to quit; ’n’ the wust of’t was then the niggers be an to talk of going back too. But Steer was keepin’ cases on ’em all the while, ’n’ he wa’n’t the teller to get left, now I tell yer. Them cattle was wuth $35,000— every pioayuue Steer bai got in tne world—’n’ he knew if they onst, trot turned loose the d — himself couldn’t get ’em together again. He wasn’t takin’ tkattrip for his health, now yer bet yer life. He just waited till them seven Mexicans was at dinner together, ’n’ then he waltzes up ’n’ pulls a pair of six-shooters on ’em. ‘Hold up yer hands, htmbres!’ says he, ’n’ seein’ he hed the drop on ’em, that’s what they done. Then ho collared the nigger cook’s gun ’n’ made him take the shootin’ irons ofl'n the rest, ’n’ then, afore them Guasces had caught on to his racket, he’d blown the whole bunch to kingdom come, one after the other. Then he rode out to the three men on herd, ’n’ scooped in their irons; ’n’ then they went on, the five of ’em — four niggers ’n’ Steer —driving the bunch. The cattle went easy, goin’ toward water, ’n’ a peaceabler, contenteder lot of niggers a man would never want to see. They’d found out that Steer wa’nt a man to be imposed on.” Reminiscences or a yiemorable Event. The pleasure seekers who are flocking to New Orleans to the great Exposition make it a point to invest in the world renowned Louisiana State Lottery, and examine the integrity and correctness of the distribution under Gens. G. T. Beau regard, of Louisiana, and Jubal A. Early, of Virginia. The next (the 177th) Grand Monthly Drawing will occur at noon, Feb. 10, of which M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La., will give any information. HOW THE FAMILY MANAGED. An Investment Which Wag a Mere Mat ter-o’-MoDejr, Well, how many of the people in this metropolis, says a New York letter, are worthy only so far as a mere veneer makes then! seem so? Here is a very interesting true story, and I am sorry to be obliged to omit the names. There lived in a Brook lyn boarding-house a gentleman, his wife and their pretty daughter. He was a salesman in a Broadway dry goods house, and his salary was $3,000 a year. He had saved $lO,OOO in the course of thirty years of hard work. Last summer the wife and the daughter went to Bridgehampton, LoDg Island, for a little recreation, and there met a young man from Chicago, who instantly fell completely in love with the young woman. He seemed to have money, and the father was sent for to come down | and look him over. Tue man of busines ascertained in half an hour that the youngster was the son of a rich merchant j who was rated among the millions bv the I commercial agenciesT Indeed, the’Chi- j ; cago merchant and his wife were at that 1 moment in Bridgehampton. The Brook- I lyn man formulated a scheme and hur- . I ried to Brooklyn to put it into execution. | In that city ot churches there are to let 1 fully appointed mansions, in which are i not only furniture but bedding, table i ware, silver service, china, lace curtains. \ ; piano and library. Tbe best of them come < i high, to be sure, but they are exceedingly , ! sumptuous, and to live in them is to en joy life as though you owned them. Our Broadway salesman ats3,ooo a year hired ' one of these elegantly furnished houses lor six months, paid two months’ rent in advance, moved in and sent word to his : wife and daughter to invite the Chicago j folks home with them. The Chicago folks | accepted and came along. They found j their newly-made Brooklyn acquaint ances living in one of Brooklyn's finest I dwellings. The practiced eye of the Chi- j cago merchant saw that it "must require j an income ol at least $15,000 a year to even live in such a house—more j likely it would require double that sum. The Brooklyn man evidently was very rich, and his daughter was doubtless well worthy to be the wife of his son. They had a very pleasant visit. The boy pressed his suit. He was asked to come again in a few weeks and ge f his answer. He did so, and was accepted. The girl could not then be married too soon, and December was named. Accord ingly just before the holidays there was a grand wedding in the mansion. There was a big handful of Chicago guests who congratulated the young man lrom Chi cago on his good luck in getting so pretty a bride, and one apparently with such well-to-do parents. It was a very success ful wedding, and the bride is very happy, presumedly, in her Chicago home; but the Brooklyn man’s lease of the mansion ran out on Jan. 15, and he is now back in the boarding house, and still selling goods in the Broadway bouse at $3,000 a year. Almost all of " the $lO,OOO he had saved is gone too. But he has married his daughter to the son of a millionaire, and she has promised to take care of him. PETTICOATS WORN BY MEN. A Ilemarkable Fact that Appears to Have Been Forgotten. It is a remarkable fact that the petticoat was first worn by men, and that even in this age and generation | men are loth to discard its flowing dra : pery. I like to record this fact. Natur ally women take a sort of savage satis faction in discussing a weakness in the other sex, especially in the matter of dress. Please don’t 6tare me out of countenance at the supposed presumption of my assertion that men have, or appear to have, a sort ot envious feeling toward us for having stolen from them this pre rogative, and that they clutch at every means in their power to wrest it from or at least share it with us, for I’ll prove it betore I’ll get through. And we do not wonder this is so. There is dignity in drapery, as well as grace and elegance. When Henry VIII. went to meet Ann of Cleves be was habited, we read, “in a a coat of velvet somewhat ma le like a trocke, embroidered ali over with flatted gold ot damaske, with small lace mixed between, of the same gold, end other laces of the same going traversewise, that the ground little appeared;” and in a description of a similar garment belong ing to his lather, Henry Vli., we read of its being decorated wirh boas ot quite as a belle of the present day would adorn a ball-room dreßs. It is well known that the garment was at first not alone a skirt, bur, as the name denotes, a little coat. How it came to lose iis upper half or body we do not know, unless the “pet ticoat”’ was made w ith long skirts for the sake of warmth, and in each case it was as much a petticoat, as w'e understand it, as anything else. We have only to look at shakspearean characters; nay, let us be thorough and go back to the time of patriarchs to discover the skirts of men. And easily enough we trace them down tn rough the ages. in the inventory of the effects of nenrv V. appears a “petticoat ot red damask with open sleeves,” and although it was a question whether this had been fashioned fra man or woman, it would, if a wo man’s, be the only instance known before Elizabeth’s time of a woman using such a gamiest. Thus we hear nothing of wo men’s petticoats before the Tudor period.* “Good Queen Bess,” with all her learn ing, which was essentially masculine In her age and time, had the true instincts of womanliness m her as regards personal adornment, and even though we find her deficient in taste, and heartily wish she might not have made such a guy of her self in her old age, yet as a woman we have her to thank lor stockings and petti coats and many other luxuries which have become necessities, and which we now appropriate with as true a belief in our inalienable right to their sole posses sion as though the legacy had fallen tous from Mother Eve instead of ilaiden Eliza beth. AN ARCTIC HERO’S PLEDGE. To Write a Name Across the Face of tbe Polar Continent. It has been known for some time, says the Philadelphia Record, that one ol the heroes of the ill-fated Jeanette Arctic expedition, Chief Engineer Ylelville, de sires to make another attempt to find the North Pole, and he now appeals to the American public for someone to con tribute the funds for another Polar expe dition, to go out under his leadership. He says that $130,000 will oover all the ex penses for a four years’ ettort to solve the mystery of the Polar seas. Engineer Mel ville, in urging his plan upon public at tention, says that there will be no danger of such calamities as have befallen other enterprises of the kind in an expedition by the route he proposes, viz: by the way of Franz Josef Land. He thus explains the proposed plan: “The personnel of tbe expedition will consist ol 5 officers and 35 men, equipped for four years. The work iu all probability can be completed in two or three years, but the surplus supplies are intended for contingencies.” A snip is to take .. party as far as Cape Nassau, at the northern point of Nova Zembla, where a depot of supplies will be established. The advance pai tv will go by ship as far north on the west side ol Franz Josef Land as they can, and there land sledges, boats, a house and equip ments for a four years’ stay. The journey to the Pole will then be undertaken by a series of overland advances. Mr. Me'ville says: “Above latitude 85 degrees I have every reason to expect the existence of a paleocrystic sea of ice, over whose surface—smooth because of its fixitv—travel tfill be easy and free com pared with the difficulties encountered in more southern latitudes, where the ocean currents and storme, constantly agitating the ice, cast into such a chaotic condition that it is impossible to march upon it without cutting roads. From well grounded theories whieh have been thor oughly digested I confidently predict land, smooth ice, and water extending all the way to the Pole.” As an incentive to some wealthy nation to fit out and pay the expenses ot the ex pedition the confident and intrepid ex plorer who thus proposes to make a fourth visit to the locked seas of the North says: “The mere millionaire must abandon both name and wealth at the final call of na ture; but not so theman distinguished as an artist, scientist, physicist, discoverer or benefactor of mankind, and it is such au undying name that I propose to make for the patron of my expedition by writ ing it in full across the tace of the Polar continent.” Anew building material—a mixture of cork, silica and lime—is coming into ex tensive use in Germany. It has the ad vantage of keeping out heat and cold, and is also claimed to be an excellent pre ventive of damp and deadener of sound. It is substantial, light and durable, and seems to be especially adapted for ceilings and wall linings. A RAILWAY V OSI>EK * “"V, 'h Moving How Signal Men May ViHv Trains in a MirroF- "vniad. An apparatus has just beew hTY"' says the Paris Morning Seicg, Wa.K *® simply astounding, for with it the lnrs 1 er need no longer fear any accident#. Safety will be assured on railroads. This apparatus permits the employe charged with the duty to see in a mirrOT the en tire section of the road he is to control, with all the trains in motion, and he knows at every Instant just exactly where each train is. When one of them approaches another at a distance which is dangerous he can immediately signal jhe menaced train. The apparatus consists of a sheet tf opaque glass, on whieh the rails are indi■- cated by horizontal lines and the stations by vertical ones numbered. Little ar rows, representing the trains, move along the horizontal lines. They are put in mo tion by aid of electricity developed by the contact of metallic trusties attached to the locomotives w.H : zinc oar.cis placed along the rails. The train thus continual ly traces its traj.etory cn the grass indi cator. The apparatus was exhibited some days ago m Germany to a commission of Ber lin scientists. A DUDE DECOY. Unvr He Flays His Fellow-Dudes for the Benefit of His Begger Pal. Philadelphia Stvst. “Do you see that young dude walking up the street with those four swell com panions? Well, that gent Is one of the trickiest of the many who live by their sharp wits. Keep au eye on him,” said are serve officer on Chestnut street yesterday. Tbe fashionable group at once became the object of attention. This action was followed by a geseral and very liberal alms-giving by the tailor made men. Coins were showered into the beggar’s ragged hat, and the conclusion naturally drawn would be that the party had just returned from a church revival where “charity” was the subject of the sermon. While walking up Chestnut street the tricky dandy a little in advance, the bou ton crowd suddenly stopped before a poor, decrepit, blind beggar. Dude No. 1 en tered into an animated conversation with his companions. “Oh, no; charitable motives have very little to do with the proceeding,” remark ed the peace guardian. “That’s the last aet of a clever trick of the dude. You see, it’s done in this way,” continued the officer: “The fashionable young mar and that blind beggar, strange as it may seem, are confederates. The beggar stations himself on a principal thoroughfare, receiving whatever extra alms he can get, bile the dude hies off to a neighboring hotel or billiard-room. He plays several games of pool or billiards with the young bloods there assembled, is very companionable, invites them to drink, and finally proposes to patronize some other saloon in the vicinity. “The beggar is stationed between these two places. The young fellows innocent ly comply. Tbe gang walks up the street past the blind beggar, who at this mo ment wails sadly. The sharper fiude is suddenly conscience stricken, turns back, throws a dollar or two into the man’s hat and jocularly invites his eomra es to do the same. Asa rule they comply. Then in a bantering way the dude offers to bet $5 that he will contribute the most, the stake ol the vanquished to be given to the beggar. A weak point in the average young fashionable is struck, tbe bet is accepted, the sharp dude contributes $lO or more, the bloods have their pride of birth aroused and cover that sum. At length a limit is reached, the contribu tions stop and tbe lour successful n en, the dude probably among the number, forfeit $5 apiece to the beggar or continue to contribute. “Tne young bloods are fleeced without knowing it, and console themselves with the idea" that they havo done something very charitable. It is needless to say that there is a grand divide afterward between the two sharpers. Y'ou s-e, that crowd had just been roped in, and the worst of it is we can prove nothing against either of the operators. There’s big money in it, I tell you,” concluded the stalwart preserver of the public peace. Some British Personal Statistics, Lotuior% Times, The oldest member of Her Majesty’s Privy Council is the Right Hon. Viscount Eversley, aged 90; the youngest, bis Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, aged 34. The oldest Duke is the Duke of Cleveland,aged 81; the youngest, his Royal Highness the Duke o( Albany, an infant. The oldest Marquis is the Very Rev. the. Marquis of Donegal, aged 85; the young est, the MarquisCamden,(a minor,) aged 12. The oldest Earle is the Earle of Buckinghamshire, (who is the oldest peer in the realm) aged 91; the youngest is the Earl of Cottenham, (a. minor.) aged 10. Tne oldest Viscount is Lord Eversley, aged 90; the youngest, Viscount Southwell, (a minor,) au Irish peer, aged 12. The oldest Baron is Lord Brougham and Vaux, aged 59; the young est, Lord Ampthill,(a minor,) aged 15. The oldest member of the House of Com mons is Alderman Sir Robert Walter Carden, member of Parliament lor the borough of Barnstaple, aged 83; the youngest Mr. Matthew Joseph Kenny, member of Parliament for the borough of Ennis, in Ireland, aged 23. The oldest Judge in England is Vice-Cnancellor the Hon. sir James Bacon, aged St*; the youngest, the Hon. Sir Archibald Levin Smith, of the Queen’s Bench Division, aged 48. The oldest Judge in Ireland is the Hon. John Fitzaenry Townsend. LL. D., of the Court of Admiralty, aged 73; the youngest, the Right Hon. -Andrew Marshall Porter, Master of the Rolls, aged 48. The oldest of the Scotch Lords oi Session is the Hon. Sir George Deas, (Lord Deas,) aged 81; the youngest, the Hon. Alexander Smith Kinnear, (Lord Kinnear,) aged 51. The oldest prelace of the Church of England is the Right Rev. Richard Durnfofd, D. D., Bishop of Chichester, aged 82: the youngest, the Right Rev. Ernest Roland Wilberforce, D. I)., Bishop of Newcastle-on-Tyne, aged 45. The oldefet prelate of the Irish Episcopal Church is the Most Rev. Mar cus Gervase Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh, aged 83; the youngest, the Right Rev. Robert Samuel Gregg, Bishop of Cork, aged 50. The oldest prelate of the Scotch Episcopal Church is the Right Rev. Robert Eden, Bishop of Moray and Ross, (Primus of Scotland,) aged 80; the youngest, the Right Rev. James Robert A Chinnery-Haldane, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, aged 44. Tne oldest Baronet is Sir Moses Montefiore, aged 100; the voungest, Sir Stewkley F. Drayeott Shuckburgh, (a minor,) aged 4. The old est Knight is Sir George Ruse Sartorius, G.C. 8., Admiral of the Fleet, aged 94; the youngest. Sir Waiter Eugene de Souza, of Calcutta, aged 38. Why He Didn’t Fail. Last spring an Indiana man started a bauk in a town in Dakota, and about Oct. 1, having secured deposits to the extent of $23,000, a notice was one morning posted on the doors of the bauk reading: “Temporarily closed—hope to pay de positors in full.” The banker wanted to test the temper of the public, previous to a big scoop. In the course of half an hour the doors were kicked in, the office gutted, the banker stepped on until he was 17 teet long and onlv 2 inches thick, and the chap who held a revolver to his ear jovially re marked: “Now, then, my friend, we give you just five minutes to unlock that safe and count out the slugs to depositors in full.” Depositors were paid in full, and the banker has come East in search of more civil people. £itagnalta Baltu. HAGAN’S Magnolia Balm is a secret aid to beauty. Many a lady owes her fresh ness to it, who would rather not tell,andjycw cant tell. Dottle. HARNETTHOUSE SAVANNAH, CA., IS conceded to be the most comfortable and bv far the best conducted Hotel in Savan nah. Raies: $2 per day. M.L. HARNETT. Cldafco. Silhe, (Sir. DO WE MEAN IT? We have determined to close out the entire balanrp of our Fall and Winter stock regardless of COST. We are going to make it the GREATEST EVENT OF THE SEASON! Ail we aek A 8 tllat • c ’' l c ' ome to see our bargain* here advertised. Do not cctne, h<wv , in a week or two and ask for them, you won t find them- Cut out this advertiK-Kießt bring it along with y° n - 11 y° u call early, you will find everything as here state*. ' I.—Blankets. SI pair* Heavy GRAY BLANKETS, usual price 1 45. we offer die pair at i.fc . 143 pairs' Hcavr OK \ Y BI.ANKLVB. usual price *! &J, \\e offer the pair a: I 331 pairs Very Large Wk’jJE BLANKET-, usual price ti 00, we off.-r the |.a:r v , , 57 pairs terv Largft WIL tTh HLANhET?, upual pric*? yi so\ we offer the pair j>- * ;. w Hi pairs 11-4 W HiTE BI.A nk ’ T8 i U 8 al P rlce f 5 *, we offer the pa rat $ r >'S pairs 11- i WHITE BLA. N KKTB. usual price 16 50, we offer the pair at ; . ■> pair. ll—£ Extra Pine Wh ID- BLINK fc,TS, usual price 410 00. we offer the p„;r ,* i 5 pairs 12-4 Extr- Flue WH. 'TE BLANKS 8, usual price 415 00, we off.-r the pair mV,- 11 pairs 12-1 r.xtra Fine WHI TE BLANKET-, usual price 00, weoffer the i :i ; ji ■“ 25 pairs Slighrly Soiled BLASL vETs, at any price. ll.—sChiidren’s Cloaks. 1 Lot CHILDREN’S CLOAK V former price *1 50. now reduced to 50c. 1 Lot CHILDREN’S CLOAKS’, former price $3 to $5, now ndneed from $: : t; * J Lot- CHILDREN'S CLOAKS*.former price <5 to $lO. now reduced frets *4 5, e, 1 111.-Ladies* .Cloaks, Circulars, etc. We hav* made a terrible cut u prv* e offer ihat were > at ~o cent* the higher grades we h&re reduced equaJl. 7 a ® matter in w? art *ivr mined to closeout these goods at anv prli We have yet left a verv . hoiee line oi Walk IS a JACKETS, NKWMArtKETS, il\\ Utk* and CLOAKS, aud whilst we would be*;* to get rid of th?m without incurring the-*. *4 rrible tosses, yet we nave determined to clone the entire lot as ali hazams; thereiore, feeLU 'S we we present to you Au.tual Facts and n>ot Bombastic Words, we believe that "it who des rc such a chanev will avail themselves of it. Goods. During this w- we will uaugurare such' £# PRICES that will surprise the skeptical. PI *ase ear in mini that we do not on prices, w e simply desire lo ee{ rid of our Fail and Winte r Dre.-s Goods, and a:e realize something for it. Truly there never was a more 1 Mia tide Clearing Sal rof 3 Goods anywhere. It is with u* k rre.v, necessity that yvc tr? to sell thece roods. They etc* 1 be sold, even at any price. We direct your attention to oar beat lifui line 'f ]KUkM and Colored an i kva i some All-Wool PLA'D9 and LADIES’ CLOTHS. Y.*Oiir Black and -Colored Silks. These goods, as al* v*ur SATUM nmi VELVETS .. must share a like fate. Any lady and, mg a handsome SILK PRESS I’ATTEUN, can buy iff now of us at a Uoter advantage was ever offered before. The main thing Is U Till a # - ®once f whilst the assortment ... v broken. . __ Vl.—Flannels, Pank ■ Cloths. Andover so many Woolcirartirlcs, hare been reduced u.-such low prices, that it is a w.m,- 0 f money, if buyers neglect ©call on us Irst. We are sur<-- w e ran save them a great <J,t ; . money. Vll.—Housekeeping Goods. Even in these goods we have made ar/e redix-tion iff’ prices We have the i-m; anj cheapest TOWELS, the bes>and cheapest TABLE OAlfatt S. the best and cheapest nap KINS and I> IYLIES, Hie aud caeapcst LINEN CK\ ASHES, the best and eh-anej- SHEETINGS. Note.—We vrill sell you a Sheeting (t trues; but excellent quality it U' -j a yard a inch cann -t be matched for less than 25c. a yard; bi-W 'ever, as we have ouiv SOUyargi of'it on hand, we are compelled to limit each purchaser to-S-y* ’ds enough for a p3ir of sbseis We will also sell the celebrated Wamsutta 4 4 SHIRTING itvbo 'ts. ranging Ir mlO to4' yards, at 9l*e. Please bear in rain-1 that this is toe genuine article-, i‘ e will not place it on sal fore TUESDAY, Feb. 3. Tne celebrated Lonsdale CAMita 0 t r e continue to tell at Kt yard, Vlll.—Hosiery and Haiidki rcluefs. In these goods we have a great man v lots which we desire x> <V<*e oat—especially Wo#;, HOSE for Ladies and Gentlemen. Also, various lets of Cotton- HtME. We will mention ose lot of full regular made, solid colored. >ilk Clogged LADIES' H l-t E at JTc.. form rp.;*,’ss c But one must see al! the goods to appreciate the bargains. We rat a sacrifice also aB or Ladies’. Gents’ and Childrens’ UNDERWEAR. IX.—Domestic Goods. We offer the best Dark PRINT-, snoh as Merrimack* and other.Standara Brandso! Pun; Cali-'-oes at Se.; tnese are the same good* aa are sold at Bc. We inure made- great redaction* in BED TICKINGS, Bleached and Unbleached SHIRTINGS, GiN-jHAMS, etc. Tin, t, p.,, . lively A SALE OF GREAT MAGNITUDE! DAVID WEISBEIN, 153 BROUGHTON STREET. lEW MUDS, NEWSTYLES! Ladies’ Linen Collars and Cuffs, Children’s Linen and Lane Collars. Also, a large assortment of Kuching, Special bargains this week in Embroidered Flannels and Chenille Fringes. Also, balance of our Foster Hook Kid Gloves, perfectly sound, at 25c a pair, worth $1 00. Ladies’ White 6-Button Kid Gloves at 75c. a pair, worth $1 50 a pair, at GUTMAN’S 111 BROUGHTON STREET. MAIL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Bjo'o itnD BOOTS AND SHOES! Special Sale™ Attractive Bargains! BEFORE RECEIVING OUR SPRING STOCK WE ARE DESIROUS TO close out a considerable number of lots of our Fall and Winter Stock of SHOES, and, in order to make a speedy sale of them, have decided to Institute for the NEXT THIRTY DAYS a series of BARGAIN SALE S. Beginning on MONDAY, Feb. 2, we will place on our Centro Tables the follow mg LOTS OK GOOD 8: LOT No. I—o 7 pair Ladies' fine CURACOA KIP BUTTON BOOTS, Worked holes. Opera toe one-half French heels, manufactured by Sailer, Lewin & Cos., of Philadelphia, wind have been sold all this season at $3 50 a pair, reduced now to $2 50. LOT No. 2—58 pair assorted LADIES’ SHOES, consisting of fine Curacoa Kid high t&.r. BOOTS, with eyelets and hooks, fancy tips, and one-half French heels; fine Curacoa Kid Button and Straight Goat Button BOOTS 'hand sewed), all Zeigler's Philadelphia aakL former prices ranging from $3 75 to 44 50—all reduced to the uniform price of $2 50. LOT No. 3—54 pair assorted LADIES’ SHOES, Buttoned and Laced in fine Curacoa Huh French Kid, Glove-top, Patent Leather Foxed—-ome machine and some hand-made, add* and ends of different lots—ranging in price from $4 to $6, all reduced to close the let k the uniform price of 43. This lot is an extraordinary bargain. LOT No. 4—46 pair YOUTHS’ Calf Sewed Laced Tipped Balmorals—sizes 11a to Is—redv.i* from $2 50 to 41 75. Call early before the sizes are sold out. JOS. ROSENHEIM & CO., 14 1 CONGRESS STR EET. (glottjmg. AT AGD BELOW COST, IN order to make room for our Spring stock, wc will on MONDAY, Jan. 2-. inau£mriw* genuine clearing out sale. Although it is a well known fact that we have always °* r Fine Clothing and Gents’ Furnishing GGods At greatly reduced prices, we have decided to make still further reductions. To prove that this is no advertising scheme, we have placed in <rar handsome showtj* on the sidewalk where they can be seen by all, a few samples of SI i K HaXDKEKCUI** which we will sell at 41 each. All other goods h*ve been correspondingly reduced. We guarantee all goods as represented, and will refund the money on al! unsati*f6“®fj purchases, provided goods are rcturued uninjured within ten (10) days after purchase. and convince yourselves. A. FALK & SOV, Successors to I. L. FALK A Cfi - CORNER CONGRESS. WHITAKER AND ST. JULIAN' STREETS. _ HUitrtiro anD AN ALMOST ENTIRELY NEW STOCK! MR. STERNBERG DESIRES TO ACQUAINT HIS PATRONS AND THE PI BLIC LARGE tint he has just returned trom New York with an exquisite selection oi MoNDS, WATCHES and JEWELRY of all kinds, far superior to anv ever seen in u> * • under one roof. Owing to the extreme dullness of the trade in New York ant vU m country, he has found the Wholesale trade and Manufacturers of Jewelry *”4#- to realize at any price. In mo>t case?, strange as it may appear, they were wuhi ag *® pose of their wares t almost the actual cost of the Gold, and, in consequence. I ‘ ‘ , v in saving that I have not only the NEWEST STYLES, but the CHEAPEST Gi'OOs la ~ VANN AU. and, as lam willing to part with tbem at a small advance on cost. 1 81 “ s; rare opportunity for the purchase of goods in my line—an opportunity that snll u< '. again very soon. Ifeelthit my reputation is anfflciently established that l need _n ‘ assure the publie that my goods are as reliable as if they were purchased of 11 •' establishment at TWICE THE ACTUAL VALUE. M. STERNBERG) 157 Broughton Street.