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Satwimmli (Tribune. jhed bv the Tribune Publishing Co.i J. H. DEVEAUX, Manager. V R. W. WHITE, Souoitob. ) VOL. 11. McCiLLIS* MERCER i 99 Broughton St., Cor. Montgomery. Parlor Goods, Bed loom Suits, DINING ANO KITCHEN FURNITURE, CARPETS, MATTING, SHADES, MATS & RUGS PARLOR STOYES, COOKING STOVES AND RANGES. STOVEWARE, CLOCKS, PICTURES, &c. Be sure to call and buy goods at lowest prices to be found in the city. S. W. ALTICK. W. B. ALTICK. 11. R. ALTICK. D. A. ALTICK’S SONS SUCCESSORS TO D. A. ALTICK & SONS. HEADQUARTERS FOR BUGGIES, PHAETONS, CARRIAGES AND CELEBRATED McCALL WAGON. New Goods arriving from our factory by every steamer. BROUGHTON AND WEST BROAD STREETS, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. JOYCE & HUNT, 31 hitalser* Street, Savannah, Georgia —Exclusive Dealers in this Territory for the Incomparable— Iw Em® Sewing Machine Tho only Machine that has a Perfect Automatic Bobbin Winder. Which enables the operator to wind a perfect bobbin without any aid from the operator. —ALSO AGENT FOJEt— The ftelock anfl New Enalanfl Pianos, AND 7 Kimball, Clough & Warren Palace Organs. Th Place to lay tho hoi his forth Least Money —TSi AT- TEEPLE & CO.’S, 11)3 and lt>3 Broughton CALL AT OUR STORE ! If you want Furniture, Mattings, Window Shades, Refrigerators, Bed-Springs, Mattresses, Cooking Stoves, or anything in the Housekeeping Line, it will pay you to call on us before buying elsewhere. New Goods Constantly Arriving. TEEPLE & CO., 193 and 195 Broughton St., Between Jefferson and Montgomery. JOB PRINTING Neatly and Expeditiously EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE I SAVANNAH GA.. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18,1886. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. she greatest evils in life have had their rise from something which was thought of too little imp rtance to be attended to. Conquer thyself. Till thou hast done that, thou art a slave; for it is almost as well for thee to be in subjection to another’s appetite as thy own. Activity, like zeal, is only valuable sr it is applied; but most people bestow their praise on the quality, and give lit tle heed to the purposes to which it is directed. The growth of the personal character is largely molded by the gradual recog nition of moral laws, by the sense of the mystery evolved in the inevitable strug gle between duty and pleasure. Many persons fancy themselves friendly when they are only officious. They counsel not so much thut you should become wise as that they should be recognized as teachers of wis dom. Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but, by ascending a little, you may often overlook it alto gether. So it is with our moral im provements; we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascend into a higher at mosphere. A Ghastly Plaster Cast. There is a curious object of interest in the Algiers museum —a ghastly plaster cast of the Christian martvr Geronimo, writhing in the agony of death. Tradi tion has for 300 years told the story of the Moorish lad who, coming linder the influence of Spanish missionary monks, became a Christian and' a saint in all but faith. He abjured «hc faith, it was said, for a brief moment under the pres sure of bitter persecution and slavery, but returned to it with new zeal, and proved it in the end by a heroic and horrible death—that of being thrown alive with his hands tied behind him, nto a block of liquid concrete, which was afterward built into a wall of one of the outlying forts near the city. Such was the tradition, singularly and liter ally true in the minutest details, as was proved in 1853, when part of the Fort des Vingtquatre Heures was demolished, and block of concrete found containing the accurate impression of the writhing body, face downward, and the hands tied with cords behind the back. Tlyi block itself was claimed by the church, and deposited with great honor in what used to be a Mohammedan mosque, but is now the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the town. Argonaut. In Doubt. Young Matron (with theories on care of children to nurse) —Jane? Nurse —Yessum. Young Matron When the baby has finished his bottle lay him in the cradle on his right side. After eating, a child should always lie on the rijrht side; that relieves the pressure on the heart. Still (reflectively) the liver is on the right side —perhaps, after all, you had better lay him on the left side. No, lam sure the treatise on “Infant Digestion” said the right side. On the whole, Jane, you may lay the baby on his back until 1 have looked up the matter more thor oughly. — Life. Wedding and Engagement Rings. “Why do we always wear wedding and engagement rings on the fourth finger!' 1 she asked as they were about to leave the jeweller’s shop. “The reason is,” said the smiling jeweller, “that in olden times a nerve was popularly supposed to run from the fourth linger directly to the heart. It used to be called the healing finger, and physicians invariably used it when they mixed their medicines. — London, Times Cutting a Swell. “Didn’t young Simpkins cut an awful swell at the pirty la<t night?” “Y , Bromley. S > did Miss Feath erfew.” "Misn Fentherfew? I didn’t notice. How d 4 .-he cut a s.vell?” “In so completely ignoring you. ” PhiladeUiKt Cull. Popular Superstitions. If one upsets the salt he will shed many tears; so if lays knife and fork across each other;if ho your arc single,and are i the first one to cut into the butter, you must wait seven years to bo married; if you sit at the sharp corner of the table, I you will have a hump-backed wife. At the change of the year dishes made of i grainy substances are preferred ; it is a i sign of money. So the first meal of a 1 newly-married couple should consist of granulous food. It is considered a great wrong to give away the end of a loaf of bread, as it is to lay a loaf which has i ; been cut with the cut side upon tho table. | If you lay it upon the bed it will rest, so will your business; so in regard to tools or implements of any kind. If you would sleep soundly and peace- i fully, the head of the bed must face the j east; but on no account must the foot be j opposite the door, for the person sleeping in it will certainly be carried from the house a corpse. If you wish to sleep without dreaming, you must put I one* shoe or boot under the bed and let the other lie in the room where it can be seen. If you Wish to awaken at a certain hour, strike your big toe against the footboard five or six times,or i whatever the number of the hour may j ] be, and your wish will be fulfilled--you • will awake at the precise moment. For ■ lazy pupils it is recommended to put the book containing the lesson to be learned ! 'under the pillow at night, and they j will be sure to know it in the morning, i | In the Highlands of Scotland it is said i that if a servant while making the bed j happens to sneeze, the sleep of the per- I son who is to lie in it will be disturbed, : I # • unless a little of the straw (or other sub- I | stance) with which it is stuffed is taken I out and thrown into the fire. I I If, in dressing, you put on your stock | ings wrong side out, it is a sign of good j luck; but you must leave it so, or the I luck will change before night. On the other hand, if a stocking is put on ■ wrong side out on the wedding day, it portends a disastrous union. If you I put a stitch in any article of clothing i that is on your body you will sew your | luck fast; and if there are any strings to be tied or loosened while dressing, j ' you must be careful not to get them into | I a knot. Cincinnati Enquirer. * A Canino Wood Carrier. Dr. Allen, of New Maysville, Ind., has a wonderful dog. It is a large black and white Newfoundland. This faith ful animal performs its daily work with the utmost promptness and regularity. This consists in keeping the kitchen wood-box filled. At intervals through the day it will report to the kitchen and view the wood-box. Whenever the sup. ply of fuel is getting low he proceeds to ■ the yard, grabs a stick in his mouth and takes it to the kitchen, repeating the operation till the box is filled again. It keeps a special look out on wash days, and at other times when an unusual quantity of wood is being used, and never lets the box get empty as long as there is a supply in the yard. Globe j Democrat. Why Sne Left. •‘Why, you haven't left your place ' i Mary?” “Yes, I have.” ■‘Bless me! Why, everybody who has I lived with Mrs. Blank gives her a good i name.” " I “Oh, she’s all right as far as good treatment goes, but she and I are of dis- ■ ferent complexions.” “What has that to do withit?” “What has that to do with it' Why, i her bonnets make me look ik a fright.” ' —Lesion Courier. He Wilted. ‘‘My dear, 1 think that bonnet you j have on is becoming,” said Mr. Jones, as his wife came into the p irkir dressed for I church. ; “Yes,” was tilt- reply; “I should sav it is becoming—becom.ng very aged. I was just going to t 11 you that I would have to have a new one.” J <nes wilted, and staid that way until lie had given his wife a hearty, welL i preserved bank note.— JfjreAazit let. I $1.26 Per Annum; 75 cent* for Six Months; •' 50 cents Three Months; Single Copies 1 5 cents —In Advance. ALABAMA LIQUOR LEGISLATION I’robibitlou BIUn Passed for Several r Counties. The House of Representatives of the- j General Assembly of Alabama, now iti i -e-sion, has passed a bill making the re tail liquor license $250, which is equiva- 1 lent to more than'doubling it. A prop.)- .j| -ition to make it SSOO was voted down 3 l>y a small majority. The Assembly has | passed prohibition bills outright for f the largest of the black counties, upon I petitions f-oin nearly all of the white in- a habitants. Local prohibition bills are passed almost without objection from .nv member. The Senate has passed general local option law for all the lies - SNOW IN THE SOUTH. The Rome, Ga., Courier narrates that in the last thirty years there have only been ten times that the ground has been covered with snow three inches and more deep. In 1856 there was a three inch snow; in 1867, three and one quarter inches; in 1872, three inches; in March, 1872, five and one-half inches; in 1876, • three inches; the heaviest snow that has ever before fallen was in 1877, when eight inches fell ; in January, 1882, three inches fell, and in November of she same year four inches fell; on the 11th of February, J 1885, a three inch snow covered th.' j ground. I COI.OUEO WOIKMPS EXPOSITION. A number of prominent colored people in various parts of the South are endeav oring to organize a “Colored People’s World’s Exposition,” to be held in Mont gomery or Birmingham, A!a. The enter prise has been undertaken exclusively by colored men, and is designed to illustrate the progress and a ■hicvements of the colored race in every dcp.. ’pnmt of life.. DIN<M>VEUY OF IRON ORK. * A special from Meridian, says Enterprise, a town twenty miles south of this place, on the Mobile and Ohio and New Orleans and Northeastern railroad,is in a state of intense excitement over the discovery of iron. A negro who had funnerly worked in the iron fields at Bir mingham was the first to make the disr covery. GOVERNOR FATHER DEAD. Governor Gordon received a telegram , on Friday announcing the death of hi< father, Rev. Zach. Gordon. He died fhursday night at his home near Gold water, Ala. Rev. Mr. Gordon’s remains were taken to Columbus for interment by the side of his wife. The interment took place Fri day. i’II.LOWED HIS HEAD ON THETItAK’K. Sunday last the east bound passenger train over tlw Norfolk and Western rail road ran over Thomas Jones, near Notta way Courthouse Station, Va. Jones had deliberately laid down upon the track, placed a pillow under his head and gone asleep. Ills injuries are such that he can not possibly recover. THE WTEDE-UAYNE MONUMENT. George W. Childs has sent a contribu tion of five hundred dollars to James R, , Randall, chairman, for the Ilayne and | Wilde memorial monuments to be erected in Augusta, Ga. Childs accompanies his gifts with a sympathetic and patriotic letter. TO RELIEVE EMIN BEY. -1 ' ’ ■' ■ 5 * The British government has approved ; Mr. Henry M. Stanley's plan for the re lief of Emin Bey, the African explorer. An expedition is being fitted out and the Egyptian government lias promised to give ail the assistance in its power. ■— Without Adiquiite Cuum Or with apparently no cause at all. eliills and fever, thought to be cured, germinate# and refructitles in tlie syitein. This giant among.; diseases cannot be laid out. with quinine. The only way to give it a filial and extinguishing . quietus, in to use persistently the national antidote to miasma i>oi#on. Hoatetter’s Stom ach Bitters, which roots it out completely. The process of cure ia, of course, much easier if the bitters is used as a preventive, when the first <-lif Ii is felt, but persons who are not ac quainted with the nature of tf<e symptoms are sometimes in error a* to their cause, and ? neg ect the s tuple and pleasant remedy.ot all I others best suited tocheck the progress of this dreaded and destructive ma’adv. Visitors to, « or sojourners in. malarious localities wil 1 . moreover, act the part ot wnttlem if they n«i the Bitters as a preparative. KheumstlsuK constipation, biliousm ss. s'ion and Kta— • t m-y troubles are removed by the Bitters. ———— — fi To gain a copious flow of language—bit. down on u tack. Where there's a anil there'- -nwtvsl» way- ■ to break it. Is one preparat ion and produem a perrnamjU color. 3'u xmghapi » Dye f"''’**® A y safe and ceitaip remedy <i -”" duß lung jiUeease*- Ayer’# Cherry NO. 9.