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ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1890.
FAIR ALICE OUT IN TEXAS
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fleeced axd imposed ox
IX HEK TRAVELS.
run
IIIVAI.KV OF THE TEXAS MEN AXD
lHK ,, 0 OI> HI MOB OF THE WOMEN.
(,”[,• a riuc description of a
' I)AXCE — “AI.L HANDS
bound.'’
t,,m Giikf.n County, Texas, Decem-
, [Special.]—I am extremely
.■ ! of heart, without much senti-
. . , t ' t a nd fast loosing faith in the
i . raiity of mankind in general, but I
■ w hat 1 sometimes think is the mis-
, ;n< . to appear many years younger
' a j aul with a round, soft-looking
Z and bis! unsophisticated eyes.
"in the wilds of the Carolina mountains
1 ,-rl I have recently been traveling
, i ,• kindly and chivalrous moun-
U110I12 in* ,V1J ‘ - . . r
* i'nrci* or out here on the prairies of
\V. Tcxa-. it is true, this appearance
.L \eoinan service and procures for
,, the ’kindest and most considerate
reatment. 1 have more than once been
',-d “Sis." and everybody takes care of
", 0 ut for me. But in the cities
•hroiHi which 1 must pass, at the hotels
nd iipon the railways, this deceptive as-
• ,,t vouthful softness is responsible for
v often being fleeced—robbed without
■i.tupunction. “What is my bill! - ’I ask
t ti,.- dignitary benind the hotel register;
i ],,oks at it"' benevolently and says,
-Kiv• - dollars," " hen I know perfectly it
,],ould not be mote than three. “Just sit
l,, ivn tie- parlor, Miss, I'll call you
the 'bus comes.” says the porter,
h.iv;n" taken stock of my innocent coun-
. ! air.Presently he rushes in with
i .Tot use excuses for having forgotten me
a; n the ’bus came, but he has secured a
.i: ri age with a most obliging driver, who
;'! run his horses all the way to the de-
oot to get me there in time, for only *1.50.
\\A Y r o— i can’t afford to iniss my train,and
1 am confident the porter and driver share
'lie $1.50.
And so the story goes; but I have a
scheme— scheme which 1 am sure no ordi
nary mind would ever have conceived, for
-(-curing an inexpensive and irreproachable
traveling companion, who will at once
escue me from all such annoyance.s
I shall insert the following advertise-
nent in several leading journals:
'Wanted—As traveling companion and
■haperone or protector to a lone young
woman, the ghost of elderly lady or gen-
M-man severely respectable, and somewhat
dern and forbidding aspect. Duties light,
ghost’s mere presence being all usually re-
, uired; will be expected to furnish stony
glares for hotel clerks, liackmen and all
presuming and impertinent people when
r.i-cessary, and to promptly dematerialize
it the approach of the conductor, and
whenever not wanted. None but ghosts
>t superior breeding and uncompromising
bearing need apply.”
Provided with such a companion, ally
tad defender, one at once so inxpensive
■onvrnient and irreproachable in appear
ance, 1 can safely go anywhere without
tear of criticism, molestation or imposi
tion upon my unprotected youth and ig
norance.
1 began to realize, after I had traveled
southward and westward from Forth
Worth some hundreds of miles, that 1 was
.n Texas, and getting out pretty well onto
! lie frontier of the .“State. It is the coun
try of breezy, nonchalant manners, jocu
lar local nomenclature, and free-handed
generosity and hospitality. I began to
hear such remarks as “You’re not paying
for me'.’” “O, yes, that’s all right,” in the
Pullman car; or at the dining table: “O,
put up that—I’in paying.”
More than once I rode from the depot in
i carriage with several others and never
succeeded in learning who paid my fare.
The table, at the railroad hotel where
we ate supper the last night out, was a
striking picture. All around it was a line
or sunburned men eating like cormorants,
and looking as fierce and fell as pirates,
with their big white cowboy hats, or silver
'rimmed sombreros, pulled over eyes that
have acquired a strained intentness from
gazing over the plains in search of stray
ing sheep or cattle. But these grim look
ing fellows will “roar you as gently as
a sucking dove.” A more genuine exhi
bition of courtesy you will not see than
the attentive and solicitous manner in
which they proffered me the ham, the
chicken, or the pie, in big bass voices
carefully brought down to pianissimo.
San Angelo is the county site of Tom
Breen county, and the only city, center of
trade and supplies, of the whole Concho
country. This is a great tract including
Tom Green and several other counties, a
grazing, horse, sheep and cattle ranching
district, drained by the three Concho riv
ers. It is largely level or rolling prairies,
with a good proportion of fertile draws
or valleys. It used to be thought that
farming could only be carried on with the
assistance of irrigation,because of the long
intervals between the rainfalls; but in the
last three years astonishing results have
been produced from dry laud farming. I
saw at the Concho Valley Fair, which
was in progress at San Angelo when I
arrived, pumpkins which would have
needed very little magic enlargement to
furnish a Cinderella’s coach, and sweet
potatoes so immense they would have
caused Sambo’s heart to swell with emo
tion. and fairly wooed a possum into doff
ing his skin and lying down beside them
to be baked in such good company.
A West Texas crowd is the best natured
crowd in the world. Out here on these
boundless savannahs,where there is plenty
of air and sunshine and land for every
body, where the east wind comes from the
“Bay of Biscay, O.,” and the west wind
seems to blow to us from over the Emperor
of China’s palace, where there, is an un
bounded sense of freedom and a chance
for everybody that will half try, nobody
seems to think it worth while to be mean
or small or captious. Their faults like their
stature and their virtues, are on a good
big scale.
There was a larger proportion than in
‘.he East, of great long, tine-looking,white
hatted, sunburned masculinity. The wo
men. too, are different from their Eastern
sisters. They have had enough expe
rience of ranching, or the vicissitudes of
semi-frontier life,"to cure them of being
fussy or carping over little inconveni
ences, delays and hitches in the program.
So in the long waits between heats, there
:s no grumbling, swearing nor fretful com
plaints : instead, the men chaff each other
and guy even’thing that presents itself,
and the women laugh and talk good liu-
moredly.
The band was stationed on the grand
stand, somewhat to one side of the crowd,
and discoursed good, robust, able bodied
music. It was rather close, I admit, but
it did not make me half so tired as the
continued complaints of a rather dapper
looking poling man just behind our party.
Those fellows were deafening him,he said it
was an outrage to have such a clamo
there among the people. Finally he ex
claimed angrily: “I wish everyone of
those galoots would burst his diaphragm.”
“Hooh,” said a six and a half foot cow
boy, away back in a corner, in the tone
and key he would employ to a refractory
cow, “they liaint got none on!”
We all burst with a perfect roar of de
light, in the midst of which the dapper
fellow withdrew, leaving the band blow
ing itself black in the face, and the cow
boy, who was not as green as he looked,
j winking confidentially to the crowd.
I attended a dance last week out at the
I XL ranch. There were cowboys galore,
j and a comfortable proportion of the fair
i sex. We danced quadrilles, reels and
| roundups, because only a small percentage
of the participants could “rassle” suc
cessfully with the round dances.
The roundup is a big quadrille, with the
I couples in one great set all around the
j room. Each couple goes through every
I “all round” figure so it takes about three-
| quarters of an hour and thirteen miles of
1 fast traveling to complete the dance, but
I the cowboy enthusiasm is infectious, and I
j went on and on through endless “figure
! eights,” “peavines.” and “all hands
I rounds,” unconscious of such thing as
j fatigue, laughing and capering with the
best of them.
j There is a weed grows in places on the
I prairies, which, when eaten by cattle or
horses, has the effect to make them crazy
i for a time. They run backward, and rush
about in a frightful, but at the same time
often ludicrous manner. The Mexican
name of the weed is “loco,” and cattle or
horses that have eaten it are said to be
“locoed.” Well, there was a little girl at
this dance, a child of 13 or 13, but with
all the mature composure of 30, who
danced very well and with great energy.
But in the last roundup she had for a
partner a great, awkward boy of about 10,
who couldn’t get through a single figure.
He had heavy, high-heeled cowboy boots
outside his trowsers, and he fell over the
girl’s feet, his own and everybody else’s
finally tripping them both up, when they
retired from the fray, their inglorious re
treat gracefully covered by the prompter
with a “grand right and left.”
When I presently sat down I found my
self beside the little girl. Before 1 could
say a word she turned to me with all the
self-posssssion and sang froid of a sea
soned society woman and remarked:
“Hull! I think my pardner’s sorter lo
coed.” The tone and the manner
which she put her head on one side and
stuck out her little elbows were unap
proachable.
During one of the roundups which I
didn’t dance, tlie ranch manager, a very
bright and agreeable young man, told me
this tragic tale of a cat hunt.
“It was awfully hot and the mosquitoes
were very bad about the house, so we were
all—the seven boys of us—sleeping out on
top of that big haystack. (There was no
woman at the ranch.)
“About 1 o'clock one morning we were
awakened by a shouting and laughing, and
when we peeped over the edge of the stack,
there was the whole thirteen outfit, ladies
and all, and two New York girls, regular
hummers, that were visiting there. They
got off their ponies and whooped and ham
mered around the house yelling to us to
come out. ‘You’ve got to get up; we’re
going to have our supper and a dance
here,’ says Jim Smith, ‘where in thunder
are you".’’
“ ‘Here,’ says I, ‘up on the haystack.’
They all came chaffing around the hay
stack. ‘What in the world are you doing
tip there'.’ Why don’t you come down'.”
says one of them New York girls.
“ ‘Well,our dressing room’s in thehouse,
ladies’ says 1, ‘and we can't come down
very well on account of its being such
bright monlight.’
They
went off mighty quick around the
house, we got in and dressed, and were
just shaking hands all ’round wiien one of
the dogs started a chicken, or a rabbit, or
a kitten, and it lit right through the mid
dle of the crowd.
“One of those New York girls let off an
unearthly screech, I saw something white
bob up on top of the haystack, and down
rolled, Jake Long, that sleeps like the
dead, and hadn’t been missed in our rush
for the house.
“You never seen such a stampede in
your life. Those women yelled like cata
mounts and run in every direction. Jake
made a streak like a jack-rabbit with a
grey hound after it, for the house, and we
couldn’t get him to come out to supper
nor to dance, though lie’s our crack lady’s
man.” Alice MacGowan.
THEATRICAL GOSSIIh
THE FORTHCOMING I'KODUCTION OF .JOAN
OF AKC—SOMETHING ABOUT GOU
NOD’S MUSIC WRITTEN FOR
THIS THEME—“BARBA
RA”—AMERICAN
PICTURES.
New York, December 5.—[Special.]—
We are preparing our minds by a course
of reading and penitential fasting, to ap
preciate what will be the real theatrical
event of the season, Joan of Arc, as played
by Margaret Mather and her company.
The piece will be in New York, as it was
in Parts, more of a spectacular opera than
a play simple, and all of Gounod’s music,
including «nne three of the five morceaux
which he wrote for the Jeanne d’Arc
mass, will be heard in it. Not too early
now to talk about this production, as a
musical novelty for the singers and orches
tra have been rehearing for over a month
in the Metropolitan Opera House, and the
production is well advanced. By special
favor 1 heard the other day a number, or
motive, written especially for the play in
Paris. It does not appear in the printed
score. This number is a cavatina for
violin sustained by harps, and it is there
that Gounod reveals himself as the master
he occasionally is. This page seems to
overflow with treasures of love and poetry.
It is evening. Jeanne is seated lost in
dreams, and she hears voices, divine
voices, vaguely sing in her heart and soul,
fitting her with ineffable joy and throwing
her into the most sublime ecstacy. The
angelus rings in the silent and de
serted country church, while the shadows
of evening are spreading over the land
scape and this motive, rendered by the
basses, breaks iu for a moment on the
heavenly melody that the violin has been
singing and which is resumed even purer,
more limpid, more ideal than ever, and
with great waves on the harps passing
through mysterious sensations of a serene
aud sweet character. The music within
for this trance of Jeanne’s is. of extreme
simplicity, and what is more to the ear,
it is delightfully melodious.
That portion of the orchestral movement
which accompanies Joan to the pyre is
said to be magnificent in its own way. but
I did not hear it. It may be pretentious
to speak of the production in a musical
sense, after hearing fragments only, but if
the little 1 heard of the different move
ments had such power to move the soul,
wnat may not be expected of the whole
Miss Mather has played “Cymbeline”
and “Romeo and Juliet” in and around the
city for two engagements this season. It
is not necessary to speak of her Juliet,
which is already well known but Cymbe
line is new for her attempt and, in fact,
very few opportunities of late years have
been offered to see it, so her essay of the
part in Harlem last week called
out all the critics of the city. I
did not see her in the play, so can
only report by hearing that she made a
lovely figure personally and artistically a
good impression.
They say that her whole heart is in the
correct and sympathetic rendering of Joan
of Arc, and if that is true and the piece is
not merely put on to catch the dollars of
the curious, we may go to the Broadway
on the first night of its production, as
sured that we will see a rendition worthy
of the theme. Last summer Miss Mather
visited Doiqrimy, the birth-place of Joan
of Arc, and all the places with which her
wonderful history is most intimately con
nected. The house where the French
heroine was born, Miss Mather describes
as a stone cottage of only four small rooms.
One of these is a tinv chamber, lighted by
a single window, where Jeanne slept, while
in a little niche near the window she hung
her simple wardrobe. Close to the house
is a pavilion, now used as a museum for
relics connected with Jeanne d’Are, a col
lection of books relating to her, and a few
statuettes and copies of pictures supposed
to represent her and incidents of her war
rior life.
No authentic portrait of the heroine is
in existence, hut Miss Mather viewed with
real interest, mingled with something like
triumph, because it confirmed her own
opinion—a short, coarse, black hair, which
formerly grew in the head of Jeanne
d’Arc. This hair in accordance with a
common custom in those days, she im
bedded in the wax of a seal to a document
signed and which was discovered at Rhone
in 1844. Miss Mather says she has always
pictured Joan as a tall, handsome dark
brunette, although the modern artists per
sist in painting her as a blonde. It is like
this she will play the characters, and she
will likewise aim to make her a perfectly
human sort of person, reserved in manners
and pure in speech, yet always ready to
laugh and joke with the soldiers and war
riors around her, in short, a good woman
and not an impossible saint.
Nobody will have forgotten that J. M.
Hill is the manager who introduced Miss
Mather to the American public. For that
we owe him a debt of gratitude, and to
make it lighter, I wish to relate an anec
dote concerning him. Last week he
attended an evening reception which,
although an unusual thing for him to do is
not impossible, and while there he was
introduced to a lady who lives on Fifth
avenue near the abandoned reservoir.
This lady has a mania for knowing every
body, even people whom she sees for the
first time. Accordingly she saluted Mr.
Hill with the remark.
“Why I know you; you live in the same
block that I do.”
“It is possible madam,” replied Mr. Hill,
“but I do not think we are neighbors.”
“Why aren’t you Dr. Arthur Hill'.”’ she
asked.
“No,” said Mr. Hill smoothing his long,
clerical looking whiskers, “I am a Pres
byterian minister.”
“Why of course,” she responded, un
daunted, “I knew you the minute I saw
you. It is impossible for you gentlemen of
the cloth to disguise yourselves.”
The only new play seen in New Y'ork
this week was “Barbara,” a one-act piece
by Jerome K. Jerome, which had a hear
ing at Proctor’s Twenty-third street
theatre on Tuesday afternoon. The story
of Barbara is very simple, but it is sweet
and pretty. She was found floating in the
German ocean, the only survivor of a ship
wreck, and was named Barbara by her res
cuers after the name of the wrecked ship.
Having grown up with her friends Cecil
and Lily, she fell in love with the former,
but she no sooner realizes her own feelings
than ^he finds that Lily also loves Cecil
and is loved by him. Self-sacrifice is there
fore the motive of the play and Barbara
does all in her power to make the course
of their true love run smooth. But
Cecil is too poor to marry.
Yet even this circumstance put it into
Barbara’s hands to remedy. There ap
pears on the scene a lawyer of the old
school, looking for an heir to a large prop
erty. This must be either Barbara or Ce
cil, and although it is the former, and she
realizes it, Barbara does nothing to estab
lish her identity, and the property falls to
Cecil. This piece was performed by Miss
Marguerite St. John, Mr. J. C. Buckstone
and Miss Grace Filkins.
At a sale of paintings at the Fifth Ave
nue art galleries, a canvas by J. B. Irving,
a painter from Charleston, S. C., received
critical commendation. Before he died
this young artist was known as the Amer
ican Meissouier, and the canvas in ques
tion, “A Novice,” shows the influence of
that master. A number of the paintings
by this Southern artist were in the posses
sion of the late August Belmont, and will
probably not fie seen by the public unless
the gallery he collected is dispersed. The
sale in question is that of the curios and
modern paintings collected through many
years by Dr. F. N. Otis, who has goDe
abroad for his health. It is especially
notable as a group of American pictures,
the very names of the artists
who painted them being hardly
more than a memory, although they all, or
nearly all, belong to our own generation.
After all, in face of such a rebuke as this,
for it may be called a rebuke, to see a hun
dred beautiful pictures by American
artists of whom we never heard, there is
no denying the weight of the oft repeated
complaint that American painters find lit
tle or no encouragement at home.
Willis Steell.
Paris, but the Lee bust and several por
traits, as prices of pure imaginative work
adorn his studio over Daly’s theatre and
help the charming hostess and polite host
to make it a delightful resort on Fridays.
Mr. Blenkinship is a Yirginian by birth
and his wife a vivacious, auburn-haired
lady is also of Southern parentage. The
lady’s talent for negro dialect recitation
was in great demand among the mot nota
ble Paris salons during the winter of ’87
and she tells amusing anecdotes of how
people would take her into a corner and
beg her to translate the pieces she had re
cited at their repeated solicitations, which
they had split their gloves in applauding
and at which they had laughed until they
cried.
* * *
A reception gown by Mrs. Mary E.
Bryan at her house on Sixty-first street
Saturday evening called together most of
the women writers of New York city. It
was remarked at this reception that the
general impression of the “unkemptness”
of the “blues" was finally refuted for
good and all: so many handsome and ele
gant women were represented among the
guild. Mrs. Bryan herself looked partic
ularly well: she was dressed entirely in
white. Mrs. Sydney Rosenfield, Mrs.
Tripper, Mrs. Mallon and Mrs. Townsend
Perry were among the guests much re
marked. As the names we have men
tioned are of Southern women perhaps it
will not appear so great a contradiction of
the popular impression which it was sup
posed was exploded.
The meeting for the purpose of memo
rializing the Czar in favor of Sophie j
Gunsberg, the unfortunate girl who is
condemned on what seemed at this dis
tance from Russia to be very slight cause
or none at all was started, by the Southern
women resident in New Y’ork and co-op
erated in by some foreign citizens like
Mrs. Margaret Moore, but had
little if any support from the true New
Y’orkers. We mention this merely as a fact
without attempting to explain it. The
meeting was held in Cooper Union •'and
was really interesting, many eloquent and
pathetic speeches being delivered, and
much that was new about the poor girl
who is awaiting her fate being related.
One of the brightest and most original
speakers was Mrs. Margaret Moore, an
Irish woman, who has made many friends
in New Y'ork and whose heart is as warm
as her tongue is eloquent. She possesses
a deep vein of pure humor, and laughter
and tears were never far apart while she
was talking. Mrs. Albert Smith, of El
Paso, Texas, aud Mrs. C. H. King, of
Jackson, Tenn., were in the audience.
Capt. A. H. Mowry, Postmaster, of
Charleston, S. C., left for home December
1st. He has been on a vacation from the
postoftice since the middle of November,
spending it between New Y’ork and Wash
ington. A very genial, yet an impressive
and earnest man is Captain Mowry, one
of the leading business men of the South
and aoreast with the latest ideas. His
pamphlet of the Charleston postoflice,
which is an historical institution, met
with a success which was gratifying and
almost literary. An engagement he had
in Washington prevented him from being
a guest at the Southern Club's fortnightly
dinner, which occurred Saturday night. It
was a most successful dinner; seventy-
five gentlemen sat down together, consist
ing of the usual patrons of the fortnightly,
and a number of distinguished guests
from out of town, among whom were Mr.
Lanier of Montgomery, Ala., the brother
of the lamented Sydney Lanier, and Com
modore W. F. Maxwell, of the Royal
Navy. Each of these gentleman respond
ed to toasts and there were many other
speakers and much merriment, but dis
creet withal. The dinner was in the
hands of the younger members of the club.
It was presided over by Mr. David Mitch
ell Bright, and the “boys” wished to show
that they couid have “mirth” with deco
rum and certainly succeeded. Maj. Glen-
nan of Norfolk, Ya., was present in the
parlors after the party had adjourned
there, having been detained until too late
to join the diners. Mrs. Gleunan and her
family are in New Y'ork in order to pro
cure the most skillful medical treatment
for a son who fractured an arm in the
autumn. They will probably spend the
better part of the winter in the metropolis.
FROM THE GREAT METROPOLIS.
SOUTHERN NOTES OF GENERAL AXD
PERSONAL MATTER.
New Y’ork, December 4.—[Special.]—
John Blenkinship, an American sculptor,
better known in Paris than in New York j
on account of his long residence abroad, |
has just cast from the clay a bas-relief of j
the head of General It. E. Lee that wins
commendation from the best judges of art
as well as from enviable people who knew
the great Southern general, of whom Car
lyle's words of Scott might with equal
truth he spoken. Mr. Blenkinship has,
therefore, accomplished a double success,
which is rare in the annals of sculpture,
for seldom is the likeness and the artistic
quality obtained in plaster and marble.
This bas-relief is intended for the South
ern Society which is becoming a gallery
of fine portraits, one of the latest, and a
notable one being a water color portrait of
Capt. Hugh R. Garden, presented to the
society by Col. Arthur Ezdra. Much of
Mr. Bleukinship’s best work remains in
The first reception given by Mrs. Ma-
grane Coxe will have a novel feature.
The play of “As Y’ou Like It” will be re
cited from memory by Mr. E. Locke, the
reader. This one man delivery of the
parts of ten or twelve persona; is said to
be very entertaining. It might be very
dull and it must be very difficult. This
reception is given by Mrs. Coxe to intro
duce her sister, Miss Crawford, who is a
debutante this winter in New Y’ork so
ciety.
Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell-Scott are ex
pected in New Y’ork about the middle of
January. Mrs. Scott is the great-grand-
danghter of Sir Walter Scott, und unti the
birth of her son Walter was the sole de
scendant of the great novelist. It is she
who is editing his “Unabridged Journal,”
which is creating so much interest just
now in the English reading world. The
lady, who was Miss Mary Monica Scott,
married the third son of the late Lord
Horries, who by special act was allowed to
take his wife’s name, thus saving the
family of Scott from extinction. Mr. and
Mrs. Maxwell-Scott were in this country
in 18S(5, and on that occasion visited the
South. They were so delighted with it
that they made extensive investments in
St. Angustine, which they still hold. This
winter they will bring with them their son
who, it is well known in England, will be
knighted by the Queen as soon as he at-
tasns his majority, when Scotland will
again rejoice in the possession of a Sir Wal
ter Scott. The Maxwell-Scotts will be
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rosevelt for
a tew weeks when they will again go to
St. Augustine, and in the spring make a
tour of the Southern States.
Miss A. R. Paige has gene to the Sem-
inoles, Winter Park, Florida, where she
meets a party of friends, among whom are
two ladies from Meridian, Mississippi.
The party will remain there until after the
holidays, when they will remove to Jack
sonville for a protracted visit.
Steell & Livingston.
STILL TUMBLING!
GOODS MUST MOVE.
This week we shall offer goods at attractive prices in every
department. See a few special prices :
1000 yards Prints Remnants at 2bc yard.
1000 yards fine Ginghams Bemnants at 5c, worth 15c.
1000 yards yard-wide Bleached Cotton Remnants 5c.
IDIRIESS GS-OOZDS.
Immense stock. We cut deep on prices on the entire line.
We must reduce the stock.
BLANKETS, BLANKETS.
25 p..ir 10-4 Blankets at 80c.
15 rairs 11-4 Blankets, a little soiled, worth $5 00, reduced
to $3.00.
20 pairs 11-4 Blankets, a little soiled, worth $9 00 and $10,
reduced to $6.00.
50 pair- Red and While Flannel at greatly reduced prices.
W IP*, JACKETS AND CAPES.
We place on sale the balance of our stock of Wraps and
Jackets a: a ere song. We have left about 25 Children's
Cloaks worth $5 o $10 ; take your choice of them for $2.75.
200 Ladies’Gosiamers to close this week. You make a
mistake if you fad to buy a Gossamer of us. No house can
do you as will on this line.
SHIRTS, SHIRTS.
50 dozen Gents’ Unlaundried Shirts, all ask 75c; our price 4Sc.
50 dozen Gents’ Unlaundried Plaited Bosom Shirts, a regular $1 Shirt, for 63c.
A great bargain in Ladies’ and Men’s Lender wear.
Our Millinery Department a Grand Success.
The season being advanced for this line, we are offering extra inducements to
reduce stock.
LEWIS & GREGORY,
Columbus, Ga.
Best Six Cord
FOR
ine or Hand
USE.
FOR SALE BY
LEWIS & GREGORY.
1135 & 1137 Broad St
MILE-END
BUt THE AMES IRON WORKS
Engines and Boilers,
And the Egan Co.’s Saws,
Planers, Etc.
WM. M. OWEN,
GENEK YL AGENT,
At Bush’s Hardware Store,
Columbus, Ga.
By L.H. CHAPPELL
Broker, Beal Estate and Insurance Agent.
FOR SALE.
John G. Plummer, of Xew York, was
found dead in his room at the Windsor
Hotel, in Montgomery, on Friday
morning. lie was a drummer,
and represented the house of Gordon &
Billworth of that city. He was about
thirty-live years of age and was well known
in Montgomery and in the vicinity. He
had been on a drinking spell during the
day, and the physician who examined the
body stated that in his opinion death had
been caused by excessive, drinking. His
house was notified of the sad event, and
the body was taken possession of by an
undertaker to await its disposition by
friends.
§5100.
§2250.
§5700.
§5000.
§5000.
§5500.
§6500.
§15,COO.
§1000. 100x112, elegant corner on Werecoba
drive; no restrictions as to improvements.
§12,000. 5 acres and elegant home east of the city
line; ten minutes’ walk from Union depot.
§5200. Qua.ter acre and comfortable dwelling
Eleventh street, opposite Girls* public
school.
quarter acre and comfortable dwelling
No. 1331 Fourth avenue, on dummy.
Elegant new dwelling on lower Broad
street, west side, on street car line.
§1350. Dwelling and large lot on Robinson
street, good neighborhood.
§2600. Two-story boarding bouse upper Broad
street, uortli of the Banks building; rents
well.
Elegant new dwelling and large lot on
Ninth street, near court house.
60x147, with good improvements, on upper
Second avenue, south of Sixteenth street.
Quarter acre with good dwelling, Broad
street, Monument square.
69x147, west side of Broad street, north
of Mrs. Struppa’s.
New two-story residence Third avenue,
opposite Mr. Homer Howard.
The Episcopal church property, half
acre, with two large brick buildings.
§4000. 35x117 Tenth street, west of Webster
building: rents for 8 per cent.
S1850. 40x74. south side of Eighth street, east of
Second avenue; two cottages.
§15,000. The Willingham shops. Sixth avenue, on
2 railroads; 300x!08.
§3800 . 7^x90, corner Fourth avenue and Thir
teenth street, opposite Mr McPhail’s
§3000. Quarter acre ou corner with tive houses;
on street car line, near depot.
§6000. Two-storv brick dwelling 1430 Third ave
nue, south of Mr. Norman Pease.
§10,000. Temperance Hall, splendid brick build
ing; leaded for term of years.
§4600. New two-story residence up town, on
Third avenue; a great bargain.
§2100. Comfortable dwelling and 50 foot lot on
Second avenue, near street car line.
§10,000. Half acre and two dwellings Second ave
nue, half square from St. Luke’s church.
Two dwellings at foot of Rose Hill, rents
§120; good investment or speculation.
New dwelling comer First avenue and
Fifth street; owner leaving the city.
Business property on Broad street, par
tially improved; east side up town.
Four new dwellings Eighteenth street,
near Hamilton avenue; splendid invest-
maiit.
Small lot cn Eleventh avenue, near Tal-
botton avenue; splendid neighborhood.
Lot 41 Gunby survey. 60x110; corner.
Two acres on C. & K. R., North Highlands;
elevated and beautiful, on Twenty-fourth
street.
70x123, Hamilton avenue, on street car
§1200.
§2000.
§4500.
§2800.
§375.
§350.
§2000.
§900.
§3<;
lin
Lot on Eleventh avenue, near Talbotton
avenue; part of the Comer survey.
Splendid manufacturing site on railroad,
south of Walker’s warehouse.
§2000. Beautiful half acre Hamilton avenue t
south of John Daily’s.
§400. I.ot 25 Gunby survey, near Stone’s giu
house; room for two dwellings.
§2000. Handsomest lot on Rose Hill, beautiful
view; joining Mr. W. B. Coffin’s.
§4700. New two-story dwelling Fourteenth street,
near Second avenue.
§4000. Business property 35x117, west of Webster
building; rents well.
§1750. First avenue, opposite Second Baptist
church; new dwelling and room for an
other.
§1800. Quarter acre Fourth avenue, north of (j,
& W. railroad; two cottages.
§4500. Three-fourtlis acre on railroad, near
Swift’s mill: tive cottages.
§2750. 46x147, Third avenue, south of the Chap*
pell college.
§300. Lots on dummy line, fronting the Wynn*
ton college.
§1500. Two acres on the Wynnton road and ad
joining the old Garrard homestead, now
owned by Muscogee Real Estate Co.
§650. Beautiful lot west of Hughes residence;
elegant neighborhood.
§3700. 148x108, Sixth avenue, near Swift’s mill;
hacks on Western, railroad.
§3700. Half acre, corner opposite Midland depot;
two buildings; rents 10 per cent.
§5000. 90x90, corner Thirteenth street and Fourth
avenue; will sell part for §60 per front
foot.
§1000. 4"xl47, Fourth avenue, north of C. & W.
railroad: if improved will pay 10 per cent.
SC00. Eighth acre Third avenue; cheapest lot iu
the city.
§1100. 42x 47, Fifth avenue, beloYv M. & G. rail
road; excellent location for railroad men.
§300. Lot 13 Hughes survey,60x120, near railroad.
§5000. Half acre up town, corner lot, near dum
my: handsome surroundings.
§2000. Store on First avenue, above Riddle &
Nuckolls; good business stand.
DWELLINGS FOR RENT.
110 Seventh street, new 2-storv dwelling, §25.
602 Front street, large dwelling, corner lot §15.
Ne * dwelling with 6-rooms, Hamilton avenue.
S14.
Six 4-room cottages on Robinson street. §10.
New dwelling on Spear Grove, East Highlands
STORES FOR RENT.
Holt store, corner Sixth avenue and Fourteenth
street.
Brick store corner Thirteenth street and Tenth
avenue, hack of City Bark.
INSURANCE.
Home Insurance Company of New York—Fire.
Guardian Assurance Company of London, Eng.
—Fire.
United States Mutual Accident Association.
The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of
Newark, N. J.
L.
Broker, Real
H. CHAPPELL.
Estate and Insurance Agent.