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ONE OF RAYMOND’S TRAITS.
Ola Friends Talking of His Practical
Jokes.
From the Xetc York Times.
The death of John T. Raymond has her n
one of the chief topics cf conversation in
theatrical circles this week. At the Gilsey,
the Hoffman, ihe Union Square, the Mor
ton, find nil other places where the profes
sion are wont to congregate, there has been
constantly repeated over the lemonades and
the punches, m the little knots around each
table, the name of one of the best known of
American comedians.
Every actor bar. had a sprav of green to
tender to his dead brother, but it was a
spray from tlie garden of memory, of iris
rather than cypress, from a tree that had
been tended by friendship and watered by
merry sympathy through long years of pn.
feesional life. Even' one of them has had
some story to teli and has told it, and the
honest sadness over his departure and that
faint far away guest of ominous hearing
that came dimly into view with the words:
“Another one of us gone," was a liaok
ground for the stories that made merriment
something of a relief.
"Raymond and I dre*l for five years
in the same room.' said Harry Edwards
“It was in the California Theatre stock
company, in San Francisco. Joking was
not entirely an amusement with John. It
was a passion. Sii'-h trifles as finding your
shoes nailed to the floor when in a hurry,
your boots filled with vermilion, or your
wig grotesquely queered were ahvavs to Ire
expected But 1 never will forget," and he
began to laugh at the memory, “one
tnafinee, when we were playing with poor
Ned Adams in a piece called ‘The Clairvoy
ant.’
“McCullough was the villain of the piece.
In the last act there was a scene in which
his victims appeared Ijefore him. Ray
mond. Julia Corcoran, somebody else and
myself were the victims. We w>;re all in
line on a platform A second before we
came into view Raymond came out of his
ig-room. turned our wigs hind side
.fefcr -and tipped them over on one side,
tauM then took his place. He had turned
■MI rig inside out, painted Ms nose a fiery
frfri put on a bell-crowned bat instead of a
Jrjorf. le, and stood thei-e with his most
expreasion, pointing both hands in
of one at McCullough. You never
a row of guys in vour life. The I
■ ce first roared,"tiien hissed and then !
■HTudignanr. and we left the act as it, was \
Hi ang down.
was absolutely afraid of ;
times Raymond could do the most ,
•rratr siue things and never crack a smile: j
like a mute at a funeral all the time, j
pOfce night in Virginia he was playing
to McCullough's Ingomnr. In the
scene where Ingomar directs the
to seize Rol vdor Raymond came
in front of the stage and, instead of
in front of McCullough and claq>-
|HBns hands, he drop|rsi, .raw led between
crawl,si back, cruwiesi through
9H. dived back, and tin-n circled around
|Hc.::. the i.g.s.ii, 1,.,k W.-11. M
K-gan to laugh, the audience K:-
laugh and the curtain went down
universal roar.
RgHpLcCullinigh got back nr him for this.
They were playing together in
Cristo.’at theCalito nm. Raymond
iue. the tavemkeeper. and
was the Abbe Before Mcl'ul
cam*- c.u Ra>mond. insicail of reciting
les, guyed him unmercifully,
h!’ said he, ‘behold the Abbe; the
y Abbe; the august Ablie: the real im
l article in Abbes, and don’t you for
’ and so on, and so on, winding up
he cue. McCullough came on, they
aeir scene, and the Abbe, in say
wewell, lilted his finger sternly and
ill I have to say to you, John T. Cader
f, is this: Try and lie decent if you can.
jour tomfoolery and |>ay a little after
tiori to your domestic duties. If you will
cease staving out of nights. I>ad company,
and above all that pernicious habit ol
matching, there may be hope of you yet.
Good morning.’”
“I never think of Raymond without
also thinking of Matilda Heron." said
McKee Itank#i. “Raymond and Sothern
years ago were running the St. John's
Theatre, in New Brunswick. They had en
gaged Matilda Heron, and. as usual, they
painted her name in large letters on atrans
parency which they had rigged up on an
old lumber wagon. Inside of it they put
some musicians, and for several hours each
day it was driven all over town with the
musicians tooting like factory whistles.
Well, Matilda arrived. John inet her at
■■■fetation and, os they reached the hotel,
" !4 Kon came up the street
in ten. .' said John, rubbing bis
-l:! i . ... t • 'I: ■ ■ '! Jii l ■■ i
sidewalk.
■HP’ A'hat is it. Johnny fi said she.
right in. Matilda. Its all right.’
Hi. my God Johnny. 1 ennnot go
said the poor woman.
why, nonsense, don't say that,' said
" tEe manager ‘Everybody does it. The
paoplq expect it They wan to see you.
Won’t have a soul in the house if you don’t,’
“Hhe heaved a sigh, prepared to mount,
while the musicians, staring in consterna
tion, made a place for her on the lioard seat.
But her courage failed her. She clasped
her hands and almost fell on her knees, say
ing:
“ ‘Please. Johnny, please do not make me I
I will do anything for you all my life.’
“Raymond knitted nis brow and shook
his head.
•* ‘Ton honor?" he said finally.
“ ‘Oh, I swear it.’
“He relented. But all her life he held the
promise over her.”
“Did you ever hear Raymond’s answer to
the English ladyif” asked James J. Roche.
“No.
“Well, he was over there " said Roche,
“playing Asa Trenchant in ‘The American
Cousin.’ Meeting a lady one day she said:
“ ‘lt is funny, Mr. Raymond, nut you can
never hope to play the paid as Mr. Buxton
did.’
“‘No,’drawled Raymond. ‘I liojm? not.
You see, madam, Buxton was like Corn
wallis when he went over to interview the
Americans—he didn’t know unvtliing übout
tom.’ ”
Bike every other practical joker, Ray
mond was not seldom made the victim of a
dose similar to that be was so fond of in
flicting. When he first played Col. Sellers
the most trying paid or the performance
was eating the raw turnips, for he hated
vegetables anil never ate them except on
compulsion. The company found this out,
and doctored bis turnips' in all sorts of
ways. He substituted apples in the act, and
one night all he had to eat was a raw onion,
covered with an apple skin, to his unspeak
able indignation. The talk run on reprisals,
and Billy Florence said:
“Hpealiing of John and Nisi Sothern. 1
remember they once fell together in Hail
Francisco, years ago, Raymond at the Cali
fornia and Sothern at the Bush street.
Raymond lutd caught on to a queer habit
the Chinese epicures have there of eating
puppy dogs. It's very well known there,
and most of the Bohemian club fellows have
tried them. Well. John met Nod one (lay
ns) told him he'd struck a great thing ade
nose supper after the show. He talked sqiiuhs
3la </hi noise, Chinese orchestras, moon
light luileoiiien on the lop stori of the house,
ami 914 tea, till Sothern, who liked any
thing new, was cruzy to try it. and Ray
mond took him up there with n gang.
“They all ate pretty well, for the Chinese
cuisine is not to Is- sniffed at. I tell you. uml
Hethem Just stuffed himself with a delicacy
that lie took a great fancy to Raymond
went ill lastly on the pigeons, insisting that
Hl>ihern should let go on tie roaat. and try
tbeni, blit Hotbeni would uot. When llwv
were all sitting out on the Ist loot ty uial the
fiddle. were rasping the varnish off the
uareed wurk with thrii 1 devilish noise, Hoth
•ni qphdl
“MtV greet J wouldn't have mowed n
That wits f,lnlet V the moot delicab pig I
Mr nr ttsMm t '
“ 'Pig no'hijtg!' ofttd lie)uamd. *ll wa
•tor.' i
'•‘rvgr f
“ Y* do*.'
“ "bttahJ
i
“ 'Bet you a Kittle it was d"g.’
“.S' 'them turned a little pale, but took it.
Tl.ev went U-tek through a narrow pasaage
wav to the kitchen, and. sure enough, there
was the skin, head and paws of the puppy
still > n the chopping block. Sothern dis
appeared. He didn't come back, but went
home mad. Four fellow ! It was a long
tine lief ore he forgave it.”
Thera was a laugh. Then someone said:
i •'Tell us the sequel. Billy.”
Florence smiled. "You want the sequel.
[ Jo you:" he said.
“Yes.” in chorus.
“Well, I was always a friend of Sothem's
when he wasn't deviling me with some K'b
lierv-or other, and a couple of years after
ward I fell into Memphis along with Ray- !
nioinL AVe hail a big nigger cook at the
hotel, with >ne of the toughest faces I ever
saw on a hr,nan being. If I'd a met him
on a dark night anywhere and could have
seen him, I'd a run for my life. I took care
of him, however, with a dime or two. and
he put himself out for me in the cookling
line. He got me up a dish one 'lay that
was mighty good, and it was my first taste
of coon. Iwa talking w ith him about it
afterward in the kitchen, and an idea struck
me. 1 told Mill to get one and stew
it for Raymond, who was a little under the
weather, and was dining in his room. Now i
a coon's foot, when it's boiled with the
skin off, looks more like a little baby’s foot
than anything else in the world. The
darkv caught my idea, and he took a lot of
the little fiones and stowed them into a
platter with the two little feet half cov
ered up and half sticking out in a careless
kind of a way. He got it all ready for
John to look at after he had euten the
stew, and then carried up his dinner. I
gave him time to finish, and w hen I went
in I conlil see that he had eaten all there
was in sight.
“I grumbled a little. ‘Blast the hotel,’
said I; “can't get anything fit to eat in it,’
said I.
Eat!’ said John: ‘why, I’ve just had the
finest game stew I ever ate.’
“ ‘Game,' said I. ‘there's no game this
time of the year. AVliat was it?’
‘Blest if I know,’ said he, and rings the
bell.
"I told him he ought to be mighty careful
what he ate there, as there were a good
many queer stories going round about the
cook, and just as I had put the wedge in the
cook appeared.
“ What was tlrnt stew:' said Raymond.
“ ‘Young antelope, sah.’
“ "Nonsense,' said I. 'There's not an ante
lope within 500 miles of here.’
“The cook looked confused, and I ordered
him to bring up the Kines, He brought 'em
up, and we poked among’em. John found
a foot and looked up in terror. He was
afraid to touch it.
“ 'lt is,’ said I.
“It can't lie,’ said he. ‘Holy —.’
“And he went. The very idea was too
much for him. He dropped on it before he
came tiack, but Sothern was even.”
Then somebody recalled the time when
Raymond was playing Col. Sellers at the
Grand Opera House, and some of the lambs
put up a job on him to pav back certain
debts in the joking line that lie was always
incurring. Steele Mackaye, Walden Pell
Sorymser. Mai-u. an artist. Jack Miley ami
some others made up their minds to go on in
the last act in the court scene of the “Gilded
Age.” The first ordered a fine supper for
Raymond, as it was the last night of the
engagement. Then they arrayed themselves j
in dm* suits, went over to the theatre and,
haling previously fixed matters with the
stage manager, filed into the jury Kix, un
known to Raymond, before the curtain rose.
He entered sen alter, sat down to business
of talking with Laura Hawkins and hap
pened to east his eye on the jury box.
His jaw fell, his eyebrows lifted, and he
shook nis fist and went through a panto
mime of the most bloodthirsty threats. It
was a tough crowd, however," and they did
not weaken an inch. No sooner hail the
trial begun than Mara jumped to bis feet,
exclaiming:
“Inospeaka Inglis. You getta enter
pret.”
“Sit down,” cried the Judge.
“I can no hear. I wanta enterpret,”
screamed Mara.
Miley choked him off. and he subsided.
With some difficulty the cue was found, but
no sooner had the scene commenced than
Milev rose:
“Yer Arn’r,” said he.
“What.”
“He’s not tarkin Oirish. Av he don’t
tark Oirish how’ll I undhershtand the ivi
dence f”
Raymond was pule with anger. Every
thing was in confusion. Sorymser tried to
speak, the Judge was hammering with his
gavel and the audience were simply petrified.
They could not make head or tail of the
matter. The actors, outside of Raymond,
however, were in tears of laughter. The
trial ended and the jury went out. Mackaye
ivas foreman. When they filed back a few
minutes later, the Judge said:
“Gentlemen, have you agreed upon a ver
dict:"
“We have,” said Mackaye solemnly. “We
find the defendant guilty.”
“You mean not guilty,” roared Raymond.
“We mean guilty,” roared the jury.
Raymond made frantic signs into the
wings. “Ring down, ring down,” he com
manded in a hoarse whisper. Then he
grabbed a liottle on the table, rose, and
threw up his amis crying:
"Gentlemen, I appeal to you. For the
sake of the eye water say not guilty.
And the curtain fell on the maddest Ray
mond that anybody ever knew. He would
not see the jokers or the point of the joke,
and the supjier passed off without its only
guest.
HYACINTHS AS BOUTONNIERES.
The Modest Violet Discarded by Swells
Because it Became so Cheap.
Front the Veto York Mail and Express.
“The best way to tell a man who goes into
the highest circles of society and who is one
of fashion’s votaries is to see him buy a
boutonniere,” remarked a florist on Broad
way. The florist yanked together half a
dozen roses fora sallow-faced dude, used up a
yard of small wire, received #'-? 50 for the
wire and roses and continued his confidential
j chat alxiut boutonnieres:
“You see, if these Jacqueminot roses were
cheap they would soon become common and
everybody would be wearing them. The
extra swells of society would immediately
(•wise to buy Jacqueminot roses. That very
thing has happened with the boutonniere
flowers that were most fashionable a few
months ago, the violets. They became
cheap and everybody wore them, so that
I high-toned, heavy-pursed dudes have quit
wearing them. Now they buy hyacinths,
have them prettily wired together, ami
fasten them on through the buttonhole with
out unv green loaves for a background.
Hyacinths cost a little more than violets,
and, being white, they do not catch the eve
of the ♦lO-a-week young clerk. Besides the
hyacinth, sometimes a society swell will
select a Jacqueminot rosebud, and make it
answer for a boutonniere, but he shuns the
now common place violet. It is quite the
thing now to wear boutonnieres on light
colored spring overcoats. Watch the stream
of jieople in the afternoon when the swells
are out in numbers, uml sec the style of the
spring overcoat boutonniere; they are
catching amt artistic. Many of tliuMO wear
violets, but see them later on at the ojiern or
receptions anil they have hyacinths pinned
to their drins coats."
A Court House Burned.
Nkw Oiilkanm, April If*. The court
lion-" of Join* county, Mix* , a sutwtnntiiil
two story structure valued at ei.om,
together with all the county records, was
destroyed by mi incendiary tire last night.
1 1* ii.viFi 11 '. ( : I ;•.!<( i■! i .v: i
Important.
I>i T r Hniltli, 4 ' harlot to, N f . iwvs;
“I it ii'li Lo it III" liigiiw 1 importa/ve. not
• Mill as u i agreeable, • doling drink, but ns a
llcin|<i(le agent ot will i|Wtu<>l uml sis
elfin it ui
Ni/1 in• ■ Ink louklutf al Ap|a>! 4<* lia il a in*
I'jiraliMl,,, g law kid I/Idi*. | *HI*.
TIIK MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1887.
ANGRY WITH SARAH.
Mme. Bernhardt Loses Things in a Very
Mysterious Manner.
From the Xeie York Star.
Mnz>. Sara Bernhardt left for the West
Saturday night. and left behind her several
very angry and mystified people. Mine.
Bernhardt has been so unfortunate as to lie
mixed up in the mysterious disappearance
of five valuable autograph albums owned by
prominent New V>rK collectors.
It seems that two weeks ago Maj. J. B.
Pond, the well-known amusement manager,
took his large autograph album around to
th" Hoffmann House and sent it up to have
Mme. Bernhardt write her name on one of
its precious leaves among hundreds of auto
graphs of distinguished people, living and
dead. Tlie album wax sealed in a large en
velope, and accompanying it was a jiolite
note in French setting forth the request of
the owner.
A day ■ t vrn slipped away, and the Major
sent around to tlie hotel to get bis album.
Word was returned that the matter would
be attended to. Several more days passed
without a sign from the, great artist, arid
auotber message was dispatched Pi ask for
th* t .. No -ntisfarjtion eouid tie obtained,
and fiiialiv Maj. l’ond repaired to the hotel
in p“i - ui to learn the cause of delay.
Tie n Mine. Guerrai - . private secretary to
the tragic queen, stated that the book hail
probably K-cn returned, but it certainly
could nt lie found. The Major averred in
vigorous language that he had not received
it. and he became very anxious as to its
whereabouts. Messengers were scurrying
between the Everett and the Hoffman all
one day. The noted amusement manager
was in a state of mind, and Mme. Guerrar
was excited. Troublous clouds were gath
ering. which could only be cleared aw ay by
the apjiearance of the valuable album,'but
the horizon grew darker hour by hour.
Finally the hotel people became involved
in the affair, and tne house was searched
from top to bottom. Servants were ques
tioned closely and a detective engaged upm
the case. Suspicion was directed toward
several persons, but no clue could be found
upon which to prosecute the search with
any degree of satisfaction. At length the
Bernhardt company was about Pi proceed
to Boston, and it seemed as if the myste
rious matter must be decided one way or the
other. The niadame, however, promised
t hat everything should be set right upon
her return. This temporarily appeased the
Major, who had thus far exhausted every
means of recovering his property.
In due time the inqieriotu Sarah returned
to New York and the trouble about the
missing book assumed a more serious as
pect than before. Mile. Sarah Bernhardt,
niece of the great actress, suggespyl that
search tie made for the album, and this was
acted upon, but no trace of it whatever was
found. The madainc herself was annoyed
by the unfortunate affair, but it was hinted
that she had not exercised ordinary care
for the safety of the Kiok.
“Why, it is priceless,” exclaimed the
Major, as he strove Pi suppress his emotion.
“I have spent twenty years collecting auto
graphs in that book.' It has Uwi across the
ocean and from one end of the United
States to the other, and the hands of hun
dreds of distinguished jienple, some dead
and gone, have pressed its pages. Arthur
and Grunt, and Patti and Beecher, princes,
artists. Senators, Governors. Presidents and
authors by the score were there. (iarnbetta
luid written in it, Tilden h,-el.signed it, Gar
field's name was there, Gladstone and Nill
son and McClellan had penned their signa
tures on its pages, and all platform orators
of the entire world within the past twenty
years had impressed their autographs in
that album.”
Its money value was probably only a few
thousand dollars or so, but to the Major it
was a treasure of treasures, upon which he
had siient years of infatuated devotion. Then
more notes were sent, friends interceded,
and Flinch and English expressions of great
strength were indulged in all around, but the
mystery was not cleared up, the book was
not found. Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Ger
man and Turkish signatures are in the al
bum. Names from every civilized tongue
are record's! there, besides many from liar
baric and semi-savage countries. Every
body recognizes that the Major's album is of
great value, and his friends are doing what
they can to discover it. One person inti
mated that the niadame might have thought
lessly put the volume in her trunk, but her
friends resented this as unjust.
Saturday promised to bring the climax in
the mystery. Activity was shown by every
body interested in the matter. The madame,
in her caprice, stormed up and down her
apartments, Guerrar shuddered, little Sarah
cried and Maurice Bernhardt was fidgety.
“Where is the album?” was the tormenting
question which could not be answered. The
great actress was in such a state of frenzy
over the affair that her nervous system
gave way and she was compelled to cancel
her engagement for that evening at Jersey
City. Finally, late Saturday night the
madame was whirled to Desbrosses street
jferry to take the train for Cincinnati,
where she commences a Western tour to
last two months. Tliev are gone and the
missing album is not found. And that is
not the worst of it, for four other autograph
albums belonging to other well-known [ie<>-
ple are also lost. They hail been given to
Mme. Bernhardt, she had signed her name
and then the albums had disappeared! The
owners are disconsolate.
“I never heard of such a thing before,”
said Maj. Pond. “Why, when I was trav
eling with Mr. Beecher many autograph
albums were sent to him at every place
where we stopped, in America and England,
and I always saw that they were signed anil
properly returned. They tell me that a
dozen albums a day are sent to the White
House for the President to sign, and not a
Ixjok has lieen lost there for years.”
Of course it is not definitely known
whether the five missing autograph albums
are only mislaid through carelessness or are
really stolen, and detectives are now
thoroughly investigating the matter to de
termine w hat step shall be next taken by
the losers. Nolmdy for a moment attaches
blame to the hotel management, for the en
tire corps of servants and every employe
about the house are believed to be thorough
ly honest.
Word is expected from Mine. Bernhardt
from Cincinnati which may throw some
liglit on the mystery, but "when she de
parted Saturday night she was just as much
in the dark as everybody else.
THE THISTLE'S OPPONENT.
Paine's Steel Wonder The Importance
of Professionals in Yacht-Sailing.
From the Few York Tribune.
A question which is exciting even greater
interest among yachtsmen than the mans of
the Thistle is whut boat will be chosen to
defend the America's cup. List fall the
almost unanimous answer would have lieen
the Mayflower. But now so many unknown
factors have been introduced tlrnt it lie
comes a matter for iqieculution. The con
test for the honor is admittedly narrowed
down to four Knits. The Puritan, Priseilla.
Mayflower, and Gen. Faille's new steel
yacht.
The Puritan and the Mayflower will prob
ably come to tin' line in the trial races in
aKint the saint nditinn oh they were last
year, and. of course, they may tie exjxs'bsi
in show uKmt the same relative Hjassl. The
Priseilla, however, will undergo some alter
ations, which her owner, Com. Can
field, fondly ho| ies will add nmterialh to
her lleetncss. In brief her ballast, will K>
lotveii"! isinHldrrably, and her power will K
increased by large additional sail area.
Whether these I'lmilget will enable her In
make a walo for the Mayflower to sail in can
milt l' diseovereil through actual rxpeii
on nis; but win tber they no or not, there is
Mr. Iliitg.-..' nii.-M effort in naval orchitis'
1 niv t" lie mi l, ami many issiple are just
now pinning llieir faith to umt
M* Ihi i geos ih •- IS it il'-sltute to say tllll t
tKri an- wink s|mU in the Maifiowei . and
' ■mug found them, be ihas not prn|iac
ftial liie\ -hall crop out 111 the steel I soft
lln latlee !. m fact, ucithci inure urn has
t'uin another Mnvflowri with tie faults
.orrisi and Hlie will lour 1..0f" overhang.
Kail l' award and aft. and will lie mo an fH
• " g'i all, tod lea wutciline length ,
beam, draft ands&:! arra will be almost
precisely the same. It is in her midship
section that It i< thought the new boat will
differ most from her prole.•cs s or. and thin,
it is believed, will b- more powerful. One
of her greatest advantages will be that her
weights will lie great y lowers 1. the 1-ad
ballast Kdng run into the trough forming
the bottom at the keel.
Mr. Burgess ref IC'- to make public the
exact dimensions of the new Kiat at pres
ent, hut the following <func from a trust
worthy- source, and are believed to lie uK >ut
right: Length over al!. I l * l feet: length oil
water line, 80 feet; length ot keel. ?.* feet:
lieam (extreme), fee; draft, -h* feet.
Th" area of her sails will be about as fol
lows: Mainsail, 4,200 square feet: gafftop
sail, 900: staysail, 1100: jib, I,2UU, and spin
naker 4.000 square feet.
The Savannah Weekly News.
Sixteen Pages.
For Saturday, April 23. 1887.
READY THIS MORNING
CONTENTS.
First I*ai£—The Well s Secret; “The Duke's
Revenge. 11 illustrated story; Some Srlemn
Funny Men, illustrated; Over Twenty Years
Ago.
Sbcond Paof—Gen. Jaukson's Letters: The
Prairie Fires; Blaine - Condition: Extradition
with Russia; X Swindling Den Raided; Train
men Try a Bluff: Laws Conflict: Money Muti
lated; Jurisdiction at Issue: Florida's Legisla
ture; Lincoln's Reinterment: Politics in a Grand
Jury; Charleston’s Confidence: Killed by a Rock
Slide.
Third Page—More Petitions to the Commerce
Commissioners: A Cyclone in Ohio; Maine's
Liquor Law; A Major Called a Liar; Anarchist
Avengers; Pan Hand:** Well Plucked; Gibbet
Pendants: Suicide on a Steamer; Holland King;
A Dark Horse Apt to Win; Rome's Land Com
pany; Macon’s Former: Columbia Excited;
Starke Items; Boston's Female Banker; A Hot
Bed of Sensation; Swindling Alleged; A Grow
ing Coast Town.
Fourth Page—Orders Bound by Oaths-Tal
mage on the Moral Effect of Secret Societies;
The Three Agencies: The Talk of Thieves;
Fashion Notes: Rhode Jondron: A Nice Ilors©
Story; Why a Newsboy Wanted a Cent.
Fifth Page—Rail vs. River Rates; Gen. Law
ton's Appointment; Pan Handle's Prisoners;
Burned at Sea; Bogus Bonds; A Man-Killer
Laid Low; Big Fires in Florida: Burglars Crack
a Safe; Macon Melancholy; Charleston's Quar
antine; Britishers as Tourists: Hundreds in
China; Trouble at Salt Lake.
Sixth Page—Millions Put in Mexico; Wash
ington's Drill; Fired on From Ambush: Salva
tion Sensations; Florida's Capital: Port Meade
Facts; Christening the Baby; Milliners' Row;
Patti at the Metropolitan; Glasgow's New Craft:
Bishop Alfred Lee; Shoemakers in Revolt;
Hoaxing Newspaj>ers
Seventh Page—Agricultural Department: The
Garden; Spread of the Hog Cholera: The Need
of Manure for Vegetables; Fibre Plants: Arbor
Day; Some of the Virtues of an Egg; Lespedeza;
Farm and Stock Notes: Popular Science; Killed
by his Friend—J. J. Abrams Accidentally Shoots
F. M. Fonda.
Eighth Page—The Proposal; Sidewalk and
Sitting Room; London Gossip; Peter Tliellus
son's Will; Never Saw a Gold Coin; A Terrible
Tale; The Suwannee and Gulf.
Ninth Page—Hauls Along the Rails; Judge
Pardee Grants the Texas Pacific an Order;
Parnell's Defamation: Parliament Urged ti) Act
ou the Publication; Fight With Whiskers, Cren
shaw and Chapman Again in a Clinch; Race of
the Governors, Democrats Guarding Against a
Republican Surprise: General News.
Tenth Page The News of Georgia Gath
ered from Correspondents ami Exchanges;
Florida's Long Fight; Jacksonville Gossip: De
Funiak Counterfeiters; Pope and Labor Knight.
Eleventh Page- Round About in Florida;
South Carolina Items; Parnell's Refutation;
South Florida Rumbles; Ream’s Costly 3laid
Servants.
Twelfth Page—Editorial: Protect ion for Rice
Planters: New Converts; The Boodle Trainmen;
The Color Jjine at the North: Mr. Curtis' Two
Statements: Not Seeking the Truth; The Attack
on the Oil Trust; The Surplus must be Reduced;
The Rahway .Murder; Brief Telegraphic Sum
mary.
Thirteenth Page—Local Department; Taken
to Nashville: The City in u Squall: County Af
fairs: Wedded at Griffin: Sain Small at Trinity;
laborers Alinoat Starved; Base Ball: Floating
in the Ogeechee: The City's Night Toilers; The
Money Alxjut Raised; Railway News.
Fourteenth Page—A Day at Castle Garden:
An Honest Confession: Stanley as a Reporter;
Strictly a Family Affair; The Prophet's Son
Talks: Buckskin Bill's Bride: The Great lowa
I Geyser; Surprises for the Bride.
Fifteenth Page—What Fanny Said; Royalty
at a Ball; Reminiscences of Raymond: Col.
Ludlow’s Bravery: AVerv Agreeable Custom;
Presages of Death: Current Comment: Bright
Hits: Personal; One Out of Six; Just Like the
White Man; Good night; At the Auction; Items
of Interest.
Sixteenth Page-Weekly Review’ of the Sa
vannah Markets; Other News Items; Advertise
ments.
Just the paper to send to your friends.
Single copies ft cents.
For sale at Kstill's News Depot and at the of
fice*. u Whitaker street.
SOAP.
SOAP! STARCH!
IF YOU WANT GOOD VALUE IN
SOAP, SOAP, SOAP,
STARCH, STARCH, STARCH,
COME TO
STRAUSS BROS.,
22 and 22 1-2 Barnard Street.
Soap by llio box Starch by the box.
Son;) by the dollar's worth. Starch by the
diilUir'K worth.
Soap by the nickel's worth. Starch by the
nickers worth.
Larp Stock. Low Prices.
Sinmss Bros.,
22 and 22 1-2 Barnard Street.
IV ATI II M VKKR AN 1* J KAVKLKH.
A UGUST KRIBGER.
IV ATfl iMA k K iVi K\V H.f.ii awl l!> (i lit H.II,
No. IMt* HHOUGHTON STKKKT.
(Betwren Whitaker and Bull Sheets)
Savannah, Ga.
All orders will And prompt attention. Sati
faction guaranteed,
< ’OVntACTOHrt.
P. J. FALLON,
BUR m CONTRACTOR,
A* I'HOTuV STKKKT. *AV\\V\H
I^HUM \TI> promptly ftirnt*h<*d for building
NOTICE.
V'liTli l . bembf (fill'll lhi an apfiliraUua
* ’ will I.- ovj.l'.tb'- rl f tteller .1 hteeni
Mv f.a I " ~*e ,4 u; -'I l I All j
All I" l >f|.,!aie tlm !.'•!(,(. lit. UHU eel
I
ri'N krai. isvitatioxs.
KLANXK lAN.The relatives and friends of
Mr. and Mrs. James Flannijran. and of Miss M.
Ryan, are respectfully invited to attend tile fu
neral of James Fuannioan from his late resi
detiee. So. 11 East Boundary street, at 3 o'clock
THI.S AFTERNOON.
MEETINGS.
LANDRUM LODGE \0 4S F. \M) >l.
An extra communication of this Lodge A
w ill be held THIS Wednesday EVEN A'
IX G at s o'clock. JkjT
•The F. C De|ree will b< ’ ▼'
Memliers of sister Lodges and transient breth
ren are cordially invited to attend, tlv order of
F. I). BLOODWOP.TH. W. M.
H. E. Wilson. Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
MAGNOLIA EX- x
CAM PM EXT Xo. 1.
Odd Fellows' Tem- , _ fT jf S _ _
pie. X. W. corner Bar
nar.i and State street a $ f jraw
Regular meeting /
THIS WednesdacTtSEW. JfS***
EVENING at 8 o'clock -**■**&****"+'•-■
JOHN' RILEY. C. P.
J. s. Tvs. n. Bcribc.
GOLDEN BI LE LODGE NO 12. I. <. O. P.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held
THIS EVENING at h o'clock at new ha!!.
Memliers of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are invited to attend.
Bv order of C. S. WOOD, X. G.
H. G. Ganahl. Secretary.
SPECIAL no 1 h es.
ELECTION NOTICE.
Town of Warsaw. April 30th, IS**?.
Xotice is hereby given by the undersigned,
owners of lots in the town of Warsaw, that an
election for five Commissioners of the town of
Warsaw will be held on the FIRST MONDAY IX
MAY. INST, at the residence of Edward Bannon,
in said town, and that the polls for said election
will be opened at 10 o'clock a. m., and closed at
4 o'clock p. m. of that day.
MAXIME J. DF.SVERGERS,
HEXRY AMBOS,
WM. E. FEXXELL,
RANDOLPH PAFF,
WILLIAM GRAY.
SPEC lAL NOTICE.
The town heretofore advertised as “Lincoln - '
will hereafter be known and described as the
town of "ROSEDF.W." L. A. FALLIGAXT.
LUNCH.
Another one of those fine Lunches will be
served TO-DAY at Charley Grahams, 149 Con
gress street. Come and help yourselves. You
are all invited. From 10 to 1 o'clock.
DR. BART \V. G'LBBEDUE,
DENTIST.
ROOMS ODD FELLOWS’ NEW BUILDING,
BARNARD STREET.
ELMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to the sys
tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other
ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot be
excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in
dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul
mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. $1 OJ
a bottle. Freight paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER, M. D.,
Pharmacist, Savannah, Ga.
ELECTION NOTICE.
City of Savannah, j
Office Clerk of Council,
April Pth. 1887. 1
Under and by virtue of a resolution adopted
by Council at meeting of April (3th. 1887. Coun
cil will elect at its next regular meeting, that is
to say on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 36th. 1887. a
City Marshal to fill vacancy occasioned by the
resignation of L. L. Goodwin. Bond, $5,000.
Salary. $1,500 per annum Applicants must
hand in their applications, with names of bonds
men (two required) stated therein, to the Clerk
of Council at or before 3 o'clock p. a.. WED
NESDAY, APRIL 30th. 1887.
By order of Council.
FRANK E. REBARER.
Clerk of Council.
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
Office Health Offices, i
Savannah, Ga., March 14.1887. I
From anu after this date, and until further
instructions, the following regulations regard
ing vessels arriving at this |s>rt w ill be enforced:
Ist. All steamships and vessels from South
America, Central America, Mexico. West Indies,
Sicily, Sardinia, ports of Italy south of 40 degs.
North latitude, Algeria and coast of Africa be
tween 10 degs. North and 14 degs. South lati
tude, will be subjected to close quarantine and
be required to report at the Quarantine Station.
3d. All steamers and vessels from foreign
ports not included in section first, direct or via
American ports, whether seeking, chartered or
otherwise, and vessels and steamships front t Im
port of New York (other than those of the Ocean
Steamship Company of Savannah) will lie re
quired to remain in quarantine until boarded
and passed by the Quarantine Officer. Neither
the Captains nor any one on hoard o f such ves
sets trill he allowed to eomr to the city until the
vessels are inspected and passed by the Quaran
tine Officer.
The quarantine regulation requiring the flying
of the quarantine flay on vessels subjected to
detention or inspection will he rigidly enforced
J. T. McFarland, Health officer,
QCARAXTIA E NOTICE.
Office Health Officer. )
Savannah. March 35th, ]HR7. i
Pilots of the Port of Savannah are informed
that the Sapelo Quarantine Station will be open
ed on APRIL Ist. 1887.
Special attention of the Pilots is directed to
sections Nos. 3d and 14th, Quarantine Regula
tions.
Most rigid enforcement of quarantine regula
tions will lie maintained by the Health authori
ties. j. t. McFarland, 51. and„
Health Officer.
QUAR A NTIN E NOTH K.
Office Health ( ifficer. I
Savannah, April sth, 1887 i
Notice is hereby given that the Quarantine
Officer is instructed not to deliver letters to ves
sels which are not subjected to quarantine de
tention, unless the name of consignee and state
ment that. the vessel is ordered to some other
port appears upon the face of the envelope.
This order is made necessary in consequence of
the enormous bulk of drumming letters sent to
the station for vessels which are to arrive.
j. t. McFarland, m. n„
Health Officer.
F 1.01 If.
USE THE BEST\
HECKER’S
SUPERLATIVE
FLOUII.
TAKE XO OTHER.
M AT'TT Ml.
SuHiii Men
0 tJ I
Freeman & Oliver,
Ifc HHOUGHTON BTKITKT
Call and BMJ the DANGLER
V A POR 8 TO V K for iu m irwr T/wi
excursions.
Tent! Amina! Excursion!
May 9th, 1887.
SAVANNAH, FLORIDA & WESTERN
—AND—
Charleston & Savannah
Railway'; Employes' Mutual Relief Association.
St. John's River bv Moonlight on Steamers.
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Pain' ka and Sanford hy Rail or Steamer.
Sanford to Kissimmee and Tampa by Rail.
Beautiful laker- and Rivers on the route. Jack
sonville to Fcruamhua. Palatka to Gainesville by
Rail.
The Ancient City of St. Augustine by Rail.
GO AND SEE THE INDIANS.
Pablo Bench, uninterrupted drive for 30 miles.
Handsomest Beacu on the Atlantic Coast, only
17 miles from Jacksonville.
Arrangement made for board at hotels and
on Miners ,t f reduced rates. Fine Band of
Music accompanies the excursion
Tickets will not be sold to colored persons.
Nurses m charge of children only will be ad
mitted.
Price nf Round Trip to Places Mentioned:
Savannah to Jacksonville s*.£ on
“ .St, Augustine 300
“ 44 Palatka 3 25
“ Sanford 4 50
** “ Kissimmee : 575
*' u Tampa 7 00
14 Gainesville 450
4 4 4 4 St. Augustine via Palatka... 4 25
44 Pablo Beach 250
Coupons for places lieyoud Jacksonville will
be furnished by Committee on train after leav
ing Savannah.
Children under 12 years of age half price.
Honorary Committee.—H. S. Haines. Chair
man; H. B. Plant, Robert O. Fleming, W. S.
Chisholm. Charles D. Owens, J. W. Craig, W. P.
Hardee, William Duncan, R. LePage, William
Bren.
General Committee.—C. W. Keogh, Chair
man; James Bennett. J. E. Smith. Jr.. B. P.
Lockwood. Joseph H. Bandy. H. Z. Harris.
Junior Committee.—Charles A. Gradot. Chair
man : Jolin F. Glatignv. C. C>. Haines. John J.
Rogerc. John F. Walsh
Tickets for sale by the Committee, at ’William
Bren's Ticket Office; John F. Walsh, Savannah,
Florida and Western Ry. Freight Depot.
Trains leave Savannah at a. m . standard
time. All Excursionists must leave on this
train, and t*> on the return train not later than
the V M. train on SUNDAY. Mav 15.
F. EUGENE DURBEC, President.
DRY GOODS.
iffliill
SUCCESSORS TO
B. F. McKenna & Cos.,
137 BROUGHTON STREET,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,
- DEALERS IN FIRST-CLASS
Reliable Dry Goods,
The latest Novelties in Foreign'and Domestic
DRESS GOODS
FOR STRING AND SUMMER.
Black and Colored Silks, Black Cashmeres
—AND—
Silk Warp Henriettas
BLACK NUNS.' VEILING, SUITABLE FOR
MOURNING VEILS.
Mourning Goods a Specialty.
ENGLISH CRAPES AND CRAPE VEILS.
EMBROIDERIES AND LACES.
Housekeepers’ Groods.
IRISH TABLE DAMASKS Napkins and Tow-
I <*!s of tli** lyst manufacture, and selected
especially with view to durability. Counter
pines and Table Sprcatls, Cotton Sheetings.
Shillings and. Pillow Casings in all the l>est
brands.
HOSIERY. CLOVES. HANDKERCHIEF'S.—
Regularly made French and English Hosiery for
Indies and Children. Balbriggan Hosiery: Gen
tlemen's and Boys' Half Hose: Ladies’ Black
Silk Hosiery.
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Linen Handkerchiefs
in a great variety of fancy prints, and full lines
of hemstitched and plain hemmed White Hand
kerchiefs.
Gentlemen's I undried and Unlaundried
Khi.-ts, Boys' Shirts. Gentkmien's Collars and
Cuffs. Ladies' Collars and Cuffs.
CORSETS.—lmported and Domestic, in great
variety, and in the most graceful and health
approved shapes.
\ EBTS.—Ladies', Gentlemen's and Children's
Vests, in Spring and Summer weights.
PARASOLS. The latest novelties in Plain
and Trimmed Parasols.
ORDERS --All orders carefully and promptly
executed, and the same care and attention given
to the smallest as to the largest commission.
Samples sent free of charge, and goods guaran
teed to lie fully up to the quality shown iu
sain nles.
Sole Agents for McCall's Celebrated BAZAR
GLOVE FITTING PATTERNS. Any Patterns
sent pst free on receipt of price und measure.
Telephone No. 401.
PH< > p<)SA Ls \\ A NTKI>.
PROPOSALS FOR PI miIASE OF LA ML
City ok Savannah. i
Office Clerk ok Council, v
April 11. 1887. )
I T NDER and by virtue of a resolution a*]opted
\ by th iMy t'ouucil of Savannah, at meet
ing on the rtth (lay of April, 1887, bids are invited
for the purchoM* of all that portion of the city
domain ivcrntly bought by the eitvof Savannah
from Surah A. *!oussenu uid others, known as
that portion of the Dillon tract lying south of
S**\< nth street and \\*st of Barnard street, said
portion of said tract being bounded on the north
by Seventh street,, east by Barnard street, south
b.V West Twelfth street, and west by Florance
stre*t. said portion of siiiil tract eiuitaining two
Imiidre*! unit seventy-two lots, the city reserving
all KireetH laid out in said tract, and also the
portion of said tract laitl out and known as
V*' !ls square. No lid for a less amount than
¥7it,2fji shall lie considered, the city reaervihg
th* light t rejis't any and all bids.
TfcftM.H ‘Un* fourth cash, one-fourth on the
first of Si*ptem!s-r, 1887, hulnnee to In* paid in
on* and I .vn years from date of purchase, with
interest on d**b*:T** l payniruts at • percent, tier
auiiitin. A correct map of the above di*HcriiKsl
jjrojMMty can be seen at tie* office of the City
Surveyor on and after Wednesday, April 18,
18K7.
All bids in b* presented to tic* Clerk of Coun
cil by 8 o'clock r. m. oii Wednesday, April vKftli,
IHB 7.
p.y ordvr of Council.
FRANK K. RKHARKR.
clerk of Connell.
nil vn.d AMI KOOK HI MlF.lt.
Chips from tho Old liloek!
THU WORKMKN EMri/IYRD BV
CEO. N. NICHOLS.
PRINTER AND BINDER.
TIH-tr wurk ItMH gltrn repu-
IMI I .111 tu t'le I I >ll Mil 111 <■ Ml.
|NoHr bctUtr,
lottery.
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CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000
Annual Drawings of the Louisiana SU,t , U
{'T<t Conge my, and in person nuntooe „ ‘ w h *
t. cl th- lira wings them* Ives, a,a' that th?
are conduct and with honesty, fairness n
good faith toward all parties , and !m,', u g U 11
th- Company to use this certificate w tk*
Similes of our signature* attached, in iufJ,
tisements.'
Coranjissionerj,
Tlv Me undersigned Banks and Bankers w
pay all Prizes drawn in th*. Louisiana State r ■!?
tern s which may be presented at our counter
J, H OGLESBY. Pres. Louisiana Nat’l B a J
PiERRE LANAUX, Pres. State Nafl Ba£
A BALDWIN, Pies. New Orleans Nat': Bam
CARL KOHN, Pres. Union National Barn
[ ’ nprecedentecTattraction '
L Over Half a Million Distributed,
Louisiana state Tottery company.
Incorporated in 1868 for 26 years by the I.™
latum for Educational and Charitable n llra L
•With a capital of $1,000,000 to which a
fund of over §550,000 has since been added ’
By an overwhelming popular vote its frar hisi
was made a part of the present State constitu
tion adopted December 2d, A. D. 1870
The only Lottery ever voted on and indorm
by the people of any State.
It never scales or postpones.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings taki
place monthly, and the Semi- Annual Draw,
inas regularly etery six months (June ani
Decern her 1.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO \VI>
\ FORTI \E. FIFTH GRAND DRAWING
CLASS E. IN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC
NEW ORLEANS. TUESDAY, May 10, OU7,
20ith Monthly Drawing.
Capita! Prize, $150,000
Notice —Tickets are Ten Dollars only.
Halves, $5 Fifths, $2; Tenths, $l.
list or PRizrs.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $150,000 tiam
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 50,000 ' sn'ijv
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 20,000 an'oS
2 LARGE PRIZES OF 10,000 SOM
4 LARGE PP.IZES OF 5,000. .. SOM
20 PRIZES OF 1,000 20,4 X
60 “ 500 25001
ioo “ 300.... aaoj
2ilo “ 200
600 “ 100 .... 50PX
1.000 “ 50... 50.008
APPROXIMATION PRIZES
100 Approximation Prizes of $3OO .. S9IiXX
ioo “ 200 .. ai.oot
100 “ “ 100... 10.00 C
2,179 Prizes, amounting to |535,i)M
Application for rates to clubs should be mad*
only to the office of the Company in New Oi'
leans.
For further information write clearlv, giviiu
full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express fionej
Orders, or New York Exchange in ordinary lev
ter. Currency by Express lat our expense) ai
dressed I. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans. La.
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
AVashingtnn, D, C.
Address Redsfered Letters to
NEAV ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK.
New Orleans, L,
pC6/|pMipcrp That the presence of Gen
La aZ_ iVI L_ I VI LA LZ- IV era is Beauregard anc
Early, who are in charge of the drawings, is t
guarantee of absolute fairness and integrity,
that the chances are all equal. and that no on*
can possibly divine what number will draw i
ITize.
H U. MEM BE R that the payment of all Priz"’
is GUARANTEED BA FOUR NATIOXAI
BANK", of New Orleans, and the Tickets art
signed by the President of an Institution, whos*
chartered rights are recognized in the highest
Courts; therefore, beware of any imitations ot
anonymous schemes.
HAY AM) GRAIN.
Mm Mixed Feed:
A fresh tot juft arrive !. Also,
Hay, Grain, Bran, Cow Peas, Elf.
G. S. McALPIN,
172 BAY STREET. _
bThull,
WAREHOUSEMAN
AND
Commission Merchant
DEALER IN —■
FLOUR, HAY, CORN, OATS, BRAN, ETC.
WHOLESALE DEPOT for Graini and Pro
\ \ \ Lions, choice lot Seed Rye. Rust Pr-
Seed Oats. Fresh MEAL and GRIST in wnitt
sacks always on liand. Special prices large io
Warehouse. No. 4 Wadley street, on line l■ -
R. Office, 83 Bay street.
GROCERIES.
Tlie llniiial Co-Operative Store,
Under the Odd Fellows New Hall,
IS THE PLACE TO GET
FRESH GOODS
AT THE
Lowest Prices
Give Us a Trial and You Will Be Connoted
JOHN R. WITHING-TON
NEW PI EI.H VTION'S.
NEW BOOKS
—AT—
Estill’s News Depot
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