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A GEORGIAN IN LONE ")N.
The Tipping By stem—Something About
the Lodging Houses.
London, May 12. —As a sojourner for a
season in this great metropolis, I am brought
in contact with the various phases of
English life. The difference between life
here and in the States is so marked that it
impresses itself upon every newcomer.
Among the first things that attract the
attention of Americans is the
“tipping system.”
When you pass the gang-plank into one
of her majesty's steamships at New York
you are virtually in England. Everything
is English about you, and you are con
stantly reminded that you" are under
the English government. The only
compensation awarded is the assurance that
you are under the protection of that gov
ernment as well. On board you get your
first lessons as to the method of “tipping.”
The officers distribute you about into as
many hands as possible. First is the stew
ard, who attends to your room and makes
up your bed, and, if your wife accompanies
you, tflk- stewardess comes in to look after
her comfort. The steward makes up )’our
berth and the stewardess that of your wife.
One would not dare do the work of the
other, because it would be infringing upon
prerogatives. Secondly, the waiters who
attend to your wants at the table There is
the deck steward, who supplies you
with any little things you might jirefer, after
“casting up” your dinner. Then comes the
man who sweeps off the deck and ties up
the steamer chairs so that you will not fol
low your dinner into the midst of the sea.
Of course you will want to go to the smok
ing saloon. There you will find another
steward to look after your wants, and
finally the bootblack, who, with a little
saliva smirches over your shoes in the (lend
hours of the night. Then you are placed
under obligations to all these’parties, and as
you danoe to their music you will have to
pay every fiddler. Some of their demands
are of no small dimensions. Just opposite
me at our table sat a Canadian
with a lady friend. As we reached
Liverpool the gentleman handed bis
waiter a half a crown (00c. of our money),
which the waiter indignantly refused to ac
cept, saying that half a sovereign for each
was the price for attendance (about $2 50),
whereupon the Canadian, in language more
emphatic than polite, refused to pay any
thing. When we were freed from the cus
tom house officers and stepped into a cab
for the Adelphi, the man who opened the
door waited for his “tip,' 1 and the driver did
not go until he got it. So we find it every
where. No matter where you go, you are
placed into two or three hands to get every
penny out of you possible. At a hotel one
servant bikes your umbrella and overcoat,
while another carries your gripsack to your
room, and the third looks after your
luggage in the hall 1/elow. This is what
they call a division of labor, which includes
a division of support. The only excuse 1
nave heard given for this method, is that
there are so many people here, and all have
to be supported. " Every favor extended is
expected to be paid for. Your room at the
hotel is placed at $1 25 per night, and then
you have to pay 37 l-2c. to the waiter for
attendance, that is, in bringing you water
and towels, and making your bed. This is
the custom, and it is no use to kick against
it. If you do you are the loser in the end.
So completely does this system permeate all
classes of society, even to the chureh usher,
that he who neglects it must suffer in conse
quence. Woe be it to the unfortu
nate wight who forgets this part, of
religious service. On Sunday last I attended
one of the popular churches in liofulon. I
was directed to a certain door, where there
were over 100 people waiting for the doors
to open. I readily saw that this would not
do. So a shilling, judiciously invested, car
ried me around to a side entrance, where I
was placed within thirty feet of the preacher
in a most, comfortable jiow.
All this is submitted to by our English
cousins, because it is regarded as a necessity.
Sjphey grumble at Americans because they
gjjjlve increased the burdens; for Americans
■*l ashamed to give a penny and {hence
IBye shillings where pennies formerly met
!'®o demand. In Rome we yield to Roman
Ppmands.
LODGINGS,
Silt would seem to the average American
, 4fcat, two-thirds of Loudon is devoted to
Bfdging jieople. It means simply that and
■pining more. You lodge. If the average
jsjmerioan boarding house is a study and a
problem which puzzles the economist as well
as the philosopher who attempts to weigh
the responsibilities of existence, and give u
reason for the diversities in all well regu
lated society, what shall be said of English
apartments, where a majority of the mil
lions of Ivondon exist. The house in which
we have pertinents is not an exception to
the general character of such lienevo
lent institutions. It has, it is true,
its peculiar characteristics —its lines
of light as well as its sombre shadows. In
renting apartments you are exjieoted to
rent not only abed-room but also a drawing
room, which answers the double purpose of
a parlor and dining-room, or, in other
words, a suite. You are furnished break
fast, consisting of bread, butter, l>aoou or
ham with eggs and tea or coffee, for Is. (Id.
each. A chop breakfast with potatoes costs
2s. each. Then you have to look out for
your own dinner and supper, if you get any.
Strange to say, that while I write at this
moment there are over a million people on
the streets of London who do not know
where they will eat their supper three hours
hence.
Our landlady has not a conunanding
figure, but her “widow’s weeds” become
her well, and her resolute manner of doing
things fits her admirably for the important
position which she holds. Her intense
passion is to secure the largest amount of
rend)’ cash from her lodgers. Her qualifi
cations for this work are of. the highest
order, which is clearly demonstrated by the
fact that her interest (lags in any one just
in proportion as the bills fails in prompt
ness. She charges m/thing for making fires,
but only for the kindling which starts it.
She charges nothing for gas only for the
servant who must come and light it.
Another peculiarity of “lodging’’ is that
you never know or see your fellow lodgers.
We are in a house where there are seven or
flight other persons, und we have boon here
over a month, yet, have never met or seen
any of them, only as they may be passing
out of the door. We rarely ever see the
landlady, unless our bill is due, so that
“lodging” is a secluded and exceedingly
selfish life. It is said that English homelite
is charming ami exceedingly pleasant, but 1
have not seen an English home since 1 have
been in London. Ido not believe, however,
that there is any rhy-e where home and
homelife are so lovely and elevating as is to
found in our own happy land.
THE CUISINE.
The preparation of food is quite different
here from that at home. All bread is served
cold, with a crust so hard and tough that it
requires an clfort to cut it, to say nothing
of chewing it. It is made with but little if
any salt. The moats are all cooked rare,
without seasoning of any kind. Everyone
seasons to his own liking. Vegetables are
better cooked, although served without
seasoning. Your coffee or tea is inadi very
strong, and you an- supplied with hot water
to weaken it According to your own 'll ire.
You never see corn bread or hominy of any
kind. I douht if they know what waffles or
buckwheat cakes arc. They have what
they call “drips,” hut no real syrup. Your
Srneal is placed on the table and the servant
Heaves the room. You have all liefore you,
unless there is another special order. The
■Ongliah, from tne highest to the
B >wet class, all drink beer, ale
■vine or champagne while oiiting. The
|t'h i mney-sweep sticks down his pot of beer
fcvitb as much gusto as the Prince of Wales
pvould empty u glass of his favorite brand
feof wine. Eating with the aventge Knglish
nn is a serious business. He rarely ever
■peaks. It is over his wine cup and cigar
■nat he grows eloquent.
1 The cheapness of living in London )r s
■reef delusion. The writer is living harder
■nd paying more for it than he ever did in
Dart of the United (States. The seem-
ing cheapness comes from the division
theory. A cup of coffee is 4c., a small loaf
of baker’s bread is 4c. more, a very thin
oake of butter, about enough to butter an
ordinary buckwheat cake, 2c.: a small steak
25c., jxitatoos Gc., and 12c. to the
waiter to bring it to you, a contingent al
ways to be remembered, so that you have
an ordinary meal for 53c. At my boarding
house in Georgia I sat down to one of the
best supplied tables in the city for 20c. a
meal. True, you can live cheap here, if you
don’t cat anything. You can get a glass of
milk and a bun for 4c., which will keep
body and soul together.
FAILS TO SEE SQUALID POVERTY.
My goings to and fro have been confined
to the business portion of Loudon mainly,
but I have not found that squalid poverty
which I expected to find on the streets.
They tell me it exists in certain
localities. There is no outright
begging on the streets, but aims
are sought under the cover of a few flowers,
or singing a song, or grinding a hand organ.
Some service must be rendered before a de
mand can be made. Hence this exceeding
anxiety to do something to put you under
obligations to them, so that they may have
a just claim, as they regard it, upon your
bounty.
There is a genuine sympathy among the
people for the afflicted, and hospitals and
homes for the unfortunate abound. Per
haps no people on the globe excel the Eng
lish in providing for the comfort and treat
ment of this class of citizens. Many of
them are sustained almost entirely by
voluntary contributions; others are richly
endowed. The Foundling Hospital,
the home for illegitimate children,
has about 500 inmates and is munificently
sustained, and within two years more will
come into possession of two whole squares
of three and four-story dwelling houses,
which will increase the revenue to a prince
ly sum. There are many others equally as
well provided for. There is an immense
amount of Christian charity dispensed
among the poor, and nowhere are the moral
and Christian agencies more generally em
ployed or exhibit greater vitality and life
than right here in London, yet results are
not at all satisfactory. The people are slow
to move in any direction, and especially
when movement runs contrary to their moss
grown customs and inclinations.
Bam Leßene.
CANADIANS DISCONTENTED.
Public Sentiment About Commercial
Union Not Ascertainable.
From the Xew York Times.
Toronto, May 23. —Is Canada in a frame
of mind to accept commercial union witli
the United States were it offered to her)
Upon this (juestion there is a wide diversity
of opinion. This difference of opinion exists
to a marked extent here, though it is claimed
that unanimity upon the question is lacking
in all sections of the Dominion, and the re
mark was made to-day by a prominent
citizen, a man of affairs, that if the corre
spondent succeeded in discovering the real
sentiments of the people of Canada on the
question of commercial union with the
United States he would accomplish more
than any Canadian had achieved —this to
illustrate the supposed and seeming chaotic
condition of public opinion upon the sub
ject. But no well organized attempt at dis
covery has been made, perhaps from fear of
the result, on the one hand, and on the other
through lack of opportunity, for the avowed
advocates of unrestricted intercourse with
the United States are yet undoubtedly in
the minority. They are preparing, how
ever, to inaugurate a carefully planned and
earnest campaign, and are sanguine of
swelling their ranks to such proportions as
will justify a belief in an ultimate victory.
The country is to them an unplowed field,
but the implements and seed are in store,
and the laborer is believed to be at hand.
If discontent with the existing condition
of affairs is to be a factor in the fight the
onjHinents of commercial union will need
all their resources to secure a victory. A
yiirit of discontent exists here, and if it
finds room in the prosperous city of Toronto,
which has a weakness to be considered the
metropolisbf the Dominion and the brains
of Canada, there is strong ground for sup
posing it is rampant in some other quarters
of the Dominion. Toronto is a manufac
turing centre, and is protected by the gov
ernment. Many of its manufacturers—not
all —maintain that commercial union would
ruin them. Their opponents retort that the
day of subsidies is past, and that it would
profit the tax payers to pension manufac
turers who cannot exist without govern
ment aid.
The t/elief may not find expression often
in Ontario or Queliee, yet it is general
throughout the Dominion that confederation
lias proved a failure. The expression of
this Relief may bo stifled in certain quarters
through a sentiment of loyalty, but the be
lief exists; it cannot grow stronger, for ex
perience has proved that the laws of trade
cannot be controlled by politics. Since con
federation was consummated the Dominion
has been saddled with a debt of $225,000,-
000; not a large debt for a country of 3,500,-
000 square miles, but large for a population
of 4,500,000 jieople. particularly where there
is very little to show for it. The lower prov
inces have never been satisfied with con
federation. They were induced to vote for
it bv specious promises that have not been
fulfilled. From a fairly prosperous condi
tion, they have become drones in the hive—
cut off by a high tariff from dealing with
their natural neighbors, the New England
States—distance und high freights preclud
ing any possibility of profitable trade wit h
the other members of the confederation.
Under confederation Prince Edward’s Isl
and has become almost lost to memory.
Nova Scotia expected that her coal deposits
would by transferred at paving prices to
Quebec and Ontario. In round numbers,
the distance between Halifax and.Toronto is
1,200 miles. A railroad connects the two
cities, but it has proved of little advantage
to Nova Scotia. Ontario procures her sim
ply of bituminous cool from the United
States.
VVere Ontario able to change places with
Quebec, Nova Scotia might not lie so baillv
"If; her calculations might have been fu!
tilled. But Quebec, which is within reach
ing distance of Nova Scotia’s coal mines,
does not want the product. There are 1,250 •
000 habitans in Quebec and they want al
most nothing. By the n>st of the Dominion
they are considered a dead weight. The
tariff troubles them not. Their wants are
simple and are supplied by themselves.
They add comparatively nothing to the
wealth of the country. They are a source,
of expense to the government and give no
return. Municipal taxes they pay to a
small extent, hut the bulk of their expendi
tures consists of tithes ahd assessments col
lected bv the church, for in this cnlighten
ened country the medieval laws of the
seventeenth century are still in force and
the Catholic church can legally exact—and
does—one-twenty-sixth of every crop of
cereals grown by its members, and in addi
tion collects from the fabrique and other
assessments. Yet swiftly—not by slow and
steady degrees these habitant are driving
the English-speaking race before them.
They are as prolific as they are thrifty.
When Old France was ceded to England by
the French these habitans numbered dO.OlV).
France has since supplied Canada with very
few emigrants, but the old stock has multi
plied until to-day it is represented by
1,250,000 in Canada and 400,000, they claim,
in the New England Stab's. They are ex
tending their territory, too, and have already
driven the original settlors from several
counties in Ontario, notably from < Hengarry
county, which was peopled with Scotch,
who were noted as being the finest speci
mens of physical manhood in Canada. They
an* also settling in large numbers in Mani
toba, where they should not Is l confounded
with the half-breeds, who have neither the
j ! ft -mM id a mu ; a
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1887.
Mr. Ouemot, the Superintendent of Educa
tion in Quebec, is the twenty-fourth child
of the same father and mother, and his ease
is not considered remarkable.
The habitues are represented in the
Dominion Parliament by sixty-five mem
bers. They vot ■as one man, and no matter
how preposterous their demands may be
they are granted, for they are strong enough
to overturn the government. They are, in
fact, the ruling power, and this fact is un
utterably galling to the English-speaking
Canadian. The latter feels it a deep injus
tice to lie taxed for schools in which the
French language only is taught and in
which Catholics, not Protestants, are ad
mitted, and this system is building up a
wall between the two races. This is seen, as
between the English and the Irish, in this
city. There arc Catholic and Protestant
public schools here. The two have their
own social life, and there are banks, in
which all the depositors are Catholics. The
visit of William O’Brien has done much to
widen the breach lietween the Catholic and
Protestant Irishmen, and sides have lieen
taken by the French and English. Party
lines have been sunk in the bitterness of a
religious fight, and Canada is promised a
political campaign in which the Conserva
tives and Liberals will bo replaced by
Catholics and Protestants.
The native of Quebec feels no frienldy in
terest for i Intario. The Bluenose of Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick care nothing
about the condition of either Queliee or On
tario. Their interests are antagonistic, and
the native of the maritime provinces feels
that ho has been dujied and that his busi
ness has been ruined to udvanee the inter
ests of Ontario and Quebec politicians and
possibly the aggrandizement of those pro
vinces.
Where bankruptcy is perilously near, con
tent is not likely to dwell. Quebec has a
debt of 325,000,000. Her land is not, mort
gaged, simply because no one can be found
so simple as to lend money on land mort
gage. The experiment was tried, but it re
sulted disastrously for the lender, as the
mortgage was unable to pay his church
tithes und assessments and his interest also,
and before the lender could step in to secure
himself the mortgage went to the wall, and
the church, which has a prior lien, took the
assets.
Ontario, while in a position to mortgage
her land, is really in a worse condition than
Quebec. There are 10,000,000 acres of
cleared lan4 in Ontario, and Ontario, pays
three-fifths of the Dominion’s taxation.
About three-fifths of the population are
farmers. What is their condition.' It is
difficult to get the exact amount for which
their land is mortgaged, but it is believed
that the sum will easily reach §150,000,000,
and $120,000,000 can be accounted for. The
farmer’s interest on the Dominion debt and
on mortgages amounts to $2 75 per share,
while the average rental of the land is only
$2 33 per acre. Under such circumstances
it is hardly to be wondered at that the Onta
rio farmer is discontented with his lot, and
is given to talking of the good old times he
enjoyed under the reciprocity treaty of
1855-66 with the United States. His is cer
tainly in a condition to be approached by
any one who will offer him relief. His
heavily mortgaged, land has been im
poverished until the soil has refused
to grow paying crops of wheat, and for
every bushel of barley he ships across the
imaginary line that separates him from a
country that to him is tho most prosjierous
in the world he must pay that country in
duty 15c. an acre. The Ontario lumber
man is poor as a church mouse. He owns
immense tracts of timber, but it is so far
from market that for want of railroads he
cannot often transport it to market in less
than two seasons. Meantime the interest
on his loans from the bank is piling up, and
when he eventually sells his lumber the
profit, for want of speedy facilities and such
a market as the United States would prove,
has been eaten up; his nose sticks to the
grindstone, he looks in every direction for
relief, but his glance is turned oftenest to
the United States. In spite of the hold
which party politics has upon the farmer
and the lumberman, the advocates of com
mercial union hope to draw them into the
fold. But handicapped as the farmer is, he
is a prey to party politics, and to such a
height does political rancor rise that a far
mer of “ Liberal” tendencies has been known
to allow the crop of a Tory to perish for
want of help he could have given.
Nova Scotia is in quite as bad straits as
Ontario, if not worse, for Nova Scotia is
insolvent and asks for better terms from her
creditors. New Brunswick is in a similar
condition. Prince Edward Island has ob
tained liettor terms and British Columbia is
also insolvent. That province, too, is
heartily sick of confederation. Like New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia, she claims
that it is impassible to make tho Dominion
a market for the products of the Dominion.
She cannot afford, her merchants sav, to
pay freight of $3 on 100 pounds of nails or
$2 85 oil the same quantity
of sugar. She does not want
to buy her goods in the Dominion and un
derstands that to market her chief products
is impossible. Distance and heavy freight
charges wipe out profits. Manitoba also re
fuses to give all her trade to the Dominion,
because she call buy to better advantage in
Minnesota. Though 1,200 miles away, her
growls can be plainly heard here, particu
larly since the Canadian Pacific railway, a
monopoly in which the Dominion spent
about $100,0(X),000, threatening her citizens
and the government of Manitoba propose to
build a competing line to the border of Min
nesota.
That the various provinces of the Domin
ion do not form a happy family is evident
even without looking below the surface. A
searching inquiry would probably reveal
evey a more unsatisfactory condition of
things. Canadians have been loyal to Eng
land, some from self-intere4fc perhaps, but
the great majority from purer motives, but
when loyalty becomes synonymous with
starvation it is likely to suffer adecline, and
already signs are not wanting that Canadi
ans are beginning to consider the advisa
bility of looking after the interests of Canada
first and England some other time rather
than vice versa, as they have done in tho
past.
Mrs. Cleveland’s Influence.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Very quietly and very cleverly Mfs.
Cleveland continues to strengthen the Presi
dent’:; political hands. Although Gen. Sher
man is one of her latest converts he iR by no
means the only one, nor is he the most
ardent in his new found faith. Grim old
John Sherman never approaches her with
out a smile which seems to say, “If Mrs.
Sherman can’t reign in the White House,
I’d sooner have you here than any one I
know," and old Philetus Sawyer does not
make even that reservation. The latter’s
colleague, Spooner, is an enthusiast, too, as
is his charming wife. Even Evarts, with
legs us lanky as some of his speeches, has
made more than the ordinary effort to win
her good graces, and spruces up as in his
boyish days, when he goes where .she is ex
pected. If her influence upon members of
the opposite party is ns strong as this indi
cates, what will it be among the men who
would naturally hail her husband as their,
chief?
The Diamond a Cabman Found.
From the Paris (fatignani's Messenger.
A cabman named Wesle may consider
himself a victim of the Pranzini mystery.
He called at the shop of h watchmaker anil
jeweler on the Boulevard de Magenta under
the pretense of having a watch repaired,
hut in reality to ascertain the value of a
diamond and sell it if jxisxible. The gem
was worth about 2,000f., and the jeweler,
being surprised to see a diamond of that
value in the hands of a call-driver ques
tioned the man, and not lieing satisfied with
his answers jumped at the conclusion that
it must he one ot the missing jewels of Ma
rie ltegimult, and called in the police. The
cuhmau was then forced to admit that he
had found the diamond, an ear-drop, in his
cab more than a year ago. It proved to be
one lost by the Princess Zoe fie Beauveati-
Craon while riding in a cab to the Scmiux
railway station. The man has now been
sentenced to two months’ imprisonment.
Dr s Catarrh Remedy suipaxses all.
Honest Old Uncle Rufus.
From the Bucksport i We.) Clipper.
Who that lived in Buck-port in the good
old days will ever forget the rich fund of
humor, pathos and wit of holiest old “Uncle
Rufus?” A man who never did anybody
any harm, and who ha/1 a kind word, a
cheering smile or a hand held out with some
substantial help for the needy, sorrowing or
disconsolate. Forget him? Never, while
memory lasts or recollection brings hack his
witty sayings anil quaint stories. Did you
ever hear him tell a story? There was one
he used to tell about his trip to too White
Mountains. He had been on to New York
to see his brother, and by him had been
urged to take a trip to that celebrated place.
He said that after leaving the hotel, where
he had spent the niglit. he sat on the top of
the coach and stood it as long as he could,
when finally he asked the driver to let him
get off a moment.
“What do you want to get off for?” asked
the driver.
“I want to make a mark on a rock.”
“What for?” asked the driver.
“To see if we are moving,” replied Uncle
Rufus.
“Yon hold on,” said the driver, “I guess
we’ll go fast enough pretty soon to suit
you.”
“And sure enough we did go,” continued
Uncle Rufus. “Why, we went so fast I
couldn’t breathe at all, and it actually wore
the nap all off anew silk hat my brother
gave me just before I left New York.
“Go! I guess we did. I never want to
go so again. But that didn’t last long;
pretty soon we came to a place where it
was ail up-hill, and I got a chance to see
something of the country. Talk about
rocks? You never saw any rocks. Why, we
hadn’t been climbing long when we came
across a place where a man held a sheep in
his arms and was holding the sheep’s nose
down to a grindstone, while a boy turned
the crank.”
.“What are you doing that for?” asked
Uncle Rufus.
“Grinding the sheep’s nose down so she
can feed between the rocks,” cried back the
farmer.
The Savannah Weekly News.
Sixteen Images.
For Saturday, June 4, 1887.
NOW READY.
CONTENTS.
First Page. —She Played at Pall; Caleb Bost
wiek’s 111-Luck, an illustrated story; Business
Femininity Asserting Itself in Few York, illus
trated; A Blind. Deaf and Dumb Woman’s Visit
to a Watch Factory; The Attempt Upon Abra
ham Lincoln’s Life in 1862; Billy, the Terrible
Kid.
Second Page- The Florida Legislature; Geor
gia's Capital City; Presbyterian Reunion; Fail
ure at Jacksonville; An Outrage Avenged; Col
lision at Sea; Burning of the Opera Comique at
Paris; Chicago’s Boodlers; Murdered by Friends;
England and Egypt; The "Washington Drill;
SIB,OOO Given by Brewers to Fight Prohibition.
Third Page— “ Jennie June's” Fashion Letter;
1.500 Horses Roasted; Virginia's Elections; Over
200 Lives Lost in the Opera Comique Fire;
Cleveland's Vacation; The Washington Drill;
Spring Toilets in Blossom; Presbyterian Bodies
Exchanging Fraternal Salutations; A Small-Pox
Patient Takes an Airing in Jersey City; Why
the Interstate Law should be Suspended; The
Business Pulse.
Fourth Page-—At the State Capital; Talla
hassee Pointers; An Unnatural Mother; O'Brien
at Albany and Montreal; Capt. Mike’s Wonder
ful Dog; Dr. Shrady and the Newsboy; Killed
by a Spider; The Manager of the Cotton Oil
Trust; Blind Looking Documents that May
Have Hidden Meanings; Cholera Epidemic at
Buenos Ayres; A Witchcraft Case; Brav e Texan
Rangers.
Fifth Page— New York's Hawkers; Savan
nah's Public Building; Miners Entombed Alive;
Eight Killed and Six Injured oil the Pennsylva
nia Railroad; Esting Mush; Jay Gould's
Little Scheme; Cotton Factory Wrecked;
How the New French Ministry
Suits Germany; Tallahassee Pointers;
A Will Assailed; Continuation of the National
Drill; A Beggar Who Makes as Much as SIO,OOO
a Year.
Sixth Page— A Senator's Pleasures; Peculiar
Story of a Beautiful and Strong-Minded
Countess: How Florida Makes Senators: The
Swell Ballet of Japan; How an English Lady
Saw the Sultan; Advice to a Young Man: Flori
da’s Sub-Tropical Exposition.
Seventh Page— Agricultural Department: As
paragus; Sort Fruit aud Vegetables; Sources
of the Potato; Save Fertilizing Materials; Test
ing Eggs: Household; Farm Notes; Popular
Science. Diston's Work of Reclaiming Florida
Lands Praised; The Washington Drill; Ben:
Perley Poore's Remains Taken to Boston; Pres
bytery Adjourned; Signal Service Report; Mis
cellaneous News Items.
Eighth Page—A Sermon to Soldiers, by Rev
DeWitt Talmage; France’s New Ministry; A
Senator Goes Twenty Days Without Food of Any
Kind; Women as Type-Writers; The. Woes of
Millionaires; The Converted Captain; The Sym
pathetic Horse. •
Ninth Page —Some Unwelcome Facts for Can
didates for the Vacant Judgeship; Rofsiler Sharp
Getting Anxious; Grover Getting Sunburned;
How They Serve Bandits on the Texas Bound
ary; General Foreign News; Florida'* Legisla
ture : Florida by Wire; Puzzling Cases for the
Intel-stale Commission; Fire in New York; Minor
Telegraphic News Items.
* Tenth Page The News in Georgia, Gathered
from Correspondents and Exchanges; Thomas
Superior Court; Double Taxation Promises a
Sensation at Atlanta; Muscogee’s Court at
Work; South Carolina Items; Death of Gen.
Simms.
Eleventh Page— The News of Florida Told in
Paragraphs; Jacksonville Notes; A Sanfordite
in Trouble; Mexicans Alarmed by Earthquake
Shocks; Florida’s New Counties.
Twelfth Pao*.—Editorial: Expensive Econ
oniy; The University Duelists; Florida, Past and
Future; Two Weak Reasons; Florida's Convicts;
A Hopeless Effort; The Vacant Judgeship.
Awarding Prizes at the National Drill; Brief
Telegraphic Summary.
Thirteenth Paoe,— Local Department: The
Steamer Alice Clark Catches Fire: The Melon
Crop Outlook: Jail Bird Caught: Drowned from
a Sloop; A Knife Near his Heart: The T.vbee
Railroad Contractor Fails; Longshoremen Quit
Work; Weisbein’s and Lovell A Sons' Buildings
Burned: The Cotton Oil Mill; Oil Trust's Big
Rival; Buse Bill.
Fm-RTEENTn Paoe- Adventures of an Extra
ordinary Wife Hunter: The New Marine Won
der; Queen Kaptolanl Afraid for Her Crown;
Chased by a Prairie Fire; Ghostly Visitors that
Come Back of Nights; More Than 105 Years
Old; Adventure with a Lion; The Funny Pro
fessor.
Fifteenth Paoe— With All Her Faults 1 Love
Her: A Stud}’ of the Thumb; The Story of a
Brave Southern Woman Who Rode for Early;
An Armless Man’s I .it tie Trick; An Incentive to
Genius; A Retort by Archbishop Hughes; Floor
ing a Senator: Current Comment; Bright Bits;
Personal; Items of Interest.
Sixteenth Paoe— Review of the Savannah
Markets;] Fruit and Vegetable Market; Savan
nah's Base BAII Club Disbanded; Universal Ob
servance of Decoration Day; Robhed While
Asleep.
Just the paper to send to your friends.
Single copies 5 cents.
For sale at F,stlU’s News Depot and at the of
fice, 8 Whitaker street.
Fruit and Vegetable Market.
Philaiielpeia, June 21. Market full. Straw
berries are selling SiftHc per quart; tomatoes.
$1 000.1 78 perorate; lieans and peas, 55© 7,V
per crate; cucumbers. #2 000,3 80 per crate;
cabbage, $1 .VMMOO per barrel; potatoes. #4 00
<3iS 00 per barrel, good demand.
A. B. Detwileh A Son.
• FUXERAIi INVITATIONS.
CREEKMAN.—Thp friends and acquaintance
of J. W. Oeekman and Mrs. Ann Barber, and
Mrs Hernandei.se and family are requested
to attend the funeral of slrs. Fannie Creek
man. the wife of the former, from his residence,
comer Liberty and East Broad, THIS AFTER
NOON at 8:30 o'clock, and from Wesley Church
at 4 o'clock.
MEETINGS.
SOLOMON'S lodge no. i, F. 3? A?M.
A regular communication will lie held £.
at Masonic Tempi,- THIS iTlmrs lay) AA
EVENING, June and. 0887, at 8 o'clock. TIT
Visiting ami transient brethren cor- ' sr \
dially and fraternally invited. By order
J. R. SAUSSY, W. M.
H. Laird, Secretary.
HA l PT LODGE NO. 58, I. O. O. F.
The regular weekly meeting of this Lodge will
he held THIS (Thursday) EVENIMGat Bo'eloek.
There will be an initiation.
Members of other Lodges and transient broth
ers fraternally invited. By order of
F. T. LINCOLN, N. G.
A. N. Manitv, Secretary.
CONGREGATION MICKVA ISRAEL.
A special meeting will be held at the Synagogue
on THURSDAY EVENING, June ad, at 8:30
o'clock. A full attendance is desired, as busi
ness of importance will bo considered.
By order of the President.
L A. SOLOMONS, Secretary.
THE WORKMAN’S ANI) TR ADER'S LOAN
AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION.
The forty-third (43> regular monthly meet
ing of tills Association will be held at ihe office
of Jackson A Whatley, 11R Bryan street, THIS
(Thursday) EVENING, at 8 o'clock.
GEORGE W. LAMAR, President,
J. L. AVhatley, Secretary.'
NOTICE TO ROAI COMMISSIONERS.
The semi-annual meeting of Road Commis
sioners of Chatham county will lie held at the
Court House-on MONDAY, June 6th, at 10 a. m.
GEORGE P. HARRISON, Chairman.
R. CoaXley, Secretary.
~ 8 PEC'IAL NOTICES.
DIVIDEND NO. 28. "
A dividend of THREE DOLLARS AND A HALF
per share has been declared by the Directors of
the Citizens' Mutual Loan Company, payable on
and after THURSDAY, JUNE 9th, at the office
of the Company. GEO. C. FREEMAN,
Treasurer.
-MELONS! MELONS!
Will arrive to-day at Savannah, Florida and
Western railway freight depot, consigned to
and for sale by S. S. STRICKLAND.
Juxe 3, 1887.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Central R. R. & B'k'g Cos. of Georgia. I
Savannah, Ga., June Ist, 1887. f
A dividend of FOUR DOLLARS per share
from the earnings of this Company and its de
pendencies has been declared, payable on and
after the 22d inst., to the Stockholders of record
JUNE 19th. The transfer books of the Com
pany will be CLOSED ON THE 10th, and remain
closed UNTIL THE 23d INST.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.
I have THIS DAY admitted Mr. H. M. HUT
TON as a partner with me in the Cotton Fac
torage and Commission Business, under the
firm name of MALCOLM MACLEAN & CO.
MALCOLM MACLEAN.
Savannah. Ga., June Ist, 1887.
city taxes.
City Marshal's Office, I
Savannah, May 27th. 1887. (
The real estate of all persons in arrears for
City Taxes for 1886 has been levied on, and will
be advertised for sale on the 7th day of JUNE
next. Titles will be made to purchasers the day
after the sale, or as soon thereafter as con
venient. ROBERT J. WADE,
City Marshal.
DR. HENRY 8 COL DING,
Dentist,
Office comer Jones and Drayton streets.
FOR SALE.
190 Horse Power ENGINE for sale at a bar
gain. Cylinder 20x30. About new and in per
fect order. A. B. HART,
Lake City, Fla.
ULMER'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 00
a bottle. Freight paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER, M. D.,
Pharmacist, Savannah, Ga.
INSURANCE.
The Savannah Fire & Marine Ins. Cos.
CAPITAL $200,000.
OFFICE 93 BAY STREET.
WM. GARRARD, LEWIS KAYTON.
President. Vice President.
W. H. DANIEL, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
JNO. L. HAMMOND, HERMAN MYERS,
GEORGE J. BALDWIN, SAMUEL MEINHARD,
J. H. ESTILL, L. KAYTON,
WM. GARRARD, I. G. HAAS,
W. H. DANIEL, ANDREW HANLEY,
J. B. DUCKWORTft, DAVID WELLS,
C. R. WOODS. .
Note. - -On July Ist thf* oftire of the company
will bo at 07 Bay street, the building now occu
pied as the (tottoy Exchange,
a ll a■■ 1 1 r 1
PROPOSALS WANTED.
Proposals Wanted.
BIDS will he received up to the Ist of JUNE
for the buildings on the eastern half of lot
on the corner of Whitaker, President and State
streets, and also for excavating to the depth of
8)4 feet the lot above mentioned, measuring 60 by
!i0 feet. The buildings to he removed within toil
days and the excavating to be finished by the
first of July, 1687.
Bids must be made separately. The right is
reserved to reject any or all bids.
J. 11. ESTILL,
I). R. THOMAS.
T M. CUNNINGHAM,
RUFUS E. LESTER,
Committee Union Society.
LI MM KMT,
'litksjimeft;'
Monarch of all Liniments on Earth,
•
* LARGE supply of this Linament has been
a V received this uay Ready for delivery.
!ML vJ. DOYLE,
MARKET SQUARE,
Sole
— P. J. FALLON,
BUILDER AND (ONTRAfTOR.
22 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH.
I ESTIMATES promptly furnished for IWsUng
J of an t civ..3.
EX CURS IONS.
Savannah, Florida & Western Railway
SPECIAL
Weekly Excursions
FLORIDA !
Commcacing on Saturday, May 28th.
SAVANNAH TO
Jacksonville and return $2 00
Pablo Beach and return v $3 00
Tickets will be good only on days and trains
as given ir. the following
SCHEDULE:
Leave Savannah Saturday 1:30 p. si., 7:35 p. m.,
Sunday 7:06 a. m.
Arrive Jacksonville Saturday 7:35 p. M., Sun
day 5:30 A. M„ 12:00 noon.
Special train leaves Jacasonvillo for Pablo
Beach Saturday 7:50 p. m.
RETURNING,
Leave Jacksonville Sunday 7:00 A. m.. 2:05 p.
M., 9:00 p. si.
Arrive Savannah Sunday 12:06p. m., 7:58 p. si.,
Monday 6:10 a. si.
The $3 00 ticket to Pablo Beach will also be
good to return on any regular train leaving
Jacksonville on Monday following date of sale.
Four regular daily trains Jacksonville to
Pablo Beach.
Tickets Savannah to Pablo Beach and return,
including supper, lodging and breakfast at the
elegant Murray Hall Hotel, $5 00. or the same
with one and three-quarter days’ board, $7 50.
Baggage will not be checked free on these
special tickets.
Tickets at Bren’s and Passenger Station.
WM. P. HARDEE' J. L. ADAMS,
Gen. Pass Agent. Pass. Agent.
MILLINERY.
OF
White Goods
PLATSHEK’S,
138 Broughton Street,
Offers the balance of their large and varied
stock of WHITE GOODS at sur
prising low prices in order to
close them out fast.
97-INCH WIDE CHECK NAINSOOKS that
& I were 10c., reduced now to BUc.
27-inch wide CHECK NAINSOOKS that were
12Uc. we sell now at BUe.
24-inch wide IMPORTED XX CHECK NAIN
SOOKS that were 15c. we have reduced to 10c.
29-inch wide LACE CHECKED, SATIN and
LACE STRIPED WHITE ORGANDIES, former
prices 20c.. reduced now to 13c.
29-inch wide LACE STRIPE ORGANDIES,
fine sheer goods, that were 25c. now reduced to
18c.
29-inch wide CREOLE LACE, STRIPE and
CHECKED WHITE ORGANDIES, the finest
white goods in this market, reduced to 22c.
from 35c.
Numerous qualities PERSIAN LAWNS. Plain
NAINSOOKS, AVhite and Colored MULLS re
duced from 25 to 33>£ per cent,
iciieiiler, Daily!
We are giving grand inducements in EM
BROIDERED FLOUNCINGS and SKIRTINGS,
LACES, GLOVES, PARASOLS and MIL
LINERY.
P. S.—Country orders will receive our prompt
and careful attention.
HOTEIS.
WASHINGTON HOTEL
7th and Chestnut Streets,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
JOHN TRACY, PROPRIETOR. •
RATES, #3 50 PER DAY.
Centrallj| located, only a short walk from
Penn'a ana Reading Depots. New Passenger
Elevator, Electric Bells, New Dining Room and
all modem improvements. Polite attendance
and unsurpassed table.
NEW HOTEL TOGNI,
(Formerly St. Mark's.)
Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla.
r PHE MOST central House in the city. Near
Post Office, Street Cars and all Ferries.
New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bells,
Baths, Etc. 52 50 to $3 per day.
JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprietor.
S. A. UPSON. Manager.
KITSELL'S PRIVATE HOTEL
91 FIFTH AVENUE, NEAR 17th STREET,
NEW YORK.
VMERICAN and European plans Location
most central. Rooms en suite or singly.
First-class board and accommodations. Prices
reasonable as a boarding house.
JAMES KITSELL,
Proprietor.
MARSHALL HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, - - GA.
( * EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of
’ * the Metropolitan Hotel. New Ypr)c. ana the
Grand Union. Saratoga Springs. I,oontion cen
tral All parts of the city and places of inter
est accessible by street cars constantly passing
the doors. Special inducements to those visit
ing the city for business or pleasure.
DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE.
r PHIS POPULAR Hotel Is now provided with
Ia Passenger Elevator (the only one in the
city) and has been remodeled and newly fur
nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase
is also the owner of the establishment, spares
neither pains nor expense In the entertainment
of his guests. The patronage of Florida visit
ors is earnestly invited. The table of the
Screven House is supplied with every luxury
thut the markets at home or abroad can afford.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
One of the largest Boarding Houses, in the
South.
\FFORDS pleasant. South rooms, good board
with pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit
those wishing table, regular or transient accom
modations. Northeast corner Broughton and
Drayton streets, opposite Marshall House.
mol! asses.
molasses!
500 MOLASSES
HUR HiliflsY,
C. M. GlLßE^^^kcO.
find COUNTY | Ii; Bongs ami I,
I required by comity oflksMfclbr thifitoo of
f be courts, or for office use, suAOed to ofiaferby
the M< hC.ING ME WE .PBIKIINU IlOUljp, 3
i , SK Slli," Jl.
SUMMER RESORTS
WAR! SPRINGS;
Meriwether County, Ga.
BE OPEN JUNE Ist with fw ,
V- accommodations at
Warm Springs are on the north side nt' &
Mountains. 1 1,500 feet above sea levefand Pln<l
rounder hy beautiful and romantic Were
The climate_is delightfully cool and drv v
mosquitoes, dust or mud Q ‘Y
. Spring one of Nature's wonders e
1,400 gallons of water (90 degrees teimL , ° T ' s
per minute, affording the tem Perat ure )
FINEST BATHING
square, two f .‘r 1
FRESH. WARM WATER unlimited U ' EAR ,
Spring 58 Thereifeals ” Ann Chafe
Amusements of all kinds provided r ,
Livery Stable, Bar and Billiard Saloon Sf* 1
Band of Music for Ball room and Lawn EIIW
The Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad
running two daily trains from Columbus ,!
W arm Springs, will, on the loth of Jmi J?
completed to Griffin, connecting there with
Central Railroad for all points North and V-
Two daily mails and Telegraph For „^ St
information address 1 r turti >ej
CHARLES L. DAVIS, Proprietor
Tlie Niagara of the SouiE
TALLULAH, FALLS, GA
CLIFF HOUSE
AND COTTAGES,
Open from June to November. For full
tieulars address * r
F. 11. & F. B. SCOFIELD. Proprietors
Late of Hotel Kaatuskill. Catskill Mountain.
N. Y„ and Leiand Hotel, Chicago nUlns '
MONTVALE MG]
Blount County, - Tennessee.
THIS Health Resort will be open May Ist 188?
The most celebrated Dyspeptic Water
known. Elegant Hotel and Grounds. Excellent
Table. Telephone connection with Knoxville
Rates: Si per day; 525 per month for Mav and
June; $2 per day. 10 and §l2 per week, $35 aid
S4O per month for July and August. Half rates
for children, J. C. ENGEL, Prop.
Salt Spring lit
AUSTELL, GA.
THIS New Resort Hotel, especially adapted
for families, has reduced its rates to $, per
week. The accommodations are first-class in
every respect. For further information ad
<lre®s T. J. MAY, Proprietor,
___ Austell, Ga.
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs,
VIRGINIA,
—SEASON 1887—
OPEN JUNE Ist. First class in all its equip
ments. Terms reasonable. Special rate!
for families and large parties.
For particulars address
GEORGE W. FAGG & CO..
Montgomery Springs T. 0.,
Montgomery county. Va.
LONG BRANCH, N. T
United States Hotel,
A FIRST-CLASS FAMILY HOTEL,
OPENS JUNE 25, 1887.
LAIR U) A VA TST CLE AF,
POPULAR PRICES
Congress Hall.
SARATOGA SPRINGS,
Accommodates 1,000 persosi. Rates, $3 per day
for rooms, except those on parlor and first doors.
Open from June*!B to Oct. 1.
CLEMENT & COX, Proprietors.
H. S. CLEMENT, Manager.
THE KENSINGTON.
Union Avenue, opposite Congress Springs Park,
Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
OPENS SATURDAY', JUNE 18th.
For particulars address 229 Broadway, Room
18, N. Y., or 420 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, X. Y
PAUL C. GRENING, Proprietor. _
CLAFLIN HOUSE,
Among the “Berkshire Hills.”
BECKET, MASS.
Twelve Hundred Feet above the sea. Savan
nah reference. Address
A. G. CROSS, Proprietor^
THE WHITE SULPHUR STRffi
GREENBRIER COUNTY, W. YA.
The, most celebrated of all the Mountain
Resorts, and one of the oldest and most popular
of American Watering places, will open tor toe
season June 1. Elevation above tide-water,
2,000 feet; surrounding mountains. 3.500
Send for pamphlet describing hygienic aayaa*
tages. B. F. EAKLE, Supt^
THE COLUMBIAN,
SARATOGA SPRINGS,
THE FAVORITE HOTEL OFSAVANNAHHJ'S
Opens Jun.e 2dth.
JAMES M. CASE, Proprietor.
CLA R END ON HOTEL,
Saratoga Springs, N. A,
OPENS JUNE 25th.
Popular rates
P. STEINFELD,
Proprietor
/''AI’oN SPRINGS AND BATHS,
V I.ithia and Superior Iron Waters, H F
shire county, W. Va.- This celebratedl mo j" ■.
resort for health and pleasure: Baths o, - (
temperature; a summer climate unsurpns.
charming summer home with its many in'!
ments, accommodating 800 guests, open: ' V
Ist. Send for circular and rate sheet (for
cal and other testimony). WM. H. oALi%
prietor. .—rt
VORTIIERN HlLLS—Boarders rece!™*
is “Brookside Farm," a pleasant resort
the celebrated Berkshire Hills; I.MO fee - rtf ,
sea level; good roads, beautiful drives an .
hies; good table; terms from $6 to *■< >* r
Address J. A. ROYCE, Lanetibovo,
county. Mass.
DI TCHER HOUSE.
PAWLING. N. Y.. on the Harlem
large brick structure, first class m j
particular. Now open. Tenns reaaon*™e ‘
for circulars. WM. 11.
TOOTH PASTE. _
FOB THE T EET
ORIENTAL TOOTH PASTE. Cherry
Paste, Charcoal Tooth Paste-. rn jc
Cream Dentifrice, Lyons' Tooth Tablet • | )U iu
Tooth Soap. Thompson’s Tooth boP> ji un'(
Tooth Soap, Tooth Powers and Washe. j
at STROM'S DRUG STOKE, corner Bun
Perry street lane.
1., a. McCarthy,
Successor to Chats. E. Wakefield.
PLUMBER, GAS and STEAM FITTFH
48 Barnard street, SAVANNAH. GA