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2 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