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THK CRUISE OF THE SIOUX
A MODERN VOYAGE OF EXPLORA
TION AND DISCOVERY.
Op the Hudson in a Canoe—The Wilder
ness Opposite New York-Strange
Flora of the Palisades—The Home
and Haunts of Irving—Tide Water
Life.
Siw York, Aug. 13.—Directly opposite
the upper end of New York city is a wil
derness which stnetche s for miles along the
west shore of the Hudson. Within sight of
the city aud within sound of its noises the
solitude is as unbroken as if it were in the
heart of the Adirondacks. Just north of
Fort Lee, of Revolutionary fame, now given
over to beer and Sunday excursionists, one
plunges into loneliness, and thereafter it ex
tends on and on until the Palisades, in whose
shadow it rests, break away in gentler un
dulations just below Nyack. Here and
there a tumble-down fisherman's hut stands
at the rivor’s edge, or a quarry or a picnic
dock shows signs of human activity, but so
precipitous are the cliffs aud so difficult is
travel along them that a few rods from the
most flourishing puts one out of reach of
the world.
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A FISHING HAMLET.
Under these precipitous walls which every
one has seen and exclaimed at and not one
in ten thousand visited, grows luxuriantly
every tree, every wild flower known to the
vicinity, and some which can be found no
where else within fifty miles of the metrop
olis. The azalia is pinker and more fra
grant there than elsewhere, the mountain
laurel is a fortnight earlier than in the Cats
kills, wild hollyhocks blossom of giant size,
a rare rose raspberry gives color to the
crags,morning glories take on hues to which
thev are strangers in other soils, wild roses
and sweet briar run riot, and yellow aud
white daisies bloom and flourish. The soil is
composed entirely of broken and powdered
trap rock from the elfffs above, but it seems
rich and inviting to vegetation, and from
early spring, when the dogwood waves its
white banners, till autumn’s leaves are yel
low, never fails to prepare feasts for the eye
in their due succession.
The fact that the residences of Congress
man W. W. Phelps and other wealthy men
are perched on the top of the cliffs, and that
their summer houses sometimes overhang
its edge, does not render the wilderness be
low less wild and inviting. Its cliff sides
are too steep for scaling, no railroads disturb
its silence, no tramps infest it, for there is
nothing either to beg or steal. The cruising
canoeist bound northward usually makes
his first camp near one of the many springs
that gush out, of the rock, but save for him
and an occasional visit from a boatload of
picnickeps the shore is always deserted. The
one village which struggles to maintain it
self—a bare handful of fishermen’s houses—
is evidently in the last stages of decay, its
wharves so sunk and rotten, its houses so
weatherbeaten and dilapidated tlit it forms
a strange contrast to the bustling city across
the river.
THE FIRST CAMP.
Our first camp was pitched at a point op
posite and a little abov' Spuyten Duyvil,
where for some inscrutable reason the shore
forms a succession of rocky points and shal
low receding bays. Making camp is not a
difficult task if you have remembered the
cruiser’s first commandment, “Go thou light
laden.’’ Though the crew of the Sioux con
sisted of two persons, and one of them a
woman, there was no Saratoga trunk in her
aft hatch. The entire outfit weighed but 45
pounds. This included a tent, blankets,
musquito neuing, extra clothing, cooking
utensils—two tin pails, one big spoon, one
small ditto, a fork and a frying pan—staple
articles of food and a camera and about a
hundred dry plates. The cooking utensils
and most of the food went in the forward
hatch, the dry plates went aft, the camera
was placed amidships for convenience, the
blankets and tent when folded up and place!
in the bottom of the boat made excellent
seats. A badly fitting canoe is as uncom
fortable as an ill-made boot and the Bioux’s
dimensions—l 4 feet by 30 ifiches—were
rather small for a crew of two. but that
she made her momentous voyage in safety,
that she weathered gales, skirted danger
ous shoals, was buffeted by hidden reefs and
behaved admirably upon strange waters,
the further course of the narrative will per
haps show.
Shipping cargo then at the float of the
Knickerbocker Canoe Club at One Hundred
and Fifty-second street, the Sioux drifted
lazily across the Hudson under u clear sky
in eurlv evening of nil August day, and was
swept by the tide and light paddle touches
upriver in the gathering twilight for an
hour or more. The tent—a small one of un
bleached muslin, to save the weight of cau
vas_wns quickly pitched when a landing
had been made, but the task of arranging a
passable bed on a soil composed of stones
about half the size of paving blocks required
some diplomacy. Coarse marsh grass and
th" cushions from the canoe proved mitigat
ing oircuuistancos. When all was ready the
sun had sunk, the Palisades cast their
gloomy shadows far out over the water, and
only on the eastern shore, crowned with
villas and clusters of houses at Npuyten
Ijuyvil, Riverdale, Mount St. Vincent and
Yonkers, lingered yet a little longer the red
glow of the sunset. The air was still as a
dune Sunday on a farm, the distant hum
and rattle of the city came softened across
the water, and the rattle of cordage as some
schooner, perhaps half a mile away, drop
ped her sails sounded startlingly distinct.
Amid such surroundings wo sat down to
°ur first meal, which consisted largely
of bread and slices! peaches, with a bit of
ham.
THE SIOUX UNDER WAV.
Night under the Palisades is a weird
and yet n most pleasant oxjierienoe. The air
is cool, wlmtovnr the temperature elsewhere
may be, strange night birds call to each
other from the cliffs above and the katydids
axe clamorous without interval. Bleep the
first night of a camping trip is long in com
ing and light on the wing. On this occasion
it was prevented bv a somewhat unusual
circumstance. A coup'e of lads who had
started out for they didn’t know where in a
big row lioat drifted ashore and got stuck
m a treacherous mud bank concealed by a
bunch of marsh grass. Tho tide was going
out and soon they were hard and fast. Their
subsequent antics were amusing. Investi
gation revealed the fact that they had start
™ out upon their voyage equipped with a
fish hom, half a dozen Chinese lauterns and
a coffee pot. The night was fairly dark
and from across the river, reflected iu danc
ing lines along the water, came the gleam
of the city lights. A breeze had sprung up
and it was decidedly chilly. The boys
strung their Chinese lanterns from stem to
bow of their boat, lighted them and, ap
parently satisfied with the effect, la}’ down,
but not to sleep. Within ten minutes the
younger boy was on. his feet thrashing his
arms about him and muttering: “Gosh! but
it s cold.” He added in a reflective way that
his mother had advised him to bring an
overcoat instead of the Chinese lanterns.
Then he suggested that it would be a good
plan to go ashore and make some coffee.
The older boy, whose name was Joe and not
Gosh, objected and an animated discussion
arose. Thence forward those innocents
murdered sleep. At 2:30 a. m. they went
ashore to make coffee, but didn’t succeed in
getting a fire. At 3 they ran up and down
the beach to keep warm. At 4 the water had
risen enough to float off their boat. The
last we saw of them they wero paddling
about in mid river, tho last words heard
were: “Gosh! but what are you trying to
do?” the last sound, the rasping toot of their
fishhorn.
Morning comes early upon the west bank
of the Hudson in August and its first faint
flushes are worth leaving a couch of broken
rock to see. The dew is heavy and the air
gives an impression of unusedness, as if
every breath had come to the nostrils over
wind-swept and rain-washed spaces, deliv
ered unsullied and without doing duty for
the lungs of a city-full before. A journey
to the spring through the wet grass, with a
pre-breakfast lunch on wild blackberries by
the way, and the sun was up. The camp
fire had been kindled in a rock crevice on
the beach, and with a cup of coffee and some
ears of corn roasted over the coals —it was
our own corn, bought and paid for in Har
lem—breakfast wa ready, and a chapter of
“Allen Quatermain” digested along with it.
With the sun had sprung up a breeze, and
by the time the Sioux was ready to take the
water again at 7 o’clock a strong head wind
was blowing that sent the spray m fine shape
over boat and crew.
Goldenrod was bright upon the banks and
the sky showed a rare graduated blue, rang
ing from a pale whitish tint, which was yet
without a trace of cloud, upon the eastern
bank to tho deepest of blues over the Pali
sades above our h'eads. It was a perfect
day, the first red sumach leaves gleaming
out here and there; signs, though it was yet
mid-summer, of the approaching autumn.
The little bird that Northern New Yorkers
call a “tip-up" balanced itself on the rocks,
a rare visitant in these latitudes. The Sioux,
by vigorous paddle thrusts, was forced up
by the towers of Edwin Forrest’s castle,
which now forms a portion of Mount St.
Vincent Academy and Convent, where Vic
toria Morosini, for a brief time famous as a
coachman’s bride, learned her music, past
Mr. Tilden's mansion house, Greystone, on
the outskirts of Yonkers, a dreary-looking
place enough now, past the picnic flocks on
the other shore where the great and only P.
Divver Association annually exhilarates it
self to moist aud patriotic devotion, and
where Starin often takes his newsboys’ ex
cursions, and members whereof are
said on one occasion to have amused
themselves by burning up a house, though
where they found one to burn is not
evident, straight toward Albany and the
North Pole.
The Hudson is quiet of a morning. The
picnic docks are deserted save when the
queer little ferryboat from Yonkers makes
its slow, puffy infrequent voyages to land a
stray passenger. The excursion barges with
their nags flying, their decks black with
people, and beer and music flowing harmoni
ously will enliven things later, but till the
day is well advanced the Hudson is a silent
stretch of blue water, white caps showing
now and then as the puffs of wind blow
strong and steady. A brick schooner from
Haverstraw, loaded to the deck line, all sail
spread, floats heavily by, a fleet of ice
barges and canal boats roped together
by short cable lengths in a great tow like
a floating village, fights its way up
stream, the fussy tugs working as zealously
as they can.
The west bank of the river is the more
interesting of the two, the precipitous walls
of the Palisades holding the eye whore the
gentler slopes, dotted with villas, show less
that is picturesque or attractive on the east
shore. It is only when immediately under
the Palisades that their full height and real
grandeur are realized. The steamboat pas
senger, en route for Albany, who is swept
past them m mid-river fefcls, perhaps, a
sense of disappointment as if they had not
come up to the description, falling short of
his preconceived ideal. But to the canoe
voyager floating in six inches of water under
the cliff s, following every curve of the shore,
and ever and anon looking up at their
towering forms, they need no apology. The
rocks are split and seamed in all manner of
mad caprices, the most usual freak of na
ture being to mold them in the fashion of
feudal towers with turrets and battlements.
There have been gigantic rockslips here
and there, and broken masses of debris lie
heaped at their feet. They are sharp, cruel
lookiug cliffs, but the chestnut trees and the
hemlocks are not afraid of them and all
manner of green vines clamber over them
making a pleasant sight to see.
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A RIVER EXCURSION STEAMER.
One summer beauty of the Palisades is the
multitude of springs that send out clear,
cold water rills at half-mile intervals.
Nearly opposite Hastings and in a start
where, upon an apronful of level ground, a
grass-grown collar hole, a few rusty nails
and bolts and a half dozen fruit trees, now
wild, gave evidence of former occupation,
we canto upon the most fairy-like of minia
ture cascades. The clear Jet of water sprang
twenty feet down the rock between waving
gtvon houghs, the daintiest plaything that
ever Dame Nature fashioned in a freakish
mood.
Lunch over, we pushed up stream again,
rounding the boldest headland of the Pali
sades and skirting the monotonous stretch
of marsh grass and swampy meadow, where
the Hudson has shoaled below the long pier
at Pierniont. To the canoeist this pier is an
unmitigated nuisance. Originally built for
a terminus of the Erie railroad,' and no
longer used for that or any other pui-poee,
it thrusts itself out nearly a mile into the
river, putting the boat which has been keep
ing near the shore to the alternative of go
ing around it or sleeting straight across the
Tuppan Zee, here three mile* broad. We
chose the latter course, and ail adventurous
voyage the Sioux had in the teeth of a wind
that something more than threatened to
turn into a gale and breasting waves that
swept the decktt and drenched the crew with
spray. The Sioux I* staunch and seaworthy,
however, and proved herself a good sailer,
shaking off every wave that foil upon her
deck eveii when complicated by the chop of
a big Albany day lt plowing up by within
n few rods. Wo drew in on the eastern
ahore at Irvington without having taken
more than a teaeupful of water into the
cockpit. Jay Gould'a fleet yacht AUilaata
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. AUGUST 14, 1887.
was rfding easily at anchor just off the most
ingeniously contrived landing on the river.
IV ould you be a hundred times a millionaire
and fond of the water? Then might you
build from your palace on the Hudson’s
banks a bridge out over the railroad tracks,
letting yourself down by a flight of stairs
to the dock and boathouse whore your white
skirted sailors are ready with the gig Pi put
you ah lairi. Young Edwin Gould is a skilled
canoeist and has a whole fleet of small
craft, the Fauita, the Neversiuk, the Aquila
a id others.
SLEEPY HOLLOW RRIDGE.
Irvington is the home of a host of rich New
Yorkers and, though not a large place, is so
oppressively “toney” that its natural beauty
is quite spoiled, but of more interest than
any or all or these together is the home of
Irving, upon which we bestow a glance of
friendly recognition as wo glide past. The
Knickerbocker historian's little cocked hat
of a house with its cream colored bricks
overrun with a tangle of green vines is as
pretty as its name, Bunnyslde, and with the
little road which winds from it up the hill
and the clear cold brook that comes dancing
down it is one of the most beautiful spots on
tho whole river. Then running on past
Tarrytown, a bustling village in these
modern days, with no suggestion of tarry
ing about it, half an hour later we slipped
into the mouth of Pocantico creek, theslow,
winding stream that Irving has immortal
ized, paddled through the green meadows of
Sleepy Hollow, and, resting under the mod
ern representative of the bridge that the
headless horseman chased the frightened
Ichabod a(%oss, enjoyed a glimpse of the
quaint Dutch church in whose God's acre
Irving lies buried; and then coming out on
the broad Hudson again we paddled past
the sentry-guarded walls of Sing Bing prison
and pulled up at last on the low txach at
Croton Point, well known to New York
canoeists, and their favorite camping
ground.
John L. and Eliza Putnam Heaton.
PERSONAL POINTS.
The Quaker Poet's Home at Oak
Knoll.
Boston, Aug. 13. — I rode by Whittier’s
home at Oak Knoll, Danvers, yesterday,
and admired, as does everyone who sees it,
the country retreat in which the Quaker
poet is spending the evening of his days.
Whittier has never given up entirely his
residence at Amesbury, but passes the
greater part of his time in Danvers with his
nieces, the Johnsons, typical Massachusetts
women, remarkahle for common sense and
quickness of intellect. Oak Knoll, which is
their property, is a farm, not a small one
for Eastern Massachusetts, but laid out with
more regard for picturesque landscape than
strict attention to the crops. The head
farmer has his house and liis liarns at some
remove from the main residence, which is a
rambling wooden building at no great dis
tance from the country road, but so lingered
in trees and overgrown with vines that
strangers often fail to notice it at all. The
Johnsons are excellent, business women and
manage the place to good effect, notwith
standing the fact that the country folk say
they value it chiefly because its low hills ami
green meadows look like an English plca
saunce, neither Whittier nor his kin having
been across the water. The house has a
broad piazza in front and here one often sees
the white-haired poet, swinging in a big,
straight-backed, old-fashioned rocking chair
reading, with a young girl, the adopted
daughter of the house, by his side. There
are few anecdotes floating about the village
about him for he lives in retired, almost
hormit-like fashion, never mingling with
the people of the town. Now and then when
times are stirring he sends a letter on some
matter of public import to the village paper,
but for the most part the tall buckthorn
hedges that shut in Oak Knoll shut in also
Whittier and the Johnsons from the rest of
the world.
Curious what a difference in civilizations
can be marked by a lace curtain. A New
Yorker or Brooklynite must have lace cur
tains if she lives in Shantytown. It is
necessary to maintain a certain style if you
would have your neighbors respect you or
respect yourself. New England is not
ashamed to be frugal. Economy is the rule.
People take it for granted and delight in
their shifts and contrivances. A New Eng
land town, even a prosperous one, woirt
average more than one or’two pairs of lace
curtains to 1,000 inhabitants.
The car which took me out of Boston the
other day had a roof that caught my atten
tion at once. It had a high peculiar curve,
was paneled in hard wood and supplied
with some three dozen small, round, curious
looking ventilators arranged in a double
row. This new car roof just introduced is a
woman’s invention, so the conductor told
me when 1 questioned him about it, and is
considered more satisfactory than any form
er device.
New Englanders are of a serious turn of
mind. A good woman whose husband had
taken her to Marblehead for a look at tho
Volunteer described the press of carriages
about tho yacht club’s headquarters to me
by saying that “if you didn’t know ypu
would have supposed it was a funeral and
the corpse hail I icon popular.”
Another illustration to the same point. I
noticed in a New England village post office
the other day a notice tacked noon the wall
to the effect that all persons who desired to
view the remains of Mix could do%o
at the church, between the hours
of 2 and 4on Sunday. It was a hot day,
but the church was packed, and the people
in a decorously mournful wuy enjoyed them
selves.
Yet again; Asbury ffrove is the oldest
and best known of the Massachusetts camp
meeting grounds, and though one’s assorin
tions with camp meetings are not altogether
of a solemn order, it seemed to me charac
teristic of Massachusetts people that some
400 cottages have been built tor all summer
occupancy in and nlsmt, the enclosure, and
the benches of the great out of door uudi
toriuiu show a fairly large congregation of
women for weeks before ana alter the
August afternoon, in front of the preaehnr’s
stand, under the greut soughing pine trees
where the sun couid Hardly enter, on what
they have for u quarter of a century or
more regarded as holy ground. It is not the
summer resort idea of the average New
Yorker exactly, but the descendant of the
Puritans is exhilarated rat her than depressed
by two or three months' everyday living in
such a vicinage.
A Terrible Fire
Arouses the apprehension* of a whole city.
And yet the wild havoc of disease startles
no one. bad to relate, women suffer from
year to year with chronic diseases
and weakness peculiar to their sex, know
ing that they are growing worse every day,
and still take no measures for their own re
lief. Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription”
is the result of life-long and learned study
of female complaints. It Is guaranteed to
cure.
Reduced Prices on White Shirts.
In moving we find that we have an over
stock of White Hhirts, sizes from to 18,
therefore have reduced them in price to
clear out. A good opportunity for large
men at the Famous, removed to the north
eest corner of Congress and Whitaker
streets.
Open front Shirts a specially at iielsin
ger’s, Whitaker street.
CHEAP advertising.
ONE CENTA WORD.
ADVERTISEMENTS, 15 Words or
more, in this column inserted for ONE
CENT .4 WORD, Cash in Advance, each
insertion.
Evemjbody who has any want to supply ,
anything to buy or sell , any business or
accommodations to secure; indeed,anywish
to gratify , should advertise in this column.
PKRSONAL.
T ADY. To retain the love and respect of a
1 j gentleman the lady should by her conduct
show that she is worthy of it. GENTLEMAN.
HELP WANTKD.
WANTED, three washerwomen for Tvbee.
▼ y Apply at Marshall House at once. GEO.
D. HODGES.
117NTED, two smart, active lads for our pack*
y\ in* counter. Apply A. K. ALTMAYER &
00.
TI7ANTED, two young men to canvass. Ap
▼ y ply at 93 Congress street, Monday morn*
*ng.
\\T ANTED, servant to go to Florida as gen
▼ y eral help for small family: good an ages to
the right party. Apply to S. GARDNER, Har
ris and Tattnall streets.
Ilf ANTED— In preparing for an increase of
▼ ▼ trade in the future, we waut a few good
salesmen. The NEW HOME S. M. CO., 31
Whitaker at . a. J. PUTtSLEY, Mgr.
\\T ANTED, a good cook: one that understands
y y milking a cow; mast be neat and honest.
158 Gwinnett street.
VITA NTED, an experienced salesman of good
y y appearance and pleasing address for a
first class dry goods and cloth 1 rig house in Pa
lestine, Texas; must have ex lenience in the
handling ami selling of fine dry goods to ladies;
only first class salesmen,with nest of references,
need apply, stating salary expected, ref ere net's
and age. addressing to MICHaEL ASH, care E.
S. J affray & Cos., New York city.
£ MPLOYMENT WANT l: I>.
X\T ANTED, situation by a competent drug
y y gist of experience in wholesale and retail
trade; licensed by examin tion in Georgia;
single; references satisfactory; solicits corres
pondence. Address P. O. Box 79, Rome, (la.
VITANTED, by a young man (colored), one or
y y two offices to clean: references given as
to character. Address A., News office.
\\T ANTED, by a boy 15 years old, a situation
yy in a wholesale house or an office. Ad
dress C., Morning News.
V GENTLEMAN wishes a position as teacher.
Latin, Greek, French. Mathematics and the
English h ranches taught. Best references
given if desired. Address TEACHER, this office.
MI SC KI.LAN KOI S WANTS.
ROOMS OR HOUSE WANT&D. Six or seven
■ rooms or house; must be central, with
hath, water conveniences, cheap and price
stated. Address < ii E\ i\ this office
I \ r ANTED TO RENT. small housu north of
▼ ▼ Harris street, east of Barnard, west of
Habersham. Address ANXIOUS, News office.
\\T ANTED, on or before Octotier Ist. a 5 or 6-
y y room house in good locution and must he
in good repair; rent not to exceed s‘-ioo per an
num. Address TENANT, this office.
ROOMS TO KENT.
17V)R RENT, with board in a private familjJ
furnished or unfurnished, an elegant south
room with bay w indow, and a small dressing
room attached, on Gaston street, dear Forsyth
Park. For particulars address HOME, Morning
News.
IT'OR RENT, a handsome suite of apartments,
parlor, dining room, two bedrooms,
kitchen, pantry, storeroom and servants* room;
also an entire ndt. Call at 139 Gordon street.
F ['OR RENT, second floor, four nice connect
ing rooms, with private bath room on same
floor. Inquire at No. 158 State street, near Bar
nard.
IT'OR RENT, nice furnished room for gentle
I man, with use of bath. etc. limit cheap.
Apply 63 Liberty street, corner Lincoln.
lAOR RENT, beautiful suite of four rooms.
Southern front, centrally located. Ad
dress B. W., News Office.
IT'OR rent, nicely furnished room, with hath;
central location. Address 8. L. G., care
Morning News.
tpOR RENT, good rooms, and board, on rea
sonable terms. 56 Barnard street.
IX)R RENT, three rooms: suitable for light
housekeeping. No. 8 Macon street.
I7VDR RENT, nicely furnished room, transient
or permanent, t 37 Abereorn strum.
RENT, two rooms, with or without board.
Apply 191 Charlton street.
IT'OR RENT, two rooms. Apply at 162 South
Broad street.
IPOR KENT, a floor of tw o large rooms, ho
and eold baths on same floor; also large
front south room on parlor floor. Apply to
Miss BANCROFT, 158 Jones street.
HOUSES ANl> STOItKS FOR KENT.
rjV'R RENT, the two desirable and well loca
ted residences. Nos. l.">] and 158 Barnard
street, corner Hall, These houses have just
been renovated and newly fitted tip with all
modern oonvaniencies in first class order.
Rental moderate. Apply to J. F. BROOKS, 186
and i iTriuy stre t
Pj’Olt KENT, a desirable residence on Aboreorn
street near Hull, and offices in building
northwest corner Bryan and Drayton streets
and In Kelly's building, Hay strceA. Apply to
JOHN FLANNERY & (X)., Agents.
IT'OR RENT, a desirable residence, three
story and attic, containing ten rooms and
bathroom. I .urge and airy. 15 Houston street.
For further information apply corner Congress
and Habersham.
IAOK RENT, that desirable two-story on bsge-
I meat brick residence, 119 Perry street, one
door east of Bull; modern improvements; pot,
session given Oct. Ist. Apply to J. J. GAUBRY.
180 Bay street.
FNOR RENT, a small comfortale house, on
Montgomery street, 3d door south of Har
ris. Possession given Ist October. Apply to
W H. CONNERATT, 82 Montgomery street.
PI'OR RENT, brick tenement on Gordon street,
3d door west of Barnard. Possession
given Ist September, if desired. Apply to W.
II CONNERATT, 88 Montgomery strest.
INOR RENT, store and dwelling corner Presi
dent and Reynolds streets. Good business
stand Possession given Hept. 1. Apply to T.
K. KIIKILS, 3.1 Broughton street.
I .''OR RENT, A desirable residence, 80 Liberty
street, near Als’rcoru street: terms j>a-'Ui
able; possession Oct. Ist. C. V. HERNANDEZ,
City Exchange, or P. O. Box 1.1.
SIXTEEN DOLLAR# will rent, sight-room
house, with bath room und water ou prem
is"s. Apply to WM. BOUHAN, Huntingdon and
Meroer.
lA< )R RENT, brick dwelling, furnished or tin
furnished, southeast corner of Charlton
and Tattnall streets. Address 0., P. O. Box 87.
|.V)R KENT, Se|it. Ist. house on Anderson,
1 near Barnard. Apply LOCKS VOGKL’o
STORE. .letfc son and wnldburg lane.
Iri Jit RENT, new houses, w ith all the latest
I modern Intprov. meals; rents moderate.
Apply to SALOMON COHEN
IT'OK KENT, brick bouse on butoraout 117
Barnard street. Key next door,
T-'OK BENT, from Nov. Ist, stores in the Odd
I Fellows'Hall, also rooms In Odd Fellows
Hall; tio- -es'.iott given at once. Apply to A. K.
FAWCETT, Market.square.
IJV)R RENT, from Ist October next, brick store
HN Broughton street. Ihreestoritw ori cellar,
30x90 feet deep. H. .1. THOMABSON, 114 Bryan,
nest Drayton street
I.'VJK RENT. • rick store 15(1 Oongrisis street;
three stories on cellar; possession given im
mediately Apply to WALTHOUK 4HI VEKri,
No. 88 Bay street.
|,'OR RENT, a very desirable residence on Gas-
I ton street: [iohsi-hsioii given Oct. Ist. A(i
dress X .Shis office.
RENT, front Oct. Ist. No. I7 'Liberty
st-eet TMOS. A FOLLJARD, West
Broad street.
i-'OR RENT That desirable residence, 106
York street, with modern conveniences.
Possession Oct. Ist. C. P. MILLER.
houses A\l> STORES FOR RENT.
1JK)B RENT, that line brick dwell
ing 170 State* street (next to*Odd Fellows'
new bunding), from October Ist; house m first -
class order, hot and cold water throughout,
modern improvements. Also, a desirable three
story brick residence, 120 Bay street (near Mont
gomery), in gtx*d repair and all modern im
provements. Also, two story singe frame house
on St. John’s street, near ’ Haliershnm; house
new and commodious, with extra large yard,
suitable for a vegetable gurdeu. For terms ap
ply to M. A. O'BYRNE, over new Southern
Bank.
1?OR REXT, from Oct. Ist, that delightfully
located residence, Drayton street, facing
the Dark Extension, nd now occupied by David
Weisbeln, Esq., having all modern improve,
ments and the handsomest rooms in the city.
Only responsible parties ueed apply to S.
KROUBKOFF, Broughton street.
IX>R RENT, the most desirable residence on
Taylor street two do. rs west of Abetvorn
street; possession given from Ist. Oct. Apply
to WALTHOUR & RIVERS, No 88 Bi > street.
fj'Oß RENT OR LEASE, a good business
I stand; near Out ml railroad passenger
depot. Apply to JOSEPH MANN ION, 57 W est
Broad street.
IT'OR RENT, for oife year from Nov. Ist, house
on Duffy street, third west from Bull: nine
rooms, modern conveniences; twenty-five dol
lars i>er month. Apply H. E. TRAIN. New
Houston and Bull streets.
IT'OR RENT, house on Tattnall, between Harris
and Liberty streets, with nil modern im
provements. GKO. W. PARISH, No. m St.
Julian street.
IT'OR RENT, new built house, with modern
improvements; gas fixtures, cooking ranges,
hot and cool water; rent moderate. SALOMON
COHEN
JT'OR RENT, that desirable store 185 Brough
ton street, corner Jefferson; possession Oct.
Ist. (\ P. MILLER.
r p\VO STORES for rent. 78, and 78W Bay
I sfreet, three 11<xi*s and a collar. No. <8 has
a good engine, boiler, and shafting. J. 11.
RUYVE.
TT'OR RENT, 140 Hull, on northwest corner of
I Whitaker. Apply to Du. PURSE, l k)Liberty
street.
FOR SALE.
SALE, a double residence, containing
I twelve rooms, In a most eligible part of the
city; water ami gus throughout building. Apply
to MARSHALL A McLEuD, llt% Broughton
street.
[X)R SALE, Building ami Work Benches, all
I 1 in good order, also two Utdders very little
used, bv W. i LT< >N, 108 Bay street.
IT'OR SALE, cheap, a lot of Saratoga Trunks.
nrioes from Si to $lO, at SAVANNAH
TRUNK FACTORY.
Delightful home for sale.- in the
town of Penfleld, Ureone county, Ha., a
well finished, eight room dwelling, double iron
veranda, ample outhouses, a large garden
stocked with fruits, fish pond, and a farm of
about forty acres in good cultivation. Penfleld
is four miles from railroad, has churches,
schools, daily mail, good water, and a fine
health record. A wire opportunity t< those
who desire an elegant home, with small farm,
and on very reasonable terms. Apply to
CHARLES M SANDERS, Penfleld, Ga.
Ij'Oß SALE, a well established barber shop.
w ith l>ath room complete, doing a go*si
business; the owner wishing to remove from
here. Address BARBER, at this office.
I]?OR SALE, Milk, Cream, Curds, Clabber and
fresh Butter, at Oglethorpe Barracks, Bull
street. W. BARN WELI
TJV)R SALE, a lot 80x200 on Tyb'e Island front-
I" 1 lng the beach. C. H. DORBETT.
Jj'Oß SALE, TEXAS HORSES Largest and
I best lot Texas Horses ever brought here;
1 lt£ and 15U hands high; all gentle stock. At
COX'S STABLES.
17*011 SALK. RGBEPEW Lots, fiO foot on
Front street tho rivor ami 500 foot
deep, at 1 >is, payable S:JS rash and $l2 50 ovory
six months .with interest. FIVE-ACRE >t hin the
TOWN OF ROSEDEW, with rivor privilege, at
$lOO, payable s*-30 cash and $6 every three inont hs,
with interest. Apply to Da. FALLIGANT, 151
South Brood street, 9 to 10 a. m. daily.
LOST,
¥ OST, Red Setter Pup; answers to name of
I j “Nan." Finder will -be rewarded by leav
ing her at R. R. DANCY'fv Holton and Howard.
SIMMER RESORTS.
N EW' YORK (TTY VISITORS can And cool,
newly furnished rooms, with or without
board, at il West Eighteenth street, between
Filth and Sixth avenues. Summer prices, Mrs.
E. MARK I LITE.
PHOTOGRAPHY^
U PE< TAL NOTI( 'K PIP >TO( IRA PHY Prices
O reduced Petitcs $1 50, Cards $2, Cabinet
$8 per dozen, and larger work in the same pro
portion.
J. N. WILSON,
~'l Bull st reet.
\l isc ELLA NEDI S.
Ur ANTED, purchasers for the Improved
“Hall" Type-Writer; first class machine
and only costs forty dollars; on exhibition at
Schreiner's Music House. No. l&i Congress
street. ROBERT VanWAGENEN, Agent.
HAIRWORK of all description made to order.
Bangs and Haircmtiiig in the most be
coming style. Country orders for Wigs.
Switches, Bangs, etc., promptly mailed. 11 <%
Broughton street, Hair Store.
\GOBS, practical upholsterer, does paper
• hanging, 50c, a roll. Mattress inn king
over $1 50. Carpet laying to size. Furniture
made over cheap. 2V2 St . Julien street.
MISS E. J. O'NEAL, of West Florid i" has
donated the sum of stf,ouO for the benefit
of a “Home for Little Foundlings and Orphans."
“Huaviter in modo, fortiter ui re."
(iLOTHING cleaned, repaired, braided,altered
J and dyed; new suits cot and made in latest
styles; charges moderate; satisfaction guaran
teed. A. GETZ, tailor, <ll .lelTerson street.
/ IOUNTRV LIFE. Living out of town is all
\J o. K. when you can have some good Meat
at your table. Leave your orders at 11.
L< Hi AN'S.
\\T ATCHEB, (’locks. Breastpins, Rings, etc..
▼ ▼ repaired; no fancy charges. Old gold and
silver bought at the highest cash value. llu|4
Broughton Street, Blue Clock Sign.
IF you want first-class |>aper hanging go to
GEO. W. MATHUBS, successor to J. F. Car
penter A Cos.. fiO Whitaker street, under Masonic
Temple. .\!i work guaranteed
REWARD.-- $10 reward will be oaid to anyone
who eon convince me that went bought of
If. U K>AN is not tin* finest in the city.
I F you want your <'lothlng renewed, cleaned,
r*paired, braided, dyed, remodeled, altered
to wilt your taste go to S. WHITE'S, corner Jef
ferson and State streets.
'|' y(n
1 Haltimore Meats to Tyboe or any place.
Leave your orders at Jf. LOUAVB, City Market.
I>UY your Trunks, Hags, Valin • and Straps
> at SA VANN AH TKL NK FA( 'T< MY, State
and Whitaker street.
I?OUNL>, at H. LOOAN'H MEAT STAND at
I t’ity Marker. >:omc very fine* New York,
Hon ton and HaJtimore Meat.
WT’ANTFJt, cuMtonicrs for Pond Lily Toilet
▼ ▼ Wash. Psed at the White Howie daily.
Au luxury for the toilet and hath.
Trade supplied by LIPPMAN liKOH., Savannah,
(la.
I>!NK EYE. How did you like that Steak we
had for dinner? Jt wa* bought of H.
IX)(AN, City Market.
IOOK OUT. A large consignment of nice
J iiiftchifien p* arrive on next Boston steamer.
Tim NEW HoMK H. M. CO., 81 Whitaker Mt.,
A .1 PI
Mi lks FROM TEXAS Fine lot two end
three year old Mules at COjTS STABLES.
MTKAM LAIMMIY.
SAVANNAH SIKAM LAINDKY,
131 Congress Street.
Blankets and Lace Cnrlains
Cleaned as Good as New.
SEE OUR NEW REOUCEO PRICE LIST.
Work Culled lot- and .Delivered..
LUDDEV A- BATES S. M. IT.
lil fii
AIM IN riANO CASES.
The designs of piano cases are
becoming more beautiful and ornate
every year. It is becoming an art
in itself—that of designing, carving
and elaborating piano cases. With
the improved machinery of our day
for carving, chasing and polishing,
a piano which now costs but a few
hundred)), before tho war cost thous
ands of dollars.
Not only lias the improved ma
chinery of the artisan and the pencil
of the artist lieen called into requi
sition to produce Alhambrie etTocta,
but the most beautiful of woods are
now employed. The old dark rose
wood, while beautiful, will show
dust, linger marks and thoslighteat
scratch prominently and its polish
is never of long duration. But with
the curled French walnut, cherry,
mahogany, light rosewood and satin
wood, the polish is much more
durable, anil certainly gives tho
room a much more cheerful aspect
than the dark and gloomy cases.
The grain of the fancy woods,
which we have mentioned is simply
beautiful under the mirror like
jiolisli which is given a piano case,
and but few purchasers will take
the old style case if they have an
opportunity of seeing the later and
far more beautiful styles.
We are running the Fancy Wood Cases
extensively this season, having in stock
even at this early date a superb line in
French Walnut, Mahogany, Cherry, Oak
and bight Rosewood.
Call and spend a pleasant hour in our
Cool and Airy Piano Warorooms, testing
and admiring the Magnificent Instruments
there displayed.
HIDDEN & BATES
MUSIC HOUSE.
CLOTH! N..
APPEL & SCPIAUL,
CLOTHING, HATS, GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, ETC.
OAsU PRICE THROUGHOUT.
PLAIN FIGURES. %
YOUR INTEREST! OUR INTEREST!
163 CONGRESS STREET.
HOOKS, SASII, ETC.
ANDREW HANLEY,
DEALER IN
Doors, Sashes, Blinds.
Mouldings, Etc.
All of tho above are Beat Kiln-Dried White Pine.
ALSO DEALER IN
Builders' Hardware, Slate, Iron and
Wooden Mantels, Grates, Stair
work, Terracotta, Sewer
Pipe, Etc., Etc.
Paints, Oils, Railroad, Steamboat and
Mill Supplies, Glass, Putty, Etc.
Lime, Plaster, Cement and Hair.
Plain and Deoorntivc Wall Paper, Frescoring,
Hoiikc and Kira Painting given personal atten
tion and finished In the best manner.
ANDREW HANLEY.
FRUIT JABS.
WOODBURY, OHM. MASON'S, and other
approved KBUIT JABS, at JAB. S. BII.VA &
SON'S.
l. a. McCarthy,
SuoceHSor to Chau. E. Wakefield.
PLUMBER, GAS and STEAM FITTER,
4, Laniard street, SAVANNAH, UA.
Telephone 373.
A. I?. AITMAYER * CO.
.11 Altar I Cos.
tJ
Sweeping Reduction Sale!
During tho ensiling week
wi£ shall offer our entire stock
of Summer Goods at wonder
fully reduced prices in orddr
to close out,at once, so as to
make room for New Goods
now constantly receiving. Tho
following arc specimen bar
gains :
1 lot Linen Finish Lawns*
handsome patterns, at 3c.j
formerly sold for Be.
20 pieces White Victoria
Lawn 5c.; reduced from Bc.
Our 12.30- and 15c. India
Linen Lawns reduced to 8 l-3c.
1 lot White Cheek Nain
sook at 5k.; worth 8 l-3c.
Our $1 White Crochet
Quilts reduced to 75c.
Our 10c. and 12k- Dress
Ginghams cut down to 7c. ,
1 lot Check Crash Toweling
at 3k.; worth 6c.
15 dozen 20x38 Huck-a
back Towels at O le.; reduced
from 10c.
Knotted Fringe Damask;
Towels at 22c., 25c. and 29c.;
worth double
1 lot Turkey Red and
Fancy Fringed Doylies at
50c.; were 75c. arid 85c.
1 lot Boys’ Knee Pants at
25c. and 15c.; reduced from
50c. and 75c.
1 lot Boys’ Blue Flannel
Kilt Suits, 2 ‘o 6 years*
$2 38; reduced from $3 50,
1 lot Boys’ Blue Flannel
Suits, Knee Pants, 4 to 10
years, $2 25; regular price
$3 50.
GRAND DRIVE.
Children’s pretty Kilt Suits,
2 to 5 years, at 75c.; worth
double.
1 lot Childrens Cambric
Dresses at 25c.; reduced from
40c.
1 lot Ladies’ Linen Dusters
75c.; regular price $1 50.
1 lot Ladies’ Bustles, latest
style, 15c.; worth 25c.
2 lots Ladies’ Fine Silk
Gloves, slightly soiled, 6, 8
and 10-button length, at 50c.
and 73c.; reduced from $1
and $1 50.
Ladies’ Black, Solid Colors
and Pin Striped Hose, line
goods, 23c. a pair: reduced
from 35c
I lot Ladies’ Plain White
and Fancy Border Hem
stitched Handkerchiefs at
25c.; worth from 350. to 50c.
Our entire stock of LaceS
and Embroideries less than
actual cost.
Ladies’ Black Silk Parasols
at $1 25; positively worth
$1 75.
Our entire stock of Ladies 1
Fancy Parasols offering at lessi
than cost.
Gents’ Unlaundried Shirts,
Grand Drive, at 25c., 48c,,
and 72c.; never sold less than
40c., 75c. and sl.
Gents’ Fancy Percale Un
laundried Shirts, with Collars
and Cuffs, at 50c.; worth sl.
1 lot Gents’ Fancy Half
Hose at 25c ; reduced from
40c. and 50c.
Ladies’ Muslin Underwear
£fnd Millinery closing out at
unheard of bargains.
JAS. S. SILVA & SON
SHOE DEPARTMENT.
First Floor to Left of Main Entrance.
A * a sort of reminder, we beg to state to our
patrons, the public, that our Bil< >E SAI Jfi,stllf
continues. Wo have never sold Shoes so uhi-an,
ond protiuhly sever will ugain unless we should
get overslis ked, as we now lire. Our space for
shoe Department Is limited this week. We have
only room enough to quote price* on a few of
the thousand bargains to be found in this do
partinent:
Children's Kid Button, Spring Heel Shoe*,
sizes .'i to H, fiOc. at ALTMaykk n SHor. Sal*.
Childrens (ioat, Butlou, spring ilcel Shoe*,
sl/< s H 4 to 11, 78c. nt Altmaykb’b Shok Sal*.
Ladies' Serge Congress Shoe* sSto. at Alt
mrnt'H Smut SAi.it.
iionis' l/m- ymirter tShoo* at cost at Alt
maykh's its hat Shok Salk.
I/idles' Low Quarter Shoe* at cost at Alt.
maykhs Onkat shok Salk.
Kixby’s Itoval Polish Be. per bottle at Alt
maykh's Shok Salk.
Infants' Shoes 2V. at Shok Sai.*.
Thousands of liargnfns to Is. found 111 the SUo*
Department during this great sale.
tW Store Opens at 7:SO a. m.
lIT Mail Ordrß receive careful and {irompt
attention.
BlOllEltOl 111 Bill SIS.
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