The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, August 14, 1887, Page 3, Image 3

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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. ** •' 1 y*i igflfey * 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. "p 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. 3