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vfi K T C'tr I/J’U RA I, DFJPABTM ENT. The Field, Farm and Garden. We solicit articles for this department. Tbe name of the writer should accompany tbe letter or article, not necessarily tor pub lication, but as un evidence of good faith. August Work in Florida. it is always well to keep track of the work suitable for each month. The Florida Ag riculturist, speaking of the work for Au gust, says that it is too frequently the case with those who intend to plant a garden to leave the purchasing of seed and the prepa ration of the soil till the time to sow the 60e ,l comes, and then everything will be in a rush and many things overlooked that should have been attended to. Next month js the time to commence sowing for fall gar den and those who intend to put out one should now look over their seed catalogues and decide on what they intend to plant and send and get taw at once. Such S uods as tomatoes, cabbages and cauliflower should bo sown in boxes and kept moist so that by the middle of next month you will have some plants to start with. By retard ing the growth of the plants in boxes, or making a succession of sowings, you can have new plants to set out every two or three weeks. In this way you can have cabbage fresh from your garden at least seven months of the year. Tho land on which you intend to plant your garden should be fertilized, plowed and harrowed and all weeds turned under. If tho garden is for your family use do not trv to see how much ground you can cover, but how well you can prepare the land and how much you can grow on a given piece of ground. Toward tho latter part of this month we may look for bad and windy weather with considerable rain and possibly a storm. Of course we are not positive of this, but ex perience of past yoat's causes us to expect it, Hildas an “ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure,” it is well to prepare for it. Young and tender plants should be protected and all young buds tied up, as very few of them are strong enough to stand any amount of wind without danger. Budding is frequently done during this month but we do not think it best, as they will scarcely grow sufficient to become hanl enough to stand the cold of winter, while buds put in in Ootober will lie dormant and be ready to start in the spring. Young trees are making a rapid growth and they should be watched and thumb-pruned to keep them in good shape. Especially is this necessary on young budded trees, for “as the twig is bent the tree is inclined.” Conch cowiieas planted now between the rows of yo'uig orange trees will moke a suf ficient growtn to plow under at the last working of the grove in the fall. Cowpeas can still be planted for fodder, or the old ones cut off and allowed to sprout from the stubble which will give a good crop for turning under. Sweet potato vines can still be planted and there has been very few put out in comparison to last year, there will be a demand for them. Work on the farm is somewhat slack just now, but time should to put in in killing the weeds that fill every corner and will soon scatter seed enougli to seed acres which will require extra work and hard labor to eradicate next spring. Time to Sow Grass Seeds. A writer in the Southern Cultivator says that the seeds of most kinds of hardy grasses are observed to come up during this month if showers of rain occur, indicating the commencement of seed time Owing, how ever, to the rather unnatural eonditiou of most of our cultivated lands, as compared with virgin soils freshly cleared, it is totter to defer sowing until the latter part of the month, or until September or October, ac cording to latitude. We have sown grass in August; but the results do not justify such parly sowing as a rule, as the young plnnts nre very apt to to destroyed by tho hot sun and dry weather in September. (Not only do the ordinary non-cereal grasses show a natural tendency to germinate dur ing the month of August, but it is a matter of common observation that the seed of oats, rye and barley will He on the surface after harvest in May and June, rarely ger minating until the rains of August have set in.) The seeds of crab grass and other sum mer grasses, although still plentiful in tho soil, rarely come up so late as August, al though the seasons may to favorable so far as rainfall is concerned. Such species seem to to controlled, in their germination, by a sort of plant instinct which tells them that there will not to time to develop another crop of seed before frost. The same natural instinct encourages the germination of win ter and perennial grasses—those which will withstand the frosts of winter, and which require a longer period in whieli to develop growth and maturity. Under favorable and natural conditions winter grasses gene rally succeed well if the seeds to sown in August; but for the reasons already inti mated experience teaches that the following month is the most suitable time. It is well, however, to provide seed, allot the ground and make needed preparations for sowing during the next two months. On strong, or moderately fertilized clay and limo soils red clover and orchard grass should to tho chief reliance; on low and rather moist bottoms herds grass will succeed. Poa arachnifrra or Texas bluo grass, though not yet fully established in reputation, is worthy of trial as a winter pasture grass. Query. Will Bermuda and Tkxas blue gross thrive together? Bermuda wilt certainly and effectually exterminate the Kentucky bluo grass. Such a combination, if com patible, would furnish a desideratum, an all-tlie-year-round pasture. There have licon many favorable reports of burr clover ns a constituent of such a pasture. Sown early in the fall on Bermuda grass sod. it is said that the former will furnish good winter grazing, and if stock to taken off in March will resend the ground and die down, when the Bermuda will spring into verdure and growth, and furnish grazing until frost in the fall. Value of Farm Product*. Tho Department of Agriculture in Wash ington states that the value of American farm produce reaches tho vast sum of four thousand millions of dollars (*4,000,- 000,000). In an itemized tablo the values are thus given: Indian com, 1,900,000,000 bushels, value, $027,000,000 ; 450,000,000 bushel* of wheat, value $440,000,000; dairy products, including milk, butter and cheese, *370,000,- 000; hay, 45,000,000 tons, value *3H0,000,- 000; dressed beef, 4,000,000,000 pounds, value $330,000,000; pork products, 5,000,000,000 pounds, value *360,000,000; cotton, 8,120,- 000,000 pounds, value *250,000,000; poultry products, estimated, *200,000,000; oats, t 00 ,000 ,000 bushels, value *168,000,000; po tutoss, 200,000,000 bushels, value *100,000,- fruits, *100,000,000; vegetables, *OO,- 000,000; wool, 300,000,000 pounds, value *45,000,000; mutton, 500,000,000 pounds, value *45,000,000; tobacco, 483,000,000 pounds, value *42,000,000; barley, 00,000,- 000 bushels, value *83,000,000; rye, 35,000,- <OO bushels, value *14,000.000; sugar, 250,- 000,000 pounds, value *12,500,000; molasses syrup, 45,000,000 gallons, value *11,250,000; buckwheat, 13,000,000 bushels, value *7,280,- 000; rice, 98,000,000 pounds, value *4,900,- 000; honey, 30,000,000 pounds, value *4,800,- 000; beeswax, 1,800,000 pounds, value *325,000; other soil products, seeds, wines, etc., total value *408,945,000. making a grand aggregate of *4,014,600,000. The Indian corn and half the hay pro duced may safely be relegated to the pro duction of butchers’ meat and fowls, other grains eaten being fully sufficient to cover j export corn and that used as human food. This would leave the value of the products of tho country, other than the butcher’s meat, as upward of *3,250,000,000. Com parisons will show some interesting data. Beef, pork, mutton, dairy products and fowls constitute about one-third the total value of all products, and far more than all the cereal grains—hay, cotton, rice and to bacco. Again, our meat products are worth more than the other agricultural products except those just enumerated. What in dustry on the continent can begin to show such substantial figures as that of agricul ture? Strength of Timber. A discussion is going the rounds of the press as to the relative strength of wet or dry timber. The Scientific Press says: We do not believe there is much to be made out of the discussion. Some kinds of timber nre stronger when dry, while other kinds are stronger when wet or green. It is safe to say that all woods are harder and less liable to bend wheu dry than when wet or green. But most hard woods when wet will possess more tensile strength than when dry. Tim ber thoroughly seasoned is more brittle than when green, and with the necessary force will break square off, while the same timber green will stand about the same pressure by bending more or less without breaking. Tuko a hickory sapling that is almost im possible to break in its green state, although it may bend double, and thoroughly dry it and you may easily break it almost “square off,” as the boys say. So witii almost any kind of timber. Drying makes it stiffer, more unyielding, but in very few instances stronger. Asparagus Culture. A writer in the Florida Agriculturist furnishes tho following points relative to the cultivation of asparagus in that State: 1. A thoroughly well drained soil, high pine or high hammock being the most suit able, the richness or poverty of tho soil being of comparatively little moment 2. Thorough preparation of tho ground by tho removal of all roots, oak runners, cane grass, etc., a litoral application of strong durable fertilizer beneath the plant, and tbe mixture therewith of the tost of the soil turned out by the plow or spade. 3. Unstinted supplies of fertilizer in the form of top dressing subsequently applied, say in January and at the commencement of tlie rainy season each year. 4. Careful cultivation for the first few weeks after setting to prevent the earth from packing in the holes or furrows, and hindering the first shoots from reaching the surface. 5. Patience sufficient to resist the tempta tion to commence cutting before the roots have become thoroughly established. Two year-old loots require one clear season, one year-old roots two seasons, and plants grown from seed three seasons, before any sprouts nre marketed. 6. And this though we put it last is per haps first in importance, co-operation among neighbors. The experiment is necessarily a somewhat costly one if carried out on any thing approaching a large scale. The sods and climate of Florida have not yet toon .sufficiently tested to allow of predicting with certainty the success or failure of a particular product. One man’s soil may to suited and another’s in the same neighbor hood unsuited to a certain crop, or, as in our own case, one part of a bed may fail where another succeeds. In any case every plant will not provide a marketable shoot on the same day, and consequently a soli tary grower in a district may often find himself, at the earliest and most remunera tive part of the season, with sufficient “grass” to make up a few bunches, but just too little to be worth shipment. Now if two or throe of his neighbors were experiment ing at tbe same, time, no one would to a heavy loser in case of failure, and each one would to a considerable gainer by a system of co-operative shipments. Little by little, as the results seemed to justify the expendi ture, each could enlarge his beds until he was sure of an indppend nt position as re gards shipping; but during tho experiment al stages, a little mutual accommodation between neighbors would to vastly totter than the system of hanging back to see whether a solitary experiment succeeds or fails before risking one’s own money and labor, and it would also to tending to estab lish the new product, whatever it might to, as a Florida product, in the distant mar ket*, and so creating a demand, to be filled, with ever increasing profit to the original producers, as time proves the experiment a success. Household. Baked Tomatoes. —Peel the tomatoes and place on an earthen pie plate with deep paste; season with butter, salt and pepper. Bake slowly. To Destroy Bed Bugs. —Take a can, box or gourd, fill full of dirt and put in it a piece of meat. Find au unt bed; set the box by it; tho ants will move in the box; then cover with a cloth and set it by the bedstead. Catch one or two bugs and'drop in the box to start tbe ants. In two days there will not to a bug in the house. Then throw tho box away. This method never fails and nothing ruined by scalding. Coffee Ice Cream. —One breakfast cup ful of strong, clear coffee, one breakfast cupful of boiling milk, four ounces of pul verised sugar, one pint of cream and fivo yelks of eggs. Put the coffee, toiling milk, mi Mr and tlm yelks of eggs (well beaten) into n porcelaill-lmed saucepan und mix all well togethor. Place on the fire, stirring constantly, till it thickens, when add tho cream. Continue to stir over tho tire until atout to boil, when take off and allow to cool. When cold put into a freezer and freeze. Peach .Short Cake.—Take two cups of creamery buttered flour; add one cup of water or milk; mix quickly but thoroughly with a spoon. If a little sweetening is de sired add two heaping tablespoonfuls of su gar when mixing. Drop into jelly-cake tins and hake in a quick oven. This recipe will make two good-sized layers. After baking put the peaches (previously parts 1 and sliced thill) between the layers ami upon the top layer, sprinkling the fruit with su gar. Cut into slices like pie and serve with cream or rich milk. Broken Ecig Plant.— Take a ripe speci men and with a sharp knife cut in two lengthwise, cut out the contents from one hair, leaving enough adhering to the skin to keep it in shape. If there are five or six in the family this will be sufficient, tho rest can to kept for another meal. Cook the vegetable until U nder, just a* you would a pumpkin, it will take about four hours; there must not to too much water. Brain very dry; mix into it a largo lump of but ter, salt und pepper, a triflo of onion, yelk of one egg; moisten with cream or con dense! milk, enough to make a thick totter. Fill the empty shell with the totter, sprin kle tbe top with bread crumbs aud bake fifteen minutes in a quick oven. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. AUGUST 15, 1887. Farm and Stock Notes. Though sorghum seed is small, a fair crop will yield 20 to 25 bushels, worth for feeding as much as an equal weight of corn ana better for poultry. This by-product .of the sorghum crop is in many places worth enougli to pay for growing it, leaving the cane to be made into sugar, or fed to stock if no conveniences to near for working it up. Beekeepers in Florida are rather discour aged. A correspondent says: “About one half of all the toes here in January of last year are dead. Of nearly 100 colonies brought here by Mr. Poppleton, of lowa, very few remain at last accounts.” From this it would seem that beekeeping is not. always prosperous, even in the “sunny South.” The following is given as a good way to heal up wounds caused by the splitting of fruit trees by frost or other means: llcut some grafting wax, dip a strip of muslin in it and place it perpendicularly over tlio wound; then put throe or more narrow bands around the tree. This will be suffi cient and the heahng process will go on rapidly. If any one have a pear tree that bears spotted or cracked fruit, let him sprinkle wood ashes freely over the soil beneath the tree, as far in diameter as the branches ex tend —not a light sprinkle either, hut n lito ral dressing. Then wash the bark thor oughly with strong soap suds (old-fashioned soft soap preferred), with the addition of lime water and a little flower of sulphur. Never use a ram of your own raising that will to connected with your flock, says the New York Herald. This trying to get into a flock of thoroughbreds by using rams of one’s own raising and breeding has destroyed more good sheep than anything else that can to named. Where one man succeeds nine hundred and ninety-nine fail. As often as a rum shall to needed buy one of the same breed but not connected by blood relutions. In selecting a churn, says T. D. Curtis, to sure and get it large enough. It should not bo more than one-tbird full of cream, if tbe easiest, most speedy aud most satisfactory results to desired. Do not give too swift a motion. If you should do so you would prolong the time of churning, if you would not prevent it altogether. Forty or fifty revolutions a minute is usually fast enough. Give just that motion to a revolving churn which will carry the cream to the top of the churn and permit it to fall with a swashing thud. Mr. Wilcox, of Almondsbury, Glouces tershire, England, savs: “I have been in the habit of feeding stock with wheat for some years past. I consider it to to more nutri tious than any other food I have ever used. My plans are as follows: Cut straw and hay to fine chaff—the greater proportion being straw thrown over a given quantity (four or five pounds) of meal, with as much pulp root as you feel disposed to put in, mixing it together. Give it twice a day. To sheep I always give it crushed or bruised—say a pint or a pint and a half each per day; it is the finest food for sheep I have ever used.” Jerry Sexton, Ames, lowa, says in an swer to inquiry when to cut timber for posts: Cut in early summer, when the leaves are nearly full grown, and let them lie six or eight days before trimming. Tbe foliage presents a great area of evaporating surface whidi draws the sap or moisture out of the trunk. If the moisture is taken out in this way there is less tendency for tho wood to check and it will last much longer. It is tost to split and rank tho posts up immedi ately after trimming off the limbs. This method has proven successful in Europe, where it is generally followed ■in govern ment forests. Chemically speaking barley contains one seventh more fattening qualities than do oats, but as a matter of fact oats are much the better food for horses. There is a me chanical effect of barley which is object ionable as a horse food; it neither digests nor assimilates as well as do oats. A mix ture of two parts oats to one part barley, ground, is much less objectionable thaji clear barley. Tho percentage of fat pro ducing elements in barley is 52, while in corn meal it is 66.7. These figures, coupled with the fact that the mechanical effect as to horses does not exist, at least in so great a degree, in hogs and cattle, will give a good idea of the feeding value of barley for the latter animals. Speaking of the condition in which wool should to put on the market, the Stockman says that there is no excuse for tags. They can be taken off before the sheep are turned out upon the pasture in the spring, or if neglected at that time it can be done when you shear. There is no possible gain in leaving them m. The package more than overbalam es the increased weight, because the buyer takes into consideration tile labor of taking them out and is sure to over-esti mate their weight. A difference of sc. per pound on each fleece may make the differ ence between realizing a profit and sustain ing a loss. And in very many cases the greater jxirtion of this difference is based upon the condition in tho preparation of the wool for market. Popular Science. Fifty thousand tons of soot are taken from the chimneys of London annuaUy. It is valued at *200,000 and is used for fertilizing purposes. The phonograph is likely to come to the front again—this time as a practical and useful instrument, having been greatly im proved bv its inventor. Thoreau was a botanist and a firm be liever in tho theory that wherever disease or accident occur the remedy will to near at iiand in the form of some growing plant. If you should have hiccough try one of the following remedies, every one of which is vouched for by different authorities: Slightly refrigerate the lobe of the ear; clasp the hands with arms raised above the head; press tho finger each side under the ear, near jawbone; inhale chloroform until relieved. To prevent finished iron from rusting coat, thinly with molten paraffine. Ten parts un salted beef tallow and two parts re-jin melt ed together and well mixed may be applied while warm. Fresh hog's lard ten par!-:, oue part alum, one part ream mol to:, reel) mixed and applied warm, is also got si. The first can to removed with a mixture of one part raw linseed cil ami five parts turpen tine while warm. The two last may he re moved with spirits of turpentine. Paper wiudow glass is now said to he an assured fact. As described: “A window pane is made of white papor, manufactured from cotton or linen, mid modified by chem ical action. Afterward the paper is dipped in a preparation of camphor and alcohol, which makes it like parchment. From this point it eiui to molded and cut into remark ably tough sheets entirely transparent, and it can to dyed with almost the whole of the aniline colors, tho result being a transparent shoot, showing far more vivid hues than tho tost glass exhibits.” Prof. Atwood, in his second article on foods in the June Century, devotes some pages to exploding and ridiculing the pro vailing notion that mental exertion con sumes much phosphorus in tho brain, and that, consequently, fish is specially good brain food on account of containing much phosphorus. H* denies that fish is paoo liarly rich in phosphorus, or that there is any evidence that tho bruin uses an over proportion of phosphorus, or that there is liny more connection between thought and phosphorus tliun other elements of food. Dr. Griffiths, an English physician, has recently demonstrated that, iron sulphate is an antidote for many of tho most virulent epidemics which attack field and garden crops. Those disease* are due to micro scopic funguses, whose structures are built up in a somewhat different manner from the corresponding ports of other plant*. It appears that tho cellulose in these funguses is ach'd upon by iron sulphate, whereas in tho higher plants tho cellulose of tile coil walls is not influonoed. Tho iron sulpiiato destroys the cellulose of the funguses, hut does not affect that of tile attacked plant., It is. therefore, an antidote and destroyer of such lairasiti' germs and lungue u* the potato disease, wheat mildew, etc. CHEAP ADVERTISING. ONE CENT_A. WORD. ADVERTISEMENTS , 15 Bords or more, in this column inserted for ONE CENT A WORD, Cash in Advance, each insertion. Everybody who has any want to supply, anything to buy or sell, any business or accommodations to secure; indeed,any wish to gratify, should advertise in this column. EM PLOTMKST WANTED. V GENTLEMAN wishes a position as teacher. I jit in, Greek, French, Mai hematics anil the English branches taught Best references given if desired. Address TEACHER, this office. MISCELLANEOUS wants. Air ANTED, Confederate postage stamps, used V V or unused, of all kinds, local stamps and regular issues: good prices paid for same. C. FRANCIS, Branehio, Via, HOOSIS TO KENT. I''OR RENT, two rooms. Apply at 1(12 South 1 Broad street. HOUSES AND STORES FOR RENT. JAOR RENT, the two desirable aud well loea- I ted residences. Nos. 151 and 163 Barnard street, corner Hall, These houses have Just been renovated and newly fitted up with all modern convenienelos iu first class order. Rental moderate. Apply to J. F. BROOKS, 135 and 187 Bay street. IX) R RENT, a desirable residence, three story and attic, containing leu rooms and bathroom. Large and airy. 15 Houston si reot. For further information apply corner Congress and Habersham. IVOR RENT, a desirable residence, so Liberty street, near Abercoru street ; terms reason able; possession Oct. Ist. C. V. HERNANDEZ, City Exchange, or P. O. Box in. IVOR RENT, throe story brick house on Macon, 1 between Habersham and Price streets. E. J. KENNEDY, corner Hull and York streets. CIXTEEN DOLLAR* will rent eight-room to house, with hath room and water un prem ises. Apply to WM. HOUHAN, Huntingdon and Mercer. FOR RENT, brick dwelling, furnished or un furnished, southeast corner of Charlton and Tattnall streets. Address 0., P. O. Box 87. I,S( iR RENT, new houses, with all thelslcst r modern improvements; rents moderate. Apply to SALOMON COHEN. IVOR RENT That desirable residence, 105 A 1 York street, with modern conveniences. Possession Oct. Ist. C. P. MILLER. IVOR RENT OR LEASE, a good business ' stand near Central railroad passenger depot. Apply to JOSEPH MANNION, 57 West Broad street. IVOR RENT, for one year from Nov. Ist, house X' on Duffy street, third west from Hull; nine rooms, modern conveniences; twenty-five dol lars per month. Apply H. F. TRAIN. New Houston and Bull streets. IVOR RENT, that desirable store 188 Brough ton street, corner Jefferson; isissession Get. Ist. C. P. MILLER. • cpwo STORES for rent. 78, and 78U Buy 1 street, three floors and a cellar. No. i3 has a good engine, boiler, aud shutting. J. 11. RUWK. fVOlt RENT, 1-10 Hull, on northwest corner of Whitaker. Apply to Da. PURSE, HO Liberty street. FOR SALE. LXSR SALE, a double residence, containing 1 twelve rooms, in a most eligible part of the city; water and gas throughout building. Apply to MARSHALL & McLEoD, 1101a Broughton street. IVOR SALE, cheap, a lot of Saratoga Trunks, . prices from 84 to $lO, at SAVANNAH TRUNK FACTORY. IVOR SALE, a well established barber shopj r with bath room complete, doing a good business: the owner wishing to remove from here Address BARBER, at this office. IVOR SALE, tothe. Shingles. Flooring, Ceiling, Weatherboarding and Framing Lumber. Office and yard Taylor and East Broad streets. Telephone No. 811. REPPARIUt CO. _ |X)R SALK. TEXAS HORSES—Largest and 1 tost lot Texas Horses ever brought here: 14b> and 1544 hands high; all gentle stock. At COX’S STABLES. _ IVOR SALE.—ROSKDEW Lots, 00 feet on r Front street along the river ami 500 feet deep, at *lB5, payable $25 cash and *l2 SO every six mouths,with interest. FIVE-ACRE Lots in the TOWN OF ROSEDKW, with river privileges, at *IOO, payable *2!) rush und *5 every three months, with interest. Apply to Dit. FALLIUANT, 151 South Broad street. 9to 10 a m. daily. LOST. IOST. a brown setter pup, answers to name J of Dick. A reward wflt to paid for bis re turn to D. GRIM, comer Bolton and Lincoln streets. DIIOTOGRAI’HY. C FECIAL NOTICE-PHOTOGRAPHY -Prices Cj reduced Fetites $1 50, Cards $2, Cabinet 88 per dozen, and larger work hi the same pro portion. J. N. WILSON, 21 Bull street. MISCELL AN EOUS. INSTATES MANAGED and rents collected by J ROUT. 11. TATEM, Real Estate Agent anil Auctioneer. BUY your Tranks, Bugs, Vetoes and Straps at SAVANNAH TRUNK FACTORY, State and Whitaker street. MULES from TEXAS—Fine lot two and three year old Mules at OOX‘B STA BLISS. I'AINTS AND OILS. JOHN G. BUTLER, 'll tHITE LEADS, COLORS. OILS, GLASS, VARNISH, ETC.: HEADY MIXED PAINTS; RAILROAD, STEAMER AND MILL SUPPLIES. SASHES, DOORS, BLINDS AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE. Sole Agent for GEORGIA LIME. CALCINED PLASTER, CE MENT, HAIR and LAND PLASTER. 6 Whitaker Street, Savannah, Georgia, K 5. UIIII.S MURPHY, 18657” House, Sign and Ornamental Painting T7XEOUT*P NEATLY and with dispatch, i a Poona, Gilt, Varnishes, Brushes, Window (llassoa. eu ~ etc. Estimates furnished on ap plication. CORNEK CONGRESS AND DRAYTON STS.. Rear of Christ Church. PEAS. VIRGINIA BLACK PEAS. CfOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT. .—FOR hale bv G.S.McALPIN 172 BAY STREET. IRON PIPE. RUSTLESS IRON PIPE. EQUAL TO GALVANIZED PIPE, AT MUCH LESS PRICE. Weed & Cornwell. manufacturers, mechanics. corporation*, and ail others in need of print ii;g, lithographing, and blank books can hiiWtboir orrknpromDUv tilled, at ii.udurute print**. at tbe MORNING NEWS PRINTING liOUffiS. 3 Whitaker street. U’DDKX A BATES S. M. H. J' l m ’ ART IN PIANO CASKS. The designs of piano oases are becoming more beaut if til and ornate every year. It is becoming an art in itself—that of designing, carving ami elaborating piano cases. With the improved machinery of our day for carving, chasing and polishing, a piano which now costs but a few hundreds, before the war cost thous ands of dollars. Not only lias the improved ma chinery of the artisan and the pencil of the artist been called into requi sition to produce Alhambric effects, but the most beautiful of woods are now employed. The old dark rose wood, while beautiful, will show dust, Anger marks and the slightest scratch prominently and its polisn is never of long duration. But with tho curled French walnut, cherry, mahogany, light rosewood and satin wood, the polish is much more durable, and certainly gives the room a much more cheerful aspect than tho dark and gloomy cases. Tho grain of tho fancy woods, which wo havo mentioned is simply beautiful under the mirror-like polish which is given a piano case, and hut few purchasers will take the old stylo case if they havo an opportunity of seeing the later anil far more beautiful stylos. We are running tho 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 anil spend a pleasant hour in our Cool and Airy Piano Warorooms, testing and admiring tho Magnificent Instruments there displayed. HIDDEN & BATES MUSIC HOUSE. FIJKMSIIING GOODS. (io to LaFar’s New Store AND SEE HOW CHEAP HE SELLS Summer Hats. 11 AVE your measure taken T the same time, and T 1 RY a set of his excellent Shirts made to order. Oi WHILE THERE INSPECT HIS LINE OF UnLAUNDRIED SIIIHTS, Monarch dress shirts, Ijoston garters in silk and cotton. Rubber garments of all kinds. Lmbboidered night shirts. Linen handkerchiefs at all prices. LiBLE THREAD UNDERWEAR A FINE ASSORTMENT OF SCARFS. Shawl straps and hand satchels, Anew line of HAMMOCKS, with PILLOWS and SPREADERS, just In; aLo a lot of NEW BATHING SUITS, at JLi a, Far’s, 29 BULL STREET. IC E ! Now is the time when every body wants ICE, and we want to sell it. PRICES REASONABLE! 20 Tickets, good for 100 Pounds, 75c. 140 Tickets, good for 700 Pounds, $5. 200 Tickets, good for I,ooo' Pounds, $7. 50 Pounds at one delivery 30c. Lower prices to large buyers. ICE Packed for shipment at reduced rates. ('ireful and polite service. Full and liberal weight. KNICKERBOCKER ICE CO. 144 HAS ST. tv 1 \ EM A N I > LIQUORS. Won sac i B Select Whisky $4 00 linker Whisky 4 It) Im]xirial Whisky 8 00 Pineapple Whisky it 00 North Carolina Cora Whisky it 00 Old Rye Whisky I 80 Rum- New England ami Jamaica . $1 SO to 11 00 Kye and Holland Gin 1 SO to 8 on Brandy—Domestic and Cognac 1 SO to 8 00 WINES. Catawba Wine 81 00 to $1 SO Blackbenw Wine 1 00 to 1 80 Madeira, Ports and Hhcrrys 1 60 to 300 PLEARE GIVE ME A CALL A. H. CHAMPION, ORAIN AND II AY 7~ Eastern Hay, PRIME BRIGHT OLD CROP EASTERN HAY, POTATOES. LEMONS, ONIONS, CABHAOK, |BSD A Nil BRED PEAS, VIR GINIA BLACK EYE TABLE PEAS, PEANUTS,GRAIN AND FEED, EYES, BRAN, FEED MEAL. Get our carload prices on URAIN and HAY. 169 BAY ST. W.D.SIMKINS&CO. WOOD. ~ W OOD. Bacon, Johnson & Cos. Have a fine stock of Oak, Pine, Lightwood and Kindling, Comer Liberty and East Bread fltnM. TokukoM UT, APPEL & SCHAUL, CLOTHING, HATS, GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, ETC. „•! | OXE PRICE THROUGHOUT. P t l PLAIN FIGURES. ( YOUR INTEREST! OUR INTEREST! 163 CONGRESS STREET. COTTON SF.EI) WANTED. COTTON SEED WANTED THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO., CAPITAL #5,000,000, HAS just constructed eight new Cotton Seed oil Mills, located at the following points, each having the capacity per day indicated. Columbia, S. C., - 100 Tons. Savannah, Ga., - - 100 “ Atlanta, Ga., - - 200 “ Montgomery, Ala., - 200 “ Memphis, Tenn., - 200 “ Little Rock, Ark., - 200 “ New Orleans, La., - 300 “ Houston, Texas, - 300 “ CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Address, at nearest Mill. Southern Colton Oil Cos. At.Rl< t M l It VI, IM I*I.EM ENTS. I HE HARDEN. Lawn Mowers, Three Sizes, Ladies’ Garden Hoes, Hand Plows, Hedge Shears, Pruninng Scissors and Knives, Garden Trowels and Weeders, Fountain Pumps, Rubber Hose and Reels, —FOR SALE BY Palmer Bros 148 and 130 Congress Street. 1 Lot'll. HECKER’S SELF-RAISING FLOUR Yields more Bread than flour raised with yeast, is finer, digestible and nutritious. Always Ready! Perfectly Healthful! ASK YOUR GROCER FOR IT. Geo. V. Hecker & Cos., 170 BAY STREET, SAVANNAR FRUIT AND GROCEJUJM. LEM O NS. Cabbages, Potatoes, Onions. 30,000 bushels CORN, 10,000 bushels OATS, HAY, BRAN, GRITS, MEAL, STOCK FEED. Grain and Hay in carload a siieclalty. COW PEAS, all varieties. BUST PROOF OATS. Our STOCK FEED is prepared with neat care and is just the thing for Horae* and Mules in this weather. Try it. T. P. BOND & CO., 155 Hay street. BBKIM. Buist’s Reliable Cabbage and Turnip SEEDS, JUHT RECEIVED FRESH AT ( LSCMOLA mJTLKR’S LEGAL NOTICE*. ri EOROI A, i hatha * Cotirrv. Notice is hereby given to ail partlca having dr ■Hand* ngauist the estate of CATHERINE MEHRTKVR late of Chatham county, now de censed, to |o- irt them to me properly inttdo out within the time prwuorlbed by law. so as to show tbeir .■buracte* and amount*; anil all per son* indebted to Mdrlde. sewml are hereby uutl- M to make immediate nay wont to me. JOHN K MEHRTKNN, Administrator Estate of Catherine Mehrteas, deceased, 87 .b-fferauu street, kkvvaaaah SavasWAU, August M. IMF.* C. It. IVORSETT’S COLUMN. REAL ESTATE OFFERINGS. SOME GOOD CORNERS. At private sale I am offering some very good corner places, suitable for business or for residences. One on West Broad and Hull, near the oflicos of tho Georgia Central Railroad. This is an excellent location for a lioarding house. and unsurpassed tor retail business. The house is roomy and tho lot large, fiOxBO, with much of the space uuoocupiod, A splendid stand for business in the lm mediate vicinity of the 8., F. & W. Ry, just on the thorouglifare lending into the ware house and offices. This consists of a large dwelling, with store attached, well built and convenient. Its proximity to the Depot gives special value to this property for om-> ployis, or for persons desiring the (vitronagw of employes. A West, Brond and Jones street corner ia the last on tho list. This is among tho bast of West Broad corners. Particulars can be hod ut my office. A Few Residences A double house in tho eastern portion of the city, near the Bv>. This is an exceed ingly pleasant location, facing a square. It will hs nn admirable home for persons doing business in that section. A two-story dwelling on Bryan street, near Kami. In this locality homes alway rent well. This is particularly recom moudod to persons deairing a small, snug investment, and thosa drawn in Loan Asso ciations. A neat and comfortable cottage in ths southwestern portion of the city. This ia just the place in which to communoa house keeping life. ON SALT WATER. I have for sale the most complete prop erty of this description in this vicinity. Good water and air, cool breezes, fertile land, plenty of shade, abundance of fruit. Huh in abundance, all within an hour’s ride of the city. C. H. Dorset!, REAL ESTATE DEALER 3