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NINE YEARS IN A DREAM. Lieut. Coffin Loses Nearly a Decade from tiie Effects of Bullet Wound. From Hue Boutn.i Globe;. Lieut. J. N. Coffin was born in Ports mouth, N. H., iii 1826. Wlieih he became old enough his mother .sent him to school, ! and he scarcely missed a day during that period of his life until is- graduated at the Portsmouth high school. California had a fascination.for him, and thithor he went and studied law. While in the Golden State war broke out with Mexico, and lie shouldered his musket, like many of his New England brethren, to do* battle in his country’s cause. He was ] at the storming of Chapultepec, and entered the Mexican fortress j and made a prisoner of the commander be- \ fore the colors were pulled down. For this meritorious conduct he was made a sergeant. This hardy son of the Granite State followed the ever-varying fortunes of war, and at its close he, w ith a company of twenty-live men, headed by his old captain in the Mexi can war, John H. Jackson, who was a Colonel in the war of the rebellion, and who is now, or was recently, employed in the Boston custom house, started from Panama in a dugout for the city o£ San Franeisca. Lieut. Coffiu left the party in Mazatlan. shipped before the mast on a French whaler and was wrecked in Mazatlan harbor by a tornado. Only ten of a crew of sixty-eight survived, Lieut. Coffin being one of the four that reached the shore by swimming. The rest were rescued by the British man-of war Champion. After spending many vears in California he returned to his native State, and when the war of the rebellion broke out he enlisted as Lieutenant in the Thirteenth New Hampshire regiment. While stationed near the Portsmouth (Va.) navy yard a stray shot irom ti e enemy grazed the top of his head. This wound had a singular effect upon his mem ory. For nine years he lived as one in a dream, and all the events of the war were almost entirely forgotten. He was sent to the hospital attached to the Quartermaster's department in Alexandria. Va., and was afterward transferred to Lincoln Hospital in Washington, D. C. His general health was good, and he had the use of tools in the Quartermaster's department to which the hospital was attached. Having learned the carpenter’s trade in Portsmouth, N. H., when a boy, the old knack of handling the plane and chisel soon returned to him. All that he did was in a sort of mechanical way His memory was so fickle that he was obliged to make a note of everything he wished to remember. If he went down town for a pound of nails or anything else without a memorandum of what he was after he could never remember what errand he started on. In 1870, when Capt. Hall obtained a commission for an arctic expedition, a friend procured Lieut. Coffin the office of ship’s carpenter on board the Polaris, thinking that a change of climate might be of benefit to him. The Polaris started on her ever-memorable cruise, and Lieut. Coffin gave entire satis faction. He still adhered to his habit of making notes, and fortunately he did, for he would have had no history of his life from the time he was struck by the stray bullet until the return of his memory, nine years later. It may bo remembered that the Polaris that season penetrated further north than any vessel ever had been before, passing several degress beyond the supposed "open sea” of Dr. Ivane, proving that navi gator’s theory a myth. After putting the Polaris in winter quart ers Capt. Hall made a dog-sledge journey of several weeks toward the north pole. He reached latitude 82° 16, wnieh was the highest ever reached by any white man. On his return, from great exhaustion, he was taken sick and died. It was Lieut. Coffin’s sad privilege to make his casket, in which he was placed, and follow his remains to the grave, hundreds of miles further North than any other Christian sepulchre. On the death of Capt. Hall, tho com mand of the Polaris devolved upon Capt. Budington. It was his intention, as soon as the ship was released from the ice, to push on as far as he could the ensuing season. The ship had been so jammed by the ice in her winter quarters os to make her leak very badly, and in a place which could not be reached to be repaired. It was so late in the season before she was released from the ice, and the difficulties of proceed ing further north in her crippled condition so great, that it was thought best to return home. Accordingly the ship's head was pointed toward the south and the return voyage be gun. The Polaris had not proceeded far when she became embedded in the ice again and drifted south, attached to a large floe, all the time exposed to the dunger of being crushed to pieces. During a severe gale of wind the ship was in great danger, gtud preparations were made to abandon her. Provisions were placed on the floe, and the crew left the ship to trust their lives to the precarious chances of being picked up some hundreds of miles further South. This was partly accomplished, about half of the men being on the ice, when the violence of the gale broke the ship’s fas tenings and whirled her away, and soou the parties were out of sight of each other. The ship was in a sinking position, but by great exertions she was Anally run on shore. Lieut. Coffin was one of the seven men who landed from the ship. They built a shed, or tent, from lumber and old canvas Qbtuined from the Polaris, in which to pass the winter. When settled in this inhospita ble climate tho strangest incident in Lieut. Coffin’s life took place. For years after being wounded in Virginia he hail been sub ject to severe headaches, and at divers times was threatened with brain fever. One liaj , whert the ineroury cuddled down in the vi cinity of 50° below zero, he ieft the shanty for a short walk on the ice. The pains in his head were excruciating, and he longed for relief. Around the ship was a space kept clear of ice, and by a misstep he fell into the chilling water. With remark able activity for one dressed for an arctic winter he scrambled out und succeeded in getting back to the hut, which fortunately was near at hand, before being frozen to death. With the help of his companions lie removed his clothing and turned in. How long he slept he knew not. but when he awoke his memory had returned. Spring ing from his hunk he looked wildly around and cried out to his companions: “Where is my regiment! Where is the Thirteenth New Hampshiref Am Ia pris oner It seemed but five minutes since he was struck down by tho enemy's shot on the green turf of old Virginia. His companions looked at him in amazement, and began to whisper and slmko their heads. The cold hath, they thought, had fixed him. It cer tainly had He put his hands to his head, and thought it strange that no blood came of! with them. He asked his companions who had taken him prisoner; whj had won the fight, and how it was done. They only looked upon him with charitabe commisera tion, and assured him that he would soon be all right. This seemed stranger still, and he thought them all luna tics. Finally Capt. Budington, who was on f lie Polaris and who had be n Informed of the carpenter’s strange actions, sent for him. Imagine Lieut. Coffin’s surprise when, on opening the door of the hut, to follow the guidance of the man who delivered Capt. Budington's message, ho saw (literally) ior th first time the towering mountains of ice and the miles upon miles of perpetual snow. bids, inrleed, was strange. It seemed but a tew moments since he was inhaling the fragrant, flower-scented air of old Virginia, and saw the green raiment of summer on every hand. Now all was changed and he ooulti not understand it. Had the bullet Idled him, and was this a pnrt of the other World! He looked and wondered, and the heaven-kissing peaks of snow and ice re turned his gaze In solemn silence. Arriving before Capt. Buddingtou that gentleman "Well, carpenter, they tell me you arc a lift le off. How is itf" “To tell you the truth. Captain, I'm be pi’ining to think so uivself.” replied Lieut, colfin. “I was wounded about.five minutes *" r *ght here ,->n niv -r— --‘'That's ull right, Collin, that's all light; . J you just, go and turn in and get a good sleep; I perhaps that will do you good.” And so he | left the Captain with his head full of strange thoughts. It was useless for him to try to explain ' anything to his messmates, for they ail j thought him daft, and when he began to tell j how he was wounded the rest of the men ex- ! changed sly winks and tapped their heads knowingly. It, was not till after Lieut, j Coffin had read the entries made in his note : books for many years back that it began to j dawn upon him that he had lived for years j in dreamland. He ceased trying to explain I things to the ship’s crew, and after awhile the affair was forgotten. After many weary months’ waiting for ' the spring, Lieut. Coffin, with the assistance ! of First Engineer J. W. Booth and the chief mate, constructed two boats, by which they finally made their way, under many dangers, to the northern point of Melville Bay, about twenty miles below Cape Work, where they were finally rescued by a whaler. When Lieut. Coffin returned to this country he went before the Board of Medical Examiners. The old wound on his head was found. He applied for a pension, and by a special act of the Forty-eighth Congress it was granted. He first went to the T ogus National Home, but tiring of a life of inactivity, he purchased a sloop and now makes his home aboard of her. LIGHTNING. The More Common Kinds Contrasted With the Sheet and the Globular From. Chambers' Journal. Every one is familiar with the fact that lightning does not spring direct from cloud to cloud or to the earth, but pursues a zig zag course This is due to the fact that the air is not equally humid throughout. Elec tricity always takes the path which offers least resistance to its passage. Damp air is a much better conducting medium than dry air. consequently the lightning selects the dampest route, aVoiding the drier strata and zones it encounters, and advances, now di rectly, now obliquely, until it reaches the opposite cloud, where it subdivides into a number of forks. Owing to the resistance it encounters in its path, intense heat is gen erated, which causes the air to expand. Immediately after the flash the air again contracts with great violence, and with a loud report, which is echoed and re-echoed among the clouds. The report reaching the ear of the listener from varying distances, is drawn out into a series, and, being still further prolonged by the echoes, the roll of the thunder is produced It is a curious fact that, although the sound of thunder is exceedingly loud when heard near at hand, the arm over which it is audible is com paratively circumscribed. The noise of a cannonade will be heard, under favorable at a distance of nearly 100 miles, while the sound of thunder does not travel over fifteen miles. The occurrence of the thunder and the lightning is, of course, simultaneous; but as light travels faster than sound—its passage is practically instantaneous —the flash may be seen several seconds before the thunder is heal'd. The distance of thunder may thus be approximately estimated, an interval of five seconds between the flash and the thunder clap being allowed to each mile. Sheet lightning lias the appearance of a sheet of flame momentarily illuminating part of the sky or cloud surface. It is in reality but the reflection of lightning flash ing beyond the horizon or behind the clouds, and at too great a distance for the thunder to be audible. But the most remarkable of all the mani festations of electricity is globular lightning, in appearance like a ball of fire moving leisurely along, and remaining visible, it may be, for several minutes. Many curious accounts are related of its vagaries. One of the most interesting and circumstantial is that given by Mr. Fitzgerald, county Done gal, Ireland, who saw a globe of fire slowly descend from the Glendowan mountains to the valley below. Where it first touched the ground it excavated a hole about twenty feet square, “as if it had been cut out with a huge knife.” This was scarcely the work of a minute. For a distance of twenty perches it plowed a trench about four feet deep, and, moving along the bank of a stream, it made a fur row a foot in depth. Finally it tore away I>art of the bank five perches in length and five feet deep, and, “hurling the immense mass into the bed of the stream, it flew into the opposite peaty bank.” The globe was visible twenty minutes, and traversed a distance of a mile, showing that its progress was, for lightning, very slow indeed. Dur ing thunder storms of extreme violence on Deeside, bails of fire are occasionally seen to roll down the sides of Loehnagar, which are, no doubt, identical with globular light ning. A GAMBLER’S DREAM. The Name of the Winning Horse Re vealed to Him in Sleep Beforehand. From the St. Paul Globe. A down-town pool room furnishes a story, while not romantic, proves that dreams, while not infallible, can be turned to good account at times. A prominent St. An thony Hill youth who had been playing the horses there for three weeks with intermit tent fortune, was going home a few nights since well under the influence of cocktails which he had absorbed purely for their me dicinal virtues. He was in that happy mood when everything out of tho ordinary run of things attracts the eye and makes a strong bid for the curiosity of the beholder. The young man had felt bis way carefully along the sidewalk to the bill board hiding Aider man Dowlau’s wood yard, on Wabasha street, when through the dim glare of the street lamp tho highly colored lithograph ad vertising the play “Sly Geraldine,” caught his eye. There was something about the blazing building, the tall man with a twelve-inch dagger in his hand, the lemon-colored locks of the girl floating on the night air and the elaborate lettering that tickled his curiosity, and, leaning up against a telegraph pole, ho gazed at tbs gaudy bill and read and reread, "My Gera, iine, liiy Geraldine.” Satisfied at last, ho staggered on, muttering to him self, “My Garaldine. my Geraldine,” and when he reached home and had rolled into bed he sank to sleep whispering “My Geral dine, my Geraldine.” In his dream that night he met a beauti ful girl with divine form and waving hair that had captured the softest beams of the midday sun, and married her. With her liersonal charms she brought him great wealth in valuable city property and bank stock, and her name was Geraldine, The following morning the young man awoke and bathed his extended mini! in ice water and went down to breakfast, hut he could not drive the dream from his head, and as ho went down town to his office his lips me chanically muttered “Geraldine, Geral dine.” . He dropped into the pool room, as was his custom, and in looking over tho list of horses that were to contest in the Saratoga races, he was startled when half wnj down the list, his eye fell upon the name Geral dine. A queer superstition crept into his mind and he concluded to bet her hard for a winner. Tho horse was not a favorite in the race, and the crowd eagerly grabbed at the young mail’s offer to play her. and gave him liberal odds. At last, with all his available funds placed on the race, he rested confident that he would win. Finally, in a deep voice, tho pool'seller announced that the horses were off, and the young man calmly waited for the name of the winner Ito be given. He Had not long to wait, and he showed no signs of surprise when the caller sang out: “Geraldine wins the race. The young man walked calmly up and I cashed in his checks, putting *bO<i deep into i his trousers pocket as the result of a few j cocktails and a drop or two of sujienitition. Stand Not Upon the Order of Your Go ing, ■ H,i mat once and buy a bottle of the fra- I grant HOZODONT. You will never regret jft It not only beautifies and preserve* the ' I,’elli uud ui rusts decay, but loaves the I mouth cool, and the breath as fragrant as a I rose. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1887. LIFE IN VIENNA. A Jerky Description of Scenes In the Interesting Austrian Capital. From the Buffalo Feu's. Women bci-e carry hods and mix mortar. Peculiar class. From the provinces. Wear long boots to the knee. Short skirts to the j boots. Practical dress. But not ornamen tal. Seven different costumes seen daily on the streets. Laborers at noon lie down and sleep on the pavements. Ditto in the parks on the grass. Both sexes seen lying side by side. No “keep off the grass” at every turning. Polish Jew frequent. In black gowns reaching to the heels, high hats, and long corkscrew curls. like Othello. Big dogs drawing hand carts. Street cars wou’t stop for you. Only at certain places. Indicated by a signpost on track. The tub the universal vessel to carry things in. Oval shape. One stave longer than the rest. So it can be bound on the carrier’s back. Carries all the water up the six or seven pairs of stone stairs in the Vienna houses. Clean clothes ditto for wash. Separate shops for brandy, beer and wine. Peasant, on a spree carries green twig stuck in his hatband to indicate to the Vienna public his present mental and moral condition. Hacks hung low ou the wheels. Drivers in uniform. Everything’s in uniform hero. Fares low. Ten cents carries you from Dombach to Leo polstadt. Suburban villages five or six miles distant. Emperor and Empress are fre quently seen driving on the streets. No fuss; all hats go off as thhv go by. Soldiers everywhere; sentries ditto, in a chronic condition of saluting officers. Fleas abund ant,. Everybody eats at tho restaurant Vienna is all restaurant on the ground floor. Little home cooking is done. Me lange and rolls are the universal breakfast. Melange is half coffee and half hot milk, always brought you in a tall tumbler with a big tablespoon. Living here is very pub lic. If you hire a room the chances are you must pass through somebody’s bedroom to get to it, or have someone pass through yours. Female help, indifferent or obliv ious to gentlemen lodgei-s, come right in at all hours, and without knocking, when ‘on duty. Stoves are like monuments, nine feet high, covered with porcelain. The furnace holds about two quarts of coal. The rest is monu ment. Handsome men, good shapes, full chests, tine bass voices. A pleasure to sit in railway stations and hear the officials in charge call the trains. Handsome women ditto. Everybody out on the street and shopping by Bor9 in the •morning. Nap at noon. Gardens full of families dining in open air at sp. m. They go it till 9. Music, flowers, statuary all about. Eating not done at a gulp. More happiness to the square yard. Newspapers small. Outside world disposed of in about twenty lines. Lots of small comic illustrated papers. “Trink halles” on every corner. Round pagodas. Girls inside. No room for mb re, Sells lemonade, oraugeade, soda water and other light foggy fluid. People here always swallow something. Elevator at hotd. Big fuss over it. Two men in uniform to run it. Pace, mile an hour. Beds all single. Everybody seems to sleep single here. One more bed on top of bed quilt. Very light, full of feathers, in green silk bag. Barracks everywhere. Six stories. Full of soldiers. Soldiers everywhere. Drilling everywhere. Drumming everywhere. Tooting everywhere. Soldiers marching past hotel at 5 in the morning. Always getting ready to kill sombody. Same all over Europe. Never out of sight of a bayo net. Nations here aro awfully afraid of each other. Singular pumps. Very tall. Long, crooked, iron handle. Reach to the ground. Tobacco shops all run by govern ment. Keep stamps also. Invariable sign over door “K. K.” (King and Kaiser). The Emperor does all the tobacco business. Not much tobacco in their cigars. Washed out. Prices of groceries and dry goods always marked on article in shop windows. Helps one to learn the language. Can read and translate as you walk. Cultivated shade trees lay over anything in America. Six rows, full grown iu some streets, with walks underneath. Fountains, benches everywhere. Business streets all shaded, not bare to sun like Broadway or Fifth avenue. Bath houses five stories high. Everybody here really washes by the bath and not by the bedroom washbasin. Went to one. Girl casliier. Took my money. Turned me over to another girl. Black eyed. Good looking. Went in with me. Turned on water hot and cold. Both of us waited for the tub to fill up. Wondered if she’d leave. Strange country Novel customs. Tub fills up. Girl leaves. Examine door. No lock Took off collar. Gii'l bursts in again. Brought more towels. And then aprons. Won dered what they wore for. Found out. In quired of the girl. What do you suppose! To put on—one behind, the other before, and sit still in while, after using the hot water, the girl came back to turn on the cold. No handling of water by customers in Viennese bath. Girl must do it all. No such place as Vienne known in Austria, Austrian name. Wien. From the bit of a river running through it. Danube river in rear of istv. Timber rafts always passing. Miles and miles of cultivated pine forests in Austria. Pass through them by rail. No underbrush. Trees tall and straight, by tens of thousands. An Electrical Woman. There is an electric woman in Greenville county, S. C. Her name is Mrs. Lockaby, the wife of a poor farmer, and she has re cently developed extraordinary power. She has been visited by curious people from ail sections of the State. About two months ago she liegan to hear what she believed to be supernatural noises nbout the house, such as slamming of the door, tapping on the walls, the moving of furniture and the like The manifestations liecame so frequent as to alarm herself and husband, and they aban doned their home and went to live with a neighbor, believing that their house was haunted. But the noises were even more pronounced than before, and the frightened couple were compelled to return to their own home, as their neighbors believed them to be “possessed of evij spirits” and refused them shelter any longer. After returning to their borne the manifestations continued a few days and then suddenly stopped. About this time Mrs. Lockaby began to have strange sensations, similar to the shocks of an electric battery, at times so strong as to be painful. Then it was that she discov ered her extraordinary power to lift and move large and heavy bodies. She lias ex hibited her |>ower in various ways, although it is only by great persuasion that she can 1> induced to do so. She is very supersti tious and believes that she is possessed by spirits. She regards the matter very seri ously and expresses great alarm lestit should lead to something dreadful. Hard on the Counsel. Tlarpe.r'* ifagaxinc for September. The following experience of a Mississippi lawyer was related by himself to tho writer, many years ago. He said: “I was defending a prisoner for horse stealing, and, seeing no other means of de fending him, under the circumstances, I set up the plea of insanity. 1 argued It at length, road many extracts from works on medical jurisprudence, and had the patient attention of the court Tho prosecuting at torney did not attempt to reply to my argu ment, or controvert my authorities; I seemed to have things my own way, and whisjjerod to thp prisoner that he needn't lie uneasy. Then came the Judge's charge, iu which he reminded tho jury that there was no dispute between counsel as to the facts of the cose. Indeed, there could not liave been, for several witnesses had sworn ixwitivelv that they sow my client steal the horse. ‘But,’ concluded the court., ‘the plea of insanity has Isjen set up, and I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that it should receive your very grave and serious de !ilteration: but I must be allowed to say, gentlemen, that for myself, upon a review of the whole case, 1 can tliacover no evi dence of insanity on the part of the prisoner, except, perhaps, iu tho selection of hi* counaoL' ” MILLINERY. new"Sxix ,i. at KROUSKOFF’S Mammoth Millinery House. We are now offering immense lines of New Straw Hats, Ribbons, Feathers, ete., which are now being shipped daily by our New York buyer, and our Mr. Krouskoff, who is now North to assist in the selection of the Choicest Novelties in the Millinery Line. It is astonishing but a fact, that we sell fine Millinery cheaper than any retail store in New York. llow can wc do it? Cannot tell. This is our secret and our suc cess. 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All ordinary branches are taught. A limited number of boarding pupils will be received into bis family. FBr terms, etc., apply, as above, to JOHN GADSDEN. Atio. 22, 1887._ MONROE FEMALE COLLEGE, FORSYTH, OA , AITILL resume exercises MONDAY, SEPT. 1!), VV 1887. The departments of Literature, dclence. Music, Drawing and Painting are sup plied with the best of teachers, under the best of management. For catalogue apply to R. T. ABBURY, President, or L R. BRANHAM. Secretary. GORDON INSTITUTE. THE BEST SCHOOL IN THE STATE. INSTRUCTION is the most thorough. Its pu pils are the tiest prepared for business or college. Take the honors at the universities. FREE TUITION. Send for Catalogue to CHAB. E. LAMBDJN, President, Barnesvilie, Ga. Moreland parkT ILITARY ACADEMY. Near Atlanta, Ga. Chas. M. Neel, Supt. I FAUQUIER FEMALE INSTITUTE, Warren 1 ton, Va.. opeus its 27th annual session Sept. 14, 1887. Situated in the Piedmont region of Vir ginia, unsurpassed for its beuuty, fertility and bealthfulness. Only 50 miles from Washington. The grounds, ten acres in all, are tastefully laid out. The Imilding Is one of the finest school edifices In the Slate. A full corps of teachers. Terms reasonable, and made known on applica tion. For catalogues address GEO. G. BUTLER, A. m.. Principal. I aGRANGE FEMALE COLLEGE, LaGrange, I j Ga. 41st Animal (v-sslon hogftisSept. 21,1887. Best advantages in Health, Morals, Literature, Music and Ai t. Bookkeeping, Elocution, Vocal Music and Cal sthenic* taught Lee in regular course No incidentals or extra chargee. Expen ses umdeiate. 810,000 now being spent in Im provements. Send for Catalogue and tie con vinced. HUFUB W. SMITH, Pres. EULER B. SMITH, Secy. A SHEVILLE MILITARY ACADEMY, North A Carolina. H. F. VENABLE, Principal; W. PINCKNEY MASON, Commander of Cadets and Associate Principal. For information nnd Cata logue address either Principal or Associate Prin cipal. SHENANDOAH VALLEY ACADEMY, WINCHESTER, VA. Terms reasonable. C. L C MINOR, M. A. (Univer. Va), LL. D. FOOD PRODUCTS'. FOREST CITY ILLS, .iA'Yi ' Prepared Stock Food for Horses, Mules, Milch Cows and Oxen. Made out of pure grain. Guaranteed Sweet and Nutritious. Bond,Haynes&Elton PRINTER AND HOOKUJNDKR. Old in Years—Not Old Fogy. GEO. N. NICHOLS, PRINTER AND BINDER. To the Manor born—lull of years and experi ence still young in energy and ability with all the accessories necessary to satlsfaatorlly conduct the taistoess to which he has given his life. Grateful fur pest favors—hopeful of others to cense. ssls sss sss sss MILLINERY. M Lcttfr Bargains Are Laid to Rest Against These Boldly Outlined Facts. PLATSHEK’S 138 BROUGHTON STREET, The Controllers and Originators, Pro claim in the Blackest Type Ever Printed a Bona Fide List of WIDE EYE-OPENERS Plucked from the Newest and Freshest Con solidated Lines with but one view, that of reducing our stock. 500 yards 8-inch wide Linen Torchon Lace, hand made, Bt|jc.: was 15c. 85 dozen Children's solid shade and black ribbed 1 lose, white feet, 12 1 -,'■ per pair; was 2l)c. 20 dozen Children’s Kibbe 1 Lisle Hose, solid shades, was 50c.; now at 25c. per pair. 1,500 Children's good < 'anibrio Handkerchiefs, with colored borders, at 2c. each. 1,000 I.a dies pure Linen, special size and Hem. stitched Handkerchiefs, our former 25c. goods, now down to 12,4|C., in whim, mourning and col ored borders. (100 pairs ladles’ pure Silk Jersey Mitts, In 8 to 12 button lengths. In all shades, reduced to 88c.; were sl, $1 25. $| 50. (bids and ends in Silk Gloves for Ladies and Misses at surprising reductions. 25 dozen Ladles’ 4 ply clerical shape Linen Collars with cane, our former 20c. collars, re duced now to 10c. All those ladies' extreme high Collars, with straight and turn edges, formerly 25c., now at 15c. 50 dozen of Ihe (inest modeled Corset*, ex travagant silk stitching, hone filled and extra long, reduced to 50c. from 87c.; all sizes. too dozen ladies' broad rim and high crown rough and ready Straw Hats, In white and black, only 25c ; worth 50c. 80 dozen ladles' rough and ready Straw Sail, ors, in white and black, at 25c. tWDon't Delay for the old rule holds good, FIRST COME, Etc. Grand Catches in Every Department. JFKUrr AND GROCERIES. Kosher Pickled Beef AND Koslier Fat. German Sauerkraut AND JDill IPioJsiles. Imported Swiss and Limburger Cheese. AT Nicholas Lang’s, 19 Barnard Street. Tj E m o Sr Cabbages, Potatoes, Onions. 80,000 bushels CORN, 15,000 bushels OATS, HAY, BRAN, GRITS, MEAL, STOCK FEED. Grain and Hay in carload a specialty. COW PEAS, all varieties. RUST PROOF OATS. Our STOCK FEED Is prepared with groat care and Is just the thing for Homes and Mules In this weather. Try it. T. P. BOND & CO., ISO Hay street. APPLES Northern Apples, Cabbage, Potatoes, Red and Yellow Onions, L*mons, Lemons. Eastern Hay, Western Hay, Corn, Oats, Bran, Eyes, Feed Meal, Field Seed, Feed and Table Peas. Get our carload prices on GRAIN and HAY. 169 BAY ST, W.D. SIMKINS&CO. DOORS, RASH, r.K . ANDREW HANLEY, DEALER IN , Doors, Sashes, Blinds, Mouldings, Etc. All of the abora are Best Kiln-Dried White Pina ALSO DEALER IK 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 Decorative Wall Pa|>er. Frencoeing, House and Sign Painting given, personal atten tion und Untuned in the best manner. AM) HEW HANLEY, 'contractors. P. J. FALLON, BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR, 29 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH. I ESTIMATES promptly furnished for building J of any clast. MU'. I M OX I EL FOR BALK WHOLESALE BY C. M. GILBERT & CO. iKiuthaMi comet iky and Barnard 8u mu. 5