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FACTS OF A YEAR'S TRADE.
(ConftMfcrf from Second Pre/e.]
past year, which wasan inducement totheliaml
ling of these go* mls Dealers, however, are an
ticipating higher prions on all canned goods the
ensuing year The trade has met with some
little competition from the North on the water
routes The Florida trade is increasing every
year, and interested railroad authorities should
certainly look after the interests of this marnet
and regulate rates to meet competition. The
indications point to an enormous increase iti the
canned goods trade in this market in the pres
ent year's business. The crops are generally in
a fair condition, which serves to give a more
confident feeling of security between buyer and
seller, and the business has opened up very fine.
On the whole the margin of profits on canned
goods was not as large as in previous years, hot
a great deal more goods were handled, a ill 'll
were sold on very close margins owing to the
keenness of competition. AH values, with on
or two exceptions, were low. and there was very
little fluctuation. .Collections were unusually
good last year. There were, however, a limn
er of small failures in the country, but the
losses were not very great .
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
The past season cannot lie sold to have been a
profitable one for truck farmers in this section.
The late frosts last spring prevented nny early
shipments of vegetables from this section, and
when truckers aid lieginto ship Norfolk and
New Jersey were also shipping The severe
weather caused truckers to run their crops way
into the summer, and this was too late to be
profitable. Prices, as a rule, in Northern limr
gets, were good ana remunerative for good
stuff, but pretty nearly all the vegetables raised
last spring were of a poor quality, par
ticularly potatoes. Beans and peas, however,
were good, but cucumbers wore a failure, and
tomatoes nearly so. Truckers in this territory
say that while they did not make any money
they did not lose any. and came out of the
season whole. The Charleston truckers, how
ever, had quite a good season and were not af
fected by the weather. Florida, as usual, came
in ahe.-u) with their vegetables and made the
most of the early marketing. The fruit season
was not a remunerative one. Prices ruled for
ali fruits very low. hut more particularly for
oranges. While the winter season was not so
severe at the previous year the fruil was not as
good as in former seasons No doubt the terrible
freeze of th*- winter liefore last ha l its effect
on the tnvs, from which they had not. entirely
recovered. The prospect for the coining cron is
goes), and quite a large yield is anticipated. The
ni-st receipts from Florida arrived here Monday.
The melon crop w as not as prolific as in seasons
gone by, but prices were very fair, and ready
markets were quickly found, due largely to the
change of the railway tracks to the standard
gauge, and the fruit was laid down in the
Western markets very rapidly. There was
some complaints about packing, and better re
suits from botli fruits and vegetables might
have lieen obtained had the pocking been bet ter.
A great many shippers through bad paeking
lost money. It is said by some shippers that
the arrival of fruits and vegetables at their des
tination in bail condition is the fault of the
transportation companies, hut if truckeas )iack
their goo is properly and in the right sort of
crates the companies caq lie regulated and the
fault placed where it belongs.
There were shipped from this port via the
coastwise sto unships 567.950 packages of fruits
and 41.4*3 packages of vegetables and 1,J90,!Kk)
melons, distributed a* follows:
Vege-
Fruits. tables.
To New V rk 307.283 269,302
To Boston 110,001 lO.Hfil
To Philadelphia $1,566 4#,786
To BaltimoiD 24.629 26,752
To Interior-si"- 48,181 68,009
Totals 667,950 414,730
Melons.
To New York 748.771
To Boston. 266,234
To Philadelphia 58,955
To Baltimore .." 39,900
To Interior 287,000
Totals 1,390.960
HARDWARE.
The sales of liardtvare have largely in
creased; in fact, a heavier business was doing
during the past year than has been known for
several years back. There was such a good har
vesting year, that the demand for agri
cultural implements held up very
steadily. Prices were rather low for
pretty much all goods in this line. The Central
railroad brought to this port 35,905 tons of
pig Iron, and carried into the interior 23,085 tons
of railroad iron. The shipments of pig iron
hence to New York wore 29,990 tons, to Phila
delphia 1.954 tons, to Boston 5,430 tons, to Baitr
more 876 tons, showing a remarkable increase
in shipments to New York over last year.
PROVISIONS
Since the last amt ’ al report the receipts and
Sles have lar..w* iucruased notwithstanding
e fact that.have advanced much
higher. TVs caH . a this marks', of bacon
reached 18,177 iKiunds and of lard 2,167,491
pounds. The 'trade is steadily growing and is
now second to none in the South. There is a
prospect for still higher prices for the coming
year, owing to the very heavy damage to the
com crop in the West.
GRAIN-
There was some increase in the sales of both
com and oats, as also hay. Dealers still have
the cheap rates of freight from the West to con
tend with, but notwithstanding this they have
increased their busint'H Tin* prices ruled high.
The receipts of corn during the year were 588,
681 bushels. Oats 578 760 bushels. Hay 102,981
bales, and 98,162 barrels of flour
DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS.
This branch of Savannah's trade has more
than held its ow n ttxj pt year. While the
amount of business was not much larger than
the previous year, owing to various local causes,
which depressed trade and lessened the demand
for goods, more new territory has been covered,
and valuable new trade secured, which hereto
fore belonged, or was claimed by interior cities,
while none of the old trade has been lost The
enterprise and push of our jobbers, aided bv their
increasing capital, haH resulted in securing very
valuable trade where before they hesitated in
soliciting.
Under the Interstate Commerce law they will
now push still fnrtfcy. fo**lade,and ■"jfc success
fully compete wilt interior cities, who be
fore received freight* absr l as low as this city.
Jobbers, by the cheap facilities they have
for cheap freight by steamer from
New York, Boston aud Philadelphia
and Baltimore, the high standing they have in
commercial circles, at home and abroad, by
their long experience in the business, knowing
as they do the wants of the Southern trade,
will soon make this city the great dry good
emporium of the South, and in a few years they
will find the way to import directly all goods
and wares that they now get through Northern
bouses. They are now in a position to duplicate
any general bill of merchandise purchased in
Northern markets, and in the sale of domestics
or Southern-made fabrics they are able to sell
cheaper than the merchants of any other
city. ThoHe engaged in this business are strict iv
businessmen, and are directors in om principal
railroads aud banks The mnnlier of firms en-
Cged in this line of business are few, but thev
lidle about 10,000 cases of goods a year, val
ued at something like $2,000,000.
Prices of both cotton and woolen fabrics have
advanced during the past season and there is
still a firm and strong tone to the market in all
lines. Present prices will probably be main
tained during the season. So long as manu
facturers control their productions and the de
mand exceeds the supply fabrics will rule high
no matter if the raw material declines in price,
but should the mills start, up and by extra work
overstock the market aud exceed the demand,
tlieu buyers will have their way and make
prices. The jobhrrs of dry goods have
much to contend with and their risks are many.
If business could be conducted on purely busi
ness principles and in business season, the job
ber would run less risk, the country merchant
would buy bis goods when wanted, and the
planter would not, by the time his crop is dis
posed of, have to buy his purchases on credit,
and have nothing left when his crop is sold. If
the merchants of the North would do away with
the dating system and date bills from time of
purchase, and not four to six months ahead, the
merchants of the South could do the same, and
then sell goods in their proper season. But as
long as the merehants or the North will follow
this pernicious practice of dating ahead us an
Inducement to secure trade, merchants lien
must follow the custom or give up the
business The remedy is with the
manufacturers and merchants of New York,
and until they take steps to stamp out this un
business like mode of trading, our merchants
must sell winter gooiis in the hot days of sum
mer and cool lawns in the cold days of January,
because the country merchants call get a long
dating on them, when If such goods were sold
September and April, when needed, a healthier
business could be done, and the jobber country
merchants aud farmers would, in the end, b •
richer.
REAL ESTATE.
During the year just ended the real estate
market has lieen remarkable for the continued
advance in unimproved property. Vacant lotsiii
ml portions of the ‘"wood district" have sold
readily, and ut prices which now seeui reason
able, but which a year ago would have lieen
thought ldgh. Territory, heretofore not con
sidered “excellent." has lieen invaded, lotssold,
fine improvements erected thereon, and now
classed as "ehoioe.” Uradually, our heretofore
exclusive people are extending eastward and
westward, the area In which fine houses may he
bull! The volume of l rude in this line has been
quite as greut as during last year. The mnnlier
of pieces sold and their value la very much in
fifeevss of the last twelve month*.
Each year shows improvements in the char
acter of the buildings erected. The style of
architecture is becoming more varied and the
inteterior more ornate, while all ihe comforts
and adornments known to modern art are being
gradually introduced.
The demand for building lots, and the fact
I that it must be met from n limited area, cm
; pbasizqs the call for action on the part of fne
City Council A large territory could lie added
to the city if the corporate authorities would
hut render it possible by arranging for the
opening of streets through that section. Their
j • masterly inactivity" in this particular contin
j ucs to lie"n marvel io their constituents, timid
| unimproved lots will continue to rule high dur
| mg this year. In improved property good prices
I hate been realised, lint the advance is not so
] marked as in the other class of realty. How
( over, well located property, according to price,
| bring their price whenever offered our eity
j needs a riuniher of houses in good neighbor
hoods ranging in price from $1,500 to J4,<W>.
In the matter of rents some solicitude has be n
[ felt lest l he large number of houses Imill during
[ i in- lasi live years would reduce rents to a I* lint
! t hal would not prove remunerative. A careful
1 investigation of the subject shows this not io lie
1 111 ease The effect has been to enable renters
t to require of landlords those reasonable repairs
and Improvements which good management
would otherwise have dictated.
The outlook for the present year indicates
large transactions at remunerative prices. I.arge
profits have been made by investors in city lots
nml suburban property, and the indications are
propitious for a continuation of these results.
Our people have an abiding faith in the pros
purity of Savannah. With new railroads, in
creased capital, large facilities for Imil bug and
lending upon real estate, there is nothing that
can stop the progress of the city. The atten
tion of the people of other States is being at
tracted by our business facilities and wonderful
heojlhfulncss. and population is steadily com
ing to our gates. Our needs are more streets
railroads, a system of street improvements,
better country roads leading to the city, and a
complete system of drainage all through the
city.
RAILWAY (STATISTICS.
Tho Progress Made in the United States
in tho Year 1880.
Poor's Mamin! for the current year, just
issued, in its summary, says:
The number of miles of railroad con
structed in tlio United States in 1880 was
0,000, the aggregate mileage for tlio whole
country completed at the close of the year
txung 187,980; the rate of increase during
the year being % per cent. The mileage,
not including elevated roads, from which
returns from earnings and traffic operations
for the past year were received equaled
125,147 miles, against 123,110 miles for 1885.
The share canital of all the railroads
making returns, including the elevated
railroads, equaled $3,999,508,.508, against
$3,817,1597.832 for 18.8.5; their funded debts,
$0.882,900,330, against *3.70.5,727,000 for
1885; tlieir unfunded debts, *280,073,814,
against *259,108,281 for 1885. The amount
of share capital and indebtedness of ail the
companies for 1880 equaled $8,103,148,652,
against $7,842,533,1751 for 1885, the increase
isptaling *320,015,473, the rate of increase
being ahout 4.09 per cent. The earnings
from freight equaled *.550,359,054; from
passengers, *211,929,857: from miscellaneous
sources, #59,908,088. The operating ex
nenses of all the roads for the year equaled
*524,880,334, the net earnings being $297,-
311,015. The gross earnings upon the entire
capital invested exceeded 10 per cent.; the
net nearly equaled 3.5 per cent. Tho
amount of fcitorest paid the past year
equaled #189,036,304, against #187,496,095
for 1885; of dividends, **1,084,138, against
$77,072,105 fbr 1885. The perceatage of in
terest paid on the funded debts of the com
panies the past year equaled 4,75 jier cent.,
against 4.77 per cent for 1874. Tho per
centage of dividends paid to the whole share
capital equaled 2.04 tier cent., against 2.02
tier cent for 1885. The earnings per mile of
lines operated the past year equaled $0,570,
against #0,205 per mile for 1885, the increase
per mile equaling $305, the rate of increase
jier mile being 4.09 per cent.
The general results of the operations of
the railroad system of the country may lie
briefly summarized as follows: The traffic
operations for the year —the passenger anil
freight movement —were largely in excess
of any previous year, hut the increase in
the volume of traffic was nevertheless little
above the average increases of past years,
and is indicative of a healthy revival in the
business of the country, aud a continuance
of its development rather than of any ex
trnordinary movement due to speculative
causes.
It will be observed that in both passenger
and freight traffic the rates jier ton per mile
and the average carrying distance of each
fell off a trifle, so that were it not for the
increased movement of persons and mer
chandise the earnings would have shown a
decrease. The gradual reduction of
freight and passenger rates is, how
ever, a natural sequence to the
growth of the country. Duirng the
past year this decrease was less noticeable
than formerly, for tho reason that rates are
now so low in the average as to admit of
but very little further decrease.
The earnings of the year, when compared
on a mileage basis with the average of
1885, show large increases, but yet fall
very much short of the average of 1884 and
188.2. This may be accounted for in some
measure by the fact that a large extent of
the mileage constructed in recent years has
been through long stretches of compara
tively undeveloped country, and again by
tlie fact of the construction of duplicate
parallel lines.
Tho exhibit of earnings is made still more
gratifying by the reduction in the cost of
operating the roads, the total cost in 1880
being 03.84 per cent, of gross earnings,
against 05.12 jx'reent. in 1885: the reduction
being due chiefly to improved methods anil
the introduction of necessary economies.
Parliamentary Salaries.
From the Paris Morning Mews.
Some curious statistics have just been
published concerning the salaries given to
members of Parliament in various nations.
To begin with France, the senators and depu
ties receive t he same remuneration—namely
£1 aday. In Belgium each member of the
Chamber of Representatives gets £l7 a
month. In Denmark the members of the
Landsthing are paid about 15s. a day In
Portugal the peore and commons are given
the same sum, which is £O7 a year. In Swe
den the members of the Diet receive £OO for
a session of four months, but they have to
refund a tine of 12s. for everyday's absence.
In Switzerland the members of the National
Council get 10s. per diem, and thoso of the
Council of State from os. to Ills.
In Norway the members of the Storthing
receive fourteen shillings a day during the
session, which lasts about, six weeks. In
Italy the Senators and Deputies are not
paid, but they are allowed traveling expen
ses and certain privileges. In Spain the
members of the Cortes are also unpaid, but
enjoy many advantages and immunities.
In Greece the Senators get £2O a mouth and
Deputies £lO. In Germany the Representa
tives receive an average of 10s. a day. In
Austria the i>ay is the same as in France, £1
a dH.y. England is the only country where
members of Parliament are not only unpaid,
but have no right to privileges.
One Effect of tho Long Dry Spoil.
EVow the Gcneseo (III.) Mews.
On Wednesday night of last week a most
remarkable celestial disturbance took place
in that part of the celestial empire over
arching Geueseo. In the flrst place there
were fitful flashes, as of a prairie-Are with
the hlindstaggers, accompanied with a
rumbling sound, somewhat resembling tho
violent rolling of a hogshead of turnips over
a backyard lull of sheet-iron. Along about
midnight water began to fall from a lot of
smoke, evidently made by the prairie-fire
with the hlindstaggers. This water was
seen by numbers of our most resi>oetahle
people, who happened to lie dixlging the
jiolioe through our most public midnight
thoroughfares. The water wus in drop*
alxntt the size of Boston baked Ixvms. There
is no doubt, alxiut it coming from above,
Homo of our oldest inhabitants assert that
they can recall phenomena of this kind as
happening in their early childhood. They
say It was known in those early times as
“rain. 1 ’ Webster'sdictionary descrilies rain
as “moisture tailing from the clouds in
drops.” The smoky appearance overhead
then must have been clouds. But the noise
und the flashes are still a mystery.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1887.
jsniMKR-’niIKSI’LKXDOK.
BE AUTY AND GRACE PROMINENT
LY TO THE FRONT.
The Exodus of the Sombre in Dress—
The New Dispensation of the Corset
—The Corselette Health and Free
dom Versus the Ancient Straight
Jacket “How They do it in France”
—Clothing as an Exponent of Civili
zation Development of Personal
Purity lts Especial Expression in
Underwear—“ Bright Birds With Un
plumed Wings”—Startling Summer
Styles -Reception Costumes—Some
Recent Examples Sensible Costumes
for Early Autumn—New Materials—
Plain Stuffs—Plaid Wools—Elastic
Cloths.
New Yoiik, Sept. 2.—This has been a sea
son of infinite variety and exceeding charm,
as far as the dressing of women is concerned.
Whatever skill and taste have developed of
softness and delicacy, of color and design,
seem to have been pressed into service for
the adorning of the young aud lieautiful—
and those that are neither—in country
Louses and seaside or mountain resorts.
The unusual heat of the midsummer
brought out all the resources in the way of
cottons and muslins, linens and foulards;
and made our fashionable resorts more
“English” than over before by the display
of cotton gowns upon the promenades, and
straw hats with muslin or ribbon and flower
trimming.
The infusion of bright and delicate color
into summer street dress, has done much to
break up the neutral monotony which for
merly held us in a strong grasp, while the
absence of wraps from summer costumes,
and the happy touches whiqh tlio introduc
tion of the “vest” has suggested, permit the
full display of all the lightness, grace anil
finish of modern artistic dress. There is
nothing now thnt is convenient, nothing
that is pretty aqd becoming that a woman
cannot wear. No one need lie bound by
any limits or any authority but those of her
own judgment, taste and length of purse.
Daily, some idea, custom or tradition,
which seemed deep-rooted, is overruled, or
some development takes place which solves
a problem.
it is not more than a year since it was dif
ficult to get a fashionable dressmaker to
consider the possibilities of a full sleeve, or
since one lady rcinurke 1 that she, at least,
would never lie brought to wear them; yet
she is sailing about to-day in voluminous
“leg-of-mutton" in delicate batiste, with
white, embroidered cuffs, and really be
lieves that she has always admired them.
The vexed question of the corset is being
settled in a very satisfactory way; not by
getting rid of it, but by varying and adapt
ing it to different needs and temperatures.
For the first time, it is possible to have the
waist sustained without compression and
with entire absence of any sense of re
straint.
The corselette, or little “rest” corset,
sometimes called the “breakfast” corset, is
only adapted to slender figures and to in
formal styles of dress; but it is an untold
comfort for warm weather and for house
wear, either in winter or summer. Our
corset makers are also lieginning to exercise
more qpre and discrimination in the selec
tion of material and their use. Women are,
themselves, responsible for the immense
number of brutal corsets pur upon the mar
ket and baited to catch the unwary, for
they choose them ready made at the shops,
as they do hosiery, and rarely buy two of
the same manufacture.
French women manage this much better.
They possess nothing of the grace, delicacy,
lightness and natural beauty of form which
characterizes the average American, but
thev develop and preserve more symmetry
and better health, largely bv strict atten
tion to the accurate form and excellence of
the corset from the time the girl begins to
wear one. A French mother would not
dream of buying a corset ready-made for
iter young daughter, or a straight, corded,
(inflexible waist. She takes the girl to a
eorsetiere and has her measured. Her
figure is not compressed, it is directed.
I .tings, heart, muscles, are allowed full play.
Her corset is an aid to her development,
not a hindrance. The girl grows up realiz
ing the. necessity for pliancy and elegance
anil accuracy iu her corset, if she is to secure
elegance and distinction of dress and ap
poarance. But you never seo a spider waist
emphasized by an exaggerated tournure
upon a French woman.
There are now many kinds of thin and
flexible corsets and corset waists which have
more or less claim to attention; but they
ought never to be taken at random. A cor
selette, or breakfast waist, does not need
fitting; but a regular corsett for dress pur
poses, or over which street dresses anil cos
tumes are to be worn, should be made and
fitted like a dress bodice from actual meas
urements by a skilled maker, of a material
fine and firm, yet yielding and soft to the
touch.
SUMMER DAINTINESS.
August has been a delightful month in
which to display toilettes which show
brighter contrasts and greater delicacy of
tint than are usually seen upon eity streets.
The rains and heat of July gave place to a
clearness and coolness of atmosphere, which
carried no touch of chilliness and demanded
no warmth of clothing; but only brought
out whatever of beauty it possessed, and
made it more pleasurable. We probably
require n little experience of the primitive
man and woman: their darkness, their
coarseness, their savagery, their ignorance
of cleanliness and utter absence of beauty
to realize in nny adequate manner the dis
tance which lies between barbarism aud civ
ilization, and how important an adjunct and
corollary clothes are of civilization.
If we can once realize this, we shall
know that “reforms" can never carry the
cultivated man and woman backward, that
the tendency is to greater refinement, a
wider adaptation, more specialized function
and fitness for function; hut no reduction of
essential forms or objects that go to make
up that wonderful prixluct of the nineteenth
century —a well-hml and thoroughly
equipped man or woman.
Every day we are becoming cleaner.
Every day it is liecoming more possible to
live in an atmosphere of purity and dainti
ness, which even a few years ago would
have been deemed Utopian; and every day
marks a general advance towards the ex
quisite fineness and delicacy which is even
now recognized as the hall mark of high
breeding.
This refinement expresses itself, particu
larly in the care expended upon underwear,
in its texture, perfection of form, lieauty of
workmanship, avoidance of the unevenness
even of seams, the wrought edges with
worked eyelets for narrow, pale pink, ca
nary or cream, colored ribbons and ruffled
edges of real Valenciennes. Underskirts of
cream, sapphire blue or pale pink surah are
nut together with embroidery silk and em
broidery stitches, and bordered with lovely
lace; though no eye ever sees it save the
wearer's.
White, in the soft tints known to modem
manufacture, and which have quite re
placed the old, dead, chalk-white surfaces,
is now callable of the most diversified as well
as the ilaintiest effects; and forms in differ
ent materials and fabrics the entire ward
rolx> of some fastidious young Indies, so far
as gowns are concerned.
Rooms are upholstered in white and
white and gold; the feet sinking into white
velvet, tho walls covered with folds of soft
fluted silk, the furniture enamelled in white
and gold like panels.
All this is not exactly suited to daily
working wear, according to the popular
idea of it, Ixicause we are accustomed to
associate dirt and coarseness with work.
But it is liecoming daily morn possible to
carry the elements of refinement and lieauty
with us everywhere. Machinery is doing
the dirty work, the hard, grimy work, the
digging and the delving, the spinning and
the weaving, even the making aud the
mending. We could, most of us, be much
finer, more delicate than we are, if we were
accustomed to it and not so habituated to
thinking that a certain homeliness and even
coarseness, possibly neglect, is quite excus
able. even inseparable, from common life.
But we are gradually getting rid of this
idea: aud the )>assing away of the sack
cloth and ashes; the recognition and acqui
sition of beauty and gentleness, grace and
sweetness as part of our common inheri
tance, as elements of life and liberty anfl
happiness which can be had for the cultiva
tion. will create a rapid transformation and
make general that which is now rare and
exceptional.
LATE SUMMER STYLES
Are often quite startling as they appear on
city streets. Coining in from the country
or from gay watering places, ladies, and
especially young ladies, will “take a look”
at the old fanAibar places, in attire, that a
few weeks later, when they have been
brought down again to the conventional
standard, would seem astonishing, if worn
by others.
One of these costumes was of rose-colored
ratine, the trimming, open Irish point. The
sleeves were puffed ana the high hat was of
rose colored tulle, ornamented with white
chrysanthemums. Another striking dress
was all white, a mixture of silk and wool,
w ith stripes, bands and braces, the latter
crossed upon the back of petunia-colored rib
bon, brocaded in a flower pattern upon the
ground color. The hat was drawn white
net, trimmed with petunia ribbon.
Borne really good combinations have ap
peared in pongee with striped silk and silk
canvas, also in pongee and velvet. The
great difficulty in using pongee is the char
acterless surface and generally unbecoming
color. It is, however, cool, durable and
clean; and is made effective and becoming
by finely plaited edge, pointed chemisette
and striped panel of brown velvet or green
and red striped silk, with waist folds or side
sash to match. One of these, edged with
stripe, was accompanied by a sailor hat
with band to match, and had filled sleeves
with deep cuff of the stripe.
Very pretty and novel looking dresses are
of fawn-colored alpaca, with pointed vest
set inside crossed folds of the alpaca and
rolled collar of velvet matching, or in a.
darker shade of the color. The trimming is
a line of twisted gold cord, which also edges
the velvet stripes and alternating with close
aceordeon plaiting assists in forming the
panel. On the opposite side is a panel, com
pos and entirely of aceordeon plaitings, the
back hanging full and straight over a very
moderate tournure.
Another charming dress of alpaca—or
rather, fine mohair —was entirely original.
It was composed entirely of fine aceordeon
plaits and plaited ruffles, without drapery,
except a little pouf at tho back. The skirt,
bodice and sleeves were all of the aceordeon
plaiting, edged with two-knifed plaited
ruffles round the bottom of the skirt and
graduated single one rouud the edge of the
basque and neck, the last set flat from the
lower edge of the collar. A wide belt of
satin ribbon, with long ends, was tied at the
left si >.
Among the beautiful dresses worn by
ladies of the auxiliary committee, at the
reception given to the American Associa
tion of Scientists at the Metropolitan Onera
House, was one of white faille, embroid
ered with roses and foliage, in bands and
upon the front; the garniture, lovely
Mechlin lace. Another was of fawn col
ored satin francaise, trimmed with real
duchesse lace, embroidered with gold thread
and showing a full vest of real gold em
broidered, Indian gauze. This dress was
made with a train and full front, but no
overskirt. A black, chantiliy lace dress
over heliotrope satin, was covered with
finest, lightest jet; the side of the skirt and
plastron enriched with an embroidery of
shaded pansies.
A lovely white dress, worn by a success
ful young Columbia student, soon to be
married to a Fellow of the coliege, was of
white silk, embroidered guaze, over white
surah; and another was of tulle, covered
with pendant drops of white jet over white
satin merveilleux; a thick, soft ruche of the
two materials, with the jets set in the folds
encircling the edges of the skirt and the
heart shaped bodice.
PROBABILITIES OF EARLY AUTUMN.
All the signs of early autumn styles
promise well for a choice of sensible and be
coming modes. The country is generally so
prosperous, its wealth so constantly on the
increase, that magnificence in the way of
toilette will not decrease. But there is
nothing to indicate that this will be massed
by exaggerated, grotesque or merely fan
tastic design.
The tournure has positively decreased in
size and will certainly be moderate. The
high hats have at last come do wit and may
possibly go to the other extreme, but at
present the tendency is toward the Quatre
Urns, the tri-cornered brim of the Empire
and Boulanger—a deep, trimmed hat, turned
up in an angle at the left and finished with
an aigrette. But there will be plenty of
choice, from the Duchess of Devonshire
beaver to the close, indented, gray belt;
and from the little evening bonnets of tulle,
flowered, 1 leaded or embroidered, to the
still small but full and becoming chapeau
of velvet and feathers.
The only hat that will look outre and old
style will be the very high ones.
The ladies are prepared with new hats for
the early autnmn; but fortunately the signs
have lieen sufficient, during the past sum
mer, of the early demise of the steeple
crowned hat, to induce the wary to lie pre
pared; and with most of them, and espe
cially in the finer kind of dark straw and
black chip bonnets, it will be simply to re
move the ladder of bows or the mounted
movtare and replace it witfi crosscut band
of silk or velvet and add a wing to make a
complete transformation.
The best trimming, however, upon dark
or black straw, is velvet, artistically pinned
on with small gold headed pins and without
the addition of feathers or flowers, lace or
ribbon.
NEW MATERIALS
for autumn wear are very nearly perfect;
and they are very reasonable in price. Tho
all wools aro in small, visible and invisible
checks: stripes which form more lines of
color, diagonal cloths, knotted checks and
heather mixtures. Very pretty and new
checks are liarred with lines of the same
color, sewed over and over, still in the color,
in an embroidery stitch. Htill others, have
for example, w hite wool grounds dashed
with yellow wool and closely barred with
double, in anil out threads and knotted
stitches of orange and dark brown wool.
These flecks of color are charmingly blended.
The soft, India camels' hair cloths, in
solid shades of Lombard plum, granite, sea
brown, myrtle green and dark beaver shades
are as attractive as ever and greatly lowered
m price. They cun be bought now in the
forty-eight and fifty-four inch widths at
87Me and *1 jier yard, where they formerly
cost *1 50 or *2 per yard for the same qual -
ity.
The plain cloths for suits, are in the usual
dark colorings, and range in price from 50c.
to #1 per yard. They look best mounted
and trimmed with velvet, and are good
wear for those who need warmth and ser
vice.
l’laid goods have had anew lease of life
granted them by the revival of the clan pat
terns and the beauty of the colorings.
H<sitch plaids are always durable nml clean
wear in all wool materials; but the larger
plaids do not look well for complete dresses;
thev arc licst made into skirts and worn
with solid plush or velvet basques or with
braided Jersey waists.
It, is possible now to buy whole suits of
elastic cloth, the Imdioe ready to wear, the
material for skirt ready to make for front
#l2 to *2O. In fact, all that is asked for in
the way of “reform" dress, may be pro
cured at' almost any fashionable, furnishing
house, viz:—under clothing complete and in
layers, suspended skirts and an elastic
dress.
The jacket cloths, no longer called jacket
but corset coat, are varied from the
smooth finished brown and biscuit cloths to
the light tufted, which were much used last
season, and the rather rough but pretty
mixtures, tho colors of which wore woven
in like those of a three-ply carpet, one de
sign often containing several shades of
brown, blue or green with lleeks of rod and
white, while others are in shades of dark
blue or brown with orange and white, but
the general tone is neutral.
FEATURES OF FALL COSTUMES.
The desiirn as indicated by advance im
portations ~and orders received by leading
houses are very sensible and practical. Di a
perifes are long, but are confined to the front
or sides of the skirt, the back is laid in triple
box plaits and hangs straight over a mode
rate toumure. Some skirt3 are simply made
full over a lining which is edged with a silk
or velvet plaiting. The drapery is effected
by an irregular lifting of the skirt in one or
two places and its fastening with ribbon, or
cord, or button.
Fine knife and accordeon.plaiting is hav
ing a great vogue in Paris; and sleeves,
panels, deep flouncing**, vests, capes, fronts
and sides of <viat costumes and whole dresses
are made of the two combined, the folds
made as fine as possible. Sleeves are longer
for street dresses: and the full sleeves are, of
course, less prevalent in woolen materials
than in cotton and soft silk. Hut many are
laid in straight or diagonal folds and there
is little disposition to return to the straight
coat sleeve
Bodices are somewhat longer, and aro
trimmed with crossed folds and pointdressed
fronts, or if the; bodice is double-breasted
the folds may be carried in a diagonal line
from the right shoulder to the left of the
basque skirt; its odge next the throat cut in
three straps, and in two ipwer down, near
the line or the waist. The straps repeated
upon the cuffs, also upon the habit back of
the basque, and the whole finished with
small silver or silk buttons.
COMPETITIVE DRESS.
The announcement is made from Brus
sels, in connection with the International
Exposition to be held there next year, that
prizes will be offered for superiority in a
dress of silk, trimmed with passementerie,
not to cost more than 75 francs (?19(. Also
’for a cloak of wool, not to cast more than
25 francs (?5) and for a woolen costume,
combining warmth with light weight.
Prizes are also offered for the best speci•
mens of imitation lace, an extraordinary
acknowledgement of their beauty and value
from Brussels, the home of the finest hand
made lace and which heretofore has not
acknowledged in the recent Antwerp or any
other national exhibition, the existence of
machine made laces.
A prize in which many will be interested,
is one for fixing the colors of aniline dyes.
These dyes are now used largely for artificial
flowers, but their value, due to softness,
variety and availability, is greatly deterio
rated by their shifting and evanescent
character. Jenny June.
A FAVORED COMMUNITY.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Black’s Way of Present
ing a Political Argument.
From the Philadelphia Record.
When Ex-Lieut. Gov. Chauncey F. Black
was asked by a reporter in Pittsburg, the
other day, for an interview, ho picked up a
manuscript of a few pages, with the re
mark: “I have been thinking of Pittsburg
and her industries, and one idea, somehow,
stays with me. It is expressed in this little
story, which I will turn oyer to you, instead
of the interview you imagined you wanted.”
Here is the story:
There was once a community seated upon
a beautiful spot, and at the confluence of
two rivers, which formed a third, leading
away to the sea, through a wide expanse of
rich and populous territory. The people of
this community were, in the main, cunning
artisans, especially in iron and steel, and
contributing, as they did in this way, to the
wealth and power of their country, the peo
ple of the other parts very cheerfully laid a
tax upon all products like those of ships
from abroad, and they thus paid very high
prices for those things in order to have
them made in their own land. In course of
time the industrious people of this com
munity, having so line a market all to them
selves. became very rich and powerful, and
their voice made the laws and magistrate
of the country Then it began to be said
that now they ought to stand alone; that
they had enjoyed this aid a long while: that
thev were at length both expert and .rich,
and should consent to let their countrymen
buy their goods from those who sold them
cheapest. Just then Providence, ever guard
ing this favored community —in other
words, helping those who helped themselves
—caused the discovery of a mighty natural
force which enabled them to make all their
wares with greater rapidity and less labor
than ever before. It came to them in un
limited quantities, poured out right at their
hands, from the bountiful stores of nature.
And now the deft workers laughed at the
thought of competition. Heretofore they
had asked only that they might have the
exclusive possession of their country’s mar
ket ; but as the new force was variously de
veloped and applied they began to see that
they could supply all the inhabitants of the
world with their products, and were balked
only by those ancient laws which hindered
the coming of the ships and merchants of
distant nations. Most of all they desired
now a world-wide commerce, giving them
cheaper clothes, food and supplies of every
description, and forthwith they raised their
potential voice again, and changed the old
laws and the old magistrates, to suit their
altered circumstances.
This is only a fable, of course. Nobody
would see in that, community of artisans
any resemblance to Pittsburg, though that
strange natural force, found in the nick of
time, looks very much like natural The
voters of Western Pennsylvania and Bust
era Ohio have hitherto held those mighty
commonwealths to the fortunes of one po
litical party. Should they at any time see
that their interests have changed and their
votes change with them, who can measure
the political consequences? The whole
destinies of the United States and the in
dustries and commerce of the whole globe
would be tremendously affected by such an
event.
Celebrating His Release.
Sanford Dolphus is a stout, copper-colored
negro, who walked out of the chain-gang
Wednesday, where he had been for forty
days. When he reached his homo, on Col
lins street, Atlanta, Ua., his wife was away,
and Dolphus lingered around. About 11
o'clock the woman came up, hanging upon
the arm of a man. Dolphus sprang out,
asking:
“Wnar’s you bin?”
“To de church, ob course, Mr. Dolphus.
Whar do ’spect? But Pse glad to see you.
When did you git back?”
“Who’s dai wid you?”
“Dat’s Brudder Jones, de deacon, of
course.”
“D— Brudder Jones, de deacon,” said
Dolphus, springing at his wife’s escort.
The deacon was a right peart man him
self, and in a second the two negroes were
rolling, screeching, yelling, lighting and
scratching all over the street The deacon
thum|Ksl the husband over the head, making
an ugly and bloody wound, just as Capt.
Couch camo up and made an arrest.
Saving the Lawyers.
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the
lawyers.” This is rather a bloodthirsty
proposition which we modify by offering to
cure this worthy class of people. Most of
them suffer (in common with nearly all
others of sedentary hubits) from the injuri
ous effects of dyspepsia, indigestion, piles,
loss of np]x>tito and other ailments caused
by a constipated habit of the body. Dr.
Pierce’s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets’'* eradi
cate all these disorders in promptly remov
ing the cause thereof, and induce a rare
degree of comfort and health,
Advice to Motuers.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Khould
always be used when children are cutting
teeth. It relieves the little suffer at once; it
produces natural, quiet sleep by relieving
the child from porn and the little cherub
awakes as “bright as u button.”
It is very pleasant to taste. It soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays all pain, re
lieves wind, regulates the bowel*, and is the
best known remedy for diarrheas, whether
arising from teething or other causes. 26
orate a bottle.
FURNITURE, CARPETS, MATTING, ETC.
lindsay & Morgan;
THE
Mm ail Cam Enjoin
OF SAVANNAH,
169 AND 171 BROUGHTON STREET.
If an excuse be deemed necessary for thus bringing om
nnme and business before the public, we hope the following
will be deemed sufficient, and do something toward accom
plishing our object.
We have been in the business above indicated all our
days, beginning in a very small way, and, thanks to our
many friends, we haven't been unsuccessful, although we
have had to work hard and pay the closest attention.
We are going to continue, whether business be dull or
lively', profits great or small, or competition ewn greater
than ever before, relying upon the continued success,
through the strict adherence to the following rules, which
have heretofore characterized us:
Ist. To keep good work, rather than cheap, and sell it
at a living profit.
2nd. To deal honorably with all and be just, even at
the expense ofliberality.
3d. To refrain from misrepresentations of every kind,
or the underrating of competitors’ goods
4th. To keep pace with the times in styles and quality.
sth. To realize that being human, we are liable to
make mistakes, which should be promptly corrected.
6th. To see that all our salesmen are courteous to our
customers and true to us.
7th. To mind our own business.
Bth. To try and merit the good will of those who pat
ronize us, and be grateful for the same.
September Ist, 1887.
Furniture! Furniture!
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,
CARPETS, MATTING,
STOVES, CROCKERY, TINWARE
AND ALL KINDS OF HOUSEHOLD FURNISH
ING GOODS
Sold on the easiest terms ol any installment house Ssi the South.
A. T
TEEPLE & CO.’S
FURNITURE AND INSTALLMENT HOUSE,
193 and 195 Street.
FISH, OYSTERS, ETC.
George A. Hudson,
171 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
Branch at Cedar Keys, Florida.
WHOLESALE DEALER IJM
OYSTERS, SHAD,
Fresh and Salt Water Fish, Shrimp, Turtle, Terrapin,
And Game of all Kinds in Season.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO PACKING
Fish, Oysters, Game, Etc., for Shipment
FROM MY FISHERIES AT CEDAR KEYS, FLA., OR FROM SAVANNAH.
Orders for direct shipments of fish from Cedar Keys, Fla., should be addressed to GEO.
A. HUDSON, Cedar Keys, Fla.
All orders will meet with prompt attention and filled at the very lowest market price.
Direct orders to
GEO. A. HUDSON,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS.
AT OHR BR O ©.,
WHOLESALE
Dry Goods and Notions.
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Agents for the Original Georgia School Boy Jeans, Concord
Doeskin and Merinos, Augusta and Georgia Checks, Augusta
Factory Sheetings and Shirtings, the New Georgia Grangers and
Seamless Socks. Complete assortments In every department
We meet competition and invite inspection from buyers.
MOHR BROS.,
159 Congress Street, - Savannah, Gsw
New Vork Office, 336 Broadaay.