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4 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. • 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.