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CHAT.
Politics at Fever Heat- The Police
Force—Negroes Prospering.
Charleston, Oct. I.—lt had been hojied
that the municipal campaign would be post
poned at least until after the gala week, but
the politicians and office-seeker* are becom
ing impatient—too impatient to wait that
long, and the city is now plunged into the
fight, nolens eolens. The political gather
ings which have taken place heretofore have
been simply trifling skirmishes, in which
only cranks and soreheads have taken part;
thev amounted to nothing. The new move,
however, the establishment of the Young
Men’s Democratic Club, is something more
than this. It has precipitated matters
and political slates and pencils are in ;ls
great demand as are the books and slates of
the young people who will resume
their lessons on Monday next. The
preliminary steps taken toward
the organization of the Young Men's
Democratic Club lave already lieen printed,
but there is something to be read between
the lines of the published principles of any
political organization. The new move may
be viewed in a good many as|eet. First of
all, it is clearly understood that it will oper
ate strictly within the lines of the regularly
organized Democratic party —there is no
taint of independentism about it, for the
slightest, taint of this would cause it to
crumble to pieces. It has now about, 1,000
names on its roll, a powerful lever if well
managed, and fully capable, if united, to
mold the primary organization of the Dem
ocratic party.
Some of its founders hope to make the
organization a permanent, one and to add so
cial to its political features. But this is to be
considered hereafter. It is intimated that
some of its promoters want office, and this
is probably true, but this need not impair
the value of the organization, especially as
the reported office-seekers are in every way
qualified for the places they seek,
and would be creditable candidates under
any circumstances, if the association will
interest the young Democrats in politics
and bring them out to the primary ward
meetings it will effect a good purpose; it
will insure cleaner conventions, and will,
protanto, professional politicians
who usually run these institutions.
in the meantime the race for the mayor
alty gets more and more interesting. I luring
the week there have been rumors that an
effort would be made to induce Mayor
Courtenay to accept a third term, but as
h.as been stated in this correspondence, the
Mayor has definitely and positively decided
to lie out of the race. Since Sunday last a
new candidate has appeared in the person
of Mr. W. E. Holmes, an East Bay mer
chant, and pretty strong in jiolitics. His
entrance, however, does not effect the status
of the race. No candidate has yet been
named who c - beat Capt. George Bryan,
either in a I) - . ratio convention or
in an election before the people. The buttle
has opened, however, and from now until
December the good jx-oplo of this city will
have no rest. It is perhaps as well that
they should have something to occupy their
attention.
THE POLICE FORCE.
There seems to be no abatement in the
epidemic of burglaries that prevails here.
The police force lias been recruited up to
its limit —eighty men—but this does not
give the desired relief. Many of the men
are old and totally unlit for street duty. A
night or two ago one of these veterans
arrested a burly negro on Beaulain street
and was endeavoring to coax his prisoner to
accompany him to the station house The
prisoner looked at his aged ami tottering
captor a moment or two and then, grabbing
him around the waist, lifted him up, threw
hint in the middle of the street, and hefore
the discomfitted cop could catch his
breath had disappeared. A year or
two ago an ordinance was passed
restricting the age of policemen to
men under 50 years old. Of course the law
was not intended to be retroactive, but the
Commissioners took a census of the force
and it was found that there was not a
man on it over -t‘.< years of age. One of the
policemen died yesterday, who had been
on the force for 20 years. At the time of
his death he could not have been under 05
years of age. He was recorded on the rolls
k years ago as 40 years old. The fact is
that the force is too small for the territory
It has to cover and hence the epidemic of
burglaries o •, also, hence the mysterious
murders.
The new steamship line has not only failed
to materialize, but lias almost, passed out
of the public mind and it is doubtful if it
will ever be heard of again. Cotton is
coming in very freely The receipts for
the month of September were nearly 90,-
000 bales against 40,000 bales during Sep
tember 1880, but there is always a fleet of
ocean tramps in port and these with the
Clyde steamships manage to keep the stock
down pretty well.
PROSPERITY OF THE NEGROES.
The .Veits and Courier publishes an in
terview with a real estate agent showing
how the negroes of the city are rapidly be
coming real estate owners, buying lots and
building their own houses. This, of course,
is explained by the fact that the average
colored working man, who is at all thrifty
and sober, can easily save money, because
his wants and household expenses are com
paratively trifling. An instance cited by
the agent, who, by the way, is a very long
headed agent, will illustrate the idea He
says:
“A colored laborer can live and support
his family on very' little. I don’t know how
they do it, but they do. You would be sur
priscsl to know how little a family of six
colored people can get on with. Suppose the
people are sober, reasonably honest and
tolerable industrious. There is the husband,
the wife and four children. The husband
gets say #3O a month, the wife gets #lO a
month and found, to cook. She carries
homo from her place every day enough
•ifrtuiUs to feed the entire family. Mind, I
ttun't charge her with dishonesty. There
are always enough pickings left for a $lO a
month cook to feed a family of six on.
Don’t you see how they can save money. ’’
All of which is true.
It is also true that the poorer classes of
whites arc not making the progress in this
direction that their colored brethren are
making, and the reason is equally clear. In
the first place there are few laboring white
men in Charleston (by laborers 1 mean men
who live on salarii s or wages) who get more
than barely enough wages to support them
selves and their families. The exjienses arc.
of course, greater than those of the colored
people and they have no means of accumu
lating a fund to purchase a homestead. The
Building and Loan Association, of which
there are a dozen or more here, do not meet
their cases, because they have to have a fund
to buy a lot beforo they can become 1 sir
rowers in those institutions, and even those
who accumulate such a fund.often have their
houses sold over their beads, Itecause of their
inability to meet the payments. A duzen
wealthy men in Charleston have it in their
power to change all this but they don't do it.
There are hundreds of waste places in
Charleston that could lie bought at nominal
prices. If an association of this kind was
organised to buy these lots, build comforta
ble houses and sell them to poor people on
the monthly installment plan, and at such
installments as would enable a man to buy
u house by paying a few dollars more than
the rent of the house, the white laboring
classes of the city would toon, like their
colored brethren, become real estate owners.
But the rich men of Charleston, or most of
them, have no idea of investing their money
in this way, and thut is how the colored men
of Charleston are getting ahead of their
white brethren. The millionaires of Char.es
ton prefer bank stocks that pay 8 and 10 jier
cent and government bond's. ' It' is indeed
strange that Charleston has pros|iered as
well as it has under tlicse circumstances.
A oenti.kmsn in London thoughtlessly omitted
to remove his cork legs before bathing. The
laws of nature are seldom suspended in behalf
of individuals, and they were not in this case,
the gentleman was suspended inM ml. In the
sater the legs at once assumed a superior pod
lion, ami maintained the upper haul of tne
Gentleman, so to speak, in spite of bis most vlo
k lent struggles. He would have been drowned
■had it not been for timely assistance.
SOME MARTIAL FINANCIERS.
The Figure the Militarj T Element Cute
in Wall Staeet.
New York. Oct. I.—lt is not without
interest to consider the military element in
Wall street. Soldiers as a rule seem to
make good financiers. It is not necessary
to enter into theories touching the reasons
for the financial success of those who have
commanded in the field; it will be sufficient
to recognize the fact. The misfortunes of
Gen. Grant in financial enterprises merely
form one of the exceptions which seem to
prove the rule. The First Napoleon, t is
well known, was a business man of the
highest order. He could turn from brilliant
strategj' to the question of shoes for his sol
diers or a hundred other details, really of a
business nature, including the awarding of
contracts ami the delivery of sup
plies. And the only uubusineas like
circumstance in this connection recorded of
him was the hanging, by his order, of
several contractors for not delivering goods
on time, j'et it, is worthy of note that this
Napoleonic innovation led to more busi
ness-like promptness on the part of other
contractors in keeping their engagements
with him. Napoleon would have won a
fortune simply as a business man. Wel
lington was also a business man of the first
order. Military discipline seems similar in
many respects to the discipline necessary to
commercial achievements that lead on to
fortune. And this seems true not merely of
the great commanders whose names will
shine bright in history till the present civili
zation shall go down in the darkness that
enshrouds the equally proud civilizations of
antiquity, but or the martial figures of lesser
note whose names are unknown to the mul
titude, though they may lie known to the
military student,
Gen. Samuel Thomas, President of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road,
with headquarters at New York, is a finan
cier of ability. Years ago he was an Ohio
lawyer. He liecaine identified with rail
roads and is now a millionaire. One of his
grand coups was the selling of the Nickel
T'latc road -the New York, Chicago and St.
I/mis —to the late William H. Vanderbilt.
The road was said to lie something nearly
like a “strike,” and (Jen. Thomas jocularly
described himself and his associates in the
enterprise as n gang of burglars at work on
Mr. Vanderbilt’s safe. After tile sale
of the road his friends presented him
with a scarf-pin ornamented with a jeweled
picture of a cracksman plundering a safe,
lie keeps it as u souvenir but does not wear
it. Gen. Thomas is personally popular,
quiet and unpretending, and is likely to be
come even more prominent with the sternly
development of the South.
Gen. Horace Porter is another military
figure in Wall street. He is now Vice Presi
dent of the Pullman Palace Car Company,
and was at one time President of the West
Shore railroad, and Vice President of the
Metropolitan Elevated road. He has not
lieen uniformly successful in iiis financial
enterprises, but he has the faculty of land
ing on his feet. He is a graduate of West
Point, took part in many important battles
during the war, was on Gen. Grant’s staff,
and when the conqueror of Lee became
President he became his private secretary.
Gen. Porter looks like a soldier. He wears
a moustache and imperial, and lias quiet,
courteous and dignified manners. He has a
keen sense of humor, and ranks with Chaun
eey M. Depew among the notable after-din
ner speakers of New York.
Taking the next military man I happen
to meet there is Emile Kchalk, of the Con
solidated Exchange. He was on Gen. Mc-
Clellan’s staff in the civil war and published
five books, one entitled “The Art of War,”
written espeeiallj' for the volunteer service,
and another, “The Campaign of 1862-3,”
which made him widely known as as a mil
itary author. He is a German, from Mentz,
on the Rhine, and was educated as a civil
engineer at the Ecoie (’entrale, of Paris.
He has organized several exchanges and has
made a fortune in petroleum.
John H. Inman, the cotton and railroad
millionaire, was a soldier in the Confeder
ate army, but has a West. Point stride as he
goes through Wall street. He is a natural
soldier although he never held atij 7 rank.
Gen. Thomas M. Logan, who is so promi
nent in the railroad world, is often seen in
Wall street. He is a Charlestonian, 45
years of age, was a Brigadier General in
the Confederate army at 22, practiced law
in Richmond after the war, drifted into
railroad enterprises, and is now wealthy.
He is President of the Virginia Midland
road and Vice President of several roads in
the Richmond and Danville system. He is
a graduate of the University of South Caro
lina, and is at once a gentleman and a finan
cier, two terms not necessarily synony
mous.
A handsome man slightly under the me
dium height, with bushy side whiskers anil
keen and rather sinister gray eyes, is one of
the familiar figures of Wall street. 1 see
him coming out of the Stock Exchange, or
entering the office of Drexel, Morgan iV Cos.,
or going into the Mills Building, possibly
to consult with Henry Y'iliard about rail
road elections in the Northwest. It is Bray
ton Ives. Few, even in Wall street, know
that he has a military career. They only
remember that Elijali Smith has checkma
ted him in some railroad schemes in the far
Northwest, that he has, nevertheless, met
with a considerable degree of success in
Wall street, and is wealthy. He was
recently re-elected a director in
the Northern Pacific railroad. He
entered the Union army as an Adjutant
when only ‘JO years of age, became a Cap
tain of a Major, and at J 2 or Jd
isimmandcd a cavalry regiment under (ten.
Sheridan, attaining the full rank of Colonel
at J 4, and ultimately becoming a Brevet
Brigadier General on the recoinmondation
of the hero of Winchester. Gen. Ives served
all through the war and was mustered out
in 1804. He came from Connecticut, the
laud of wooden oats, hams and nutmegs,
and is a graduate of Yale. I refer to him
partly t<s:ause of his successful financial
career and |irtly because he possesses an ex
(•optionally fine library of 5,000 or 0,000 vol
umes. It includes the Gnttenlierg Bible,
the first printed book which goes back to
about 1455; the fourth book with a date,
14IS0, a Latin lexicon; the Cicero de Oflieiis,
bearing date of 1400; the first arithme
tic ever printed, the first Euclid,
Iliad, Odyssey. Virgil. St, Augustine, Caesar
and Plutarch, the Pembroke Missal
or manuscript book of prayers on vellum
made aixnit 1440 for the first Earl of Pem
broke, and for which it is said he has re
fused SIO,OOO, not to mention other rare
works. Gen. Ives makes a specialty of the
earliest volumes printed in the fifteenth cen
tury, and of books relating to the early his
tory of this country. He was associated
with Gen. Grant and the famous William
K. Travers, ns a director in one of the big
banks of tins city, reads Ixitin, Greek and
French, and is a member of the leading
clubs of New York.
There arc others equally worthy of note
who have had a military career, and have
also made their mark in the monetary
world, and the foregoing names are merely
taken at random. They seem to give color
to the theory that the military life, so far
from unfitting a man for business, is
really to a greater or less extent an advan
tage. Oscar Willoughby Higgs.
GARRISON'S PERIL.
The Death of Luke Brown Recalls a
Dramatic Episodi In Boston.
A letter from Bridgton, Me., to the
Boston Journal says: The recent death of
my townsman, Hun. Luke Brown, of North
Bridgton, recalls a thrilling, and in its re
sults a most important, incident of slavery
days which transpired at Boston in connec
tion with the historical anti-Garrison mob.
Mr. Brown, who resided here the last fifty
years of his life, and died at the age of SO,
after winning a more than local fame as a
business man and politician, he being the
founder of the well-known lied stead man
ufacturing firm of Luke & K., H. Brown,
and having served in the Maine House and
Senate, was formerly a carpenter aid
builder in Boston. His t hop was in Wilson’s
lane. At the time that the “wicked
laustdc and agitator,” as Mr.
TTIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1887.
Garrison was then called, was pub
lishing his earliest issues of the
Liberator, and by his bold,aggressive course
bad brought the enmity of almost the
whole of Boston down upon his head, the
rage against him. as survivors of the past
generation will recollect, gr w more and
intense, until at last matters culminated in
the famous mob, from whom he narrowly
escaped with his life. In these latter days,
when all people and parties unite in the
common rejoicing that human slavery is a
thing of the past, it seems scarcely credible
that a mob gathered to lynch a noble man
who dared publicly to resist the popular
tide, and defiantly hurl his anathemas
against the “crime of all crimes,
the sum of all villainies,” should
include within its yelling, crowding, law
defj’ing aggregation some of the most
worthy and conservative moil of the citj 7 ;
j’et such is the truth of history.
That the mob which had gathered and
was surging clown the street in quest of their
orey had at its ineontion greatly alarmed
the few friends of Mr. Garrison, goes with
out saying. There was little time for
action. To secrete him was their onlj'
course. But where? Scarcely a house, a
store, or manufactory was there in all that
city which the hated anti-slavery leader
could seek as mi asj’him with any hope of
success. Garrison himself was physically
as well as morally fearless, but the idea of
an ignominous death at the hands of a
brutal mob was no part nor parcel of his
philosophy. His great work, to which all
his manhood and intellect where consecrated,
was not done—had only begun. And so he
was only too anxious to escape from his
persecutors. His brave “body guard”
suddenly bethought themselves of one place
not far distant where he would be welcomed.
"Luke Brown’s carpenter shop—to Brown’s
shop!" was the slogan uttered with bated
breath, which quickly passed from mouth
to mouth among that brave little body of
men. Down Wilson’s lano with hurried
steps —behind them still the shouts of the
pursuing mob: “Catch him! Hang him!
Death to the d— abolitionist!”
Accompanied bj' two or three of
his followers, Mr. Garrison entered
Brown’s shop, while others scattered
to various points in the vicinity,
the better to avert suspicion, and to watch
the development, of the storm. The pro
prietor happened to be away just then,
having gone out presumably on business,
and was ignorant of the effort being made
to shelter Mr. Garrison. but his employes,
however, were men of his own mind, anil
well knew that any co-operation by them
with Mr. Garrison’s friends would be heart
ily indorsed by their chief, so they helped
secrete him beneath a pile of carpenters’
“buttings” in a room in the second story.
Then all excepting one workman passed
with Garrison’s friends out into the street.
The mob soon arrived. It was well known
to them that Brown’s shop was an “aboli
tion hotbed,” and so they naturally sus
pect* 1 that Brown had harbored the man.
Thej’ halted and prepared to rush into the
building. But thej’ had counted without
their host, for suddenly there appeared m
the open doorway a stalwart young man,
an apprentice of Brown’s, with uplifted
broadax, who, alxive the noise of the rabble,
was heard to shout:
“The first man that attempts to come in
I’ll split his skull.”
The crowd halted. They looked at the
young Hercules before them and correctly
gauged his mettle. Thej' saw he meant
business, and they remained at bay. But
presently they once more essayed to ad
vance.
“{Stand back! stand back!” and once more
the glittering ax came into position.
But tilings could not remain in this state,
and so a parley ensued, the result of which
was that two persons from the crowd should
be allowed to enter and search the prem
ises. The apprentice felt confident that so
ingeniously was Mr. Garrison secreted that
the search woul l be fruitless, and so it
would have been but for the indiscretion of
the workman aforementioned, who had re
mained in the shop. The committee of two
ransacked the building front basement tit
attic, and disappointed, were about, to
leave, when the presence of the workman
excited their suspicions. He pretended to
be at work, but thej 7 rightlj' construed this
a subterfuge, and questioned him sharply.
His evasive answers tended to confirm their
suspicions, and thereupon they threatened
him so fiercely that he finally told them
where Garrison was hidden. Like a pair of
hungry tigers thej’ pounced upon the pile
and presently pulled out from among the
pieces of lumber the dusty form of the great
abolitionist. With exultant shouts they
shoved him through a window, or small
door, and dropped him down upon the side
walk, a distance of I or 8 feet.
But the eagle-eyed friends of Garrison
were equal to the crisis, and they shrewdly
simultaneously adopted the stratagem of
rushing upon him. hurling vile epithets and
deadly threatening!), thereby deceiving the
mob, who took them to be ringleaders in
the plot, and dragging him by the arms and
shaking their fists in his face, hustled him
into a hack near bj' and ordered the driver
to drive quicklj' to the jail.
Arrived there, the jai! authorities, in the
interest of law and order, readily admitted
him for safekeeping, where he remained
over night, by which time the popular
frenzy had spent its force, and it was de
cided safe for Mr. Garrison to return to his
home.
1 have obtained the foregoing facts fi o n
a son of Hon. Luke Brown, Mr. Freeman H
Brown, his successor in business and a pi\ -
minent and reliable citizen, to whom his
lather hail often repeated the story of the
eventful affair. Mr. Brown, while regretting
his absence at the critical lime, had the
satisfaction of knowing that his reputation
as a prominent anti-slavery man among Mr.
Garrison’s followers and the loyalty of his
subordinates had jointly resulted, without
doubt, iu saving to the world the “noblest
Roman of them all,” the heroic man who
early proclaimed in thunder tones to a then
pro-slavery nation: "I am in comes,! I will
not excuse! I will uot equivocate! I will
not retreat a single inch! And I will be
heard!”
|The portion of the above narrative re
luting to Mr. Garrison’s being taken from
the shop is correct, but Mr. Garrison was
carried into the old statohouse and was
thence taken to jail, as stated.)
PERNICIOUS GENEROSITY.
How Much Over measurement De
tracts From a Merchant’s Profits.
FYom the New York Mail.
“Aren't you cutting that piece of muslin
a trifle short*” asked a lady of the proprie
tor of an East side dry goods store as he was
measuring off her purchase.
“No, madam,” replied the merchant, “I
am giving you the exact amount of goods
you bought.”
“Yes, I know that,” persisted tho cus
tomer, “but I always get full measure—an
inch or so over—at other stores.”
“That may lie so, madam, but I can’t af
ford to give even that small amount of
cloth away. I sell my goods at the lowest
retail prices, and if 1 over-measured it in
every case 1 would lose money.”
•‘You have no idea,” explained the mer
chant when tho lady had left the store,
“how great a loss there is in the over-:nt a
-of dry goods. Suppose 1 tell a
thousand yards of dry goods in a day, which
is a great under-estimate, but will serve as
an illustration. We will say that 1 give
away one inch on every ten yards I sell.
That would be 100 inches or about three
yards. We will say that these goods cost
me on an average of 30c. a yard. You see
that would bo n total gift of 40c. to Ode.
Now we will say that 1 sell that ■ gisids at
ode. a yard on an average. Thut makes
*3OO. on which 1 make a profit of *3O. Out
of this 1 have given away 00c., or 3 per
cent. You ean figure out the loss on a
year’s business at that rate. The loss is
hardly as large as that all through the busi
ness. as many dress patterns are sold without
being cut. Hut l have no doubt that it will
average 2 )ier cent, in stores where this per
nl’ions rule is observed. As we only muae
about * or 10 per cent, on our goods you can
readily see whet a large loss it is to us.”
AN HISTORIC BIBLE.
The Strange Adventures and Final
Return of a Lee Family Record.
h'rom the Philn/lelohia Press.
War destroys many things beside human
lives. War makes bistorj 7 , but among tlie
things it destroys are materials for the
historian.
A Northern gentleman was recently visit
ing an estimable ladj 7 in Virginia, the wife
of a distinguished Southern general, who is
still living. The visitor asked her little son,
“How old are you, my lad?” The boy
looked brightly up at the questioner and re
plied: “ What’s the use of jou Northerners
asking anybody down here how old he is
when the Northern soldiers burned up all
our ffinely Bibles?”
Such is the little anecdote written by the
Virginia lady in a recent letter to Frank
Willing Leach. Mr. Leach is writing a
Book of great historical value and interest,
“The Signers of the Declaration of Inde
)>endeiioe and Their Descendants.” The
work requires an enormous correspondence,
and it was in answer to a letter of inquiry
that the above anecdote was incidentally
told. The laclj - is a descendant of John
Penn, a signer from North Carolina, and
curiously enough her husband is a descend
ant of Gov, Thomas Nelson, a signer from
Virginia.
During the civil war thousands of South
ern family Bibles were destroyed, especially
during Sherman’s march to the sea and
Sheridan’s raid down the Shenandoah. The
history of one of these Bibles is especially
interesting. Some account of it was re
cently published in the Boston Globe, and
lias been extensively copied by other papers
throughout the country. Unfortunately
this account is full of erroneous statements.
Mr. Ix'ach yesterday recounted the true
story, as follows:
“Last spring I wrote to Mrs. Mary L.
Castlcnian, of Herndon, Fairfax county,
Va., for data for my book. She is a de
scendant of Richard Henry 1 .cc, one of the
signers from Virginia. In her reply she
stated that in 1876 a Mr L. K. Dorrance, of
Boston, had written a letter to General,
now Governor, Fitzhugh Lee, relating that
he had recently seen a Bible in a man’s pos
session which contained a family record of a
William Fitzhugli Lee and which had been
token from Virginia during the civil war.
Mr. Dorrance thought that the Bible be
longed to Gen. Fitzhugh Lee or his father.
Asa matter of 'act it belonged to Rev.
William Fitzhugli Lee. who was a first
cousin to Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s father.
“Gen. Fitzhugh Lee knew at once from
Mr. Dorrance’* description that the Bible
belonged family of his father’s cousin,
and lie therefore wrote to the widow of Rev.
William Fitzhugh Lee, inclosing Mr. Dor
ranee’s letter. Mrs. Lee mislaid this letter,
and, having forgotten Mr. Dorrance’s ad
dress, could not write to him. She recently
died, and Mrs. Castleman, her daughter,
found Mr. Dorrauce’s letter among her
papers.
“Mrs. Castleman, in her letter of replj' to
me last Spring, stated these facts: ‘I found
Mr. Dorr mice's address in a Boston direeto
rj 7 and wrote to him. He replied that he
had seen the missing Bible at Kennebunk
port, Me.,but could not recall in whose pos
session it was. However, he caused an article
setting forth the facts of the case, to lie in
serted in a local paper at Kennebunkport.
Immediately one Jeremiah Kelly apjieared,
who stated he still had the Bible in question.
He stated that on the evening that Ells
worth was shot he was in Alexandria as a
United States volunteer soldier. The Union
troops were so exasperated by the slaying of
Ellsworth on that night the eitj 7 of Alexan
dria was almost completely “looted.” Kelly
entered a certain house from which every
thing had been taken except the Bible,
which he saw on a mantel-piece. Wishing
it for a relic he asked some slaves, who were
the only |>ersons in the house, whether he
could have it, and they gave it to him. He
sent it home to his family.
“ 'Kelly gave the Bible to Mr. Dorrance,
who sent it to me. 1 shall forward it in a
few days to Mi's. Castleman, who will
doubtless be glad to recover the family
record after an absence of over twenty-five
years. I have presented anew family Bible
to Mr. Kellj’ in lien of the old one,which he
has kindly relinquished.
“ ‘There isa curious incident in connection
with Mr. Kelly’s possession of the Bible.
He was born and brought up a Roman
Catholic, but since this historic Bible has
been in his keeping he has become a strict
and vigorous Protestant.’”
BRICK.
Wm. P. Bailey & Cos,,
BRICK MANUFACTURERS,
K EEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND, in large
quantities, at their yard on the. SPRING
FIELD PLANTATU >N. and will deliver the satin;
in anv part of the city upon the shortest notice.
The best
Well Brick, Pressed Brick, Hard Brown Brick,
Gray Brick, Soft Brown Brick.
Office - Corner Hull and Broughton, at SI
MON GAZAN'S CIGAR STORE, where all or
ders will receive prompt attention.
STOVES \\l> H'HVAI Es
Sell Lowest
vyE claim to have more variety and sell
STOVES cheaper than can be bought elsewhere
in the city. Nothing like a turn around among
the dealers to decide this.
LOVELL & LATTIMORE,
HARDWARE AND STOVES,
SAVA XX-A I I. OKO R C'r lA.
REMOVAL?
We have removed to IG7
BitoruHTOx, three doors west
of Barnard (formerly occu
pied by Mr. Cormack Hop
kins.)
CORNWELL & CHiPMfIN.
HOTELS.
NEW HOTEL TOGNI,
(Formerly St. Mark's.)
Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla.
WINTER AND SUMMER.
r pHF MOST central House in the city. Near
1 Dost Office, Street Cars and all Ferries.
New and Elegant Furniture, Electric Kells,
Maths, Etc. iC SO to S'i per day.
JOHN li. TOON I, Proprietor.
DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE.
r pHIS POPULAR Hotel Is now provided with
1 a Passenger Elevator 'the only one in the
city) and has been remodeled and newly fur
rushed. The proprietor, woo by recent purchase
is also the owner of the establishment, spares
neither pains nor expense in the entertainment
of his guests. The patronage of Florid* visit
ors is earnestly invited. The table of the
Screven House is supplied with every luxury
that the markets at home or abroad can afford.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
One of the Largest Hoarding Houses in tho
South.
VFFORDS pleasant bouiu rooms, good Imard
with pure Artesian iVater, at prices to suit
those wishing table, regular or transient accom
modations Northeast corner Broughton and
Drayton street*, op - “ Marshall House.
MEETINGS.
GEORGIA TENT AO. 151, I. O. R.
Attend a quarterly session of your Tent THIS
(Monday) EVENING, at 8 o'clock sharp. Come
prepared to pay dues.
All Third Decree members earnestly requested
to be present, as the Heneficiary will be per
fected.
C. O. GODFREY, C. R.
Attest: Thomas Hoynks, Secretary.
DeKALB LODGE, NO. 9 I. O. O. E.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o’clock.
There will be an Initiation.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of H. W. KALI,, N. G.
John Kii.ey, Secretary.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting of this society
will be held at Hodgson Hall THIS EVENING
at eight (8) o'clock.
CHARLES N. WEST,
Recording Secretary
BURGLAR ALARM AMI DISTRICT
r E LEG R A I*ll COM PA NY
An adjourned meeting of the stockholders of
the above cumpany will be held at Metropolitan
Hall on TUESDAY EVENING, Oct. 11, 1887, at
8 o'clock. J. 11. ESTILL, Chairman.
I. G. Haas, Secretary. M
SPECIAL NOTICESr
Advertisements inserted under “Special
Hotter*" unit be charged $1 00 a Square each
insertion.
BOOKS EXCHANGED.
The schools open to-day, and several new
books are to !introduced. We have made
arrangements with the publishers to exchange
the old books for the new ones. We keep, be
sides a full supply of all other School Books.
Slates, etc., the new Patent Slate Cleaner auil
Sponge, direct from importers at New York.
Price sc. Send your children to
SCHREINER’S BOOK STORE.
NOTICE.
DR. GEORGE H. STONE
Has returned to the city, and will resume the
practice of his profession.
NOTICE.
Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the
British steamship YORK CITY, whereof
Beun is Master, will lie responsible for any debts
contracted by the crew.
A. MINIS & SONS, Agents.
NOTICE.
Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the
British steamship KATE, whereof Durkio
is Master, will be responsible for any debts
contracted by the crew.
A. MINIS & SONS, Consignees.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
During my absence from the city Dr. George
C. Hummel, 53 Whitaker street, will attend to
my practice. W. H. ELLIOTT, M. D.
DR. GEORGE C. HUMMEL
Has removed his office to
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.
CITY TREASURER'S OFFICE, i
Savasnah, Ga„ Oct. 1, 1887. (
The following taxes are now due:
REAL ESTATE. Third Quarter, 1887.
STOCK IN TRADE, Third Quarter. 1887.
EURMTPRE. ETC.. Third Quarter. 1887.
MONEY. SOLVENT DEBTS, ETC'.. Third
Quarter. 1887.
Also GROUND RENTS in arrears for two or
more quarters.
A discount of TEN PER CENT, will he al
lowed upon all of the above (except Ground
Rents) if jxtid'within.fifteen dm/s after Oct. 1.
C. S. HARDEE, City Treasurer.
DR. HENRY S HOLDING.
DENTIST,
Office corner Jones and Drayton streets.
THE MORNING NEWS
STEAM PRINTING HOUSE,
3 Whit' .or Street.
The Job Department of the Mousing News,
embracing
JOB AND BOOK PRINTING.
LITHOGRAPHING AND ENGRAVING,
BOOK BINDING AND ACCOUNT BOOK
MANUFACTURING,
is the most complete in the South. It is thorough
ly equipped with the most improved machinery,
employs a large fosee of competent workmen,
and carries a full stock of papers of all
descriptions.
These facilities enable the establishment to
execute orders for anything in the above lines
at the shortest notice and the lowest prices con
sistent with good work. Corporations, mer
chants, manufacturers, mechanics and business
men generally, societies and committees, are.
requested to get estimates from the MORNING
NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE before send
ing tbeir orders abroad. J. H. ESTILL.
IL.MER'S LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to the sys
tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other
ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot be
excelled. Highest prize* awarded, and in
dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul
mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. SIOO
a bottle. Freight paid to any address.
11. F. ULMER, M I).,
Pharmacist. Savannah. Ga.
HAMS.
Arrive Hay anil Tuesday,
CONSIGNMENT
| CRATES NO. 2CANVASED HAMS.
55 boxes PRIME BACKS.
25 cases PRIME CANVASED SHOULDERS.
40 boxes PRIME BUTTS.
20 boxes PICNIC HAMS.
30 boxes PRIME CANVASED HAMS.
50 barrels APPLES, choice.
50 barrels ONIONS, choice.
50 barrels CABBAGE, choice.
All at rock bottom prices to close consignment.
A. EHRLICH A BRO,
Wholesale Grocers and Liquor Dealers, '
157 HAV STUKI-ri'.
PRINTER AND DOOKBINTJEU.
IMlJnOi_o -JOB PRINTING.
NICHOLS— BINDING.
NICHOLS— BLANK ROOKS.
NICHOLS —GOOD WORK.
NICHOLS— FINE PAPER.
NICHOLS— LOW PRICES.
NICHOLS— f).‘H ray STREET.
U'OR SALE. Old Newspapers, just the thing
I for wrappers, only lo ce csn hundred, 200
fur 25 cents, at the business office. I
AMUSEMENTS.
SAVANNAH THEATRE.
ONE NIGHT ONLY. THURSDAY EVENING,
OCTOBER 6. ,
A Brilliant Sequel to a Most Brilliant Original.
The Greatest Exponents of Irish Comedy
BARRY & FAY.
In FRED G. MAEDOR’S New 3-Act Comedy
MULCAHEY’S BIG PARTY,
Written Expressly to Reintroduce their Orig
inal Creations
MULDOON AND MULCAHEY,
Making a Companion Picture to Irish Aris
tocracy.
HUGH FAY as JUDGE MULDOON
BILLY BARRY, as ALDERMAN MULCAHEY
Act I. Mulcahey Married and Settled.
Act ll.—The Big Party and Match Game of
Billiarils.
Act lll.—The Moonlight Excursion.
New Songs, New Dances, New Musical Special
ties by the Celebrated Electric Three, CALLAN,
HALEY and CALLAN and the entire company.
Seats on sale at DAVIS BROS, Oct. 5
Next attraction MRS. D. P. BOWERS, Oct. 10,
11 and 12.
EDUCATIONAL.
The Savanaah Academy
Will open its Ninetecntli Annual Session on
MONDAY, the 3d of October.
Instruction given in Ancient and Modern
Languages, Mathematics and English.
Catalogues at all of the book stores.
Office hours from Ba. m. to 5 p. m., commenc
ing the 26th.
JOHN TALIAFERRO, Principal.
CHARLES W. BAIN. Univ. Va., First Assistant.
University of Georgia.
(j D
P. H. MELL, 1). D., LL. I)., Chancellor.
r pHE 87th session of the Departments at Ath
-1 ens will begin Wednesday, October 5. 1887.
TUITION FREE, except in Law Department.
LAMAR C 088,
Secretary Board of Trustees.
~ WESLEY AN
FEMALE COLLEGE,
Macon, Ga.
THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL SESSION BEGINS
OCT. 5, 1887.
Location beautiful. Life home like. Educa
tion thorough. Health, Manners and Morals
carefully guarded^
The best instruction in Literature. Music, Sci
ence and Art. Twenty experienced officers and
teachers. Low rates. Apply for Catalogue to
W. C. BASS, President,
or C. W. SMITH, Secretary.
SCHOOL FOR BOYS, Oglethorpe Barracks.—
Second session begins Oct. 3. Careful and
thorough preparation of hoys and young men
for College, University or business. For cata
logues, address the Principal, JOHN A. GROW
TH ER, Savannah. Ga.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
-A.. HTTXjTj^
Wholesale Grocer,
Floor, Hay, Grain and Provision Dealer.
I A RES H MEAL and GRITS in white sacks.
Mill stuffs of all kinds.
Georgia raised SPANISH PEANUTS, also
COW PEAS, every variety.
< hoiee Texas Red Kusi proof Oats.
Special prices car load lots HAY and GRAIN.
Prompt attention given all orders and satis
faction guaranteed.
OFFICE, 5 ABERCORN STREET.
WAREHOUSE, No. 4 WADI.EY STREET, on
line Central Railroad
Seed Oats,
Seed Rye, Seed Rye,
CORN, OATS, HAY, BRAN. FEED MEAL.
Special prices on car lots.
PROD UCE.
APPLES, ONIONS, CABBAGE, POTATOES,
TURNIPS. LEMONS, FLORIDA ORANGES,
GRAPES, etc.
169 BAY ST,
W. D. SIMKINS & CO.
FOOD PRODUCTS.
FOREST CITI MILLS.
Prepared Stock Food for
Horses, Mules, Milch Cows
and Oxen. Made out of pure
grain. Guaranteed Sweet and
Nutritious.
Bond,Haynes&Elton
PAINTS AND OILS.
JOHN G. BUTLER,
\\nilTE LEADS, COLORS, OILS, GLASS,
> VARNISH, ETC.: READY MIXED
PAINTS: RAILROAD, STEAMER AND MILL
SUPPLIES, SASHES. DOORS, BLINDS AND
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE. Solo Agent for
GEORGIA LIME. CALCINED PLASTER, CE
MENT, H AIR and LAND PLASTER.
6 Whitaker Street, Savannah, Georgia.
1565. niliLS. MLlli'ilV, 1865.
House, Sign and Ornamental Painting
I EXECUTED NEATLY and with dispatch.
j Paints, Oils. Varnishes, Brushes, Window
Glasses, etc., etc Estimates furnished on ap
plication.
CORNER CONGRESS AND DRAYTON STS.,
Rear of Christ Church.
GROCERIES AND LIQI ’ors.
FOII SALE.
B Select Whisky $4 00
Baker Whisky. 4 oo
Imperial Whisky 3 00
Pineapple Whisky. , . 2
North Carolina Com Whisky . s 00
Old Kye Wnisky j 5,,
Rum New England and Jamaica..sl 50to 300
Rye and Holland Gin I 50 to 3 01
Brandy—Domestic and Cognac.. .. 15oto 600
WIN IBS.
Catawba Wine $1 00to?l 50
Blackberry Wine 1 00 to 1 50
Madeira, Ports and Sherrys 1 50 to 4 o.)
PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL.
A. 11. CHAMPION,
ELECTRIC BELTS.
TAlectrie Belt Free.
r po INTRODUCE it ami obtain Agents wo will
1 lor the next sixty days give away, free of
charge, in each county in the United States a
limited number of our German Electro Galvanic
Suoensory Belts price, s•>. A positive and un
failing cure lor Nervous Debility, Varicocele,
Emissions, Impnteuey, Etc. sooo reward paid
if even Belt we manufacture does not geneiato
a genuine electric current. Address at once
ELECTRIC BELT AUEoNCY I\ o. Box I7d.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
DRY GOODS.
Janiel Hup
Has now on exhibition his FALL SELEC
TIONS AND IMPORTATIONS of
SILKS, VELVETS,
PLUSHES,
Dress Fabrics
CLOAItS,
WRAPS, JERSEYS
)
Together With a Beautiful
Line of
Dress Trimmings.
They embrace all the new
styles and novelties of the sea
son and make the handsomest
Collection yet exhibited.
Purchasers are also invited to examine
the extraordinary inducements offered in
every other department.
TO-MORROW WE WILL PLACE ON SALE:
25 pieces -W inch All-Wool Tricot at 45c.
per yard
20 pieces 54-inch All-AVool Tricot at 6 sc.
per yard.
10 pieces 72-inch Ladies’ Cloth at $1 per
yard.
10 pieces 64-inch Ladies’ Cloth (genuine
French goods) at 81 25 per yard.
10 pieces 64-inch extra quality Ladies'
Cloth (genuine French goods) at 82 25 per
yard.
20 pieces 38-inch Silk and Wool Mixture*
at 45c. per yard.
25 pieces 36-inch Pen Stripes and Plaid
Dress Goods at 35c. a yard.
One lot Colored Dress Silks at 50c. per
yard.
One lot Colored Dress Silks at 60c. per
yard.
One lot Colored Dress Silks at 7.5 c. per
yard.
One lot Colored Dress Silks at sl, worth
$1 25.
25 pieces 8-4 Fine Irish Damask Table
Linen at 75c., 81 and §1 2.5 per yard, regu
lar price #l, 8! 2.5 and 81 50.
100 dozen 24x.50-inch Huck Towels at $3
per doz. These goods are actually worth
|3 50 a doz.
MS' loill
Every!hing--Suits, Pants,
ana Waists.
BARGAINS IX EACH.
One lot Boys’ Suits at.? 1 75.
One lot Boys’ Suits at 82 25.
One lot Boys’ Suits, all-wool, at 83.
One lot Boys’ Suits at $3 25, worth $4
One lot Bovs' Suits at 83 50, worth $4 25.
One lot Boys’ Suits at 84, worth 85.
One lot Boys’ Suits at 84 50, worth S6,
One lot Boys’ Suits at $6, worth SB.
Carpets! Carpets!
One lot Tapestry Carpets at 65c. a yard.
One lot Tapestry Carpets at 7.5 c. a yard.
One lot 3-ply Ingrains at 85c. a yard.
One lot All-Wool Extra-Super. Ingrain
Carpets at 65c.
MATTINB.
25 pieces Canton Matting at 20c. j>er yard.
25 pieces Canton Matting at 25c. per yard.
2S pieces Canton Matting at 20c. and doc.
per yard.
Daniel Hogan.
IRON WORKS.
icßoiin & Ballantyiifl,
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machinists, Builcr Makers and Blacksmiths,
MANtTAUTtmERS OF
STATIONARY and PORTABLE ENGINES,
VERTICAL and TOP RUNNING CORN
MILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
A GENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, tha
-V. simplest and most effective on the market;
Gul>tt Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, tha
beat in the market.
All orders promptly attended to. Send for
Price List.
c ONTBACTORS.
P. J. FALLON,
BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR,
*i DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH.
Ip STIMATES prompt furnished for building •
J of anv class.