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2 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.