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2 INTERVIEW WITH MRS. E. J. NICH OLSON. Some Points About a New Orleans Newspaper Proprietor. < Copyright'd 1387.) New York. Oct. B.—There has been stay lng at the Windsor Hotel for the last few davs a gentle-faced, graceful woman, fem inine and almost fragile-looking, who oc cupies a unique position in this work-a-dav America Mrs. Frank Leslie has taken a suite of rooms at the Windsor for the win ter. but this more recent visitor has upon her hands an undertaking more difficult than even that energetic business woman ever attempted. Mrs. Eliza J. Nicholson, of > the New Orleans Piacyvne, is the only woman in the country, the only women liv ing who is at once the controlling proprie tor and the editor-in-chief of a big city daily, and she not only finds her her office oliair nine too large to fill, and not too thorny to sit upon, but during her admin.stration of the paper’s affairs has seen a debt of 000 lifted and its prosperity every year in creased. Mr-. Nirbolson is still a young woman and has two bright pretty children.to w hom she is devoted, with her. Fine brave little Foul hern boys they are. just of an age to find Miss Mary L Booth'- famous cat Muff the most enticing object in the metropolis. Mrs. Nicholson is slender and fair-skinned, blue-eved and with a gleam of gold in her hair. She is quiet in her movements ami in ner tones, w ith nothing to suggest the hurry or the bustle of a woman plunged nervously into business care- Her husband, Mr. George Nicholson, the business mana ger of the Picayune, is an Engh-rnaa, though of thirty years’ newspaper exper ience m this country, and has worn a this tle embroidered on Ins handkerchief—Mrs. Nicholson embroiders as well as writes— through good luck and ill since coming to New- York Mrs. Nicholson is very modest and unas suming when questioned with regard to her new.-iiaper success. “The paper has certainly thriven under my control." she says, “but 1 feel sure that it would not have done so had I not been loyally supported bv my staff. Instead of fretting or chafing In any way at coming tinder petticoat govennent, everybody con cerned, from the office boy to the managing editor, has been devoted to my interests and more than w illing to carry out my wishes. Nowhere except in the South could a woman rule so large an establishment with such ease. Ido not say that nowhere else could a woman do it, for nobody knows what a woman can do, least of all the woman her sell, until she tries, but only in the South would the difficulties be so smoothed away for her. because nowhere else are the men so true and chivalrous. Mv‘boys’work hard to please me and I verily believe value a woivl of commendation from me more than they would the same praise coining from a man.” Mrs. Nicholson was the first woman to enter newspaper work in the South, an 1 did so by force of native talent and liking for the work in spite of somewhat adverse circumstances. She is a graceful ixiet and the first lines of hers ever published brought her a check for 810 from the Baltimore journal to which they were sent. “That was the happiest moment of my life,” she says; “it was the first money I had ever earned.” Other poems found their way to the New York Home Journel, and later to the f’icayunc. Father and brothers ob jected to her writing for money. It was not in accord with the social code that a lady should work, but she had found out for herself how much pleasanter it is to earn for one’s self than to accept from others, anil gradually came to do more for the I'icayune. That paper sent her one year to the summer resorts and she sent back' bright letters from Niagara and Saratoga On her return she became literary editor, judging poems and copy of all sorts for the Sunday edition and taking charge of the make-up of that sheet. After her marriage to the proprietor of the Jicmjune, Col. Holbrook, the work con tinued, she taking no desk in the office but coming in one or twice a week to look over her proofs. Col. Holbrook’s death three years afterward left her a young widow with the iia[>er on her hanils burdened with a heavy debt. There was an almost unani mous chorus of advice from lawyers, rel atives and friends. “Give it up, it is too heavy a load for a woman, take what the law will allow you and be five from newspaper cares.” iiiist one dissenting voice made itself heard. Mr. Nicholson, the business manager, urged lier to keep the |tper, promising to stand by her if she would stand by the sheet. She was brave enough to face the situation and fight the battle out. She became actually as well as nominally editor-in-chief, being faithful to her office hours from 9 until 4 everyday, wielding a busy pen and deciding the attitude of the paper on all important questions, political and otherwise. With excellent manage ment upstairs and down, in the business de partment, as well as in the editorial rooms, the burden of debt was lifted, new offices tiuilt, and when the pa[>er celebrated its fiftieth anniversary last Jattuary, Mrs. Nicholson —such she lieoame some two years after taking charge of the paiier—was able to realize that she was at the head of a superb establishment. Her husband continues to direct the finances of the paper, while she is supreme in the editorial rooms, descend ing somewhat less to details, perhaps, now that she is mother as well as editor, but still •with a vigilant eye to the policy to be pur sued, and quick to note every chance for an advantage to be gained. “I)o you think newsjiaper work desirable for women f” she was asked the other day. “I have had that question asked me many tiinas, ’ she answered, “and it is difficult to know how to reply. 11 all depends on the woman. I would not advise a woman to step up like a man and buy a newspaper, but if she should inherit one as I did, and if she has literary tastes and is at all energetic I Bee no reason in the world why she should sell out. It is a liberal education to a wom an in many ways. I never felt so little, so weak, so inadequate as in the first days w hen 1 realized the task I had before me. The decisions that I had to make, the sight of so many men looking to me for orders, the queries that came up continually on which side of tins question and that the pa per should declare itself, these things taught me while I taught myself how to answer them. Everything grew easier in time, and now I sometimes think if I had any occasion to do so 1 should feel fully equal to taking some of my bright young men from the I’icayune and setting up a paper in Chat tanooga or Birmingham, or some of the plaivs that are growing at such a lively rate in t be Sooth. “There is a fine opportunity for a woman to try to do good in newspaper work,” Mrs. Nicholson went on. “A woman looks to the Lome interest, and iny reporters understand that nothing must go in in such a shajiethat the purest woman cannot read it. There are quantities of matter, unnecessary to pub lish, left out in that way and a family paper is all the letter for the omission. Then t here is the temperamv question. Public aentiinent is not ready for prohibition, but the city editor has the temperance meetings well reported and good heads put on them. There are humane questions too. I worked hard for the passage, of the law for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals five years ago. Prior to that we hail no law covering tiiat jrfbit in Louisiana. It is one of the pleasantest things in the situation that it puts one in a position where it is possible to exert some influence for the things she be lieves to be right,” “Ho you direct the politics of thepai>er;” “Yes, that is one of the things I have hail to learn. The editors consult with me on the stand to lie taken, and we come to our . decisions after discussions together. The campaign is going to lie lively this fall and 1 am in haste to be at homo.” “Are there many women doing newspa per work in the (South <” “Every newspaper in New Orleans has one or more on its staff. 1 have three Indies on mine, four in fact. They have never token the routine work of general re|K>rt ing, but for many kinds of sjteciul reporting I find them superior to men. If I want an actress or a person of note interviewed, if 1 | want a nice piece of society reporting, if I • want an especially nice or dainty scrap of writing of any sort. I like a woman to do i it. We have sent Mrs. Field, who has dona ] especially fine work for the paje:-, to Ire- I land as special correspondent, and the other j women nave done well too. A woman needs special qualifications to succeed as a I newspaper winter. She must have a nose - for news, keep herself well posted on cur rent events, like newspapers, and be an en thusiast in her vocation, but if she has tiiesequalitirations and is ambitious and en ergetic. in that case ncwspajter work is more desirable than school teaching or dress making.'' “And you are in earnest in saying that a woman’s opportunity is better in the Mouth than in the North? - ’ “In one way, yes. You can’t stop aboard a street car there but a dozen men are on their feet, with tbeir hats fti their hand, to offer you a seat, and the same courtesy is carried into business. There is nothing con nected with the newspaper which lam so glad to acknowledge or of which I am so proud as the help and kindness I have had from the men in my employ.. They have made what might have been a heavy burden a pleasant task Southern women are find ing their wav into a wider and wider range of work, and they find Southern men, when they can be convinced of the desirability of women's working at all, ready to assist them in it.” Mrs. Nicholson is a woman in rather deli cate health, home-loving and feminine in her tastes. The work she has accom plished on her paper and the position she has made for herself are striking testimonials to her administrative ability. She is strong minded in the best sense of an abused word and a very womanly woman withal. Eliza Pit.'"am Heaton. CHARLESTON ITEMS. Politics and Base Ball tlra Popular Topics of Talk. Charleston, Oct. 3.—The week has been absolutely dull in this city. The burglars are taking a rest, ditto the police. The uew steamship line has died a natural death. The railroad movement languishes, and people have had nothing to talk about, save polities and the gala week. In these direc tions there has been some activity. The United Labor party has had its first mass meeting, but it was a ridiculously tame affair, aud developed nothing whatever in the way of its proposed policy. The organ izer of the movement, Mr. Benjamin Adams, is an intelligent cotton merchant who has evidently made a good deal, and who has gone crazy on the Henry George and Father MeGlynn theories anent land taxation. Mr. Adams is unfortunately not a sjteaker, and the lieutenants by whom he has surrounded himself and placed in command of his platoons are two or three arrant and blatant demagogues, without brains and without any influence in the community—men whose sole arguments are abuse and vituperation. At the meeting oil Tuesday night one of the speakers said that a statement attributed to a well-known citizen was a blank blank blanketty, blank blank lie, and that the man who made it was a blank blank blanketty blank blank blank. He named a half dozen respectable merchants and mechanics, and denounced them in the most foul and obscene language. Another sjleaker was equally inelegant anil vehement in his oration, ami the third was simply imbecile iu his remarks. Tins last was a workingman, an ambitious sub overseer in the cotton factory, with aspira tions for office. He floundered through an attempt to explain the Henry George theory, but only succeeded in confusing his audience. The new party has attracted a dozen or more of the old negro politicians, who think they see in it a wedge to split the ranks of the Democracy. These men are running with two parties, the United lAibor party and the Republican Protective Union. When the party lines are drawn it will be found that the United 1 .atir party will vanish into thin air. The Young Men’s Democratic Club have csmpleted their organization, and have done it in such a way ils to win the approval of everybody. No new aspirants for the May oralty have appeared during the week, and it is probable there will be a lull in politics now until after the gala week. BASE BALL EXPIRES here to-morrow. Recently it has had but a moribund existence. The home umpire has effectually killed it, and. besides, the season was too protracted. Will Charleston have base ball next year ? It hardly looks prob able after the disastrous results of the two years’ experience, but nevertheless there is every indication that Charleston will be in the league, if there is any league. Base ball has cost Charleston about SIO,OOO hard cash, but this amount has lieen paid almost entirely by one man. In 1380 the club was formed with a capital stock of SIO,OOO. This was pretty much swallowed up in laying out and fencing iu the grounds, building the stands, etc. Bad management cost the club a good deal in the way of costly exjteriments with incompetent and high-salaried players. Then came the earth quake, in spite of which Charleston kept its team in the field till the end of the season. At the opening there were about 100 stockholders in the club. The shares were gradually bought up by Capt. Thomas Young, one of the most phenomenal plungers in this city. Capt. Young is a stevedore by trade, but is now an exclusive wharf owner who controls nearly all the business at this port. He is iininen sely rich and is passionately fond of the national game. The season of 1880 cost him about SII,OOO. When the season of 1887 opened he furnished the sinews of war and it was ow ing to his liberality that Charleston fought the fight through the season ami preserved her franchise in the League. The game lias not |>aid here since the mid dle of August. The circuit was a costly one, each trip of the team costing the club about S7OO over and hlkivo the guarantee money, and not counting the salary list. On several occasions attempts were made to freeze Charleston out. the other clubs offering as high as $4,000 for the franchise. Capt. Young declined all these, and has, at his own expense, carried the club through the season and saved her franchise. THE PROGRAMME OF 1888. It Is too early to speak of what will be the programme for 1888, but it has been sug gested that a league composed of South Atlantic cities could be made to pay the in vestor and furnish good ball playing. The scheme in contemplation embraces Savan nah, Columbia, Charleston, Wilmington, Charlotte, Augusta. Jacksonville, Macon, Atlanta, and possibly one or two other cities. Such a league could not afford gilt edged players who would remain in the teams only until they were scooped up by a Ciratleal Northern or Western manager, ut it is suggested that good players at moderate salaries could be secured, and with comparatively short circuits the game could be made successful. Some such proposition will be made by Charleston. If it fails, and Charleston is forced into a league with Memphis, New Orleans, Birmingham and other cities far apart, arrangements will have to be made to secure each club against the tactics that have disgraced the present season. The inflow of cotton to the port continues, and the ocean tramps are getting all the cargoes they want. The receipts since Sept. 1 amount to I'JO,OOO bales, against 75,000 bales for the same period last year. Of this amount over 70,000 bales have been ex ported already. “Rough on Bile” Pills. Small granules, small dose, big results, ploasant in operation, don’t disturb the stomach. 10c. and !d6c. “Rough on Dirt.” Ask for “Rough on Dirt.” A perfect washing powder found at last! A harmless extra fine A1 article, pure and clean, sweet ens, fresaens, blenches and whitens without slightest injury to finest fabric. Unoqualod for fine linens and laces, general household, kitchen and laundry use. Softens water, saves labor nml soap. Added to starch pre vents yellowing. 5c., 10c., Sloe, at groers. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1887. WIVES OF LITTERATEURS. Something About a Few of the Famous Females. New York, Oot. B.—Curiosity about the wii es of literary men or the husbands of literary women never dies out, so deep rooted is toe impression that genius or even moderate talent is unco’ hard to live with. The wife of Charles Dudley Warner is an attractive woman, handsome, interested in the best thought of the time. The couple are childless, but thoroughly happy in their home. Anna Katherine Green, the writer of the "Leavenworth Case" and others among the best known detective stories of the time, is the mother of a family of little children, handsome sturdy youngsters de voted to their pretty mamma. Mrs. Roblfs, as she signs herself when she doesn’t use her pen Marne, is the lies? of housekeepers in her Dome in South Brooklyn and her husband guards her leisure with zealous care. Bron son Howard and bis wife are always seen together and are a devoted pair. Mrs. Kate Upson Clarke is as coziiy domestic in her tastes as if she hail never touched a pern Mrs. Laura Holloway has mode herself a home by her literary work and keejis it a cheery place for her grown son, who looks too big to call her mother. Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis, whoso short stories are apt to have a melancholy turn, is a vivacious body, a thorough optimist to all appearance with a sou who has reached man’s estate. .She and lmr husband, Mr. L. Clark I >;u is, of the Philadelphia Enquirer, are a home loving couple and their house is full of sun shine. Clara Lanza, or to give her her full title,the Marquise Lanzade Mercato Blanco, has little people pretty enough to call so beautiful a woman mother, and her home m Seventy-third street is furnished with a rare feeling for color and harmony. It is a very dainty, abiding place and has a home look withal. Livermore is a grandmother of the iirst order, and her grandchildren swing on the gate of her big old house in Melrose, unreproved. Julian Hawthorne is the I test of husbands, and there are seven children in his home. Cable has half a dozen young folks and a serene home life. Marion Harland is as notable a housewife in fact as on paper, and paints and em broiders with considerable skill. Mrs. Burnett sent her husband abroad with her earnings to finish his studies as an oeclist aud the pair are one in tlieir devotion to old armor and various antique bric-a-brac, and to their two fine-looking sons. Frank Stockton’s wife is a clever woman, and Stevenson’s wife has something of a literary reputation of her own. Howells makes a fresh study of his wife for every one of his heroines and it is putting the severest test to their domestic happiness to say that she doesn’t resent it. Louise Chandler Moulton has a very charm ing daughter and she and her liusi land Mr. William C. Moulton, of the Boston True Elay, are an entirely united couple. Mrs. Lucy Lillie has adopted.a couple of children because the mother instinct was so strong in her. Literary marriages are not such bad things after all. Drunkenness is a curious study in psychol ogy. A drunken man may lie perfectly aware of his condition, like the big brawny fellow on a street car who remarked to me the other morning that he had “too much whisky in him to go to work,” but he never seems to realize that he is like other drunk en men, or that his conversation is not of the most enthralling interest to everyone. And so my interlocutor rattled on at a great rate and was in a very confi dential mood. He made good wages when he worked—#3.2s n day, but he was often “off on a toot.” Sometimes he made two days in a week and sometimes four. The Lord only knew how many he would make this week. (It was Monday.) He was going home anil seemed much concerned at the greeting he was likely to get from his wile. “When she sees, me coming," said he, "she'll say: ‘Why, Ned,are you back again?” ’ He imitated, as well as he could, between his hiccoughs, the reproach in her tones, and added, in a confidential manner, “the women are always looking out for the money you know.” He hail a little speech all prepared, which, he thought, must silence her complainings. “I'll tell her,” he said, “that there’ll lie work left to do when I'm in Greenwood.” He got off the ear in a tenement quarter, resenting greatly the conductor’s offer to stop the car so that he wouldn't break his neck, and started for his home with an uncertain step. He was evidently not a bad fellow, good tempered, easy to a fault, generous, a loving husband, no doubt. But what domestic problems must have confronted the little wife at home when she saw the husband, who had earned, perhaps, $lB in two weeks and spent a large portion of that on drink, commence another week by coming up the stairs too drunk to work. The people who write and read elaborate articles on “How < file Can Live if Economical, on $2,000 a Year,’’might study such a case as this with profit. This par ticular husband was, apparently, well led and not badly clothed. How was that, done? Let the selvers of deep domestic problems answer. The Fifteenth Annual Congress of the As sociation for the Advancement of Women which comes olf in New York next week will be very largely attended. Tne session will last for three days. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has served for some years as President of the body, and the list of officers and directors includes Professor Maria Mitchell, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, Mrs. Edna I). Cheny, Elizabeth B. Chase, Miss Francis C. Willard, the llev. Antoinette Brown Black well ; Miss Ada C. Sweet, Mrs. Imogene C. Pales, Miss Mary F. Eastman. Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper, Mrs. Emma C. Bascom, of Wisconsin University, Dr. Annie D. French, Elizabeth Boynton Har bert and a long list of others. The health, education and industrial progress of women are the heads under which most of the topics to be discussed can be included. The organization grows steadily and its yearly sessions call out some of the most thoughtful women in the country. Extensive prepara tions have been made to extend the hos pitalities of tne city next week. The life insurance agents have anew wrinkle. When the ’’lady of the house” gets home from the shopping expedition she finds a neatly addressed circular awaiting her. “Dear Madam.” it reads, “yours of the —th received (‘Dear Madam’ has never writted to the agent or heard his name, but that don’t matter). You hud certainly better induce your husband to insure his life for at least the amount of the mortgage (sometimes there is neither husband nor mortgage, but oftener there is both as the sly agent knows), so that if he should die the amount of his policy would clear off the incumbrance on the property. I should advise you to favor a limited life assurance in the ,on terms which you w ill find given below, etc.” The ingenious un candorof this appeal may not bring many customers to the agents’ net, but it often serves to make merry, or the reverse, the heart of the receiver. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher denies the statement lately made that Mr. Beecher was a Spiritualist. In a recent letter she writes that they frequently attended seances together, but never saw anything to give them faith in spiritualistic manifesta tions. It would have pleased Mr. Beecher, she says, to believe that certain things were true, but nothing was ever brought forward that convinced his reason. None of the family are Spiritualists, Mrs. Beecher says. The tea gown is something that women will never let go. The tea gown has come to stay. The daintiest of these house robes are male of the soft materials which will flow in long folds of drapery. The tea gown has revolutionized silks. A host of silks are now woven for its especial behoof, cobwebby stuff’s that yield in serpentine lines to every motion of the figure. The Corah silks and Victorias are favorites this full, and next them rank the thinner woolens in soft fairy textures as fine as the looms can make them. There are exquisite shades of color in cream white, pale water green, apricot, seashell pink, old rose, old blue, olive yellow and cameo reserved for these half dress and wholly delightful gowns. Pale terracotta opening over lace is an autumn toilet. All the tea gowns revel in flowing sleeves, and all of them use silk cord girdles. ribbons and laces to their heart s content. They are very feminine gowns and | withal graceful, giving height to the figure arid bringing out its good points. They may | revolutionize evening gowns yet, for some |of them are elaborate enough for the j dressiest of dress occasions now, and all of I them are so comfortable that the fact can t i but have its influence in setting the fashions for other styles of gowns. E. P. H. Explaining a Kiss. Gen. Rutherford, State commander of I the Grand Army in Michigan, was bugged and kissed by a veteran in St. !>>uis last week in a manner that astonished the crowd. The homage was explained by his ardent admirer with the following story: “Over twenty years ago, when my captain was killed, this was the man who rescued the body anil brought it back to our lines after two companies had lieeu sent to bring it and had id ; repulsed. It’s an act I'll love him for as long as I live:" and he again grasped the General s band and strode off with him, wnile the crowd, which a mo ment Is fore was looking on laughing, sig nified its approval by cheers. The event alluded to occurred In February, IBtV5, oil toe Jerusalem plank road, near Richmond, when Gen. Rutherford was commander of the 189th New York. The officer killed, and whose body Gen. Rutherford, with a skirmish line of fourteen men rescued, was Capt. Rice. A sc it in Paterson. N. J., developed the charge that one grave had been sold to three different purchaser and used by each for burial purposes. ‘Buchu-Paiba." Quick, complete cure, all annoying kid ney, bladder and urinary diseases. $l. At druggists. OFFICIAL MORTF \lt V REPORT. Of the City of Savannah fop the Week End ing Friday, Oct. 7. I**7. Whites. Hl'ksiS CTd c.t,,. < >ver I'n- Over Un- Causes of Death. ]0 , lt , r 10 K , (1 ,. r 10 M.IF.M.IF. M.IF.i.M.IF. Brain, congestion of 1 Bronchitis, acute 1 !... Catarrh, intestinal. 1 (IhiidbirUft l convulsions, infantile 1:. .. Cramp 1 Debility ... ... 11...I 1 ... ... Dropsy, general 1 ..... 1 ... I. . Fever, congestive .. . 1 . . .. ... Fever,malarial. . l 1... J... Fever, malarial,typho 1 Heart disease 1 . ... j .............. Laryngitis icuto . 1 Liver, cirrhosis of . 1 . ...!...j... Miarasmus 1 . l| Meningit is . . lj.. Pneumonia ..j .. ..J;.. ..l Spasms | ...1 ...j. 1 ... Tetanus, caused by cancer j... j,..!... I|. 1 ... j... Trismus nascentium !...] 1,... Undefined 1 ... ... ... Total, 6 l l 8 2 8 8 8 RECAPITULATION. Deaths in city--Whites. 11; blacks and col ored. 11; total. 22. Exclusive of still births, whites. 1; blacks and colored, 1. Premature births, blacks and colored, 2. SUMMARY. Whites. Colored. H Ages. | ! | M. F. M. !F. & U nder 1 year j j 1 11 2 Bet ween 1 and 2 y iar* ... | 2 | 2 B *t ween 2 and 5 years 1 12 Betweensand 10years . ) 1 1 ■ lj 14 Between 10 and 20 years. .. j.... 1 j 1 Between 20 and 30 years... j 3 1 | 4 Between 30 and 40 years.. 1 j 1:2 Between 40 and f><) years... 1 1 1 2 Between 00 and To years... j 1 ... 1 j 2 Bet ween HO and 90 years... j . j.... I 1 1 1 Total j t| 4|_ 51 6V22 Population—Whites. 24,675; blacks and col ored. It), 111; total. 15.786. Annual ratio per LOX) population for week— Whites, 21. ;; blacks ami colon*,). go. j. t. McFarland, m. n„ Health Officer. FK EIGHT RATES. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA? CampbeliAV allace, Chairman,) L. N. Trammell, Alex. S. Erwin, | A. C. Briscoe, Secretary Ati.anta, Ga., October 4th, 1887. CIRCULAR NO. 92. TARIFF OF GEORGIA MIDLAND AND GULF RAILROAD COMPANY. / \N and aft*r the twentieth (20) day of Octo ‘ " bur, ihht, tne Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad Company will I*s allowed to charge for th<*tr.iiisi>ortation of freight and iiassengers as follows: FREIGHT. To classes 1. 2. 3,4, 5,6, A, E, O, II and R add twenty-live (25) per cent. To cott >n (class J) and fifteen (15) per cent. For fertilizers L. C. L. add twenty (20) per cent, to c lass K. * For fertilizers C. L. of not less than tons of 2.000 1 hnjiids each, add twenty (20) per cent, to class M. To all other classes apply Standard Tariff. PASSENGERS. ("lass A [three (8) cents per mile]. By order of the Board. L. N. TRAMMELL, Chairman pro tera. A. C. Briscie, Secretary. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA. Campbell Wallace, Chairman, i L. N. Trammell, > Commissioners Alex. S. Erwin. ) A. C. Briscoe, Secretary. Atlanta, Ga., October 4th, 1887. CIRCULAR NO. 93. CHANGE IN CLASSIFICATION. ON am) after October 15th, 1887. tho following changes in the Commissioners' classification will take effect: Carriages, buggies or trotting wagons, L. C. L.—K I), boxed or well crated, value not to exceed sls p-r 100 tbs,, in ease of total loss, for which car rier is liable Dll Carriages, buggies or trotting wagons, L. C. L.—K I), boxed or well crated, value over sls per 100 lbs., in case of total lost, for which carrier is liable. D1 Barley any quantity i ■ 1) By order of the Board. L. N. TRAMMELL, Chairman pro tern. .A C. Briscoe, Secretary. MILLINERY. IS. P. Ills IS NOW PREPARED TO EXHIBIT HER STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY! Comprising all the latest novelties. SHOW CASES. SHOWCASES Sir CASES ARTISTIC STORE FIXTURES. CABINET WORK, CEDAR CHEST. State Wants. Ask for Pamphlet. Address TERRY SHOW CASE CO.. Nastmlie, Tonu. FUVKRAI. INVITATIONS. JEFFERSON.—The friends and a.-quamtance of Mrs. Rosa JKrrr rsos and R. Jefferson are invited to attend the funeral of the former from her late residence, at the corner of Wheaton and Reynolds streets, at 3 o'clock THIS (Mon day i AFTERNOON. DEATHS. ABRAMS.—Died, Sunday morning, at 11:30 o'clock, J. J. Abrams Notice of his funeral will appear in Tuesday'* pajier. MEETINGS. (AI.VVTIIK LODGE XO. K. OF P. A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8/3 o'clock, in New Pythian Hall. The third rank will be conferred. Members of other Lodges cordially \2fiffojir Invited. J. GARDNER, C. C. Wit, Fapcoxeb. K. of R. and S. lieKALB LODGE, XO. I. O. O. F. A regular meeting will be held THIS (.Monday) EVENING at 8 o'clock. There will Ire an Initiation. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers are cordially invited to attend. By order of H. W. RALL, N. G. John Riley, Secretary. SAVANNAH LODGE XO. 817, I. O. B. B. A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8 Busi ness of importance. By order of THE PRESIDENT. Richard Robinso.v, Secretary. GERMAN FRIEXOLV SOCIETY. The regular monthly meeting will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, in Turner’s Hall, at H o'clock. XV. SCHEIHING, President. A. Heller, Secretary. S., F. AND XV. AND C. AND S. RVIL XV \YS EMPLOYES’ MITTAL BELIEF ASSOCIATION. Attend a regular quarterly meeting in the Long Room of the General Office on MONDAY EVENING, Oct. 10th. 1887, at 7:30 o'clock stand ard time. A full attendance is requested. By order F. EUGENE DURBEC, President. Attest: C. W. Keooh, Secretary and Treas’r. XX OB KIN G-MEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSO ( I YTIO.Y Attend a special meeting at your hall THIS (Monday) EVENING at 7':A) o'clock. Bv order THOMAS KEENAN, President. J. T. Fitzhenery, R. S. CITIZENS' MEETING. A Mass Meeting of the ('ifizens of Savannah will be held at MAS< >XIC II.VLL, comer of Lib erty and Whitaker streets, MONDAY NIGHT at 8 o’clock, to give expression of their sentiments regarding the purchase by the United States Treasury Depart ment of part of the Oglethorpe Barracks property as the site for the new Post Office and Court Rooms. The meeting will be addressed by Hon. Thomas M. Norwood and others. The presence of every citizen of Savan nah is desired. 11l ItGLAK ALARM AND DISTRICT TELEGRAPH COMPANY. 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. H. ESTILL, Chairman. I. G. Haas, Secretary. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements inserted under “Special Notices" will be charged f t 00 a Square each insertion. KINDERGARTEN. MISS CUNNINGHAM will reopen her Kin dergarten on MONDAY, 17th OCTOBER, at her residence, New Houston street, two doors west of Bull. SPECIAL NOTICE. DR. BOUTON Has returned and resumed practice. DR. HENRY & COLDI.NG. DENTIST, Office comer Jones and Drayton streets. NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the British steamship BAYLEY, whereof Child is Master, will be responsible for any debts contracted by the crew. A. MINIS A SONS. Consignees.. NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS. CITY TREASURER'S OFFICE, 1 Savannah, Ga., Oct. 1, 1*377 ( The following taxes are now due: REAL ESTATE. Third Quarter, 1887. STOCK IN TRADE, Third Quarter, 1887. FURNITURE, ETC., Third Quarter. 1887. MONEY, SOLVENT DEBTS, ETC., Third Quarter. I*B7. Also GROUND RENTS iu arrears for two or more quarters. A discount of TEN PER CENT, will be al lowed upon all of the above (except Ground Rents) if paid within fifteen ileus after Oct. 1. C. S. HARDEE, City 'Treasurer. tiif: xiokm.xu neyvs STEAM FRIXTIXfI IIOISE, 3 Whitaker Street. The Job Department of the Morning 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 force 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 tbeU orders •broad. J. H. ESTILL ULMER’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 prizes 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. B. F. ULMER, M. D„ Pharmacist. Savannah. Oa. Canned Goods. ) niui CASES this season pack. TOMA A,l|WUtok\ corn. OKRA and TOMA TOES, PINE APPI.ES. etc. eon HAi.r. by— C. M GILBERT & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS. SOAPS! SOAPS! I>EARS', RIEGER’S, COLGATE'S, CLEAV. 1 MR S, EECKELAER’S. RAYLEY’S, LU KIN’S, PKMBI.E’SMEDICATED just received at BUTLER'S PHARMACY. AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATRE. OCTOBER 10, 11 AND 13. SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT OF AMERICA'S GREATEST ACTRESS, Mrs. D, P. Bowers, —SUPPORTED BY Mr. HENRY AVELING And her own company, in the following select Repertoire: MONDAY. OCT. lOyh. QUEEN ELIZABETH. TUESDAY, MADAME CRCESUS. WEDNESDAY MATINEE. LADY AUDLEY S SECRET. WEDNESDAY NIGHT, QUEEN ELIZABETH. "Mrs. D. IV Bowers* of the ex acting role of “Elizabeth" is a marvel to our older theatre-goers and a revelation to the younger onefc."-A err York Trtbu:ic. Seats on sale at Davis Bros," Oct. Bth. Next attraction, Toni Keene, Oct. 20. 21. and 22. BOYS* < LOTH I NO, ( IRPETK, ETC. Janie! Hop, MS’ mm Department We have just received and put in our well lighted and conveniently arranged Ju venile Clothing Department about 2,000 as lovely, charm ing and aristocratic suits as can be found in any house south of New York. They have been carved out in all the severely fashionable and ad vanced styles, Stripes, Checks, Plaids, Mixtures, Silk^kfleets. Tweeds, Worsteds, Tricots, and many other finest import ed materials, in nearly every shape and combination imagi nable. Pieces of these tailor made, perfect - fitting and luxurious suits are, for the bet ter grades, $0 50, $7 50, $8 50, $9 and $9 50. We show in laram varietv # O / fully 500 of the identical styles in not so tine (but just as du rable) Suits for dress, school, play and every-day wear at the following’unapproachable prices for same superior quali ties: $2 50, $3, $3 50, $4, $4 50 and $5. Ladies, we’d be pleased to have you see our immense and magnificent display of Boys’ and Children’s Suits. Mend ing pieces and extra buttons go free with nearly all our Boys’ Suits. SPECIAL SALE OF Tapestry and Ingrain Carpets DURING THE ENSUING WEEK. One lot Tapestry Carpets at 75c. per yard. One lot*3-Ply All Wool Car pets at 90c. One lot All Wool Extra- Supers at 60e. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 55c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 50e. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 40c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 25c. per yard. CANTON MATTING, CANTON MATTING. 50 rolls fresh Canton Mat ting, ranging price from 20c. to 50c. per yard. )aniel Hogan. i ) I ['OR SALE, Old Newspapers, lust the thing for wrappers, only l<> cents a hundred, -joo for 25 cents, at the business office. DRV GOODS, ETC. speciaxT ANNOUNCEMENT! OPENING OF Fall aid Winter Goods AT tola & Daws, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKenna & Cos., 137 BROUGHTON STREET. ON MONDAY MORNING We will exhibit the latest novelti s in Foreign and Domestic Dress Goods, Black and Colored Silks, Black Cashmeres and Silk Warp Henriettas, Black Nun’s Veiling, Suitable for Mourning Veils. Mourning Goods a Specialty, English Crapes and Crape Veils, Embroideries and Laces. Housekeepers’ Goods Irish Table Damasks, Napkins and Towels of th<* best manufacture, and selected especially with a view to durability. Counterpanes and Table Spreads, Cotton Sheetings, Shirtings and Pillow Casings in all the best brands. Hosiery, Gloves. Handkerchiefs—Regularly made French and English Hosiery for ladies and children. Balbriggan Hosiery, Gentlemen's and Boys’ Half Hose, Ladies’ Black bilk Hosiery, Kid Gloves. Indies’ and Gentlemen's Linen Handker chiefs in a great variety of fancy prints, and full lines ui hemmed-stitched and plain hem med White Handkerchiefs. Gentlemen's La undried and Unlaur.driod Shirts. Bays’ Shirts. Gentlemen’s Collars and Cuffs. Ladies" Collars aud Cuffs. Corsets-Imported and Domestic, in great variety, and in the most graceful and health approved shapes. Vests—Ladies’, Gentlemen's and Children's Vests in fall an 1 winter weights. Parasols—The latest novelties in Plain and Trimmed Parasols. < irders—All orders carefully and promptly executed, and the same care and attention given to the smallest as to the largest commis sion. Samples sent free of charge, tyid goods guaranteed to be fully up to the quality shown in sample. Sole agent for McCALL'S CELEBRATED BAZAR GLOVE-FITTING PATTERNS Any pattern sent post free on receipt of price and measure. CROIIAN & ROONER. MILLINERY. THE UK Of bogus bargains are every day happening in the sphere compared or Fancy Goods dealers, but where unceasing energy and eternal pluck is brougnt into requisitio •, low prices will knock them out of sight and remain master of the situation; so like an AVALANCHE Sweeping down the mountain side, we scatter before us all this opposition on these favorite offers. BARGAIN JERSEYS! Each piece tailor-made, glove fitting, and lead ing quality. BIG .JOB LOT. Ladies’ all wool, Boucle Jer seys. in Black, Brown, Navy, only 75c. each; \V< Util $1 50. 75 DOZEN. Ladies'Black brilliant wool Jer seys. pleat backs; a grand bargain. Si each; worth fully Si 75. 50 DOZEN Ladies' Black brilliant wool Jer seys. vest front, box-pleat back; a startler, for t each: worth fully $2. 12 DOZEN Ladies' Black brilliant wool Jer sevs: a superb article, with box-pleat back, oJj >1 50 each: w rt h fully $2 25. 35 DOZEN Ladies best brilliant Black woo. Jerseys, Fedora fronts and box pleat back, only $2, rarely sold elsewuere under $3. Grand Additions of New Millinery v by Every Steamer. IN STOCK. NEW KID GLOVES! NEW KID GLOVES! At Lowest Prices. New Fall and 'Winter Goods in every Depart ment. MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED. PLATSHEKS. EDUCATIONAL. Tlie Savannah Academy a Will open its Nineteenth Annual Session on MONDAY, the 3d of October. Instruction given fn 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 ith. JOHN TALIAFERRO, Principal. CHARLES W. BAIN, Univ.Va,,First Assistant. University of Georgia. P. H. HELL, I). I)., LL. 0., Chancellor. r pHE 87th pension of the Departments at Ath- I ens will begin Wednesday, OctoVer 5, 1887. TUITION FREE, except in Law Department. LAMAR mBB. Secretary Board of Trustees. l. a. McCarthy, Successor to Chas. E. Wakefield, rUMEII, GAS and STEAM Film 48 Barnard street, SAVANNAH, UA> Telephone 378.