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!THE PRATHER BOYS’ GOOD LUCK
A Story of Fortune in the Oil Fields
Recalled by the Death of a Horse.
From the .Vein Voile Sun.
Bradford, Pa., Oct 17.—There died on a
(*. m near Bear Lake, Crawford county, a
few ,iays ago, a horse that in January, 1805,
figured prominently in one of the most im
portant operations in the history of oil de
velopment in Venango county—an opera
tion by which tho owner of a horse and his
two brothers, without a dollar of capital,
made $1,000,000 apiece. The horse wus
known as “the Prather horse,” and was for
merly the property of the late Georgs
Prather, of Meadville. It was nearly 28
years old.
George Prather was one of three brothers
—John, George and Abraham—who started
a country store in the village of Piumer,
Venango county, in 1804. John Prather
was married to the daughter of an old
fanner named Holmden, who lived on Pit
hole creek, seven miles beyond petroleum
developments in 1664. In the fall of that
year representatives of anew corporation,
known as the United States Oil Company,
leased a part of old man Holmden’s farm
and began putting down a well on it.
The era of bogus oil com
panies, which subsequently swindled
the public out of millions of dollars
in a few months time, was then beginning.
Vo one in the neighborhood of Holmden’s
had any faith in the existence of oil there
abouts, but the Prather brothers thought
that on the strength of the United States
Company’s having begun actual operations
on the farm, they might utilize the fact in
a little speculation of their own. They had
no money, but John Prather, the son-in
law of the owner of the farm, made the lat
ter an offer of $25,000 for the refusal of the
remainder of his farm for sixty days. As
$25,000 was more than ten times the value
of his property, Holmden took the chances
of the boys being able to raise the money,
and readily signed the papers.
By the middle of November the drill on
the United States lease had reached third
sand, the sand in which oil had invariably
been found along Oil creek, but no oil was
found. The drill was continued, however,
to delav the day of failure and to give op
portunity for the placing of more of tho
company’s stock with credulous speculators.
Cold weather came on and compelled opera
tions to cease for the time, just as the drill
reached a fourth sand, something until then
unknown.
The Prather boys had not done anything
with the Holmden farm as late as January,
1865. They then concluded to push it In
the market”, as they believed a few weeks
more would see the failure of the United
States Company’s scheme. George Prather
was sent East to find a customer for the
farm. At Pittsburg he interested C. B.
Duncan, of the firm of Duncan & Kent, in
the matter, and the t wo went on to Phila
delphia to dispose of the property. Toward
the middle of January the weather grew
mild, and there came a break up. The
Superintendent of the United States Com
pany paid a visit to the well, with thi in
tention of drawing the toolsand abandoning
the work. His euriosit/ prevailed upon
him to see what the character of the fourth
sand was, and he fired up and started the
drill. It had taken but a few turns when it
dropped eight feet in the rock, mid tapped
the oil vein. The well was tubed, and it
suddenly began flowing, spouting oil at a
300-barrel rate.
That was before the days of oil well
“mysteries,” and the news of the strike on
the Holmden farm soon spread through the
region. The farm at once jumped among
the millions in value. John and Abraham
Prather were wild. Their brother George
was in the East trying to sell the farm, and,
ignorant of the oil strike, might even then
iiave disposed of it for a song. Telegrams
were sent to him at Pitteburg and Philadel
phia, but lie could not be found. There vras
as yet no railroad communication between
Oil City and Pitteburg. George Prather
owned a very fleet and strong young
horse, and John mounted that horse and
started for Pittsburg. He did not leave the
saddle until he had made theentlre distance,
nearly 100 miles, over the crooked and hilly
roads along the Allegheny river. At Pitts
burg he took the care for Philadelphia. If
the train had been one minute late the
Prather boys would have lost $3,000,000, for
John met his brother George and Duncan
on the Girard House steps, as they were on
their way to close out the sale of the farm
for $lOO,OOO. The three took the next train
for Pitteburg, and reached the Holmden
farm the day before the sixty days’ refusal
ex pi lied.
Pithole creek was then overrun with ex
cited oil speculators, and almost any price
was offered for land. The rise of Pithole
city had begun. Mrs. Holmden, the old
farmer’s wife, refused to sign tho deed to
farm unless the price was put at $125,000
and a present of $5,000 in gold was given
her. The $125,000 was quickly raised by
selling a very small interest in the farm,
but the whole property came near being for
feited in the search for the $5,000 in gold.
It was obtained through the banker Culver,
of Rousevlile, just in time to save the prop
erty. The Prather boys and Duncan made
$4,000,000 on the property, and all left
Pithole before the bottom dropped out. All
three of the boys lost their fortunes after
ward in speculation. George died in Mead
ville. The horse that had carried his brother
to Pitteburg on that eventful Januan’ day
with the news of the oil strike at Pithole
was used by him several years, and after
his death was sold to the farmer who owned
it until its death last week.
Long before the crash came at Pithole it
was known that the capital of the United
States Oil Company is fictitious, and that
its venture on the Holmden farm was en
tirely of the wild cat order, made for the
purpose of selling its stook. That it became
suddenly one of the wealthiest companies
ever organized in the oil regions, and was
enabled to pay enormous dividends was to
none so much of a surprise as to its projec
tors themselves. It made the fortune of
every one connected with it, and is referred
to still as the most successful wild cat ven
ture in the history of any speculation.
A TELEGRAPH STORY.
Ezra Cornell and the B. & O. Line-
Putting Down Telegraph Wires.
From the New York Poet.
The sale of the Baltimore and Ohio tele
graph recalls tho story of Ezra Cornell,
founder of Cornell University. Forty-four
yeans ago last July, Ezra Cornell, then 20
years of ago, left Ithaca for Portland, Me.
He was the agent of an unsuccessful plow,
fifteen years before ho had arrived at
Ithaca, a poor voungman looking for work.
He had walked to Ithaca from his father’s
house, some forty miles distant. Since that
time he had worked in the cotton mill at
Ithaca as overseer of the machinery (the
teiil sLood on the site of the university
buildings of to-day, “Cnscadilla Place”),
and had served as millwright at the flour
•ug and plastering mills near Ithaca for
years. Ho had boon engineor-m-ohief
01 building of the groat flume in Fall
creek and the stone dam. He had a good,
clean business and social record, and yet the
summer of 1842 found him a poor man,
walking tiie most of the way' from Ithaca to
Maine to close up his plow interests in that
btate.
Arriving in Portland, ho went to the
office of the Maine Farmer. Francks O. J.
Wraith, the editor, had advocated his plow,
Hud a cordial friendship bad resulted from
• heir correspondence. He found Smith on
. koeee in the middle of his office, chalk
i? hand, the mould-board of a plow lying
by his side. Smith was trying to explain
jo a grinning plow manufacturer something
.f wanted him to make. At the sight of
tornoU ho sprang to his feet and grasped
his hand.
, <o , rn °b. you are the very man I want to
v" e 'u rnus t have a machine, and I can’t
make this man understand my idea. I
must have something for laying telegraph
Mpe under ground.” .
' ornell listened closely to all he had to
rP° n P rem had appropriated $BO,OOO
. ,°I- Morse might build an experi
"‘f'Btai telegraph line between Washington
and Baltimore. Smith had taken the con- |
tract to lay the pipe under ground at $lOO !
per mile. The ditch must be two feet deep: j
the pipe must lie well covered. He wanted [
two machines, one to excavate and the other
to fill up the trench.
Cornell at once sketched a rough diagram
of a machine that he thought would an
swer; one machine, not two. It was some
thing like a plow; it was to be drawn by
horses, and would lay the pipe and cover it
as it moved along. Smith was not easily
convinced that it would work, and much
time was spent in discussing it.
‘•Well, go to work and make a machine,”
said Smith, at last. “If it is successful I
will pay you $6O or $lOO, or any reasonable
price.”
Cornell went into a shop and made his
machine. Smith wrote to Prof. Morse to
come up and see if it was a success. The
trial was made on a farm with four yoke of
oxen, a strong gad and a clumsy driver;
but the machine was a perfect success, and
so Cornell agreed to go to Baltimore with it
and “lay pipe” for the new telegraph on the
line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
The story of that pipe-laying and the
ultimate future of the underground scheme
when $23,000 of the appropriation had been
silent is one of the amusing pathetic pages
in the historv of pioneer telegraphy. There
was a blunder made in casting the pipe,
which was discovered and reported at the
outset by Cornell, but bis advioe was un
heeded by the scientists of the project. He
knew that the insulation was defective, and
that fuiiure was sure. So he was not sur
prised when ten miles had been laid to see
Prof. Morse coming towards him one day
with an anxious face.
“Cornell,” said he, taking the engineer
aside, “you must contrive to stop work for
a few days, so that the papers will not know
why it was interrupted. I must make some
experiments before any more pipe is luid.”
Cornell stopiied back to his machine,
“Hurrah, boys! Whip up your mules. We
must lay another length before we quit to
night.” And grasping the handles of the
plow, he managed, when the teamsters
cracked their whips, to cant it over, so as
to catch into a point of rock, wrecking it
completely. That meant a stay of proceed
ings for a week, at least.
Tho well-known quarrel between Morse
and F. O. J. Smith grew out of this failure
of pipe telegraph. Smith considered it a
failure of the magnetic telegraph; Morse of
a system of construction only. Cornell’s
practical knowledge of mechanics proved to
the satisfaction of Prof. Morse that the
wires could be reinsulated at small expense.
Cornell was appointed mechanical assistant
of the magnetic telegraph by the Secretary
of the Treasury, and went to work in the
basement of the Patent Office. He studied
the subject of electrical science in the mean
time, and wrote in his reminiscences;
“While I pressed on with removing the
wires from the pipes, I did not hasten the
reinsulation, as I was confident the order
would soon come to erect the wires on
poles.”
Ezra Cornell accumulated the nucleus of
his fortune by building telegraph lines. He
engaged to build the section between Fort
Lee and Philadelphia, in 1846, for $l,OOO,
demonstrating his faith in the project by
subscribing $5OO for the line. He made
$O,OOO out of his contract for the “New
York, Albany and Buffalo,” and that, with
other transactions, gave him his neßt-egg
for investment in the Western Union In
1857. Cornell gave'the great monopoly its
narnee and Hiram Sibley was undoubtedly
the maker of his fortune. It is fitting that
their names should lie united in the univer
sity whose fundamental idea is education in
the mechanic arte. Ezra Cornell’s finan
cial affairs were by no means sound when
$50,000 in Western Union stock was ad
judged to him in 1857, by Hiram Sibley,
which in 1865, required the issue of nearly
$2,000,000.
HOW IT WAS DONE
The Way in Which the Campaign Fund
was Handled in a Southern District.
From the Washington Star.
In the mountainous region of one of the
Southern Congressional districts the people
are mostly honest church-goers, and are
very severe as to morals. They cannot
countenance anything that looks like deceit
or corruption, but they are strong partisans
and get much worked up in their quiet way
over the local elections. The district is Demo
cratic, ot course, but at the last Congres
sional election it was pretty close lietweeu
the two opposing candidates. The men
talked politic* while hitching their horses
about the church door on Sunday, end
stood about a long while after the services
discussing the situation. The deacons and
Sunday school teachers, and the pillars of
the church generally were friends of the
gentleman ultimately elected, who enjoyed
the reputation of a strictly moral and con
scientious man, being something of a religi
ous exhorter as well as a politician.
When this candidate came into the coun
ty just before the close of the campaign,
tnere was a general assembling of the lead
ing deacons and church men to meet him.
They came quietly at night to the little inn
where he stopped, and they were headed by
“Deacon Abe,” who was head and front of
all matters of church and State. They as
sembled in the general reception and all
round room, where there was a bare floor,
a few pine chairs, and a stove in the middle
of the room, surrounded by a saw-dust spit
box. They wore sober and decorous about
the proceedings, and they carried among
them a pair of sole-leather saddle-bags.
The candidate, who had retired, was aroused
by the landlord, and as he got out of bed he
found the saddle-bags on the floor of his
bed-room, where they had been conveyed
by Deacon Abe. They were heavy to lift,
and there was a metallic rattle as the candi
date shoved them under the bed.
They sat together in the big room, and
talked over the crops and the cattle and the
repairs t > the meeting house. Then they
talked of the election, and gradually drifted
around to the question closest to their
hearts.
“Bill,” said Deacon Abe, addressing the
candidate, “you air an honest, conscientious
man. We all know you wouldn’t do nothin’
that were like corruptin’ of votes, and noth
in’ that were calkerlated to make a freeborn
citizen and a moral Christian ter feel like he
couldn't read the Declaration of Independ
ence with a clear conscience. You wouldn’t
do nothin’ in the way of bayin' votes. You
wouldn’t do nothin’ to degrade freeborn
citizenship. VVe hev been a considerin’, and
tins ere contest, air mighty close. Now, Bill,
ef you had #1.700 what would vou do with
it! Now, mind, I ain't a savin’ as you hev
any sicli sum of money; but jest supposin’
you had, how would you divide it up, and
who would you give it to to do the most
good! Now, I ain’t said you bad $1,700. It’s
all just supposin’.”
“Well,” suid the candidate, “if you’ve got
scvontocn —
“Now I ain’t said I had,” broke in Deacon
Abe, and the rest of the deacons looked
sober and impenetrable. “VVe ain’t said
anybody had #1,700. We were just sup
liosin’.”
“Well, then,” said the candidate, “sup
posing that the campaign fund had been de
villed up and $1,700 nail been allotted to this
county, and it was all in silver dollars up
stairs in them .saddle bags, I think I should
turn it over to Mr. — and let him divide
it around, according to this list.”
The list was produced and the deacons de
parted.
Along toward the end of election day the
contest got mighty close, and votes wore
selling for as much as #2O. The deacon saw
the $1,700 melting away while the sun was
still high. Presently Deacon Abe took a SSO
bill from his pocket and handed it over to
the candidate with the remark that “this
were a mighty close day.”
Wha tit Is.
P. P. P. is the great remedy for ail
blood and skin diseases. It is a fine prepar
ation, containing all the best known vege
table Tonies and Blood Purifying Remedies,
Prickly Ash. Poke Root. Queen’s Delight j
and Harsapanlla. with the lodide of Potas
sium added. It is not a tea, but is made by
the percolation process, and is a certain cure I
for rheumatism, scrofula, skin diseases and j
all conditions of the system requiring a]
powerful tonic and blood purifier. 1
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1887.
CHEAP ADVERTISING.
ONE CENT A WORD.
ADVERTISEMENTS , 15 Word* or
more, in this column inserted for ONE
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insertion. ,
Everybody who has any want to supply,
anything to buy or sell, any business or
accommodat ions to secure; indeed,any wish
to gratify, should advertise in this column.
PERSONAL.
party who took a silver head umbrella on
Wednesday evening from the Masonic Hall
will confer a favor by leaving same at LOVELL
& LATTI MORE’S.
'VT’ES, 10:80; will not be at office until 11:30
A A. u.
HELP ‘WANTED.
AT7ANTED, a party having experience in the
A A fertilizer trade in Georgia to act as general
sales agent for that State. Address LISTER'S
AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL WORKS, New.
ark, N. J., giving full particulars, with refer
ences and compensation expected.
TT J ANTED, competent white girl as house-
A'A maid and willing to assist with care of
children; good wages to the right person. Ap
ply WAITRESS, this office.
•ATTANTED, a competent cook, without en-
A A cumbrances. -Apply between 10 and 1
o’clock to-morrow, 109 Perry street. Good
wages
\ A7ANTED, a good white man to work on a
A A truck farm. H. H. LEWIS, Restaurant,
8., F. & W. Depot.
(a RAY & O'BRIEN want several smart, active
X cash boys.
TT7ANTED, traveling salesmen to sell our
A A Farm Wagons. Big chance. Address M.
P. CO. care Carrier 70, P. O. Baltimore.
EMPLOYMENT WANTED.
V YOUNG MAN with five hundred dollars
wants a position and an investment for his
money. Address W. A. E., this office.
ROOMS TO HKn4.
IyOR RENT, two floors, containing eight rooms
U and bath room, over my store northeast
corner of Broughton and Barnard streets: pos
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SON, Grocer.
HOUSES AND STORES FOR RENT.
I,X)R RENT, desirable residence, 163 Gaston
street, near Barnard; possession given im
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\ SEVEN-ROOM cottage for rent in East
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I DOR RENT, a comfortable seven-room cot
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Oqn WILL rent the conveniently located six
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FDOR RENT, that cottage house. Call at A.
HOYLE'S-
I DOR RENT, desirable brick residence 139 Gor
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IT'OR RENT, 137 Liberty street. Possession
given at once. . THOS. A. FOLLIABD, 9)4
West Broad.
FOR RENT, bricl# dwelling 114 Jones street.
Apply to D. R. THOMAS
FIR RENT, brick store 108 Broughton street,
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October 4th. Apply to LEWIS CASS.
I DOR RENT, the most desirable resience on
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1 Barnard street, with modern conveniences,
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IDOR RENT, desirable brick residence corner
1 Liberty aud Abereorn streets; possession
Oct Ist. Apply to WALTHOUR & RIVERS,
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I DOR P.ENT, from Oct. Ist. splendid store No.
’ 67 Bay street, situate in Hutchison’s Block,
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and Is splendid stand for any business; second
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R. LASVTON, Jr., 114 Bryan street.
FOR RENT—MISCELLANEOUS.
IDOR RENT, a truck farm of twenty-seven (27)
I" acres, about one and a half miles from the
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FOB SALE ’
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I DOR SALE, Laths, shingles. Flooring, Ceiling,
’ Weatherboarding and Framing Lumber.
Office and yard Taylor and East Broad streets.
Telephone No. 211. REPPARD & CO.
FXOR SALE. Splendid salt water river-front
building lota, and tlve-acre farm lots with
river privileges, at ROSEDEW; building lots in
Savannah, near East Broad and Sixth streets,
and in Eastland; several good farm lots near
White Bluff, on shell road. Apply to Dr. FAL
LIGANT, 151 South Broad street from 9 to 10 a,
M.
LOST.
f OST. on Thursday last, a Bunch of Keys,
I j one a safe key. The finder will be rewarded
by returning to this office.
REWARD.
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>.M) the bound files of the Morning News,
c property of the office, are missing. A reward
of $lO per volume will be (laid to anyone for
their return or for information which will lead
to their recovery:
.July to December, 1860.
July to December, 1861.
July to December, 1863.
July to December, 1863. J. H. EBTILL.
BOARDING.
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PHOTOGRAPHY.
I> HOTOOR APH Y-SPECIA L NOTICE-Frices
reduced. Fine Cabinet Photographs a
siiecialty. Price, $2 for six or $3 a dozen.
J. N. WILSON.
21 Bull street.
RAFFLE.
IMNE Milch Cow to lie raffled at KLSINGER'B
HALL Friday, 21st, at 8 o'clock.
MIS( F1.1.A \Klll -.
A FEW pounds off reeh Bermuda Onion Seed;
direct importation from Canary Island. At
GARDNER’S, 80)4 Bull street.
BOSTON Squash, Long Island Mara Squash,
as fresh as a daisy, at A. DOYLE'S.
OK BARRELS King Apples. 20 barrels Spy
i) Gill Flower Apples, at A. DOYLE'S.
t/) BARRELS Malaga Grape*, 100 baskets de
ll * lielnus Catawbas, fresh, at A. DOYLE'S.
IDRESH FI.OSVERH dally at GARDNER’S, 80)4
1"’ Bull street. ___
C'Al’Ll FLOWER by every steamor. Call at
/ A. DOYLE’S.
C DICED PIG'S FEET, Pig’s Head and Fulton
O .Market Beef, at A. DOYLEfi.
MISCELLANEOUS.
IK BOXES fine Lemons, 25 boxes Oranges, at
O A. DOYLE’S. __
STRING GARLIC, etc., at A. DOYLE’S.
N'F.W Prunes, Carrots. Raisins, Citron, at A.
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A\7ANTED, customers for Pond Lily Toilet
\\ Wind:. Used at the While House daily.
An indispensable luxury for the toilet and bath.
Trade supplied by LIPPMAN BROS., Savannah,
Ga.
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|2 BARRELS Fine Pears at A. DOYLE’S.
ON every steamer, fresh stock, at A.
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1 A RETURN TUBULAR BOILERS and En
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K BARRELS CRANBERRIES at
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J wanting help will please apply to Young
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F.AR the Market, No. 154 St. Julian street.
PARSNIPS, Carrots, Turnips and Beets. A.
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ef(\ H. P. RETURN TUBULAR BOILER for
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Augusta. Ga.
BURBANK, Hebron and Early Rose Potatoes,
White Onions, Yellow and Rod Onions, at
A. DOYLE’S. _
IT AIR 55-H. P. DOUBLE ENGINES cheap
GEO. K. LOMBARD & CO.. Augusta, Ga.
HIDDEN & BATES S. M. 11.
CLEVELAND
Will prove a big card for Atlanta, attracting
thousands of people, all of whom will endeavor
to shake hands with tjio President We would
like to be "one of ’em,” but wo can’t get away.
We have a big attraction right here. Our army
of clerks is taxed to its utmost, and we are
adding to our force to keep up with the rush.
Our drays go out continually heavily laden with
Pianos and Organs for both city delivery and
shipment. All this demands our full time and
attention and will not even admit of a flying
trip to the
lint Exposition.
The bargains we are offering are rapidly being
secured by those who know a good thing, when
they see it. Our big stock startled the commu
nity by its immensity. Many thought us over
stocked Not so. Our warcrooms not so
crowded now as they were, but more coming—
enough to make Savannah shout with joy. and
the whole South join in the chorus. Don't
offer us
Free Passes,
for we can't get away to join the jubilee at the
Piedmont, but will content ours *lves by making
others happy and hold a jubilee right here
Say. don’t you want a Piano or Organ? We can
let vou in oil the ground floor now. Don’t miss
such a grand opportunity. Such an one may
never again present itself, and then only regret
grim-visaged regret, will haunt you. Just
think of it! $t 25 per week will buy a fine
Parlor Organ: $2 50 per week a choice Piano.
Prices range from siff to $650. Surely you will
Apply At
our warerooms for further particulars. Come
prepared for a genuine surprise and you will
not regret your visit. You will find a welcome
here. ladies will find our Piano Parlor a
charming little place in which to rest after the
fatigue incident to shopping. Come in and
look around. You cannot fail to be interested
and repaid for your visit.
LUDDEN & BATES
Southern Music House.
PIANOS.
Sole Agents for Stein
way, Gabler, Heyl and
Rosenkranz Pianos.
Schreiner's Insic House.
REAL ESTATE.
W. J. MARSHALL. H. A. M’LEOD.
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116)4 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ga.
ATTENTION GIVEN TO RENTING OF
HOUSES AND COLLECTING RENTS.
HARDWARE.
EDWARD LOVELL &'SONS
HAVE MOVED BACK TO
OLD STANDS
155 BKorarroN srnm.
T“ O COUNTY OFEB’ERS Books and Blansk
required by county officers for ,tbe use of
the couits, or for office use. supplied to order by
the MORNING NEWS PRINTING HOUSE, i
Whitaker street, Savannah.
bo6ts and shoes.
THINK
CAREFULLY
Decide Wisely
ACT PROMPTLY.
We possess the facility and
inclination to give you real bar
gains and we will do it. Don’t
wait. Our Fall and Winter stock
has come. Hn these days, good
old-fashioned honesty is rare;
therefore, you will be pleased to
see how we have combined old
time honesty in quality and
Erice, with new, fresh styles in
adies’. Misses’ and Children’s,
Men’s, Boys’ and Youths’
SHOES
Styles the Latest, Qualities
Excellent, Prices Low.
Buyers cannot put their money
in more Liberal Hands.
RBMEMBE R that we are still
the sole agents for the following
standard and reliable lines or
Shoes:
W. L. Douglas’ $3 Shoe for
Men, Hough and Ford's Ladies’
Fine Goods, and the Catholic
Protectory School Shoes for
Boys.
BYCK BROS.
CIGARS.
’iriilo sc. Oars
0
aro guaranteed Long Havana Filler, with
Sumatra Wrapper, and e&ch Cigar is wrapped
in Tissue Paper, and none are genuine unless
bearing the name and trade mark of S. OTTEN
BERG & BROS., New York.
HAZEL KIRKE CIGARS,
FOR TEN CENTS EACH,
are finer than many imported, because they are
Havana Hand-made.
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DISTRIBUTING AGENTS,
Savannah, - - Gra.
iegaiTnoticesT
("A EORGIA, Chatham County. In Chatham
T Superior Court. Motion to establish lost
dead.
To Isaac D, Laßnche, Henry Love, Abraham
Backer. L Franklin Dozier, Wm. E. Dozier,
Thomas B. Dozier, Bona Dozier, Nina Dozier
Pressley, Blanche K. Cuoppin, Arthur
D. Choppin, George R. Beard, Emma Estelle
Hodgson, Mary 1,. Hodgson, Agnes B. Hodg
son, George H. Hodgson, and Joseph C. Hodg
son:
ELIZABETH A. RILEY having presented to
me a petition in writing, wherein she alleges
that a certain deed to lota Nos. 11 and 1C in
Stephen ward, in the city of Savannah, was
made by ISAAC D. La ROCHE and SAMUEL P.
BELL, acting as Commissioners under a decree
in equity in Chatham Superior Court, wherein
you were parties, or are representatives
of parties, or are interested adversely to
her title to said lots of land, which said deed, a
copy of which In gubstunce is attached to said
petition and duly sworn to, bears date the Ot h
day of dune. ItsiO, and the original of which
deed said petitioner claims has been li*t or de
stroyed, and she wishes said copy established
In lieu of said lost original. You are hereby
commanded to show cause, if any you can, at
the next Suiierior Court to be held In and for
said county on the FIRST MONDAY IN DE
CEMBER NEXT, why said copy deed should
not lie established in lieu of the lost or destroyed
original.
And it further appearing that some of you.
to wit: Abraham Backer, L. Franklin Dozier,
Wm. E. Dozier, Thomas B. Dozier, Bona Dozier,
Nina Dozier Pressley, Blanche E. Choppin, Ar
thur B. Choppin, George It. Beard, Emma Es
telle Hodgson, Mary L. Hodgson, Agnes B.
Hodgson, George 11. Hodgson and Joseph 0.
Hodgson reside outside of the State of Georgia,
It is therefore further ordered that you so re
sesiding outside of the State of Georgia be
served by a publication of said rule msi for
three mouths before the next term of said court -
to wit: Three months before the FIRST MON
DAY IN DECEMBER NEXT in the Savannah
Morning News, a public gazette of this State,
published in this county.
Witness the Honorable A P. Adams, Judge
of said Court, this 27th day of August, A. D.
1887. BARNARD E. BEK,
Clerk 8. C., C. C.
R. R. RICHARDS,
ISAAC BECKETT,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
A true copy of the original rule nisi issued in
the above case. BARNARD E. BEE,
Clerk 8. C.. 0. C.
STATE OF GEORGIA Chatham County—
Notice Is hereby given to all persons having
demands against la. GARDNER JUNES, de
ceased, to present them to ine properly made
out within the time prescribed by law, so as to
show their character un i amount; and all per
sons indebted to said rSveased are hereby re
quired to make immediate payment to me.
October 6, 1887.
FRED A. JONES,
Qualified Administrator estate M. Gardner
Jones, deceased.
( t EORGIA. Chatham County. Whereas,
I WILLIAM F. CHAPLIN lias applied to
Court of Ordinary for Letters of Administration
on the estate of MILTON 8. HAMLET, ele
ct ased.
These are, therefore, to cite anil admonish
all whom it may concern to be and appear be
fore said court, to make objection (if any they
have) on or before the FJi-tST MONDAY IN
NOVEMBER NEXT, otherwise said letters will
be granted.
Witness the Honorable Ilzar-TON L. Fkrrill,
Ordinary for Chatham County, this Sixth day of
October, 1887.
PHILIP M. RUSSELL, Jk..
Clerk C. 0., C. C.
wool*.
A. S. BACON,
Planing Mill, Lumber and Wood Yard,
Liberty and East Broad sts., Savannah, Ga.
ALL Planing Mill work correctly and prompt
ly done Good stock Dressed and Rough
Lumber. EIRE WOOD, Oak, Pine, Lightwood
and Lumber KiudUnra
AUCTION SALES TO-DAY.
::: this day. :::
Underwriters’ Sale
by j. McLaughlin & son.
AT THEIR WAREHOUSE, at 11 o'clock,
7 barrels SUGAR,
1 barrel GRITS,
80 dozen PITCHFORKS.
Slightly damaged and sold for account of all
concerned.
—ALSO—
-5 cases SHOES.
UNDERWRITERS’ SALE
Damaged Clothing
BY J. MCLAUGHLIN * SON.
1 large cast CLOTHING, consisting (£
PANTS, BOYS' PANTS,
SHIRTS, DRAWERS, etc.
Sold for account of whom It may concern;
slightly damaged by water.
Furniture, Matting, Carpets,
Cooking Stoves, Etc.
Marshall & McLeod, Auctioneers
Will sell THIS DAY, at 11 o’clock, at their auc
tion rooms, liom Broughton street, between
Bull ami Drayton,
Six new LOUNGES, 10 BEDSTEADS, KITCH
EN TABLES, Marble Top SIDEBOARDS, WASH
STANDS, 3 BUREAUS, 1 Extra Large MIRROR,
I Small MIRROR, rolls MATTING and CAR
PETS, 100 assorted PICTURE FRAMES, 2 20-
gallon MILK CANS, 4 COOKING STOVES,
KEROSENE STOVES, WINDOW SHADES, etc.
—ALSO—
-10,000 FINE CIGARS.
POSITIVELY NO LIMIT. -Daniei. R. Kznnf
dy. Auctioneer, This Day, at 11 o'clock, Plano.
Bedsteads, Refrigerators, Rockers, Bed Springs,
Safes, Tables, Fine Office Desk. Ice Chest, Cup
board, now Office Matting, Billiard Table, Lace
Curtains. Mattresses, ladies' Side Saddle, small
Iron Safe, Cooking Utensils, Cooking Stoves,
Shipping Desk, Dray Body, pair Heavy Skids,
Hat Rack, Sideboard, splendid Clock, some
Damaged Goods and lot or other articles.
LEGAL SAL ES.
MAKSHAL S SALE.
City Marshal’s Office, i
Savannah, Oa., October 4th. 1887. f
ON the FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER,
1887, between the lawful hours of sale, be
fore the Court House door, in the city of Savan
nah. Chatham county, Georgia, and under the
direction of the Committee on Public Sales and
City Lots, will he sold the following property,
for arrears of ground rent due the Mayor ami
Aldermen of the city of Savannah;
Izit number fifteen (151 Wesley ward and the
improvements thereon, ten (10) quarters ground
rent due by William M. Davidson.
ROBERT J. WADE,
City Marshal.
LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICED
City Marshal's Office, I
Savannah, Oct. 14th, 1887. (
WTHERKASthe following described property
Y V has lawn sold for arrears of real estate
taxes and was bought by the city; and whereas,
under the authority vested In me by the or
dinances of Hie city and the laws of the State, I
have made titles to the purchaser. Now this is
to notify the former owners that, they may
redeem their property without paying the addi
tional FORFEIT MONEY allowed bylaw if done
within FIFTEEN (15) DAYS from this date.
O. T. Lemon and Isaac Becket, lot 88 Cue
ward.
O. T. Lemon, lot 80 and improvements Gue
ward.
Mrs. S. A. Greiner, north one-half lot 87 Choc
taw ward and improvements.
A. E. Robertson, west oue-half lot 25 Davis
ward and improvements.
Mrs. S. H. Kahilly, cast one-half lot 18 Davis
ward and improvements.
Patrick Prenty, lots 33 and 34 Crawford ward
and improvement*.
Est. Henry Mongin, lot 10 Schley ward and
improvement*.
Cupid King, east two-thirds lot 25 Choctaw
ward and improvements.
R. F. Jacobs, lot 18 White ward and improve
ments.
Delaney Jenks, southwest part lot 19 North
Oglethorpe ward and Improvements.
Mrs. Mary A. Flemiug, west one-half lot 5
North Oglethorpe ward aud improvements.
Wm. Logan, south one-half lot 8 Elliott ward
and improvements.
George Davis, part lot 9 North Oglethorpe
ward and improvements.
Mrs. B. C. Prendergast, lot 1 O'Neil ward and
improvements.
John Bryan, south one-half lot 61 Jones ward
and Improvements.
Est. James M Wayne, part lot 13 Bartow
ward Sod improvements.
August H. Tamm, lot Y, Middle Oglethorpe
ward and improvements.
Wm. Schluter. one-quarter lot 80 Choctaw
ward.
Barnard Monahan, improvements on one-half
of southwest part of lot 1 Crawford ward.
A. Morse, lot 24 Davis ward.
Paul Ferre bee, improvement* on lot 10 Minis
ward.
Charles Collins, part lot 25 Atlantic ward and
improvements.
John Lvnoh, lot 26 Swollvllie ward.
Bryan Huee, lot 27 Swollvllie ward.
Wm Burke, south one-half lot 70 Gua ward
and improvements,
Mrs. 51. A. Becket and children, lot 82 Gue
ward and improvements.
Children or Nancy Brown, Improvements and
middle one-third lot 38 (illmerville ward.
Est. Wm. KiDe, Improvements on lot 17
Chatham ward,
Josephine Fisher, improvements on lots 106
and 108 Schley ward.
Mrs. L. J. Kemps, improvements and south
one-half lot 47, south oa • ialf lot 48 and south
one-half lot 4 Gue warii.
John Lawrenoe, improvements on part lot 7
Screven ward.
Michael Fay, improvements on lot 36 Wylly
ward.
Est. M. Lufburrow, improvements on lot 46
Jackson ward.
George H. Lawler, Improvements on part lot
58 Lloyd ward.
Est. Wm. Murry, imprtivements on north one
half lot 60 Jones ward.
Wm. Martin. Improvements on southeast part
lot 17 Bcreven ward.
Samuel Butler, Improvements on northwest
one-quart# lot 31 Elliott ward.
Henry Wiehrs, improvements and lot 84
Choctaw ward.
slrs. O. A. Taibird, improvements on north
one-half lot 16 Greene ward.
Mrs. F. R. Pelot and children, improvements
and west one-half lot 11 Jackson ward.
Est. Thomas Murtagh, improvements and lot
54 White ward.
ROBT J. WADE,
City Marshal.
STATE OF GEORGlA— Chatham County
Notice Is hereby given to all persons liavrng
demands against JA MKS NOLAN, deceased,To
present them to me properly made out within
the time prescribed by law. so as to show their
character and amount; and all persons Indebted
to said decoosed are hereby required to make
immediate payment to me.
October 6, 1887.
JAMES B. READ.
Qualified Executor of the will of James Nolan,
deceased.
CONDENSED MILK.
Highland Brand Condensed Milk.
A Pure Milk condensed to a syrupy consistency.
FOR SALE
AT STRONG'S DRUG STORE,
Comer Bull and Perry street lane.
Canned. Goods.
*) l)A(l CASES this Reason pack. TOMA
Z.UUU TOES. CORN, OKRA and TOMA
TO EH, PINE APPLES, etc
FUK SALS BY
C. M GILBERT & CQ„ i
WHOLESALE GROUSES. 1
_C. H. DORSETT’S COLUMN.
Administrator’s Sale of Personal Property.
C. H. DORSETT, Auctioneer.
Under and by virtue of an order granted by the
Honorable Court of Ordinary of Chatham
County, 1 will sell on MONDAY, October 24th,
1887, commencing at llo'clock a. m., the per
sonal property and effects of the late J. J.
Abrams (sold for the payment of debt* and
for distribution), the same consisting in part
of
THE OFFICE FURNITURE, DESKS, BOOK
CASES and LAW LIBRARY, to be sold at the
iate office of the deceased, 116 Bryan street,
between Bull and Drayton streets.
—ALSO—
immediately after the above sale, at the room*
above the National Bank of Savannah, a few
doors west of the office, A HANDSOME
CHERRY BEDROOM SET, HATRACK, SIDE
BOARD, TABLES. GLASS and SILVERWARE,
CARPETS, HUGS, UPHOLSTERED CHAIR.
EXTENSION CHAIR, SOLE LEATHER
TRUNK and numerous other articles.
MORD. ABRAMS, Administrator.
N. B.—Among the books in the library are
the following valuable works: A Thoroughly
Annotated ( 'ode of Georgia, Georgia Report*
(No*. 1 to 75), 17 voln Blackfoot's Circuit Court
Reports, 9 vols Benedict's District Court
Reports, 31 vols. American Decisions (No*. 1 to
81), 84 vols. American Reports (Nos. 1 to 34),
Abbott's law Works on Admiralty, United
State* Court*, etc., 3 vols. Russell on Crimes, 15
vols U. S. Digest (first series), 12 vols U. S.
Digest (new series), 24 vols. Georgia Acts.
I VERY COMFORTABLE HOME
IN A VERY DESIRALE LOCATION.
C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer,
Will offtr at tho Court Hoiuv* on Tuesday, Not.
Ist, 1887, during the usual hours of sale,
Tho northern portion of lot No, 58 Lloyd
ward, fronting east on Jefferson street, between
Waldlmrg aim Bolton streets. The house is
very conveniently arranged, having a parlor,
dining room, kitchen, servant’s room, two bed
rooms, bath room, ami sitting room. Same is
subject to an annual ground rent of S2B 52 to
the city of Savannah. This property is in a
splendid neighborhood and can 1)© purchased
very low.
A Cheap Bone in (lie Cooolry.
C. H. DORSETT, Auctioneer,
Will sell at the Court House, on TUESDAY,
November Ist, 1887, during the usual hours of
sale.
About one acre of land and a comfortable
cottage, with fruit trees, etc , on the Ogeechee
Road, about a mile from Battery Park.
This place can Ihi had at a bargain.
Executrix’s Sale.
C. H. DORSETT, Auctioneer.
By virtue of an order granted by the Honorable
Ordinary of Char ham county, I will sell be
fore the Court House, in Savannah, during
the usual hours of sale, on TUESDAY, No
vember Ist, 1887,
All that certain lot of land in the city of Sa
vannah known an lot number eight in C. J.
Hull's subdivision of lots numbers fifty-three
and fifty four South Oglethorpe ward, with the
improvements thereon, consist iug of a two-story
brick dwelling bouse on the corner of West
Boundary and Margaret streets. Sold as the
property of CHAHIEB JONES, deceased, for
jaiyment of debts and for distribution.
LUCINDA JONES,
Executrix of Charles Jones, deceased.
Guardian’s Sale.
C. H. DORSETT, Auctioneer.
Under and by virtue of an order granted by the
Ordinary of Effingham county, Georgia, I w ill
sell at public outcry, before the door of the
Court House, In Savannah, Georgia, between
the legal hours of sale, on TUESDAY, the first
day of Novemlier, 1887. the following property
of LULA SHEAHOUSE and JOHN SHEAR
OUSE, minors, namely:
One undivided oue sixth (M) Interest in that
certain lot of land situate and being in said city
of Savannah and county of Chatham, known as
lot number seven (7i Davis ward, fronting fifty
six feet on Taylor street and running hack to
Jones street lane. Terms cash: purchaser pay
ing for titles. JOHN E. SHEA ROUSE,
Guardian of Lula and John Shearouse.
COMMISSIONERS'SALE
-FOR—
PARTITION.
By C. H. DORSETT, Auctioneer,
By virtue of a decree of the Superior Court of
Chatham county, passed on the 20th day of
July, 1887. during the June term of said court,
in a case therein pending in which James J.
McGowan, Kate McMahon aud Mary E. Doug
iaas ur“ complainants, and Maty Klizalietn
Kine and John Sherlock are defendant*, the
undei-signed commissioner* (.appointed for this
purpose) will sell at public outcry before the
door of the Court House of Chatham county
on the FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER
NEXT, being the first, tiny of said month, be
tween the legal hours of sale,
The following lots, tracts aud parcels of land
in the corporate limits of the city of Savannah,
namely:
All that, piece, parcel or lot of land in the city
of Savannah, county of Chatham and State of
Georgia, described on a map drawn by Joseph
M. Sheliman, City Surveyor, as lot number four
(4>; bounded north by lot number three, then
described as the property of the estate of
Thomas Williams; on the east,, for a distance of
two hundred and twenty-two and one third feet,
by the Ogeechee canal, on the south by lot num
ber five (Si, the property of G. W. Anderson; on
the west by a straight line drawn from the
northwestern corner of said lot number five to
the southwestern corner of lot number three.
Also those three lots designated on a map
drawn by Joseph 51. Sheliman, City Surveyor,
as lots numbers one. two and three, being parM
of the lot above described as lot number rotii\
through which the Savannah and Ogeechee
canal passes; each of said lots containing sixty
three and one half feet, more or less, on West
Boundary .street and running westwardly to
the canal; and together bounded north by lot
number four of the sub-division lots on the plan
of said Joseph M. Sheliman, east by West
Boundary street, south by original lot number
five and west by the canal.
Also ail those lots designated on the said map
of Joseph M Sheliman as lots letters E, D, I. if.
I and Hon West Boundary street and E and I)
on Lumber street, between Margaret and Zubly
streets; euch of said lots containing sixty three
and one half feet by ninety feet, more or less*
lot* letters l and E forming what is known iw)
the city map as lot number fifty-one, and lota
letters H and D forming what is known on the
city map as lot number fifty.
Also lots designated on said map of Joseph
51. Sheliman a* letters A. B aud C, now known
on the city map us lots number twenty six,
twenty-seven and twenty-eight, fronting west on
Lumper street, between stargaret and Zubly
streets, each containing sixty-three and one
half feet on Lumber street and ninety feet,
more or less, in depth.
Also lot number twenty-nine, bounded north
by Zubly street, east by lot number ten. south
by lot number twenty-eight, or letter “C,” and
West by Lumber street, eontaing sixty-three
feet six inches on Lumber street, and ninety
feet, more or less, In depth.
Also the east and west halve* of lot number
fifty two on the city map, bounded north by lob
number fifty-one (lots I and E), east by Lumber
street, south by lot number fifty-three, ami
west by West Boundary street.
A Iso the eastern halves of lots numbers forty
eight and forty-nine on the city map, together
bounded north by Zubly street, east by Lumber
street, south by lot letter D (or lot number fifty)
and west by the western parts of said lot* num
ber* forty-eight and forty-nine.
In all sixteen parcels of land.
The alxwe parcels of land will be sold in lot or
lots to suit purchasers. Terms caah, purchasers
paying for [tapers. Sale subject to confirma
tion by court.
R. R. RICHARDS,
C. H. DORSETT.
J. R. SAUSBY,
Commissioners.
FOR RENT.
I have for rent a ne new More and real
dence on tbo corner of Wee 6 Broad and
Gwinnett streets.
FOR RENT.
The residence No. 139 York street, between
Bull and Whitaker streets; very roomy and coo-
TvuiMtl to businsss. G. U, JJWItiiSTX, |
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