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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 CENT A WORD, Cash in Advance, each 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 session given Nov. Ist. Apply to JO C. THOMP SON, Grocer. HOUSES AND STORES FOR RENT. I,X)R RENT, desirable residence, 163 Gaston street, near Barnard; possession given im mediately. Inquire on premises. \ SEVEN-ROOM cottage for rent in East Broad street, opposite Congress. Call at A. DOYLE'S. I DOR RENT, a comfortable seven-room cot tage, with kitchen. Call at A. DOYLE’S. Oqn WILL rent the conveniently located six dr —A J room house 161 York street. FDOR RENT, that cottage house. Call at A. HOYLE'S- I DOR RENT, desirable brick residence 139 Gor -1 don street. Apply to J. M. WILLIAMS, 143 Jones street 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, between Drayton and Bull; possession given October 4th. Apply to LEWIS CASS. I DOR RENT, the most desirable resience on . Taylor street, two doors west of Aborcom street: possession given from Ist Oct. Apply to WALT HO UR & RIVERS, No. 61 Bay street. }DOR RENT, that desirable residence No. 61 1 Barnard street, with modern conveniences, facing square. Apply to WALTHOUR & RIVERS. 83 Bay street. TDOR RENT, brick store 150 Congress street; I” three stories on cellar; possession given im mediately. Apply to WALTHOUR & RIVERS, No. 83 Bay street. IDOR RENT, desirable brick residence corner 1 Liberty aud Abereorn streets; possession Oct Ist. Apply to WALTHOUR & RIVERS, No. 88 Bay street. I DOR P.ENT, from Oct. Ist. splendid store No. ’ 67 Bay street, situate in Hutchison’s Block, next to corner of Abereorn: lias splendid cellar and Is splendid stand for any business; second and third stories can lie rented if desired A. 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 city, on the Augusta road. For terms apply to Mrs. J. HERSCHBACH. 54 South Broad street. FOB SALE ’ I DOR SALE CHEAP, centre-board Sloop or cat-rigged Bateau. 30 feet long, 7 beam: 5 months old: won two races this year; new and complete; $35. Address CASH, this office. tXOR SALE. New Singer Sewing Machine: cost SSO ; used only two weeks :price S2O. Address MACHINE, Morning News office. f’OR SALE, good second-hand Top Buggy; not long used. Address P. O. Box 110. I DOR SALE, new Type-Writer, No. 2, in per . feet order. Address CASH, News office. TDOR SALE, bearing orange grove in the X 1 healthiest part of Florida; near county seat, depot, schools, churches, college, lakes, etc.; a bargain. Address Box 234, Holyoke, Mass. 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. ti r/) REWARD.—The following volumes of >.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. JY O AUDI NG.—Newly fitted up boardinghouse > and lodging at 180 Broughton street; con veniences and comforts special. BOARDING with private family; largo fur nished rooms; southern aspect; pleasant locality. Address WOODS, News office. 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. DOYLE’S. 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. IDROM ATLANTA,fresh Sausages and Bologna ’ daffy. A- DOYLE- |2 BARRELS Fine Pears at A. DOYLE’S. ON every steamer, fresh stock, at A. DOYLE'S. 1 A RETURN TUBULAR BOILERS and En 11) gines cheap anti good. GEO. R. LOM BARD & CO., Augusta, Ga. _____ •) K BARRELS Fresh Green Cabbages by steam er to-day at A. DOYLE’S. K BARRELS CRANBERRIES at O A. DOYLE’S. "PERSONS desiring employment or employers J wanting help will please apply to Young Men’R Christian Association, corner Barnard and State streets. F.AR the Market, No. 154 St. Julian street. PARSNIPS, Carrots, Turnips and Beets. A. DOYLE. _ ef(\ H. P. RETURN TUBULAR BOILER for t U side cheap. GEO. R. LOMBARD ■£ CO., 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. MARSHALL. & McLEOD, Auction and General Commission Merchants, DEALERS IN— Real Estate and Stocks and Bond’s, 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. riei Isms 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, | 3