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2 COVERED BY HOT COALS. THE COMAL’S CHIEF ENGINEER ARRESTED FOR MURDER. An Affidavit Accusing Him of Having Thrown a Shovelful of Red Hot Coals Taken From the Furnace Over the Body of a Coal-Handler Who Was Sick and Afterward of Beating Him to Death. From the New York World. Galveston, Tkx., Qct. 20.—Upon the arrival of the Mallory steamship Comal from New York yesterday the master of the vessel, Capt. John Ki-k, reported that dir ing the voyage a coal-passer, John 11. Graham, of Now York, had died of over heat and cramps aud had been buried at sea. This was the substance of Capt. Risk’s report at the Naval Office, as required by the United States statute in steh cases. Nothing more was thought of tl.j matter during the day and no suspicion of foul play existed at the custom house. It was, therefore, a matter of surprise when later one of the coal handlers named Riley, who made the trip with Graham, visited the office of the United .States Commissioner and made affidavit charging William R. Mc- Cullough, Chief Engineer of the Comal, with the willful murder of Graham. Riley's story, for savage and deviiish inhu manity almost surpasses belief. In snb s!ance, he swore that lie was working in the same watch with Graham, and when they wore four days out from New York. Gra ham, while in the fireroom at work, com plained to him (Riley) and others of being sick and unable to “hold up his end” on the work. Shortly after this Chief Engineer McCullough came in and found Graham lying down, apparently sleeping, where upon the engineer remarked, “I'll wake you up," and suiting the action to the word he deliberately took a large shovel and scoop - it full of red hot coals from the furnace, lie poured them over the prostrate form of the Kick man, and followed up the work by beating and abusing Graham as he la}' writhing under the burning coal. Riley further swears that within fifteen minutes after Engineer McCullough had first. assaulted Graham the latter was a corpse, and the body was immediately re moved to the engiue-room and laid upon a grating. Perhaps the most extraordinary statement made by Riley is that the body of the dead man was kept on ice until the steamship was within twelve hours’ run of Galveston, and was then buried at sea. The commissioner immediately issued a warrant charging McCullough with murder on the high seas, and he was arrested while aboard the vessel by a deputy U nited States mar shal and committed to jail. Five witnesses were also arrested to await the sitting of the Federal grand jury. Engineer McCullough is about 43 years old and is a resident of New York city. District Attorney MeComb arrival here tins morning and. appearing liefore Com missioner Spann, drew up a formal affida vit charging the prisoner with murder, ami the cqpiplainant was taken from the jail and arraigned in the United States Court. John Dougherty testified as follows: Was a member of the Comal’s crew, but left her yesterday. McCullough was chief Enginear, and Graham was .a coal-passer. Witness saw him a short time both before and after his death, which was caused by illtreat nimt. "I saw McCullough catch him by the shoulders, and, finding him unable to work, got on to him and struck him with his fist. Then he put the shovel into the furnace and got out fire and threw it about him. He then got up and the engineer again got another shovel of fire and threw it on Graham and struck him with a bar of iron about three feet long and over an inch thick, hitting him on the back. 1 do not know how often he struck him. Graham was a sickly man. weighing about 160 pounds. McCullough was much the more powerful man. “When Graham fell McCullough dragged him over the ashes and coals a distance of about fifteen fee*. 1 then went out, and When I came back Graham was lying in the engine room dead. 1 did not interfere, as 1 was sick and weak and could have made no ! defense. The assault, occurred about two tlays before the ship reached Key West. Graham’s body was put on ice and keirt. for about five (ii* an * w-*< buried the day be fore the sh'n leached the bar. Ido not know that sny physician examined him. 1 saw- his buck blistered from the fire. The man was rick .then we left Now York. “I think he tied been on the Comal about four months; ] had known Graham from the time he boarded the ship, and I had been on her about four months. When Graham came aboard he did not appear to be sick, but he was unwell the first watch when she went to sea. He complained of Cramps and shortness of breath, supposed to be the effects of drinking. On the .Sun day and Monday following our departure his condition was bad and continued so ou Tuesday. He could not stand the heat iif the fire-room. He was on my watch work ing a little. I did my own work and part of his. Before the chief engineer came into the fire-room the second engi neer brought Graham down, but 1 did not see him. He told Graham he must get his ashes out of the way or he would call the chief. The ashes are meas ured every four hours. Graham complained of cramps. When McCullough came down Graham was sitting down aud 1 was put ting coal into the fire room from the bunk ers. The chief engineer got fire from the furnace and threw it on Graham, who was sitting close to the ash pile. The engineer struck him with his hand, saying he would have no‘laying up.’ I am not mistaken about his striking Graham with an iron bar, but the blow was a light one, not per liap-. hard enough to hurt him. He also threw live coals on him I did not hear what was sanl distinctly. When the ashes were thrown on him tho second time Gra ham fell. Then I noticed that his shirt was off.” Michael Flynn knew Graham and also McCullough. He saw the chief engineer compel Graham to work. Tho chief then dragged him about, struck him with Ills hand and a bar of iron about two and a half inches thick. Witness saw the chief sti ike him with the shovel and also with a bar; saw him throw a little red shower of fire on Graham “to make him work.” Witness had not been threatened if he testified in the case. The last thiug he saw was the chief drugging him up to give him some cramp medicine. The man died in a few minutes after thp difficulty. Commissioner Spauri held the defendant in the sum of $.5,000 for his appearance at the November term of the United Males Court. Tho witnesses were required either to give bail or be committed. McCullough gave bond, with Capt. J. N. Saucer and George S. Elyas eureiies, who also signed the hinds of John Mahoney and Michael Flynn, coal passers, in the sum of SSO each for their appearance as witnesses. John Dougherty and Henry Gordon, witnesses for the government, were committed to jail. The steamer Comal went to sea this after noon. At the office of Mallory & Cos., foot of Burling slip, this city, nothing had been heard of the occurrence, and (lie report whs discredited. “Engineer McCullough isn't that sort of man,” said one of l oe firm ; “he is quiet, peaceable and inoffensive, and there must he some mistake about it.” William K. McCullough, chief engineer of the Mallory Lie) Steamship Comal who has been •ceuseo. of the murder of John H. Graba i. who died during tho steamer's trip fr*m this port to Galveston, is well known it: maritime circles in this oitv. The agents of the line ore loath to believe tiie crave charges ag in-it-the en gineer. McCullough is a native of this city and as far as canbejascertained always bore a good reputation. The Comal cleared Galveston for New York yesterday. The fust idea of electricity was given by the friction of two globes of quicksilver in the year 1017. PULPIT ELOQUENCE. Some of the Noted Preachers Who Have Been Brought to New York Under Contract. New York, Oct. 22. —The droll attempt to apply the law prohibiting the “importa tion of foreign contract labor” to the case j of an Episcopal clergyman brought from j England under contract to fill the place of rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, ! reminds me of a curious change that has j taken place in New York sirn*e the close of | the war. One cannot help 1 icing astonished | at the number of leading clergymen in the j city who have been brought over here from | abroad to fill the pulpits of our fashionable I churches. Take a few facts. In my boy | hood, the leading clergyman of the Episco l pal denomination here was the Rev. Dr. Tyng, an American by birth; but now thut place is held bv an Englishman of recent immigration. The hading clergy man of the Presbyterian denomination was the Rev. Dr. Spring, American by birth; but now that place is held by the Rev. John Hall, a Belfast Irishman, discovered by Rolwrt Bonner. The leading clergyman of the Congregationalist denominate a was the Rev. Dr. Joseph Thompson, an American by birth; bat now the place is held by the Rev. Dr. Taylor, a Scotchman, brought here as Mr. Thompson’s successor in the Tabernacle. The leading clergyman of the Unitarian church was the Rev. Dr. Bellows, a born American; but now that place is held by the Rev. Robert Collyer, an Englishman who i-ame here some years ago. The leading clergyman of the Dutch Relornied church was the Rev. Dr. Venuilyea, of old Ameri can stock, but now the place is held by the Rev. Dr. Ormiston. a large-headed Scotch man who came to this country “under con tract.” The leading clergyman of the Beecherite faith was its renowned founder, Henry Ward Beecher; but now even Ply mouth church lias lieen desirous of securing the services of the Rev. Dr. Parker, of England, as Mr. Beecher's successor. If We go down from such famous men as those just named to the lesser lights of the New York pulpit , we find the change in the same direction to be still more remarkable. Al most every year clergymen are brought over from the British Isles for some of our churches. Why this dearth of acceptable clergymen of American birth in these days, when they used to be so abundant in other times? There is no such scarcity of ability and elo quence in politics or the law as to compel us to import a supply from abroad; why should there lie scarcity of talent in the pulpit? We have plenty of theological schools for training clergymen of all denominations, and several thousands of young theologians who ought to be well equipped must bo turned out from them every year. The pro fessors in these instil utioiis cannot tie less competent than those in similar institutions abroad, and it cannot be admitted that the pupils are any way inferior to those who are preparing for the clerical profession in Great Britain. There is something incom prehensible in tliis business. The salaries paid to the leading lights are large, and the clergy enjoy many perquisites which highly increase their emoluments. Beside the financial inducements the men of the cloth enjoy a social standing, with opportunities of winning fame, such as are not easily se cured in other vocations. 1 am not aware that the experience of other American cities is like that of New York in this matter, but any further discus sion of the subject must be left to the re ligious papers, which ought to trace it to roots and turuish us the bottom facts. We ought surely to be able to supply our own pulpit with all the talent that may be needed. John Swinton. SOMETHING ABOUT BURLESQUE. It Appears to be Coming Into Favor Again. New York, Oct. 23. —Burlesque is abroad again. Mr. Edward E. Rice has returned to town with his troupe of amply revealed women, and they are causing the usual amount of perturbation, tribulat on and ex citement among the contingent of unnatu rally young old men and preternaturaliy old young men to form the main pillar and support of such shows. There is a substan tial reason for the success of burlesque everywhere. There is no doubt that women are fond of looking at other members of their sex whose charms are well displayed, and man’s predilection in this respect dates back to the protoplasmic era of fathomless ooze. I don’t know exactly what this means except with an article which I read in an English magazine the other day it is fresh in my mind. The article explained with a wealth of rhetoric that man had originally sprung from a monkey, that the monkey had come by a system of evolution from the oyster, which in turn had originated in pro toplasm, which in turn had been evolved from ooze It was the most masterly and complete explanation of the origin of man that I have ever encountered outside of Dar win, but it left the reader breathless, battled and balked at the tale end of the article by failing to explain what the ooze sprang from. The acute and discerning reader probably imagined at this point that I am going to insinuate that some of Mr. Rice’s chorus girls belong to the era of protoplas mic ooze. Not so. It is a digression. Rice’s chorus girls are as usual the prettiest ones on the stage. They cannot sing, but they are eminently pleasing to the eye. The "Corsair”Ts very much like “Evan geline.” It has the inevitable Irishman and the old-time fat woman, and the usual num ber of agile and lively comedians. The book is rot. Nobody expects Shakesperian verses in a latter day burlesque. The music is catching, and is calculated to dispel gloom and sorrow. The main charm of the “Cor sair” lies in the sumptuous and magnificent fashion of its production. Everything about it has been dim-tol to the sole object of achieving a triumph of color and harmo ny in the stage pictures. It is a gorgeous spectacle, and as such it will undoubtedly be successful. It is a long step from a Rice burlesque to a picture of New England home life like “Tlie Old Homestead.” While Rice and Dixy are spending fortunes on costumes and dazzling scenic effects, Abbey is developing the biggest stock company iu the country, and other men arc projecting theatrical (speculations which would astound a Wall street dreamer; an old time actor gives a quiet picture of home life on the stage, and m ikes more money than all the others put together. It was so with “Hazel Kirke” ami so with “The Old Homestead.” The income of Denman Thompson is colossal, and is all due to the tact that he gives pictures of everyday and familiar incidents. He is a realist and not a sen sationalist. Thompson combines the two extraordinary characters in one. Ho is the wildest sort of a sportsman and sporting man on a race track, and the mildest old farmer imaginable when tilling his home acre. He is a plunger from i'luugerviiie when he backs bis horses, and lie will drop more money in two days at Jerome, Slieeps head or .Monmouth than he can make up pc ting in weeks. It, is a poor week by the way that Henman Thompson does not take in $lO,OOO at the door. Pictures of home life are a-; popular a-, the home novels of K. P. Roe. who has long stood at the heiui of American novelists, judged by the size of his income. There is api out worth noting here by the manufacturers of things theatrical. , Blakely Hall. A Launch’s Boiler Bursts. New York, Oct. 23.—The steam launch Mary burst Uer boiler to-day at the foot of East One Hundred and Sixteenth street, in stautli killing John and Patrick Cunning ham, brothers. Carl K. Schmidtke, the owner Oi the launch, was blown into the river, bul wa saved. James Cunningham was struck by a piece of tbo boiler and severely injured. O. W. Olrott, who w'us in a rowboat near by, was also thrown into the river, but was rescued. Hats. Hats, in or shape, at Appel ,fc Re haul's, One Price Clothiers. Screven's Patent Elastic Seam Drawers ut Ap ■ pel A Sudani s. Call mid insp—'i same. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1887. LABOR IN POLITICS. A National Conference to be Held at St. Uouis. St. Louis, Oct. 33. —The preliminary arrangements have been made for the hold ing in this city, about the middle of Decem ber of a conference of all the labor political elements or factions in the country, at which there will be representatives from all sections of the Union. The object of the conference is said to be to harmonize all factions of the labor party under one banner for the campaign next year and to adopt a general platform. Another pur lse is to decide upon a now mime—onij in which the word labor will not appear. The National Free Soil Party is the name which it is thought will be adopted. It is expected that Henry George will be a prominent figure in the conference, and that it will adopt his land theories. It is also expected that tho conference will fix the date anil place for holding a national nominating convention If this is done an effort will be made to have the convention held here. SECRETARY WHITNEY’S WORK. A Record of Twelve Months of In dustry and of Valuable Results. From the New York Sun. Washington, Oct. 19.—The yeai of naval administration, to the review of which a large part of Secretary Whitney’s report will be devoted, is in every way one of the most important known to the Navy Department since the close of the civil w'ur. It has witnessed the completion of the new' steel cruisers Atlanta and Boston, the fastest and most efficient vessels now in commis sion. It includes the practical completion of the Chicago, whose trial trip will be made very soon, and which will doubtless lie regularly in commission before the meeting of Congress. The year has also witnessed the liegin ning of the construction of two much faster cruisers, the Charleston and the Baltimore, and two gunboats, all of which are now well advanced. It has seen the award of contracts for three additional unarmored cruisers, two of which are to go nineteen knots an hour, and the third, the Newark, eighteen knots, while all are to be power fully armed: and simultaneously with these contracts, others were awarded for two more gnnlioats. Still another form of construction belong ing to this year is the dynamite gun cruiser. This vessel, well advanced at Philadelphia, is to reach the high speed of twenty knots, aud to carry three guns, eac h callable of throwing projectiles loaded with 200 pounds of dynamite to the distance of at least a mile. The Secretary has also invited pro posals for a torpedo boat which is to have a speed of twenty-two knots, premiums being given for exceeding this speed, and penal ties exacted for falling short of it. The bids will be opened Nov. 1. The review of the twelvemonth must also take in the planning of the 6,000-ton armored cruiser and the armored battle ship, which in their degree of impregna bility combined with battery power, will far exceed any other vessels thus far pro jected for the navy. One of them will be built at Brooklyn and the other at Norfolk, thus greatly increasing the activity of the yards at those two points. Besides these new constructions, work has been resumed on the five iron double-turret, monitors, one of which has 6.000 tons displacement and the other four 3,887 oach, Finally, a Board has been devising plans for the floating batteries for which the last Congress made an appropriation, and will probably be able to report its conclusions within a few weeks. Of vessels thus added or to be added to the navy, we find twenty-four or twenty five, including the Dolphin and the Stiletto, should the latter be purchas'd. In addition, the department has been very busy during the last year in making contracts for steel, botn for armor and for guns, the quantity of this material ordered from American manufacturers being unprecedented. Gun making has also gone ou apace, and the Washington Navy Yard has been turned into an ordnance factory. Pro]>osals have been also invited and received for making steel cast guns, in accordance with the act of Congress. Still another important work has lieen the assignment of contracts for building two timber dry docks, one to be placed at Brooklyn and the other at Nor folk. Apart from these very large undertakings iu the building of vessels, and guns and docks. Secretary Whitney has put in opera tion during the year plans of reorganizing his department on business principles, the chief of which is the new system of purchas ing and distributing supplies and keeping accounts, which went into effect on July 1. Altogether, the year which the Secretary will review has been a busy and fruitful one for the department of which he has charge. STORIES OF WESTERN LIFE. How a Cowboy Justice of the Peace Administered the Law. From the London Spectato). His experience of Western life is as racy as a volume of Bret Harte. Take the fol lowing, for instance: At a prairie town not far from his ranch, as distances go in the West, there is a State court of first instance, presided over by one Hoy Bean, Justice of the Peace, who is also the owner of the principal grocery. Some cowboys had been drinking at the grocery one night, with the result that one of them remained on the floor, but with sense enough loft tolieouthe side of the pocket wtiere he kept his dollars. In the morning it appeared that he hail been “rolled”—Angiice, turned over and his pocket picked—whereupon a court was called to try a man on whom suspicion rested. Roy Bean sat on a barrel, swore in a jury, and then addressed the prisoner thus: “Now, you give that man his money back.” The culprit, who had sent for the lawyer of the place to defend him, hesitated for a moment, and then pulled out the money. “You treat this crowd,” were Roy’s next words; and while “drinks round” were handed to the delighted cowboys at the prisoner’s expense Roy pulled out his watch and went on: “You’ve got just live minutes to clear out of this town, and if ever yon come in again we’ll hang you.” The cul prit made off just as his lawyer came up, who remonstrated with Roy, explaining that the proper course would have been to have heard the charge, committed the prisoner, and sent him to the couuty town for trial. “And go off sixty miles and hang round with the boys [witnesses] for you to null the skunk through and touch the dol lars!” said Roy, scornfully; whereupon the lawyer disappeared in pursuit of his client and unpaid iee. , It occurs to one to ask how much of the litigation of England might lie saved if judges of lirst instance might open with Rev’s formula—" Now you give that man his money back.” lam bound to add that his practice is not without its seamy side. When the railway was making, two men came in from one of the gangs for a warrant, A brutal murder hud been committed. Roy told bis clerk (the boy in the grocery, he be ing no penman himnlf) to make out the p o.er, asking—“Wot’s the corpse’s name?” “Li Hung,” was the reply. “Hold on!” shouted Roy to his clerk; and then to the pu-siiers -“Ri von ken find anything in them books,” pbinting to the two or three supplied by the State, “about killin' a Chinaman it ken go,” and the pursuers had to travel on to the next fount of justice. Please find room lor one more and I will promise to cut my next shorter. My “lo if brother” beard it himself as he was leaving Texas and laughed at it nearly all the way up. A group i cowboys lit the station were discussing the problem of how long the world would last if this drought went on. the prevailing sentiment being that they would rather it womit'si through somehow. A cowboy down on Ins luck here struck on: "Wall, if the angel stood rig.it thar.” (minting across the room, “r ■ i ly to sound, and looked across at me. I’d just say: ‘Labe! toot your old horn!” ' THE CRAZY ROMANOFFS. The Mental Disease Which Afflicts the Russian imperial Family. From London Society. In the recently published memoirs of Count Vitzthum, of Eckstadt, proofs are given of the hereditary character of the mental disease which afflicted the imperial family of Russia. All the sons of Czar I’aul 1., like that unhappy monarch himself, who was murdered in 1801, became subject to fits of insanity. Raul I. had four sons— Czar Alexander 1., the Grand Duke Con stantine, Czar Nicolas 1., and the Grand Duke Michael. Every one of them after his 45th year, exhibited undoubted signs of mental derangement. This was not fully discovered in the case of Nicolas I. until after the Czar’s death. An English physician, however, the Count says, noticed the ap pearance of the hereditary disease iu the Czar as early as July, 1853, and he then predicted that the monarch had not more than Iwo years of life before him. This he stated in a letter to Lord Palmerston. The Emperor Nicolas died in March, 1855, about four months earlier than the date predicted. Tho Count appears to have no doubt that the Crimean war, so far as it depended on Nicolas, was the rash act of a ruler “whose mental equipose was disturbed.” None of tho four sons of Paul I. lived to be 60 years of age, and every one of them suffered from concus sion of the brain after reaching his 45th year. Alexander died at '4B, a miserable man, moody and despondent, as Prince Met ternich has painted him, “tired of existence.” His brother, the Grand Duke Constantine, though not manifestly insane, gave fre quent signs of mental disturbance, of which h was himself so plainly conscious that ho did not think himself lit to be trusted with the reins of government. His conduct in the year 1330, at the outbreak of the revo lution iu AV’arsaw, will remain to prove his mental unsoundness. He had to be intrusted to the care of his wife, the Princess Lowicz, who was cautioned the same way as is a physician in charge of a patient having intermittent fits of insanity. He died in his 53rl year from congestion of tiie brain. Tim Grand Duke Michael was killed by a fall from his horse at the ago of 48. Some years before his death he had exhibited signs of undoubted mental disease, and his physi cians declared that he was on the road to certain insanity. The events of 1848 52 were not calculated to allay the hereditary dispositions of the imperial family of Rus sia, but to excite and intensify them. There is something terrible in tho contrast between the outward position of the Czar Nicolas, upon the bent of whose will the fate of mil lions in Eurorie was depending, and the al leged diseased inward condition of his mind. Sharpshooters in Mexico. From the New York Tribune. The victories won by the United States troops in Mexico years ago have generally been ascribed to the superior fighting quali ties of the Americans over the Mexicans. But Capt. Lester S. Bartlett, of the Spent er Kille Company, who was recently iu Mexico, mentioned this theory: “An old Mexican soldier told me that it was the American sharpshooters that broke up their troops. All over Mexico you find what are called arrovas. They are what we would call fulclies, aud occur everywhere in the plains. 'hey have precipitous banks, ami men sometimes walk into them without seeing them. They seem to be the rifts at the bot tom of a sea. which one day* may have covered the country. The American rifle men would drop into these arrovas, which formed natural rifle-pits for them, and, hav ing superior rifies for those days, were able to pick off the Mexicans before the latter got within shooting distance with tlieir bell mouth guns, The slaughter that resulted alway s broke up the Mexicans before they* got within fighting distance.” Women Poachers. From the London Times. The Ruthin police have made a curious capture. Sergt. Evans aud two constables, having reason to suspect the home-coming of a gang of well-known poachers, placed themselves in the highways near the town, and w'hen the men camo along searched them without result. As it was obvious from the state of their clothes that they* had been poaching, the officers again concealed themselves, and presently saw three women crossing the field to a place where they re mained some time. When they were re turning the officers insisted on' searching them. Their intelligence was amply re warded, for the women hail slung twenty seven rabbits on three strings aud tied them beneath their dresses. In this way they were also carrying off two long lengtns of rabbit netting. They, at the outset, protested that the protuberances were ordinary “dress improvers," but the officers were obdurate, and at length the twenty-seven rabbits were produced. The women will be brought be fore the County Magistrates on the charge of being in the'illegal possession of game. Wonderful Display of Instinct. From the Bangor Whig and Courier. John Mea, who livoson Eaton court, five or six weeks ago gave a cat to tho captain of a vessel going to Boston. He carried the cat down in a basket and placed it aboard the vessel, which sailed shortly after. In Boston the cat made no attempt to leave the vessel, but seemed to be entirely at homo and contented. Last week the vessel re turned to this city, coming up to the ferry way, where it arrived at the wharf at an early hour in the morning. As soon as the vessel touched the wharf the cat darted ashore and disappeared. Before Mr. Mca had arisen in the morning he heard a cat at the door, and saying to his wife that “That sounds like our cat, he got up and opened the door, when in bounded kitty, apparently delighted to get home again. How she know when she reached Bangor, and how she found her way back to the house, not having seen the way she was carried, is something of which cats only can give an explanation. I*. I*. P. MANUFACTURING CO. The weather to-day will oe cooier and iair. 15 YEARS OF AGONY. RHEUMATISM OVERTHROWN BY TIIE USE OF Prickly ash, Poke root, Potassium. I suffered fifteen years with Rheuma tism. and during that time tried all the sii railed specifics ihut l could hear of. < Im- of Uiciii 1 paid 3.1 per bottle for, and took nine bottles and received no bene fit from any of them. My grandson, who runs on the B. and W. railroad finally got a bottle of P. P. P. (Prickly Ash. Poke Root and Potassium), while in Waycross, and induced me to take it. The first bottle showed its wonderful effects, and after continuing the use of it for a short time the Rheumatism dis appeared. and 1 l’eel like anew man. I lake great pleasure in recommending it to sufferers from Rheumatism. W. H. WILDER. Hon. W. H. Wilder is Mayor of Albany, Ga., and takes pleasure in tes tifying to the virtues of P. P. P. P. I’. P. is not a Humbug, but a Prcp aralion of Prickly Ash, Poke'Hoot Queen's Delight and Sarsaparilla, with the lodide of Potassium added. One bottle of P. P. P. is equal to six of the ten preparations so com mon in the market. For Sale by All Medicine Dealer.’. MEETINGS. < vL WTiii; lodge \o. as, k. of p A regular meeting of this Lodge will he held THTS EVENING, at 8 o’clock, in new Pythian Hall. Mem hers of other Lodges cordially invited raLjflsrl to attend. '3S&gr Second rank will be conferred. GARDINER, C. C. W. Falconer, K. of ft. and S. IteKALB LODGE. NO. I. O. O. F. A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8 o'clock. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers are cordially invited to attend. By order of 11. W. RALL, N. G. John Riley, Secretary. GEORGIA TENT NO. 151, I. O. R. A most important session of your Tent will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at 8 o'clock. Election to fill offices of S. and L. The K. of J. degree to be conferred. Every member earnestly requested to be present. C. O. GODFREY, C. R. Thomas Hovnes, R. S. SAVANNAH FLORAL ANTI ART ASSO. CTATION. Attend a special meeting at Armory Hall THIS (Monday) EVENING, at 8 o'clock p. m. Business of importance. A large attendance requested. By order SAMUEL P. HAMILTON, President. _ OGLETHORPE REAL ESTATE COM PANY. Savannah, Ga., Oct. 22, 1887. A meeting of the Stockholders of this Com pany will be held at Metropolitan Hall on TUES DAY EVENING, Nov. l, 1887, at 8 o'clock, for the purpose of considering levolutions for the alienation of the property of this Company. E. A. 'VEIL. President. Eu. F. Necfville, Secretary. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements inserted under “Special Sot ires'' will be charged $1 00 a Square each insertion. SPECIAL NOTICE. DOCTOR ELLIOTT HAS RETURNED TO THE CITY. NOTICE. All bills against the British steamship YORK CITY, Benn, Master, must be presented at our office by or before 12 o'clock midday, THIS DAY, the 24th October, or payment there of will be debarred. A. MINIS 8t SONS, Consignees. NOTICE. All persons are hereby cautioned against har boring or trusting any of the crew of the Aus trian bark AQUILA. Capt. Tiehiaz, as no debts of their contracting will he paid by master, owners or M. S. COSULICH & CO., Agents. SPECIAL NOTICE. All bills against the British steamshipLYKUS, Capt. Smith, must be left at our office THIS DAY, before 12 o’clock, or payment will be de barred. STRACHAN & CO., Agents. SODA WATER MANUFACTURERS OF SAVANNAH Are compelled to raise the price of Soda Water, Sarsaparilla and Ginger Ale. In consequence of the loss of bottles on the part of our custom ers, which are not returned by them, we are obliged to take this step. The price of our goods from this date will be 75c. per box of two dozen to regular dealers and $1 per lx>x of two dozen to private dealers. This will give us on y a fair living profit, and we be tieve all wo are in favor of a "live and let live” policy will be satisfied. Promising to all our dealers to give satisfac tion and to please the public. Very respectfully, H. F. LUBS&CO., GEO. EBBERWEIN, Oct. 22. 1887. RAY & QUIN AN. DISABLED BARK FOR SALE. The Norwegian bark BIROITTE, 603 tons, lying at Willlnk's Wharf, Savannah river, in "disabled condition, the owner having been fully communicated with by me. and having refused to advance funds for repairs and necessaries, and having directed me to abandon her, 1 will sell, as Master, it being case of necessity, for benefit of whom it may concern. Description and particulars may be had on application to Messrs. Holst it Cos. Sealed bids invited to be handed in to me at Messrs. Holst & Co.’s office at or before 12 o'clock m, on WEDNESDAY. 26th inst. Ire serve right to reject anv or all bids. L. TORGKRSKN, Master, DR. HENRY tj GOLDING, DENTIST, Om corner Jones and Drayton streets. 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, tl 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. T*.. Pharmacist. (Savannah. Oa. STOVES, TO THE PUBLIC. is always our aim every winter, we have tried to get the best variety in HEATING STOVES, and think that, when our assortment is examined this will be conceded us. All winter goods connected with the Stove trade can be had from us in abundance. LOVELL & LftTTIMORE. 1* A I NT'S AND OIL-*. JOHN G. BUTLER, WHITE LEADS, COLORS. OILS, GLASS, ' > VARNISH. ETC.; READY MIXED PAINTS: RAILROAD, STEAMER AND MILL SUPPLIES. SASHES, DOORS, BUNDS AND BUILDERS’ HARDWARE. Sole Agent for GEORGIA LIME, CALCINED PLASTER, CE MENT, HAIR and LAND PLASTER. 6 Whitaker Street, Savannah, Georgia. 1865. CHRIS. MIiRPM, ’ 1865 House, Sign and Ornamental Painting fXECUTKD NEATLY and with dispatch. I j Paints, Oils. Varnishes, Brushes, Window Glasses, etc., etc. Estimates furnished on ap plication. CORNER CONGRESS AND DRAYTON STS., Rear of Christ Church. PRINTER AND ROOK BINDER. NICHOLS— JOB PRINTING. Ni CH O LS —BLN DING. NICHOLS —BLANK BOOKS. NICHOLS —GOOD WORK, NICHOLS —FINE PAPER. NICHOLS —LOW PRICES. NICHOLS —9.‘U RAY STREET. lAOR SALE, Old Newspapers, just the thing J for wrappers, only IS cents a hundred, COO tor at cents, at the business office. AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATRE.' FOUR NIGHTS, OCT. 26, 27, 28 AND 29, SATURDAY MATINEE. The Mac Collin Opera Comique Cos. Grand Chorus and Ensemble of 35 Voices. MISS HAAS, Miss Gaillard, Miss Hall, Mr. Branson. Mr. Gaillard, Mr. Mac Collin, six stars,large augmented orchestra.in the following sparkling reportoire: Wednesday and Saturday nights, "BEGGAR STUDENT;” Thursday night and Saturday matinee, "MERRY WAR;” Fri day night. FRANCAIS, THE BLUE STOCK ING.” This company has met with such uni versal success in the Southern circuit that managers of theatres have insisted upon and secured return dates for the present season. Read the Atlanta papers. Seats now on sale at Davis Bros ’ Next attraction JOHN S. CLARKE, Nov. 1, 2 and 8. DRY GOODS, ETC. SPEC IAL M1CI1IT! OPENING OF Fall anil Winter Goods AT Cnkn 4 liner’s, 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 the best manufacture, and selected esiiecially 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 Silk Hosiery, Kid Gloves. Ladies’ and Gentlemen's Linen Handker chiefs in a great variety of fancy prints, and full lines of hemmed-stitched and nlain hem med White Handkerchiefs. Gentlemen's I-aundrieil and Unlaundried Shirts, Bays’ Shirts, Gentlemen's Collars and Cuffs, Ladies’ Collars and Cuffs. Corsets—lmported and Domestic, in great variety, and in the most graceful and health approved shapes. Vests— Ladies', Gentlemen's and Children's Vests in fall and winter weights. Parasols—’The latest novelties in Plain and Trimmed Parasols. Orders All orders carefully arid promptly executed, and the same care and attention given to the smallest as to the largest commis sion. Samples sent free of charge, and goods guaranteed to be fully up to the quality shown in sample. Sole agent for McCALL’S CELEBRATED BAZAR GLOVE-FITTING PATTERNS. Anv pattern sent post free on receipt of price anil measure. CROIIAN & DOONER. MILLINERY. OUR GRAND PAT J.) OPENING —OF—• liijihgljils TAKES PLACE Monday & Tuesday, Ocl. 24 & 25. Croat Creations! Marvels of Fashion! And the latest productions of London, Paris, and our own Metropolitan Centres. WATCH THE DATES AND BE SURE TO VISIT. NEVER WILL SUCH A SIGHT SEEN AGAIN. PLATSHEK’S, 138 Broughton Street. fP-Wawh local columns this week for further announcements. r UO COUN TANARUS! OFFICERS. Books and Blnnsk I required by county officers lor the use of t he courts, or for office use, supplied to or bs’b* •be MOKNLS.; NEWS PRINXINU HOUSE, a Whitaker street. Savannah. tiuc oL, and j CLOTHING, CARPETS, ETC DanielJogan. BOYS’ CLOTHING. We will place on sale on MONDAY MORNING 500 as handsome Boys’ Suits as can be found south of New York. Prices of tailor-made and per fect-fitting suits are for better grades $6 50, $7 50, $8 50 $0 and SO 50. Also a large variety, fully 500, just as durable, but not as fine, at the following prices • $1 75, $2 25, $2 50, S;V S3 50, $4, $4 50, and $5. SPECIAL SALE OF Tapestry and Ingrain Carpets DURING THE ENSUING WEEK. One lot Tapestry Carpets at 65c. per yard. One lot 3-Ply All Wool Car pets at 85c. per yard. One lot All Wool Extra- Supers at 60c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 55 c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 50c. per yard. One lot Ingrain- Carpets at 40c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 22 sc. per yard. 500 Smyrna Rugs HANGING PRICE FROM 85c. Each to $lO. 100 rolls fresh Canton Mat ting, ranging in price from 20c. to 50c. per yard. . v- Special Baf^ais Will also be found in the fol lowing goods during this week: Silks, Satins, Dress Goods, Cloaks, Shawls, Lace Curtains and Curtain Goods, Flannels, Blankets, Bed Com forts, U n der wear, 11 osiery, Gloves, Corsets, Ladies’ and Gents’ Silk Ljnbrellas, etc., etc. Jail Hop STOVES AND FURNACES. STOVES. w E are now In our new quarters on Brough ton, near Barnard. Our quantity, quality and variety of STOVES are unsurpassed by any firm in the city. If you want a good article at a reasonable price call on Cornwell & Chipman, IPs BROUGHTON STREET. BANKS. KISSIMMEE CITY BANK, Kissimmee City, Orange County, Fla CAPITAL - *>o,ooo PPRANSACT a regular hanking business. OBJ X particular attention to Florida collection. Correspondence solicited. Issue Exchange <> New York, New Orleans, Savannah and son villa, Ela. Resident Agents for Coutts and Melville, Evans A Cos., of London, Eng*“, New York correspondent; The Seaboare National Bank.