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WEST POINT CANDIDATES THE TEYING ORDEAL THEY HAVE TO UNDERGO. Terrors of tl'.e “Prelim”—How the Temper and Courage of the “Plebe” Are Taxed. From the Xcio York Times. There is much that; is amusing iu the way a candidate at West Point is initiated into the mysteries of cadet manners, ways, and life —amusing to the initiators, cadets ma tured by a year’s experience at the Point, and who now repeat the practice put upon them at their entrance, with such additions as thoir ingenuity suggests; and amusing also to the subject initiated, the victim of cad&t pranks, if he sensibly looks upon them simply as pranks, and not as malicious af fronts'directed personally at him. Many an aspiring Major General iu embryo ap proaches the scene of his prospective ma triculation with a feeling at heart akin to fear, or with that indescribable sensation of unkown, unseen danger hovering near. From the day he received his notification from the Secretary of the War to present himself at West Point for examination by a certain date, “if he still desires the ap pointment,” he has read all he could find rthative to the Academy and eagerly im broed all tales more experienced persons have narrated for his benefit. And the first and leading feature of these recitals, to his mind, is severity to candidates. The pride of his native village, ho walked boldly up its one street, head in air, self-possessed with what he fondly- imagines to be a mili tary swing to his gait, while groups of ad miring but less fortunate villagers point to him and whisper* “He is go in’ to West P’mt in June.” He receives their homage as his just due, while perchance his inner self rebuses him and his near future ap pears before his mind’s eye. For now he will lie dragged from his high estate, shorn of his newly acquired dignity, made to grovel in the dust with depressed foes, with arms motionless by his sides and the palms of hands spread broadly to the front, to march to and fro in squad drill, at the mercy of certain cadet arilimasters, whom his imagination pictures as fiends in human form. But his good-byes finally said, with a trunk vvell packed by loving hands with all the articles love and care suggest, and which, being “ununiform,” will never emerge from the gloom of the cadet truck room, he has left his home, he has arrived at the Point, and reported his presence to the courteous officials at the Administration Building. Thence he is escorted to cadet barracks in company with some dozen fel low-candidates and turned over to the some what calloused mercies of the cadets ap pointed in charge of candidates. Follow ing their guide, an orderly, the little band crosses the area of cadet barracks amid shouts from observant cadets of “Hi! new lot of beasts, fellows! come and see’em,” and arrives at the door of one of the bar rack divisions: snd there they halt, looking anxiously to their guide for further instruc tions. “There’s your place,” ho says, oratori cally, with a sweeping wave of his hand to ward the wide open door. “All you have to do is to go in thri first room, one ata time, and report ” After delivering himseli of this information he departs All is quiet in that first room—the “of fice,” as it is termed by cadets. You would not suspect that it contains a living being, but it does, several of them —young, lively-, aggravating yearling cadets, who are wait ing quietly thrugh impatiently for the first candidate to present himself, that they may Teeeive him in a royal style, one befitting Ins rank and station. Well, nothing is gained by procrastination; so evidently thinks one young fellow as he leaves the lit tle group, and, advancing to the door, opens it and enters the office. Where now is that silence that erstwhile resigned supreme? The chorused outburst of shouts and yells that greets his ears can be likened to nothing so much as the growling and barking of a pack of bulldogs let loose upon their prey. So rush the y-earlings wildly forward, as though to exterminate the rash new-comer. No articulate sound can be distinguished, as the cadets crowd arouud him, pouring forth such a volume of sound from their brazen throats as he has never heard before. Con fusion reigns supreme, and then ceases as suddenly as it commenced, while one, distin guished by gilt stripes upon his arms, ad vances andfieroely inquires: “What do you mean by- entering without knocking? Step out there, sir, and try it again.’’ Amazed, dumfounded, the candidate meekly obeys. Where now the air of as surance with which he was wont to declare that “he wouldn’t stand any of their non sense. They would tret.t him as a gentle man or they would rue it ?” It is gone. It always goes. There has yet to come to the Academy the first candidate who will “stand upon his muscle,” as he has avowed he wi iuld. Our particular applicant for mar tial honor meekly knocks at the door and as meekly obeys the spirited shout to ‘‘come in!” His entrance is followed by his inspec tion. By some lucky inspiration he lias left his grip in the hall, buttoned his coat up to his chin, and carried his hat in his hand. The principal requirements are ful filled, “What do y-ou want?” is the next query pronounded to him. “1 came in to report,” he timidly ad mits. “Why don’t you report then? What are you standing there like aburnp on a log for? What’s your name?’’ “John Smith, sir.” “Did you bring Pocahontas with you?” This sally provokes a roar of approving laughter from the listening yearling, and John Smith thinks to propitiate them by joining faintly in the merriment. That is the opportunity the yearlings have been waiting for “Drop that smilesir! Wipeitoff! Don’t you dare to presume to grin! If I had such teeth ns you I’d keep my mouth shut for all eternity! There’s nothing here for you to laugh at! No, sir; this is pretty serious business for you!” Ho John Smith thinks, and he becomes dis creetly sedate. “\V here are you from?” “New Jersey, sir,” replies John, scarcely audible. “Oh! that accounts for it. We ought’nt to expect any more from you. You needn’t unpack your trunk, for your stay will bo short. There never was but one New Jersey man passed the prelim, and he was found the next January. Tnat’s onough for you. Git!” and John Smith “gits” accompanied by one of his inquisitors-, who escorts him up two flights of iron stairs to a room where he leaves him to his own device for the time being. Such a room! He had heard that cadets were allowed no carpets, no upholstered furniture; but such a miracleimthe way of Spartan simplicity of furnishing had never been his lot. Four whitewashed walls, a ceiling ditto, and a bare floor. Opposite the door, the steam heater, and nbiaek, gaping fireplace; behind the door, a large wooden box with the side knocked off and fitted with four shelves —called by courtesy and custom, a “clothes press,” a plain cherry table, backed squarely against the wall; above it a solitarv gas jet protruding from tiie whitewashed waste; on window giving an exceptionally jlne view- of a professor s kitchen garden at the far end, a partition rising nearly to the ceiling, dividing that Portion of tno room into two alcoves, each containing a narrow iron bedstead, a gar nishing of hooktfon each side of the parti tion whereon the cadet occupants were wont to hang their articles of clothing ai.d equipment, overcoat,dress coht, pantaloons, elotlioebag, in regular order from front to hack. 1/ist in contemplation of his new BuiToundings our candidate is awakened from his reverie by a prolonged roar on the lower floor. Rushing to the door lie listens to tho refrain floating up the stair way. “Gandida-a-ate ;, turn out promptly!” Rightly construing this as u direct invita tion to appeal', he descends to find some twenty- fellow-candidates being formed in line, a patience-trying task to the cadets in charge. The candidates at last stand in a long irregular line, which strings its doleful length out in serpentine curves as it marches to the neighboring storehouse, where tho usual articles of room funiture are issued, and which the canditates bear to their rooms. Each one receives a chair, a mat tress, a pillow, a quilt, a w-ashstand, wash bowl, and two galvanized iron buckets. With these possessions he is ready to “keep house” iu the limited cadet man ner. The work of receiving the candidates goes joyously on for two or three days, when all nominated for that y-ear have presented themselves. There are some hundred of these youths, presenting every type of American from Maine to Texas, from Florida to Oregon. The well-bred, white handed, neatly clothed boy from the city stands si le by side with the youth whose homespun clothing and large awkward joints proclaim the rural districts. The army boy from the plains chats with tiis classmate, the clergyman’s son from Ver mont, who probably never saw an army uniform till his arrival here. Wait four years and look at the renmant of these lads who shall then graduate. Together they stand, similar in bearing, the same square shoulders, broad chest, easy carriage be longing to all, acquired in the four y-ears they have marched, drilled, and rode to gether. The striking dissimilarities notice able at first have ceased to exist, and they appear as one man, examples of the result of the highest, most rigorous, and most elab orate system of teaching and training ever put in successful operation. “DE OYSTER AN’ DE ’COON.” The Experience of a Hungry Coon Who Went Oyster-Hunting. From the Missouri Republican. New York, Oct. 15. —Frank G. Wheaton, who used to be a politician in New Orleans, but is now a handler of all sorts of patents in this city, tells the following story: , “VVe used to have some great oyster sup pers in New Orleans. The oysters when I was there were so big that a dozen would do for a supper for half a dozen men. Some of the Bayou Cook and Bayou Barrataria oysters were a foot long. Of course they were too large to edt raw-, but they made an excellent fry. The best oysters I ever ate came from the edge of the Gulf of Mexico, ill the Mississippi Souud and Lake Pontchartrain, before the Bonne Carre crevasse sent the fresh water of the Missis sippi river out into the lake and destroyed the flavor of the bivalves. Do you know raccoons are exceedingly fond of oysters t Well, they are. One moonlight night I was standing on the gallery of the lighthouse at Cat Island, down near the gulf. A party of us were on our way to Goose Point to hunt brant and curlew, and, as we knew Sid Wilkinson, tho lighthouse keeper, we stopped over at Cat Island one evening. It was a beautiful night,and though it was in December a mail scarcely felt the need of an overcoat. The tide was at ebb, and Cat Island spit loomed up in the moon light like along, black strip of mud running into tiie sound. Tnis spit or promontory was a mass of oysters, which sputtered aud snapped as they" took in the atmosphere and held social converse with each other. You could walk out a quarter of a mile over them without - getting your feet wet aud eat all you wanted. That is, if you could open them, for just as soon as the oyster would see you he’d shut up his shell with a snap like the breaking of a twig. It was like walking over dry brush, the way those oysters would snap at the approach of any one. “Cat Island is full of coons,” continued Mr. Wheaton, taking a fresh start. “How they got there I don't know-, as the island is twelve miles from the nearest point of the main land. I reckon they voyaged on logs. Well, this night, while we were standing on the gallery, we saw about a dozen coons creep out of the spit hunting for oysters. One old coon sneaked up behind a big oyster that had his shell w-ide open and stuck his paw in to get the succulent bivalve. Quick as a flash the oyster clapped down on him, and the coon yelled. He’d been there be fore, though, and began to tug at the oyster to get him loose from the mud and sand, but tho oyster was one of a cluster and was too deeply, irnbeaded to be, moved. He huug to the coon like grim death, and it looked as if the coon would be kept a pris oner. We were so interested in the struggle we stayed to watch it. The tide turned, and at 4 o’clock in the morning all the other coons left the beach as the water was too high. It got higher and higher; little w aves were curling over the spit and it looked as if the coon w-ould be drowned. He made a last desperate effort to move that oyster and then deliberately bit his paw off. He left tho end of it in the oyster and hobbled off on three legs. Sid and I ran down, and after a search of half an hour found the spunky oyster as he was trying to eject the coon’s paw and captured him. I reckon that Sid has that coon’s paw yet.” CATCHING THE OTTER. Cowboys Have a Plan tor Taking Them Which They Suggest to Strangers. From the San Francisco Post. Owing to the falling of the lakes of Upper and Lower Klamath the otter is, perhaps, more visibly plentiful now than it has been for several years past, and a curious circum stance connected with the otter is its migra tion from one lake to another over moun tainous country. Lower Klamath lake, which extends far into California, is yearly losing its water, and it is feared that sooner or later Lower Klaitiath will run dry. It may be that this apprehension is also shared by the otter, for he is constantly making overland journeys from Lower Kla math lake to Tule lake. About two weeks ago a magnificent otter was killed by some cowboys,with their “lasso-ropes,” fully a mile aw-ay from any water. The cowboys declare that the proper way to capture an otter without hurting his skin is for the hunter to put on a huge pair of loose-fitting high boots, stuff tiie feet and legs with gravel and then wade the stream. The otter is a pugilistic creature, and no sooner does he see a strange pair of legs in the water than he will make a dash for them, seize a leg with his teeth and will only loosen his hold with death. Though Lost river, in Klamath county, would yield a prolific otter-fur harvest to the hunter by this method, I never saw a cowboy dar ing onough to make the venture, yet I was often present when they were attempting to induce an unwary stranger to make tho attempt. The beavers, whose deserted huts aud dams can be seen all along Lost river, are yet plentiful, but thev do not stand in high repute with the cowboy other than as a target for pistol practice. The prices that the furriers offer tor good otter" aud beaver, however, are ridiculously low, compared to the value that- they afterward place upon a dressed hide, large-sized otter only fetching to 50 to $6 and beaver from $0 50 to SS, and the same price is paid for an Alaskan beaver as for one from Oregon. The fur of the otter in the winter mouths is indeed handsome, dark and glossy, with a close, smooth net ting, and, wlien properly dressed and plucked, makes pretty tippets, muffs and cuffs. It is not uncommon to see cowboys in that Northern country with chaparejos made from otter and beaver fur. Tho cow boy, however, is not a good furrier, and rele gates that task to the Indians. The Indians have, however, a good notion of charges, and will not undertake to cure a skin under $2, no matter how small it may be. Consumption, Scrofula, General Debil ity, Wasting Diseases of Children, Chronic Coughs and Bronchitis, can tie cured by the nse of Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites. Prom inent physicians use it and testify to its great value. Please read the following: “I used Scott’s Emulsion for an obstinate cough with hemorrhage, loss of apiietite, emaciation, sleeplessness, etc. All of these have now left, and 1 believe your Emulsion lias saved a care of well developed consump tion.”—'T. J- I'XNDUtV, M. D., Lone btar, Tex. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1887. THE BIRTH OF A NEW RACE. A Promising Place to Study Babies. New York, Oct. 22.—Verily, Madison and Chatham squares are as far ai>art as are the poles, yet both are in New York. I never could understand how any man inter ested in his kind, and especially baby kind, could systematically pass by the lower end of tiie Bowery to bask in the human nature which finds expression at tiie lower end of Madison avenue. Anybody who wants to study babies seems to turn instinctively toward Madison square. It is the Mecca of the well to-do infant and the gossip ground of the nurse employed by the gladsome parents of the well-to-do infant. But 1 never seek there the study of the diminutive and really American. He is monotonously similar there, the precocious product of pompous and purse-proud parents. Beneath the full ing leaves of autumn these infants gambol on the green—some of them will do the same later in life with more varying results —but their charms are not for me. It is my custom of an afternoon to passj through both quarters in my long stroll up town from business, and Chatham square —as to ba bies, as well as other necessary and unnec essary evils—possesses more charm to the inch for the student of life in a big city than any two of the swellest spots in New York. The puller in for Araham, Isaacs’ and Jacobs’ clothing emporiums know me; my face is familiar also to the gentleman who sings the praises of the dime museum, and he whom the police call the fakir. I pass unmolested and observant, and seldom does the journey end without some incident worthy of reflection. The other day I had just turned into the square ana had passed Mott street, when a commotion a short distance in advance at tracted my attention. The heterogeneous mob of pedestrians were collecting about some moving object. “Hurry up, Sally, let’ssee its face,” shout ed a very dirty little girl of 10, whose frowsy red hair and freckled taco brushed against my arm. A dozen of the assorted babies on the block—some of them with faces double the age of their bodies—were making for the centre of attraction, and I followed their example. Can you guess what caused such a passing sensation—for nothing short of a fire causes more on the Bowery ? One poor little Chi nese baby of two celestial summers, who toddled along the walk with his tiny fist holding hard the ban J of a Chinaman whose native dress indicated that he was well-to do. The little one was attired in a com promise between New York and China, with trousers and jacket and a fancy tur ban was on his head. A wonderfully bright face it was that gazed up stolidly at the cu rious crowd,and accepted rough endeavors to caress with all the serenity of a wooden image. Curious to know who the swell youthful heathen might be, I interrogated his guardian in my very best Chinese, and was informed tnat Tom Lee, famous as the only Deputy Sheriff of his race in New York, was the father. Now, I knew Tom, who is a clever fellow and opulent withal, and the proprietor of a pretentious grocery at the corner of Mott street and the Bowery. I knew, too, that there was a Mrs. Tom, who was not Chi nese, so I was puzzled to account for the true features of tiie boy, and determined to pay the lady an afternoon call at once and clear the matter up. She happeneu to be visiting, I was in formed, at the cigar store of a friend a few doors deeper into Chinatown. This shop, which was very neat, was decorated on one side with a Chinamen nursing a black eye on a soap box, and on the other with an or dinary cigar case. Behind the latter sat a rather pretty woman with German fea tures, busily engaged in knitting and look ing so neat and comfortable that it was quite impossible to address her without lifte ing my hat. "I beg pardon, madam,’ v saiffl, “but I am looking for the wife of Tom Lee.” “No, you’re looking at her, sir,” was the smiling response. “Indeed!” My evident admiration and the purchase of a sc. cigar for 15c. placed mo at once up on an easy and chatty footing, aud I related to fiej- the sensation caused by her young ster’s afternoon promenade. “Oh, yes,” she said, “they always follow him.” ‘‘But how is it that he has such Chinese features?” “I’m sure I don’t know. I have had four children since I married Tom, and all looked like their father. Two of them are dead.” “Does a Chinaman make a good hus band?” The little woman’s answer was empha tic. “Well, I.wouldu’t want to change my husband. He’s always kind to me, and when I want a thing I have only to ask him and he gets it for me.” “Are there many women of New York married to Chinaman?” “About fifty, I guess. You see there are about 3,000 Cuinamau in the city, aud only a very tew Chinese women. Babies? Oh, well there are about 800 from the mixed marriages, but, ail that I have seen have the features of the father. Of course _yuu don't often see them on the street. Why? because they draw a crowd, and it isn’t pleasant for the Chinaman who has them in charge. You can find them, down through this street, though, if you know where to look. Good day, sir. If iny baby is still on the Bowery tell him to come home.” I couldn’t help thinking, as I strolled on, what new and strange conditions the prog ress of the Chinaman here has evolved, and what a startling thing it would bo if all these Chinese babies were simultaneously deposit.<l m Madison Square. Yet here they live their little daily lives among us, and few of us are tho wiser. I was so absent-minded that evening that I gave Mrs. Toni Lee’s cigar to an acquaint ance against whom l harbored a grunge. G. H. FI.KMI.NG. A Phenomenon of Domesticity. Font the San Francisco Chronicle. It does look as if after a man got married he lost all capability of looking after him self. How is it that a man who is a bache lor is the pink of neatness, the glass of fash ion and mold of form, when he gets a wife never seems to lie able to do anything in the way of dressing himself without his wife’s assistance? This young man was once a notorious flirt. H had the best cut coats, the most beautiful boots, the most elegant neckties in town. He hus been married several years, and he hardly knows how to button his collar now, and would wear his coat inside out if his wife didn’t keep an eye on him. Is it natural cu.sed ness? Just a desire to give his wife all the work and worry ho cau, or is it a psycho logical phenomenon attributable to domes ticity? He had a lucid moment once, this young man, in which he noticed his boots were pretty well worn. It lasted long enough for him to say to his wife: “Haven’t I got any other boots I can wear ? These are awful.” “ Yes,” she said, ‘‘there is a pair of side button boots in the closet there.” H.> fetched them out. “How does it come that I’ve had these boots all this time, and been wearing those worn-out ones ?” Then lie put them on. “Yes, 1 know there must be something the matter with the blamed hoots. Thev don’t fit me at all. I cau't walk in them.” And he made faces as lie stamped up aud down the room. “They are not my boots, yet they are a man's boots. Madam, who is so familiar in this house as to have a pair of jjoots— ■‘Well, dear, they’ll perhaps be more com fortable if you’ll put the rigut boot on the right foot.” “Rough on Plies.” Why suffer piles? 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CABINET WORK, CEDAR CHEST. Slate Wants. / n for Pamphlet. Address TERRY SHOW 0 A -... CO . Nashville. 1 can. PRY GOODS. After the Fire! The undersigned respectfully begs to announce to his many friends and the public at large that we will RE-OPEN 01 mm AT THE OLD STAND 153 Broughton Street, -ON- Wednesday, October sth. WE PROPOSE TO SURPRISE THE PUBLIC IN SHOWING THEM The Handsomest, The Most Elegant, The Newest, The Most Stylish GOODS EVER SHOWN IN SAVANNAH OR ELSEWHERE, AND AT PRICES SO LOW As to enable every one almost to wear the BEST GOODS IN THE MARKET. PLEASE REMEMBER We Have No Old Stock to Work Off. We respectfully ask the public to pay us a visit, whether they wish to purchase or not, and we will take pleasure in proving to them that we have not exaggerated. David Weisbein. THE GREAT IUNFAILING SPECIFIC Foil \\m DISEASE ECKSTEIN’S WEEKLY AD. The Old Reliable Dry Goods House OFFERS THIS WEEK: High Novelties in Dress Goods. ECKSTEIN’S. High Novelties in Ladies’ Wraps. ECKSTEIN’S. High Novelties in Trimming Velvets. ECKSTEIN’S. High Novelties of Every Character. ECKSTEIN’S. WILL SELL THESE EXCLUSIVE CHOICE STYLES AT EXTREME LOW PRICES. THE BEST GOODS AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE. N. B. We invite the attention of the Ladies in particular, and our patrons in general, to our New Stock of Elegant Goods, and to complete lines White Blankets, Comforters, Kid Gloves, Hosiery, Knit Underwear. Flannels, and Invite the trade in gen eral to inspect our grand assortments before purchasing. GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN & CO. MILLINERY. Iv UOUBKO FF S iping of lie fall ten 1887. However attractive and immense our previous season’s stock in Millinery has been, this season we excel all our previous selections. Every manufacturer and importer of note in the markets of the world is represented in the array, and display of Millinery goods. We are showing Hats in the finest Hatter’s Plush, Beaver, Felt, Straw and Fancy Combinations. Ribbons in Glacee, of all the novel shades. Fancy Birds and Wings, Velvets and Plushes of our own im portation, and we now offer you the advantages of our im mense stock. We continue the retail sale on our first floor at wholesale prices. We also continue to sell our Celebrated XXX Ribbons at previous prices. TO-DAY, 500 dozen Felt Hats, in all the new shapes and colors, at 35 cents. i KROUSKOFTS MAMMOTH MILLINERY HOUSE, SPOVO.VTO.V STREET. FRUIT AND GROCERIES. PEARS! CALIFORNIA PEARS, QUINCES and GRAPES, DOMESTIC GKAPES, MALAGA GRAPES, COCOANUTS, LEMONS, APPLES, CABBAOE, ONIONS, TURNIPS, POTATOES, FLORIDA ORANGES, GRAIN AND HAY, SEED OATS, SEED RYE, BRAN, FEED EYES, etc., B. E. PEAS. Close Prices to Ijarjje Moyers. IG9 BAY STREET. W. D. SIMKINS & CO. 75 BARRELS APPLES. BARRELS EATING AND COOKING -.) PEARS, 50 Barrels HEBRdN POTATOES, 25 Sacks RIO and JAVA COFFEE, LIQUORS and WINKS of all kinds, SUGAR, CANNED MEATS, Choice FLOUR, CANNED GOODS, NUTS and RAISINS, New TURKISH PRUNES, New CITRON, BUTTER. CHEESE, I.AKD, SUGARS, SOAP, STARCH, CRACKERS, BROOMS, PAILS, CRANBERRIES, GRAPES, etc. For sale at lowest prices. A. H, CHAMPION. New Goods TNURING onr annual visit to the Northern markets this year we have added many new Delicacies, and now offer a stock which for its variety and excellency of goods cannot be surpassed South. Our prices will be satisfac tory. and the best attention given to all who favor us with a call or their patronage. A. M. & C. W. WEST. COTTON HEED WANTED. is'CENTS Per Bushel (sl2 per ton) paid for good COTTON SEED Delivered in Carload Lota at Southern Cotton Oil Cos. Mills —AT— SAVANNAH, GA., ATLANTA, GA., COLUMBUS, GA. Price subject to change unless notified of ac ceptance for certain quantity to be shipped by a future date. Address nearest mill as above. FURNCEAS. Richardson & Boynton 1 SANITARY HtAT<"IG FURNACES Contain the newest patterns, comprising latest Improvements possible to adopt in a Heating Furnace where Power, Efficiency, Economy ana Durability is desired. Medical and Scientific ex perts pronounce these Furnaces superior in every resiieet, to all others for supplying pure air, free from gas and dust. Send for circulars—Sold by all first-class deal ers. I-iichardson <te Boynton Cos., M’f ’rs, 282 and 234 Water Street, N. Y. Sold by JOHN A. DOUGLASS * CO., Savannah, Ga. BELT GREASE. To Mill Men TURNER’S TRACTION BELT GREASE . -AND- Belting Preservative Softens Leather and Makes Rubber Belting More Durable. This Grease effectually prevents slipping, ren ders the belts adhesive, heavy and pliable anil will add one third to the powerof the licit. Its use enables the belt to be run loose and have same power. —FOR SALE BT PALMER BROTHERS, SAVANNAH. Recommended by DALE, DIXON & CO., J. W. TYNAN and many others, BRICK. Wm. P. Bailey & Cos., BRICK MANUFACTURERS, TT’EEP CONSTANT!,Y ON HAND, In large 1\ quantities, at t heir yard on the SPRING HELD PLANTATION, anil will deliver the same in any part of the city upon the shortest notice, The best Well Brick, Pressed Brick, Hard Brown Brick, Gray Brick, Soft Brown Brick. Office— Corner Bull and Broughton, at SI MON GAZAN'S CIGAR STORE, where all or ders will receive prompt attention. FOR HALE. poe'sale; A Good Newspaper in a Live and V Prosperous Georgia Town. ANYONE desiring to purchase a daily and weekly pa[ir in one of the most prosper ous towns in Georgia can do so now if applica tion is made at once. Reason for selling pro prietor has been lu ill health and has too much other business to engage Ills attention. Outfit Is nearly new and paper doing a good business, und now, in the height of the business season, is the time to purchase. Address for particular* U. S., cure CMivauuuh News, Savannah, Ga- 5