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SPANIARDS IN CUBA. How the Colonists Are Plundered and Oppressed. fYom ihe Xew York Tribune. Havana, Sept. 28.—'‘Cuba y sus Jueceb” (Cutift and her Judges) is the title of an en tertaining work by Raimundo Cabrera, an Havana advocate of literary proclivities, which should be of special interest to the people of the United States' for other rea w>ns than that it furnishes a vivid presenta tion of the deplorable results of Spanish misrule in Cuba. Not very long ago Eng lish opinion was of almost more importance to Americans than their opinion of them selves. You w ere apt to meet censure from abroad in a spirit of wrathful resentment ami to throw yourselves into spasms of vir tuous rage over the paltry sneers of super cilious visitors from the Old World, ilap piiv, vou have outgrown all such juvenile weaknesses; and to-day the traveling Briton, who leaves your shores after a fortnight's scamper through the country and hurls at vou a token of his stupidity in a volume of concentrated prejudice and spleen, is only well laughed at for his pains. But it is doubtful whether, even in the worst days of English antagonism, Americans were ever the victims of such a savage onslaught as t l, n t made recently on Cuba by an author of Madrid. The other day one Francisco Moreno, a haughty Castilian, who had car ried bis pride and his pedigree on a trip across the Atlantic, set himself down in the shadow of the Puerta del Sol to record the impressions of his visit to the Pearl of the Antilles; and he has recorded them with such absolute impartiality and such uncom promising candor as to set all Cuba by the ears. For the amiable Moreno was born with a smouldering hatred of everything Cuban which burst into uncontrollable flame the moment he began to write; and he lias consequently failed to discover that fine sense of delicacy and that chivalrous consideration for the feelings of others which should govern the pen of a true hidalgo. No word in his vocabulary is indeed too strong to express his contempt for the rep tile colonists. They have turned “the most beautiful country human eyes have seen” into "the theatre of all the horrors of the moral world.” They are distinguished for nothing but cowardice, extravagance and sloth. The corruption of the body politic is equaled only by the corruption of the body social. The women are lovely, it is true, but drearlfully naughty. The press is venal; the streets are badly paved; the sewerage is defective; no respect is paid to religion—and the hotels are vile! Aspersions such as these might well arouse the ire of an innocent people and Senor Ca brera’s “opportune rectifications,” as he calls them, are intended as a sort of patriotic counterblast. But his tone is commeudably calm and digmfl and. He has no taste for mere vituperation; and instead of replying to prejudice with scurrility, he meets each charge and deals with it squarely and fairly, piling facts on figures and figures on facts .11 a way that not only gives the lie to his tra ducer but shows that the Spaniards them selves have made of the island what it is—a nest of tyrants and corruptionists, and a stronghold of the most iniquitous colonial system in the world. The visitor to Cuba does not need to go in search of abuses; they stare him in the face. In Havana, for in stance, he passes through streets which re main rugged and unclean simply because the city cannot pay the exorbitant duty im posed by the rapacious home government on imported paving stones. He sees preten tious buildings which have fallen into dilap idation because, while over $8,000,000 are set aside every year for army estimates, only a $1,250,000 are assigned for public works— the greater part of this finding its way into the pockets of .Spanish officials. He turns in shame from aens of immorality, flour ishing openly under the paid protection of the Spanish police, and is jostled by crowds of negroes who have been kept in bondage until recently, in spite of the £400,000 which England paid Spain in 1847 to abolish the slave traffic, ana by hordes of Chinamen, imported into virtual slavery in spite of the treaty of Pekin. And wherever he bends his steps he finds himself confronted by vampirish and impecunious Castilians, who have come to Cuba to suck the blood of the people and depart from it gorged in the shortest possible time. Even Poland hardly fares worse. The enormous taxation he has to meet gives the Cuban no right to a voice in the public ad ministration. Every office is closed to him —even the municipal and judicial appoint ments forming part of the perquisites of his masters. The central power is entirely in their hands and local office is but a delega tion of the central power. UDtil recently the town councils, which were fiiled from the Lieutenant Governor’s “list of largest contributors,” were controlled by ignorant and despotic military chiefs, from whose caprice there was no appeal. Though the “boodle” alderman is not unknown in Cuba the Cuban alderman practically is; and of the 28 members of the last town council of Havana 27 were Spanish born. Five only of the 23 deputies to the Cortes elected in April of last year were Cuban autonomists. Eighteen were conservatives or upholders of the supremacy of Spain—lß of these being Spanish bom; and three only of the ators were autonomists, against 12 constitu tionalists, 10 of whom were Spaniards. The autonomists are almost always the repre sentatives of the educated class. Of judges, in the true sense of the word, Cuba has hardly any, for there is a perfect solidarity between all the governing classes, and the administration of important judicial dis tricts is frequently handed over to Spanish tavern keepers and low political adventurers as a reward for fidelity to the constitutional party. “Ah Paco!" ejaculates our author (he is writing a letter to a supposititious friend) “in a country where the administra tion of justice is not the charge of the State but a fat business for the State: where the estimated revenues contain the item of $750,000 for stamped paper, and the expend tures that of $475,001 20 for outlay on ac count of the judiciary, leaving a spending lialance of $274,938 80, what else can justice mean, in general and particular, in whole and in detail, than jobbery, jobbery, job bery !” The dense ignorance of the masses is, alas, undeniable; but who can blame them for it, when Spain has intentionally atid systematically opposed the opening of schools, on the theory that they are a hot bed of liberal ideas and the direct cause of revolutionary movements —when, according to Be Araistsgui’s faun>ll- pronouncement of 1871, it has been found necessary to main tain the Cubans in crass ignorance, “in order to Hispanicize them!” Yet, with all their lacker education they are not so pi one to vice as their more fortunate rulers. Sta tistics published in the “Gaeeta de Madrid’’* show that by far the greater number of the c iniimds convicted on the island were born abroad, and that while the proportion to the native whites is as 1 to 4,777 and to the na tive negroes as 1 to 905, the proportion to incomers from Spain is as Ito 233. The progress of the islanders in letters, arts, science and agriculture—notably their cul tivation of the magnificent tobacco fields of tbq Vuelta Abajo—stamps them as an en terprising and enlightened race. The rail road and the telegraph were in use in Cuba before Spain awoke to a sense of their value. Native Cubans were the first to demand the abolition of slavery in the colony; andtho blood of the 30,000 patriots who laid down their lives in Hie Separatist wars is a suffi cient vindication of their spirit. Cabrera displays a simple eloquence in his repudiation of the calumny fastened on Cuban wives and mothors which should bring blushes to the check of the calum niator. The only taunt he does not success fully repel is that of irreligion, and oven this ho shows to lie unjust. For is it to be wondered at, he asks pathetically, that in a land where, up to 1871. only one creed was tolerated and where the clergy divided the exercise of tyranny with the military au thorities, indifference should prevail“ Our churches give a poor idea of the state of out* faith, especially if the meanness of their construction is compared with their enor mous revenues . . . and even the humblest parish church depends largely for its build ing fund on fairs sanctioned for the pur pose, at which gambling games, such as monte and roulette, are permitted. But perhaps the church undertakes to cleanse the consciences that become sullied in con tributing to it-s prestige!’’ Even in the church, too, the sons of the soil are dis criminated against; for while the diocese of Havana comprises 144 parishes, those par ishes employ only 22 native priests. Senor Cabrera has done more than refute a mean and ungenerous slander. Ho has drawn n moral which every honest Ameri can may take to heart. He has shown that you, who are so ready with your champion ship of the down-trodden in other counties, have here at your doors as flagrant an in stance of oppression by a governing power as any you hear of abroad. His interest ing and well-written book affords a striking Cieture of a community united in blood but opelessly divided by interest and aspira tion—the one class striving for the perpetu ation of dishonest privileges, the other standing out boldly in defence of its rightful liberty and looking to the United States for sympathy and encouragement 111 its efforts to ease the yoke. That those efforts will ultimately be successful there can be no reasonable doubt: “for know, friend Paco,” says the author, “once and for all. that the people who had resolution enough to con spire during thirty years and to carry 011 during two lustres, a Titantic and bloody struggle, do not need to conceal their aspir ations now. Equal valor and the same heroic sacrifice will realize in her sons, di rected bv a clearer intelligence, the convic tion (if it does not rule them already) that colonial autonomy is tho only salvation of Cuba, for Cubans, for Spain and for civil ization.” PLEADING WITH A SAVAGE KING. Efforts of the English to Stop the Ter rible Angoni Kaids. From the New York Sun. Many years ago a large number of ad venturesome Zulus left their own country and traveled hundreds of miles north, until they reached the region of Lake Nyassa. There they settled and multiplied, some of them making their homes among the high lands west of the big lake, and others trav eling around the north end of the lake and settling on the northeast side of it. They still wear on their heads the ring that denotes a Zulu warrior, and they speak the Zulu lauguage in a corrupted form. They are the best fighters of the Nyassa region and have long lieen the terror of all the other tribes living around the lake. They travel with great celerity, and sometimes go a hundred miles or more on slave and cattle stealing raids. Large regions have been almost wholly de populated by these terrible raids, and the remnants of several once prosperous tribes are now living on mountain topis eking out a most miserable existence, and never free from the fear that their enemies will seek them out, even in the fastnesses to which they have retreated. Ever since Livingstone first visited the Nyassa region we have heard of these ter rible A 1 - mi west of the lake. Every year the mis"iiaries at Blaniyre. south of Lake Nyassa, have sent home reports of Angoni raids in the fertile districts around them. Several missionaries have visited them, and two years ago Mr. Montagu Kerr, formerly a Wall street broker, spent some time in their chief town and wrote an entertaining description of these remarkable people. It has long been evident that unless their raids were stopped the work of depopulation would go on until thousands of square miles were swept clear of inhabitants. The pitiful reports sent to England by the missionaries induced the British govern ment recently to send Mr. Hawes, the Eng lish Consul in the Nyassa territory, to the King of the Angoni. to see if he could not he persuaded to give up his terrible raids. The King was notified that the representa tive of a great Queen was coming to see him, and he received Consul Hawes with much display of good will and with all the honors he could render. He told Mr. Hawes that lie wislied to live on good terms with the English, and he said that as far as the A ngoni were concerned he would guarantee the safety of all the missionary stations. He was not quite so ready to promise to discon tinue liis incursions among the tribes south and east .of the great lake, but after many discussions of the matter he finally promised that his warriors should not e oss the Shire river, through which the waters of Nyassa pour into the Zambesi. It re mains to be seen whether his promise is worth anything. If he keeps his word, a very large district in one of the largest parts of Africa that was once the home of a large and comparatively peaceful popula tion, will in future be spared the terrible Angoni raids. It is in this region that the African Lakes Company has opened some coffee plantations, and quite a number of white men are there engaged in missionary and commercial pursuits. Mr. Hawes says that the Angoni yield the most implicit obedience to the commands of their King, and he was impressed by the great consideration the King and all his officers received from their people. WILD GEESE IN DAKOTA. An Enthusiast’s Description of the In numerable Flocks. Correspondence of the Indianapolis! Journal. Harrisburg, Dak., Oct. 18.—For the information and, perhaps, benefit of sportsmen I will give a very faint descrip tion of what we are daily witnessing of the grand armies of the strong-winged birds whose name beads this letter. Of the variety known further south as wild geese, the “honkers,” as they are called, from the peculiar cry when on the wing, we see large numbers. A groat many of these nest and breed about tbe small lakes in our neighborhood, and people often take the eggs and hatch them under domestic birds, either geese or hens. Besides these there are the brant, a smaller, gray goose, and the beautiful snowy geese. Of these last there seems to be no limit to numbers. The air is almost con stantly filled with their notes, and one can scarcely look up at the sky— which is wonderfully wide trom these high lands, without seeing flocks of those magnifi cent birds wheeling across it in one direc tion or another. No mathematics yet, in vented could enumerate the hosts that have so far appeal ed. I instantaneous photography is the only method by which any truthful representation can bo given of their hosts. We rode out a flay or two since, to the hike (Wamliuska, sometimes called Stump lake.) The day was one of the mellow, golden, bracing, thoroughly enjoyable days thut October sometimes brings even to you poor .dwellers amid tho mists and damps of In diana, but to us she is lavish of such treas ures during her entire reign. Aii the day and the days before —one cannot tell for how long—flocks on flocks of geese, in countless numbers, were sailing overhead in ranks and clusters of ranks, some dark and some snowy white, with black-tipped wings. They are congregating about our beautiful lake, probably making preliminary arrangements for their Southern flight. The whole blue vault, which showed no cloud, was lined in every direction by ranks of snowy birds. The afternoon sun shone full upon their brilliant plumage, tinging it a full golden color, than which no bird of paradise could be more dazzling; and tbe vast numbers on wing of shining, gold hued hosts made one of the finest sights that one could behold. I never saw anything to equal it. When we came in full view of the lake, where there are several miles of water in sight, there was another remarka ble sight for us. If tho canopy above was full of flying birds the surface of that long stretch of glistening water was a hundred times more so. Along the further shore and far out from laud there were thousands of geese floating so close together that one saw 110 glimmer of wa er between them. Midway between the shores islands of geese floated, but appeared to observers on the lugii banks like still, inanimate earth, cov ered with a fresh fall of snow. Sportsmen were crouching here and there b hind clumps of bushes, and every now and then a rifle-shot echoed along the woodland, but what were a few sportsmen among such multitudes of birds! THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1887. CAUSES OF LOCKJAW Varieties of the Malady and How it is Treated FYom the yew York Tintr.t Old residents on Long Island are aware that a greater number of persons in propor tion to the inhabitants die of trismus and tetanus there than iu any other part of the State or of the United States. This is par ticularly true of the eastern towns and villages. Visitors are astonished at tbe con cern manifested over a slight cut, bruise, or incision that would be almost unnoticed elsewhere. Cautions regarding cold after an injury seem to them superfluous, but tbe natives know better, and uread lockjaw be cause they have seen so many cases of tae dis ease, m many instances in their own fami lies. Its prevalence is accounted for by the climate and other influential causes which predispose the system to it, and it is a no ticeable fact that animals, particularly horses, are as much subject to it as human beings. Although tetanus is not always fatal, it invariably leaves the systems of those once ..ffected with a constitutional liability to a renewal of the attack from slight exciting causes. Trismus is included in the more general term tetanus. It is an uucontrolable spasmodic contraction of the muscles of the lower jaw, aud is simply tbe disease commonly known as lockjaw. When ail the voluntary muscles of the body are attacked under" the same condi tions the disorder is known as tetauus. It usually begins with contraction of the muscles of the throat and lower jaw, but lockjaw is sometimes a purely local affec tion. it is a spasmodic affection produced by sympathetic or reflected irritation caused by local injury. A remarkable fea ture of tetanus is the absence of constitu tional disturbance. When it is attended with local irritation, such as a wound or other injury, it is known as trauiatic; when no visible cause exists.it is called idiopathic. It may be acute or chronic, the first, usually the result of an accident, as in the case of Kelly the carpenter, and Bureuger the farmer, and almost invariably fatal. The chronic or idiopathic form some times, though rarely, yields to skillful treat ment. Diseases involving the teeth, gums, or jaws often cause trismus or lockjaw in adults, aud it is often the result of teething in children. Horses seem very susceptible to the disease, and many cases are known 01 Long Island where a slight saddle-gall or abrasion caused by an ill-fitting harness has been followed by lockjaw. When they are exposed to cold after injury, the disorder is most to be feared. It is thought by some authorities that lacerated wounds produce tetanus more frequently than incised ones: but, although this may be true in regard to human subjects, horses and other animals appear to suffer more from incised ones. A nail run into the foot is the commonest of all causes of lockjaw in horses. The acute form of tetanus is developed when symptoms quickly follow the injury. Death usually follows in from twenty-four hours to ten days after the appearance of the first symptoms. After the lapse of twenty one days the patient or subject is regaided a out of danger. Ritrus saronuicus, or tetanie grin, is a drawing down of tie corners of the mouth by the contraction of the facial muscles. When this occurs all doubt is dis pelled as to the presence of trismus, and the patient is regarded beyond all earthly as sistance. This is often seen in dying peopi and was particularly noticeable on the bat tlefield and iu the hospitals during the civil war. Tetanus is distinguishable from spinal meningitis and from cerebrospinal menin gitis by the absence of inflamma tory symptoms, and from the last-named affection by the absence of eephnlalgy or headache, delirium and coma. The con sciousness of the patient distinguishes it also from epilepsy. Poison by strychnine produces symptoms so nearly akin to tetauus as to nuzzle the most learho 1 aud skillful phpsi' ians. Rabies, or hydrophobia, is sometimes mistaken for it. The remedies are many, and physicians disagree as to. the most efficacious treatment. Chloral-hydrate, chloroform, ether, nico tine, quinine, morphine and other drugs are used, aud the patient is nourished as gener ously as the nature of the malady will per mit. SOUTH SEA COURTSHIP. Eccentricities of the Natives of the Navigator Group. From the San Frnnri-tco Examiner. Dr. W. B. Waller, of Caldwell, Ohio, re turned on the last steamer after four months’ residence in the islands of the Navi gator group. He gave some strange inci dents of his experiences there, and of the queer habits of the bronzed natives, to a representative of the Examiner at the Grand Hotel yesterday. “Tho Samoans are a simple-minded, hon est people,” said he. “It lias been charged tnat they steal everything they can lay then hands on, but this is a mistake. T.uey just take it. Almost everything is common property. Stop at one of their reed cabins in the bush, and you can’t tell whether the folks there own the cabin or not. Perhaps they are just occupying it for a week, while tbe builders of it are away occupying somebody else’s cabin. Or, porhar s, two families are there together. Lt a Samoan drop into any cabin and see a coat he wants and he just takes it. It’s all right. The owner of it will tak the next one he s*<=g anywhere, or if he asks for the one lie had he can readily get it back. Just so with every; hing they have. “The Navigator Island people never kiss. They simply rub uoses. And should a young mail w ish to marry a girl he, if he has a servant, simply sends him to the girl, stating that his master likes her an i would like to marry her. If she is willing to marry him she sends back word, naming an early evening when she will meet him. Tin- meet ing usually takes place in the bush back of the girl’s home. It is the trysting place, and here everything is talked over, the lovers sitting upon the ground, and every thing is arranged. “Perhaps the next day, or very soon thereafter, they disappear, without saying a word to anybody. They may l>e gone four or six weeks in the bush before any body hears from them or has the least ink ling of where they are. Then they as sud denly reappear, whereupon they are formal ly joined in marriage by one of the chiefs or missionaries, and all their friends join in giving them a big dinner of pork. Then t hey are substantially married, but should either “grow tired of the other, he or she simply remove ;to one of the other islands, where the party is as free again as though never married, the ceremony not holding go and there, nor. in fact, at home, after a little time. “The Samoan girls marry at the age of '0 or 12 years. They are then as magnificently developed physically as they ever are, but in mind they are oftentimes but little else than children. “Another thing about these strange natives of the Navigator group is that they are double-jointed, and that is why they are such fine dancers, and are, altogether, the most graceful people in the world. Their legs at the knee joint, their arms at the el bows and their shoulders, with their ball and socket joints, are reversible in a way that would astonish you. Tbe elbow and knee joints can be bent exactly contrary to the natural condition of all other persons. “The missionaries have taught tho Sa moans to avoid profanity, and they never swear in their presence, but outside of it they think it is all right, and I have heard them cuss like troopers, and a half hour after lead a family prayer with a fervor that is amazing. They are a devout people, and, with all their occasional profanity, are never angry. They are the most even tempered people I ever saw. ” ottio ,uiu ourt- A remedy manufactured at borne and having a record for some of the most won derful cures known, is a safe one to use. There is no experimenting, but simply fol lowing the lead and using the best. Such a remedy is P. P. P., the greatest Blood Puri fier of tbe age, a sure cure for every skin and blood disease. It can be obtained from all medicine dealers- DRY GOODS. fe-ipl at the Otil Stand! David Weisbein, 153 BROUGHTON ST., SAVANNAH, Announces to his many customers and the public at large that he has re-opened business at his former place, 183 BROUGHTON STREET, so well and favorably known, and which has been patronized to such extent that it became know n as TIE POPULAR DEY GOODS HOUSE. Y\7E have in stock every quality of poods up to the VERY FINEST, and our prices will be found ▼ ▼ to be fir lower than they have ever Uvn. imt by far lower than the same qualities can be purchased anywhere. New York city not excepted. We are aware that t i > in a Tar reaching as* sertion, but wo mean exactly what we say. Call and test us. We are wiling to risk our reputa tion that this is not au advertising dodge. We stake our honor upon its truthfulness. Wc Insist That What We Say Are Indisputable Facts aud Easily Proven. AFP DDFCC Fill UK QTHFF (Contains the best, choicest and largest assortment in the city, and Util ItllLuo UUUI/u u 1 Util our prices are about one-third less. OUR B 1 ACK DRESS SILKS Aro ost Wearing Silks in any market, and one-fourth cheaper. Al r D CJf V VFIVnS! PI Plain and Fancy. Moire Satins in all shade*, and all the Util OILIV vLbVLIU) I Lit. 12 LA novelties of Trimmings iu Jet aud braid are the latest styles and at remarkably low prices. ATID DT IVrrT nnMI!T\H \T * s complete in every sense of the word. We have White ULD DLiLMILI VLi All I .ULd I Blankets as low as 85c. a pair and up to We especially recommend our $5 Blanket; they are simply imm <\ AITD V] 4YVTI [H IMTCT F\T ( ontnins evor y grade, style, quality and color, from the ULll I LAJi*LL l/LI illl 1 ’lLd I hmnb’ed grade to the finest Eiderdown, and we are sure our prices are very low. OPVftl Kn WH k r lYfi iipiTN Wraps, Circulars, Jerseys, Children's Cloaks are un- LiIULIOII n ALAI.>U oiibALlo, questionably the best, mst fashion able and elegant in the market, and ttie prices by far lower than elsewhere. AI D rin ninvtf IU PIPTVIVVT Is superb. Weare nmud of it. See our various grades at ULll HIU ULU 1L ULlAnl JlLid I ft . 7.5 c. . sl. etc. They are positCely worth double. Our 50c. 4-Button Kid cannot lx* mate he 1 anywhere for les< than sl. We are fully prepared in every >.i vie of Glove? or i-a lies. Gents and Childr u at the very lowest prices. Gentle nen desi ing a good Dress or Driving Glove will iind au immen ;e variety and NOT fancy prices. AITD rYntWFAP nrP4RT\ir\T For Ladies. Children and Gen‘s contains every variety ULll liiliLllnLiUl ULidlll JlL.i I from the ordinary to the very hast C-hildrftu's Vodkas low as 15c. fora very fair qu-ility. Gents' All Wool Scarlet Undershirts and Drawers as low as 50c. We direct also attention to our very superi<r line of Half Hose and Stockings in Wool, Merino, Cotton, Silk and Lisle Thread. C|f t r TIBTp f! UTIK Damasks, Linens of nil kinds. Sheeting Calico Comfortables, Mar iMLA lAULL LLUlilu, seUlos and other Quilts an IBe 1 Spre ads. In fact, every article neces sary for housekeeping wc have iu th iar st variety aud at tne lowest prices. We offer lull width New York Mills Bleached Sh eting at lUJ^e. OnnUFCTir nPPIPTinrVT Ir beyond doubt unequaleJ. We offer the celebrated Lons UUJILOIII ULI Alll JIL.W dai,* Blene le l Shirtiti r, yard wid.\ genuine goods, by the piece at Bc. Also the well known yard wide Fruit of the Loom at Bl£e. Splendid Caitfon Flannel as low as he. The very b *st Standard Calico at 5c.; sold elsewhere at Bc. LADIES’ MUSLIN UNDERWEAR, B^;S ult from4toll y eafs In targe variety at nearly half OUR BAZAR Will be opened ou SATURDAY, the 20th October, and will contain the best and unapproachable bargains in Fancy Goods, Hosiery, Buttons, Toys, etc. We will inaugurate this open ing by a Special Sale of Towels. They are warranted to be pure linen and worth 2oc. each, We will sell them on Sat urday, Oct 29, and.Monday, Oot. 31, at the uniform price of 10 cents. DAVID WEISBEIN. FURNITURE AND CAR I* BIS. A TOUCHING STORY! HU.$ 0W jjjyj, j IU ■ This is the way our competitors feel like treating themselves, or have someone else do it for them, when they find out that we have taken another of their customers away from them. THE CUSTOMER feels like they ought to be treated in the same manner for not coming to us sooner, but console themselves with the fact that it is better late than never. Wedo not think that it is our winning ways altogether that does the drawing, but the BEAUTIFUL SELECTION OF GOODS that wo are offering, and at such prices that enable people to buy them. We want you to call and see the elegant line of BABY CARRIAGES that we have just received, and inspect all the other BEAUTIFUL GOODS at same time. LINDSAY & MORGAN. MILLINERY. Kit OUIKOFF 8 Ofisit of Ik Fall Season 1881. 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. Wc are showing Hats in the finest Hatter’s Plush, Beaver, Felt, Straw and Fancy Combinations. Ribbons in Glacec, of all the novel shades. Fancy Birds and Wings, Vcivets 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 flats, in all the new shapes and colors, at 35 cents. S. KROUSKOFFS MAMMOTH MILLINERY HOUSE, EKOL’Ujiiyjf STfiJß st. A. R. ALTMAYER <& CO. KID GLOVES. Genuine First Quality at llic Following Prices: 3-Bottoncil for 99c. 5-Buttoned Tan Shades for SI 23. 5-Buttoned Blacks for $1 59. AT— AIALTIIAYEMI’S THIS WEEK. OUR REGULAR WEEKLY CUTS in the dif erout di*j .rt mentis has proven such a popu lar feature with our irade tnat we will eouti tie *t on through the season. Every week wo will change this line of SPECIAL BARGAINS, Taking in Detriment after Department, until we have gone through the house. Notice these changes, there!ore you will tlnd JUST WHAT YOU WANT. THIS WEEK we have reached the KID GLOVE DEPARTMENT, one of the great, features of ihe house, and wo will quote a few prices that will muke you “wonder’how it can he done, ' and will cause competitors to stand aghast and STARE IN OPEN-EYED AMAZEMENT. JUST LISTEN! For the week we will sell: Ladies' t-outton embroidered hack Black and Tan Kids, in dressed or undressed, at 4!k\ Ladies' Black and Colored embroidered or plain back, in re .1 French Ki >, at $1 and *1 *AY Altmayer s “Viola,” a .Vbmton Kid with scal loped t*p . in Id icks and colors, at $1 50: equal to any Glove in the city. Of course the same close prices for which we are noted exists all over the house, but the weeks Special Drives are in Kid Gloves. Ladies, do not fall to call in this week This is your opp >rtuuity to buy your Gloves for the winter. Another such chance may not present itself. Very Respectfully Yours, A. R. ALTMAYER k CO. Our ILLUSTRATED FALL CATALOGUE free .Hi application. Mail oruein will receive prompt attention. ICE. ice r Now is the time when every body wants ICE, and we want to sell it. PRICES REASONABLE! 20 Tickets, good for TOO Pounds. 75c. 140 Tickets, good for 700 Pounds, $5. 200 Tickets, good for 1,000 Pounds, $7 50 Pounds at one delivery 30c. Lower prices to large buyers I C E Packed for shipment at reduced rates. Careful and polite service. Full and liberal weight. KNICKERBOCKER ICE CO. 11l BAY ST. COTTON SEED WANTED. 18 CENTi Per Bushel (sl2 per ton) paid for good COTTON SEED Delivered in Carload Lots 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. Addiesa nearest mill an above. SEED OATS. Rust Proof flats, Seed Rye, APPLES, POTATOES, ONION’S, CAUBAi IKS, And all kinds of VEGETABLES and FRUITS By every steamer. 25 Cars Oats, 25 Cars Hay, 50 Cars Corn. . OIUTS, MEAT,, CORN EYE BEAN, PEAS, and Used of all kinds. 153 BAY STREET. Warehouse in S., F. & W. R’y Yard. T. P. BOND & CO. HARDWARE. EDWARD LOVELL X SONS HAVE MOVED BACK TO OLD STAND, 165 PIMTON BTMET. WINES AND LIQUORS. D. B. LESTER’S IS UEACQUARTEHS FOR Fine Old Rye, Bourbon and Cura Whiskies Choice Old Ports and Sherries, Old Jamaica and St Croix Ru n, Pure Old Peach and Apple Brandy, OIJ Turn and Holland Gias, Old Manor Malt Whisky (Best Made), Old Hennessy and Martel Brandy. If you want anythin’? in the way of Fine Imported and Domestic LIQUOKB GO TO D. B. LESTER'S, 21 Whitaker Street, SAVANNAH, - GA. IRON WORKS. IcDonoih & BaMtni IRON FOUNDERS, Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blacksmith^ manufacturers or STATIONARY end PORTABLE ENGINES, VERTICAL and TOP-RUNNING CORN MILLS. SUGAR MILLS and PANS. \ GENTS for Alerl and Union lulectors, t.ha simple** and mom effective on the market; Onllott Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the best in the market. All orders promptly attended to. Send for Price List. DY Is. Hi-A. 13 IHUS I~ ~ DO your own Dyeing, at home, with I’KER* LESS DYES. They will iye everything. They arc sold every wheiv. ITice ioe. a pockaza —4O colors. They have no equal ior wtrengili, brightness, amount in packages, or lor lastuess of color, or non iadin,; qualities. They do not • rock or smut, bur sale by o. t\ Ulaikil, 31. D. t l’liar.macist, corner Broughton and lloustoti streets; I*. B. Reid, Druggist and Apothe cary. corner Jones and Abercorn streets; Edward .1. Kikkpkii, Druggist, corner West broad and Siewart st reets. PIiU M BKK, I* a. McCarthy, Successor to Chas. E. Wakefield, PLUMBER, GAS anl STEAM FITTER 4k Barnard street, SAVANNAH, GA. Telephone 373. — - j.a OFFICIAL. ORDINANCE. An Ordinance l > be entitled an ordinance to pro h'ct ■•niton and other merchandise while being lo d.-d. unloaded, or traushipped In the ]>oi* of Savannah; and to diminish the risk of lire by requir ng that the same he properly cov ered, and by prouihitlng smoking. Section 1. The Mayor and Aldermen of t.ha city of Savannah, in Council asse übled, and > ereby ordain that from and Immediately after .he passage of this ordinance at persons en gaged in lightering or o' henvi o transporting Colton, turpentirie. rosin lay, straw. or other iullammable merchandise on the Savannah river, or other .raters within the limits over which the Naid Mayor and Aldermen of theeity of Savannah have jurisdiction, lie. and they are h neoy required to cover the same, while on lighters or other crafts, with tarpaulins or other more permanent and sutistau.ial material: aud that each failure so to do shall be considered a violation of this ordinance and be punished as hereinafter provided. Sec. And it is i nrt’ier ordained by the au thorily aforesaid, that it shall not lie lawful for any person on board of any lug, lighter, tenner, vessel, or other era ft engaged in load imr. u loading, or transhippingcotton or other iiillummable merchandise wliiie laying at any wharf in the oily of .savminah, or while laying ii or navigating said Savannah river or other w.tl is within the jurisdictional limits afore ■ J, io smoke any cigar, cigarette, pipe, or ■ ■ i niterl substance under the penalty, for c. . cid every offense, hereinafter prescribed. r.c. -1. Each ,o.d every violation of this orrii nancc, or of any article or clause herein con tained. s ail la- punished hv a line of not more than o:e imndreddollars, .id imprisonment for oot moi— hail thirty (3ih duy s. either, or both, i l!i" li-civiion of fhe Mayor or other officer presiding in the Polios Court. ■Sac. i. And it is farther ordained, by the au t a rity afi i'said. that all ordina l' -*- and parts ••f ordinance in conflict with (his ordinance, so far .n. they comlicl, be, and the -nun- are hereby reive, led. < irdiuanco passed in Council October 19th, imh.“ john j. mcdonough, Mayor pro tem. Attest: Frank K. Rkbarer. Clcr.t of Council. ORDINANCE. An Ordinance hi tie entitled an ordinance to amen . section twen'y ii.neiJ9)of anoiditiancw ton nend, re ,send consolidate the several ordinances of the city of Savannah for the regulation of the pu .lie Market of the elty of Savannah, |>assed in Council May 2*. 1872. Rbctjon l. The Mayor and Alder nen of rha city of Savanna i in Coil icil aasa nnl.nl, do here by ordain that s-.i i section t.ve ,tv-nine (29) of said ordinance wnlch re ales to the hours for dosiug the market, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out tne word* “from the first day or April uiiiil the the first day of Octo ber of fro a the first day of OctoDir until the first day of April until 8 o'clock at night,'' and inserting in lieu thereof the words “during the entire year” so that said section twenty-nine as amended si II read: A Clerk of the Market shall be ap pointed os herein .fter provided. whose duty it snail Is; to close the market pm.-i ely at 10 o’clock in the morning, from the fir t day of No vemner in every year to the first day of April following: and from file l.rst day of April to the first day of .November at 1) o'clock in tue morn ing. except on Saturdays, when the market shall continue open until 9 o clock at night during the entire year, and the closing of tue mart O' shall be announced by the rluging of the maricet bell. Bkc. 2. .Ul ordinances aud Paris of ordumuees in conflict with this ordinance are liereoy re pealed. Ordinance passed in Council October 19th, 1887. JOHN J. McDONoUOH, Mayor pro tom. Attest: Frank E Re barer. Cl rk ot Council - ORDINANCE. An Ordinance to require counect on with the city sewers in certain cases. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, That all owners of property having privy vaults in the city of Ssisi iiab located not ex ceeding 3(H! feet from a public sewer are hereby re tmred to make connection with such sewer by the Ist day of January. 1889, and it is hereby marie unlawful for said owr.era to continue the uw of such privy vaults after the (lata aforesaid. Sec. 2. Be it further ordaiued, that in case of the refusal or neglect "f ad o ners to make such connection by the tia,e hereinliefore limited the same may be mode by tue Committee on llealt.i and Cemetery at the expense of the owner or owners of the property, for which exs cutiou may issue to be marie and levied as in cases of execution lor city taxes. Sec. 3. lie ,t further orsiained. that all ordi nances and part, of ordinauoos in conflict with tins o, di.ianve are her by repe led. irdinauce paosod in Council Octolxr 19th, 1887. john J. McDonough, Mayor pro toss. Attest; Frank E. ’ -basbr. Clerk or Council. 5 a a.