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HEIR TO A BIG FORTUNE. A NEW3PAPE v MAN OF PHILADEL PHIA IN GREAT PROSPECTS. Waking Up to Suddenly Find an In heritance of Over $700,000 Staring His Family in the Face—His Share to Be Over $lOO,OOO. From the Philadelphia Press. There is a fortune of $700,000, now held by the State of New York, to which a voting newspaper man of this city, with his brothers and sisters, some of whom are in England, are legal heirs. In the last week they have laid formal claim to the mousy, and their lawyer, Nelson G. tVaterbury, the veteran advocate and politician of New York city, is confident that in a short time he will prove his right to restore to the heirs the fortune that for twenty years has been accumulating compound interest in the treasury of New York. . The romantic story is that in 1819 a great uncle of the presumptive heirs, who was Colonel of the Fifty-eighth English Regi ment, was ordered to Canada, lie went aud took with him his two motherless boys, Edwin aud William. A few years later the regiment was ordered back to England. The old Colonel had grown to like the coun try during his stay and decided to leave the two boys there in charge of a French Catholic priest at Amherstburg, Ont., with whom he had grown very iutimate. The priest w as to educate them, and finally they were to be sent homo to their father in England. After a stay of two or three years with the priest the boys tired of the life and ran away. They were never hear , of afterward by the old Colonel, who used every means to trace them, and he died a few years later in England, without ever having heard from the missing children. It was learned long afterward that Edwin, the older brother, went to Michigan, where all trace of him has bem lost. William, from whom the fortune comes, came to Brooklyn. He was known to his neighbors as a crank and a miser, and he lived alone, for he had never married, in his big house, and grew very rich in speculation. His neighbors supposed him to be a Frenchman, for ne spoke English with a French accent —a relic of his early Canadian training un der his priestly tutor —and to encourage them, and to further conceal his identity, he slightly changed the spelling of his name. This, too, would have remained a secret had he not in his will made a bequest to his brother, whom he said spelled his name as do the present heirs. In 18(17 Will.am died, childless so far as known, leaving $300,000. The property consisted of the house in which he had lived for years, money in bank, government and other bonds and stocks; $14,000 was left in various sums to servants and other people whom he had known; $20,000 was be queathed to his brother Edwin, whom he had not seen after their escape from Am herstb.irg, and from whom it is supposed he had never heard. The remainder of the large estate w’as to found an orphanage. The will was broken by the courts, because of some informalities in execution, and the orphanage bequest was set aside. No heirs to the old man appeared and the money was locked up in the New York Treasury. Eigh- years ago an advertise ment for heirs ap;> aired in a New York paper, and a li'-A c people of ail sorts of names put i cminis, but their rights to the fortune were not proven, and the matter was again forgotten. How the PiiiJadelphia newspaper man learned of his right to the money is interest ing. His brother is an editorial writer on the New York Herald. A month or so ago a story was written for them about the es tate, and was deemed so un i m|x>rtant that It was not printed. A friend in the office told him of it, and > sent home to England inquiring about it. The old family lawyer kne •> of the ex istence somewhere in America o .• Canada of the children of th ol 1 colonel, who, dying, had told the story of the boys who had run away. He cabled the positive proofs of the relationship of the presumptive heirs, one of whom is a newspaper man of this city. He at once engaged counsel, and hopes in a short time to be in possession of tbe money to which an accident revealed his right. THE FIFTY-POUND NUGGET. Excitement It Has Create i in the Vic toria > '-"d Fieids. Ballarat (Aug. 23) Letter to Melbourne Argus. This morning an extraordinary incident in the recent mining history of the colony occurred, when an immense nugget, weigh ing about fifty-one pounds of pure gold, was unearthed in the now famous Midas mine at Sulky Gully. To-day’s discovery eclipses anything of the kind that has been known for many years in Victoria. The first public intimation was obtained in a rather curious manner. A man was observed by the large crowd of shareholders who congre gate at the corner to Sturt street carrying a sack containing what to appearances was like a small pig, but his strange burden was soon found to be the nugget, and he was followed by an excited and questioning crowd across L’ydiard street down to the corner to Messrs. Stoddard & Binney’s office, where he displayed the con tents of his bag. It was immediately placed on exhibition in Messrs. Stoddard it Binney’s office. The nugget is flat and has something the contour of a colossal hand held open, with the thumb and fingers close together. Its greatest length is 12l j inches, and breadth inches, and varies m thick ness up to 2 % inches. It is apparently pure gold, and weighs 617 ounces, ft was found iu the northwest main drive, in the direction of the No. 2 shaft, 120 feet from the surface, and at a spot about .V) feet from where the Lady Brassey nugget was rocently found. A cast will lie taken of the nugget before iffis broken up. It is estimated to contain fifty-one pounds of pure gold, worth about £5l j>er pound, and tbe find represents an addition to the company's revenue of about £2,600. The nugget will be exhibited at Messrs. Kilpat rick & Co.’s, jewelers, Collins street west, Melbourne. Lady Loch has consented to its being named after herself. It is probable that the nugget will be forwarded to Eng land for exhibition. Subjoined is a list of the previous remarkable nuggets discovered in tfie Victorian gold fields: Weight. When Found. Lb. oz. dwt Black Hill Oct. 14, 1851 7 6 0 Canadian Gully . . .Juu. 20. 1853 93 1 11 Canadian Gully. . . Jan. 22, 1853 84 3 15 Canadian Gully lan. 81. 1853 134 11 0 Canadian Gnlly Feb., 1853 30 8 0 Canadian Qully Feb., 1853 30 11 2 Eureka Feb. 7, 1854 52 1 0 Dalton’s Flat Can adian—Lady Hot ham Bept. 8, 1854 98 1 17 Bakery Hill March 6, 1885 47 7 0 Bakery Hill March, 1885 40 0 0 Union Jack. Bunin yong Feb. 38, 1857 23 6 0 Black Hill Lend Nil Despernndum.Nov. 29, 1867 45 0 0 Bakery Hill-Wel come June 9, 1858 134 9 16 Koh-i-noor Claim . July 27, 1860 69 6 0 Koh-i-noor Claim— Sir Dominic ualy.Feb., 1862 36 0 0 M ol lagul—Welcome Stranger. Feb. 9, 1869 190 0 0 webbville— Bunin yong Aug. 1, 1869 12 0 0 Hideous in Every Guise, Whether it be the best known form, chills anil fever, or else bilious remittent, double ague or ague cake, is that abominable disorder involv ing the liver the bowels and the kidneys, known as malaria. Every complaint classified under thiß generic, though erroneous appellation, is destructive of the nervous system, but is, un happily, not to be subdued, or even Checked, by the use of ordinary nervines, febrifuges or tonic3. There is, however, prompt relief and ultimate cure to be found in Hoste tier's Stomach Bitters, foremost among the proprietary reme dies of America, and widely known in other lands. Not only disease's born of miasma, but rheumatic complaints, superinduced by ex posure in iad weather, inherited of incurred debility of the kidneys or bladder, dyspepsia and an irregular yudi tion of bowels, are curable--nay, certain to ca cured by this deservedly esteemed and pror bessionally sanctioned corrective. BAKING POWDER TESTS. Official Anal sss of the Chief Brand* Sold In the South—Their Strength and ; Value Ascertained—A Large Num ber Impure. The Ohio State Dairy and Food Commis sioner, Gen. S. 11. Hurst, has made pub lic (Circular No. 6) the results of the Com mission’s investigation of baking powder. This Commission was formed by the Legis lature, with instructions to make an exam ination of the food supply of the State, and to give a report of such examination to the public. The examination ot the baking powders was made by Prof. H. A. Weber, State Chemist, and relating as it does to an article of daily use in the food of almost every one, is of particular interest. The rather startling fact is brought out by the report that of the thirty different brands of baking yowder analyzed, compos ing about nil those sold in the State, twenty of them are made from alum, a substance declared by the highest medical authorities to be injurious to health when used in food. The Commissioner classifies the baking powders into three general divisions, ac cording to their value: Ist. Cream of Tartar Baking Powders; 2d. Phosphate Baking Powders; 3d. Alum Baking Powders. The object of baking powders is, when mixed in the flour and subjected to mois ture, to generate a leaveuiug gas in the dough, which will arise the bread and cause it to be porous and light. The Commissioner explains that the best baking powder is that which, the ingredients being healthful, gives off the largest amount of leaveuiug gas and leaves the smallest amount of residum in the bread. A small amount of carbonate of ammonia, which is considered healthful, is used in some of the cream of tartar powders to give them a higher strength. The Commission say that pure alum is undoubtedly a hurtful salt, and that the resultant salts from its combination with soda as formed in the bread, can scarcely be less hurtful. The report ranks the powders and shows the amount in each of inert resultants, which in using it would appeal - as residuum in the bread, as follows: CREAM OF TARTAR POWDERS. Per Cent, inert. Name. or Residuum. 1. Royal 7.25 2. I)r. Price's 12.06 3. Pearson's 14.39 4. Cleveland's 10.18 5. Snow Drift 17.54 6. Upper Ter 0.22 7. De Lund's 32.52 8. Sterling 12.63 PHOSPHATIC BAKING POWDERS. 9. Horsford's 36.49 10. Wheat 86.33 ALI'M BAKING POWDERS. 11. Empire 34.26 12. Gold 30.34 18. Veteran 23 30 14. Cook's Favorite 31.92 15. Sun Flower 35.60 16. KentoD 3H.17 17. Patapsco 40.08 18. Jersey 16.05 19. Buckeye 29.85 20. Peerless 26.28 21. Silver Star 31.88 22. Crown 16.69 23. Crown (Special) 25.09 24. One Spoon 58.68 25. Wheeler’s No. 15 27.73 26. Carleton 30.94 27. Gene. 30.57 28. Scioto 18.25 29. Zipp’s Grape Crystal 11.99 30. Forest City 24.04 The large amount of inert matter or resi duum in both the phosph ite and alum pow ders will be noted. T ;is in the phosphate powders is largely of lime; in the alum pow ders it is chiefly alum. It will be gratif ving to the public to observe that tbe powder in most general use, the Royal, is also the purest. In comparing the first two powders on the list, for instance—the Royal and Dr. Price’s —the inert matter in Price’s is seen to be about five in seven more than in the former, a difference of 71 3-7 per cent., the Royal being purer than Price’s by a corres ponding figure. The carbonic or leavening gas produced by the powders indicates their strength;and their true value may lie ascertained by con sidering the amount of this gas in conn tion with their inert matter or residuum as shown above. The higher the percentage of gas and the lower the percentage of resid uum the better the baking powder. These percentages, as found in some of the most familiar powders, are given as follows: Per Cent, of Per Cent, of Name. Leavening Gas. Residuum Royal 11.80 7.25 Sterling 11 12.63 Price's 10.50 12.66 De Land’s 10 32.52 Gem. Alum 8.45 36.57 Forest 0%, Alum 7.80 24 04 Silver Star, Alum 6.90 .... 31.88 Kenton, Alum 6.20 38.17 Patapsco. Alum 6 40.08 Empire. Alum 5.80 34.26 Cook's Favorite, Alum . 5.80 34.92 One Spoon, Alum 5.75 58.68 With the foregoing explanation the study of these figures will readily give consumers a knowledge of the comparative value of the different brand.;. To illustrate with the percentages given the two powders before compared: the Royal containing 11.8 parts of leavening gas to 10.5 in Price’s, its excess of strength is 1.3 in 10.5, or 12.4 per cent. Royal is therefore 12.40 per cent, stronger, as well as 71 per cent, purer titan Price’s, etc. The relative strength and purity of all the powders can bo computed in like man ner. CURIOSITIES OF COURTSHIP. Love-Making Episodes of an Odd or Striking Character. The Elmira, N. Y., Gazette has made a collection of condensed love stories, as fol lows: There is a veritable incident on record of an old Scotch dame, toothless, and nearly bent double with the aches aud pa ns of ad vanced years, who, when asked at what age women gave over thinking of marriage, re plied: •‘Deed, ye maun een gang and ask some ane mail' auld than me!” And we can give as a companion to this instance one equally authentic of a small American damsel of 4 years who, being ! once chided bv a grown-up sister for talk ing of marriage—with the admonition that such little girls should not think of get ting married—replied with the utmost amazement at her elder’s ignorance: “Whv, I thought about it when I was only 2!" Sir Arthur Helps gave it as his belief that since the world was created no two couples ever made love alter the same fashion. And since “it takes all sorts of folks to make a world,’’ they may be fairly supjtosed to do their courting iu all sorts of ways. For in stance, the courting of the aboriginal of Australia consisted simply in knocking the woman of his prefere .ce down with a club and carrying her off. This form of wooing was as efficacious as brief, and was certainly commendable on the score of enonomy, since it subjected neither party to the ex pense of lights, fires, oyster suppers, ice cream. < laborato dresses. dowers, etc., which are the usual concomitants of civilized love making. The method of the Australian has been tried by other than dusky savages. It is an historical fact that William the Con queror conducted his courtship in a similar manner. Having fallen in love with a Flemish maidert, he had told her of his pre ference, but received m return only scorn and indifference. Becoming enraged at this, he one day attacked the damsel in the open street and puramoled her unmercifully. The result was that she consented to his suit, and made, when married, one of the meekest wives imaginable. In civilised countries of our days this courting cere mony is, strange to say,sometimes used after marriage. Some very curious courting customs pre vail in Africa. In one tribe of Eastern Africa it is regarded as the nut plus ultra of gallantry for the lover to parade before the hut of hi, inamorata astride of,a huge boar. Mungo Park tells of a tribe in the interior THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1887. where custom compels women to carry a calabash of water to the man who has ex pressed a preference for her. Seated on a mat before his door he washes his hands in the vessel, and tiie woman drinks the water as a token of her affection. Less repulsive "as the act of the lover among the ancient Persians, who burned his hand or check to prove his devotion and then showed it to his lady-love. If she was "willin," she bound the injured part with a silkeu scarf, but if obdurate she sent the man to a physician for healing salve. Among the Moravians it was the system for the ministers to select wives for the men of his congregation. If a '‘sister” had any objection to the “brother” selected for her life partner she was permitted to state it, but it was generally overruled by the priest's eloquence. Strange to say, the his torian tells us that these marriages were generally happy. In Greenland the services of the pastor of the flock are also called in. A man who has male up his mind that his worldly cir cumstances warrant him in indulging in what has been called “the abstract desire of every man to furnish board and lodging to some young lady,” and has decided what young lady he wishes to tie taxed for, calls on the reverend father and states his cast'. The inquiry is made whether the girl knows of the suit, to which the man replies that he has tried some preliminary love-making, which was not very kindly received, but adds: “Thou the ways of man kind.” In Greenland, tie it remarked, it is an accepted fact in social philosophy that a woman’s no means yes. The priest calls upon the young woman and pleads the .ause of her lover, assuring her that he is a good man, that he catches many seals, etc. It is the custom for the woman to reject all proposals at first, but to yield at last an un willing assent. If the priest thinks she is tooobstinate he generally remarks: “Ah, well, it is no matter; I can easily find an other woman who will have such a good provider,” and turns to leave, which action brings the stubborn maiden to terms at once. In St. Petersburg, Russia, a custom prevailed for many years—though declined greatly in importance, it has not gone en tirely out of use—which was designed to stimulate the laggards in courtship. On Whitsunday there was held in the Summer Garden, one of the city’s paries, a fair of all the damsels of the city who wanted hus bands. Dressed in their best, with ail the ornaments at command, atid holding silver spoons or other ware in their hands, to show that they were not whollv portionless, th y stood in rows under the trees, attended by parents or guardians, to insure propriety of behavior, to faciliate matrimonial liar gains The men in search of wives strolled about scrutinizing all the candidates at leisure. When the man saw one that pleased him he usually introduced himself to her custodians, and if bis statement of family, business and prospects were satisfactory he was made acquainted with the young woman and invited to her residence. After this the nuptial ceremony followed as speedily as the would-be bridegroom de sired. Wo find a custom precisely like this still in existence in a district in the south of Ire land. There it is known as “shrafting,” the name being derived from Shrove-Tues day, the day on which it was held. On that day all the marriageable young people of both sexes are marshaled on the village green by their parents—the girls in all the glory of Sunday gow sand gay ribbons, as lovely as fresh-blown roses, evidently en joying their best attire, looking as foolish as only the male human can look on exhibi tion. The two sexes are stationed in line apart from, each other, and the parents pass between to vouchsafe proposals or to receive them, and to haggle over marriage por tions. The preferences of the young people are fully understood by the elders, and commendable effort is made to gratify them, the main object of the parents being to secure as good a set-out as posssible for the young couple. As this ceremony occurs on Shrove-Tuesdnv it is often a brief wooing to the willing victims, for Lent beginning the following day, which perforce post ooues ail marriages for six weeks, the ma jority of the couples are united by the priest the same evening. Happy is the wooing Which is not long doing, the sentiment of the ancient Celt, was also the belief of the famous I)r. Abernethv. This gentleman, when he made up his mind to marry, was no longer young, and he went about the business in an eminently practical manner. Having met frequently at the home of one of his i laiients a voung woman whose eomelines.-.and amiability had quite pleased him, he sought a private in terview with her, told her he would like to marry her, if she had no objections, but had no time o spend in courting her. If, how ever, she would marry him. and could bo ready in two weeks, he would call and. take her to church for the ceremony. She was ready at the time appointed, and neither ever had occasion to regret tiie very brief preliminaries to what proved to be a most suitable union. All persons, we may suppose, have not like opportunity with these two to be as sured of the worthiness of the object of their choice beforehand, but there are instances where even bolder suitors than Abernethy have been favored by fortune. A California miuer, having amassed quite a fortune, was returning by ship to New York to revisit old friends and to find him a wife. A young woman on board the ship, serving in the capacity of nursery governess to the family of a merchant on board, pleased him much by her neat and modest appearance. He therefore introduced himself one day, and broke tiie ice of his purpose with one reck less plunge: ‘-Madame, my name is , my parents and family reside in Now Hampshire; I have property amounting to $•.300,000, and expect to ons-ag ■ in business in . lam a perfectly tempera; e man, and I could give you good reference to tes tify to my general upright character lam unmarried, and want a wife; will you marry me?’’ The lady took the character of her suitor at once." “Thank you,” said she,"! will,” and on landing they were forthwith married. However, whether this law was ever placed on record or not, the practice of fe male proposals was never adopted and seems never to have been more than a tradition. There have been instances, of course, of a “woman who dared,” but not many, for the risk of a refusal was too serious a one to run. How the Princess Lo-iise, of Savoy, ever recovered from her humiliation after having offered herself in marriage to Charles, Duke of Bourbon, only to receive a grave but positive refusal, few women can understand. Ladies, however, are permitted to assist a bashful wooer when Either he fears his fate too much Or his desert too small, Who fears to put it to the touch And win or lose It all. Such was the case with tho young lady who assured her lovor that she could make a beautiful cake, all filled with fruit, with a ring on the top and when the astonished swain exclaimed: “Why, that is a wed ding cake!” replied: “I meant wedding,” anil which brought matters to a crisis im mediately. More shrewd still was the young lady— and more daring—who told her admirer that she was a mind-reader, and could read what was going on in his fliind at that mo ment; that he wanted to propose to her but did not know how to do it, which, of course, relieved the young man from his embarrass ment parmanently. Avery bashful man having succeeded in winning a wife, a lady relative teased him to tell her how he over plucked up courage enough to propose. "Now. tell me the truth, N ,” said she, “did not the lady have to do the court ing for youf ” “N-no,” answered the gentleman: “but I own she smoothed over the hard places for me.” And this seems to be the ladies’ mis sion in courtship—to smooth over the hard places. , A Standard Xmas Gift is an assortment of Colgate’s unrivalled toilet soaps and perfumery. Now ready. PUBLICATIONS. THE CEN TtJ lIY ITS BRILLIANT PROGRAMME FOR 1888. SIBERIAN PAPERS—“LINCOLN IN THE WAR.” CIRCULATION 250,000--TIIE NOVEMBER NUMBER. A prominent newspaper has lately wiid of The Century that “it is doing: more than any other private agency of to-day to teach the Am riean people the true meaning of the words Nation and Democracy, it is a groat and it is do: a great work." Its average edition is now nearly 250,000, many* issues qeeUiug fully that number to supply the demand. The November Number, ready everywhere November Ist, is the first issue of the new volume. One or' the groat features of The Century for the past year tend one which has ad led thousands of re ders has been Abra ham Lincoln: A History,” by his private e *i\ t tries, Messrs. Nicol.-v anti Hay, a work up. a which they have been engaged nearly twenty years, the events of Mr. Lincoln's eatly life having been narrated.—his political conflicts, etc., tho writers now enter upon a more important aud personal part of their narrative, and begin “Lincoln in the War.” The November Century contains “The President -elect at Springfield,” with new material of rare interest, including unpublished letters from and to General Scott, W. H Se.ard, Horace Greeley, and Thnrlow Weed. After the “War Series," and the Lincoln History, tho most important enterprise over under taken liy Tub Century is the fortuconiin ; series of illustrated papers on Siberia and the Exile System, by George Kennan, author of Tent Life in Siberia , who has just returned from an arduous jour ney of 15,000 miles through Russia and Siberia, during which, by moans of especially favorable letters from Russian ofliciad* and a kuowlctlire of the language, ho w.is enabled to visit every im portant prison in Siberia and to make the aciiuainLince of more than 300 exil'd Liberals aud ‘‘Nihilists.” Graphic features of exile hfo, “hunger strikes,’’ the I rafllc in names, the ‘knock alpha bet,” etc., etc., wall be described, ami the dlustratious. by Mr. George A. 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A number of supplementary papers, of a general and untechnical character, are to follow the “battle series,” to Include a paper by General Sher man on “The Grand Strategy of the War.” with narratives of personal adventure, —tunneling fr m Libby Prison, -the torpedo service, the telegraph, etc., etc. The Lincoln History will con tain much that is entirely new regar Iflig the conduct of the Civil War. Fiction by Eggleston and Cable. Two important stories begin in t his November number,—“The Graysons,” a story of Illinois, a novel by Edward Eggleston, am Jot of "The Hoosier Sclav 1 mister, ‘ etc., etc.; and “Au Lart'.-,” a three-part story of Acadian life, by George \V. Cable, author of ”Oid Creole Days,” etc. Both are illustrated. In December will begin A Three-Part Story by Frank R. 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We are receiving on every steamer NEW GOODS from all countries, suitable for WEDDING and HOLLIDAY PRESENTS. Call and Inspect the immense stock of STAPLE AND FANCY GOODS at WEST’S CHINA PALACE, lfhT BUorioiiToisr street. FURMXUBE, CARPETS, MATTING, ETC. CARPETS! CARPETS! CAP PETS! Now is the time for Bargains in Carpets. A fine selection of Cotton Chains, Union’s Extra Supers, AH Wool, Two and Three-P ys, Tapestries and Body Brus sels just arrived. Our line of Furniture is cmn| l*te in all its departments. Just received a carload of Cook in? and Heating Stoves. So call on us fur Bargains. We don't in tend to be undersold, for cash or on easy terms. TEEPLE & CO. BRICK. Wm. P. Bailey & Cos., BRICK MANUFACTURERS, KEEP CONSTANTLY ft* HAND. In large quantities at imv y4rd on tUe SPRING FIELD PLANTATION, liy<f will deliver the mime in uuy part of the city upon the shortest notice. The best Well Brick, Pressed Brictk, Hflrdßrown Brick, Gray Brick, Soft Brown Brick. Office— Comer Bull and Broughton, at SI MON GAZAN S CIGAR STORE, where aU or der* will receive prompt attention. y WOOD. A. S. BACON, Planing Mill, Lumber and Wood Yard, Liberty and East Broad sfs., Savannah, Ga. A LI. Planing Mill work gwitw :tiy and prompt ly done Good stock Dressed and Rough Lumber. FIRE WOOD, Oak, Pine. Llghtwood and Lumber iQri things. , •„ IKON WORKS. mm & Hi; IRON FOUNDERS, Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blacksmiths, STATIONARY anti PORTABLE ENGINES, VERTICAL and TOP-RUN NINO CORN MILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS. AGENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, the simplest and most effective on tne market; Gnllett Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the best in the market. Ail orders promptly attended to. Send for Prioe List. PLUMBER. l. a. McCarthy, Successor to Chas. E. Wakefield, PLUMBER; GAS and STEAM FITTER, V- Barnard street, SAVANNAH, UA. Telephone fi'J. DRY GOODS. le-opened at tic (111 Stand! David Weisbein, 153 BROUGHTON ST., SAVANNAH, Announces to his many customers and the public at large that he has re-opened business at hi* former place, 1.13 BROUGHTON STREET, so well and favorably known, and which has been patronized to such extent that it became known as THE POPULAR DRY GOODS HOUSE. \\ T E have in stock every quality of goods up to the VERY FINEST, and our prices will be found ▼ ▼ to bo far lower than they have ever been, and by far lower than the same qualities ran be purchased any where. New York city uot excepted. We are aware that this is a tar reaching as sertion. but we mean exactly what wo say. Call and test us. We are willing to risk our %)puta* tion that this is uot an advertising dodge. We stake our honor upon its trutinulness. Wc Insist That What Wc Say Arc Indisputable Facts and Easily Proven. OUR DRESS GOODS STOCK y ' and OUR RLACK DRESS SILKS A - r * > best Wearlnp: in any znarUet. and one-fourth cheaper. f|ITR Nil k r VFI VRTN I'l RNURN Plain ami Fancy. Moire Satins In all shades, and all the Util Olba TLLILIO, lld oil GO, novelties of Trimmings in Jet and Braid are the latest styles and at remarkably low prices. OTTII 11! A V I, FT ni'PAHTMRVT ls complete In every sense of the word. We hare White ÜbU LI LA Alt 1,1 1/ LI all 1 .Ul,' I planters as low as 86c. apa r and up to £JS. We especially recommend our $5 Blanket; they are simply immense. MIR Ft A WPI nRUAHTMFVT Contains every grade, style, quality and color, from the übll 1 LA.til Id. Dul All 1 JIIjA I bumble t grade to the iinest Eiderdown, and we are sure our prices are very low. IHIR FVfiMSH WAim lIfHtFTN Wra P. Circulars. Jerseys, Children's Cloaks are im- Übll 1--'b 1,1. II HAUVIAU 'lo' ALl questionably the best, nv >st fashionable and elegant in the market, aud tue prices by far lower than elsewhere. OUR KID GLOVE DEPARTMENT BOe. t-Button Rid cannot be matched anywhere for less than $!. We are fully prepared ia every style of Gloves for La lies. Gents and < hildren at the very lowest prices Gentlemen desi iug a good Dress or Driving Glove will And au immense variety and NOT fancy prices. nUR r\nFRWRAR DRIMRTMRNT fror Dailies. Children and Gen’s contains every variety ULR LA DEMI II i.iill Did All) iUL.t I from the ordinary to the very best. Children's Vest as low as loc. for a very fair quality. Gents All Wo >1 Scar et. Un lersnirts and Drawers as low as 50c, We direct also attention to our very su* crier line of Haif Hose aud Stockings in Wool, Merino, Cotton, Silk and Usle Thread. CD V T ARIF rifITHN Damasks, Linens of all kinds, Sheetings, Calico Comfortables, Mar- OUil\ lAUlili vbUlllo, seilles and other Quilts an IBe 1 More ids In fact, every article neces sary for housekeeping we liave in th • lar c-st vari -ty and at the lowest prices. We offer full width New York Mills Blenched Sheeting at l^c. (H R niniFNTIR nRIAIIT\IF\T Is beyond doubt unequaled. We offer the celebrated Lons- ULII BUciLc llt DHiIaH I ItILA 1 dais Bleacael Shirt 11 . yard wile, genuine goods, by tlia piece at He. Also the well-known yard wide Fruit of the Loom at BX<*. Splendid Canton Flannel as low as se. The very best Standard Calico at 5c.; sold elsewhere at Bc. LADIES’ MUSLIN UNDERWEAR, Wb*from 4toll year, in large variety at nearly half OURBAZAR Will be opened on SATURDAY, the 29th 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 25c. each, We will sell them on Sat urday, Oct 29, and Monday, Oct. 31, at the uniform price of 10 cents. DAVID WEISBEHST. FURNITURE ANU CARPETS. A TOUW^^TORY! 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. We do not think that it is our winning ways altogether that does the drawing, but the BEAUTIFUL SELECTION OF GOODS that we 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, KR OtJ SKO OT*S~ Opcniiig of I 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. We are showing Hats in the finest Hatter’s Plush, Beaver, Felt, Straw and Fancy Combinations. Ribbons in Glacee, of all the hovel shades. Fancy Birds and Wings, Velvets and Plushes of our own im portation, and we uow 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, ftt 35 cents S. KttOLSKOFFS MAMMOTH MILLINEKV MM BROUG-tIXOX STREET. 5