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2 THREE FAMOUS WOMEN. A FEW POINTS SHOWING ON WHAT THEIR FAME IS BASED. Paradise Park the Place Where Chil dren are to be Seen in All Their Loveliness -Some of the Ways They are Entertained. New York, Nov. 5. —There are three famous women in New York now. Two of them base their fame entirely upon noto riety and newspaper comment. The third owes all her eminence and celebrity to her art. It dominates everything else She has been four times married, and has been the heroine of many sensational episodes, encounters and anecdotes, but the brilliancy, cleverness and genius of Ellen Terry have dwarfed all other factors in her fame, and she is known as an actress pure and simple. Mr. Irving creates no such sensation when he goes abroad as does his charming part ner and colleague. People stare with more or less interest at the long-haired and dis tinguished-looking Englishman, but when Miss Terry comes along they stop and fol low her as far as the eye can reach They dwell on her beautiful and mobile face with something akin to affection. She is not a success of curiosity nor an object of newspaper talk. To-day when the English actress stopped to gaze into a shop window on Broadway she was almost instantly sur rounded by a crowd of eager observers. But they stood some distance aloof from her and were respectful and admiring When she walked toward the curb the crowd parted right and left, and a dozen hands were outstretched to open her carriage door. It was very different from the attention that is usually paid to Mrs. Langtry. When the latter ventures abroad she is on parade. Men stare at her, and women crowd close around. They cluster around the stage door, so that she lias to push her wav through them. Politeness is not apparent in such throngs. It seerns to be universally felt that a notorious personage is abroad, and that it is every man's right to stare and jostle to the limit of the law. Langtry is too big, too broad, too mascu line for the taste to-dav. The public wants its favorites lean. Bernhardt has reverse! the fashion. Robust beauties are shelved. Miss Terry, like Bernhardt, is thin, supple and graceful. Mrs. Potter falls under the same category, being by far the mom girl ish and shapely of all the famous women. The Langtry is no longer the lily; she is a sunflower—the cactus of the garden. There is the difference between her and Mrs. Pot ter that there is between the modest violet and the sturdy thistle. Mrs. Langtry acts with the force of a robust and muscular woman, and she dies on the stage like at: athlete. I ■ everything she is big, powerful and determined. She lias fought her battle well, and she has had her reward, for she is a woman of great wealth and with a pros perous future still before her. But she is no longer queen. The Langtry boom is at an end. She has held her supremacy for eight veal’s in the newspapers of the world. London took her up first but grew tired of her when she re turned to the English metropolis two year ago. Then she came back to us, but the feeling grev apa t tha the Langtry was a bit “passe ” The shrewdest and best judge of such mattere, the New York theatrical managers, saw that Mrs. Potter was the coming star. Such men as Abbey, Gil more and Stetson, who are always ahead of the times, mado every effort to secure Mrs. Potters services long before that lady de cided absolutely to go on the professional stage. Finally she took the plunge, and the contest lietween the rival managers grew more rabid than ever. Just at the most critical period of Mrs. Langtry’s career, be fore she he- become a really capable actress and wher he • fame as a beauty is lieginning to dim, Mrs. Potter comes upon the field The success of the Langtry’s rival is com plete. Potter has appeared. She is beauli ful, graceful and suave. She does not know how to act,But then what has that to do with an actress of the sensational type now •days? Society was on hand at Mrs. Potter ’- . debut and it applauded. It was not par ticularly improssed. It never is. It simply smiled and patronized its former leader in p gentle and well bred manner. When the play grew tragic, society smiled its boredom carelessly awav and chatted without the slightest regard for the very small section of the audience that cared to follow the in tricate and monstrous absurdities of the drama. The Potter gowns were stunning, and the Potter was a go. Sne has refin - ment, and it is genuine. The play in which she appea. 1 ghast. : in its absurdities and tiresome m its'•fkiness. But all thus things wei e overlooked by a tbrong of the representative people of New York who recognized an ambitious woman's effort to achieve fame and fortune and applauded her on her way, because she had for many years amused society without a thought of the trouble—without asking any other com pensation than smiles and compliments, Mrs. Potter is to-dav as good an actress as Mrs. Langtry, and immeasurably better than Mrs. Langtry was when she first ap peared on the New York stage. This, to be sure, is not saying much, but it is all that can be truthfully said. Blakely Hall. 1L The Great Day for Children. Sunday is a great day for the children of New York who are not given to its close ob servance as a time of rest. Paradise Park and the streets of the mor thickly popu lated parts of the city are alive with them, bnt if you want to see children having fun in the widest sense you must go to the up per end of Manhattan Island, where they have more room to disport themselves. The small hoys in the neighborhood of One Hundredth and Tweuty-seventh street and Eighth avenue have a spirited sparring club. Two of them were matched to fight to a finish last Bum lay, and a crowd was on hand to see the sights. It was a gamy en counter. As the fight progressed a friend of one of the combatants said: “Hold on, dat aiu’t ’cordin’ to de Queens bury rules! - ’ The referee declared that it was, the complainant called him a liar and the ref eree proceed to lick him. The combatants then turned their attention from their own fight to help along the skirmish between the referee and Ins enemy. A general riot and several bloody noses was the result and a man bad to come in and quell the disturb ance. A block north of the scene of this diver sion well-dreessed boys were playing mar bles, which game is "just now regaining its forming popularity w ith the boys of the metropolis. Some girls who had’been con temptuously debarred from the game went aside and consoled themselves by playing jackstones. This game, too, ended in u war. One girl had on anew hood. Another, who still wore her summer list, criticised the hood in an uncomplimentary manner, whereupon the owner of the hood said: “I know what ails you. Your ma hain’t got money enough to buv you a hood, so there!” The majority of the players took sides with the wearer of the summer hat and the purse-proud ixwsessor of the hood was boy cotted and went home in tears. Probably the most exciting and novel en tertainment was that in which some boys were participating near the comer of Ouo Hundred anil Twenty-sixth street and Ht. Nicholas avenue, where a high mass of rocks is being blasted. A big derrick worked by hand stands alongside the rock The boys attached the tackle to a flat rock, one of their riumtier took his seat on it and then they hauled him high in air und swung the derrick around rapidly. It was so great fun that each boy clamored for bis turn to ride on the derrick and begged to be allowed to remain up in the air for a longer period, but his comrades dropped him to tho ground very suddenly and there was no ap peal from their action. A vacant - lot nearly opposite the derrick contains a shanty, a goat slied and usuahy a demure goat. iSome young lads use the lot every Sunday as a football ground. They were kicking the ball about with gn at glee when the goat came out of the shod and Mrs. Doolan, its owner, came to the door of her shanty. The goat gazed with disapproval on the bounding ball, then leveled its horns and went out to m et it. The encounter was not conducive to the goat's peace of mind, and it essayed another attack. The boys by common consent made the goat the goal of the game aud pelted it with the big ball until it was knocked over on its side, and Mrs. Doolan rushed among them to rescue it and barely escaped being hit herself. At one point near the end of old Broad way, where the houses are poor and the [ieo ple likewise, some lads were playing horse. They rigg'-d up an o and soap box on wheels into something like a fire engine. A boy at a distant point pounded on a tin pan as a mimic alarm of fire, and the portable soap box drawn by fleet-flooted boys quickly re sponded. One of the horses lost his shoe and a youngster, whoso father is a black smith, took him aside, took his foot between his legs, alter tile manner of a smith shoe ing a horse, und hammered the shoe back into place. While the soap box brigade were waiting at the roadside a dandyish lit tle Ixiy from one of the mansions on the boulevard came along driving a pretty black pony hitched to a dog cart. Instantly the poor Boys, whose soap box looked more mean than ever beside the handsome dog cart, greeted its driver with such: “ Where’d ye git de meat wagon!” ‘’Oh. take de plug ]>ony away.” The boy quickly turned his steed about and drove away to escape tho criticisms of the lire brigade. He found, however, that he had jumped out of the frying pan into the lire. He turned down on the brua . boulevard near Une Hundred and Thirty-fifth street and ran into a crowd of boys wiio were [Having hockey, which some have called pedestrian polo. They fairly filled up the street and Ann: knocking the ball hither and yon with great energy. In one of its flights it hit the pony, which reared, turned sharply about anil nearly threw the lad from his seat. He tried to drive in an opposite di rection only to encounter another of the gangs of hockey players that virtually take possession of the boulevard on Sunday, and he was compelled to take a cross street and a rouh. inbout way home. Just before you reach Manhattan street on the boulevard you pass some old shan t.es. There is at least one goat to each shanty. Two boys crept into the shanty village and lassooed a goat of the color of a dirty door mat. They led it away despite its protest, rigged up a bridle, put an im provised bit in its mouth and whipped it into a canter. They drove it up and down tho street ami then in a moment of unwis dom born of too much fun they galloped it near its residence. They were driving it to beat all previous records when there was a yell from among the humble huts, und a very large nnd muscular woman dashed among the drivers and retainers of the goat and scattered blows on their heads as she yelled* "Ah ha, ye young spalpeens! Oive caught ye now. Now oi know why me goat keeps so poor all the while Ye’ve been driven him to death widout mo knowl edge. Take that, and that, ye young dev ils!” The race was declared off and the ex hausted goat was taken home. amos J. Cummings. MRS. POTTER’S FIRST NIGHT. An Interesting Review of it by One Who is Posted. New York, Nov. s.—lt was quite a week for Americans. Mrs. Potter made her debut at the Fifth Avenue Theatre profes sionally in New York, and anew Amen-i can play by Bolaseo and De Milie was brought out at the Lyceum Theatre. It i • called ‘ The Wife,” and it is a powerful drama, admirably acted and mounted with remarkable skill and magnificence. The Lyceum hus taken its place since the season began as second only to Italy’s as a stock Lbeutre. An amazing amount of labor and money have been exjionded on all the pro ductions thus far, and the same clever brain t hat built up the success of the Madison Square Theatre is repeating the triumph at a rival house. Mr-s. Potter's opening dwarfed all other theatrical attractions, and even took the first anticipatory blush of novelty from the Irving boom. Mrs. Potter is now the pet of the public, the plaything f the news papers and the object of keen and bitter envy. Ttie most noted audience that ever assem bled in a New York theatre greeted the American actress. Everybody was there from legal lights like Roscoe Conkling and Joseph Choate to the millionaires, Astor . Rockefellers and Gilsevs. All tiie leaders of society, from Mrs. Belmont and Mrs. Paran Stevens down to the s ciety men who iead ■ otilhons and lend sombreness and gloom to the various limit clubs in the neighborhood, were on hand. The clubs were literally de serted, while their crack members did hom age at Mrs. Potter’s shrine. Most of the ladies were in evening dress, and the effect of tiie low dresses through the body of the house was enlivening and brilliant. Mrs. Potter’s piav was a strange and un earthly adaptation from the French, which consisted very largely of Air. Kyrle Bellow, tiie long-haired and effeminate actor, and a Miss Alouk, who bad a baritone voice, a cavernous mouth and an air of settled re morse. She spent the whole evening faint ing away, moaning, muttering curses on the head of everybody who cliaciced to show up, and making an exceedingly unpleasant person of herself throughout. Air. Bel lew came in in the first act, and fell upon a sola near the footlights, apparently in an agony of pain and anguish. He wore a pair of natty check trousers and a voluminous shirt, the left side of which was bespattered by an enormous daub of rod paint. This was intended to represent blood, and there was so much of it immediately over Air. Bellow’s heart that it seemed as thougli that actor must have bled for a week. It was a decidedly repulsive spectacle. A sur geon came in, and yanking Air. Bellow’s shirt open at the bosom to u really alarming extent, displayed a dashing bit of criss-cross work in court" plaster over the actor’s heart, said the wound amounted to nothing, gave tlie young man, who was a total stranger to him, l.oOUf. and withdrew. This little epi sode started Mr. Bollew on his prosperous career, and he took up the study of sculp ture. Eventually he becomes famous and marries Mrs. Potter. He plays the charac ter of an effeminate sculptor in a purely feminine way. He cries when the woman whom he loves goes off and marries another man, and he clasps his hands across his breast in a feminine way when his emotions are too much for him. Mrs. Potter also weeps copiously all through the piece, and the only really manly personage on the stage is the mother. She is a nailer. The audi ence laughed at her Monday night, but that did not seem to discourage her in the least. There were numerous deaths in the play, and it was throughout silly and improbable. Nobody knows exactly why Mrs. Potter chose this for her opening performance in New York. The personal efforts of the famous Ameri can society women were liberally rewarded by applause. She Is by no means a great aefess, but she does not offend, and there is no doutit that she will one day win a prominent place on the stage by reason of tier art alone. She has beauty, intelligence and grace. Her face is far more attractive than that of Mrs. Langtry, though she has not the robust and superb figure of the English woman. The Langtry is on tho wane professionally, und Mrs. suc cess is the death knell to her hopes. The crown has been wrested from her. Blakely Hall. All sufferers with such chronic ailments as liver disease, dyspepsia, bio and diseases, coughs,consumption, (scrofulaof the lungs), and kindred diseases should know that Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” is their l<est friend in such deep affliction. -It comes to soothe, alleviate and cure. TIIE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER fi, 1887. SUMS QUEER SPECULATIVE DHALB With Interesting Facts Concern! e the Men Inter sted in them. New York, Nov. s.—Curiously enough, tho only exchange where there is any real speculative furor just now is the Metal Exchange in the tomb-like old Seventh Ward Bank building, at Pearl street and Burling slip. Stocks are dull because the cowardly bulls have become demoralized by tlie raids of such flying Cossacks as Addi son Cammaek, Arthur E. Bateman, Harvey Durand aud others, to whom Jay Gould anxious to humble the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fte, as well as for other reasons, has given a Mephistophelean wink. Gould has thimblerigged Manhattan, knifed Henry Hart, picked Garrett's pocket of the Baltimore nnd Ohio Telegraph, ami now he wants to bully the Atchison out of his Southwestern fieid. His play on the finan cial che.-os board for months post has all been toward the depression of railroad projierty in order to promote his own particular schemes by the snaking out of powerful opjioneats whom he has swallowed with the maw of a crocodile. Speculation is so lifeless at the Stock Exchange that many brokers are not making enough to pay office rents. At the Produce Exchange there is no speculative life. Bulls on wheat have received such severe punishment with in the last three years that they hardly dare to say their souls arc their own. N B. Ream is said tobeabullon wheat, but he does nothing to prove it, and he and the other members of the notorious Chicago w reciters, known as the Big Four, are largely respon sible, through the persistent selling of what they did not possess, for the disastrous de cline in the value of a great staple within tho last few years. Edward Cottrell pro fesses to be a bull on wheat for a long pull, bat the speculation is so sluggish that tie linds it advisable to make turns on the short side. Charles Rous, the morose knight of speculation from Baltimore, is a bear on wheat. Nat Jones is said to have ma ie a quick turn on the bull side in wheat with Addison Cammaek for company and is now busy trying to depress the value or' railroad property in the Northwest. There is no one to take an uggre.ssive stand on either wheat or corn. Hutchinson load and up to the gun wales with corn a few months ago on the strength of the drought at the West, but is n iw trying to get somebody to hold tiie bag until he has filled it and got out. At the Cotton Exchange it is considered too early to bull tho market, notwithstanding the large exports and the enormous consump tion here and abroad, and such houses as Lehman Brothers, Inman. .Swan & Cos., Henry Hentz & Cos. and. Fielding & Gwynne are on the bear side. Con. Woodward thunders bull points through his trumpet as commander of the steam yacht Wanda and Rolii Brothers, the Greeks, with ramifications throughout the world aud a capital of $50,000,0011, are bulls: but the outside public lets cotton alone aud there is nothing to do but to occasionally pinch a moderate short interest. W. H. Cross man, Joseph .1 O’Donohue, V. & A. Meyer, Wil liams, Russell & Cos., Ainsinek & Cos., Field, Lindley & Cos., and others are trying to bull jtfee. partly for a clique of scheming but short-sighted Brazilians, but the general p-iblic thinks that the price is already l idicu- l-usty high. Any outbid interest existing finds expression in short -ales through Henry Clews iY Cos., Power, Son ec Cos.. Sitiddy, Minford & Cos.. Dr. J. H. Purser, Bros., Siegfried Gruner and others, while Sawyer, Wallace & Cos. within a short tune have tipped over fully lUO.IWU begs, or more than US 000,- 00 pounds. The cotton people are all fighting the bull side in coffee. At all of these exchanges, in a word, there is speculative death, and the brokers are in mourning. The trading is mostly “pro fessional ’ —that is, between room operator-; —and the lamb stands afar off and cannot txi lured in the butcher’s pasture by glib .talk of flowery food. But at the Metal Ex change, ns I began to say, there is genuine si eeuiative furor. Iron is neglected in spite of tiie entertaining romances frequently published by President B. G. Clark, of the Thomas Iron Company, according to which the luture has an exceedingly roseate asp i But in copper thfe transact ions ar - enonn jus. They frequently exceed 2,0dd,P00 pounds in a day. Wail street people and banks here and in New England nave been buying it here and in London, taking Imke Superior copper and Chili bars. Some time ago a clique was formed iu Paris to bull copper, and opera tors in London and New York followed fhe.r lead. Within a short time the price has advanced equal to 82.5 a ton in London, and it lias been steadily rising here. The French clique has employed brokers here to bu v right and left and keep the steam up. Cor with the big lead operator of Chicago, is said to be quietly fighting the deal, but this is also denied. The leading buils iiere are the Hendricks and Lewiston brothers and John Davol, the latter of whom, however, appears to he buying for immediate delivery and seding futures for the carrying charges. The buils s-iy that copper ought to go up because tho con sumption is greater than the production, and that the Calumet and Heela mine was not worked for three months, owing to tiie great fire there some time ago. The proli ubiliiy is that as prices advance the produc tion of other mines will be increased, and tnus a check lie imposed on the r aging bulls. There appear to lie no bears tui i they are re illy necessary to an advance. With the crowd nil running one way the worst breaks in prices take place. The other speculative deal at the Metal Exchange is in tin, strange as that may seem to many. A French syndicate has cornered Strauss, the big London operator, who lias fought them for some time, but is now trying to cover his large short sales. Within a short time tin has advanced equal to #75 a ten in Ixmdon. Within a week it has risen SSO a ton here, and it is now #l6; l a ton higher than a year ago. The French clique have a broker here to manipulate this market, and the American bears, after climbing high to cover their shorts, are now quietly sucking their paws, and are not attempting to fight the deal. As large holders, Phelps, Dodge & Cos , May lor & Cos. and John Duval are interested'in the advance. The Frenchmen ara giving the Prussians a Marengo for a Sedan, hut when the shorts have been covered, prices are likely to come down with a crash. Oscar Willoughb* Riggs. NEW YORK REAL ESTATE. The Bottom of the Boom in It Has Dropped Out. New Yokk, Nov. s.—Real estate in New York city has been booming for several years. That boom is now upon the giddy verge of a collapse, and buildei-s and lot owners ore staring bankruptcy in the face. The spectators who are bound to suffer by tue collapse of this boom, have only tlieni selves to thank for their disagreeable posi tion. It is due not at all to any inactive demand for real estate, nor any business stagnation or any financial distress, but en tirely to hoggishness of the speculators. This boom has been developing, as a mat ter of fact, since the elevated railroads pen etrated to the northern part of Manhattan Island, and thus made a vast extent of land to the west and northwest of the park avail able for habitation. Fortunes were made in a remarkably short time by speculators in land and buildings in that vicinity. The matter grew to be as great a craze as any laud boom m a Western mining district. Tlie result w as that three years ago builders nut every dollar they could raise into new houses, mortgaged them at once, and built other new houses, and so multiplied their investments until every dol lar put into premises at the beginning was represented by about $0 in improved land. Such a complicated state of affuirs, of course, could not enduro unless purchasers were quickly forthcoming. The demand for houses continued as great as it had been, and the builders shovel the prices up to an unreasonable height. They made up their miudsthat they were going to make 100 per cent, upon their investments, and when the would-be purchasers stared aghast at. the prices demanded the builders simply sut back in their chairs and wailed. They have waited too long. Prices for buildings I and land on the west side of the city were twenty years in advance of real values. The newspaper's, with a commendable de sire to foster local improvements, havecried up the lxxan in land, and the builders, with desperate courage, have insisted upon their longest prices, but the time lias come now when they are beginning to For the past two weeks sales at the Real Estate Exchange have been at figures considerably j below those named a year and a year and u half ago. Several prominent builders have , had their property sold out under foreolos ■ ur pro - e.lings; a great many more are j face to face with similar emergencies. The | state of things is well illustrated by the case I of a man who owned a row of houses on , West End avenue, destined, as many jxiople | think, to be the fashionable residence thor oughfare of the city. Last April he re ! fused an offer of #2-1,000 cash for one of his houses which had cost him •at the most not more than #16,000. He had already been waiting a year to get #27,000. Last week he sold that house for #22,000. it is necessary to point out that lie lost by his avariciousness not only the difference between his taking price and what was offered him last spring, but a huge amount of interest on hie investment. The dealers have been waiting too long, and several attempts recently to sell large num bers of lots and houses at auction, with the idea of bracing up the boom and steadying prices, have failed so utterly of their pur ixjso that tiie market is now in an exceed ingly bearish mood. The dealers are still making loud boasts that the prices will stay up, but the purchasers are confident that tliev are bound to go down. The herthf of the real cs-nte boom was reached last Mav. Fince then there has been a sternly although quiet decline, and the best observers pi edict fi at, there will be a sudden rush of prices downward within next three months. Toe city lias been over built in the vicinity of the park, but it is not so much the >ver-’uilding that is caus ing the uneasiness and that will cause ac tual ruin to agr a many investor-, but the fact that the investors have set their ideas altogether too high. The same state of things maintains on the opposite side of the Hudson, where wholly unimproved land, with not even a fence upon it. is held a! 81.000 an acre. It is just possible that twenty years from now im proved land on : a • Jersey side of the Hud son will lie \v - -h 8i,i)00 an acre, but it is tiie rankest folly to hold it at that price to day. It is a curious fiu-t, however, that the present price is away below the prices of eighteen years ago. When Boss Tweed was in power, tiie northern part of the city was wonderfully improved by the construction, at enormous expense, of magnificent avenues and parks. For years these grand thoroughfares were abutted solely by squatters’ cabins, for speculators fondly believed that land w >uld sell at many times its value. At that time the Jersey land that now waits in vain for purchasers at #1,00.1 an acre, was held at #5,000! It is probable that the jieople who went in at tiie top prices in Tweed’s era are the same who are now stubbornly hoping to get back a fifth of their investment minus a pocketful of interest. F. R. Burton. WOMEN iN MOURNING. The Curious Fashion in the Emblems of Woe. New York, Nov. s.—ln driving or walk ing tho streets an attentive observer cannot fail to be impressed by multitudes of femi nine figures dressed in mourning. Emblems of woe are to be met on every side, some graceful forms, indeed being so completely swathed in clinging black draperies and im lienetrable veils that they resemble shadows from the inferno. Certainly no fashion is carried to a more ridiculous excess than tiie v. earing of mourning, and for many women there seems to be an especial and uncon querable attraction about crape and dead jet They like to wear mourning, just as uiey invariably exhibit predilections for military uniforms and bargains, The phe nomenon might be moderately reasonable to the wearer But they are not, and the women whose coloring and complexions are least suited to Henrietta cloth and nun’s veiling are generally the ones who wear mourning longer than any one else. When a death occur; in a family the dressmaker is instantly summoned ami everything that human ingenuity can devise in the way of hideous and mournful raiment is instantly ordered and worn indefinitely. In Europe the custom i diri’ -rent and much more sen sible. Six months is considered a sufficient ly long period for anybody to wear deep mourning, and deep mourning abroad means sun pi v any thug black. A widow in the first tiays of her grief will wear a costume of glistering clack siik covered with bril liant cut jet. And pray, why should she not! How much more elegant and suita ble, not to.say sensible, is a gown like this instead of the douse sombreness of our own mourning costum -s that are enough to af flict every one with chronic blue devils! In this country people are beginning to show more common sense than heretofore about the length of time mourning should lie worn, but there is still much to bo desired in the character of the dress itself! These inky phantoms that parade our streets are neither cheerful nor edifying spectacles. Clara Lanza. CLIMBING POPOCATAPETL. The Effects on Human Beings of the Rarity of the Air at High Altitudes, From the A meriam Magazine. The effects of the rarity of the atmos phere were felt as soon as tho start was made, and it was imjio sible to proceed more than a few yards without stopping to take breath. Tiie ascent was made in zig-zags, and naturally a rest was taken at the end ot each direct line. At the start to climb for eight minutes an 1 rest five was considered making good time. It was not long before a rest of eight minutes was required for every four of cliuibiug, and after the ascent was made we rested more frequently and without, exerting ourselves to sit down. We thrust our staves into the snow and leaned our heads upon them. Drowsiness over took us and progress became mechanical. Wo moved only as spurre 1 on by our ever watching gui bs. If left to ourselves we would have fallen asleep. Our hearts beat with frightful rapidity and the breath be came shorter anil shorter. Ringing sensa tions in tiie head like tiiose produced by large doses of quinine were experienced. The most acute pains shot through the skull. Conversation was suspended, except among the unifies, and their voices fell on our ears as if coming from a great distance. It, was impossible to tell what progress was being mu ie, for the top and bottom seemed equi-dixtant ail the way up. We barely escaped the most, severe experience likely to occur to those who reach that high eleva tion. bleeding at the nose, month and ears. It would have been the signal that we had gone too far, that heart and lungs refuse to submit further, and we should ha\< placed ourselves in the hands of our guides to bo carried back to Tiamaees. Our physical endurance was stretched almost to ils li nit by the till! - tho head guide : l oil ted, “Here we are! Smell the sulphur!’ The whiff of sulphurous smoke which ;.- j ) ted our nos trils, telling that our task was nearly com pleted and rest was at hand, acted like a powerful stimulant We awoke for a final effort, pressed on and rested not until we stood breathless upon the summit of Popo catapetl. Berk is another of the many ( human customs curb cue—and a "'spicy'* one at that. A bres'len glee , luh, under the direction of the well-known composer, kejiibold Becker, went to Teplitz (Bohemia) some weeks ago. and on this occasion Herr Becker lind a b-nnliful laurel wreath pre sented to him by the Herman ladies of that re nowned Bohemian watering place. On the re turn of the club the Saxon custom house oftl cere levied a duty of 1 mark 70 pfennigs on the wreath, as coming under the category of " line spice !’*— A tnerira n Kegittter. Ise Brown’s Bronchial Troches for Coughs, Colds and nil other Throat Troubles.—"pro eniliienUy the beat.'—Rev. Henry Hurd Hetch- MARRIAGES. YvELLH—EDWARDS. Married. Oct. 6. at the re-idenec of John Houston, by Rev. T. T. Chris tlaa, .1 F. Wia.tstoMim CaKhie N. Edwabus. Both of tins cilv. No card*. REILLY - GILLEN- Married, on Sunday Evening. (Jet. 28, IC, bv the Rev. Father Ba zin. .Mr. .) \Mr.s Reiu.y. of Charleston, 8. C., aud Miss Lizzie Gillex, of this city. tWCharlestou papers please copy M'KIIAL NOTICEsr Advertisements <mt.rUd under “Special Ji’attcet" wM let charged. $1 00 a Square each insertion. THEANHEUSER BUBCII BREWING ASflO* CIATION, ST. LOUIS, MO. SPECIAL NOTICE To the Wholesale and Retail Liquor Trade. The business of the SAVANNAH AGENCY’ of GEO. MEYER, and the JACKSONVILLE AGENCY ol’ GKO. MEYER A CO., having as sumed such proportion as to demand additional executive aoilitv, we have this day admitted MR. ROUT. \V. SIMMS, formerly of the AN iIEUSKR BUSCH AGENCY, of SANFORD, LA., to the management of of the JACKSON VILLE HOUSE of GEO. MEYER CO. Mr. Simms will devote his entire time to the care and management of the Jacksonville business. All our famous brands of keg and bottled Beer wiil lie offered to the public in lan ter shape than ever, and ::i any quantities to suit the trade. Thanking our friends and customers for the lih -ral patronage heretofore bestowed, and ask ing a continuance of same, we are respectfully, GEO. MEYER & CO. Robt. W. Simms. Manager. Referring to the above, the undersigned begs to say that lie will in future, devote bis en tire time and energy to the development of the Savannah house, the constantly increasing busi ness demanding the same. 1 also propose in the near future, to bring out a brand of Bottled Beer that will eclipse anythiug ever yet at tempted in the Bottle Beer line. Respectfully, _____ GEO. MEYER. HOW CAR TOWNSEND BE A CLAM 1 WHEN HE HAS The Best Workmen! The Best Equipped Office! The Biggest Stock of Papers'. The Latest Machinery! The Best Collection of Type. AND— Townsend, Hutton, Allen, Church and many oihers, hustling sixty hours a week on aii classes of work. These are the best workmen in the city. TOWNSEND, FINE PRINTER, BINDER AND RULER, 8G and 88 Bryan street. Savannah, Ga. "T HEP H ONE 34 1." STATE AND COUNTY TAXES, IHM7. Office Collector State and County Taxes, ) Chatham County. Georoia. Savannah, Oct. 19, 1887. \ The digest is now open for the collection of the above Tuxes on ail property, real and per sonal; the Specifix Tax on Professions; also, the POLL TAX for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, on all MALE RESIDENTS of the City and Coun ty, between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years. Office at the Court House. Hours from 9a. m. to 2 i-. m. JAS. J. McGOWAN, Tax Collector C. C. SAVANNAH VOLUNTEER GU ARDS. Whatever books members of the corps intend to contribute to the (flub Library should lie sent at once to the undersigned, at his office in the Court House, uc--, cupanicd by the names of donors. It is desired to put the library in good Khaiie during the present month for the use of members. If impossible tosend, on notice to the undersigned, he will send lor books donated. JNO. R. DILLON, Chairman. MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. Sight reading of Vocal and Instrumental Music taught on the Tonic-Sol-Fa system, by Mrs. C. E. EVERITT, 104 South Broad street, N. E. corner of Drayton. .Progress rapid. Terms moderate. E. A. SCHULTZE. Teacher of Vocal and Instrumental Music. Violin and Voice Cuituro a specialty. Address 81 Barnard street, or care Ludden & Bates’ S. M. H. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Be sure to visit the store, 118 Broughton street, to see the wonders from the Holy Land before buying Christmas Goods anywhere else. _________ FARES A - FFRZAN ' NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES AND CAP TAINS OF VESSELS. Office Health Officer. I Savannah, Ga,. Nov. 1, 1887. (' From Nov. Ist to May Ist, unless otherwise ordered, Captains of vessels having clean records, will be allowed to come to the city after their vessels have been inspected by the Quaran tine Officer. Captains of vessels which are subjected to un ballasting at the Quarantine Station, will re turn to their vessels when unballasting is com menced. and there remain until this work is completed, in order 1 o expedite same. J, T. McFARLAND, M. 1>„ Health Officer. TO RENT. fllores in Odd Fellows’ Hall. Possession Nov. Ist. Apply to A. R. FAWCETT, Secretary, Market Square. DR. HENRY 8 HOLDING. DENTIST. Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. ~ SADDLERY, Eli . HeGLASHAN SADDLERY CO. 187 BROUGHTON ST., UNDER TURNER HALI>, MANUFACTURERS A DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF Saddlery, Harness, Whips, HORSE CLOTHING, ETC. A FULL LINE OF Scotch, Irish and Concord Team Collars. Wo will duplicate any Northern or Western hill of hand made Harness, aud warrant satis faction. Trunks Covered, Harness and Saddles Repaired, and first rate workmanship guaran teed. Come and see us aud give us a trial. DRUGS AND MEDICINES. Don’t Do It! Don’t Do What? \Y r HY don't walk our tony streets with that ▼ f nice dress or suit of clothes on with Stains or Grease Spots in, to which the Savannah dust sticks “closer than a brother,” when Japanese Cleansing Cream will i ake them out clean as anew pin. 35c. a buttle. Made only by J. R. HALTIW ANGER, At hi, Dmg Stores, Broughton and Drayton, Whitaker and Wayne streets. AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATRE.' NOVEMBER 0 and 10. Engagement of the Acknowledged American Representative Eccentric Comedian, MR. J. B. POLK Aud his company of Dramatic Artists, present ing WEDNESDAY EVENING, Nov 9, MIXED PICKLES, The Funniest Comedy of Modern Times. THURSDAY EVENING, Nov. 10, a Domestic Comedy-Drama replete with human interest. The Jerseyman. Seats on Sale at Davis Bros’., MONDAY, Nov. 7. Next Attraction—THE WORLD COMBINA TION, Nov. 10 and 17. _ BRAND FAIR FOR BENEFIT SI. Patrick’s On! TO BE GIVEN AT CATHOLIC LIBRARY HALL ON Monday, November 14th GRAND ~BALL OF THE Savannah Turn-Verein, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1887. - HALE. Corner Jefferson and Broughton streets. TIC lx KTS 5 0 C E NTS. .'oMMiTTKE—M. L. Eyck. H. W. Rail, E. J. Rs. 1. Geo. Bartels, I. J. Leffb-r. H. J. Schurer. PIANOS. Decorafe and Fornishinj. U 0 RICHARD RPENLOW m article on “Dec orating and published in the New York 'hints of September 4, *<*ys: Any reference to the decorating and furnish ing of a house would I** wanting in a most es ser.tiai feature in these days of culture and re tinement were a word or two left unsaid on that all-important subject, music. I cannot pkture in tnv mind a home that could fulfill lath • mo m ini' implied by the endearing term the fundi nr of adomesti** retreat where this soul-inspiring art is overlooked. But lam happily able to say that few and far between an- the rooftrees that do not thrill with the heavenly strains of music al harmony, as their walls retied a harmony of arts but little less divine. Never practice econ omy by the sacrifice of a musical instrument. Do without something here aud there, hut do not omit the piano from your list of furnishings any more than you would a carpet for tic p. i lor door. And when you buy a piano, secure one that you feel sure will ie an ornament to any dr:;wing-room or parlor in the land. Such an instrument as the one 1 refer to must neces sarily b* tire result of the highest art and scien tific perfection attainable in resjMV-t to its manu facture. The time has long since passed when the value of a piano could he measured by it* vehemence, immensity and loudness of tone, it is not intended to be a mere mechanical de vice forthe reproduction of sounds, but a means for depicting one's feelings, whether of sorrow or despair, hope, joy or gladness. It must pos sess that sympathetic quality of the human voice that touches the innermost recesses of the heart. The instrument, in fact, must fairly speak, and that, too, with sincerity and feeling. Tire piano that I would recommend, therefore, must be the acme of perfection, inanimate wood and steel, in other words, must be imbued with qualities akin to a living organism. And this, indeed, is true of that noble instrument which Steinway & Sons have made famous throughout the world. The latest artistic Pianos furnished by Stein way & Sons were Grand Piano for Washington, in gold leaf; a banker in New York city. Con cert Grand, in light chocolate enamel; W. K Vanderbilt's yacht. Upright Grand, in gilt to match trimmings of the cabin: seven Pianos for the Sultan of Turkey's palace, gilt and silver in Oriental pattern; President Cleveland, Grand Piano, ebonized; Governor Hill, of New York, fancy figured mahogany; Sir Donald Smith, .Montreal, satin-wood case; Henry Mar quand, Piano now in process of manufacture, the finest ever made, will cost nearly SOO,OOO. SCHREINER’S MUSIC HOUSE, A G- !<’. NTS. PROPOSALS WANTED. PKOPOSALB VST ILL be received at the office of the Clerk it of Council until 13 m. MONDAY, Novem her 7th, for rebuilding the city's wharf at the foot of Whitaker street. Specifications may !)' seen at the office of the City Surveyor. The right to reject any or all bids reserved. JOHN ii. HOWARD, City Surveyor. SEALED BIDS FOR COUNTY BONDS. Madison. Fla., October 7, 1887. SEALED BIDS wifi Ik- received by the Board of County Commissioners of Madison county, at the Clerk’s office in Madison, until the 15th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1887, for the purchase of all or any part of the issue of the Coupon Bonds of Madison county, limited in amount to seventy-five thousand dollars, of the denominations of five hundred anil one hundred dollars each (one hundred and twenty five of each denomination) and bearing interest at the rate of six ((i) per centum per annum. Princi pal payable at the office of the County Treasury in Madison, Florida, on the first day of June, A. D. 1913. Redeemable at the pleasure of the County Commissioners at any time after the first day of June. A. D. 1893. Coupons for in terest payable at the County Treasury on the first day of June in each and every year. All bids for bonds shall specify amount of bonds bid for. the time when the bidder wifi comply with hi.s bid. and shall specify whether bid is in current money or in past due indebted ness of the county. No bids entertained below par. The Comity Comiuiasionei j reserve the right to reject any and all bids. Address CHANDLER H. SMITH, Chairman Board County Commissioners Madi son County, Fla. REAL ESTATE. W. .1. MARSHALL. * H. A. M'IEOD. MARSHALL & McLEOD, Anctioo and General Commission Merchants, DEALERS IN— Real Estateand Stocks and Bonds 116)4 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ga. ATTENTION GIVEN TO RENTING OF HOUSES AND COLLECTING RENTS. PLUMBER. l. jL McCarthy, Successor to Chas. E. Wakefield. PLUMBER, GAS anil STEAM FITTER, ’ , ‘ tFii “ r n*r'istreet, SAVANNAH.GA Telephone 373. BOYS’ CLOTHING, C ARPETS, ET< Daniel Hogan. YCT'E will place on sale on MONDAY MORN T > LN’G 500 as handsome Boys Suits c ea n be found south of New York. Prices , 3 t A ;< ■ made and perfect-fitting suits are for i- r grades $6 50, $7 .50. $8 50, $9 s t ,d {‘i -,n Also a large variety, fully StV, Just as mr-ible but not as fine, at the follow ing prices si , $2 35, ffe 50, $3, $3 50, sl, $4 5' and $, ‘ ’ SPECIAL SALE OF Tapestry and Ingrain Carpets DURING THE ENSUING WEEK. One lot Tapestry Carpets at Bse. per yard. One lot J-i-iy All Wool Carpets at 85c. per yard. One lot All Wool Extra Supers at 60c per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 55e. per vard One lot Ingrain Carpets at 50c. per yard One lot Ingrain Carpets at 40c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at22J4e. per yard. 500 Smyrna Rugs RANGING PRICE FROM 85c. Each to $lO. Canton Matting. 100 rolls fresh Canton Matting, ranging in pnee from 30c. to 50c. per yard. Special Bargains Will also he found in the following goods during this week: Silks, Satins, Dress Goods, Cloaks, Shawls. Lace Curtains and Curtain Goods, Flannels, Blankets. Bed Comforts. Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Ladies' and Gents* Silk Umbrellas, etc., etc. Daniel Hogan. DRY GOODS. HUM BARGAIN WEEK IST o. 1. 100 dozen HANDKERCHIEFS, thrown out, it each comprising Colored. Mourning Gemmed, H. Sritched Revere, Embroidered, Tucked and Fa n-} Borders; good value; worth double. Call and i aspect . nsro. 2_ A job lot of DRUMMER'’ SAMPLES, com prising Imported Nail Brushes, Tooth Brushes, H <ir Brushes, Cloth Brushes, at the UNIFORM PRICE of Ufc. each. ZLSTo- 3. Ladies'. Misses'. Men's and Boys’ HOSE, in Black. Colored. Striped an ! Unbleached, Seam less and Fast Color*, 2ic. p*>T. —AT.Sv Full line TRIMMINGS and LADIES’, and HINTS' FURNISHINGS. Ladies’, Gents' and Misses KID GLOVES, $1 and 33; Gloves guaranteed. XT H. A. DUMAS’, 33 BULL STREET. I AM PREPARED TO OFFER A VERY AT TRACTIVE STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER Dress Goods Among which will be found RARE GEMS IN COMBINATION SUITS. (NO TWO ALIKE.) My stock of domestics in SHEETING, SHIRT ING, PILLOW-CASE COTTONS are unsur passed. CALIFORNIA and WHITNER BLANKETS in variety. INFANTS’ and CRIB BLANKETS, TABLE DAMASK NAPKINS, DOYLIES aud a great variety of BUCK aud DAMASK TOWELS from 30c. to 90c. GERMAINE’S, 133 Broughton street, next to Furber’s- KSTABLISHKI) XSOI. BUDD, 8 King Edward St. Madison Square. LONDON. NEW YORK. Fall and Winter 1887. DRESS SHIRTS. White and Embroidered. Latest Novelties for Bosoms. London and Paris designs. Hosiery and Underwear. Hosiery aud Underwear, in Silk, Merino, Self Grey Lambswool, etc., all weights and qualities. These goods are “Hand-frame'' made, and man ufactured expressly for this house. Warranted the best of the kind known. GLOVES. Fowno Bros. & Dent's Gloves for Driving, Street and Dress. Only Agent forthe Genuine Shaker Coon Fur and Silk Gloves. HOUSE JACKETS, ROBES, LONDON DRIV ING GOATS, ETC. LADIES AND GENTLE MEN'S WRAPS AND GOWNS, SPECIALLY IMPORTED. SAMUEIT BUDD, MADISON SQUARE, NEW YORK.