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2 SHE DREAMEDOF WEALTH THE STORY TOLD OF MISS ANNA PADGETT, OF BROOKLYN And the Next Morning the Family Read of Old Mr. Beun’e Millions and His Will-Miss Padgett’s Mother Thinks They May be Interested in It —The Story of Ihomas Bean and the Search for Heirs to His Estate. From the Xem York World. “To dream of receiving money,” says one of those yellow-colored volumes of alleged wisdom generally known as dream books, "is a positive pi-ophecy that your wealth will be increased.” Whatever bit of chance truth this produc tion may contain, it at any rate possesses a certain amount of interest for a young lady in Brooklyn, who is anxiously awaiting a practical test of the witch warning. The lady in question is Miss Anna Pad gett, of No. 128 Douglass street Some nights ago, just after retiring, she fell into a gentle doze, and. as sleep visions go, the form of a stranger suddenly arose before her and announced, in a matter-of-fact but courteous manner, that she had been favored with a bequest of *B,OOO from a former relative. Somewhat incredulous, she asked for proof, am tho stranger, producing a number of documents, placed them in her liands and then vanished. Miss Padgett took up the papers and was about to read an inscription on tho back of one of them when—as is generally the case—she awoke, and with her slumber went her new-found wealth. The next morning she related her dream, with all its startling features, at the break fast table, and while the remainder of the family were quizzing her, one of them, who had been scanning the W orld , read aloud an article headed “Bean's Undivided Mil lions.” The latter set forth that new de velopments had come to light in the tainous Thomas Bean estate matter through the discovery of a will which disposed of the property of *2.000,000 in an evidently equit able manner, *1,000,000 being given to n aunt of the testator, Nancy C. Gee, and the remaining million being divided into five equal parts. This piece of news fell like a bombshell in the family gathering. “Why, my grandmother’s name was Nancy C. Gee,” exclaimed Mrs. Padgett, “and the name is so uncommon that 1 am inclined to think she must be the person designated in the wilL ” The article was again gone over with more care, and this time it was discovered that it was in the form of a special tele graphic dispatch to the World from Bon ham, Tex., where the property is located, and where the testator, Thomas Bean, re sided for many years. The latter died in August last, and after his demise no will could lie found. More than one cluimaut bobbed up for the property, the most prom inent of whom were relatives in Washing ton. D. C., and a man named J. W. Saun ders, who asserted that he was a brother of the dead man, and added that the latter had changed bis name from Saunders to Bean forty years ago became he had killed a man in Tennessee and therefore desired to hide his identity. Saunders’ story was believed by many and preparations were being made to dis pose of the property by the courts, Saun ders having given notice that he would contest for the estate, when the will turned up last week. It had been dated Aug. 15, IBS7, and addressed “Smith & Taylor, Bon ham. T< x.,” and mailed the same day on a train of the Santa Fe railway. Therelieing no firm known as “Smith & Taylor” in Bonham, the will went to the dead-letter office at Washington, where it remained until its identity was discovered, and on in formation it was found to be intended for Col. Robert Tayior and S. N. Smith of Bon 'ham. Tex. The document was immediately filed, and the fact made known that the testator de sired *I.UUO.OOO to go to his aunt, Nancy C. Gee, of Washington county, Texas, and the other million divided equally, one-fifth going to the churches of Fannin county, Texas, one-fifth to lie divided among Bean’s former slaves, one-fifth among the poor children of Fannin county for educational purposes, one-fifth to Fannin county, and or>e-fifth to the executors, Col. Robert Taylor and S. M. Smith. Accompanying the will was a note from W. C. Pierpont, dated Burnet county, Texas, which stated that the document had been properly exe cuted by liiin, and was the last will and testament of Thomas Beau. The reception of Hhe pajiers only tended to muddle matters the more, as it cut off the present claimants entirely and gave one-half the estate to a person who is not known to any, although a few persons have been found who have heard of Nancy C. Gee a long time ago. Then again, W. C. Pierpont, who claimed to have executed the will, could not lie touud. Saunders and the other claimants have not been deterred by the appearance of the document and will appear in court to-day at Bonham to contest the matter. “I feel convinced,” said Mrs. Padgett, * "that the Nancy C. Gee mentioned in the wiii is my grandmother, liecause the name is rather novel and I have never known any other weson to bear it except myself. My name before marriage was Annie M. Gee, but was construed into Nancy. I was born and always resided in Washington, D. C.\ until seven t ears ago, when 1 came to Brooklyn. I enve a brother in the naval service at Annapolis and a married sister in Baltimore. None of our relatives to my knowledge ever settled in Texas and none of them was named Saunders or Bean. I had an uncle, however, named Sanderson, who went away somewhere years ago, and I think probably he and Bean are identical and that he, being very old at his death, either forgot or was not aware that Nancy C. Gee was dead and willed her half of his prope ty, and designated her of Washington county instead of Washington, I). C'. ft is a very complicated matter and we would not probably have paid so much attention to it but for the very vivid and peculiar dream of my daughter. 1 have communicated with my relatives in the South und will institute an investigation, and. if the facts warrant it, file a claim for my share of the property. My grandmother, Nancy C, Gee, died about thirty years ago.” How They Bake Beans in Boston. F>om the Poston Saturday Evening Gazette. A French cook isn’t worth a snap on baked beans, and if the proprietors of our leading fashionable hotels are not careful the priceless, time-honored, hitherto undisputed glory of “Boston baked beans” will have de parted. Beans in the leading hotels of Bos ton, we blush to hear repeatedly, are not “half baked.” Our good old grandmothers knew more about cooking our national dishes than all the French cooks in the world, and, to the shame of lending Boston hotels ba it said, a stranger must gain ad mission to our private residences if lie would know What “Boston baked beans” really are and should be. The old ladies aforesaid soaked the beans in cold water during Friday nieht. On Saturday morning they changed the water, and parboiled them gently for two hours. They then gave them a good rinsing, and put them in a pot with a good sized piece of wait pork, with a streak of lean in it. They then baked the beans slowly during the day, and suffered them to remain in the oven through Saturday night, taking care to have plenty of water in the pot dur ing the process of cooking. On Sunday, whether for breakfast, or lunch or evening lunch, the baked iieans became “a feast for the gods!” Ward, as “Higgins,” will sing the Grass hopper Song and Once in a Thousand Years, Theatre Friday. Sugar Corn, Extra Sifted Peas, Early June Peas, two and three pound Poaches, at lowest prices. Strauss Bros, TELEGRAPH TOLLS. Tho Reduced Rates of the Western Union Company. New York, Nov. 29.—The Western Union Telegraph Company announces the following reductions in telegraph rates, to take effect Dec. 1 next: 1. Tho maximum rate east of and includ ing Montana, Utah, New Mexico and Texas will be reduced from *1 to 75c. 2. Within the section oast of the Missis sippi river,and north of Tennessee and North : Carolina, the maximum rate will be reduced j from 75c. to 50c. M Within the section south of and in | eluding Virginia and Tennessee, and east of ' the Mississippi river, the maximum rate will be reduced from 60c. to 50c. Racing at New Orleans. New Orleans, Nov. 29.— This was the third flay of the winter meeting of the Louisiana Jockey Club. The weather was clear and cool, and the attendance good. The events were as follows; First Race—Seven furlongs. I/'roan won, villa Phil i/evvis second and Red Leaf third. Time I:3CJ4. Second Race —Three-quarters of a rnile. Bankrupt won. with Cupid second and ElJle Hardy third Tim; 1:1616. Third Race— Five-eighths of a mile. Balance won, with Cruiser second and K'mira third. Time 1:02W. Fourth Race— Mile. Harry Glenn won, with Belle Broeck second and Citrus third. Time Virginia’s Democratic Majority. Richmond, Va., Nov. 29.—The State Board of Canvassers were engaged all day yesterday footing up the returns of the re cent election and considering the contests. At a late hour last night the figures showed that the Democratic vote in the State was 119,805 and the Republican 119,580, a Demo cratic majority of 426. In five counties, in which the Democrats had no candidates for the House, tho vote for I n>v. Lee in 1885 was 11,552, and in two counties, in which the Republicans had no House candidates, IVise in the same year received 618 votes, making the estimated Dem.x-ratic majority in the State 3, 160. Heating Trains by Steam. Chicago, Nov. 20. —During the present cold snap, with the thermometer ranging from 12“ to 28“ below zero, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad has been experimenting with steam heating for passenger trains. The experiment, it is an nounced to-day, have shown that the sys tem adopted is a perfect success, and com mencing Dec. 1, the through trains between Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis and on the company’s other through lines will be equipped as rapidly as possible with new steam heating apparatus. Commission Merchants in Liquidation. New York, Nov. 29. —The well-known firm of Brown, Wood & Kingman, dry goods commission merchants, of tlys city, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago have gone into liquidation. The firm was one of the leading ones in this country, doing a busi ness of from *12,006,000 to *14,000,000 a year, controlling many large mills, and was supixised to have a large capital for their trade. William L. Brown says the firm is perfectly solvent, and will have a large surplus when the business is wound up. $30,000 Deeded to a University. Xenia, 0., Nov. 29.—M. Gaunt, a wealthy colored resident of this county, has deeded his property, valued at *BO.OOO, to Wilberforce University. That institution is the pioneer of its class, and is the leading colored college. It has lrequently been tho recipient of donations of *1,060 and upward. President Mitchell says, so far as he knows, the greatest amount ever given before for a like purpose was *5,000. Driven Out by Fire. New York, Nov. 29.—A serious fire broke out shortly before 6 o'clock this after noon in the six-story building No. 78 Bow ery. The flames spread so rapidly that Charles Jackson, a clothier, who occupied the first floor, had barely time to escape. The total damage will bo about *50,000. There were sixty persons at work in the building when the blaze began, but they all escaped. _ The Annual Reports. Washington, Nov. 29.— The President’s message end the reports of the members of the Cabinet are partially finished. Tiiey will be all ready by Saturday. Their rec ommendations nave all l>een considered and agreed upon in Cabinet meetings. The message will probably not be sent to Con gress until Tuesday, eecause the House will probably spend Monday’s session in organ izing. ' A l ynching- in Florida. St. Louis, Nov. 27.—A crowd of negro railroad hands broke into the Oakland, Fla., jail yesterday morning, and carried away William Williams, who killed Gustave Wells, near Maseott, Saturday night. Wil liams was lynched, so say his friends, but his body cannot be found" Death of an Ex Mayor. St. Louis, Nov. 29.—Henry Overstoltz, President of the insolvent Fifth National Bank and ex-Mayor, died this morning of heart disease. lie did not know that the bank had suspended. The flags of the City Hall were put at half mast. • Appointed Storekeeners and Gaugers. Washington. Nov 29.—The Acting Sec retary of the Treasury has appointed the following storekeejiers and gaugers in the Fifth district of North Carolina: Henry V. Hix, at Wilkesboro; James II Gilbert and George W. Adams, Jr., at Mulberry. Degraded to the Hunks, St. Petersburg. Nov. 29.—The Czar has commuted to degradation to tho ranks the sentences of eighteen young officers who were convicted of engaging in a revolution ary conspiracy and sentenced to exile in Siberia 39° Below Zero. Waterloo, la., Nov. 29.—Yesterday was the coldest day ever known in this sec tion at. this season of the year, the tempera ture reaching 39° below zero. The Recent Earthquake in Iceland. From the London Daily Keros. Capt. Robertson of tho steamer Camoens, which arrived at Granton harbor from Ire land Nov. 7, brings details of the earthquake in the island. On the morning of (Jet. 28 the people in Relkiavik were awakened by a violent shaking In the houses. At Ayrabkka, twenty miles southeast, the earthquake shock was so violent that books were pitched from the shelves and the houses much shaken. The shock lasted ten seconds. At Hofnunum. south of Rcikiavik, forty shocks were felt some of them so heavy that the rock upon which tho lighthouse of Curio Riekiaueus is built was rent asunder. About two yards from the lighthouse tower the wall that forms the foundation of it, and in which is the cellar where tho oil is kept, was also very much damuged, and the nine panes of glass were shaken out of tlie lihgt •bouse tower. Tho keeper’s homo, which is nearly 600 yard* from the tower, was also damaged. The weather for ten days before the earthquake was very bud; storms of ram, snow, hail, and wind prevailed in all direc tions. Oak, Pine and Lightwood, For sale by R. B. Cassels, corner Taylor and East Broad streets. Telephone No. 77. Gallon Apples and Peaches at Strauss Bros’. Okra and Tomatoes 10c. a can at Strauss Bros’. Another lot of those tine Olivos at |1 a gallon at Strauss Bros’. A tmore's Mince Meat by tbe pound or bucket. Strauss Bros. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1887. UNFAIR TO THE BRIDE. The President Helps on a Joke at the Expensive of a Blissf.ri Couple. From the Philadelphia Ledger A large number of newly married couples on their wedding tour are among the callers at the White House tri-weekiy receptions, and to these, when discovered, the Presi dent is always particularly gracious. A few months ago a very amusing incident at tended the visit of a newly married couple. The groom was on the editoriul staff of a leading daily newspaper of Chicago. On his arrival in Washington the groom called on tlie resident correspondent of his paper, who, in turn, called on the newly wedded pair at their hotel. A visit to the White House was planned, the correspondent agreeing to accompany and present t hem to the President. It was explained that a large nuni tier of newly married people attended tbe public receptions, and that the President had become so expert that In* could detect a bride at the first gianye. This particular bride declared that she had endeavored to conceal the fact from observers that she was a bride, and flattered herself that her ef forts had been successful. She was con vinced that tho President would not be able to detect her. “You cannot deceivs the President,” said tlie correspondent. “He has not failed in a single instance since he was married.” A visit was made to the Treasury Depart ment to occupy the time intervening before the hour appointed for the reception. The correspondent seized an opportunity, and wrote a note to CoL Lamont, informing that shrewd attache of the result of this conversation, and that it was his piirpOse to attend the public reception with his newly married friends Lamont was requested to notify the President and request him to identify the young lady as a bride. The party reached the White House in good sea son, and, at the suggestion of the correspon dent, they seated themselves on a sofa in the East Room, and watched the other vis itors pass and greet the President. Taking their places at the tail of the line, the party was soon in front of the President, when the correspondent presented his friend. Grasp ing the lady’s hand tlie President said: “Mrs. , I am pleased to see you, and desire to present my congratulations on your recent marriage. We have not had the usuui number of brides among the call ers to-dav. I think you are only the fourth: but the scarcity in numbers is compensated for by the beauty and at tractiveness of the few who today favored us.” The young lady was so completely sur prised with the kindly speech and manner of the President, as well as by his identifica tion, that she could make no reply, and fiassed speechless to the vestibule, where she mrst into tears. She charged the corre spondent with revealing to the President that she was a bride, a charge which he skillfully combated by referring to the fact that he had not been but of her sight and hearing during the entire morning. Re covering her composure she upbraided her self* for stupidity in not making proper acknowledgment "of the President’s cordial greeting, and expressed the greatest surprise at the wonderful power of discernment he exhibited. In this she was not more sur prised than her husband. Both Killed in a Duel. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. Morrison, Col., Nov. 20. —A desperate duel, in which both combatants were killed, occurred on a ranch eighteen miles from here yesterday. Three years ago Alexander Gloss" bought a ranch from John Everhart. He failed to meet the payments, and last spring Everhart turned the ranch over to Richard Giiniold, and ordered Gloss to leave. Gloss refused, and the two men have been living at swords’ points. Yesterday they quarrelled over a fence, and Gloss proceeded to Ginnold’s house, armed with a revolver. Ginuold came to his door, and ss he did so Gloss shot him in the breast. Ginnold’s brother-in-law handed Ginnold a shotgun, and thus armed the wounded man staggered out to met his foe. Gloss fired again, but the shot did not take effect, and Ginnold, in return, fired the contents of both barrels of tho shotgun into Gloss’s stomach. He fell to the ground, but not liefore, had fired two more bullets into Grinnold’s body. The families of both men had been eye witnesses to the dreadful affair, and when both men fell they were taken care of by their respective families. Gloss diel in a few minutes. Giunold lived a few hours. Weather Indications. I - Special indications for Georgia: FAIR Slightly warmer, fair weather, light _____ to fresh winds, generally from north t to east. ComDarlsen of mean temperature at Savan nah, Nov. 29. 1887, and the mean of same day for fifteen years. | Departure Total Mean Temperature I from the j Departure Mean Since for 15 years. Nov. 29, *B7, -j-or Jan. 1,1887. 54 0 ! 49.0 ° 5.0 595 0 Comparative rainfall statement: Mean Daily ' Amount j De^re A „"v'',i U SS •- 1 Moan Since 16 years. |Nov. 29, S7.| ._ or j an . jggj J>7 I .00 | .07 —l3 10 Maximum temperature 57, minimum tom perature 43 The height of the river at Augusta at 1 :33 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time) was 6 1 feet—a fall of 0.1 during the past twenty-four nours. Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. Savannah. Nov. 29 9:36 p. m.. eltytime. j TVin perature. 1 Direction. J * Velocity. F I I “ Rainfall. Name or Station* Portland 16j N IFair. Boston 861 X ! Clear. Block Island 30 K Clear. New York city ... 28 NW ... Clear. Philadelphia 34, N ..! Clear. Detroit 84 \Y Cloudy. Fort Buford 2E | \ Cloudy. St. Vincent.. —2O! N Clear. Washington city.. 82} N '..}... Clear. Norfolk 33 NE l I .... Clear. Charlotte 36 N E t; Clear. liatteraa I— ..}.... 1 Titusville 64! N 30 04 Raining. Wilmington 36 NE' 6 .. Clear. Charleston 48 N K 16 .. Clear. Augusta . 44 Ni 6 .... Clear. Savannah 43 XE 10 . . Clear. Jacksonville Ml N 8... . Clear. Cedar Keys 58 XE 80 ...Clear. Key West '0 N 84 Clear. Atlanta.... 46 E 14.. .Clear. Pensacola 52 N E 8 Fair. Mobile 60. N 8 .... Clear. Montgomery .... 80NE...! Clear Vicksburg i 401 l.. | ... iClea;. New Orleans 52 X E 12,.... Clear Shreveport 40, E .... Cloudy. Fort Smith 44 S E l .. Clear. Qalvestor. 54 E Clear. Corpus Christ!.... 56 NE 10 Cloudy. Palestine. 50 E 0 ... Cloudy. Brownesville 56 NW; 6 ... Cloudy. Kiotlramle 54 N .... Cloudy. Knoxville 38 E ... Clear. Memphis 38,X K; Clear. Nashville 34 N I. .1.... Clear. Indianapolis 24 S E;..| 'Clear. Cincinnati 84 S K. . . . Clear. PUtshurg 38 NW .... clear. Buffalo S2'NW Cloudy. Cleveland 16 S W .. Clear Marquette 18 NW Cloudy. Chicago 38} S !.. Clear. Duluth 8 NW : .. | Clear. St. Paul ONE Fair. Davenport 38> E Cloudy. Cairo. 36 E .. Clear.' St. Louis 34' y |,.|. ~ Clear. Leavenworth... . 40 S El. } Cloudy. Omaha 34 S E'.. Cloudy. Yankton Ml E Cloudy. Bismarck 8 E . 1 Fair. Dead wood 8 N E Cloudy. Cheyenne 2H> VV Clear. North Platte 16 E . . Fair. Dodge City S ... Clear. Santa Fe 34 1 Fair. T‘ denotes trace of rainfall. G. N. Salisuu.iv Signal Corps. SHE MET DR. HOLMES. A Young lady from the South Who Wanted to Know the Yankee Poet. From the Washington Herald. A Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune tells the following pleasant story of a lady well known here: “Dr. Holmes is an immense favorite throughout the South, as Miss Page, the sister of Mrs. Thomas Bryau, of your city, once uncon sciously toll! him. She was visiting another sister, who is the wife of a professor at Har vard, and, at a gathering of the literati, heard seme one sav Dr. Holmes was present. “Where is he.'" she asked with enthusi asm. “Do show me.” "I do not see him,” said the little gentle man, to whom sue was speaking. He was a very little gentleman, with a face like a winter apple, a pair ot twinkling brown eves and a merry smile, but his name she had not heard. “Oh.” she said, “I am so anxious to meet him. You know he is such a favorite in the South.” “Indeed,” he answered, evidently greatly surprised. “I thought Yankee principles and Yankee literature were just the reverse of popular.” She smiled her own hriliiant smile. “Perhaps you are not altogether wrong, but of this I can assure you, no Southern gentleman’s library is considered complete without the ‘Autocrat of tbe Breakfast Table.’ ” He positively colored up and looked con fused and just then someone laid a hand on his shoulder and sail: “Dr. Holmes—” Tableau! But Miss Page, through her blushes, told him: “It is all true, and you must accept the compliment au pied de la lettre, for I did not know to whom 1 spoke.” Tlie Savannah Weekly News. v Sixteen Pages. For Saturday, Dec. 3, 1887. READY THIS MORNING. CONTENTS. First Page— Her Last Letter; Romance of Richmond, Chapters xiv., xv.; Tradition and History of the Isle of Avilion; As Good as Gold; The Hall Where Tweed and His Jolly Friends Enjoyed Themselves; The Three Rockers; Peasants of Champery; Secretary Bayard's Failing Health. Second Page— Left Naked in His Cell; Re sults of the a lections; Herr Most’s Cry to Arms, Ex-Senator Jones Penniless; A River Steamer Burned; Georgia's Capital City; Columbus Chapters; Cut to Pieces by Cars; Women in Hyde Park; Gems for the Belles. Third Page— Opening the Reichstag; A Hope less Malady; Parcel from Europe; Randall's Anxiety; Overrun With Rabbits; Freight Trains Collide; Powderlv* Place; Anarchists Need Watching; A Team Caught by a Train; Florida’s Metropolis; Columbus Chapters; A Dose of Mor phine; This is a Strange Story; Good Stories o* Present Days; Sam Houston's Secret; Was She Buried Alive ? Fourth Page— Most’s Line of Defense; A Traveling Fraud; Collide in a Fog; Business Prospects; Jones not a Pauper; Methodist and the Theatre; Dynamiting the Scholten; Yield of the Pineries; Raised from the Dead; Augusta's Annals; Lepers in Philadelphia; Disgrace after Death: Dr. Bancroft Satisfied; Blessed with Two Mouth i; Capital Rea] Estate. Fifth Pag*— Rum Wins at Atlanta; Panic in a Macon Theatre; A Big Monopoly in Oil; Bis marck in a Passion; Jacques Wissler Dead; Ad vocates of Arbitration; A Deficit on the Mails; A Boy Kills His Sister, Wounds His Brothers and Kills Himselt; Russia Behind a Veil; Minor Telegraphic News Items. Sixth Page—Men Who Love Dress, Illustrated; A Belle of Bad Metal; New York Womeu at the Matinee; AU or Nothing; Back from South America; American Girls Abroad; Poor Rosa Martens; Boston Girls Chew Gum by the Ton. Seventh Page— Agricultural Department : The No-Fence Law; Virginia Cured Hams; Some thing About Dairying; The Peach Orchard; No Living by Crops Alone; Household; Farm and Stock Notes; Popular Science. Ex-Senator Jones' Plight. Eighth Page—Rev. Talmage Speaks of Da vid's Retreat to the Cave of Adullam; Kins people of the Mirandas Found in Florida; At lanta's Election; Charleston Items; Cedar Key Chips; Rough on Liberia; Grevy’s Resignation; Germany’s Emperor; Wholesale Bloodshed; Suicide at Charleston. Ninth Page— Railroad Land Frants, An Im portant Feature of Secretary Lamar’s Report; Parnell's Irish Foes, The Unionists Hold a Big Meeting; Most is Found Guilty, His Testimony on the Stand in His Own Behalf; A New Trial for Sharp, The State Supreme Court Overrules the Conviction; Other Telegrams. Tenth Paoe— The News in Georgia, Gathered from Correspondents and Exchanges; Negroes and White Boys in a Lively Row at Macon; Col uaibus Chapters; Disgraceful Conduct of a Mar ried Man at Danielsville; South Carolina Items; A Coutest at Atlanta: Pensacola's Push. Eleventh Page— Rounl About in Florida: Chicago's Anarchists: Most's Trial; Gov. St. John Says the Prohibition Party is Steadily Advancing; Work of the Life-Savers; Cotton Seed Oil Development; Commerce by Mail; Swoop of the Blizzard; Captured by the Irish; Pope Leo's Temporal Power; Germany's Allies; Lotta Sued for *50,000. Twelfth Page— Editorial: A Financial and Mqntal Wreck; The Laches of the Lessees; A Republican Programme; A Question for Mr. Carlisle; A Notablo Faction Fight; Sherman's Reasons for Attacking the South; Arbor Day; Florida's Prospects. An Explosion in a Hotel; American Vessels Seized; Murdered by a Negress; .Minor Telegrams. Thirteenth Page. —Local Department: Capt. William Hughes Dead; A Colored Boy Too Anx ioastoDie; Fire in au Orphan Asylum; Stabbed by a Woman; Jack Walsh's Escape; The United Lutheran Synod of the South in Session; Crushed by the Wheels. Fourteenth Page— Thanksgiving; Miss Tudy’s Reasons, a Thanksgiving Story; The Wedding Ring; The Old Rounder’s Story; Why People Be come Bald. Fifteenth Taoe—A Rude Awakening; Shame fully Deceived: No Children: Maimed Ex-Con federates; White House Life; How Conkling was Chosen; Humors of Retrenchment; Hard to Kill; How Some Men Writ.*; A Bad Bet to Lose; Current Comment; Bright Bits; Personal; Items of Interest. Sixteenth Page— Review of the Savannah Markets; Shot by a Jail Guard; Dr. Bacon's Re tirement Puts tho Independent Presbyterian Church in a Fix. Just the paper to send to your friends. Single copies 5 cents. For sale at. Estill's News Depot and at the of fice. 3 Whitaker street. Theoritcially I am all right, “Higgins,” Theatre Friday. CHINA AND BRONZE GOODS. A Reminder to Those in Search of Wed ding Presents. Head over this list and see if anything strikes your fancy: Fine China in cases, real Cut Glass, Bronze and Bisque Statuary, Japanese Pot tery,'Antique Terra Cotta, Hungarian and Flemish Vases. We could go on for a whole column, but, never mind, call and see the goods themselves, we think ycu will be pleased at Crockery House of Jas. 8. Silva & Son, 140 Broughton street. You can get two cans Boston Baked Beans for 25c. at Strauss Bros’. State or Weather. • FUNXSAL INVITATIONS. HENNESSY. —The relatives ami friends of Michael P. Huraisn, J. H. and Jas. Hennessy, George F. ny rnes. and families, are invited to attend the funeral of the former from the resi dence of the latter. Jones and Habersham streets, at 9:30 o’clock THIS MORNING. High Mass of Requiem at Cathedra! at 10 o'clock. KUCK.—The friends and acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Kuck are respectfully invited to attend the funpral of their only son. Lotus W., from their residence, New Houston and Lin coln, at 8 o’clock THIS AFTERNOON. MEETINGS. GOLDEN HI LE LODGE VO. 12. I. O. O. F. A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers are invited to attend. By order of FRED EINSFELD, N. G. D. F. McCoy. Secretary. ST. ANDREW’S SOCIETY. The 137th anniversary meeting of the St. Andrew's Society will be held THIS DAY (30th inst.) at Metropolitan Hail at 13 o'clock m. , for the transaction of business. Ttie society will celebrate their anniversary by a dinner at the Pulaski House at 8:30 o'clock in the evening. JAMES T. STEWART. President. Henry A. McLeod, Secretary and Treasurer. WORKING MEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSO CIATION. Appear at your hall THIS (Wednesday) MORNING at 9 o'clock for the purpose of pay ing our last tribute of respect to deceased brother member Michael Hennessy. By order of THOMAS KEENAN, President. J. T. Fitzhenery, Recording Secretary. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisement* inserted under “Special Notices" will be charged $1 00 a Square each, insertion. BANKETTEA. —~ The young ladies of Trinity Sunday School will give an entertainment at the Metropolitan Hall FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT, Dec. 3, 1887. All are fnvited to come. * TO SHIPPERS. Savannah. Florida and Western Railway | Cos. Office General Freight Agent, > Savannah, Ga., Nov. 39. ) The Station known as ORION, FLA., will be continued as a regular station. Shipments will be received. Collect as heretofore. WM. P. HARDEE, General Freight Agent. SPECIAL NOTICE. The Pews of the INDEPENDENT PRESBY TERIAN CHURCH will be rented for the en suing year on THURSDAY, Dec. Ist, at 13 o'clock noon, in the Church. Pew-Holders desiring to give up their pews will please notify the Chat man prior to that date, and in the absence of such notice, present occupants will be considered as wishing to re tain them, GEORGE J. MILLS, Acting Chairman Board of Trustees. NORTH CAROLINA WHITE SEED RICE. A LIMITED QUANTITY OF NORTH CARO LINA WHITE SEED RICE FOR SALE BY W. W. GORDON & CO., NOTICE. Savannah, Ga., Nov. 3, 188". The shareholders of the GERMANIA FIR" COMPANY, of Savannah. Ga, are hereby noti fied to present their shares within thirty days from date, to the undersigned to receive t heir pro rata from the sale of the Germania Fire Com pany’s Building. Office hours from 10 until 2 o'clock at 147 Con gress street JOSEPH ROOS, President. NOTICE. Wishing to retire from the Wholesale Grocery trade, I have to-day sold out my entire business, including stock in trade and good will, to MR. A. B. HULL, and cordially recommend him to my former friends and customers. All claims against me will be paid upon pre sentation, and all persons indebted to me are requested to make early settlements. FRED M. HULL. Savannah, Ga , Nov. 22, 1887. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that on November 30th, 1887, our Savannah office will be discontinued, and all of our business will be transacted at DARIEN, GEORGIA. JAMES K. CLARKE & CO. Savannah, Nov. 28, 1887. ELMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR, This vegetable preparation is invaluable for the restoration of tone and strength to the sys tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot be excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. $1 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist. Savannah, Ga. NOTICE IN' REGARD TO GROUND RENTS. City Treasurer's Office, 1 Savannah, Ga., Nov. 26th, 1887. f HOLDERS OF GROUND RENT LOTS In arrears for two or more quarters' rent will please take notice that unless payment is made on or before THE 3<>ni NOVEMBER, all lots so in arrears will, on the following day, be turned over to the City Marsha! for the purpose of being re-entered as the ordinance directs. C. S. HARDEE, City Treasurer. THE MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE, 3 Whitaker Street. The Job Department of the Morning News, embracing JOB AND BOOK PRINTING, LITHOGRAPHING AND ENGRAVING, BOOK BINDING AND ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURING, is the most complete in the South. It is thorough ly equipped with the most improved machinery, employs a largo force of competent workmen and carries a full stock of papers of all descriptions. These facilities enable the establishment to execute orders for anything in the above lines at the shortest notice and the lowest prices con sistent with good work. Corporations, ier chauts, manufacturers, mechanics and business men generally, societies and committees, are requested to get estimates from the MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE before send ing their orders abroad. J. H. ESTILL. INSURANCE. The Savannah Fire and Marine Insurance Company. PAID IT CAPITAL - $200,000. HOME OFFICE, No. 97 BAY STREET. SAVANNAH, - GEORGIA. WILLIAM GARRARD President. LEWIS KAYTON Vice President. W. H. DANIEL Secretary. DIRECTORS: Herman Myers, George J. Baldwin, John L. Hammood, Andrew Hanley. J. B. Dice worth, I. G. Haas. Samuel Meinhard, L. Kayton. J. H. Estill, David Wells. C. R. Woods. W. IJ. Daniel. Willliam Garrard AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATRE' WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, AND MATINEE. House packed to the doors! People turned away unable to stx-ure eveu standing room! Tne immense audience yelled themselves hoarse applauding every scene" saving, song and act on the monster programme of HAVEBLY’S New American and European Mastodon UVE instrelsl Under the personal supervision and sole management of W. S. Cleveland. LAST TWO PERFORMANCES! To-day Matinee 2 p. m. Matinee Prices—General Admission 25c. and 50c.; reserved seats 75c. Positively Farewell Performance To-Night. SAVANNAH THEATRE. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 2 and 3, and Saturday Matinee, Dec. 3. THE FAVORITE COMEDIAN, JOHN F. WARD In His Original Character of H I Gr (t I uN S In the Beautiful Domestic Comedy THE DOCTOR! Saturday night MR. WARD will appear in his great character, ECKELLS in the comedy of OAST E! At the Matinee THE DOCTOR will be repeated. Seats on sale at DAVIS BROS',. Nov. 30. Next attraction—MAßlE PRESCOTT, Dec. 7 and 8. ASPHALT PAVEMENT. Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving Cos., 114 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK. CONSTRUCT Genuine Trinidad Asphalt PAVEMENTS. This Pavement has been thor oughly tested in actual ser vice and is found to possess the following points of su periority: Ist. Cheaper than stone blocks equally well laid. 2d. Durability: the company guarantees It for a period of years. 3d. Almost noiseless under traffic. 4th. The cleanest pavement made. sth. A perfect sanitary pavement. Being im pervious to water and tilth, it cannot exhale in fectious gases. 6th. Easily and perfectly repaired when opened to lay pipes, etc. 7th. Saves wear and tear of herses and vehicles. Bth. Being smoother, less power is required to haul over it than any other pavement. 9th. It enhances the value of abutting prop erty more than any other pavement. 10th. It is therefore, all things considered, the best and most economical pavement that can be laid on any street, whether the traffic is light or heavy. DRY GOODS. ETC. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS HOSIERY For This Week at CROHAN & DGONERS, Successors to B. F. McKENNA & CO. 137 BROUG HTON ST. 275 dozen Ladies’ Unbleached Black and Col ored Balbriggan Hose, full regular made, at 15c, a pair. 175 dozen Indies Unbleached and Colored Balbriggan Hose at 25c.; regular price 37Lie. 50 dozen Ladies’ Black Cotton Hose,' full regular-made, diamond dyes, at 250. a pair, worth 40c. 36 dozen Ladies' Black Cotton Hose, double feet, at 3oc. and 50c.; reduced from 50c. and 76c. 35 dozen Laities’ Black Spun Silk Hose, re duced from $1 25 to 98c. a pair. Misses’ Black and Colored Hose. We have now in stock a complete assortment of MISgES' BLACK AND COLORED HOSE, both in plain and libbed, in all grades and sizes, from 35c. to $1 a pair. Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Underwear. LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN’S WHITE AND SCARLET UNDERVESTS at 75c., sl, $1 25 $1 50, §1 75 and 82. The above prices are quoted at a reduction of 20 per cent. finmi i I ) ViOdozen Misses' Black and \rrl 111 V Colored Hose, in plain and or EilLiL j “ a CROHAN & POONER. REAL F.STATE~ 'lilies He Bail. llli Several Nice Homes Have Been Taken Up. Some are Still Left. $33 50 I can furnish you a nice home. For $340 cash and a monthly payment of $lB you eau secure a comfortable home. 1 have for sale a number of Lots which you can purchase for Cash, or on installment plan. Look out and secure a Home or a Lot, or the boom” will overtake you, M. J. SOLOMONS, 118 BRYAN STREET. M for sale. The schooner W. F. MARSCHER, 15 tons, almost new and well found. Only reason for selling is that owner has a larger vessel. For particulars address F. G. BELL, Savannah. Ga. BOYS’ CLOTHING, CARPETS, ETC Daniel Hogan BOYS' 111. WE will place or, sate on MONDAY MORN v v ING 000 as handsome Boys’ Suits as can be found south of New York. "Prices of tailor made and perfect-fitting suits are for better grades $6 50, $7 50, $8 50. S9 and $9 50 Also a large variety, fully 500, just as durable, but not ns tine, at. the following prices- Si $3 25, $2 50, $3, $3 50, $4, $4 50 and $5. ’ SPECIAL SALE OF Tapestry and Ingrain Carpets DURING THE ENSUING WEEK. One lot Tapestry Carpets at sc. per yard. One lot 3-Ply All Wool Carpets at 85c. ner yard. One lot AU Wool Extra Supers at 600. per yard. ( me lot Ingraiu Carpets at 55c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 50c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 40c per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 22Lie. per yard. 500 Smyrna Rugs RANGING PRICE FROM 85c. Each to $lO. Canton Matting. 100 rolls fresh Canton Matting, ranging iq price from 20c. to 50c. per yard. Special Bargains ! Will also be found in the following goods during I this wef • Silks. Satins, Dress Goods, Cloaks, Shawls, f.aee Curtains and Curtain Goods! Flannels, Blankets, Bed Comforts, Underwear. | Hosiery. Gloves, Corsets, Ladies’ and Gents' Silk Umbrellas, etc., etc. Daniel Hogan. PROPOSALS WANTED. TO CONTRACTORS. OEALED BIDS are solicited for building 491 krt running feet of brick wall, 12 feet high around the new jail lot; also for 491 running feet of galvauized iron covering to this wall; also 80 runuiug feet of iron railing. Plans and specifications can be seen at the County Engineer's office. Exchange Building, b tween the hours of 3210 and 5:30 p. m. Bids must be handed to JOHN R. DILLON, Clerk Commis sioners Chatham County, hy 12 m. December 10th, 1887. Right reserved to reject any or all bids. EDWARD J. THOJfAS, County Engineer. Bids for a Bridge. Office of Commissioners j AND EX-OFFICIO JUDGES CHATHAM COUNTY, G A., > Savannah, Ga., Nov. 30th, 1887. 1 O EALED BIDS will be received at this office O until 2 o'clock- p. m., on THURSDAY, De*\ 22d, 1887, for rebuilding and keeping in repair for seven years the Fort Argyle bridge, cross ing the Savannah and Ogeeohee eauai, 14 miles from the city. ans and specifications can be seen in the offltk. of the County Engineer, City Exchange Building, daily, between the hours of 3:30 o'clock and 5:30 p. M. By order of Commissioners Chatham County. JOHN R. DILLON, Clerk C. C. C. City of Savannah, 1 Office City Surveyor, r Savannah. Ga., Nov. 29th, 1887, 1 PROPOSALS Will be received at the office of the Clerk of Council until 12 m. December 14th, for paving the. following streets: An average width of 40 feet of the roadway of Broughton street, and curbing, from Abercom street to East Broad street. Length 1,604 feet, number of square yards 7,129. Thirty feet of the roadway of Liberty street, from West Broad street to East Broad street, and curbing. Length 4,726 feet, number of square yards 15,763 ft. Forty feet of the roadway of Wadley street, from Bay stree' *o River street, and curbing. Length 1.186 feet, number of square yards 5,271. Thirty feet of the roadway of New Houston street, from Whitaker street to Drayton street, and curbing. Length 680 feet, number of square yards 2,266 ft. Forty feet of the roadway of Bay street, from the Savannah and Ogeechee canal to Wadley street, and curbing. Length 457 feet, number square yards 2.031 1-9. Bids will be received for asphalt blocks 0* sheet asphalt, for orgaaite gray waoke blocks or for wood blocks. No artificial foundation is required for stone or asphalt blocks. For sheet sphalt the usual concrete of broken stone and cement, from tnree to four iuches in thickness. The curbing of blue stone or granite, dressed down ten inches on the face side ana four inches on the inner side: four inches in thickness and equal quantities of fourteen and sixteen inches iu width, and in lengths not less than five feet. Bidders must send specimens of stone, asphalt or wood blocks with tbeir bids. The city reserves the right to reject any or all bids. l-’or specifications apply at the office of tha undersigned. JOHN B. HOWARD. City Surveyor. TO CONTRACTORS AND BDILDER& BIDS are solicited for erecting a three-story brick building 60x90 feet in the city of Savannah. Plans and specifications can be seen at the office of the .undersigned, comer of Bull and Bay streets, up-stairs. Savannah, (Pa. Bids must be in by 12 m. Dec. 17,1887. Right resatred to reject any or all bids. DeWITT BRUYN, Architect. STOVES. _ SOMETHING NOVEL. The Kampfe Star Safety Razor Is especially adapted to those persons who shave themselves and are continually cutting their faces. Witt this instrument nothing or this kind can occur. It is a very neat little contrivance and cannot but be appreciated ny every one who sees it. Call on LOVELL & LATTIMORE, Hardware Dealers. And ask to examine one. CHOCOLATES. ... CHOCOLATES and'COCOAS. JUST RECEIVED, a line of the Royal Dutch CHOCOLATES and COCOAS from Bends dorf, of Amsterdam, Holland. These Chocolst and Cocoas are conceded to be the best in in'’ world. L. C. STRONG, DRUGGIST.