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TEE NATION’S BOONS. Crowded Conf'rOoii'.orsal ancl Depart ment Libraries. 1 YajJt t'on. f.Vtr I7- t'rhtnd F'l'n'n I*f alrr. The great Congressional library which bulges out on all sides of its contracted quar ters iri the eapitot Lias been described and discussed at length in all the grades of pub lications from the ephemeral newspaper to the more enduring book. Comparatively few stop to consider that the most valuable libraries owned by the government and stored in Washington are those belonging to the various departments. There are bOO.UOO volumes, pamphlets, etc,, in the great collection at the capital. But there is the last place in the world the investiga tor should go when he desires to examine into any particular question exhaustively. The cataloguing is incomplete and ineffl cient. Librarian Spofford is unable to tell •what he has and what he has not. The li brary is exceedingly rich in Americana, such as literature relating to Washington and all the early governmental history. It is rich in history, genealogy and, of course, is an immense collection of books on all subjects. The co yright law has aided in senchug all new American publications into the library. But the alcoves have become so crowded that for years Congress has ap propriated very niggardly for the purchase of books. It therefore results that the vast and indispensable literature of other coun tries is not accumulating in this national collection. There are from time to time public and private sales in this country of rare and valuable libraries, but Mr. Spof ford has had no money with which to be come a bidder, and in many can s he has been forced to ignore proffers of bargains because he does not know what the library has in it. The card catalogue is wretchedly incomplete. In fiction there is wonderful accumulation. When the new building is completed the arrangement will possibly make this great library available. More assistants will be needed. But it is iu the departments where the specialist will roam to fiud authorities and literature concerning his particular line of research. There are 350,000 volumes iu these various collections, not counting the {senate and House of Representatives libra ries, in which are 175,000 more. In the State Department there are about 25,000 volumes. The branch of diplomatic law is complete in all languages. It is in these technical subjects that the Congressional library is weak. It is omnifarious but also promiscu ous and incomplete. The State Department has rare collections of history, and espe cially colonial. All biography’of statesmen of all lands who have had to do with diplo matic relations can be found in this care fully selected library. Mr. Dwight, the librarian, while abroad had to be stopped in his way of buying books right anil left. The nucleus of this collection was marie by Thomas Jefferson. Works on travol also abound. The War Department has a useful library. Joel R. Poinsett, when Secretary, gave it wise direction. Its technical works on mili tary science are astounding in n mber. It also is rich in biography and travels, and the clerks have a good general cofiection of reading matter on its shelves to select from. The Navy Department library occupies the most beautiful room in the city. Its decorations far surpass the President's room in thecapitolandauy of the far-famed rooms in the White House.with particolored uphol stery. This I.brary room has lofty vau.te 1 ceilings with bronze statuary and symboli cal decorations. The sides are panels of beautiful ruantelic marble. The books are unique. The librarian is Prof. Souley, formerly of the Annapolis Academy, whose historian he is. Among all the librarians he is the most accomplished and has labored with the most intelligence to secure a useful collection. Few people comprehend the scientific requirements in the many braneht s of naval science an 1 warfare. A navy is for fighting purposes solely. It must al ways be kept at the highest pitch of excel lence. Precise knowledge of the naval achievements of other nations must be ac quired and dally refreshed and maintained. Knowledge of gunnery, * armor, harbors, meteorology, equipment, steam engineering, the resistance of metals—well, in fact, nearly every branch of mechanics, chemis try, everything in the broadest sense of iihysics, is a matter of constant study in the iavy Department. The study of naval construction involves not only the archi tecture of the sea, but leads into the study of woods. Well, here in this gorgeous mar ble room, rarely invaded by the sightseer, is an accumulation of just such technical works. It will simply amaze even the ordi narily versed reader of books to examine the array of volumes in the alcoves. Many ran be procured nowhere for money. They were printed for private circv lation and many are from foreign countries where titled or wealthy men have contributed the results of their researches in naval science. Upon no less than filflf distinct subjects re lating to a navy there is an exhaustive cuj- lection of treatises. There are few antique works: it is a library for constant reference. One unique book is a copy of the republica tion bv the British Admiralty Office in IS4~, when Great Britain expected another French w ar. of the committee’s report on the causes of the defeat and dispersal of the Spanish Armada in the sixteenth century. This is illustrative of how peculiar a science naval warfare is. Here are to be found large en f ravings of all the vessels in foreign fleets, n the patent office there are 50,000 volumes and it is beyond comparison the finest li brary of its kind in the world. Its liatui e is readily suggested by its location. Here is where cranks, geniuses and inventors bur row, and here is where marplots search for some old cut or description of a machine in old foreign books that may harass some American inventor with their knowledge of a prior suggestion of the mechanism con tained iu some forgotten work, and thus compel hush money or a partnership. The Surgeon General’s office has also 50,- 000 volumes, and it is only sui iu ex cellence by some library of surgery in Ger many, I believe. It is a wonderful collec tion of treatises on surgery and general medicine. The civil war endowed this li brary with a marvelous number of special reports on wounds. There are valuable libraries in the bureaus of education, agri culture, coast survey, geological survey, and in the Interior and Treasury Depart ments there is enough of fiction to supply the sweet clerks with romances. The de partment of Justice has a law library that, though not so large as the law branch of the Congressional library (which has 63,0 X) volumes), has many exclusive works. Caleb Cushing obtained for this collection inval uable Spanish and Mexican law books, which are necessary in working on the old bind claims in the California and territorial acquisitions from Mexico. Some of these tomes are attractive objects, net for their beauty of binding, but the peculiar neatness of the typog. aphy. The coverings are the old-fasliioned sheepskins, yellow and greasy and loose, like the modern school boy covers his book with a folded newspaper. Though the library at the capitol is exhaustive iu its collection of State reports and crown trials and criminal cases in all countries, yet the Supreme Court justices have constant re course to this collection in the department of Justice for works that it exclusively con tains. It may be years before this nation can accumulate a library as grand as the British museum, but many cherish the hope that when the new structure is completed the labor in that direction may be accele rated. Even that old bookworm, Dominie Sampson, would now ejaculate his favorit) expletive of “prodigious,” were he to stand among the groaning plenitude of books in this city, but it is easy lo discover the lines of literature where there is woeful defi ciency. In the fine arts there is a lamenta ble scarcity. The maguificent foreign works upon which unstinted mon y has lieen ex pended are not to be found here. The am bition can never be realized of rivaling the libraries abroad in their collections of origi nal manuscripts and ancient purchments, for their foundations and the recovery of these w ritings of antiquity were contempo raneous. And it may well be accepted as consolatory that the American spirit does not much affect a fondness for the musty, but it ought to bran Ame:lcau resolution to keep abreast of modern litera ture and store here in a government librarv tue entire output of intellectual effort iu all countries. A STATESMAN WANTED THU DOG. But His Boy Charley Had Good Reason For Nor Letting Him Have It. From the Few York Sun. Harrisburg, Nov. -Its.—The Hon. C. W. Williamson of Saladasburg is one of the members of the Pennsylvania Legislature from Lycoming county. There are two members from Lycoming. One of them is a large-waisted old gentleman, with a not very extended acquaintance with the inside of books. He has' never rubbed ngaiust the world much, and being a trifle new in legis lation the boys had a good deal of fun with him last session. “Pop,” said the Hon. George McGowan, President of the Philadelphia American Club, to this ornament from Lj coming, “what penalty do they inflict on suicide up in Lycoming?” In dead earnestness the innocent old legis lator replied: “They give ’em three months, I b’lieve, but, go! dang ’em! I’m in favor o’ two years?” But this member wasn’t the Hon. C. W. Williamson of Salad is urg. That states man is up to snuff, and if there is ever any “snake” in a hill it won’t bite hi n. He mingles statecraft with lumber, agricul ture, and a country store, and finds his recreation in chasing the deer in the wild wood and hunting coons. He has a sou Charles. Charles is rising 16, and is a stub and-twist specimen of the true backwoods boy “Charley,” said the Hon. C. W, William son the other day, “from the way the weather looks I believe there’s a deer over back of the mountain. Seems to me as if it was a buck.” “Well, pop,” replied Charley, “let’s take the dog and go fetch the deer in.” “Why, that’s so!” said the statesman, as if the suggestion was a sudden revela tion to him. “We can do that, can’t we?” So he took down his gun, called the dog, and he and Charley started for the moun tain, three miles away. Charley carritxl no gun, it being his duty to handle the dog and drive for deer, while his father stood on the ridge at a runway and put lead in the deer when it hounded by. But Charley had a big hunting knife in a sheath at his sido. The knife was to cut the deer’s throat with after the animal had been weighed down with lead by the statesman hunter, aud to dress the deer with when it was hung up. When they reached the mountain Charley's father stationed himself on a run way, and sent Charley off to the right of the ridge to start the deer from its hiding place. “Start a buck, Charley, or a big doe,” said the statesman w ith the gun. “Don’t waste time on any fawns.’’ Charley went off with the dog, and he hadn’t gone more than a hundred yards yards when the dog struck a trail and away he went. Charley followed, and in less than ten rods came up to the dog. It might have been a deer track the dog had struck, but if it was it had led plumb up against a six foot bear, and the six-foot bear - had his b; ck against a rock and his eye on the dog. The latter, emboldened by the presence of ins master, pitched into the bear. The bear welcomed him to his embrace, gave him a couple of squeezes, and tossed him off with such vim and precision that his limp and almost dessicated carcass just missed Charley's head. The dog was extremely dead. “S-a-a-y!” said Charley, as if re monstrating with the bear. That was pop’s best dog, and he’ll be madder’n thun der !” Just then the voice of the statesman on the runway, mellowed by distance but very distinct, came down through the woods. It said: “Hay, Charley! Corns up with that dog, quick!” “Well,” said Charley, addressing the bear, “if he expects me to c. rry that dog up this ridge ne’s mistaken. But won’t be be mad?” All this time the bear stood with his back to the rock, his eyes snapping and his mouth dropping foam. Charley looked at the un joiuted body of his dog, and then surveyed the proportions of its unterrified unjointer. The latter got tired of waiting, and moved forward to clear the woods of Charles. Charles unsheathed his big hunt ng knife and braced himself. “Hav, Charley?” came the voice down from tile ridge, and this time there was im patience in it. ‘Whydon’t you come up with that infernal dog?” “I hain’t got time to explain that to pop just now,” said Charley, in a com fidential tone, to the bear, “and I hain’t a goin’ to scare you by hollerin’ back to him.” The bear didn’t seem to care wbethpr Charley bad time for explanation or not, and wasn’t on the scare, lie reached out for Charley with one right paw. Charley lounged forward and socked his knife in the bruin’s neck. Bruin countered on Charley's chest and sent him sprawling on the ground. The bloo i spurted from the hole made by the knife in the bear’s neck. As Charley fell the voice of the hunter was again heard on the hill. “Hay, Charley!” it said. “Why in thun der don’t you come up with that dog!” Charley w as too busy to answer ju t then, for be hail all he could do to get to his feet before the bear climbod on him. The boy and the bear had a lively tussle, bnt it was a short one. The first stab the bear re ceived was fatal, and two other thrusts equally' go'd let out still more blood, but when the bear fell in its death struggle Charley was tired out. He leaned up against a tree to get his wind. Then he head his father coming down off of the ridge, crushing through the brush like a wild steer. “He’s mad,” panted Charley. “Hav, Charley!” the Hon. C. W. William son shouted, as he came down the hill. “What in thunder’s the matter? Where’s that dog? Why don’t you come up with him? A buck bigger n a heifer went by me, and here I hadn't got any dog! Why don’t you come up with that dog?” Then the statesman hove in sight of his boy, leaning against the tree and gasping for wind. He didn’t see the bear that lay a few yards the other side. Charley’s father came up all standing. “ What in the name of Nimrod’s the mat ter with you?” lie gasped. Charley pointed to the bear. “Great Scott!” howled the statesman, and he made for the nearest tree. “He’s—he’s —dead."said Charley. “Sois— the dog. That’s the—reason—l didn’t— come up with him.” Then the statesman looked the bear over, and mourned for the dog. “We weren’t hunting bear, Charley,” said he deprecatingly. “Deer was what we ! tarted out to get, St i.l we’ll take home our game. But you ought to have come with that (log, Charley, and holy smokes, what a buck we’d have got!” The Hon. C. W. Williamson and the boy Charley toted the bear home, and then the sta estnau went out among his friends and said: “Why don’t you come over and see the slamming big boar me and Charley killed?” A Wonderful Food and Medicine. Known and used by physicians all over the world. Scott’s Emulsion not only gives flesh and strength by virtue of its own nu tritious properties, nut creates an appetite for food that builds up the wasted body. “I have been using Scott’s Emulsion for seve ral years, and am pleased with its action. My patients say it ls pleasant and palalab e, and all grow stronger and gain flesh from the use of it. 1 use it in all cases of wasting diseases, and it is specially useful for chil dren when nutrient medication is needed, as in marasmus.” T. W. Fierce, M. D., Knoxville, Ala. Ladies, go to the Theatre Friday, and see the richest co Jun.es worn by any ladies on the stage. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1887. CHARLES DICKENS, JR. Has Not as Many Impressions Regard ing America as his Faiher Had. From the Few York Sun. The latest spark in the trail of genius which is scintillating in America is Charles Dickens, Jr. He is rather a prolific spark— he has eight children. Only one of the troup accompanies him on his American tour. Mr. Dickens has been here several weeks, and to the writer it occurred that l.e might have his own impressions of the country,' that might or might not agree with those expressed by his illustrious sire. Bo tii writer bunted for Mr. Dickens aud ran him down iu t he parlor of an up-town hotel. He is a well-formed, hearty, easy-going looking fellow of about 38, a good six feet in height, with that peculiar old-country fleshiness which is not our fatness, a round looking expression of forehead and head like his father—but that is all—merry, un thoughtlul, aftei-dinner-looking eves that look toward but not at you, the way our men do; a straight unaggressive nose, and a sandy moustache for which his hair is a darker match. He has all the ah - of a big, pleasant school hoy, and that indescribable vacillating quality of manner which leaves you in doubt whether to expect rebuff or compliment in the coming sentence. Neither disturbs the even complaisance of his discourse, however, aud you come away wondering what led you to expect it. His drossing has the effect of the “heist suit on” of the good schoolboy at last day exercises, neither tweed nor broadcloth, hut an expression of both, and he acts as though he longed to put las hands in his pockets, lint knew better tlmn to be caught at it. He is master of a school of politeness, particularly un-American, which makes gallantry and good manners duties based on principle, rather than pleasures called forth by the special charms of the particular person on whom they are be stowed. He does not anticipate mentally, but follows easily, not. ungracofu ly aud very graciously. ' His observation of people, places and things, while quite extended, is not at all critical. He visits many places without seeing them, and lias no inducement to lead him to examine closely into details. The principal objects of interest to him have been hotels, depots, and his audiences, if pressed c'psely as to the most needed im provement in anything he has seen, he would say: “Rave the streets of New York, and seat people comfortably who travel through them in public conveyances.” Public dis comfort is keenly felt by foreigners, while private living is the equal of anything in the older countries. Mr. Dickens thinks that New York is very much like Paris, and that Boston has quit" au English air. American hotels he finds exceed ngly well mauaged, comfortable, neat, prompt in service, and well furnished, but “Oil dear me, no, they can’t cook, not one of them! I don’t know what is the matter, whether it is the cooking or the seasoning, or the materials, but nothing tastes right There’s something wrong with it all—it’s bad, that’s all that can lie said.” fab.e etiquet e, he find, good, generally, except for tne “beastly practice” of bring ing on all kinds of viands together, or so nearly so that “a man sees the next while eating the last.” He condemns the indecent haste with which meals are brought on and dispatched. He regards a meal time as a period for leisurely, pleasant discourse, taste ful sequences of phy ical enjoyment and dainty attention to details of taste aud re finement; a social service iu which the di ning room is the temple,the waiters re verent and efficient priests, and the partakers re spectful and decorous worshipers. Instead of that they are made rude parentheses of action to be kicked into and out of sight as hastily as possible as so much wasted time. He finds excellent stage accommodations, comfortable halls, and weli-fmuished lecture rooms. The platform species of entertainment is much more of an institu tion and better provided for here than in England. He is much pleased with his audiences as he finds them. They are decidedly less demonstrative than in European cities, but no less appreciative. He says it is all bosh talking about American audiences and English; that if placed before them without any previous knowledge he could not himself tell which was which. This is especially true of all the large cities. He does not find in looks of American men, women, and children those marked differences from English people which writers are wont to assert. He can not classify as to nationality. An intelligent, refined woman, or an intellectual manly man looks the same whether on this or that side of the Atlantic ocean. Inferior people look so the world over. He regards people as humanity differing only in conditions. ONE CUBE FOB HEADACHE. Opening a Man’s Skull and Extracting a Tumor, From the New York Times. A somewhat extraordinary cure for head ache was resorLerl to at the New York Hos pital on Thursday, when Prof. R. F. Weir and two assistant professors went hunting about inside the cranium of a patient for a suspected tumor, and were finally rewarded witn the i ascovery of something that looked abnormal, and which, tbe operator declared, must necessarily be a tumor, and which was accordingly removed after the heroic opera tion known as trephining had been accom plished. Yesterday afternoon the man at the desk in the hospital office, on Fifteenth street, cautiously acknowledged to a re porter that the man from whose brain an abnormal something “which must be a tumor” had been removed was doing as well as “could be expected,” but, although he subsequently insisted than be was doing “quite well,” it was evident that publicity about the surgical feat was not being nearly so eagerly sough, as shortly after the opera tion took place. The patient, a man 35 year of age, be low the medium size, ha, been complaining of headache and partial paralysis, and the professor in charge decided that he had a tumor iu the motor region of the brain, and proceeded, with the assistance of two medi cal brethren and four trained nurses, to hunt it down. A semi-ci "cular flap of the scalp was lifted, after which the trephine was applied to the skull above the left tem ple, and a button of bone removed. An important artery w as cut in the operation— a complication which is very seldom heard of in connection with trephining—and the patient was l leeding to death fast, and would have done so, the surgeons be ng unable to stop the hemorrhage, bad not a nvans of relief commonly employed in Bellevue llosyital been tried as a last report with completely satisfactory results. The patient’s life having been saved, the hunt for the tumor was begun, and after the dura mater had been re noved it was found that the brain cortex beneath was somewhat, redder than usual, and that it felt rather tii mer than was expected. It was decided that an abnormal growth was present, and that it necessarily must be the tumor they were hunting for. It was accordingly re moved from the brain, the bleeding from the wound was stanched, and all w r as done to make tbe patient, who had, of course, been etherized before the operation began, as comfortable as possible. It is claimed that a very bright surface, which resembles a mother-of-pearl finish, may lie given to paper by pursuing the fol lowing directions: Avery concentrated cold solution of salt is mixed with dextrine, and a thin coding of the fluid laid on tbe surface oi the paper by roe ns of a broad, soft brush. It is then allowed to dry. Tro most advantageous salts are sulphate of tin, sulphate of magnesia and acetate of soda. It is necessary for the paoer to bo seized first, or it will absorb the liquid and prevent crystalline formations. I will examine you on the outside, “Hig gins,” Theatre Friday. Atmore's Mince Meat by the pound or bucket. Strauss Bros. Fun, wit and humor without vulgarity, Theatre Friday. PRY GOODS. THIS WEEK We Will Make Memorable by the Low Prices at Which We Will Sell OUR TAILOR-MADE WALKING JACKETS, OUR PLUSH SACQUES AND WRAPS, OUR ENGLISH WALKING COATS, OUR CIRCULARS AND NEWMARKETS. OUR CHILDREN'S CLOAKS & NEWMARKETS. We have closed out 2,350 of these Garments at 50 cents on the dollar, and are thereby enabled to give these Extra ordinary Bargains. Remember, the sooner you come, the larger the Choice and the greater the Bargain. -WE ALSO OFFEB 3,000 Yards Heavy Red Twill Flannel at 16c. Per Yard; Fully Worth 25c. OUR BAZAR Is Brill witlißargains. wo will Mention a Few: Ladies’ Jerseys worth 75c, at - -25 c. Ladies’ Jerseys worth $1 at - - -50 c. Ladies' Jerseys worth $1 50 at - -75 c. Ladies’ Jerseys worth .$2 50 at - Si 50. Ladies’ Full Regular Hose, worth 25c., at 10c. Linen Towels worth 25c. at - - -10 c. Pearl Dress Buttons at 2-ic., 3c., 4c. & sc. pr. doz. Fine Pearl Shirt Buttons at - sc. pr. doz. 1.000 Hair Brushes worth 25c. at - - sc. English Needles worth sc. - - lc. Paper Pins worth sc. - - - lc. Gents’ Undershirts worth 25c. - -17 c. Gents’ All-Wool Scarlet Undershirts at -50 c. And Thousands of Other Great Bargains. PLEASE dSTOTE THIS: We will sell an Unlaundried Shirt, of A1 Shirting, and Pure, Fine Linen Bosom and Bands, with 12 Pleats, at 50c. We warrant that this Shirt cannot be matched for less than sl. David Weisfaein, 153 BROUGHTON STREET. . FUHNITURE, CARPETS, MATTING, ETC Scared to Death. Ju iSMS WAKE UP OLD MAN, GET UP AND RUN! Or you will bo late to get the pick of those astonishing bargains in FURNITURE and CARPETS, which LINDSAY & MORGAN are offering at Bankrupt Prices. They are showing a most elaborate line of FANCY GOODS in their Furniture Department, and have just received a large invoice of NEW RUGS in their Carpet Department. Don’t be late, but come at once and make your selection. LINDSAY & MORGAN. MILLINERY. KRO U SKO FF S Opening of (lie Fall Season 1887. However attractive and immense our previous season’s stock in Millinery has been, this season we excel all our previous selections. Every manufacturer and importer of note in the markets of the world is represented in the array, and display of Millinery goods. We are showing Hats in the finest Hatter’s Plush, Beaver, Felt, Straw and Fancy Combinations. Ribbons in Glacee, of all the novel shades. Fancy Birds and Wings, Velvets and Plushes of our own im portation, and we now offer you the advantages of our im mense stock. We continue the retail sale on our first floor at wholesale prices. We also continue to sell our Celebrated XXX Ribbons at previous prices. TO-DAY, 500 dozen Felt Hats, in all the new shapes and colors, at 35 cents. + S. KROUSKOFFS MAMMOTH MILLINERY HOUSE; BROUGHT ON tfTREBT. SHOES. TO BUY LA D I E S’, Misses’ and C h i Idren’s, Hoys AND YOUTHS’ Boots and Shoes For all purposes and k udu of weather, Is at our STORE, 17 Whitaker St. Where we display the most extensive assort ment of Stylish.' Shoes In every conceivable SHAPE, at prices that cannot fail to tempt you. BYCR BROS. TOYS. j|Sl|||jj TWO STORES FULL OF TOYS, AT SCHREINER’S FURNACES. Richardson & Boynton Co.’s SANITARY HEATING FURNACES Contain the newest patterns, comprising latest improvements possible to adopt in a Heating Furnace where Power, Efficiency, Economy ana Durability is desired. Medical ami Scientific ex perts pronounce thetie Furnaces nuperior in every reenact, to all others for supplying pur© air. fre<* from gas and dust. Scud for circulars--Sold by all first-class deal ers. Richardson Sc Ttoynton CJo., M’f 're, 282 and 284 Water Street, N. Y. Sold by JOHN A. DOUGLASS & CO., Savannah, Oa. II AMS. tND BREAKFAST BACON NON id CJ- 3D IM xj inb JNLV&S etAKiNQ OUW PATtNTfD T.AOC-MANKS, A U&MT MCTALLiO BCAL, ATTAOMCO TO THE .THING, AH. THE STHIPEO OANVA., AE IN THE Ml. MACHINERY'. ~ J. W. TYNAN, ENGINEER and MACHINIST, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Corner Weat Broad anil ludian Streets. Alt. kinds of machinery, boilers, Etc., made and reiiaired. STEAM PUMPS, GOVERNORS, INJECTORS AND STEAM WATER FITTINGS of all kings for sain. FOR SALE, Old Newspaper*, just the thirie for wrappers, only 18 cents a hundred, JOO Xur 'Jtt coble, at Ua> buomcß. ofliuj. CLOTHING. WE A REP LEASED TO~ANNOUNCE THAT OUR Fall Stock .is now complete and we will be pleased to show our friends and the ! public the prevailing and correct styles in CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS & HATS For the season, whether they call to supply themselves or only to see "what is to be worn.” Respectfully, 1 FALK k SONS, Mod’s, Boys’ aud Children’s Outfitters, Our Fall and Winter Catalogue is ready for distribution. GROCERIES. GEO? W. TIEDEMAnT* WHOLESALE Grocer, Provision Dealer & Com’o Merchant, NO. 181 BAT ST., SAVANNAH, OA. O. DAVIS. M. A. DAVIS. <i. DAVIS & SON, (Successors to Graham a Hitbbell) WHOLESALE GROCERS, Provisions, Grain and Hay, 181 and 188 Bay St., cor. Jeflfeison, SAVANNAH, GA. Jas. E. Grady. Jno. C. Del.ettre, Jas. E. Grady, Jr. GRADY, DeLETTRE & CO., Successors to Holcombe. Grady & Cos., WHOLES AT. I\ GROWERS, and dealers In > PHOVLSIONB, CORN, HAY, FEED, Eto. Old Stand, corner Bay and Abercom streets, SAVANNAH, OA. HAVE JUST RECEIVED Prunes, Evaporated Apples, Maca roni, Jellies, Mincemeat, Ci der and Firecrackers. C. M. G-ILBERT & CO. BROKERS. A. lT 11artridgeT SECURITY BROKER. TVtTYS AND SELLS on commission all classes 1 > of Stocks aud Bonds. Negotiates loans on marketable securities. New York quotations furnished by private ticker every fifteen minutes. WM. T. WILLIAMS. W. CCMMINO. W. T. WILLIAMS & CO., Bx’olkzex'S OBDKBS EXECUTED on the New York, Chi cago aud Livemool Exchanges. Private direct wire to our office. Constant quotations fJom Chicago and New York. COTTON EXCHANGE. HOTELS. PULASKI HOUSE!, - Under New Management. HAVING entirely refitted, refurnished and made such extensive alterations and re pairs, we cau Justly say that our friends and patrons will 11 rid THE PULASKI first class in every respect. The cuisine and service will be of the highest character. W.V' Y>N & POWERS, Proprietors, formerly of Hotel. NEW HOTBL TOGN& (Formerly St. Mark's.) Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla. WINTER AND SUMMER. r pHF. MOST central House In the city. Near I Post < iftli'3, Street Cars and all Ferries. New aud Elegant Furniture. Electric Bella Baths, Etc. Jk no to Jo per <lay. JOHN B. TOONI, Proprietor. KISH AND OYSTKKS.~ " ESTABLISHED TBSA M. M. SULLIVAN, Wholesale Fish and Oyster Dealer, 150 Bryan st and 152 Raj .atie. Savannah, Ga. fish orders for Cedar Keys received hero have prompt attention. 1 - ——^ LUMBER. LUMIJKH! LUMBER! A. S. BACON, Office and Planing Mill, liberty ami East Broad Streets. A full stock of Drkssed ard Roitoh Lumber, Laths, Shinoles, Etc., always on hand. Esti mates given upon application. Prompt delivery guaranteed. Telephone 117. CONTRA! TORS. P. J. FALLON, ~ BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR, 22 DRAY'TON STREET, SAVANNAH. ESTIMATES promptly furnished for building of any class. PLUMBER. l. a. McCarthy. Successor to Chas. E. Wakefield. PLUMBER, GAS and STEAM FITTER, 4F Barnard street, SAVANNAH, GA. Telephone 373. PAINTS AND O ILs. JOHN Gr. BUTLER, WHITE LEADS, COLORS, OILS, GLASS, VARNISH, ETC.; READY MIXED TAINTS; RAILROAD, STEAMER AND MILL SUPPLIES, SASHES, DOORS, RLINDS AND BUILDERS’ HARDWARE. Sole Ajrent for GEORGIA LIME. CAI/HNED PLABTEH, CE MENT, HAIK and LAND PLASTER. 6 Whitaker Street, Savannah, Georgia. SOAP. SOAPS! SOAPS! PEARS’, RIEGER’S, COLGATE’S, CLEAV ERS, KECKELAER’S, BAYLEY’S, LU BIN’S, PEMBLE’S MEDICATED just received at BUTLER’S PHARMACY. CHOCOLATES. CHOCOLATES and COCOAS I UST RECEIVED, a line of the Royal Dutc! rl CHOCOLATES and COCO AS from Benda dorf, of Amsterdam, Holland. These (Jhooolatet and Cocoas are conceded to bo the best In the world. L. C. STRONG. URUGGIS'JT 5