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SOME PARK ROW SCENES.
WHERE SOMETHING STRIKING
MAY BE SEEN IN GOTHAM.
Many Queer Characters The Throat
Doctor Who Sends Patients South—
Havana as a Place of Residence—The
Tribute Which Cuba Pays Spain
The Danger of an insurrection.
New York, Dec. 3. —There is no more
interesting thoroughfare in New York than
Park Row. It bus more street railway
tracks and large crowdsaudis more danger
ous to cross than Broadway, but there are
no policemen there to help pedestrians
across as on Broadway. The charm of the
street lies in the study of the odd characters
that frequent it. On the steps of one of the
great newspaper buildings sits an old Irish
apple woman. Her head is wrapped up in
a woolen shawl. She wears the same warm
costume winter and summer. Whether the
thermometer bo at zero or ninety in the
shade, she is always at her post as she has
been for years. A portly oid newsman
stands in lront of the same office with bis
papers laid out on the steps. He is a
deputy sheriff, a fact which inspires the
newsboys who throng the place with great
respect.
j-wery afternoon a tall man with black
hair carefully oiled, moustache waxed and
ancient plug hat brushed, walks along the
street. He wears a long black coat of
great antiquity and keeps his hand thrust
iu his bosom. He looks the perfect type ot
a crushed but still proud tragedian. He
walks slowly as if anxious to cr ate the im
pression that he is a gentleman of leisure.
He never varies the t.me tor Ins stroll.
When he has been on exhibition an hour be
disappears, and if you follow him you will
-ee him enter a tailor shop and doff Ids
threadbare coat He seems to lay off his
pride with it, and assuming the cross-legged
position of his craft, he patiently goes to
stitching.
At precisely 3 o’clock every afternoon you
hear a queer cry, in an almost unearthly
tone of voice, repeated at intervals of every
half minute. You cannot make out what
it is, but you discover that it is being made
by a rather young-looking, stoop-shouldered
blind man who is selling tiapers. At each
shout he hits the sidewalk a hard rap with
his cane.
As the afternoon draws on the crowd in
creases. newsboys dart up from the base
ments of the newspajier offices and go rush
ing and yelling down the street, venders of
all sorts of edibles take their place along the
curbs, and even iu the very street itself,
making the teams turn aside for them. One
old woman with a basketful of doubtful ap
pearing cakes, in the midst of which has
rieeu thrust a stick loaded with pretzels, sits
down at the base of the statue of Franklin.
Italians, who sell ice-cream at a penny in
summer and roasted chestnuts in winter,
i-ange themselves in line with the pretzel
r ender, but keep at a respectful ilistance.
Once upon a time one of their number upset
her basket of cakes, w hereupon she fell upon
his ice-cream can and cast its contents on
the [lavement and routed him.
In front cf a newspaper office opposite the
post office an old woman sells very greasy
crullers to youths who. strangely enough,
seem to retain their digestive organs in a
normal condition in spite of their danger
ous diet She is reputed to lie rich, as the
fruit of years of cruller-selling and economy.
A Turk, w earing a red tez, pushes along
to a favorable point on the street a cart on
which is a gaudy, rudely painted sign bear
ing a Turkish and an American flag, and
this legend: “Tahi Helva, or the oriental,
estimable and delicious confectionery, im
ported direct from Constantinople. It
purifies the ulood. The tourists who have
v.riied the orient will testify to this fact.”
The stuff is a large round cake of yellow
looking candy, a small chunk of which sells
for sc. It resembles in color and is about
as delicious as beeswax.
A man with long, gray hair falling over
his shoulders and a full beard walkif briskly
past one of the newspaper offices. You
would be willing to wager that he is a poet
or dfi artist, but ha isn't. He occupies the
prosaic position of owner of a big transfer
line wtios ponderous wagons transport the
mails to the trains and steamers and help
make Park Row a dangerous crossing.
Two Chinamen, each carrying a big map
under his arm, amble along, and one of
them is so jostled by the crowd that he
thrusts the end of his roll of map into the
back of a man who is carrying a string of
rabbits on his shoulder, a gun in one hand
and leading a dog with the other. He turns
to curse the Chinaman and blocks the nar
row sidewalk. Not far away an old woman
dressed in gray emerges from one of the
stores, stands a moment on the step, lifts
her face aud utters a brief prayer of thanks
giving. People stop to stare at her, but she
does not heed them. She has been to ask a
donation for some charitable object, and
has received it. She is Mrs. Roberts, the
wife of the first President of Liberia.*
Precious little praying is heard on Park
Row. and soon you hear more profanity.
Some gamin who have been pitching pen
nies in the park hold a brief consultation
and then make a concerted rush on the
chestnut stand of one of the Italians. His
goods go flying over the pavement, and with
volleys nf’flerce oaths he runs after the
leader of the gang. Of course he doesn’t
get him, ana wnile he is away the bovs
hastily gather up the nuts and run away to
meet the ring leader and give him his share
of the booty.
Italian women 'tarrying great bundles of
sticks and twards stagger along under their
burdens, and one of them, who turns out
into the street to make faster progress,
barely escapes being crushed beneath one of
the big rolls of paper that are being un
loaded in front of a newspaper building.
A colored man comes out of one of the
restaurants on the street. He walks as if
all bis joints were loose. Now he takes a
Dundreary bkip, then a long stride; now he
grimaces and again be grins. He is a waiter,
and one of the oddest characters which fre
quent Park Row.
An intoxicated man, evidently a stranger
to the city, is carried along by the current
ytf pedestrians. He falls against this one
and that, ana keeps repeating over and
over again, ‘‘Havin’ hie— lots o’ fun— hie.”
A well-dressed New Yorker who probably
sells him goods, discovers him. leads him
across the park to a hack stand anil sends
liiru to his hotel after having taken from
him all his money for safe-keeping. Visit
Park Row at any hour of the day or night
and you will see something striking.
11.
“New York is the worst place for such a
malady,” said my physician, whom I was
consulting about a throat trouble which had
annoyed me for some time.
“This man,” he said, scribbling a name
and address on a piece of paper, “is one of
the most famous specialists on throat
diseases.”
“Do you care if I go and consult him!”
"Not a raj). Use my name. 1 studied
with him four years.”
I hurried down to the house of a physi
cian whose name had been familiar to ine
for years. It was about 11 o’clock. I found
fully a hundred people there in a long suite
of rooms. The attendant gave me a check
uumbered 132, and I fell to figuring up the
doctor’s daily income at $lO a patient for
the first-visit and $5 thereafter. After I
had allowed him a mere average of a thou
sand dollars a day I removed my rubber
eout, fur coat, neckerchief, galoshes, gloves
and so on :nd settled myself in an easy
chair while - other patients stared at me
triumphantly as they sneezed, coughed aud
sighed. Presently two or three more un
fortunates drifted in from the street and
storm and 1 went fast asleep.
It was nearly 3 o’clock when I waked up
and found that my turn had about arrived.
After a time the attendant motioned to me
and I went into a big office. A well built,
sturdy and strong featured man stepped to
ward me and said shortly, after stopping
for a moment to sneeze:
“Throat ?’
“Awful!” I said.
“How long has it bothered you
“Continual succession of colds for two
months.”
He glanced at the throat half carelessly,
went over and turned on more heat and
then said curtly:
“When can you go South, to-morrow
morning i”
“ Wliu-what ?”
“To-morrow."
“Why I never thought of leaving town
at this season of the year.”
“Well," he continued, rising on his toes
and letting himself gent ly down again, “it's
the only thing for you to do. I might tell
you to come here every day, but I cannot do
you a bit of good at this time of the year,
if you can go South, go at once—your ease
is precisely similar to a thousand I’ve re
cently hail. The fee is $lO. Good morn
ing.”
ile touched a bell, the next unfortunate
entered and I went forth. Within an hour
I had sent to Secretary Bayard for a pass
port and had bought iny ticket for Havana
on a big and showy steamer. The passport
was forwarded from Washington to Culm
by mail It cost $5 A little, and by no
means a creditable scheme of our govern
ment to collect a revenue from such of its
citizens as visit Cuba. No other govern
ment exacts such a tax from its people.^
When the steamer sailed for New York
that day tiie storm signals were flying, and
the forerunner of a hurricane had arrived.
The water was lutnpv, and the Captain
remarked to me confidentially when we were
off Sandy Hook "that we wore goin’ to
have about as nasty a night as Gawd a’
mighty could manufacture off hand.” All
the women were deathly sick before we had
lieen three hours out, and most of the men
were in their berths, but four of
us managed to make up a game
of whist in the smoking room and we played
there until midnight, when the pitching of
the steamer made it impossible to keep on a
seat. It was as curiously incongruous a
party as I ever joined. One man was an
Englishman of title—a baronet—who had
married a Chilian heiress and was on his
way to take her to England from Havana; ■
another, a most accomplished and agreeable
Japanese, ti a veiling tor pleasure, and at- 1
tended by a huge negro servant, and the
third, a Chicago gambler who had once
broken a baccarat bank ip Paris to the tune
of $30,000. He spoke French and Spanish
like a native. We became well acquainted
as men are apt to over a card table on ship
board. When we arrived at Havana we
had a dinner at a capital restaurant and
parti si, never in all likelihood to meet again.
I have detailed my experience with the
doctors above merely to illustrate the ex
traordinary advantages of a Southern trip.
It doesn't make any difference whether you
go by rail or sea as long as you move toward
the equator. The second day out I forgot
all about my aliments, and was in as com
plete and perfect trim as a prize athlete.
The relief, the sensation of absolute health,
and the absence of all the evidences of the
colds that had cost me so much misery and
money in New York, made me feel like a
school boy on a holiday. There’s no patent
medicine that equals the soft air of the
South after the rasping blizzards of the
Northern States.
Havana is the most extraordinary town
in the world. Though it is so near America,
it is no more like it in the mmi minute par
ticular than Tunis, Algiers or Morocco. The
whole island is ridden by an army of Span
iards. Military uniforms are three to one
civilian dress in the streets, and the Spanish
commanders are sucking tlie life’s blood out
of the most beautiful island in the West In
dies. A more brutal, heartless and inhuman
set of rulers never lived. Cuba is the only
Western possession that Spain now holds,
and she is taxing it to the very limit. Cuba
pays Spain the enormous sum of $34,000,000
for the support of the great Spanish army
that keeps nor in bondage. If a man wishes
to keep a billiard table, he must pay a tax
of SSO a year in gold. Pictures that hang in
houses are taxed, aud theHandlord pays so
much to the government for every guest
who enters his b tel, It is not to be won
dered at that the danger of an insur
rection keeps Spain busy pouring soldiers
into this little island. The last insurrection
cost nearly 300,000 lives, and everybody here
knows that there Is danger of another one at
almost any time. I ran down into thj in
terior of the island a few days after iny
arrival towards Cienfuegos. In every rail
road car there were from ten to twenty sol
diers; at every station a file of thirty soldiers
received the train and insp ctcd the passen
gers who alighted, and all along the white
roads were military detachments. Despite
this tremendous display of power the
people have secret organizations,
and rural Cuba is believed to be
secretly under arms. There is no
hint of it in the papers, for thj very good
reason that there is a press censor. Any
thing approaching an accurate description
of the condition of things in the interior in
a Cuban paper would put an abrupt end to
the editor’s liberty. Every day at noon the
custom house pavs $33,000 to the Spanish
government on one tax alone. The political
and social aspect of Havana is the cne that
strikes intelligent men on their arrival.
Every Cuban industry is stifled by the
vampire system of tribute. Ten years ago
there were twenty-four commission houses
in the city of Havana: to-day there is one.
The picturesque features of the place are
many, but the business outlook is dreary in
the extreme. Blakki.y Hall,.
JACKSONVILLE POLITICS.
Mr. Jones Fails in an Attempt to Run
Things His Own Way.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 3.—The
County and City Democratic Executive
Committee met to-day at noon and ap
pointed a committee of four, consisting of
A. W. Owens, J. M. Barrs, H. A. Lenzle
and Stephen Wiggins, to confer with rep
resentatives of all organized bodies, with
full power to make all necessary and reason
able concessions looking to bringing about
harmonious and united action with refer
ence to the holding of a city election.
A faction, with C. H. Jones as leader,
held a meeting this afternoon at 4 o'clock,
when this committee waited on them and
announced their business. Mr. Jones,
without being requested to do so. assumed
control of the chair aud attempted to force
an issue. He made strenuous efferts to
control the meeting. He appeared in his
true light of a und announced
that he was opposed to all political organi
zations and asserted that they were cor
rupt. Mr. Owens suid that his
committee was not there for the purpose of
taking any part in a movement proposed by
Mr. Jones, but only for conference, and to
report to the committee of the whole at a
meeting to be held on Monday. When Mr.
Owens saw that Mr. Jones was determined
to hold a meeting and launch upon
an unwilling public a municipal ticket ot
his own formation, Mr. Owens and his
committee announced that they would with
draw. Wlicn Mr. Owens was leaving the
room Mr. Jones made some insulting re
mark, to which Mr. Owens replied, in the
strongest terms which his ready gift of
language could command. In which the
words “cowardly cur” with more forcible
adjectives were frequently interjected.
Mr. Jones accepted the scathing rebuke
without a word of resentment. After this
the meeting adjourned without action.
Columbus Chapters.
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 3.—The Columbus
Street rai road changed hands at a meeting
to-day. Hon. L. K. Garrard was elected
President. The new’ company will extend
the tracks all about the city for the delivery
of freights to merchants, will use dummy
engines, and connect with all railroads.
Muscogee Superior Court to-day sent two
negroes to jail for short periods. Another
negro was acquitted of larceny from the
house.
I-ast night about 1 o’clock Landon What
ley, night watchman at the Muscogee Oil
Mills, shot Joseph Walker (colored! in the
hip. The negro is expected to die. Mr.
W hatley claims self-defense an 1 gave bond
for his appearance at a Justice's Court Mon
day.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1887.
POPULAR FLOWERS.
Delightful Memories that Cling to Fa
vorite Old-Fashioned Blossoms.
From Harper's Mugo-ine.
The very earliest of ail cultivated plants
were grown for use—either as food or for
tneir reputed medicinal virtues—rather tlian
for their beauty. Thus the Christmas roses
of to-day, so highly appreciated for their
snowy blossoms, were first valued for their
curative qualities; those afflicted with symp
toms of madness being sent to eat the root
of hellebore, in the island of Anticyra, just
us the gra[>e-eating or bathing cures are
prescribed to-day. Hence we find in nearly
all the early books on botany and gardening
what are termed “tables of the virtues,”
these being supposed to set forth Uie_jiari
ous effects on body or mind each kind"of
plant possessed.
Ail things beautiful have their uses, and
this is especially true of flowers of all kinds,
but what we like best to hear called old gar
den flowers are those we cherish like oid
friends: that is to say, delightful old mem
ories cling around them, und they are rich
in the associations of bygone days. What
was the favorite flower of Helen of Troy,
of the fair one of Milo whose stone portrait
is now in the Louvre, or she of Cuidos now
enshrined in the Vatican * who shall tell us
which blossom of antiquity is the oldest,
whether the nelumbiutn of Buddha or the
golden sunflower of the Incas? were the
first gardeners Indian or Egyptian?
are questions which even the echo
of antiquity does not deigu to answer.
To get back to the beginning of flowers
in gardens, we must go back to the
earliest period of civilization. We may
never know what flower Cleopatra had
woven iu her blue black hail' when Antony
was her willing captive, but we find the
mummy wreaths of blossoms culled by
hands that lived soon after the Pyramids
were being built, and the early use of flow
ers in Egypt, in Greece, in India and in
Mexico is well known. As far as evidence
goes, we can actually refer to the funeral
wreaths of the ancient Egyptians as being
the oldest existing remains of flowers as em
ployed for decorative or votive uses. The
oldest of dried flowers in herbaria —that is,
of flowers especially prepared for scientific
putposes—do not date further back than the
middle of the sixt ■enth century, and yet
we find that flowers were used in
Egyptian ceremonies some three
to five thousand years ago.
About sixty distinct kinds of flowers
and plants have been identified, and by
placing these iu warm water Dr. Sehwein
furth, of Cairo, has succeeded in relaxing
aud preparing a series of specimens gath
ered 4,(MX) years ago, and these Mr. Carru
thers; of the British Museum, tells us are as
satisfactory for the purposes of science as
any collected at the present day. These
plant remains were enforced by the ban
dages or mummy wrappers, and being her
metically sealed, have t>een preserved with
scarcely any change. The blue water lily
or lotus, the poppy, the larkspur, flax, char
lock, knapweed and other flowers are per
fectly preserved, the garlands being woven
together with strips of the Nile reed or
papyrus of the ancient scribes.
Old fashioned flowers represent for us the
ideals of our ancestors, and in historic in
terest go back much further titan the oldest
silverware, of Oriental porcelain," or the
period of Chippendale and of Sheraton.
We know somewhat of the flowers of Greece
from their old plays. In Sophocles’ “CEdi
pus at Colonus” we read of wine-dark ivy
and bowers rich in fruits and berries, “and
fed of heavenly dew, the narcissus blooms
worn by morn with fair clusters, crown of
the great goddesses from of yore and the
crocus blooms with golden beam.” The vine
and gray leaved olive are there also.
From the earliest period the garden and
its flowers have been tended by women’s
hands. The hanging gardens of Babylon
were especially made for a woman, and if
we cannot give an earlier date, we may at
any rate rest assured that a good many gar
dens have been made for them since that
time. The-earliest date I know of in secu
lar history referring definitely to flower cul
ture is in Prof. Monier Williams’ transla
tion of the poems of Kalidasi. This Hindoo
poet, who wrote the beautiful drama
“Sal tin tala Regained by the King,” B. C,
50, is careful enough to tell us that the King
Dushyauta, when hunting, first saw the
lovely bride as she, with her maids, was
watering the flowers in a hermitage garden
in which she had accidentally takeii shelter.
Chaucer’s exquisite admiration for the
daisy is a matter of history second ouly to
liis love for the month of May. But it is
when we get to Elizabethan days—the epoch
of S[>enser, Jonson, Raleigh and Shakes
peare—that we get into the heyday of old
, fashioned flowers. When the modern Lady
Corisande leans back in her boudoir reading
these pages I should like to ask her what she
would give to have been Anne Hathaway in
that little timber-framed house at Shotter y
when Shakespeare walked over from Strat
ford at eventide to whisper in her ears “the
old, old story " Song of nightingale or of
the bluebird is not sweeter than Shakes-
Cre’s love as put into the mouth of
neo or other of his youthful char
acters. Then you know his estimate
of sweet woman by the womanly be
havior of Rosalind, of Beatrice, of Imogen,
or of Juliet. You remember the meanings
of floral language which he plant's in the
mouth of “Perdita” in the “Winter’s
Tale,” and of “Ophelia” iu “Hamlet.”
"There’s rue for you. There’s rosemary;
that’s for remembrance.” With oil
“Romeo” and half a score of other lovers in
his heart, what a real sweet wooing was
that to which the Warwickshire maiden
listened on the seat by the door of her
father’s house at Shottery village, when
rosemary and sweetbrier were fragrant
after rain in June, anil neat eahhage roses
yielded incense sweeter than all the spices
of Eastern seas! To mention the mere fact
of Shakspeare’s love for garden and field
flowers is enough, since Canon Ellacombe
has collected and arranged the whole in a
most interesting volume, known as “Plant
Lore of Shakspeare.”
Hatching Machines for Babies.
From the Fall Mall Gazette.
It may not be generally known that hatch
ing machines have recently been introduced
in the Paris lying-in hospitals for the sav
ing of infants prematurely born or other
wise deficient in vitality. The system ap
pears to tiave been eminently successful.
The object of the machine is to supply the
weak little things with the heat necessary
to attain to strength and maturity. Now
boru babies weighing from 3to 2Jj pounds
instead of 4}£ pounds, the average weight,
and which were condemned to early death,
I have been placed in these machines, and in
a short time t.:ey have come out strong and
1 healthy. The apparatus is similar to the
egg-hatching machine. It is in the form of
a large wooden box divided into two com
partments; one is filled with warm water
and the other contains a basket lined with
wadding into which the infant is deposited.
The lid is supplied with a glass pane to n
-alih the movements of the little inmate to be
watched. The machine is under the con
stant surveillance of a nurse, who reports
to the medical director the various phases
of incubation. Dr. Pinard, of the ‘Lari
boitsiere Hospital, and Dr. Tarnier, of the
Maternite, have several of these ma
chines working under their care at the pres
ent moment.
Racing at New Orleans.
New Orleans, Dec. 3.— To-day’s races
here were as follows:
First Rack—Six furlongs. Red Leaf won,
with Long Glean second and Overton third.
Time 1:18ft.
Si.co.vc Race— Five furlongs. Syntax won,
with Watch Eye second and Bobolink third.
Time 1:03W.
Third Rack—Seven furlongs. Cuuiil was first
past the string, hut was disqualified for fouling
l hil Lewis, who was declared the winner, with
l/cnum M*cond and Little Joe third Time 1:80.
Fourth Race Six furlongs. Bankrupt won.
with Jennie McFarland second and Harry Glenn
third. Time 1:15V4.
CHURCH SERVICES.
[Notices of services in other churches are pub
isbed by request on Saturday.)
St. John’s Church, Madison square, Rev.
Charles H. Strong, rector.—The second
Sunday in Advent. Morning service,
sermon and holy communion at 11 o'clock.
Sunday school at 4p. m. Evening service
and sermon at 7:30 o'clock. Service on
Wednesday at 4:30 p. m.
Christ Church, Johnson square, Rev.
Thornaa Boone, rector. —The second Sunday
in Advent. Morning service, sermon and
hoi}' communion at 11 o’clock. Sunday
school at 4p. m. Evening service at 5
o’clock. On Wednesday evening service at
4:30 o’clock.
There will be no service to-day at the In
dependent Presbyterian church. Sunday
school, as usual, at 4 p. m. On Thursday,
at 4p. m., there will be a meeting for
prayer by the congregation in the lecture
room, to which all are invited.
Christian Church, Bolton and Howard
streets. T. E. White, pastor.—Preaching
at 11 o’clock, a. m.. and 7:30 o'clock, p. m.
IVayer meeting Thursday evening at 8
o’clock. Sunday school 9:30 o’clock, am.
Seats free.
Seamen’s Bethel, 56 Bay street, Rev. J. L.
Gilmore, chaplain.—Divine service at
3:30 p. m. Seamen and citizens cordially
invited.
COLORED.
Second Baptist church, Green square,
Houston street—The pastor, Rev. A. Ellis,
preaches at 11a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Sunday
school at 3p. in. Morning subject: “Laz
arus is Dead.” Evening: "The Heavenly
Footlight,” Strangers always welcome.
Ezra Presbyterian church, West Broad
street, Rev. J. S. Thomas, pastor.— Services:
Sabbath school at 0:30 a. in. Preaching at
11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., sharp.
First Congregational Church, corner Tay
lor and Habersham streets. Rev. L. B.
Maxwell, pastor. —Sunday school at 10 a.
m. Children’s day. Preaching at Bp. m.
Subject: “The Moral Magnet.” All are
cordially invited. Seats free.
First African Baptist Church, E. K. Love,
pastor. —Prayer meeting 5:30 a. m. Baptism
i :30 am. Preaching by the pastor at 11 a.
m., “A Forgiving Spirit.” Sunday school
at 3 p. m. Communion at 3p. in. Preaching
by the pastor at 7:30 p. m., “Pure Relig
ion.” Visitors always welcome. Seats free.
ON RAIL AND CROSSTIE.
Local and General Gossip in Railway
s Circles.
The East Alabama railway was opened
from Opelika to Roanoke, Ala., ou Thurs
day.
A meeting of the citizens of Pensacola is
called for Wednesday for the purpose of
raising money to aid iu pushing the Pensa
cola and Memphis railroad. A small por
tion of the road is now under contract.
Since the completion of the Huntsville
and Flora road the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis railway has commenced work
on the Bon Air extension of the Sparta
branch. It is intended to have trains on
the road by Jan. 1.
Engineer John L. Cowan, who will be in
charge of the Columbus Southern railroad,
is locating the East Alabama railroad into
Opelika. This road has recently extended
its tracks to Roanoke, and it is probable
that it will be built to Anniston.
Weather Indications.
T 1 Special indications for Georgia:
FAIR Slightly warmer, generally fair
i I weather, light to fresh variable
winds.
CoraDarisoo of mean temperature at Savan
nah, Dec. 3 1887, und the mean of same day for
fifteen years.
Departure j Total
Mean Temperature from the j Departure
Mean Since
for 15years Dec. 3, 'B7. -’-or (Jan. 1,1887.
52.0 | 52.0 -- 0.0 I— 614.0
Comparative rainfall statement:
~ _ ~ . j Departure Total
Mean Daily Amount | j- rom tiitt Departure
A mount for for - Moan finco
16 \ears. , Dec. 3, 87. | or __ j an lf 1887
TH I Too ! --_.il -13 51
Maximum temperature 62, minimum tem
perature 43.
The height of the river at Augusta at
1:33 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time)
was 6 0 feet—no "change during the past
twenty-four nours.
Observations taken at the same moment
of time at all stations.
Savannah. Dec. 3, 0:36 p. m.. city time.
Temperature.
I Direction. 5
L x
| Velocity. P I
j Rainfall.
AMS
OF
Stations.
Norfolk | 44....| Foggy.
Charlotte j 50 Si Clear.
Titusville 64 El.. 01 Fair.
Wilmington 50 N E Clear.
Charleston 56 E j 8 Clear.
Augusta j 48 ... ! Clear.
Savannah I 50 S E Fair.
Jacksonville 54 N .. .01 Foggy.
Cedar Keys 58 E j 8 .... Cloudy.
Key West 70 E |181.... .Cloudy.
Atlanta 46 E i 8 . .. Fair.
Pensacola 64 E 14 .... Fair.
Mobile 62:S E12i ... Fair.
Montgomery .... 56-8 E 8 Cloudy.
New Orleans 66 S *lO Cloudy.
Galveston 66 S E 6; 0! Cloudy.
Corpus Christ!... 72 SE 12 . I Cloudy.
Palestine 661 S 81.92 Raining.
Brownesvllie 72S E 8 ... Cloudy.
Rio Grande 70; S I.. 1 . . Clear.
T* denotes trace of rainfalL
G. N. Salisbury Signal Corps.
Pei fection is attained in Dr. Sage’s Ca
tarrh Remedy.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
CHRIST CHURCH.
The regular arnmul renting of the pews of this
Church will take place MONDAY, Dec. sth, be
tween the hours of 10 *. M. and 2p. M.. All those
who have jiaid their dues will !>e considered as
retaining their pews, unless notice to the con
trary is given. The Senior AVarden and the
Treasurer will he at the Church at the above
named hour. By order of THE A'ESTRY.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
On and after DECEMBER 81, 18.87,1 will dis
continue the Cigar ami Tobacco business.
Thanking those who kindly patronized me in
the past, 1 hope they will continue to the end.
All parties holding hills against me will please
present them for payment, ami all Indebted wi 1
please make settlement. Yours respectfully,
E. S. MEYER.
Ml SIC AND FANCY WORK.
MRS. C. E. EVERITT, Teacher of PIANO and
'SINGING, also MUSIC READING on the TONIC
SOL-FA SYSTEM, which is now used by THIR
TEEN TIB iUSAND SCHOOLS in England. Aire.
EVERITT also gives lessons in FANCY WORK
and EMBROIDERY. 1(M South Broad street,
northeast corner Drayton street.
1.01)0K NO. 3, U. 1.0.0KK. OF A.
The following officers elected for Lodge No. 3,
O. U. O. of K. of A., will lie installed on TUES
DAY NIGHT, Dec. G. 1887, by the Grand Alaster,
A. Atner. The following officers elected: J.
W. Hollingsworth, Senior; J. Latnkin. ,1. P.: L.
W. Beasley, N. P ; Isaac Anderson. Chaplain;.(.
\V. Phenilx, Secretary; S. Rankin, Treasurer;
Mac. Williams, M. Anderson. Conductor.
FREE!
A sample bottle of Syrup Tar, Tolu and Wild
Cherry given away. Sure cure for Coughs and
Colds. CENTRAL PHARMACY,
South Broad and Jefferson streets.
Read what Rev. Richard Webb has to say
about it:
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 2d, 1887 .—The Central
Pharmacy, Savannah. (.— Gkntlkmkn: Hav
ing used your Syrup Tar. Tolu and Wild Cherry,
1 cheerfully recommend to those suffering from
any throat trouble. \ T ours truly,
| Rkv, Richard Webb.
MARRIAGES.
MANNING—MATHUSS.-Married, Nov. 23.
1887, at the residence of the bride's mother, by
the Rev. A. M. Wynn, Mr. John W. Manning
and Miss Laura B. Mathcss. both of this city,
DEATHS.
BROWN.—Died, in this city, Nov. 7, 1887, Mas.
Georoiana Brown, aged 67 years.
She lived and died a consistent member of the
Methodist Church, and awaits the resurrection
of the just in the last day.
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes. J. J. G.
r 1 M: KALI NV i TVTIONB.
KISKAMP.—The relatives, friends and ac
quaint ance of Mr, Martin L. Eiskamp, and of
Mr. and Mrs. John Eiskamp, are invited to at
tend the funeral of the former from the resi
dence of the latter, corner of Wald burg and
Burroughs streets, THIS (Sunday) AFTER
NOON at 3 o'clock.
MEETINGS.
GERMAN VOLUNTEERS.
You are hereby summoned to appear at your
armory at 2:30 o’clock THIS DAY, 4th inst., in
full uniform, to pay last tribute of respect to
our deceased brother member, M. L. Eiskamp.
By order of JOHN DERST, Capt. Com'g.
Attest: M. Helmkkn, O. S.
TRAVELERS’ PROTECTIVE ASSOCIA
TION.
An important meete a ~Wl|nTli
ingof Savanah PostD,
mory on SATURDAY
H. M. BOLEY, Secretary.
FRIENDSHIP”LODGE VO. 51, IMP. O. fT
S. OF I.
Brothers:
You are hereby notified In attend a regular
meeting of the Lodge THIS (Sunday) DECEM
BER 4th. at 3 o’clock p. m. Nominations of of
ficers. Fraternally.
THOMAS J. BHEFTALL,
Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisements inserted under “Special
Notices ’’ will be charged 81 00 a Square each
insertion.
EPISCOPAL ORPHANS’ HOME
BAZAR OF ALL NATIONS, WILL OPEN AT
CATHOLIC LIBRARY HALL,
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6t^
Those who have contributed merchandise and
not sent to the comer of Bull and Harris streets
before TUESDAY will please send all contri
butions to the hall on Tuesday by 10 a. m.
T. S. MOSELEY,
Of Atlanta, a thoroughly competent Druggist
and Chemist, has succeeded Mr. W. B. O’Rear
as manager of the Prescription Department of
the Habersham Street Pharmacy.
GRAND OYSTER ROAST
AT BANNON’S, THUNDERBOLT.
TODAY'.
See special schedule of Coast Line Railroad.
GUARANTEED FACTS.
Before placing your orders for Printing and
Blank Books for 1888, remember that no one
does finer Printing or makes better Blank Books
than
TOWNSEND!
CLEAN RULING 1 SUBSTANTIAL BINDING!
TASTY FINISHING!
TOWNSEND, FINE PRINTER, RULER AND
BINDER,
86 and 88 Bryan street,
Savannah, Ga.
“TELEPHONE 34 I.’’
A RAFFLE,
FOR THE BENEFIT of Mrs. J. P. JERGUSON,
For a pair of Bracelets, to be given onTUES
DAY EVENING, Dec. 13th, at
METROPOLITAN HALL.
ANOTHER INVOICE
Of twelve dozen SOW FELT HATS just
opened at JAUDON’S,
160 St. Julian street.
NOTICE. ’
Savannah, Dec. 2, 1887.
The firm of FRIERSON & CO , composed of
N. FRIERSON and GEORGE W. HAUPT, is
THIS DAY dissolved by mutual consent. All
parties indebted to the firm will pay Mb. N.
FRIERSON, who assumes all liabilities and
who will settle up the business of the firm.
FRIERSON & CO.
NOTICE.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 2, 1887.
I will continue in the Lumber business under
the firm name and style of FRIERSON & COM
PANY. NORTON FRIERSON.
NOTICE.
Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the
British steamsliip ELSIE, whereof Thompson
is Master, will be responsible for any debts
contracted by the crew.
A. MINIS ARSONS, Consignees.
Election for directors.
Centra!. Railroad and Banking Cn. of Ga., >
Savannah, Ga., Dec. Ist, 1887. f
An election for Thirteen Directors to manage
the affairs of this Company for the ensuing
ye <r will tie held at the Banking House, in Sa
vannah. MONDAY, the SECOND day of JANU
ARY, 1888, between the bouts of 10 o’clock a,
x„ nml 2 o'clock r. M. Stockholders and their
families will be passed free over the Company's
road to attend the election from the 81st De
camber to 2nd January inclusive, and he passed
free returning from the 2nd to sth of January
inclusive, on presentation of their stock certifi
cates to the conductors.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
state and county TAXES 1887.
Office Collector State and County Taxes, 1
Chatham County, Georgia. v
Savannah, Oct. 19, 1887. j
The digest is now open for the collection of
the above Taxes on all property, real and per
sonal; the Specific Tax on Professions: also, the
POU. 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 Coart House. Hours from 9a.
m. to 2p. m. jas. j. McGowan,
Tax Collector C. C.
HANKS.
KISSIMMEE CITY BANK,
Kissimmee City, Orange County, Fla.
CAPITAL - - - 150,000
cpRANBACT a regular banklngbuxiness. Give
A particular attention to Florida collections.
Correspondence solicited. Issue Exchange on
New York. New Orleans, Savannah and Jack
sonville, Fla. Readout Agents for Coutts & Cos.
and Melville, Evans & 00., of London, England.
New York correspondent; The Seaboard
National Bank.
State
of
Weather.
IMPORTED GOODS
SCHREINER,
TIIE IMPORTER.
A., B, C Blocks.
Building Blocks, Birds, Bows and Arrows,
Baskets, Boats, Boys' Reins, Banjos, Battle
door and Shuttlecock, Backgammon Boards,
Buck aud Saw, Buckets, Battles, Bedsteads,
Bagatelles, Boys’ Desks.
Oups and Saucers. Croquets, Cats, Canes,
Christmas Candles, Candlesticks, Orna
ments, Chinese Lanterns, Cartridge Boxes,
Christmas Cards, chess. Chatterbox for 1887,
Checkers, Cribbage Boxes, Chime Hoops,
Cradles, Call Bells. Clowns. Chairs, Carts,
Cannons, China Dinner and Tea Sets.
801 l Houses. Doll Chairs, Doll Carriages, Dolls
of China, Bisque, Wax, Kid. Rubber, Inde
structible: Jointed Doli Heads,Wax, Bisque,
Indestructible; Dressed Dolls in Satin, Silk,
Velvet, Cashmere, Calico; Drawing Slates,
Dogs, Doll Parlors. Dominos, Donkeys, Dog
Whistles, Drums, Dice, Dice Cups.
(Farms. Flutes. Fifes, Foot Balls, Furniture,
Folding Tables.
CJ-uns, Garden Tools, Grocery Stores, Guitars,
Goat Wagons. Games.
Iron Banks and Safes, Inkstands, Ironing
Boards, Irons.
Jackstraws, Jumping Jacks, Jumping Ropes.
lialeideseopes, Knapsacks, Kitchens.
Locomotives, Lottos, Leaf Tables, Locusts.
(Magnetic Toys, Magnetic Lanterns, Music
Folios, Menageries, Monkeys, Musical Tops,
Marbles, Moustache Cups, Metallophons.
(Noah's Arks.
Bapeteries. Poker Chips, Pianos, Pistols, Pencil
Cases. Pails, Pewter Soldiers, Paint Boxes,
Parlor Croquets, Parchesi. Pop Guns, Paper
Weights, Paper—Gold, Silver.
Rocking Horses, Rockers, Rattles, Railroads,
Rubber Balls, Ring Toss.
Sheep, Scrapbooks. Stoves, Shell Boxes,
Stables, Soldiers Complete Outfits, Soldiers'
Caps, Helmets, Swords; Saratoga Trunks.
Tambourines, Trumpets, Tool Chests, Ten Pins,
Tricycles. Toy Trunks, Toy Books, Tables,
Toy Hatchets and Hammers.
Violins, Velocipedes, Vases, Villages.
“Workboxes, Whips. Writing Desks,Wash Sets,
Wagons, Watches, Wheelbarrows, Etc., Etc.
WHAT YOU DON’T SEE
PLEASE ASK FOR.
129 & 119 Congress Street
ANNUAL OPENING.
SILVA’S
Annual Holiday
OPENING,
Tuesday, Dec. 6th.
Everybody Invited.
J. A. SILVA £ SON,
140 Broughton St.
Opening
GROCERIES.
COOPER
HAS
NEW AGNOUA HAMS,
THF FINEST NEW PECANS,
THE FINEST NEW WALNUTS,
THE FINEST DEHESA RAISINS,
THE FINEST NEW CURRANTS.
ATMORE’S MINCE MEAT,
SWEET CIDER on Draught,
COOKING WINES AND BRANDIES,
FINE TABLE WINES, AND WHISKIES,
THE FINEST ASSORTMENTS,
THE LOWEST PRICES,
AT
William G. Cooper’s,
28 Whitaker St.
11l YOU BBT
Currants,
Citron,
Raisins,
Spices,
DON’T FORGET 'BO CALL AT
STRAUSS BROS.’,
22 AND BARNARD STREET.
W E arf- selUn £ MIXED NUTS at 15c. per
’ ’ pounds; OKRA and TOMATOES, two
pounds, at 10c. per can: FINE OLIVES at SI
per gallon; BOSTON BAKED BEA XS, two cans
for’JfK'.: SUGARCORN. EXTRA SIFTED PEAS
FRENCH PEAS, MUSHROOMS, etc., at lowest
prices.
We have nice JELLIES and PRESERVES,
also MINCE MEAT by the bucket or pound.
STRAUSS BROS.,
— AND 22i<j BARNARD STREET.
CORSETS.
AMUSEMENTS.
G-Et-A. JNT D
MASQUERADE BALL
OF THE
SAVANNAH TURN VEREIN
On THURSDAY, December Bth, 1887. at TUR
NER HALL, corner Broughton and Jefferson
streets.
TICKETS, SI 00.
Committee: Emil J. Rail. M. L. Byck, H.
Scheerer, G. Bartels, F. Mundorf, V. S. Studer,
S. Schwinn, Geo. M. Helwken, J. Dieter, W'm.
Gibbons, Conrad Schwarz.
UNIFORM DIVISION IUI.L,
(DuGuesclin No. 1, Teutonia No. j3.)
THURSDAY, DEC. 15,
AT
GUARDS’ ARMORY
Tinlrnt ( Admitting Gentlemen If nfl
IIGKcn and Ladies. f $ | {JU.
Committee— Col. R. F. Harmon, Chairman.
DuGueseliu Division: Sir Kt. Capt. W. A.
Walker. Sir Kt. Herald Jas. Naylor, Jr., Sir Kts.
C. E. Broughton, Werrn, Hunt, Strauss, McHar
rie. Teutonia Division: Sir Kt. Capt. John
Juchter, Sir Kt. Herald A. Kessell, Sir Kts. Rail,
Dierks, Dreesou, H. Meyer and Birden.
SAVANNAH - THEATRE.
TO-MORROW NIGHT,
THE
Acme L. Company,
Under the management of
E. 11. LEONARD,
Will produce their late success,
MESSMATES,
A Sensational Three-Act Drama, with new
Scenery. Gorgeous Costumes, etc., to
be followed by the
LIME KILIST CLUB,
Of Savannah, in a Political Debate, and
UNCLE NED’S CABIN.
Tickets 50c. and 75c. Reserved Seats for sale
by Davis Bros. Box sheet opens to-morrow
morning 8:30 a. m.
FRUITANDGROCERIES.
Sew currants,
New Citron,
New Nuts„
Choice Mixed Pickles and
Chow Chow by the quart.
Rock Candy, Drip Syrup,
and a first-class stock of Staple
and Fancy Groceries, at
T ZEE IE
Mutual Co-Operative Association,
BARNARD AND BROUGHTON ST. LANE.
KO-KO-NUTS!
FRESH ARRIVAL OF SELECTED
Baracoa Cocoanuts,
Lemons, Apples,
Potatoes, Cabbage,
Onions, Turnips, Grapes; Pears,
Florida Oranges.
HAY, GRAIN AND FEED. BLACK EYE PEAS,
SEED OATS.
Special prices on large lota of Grain and Hay
-160 BAY STREET,
W. D. SIMKINS & CO.
INSURANCE'
The Savannah Fire anil Marine
Insurance Company.
PAID IP CAPITAL" - $200,000.
HOME OFFICE, N#, 97 BAY' STREET,
SA.VATSnsrA.iI, - 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. Duckworth, I. G. Haas.
Samuel Meinhard, L. Kayton.
J. 11. Estill, David Wells.
C. R. Woods. W. H. Daniel.
Willliam Garrard.
REWARD?
SSOO Reward
The National Board of Fire Underwriter*
hereby offers a reward of FIVE HUNDR P
DOLLARS for the detection, conviction, anti
punishment of the party or parties who may.™
trial, be found by the Court guilty of the crime
of incendiarism or arson, in Bring the premise*
situate on the south side of Bolton street. 6a
vannah, Georgia, being the uncompleted fraine
dwelling of J. A. G. Carson, on October 30tb.
1887. This offer expires bv limitation in one
year from date, and all liability under it shall
then cease, unless otherwise ordered by the
Committee. The said reward will be paid only
on due proof l>eiug furnished the Executive
Committee, as required by its rules, of the con
viction of the criminal or criminals of the crime
of incendiarism or arson, and of their incarcera
tion under the final sentence of th Court “7
order of the Executive Committee.
H. K. MILLER, Sec.
New York. Nov. 11, 1887. .
HARDWARE.
EDWARD LOVELL & SONS,
DEALERS IS
Parker and Colt’s
Breech Loading Grins.
Brass and Paper Shells*
Hunting Coats, etc.
Chamberlin Loaded
Shells.
CHOCOLATES.
CHOCOLATES and COCOAS
TEST RECEIVED, a line of the Royal P*£
ft CHOCOLATES and COCOAS from Ben U
dorf, of Amsterdam, Holland. These ( hot' _ ■
and ('oooas are conceded to bo the be.it u ■ ■
world. ■
L. C. STRONG. DRUGGIS^I