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2 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