The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, December 08, 1887, Page 2, Image 2

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2 A YEAR IN THE TREASURY EXTRACTS FROM THE SECRETA RY’S ANNUAL REPORT. A Surplus on June 30, Last, of SBO,- 023,570—An Estimate that It will be Increased to $113,000,000 on the Same Date Next Year—Other Inter esting: Statistics. Washington, Deo. 7.—The following are extracts from the report of the Secretary of the Treasury sent to Congress to day: The ordinary revenues of the government from all sources for the fiscal year ended June .'lO, 1887, were: From customs $817,386,893 13 From internal revenue 118,823.391 22 From sales of public lands 9,351,280 13 From profits on coinage, bullion deposits, and assays. 8,929,252 83 From tax on national banks 2,355,831 18 From fees consular, letters patent, and land 3,301,647 16 From customs fees, fines, penal- ties,etc 1,053,037 86 From sales of Indian lands 1,479,038 81 From Soldiers" Home, iiermanent fund 1,226,259 47 From sinking-fund for Pacific railways 1,364,435 87 From repayment of interest by Pacific railways . 914,793 13 From sales of old public buildings 624,882 20 From sales of government prop erty 262,832 32 From immigrant-fund 258,402 50 From tax on sealskins 317,452 75 Fsom deposits by individuals for surveying public lands 94,289 76 From revenues of the District of Columbia 2,367,869 01 From miscellaneous sources 1,458,672 66 Total ordinary receipts $371,403,277 04 The ordinary expenditures for the same period were: For civil expenses $ 22,072,436 27 For foreign intercourse 7,104,490 47 For Indian service 194.522 69 For pensions 75,ft19,101 79 l or the military establishment, including rivers and harbors and arsenals 38,561,025 85 For the naval establishment, in cluding vessels, machinery and improvements at navy-yards . 15,141,126 80 For miscellaneous expenditures, including public buildings, light houses and collecting the reve nue, .. 62,002,647 46 For expenditures on account rf the District of Columbia 4.085.2 M 39 For interest on the public debt 41,741.577 26 For the siu king fund 47,903,248 15 • Total ordinary expenditures ... $315,835,428 12 Tcaving a surplus of $ 55,567,849 54 Which, with an amount drawn from the cast: lialance in the Treasury of 24,455,720 46 Making $ 80,023,570 00 ESTIMATES KOR 1888. For the fiscal year ending Juno 80, 1888, the revenues and expenditures are estimated as follows: Total receipts, actual and esti mated $383,000,000 00 Total expenditures, including sink ing fund 316,817,785 48 Estimated surplus $ 66,182,214 52 By surplus revenue is meant the money which annually remains in the Treasury of the United States after the ofßcors of this Department have collected the taxes laid on the people by the laws of Congress and have paid all the exjtenses and obligations of the fovermnent, except principal of the interest earing debt. Each year for twenty-two years there has been such a surplus—the least, $2,1144,882 30, in 1874; the greatest, $145,543,810 71, in 1882. The total of this surplus for the twenty-two years ended June 30,1887, was $1,491,845,953 12. It was $103,471,097 (59 during the last fiscal year, which was only about a million of dollars less than the greatest annual surplus (that of 1884) since the reduction of taxation in 1883, although the ordinary expenditures, exclusive of in terest on the public debt, were $30,642,- 73(5 87 greater in 1887 than in 1884. During the present fiscal year ending June 30, 1888, the surplus taxation will amount to $113,- 090,000. FOREIGN COMMERCE. The value of our imports from and ex ports to foreign countries during the year ended June 30. 1887, as compared with the preceding fiscal year, has been as follows: Exports— 1880. 1887. Domestic $665,964,529 $703,1(22,923 Foreign 13,560,301 13,160,288 "“Total 679,524,850 716,183,211 Imports 035,436,136 692,319,768 Excess of exports . 44,088,694 23.863,443 HOW OCR COMMERCE IS CARRIED. Our foreign commerce, carried in vessels of the United States, measured by its value, lias steadily declined from 75 per cent, in 185(5 to less than 14 per cent, in 1887. Even of this small percentage less than one-half was carried iu steam vessels ttearing our flag. A citizen of the United States may buy a foreign-built vessel in a foreign port; he may put the United States flag upon it and trade with all the countries of the world except his own. Our government will pro tect him with nil its power in such trade; but if he brings his ship with our flag upon it to one of our ports our government will con fiscate it or impose prohibitory duties. He may, however, put the flag of any other mntry on that same ship, and bring it to his home without molestation by our gov ernment; it is then protected by the power of a foreign country. It is difficult to un derstand why it would not be well to so change our navigation laws as to allow for eign built ships owned by our citizens to come and go between this and other coun tries while bearing the flag of the country of their owners. CURRENCY CIRCULATION. Tbe circulation of coin and paper in de nominations of twenty dollars and less, from July 1, 1886, to Nov. 1, 1887, shows a net increase of about 8109,000,000: thus, nearly the whole of the increased circula tion was in the form of small money. The increase in the total circulation was caused by ordinary payments, made in pursuance of law, by the purchase of bonds, and by increasing deposits in national bank depos itories. The increase in the circulation of small money was because the government met the people’s request for it so far as it could. After deducting the gold and silver coin, held for the gold and silver certificates in circulation, it is found that the government owned $30,827,898 less gold coin, and 39,- 075.766 less standard silver dollars on Nov. 1, 1887, than it did on July 1, 1886; during the intervening period 43,386,871 standard silver dollars were coined. STANDARD SILVER DOLLARS. One of the mast interesting facts shown by the foregoing statements is the decrease in the number of standard silver dollars owned by the government and the increased use of the same money by the people in the form of silver certificates. The five, two and one dollar certificates furnish a con venient currency, and it is evident that the future use of the silver dollar will be almost exclusively in that form. It is waste to coin and store any more sil ver dollars at present. There is no function which those that are coined after this time will probably ever perform, except to lie in government vaults and lie a liaxi.s upon which silver certificates can lie issued, it is seldom that any one wishes to have his silver certificate exchanged for the silver dollar itself, consequently a limited number of coined dollars will perforin the work of redeeming certificates. The $214,000,000 which are now in the Treasury will more than suffice to redeem, as they may be pre sented from time to time, the silver certifi cates that have already I wen issued or that can tie issued against all the dollars which will be coined for years to come under the present law. NATIONAL BANKS. Huring the year ending 0.4. 81, 1887, there have bten 225 new banks organized— capital, $30,546,090; circulation $4,090,375. Thirty-three banks have been closed dur ing the saute period, of which twenty-five have gone into voluntary liquidation and eight have failed. Those thirty three banks had an aggregate capital of $4,087,450, and their outstanding circulation amounts to $1,122,836. The total number of national banks or ganized to date has been 3,805, of which 3,- 219 have been formed under the acts of Con gress and 586 have been converted from State institu ions. Of ttie first class, 556 have gone into voluntary liquidation and 100 have failed, leaving in existence 2,563. Of the second class, sixty-nine have gone into voluntary liquidation anti nineteen have failed, leaving iu operation 498. Total in operation 3,061, being the largest number yet reached. The following named items show net increase during the year, viz: Capital stock, $30,572,325: surplus, $10,(5(54,250 10; deposits, $76,508,818 31. The decrease during the year in United States Ixmds held for all purposes is $82,505,900. REVENUE MARINE. There has been an increased performance of work by the revenue cutters. The officers of this service have discharged their duties with energy and fidelity, and the vesse's in their charge have been safely and skillfully navigated on harbor and coasting duty and on extensive cruises. Thirty-eight vessels have been in commis sion during the year, and anew steamer has just been placed for boarding duty on the Mississippi river. The total number of persons employed in this service is 1,046. LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. The past year has lieen in many respects a notable one iu the history of the life-saving service. The number of disasters to docu mented vessels was 332. The number of persons on board was 6,327, of whom 6,272 were saved and 55 lost, The value of the property involved is estimated at $7,075,700, of which $5,788,820 was saved and $1,286,- 888 lost. The number of vessels totally lost was 72. Besides the foregoing there were 135 disasters to smaller craft, (sail boats, row boats, etc.,) on which were 274 jiersons, 271 of whom were saved and 3 lost. The value of property involved in the latter dis asters was $96,830, of which $92,915 was saved and $3,915 lost. MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE. The relief furnished by the service during the past year is greater than at any other in the history of the service; 45,314 patients were treated, and 331,701 days' relief in hospital have been furnished, and the char acter of the accommodations is ste dily im proving as new hospitals are opened and old one's modernized. FLORIDA’S METROPOLIS. A Long-Standing Suit Against a Rail road Finally Decided. Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 7.—The deci sion in the case of Bella Johnson, adminis tratrix, vs. the Florida Railroad Company was given this noon in the United States Court. The case is a celebrated one, having been in litigation since 1865. being for bonds issued to rebuild the road that Mr. Johnson bought at that time, The court’s decision is very lengthy and against the plaintiff, the substancj in brief being that the com plainant, whose claim had little value in 1886 by reason of the financial wreck of the railroad company and the physical wreck of the property, after their long silence and lack of diligence, should not be heard to assert their claim in 1873, and later, after had been rebuilt and restored by new capital and energy. THE NEWS-HERALD LIBEL SUIT. The motion of the defendant to quash the service in the libel case of E. H. Lewis against the Florida News Printing and Publishing Company owing to its being defective was argued at length by Col. Cockrell for and Col. Bisbee against. It was denied. The plaintiff’s demurrer to the pleas iu the same suit was over-ruied. M. J. DeMedicis, reported in yesterday’s morning’s News as arrested at Atlanta is the one who was acquitted of the charge of criminally assaulting a child here in November. He was on his first trial con victed, and would probably have been sentenced to death had he not been granted anew trial. His companion, who was often seen with him here, was also about four years ago tried for burglarizing a hardware store here and escaped through a techni cality, and was allowed to go on her own recognizance. Edward Davis, a St. Augustine negro, who stole S2OO and a gold watch from a friend there, was arrested to-day at Thomas ville, Ga., owing to the promptness of Sheriff Holland, of this city, in sending out the alarm. Officers will go for him to-mor row. a lawyer’s opinion. E. M. L’Engle,a well known lawyer here, to-day at the request of President Call, of the City Council, wrote out an opinion re garding the election matter, in which he took the ground that the Council must not only order the election, but must also ap point the inspectors. A meeting is called for to-morrow for this purpose. Mr. L’Engle was chairman of the committee that had the charter in charge, and he drew up most of its provisions. The Democratic city and county committees will meet to morrow morning to decide about putting a strict party ticket in the field. The schooner E. V. Clover, from New York to St. Augustine, thirty days out, and over which much anxiety had been felt, appeared off St. Augustine bar this afternoon. The Board of Trade held its annual meet ing this afternoon, mid a vast amount of business was transuded. Among the most important matters was the report of the Sanitation Committee, advising that the Governor be petitioned for an extra session of the Legislature to frame a State Board of Health. It was also resovod that all the County Commissioners. Boards of Trade, and kindred bodios in the State be urged to co-operate with the board. D. G. Am bler was appointed a committee to go to Washington at once to urge upon the Harbor and River Committee the necessity of appropriating $330,000 for the St. John's river and bar. An Atlanta party made a proposition with re gard to starting a cotton compress here which was referred to a committee. As President Daniels declined a re-nomination for President for the coming year, the sub ject was dropped till the next meeting. All the committees were appointed and other business transacted. Forty-five carloads of oranges were brought in on one of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West trains this afternoon. HYDROPHOBIA FROM A HOG. Shocking End of Raynor Foster of Arkansas. From the Memphis Avalanche. Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 4.—Raynor Foster, of Rector, this State, some two weeks ago was severely bitten in his right leg by a hog. The wound healed slowly until Friday' last when it broke out anew and at the same time Foster began to show signs of hydrophobia and was tied hand and foot, then bound firmly to the bedstead on which he was placed. Shortly afterward he was attacked with violent spasms and his struggles were pitiful. He frothed at ttie mouth and several times came very near choking to death. The physician at once began to give him morplna by hypodermic iinjections. The leading physicians of the place were present at the bedside of the unfortunate man. After a thorough trial of morphia it was advised by all that a dose of morphine tie administered hypodermically. This was done, and after thirty or forty minutes Foster began hi show its effects by becom ing quieter. Although he did not sleep, yet his spasms were less frequent and not so hard, and at 7 o'clock last night ho died. An 1 quine f restldigitator. From the Elberton ((/.) Leader. ' The novel sight was presented on Monday ■ of a blind hor e running away with a wagon. When he stopped the horse was I hitched to two wagons instead of one. j All heirs are interesting, hut the most inter- I eating is the million heir.— Few Haven News. TIIE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1887. MR. SULLIVAN’S STORY. | A Reminiscence of New York’s Public Administrator, Who Has Just Died. From (he Philadelphia Press. New York, Dec. s. —The office of Public Administrator, in which Algernon S. Sulli van, who died yesterday, won fame, is a peculiar one. It is his business to hunt up heirs for dead men’s shoes. He is the execu tor of the estates of the unknown dead. Suppose you were to come to this city with SI,OOO or so in your pockets and were to drop dead here. No one here knew you, so your body is taken to the morgue. The pai>ers money and jewelry are handed over to the I Public Administrator, whose duty it then becomes to find out who you are and where you came from. Sometimes this is a diffi cult task, for plenty of people die here whose homes are in foreign lauds. If you have pajiers and letters on your person your identity is, of course, so much the easier to learn. The Public Administrator thereupon notifies your relatives and puts them in possession of all your belongings, charging n nominal fee for his services. i met him the other day in his elegantly furnished home on West Eleventh street. The conversation turned to the time when he was public administrator, and he men tioned incidentally that that position in tho city of New York is one surrounded with many difficulties. It took but little coaxing to get him to explain to me, as we sat at our ease in the luxurious chairs, he stated what follows: “One of the reasons why the Public Ad ministrator is apt to be restless of a night in t hmking over his position is that there are any number of combinations by clever rogues for the purpose of hoodwinking him and getting at the city’s money. When a man dies in this city who is unknown and whose relatives and heirs are also unknown, his effects go into the charge of tho Public Administrator. He advertises the fact of the man’s decease, with such description of him as he can give, and invites any heirs or relatives to come and prove their identity. There was one time in that office when f found myself in what I con sidered a very bad fix. One inorniug when I got down to the office in Beckman street I was informed that a man liadjiied in a sailors’ boarding house in one of the tough est parts of West street. The landlord lmd informed the police of the man’s death that morning and handed him S4O, which, he said, was the only property in the man’s possession at the time of his death. “The man had died a natural death and there was nothing about the case which ap peared at all suspicious. After going through the usual forms we sent the body to the undertaker for burial. We adver tised the circumstances, citing the relatives or heire to ap(iear and take possession of his effects, but there was no reply and the man was buried in a cemetery in New Jersey. It was several wee„s after the burial and I had almost forgotten the affair when I re ceived a letter from a village in Central Pennsylvania. It was from the family of the dead man. They proved the relationship by describing him minutely and by docu ments. They had not heard of his death until just previous to writing, not having been in the habit of reading the New York papers. They were very anxious in their inquiries as to the manner of his death nnd startled me not a little by stating that just previous to his departure for New York he had quietly sold his farm for $4,000. The money had disappeared with him and they wanted to know where it was. “1 tell you that was a pretty go. It was the Public Administrator’s business to secure that $4,000, and lie had only secured S4O. I employed detectives and had them dog this landlord, whom I suspected at once, night and day. They assumed the gait and man ner of sailors, and went into the lodging hpuse and stayed there. They were the best men Pinkerton could furnish. They tried to get into the landlord’s confidence, and, as they reported to me, succeeded. They squeezed him dry as a sponge and still got not the slightest information. They then looked up the persons who had been in the house at the time when the young farmer hart been living there. There were a dozen detectives employed at my expense to shadow a crowd of toughs who, if they had taken the money, undoubtedly had had time to put it in a secure place. Several weeks passed by, and the result was dis couraging. All the men who could in any way be implicated had been approached in the same manner as the landlord, had all responded in an open and frank manner, had conversed on the subject freely, and had not told a thing which bore upon the subject of the lost money. “In one of the letters I received from the relatives was a statement to the effect that the $4,000 had been placed by’ tbe young man in a wallet, which he wore oh a belt around his body. I sat down one night to think it all over, and then I was struck with an inspiration. 1 went right out that night to see the undertaker, and when I saw him I felt sure I was saved. I was rather excited, but after having pumped him I made it clear to him that I could put him in a box if he did not tell me the truth. What I supposed was so. I found one of my most trusty clerks, and late at night he started from the Jersey City ferry with a commission from me. That commis sion he showed to a man in charge of the cemetery where the Pennsylvania farmer was buried. He got a permit from him, and with two laborers armed with picks and shovels he went to the stoneless grave and commenced ojierations. It was almost as exciting and interesting as a chapter from Gaboriau. As he described it after ward, the scene was weirdly and intensely thrilling. “It was the blackest of cloudy nights. It had rained, and the air was damp. A heavy twenty-mile gale groaned and shrieked over the trees. The expressionless faces of the diggers were made ghastly in the light of the solitary flickering lantern. When they reached the bottom of the grave the spade struck the coffin with a ringing sound that made my clerk, as he afterward confessed, shudder convulsively. They pulled up the box. It came up slowly, like a fiend from the lower regions. As though it was purely a business matter they pried off the lid with a pick, and my clerk came forward and finished up the job. One of the men held up the lantern. The sockets of the dead man’s eyes stared vacantly, the cheek bones had crept through the skin, and the lips had fallen at the corners into a ghastly and horrible smile. My clerk said lie never knew how he did it. His heart stood still and his eyes seemed to bulge in horror from his head. Somehow he managed to lift up the dead man’s blouse, and there, beneath it, was the belt and the wallet! In the wallet was the lost money. There were $4,000 in bank notes. Their burial in the close air of the coffin and next to the decaying corpse had changed them into an almost unrecogniza ble mess of sticky paper. It was all I could do the next morning to get the Treasury officials to take the money and redeem it in gold. “You see the inspired thought I had that night was this: ‘Suppose they never un dressed the man before his bunal and sup pose the wallet lav next to his body, then, of course, it is still there.’ I knew that the undertaker would be apt toTxi careless in a case where ho knew, as in thisinstar.ee, that there would lie nobody to oversee the job, and it would be nothing surprising if tho burial were a hasty one. I sent that rnouey that day to the relatives in Pennsylvania, with a note informing them of the cause of the delay, and of the way in which it was finally discovered. I don’t believe, how ever, to this day that they placed any .cre dence iu my account of the discovery of the money." Advice to Motnera. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should I always be used when children are cutting ! teeth. It relieves the little suffer at once; it I produces natural, quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain and tho little cherub awakes as “bright as a button.” It is very pleasant to taste. It soothes the I ehild, softens the gums, allays all pain, re i lieves wind, regulates the Ixiwels, and is the : liest known remedy for diarrhoea, whether I arising from teething or other causes. 25 1 cents a bottle. Tli# Savannah Weekly News. Sixteen Images. For Saturday, Dec. 10, 1887. NOW READY. CONTESTS. First Page —The Seven Ages of Woman: Ro mance of Richmond, Chapter xvi.; Charles Dickens, Jr.; Lucky John Chinaman, illustrated; One Cure for Headache. Second Page —Annual Report of the Post master General; A Fight With a Maniac; Graves of the Anarchists; Marauders Killed; Harper's Wheat Deals; A New Astor in the Field; Demo cratic lYospects for 1888; Napoleons of Finance; No Contest at Atlanta; Mrs. Davis Don't Want a Fund; A National Prohibition Convention to be Held; Florida Rail Rates; Minor Telegraphic News Items. Third Page— All Paris in a Tremble; Govern ment and Farm; May be Millions in It; A Fight on Turpie; Business of the Banks; Carlisle and Randall; Mills in a False Light; Harper's Long Head; Lithographers Burned Out; A Reign of Terror; Florida's Orange Crop; A Domestic Tragedy; Central Stock Pooled; A Bachelor’s Dinner. Fourth Pack— Grevy Goes Out at Lost, His Message of Resignation (find in the Chambers; Sullivan Convicted; Cutting's Case Renewed; Commerce on the Rail; First Annual Report of the Commission; Control of the Senate; Duties Must be Lower; Holiday Fashions, Autumnal Splendors in the City Streets. Fifth Page —The News in Georgia, Gath ered From Correspondents and Exchanges; Round About In Florida, The News of the State Told in Paragraphs; South Carolina Items of Interest. Sixth Page— France's President, Sadi Carnot Elected on the Second Ballot; South Carolina Legislature; Officers of the House, Democrats and Republicans Hold Their Caucuses; Cutting's Case; Some Park Row Scenes; Jacksonville Politics. Seventh Page— Agricultural Department; Growing Potatoes; The Russian Apple in Florida; Exterminating the Potato Bug; Care of Lamps; The Hog Killing Season; Indebted ness of Farmers; Mites in the Poultry House; Household; F’arm and Stock Notes; Popular Science; Condensed Rain; Queer Burial Cus toms in Europe; Boston Girls. Eighth Page— Defending the Domain; Re stricting Immigration; Taxes on Fruit Brandies; Sadi Carnot’s Policy; Welaka Waifs; Alabama’s Land Boom; War on the Bucket Shops; Scared Into Old Age; Two Ancient Statesmen. Ninth Page— lt Has Made a Big Hit, All But the Randallites Like the Message; Endicott's Department; A Government Prison; Presidential Nominations; Fall of a Water Tower; Good Omens for France; A Russo-German War; Short, But to the Point, Cleveland’s Message De voted Entirely to the Tariff. Tenth Page —Wedded to a Forger; Colored Men’s Interest; A Revenue Raid; Thomasville Topics; Columbus Chapters; Georgia's Capital City; Woolfolk’s Trial; Three Negroes Killed; A Moonshiner's Surrender; Suicide at Pensa cola; F'lorida's Metropolis; About Elephants; Tried to Wed a Masked Negress. Eleventh Page— Congress Opens Lively; Senate Committees; Figures Will Falsify; A Victory for Prohibition; Virginia in the Right! Imprisonment of Her Officers Illegal; Money for the South: Tom Woolf oik on Trial. Twelfth Page— Editorial: Opposition to Immigrants Growing; Is This Mr. Raft dall's Scheme? The Future of Florida; A Suggestion to a Fledgeling; Congress man Townsend’s Scheme; State Sover eignty Affirmed; Anxious for Admission. Con gressman Bill Martin; His First View of the City; Eating Himself While Insane; Minor Telegrams. Thirteenth Page— Local Department: The Funeral Put Off; Ducks by Thousands; The Road Commissioners; Congress' Full Hand; The New Jail Building; Looked Like a Leper; 8. Yates Levy Dead; Bibles for the People; Grind-' ing Out Justice; Cotton Laying Low; Robbery on the Wqft Side; A Convicts’ Knife Thrust; Pastors on the Move; In the Police Museum; The Central's New Offices. Fourteenth Page— A California Pioneer's Story; Poverty Must Exist Among Men; What Kept Lincoln Awake; Mrs. Cleveland in Peril; An Incident in Mr. Davis' Life; The Wane of the Amateur; A Modern Monte Cristo; Pursued by Pirates; Over $250,000 in Gems; Unfair to the Bride; She Met Dr. Holmes. Fifteenth Page —New York Dressmakers; Women's Doings; In Hiding in Auburn Prison; The Nation’s Books; A Statesman Wanted the Dog; Reminded by His Youngster. Sixteenth Page— Weekly Review of the Markets; The Central's Extensions; Georgia's Capital City; Augusta’s Scamp; Base Ball in the Soutn; The New President of France. Just the paper to send to your friends. Single copies 5 cents. For sale at Estill’a News Depot and at the of fice. 3 Whitaker street. FURNISHING GOODS. LOOK OIT FOR OCR OPENING WE WILL OPEN Of Christinas Notions NEXT WEEK, And display a nice assortment of articles, such as are needed by gentlemen. Dressing Cases, Cuff and Collar Boxes, Shaving Sets, Card Boxes, Games and Counters. Traveling Cases, Fine Pocketbooks. Plush and Leather Dressing and Traveling Companions. Elegant Embroidered Susiienders. Beautiful Silk Mufflers, It. S. Linen Handker chiefs with any Initial. Solid Silver and Gold Headed Canes, and Gloria Cloth and Silk Unitfrellas, all sizes. Gentlemen's Smoking Jackets and Dressing Gowns. Elegant Scarfs and Pins, Fur Rugs and Buggy Robes. DUNLAP'S AND OTHER FINE HATS ALWAYS ON HAND —at— LaFAR’S, tip rtTM,!., STREET. BRICK.. E. D. White. I. N. Stanley. J. E. Brick. Established 1854. Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Brick Works, EDWARD D WHITE & CO. Manufacturers of ciay Retorts, Fire Brick. Tile, etc., and dealers in Fire Clay, Fire Sand, Ground Fire Brick. Fire Mortar. Manufactory: Van Dyke, Elizabeth, Partition and Richard streets. Office: 88 Van Dyke street, Brooklyn, N. Y. FAINTS AM) OILS. JOHN G. BUTLER, WHITE LEADS, COLORS, 0i1.3, GLASS, VARNISH, ETC.; READY MIXED PAINTS; RAILROAD, STEAMER AND MILL SUPPLIES, SASHES. DOORS, BLINDS AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE. Sole Agent for GEORGIA LIME, CALCINED PLASTER. CE MENT, HAIR and LAND PLASTER 6 Whitaker Street, Savannah, Georgia. * FUNERAL INVITATIONS. BROOKS.—The friends and acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Brooks am invited to attend the funeral of their son, Walter Pa ham, from their residence, on Anderson street, THIS AFTKRNOON at 3 o’clock. CUSACK.—The friends and acquaintance of Mrs. Mary Cusack, and of her son, Thomas, are respectfully requested to attend the funeral of the former from her late residence, corner Price and Congress street lane, at 3 o'clock THIS (Thursday) AFTERNOON, ft. I. P MEETINGS. ZERI'BBABEL LODGE NO. 15, F. &A.M. A regular communication of this Bodge th will be held THIS (Thursday! ING at 8 o'clock. />r\ The M. M. Degree will lie conferred. Members of sister lodges and visiting breth ren are fraternally invited to meet with us. By order of A. O. HARMON, W. M. , Frank W Dasher, Secretary. SAVANNAH MI TI'AL LOAN ASHOI I .A TIO.\. The eighty-first regular monthly meeting of the Savannah Mutual Loan Association will be held THIS (Thursday ) EVENING at 8 o’clock. GEORGE N. NICHOLS, President. H. C. Cunningham, Secretary. jasper monimeviYYVEILING. A special and importnfit meeting of the Gen eral Committee of Arrangements will be held in the Court House on FRIDAY, Dec. ilthinst., at 8 o'clock p. m. The various committees will report their estimates of the amount of money required to be raised, and other interesting busi ness transacted. Please be punctual. WM. GARRARD, Chairman. John R. Dillon, Acting Secretary. MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS. Central Railroad and Banking Cos. or Ga., i Savannah, Ga., Dec. 7, 1887. f The annual meeting of Stockholders of this Company will take place at the Banking House, in Suvannah, on THURSDAY, Dec. 22, at 10 o'clock a. M. Stockholders and their families will be passed free over the Company’s road to the meeting from the liitli to the sBSd inclusive, and will be passed free returning from the 22d to the 21th inclusive, on presentation of their stock cert ificates to the conductors. • T. M, CUNNINGHAM, Cashier. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements inserted under “Special Notices ” will be charged $1 00 a Square each insertion. NOTICE TO W AT JR.TAKEBS. Office Water Works, 1 Savannah, Ga.. Dec. 8. 1887. f The water will be shut off at 9 o’clock TO-MORROW (Friday) MORNING in the district from Hull street on the north. Taylor street on the south, Whitaker street on the east and West Broad street on the west, for the purpose of put ting in connection at Liberty and Perry street lane, and will be off until afternoon. A. N. MILLER, Supt. A GRAND TL'HKKA -SHOOTING MATCH Will take place THURSDAY EVENING, Dec. 8, commencing at 2 o'clock, at my place, on the Augusta road, three miles from the city. D. OTGENS. FOR EARLY PLANTING. Cleaveland’s First and Best Peas (in sealed bags), Buist’s Premium Peas, Black-eye Marrow fat Peas, Philadelphia Extra Early Peas, and a full line of Peas and Small Seed of all kinds at KIEFFER'S Drug, Paint and Seed House, cor ner West Broad and Stewart streets. Special attention paid to country orders. DIVIDEND. Central Railroad and Banking Cos. of Ga., I Savannah, Ga., Dec. 7,1887. f A Dividend of Four Dollars per share from the earnings of this Company and its dependencies has been declared, payable on and after the 21st inst.. to Stockholders of record this day. The transfer books of the Company will be closed from TO-DAY until Jan. 3d, 1888, except on Dec. 21st and 22d, when they will be open. T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier. CHATHAM REAL ESTATE AND IM PROVEMENT COMPANY. Savannah, Ga-, Dec. 8,1887. The THIRTIETH INSTALLMENT is due THIS DAY. M. J. SOLOMONS, Secretary and Treasurer. NOTICE. The firm of HOHENSTEIN & MACCAW, composed of Henry Hohenstein and Julius M. Maccaw, is THIS DAY dissolved. The under signed will continue the business at same place, 104 Bay street. HENRY HOHENSTEIN. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 1, 1887. A LONG-FELT WANT SUPPLIED. No more button holes by hand. Three a min ute! Button-hole Attachment for Singer Ma chines, New Home, White, Wheeler & Wilson, Domestic, and all high-arm Machines. The Sewing Machine is now complete. Ladies, and the public generally, are invited to call at the Singer Manufacturing Company office, 181 Broughton street. G. O. FENTON, Manager. notice. Neither the Master nor the Agents of the British steamship DORSET will be responsible for any debts contracted by the crew. WILDER & CO., Agents. NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the Swedish bark OLOF GLAS, Anderson, Master, will be responsible for any debts contracted by the crew. STRAC'HAN & CO., Agents. EJECTION FOR DIRECTORS. Central Railroad and Banking Cos. of Ga., ) Savannah, Ga.. Dec. Ist, ,887. f An election for Thirteen Directors to manage the affairs of this Company for the ensuing year will be held at the Banking House, in Sa vannah, MONDAY, the SECOND day of JANU ARY, 1888, between the hours of 10 o’clock a, m., and 2 o'clock p. m. Stockholders and their families will be passed free over the Company's road to attend the election from tlio 31st De cember to 2nd January inclusive, and be 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. DIVIDEND NO. 50. Augusta anti Savannah Railroad, I Savannah, Ga., Dec. r>, 1887. ( On and after THIS DATE a dividend of three dollars and a half per share will be paid to the Stockholders of trie Augusta and Savannah Railroad, at the Bunking House of Charles H. Olmstead & Cos., between the hours of 10 a. m. aud 1 I*. M. W. S. LAWTON, President. NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the British steamship TIMOR, whereof Hodgson is Master, will be responsible for any debts contracted by the crew. A. MINIS & SONS, Consignees. WANTED. A good Job Printer can get a permanent situ ation by applying to THE SENTINEL, , Jesnp, Ga. ILMGII'S LIVER CORRECTOR. This vegetable preparation is Invaluable for the restoration of tone and strength to the sys tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other ills, catised by a disordered liver, It cannot be excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. 8100 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. IJLMER, M. D., Pharmacist. Savannah. Ga. SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE TO CITIZENS. City of Savannah, 1 Office Clerk of Council, Dec. 5, 1887. ( The attention of the Mayor has been called to the unsightly condition of some of the streets, squares and lanes where loose, paper and rubbish are swept or put into the same. Clean paper and rubbish should not be put loose into the streets or lanes in boxes or other wise. Only garbage and ordinary sweepings should be so placed, as paper is frequently blown away before the scavenger can take charge of it. Such rubbish should be kept in side in boxes or bags, and the scavenger noti fied when to call for it. The following ordinance is published for in formation, and the police force is instructed to enforce it strictly. By order of the MAYOR. Frank E. Rfbarer, Clerk of Council. ORDINANCE. An ordinance to amend article LX. of the Sa vannah City Code, adopted Feb. 16, 1870, so as to require all occupants of houses, merchants, shopkeepers, grocers and tradesmen occupying premises to which no ya ds are attached to keep within their premises a box or barrel of sufficient size, in which shall be deposited all offal, filth, rubbish, dirt and other matter gen erated in said premises, or to put such box or barrel in the streets or lanes under conditions prescribed herein. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the au thority of the same. That section 2 of said arti cle be amended so as to read as follows: The owners, tenants or occupiers of houses liaviug yarils or enclosures, and all occupants of houses, all merchants, shopkeepers, grocers and trades men oceupyingpremises to which no yards are attached shall keep within their yards or premi ses a box or barrel of sufficient size, in which shall be deposited all the offal, tilth, rubbish, dirt and other matter generated in said building ami Inclosure, and the said filth of every de scription as aforesaid shall he placed in said box or barrel, from the first day of April to the first day of November, before the hour of 7 o’clock a. m., aud from the first day of Novem ber (inclusive) to the last day of Marcli (inclu sive) before the hour of 8 o'clock a. in,, and such matter so placed shall be daily removed (Sun days excepted) by the Superintendent, to such places two miles at least without the city as shall be designated by the Mayor or a majority of the Street and Lane Committee. And it shall be unlawful for any occupant of a house, merchant, shopkeeper, grocer or tradesman to sweep into or to deposit in any street or lane of this city any paper, trash, or rubbish of any kind whatsoever, but the same shall be kept in boxes or barrels as hereinbefore provided, for removal by the scavenger of the city Any person not having a yard may put the box or barrel containing the offal, rubbish, etc., in the street or lane for removal by the scavenger, provided the box or barrel so put in the street or lane shall be of such character and size as to securely keep the offal, rubbish, etc., from get ting into the street or lane. And any person other than the owner or scavenger interfering with or trembling the box or barrel so put in the street or lane shall be punished on convic tion thereof in the Police Court by fine not ex ceeding SIOO or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, either or both in the discretion of officer presiding in said court . Ordinance passed in Council June Ist, 1887. RUFUS E. LESTER, Mayor. Attest: Frank E. Rebarer, Clerk of Council. CLOTHING. We invite attention to our stock of CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS AND HATS. Perfect and complete in every detail, containing goods to suit all conditions and builds of Men, Boys and Children. and many handsome and ser viceable novelties, appropriate and useful gifts for the ap proaching Holidays, We will be pleased to show anyone through our stock. Respect fully, ‘ .1 FALK 4 IS. DRY GOODS, E,.. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS HOSIERY For This Week at CROHAN & DQONER'S, Successors to B. F. McKENNA & CO. 137 BROUGHTON ST. 275 dozen Ladies’ Unbleached Black and Col ored Balbriggau Hose, full regular made, at 15c, a pair 175 dozen lilies Unbleached and Colored Balbriggan Hose at 25c.: regular price 37J4c. 50 dozen Ladies’ Black Cotton Hose, full regular-made, diamond dyes, at 25c. a pair, • worth 40c. 36 dozen Ladies' Black Cotton Hose, double feet, at 35c. and 50c.; reduced from 50c. and 75e. 25 dozen Ladies' Black Spun Silk Hose, re duced from $1 25 to 98c. a pair. Misses’ Black and Colored Hose. W*’ have now in stock a complete assortment of MISSES' BLACK AND COLORED HOSE, both in plain and ribbed, in all grades and sizes, from 35c. tosl a pair. Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Underwear. LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S WHITE AND SCARLET UN DEI? VESTS at 75c., sl. $1 25, $1 50, $1 75 and $2. The above prices arc quoted at a reduction of 20 per cent. Cl 111 VII 1 I ) 350 dozen Misses’Black and \r r I I\ I V Cu'oral Hose, In plain and Lll 111/IHIj f ribbed, double knees and Mi UVUILI ) feet, at 25c. a pair. CROHAN & Doom HOLIDAY GOODS. Xmas Presents. Fine Florida Oranges. Apples, Cocoanuts, etc. Corn, Oats, Hay, Bran, etc., in car loads or less, at lowest prices. Potatoes, Onions, Cabbage,etc. Peanuts, Peas, Stock Feed, etc. —at— T. P. BOND & CO.’S, Xmas Goods. 'l'Hi. finest line of Plush Cases in the city, A consisting of Glove and Handkerchief Boxes, Dressing Cases. Manicure Sets, Slmving ets, etc. Also, a line of beautiful Vases. Visit, ing Card Cases, Writing Tablets. Perfume Baskets, Odor Cases, Cut Glass Bottles. Perfum ery, etc., at X,. C. Strong's Drugstore, corner Bull aud Perry street lane. AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATRE' TO-nTgHT! LAST APPEARANCE OF MARIE PRESCOTT AND R. D. McLEAN, SUPPORTED BY A GOOD COMPANY. THIS EVENING, Grand Double BUI, PYGMALION k GALATEA And Two Scenes from RICHARD IH. Seats on sale at Davis Bros.’ Next Attraction—Evangeline, Dec. 9 and 10. SAVANNAH THEATRE' Nothing Succeeds Like Success! Friday Night and Saturday Matinee & Night, DEC. 9 AND 10. RICE’S BEAUTIFUL EVANGELINE! With Its Great Cast! BEAUTIFUL COSTUMES and EFFECTS and a Musical Score of 40 numbers. Proprietor and Manager.. .Mr. W. W. Tillotson Seats on sale at Davis Bros.’ Dec. 8. Next Attraction—“THE BROOK,” a beautiful Musical Comedy. 1 tec. 10 aud 17. G-ZRA-JSTID MASQUERADE BALL OF THE SAVANNAH TURN VEREIN On THURSDAY, December Bth, 1887, at TUR NER HALL, corner Broughton aud Jefferson streets. TICKETS, SI 00. Committee: Emil J. Rail, M. 1.. Bvck, H. Rcheerer, G. Bartels, F. Mundorf, V. S. Studrr, S. Schwinn, Geo. M. Helmken, J. Dieter, Win. Gibbons, Conrad Schwarz. LECTURES. 1/ E C T TX JR, IE OF PRESIDENT HENRY E. SHEPHERD. rpilE public are invited to hear a lecture to he X delivered in the Library of the Georgia His torical Society, by Dr. Ifenry E. Shepherd, President of Charleston College, AT 8 P. M. THIS EVENING. HIS SUBJECT WILL BE! The Present State of Historical Study in Europe and America. 'ET ADMISSION FREE! SIIOF.s’ ' A. S. COHEN. SOLID HOES Have eld OUT WITH UR NTIRE Exhibition of SELECTED TYLES A. S. COHEN, 1.1!) 1-2 Broughton SI. HOUSE AND SION PAINTING. T. E BROUGHTON k 10., Rouse, Sign and Ornamental Painting, —DEALERS IN— Paints, Oils, Varnishes, BRUSHES, GLASS, JUto. Estimates furnished on application. Hardwood finish and polishing a specialty. Knights of Pythias’ Building, 44 1-2 Bar nard Street, Savannah, Ga. Country Order is Sol icited, HARDWARE. EDWARD LOVELL k SONS, DEALERS IN Parker and Coifs Breech. Loading trims. Brass and Paper Shells* Hunting Coats, etc. Cliamb e r 1 in Loaded Shells. _ JUGS," JUGS. 3,000 1 gallon Jugs. 3,000 2 gallon Jugs 1,500 3 gallon Jugs SUPERIOR QUALITY. CALL EARLY. A. EHRLICH & BRO. WHOLESALE GROCER:-. -167 BAY STRLr.I