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THE WEES IN NEW YORK SOCIETY.
The Way the Rich Spend Their Time
and Money.
New York, Dec. 10. —We have had a
very busy week socially, when we consider
how near to the greatest festival of the
year we are. One can see more of society
people a pleasant forenoon at our leading
jewelers, than at all the receptions of a
week. Mrs. Paran Stevens, in spite of her
strict at tendance in court, found time to
do considerable Christmas shopping. I saw
her carriage and that of the Cadets and
Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts, draw np in lino
liefore a leading store, all waiting for their
mistresses. The coachmen seemed to be
very friendly, and chatted away, no doubt
discussing their employers. These same
aristocratic Jehus hkve grade in society, and
lam given to understand, draw the line
mot the lines) at coachmen whose employers
do not own houses at Newport. They dis
cuss the past summer and the coming fes
tivities of the winter quite as much as their
mistresses, and one coachman shows sur
prise as he learns his companion’s mistress
tailed to received cards for the last exclu
sive entertainment.
On Friday Mrs. Charles H. T. Collis, wife
of Cfen Collis n|>ened her new home on Fifth
u venue to her many friends. She will re
ceive every Friday during the month of
December. The house is just about Eighty -
sixth street, and has a delightful view of
Central Park. The drawing room is very
beautiful, in white and gold, and has no
chandelier, the light being supplied by gas
brackets along the side in the form of
candles. The walls are of an old pink shade,
nod the prevailing tone is very light. A
heavy velvet carpet covers the floor. The
middle panor has inlaid wood floor with
rugs. Then comes the library, a magnifi
cent apartment, the walls of which are cov
ered with Gobelin tapestry, which represent
the siege of Troy. The furniture is also
covered with old tapestry. Beyond is the
dining with magnificent mahogany side
board built in die wall, the top of which
reaches the ceiling. It divides in the centre,
leaving sjiaee for a stained glass window.
Mrs. Collis is a rare entertainer, and an un
usually beautiful table wits laid in this
room. All kinks of • rare stuffed and dried
fruits, jiates and gastronomic novelties
were served, as many wines and liquors.
Mrs. Collis has a passion for line glitss and
china, ami lias one of the finest collections
in the city. Her display of cut-glass made
the room glisten as with diamonds. Her
collection of Serves and Dresden is so lieau
tiful it seems almost a sacrilege to use
them. The dining room is lighted by a
silver chandelier, very unique and magnifi
cent. The rooms upstairs are spacious and
luxurious. Mrs. Collis’ boudoir is fitted
with desk, easy cliair and couches. This is
where she passes most of her days. There
are three beautiful portraits of the hostess
in the house. Mrs. Collis is one of New
York's most remarkable women. IShe is
far from a butterfly ot' fashion, in spite of
tlie far t that she entertains so elaborately
and her costumes and jewels are so beauti
ful. Not only is she a fine linguist, but
possesses some rare accomplishments, such
as playing the zither. A fad of hers a few
years ago was to learn telegraphy; and
more than one poor lioy has been taught by
her. This is one of her forms of charity.
Her list of visitors embraces most of the
leading people in the city.
Mrs. John She, wood gave a tea on Fri
day and v ill receive also on Friday through
the month. These receptions are specially
to introduce her daughter in-law. Mrs.
Arthur Sherwood, oiu of the brides of
last June. Young Mrs. Sherwood is well
known to the artis'io world as Rosina Em
met. In the elder Mrs. Sherwood’s drawing
room hang several works from Mrs. Arthur
Sherwood’s brush, the most beautiful of
which is a cortrait of little Jane Emmet in
w hich the little girl is represented actually
“coming through the rve. Mi s. Sherwood
wore a brocaded purple velvet, with a pro
fusion of white lace upon the corsage. Mrs.
Arthur Sherwood wore a combination of
dark silk, with velvet waist. Among the
guests were Mrs. Hicks Lord, Mrs. Philip
Livingston, Mrs. Ball, Mrs. William A.
Hammond, Marquise Lanza, Sir Charles
Campbell and his daughter.
Mrs. Rastus Ransom, one of the most
beautiful voung women in New York, re
ceives at ber home on Fifty-eighth street
every Friday. While one of the youngest
ladies in society, she is one of the cleverest
conversationalists, and finds time to con
tinue tlie cultivation of her mind in spite of
the whirl of gay life. Mrs. Ransom is one
of the few women, who is alw r ays worth
listening to.
On Monday came Mrs. Lucian B. Chase’s
crush at her home, 4SI Fifth avenue. Mrs.
Chase has a host of friends, and the only
thing that prevented her reception being
very enjoyable wa„ the fact that over a
thousand people were asked to a house only
capable of hoi i ; < ; half the number. Mrs.
Chase opened the entire house to her friends.
In one room an orchestra played for danc
ing; in anothe Mrs. Chase stood to receive
her guests, and in still another a table was
spread with every delieaov. At one time
the stairs were so crowded that people could
not move either wa v Among t he guests
wore Mr. and Mrs. George Peabody, her
niece, the new beauty, Miss Belle Ward, and
her mother, Mrs. Ward, Mrs. John Foster
and daughter, Mrs. Florence Rice Knox,
Mrs. Frank Leslie, Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
M.’-s. Henry Burgoyne Wilson, Mi's. Eli
Baldwin, her daughter, Mrs. Mathez, Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Frame, Miss Burke, Miss
Horace McCauley, Mrs. and MissTownsehd,
Mrs. John Jay Cisco and others. It was
noticeable how many gentlemen were pres
ent. The line of carriages extended for
several blocks. Mrs. Chase wore a costume
of light brocade silk and pink velvet. Her
jewels were magnificent, particularly a very
tine pearl necklace.
Tuesday Mrs. Sherwood gave her first
reading at Mrs. Anson P. Stokes’. These
readings are especially for young girls and
young married women, and will embrace
the literature of England, France, Ger
many, Italy and Spain. They are quite
fashionable, and assume almost the shape of
receptions to Miss Stokes, whose debut was
unfortunately postponed by tiie death of a
reiative.
Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Burgoyne \V ilsou gave a theatre party at
the Star Theatre to see Irving and Terry
in the “Merchant of Venice." An elabo
rate supper at Delmonico's followed. The
party was given to celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of their wedding. On the came
evening, at the same place, Mrs. Whitney,
wife of Secretary Whitney, gave® theatre
party to Mrs. George Winslow and her
daughter, Miss Eleanor Winslow, who is
calk'd “tlie great Boston licauty." Miss
AVinslqw is fairly pretty, nothing more. No
one would look at her the second time had
she not been of the Princeof Wales set. She
is tall, with good eyes, pretty blonde hair,
goisi teeth, but a decidedly hook nose. Her
profile is very bad. She wore a scarlet bon
net. a color seldom used by blondes.
Mr and Mrs. Newbold Morris’ reception
at Delmonico’s, to introduce their daughter,
Miss Eva Van Courtland Moms, was a stu
pendous and gorgeous affair. The guests
numbered .'ill the old families and tho rest
of the fashionable world. The DePeysters,
Von us, Roosevelts, Astors, Wlnthrops,
Loriilards, Goelets, Iselins, Livingstons,
Rhinelanders and ail the others.
Evelyn Bakkr Harvikr.
A FINANCIAL GHOST.
A Sketch of that "Red-Headed Cuss
from Cleveland.”
New York, Dec. 10.—Alden B. .Stock
well, ex-President of the Pacific Moil Steam
ship Company, short, stocky, red-haired and
50. is a remarkably healthy looking person
to call a ghost, but that term describes him
in a financial sense. Like some other ghosts
of Wail street, he has u not uninteresting
history. Once he was worth millions. Now
he is a small sjieculator in stocks arid grain.
He came originally from Cleveland, O. lie
married the daughter of Elias Howe,
the sewing machine manufacturer,
and became connected with the
How;) Company, at Bridgeport,
Conn., and finally its President. He
came to Wall street in 1 SCO with a small for
tune and prepared quietly and systemat
ically to grapple with the financial tiger
whose stroke has broken the hacks of so
many. He is a man of rather more than
ordinary business ability, of sanguine tem
perament, and like so many hundreds be
fore him, he thought he might bear a
charmed life amid the battles of specula
tion and win a laurel chaplet in the
Olympian game of finance, even though
disaster is the portion of the many in tlie
fierce struggles of the monetary arena and
victory the meed of the few. For a time
his operations were conducted with cir
cumspection, secrecy and a certain measure
of success. He seemed likely to slake iiis
thirst for wealth in that financial Hel
icon wliieh bubbles, cool and clear, so far
up those mountain heights of business
genius ah to be hopelessly beyond the reach
of the average toiler in the valley below —
toilers without commercial aptitude, and
toilers with brains to whom no glittering
opportunity ever comes. An ancient phi
losopher, when asked what a man most
needed in order to win the heart of a
woman, answered, “an opportunity.” The
same is tine, to a large extent, of wealth.
Many an ignorant numbskull is rich lie
causo he had an opportunity to acquire
wealth, and many a man of ability is poor
because to him no such opportunity ever
came. Many a man has shown as much
business skill in making 81,000 as the par
ticularly favored financier or merchant has
in making 81,000,000.
Aldan B. Stockwell after a time cast his
keen eyes on the Faciflc Mail Steamship
Company as a possible source of colossal
wealth. ’ Tho stock had fallen very low,
everybody was decrying it, and naturally
he tbougiitthat there might he something
in it. Ho determined first to secure tlie
control not only of that company but of
tlie Panama railroad. He bent all his ener
gies toward his object, staked his fortune
on the throw of a dice, for he is a man who
can stand the hazard of the die, and ulti
mately he succeeded. He became Presi
dent of both corporations. Tho< scene
now shifts to Washington, that hotbed of
financial intrigue. Having formed an alli
ance with the Union Pa ific railroad for
transcontinental business, Mr. Stockwell se
cured from Congress a large sulisidy for the
Pacific Mail, ns well as the passage of a law
which allowed that company to speculate in
its own stock. He loaded up heavily, and
steadily increased his holdings, and the fu
ture seemed propitious with golden prom
ises. A cloud no bigger than a man’s hand,
low down in tho financial horizon,unnoticed
by the battling speculative world, was the
only portent of a coming business hurreane
which was to dismantle strongholds of
finance, sweep big fortunes into tho air, and
mark out a wide track of ruin and mone
tary desolation. As early as February, 1871!,
that black year in the financial calendar, it
became known that his enormous load
of Pacific Mail was a dead weight on Stock
well’s shoulders, a planet on the shoulders
of un Atlas not strong enough to bear it.
The winds of the slowly gathering storm
were already beginning to whistle through
Wall street, money was growing tighter and
tighter, collaterals once considered gilt
edged were scrutinized by bankers witli a
shake of the head, and Stockwell found it
impossible to work off his load, though thus
far he had met all his engagements. Ttie
storm kept steadily increasing and finally
Pacific Mail came down with a crash from
103 to 00, causing him a loss of $2,000,000.
He now borrowed money, pledging 100,000
shares of Pacific Mail to Jay Gould at 50,
and settled his heavy indebtedness by mort
gaging the Howe Sewing Machine Com
pany, with which he had retained liis con
nection for $1,100,000. Then he began to
pull the wires for the purpose of securing
his re-election as President of the Pacific
Mail, but tho election of May 19, 1873, dis
pelled these hopes, and he was succeeded by
the irrepressible Rufus Hatch. Subsequently
he secured further sinews of war, hut ho
had reached the climax of his fortune; the
panic of 1873 ruined him, and he has come
down from the mountain, step by step,until
now he is simply a small trader on the Con
solidated Exchange and an unimportant
operator in grain here or in Chicago.
He is a man of generous impulses, and
when he was wealthy he lived like a Prince
and his pui-se was open to all the treacher
ous fawners ot Wall street. Members of
the Stock Exchange “struck” him for hun
dreds of puts and calls, and with careless
geuerosity he granted them. Ho was
always read}' to assist a friend who had got
over his head in the speculative waters.
His so-called friends turned upon him in
the day of his trouble after the
manner of “friends” in that golden quarter,
even as ‘such miscreants set pitfalls for
James R. Keene, and stabbed him in
the hack when he stood on the verge of rum.
Years ago Mr. Stockwell remarked to a
friend: “At first people called me ‘Mr.
Stockwell.’ When I came to Wall street
they called me ‘Capt. Stockwell.’ When I
became president of the Pacific Mail they
called me ‘Com. Stockwell.’ When I lost
iny fortune they called me 'that red headed
cuss from Cleveland.’” And so it may al
ways tie. The wounded lion goes apart to
die alone unheeded by the herd, and the
wounded gladiator of the Wall street am
phitheatre has a flint-hearted audience to
witness his final struggles.
Oscar Willoughby Riggs.
FEDERATION OF LABOR.
John S win ton Speaks of Its Magical
Growth in the City.
New York, Dec. 10. —Ths rapid and
gigantic growth of the new power in the
labor world which has come to the front
this year under the title of the “American
Federation of Labor" will be made known
at its national convention, which is to
be opened in Baltimore Dec. 13, and which
■will be the most important for trades union
ism ever held in the United Btatos. There
will be delegates from organized trades and
unions, national, State and central, in the
leading branches of industry, and from all
parts of the country. Their business will
lie to strengthen the framework of this
formidable young federation, to*lay down its
policy regarding the larger issues in which
it is concerned, to settle its relations with
the Knights of Labor, and to lake action
upon various questions that are of practical
interest to its constituents, now numbering
very nearly 000,000 working people, uil
trades unionists. The federation is not, in
reality, anew organization, but is the revi
val of an old body which had fallen into de
cay, at the timo it was reorganized, under
new leadership, a year ago.
One cannot help being surprised by a visit
to the headquarters or this new body of
magical growth in Eighth street, of this
city, where preparations are being made for
the national convention to lie in session
next Monday. You meet there Samuel
Gompers, President of the federation and
one of its founders, in whom you quickly
become interested. You find him to be a
man of striking face, strong features, clear
mind, broad views, determined purpose,
rare knowledge of economic principles and
long experience as a labor organizer. You
may also chance to meet there the secretary
of the federation, P. J. McGuire, who is
likewise an officer of the Brotherhood of
Carpenters, a mm who for a dozen years has
stood in the foremost iile of thinkers and
organizers of the army of unionism. No
one can look at these two leaders of the
young federation without being impressed
by them. Both of them are of massive
head and stalwart frame: both bear the
stamp of energy and self-possession, and
both nnvo evidently been trained lor hard
ship and battle iu the camp of the horny
handed host which they serve. They are
well matched.
Y'ou find, as you look into the records at
headquarters, that these two men stand as
the chief of a b>xly, which, by long and
rapid strides, without noise or boasting, has
within a year got into the front rank of the
labor organizations of the world, ltsmem
■bership, as 1 have said, is 000,000 strong, all
trades unionists, and almost wholly skilhsl
workmen. Nearly sixty distinct trades are
incribed ujxm its rolls, and as you look
through the long list you find the toilers
in foundries, factories nud mines, in the
building trades, the clothing trades, the
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1887.
food producing trades, the transportation
industries and in tlie workshops of almost
every variety of handicraft, known to mod
ern civilisation. It is perfectly safe to say
that if the members of this American fed
eration were carried off in a body to some
uninhabited land and supplied with the
necessary food, they could in a few years
build a city as large as New York, and
furnish it with ali the comforts, conven
iences and appliances of life to be found in
New York
No man will deny that such an organiza
tion, Co-extensive with the country and city
activities, must, if directed by sound sense,
judgment and unity of purpose, exercise an
influence in the field of American industry
not to be overlooked by those who are watch
ing the development of federated trades
unionism, established upon u national scale.
It is a novelty, differing in its methods and
management from those of the Knights of
Labor.
One of the difficult but unavoid
able duties imposed upon the na
tional convention in Baltimore will
relate to the attitude of the new organiza
tion toward the order of the Knights of
I<abor. There is in the federation a heavy
force that is not averse to a proclamation
of war upon the order. They declare that
the latter has shown its hostility to the
trades union principles upon which tho fed
eration is founded, and that the Knights of
Labor Executive Board especially has for
years directed its energies toward the de
struction of some of the most useful trades
unions in the country. The federation, in
fact, is a revolt against the methods and the
managers of the order, and tiiere are men
in both who hold that one or the other must
tie driven to the wall. The leaders of the
federation tell how they tried again and
again last year to form a treaty of peace
and aeo operation with the leaders of the
order, and how all their advances were
spurned with contumely. There is no ques
tion that it will he hard to repress the bellig
erent feelings that have been engendered
between tiie inanagers'of the two great labor
organizations that now stand as rivals in the
United States, especially in view of tile fact
that the newer body has grown at tho ex
pense of the older and that the membership
which tho latter confesses to have lost has
gone over almost solidly to the latter and
made it what it is. But the shrewder men
on both sides have begun to see the damage
that would surely accrue to labor organiza
tions if war should break out between the
two camps. The adversary whom both
sides fear would quickly take ail vantage of
the circustances and that would re ult in
havoc in the ranks of both. It is likely,
therefore, that steps will he taken to quell
any belligerent spirit that may strive for
ascendency in the national convention at
Baltimore. The federation is now so much
stronger than it was when its offers of ne
gotiation were rejected last year, and the
Knights ef Labor have gone through such
severe experiences since then, that tlie pol
icy of “hurling defiance” will be likely to
g've way before than of the olive branch.
ut, for all that, it will be worth while to
take notice of the attitude of the young
giant at Baltimore. John Swinton.
DENIS KEARNEY IN NEW YORK.
He 4e Still Bothering Himself About
the Chinese Question.
New York, Dec. 10. —One of the charac
ters now to be seen in New York is Denis
Kearney, of San Francisco, who came here
a few weeks ago to raise the old cry with
which he once stirred up California, “The
Chinese must go!” He gets up anti-Chinese
letters and interviews with the daily papers.
He recently held an anti-Chinese meeting in
Cooper Union. He is besieging all quarters
witli his anti-Chinese appeals, tie carried a
bevy of reporters into the Chinese dens,
and it is advertised that he is about to have
a public debate on the subject with Wong
Ching Foo, the cleverest Chinaman in New
York. He has within a few weeks raised
more interest in the Chinese question than
has ever liefore existed here. The interest
in his crusade is increased by the steady
growth of the Chinese element, which now
numbers between 4,000 and 5,000 mefi in
New York and Brooklyn. The anti-Chinese
crusader declares that"this is the paradise to
which millions of Chinamen are looking,
and that we are in danger of a deluge of
them within the next few years. They are
ready to take up other pursuits besides that
of the laundry, as they have done in Cali
fornia.
There is certainly an extraordinary de
gree of vim in Kearney’s short, thick-set
frame, pugnacious face, lielligereut tongue
and rough ways. He will talk of nothing
but his anti-Chinese crusade and his deter
mination to drive all the “Chinese lepers”
out of the United States before he dies.
He says his object here is to stir the peo
ple up to demand from Congress the passage
of the Chinese exclusion hill that was intro
duced at the last session. Tlis existing re
striction law is insufficient. It does not, as
a matter of fact, debar the Chinese, who
resort to ail sorts of subterfuges in their
anxious attempts to reach this country. He
says that to secure the necessary legislation,
he must raise an anti-Chinese agitation in
the Eastern States, for it is the Eastern
people alone who have stood in the way of
the measures desired upon the Pacific coast
and other parts of the West.
There is a good reason to believe that
Kearney’s object will be gained, and that
the Mitchell bill will become law at the
coming session of Congress. In that event
there will be no more shiploads of China
men brought into the port of San Francisco.
But Denis Kearney’s anti-Chinese crusade
will not be ended even then. He is next to
begin his agitation in Canada. He says that
the Chinese are entering* the ports of the
British provinces of the Pacific, from
whence, by the Canadian Pacific railroad
and other lint's of transit, they are conveyed
to our borders, over which they cross at
their own convenience. Hence it is impera
tive that a Chinese exclusion act should be
passed through the Parliament of the New
Dominion at Ottawa. Kearney will devote
himsolf to the securing of this legislation in
Canada as soon as the Mitchell bill is en
acted by Congress.
Certainly this man Kearney has shown an
amazing pertinacity of purpose since first
he began ins anti-Chinese crusade in San
Francisco a dozen years ago.
John SwintOn.
Heavy on the Old Man.
From the Americas (Go.) Republican.
Tab Oliver says a rich old man has been
owing him $150,000 for the last six years;
that 110 is plenty able to pay it, but it is im
possible to wring a nickel out of him with a
hydraulic jackscrew. Last Thursday he met
a son of the old man, shook hands with him
and asked, “How is your father, John;”
‘•Quite sick and low down,” replied John.
“()b, he was all that before he got sick,” re
plied Tab, while a dubious look overspread
John’s face, and he went off wrestling with
the weighty problem.
A Triple Alliance.
Unhappily for the wretched victim of their as
saults, dyspepsia, constipation aad biliousness
an* faithful allies. When one. of these foes at
tacks the system, the other two siieedily follow
in its wake, and successively make their on
slaught. Successively, hut not successfully, If
Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters be used lo repel
the onset. The Bitters as easily extirpates these
monsters as St. George is depicted in the act of
doing to the dragon 111 tlie steel vignette upon
the glass bottles which contain the medicine.
Their flight, like their advance, is nearly simul
taneous. Their mutuality destroyed, they pre
cipitately retreat, leaving health master of the
ix'sition mid strongly entrenched hy the Bitters.
This grand fortifier is also a reliable bulwark
against the insidious assaulls of malarial disease,
and stops the approach of rheumatism. It.
moreover, relieves nervous complaints, and im
parts vigor to the weak.
A Texas idiot says he enjoys going to the
Senate and sitting there where no one can pick
him out in the crowd. This is hard on the
crowd. —Philadelphia Inquirer.
At the Harnett House, Savannah, Ga.,
you get nil the comforts of the high-priced
ho els, and save from slto $2 p?r day. Try
it and bo convinced. —Boston home Jour
nal.
Weather Indications.
’ Special indications for Georgia:
FAIR Much colder, fair weather, with a
I cold wave, light to fresh northerly
winds.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nah, line. 11 1887, and the mean of same day for
fifteen years.
j Departure | Total
Mean Temperature | from the 1 Departure
I Mean Since
for IS years Dec. 11, ’(T, -1-or jjan. 1,1887.
51.0 57.0 | -! -0.0 1 073.0
Comparative rainfall statement:
~ t, ■, i . . Departure j Total
Mean Daily] Amount fro *£ the Departure
Amount for! for , Mean | ftiuce
di leans. jDec. 11, 87. J or _ ; Jan . 1887 ,
jl I 00 "1 - .18 j —lB 88 _
Maximum temperature 66, minimum tern
peraturo 52.
The height of the river at Augusta at
1:33 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time)
was 12 1 feet—a rise of 3.9 during the past
twenty-four hours.
Observations taken at the seme moment
of time at all stations.
Savannah. Dec. 11, 5:36 p. m.. city time.
Temperature, i
j Direction. $
! z
! Velocity. ? 1
| Rainfall.
Name
of
Stations.
Portland .1 N4V j Cloudy.
Boston ! 52:8 E I Foggy.
Block Island SO E ... .06: Rattling.
New York city ... 54!.... | :Foggy.
Philadelphia 52 NW .. .06 Clear.
Detroit JKiNW .. .02 Cloudy.
Fort Buford 88jBWj Cloudy.
St. Vincent 4| 8 | Clear
Washington city.. 50 NWj Clear.
Norfolk 52 W!. .04 Cloudy.
Charlotte 52 SW Clear.
Hatteras I
Titusville
Wilmington 52 8 W 6 Clear.
Charleston 54 W Clear.
Augusta 54 W Clear.
Savannah 54: W 6 . .. Clear.
Jacksonville 58| N Clear.
Cedar Keys 60 NW 6 Clear.
Key West 70 N 12 .... Ciear.
Atlanta 50; W 8j ! Fair.
Pensacola. 66! S W .. I j Clear.
Mobile 56jNW .. ....Smoky.
Montgomery ... . 66! w . lOloudy.
Vicksburg 46 N .... Fair.
New Orleans SKI N |Clear.
Shreveport 44 N ..I Cloudy.
Fort Smith 12 N E Clear."
Galveston 50! NE24 . Cloudy.
Corpus Christi 48] N 24! .14 Raining.
Palestine 42 N 0 .... Fair.
Brownesvilie. 64] N 14] .06 Raining.
RioGrtinde 60’ N 18 ! T* Raining.
Knoxville 44 NW . .01 Cloudy.
Memphis 40 W Cloudy.
Nashville 40!NW.. T* Raining.
Indianapolis 32 NW .. Cloudy.
Cincinnati 40 W Cloudy.
Pittsburg 44 W .. .02 Cloudy.
Buffalo 40 SW. .08 Cloudy.
Cleveland 30 W .. .02 Raining.
Marquette 20 NW .. .01 Snowing.
Chicago
Duluth 6 NW Clear.
St. Paul 0 W .. T* Fair.
Davenport
Cairo 36 N Cloudy.
St. Louis 30 NW Cloudy.
Leavenworth... . 26]NW| Cloudy.
Omaha .‘ ..
Yankton | ..
Bismarck 16 S E!..! Clear.
Deadwood j
Cheyenne ..
North Platte !.
Dodge City |
Santa Fe |.. | ...
T* denotes trace of rainfall.
U. N. SAUsacar Signal Corps.
At Estill'3.
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phia Times. Baltimore Suu, Balti
more American. New York Herald,
World. Times, Tribune, Star, Sun, Press,
New Orleans Times-Deinocrat,. Atlanta
Constitution, Augusta Chronicle. Macon
Telegraph, Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
Cincinnati Enquirer, Florida Times-Union.
Florida News-Herald, Charleston News
and Courier.
SPORTING GOODS.
TO SPORTSMEN !
WE HAVE IN STOCK A LARGE ASSORT
’ MENT OF
American Breech Loading Guns.
English Breech Loading Guns.
Boys’ Double and Single Guns.
Chamberlain Loaded Shells.
Winchester Repeating Rifles.
Winchester Repeating Shut Guns.
Buntiug Coats and Shoes.
Hunters’ Leggius and Caps.
150,000 Paper Shells.
For Sale at Lowest Possible Prices.
Palmer Bros
OUPQNT’S PQWDEir 'WOOD POWDER.
GRAIN AND HAY .
CORN EYES,
A Car-Load just arrived. Send
in Your Order. Also,
BRAN, PEAS, HAY,
CORN AND OATS.
I. i. OAVISI co„
173 BAY ST 11 EFT.
FRUIT AND GROCERIES.
oranges!
Finn Florida < )ranges for Christmas pres
ents sbipiK*! to any part of the country.
Cocoanuts, Lemons, Apples, Turnips,
Onions, Potatoes, Cabbage, Mal
aga Grapes, Cow Peas.
300 bushels ('LAY PE \S. sun bushels RED RIP
PERU, 300 bushels WHIPPOORWILLS.
BLACK EYE uud BLACK.
33Ca/y Grxa±xi..
Usual close figures on large lots.
W. D. SIMKINS & CO.,
loo HAY,
BOXED TURKEY.
ROLLED OX TONGUE.
ASPARAGUS, in Glass aiul Tins.
MUSHROOMS, in Glass and Tins.
BONELESS SARDINES.
NORWEGIAN SARDINES, Smoked.
FRENCH PEAS, very small, ‘
And many other Imported and Domestic Deli
cacies.
A. flfl. & C. W. WEST.
FUNERAL INVITATION'S.
BEALS.—Died, Sunday morning, Dec. 11th,
1887. at 8:45 o’clock, Jenkik, youngest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Beals, aged 5 years, 6
months and 3 days. The relatives and friends
are respeefully invited to attend her funeral
services at Laurel Grove Cemetery THIS (Mon
day) MORNING, at 10 o’clock.
MEETINGS.
" DeKALU LODGE, NO. LO.O. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o'clock.
The Second Degree will be conferred.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of H. W. RALL, N. G.
Jyfix Riusy, Secretary.
CALANTHE LODGE AO. 28, K. OF P.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will
be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at
8 o’clock. kfSf-ia
First rank will be conferred and ffj&rayif
nomination of officers for next term.
J. GARDINER, C. C.
W. Fai/'oskr, K. of R. and S.
GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting of this Society
will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, in
Turner Hall, at 7:30 o'clock. IsL
W. SCHEIHING, President.
A. Hem.ier. Secretary. _____
GEORGIA TENT NO. 131, I. O. R.
Attend an Important session of your Tent
THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8 o’clock. Nomi
nation for officers for ensuing term, and full re
port of committees on the ‘ Basket Auction.”
C. O. GODFREY, C. R.
| fAttest: D. J. Richards. R. S.
MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS.
Central Railroad and Banking Cos. op Ga., 1
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 7, 1887. t
The annual meeting of Stockholders of this
Company will take place at the Banking House,
in Savannah, 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 19th to the 22d inclusive,
and will be passed free returning from the 22d
to the 34th inclusive, ou presentation of their
stock certificates to the conductors.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM. Cashier.
SPEC IA I, NOTICES.
Advertisements inserted under “Special
Notices" will be charged, $1 00 a Square each
insertion.
IN DEP EN D ENT P RKSBV TE RIAN
CHURCH.
There will be preaching in the Lecture Room
by Rev. Dr. Woods, of Columbia, S. C., at 8
o'clock TO-NIGHT (Monday). Seats free. All
are invited.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
Southwestern Railroad Company's Office. I
Macon, Ga., Dec. 10,1887. f
Dividend No. 68. of Three Dollars and Fifty
Cents per share, will be paid the Stockholders
of this company, on and after the 21st inst.
Stockholders receiving their dividends in
Macon will be paid at the Central Georgia Bank
of this city, those in Savannah at the Central
Railroad Bank of that city.
W. S. BRANTLEY, Secretary and Treas.
IMPOR ED CHINA.
Special attention is directed to our magnificent
display China. The latest styles of Cups and
Saucers, Moustache Cups, are now on exhi
bition. The goods are first-class, and we guaran
tee them. The designs and patterns are the
latest out in Europe. Importation prices.
SCHREINER S IMPORT HOUSE.
NOTICE
Is hereby given that application will be made to
Citv Council by the SAVANNAH STREET
AND RURAL RESORT RAILROAD COMPANY
for the right to build its road on the following
named streets in lieu of portion of the route
granted by way .of Bolton and East Broad
streets, to-wit: Through East Broad street to
Gwinnett street, through Gwinnett street to
Habersham street, out Habersham street to
Bolton street, there connecting with route al
ready designated by City Council for use of said
Railroad, the change being a substitution of
Gwinnett street for Bolton street.
H. P. SMART. President.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
All persons having claims against the estate
of the late W. P. OWENS, are requested to pre
sent them, duly attested, to the undersigned.
TO THE LADIES.
In order that the very best results may be ob
tained by all who use our Self-Raising
Buckwheat, Self-Raising Flour and other
specialties, we will give a series of baking exhi
bitions at Metropolitan Hall, beginning at 3
o’clock, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, to demon
strate their superior qualities, and to explain
how these goods should lie used. We will prove
to housekeepers that a perfect Buckwheat cake
can be made from our Self Raising Buckwheat
Flour in less than five minutes, Ladies cor
dially invited.
GEO. V. HECKER & CO.
MERCHANTS’ NATIONAL BANK OF
SAVANNAH.
The annual election for seven Directors of
this Bank will be held at the Banking House, on
TUESDAY, Jan. 10, 1888, between the hours of
13 and 1 o’clock. THOS. GADSDEN,
Cashier.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 11, 1887.
EJECTION FOR DIRECTORS.
Central Railroad and Banking Cos. of Ga., )
Savannah, Ga., Dec. Ist, 1887. (
An election for Thirteen Directors to manage
the affairs of t his Company for the ensuing
year will lie held at the Banking House, in Sa
vannah, MONDAY, the SECOND dav of JANU
ARY, 1888. between the hours of 10o'clock A,
M., and 2 o'clock p. m. Stockholders and their
families will lie passed free over the Company's
road to attend the election from tbe 31st De
cember to 2nd January inclusive, and lie 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.
FOR EARLY PLANTING.
Cleaveland's First and Best Peas (in sealed
bags), Biiist's Premium Peas. Black-eye Marrow
fat Peas, Philadelphia Extra Early Peas, and a
full fine 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.
WANTED.
A good Job Printer can get a permanent situ
ation by applying to THE SENTINEL,
Jesup, Ga.
ULMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to the sys
tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other
ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot be
excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in
dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul
mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. 81 00
a bottle. Freight paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER, M. D„
Pharmacist, Savannah. Ga.
Ban a, na s.
r AA BUNCHES CHOICE YELLOW and RED
OUU BANANAS.
5,000 COCOANUTS.
APPLES. ORANGES, NUTS, RAISINS, etc.
Fresh Bananas received every ten days. Coun
try orders solicited.
A. H. CHAMPION.
State
op
Weather.
FURNISHING GOODS.
OurProiised Opening
WILL TAKE PLACE
MONDAY. DEC. 12,
And we will Show a Well Selected
Lot of Nice, but MEDIUM
PRICED GOODS,
Suitable for
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
As we have so often enumerated
the Useful Articles we keep, we will
only say that we have added a line of
Ornamental as well, and respectfully
ask an inspection.
Jno. F. LaFar
29 BULL ST.
Matters of Fact
POSITIVELY SELLING OUT
TO RETIRE FROM BUSINESS.
Men’s Furnishings at and Below Cost
Store to Rent and Fixtures For Sale, at
BELSINGER’S,
24 "WHitalcer Street.
Will sell in bulk to purchasers.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
I®JILLS!
Large "V ariety
V ery Clieap
lOc. to $3.
AT
CROCKERY HOUSE
OF
JAS. S. SUVA & SON.
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 GJ-oods.
r finest line of Plush Oases in the city.
X consisting of Glove and Handkerchief
Boxes, Dressing Cases, Manicure Sets, Shaving
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 Ij. C. iStvonyj’s Drugstore,
corner Bull and Perry street lane.
SIOVEs.
VICTORS OVER ALL COMPETITORS
—AT THE
ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
THE first premium awarded to our GRAND
TIMES COOK BROADWAY and FOR
TUNE RANGE. Call and see the prize winners.
The best goods and cost less than any offered in
this market. The largest stock and best se
lections of Cook and Heating Stoves m this city.
Cornwell & Chipman,
WATCHES AND JEWELRY.
' XM Ari
Is fast approachm and everybody is on the
qui vive to buy and to receive
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
is the time to make selections. T would,
Ai then fore, extend a cordial invitation to
my friends and the • public to call early and ex
amine my very large and well assorted stock of
Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Solid
Silver and Plated Ware,
Which for variety, design, quality and prices
cannot be surpassed anywhere. All goods sold
warranted as represented.
JT. 33L_ KOCH,
STOV E 5.
TO UYKRYBODY.
We have more Heating Stove
stock than we care to hold, and
will give each caller a positive
bargain in them. If you want a
heater be certain to sec us, and
you will save considerable.
LOVELL & LATTiMQRE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS,
SAVANNAH, - GEORGIA,
PLUMBER.
l. a. McCarthy,
Successor to Chas. E. Wakefield,
PLIYIBER, GAS and STEAM UTTER,
Barnard street, SAVANNAH, GA.
Telephone 373.
LECTURES.
Illustrated Lecture,
by
Mr. Henry Frith Woods,
Under the Auspices of the Y. M. C. A.,
ON TUESDAY EVENING, December 13th
1887, at 8 o’clock. Subject— “ The Growth
of the Bald Spot.” Admission to members 33
cents; non-members 50 cents.
IJRY GOODS, EIUI ~
Use® Xmas Presents
AT
bln it liner’s,
Successors to B. F. McKenna & Cos.,
137 BROUGHTON STREET,
EADIES' HANDKERCHIEFS.
Off A DOZEN Ladies’ White Hemstitched
"" Linen Handkerchiefs, wide and narrow
hems, from 10c. to 75c. each.
500 dozen Ladies Colored Bordered Hem
stitched Linen Handkerchiefs, all different
styles, from 10c. to 75c. each.
150 dozen Ladies’ Mourning Hemstitched Lin
en Handkerchiefs, very choice patterns, from
10c. to 75c. each.
75 dozen Ladies’ White and Fancy Embroid
ered Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs, exquisite
styles, from 25c. to 75c. each.
100 dozen Children s Colored Bordered Hem
stitched Linen Handkerchiefs, all new desigus,
at lie. each.
GENTLEMEN’S HANDKERCHIEFS.
125 dozen Gentlemen’s White Hemmed Linen
Handkerchiefs from 10c. to 35c. each.
200 dozen Gentlemen’s White Hemstitched
Handkerchiefs from 20c. to 75c. each.
176 dozen Gentlemen's Colored Bordered Fine
Linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, all new de
signs, from 20c. to 50c. each.
WHITE SILK HANDKERCHIEFS.
100 dozen 'White Hemstitched Silk Handker
chiefs, wide and narrow hems, in pure and
cream white, from 50c. to $1 50 each.
75 dozen Pure and Cream White Brocaded
Silk Handkerchiefs from 50c to §1 50.
COLORED SILK HANDKERCHIEFS.
500 dozen Fancy Colored Silk Handkerchiefs,
in all the latest designs and colorings, from 50c.
to $1 50 each.
Ladies' White Embroidered Aprons from $t
to $2 each.
Ladies' Black and Colored Kid Gloves.
A full line of Pocketbooks from 10c. to $1
each.
A large assortment of Gentlemen's Neckwear,
comprising all the latest novelties, from 25c. to
$1 each.
Children’s Fancy Scarfs and Bows at 25c. each.
SILK UMBRELLAS.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen's Gloria Twilled and
Puritan Silk Umbrellas, in Gold, Silver, Oxided
mountings.
Ladies’ MoumiDg Umbrellas, in Puritan and
Gloria Silks.
HOSIERY, HOSIERY.
A full line of Ladies’ Unbleached Balbriggan
Hose, in all grades and sizes, from $3 to $9 per
dozen.
Full lines Ladies' Colored Cotton and Lisle
Hose.
Ladies’ Black Cotton, Lisle and Silk Hose
from 25c. to §1 50 a pair.
COLGATE'S EXTRACTS AND TOILET SOAPS.
We have just received a complete assortment
of Colgate's Celebrated Extracts, Toilet Soaps,
Powder and Vaselines.
CROHAX & lIOONER.
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 stc*°fe. Respect
fully,
1' FALK I SIS.
SPORTING GOODS.
To Sportsmen
I WILL OPEN MY* NEW STORE,
JTo. 31 Whitaker St,
THIS MORNING, DEC. Ist, w ith tbe most se
lect stock ever brought to this market,
consisting of all grades of
BREECH LOADING SHOT GUNS.
MUZZLE-LOADING SHOT GUNS.
REPEATING RIFLES.
PARLOR RIFLES.
REVOLVERS and PISTOLS
BRASS SHELLS.
PAPER SHELLS.
RIFLE CARTRIDGES.
LOADED SHELLS.
POWDER, SHOT. WADS
LOADING I i.PLEMENTS.
FISHING TACKLE, etc.
And I invite my friends and the public to call
and examine my goods. I am prepared to loan
shells at the shortest notice; will give same my
personal attention. All of which I guaranty
to sell as low as the lowest.
H S. MLPII
31 WHITAKER STREET.
Nichols —job printing.
NICHOLS —BINDING.
NICHOLS —BLANK BOOKS.
NICHOLS— GOOD WORK.
NICHOLS —FINE PAPER.
NICHOLS— LOW PRICES.
NICHOLS —93£ BAY STREET-