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2 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. Savannah Daily Morning News, Christmas number of Life (25c. edition) New York Clipper, Christian Herald, Weeping Ferry No. 799, Munro’s Library, Dramatic Times, Town Topics, London News (10c. edition), French and German papers and libraries, New York Mirror, Dramatic News, Arkansaw Travel r. Harper’s Bazar, Texas Siftings, Boston Herald, Bos ton Globe, Philadelphia Press. Philadel 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-