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MINERS’ ODD BELIEFS.
They Believe That Loose Rocks Fall at
Mid’.iignt.
From the ICohmh City Journal.
There was a heavy rumbling sound in the
mountain, and the miners sleeping in the
cabin at the mouth of the entrance of the
tunnel site, were awakened by the uoiso. A
force of men were engaged in driving the
Bangre de Cristo tunnel, but this particular
night there was no shift at work. It
bad already been driven in several hun
dred feet through slide, to cut a gray copper
vein.
“What is that!” I heard a tenderfoot in
the camp exclaim, as he was reused from his
slumber.
•‘Oh, go to sleep, paid,” exclaimed an old
miner, “that’s nothing much.”
“Well, but what is it?” again asked the
same questioner.
“.Some rock and a set of timbers at the
end of the tunnel have fallen in, but that’s
nothing. We can soon fix it up to-mor
row.”
“Strange, isn’t it?" again said the tender
foot miner.
“Strange* No. It must be 12 o’clock.”
“Why?”
“Rocks fall in the mines usually at mid
night”
“Why?”
“Just because they do. More rocks fall
into the mines at midnight than any other
time. That’s all the reason I know. But
they do, and I have worked in the mines a
good many years.”
One of the party then struck a light,
took down a watch from a crevice in
one of the logs of the cabin and looked at
it.
It was midnight.
Miners are superstitious. Men who labor
underground are always so, and especially
those who court fickle fortune, hunting for
gold and silver veins in the mountains.
Often you will hear minors say that rocks
are more apt to fall at midnight tliau at
any other time. On this occasion the old
miner was correct as to the time, and when
the time was called out, he did not seem at
all surprised, considering it only as a matter
of fact, which should not have been ques
tioned m the first place.
Many incidents are related in the camps
of this strange influence overmen. A friend
of mine was once working in the Bull-Do
mingo mine, and saved his life through pre
sentiment or superstitious feeling. He was
working in the night shift, and late in the
afternoon was awakened from his slumber
and notified by the foreman to get ready for
work. In telling me the story afterward
he said that something seemed to be warn
ing him not to work that night. But he
threw off the feeling, ate his supper, put on
his miner’s suit and started toward the shaft
house. He had gone about half the distance,
■when the same superstitious feeling pos
sessed him, and, stopping a moment, he
thought the matter over, and, returning to
the boarding house near by, hired a man in
his place.
There was an accident that night and the
man who had taken his place was killed.
The shift was sinking the main shaft deeper,
preparatory o running lower levels. The
water was troublesome and the cage had
been lowered .-*'th a barrel, which was filled
with water. When the cage began to ascend
three of the men stepped out from under it,
but the fourth stood in the centre of the
shaft leaning on his shovel. When up
about 100 feet a piece of machinery broke
and down came the cagi, crushing the poor
fellow to death. The young man who re
fused to work that night, iu telling me of the
incident afterward, said:
"Something seemed to be almost pulling
me back that night and saying: ‘Don’t go
down the shaft, don’t go down the shaft,’
and I didn’t go. I don’t know how to ac
count for it and never will, but it saved my
life.”
One evening, while sitting around the
stove in one of the hotels in the camp, a
man named Fletcher, hailing from Ohio,
told a strange, weird story. He was a quiet
kind of a fellow, and not given to
springing wild stories. He and his partner,
so his story ran, had been working a claim
above the Verde hill, in the Bangre de
Cristo range. They were prospecting for a
gray copper vein. A shaft had been sunk
about 40 feet and then a drill was started on
the vein. This drifit was within about 20
feet from the shaft, and the last day they
had worked the claim a bowlder about 2
feet in diameter was blown out of the vein.
“It was about time to quit,” said, Mr.
Fletcher, “and we concluded to windlass out
what loose work there was and popsboot
the bowlder the next morning. Before
leaving we placed our mining tools and
bucket in a corner of the shaft and then
went to our cabin It was a cold night and
considerable snow fell. The next morning
about 8 o’clock we Returned to the shaft to
resume our work for the day. I lowered
my partner down and was preparing to de
scend myself, when I heard him call out,
•Fletcher, hoist away.’ I asked him what
was the matter, but he would give me no
definite answer, and iu rather a husky voice
repeated his request that I haul him out,
which I did. After stepping on the plat
form, be said:
“ ‘You know that bowlder?
“ ‘Yes,’ I replied, ‘but what of it?’
1 “ ‘lt is gone,’ he said.
“ ‘Gone?’
“ ‘Yes, gone.’ ,
“I refused to believe him, although I ob
served that his face was a little pale and he
seemed quite nervous. I had him lower me
down the shaft, and, sure enough, that large
bowlder, 2 feet in diameter, was gone. The
tools had not been disturbed, aud no one
else could have possibly gone down that
shaft since we left it the night before. The
snow had fallen, and there was not the
least sign of a track leading to or from the
shaft.”
“Did the mine ever pan out anything af
terward?” asked one of the interested group
of listeners.
"Pan out! The devil, no! I have been
unable to get my partner down in that shaft
since. And one thing I do know—the bowl
der we had left that night was gone the next
morning, and neither of us ever knew what
became of it.”
Nome men use fortune tellers in searching
for mines and developing them. The divin -
ing rod has been used on many a mountain
side, and its indications followed. I recently
visited a well-known fortune teller in Den
ver, for the purpose of learning something
definite as to stories circulated that some
mining operators seek this class to have them
foretell or advise them how to seek for the
precious metals.
“Certainly they do,” said the old woman
in a weird-like manner, shuffling the cards.
“Now, you keep out of the mines,” she
said, speaking to me; “your fortune is on
top ot the ground, yes, on top of the ground,
and you try real estate. ' Keep out of the
ground. The cards and the white of this
egg 1 have broken show no veins of minoral
for you.”
“But do men ever seek your aid in hunt
ing for gold and silver mines, and ask your
advice as to how to work ttiem?”
“They do; but I dare not give their name
away. It would hurt my business. But I
will tell you that one man in Colorado lias
•pent about 140,000 developing a mine under
my directions. Whenever there is a ‘break’
or ‘slide’ he comes down from the mountains
aud seeks my advice. You would be sur
prised if I were to re: eat the names of some
who have asked me about where to for
gold and silver. Yes, men are superstitious,
but deny it, and don’t want the world lo
know it, and it would hurt my business to
give names. When I break the white of
an egg in a glass of water and shuttle the
cards for some, the most beautiful un
derground workings are seen. The veins
nre rich and bright with gold and silver
ore.”
Such is the story the Denver witch told
We. I called out some of the names of some
millionaire miners, but she was mum as to
whether any of them had overbad their for
tunes told, and would neither say “Yes” nor
“No,” but giving the same old answer. “It
would hurt my business.”
There is a superstition among some about
namiug mines, and many seem to think
that it is good luck to name a mine for a
baby. Why? No one knows. A prospee
tor once named a claim for a certain Pull
man car. which was afterward smashed in a
wreck. He changed the name for fear of
an accident to the mine. Another changed
the name of his claim because the person
he had named it for died. Toe finding of a
vein on the anniversary of your birthday,
or the anniversary of the wedding of voiir
parents, is supposed to bring good fuck.
There are a thousand and one little super
stitions connected w ith the delving in mot her
earth, searching for the buried treasures
there.
WHAT IS IT?
A Question That is Puzzling the Resi
dents of Queer Creek.
Logan 10.) loiter to Cincinnati Enquirer.
Twelve miles west, and a little south of
here, is where Queer creek commences, and
twelve miles further, in nearly the same di
rection, it empties into Salt creek. It
drains a portion of the counties of Hocking
and Vinton, probably fifteen miles square,
and these 225 square miles comprise the
hilliest, rockiest, roughest and hardest place
for man or beast to get enough upon which
to subsist, that the broad State of Ohio can
furnish. Near the head of the stream the
water pom's over an almost perpendicular
precipice nearly 200 feet high, sometimes in
a sheet forty feet wide, but in the summer it
dwindles down to a stream that would run
through an inch pipe, but singularly enough
never entirely dries up. The continual flow
of the water and the great force with
which it descends has worn a basin 100 feet
in diameter deep enough, and always con
containing a sufficient amount of water in
which to float a skiff. This small lake, with
its clear water, almost surrounded by high
rocks and steep hills, upon which grow hem
lock, pine, cedar and dark green laurel, pre
sents a scene pleasing to look upon. This
place has been christened Cedar Falls. No
strange or weird tales have ever been told
regarding this be .utiful place, no marks
supposed to be the handiwork of the long
departed Indian, and nothing of an extraor
dinary nature was ever known to happen
until the summer of 1884, when
A RfMapiNU AND SHAKING
was heard and felt like unto an earthquake.
An investigation showed that some of the
rocks had moved a little out of plae \ Do
ing down the stream five or six miles one
comes to Ash Cave. This place is like
Cedar Falls in a few respects and unlike it
in many. The chief difference in the for
mation is that the high rock projects for
ward, forming a large cave. But the un
written history as told by the present in
habitants of the neighborhood is what
makes the place of more than ordinary in
terest. It was here, according to tradition,
that a brave tribe of Indians long had its
headquarters; it was here that the red
devils laid their plans to exterminate
the white settlers; it was here they
brought their unfortunate captives and
drove the stake for their destruction, and as
the fagots blazed around their victims they
heard their dying shrieks with strange de
light. as though it were sweet music to their
savage ears. When they were finally over
come by the too numerous white men and
were driven from their rocky fastnesses the
place “remained tenantless for a while” and
them became the rendezvous for a band of
bold, bloody robbers, and somewhere in the
vicinity they hid their treasure, a large
quantity of which it is supposed was never
taken away. When the robbers departed
the spirits of Indian chiefs and murdered
white men and women wandered over the
hills and among the rocks, and many a red
warrior, adorned with paint and feathers,
carrying a string of fresh scalps,
and bleeding, scalpless women, have
been seen by the belated traveler. But
the ghosts, too, have long since stolen si
lently away, and now a few broken dishes,
an old cream freezer, empty beer and whis
ky bottles, plainly tell that the merry Fourth
of July and Sunday school picnickers have
been the latest occupants, and when the
long-looked-for railroad is built up this nar
row valley then will no doubt come the
hotel man.
There died near this place a few months
ago a Mr. Snider, who was supposed to be
nearly 100 years old. He was a genuine
half-breed, to his own story, ami
as his looks would indicate. His father was
captured bv the Indians, aud,
TO SAVE HIS LIFE,
married one of the dusky virgins of the
forest, and although he became an Indian
good enough for all practical purposes, his
captors did not ha ve sufficient confidence in
him to impart to him all their valuable se
crets. Twice a year the Indians would
make a pilgrimage somewhere among the
rocks and hills of Queer creek and bring
back silver and lead ore. Snider would
always be left at the cave, in which is a
large stone nearly level on top, and in which
are two holes about nine inches in diameter
and two feet deep. These holes, it is said,
were used for smelting purposes, and there
can be no doubt as to the truth of the
statement, for ashes to the depth of more
than ten feet still remain in the cave. The
silver ore was usually sold to other tribes,
but the half-breed had in his possession
when he died a coin which he always main
tained was made from the ore found in that
vicinity. The Indian wife was almost as
silent as to the location of these mines as the
rest of the tribe. After the country had be
come settled by the whites, she said that “if
the pale-face knew as much as the Indian
he could shoe his horse with silver cheaper
than he could with iron.” A short time be
fore her death she tried to direct her son to
the spot. He followed her directions as near
as he could, but was unsuecesful, and many
an anxious fortune seeker has he
taken on a wild goose chase since his
mother’s death. At another rock fifty feet
from the top of one of the Queer creek
tributaries, and nearly as high as those
above mentioned, is a cave probably twenty
feet in diameter. No effort has ever been
known to have lieen made to get into this
cave until a few days ago, when a half-dozen
young men went to the top of the rock and
let one of their number down with a rope
until he was opposite the entrance, and by
swinging himself he swung into the cave.
Going in a few yards he found
A PERFECTLY ROUND HOLE,
more than a foot in diameter, had been
made in the floor. A stone had been shaped
to exactly fit this hole, and this the young
ster could not move. The citizens now have
their wits hard at work to devise some
means by which they can get safely in and
out this cave, where they have no doubt an
immense amount of wealth has long been
hidden, which, in their great anxiety to get
possession of, some will take dangerous
chances, and it is not improbable that be
fore it is reported that the whole neighbor
hood has become millionaires some jiersou
will have broken his neck. Ruff.
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From a Washington Letter.
Mrs. Cleveland has always shown a par
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She loves to go to the theatre to see a good
play or a popular star, but it is rare that
she sees the theatrical profession at th3
White House, but now and then she makes
an exception. She did this in the case of
little Minnie Palmer, for she received the
pretty little actress in one of the private
parlors of the White House, and had a most
pleasant conversation with the popular lit
tle favorite. Muiuie told Mrs. Cleveland all
about her travels abroad aud of her tour
arrfflnd the world, and they both parted
mutually’delighted.
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THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1887.
CHINESE MASONS.
A Curious I odgre of Them in New
York -Their Meeting Place.
From the New York World.
Old Masons were, until late, of the opinion
that no such a thing as a Chinese Mason ex
isted. One gentleman said he had seen
Arabs aud Turks who were good Masons,
but to the best of his knowledge, no China
man was in the order Nevertheless, there
are not only Chinese Masons, but right here
in New York there is a Chinese Masonic
Lodge in full blast with a membership of
over 300. It is a native organization, not
allied directly to the Free and Accepted
Masons, hut said to be founded on princi
ples very nearly akin.
The lodge-room is at No. 18 Mott street,
second floor, front, and has recently lieen
remodelled and refitted in yery good shape,
all newly painted and cleaned. The lodge
furniture is of Chinese design, and imported
from China expressly for the society at
a great expense. A tall flagstaff with a
rope for running up colors is on top of the
building. Above the door as one enters the
lodge-room is a red sign iu native charac
ters signifying “Chinese Masonic Society,”
and down the sides are two long slips of red
pai>er bearing mottoes. One of these is:
“Do good to one another,” and the other re
lates to the business of the order.
The interior is like most Chinese quarters,
only lighter, anil not full of odd turns and
unsuspected corners. Immediately on enter
ing one is led into a sort of ante room and
thence into the main or lodge room. At the
lower end of this room is the altar, and a
very valuable one it is, costing in China
$1,500. Above it is an alcove in which a
colored drawing is suspended. It is not the
least curious tiling in the place, the design
being three figures, one seated and two others
bending over his shoulder. The seated
figure represents the venerable father of
Chinese Masonry. The face is heavy, placid
and adorned wich a long black beard. The
other two are respectively the spirits of
light and darkness, who are supposed to be
giving him counsel. In front of the altar a
lamp is bung. It is never extinguished, and
burns in commemoration of the dead of the
order. Another emblem is two sticks of
sandal-wood punk thrust into a box of
sand. They keep smouldering away aud fill
the air with a faint but sweet perfume.
On the wall is a long board, and on this
are pasted a greet number of sheets of
paper covered with Chinese hieroglyphics.
These are the lists of members voted on in
the New York lodge. Near the roster hang
two books. One of these is sent out from
the Supreme Ixxlge at San Francisco, aud
gives a detailed account of a number of
cases of those in distress and sickness, and
the whereabouts of each one who needs help.
The other is a subscription book, in which
the various amounts subscribed are entered.
At intervals these two books and the amount
raised are transmitted to the Supreme
Lodge, from which the dependent members
are relieved.
Meetings are not held upon regular
nights, but at intervals decided upon by
the dignitaries of the order, as the necessities
’ of business may demand. The members are
notified of meetings, held generally on Sun
day nights, by the appearance of a trian
gular flag at the top of the pole on top of
the house. This flag is white and bears the
picture of a huge red dragon with its tail
toward the point. There are grips, signs
aud passwords exactly as in an American
lodge. “The traveling card” of this society
is quite a curiosity in itself. It is a square
of red silk inscribed with Chinese characters,
and is a document highly prized by all its
possessors.
SUNSET COX’S NEW HOUSE.
The Eeautiful Washington Home of the
Ex-Minister to Turkey.
From the New York Wo)ld.
Genial Sunset Cox’s new house in Wash
ington bids fair to be the centre of anew
American salon this winter—-a salon of wits.
It is just next door to the fine house iu Du
Pont Circle where he used to live. It is
four stories, has a frontage of thirty-one
feet and follows the old Romanesque lines
of architecture.
The basement and first-story are of Poto
mac red sandstone, with a generous porch,
steps twelve feet wide and a stone balustrade
with carved newel posts. The door is of
antique oak four feet wide, with great
hinges. At the sides are stone columns,
surmounted by capitals delicately carved.
At the right of the entrance is a stone bay
two stories high, which is battered from the
ground to the top of the balustrade in a pro
nounced slope and thence lo the top in
quieter lines, giving a pleasing appearance
of grace and stability. This bay is,"crowded
by a stone balustrade, which in connection
with the loggia back of it, affords a spacious
balcony from the third story rooms—a
desirable thing in Washington’s warm
climate. The roof is of red tiles, with
dormer windows.
Entering by a Dutch vestibule, the main
hall is 14x25, finished in antique oak, with
an open timber ceiling. The staircase has a
gallery, over a recessed fireplace of stone
with a mosaic hearth. Quaint carved seats
are all about. The draw ing-room is finished
in cream and gold decorations, with an
elaborately carved mantel. The dining-hall
is in oak, with a recessed fireplace and
inglenook, where one can sit and enjoy a
post-prandial cigar watching the embers.
In the second story Mr. Cox’s library
occupies the entire front and is finished in
mahogany. The design of the woodwork is
Moorish, as are also the decorations. The
bedrooms are all large and treated in
different tones of painted woodwork, with
simple but effective mantels to the open fire
places.
Altogether the house is one of the most
successful which Mr. Page, the popular
architect! has yet done aiTd it adds not a
little to the architectural beauty of an
already remarkably beautiful street.
HONORED BY THE SULTAN.
.
The Decoration of Commander of the
Medjidie Conferred upon Dr. Henry.
From the. New York Sun.
Dr. Morris H. Henry of New York city is
the third American who has lieen honored
by the Sultan of Turkey with the decoration
of the Commander of the Medjidie.
Congressman Samuel 8. Cox and Gen. Lew
Wallace also have the decoration. They
have represented this government at tlio
court of the Sultan. Dr. Henry has never
lieen in Turkey. The decoration is given to
Dr. Henry for liis attainments in that branch
of medical science which was especially in
teresting to ttye Sultan because it had to do
with his army. Owing to the climate,
diseases of the veins are common, and unfit
the subjects of the Sultan to perform mili
tary duty. Dr. Henry’s writings on the
subject are well known to medical
authorities in Europe and the East, and he
invented an appliance called the phimosis
forceps, whicli has been of use in Turkey
for several years. Dr. Henry receive!l tiiree
yeais: ago from the Greek government the
decoration of Officer of the Royal Order of
the Savior and the insignia of the Gold
Cross. As the Suitan desired to distinguish
Dr. Henry, it was necessary for him, in ac
cordance with Eastern custom, to present
him with a tide of higher rank than that
which he already had. The rank next above
Officer is Commander.
The decoration was received by Dr. Henry
at his residence, 581 Fifth avenOo, from M.
Mavroyeni, the Turkish Minister at Wash
ington. It vras created by the father of the
pi caout Sultan. In Turkey it is conferred
only on official* of the rank of General in
the army. The decoration is worn suspended
from the neck by a red ribbon with a green
border. It consists of a pendant, on which
is a gold star and crescent with red enamel,
and below t*is a large seven-jiointed silver
star, with a circle surrounded with red
enamel, in which are Turkish inscriptions.
In the centre, on a gold ground, is the word
in Turkish, “Medjidie.” The inscriptions
Suuset Cox had translated, but Dr. Henry
doesn't know what they mean yet.
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ject to you.
We have determined ndt to wait until after Christmas,
when nobody wants Winter Goods, to make a closing out
sale, but we will do it right now, while the public stands in
need of such goods. We positively have reduced prices on
all of our Winter Goods fully one-third, and therefore oiler
such bargains as will do you all good. We will close out at
these reductions.
Our elegant stock of DRESS GOODS.
Our magnificent stock of BLACK SILKS.
Our excellent stock of COLORED SILKS.
Our beautiful stock of Priestley’s MOURNING GOODS.
Our immense stock of English tailor-made Walking
Jackets, Our Plush Jackets and Wraps, Our Newmarkets,
Russian Circulars, and our large stock of MISSES’ and CHIL
DREN’S GARMENTS.
The same reductions —one-third off —we offer in Blank
ets, Shawls, Flannels, Ladies’ and Gent’s Underwear, Hosiery
of all kinds, Comfortables, Housekeeping Goods, Gold-Headed
Umbrellas, Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs, etc.
NOW IS YOUR TIME FOR REAL BARGAINS.
GOODS FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
AT OUR BAZAR.
Tie Grandest, Most Eiteiislve, Tie Most Elegant,
AS WELL AS THE CHEAPEST
To be found anywhere in the city. We can’t enumerate the
articles because the variety is too large.
Do not fail to examine our stock; wc simply offer you
such a line as can only be found in a first-class house in
New York.
Special Bargains 'Tliis "Week:
A AVeont full regular GENT’S HALF HOSE for .... 10c.
A 25-cont full regular LADIES’HOSE for ...... 10c.
A 25-cent DAMASK TOWEL for 10c.
A aVceut CHILDREN’S UNDERSHIRT for 10c.
AAc cent GENT’S UNDERSHIRT for 10c.
A a5-eent NECK SHAWL for 10c.
A A5-cetit HAIR BRUSH for sc.
A A'i-cont RED TWILL FLANNEL for 16c.
A PURE LINEN DAMASK NAPKIN for sc.
A 5-ceut PAPER NEEDLES for lc.
A 5-cent PAPER PINS for ......... lc.
A 50-cent JERSEY' for Asc.
DAVID WEISBEITNT,
153 BROUGHTON STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
MILLINERY.
K LiO TJ ©KOFFS^
lp if I full Season 1881.
However attractive and immense our previous season’s
stock in Millinery has been, this season wo excel all our
previous selections. Every manufacturer and importer of
note in the markets of the world is represented in the array,
and display of Millinery goods. We are showing Hats in
the finest Hatter’s Plush, Beaver, Felt, Straw and Fancy
Combinations. Ribbons in Clacce, of all the novel shades.
Fancy Birds and Wings, Velvets and Plushes of our own im
portation, and we now offer you the advantages of our im
mense stock. We continue the retail sale on our first floor
at wholesale prices. We also continue to sell our Celebrated
XXX Ribbons at previous prices.
TO-DAY,
500 dozen Felt Hats, in all the new shapes and colors,
at 35 cents.
& KRiWFS MAMMOTH MILLINERY HOUSE.
BROUGHTON STREET.
FURNITURE, CARPETS, MATTING, ETC.
CARPETS! CARPETSi CARPETS!
Now is the time for Bargains in Carpets.
A fine selection of Cotton Chains, Union’s Extra Supers,
All Wool, Two and Three-Plys, Tapestries and Body Brus
sels just arrived. Our line of Furniture is complete in all
its departments. .lust received, a carload of Cooking and
Heating Stoves. So call on us for Bargains. We don’t in
tend to be undersold, for cash or on easy terms.
TEEPLE & CO.
193 and 195 Broughton Street.
SASH DOORS, 11 LINDS, ETC.
Yale Royal Manufatturing Cos.
President. SAVANNAH, GA. Sect’y end Trees. I
LUMBER.
CYPRESS, OAK, POPLAR, YELLOW PINE, ASH, WALNUT.
A I ANuY'AGTUR.GU of RABU. DOORS. HMN’DH, MOULDINGS of all kinds end description*
A1 CASINGS end TRI MMINOS for all classes of dwellings. PEWS end PEW ENDS of our own
design and manufacture, TURNED and SCROLL BALUSTERS, ASH HANDLES for Cotton
Hooks, CEILING, FLOORING, WXLNSCOTTING, SHINGLES
Warehouse and Up-Town Office: West Broad and Broughton Sts.
Factory and Mills; Adjoining Ocean Steamship Co.'s WharvesJ
HOLIDAY GOODS.
Million!
I have Established My Head
quarters at LINDSAY & MOR
GAN’S, as there I find the best
assortment of CHRISTMAS
PRESENTS in the City, which
are both useful and ornamental,
Read Over the List:
Bedroom Suits.
Parlor Suits,
Wardrobes,
Chiffoniers,
Sideboards,
Hat Backs,
Writing Desks,
Music Cabinets,
Rockers in Plush,
Rockers In Leather.
Rockers of Rattan.
Reception Chairs.
Easy Chairs,
Hall Chairs, and many others,
all of which can be found in all
the latest designs and coverings.
For the children can tie had
Bicycles and Tricycles, Veloci
pedes, Doll Carriages, Wagons,
Etc.
NUF SAID, KUM IN AND SEE US.
iifaj <s Ip.
ASPHALT PAVEMENT.
Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving Cos.,
114 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK.
CONSTRUCT
Genuine Trinidad Asphalt
PAVEMENTS.
This Pavement has been thor
oughly tested in actual ser
vice and is found to possess
the following points of su
periority:
Ist. Cheaper than stone blocks equally well
laid.
2d. Durability; tbe company guarantees it
for a |ierlod of years.
Bd. Almost noiseless under traffic.
4tb. The cleanest pavement made.
Rth. A perfect sanitary pavement. Being Im
pervious to water and tilth, It cannot exhale In
fectious gases.
tith. Easily and perfectly repaired when opened
to lay pipes, etc.
7th. Saves wear and tear of bersea and
vehicles.
Hth. Being smoother, less power is required to
haul over it than any other pavement.
!)tb. It enhances the value of abutting prop
erty more than any other pavement.
)oth. It is therefore, all things considered, tbe
best and most economical pavement that can be
laid on any street, whether the traffic is light or
heavy.
GRAIN AND PROVISION*.
“A. B. HULL,
Agent Hazard Powder Cos.,
—WHOLESALE DEALER IK—
FcOUR, HAY.GRA N, RICE, STAPLE
AND FANCY GROCERIES.
MILL STUFFS of all kinds. Genuine TEXAS
RED RUST PROOF SEED OATS. Special
prices carload lots HAY and GRAIN.
Prompt attention given all orders and satis
faction guaranteed.
OFFICE, ABERCORN STREET.
WAREHOUSE, NO. 4 WADLEY STREET, ON
LINE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
FAINTS AND OILS.
JOHN G. BUTLER;
WHITE LEADS, COLORS, OILS, GLASS.
VARNISH, ETC.: READY MIXED
PAINTS: RAILROAD, STEAMER AND MILL
SOTPUfaI, BASHES, DOORS, BUNDS AND
BUILDERS' HARDWARE. Sole Agmnt for
GEORGIA IJME, CALCINED PLASTER, CE
MENT, HAIR and LAND PLASTER
6 Whitaker Street, Savannah, Georgia,
LUMBER.
LUMBER! LUMBER!
A. S. BACON,
Office and Planing M 1" T lv —rtyaud Fast Broad
A lull stock of Dhiswid axo Rouoh Lemma,
Laths, Sb mouse, Etc., always on band. Esti
mates given upon application, Prompt deliva
guwAubocii, Xuiwpuoue U 7,
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