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HOLIDAY SCENES.
Christmas Shoppers—Decorations for
the dinner Table.
New York, Dec. 17.—New York is in a
frenzy of activity, TANARUS) e Christmas buying
set iu a fortnight earlier than usual and
out-of-town shoppers and city shoppers
are making the town a pandemonium.
The world has gone shopping mad New
York gets an annual Christinas upsetting,
but it never saw anything like the present
delirium.
In a big shopping store, turned for the
time being like all the l ast into a toy and
bric-a-brac bazar, there was an exciting
time the other day. Two or three mechan
ical toys krd been set going, and the crush
to see the dancing bear beat the drum and
the negro minstrel clatter 'the bon&s mid
bonnie Ben Butler walk across the counter
with his off eye carefully screened was
enough to crack one’s ribs. It was a jam of
of women and children, and the way they
pushed and struggled was wi rso than un
civilized. A o year-old child was caught in
the maelstrom. She was too badly fright
ened to crj. and before anybody thought of
her she was past crying. There was a rush
for the elevator and ttie stairway, and be
fore the little limp figure with its white
face could be extricated from the crowd
and carried to the open air its chances of
enjoying any Christmas gifts were seriously
jeopardized. People satisfied themselves
that the baby girl was alive and swarmed
back, a denser crowd than ever, into the
store again.
A pretty shop girl with black rings under
her eyes told me yesterday that she had
not bwm to bed before 1 o’clock for ten days
or more. The store was a hurly burly till
late in the evening and then there was the
clearing up, and the preparations for next
day.
To walk two blocks on any shopping thor
oughfare may take, at a busy hour, some
thing like fifteen or twenty minutes. The
streets swarm with women, women loaded
down with bundles, women tired looking,
with sharp tones in their usually even voices,
women with nervous gestures, unnaturally
bright eyes, women Christmas desperate.
Not a vjoman you meet but has the shopping
mania. They would di-op before they would
go home.
The big lunch restaurants that women fre
quent are black with people from 11 o’clock
■until night. The waiters, in spite of the
tradition to the coutrary, are getting rich
ou tips, for it costs something like un hour,
which is more valuable than a silver quarter
to get chocolate and rolls in the usual wait
for-one’s-tum-way. Women even take their
places at the long stand up counters and
scramble for a bite and a sup with the busi
est of the business men.
DELIVERY WAGONS ARE CLATTERING
ABOUT
iu every direction. There is one house
which keeps 250 going and others get up to
185. The parcel man rings your bell at
midnight or eve uat 2 o’clock in the morn
ing. He is too sleepy and too cross to apolo
gize for waking you, and to offer the ex
t lunation that he has been driving since
early evening and has two dozen more bun
dles to carry home.
The elevated trains ore packed with push
ing and crowding femininity. The horse
cars are loaded down with standing women
swaying this way and that, aii together,
like one animated, uncomfortable, wrig
gling. many headed being as they cling to
the straps. People get reckless about ele
vators. In one of these “lifts,"’ whose car
rying capacity was placarded iu big let
ters as 2,500 pounds, I saw thirty-six woin
eu squeeze themselves like sardines tho other
day.
Christmas means millions of money.
There are worn •< in numbers in New York
who lav out thousands, and few whose hus
bands fiave an income of #2,500 who do not
average #SO in Christmas gifts.
Christmas menus doctors’ bills, for the
society strain which affects comparatively
few women is no* to be compared to the
shopping strain which first gives a mad ex
hilaration and then exhausts a big propor
tion of the feminine pur -of th city.
““1 have promised my wife the prettiest
pearl necklace in tho city if she won’t
Imy so much as a Christmas card until
after New Year’s,” said a gentleman yester
day.
“How is that.'" I asked him.
“ All my feminine relations went to Flor
ida to recuperate alter the holidays last year,
and I want somebody at home to make life
worth living, this.”
His wife, I may add, has gone out of town,
because she knew her will power wasn't
equal to the task of keeping her promise if
she stayed vrittiin reach of shop window
temptations here.
Christmas is an immense institution in
the city: and, though the weaklings ought
to look out for themselves, women who
are physically able to enjoy it find the
crazy shopping whirl the enjoyment of the
year.
THE NEWEST THING
in dinner table decorations is anew
cloth.
The long fringes which have obtained in
the past are appropriate now for the silk and
linen 5 o’clock tea spreads only. For a cere
monious dinner to be served on a polished
wood table the cloth is hemstitched, anil has
a drawn work border, sometimes exquisitely
wrought, through which the ten coats of
varnish that make the table top shino
hkff a mirror are given an opportunity to
show.
High flower pieces for dinners have en
tirely gone by. To set a pretty table, and
one which at the same time shall lie in the
latest mode, you want flowers and nothing
but flowers. At a very swell affair given a
lew days ago, a ribbon bed of dark red
chrysanthemums glowed from one end of
the table to the other. A moss bed had been
laid in a long rectangle through the middle
of the table, a low silver wire inclosed it,
and into tho space so prepared chrysanthe
mums by the thousand had bceu thrust, their
uoddnig heads touching one another and
making a rich mass of color. Tho candele
bra had their feet hidden in the flowers and
no high decorations to obscure tho view
across the table were used.
At Christmas dinners plats of holly will
be laid un and down the table, re-serving a
small space at either end, and simple ar
rangement* of mistletoe and holly will be
placed at tho corners.
The simplest decoration for the dinner
table, and one available for many succes
sive occasions, is a narrow plush scarf to be
laid lengthwise of the white cloth. With
this and some handfuls ol flowers to hoap
about the base of the eandelebra or a couple
of the Boulanger epergnes which hold but a
half dozen roses apiece a table equipment
needs n t additions. The fairy lamps for the
lunch tabic, if one forgives their lack of
novelty in view of their prettiness, want fine
flowers heaped about them or to lie set in
beds of flowers: but there are new things in
colored candles with fancy shades which are
fast usurping their place.'
BOSE COGHLAN WAS AN INTERESTING SIGHT
surrounded by a group of clamorous news
boys in the City Hail Park the other after
noon.
The early editions of the evening jiapers
wore just out and ttio youngsters were
Linking them persistently, The actress
r.-as crossing from the bridge entrance to
Broadway and carried a paper lightly in her
hand. An enterprising urchin thought
he saw iudicat'ons of a willingness on
her part to drop it and held out a grimy
ban f.
“Paper, ma’am, gi, me the paper, won’t
you!” no persisted, seeing that she had not
noticed Ins first appeul. “Got clean busted
buym’a theatre ticket last night, and " —a
sudden light, dawning upon him—“ Chris
tmas, if 1 don’t believe you’re the woman
I went to see. Hay, ain't you the bail
woman in the play that bluffed an’ got
caught wneu the other feller wus dealt a full
hand?”
Rose Coghlnn thought she recognized the
description of “Htophanie” in Forget-in"-
Not, aud handed him the )>&per with a laugh
and a question. The lad was in hard nick
and meant to sell the crumpled sheet aga.n.
The colloquy had uttraeied half a dozen or
more vociferous newsboys, ami it elided in
Miss Coghiau’g buying a coaple of them out
to sot up the boy who had recognized her in
trade.
There were other iutei-ested spectators
than newsboy's, ad when she noticed the
symptoms of a gathering crowd she hurried
away. The newsboys will swear by Rose
Cognlan in future. Her particular protege
declares “.She’s got tho reddest cheeks and
the brightest eyes of any- woman iu the hull
town.”
Annie Jenness Miller, the pretty dress re
former, boarded an elevated train the other
day, to find a number of people in front of
her and beside her, all with conies of a morn
ing paper before them in which cuts of “leg-
Icttes,” and Turkish trousers, and dress
forms, and various things connected with
her system were prominently displayed.
Mrs. MiUer believes in leglettes, but there
were too many of them that time. She
was evidently disturbed lest somebody
should recognize her and connect her with
the garments, and somewhat precipi
tately left the cars at the next station.
K, P. H.
COM. TATTNALL.
The Part Ho Had in the Treaty With
Japan.
William Elliot Griffis, 'in his "life of
Coin. M. C. Perry,” has this to say about
Com. Tattnall:
As Perry predicted, the Japanese yielded
to Mr. Harris who. a few days after lie had
sent the letter given above, went to Yeddo,
ami had audience of the Sho-guu Iyesada.
He afterward saw the Ministers of State,
and presented his demands. These wore:
Um-estricted trade between Japanese and
American merchants in all things except
bullion and grain, the closing of Shiinoda
aud the opening of Kanagawa and Ozaka,
the residence in Yeddo of an American
Minister, the sending of an embassy’ to
America, and a treaty to lie ratified in
detail by the government of Japan.
Meanwhile Flag Officer Josiah Tattnall,
under order of the United States Navy De
partment, was on his way to Japan to bring
letters and dispatches to the American Con
sul General, was ignorant of Mr. Harris’
visit to Yedo, or his projects for treaty
making. Ou the Powhatan he left Shang
hai July 5, joining the Mississippi at Naga
saki five days later. Here the death of
Commodore Perry was announced, the
Japanese receiving the news with expres
sions of sincere regret. The treaty at
Tientsin had been signed July 26, 1858, but
Tattnall, innocent of the notions of later
manufacture, so diligently ascribed to him
of rushing “off to Japan to take advantage
of the consternation certain to be created
by the first news of recent events in the
Peiho,” was so far oblivious of any further
intentions on the part of Mr. Harris of
making another treaty with Japan, that he
lingered in the lovely harbor until July 21.
In the Powhatan he cast anchor in Shiriioda
harbor on the 25th. the Mississippi having
arrived two days before. On the 27th, tak
ing Mr. Harris on board the Powhatan,
Tattnall steamed up to Kanagawa, visiting
also Yokohonia, where Perry’s old treaty
house was st 11 standing. Meeting Li on
the 29th negotiations were re-opened. In
Coni. Tattnall’s presence tho main
t reaty was dated July 29. 1858 (instead of
Sept. 1), and to this the premier Li affixed
his signature and pen-seal. By this treaty
Yokohonia was to he opened to foreign
trade and residence July 1 of the following
year, 1859, and an embassy was to be sent
to visit the United States. The Commodore
and Consul Genera! returned to Slnmoda
Aug. 1. Mr. Harris then took a voyage of
recreation to China.
HUNTING THE HORSE THIEF.
Too Much Protection for the Thieves
But None for the Horse.
From the Chicago Tribune.
One day while we w-ere in Northern
Nebraska, near the Ponca Indian reserva
tion, wo were constantly meeting members
of a farmers’ vigilance committee looking
for a man who had the night before stolen
a “lettle sor’l mare with a bob-tail an’ white
for'ard foot.” The members of the commit
tee went on horseback in twos, and about
every half hour we would meet a couple.
One pair stopped us, and the older of the
men borrowed a dozen 44-calibre cartridges
of us.
“Don’t the courts give you enough pro
tection?” asked Briar.
“No, sir,” promptly replied the man.
“All law, no justico. Lots o’ protection for
boss thieves, but none for bosses.”
“Well, I supp se they want to be very
careful that no innocent man is punished.”
“There ’pears to lie some such notion
a-stickin’ into ’em. A year ago a man stole
a boss an’ we chased him up into Dakota,
caught him an’ brought him back, an’ give
him up to the ’thorities. The trial come on
an’ we swore to everything we ’lowed was
nec’sarv. We reckoned wo had him when
the Jedge, a big, fat old cuss, woke up,
snorted ’round in his chair a few minutes,
wiped his specs, ’an said we hadn’t proved
that the pris’ner ever saw a boss an’ that
niebby he was canvassin’ the country for
Sunday school books, an’ the jury of co’u
stalk dry goods clerks brought in a verdick
of ‘notguilty.’”
“That was certainly discouraging.”
“Yes, some. They turned the feller loose,
an’ a month after lie got another hoss an’
lit out for lowa. We followed an’ caught
him an’ brought him back an’ (-’rendered
him. Trial come right on an’ we prepared
to sw’ar worse ’n’ before, when what ’d he
do but claim we didn’t have no requisition, or
something, an’ wn’n’c no officers nohow, an’
got a writ of herbs corpus or some such
bus’ness, un’ scooted away agin; onlv first
he talked loud ’bout havin’ us all ’rested for
kidnapiu’ him, an’ scart us. <ib wo used to
go out an’ sleep in the co’n-fleids night so if
the sheriff come he couldn’t find us.
“Well, the same feller six weeks after
rode away one hoss an’ led two others. We
caught him Tore he got out o’ the county
an’ turned him over to the Sheriff. The dav
of the trial we all went in an’ swore to all
we knowed ail’ a heap more. The Jedge
woke up agin, nibbed his bald head awhile,
an" said niebby the feller was guilty, but
the witnesses was the biggest pack o’ liars
he ever saw, an’ advised the jury, made up
o’ ’bout the same crowd o’ veil r dry goods
clerks, to take into consideration what a
gang o’ porj'ers we wa*. Well, that night
in they come with a verdick o’ ‘not guilty,’
an’ the same evenin’ ’bout half of us vvus
"rested for perj'ry an’ the other half was
shot all to pieces by tho Sheriff while try in’
to git at the thief in the jail. That’s the
way it went lettin’ the law take its
eou’sel That’s justice! There’s your cou’ts!
Well, iu a little while the same
cuss got another hoss. We run him clear
’crost the Htate to Kansas ’fore we caught
him. When we g>t him wo put a rope
round his neck, stood him up on a btu-’l,
au" tied the roiie to the cross piece of a tele
graph pole. Then we held a gixsi. square
trial an’ give him more show than he was
really entitled to, an’ started back home, of
course movin’ the bar’l aviay mighty keer
ful ’fore we went. That’s the way "it. goes
when we ’teed to things ourselves! That’s
business! There’s your auti-hoss-thief ’soci
ation! We’ve fixed sev’ral the same way
since. That old snoozer of a Jedge is
snortu ’round ou the bench yet, but he’s
’bout out o’ bus’ness, an’ 1 iiet fore next
spring lie’ll lose bis job entirely. Jes’ linger
’round these parts twenty-four hours, stran
ger, an’ you’ll see this sneak that stole the
sor’l mare dancin’ high, or I’ll lose my
guess!”
’Tis An 111 Wind
That brings with it gusts of rain from the north
east. When the wind blows from that quarter
on a wet day the rheumatic are upt to suffer,
even If seated by their “ain comfortable ingle"
in a cozy arm rliair. A few v itiegiassfulls of
Hostetler’s Stomach Hitlers most genial and
comforting of specifies -will afford them un
speakable relief. Tt.ere is .1 tuple proof on record
of its efficacy in this disease- more particularly
if used for its relief at the outset. Chills and
fever, dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint
and lack of tone in the kidneys and bladder
should also !s treated with this useful family
medicine of botanic origin. Appetite improves,
refreshing slumber once more visits the weary
eyelids of the nervous, and the circulation is en
riched end accelerated iu consequence of its in
vigorating and regulating action. Uso it as a
Drotector after getting wet
HIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1887.
SENATORIAL RESEMBLANCES.
Wade Hampton and Kaiser Wilhelm,
Hoar and Ureeley, Cockrell and Uncle
Sam, Daniel and Edwin Booth, and
Other Senatorial Counterparts.
from the New York World-
Washington, Dec. 14. —Wade Hampton
has shaved off his whiskers, and with them
has gone his resemblance to Kaiser Wil
helm. His rosy face looks smaller and fat
ter, and the only hair upon it is the little
whisks of frosted silver which shino out un
der his nose. You would hardly know him
for the same mail, and his face loses much
of its character by the change.
Senator Hoar looks like Greeley,only tet
ter dressed. Cockrell, of Missouri, with
his long, straggling blonde beard, his tall
frame and his neglige hair, is the conterfeit
presentment of Uncle Sam, save that his
breeches are not made of the American flag,
nor are they fastened down upon his patent
leather boois by straps. Senator John W.
D miel has the face of Edwin Booth, save
that the nose is a t rifle larger and the fore
head broader. His hair is brown, and his
eyes are gray. Senator Joe Brown looks
like a Jewish patriarch or the typical Mor
mon, but his words show him to be neither.
He is up to tile times, and his gray head is
full of practical brains. Cul om lias often
been c inpared with Abraham Lincoln, and
he is fully as tall and nearly us angular.
His resemblance, however, comes from his
characteristic gesture and expression, and
some of the stories he tells resemble those of
Old Abe. Senator Cush Davis looks like
Ben Butler, and the two have been taken
for one another. Senator Dolph, of Oregon,
with his long sable-silver beard, would make
a splendid representative of Hamlet’s
father, and Senator George Edmunds could
make his fortune by sitting as a model to
painters for pictures of St. Jerome.
Blair, of New Hampshire, looks like Presi
dent Hayes, and he sympathise'-, with him in
his temperance principles. Aldrich, of
Rhode Island; Paddock, of Nebraska, and
Butler, o. South Carolina, resemble each
other and each has a rosy face and a gray
moustache. Matt Ransom is handsome,
but he has no counterpart in history or
public life, and Chace, of Rhode Island,
t hough he is by no means a bad-looking
Quaker, could, in the words of tho old joke,
“be worshiped without breaking the com
mandments,” for he is like no one in “the
heaven above, and the earth beneath, or the
waters under the earth.” Senator Colquitt’s
smooth, statesmanlike fac-e might have
stepped out of one of the old colonial por
traits, and there is an air connected with
Senator Harwell's pose which reminds one
rn-ch of Garfield.
Speaking of beards, Seuator Allison
wears a full set of reddish-brown whiskers,
into which a few gray strands have crept.
They are stiff and straight, and about two
inches long. Joe Blackburn's chief orna
ment is a fierce moustache. Blair has hair
of sand and silver all over his face. Don
Cameron has a red moustache. Joe Brown
has a long, white bearti. Daniel is smooth
shaven, and Edmunds’ whiskers are as
white as the cotton bursting from the pod.
Eustls, of Louisiana, has a full team of
irou-gray. Frye sports a gray moustache.
George, of Mississippi, has blonde whiskers,
and Arthur P. Gormati keeps his face as
smoothly shaven now as it was when he at
tended the sessions of the .Senate as a page.
Gray, of Delaware, has a black moustache.
Eugene Hale sports a fall beard. Isham G.
Harris waxes tho ends of his long mous
tache, and he looks somewhat like a Chinese
mandarin, save that his eyes are not al
monds nor his complexion yellow. Mander
son wears a brown imperial, and John H.
Mitchell, of Oregon, has the longest, glos
siest, dearest brown beard in the Senate.
Senator Morgan’s moustache is white.
Senator Morrill has side-whiskers, and
Henry E. Payne keeps his face as bare as
the crown of Senator Sawyer’s bald
head.
Senator Stanford has a full beard, and be
could probably cash a #IO,OOO check for
every hair in it. Stewart’s full whiskers
are straw mixed with frost, and Stockbridge
has a beard of dark gray. John Sherman’s
whiskers are stiff and white. George Vest s
blonde moustache overhangs his mouth, and
Senator Walthall has glossy- brown hair
which curls as it touches his collar. Matt
Quay- has a dark moustache. Pugh, of Ala
bama, has sandy whiskers, in which the
gray strands are beginning to creep. Sena
tor Ingalls shaves every day, aud nurses
tenderly his little moustache and the bit of
hair upon his chin. Looking them all over
and sizing up their intellectual strength, the
amount of whiskers seem to have nothing to
do with their amount of ability, aud had
Delilah shaved Sampson instead of cut
ting his hair he would probably never have
been conquered and blinded by the Philis
tines.
WORK OP AN AWFUL HABIT.
The Sad Story of Dr. Charles H. Brad
ley.
From the New York Timex.
Dr. Charles H. Bradley, who two years
ago held an excellent position as a practicing
physician in Chicago, but who ruined him
self and his family bv the use of cocaine,
was a prisoner in the Jefferson Market
Police Court yesterday. He was all broken
up by the habit, and, although but 35 years
old, he looked more like 60. He was pale
and emaciated and tottered up the bench
when the case was called. A number of
physicians in this city havo within the past
month t>een victimized by a person (sailing
them up late at night and borrowing their
hypodermic syringes on the pretense that
they were needed in an urgent case by a
physician wdiose instrument was out of
order. So frequent had these thefts become
that one of the victims published a warning
to the profession.
Between 3 and 4 o’clock yesterday morn
ing Dr. Everett Herrick, of 136 Madison
avenue, was aroused by a man why present
ed a note purporting to come from Dr. N.
M. Schaeffer. It was written on one of Dr.
Schaeffer’s prescription blanks, and urged
Dr. Herrick to send by bearer his hypoder
svringe. Dr. Herrick gave the messenger
the case and syringe and then followed and
gave him in custody of a policeman. He was
recognized as Dr. Bradley. The doctor
admitted obtaining the syringes from the
doctors by means of forged notes, but said
that his principal object was to obiain the
opium which accompanied each case, as he
had no money to purchase the opiate. He
was a slave to the habit, he said, and it was
impossible for him to do without opium for
twenty-four hours.
Dr. Bradley tigured prominently before
the public in Chicago several times. His
case attracted the attention of the medical
profession there, and many newspaper
articles havo been written about
him. About two years ago lie
was in the enjoyment" of a lucrative
practice and rosined iua fashionable quarter
of the city. He was talented to a degree,
and was looked on as one of the rising
physicians of Chicago. He had a happy
home, a devoted wife, and several interest
ing children. By degrees his friends and
patients began to notice that his actions
were unnatural. They could assign no
reason for it, because every one knew ho
was not a drinking man. At times the
doctor would be in exceptionally lino spirits,
the.) again be would apper utterly depressed
and talk as if the hand of every man was
raised against him.
As each of these attacks of melancholy
succeeded each other, and they did so with
rapidly increasing frequency, the doctor
lgau losing his practice. Patients would
call at his house only to lie told he was sick.
Calls were neglected and lie withdrew more
and more from society. Bradley sold his
horse and buggy, and then his ‘household
furniture liegan to disappear into pawn
shops, and at last his familliar and now
shabbily dressed figure was seen but little
on the streets. Then he was missed alto
getlier. The neighbors were tbo first to
notice his disappearance. The blinds of his
house hud been closely drawn for several
days. Oosipiug neighbors discovered
that Mrs. Bradley and the children had not
been seen for several days. Home one went
to the police station. An ofiiicer was sent
to the house and the back door was burst
open. There was no sig>* of lifeon the lower
floor, but the steps of the searchers were
directed to the upper floor by the crying
of children. Hurrying to one of the
bedrooms whence came the cries, a sight
met the officer’s eyes which completely stag
gered him
On the bed in their light clothes lay Dr.
Bradley and his wife. They were in a deep
sleep, and the children were in vain try ing
to arouse them. The sleeves of both the
sleepers were rolled up to the arm pits. As
the officer looked closer he saw that the
arms of each were one mass of wholly or
partially healed sores and small, froshlv
made wounds. The practiced eye of a medi
cal man called in quickly solved tho my -
tery. He turned to the dressing c,i,se aud
picked up a hypodermic syringe and an
empty vial labled cocaine. This told the
story The doctor was removed to tho in
sane department of the county jail, and
friends cared for the wife and children.
On his trial for insanity Dr. Bradley inco
herently told the story of his downfall, and
this story he has steadily adhered to ever
since. He said he had made a special study
of the use and effect of cocaine. Ho at first
practiced on animals, but a desire to watch
the operation of the drug on the human
system itself led him to inject some of it
into his own svstem. Gradually he found
that he could not get along without it. He
found also that his mind wandered, and he
could not study the effects us he {prmerly
did. He induced his wife to allow him to
practice ou her, and soon both were con
firmed victims of the habit.
The doctor was adjudged insane and sent
to an asylum where he remained several
months, when he was pronounced cured,
and once more resumed practice in thiscity.
His next appearance before tne public was
on Jan. 7, 1887, when he was arrested for
swindling druggists out of small quantities
of cocaine by presenting orders purporting
to come from prominent physicians. His
old habit had returned and had again mas
tered him. This time he was sent to a
hospital, from which ho escaped. He was
locked up again in Chicago for two weeks,
and then announced himself cured. Since
then he has not been heard of in that city.
He has no home and no friends, and
Justice Gorman committed him to the care
of the Commissioners of Charities and Cor
rection, and he was sent to Bellevue hospital
for treatment. His wife is now in an insane
asylum.
The Negro in Politics.
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Record.
The negro has disappeared from Congress.
O’Hara, of North Carolina (who was really
only a mulatto), and Smalls, of South Caro
lina, the last of the Africans, dropiied out
the last election, and all the men who stood
up in awkward squads to be sworn in at
this session had white faces. The negro is
not only out of Congress, he is practically
out of politics The only political fear he
bad, that the Democratic part}- would en
slave him again should they get into power,
has disappeared since the Democrats have
been in power a dozen years in the South aud
three years iu Washington. He has no
political hopes. He has, therefore, dismissed
jxditics from his mind and gone to making
money. As farmer, planter, mechanic, he
finds himself tetter off than he ever was
as (Kilitician, ami he has no hankering to go
back. Thisisjthe whole secret of the de
crease in the negro vote. He is too busy
to vote, like many an intelligent, educated,
rich white man North and South. Ido not
say that sort of thing is right for rich
or poor, white or black. North or South, but
it is a fact. During the war an attempt was
made to rec-ruit Massachusetts regiments
among the negroes of South Carolina.
Some of the younger darkies on a certain
plantation were disposed to “jine the cav
alry,” but before enlisting they sought the
advice of the Uncle Remus of the planta
tion. “Wat’s it all about?” he ashed.
“Why,” said one, “de Yankees is fighting to
free us, and the Confeds is fighting to keep
us slaves.” “And it’s all about you, is it V'
“Yes.” “Well,” said Uncle Remus, “it
minds me ob two dogs fighting ober a bone.
But I nebber heard of de bone fighting—
and you is dp bone.” Now that about ex
presses the idea of the average darkey. Be
fore a Congressional election several years
ago Smalls, of South Carolina, came up here
to see Ed ward McPherson, Secretary of the
Republican Congressional Committee. “I
want some money,” he said. “What for?”
asked McPherson, “what do you want of
money in a district overwhelmingly Repub
lican like yours?” “Why," explained
Smalls, “I spent all my money getting the
nomination, and now I haven’t any money
for election expenses.” “Such as what?”
asked McPherson. “Why,” said Smalls,
“tho men who peddle the tickets and chal
lenge voters and do all the other work
around the polls.” “But I should think,”
said McPherson, “you could get men to do
that for nothing. Don’t the Democrat*?”
“Y r es,” said Smalls, “the Democrats do, but
our fellows won’t unless they’re paid for it.”
In other words, if there be no money in it
they are indifferent, and now that the most
ignorant of their preachers, who are more
influential with them than any other set of
men, have got a good grip on the idea that
the Democrats do not propose to put them
back to slavery, they do not care a straw
for the success of the Republican party. On
the other hand the whites care just as much
as ever for the success of the Democratic
party, so that all predictions that the Re
publican party will carry Southern States
in the next national election are absurdly
nonsensical. Blanche K. Bruce, ex Senator
from Mississippi, is the only one of the Con
gressional negroes who has amounted to
anything, and he is almost white. He was
appointed Register of tne Treasury ai'ter he
left the Senate, resigned when Cleveland
came in, and has been lecturing with suc
cess ever since. “Bob” Elliott of South
Carolina, who was a genuine negro, was the
smartest and most unscrupulous ot all these
statesmen. He got into Louisiana politics
and was finally tripp and up by William Pitt
Kellogg so badly that it broke his political
back. Joseph H. Rainey, of South Carolina,
n modest mulatto, is occasionally seen here.
He holds some government inspectorship. I
think. But ail the rest have gone glimmer
ing into obscurity.
A Wonderful Food and Medicine.
Known and used by physicians all over the
world. Scott’s Emulsion not only gives
flesh and strength by virtue of its own nu
tritious properties, but creates an appetite
for food that builds up the wasted liody. “I
have been using Sci tt's Emulsion for seve
ral years, and am pleased with its action.
My patients say it is pleasant and palatab e,
and all grow stronger and gain flesh from
the use of it. I use it in all eases of wasting
diseases, and it is specially useful for chil
dren when nutrient medication is needed, as
in marasmus.” T. VV. Bierce, M. D.,
Knoxville, Ala.
At Batill s.
Savannah Dailt Morning News,
L’Art de la Mode for January, 1888, Revue
de la Mode for December, 1887, Delineator
for January, 188S, Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly for January, 1888, The Young
Ladies' 'Journal for January, 1888,The Priuc
ess’ Novelettes for January, 1888, The I,on
don Illustrated News, Christian Herald,
Family Story Paper, Fireside Companion,
New York Weekly, New York Ledger,
Banner Weekly, Saturday Night, Spirit
of the Times. American Field, S;>rt
ing Life, Sporting News, Sporting
Times, Sportsman, Standard, Peck's Sun,
Railroad Guide, Tid Bits, Boston Glotio, Bos
ton Herald, Philadelphia Press, Philadel
phia Tunes, Baltimore Sun, Balti
more American, New York Herald,
WoH,l, Sun, Times, Press. Tribune, Star,
Atlanta Constitution. Augusta Chronicle,
Macon Telegraph, Florida Times-Uiiinu.
Jacksonville News-Herald, New Orleans
Times-Demoerat. Charleston News and
Courier, Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
Cincinnati Enquirer.
vi* ii „ id s;
lAA BARRELS BALDWIN APPLES landiufr
I"""" and for sale by
C. M. Gilbert & Cos.
DEATHS.
BOGART.—Died, at bis residence in this city,
at 2 o'clock this morning, Robert Dickson
Booart. aged 86 years. Notice of funeral
service hereafter.
MEETINGS.
(fIiHTM DODGE NO. 54, E. A A. >1“
The annual communication of this A
Lodge will beheld at Masonic Temple mWWfr
THIS (Monday) EVENING, Dec. 19, IBS’,
at 8 o'clock.
The election of officers will take place, and
members are expected to come prepared to pay
dues.
Members of sister lodges and visiting
brethren are cordially invited to meet with us.
HENRY BARTLETT, W. M.
Waring Russell, Jr.. Secretary
DeKALB LODGE, NO. 9 I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at H 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.
John Riley. Secretary. •
THE HIBERNIAN SOCIETY
Will hold a quarterly meet- -yr
ing at the Guards' Arsenal.
ground floor, entrance ot> *- •IS - V 1 q*
[’resident street, THIS r -Styx
(Monday) EVENING at 8:15
o’clock punctually. Impor- - * T
tant business.
P. W. MELDRIM, President.
Chaslhs F. Prenderoast, Secretary. __
RAILROAD LOAN ASSOCIATION.
The fifty-second regular meeting of the Rail
road Loan Association will be held THIS
(Monday) EVENING, at 8 o'clock at Metropoli
tan Hall. By order of
WILLIAM ROGERS, President.
H. C. Cunningham, Secretary.
MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS.
Central Railroad and Banking Cos. ok Ga.. 1
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 7, 1887. f
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 !9th to the Olid inclusive,
and will4>e passed free returning from the 32d
to the 24th inclusive, on presentation of their
stock certificates to the conductors.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM. Cashier.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisements inserted under “Special
Notices” will be charged $1 00 a Square each
insertion.
I will receive on TUESDAY next 1 car choice
TURKEYS, 1 car choice FOWLS. GEESE and
DUCKS, which I will offer for sale at
ASTONISHINGLY LOW PRICES.
SEND ME YOUR ORDERS FOR XMAS
TURKEYS.
L PUT7.BL.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
AU persons having claims against the estate
of the late W. P. OWENS, are requested to pre
sent them, duly attested, to the undersigned.
GEO. W. OWENS.
PERSONAL.
The housekeeper who would have light, deli
cious and wholesome Buckwheat Cakes, Muffins,
Waffles, etc., for breakfast should use Hccker’s
Self-raising Preparations. Our Baking Exhi
bition will be continued duriug the week under
the Metropolitan Hall.
GEO. V. HECKER & CO.
SEND YOUR CHRISTMAS ORDERS
For fresh killed Turkeys, Turkeys, Turkeys,
Geese, Geese, Geese, Ducks, Ducks, Ducks,
Chickens, Chickens, Chickens, Beef, Veal. Mut
ton, Game and Vegetables as cheap as the
cheapest at ADAMS & FLEMING’S,
Corner Whitaker and Liberty streets.
Telephone No. 202.
ART STUDENTS
Who desire to enter the paint ing and modeling
classes at the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sci
ences can ascertain the necessary requirements
by application to the undersigned, at the acad
emy, between the hours of 3 and 4 p. m.
CARL L. BRANDT, Director.
NOTICE.
DR. B. P. OLIVEROS
Has removed his office and residence to the cor
ner of Taylor and Abercorn streets.
wuECTION FOR DIRECTORS.
Central Railroad and Banking Cos. of Ga., i
Savannah, Ga., Dec. Ist, 1887. f
An election for Thirteen Directors to manage
the affairs of this Company for the ensuing
ye r will be held at the Banking House, in Sa
vannah, MONDAY, the SECOND day of JANU
ARY. 1888, between the hours of 10 o'clock a,
st.,and2 o'clock p. m. Stockholders and their
families will be passed free over the Company's
road to attend the election from the 31st De
cember to 2nd January inclusive, and be passed
free returning from the 2nd to sth of January
inclusive, on preseutatiou of their stock certifi
cates to the conductors.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier.
KIEFFER’S DRUG STORE.
I have now on hand a very large supply and
excellent variety of Cleveland Peas and Beans,
considered the liest in the market. Also. Paints,
Oils, Brushes, White Lead, etc. A full line of
Toilet and Fancy Articles for the holidays.
Window Glass cut to order.
E. .1. KIEFFER.
Corner West Broad and Stewart streets.
NOTICE.
City of Savannah. I
Office Chiisp of Police. Dec. 18, 1887. |
The following order is hereby published for
the information of all concerned:
General Order No. 40.--
I. The ordinances of the city forbid the firing
of guns, pistols and other firearms angichcre
and at anytime within the corporate limits.
11. The firing of skyrockets, wfieelroekets,
Roman candles, serpents, firecrackers, or of any
other article or thing containing gunpowder,
and the making of bonfires, except in the
extended portion of Forsyth Place, mid in the
public squares of the city sou'll of Liberty
street; and then only tire days before and ten
days after Christmas day anil the Fourth day
of July in each and every year, is also prohibited
by the ordinances of the city.
111. The members of the Police Department
are hereby ordered to arrest all part es found
violating these ordinances, and to be unusually
vigilant iu checking promptly all improper tr
regularities and disorders detrimental to good
order and the proper protection of life and
property. R. H. ANDERSON,
Chief of Police.
NOTICE.
City of Savannah. )
Office Clerk of Council, Pec. 16. 1867. f
Bids will be received at tbe office of the Clerk
of Council until 12 o'clock m. TUESDAY, Dec.
27. 18s7, for furnishing the city with Badges lor
1888 as follows:
500 for one-horse Wagons.
150 for two horse Wagons.
K 0 for one-horse Dravs.
150 for two-horse Drays.
ID for one-horse Hacks.
20 for two-horse Hacks.
10 for Omnibuses.
20 for Hucksters.
1,600 for Dogs.
20 for Poultry Sellers.
5 for four-horse Trucks.
Directions as to material and shape required
will l>e furnished on application to this office,
Badges to be delivered Jan. 10. 1888. The City
reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
FRANK K KEBAKER,
__________ t ierk of Council.
NOTICE
Is hereby given that application will Ite made to
City Council by the SAVANNAH STREET
AND RURAL RESORT RAILROAD (lOMPANV
for the right to build its road on the following
named streets iu lieu of portion of the route
granted by wav of Bolton and East Broad
streets, to wit: Through Cast 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
Uwmuett street for Bolton street.
H. V UMAP-r P.r.-idont
SPECIAL NOTICES.
LNADE PIANOS FOR EXECUTIVE MAN
SION'S.
Messrs. Win. Knabe A Cos. have just furnished
to Gov. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, a beautiful
Upright Grand Piano, ordered by him for the
executive mansion at Harrisburg. The case is
of artistic style, In rich variegated rosewood,
apd the instrumental part of the highest order
of merit, with a tone of very rich and sympa
thetic quality, and a tuch of remarkable ease
and elasticity. Avery fine Concert Grand was
supplied by them recently to Gov. Fitzhugb Isse
fnrtbe executive mansion at Richmond. Va.,
which, excepting ou some of the outside orna
mentation of tuo ease, is a fac simile of the
celebrated White House Knabe Grand, the
piano of the President's mansion, described in
our columns heretofore.—Baltimore American.
Set) DAVIS BROS, for prices and terms.
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 he paid the Stockholders
of this company, on and after the 21st inst.
Stockholders receiving their dividends in
Macon will he 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.
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
12 and 1 o'clock. THOS. GADSDEN,
Cashier
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 11, 1887.
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
domed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul
mer’s Liver Corrector aud take no other. Si (X)
a bottle. Freight paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER, M. D..
Pharmacist. Savannah. Ga.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
Santa Claus
(
IS NOT AT
West’s diia Palace.
We are his competitors,
and think we have the best of
him. We will not try to
enumerate the many useful
Presents we have, but invite
the public to call every day
and S2e the finest selected
stock ever shown in this city.
Will display in a few days a
large line of fine Alabaster
Statuary.
—at—
West’s China Palace
133 Broughton Street
NVATCHES AND JEWELRY.
.XMAS
Is fast approaching and everybody is on the
qui vive to buy and to receive
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
"V*”OW is rhe time to make selections. I would,
a v therefore, extend a cordial invitation to
ray friends and the public to call early and ex
amine ray very large and well assorted stock of
Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Solid
Silver and Plated Ware,
Which for variety, desigu, quality and prices
cannot, be surpassed anywhere. All goods sold
warranted as represented.
iX. drl. IKZOODB
(Lyons’ Block), Whitaker
GROCERIES.
BONKI> TURKEY!
ROLLED OX TONGUE.
ASPARAGUS, in Glass and Tins.
MUSHROOMS, in Glass and Tins.
BONELESS SARDINES.
NORWEGIAN SARDINES, Smoked.
FRENCH PEAS, very small,
And many other Imported and Domestic Deli
cacies.
ft. M, & C. W. WEST.
REAL ESTATE.
W. J. MARSHALL. H. A. M'LEOD.
MARSHALL & McLEOD,
Auction and General Commission Merchants,
—DEALERS IN—
Real Estate and Stocks and Bonds
116>4 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ga.
ATTENTION GIVEN TO RENTING OF
HOUSES AND COLLECTING RENTS.
HOTELS.
PULASKI HOUSE, -
Under New Management.
HAVING entirely refitted, refurnished and
made such extensive alterations and re
pairs, we can justly say that our friends and
patrons will liud THE PULASKI first class in
every respect. The cuisine and service will be
of the highest character. WATSON & POWERS,
Proprietors, formerly of Charleston Hotel.
NEW HOTEL TOGNI'
(Formerly St. Mark’s.)
Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Ha
WINTER AND SUMMER.
r T''HE MOST central House in the city. Near
X Post Office, Street Cars and all Ferries.
New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bells,
Baths, Etc. 1)2 60 to s.l per day.
JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprietor.
SOAP.
SOAPS! SOAPS!
PEARS', RIEGER'S, COLGATE'S, CLEAV- I
ER'B EECKELAERS, BAY LEV'S, LU I
BLN'S, POBLE'9 MEDICATED just received at
BUTLER’S PHARMACY. I
AMUSEMENTS.
Savannah theatre;
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, Dee, 21 & 22,
CHARLOTTE THOMPSON
Supported by a remarkably efficient Dramatio
Company, wiLl present her successful
new 4-act Drama,
DRIFTING CLOUDS.
Varied in character, intense in interest, replete
with humor, novel in plot.
THURSDAY NIGHT, Dec. 22, Miss Thompson's
ideal portraiture of
JAJSTE EYRE
Seats on sale at Davis Bros.' Dee. 20
Next Attraction—Louise Balfe, Dec. 26-27.
BASKET AUCTION)
At Yonge's Hail, Dec. 19, 1887,
Under the auspices of GEORGIA TENT NO
151, I. O. OF UECHABITES.
ANEW aud novel entertainment, consisting
of music by the be,t of home taleut, short
recitations ami addresses, the whole to conclude
with a Basket Auction. Every lady in attend,
auce is requested to bring a lunch basket, with
her name enclosed upon a card: same will be
auctioneered aud sold to the highest bidder dur
ing the evening. The fortunate individual pur
chasing the basket to have the p easure of eat
ing lunch with Hi. young lady furnishing same
The Committee reserves the right to refuse
admittance to any person they may think objec
tionable. Tickets 25c.. to be had at Yonge’s
drug store and from the Committee.
Alabama Quartette
GRAM) CONCERT
AT MOZART HALL,,
St. Julian and Whitaker streets,
ON MONDAY NIGHT, DEC. 19.
Tickets 35c. STEVENS & CO.. Managers.
FURNISHING GOODS.
(to Promised Ipiit
I 0
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 Usefui 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.
HOLIDAY GOODS!
Xmas Presents.
Fine Florida Oranges.
Apples, Cocoanuts, etc.
Corn, Oats, Hay, Bran, etc., in
car loads or leps, at lowest
prices.
Potatoes, Onions, Cabbage,etc.
Peanuts, Peas, Stock Feed, etc.
—at—
T. P. BOND & CO.’S,
Xmas Goods.
r IYHE finest line of Plush Cases 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 Class Bottles Perfum
ery, etc., at L. C. Strong’s Drugstore,
corner Bull and Perry street lane.
FRU its C ___ ~
13 ananas.
►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.
GRAIN AND HAY.
CORN EYES,
A Car-Load just arrived. Send
in Your Order. Also,
BRAN, PEAS, HAY,
CORN AND OATS.
T. J. DAVIS & CO.,
172 BAY STREET.
r BRICK.
Wm. P. Bailey & Cos.,
BRICK MANUFACTURERS,
Keep constantly on hand, in ugp
quantities, at their yard op the BPRl>_'
FIELD PL ANTATION, and will deliver the sanw
in any part, of the city, upon the shortest notice.
The best
Well Brick, Pressed Brick, Hard Brown Brick,
Gray Brick, Soft Brown Brick.
Office --Corner Bull and Broughton, at SI
MON GAZAN'S CIGAR STOKE, where all or
ders will receive prompt attention.
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