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2 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. DESK-. iHS^JYLERDESKCfI ST. LOUIS, MO. NftaKafa MmufaotumfsOsON* DEBKO,BAtTCCpIJ£TBS* sSgfcaa fine office rrrrnrcj Beet Work and Lowest - .-•* 0 OuArtuitetd. S £ d i a i£F’ r * * X 'Z