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6 ITEMS L\ THREE STATES. GEO HOI A, FLORIDA AND SOUTH CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE. James McCoy Acquitted on the Charge of Murdering Deputy United States Marshal Kellett —An Intelligent Gander That Makes Its Home Near Atlanta—A Black Blackmailer Jugged at Atlanta. GEORGIA. The merchants of Thomasville Wednesday night organized a Board of Trade. Haralson will iu a short time come to the front with a well-organized poor farm. T. M. Booker, of Leesburg, had his safe burglarized on Wednesday night of S3OO. Two men swapped horses in Hartwell one <lav last week, and one gave tho other a half gallon of molasses to boot. J. W. Holbrook's store at Bowersville, -was burglarized Tuesday night, and consid erable goods taken therefrom. A burglar broke open a window of the Ct office at Hartwell on Sunday night last, i failed to get anything but a few stamps. William J. Federick killed a colored man, George Butler, at Whiddon & Beverly’s mill, in Thomas county, on Tuesday. At the Coroner’s inquest, held by R. B. Mardre, it was shown that the killing was iu self defense: verdict accordingly. Bluffton Spring: A set of false teeth were found under the front steps of H. D. Haisten's store, last Friday morning, which were left there by the burglars. They were restored to their owner, but we are not )>er mitted to say who that is. We respectfully caution her, however, to keep her teeth in her mouth hereafter. Fred C. Osborue, representing the New Haven syndicate, is in Tallapoosa, and will begin the erectiou of a large brick block here as sood as he can make arrangements for brick. It will be located on the corner of Alewine avenue and Lyon street, seven ty-five foot front, 100 feet deep and three and one-half stories high. Rev. W\ B. Merritt, living in Marion county, has a httle son 6 or 7 years old who has been deformed from birth, havihg what is called talipes equinus, or club foot, and his legs were withering. Monday he was carried to Atlanta by advice of His physi cian and put under treatment at the Ivey Street Hospital. Wednesday the operation was performed most successfully, and the little fellow is now doing well. Thursday morning a large hawk swooped down on a hen in the yard of Capt. W. H. Morgan at Amerims, but tho hen escaped. Lucius, a little son of the Captain, took his gun and followed the hawk to the swamp, and soon saw the ferocious bird strike at a l obbin and alight in a tree to eat his break fast. Lucius got iu shooting distance and fired, killing tile bird, which measured five feet from tip to tip of the wings. Among the maimed residents of Atlanta who have not as yet applied for a pension, is a one-legged English sparrow whose home is under the ea ves of the Gate City National Bank. Although his right leg is off at the knee, he hops about as lively as any of his fellows, and seems perfectly con tented with bis lot This one-legged bird has been seen by numbers of gentlemen for years past, and he is as game as any of his family. The annual election of officers Friday night in Eastman Lodge, No. 279, F. A. M., resulted as follows: J. T. Colcord, W. M • J. D. flerrman, S. W.; J. T. Wall, J. W.; W. H. Cotter, Treasurer; J. E. Dean, Sec retary: W. H. Johnson. Tiler. The ap- Joiu tied officers are as follows: J. Bishop, r., Senior Deacon; J. D. Stokes, Junior Deacon; Albert Herrman, Senior Steward; Mr. Wooten, Junior Steward; A. L. Hobbs, Chaplain. J. T. Colcord was also re-elected Trustee for three years. At Atlanta for several days there have been rumors to the effect that P. J. Moran, lately elected Councilman from the Third ward, intends to resign his position on the Board of Education, in order to create a vacancy to which Senator Joseph E. Brown may be elected, and it was also rumored that the delay in electing a President of tho board was due to a desire on the part of the members to make the Senator their Presi dent. in case he should be elected to succeed Mr Moran. Sir. Moran has neither affirmed nor denied the rumor. There is a gentleman living near Atlanta who has the • most intelligent gander on record. Some time since he heard a ham mering noise related at intervals in the neighborhood of Ins corn crib, and uj>on in vestigation saw nothing thereabout but an old white garni*#, eagerly devouring a num ber of grains of corn scattered about on the ground As soon as he had finished eating these the gentleman was surprised to see him catch hold of a portion of the bottom piank, which was split, and putting forth all his strength he pulled it back as far as he could and then let it go. It flew back with a slam and jarred out a few grains of corn, which he devoured with a satisfied cackle and a knowing wink of his small blue eyes. After this the gentleman watch ed the old fellow and he repeated this novel mode of feeding himself every day. Atlanta Capital-. I was standing on the corner of Marietta and Broad streets when my attention was attracted to an unusually bright little girl, about 3 years old, who was waiting with her mother for the arrival of a stree: car. An old gentleman passed by, and the mother said: “May, there goes Santa Claus.” The little one gave one long look at the old fellow, and then springing forward she caught him by the hand, and as her sweet little face lit tip witli genuine pleasure, she exclaimed: “Santa Claus, me wants a big doll Trismus.” Taking in the situation, the old man stooped down as he said: “All right, baby. I'm a coming Christ mas morning.” “Me" wants a big wax doilv ■wif blue eyes and turly huir.” “You shall have it, darling. I’m a coming down the chimney early Christmas morning before you get np,” and, stooping down, the old man imprint’d a kiss upon the sweet little rosebud mouth upraised to receive it, and then he moved along with the crowd and thought of his home wherein was no bright little cherub to await for the coming of Santa Claus, for alas he was a confirmed old bachelor. Columbus Enquirer-Sun: On the night of Dec. 15 a most amusing sight was wit nessed. A large crowd, as usual, attended Yellowstone Kit's entertainment, and a large per cent, of the colored people who were present were gratified by Dr. Kit. re ufkrking that be would close early in order to give those who wished it a chance to at tend the “Chinese Students,” who were giv ing a novel entertainment at Webster kali under the management eg the Ladles’ Aid Society; that he was going, and ail had the same privileges. If tne e was any poor person who did not have the money to buy themselves a supper he would give them tho money. Upon this a rush was made for the hall by the negroes "en masse.” They were stopped at the en trance and asked what they wanted. One big-voiced fellow yelled out, “Yallerstone Kit told us to come uu here anil he would give us some supper." It required a con siderable amount of explanation before the crowd would disperse, but they finally left, minus their supper and very much vexed bv their disappointment. During the “melee” an old sorrel dame reared ud in front and pawed the air with her fist for a moment, and split the air with a keen voice. “I -ay, you nigger, don't you git my dander up, I'se a lady, an' won’t stan’ no foolin’. Dat Yellowstone Kit will jes’ by dem Chi nees, sup|>er an' all, an' I gue.is we’ll get some supper.” James McCoy, charged with murdering William I), Kellett, United Htates Deputy Marshal,on l/xikimi, Mountain, Dec. 6, 1885, was acquitted at Lafayette Saturday. At the time Kellett was killed be had under arrest Calvin Young. At the Coroner s in quest Calvin Young swore that tie did not know who fired the shot. He wa. sul.se . tmeulJv arrested by the United Stales Mur < apt. flolms. charged with being uu arrest stated that James McCoy had made him promise on the night of thekilli.g, which occurred at the creek, some distance front any habitation, that he would not tell who killed Kellett, and threatened to kill j him in twenty-four hours if he did. Mo i Coy was subsequently arrested on the charge | of murdering Kellett, and in his trial at La- I fay otto, in April, 1886, was convicted and sentenced to be hung. The Supreme Court grauted anew trial on the grouad that Judge Branham erred in his charge concerning the duress and upon other grounds. The second trial commenced at La Fayette last Monday morning, and Saturday the jury' rendered a verdict of not giiiltv. On the trial Calvin Young, the principal witness for the State, swore that he was under duress by reason of the threats of McCoy. Tlie defense put up an alibi. The witnesses testified that atthe exact time the said murder occurred, McCoy was at his home four and a half miles distant. These two witnesses wore sustained by tho testi mony of three others. The defendant's counsel argued that it was more probable that Calvin Young, his father and young brothers committed the murder, and en deavored to shield themselves by charging the crime upon McCoy. Calvin Young tes tified that the killing was done by a single rifle shot, and oihere said that, Kellet’s hat, was found riddled with buckshot. In pol ce court at Atlanta Saturday the case of Hattie Washington was taken up. She is a very black and ordinary looking woman about thirty years of age, but is possessed of a depraved character and has been doing a very flourishing blackmailing business for the last two or three years. Siie has played her game in a very shrewd manner and always selected as her victim young business men who were known for their liberality and high character, but who at tiroes indulged in little extrava gancies. She would meet them on the streets and attempt her blackmailing schemes and follow them about until she received hush money At other times she would enter their stores while there were a nuniher of customers present, would cal! them off to one side and prefer some charge against them and then, if they denied it, she would threaten to ex pose them unless she received her price, which was generally a very guild one. She has been altera well known and prominent young business man on Ma rietta street for about a year,and has several times subjected him to the indignity of be ing dragged before a justice court, as lie positively refused to accede to her demands for money. In every case he came out clear, and for several weeks she has not mo lasted him. Thursday night she met him with several companions nud renewed her blackmailing charges and her demands for money, which he Ignored. She then fol lowed after him, abusing him. and finally commenced throwing rocks a him, several of which struck him. Meeting a policeman ho requested her arrest, ana she was con ducted to police headquarters and locked up, the chargo of disorderly conduct pre ferred against her. After hearing the evi dence, Mr. Collier fined her $25 and costs, and sentenced her to thirty days in the stockade, and required her to give a bond of S3OO at the expiration of her time to an swer before the City Court to the charge of assault and battery. FLORIDA- Osceola county Circuit Court mot at Kis simmee Thursday. There are now 250 white scholars attend - ing school in Starke. The Washington County Farmers’ Alli ance meets at Chipley on jan. 3. The clerk's office at Orlando has made up the record in eight cases of appeal from the Circuit Court to the Supreme Court, and have yet on hand nine cases to make up. W. H. Tracy, who has been confined in jail at Orlando since last spring for the kill ing of a colored mau at Campbell station, now is Osceola county, was brought before Judge Browne Friday on a writ of habeas corpus for the purpnse of being bailed, and the argument was in progress when the train left. The Clerk’s office at Orlando has just completed and forwarded to Lake county a certified copy of the registration lists of tliat portion of Lake formerly a part of Orange The list contained i,150 names. That of Osceola, forwarded last week, con tained 450 names, making 1,600 voters cut off by the two counties from Orange. The street railroad at Orlando will be ex tended to the bridge at the east end of Lake Lucerne, provided the people benefited by the extension will contribute toward it. They also will continue eastward along Cen tral avenue to the residence of Dr. Green, from whence it will eventually go to the cemetery witli an extension from Lake Lu edrne, thus making a belt line. Maj. George H. Norris, who died at High land Park Thursday, was an old and wealthy citizen of Chicago, educated to the bar, an associate and contemporary of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the early days of Illinois. He was a resident of several different States during his life, and was at one time Mayor of Ottawa, 111. Ho has spent the jmst fifteen wintere in Florida.. When on a trip to Florida in* 1871 he pur chased a tract of 7,000 acres of what is known as the Spanish grants, Dupen and Gandrv, and started what is now known as the famous “Spring Garden Groves.” He was the founder of Glenwood, and the re cently started town of Highland Park. He was one of the most genial of men, a keen business man, and had a host of friends. At the time of his death he was Vice President of the Florida Fruit Exchange, and was interest ’d in the publication of the Florida Fruit Grower. at Highland Park. Orlando Record: A representative of the Record learning that Mrs. E. I* Lord, widow of George R. Lord, who was recently killed by a posse near Fort Bassinger, was In the city, called upon lier and obtained her statement in relation to the killing of La- Fiest by Lord, his escape and subsequent Killing:. After Gird killed LaFiest on In dian river, lit and his family, consisting of a wife, and child about 0 years old, left for the Kissimmee river, strikiug it near Fort Bassinger, taking nearly two weeks to reach there, and staying in the woods and prairies in order to avoid capture. On arriving at Fort Bassinger and hearing of their pur suit they started again, and had got about four miles, being on foot, when a voice in tbe thick woods called out to Lord to disarm himself and surrender, when he at once dropped his gun on the ground, and almost instantly a rifle was tired from the brush, followed by u shotgun, wheu Lord fell, being pierced with five bullets, and the posse rushed from the brush, there being eight, or nine of them. When Lord fell he fell on his gun, and on his wife attempting to lift liis feet up and take his gun from under him, one of the posse put Ins gun in her face and threatened to shoot her brains out. Lord never spoke after he fell, being shot dead. After ascertaining tat he was dead three of the posse went to the house of Peter Raullerson and got a rough coffin, in which the body was placed and buried imar there. Tho imsse returned to Indian fiver and Mi's. Lord and her little child took the boat at Bassinger and came up the Kissimmee river, arriving here u day or two ago on her way to Fort Christmas, where her father, .T. W. Savage, lives. Mrs. Ijord's statement of the killing of LaFiest by l/'rd is substantially tlie same as that afield} - published, with the exception that it occurred alxnit ;o o’clock at night, imme diately after which Lord and his family packed up and took to the interior, with tho result above stated. , SOUTH CAROLINA. The House passed the appropriation bill Saturday. The famous Edisto Rifles are said to be enjoying a boom The Senate passed the canal bill Thursday by a large majority. The Confederate monument scheme for Orangeburg is progressing. F. A. Townsend's line dwelling in Edge field county wai burned h week ago Situr day, with aU of bis Cumitur**. et. • Vo in surance. Thf vl loyiu umuui ivu THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. DECEMBER ID, 1887. template building anew parsonage. They have a good Jot and an old house, but it is not fit for occupation. The Confederate pension bill was pa*sed by the House Thursday. Some amendments | were made to the Senate bill, but no ie that will imperil the final passageof the measure. Between 300 and 500 pairs of shoes, being tlie remains of the recent Air-Line railroad wrecks, were sold by Auctioneer Morgan at Greenville'Friday to J. N. Geer & Cos., of Belton. The Troy Hotel Company, of Troy, S. C., filed a petition at Columbia Saturday. They propose to conduct a hotel at Troy. The capital stock will be $5,000. A commission was issued. Tlie recent municipal election at Branch villi ' resulted in the election of Dr. J. P. Ott as Intendant and Messrs. T. O. Edwards, J. I). Bi rd, J. L. Fender and Lewis Berry, colored, as wardens. The Rev. J. B. Campbell left Greenville Friday with his family for his new charge as pastor of the Methodist church at Sum merville. The Rev. J. O. Wilson is already at Greenville and has been heartily wel comed by the congregation. Anew Baptist church is being organized at Greenville, to be located just one mile from the court house, at tlie fork of Bun combe and Rutherford streets. The church is the outgrowth of mission prayer meetings that have been conducted in that locality for some months. Last Thursday, near Bellwood, in the Pine Grove section of Orangeburg county, Willie, a little sou of Mrs. M. A. Pember ton, and grandson of Dr. It. W. Bates, aged nearly 12 years, was instantly killed by the falling of a timber cart lever, which struck him directly on the top of his head. The declaration of the Sumter water works was filed in the office of the Secre tary of State Saturday bv W. A. Jeter, J. S. Schofield, A. D. Schofield, J. W. Wilson, J. H. ( ampbell and A. E. Broadman The objects of tbe company are to furnish gas and water for the town of Sumter. The capital stock will be $50,000. A commission was issued. In tlie upper section of Greenville county Thursday a white man named Pike Bar liery attempted to commit suicide by shoot ing himself with a pistol. He was drunk at the time. He was not dead Friday morn ing, but his condition is exceedingly criti cal. A quarrel with his wife, which oc curred just before the attempt, is believed to have inspired it. Hodge Burnett, a young farmer in Edge field county, was found in the woods on Sunday morning, a mile from home, with his throat cut, but still living. His wife died on Thursday morning. Mr. Burnett left the house immediately after her death and was not found till Sunday. It is hoped that he may recover. The death of his wife caused him to attempt his life. At Walter borough Monday Caleb Sauls, an old and respected citizen, met with a sad death. While hammering down in an old well, which he was repairing, the earth caved in upon him, burying him about ten feet and causing instant death. Immediately a, the alarm was given the work of digging him out was commenced, but when he was reached he had breathed his last. The customary quiet of Williston was somewhat disturbed a week ago by the ap pearance of the Sheriff armed with a war rant for the arrest of the Intendant, Capt. W. 11. Kennedy. It was claimed that the arrest was made for contempt of Judge Fraser's order for Intendant Kennedy to turn over the property of the town to what is claimed by some persons here as anew Cuncil. Judge Aldrich, before whom Capt. Kennedy was carried, reserved his decision. Speaking of the Cumberland Gap Rail road project, the Edgefield Chronicle says: Capt. Kirk is surveying and relocating tho route from Aiken to a point some ten miles (his side. When we say ten miles we mean that some six or eight miles of the present grading, bearing out towards Shaw’s" creek, is to be abandoned by the New York Con struction Company. This will shorten tbe distance between Aiken and Edgefield, and save the company, it is said, some $28,000. Capt. Kirk is actually at this work. About thirty-five persons left Spartan burg Wednesday on the Air-Line train for Texas. Five families and several single young men have gone. These are some of that section’s best and most industrious farmers. They came to the conclusion that they could provide better for their children In the West than here. They will land in a county where improved lands are selling at $35 to SSO an acre. On the other hand a young man has recently returned to Spnrtanburgh after trying Texas seven or eight years, and he thinks South Carolina will beat Texas on an average. Barnwell People: John P. McNally, the alleged kidnaper of Blackwood, has re turned to Aiumsta, haviug decided to take his chances of going to the Carolina peni tentiary. When called upon ho will go over to Aiken county to stand his trial, and he now firmly believes that he will have a just one and be cleared. Mr. McNally has spent S2OO or S3OO in trying to get out of the Blackwood difficulty, but now finds that the money was only thrown away. McNally shouldered his gun and went over with the Augusta boys in 1876 to the Ellen ton riots, and helped considerably to quell the disturbances. He, however, does not bank upon that in being clear, for he says he only did what any other person would have done under similar circumstances. He is now awaiting the call of South Caro lina. Gov. Richardson has received a communi cation from His Excellency, A. M. Scales, Governor of North Carolina, calling to his attention the fact that a portion of the boundary line between Mecklenburg and Union counties, North Carolina and the State of South Carolina was in dispute and that much inconvenience was euused there by to the citizens of both States, and re questing tbe appointment by Gov. Richard son of a commissioner or commissioners to represent South Carolina, in a joint survey between the two States. Gov. Rich ardson recommends that the request of the Governor of North Carolina be complied with, and that provision be made for the appointment of a commission to make a oint survey of the disputed bound ary in connection with the commissioner or commissioners appointed to represent tlie State of North Carolina. At Trenton, a week ago, at an inquest held over the body of Jacob Burt, a colored man who was found dead, the evidence pointed very strongly to four parties— Louisa, his second wife, Clminoy, his only daughter, and two negro men* Ephraim May and Ed Dean. All the parties fled the county, the men taking the wife and daughter with them. The evidence clearly shows the murder to have been a most brutal one. Burt’s skull was smashed to pieces by the back of an ax, and the body was dragged from tho house and taken ahout fifteen .yards from his own door and a little dirt thrown over him. His feet, were left uncovered and his face turned down. He was evidently buried liefore life was ex tinct, The deceased was a quiet, peaceful mute, and a trusted laborer on Fierce Day’s plantation. The! jury rendered a verdict according to t he above facts. Many artesian wells spout water under a heavy pressure, just as many gas wells find the gas under a pressure of several hundred pounds to the square inch. This water-power ts used in many places in Franco by means of turbine wheels, and it is probable that even the gas pressure might in some cases also be utilized. In very deep artesian wells the heat of tlie water is also utilized. The Misery of Bf.imi Poo*.—"Why, is this you, Mamie* 1 haven't seen you for an age? How do you <lo?“ „ "I'm very well, I thank you. How are you?" "Not so well as I would wish to lie. I’m Just getting over hay fever. Have you had it this season?” "No. Father failed about a month ago. vou know, and we're not in society this fall. —Bos ton Courier. i tail lps' Digestible Cocoa is more delicious in tn.-te and aroma. nd, by the process ti is prepared, is rendered more nourish Ing and more easily digested tbau any other pi cpaiatiou oi yveya or chocolate. HOMES OF THE SUCH i Some New York Houses and Their Gor geous Halls. [Coftyrifjhted IftSl. ] New York, Dec. IT.—The entrance Dali is the biggest, the most imposing, the cost liest and by long odds the handsomest apart ment in a modern New York house of the first rank. New Yorkers of wealth and taste have entirely abandoned the straight hall of the narrow block house, w here the stairs go straight up and the narrow passage to back parlor anu basement stairs goes straight back. Instead they have marie the hull the central feature of the establishment to which, if necessary, everything else is subordinated. The new type of hail is elaborate in its architectural features, richly antique in its furnishings, and, if the mistress of the establishment has any taste whatever for large decorative effects, it is upon the hall that she lavishes tli m. the hall, indeed, is so much of a hobby that people build new houses in order to have halls. „ , There is no woman in New York who has had a better chance to demonstrate what she can do with a hall than Mrs. TV hitelaw Reid. The house that Henry Villard built before his failure and over which she now presides lias a hall big enough almost to build again inside of. It runs north and south through the establishment, is not less than twenty feet high and is entirely of marble—marble walls, marble mosaic ceilings, marble tesselatod floor, baronial in its size and its cold magnificence. Mrs. Reid, who is I). O. Mills’ daughter, and who has her own ideas of houses and house furniture, has shown admirable judg ment in her hall plenishing. She lias pre served the large spirit of the archil, cture, and yet has made the big place as warm looking and as homelike as is possible in dealing with a palace-home on such a scale. The immense open fireplace, almost as big as the side of un 01 dinary room, is of wrought iron, with wrought iron grate, fireback and openwork from t robbing behind and above, going back in style to the days before there were mantels. There is always a big tiro glowing red against the blackness, and a heavy carved oaken settle drawn up over against it and carrying out the same idea of the rallying point of tbe family retainers. Mrs. Reid takes to fur where other women run to Turkish rugs, and there are bears’ pelts, black and brown and white, long haired and rough, lying about on the floor and giving the appropriate suggestion of comfort and covering. Big high doorways open into big high drawing rooms; and these are guarded by tapestried hangings, but the general effect is not frittered away by any mere prettiness or pettiness of deco ration. I suppose that Mrs. William C. Whitney s beautiful home, on the corner of Fifty seventh street, has as pretty a hall as any in New’ York, though the house was built several years ago when departures from the older conventionalities in building were far less common than now, and though its cost was much less than that of the V illard man sion. The hall which Mrs. TV hitney has furnished and into which was put a good share of tbe £300,000 expended on the general renovation of the house last year, is rather broad than deep. It has an irregular outline and at the back rises by easy gra :ations a broad stair case with several landings, of beautiful carved wood finish, the finest thing of its sort in the city, I believe. Mrs. Whitney’s hobby is tapestry and next it the subdued blendings of Oriental carpets. She has tapestry hangings on the wall below the staircase, behind it, beside it and in the doorways leading to the drawing room. There are stame.l glass effects in the ball, a costly clock,Jmany pictures, and it is a cozy, homelike place, in spite of its size and rich ness of furnishings. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, on the opposite corner, has treated her hall in somewhat more conventional manner. It is bigger than the Whitney hall, but not so sumptuously furnished as that of the W. K. Vanderbilt house further dowm tbe avenue, which has been described in an English art journal as the finest in America. There is a vase of Russian malachite set in gold in the Vander bilt hall which is worth two or three good sized fortunes. In size, however, any thing in the Vanderbilt houses is dwarfed by the hall of the big new Tiffany house, whose entrance is an enormous arch of huge stones guarded by a heavy iron gate. It looks as if it ought to have a moat and an iron drawbridge to make the thing complete, and perhaps it would if the building laws permitted. Into that yawning archway your carriage disappears. The front steps are inside, so to speak, and the hall, when you have mounted them, is a vast and cavernous place with heavy carvings and elaborate metal work. It dwarfs all attempts to make it look livable, and is ex tremely magnificent but not in the least like a home. Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton has tbe reputa tion of wearing the best gowns in the city. She has devoted herself to her hall with equal zeal. It is one of the most successful halls in New York. The Drayton house is a modernized block house, one of the most noticeable of the newer block houses on the avenue. It is not above thirty or thirty-five feet wide, but the hall, without robbing the drawing rooms of their just proportions, is a pretty apartment, prettily furnished, with the same regard to a harmony of materials and colors which has established Mrs. Dray ton’s reputation for good taste. So much attention is being paid to hall architecture, and New York women have come to lay so much stress on hall decora tion that the mistresses of mansions with the old fashioned straight halls are trying to give them more of a roomy appearance, or, at least, to diguise the narrow passage and the nou-sesthetiq front staircase by rich valances hung across the foot of the stair way or by portieres. This is a simple device and a pretty one. Mrs. Cyrus VV. Field has used it to advantage in the big Field house, in Gramerey park. Another easily made reformation”is to throw a broad landing into the stair near the bottom and approach it by one or two steps from the side. The house of Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts, the fascinating fS,OOU,OOO widow, and the Belmont house, which stand on adjacent corners of Fifth avenue, disdain such devices. Those, with tbe city house which Mrs. George Gould enjoys more than Mrs. Jay Gould ever did, are relics of the days before land was divided into such narrow lots. Their halls are wide, spacious, with broad, straight stairways and with modem oak furnishing, but strictly of the old fashioned order, without “features,” and not intended tor family gathering places. Some of the newer halls are chimney corners in the most homelike sense of the word. If the house is narrow there is a small reception room in front, with a narrow entrance hall running bock to the staircase hall, which occupies the full width of the house. This hull, in one pretty example of which lam thinking, is furnished as the family sitting-room. It has an open tire, with carved over mantel on one side facing the stairway, which runs up on the other. It lias an upright clock. Turkish carpeting, lounging chairs and book-strewn centre table, etagere of bric-a-brac, paintings and etchings, every evidence of constant daily o vupation. The more formal parlor suite is behind it, but tho hall is the most attractive spot in the house. It is not an unknown thing to give up the whole first floor, as in the Kneoland house near the avenue, to the hall, putting the parlor on the second floor. Whether tho hall be big or little, its furnishing is a thing to which its mistress is giving much atten tion nowadays. To be quite perfect it should be done up in old oak and I ave "settles’' standing about in room of chairs. ltsh<>u!d haye a big oak table, a sinuller one to hold t ie silver salver on which a guest’s card is taken to the lady of the house and its floor should tie oak polished till It shines. The hall is of quite ns much consequence as the drawing-rooms. Eliza Putnam Heaton. Ciu btlasdt Palmer. of New York, is said to he the richest Socialist in the United (hates. His fortune is estimated at atoeral millions. OCEAN smisil? COMPANY ■ -~FOR—— New York, Boston and Philadelphia. PASSAGE TO NEW VORK. CABIN S2O 00 EXCURSION 32 00 STEERAGE 10 0 FASSAGE TO BOSTON. CABIN S2O 00 EXCURSION 32 00 STEERAGE , 10 00 PASSAGE TO PHILADELPHIA. (via New Yoke). CABIN. .’. . $22 50 EXCURSION 30 00 STEERAGE 12 00 THE magnificent steamships of these lines aro appointed to sail as follows—standard time: TO NEW YORK. CHATTAHOOCHEE. Cant. 11. C. Daooitt. TUSEDAY, Dec. 20. at 10:00 a. m. NACOOCHEE, CaDt. Chas. Bero, FRIDAY, Dee. 23, at 12:30 p. M. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. J. W. Catharine, SUNDAY, Dec. 25, at 2 p. m. TALLAHASSEE. Capt. W. H. Fisher, TUBS DAY, Dee. 27, at 3:30 p. m. TO BOSTON. CITY OF MACON, Capt. H. C. Lewis, THURS DAY, Dec. 22, at 11:30 A. M. GATE CITY". Capt. E. R. Taylor, THURSDAY, Dec. 29, at 5 p. m. TO PHILADELPHIA. [POR FREIGHT ONLY. 1 DESSOUG, Capt. N. F. Howes, WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21. at 11:00 A. M. JUNIATA, Capt. S. L. Assxns, MONDAY, Dec. 23. at 2:30 p. u. Through bills of lading given to Eastern and Northwestern points and to ports of the United Kingdom and the Continent For freight or passage apply to C. G. ANDERSON, Agent, City Exchange Building. Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Com’y. Fop Baltimore. CABIN sl2 50 SECOND CABIN 10 00 A. THF. STEAMSHIPS of this Company are ap pointed to sail from Savannah for Balti more as follows—city time: JOHNS HOPKINS, Capt. Foster, TUESDAY, Dec. 30, at 10 A. M. . W r M. CRANE, Capt Billups, FRIDAY, Dec. 23, at 1 p. a. WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Snow, TUESDAY, Dec. 27 at 4 p. M. GEO. APPOLD, Capt. Fielps, FRIDAY, Dec. 30, at 6 p. M. And from Baltimore every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 3 p. M. Through bills lading given to all points West, all the manufacturing towns in New England, and to porta of the United Kingdom and the Continent JAS. B. WEST & CO., Agents, 114 Bay street. SKA. ISLAND It O U TE. STEAMER ST. NICHOLAS, Capt. M. P. USINA, /■COMMENCING MONDAY, Oct. 81, will leave VV Savannah from wharf foot of Lincoln street for DOBOY. DARIEN. BRUNSWICK and FERNANDINA, every MONDAY and THURSDAY at 4 p. m., city time, con necting at Savannah with New York. Philadel phia. Boston and Baltimore steamers, at Fer nandina with rail for Jacksonville and all points in Florida, and at Brunswick with steamer for fcatilla river. freight received till 3:30 r. u. on days of sail ing. Tickets on wharf and boat. C. WILLIAMS. Agent. PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE Tampa, Key West, Havana. SIAM l- WEEKLY. SOUTH BOUND. Lv Tampa Monday and Thursday 9:30 p. m. Ar Key West Tuesday and Friday 4 p. m. Ar Havana Wednesday and Kutiu-day 6 a. m. NORTHBOUND. Lv Havana Wednesday and Saturday noon. Lv Key West Wednesday nnd Saturday 10 p.m. Ar Tampa Thursday and Sunday 6 p. m. Connecting at Tamm with West India Fast Tmin to anil from Northern and Eastern cities. For stateroom accommodations apply to City Ticket Office S., F. & W. R’y, Jacksonville, or Agent Plant Steamship Line, Tampa. C. D. OWENS, Traffic Manager. H. S. HAINES, General Manager. May 1, 1887. _ For Charleston, Beaufort & Port Royal. CTEAHtK PILOT BOY, CAPT. F. I>. Pnn.urs. ' will leave Savannah every FRIDAY niter noon at 3 o’clock, from wharf foot of Abercorn street. Rates as low as any other line. GEO. W'ATKRHOUSK. AoT.. Beaufort. For Augusta and Way Landings. STEA ME R K A T I E. Capt. J. S. BEVILL, \\riLL leave EVERY WEDNESDAY at 10 v> o'clock a. m. (.city tuna) for Augusta Jid way landings. All freights payable by shippers, JOHN LAWTON, Manager. Niederlandisch-Amerikanische Damp fscbiff-fahrts-Geselischaft Koeniglich - Nisderlaendischc Post, RiUige Route nach und von Deutecltland. Postdampfer aegein von New York und Holland jeden Sonnabend. 1. Cajuete (cinzeine Fahrt) $42 I Esteurbillets *n 2. " “ “ 52 I•• t>o zwischendeck 10 deu billigsten Frelsco. GEN. AGENTUR: 25 South William street, New York. OEN. PASS AGENTUR: IK and 20 Broadway, New York. AGENTEN: At Snvannab. Ga. JOSEPH COHEN A CO., and M. S. COSUUCH A CO. | AOR SALE, Old Newspaimrs. just the thing I for wrappers, only 15 cents a himdreJ, 'M loti* cent*, at tu business office. I SHIPPING. Compagnie Generale Transatlaivtique —French Line 1o Havre. HKTWKKN N>w York awl Havre. from pier No. U. N. i'., foot of Morton street.. Trav elers hy ibis line avoid both transit by Knglish railway and the discomfort of crossing ihe Channel in a small boat. Special train leaving the Company's dock at Havre direct for Dario on arrival of steamer;. Baggage checked at New York through to Piirifi. LA NoK.ilA.VblL, uk.Kkrkabikc, SATUR DAY, Decemi)tr 17. 7a. m. LA B 'YNK, Frangeul SATURDAY, December JK, I i>, m LA < UAMPAGNE, Traub, SATURDAY, December Ml. a. m. PRICE OK PASSAGE (including wine': TO HAVRE Kirs.. Cabin, Winter rate slooand s**o; Second Cabin. s<>o; Steerage from Now York to Havre, s;.* : Steerage from New York to Paris, S2O <0: includiur wine, bedding and utensils. LOUIS DE BEBI.VN, Agent, Bowling Green, foot of Broadway, New York. Or J. C. SHAW, ‘A Bull st reet. Messrs. WILDER &, CO.. 120 Bay street, Savannah Agents. RAILROADS. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia R. 11. GEORGIA DIVISION. The Shortest Line BETWEEN Savannah & Atlanta. * /COMMENCING Nor. 27. 1887, the following Y Schedule will be in effect: EASTERN LINE Fast Night Express. Express. I.v Savannah 7:00 a m 1:30 p m 7:35 p m Ar Jesup 8:12 ain 3:2) p m 9:55 pm Lv Jesup . 3:35 pm 3:30 am Ar Brunswick 5:35 p m 6:00 am l.v Jesup 12:50 pm 11:07 n m Ar Eastman 4:16 pm 2:00 am Ar Cochran 4:58 pm 2:37 am Ar HawkinsviUe. 6:00 pm 11:50 am Lv HawkinsviUe . 4:00 pm Or oam 11:15am Ar Macon 6:85 P m 8:u0 ain 8:55 a m Lv Macon 6:45 and m 8::0ain 4:oOam Ar Atlanta 10:10 pm 11:10am 7:80 a m Lv Atlanta 1U:20 pin 1:05 pin 7:40 a m Ar Rome I:l6am 4:lopm 10:40am Ar Dalton 2:54 am 5:30 pm 12:thJ n n Ar Chattanooga... 4:54 a m 7:oupm 1:35 pm Lv Chattanooga... 9:3oam 10:00pm Ar Knoxville 1:50 pin 2:00 a m Ar Bristol 7:35 p m 6:20 am Ar Roanoke 2:15 am 12:45 pm Ar Natural Bridge 3:54 a m 2:29 pin Ar Waynesboro ... 6:20 am 4:20 pin At Luray 7:soam 6:43pm Ar Shenando’J'u. 10:53am 9:Bspm Ar Hagerstown.... 11:55 pin 10:30 pm ........ Ar Harrisburg 3:30 pm 1:20 am Ar Philadelphia. ... 6:50 pm 4:45 am Ar New York 9:35 pm 7:00a m Lv Roanoke 2:20 am 12:80nooo Ar Lynchburg 4:3oam 2:45pm , Ar Washington 12: OOnoon 9:40 p m Ar Baltimore 12:05 n’n 11:5 pm Ar Philadelphia... 2:2opm 3:ooam Ar New York. ... 5:80 pm 6:20 a r.i Lv Lynchburg 6:15 am 3:05 pm Ar Burkville 9:20 am 5:27 pm Ar Petersburg 11:10 am 7:15 pm Ar Norfolk 2:25 p m 10:00 pm Via Memphis and Charleston K. R. Lv Chattanooga... 9:25 am 7:10 pm Ar Memphis 9:lspm 6:loam Ar Little Book 7:10 a m 12:55 pm Via K. C.,~F. sLand O. R. R Lv Memphis 10:30 am Ar Kansas City 7:10 a pi Via Cin. So. K‘y. Lv Chattanooga... s:ooam , :10 pm 9:ooam Ar. Louisville 6:42pm 6:Boam 6:lspm Ar Cincinnati 6:50 pin 6:60 ain 6:42 pin Ar Chicago 6:50 am 6:50 p m 6:soam Ar St. Louis 6:soam 6:40 pm 6:soam Train leaving Savannah 7:36 p m, arriving at Chattanooga 1:85 p m. makes close connection with N. C. & S. L. for Sewanee, Mouteagle, Nashville. St. Louis and Chicago. Pullman or Mann sleeping cars leave as follows: Brunswick at 10:50 a m. and Jesup at 12:50 and m for Chattanooga and Cincin nati. Rome at 4:10 p m for Wash ington via Lynchburg: Chattanooga at 10:00 p m for Washington via Lynchburg: also one tor New York via Shenandoah Valley, and at 9:30 a m for Washington via Lynchburg; Chatta nooga at 7:10 p m for Tattle Rock; Brunswick at 8:30 p m for Atlanta; Jacksonville at 7 p. m. and Jesuuat 11:07 p. m. for Cincinnati. B. W. WRENN, G. P. & T. A., Knoxville, Tenn. L. J. ELLIS. A. O. T. A., Atlanta. 8U BURBAN RAILWAYS. City and Suburban Railway. Ravanxah, Ga., Nov. 5, 1887. ON and after MONDAY, November 7, the following schedule will be run on the Out side Line: LEAVE | ARRIVE ] LEAVE ISLE: LEAVE CITY. j CITY. IOF HOPE. MONTGOMERY 10:25 a. in. 8:40 a. ni. ! 8:15 a. in. j 7:50 a. m. *t7:oop.m.| 2:00 p. m. ' 1:30 p. m. | 1:00 p. m Every Monday morning there will Ikj a train for Montgomery at 7:00 a. m. Saturday and Sunday's trains will be run leaving city at 3:25 p. in., and returning leave Montgomery at 5:00 p. m. and Isle of Hope at 5:80 p. m. ♦This train will be omitted Sundays. +On Saturdays* this train leaves city at 7:30 p. m. J. H. JOHNSTON, President. Coast Line Railroad. Suburban Sohedule. CATHEDRAL CEMETERY', BONAVENTURE AND THUNDERBOLT. The following schedule will be observed on and after MIDDAY, Oct. 3, 1887, week days. (See special schedule for Sunday.) I .cave Savannah (.city time), 7:10, 10:35, a, 3:00, 4:00, *6:35 r. m. I-cave Thunderbolt, 5:50, 8:00 A. M., 12:20, 4:00, t6:40 p. M. lave Bonaventure, 6:00. 8:10 A. 12:30,4:10, 6:50 p. m. ♦Saturday night last car leaves city 7:15. in stead pf 6:35 ILast car leaves Thunderbolt 5:40, instead of 6:20, as formerly. Take Broughton street ears 25 minutes before departure of Suburban trains. R. E. COBB. Supt. COTTON SEED WANTED. x ® oeJhts Per Bushel (sl2 per ton) paid for good mm Delivered In Carload Lots as Southern Colton Oil Cos. Mills —IT— SAVANNAH, GA., ATLANTA, GA., COLUMBUS, GA. Price subject to change unless notified of ac ceptance for certain quantity to be shipped by a future date. Address nearest mill as above. McDoibU & Ballantyne, IRON FOUNDERS, Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blacksmiths, MANUFACTUREES OF STATIONARY and PORTABLE ENGINES, VERTICAL and TOP-RUNNING CORN MILLS, SUGAR MILLS and FANS. A GENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, ths !i ™'P; <w t and most effective on the market; GuUett Ught Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the best in the market. PWel Urt.™ • srom P tl P attended to. Send fer j RAILROADS, cn 6li ED UL CKNTHAL RAILROAD. Os. . . .Savansap. Ga.. Oct. 16, ISS7. N and after this date Passenger Trains will run daily unless marked 1, which are daily, except Simday. * (s*?^ dar, J t,me - whteh these (.rainsrun. Is 36 minutes slower than Savannah city time; r „ No. I. No. 3. No 7 " I.v Savannah.. 7:lo am 8:20 pm sm A™ Ar Guyton. . 8:07 am a'fn 0m aUP""- ■ .9:40 am lUm'pm I””;" Ar Augusta. .11: ,5 am 6:45 am p “ Ar Macon I:4opm 3:2oam * Ar Atlanta 5:40 pm 7:13 am * Ar Columbus . 9:37 pm 2f spm * Ar Montgry..7:2s am 7:13 pm * Ar Eufaula...4:37am 4:lOptu ~ Ar Albany ll:(Lpm 2:55pm * * Train No. 9+ leaves Bavarinah~2:oo n. m . " rives Guyton 2:53 p. m. 1 ” Passengers for Syivanla, Wrightsviße, wn. ledge vilie audEatontou should take 7:10 am train. LUm Passengers for Thomaston, (Arrollton. Peers Fort Haines, Talbolton, Buena Vista Rlakn? and Clayton should take the 8:20 p. m . train 7 No. 2. No. 4. No T ~ Lv Augusta 12:10 pm 9:10 Din 1 Lv Macon. ..10:35am 11:00pm * Lv Atlanta., 6:50 am 7:15 Dm * LvColumbus 10;30 inn 12: ,7 nm * I.v Montgry. 7:25 pm 7:4oam 1 * Lv Eufaula. .10:1’pm 10:47 am . * l.v Albany.. 4:45 am 11:55 am * Lv Milieu. .. 2:28 pm B:2oam i.kk Lv Guyton 4:03 pm 5:0, am . gISJ® Ar Savannah 5:00 pm 6:15 am 8 ;O0 am Train No. lot leaves Guyton 3:10 p m ; arrival Savannah 4:25 p. m. y arrive* Sleeping cars on nil night trains between Sa vannah Augusta, Macon and Atlanta, also Mi con and Comm bus. Train No. 3 leaving Savannah at R : 2O n m wi 1 stop regularly at Guyton, but at no other ImlMillen between Savannah Train No 4 will stop on signal at stations be tween Milieu and Savannah to take on paa*n. gers tor Savannah 1 Connections at Savannah with Savannah. Florida. Western Railway for all potutThl Tickets for all point? and sleeping car he,+h on sale at City Office, No. 2(5 BiSl Depot Office 30 minutes before each train. U 1 CUF.O. NUNGEZER, fc. T. CHARLTON. Ticket Agent. Geo. Pass. Agent. Savannah, Florida & Western Railway. [All trains on this road are run by Central Standard Time.] ''riME CARD IN EFFECT NOV 13, 1887 trains on this road will run dally WEST INDIA FAST MAIL. read rp. ™ *' v -Savannah Ar 12:23 p m Jacksonville Lv 7:30a ni 9-iOpm Ar Tampa Lv 8:10 pm PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE. pmf Lv... Tampa... .Ar -J J^ ,rs Tuesday and I Key West lv S Inday pmf Ar.. Key West..Lv ® Sat. 1168 \ Ar --Havana.. .Lv t> H i .w a i o&t., noon i unman buffet cars to and from New Yurie and Tampa. NEW ORLEANS EXPRESS. 7:o6am I.v Savannah ..Ar 7:sßpm 6.4~ a m I.v . Jesup Ar 6:16 and m 9,60 am Ar Waycross Lv 6:66 p m ivim “ m 4 Callahan '.Lv~ 2:42 pia 12.00 noonAr Jacksonville Lv 2:Copm J-’Oam Lv lacksonville Ar 7:45pm JS:i2 am ! ,v Waycross. .. 7.'.Ar 4:4opm o'St P 111 l' 7 Valdosta Lv 2:56 pin -w '! m V V -Quitman Lv 2:28 p m JAlpm Ar Thoinasvllle. .Lv 1:45 p m 3:80 pm Ar .Bktabridge Ly n:25 am A J ■■■ Chattahoochee. .I.v 11:80 a m YYillman buffet cars to and from JacksonviUa and New Y ork, to and from Jacksonville audL New Orleans via Pensacola. EAST FLORIDA EXPRESS. J' v Savannah Ar 12:23 p m 8.90 pm Lv Jesup Lv 10 51a m 4:40 p m Ar....... Waycross Lv 9:53 ain 7:45 pm Ar Jacksonville Lv'fSiOa 4:lspm Lv. .Jacksonville Ar 9:45am 1:22 P® l' v Waycross. Ar~6:Bsa m H.ao pr" Ar Dupont iLv 5:80a m _:g pui Lv Take Cit). . Ai r lo:4s a~in 3:4.5 pm I.v Gainesidlje Ar 10:80* nt 6.5a p m Lv. ...Live Oak Ar 7:loam in-v f m _-Dupont. .. ITZaFTm* n ’V‘55 P lll Ar Thomasvilie Lv 3:25 atn Af Albany Lv l:2oam 1 ullnian buffet cars to aud from Jacksonville and St. Louis via ThomasviUe, Albany, Mon 6 goniery uud Naahville. ALBANY EXPRESS. Savannah. Ar 6:10a nt 10.06 pm Lv Jesup Lv S:18a it* . .2u ain Ar Atlanta Lv 7:05 pn* 12:40am Ar Wayoroes. . .Lv 12:10 am Ar lacksonville Lv 7:oopm i .00 p m Lv Jacksonville Ar 7:25 a in 1:( ain Lv Waycross. . ....Ar 11:30p~n i ll Ar Dupont. r ..Lv 10:10 p m tn.snfH! Ar .Live 0U......LV 6:56pm 10.80a m Ar Gainesville Lv 3:45 p m I0:<5 am Ar Lake City.,. ~j,v 8:25 p m J;SS* m I . v Thipont 1 ..Ar :pm , ?■*} in Ar Thomasville I,v 7:00 pin 11:40a m Ar.... Albany Lv 4:00p ra Stops at all regular stations. Pullman Sleeping cars to and from Jacksonville and Sa vannah. JESUP EXPRESS. 3:45 pmLv Savannah Ar 8:30a w 6 - ! .° p ™ Ar, Jesup Lv 6:36a u btops at all regular and dag stations. CONNECTIONS. At Savannah for Charleston at 6:45 am, (ar rive Augusta via \ em.issee at 1 : p m), 12: H p m and 8:23 Dm: for Augusta and Atlanta at G O a m and 8:30 jp ra: with steamship* for New \ ork Smiday, Tuesday and Friday; for Boston Thiii-sday; for Baltimore every fifth day. At J ESUP for Brunswick at 3:30 a m and 3:35 pm; for .Macon and Atlanta -: 0a m and 11:07 p m. At WAYCROSSforßrunswickat 10:00a mand 5:05 p m. , At CALLAHAN for Femandinaat 2:47 pm; for Waldo, Cedar Key, Ocala, etc , at 11:27 a m. At LIVE OAK for Madison, Tallahassee, eta, at 10:58 a in and 7:30 p m. AtGAINKSVILLFiror Ocala, Tavares, Brook* vide and Tampa at 10:55 a m. At ALBANY for Atlanta, Macon, Monfgonl ery, Mobile, New Orleans, Nashville, etc. At CII ATT A HOOCH EE for Pensacola Mobile, New (Irleans at 4:14 p m. Tickets sold and sleeping car berths secure! at BREN’S Ticket Office, and at the Passenger Station. WMJ. HARDEE, Gen. Pass. Agent. P. G. FLEMING Superintendent. Charleston & Savannah Kailway lio. (AON SECTIONS made al Savannah wifhSv vamiah, Florila and Western Railway Trains leave and arrive at Savannah by stand ard time (90th meridian), which is 3tl minute* slower than city time. NORTHWARD. No. 14* 66* 78* Lv Sav’h. ..12:4.3 p m 6:45 am 8:23 pm Ar Augusta 1 :li p m - Ar Beaufort 5:80 p m 10:1 am - Ar P. Royal :4 pm 10:30 am - Ar Al'dalo.. 7:40 p m .... . 10:5 am. Ar (Jha slou 5: .0 p m 11:40 a m 1:25 a m SOUTHWARD. 88* 85* 27* Lv Cha’ston T:3O ara 8:15 p m 3:45 a m Lv Augusta t :45 .. - Lv Al’dale.. 5: 1 a m 12:12p Lv P. Royal. 7:00a in 12:20pm - Lv Beaut ort 7:12 a m 12:38 pm Ar Sav'li., .10: am 6:34 p m 6:41 au •Daily between Savannah and Charleston. fSundays only. Train No. 78 makes no connection with Port Royal and Augusta Railway, and stops only at Kidgeland, Green Pond and Bavenel. Train 1J stops only at Yemasseo and Green Pond, and connects ror Beaufort and Port Royal dally, and for Allendale daily, e.-tcept Sunday. Trains 31 and 66 connect from and for Beaufort aud Port Royal dally. i or tickets, sleeping car reservations and all other information apply to WM. BREN, Special Ticket Agent, 22 Bull street, and at Charleston and Savannah rail way ticket office; at Savannah, Florida uni Western RailwaJ detot. C. S. GADSDEN, Supt. JINB6, 188L^^ mm KIESLING’S NURSERY, Whit,© Bluifl' Road. PLANTS. BOUQUETS, DESIGNS, COT FliOW ERW furnished to order. Leave OP ti, iv at DAVIS BROS,’, corner Bull aud Yot‘4 BUTcts, Teat-hone t*U 2*o.