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GOLD WATCHES ARL COMMON. They Are Cheaper Than They Were, and Everybody Has One. From the Nov York Sun. Only a few years ago the owner of a gold vawli was regarded a wealthy individual. It is not so now. In fact, nearly everybody carries a gold watch or the semblance of one nowadays, and owners of silver-cased watches are just a trifle ashamed to expose them to view. The young man with a gold watch consults it frequently and ostenta tiously, while the owner of a silver watch slyly takes it from his pocket, holds It well concealed in the palm of his hand and glances at it under the shadow of his coat. “Are gold watches so much cheaper than they were ten or a dozen years ago that everybody should have one.'” was asked last week of a down town-dealer in watches. “They are certainly cheaper,' 1 he an swered “but that is not the whole reason why they are so much commoner now than they were a few years ago. The truth of the matter is that there is a regular boom in gold watches, and it has been increasing steadily for two or three years. There has been a marvellous increase in the demand, and the big watch companies are all as busy as they can be turning out movements. The casemakers can scarcely keep up with them. A score of watch case factories are turning out hundreds of cases every day, and yet are behind their orders. I confess it puzzles me to conceive where they all go to, for a good watch wiil certainly last the purchaser half his life-time at least, and the popula tion does not appear to me to be increasing a tenth part as fast as these watches are turned out. “One thing that has boomed the watch business, and especially the sale of gold cases, is the watch club system. It has not only sold hundreds of thousands of watches in the peculiar manner in which the system is conducted, but it has stirred up a spirit of emulation and created a general desire to own a gold watch. Killy Smith is a carriage trimmer and earns sls a week. He joins a watch club and in a month or two gets a §6O gold watch by paying $1 a week. One or two of his companions become envious, and having money saved, they go and buy watches of a little better grade than Billys nt a higher cost. That is the way it works. Watch clubs have done a great deal for the business in this country and have put gold watches Into the vest pockets of thousands who could never hope to buy them in any other way. It is not like the instalment business. The club maker or dealer does not have to charge an exorbitant price for the watches, and he runs little or no risk, for he never lets a watch go out of his hands without good security in the sig nature of a responsible man, who signs an agreement to assume the debt if the watch holder skips before the last payment is made. Th dealer need not buy a watch until every dollar is paid in for it by the sixty or more members of the club. Then be draws a slip of paper from a box, and the number upon it designates the subscriber who is to have the watch that week. He notifies the lucky member that he has drawn a watch and tells him to bring forth a surety and lie can carry it; but it remains the property of the dealer until the last dollar has been j>aid, and the drawer signs a document to that effect. The following week the collec tion of $1 is made from each member of the club, and another drawing takes place. This business has assumed wonderful pro portions throughout the United States, and now there is scarcely a town without its watch club. Kocues have taken advantage of the scheme, but only in a small way, for they cannot operate more than one week in a place without beinr detec ed, and then the amount is too small to be attractive. I believe the watch club business was started in New Jersey. At all events, there is where it flourishes' most There is one jeweler in Newa k who has had a club busi ness of hearly $15,000 in one year, and this year he thinks it will amount to at least 820,000. He bas five collectors and agents who travel t-irough the St ite get ing subscribers and collecting the weekly in stallments. Railroad men are frequent sub scribers, and the idea of owning a gold watch is extremely fascinating to every prosperous country boy. Most of the watch club men and al fairly with their customers, and give as good value as the ordinary watch dealer. The profit need not be large to satisfy the agent, for the sales are certain and the money is paid in advance. I heard a small dealer say the other day, “I have sold forty-one gold watches this year on the club plan. Last year I sold four. That was Itefore I started in the club scheme.” That is a fair illustration of the present boom in watches. “It amuses me to see a young man with a new gold watch,” said the dealer, consult ing a handsome box cased time-keeper. “He invariably carries it in the chamois leather pout-U which it comes to him in, and is ve y careful to replace it in its covering when ever he looks at it to learn the time, which is on the average about once in ten min utes. After he has had the watch a few weeks the pouch is thrown away, afld it is dollars to dumplings that he does not open the atch twice a day.” “You say that watches are cheaper than a few years ago. How much cheaper are thev?” “Well, if your watch cost $l5O a dozen years ago, you can buy a better one for SIOO to-day; and if it was a SIOO watch then, you would have to pay S6O or for it now. Gold is just the same price per pennyweight now, but movements are much cheaper. "Watch movements of standard American make are away down. Without mentioning any names, I will tell you that the move ments in common use in gold watches of the cheapest grade are from $lO to $22 each, and some of the best movements are worth at wholesale about S3O or $35. Of course, you can get the finest American movements up in the high figures yet, but the best will not exceed SBS, and you will not see one of them in a watch in a year. A watch casting S6O at retail will probably have a #lO movement in it. • It wi 1 bo cased in solid fourteen karat gold if the dealer is giving you the worth of your money and the case will weigh from forty-five to fifty pennyweights. That at presen' rates will leave him a good profit ■with which he should be contented. Eighteen karat gold will cost the dealer 26c. a penny weight more tnnn fourteen kai at, and it will be no advantage to the wearer of the watch.” “Is there not fraud in watch eases?” “Yes, lam sorry to say that there is. Some unprincipled makers recently sent out circulars offering to stamp cases with any karat mark desired by the retailers, and explaining what their regular marks meant. They used such marks as ‘lB k’ and ‘lB kt, 1 ‘l4 k" and *l4 kt,’and each mark meant a grossly different quality of case. Tor instance, a case made of 10-fcarat gold outside and 8-karat inside would be marked 14 k, while a case constructed of 14 and 10-carat gold would be marked 18 k. and a solid 14-carat case would be stamped 18 kt. This is all illegitimate work and would not be allowed in Europe; but here there is no law regulating such matters, and the deceived purchaser may only sue for the wrong. The market is flooded with cheap cases, which, in the lan guage of the Original Jacobs, are‘all gold what you see of them. 1 They are a product of the ingenuity and progress of the age. A bar of composition is faced on each side with gold, which is firmly soldered to the surface of the baser metal. This bar is then rolled down into a thin she t, from which the cases are made. Some of this Plating is so heavy that tbo manufacturers have no hesituucy m guaranteeing it to weai’ for twenty voars without showing up the base metal, fracticallv these cases are as good as solid gold. They lo ik fully as well, and no doubt frequently eell for solid cases. It is by this process that the 835 gold watches are put on the market. Sometimes the quality of the gold differs on the inside and outside of the cases, aud this further di minishes the price. Case making has been reduced to a science in the last few years and the cost of production reduced fully one half. It is seldom that a case uiuuufac ttti’er has uny interest iu u watch factory. lie makes his cases to fit the standard American sizes of movements, which are, strange to say. uniform in the various makes. .V watchmaker can go into Maiden Lane and buy a half a i eck of movements of different American makers and then buy a half bushel of assorted cases, and every movement will fit a case as if it was made for it, as of old. This system of production has been of great bei efft to everybody con cerned in the manufacture and sale of watches. “Watchmakers, casemakers and, whole salers are very careful not to let their price lists and catalogues get into the hands of any but regular dealers, and it will require considerable misrepresentation to enable an outsider to get a list or buy a movement 01- ease at wholesale rates. With the cash in his hand he will be called upon to produce a jeweller's or watchmaker’s card, aid then to identify himself as a representative) of the man or firm whose name he uses. This is necessary to protect the retailers, and the business has been so abused iu late years that some such course had to be adopted. I have heard of cases where men had bogus cards printed to enable them to buy a watch at wholesale rates, and I have no doubt that forgery has been resorted to for the same purpose where cash was paid for the watch aud a forged order presented.” HOW THE STATES RATIFIED. A Series of Centenaries of the Consti tution Now Passing. from the New York Sun. Washington, Dec. 18. —It is possible that the example just set by New Jersey in cele brating the hundredth anniversary of hor ratification of the Federal constitution will now be followed by other States. There is good ground for observing the whole series of similar centennial e.ents, at least by ceremonies of simple commemoration like those held at New Brunswick, without elaborate preparation or pretense. While the constitution was conpleted and signed by the Philadelphia Convention on Sept 17, 178 <, that act gave it no operative force. It was still only a docum nt for consideration by the States individually, and somewhat in the position of a bill in Congress drawn up and reported favorably by a very influential committee. A great difference, of course, was that the States were to accept or reject it as a whole, and could not amend it, although they were at liberty to suggest amendments. The seventh and final article of the Instrument as framed required the ratifications of nine out of the thirteen States in order to make it binding between the States to ratifying. While a sufficient number of ratifications was gen erally hoped for, the matter was not free from doubt. There had been fierce dissen sions during the process of framing, and, although the final words of the document showed that it was “done in convention by the unanimous consent of the Sta, es pres ent,” only thirty-nine out of fifty-five mem bers actually signed it, even after Franklin's final appeal for signatures to the engrossed cony. It is remarkable, therefore, that the cen tenaries of any of these State ratifications should have been allowed to pass without public notice, in view of the importance of these acts and of the anxiety with which they were successively awaited. It is especially singular that little Delaware, which has the honor of being the first of the thirteen States to awe •* uie constitution, which she did on Dec. 7,1787, should not have made something of the centenary of her ac tion. The case oi Pennsylvania, which rattified fivo daj-s after Delawa e, is a little different, since she inn so recently held a great celebration in honor of the framing of the constitution, as to lie able to past in silence her individual ratification of it. But Delaware not only led the way for her great sister 8 .ates, but adopted tue constitution by a unanimous vote, whereas Pennsyl vania’s convention accepted it after hot debates, only by a vote of 46 to 23. New Jersey was the third State to ratify, and she, like Delaware, did so unanimously. The date was 100 years ago to-day, Dec. 18; but as this was to fall on Sunday, the New Brunswick celebration was held on Friday, Dec. 16, and Dec. 16, by the way, was on Sunday in 1787. The year 1788 opened with two ratifica- by a unanimous vote on Jan. 2, and Connecticut’s by 128 to 40 a week later. On Feb. 6, came the ratifica tion of Massachusetts, which was regarued everywhere as of great importance, there v.eing two well-defined opinions in the State, turning largely on the powers delegated bv the States to the central government uud>-r the new constitut.on. Toe contention was remarkable for the high character and ability of its members, and a popular pressure was exerted on it by a gr at pop ular meeting of Boston mechanics in favor of the new constitution. After very careful consideration of the instrument, paragraph by paragraph, the convention ratified it by 187 votes against 168. The vote was close, and the majority was no doubt helped by the outside demonstrations, and by their consenting to recommend no fewer than nine amendments, which satisfied some ob jectors. 1 Three rrore Slate ratifications were then needed. These came slowly, a period of nearly three months intervening before the first. On April 28, 1788, Maryland’s con vention accepted the constitution by a vote of 3 against 12, without suggesting amend ments. This made seven States secure, aud the current anxiety was expressed in the concluding number of the famous series of papers that had been publ.shed in New York since the beginning of the year, and called, when afterward collected in a volume, The Federalist. “In so arduous an enterprise,” said the writer. “I cau re concile it lo no nfies of prudence, to let go the hold we now have upon seven out of the thirteen States, and, after having passed over so considerable a part of the ground, to recommence the course.” Tins was in view of the talk of anew convention to modify the work of the old one, and also of possible unfavorable action by the im portant States of New York and Virginia. South Carolina came with her share to the work of May 23 by a vote of 149 to 73, accompanied by the proposal of a few amendments. Not quite a month later, June 21, New Hampshire, whose action was no doubt largely influenced by that of Massa chusetts, followed with a vote of 57 to 46. GIVEN UP BY PHYSICIANS. A Lady In Milton, Fla., Whose Life Had Been Despaired of Saved by Prickly Ash, Poke Root, Potassium. Milton. Fla., Jan. 20, 1886. This is to certify that 1 have been af flicted with Scrofula, or Blood Poison, for a number of yeare. The best physi cians of Mobile and this city said noth ing could be done for me. 1 also took a large quantity of S. 8. S., but found no relief iu anything that I took. My lir b* were a mass of ulcers, and when I was sent to a physician at Mobile qiy entire body was a mass of sores. I had given up all hopes, and as a last resort tried P. P. P. (Prickly Ash. Poke Root and Potas sium), and after using four bottles (small size) the sores have entirely disappeared, and my general health was never better than at the present time, and people that know me think it a wonderful cure. Respectfully, ELIZA TODD. P. P. P. is the only perfect cure for ail Blood Diseases. It will cure when all other remedies have failed. P. P. P. give? new life to the sick, increases the appetite, aids digestion and builds up the entire system. For sale by all Druggists. Dr. Whitehead can be consulted daily at the office of the Company, Odd Fellows’ Hall Building, without charge. Prescrip tions and examination free. All inquirie? by mail will also receive his personal atten tion. The man that couldn’t tell tfie difference between a mule’s ears and a lemon can plainly see the advantages of buying his Shoes at Rosenheim’s, alter examiiung their goods and learning their prices. Let her go, Murphy, It’s got a wooden foot! Complete line of Che volt Suits, sacks and cutaways, at Appel & Schaul’s, One Price CloUuen. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1887. MEDICAL.. A Valuable Resource for the Sick. Among the many resources which medical skill has made available for the Rick and de bilitated, none rank higher than Simmons Liver Regulator, a comprehensive remedy for Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Constipation, Chills and Fever, Debility, Nervousness, Sick Headache, and other ailments attributed to Biliousness. PURELY VEGETABLE. It relaxes the bowels without griping, purifies a bilious breath and completely relieves the many indescribable symptoms which torment Riitferers from Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint atul Kidney troubles! It also effectually removes those nervous symptoms felt wlieu bile is im perfectly secreted or is misdirected. ISC' 1 temand the GENUINE, which has our Z Trade Mark iu red ou front of Wrapper. .1. H. ZKILIN & CO., Sole Proprietors. Philadelphia, Pa. CURE tw. DE A F PECK S PATENT IMPROVED CUSHIONED EAR DRUMS perfectly restore the hearing and perform the work of the natural drum. In visible, comfortable and always in position. All conversation and even whispers heard distinct ly. Send for illustrated book with testimonials FREE. Address or call on F. HISCOX SSJ Broadway, New York. Mention this paper. BROU’S INJECTION. HYGIENIC, INFALLIBLE & PRESERVATIVE. Cures promptly, without additional treatment, all receut or chronic diecharvesof the Urinary onrans. J- Ferre. (Hucceweor to Brou), Mnrmucien, Paris, bold by arumristH throughout the United States. 'pianos. , Tbe World-Renowned Piano’s Palrons: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND. THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA. THE QUEEN Of SPAIN. THE SULTAN OF TURKEY. THE EMPEROR OF CHINA. THE KING OF SWEDEN. THE KING OF WURTEMBERG. MME, de ROTHSCHILD. SIR LIONEL nE ROTHSCHILD. BARON NATHANIEL de ROTHSCHILD. The Larges! Piano Factory in the World THE BEST AND MOST ARTISTIC PIANOS MANUFACTURED. Schreiner’s Music House A OK NTS. • CLOTHING. We invite attention to our stock of CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS ' AND HATS. Perfect and complete in every detail, containing goods to suit all conditions and builds of Men, Boys and Children, and many handsome and ser viceable novelties, appropriate and useful gifts for the ap proaching Holidays, We will be pleased to show anyone through our stock. Respect fully, I fill 4 SIS. GRAIN AND HAY. A. B. HULL, Agent Hazard Powder Cos., —WIOLKSALE DEALER IN— FuOUR, HAY.GRA.N, RICE, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. MILL STUFFS of all kinds. Genuine TEXAS RED RUST i'K'K’F SEED OATS. Special prices carload lots HAY aud ' IRAIN. Prompt attention given all orders and satis faction guaranteed. OFFICE, 5 ABERCORN STREET. WAREHOUSE. XO. 4 WADLEY STREET, ON LINE CENTRAL RAILROAD. CORN EYES, A Car-Load just arrived. Send in Your Order. Also, BRAN, PEAS, HAY, CORN AND OATS. T. I. DAVIS & CO., 173 BAY STREET, BRICK. Wm. P Bailey & Cos., BRICK MANUFACTURERS, KEF-P CONSTANTLY ON HAND, in large quantities, at their yard on the SPRING FIELD PLANTATION, and will deliver the same in any port of the city upon the shortest notice. Tbo best Well Brick. Pressed Brick, Hard Brown Brick, Gray Brick, Soft Brown Brick. Omo*—Corner Bull and Broughton, at SI MON GAZAN'S CIGAR STORE, where all or- Cars will voewtve prowot attention. DRY GOODS. We are too Busy to Say Much, But we will say Such Facts that will cause you to spend, your Money with us provided Money is an ob ject to you. Wo have determined not to wait until after Christmas, when nobody wants Winter Goods, to make a closing out sale, but we will do it right now, while thy public stands in need of such goods. We positively have reduced prices on all of our Winter Goods fully one-third, nnd therefore offer such bargains as will do you all good. We will close out at these reductions. Our elegant stock of DRESS GOODS. Our magnificent stock of BLACK SILKS. Our excellent stock of COLORED SILKS. Our beautiful stock of Priestley’s MOU LINING GOODS. Our immense stock of English tailor-made Walking Jackets, Our Plush Jackets and Wraps, Our Newmarkets, Russian Circulars, and our large stock of MISSES’ and CHIL DREN’S GARMENTS. The same reductions—one-third off—we offer in Blank ets, Shawls, Flannels, Ladies’ and Gent’s underwear, Hosiery of all kinds, Comfortables, Housekeeping Goods, Gold-Headed Umbrellas, Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs, etc. NOW !S YOUR TIME FOR REAL BARGAINS. GOODS FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AT OUR BAZAR. Tbo Grainiest Most Exteasive, Tie lost Elegant, AS WELL AS THE CHEAPEST To be found anywhere in the city, We can’t enumerate the articles because the variety is too large. Do not fail to examine our stock; we simply offer you such a line as can only be found in a first-class house in New York. Special Bargains Tliis Week: A 25-cent full regular GENT’S HALF HOSE for .... iOe. A 25-cent full regular LADIES’ HOSE tor 10c. A 25-cent DAMASK TOWEL for - lOe. A 25-cent CHILDKEN’3 UNDERSHIRT for 10c. A 25-cent GENT'S UNDERSHIRT for 10a A25 cent NECK SHAWL for - ... lOe. A 25-cent HAIR RRUSH for .sc. A 25-cent RED TWILL FLANNEL for 10c. A PURE LINEN DAMASK NAPKIN for sc. Accent PAPER NEEDLES for lc. A 5-cent PAPER PINS for le. A 50-cent JERSEY for .......... 25c. DAVID WEISBEIN, MILLINERY To the Public. Aopactus for Spring ami Snicr 1888. The unprecedented trade in our Millinery Business dur ing 1887 is owing to the constantly adding of Novelties and the immense increase of our stock, which is doubtless the Largest of Any Retail Millinery in America, exclusive of New York, and our three large floors cannot hold them. Already our importations. Direct from Europe, are ar riving, and on Our Third Floor we arc opening Novelties for Spring and Summer in Ribbons, French Flowers and Feathers in the Most Beautiful and Novel Shades. We are sorry to be compelled, for want of room, to close our Winter Season so soon, which has been so very successful, and from to-day all our Felt Hats, Fancy Feathers and Trimmed Hats will be sold at any price. Our Ribbon Sale will continue until further notice. B. KROUSKOFF, MAMMOTH MILLINERY HOUSE. i uitviTUHK, Carpets, matting, etc. CARPETS! CARPETS! Now is the time for Bargains in Carpets. A fine selection of Cotton Chains, Union’s Extra Supers, All Wool, Two and Three- Flys, Tapestries and Body Brus sels just arrived. Our line of Furniture is complete in all its departments. Just received, a carload of Cooking and Heating Stoves. So call on us for Bargains. We don’t in tend to be undersold, for cash or on easy terms. TEEPLE & CO. SASH DOORS, BLINDS, ETC. Vale Royal lanufacturing Cos. I'resident. SAVANNAH, GA. T -WSESw LTJMBER. CYPRESS, OAK, POPLAR, YELLOW PINE, ASH, WALNUT. Manufacturers of sash, doors, bunds, mouldings of aii und* nd description, CASINGS and TRIMMINGS for ail classes of dwelling*. PEWS aud PAW ENDS of our own design and manufacture. T II NED and SCROLL BA LUSTERS, ASil HANDLES for Cotton Hooks, CEILING, FLOORING. WAINSOOTTING, SHINGLES. Warehouse and Up-Town Office: West Broad and Broughton Sts. Factory and Mills: Adjoining Ocean Steamship Co.’s Wharve3_ SPORTING TO SPORTSMEN! \VK HAVE IN STOCK A LARGE ASSORT MENT OF American Breech Loading Gnui English Breech Loading Cans. Boys’ Double and Single Guns. Chamberlain Loaded Shells. Winchester Repeating Rifles. Winchester Repeating Shot Guns. Hunting Coats aud Shoes. Hunters’ Leggins and Caps, 150,000 Paper Shells. For Sale at Lowest Possible Pi-ices. Palmer Bros DUPONT'S POWDErT WOOD POWDER. BEFORE BUYING YOUR Fire Arms and Ammition, And Anyone Wishing to Give Xmas Presents —of— SPORTING GOODS, Caii and See the Stock of 0. S. McAlpin, 31 WHITAKER STREET. Special Attention Given to Loading Shells. COTTON SEEP WANTED. Per Buthel (sl2 per ton) paid for good COHON SEED Delivered in Carload Lots at Southern Cota Oil Cos. Mills —AT— SAVANNAH, GA. f ATLANTA, GA., COLUMBUS, GA. Price subject to charge unless notified of ac ceptance for certain quantity to lie shipped by a future date. Address nearest mill a uliove. ho rau. THE MORRISON HOUSE. N EWLY fitted up offers pleasant South rooms and dxoelleiittiaara to those v. tabic? roflfu lar. trai siont. or tabl*- accommodations. Central ly located on line of street ears, affords easy ae cess to places of business, and suburban resorts. Prices Moderate. < ’orner lirousrhUm and Dray ton streets, opposite Marshall House. PULABKI HOUSB, - fiuvanniiii, Ga., Under New Management. HAVING entirely refitted, refurnished and made such extensive alterations and re pairs, we can justly sav that < iir frienus and patrons v ill find THE PULASKI first elass in ev ry respect. The cuisine and service will be of the character. WATSON & POWERS, Proprietory formerly of Charleston Hotel. NEW HOTEL TOGNI, (Formerly St. Mark’s.) Newnan Street, near Jlay, Jacksonville, Fla. WINTER AND SUMMER. IMIE MOST central House lu the city. Near Post Office, Street ('an. Bid all Ferr-los. New aud Elegant Furniture. Electric Hails, Baths, Eto. $2 60 to $8 per day. JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprietor. GROCERIES. a. DAVIS. J. A DAVIS. (r. DAVIS <Sr SON. WHOLESALE GROCERS, I '.-oviMiotiH. Grain and Hay. A iSO, FEED STUFF, RICE FLOUR, WHEAT A BR.\N. black COW peas, BLACK-EYE PEAK, GEORGIA CROWDERS. CLAY HANK PEAS, VIRGINIA and GEORGIA PEANUT'S. Orders by mail solicited. G. DAVIS 4 SON, 196 and lbrt Bay street, Savannah, Ga. ~~GEoT W. - TIED EM AN~ WHOLESALE Grocer, Provision Dealer i fom’n Merchant, NO. 161 BAY ST., JAVANNAH, OA. Jas. £. Gbadv. Jso. C. DeLettb*. Jas. E. Grady, Jb. GRADY, DuLETTRE & CO., Successors to Holoombk, Grady 4 Cos., 11 riTOI.KSAI.E GROCERS, and rfeaiirs In PRO VISIONS, CORN, Hay, FEED, Etc. Old Stand, comer Bay and Alx rcorn streets, SAVANNAH. GA. BROKERS. IA RT RIDQE. SECURITY BROKER I) UTS AND BELLS on commission all classes > of Stocks and Boride. Negotiates loa. sou marketable securities. New York quotations furnished by private ticker every fifteen minutes. WM. T. WILLIAMS. W. CUMMINO. W. T. WILLIAMS & CO., Brokers. ORDERS EXECUTED on the New York, Chi i-agn and Liverpool Exchamres. Private direct wire to our office. Constant quotations fuom Chicago and New York. COri'ON EXCHANGE. FISII AND OYSTERS. ESTABLISHED ' M. M. SULLIVAN, Wholesale Fish aud Oyster Dealer, ISO Bryaa st. and 182 Bay lane. Savannah, Ga. Kish orders for Cedar Keys received here have prompt attention. * HOLIDAY GOODS. Santa Claus WISHES YOU ALL A Merry Christmas! And he is desirous that you should know that his Headquarters are still at Lindsay & Morgan’s And begs that you Push ahead until you come to the place where is kept the largest and most varied assortment of Useful aud Ornamental Goods, suitable for HOLIDAY PRESENTS, In the city. This Is no idle boast of Santa Claus, aud all we wish you to do is to come and see for yourselves if what he says is not true. ONE HUNDRED Patterns of Fancy Chairs, in all the latest idea* as to materia] and covering. The same amount of Rattan Chairs and kindred goods. Ladies' Desks, Cabinets, Music Racks and Desk Com bined. And we must not forget to mention the extensive assortment of Fancy Tables and Easels. We could keep on enumerating articles in our FURNITURE DEPARTMENT, but as our CARPET DEPARTMENT is replete with so many articles which make an elegant present werannot pass them over—LACE CURTAINB, PORTIERRES. a very handsome line of TABLE COVERS, RUCK of all kinds, MANTEL and TABLE SCARFS, LAMBREQUINS of all styles and prices. VELOCIPEDES, TRICYCLES and WAGONS for the children. Liaflsay & leria A si'll \ I T I* V \ KM ENT. Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving Ca, 114 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK. CONSTRUCT . Genuine Trinidad Asphalt PAVEMENTS. This Pavement has been thor oughly tested in actual ser vice and is found to possess the following points of su periority: Ist. Cheaper than atone blocks equally well laid. 2d. Durability; the company guarantees It for a period of years. Sit. Almost noiseiess under traffic. 4th. The cleanest pavement made. 6th. A perfect sanitary pavement. Being im pervious to water and filth, It cannot exhale in fectious gases. 6th. Easily and perfectly repaired when opened to Inv pljies, etc. 7th. haves wear and tear of herses and vehicles. Btli. Being smoother, less power is required to haul over it than any other pavement. nth. It enhances the value of abutting prop erty more than any other pav<-mi nt. tOfb. It is therefore, all things considered, the best and most economical pavement that can be laid ou any street, whether the traffic ia light or heavy. STOVES. VIMS OVER ALL COMPETITORS —AT THE — ATLANTA EXPOSITION. T'HE first premium awarded to our GRAND 1 TIMES COOK BROADWAY and FOR TUNE KANOK, ('all and see the prize winners. The beat goods and cost less than any offered In this market. The largest stock and best se lections of Cook and Heating (stoves in this city. Cornwell & Cliipman, BANKS. KISSIMMEE C I tTbANK; Kissimmee City, Orange County, Fla. CAPITAL - - - $50,000 t'f'KA.NSACT a regular banking business. (}ivn X particular attention to Florida collectlona. Correspondence solicited. Issue Exchange on New York, New Orleans, Savannah and Jack sonville, Fla. Resident Agents for Coutts & Cos. and Melville, Evans & Cos., of London, England. New York correspondent: The Seaboard National Bank. 1 " I.ISI'-ILJ PLUMBER. l. a. McCarthy. Successor to Chao. E. Wakefield, PLUMBER, GAS and STEAM FITTER* Barnaru street, SAVANNAH. QA. Teleebone 5