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6 ITEMS IX THREE STATES. GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE. Two Colored Brothers Who Ead not Seen Each Other for Forty-one Years Meet by Accident at Grlffln - Notes About Athene and the Athenians—A Historic Trunk. GEORGIA. Athens is bound to have a handsome i ew hotel. An ice factory is to be established at Macon. Dulls Moore is on trial at Georgetown for murder. Athens counts on receiving 00,000 bales of cotton this season. It is thought that twenty more stores con veniently locate. 1 in Athens could be rented at a handsome profit. The five room dwelling house on Will Tong’s place nix.ut. three miles from Athens was burned Frida y night. Dr. E. 8. Lyndon has already invested about $12,000 in improving the old Wither spoon plauing mill at Alhens. Jackson county will soon be dry. On Jan. 1 the license will expire, and then the barkeeper will have to go over to M dison. H. O. Wood, the confidence man who cut a big figure at Griffin a few months ago, has aacentlv victimized the people of Sixikane Falls, Mich. Mayor Hodgson says that he is confident that Athens has over 10,000 population, and is in favor of the census being taken early in the new year. It is stated that Dr. L. G. Hardman, of Harmony Grove, contemplates establishing a large surgical ititute and hospital com bined in Athens. At Rome Friday F. Johnson, while under the influence of* whisky, assaulted the 1 fi-year-old son of Sam Shropshire and in flicted wounds with a knife on Ins breast from which it is feared he will die. Four of Carrollton’s merchants sold to S. M. Inman & Cos., last week 1,0)0 bales of cotton. This cotton brought something over $40,000. It was bought for Northern spin ners and was shipped direct to the factories. The freight upon this cotton which had to be prepaid, was $8,500. A bright young man, who lives in Hart county, recently visited a friend of his mother’s. She asked about his mother, and inquired if she raised a good deal of poultry this year. The young man scratched his head in perplexity and then replied: “N-n --no, mam. She planted a good deal but the chickens scratched it all up.” It is said that Hugh H. Gordon, Minter and Fred D. Wimberly and others are get ting ready to go into fanning and stock raising on a large scale in Twiggs county, with yards and depots at Macon and At lanta. The capital stock of the company wifi be some $1,200,000, 20 per cent, of which is to he paid in before beginning business. The plans have not oil been per fected yet. The Fulton County Commissioners have determined to tunnel the Atlanta and Char lotte Air Line track where the public road crosses it near Ponce de Leon. Vehicles have now to climb up a steep hill, cross the track and then go dwn another hill on the other side of the track. In crossing the track there is much danger by reason of the large number of trains passing daily, and the Commissioners have wisely deter mined to do away with this. John Henderson, a well-known negro horse thief, was convicted on four cases in Bartow county last year, and sentenced to terms in the penitentiary aggregating thirty-five years. Ho subsequently escapes! from the penitentiary by jumping from a running train down an embankment of 20 feet. The guards fired several shots at him, but he escaped unhurt. Saturday Principal Keeper Towers received information that a man answering his description is now in the Bibb county chain gang. The new Oostauaula steamer, John T. Warlick, whose building and equipment will re-open the up-country trade to Rome and bring thousands of bales of cotton to that market, besides being an important factor in the commercial world of the city, was steamed up Saturday and taken out for a short trial trip down the Coosa. The captain now has elaborate plans on foot for the building of the most elegantly equipped and commodious passenger steanvr that ever plowed the placid Coosa Work on her will be beguu at once. Americas Recorder: As Henry Lawrence was coming to Amerieus on foot, on tbe crossties of the Amerieus, Preston and I.umpkin road, a day or so ago, he heard a noise of some kind in a small pond by the roadside and stepped off to see what it was. After a long search he succeeded in running a large otter from the pond onto the road, and a well aimed blow disabled it so that its capture was an easy matter. Henry then killed and skinned ft and came on to town, where he easily disp sed of its skin for a nice sum, as the otter was an unusually large one. Blakely News: “Grandma” Sheffield and Mrs. W. C. Sheffield,of Cedar Springs, have been visiting Blakely this week, tne guests of Hon. B. Chancy’s family. While here the elder lady went up to see the train, w hich, though she has some time since passed her three-score and ten years, she has never seen before, and met at the depot Mrs. Isom Sheffield, a sister-in-law nearly of equal age, wh > i ail come for the same pur pose. These g -<xl old ladies took a good look at tbe iron horse and expressed them selves as well pleased with the wonderful means of locomotion. At Tbomasville, Friday, a contract was closed with the Union Iron Works com pany, of Chattanooga, Tenn., to build for the town a standpipe of iron for the water works, instead of a brick tower and steel tank that were being erected when the acci dent occurred, fatal alike to the contractor aud tower. The old site will be abandoned and anew one near by selected. The pipe will be 25 feet in diameter ami 100 feet high, with a capacity of 80,500 gallous. The cost will lie SII,OOO. The fall of the tower cost tbe contractors, according to the settlement, $8,500, and the town about SB,OOO. Friday two colored men, Guy McCarthy, of Opelika, Ala., and Richard Johnson, of Rusttn, La , met in Griffin, aud after com paring notes, discovered that they were brothers, having been separat'd forty-one years ago, during slavery times. Before t hat tlfhe they belonged to the father of C'apt. J. W. Cox, of the Southern Express Company, and each of them left their, homos for Griffin without any knowledge of tbe other, and it was only on their ar rival there that their relationship was dis covered. The meeting was a joyful one, and the brothers are now inseparable. The incidentals a remarkable one, in that each should start for the same point from his dis tant homo and arrive at about the same time. On Tuesday afternoon the stockholders of the Thomasville National Bonk uiet and organized. The following directors were elected: T. C. Mitchell, John T. Metcalfe, James Watt, J. L. Finn, John N. McKin non, W. E. Davies, Robert Thomas, Jr.. H. B. Ainsworth. John E. Donalson, Robert Bearden, F. N. Lohnstein, A. P. Wright. A. A. Cassidy. Subsequently A. P. Wrig.it was elected President, W. E. Davies Vice President and E. M. Smith cashier. The capital stock, *IOO,OOO, has all been sub scribed, and will all tie paid in between •'an. 1 and 15. Eighty-tivethousand dollars of the amount is home capital. The liank will commence business formally under the new regime on Jan. 2. No notes will be issued. '• Sylvester Bams, of Canton, was. on last Saturday, adjudged to be a fit ami proper subject for the lunatic asylum, and will tie carried to Milledgeville as soon as the Ordi nary receives proper notice from the asylum authorities. He is about 85 year* ot age, and until about thirteen year* ago was an abio-bodied, intelligent man, industrious and law-abiding. In the spring of about 1875 be was bitteu on the loot by a rattle snake’s pilot, and since then has been affected lua most piiiable wayandgradually ; growing worse, until now he is violent and dangerous to l>e with. The poison from the I snake seems to have gone through his entire system, and from the effects it is now im j (ms-ilile for him to lie still or talk so as to be i readily understood. He has a wife and two I or three children. Mrs. Mary E. Powell, of Hartwell, ha- a | hair trunk that Van brought over tbe At ; lanlie before the revolutionary war, filled i with four bushels of gold. It has three j looks on it and heavy metal bands. It is j thought t< i is- over 800 years old. A romance is attached to the trunk: Tinslev Powell's I great-grandfather, live! in England. He won the affections of a Miss Ri idlc. Her parents objected to their marrving. To pre vent it Riddle shipped his lovelorn daughter to America (Charleston). Young Powell heard Of it, and three days later boarded another vessel and arrived in Charleston three hours sooner than Mias Riddle, and three hours after she landed they were married. They wrote back to tbe old folks that tliev had struck the gar den spot of tbe earth, and tbe two families became reconciled to the inevitable, piled their g ild together in the trunk, and cauie over to America. FLORIDA. There will be no tournament at Quincy this year. Work on Ocala's brick market house is progressing finely. Mr. Corry has purchase 1 a fat ox, and to day the hands who an working for the to bacco syndicate at Quincy will have a bar becue. George L. Marstcller, now of New York, has bought the Zeigler homestead —ISO acres on the Bain bridge road, near Quincy— and will make considerable improvement on tbe place next year. Mr Marstcller is a native of Charleston, 8. C. In response to Supt. Payne’s call, a num ber of the teachers of the eountv, about, fifty, met at Ocala Monday afternoon to engage in four days’ of institute work. Judge Wartmann conducted the exercises, assisted by his brother member of the board, M. 8. Moser. Capt. L. L. Hodges, of Cedar Keys, reports finding a sail b at capsize i in Wa easassa Bay last Wednesday, w ith oil stove, bedding, and other furniture aboard. He supposes that the boat was capsized in the recent storm, and that probably those on board were drowned. The order retrenching expenses in the cus tom house at Cedar Keys, to go into effect dan. 1, reduces the pay of the Deputy Col lector from #4 hi $2 50 per day, charging him with the duties of tho Inspector, who. with the Ixiatman, iskhscharged. Nochange is made in the pay of tbe Collector. At a stockholders' meeting of the new let Factory and Cold Storage Company, held at Cedar Keys last Friday, it was voted to put in 8,200 cubic feet of cold storngo room at once. The Cedar Keys fish trade impera tively demands this, and it will doubtless be a prime factor in the future success ®f the industry. In the cotton warehouse at Quincy are five bales of cotton averaging about 500 pounds each. This cotton was grown in 1800, and is therefore twenty-eight years old. It has kept well, is in good merchantable condition, aud is of good quality. It ha passed through three baggings anil two cot ton houses. It belongs to Mi's Mary M. Goza. Work on the water works at Ocala was liegini last Monday under the supervision of Mr. Jeter, the contractor. Fifty men are employed iu constructing the tower, which is being erected on Buckalew Heights. Tbe tower is to be seventy-six feet high, with twenty-five feet base and will bold 100,000 gallons of water. The well for artesian wate’- will be sunk near the Florida South ern freight depot. SOUTH CAROLINA. Tho State tax this year is only 5-mills on the dollar. Couway now has both railroad and tele graphic communication with the outside world. W. Hyman Gurganus, of Cheraw, has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. Tho Marion Fair Company paid all ex penses this year, in spite of the bad weather, and cleared s2l 20. Capt. J. N. Sowell, of Lancaster, on a quarter of an acre of land, this year, made 100 bushels of sweet p itutoes. The large residence of Capt. F. A. Town send, of Edgefield county, was recently de stroyed by lire. No insurance. Walterborougli, under its new charter, will hold its municipal elections every year, in stead of every four years as now. The dwelbng of Marion Wall, of Dunbar ton, in Barnwell county, was recently burned to the ground. No insurance. B. F. Walsh, of Hampton county, made 150 gallons of syrup from the sugarcane grown on one-fourth of an acre of land. The cotton gin and grist mill 5f Mat Mathis, of Edgefield, were burned on De cember 10th. Loss, $500; no insurance. Charles Brcitz, a skilled railroad builder, was killed on Decern tier 15th by a fall from a window of the Owen House of YorkvUle. Congressman Dargan has ordered a com petitive examination to fill a vacancy at West Point, to be held at Florence on Feb. 18. The citizens about Dyson’s, in Edgefield, are trying to induce the Richmond and Danville authorities to establish a depot there. Rubie Williams, of Cambellton, Barnwell county, claims to be the biggest boy of bis age in tho State. He is 4 years old and weighs forty-eight pounds. A colored child on the plantation of W. F. Wright, of Laurens county, was recently bitten by a mail dog and now shows unmis takable signs of hydrophobia. A colored woman was burned to death on the plantation of J. 8. Blalock, in Lau rens county, a few days ago. Her clothing caught from a fire in the field where she was working. Henrietta Green, Zylphia Douglas and Candyce Calvin, three dusky amazons of Darlington, are now in jail to await trial for having drugged and then robbed a coun try colored boy of $29. W. T. Me Kail, in the Barnwell People , says that he lost a valuable dog by a snake bite, aud several months after death he cut the dog open and found a snake fourteen inches long attached to his liver. At Camden an attempt is being male by Mr. Trantlintn to get the pardon of William Dinah and Bill Scott, two small colored toys sentenced by Judge Norton to im prisonment for life for burglary. These boys are about the ages of 10 and 15. Henry Williamson, who move I from Lex ington county to Willow township, of Orangeburg county, is charged with having committed an unnatural and revolting assault upon his daughter. A warrant has been issued for his arrest, but be has left for parts unknown. At Greenville, last Saturday, P. T. Hayne, cotton buyer, bought a bale of cot ton from Wal Lake (colored). In removing it to a warehouse for storage it was discovered to be on fire inside. It had been bought at a fancy price as Allen Long staple, but in the search for the cause of tne fire it was found to have been falsely paid!ml, the inside being ordinary staple. J. T. Nix, a widely known.attorney and money broker at Graenvilie, has employed anew method of collecting. He has a mes senger boy who is equipped with three tiu labels to be worn on uis hat. They are conspicuously labelled respectively: “Col lector,'’ “Collector of bad debt*,'’ ami “Col lector of very bad debts.” The boy plies a hardened debtor with these in succession, and the second usually brings the shekels. A man represent mg himself us Col. L. Allen, formerly of Greenville, now of Arkansas, arrived at Greenville Wednes day. He exhibited a sword which he said lie had carried through the war. and also I newspaper clippings de..Tibiug him as THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1887. haring bravely fought a duel, several years ago, with a Yankee who had insulted Southern womanhood. Later in the day a I United States Deputy Marshal reached the city in search of Allen, who was wanted in North Carolina for handling counterfeit money. At Edgefield Sheriff Wright has received a telegram giving the intelligence of the arrest at Greenwood of Ephraim Mays, one of the negroes implicated in the inunler of Jake Burk. It is thought that Edd Dean, who is also charged with being one of the murderers, is in and about Greenwood, and his arrest is hourly expected. This murder, horrible in detail an execution, has caused righteous indignation amongst the negroes of the community, and they are leu! in their demand for vengeance. The where abouts of the wife and sister of the mur dered man is yet unknown, and may likely remain so unless a reward for their capture is offered. At Chester Tuesday, a preliminary exam ination was held before Trial Justice Leckie in the case of the parties charged with whip ping a white woman near there a few weeks ago. All the defendants. Garland Smith, Walker Smith, Fitz Brawley, John McCar ley, Robert Jamison and Dave Good, were present. Nannie Crawford, the prosecuting witne- gave a long and minute account of the whipping affair Sue told how the “reg ulators” broke open the bouse, made her get up and dress herself, carried her away on a horse some distance, aud there whip[>e<i her. She staled positively that the defend ants wre tlie parties who committed the act. Of course they deny the charge. They were hound over for trial at the March term of tile court. Chief Harrison, of the Catawba Indians of York county, was in Columbia Wednes day on business for his tribe. Tbe uufor lunate red men are in a bad condition. The tribe has dwindled to eighty-two members, and their reservation, originally many thousand acres, is now som. thing less tlian seven hundred acres. The Indians hare leased tracts of land to white people, and it is proliable that many of these 1 ases will expire in a few years. Whether the In dians will be able to regain possession of 'heir lands after they have been occupied by white families for half a century and up ward, is a question. The Indians have pe titioned the Governor to have certain law less. white men ejected from their larfds. They also ask that, their chief, Harrison, be made the agent for tho trito, instead of paying a white man SIOO a year out of their appropriation to act as their agent. The trine is in destitute circumstances. A difficulty o'-curred at Bisbop/ille. twenty-two miles above Sumter, IV edres day between D. E. Keels, a lawyer at that place, and P. G. Bowman, Jr., the editor and proprietor of the Bishop ville Enterprise, in which the latter received a wound from a pistol shot. Mr. Keels visited Bishopviile armed, and, accompanied by a friend, other called Mr. Bowman from his place of business, or, making it apparent that he de sired to see him for the purpose of settling the mutter, Mr. Bowman made his appear ance, whereupon they both drew pistols: hot a gentleman standing near immediately interfered and said there should be no shooting there. The pistols were then taken from them or given up by them. They then closed upon each other for a light. Several blows were passed, when tbe by standees separated them, and as Mr. Bow man turned to enter his store Mr. Keels drew a second pistol and fired two shots, the first taking effect in the hip, J producing a flesh wouud, the ball striking the bonu aud glancing off. The eighteenth annual communication of the M. VV. Grand Lodge of the A. F. and A. Y. Masons of the State of South Caro linaand jurisdiction,washolden atßennetts ville on Dec. 13, A. L. 5887. in Landmark .Masonic Hall, with the M. W.Grand Master J. M. Morris in the chair. The working lodges of tho jurisdiction were all repre sented, and their reporis showed th(fm to be in a healthy condition. The annual address of the Grand Master, aud tho reports of the various committees were alike instructive and gratifying. The election of office s for the ensuing year resulted as follows: M. VV., John M. Morris, G. M., Charleston; R. W., J. S. Wilson, D. G. M. Charles ton; R. VV. Paul Grantham. G. S., \V., Sumter; R. VV. VV. J Bradford, G. J. VV., Florence; R. VV. M. E. Brown. G. Treasurer, Charleston; R. VV. E. J. Baw ver.G. Secretary, BennettsvUle; R VV I. B. Broekington. G. Chaplain, Darlington; R. VV. E. H. Johnson, G. Pursuivant, Or angeburg; R. VV. E. F. Patterson, G. Mar shal, Marion: R. VV. D. M. Pierce. G. lec turer, Darlington: R. VV. Richard Cain. G. 8. D., Beunetteville: R. VV. B. James, G. J. D., Marion; It. VV. Thomas McFaJl, G. S. 8., Charleston; R. VV. H. M. Reid. G. J. 8., Orangeburg; R. VV. Lee Robinson, G. Tiler, Florence. The next annual commun ication will lie holden ill Charleston, 8. C., on the second Tuesday in December, A. L. 5888. Counsel for Solomon Aultman has for warded to the Governor an earnest letter asking for paulon. The ease is very pecu liar. AultmaiT was convicted in 1878 at Edgefield of manslaughter. The jury rec ommended him to mercy. Another man, Richard Lundy, was convicted of the same offense, but in a different case from Ault man. Judge Aldrich, presiding, was under the impression that a recent act of the As sembly had changed the punishment of manslaughter from a limited period (two to thirty years) to imprisonment for life, so he sentenced both of these convicts to impris onment for life. They were committed to the penitentiary, and’ after six years Mr. Montieth secured Lundy’s pardon. A simi lar application for Aultman was refused be cause of an unfavorable recommendation from Judge Aldrich. An appeal was then taken trom the erroneous sentence, and there was much discussion as to whether the appeal was not too late. Mr. Montieth convinced the Supreme Court that there was then no limit to the time of appeal in criminal cases, and the Supreme Court held that the conviction was regular, but the sentence wrong and tho Corn t ordered Aultman to be sent back to Edgefield to be legally sen tenced, and h was taken back to "Edge field, July, 1885, and re-sentenced by Judge Kershaw. A letter lrom Judge Aldrich, read by Solicitor Bonham, caused the new sentence to lie fixed at twenty-three years, and tha’ he Is now serving. Judge Kershaw immediately wrote to Gov. Thompson recommending pardon, and this was filed bv Mr. Montieth, who removed to New York to live, and during his absence this was re fused. fin his’ret.'irn he has again taken up the case and is pressing it earnestly. Another petition is in circulation in Edge field, whore it is said to bo (lie unanimous opinion that a pardon should lie granted. Aultman is said to be an invalid and unable to earn his support in person, and his, wife has removed with his children from the Btate and married again. BURNING THE DEAD. Dr. Howe Delivers a Talk on Crema tion at the Polytechnic Society. , From the Louisville Courier-Journof. Dr. Howe lectured Monday evening be fore the Polytechnic Society on the sub joct “Cremation.” In opening his lecture he spoke of the fart that it wus a subject to which but little thought had lieen given by the public, but one which was nevertheless worthy of most serious at tention, not only from the fact that it is gradually gaining ground, but. also because it is the only reasonable method of disposing of the re mains of the dead. It is a subject which at once impels the opposition of almost every body. but rapidly gains adherents as it be comes studied. The history of cremation was then traced. With the exception of Egypt, where bodies were embalmed, Judea and China, whore they were buried, all the early nations practiced cremation. It tell into disus-i in the fourth century at Rome, and the subject has lieen but little thought of until less than twen'y years ago. when the Italians intro duced the practice, and it has rapidly spread over Europe aud in this country. The first cremation in a cremation furnace in this country was Dec. 6, 18Sfl. at VV axh ingrton, I’a. in tbe Lemoyn* furnace. The principal argument for cremation is the hygienic one. Alter death the body be gins to decompose, and in tiiis process pois onous substanoor are evolved which con taminate the soil, water ami air. I nder ordinary circumstances this decomposition is not onnplotcd for upwards of twenty y ars, and us about 1.000,000 persona die every year in this country, one can estimate that, at the present time, some 20.b00.0P0 hoilies are in various stages of decom position. Evidence of the contamination of the air is shown by tho unpleasant odors iu the vicinity of graveyards. The water which flows iiilo wells near cemeteries has often caused much disease and epidemics, of which numerous instances were cited by the lecturer. That the soil is contaminated is also shown by epidemics haviug frequently broken out where graveyards have been dug over, which not infrequently occurs with the rapid growth of American cities. Disease germs are buried with the body, and when the soil is disturbed they are set free to work their evil. Numerous such in stances were also mentioned. For all this, cremation offers a certain protection, the body being in an hour or two converted into its harmless elements, and all germs of disease annihilated. Another argument was on the score of economy. In the large cities the cemeteries must be so far from the centre that the cost of a funeral becomes a great burden upon the poor, and is constantly The cost of cremation can 1> mailt; very insigni ficant, in Itab it being less than ad illar, while in this country it has only been about $lO, but could be made very much cheaper. Arguments have nl-u been urged in favor of cremation that it would prevent all pos sibility of grave desecration and all possi bility of the horrors of burial alive which, however. Dr. Howe said was of very infre quent occurrence. A description of tbe '•remation I rns a and the process was then given, after which, the objections which have been raised against cremation were re viewed. One of the principal objections has been raised on religious ground, because it is a heathen custom. But. burial is no less a heathen cux oin, while in several instances, Cremation was practiced bv the Jews, at the direct command df Jehovah. The Earl of Shaftesbury well asked i . the reply to the objection that it would f ire badly at resuiTectiori with those cremated, how it would be with the holy martyrs who were burned alive. An bjection has been raised that the gases from a crematory would be a great nuisance in the vicinity, but all the later furnaces have been So arranged that these ga es arising from the body are completely consume/}, so that noneof them come to the air.' An objection has also been offered that the dest ruction of the body would de stroy all evidence of foul play, whereas the necessary precaution which would lie taken would be more apt to discover possible suspi cious deaths: and, furthermore, these ob jections apply equally well to embalming, which can at once destroy all evidence of poiso mg, as has been repeatedly shown in the courts. It is the aesthetic side of the question which has really caused the greatest preju dice against cremation, and yet the truth is that one can sec the tomb* and shut out from sight all that is unpleasant in the burial, but it nevertheless exists. Fire has always been considered the great purifier, and there is nothing unpleasant in the thought of the body of a loved one, nn hour in the embrace of this great purifier and then reduced to a handful of white ashes; belter far thau molderiiig away in the cold earth. Ine lecturer then gave a description of the services at iui ideal crematory, and closed by saying: “Legislation should make compul ory the cremation of ell bodies <1 ad from cholera, yellow fever, small-pox, sear let fever, diphtheria, consumption, and all similar diseases. And furthermore, it is the duty of all who see the necessity of crema tion to use every endeavor to overcome the prejudice at present so prevalent against the only sanitary method of disposing of the bodies of oar dead.” GOV. WALLER’S SHORT HAIR. Why it lies Never Been Short Before in Something Like Twenty Years. I'rom ihe. New York Sun. A curious story has just leaked out to ex plain the striking change in ex-Gov. Wal ler’s appearance noticed by bis friends here a few weeks ago. His hair was ciose cropped for the first time in twenty years, and bis magnificent occipital development was seen and admired for the first time. This is the story of why he wore his locks long: A score of years ago the Little Giant of Connecticut was a gay young man about New London, and ho and Gus Braudagee and otbors of the boys used to go on little Jags up to Hartford sometimes, on which occasions they always had their hair cut One day they agreed to put up a job on Tom Waller. So when he came 'out of the bat her's chair one after another of them went up to him in an alarmed manner and said: "Waller, wliat in the world is the matter with your hvad? It looks deformed.” Pretty soou he began to think his head was deformed —it was only highly devel oped, in reality—and resolved to conceal his misfortue by allowing his hair to grow. 8o ever sinde his luxuriant locks have curled down to his coat collar, and he became fa me us as the curly-headed giant. Not long ago, while immersed in tbe cares of State, he went into a strange barber Shop in London aud said, laconically, "Cut my hair,” as he had been wont to do in the shop where he wa at home, and where the knight of tho shears thoroughly understood that cutting meant only trimming. When the. tidal-wave Governor arose from tbe chair his flowiug locks adorned the floor and his massive cranium shone clearly out in un disguised outlines. He was horror-stricken. Hurrying to a friend, he cried: “John, for heaven’s sake, is there any thing the matter with my head*” “No,” was the reply, “except that,it looks better than I’ve ever seen it. And since then the Little Giant has re joiced in a close crop and meditated ven geance on the boys of twenty years ago, Phillips’ Digestible Cocoa Produces a feeling of lightness and buoyancy as against I bat of weight, headache and depres sion, so common with the ordinary cocoas. Your druggist and grocer have it. PORTRAITS. The. Great Southern Portrait Company, OF’ SAVANNAH, Or A.. L. B. Davis, Secretary and Manager, with Office at Davis Bros., 42 and 44 Bull St. MOST EARNESTLY INVITES and would most retqiectfully urgo you to Inspect the Beautiful Samples of Water Color and India Ink Portraits on exhibition at their office. The work is pronounced very tine and superior. Tho company also makes a very fine Crayon 20x24 in size in a choice and beautiful frame of oak, bronze or gilt, for tho very small price of sls. The work of the Coriqiany is appreciated by our people as is fully shown by over 2.4D orders in a little over two months, which have lieen and are now I icing finished. The work of the Company is guaranteed. Make also Oil tunl l’astclie Por traits. Your orders are solicited. Respectfully, THE GREAT SOL’THKRN PORTRAIT COM PANY, of Savannah, Ua. B. B. DAVIS, Secretary and Manager, 42 and 41 Buil St P AI NTS AS D OLLS. JOHN G. BUTLER, \I7HITE LEAKS, COLORS, OILS, GLASS, >T VARNISH. ETC: READY MIXED rAINTS; RAILROAD, STEAMER AND MILL SUPPLIES, SASHES, DOORS, BLINDS AND BUILDERS’ HARDWARE. Sole Agent for GI.ORUIA LIME, CALCINED PLASTER. CE MENT. HAIR and LAND PLASTER. $ Whitaker Street, Savannah, Georgia. shipping. OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY FOR New York, Boston and Philadelphia. FASSAQE TO NEW YORK. CABIN S3O 00 EXCURSION 30 00 STEERAGE WO PASSAGE TO BOSTON. CABIN ; SOO 00 EXCURSION 30 00 STEERAGE WOO PASSAGE TO PHILADELPHIA. (via Ntw York). CABIN , $22 50 EXCURSION 36 00 STEERAGE. 12160 THE marnlflo.'nt steamships of these lines are appointed to sail aa follows— standard time' TO NEW YORK. CITY OK AUGUSTA, Capt. J. W. Catharine, SUNDAY, Dee. 25. at 2 p. m. TALLAHASSEE. Capt. W. H. Fisher, TUES DAY, Dec. 27. at 3:30 P. m. CHATTAHOOCHEE. Cant. H. C. Daooett, FRIDAY. Dw. 30, at 3:30 p. M NACOOCHEE, Capt Chas. Bero, SUNDAY, Jan. 1, at 7 a. m. TO BOSTON". GATE CITY, Capt. E. R. Taylor, THURSDAY, Dec. 20, at 5 p. a. CITY OF MACON, Cap*. H. C. Lewis, THURS DAY, Jan. 5, at 10 a. a. TO PHILADELPHIA. [tor freight only.) JUNIATA, Capt. S. L. Askins, MONDAY, Dec. 36. at 2:30 p. a. DESSOUG, Capt. N. F. Howes, SUNDAY, Jan. 1, at 6 30 a. a. Throi gh hills of lading given to Eastern and Northwestern points and to f>orU of tho United Kingdom and the Continent. For freight or passage apply to C. G. ANDERSON, Agent, City Exchange Building. Merchants’ and Miners’ TrausportationConi’y. Fop CABIN. sl2 50 SECOND CABIN .10 00 THE STEAMSHIPS of this Company are ap pointed to sail from Savannah for Balti more as follows—city time: IVM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Snow, TUESDAY, Dec. 27 at 1 p M. JOHNS HOPKINS. Capt. Foster, FRIDAY, Dec. 30. at 6 p. a. WM. CRANE, Capt. Bitxtrps, TUESDAY, Jan. 3, at 8 a. a. WM. LAWRENCE, Capt, Snow, FRIDAY, Jan. 6, at 10 A. a. And from Baltimore every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at3p. m. Through hills lading given to all point* West, all the manufacturing towns in New England, and to porta of the United Kingdom and the Continent. JAS. B. WEST & CO.. Agent*. 11l Bay street. SEA ISLAND ROU TK. STEAMER ST. NICHOLAS, Capt. M. I*. USINA. /COMMENCING MONDAY, Oct. 31, will leave V) Savannah from wharf foot of Ijncoln street for DOBOY. DARIEN. BRUNSWICK and FERNANDINA, every MONDAY and THURSDAY at 4 p. m.. "ctty time, con necting at Savannah with New York, Philadel phia. Boston ana Baltimore steamers, at Fer namlina with tail for Jacksonville and all points in Florida, and at Brunswick with steamer for tatilla river. Freight received till 3:30 p. M. on days of gall ing. Tickets on wharf and boat, C. WILLIAMS, Agent, PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE Tampa, Key West, Havana. SBlfl-WBICKLV. SOUTHBOUND. I,v Tampa Monday and Thursday 0:30 p. m. Ar Key West Tuesday and Friday 4 p. m. Ar Havana Wednesday and Sauuday 6 a. m. NORTHBOUND. Lv Havana Wednesday and Saturday noon. Lv Key West Wednesday and Saturday 10 p.m. Ar Tampa Thursday and Sunday 6 j>. m. Connecting at Tampa with West India Fast Train to and from Northern and Eastern cities. For stateroom accommodations apply to City Ticket Office S., F. & W. E'y, Jacksonville, or Agent Plant Steamship Line, Tampa. c. D. OWENS, Traffic Manager. H. P. HAINES, General Manager. May 1. 1887. _ _ For Augusta and Way Landings. STEAMER KATIE. Capt. J. 8. BKVILL. VYTIT.L leave EVERY WEDNESDAY at 10 TV o'clock a. H. (city time) for Augusta and way landings. All freights payable by shipper*. JOHN LAWTON, Manager. Niederlandisch-Amerikanische Damp fschiff-fahrts-Geselischaft, koeniglieh - NisderWisehc Post, Billige Route nach und tyn 1 >cutschl>ind. Postilampfer aegein von New York und Holland jeden Bonnabend. I. Cajuete (einzeine Fahrt) $42 I Esteurbillets SRo 2- 521 “ 60 zwtrchenoecr 10 den billigsten Frelsoo. GEN. AOENTUR: 23 South William street, New York. GEN. PASS AGENTUR: 18 and a) Broadway. New York. AOKNTEN:-At Savannah, Ga.--JOSKPH COHEN &. CO., and M. S. COSULICH & CO. PRINTER AND HOOK BIKOBB. NICHOLS—JOB PRINTING. NIC H 0 LS— BINDING. NICHOLS —BLANK BOOKS. NICHOLS —GOOD WORK. NICHOLS —FINE PAPER. NICHOLS —LOW PRICES. NICHOLS —93£ bay STREET. SHIPPING. Compagnie Generate Transatlantique -•-French Line to Havre. BETWEEN New York and Havre, from oier No. 42. N. H.. foot of Morton street. Trav eler* by this line avoid both transit by English railway and the discomfort of crossing the Channel in a small b .at. Special train leaving the Company's dock at Havre direct for Paris on arrival of steamers Baggage checked at New York through to Purl* LA BOCRGOVne. i rangeu. SATURDAY. December 24, 1 p. m. LA CHAMPAGNE, TtiAt'B, SATURDAY, December HI, 6 *. m LA BRETAGNE DisJorsaKUN, SATURDAY, January 7.*noon. PRICE OF PASSAGE (Including wtn*): TO HAVRE Firr-t Cubin. Winter rate glOOand $80; Second Cabin, }6O; Ste-rago from New York to Havre. s2l; Steerage froli New York to Paris. s2(i Cl; including wine, bedding and utensils. LOUIS DE BKBIAN, Agent, 3 llowlmg Green, foot of Broadway, New York. Or J. C. SHAW. Esq., 20 Bull street. Messrs. WILDER & CO., 126 Bay street. Savannah Agent*. East Tennessee, Virginia k Georgia R. R. GEORGIA DIVISION. The Shortest Line BETWEEN Savannah & Atlanta. COMMENCING Nov. 27. 1887, the following > Schedule will be in effect: EASTERN LINE. Fast Night Express. Express. Lv Savannah 7 :ot> am 1:30 pm ' :35 pin Ar Jesup B:42am S:3opm 6:35 pm Lvjeaup . RBS p m 3:30 am Ar Brunswick 5:35 p m 6:00 a m Lv Jesup 12:50pm ... ..... 11:07 pm Ar Eastman 4:16 pm 2:00 am Ar Cochran 4:58 p m 2:37 a ra Ar HawkinsviUe. 6:oopm 11:50 am Lv Huwkm.-oilie ii:fom 11:15am Ar Macon 0:35 pat 8:00 a m 3:5 >am Lv Macon 6:45 otu 8:10am 4:00a in Ar Atlanta 10:10 Dm 11:10am 7:23 am Lv Atlanta 10:20 pm I:ospm ", :40 am :Vr Rotne. v I:l6am 4:10 p m 10:40a m Ar Dalton 2:54 am 5:30 pm 12:00 n n Ar Chattanooga... 454a in 7:00 pm 1:35 pm Lv Chattamx>ga... 9:3oam 10:00 pm Ar Knoxville 1:50 p m .2:00 a m .... Ar Bristol 7:35 p m *6:20 am Ar Roanoke 2:15 a m 12:45 pm Ar Natural Bridge 3:54 a m 2:29 pm Ar Waynesboro ... 6:20 am 4:20 pm At Luray 7:50 am 6:43 pm ArShenando’ J’n. ,10:33 a m 9:85 pm Ar Hagerstown 11:55 p m 10:30 pm Ar Harrisburg. ~ 3:30 pm I:2oam Ar Philadelphia ... 6:50 pm 4:45am Ar New York 9:35pm 7:ooam Lv Roanoke 2:20 a m 12:30 noon Ar Lynchburg 4:30 am 2:45 pm Ar Washington 12:00noon 9:40 p m Ar Baltimore 12:05 n’n 11:25 pm Ar Philadelphia... 2:20 pm 3:00a tn Ar New York. ...5:20 pm 6:20 am Lv Lynchburg 6:15 am 3:05 pm Ar Burkville 9:20a m 5:27pm Ar Petersburg 11:10am 7:lspm ... .... Ar Norfolk 2:25 pm 10:00 pm Via Memphis and Charleston R. K. Lv Chattanooga .. 9:25 am 7:10 pm Ar Memphfc 9:lspm 6:loam Ar Little Rock.. .. 7:loam 12:55 pm ~ Via kTc.7f. 8. and G. R. R. Lv Memphis 10:30 am Ar Kansas City 7:40 am Via Gin. So. R'y. Lv Chattanooga... 59i0 a m 7:10 pm 9:00 am Ar. Louisville 6:42 pm 6:3oam 6:lspm ArCincinnati 6:50 pm 6:50a ra 6:42pm Ar Chicago 6:soam o:sopm 6:soam Ar St. Louis 6:soam 6:4opra 6:soam Train leaving Ravanuah 7:35 pm, arriving at Chattanooga 1 :.35 pm, makes close connection with N. C. & S. L. for Sewanee, Monteagle, Nashville, St. Louis and Chicago. Pullman or Jlunn sleeping cars leave as follows: Brunswick at W:SO a m anil 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 in for Washington via Lynekf >nrg; also one tor New York via Shenandoah Valley, and at 9:30 a in for Washington via Lynchburg; Chattar nooga at 7:10 pm for Little Rock; Bruuswick at 8:30 p m for Atlanta: Jacksonville at i ’ p. nt. and Jesup at 11:07 p. in. for Cincinnati. B. W. WRENN, G. P. <fc T. A., Knoxville, Tenn. L. J. ELLIS, A. G. P. A., Atlanta. SUBU HBAN RAILWAYS. City and Suburban Railway. Savakvah, Ga., Nov. 5, 1887. ON and after MONDAY, November 7, the following schedule will be run on the Out side Line: LEAVE AHRIVE LEAVE IRLEj LEAVE cm-. orry. or hope. [Montgomery 10:25 a.m. 3:40 a. m. 8:15 a. in. 7:50a. m. *+7:oop.lu.i V:')op. nt. Lil Op. in. l:00p. n>. Every Monday morning there will lie a train for Montgomery at 7:00 a. m. Saturday ami Sunday’s trains will be ntn leaving city at '3:25 p. m., and returning' leave Montgomery at 5:00 p. ru. and Isle of Hope at 5:30 p. in. -This train will be omitted Sundays. +On Saturday* this train leaves city at 7:30 p. in. s J. H, JOHNSTON. President. GRAIN AND HAY. A. B. HULL, Agent Hazard Powder Cos., —WHOLKSAf/E DKALER IN— FwOUR, HAY,GRA:N, RICE, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. MILL STUFFS of all kinds. Genuine TEXAS RED RUST PROOF SEED OATS. Special prices carload lots HAY and GRAIN. Prompt attention given all orders and satis faction guaranteed. OFFICE, 5 ABERCORN STREET. WAREHI (USE, NO. 4 WADLEY STREET, ON LINK CENTRAL RAILROAD. 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, NEW PUBLIC AT ion Christmas Periodicals AT ESTILL’S NEWS DEPOT No 21 1-2 Bull Street. Illustrated London News 75c Illustrated Ldndon Graphic 75c ChriMma* Puck m ;c (fftristmas Life Illustrated Frank Leslie Neu York Mirror j.y. ChriMma* Judge siy. Frank Leslie * Illustrated Almanac :)6c Any of tbe-above mailed on rc.'eipt of price. Adilre** WILLIAM ESTILL, Savannah, Ga. LUMBER. LUMBicKrYuMBER! A. S. BACON, Office and Planing Mill. Liberty and East Broad Streets. A full stock of Drkhhk.d a.n p Roi oh la'Mttr.R, Laths, Shinoi.es. Etc., always on hand. Esti mate.* given upon application. Prompt delire guaranteed. Telephone 117. r J'O COUNTY OFFICERS —.Boo** and BUuuk i refiuired by county officers for the use of !L : " for office use. suimlied to order by Jhe MORNING NEWS PRINTING HOUSE, 3 V hltaker itreet, SavannaU. RAILROADS. SoH E D BLB ; CENTRAL RAILROAD. Savannah, Ga.. Oct.. 16, 1847. ON and after this dale Passenger Trains win run daily unless marked t, which are daily except Sunday. The standard time, by which/,hose trains run, is 30 minutes slower than Savannah city time: No. l. No.. srr* Lv Savannah ,7:10 am 8:30 pm... 5:40 r>m . S:o7am 6:4opm ArMilien. .. .9:40 am 11:08 pm 8:45 pm Ar Augusta.. 11:45m ' :45am Ar Macon 1:40 pm S:Soam Ar Atlanta 5:40 pm 7:15 ara '"" Arc'oluinbus..9:3> om 2- spm * Ar Montg'ry..7:2sam 7:13 pm * Ar Kufaula.. ,4:3i am 4:iopui Ar Albany 1 1 :05 pra 2:55 pm Train No. 9t leaves Savannah 2:00 n. m ■ rives Guyton 2:55 p. m. ” Passengers for Bylvanla, Wright*vlUe, Mtl ledgevilie and Eatonton should taka 7:10 a m. train. * Passengers for Thomaston, Carrollton, Porrr Fort (iaines, Talbotton, Buena Vista, Blakelv and Clayton should take the 8:20 p. rn. train. J No. 2. No. 4. SKIT Lv Augusta. 12: 10 pm 9:lopra Lv Macon... 10:&5 am 11:00 pm Lv Atlanta.. 6:sogin 7:15 pm . . * LvColumbus 10:30 pm 12: '5 pm LvMontg ry. 7:25 pm 7:4oam II””’ LvEufaula. .10:1 1 pm 10:47 ara . Lv Albany.. 4:45 am U:ssara * Lv Milieu. . 2:28 ptu 8:20 am 5:00 am Lv Guyton 4:03 pm 6:07 ara 6:3(22 Ar Savannah pm 6:lsam 8:00am Train No. lot leaves Guyton 8:10 p. m.; arrive* Savannah 4:25 p. m. arrive* Sleeping cars on all night trains between Sa vannah, Augusta, Macon and Atlanta also Ma con aud Columbus. Train No. 8 leaving Savannah at 8:90 n. nr. will stop regularly at Guyton, hut at no other P ol ' l ;A?,P ut "-df passengers between Savannah and MiUen. Train No 4 will stop on signal at stations be tween Millen and Savannah to take on passen gers for Savannah Connections at Savannah with Savannah. Florida <lnd Western for all point* in Tickets for all point* aud sleeping car berth* ”0 Ci ky Office, No. 20 Bullstreet, and Depot Office 30 minutes before departure of each train. CLIF. O. NUNGEZER, E. T. CHARLTON Ticket Agent. Gen. Pass. Agent Savannah, Florida & Westejp Railway [AU trains on this road are run by Centaal Standard Time.l 'T'IME CARD IN EFFECT NOV 1,3, tSBT X Passenger trains on this road will run daflw as follows: —ay WEST INDIA FAST MATT, RBAD DOWN. --.- _ l jT . Savannah....... Ar 12:28 pm !B:BopmLv Jacksonville Lv 7:30a tn Sanford. Lv I:lsam 9-0 p m Ar Tampa ..Lv 8:10pta PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE. W 7.; a nd( Lv... Tampa... .Ar Ar-KbyWest-Lv lf&"& W ednea. and J . , w.!/ * 8a p „— a , m L T “‘-- LT f^nSS Pullman buffet cars to and from New York aud Tampa. NEW ORLEANS EXPRESS. n m f' T Savannah Ar 7:58 p m B:42am Lv Je*up Ar 6:16 Dm 9.50 am Ar Way cross Lv 5:06 pm m aW ,' ChUahan -Lv 2:42 pm 12:00 noonAr Jacksonville Lv 2:00 prn 7:30 am hr Jacksonville Ar 7:45 p m a m v * *•• •• - Way-cross. ..... .Ar 4-40 D m 12:04 pmLv..- Vafdost* Lv 2:56 JS ™P m Lv Quitman Lv 2:28 p m 1.23 pm Ar .Tbomasville... .Lv 1:46 p m 3:30p m Ar,.....Bainbridge. tv 11:25 am p m Ar. Chattahoochee... .Lv“ll:30 a m Pullman buffet cars to and from Jacksonvffl* ana New York, to and from Jacksonville and New Orleans via Pensacola. EAST FLORIDA EXPRESS. I:3opm Lv Savannah. Ar'l2:2g n m 3:20 pm Lv Jesup Lv 10:54m 4:40 p m Ar. Waycroaa Lv 9:53 a m 7:45 pm Ar Jacksonville. ... .Lv 7:30a ■ _3ij;s ptn Lv, . Jacksonville Ar 9:45 a m Lv Wgycross...... ~\r 5:Tm 8.30 pm Ar... ... .Dupont Lv 5:80 a it 8:25 p in Lv Lake City .Ar 10:43 and m 3:45 p m Lv Gainesville Ar 10:80a m 6:55 pm Lv Live Oak Ar 7:10 am iniw p Ul L v —Dupont Ar" 5:25 a in Pnt Ar Thornaaville Lv 8:26 atn J iTiL m W"" 4Jbany i'* Lv I:2sam j o buffet cars to and from and St. Louis via ThomasviUe, Albany, Mont gomery and Nashville. ALBAN Y EXPRESS Savannah. Ar 6:loan 10.t*pmLv Jesup ...Lv 3:lBan I'JdataAr Atlanta Lv 7:06 pm ?' :40a I" Ar Waycross.... ..Lv 12:10 am 7:25 am Ar Jacksonville. ... ILv~7-oolTia i :00 p m Lv Jacksonville Ar 7:25 a m LOiam Lv Waycross Ar 11:3) p n," _2 : 30am Ar Dupont Lv 10:10pin Lv 6:56 p m 10.30 a m .at Gainesville Lv 8:45 ptp 10:45 ain Ar Lake City Lv 8:25 p m f : “ ara Lv Dupont Ar 9:45 pm 6.30a m Ar...... ThomasviUe Lv 7:oopra 11:40a m Ar........ Albany Lv 4:oopm Stops at all regular stations. Pullman sleeping cars to ana Lrom Jacksonville and -Sa vannah, JESUP EXPRESS. B.4spmLv Savannah Ar B:3oam 6 fc. opm . A n"' Jesup Lv 6:26 a m btops at all regular and flag stations. CONNECTIONS. At Savannah for Charleston at 6:45 am, (ar rive Augusta viaYemassoe at l.'i'.pm), 12:48 p m and 8:93 om: for Auguata ana Atlanta at 7:,0 a m and 8:20 p m; with steamshlpa for New Xork Sunday, Tuesday and Friday; for for Baltimore every fifth day. At JLSUP for Brunswick at 3:80a m and 3:35 pm; for Macon and Atlanta et.Oa m and 11:07 p tn. At WAYCROSS for Brunswick at 10:00a mand 5:05 p m. At CALLAHAN for Fernandtna at 9:47 pm; for Waldo, Cedar Key, Ocala, etc , at 11:27 am. At LIVE OAK for Madison, Tallahassee, etc., at 10:58 a m and 7:30 p ra. AtGAINESVILLErorOcaIa, Tavares, Brook*- villo and Tampa at 10:55 a ra. A# ALBANY lor Atlanta, Macon, Montgom ery, Mobile, New Orleans, Nashville, etc. , At CHATTAHOOCHEE for Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans at 4:14 p ru. Ticket* sold aud sleeping car berths secured at BREN'S Ticket Office, aud at the Passe agar Station. WM. P. HARDEE, Gen. Pass. Agent R. G. FLEMING buiieriiitendent. Charleston k Savannah Railway Co s made at Savannah with Sa vannah, Florida and Western Railway Train* leave and arrive at Savannah by stand ard time (both meridian), wrnuu is 36 minute* slower lhau city time. NORTH WARD. No. 14* 66* 78* Lv Sav'h... 12:43pm 6:45a m 8:98 pa Aj-Augusta l:l.i pm - Ar Beaufort 5:30 p m 10:1 am - ArP. Royal :Ipm 10:80am - Ar Al'daie. 7:40 pm 10:5 am - Ar Chastou u:.opm 11:40am I:2sam SOUTHWARD. 83* 36* 27* Lv Cba'ston 7:30 a m 3:15 p m 8:45a rn Lv Augusta : :46 . m - LvAlaale.. 5: ara 12:i2pm - Lv P. Royal. 7:ooam 18:20pm - Lv Beaufort 7:12a ra 12:33pm Ai'Sav'b.. .10:. am 6:34 p m 6:41 a m Daily between Savannah and Chai-ieston. tSi unlays only. Train No. Is makes no connection with Pore Royal and Augnsta Railway, aud stops only at lliugeland, Green Pond ana Ravenei. Train 1* stops only at, Yemasseo and Green Pond, and connect* for Beauiort and Port Royal daily, and for Allendale daily, except Sunday. Train* 35 and 66 connect from and for Beaufort and Port Royal daily. lor tickets, sleeping car reservations an<lau other Information apply to WM. BREN Special Ticket Agent, A Bull street, and at Charleston aud Savannah railway ticket office, at Savannah, Florida and Western Railway depot. C. S. GADSDEN. SupU Jem 6, 1837. KIESLING-’S NURSERY, White 331uti' Road. ■pLANTS, BOUQUETS, DESIGNS, CUT- X I LOWERS furnished to order. Leave op> d.-rs at DAVIS BROS.’, enmor Bull aud 'oik 6H e. ta, Xrivphoue cHI 240,