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1 EOPLEJ WHO DISAPPEAR.
Home New York Citizens Who Have
Been Swallowed by Oblivion.
h'trmi Ihe. New 1 Ol'fc World.
Stevenson’s powerful story of the doctor
who went in good at the tVont door of a
London bouse to come out an evil wretch in
the back alley gave ahorribleshoek to many
a family iu New York and Brooklyn still
waning for the return of the loved one who
went out months or yeai-s ago to lie "back
in a few minutes. ’’ and has never since been
seen or heard of. A strange, horriblo light
was projected on the gloom of the ver*ro
current subject of- mysterious disappear-
Who is there hot afiaid of being
buried alive in the gravel And yet, how
inany hundreds there are in theta cities
alone who are each year, warm with life
and the kisses of love, entombed iu the
great sen of humanity, never to come again
to tts surface, unless as a battered corpse
from which name, clothing, habit, the littlo
marks of affection and, perhaps, the very
identity of the gray matter ol' the brain
itself, have faded out.
No reference is hail here to the cases habit
ually reiwrted to the police and published
in the newspapers, nor to the lost country
men, strayed children, or boys who run
away to sea. There is nothing very won
derful about the case of the overworked
merchant who takes the steamer for London
without saying anything about it, or the
man on a spree who gets into the wrong
house, or the wild young girls who come
home and say they ha\ e been kidnaped, or
the young fellow who thinks it a good joke
to run out to Chicago an< I leas e his friends
in New York, or of the respectable men
who meet old schoolmates and go off with
’em to talk and drink over old times; these
are ordinary affairs. It is not the lost souls
of a great city, after all, that are so fearful
to think of as the lost bodies. The identity
we prize so dearly may be so easily lost.
Nearly thirty families -within easy distance
from this city still mourn young girls, who
disappeared about the time the unidentified
young woman was found murdered at Hall
way, and who thought they recognized in
her tortured features the face they had
kissed and cried over. Those thirty young
girls may now be living out in service, ig
norant that they ever had home luxuries of
their own and a name that was worth money
at the bottom of a check.
This would be the case of Elsie Warren,
of Jersey City, who was found not long
since penniless and completely oblivious of
her pa-1, doing excellent cliamberivork in a
Brooklyn family, by relatives who have
never heard of her ever putting up her own
hair even, and were able to offer a reward
of SIO,OOO for her return home. Or they
may be kept prisoners in some lonely subur
ban house by women with no earthly object
that can ever be ascertained, as was Eliza
beth Canning, whose case set all England by
the ears on New Year’s day, 1753, and the
vetification of whose story is as impossible
now as it was found to be then. Or they
may have been kidnaped for improper
purpose and murdered while trying to es
cape in vile localities in which the very in
credibility of their presence rendered recog
nition hopeless. Or they may have gone
shopping with their mothers, stepjied to an
other part of the store to get a ribbon and
vanished forever, as poor Mary Evans did
st Macy’s so recently that her parents and
three sisters still live to wear mourning for
her. The beautiful young woman’s head
that was found in the North river in 1860,
was kept by authority of law for two years,
a death mask was taken from it before "de
cay’s effacing fingers had swept the lines
where beauty lingers’’ and several photo
graphs of it are still in existence. It was
falsely ident.iied over and over again, and
■was said strikingly to resemble charming
Ada Ricard, whose head turned up sound
and safe on her own shoulder* four months
afterwards, when she came home from
New Orleans. But no one knows to this
day to whom those peachy cheeks, soft eves
and red lips belonged or ought to have be
longed,
"Boss” Harrington was a sporting butcher
who bad a great many friends and acquaint
ances in this city. He drank with a party
of frieuds at the Hone House in Broadway
one evening, stepped out into the night, say
ing it was "time to go home,” and has never
since come to the surface of the ocean of
humanity. Chancellor John Lansing, of
the New York Court of Chancery, got into
a cab to go to the Albany boat one after
noon, and was never seen or heard of after
wards. He was a man of family, wealth,
high-standing and spotless antecedents.
Twenty years ago Guy C. Hotchkiss, Jr.,
son of a well-known manufacturer in Wil
liamsburg, went away from home, loaving
his father’s distasteful business, a young
wife and a son. Last April lie came home
from a California ranch, whore he had
been living like a hermit. He was affec
tionately received by his family, who had
not heard from him or of him for just nine
teen years.
The most prominent man whoso disap
pearances has of recent years been chroni
cled iu New York was S. S. Conaiit, editor
of harper's Weekly. Everybody is famil
iar with the wa he disappeared, about three
years ago, and the fact that his widow
wears weeds for him and occupies a respon
sible editorial position in the emp oy of the
Harpers, for whoa* her hnsbuud bad worked
twenty years. But the belief of some of
bis intimates and the story about town that
explains this singular absence have never
been published.
When a fast man of business or a man of
the World disappears mysteriously, it is
given out that he has committed suicide or
met with foul play. In nineteen cases out
Of twenty it isn’t so. He has simply gone
off somewhere with a woman who is apt as
not to be his elder in years and his better at
the bank. Often she is a woman uutram
tneied by any one place of residence, and
her absence can tie connected with his bv
no clew known to the public or to the friends
of either. She may have gone for a Euro
pean trip, or on a journey around the world,
or to winter in Florida—as it is given out.
Oftenor than would be thought, she is a
woman of some,social position, wearing
matrimonial ties as easily as is now
so frequent in the fashionable world, and
has been livingthe life of a “woman about
town” with as much genuine enjoyment as
that with wh.ch her nusband, who remains
at his club, indifferent to her movements, has
been living the predatory and selfish exis
tence of a "man about town.” In New
York there is a large hi A growing number
of rich young men who live on the lookout
for intrigues. Women of the world are
not slow m discovering their existence, and
in using the private fortune of the wife, or
her allowance -from her husband, first for
the maintenance of these intrigues and
afterward for that of tho male intriguer.
What motive actuates an ostensibly virtu
ous and respected woman to reduce herself
in this way to the standard of male mor
ality f Generally a desire to share in mas
culine pleasures. Often pique at the neg
lect of a mail; worn at the altar to love and
to protect her. Not unfrequently the ex
ample of other women in her own social set.
Sometimes original sin.
There are in this country, as readily oc
curs to any t ravelier, n number of natural
outlets to oblivion. Niagara Fulls and its
unfathomed whirlpool constitute the most
terrible and notorious of them. Tradition
relates how explorer.-, have failed to come
bark from the yet unknown depths Of the
Mammoth Cave. Corpsesor unrecognizable
hunters are found now and then in the
North Woods, the Maine pine forest and the
tlml>er shrouded peniuHulaof Michigan. Of
tiie young girls lured into the lumiier dens
of this same peninsula the daily papers have
fold horrors tor mouths. Yet it is only those
not absolutely lost to memory for whom any
seared is made, 't he dry Fork of Elk river
in West Virginia disappears from its sur
face lied down a hole whose abyss nobody
has everyot cared to attempt to measure,
#xce-t one old fisherman who let down
jus fishing line, didn’t touch bottom with it
a ->d followed .t dowi h inm-l leaving only
fc: gum >siot as renvndersof Ids existence,
’i ’-c item.'ll so hhim is fu of boj es that no
bou? will find a uf over which nobody could
meet ideussfy mg tombstone. The
mass swcops of tho L'ouisioua au<l
Texas and Florida morasses are!
famous breeders of such stories.
When the organized baud of i : ,rse thiev s
and prairie pirates held tho Totorf Basin, in
Idaho, against aii coiners some years ago.
many a cheery emigrant or prospector wont
down for a night’s lodging and found It
perpetual night. There is not an ocean, sea,
lake, sound or river that doesn't clutch un
known dead to its peaceful bosom, scarcely
a big county that hasn’t its bottomless pond
or pit that iiasaoquired evil lame through
some siisjieeted swallowing up of a dead or
living victim. It looks, on examination of
statistics, as if half the world were con
stantly trying to hide itself from the other
half. But Niagara is the great morgue of
the mysterious. There’s a continual pil
grimage of suicides to Niagara. Sometimes
they have made up their minds to the
plunge. Othens are drawn to the whirlpool,
with its roar of iufinity and horror ol im
mensity and darkness, by a vague desire
which soon begets and mergs into the
deadly purpose. Sometimes tin y are recog
nized on (he wify and they are ; raced to the
edge of the cataract. Often they leave home
for always and Niagara is never known as
their grave.
News has just been received in Now York
of David Scott, the partner of Vernon
Brothers & Cos., of 67 Duane street, who
disappeared on Oct. 32, His brother, John
O. Scott, of Toronto, traced him to Niagara
Falls. He discovered t hat David had been
first at the Cataract House and had gone
from there to the Clifton House. David
bought a ticket on the Suspension Bridge
and linseed the ticket office bn the bridge.
He did not return, and the ticket was not
taken up at the other end of the bridge.
.Mr. Vernon also got a letter from a stranger
which said:
“I met Mr. Scott on Sunday, Oct. 21. He
went on the 6p. m. train to Buffalo. lie
appeared to be very much excited. ’
These fragments of information tell the
sad story; the gaps in it will iu ad proba
bility never bo tided.
VOLAPUK.
The New Language Expounded by a
Professor of It.
The exposition of the new language uni
versal, “Volapuk,” which Col. Charles E.
Sprague gave recently in New York, was,
says the New York Commercial Adverti
ser, evidently both entertaining, instructive
and gratifying, as judged by the interest of
the crowded audience. The occasion was
one of the regular Friday morning series of
"familiar talks” before the students and as
many of their friends as could also be ac
commodated in tho assembly rooms. Col-
Sprague is the American representative of
the Volapuk academy, and probably the
best posted individual on the subject of this
new “language without a country” in
America. He is a ready speaker, and has
evidently a special aptitude in the use of ex
pedients for the explanation and rendering
attractive of his theme. His familiarity
with other languages also lends fuller scope
to hii style, and an apparently confirmed
belief iu all that he claims for the new lan
guage added interest to the earnestness of
his endeavor to convert his hearers to the
same belief.
A little lecture on the subject of lan
guages in general and this Recently devised
one in particular comprised his introductory
remarks, the lecturer aiming to show the
necessity for some method common to men
of all nations, by which could be expressed
in writing the universality of thought that
can be imparted in some degree, at least, by
verbal and sign language. Then wit h the aid
of a blackboard he set forth tho claims of
Volapuk to be this great desideratum and
endeavored to establish the assertion of its
founders that it is not only the youngest
and most curious of all languages, but
the most easily acquired. The system of
moods and tenses and declens.oas of its
verbs and nouns, somewhat after the fash
ion of liatin and Greek, were illustrated,
and in this connection he remarked that al
though brevity was not especially sought
for in its construction, it had to a great ex
tent Involuntarily attained that end. two or
three words, as, for instance, a verb of the
future perfect tense and a noun of the dat
ive case, often expressing a whole sentence
of ordinary English. Thus the language
could be made particularly useful for tele
graph, and being universal it could be used
with great freedom for cabling to foreign
countries. A good many examples of the
language were cited.
"Bchleyer has given to the world anew
language,” would read in Volapuk.
“Bchleyer egiooui puki unlik vole.’’ It was
explained t at the principle of all verbs
was, like the classics, to have one root and
add the different tenses and even further
qualifications by affixes or prefixes of a let
ter or two. Alter the lecture prater ques
tions were freely asked by the audience and
answered by the lecturer. These are some
of tho questions and answere:
"How old is the language!”
"It is only 8 years old.”
"Is there any die ionary of iti”
"Yes, one of about 14,000 words and giv
ing quite an extensive vocabulary. The
language is not yet perfect in detail and new
wot ds are tieing constantly a- Ided as required
from derivatives by the academies charged
with such business,”
“How do you express money;”
"The termination ‘ab’ signifies 'money,
‘do’ dollars, and ‘sent.’ cent. Thus $503 35
would lie written ‘lultum nialsalael ,loaU,
killalacl sentabs.’”
“Can the language be written iiconog
raphy
“I am not sure; I think it can, but that,
would be like most otiier languages, while
stenography, I think, has been especially
adapted to English.”
"Is Volapuk already put to any practical
use f”
"Oh. ves. Over one of tho largestjptores
in Paris there is the sign ‘Volaptikon,’in nail
ing literally, ‘Onespeaks Volapuk Sere.’
similar to the common signs in Eur| oan
stores, ‘Due speaks English bore.’ ti'lien
you get. inside the store you find Unit the
sign was correct and you are the ouc. T This
is not the case with Volapuk."
“How long would it take one not cciver
saut with any other language to learn V ila
puk?”
"In a month you would have a good-gen
eral knowledge of it, and a vocabulary of
one or two hundred of the most essential
words at your command, and in ob'at
three months you would bo able to mgr r
staud and write with little aid from a*Jic
tionary.”
“Do you use any special characters?” ‘
“No. Volapuk is always written in the
ordinary Roman letters of English. I
think even that the German text is dytiiir
out.”
“When was Volapuk iuvonted!”
“By Bchleyer, near Lake Constance. In
the borders of Switzerland, iu 187!). Thjen
it was introduced into Austria, German
France, and has now overspread the whqjb
continent of Europe ami extended to ever,
other continent.”
“What are the means of spreading it?”
“All over Europe there are societies fsi
that object. They number now 148 aixi
several papers are printed in that fan
guage."
“What is the general principal of the
structureof Volapuk sentences?”
"More nearly like French and consider*
bly like English, except that adjectives are
placed after the nouns.”
“YVluc do you think will lie the attain*
ments of it?”
“Volapuk is primarily a literary lan-1
guage. Asa means of communication bc-l
tween different ■ nationalities it must ben
come indispensablo, and it Will bo taught In]
commercial colleges and used by all busi
ness houses as an adjunct to stenography
and type writing.”
Hood’s .Sarsaparilla is a purely vegetable
preparation, being free from injurious in
gredients. It is peculiar in its curative
power. _
The man that couldn’t tell th* difference
between a mule’s ears mid a lemon can
plainly see the advantages of buying his
Shoes at Rosenheim’s, after examining their
goods and learning their prices.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1887.
MUTE MASKS AND DOMINOEI
Merry Dancers Who Kept Time by the
Sense of Feeling, and Talked Only by
Signs.
From the Xew Vork Times.
A ballroom, big and bare and still. Bril
liant with light, but not a man or woman
In it. The orchestra are In the gallery, but
so far they have not touched their instru
ments. It is 10 o’clock, and time the dance
is on. The folding doors open and the peo
ple enter. And such people! They are in
masquerade costume, and never almost
were 200 revellers seen in more fantastic
dress. Connie by couple they march across
the waxed floor. They find seats on the
benches around the walls. The liand has
not yet burst out with march or waltz. The
revellers have not spoken. From behind
their masks and dominoes they look out
ii)>on the picture gay with color and bright
and brilliant as any masquerade bail. But
there is a solemn silence, for the 200 have the
dancing floor to themselves, and the 200 lire
both dcuf and dumb. Nature denied them
speech and hearing when they were born,
and no effort of themselves or of teachers
has given them the two great senses. Not
a whisper is heard from the great gather
ing. Some dresses rustling, some heavy
breathing, and that is all. The scenes be
comes more and more impressive to the few
men and women behind t lie orelies! ra in tho
gallery, who can talk and can hear, and it
is a relief to them, blessed with all their
senses, when, after ten minutes of grave
yard silence set in ballronmtgayety, the or
chestra begin the grand march, aiid the 200
l>eople of the silent world rise for the prom
enade. So began last night tho Gallnudet
Club ball in Adelphi Hull in Fifty-second
treet, near Broadway. Thomas H. Gallnu
det was the founder of the system in
America for the instruction of the deaf and
dumb. In his honor the chili was named,
and to help pay for a statue to him the hall
was given. The educated deaf mutes of
New York and of all the country near here,
and even some of the silent ones from Eu
rope, were in the hall.
These 200 peopie on the floor with useless
ears and tongues, useless for speech, could
not hear the faintest note from violin or
piano. And yet their feet tripped over tho
floor in as true time as ever masters and
matrons at a Patriarchs’ ball pressed the
floor of DelmoniCo’s. Nor did they look at
the orchestra eador beating time with his
baton to catch their cue. They caught and
kept in with the music solely through the
sense of feeling, for ns the vibrations from
the instruments came out iu waves through
the air and reached the wood of the floor
and the bodies of the dancers they, with
that increased gift of the sense of feeling
which comes to the deaf mute, felt the deli
cate waves and responded nimbly to them.
And then they became merry indeed. Fin
gers flashed thoughts to eyes, and little did
the marchers care, seemingly, for their iua
biltv to communicate as other people do. All
through the twistings of the march the con
versation was maintained, and had it been
in spoken language that ballroom of the
Adelphi Hall would have buzzed with a
wonderful noise. Some or tho costumes were
both rich and bizarre. The gowns of the
young, pretty and shapely girls illustrated
all the fashions from the time of Queen
Elizabeth to tiie day of the Empress Eu
genie. And the men were courtly cavaliers
and Oxford students in cap and gown, plan
tation negroes, imps in the lurid colors of
Hades, cardinals in true cardinal red, bur
lesque dudes, rustics labelled Josiah Hay
seed and Tom Gre-uhorn, copies of Uncle
Sam in stars and stripes, and some even
werei in natation of Satan himself.
The march went on and ended in dazzling
splendor, but in awful stillness. Then came
the lanciers and then a waltz. All the
whila there was a tremendous amount of
finger talk, but the more they talked the
quieter the room became. The dancing
went on till early morning, and before it was
over there were 500 people present.
CURED BY WIRE.
A Telegraph’c Dispatch ?aid to Have
&aved Miss Whitney.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Now it is the turn of the mind healers.
The youngest child of Lawyer C. M. Whit
ney, of 565 Henry street, is Estella, a bright
brunette of eleven years old, not at all pre
cocious, and fond of her toys. The house
hold was iu consternation when a practi
tioner, both in homerpathy aDd allopathy,
found that she had symptoms of remittent
lever, and her parents were told to let it
take its usual epurse of fourteen days. Es
telle had sleepless nights, us did her anxious
mother, and%uuid lake little nourishment.
Finally sho relapsod into an unconscious
.>tate, and her. case was so critical
that Mrs. Whitney suggested sending word
to Julius A. Dresser, of Boston, the mental
healer. Accordingly Mr. Whitney tele
graphed at noon and a favorable answer
was returned. The result was soon seen.
Estelle's face became strangely Hushed, a
profuse perspiration broke out and- lie asked
tor cake, ice-cream and coffee, which she
enjoyed amazingly The following morning
the patient was well. All this is vouched
for by Mrs. Whitney, her daughters. May
and Pearl, Estelle herself and Mr. Whit
ney, who, while acknowledging the fact,
did not pretend to explain its mystery. He
said last night that while lie did not
profess a wild enthusiasm over the
science, he felt grateful lor many tilings
.accomplished. “It is no new thing," -aid
lie. "It lias: b oil practiced for thirty ye r
My mother, then 43 year* old. wa* surely
dying in our home, Wayne, Me. My
mother's disease was consumption, and her
frequent hemorrhages, and the fact that
she could not get out Of beff pointed to a
speedy dissolution, until Mr. P. I’. Quimby,
the father of mental science, came along.
My mother had not left her lied for a year
previous to his visit. After a day oi his
treatment sho came down to dinner; in
three days she was our riding and was en
tirely cured. Her death occurred three
years afterward. Sho died of pneumonia.
Another (giro effected by tho exercise
of mental scicneo was upon m.y sinter,
three (ears ago, then a resident of r-ikoube
gan, Me. She had Usui an invalid for six
teen years from tnmors._had teen at ended
by all of the first Now England physician*
of all schools, mid had known through thorn
all about drugs and the knife, securing but
temporary relief. For three years she was
carried about from to another
and a congested and enlarged liver made
her life an added torture. The doctors told
her there was nothing for her but death,
when she heard of Mr. Julius A, Dresser, u
pupil of P. P. Quimby. long dead, ami ac
cepted his treatment, Her euro was a math r
of days and s:nc thou she has been entirely
weli, and >* a frequent contributor to the
jouruai on the question. I will not at
tempt to explain the theory o ' the science.
The rem dies of ten <v twenty years ngo
arc out of date and discarded, as those of
tho present will be discarded ten or twenty
years, hence. Twenty-four grains of
quinine breaks up a fever in one case and
excites it to fatal consequences in another.
All these things go to show that medicine,
fur from being a science, is an experiment—
a problem the solution of which is involved
in endless dispute among it- schools and dis
dpln-. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes once
said: ‘A patient is sick; we give him
medicine and he gets well, but we
don’t know whether he does so
on account of the medicine or in spite of
it.’ Dr. S. Fleet Spier may say that be
cause lie was not calle i t wove hours earlier
Mre. Robbiu* died. That, statement proba
bly shows the opinion the doctor would
like the public to have of him. If Dr. Sph r
could cure every case of acute pneumonia
i that fact would he reasonable ground for
supposing that Mrs. Robbins died tor want
[of him. 'J he present death rate from that
|fatal disease snows, however, that if Ur.
I‘-pier’s estimate of himself is correct a great j
Iruiny pc pie are dying for want of bun every
\\ "
l Mr. Whitney is a member of St. John'* \
alethodist Episcopal churcii, a trustee of
lie First Place Methodist Episcopal church
fid well known in religious and social .
li-cles all over the city. 1
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STILL MISSING. Three isnind volumes of
the Mousing News are still missing,
namely tlios*' of
July to December. 1860.
July to December, JBBI.
July to December, ISC2.
1 have every reason to think that these hooks
are in the possession of parties in this city, and
therefore refs-ai my oner of 810 apiece for
rlielr return to tiie Moknino News offlce.
J. H E6T11.1 .
I'IIOTOfiRAPHT.
CABINET PliOTcUttAlfiLS
A SPECIALTY.
J. N. WH-gov
31 Buds: re~t.
HERMES A HffIBINSnVS Excelsior Photo
graphs still ahead; also, fine Life size nil
I’ll in lings in handsome frames, together still
one dozen Cabinet Photographs, sls. Every do
scriptiou and size of picture made Come and
see us: v.e will surprise you. N. It. Wo have a
beautiful picture of the Confederate Geuerifis
elegant .Mid unique In design, cheap; eomeand
see them. K 7 Congress street. S.ivaiinab, Gn.
HOARDING.
ROARDI.NO— No. li) .Abercorn street, corner
of El. Julian. Handsomely furnish and
rooms, with excellent board; terms moderate.
Also table hoard.
\\T ANTED - Three gentlemen for large room
V* and hoard at ?2t) each per month. Ad
die** If., earo this office.
(' O TO 200 South Brod street for choice
T rooms and excellent hoard. Location de
lightful and convenient. *
Ml SCKI.it, A YEOtIS.
T a DURATION AI. ORAL INSTRUi TION. -
i j Ou Monday next rhn axerchwa of a school
on the oral 01 .joctiva method will l nit in in the
hallo.pr 81 Whitakor steed. VrUbmetio as ap
plied to actual busine-s transact.ondba principles
of I hi- English language at they teach com et
s|ielling, reading and r-]^- ik 1 r:ke 'Till- be taught at
specialties. I assert with confidence tbatgtu
dent s can acquire a ■ -rrior i>ueui*>.-.-, education
mitlcr this plan of inalruotlon In u. few mouths
i Kin can be (rained in a* many years under the
usual methods. Will. WALLACE. For terms
call at i lie ball from 9a,m.to 12 m. Savannah,
I it>C. SO, 18KT.
HAPPY NEW year: Jg*avo your orders for
fresh killed Turkeys, Chleken*. Geesa ami
Ducks r.t ADAMS A’ FLE.MI Ml'S, comer Whita
ker arid Liberty streets. Telephone 3)2.
I JIANG moving, tuning, impairing and ship
ping at lowest rates: special piano trucks
for upright and square pianos, at BCilltKlNj
KeU _
niilDTTi Celebrated Cough Props 10c. a pack
ago; the popular rough rcineoy.
VlfANTl'll). purchasers for New Year Turkeys.
V > (ttiickeus. Cleese tmd Pucks, fresh killed at
ADAMS,. FLEMINGT*, cor,or Whitaker ami
Liberty streets. Telephone 20ai.
(A AMPHOII ICE. Cold Cream, Vas line and
J Purified Suet. tl. M. HLi Pi' \ CO.
Ca ALL and examine our Oil Heutipg Stove.
J Economist and Excelsior for nr CORN*
WELI. <fc CHIPMAN, 107 Proucrbton street
rpOY TRUNKS. Coat Uanmss. lap Holies,
I Horse Blank,'to and great big teu-oent
Sponges. at NEIDLLSOHR A RABUN S.
in RETURN TUBULAR BOILERS ami En
-I ‘' glues cheap aud good. GEO. B. LOJI
BARD & CO., ATigusta. i la.
1 >AIR 85-H. P. I iL’ULE ENGINES rbeap
I 080. R. LO.MB.\RD AP< ■ . Augusta. >,o.
—/IP P- RETURN TUBULAR BOILER f,i
lU sale cheap. GKO. U. LOMBARD * CO.,
Augusta, Ga.
1 .'J 1
LUMBER.
LUMBER! LUMBER!
A. S. BACON,
Office and Planing Mill, Liberty aud East Broad
Streets.
A full stock of Daxosgi) and Rovoh T.i mbek.
I-ATHfi, Huinoi-xr, Etc., always on liand. Estl
mates give,n upon applte/Wiou. Promptdeiiv
guarautenU. Tvleonon* H 7.
LUDDEN <fr BATES S. M. H.
It Year Sals.
As our Christmas Sale of Pianos and Organs
proved a success far in excess of our most hoi*'
ful anticipations, and the inclement weather
prevailing during last week prevented many at
tending, we throw open our ware rooms and
golden opportunities to the public for the pres
ent week.
PIANOS
of all the leading makers, namely, CnicxEiuko,
Mason and Hauun, Mathvshkk, Bent i Cos.,
and AnioV, all of which aro well and favorably
kijgyn -too much so to need any praise at our
li;®ls and richly worth their respective prices,
which, by the way, are lower, quality considered,
than those of other and Inferior makes. We
also have
ORGANS
of the following celebrated makes: Mason &
Hauun, Packard Oiuiilhiral, and Bay State.
All of those instruments ore sold under a six
years’ guarantee. Thousands sold and every
body satisfied Biggest kind of inducements to
purchase!-®, some of which are
Best Instruments,
Lowest Prices &
Easiest Terms.
Look the field all ovrr carefully and then give
us a call and it will not require any pointed argu
ment* to Convince you tbat it is to your interest
to make your purchase at the old reliable
{ jiidilen i JjaLs Southern Ms II fIUSf.
W A J< HEN AND JSWKLBI.
Qirislmas Presents.
J HAVE the finest selection of Ladies’ ad
Oentlemen's GO Id) WATCHES of the best
makes. Also the prettiest pattern in FIN E
JEWELRY, as Indies’ Diamonds, sets of Ear
ings, I-ace Pins, Diamond Finger Rings, Brace
lets, Watch Chains, etc.: Gold-headed Canes and
Umbrellas, Fine French Clocks, at extraordi
nary low prices. Finest Silverware, Gold Spec
tacles, and numerous pretty things appropriate
for holiday presents.
Desbouillons’ Jewelry Store,
ai Rull Street.
. XMAS
In fast approaching and everybody Is on the
<jm vive to buy and to receive
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
"VfOW is rh# lime to make detention*. 1 would,
i.x therefore, extend a cordial imitation to
my friend* and the public to call early aud exa
afnine my very large and well assorted stock or
Diamonds Watches, Jewelry, Solid
Silver and Plated Ware,
Which for variety, design, quality and priors
cannot be surpassed anywhere. All goods sold
warranted as represented.
J. ICO CRT
(Lyons* Rlo.*k . WbitAker
lIARDH AIM:. KTC.
C U T L EE V !
Jtodrrers 1 Carvers in Sets.
Rodgers’ Carvers in Cases.
Rodgers’ Ivory Table Knives.
A Large Stock of
POCKET CUTTLEEY |
Ladies’ Scissors in Cases.
Ladies’ Scissors tbat will
not Rust.
FOR SALE BY
Palmer Bros
148 and 150 Congress St.
— ——,A ■—*
UiUX ERIKM asii LIQirOM.
D. I LESTER
THE
GROCER.
HEADQUARTERS
FOR
CHOICE IILI) WISES
AND
LIQUORS.
21 Whitaker Street,
SAVAMAH. GA.
KCRMSniXO GOODS.
FINEHATS,
Shirts ml Neckwear.
THE MOST ELEOANT LINE OK SCARFS
EVER SHOWN IN THIS CITY—CONSIST
ING OK FOUR-IN-HANDS AND
TKCKfI-MADE UP IN FINE OROS
GRAIN AND WATERED SILKS.
Silk Muffler* and Handkerchiefs in beautiful
patterns. DENT S FINE KID UKOVES, plain
and embroidered. CHILDREN’S KID AND FUR
TOP Glove*. SMOKING JAOKETB—new and
stylish. Lyons’ Fine Umbrellas -In Silk and
Gloria Cloth —Gold and Silver Hoads.
Men's Shaving Cases and Dressing Casts.
Our Now pique Frodt and Embroidered. Full
Dress Shirts, and Eelegant evening colors, in
Kids, and White Lawn Ties.
Camels Hair Underwear, and Chamois Sirin
Jacket*--A ir Pillows and Rubber Coats In varie
ty. Everything Stylish—and good quality.
At LaFAR’S
29 Bull Street.
CLOTHINt,.
Wc invito attention to our
stock of
CLOTHING,
FURNISHINGS
AND HATS.
Perfect and complete in
every detail, containing goods
to suit all conditions aud
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,
l FALK k SPSS.
FKUIT AND GROCERIES.
Xmas Presents.
Fine Florida Oranges.
Apples, Cocoanuts, etc.
Corn, Oats, Hay, Bran, etc., in
car loads or less, at lowest
prices.
Potatoes, Onions, Cabbage,etc.
Peanuts, Peas, Stock Feed, etc.
—at—
T. P. BOND & CO.’S,
188 BAY STREET.
_B ananas.
-/11l BUNCHES CHOICE YELLOW and RED
i)WII BANANAS.
5,000 COCOANUTS.
APPLES, ORANGES, NUTS, RAIStNS, etc.
E'resh Bananas received every ten days. Coun
try orders solicited.
A. H. CHAMPION.
NEW YEAR’S
FINE FLORIDAORANGES-Tba Best Shipping
SI(K.-i for New Year Pir-m-nt*.
500 B-aeliels
PRIME CLAY. SPECKLED, RED KIPPER and
BLACK EYE PEAS.
FANCY NEW CROP MESSINA LEMONS,
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES,
Hay aiid Grraill.
Large buyer* of Grain and Hay miss It if they
fail to som iis before buying
W. D. SIMKINS & CO.,
IGH HAY.
CONFECTIONS.
FINE Xfisns
OF
Beusdorp’s and Wright & Rich’s
Chocolates and Whit
man’s Confectionery
-AT-
Mm's Drag Stora.
Corner Whi taker aud Vtayue
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
A. B. HULL,
Agent Hazard Powder Cos.,
— WIIOLESiUE IHII.KK IN— ,
F..OUR, HAY.GRA in, RICE, STAPLE
AND FANCY GROCERIES.
MILL STU KPS of all kind* i leonine TEX AS
HKD RUST PROOF SEED OATS. Slieciol
riri< es carload lot* HAY aud GRAIN.
Prompt attention given all order* and satis
faction guaranteed.
OFFICE, 5 ABEROORN STREET.
WAREHOUSE. NO. 1 WADLEY STREET, ON
LINK CENTRAL RAILROAD.
BANKS.
KISSIMMEE CITY BANK,
Kissimmee City. Orange County, Fla.
CAPITAL - - - $50,000
TRANSACT a regular bank! ng business. (Jive
particular attention to Florida collections.
Correspondence solicited. Issue Exchange on
New York, New Orleans, Savannah and Jack
sonville, Fla. Resident Agents for Coutto A Cos.
and Melville, Evans & Cos., of London, England.
New York correspondent: The seaboard
National limit.
AUCTION SALES TO-DAY.
CIGAR STORE FOR SMi
C. H. DOHSETT. Auctioneer,
Will sell on FRIDAY, *otb Inst,, at Ha. M„ at
the corner of Whitaker and President streets,
under Metropolitan Hall,
The contents of said store, consisting of
Cigars, Tobacco, Rbow Cases, Counters, Pto
lures, Pipes, Handsome Mirror, etc., etc.
If desired, the stock can be bought as a whole
and the stand rented.
AUCTION' SALES FUTURE'DAYST
VALUABLE
SUBURBAN WEffl.
C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer,
Will sell at. the Court House, on TUESDAY,
January 3d, 1887, during the usual hours of
sale,
Six lots, pach one ttxi'O, in Lewisville, on ths
Middle Ground road. Two of these lots have
four-room bouses, with hrie.W chimtievs. This
1* a very populous neighborhood, and Is but a
short distance beyond Anderson street. The
lota are nicely shaded by sycamores and laurel
trees.
—ALSO—
Two lots in Southville, each one 30x90. front
ing south on Estill avenue. No. ifi is next, to the
corner of Ah room street, and No. 38 is next
west to No. 88. These are line lots, high and
dry, and are becoming more valuable every
month.
—ALSO—
A piece of land on the extension of New
Houston street. In K"lly ward. This piece la
440 feet long la’ 114 feet wide, fronting on a
street, and is equal to eleven lots. This is a
very valuable proparty. It can be sold now for
building lots, but is increasing In value all the
time. It is very rich and would make a fine
garden tract.
also —
About one acre of land at, White Bluff, front
ing on a street, and very near the water front,
being adjoining the Constantine residence.
—AMO—
-15 acres of high land on the Ogeeohen road,
with largo two story dwelling. This Land i* a
fine location for a dairy or email farm, being
only two miles from the city limits
All of the above property is ordered sold for
account of parlies, and titles ihereto are guar
anteed.
Near the S.. F. k W. Railway,
HOUSE 11 LOT.
C. H. DORSETT, Auctioneer,
Will seU at the Court House, on TUESDAY,
Jan. 3, 4888, during the usual hours of sale, for
a account of and at the risk of the former pur
chaser.
South half of lot No. 14 Crawford ward east,
43x56. more or less, on the corner of Reynolds
and Perry street lane. The improvements con
sist of n two-story residence containing eight
rooms and piazza, also a store with separate
yard, stable and kitchen; water in each yard.
Ail metal roof. Lot fee simple.
This property is very convenient to the Savan
nah, Florida and Western Railway and to the
Savannah and Tybee Railway, also to the lum
ber yards. The bouse is solidly built and in
very good condition. ,
Valuable Property
IN CRAWFORD WARD.
C. H. DORSETT, Auctioneer,
Will offer at the Court House on TUESDAY.
January 3d, 1888, during the usual honr* of
sale,
The eastern half of lot No. 36 Craw ford ward,
and the improvements, consisting of two large
two and one half story on brick basement dwell
Lugs, with metal roof, situated on the south aide
of Mclkiuough street, between Pries and Hous
ton The raid lot runs through from McDonough
to Perry street, froutingabout forty-five feet on
McDonough. Tbl* property Is convenient to the
S., p. and W. Railway, and the mills in the
eastern pari of town, and has been ocoupied by
the same tenants for a number of years.
TWO ELEGANT RESIDENCES
FOR SALE.
C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer.
Will offer at the Court House on TUESDAT ,
January 3d, 18*8. during the usual hours of
sale., unless sold previously at private sale,
Those two urge. Miry and splendidly located
residences, kuo.rn a* .Vos. 187 and 139 Perry
street, between Bull arid Whitaker streets, upon
lot No. 43, Brown ward. These houses are well
built, furnished in good style with all the mod
ern corn enleneev; large and airy rooms, with
good outbuildings. The location, near Chippewa
aqnure. convenient to Theatre, Chore nr*.
Schools snd Cars, uaonot be excelled. The cost
of taxes dots fee simple), State. County and
City, and Water Rent,, is lea* than $3OO p>r
annum. The houses will ho sold separately,
U|*on very easy terms, to-wft.: one-third cash,
one third In one year, aud one third in two
years. Interest at 7 pur cent, and bond for
titles.
IRON WORKS.
McDoioil & Metro
IRON FOUNDER*-
Machinists, Boiler Makers and Blac&ssflJn
—nanurACTCiucns or
STATIONARY and PORTABLE ENGINES.
VERTICAL aud TOP RUNNING CORN
MILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
AGENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, tha
simplest and most effective on the market;
Gullett Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, tha
beat iu the market.
All orders promptly attended to. Send for
Price List.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
Xmas Groods.
' I'iiE finest line of Plush Cases in the city,
a consisting of Glove and Handkerchief
Boxes, Dressing Cases. Manicure Rets, Shaving
arts, etc. Also, a hne of beautiful Vases, Visit
ing Card Cases, Writing Tablets, Perfume
Baskets, Odor Cases, Cut Glass Bottles Perfum
ery, etc at Ij. C. fciironig’t* Drugstore,
corner Bull and Perry street lime.
LEGAL NOTICES.
fIMKTH CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES, Eastern Division, Southern Dis
trict of Georgia.
SAMUEL A. STRONG AND JAMES J. GOOD
WIN. TRUSTEES. VS. THE MACON AND
BRCNKWICK RAILROAD COMPANY. t. si.
Bid for foreclosure of mortgage. Order to
appear, plead, answer or demur.
It up|iearine that the deieudant. the Macon
and Brunswick Railnunl Company, cannot bn
found within the Southern District of Georgia,*'
and i hut It has not. voluntarily appeared to
answer sai.l complaint . It is ordered that said
Macon and Brunswick Railroad Compauy do
Sr, plead, answer or demur to said com
ou or before miles day for said court on
the first. Monday in January next. It is further
ordered that a copy of this order tie served on
*aid defendant if practicable, wherever fouud;
t hat a copy be published ift the Moatu.vo News
daily newspa(-r printed in Savannah. Ga.. not
less than once a week for six conseoutivn
weeks. EMORY SPEER.
United States Judge.
In open*onrt November 10, 1887.
A true extract from ttsyteda
P. F. B. GILLESPIE,
iiqpuy Clerk C. 8. C. U
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