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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SrsciAi. Notices— Reserved Seat Diagram
Mendelssohn Concerts; Fancy Work; The
National Bank of Savannah; Knights of Pythias
Hall Association: Merchants’ National Bank;
Leaders from Townsend; As to Bells of Inde
pendent Presbyterian Church; Savannah Bank
and Trust. Company; As to Marietta and North
Georgia Railroad Coupons; As to dosing* of
City Offices; Notices Southern Bank of the
State of Georgia; Notice of Dissolution, Hunt &
Owens; Turn Over a New Leaf, Strauss Print
ing Company; New Year's at Thundertolt.
A Fftw Things We Want Strauss Bros.
Announcement JBBB Eckstein's.
Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry—Theus
Bros.
Mammoth Sale or Remnants—A. R. Altmayer
& Cos.
Wanted—Agents for the Great Southern Por
trait Cos.
Bargains and Drives—At Dumas'.
Chickerino Plano-Fortks L. A B. S. M. 11.
Amusements—Katie Putnam at the Theatre.
1888, Haitv New Year -1,. A B. S. M. H.
Lost IN the Rush—B. H. Levy A Bro.
Knabe Pianos— Davis Bros.
Our Prices Talk—Emil A. Schwarz.
Press Goods, Etc.—David Weistoin.
Musical Instruments Schreiner s Music
House
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; FBr
Bale; Personal; Board; Strayed; Lost; Miscel
laneous.
Be sure you write it 1888.
The South’s industrial advancement in
1887 presents a proud record. During 1888
it can and will to made marvelous.
The place in the Congressional Record
where Senator Jones’ Washington address
ought to to given is still left blank.
Mr. Jay Hubbell, if nominated by his
party for Congress, won’t to able to assess
many government employes for campaign
purposes.
The White House is said to be grievously
infested with rats. This is a good omen
for Mr. Cleveland. Hats always desert a
V ing ship.
mu
sixty g,. Carlisle is still at work on the
license tx. . . . .
An exir, ami ls reported to be having
loniay for thja tilling the unimportant
charged with L ut places.
Broadwater Dee. •
officers while fortunate as few
Kt Rin > . m) . hi ™ in P? Uti< ;
the postmaster at WillY a,u * health, and
county, South Carolina, wher-in-law.
era I hundred dollars in mol,
has absconded. The post ir elopements
hands of his bondsmen. contiguous
The Governor has ordered all . . . .
meat* at the eapitol closed on Jl™ 1 ** '
ell public business suspended,for Ne ' rr etna
day will to generally observed here.
The receipts at the State Treasury t
were $40,000. n
Columbus Chapters.
Columbus, Ga., Dee. Ml.— Heal
1 ransfers here for December amounted to
marly $25,000.
.Judge Brooks issued fifty marriage li
censes this month.
While the afternoon passenger train on
the (teorgia Midland road was leaving the
Union depot a pair of trucks under one of
♦he passenger coaches jumped the track. No
damage was done, and only' a few minutes
delay resulted.
Cocoa’s Tragedy.
Titusville, Fla., Dec. Ml.-Thomas
Hardee, who was shot by William Fowler
at Cocoa Thursday, survives and may re
cover. He fully exonerates Fowler and de
clines to prosecute him. Fowler has been
released from jail and has returned to Cocoa
to uml ergo a preliminary trial by a Magis
trate. Judge Mershoii is his counsel and
will defend him in the event of an indict
ment, which is not probable.
Dr. Pierre’s “Favorite Prescription” is
not extolled as a • ‘cure-allbut admirably
fulness a singleness of purpose, toing a mint
{jotent specific m those chronic weaknesses
peculiar to woftmu.
The Reading Strike
*he refusal of the Knights of totwir eni
ployed on the Heading Railroad to obey the
second older to strike is pretty good evi
dence that they did not think that the first
call was a reasonable one. They obeyed the
first call, but were glad of the opportunity
to resume work. They would have otoyed
the second call doubtless if t hey had be
lieved there was good cause for doing so.
The original cause of the trouble was the
refusal of the Reading Company to allow
the Knights of Labor to dictate to it in a
matter which related to the way it should
conduct its business. The Knight* want
ed the company to refuse ’to handle
the freights of a firm which employed
men who were not Knights of Labor, and
who received less wages than the Knights
thought the firm ought to pay. The Read
ing company said that it was not its busi
ness to dictate to its shippers. It simply
proposed to handle all the freight con
signed It) it. The Knights undertook to
force the company to comply w.th its de
mands and failed.
The Reading strike directs attention
strongly to the report of Commissioner Car
roll D. Wright, the head of the Labor
Bureau. In this report, a synopsis of which
was published In the Morning News on
Friday, a good many matters of general in
terest are touched upon. Toe conclusion to
to drawn from it is that strikes do not pay,
and that they should to avoided to as great
an extent as possible.
Mr. Wright, for instance, shows that
within the last six years wage workers
have lost about $00,000,(XJ0 in strikes and
lock-outs, and that during the same period
the loss to employers has been about
$115,000,000. The damage suffered hy wage
earners, therefore, was very nearly double
that suffered by wage-payers. Tfi&aLsntge
loss to wage-earners is about $10,0Bp(OO a
year, and to strikers it is about s4m each.
It is apparent from these figures that to
make up this loss strikes must to generally
successful, and the Increase in wages
secured must to very considerable.
Asa matter of fact, however, not one
half of the strikes are successful, and of
those which are classed as such many
are not, so to the extent of obtaining every
thing for which the strike was inaugurated.
A careful study of strikes shows that they
are often ill-advised and badly managed.
The men who are recognized as leaders are
frequently unfit for the positions they occu
py, and there is disaster whore there might
to success.
As already stated the Reading men were
called out not on their own account, but on
account of jiei'sous not employed by tho
Reading Company. Commissioner Wright,
in his report, points out that only about
one-fifth of the strikes that are on record
was the result of grievances or demands of
those engaged in them. Fully four-fifths
were ordered for the purpose of assisting a
few Knights with whom the
great body of the strikers had
no acquaintance, and about the justness of
whose cause they knew absolutely nothing.
These figures seem to indicate that the
workingmen and women of the whole
country cannot to handled in one organiza
tion so that all can be benefited. The grad
ual disintegration of the Knights of Labor
justifies the inference that the members of
that organization are beginning to think
that the projier plan for maintaining the
rights of workingmen has not yet been de
vised.
The Reading men would have* made a
great mistake if they had otoyed the second
order to striko. Thousands of competent
men were ready to take their places, and
they and their families would have been left
in midwinter without the necessaries of life,
and with no immediate prospect of earning
the means with which to procure them
Social Questions In Washington.
It is said that the question of precedence
at the New Year’s reception at tho White
House to-morrow was settled at a Cabinet
meeting. It seems that the President was
called on to settle it. Of course if Mrs.
Bayard were living she would stand next to
Mrs. Cleveland during the reception. Ever
since her death, however, there has been a
faction that has insisted that the wife of the
Secretary of the Treasury should rank next
to Mrs. Cleveland on all official occasions.
The Secretary of State, however, has an
opinion of his own at,out the matter. He
claims that his daughter is entitled to the
place which would belong to his wife, and
he has always succeeded in having his
claim recognized.
Tho late Miss Catherine Bayard, when
her mother was unable to leave her home,
represented her on great occasions at the
White House, and it is understood that Miss
Anne Frances Bayard will stand above
Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. Endicott aud all the
other Cabinet ladies to-morrow.
These social questions are quite exten
sively discussed in Washington, and in some
circles there they are the leading topic of
conversation. They offer a big field for
gossip and discussion, and there are those
who glean the field pretty thoroughly.
A few of the Republican papers are try
ing to make a little political capital against
the President by asserting that young ladies
entering society in Washington have
adopted the fashion of being “presented at
court,” as they term it. In other words
they do not consider that they are fully
“out” until they have been presented
to Mrs. Cleveland. if there is such a
fashion the President is not responsible for
it, and as it seems to please the girls and
doesn't hurt anybody, why shouldn’t they
to permitted to amuse themselves by fol
lowing the harmless fashion? They will
soon get tired of it.
One of the brightest sectional organs in
the country * s veI T much excited because of
a rumor that Congressman Springer pro
poses to slice Texas into four Democratic
Well, isn't Texas big enough for
>ur States? However, it is not probable
it such a division will bo made yet
jile, although the people of that State, it
id, have the power to so divide it, as
i„jtJ admitting Texas into the Union
hem and that four States might be carved
necteu each of which would be entitled to
Darien without consideration from any
tory to on Territories,
office. • ~
(;, char' be C.tuzens, who lor a time held
Richardi, uftar it had been vacated by
with iSo), ,f j ler father, of United States
St Louis, has only had her ap|M>-
cdge of linf? office whetted by the expe
mitted ttuinouuces that she will at the
present ii, indc|iendent candidate
r of Missouri, on a Prohibition
. (iss Couzens is not likely to be
as to wort)* 00 muoll °ltloe-holdhlK
the unsusptorchouse, who succeeds to the
with positi o( Missouri, is an ardent pro
bo punisher p was an <t reared on a
cone their si biR youug nia nhood taught
inu.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY I, 1888.
Troubled by Prohibition.
It is said that Speaker Carlisle is meeting
with a great deal of difficulty in making up
the committee which has jurisdiction of
the liquor traffic. There does not appear to
be any anxiety to serve upon it. The indi
cations are that the prohibition question is
going to to a troublesome one in Congress
tins winter. Prominent Prohibitionists
from all parts of the country are preparing
to urge Congress to abolish the liquor evil
in the District of Columbia, and in nil the
other parts of the country of which it has
jurisdiction. It can to readily seen that,
they have it in their power to place n good
ninny Congressmen in a very uncomfort
able position. In more than half, |ierliaps
two-thirds, of the Congressional districts
there is a strong prohibition element. In
the great majority of them there has, as
yet, been no effort to make prohibition an
issue in Congressional elections. But if
prohibition were to become a leading ques
tion in Congress it would become an issue in
Congressional campaigns, and Congres
sional candidates would have to take a posi
tion for or against it.
The aim will to to keep it from toing dis
cussed in Congress. Tho easiest way to ac
complish that is for the Speaker to make up
the committee, to which all hills on the sub
ject of tho liquor traffic will to referred, so
that it will smother all such bills, or if it
reports any one of them it will do so at so
late a day in the session that discussion of it
will to impossible.
No member wants to serve on such a com
mittee. The Prohibitionists would make
life a burden to him. They would give
him no refct unless he promised to vote to
report a prohibition bill favorably and
promptly. If he dodged the responsibility,
or took a position against prohibition they
would attack him in the public prints, and
make all the Prohibitionists in his district
hostile to him.
If the prohibition question gets before
Congress it will not to very earnestly dis
cussed except by a few avowed Prohibition
ists, and if a vote on* it should to reached
absentees would to more numerous than the
voters.
The Republicans are particularly afraid
of tho prohibition issue. It threatens to
divide their partv into two factions. Some of
their leaders think their party should put a
prohibition plank in their national plat
form. One Republican Senator has intro
duced a prohibition bill, and another is go
ing about the country making prohibition
speeches, and there are a good many South
ern Congressmen who don’t want prohibi
tion to become a political issue in their sec
tion. They will do what they can to pre
vent it from becoming so. It is one of the
things which give Congressmen
from all parts of the country trouble.
Convicted, But Not Guilty.
In one of the specials sent out from Wash
ington there is a curious and an interesting
story of the conviction of two young Ten
nesseeans for passing counterfeit money.
They are applicant* for a pardon, and the
President is expected to make them happy
early this year, if he has not already done so.
According to the story told to the Presi
dent, the truth of which is vouched for by
men of' character and prominence, two
young farmers purchased a piece of land in
one of the Tennessee count its an.' 1 began
to prepare it for planting. It had
once been owned by a miser,
who had the reputation of
making counterfeit coins. One day one of
the brothers, while plowing a piece of his
land near his house, displaced a large rock
with his plow. He was surprised to see sev
eral bright coins lying on the ground near
it. Calling his brother from the house they
began an investigation, and were gratified
to find, when they had further displaced the
rock, between S4OO and SSOO in coin, which
they supposed to to gold. The money was
wrapped in an old newspaper which con
tained President Polk's inaugural ad
dress. They had no doubt about the
genuiness of the money, and they spent a
very considerable part of it in paying their
debts. A few of the coins found their
way into the local bank, and there toing
some doubt whether they were good or not,
they were sent to the mint at New Orleans.
They came back with the word “counter
feit” stamped upon them.
The brothers at once redeemed all the
coins they could find. In the courso of a
few months, however, some of those which
they lmd not redeemed came back to the
town, and it was believed that they were
putt ing fresh counterfeits into circulation.
They were arrested, convicted and sent to
the Albanj' penitentiary. They have been
there six months, and they want to get
back to their Tennessee farm.
Is their story a true one? If it is it is
rather remarkable that they should have
been convicted. They did not intentionally
violate Jthe law. Perhaps they could not
explain satisfactorily liow tho counterfeit
coins got into circulation second time.
The fact that men of good repute say that
their story is true is so much in their favor
that the President may make this a happy
new year for them by granting them a
pardon.
The Secretary of the Siik Association of
America asserts that the United States can
never engage in seri-culture until a skilled
mechanic can be hired for 50c. a day. As
silk manufacturers, he suys, we can hope
with good reason to, be great, but os silk
growers, never, and we shall have to con
tent ourselves with manufacturing into
merchantable fabrics the raw silk produced
by other countries. Italy and France to
gether, lie says, produce a fourth of the
silk crop of the world, China another
fourth, and Japan the balance.
Senators Mitchell, Davis, Reagan, Pasco,
Mauderson, Faulkner, Yoorheos and Dawes
are said to to averse to riding behind a
white horse, fearing the act will be fol
lowed by ill-luck. In other words, they are
superstitious. Senator Evarts will with
impunity utter a sentence as long as the
chain in a Waterbury watch, but he dis
likes seeing the moon over the left shoul
der. Ignorance and superstition are said
to go hand in hand, but nobody ever
accused these men of toing ignorant.
It now transpires that the district repre
sented in Congress by the late Mr. Moffatt
is not so strongly Republican os was sup
posed. A Republican majority that for
merly reached 8,000 or 10,000 dwindled
down in 1886 to 2,000. If the Democrats
carry the district at the coining election
each party in the House will have nineteen
State delegations.
From all accounts, Judge Turpie does not
enjoy the distinction of being a United
States Senator. He says he would much
rntlier to at home, .in the practice of his
profession and the uninterrupted enjoyment
of his books. Ex-Senator * Ben Harrison
1 would, doubtless, to willing to relieve him.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Why He Got No Present.
From the Chicago Tribune , (Rep.)
Uncle sam (erumblinjcly>—Where i my new
year's I'd like to know?
Mien Columbia (innocently) -I would have j?ot
you something nice if you hadn't kept your
wurplus locked up ho tightly 1 couldn't get at it.
Another Ticket Suggested.
From the St. Louis Republican ( Dem .)
While the Republican brethren are laboring to
bring forth a Presidential ticket, it is rather
Ktrauge that this baa not been suggested: For
President, Secor Robeson, of New Jersey; for
Vice President, William P. Kellogg, of Louis
iaua. Platform: The rascals must be vindi
cated.
The Numbers Increasing.
From the Baltimore Herald {Dem.)
The number of women who throw red popper
and vitriol in the eyes of men is alarmingly on
the increase. On the other hand, we are forced
to admit that the number of men who are in
the habit of caressing women with pot lids,
pokers, boot-heels ana butcher knives gives no
sign of diminishing.
I. is|lntentinos Were Good.
From the Chicago Fetes (Dem.)
The Boston Herald says: ‘ A beautiful girl is
the most thing in creation." It the
Herald will take the trouble to find a girl of
that description and call her a “thing” to her
face, it will wish that its admiration had l>een
bestowed on some inanimate object like a
crooked rainbow or a red, red sunset.
BRIGHT BITS.
Nervous lady passenger (in train, after pass
ing a temporary bridge) Thank good tuns, we
are now on terra flrma ! Facet ions gentleman -
Yes., ma'am; less terror and more llrmer.—
Manufacturlng Gazette.
An anti Prohibitionist who picked up a v'ork
on temperance threw down the book with a
curse before he had read a page. But it was
not the first time u volume, of water was
damned. —Norristown Herald.
In Germany a marriage license cannot be
legally granted to a person addicted to the liquor
habit. The theory is, presumably, that a man
ought to cure himself of one bad habit before
he goes astray in another direction.— Somerville.
Journal.
“I Hi PFOHK you find times pretty hard,” said
a kind hearted old lady to a tramp, ‘ and often
don’t get enough to eat >'*
‘ It s worse than that, mum." was the candid
reply, “in these days it is hard to get enough to
drink, let alone to eat."— Judge.
Old man (calling down the stairs to daughter)
—Clara!
Daughter—Yee. |>apa?
Old man Ask that young man in the parlor
which he prefers for breakfast, inilk rolls or
Vienna bread.- Sew York Sun.
He (making a long call)* What a very odd
looking clock, Miss Smith Is it an heirloom?
She (suppressing a yawn* -O, no; it is a re
cent purchase of papa's. He a pendhant
for such things. 1 was about to call your at
tention to it.— Chicago Tribune.
Young man (to waiter)—What have you got,
waiter?
Waiter Anythin' an' everythin'.
Young mail Well, give me some nightingales*
tongues on toast.
Waiter (after a short absence) Sorry, boss,
but the cook says as what the toast is all out.—
New York Sun.
A number of young people recently decided to
put wedding cake under their pillows at night,
and we are informed that they dreamed of the
following: 1, of her grandmother; *J, of a snake
swallowing a man; 3, of an elephant skipping a
rope: l, of a runaway team: f>. of a railroad acci
dent; G, ot a murder: 7, of a fight between male
cats. Atchison Globe.
“It cannnot be otherwise." he muttered,
hoarsely: you must be mine. You and 1 could
not avoid it if we would, and let us thank the
fates that our union w ill be cemented by love.
You could never have been another man's wife.
There is a destiny hanging over you "
“Oh. George, she gasped convulsively,
“brush it away please do!' '—Merchant Trav
eler.
“Mamma, what's hereditary?” asked Bobby,
laboriously tripping over the syllables of the
long word.
“Why, it is-anything you get from your
father or me," ivphed the mother, a little puz
"led for a definition suited to his years. Silence
for two minutes.
“Then, lna," he asked, “is spankin' heredi
tary?"—Aetc York Star.
PERSONAL.
Congressman Ira Davenport's bride is rap
idly becoming a social leader in Washington.
Mrs. Sloane, daughter of W. H. Vanderbilt,
of New York, will lie one of the New Year’s day
guests in Washington, and will be entertained
by Mrs. Whitney.
King Tamasus, of Samoa, and King Kalakaua,
of Hawaii, begin to think it would have t>een
money in their pockets if they had been born in
a more humble rank of life.
Robert Dorrs Stevenson is an admirer of
Wagner’s music. He says it "calls your soul to
your ears, and tills you with a kind of desperate
foreboding, half pain, half joy.”
It is reported that a blizzard recently pre
vented a lecture of Thomas Nast in a Dakota
town. The report must be false. No matter
how hard it storms Nast can always draw well,
you know.
Walt Whitman's iiealth is better this win
ter than it has been for fifteen years. He is liv
ing quietly at Camden, N. J., and though sev
enty years old. he has not lost much of his old
time enthusiasm.
Historian Bancroft says that it would tie
presumptuous for a man of 88 to attempt a his
tory of President Polk and his times, a work
which he lias been asked to undertake. Mr.
Bancroft, however, passes his time in studies
which a much younger man would hesitate to
undergo.
A sewing machine of solid silver and enriched
with sapphires was recently received by the
Empress of Russia It was a present from the
Society for Promoting the Use of Russian Mate
rials. The Czarma has taken great interest in
this organization. Her enthusiasm, however,
will not cause her to use thesewing machine in
all probability.
Engineer Kitthiiige. inventor of the cantile
ver bridge, is living in Hartford, Conn., in hand
some style His wife is a native of that city.
Mr. Kittridge’s success as an inventor has made
him rich. He began life in au humble way, but
by energy and ability has gained a high place in
tile civil engineering nrofession. He is a tall,
fine Kicking man, and he has traveled exten
sively in this country and Europe.
Cor.. George P. Bissell, of Hartford, Conn.,
spent last summer in Japan. The mast remark
able feature of that country, he says, lies in the
faet that its language contains no profane or
blasphemous words. "I can readily under
stand," he remarks, "why the practice of liar;
kart' is so common in Japan. When a man is
abused or loses his collar button, and is mad all
the wav through, so mad that liis very soul boils
within him. if at such time he is the victim of a
language which will not let him vent ins rage
even in 'darn it' or ‘bv thunder.' why then I can
readily see how suicide might be a soothing re
lief.’’
E. 0. Knight, of Philadelphia, is one of the
wealthiest men in the Quaker City. He is Presi
dent of three railroads, and is prominently con
nected with many important enterprises, lie
was once a boy in a grocery store on the banks
of the Delaware river and received 8l a week
for his services. His first knowledge of the value
of money was derived in a curious way. One
day when the Delaware was ice-bound a man m
attempting to cross the river broke through the
ice and was in imminent peril of his life. Young
Knight urged two boatmen to go to the drown
ing man's assistance. They refused. He ap
pealed to their humanity in vain Finally lie
offered them a dollar apiece to save th ■ strug
gling unfortunate. They accepted the offer and
saved the man's life.
When Congressman Allen, of Massachusetts,
goes out to lecture on Indians again in Hie cld
Bay State, there will be any number of states
men watching around to see that tie does not
play pranks on them. Mr. Allen is the talented
young member from the Iz>well district, lie
was a member of the Indian Affairs Committee
in the last House. He got thoroughly w orked
up over tlie wrongs of poor Lo. When he was
invited by his colleague, Congressman William
Whiting, to deliver a lecture for some church
benefit at Holyoke, he consented and prepared
to lecture on in iian affairs, which he decided
to illustrate by stereoscopic views. The lecture
was a success, ami Congressman Whiting, who
sat in the front row to point it with applause at
the proper moments, was greatly elated with
it, when the last of a series of representations of
Indian chiefs was Hashed from th-magic lan
tern on the screen. It was the picture of a
group of warriors, painted for the fray, with
feat iters and plumes waving, and armed for
battle. Thera was a familiar look on one of
Ihe faces. It was scarcely a moment before the
audience as well as the astonished Mr. Whiting
had discovered that Mr. Allen haildoftlv uc
serted Mr. Whiting's face as one of the group
Thera was roiltid after round of applause ami
the joke was regarded as the best of the season
Mr. Whiting has secured jiassesaion of the phm
togrnph and locked it up for fear tils admiring
constituents mlßht desire to have it duplicated
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The assignee* of a suspended Missouri bank
found only a solitary nickel in the vaults when
they assembled to count the cash assets.
John L. Sullivan could peruse carefully the
newspapers of his native land without ever
finding nis name printed inaccurately. hat
better test of fame could there be?
Is answer to an examination question a high
school scholar of Auburn, Me., wrote: ‘ Anglo-
Saxon was the first man who wrote the alpha
bet. He wrote it in Greek first, then came to
America and taught it to the nation."
A Los Angeles, Cal., woman, who w*as ad
dieted to smoking cigarettes in bed, went to
sleep with one in her mouth, dropped it, and set
her clothes on fire. She w.us burned horribly,
and was dead when the flames were extin
guished
The average annual wages received in the
German sewing machine factories are: Men,
$l7B , women, SB3. The price of flour, meat,
potatoes, groceries, fuel and light is as high,
and in most cases higher, in Germany than in
this country.
One of the promising trotters of Texas is
Dude H., with a record of 2:27. He is a black
broncho, and was formerly used in herding cat
tle. and is a converted pacer. The cowboy that
rode him saw that occasionally he trotted well,
so he had him trained.
At a recent meeting of learned men in Berlin
it was said, as a fact, that when a bee has filled
his cell w ith honey and has completed the lid
he adds a drop of formic acid, wnich
from the jmhhoii bag connected with the sling.
To do this, he perforates the lid with his sting.
The acid preserves the honey.
A Philadelphia architect who had two plates
of glass, each fourteen by sixteen feet, made by
a Pittsburg manufacturer, is said to have direct
ed the latter to send them by river to New Or
leans, and thence to Philadelphia by sea, as the
dimensions of the plates prevent their Iwing
brought by rail, on account of the tunnels along
the route.
A Detroit police officer, < apt. Burger,
asked one of the female Salvationists who ma
nipulates a tambourine at the meetings with
startling acoustic effect a question the other
evening and received a pretty pat answers "Did
you ever know a level headed person to join the
Salvation Army?" “Well," said the woman,
“cranks have souls."
After Jan. 1 Messrs. Harper & Brothers will
cease the publication of the series known as the
Franklin Square Library, in the broadside form
They will not give up the publication of !>ooks
at cheap prices, but experience, they sav, has
demonstrated that the public taste demands a
better quality of book, something of a more
permanent as well as sightly form.
Half a century ago (’apt. Jonathan Greene
was the most skillful gambler in the United
States. He is now a resident of Philadelphia,
and claims to be the only man living who was
in the liaitle of San Jacinto in 1836. ( 'apt.
Greene renounced gambling forty-five years
ago, wrote four liooks against that vice, and now
he asks for alms in consideration of his having
refrained from w inning a fortune at cards.
The scientific activity of the age is shown in
the fact that the twelve principal chemical so
cieties of the world have an aggregate member
ship of over 8,000, nearly all of these members
being active contributors to the advancement of
chemical science, and publishing their results
mostly in i>eriodicals especially devoted to
such subjects. Excluding transactions of so
cieties aud journals of physics and pharmacy,
these chemical periodicals issue annually about
20,00(1 pages.
The interesting fact is stated that so inde
structible by w r ear or decay is the African teak
wood that vessels Iwilt of it have lasted 100
years, to be then only broken up because of
their poor sailing qualities from faulty models.
The wood, in fact, is one of the most remarkable
known, on account of its very great weight,
hardness, aud durability, its weight varying
from forty-two to fifty-two pounds j**r cubic
foot; it works easily, but on account of the
large quantity of-si lex contained in it the tools
employed are quickly worn away. It al o con
tains an oil w hich prevents spikes and other
iron work with which it is in contact from
rusting.
In the recent National Convention of Barbers
at Buffalo the question of substituting some
other sign for the red-and-w hite striped barber
pole was discussed, and it has been engaging
the attention of gentlemen of the tonsorial pro
fession ever since. It is said that in early times
barbers served the public in the capacity of sur
geons also, and that the pole symbolized an arm
wound with ribbon previous to the letting of
blood. It was George 11. of England, who de
creed that henceforth the trade of the barber
should be "foreign to and independent of the
practice of surgery." Despite the fact that the
striped pole is the symbol of blood-letting, it.
seems to be the opinion of conservative barbers
generally that no other sign would be so
effective.
One of Robson’s Jokes.
From the Sew York Sun.
A good story is told of lAiwrence Barrett's
earnestness under the most amusing surround
ings. Edwin Booth met Hobson and Crane on
Washington street, in Boston, and asked them
Inwv the fishing was at Cooasset, where they and
Barrett lived curing the summer. "There are
plenty of fish there." said Robson, "but they
seem to prefer a tragic death. They won't bite
at comic hooks. Crane and I can t get any of
them, but I^awrence Barrett sits alongside us in
the yacht and fairly hauls them in. They seem
to lie around and wait for him to come." "Well,"
replied Booth, "I'm a tragedian myself ; I guess
I can get a mess." And with that they went
down and tried the fishing, but caught not a
solitary fin. As they landed at the Cohasset pier
Barrett drove by in his splendid and stately
turnout. “Any fish?" said he. "None," said
Robson. "They are all out there nosing around
for Mr. Barrett's dignified sinker." “My G—d,
Mr. Robson, 1 , answered Mr. Booth’s future
manager, with much disgust, "can't you ever
be serious about anything?"
A Joke on n Trustee.
From the Xrjr York Sun.
A recent Vassar graduate was relating some
of her experiences as housekeeper during the
illness of her mother, and was commenting
upon the indisposition of servant girls in the
United States to black the boots of the men of
the family In households in England, she said,
where there is only one hired girl, the polishing
of the men’s shoes is accepted by her as one of
her duties. Then another Vassal' girl recalled
the time when a number of her classmates
helped to shine the boots of a gentleman visit
ing at the college. He was and is still a trustee
of Vassal-. He occupied one of the guest cham
bers. and when he went to bed he left his shoes
outside the door as if he were in a hotel, pome
of the girls who were tip at an early hour saw
the boots, and thought it would be a good joke
to do the bootblack act themselves. They did,
and when they returned the shoes they stuck in
each a handsome bouquet of flowers. The trus
tee was half abashed anti altogether surprised
when lie realized liow he bad been honored.
Tradition -though this occurred but a little
while ago tells his name as that of Benson J.
bossing, the historian.
She Married a Scholar.
From the Yankee Hlade.
Oh, she said she'd never many any Tom and
Dick and Harry,
She’d wed some famous scientist of learning
and renown;
But her Tom was quite commercial, and of
Agassiz and Hersehel
He was as ignorant, she said, as any circus
clown.
So she gave poor Tom the mitten, and as meek
as any Kitten
He went to making money and forgot his wild
despair;
Forgot, 1 say; at any rate he hastened to de
generate
Inm a sordid husiuess man, a trifling mil-
But she wed a scientific, and his tastes were
quite terrific
For various kinds of insects and for toads and
other game:
And instead of plaques and pictures, rattle
snakes aud bon constrictors
He’d take into his sitting room to ornament
the same.
Asa zealous decorator he preferred an alligator
To a statue of Minerva or a bust of Henry
Clay;
And you ought to hear him talk awhile of his
bouncing baby crocodile
That he played with in his parlor just to while
the time away;
And his cobra dicapello, a very charming fel
low-.
Through his dressing room aud bedroom used
to nonchalantly drift:
And an elephant's proboscis and two young rhi
noceroses
He presented to his children as a fitting
Christmas gift.
But be sold his wife's piano to buy ipecacuanha
To feed his hippopotamus to ease his stomach
aches.
And a shark ate up his baby, for you know bow
hungry they he,
And lie went amt pawned his overcoat to feed
ha rattlesnakes.
BAKING POWDER, I
CREAM
its superior excellence proven in millions of
ones for more than a quarter of a cenh rj. It i
by the United States Government; Iu
creed by the heads of the Great Universities af
ae Strongest. Purest and most Healthful l>r
rice’s the only Baking Powder that dots not
ontain Ammonia. Lime or Aium. Sold duly in
ans.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. ;
vmr VORK. CHICAGO. ST. !qi’!S
A. R. ALTMAYER A CO.
Uiltarffi
1/
“C ENT EM E l{l | MAM MOTH
KID GLOVES.
SALK OF
3-Butloo Tub - 99 c. -p,
5-Button Tan $1 23. j A MU‘lll I0
5-Button Black II 59. . .ttjlllllClll ID
A. R. ALTMAYER & CO.
will closeout this week in one
GRAND SALE all the Rem
nants that have accumulated
in the past six months, consist
ing of Remnants of
Laces, Embroideries, Ribbons, Etc.,
Remnants of Black and Colored
DRESS GOODS,
Remnants of Black and Colored
SILKS and SATINS
REMNANTS OF
Domestics, Linens, Etc.
The Remnant* will be dis
played on the Bargain Coun
ter in centre ai.de and marked
in plain figures, and wc guar
antee that the price asked is
GO per cent, less than first cost.
Sale will commence at 8 a. m.
MONDAY.
Wishing you all the compli
ments of the season, we remain
Respectfully Yours,
iHliMer&Cn.
SHOES. •
NO MAN CAN UNDERSTAND THE PRO
gress which has been made in Shoe manu
facturing until he lias worn trpair of the
James Means’ $4 Shoes, and thus compared
them with the Shoes heretofore sold for
twice the money.
% You cannot afford to do without them.
R3* JAMES MEANS’
I^t^SHOES.
,A*k fbr the .Tames S H- BEST
Alcana $2 Shoe for Boy a fc^iTigSiiiii =i>ll MADE.
Shoe* from our celebrated factory are sold by
the best retailers t hrougbout the l nited States,
and we w ill place them easily within your reach
in anv State or Territory if yon w ill send ns a
}K>stal card. JAMES MEANS & CO., 41 Lincoln
street.. Boston, Mass.
Full lines of the above Shoes for sale by A. S.
NICHOLS, 128 Broughton street. Savannah.
DRY GOODS*
Bargains.! DUMAS. 1 Drives.
0 '
1 POSITIVE reduction in UNDERWEAR.
Indies’, Gents' and Children's Merino Un
derwear at bottom prices to cl*>se out stock.
Sanitary Underwear, worth at Si Suit.
Cashmere Hose and Half Hot*e 25c. r> kr. pair.
Drive in Indies'. Gent*'and Children’s Gloves.
50 dozen iu Black ami (,’olor‘d, worth double,
25c. pair.
Black and Colored Shetland Shawls and Scarfs
$1 and up.
Umbrellas, full line Silk Gloria, Gingham. Si
aud up.
Corsets, elegant assortment, 35c. and up. Try
our 50c. Corset.
Whip* and Colored Embroideries sc. yard up;
fine value.
Tooth, Hair, Nail and Clothes Bnishos 24c.
each.
Oxydized Ornaments, attractive line, 25c.*and
up.
ladies’ White Mull Ties, full assortment, 25c.
up.
All Wool Jerseys, full assortment, $1 and up.
Bantams in Ladies', Gents’ and Misses' Hose
10c. pair up.
Full assortment Ladies’ Cellars and Cuffs,
cheap.
In fact,, we are full of bargains; come and see.
Remember the place, LaFAR'S OLD STAND.
H. A. DUMAS,
BULL STiULKX.
BOYS' ( J.OTlf IVG, r ARI’FTS. FTC
Daniel Hogan.
boys' limit
Y¥7E will plae* an sale on MONDAY MORN*
> f ING 500 a handsome Boys’ Suits as ran
be found south onNew York. Prices of ta ilor
made and perfect-fitting suits are for better
grades $6 00, Si 60, $8 50, 50 and $9 50.
Also a large variety, fully 500, just as durable,
but not as fine, an the following prices: $1 75,
$2 25, $2 50, $3, $6 50, *4, $1 50 and $5.
SPECIAL SALE
OF
Tapestry and Ingram
Carpets
DURING THE ENSUING WEEK.
One lot Tapestry Carpets at 650. per yard.
One lot 3-I J ly All Wool Carpets at 85c. per
yard.
One lot All Wool Extra Supers at 60c. per
yard.
One lot Ingrain < 'arpets at 55c. per yard.
One lot Ingrain Carpets at 50c. per yard.
One lot Ingrain Carpets at .10c. per yard.
One lot Ingrain Carpets at 2-.%e. per yard.
500 Smyrna Rugs
RANGING PRICE FROM
85c. Each to $lO.
Canton Matting,
100 rolls fresh Canton Matting, ra
price from 20e. to 50c. per yard.
Special Bargains
Will also be found in the following goods during
this week: Silk>. Satins, Dress Goods, Cloaks,
Shawls, Lace Curtains and Curtain Goods,
Flannels, Blankets. Bed Comforts. Underwear.
Hosiery, Gloves. Corsets, Ladies’ and Gents' -
bilk Umbrellas, etc., etc.
Daniel Hogan.
| PORTRAITS.
if DM' inYTL’Ii
AurJlo Mill LI),
r |''HE Great Southern Portrait Company, of
Savannah, Ga., whose work, copying and
enlarging small pictures in oil, water color,
India ink, - paste lie and crayon, is pronounced
superior, want agents to solicit business in
every town and city in all this Southern
country. Enclose stamp for reply.
Life-Size Crayon for Sis.
L. B. DAVIS, Secretary and Manager,
42 and 44 Bull Street,
Care Davis Bros.
INSURANCE.
The Savannah Fire ami Marino
Insurance Company.
run nr capital - $200,000.
HOME OFFICE, No. 97 BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, - GEOROIA.
WIIJJAJb GARRARD President.
LEWIS KAYTON Vice President.
W. H. DANIEL Secretary.
4 DIRECTORS:
Herman Myers, Georoe J. Baldwin.
John L. IDmmood, Andrew Hanley.
J. B. Duckworth, I. G. Haas.
Samuel Meinhard, L. Kayton.
J. H. Kstio, David Wells.
C. R. Woods. W. H. Daniel.
Willliaw Garrard.
HARDWARE.
EDWARD LOVELL 4 SONS,
DEALERS IN
I’arker and. Colt’s
Breech Loading G uns.
Brass and I’aper Shells.
Hunting Coats, etc.
Chamberlin Loaded
Shells.
11 ATS.
f) UST 11 k'X jx
-GENUINE—
B. STETSON SOFT HATS
Reduced to $2.00-
More of Earl A Wilt* >n collar* ai $ : 00 per doas.
or 00 cents apiece.
Wllil, SELL STOCK IN BULK.
Store to Rent and Fixtures for Sale.
BELSINGER,
til Whitaker Street.
GRAIN AND HAY .
CORN EYES,^
A Car-Load just arrived. Send
in Your Order. Also,
BRAN, PEAS, HAY,
CORN AND OATS.
T. I. DAVIS & CO.,
171 BAY STREET.