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IN FEMININE FIELDS.
Borne Interesting Gossip About Dress
and Other Matters.
New York, Dec. :;i.—There is a girl of
20 to be married on Now Year’s eve and
this is the gown she will put on: An ivory
white faille franoaise, very thick anil very
soft, is made with a full gathered bodice
coming close about thethrout and held at
the slender waist by a silk cord girdle. The
akirt is plain, entirely without dnqieriesand
quite full in the back, lying perhajw two
inches on the floor. The sleeves are puffed
from the shoulder to the elbow, then tight
to the wrist. Some rare old lace is w orn a
the throat and sleeves, and the veil is
priceless one, which the bride's mother ai I
grandmother have worn before her. Toe
slender, girlish figure is very pretty in lie
quaintly simple, old-time bridal d' ess.
When mademoiselle has been meta- r
phosed into a fresh and youthful inadaiu
she w ill put on a traveling gown of .o.v\
blue cloth, also simplicity itself, H t this
tune simplicity of the severely r , >i<*
tailor-made type. The skirt of th goto
away gown is made in welts, tail' w ,
very English and very proper in t lit sh
way. A short apron drapery ■ ■■.-- he
front and the right side. The ft side is
plain to let the all-important w- ts si .v to
the waist line, and the back it apery is in
large plaits on one side, caught up on the
other. The bislice is a short, tailor-made
affair, satin-lined.
My lady will receive when she comes
home in a jiearl white satin The front of
the skirt is formed ot fine p aits, edgisl w ith
duchesse lace. The sides 1 o panels of white
moire silk embossed,with gul es in gold and
silver tinsel. There is a'nil -curt train of
the.satin, who*- lustre is not fully desgrilied
by calling it jiearl whit it h,s a sheen like
the moon on perfectly ii:l water, the effect
of anew hai l-loom v. eavi utilized for the
first time in iliis gowi and worth something
like a scon f dollai }>■ r yard of shine.
The lxxlior cut in lov V back and front,
filled in w n duchesse iace and fastened
with silt lacing cods. The puffed sleeves
are of moire.
For 5 o'clock teas tliero is provided a tea
gown o; pink surah covered with white lace
for an under-gown over which conies ail
upper part of a pale olive plush, turning
away mre vers to show the full surah all
the way down. Thick silk cord girdle in
Olive
A bouse gown for ordinary occasions is
of gobelin blue cashmere with full drapery
in front turning back on one aide of the
skirt, in a jabot lined with white moire silk,
.■rig, i dle "l white silk cord is knotted upon
the other side, all this over a kilted under
skirt. The bodice lias jabots on either side
.lined w ith moire and meeting in a ixiint to
'simulate a vest. The moire shows again in
ornaments on the sleeves.
There is a street cost ume of an olive brown
faille franeaise combined with brocade in
black and a rich red brown and, to skip
coats and jackets and huts, there is a won
derful opera cloak of pale pink plush cov
ering the figure from head to foot, relieved
by up and down stripes of w liite plush
thickly embroidered with seed i>enrls ami
trimmed about with fluffy pink marabout
garnishing*.
The underwear is all in sheer, delicate
tinted batistes, the latest rival to silk in
high-priced favor. It is a pretty outfit for
s pretty bride. Good luck go with her.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OK BROOKLYN
is the only bank in Brooklyn, New York or
the metropolitan district, w hich has a num
ber of women among its clerks. President
Jenkins, in conversation a few days since,
sajd that this departure from custom arose
first place from accident quite as
much as from design
T* happened three or four years since that
the lank was short-handed during the sum
mer vacation season, threo or four of its
men sometimes being away at a time. To
fill the vacancies temporarily notes were
sent to some half dozen school teachers
whose names were obtained from the checks
which they had presented for the a counts
of their term’s salaries. Three or four
young women, w illing to earn some extra
dollars during the weeks the schools were
Closed. responded and did their work so well
that next year the teacncrs were sent for at
once instead of looking for any men. This
aecond experiment Worked so successfully
that one lady was given permanent cm
ployment, anil after ward others were en
gaged, until at present there are half a dozen
on the force.
The women are employed in counting
money, making up the exchange lists tor
the Clearing House and ill other purely
clerical duties, responsible, as all lianli work
is responsible, but not among the especially
onerous grades. The bank officials when
questioned as to the supposed superior ac
curacy and quickness in counting bills sav
that they find them in these respects to
average just about the same as men, but
that they are neater and more systematic
in their work. Thes|iecial advantage which
Is found in the employment of women is their
reliability. They keep regular hours, they
are in all war’s to be detrended on and what
ever is put into their hands is safe. They
have a -cure of responsibility which breeds
a feeling of security n their employers.
A woman has yet. to find a place as teller,
cashier or bookkeeper, though the experi
ence of the First National thus far does not
indicate to its officials that 1 his is impossible
or improbable some time in the future.
The flower customs of the winter are
prettier liecause simpler than those ot pu-t
years. A single pink rose or a big wnito
rose pinned high on the corsage takes the
place on all ceremonious occasions of the
immense flower gardens that have disfig
ured women’s dress. A half dozen spray s
of lilies of the valley, or a bunch of white
violets, or a spray of white orchids are as
much floral adorning as good taste or the
best custom allows.
The big, sprawling chiiographv of the
gild of the period lias had its natural result
in big, sprawling paper. The Isbst in fash
ionable stationery is a sheet some three or
four inches wide and from twelve to eight
een inches in length, according to the taste
ot the writer in loops and curves. This
awkward, club-like sheet requires a revolu
tion in writing de-ks to accommodate it. It
lias a jatirical inscription in gilt letters at
the top. “Just u few words,” and for its
very oddity and outre character is for the
minute all the rage.
The mousquetaire glove is giving place
gradually to the tightly buttoned wrist.
The glove of the w inter is a Suede kid in
any one of the tan shades, ranging trom the
bright hue of I.iuim gold to the dull brow n
of laded leaves. It is usually embrnided j
on the liack, each branch front a quarter to !
a third of an inch in width. Novelties m
gloves—undesirable, odious but fashionable
novelties—combine the colors of the street
costume; a black glove to wear with a tailor
gown having, for instance, contrasting four
chettes in lavender, white or gold according
to the relief color in the braiding on the
gown. Glo\ esof neutral colors, gray, stone
nnd old buff, rank next to the tans and to
black glove-, tor dress wear.
For dress occasions of any sort the hair
continues to lx: worn well forward on the
top of the head and quite w ide. The hang,
if allowed, is very short and small curls on
the temples are preferred. E. T. li.
AN INTERESTING QUESTION.
Are Musical Composers In Need of
International Copyright?
New Yobk, Jan. 1 -In all the justifiable
hue and cry raised anent the international
copyright law, I have seen no hint of the
effect* of either the law or the lack of it
upon music. Yet not even literature suf
fers frtmi piracy more than this art.. It is
to be hoped, as will tie conceded by all who
understand the subject, that when this
matter is brought to the attention
of Congre.-s soimliody will have the kind
ness to see to it that in the bill which
will be deviled for the protection of Ameri
can brains there shall also in- a clause which
shall include the interests of the native com
posers. B<> many stories are told ol the for
tunes which have been made by the com
posers of popular songs, and so many uh
songs are paraded before the public* in all
the numerous music stores, that it is not to
be wonder-1 that people generally do pot
realize tb it American musicians suffer iin
measurnUy from piracy in this sense, that
that piracy is wholly limited to our own
publishers, and ethics aside, they are not to
be blamed f die coifrso they take.
The situut; ,u involves so much injustice
tbal t cann ~ fail to be understood even by
the tew who are not lovers of music, 'iho
brutal fact is that the American composer
ha.- no murket. That Bongs issuing from
native talent do succeed and make fortunes
is no disproof of this assertion. The moans
taken to bring them before the public ami
to make them succeed are unique and have
no place in the consideration of the problem
that interests the International Copyright
League. In the case of literary works, the
author goes with bis manuscript from one
publisher to another seeking for one who
will consent to take the risk upon hi-pro
duction, and having found one he gets his
price good or boil as the case may lx\ and
only suffers from t wocausns; one, the piracy
of his book by English publishers, which
is a small matter, apd the second, the inju
rious competition to which he is subjected
by the piracy of English books by
American publisher!. Now, in music,
this piracy of English works
is so great that, it is useless for an
American composer to go before a pub
lisher with hif music. If it is a song or an
instrumental piece tlmt he wishes to have
put, in print, n is necessary for him to se
cure the co-operation of a performer, ami
the history, 1 dare say, of nil popular songs
that originate in America could he written
upon* this model. The comixxter had a
friend who was a singer—probably he was a
singer in n minstrel or variety show. The
singer liking the song, seeing in it
great merits that would interest the
public at large, consented to sing
It in his performances. That being done,
the composer either published the song at
his own expense or paid a publishing house
to put its imprint upon the work, or in rare
cases, persuaded them to publish it with the
idea that the popularity of the singer
would be sufficient to make a success of the
song.
In the Case of instrumental compositions,
the composer must lie either a teacher or
have some exceptionally warm friend
who is a teacher. If he can show
the publisher that lie will secure a
limited sale for the composition by making
his pupils buy it, or making some other
man’s pupils buy it, he then has a fair
chance of getting nisooninosit ion into print,
otherwise he has none. The reason for this
can bo stated very simply: all that the
American publisher has to do to secure com
positions that are popular is to go into the
London or Paris market, find there compo
sitions that have been sung or played
and proven their popularity, and steal
them. He takes no risk; that
which is popular in London or
Paris in nine oases out of ten will be popular
here. With the new composition of an
American everything is in doubt, and in
the incredible quantity of works constantly
before the public, that of obscure or even
comparative!} well known writers will lie
lost sight of. In the case of every composi
tion that is published issuing from an
American pen, there has to lie a special in
ducement beyond its merits as a musical
work iu order to secure its publication.
I nin not here giving voice to any com
plaint. however just, it might he, that works
of genuine merit are discarded in favor of
trivial efforts. It is the disadvantageous
circumstances surrounding the fate of even
trivial efforts that lam explaining. In all
other fields of productive activity it is the
light anil superficial that finds the first, mar
ket, but in this even that which lias in it
the other elements of success has to stand
aside in favor of works of the same order
that have proved a success abroad. It. was
no less an authority than Oliver Ditson, the
most prominent publisher in this country,
who told me ou the occasion of reading two
or three manuscripts:
“For their having any chance at all, you
mutt get your compositions performed.
Have them placed in the repertoire of some
well-known artist ; then, if the public seems
to like them, we will consider the matter of
publishing them.”
The result of this is that public perform
ers, either vocalists or instrumentalists, are
deluged with manuscripts from known and
unknown composers, and in the event of
their accepting one, which is rare, the pub
lisher may then make an offer to the com
poser to publish the composition on such a
basis that the composer shall hear half the
expenses of the first edition. If an inter
national copyright law wore in force, it
would not by any means remove the diffi
culties that beset the American composer,
but would alleviate them and thus give to
the most popular of his works a lighting
chance. F. It. Burton.
SANFORD’S CHARMS.
No Lack of Hotel Accommodations—
Building Operations.
San'koru, Fla., Dec. 31.—There has been
much talk at Jacksonville and other Florida
cities, relative to there being insufficient
hotel accommodations at Sanford. This
w ill lie remedied Monday Jan. when the
Sanford House “one of the largest hotels in
Florida,” will lie opened by Messrs. Neal
iV Hamilton, the former tieing well known
as the successful manager of the Somerset
Hotel, Burnettsville, N. J., ow ned by George
I, Money, and Mr. Hamilton having an en
viable reputation as manager of the famous
Long Beach Hotel, Long Island. Visitors
to Sanford will find the Sanford House sec
ond t ' none Florida.
Building is on (lie rap'd increase. Five
large brick blocks and buildings are
in course of erection. All the bud 1
ings now going tip are of brick.
H. R. Texsdale, Jr., “grocer,” to- j
day moved in one of Mr. Hotchkiss’ new j
stores which have been built on the site of
tie big tire. The Stone and Gove block is
nearing the second story. The union de
pot , on the site of the old Southern Florida
railroad depot, is fast nearing completion.
Business is brisk, and one would not take
it for holiday week.
There is to be a leap year ball given by
the young ladies of Sanford January 3.
BOSTON BRIEFS.
A Display of Fireworks -Rumors that
a New Hotel Will be Built.
BoHTp.v, Ga., Dec. 31. —The joung men
had a fine display of fireworks here Monday
night. Several boys were burned, among
them David Comfort, who was shot in the j
eye with a candle, audit is feared that he i
will lose it.
Tlie town purchased a fire engine !
yesterday. It cast $l,lOO.
Parties are turned away daily who wish !
to rent bou es. there being not a vacant j
dwelling or store house in town.
It is rumored that a 35-room hotel will lie !
| built here soon, also several Hue resiliences ;
] by Northern tourists, who come here to
! spend the winter. Boston is becoming I
j known as the “Kolb Gent City” of Soutii-
I west Georgia. As soon as good hotels are
j erected l here w ill be no difficulty in filling
| them with visitors. For health and cleanli
j ness our town is unsurpassed, being only
j nine utiles Irotn the Florida line and forty
j from the Gulf stream, the breezes that come
| warm from the Gulf wafted over forests of
pine bringing fragrance and healing as they
I come.
A NEWSPAPER CHANGE.
P. A. Stovall Goes lrom Athens to the
•o-ugusta Chronicle.
Athens, Ga , Jan. 1.--P. A. Stovall, the
I senior editor of the Jianner Watchman,
I left this afternoon for Augusta, where he
j will take the place of chief editorial writer
| on the Augusta Chronicle , recently made
i vacant by the retirement of Col. James R.
| llandall. M. C. Pope, the junior editor,
i who has already proven luntsoU alive and
j eiKg-getie newspaper man, will assume
i tjpfiio control of tiie paper.
Hon. Pope Barrow, who lit s been quite ill
; at his residence in tins city, is rapidly re
| covering, and his friends hope soon to greet
! hun upon the street.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1888.
CHARLESTON ITEMS.
The Olty Infested by Burglars-The
Phosphate Interests.
Charleston, S. C., Jan. I.— While the
new Council is not such as a great many
Democrats would have chosen, they never
theless rallied manfully to its support and
elected it. They could scarcely do anything
else, seeing that the only objection that
could be urged against it was the quantity
of new timber that had been used in its
building.
The air is now thick with rumors of clean
sweeps and sweeping changes in city offices.
The “in” are tremblings in their boots, or
in their offices, and an eager army of “outs”
are impatiently aw aiting the annual turn in
the wheel that contains the fat offices.
Certainly one great mistake has already
been muile by the new administration.
The entire system of police government has
been changed. Ttie appointment of the
police officers is vested in the Mayor, and
that of privates in the Chief of Police, in
stead of in a lioard of commissioners, as
under the old system. This is so far a good
change, but its desirability is coupled with
a very serious drawback. These appoint
ments are subjected to the approval of the
Council, and are to be made annually. Men
versed in the methods of municipal govern
ment say that this will utterly subvert
the usefulness of the poliee department.
No police officer can become a thoroughly
useful ami practical officer if ho is ruhject
to the process of re-election every twelve
months. Political influences are bound to
interfere with the perfect discharge of duty,
anil the efficiency of the force will be greatly
impaired. Instead of lieiug a strong con
servator of the public peace it must necessa
rily become a political machine. Hence a
great pressure is being brought to bear upon
the Council to change this mature at least
and to make the tenure of office of the police
officers co-equal w ith that of the Mayor, four
years, subject of course to removal for
cause.
A GANG OK BURGLARS.
Apropos of the police it may tie mentioned
that the city has been infested with a gang
of Imrglarswho for more than six months
have been terrorizing the community and
who have baffled all the efforts of the po
lice. Their ojierations are conducted on a
very daring scale. They enter a house, light
the gas, go into the larder, feast themselves,
defile the finest carpets in the house in a
shocking manner and then make off with
all the silverware, jewelry and such
other portable articles us can be convert
ed into cash. That the same gang
commit all these burglaries is proven by the
fact that the horrible defilement of the
premises always accompanies the theft and
is in every case done iii the same manner,
the parlor or drawing room and dressing
room being usually selected for the outrage.
The latest victim is (Japt. Thomas Young,
the wealthy stevedore. They only enter the
houses of the wealthy, The community is
now clamoring for an intelligent and capa
ble detective force, and this is one of the
problems that confronts the new adminis
tration.
the phosphate business.
The phosphate interest still languishes,
and the effects of the depression are be
ginning to tie felt in business circles here.
The holiday business was not w hat was ex
pected to have been, but this was owing in
a great measure to the wretched weather
that prevailed on the eve of Christina .
The small dealers too are beginning to suffer
from the depression in the phosphate in
dustry. These people who have shojis in the
upper wards hail a large trade with the
phosphate hands. Mince the discharge of
nearly 11,000 of these a mouth or so ago
their trade has fallen off considerably,
and to these the outlook is as gloomy as the
phosphate people say it is to themselves.
There is some talk of a syndicate on tne
line proposed by the legislative committee,
but the matter has not yet taken definite
shane. Ti e plan talked of is in tha nature
of a combination between the land and river
companies to limit the production, and thus
to get an increase in price. Another plan
is the one proposed last summer to form a
pool, each company mining as much as it
desires, but to intrust the sale of the pro
duct to an agent, who shall be limited to a
certain price per ton. The matter is said
to be under advisement.
HOW A MAN MAY FALL.
From a Place of Power to a Free Lunch
Counter.
New York, Dec. 31.—A man hastily
gulping a free lunch in a swell barroom.
Not with the easy confidence of a cash cus
tomer. Twenty years ago few men in
America were more powerful than he
John F. Covie was the editor of the
Rational Intellitjencer in Washington. On
that dark Friday in April which saw the
asiassination of Abraham Lincoln, John
Wilkes Booth wrote to Ins friend John F.
Coyle, a letter in extenuation of his pro
posed crime. He handed it (o his fellow
actor, John Matthews. The latter, ignorant
of its contents, placed it in a pocket of his
coat and then, man-like, forgot
all about it. Matthews was upon the stage
of Ford’s Theatre when the sound of
Booth’s bullet sounded Lincoln’s death
knell. He rushed to his dressing-room,
hurriedly picked up his every-day attire
and ran across the street to liis boarding
house. As he was jumping into his ordinary
garb, the letter Booth had handed him fell
on the floor. At that time he knew who
the assassin was. He tore open the envel
ope and with bulging eyes read the presi
cide’s antefacto confession. The
words seared his brain so indelibly that
he out recall them even at this day. Sud
denly there Hashed upon him the aptialling
fact that if that letter were found in his
possession the lives of himself anil John F
Coyle, to whom the missive was addressed,
would surely Ixs forfeited. He tore the note
into small pieces, threw them into an open
grate, and stirred the red hot coals over
them. Then boiled from the house. Five ,
minutes later the bleeding body of Lincoln j
was carried into the room in whose fire the
ashes of John Wilkes Booth’s letter were
still smouldering. And there Lincoln died. ;
Andrew Johnson became President of j
those Uuitod Mottos.
Then John F. Coyle grew in prominence. !
As editor of tne Xtitional lntelt iqencer, he I
was the power behind the ( hief Executive.
He wielded an influence that is almost in
comprehensible! in these times of mdejiend
ent newspapers. But when Johnson dropped
from power und Grant entered t ie \\ bite
House the days of administration organs
were numered. The \ational Intellif/enrrr 1
drooped and died, and from that day until
this the republic lias not been Vexed with a
Presidential journalistic monlhpiive. Coyle
drifted downward until finally he became
Samuel J. Tilden’s private secretary. In
187 H, when this country was subjected to
the severest strain that ever a free govern
ment ex(>erieiiced, Coyle so.d to the New
York Tribt'ne the famous cipher dispatches,
although he was still iu the confident ial
employ of tin- sage of Oramerey Park. In
exorable fate has pursued him over since.
He has gradually sunk lower and lower un
til now the once powerful man of national
affairs is a supplicant for charity.
He was the man 1 saw last, night trem
blingly devastating the free lunch.
Louis N. Megargee.
Read the Death Roll
Which the bills of mortality of any large city
maybe fitly designated, anti you will find that
| renal And vesical maladies, that Is to say, those
that effect the kilnc.ts or ('ladder, have are
' markable prominence -we had aanosl sai l -
I prepend -ranee. Bright's disc ise und diabetes
\ In the chronic stage ure rnrclv eared, and
' gravel, catarrh of the bladder and enuresis, slay
' many. Yet at the outset, when the trouble
merely amounts to inactivity of (he organ* ui
| volved the danger may lie mdiitied In unit
pleasant renal tonic and diuretic. Hostetler's
Stomach Bitters, which imparts the requisite
amount of tone io the organs, without over-ex
citing them, und the use of which is convenient,
and involves no elaborate preparation. Dys
pepsia. a usual concomitant of renal com
| plaints, and debility, which they invariably
| produce, are remedied by it. So also are con
I stipation, malarial, rheumatic and nervous ail
ments
I A 35c. Neckshawl for 10c. at Weis hem's.
ONLY TO SAVE HER BROTHER.
; Katie Kennedy Wears Male Attire to
Hunt Down a Murderer.
Frot/i th Hem York World.
Cincinnati, Dec. '2B. —The imprisonment
of a young man in the Southern Indiana
Penitentiary for life, ho having been con
victed of murder, has completely changed
the career of his sister, one of Cincinnati’s
most beautiful young women. She is Miss
Katie Kennedy, a dashing brunette, whose
family is well and f \oraiily known in this
city. A pelted daughter and sister, she has
left a comfortable ho ne, become a veritable
detective, braving every danger, all in the
hope of proving her brother's innocence of
the crime of winch he was convicted.
On Nov. I, 188). (ten. John A. Logan
s|ike at Oris-nsbiirg. bid. An immense
crowd greeted him at Greensburg, which Is
the county scat of Decatur county People
cauie for miles to hear “Black Jack,” and.
ns might have been expected, expert thieves
and crooks from all parts of America were
present. An immense crowd gathered when
the General spoke. Among those who went
from this city was Will A. Kennedy. He
was a tall, slender young man, delicately
reared on account of a mother’s fear tliat
ho would tall a victim to consumption.
Kennedy was about :i:l years old. He had
become a man about town and as such
picked up the acquaintance of a certain
class who gained a livelihood by their wits.
Among his friends Kennedy always ap
peared as a young man inclined to be sport
ive, still he was looked upon as being jst
fectly square. It was known to but very
few that he was really an expert card
player.
During the speech a wealthy farmer liv
ing near Greensburg missed his pocketbook
anil his gold watcli and chain. Standing
near him was David Baker, a prominent
young attorney of Greensburg. The farmer
acquainted Mr. Baker with his loss anil that
gentleman proffered his assistance in recov
ering the stolen property. The thieves
were working the crowd in a desperate
manner. The farmer and the attorney had
been standing almost on the outskirts of the
crowd. Near them was u man who had
heard the conversation, and who, as the
farmer turned about, broke into a run.
“That’s the mani” shouted the farmer.
“Htop thief!”
The si-ene that followed was most excit
ing. Baker started in pursuit, pulling his
revolver as ran. Th<> pursued man partly
turned his head us lie fled, and seeing the
lawyer close at his heels drew a revolver,
tired,and Dave Baker fell mortally wounded.
KENNEDY’S SENTENCE FOR MURDER,
Baker died within a few minutes, the
thief’s bullet having pierced his heart. The
next day SI,OOO reward was offered for the
apprehension of the murderer. A week
later officers from Greensburg visited this
city and Will Kennedy was arrested. He
strongly protested his innocence and so con
fident was he of acquittal that he at once
offered to go to Greensburg without a
requisition. The trial lasted but a few days.
The prisoner was confounded with another
Kennedy, a notorious crook, whom the au
thorities hail timo and again attempted to
send to prison. A crook m jail at Greens
burg was promised his freedom should he
tell what lie knew about the affair. He
took the w it.ness stand against Kennedy
and was about the only witness who con
nected him with the crime. Will was given
a life sentence, and m two weeks’ time after
his arrest was in the Southern Indiana pen
itentiary at Jeffersonville.
The night after the day upon which Ken
nedy was convicted the door-bell of his
parents’ residence in this citv was rung by
a man, who' inquired for Mrs. Kennedy.
The mother was ill, however, the shock
having prostrated her. Miss Kate Kennedy.
Will’s sister, asked whether she would not
answer the purpose.
“I suppose you will do,” the man an
swered. “I knew your brother Will and
was at Greonsburg when that murder was
committed. lam myself a thief and know
that your brother is not the man who killed
Dave Baker. I know who it was, but will
not tell. What I want to do is to satisfy
your family that Will is not the guilty man.”
Then he disappeared before Miss Kennedy
recovered from her surprise. She ac
quainted her famiiy with what had been
told her and the next morning at breakfast
alarmed her father and brothers bv telling
them that she intended leaving for Indiana.
HIS SISTER’S BRAVE RESOLVE.
“I shall spend niy life in proving my broth
er’s innocence,” she said, and noth
ing could change her intention, not
even a stern command from her
father. That night found her in
Greeimburg ami from that time, almost,
three years ago, until last Tuesday Miss
Kennedy Ii s work'd night and day. She
has followed up a clew picket! up at Oreenx
burg and her experiences have been thrill
ing and remarkable To day she has posi
tive evidence as to the real murderer, and
within the next two weeks there will be
some startling developments. She worked
with thieves, visited their resorts in all the
cities of this State and Indiana in male at
tire and hat gained (heir entire confidence.
Her knowledge of criminals and their work
has become more complete than that of the
most expert detectives. She has learned of
“jobs" about to occur aud has thorough
knowledge in regard to some big rob
beries which have taken place w ithin the
past three years.
SOME OK HER ADVENTURES.
She has waited upon Gov. Gray, of In
diana. many times laying before him new
evidence of her brother’s innocence as fast
as it could be gathered. She was present in
a dive in Dayton, 0., when a plot was con
cocted to murder a certain crook who, it
was believed, had been a stool pigeon for
the detectives of this city. In that city also
she learned that eertuiti Daytonites had ad
vanced money to bring about her brother’s
conviction in order to save the real rmir
deint, and she has confessions from four
witnesses who were paid to perjure them
selves on the witness stand. She also has
affidavits from all of the jurors except one
l the effect that the evidence against her
brother was not sufficient to warrant a
conviction, and that public sentiment had
more to do with the conviction than had the
evidence.
In her travels she has found a number of
persons who were present when the murder
occurred. One of them, a wealthy fanner,
openly declared that the Recorder ot De
catur county was the man who shot Baker.
The Recorder's name is Moulton. He is a
large, blacx-lieardod gentleman, and Miss
Kennedy had mot a crook who might have
been his double. That crook was in jail at
Indianapolis. Accompanied by the farmer,
Mr. Moulton and Gov. Gray, she quietly
visited the prison in that city, and the
farmer, seeing the prisoner, at once said
"l see my mistake. Mr. Moulton, forgive
nte.”
ONCE ARRESTED WHILE IN MALE ATTIRE.
Then she went back to her labors again.
She has been untiring. Often suspected
herself, she w- once on the point of being
arrested while iu male attire, but in the sta
tion-house —it was at Dayton -talked her
self out of trouble. It Indianapolis she was
almost crowded to the wall by several
thieves. This was when she brought the
Governor. Mr. Moulton and the farmer to
the jail to show tueni Mr. Moulton's double.
The thieves followed her front place to pla e
until at Inst, knowing her life to he in dan
ger, she was forced to enter the government
building and throw herself upon the mercy
of a government official. Site told her story
and was locked up in a room for protection.
It has always been known about this city
—that is. to the gamblers and men of that
class—that, Will Kennedy was innocent of
the crime of which he was convicted. The
expression has frequently been heard, in
fnct every time ids name is mentioned, "An
innocent man sutfenxl iu that case; Ken
nedy was railroaded to save another.”
Men of standing, who did not figure as wit
nesses during the trial, now come io the
front aud describe the man who murdered
Baker as an entirely different looking man
from Kennedy. There is uo question that
the murderer of Baker is new a United
Slates prisoner. During her traves and
intermingling with criminals, as stated
above. Miss Keni cly Ixieauio acquainted
with many robberies that were about to
occur. She did not interfere. The same
night that she heard in Dayton of the plan
to murder a thief she also learned of a plan
to rob the post office at Attica, Ind. She
said nothing, hut permitted it to come off.
The thieves left no clews behind, but to
their surprise, a few days later, they were
arrested and a lot of bonds st den from the
i I>ost office were found in Dayton, O. The
rs|,hers were brought to Indianapolis. One
of them was Recorder Moulton’s double. He
was tried and convicted.
Miss Kennedy will remain here until next
Wednesday, when she again leaves the
city.
OVER IN CHARLESTON.
New Year’s Happenings in South
Carolina s Metropolis.
Charleston is making a solid war on the
Sunday bars.
The new chapel in the Charleston Sailors’
Home was dedicated last night.
The South Carolina Board of Health will
hold its regular quarterly meeting in
Charleston next Thursday.
Mr. W. A. Smidt, Assistant Manager of
the Charleston Telephone Exchange, has
been appointed Manager. He took charge
of the exchange yesterday.
The Washington Light Infantry have not
yet decided upon a successor to Capt. Lamb
Johnston, who resigned the command of the
company some time ago. It is said that
ex-Capt. R. C. Gilchrist is being pressed to
take the position.
The new ordinance providing for a de
tective force of five, with a chief, in con
nection with the Charleston police depart
ment, has called a few more candidates
into the field for the honors of the new year.
The position of Chief of Detectives pays
4>'JBo tier year.
ON RAIL AND CROSSTIE.
Local and General Gossip in Railway
Circles.
There is a large force at work clearing the
right of way, grubbing and grading the
Thomasville, Tallahassee and Monttcello
railroad from Thomasville to the Florida
State line.
It is expected that twenty miles of the
Columbus and Southern railroad, from Co
lumbus to Albany, will be in operation by
April 1. This road will reduce the distance
from Columbus to Savannah about one
third what it is at present.
A Leap-Year Romance.
From I hr, Judge.
The thirty-first of December, eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven had come. Why
the last night in the year affects
people more than any other night
it is hard to say, hut it does
and on this night Reginald de Brokaw was
even more affected than common. Perhaps
the thought that there was one more day in
the coming year made him sad. It might
have been that the heart of the man of
nearly forty was stirred at the prospect of
being" able to cele rate his tenth birthday
on the 29th of the next February, or the
remembrance of a siq> of paper on which
was written over his autograph: “On Jan.
2,1888,1 promise .to pay, etc.,” weighed
upon his soul; at any rate he was sad. He
was seated opposite a fair maiden of eight
and thirty winters. A maiden at that age
is usually called fair, for she has then
arrived at a fair age, neither young nor old.
Eighteen years beiore, on New Year’s day,
Reginald de Brokaw had proposed to the
reigning belle, Margaret Jones, and had
been refused. Every New Year’s day after
that lie had repeated the performance with
a like result, until, three yeui-s before, he
had ceased. Now they waited in peaceful
silence for the New Year’s birth, their minds
busy with different thoughts. He was
wondering whether or not he would for the
last time offer himself to the girl before
him, and she was thinking how long it took
for eighty-eeveu to make way for the
glorious Leap-Year when she would take
advantage of her prerogative and ask him
to marry her. One—two—three —four—
flvo —six —seven —eight—nine—ten—eleven—
twelve (this is done to prolong the tale;l am
writing on space) rang out tne bells.
“Reginald,'’ she whispered, her voice
trembling in the intensity of her emotion:
“Regmal, do you —do you lo ” A ring
at the door and a messenger left a telegram
for Reginald de BrokaVv. Tearing it open,
he read:
"Reginald, wilt thou be mine!
“I await thy answer. Come to me.—C. M ’
—Reginald arose. “Margaret,” ho said, ten
derly, “it is too late. I have already re
ceived a proposal, and have accepted,” and
he left her alone in her misery.
This will not be continued in our next. It
is but a simple tale, truly pathetic, and a
warning to fair maidens who wait for the
eventful year of Leap.
MEDICAL,.
Rheumatism
According to recent investigations is caused by
exce sof lactic acid in the blood. This acid at
tacks the fibrous tissues, particularly in the
joints, aftd causes the local manifestations of
the disease, pains and acher, hi the back and
shoulders, and in the joints at the knees, ankles,
hips and wrists. Thousands of people have
found in Hood’s Sarsaparilla a positive and per
manent cure for rheumatism. This medicine, by
its purifying and vitalizing action, neutralizes
the acidity of the blood, aud also builds up and
strengthens the whole body.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
“I was laid up for six months with rheuma -
tism. aud used many kinds of medicines without
good result till one of my neighbors told me to
take Hood's Sarsaparill i. When I had used
half a lx>tt!e I felt better, and after taking two
bottles 1 think I was entirely cured, as I have not
had an attack of rheumatism since." Eugene
H. Dixon, Rossville, Staten Island, N. Y.
Cures Rheumatism
"I had attacks of rheumatism which increased
in severity. I took three bottles of Hood's Sar
saparilla and I am pleased to say the rheumatic
pains ceased, my appetite and digestion became
better, and my general health greatly improved.
I am firmly convinced that Hood s Sarsaparilla
cured me, as I have felt no recurrence of this
blood disease." Wm. Scoon, Geneva. X. V.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
SoM by all druggists. $1: six for $5. Prepared
only by C. I. HOOD & Cos., Powell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
amtjsemknts.
SAVANNAH THEATRE.
Monday and Tuesday, January 2 and 3.
The Elite Tragic Event.
AMERICA'S BRILLIANT TRAGEDIAN,
Rot>t. Downing,
IN FORREST'S AND McCTTLLOUGH'S GREAT
SUCCESS,
Spartacus, the Gladiator.
TUESDAY EVENING (BY REQUEST),
Julius Caesar.
Mr. Downing as Marc Antony.
MATINEE MONDAY AFTERNOON.
Seats on sale nt Davis ttros’. Jan. Ist.
Next Ai traction, Kate Putnam. .lan. 4 and 5.
SOAPS! SOAPS!
PEARS', RIEGF.RS, COLGATE'S, CLEAV
i ER S, EECKELAER'S, BAYLEY’S, LU
BIN'S. PEMBLE'S MEDICATED just received at
BUTLER’S PHARMACY.
MEETINGS. ______
LODGE. NO. f* I. 6. O. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS 1 Monday;
EVENING at H o’clock. „ ,
Officers for current term will bo installed.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of H. W. RA1.1., N. G.
John Riley, Secretary. _______
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting of this society
will be held at Hodgson Hall THIS EVENING
at eight (S) o'clock.
CHARLES N. WEST,
Recording Secretary.
GEORGIA TKVT AO. 151, I. O R.
Attend a Quarterly session of your Tent
THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8 o’clock. Every
member earnestly requested to lie present.
Election for officers. Come prepared to pay
dues. C. 0. GODFREY, C. R.
Attest: D. J. Re BAUDS. R 8.
SAVANNAH RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
Savannah, Ga., Dee. 31, 1887.
The association will meet at Greenwich Park,
on Jan. 2at 1 o’clock p. m.
A contest for prizes will take place and the
usual oyster roast will be prepared.
Cars will leave West Broad street at twelve
(12) o'clock. GEN. R. H. ANDERSON,
John M. Bryan. President.
Secretary and Treasurer.
NOTICE.
MUTUAL GAS LIGHT COMPANY.
The annual meeting of the Stockholders of
this Company will lie held in the Company s
office, 80 Bryan street. Savannah. < la., on M< >N
DAY, tne 16th January, iSS'v at 12 o'clock noon,
for the election of Directors and for the transac
tion of such other business as may come before
the meeting. D. DOUGLAS. Secretary.
REPPARD IRON COMPANY.
Savannah. Ga.. Dec. 24, 1887.
The annual meeting of the Stockholders of
the Reppard Iron Company will be held at the
Company’s office. 70 Bav street, on MONDAY,
Jan. 2, lAsa at 1 o'clock p. st. At this meeting
the Board of Directors for the ensuing year will
l.c elected, NORTON FRIERSON,
Secretary and Treasurer.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisement* inserted under "Sperial
Notice*” will be charged $1 00 a Square each
insertion.
\ CARD.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS.
The undersigned requests his friends and cor
respondents in Savannah to note the change of
his Post-office address, from Norwich, to
WATEKBURY, CONN.
He take this opportunity to acknowledge,
with sincere thanks, many personal and social
courtesies received by himself mul tiis family
during their stay in Savannah: he is sure that
the kindness which proinpiei these acts of
hospitality and good-will, will im considerate of
the peculiar hindrances which prevented, in
many cases, a more timely and personal re
sponse to them.
LEONARD WOOLSEY BACON.
NEW YEAR'S AT THUNDERBOLT.
Entries to the Combination Race:
W. T. Birch enters b. in. Ailee.
M. J. Doyle enters br. s. Claymuse.
Dr. Matthews enters b. g. I ami lord.
Race will be called at 3:30 o'clock. Weather
permitting this will prove a great race.
M. J. DOYLE, Proprietor T. P. C.
SHERWOOD’S D V At I VG ACADEMY.
The Ladies and Gentlemen's Evening Class
having been postponed for the past week, will
reopen THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock, and will
be continued every MONDAY and FRIDAY
EVENING. Misses' anil Masters' Class every
TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY AF
TERNOON at 3 o'clock. Pupils can enter
either class at any time, and will be charged
from time of entrance. Send for circular. Ad
dress
PROF. SHERWOOD, Masonic Temple.
NOTICE TO WATER TAKERS.
Office Water Works, I
Savannah, January 2d, 1888. )’
The water will be shut off at Nine (9) o'clock
TO-MORROW (Tuesday) MORNING, on Con
gress street from Montgomery to Abercorn
street, for the purpose of making connection
and putting in larger main, and will be off sev
eral hours. A. N. MILLER. Snpt.
OGLETHORPE SAVINGS AND TRUST
COMPANY.
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 1,1888.
Interest for the F'ourth Quarter is now due,
and payable on and after Jan. 3. Depositors
will please leave their books to be balanced.
JNO. M. BRYAN, Cashier.
NOTICE.
Savannah, January 2d, 1888.
The two firms heretofore doing business under
the style of T. P. BOND & CO., and BOND,
HAYNES &, ELTON, are now consolidated,
and will do the General Grain, Feed and Milling
Business, under the name of BOND. HAYNES
A: ELTON, at the Forest City Mills, corner Con
gress and Montgomery streets: warehouse at
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Depot.
Te ephone No. 221.
NOTICE.
City of Savannah. )
Office Clerk of Council, Dee. 29, 1887. 1
MONDAY, January 2d, 1888, being a legal
holiday, the City Offices will be dosed.
By order of the Mayor.
F RANK K. RER.VRER. Clerk of Council.
NOTICE.
Holders of the January, 18S8, Coupons of the
MARIETTA AND NORTH GEORGIA RAIL
ROAD COMPANY First Mortgage Bonds, can
get them paid by presenting them at the office
of A. L. HARTRIDGE,
Battersby's Building, Bay Street.
SAVANNAH BANK AND TIU’ST C OMPA
NY'S SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. ,
Savannah, Ga., January 1, 1888
Interest for the Fourth Quarter of year 1887
is now due, and will he paid on demand. De
positors will please leave their pass-books at the
Bank to he balanced.
JAS. 11. HUNTER, Cashier.
NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS.
City Treasurer’s Office, I
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 2, 1888.)'
The following taxes are now due:
Real Estate, fourth quarter, 1887.
Stock in Trade, fourth quarter, 1887.
Furniture, etc., fourth quarter, 1887.
Money, Debts, etc., fourth quarter, 1887.
Water Rents, in advance, for six months
ending June 30th.
Ground Rents in arrears for two er more
quarters.
Specific (or Business) Tax for the year 1888.
A discount, of 10 per cent, will be allowed
upon Real Estate, Stock in Trade. Furniture,
Money, etc., and Water Rents, if paid withiu
fifteen days after January first.
And § discount of 10 per cent, will be allowed
upon Specific Taxes, if paid on or before Janu
ary 31st.
C. S. HARDEE, City Treasurer.
DIVIDEND NO. 12
Merchants’ National Bank of Savannah, i
Savannah, Ga . Dec. 31, 1887.)
This Bank has declared a dividend of I per
cent, from the earnings of the last six months,
payable on demand.
TIIOS. GADSDEN, Cashier.
ELECTION NOTICE.
City of Savannah, I
Office Clerk of Council, Dec. 30, 1887. f
Notice is hereby given that the City Council
of Savannah w ill eh-i’t at its next regular meet
ing. that is to say. on WEDNESDAY. Jan. 11.
1888, of the Scavenger Depart
ment finder and in accordance with the pro
visions of the ordinal'st creating said office,
passed by Council at meeting of Dee. 28, 1887.
Bond $2,000, salary $1,200 jier annum, term till
election of city officers, January 1889. Ail ap
plicants must hand in their applications with
names of bondsmen (two required) to the Clerk
of Council on or before 2 o’clock p, m. thb day
of election.
By order of Council.
FRANK E. REBARICR,CIeric of council.
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.
Augusta and Savannah Railroad, I |
Savannah. Ga., Dec. 21, 1887. ) !
The annual election for seven Directors of the
Augusta and Savannah Railroad, will lie held at,
the Banking house of Chns. H. Olmstead & Cos.
on MONDAY, January 2, 1888, between the
hours of 10 A. M. and Ip.m.
W. S. LAWTON, President,. i
SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE. ~
(Letter from the world-renowned Gounod,
composer of the Opera “Faust,” and “Romeo
and Juliet,” etc.)
To Messrs. Chickeuing, l’iano Forte Manu
facturers:- I am pleased to render justice to the
incontestable worth of the magnificent Pianos
which vou have sent to the Universal Exposi
tion. The system of parallel strings which you
use. seems to me to contribute powerfully to
the brilliancy of your instruments, which pos
sess both grand sonority anti remarkable sweet
ness of tone. Accept. 1 pray you, my congratu
lations for the re< onqieiises which have been
arwarded you. (Signed) CH. GOUNOD.
Member of the Institute, Officer of the Imperial
Order of the Legion of Honor
111 V IDEM).
The National Bank of Savannah. I
Savannah. Ga., Dec. 31st, 1887. 1
At a meeting of the Directors of this Bank,
held THIS DAY. a dividend of ($3) Three Dol
lars per share was declared, payable on demand
to shareholders as per record this date.
TIP is. F. THOMSON, Cashier.
MERCHANTS’ NATIONAL BANK. OF
8 VI ANN All.
The annual election for seven Directors of
this Bank will be held at the Banking House, on
TUESDAY, Jan. 10, 1888, between the hours of
12 and 1 o'clock. THOS. GADSDEN.
Cashier.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 11, 1887. __
NOTICE
Is hereby given that application will be made to
City Council by the "SAVANNAH STREET
AYI) rural RESORT RAILROAD COMPANY
for the right to build its road on the following
named streets in lieu of portion of the route
granted by way of Bolton and East Broad
streets, to wit: Through East Broad street to
Gwinnett street, through Gwinnett street to
Habersham street, out Habersham street to
Bolton street, there connecting with route al
ready designated by City Council for use of said
Railroad, the change being a substitution of
Gwinnett street for Bolton street.
H. P. SMART, President
KIEFFER’M Bill G STORE.
I have now on hand a very large supply and
excellent variety of ( leveland Peas and Beans,
considered the best in the market. Also, Paints,
Oils, Brushes, White Lead, ete. A full line of
Toilet and Fancy Articles for the holidays.
Window Glass cut to order.
E. J. KIEFFER,
Corner West Broad and Stewart streets.
I LMER*S LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to the sys
tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other
ills, caused by a disordered liver, It cannot bo
excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in
dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul
mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. SIOO
a bottle. F'reigbt paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER, M. D.,
Pharmacist. Savannah. G*.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
Santa Claus
IS NOT AT
West’s Cliina Palace.
We are his competitors,
and think we have the best of
him. We will not try to
enumerate the many useful
Presents we have, but invite
the public to call every day
and see the tinest selected
stock ever shown in this city.
Will display in a few days a
large line ef fine Alabaster
Statuary
West’s China, Palace
133 Broughton Street
FOOD PRODUCTS,
FORM city MILLS,
Cor. Montgomery and Congress Sts.
30,000 bushels Corn.
25,000 bushels Oats.
5,000 bushels Texas Rust Proof Oats.
5,000 bales Hay, Eastern & Western.
GRITS AND MEAL
In any quantity, in barrels or sacks, manufac
tured fresh every day.
STOCK FEED,'
Carloads or less, made freh to suit orders, out
of pure, sweet grain, 0 its. equal in nutri
tion to 8 5 s. oats, aud costing less.
Haynes’ Prepared Flour,
The best in this market, made fresh at oi*
manufactory daily.
We carry a full lino of our well-know brands of
FLOUR Haynes’ Fancy Patent, Ogle
thorpe. holler Process and Forest
City Mills Family.
CORN EYES, COW PEAS, FEED MEAL,
WHEAT.' BRAN, MEAL, Etc., Etc.
Always a full stock on hand.
Carload lots a specialty.
t*T Prompt attention given to all orders And
satisfaction guaranteed.
Bond, Haynes & Elton.
MINCEMEAT.
Gordon & Dilworth’s
MINCE MEAT,
EQUAL TO HOME-MADE.
AT
A. ffl. & C. W. WEST’S.
DESKS.
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% ST. I.OTTIS, MO.
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DESKS, BANK COUNTERS
BANK, court house.
GOVERNMENT WORK and
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