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AN INGENIOUS PRISONER.
A Sing Sin? Convict Who I ossesses
feat Inventive Genius.
/"V,,iii Oil* 5' , 1 rl .j, .a.
How .0 break out of is often as much
a matte. >i starry villi Die habitual offend
pi- a > bow to get into it. The exploit of Dan
Driscoll. the condemned H’hvo, fashioning
a jimmy troin his iron bed and preparing to
nig hi- oav out with Pan Lyons, the mur
derer ot qiuinn, did not impress the public
asat ail wonderful. There was no ingenuity
displayed, and the fact that the plot was
bt travel to the ward-n stamps it ns clumsy.
Expert jail breakers have no confidants, aud
lwnce no betrayals. Beside# the attempt
was unsuccessful, aud the veriest tyro can at
least try to get out of jail.
Hast week a reporter had a long talk with
"French Gfls," a real jail-breaker, a genuine
wizard with locks, bolts und bars, who has
broken out of thug Sing three times, out of
the city prison in Montreal once, tho jail in
Troy once, and who looks upon a prison
much as wo look upon a hotel—as a place to
walk into or walk out of, just as the fancy
jnav ru a.
• Fre’ : h Gus,"’ or “Fronchy,” or “Frank
Savoy, 1 or “Isadora Marshall,” or “Kindt,"
for, tie is a perambulating directory pf
aliases, if he had been situated us was
Driscoll, there would have been no betrayal
or discovery, except the discovery of an
empty cell, and; pet haps, that of a keeper
or two lying unconscious in the yard, for ho
does not allow trivialities to impede his way.
"French Gus” was tound iu the engine
room at Sing Sing. He is of medium
height, heavy, but not corpulent, ha- brown
hair which has been liberally silvered, a
sallow complexion, a high forehead, which
time is rapidly making higher, and quick
graynyes, which are bright as a boy's, and
never at rest. He spoke English with a
mar-ed accent, but flueutlv. Notrifler, he.
A man of iron strength and great nerve, of
patience, industry, self-reliance, and,
above all, of brains. He has ingenuity
amounting to genius, and it is
said no better mechanic lives.
Yet for eighteen years he has been
at constant war with society —a professional
burglar, a manufacturer of cracksmen’s
tools, a fitter of skeleton keys and an expert
land pirate of. high degree. He is now serv
ing a six-years’ sentence given him by
Judge Barrett in Oyer aud Terminer June
4, 1885, for cracking the safe of Smith <fc
Go., No. 45 Park place, and robbing the
store of G B. Horton & Cos., No. 59 Frank
fort street. Allowing commutation for
good conduct, which he is industriously
earning, he has about twenty months yet to
serve.
Inspector Byrnes and other eminent
authorities declare that no safe, however
fortified with chrome iron, time-locks aud
combinations, could withstand this man's
attack for half an hour, so learned she in
his craft and so powerful the tools he manu
factures specially for each great job. It is
small wonder then that French Gus should be
honored with extra care by his keepers and
what would seem superfluously strong quar
ters and yet despite these complimentary
precautions itis believed he remains from
from choice than necessity, lieing anxious to
serve his time and be free to reap the reward
of some marvellous inventions he has made
while a convict.
He imi led broadly when asked to tell tho
Story of his escapes, sat down, rubbed his
hands together slow ly, laughed,
shrugged his shoulders. He considered the
escapes merely as good jokes, but not as
anything worthy of his skill.
"The first time I escaped," he said, “was
from Si g Sing. It was an oasy matter: a
little saw—poof!—l cut through the bars.
I walk out, I get on the railroad. I would
have got away, but a coDvict saw me go,
and to get favor with the warden, he yelled
to the guard, aud I came back. It was so
easy done I laughed. That was two mouths
after my sentence in 'O9. I was in for ten
years.
"For eight months I think and think. I
do not know whether it was better to re
main or to go. But I get tired, and—well,
I walk out again. Howl do that? Very
easy. My keeper was about to be dis
charged. I know that. I get some money.
I give it to him. He forgot to count me in
the company when we go in to sapper. It
mas in February. I steal a coat from one
workman. I stsal a pair of overalls from
another. When the conqiany go to supper
I hide. It was dark. I Like a crow bar.
Igo to the big iron fence. Brum-m-m—l
break one bar. Brum-m-m! —I break
another. Then I look out. There is one
man with a rifle near the river bank. I
watch till he turns his back aud I slip along
a little. When he tummy way I keep very
stitl. He turn again, I slip along. So I get
to the river and I cross on the ice. Igo to
Hackensack. Bah! it was nothing.”
It may be related in justice to French
Gus that he was not really guilty of bribery
in this tranaction, for tho four fifty-dollar
bills which he paid to the keeper were after
wards discovered to be counterfeit.
"After eight months 1 was arrested in
Hackensack for a little trick 1 played on a
jewelry store at night, Detective Jackson,
pf Sing Sing, he come down and recognize
me. and very glad to see me. Ho take me
back. Now I know I lose all my short
fime” (his commutation) “and I know it
not easy to get away again. Ia n put in a
strong cell. l'iie keepers they all say,
‘Watch French Gus.’ (Veil, I think and
tliink. By and by they put me in tho
workshop. 1 work very steady. Every
body watch me. My coil is searched all the
time. Well, I work steady. By and by I
make a grand invention, i invent a prison
lock by which all the doors can lie thrown
open at once, or five, ten, fifteen or twenty
doors yr only one door. I complete that iu
one year—lB74. I offer it to Gov. Tilden
for tree use by the State if I get my pardon.
AU the prison authorities they write to say
it is the best lock ever known. It is per
fectly sure. The doors open all by lever,
not by a lock, and no one can get them
open. Well, Gov. Tilden he think over
everything and he say no. The prison au
thorities ali surprised". A* man get a pardon
for an invention that is nothing—a man
with twenty years—for a little table he
make to hang the tickets showing the num
ber of men each keeper have!”
‘Well?”
“I make up my mind l will stay no
longer Next day I begin work on a sec
tional jimmy. I make one piece this week,
one piece next wees, and hide them. I
make a little drill—very hard, very sharp—
to cut through stone. 1 get a flat bottle,
qnd I fill him with nitric and. muriatic
acid—equal part of each. I steal some
more clothes. All is ready for my coup.”
“Then?”
"First, I take the bottle of acid and the
drill to my cell. With the drill I bore a
small hole through the stone to the bolt, I
pour in a little acid. The bolt is held in by
lead. The acid eat the lead. Ido this little
by little. Finally I know tho lead is all
dust, That night, I take my new clothes
under my stripes and the jimmy in pockets
I had made down-my legs. lam locked up.
My ceil is on the ground floor. Opposite is
a row of little windows with heavy bars—
you would uot think a cat could go
through.”
"How did you?”
“The keeper comes around to count and I
answer. By and by, about 12 o'clock, I
think the time has come. The patrol
pass mv door. He will not come apiin for
naif an hour. I screw my sectional jimmy
together. I place it to the door. I listen.
No sound. I push—one. t wo, three times—
the rotten lead give and the door is open. 1
look. No patrol in sight. I hear him on
the upper corridor. Now the window. I
force one bar. I listen. I force the other
bar. I listen. Igo hack and close tho door
of niy co l. I throw the broken bars and
the jimmy outside. J listen. Now! up!
I squeeze through like a cat, and I am out
side in the yard.”
"Well?”
“The guards are ou the Mgh wall. I
creep, creep, creep around the buildings to
the iron fence near the river. I jack the
bars again with the jimmy. lam away.
When 1 cross tho river on the ice I sit down
and laugh.”
“And then:’
"J go to Montreal ' I opou a Jewelry
store—w ith ray tools. Next day 1 am ar
rested. l’hev have no evidence, but lam
locked up because they know who lam.
i he; put me in the .strongest .-ell in the city
prison and station a keeper outside my door.
I hear they Hud some diamonds with mv
daughter in New York, and so 1 say to
myself. ‘Gus, you must not Slav here
longer.'”
“Well?"
"That night 1 make a saw out of mv
k ife. ! fix a dummy in mv bo-1. 1 got
under the bed to cut, through the floor.
Every time the keeper looked in mv cell he
see the dummy and he think that, is me. I
cut, cut, cut very softly. The keeper he
look from time to time. He see dummy and
lie satisfied. Finally 1 cut a hole. I drop
through in the cellar. At one end there is
cord wood and a window. I use the wood
ns a jack and bend the bars. Then 1 walk
out again, ll is nothing. But the keeper
who watch all night outside my door be no
did like the joke.”
“Do you t ink you could escape from
here again?" was asked him.
“Foot ; 1 could get away any time, but
I do not want. 1 would be caught again.
No, 1 have only twenty months if I am
quiet, and then—ah, I have a grand inven
tion, and 1 shall come back to prison no
more.”
These are only a few of the incidents of
this remarkable man’s criminal career. He
% as recaptured after this last exploit and
served three years in the penitentiary there,
where he introduced his invention. It is
still in use, and is pronounced by prison ex
perts absolutely perfect. After serving out
his time he went to St. Albans, Vt., where
he was arrested by State Dei active Jackson
as an escaped convict. At Troy, after mid
night, in the railway station, Jackson aud
he were aloue together waiting for the train
going to Sing Sing.
Upon a pretext French Gus had his hand
cuffs unlocked a moment, aud instantly
seizing Jackson, was fast strangling him,
when the little detective drew his revolver
and fired two bullets into the convict’s
head. One passed through the mouth, the
other lodged near the base of the brain,
where it still remains. He was taken to
Sing Sing unconscious, but his iron consti
tution enabled him to recover, and he is
now as well as ever. His lever lock is
patented, and be wishes to sell his rights
He has made other inventions since, which
he claims are vastly more valuable, aud to
which he wijl devote his time when he is
free.
Here is an interesting subject for study—
an expert mechanic, sober and industrious,
capable of earning a good liv ng anywhere,
vet follow ing a career which has practically
kept him iu prison for eighteen years; a
notable inventor expending most of his in
genuity upon burglars’ tools; a genius who,
after years of penal servitude, is about to
come before the world as a solver of some
great mechanical riddle which will make
him noth fortune and fame, having taken
ali the best of his life to learn that the way
of the transgressor is hard.
THEY DID NOTHING BUT STEAL.
And Some of Them Passed Themselves
Off lor Noted Men.
Fred Carruth in Chicago Tribune.
“Can we water our mules here?” asked
Briar of a sad-looking man who was trying
to drive a nail into the fence with a stone,
near a house not far from Gordon, Neb. It
w-as on the direct trail over which thous
ands of settlers going to Western Nebraska,
Dakota and Wyoming had been traveling
for the last year or so.
“I have n > objections,” replied the man
as he dropped the stone, put his thumb in
his mouth, and looked paiued.
“Your well is very handy,” continued
Briar with an engaging smile. I suppose all
movers on the road stop at it. Water seems
to be scarce iu this region.'’
“Hammers and monkey-wrenches, and
water pails and tin cups and eggs and chick
ens and ’bout ev’rytbing else must bo scares
in this region too, I reckon,” returned tko
man gloomily.
“What makes you think so ?”
“I jedgo by the way you fellers goin’
through in covered wagons steal ’em. I’ve
bought three new hammers this summer
and still have to drive a nail with a stone
and my wife tacks down the carpet with
the stove-lifter.”
“Do the boys steal?”
“Steal!” echoed the man as he picked up
the stone and gazed at his thumb, “they
don’t do nothing else but steal! Each ham
mer jes’ disappeared inside of a week. Then
I’ve lost two water-pails and have to water
my own bosses now in a tin pan. I’ll bet
they’ve lugged off a good dozen tin cups.
Last week I caught a feller climbin’ into his
wagon with my monkey-wrench and he
drove off laughin’ and shakin’ his fist at me,
and I couldn't catch him either. Day be
fore yesterday I lent my ax to a man that
had broke down, and when he got
his wagon fixed he drove off and took
the ax with him. The same day, in
the afternoon, a big Missourian come long
that had busted something, too. and threat
ened to lick me ’cause I tol l him 1 didn’t
have no ax. He said lie b’lieved I had one
and wanted to know if 1 was ’frnid he’d
steal my old ax. He said he could pound
any man that had got an idee he was a mis
erible sneak thief. I went into the house to
git rid of him, and he took my buggy w hip
out of my wagon and drove away with it
They’ve stole our eggs all summer aud have
got all the chickens except two old hens
that roost on the ridge-board of the house,
and I caught one feller that was camped
near by tryin’ to climb the lightuin’ rod
one night and git at them, too. Yesterday
morning a man that was going through to
Wyoming stole the clothes line, and my
wife caught another trying to get our cat
into a covered basket aud lug it off. Then
it’s a solemn gospel fact that I came out in
the afternoon in broad daylight aud caught
a big, red-headed cuss irom low a lifting on
the pump! Yes, sir, tryin’ to snake it out
of the well and load it in bis wagon!”
“You've had a hard time of it,” said
Briar, consolingly.
“Yes, but I'm goin' to watch ’em after
this. I ,-ee your partner there a sizin’ up
the grindstone out o’ the back end of the
wagon, but it won’t do him no good, ’cause
I’m goin’ to stay right out here and watch
you both till you drive on!”
We lingered some little time to talk with
this Nebraska sufferer. “It beats anything
1 ever seen,” continued the gloomy indi- 1
vidual, “the amount ot gall a man al’ays 1
has when he’s travelin’ West iu a covere-1
wagon. They’ve got the gall over a crab
apple tree agent. Last spring a big raw- |
boned cuss from Missouri, with a team of :
mules as poor’s whip-er-wills, turned up to I
water, like you fellers. He had his wife and
six tow-headed young ’tins in the wagon,
and three dogs and a spotted cow behind.
While ho was pumpin’ the
water he began to 'buse the govern
ment for not fixin’ the road. He seemed
to think it orter provide a big national
highway, all turnpiked up and trimmed j
with shade trees just for him to move West
on I stood up for the country, and says I:
‘I think the government does pretty well
for you when It makes you a free gift of KK)
acres of land, if it don't fix the road.’ ‘Yah,
free gift uothing,’ says he, as he put my pail
into his wagon mighty careless like; ‘the
land’s jes’ as much mine as ’tis the gove’n
ment’s! How in Mazes does tbegove’iimeDt
happen to own aU this ’ere land?" ‘ W'v,’
says I, ‘them old reverlutionary heroes fit.
ail'd bled, and died, and hove off the yoke of
England and set up the government, and all
this land jes’naturally tell to ’em. You’re
under big obiergatioos to all them old
fellers that fit the roverlution so’s you
could bo free.' ‘Don’t talk to me tnat
way,’says he; ‘I don't owe 'em a cent, not
a red! Their old rev’lution never done me
no good; rny ancestors had a rev’lution of
their own! ‘Where?’says I. ‘ln Missouri,
of course,’says he; ‘licked the English and
fir.idled up ev’rything in 1700, ’tore them |
otnor old moasbacks bought their guns.
We set up our gove’nmeut right in Mis
souri, and all this country belonged to us.’
•Then you must ’a’ been a’nexed to the
United States:' says I. ‘’Nexed nothing?’
says lie; ‘we 'nexed them and give 'i m this
land, and now Mioy'iv goin' round niakf.i’
a grout siiculiu’ oo .f gif.a’ van u u.i a
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JANU VRY 3,188 R.
little oruery quarter section' You're a pood
'uu to talk ’bout some rev’lution you jo*'
load 'bout w hen we had one all of our own
that beats the one you heed of all holler!’
Then l made him piss out my pail, and he
drove on.”
“Another time,” continued the victim of
the emigrants, "a little squint oved pom
men stopped and sai-t he was \ underbill,
and that lie was lookin’ over the lay of the
land to see what the prospect was tor run
ning another rail land through here. 1 was
a little doubtful all the time, but 1 didn't
know,’cause he talked so smooth and rat
tled away’!><>ut 'ten millions o'dollars' or
'thirty millions o’ dollars’ jes* like you or i
would talk ’bout the price of a pair o’ boots:
but l afterwards caught him whistling at
my dog and tryin’ to coax him oil', and then
I snowed it wasn’t Vanderbilt.
“A year ago a man with a long ueek and
leg uose come along and said he was Gen'r'l
Sheridan. He drove a team of mules that
looked as if they had been livin'on h n
grass, and he had n good-sized dry goods
box with slats nailed 'crust it tied on his
wagon behind full o’ chickens. I thought
it war’ll'; a very- likely storv that Geu’r'l
Sheridan would be packin’ chickens Vrost
Northern Nebraska, but I noticed both the
mules was branded ‘U. S.,' and he h id on a
blue soldier’s overcoat, so I didn't know
but mebbv it was the Gen’r’l
after all. He said he was goin’ through
from Fort Niobrara to tamp Rob
inson. and was thinkiu’ strongly of estab
lislun’ another military post round here.
He wanted to know what I’d take for my
farm in case he decided to put in a big fort
here with 200 cannons and 5,000 soldiers,
‘all white,’ says be; ‘l'm down on nigger
soldiers; and I’ll see that their pants and
the rest of their clothes fit ’em, and that
there ain’t no West Point dood otPcers that
don't know enough to throw stones at the
chickens sent here. Privately, Mr. Walker,’
he went on awful close and confidential
like, -'tween me ’n' you 1 tliink I shall take
holt o’ this here fort myself. I shall
also name it Fort Walker.’ He drove his
mules up to my haystack and let ’em
stand aud eat. and went all ’round the house
and barn sev’ral times, lookin’ over the
ground aud sbowiu’ me where he intruded
to throw up fortifications and put in the
double-barreled cannon. Ho said he had a
new style of six-shootin’ cannon, seif
cockin’, that never failed to knock the
enemy. He said this kind was pizen ou In
juns, and the Injuns when they come down
oll'n the reserve was what he was after.
When his team had jes’ a! out finished my
haystack he stump. <1 me for a trade 'tween
his off mule and mv sor'l bos- I looked
bis mule over and found it was ring-boned
and spavined, "sides lx-in’ loiuulered and
blind of one eye, and had the horns aud
poll-evil, and looked'sif it mightprobabtv be
lialky as a goaf, so I told him 1 couldn't
swap for less than $75 to boot. ‘ls that ti.e
best you can do ?' savs the Gen’r'l. ‘The very
says T. ‘Aint you got no pntritism
"bout you,' says ho, ‘so you can ’fordto give
the War Department a little better trade
than that ?' ‘Couldn't do it,’ says I. ‘Can't
you gne mo an even trade?’ says ho, ‘so I
can hurry 'long through aud give orders tor
massin’2o,ooo troops here and begin buildm’
Fort Walker?’ ‘l’m sorry, Gen’r’l, but I
couldn’t,’ says I. ‘Then you can go plumb
to blazes!’ says he. ‘You think I’d a’ spent
all this valerable time a-tailin’ you ’bout my
mil’tary plans if I'd ‘a’ sposed you was goin’
• to play me and the department such a dirty
trick as this? I won’t build the fort here
a-tall if this is the way you’re goin’ to act!
Hero I am, straight ns a greenback,
Commander-in-Chie! of the United States
army and navy, aud you, a granger from
the back counties, won’t give me a lair
trade on my mule? Good-bye; -ir! Git
your hayst wk out of my way or 1 11 drive
over it! When I build another fort < n your
place you’ll know it!” Then he drove off
the road a-jawin’ an' a-sweerin’ at the
mules. .1 day or two nfter some men came
T >ng from the fort lookin’ for n man of
’bout, his style, that they said had two gov
ernment mules that lrad been stole, an’ they
said he wa'n’t Gen'r’l Sheridan a-tall—and
I’d been expectin’ he wasn t all the time
after begot so mud ’but the trade.”
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Gordon & Dilworth’s
MINCE MEAT,
EQUAL TO HOME-MADE.
AT
A. M. & C. W. WEST S.
PAINTS AND OlLsi.
JOHN G. BUTLER,
IIUHTE LEADS, OOlriRH DIM, GLASS,
’ > V.YKMSii, ETC. . HEAD? MIXED
FAINTS; KAILKOAD, BTEAMKH AND MILL
SUITUKS, HASHES, BOOKS, BLINDS AND
BUILDERS' HARDWARE. Sole Agent for
UEORUIA LIME, CALCINED'BLASTER, CE
MENT, II AIR and LAND PLASTER.
6 Whitaker Street, Savannah, Georgia.
BRICK.
E. D. White. I. N. Stanley. J. E. Brioz
Kstahlished lHid.
Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Buck Works,
EDWARD D. WHITE & CO.
Manufacturers or oiy R-tmis. Fire
Brick, Til. etc., and dealers In Fir- clay,
Fire Baud, I,round Fire Brick. Fre Mortar.
Manufactory: Vun Dyke, '■/.aain-La, I’arntiira
ut.d Klc'iard sir ids. Office: e* Van Dyke
gtre.-t, couukiyu. N. V. I
UKOC I'KIKs AM) UQUORS,
i). li. mi
TIIE
GROCER.
HEADQUARTERS
FOR
CHOICE OLD WISES
AND
LKIUORS.
21 Whitaker Street,
SAVANNAH, (iA.
Holiday Goods
Loose Jelly, Preserves, Ap
ple Rutter, Cranberry Sauce,
anrl Mincemeat.
New Citron,(’urrants,French
and Turkish Prunes, Figs,
Raisins and Prunellcs.
Weisbaden Preserves and
Melange Selected Mixed Nuts
7 pounds for sl.
Hirsch Bros.
21 BARNARD STREET.
BUCK YVH EAT .
Bat 3 fhinffi Needed.
0
Colei W£L 1 eX',
A 1 LOT GRIDDLE
AND
Hecker’s Self-Raising Buckwheat.
AH tli**** cost very little, and in n twinkling
delicious Buckwheat Cakes are ready for the
table -light, wholesome and perfectly agreeable
to the most delicate digestion.
HECK Kirs SELF R AISING BUCK WHEAT
is for sale by all groeers. Take no other.
ll< i l Ki,\
PULASKI HOUSE, - Savannah, Ga,
Under \gw Management.
HAVING entirely refitted, refurnished and
made such extensive alteration* and re
pairs, we cau justly suy that our friends and
patrons will find THE PULASKI first class in
every respect. The cuisine and service will lie
of the hi guest character. WATSON ,<• POWERS,
Proprietors* fomierlv of Charleston Hotel.
THE MORRISON HOUSE!
N EWLY fitted up offers pleasant. South rooms
and dxcedeiiti>ourd to those wishing regu
lar. transient, or tal l • accommodations. Central
ly located on line ol street cars, affords easy ac
cess to places of business, and subiu*!aii resort*.
Prices mod *rate. Corner Broughton and Dray
ton stivers, opposite Marshall House.
NEW HOTEL TOGNI,
(Formerly St. Mark's.)
New-nan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla.
WINTER AND NU MM Kit.
'•pfJK MOST central House ill the flty. Near
J Post Office, Street Cars'and all Ferries.
New and ideyaiit Furniture. Electric Beils,
Baths, Etc. St: is) to S; tier day.
JOHN B. TOIiNI, Proprietor.
CKOC FRIES.
O. DAVIS. V A DAVIS.
( f. DAVIS & fS<)N,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
Provisions, fir-niii anrl Hoy.
V ESI >, FEED STB I' , Kl< K FUJI' li. Will. \T
il BK VN, BLACK COW PEA . BI.AI
PE\S liHOI.'IHA CKOWDEKS. CI,AY BANK
PEAS, V IKOiNIA and GEORGIA I'KANUTH.
Orders by mail solicited. (. DAVIS ASi IN.
ll.iti and HIS Bay street, .Savannah, Ga.
Om W. TI EDEMA N,
WHOLESALE- —
Grorer, Provision Dealer & Com'n Merchant,
NO I#l BAY ST., SAVANNAH, r, A.
COMMISSION MKK! HANTS.
W. W. cdllOON. F. I>. ULOObWORTU. lIKIIIMi GORDON.
W. W. GORDON & CO.,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Cotton, Rice, Naval Stores,
H 8 BAY STREET SAVANNAH, OA.
JOHN K. CMKNBTT. 'i'HC 'MAS K. Si'f 'jsb WM. B.TJHON.
Garnett, Stubbs & Cos.,
COTTON FACTORS
aji>—-
Commission Morohantss,
M BAY FT., SAVANNAH, li \.
Liberal advances made on consignments of
•■ " ■ "I
< ItOCKKU Y, ET < .
GEO. W. ALLEN,
IMPORTER OF
CROCKERY, CHINA AND GLASSWARE,
Nos. 3115 and Broughton Street.,
SAVANNAH - GEORCHA.
FIS II AN I) <>Y S’l liliN
ESTABLISHED 1858.
M. M. SULLIVAN,
Wholesale Fid and Oyster Dealer,
150 Bryan st. and 182 Bay lane. Savannah, Ga.
Kish orders for Cedar Keys received here have
prompt attention.
RUSTLESS IRON PIPE.
EQUAL TO GALVANIZED PIPE, AT
MUCH LESS PRICE.
J. D. WEED & CO.
PRY GOODS.
David Weisbein
Will inaugurate a clearance sale of
all winter goods before taking an
annual inventory of stock,
and will offer unprece
dented bargains to
purchasers.
Ladies’ Walking Jackets.
350 Ladies’ Walking Jackets, worth $3, at $ 1 .*O.
225 Ladies’ Walking Jackets, worth $1 50, at 2 75.
175 Ladies’ Walking Jackets, worth $0 50. at 3 25.
25 Ladies’ Plush Walking Jackets, worth $2O, at 16 00.
50 Ladies’ Plush Wraps, worth $25, at 15 00.
The above goods have been marked down to a price that
will not tail to suit any one that wishes to purchase.
DRESS GOODS.
We have the most varied assorted stock in this line in the
city and have marked the whole stock at prices that will sur
prise customers.
OUR HOUSEKEEPING GOODS,
Table Damask, Napkins, Doylies, Table Covers, Sheetings, Pillow
Casings, Bleachtngs and Blankots are certainly beyond a
question the best for the monoy in the city.
HOSIERY, HANDKERCHIEFS AM) CLOVES.
We have all the LATEST STYLES and at prices that will
undoubtedly sell them.
B A Z A A 11
On our Second Floor will be found replete with all the
Latest Novelties in Ladies’ and Children’s Under
wear, also Crockery, Glassware and Boys’ Suits.
The Balance of Our Holiday Goods will be Closed Out
Far Below Actual Cost.
DAVID WEISBEIN,
153 15 roi i <r\ i ton Street.
MILLINERY
To the Public.
Praptiis Ik Sfriiij ami Sinner 1888.
The unprecedented trade in our Millinery Business dur
ing 1887 is owing to the constantly adding of Novelties and
the immense increase of our stock, which is doubtless the
Largest of Any Retail Millinery' in America, exclusive of
New York, and our three large floors cannot hold them.
Already our importations, Direct from Europe, are ar
riving, and on Our Third Floor we are opening Novelties
for Spring and Summer in Ribbons, French Flowers and
Feathers in the Most Beautiful and Novel Shades. We
are sorry to be compelled, for want of room, to close our
W inter Season so soon, which has been so very successful,
and from to-day all our Felt Hats, Fancy Feathers and
Trimmed Hats will be sold at any price. Our Ribbon Sal©
will continue until further notice.
S. KROUSKOFF,
M A MMOTII MILLINERY HOUSE.
FURNITURE, CARPETS, M A I I I Mi, F.T( .
CARPETS! CARPETSf CARPETS!
Now is the time for Bargains in Carpets.
A fine selection of Cotton Chains, Union s Extra Supers,
All Wool, Two and Three-Plys, Tapestries and Body Brus
sels just arrived. Our line of Furniture is complete in all
its departments. Just received, a carload of Cooking anti
Heating Stoves. So call on us for Bargains. We,don’t in
tend to be undersold, for cash or on easy terms.
TEEPLE & CO.
193 and 195 Broughton Street.
SASH DOOHS, BUNDS, ETC.
I'ro.ident. SAVANNAH. GA.
LUMBER.
CYPRESS, OAK, POPLAR, YELLOW PINE, ASH, WALNUT.
MANUFACTURERS of BAKU, DOORS, BUNDS, MOULDINGS of all kind* and dMoripMK?*
CABINOB and TKIMMINCS for all clawww of dwellings, I*liWß and PKW ENDftof our nwUI
design and manufacture, TURNED auc. SCROLL BALUSTERS, ASH HANDLES £or Cott JU
Hooks, t KILINU, FLOORING, WA JNBCOTTINU. SHINGLES.
Warehouse and Up-Town Office: West Broad and Broughton Sts
Factory and Mills: Adjoining Ocean Steamship Co.’s Wharves
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