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ARE CITY WOMEN SINFUL?
REPRESENTATIVE MEMBERS OP
THE SEX WHO DON'T THINK SO.
The Views of Mrs. Frank Leslie, Mrs.
LillieDevereux Blake, Ella Wheeler
Wilcox, Jenny June and Others on
Controverted Points Social Life in
New York is More than Commonly
Pure.
(Copjfrighteri 18S8.1
New York, March 31.—The Rov. Dr.
Dix, whose iw>n: severe strictures on soci
ety women have become famcv.js.ts far from
being the onlv harsh critic of city women
ami girls. The New York woman is a fa
vorite topic with the newspaper correspon
dent, whs fillscolmpnsof out-of-town letters
with highly spiced accounts of coquettishly
wicked drinking and smoking, powdering
and painting, extravagance, disregard of
home ties, risque doings of many sorts, nil
laid to the charge of city belles. The women
of the city are pictured as dressing in mad
Competition wi h one another or with an eyo
toaphysical appeal to men, hunting for
new sensations, flinging money right and left
and often throwing discretion and modesty
to the winds.
Are these animadversions warranted? Are
city girls demoralized by a too luxurious
civilization? I have asked the question < f
a limn her of representative women, and be
low are gi\en their replies.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, when asked her opin
ion of the standard of morality among city
women, said without hesitation:
“It is high, there is no question about it.
Social life in New Y*irk is exceptionally
pure. There is a certain amount of dis-i
--pation in every large citv which comes in
evitably to the surface, but the daughters,
wives, and the mothers are good and true.
I have lieen especially struck with the dif
ference between this country and England
in some social characteristics. American
girls are not totally dependent on matri
mony and have a certain proud indepen
dence which wins them respect. In London
there are conaiaratively few avenues of self
support open to women, and there are not
nearly men enough to go a omul. The
result is a scramble for husbands which is
unpleasant if not immoral. A man is [>et
ted till he is spoiled. Girls are flung at
hisliend till lie is disgusted. 1 have see n
Buffalo Bi.l at the house of the Duchess of
Ely,where some of tiie women showed their
shoulders at him in a style unheard of here,
and I was proud of my countryu an for the
quiet geutiemanliness with which he took
it all.
“New York is as far ns possible from be
ing a licentious city. My work and my
charities take nie out at all hours of the
dy and night, and l know from personal
ex|ieriencethnta yiiman may go anywhere
and at any time without insult or molesta
tion. Indeed the city lias grown so cosmo
politan that companionable relations are
springing up between its men and women
wliicn it would be hard to match elsewhere.
Men have a kindly courtesy for women,
while at the same time they aie growing
• used to discussing bnsine s topics with
them; and from this combination of
old chivalry and new practicality there
results p good comradeship which in its
perfection is an ideal state of tilings lie
tween ttie sexes. City life is not unfavor
able to w mi •11.'’
Mrs. Lill.e Deveronx Blake, who pub
lished a volume in reply to a previous course
of Lenlen lectures by Dr. Dix, was asked
her opinion of the modesty and breeding of
citv girls.
"No one,” she said, “can go much among
city women without knowing that, the
hearts under satin bodices are as true as
those under cloth vests. The amount of
real chanty a i ong fashionable women is a
constant source of surprise; not money
giving only, but giving of time, of thought,
of peiannul effort and personal sacrifice;
the dedication of the hands and their
brain-, to help the poor. There are many
more women in the city than the world
ever hears of whodo their good in private
and who are known to the newspajier repor
ters only by their fine gowns. Our rich
woiii -n, as a rule, are more than ordinarily
conscientious women, ami the average
society woman—the moralists Pi the con
trnrv notwithstanding—is a good wife and
m it her.
“The decollete dressing is really a matter
of luahli rather than morality. With
women it is a question of custom simply.
They are used to seeing the low-necked
gown. They are brought up under the
dressmaking tradition that full-dress re
quires it,. They have no thought of wrong
doing in their V points back and front. It
is habit. In a heated ball room tiie mod
estly low gown is extremely comfortable,
though distressing enough in a draughty
opera house. There is call for hygienic
teaching Pi bring about discretion, but not
for indiscriminate railing when no evil is
meant.”
Mrs. J. C. Croly (Jenny June) believed
that pure-minded women were in the over
whelming majority in every circle of society,
and that no one who knew women at their
best, in their homes, could seriously think
otherwise.
"Women,” she said, "are in a transition
state, which is developing new and stronger
womanly virtues, but which has it own
temptitions and dangers. The whole con
di ion < if things has altered for women with
in tae jiast thir y years. The home seclu
sion and protection of women, which is still
clung to as the ideal, has become in point,
of fact a simple inipossiblility to fully a
third of the feminine population in thickly
settled centers. A constantly inert a-in'g
proportion of women have no home except
such as they make for themselves, and men
who object io the sterner features of their
rough aad ready struggle with the world
cannot judge them fairly until they see them
in the shelters they do contrive for them
selves and others, ami witness with their
own eyes the softer feminine virtues still
intact, "while the character lias bo *n rounded
out and gained a strength and dignity that
could have come to it through no easier ex
perience.
“That, is the opportunity. The danger
sjies in the increasing emulation of the single
woman’s, the self-dependent woman’s, suc
cess by the woman, married or unmarried,
who has home duties. The self-sacrifice of
the daughter, the wife or the mother in the
highe-t plane of womanhood still. But tho
new possibilities of self-support are exhil
arating to the point of intoxication Pi many
women. The wife whose husband grudges
money for home expenses is aglow with a
determination to make it for herself. I
have seen cases where she left home and
children to earn her own bread and butter
sooner than bear witQ the occasional un
reasonableness in money matters <>f the
average young husband. Daughters are
impatient of staying with the mother and
baby brothers and sisters. They must write,
trey must go into business, they repudiate
actual home needs.
"A little time will help all. Such a
change in the position of women could not
l>e effected without ebullition. They have
been going through a period of rapid evo
lution ana will come out of it greatly ad
vantaged. When they arc stead v oiltlleir
feet again they will value rig' tly what they
have gai .ed and be ready to do their share
of the world’s work when called upon for it,
and not insist upon trying when they have
no . all.”
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, of the Marjazine
of American History, did not wish to Ist
quoted upon the subject. In general, how
ever, she believed that the world was grow
ing better, not worse, and that the men and
women of the present were to lie preferred
to those of any oast time.
Mrs, Annie Jeuness Miller, who devotes
herself to the improvement of women’s
dre-s, sod that the social life of the city
Wn for the most jiart clean.
“ Women,” she continued, “have always
hi eu reputed to keep the world's conscience,
but they never deserved credit in that dt
* r i-.- iTVi-e f fi'i • Til re r ;■ .
of society that always have existed and
probably always will, but they were never
more steadily discountenanced than now
and here. Tho better education of women
lias lieen moral us well as intellectual. 1 h ir
instincts were always good, they I avc ,r and
consciences now. Women begin with ih.ir
boys and girls and they teach practical
morality in their homes. I/ing ago they
laid the ban of ostracism against doubtful
women, they have extended it to the other
sex now. It takes more than money,
family or breeding lo procure tor a man
anything but an uneasy and strained rola
tio i with society unless his record, so far
us women know it, is clear. Tiie whole
modern development of worn n is toward
'the good.”
Mrs. Ella WheeDr Wilcox profos-e l o-ily
verv recent knowledge of the metropolis
anil hesitated to express very decided
views. On the whole she thougnt there was
in proportion less immorality and 1 ss temp
tation toward it in the city than in the
country.
"Here among people and in tiie rush of
bn y life,” she said, “the atmosphere is
really more wholesome than in the quiet,
ot farm or remote country life where the
very solitude makes one morbid and de
velops ail manner of unnatural inclina
tions. City people are less sentimental,
more practical and on ail averag • at least
as virtuous.
“11 I w re to lecture I shou’d launch my
reproaches against men, especially married
men. Men seem ashamed to have it known
that they are good even w hen they are.
Take a man who is really and truly in
love vviili his wife, he doesn’t care to have
it known. He thinks it isn’t manly. He
limy be devoted to one woman so thor
oughly that he could not have eyes f r any
other, and yet he wants the reputation of a
gav Lothario. He thinks it a preferable
reputation among other men to that ol an
honest spouse.
“It is men who hold tho marriage tie
lightly, not women. If young girls learn
evil, they get it from young men who take
their pleasure in probing a girl’s knowledge,
testing her inclinations and satisfying them
selves just how far she will go. Men have
written to me usking advice, as if it were a
debatable question, whether they should
desert their wives for women they liked bet
ter. Peruajis I have given them disagreeable
supprisis in my replies. People tell mo
sometimes it is bad form to be so openly in
love with my husband. Too much devotion
between married people isn’t th > thing.
Don’t understand tins of New York now. I
mean in ttie country at largo. If they don’t
wish women to retaliate on them, men need
to be taught the sacredness of marriage and
to give up flirting once the knot is tied.
“New York women? Well, 1 have found
them extremely kind.”
Eliza Putnam Hkaton.
GLIMPSE OF ED. STOKES.
The Man Who Killed Jim Fisk Piling
up a Vast Fortune.
New York, March 31.—A medium-sized
man, with a bullet head covered w ith thick
white hair, dancing black eyes, cold black
moustache, and a nervous air, is seen a
hundred times a day and night in the Hoff
man House corridor, or cafe. It is Edward
Stokes, the man who killed Jim Fisk. He
is making a fortune every year out of his
hotel, besides raking in big piles from Wall
street. All the men about town, the actors
and brokers, make his house their headquar
ters, and within a few years it has become
the favorite resort for politicians. A good
many persons believe that Stokes is only
the manager of the property. It Ims been
said, over and over again, the
bonanza king Mackay is the actual owner.
This is not true; Stokes is the sole proprie
tor, and from the kitchen to the servant’s
room he is the a solute boss. Afler he
served his term of imprisonment for the
the murder of Fisk he found tne mining prop
erty that he had invested in be f orethe trag
edy had become valuable, in fact ha 1 made
him wealthy. Not many persons believed
in him. Few of his oid friends even had a
kind word to say of him, but he rolled up
his sleeves, went to work, and by industry
and attending to business ac
quired wealth and rehis own
spect. Business inon with whom he came
in contact found him a mild-mannered,
quiet, unassuming follow who asked no
odds and paid cash for what he got. In live
years he made hosts of friends, and it is
safe to say now he knows more men worth
knowing than any other man in New York.
Keeping an hotel has brought him into con -
tact with thousands of men of woalth and
influence. Such men as Larry Jerome, Ros
coo C,inkling, bonanza king Mackay and
Bob Ingersoll are his warm friends and
admirers. In addition to knowing how to
keep an hotel, he has taken an active hand
in Wall st reef speculation. He has invested a
good deal of money in the Bankers and Mer
chants Telegraph Company, and he ex(iects
to get it back ten fold. He speculates in a
daring style, and has been uniformly suc
cessful. lie is one of the iiest posted men
in town on railroad securities, and lie has a
safe full of valuable bonds and stocks. His
hot ! has become the resort in the evening
of young brokers, who often seek his advice
before investing. Stokes is of a very retir
ing disposition. He is pointed out a score
of times a day as the man who killed Fisk.
Strangers never fail to inquire for him, ami
it is often very embarrassing. One night
two young fellows from the West stepped
up to the bar in the cafe, ordered
drinks, and then turned to the barten
der.
“1 suppose lots of people inquire for
Stokes, eh?” said one of tiie u.
“Those who have business with him do,”
was the sententious reply.
"He killed Jim Fisk, didn't he?”
No reply this time.
“Must ha’ been handy with his pop?”
Nn reply.
"I’d like to see him now that I’ve heard
so much about him.”
No reply.
“Bay does he ever come around?”
Just then Stokes, who lmd been standing
at a corner of the liar where he heard the
entire conversation, looked up nervously
and said: "I’m Ed. Stokes. Do you waut
to see me?’
Tuo young fellow dropped uis glass. His
eyes dilated. He was too start icd to speak.
He shook his head nervously and Stokes
turned on his heel and walked otf as the
young man gaqied:
“Well, I’ll be blamed'. So that is
Stokes! Come on Billy,” to his compan
ion, “Set’s go; I don’t want to know any
more.”
Stokes never refers to the murder, nor
do any of his friends mention it. Ho is
very sensitive on the subject. But his
actions plainly show that lie never forgets
it. He moves about in a nervous way. At
every few steps lie turns around and looks
behind him. When tie talks tie always
manages to get Ids nark to a wall, so that
he can -is 1 every body and everyth! tig around
him. Iu liia habits he is very abstentious.
He seldom drinks, and smokes only occa
sionally.
“And the woman for whojn Fisk was
killed ?”
Josephine Mansfield has time and again
lieen reported dead. But lam told she is
still alive, fat and prosjierous. She remains
most of the time abroad. She created a
sensation at Monte Carlo one night by win
ning a large sum of money. Hue is seldom
seen in New York, and since the day of the
famous tragedy, Stokes has never laid eyes
on hi r. He is devoting all his time to mak
ing money, and if Ins success continues, in
five years he will be one of tiie rich men,
even as rich men are counted in this city
Foster Coates.
Placed In Quarantine.
San Francisco, March 31. —The steamer
Rio do Janeiro arrived from Hong Kong
and Yokohama to-day. A case ot smnlf
pox developed among the Chinese pas
sengers on the voyage, ami the steamer was
placed in quarantine on her arrival here.
KutTcrcrs from Coughs, Wore Throat, etc.,
should try "Brown's Bronchial Troches," a
I ’ * wit remedy. Sold only in bores.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL 1. 1888.
THE DOINGS OF WOMEN FOLK.
The International Council of Women
—Notes F; om Many Quarters.
New- York, March 31.—Washington is
pre-eminently a city of men, and the pre
valence of the yellow ribbon this week has
worked a more decided change in its aspect
than would have boen the case in any o.her
city of the country. The yellow ribbon, or
the sunflower badge, is tho especial emblem
lof the woman suffragists and delegates
J and visitors to the International Council of
Women, called by the National Woman
| Suffrage Association, have run up into the
; thousands.
“I’ve saved my money fora year to come.”
said a woman in the lobby of Albaugh’s
Opera House yesterday. “1 kept a child's
bank in my room, and when I bad a penny
to spare I ilroi pid it in.”
There have been a good many nota
ble figures on the platform and In
t o audiences. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton is getting somewhat ad
vanced in years and is burdened
wit i more flesh than she used to carry
j about, but is still a commanding figure and
Ia iu-.lliaut talker. Mrs. Ashton Dilke,
i who took passage in tiie Aller with her, re
j Infos of Lie voyage across, that,at tirst a lit
tle group of men and then day by day
larger and larger circles gathered about Mrs.
Sianton until sue became the center of in
terest for everybody aboard ship, strangers
and friends alike fascinated by her conver
se io: a! powers.
Mrs. Lucy Stone, of Boston, the editor of
the Woman’ll Journal of that city, has a
motherly face mid a winning manner,which
draws io her all young girls. Her daughb r,
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, who has at
tended tho sessions of the conference, is ono
of the most brilliant of the younger group
of progressive women.
Mrs. Ashton Dilke, the delegate of the
Newcastle Women’s Liberal Association,
England, and a sister-in-law of Sir Charles
Dilke. is a friend of Mrs. Millicent Garret
Fa west, , and was brought by her into the
movement for the ballot for women. Mrs.
IJiike is a singularly attractive speaker. She
is dark-skinned, with large expressive eyas,
regular features, lithe, slender figure; 30
years old, perhaps, and with a delightfully
soft, musical voice pleasanter to listen to
than ninety-nine out of a hundred platform
speakers. She is to lecture in New
York on the “Political Condition of Women
in England” after the Washington meetings
adjourn.
The Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg, of
Finland, is a quiet woman, witli a pleasant
and thoughtful face. She wears plain black
and is interesting in conversation.
Mrs. Zatlel Barnes Gustafson, the Swedish
delegate, is an American woman who mar
ried a Swede and spends much of her time
in London. She is a lady of much vivacity
and earnestness ami wears English versions
of the Annie Jenness Miller (esthetic dress
reform gowns. Tan color and crushed straw
berry is a favorite combination witii her,
and she is a strikingly picturesque figure
from any point of view.
Mine. Isabelle Bogelot, of Paris, speaks
no English, but has made many friends not
withstanding. She nindo an address on
Tuesday on the prison reform work of the
St. Lazare, Paris, and means to make a
study of American prisons while here.
Miss Mary F. Eastman, of Massachusetts,
has astroug, pleasant face, framed by white
hair, and is probably the closest reasoner
and most logical speaker who has addressed
the conference.
The Revs. Annie H. Shaw, Antoinette
Brown Blackwell, Ada C. Bowles, Amanda
iteyo, Louise S. Baker, Phoebe A. Hanaiord
and others make a phalanx of women
clergymen. Mrs. Deyo, of New York, is a
serene faced women, formerly a quakeress.
Miss Slmw is no eloquent speaker and Mrs.
Bowles a really brilliant woman.
Mrs. Isabel C. Barrows, who represents
the Unitarian Women’s Conference, is one
of ttie most expert stenographers in the
country.
Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper is probably
the best known colored woman in the
United States. She comes in the temper
ance section. She was <me of the two col
ored delegates to the Woman’s Congress
in New York last fall whom Mrs. Wiiliam
Todd Helmuth refused to inclu le in her
general reception invitation and on whose
account Mme. Demorest ojieiied her
house and entertained in Mrs. Helmuth’s
stead.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker is one of the
unique figures of the hour. She is not the
least gifted and not tho least eccentric mem
ber of the Beecher family.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Livermore,
Miss Frances E. Willard and Clara Barton
are among those whom one expects at
every noteworthy gathering of the sort.
Lillie Devereux Blake has lost none of her
vivacity. Mrs. Frank Teslie is a woman not
formerly associated with tho women suf
frage movement, but who avows that she
changed her mind somewhat during her last
stay in England.
It has been a great week for women, and
literary clubs, urt unions, labor leagues,
missionary, (since and moral purity socie
ties, charitable, professional, educational
and industrial associations have joined with
women suffrage associations in celebrating
the f< u'tietb anniversary of the first woman's
rights convention held at Seneca Falls, N.
Y., m IS|S. It has been one of the most im
posing bodies of women ever assembled,and
indicates a more widely spread desire on the
part of women for suffrage than has been
evidenced before.
NEW YORK IS CALLED UPON
to witness the rising of anew political lum
inary. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox gives a
large reception at the Westminster on Mon
day evening to introduce Miss I.izette
Woodworth Reese, a Baltimore school
teacher, who is, she is convinced, a [ioet.
Mr. E.C. Stedinan isalso of the opinion that
Miss Keese is a poet, and has written to tell
her so. Mr. Stedinan was ungallant enough
to remark of Mrs, Wilcox herself that she
might have made a poet if she had been
caught young, siv at, I'.’ ye irs; but that in
the wild stale she had gone far astray. Miss
Reese is said to be in tier late twenties oml
mistress of a class of 100 boys.
EVERY NOW AND THEN THE TALK
of Mrs. Newby’s Cattle Endowment Com
pany, of which Jenny June is fabled to be
President, crops up again. It appears in
the latest issue of the Ladies'’ Home Jour
nal. Asa matter of fact Mrs. Croly was
asked to take th < Presidency of ttie com
pany, which xvas represented us a philan
thropic organization for the safe invest
ment of the savings of widows and self
dependeut women, and the profits of which
were claimed to be so large that a return of
s3,duo was to l>e expected at the expiration
of five years for an investment of (odd,
this in addition to the natural increase of
the stock. Mrs. Croly never did anything
in re than inquire into the guarantees of tiie
organization, but the mistaken online ti m
of lier name with the scheme has brought
her letters from all over the country from
women with a pittance "ager to invo-t. It
lias brought her an offer of the Presidency
of a silver milling company also, and fur
nished another illustration of the new busi
ness method of reaching women’s money
through a well-known woman's name. Mrs.
Croly, by the way, has retired from the edi
toi ship of Uod ■i/’.x Majazinc.
THERE IS MATERIAL JUST NOW
for an interesting social studv of tile feminine
gait in walking. Tne ci. v is in a transi
tion st ite between the old walk and the
new. There are winter walks and there
are spring walks, and the differences be
tween them, if subtle, are to the careful ob
server, as clearly defined as those between
the w iflter bonnet and the gorgeous Easter
creation.
Cold weather varieties of the walk as ex
hibited bv city women and girls are, as a
rule, of the nlioit step, high action, side
wise, mincing order. The prevalence of
tbo muff habit has much to do with deter
mining tile character of the winter gait.
Only certain steps iu walking are possible
to the muff and these are cultivated to a
high degree of perfection. Tho summer
walk, rei l'- c*le" bind, fs regulated wholly
requires something of a demure, digni
fied, on occasion, of a stately order. Be
tween these two, however, comes the
spring w Ik, differing widely from both,
y • 'tenet is.
English woman carries a walking
s Some few New York girls have been
lure-ome enough to import the habit.
The walking slick has made its debut on
Fifth avenue—a slender, graceful, silver
ringed toy imitation of the sturdy English
prototype—and the stick, or the gait gen
erated by the stick in Laidon, promises to
control the spring walk.
The walking stick wo Ik is distinguished
from the muff walk or the parasol walk by
its !<mg, easy swing, it approximates what
the Dolvirtiaus call a “savage stride,” it is
intended to convey the id -a of physical
vigo , of rejoicing in the fulness of life and
health, it is youthful and invigorating, it
emphasizes its absolute control over the
muscles, it is almost insolent in its exulta
tion in sunshine, bodily fierfection. out of
door life and fresh air. The walking stick
walk is a tailor-made walk, but it admits of
genuine exercise which the Fiench mo
distios’ walk never did. It is a very gooi
walk in its wav. It is the fashion. It takes.
Enough said. E. P. 11.
BREAKING OF A CAR SPRING.
A Train Thrown Down an Embank
' ment and Several Iryured.
Baltimore, Md., March 31.—8 y the
breaking of a spring a smoking car on the
afternoon train on the Annapolis Short Line
railroad was thrown down an embankment
to-day, and several Maryland legislators
were badly injured, none, however, fatally.
The train was on its way to Baltimore, and
was going at a rapid rate. Those hurt most
were Senator Charles S. Adams, of Balti
more; Delegate Bramble, of Baltimore;
Delegate Green, of Caroline county; Wil
liam L. Dorsey and Capt. Lovis Green, en
gineer on the Drumpoint railroad, and Mr.
Basil, a merchant of Annapolis.
Democratic Senators in Caucus.
Washington, March 31. —The Democratic
Senators hail a caucus this morning to con
sider the plan of action in regard to the
pending bond bill. Senator Beck presided,
and Senator Faulkner, in the absence of
Senator Kenna, acted ns Secretary. A
quorum did not assemble until 11:30 o’clock,
and there was not sufficient time before the
assembling of the Senate in which to ac
complish the purpose of the caucus. The
Stewart amendment to the bond bill seemed
to find favor as a general thing, though it
was thought that, some amendments would
bo necessary to complete it. it was deter
mined to hold another caucus Monday
morning.
A Cut in the Coke Region.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 31.—0n Monday
notices of a reduction in wages, ranging
from to 10 j>er cent, will be posted
throughout the coke region. Reports from
the superintendents at a majority of the
works say that Lie men will accept the re
duction, and that there will be no trouble.
Kentucky's New Treasurer.
Louisville, ICy., March 31.—Judge
Sharp, of Lexington, Chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee, has been
appointed Treasurer by Gov. Buckner to
succeed defaulting Treasurer Tate. The
nomination was confirmed this afternoon
by the Senate.
An Insurance Company to Liquidate.
New Orleans, March 31.—The Hope
Insurance Company, of this c ity, at ameet
ing yesterday, resolved to go into liquida
tion. No statement as to the condition of
the concern was made public.
The River and Harbor Bill Reported.
Washington, March 31.—1n the House
to-day Mr. Blanchard, from the Committee
on Rivers and Harbors, reported the river(
and harbor appropriation bill, and it was
referred to committee of the whole. The
House then adjourned.
New York’s Quarantine Lawa
New York, March 31. —According to
the new regulation all coastwise vessels
will he compelled to stop at quarantine to
morrow. This will continue until April 9,
when vessels from all ports to the south of
Chesapeake Bay will alone be required to
nail at quarantine
Local Personal.
M. Neal, of Charleston, is registered at
the Marshall.
J. B. Armstrong, of Augusta, is at the
Harnett House,
J. A. Foster, of Satilla Bluff, is at the
Marshall House.
M. P. Musselwhite, of Tarboro, is regis
tered at the Harnett..
N. E. Fry and wife, of Valdosta, are
stopping at tlie Marshall
W. 8. Pennington, of Jacksonville, is
stopping at the Screven House.
John M. Greene and E. W. Mitchell, of
Atlanta, are guests of the Screven.
George W. Harris, of London, England,
is in tlie city, stopping at the Screven.
Mr. Janies T. Wells, a naval stores in
spector, was elected a member of the Board
of Trade.
Maj. L.’C. Bryan is very ill at his resi
dence in Barnard street, and his life was
despaired of last night.
Capt. J. IV. King, U. S. N., accompanied
by Ins wife, is on route South. They are
guests of the Screven House.
Mr. J. S. Bell, representing Messrs. Tolor
& Hart, of New York, was elected a mem
ber of the Board of Trade yesterday.
George T. Nichols, Superintendent of the
Bradstreot Agency in this city, returned
last night from u t wo w eek's tour of Florida.
Deputy State Treasurer Dauforth aud
wife, of Albany, N. Y., were in the city
yesterday en route for St. Augustine.
Sergt. Killourhv says they visited the Old
Cemetery on South Broad street, where
they located the tomb of Mr. Danforth’s
grandfather, Dauforth, who died in Savan
nah over sixty years ago, anil they took
the accessary steps looking to a removal of
the remains to the family burying ground
ill New York State. Mr. Dauforth brought
witli him a letter of introduction from Gov.
Hill, and for courtesies extended Mr. Dan
forth extended an earnest invitation to
Sergt. Killourhv to visit him this summer
at Albany.
Easter.
From the Churchman.
Sing heart! 1 have met him
All radiant, victorious!
1 have met mm and heard Him—
The conqueror glorious!
I have seen Hiln and touched Him--
lie has oroken the prison
II is lito, it is light.
Tue Christ has arisen.
O tlie light after night.
(it ho pence alter pain.
Oh my Lord, my delight,
Forever to reign!
Rear laces are dealer,
O how sweet is the sun.
Death 1 ises its terror,
In the life lie has won.
In my heart he has risen;
O the rapture divine'
lam liis iv Ills triumph,
la Ills love, lie is mine.
1 am risen, I'm born
In tlie love that renews;
This is life's perfect morn,
1 am bathed in its dews.
Vain fears Glut oppressed ink
In yesterday s gloom,
Yt* cannot molest me,
\\ it ii iiea t ail abloom.
Wlmt is death! Whut its sting!
The tyrant is slain:
Life is victor and king,
It isllfethul shall reign.
Horatio Neiaon Powers.
T. 1. N. C.
Don't su (Ter any longer, but use Tanner's
Infallible Neuralgia Cure, the only infalli
ble cure on earth for ail forms of neuralgia
end nervous headache. Rangum Root Sled.
Cos,. NsslivGlp. T- o fonts per bog.
Weather Indications.
11 Special indications for Georgia
FAIR land Eastern Florida: Light to fresh
I variable winds, warmer, fair
weather •
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nab, March 31, 1888, and the mean of same day
for fifteen years.
Departure j Total
Mean Temperature from the Departure
, Mean j Since
for 15 years Mar. 81, ‘BB -[- or ijan. 1,1888.
64,0 | 62 G | 3.0 I— 41.0
Comparative r&iuf&ll statameut;
ta i a Departure Total
Mean Daily Amount f rom Departure
Amount i or f.r f?n
16 Years. Mar. 31, 88. Qr _ |j arl . jasti
J3 j 7*7 I-- .13 I - 3.00
Maximum, temperature 77, minimum tom
perature 50.
The height of the river at Augusta at
1:33 o’clock and. m. yesterday (Augusta tiraei
as:.'.i 8 feet—a fail of 2.'.) during the past
twenty-four hours.
Observations taken at the same moment
of time tit all stations.
Savannah. March 81. 0:38 p. m.. city time.
Temperature.
Direction, }
*
Velocity. } P
Rainfall.
Nam*
OF
Btatioss.
Norfolk 62 N E| . T* Raining.
Charlotte 61S\y 6 ... Clear.
Hatteraa 6 > S \V ! 1 Clear.
Point Jupiter, Ha 781 N Fair.
Titusville 68' N 6;.... Clear.
Wilmington 60 SVC 0 ... Clear.
Charleston OOSWjO— Clear.
Augusta 62 W ; i— Clear.
Savannah 60, S 3 .Clear.
Jacksonville 64 F. .. 1.... i Clear.
Cedar Keys....— 6' W T* Fair.
Key West 76 ! ..... Clear.
Atlanta 66 W ... Clear.
Pensacola 66 S W 6 . Cloudy.
Mobile... 66 S | .... Clear.
Montgomerv .. 68 ....! Clear.
New Orleans 68 S E 6 Clear.
Galveston 68 S j 6 . j Clear.
Corpus Christ! .. 66 E 8 \ Clear.
Palestine 70j S jlO .. Clear.
Brownesviile 6k E 6 ... ! Clear.
RioGrande 72 S El 6 jCloar.
T* denotes trace of rainfall.
G. N. Salisbury Signal Corps.
Racing at New Orleans.
New Orleans, March 31. —To-day’s
races were as follows:
First Race—Five-eighths of a mile. Fair
mount won, with Ernest Race second and Pat
Moran third. Time 1:03%.
Second Race—Three-fourths of a mile. Wan
derer won, with Higgoyet second and Redstone
third. Time 1:17%.'
Third Rack—Three-fourths of a mile. Duhme
won, with Clara C. second and Becky B. third.
Time 1:18m.
Fourth Race—Seven and one-half furlongs.
Lafltte won, with Una B. second and Osceola
third. Time 1:88.
Memphis Defeats St. Louis.
Memphis, March 81. —JJemphis again de
feated the St. Louis Browns this afternoon
in a closely-contested game, which was wit
nessed by about 1,500 people. Hudson and
Dolan were the battery for St. Louis, and
Kirby and McKeogh for Memphis. The
score was:
Memphis 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 I—4
St. Louis 00000101 I—3
To be Presidential Offices.
Washington, March 31. —The following
post offices will be raised to Presidential
class April 1. Highpoint, N. C., Bennets
villo and Yorkville, 8 C., and Newport
News, Va.
MEDICAL.
Dyspepsia
Makes the lives of many people miserable,
causing distress after eating, sour stomach,
sick headache, heartburn, loss of appetite,
a faint, “ all gone’’feeling, bad taste, coated
_ . tongue, and irregularity of
Distress the bowels. Dyspepsia does
Aftor not get well of itself. It
_ .. requires careful attention,
Kaling and a remedy like Hood's
Sarsaparilla, which acts gently, yet efficiently.
It tones the stomach, regulates the diges
tion, creates a good ap- Sifk
petite, banishes headache,
and refreshes the mind. Hoaciacri©
“ I have been troubled with dyspepsia. I
had hut little appetite, and what I did eat
y distressed me, or did me
art " little Atter ®3ting I
DUrn would have a faint or tired,
all-gone feeling, as though I had not eaten
anything. My trouble was aggravated by
my business, painting. Last
spring I took Hood's Sar- OOUr
saparilla, which diiljne an Stomach
immense amount of good. It gave me an
appetite, and my food relished and satisfied
the craving I had previously experienced."
George A. I‘aue, Watertown, Mass.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggets, fll; six for ft. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecarios, Lowell, Mass.
IQO Doses One Dollar
SPECIAL NOTICES.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS HALL AwsOCIA
TIO.Y.
The eighth installment on the above stock is
now due and payable to the undersigned at his
office In Pythian Building, corner of York and
Barnard streets, from Ist to 15th inst. Office
hours TUESDAY and SATURDAY from Ist to
lath, 7 to 8 p. M
_____ WM. McHARRIE. Treasurer.
NOTICE TO WATER-TAKERS.
Office Water Works. I
Savannah, April Ist. 1888. <
The water will be shut off at 1) o'clock
TO-MORROW(Monday'MORNING in the dis
trict bounded on the north by Bay street, on the
south by Hull street, on the east by j ast Bioad
street, and on the west by Abereorn street, for
the purpose of moving tire hydrants on Brough
ton street, and will be off for several hours.
A. N. Mll.l.KH, Superintendent.
CHANGE OK I>K*IGVATIOY
On and after April 2, Messrs. W. T. Seward <&
Cos., Brokers in
CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZER MATERIALS,
will trade under the Arm name of
SEWARD, LANG A CO.
W T. SEWARD,
J. M. LANG.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
All persons aiv hereby cautioned against har
boring or trusting any of I he crew of the Portu
guese bark SEREIA. dos Preis. Masfpr, as no
debts of their contracting will be paid by Mas
ter, or
BUTLER A STEVENS,
Consignees.
SEND ORDERS
For fine SPRING LAMB, TURKEYS, GREEN
PEAS and ASPARAGUS to
I. UOOS & CO., Central Market,
Drayton and Macon streets.
Telephone ISO,
FOR MALE.
TWENTY FIRST-CLASS MULES.
Also, A FEW GOOD HORSES.
Apply to JAMES E. MORAN.
104 Day street, or at Stable on New street.
RASTER BOOM ill 1>
FIVE COLORS FOR FIVE CENTS.
For Kidney and Liver Complaint us - Kieffer’s
Liver Specific. An Infallible remedy for all dls
eaaee of the Kidney and Liver. Dyspepsia,
Headache, Heartburn, etc.
EDWARD J. KIEFFER'S,
TNnvrs '--’r-’-r u' ov . r, ~.j n q dt"w
MARRIAGES.
AVERITTE—SHFFTALL.—Married, on Mon
day. March 91, by the Rev. E. H. McGehee, Mr.
H G. Avkritte. of Pooler, and Miss Sarah E.
Sheftall, of Ogeecbee. No cards.
FTXEKAL INVITATION'S.
SWEENEY. —The friends nod acquaintances
of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Sweeney, and Mr. and
Mrs. John Knox, are invited to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Sweeney, from her late resi
dence, Farm street, second door from Mill
street. THIS AFTERNCM >N at 3:30 o'clock.
DEATHS.
FOYE. - Departed this life on Sunday. March
25, 1888, Eliza A., relict of the late William B.
Foye, of Beaufort county, South Carolina, in
the 51th year of her age.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall
see Gr d.”
I\ MEMORJAM.
Georgia Temi No. 161,1. O K.
Whereas. The Supreme Hh?h Chief Ruler of
the Universe has removed from Georgia Tent
and from his home our true and faithful
brother, 1. N. Hewitt: therefore be it
Resolved* That while we deeply mourn the
loss ol our belov*l brother, and while his ab
sence from our councils leaves a void hard to
fill, we huniblyjbow to the inscrutible wisdom of
him “who do- th all tilings well.”
Resolved* Taut as we witnessed his extreme
suffering we were taught a grand lesson by bis
Christian patience anq steadfast adherence -o
the tenets and principles of our order.
Thou hast gone, oh. Son of Rechab,
To the Great High Tent above,
Where the glorious High Chief Rulef
Greets ye with heavenly love.
And may each and every b rot he*
Find the same golden way.
And in the Tent aliove us
Form witu you our T. F. J.
Resolved , That to the fam ly of our deceased
brother wc extend our brotherly sympathy at
the loss of a loving husband and kind father,
and their future welfare will ever be an object
of our deepest interest and earnest prayers.
Resolved, That the working furniture of our
Tent and officers* regalias he draped in mourn
ing for thirty days, and a page in our minute
book he devoted to the record or his initiation
and death, and that these resolutions be spread
upon our minutes and a copy be furnished the
bereave family and also to the Morning News
for publication.
&uoauu*;U in T. F. J. C. O. GODFREY,
Chairman of Committee.
A true extract from minutes of Georgia Tent
No. 151,1. O. R. J. L. GILMORE,
Secretary.
MEETINGS.
T IV A.-
of Post “D,” will be held
Guards' Armory, at 8
Election of officers and delegates to State
Convention. By order of
D. NEWMAN, President.
H. M. BOLEY, Secretary.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
The regular monthly meeting of this Society
will be held at Hodgson Hall on MONDAY even
ing at 7:30 o'clock.
Gen. McLaws will deliver a lecture on “The
Maryland Campaign of 1803, including the Cap
ture of Maryland Heights and Harpers’ Ferry.”
Members of the Society and the public gen
erally are invited to attend.
('HAS. N- WEST, Recording Secretary.
TITLE GUARANTEE & LOAN COMPANY
OF SAVANNAH.
The Stockholders will hold the regular an
nual meeting at Metropolitan Hall, corner of
President and Whitaker streets, on MONDAY,
April 3d. at 7:3) o'clock p. m. The Directors
will submit their actings and doings for confir
mation. A full attendance is requested.
Directors— D. B. lister. Henry Bluu, Chas. H.
Dorsett, Geo. H. Stone. Geo. N Nichols, Jacob
Cohen, A. R. Fawcett. M. J. Solomons.
ISA AC BECKETT, Secretary.
OGLETHORPE REAL ESTATE COM
PANY.
A met i 'M: of this Cempany will be held at
Metropolitan Hall on TUESDAY, April 3d, at 8
o’clock p. si. It. is earnestly desired that every
Shareholder be present in person or by proxy,
as important business will be presented for
final action By order of
E. A. WEIL, President.
Ed. F. Nvrrvn.i.r. Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisement) inserted under “Special
Satires" will be charged 81 00 a Square each
insertion.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Saavnnah, Ga., March 31, 1888.
On and after April 2 proximo, and until fur
ther notice, the undersigned Banks and Bankers
will observe the following hours:
OPEN, 9 A. M.
CLOSE, 1:30 P. M.
THOS. GADSDEN, Cashier,
Merchants' National Bank of Savannah.
JAS. SULLIVAN, Cashier,
Southern Bank of the State of Georgia.
JAS. H. HUNTER. Cashier,
Savannah Bank and Trust Cos.
THOS F. THOMS* >N, Cashier,
The National Bank of Savannah.
GEO. C. FREEMAN, Cashier,
Citizens' Bank of Savannah.
CHAS. H. OLMSTKA D A CO.
“ONE MORE BITE.”
The Printing area is so large and competition
so extended t hat a man who does botch work
is forgotten. If you want to see a real live
printer, call on
TOWNSEND.
He is on a high road to success, being rich in
new ideas, and a man of the people.
TOWNSEND,
Fine Printer, Binder and Ruler, 86 and 88 Bryan
street, Savannah, Ga.
Telephone 341.
A CARO.
"HOMAS KATZ
The Dyer,
Always ready to fix up your garments to
LADIES OR GENTS.
Silk, Woollen and Cotton Goods treated by
newest proce^ges.
Reliable and prompt work.
PRICES MODERATE.
SPEI I AI. NOTICE.
CHRIST CHURCH.
The annual election of Wardens and Vestry
men of this Church will be held iu the basement
of the Church building on MONDAY. 3d day of
April, 1888, between the hours of 10 a. in. and 3
p. m. By the Vestry.
DEI TM IIK* THEATER.
A dramatic jiorfonimnee in the German lan
guage will be given at
TURNER HALL
On EASTER MONDAY EVENING, at 8 o'clock.
After the performance,
HOP.
Admission, 50 cents.
FOR RENT AT WHITE HUFF.
Handsome Summer Residence, Kitchen, Stables,
Etc.
Apply to
TANARUS) Y. DANCY,
8300 OB 91,000
To loan on good security. Long time and easy
payment*.
OR 4ft M K ''URr!'-* ’
State
OF
Weather.
AMUSEMENTS.
StT JOHN'S RECTORY SOCIETY
WILL HOLD
A DICKENS CARNIVAL
AT THE
GUARDS’ ARMORY
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY EVEN
INGS, APRIL 11 AND 12.
Those who will participate will meet at St.
John's Parish Hail Monday evening, April 2, at
7 ;30 o'clock.
Prize Entertainment
MASONIC TEMPLE,
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 3,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF
SACRED HEART CHURCH.
\BOUT 2JO very handsome articles will be
given away a- prizes, among which is an
elegant Tea Set. Entertainment will consist of
Tableaus, Music, both v<l and instrumental.
Refreshments and Dancing. A good time is
promised to all who attend.
GRAND EASTER HOP
OF THE M. B SOCIAL CLUB.
MONDAY EVENING, April 2, at Armory Hall.
r piCKETS sl, admitting gentleman and ladies,
1 refreshments included.
COMMITTEE—J. W. Davis, Chairman: E. S
Everitt, I). Daly, L. It. ltegisler, M. McCarthy
P. J. Conners, E. R. Hernandez, J. P. Eagan.
EXHIBITION.
Savannah Floral and Art Association.
Spring Exhibition
APRIL 17tb, 18th and 19th, 1888.
CHATHAM ARTILLERY HALL AND YARD.
/ CONTRIBUTIONS for prizes and display of
V Plants, Flowers, Works of Art, Plain and
Fancy Needlework and Fancy Work of all kinds
solicited. Open to non members as well as mem
bers.
Articles of merit not mentioned in catalogue
will be given special premiums at the discretion
of the Committee. Catalogues may be had
from Jacob Gardner, John F. LaFar, Treasurer;
C. Y. Richardson, Recording Secretary, and F.
Eugene Durbec, Corresponding Secretary, from
wnom all further information can be had.
. ft—Members must call on Treasurer Jno F.
1 -alar, register the names and secure a separate
ticket for each of their immediate family. Gen
eral tickets for family will not be issued.
**——■*"■" ' ' i——
EXCURSIONS.
ELEVENTH ANNUAL EXCURSION
—OF THE—
Savannah,Florida and Western and Charles
ton and Savannah Railways' Employes'
Mutual Relief Association to the
LAND OF FLOWERS,
APRIL 23 3, 18 88.
QT. AUGUSTINE, Hotel Ponce DeLeon, Ca<a
Monica, Alcazar, Old Cathedral, Old Fort,
Etc. Jacksonville, Sub-Tropical Exposition.
Palatka, Sanford, Kissimmee, Tampa. Gaines
ville, Fernandina, Green Cove Springs, Pablo
Beach. St. John’s River by Steamers. Sublime
Scenery.
Arrangements made with hotels.and steamers
for board at reduced rates. Tickets will not lx*
sold to colored persons. Nurses in charge of
children only will be admitted.
Union Cornet Band accompanies the excur
sion.
Sa-vaxxixalx
TO
JACKSONVILLE and return $2 00
ST. AUGUSTINE and return 3 00
PA LA TK A anti ret urn 3 25
SANFORD and return 4 50
KISSIMMEE and return 5 75
TAMPA and return 7 00
GAINESVILLE and return 4 50
ST. AUGTSTINE via Palatka and return. 4 25
PAoLO BEACH and return 2 50
Coupons for places beyond Jacksonville will
be furnished hy Committee on traiu after leav
ing Savannah.
Children under 12 years of age half price.
Honorary Commitiee— H. S. Haines, Chair
man: H. B. Plant, Robert G. Fleming, C. S.
Gadsden. A. A. Aveillie, W. S. Chisholm Chas.
D. Owens. J. \V. Craig, W. P. Hardee, Wm.
Duncan, Rob't. Lfc Page, Wm. Bren.
General Committee—H. B. Foye, Chairman;
F. W. Storer, E. T. Lockwood, E. Geffekei, YV
R. Pinckney.
Junior Committee P. *H.Gearon, Chairman;
R. M. Mongin, S. D. Boy Is ton, Jno. Beranc. M.
C. McCarthy.
Tickets for sale by the Committee, at Wm.
Bren’s Ticket Office and by M. C. McCarthy at
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Freight
Depot.
Train leaves Savannah at 7a. m. All Excur
sionists must leave on this traiu, and be on re
turn train from Jacksonville not later tliau the
p. m. train on Sunday, April 20th.
F. EUGENE DURBEC. President.
F. H. N. CO.
I M POR TANT
TO
Tourists ai] Settlers.
THE F. R. & N.
nnilE FLORIDA RAILWAY AND NAVIGA
-1 TION COMPAN Y makes daily connection
with the Savannah, Florida and Western Fast
Mai! train at Callahan (connection sure), and
with all other trains at Jacksonville, leaving the
latter place at oa. m., 12:20 p m. and 8:80 r m.
for ali points in South Florida, viz: Hawthorne, *
Gainesville, Oedir Key, Silver Springs, Blue
Springs; Ocala. Wildwood, Panasoffkee, St.
Catharine's, Owensboro. Dade City, Plant City,
Tampa. Bartow, Punta Gorda, Eldo
rado. Tavares, Apopka, Orlando, Titusville, and
the Indian river country.
The only line giving a choice of three routes
to points on the \\est coast of Florida, viz:
Through Cedar Key, Lacoochee, Plant City and
Orlando. The most beautiful and picturesque
portions of the State are traversed by this line.
Hundreds of hearing orange groves are passed
and seen from tiie cars. The lovely lakes— Loch
losa. Orange, Harris, Griffin, EustC, Dora,
Panasoffkee and Apopka-are located on this
line.
Tho only line reaching most of the points
named, and close and direct connections made
to all others. The famous Silver Spring, the
head of the Ocklawaha river, can only be
, reached- ail rail—via this line. The short and
direct route to the beautiful Homosassa coun
try, abounding in fish and game, and passing
Blue Springs, the head of the Wekiva (Blue
river).
The only line to Fernandina, with thecele
brate 1 iieacb of twenty-two miles' drives, aD<l
only thirty six miles from Jacksonville; three
daily trains. The only line to Tallahassee* the
capital of the Slat**, Madison, Monticello and
Quincy. Florida's great tobacco industries are
located ou this division of the Florida Railway
and Navigation. In fact, there is hardly an im
portant point in the State not reached by this
Great Trunk Line System. First-class road
beds and excellent train service. Through
tickets at low rates, and baggage checked to all
points.
Don't fail to send for elegant indexed town
ship map of Florida.
For information regarding rates and routes
inquire of any of the company's agents or the
following officers of the road:
Jacksonville Ticket < Xfice, 86 Bav street.
A. O. MAUDONELL, U. P- A.
I). E. MAXWELL, Gen. Snpt.
SODA yy Nil R.
HEADQUARTERS
Soda W ater.
\\ X K HAVE for sale, three double wagons,
' v two single wagons, and one soda apparatus
with ten syrups, also for pure Soda Water in
bottles, syphons or fountains, send to the ow
established and well known manufactory.
and U? Broughton street.
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