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GOOD-BYE TO FLOWERS.
THE FLORAL AND ART EXHIBITION
CLOSED.
The Judges Make Their Awarda—The
Successful Competitors and tbe
Prises They Won—The Closing
Night of the Show- Some of Yester
day’s Special Exhibits—The Floral
Association’s Most Successful Fair.
Tbe Floral and Art Exhibition closed last
night. The judges made their awards, and
the exhibitors who got them wont home
happy. The exhibition, in all its depart
ments, was a very successful one.
In making up their awards the judges
had a good deal of difficulty in classify
ing the exhibits and determin
ing what prizes they were en
tered for. Tiie rules of tho association
state that exhibitors entering articles for
competition must notify the Secretary of
tbe prize for which they are competing.
This was done only in a very few instances.
The failure to comply with tho rule, the
judges said, is likely to cause dissatisfaction
and in the future unless it is
strictly complied with no notice
will be taken of any exhibit, it was late
when the judges made up their lists in the
floral department and the awards were not
read until nearly 10 o’clock. The crowd
waited though to see wbo got the prizes.
They are as follows:
THE PRIZES.
Lace work—by Mrs. McCall, diploma.
Best machine made garment— Mrs. George C.
Hussey, diploma
Feet patching and darning on materials -Chil
dren of St. Man’s Home. *l l . : ua ami $!.
Best button holes, by child .1 ulus I'rendergast
of the Female Orphan Asylum, diploma ami ?i.
Best general display of drawn darned needle
work—Mrs John I Stoddard, gold medal.
Satchel bag, by child— Puuel (!>•_; years
old, diploma
Fair of stockings, knitted by lady 70 years old
—Mrs. Stolz, honorary mention.
Best embroidered sofa cushion—Miss Ida
Pitsehe, diploma
Embroidered piano scarf. Farmers satin and
plush—Mrs. F. M. Hopkius, diploma ami $3.
Butter plates, painted by child tit£ years old
—Miss Nannie L. Screven.'diploma and $l.
One tine lap robe, crochet—. Miss Vic la Ken
nedy, diploma.
Wax work representing shells —Mrs. 51. L.
Gaud rv. diploma and $2.
Crocheted shal by chtld—Dellie Price,
Female Orphan Asylum, diploma and $l.
Best embroidery in araseae—Miss Rachael
Brown, diploma.
Best embroidery in chenille—Sirs. F. L.
George, diploma.
Best fancy work by child—Miss Virgia Hamil
ton, $5 and diploma. '
Fine display of fancy work by professional
Mrs. M. Kolb, gold medal.
Best general display of fancy work—Mrs. R.
S. Jones, gold medal.
Fancy work by child 9 years old—S. Branch
LaFar. ?! and diploma.
Embroidery on felt by child—Nellie Jones, $1
and diploma.
Best embroidery on felt—Mrs. George Cook,
$9 and diploma
Queen Anne's embroidery on silk—Mrs. O.
Cohen, #5 and diploma.
Silk embroidery—Miss G. Lawton, gold thim
Me and diploma.
Best hand made garment bv child—Nellie
Crosby, inmate of Episcopal Orphan Hume,
diploma and gold thimble
Hemstitched handkerchief by child- Lulie
Cormick, Female Orphan Asylum, silver thim
ble.
Best sewing on linen by child—Susie Gnann.
diploma and $l.
Bosket made of paper twine and paper flowers
—Diploma.
Flowers made of Georgia silk and hair work—
Mrs. Thomas Henderson, diploma.
Painting. Vine from Nature, on cotton bat
ting—Miss Etta Lippntan, diploma.
Fine collection or rustic work —Mrs. George C.
Gemenden. diploma.
Best crazy quilt—Mrs. Bertha Dixon, diploma
and $5.
Best knitted quilt—Mrs. M. A. Prendergast,
diploma and $9.
Second best knitted quilt—Mrs. M. A. Baker,
diploma and $1
Third best knitted quilt—Mrs. C. S. Lishmeyor,
diploma.
Best crocheted quilt—Miss M. E. Davis, di
ploma.
Best danc'd net work by child Inmate St.
Mary’s Home, diploma and $1
Best darned net work by adult— Mrs. George
H. Cook, dipt nta and #9
Beet specimens of decorated china plate,
hand painted—Miss Julia C. Owens, diploma.
Best specimens of decorated china cup and
•aucer—U , YV Rogers, diploma.
Crocheted quilt , by child -Fannie Stone. Fe
male Orphan Asylum, diploma and $1
Best original oil painting flowers—Miss Melina
Roy, gold medal.
Original oil painting head—Mrs. 8. Hester,
diploma.
Best original water color—YV. YV. Rogers, di
ploma
Oil painting -Miss Maggie Connor, diploma.
Oil painting—Mias Alice Mo all, diploma.
Oil paintin , r —Miss Mattie G. YV mil, diploma.
Crayons— Miss Etta Uppmun. diploma.
I "rayons Miss I. Dcshouillnus. diploma.
Fine display of photographs and portraits—
Launey & Goebel, diploma.
Pen and ink drawing—YV. YY', Rogers, di
ploma.
Ornamented cake, fruit and ornaments cut
with a pen knife from loaf sugar By Mrs. H.
M. Drane. diploma
Scroll work, by boy 13 years—E. H. Richard
son, diploma.
A handsome Marseilles quilt, male by hand
and exhibited by Mrs. Banks—Special mention,
as one of the finest pieces of needle work in the
exhibition.
flowkos a up mu it.
Twelve trusses roses, best display—Mrs. A.
flhisolm. trophy cup.
Twelve trusses roses, second best- M. Mac
lean, $lO.
Six trusses roses, best display—M. Maclean.
$5
Six trusses roses, second best display—Mrs.
A. Chisolm, $4.
Six trusses rases, third best display—Mrs. (J.
Y Richardson. $9.
Best basket cut roses—M. Maclean, $5.
Second best basket cut roses—T. R. Miller, $3.
Best collection cut roses—M Maclean, $5.
Second liest collection cut roses—Mrs A.
Chisolm. $l.
Third best collection cut roses—Mrs. J. F. luy-
Far. $2.
Best basket cut flowers—Mrs. G. T. Nichols,
15-
Best four quarts strawberries best adapted to
general cultivation—F. M. Bliss, Jr., $3.
Best four quarts, finest form aud quality—F.
M. Bliss, Br., #3.
Specimen of Japan plum, raised from seed in
Savannah —Willy YY’oodbridgc, diploma.
Best collection green house plants—J. F. I si
Far. $5 and diplomss
Best collection Zonale geraniums, in bloom—
J. F. LaFar. $6.
Best plants, in pot—J. Gardner. $2,
Best collection of ferns—J. F. LaFar, $3.
Second best collection of ferns—F. A. Ybanez,
$2.
Best carnation in bloom—Mrs. C. Y. Richard
son. $l.
Best collection of palms—J. F. LaFar, di
ploma.
Beet single cactus, in bloom T. A. Y'lianc/., ft.
Beet collection of cactus T. A. Y’huncz,
Best begonia Mrs F. S. Gillespie. #l.
Beet pair of hanging baskets—t. F. LaFar $9.
Best single amaryllis, in bloom—Mrs. C. Y’.
Richardson, $l.
Best single geranium, iu bloom— Mrs. F. S.
Gillespie. $l.
Best double geranium, in full bloom Mrs. F.
B. Gillespie, $l.
Best single jielargonium, in bloom—Mrs. C. Y'
Richardson. $l.
T. A. Ybanez—Peppermint geranium, special
mention.
Best kept display during exhibition Malcolm
Maclean, $5.
Second beet display during exhibition .1. F.
LaFar, $3.
Beat display of pansies—Mrs. C. S. Ellis,
special mention.
Best display of verbenas—Mrs. L. O. Browu,
special mention.
Best display of annuals- Mrs. C. Y’. Richard
son. special mem ion
Beat cactus— 8. E. Theus, special mention.
Beet ixlas—Mrs. J. G. Thomas, special men
tion.
Best, artistic arrangement of flowers—A. C.
Oalachig, $lO.
yesterday's new exhibits.
There were quite a number of additional
exhibits yesterday. Among them a hand
some di-play of Northern orchids exhibited
by Mrs. J. G. Thomas. A he ndeouie collec
tion of oil portraits and paintings and
painted china by Mrs. YY’. YV. Gordon, and
a handsome embroidered quilt by Mrs.
Rosenband. Mrs. M.. Kolb’s fancy work
display attracted a good deal of
attention aud one of the finest pitces in tuo
display waa a richly embroidered plush
altar cloth. The fauezr work exhibited by
the children from the St. Mary’s Home,
the Female Orphan Asylum and Episcopal
Orphans’ Home also attracted a good deal
of attention.
In the floral department A C. Oelschig’s
design of a broken shaft and a United
States army knapsack, in roses, were
greatly admired.
The electric motor aud heater exhibited
bv the Brush Electric Light aud Power
Company, and which was kept in
operation during the exhibition, was
an attractive feature. The heater
was used by the ladies f the Aid Society
in heating tea aud making coffee. Supt.
Keck was in charge of Che ma tbine, and he
was asked a’ out us many questions about
it as he was able to answer, l'he mitor is
of one-horse cower, and drives a small
dynamo with winch is connected a
serit>s of wire* fixed upon an
asbestux plate. The wires are kept at a
! red heat, and upou them the kettle is
j placed, it heats as quickly as it would
I over a bed of live coals.
AH the depirtuients of the exhibition
. were well kept up, and the managers ure
j pleased with its success. The exhibits will
be remove 1 f om toe hall to-day.
THE CITY'S PURE WATER.
j Its Effect Upon the Public Health-
Malaria Dying Out.
It appears that the Improved sanitary
condition of the city is not wholly due to
the drainage improvements, but that the
general use of artesian water is doing much
to dissipate malarial diseases.
A leading physician said to a Morning
News reporter yesterday in answer to an
inquiry, that he attributed the diminution
of malarial fevers largely to the use of ar
tesian water, and that not more than one
in twenty of the cases lie Is called to treat
is of a malarial type. Ho is inclined to the
belief that five or ten years from now it
will lie necessary to call in the older phy
sicians to diagnose a real case of malarial
fever.
The diminution of malarial diseases had
been so marked that the matter has been
brought to the attention of the Georgia
Medical Society with a request tint the
members of the society note the cases of
malarial origin for the purpose of compari
son. It is too early, physicians say, to risk
nv extended claim, although there is no
disputing the fact that the artesian water,
being pure and with at, t.ul absence of bac
teria, it is having a salutary influence in the
city’s sanitation.
The physicians inveigh very sevorely
upon the public cisterns or street wells,
which they say ought to bo destroyed. The
waters of these w ells are much more un
healthy than they were before the almost
general use of the artesian water The
well* are not used so much, and the water
is stagnated. Decaying wood and dead
animals are dropping into somo of them,
and tho_waters are poisonous and necessa
rily unhealthful. Nurse girls frequently
give their little charges water from these
wells, and children at play make it a prac
tice to drink from the pumps.
A number of druggists were interviewed,
and they all admit ted that there is a mate
rial falling off in the demand for quinine,
although It is much cheaper than it used to
be, and much of the present demand is to
remedy colds, a recent treat in lit, but one
which has proved very efficacious.
One druggist said that there has been a
falling off of at least 90 per cent, in cases
of chills and fevers. The opinion appears
to be very general that malaria will be re
duced to a minimum by condemning the
wells, tilling them up and thus preventing
the further use of their stagnated waters.
THE NEILLS' SUCCESS.
They Play “Better Than Gold” to a
Big Audience.
The James Neill Dramatic Company
played “Better Than Gold,” a drama in
four acts, at Youge’s Hall last night. The
audience was large and appreciative. The
following is the cast of characters:
Gilbert Murdoch, heir apparent to a large
estate Henry W. Neill
Richard Gordon J. Tyson
Peter Perchant, an antedeluvian limb of
the law \. Y. Austin
Thomas Payson, his clerk S. L. George
Asa, n colored servant W. P. Brooks, Jr
Bello Gordon, who plays to win. Miss Dora Mock
Mrs. Garfield, housekeeper at Gilroy
Miss Janie Banks
Annie Garfield, herdaughter,Jliss Sadie McLeod
Jennie Joy. a seamstress Miss Kate Kimball
Duriug the )>er for marine there was a con
siderable cropping out of talent. Henry
AY. Neiil’s conception of “Murdoch,” the
heir apparent, was exceptionally good, as
was also that of “Payson” by Mr.'S. L.
George. Miss Sadie McLeod, as “Annie
Garfield,” daughter to the housekeeper at
Gilroy, won the favor of the audience at
once. Miss Dora Mock, as “Belle Gordon,”
in playing to win, was almost faultless.
AV. P. 'Brooks, Jr., as “Asa, the Nigger,"
invariably brought down the house when
he came in.
The performance was given for the benefit
of the Episcopal Free church. After the
play refreshments were served. The pro
ceeds fyr the evening amounted to between
8100 aud $123.
TO SEE MOTHER GOOSE.
The Sale of Tickets for the Reception
at the Theater Next Week.
The innuugers of the Mother Goose Re
ception, to be given at the Theater next
week (Monday ami Tuesday) have adopted
a novel method of disposing of tickets.
They liavo sent out by mail upwards of
3,( 00 tickets, each accompanied by a circu
lar statirg v hat the Legal is lor'and the
objects ot the ente tuinment, and asking
that the recipient either buy th- ticket or
sell it to someone else and return the price
to Messrs. Davis Bros., who are conducting
tl*e sa e. The circular is signed by the
patroiies-cs of the entertainment, Mrs. H.
T. Butts, Mix William Harden, Mrs. L. K.
Davis, Mrs. E. A. Weil, Mrs. W. J. Lindsay,
Mix George Screven, Mis. George 8.
Owens, Mrs. J. J. Dale, Mrs. David Wells,
Mrs. Cecil Berrien. Mrs. J. D. Murphy, Miss
Alice Bourqulu, representing the ladies of
the Firs’, Presbyterian Church, under whose
auspices it is givon.
In this way the managers are able to
know just wlmt its sales of tickets are.
The lx in sheet is open ut Davis Bros.’ store,
and already the reserved sale is very large.
Rehearsals for the entertainment are
being held every night and the managers
are working to make it the leading society
entertainment of the season.
A full rehearsal of singers nml memls rs
of the tableau and everybody eonnec ed
with the reception will take place nt the
Theater to-night at 7:30 o'clock. As this
will be the final rehearsal everybody is ex
ported to bo present.
SOME MAhINE CURIOSITIES.
A Monster Florida Sea Cow from the
Manatee Country.
There was on exhibition yesterday at
Cox's stables, on South and West Broad
streets, a monster sea cow, and the stables
were crowded during the day with people
who were awaiting their turn to get n peep
ut the eurioiUy.
The cow was captured at t ie junction of
the Manat e and Indian rivers, in Florida,
four months ago by Mr. Edward Bradley,
who has it on exhibition here. It has been
at the Sub-Tropical Exposition at Jackson
vil e for the | a-t few weeks.
Its weight, is estimated at 943 pounds. Its
body is 8 feet in length, the tail measures
2 feet, and its breadth is feet. A net,
made of rope, was used in its capture.
Mr. Bradley thinks he will secure the
vacant Jot at the corner of Jones and Bull
streets on which to exhibit the marine curi
osity and two others which arrived by ihe
Savannah, Florida and Western railway
ye terday. He will also have on exiiioitio t
two alligators meas'ii'iug respectively 13 and
14 feet. lie hes captor -d nine of iue>e a 1
niais during the year and will exhibit them
at the Northern watering-places during the
summer months
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1888.
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Hare and There by the
News Rsborters.
St. Joseph’s Infirmary received four
patients yesterday.
There were no new developments in the
Martin case yesterday. Mr. Anderson, the
grosccuting witness,' has returned from
irniinghain.
For the first time in a long period Mayor
lister was confronted witli a clean white
page in the Mayor’s docket yesterday morn
ing. There was not a single case for trial.
A portion of the iron fence fronting the
Cathedral lias been put up and the work is
in progress. It will add very milch to the
rna-sive appearance of the structure it is to
inclose.
The City Court convened yesterday
morning, hut adjourned over until next
Tuesday at 9:30 o’clock. Max fSut.ker, a
subject of the Czar of Russia, was admitted
to citizenship.
The issuing of daily weather maps by the
signal service has been ordered to he dis
continued on the score of economy, and
the weather reports will hereafter ho given
in the form of printed bulletins.
A horse attached to a buggy on Bay
street opposite the City Exchange broke
loose from the post to which he was tied
yesterday, ami running down the street
cap .ized the buggy and completely demol
ished it. There was no one in the buggy at
the time.
Gordon Buckner was lodged in jail yes
terday by Deputy Sheriff Mendel on a
charge of lunacy. Ordinary Ferrill will
have a hearing of the case next Monday
afternoon Ttr 4 o’clock, at which time tie
will also inquire into the sanity of Belton
DuPont.
The Morning Nkws Karly Fruit Bureau
has received from Mr. F. M. Bliss, Jr., a
basket of the finest strawberries ever seen
in Savannah. Mr. Bliss and his father have
farms on the iluckhalfer road, about six
miles fr m the city, and this year have the
largest crop, in quantity as well as in size,
of berries ever grown on their land.
■ There were only two arrests last night.
A white man was picked up hors du com
bat on York street lane fr tm drinking be
tween drinks, and the second was run in on
a charge of insulting a lady at the corner of
Lincoln and liryan streets, but he strenu
ously denies it., and his denial has been re
ceived very favorably by the officers, who
doubt if any offense was intended.
Johnson square looks a hundred per
cent, lietter since the removal of the fence
and useless railing. The grass was mowed
yesterday, and the path across the square
was dug up. Si ns have been put up warn
ing pedestrians to “keep off the grass,” and
it will be well to obey the injunction as the
city authorities propose to prosecute offend
ers. The Square is now one of the most at
tractive in the city.
TRIED TO MURDER HER.
A Perilous Night’s Experience by
Bose Washington.
Rose Washington was making a round of
the courts yesterday trying to find some
law to punish her ex-lover, Abe Hunter,
who is employed on the ‘ ‘extra” gang of
railroad workers at No. 3, on the Savaanah,
Florida aud Western railway.
She first went to United States Commis
sioner Frank Lamar to file a charge against
Hunter for selling liquor without a license,
but Mr. Lamar did not think it was a ease
that could he made out, and he declined to
issue a warrant.
Rose then went to Justice Molina and
told a blood-curdling tale of how Hunter
had drawn a revolver and shot at her once,
on Sunday last, but os the offense alleged
was committed in Liberty county, where
Hunter lives, the Justice informed her that
she would have to go there to prosecute the
case.
Rose Wasblngton is a coal black negro,
and her story, if true, shows Hunter to be a
desperate character. She says that she is
an Old Fort negro but that recently she be
came one of tile queens of Yainacraw, re
siding on Indian lane. Last Sunday she
went out to Hattie Mitchell’s, who lives
about three mites from No. .3, with the in
tention of visiting Hunter, who boards
there. Hunter, seeing her coining, drew his
revolver, and as she started to run he fired
at her and she fell down, screaming “mur
der.” But for the interposition of Hattie
Mitchell, who didn’t want a murder com
mitted in her yard, Rase said that she
would have been killed, as Ilunter made
dire threats and was with difficulty quieted
down. The Mitche 1 woman got the revol
ver from the infuriated matt.
Rose said she crawled under the house
in the darkness, where she lay concealed
until everything was quiet, when she came
out anil slept in a shed until morning under
the promise of protection of Hattie Mitchell
until Hunter went to work the next morn
ing. Monday morning Rose walked to No.
3, where she sold a diess to get the money
to come back to Savannah on the first train.
She has since that time i>eon nursing her
wrath to keen it warm, and promises to
make it exceedingly interesting for Hunter,
who, she alleges, would never nave treated
her so cruelly if it had not been that the
Mitchell woman had stolen his affections.
A DOCTOR TURNS POET.
A Waiting Witness In the Superior
Court Drops into Poetry.
The Superior Court was engaged yester
day in tile second trial of the damage suit
of H. C. Beck vs. the Charleston and Savan
nah Railway Company. The award of the
jury in the former trial was set aside on the
ground that it was excersive.
The plaintiff was injured about the head
on one of the campatiy’s trains, and brought
suit to recover damages The greater part
of the testimony heard yesterday was
expert testimony by physicians rela
tive tor the probable result upon the
mental and physical faculties from such a
blow us plaintiff received, and three or four
of the Savannah medical fraternity were
subjected to a long direct and critical cross
examination. Bell re concluding the testi
mony the court adjourned until this morn
ing, when the hearing of the case will be re
sumed.
One of the disgruntled physicians who
grew weary waiting for his turn, took his
revenge by penning the following lines,
which a passing breeze swept from his
table, and tee fell into the lap of the court
reporter, who enters ‘ them in evidence.
Thus the lines run:
At the lung an l weary waiting
in the court where justice
Mak ■- the witness groan with
Sorrow , at the long and dreary
\\ aittiig to disgorge.
To disgorge the treasured
Stock of useless knowledge
Which hy accident has percolated
Into space.
Space that’s bounded by
Tile tiddes of the wirhess skull,
i >. how full this space is crowded
With the things Hint have no
Bearing on the case!
To unburden all this nonsense,
To unload me cball' w il it grain.
Keeps the witness on his metal,
First.to talk, slid tl\ it refrain.
O. the oily talk of lawyers, when
Their side von clou, i.v au;
O. ilie .merit, relemlrse chaffing
hen the other side you screen.
Question a. tor question follows
Like the drops of falling min,
Some have sense and some have no sense.
Like the wituess’ weakened brain.
Weakened by the reitetitions
Of Hie questions and tile answers
< >f the lit tle pci ty questions,
Uiiestin is whiohuave little meaning
llut to daze and dazzle witness
And confuse his weary brain.
Mr. Arthur P. Dodge, manager of the
New England Magazine, has returned to
this eity, aud is at Dub’s Screven House.
11c is actively engaged in perfecting ar
rangements for tbe illustrated popular his
to leal anil de enptive sketch of Savannah.
Such a:, article in this magazine will evi
dently vutnplish much good, ns its aim is
to prewon. history in -in authoritative, en
ter ui in i- :.d ia ifruotlve manner.
| THE CITY’S TIME IN DOUBT
THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE
COUNCIL AT WORK.
A Conference with the Representa
tives of tbe City's Industries to Find
Out Whether they Want Standard
or Sun Time-How the Members of
the Committee Stand on tbe Time
Question.
The special committee from the City
Council appointed at the last meeting to
look into the time question is at work. The
committee lias before it the petition asking
for the roadoption of sun time.
A number of representatives of the va
rious manufacturing, shipping and other
industries employing labor was before the
committee yesterday. The conference was
for the purpose of aiding the committee in
its report to Council upon the advisability
of adopting sun time. Various opinions
were expressed, but no final action was
taken. It Is not unlikely that the commit
tee will report in favor of returning to sun
time, but it remains to be seeu whether the
Council will adopt the report.
The committee is composed of Aldermen
YVells, Haines, Schwarz, Reid and Meii.
Alderman Schwarz, Reid aud Haines voted
for standard time when it was last adopted.
The vote on the resolution at the time the
change was made was as follows:
For Standard Time —Aldermen Ellis,
Mills, Reid, Schwarz, Duncan, Haines, Mc-
Donough and Thomas.
For Sun Time—Aldermen Y\ r ells, Mali,
Myers and Nichols.
The committee will probably submit its
report ut the next regular meeting of Coun
cil, on May 3, unless a special meeting is
called for that purpose.
The present time, after having been tried
four years ago, was re-adopted March 36,
and has now been in use a little more than
three weeks. YVbon standard time was
first adopted by the city in
18S3 it went into effect Dec. 10,
and was the official time until January 19,
1884. The complaint was made then that
it was not given a long enough trial. When
the present City Council took up the mat
ter Alderman Duncan gave two weeks no
tice that he would move a re-adoption of
Standard Time, in order that if there were
any objections to the move, the
Council might have ample opportu
nity to consider them. The pub
lic seemed almost unanimously in
favor of the change and standard time was
adopted by a vote of 8 to 4.
Only four members of the present Coun
cil were in the Council that first adopted
standard time and subsequently abolished
it. They are Aldermen YVells, Moll,
Thomas and Nichols. Aldermen Mell and
Nichols then voted for standard time, al
though they are now opposed to it.
Alderman Thomas also voted for Stand
ard time four years ago, anil he is still for
it. The committee will meet again on
Monday.
ATLANTA’S BIG TILT.
The Hussars Preparing for Their Visit
to the Gate City.
The Hussars are actively preparing for
their trip to Atlanta next month, and Sa
vannah will send up a big delegation with
them. The tournament will take place at
Piedmont Park, May 9th and 10th, under
the auspices of the Governor’s Horse Guard,
and a large number of teams has already
entered. Tho Charleston Light Dragoons
have entered, and the Hussars will have nil
opportunity of tilting against the Carolina
champions. The following is the programme
of the tournament:
A prize c;f #6OO shall be given to the
team of four making tho best score.
A prize of $3OO shall bo given to the team
of four making the second best score.
A prize of $l5O shall be given to the best
individual tilter.
A prize of $5O shall be given to the next
best tiiter.
The four contestants making the four
highest scores shall be allowed to crown the
Queen of Love and Beauty and three maids
of honor. The coronation will take place
in DeGive’s Opera House the night of May
10. After that ceremony is finished, the
narty will repair to the ball-room of the
Kimball House, and attend the grand tour
nament ball.
Tuesday night preceding the tournament
the judges will haven conference to rend
aud familiarize themselves with the rules
and regulations which are to govern the
contests.
At 8:30 o’clock YVodnesday morning the
filters will parade through the city escorted
by tbe various military companies of the
city. After marching to a point on Peach
tree street the escort will return to thecity,
and the tilters will proceed to the park.
The contest will begin promptly at 10
o’clock. Tuesday night there will be a re
ception aud a hop given the visiting com
panies.
Thursday morning all the cavalry com
panies will parade through several streets.
After arriving at the park the tilting con
tests wiil be resumed. The judges will
award prizes to the successful competitor .
There will be two races ridden by the
cavalrymen riding their own horses. Gov.
(Jordon end his staff will review the mili
ta y. Upon their return to the city after
all the exercises at the park are done, the
visitors will bo entertained in various wavs
by the local military. The festivities will
culminate in a brilliant ball in the Kimball
House.
COMING TO SAVANNAH.
Hampton, S. C., Wants a New Rail
road with en Outlet Here
A Hampton, S. C., special says that a
rousing meeting was held there this week
in the interest, of the South-bound railway.
Gen. J. YV. Moore was called to the chair
and YY’. 11. Mauldin was appointed Secre
tory. Speeches were made by Col. G. H.
Hoover, YY'. S. Tilllnghu t, M. P.. .VlcSwee
ncy, County Treasurer E. YV. Peeples and
others. Tne following resolutions were
adopted:
That we, citizens of Hampton county, believ
ing the route from Blackville, through’ the sec
tion known as 81eighto\in lo a point shout live
miles licvond Luford’s Bridge, thence down
SaltUchatc >ii\ crossing that stream near Rivers'
bridge and tapping the Port Royal railway at
ltnmpt m Court House, to lie the best route r
the interests of Pnrnwett, Oelleion mi l Hamp
ton as nidi as forth'' railin' corporal ion.pl-dge
our individual support to this route, ami also
pledge ourselves for the amounts opposite our
names to the stock of saiil road provid. and this
route be adopted.
Under this resolution $70,000 was suli
scrib and, and further subscriptions will bo
ob aitied by a committee appointed by the
chairman. A resolution wj* also adopted ask
ing the oitiz'ms of Barnwell. Colleton u:.ri
Hampton to join in a meeting to be held at
Hampton on the first Monday in May.
The route is as near a dinct line from
Blackville to Havnunah as could lie selected,
and -u-s-es through n part of Barnwell's best
territory, mid touching Cole-ton between
the two Ha kohutehios, would open up a
part of that county now cut olf from any
railway advantages. It would also go
through the heart of Hampton county.
TO LUiLD THE KOAD.
The Contract for Building the Atlanta
‘ and Savannah Line.
Col. George T. Fry, President, of the At
lauta, Atlantic' and Great Western railroad,
left. Atlanta yesterday tor the Northwest to
else the contracts for tho i ullding aud
equipment of tho Atlanta, Atlantic and
Great Western railroad from Atlanta to
Savannah. Col. Fry has not been making
much noise about hts enterprise, but he has
been doing a lot of quiet work, which ha<
led up to tho point where he suvs that he is
about to close the contracts for building aud
•quipping this road.
REPUBLICANS MOVE SLOWLY. S3
The Central Club Turns Out Too Few
for Col. Deveaux to Talk To.
A Morning News reporter waited
patiently from 7:80 until 9 o’clock last
night at Empire Hall to hear Col. John H.
Deveaux address the Central Republican
Club, but had to come away with a lean
note book.
Tho crowds absolutely refused to pour
in, and the Central Republican Club con
tributed less than a score of attendants,
and these stood outside the greater part of
the time and discussed the Congressional
situation very earnestly.
Justice Matthews, President of the club,
was present, arrayed in an elegant tailor
fitting suit of gray with a bouttonaife of
triple rosebuds, and CoL John H. Deveaux,
fresh from bis laurels at Atlanta, was pres
ent and loaded to the guards for a two
hours’ speech.
Occasionally the two leaders would listen
fur the ground swell of tramping legions
whoso steps were bent toward Empire Hall,
but the only noise was the rattling of the
Belt line cars, and the distant music of the
jug and bottle band of brothers serenading
their dusky Ilai ris street inamoratas, and as
they turned flown East Broad street they
didn’t blow a single blast, when one toot
from their quaint instruments would have
drawn better than the most eloquent
orator, barring Brother Gardner, of the
Limekiln Club.
It was nearly 9 o’clock when the few Re
publicans .filed into the lonesome hall, and
the discouraged President of the club,
wiping away a tear sorrowfully, apologized
for tho slim attendance. The notice was
short, lily made yesterday morning in the
Morning News, and he regretted the fact
that the members of the club were not
newspajier readers. Col. Deveaux, he sad,
had just returned from Atlanta, where be
was the temporary and afterward the
permanent Chairman of the Republican
State Convention, and he had come back
with a good deal to say to his Republican
brethren. The attendance, however, was
so insignificant that it was determined to
postpone the meeting until next Friday
night. The meeting will be announced in
all the colored churches to insure a crowded
hall. The President then declared the
meeting adjourned
There was a shade of sadness on the other
wise benign face of Col. Deveaux when a
Morning News reporter approached him
and asked about the Congressional situa
tion. He was evidently disappointed be
cause the meeting had proved to much of a
failure, and he bad to bottle up his oratory
a week longer. He said that the Repub
licans will hold a Congressional convention
in July, at which time a candidate will be
placecf in the field.
NOTES ALONG THE WHARVES.
Happenings on the River and Among
the Shipping.
The steam yacht Belle 1,, left yesterday
for the North with her owner and friends
on board.
Messrs. A. R. Sa'as & Cos. cleared yester
day the Norwegian bark Ole Bull for Ant
werp with 3,335 barrels of rosin, weighing
1,584,685 pounds, valued at #6,092. Cargo
by Messrs. Paterson, Downing & Cos.
At the Y. M. C. A.
The young men’s meeting to-morrow
afternoon at 5 o’clock will be conducted by
General Secretary Gordon. This being the
last meeting lie will be present at, a full at
tendance is desired.
The Association membership is now over
350. Ala: ge number wbo were lu arrears
are paying up, and a great many have
promised to pay before the General Secre
tary leaves. Ihe Association never was
stronger than it is to-day, which is largely
due to adhering to its legitimate work.
Local Personal.
T. Cohen, of Sanford, Fla., is registered
at the Screven House.
A. Zacharias, of Jacksonville, is at the
Screven.
8. D. Swann and wife, of Jacksonville,
are at the Screven House.
Rev. H. K. Rees, of Cove Spring, is in
the city, guest of the Screven House.
Henry E. Rees, a prominent insurance
agent of Atlanta, is at the Screven House.
Frank Clarkson, of Jacksonville, is at
tho Marshall House.
A. Rivers, of Bulloch county, is at the
Marshall House.
B 11. Murphy, of YVayeross, is stopping
at the Marshall.
B. F. Allen, of Walthourville. is regis
tered at the Marshall House.
M. (4. Brown, of Oliver, is registered at
the Marshall.
George S. Edwards, of Walthourville, is
at the Marshall House.
C. C. Grace, of Screven county, is at the
Screven House.
E. T. Gail ard, Jr., one of the proprie
tors of the Pavillion hotel, in Charleston, is
a guest of the Screven.
E. Z. Byrd and H. V. Rodgers, of Black
shear, are at tho Harnett.
H. T. McKee and wife, of Cuthbert, are
guests of the Harnett.
R. Roache, of YVayeross, is stopping at
the Harnett.
J. A. Powell, of Jesup, is registered at
the Harnett.
E. Z. Byrd and H. Y T . Rogers, of Black
shear, are at the Harnett.
Z. Jones, of Dutton, Fla., is at the
Harnett.
J. 11. Heard, of Rocky Ford, is at the
Marshall.
Charles Peyser, Ocala, Fla., is registered
at the Screven House.
C. A. Laffette, of Scriven county, is stop
ping at the Harnett House.
J. YV. Sanborn, of Hawthorne, Fla., is
registered at the Harnett.
( teoi ge F. Porter and wife, of Braiden
fown, Fla., are registered at the Harnett
House.
H. T. McKee and wifo and Calvin L.
Price, of Cuthbert, are guests of the
Harnett Ho,* *
Hon. T. M.N op wood is in town attend
ing to professional matters which require
liis personal attention. IBs friends in this
city say they have but iiitie doubt that he
will lie renominated and elected to Con
gr* is.
Hon. Julius Bien, of New York, Presi
dent of the Executive ('ouncil of the entire
Order < f Bird t’retbth•oughout the world,
representing 300 lodgis and n membership
of 35,000, who lies been spending several
day-: in tho city, left yesterday by steamer
for New York.
Mr. John M. Carrere, of the firm of Car
rere & Hastings, of New York, the archi
tects of tho ceiebrate 1 l’once de Leon Ho el,
St. Augustin.', is in the city and will re
main several days. Mr. Can-ore's firm has
earned a world-wili reputation by its
achievements in architecture.
Jo eph H. Brady, of Kansas City, Mo.,
is t ore oil n visit after a absence of twenty i
\ ears. Ho left Savannah ut the early ago
of 13 years for tho fur Vest to make bn
fortune, aud after years of labor and study
rt turi.s to spend a few weeks in his native
city. Mr. Br .dy has had quite varied
ex|rlence. hu ny perseverance aud'iudus
trv has ri nto the position of chief Engi
neer of ti e Board of Education of Kansas
City. He is also a consulting engineer on
steam heating. Savannah does not nke to
lose any of her sons, but if they will leave
her to seek their fortunes elsewhere she ro
joices at their success.
Dr. Avery, late of Ktnuosson’s, Tremont
street, Boston, Muss., will be in tbe city of
Savannah for two weeks as Surgeon and
Chiropodist, prepared to treat wai ts, corns,
bunions and ail diseases of tbe feet. Refer
ences: I).. Voiding, Savannah Hospital; Ur.
YV. YY . Owens. Orders may be left at But
b r's Pharmacy and at the Habersham
Street Pharmacy.
WHERE WE WORSHIP.
Programme of Services in the City
Churches Sunday.
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the
Ascension. W. S. Bowman, D. D.. pastor.—
Divine service to-morrow at 10:30 a. m.
and 7:30 p. m., and on Wednesday at 4 p.
ni. Persons wishing to unite with the
church will meet at 9a. m. Sabbath school
at 4 p. m.
Trinity Methodist Church. Telfair place.
Barnard and York streets. Rev. E. H.
McGehee, pastor. Prayer meeting in tho
lecture room at 9:80 a. m. Preaching at
10:30 a. m. and 7:80 p. in. by the pastor.
Stewards’ meet mg Tuesday at 7:30 p. m.
Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m.
New Houston Street Methodist Church,
Rev. J. W. Simmons, pastor.—Preaching
10:30 a. m. , 7:30 p. in. Sunday School 3p. m.
Special services each night the ensuing
week. The public cordiaiij’ invited.
Anderson Street Presbyterian Church,
Rev. R. Q. Way, pastor.—Preaching by
the pastor at 10:30 a. m. aud 7:30 p. m. .Sun
day school at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m All are invited.
First Presbyterian Church, Monterey
square, Bull and Taylor streets. Rev. J. YV.
Bogan, pastor.—Preaching at 10:30 a. m.
and 7:30 p. in. Sabbath school at : :30p. m.
Meeting of the Christian Culture Society at
7p. m. Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 7 :80.
First Baptist Church.—Preaching at 10:30
by Kev. Edward Lathrop, D.D.,and by the
pastor at 7:30. Sunday school at 3:30 p. m.
Duffy Street Baptist Church.—Preaching
at 10:30 and 7:30 by Rev. YY. S. Royal.
Sunday school at, 9 a. m.
Y. M. C. A.—Young men’s meeting at 5
o’clock, conducted by General Secretary
Gordon. All young men an* invited.
To Reduce Its Schedule.
The Coast Line railroad is about to reduce
its schedule from twelve minutes to ten
minutes. To do this the turn out on Haber
sham street, between Gwinnett and Hall
streets, will be extended north to Hunting
don street. This will ba done at once. The
two-minute wait at YVest Broad street will
be done away with and cars will only stop
there long enough to make the turn. This
and the lengthening of the Gwinnett street
turn out will give the road a much better
schedule.
A Suggestion About the Time.
Editor Morning News: There seems to
be so much dissatisfaction about our present
time arrangement, and from people, too,
whose views and wishes are entitled to re
spect, that it is but proper for the Council
to give the matter more serious considera
tion. To many of us ’’the half-past eight
and half-past one” arrangement is altogether
satisfactory and presents no difficulties, but
it is evident that there are many others
who do not drop into it so readily. YY r bv
not adopt Eastern time? This will make
the city time and ruilr..ad tune exactly one
hour apart. Everybody can understand
that, and there would be no longer any
reason for pencil and paper to figure out
the time. Let the railroads run one even
hour behind the city time. L. M.
To Holders of the Mother Goose Re
ception Tickets.
It is earnestly desired that those who
have been entrusted with tickets for this
entertainment for use or disposal, will make
their report to Messrs. Davis Bros., as re
quested, by 1 o’clock p. m., Monday, April
2d, in order that the management can make
their report. Very few- of the tickets sent
out have been returned, as nearly every
one recognizes the cause as a worthy one,
and have paid for their tickets, whether
unable to dispose of or to use them, for
which the management return thanks. This
entertainment will consist of ten beautiful
tableaux, containing over sixty characters,
and carefully selected from “Old -Mother
Goose’s rhymes, also a concert bv the lead
ing musical talent of the city, viz? Profes
sors bite ward, Schultze, R> s ufeld, Messrs.
Rebarer, Walker, Edward Harden, Ward,
Brown, W. E Svvanston, Dr. Bulloch, Mrs.
Haynes, Misses Lazaron, King, Carruthe s,
Bulloch, Coburn, Wakeman, Dale and Ber
rien.
The style of the entertainment will be
about as follows, viz: When the curtain
rises Mother Goose, seated on her goose,
and Little Boy Blue, fast asieep, are the
only occupants of the stage. A well trained
chorus behind tho scenes will sing the mel
ody of the tableau ‘’Little Boy Blue.”
which awakens him, and ho by several
blasts from his horn summons the guests
who are to be present with Mother Goose
on the stage during the evening, and for
whose pleasure see is supposed to be giving
tho entertainment. The guests will appear
one bv one, each announced by a blast from
Little Boy Blue’s horn, and uiitm their ap
pearance will be presented to Mother Go > :e
by the inimitable and indispensable Air. Ed
L. Brown, who needs no introduction to
Mother Goose or to a Savannah audience.
After all the guests have arrived and are
grouped on the stage, Mother Goose will
request them in turn to favor her and her
less musical guests with piano ind vocal
solos, p.ano and violin duets, vocal ducts
and quartettes. After each musical rendi
tion, the scenes will bo drawn apart aud a
tableau presented, which, including the
tableau and Mother Goose and her guess,
who remain on the stago all during the per
formance, form a dual tableau, so to speak,
of sui prising loveliness. Among her guests
are to be :een Kings, Queens, Princes, Prin
cesses, Humpty Dumpty, Brother Jon a
than, Paul P.y, Rip Van Winkle, Falstaff
aud others too numerous to mention. In
this way the entertainment will be a con
tinual one. The curtain will not descend
until the close of the last tableau, which
will be a grouping of all the tableaux in
one, making about 100 persons in costume
on the stage at one time. A full rehearsal
was held at the Theatre Friday
uf t awn/iAii arwl nil 4 „t._
afternoon, and all the characters
ad parts were admirably ren
dered. The patronesses, who consist of
the following well-known ladies, viz: Mrs.
H. T. Botis, Mrs. William Harden, .Airs. L.
E. Davis, Mrs. E. A. Weil, Mr: . YY’. J.
Lindsay, Mis. George Screven, Mrs.
GeorgeS. Owens, Mrs. J. ,1. I>a e, Mrs"
David Wells, Mrs. Cecil Berrion, Mr, j. 1)]
Murphy, Miss Alice Bourquin, Airs. Gray,
and tl.e lauies of the First Presbyterian
church, and tho mauogeinent cun sarely
promisu to tho pulillc an entert-.iiimont
second to no amateur one ever given in
this city. The price of admission is only
50 . ;no extra charge for reserve s u.s,
which brings it in the reach of ail.
An idea seems to prevail that from the
name it is an entertai 1 inent calculated to
please children only, such, however, is nit
the case; it will be an entertainment tuat
the secures; c 'it o and oldest theatergj©r
can enjoy and appreciate.
The seats are being rapidly secured at
Davis B os.’, ami a croivde 1 house is pro
and oted. Two onto tainnietits, with n emingo
of programme, win bs present.* !. Tn- Hist
one o.i Monday night, April 23, perform
ance to iMuintenee at 8 o’ciock sharp. The
second porforman a will take pi ice f ie*day
afternoon at 2'.)ti o’clock; both nt the Sa
v uiunh Theater. Trie pro. eed- t , up; lv to
the or ~i'i fund of the First Presbyterian
Church of this city; a worthy cause.
Chronic Cougns and Colds,
And ail diseases of the Throat ad Lungs,
can be cure! by the use of Scott's Emul
sjo.n, a* it ciuitaiiis the h-nlitig virtues of
t’.xl Liver Oil aud Hypopliovii it s in th -ir
fullest terms. Is a beautiful creamy Emul
sion, palatable os milk, eusny iligesied, and
can Im taken by the most duiicat-*. P.oa-e
lead: “I consider Scott's Eir.uis.ou ihe
remedy par-exceiletiee in Tul'ercul us ana
Strumous AiTectinns, to say no hiug of
ordinary colds a id throat troubles.’’—W.
R. S. CONNKI.I,. M. I)., Manchester, O.
Just received, 138 dozen fino Silk Scarfs,
now displayed in our windows, at 25c.
apiece, at Appel & Schaul’s, One Price
Clothiers.
LUDDEN * BATES S. >j. H.
PI SBJftfh
Chickering-.
Mason & Hamlin
Mathushek.
Behr Bros.
G-uild.
Bent &l Cos.
Jacobs Broa
Morris.
gArion.
Nine different makers. Over fifty styles t s
Squares. Uprights and Grands, from $2OO to
81,000, on easy installments of $2 50 week y.
■iillii 11 i ZmJBZXSSSS
Mason & Hamlin.
Packard Orchestral.
Bay State.
Waterloo.
Four flue makers. Over two hundred different
styles from #24 to $5OO. Easy terms. Only
$1 25 weekly.
We can suit you in Instruments. Prices and
Terms if any house in the world can. Thirteen
makers to select from and lowest prices known,
I jUdden & fjites Southern fjusic H iI'JSO)
PIANO AND ORGAN DEPARTMENT.
FURNITURE AND CARPETS
rOPUIApRiCES
1\ e desire to emphasize the
fact that we have in stock an
elegant and varied line of
Straw and Pink Mattings,
Linoleum and Oil Cloths.
Our Window Shades and
Draperies are unexcelled.
Mosquito Canopies, Nets and
Frames, Refrigerators, Icfj
Chests and Tom Thumbs. All
at Popular Prices. Send in
your orders for taking up,
cleaning and storing Carpets.
We do this work satisfactorily
and at moderate price.
A. J. lILLER & CO.
Fashionable Furnifore and Carpets.
PLUMBERS’ SUPPLIES, KTCi
mini
AND
Gas Fitting.
Orders for the above work
promptly and properly at
tended to; also for
Steam Healif Apparatus*
Speaking Tubes, Etc.
John Nicoison, Jr.,
30 and 32 Drayton St.
LUMBER.
LUMBER! LUMBER!
A. S_ BACON,
Office and Planing Mill, Liberty and East Broad
Streets.
A full stock of Dbkssed and Rough Dumbs*
Laths, Hhinoi.es, Etc., always on hand. Esti
mates /riven upon application. Prompt deli vs
guaranteed. Telephone 117.
< ROCKERY, ETC.
GEO. W. ALLEN,
IMPORTER OF
CROCKERY, CHINA AND GLASSWARE
Nos. 185 and 185t$ Broughton Street,
SAVANNAH - GEORGIA.
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STOVES.
KITCHEN OUTFITS
Wp make a specialty of completing and r
plentailing Kilcnens. Every article, from the
Range or Stove to the smallest Pdtty Pan. o*n
be bail from us. We have the leading reputa
tion fur doing this in best shape and by con
stantly si inlying this particular branch of our
trade we have no difficulty in maintaining it.
LOVELL & LATTIIViQRE,
HARDWARE AND STOVES.
SAVANNAir^^^^^^^OEO^IA
Desire to call your attention to the
MOTHER GOOSE RECEPTION,
to tai e place at the Savannah Thea
ter MONDAY NIGHT, April 33d,
and TUESDAY AFTERNOON,
April 24th. Tickets 50c. each for
either performance. No extra
charge for Reserved Scats. Dia
gram now open. Performance will
commence Monday night at 8
o'clock, sharp, and at 2:30 o’clock,
sharp, Tuesday afternoon. Don’t
forget the place aud dates —MON-
DAY NIGHT, April 23d, and
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, April
24th. Price 60c.
Kills Leans tie World.