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haunted by a specter.
THROCKMORTON’S GHOST STORY
recalled by a death.
One of the Men Killed in the Birmingr
ham Riot a Nephew of the Southern
Gentleman Who Was Followed to
Bis Death by the Woman He Had
Wronged—A Drama Four Times
Marked by Tragedy.
From the New York World.
The death of young Maurice B. Throck
morton, killed at Birmingham, Ala., on
Saturday night while entreating the mob
not to attack the jail, recalls a story as
strange as anything in fiction —a story as
full of dramatic scenes and incidents as
anything that was ever produced upon the
stage, and -which has been four times
brought by a tragedy to the memory of
those who disliked most to hear it.
It was nearly forty years ago that Maj.
John Throckmorton, son of Aris Throck
morton, and uncle of the young man killed
at Birmingham, was one of the leaders in
the brilliant society of the old south. He
was rich, witty, handsome. He was
the finest type of the southern gentleman,
impulsive, generous; kind of heart ami
open of hand. He was connected by blood
and marriage with every prominent south
ern family from New Orleans to Louisville,
end when he came back from college to
live among his people the fairest prospect
was spread out before him. He went in to
enjoy life, and as he had ample means and
was a welcome guest wherever he chose to
go, time slipped by pleasantly enough.
Just when pretty Ellen Godwin came
into his life no one ever knew. In all the
tierce light that afterward beat upon them,
their earlier intimacy remained forever
buried in mystery, and both car
ried the secret to their graves.
Ellen Godwin lived near Louisville,
and was remarkable for her beauty
and the gentleness of her disposition. She
was well connected and had a small fortune
in her own name. Friends of Throckmor
ton saw them together for a time, and then
suddenly their intimacy was discontinued.
Throckmorton left Louisville on a pleasure
trin and did not return for several mouths.
One stormy, blustering night in January,
when the snow was beating against the
window panes and the people were hurry
ing in to blazing fires, Throckmorton re
turned to Louisville and went direct to the
Gault house, a hotel owned by his father.
When he entered his room he happened to
glance across the street. He saw a woman
standing motionless beside a gas lamp
directly opposite. She was dressed in black,
and although he could not see the face he
recognized the outlines of her figure. She
stood there so silent and spectre-like
that he became fascinated and watched
her for hours. That was the first
night that “Throckmorton’s ghost” was seen.
It was the beginning of what was to last
without interruption for twenty years. The
dark shadow that he saw from his hotel
window that night was to follow him ail
over the world; it was to be with him in the
blaze of noon and in the darkest hours of
the night; he was to see it in every capital
in Europe; it was to be close behind him in
his most secret moments; it was to mingle
with his own shadow so that in a delirium
of terror he would wonder if his mind were
not deserting him, and if both shadows
were not one and the same. It was in vain
that he tried to put oceans between him and
his awful phantom-like pursuer; in vain that
every resource of money was tried; from
that’ first stormy January night John
Throckmorton was never for one moment
alone.
It was wonderful how she appeared to
know of his movements. If he would sud
denly decide to go to a party she would be
standing on the opposite side of the street
when he got out of his carriage. If he re
mained in his hotel for days, and if then, in
the dead of night, he slipped out by a side
entrance, she would be close behind him.
Her appearance on the streets became so
common in Louisville that people merely
glanced at her carelessly as she flitted by.
As the years passed her very name was for
gotten," and she was only known as
“Throckmorton’s Ghost.” • Sometimes, w hen
she would be waiting for him, children
would gather about her, and often boys
would hoot and taunt her; but she never
complained, and no man ever heard the
sound of her voice.
The weather never appeared to inconven
ience her. She often would stand for hours
in the midst of driving rain or hail, without
shelter of any kind, apparently oblivious of
everything save the man she was following.
She always wore the same heavy black
dress, with a black hat.gnd a thick, black
veil, which concealed her face.
At first Throckmorton attempted to laugh
the matter off. The woman was a crack
brained creature, who would grow tired
after a time, be said. He could koep it up
if she could. If it amused her, he didn’t
object. Thus he reasoned at first, but soon
became restive, and then it grew to be a
deadly offense to mention the subject in his
presence. At last he determined to go
abroad. He made all his arrangements
with the utmost secrecy, not even telling
his most intimate friends, and did
not rest until he had put the Atlantic
between him, and what had grown
to be a horrible nightmare. He went
straight to London, and the first person he
saw when he got off the train was Ellen
Godwin. He fled to Paris and he thought
he would lose her in the whirl of a winter
in Parisian society. In a month he gave up
in despair. She followed him to clubs and
receptions and opera parties. Wherever he
was, day or night, ho could never look
behind him without seeing her. He tried
all the large cities of the Continent without
avail and at last returned to Louisville and
again took up the old life.
He used to complain that he was chained
to a corpse, that his life was blasted, and
that no man ever before endured such a
persecution. No woman would suffer his
attentions, and he soon gave up all idea of
marriage. He grow more and more moody
and at last he determined to rid himself of
his tormenor by violence. The scene re
sulting from this determination, as it was
afterward told in court, was most dramat
ic. One night about 13 o’clock as Tliock
morton w as walking home through a lonely
street, he glanced over his shoulder and
saw his “ghost” a few yards behind silently
following him. He waited in a dark alley
until she came up, and than ho suddenly
sprang out on her. He snatched her veil
from her face and dragged her .by the
throat to the nearest lamp post.
“Why do you follow mo?” he asked, his
voice trembling with passion. She made
no reply, and clutching her more firmly by
tho throat he drew a dagger. She mado no
attempt to resist him, and just as the dag
ger was about to !>e plunged into her breast
she cried out, half choked and every in
stant expecting death: “Kill me, John, but
kiss me first” Throckmorton threw the
dagger away, pushed the woman aside, and
fled before he would be tempted again.
At length Throckmorton could stand it
no longer, and Ellen Godwin was arrested
at his instance and tried for insanity. Tho
old court house in Louisville, whore Henry
nay uud the Crittendens had many a hard
fought battle in days long gone by, was
packed as it never was before or since. The
most, eminent legal talent was employed,
and tho evidence was of the most sensational
character. Ellen Godwin was put on the
stand and was given a most sovero cross
examination. Her answers were clear
and intelligent and, after hours of
closest questioning, the opposing law
yers were forced to admit that
they could make nothing of her. Poems
written by her, essays ami articles on va
rious subjects, were raad to the jury, and
at last her lawyer, young Ely Parsons, arose
te defend her. Ho was a man of command
ing presence, a trained elocutionist and a
rarely giftoil orator. For four hours he
kept, the audience entranced. He told, in
all its dramatic details, the story of Ellen
Godwin. He went over tho scene of the
midnight meeting and argued that the
woman had simply been wronged aud was
s -eking justice. He pointed to her wan,
j haggard face, her delicate frame, and con
trasted the wreck that stood before them
with the beautiful, gentle, tender girl John
Throckmorton had first met. His peroration
was a masterpiece, and when he sat down
the jury, without rising from their seats,
found her sane. Then the lawyer and client
were borne away by shouting thousands,
and such scenes were enacted as were never
witnessed in that somber old court room.
A few monihs later Parsons was elected to
congress because of the speech. From the
day of her acquittal Ellen Godwin never
again followed Throckmorton. He left the
city and died a few years afterwards, alone,
on his plantation in Mississippi, far from
friends and relatives.
After his death Ellen Godwin grew
weaker and weaker. The strength which
had borne her up through all tho years of
her unexampled pursuit gave way. She
wrote a full history of her life, for which a
Chicago publishing house offered her $lO,-
000. She refused the offer, saying the book
should be buried with her.
One day she went to Cave Hill cemetery,
one of the most beautiful burying grounds
in the world, just outside Louisville, and
told her sister, who had followed her
through all the dreary years with a perfect
devotion, that in one particular spot she
wished to be buried, dressed as a bride, with
the book containing all her trials and her
wrongs upon her breast. A week after
ward she was laid to rest there, and a little
marble slab at the head of the grave is all
that tells the story of her most eventful life.
FRESH FANCIES IN FANS.
A Potent Social Weapon and Its Evo
lutions.
[Copyright 18S8. ]
New York, Dee. 8. —They tell a story of
Wright Sanford which speaks eloquently of
and iscernment in matters social. Au intimate
of the late genial clubman had a niece, a
shy, pretty girl from the country, whom he
wished to induct into the place that might
have been filled by a daughter, and whom
he took much pleasure in escorting to her
first swell ball. “No use,” said Sanford.
She don’t like this sort of thing. Better
send her home.”
“How do you know?” asked the fond un
cle. “She looks as if she were having a
good time.”
“Good time?” rejoined Sanford. “Good
time? Look at he^fan.”
The white airy plume in question to tho
keen eyes of tho society man who could read
its language told a tale. Now it quivered
with timidity, now it jerked to and fro with
the short uneasy motions of embarrassment,
now it brought itself up with a sharp turn,
bewildered; aud now it recovered itself and
waved with conscious composure, waiting
with patience for the evening among stran
gers to be done. The timid maid adrift in a
new world controlled lier face to smiling
enjoyment, but her fan spoke plainly to the
one person present who had tho key.
Three months later Sanford and the un
cle were standing together at a second ball.
“Clever girl. Harmonized with her envir
onment, hasn’t she?” Again the uncle hard
ly knew what the clubman was talking
about, and again the diagnosis was based
solely on the behavior of the fan. It had
forgotten all about its mistress and was
playing a drama of its own, a drama where
all the parts were taken by the pretty flut
terings of youth and high spirits in the at
mosphere of music; and gayety in which
they unfolded their wings. Sanford had
never spoken to the girl and'had seen her
but twice, but two glances at her fan had
told him her social history.
ARMED FOR CONQUEST.
The fan has never meant to us what it
does to the women of more vivacious climes.
We have never learned properly to handle
it, but this winter we are taking lessons
with a will. The fan, discarded from the
furnishing point of view, has resumed with
the Pompadour fashions its original voca
tion Its jeweled sticks of ivory or mother
of-|>earl nestle in fair fingers,the paintings on
its parchment leaves are of exquisite work
manship, the ribbon loops which hang it
to the arm or the golden cuain which fastens
it to the waist give occasion for hitherto
unimagined forms of dress decoration. To
twirl it, to close it, to spread it, to let it rise
or fall, to say with it come here, go away,
I am charmed, you flatter me, I am bored,
you shock me, you are rude; to carry on a
conversation with one adorer, while the
fan is holding piquant talk with another,
to make it express every thought, every rip
ple of feeling, to be all things to all men
and something else to every woman—this
is the newly revived school of the fan in
which wo are beginning to study some very
old lessons.
It is the revival of the ostrich feather which
has contributed to the rejuvenescence of the
fan. Not in ten years have the regal plumes
had the vogue on which they are entering
now. We load our hats with them, wo wind
them about our necks in long feather boas,
we cover our evening gowns with them,
making them take the place of flowers on
the uncovered neck and tho white arms,
we put the longest and most beautiful ones
we can find into plumy fans. Fans move
in two directions. There are not many in
the market of last year’s medium size. New
fans are very large or, per contra, they are
very small. Tho bigger the ostrich fan the
more it is esteemed, always provided the
feathers of which it is composed are natural
plumes, not joined or “made.” A fan of
pieced feathers is never worth tho having. An
honest feather fan is not to be ashamed of,
however tiny, and it grows in desirability
as its plumes grow in length from 10, 13, 15
to 30 inches, and even to 38 or 30, those last
being worth a small fortune, each feather,
hard to get and harder to match, being in
itself a treasure.
BETWEEN THE ACTS.
The white ostrich fan is the one which
the debutante loves, the black fail is es
teemed by matrons. These two colors are
not. however, in future to monopolize the
field. Tho newest featherfaus displayed by
leading jewelers show an odd mottled effect,
black flecked with white or gray, white
flecked with black, crimson and while and
other mixtures. Many costly fans are seen
With the component plumes aaltnuuojj; tu
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1888.
color, a pure white feather next one of pink
or blue, a black feather next cardinal.
These striped fans take less well than those
showing different tints of the same or har
monious colors, ns where soft straw-tinted
tips deepen into yellow aud rich brown next
the quilis. In colored fans of a single hue
there is n vivid terracotta which lights
up famously and promises to be the novelty
of tho season.
The handles for ostrich fans are as varied
as the suitable materials. Ivory richly
carved in openwork patterns responds to
the Pompaduur craze. Tortoise shell is used
often and oftenest of all the beautiful,
opalescent mother-of-pearl. Ivory and
lacquer, marvelously fine like frostwork,
makes an exquisite framework; so doea
Chinese enamel and so do silver medallions
set with rough pearls. There is no limit to
the extremes to which fan extravagance
can go. A handle of gold enamelled with a
half moon of mother-of-pearl;
within that another half moon
sparkling with diamonds, is a de
sign recently carried out for a holiday gif,
to a society datrie.
Shapes for feather fans do not greatly
vary. Theregulati n semi circle is di ap
pearing. Its place is taken by a higher
curve with the semblance of extreme nov
elty given by the tricks of ornameut played
by the ribbon bows, the bunches of tiis,
the feather flowers aud the aigrettes added
by way of pannache to relievo the flat sur
face on either side. The non-folding fans in
lyre, Tuxedo and other familiar shapes
hold their ground.
A LOUIS QUINZE FAN.
Up-stairs in grandmother’s iron-bound
box where it has lain undisturbed for forty
years, lies a fan. Its leaves are narrow and
either of kid or canvas painted with shep
herds and shepherdesses disporting them
selves in an Arcadian landscape. It is a
large fan and at the top of one of the sticks
is inserted a small oval gold rimmed mirror.
Now is the time to bring that old fan down.
The older styles have come in and great is
their glory. There are dainty fans mod
elled on the Empire fashions in the stores.
The newest of these are made of gauze with
inch wide gause ribbons or li-se bands run
ning across in rows, each row being painted
with a vine pattern in flowers or with
cherubs’ heads or some scrollwork notion.
They are very pretty, often in exquisite
taste, and notdear, but there is
not one of them which can com
pare with the genuine Louis Quinze fans in
those famous old Vernis Martin niount
which time has not robbed of their lustre,
aud which are now being unearthed raptur
ously from the old bric-a-brac shops aud
auction rooms. Some of them have mounts
of nothing more substantial than paper,
others are of silk or vellum, all are marvel
lously painted with the smiling, simpering
Marquesses, the powder and patches, the
minute and delicate art, the graceful pretti
ness of that pleasure-loving era. The sim
pler of the antiques and the more numer
ous imitations of the soft pink and the blue
and the white of Dresden china landscapes.
The more elaborate and richer are wonders
of gilt.
The French have always been fan artists.
They are sending us just now most fanciful
concoctions in gauze and lace. One of their
freshest ideas is the application of mother-of
pearl in flakes of microscopic thinness to
bring out the colors of a winter landscape
in a black and white sketch or a piece of
embroidery on a gauze fan. Exquisitely
tinted gauzes are cut to the shape of rose pe
tals or apple blossoms and mounted on sticks
of mother-of-pearl. The lace fan very com
monly is lace only to its middle, the filmy
pattern being set in a frame of gauze painted
w ith cupids or flights of birds. The gauze
fan as now seen makes a point of showing
its sticks, which are worth the display, as
prominently as possible, each one, exquisite
ly carved or inlaid, running through the
mount to the very edge. The painted gauze
fan ranges this winter from the simple
wreath of flowers or spray of running vines
to the most exquisite designs which it is
within the power of art to command, ex
traordinary prices having been paid in some
instances to se-ure the touch of a famous
brush.
Fan collecting is becoming more and
more of a fad. There is probably no single
collection of fans now in New York equal
to that which was owned by Mrs. Astor,
and which was rich especially in Lonis XV.
SDecimens. Mrs. Seiigmann has several be
longing to the same epoch and many beauti
ful ones are owned by the Vanderbilt
women. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid has one of
the most exquisite fans in the city, made of
white silk, embroidered in colors and orna
mented with small pearls. Mrs. Coleman
Drayton has a vellum fan painted with a
scene from Spanish history and mounted on
carvod sticks of sandalwood. One of Mrs.
Whitney’s fans has been greatly admired;
it is of valuable Point d’Alencon with
framework of gold. A Chinese fan belong
ing to Mrs. Fred Vanderbilt is a marvel of
delicate work in ivory.
Fan fancies abound. The old fashion of
mounting a mirror on the front of one of
the sticks is coming in. Miniatures and
small pastel portraits are honored with the
same place. Gold and silver medallions are
often seen. Sometimes a tiny watch has
the place of honor. The very latest prob
ably is a bonbon box mounted as a medal
lion on a fan. Ellf.n Osborn.
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FURNITURE AND CARPETS.
WHAT TO BUY
—ITC) R—
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS!
Is tho Question Which is Now Agitating the Minds
of Our People.
CAN WE SUGGEST SOMETHING?
WHY, CERTAINLY!
Just glance over our grand, immense and unequalled
array of Holiday Goods, and we are positive that something
will suggest itself. Call and see our latest,
THE UNIVERSAL TRIPOD,
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ive Baby’s name and age.
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MILLINERY
The Great Sale
OF
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AT
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IS CONTINUED. AND HAS REACHED ITS HIGHEST SUCCESS, AND AT CERTAIN
HOURS DURING THE DAY THE CROWDS CAN HARDLY BE WAITED ON, AND ALL
TESTIFY TO THE EXCELLENCE AND FINE QUALITIES OF THE GOODS, ALSO THAT
OUR PRICES ARE LOWER THAN FOR THE SAME GRADE OF GOODS SOLD ANYWHERE
NORTH. OUR LARGE WHOLESALE TRADE ENABLES US TO IMPORT DIRECT FROM
LONDON AND PARIS. AND OUR RETAILING ON FIRST FLOOR AT STRICTLY WHOLE
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GOODS. AS YOU SEE IN FLARING ADVERTISEMENTS AS BAROAINS, WE ALMOST
GIVE THEM TO YOU. FOR INSTANCE: BLACK AND COLORED TIPS. WHICH WE
HAVE BEEN AND ARE NOW SELLING AT 15 CENTS PER BUNCH, ARE ADVERTISED
BY OTHERS AT 19 CENTS. WINGS, BY THE THOUSANDS, IN ALL COLORS, WE
SOLD THEM AT 5 CENTS, OTHERS THINK THEM BIG BARGAINS AT 8 CENTS.
SAME IN RIBBONS, PLUSHES. ETC. TO DAY WE OPEN A LARGE INVOICE OF
FINE FRENCH FELT AND PLUSH HATS AT A OREAT BARGAIN, ALSO NOVELTIES,
BIRDS, DIRECT FROM EUROPE. WE KEEP UP THE GRADE OF OUR PLUSHES,
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still continue in our happy companionship, much to
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“BY THE WAY,”
We introduce anew feature, which will con
tinue till Christmas. We will allow a discount
of 10 per cent, on all articles (except E. & W.
Collars and Knox Hats). Prices, which are very
low, plainly marked on everything.
10 Off—Remember It.
C DRESS SUITS and OVERCOATS; largest
H assortment ever shown in Savannah.
I
Ij SEPARATE KNEE PANTS a specialty.
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Many merchants begin to offer inducements
after the harvest has been roaped. We believe
in giving purchasers the advantages while
they ARE KiTPLYtNO their wants, hence our
liberal offer of TEN PER CENT. DISCOUNT on
all purchases. Now, even at marked prices, our
goods are cheaper than any competitors.
10 PER CENT. OFF.
OVERCOATS.
A Good Union Cassimere ?SSO
A Good Kersey g OO
An Elegant Kersey 12 50
A Nice Fancy Worsted 15 00
(With Silk Facing).
Our SATIN LINED COATS are tbo hand
somest ever shown here.
“WOULD I WERE A BOY AtiAIN,”
BOYS' SHIRT WAISTS in FLANNELS and
PERCALES.
BOYS’ FURNISHINGS.
KNOX AND FLEXOR HATS.
Gold and Silver Shirts.
Gents’ Business and Dress Suits.
800 Pairs Nice DKESS PANTS bought at
cut prices and to go the same way.
161 Congress Street.
LIGHTNING RODS.
The iTNA LIGHTNING ROD CO,
Na 44 B&ra&rd St, Savaonah, Gi,
Is prepared to (rive estimates on the rodding of
dwelling* and public buildings with the best
copper rods. Work guaranteed and reference
given. Orders promptly attended to from
Georgia, Florida and South Carolina.
TAN BKRSCHOT A BARNARD, Prop
3VL±II Supplies
JENKINS’ PACKING, JENKINS’ VALVES,
FUR HALE BY
J. D. WEED & CO.
CLOTHING.
Gentlemen’s Outfitting.
BV beg to rail attention to our many novel
ties in b URXISIII.\fIS for the present season
mentioning itarticu aly
WELCH, MARGETaIN & CO.’S NECKWEAR
assuring the newest shapes and the latest color
i\tQS in silks.
ALL-LINEN COLLARS AND CUFFS.
Far superior to the best domestic goods and
sold at the same price.
EVENING, WALKING, DRIVING AM
FUR-TOP GLOVES,
in an endless variety of skins and in all th
fashionable shades.
FULL DRESS CHAMOIS VESTS.
A high novelty and most sensible garment.
UMBRELLAS,
with natural sticks and fancy handles, mantj
factured especially for us, and with which tr.
are enabled to give a written guarantee fa
them to wear for one year.
OFFICE COATS
in a variety of coloring* and of good , service
able materials.
UNDERWEAR AND HOSIERY
in imported and domestic goods , of which m
earn / a very large assortment, and we promi *
to please all.
IN CLOTHING
tee have surpassed all our f rmrr efforts, ntu
we confidently assert that our tine. is simpl
pc feet. We would call the attention of goo.
dressers to our latest designs in Dress Suits am
Overcoats. Respectfully,
A. FALK <t BOXB.
PULBH ATKINS.
Marines for Decembei
AT
ESTILL’S NEWS DEPOI
BULL STItEET.
Pricr
The Century :
The Atlantic Monthly 35
The Forum 50
Outing 35
The Popular Science Monthly 50
Scribner's Magazine 25
Harper's Monthly 35
St. Nicholas .25
I.ippiucott's Magazine 25
Cosmopolitan ... . .25
The Eclectic Magazine no
The North American Review 50
The Southern Cultivator 15
The Homo Maker 20
Magazine of American History 50
Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine 25
Frank Leslie’s budget of Fun .80
Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours 15
Frank L she's Popular Monthly 25
Something to Read 25
The Princess 20
Family Library 15
The Ladies Home Journal 10
The Poultry World 15
The Southern Farmer.... 15
The Universal Review. 75
Address all orders to
WILLIAM ESTILL. Savannah, Ga.
\ 21 inch, with hand-
I some assorted bor-
V df*rs. at
t 50c. EACH ;
‘ W ORTH 75c.
Fasliion Magazines for Decembei
AT
EstilPs News Depot
NO. 21Hi HULL STREET,
Price
Young Ladies' J0urna1...... 30.
“Le Guide do la Mode ’ Aft
Peterson's Magazine 2ft
Godey's Lady'* ilook 2ft
Deinoresls Monthly Magazine 2ft
New York Fashion Bazar 2ft.
"L'Art do la Mode ’.. IKS
The Seasons 3ft
“Le lion Ton" flft
Revue de la Mode. ..25*
Demurest’* Port F’olio of the Fashions 26.
The Delineator 2A
arfier's Baza r 10
Address all order* to
WILLIAM ESTILL.
Savannah. Ga.
WATCHES AND JEWELRY.
Watches, Diamonds, Silverware,
A. L. DESBOUILLONS.
21 BULL STREET.
MY STOCK is now com(ilete. I have the lineal
selection of I.ADlF'.S'and GENTLEMEN!
GOLD and SII.VKK WATCIIFiS of the ben
make. Fine JEWFiLRY in Diamond Settings
STERLING SILVERWARE, for wedding pres
entr. of the very beat quality, in elegant cases
Specialty of
18 CARAT FINGER RINGS,
BRACELETS, WATCH CHAINS, GOLD ant
SILVFiR lIFiADED CANES and UMBRELLAS
GOLD SPECTACI.FIS. GOLD PEES and PEN
CII. FINE FRENCH CLOCKS, And many nr
tides which for variety, design, quality ant
prices cannot be surpassed.
OPTICAL GOODS
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS.
Watches Repaired by Competent Workmen
L. a. McCarthy
44 BAKNARD STREET,
lUsder Height* of Pythias' Hall/.
MSG AND CIS FITTING
STEAK HEATING A SPECIALTY.
FOR BUSINESS
FOR DRESS.
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