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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE.
BUSY PREPARATIONS FOR SANTA
CLAUS' COMING.
The Sunday Before Christmas in the
Churches—Christmas Services at the
First Baptist Church—Dr. Holmes’
Sermon—The Last Gifts to Be
Bought To-Day—The Shop Girls and
Clerks Anxious for the Holiday
Work to Be Over With.
The Sunday eve before Christmas is
next in importance to Christmas eve itself.
In most of the churches yesterday Christ
mas sermons were preached. At the First
Baptist Church the services wore especially
interesting in anticipation of Christmas.
The musical programme was redolent with
Christmas.
At the morning service the anthem “Be
hold I Bring You Glad Tidings,” by
Barnby, was sung by the choir with
orchestral accompaniment and evidenced
the progress that this choir has made since
its recent re-organization under the leader
ship of M. G. B. Whatley. Gouuod’s
“Nazareth” was sung as a bass solo by Mr.
B. H. Spangonburg. The evening service
commenced with the singing of Chappell’s
anthem “There Were Hhepherds.” ' Tbo
graces and splendor of this exquisite com
position were finely brought out by the
choir and orchestra. The symphonic pre
lude by the organ and cornet left nothing
to be desired. The soprano solo “And the
Angels Said Unto Them Fear Not,” was
happily rendered by Miss Florence Colding.
Mr. Will Fulconer sang a tenor solo,
“Hail Now the Moon,” with violin and
cello obligato.
pr. holmes’ sermon.
Rev. Dr. Holmes preached at both serv
ices. At the morning service he proa bed
from the text “Fear not, for beloved I bring
you good tidings of great joy.” He spoke
of the good tidings of the people of peace
and good will as being intended for all peo
ple. “If we look carefully,” he said, “we
•hall see a connection between the an
nouncement of the good tidings by the angels
and the fear of the shepherds. The shep
herds weru sore afraid because of the an
gelic visitation. It does not appear that
there was anything in the appearance of
the angels on the first Christmas eve, nor
in their address to the shepherds to inspire
fear. "“They hud only a message of joy and
not of terror, and yet the shepherds were
filled with fear. What is the explanation
of this fear? asked the preacher. “Is it
not found in the guilt of pur race?
Fear was not known to man
until he had first sinned. “I heard thy
voice in the garden and was afraid”—was
the language of conscious guilt. We
fear the night and the presence of the dead.
Men who are brave and fearless
enough in the presence of pby
•ical danger tremble and auake
when confronted by what seems to be the
supernatural. Mau is awed by whatever is
mysterious. In this great world with all
its mighty forces at work, we fear that
these might be directed to our undoing, but
we cease in groat measure to fear them
when we begin to comprehend them and
the laws that govern them.
A NEW ERA IN THE WORLD
“In the nativity of the Mesiah the fullness
of time had come when anew era should be
inaugurated, the era of perfect love, which
should again cast out fear. This was done
when God became man, and sinless man,
to sympathize with his fellow men, and to
Buffer at cost for them. To all people cast
upon the billows of life’s uncertain sea the
advent of the Saviour proclaimed the clad
tidings of the new era, saying, ‘lt iB f; be
npt afraid.’
.“These circumstances of the Savior’s
birth were peculiar. If angels woreVom
missioned to announce his birth, meu were
appointed to welcome him. If He was de
clared to be from heaven, He was also de
clared to be from amo g men.
If angels knew him to be Christ
the Lord, men saw him a babe,
wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying
in a manger. Perhaps no creature is so
belpless, when young, as man. But our
Lord accepted the feebleness and unmatched
humiliation of human infancy. In his
birth he threw himself into sympathy with
our humanity, just as afterward lie was to
give his life for our redemption. When he
took our nature, there was seen the flesh of
godhead through a veil. It is a great mys
tery, the fact of tfafc incarnation, out it was
wily in this way that the Haviour could
atone for sin. By this sacrifice man was
to have, and the opportunity to prepare for
paradise, for whicu,“-after the fall, lie was
unfited By this means he was enabled to
come back and be blessed as he was before
■in entered the world.”
CHRISTMAS FOB ALL PEOPLE.
In conclusion the preacher remarked that
the glad tidings which Christmas brings
are meant for all people the world arouDd.
Much has been said recently about the
failure of foreign missions. Whether they
have failed or not, it is our duty, the
preacher said, to spread the “glad tidings”
far as the curso is found. Foreign missions
have not failed. The cry to-.lay againßt
them if made and persisted in a few hun
dred years ago, would have left our ances
tors heathen and we might have been
heathen ourselves to-day.
The Sunday schools were astir yesterday,
in anticipation of the week’s festivals. The
Bt. John’s and Episcopal Free church Sun
day schools sang carols in the afternoon, in
preparation for the Christmas festival
next Sunday. The lessons in all of the
schools were upon Christmas subjects.
Everything in the church is in keeping
with the glad festival season.
THE DAT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
To-night will be Christmas eve—the uni
versal season of expectancy among tbo
little folks, and from the piles cf things
that the older folks have been buying—the
little ones will have a merry Christmas.
The toy sh ms and fancy stores were
thronged with ungrudging buyers last week,
but the rush will Le at its highest to-day.
The buyers purse strings were well open,
and they appeased their desire for holiday
novelties. Every store in the city selling
toys and fancy goods has increased its force
of clerks to twice the regular number.
“Its the b ggest time we have seen in a
good many years,” said the floor manager
of a Broughton street store. “Our force has
been increased to 115, and if the rush con
tinues we will be obliged to employ a
greater number.”
“The number of extra clerks employed,”
said another dealer of toys and fancy goods,
“is an evidence of what is being done.”
Several of the fancy stores have an addi
tional force of twenty, and one or two have
fifty extra clerks.
YOUNG LADIES AS CLERKS.
They are all young ladies. One pro
prietor said that the cause of this is that the
young ladies can handle the goods bettor,
and they know how to plea e the lady cus
tomers and the children. This is an im
portant thing in the tnuke-up of a toy clerk.
The stores are full of all classes of buyers.
The countrymen are largely represented,
and, if anything, they predominate in num
bers. There is every indication that Christ
mas in the country will be celebrated more
extensively than it has been for many years.
The fruit dealers are rushed to supply
the enormous demand for fruit. In some
Instances they have been unable to fill all
orders for apple<, pineapples, oranges,
oocoauut-. and bananas, and customers have
had to wait until anew supply arrived.
dealers hushed foh gifth.
While a great many who came to the
city to pm chase holiday goods lay in their
*tore of fruit, it Is oftener the case that
their orders are li ft with the fruit dealers
•“5 the K n d* are shlpjied to tnsin.
lbe bakrs are not idle. They say that
the number of embossed cakes for Christmas
hss in Bavaunnh, aud ii some of the larger
ooimUy towns, far escsd> anything m |Avt
??* r * Tbs MhfectiottciV shops are
liberally parent* 4. But it is only the
yorw wealthy classes who u* t mri U cm
fohUeu, "Rich have buuu prepared during
the last week. Some of the candies
are selling as high as $1 50, but
the demand is limited. The countrymen
; are satisfied with confectioneries at 20 cents
per pound. They enjoy it as much as if it
cost many times that price. The restau
rateurs are feeding the countrymen. It is
a big job. During the past three duys one
restaurant man has served 1,000 fishes.
THE RUSH TO BE OVER TO-NIGHT.
“To-night at 12 o’clock wo will declare the
Christmas rush off,” said the proprietor of
a toy shop, “and begin to arrange our
counters for the usual trade. Of course we
expect to have a time all during the holi
days, but so far as the toy trade is con
cerned, it will virtually be over to-night.”
“What becomes of the toys now?”
“They will be placed back on the shelves
and other goods, suitablo to the time will
lie placed in the most conspicuous places.
The past week has been a busy one and we
will be glad when the rush is over.”
A good many of the clc-ks that were em
ployed to sell Christmas goods will be dis
charged to-night. The merchants antici
pate a heavy trade all the week, however,
and will keep a good force. “We look for
a heavy New Year trade,” said one. “It
generally follows a big Christmas.”
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by
the News Reporters.
Hope Carter, the colored man whose arm
was crushed at the Vulcanite Paving Com
pany, and whicu was amputated, is im
proving.
Edward Davidson was arrested and lodged
in the barracks for an assault upon Donald
McKenzie on board the British steamship
Titauia yesterday.
The Morning News acknowledges the
receipt of a basket of grapes from Mr. A. M.
Uuderhillj Vine Valley, N. Y., through
Messrs. W. D. Simkius & Cos. of this city.
The sailor Cassidy, from the steamship
Domingos, who was beaten to insensibility
by a crowd of ruffians some time ago, is
B renounced in a better coudition by Dr.
•uun, his physician.
There were 335 failures in the United
States reported to BradttreePs last week,
against 300 in the preceding week and 204,
312, 197 and 315 in the corresponding weeks
of 1887, 1886, 1885 and 1884.
An incipient fire at No. 23 South Broad
street, in a building occupied by Madam
Mary M. Connolly, caused an alarm to be
turned in from "Box 16, at 7 o’clock last
night by Officer Dunham. The damage
was very slight.
The Forsyth Social Club will give its
third hop of the season at Armory ball
Tuesday night, Jan. 8. The committee in
charge has completed all arrangements and
propose to make the hop more pleasurable
than all the club’s previous entertainments.
According to the health officer’s report
there were 17 deaths in the city last week —
10 of whites and 7 of colored. During the
corresponding week last year there were 10
deaths. The anual ratio of deaths per 1,000
population, last week, was 18 for whites
and 15 for colored.
A policeman discovered the window of F.
M. Fox’s store, at Congress and West Broad
streets, broken open at 6 o’clock yesterday
morning and notified the proprietor, wli"
found, after examination of his stock, that
nothing had been taken. The thief was
evidently frightened away by the approach
of the offioer.
Tne mayor will have a full Monday morn
ing’s docket of “drunks aud disorderlies,”
but the barracks wouldn’t have accommo
dated tho prisoners if all had been arrested
yesterday who were top-heavy from un
bridled indulgence. The city, however,
was quiet, and only the ruder inebriates or
those who were down in the gutter were
placed under arrest.
Pedes riatis have complained so much of
late of raps on the ankle from the reckless
“shinny” playing in the public squares,
that the police are trying to enforce th>
prohibitory ordinance which puts “shinny”
under the ban, and yestorday the little sou
of one of the Chatham county judicial'
was caught in the act and was lodged in the
barracks iqjtil bonded out. The boys bad
better look out. Another boy was arrested
for shooting a fire cracker north of Liberty
street. Tho ordinance was badly fractured
iu Reynolds square yesterday, a crowd of
young men firing quite a number of giant
crackers in the square while citizens ware
going to and returning from church.
MARKET BASEMENT RATS.
The Headquarters of Gangs of Black
Thieves.
The market basement is a resort for some
of the most worthless of tho many lazaroni,
who, when not drunk, are rude, profane
and dangerous. Many of them are sneak
thieves and pickpockets who earn a pre . ari
ous living by begging and stealing. They
pilot tbe unwary countryman into the very
lowest resorts, where, in various ways
their victim is plundered of his purse, and
often of his purchases about town.
It is a common trick of some of the
younger herd to offer to carry a valise or
a package for some out-of-town stranger on
the way to the Central depot or to the Mar
ket dock, and run away with the parcel. If
the countryman happens to be a little in
his cups, the success of the theft is generally
assured. The young rascals are indolent
enough in their torpid state, and whea they
consent to go ou an erraud they move by
slow stages, but when they break away
with tbo parcel entrusted to them, they are
off like the wind. They dodge in the lanes,
run through a friendly house and defy
Eursuit or detection afterward. Under the
luff they run into the darkest alleys
or the factors’ walk, and are
soon lost to sight. They sleep under sheds,
under outhouses, on stoops, m straw piles
and often in the market basement, •their
sleep taken by snatches, for they watch for
the early truck cart and the belated trav
eler. They are trained thieves with older
accessories who hide their plunder. They
guinble in street, lane and square, and
grow up vicious and dangerous.
Of late they have been getting so bold
and insolent that there is a great deal of
complaint among the merchant* about the
markot, and they want the municipal au
thorities to make a specialty of breaking up
the gang.
MORE MAIL FAILURES.
The Time That It Takes Letters to
Come from Macon to Savannah.
There appears to be no let-up to mail ir
regularilies in this part of the country. A
letter mailed in Macon Friday night, Dec.
21, was reoeived in Savannah yesterday
morning at 9 o’clock—thirty-six hours in
transit, the railroad schedule tietween tho
two cities belug 7 hours and 15 minutes.
This letter was enclosed in an envelope,
measuring inches, with printed ad
dress of %-inch bold black type, thus:
“Busiuass office, Morning News, Savannah,
Ga.”
The letter ie postmarked Macon, Dec. 21,
9 p. m., and on the back “Received Sevan
nab, Dec. 23, Ba. m. A similarly addressed
letter was received last week, after twenty
one hours transit between Macon and
Savauah, but with the additional stamp of
uussout across the face.
The Darieu Timber-Gazette of Saturday
•ays: “Tho Savannah Morning News of
Tuesday, Nov. 20, 1888, cune pro nptly to
hand on yesterday (Kmiav), Dec. 21, 1888.
Hurrah for our mails. Ou Saturday last
there was no Savannah or northern mall.
Ou Monday the missing mail came, hut the
mail of tbe day previou-i failed to put in an
anpearanoe. This talk is getting monoton
ous—but why should wo waste our time dis
cussing it ? There is lucompetency some
where in the mail service, but where no one
seems to know.”
Christinas at Tybee.
Attention is called to the Tybeo railroad
schedule for to-morrow. Two trains will be
run to the island, leaving tbs city a’- 10
o’clock a. m. and 3:30 o’clock p. in. Tbe
Un U6O cent* for tbe round trip.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1888.
TRAVELERS ON THE MOVE.
What the Savannah Association Is
Doing and Proposes to Do.
The charter for the Southern Travelers’
Association is pending in the legislature,
and it is thought that it will be got through
before the session closes. In the meantime,
the association will go right ahead further
ing its interests in every way it can. The
memfiershin has increased to over 100, and
commercial men in this city and elsewhere
in this aud adjoining states are flocking
to it.
Steps are being taken toward fitting up a
hall for the association, aud it is likely that
before another six months passes it will not
be without a suite of elegantly furnished
rooms. The rooms wiil be open to the com
mercial men, no mat er where they come
from. The northern traveling men .will be
cordially welcomed, and the merchants
from the interior towns who have occasion
to visit Savannah are expected to make the
rooms of the association theirs while they
are in the city. %
“It is a great move,” said Secretary Max'
Robinson, “audit will bring about a closer
friendship and union among traveling men
in the city and their customers—the coun
trymen. We are striving to make tbeas
socialion a prosperous*one, and so far we
have met witn success. We will work
with redoubled energy to get the railroads
to issue the five thousand mile interstate
tickets as soon as we are done with t ie hol
iday rush. Encouraging communications
have been received from many of the rail
road officials, and wo have reason
to believe that the issuing of the
interstate tickets will be assured. Should
we t>e successful in getting the railroads to
issue them, the northern travelers will have
to become members of our association in
order to secure them, as they will be issued
to only the association for its members. In
this way we increase our numbers and
make the association popular aJI over the
country.”
President Dean Newman, who is one of
Savannah’s most pipulir traveling men,
and Secretary Max Robinson, a very ener
getic young busiuees man, are at the head
of the association, and it # juld have secured
no better men to foster and cherish the
young organization.
£IS LIVING BY HIS WITS.
Mistake that George Lawrence Made
in a Philadelphia Hotel.
Manager Timothy Dugan, who brought
Miss Jane Coombs south on her present
tour, was with Buffalo Bill and the “Wild
West” in London a year ago. He will leave
here this week for New York to join the
combination on its way to Paris. “Buffalo
Bill,” Mr. Dugan says, “is now on his ranch
at North Platte, Dak., and will leave in a
few da>s for New York.”
Mr. Dugan says that George Lawrence,
the bogus circus agent’s game, which got
him in jail here last week, is not his first, by
auy means. One day last summer Maj.
Burke, of the “Wild West,” was iu Phila
delphia arranging for the big show
there. He was stopping at the
Girard house. One evening a neatly
iressed dapper little fellow walked in and
registered as George Lawrence, suDply
igout of the Wild West, and asked for tho
best room iu the house. The clerk assigned
mm to a room on one of the lower floors,
and Lawrence’s baggage was sent up. In
a few minutes Lawence came down and
said, “that room will never do in tbe world.
I am representing the biggest thing on
earth, and I want the best room iu the
house.”
“I am very sorry, sir, but it is the best
we can do for you now,” said the clerk.
“Your general* manager, Maj. Burke,
nas the room next to your’s and ho has
found no fault.”
That was a stunner for Lawrence, who
bad no idea that Maj. Burke was there. He
thought a minute, aud packing up the bag
gage,said that he guessed the room wouldn’t
,lo any way, and walked out. Maj. Burke
had known of Lawrence before, but he
declined to prosecute him. Mr. Dugan says
that so far os he knows, Lawrence
nas never been connected with any show,
out he nas been making a fine living by his
wits.
The city criminal court will convene this
morning, and it goes without saying that
the case which will excite the most interest
is that of the voluble aud self-constituted
advance agent of John Robinson’s stu
pendous show—George Lawrence, with a
uundie of aliases too numerous to mention.
ROCKY FORD’S SHOOTING.
A Negro Full of Bullets Reported
Found in a Swamp.
It was rumored at the Central railroad
lepot last night that the negro who was
shot at Rocky Ford Thursday had died,
and that the colored man who shot him had
been found in a swamp near the town with
several bullets in him. He was reported to
bo iu an almost dyiug condition, aud his
wounds are eonsideged fatal.
The circus, in whose employ the first
wounded negro was, arrived here yes
terday morning, but the managers knew
nothing later than what was stated in Fri
day’s Morning News. A geutl man who
was in Rocky Ford at the time of the shoot
ing, said that tbe negro employed by ttie
show caught several colored people peep
ing under the canvass and attempted to
hive them away, when a dfficulty arose
and he was shot. Tiio negro who did the
shooting ran to a house and locked himself
in. A guard of four men was placed
around tiie house until the officers arrived.
Before they got there, however, the negro
lumped out of the window and ran to a
dense swamp near by. Before he
reached the swamp one of the
guards fired at him four times
with a pistol and two gunshots were also
tired. The negro kept on running, though,
and was not heard of ftp to a late uour
Friday night It was the general opinion
that he had been hit.
The story that was current at the depot
was not substantiated by the passengers on
the incoming fast mail train, and there is
no certainty about the t uthfulness of it.
Conductor Boboe, on the fast mail, said
that he heard nothing about tho matter
when ho passod Rocky Ford yesterday
afternoon.
CHRISTMAB AT THE THEATER.
Augustin Daly's “A Night Off” To-
Night and To-Morrow’e Attraction.
Manager Johnson will give Savannah’s
theater-goers a lively Christmas week. Au
gustin Daly’s famed comedy, “A Night
Off,” will be the attraction for to-night—
Christmas eve—and for Christmas rautiuoe
niui night. The play has been produced
with great success in New York. London,
Berlin and Baris, and it is safe to say that
nothing bettor in this line will bo offered
here this season. The play is one of tbe
farce order, planned to amuse, and, in the
hands of the Daly company, cauuot fail to
be a pleasi g a id mirth-provoking success.
The company includes such artists as Mrs.
B. A. Eberle, Miss Virginia Harned. Mist
Baulitie Willard, Miss Bertha Livingston,
Mr. George Gaston, Mr. C. J. Burbidge, Mr.
E. G. Spangler, Mr. Stanley Riguold, ami
Mr. Sam Veruey.
Rheumatism is caused by lactic acid in
the blood, which Hood's Sarsaparilla neu
tralizes, and thus cures rheumatism.
John Lyone 8c Cos.
Five thousand pounds of .elegantly
Dressed Turkeys arriving expressly for
Christmas dinner. The gems of the season.
No disapiioiutmeat In quality or arrival.
Send your orders early.
It cb Cut Glass at Silva’s,
l lano and Rochester Lamps at Silva's.
Carving Sets, Table anil Pocket Cutlery
at West's China Palace.
Potpourri Jars at Silva s.
PEOPLE FLOCKING SOUTH
THF WINTER’S TRAVEL COMING
WITH A RUSH. ,
General Manager Haines’ Trip Through
Florida and What He Baw-The
Railroads Taxed to Carry the Peo
ple and the Freights—The Fever-
Stricken Towns Getting on Their
Feet Again—The Vestibule Train to
Be Put on New Year’s Day—The
Savannah, Florida and Western’s
New Depot.
General Manager H. 8. Haines of the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway
and Capt. J. W. Fitzgerald, commodore of
the Plant line of steamers, who have re
turned from a two weeks’ tour of South
Florida, and Traffic Manager C. D. Owens,
who has just returned from Washington,
whore he appeared before the interstate
commerce commission, composed a trio who
talked very entertainingly last night.
Mr. Owens’ report was more technical
than descriptive in character. With
ocher railroad men from the south, among
whom were Gen. E. P. Alexander, presi
dent, and Maj. W. F. Shellnian, traffic man
ager of the Central, Mr. Owens was before
the interstate commission, where, to quote
his language, the interstate commissioners
conducted “an acute examination” upon the
long and short haul problem and the pooling
system of railway management. Mr.
Owens expressed himself as pleased with
the manner in which tho commissioners
treated the railroad people, and he was
favorably impressed with the care they
seemed to be exercising in familiarizing
themselves with a subject upon which to
base conservative action.
FLORIDA LIVENING UP.
There was no rao mtony in the southern
trip of Messrs. Haines and Fitzgerald, nor
did they nave to talk about technical de
tails of railway operation. They were
viewing the country, taking note of the sit
uation in Florida all tbe way from Jack
sonville to Key West, and they bring back
a favorable report of tho peninsular stat •.
They report travel steadily flowing inti
Florida, and a heavy freight traffic coming
out.
Mr. Haines said that when be got to Way
cross on his southward trip, there was a
company of twenty-five colonists on their
way to the neighborhood of Sanford, in
charge of a gentleman from Kansas City.
They propose to embark in vegetable gar
dening. This, said Mr. Haines, did
not look discouraging. Upon further in
quiry he found that every train is taking
people into Florida, aud no such volume of
trayel was ever known before at this sea
son.
At Jacksonville he found the city looking
well. The grading of miles of streets, at a
time when it was a chanty to give employ
ment, has helped tho city in more wavs
than as a sanitary measure alone.
JACKSONVILLE ITSELF AGAIN.
The fever has disappeared throughout.
Florida, Mr. Haines says, aud Jacksonville
is assuming its old time appearance fcs a
prosperous city. It should be remembered
that a very small portion of Florida was in
fected and from a financial standpoint a
heavy freeze would be more disastrous to
that state than a fever epidemic distributed
in a greater area than that affected last
summer. Floridians, with one of the most
fruitful orange crops known to the state,
are interested more in an equable tempera
ture tbau in thinking about the epidemic
which has been stamped out. All train
since Dec. 16, have been going out of
Florida taxed to the utmost tension of pow
erful locomo ives to haul the oranges to the
north and west for the Christmas tree, and
the orange harvest will continue to feei
the, traffic until May. To give an idea
of the increasing demand upon the carrying
facilities of the Savannah, Florida aud
Western railway. Mr. Haius said that the
car shops in tnis city are turning out fifty
freight cars monthly, and thirty-four loco
motives have been added to the rolling
stock, nearly all of which are now in ser
vice and the others will soon be received
from the factory. Notwithstanding the
restrictions of the’fever season, Mr. Haines
s lys that the freight business of the South
Florida railroad wiU be in excess of last
year.
KISSIMMEE’S SUGAR INDUSTRY.
At Kissimmee Mr. Haines says the
drained lands have been utilized in the cul
tivation of sugar cane, aud have yielded an
abundant harvest. “I would not like tosav
positively how large is the estimate of the
sugar they expect to ship from this section,"
he said, "nut I think they expect to have
so ue 1,500 to 1,800 tons.” English immi
grants are locating throughout this section.
At Tampa work is progressing favorably
on the new hotel, and Mr. Haines says tin
new hotel at Savannah will be a baby in
size by comparison with the Tampa struct
ure, which wiil have a frontage of 700 feet.
It will not lie completed in time for tbe
tourist travel this winter, but one wing of
the edifice is now ready for the roof.
South Florida is settling up very rapidly,
and Mr. Haynes says the laud agents of the
Plant system report increasing sales of
lands to actual settlers. The condition ot
the people is that of progress, and those who
suffered financial emba rassuient from the
damage inflicted by tho heavy freeze of
throo years ag , have recovered their losses,
aud are now in a more prosperous condition
than before.
BUSINESS FOR THE RAILROADS.
Wherever Messrs. Haines and Fitzgerald
stopped on their tour of inspection they
found every indication of a prosperous
business in store for tho land and water
lines ot tho Plant sj stein, which wiil be
taxed to the utmost to take the semi
tropical products of the growing state to
the distributing points, while every indica
tion points to a tide of tourist travel t"
Floi ida equal to, if not in excess of that of
any former year. Mr. Haines says that
the trains are full of people going south
ward, anil tho vesubnled train will be put
on Jan. 1, at which date tho new pasren
ger depot in this city will be formally
thrown open. Ic will be briilia itly illumi
nated by night with the electric light, and
will give the tourist a much moro favorable
impression of the city than the meagre ac
commodations afforded by the old depot.
It was the intention of Messrs. Maine
aud Fitzgerald to hove extended their trip
to Havana, but they spout so much of then
time pleasantly and profitably in South
Florida, that tbe near approach of the holi
days caused them to turn homewnrd, and
Mr. Haines will remain in th city until
the inaugural of tne new passenger depot.
What ceremonies will be incident to its
opening have nut yet been fully determined
upon. _
Something for tbe Now Year.
The world-renowned success of Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters, and their continued popu
larity for a third of a century as a stomachic, is
scarcely more wonderful than the welcome that
greet# the annual appearanos of Hostetler's
Almanac. This valuable medical treatise is
published by Hostetler & Cos., Pitta burg, Pa.,
under own immediate supervision, em
ploying sedy hands in that department. Mix
cylinder printing presses, five folding machines,
five job presses, etr., are running about eleven
months in the year on this work, and the Issue
of same for 18811 will mil be less than 10,000,000
primed iu the English, German, French, Welsh,
Norwegian, Swedish, Holland, Bohemian and
bpanisn languages. Kfer to a copy of it for
valuable and interesting reading concerning
health, and numerous testimonials as to the
efficacy of Hoe tetter's Stomach Hitters, uuiuae
meet, varied iaforraotioa. astronomical ceicule
lions aiidclii-onol v cal Items, etc., wbiqu can
ha depended Oil for correctness. The Almanac
for ÜBW can lie obtained free of cost, from drug
gists and general country dealers in all |rls of
tho country.
Kpoclal line of latest improved Rochester
I Amps just received at West’s China Pal
ace.
Umbrella Blands at Milva’e.
Hall Lamps (beauties) at bliva’s.
ABOUT FOLKS YOU KNOW.
.
Savannahtan. and Other People Who
Come and 00.
S. DuVal of Rocky Ford is in the city.
Ph. M. Berg of Macon is at the Screven.
Miss Baffin is at home for the holidays.
A. F. Winn of Dorchester is at the Har
nett.
C. A. Griffin of Macon is at the Mar
shall
Jonathan Rarich of Brunswick is at the
Harnett.
W. W. Rawson of Griffin is stopping at
the Marshall.
Raphael Semmes of Atlanta is at the
Screven house.
A. F. Edenfield of Swainsboro was in the
city yesterday.
Rev. Wm. H. Scott of Ridgeland, S. C.,
is at the Marshall.
E. M. Clarke of Louisville, Ga., is regis
tered at the Screven.
J. Anderson and wife of Macon are guests
of the Screven House.
E. F. Broughton of Darien is registered
at tlie Marshall House.
H. Dryfus left for New York yesterday
via the Atlantic Coast Line.
Miss Kate Seabrook of Charleston is at
Capt. Purse’s for the holidays.
W. B. Colburn and wife, of St. Augus
tine, are guests of the Harnett.
Capt. Fred W. Pen ting of New Orleans,
La.,is stopping at the Harnett.
Mrs. C. M. Holst has returned from the
north after an extended absence.
The family of Col. T. R. Mills of Gridin
is spending a month with relatives in Sa
vannah.
Mrs. W. M. Low was a passenger on the
steamship Tallahassee, and will probably
remain in the city for the winter.
Miss Johnnie Walls, a popular young
lady of Griffin, who has been visiting Mrs.
S. C. Lee, at 172 State street, returned
home last night via the Central railroad.
Signal Observer M. J. Wright, Jr., who
has recently been stationed at .the Savan
nah office, says that, although he comes
from a distant state, he feels like he ha
come to an old home. His parents and
grandparents were reared and lived the
greater part of their lives in this city.
OVER IN CHARLESTON.
Happenings on the South Carolina
Side of the Savannah.
Five young South Carolina lawyers were
admitted to the bar of tho supreme c >urt of
South Carolina Saturday and one of them
will go to Charleston to practice.
The pilots of the port will celebrate
Christmas day in their official capacity with
the “laud lubbers” ashore, the special ob
servance being the “brewing”and imbibing
of a huge bowl of eggnog at their meeting
place, or “exchange.”
The 69tb anniversary of the New England
Society was observed Saturday nig t at
the Charleston hotel. The venerable presi
dent of the society, Dr. Charles S. Vedder,
presided, assisted by Vice Presidents A. H.
Hayden, George W. Williams and Secre
tary and Treasurer Thaddeus Street.
Among the invited guests were Hon.
Charles H. Simonton, United States judge;
Congressman Samuel Dibble, President
Shepherd of the College of Charleston; Col.
Robert Aldrich, Geu. George D. Johnston
of the Citadel academy; Hugh 8. Thomp
son, assistant secretary of the treasury,
and Maj. R. Harvey of the British army.
DRIFT FROM THE HARBOR.
Happenings on the River and Among
the Shipping.
The steamship Gate City, from Boston,
arrived last night with 123 passengers—
ninety cabin and thirty-three steerage.
The steamship City of Birmingham ar
rived yesterday from New York. The bulk
of her freight consisted of street cars, etc.,
for the Beit Line Street railroad.
The United States engineers’ steamer
Anthea, Capt. William T. McNelty in com
mand, arrived yesterday from Philadelphia
via Charleston. She is on her way to St.
Augustine, Fla.
The steam yacht Sagamore is still in port,
and tho river front was visited yesterday
by quite a number of ladies and gentlemen
to look at the trim ves-el, as she was the
admired of all admirers.
Death of an Old City OfflciaL
Mr. James Kelly, for many yeirs keeper
of the city magaziue, and an old residen of
Savannah, died at 7 o’clock yesterday
morning at his home after a briof illness
from pneumonia. Mr. Kelly, was a native
of county Tipperary, Ireland, and has been
a citizen of Savannah for over thirty
years. He was known for his kindness and
liberality to the poor. His only surviving
relative hero is a sister. His funeral will
take place from St. Patrick’s church this
morning.
John Lyons & Cos.
By reference to Sunday's issjie of this
paper it will bo seen that the olFostablished
house of John Lyons & Cos., for so many
years justly considered headquarters for
Champagnes, Brandies, Whiskies and
Wines, again comes to the front with an
extraordinary supply of choicely selected
imports, to which the attention of tiie pub
lic is iuvited.
You can be suited in price and article at
Silva’s.
At EBtiU's.
Savannah Daily Morning Nkws,
“Robert Elsinore,” by Mrs. Humphry
Ward; “Rhoda Fleming,” by George Mere
dith; “The Countess Eve," by J. H. Sbort
houso; “My Fellow Laborer,” by H. Rider
Haggard: "Out Wost,” Puck’s Library No.
IS, Outing for January, Scribner’s Maga
zine for January. Lippincott’s Magazine
for Jnuuary, L’Art do la Mode for January,
Mr. Grundy, London Weekly Times, Lip
pincott s Magazine for December, London
illustrated News, Horseman, Sporting
South. Sporting Times, Sporting News,
Spo ting Life, Sportsman, Now York
Weekly, Saturday Night, New York
Lodger, Fireside Companion, Family Story
Paper, Public Opinion, New York
Herald. World, Sun, Star, Press, Times,
Tribune, Boston Herald, Boston
Globe, Baltimore Sun, Cincinnati En
quirer, Cincinnati Gazette, Philadelphia
Press, Philodelpuia Times, New Orleans
Times-Democrat, Atlanta Constitution,
Macon Telegraph, Augusta Chronicle,
Charleston News and Courier, Florida
Times-Union, Louisville Courier-Journal,
Chicago luter-Ocoan.
For the Organ Fund.
Now in our warerooms and for sale for
the benefit of First Presbyterian Church
Organ Fund:
One Cbickering Cabinet Upright, donated
by Messrs. Cbickering & Hons.
'Oue Packard Orchestral Parlor Organ,
donated by the Fort Wayne Organ Com
pany.
Call and see these beautiful Instruments.
Special bargains given on them.
L. A B. 8. M. H.
Richest line of out gloss in oily at West's
China Palace.
Mathuehak Pianos.
Upright, Grand, Rosewood and Kbonized
Cases, 7>f Octaves, three strings through
out, ivory keys, unique fall Ixianl, fancy
fretwork, (Jiiecn Anno trusses, equalising
scale, French grand action. Catalogue
pri e 1700, but now for a limited period
only at s32J—#s cash, $2 weekly.
LuDUkN A lUtzs H. M. H,
Dinner Nets from *7 60 up at Suva's.
Satin Liued Case Goods at Silva's.
■ •,#■ . -.-■ -- ---- - ■ —■■■ lir
Christmas Presents iu great variety and
at reasonable prices at West's China Palace.
Weather Indications.
I FAIR I SP® o ** l indications for Georgia:
I I Fair weather, warmer, variable
I winds.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nah, Dec. 23, 1888, and the mean of same day
for fifteen years.
Departure Total
Mean Temperature from the Departure
1 - Mean Since
for 15 years, Dec. 23, ’BB. -|- or Jan. 1,1888.
04 I 40 —l4 777 ~
Comparative rainfall statement:
De arture I Total
Mean Daily Amount from the Departure
Amount for for Mean Since
16 years. Dec. 23, ’SS. -j- or Jan. 1,1888.
11 .00 .l! -- 5.78
Maximum temperature, 55.8; minimum tem
erature,32 0.
The hight of the river at Augusta at 7:33
o’clock a. m. yesterday (Augusta time) was
9.9 feet, a fall of O.G feet during the past
twentyfour hours.
Observations taken at the same moment of
rime at all stations.
Savannah, Dec. 23, 6:?6 a. m., City time.
Temperature.
"
Direction. <
Velocity. 9
Rainfall.
NAME
or
STATIONS.
Portland I 80 BIV 14 Clear.
Boston ! 3t SW 22 -Clear.
Block Island | 36 W ,12 .. Clear.
New York city —| 31 W I 9 ... Clear.
Philadelphia 31 W Clear.
Washington City.. S4S E Clear.
Norfolk 34 1 8 6 Clear.
Charlotte 88 Cm Clear.
Hatteras 40 N E 6... Clear.
Detroit 40 8 24 ... Clear.
Fort Buford 12 N Cloudy.
St. Vincent 16 NW 22 ... Cloudy.
Wilmington 42 E Clear..
Charleston 44 N E 6 .... Clear. ’
Augusta 40 N E Clear.
Savannah 46 N E 6 *T Clear.
Jacksonville 52 N El 6 Raining.
Cedar Keys 64NE 8 ... Clear.
Key West 64 N 112 .... Clean
Atlanta 42 E I 8 ... Clear.
Pensacola 545EU2... Clear.
Mobile - 54 8 E ; Clear.
Montgomery 52 E | 6 .... Clear.
Vicksburg 84 8 E E .... Clear.
New Orleans 62 E j 6 .... Clear.
Shreveport 60 8 g .... Clear.
Fort Smith 54 8 E 6 .... Cloudy.
Galveston EOS E 10 .... Clear
Palestine. 68 S Ell 0.... Clear.
Brownesvllle 6b S 8 ... Clear.
RioGrande 70S E 10 .... Clear.
Memphis : 48 S E 0 .... G ear.
Nashville 40 S E Clear.
Cincinnati 42 C m Clear.
Pittsburg 42 S 6 Clear.
Buffalo 40 S 18.. . Clear.
Marquette 42 S E 6 'Cloudy.
Chicago 44, S 24 .... Clear.
Duluth 44 W 14 ... i air.
St. Paul 481 S ..J ... Fair.
Point Jupiter, Fla. 69 N E 12i Cioudy.
Titusville 60NW 6!.... I Cloudy.
St. Louis 46, S 14 1 .... Clear.
Kansas City ~ 58] S 16,. . Cloudy.
Omaha 54 S 121 .01 Raining.
Yanktno 44| N 6 1 01 Raining.
Bismarck 18 NW 12 .... Cloudy.
Cheyenne 381 N . |. ..|Cloudy.
*T denotes trace of rainfall.
M. J. Wright, Jr.. Observer Sienal Corps.
Oil Heating Stoves at Silva’s.
Bisque Dolls at Silva’s.
For the New Organ in the First Presby
terian Church.
The following generous contributions
from northern piano and organ manu
facturers for the n w Pipe Organ soon to
be placed in the First Presbyterian church,
have been received througu the solicitation
of Mr. J. A. Bates, chairman of the organ
committee:
A superb Cabinet Upright Piano of latest
style, cash value at their warerooms SSOO.
This piano is now on exhibition at Luddei
& Bates Southern Music House, and will
be sold by them for the benefit of the organ
fund.
An elegant Parlor Organ, cash value $75,
from the Packard Orchestral Organ Com
pany at Fort Wayne, Ind. This instru
ment is also to be sold for the organ fund.
From R. M. Bent & Cos., makers of tht
Bent pianos, S2O in cash.
This action is certainly very handsome
and liberal on the part of the above makers,
and shows an appreciation of the large
sales wnich their instruments have had in
Savannah.
Toy Tea Seta at Silva’s.
If you want anything go to Silva’s.
Oak, Pine and Lightwood.
Have removed my wood yard to corner
Gwinnett street and Savannah, Florida and
Western railway. Telephone 77.
R. B. Casssxs.
The best variety in the city of Art Por
celains at Siiva's.
Your wife says you can get just what sho
wants at Silva’s.
Our Mathushek Sale.
We have kept pretty quiet about our
Special Mathushek Piano Sale for some
time for the sole reason that we actually
could not get the pianos as fast as wanted
We have been getting five per week from
factory, and as fast as received they were
gobbled up. No use to try to keep even
one in warerooms as a sampto. The de
mand exceeds the supply.
Five more expected this week, some of
which are spoken for on arrival. We ad
vise those intending to purcuaso to book
their orders at once. Remember S7O actually
saved. This is identically the piano regu
larly sold by us for years at s!i9s, and also
by the makers, now offered at $325, payable
only $5 cash and $2 weekly, until paid.
The greatest bargain that we, or any
other piano house, ever offered. Sale
limited. Don’t miss it.
Ludden & Bates S. M. H.
Dressing Cases, Manicure Sets and Work
Baskets at West’s China Palace,
Beautiful Decorative Art Porcelain at
West’s China Palace.
Haviland’s finest French Dinner and Tea
Sets at West’s China Palace.
Our Holiday Plano Bale.
Whoop! How it starts off. Four superb
instruments sold from the warerooms on
Friday and seven on Saturday.
No blow about this. Actual sales, every
one of them. Names given if wanted.
Shan’t have a piano left in our warerooms
when the sale closes, Jan. sth, if this rush
continues.
Plenty left yet, however, and more
all at. Large shipments duo this week.
Our December trado astonishes us. De
cember, PSB7, was the heaviest month in
our experience, but at this date our sales
are a clean SIO,OOO ahead.
Our holiday sales will swell sales beyond
all precedent. Low prices, easy terms, and
the squarest of dealing are irresistible
arguments that capture buyers every tune
L. & B. 8. M. H.
Plate Warmers ft Hilva’s.
Coal Vasos at Hilva’s.
Ho iduy Gifts Fit for a King.
A superb Chickerlng, Mathushek, Mason
& Hamlin, or Sterling Piano in rosewood,
mahogany, clierry oak or walnut cases.
highest musical excellence combined
with artistic llniab and design.
Our medium price pianos are simply
wonderful. For only $226 or $260 we now
offer a really line piano. Fins hi me, fine
in tone, and solid in construction. Guaran
teed from the ground up, aud good for a
lifetime. Call and see It.
Mteriin* Milver, also Re and & Barton's .
finest Silver Plate at West's China Palace.
Absolutely Pure.
This Powder never varies. A marvel of Purity
' Strength and Wholesoineness. More econorai!
cal than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold
iu competition with the multitude of low test
short weight alum or phosphate powders, Sold
only in cans. Royai, Baking Powder Cos.. liM
Wall street. New York.
LUDDEN & BATES S. M. H.
PIANOS
SPECIAL^HOnn ay SM F
ENDINJ "SATU^HAr^'jA^'bTH.
A magnificent display of Pianos now in our
Warerooms. Artistic Cases in Rosewood
Ebony, Mahogany, Walnut and other Natural
Woods. The Choicest Productions of Six lead
ing Makers, sent to sunply our Holiday Trade
A sight to delight Music and Art Lovers.
Special inducements in prices and terms for
our Holiday Sale, commencing TO DAY and
ending SATURDAY NIGHT, Jan. sth. This
sale is bona fide, and unusual inducements will
be offered. Seeing is believing. Come and see.
The richest and most acceptable Christmas
Gift you can make to Wife, Daughter or Sister,
and one that will give the most lasting pleasure,
is a fine Piano, from a first-class maker.
BUY IT AT OUR
SPECIAL HOLIDAY SALE.
LUDDEN & BATES SOUTHERN
MUSIC HOUSE.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
Qifistis Iwefi
STATE
OF
WEATHER.
A. J. Hiller & Go.,
THE HOLIDAY HUSTLERS, BEG TO ADVISE
THE ARRIVAL THIS WEEK OF
A CHOICE LINE OF
Christmas Novelties.
OUR FURNITURE AND CARPET DEPART
MENTS will display rich lines specially
gotten out for the occasion. It will certaiuly
gratify you to visit and Inspect these elegant
f foods. The children are not forgotten, but will
>e highly pleased with the gifts that Santa
Claus will buy from us. Moderate prices and
courteous attention to all who favor us with a
call.
A. J. Miller & Co.’s
Furniture and Carpet Emporium.
mam
TO BE PRESENTED
To Our Customers at
9:30 o’clock Christ
mas Eve!
Every one purchasing
one dollar’s worth of goods
will stand an equal chance
of receiving this hand
some set, which is now on
exhibition in our show
window.
LUDDEN & BATES S M. H.,
ART & STATIONERY DEPARTMENTS.
F. E. MCARTHUR, Manager.
Chandeliers,
BRACKETS,
Hall Lights
AND ALL KINDS OF
Gas Fixtures
OK MANY ARTISTIC STYLES AND
DESIGNS, NOW rOU BALE BY
John Nicolson, Jr.,
30 and 32 Dray ton bt>.