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MUSCULAR STRENGTH.
What Strong Men Have Done to Amuse
Ancients and Moderns.
From the .Yew Fort Herald.
The recent presence in New York in the
different shows of two so-called “strong
men” Jand one very strong yonng girl who
chews wood, and the fact that a modern
“Samson” appeared of late in London,
creating quite a sensation, brings the gen
eral subject of strong men into public no
tice, and some historical facts with regard to
this class of “freaks” will not be found
uninteresting.
Without going back so far as the original
Samson, who in later days has found so ad
mirable an impersonator in Signor Salvini,
the pages of history record quite a number
of personages remarkable for their muscular
strength. The whole matter of human
strength in its relation to the human body
is very curious. The construction of
human beings is externally more delicate
than that of any of the quadruped kind.
Man, however, is extremely muscular, and
is, porhaps, for his size, stronger
than auy other animal. Comparing
with him, for instance, the strength
of tho lion we have a false idea of the
strength of the latter, owing to its claws.
But there is another way of comparing the
strength of man with that of other animals
—viz., by tho weights which either can
carry. It is said by scientists that a man
of great muscular power, by distributing
weights in such a manner that every part
of his body bears its share, cau thus raise a
weight of 2,000 pounds. At this rate a
horse, which is about seven times our b ilk,
ought to be able to raise a weight of 14,000
pounds if its strength were in the same pro
portion; but, as a matter of fact, a horse
will not carry upon its back above a weight
of a few hundred pounds. Another curious
fact is that runners by profession in the
east have been known to outstrip horses, or
at least to hold their speed for a longer
period; for while, after both have contin
ued to proceed for several days, tho horse
will be quite tired, the man will be fresher
than in the beginning. These runnel's are
said to travel ns much as 100 miles in four
teen hours. Hottentots are said to hove
outstripped lions in the chase, and savages
hunting the elk would tire it down and
take it.
THERE WERE GIANTS IS THOSE DAYS.
Many stories have been told of the
strength of certain characters among the
ancients. Of this number one was of a
Homan tribune who went by the name of
the Second Achillos, who is said to have
killed at different timos 300 of the enemy,
and who, when treacherously sot upon by
twenty-five of his countrymen, although
thou past his sixtieth year,killed,fourteen of
them before he was slain. Milo of Crotona
Is said to have lifted an ox weighing 1,000
pounds, aud w hen ho stood upright a num
ber of men could not force him out of his
place. Hliny tells of one, Athanatus, who
walked across the stage loaded with a
breast-plate weighing 500 pounds, and bus
kins of the same weight. But of all the men
of prodigious strength of whom we have
any account in history, Maximin, the
Emperor of Rome, is to be reckoned
the foremost. He was by birth a Thracian
and a simple herdsman. He was nearlv
nine feet in hight, and said to be the best
proportioned man in the empire. He used
the bracelet of his wife as a ring for his
thumb. In the theater, in the presence of
all the citizens, he overthrew twelve of the
strongest men in wrestling and outstripped
two of the swiftest horses in running all In
one day. He could draw a loaded chariot
which two strong horses could not movo.
>uld break a horse’s jaw with a blow
of his fist, and his ribs with a kick. This
giant gradually rose through all the grada
t ions of office until he came to bo emperor.
Ho reigned for some years, hated by every
body, hut so feared on account of his
brutality and his physical strength that no
one dared to put him to death. He conspired
against Alexander Sevorus and caused him
to be murdered in his tent. He also put to
death a Roman senator with 4,001 other
persons for an alleged conspiracy.
Finally the soldiers mutinied and killed him
A. D. 238.
Fumus, a native of Seleucia, who was
executed by the Emperor Aurelian for
espousing the cause of Zenobia, was cele
brated for his strength. It is said that he
could suffer iron to be forged upon an anvil
which was placed upon his breast. This he
did by lying on his back, resting his feet
and shoulders against some support, thus
forming an arch with his body.
SOME FEATS OF STRENGTH AND CUNNING.
In 157S there lived in Lancashire, Eng
land, a man by tho name of John Middle
ton, who was remarkable for the largeness
of liis stature and for his remarkable
strength. His hand was seventeen inches
long, and his hight nine feet three inches.
A story is told of an English miner in the
eighteenth century, whose finger being
cuught in a chain at the bottom of a mine,
by keeping it forcibly bent, he supported,
by that means, the whole weight of his
body (150 pounds) until he was drawn
up to the surface, a hight of 600
feet. About tne year 1703 a native of Kent,
England, by the name of Joyce, exhibited
such feats of strength in London that ho
received the name of the second Samson.
His own personal strength was very great,
but he also discovered various positions of
the body in which men, even of common
strength, could perform very surprising
feats. He drew against horses and raised
tremendous weights, and exhibited himself
successfully for eight or ten years, but his
methods wore eventually discovered, and
many individuals of ordinary strength
exhibited a number of his principal per
formances.
A Herman named Van Eckeberg trav
eled through Europe in the early part of the
eighteenth century under the appellation of
“Samson,” which then, as now. was a fa
vorite name for strong men. This man was
of middle sizo and of ordinary strength,
but by certain mothods and devices ho was
able to perform the most extraordinary
feats. For instance, sitting upon an in
clined board, with his feet a little higher
than his hips, the latter being placed upon
ar. upright board, well secured, a strong
girdle with an iron ring in front was placed
around his loins; to this ring a rope
was fastened; the rope passed be
tween his legs through a hole in the upright
board, against which his feet were braced,
and several men or two horses pulling on
the rope were unable to draw him out of
his place. Again, he fastened a rope to a
high post, having passed it through an iron
eye fixed in the side of the post lower down,
and secured it to his girdle; he then planted
his feot against the post noar tho iron eye,
with his legs contracted, and suddenly
stretching out his legs broke tho rope aud
fell backward on a feather bod. He would
lie on the ground while a stone of huge
dimensions was laid upon his breast and
brokeu with a blow from a great hammer.
He would lie down upon the ground,
and, a man being placed on his knees, would
draw his heels toward his bod} - , aud, raising
his knees, lift the man gradually, till, hav
ing brought his knees perpendicularly under
him, he raised his own bcxlv up, and placing
uis arms around the man’s legs, rose with
him and set him down on a low table,
r inally he was elevated on a framework and
a rope fastened to a scale which hung below
was attached to his girdle, a heavy cannon
resting on the scale which lay upon rollers
upon the floor. YVhen all was ready the
rollers were knocked away and the cannon
remained supported by the strength uf his
loins.
This feat and tho first two mentioned de
pended entirely upon the natural strength
eft lie bones of the pelvis, which forma
double arch, requiring an immense force to
weak it by any external pressure directed
’o the center of the arch, and as the legs
dnd thighs are capable of sustaining 4,000
9,000 pounds when they stand quite up
ris'ht, the performer has no difficulty In
b iurting the force of two horse* or in sus
taming the weight of a cannon weighing
-M.O or 3,000 pounds. The anvil trick,
” “® very surprising, consuts alone in
tkUuiuDg auyii. When this is daw
the effect of the hammer is as nothing. Th 9
heavier the anvil the less the blow is felt.
EFFORTS OF SHEER STRENGTH.
Early In the present century a man by
the name of Thomas Topharn exhibited
some surprising feats of real and extraor
dinary strength in London. Ho was five
feet ten inches high and about 31 years of
age when he began performing, and was
entirely ignorant of any method of making
hi3 strength appear more suprising. Among
his feats was rolling up a very strong and
large pewter plate betwcqn his fingers, first
rubbing the latter with cool ashes. Next,
he would lay seven or eight short, strong
pieces of tobacco pipe across his first and
third fingers, and break them all by the
strength of his middle finger. He broke
the bowl of a string tebacci pipe placed
between his first aud third lingers by press
ing his fingers together sidewise. Having
thrust anoti.er similar bowl under his
girdle, his legs being bent, he broke it to
pieces by the tendons of his hands without
altering the bending of his legs. He lifted
with his teeth, aud held in a horizontal po
sition for a considerable time, a table six
feat long with a half hundred weight hang
ing at the end of it, tho feat of tae table
resting against his knees. Again, holding
iu his right hand an iron kitchen poker
taree feet long and threa inches round, he
struck it upon his bare left arm, between
the elbow and the wrist, till he bent the
poker nearly to a right angle. Taking a
similar poker and holding the ends of it in
bis hands, the middle across ttie back of his
neck, he brought both ends of it before him,
and then pulled it almost straight again.
This last feat was thy most difficult, because
the muscles wnich separate tho arms hori
z intally from each other are not so strong
os those which bring them together.
He broke a rope about two inches in cir
cumference, which was partly wound about
a cylinder four inches in diameter, having
fastened the other end of it to straps that
went over his shoulder. Ha lifted a rolling
stone of about 800 pounds weight with his
hands only, standing in a frame above it
and taking h Id of a frame fastened to it.
Scientific men of the period, rating tho
strength of the weakest man at 125 pounds,
and tho strength of a strong man
at 400 pounds, fixed Topham’s
Strength at double the latter figure—Boo
pounds. The man’s weight was about 200
pounds. Topharn mot with a serious mis
fortune at last through his ignorance of tho
tricks of the trade. Ho undertook to imi
tate the feat of the German “Samson” of
pulling against horses. Seating himself on
the ground, with his feet against two stir
rups, by tlie great weight of his body ho
succeeded in pulling against a single horse,
but in attempting to pull against two of
them he was lifted out of his place, and one
of his knees was shattered against the stir
nips so as to deprive him of most of the
strength of ono of his legs.
STRENGTH IN FACT AND FICTION.
It is said that the porters of Constantino
ple will carry burdens of six hundred and
nine hundred pounds weight with ease.
Feats of strength have always, whether in
real life or in fiction, great attraction and
interest for the human mind; aud ono of
the most strikingly sensational scenes in
any novel is that iu Victor Hugo’s “Los
Miserables,” where Joan Valjoan lifts the
weight of a wagon under which a mau is
being crushed to death.
Washington possessed great strength and
was a noted athlete, especially in leaping.
Perhaps it is not as well known that the
late Gen. George B. McClellan possessed
also uuusual strength, remarkable, particu
larly, for a mau who, though compact,
wiry, and well built, was rather under size.
Gen. McClellan could bend a big old
fashioned copper cent double between his
thumb and forefinger. Standing on a table
he could lift a man weighing 100 pounds
from the floor by his coat collar and hold
him at arm’s length, and it is related of him
from the best authority that on one occa
sion when riding a powerful charger in
battle, the horse got maddened with excite
ment and undertook to run away with him,
when the general stopped him still in his
tracks by the terrible pressure which he ex
erted on the animal’s ribs by simply pressing
against them with his knees.
One of tho oldest—aud at tho same time
most remarkable—exhibitions of mechan
ical strength and dexterity i3 that of sup
porting pyramids. It is described by tho
Roman poet Claulian, and has been known
in Europe ever since. The celebrated
Egyptian traveler, Belzoni, before he began
his career as an explorer iu Egypt, per
formed this feat in various parts of Great
Britain. After all, one of the most ex
traordinary feats of this nature seeming to
be an exercise of strength, and which is
really nothing of the sort, is that in which
a heavy man is raised from tho floor with
tho greatest facility by several persons
placing each ono or two Augers under him.
The way ihi3 is done is as follows: The
heaviest person in the party lies down, say
upon two chairs, bis legs being supported
by one and his head by the other. Four
persons—one ut each leg, aud ono at each
shoulder—then lift the body, and they find
the dead freight to be very great, from tha
difficulty which they find m supporting
him. Now let the four porsous take hold
of his body as before, responding to two sig
nals, to bo given by the person to be lifted,
by clapping his hands, At the first signal
he himself and tho four lifters begin to draw
a long aud full breath, and whu.i tho inha
lation is completed the second signal is
given for raising the parson from the chair.
To his own surprise and that of his bearers,
he rises with the greatest facility as he were
no heavier than a feather. W hen ono of the
bearers performs his part illy by making
the inhalation out of time, the part of tho
body which he tries to lift is left, as it were,
behind. This is a trick easily tried and very
amusing.
ELECTRO-MAGNETIC STRONG GIRLS.
A few year3 ago a great deal of excite
ment was created by tha exhibition of a
young Georgia girl alleged to be electro
magnetic or otherwise specially gifted, who
did some remarkable feats of apparent
strength. This young woman inaugurated
an epidemic of Georgia girls, who frolicked
over the country doing all manner of curi
ous feats and tricks of strength, pulling
average sized young dudes rrnd mashers
around the "Stage, sitting oft chairs, abso
lutely discomfiting all efforts to lift them,
etc., ad nauseam. At length Pennsylvania
broke out with a similar disorder, the prin
cipal instance being a Miss Flora Coyle, a
pretty young girl of 15, who went to the
public school in Pittsburg, aud who “called”
the Georgia girls every time. This young
woman would twist a stick two feet long
held by a stout young man, brought up
from the audience, quite out of his hands,
no matter how much effort he might make
to keep hold of it. She did riot clasp the
stick, but hold the palms of her hands
against the ends. Two young men, weigh
ing 190 and 178 pounds respectively, essayed
to hold an ordinary chair down'to the floor,
but the little miss, by placing the palms of
her hands against the chair, forced them all
over the stage Three men, weighing in the
aggregate 533 pounds, theu mounted a
chair, but she forced them around tha stage
with apparent ease, though the chair broke
with their weight. Four men were thou
placed upon it, but she did the 6amo with
them as with tho three, and then the au
dience howled themselves hoarse over the
performance and congratulated themselves
that Pittsburg could beat Georgia with
electro-magnetism.
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THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JANUARY 13, 1890.
IN PAR3NTAL ARMS AT LAST.
The Romantic Story of a Little South
ern Girl Who Was Kidnaped.
From the Ashville (Ala.) Aegis.
About five years ago Mr. James J.
Arnold, a sou of old Parson Arnold, well
known in Shelby and adjoining counties of
Alabama, while visiting his stepmother,
Mrs. Nancy Arnold, of Calera, Shelby
couutv, had a 4-year-old daughter, Mabala
J., stolen from him. Mr. Arnold loarned
that his child had been seen with a woman
who called herself Sarah J. Colbort, and
who had undoubtedly taken the girl away.
Inquiry at the railroad office at Calera re
vealed no hint as to the direction gone or
the objective point of the child stealer.
Tho child’s mother had died when tho
former was an infant, but there were a
small brother aud sister still living, home
companions at the time of the abduction of
the girl.
A search for the stolen daughter proved
fruitless, and five years had elapsed In the
meautime, the father had moved to Missis
sippi and returned again to Tuskaloosa
county, where he lived when his daughter
was stolen, and where he has resided for the
last two years since his return from Missis
sippi. lii ISS7 John C. Arnold, who had
assisted his brother in tho search for the
lost child, received a postal card dated Jan.
14, from Key, Ala., and signed “J. M.
Bridges,” informing him that “the parties”
he had inquired about got their rrfe.il at that
office. From this clew only the brother
continued his search by inquiries and cor
responding. in the effort to discover tho
whereabouts of his lost niece.
Nearly three more y ears were thus spent
in trying to unravel the mystory of the
stolen child, when at last what appeared to
be a fruitless effort was rewarded by a sub
stantial clew to the girl’s probable where
abouts. Tho father recently set out from
his home, nearly twenty miles south of
Tuskaloosa City, to trace up tho informa
tion ho had obtained. On reaching St.
Clair he followed the windings of the Coosa
via Oreonsport and Hoke’s Bluff, entering
Cherokee—tho county he set out for. He
had learned that a little waif girl had been
left with a McAlva in Cherokee, about
fifteen to eighteen miles above Coloma. A
description of the child convinced Mr.
Arnold that she was his lost daughter. On
reaching Mcijlva’s his convictions were
confirmed as soon as his eyes looked upon
her features.
McAlva said the girl had been left at his
house by a woman calling herself Sal
Wheeler, who was found to go also by the
alias, Sal Colbert, and who afterward e ime
back after the child, he refusing to give her
up, but let bor have tho latter’s clothes,
which sho demanded. Tho girl had been
called Emma by the woman who stole her,
but retained the memory of her real name.
Mahala is now about 9 years old, and of
pleasant features, bright and intelligent
face, and by no menus of an unprepossessing
appearance.
DISGRACEFUL DEATH RITES.
The Ghastly Merriment That Prevails
at Many English Funerals.
From the London Referee.
It has been as-erted with tedious irrita
tion that the English people take their
pleasuros sadly. No one will deny the
truth of the indictment, but it is seldom
urged that in revenge we take our sadness
pleasantly. Nevertheless, an English fu
neral is often a merry-making, a jovial
excuse for dance and song, and tho passing
of tho flowing bowl. To go to a funeral is
with some of us equivalent to going out for
a festival holiday.
Let any one who is anxious to study tho
manners and customs of the English mourn
ers, spend an afternoon—Monday afternoon
for choice—in the neighborhood of a public
house noar a cemetery. I’ll warrant he’ll
come away with all of his preconceived no
tions of “going to a funeral” knocked into
the cockedest of cocked hats.
The other day it was my good—or evil—
fortune to have an hour to spare in a north
ern suburb of London. I had driven some
distance and I wanted to give my horse a
rest, so I put up for an hour and then wan
dered away to a public house iu tho neigh
borhood, to which I was attracted by a
largo number of empty hearses aud mourn
ing coaches drawn up in picturesque con
fusion around it. Outside the undertaker’s
men were chatting togethor with
their hands in their pockets and
were smoking short clays and passing
the pewter along. Inside the bar
was crowded with men and women dresssed
in deep mourning. I explored the house,
and found mourners in the coffee room,
mourners in the smoke room. It was a caso
of mourners—mourners everywhere, and —I
can’t finish the quotation, for there certainly
was a drop to drink. The raouruors in the
coffee room were more subdued than the
mourners in tho bar, hut they were merry.
Here was a widow who had just left the
dear departed “up tho road,” smiling at a
story which another lady mourner was toll
ing about “old Jones.” There was a young
man, with a black baud up to the top of his
hat, coaxing a girl mourner to have another
whisky. I looked around the room for tears,
and I saw but few. Ono or two eyes were
red, but smiles were on the ascendant, and
altogether the various mourners belonging
to the hearse outside seemed disposed to
have a pleasant hour at the “pub” before
they went homo.
A Trait of Great Actors.
Augustus Pitou in the Albany Express.
I have noticed ono peculiarity which
seoms to be possessed by all actors and
actresses who have achieved greatness iu
the higher walks of their profession.
I refer to that something in their organ
ization, either physical or mental, or por
haps both, which enables them while on the
stage to instantly seize upon and express
emotion, aud, having visibly moved an
audience, quietly turn to another player
and indulge in the most casual conversation
while waiting for the next cue. Then,
when the cue comes, quickly enter into tho
spirit of the part with apparent loss of in
dividuality.
I remember while playing “Horatio” with
Edwin Booth, in the celebrated run of
“Hamlet” at Booth’s theater, how strongly
his possession of this quality was made ap
parent to me.
It was iu the graveyard Ecene; we were
standing in the shadow of the trees on the
right of the stage, he leaning on my
shoulder, while the obsequies of Ophelia
were being enacted on the left. There is a
long wait before Hamlet has to speak, and
thou he has only threo words to utter.
During this wait one night Mr. Booth whis
pered in my ear: “Do you see that gentle
mau in the box? He is my partner. You
remember at the old Winter Garden theater
when I made several successful productions?
Well, at tbat time a number of Now York
capitalists came to me and offered to assist
me to build a theater further up town,
which should be a temple of art, devoted to
Shakespearean revivals. I was doing well
enough where I was, and politely refused
their offer. Shortly afterwurd the Winter
theater burned down. I thought of the
offer these gentlemen had made me, and
sought them out. They buttoned up their
pocsets—they had changed their minds 1
The man you see there in the box, without
any solicitation on my part, offered me his
assistance, aud with his aid I built Booth’s
theater.
Just then I heard his cue given, and
said:
“That is your cue.”
He asked: “What is it?”
1 answered: “The fair Ophelia.”
In a second he was a “Hamlet” again. He
crossed me—paused for a moment —while
his face and whole being denoted the
kneenost agony and uttered those words,
"The fair Ophelia,” with more feeling and
expression than he gave to them at any
other performance during that loag ran of
“Hamlet/]
The Most Pressing Problem.
From the Camming Clarion.
The race problem may solve itself—its the
bread end meat problem that's bothering
us iu this section.
Local Record for the Morning News
Local forecasts for Savannah and vicinity
for to-day: Light rain.
1 l Special forecast for Georgia:
IfUB Fair, except showers in northwest
winds shifting to westerly,
slight changes in temperature,
colder in northwestern portion, much colder
Tuesday.
Comparison of moan temperature at Savan
nah, Ga„ Jon. 12, 1390, and the mean of the
same day for sixteen years:
Departure I
Mean Temperature. from the
normal
for 16 years Jan. 12,’90 -|-or J
51 ! 63 12 j -1- 142
COMPARATIVE RAINFALL STATEMENT.
Amount j A ™> unt frSTtST |
for 16 years Jan ia> w
.11 j .00 -11 1.21
Maximum temperature, 73; minimum tem
perature. 51.
Observations taken at tho same momont
of time a f all stations.
The hight of tho river at Augusta at
7:33 o’clock A in. yesterday (Augusta timo)
was 6.9 feet —a fall of 0.1 feet during the
past twenty-four hours.
Observations taken at tho same moment of
time at all stations for the M ohm no News.
Savannah. Jan. 12. 7:36 r. m.. city timo.
Temperature. |
Direction. J]
'A
Velocity. ? |
Rainfall.
Name
of
Stations.
Port land 21 N 8 Cloudy.
Boston 88! E it-.... |<lloudy.
Block Island 44 E 24 ... Cloudy.
New York city.... 6- 8 12 I cloudy.
Philadelphia 52 S 8 . . Cloudless.
■Washington city... 62. S j (Cloudless.
Norfolk 641 S ] 8; Cloudless.
Charlotte . 62j S | 61.... Cloudless.
llatteras Cl S 81 [Cloudless.
Wilmington 04 8 j..| {Cloudless.
Charleston. fill 8 (Cloudy.
Augusta 66(S Ej 0 .... Cloudless.
Savannah 64 8 j Cj... Cloudless.
Jacksonville 6fi(S Ej.. (Cloudless.
Cedar Keys 70| W j...... 'cloudless.
Point Jupiter,Fla.. 74 E I B —(Cloudless.
Titusville 70S Ej..'....(Cloudless.
Key West 74 Ej 8j (Cloudless.
Atlanta 66 i S list |Cloudless.
Pensacola 70 S E 20; [Cloudless.
Mobile 701 S 181 .OllOloudy.
Montgomery 70| S ( 8 Cloudless.
Vicksburg 66,NW2>| .48 cloudy.
Shreveport 74 S }l2| P'tly cloudy
Fort Smith 54 NW 20 .46 Cloudless.
New Orleans 39 W (20| .44 Cloudy.
Galveston OOj N (SOj .68 P’tly cloudy
Palestine ( |.. j
Brownesville 76j N (12j....|P’tly cloudy
Knoxville 70( S| 8j Cloudy.
Memphis 62j W IS .58 Raining.
Nashville 70 S E|2o . 02|l”tly cloudy
Indianapolis....... 60 S (18 .04[Cloudy.
Cincinnati 68:fl\Vjl2 04:Cloudy.
Pittsburg 64 S Ki 10 .14;Raining.
Buffalo 42 N K 81 .04 ! Cloudy.
Detroit 20j S (26| .08 Cloudy.
Marquette 28|SE|..| .10 Snowing.
Chicago 60SW 241 .Containing.
Duluth 12 NWj 6j .02; Cloudy.
St. Paul 8(NW(12 JM Snowing.
St. Louis. 60|8W(20j .36'Cloudless.
Kansas City 12 NW; 8 .74 Snowing.
Omaha 6NW 3.'( .34 Snowing.
Cheyenne 12INW 10. 'Cloudless.
Fort Buford —Mi E 8j .... (P’tly cloudy
Bt. Vincent —l3| N 1.. I Cloudless.
*T Indicates trace, finches and hundredths.
—Below zero.
W. A. Whitney, Observer Signal Corps.
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Dolls and Toy Tea Sets at reduced pricos.
Plush Dressing Cases cheap. Our salo of
Dinner, Tea, and Chamber Sots has beeu
large, but we have lots left, which will be
sold at popular pricos. Don’t fail to see
Silva’s stock on lower and upper floors.
140 Broughton street.
A Monument on His Cheat.
“I had a peculiar dream last night,” said
Pickorly a few mornings ago. “I dreamed
that the Bartholdi statue had been removed
from New York harbor, and erected on my
breast. I woke up bathed in perspiration
and I could feel tho weight of a monument
on my chest for two hours afterward. I
saw a physician as soon as I got up town,
and he convinced me that I had the founda
tion for a good caso of dyspepsia. I got a
bottle of P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root
and Potassium), and I think I’vo mastered
the enemy. I know that P. P. P. is ono of
the best remedies known (from family ex
perience) for all blood attacks, and am sat
isfied that my rescue from dyspepsia is
permanent.” P. P. P. is kept by all drug
gists, aud is an unfailing cure for Byphilis,
Gout, Rheumatism aud all signs of bad or
impure blood.
Thanks.
We, the undersigned holdora of winning
tickets in the Holiday Cash Prize Drawing
of Appel & Schaul, hereby acknowledge re
ceipt of same, with thanks. The tickets
wore no additional cost to us in making our
purchases, ns their long-ostablishad rule of
one price and plaiu figures prevented any
unfair advantages. Very respectfully,
No. Won.
L. C. Driskal 514 *SO 90
J. H. Kock .726 25 00
F. H. Wolf, on Louisville road. .318 10 00
C. E. Mannelstein 504 5 00
J. M. Andrews 265 5 00
Augustus Scott 380 2 50
J. A. Hardee 206 2 50
Referring to tho above, wo tondor our
thanks to Alderman R. F. Harmon, Mr. E.
A. Weil, and R. L. Rockwell, Esq., for
their assistance and help to make our Prize
Drawing its deserved success.
Very respectfully,
Appel & Schaul,
One Price Clothiers.
Bevonty-Five Cents On the Dollar.
Tho last chance, but a stunner. Tho time
for moving of “Tho Famous” is rapidly ap
proaching, aud I offer as a parting shot
twenty-five per cent, discount to every pur
chaser. Competitors (because of the low
prices lam selling before moving) try to
make customers believe that my goods are
old, shop-worm, and what not. Such
talk any sensible man cau see into. There
is not a fresher stock of Clothing in Sa
vannah. My goods are marked in plain
figures, and, as is well known, the lowest
prices always ut “The Famous." I offer,
you know, on the top of the low prices, a
discount of twenty-five per cent. , not only
only on Clothing, but on Hats, Whirls, and
on everything in the house. There is no
humbug or subterfuge about this. If you
buy S2O worth you will get a present of *5.
It is just the same as a present, because you
couldn’t buy the same amount of goods for
less than S2O anywhere. Don’t let slurs in
fluence you, but go direct to “The Famous”
to make your purchases, and you will save
money. 144 Congress street, corner Whit
aker.
The Union League,
The Manhattan and other leading clubs of
New York praise up the world-famed Roch
ester Lager Beer. No more genial appe
tizer and promoter of digestion exists than
tho sparkling, delightful Rochester Beer
Made only by the Rochester Brewing
Company of Rochester, N. Y., and sold
only in bottlss. For salo by John Lyons
& Cos., J. McGrath, 8. W. Branch, W. G.
Cooper, Moehlenbrsck & Dierks and John
Lynch.
W holeaale Agents, Lippman Bros., So
vannha, (ia.
EVERYBODY IS INVITED
TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR
ONE CENT A WORD COLUMN.
For 15 cents you can ham “your nay" in the
Mooning News, provided you any it in 15 words,
aad pay 1 cent for each added word. The
CHEAP COLUMN embraces advertisements of
all kinds, vi*.: FOR SALE, REAL ESTATE,
TO LEASE, SALE HOUSES. HORSES AND
CARRIAGES, SALE MISCELLANEOUS, BUSI
NESS OPPORTUNITIES. PERSONAL, BOARD
ING. WANTED HELP, WANTED SITUA
TIONS. WANTED ROOMS, WANTED BOARD,
FOR RENT ROOMS, WANTED AGENTS,
WANTED HOUSES, WANTED MIBCKLLANR
OUB, LOST AND FOUND, TO LOAN, RE
MOVALS, AUCTIONS, EDUCATIONAL, PRO
FESSIONAL. MUSICAL, ATTORNEYS. Etc.
OUT OF TOWN ADVERTISERS
will have their orders promptly art-ended to and
will receive copies of the paper with the adver
tisement marked for inspection. Count the
number of wordj In your “ad M and remit
accordingly. Please remember that no advei*
ttoement is inserted for less than 15 cents.
LETTER BOXES
in tho Morninq Nutts are furnished without
cost for the receipt of answers to advertisers,
and all communicafton* ore strictly coryt
denftai.
Per ton* having advertising aoraunts with
the Morning News can send advertisements
BY TELEPHONE when it is not convenient to
write and forward them to the office.
Telephone of Business Office is No. 364.
Calls answered until 40 p. m.
PERSONAL.
I>HOTOGRAPHY. —lYices reduced: two dol
lars pa> s for one dozen Cabinet Photo
graphs. J. N. WILSON, til Bull street, opposite
th " Screven House.
VI EW 1 )AYS r ADVERTiSINO In this column
will surely bring groat results Try it and
be convinced.
I> KMEMHER, we are headipiarters forauy
-1 thing you wish in the Confoctionery linj.
SAVANNAH STEAM BAKERY.
TWO DOLLARS pays for ono dozen Fine
Cabinet Photographs; one extra in eight by
ten gilt frame, with cord and nail, 50c. SAVAN
NAH PHOTO CO., 110 Broughton.
CEASON TICKETS for Eo< lesion's Lecturer.
LA at Catholic Library Hall, dan. 16,17, and
00th, at $1 25. Single tickets for any one even
ing 50c. On sale at Fernandez’s, Butler's,
Strong’s, and 120 Bryan street. JNO. M.
BRYAN, Chairman.
TJESIDES keeping the finest Imported Liquors.
I i we also sell the cheap grades, and
promise to continue giving our customers the
value for their money. 51. RAVI VS ESTATE.
\\f E have in stock tho best Imported Cordials
tv and Ritters Benedictine, Curacoa, Mara
schino, Chartreuse (green and yellow), Absinthe,
Anisette, and Vermouth Cordials. English,
Orange, and Spanish Angostura Bitters. M.
LAViN’S ESTATE.
WT ANTED, information pertaining to the tic
>> mise of ELLEN MURPHY, believed to
have occurred in Savannah between 1870 and
IH7G. The said Eden Murphy was a nativo of
County Kerry, Ireland, and was married too
clergyman wliosb name is unknown. Authentic
information will be liberally rewarded. Address
J. H. ROURKE, 168 Washington street, Bing
hamton, N. Y.
r ro BUTCHERS ANDOTIIERS.-I will rent
A Lot No. 5, Main street, Tv bee Island, for a
term of three years, The lot is excellently lo
cated for a market garden, and shop for the
sale of meats, poultry, fish, ice, milk, veaeta
hies, and groceries. Proposals for rent, address
to HENRY SOLOMON, 176 and 175 Bay street,
Savannah.
HELP WANTED.
TtrANTED, first-class barber. Apply 36 East
Ii Broad street, S., F. &W. Harlier Shop.
~\\r ANTED, a woman to cook; capable and
IT well recommended. 111 Perry street.
YET ANTED, several first class canvassers.
1 1 Men or women who are unoccupied or not
satisfied with their present occupation will
profit by writing us. Address H. C. HUDGINS
A CO., Atlanta, (la.
\\T ANTED, a bouse girl, well recommended,
ii willing to assist with children. Apply 111
Perry street.
YV' r ANTEI>, lady agents in every town in
it Georgia. Address with stamp for reply.
H. S. C. Cos., P. O. Box 18(1, Beaufort, K. C.
VI7ANTED, a saw flier, one who can keep up
i I the machinery of a circular mill. Ad
dress FILER, care of Morning News.
KM FLO YMKNT W ANTKI),
WANTED, t>y wliite woman, an infant to wet
nurse; can give reference. 4J4 East Broad
street.
A YOUNG LADY wants a situation in an
office or store as a clerk; writes a fair
hand: will bo satisfied with a small salary.
Address U. M. A., Box 55, Morning News office.
WANTED, by a respectable white woman, a
situation to do housework; has no objec
tion to going in the country, or to any interior
city or town. Address, stating wages that will
be paid. Mas. A. C., Box 53, Morning Nows
office.
State
' OF
Weathkil
MIM (.; KLL A N SOUS WAJTrs.
W ANTED, 10 shares Excelsior Loan stork.
State price, and address LOAN STOCK,
Morning News.
BOOMS TO KENT.
IT'OK ItKNT, two largo rooms furnished or
1 unfurnished; use of bath. Apply at 105
(Jordon street, between 1 and 2 o’clock.
I TOR KENT, pleasant rooms, with or without
board; also day board, at 56 Uarnard street.
HOUSES AVI) STORES FOR RENT.
FTOR RENT, house 148 Gordon street. W. W.
FRAMER.
H OUSE six roomsand piazza; water; sixteen
. doll&rs. Apply 237 Montgomery street.
I.TOR RENT, house 188 Uarnard street; pos
session given about first week of February.
Apply on premises.
\ HOUSE to rent, in new block on Waldburg,
1\ near Lincoln street. Apply to SAL. CO
HEN, corner lJay and Montgomery streets.
I TOR RENT, house No. 69 Whitaker street;
1 jwssession given Immediately. Apply K.
D. WALKER.
I TOR RENT, dwelling on southwest comer
1 of Uarnard and Uordon street lane. I. D.
Laroche & won.
I TOR RENT, Ist February, a comfortable
1 house with seven rooms; with bath, hotand
cold water, and all modern Improvements. In
quire on premises, 170 Jones street.
I OR ItKNT—MISCELLANEOUS.
ITOK KENT, warehouse on River street, for-
I merly occupied by Arte*lan Inn Company.
Apply to F. ti. HELL, Ilusluass Office, Morning
News.
IjTOR RENT, Pew No. 66 Christ church. Apply
2 to A. L. HARTRIDGE.
TTOR RENT, pew No. 65 Christ Church. Apply
J to A. WYLLY.
~ FOR SAUL
I TOR SALE, bar and pool room. Apply to J,
LANGE. Liberty and Wheaton streets.
A FEW more Rose Rushes and Bulbs for sale
cheap at C. BKRDON’B. Lovers lane.
I TOR MALE, on Gaston street, very near Foiv
syth Park, a very desirable residence; large
and elegant iy arranged Inside. For particulani.
address G. w. E., P. O. Box 226.
FTOR SALE, three good milch cows with
young calves. Apply corner Bolton and
Habersham street*.
| TOR HALE, schooner smack, ’’Herbert”; &
1 bargain. Has been lately overhauled; ixi
good order throughout. Apply JOHN
SCHROEDER, Market Dock.
no KM EM, MAREB, 00LT8, twenty-five high
grade driving and saddle horses; large and
good lookers; also 100 improved Texas mares
horses and colts, broke and unbroke whole,s'*
awl.retail, J./, GULilAttliiLA 00,
FOR SALE.
17V.1R SALE, IS-ton sloop. Apply to J. I.ANGE,
Liberty and Wheaton streets.
/ • oK s choice LOTS will lie disposed of at
*' once, situated at Lincoln and Second ave
nue: a pudding for a purchaser of the whole.
For particulars, apply t - HENRY SACK.
I AIK SAI.F., one pair dark-brown match po-
I me-. The fanciest in the city. J. F. GCIL
MARTIN & CO.
1750 K SALE-RYE WHISKIES. Celebrated
1 old Wilson, Best Baker, l.oytie’s Solera,
I)E SOTO, Golden Crown, i>an Carroll, Seaside,
and Magnolia Rye Whiskies, at M. BAVIN’S
ESTATE. ___
c ACKVILLK 1s THE PLACE to make a good
O investment. We offer large lota for $25
and give two years to pay up. without interest.
1. I>. Ia ROCHE & SON, 16s ltay street.
AFTF.R four years' experience in breeding
fancy poultry, I offer to the public, lang
sban eggs from four pens of superior birds at
52 |>er setting. Correspondence solicited. MAG
NOLIA POULTRY YARDS, P. O. Box 14, Lou
isvilie, Ga.
NOW IS THF. OPPORTUNITY.—The five
acre lots immediately south of the city
are living sold rapidly; over one-third sold
already; call early if vou desire to secure one;
the best investment yet offered. Apply to ROBT.
H. TATEM, ltoal Estate Dealer, or address by
postal cani.
LOST.
\LL persons are cautioned against trading
clt<‘ck on Southern Bank payable to Col.
l’eter Reilly or bearer for ?62, said cheek having
been lost. E. C. GERMAINE, Administrator.
BOAKPING.
SELECT BOARD at 105 York street, corner
Drayton.
IJOARD for gentleman and lady, also single
> lady, ai 7s Montgomery and Stone.
SIIINGI.ES. •
LfSE our CYPRESS SHINGLES, 4, 6 and 6
1 inches wide, at
bundle cash: pricos according to quality. For
sale at the mill by VALE ROYAL M.VNU
FACTORING COMPANY.
MISCELLANEOUS.
S AN ADVERTISEMENT,
HEIDT
Sell* Caddies at Low Price*.
YVhitman’s 65c. Chocokitos ,41c.
Marshmallows ,35c.
Chocolate Nougat 86e.
Cream Almends ...,31c.
Gsc. slixixl Candy ~490.
40c. Mixed Candy 26c.
40c. Chocolate Creams 23c.
Pure Sugar Mixed Candy.. 16c.
Pure Hoarhound Cough Candy Ssc.
Call and see fine display and handsome pack
ages, ail at reduced prices.
(CALIFORNIA WINES, Domestic WhlskieH,
) Gins, Rums, Brandies, etc., at M. LAVIN’S
ESTATE.
J YEW LEY & DRAHER’B Celebrated Irish
> Ginger Ale. M. LAVIN’H ESTATE, Solo
Agont in Savannah.
('ALL at LaKOOHK * SONS, 163 Bay street,
. / and select a tine lot at Sackvill-', 40 feet by
100 feet, within a mile from extended limits of
city, near City and Suburban Railway, for $25;
51 |ior month till paid for, without interest; no
charge for papers,
1 TV)R Coughs or Colds try our fine old Rock
1 and Rye, or superior Peach and Honey.
M. LAVIN’S ESTATE.
BEFORE you buy or sell property consult
ROUT. H. TATEM. Real Estate Dealer
and Auctioneer.
\ GOODRICH, attorney at law, 124 Dear
il., liorn street, Chicago; advice free; 21
years’ experience; business quietly and legally
transacted
PUBLICATIONS.
lAL( IRIDA.—A book of information, cata
-1 logue describing property for sale In every
county, and map of Florida (all new), mailed
for )Mixtage, 6c. 11. W. WILKES, Florida Land
Specialist and Dood Commissioner, Louisville,
Ky.
? ■' .
PROPOSALS WANTED.
BIDS FOR tTbUIDuX '
(30UNTY ENGINEER’S OFFICE, Savannah,
J Jan. 2, IHDO. Sealed bids are invited until
2 o’clock p. m., Jan. 20th, for rebuilding and
keeping in repair for seven years tho Telfair
Bridge crossing the .Savannah and Ogeochee
canal about two and a half miles from tho city.
Plans and specifications can bo seen at this
office daily, from 8 to 9:80 A. m. County reserves
tho right to reject ali bids.
EDW. J. THOMAS,
County Engineer.
BIDS FOR A FLOOD GATE.
Office County Enginkkk, Jan. Ith, 1880.
SEALED BIDS are solicited for building a 20-
foot floodgate at the mouth of Casey canal.
Flans and specifications can be seen at this
office daily from Bto 9:80 A. u. Bids must be
handed in by 12 m. 22d January. Right reserved
to reject any or all bids.
ED J. THOMAS, County Engineer.
LEGAL notices.
STATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham County.—
By virtue of an order of tho Court of Ordi
nary of Bald county, will lie sold at the Court
House, Savannah,Ga., on the FIRST TUESDAY
IN FEBRUARY, 1820, within the legal hour* of
Hale, twenty-one (21) shares Southwestern M. R.
stock, eleven (11) debentures Central Railroad
and Banking Company, and all that tract of
laud in Burse county, Georgia, containing four
teen hundred and thirty-five (1,435) acre*, more
or less, and bounded by the water* of Brier
creek, and lands of Mrs. K. E. Key, Theodore
Daniel, and Thomas and William Barker, and
known as the Hopkins Dunn place.
To be sold as the property of tho estate of
MATTHEW HOPKlNSdeceased, for distribu
tion between his legatees.
Terms cash; purchaser to pay for paper*.
January 2, 1890. M. H. HOPKINS and
LEWIS R. FARMER,
Admrg. with will annexed.
(■ ' EORGIA, Chatham County.— Notice ig
X hereby given that I have applied to the
County Commissioners fur a lease of two hun
dred acres of oyster bottom, under Section IX.
of the oyster law. in s\'arsaw river from and
above the Three Sisters.
CO.NSTANTIU3 OESILKK.
(5 EORGIA, Chatham County. —Notice is
4 hereby given that I have applied to tho
County Commissioners for a loose, under Bu
tton IX. of the oyster law, of five hundred acres
of oyster bottom in Warsaw river from and be
low the Three Sisters.
AUGUSTUS OEMLEB,
SPOLIATION CLAIMS. ~~
SPOLIATION "CLAIMS.
A BILL is Indore Congress to extend time for
filing French Spoliation Claims one year. I
will take und prosecute nil claims on the same
terms upon wriich I filed claims of about two
million dollars in 1885 and 1886. Call or address,
A. K. Al-.1-.JBJNT.
31 Equitable Building, - - Boston, Mass.
FOR SALE.
A RARE CHANCE
ircm a.
Good Investment
IJ3OR RALE, a very desirable Orange Grove
’ and Residence in the town of Waldo, Fla.
The residence contains seven rooms. The grove
of three acres contains one hundred and seventy
orange trees, ail bearing, forty peach trees,
several plum and fig trees, banana plant* and
graperj. Ail under good fence, and in excellent
order. For particulars apply to
Henry Solomon & Sob,
173 and 175 BAY ST„ SAVANNAH, GA.
y CENTS A WEEK will have the
f K MORNING NEWS delivered at
jour house early EVERY MOBN
AUCTION BALES TO-DAY.
AT AUCTION.
% Furniture, Carpets,
Groceries, Etc.
C. H. DORSETT, Auctionser,
Will sell THIS DAY (Monday), I3th, at 112 Con
gress, commencing at II A. u ,
WALNUT SIDEBOARD, BEDROOM SET,
MARBLE-TOP; MATTING, CARPETS, WIN
DGSV SHADES. SOAP, COOKING STOVE,
OFFICE STOVES and PARLOR STOVES,
KEROSENE HEATER, CHILD’S TRICYCLE,
SPRING MATTRESSES, STAIR CARPET, new
HEWING MACHINE, SHOES, LADIES’
MUFFS, WALNUT SHOWCASE, WOMEN’S
CLOAKS, MEN’S OVERCOATS. BUTTONS,
FRINGES, POCKET KNIVES, BEDSTEADS,
BUREAUS, MATTRESSES, HARDWARE,
TINWARE, FLOUR, TOBACCO, WALL PA*
PER, largo lot of COMIO VALENTINES,
SAC H ELS.
—AMO—
-2 case* of FRESH EGGS, for account of
transportation company.
CLOTHING.
Long threatening comes at*
last.
Tako our word for it, wot
will have winter yet; how-i
ever, “to make assurance;
doubly sure,”
WE WILL SELL,
WE MUST SELL,
to filter Ski!
As winter is doubtful, but
spring is bound to come.
THE $$ MARK
is our beacon now. That is,
we are wholly engaged in
giving a dollar’s worth for ai
dollar.
Look at the Suits,
At the Overcoats,
At All Articles,
mLOOK AT
The l^rices
One says: “I’m no judge of
clothing, and wouldn't know*
whether your prices word
high or low.”
Nine ladies out of ten ara
good judges of materials.
Bring your wife, mother, si3-\
ter, or an expert Wo wilt
be satisfied with the verdict
Another says: “I alwayj
leave it to you.”
You couldn’t leave thq
matter in better hands. Yois
will surely get a dollar's
worth for your dollar.
This season has been ancl
is disastrous to the Clothing;
trado, and a financial bless-i
ing to the buyer.
You can make money by
providing now for
NEXT WINTER,
E, l LEVY 11L
I
b T b
DROKKRS.
f. c. wylly;
STOCK, BOND 4 REAL ESTATE BROKER
120 BBT AN STREET.
BUYS aoff aelt* on commission all <J,
MoartOM. Special attention given to i
chase ood *alo of real estate 1
A. L. HABTRIDai)j
SECURITY BROKER,
TJUYB and tell* on commission ali classes cl
1) Stocks and Bonds.
Negotiates loan* on marketable tecariMa*
** Pr,TU<
tlclear every fifteen minutes.
REAL* ESXATB.
oTfuLtoi?
i Real Estate and General Collecting
Agent,
8 DRAYTON STREET.
SPECIAL attention given to the collect lon of
rent* and the care of real estate, l’atroat
, age rc.spogtfuUy solicited,
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