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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. Poor Humanity! The common lot is one of sorrow say—at least —the pessimists, they who look at the worst side. Certainly what would otherwise be a bright existence is often shadowed by some ailment that overhangs it like a pall, obscuring perpetually the radiance that else would light the path. Such an ailment, and a very common one, is nervousness, or, in other words, weak ness of the nervous system, a condition only irremediable where inefficient or improper means are taken to relieve it. The concurrent experience of nervous people' who have per sistently used Hostetter's Stomaoli Bitters is. that it conquers entirely supesersonsitiveness of the nerves, as weU as diseases—so. which are invited and sustained by their chronic weak ness. As the nerves gain stamina from the great tonic the trouble disappears. Use the Bitters for malaria, rheumatism, biliousness, and kidney troubles. 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. Just Opened at Silva’s. A newr lot of Lamps, all kinds, a fine lino Brass Fire Sots, Fire Dogs and Fenders. Coal Yasos and Plato Warmers, second lot. Rodgers’ English Cutlery, Carving Sots, etc. Silver Plated IFare, Forks and Spoons Sets. Dinner, Chamber. Tea, Fish, Gamo, Salad, Ice Cream.. Examine our rich Cut Glass. Large variety of Art Pottery, English, French, German, Japanese and American. 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. 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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. 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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, ■ SiktSMd ■ 3