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TRADE PROSPECTS GOOD.
ACTIVITY IN ALL LINKS OF BOSI
NESS WKLL SUSTAINED.
The Increased Volume of Currency
Has Not Inflated Prices An Im
proved Export Trade The Great
Industries Active—lron Looking Up
—Railroad Stocks Depressed.
New York, Sept. 35—Tbe weekly re
view of R G. Dun & Cos. savs:
Liquidation in nearly all kinds of specu
lation comas, to the disappointment of
many, in connection with the largely in
creased supplies of money, ar.d prepares the
way for a healthier trade in ail legitimate
branches. Treasury disbursements for
bonds and silver, and the prepayment of
interest, have reduced the balances by
nearly $3u,u00.000, but the enormous sup
ply of currency has not as yet inflated
prices at all. The local rate for money on
call has declined from 4 to 3 per cent., aad
an easier market is reported at Boston,
Philadelphia aud Chicago, but the great
foreign hanks continue to lose gold. Eng
land and France reporting a loss of $4,6)0,-
000 for the week.
IMPROVEMENT IS THE EXPORT TRAPE.
With lower prices there appears, the
deairel improvement in exports of products
and the decrease for the past three weeks is
now only 4.7 percent, as com pared with last
last.
Imports are much enlarged by the effort
to get goods into the country before the
new tariff goes into effect, but
the current accounts of such increases
axe exaggerated. The value of all imports
for the turee weeks just closed has been but
per cent, above last year’s record. A
considerable increase appears in woolens,
linens, silks and other dry goods, but there
is a fair prospect that merchandise exports
will now exceed in value the imports for
the month.
INCREASED EXPORTS OF COTTON.
Grain does not move freely as yet, but
exporisof cotton exceed last year’s mate
rially, and provisions move in larger quan
tities.
Reports from other cities show remark
able activity in all branches of legitimate
trade. The excess of bank clearings over
those of the corresponding weeks last year
in all cities outside of New York rises to 16
per cent for the month thus far, and at
western and southern points the gain aver
ages about 33 per cent Though money is very
active at most points and rather stnugent
at many, the volume of business does not
teem to be anywhere curtailed thereby, and
reports as to collections are much more
favorably than usual.
manitfacturi.no active.
The great industries are decidedly active,
tbe wool manufacture having especially
Improved, with much more satisfactory
orders. The cotton manufacture Is sus
tained by the large demand for goods, and
in numerous minor industries the expected
change of duties is said to be the basis of
greater activity.
Iron is firmer at Philadelphia, and is not
much pressed for sale here, though some
Chicago sales in this region are reported,
but the demand for bar increases, with an
advance in price, and plate aud structural
mills are crowded, though steel rails are
•till inactive.
LIQUIDATION IN STOCKS.
There has been much liquidation is stocks,
without a serious decline in prices or any
excitement. Speculation in the sugar trust
Is made to turn, ostensibly, Jon
various reports about the coming
tariff, but railroad rates are
not well maintained, and tbe association
finds it practically impossible to sustain
therm-1 voe in view of trie competition
which the interstate act causes. The great
factor in the stocK market is the realisation
that tbe partial failure of crops must mean,
sooner or later, smaller and less profitable
traffic for a time. But the increase in tho
volume of other business is surprising, and
tends strongly to sustain the hopes of
holders.
Tbe business failures of the week number
for the United States 192, against 165 for
the same week last year.
AN OBSTREPEROUS NEGRO SHOT.
He Attacked tbe Marshal of Boston
With a Murderous Knife.
Boston, Ga., Sept. 26. Jake Gilley
(colored) was dangerously if not fatally
wounded this evening about 6 o’clock by T.
J. Hight, the city marshal. There were
four or five of the Gilley brothers in town
to-day with cotton. After attending to
their mar noting aud other business they
then loaded with bad liquor and decided to
p tint the town red before leaving for home,
which is near the Florida line. They were
bursing and raising a general disturbance
at the wagon yards. Some merchants who
were near by asked them to keep quiet and
go on home or they would be arrested.
Thi6 st-eraed to enrage them very
much, and they defied any one to arrest or
otherwise interfere with them. Mr. Hight
was sent for as a last resort to either quiet
them or lock them up. Mr. Hight did all
that he could to get them to leave, but they
defied him. He then put one of them under
arrest, at this point Jake Gilley began
cursing him and advancing on him with a
large and murderous looking knife, while
another one was advancing from the rear
■with a large stick. Mr. Hight forbade
Jake coming any nearer, but this did not
Btop him. After getting within four or
five feet he shot Jake. The other dropped
the stick at the report of the pistol and
surrendered. The hall has not been probed
for at this hour. Physicians think he is
dangerously wounded. Everyone, both
white and black, think the marshal per
fectly justifiable in shooting.
LIVINGSTON AND MACONHL
Gone to Rockdale to Work Up Oppo
sition to Gordon.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 26. —Livingston
and Macune are still juggling over the
senatorial question.
There is an independent movement in
Rockdale county because the legislative
nominees were agaiust Gordon. His friends
wanted to elect a man who would vote for
him. The governor has written a manly
letter to his frieuds in Rockdale begging
them to stand by the democratic nominee,
as he would rather lose votes there than to
see the Democratic party disrupted.
Livingston and Macune went down to
Conyers to-night. They will speak there
to-morrow, and will make all possible cap
ital out of the independent movement to
•work up opposition to Gordon.
It seems pretty well settled here that Pat
Calhoun is at this time the cboioe of the
alliance leaders as a candidate for the Sen
ate. These men know they will have to do
some hard work to beat Gord >n, aud it
Calhoun, at tho proper time, is found want
ing strength, he will be sacrificed for some
other man.
Improvements at Cameron,
Cameron, Ga., Sept. 26.—D. J. Newton
has bad the De Leon property at Halcyon
dale laid out in very desirable building lot*.
Mrs. W. S. Tarver of this place has pur
chased one of the most centrally located lots,
and will commence the erection of a hand
some and commodious dwelling at once. Mr.
Newton has his building under course of
construction, which, when completed, will
be afi ;e one. An artesian well will soon he
bored to furnish the needed water.
H. G. Bryant, our worthy section fore
man, has resigned his position after an
active service of eighteen years.
Cotton hns been damaged by recent rains.
Picking is progressing very unsatisfactorily.
Cotton to Liverpool Direct.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 2fi. —A special
freight tram left Augusta to-night bearing
a co hignment of I.OJO bales of cotton sent
by Potter & Cos. to be shipped to Liverpool.
It all goes in one lot.
GBORGIA’S FINANCIAL AGiiNTS
Backs at Romo and MUledgevllle
Made State Depositories.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 26.—Tbe People’s
bank of Rome has been appointed a state
depository for four years from date, subject
to removal by the governor if they fail to
attend to the official duty or ceas’d to be
of good credit. A bond of $50,000 is
to be given, to be approved
by tlje governor. A proclamation
will be issued and published in Rome desig
nating the counties whose tax collector
shail be instructed to pay into sail depos
itory all money collected for and ou account
of the state taxes, except such money as
mav be paid by them directly into the state
treasury.
The bank of Miiledgeville has also been
appointed a state depository.
MEMPHIANS FIGHT.
The Kimball House the Scene of the
A ttray.
Atlanta. Sept 26.— J. V. Ryan and J.
H, Compton, both of Memphis, engaged in
a fight in the Kimball house to-night. The
two men were in very earnest conversation
in the arcade, when Ryan arose aod hit
Compton over the head with a cane. Comp
ton then jumped on Ryan and threw
him backward, bis head hitting the
stone floor with terrible force. Ryan was
stunned and lay as if dead for about ten
minutes. He is seriously injured. Comp
ton, seeing his condition, arose and assisted
in helping him up. Cases were booked
against both men for disorderly conduct.
Tne trouble g out of an oid feud in
regard to a building and loan business in
Memphis.
Newton’s Bond Election.
Covington. Ga., Sept. 26.—0n Wednes
day an election was held in this connty to
determine whether or not we should bond
tbe debt of the county incurred by the
building of a $3,000 court house. In con
sequence of the com inu'us rain there was
not enough votes polled to legalize the elec
tion, though the vote stood 26) for aud 59
against bonding. Another effort will be
made at an early dav to get a vote on the
question, which will doubtless result in
favor of bending.
Sam Small Talks Prohibition.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept 26—Rev. Sam
Small spoke in Atlanta to-night on prohibi
tion. He said he came 500 miles to speak,
in order to help the Wouian's Christian
Ternperanea Union. He handled the whisky
traffic in his own peculiar way, and made a
strong speech.
Killed In a Train Wreck.
Atlanta, Sept. 26.—The Western and
Atlantic passenger train which left the etty
at 11 o’clock last night was derailed at Mc-
Ivers. The engine turned over, silling the
fireman, Riohard McClain, aud badly in
juring the engineer, Clifford Adamson.
MACUNK AND HIS CARD.
Will Gov. Gordon Has to Bay With
Referenoe to It.
The Morning News yesterday contained
a synopsis of Dr. Macune’s attack on Gov.
Gordon, tee substance of which was that
Gov. Gordon had solicited him to become a
director in a $7,000,000 ootton seed oil and
paper company, a position which he ac
cepted, but withdrew when the governor
told him that each director would
be given $5,000 and possibly
SIO,OOO of stock of thecompanv, the inten
tion being, according to Dr.Macune.to have
the alliauce take hold of the oompauy. Dr.
Maeuiie attributed Gov. Gordon’s attack
upon him to his withdrawal from the com
pany. The Telegraph had an interview
with Gov. Gordon as he passed through
Macon on his way home from the Helena
meeting on Thursday.
Tne first question asked tbo governor was
in regard to tbe use of Col. L. L. Polk’s
name in connection with the $7,0 )0,000 com
pany, to which Gov. Gordon replied:
“1 prefer that Col. Polk’s letter should
answer that question. This will be pub
lished, together with other documents,
which will make interesting reading. Col.
Polk is a gentleman of high character, and
1 feel satisfied that he has forgotten his
letter.”
‘•How about the use of Dr. Macune’s
name.”
“Dr. Macune’s duplicity ha 9 been shown
in this as in other matters affecting south
ern interests, as will fully appear when all
the facts are made known," were the gov
ernor’s emphatic reply.
“Did he, then, authorize the use of his
name*’’
“Of course he did; then asked that tho
name of another prominent allianceinan be
substituted for his own. Macune’s peculiari
ties will more fully appear when X tell you
that he requested that another name be
used instead of his, in order that he might,
as he told me, help the cause more fully
through the columns of his paper (the
Economist) by inducing the alliance to
take hold of it and make it an alliance
movement throughout the southern states.
“Not only did he do this, but went him
self to Arkansas and caused the stale alli
ance to appoint a comrnltiee to investigate
the merits of the project. The committee
made a favorable report and Macuue
brought it back and handed it to me, at the
same time making the request in regard to
withholding or substituting his name in
order that he might all the more effectively
serve the cause through the alliance.”
“Is the movement being extensively taken
up by the alliance?”
“All whom I have seen seem favorably
impressed by it. 1 had a talk with Col.
Nortben about it two years ago, but prior
to the perfecting of the reoent process.
“Do you wish to say anything about Dr.
Macune’s statement in which he alleges that
you attacked him because lie withdrew his
name from the enterprise?"
“Nothing, except that he knew that to
be untrue when he wrote it. In the first
plaoe, as I told you, Macune never with
drew from it at all, except in a way which
he thought would enable him co more ef
fectually work for it. In the next plaoe,
this change occurred during last July, and
1 did not attack Macune until a few days
ago. I would not have done so then except
for the fact, as my words show, that he had
made au unpardonable assault upon me in
two papers. He had wholly, aud in a most
unjustifiable mauner, misrepresented my
position and endeavored to array the alli
ance against me by the preposterous cuarge
that I was an agent of IVall. street banks
and fighting the alliance.
“No more unjust attack was ever; made
upon a man than was his upon me. I was
amazed at it, and my indignation was very
great. I knew nothing about Macune, ex
cept that he was one of the principal men
in the alliance. As this cotton oil enterprise
was to be organized to c unteract the effect
of tho great oil trust in depressing the price
of the farmer’s cotton seed, it was deemed
advisable by the managers that the alli
enceineu in the southern states make tho
process their own. Hence Maoune’s con
nection with the proposed enterprise.
“This is about all that I have to say on
that subject. Had I known Macune then
as well us I do now, he would never have
had the opportunity of associating with this
enterprise, which, if it be carried for war!
at all, is to be in the interest of the farmers
aud cotton growers of the southern states."
In regard to the $5,000 worth of stock
which the directors were to have. Gov.
Gordon said that they were to receive it for
services rendered in establishing branch
companies in the different states.
When Gov. Gordou was asked whether
the capital had lieen raised for carrying on
the cotton oil enterprise he answered:
"Not a dollar of it. We are not ready
for that, but will give it attention when the
proper time comes.”
"Where will you raise the money?”
"Both in this country and in Europe. We
have a proposition for a French company,
which is very tempting, but, as I said, we
are not entirely ready yet. The whole pro
gramme of our operations will bo made
public at an early day.”
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1890.
FROM POVERTY TO POWER
HOW MANY OF THE RICH MEN OF
NEW YORK STARTED IN LIFE.
Bank President?. Brokers, Railroad
Men, All of Whom In Youth Filled
Menial Positions —By Thrift and
Pluck Won Wealth and Position.
At a rough estimate 80 per cent of the
rich men of New York city can honestly
affirm that tbeir wealth is an absolute de
monstration that nowhere in the world has
labor a better chance or is mors gloriously
rewarded than m America. The opportu
nists seem to be vaster now than they ever
were before. The rich men of to-day unite
without dissent in tbe opinion that the
United States is about entering upon a
career of prosperity which is beyond the
dreatn, beyoud the possibility of the most
vivid imagination fully to contemplate.
In scientific developments, in agricultural
directions, in tbo realization of the enor
mous wealth which lies under the soil and
on top of it, and in tbe further conquests of
the forces of nature, so that they will do
the work of men. the twentieth century,
which is so near at hand, will record
achievements which will be stupendous,
says a correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press. The young men who are now work
ing with their hands, who possess industry,
patience, sobriety and concentration of
purpose, cannot fail to win tbe most sub
stantial and splendid of victories. That is
the opinion of every one of our rich men
who are now passing along t iward old age
and have been their own successes, with
whom I have talked this week.
In looking into this matter suggested by
the resolution of the workingmen, I find
that at least 80 percent, of our successful
merchants here began life with little or no
capital. The majority of them earned their
first money in the humblest of service. They
were workingmen whose employment was
such as to qualify them to join trades or
ganizations. Let ns take a few examples:
On Sixth avenue, for instance, there are
some seven or eight enormous dry goods
houses. They do a business, each of them,
of several millions a year. The proprietors
are all men of wealth, yet in every in tance,
I am told, these men, when young, had
nothing but health, sobriety and industry
as capital. One of them was a porter, one
of them a cash boy, and tho others were
employed in capacities which brought them
in but a few dollars a week. The business
capacity which they developed was no
special natural gift, but was due to training,
discipline and c mcentratiou of purpose.
The house of Lord & Taylor, which has
passed into other hands, owiug to tbe death
of the original proprietors, began its career
as a little bit of a store down town, anl the
original partners worked harder than any
slaves for years. Edward Ridley, who
created an enormous business here, began
his business life with less than SI,OOO, which
were the savings of several years of hard
work and extreme self-denial. He died a
few years ago, leaving an immense business
to his children aud a great fortune as well.
One of the older brokers on Wall street,
to whom I went for information, after
thinking for a few moments, said that with
three or four exceptions he believed every
successful broker on Wall street had beguii
life without a dollar, and had, by devotion
to business, absolute concentration of pur
pose aud regularity of habit, finally
achieved financial independence. In every
case these men were workers; many of
them began as office boys. One of the
wealthiest of the brokers earned his first
money as a peddler. Stephen V. White was
a farmer and teacher. Jim Keene was a
laborer in the mines. Russell Sage was a
grocery oterk in Troy. Commodore Bate
man fifteen years ago was a treasury clerk
in Washington at a salary of SI,OOO a year,
and before that had been connected with
the navy in some subordinate capacity.
Jay Gould, as everybody knows, oegan
his career as a book canvasser and peddler
of mouse traps. William R. Grace’ was a
runaway Irish lad who got his first em
ployment in Peru, in an almost menial ca
pacity, in a ship chandlery house.
And so, going through the list of success
ful business men and capitalists, on and
near Wall street, it is found that nine out
of every ten of them began life as a laborer,
with no other capital than the natural gifts
with which Providence had blessed them.
The same assertion is true of the majority
of presidents of banks. Arthur Williams,
who is at the head of tho most successful
hanking institution in this country, and
with but few equals in the world—the
Chemical national bank—swopt out the old
bank building and acted as porter and
general chore boy for some years. Thomas
L. James, the president of the Lincoln bank,
was a typesetter in a country village in tho
central part of this state. Mr. Hard, presi
dent of the Cnatham bank, was a clerk,
absolutely dependent upon his salary. John
Jay Knox, president of the bank of the Re
public, was a farmer’s lad in Herkimer
county, New York. Mr. St. John, the
president of the Mercantile bank, was a
poor boy from the south. John Thompson,
the ex-president of the Chase bank, and one
of the fathers of the national banking sys
tem, was an office boy at $3 a wee K salary,
and so on the list could be still further ex
tended.
It has been found, too, that with two or
three exceptions, the best bankers were
those who began life without a dollar. In
some few cases, like that of J. Fierpont
Morgan, with inherited wealth there also
came great banking ability. But it is safe
to say that the great majority of our suc
cessful banking men have Indicated in their
career what seems to be almost au axiom in
this country; and that is, that the best
vigor and most notable successes are found
to be in the possession of those who have
demonstrated the power of labor here to
win victories.
Perhaps the most significant illustration
is to be found in the careers of successful
railroad men. There are a few cases, like
those of the Vanderbilts and the Garretts,
where railroad properties and railroad con
trol have come by inheritance, but the ex
ceptions of this sort will not amount to
over 5 per cent. The great body of success
ful railroad managers, both mechanical and
financial, sprang from poverty.
The story of these careers is so strikingly
similar that it almost seems that it is the
law of railroad development that the men
best competent to handle this new develop
ment of civilization are those who come
from the ranks. Moreover, it is an axiom
in the railroad business that it is impossible
to keeD down men whose perseverance and
ability merit success. A laborer on one of
our railroads who demonstates capacity can
no more be kept at a dead level' than the
barometer can bo kept from rising when the
atmospheric pressure is increased.
A few examples will show how true this
statement is. Vice President Clark, who is
really the financial power that controls the
New York Central, was a laborer, I think,
on the old canal; he determined when a lad
to master his business, and, having master
ed it, was able to make suggestions to his
superiors. Such suggestions caused them to
fixed their eye upon him, so that he has
been steadily advaucod to his present place
of power, simply because he had conquered,
by labor and perseverance, recognition and
influence. Not so very mauy years ago, a
young fellow was a freight agent some
where o.i the line of the Erie railroad. He
worked when his associates were playing
cards or guzzling cider, which was the drink
there. I.abor asserted its Dower in his case.
He was transferred to a larger post and fin
ally Commodore Vanderbilt fixed his eve
on nim and brought him into the New York
Central system a< general mauager of the
entire freight business. One day he asked
the oommodore what he should do in a cer
tain perplexing problem that had arisen,
and Instead of giving advice, th commo
dore said, “What does the New York Cen
tral pay you for?” He replied, "To take
charge of the freight business.” And the
commodore then said, “You don’t expect I
am going to earn your salary for you, do
you?” The young man took the hint and
solved the problem himself as he was paid
for doing, and when William H. Vanderbilt
: resign'd the presidency of the Central *y
, tern this man was elected president. He was
known everywhere as Jim Rutter, and bis
career is proof that corporations do not
; and cannot afford to sjppress or crush in-
I dividual workingmen who possess sobriety,
perseverance and concentration of purpose.
Commodore Van Santvoord, the head of
the Hudson river line of steamboats, was a
freight clerk at SSO a mouth on some of tbe
earlier Huds in river boats, and he con
quered his successes solely by bis power of
labor. E. M. Roed, the vice president of
the New Haven railroad, began his career
as a locomotive engineer. He wss not sat
isfied, however, to run his engine well, but
was constantly studying how he might im
prove a locomotive, the roadbed and other
mechanical adjuncts of the road. The cor
poration could not and would not repress
such a man, and be was advanced until he
reached his present post. Charles P. Clark,
the president of the New Haven road, be
gan bis career in the humblest kind of
capacity on one of the roads running from
Boston to New Hampshire. Walter Webb,
the third vice president of the New York
Ceatial began bis railre ad service in a very
suliordinato capacity, nor had be any in
herited wealth to speak of, as Mr. Powderiy
has falsely asserted.
Some years ago a young man was ticket
agent in the little town of New Britain,
Conn. His devotion to his business was so
great, and the fruits of it in suggestion so
apparent, that the corporation employing
him gave him a more imp riant post. And
so he went on until three or four years ago
he became manager of the Trunk Lino As
sociation of Railroads, and has recently re
signed that post to become the responsible
raa ager of the New Haven railroad system.
I could narrate instances of engineers and
conductors who are being gradually ad
vanced in railroad servioe to places of
great responsibility and large salary, and
there are so many of these cases that they
prove beyond all question that the corpo
rations not only encourage, but are com
pelled to look among the employes for men
to fill these important posts.
GOVERNMENT CLERKS.
The Important Place Which They Oc
cupy In Washington Society.
From the Washington Star.
In a Washington ballroom last season
were conversing three people—the Baron
de , newly attached to a foreign le
gation, a young department clerk, and a
girl from Boston.
“And then,” said the girl, “there are the
people in the departments here. They
are a large part of the population, aren’t
they!”
“O, ze departments f’ said the baron. “I
have beard zat zey are ze houses of alms for
ze paupers, hern 1”
“And I have heard.” said the clerk,
promptly, “that the foreign legations here
are the places of refuge for the impover
ished reputations of European diplomats.”
The girl from Boston was equal to the
oocasiou, and prevented the hot retort on
the baron’s lips.
“Ah,” she said, “I am so glad, for I’m a
philanthropist, you know, and I adore pov
erty—of all kinds.”
Half the men in the room and several of
the women were department clerks.
The elegantly eiderlv gentloman who was
assiduously feeding the pretty daughter of
a Chicago Croesus rejoiced in the possession
of a $1,400 clerkship in our department, the
howling swell, who was lazily allowing
himself to be amused by a sweet rosebud
debutante, was tne chief of a division in
another department, the group of youug
exquisites, who were making the life of the
party, were all clerks. Several of the
women, who were receiving the most court,
followed the same calling.
“Ah,” said the baron, after haying met a
few more of the people in the room, “ze
department clerks—zoy are Washington, ba
jove !’’
He was entirely right. Who are the
principal buyers in the shops* Who are
the chief patronizers of the theaters! Who
form the bulk of the renters of houses?
Who are most of the readers of the Star?
Who will fill the churches? Who crowd
the bars ? W nojmake up the rank and file of
“society?” Who are the members of the
clubs? Go calling before 4 o’clock; go to a
barroom before teat hour; sit in the club at
3:30. You will find yourself almost alone.
Nothing goe3 on in a social way till the de
partments have emptied themselves.
Any attempt to classify these clerks is
absurd. They come from everywhere in
America, from almost everywhere on earth.
There are Poles aud Russians and Ameri
cans among them. Some are Culifornians,
some Floridians, some Yankees, same Mich
iganders. They are rich and poor—from
tue clerk whose carriage calls for him (pre
cious few of these are there, but still some)
to the poor fellow who wears an alpaca coat
far into the fall and a heavy frock coat far
into the spring. Some are rakish looking
bachelors, who speud their money in forbid
den pleasures, others are the fathers of large
and struggling families, some are spend
thrifts, always ia debt and generally in the
clutcdes of the money lenders, others are
thrifty and own property, some are not yet
out of their teens, others totter upon the
verge of the grave. When 4 o’clock comes
this strange assemblage disintegrates; their
call gives them nothing in common after
office hours.
Did it ever occur to any one how curi
ously the selfishness of men manifests itself?
A man-of-war goes on a cruise for three
years. During that time the officers are
literally cooped up together and see practi
cally no one but each other. That ship
goes out of commission, say at San Fran
cisco, and the officers are ordered east.
Yet those of the officers who make the long
journey across tue plains together fre
quently do so by accident. The cruise being
over, it is a matter of indifference to them
whether they see ore another again. It is
the same way with government clerks.
Two men may work side by side every day,
year in and year out, and each not know
where the other lives, or even, sometimes,
whether he is married.
Curious friendships sometimes spring up
—strange, incongruous, inexplicable friend
ships. Von , with ferocious burly lieard
and mild blue eyes, suspected of nihilistic
tendencies, and said to be a political refugee,
may be seen any day or night with that
dapper little trifler, young S , and a real
affection exists betwe-n the two, and when
old Von falls ill this youngster nurses
him and tends to him as though he was his
brother. Or, more frequently a friendship
is founded on community of tastes, as when
two clerks study law together, graduate
together, aud possibly resign at the same
time and become partners.
Where is the sociologist who will study
the government clerk and tell us scientifi
cally about him ? He must borrow from
Besant and Rice’s book, and entitle bis
treatise “All Sorts and Conditions of Men.”
VICES OF DRESS.
What Jennese-Miller Wants to Do for
the Victims of Conventionality.
Mrs. Jenncss-Miller, of dress-reform fame,
says the New York rimes, has begun her
career, if, indeed, a reformer so well estab
lished may still be regarded as a beginner,
in most sensible fashion. Realizing toe
power which the world of fashion
yields far outside of its actual
limit, she has interested fashionable
women in her ideas and has designed her
beautiful and artistic gowns upon models
which the most punctilious of fashion’s
votaries can adopt without offense to her
priestess. It is not, however, the fashion
able woman who most needs the “diviiled
skirt’’ and rho “gown lorm,” an ) Mrs. Mil
ler’s suggestions about bathing ex.-rciseand
physical culture are not the blessing to the
so-called society woman that they will be to
some of hor less favorably circum
stanced sisters. So far as it influences
her apiiearance, the care of her figure and
her health is nowadays a very important
study iu the curriculum of the developing
belie. She. and hor elders for her, abhor
stooping should rs, angles and prominent
bones as much as Mrs. Miller herself, eveu
if shu does not resort to the same sensible
and permanent means to relievo tuom. The
of fashionable women carry
themselves well, straigut, and not un
gracefully, and a plump, rounded figure is
by no means rare among the “four
hundred," although marred and ren
dered lees beautiful than poa-itle
by the dress and corset m. ker's
art. It is fashionable, too, to be clean in
this day and generation, and "tubbing” is
English, so that the semi-week'y baths of
our grandmothers have bee .:ae bi-daily
with their progeny: tennis, yachting,
riding, are all elegant sports—facts which
rather discount in the fashionable world
some of Mrs. Miller’s reforms. One cannot
help hopi.-.g os one listens to her forcible
presentment of the evils she inveighs
against, and, as one admires the com
fortable garments she bas designed, that
she may sometime bring her skill and per
suasion to the cognizance of a class of
laboring women to whom the adoption of
such healthful and convenient drees would
be of vast value.
TO CONVINCE SHOPGIRLS, SALESWOMEN,
any woman, indeed, whose occupation
necesitat s tramping about the streets in
all weathers, or standing for hours every
day at the desk or counter, that they could
increase their strength and comfort, and
actually prolong tbeir lives by merely
adopting a different dress, would be a deed
of almost incalculable benefit.
One day last winter the writer stool in
one of the large dry goods stores waiting
her turn to be served at one of the counters.
The girls behind it were very numerous,
but were all busy and hurried, passing aud
repassing one another in the narrow space
to look for required goods. In the confu
sion, one jostled the arm of a second, who
was reaching for a box of ribbons, and
knocked it to the floor. "You might have
kept out of my way,” impatiently ex
claimed the offending one, and “You might
have looked,” was the equally im
patient rejoinder. Then the first speaker
relented: "It was my fault, Kitty,” she
said, “but my feet ache me so,” and her
voice was almost a wail. Then it was
Kitty’s turn: “It’s all right,” she said.
“I wouldn’t have minded a little accident
like that, only my head is most splitting.”
The waiting customer looked the two girls
over. The one whose head ached had
on a heavy skirt of shabby black
velveteen, whose loose waistband per
mitted it to drag upon her hips. A
cheap black jersey was the wai-1 of her
dress, and through its thin teixture the out
lines of a stout, cruel corset could be seen.
Around her neok, in obedience to the high
collar fashion, was a piece of some stiffened
black velvet covered with a bead passemen
terie, the weight of which neck weir must
have very sensibly impeded the free flow
of blood through the delicate veins. On
her bead, in addition to her own hair,
which was not scanty, was piled
a palpable switch of jute, the struct
ure pinned on with two or three heavy ball
pins. Poor, misguided child, for the face
was pathetically young, was it any wonder
that her temples throbbed and her nerves
were strung to the last pitch of endurance?
Her companion was garbed in a very similar
manner, her dress presented no modifica
tions that made it more comfortable, though,
doubtless iu her case, the maximum
misery of poorly made, ill-fitting shoes,
possibly with high heels aud narrow toes,
reduced the minimum wretchedness of
dragging clothes. What luster to Mrs.
Miller’s fame to carry the “gown form” in
simple, inexpensive design to girls like
these who stand for thousands of their sis
ters, and to coax from them them their de
forming and killiug corsets. To bring this
preacher and this flock together for such a
result some philanthropist ought to see ac
complished.
CAPITAL IN THE 80UTH.
Cedartown, Oa., and Its Land Im
provement Company.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Philadelphia capitalists have recently
organized a company for the development
of Cedartown, Ga., under the style of
the Cedartown Land Improvement Com
pany. Cedartown is situated in Polk
county, ninety miles south of Chattanooga,
eighty miles northwest of Atlanta atd 100
miles from Birmingham. The town is the
county seat and the district has been termed
the banner agricultural county of Georgia.
It is principally rich in iron ore, the pig
iron manufactured from it commanding, it
is said. $2 a ton more than other iron, and
it is claimed that more of it is shipped from
Cedartown than from any other place in
the south except Birmingham. Manganese
is found throughout the county, which is
also noted as having the largest slate de
posit in the south.
Cedartown is also favorably located on
account of its railroad facilities. It is
crossed by two competitive railroad sys
tems, and is within six miles of the East
Tennessee system. Within the past four
years the population of the town has grown
from 800 to 3,500. It is the atm of the com
pany to develop the property of the town
and induce manufacturing industries to
settle there. It is also a part of the plan to
foster emigration of a good character, and
to aid minor manufacturing enterprises
that may be started.
There is, it is said, nearly $2,000,000 repre
sented in the mining comuanies in the
vicinity, and one furnace,' the Cherokee
Iron Company, has been in operation for
some time. A large number ot iron foundries
draw their ore from that vicinity. There is
also a good cotton crop, from 8,000 to
10,000 bales being, it is claimed, the yearly
average. The town is now being laid out
by a surveyor from Philadelphia, and the
company proposes to sell lots and assist pur
chasers to build.
The capital of the company is $250,000, of
which $150,000 is paid in. It has been
chartered under the laws of Alabama. The
officers are: President, E. M. Wistar,
Philadelphia; vice president and manager,
J. K. Barton, Cedartown, Ga.; secretary
and treasurer, Charles Adamson, Philadef
phia.
MEDICAL ~
Dyspepsia
Makes the lives of many people miserable,
causing distress after eating, sour stomach,
sick headache, heartburn, loss of appetite,
a faint, “ all gone” feeling, bad taste, coated
niatrocc tongne> and irregularity of
vis it was the bowels. Dyspepsia does
After not get well of itself. It
Patino- requires careful attention,
c.dung and a remedy like Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, which acts gently, yet efficiently.
It tones the stomach, regulates the diges
tion, creates a good ap- .
petite, banishes headache, ®tCX
and refreshes the mind. Headacll©
“ I have been troubled with dyspepsia. I
had but little appetite, and what I did eat
Heart* distressed me, or did me
. little good. After eating I
DUrn would have a faint or tired,
all-gone feeling, as though I had not eaten
anything. My trouble was aggravated by
my business, painting. Last q
spring I took Hood’s Sar- SOUT
saparilla, which did me an Stomach
immense amount of good. It gave me an
appetite, and my food relished and satisfied
the craving I had previously experienced.”
George A. Page, Watertown, Mass.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by aU druggists, g 1; six for $5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries,Lowell, Mass.
100 Poses One Dollar
WEDDINGS.
Wedding lnvitotions and cards printed or en
graved at the snortest notioe and in the latest
tylea. We carry an extensive and well selected
stock of fine papers, envelopes and cards es
pecially for such orders. Samples sent on ap
plication, Mornlnq News Printing House
SavaapuU. Ga.
yrVRRAL invitations.
OPPENHEIMER. —The friends and acquaint
ance of Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Oppstrsnsts and
family are respectfully invited to atteod the
funeral of the latter 'roin her late nwiieDC* No.
75 Bolton street, THIS 'Saturday > AFTERNOON,
at 8:30 o'clock.
MEETINGS.
KtmttH BR a>rn If T. v
The regular monthly meet- rjn
ing of the branch will be held. V?T
at the Travelers’ Exchange, rTt J
SATURDAY EVENING, 27th f V 4
inst., at 8 o’clock, standard wAS.
time. Every member in the
city is earnestly requested to
be present. Busness of§otTbt>s
special importance. /IS54f lATi4(£
C B TOWNSEND, President.
Attest: R. L Coldiso, Secretary.
DEMOCRAT 1C EXECUTIVE COM
MITIEE.
A meeting of the executive committee of the
Democratic party of Chatham county will be
held at office of Charlton <S Mac kali THIS
EVENING at 8 o’clock. By order of
W. G CHARLTON, Chairman,
J. F. Brooks, Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Or and after Feb. 1, 1890, the bn sit of meas
urement of all advertising in the Mors iso
Nxws mil be agate, or at the rate of |l 40 an
inch for the first insertion.
lOc. POUND.
FRESH SUPPLY JUST RECEIVED
GUM DROPS.
SEE HEIDT'S SATURDAY SPECIAL PRICES.
ARE YOU HARD CP?
If you are, call on the newly licensed pawn
brokers, at 20 Jefferson street, corner Congress
street lane.
NEW YORK LOAN OFFICE.
ADAM STRAUS, Manager.
NOTICE.
All persons are cautioned against harboring
or trusting any of the crew of Miejßritlsh steam
ship KLYDE. as neither the captain nor
consignees will be responsible for any debts
contracted by them.
RICHARDSON & BARNARD, Consignees.
* NOTICE.
All bills against the Russian bark JUPITER
must be presented at our office by or before 12
o'clock noon THIS DAY, or payment will lie
debarred.
STRAOHAN & 00., Consignees.
NOTICE.
Neither the master nor consignees of
the British steamship GARDENIA, Wright,
master, will be responsible for any debts con
tracted by crew of said vessel.
A. MINIB’ SONS. Consignees.
NOTICE.
Neither the master nor consignee* of the Brit
ish steamship GLADIOLUS, Rutherford, mas
ter. will be responsible for any debts contracted
by crew of said vessel.
A. MINIS' SONS, Consignees.
THE SUNDAY~MORNiNG NEWS ~
Will be found regularly on sale at the following
places,
ESTILL'S NEWS DEPOT, 2114 Bull street.
CONNOR S NEWS STAND.
E. J. KIEFFEB’S DRUG STORK.
Corner West Broad and Stewart streets.
T. A. MULLRYNK & CO.’S DRUG STORE,
West Broad and Waldburg streets.
ST. J. R. YONGE'S DRUG STORE,
Corner Whitaker and Duffy streets,
W. A. BISHOP’S DRUG STORE,
Comer Hail and Price streets.
McCauley & co.’s drug store.
Corner New Houston and Drayton streets.
~ GREAT HOME ENTERPRISE,
THE SAVANNAH BREWING COMPANY’S
PU-iSEN -AND- TIVOLI
B E E S S.—
—FOR SALE—
IN EVERY FIRST-CLASS SALOON.
We would especially recommend our Bottle
Beer to families on account of its nourishment
to ladies and children.
NO ADULTERATIONS ARE USED IN ITS
MANUFACTURE.
CALL FOR THE HOMEMADE BEER.
We pay 15 cents a dozen for all empties
returned to us.
TELEPHONE NO. 42ft.
H O \VL INS K I j “
Pharmacist,
Prescriptions. Ships' Medicine Chests filled
and labeled in French, German. Swedish, Nor
wegian or Danish.
Broughton and Drayton Streets.
Telephone 465.
DON’T GIVE UP IN DESPAIR.
Dyspeptics, you will find a reliable remedy in
DR. ULMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR.
It is a faultless vegetable preparation, and
indorsed by prominent medical men.
Silver medal and diploma awarded over com
petitors.
Prepared by
B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist,
Savannah, Qa.
Price, Si per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
DR. T. F. ROBERSON,
DENTIST.
ODD FELLOWS BUILDING,
Corner Barnard aud State Streets.
SAVANNAH JOCKEY CLUB.
MEMBERS ASD OTHERS WHO CARE FOR FIXE
COUPE, CARRIAGE
AND HARNESS SPONGES.
AND LARGE CHAMOIS SKINS,
CAN FIND THEM AT
BUTLER'S PHARMACY,
Cor. Bull ahd Congress Streets.
flour has ADVANCED
in prices for the last month considerable, and
t LTTF.R S loaves of bread have not decreased
in weight. Ask your grocer for VETTER’S
bread and let him put the loaf on his scales to
convince you.
amusements.
Savannah Theater.
ONE NIGHT ONLY.
Monday, Sept. 29th.
a HOYTS LATFST COMEDY SUCCESS, AND
FIRST SEASON OF
Three Fast Men!
A REFINED AND LAUGHABLE EX
TRAVAGANZA,
Presented by a Company of First-Class Artists
of the Highest Order.
the season 16 mo6t mirtb ' provokm comedies of
Patronized by ladies and gentlemen
Don't forget the date.
Tickets at usual place
Savannah Theater.
tuesdayTsept. 30.
ONE NIGHT ONLY.
THE GREATEST MELODRAMA OF
THE DAY.
Lights and Shadows
A FLOOD OF REAL WATER: NO TAW.
BUT FLOWING DIRECTLY UPON THF
STAGE! THE REVOLVING TOWERS’
CARLOAD OF SCENERY: A
Seats on sale at Butler’s Saturday, Sept. 27, 9 *
Next Attraction—“ The Gondoliers.” Oct ui
EXCURSIONS.
SOMMER EXCURSIONS.
THE
Charleston ft Savannah Ry.
REGULAR SUMMER EXCURSIONS TO
CHARLESTON AND SULLIVAN’S ISLAND.
LEAVE Savannah at 12:39 p. in. Saturday re
turning leave Charleston at 7:20 a. m. Mon
day, $3. Sullivan’s Is.and tickets 25 cents addi.
tional.
Leave Savannah at 7:00a. m. Sunday, return,
mg leave Charleston at 7:20 a m. Monday *1
Leae Savannah at 7:00 a. m. Sunday, return
ing leave Charleston at 4:05 p. m. same dav i
Sullivan's Island, tickets 25 cents additional ‘
E. P. McSWINEY,'
General Passenger Agent
BANKS.
J6s”d”weed, "j.vV b, k.Wi,
President. Vice President
JAS. H. HUNTER, Cashier.
SAVANNAH BASK 4 TRUST CO.
Savings Dep't
ALLOWS 4%’
Deposits of SI and Upward Received
Interest on Deposits Payable Quarterly.
DIRECTORS:
Joseph D. Wesd, of J. D. Weed St Cos.
John C. Rowland, Capitalist.
C. A. Reitbe, Exchange and Insurance.
John L. Hardee, Capitalist.
R. G. Ebwik, of Chisholm, Erwin & dußlgnon.
Edward Kabow, of Strauss & Ck>.
Isaac G. Haas. General Broker.
M. Y. Maclntyre, of M. Y. & D. I. Maclntyre.
John.Lvons, of John Lyons & Cos.
Waltzb Oonbv. of Paterson, Downing &00.
D. C. Bacon, Lumber.
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING.
iB9oTALUnTwipFiB9i
PRINTING AND BINDING,
BLANK BOOKS.
Establishment fully furnished with all I
necessary TOOLS and MACHINERY, I
PAPERS and MATERIALS. Compt- I
tent Workmen. Established Reputa I
tion for Good Work. Additional or* I
ders solicited. Estimates furnished. I
QSyi BAY STREET. I
GEO. N NICHOLS.
COTTON FACTORS. I
John Flannery. John L. Johnson. I
JOHN FLANNERY & CO., I
Cotton Factors, I
SAVANNAH, GA I
Bagging and Iron ties furnished at lost I
market rates. Prompt attention given rein I
business entrusted to us. Liberal cash advances ■
made on consignments of cotton. . I
BBOKERs. I
F. C. WYLLY, I
STOCK, EOSD and REAL ESTITE BROKEK I
OFFERS a full line of desirable security ■
viz: Georgia Southern and Florida Firs ■
6s, Savannah and Western .Os, Savannah han* B
and Trust Company stock, etc.. etc _ ■
A. L. HAKTRIDGiiI
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BUYS and oU* oa oocamit' in all c:a* *■
Stocks and Band*. H
Negotiate* laaxs on market*
New York quotations furainod tf
ticker away ftftira miautan.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS^!
j! lyon &healyJ
State A Monroe Sts. Omens M
iMPI will mail, free. ttielr’newlyeniVKftti
CaUiogne of Baud Instrument* Ar
mV Uuifonas and Equipments. 400 U
IS Fine Illustrations describing ft
|?jfew article required by Bands or Drum R
laßa Corps, tncladi&g Repaying XxJjgM
ffrul rlala. Trimmings, etc.
/I Ul Contains instructions for //
// II J Amateur Benda, Ex or ewes and Scales,
11 J|fT>r.Ni Major’s Tactics, By-Laws, and 3
Selected Lit of Band Music.
riSH AHD ■
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M. M. Sullivan & So*
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ISO Bryan st. and 152 Bay lane,
Fish orders for Puuta liorda recel'
have prompt attention.
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Cured by using
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