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A HEAVILY WOODED TRACT NEAR SAVANNAH.
C. H. DORSETT, Auctioneer, will sell at the Court House in Savannah, during the usual hours of sale, on TUESDAY, JUNE 2d, 1891,
648 acres of well wooded land about six miles from Savannah, lying between the Middle Ground and Buckhalter Roads, and but a short distance from the regular flag station of the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway at the six-mile post. This is the best piece of wooded land so near the city that the writer knows of. Its proximity to % the railroad and to the city give it special value. Large tracts like
this, and so near the city, are very scarce. In fact for miles beyond Savannah the land has been bought up by syndicates, and is firmly held, much of it being absolutely withdrawn from the market.
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This tract is favorably known as SAINT ANNES and was a portion of the large landed estate of the late Anthony Barclay, Esq., for years the Consul at this port from the English government. Prior to, and during
the war this was considered as among the most desirable bodies of land in Chatham county. The tract has been recently surveyed and subdivided into Ten-Acre Tracts, with a view to meet the constantly increasing
tlemand for small farms. Should it appear, however, that individuals or syndicates desire to purchase the entire traot the opportunity will be afforded, and terms given to encourage such purchaser.
\ Plat of the Land, showing a very economical and advantageous subdivision, is given herewith. It should be remembered that the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway takes truck from stations and flag stations
r. <r ,^j pmon t to Northern and Western markets. TERMS: One-third cash, one-third in one year and one-third in two years, with interest at seven per cent, per annum.
GENERALISSIMO IN SPECSI
MR. CLEVELAND’S ASTUTE FRIEND
IN HANOVER SQUARE.
A Saloonkeeper's Witty Retort—Poet
and Philosopher—Mrs. Huntington
as an Architect—lf I Were a Dude—
The i umber Fires—An Artful Artist.
(Copyrighted.)
New Vohk, May 23.—The most astute
leader of the Cleveland forces in New York
is William R. Grace, ex-mayor of the city,
and a great power in Bouth American trade
and finance. In Peru Grace takes pot luck
with the government and gets the biggest
(hare of the stew. In Chile he is called the
backer of one party in the civil war, while
Charles R. Flint & Cos. support the other in
a test of rival traders. In Hanover square,
the center of his far-reaching enterprises, he
is a brisk, wide awake man, affable
in manner, whose keen, twinkling
Byes peer out at a vis-a-vis through
spectacles as be positively assures
one that he is out of politics. Yet it is not
probable that Mr. Grace will ever really be
out of politics so long as he has greater per
sonal strength with the Tammany rank and
tile than any other leader outside of that
organization, and so long as be hates it and
Its methods so thoroughly. He is used to
receiving hard raps. Probably no one has
been better abused by the opposing fac
tionists.
It is not so very long ago that a rattier
rough citizen was applying for a saloon
license in Great Neck, where Mr. Grace has
his summer home, and Mr. Grace was one
of a number of protestants. The applicant
went to ask the cause of his objections.
“Well,” said Mr. Grace, in reply.beaming
upon his questioner through his benign
spectacles, “I have heard a great many bad
stories about you, Mr. K . Your repu
tation is not what it should he.”
"As for that,” said the applicant, with
ready wit, “you probably haven’t heard
half as many hard things said against me as
I have heard against vou.”
Some of Mr. Grace’s latest political ma
neuvers, such as his union with the repub
licans last fail on local issues, have turned
out rather badly, but he is as much alive as
"•as another opponent of Tammauy many
years ago, when
Witt Clinton arose and battled Ids foes.
The cunning old fox—he only was sleeping.
IV I WE UK A DUDE.
If I were a duda— which may heaven
forefend—l should want these things:
A toy rolling pin, oovored with white
satin, with sliU In it to bold my Huger rings
whan not in use.
A cravat pin of a four-lea veil clover In
enamel, for luck, with diamond (lewdrope
nettling in its heart and sparkling on its
edges.
A cravat pin of a butterfly in enamel;
several cluster pins wherein a circle of shin
ing diamonds should surround caotral
•tonatof different colors, emerald in one,
ruby in another, topes, amethyst, sapblrs,
h*ryL
Cravats of dslicaW shades to match the
pin* and display their loveliness effectual! f.
A thumb ling, a bracelet, auembrdd
Ct£T***
The JUomins ffetojjs.
veil tied about it; a 50 cent undershirt
marked down to 37 cents —nobody would
see that, you know; silk stockings occa
sionally visible; a Dolly Varden night robe
which I could manage to exhibit to intimate
friends.
Toothpick shoes, with soles slightly
thicker than paper, and highly polished up
pers ; these in varying colors to “go with”
my different suits.
Several suits a month, of imported goods
always; I would order a beautiful pair of
trousers to-morrow from a piece of delicate
wool goods I saw In a window to-day, pure
white with large checks very faintly
marked. I would want three or four suits a
day and rotation in office.
For my bachelor apartments, a lot of
Turkish rugs nnd bangings, empire furni
ture, big shaded brown glazed jars for roses,
a Hindoo idol or two, an oval gilt mirror
with candle sconces, a canopied conch, a
low tea table with a teapot and alcohol
lamp and souvenir spoons to regale my
afternoon callers. These things are all to
be had for money; men’s money as well as
women’s.
X would not want a wife and children be
cause I couldn’t afford ’em; and then they
would interfere with my leisure; besides, no
girl in her senses would marry me—Jf I
w ere a dude.
POET AND PHILOSOPHER.
Almost every one who has knocked about
town much last winter and this spring must
have noticed walking about together two
men as dissimilar as they were in their sev
eral ways peculiar. One was tall and finely
built, with bronzed face, curly flowing hair
and a somewhat leonine expression, rather
seedy in apparel, but with a grand air
despite it all. The other was a little wee
man with a face like a wrinkled russet apple
and sharp, ferret-like eyes, whose coat, two
sizes too large, generally flapped back to
show an old-fashioned figured waistcoat and
choker. „ . - ,
The large man was George Francis Train,
physio philosopher, poet and traveler; the
smaller Bloodgood fl. Cutter, who first be
oame known to fame as MarkTwaiu’s “poet
lariar,” when the innocents sailed abroad.
Mr. Cutter left his Long Island farm last
fall to spend the winter In New York, and
found in Mr. Train a congenial associate.
It would be hard to find two men more ec
centric. Mr. Cutter’s poetry is always un
exceptionable in sentiment, but usually
maimed in its feet. Mr. Train'* phil
osophy is magnificent in expression, but
frequently wide of fact. Mr. Cutter
is a prosperous and successful farmer
and capitalist. Mr. Train has bad a big
fortune and has proved himself in the past
a shrewd enough man of business, as when
he introduced tram cars Into London, in
late years be has lost much of bis property,
and has ones been adjudged a lunatic,
though few men appear leas like it. Bonta
of bis property in Omaha was once sold for
non-payment of takes, and it is s >id that be
will attempt to have the sal* set aside <<n
the ground that notice given to a crazy man
doesn't count in the law.
inert, it a vein of cheerful humor about
the (aycble philosopher, and also ab ut the
farmer poet The latter was a guest of the
Authors' Ciub at on# of its winter gather
ings and convulsed the suitors by reciting
one of his p erne with much gesticulation.
Mf r HAEL DAVirr OOMEN.
Michael Davitt, who arrived in New
York early in the week from Qnanoe own.
L one <4 the bsM beloved and meet btUeriy
bated of Ummmt* lie ha* tee in pram*
SAVANNAH, GA„ SUNDAY, MAY >4. 1891.
for the cause of Ireland, which he bolds
dear, ho is not strong in health and has suf
fered terribly from the grip, and is naturally
discouraged by the present split in the Irish
party. Last Hummer I saw quite a little of
Mr. Davitt in London, besides oulling at his
lovely homo at Ballybrack, near Dublin,
and, though the disclosures which have
blasted Mr. Parnell’s reputation had not
then been made, it was evident enough,
from Mr. Davitt's remarks concerning the
Irish parliamentary leader, that a split was
Imminent. Mr. Davitt then spoke very
confidently of the revolution in the House
of Commons which the next general elec
tion would bring. That confidence is
naturally rather shaken now, but he does
not despair of the success of home rule in
the end.
Mr. Davitt is more than half American.
He married his wife m California, be has
been much in this country and knows its
people and its customs well. If he should
elect to remain here he would And that
America is the greater Ireland, and that be
has more friends here than he ha* ever seen.
Those who have read of Mr. Davitt’s prowess
with the blackthorn at Kilkenny musn’t
judge him to be a bruiser. Imagine, in
stead, a man tali and of shapely frame, but
slight, erect of posture, with one empty
sleeve, with dark hair grizzled somewhat by
advancing years, and in feature not unlike
what Christopher Columbus would have
been it be bad been born in Ireland, and in
manner kindly and oourteous.
While lunching with Mr. Davittat Gatti’s
in the B trend one day Mr. Stead ap
proached our table, and the contrast was
interesting between the red-bearded En
glishman, with his brusque, incisive speech,
and the dark Celt, who might easily have
passed for an American. Mr. Davitt was
then just on the point of starting the
Labour World , an enterprise which haa not
made his fortune, I fear.
A GAY AND FESTIVE EDITOR.
Since his coming east Murat Halstead bat
beoome a confirmed diner out. I should
judge that he must make on an average two
after dinner epeeches a week, in addition to
attending silently upon at least us many
banquets. A perpetual round of big publio
dinners it perhaps as hard upon a man as
any other experience be can encounter, and
some of Mr. Halstead’s friends are wonder
ing how long his health, never very s-rong
since bis attack at a club house a year or so
ago, will bear the strain, added to the labor
of writing an enormous amount of matter
for bis paper daily and considerable maga
zine work
Mr. Halstead is in appearanee the ideal
Field Marshal, and Oils theeyo satisfactorily
on publio occasions. It was be who, when
Secretary Windoin lay dying in a small side
room at the last board of trade dinner,
stood at tbs door answering the Inquiries of
reporters and others, wtiia the doctors
labored orer tbs prostrated man,and a vary
dignified body guard he made with hie fine
erect figure and gray imperial.
an artist's environment.
Mr. /. C. Thom, whose water color* were
•old at auction recently, 1* an artst who
has been noted for fifteen years for the
ijossession of tu extremely long bead well
filled with gray matter. It happened in
this way;
When the art exhibition for the centennial
of IN7U was decided upon and artiste ware
invited to tend pictures, Mr. Them did bet-
he wished to study the environment of his
work. While there he noticed two spaoes,
one on either side of the big entrance door,
which were so high and narrow that it
would be pretty bard work to find pictures
to fit them. These spaces he oarefully
measured, and going homo he went at once
to work to paint pictures of that shape.
When the pictures arrived their meohanical
fitness befriended them as well as their In
trinsic excellence, and they were "well
hung,” while the names of the rejected
were legion.
Art has made some advances in this coun
try since 1876, but, nobody has yet arisen
earlier in toe morning than Mr. Thom did
on that occasion.
THE LUMBER FIRES OUT WEST.
Twenty years or so ago some very good
friends of mine were burned ud in tbeawful
forest tire which swept over Feshtigo, Wis.,
a fire far more appalling in its loss of life,
though perhaps not more destructive of
property, than those from which Michigan
has just suffered. I remember that the
theory was advanced at that time that the
awful fate of the Feshtigoers was a punish
ment for the sin of Babbath breaking, and
the cousin of my burned friends auuounced
that theory to me with some satisfaction.
It seemed to soothe him to discover some
reason for the calamity.
“But were J and H Sabbath
breakers'” I asksd him.
“No, but lots of folks around there were,”
be answered.
“Well, then," said I—l was twenty years
younger than now and had not learned the
exceeding folly of argument—“why were
they, vbo hadn’t brokeu the Babbath,
burned up, while so many people out here
break it fifty-two time* a year and are none
tbe worse for it?”
He never answered tbe question.
a woman’s house.
The most interesting and magnificent of
tbe newer houses of New York will un
doubtedly be tbe flue Italian palace being
erectod on Fifth avenue by Mr. and Mrs.
C. F. Huntington, or rather by Mrs. and
Mr. Huntington, tbe former as active di
rector. the latter in the very important role
of the payer of tbe bills. Tbe house, with
its cool aud regular exterior. Its air of re
straint and solidity, is in rather refreshing
contrast to some of the more fren
zied productions of reoent years.
Mr*. Huntington, who has very
good taste in such matters, is practi
cally the responsible director of tbe whole
enterprise. Bha it is whom wouldbe
decorators and furnishers and artists plv
with arguments, and her dcoision is float
The interior of the house will be a revela
tion when completed. Tbe wood carvings,
In particular, will be the flneit in Ainerioa.
And to the bouse Mrs. Huntington will
bring a considerable store of art treasures
picked up In her wanderings and now oer
taln to have the richest of settings for their
beauty,
UNPAID DOCTOR’* BILLS.
“It is surprising.” said a young but very
•uocessfui doctor to me a few days ago,
"bow many people there are in New York
who are amply ante to pay toeir doctors'
bill* and who empty will not do it. This
partioaiar variety of bilks are, of oourae.
aiwaye changing their pbyttotana, so that
the newest doctor to settle in any neighbor
hoed M apt to get the not very profitable
custom of a number of them. Add the poor
any yoimg doctor may call himself lucky
if he collects even 50 per cent, of bis bills.
But just a* soon as a inan conquers a place
as a specialist he has no such trouble.
While 1 was a general practitioner 1 lost
thousands of dollars of book debts. Bines
I developed a specialty, I have made only
one bad debt.”
All of which doee not apeak very well fir
the honesty of New York people who indulge
in the luxury of being ill.
A FORTUNE IN SHOE TUB.
A big snoe merchant tells me that two
years ago a man came into his office in tbe
last stages of a drunkard’s decline, appar
ently, and exhibited an invention which
would revolutionize men’s shoe fastenings
and make a fortune for someone. It was
some sort of an arrangement which closed
all the buttons at once by tbe turn of an in
visible lever, nnd was as much of an im
provement on tbe old method as the lever
skate is upon tbe old fashioned kind. That
v.as the first and last the merchant ever saw
of man or mode), and he is wondering now
if the inventor’s secret went Into a grave in
potter’s field. He caunot in tbe least recall
the manner of working of the fastening.
Owen Lanodon.
USEFUL WOMEN
And the Butterfl es That Clog the
Wheels of Progress.
Brooklyn, N. Y., May 23.—“0, I think
ladles who talk about voting are perfectly
horrible, and just think of those creatures
who are dictating to tbe mayor about
sweeping the streets, and those dreadful
things that took their brooms and deliber
ately went out in all tbe dirt and filth and
swept it up in great na*ty heap*. Wouldn’t
you think they would be ashamed of them-
Clementina, with the help of her faithful
maid, was arraying herself for a reception.
Her dress had no sleeves to speak of, very
little neck, and a great deal of train.
“I wouldn’t mind so much about It,” sbe
maundered on, "if it were not that those
vulgar people are forever sending letters
and circulars here, and I really think that
Mary is beginning to nave a little sympathy
nit i them.”
Mary was severe, and the following was
the verbatim response:
"The womeu you criticise are working
for the general health and for individual
justice, and 1 should like to know what you
are doing? When you are not exhibiting
your naked flesh for tbe gaze of the vulgar,
you are planning how to do it with the
greatest effect. T had rather march in a
broom brigade every day of my life than
do what you are going to do to-night.”
Clementina laughed a little laugh of de
riiiuu,
"My dear child,” she auswered, "you will
nevar ha able to fascinate a man to tbe ax -
taut of a marriage ring as long as you bold
such heretics! notions. My neck and arms
are pretty, and constitute a part of my
moat attractive atock in trade. Why you
ought tu bear the compliments I gat whau 1
wear such costume*."
Mery said no wore and Cleeaeutina want
to bar reception. Tbe next day a Hashing
• bite some ornamented tbe engagement
finger. Three months later Clementina
was married in tbe church where tbe “4UU”
most do oosigregate. This mormuE a naw*.
paper report* tb# suit for divorce of Cteu.
enUea against hit George tor or**lf Mad
DUfiirlii liii'jf t
wVte FM|f(rivv w*
The above is not a fanoy sketoh. It is an
epitome of actual occurrences, and needs no
philosopher to eduoe a moral.
The women who clog the wheels of prog
ress are the butterflies of fashion, the
empty-headed, selfish, and heartless creat
ures who care for nothing but to look pretty
and to attraot rich men as husbands. Hhow
me a girl who bus so much vanity aud so
little native modosty a* to dress ala Clem
entina, and I will show you a girl that will
never be of any real use In the world until,
perhaps, disappointment and suffering open
her spiritual eyes. Buffering is a great eye
opener, and most of us have observed its
beneficient effects on such characters. It
rarely fails to do its work, though some
times the process is a long one.
"Baltimorean” asks If it is true that
Borosis never allows its members to discuss
religion, politics and woman’s suffrage, and
if not. why not? It is true. The members
of Borosis represent all oreeds and no creeds.
There ore Presbyterians aud agnostics,
Metbodlsta, Catholics and Jews. There are
women who believe and work for universal
suffrage, and there are those who are bit
terly opposed to the ballot for women.
There are good democrats in tbe club and
stanch republicans, as well a* ladles who
have no political convictions and ladies
i who consider it unwomanly to know any
i thing about affairs of state. But the mem
| bers are all intelligent and meet on tbe
1 common ground of a mental, social and
literary interest. Enough is found outxide
of tbe subjects that would be likely
to develop inbarmony to be exceedingly
interesting aud profitable. Tbe papers read
are usually brilliant and tbe discussions
that follow are always crisp aud very much
to the point, it is a liberal education to see
Borosis in session. There are young fncee,
middle-aged faces, and old faces, but they
are very bright, eager countenances, and
then the Boroeians, as a rule, are always
dressed artistically. The toilets are gener
ally simple and there is no striving after
effect, and what Is most noticeable there it
no blind following of fashion amoug Its
members. Tbe individual taste is recognized
and encouraged with an effect which it as
gratifying to zb# eye at it is wholesome to
the moral sente.
There aro very few cranks who have ever
obtained entrance to this club. Certain
conditions are scrupulously observed lu the
matter of membership, and the member
who proposes a friend or acquaintance ac
cepts a serious responsibility.
A friendship of years is said to have been
Interrupted for years by the refusal of a
lady to propose her most intimate friend
for membership. The rearms were ap
parent, but the friend waauot large enough
to understand her own idlo synoraoiss and
tbe other’s position.
"There is no more brilliant, capable and
lovable woman in the whole length ana
breadth of the lend than Mr*. —a
friend of both ladles told ms. "but she Is
exceedingly argumentative, and her oon
vielious are to thoroughly matters of con
science that sbe would not fail to express
them lu deflauoe of all olub governing
principles Hbe is puMfiiwl of •very powii-
Ua good quality aaoept th# vary ‘‘nporUpt
gkami of logic And rmpx't tor Wlto
bar. intuition is really above logic, and “a
cause" infinitely higher than the rules of a
Naturally such a woman, admirable as
•ta u in as ary relation af Mb. k n°* • “*
person to baioog to a oonaervstiva urgMM
xaUoe. It seems that after three or four
PAGES 9 TO 12;
ever mentions to the other the word
Borosi*.
The American Society of Author*, lately
formed, la a very different ort of a club
from Boroeis or any other. It ha* organised
for real clubbing purposes. In other word*,
men and women who write for a living—
book writer*, magazine writer*, new* pa per
writer* —have com* together for the pur*
pose of mutual protection. Author*
who have been wronged by pub
lishers, and authors who da
sire to publish books but are
deterred by the misfortune* of their friends,
convene to see what can be done to insure
the author a respectable sum from the pub*
Usher. Complaints are pouring Into the so*
ciety from all over the land, and it prom
ise* to have more to do than its sister so
ciety iu London, presided over by Walter
Besant and Tennyson. From the number
of tragic stories told by the authors, iu this
incredibly short space of time, it looks as
though there would be e black list which
would exceed anything that was ever heard
of in any trade or profession since the world
cotnmenoed.
Trained skirts have had such a pressure
brought upon them literally and figura
tively—by boot-heels and figures of speeoh
—that even the women who were at first
determined to follow the nasty fashion
wherever it might lead, through heaps of
dirt or rivers of spit, have been compelled
to come to terms. There is a public senti
ment against this vanity and Ignorance, this
nastiness and extravagance, and for this
sentiment all decent women should be de
voutly thankful. Ihe attempt to revive the
boopsklrt was also a failure, and the most
fashionably radical of our dressmaker* and
tailors admit that the bustle Is a thing el
the past. Elurob Kirx.
All At Sternberg a.
Fine silverware
at STBRIfBERO’S.
Fancy goods
at Stbrkbxro’s.
Wedding present*
at Stsbitbero’s.
Novelties In silver
and gold ornaments
st Btrrkbxro’s.
Elsgant diamonds
at Stersberq’r.
Beautiful jewelry
at Bter.vbxro's.
Presentation articles
at Strrmbero's.
The “Tiffany*" of Savannah,
STJtK.t BERG'S.
Hummer price#
at Sterx berg a.
-Ad.
A fact worth knowing is that blood diseases
which ail other medicines fall to cure yield
slowly hut surely to the blood ciesoslnr pro pw-
UM of P. P. P (prickly Ash. Poke Root and
Potassium -t-Ad.
Pieture* In great variety end all pries*.
M. T. Taylor, W York street, ~4d.
hbeumeUse* wesee bad that June Irvis. of
Setaouah. ooui-1 hardly walk from pern la his
shoulder sad Joint* of hie legs r r. “
'Prlcsty Ash, Poke boot eed Potassium* was
reeoitsd ts end irvte is wail happy - dd
Bathing suite, gy bib**HHß suit*nmi sbosA
at Ad,
