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if a thousand men in those great cities who
have achieved a fortune could see it their
duty to do ail business for Christ and the
alleviation of the world's suffering.
Again, I remark, that business life is a
school of patience. In your every-day life
how many things to annoy and to disquiet:
Bargains wiil rub. Commercial men will
sometimes fail to meet their engagement*.
Cash book and money drawer will some
times quarrel. Goods ordered for a special
emergency will come too late, or be dam
aged in the transportation. People Intend
ing no harm wiil go shopping without any
intention of purchase, overturning great
stocks of goods, and insisting that you
break the dozen. More bad debts on
the ledger. More counterfeit bills in
the drawer. More debts to pay for
other people. More meanness on the part
of partners in business. Annoyance after
annoyance, vexation after vexation, and
io6t after loss. All that process will either
break you down or brighten yon up. It is
a school of petlcuoe. You have known
men under the process to become petulant
and choleric and angry and t ugnactous
and cross and sour and queer, and they lost
their customers and their name became a
detestation. Other men have been bright
ened up under the process. They were
toughened by the exposure. They were
like roexs, all the more valuable for being
blasted. At first they had to choke down
their wrath, at first they had to bit* their
lip, at first they thought of some stinging
retort they would like to make; but they
conquered their impatience. They have
kind words now for sarcastic flings.
They have gentle behavior now for un
mannerly customers. They are patient
now with unfortunate debtors. They have
Christian reflection now for sudden re
verses. Where did they gel that patience i
By hearing a minister preach concerning it
on Sabbath? O, na They got it just
where you will get it—if you over get it at
all—selling bats, discounting notes, turning
banisters, ploughing corn, tinniug roofs,
pl eading causes. O, that amid the turmoil
and anxiety and exasperation of every-day
life you might hear the voloe of God say
ing:' "In patience possess your soul. Let
patience have her perfect work.”
I remark again, that business life is a
school of useful knowledge. Merchants do
not road many books and do not study lex
icons. They do not dive into profounds of
learning, and yet nearly all through their
occupations oorne to understand questions
of finance, and politics, and geography,
and jurisprudence, and ethics. Business is
a severe schoolmistress. If pupils will not
learn she strikes them over the head and
the heart with severe losses. You put
five thousand dollars into an enter
prise. It is oil gone. You say,
••That is a dead loss." O, no. You are
paying the schooling. That was only
tuition, very large tuition—l told you it
was a severe schoolmistress—but it was
worth it. You learned things under that
process you would not have learned in
any other way. Traders in grain oome to
know something about foreign harvests;
traders in fruit come to know something
about the prospects of tropical production;
manufacturers of American goods oome to
understand the tariff on imported articles;
publishers of books must come to under
stand the new law of oopyright; owners of
ships must come to know winds and shoals
and navigation; and every bale of cotton,
and every raisin cask, and every tea box,
and every cluster of bananas is so much
literature for a business man. Now, my
brother, what are you going to do with the
intelligence! Do you suppose God put you
in this school of information merely that
you might be sharper in a trade, that you
might be more successful as n worldling?
O, no; it was that you might take that
useful information and use it for Jesna
Christ. Can it be that you have been
dealing with foreign lands and never had
the missionary spirit, wishing the salva-
tion of foreign people? Can it be that
you have become acquainted with all the
outrages Inflicted in business life and that
you have never tried to bring to bear that
gospel which Is to extirpate all evil and oor
rect all wrongs and illumine all darkness and
lift up al! wretchedness and save men for this
world and tbo world to oome? Can it be that
understanding all the intricacies of busi
tness, you know nothing about those things
which will last after all bills of exchange
ami consignments and invoioee and rent
rolls shall have crumbled up and been con
sumed in the fires of the last great day?
Can it be that a man wiil be wise for time
and tool tor eternity?
I remark, also, that business life is a
school for integrity. No man knows what
be will do when he is tempted. There are
thousands of men who have kept their in
tegrity merely because they never have
been tested. A man was elected treasurer
of tho state of Maine some years ago. He
was distinguished for his honesty, useful
ness aud uprightness, but before one year
bad passed he bad taken of the publio
funds for his own private use, und was
hurled out of office in diagraoa. Distin
guished for virtue before. Dis
tinguished for crime after. You
cau call over tho names of men just
like that, in whose honesty you had com
plete confidence, but placed in certain crisis
of temptation they went overboard. Never
so many temptations to soounarellsm as
now. Not a law on the statute book but
has some back door through which a mis
creant can escape. Ah! how many decep
tions in the fabrio of goods; so much plun
dering in commercial life that if a man
talks about living a life of complete com
mercial accuracy there are Chose who
ascribe it to greenness and lack of tact.
More need of honesty now than ever Defore,
tried honesty, complete honesty, more than
iu those times whea business was a plain
affair and woolens were woolens and silks
were silks and men were men.
How many men do you suppose there are
in commercial life who could Bay truth
fully, "In all the sales I have ever made I
have never overstated the value of goods;
in all the sales I have ever made I have
never covered up an imperfection in the
fabrio; of all the thousands of dollars I have
ever made I have not taken ouo dishonest
farthing?” There are men, however, who
can say it, hundreds who can say it, thou
sands who can say it. They are more
honest than when they sold their first tierce
of rice, or their first firkin of butter, be
cause their honesty and integrity have been
tested, tried and came out triumphant. But
they remember a time when they could have
robbed a partner, or have absconded with
the funds of a bank, or sprung a snap
judgment, or made a false assigument, or
borrowed inimitably without any efforts
at payment, or got a man into a sharp cor
ner and fleeced him. But they never took
one step on that patnway of hell fire. They
oan say their prayers without hearing the
ciiiuk of dishonest dollars. They can rend
their Bible without thluking of the time
when with a lio on their soul in the custom
house they kissed the book. They can
think of death and the judgment that
comes after it without any flinching—that
day when all charlatans and cheats and
jockeys and frauds shall be doubly damned.
It does not make their knees knock together,
and it does not make their teeth chatter to
read “as the partridge sitteth on eggs, and
hatched them not; so he that getteth riohos,
and not by right, shall leave them in the
midst of his days, and at his end shall be a
fooL”
O, what a school of integrity business life
Is I If you have ever attempted to let your
integrity criuge before present advantage,
if you have ever wakened up, in some em
barrassment, and said: “Now, I’ll step a
little aside from the right path and no one
will know It, and I’ll oome all right again;
it is only once.” O, that only once has
ruined tens of thousands of men for this
life and blasted their souls for eternity. It
is a tremendous sohool, business life, a school
of integrity. A merchant in Liverpool got
a five-pound Bank of England note, and
holding it up toward tho light bo saw b >me
into- liueations in what seemed red ink. He
finally deciphered the letters, and found
out that the wriilug had been made by a
slavo in Algiers, saying In substance:
‘ n hoever gets this bank note will pleaie to
mform rny brother, John Dean, living near
Carlisle, that I am a slave of the bey of Al
giers. The merchant sent word, employed
governmout officers, and found who this
tnon wos, spokeu of In this batik bill. After
awhile the man was rescued, who for eleven
years had been a slave of the bey of Algiers.
He was immediately emancipated, but was
so worn out by hardship and exposure he
soon after died. O, if some of the bank
bills that oome through your hands could
tell all the scenes through which they hsve
passed, it would be a tragedy eclipsing any
dramaof Shakespeare, mightier than King
Lear or Macbeth.
As I go on in this subject, I am impressed
with the importance of our having more
sympathy with the business men. Is it not
a shame that we in our pulpits do not
oftener preach about their struggles, their
trials and their temptations ? Men who
toil with tbs band are not ap. to be very
sympathetic with those who toll with the
brain. The farmers who raise the ooru
and the oats and the wheat some
times are tempted to think that grain mer
chants have an easy time, and get thsir
profits without giving any equivalent.
Plato and Aristotle were so opposed to
merchandise that they declared com
merce to be the curse of the nations,
and they advised that cities be built at least
ten miles from the sea-coast. But you and
I know that there are oo more industrious
or high-minded men than those who move
in the world of traffic). Some of them carry
burdens heavier than hods of brick, and are
exposed to sharper things than the east
wind, and climb mountains higher than tbs
Alp* or Himalayas, and if they are faith
ful Christ will at last say to them: “Well
done, good and faithful servant; thou hast
been faithful over a few things, I will make
thee ruler over many things. Knter thou
into the joy of thy Lord."
We talk about the martyrs of the Pied
mont valley, nad lb* martyrs among the
Sootoh highlands, and the martyrs at Ox
ford. There are lust as certainly martyrs
of Wall street and Htate street, martyrs of
Fulton street and Broadway, martyrs of
Atlantic street and Chestnut street, going
through hotter fires, or having their necks
under sharper axes. Then it behooves us to
banish all fretfulness from our lives, if this
subject be true. We look back to the time
when we wore at sohool, and we remember
the rod, and we remember the hard tasks,
and we complained grievously; but
now we see it was for the best.
Business life is a sohool, and the tasks
are hard, and tho ohastlsements some
times are very grievous; but do not com
rJain. The hotter the fire the better the re
fining. There are men before the throne of
God this day in triumph who on earth were
cheated oat of everything but their coffin.
They were sued, they were imprisoned for
debt, they were throttled by constables
with e whole pack of write, they were sold
out of the sheriffs, they had no compromise
with their creditors, they bad to make as
signments. Their dying hours were an
noyed by the sharp ringing of the door-bell
ty some Impetuous creditor who thought it
was outrageous and impudent that a man
should dare to die before be
paid the last three shillings
and sixpence. 1 had a friend who had
many misfortunes. Everything wont against
him. He had good business quality, and
was of the best of morals, but he was one of
those men such as you have sometimes seen,
for whom everything seems to go wrong.
His life became to him a plague. When I
heard he was dead, I said: "Good; got rid
of the sheriffs!” Who are those lustrous
souls before the throne? When the ques
tion is asked, “Who are they?’ the angels
standing on the sea of gloss respond: ‘ ‘These
are they who came out of great business
trouble, and had their robes washed and
made white In the blood of the Lamb,”
A mau arose in Fulton street prayer
meeting and said: “I wish publicly to ac
knowledge the goodnees of God. 1 was in
business trouble. I had money to pay, and
I had no means to pay it, and I was iu utter
despair of all human help, and I laid this
mutter before the Lord, and this morning I
went down among some old business
friends I had not seen in many years, jjusi
to make a call, and one said to me, “Why,
I am so glad to see you, walk In. Me
have some money oo our books due you a
good while, but we didn't know where you
were, and fhorefore not having your ad
dress we eculd not send it. We are very
glad you have coma” And the man
standing in Fulton street prayer-meeting
said: "The amount they paid me was six
times what I owed.” You say it only hap
pened so? You are an infidel. God an
swered that man’s prayer. O, you want
business graoe. Commercial ethics, busi
ness honors, laws of trade, are all very goqd
iu their place, but thert are times when
you want something more than this world
will give you. You want God. For tha lack
of him soma that you have known have
consented to forge, and to maltreat their
friends, and to curse their enemies, and
their names have been bulletined among
scoundrels, aud they have been ground to
powder; while other men you have
known have gone through the
very same streets of circumstances
triumphant. There are men here
to-dav who fought the battle and gained
the victory. People come out of that mau's
store, and they say: "Well, if there ever
was a Christian trader, that is one.” In
tegrity kept the books and waited on the
customers. Light from the eternal world
flashed through tho show windows. Lova
to God and love to man presided in that
storehouse. Some day peoplo going through
the street notice that the shutters of the
window are not down. The bar of that
store door has not been removed. Peoplo
say: “W’hat is the matter i" You go up
a little closer, and you see written on tha
card of that window: "Closed on account
of the doath of one of the firm.”
That day all through the cir
oles of business there is talk about how
a good man has gone. Boards of
trade pass resolutions of sympathy,
and ohturohes of Christ pray, ‘Help,
Lord, for the godly man ceasetb.”
He has made his last bargain, he has suf
fered his last loss, he has ached with the
last fatigue. His children will get the re
sult of his industry, or, if through mis
fortune there bo no dollar left, they will
have an estate of prayer and Christian ex
ample which will be everlasting. Heavenly
reward* for earthly discipline. There “the
wicked cease from troubling and the weary
are at rest.”
RAN OFF THE RAILS.
Narrow Escape of a Train From a
Plunge From a Trestle.
Gainesville, Fla., Dec. 2d— The down
train on the Florida Central and Peninsular
railroad was derailed this afternoon about
half a mile from the city. Every car went
off the rails, but fortunately the train was
not going at a high rate of speed and no one
was hurt. It had Just passed ovsr the high
trestle whloh spans Ellis' branch. Had it
gone off on this many lives would have
been lost. The accident was caused by rot
ten Has and a rail which had the inner
flange broken or worn off. The road from
hore to Cedar Key is in a miserable condi
tion. It is the oldest in the state, but never
theless is allowed at an infant industry to
charge 4 cents per mile.
A libel suit ended.
The suit of Knox vs. Montgomery ended
last night in a verdict for the defendant
(Montgomery). The suit was one for libel
ous publication by Montgomery against
Knox, charging him with having burned
his storshouso, which was insured in the
Florida Mutual Fire Insurance Association,
of which Montgomery was president.
There are saveral murder cases to be triod
at this term of court.
The first cabbage of the Beason came to
town yesterday. Lettuce is going for ward.
Strawberries are ripe.
Thomasvilie Topics.
Tupmasville, Ga., Deo. 20.—J. W.
Dillon IS Cii liftvo bought out the hay and
grain business of C. S. Parker.
The following officers have been elected
by St. Thomas Lodge No. 49: Arthur
Patten, W. M.: J. G. Hopkins, S. W.;
David Elias, J. TV.; M. A. Fleetwood, sec
retary; L Levy, treasurer; N. J. Brown,
tyler.
HhZ-Yb*. I ass very fond of pets.
He-Indeed; What, may I ask, is your favor
ite anioialf-
She ;?raijly>—•'SanA- .yun.if'y'i Weilcly.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 21,1891.
A SCANDAL AT ATLANTA.
B. G. KHUBT AND MBS. COLDE
COTT REPORTED UNDER ARREST.
Humor Says They Were Together at
a Fashionable Hotel at Cincinnati
Mr. Coldecott Refuses to Believe
the Story.
Atlanta, Oa. , Dec. 20. —Two weeks
ago to-day Henry G. Khnrt, the well
known tobaoconist, proprietor of the
largest house of the kind in Atlanta, packed
his grip, and, telling his wife aDd cler ks
that he was going to New York on busi
ness, left the city on the Air Line train.
Last Wednesday M. L. Coldecott, well
known as the proprietor of the Munro bath
institute, in the Traders’ Bank building,
purchased railroad and sleeping car tickets
for his wife to 8t Louis, and with hus
bandly care went to the depot and had
her comfortably located in the
oar. Mrs. Coldecott is an exceed
ingly handsome woman, a blonde
of that striking, delicate type
that never fails to attract attention and ad
miration. Mr. and Mrs. Coldecott, with
their one child, have lived in Atlanta
for about five years, and the wife, by reason
of her striking beauty, has become to be
kuown by sight by half tie population of
the city. Mr. and Mr*. Coldecott have al
ways lived in fine style, keeping their horses
and carriages aud eujoying all the luxuries
that an apparently happy and prosperous
business man could command. Henry
Khurt Is one of the best known young men iu
the olty, a handsome, liberal-hearted fellow
who bos made free use of a fortune among
his friends. His wife, with whom every
body sympathises in the affair, is the oldest
daughter of John Ryan aud a sister to
Steve Kyan, the merchant prince, who is
now iu Fulton county jail for contempt of
court.
ARRBBTSD AT BT. LOUIS.
Yesterday a telegram was received in At
lanta stating that Henry Khurt and Mrs.
Coldecott had been placed under arrest iu
Cincinnati. This developed that the pretty
blonde had not kept faith with her husband
and gone to visit relatives in St. Louis, as
he believed, but instead made straight to
Cincinnati to join the handsome young At
lanta merchant. What the details of the
arrest aro could not be ascertained, but it is
rumored here that there is still another
woman in the case who caused the arrest.
TRYING TO HUSH IT UP.
Every effort is being made to suppress the
particulars of the sensation on account of
the prominence of the parties, but the news
of the arrest spread quickly and to-night It
is the leading topic of gossip among men
about town. It was reported among other
things that Khurt had sent to his book
keeper here for *5,000 yesterday, but at his
store this was denied. For several years the
Caldecotts and Khnrts lived near neighbors.
Mr. Coldecott is much wrought up over the
affair. He says he has perfect oonfidenoe in
bis wife and would not even telegraph
to Cincinnati for confirmation of the story,
for fear ho would place himsolf in the posi
tion of doubting her. Beyond this he
would say nothing, except that if the re
ported arrests were true it of course meant
that all was over between him and his wife.
HSLD UP BY FOOTPADa
A Car Inspector of Albany Relieved of
S4B.
Albany, Ga., Deo. 20.— Z. T. Layfiold,
chief car inspector for the Albany division
of the Southwestern road, was last night
the victim of one of the boldest and most
■uocessful robberies every committed in
the city. Mr. Layfleld was leaving the
depot at a late hour, walking on the traok
that forms the "Y.” Coming into North
street, and Just after be had passed the
water tank, two men sprang from behind a
pile of crossties and seized him. Both men
bad a hold of Mr. Layfleld before he real
ized what was up, and odo of them bald a
knife to bis throat and told
him that if he moved or
gave any alarm, they would kill him. They
demanded hit inonoy, and finding himself
entirely in their power, Mr. Layfleld could
do nothing but submit. They got aH he
had in his pookets, *4O 3\ After getting
his money one of the robbers walked off a
short distance and stopped. He then called
to his partner to follow him, and warned
Mr. Layfleld that if be moved until they
ware safely out of sight they would
shoot. Thus both men disappeared into the
darkness of the night, and Mr. Layfleltt, us
soon ns he felt that it was safe for him to
do so, moved on and hurried up town i*tor
an officer. He did not know whether the
robbers were whits or black. No arrests
have been made.
FLORIDA’S METROPOLIS.
A Church Narrowly Escapes Firo—A
Woman Leaps From a Window.
Jacksonville, Fla., Deo. 20.—The
Tabernacle Baptist church caught
fire during this morning’s service, but Rev,
Malcom MacGracgar continued to preach
right through to the end of his sermon.
Tho flames started in a shed In the rear of
the church. Tho prompt arrival of the
department and the quick work extin
guished the flames before any serious dam
age was done.
A woman, stopping at the Everett
hotel, leaped through the glass of a
second story window into the yard of Col.
Bam Houston to-night just after supper,
and caused much exoitement. She fortu
nately landed on soft ground so no bones
were broken, though internal Injuries were
suffered. The unfortunate was temporar
ily Insane.
The steamship Seminole of the Clyde line
arrived in port at noon to-day forty-eight
hours overdue. She was prevented from
eutering the harbor by a northeast gale
and anchored outside the bar, being un
reported owing to the dense fog. Much
apprehension was felt hore for her safety.
She sails north to-morrow morning at 9:30
o’olock with 14,000 boxes of oranges for the
holiday trade.
KILLED BY AN ENGINE.
An Aged White Man Struck by a Train
Near Morcrosa.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 2d—Passenger train
No. 37 of the Ricbuioud and Danville road
knocked James Lett, an aged white man,
from the track at Norcrcss yesterday after
noon, killing him Instantly.
Lott had just lluishad making some pur
chases at one of the stores and started down
the railroad track toward his home with his
purchases under his arms.
Engineer O’Neal, sitting iu his seat in the
engine, with bis band on tho throttle, peer
ing oageriy down the track through the
mist and rain, saw tho old man and gave a
sharp blast of the whistle. The old man
looked back and increased bis pace, but
failed to leave the traok. An instant later
he was hurled into the air by the pilot and
fell eoveral feet from the track. A few
minutes later he was dead.
POLICE SIGNAL 3YSTE 51.
Savannah Officials inspecting Its
Workings at Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., Deo. 20.—Mayor MoDon
ougb, Alderman Haines and Chief of Polioe
Green of Savannah are in the city. The
object of the visit is to Investigate the
Garaowcll police signal system in operation
here. This afternoon they were shown over
tho police station by Chief Connolly and
Capt. Thompson. Some interesting experi
ments were also made with tho signal sys
tem, aud tho mayor, alderman und chief
expressed themselves as highly pleased with
it.
Richardson’j Manager Dond.
Vicksburg, Miss., Dec. 20.—C01. W. C.
Kennedy, general manager of tho vast estate
of Joiiu Richardson, died at Rattan this
morning.
FLORIDA’S CAPITAL CITY.
Articles of Incorporation for New Com
panies Filed at the OapitoL
Tallahasskx, Fla., Dec. 90.—Tallahas
see’s artesian well is a success. At a depth
of 090 feet an abundant supply of fine qual
ity of mineral water has been obtained.
Htate Chennai Norman Robinson says this
water oontains excellent medicinal proper
ties'.
Articles of incorporation of new compa
nies have been filed with the secretary of
state as follows:
Sprague, Duncan & Hutchinson, limited,
capital stock (00,000; places of business at
Yew York and Jacksonville. This is a com
pany of electrical engineers. The directors
are Frank L. Bprague, Alfred Bishop Mason
and Cary T. Hutchinson.
The Pharr Phosphate Company of Bar
tow, capital stock *540,000. The directors
are Emmett M. Ureeson, Alexander F.
Pharr and James B. Gibson,
The Tropical Development and Naviga
tion Company, successors to the Polk
County Canal and Navigation Company.
The capital stock is *50,000. The officers
are: C. I. Page, pi-sidont; H.O. Johnson,
vice president; H. Hammond, secretary and
treasurer.
The Pasadena Land and Improvement
Company, capital stock *130,000. The in
corporators are: John D. Flint, Elijah Fox.
Wylie Hheek, David H. Young, Ira K.
Chase, John J. Thrasher, Alfred E. Draw
and Jamas A. Dow.
The Exoeteior Phosphate Company of
Jacksonville, oapital stock *IOO,OOO. The
directors are: Wilfiam 8. Prinder, Henry
M. Brooks, Samuel B. Glazier, Amanda W.
Barn and Harrison W. Clark.
The Ooala Banner Publishing Company,
oapital stock *40,0001 The directors sre,
F. E. Harris. P. I). A. Pratt, Charles H.
Pratt, J. H. O, Pratt, C. I* Bit Unger and
Samuel F. Treague.
The Saddle Creek Phosphate Company of
Bartow, capital stock *300,000. The direc
tors aro: C. J. Bearlt-s, A. C. Britton and J.
M. Se&rloe.
The West Florida and Northern Railway
Company, oapital st ick *30,000. The road
is to be built from St. Andrew’s northward
through Holmes county to the Alabama
Uue, eastward to Wewahitohka, thence to
Apalachicola, thence to Bt. Josephs, thence
northward via Wewahitohka through Jack
son oounly to the Alabama line, a distance
of 190 miles. The directors are: J. G.
Fuller, Roswell Bhinn aud John E. Cailey
of Chicago, E S. Lawrence of New York,
J. D. Plrrong of Wewahitohka, J. D.
Martin of St. Andrew’s,(and John Barr
Glenn erf Chipiey,
The Pensacola Home and Savings Asso
ciation, the offloers of which are H. B. Hat
ton, president; J. T. Whiting, vice presi
dent; R. M. Car>y, Jr., secretary; H. K.
Hyer, Jr., treasurer, and A. G. Blount, Jr.,
attorney.
The New Sub-Tropioal Exposition of Jack
sonville, capital
porators are J. W. Archibald, W. A. Mac
dull, W. A. Borri, A. B. Campbell, J. R.
Campbell, J. C. Greeley and C. Benedict.
The Seminole Building Association of
Jacksonville, capital otook SSOO. Theincor
poratorznna T. W. li'iby. C. W. Cockrell,
Jr., J. H. Darke!, J. S. Fairhead and John
L’Eugie. w j
Da. Elyah Whitsky of New York r akes the
proud boast of having seen every President
from Washington to Cleveland. Dr. Whitney
Is 93 years old.
Rabbis Ootthai> Dbutsch, the newly elected
professor of Hebrew history and philosophy in
the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, is only
33 years of age.
MEDICAL
Be Sure
It you have made up your mind to buy
Hood’s Sarsaparilla do not be induced to take
any other. A Boston lady, whose example Is
worthy imitation, tells her experience below:
“ In one store where I went to buy Hood’s
Sarsaparilla the clerk tried to Induce me buy
their Own instead of Hood’s; he told roe their’s
would last longer; that I might take it oo ten
To Get
days’ trial; that if I did not like it I need not
pay anythlsg, etc. But he conld not prevail
on me to change. I told him I had taken
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, knew what It was, was
satisfied with It,,and did not want any other.
When I began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla
I was feeling rpM iplserable with dyspepsia,
and so weak tßaf at times I could hardly
Hood’s
stand. I looked like a person In consump
tion. Hood's Sarsaparilla did me so much
good that I wonder at myself sometimes,
and my friends frequently speak of it." Mrs.
Ella A. Goff, 61 Terrace Street, Boston.
Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists, gt ; gi x f o r flg. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowdll, Mas*.
IQO Doses One Dollar
" SPECIAL NOTICES.
ICK.^
All bills against the Spanish bark NALON,
Castro master, must be presented at our office
by 32 o'clock noon THIS DAY, or payment
thereof will be debarred.
STILLWELL, MILLEN & CO.,
Consignees.
APPLES. APPLES.
Two hundred barrels Fancy Baldwin Apples
arriving to-day. Get prlcos before buying.
W. P. GREEN & CO.
DON’T FORGET,
TUESDAY, 22D DECEMBER,
—>lß
LAST CHANUE TO BUY AT AUCTION
FINE FURNITURE.
THE CLOSING UNDERWRITER'S SALE
WILL TAKE PLACE AT 150 BROUGHTON
STREET. UPSTAIRS, AS ABOVE. SOME
ELEGANT GOODS WILL BE SOLD WHICH
WILL MAKE GRAND CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
C. H. DORSETT, Auctiowbbb.
MERRY XMAS ’
RECEIVED TO-DAY. 1,000
SELECTED TURKEYS,
Which I offer for sale in quantities to suit,
alive or dressed.
{iF" Send me your Xmas orders for
FRESH KILLED TURKEYS.
L. rUTZEL,
MjmtUT Biskmext.
TELEPHONE 10 3,
RAISIN
We have five hundred boxes Fine Raisins to
sell within the next few days. See us before
buying. W. P. GREEN & CO.,
100 Bay Street.
MEDIC AL,.
The SYMPTOMS of Liver Complaint are a
bitter or bad taste In the mouth; Pain In the
Back. Sides or Joints, often mistaken for
Kheumatism; Sour Stomach; Loss of Appetite;
Bowels alternately costive and lax; Headache;
Loss of Memory, with a painful sensation of
having failed to do something which ought to
have been done; Debility; Low Spirits, a thick
yellow appearance of the Skin and Eyes; a dry
Cough often mistaken for Consumption.
Sometime* maay of these symptoms attend
the disease, at others eery few; but the Liver,
the largest organ in the body, is generally the
seat of the disease, and if not regulated in time,
great suffering, wretchedness and Death will
ensue.
AS AN UNFAILING SPECIFIC
For DYSPEPSIA .CONSTIPATION. Jaundice,
Whous attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Colic. De
pression Of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH, Heart
Burn, Etc., Etc.
Take Siaaons’ Lifer Regulator, or Medicine,
NAJfuvAcrvRKD ointv nr
J. H. ZEILIN A CO..
. „ PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Sold by all Druggists.
FPIOtRAL INTITATIONA
COHEN—The friends and acquaintance of
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Cohen are respectfully re
quested to attend the funeral of the latter from
her late residence. Bull and Perry streets,
THIS MORNING, at 21 o’olock.
MKRTINOSk.
NOTICE.
All persons suffering loss or damage by the
present condition of the Ogeechee Canal are
requested to meet at Chatham Court House on
88th Inst., at 10 o'clock, for the purpose of ar
ranging for our protection.
SPECIAL N OTIC Kb. "
On and after Feb. 1,1880, the basis of meas
urement of all advertising in the Mohniho News
will be agate, or at the rate of $. 40 an lnoh for
the first Insertion. No Special Notice inserted
for less than $1 00.
DESIRABLE CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
FOR THE APPROACHING HOLI
DAYS WE ARE SHOWING AN
EXCELLENT LINE OF NECK
WEAR, UMBRELLAS, DRESSING
GOWNS, SMOKING JACKETS*
ETC.
THE PRESENT STRINGENCY
OF THE MONEY MARKET WILL
MAKE SUCH GIFTS MORE AC
CEPTABLE THAN EVER, AS IT
MAY SAVE THE RECIPIENT BUY
ING SIMILAR GOODS HIMSELF.
BESIDES THIS OUR PRICES
ARE SO LOW THAT FOR A LIT
TLE MONEY YOU CAN GET SUCH
DESIRABLE GOODS. THY US,
FALK CLOTHING CO.
SOMETHING SEW,
DUO DE MONTEBELLO EXTRA DRY
CHAMPAGNE.
Pints and half pints, put up In fine wicker
baekete with handles, Loif dozen pints in a
basket, oie dozen half pints. This champagne
wae put up in France by our special order, in
these fine baskets. For sale only by
_ P. H. WARD,
INS atjd 830 Bryan Street.
GROUND RENT LOT HOLDERS.
Holders of ground rent lots desiring to file
objections to assess nenta of said lots for city
taxes will find blank notices at our offices.
SAUBSY & BAUS9Y,
Attorneys for Lot Holders.
FOR CHRISTMAS.
FINE TABLE AND COOKING WINES.
FINE OLD WHISKIES AND BRANDIES.
JELLIES, JAMS AND PRESERVES.
FINEST FRENCH AND AMERICAN VEGE
TABLES AND FRUITS!
FINE CANDIES AND NUTS
AT
WM. G. COOPER’S,
2S Whitaker Street.
OCO TURKEYS,
1,500 DOZEN EGGS,
Choice Tennessee Butter, Pigeon Pease,
Black-eye Pease.
For Safe Cheap by
W. INMAN MILLER,
’ TURKEYS,
TURKEYS. TURKEYS,
TURKEYS.
GEESE
To arrive Tuesday, and for sale in lots to suit.
Parties who want Turkeys for Christmas will
do well to plane orders with us.
J. B. COLLINS & CO.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
To thb Public:
Wo have a surplus stock on account of our
two stores, and being direct Importers and
wholesale dealers, buying from first hands, are
In a position to give full value for all orders of
Wines, Liquors, Cordials Intrusted to our care.
M. LAVIN’S ESTATE,
48 East Broad, SO Bay Street
Telephone 840.
FHEID A HICKS,
HEADQUARTERS..
FREID A HICKS.
Headquarters,
FREID & HICKS,
Headquarters,
FREID & HICKS,
Headquarters,
Open day and night'.
Telephonesl3. Nos. 9, 11 and 13 Market.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
MERCHANTS- NATIONAL'
SAVANNAH.
_ , , fizVAKBAH. Oa.. Deo. 9,1991.
The annual election for directors will be held
at the banking house (corner bt. Julian and
Drayton streets). TUESDAY, Jan. 18,18*9, from
12 to 1 o dock v. a.
W. S. ROCKWELL.
Cashier.
NOTICE TO TOY STORKS, RETAIL
ETC.
Cm or Savannah. I
Omen Cixbk of Council, Dec. 8.1391. f
The following ordinanoe is published for the
information of all concerned. By order of the
Mayor. FRANK E. REBARER.
Clerk of Council.
OaniNANca, Due. 10, 1888.
An Obdinancs to suspend the ordinance passed
in council April 25, 1883, relative to obstruc
tion of sidewalks.
Bzction 1. Be it ordained by the mayor and al
dermen of the City of Satan sau. In council
assembled, and It is hereby ordained by the
authority aforesaid, that tha ordinance paseed
in council on April 35. 1383, relative to obstruc
tion of sidewalks by the displaying of <L-y goods,
etc., be suspended from Dec. 3 to Deo. fc, in
dusive of each ysar, upon condition that' the
space oooupled by dealers in displaying their
goods shall not exceed two and a naif feet from
store to sidewalks, and shall not exceed three
feet from the curb toward the street, but no
goods or boxes shall be left oo the pa Yemen t
or street after S o'dock p. x. of each day.
ELECTION NOTICE.
Citt of Savannah, 1
Orvicß Clnbk of Council, Dec. 10, 1891. (
Under and by virtue of a resolution adopted
by city oousoil on the 9th Instant, oocmoli will
elect at its next regular meeting, that is to aay,
on WEDNESDAY, the 83d instant, a commis
sioner to fill vacancy now existing in the Board
of Commissioners of Pilotage.
Applicants must hand In their applications to
the office of the clerk of council at or before 8
o’clock p. as,, on MONDAY preoeding the day of
election.
By order of counoil,
FRANK E. REBARER,
Clerk of Council.
DON’T GET LEFT.
Remember and send In your orders early, and
you will be provided for. I have a fine lot of
the fattest and best
TURKEYS TURKEYS
Dressed at home and guaranteed to be the finest
in the city. Send to
JAMES J. JOYCE,
Comer Liberty and Abercorn Streets.
We have rece.ved a large supply of
HUYLER’B CANDIES.
Fine Mixed Chocolates. Buttercups, Flgalettes,
Maron Qlace, Cream Mints, old-fashioned Mo
lasses. Marshmallows, etc,, in assorted size
packages and fauoy boxes aud baskets.
SOLOMONS A CO.,
133 Congress Street and 92 Bull Street.
SULLIVAN’S RESTAURANT'
HO and 113 Bbtam Street.
Northern and western meats, game of all
kinds in season, Blue Point oysters and Little
Neok clams, lobsters, soft,shell crabs and Span,
J sh mackerel by every steamer.
SILVERWARE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
SILVER NOVELTIEB
OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE CHARACTER.
DIAMONDS,
WATCHES,
JEWELRY.
SAMUEL KIRK A SON,
Establishsd 1817.
114 BALTIMORE STREET EAST,
Baltimore, Md.
JUST RECEIVED,
A large supply of
PEASE. BEANS AND ONION SETS,
Which we offer at lowest prices at Wholesale
and Retail.
SOLOMONS A CO.,
Druggists, Market Square.
FOR RENT OR SALE,
At Isle of Hope, a nloe cottage and outbuild
ings with about forty (40) acres of farming
laud. Possession given Immediately. Apply to
WALTHOUR & RIVERS.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
Treasurer's Offiob of the )
City of Savannah. v
Savannah, Ga., Dec. !lth, 1891. )
Notloe la hereby given to the taxpayers of
the City of Savannah that under tho ordinance
passed by couuoil on the 9th instant, the assess
ment and valuation of property made for
municipal taxation for the year 1890, under the
terms and provisions of the ordinance of the
city passed Nov. 3ft, 183 ft, wifi be continued ar
the basis of taxation by the city for the year
1893 as to the real estate, including improve
ments, covered thereby, in tho absence of ob
jections. Such objections, if any, must be filed
m the office of the clerk of council within fifteen
days from this date. In the absence of objeo
tlons within tho time specified, the assessment
and valuation already made will he considered
as satisfactory, and will bo binding for the year
1892.
[Signed] CHAR 8. HARDEE,
Olty Treasurer.
NOTICE.
First-class accountant, engaged as treasurer
of a prominent successful Bavannah corpora
tion, can divide his time In similar capacity.
Best Savannah references. Box 34. care News.
NOTICE.
Cittof Savannah, I
Office Chirf of Polios, Dec. 19,1891. f
The following order is hereby published for
the iuformatiou of all concerned:
1. The Ordinance of the city forbids the firing
of guns, pistols and other firearms anywhere
and at any time within the corporate limits.
2. The firing of sky rockets, wheel roe ets,
roman candles, sorpents, firecrackers and other
fireworks, or of any other article or thing con
taining gunpowder, fulminating powder, or
other explosive or detonating substances, and
the making of bonfires, except In tho extended
portion if Forsyth Place and in the public
squares of the city south of Liberty street, and
then only five days before and ten days after
Christmas day nd the Fourth Day of July la
each and overy year, is aro poslti+ely pro
hibited by the Ordinance of the r fey.
8. The members of the Police Department are 1
hereby ordered to arrest all persons found vio
lating these Ordinances, and to be unusually
vigilant during the approaching holidays in
checking promptly all improper irregularities
and disorders detrimental to gool order, aud to
the proper protection of life and property.
JOHN GREEN, Chief of Police.
l imiHTHAH IIIFT,
Betides the very complete stock of Optical
Goods always to he found at onr establishment,
we offer an unusually large assortment of
Opera, Field and Spy Glasses, Magio Lanterns,
Lorgne tes, Opera Glass Holders, Opera Glass
Bags and Ohatelalne|Tases for Spectacles or
Eyeglasses. We also have a special sale of
Gold Spectacles and Eyeglasses at reduoad
prices. Every pair of Gold Speotaelee or Eye
glasses bought for a holiday present esn bo ex
changed within one year free of oharge.
N. B.—Our store will he open every n'ght un
til tho 35th ius unit until 10 o’clock. Kespeot
fully, DR. M. SOHWAB A SON.
No. 21 Bull Street,
! CLOTHTNG.
What Better
Christmas Present can you make your
hubbys, your sons, sweethearts and
friends than an elegant Fisk Clark
& Flagg Scarf, a pretty Smoking
Jacket, a Full Dress Shirt and a thou!
sand and one appropriate things
that you will find in our establish
ment ? You can get everything new
and first-class from the most noted
makers, at inventory prices. Come
and get your holiday presents from us,
APPEL & Sdl,
One Price Clothiers k Haberdashers,
amusements.
SAVANNAH THEATER
WEDNESDAY ~A§ THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 33 and 34,
THE POPULAR, ROMANTIC
ACTOR,
Mr. James O’Neill
And Hi* Supporting Company of Twenty-two
Artists in an Elaborate Revival of
monte^cristo.
Bale of Seat* at Davis Music Oct’s Store MOV
DAY, DEC. 21.
Next attraction "TWO JOHNS,” Dec. 35, %
BANKS. ~
THE GEIANIIIAI
SAVANNAH, GA
CAPITAL, $200,000
In connection with banking bug.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT,
WHERE
4 Per Cent Per Ami
Is paid on deposits compounded quarterir n*
poaitors of all classes are solicited. With „
obliging staff of offloers and oonaervative msa.
element patrons and tE.se desiring to JsdoJi
with it may be assured that thair interest* rill
be carefully guarded. “
OIi'I’ICEUS.
HENRY BLUN, GEO. W OWENB
President. Vice I-res'ideoi
JOHN M. HOGAN, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY BLUN.
GBQ. W. OWENS, Attorney at Law
P. BRENNAN, of Kavanaugh * iCiL
H. M. HULL, of Bearing ,t Hull
WILLIAM KEHOB. of Wm Kehoe A 00.
AMSON MOHR, of Mohr Bros.
DR. J. R READ.
T. F. STUBBS, of Stubbs & Tlson.
A. P. SOLOMON, of Henry Solomon & Sonx
O. M. RYALS.
IRVIN B. TIEDEMAtLof Geo. W. Tledemsnk
Bro.
A. O. HARMON, Broker and Commission Mer
chant.
Joe. D. Who. Jno. C. Rowland,
PrKKIDKMT.
Jab. M. Hunter, cashiin.
Savannah Bank & Trust Cos.
SAVINGS DEPT
4%
Deposits of $1 and Upward Received.
Interest on Deposits Payable quarterly.
DIRECTORS.
JOSEPH D. WEED, of J. D. Wxl A 00.
JOHN C. ROWLAND, Capitaliet.
tX A REITZS, Exchange and Insurance.
R. O. ERWIN, of Chisholm, Erwin 4 duElgnoo.
EDWARD KAROW, of Strau* 4 00.
XBAAC G. HAAS, General Broker.
M. T. MACINTYRE, of M. Y. A D. I. Maclntyre.
JOHN LYONS, of John Lyons A Oa
WALTER CONEY, of Patterson. Downing 4 0a
D. C. BACON, Lumber. J
EDUCATIONAL.
COLLEGE FOR 111,
COLUMBIA, S. C
Rev. WM. R. ATKINSON, D. D, President.
Tills college will resume exerclsos after ChrW
mas holidays on December 30th, and will <”•
its session June 15th. No institution In toe
south offers greater advantages for the eauc*.
tion of y ouug ladies in the Academic. Mus e
Art departments. The college is at tha
Hampton or Preeton place. A masnlflwatn*
building has been erected, with “ r3£ '°,'“’
appointments of every kind, for the boaraiDg
department; no school In the south has supen.
The college refers to the following WecM
who either ore patrons of or have visited the ow
e *Kev. C. S. Vedder, D. D„ Charleston, &C.
James Allan, Charleston, S. 0.
Rev J. G. law, Darlington, 8. 0.
Col, E. R. Jlelver, Darlington. 3. 0.
Gen. W. E. James, Darlington, 8. C. '
Judge J. D Witherspoon, Yorkville, 8. G
B. 8. Barnwell, Abbeville. 8. C.
Bon. A. 0. Ilaskoil, Columbia, S. C.
Maj. J. T. Rh*tt, Columbia, S. C.
W. A. Clark, Bsq., Columbia, S. 0.
FISH AND OrBTRBR.
ESTABLISHED 1858.
M. M. Sullivan & Son?
Wholesale Fish and Oyster Dealers
150 Bryan st. and 153 Hoy laue. Savsnim 3. G*
Fish orders for Punta Gordft receive- 1
Lave prompt attention.
BKUKRRs
~ F. C. WYLLY.
TOCKB. BONDS AND REAS E rAT *
BROKER
Strict Attention Given to All Orders.
lAm ns Negotiated on Marketable Securiti*
Correspondence Rnilelted.
PLUMBER. 1
P'l NIC r.INBI OF
GAS FIXTURES Al GLOBES
L, A. MCCARTHY’S,;
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