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Offic'K Moimrai. News I
Savannah. Ota.. Aug. 28, 1893. (
Cotton.
■There was no treat excitement In the cot
market to-day. The merchants were
K . ally engaged In getting their niters In
r , gter the ravages of the storm of last
-The local market was unchanged.
I v. 2 J, New York dropped a few points. the
f . r ’„d markets held up and gave a good
.thesppt market. The Inquiry wits
v met and the sales amounted to 124
*T>. the cotton exchange at the regular call
~, ~ik the official quotations were bul
letined as follows.
SfddlLr fair 7 9-16
Good ordinary 6 1 16
Comparative Cotton Statement.
Receipts, Exports and Stock on Hand August 29,1893. and for
the Same time Last Year.
1892- *93. 1891*92.
* Isfand U P land - Itod.| p P land -
Stocks on hand Sept, 1.. 1,795 1,871 1,871 10.145
Received to day 832 . r 5)
Received previously 35,760 753,331 42 08lj 984, 13o;
Total 5 35 sfl <3.955 964.8251
| Exports to-day 61 j
Exported previously 36,160 75,937 42,160} 787,7781
Total ! 86,1C0 75,937 42,160 987 189
Stock on hand and I I
i bbiyLourd ihiii aj> .. I 1,1951 7,<-J2i| 1,795| 6,'JrOi
Hire.
The local market was unchanged to-day.
The reports from this section are very dam
aging on acconn*of Sunday s storm. The rice
fields arc all flooded, and much damage is
| done to the crop. The official quotations are
as follows:
Choice 3*19(05.3 \
I prime
Good 2V*(^2 ;, 4
Fair
Common 1
| Rough Nominal
Naval Stores.
I Spirits Turpentine.—The market was un
I changed. The market was quoted firm at 24
I cent' for regulars. There was very little
business done, as no receipts were reported.
| owing to the demoralization at the wharves
after the storm of yesterday.
Rosin—Was quoted unchanged. At the
board of trade the market was quoted as fol-
I lows:
A. B, C, D : 85c|K 81.8 J
E fiOc' M *2.00
; F 95c N T .
G *I.OO W. G 3.00
H ... ■••• sl.lO W. W 3.25
1 *1.36| y
Financial.
There is no material change in the financial
; situation.
Domestic Exchange—The tone of the mar
ket is still nominal. Hanks are buying at y t of
1 per cent, discount and selling *IOO to JMK) in
clusive at par. On SSOO to *I.OOO they will al
j low a discount of l 8 of 1 per cent., and on all
amounts above SI,OOO a discount of \i.
Foreign Exchange —lt is impossible to give
! quotations, as there is no telegraphic com
! munlcation with New York.
Securities The market is inactive and
exceedingly dull.
State Bonds —Georgia 44 per cent, 1915,
107 bid, 198 asked; Georgia 7 per cent, 1896,
103 bid. 104 asked: Georgia 34 per cent, long
dates, 91 bid. 95 asked.
i Citv Bonds New' Savannah 5 per cent
quarterly. October coupons, 99 bid. 10)
■asked: new Savannah 5 per cent November
fcoupons. <tJ hid, 10/asked.
Railroad Bonds—Central Railroad and
[Banking Company collateral gold ss, 70
asked: Central consolidated mortgage 7 per
cent coupons. January and July maturity
1893. 102 asked: Savannah and Western
I railroad 5 per cent, indorsed by Central rail
road trust certificates. 45 asked:
Savannah. Americus and Montgomery
6 per cent. -5 asked: Georgia railroad
6 per cent. 1910. 100 bid, 101 asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida first mort
gage 6 -per cent, 70 asked:
Montgomery and Eufaula first mort
gage 6 per cent, indorsed by Cen
tral railroad, 87 asked; Augusta and
Knoxville first mortgage. 7 per cent,
f > asked; Ocean Steamship. 5 per cent, due in
1920, 93 asked; Columbus and Rome,
first mortgage bonds, indorsed by Cen
tral railroad. 45 askad; Columbus and
Western. 6 per cent, guaranteed. 85
asked; City and Suburban Railway first mort
gage, 7 per cent. 99 asked: Savannah
and Atlantic 5 per cent, indorsed, 50 asked;
Electric Railway first mortgage 6s. 59 asked;
South Georgia and Florida first mortgage 7
per cent.. 107 asked: South Geor
gia and Florida second mortgage. 103 asked.
Railroad Stocks—Central common. 15
Augusta and Savannah T per cl*ill.
guaranteed, fis asked: Georgia common,
id asked; Southwestern 7 per cent
guaranteed, including order for div. :W
a >ked; Central C per cent, certificates, with
orier for defaulted interest, 25 asked;
Atlanta and West Point railroad stock.
asked; Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent,
certificates. 8? asked.
Bank Stocks. Etc.—Southern Bank of the
•-tate o? Georgia, ,68 asked; Mer
chants' National Bank, 974 asked; Sa
vannah Bank and Trust Com.. 16
as.vfd: National Bank of Savannah. !05asked;
Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Corn
panv *OB asked: Citizens Bank.
9' askea; Chatham R. Est. and Improve
tnent i 'ompany, 48 asked: Savannah
bcui Estate, Loan and Building Company
stock. 40 asked: Germania Bank,
a*. a *ked: Chatham Hank. 464
asked Savannah Construction Company,
asked: Title Guarantee and Loan
company, 75 asked.
Miscellaneous Markets.
Bacon—Market steady. The board of
" a,t V quotations are as follows:
>mo*. a clear rib sides : I *c. shoulders, none,
ur.v suited clear rib sides. 9 vc; long clear.
р. c , lH ‘Bies. 1054 c; shoulders, none; sugar
cured hams, 13> 2 c.
Bagging and Ties—The market steady,
bagging, 6c; 21b. 54c; I\K>, sc;
quotations are tor job lots; small lots
amtier: sea island bagging 124 c. Iron Ties—
part'*- lots. *1.05: smaller lots. *J.o7.£fl 10.
Mutter- Market dull, fair demand. Goshen.
o v - c; gilt edge, 214 c; creamery, 25c: Elgin,
' hecse Market firm: fair demand. 12®
a ' jc: small summer cheese, 124 c, 20Eb aver-
J abl ages—Western, per head, B<<79c.
rb- Market steady, quoted at for Mo
‘->'C~#c; Java. 264'7430c: Peaberry. 2->c:
Jh .yoi-standard No.l. 4c; choice or‘stand
2lc: prime or standard No. 3.20 c:
. or standard No. 4. 194 c; fair or stand-
F : No> 5 - ordinary or standard No. C,
common or standard No. 7. IKc.
mnniS K ruit ~Apples.evaporated. 104 c: com
nt .. 1 •‘7" 1 * 0, Peaches. California evapor
u,', Pooled. 22®24c; California evaporated.
u-" 'A < ! Currants, 5®54c. Citron,
iiw apricots. Me.
. 1 • ( 'Oods—The market is quiet, demand
o r * rlnt-s. S®64c; Georgia brown shirt
v • I>4c;7-8 do sc: 4-4 brown sheeting, 6c; |
chac: “’ ****'•
! l ".r Market doll. Eztra. $300: family,
p7> *3 65; patent, *115; straight.
Cf!r. ! 1 ! Gorn—Market is steady. Whit i
с, . ’i'-bts, oc; carload lots, sc, mixed
lots fide: carload lots fire. Oats—
j‘ -Job lots, 4c: carload lots, and c. Bran—
p,., r ‘' s - 9c; carload lots, Woe. Meii—
fn 1 ! *|.Vs Pr si* * :i pc**
P v P'-atf grits, barrel. fJI >;
i a. " 1 city writs. $1 W)p>rsatk.-
a . ' ' vVooi. Etc.—Hides.themancot isdull
’.. ‘j 4 / receipts light: dry flint. 44c: dry
Wi.'aWnV' f- v uuL her. 2c: green salted. 2c.
. aar ket steady: prime Georgia, free of
1.u:..." rs : * n( l ’dock wools. He: blacks, 9c;
!>♦.,.V li ud below. Wax, IBr,. Tallow. 4c.
*r of iint, 25c; salted. ‘S)C. Otter
' i - :o OJ.
•#neq'Vjeb^J ery Bteai, ‘ fi HiVUc;
Messina. $3
:> ■ 'larketsto-vlv: pure, in tierces. !:)■•:
fc.r ' -'"se: cotupounL'. in ttercae. w*c: in
I,l„' fIC
ban , alcineu Plaster and Cement—Ala
■fc.iiii ■ ',' eor <fa lime in fair de-nan lan i
lo ...- per i.ta'.rel. bulu and carJnkd
kilr ' - • ealcine lplaster.il fijn.-rbir. •
K'jscmiale cement, sl2) l l)
Portland cement retail. *2 30: carload lots.
12 I.Y
I.iouors Market firm. Hi.-h wine basis
$1 12: whisky per kailon. reclined, ton proof,
fl :tfw<r-! TO: choice u rode*. 11 Mbu! Ao straight.
♦1 ihfb3 So: bleaded. fa 00SM VI. Wines l>o
mestlc port, sherrv calawha. low erodes. M b
KAc: tinecrades.fl flosl 50: (-alifornia licht,
muscatel and ancelioa, ft :tv;r, i ta lower
proofs in proportion Gins Ic per calloa
bicher. Hum 2c hicher.
Nails Market steady ', base flthl.fi SO; 50.1,
fl TO; 40d. fl A: :hl fl •; 12d. S2A; Ahl fl V<:
ld. f2 10: fkt, $2 20: fld, $2 35 : 4d. 2 50; 5.1, $2 50;
3d. f2 no: 3.1 line. an.
Nuts—Almonds. Tarracona. IK-rlOc: Ivicas;
IfltfJlTc: walnuts. French. 14c: Naples. IS.-:
pecans, 15c, Brazils. OiilOc: filberts. I2‘,c;
assorted nuts, s(>!h and 25tt> boxes. 12@13c per
ih
Onions—Crates f l 25; western per barrel.
s.l 50&4 00.
Oils—Market steady.'demand fair. Signal,
40tT$5Oc; West Virctnia black, Io<t.l3t:; lard.
90e; kerosene. ncatsfoot. 50®75c; ma
chinery. 18(®25c: linseed, raw’. 56c. boiled,
59c; mineral seal. 18c; homelight, 14c;
guardian. 114 c.
Potatoes—lrish, new western per barrel,
$2 00.(a225
Pears -Le Conte, per crate 50c, per barrel
$1.50(0 *2.00.
Shot—Steady: drop to B, $150; B and
larger, $1 75; buck. *1 75.
Salt—The demand is moderate and market
quiet. Carload lots f. o. b. Liverpool, 2JO
pounds sacks. 58c; ditto, 125 pound sacks. 37c;
Virginia. 125 pound Burlap sacks. 38c; ditto
125 pound cotton sacks, 43c; smaller lots
higher.
Sugars Market dull and low: quo
ted at for cut loaf. 64c; crushed. pow
dered, 6c; XXXX powdered. standard
granulated, 54c; fine. 54c; extra fine granu
lated. 6c: cubes. 6c; mould A. 5 v „c; dia
mondA,s>ic; confectioners', 54c: white extra
C. 54c; extra C, 54c; golden C, sc; yellows,
4^o.
Syrup -Florida and Georgia, new, 324®374c;
market quiet for sugar house at 30>r40c: Cuoa
straight goods, 28®30c; sugar house molasses,
15@20c.
T obacco- Market quiet and steady. Smok
ing, domestic, 22®00c; chewing, common,
sound. 21®27c; fair. 28®35c; good. 86®48c;
bright. i(>'i6sc; fine fancy, extra line,
|1 00® 1 15; bright navies,2s®4sc.
Freights.
Lumber—By sail—Rates are weak; vessels
are in full supply, while the needs of coast
wise shippers is rather slow. Foreign busi
ness is more or less nominal. The rates from
this and near-by Georgia ports are quoted at
*i 50(05 25 fur a range including Baltimore
and Portland. Me. Railroad tics, basis 44 feet
1640- Timber 50o®*l 00 higher than lumber
rates. To the West Indies and Windward,
nominal; to Rosario. *l4 OO.nlA 00: to Buenos
Ayres or Montevideo, *l2 005; 12 50: to Rio
Janiero. *l3 50; to Spanish and Medlterra
nean ports, *ll 30® 11 50; to United Kingdom
for orders, nominal for lumber IT 5s
standard.
By Steam—To New York. *7 00: to Phila
delphia, *7 00; to Boston. *8 00; to Baltimore,
*5 50.
Naval Stores—The market is firm in
good demand for spot vessels and nearby
vessels to arrive. On account of the present
state of the money market, the merchants
are rather slow to charter. Large Cork
for orders 2s 6d and 3s 9d: medium sized 2s 9d
and 4s small vessels 3s and 4s 3d for August
and September loading; South Amerioa rosin.
80c per barrel of 280 pounds. Coast
wise Steam to Boston. 11c per 100 lbs on
rosin. 90c on pirits; to New York rosin 744
per lot) tt>s. spirits. 85c: to Philadelphia,
rosin, 74c perlOO tbs spirits, 80c; to Haiti
more, rosin :40c, spirits. 70c.
Cotton -By Steam The market is
nominal. Rates are per 100 tbs: Barcec
lona. 46c: Liverpool via New York. 28c;
Liverpool via Boston, 28c; Liverpool via Hal
timore, 30c; Havre via New' York. 40c; Reval
via New York. 50c; Genoa via New York. 60e;
Amsterdam via New York, 50c; Amsterdam
via Baltimore, 43c; Antwerp via New York.
42c; Boston bale. *1 25; New York $ bale
*100; Philadelphia bale, $100; Balti
more. $1 00.
Lumber—Demand, both foreign nnd domes
tic, is very quiet, and mills are generally
inquiring for orders. We quote . Easy sizes
$11.25; ordinary sizes. *12.00® 16.50; difficult
sizes, $13.09®25.00: flooring boards, *14.50®
22.00; shipstufTs. *16.50®25.00.
Country Produce.
Market for poultry steady; fair de
mand: grown fowls pair, 65®70c;
grown, 40®450; spring chickens, 30(<435e
pair; small sizes not wanted, geese p pair
75c: Market for eggs is firm and a very scarce
supply;demand good; country p dozen,lnto 16c.
Peanuts—Ample stock, demand light, market
easier; fancy h. p. Va., p th. 6;®64c; h. p, p
lb, sc; small, h. p., p tt>. 44c.
M/VRiNE INTELLIGENCE.
Sun Rises 5:36
Sun Sets 6:24
High Water at Fort Pulaski 8:08 am 8:28 pm
(Central Standard Time).
Tuesday, Aug 29, 1893.
Sailed Yesterday.
Steamship Nacoochee, Smith, New York—
C G Anderson.
Notice to Mariners.
Pilot charts and all nautical Information
will be furnished mas tors of vessels free of
charge m United States Hydrographic Office
in the custom house. Captains arc requested
to call at the office.
Receipts.
Per Central Railroad. Aug 26—47*3 bales
cotton. 165 pkgs domestics. 180 pkgs mdse, 10
pkgs wool. 10 cases baking powder, 25 bdls
box material. 19 boxes marble, 1 !>bl rice, 2
boxes tobacco. 2 bbls empty bottles, lease
books, 1 car iron.l car ice.l car empty barrels.
4 crates empty bottles, 50 pkgs furniture. 3
bdls empty cans.
Per Savaunah. Florida and Western Rail
way. Aug 28 —7 bales hides, 8 bbls syrup. 2
mules, 1 bale wool. 4 bags wool, 5 boxes soap,
2 boxes tobacco. 1 box j ware, 2 ke/s cider, 1
case bitters, 1 bbl bacon, 1 case soda, 1 car
meal, 1 case jeans, 2 cases zin:\ 2 odls w w
springs, 52 pkgs furniture. 6 bbls empty bot
tles. 1 car s iron. 3 cars hay. 1 box tobacco. 7
boxes lemons. 3 pkgs b corn, 2 cars staves. 6
bales jeans. 30 sacks roots. 2 boxes h msehold
goods, 1 box hats. 7 bbls fruit. 30 boxes fruit.
30 cars lumber, 1361 bbls rosin, 891 bbls spirits
turpentine. 205 bales cotton.
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway,
Aug 28—1 bale cotton, 1 case baskets. 3 nests
trunks, 2 bbls flour. 1 lot household goods, 6
stoves, 3 boxes clothing, 1 nest trunks.
Per South Bound Railroad. Aug 28—
46 bales cotton.
Exports.
Per steamshin Nacoochee for New’ York
-83 hales domestics and yarns. 1979 bbls rosin,
11 bids spirits turpentine. 157.331 feet lumber.
1<) bbls pitch. 73 pkgs fruit, 272 tons pig iron,
116 pkgs mdse.
Consignees.
Per Central Railroad. Aug 26—Woods G &
Cos. Hunter P & B. Dwelle C & D. Warren & A.
Montague & Cos, Butler &S, W W Gordon &
Cos, Stubbs &T. John 1 Tannery & Cos, M Y &
D J Mclntyre, Groigg J & W.J S Wood a 1 Bro,
M Nathan. S E Gazan. A Sonnenberg & Cos.
Savannah Street Ky. A S ERh erg, K I)
Wallace. Palmer Hardware Cos. SGucken
helmcr & Sons, McNatt&M. Consolidated
Hot Cos Chatham Furniture Cos. Mutual Co-op
Assn. J L) Weed & Cos, Fret we 11 & N. Peacock
H & Cos, Woods G & (Jo. M Ferst s Sons Ac Cos,
W 1 Miller.HTraub.J CHechefs.E A Schwarz.
R Kirkland. Julius Lane, G A Hudson, Claus
Gerkeu.
Per Savannah. Florida and Western Rail
way. Aug 28—McDonough A Cos, T J Dalev,
M Y Henderson, smith Bros. Ellis Y & Cos,
Canuct&(o. A Leffler & Son. SavannahGro
eery Cos. A J Miller Cos. Specialty Cos. White
head 6l Cos. M Ferst's Sons & Cos. P H Wolters
Brewing Cos, Dale, Dixon & Cos. Lippman Bros,
W W Aimar & Cos. Liberty Mfg Cos. ->i Nathan.
Lindsay &M, Moore & Cos. L R Myers & Cos,
Savannah broom Factory, Kavanaugli AB.
s Guckenheipier & sons. Standard S& C Cos,
E ,‘kman & V. W W Chisholm A Cos C L Jones.
Cb J.suutt A O’N,Edwards T A Co.McNatt A M.
G.ci • JA W. Hunter PA B. Paterson D A
Cos Peatock H A Cos. Savannah N S Cos. JP
William* A Cos.
Per ( Tarle-iton and Savannah Railway.
Aug 23—Estate S W Branch, Frank & Cos, Agt
steamer Buaie/ue. J >ii.ei*utirg. JF Glass. J
ivl.j-i canoA Cos, H R Wdnthrop,
A Le filer A Son.
Tavernier gives a good account of the Per
sian archer who shot from horseback at full
gallop, says James Payne in the London Il
lustrated News. The incident of one of the
bowmen declining to shoot before the shall,
upon ih; ground that his mission was to
trausux the enemies of his country and not a
tur target, wasquviously exceptional. ‘He
drew two arrows, and, taking one in his
iuouth shot it wh' 11 at full speed in the Par
thian fashion-i. e. tackward into the cen
ter of the >utt: then, turning about, he shot
the second arrow exactly into the same spot.
T nut was pretty good, but nothing like the
shiai of the mperor Domitmn who placed
i.oys ia the circus at various distances, with
tirdr ngers separated, through which he
saoc h 4 arrows without doing them the
s*..htest injury. This would make a great
sensation if practiced m public by even the
j . *iog members of the royal family.
THE MOHNIXG NEWS: TUESDAY, AUGUST 2f, lsau
WORLD’S FAIR INCIDENTS.
Camel Rides and Weddings in the
Western Cairo.
How the Pretty Women Yell—Their
Descertfrom the "Ship of the Des
ert" Hurried, but Not Graceful An
Egyptian Wedding Ceremony and
Preliminaries.
From the Philadelphia Press.
World's Fair Grounds, Chieapo, Autr.
25. -‘‘Ou-p-h ! O-h-h !” Such is the excla
mation of feminine surprise and fripht
heard from many a woman in the ‘‘Streets
of Cairo," as the camel on which she has
been riding drops on its knees in settlin?
down to let its fair burden descend. There
is a rolling, surging, heaving, pitching
motion to a camel in rising or lying down
that closely resembles the rolling of a
boat in the trough of a rough sea and the
sensations in the abdomen of a passenger
on the "ship of the desert" are about the
same as experienced on rough water.”
A crowd of people are constantly around
the starting place who persist in taking
real mean enjoyment in the predicament
which stout ladies in particular find them
selves in at the moment of starting and
dismounting. Occasionally the camel gets
a little too previous, and then there is a
wild waving of logs and arms -sometimes
shapely and sometimes not so shapely, a
frantic clutching at the saddle girths and
safety straps, a series of wild shrieks and
a floundering around that might end in a
headlong dive into the street with per
haps disastrous consequences but for the
camel drivers, who are over alert for such
accidents, and catch the perturbed riders
in their arms. Then the crowd sets up a
merry ha! ha! This dors not reassure
the "tourists," and they slip out of sight
as soon as possible. This sort of tiling
goes on all day with variations, and a
string of “ships of the desert” aro shuf
fling over the brick pavements every few
moments.
They are queer, ungainly looking
beasts, those camels, about as graceful as
an organ-grinder’s monkey in anew
jacket, and they go loping through the
street with a sort of never-tire-six-weeks’
gait that is very reassuring encouraging,
ill fact. Their feet are like animated
sponges.
“Don't you ever shoe them ere camils?”
a country woman asked of an Arab who
could talk some pigeon English.
“Shoe’em!” and the son of Ishmael
burst out into a series of guffaws that
knocked a wad of tobacco out of liis cav
ernous mouth. This frightened the
woman and she ran away, remarking
she “alters did think them ere heethen
Turks wasjdangeroos things.”
That street in Cairo is and isn’t what it
purports to be. it is untruthful to nature
in that the myriads of horrible smells,
the filthy road way, the garbage-devour
ing dogs, the sore-e.yod children and dirt
incrustations are absent—thanks to the
sanitary inspector. The Arabs them
selves are dirty enough to seem beauti
fully natural, but they are lonesome away
from the fleas, the irrepressible flies, and
the vile sights and scenes so dear to the
Arabian stomach, and so horrifying to
the barbarian Frank who refuses to ac
cept Mahomet and his anti-wash gospel.
A curious feature in Cairo is the riding
of monkeys on the backs of donkeys pre
ceded by an Arabian military band.
THE EGYPTIAN WEDDING.
Marriage ala mode according to Ho
garth is not a circumstance compared to
the marriage ceremony now in progress in
the street of Cairo between Ahmed el
Khoran, a donkey pusher, and Miss Nabi
tia Pilfila, a flower girl of the same
“antique and horrible” outiit. According
to the cheerful customs of Egypt it takes
a week to get married, and is about the
only time in the course of a long and
wretched existeni'O that the oppressed,
poverly-s'ra ken fellaheen see anything
like the pleasant side of life.
Wives aro bought in Oriental countries
with a freedom that might possibly shock
a latter day saint, and in this instance,
Ahmed figuring Nabitia as worth a SSO
donkey, offered the old man this princely
commodity in exchange. “Pa,” after the
customary linen mastication, concluded
this was all he could get. and. as a bird in
hand was worth two in a bush, “took
him up.” The’hymt nenal racket then
opened in good earest. and the groom,
inviting a wonderfully increased circle ot
alleged friends to his room over a stable,
all hands proceeded lo acquire a large and
healthy jag. This was varied with mers
or less impromptu dances about tne
ilruukeu and happy bridegroom,
Tito noble company then with
drew, leaving Ahmed to doff his
scarct fever robos and retire. When the
partly finished groom was supposed to be
in deep, sweet sleep "many veiled
maidens,” so the legend says, led the
partly finished hut sober bride below
Ahmed's window. There this revised
edition of “Juliet” disturbed the slumber
of the camels and donkeys with alleged
“sweet songs of love.” The song was in
C sharp. The theme was a piece of crazy
quilt work, and'the development was on
a par m Ith the theme. The smell from
the stables below and the beer above this
Egyptian Juliet and her companions paid
no attention to; the former they had in
had from birth; the latter they
had become accustomed to, since coming
to this land of the free and the home of
the brave. After the concert the girls
trooped home and went to bed sober.
Next day, when the partly manufac
tured iri ooni had recovered, he was carted
in a 3edan by a wild assortment of an
tiques and horribles from the Arabian
desert to the house of the high priest,
Obey Aly Goshallhemlock, who, as cidi,
had Ahmed sign the donkey-wife con
tract. The prospective bride was not in
it; that amiable piece of matrimonial
furniture was shut up in her own room—
there to meditate. It is customary at
home for the bride’s pa and ma, sisters,
cousins, uncles and aunts to take a hand
in this part of the ceremony in particu
lar, but Nabitia has lost track of these
always ornamental but not always use
ful adjuncts, so a gang of supes with
lusty expectations of free beer repre
sented the girl’s kindred.
In our barbarous Christian country the
minister says: “John, will you take
Hannah to be your lawful wedded wife!”
In blessed Miuway-Egypt, however, the
cadi asked AJmted: “What aro you giv
ing for this woman?” And he replied:
a donkey.” Then Altmed signed the
■ ship's manifest" as supercargo, kissed
his friends—male, not female—and was
escorted to his alleged chamber with an
other keg of beer Once more the partly
completed bride appeared to sing beneath
Ahmed's window.
The following night the girl entertained
Iter friends on such wild exhiiarants as
burn burn candy, chewing gum and black
coffee, while Amhed sang beneath her win
dow. This interchangeability of musical
l>erformanoe at night and processions by
day continue four days and on the sev
enth day the almost manufactured bride
draped in white is escorted to the “cham
ber" of her donkey lord. The lord afore
said immediately appears and without
waiting to send up his card hurries in,
lifis the veil,{counts the number of tat
oood rings on his bride’s chin
to see if the orthodox number
is there, examines the rings in her nose
and ears and then rushes frantically to
the window. He waves a white handker
chief, calls for beer and is married. The
crowd will proceed immediately to get
drunk, a “grand tour" of the Midwa.v
will be made, groom and all, there will be
inure beer spiced with a froe and loving
fight and s.imcters will be drawn, as the
patrol wagon rushes in with noisy gong
LEOPOLD DOLED
LEOPOLD ADLER,
SUCCESSOR TO A. R. ALTMAYER & CO.
(Another Eventful Week;!
The rapid approach of the END OF TIIK SEASON —the determination to make all summer stocks clear and
even —the arrival of early Fall Goods —and the.se special offerings combine to make
Every Item a Distinct, 1 ’ositiveft Unapproachable Bargain
Hosiery and Underwear
50 dozen Ladies'Jersey Ribbed Vests, [
worth 25c. every bit of it.
7 CENTS.
35c Low Neck and Sleeveless Ladies'
Vests 19c
25c Ladies’ and Children s Extra Loup
Derby Ribbed Hose 19c
35c* Stocking—Ladies' Fancy Top Berms
dortf Fast Black Boots 25c*
79c Ladies’ Full Lisle Richelieu Ribbed
Black Boot, Faney Tops,goat 59c
MAIN FLOOR, CENTER
Regular 89c 24-inch Ladies Parasols, nat
ural wood sticks, cut to 49c
Regular H 2 > Ladies’ and Men’s 21 and 26-
inch Umbrellas reduced to 89c and 98c
FRIDAY,
39c Printed China Silks,
25c yard.
On Center Tables.
Wire Screens.
Adjustable, fils any window.
18x36, usual 43c, reduced to 3 r >c
24x37, usual 49c.. reduced to 4 k:
24x39. usual 59c. reduced to 47c
27x39. usual reduced to 53c
27x69, usual (>9e, reduced to 59c
II ouse Furnishings.
Kockonham Toa Pots 18c
Round tin Wash Boilers iiSte
Gulvanizeil Iron C hamber Pails 41)c
Zinc Wash Boards 23c
Splash Mats 9c
Haril-wood (’hopping Howls 7o
Brass Hoop Cedar Wood Palls 23c
Five in a nest ( edar Wood Boxes 39j
Saratoga Chip Hoards, steel blade, worth
59c 20c
Decorated, Pretty Flower Design lemon
nde Sets 0 glasses.pitcher anil i rasstrayfl 74
Condiment nets, crystal glass, vinegar.
mustard, pepper and tray 29c
Mrs. Polls Sad Irons, usual price *1 50, 3
irons, handle and stand, our price 98c
BASEMENT.
and the Columbian Guards gather up the
drunken fragments Such is tin Egyptian
marriage in the Midway Plaisance.
DR. M’BRIDE’S GEESE.
The Problem of Aerial Navigation
Solved at Last.
Dr. R. C. Mcßride in the Courier-Journal.
If you will allow mo space in your col
umns I will give for the interest of your
readers my experiments with a team of
five wild geese raised on my farm in Vir
ginia. I was given, by a friend living on
Chesapeake Bay, a pair of wild geese,
and from them raised elevon the first
year, five of which were ganders. I com
menced training them as soon as hatched
by driving them about the yard tied io
gether, and soon got them so I could
guide them with perfect ease. I then
made for them a harness, consisting
of a piece of leather to fit over the
breast and ton of the neck. The
traces were fastened to that on either
side and held in place by a thin strap that
encircled the entire body just in front of
the wings. Thu traces then joined each
other eighteen in lies behinil the goose
and were fastened to the end of a cross
bar made fast in the center to a strap,
which represented the ixtle or longue of
the weight to be drawn, they being
hitched like a 5-horse team and held to
gether by a little strap joining the two
collars of the geese opposite each other.
1 then constructed a little wagon and be
gan teaching them to draw it, which they
did with but little trouble, pulling easily,
after they were one year old, thirty
pounds apiece, or 150 pounds.
There is a lake near my place over a
mile in circumference, and I had made for
them a light skiff of tin, weighing only
twenty-eight pounds, and began boat
riding by lotting them draw me over the
water by swimming. Then I commenced
teaching them to fly, and in a few days I
could skim over the water at the rate of
one mile a miuute. It is an experience
never to be forgotten and something to bo
truly enjoyed. I can guide them with
perfect ease, and have them as much un
der my control as a pair of geutle horses.
East winter I made of light, well-sea
soned wood a little frame with steel run
ners—a tricycle sleigh-and made a mile
and a quarter per minute on the ice, rid
ing in a circle. The feeling of going at
that rate through the open air is some
thing grand and wonderful. The wind
whistling by your ears like a tornado,
causing the tears to flow thick and fast,
made it necessary for me to use a glass
over my face to keep from freezing.
I am now completing a balloon, oblong
in shape, that will just bear my weight,
und intend visiting the world : s fair in
September, making an aerial trip, and
will there exhibit my team by flying in a
circle over the fair grounds. I think I
can make thirty miles an hour against a
wind blowing twenty-five miles, and keep
up that rate for ten consecutive hours. I
shall offer the use of my team to Gat”.
Symmes to make his arctic trip with.
After he has gone as far north as he can
by water, he could then, in ten hours, the
wind being favorable, with my aerial
team leave his steamer and go three or
four hundred miles north, make observa
tions and return to his vessel to supper.
I have other suggestions to make Capt.
Symmes of far more importance, if he
wishes, and will correspond with or meet
him at Chicago the latter part of Sep
tember.
Suit About Rabbits.
From the Baltimore Sun.
A curious case has recently come before
an English court growing out of depreda
tions by rabbits. These animals went
from a wood into an adjoining farm
and destroyed a field of barley. The
owner of the barley field sued the owner
ot the woods whence the rabbits came.
It was decided that the plaintiff was not
entitled to damages unless the defendant
Dress Goods.
36-inch Navy Blue Storm Series, the 39c
ones 25c
36-Inch Striped Cheviot Suitings, blue, tan
and pray, the regular 39c line 25e
40-inch Navy Blue and Black Hop Sacking
and Series, regular 69c line 49c
54-inch Navy Blue and Black Hop Sacking,
the 98c line 75c
30 inch extra quality Diagonal Cheviots, in
tans, black and greys, worth 59c 33c
MAIN FLOOR, CENTER.
|3 TO Ladies' Rubber Mackintosh Cloaks.
Military < ’apes,black.brown, grey A tan.*2 75
Ladies Gossamer Circulars reduced from
$2 50 to 1 LO
DiH P V ni MM lIMTP Come early and pick out the choicest,
IllUnjf, nLmnlllilo for there will be some rare pickings
lere for the economical ones. Above all things these odds
and ends, short lengths of every material, description
and quality must be got out of the way. Maybe you’ll
find just the odd piece you are looking for and may get
it for a mere song NEXT FRIDAY.
Blazer Suits.
Navy Blue and Black, were $6 50 $4 48
Ladies’ Tan Reefers, triple cape, worth
*6 50 4 98
Boys* Clothing.
Rather than put them by
till next year we take
2'o Boys’ Wash Suits, well made, strong
and reliable, were 12, 4 to 8 years, and
mark to tl 39
360 Boys’ Wash 4 to 8 years Sailor Suits,
Duck and Madras, were $3 50. and cut to 2 23
And 150 Cheviot and Madras Wash Shits
that weie $2 50, 4 to 9 years, marked to. 1 98
SECOND FLOOR.
THE MORNING NEWS
-®J©B DEPARTMENT.®-
Book and Job Printing,
Engraving, Lithographing,
Blank Book ManufMtiring, &c„ &c. -
In fact anything and Everything.
Show Cards and Labels in Colors.
Business forms in Endless VarlETy.
Railroad V/ork in Perfection.
Commercial Work in Best Taste.
BP. on i SIMM IP 10 IIWE 11 111 Clffl.
If you want a Job in a hurry, send it in!
If you have time to send for estimates we shall be glad to furnish them. . .
“The largrsst Btock and variety of paper in the South,
and as good work as anywhere."
BYRON WESTON.
'That is what a lurge ISaetern Paper Manufacturer thinks of tills CAftiliinitaellt*
Write soon, write often; tell us what uou want and send plain copp, and uou will not
he disappointed.
ffiORNING I*EWS,h
J. H. ESTILL, President.
OA.
had by artificial propagation increased
the number of rabbits on his land to such
an extent as to be a nuisance. He was
not liable, even though he had increased
the number of rabbits by killing off their
enemies. The only remedy in possession
of the man who lost his barley was to kill
the rabbits which came upon his place.
But this has to be done with due regard
to a somewhat complicated game law.
The killing must be done by the farmer
Laces, Etc.
Silk. Applique. Point de Sene, Point
do Paria. Pointo de Ifdarnte. and a
dozen other varieties, usually sell
ing at ado, 49c and 59c a yard, go on
sale Monday morning at 25c yard
More of that 27 Inch Embroidered and
Hemstitched Flouncing 15c yard
Nainsook, Swiss. Cambric, Edgings
and Embroideries,worth 10c, 15c anil
Sop 5c yard
White chiffon Veiling (borderedi. all
our 59c line cut to 39c
MAIN FLOOR, REAR.
25c Buttermilk Soap this week 10c cake
25c Cuticura this week 19c cake
Shirt Waists.
98c White Lawn Floated and Hemstitched
Navy Blue and Colored Lawn and Percale
Ruffled and Pleated Waists all marked
down to 49c
White Goods.
15c Pineapple Tissues 5c yard
30 inch wide Sea Island Percales, reg
ular 18c 10c
15c Black and White Figure Cross
Barred Mourning I.awns 10c
25c Columbia Cropos 100
25c Madras Ginghams VJVtC
25c Fine French Corded Sateens,dark
ground colored figures 15c
25c Real India Lawns, satin stripes
and plaids Ise
15c Fine Chock Ginghams 7%e
MAIN FLOOR, RIGHT.
or by one member of his household com
missioned by him in writingor “employed
for reward to kill rubbts.” In killing
the ra*bits the use of poisons or spring
guns ip prohibited and firearms cannot
be used at night.
The Consolations of Matrimony.—She—l
suppose you would huve been happier If you
had not married me;
he—Yes, darling, but I wouldn’t have
known It.—Life s Caldendar.
Men’s Furnishing.
Laundered Madras Negligee Shirts, col
lars and cuffs, pinks, blues, etc., a
regular dollar a id half shirt,
63 CENTS.
Black Silk Grenadine 35c Windsor Tics.. 100
Men's Flannel Negligee Shirts, pleated
bosoms, worth 59c 290
Men s Fast Black. Double Gauge, extra
quality Half Hose, usual 25c 18c
Men’s Black Satin 4-in-Hand Ties, worth 75c.390
16, 164 and 17 only. Puff Bosom. Dotted
Swiss Negligee Shirts, regularsl 38shirt.98q
MAIN FLOOR, RIGHT.
Boys’ and Men's Straw Hats, well worth
fiOc and 75c, cut to 250
Mother s Friend Boys’ Shirt Waists .69c A 890
FRIDAY,
Remnants of Silk, Surah,
Taffetas, Grosgrains, Jap
anese, Moires and Wash
Silks, worth 59c, 75c, 89c
yard, 26c.
ON CENTER TABLES.
Glassware.
New shape Pickle or Celery Dishes 9o
Covered Pickle Jars 100
Covered Sugar Jars 120
Wine Glass, dozen Sso
Strawberry and Fan shape Cut Bottom
Tumblers, worth $1 25 dozen, next week 790
Notions.
Linen Thread, spool 5o
Dress Shields, pair So
Covored Dress Steels, set 4o
Attachable Corset Stools, pair 7o
White Roll Tape, each 2o
Safety Pins, card 3o
Blai k Pins in hoxts. box 2o
Hooks and Eyes, curd 2c
Pearl Huttons, dozen 5o
Kick Rack Braid, hunch ilo
heather Edge Braid, bunch 0c
Tooth Brushes, each 10c
Hair Brushes, each 2‘>o
Children s Round Combs, each 5u
MAIN FLOOR. LEFT.
Send Your Hides and Furs
RANDOLPH KIRKLAND,
SAVANNAH, GA.
He pays for dry flints 4 cents, dry salt 2
cents, dry damaged 2 cents, green salt 2
cents, beeswax 20 cents, deer skins 25 cents
wool, free of sand and burs. 14 cents; bkMtk,
11 cents; burry, from 8 to 13 cents.
211 St. Julian Street.
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