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AN INFANT NAPOLEON.
BE IS 17 YEBHS OEM AND IS ASTON
ISHING WALL STREET.
One Hundred Thousand Dollars Is
the I*fle He Is Supposed to Hate
Won Already—Some Rail Street
Stories.
From the New York World.
•There Is anew hoy In Wall street, and
Be Is called the Infant Napoleon of Finance
Do not think you can skip a word that Is
now to be written about him, for you
can't. This boy, slim as a swallow, sal
low. ungainly, perhaps not seventeen, cer
tainly not more than eighteen years old,
has a right to the admiring attention of
every American. He has gambled in ihv
street, fighting the big sharks with his
half developed brain, and he has won al
ready about 1100,000. He has been In tiny
street but a few weeks. He spends his
days and bites his nails In Henry Clews’
private sheepfold on Broad street.
"He's anew customer,” says Mr. Clews,
gazing with great respect upon the Infant
Napoleon. ”1 would nc*t have you publish
hie name for anything. He is very young
just a boy; but he Is very quick and intel
ligent. He has made a great deal of mon
ey. He Is full of nervous energy, but he
Is calm and patient. He will be a very
successful operator.”
The new boy sat in the Broad street
■beepfold yesterday almost all day. He
Is tall and thin, very thin, with a face
that is as full of care and worry as the
whitest face at the Monte Carlo tables.
He has queer old young face, a pointed
face with a trace of color or beard, ills
eyes are big and his eyebrows are thick.
His hair Is very thick and rather long.
He seems not to have time to gef it cut.
Part of his winnings glistens on li is
youthful person in the shape of diamonds.
He has a large diamond and opal pin ;n
his gray tie, and on his hand a great gol
den snake keeps company with a large
solitaire diamond. The Infant Napoleon
is wiser than he knows. Ho is getting at
least a little pleasure out of the experience
which is sure to make him very sorry
tome day. His boots are yellow and
pointed, the tails of his gray coat are
foolishly long. His legs are slim. He is
not merely a luck accidental young boy,
for he has curious hands with long tm
flers. and with big middle knuckles. His
forehead bulges out like the forehead of
a precocious Boston child in a comic
weekly. The back of his head projects in
a very unusual way.
Old sheep, who have been shorn d>
often as they could raise any wool, sit
around the new little lamb, looking at
him with envy and gravely asking for
his advice on the market. Yesterday
he sold Chicago Gas, and it went down
to please him. He made about 15,000 on
that as part of his day's work. While
he was waiting for the tape to tell him
what he earned without toiling or spin
ning, he sat smoking cigarettes and deal
ing out advice to men old enough to bo
his grandfathers. *
Every man who talked to him told him
that the world of finance had been wait
ing for his coming; that the Rothschilds,
Belmonts and Morgans would soon have
to worry about him. The men who were
too busy to flatter an Infant Napoleon
looked at him with Interest and pity. They
believed without any exception, that how
ever clever and cool he might be, he would
soon be eaten up by the spirit of gambling
and the brokers’ one-eighth of one per cent.
It may do the young man some good to
hear what those who really know some
thing would advise him to do. They would
advise him to take all his profits and what
ever money he may have had originally
and go as far from Wall street as he can
possibly get, taking good care never to
come back. They will not tell him this
personally, for in Wall street it is proper
to let a man ruin himself In his own way.
To interfere with anybody’s one-eighth of
one per cent, is bad taste, and to give
advice is considered a waste of breath,
anyhow. Perhaps the Infant Napoleon
will take the advice here at second hand.
If he does not, It is certain that his tin.
doubtedly clever head will eventually iind
a fuller and more rational occupation at
work as an office boy.
Mr. Clews’ sheepfold, which harbors this
young lamb, is one of the most interesting
and cozy corners in the Wall street whirl
pool. It is tilled with big chairs. Black
boards tell how your money is going with
out even troubling you to look at the tape,,
and Mr. Clews, the ancient shepherd, ever
and anon raises his voice to expound a
theory or to encourage the down-hearted.
The news comes in that New England has
been sold for five millions to the lawyer
of the syndicate that bought control on
behalf of the New Haven. “I’d rather have
what the syndicate will make out of that
than all the New Haven stockholders will
ever get,” says Mr. Clews, and then ram
bles off Into a bullish discourse. The pen
niless financiers -who All some of the chairs
look sad and hungry at the mention of the
■yndteate's profits, the Infant Napoleon
glances with kind approval at the wise
Clews, seeming to say: "You and I know
these Morgans and Rockefellers,” and
lights another cigarette. An occasional or
der is given, one sheep takes a seat as
another vacates it, Mr. Clews begins an
other little speech whenever he has not
talked for some time, and so time passes
In a typical successful Wall street sheep
fold.
These are commonly called the dull days
In Wall street, but that street is never
dull except to one blunted by strict atten
tion to transactions on the exchange.. To
stand before the Mills Building with eyes
open is as interesteing as a trip to Europe,
even in these dull financial times. A man
new to Wall sjreet stood and watched yes
terday. Along came the Warner Miller of
the breastworks and canal fame. He
eteamed slowly along In the heat, as ma
jestic, broad and slow as a Liverpool tramp
•teamer. On the opposite side of the street
walked John I. Davenport, patentee of the
Iron cage. His everlasting slouch hat was
down over his forehead and his eye was
full of thought. Something in Wall street
Interested him. He always looks like a
Bt. Louis man, except when he is veig
much interested, and then he looks like a
man from Kansas City, Kan. He looked the
Kansas City man yesterday.
Just after 2 o’clock the street went
suddenly crazy, as It docs every day.
Men and boys dashed In every direction,
running into old men and women, bump
ing against each other without a word of
apology. To a stranger that is an excit
ing moment in the street, for he thinks
that fires, robberies or murders must
have broken out in a hundred places at
once. It simply means that it is the de
livery hour. Deliveries must be made be
fore 2:15 p. m., and an assortment of boys
and clerks are told to get into such a
place on time if they break legs in the
attempt.
Then a little after 3 o’clock, when the
exchange is closed, there is another pret
ty sight. Detectives, well known in the
street, suddenly appear and post them
selves in couples in various spots, each
spot commanding a view of the staircase
leading down to the safety vaults beneath
the stock exchange. The detectives, with
thiek-soied boots and very nonchalant
airs, watch while a long string of men
climb down the stairs, carrying brass
bound boxes, and sometimes big leather
trunks full of money and. securities. Us
ually the box is carried by two men, while
one man walks behind with a revolver in
his pocket, if there is much to be pro
tected. At about 3:30 the stair-case is
crowded with the rush of treasure chests.
That is a pretty sight, but there Is a
prettier when die Wormser brothers go
home. There are a gn at many Wormser
brothers of the first and second genera
tion. The line moment is when the three
old Wormsers, Isidore and Isaac and a
relative line up in Broad street, look
proudly up anil down the stamping ground
which calls them kings, and start for the
bosoms of their families. They walk to
gether at first, but not for long, and
this is why every Wormser takes a dif
ferent route home: It Is a rule of the
house never to expose two Wormser* or
more to the same risks of travel. They
never take the same street ear line or the
same cab. One takes a cab. another tW
elevated railroad and a third the Broad
way cable. Thus if an accident happen*,
fate can get no more than on" Wormser
in one day, and business will go on. The
home-going of the Wormser* is cheerful.
The gathering of the beggars Is pieture
esgue. Th_- beggars do not think of beg
ging until the exchange is closed. They
know that everybody in Wall street rich
enough to give anything Is too busy In
business hours to think of beggars. Each
beggar has his method of guessing wheth
er a ft all street gambler has been lucky.
He picks his man and begs. Some think
it is lucky to give to beggars and give
Whether they have made or lost money.
These men are the beggars’ chief prizes.
Many of the beggars have ha l money. All
fry to dress In shabby genteel fashion to
touch the heart of the man who knows
that he may be a beggar some day himself.
They are an interesting lot of undeserving
humorists and all by themselves make a
trip to the street worth while.
There is always a good story in Wall
street that the rest of the world knows
nothing of. It Is true and touching. A
young man. belonging to a well-known
stock broking family was smitten by a
typewriter. It happened but a few days'
ago. The young man is not popular. He'
Is rich, but not liberal, self satisfied, but.
not intelligent. Some cruel young men
heard .that Ills heart had been touched
and decidod to extend the movement to his
pocket. They basely forged a letter from
the beautiful typewriter who would never
have noticed the young man or any other
unless he meant to set the parson’s clerk
a singing.
So the young man went to meet the
beautiful typewriter, who knew nothing
about It, and the bad Wall street men
to the number of a dozen lay in hiding
at the meeting place. Out stepped one un
known to the victim. "I am the young
lady's brother, and I mean to have your
blood,” was what he said in substance.
The victim trembled, but true to his Wall
street instincts, asked what it would cost
to soothe the brother's feelings. "Five hun
dred dollars,” said the brother, and it was
paid. Then out stepped all the bad men,
complimented the bogus brother on his
plever acting, and told the smitten one that
they would spend his SSOO for a very fine
dinner and most carefully and thoroughly
drink his health. They did so, and he de
cided not to protest. He will be very grate
ful when he observes that his name is not
mentioned here.
STRAINED IN A DRY DOCK.
The Cruiser. Colombia Hus n Nnrrow
Escape I're in Serious Injury.
Washington, July 13. Secretary Herbert
has a c4Wegrfim from Capt. Sumner, com
manding \he Columbia, at Southampton,
stating that the vessel, while in the dry
dock, appeared to be straining, and he
ordered water admitted. Upon floating the
vessel all evidences of strains disappeared
and the vessel is apparently uninjured.
When the purport of Secretary Her
bert's cablegram from Capt. Sumner be
eatrto known about the navy department,
as it rapidly did, the gravity of the mat
ter became exaggerate'! and rumors were
circulated that the famous cruiser had
been maliciously Injured In dock and that
a surreptitious attempt had been made to
ruin her. Officers who are familiar with
docking big ships and whp are thoroughly
Informed as to the strength of the cruiser
declare that unequal settling on supporting
blocks of such a heavy vessel is common,
and though attended with some dasger,
is readily and frequently avoided by ex
actly the precaution observed by Capt.
Sumner-that of filling the docks and
floating the ship. The Columbia weighs
over 7,000 tons, confined in a breadth of 58
feet and distributed over a length of 412
feet. It has been repeatedly demonstrat
ed that a ship is never subject to such
great strain in dock as in a stormy sea;
in the latter case, where the waves are
long, a ship being sometimes supported
only at the extreme ends.
The Columbia was placed in dock under
Secretary Herbert’s orders to clean her
hull for the race against time across the
ocean. It will be easy to determine
whether she has been permanently strain
ed by running her engines and seeing if
their alignment has been affected. The
Columbia has already oost the government
over $3,000,000.
Referring to sensational alleged cable
dispatches of the Chicago Associated
Press, dated Southampton, July 12, to the
effect that the United States ship Colum
bia had sustained serious injuries in dry
dock, the Secretary of the Navy authorizes
the statement that his dispatch of July
9 from Capt. Sumner, stated that the dock
ing was not well done; that the ship was
being strained and that he (Capt. Sumner)
would, therefore, leave the dock, but Capt.
Sumner said the damages were not se
rious.
On July 11 Capt. Sumner telegraphed hl
opinion that all was right and that the
ship was coaling.
The department, relying upon the Judg
ment and statements of Capt. Sumner, has
not changed its original order for the Co
lumbia to come homo at full speed.
Neither she nor the New York has yet
sailed.
GINS OF THE AMP IHTRITE.
Her Dig Rifles Fired Fore and Aft
Over Her Decks.
Washington, July 13.—Secretary Herbert
received a report this morning of the tests
of the Amphitrite, that vessel having re
turned to Fortress Monroe from a trip at
sea last night. She had been, ordered to
go out and fire her big ten-inch rifles di
rectly fore and aft over her decks to see
If any damage would be done to the vessel.
The report from the Inspection board
shows that nothing was injured, and there
by settles one of the vexed disputes among
naval officers about this class of ships,
many high officers having declared that
no one could live under the fore and aft
decks when the guns were fired from the
turrets straight ahead or astern. It was
not deemed desirable to make a practical
test of this kind upon any human being,
but four healthy sheep were shipped from
Norfolk and tied up in such a manner that
the full force of the concussion would
roach them. Inasmuch as they are still'
“live muttons” and have apparently suf
fered no inconvenience, the demonstration
of the inaccuracy of the theories advanced
is regarded as complete. Secretary Herbert
is warmly praised for insisting on prac
tical tests to demonstrate disputed theories
and there will hereafter be no fear of fir
ing the guns of any of the new ships in
any direction over the decks.
A Suit for Crlniinnl Libel.
Wilmington, N. C., July 13.—S. H. Fish
blate, who is mayor of this city, has in
stituted an action for criminal libel
against the editors of the Evening Dis
patch. It is based on an article which ap
peared in the Dispatch of July 3, which
Fishbiate’s lawyers say is criminally li-
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THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 14,1805.
NEW YORK’S BANKS.
A Contraction In Loans Shown for
the First Time in Weeks.
' New Y'ork, July 13.—The New York
Financier says this week: "The statement
of the Associated Banks of this city for
the week ending July 13, 1896, is the first
In weeks to show a contraction in loans,
the net decrease being, $2,512,790. The ag
gregate volume, however, is still far above
the average. The falling off was not unex
pected, since the business transacted on
the stock exchange during the week has
been much Ighter than usual, and the de
mand for funds has been less. One year
ago loans were declining regularly week
by week, while deposits were piling up
steadily, arid while the loans were then
nearly *100,000,000 less than the deposits,
the difference now is but $66,000,000. In
other words the loans were then over
$28,0(4>.000 less than at present, and the de
posits were over $22,009,000 higher than the
amounts now held by the New York banks.
"A*yery cheering sign, even though it
ma/i-ire due to temporary causes, is the
stoppage of the movement of money from
the interior to this point. The greater per
centage of trade balances must have been
cancelled long since, but money apparently
was dbnt her for the small Interest It
would earn. Last week’s shipments were
less than-J1.900,0W, and reports from dif
ferent centers show that trade is active
endugh'’to require all the money that the
banks can furnish for the purpose.
"Talk of higher money rates in New
Yjilc still continues, but the outlook does
not’warrant a prediction of much of an
advance Just at present. The New York
hanks decreased their deposits $1,903,508
during the week and gained $755,800 net
cash, the loss of $231,600 specie being com
pensated by the gain of $987,400 legal ten.
ilers. Owing to the contraction in loans
the reserve has increased $1,231,600.”
AMONG THE AL AD AN IANS.
Three Fights— Return of tlie Brave.
The Coming Reanion.
Albany, Ga., July 13.—The effect of the
Intense heat for the past two days has
been provocative of three personal en
counters between six belligerent citizens
of this city, none of them, fortunately, re
sulting seriously.
The first of these summer fights was be
tween U. F. Morning, a one-armed ex-con
federate, and J. S. Hudson, over a business
transaction.
The second was between Representative
E. R. Jones and Policeman James Q.
Barron over a game of dominoes, and the
last was between Capt. John T. Hester and
Capt. Y. G. Rust, the result of a dispute on
the. financial question.
In the encounter between Representative
Jones and Officer Barron, T. M. Nelson,
who was acting in the blessed capacity of
a peacemaker was given a black eye and
knocked out In the first round by Col.
Jones’ long upper cuts.
The Albany Guards reached the city
this morning from their participation in
the encampment of the Fourth Georgia
regiment at St. Simons.
Mns. A. R. Jackson, wife of a promi
nent farmer of this county, Is critically ill
with hemorrahglc fever and her recovery
has been despaired of.
The reunion of the confederate veter
ans of the Fourth Georgia regiment which
will take place In this city on the 24th,
promises to be a great success. Prepara
tions for the entertainment of the visi
tors are already In progress and the pro
gramme will be decidedly pleasant. Gen.
Clement A. Evans has promised to be
present. A banquet will be one of the
features.
COR DEI.E GLEANINGS.
A Splendid Prospect for Corn and
Frnit.
Cordele, Ga„ July IS.—On July 27 Cor
dele and surrounding county will bo treat
ed to an address from Hon. Hoke Smith
and possibly some minor lights. Mr.
Smith will speak on financial matters.
Arrangements have been made to run
special trains from Macon, Tlfton, Albany,
Amerlcus Und Lyons at very reduced
rates.
There Is a general feeling that prosper
ous times are at hand. Times are better
here. Four new brick stores ■ and four
pretty and comfortable dwellings, that
would do credit to a town three or four
times as large as this, and eight or ten
smaller affairs are being built. The day
for fictitious values here has passed and
the town Is growing gradually in a sub
stantial way. The town, hotels and many
dwellings are lighted with electricity. Our
saw mill friends are smiling and cheerful.
The demand for lumber is good, prices
firm, with inclination upward.. The En
sign Lumber Company, successors to the
Hut Lumber Company at Fenn, booked a
million-foot order to start operations with.
This concern is composed of young, wide
awake and hustling men.
The fruit industry is gradually expand
ing Itself in our neighborhood, and all
having established fruit farms seem to
wear the smile of contentment. The corn
crop Is practically made, and Is a fine one.
The W’ayerosa Alr Line.
Waycross, Ga., July 13.—1 t is stated that
the reorganization of the Waycross Air
Line, which really means the consolida
tion of the lines owned by the company,
and other lines owned by other lumber
companies, Including some of the largest
lumber concerns In the state, will be per
fected Yhis week. It Is evident now that
the consolidation wdll begin at once on the
extension of the line from Nichols to Fort
Valley. The Southern railway, it is said,
will give concessions and make the neces
sary Connections with the Air Line.
The officials of the Southern railway have
been over the line of the Air Line.
Business Consolidation.
Amerlcus, Ga., July 13.—An important
business change is announced to-day. The
Amerlcus Grocery Company and Windsor,
Whitley, Hudson Bros., '.wo leading whole
sale grocery houses, were consolidated.
The Dew firm will be known as the Amer
icus Grocery Company. It is understood
that Frank Lanier, Jr., of the Americus
Grocery Company and C. R. Whitley of
Windsor, Whitley, Hudson Bros. have
purchased the Interest of G. W. Glover,
the president of the Americus Grocery
Company, who retires from business.
Grant Sentenced to Hung.
Americus, Ga., July 13.—Sam Grant (col
ored), convicted last week of murder for
killing George Davis (colored) last Christ
mas, was to-day sentenced by Judge Fisk
to be hanged on Aug. 23. *
A Cow Acts ns Mother to a Pig.
From the Portland Oregonian.
The recent paragraph in the Oregonian
about freakish relations among animals
causes to be brought to light a very sing
ular circumstance on the farm of R. J.
Moore, at Molalla Corners. A sixteen
months-old heifer lost her calf, and two
or three days afterward it was notic?3
that she did not require milking. Inves
tigation led to the discovery of the fact
that the heifer had adopted a four months
old pig, which she would call and suckle
as affectionately as if it had been her
own calf. This relation has been sus
tained some weeks, to the evident satis
faction of both parties, and the shoot is
sleeker and weighs several pounds more
than his companions of the same age.
THE WRONG LANGUAGE.
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A Russian Woninn Who Thunaht
Americans Talked German.
From the New York Telegram.
Here Is a tale of metropolitan life,
which is vouched for at the college settle
ment In Rivington. street. It Illustrates
the cosmopolitan character of the city and
shows in a sigularly striking manner how
little we know our nelghtiors on the next
street and how little they know of us.
They have a free kindergarten at the, col
lege settlement for the bneflt of the poor
of the neighborhood. One morning a wo
man appeared at the door with a little
child and was met by one of the teach
ers. The woman began talking volubly
in an unknown tongue, and seemed much
surprised at not being able to understand
the teacher’s replies.
“What are you?” asked the teacher In
English. “Are you German-DeutchT”
The woman seemed very much mystified
and thoroughly disheartened. She only
shook her head in a dismayed sort of way
and said nothing. The teacher sent for an
interpreter.
"Does your little child understand En
glish?” asked the interpreter In German.
“English 7" responded the woman in tne
same language. "What is English? My
little girl speaks the language of the coun
try, and so do 1, but the lady here does not
understand me.’
"Why, the lady speaks the language of
the country," said the Interpreter. "She
speaks English, and that is the language
of the coutry.”
The woman looked thoroughly discon
certed and said nothing. The interpreter
asked her what her nationality was, for
it was plain that she was not a German.
She spoke that language very poorly.
“I am a Russian,” she said, "and I live
In Hester street.”
"How long have you been in the coun
try?”
"Three years."
“And didn’t you know that the lan
guage of the country was English?”
"Ah,” broke out the poor woman, with
a sob, "when I came here I only knew
Russian, and I made up my mind I would
get to bo m good American and learn the
language tlie Americans talk. When 1
moved into Hester street I did not under
stand one word they said there, but I sup
-1 osed they were Americans and talked the
language of Americans. So I set to work
to iearn it, and 1 have tried hard for
three years, till now I can understand all
that they say In the tenement and at the
markets on the sidewalk, and they can all
understand me when I talk. And now
to-Jay I coma here, after three years in
the country, and talk to the lady here,
and she don’t understand me and I don’t
understand her. Ah, it is too bad!”
The Interpreter translated the conversa
tion to the teacher, who was mcvel to
great pity. The woman sat rocking her
self back anti forth, the picture of woe.
“Madame," sold the interpreter, "I am
very sorry for you, but your three years
of effort have been thrown away. Ameri
cans talk the English language, and you
unfortunately lived in a neighborhood
where German and Hebrew only are
spoken. The language you have learned
is German, or at least that sort of mixed
German and Hebrew which they speak
there. I am very sorry for you.’
And the woman, wiping her eyes with
her apron, took her little girl by the hand
and went sorrowfully away.
WARNED BY UNHEARD VOICES.
Carious Power of Divination Pos
sessed l>> Business Men.
From Harper’s Bazar.
"Business is business,” says the man
vowed to that life,'and so It is unquestion
ably, but equally personality is personal
ity. Leaving the latter out of considera
tion will throw business calculations
about as far astray as those of the as
tronomer who does not allow for personal
equations. That the successful man of af
fairs fully understands.
When it can bq recognized there Is noth
ing more Interesting than watching the ac.
tual consultation of a business man with
the promptings of his own soul's equations.
Such power of consultation is not pos
sessed by all and Invisible with many of
those who have It.
I remember hearing a young business
man describe such a rare revelation in an
interview with an older businss friend
known as the keenest financier. The prop
osition which the young man had to pre.
sent was reasonable, seemingly sure of
success, and he himself believed In It en
thusiastically.
"I laid it before the old fellow,” he said,
"one by ono meeting and explaining the
vexed points he raised. He eeased ques
tioning me finally because the patent value
of the proposition seemed proved so far as
words go. He nodded affirmation as each
heading was checked off. I felt embolden
ed to ask, What do you think of it, sir?'
And then I saw a curious sight. The old
fellow sat motionless, lookifig away into
space, his blue eyes growing innocent and
far away as a child’s who is listening for
a distant and familiar voice. I could have
sworn he heard something which I did not.
Finally he turned to me with a smile and
shook his head. ’I can’t exactly believe
In your plan,’ he said. I sat staring at him.
I knew and he knew, that his reason was
convinced; it was an instinct alone that
held the old man back—an Instinct in
which ho superstitiously trusted and on
which he obstinately acted. It was the
most extraordinary thing I ever saw. The
more so that events have proved the warn
ing voice gave him a private information
which was more than correct. The plan
failed dismally, as I too well know.”
Extraordinary or not, those who come in
contact with successful business men will
see the same phenomenon repeated over
and over in greater or less degre. Call it
a genius for affairs, or what you will, this
curious power of divination remains still
as unexplained a mystery as any other
kind of second-sight.
LEMON ELIXIR.
A Pleasant Lemon Drink—Regulates
the Liver, itomach, Bowels and
Kidneys.
For biliousness, constipation and ma
laria.
For Indigestion, sick and nervous head
ache.
For sleeplessness, nervousness and heart
failure.
For fever, chills, debility and kidney dis
eases, take Lemon Elixir.
For blotches and pimples on the face take
Lemon Elixir.
Ladies, for natural and thorough organic
regulation, take Lemon Elixir.
Fifty cents and $1 bottles at druggists.
Prepared only by Dr. H. Mozley, At
lanta, Ga.
At the Capital.
I have just taken the last of two bottles
of Dr. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir for nervous
headache, indigestion, with diseased liver
and kidneys. The Elixir cured me. I found
it the greatest medicine 1 ever used. J. H.
Mennich, Attorney, 1225 F street, Wash
ington, D. C.—ad.
Mrs. B.—What a dear, kind old gentle
man Mr. Gren is!
Mr. B.—What's ha been doing now?
Mrs. B.—Why, the Hebrew orphan asy
lum is to give a picnic and he has given
a whole barrel of ham sandwiches.—
Brooklyn Life.
MAHISE IXTELLKEXCB.
SAVANNAH, Sunday, July 14, 1896.
Bun ris 4:58
Bun sets 7:92
Hi„-h water, Ft Pulaski, 12:58 am, 11:52 pm.
High water. Savannah. 1:58 am, 1:52 pm.
75th meridian.
Time ball on City Exchange drops 12:00
m.. 75th Meridian.
AHHIVKU lESTEKDAV.
Schr Fairfield, Rankin, Sapelo, etc., with
47 casks spirits turpentine and 150 barrels
rosin.
Steamship Chattahoochee, Savage, Bos
ton—C. G. Anderson, Agent.
CLEARED YESTERDAY.
Bohr Caroline C. Foss, Crabtree, Fall
River, Mass., and Newark, N. J.—Harriss
& Cos.
Bark Uonhour (Nor), Telefsen, London
—Chr. (4. Dahl & Cos.
Steamship I). H. Hiller, James, Balti
more—J. J. Carolan, Agent.
Steamship Chattahoochee, Savage, Bos
ton—C. G. Anderson, Agent.
SAILED YESTERDAY.
Steamship D. H. Miller, Baltimore.
Bark Bonheur (Nor), London.
Schr M. Luella Wool. Fall River.
Schr John G. Schmidt, Philadelphia.
Schr Caroline C. Foss, Fall River, in
tow of tug Wm. F. McCauley.
DEPARTED YESTERDAY.
Steamer Alpha, Finney, Bluffion—C. H.
Medlock, Agent.
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MEMORANDA.
New York, July 11.—Arrived, schr Wm.
Frederick, Kanlctt, Satllla (leaking).
Bosion, July 11.—Cleared, schr Morris
W. Child, Beck, Savannah.
Baltimore, July 13.—Arrived, schr Hilda,
Kines, Savannah.
Brunswick, Ga., July 11.—Sailed bark
Arcturus (Nor), Tonnesen, Rotterdam;
schrs Lulu E. Wilbur, Morse, llha do Sul
(or Brava, CV); Frank W. Howe, Ander
son, and Thelma, Leo, Boston; Francis
C. Yarneil, Scott, Philadelphia via Union
Island.
Darien, Ga., July 10.—Arrived, schrs Al
ice Archer, Gibbs, Bath; Nancy C. Yar
neil, Scott, St. Simon; Martha 8. Bei
ment, Union, New York.
11th —Cleared, bark Alku (Rus), Troberg,
Greenock; schr Robert C. McQuillion,
Blake, New York.
Fernuudtna, Fla., July 11.—Sailed, schr
Mary O'Neill, Watts, Boston.
I’rawle Point, July 11.—Passed, steamer
Iris (Belg), Smlt, Savannah for London
and Antwerp.
Gtrgenti, July 6.—Sailed, bark Carmela
C. (ltal), Caliero, Charleston.
Charleston, S. C., July 13.—Arrived, schrs
T. W. Dunn, Ross, Boston; W. W. Con
verse, Peekworth, New Y'ork.
Cleared, schr Norman, Murphy, New
York.
Spoken off bar, schr H. C. Kerlin, Phil
adelphia, bound Savannah.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Pilot charts and all hydrographic Infor
mation will be furnished masters of ves
sels free of charge in United States Hy
drographic office In Custom House. Cap
tains are requested to call at the office.
Reports of wrecks and derelicts received
for transmission to the navy department.
For additional shipping news, see other
columns.
PASSENGERS.
Per steamship Nacooehee, from New
York—Miss A. Stewart, Mrs. J. Dowling,
YVm. Hermann, Miss S. DeGeorge, Mrs.
W. W. Henderson and infant, A. C. H.
Russell, Miss Alice Gorman, A. Buch
enolz, H. L. Banders, E. P. Davis, W. B.
Kltchum, F. S. Lathrop, W. C. Price,
Miss E. Dowling, and one steerage.
Per steamship Chattahoochee, from
Boston and Philadelphia— From Boston:
Alfred Rowley, H, A. Hill, John Surman,
and wife. C O. Blood, J. R. F. Tattnall,
Mrs. J. F. Whlttemore. From Philadel
phia: G. A. Leroy, 11. Grossman.
Per steamship D. H. Miller, for Balti
more—Mrs. Harrell, J. A. Roberts, Mrs.
E. Hahn, Mr. Preston Teddlo and wife,
8. W. Jones and wife, E. K. Hopze, Mrs.
M. M. Drayton, Misses Connor, Mrs. J.
Traub, Elmer Traub, G. K. Robinson,
J. H. James, Thos. P. Douglas, Pat Mur
phey, J. E. Wilkins, Miss Mamie Askey,
George Watson and wife, J. F. Rausch,
H. Miller.
EXPORTS.
Per Norwegian bark Bonheur for Lon
don—s,o9B casks spirits turpentine, val
ued at *71,372, by James Farle, Jr., and
5,245 white oak staves and 2,095 white oak
billets, by American Stave and Cooperage
Company.
Per schr Caroline C. Foss, for Fall
River, Mass., and Newark, N. J., 340,448
feet of pitch pine lumber, of which 219,-
208 feet to Newark and 121,119 to Fall
River—Georgta Lumber Company.
Per steamship D. H. Miller, for Balti
more—46B bales cotton, 170 bbls rosin, 7
bbls rosin oil. 11 bbls pitch, 32 casks clay,
314.839 feet lumber, 1,764 crates vegetables,
87 bbls vegetables, 286 bbls fruit, 67 bundles
hides, 10 sacks wool, 63 pkgs mdse, 8
crates domestics, 5,265 melons.
RECEIPTS.
Per Central railroad, July 13—25 cars
melons, 1 car lumber, 1 car flour, 1 car
brick, 610 pkgs vegetables, 325 tons pig
Iron, 527 pkgs mdse, 1,041 bbls ro6ln, 637
bbls spirits.
Per Savannah, Florida and Western rail
way, July 13—46 cars melons, 5,460 crates
vegetables, 67 bbls vegetables, 510 bbls
fruit, 6 crates fruit, 1,821 bbls rosin, 873
bbls spirits, 12 cars phosphate, 7 cars
rock, 19 oars lumber 4 cars pig iron, 1
car, honey, 1 ear tobacco, 7 cars wood,
3 cars coal, 2 cars castings, 1 car lard. 1
car corn, 25 bbls bottles, 20 bales hides,
6 cars mdse, 6 bales wool, 1 car bacon,
1 car grits, 1 car oats.
Per Charleston and Savannah railroad,
July 13—3 cars wood, 2 cars barrels, 3 cars
lumber, 2 cars castings, 3 cars mdse.
Per Florida Central and Peninsular
railroad, July 13—18 cars vegetables, 20
cars melons, 1 car Iron, 9 cars mdse, 1 car
brick, 13 <;ars naval stores, 1 car house
hold goods, 1 car furniture.
President Harrison's *l5O Ten.
Frank G. Carpenter in Philadelphia Times.
Perhaps the most costly tea ever brought
to this country was some Indian tea which
was presented to Benjamin Harrison
while he was President of the United
States. It came from a great tea com
pany in Ceylon, and it was presented in
a tea caddy made of an elephant's foot,
which had been hollowed out Into a beau
tiful box. This contained several pounds
of tea of a very choice variety, and In the
center of the box there was a little casket
containing a handful or so of tea, which
was worth $l5O a pound, and was perhaps
the costliest tea In existence. The tea out
side of this was delicious, but the *l5O tea
was a drink for the gods. President Har
rison showed the tea to his friends, and
now and then had a drawing made for
those who were closest to him.
One day a western senator, who knew
as much about tea as a cow does about
chocolate caramels, spent an evening at
the white house. During his stay Presi
dent Harrison spoke of this wonderful tea
and said he would give him a bit of it,
supposing of course the man would un
derstand that he would have a drawing
made and they would sip it together. He
sent one of the servants for the precious
casket of *l5O tea and handed It over to the
senator to examine. The senator took it
and looked at It and then said: “I am
much obliged, indeed, Mr. President, and
I will take It home to the madam.” He
thereupon put the box in his pocket. One
of the President’s official family, who was
present at the time, told me of the inci
dent, and I asked him as to what the
President did.
"What could he do?” was the reply.
"He couldn’t ask the man to give It back
without offending him, and the result was
that he carried away the box, which was
worth more than its weight in gold, and
which, I venture, was no more appreci
ated by the people who got it than the
poorest of the Japanese variety.”
Sackcloth Before Stripes.—Rev. Goodall
—My friend, if you are sorry that you em
bezzled the money why not return It now*
Badun—Because then they'd be able to
hire a good lawyer to prosecute, and I
couldn’t pay one to defeud me.—Puck,
What Will You
Have of These?
Nainsook Undershirts $ .35
Lace Undershirts 46
Lisle Thread Undershirts 75
White Duck Trousers (made to order). 2.50
White Duck Trousers ready made.... 2.00
Yeddo Hats $ .25
Colored Straws .50
Office Coats.. 25
Washable Suits (made to order) 6.50
Boys’ Washable Suits at 44c, ?Bc, 88c, 99c.
The above Prices are Low —
Lower than you’ll find elsewhere.
OUR STOCK
Of Thin Coats and Vests have been re
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A Canary Kill* a Rat.
From the Baltimore Herald.
Joseph Thompson, a deputy clerk of the
criminal court, and at one time a promi
nent candidate for the mayoralty of Bal
timore, has a canary of which he has al
ways been very proud. He Is prouder of
the little bird than ever now, on account
of the fact that last Thursday night, after
a desperate fight with a rat, the little yel
low fellow came off a victor. Just before
the family retired to rest on Thursday
1 night at their residence, 1321 North Eden ,
street, Mrs. Thompson placed the bird
cage on the sideboard in the dining room.
During the night a half grown rat forced
himself into the cage and proceeded to
devour the bird’s food. This was the be
ginning of the trouble. The canary W
from its perch and the battle began.
When Mrs. Thompson came into the din
ing room the next morning she found a
dead rodent lying on its back on tne floor
of the birdcage, while th£ canary w aS
singing merrily from its perch above, rhs
beak of the bird had penetrated the cjfj
of the rat, entering the brain and causiuß
Instant death.