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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, is:*s.
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fiSl TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
-Meetings—Georgia Chapter No. 3, R. A.
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Special Notices—Shavings Free at
Southern Pine Company's Mill; Notice to
£lty Court Jurors; Dividend No. 23, The
Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company;
State and County Taxes, 1S98; Ship No
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Business Notices—E. & W. Laundry.
The Price of Gas Has Been Reduced—
The Mutual Gas Light Company.
-Unde: takers—Clarke & Burns.
' Clothing Department—l-eopuld Adler.
Amusements—Wild West Show by Tor
rey’s Rough Riders, at Thunderbolt.
W. L. Douglas $3.50 Police Shoe—Byck
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Legal Notices—Notice to Debtors and
Creditors Estate Joseph L. Mirault, De
ceased.
Postum Cofree—Postum Cereal Compa
ny.
Medical— Hcod's Pills; Johann Hoff's
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pany; Ayer's Cherry Pectoral; S. S. S.;
Dr. Schiffmann's, Asthma Cure.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Lobelia, according to the dictionary, is
often used as an emetic, expectorant, etc.
Lobelia has recently made Charleston sick.
The administration would like to have
Congress drop into its Christmas stocking
a little purse of $20,000,000, with which to
pay Spain.
The opinion scents to be gaining ground
that Spain had no sovereignty in the Phil
ippines to sell and that we had no right
to buy it.
■Many of the Northern newspapers are
beginning to see that thp dark criminal
record of some parts of the South is oc
casioned by the black criminals.
There la a man in Atlanta, according to
e dispatch from that city to a Chicago
newspaper, who has the entire alphabet
traced In tile iris of his eye. There are
probably more queer things "In the eye"
of Atlanta people than any other people
ir. the country.
Moral suasion has been dropped in Chi
cago's boys’ prison and a stout leather
etrap substituied. The change in the route
of reaching the boys' seat of reason with
fetching arguments in favor of being good
Is said to have been attended with grati
fying results.
Notwithstanding Savannah sent one-
Ihlrd of the slate's quota of volunteers
Into the ranks, she had yesterday for the
first time ihe pleasure of seeing a regiment
of Georgia volunteers for the Spanish war
on parade. She is satisfied. The Third
Georgia Is all right. It is as good as they
make them.
The ritlsburg Dispatch says the election
returns from Senator Quay's home county,
Beaver, were the very last to be received,
and that they delayed the official count
longer than the reiurns of the soldier vote
at Manila. Possibly the folks in Beaver
were wailing to see how many more voles
were needed by the Quay machine.
A smart Frenchman has taken advant
age of the fact that sufferers from gout
and rheumatism take a delight in discuss
ing their pains and aches, and has estao
llshed a magazine In which they are in
vited to air their ills and exploit their
favorite prescriptions. The circulation i 3
aaid to be quite large and growing.
John Caine has been arrested in Evans
ton. 111., for running a "blind pig.” He
eays he is the cousin of Hall Caine, the
novelist. It seems, if that is true, that it
might be a good Idea for the author of
the "Christian'' to suspend his efforts to
elevate the drama for a time and try his
hand at elevating some of his relations.
Gov. Tanner of Illinois is under indict
ment for malfeasance in office. United
States Senator Kenney of Delaware is on
trial upon a charge of conspiracy and aid
ing and abetting In the wrecking of a
bank. United States Senator Quay is un
der Indictment for having misappropriated
public funds. All of Hum are Kepubii-
CI BA AND ANNEXATION.
It is a safe prediction that inside of a
jear after our government has taken pos
session of Cuba the sentiment in favor of
annexation will be strong in every town in
the island. What the better class of Cu
bans want is a stable government. They
are not so anxious for independence—for
self-government. The reason for this state
ment is found in the sentiments whicn
were expressed at a dinner in Santiago
given to Robert P. Porter, the agent of
our government, who was sent to Cuba to
investigate conditions there re.ative to the
tariff. The dinner was given to Mr. Por
ter by a large number of the leading citi
zens of that city on Sunday last. It Is
said that the remarks favorable to annex
ation which were made In the speeches—
and there were many of such remarks—
' were- heartily applauded. Immediately af
t< r Gen. Wood was inode m.litary gov
ernor of Santiago there was little or no
sentiment there in favor of annexation.,
What has caused the change? The an
swer to that question is, that for the
first time in many years Santiago has a
stable and liberal government. The ad
ministration of all the purely local offices
lias been put in the hands of Cubans, and
Gen. Wood has been careful to select for
official positions men of ability and high
character. The sanitary condition of the
town has been looked after and the best
of order has been preserved. Gen. Wood
has given the citizens of Santiago an ob
ject lesson, an! it ha> hid the effect of
mak.tig ann xaliotiisis of them.
What has taken place in Santiago will
take place in all of the towns of Cuba,
provided the President is fortunate enough
to get as good military officials in the
various towns as Gen. Wood has proven
himself to he. The people are tired of
disorder and violence—those who have
anything at stake. As soon as they learn
by practical experience that American ad
ministration of their affairs is desirable
and beneficial the annexation sentiment
will become strong among that class of
the Cubans who make public opinion.
Whether or not there will be an effort
to bring about annexation in the near fu
ture is a question about which nothing
can be said with any degree of certainty.
There will be no annexation before self
government is given a trial. But annex-
ation may not be delayed long after an
independent government is established.
The leading Cubans are afraid that the
people are not yet ready for self-govern
ment. They are afraid o; the experiment.
As soon therefore as they become thor
oughly satisfied that the purpose of our
government is to deal fairly with the isl
and they will be outspoken in favor of
annexation. It will not be necessary to
establish newspapers in Cuba to advocate
annexation. It will only be necessary
to appoint at the head of affairs in the
different ewns during the military occu
pation men of integrity and good busi
ness sense.
THE M’COItMICK TROUBLE.
It Is not probable that the nine citizens
of McCormick in South Carolina who have
been indicted on the charge of having con
spired to rob John W. Tolbert of that
place of his rights as a citizen and assist
ant postmaster will have much trouble in
securing an acquittal. It appears from
the story they tell that they did not visit
Tolbert's house for the purpose of order
ing him to leave the town. They went
there to advise him to leave, because they
had information that twenty-five or more
men were coming from Phoenix in search
of him, and they did not wont any harm
to come to him, and they particularly did
not want any violence committed in their
community.
It was for these reasons that a commit
tee of citizens went to his house and read
to him resolutions, which had been
adopted at a meeting of citizens, advis
ing him to leave the place. The commit
tee was composed of only two or three cit
izens who desired to have witnesses of
what was said and done. Therefore, three
citizens were called in to act in that ca
pacity. These witnesses are among the
nine men who have been indicted.
If what the indicted men say is correct
no threats were made, and nothing said or
done to which even Tolbert could take ex
ception. In fact, he must have recogniz
ed that the mission of the committee was
to do him a service. It is a fact that
Tolbert was not popular in the communi
ty. The committee said to him that his
family had been the cause of the death of
quite a number of innocent citizens of the
county, to which statement, il is alleged.
Tolbert assented. Tolbert was told of
the telephone messages which had been
received from Phoenix to the effect that
twenty-five men were to be sent from
that place t'o deal with him, and that it
was advisable for him to leave McCormick
for his own safety and for the welfare of
the community. He remained in McCor
mick about thirty-six hours afier receiv
ing ihis advice and no one attempted to
molest him.
When he was in Washington he wrote
to one of the men now under indictment
to send him a copy of the resolution that
had been adopted by the citizens of Mc-
Cormick. as they might aid him in getting
a much better Job than the one lie had In
that town. In the same letter he is quot
ed as saying that he would hardly give the
citizens of that place any more trouble,
thus showing a purpose to use the fact
that he had beta advised to leave McCor
mick to get a better job from the govern
ment, and admitting that he had been the
cause of trouble to the people of that
place. When all the facts are brought to
the surface, It will appear probably that
Tolbert was not a desirable citizen, and
thal he lost no opportunity to stir up
strife among the people.
The trial will have the effect of making
public the kind of a man Tolbert is,
and will show probably that the men who
are indicted for conspiring to run him
out of the county, and away from his
office as assistant postmaster, intended to
do him a service, not an injury, and that
they did not want any violence committed
in their town.
Senator Stewart is firmly convinced that
there was a conspiracy to commit "the
l crime of 1898" by desenutorizing him.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 7. ISOS.
THE TWO CANAL ROUTES.
In the Forum for November appears an
article on the "New Panama Canal," writ
ten by Brig. G. n. 11. L. Abbott, in which
a careful comp.iri-on is made between the
Panama and Nicaragua canal routes. Gen.
Abbott demonstrates in his paper that the
efforts of the United States should be de
voted to the completion of the Panama
canal.
Gen. Abbott is a member of the Comite
Technique, and was Invited to assist the
new Panama Canal Company in directing
Its investigations and forming its conclu
sions, and therefore had exceptional ad
vantages for studying the subject. The
Comite Technique is international in it
membership, including French, English,
German, Russian and American engineers,
among them being the chief engineers of
the Manchester and.Kiel ship canals. The
article of Gen. Abbott, therefore, may be
regarded as reflecting the opinion of this
distinguished body of engineers. And in
consequence its deductions and conclusions
are well worth the careful consideration
of the American people.
During the war with Spain, when the
battleship Oregon was steaming from the
Pacific at top speed to join the Atlantic
fleet, the wealth of the nation would have
been poured out like water if it had been
possible to moke a short cut for the ship
across the isthmus. The incident of the
Oregon's trip has been made much of by
the advocates of the Nicaragua canal
scheme, and will doubtless be heard from
again, with more or less effectiveness, dur
ing the forthcoming session of Congress.
The present facts, however, are, that the
Oregon has accomplished her mission, and
that it is wisdom lo examine into the phy
sical conditions in connection with the two
proposed routes—which is the better and
the cheaper.
Gen. Abbott’s article seems to show very
clearly that the Panama route is not only
a more practicable route than that across
Nicaragua, but that it is only a question
of time when it will be built. It shows
that the Chagres river is no longer an ele
ment of danger to the proposed canal, but
is “rather a useful friend whose assistance
will be of great value to the canal In its
operation.” The serious caving-in of earth
at certain places along the route, which
was one of the great causes of the failure
of the old Panama Canal Company, can
be readily overcome; in fact the land-slides
had about ceased when the old work was
abandoned. The bug-bear of a sliding
mountain divide, Gen. Abbott says, has
been shown to be imaginary. He further
says that the objections to the construc
tion of the canai on account of the inju
rious effects of the climate upon the health
of the operatives have been very much ex
aggerated. The negroes of the British West
Indies, and even Europeans or Americans,
can work on the canal with comparative
safely by observing the proper hygienic
precautions.
Gen. Abbott gives in parallel columns the
advantages and disadvantages of the two
canal routes, Including probable cost, and
facilities for navigation if both were com
pleted and open to shipping. His compari
son, touching the latter point, makes the
following showing:
Panama. | Nicaragua.
Ports both known to|Both ports artificial,
be good and easyj to which access
of access. | may be doubtful,
Length of route 46| especially on At
miies, and time of| lantic side,
transit 14 hours ]Length of route 176
Summit-level Dob-| miles, and time of
ably 103 feet and| transit not less
perhaps only 6C[ than 44 hours,
feet. ;S.ummit-ievel 110 feet.
Locks double from'Locks single (sub.se
the opening of thcl quently to have
canal, one cham-j another chamber
ber 73S by 82 feet,| added); dimensions
and the other 7381 650 by 80 feet,
by 59 feet, with in-|Curvature too sharp,
termediate gates, j Smallest radius in
Curvature gentle.j canal proper 4,000
Smallest radius S.-t feet. For 68 miles
200 feet. Of the 46] the route traverses
miles, 26% arc; the San Juan river,
straight, and 15| where, Jo gain 47%
have radii equal to) miles as a bird
or exceeding 9,850 j flies, it Is necessary
feet. | to travel 67% miles
N o troublesome! —a loss of 43 per
winds or river eur-| cent,
rents to be en-|Heavy trade-winds
countered even lnj and strong river
times of flood. | currents'
In concluding his paper Gen. Abbott
says: "May it not, then, be wiser for our
government to extend its powerful assist
ance to what nature has determined as
the best route, rather than to expend more
time and more money for what, after all is
said, must remain a distinctly inferior can
al, unable to compete with its rival for the
commerce of the world?”
VESTEIUJ VA \S REVIEW.
The review of the Seventh Army Corps'
yesterday afternoon by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
was a military pageant which will remain
vivid in the memory of those who were so
fortunate as to witness it. To the com
manding general the showing made by the
troops must have been most gratifying.
Every movement on the field was prac
tically perfect, and the soldiers looked fit
for any service to which they might be
assigned. To the civilian observer the re
view gave the impression that it would be
impossible for any country to have a finer
lot of soldiers in its service, and that there
Is nothing to fear for the future of the
United States while the country raises
such men to defend it. The review of yes
terday will probably be the last public
appearance of the men of the Seventh
Corps in this city as a body. Indeed, the
chances are that the corps will never be
gathered together again in Its entirety
after it separates here for service in Cuba.
During the time ihe command has been
quartered in this city the people of Sa
vannah and the soldiers have come to
know each other quite well, and to feel
for each other a quite warm attachment.
The soldiers, by iheir good conduct and
gentlemanly nearing, have merited and re
ceived respect and friendship. Upon the
eve of Iheir departure the Morning News,
feeling sure that it voices the sentiment
of the whole city and therefore assuming
to speak In the name of the people of the
city, congratulates the -country upon its
Seventh Army Corps, und to the soldiers
of the corps, officers and men, extends best
wishes for their future welfare and n god
*P< ed on their way to their field of duly in
the Pearl of Antilles,
No jealous rival will dare to criticise the
new sealskin jacket of Eiien Henly, sou
brette, of New York. It is a good jacket,
of fine material, is worth the price she
paid for it, and is a perfect fit. All of
these points have been passed upon by a
court of law. and the affirmation of the
court is written in the archives of the
Borough of Manhattan. The way of it
was this; Ellen had ordered a sealskin
coat of a certain merchant. When it was
delivered Ellen refused to pay for it. She
claimed that it was no good, that the
material was Inferior, the'price too high
and the fif “simply horrible.” Tile dealer
sued her. The jacket went into the court
room as an exhibit. The court handled
and examined It. and told Ellen to put it
on. She did so. The court pronounced the
fit perfect; “like- der baber on der vail,”
or something to that effect, and tolc. Ellen
that the law would require her to fulfill
her part of the contract. Now if any of
Ellen's dear and bosom friends should re
peat about her Jacket the things which
she herself Bald about it, she could have
them arrested for contempt of court.
It is being pointed out to the people
that the poor Cubans, whom we have res
cued from Spain's rule, are without em
ployment, homes, clothing, animals, tools
and pretty much everything else that
makes life worth living, and that this
government having gone into the Cuban
business from humanitarian motives, it
becomes our duty to build great railroads
in Cuba and otherwise provide employ
ment for the natives. What a great pity
it is that this spirit of humanitarianism
was not so rampant in federal official cir
cles some thirty-odd years ago, when the
Southern section of the United States was
worse devastated than Cuba has been! No
railroads or other public works were in
stituted in the South after the civil war
in order to afford the people the means
of making a living. The ex-Confeder
ates were forced to grub their living out
of the ground, or get it the best way they
could, with the alternative of starving.
It is stated that the life preservers on
board the Portland, the passenger steamer
recently lost off Cape Cod with all on
board, were not filled with cork, but with
tule reeds, which absorb water rapidly
and sink to the bottom when they become
saturated. Under the circumstances, those
unfortunates who put on the belts at the
time of the disaster found them to be real
ly life destroyers Instead of life preservers.
Some of the bodies which washed ashore
had the belts on. A reporter took one off
and tested It. It weighed some sixteen
pounds, and when it was put into the
water it sank almost as rapidly as if it
had been made of lead. It is said that the
life preservers of the Portland had been
inspected, and that the reed filled belts
came within the range of the law.* In that
case there must have been criminal care
lessness somewhere.
Having in mind some recent West In
dia hurricanes, Savannah congratulates
herself that she is outside the zone of
severe winter storms; meantime she sym
pathizes keenly with her less fortunate
sister cities further North.
BHIGHT BIT'S.
—“War is more expensive than it was 200
years ago." "Oh, yes, they didn’t have to
investigate everything then."—Detroit
Journal.
' —“Don’t you know It’s against the law lo
pour that water into'the milk?” said a
passer-by. "I’m only trying to drown the
microbes, sir," said the milkman, with a
smile.—Yonkers Statesman.
—A Clever Young .Lady—Governess—
"Come, Ethel; it’s time for good llttle'gir’s
to be in bed." Ethel—“Yeth, Mith Morgan;
but you know I have been naughty to
, day.”—The Jewelers’ Weekly.
—Little Elmer—"Pa, what’s an opti
mist?" Pa—“An optimist, my boy, is a
man who is so gla’d hte laughs, when his
wife scolds him, because ther£ is a law
against polygamy in this country.”—Cleve
land Leader.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Chicago Likes n Hustler.
1 From the Washington Post (Ind.).
Tt appears that a coroner led the shoot
ing at that Chicago Republican Club
meeting. He afterward held an inquest
and collected his fees. The man who hus
tles for business in Chicago can always
command the admiration of his fellow
citizens. ,11
The Question at Issue.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.).
At all events, the question to be settled
is whether the United States will be true
to its own principles, ca* is goihg to fall
back to the principle*'of greed and con
quest, that it has so justly condemned in
the European governments. *
A Currency Bugaboo{
From the New York Times (Dem.).
No effort at currency legislation is like
ly to be made. We believe that with ener
getic pressure of a legitimate sort from
the administration such an effort might
be made successful. But many Republi
can leaders openly avow their purpose to
keep the Issue alive if possible. In 1900
they will "need it in their business.”
Wrecked by Hud Polities.
From the New York Commercial (Ind.).
Bad politics is wrecking the Central
American republics by frightening away
investors. There can be no commercial,
and, consequently, no social or genuine
development of these countries until they
possess stable governments. And it is
probable that this will not be until they
have a strong infusion of Anglo-Saxon
blood.
Dictator of Illinois.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (hid.).
Gpv. Tanner is evidently trying to show
what a bold, bad man can do in the ex
ecutive chair. He defies the grand jury,
which has indicted him; says he will not
obey Its behest, and declares he will kick
out any sheriff who comes to arrest him.
In doing this ‘he puts himself above the
law, and makes himself virtually a dic
tator. How much of this kind of thing
the people of Illinois will stand remains
to Ik- seen. They have not bvgi.ui to take
it seriously as yet.
Two Couldovk Stories.
So dear old Couldock is dead! The
sweetest, kindliest soul that ever trod the
stage- But he had his little temper, too,
says a writer in the Chicago Times-Her
ald, and when his outbursis did come at
rare intervals all the other tantrums of
the company were as bleatings of a lamb
beside a lion’s roar! He never could en
dure the "cocksure” young person, and
the vainglorious actor who couldn't act
drove him into a frenzy. There was one
of this ilk rehearsing with him in a stock
company, a callow chap who ruined sev
eral of Couldock's best scenes, and whose
existence the veteran did not deign to
notice until the youth insisted upon ask
ing his opinions about the performance.
Then Couldock looked interested and ask
ed the fellow how long he had been on
the stage.
“Oh, just this season.”
"Good salary, I presume?"
“Not yet; only a wretched twenty a
week.”
“Hum; can you save anything out of
that?”
“No, sir; you see, we actors must dress
well or we can’t move in society.”
"That’s too bad. Every actor ought to
save something, and you in particular
should lay by a. little regularly every week
and let it Accumulate and draw interest
as quickly as possible. Then, when you
have got enough—go buy an ax and chop
your blooming head off!”
Many years ago when the late Mr. Coul
dock belonged to a Cleveland stock com
pany, the organization went down to Ak
ron to perform for one consecutive night,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Shortly before it was time for the cur
tain to rise the leading lady went to the
manager and tearfully informed him that
she had been insulted by Mr. Couldock.
Moreover, she declared that she would
never go on the stage with the old man
again.
The manager wanted to know how Coul
dock had insulted her, but she sobbed
that what he had said was too horrible
for her to repeat.
Then the veteran was sent for, and when
confronted by the leading lady he was
asked to explain what he had said or done
to hurt her feelings.
“Well,” he growled, “I suppose I was
rather rough. I told her hades was full
of such leading ladies as she is, but I
take it back. The place isn’t quite full.
There's still room for her.”
His apology was not, of course, all that
the leading lady could have asked for,
but it was Couldock’s way. So they for
gave him, and the performance went on.
Ilnby Was Provided for.
It was in one of the big department
stores, says the Washington Post. Two
women stood near each other before a
counter where the belongings of very lit
tle children are sold- Both looked with
wistful yet widely different expressions at
the tiny garments displayed. The one wo
man asked to be shown knitted undervests
for a baby. The saleswoman drew out a
box and took from it some absurdly small
garments, soft, creamy, fleecy, the most
flelightful combination of silk and wool.
The woman—a young woman she was, al
most a girl—took them in her hands with
evident delight.
“How much arc they?” she asked.
The saleswoman named a price that was
twice the size of the tiny shirts.
"Apiece?” asked the would-be customer,
timidly.
“Yes,” answered the saleswoman.
* The customer put down the little gar
ments. She looked tired and weak and bit
terly disappointed. It’s heart-breaking not
to be able to buy what you want for your
baby.
“Show me something—something oheap
er,” she said, swallowing a lump in her
throat.
The other woman, who had been looking
into the showcase, had seen it all. She
spoke to the saleswoman brusquely.
”1 can’t wait any longer,” she said.
“Tell me the price of that bonnet over
there.”
The saleswoman hurried to obey. One
doesn't keep a chinchilla collar and an im
perious manner waiting If one knows one’s
business. There was a moment’s whisper
ing and the saleswoman returned to her
waiting customer. From another box she
produced some garments precisely similar
to the too expensive ones.
"Here’s some shirts," said she, .“that’s
we’ve marked down to close out. We have
only a few left. They’re only .” And
the “only” was exactly half the price she
had named before. It wasn’t cleverly done,
tut it deceived the tired woman. She went
away with the wistful look gone from her
face. The chinchilla collar went down In
the same elevator with her, and the face
above the collar wore a look almost of envy
added to its wistfulness, I fancied—though
it’s folly, of course, to imagine that women
with chinchilla collars and imperious man
ners ever envy tired little women who have
to ask for something cheaper.
A Shrewd Italian Fruiterer.
“Where’s the man that he don’t come
’round any more?” inquired the West Side
matron of the young Italian vegetable
peddler, according to the Chicago Record.
"Are you his son?”
The peddler smiled expansively. "Xo,
he gotta no son,” he said. "He gone baoka
to de o.' country. I buya de business. You
wanta some nic? apples?”
"Gone back to the old country, has he?”
remarked the woman. “Made his fortune,
1 suppose. I don’t wonder at it, the prices
he asked. I suppose you’ll be going back
inside of a year. What vegetables have you
got?”
"No vegetable. I gotta some nice potato
an’ cabbage an’ rutabag. You lika some
nice squash? Buya some apples; nice ap
ples. Hook.”
The woman took the red, glossy apple he
offered her and bit into it reflectively.
Then she handed it to one of the two chil
dren who were peering out from behind
her skirts. The other one instantly clam
ored for apples.
"How much a peck?" asked the mother.
"Only twent’ fi’ cent,” said the peddled.
"Cheap.”
•’They’re awful smalt,” objected the wo
man.
The peddler showed his white teeth in a
beaming smile and whispered behind his
hand; “You keepa dem longer when dey
small,” he explained. "De kids ask you,
‘Givea me apple.' Dcre is more apples
when dey is small."
“I’ll take a peck,” said the woman.
One More About Grace.
The old United Presbyterian kirk at Sa
voch, in Scotland, had a minister some 60
years ago named David Caw, a very di
minutive man, standing only about 5 feet
2 Inches. He married a stropping, hand
some lass, some lire or six iuches taller
than he, and her name was Grace Wilson.
The Sunday after the wedding he got a
neighboring minister to preach for him. so
(hat he could sit with his bride on the first
Sunday. The minister was a good deal of
a wag, so Mr. Caw made him promise
faithfully that he would not allude in the
sermon to himself, his bride or the fact of
the marriage, but Mr. Caw nearly sank
through the floor when the text was given
out, Ephesians lit., 8: "Unto me. who am
less than the least of all saints, Is this
Grace given.”
—Ex-Secretary Carl’s.e's favorite color
is gray, and he rarely wears a suit of any
other shade.
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TO NEW YORK-Cabin, S2O; Excursion
$32. Intermediate, sls. Excursion jv
Steerage, SIO.OO.
TO BOSTON—Cabin, $22; Excursion, s:>;
Intermediate, sl7; Excursion, S2B; Steer
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The express steamships of this line are
appointed to sail from Savannah, Central
(90th) meridian tirfle, as follows;
•AVAKNAH TO NEW UJIIK.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Burg
THURSDAY, Dec. 8, at 2:00 p. m.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, SATURDAY,
Dec. 10, at 3 00 p. m.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Askins, MON
DAY, Dec. #2, at 3:00 p. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett
TUESDAY, Dec. 13. at 4:00 p. m.
KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, THURS
DAY, Dec. 15, at 6:30 p. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Burg.
SATURDAY, Dec. 17, at 8:30 p. m.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, MONDAY,
Dee. 19, at 10:00 p. m.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Asking, TUES
DAY, Dec. 20, at 11:00 p. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett
THURSDAY, Dec. 22, at 12:00 m.
KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, SATUR
DAY, Dec. 24, at 3:30 p. m.
SAVANNAH TO BOSTON.
VIA DIRECT SHIP.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, FRI
DAY, Dec. 9, at 2:30 a. m.
GATE CITY, Capt. Googlns, TUESDAY,
Dec. 13, at 3:00 a. m.
CHATTAHOOCHEE, Capt.. Lewis.
FRIDAY. Dec. 16, at 7:00 a. m.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, MON
DAY, Dec. 19. at 10:00 p. m.
GATE CITY, fcapt. Googins, FRIDAY,
Dec. 23, at 1:30 p. m.
Steamers leave New York for Savannah
5 p. m. dally, except Sundays and Mon
days, and leave Boston for Savannah
every Wednesday at 12 noon. Saturdays
at 3 p. m.
W. G. Brewer, Ticket Agent, 39 Bull
street, Savannah, Ga.
E. W. Smith, Con’t Fr. Agt. Sav., Ga.
B. G. Trezevant, Agt., Savannah, Ga.
E. H. Hinton, Traffic Manager.
John M. Egan, vice president.
MERCHANTS AND MINERS'
TRANSPORTATION CO.
Tickets on sale at company's office to
the following points at very low rates:
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
BALTIMORE, MD.
BUFFALO, N. Y.
BOSTON, MASS.
CHICAGO, ILL.
CLEVELAND, O.
ERIE, PA.
HAGERSTOWN, MD.
HARRISBURG, PA.
HALIFAX. N. S.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.
NEW YORK, N. Y.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
PITTSBURG, PA.
PROVIDENCE, R. I.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
TRENTON, N. J. .
WILMINGTON, DEL.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
First-class tickets Include meals and
state room berth, Savannah to Baltimore.
' Accommodation and Cuisine Unequaled.
Freight capacity unlimited; careful han
dling and quick dispatch.
The steamships of this company are ap
pointed to sail from Savannah to Balti
more as follows (standard time):
BERKSHIRE, Capt. Dlzer, WEDNES
DAY, Dee. 7, at 12:00 noon.
WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Willis. SATUR
DAY’, Dec. 10, at 3:90 p. m.
ALLEGHANY, Capt. Billups, MONDAY’,
Deo. 12, at 5:00 p. m.
ITASCA, Capt. James, WEDNESDAY’,
Dec. It’, at 7:00 a. m.
'Steamship Wm. Lawrence does not
carry passengers.
And from Baltimore every MONDAY,
WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, at 4:00 p. m.
J. J. CAROLAN, Agent,
Savannah, Ga.
W F. TUP.NER, G. P. A.
A. D. 3TEBBINS. A. T. M.
J. C. WHITNEY, Traffic -Manager.
General Offices, Ba.timore, Md.
For BlufftJb anj Beaufort, S. C,
Steamer Doretta will leave wharf foot of
Abercorn (Ethel’s wharf) street at 3 p.
m. for Bluffton daily except Sunday and
Thursday. Wednesday’s trip extended to
Beaufort, leaving Bluffton Thursdays at
8 a. m. Returning same day.
For Port Royal and Beaufort, S. C.
Steamer Clifton leaves from foot Bull
street on Sunday 12 a. m„ Tuesday and
Friday at 10 a. m., city time.
H. S. WESTCOTT, Agent.
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for Isle of Hope anil Montgomery,
Sundays excepted,
[,v city for Isle Hope" Lv Isle Hope for city
*6 uo um from Bolton, 6 Oo am for Bolton -t
7 00 am frpm Bolton| 7 10 am for Bolton
9 00 am from 2d ave; 8 10 am for 2d ave
10 37 am from Bolton 9 45 am for Bolton
2 3 pm from 2d ave, 1 00 pm for 2d ave
1 00 pm from Bolton| 4 00 pm lor Bolton
5 30 pm from 2d ave: 5 00 pm for 2d ave
6 3o pm from Bolton 7 30 pm for Bolton
7 30 pm from Bolton 6 30 pm for Bolton
9 00 pm from 2d ave 10 00 pm for 2d ave
Lv city for Mon’g’ry Lv Mont’g’ry for city
<foo am from 2d ave| 7 30 am for 2d ave
10 37 am from Bolton'l2 20 pm for 2d ave
2 30 pm from 2d avej 4 20 pm for 2d ave
5 30 pm from 2d avel
To take effect Nov. 14, 1898.
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