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VOLUME I. THE INDEPENDENT. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER ‘4O, 1 *?U. J. C. GALLAHER, Editor and Proprietor. PuhlUhril Weekly at 00 prr Annum In Advance. Hhtflr < oplr 5 rents. TilK PLAVI'EUS STOHV. BT I'AIL PLUME. 1 [i one of my journeys through the State of Kentucky, I chanced one evening to find myself at the State lino, and near a email farm house, before whose open gate a couple of fox hounds were dismally yelp ing. About a half mile in advance of me, the thiu blue smoke was curling upward from the chimney of a yellow liouso that stood on a little elevation. The most trivial circumstances frequently change our purposes. I gathered up the reins and was about to touch my horse with the spur, when a voioo dose by my side, said: “You need go no farther, stranger, un less you are unwilling to accept a gener ous welcome, hut not a very fat larder.” I turned in my saddle, and behold di rectly behind nie a tall and well-propor tioned mail of about forty-five years of ago who had come up so noiselessly in uiy rear that 1 was not aware of his presence until 1 beard him speak. “For one who has traveled over half the world,” I answered, “it matters but little what I cat or wliat I drink, so long as I have a crust and a place to stretch my limbs. I pay more attention to the provender of my horse than I do to my own appetite.” “Such being the case, follow me,” he said, leading the way lip the lane that led to his habitation. “I've plenty of good corn, and your animal w ill find a rack well stiill'ed with fodder. Hero, you Jim,” he shouted as I alighted at the door; “come, take tliis horse, rub him down well, und give him plenty of corn. ” At the sound of his voice a dwarf-like negro boy came out from the kitchen, and led my horse to the barn. Helden Bates (for that was the name by which my host introduced himself), re marked as ho gazed after the lagging stops of the boy, who had stopped ami was hulk ing about apparently at nothing, “Before the rebellion, 1 owned that fellow, but from the way he obeys me, 1 sometimes think he owns me. There is a sad change lureubout since the new order of things came into vogue. But conic in the house-, 4*, anti Jet me see what can be clone to ward procuring yon a meal. ” I followed him into u room, the furni ture of which was of the cheapest and most plain material. A stained pine table stood in the miudie of the floor, several wooden chairs were ranged against the wall, und u wtll worn mg-carpet was upon the floor. Aud this was the best furnished room in the house. In a short time the wife of Slieldon Bates appeared, and i was duly introduced She wur a pale faced, lueek-iookiug wo man, with never it smile upon her counte nance, and reminded one that she was per petually brooding over some domestic ca lamity. In answer to her husband, she re plied that she would endeavor to get up a meal, and forthwith she started for tin kitchen, and I never saw her again until she came in with some fried chicken, corn bread and eollee, which to me seemed tin best dinner I ever enjoyed, fur I was terri bly hungry. While (iiuuor hail been preparing, I hod leisure to note a number of volumes that were hanging upon the shelf in the cor ner. 1 ran ray eye hastily over them. “Ah," 1 thought, “there is some taste about this place after all," as I saw the works of Sterne, Smoliet, Fielding, a well worn copy of Shakespeare,Junius’ Letters, Milton, Homer, and, dually (oh! shade of murdered Hamilton), the Life of Aaron Burr. When I hod concluded my dinner, Mr. Bates asked me if I smoked, and upon ray replying in the affirmative produced some corn-cob pipes and tobacco, and we were both soon enveloped in a cloud of Ken tucky smoke. I always feel communicative under the influence of the weed, and have generally found it the ease with pretty much every one; but Sheldon Bates' pipe seemed to seal his bps. He puffed vigorously, and replenished his corn-cob several times, only deigning to reply to my remarks by a simple “yes” or “no," and i began to think that, after all, though he might chance to be a well read person, there did not appear much variety in his conversa tion. I have neglected to inform tlie reader that 1 have an ugly scar running from my cheek bone down t,o the corner of ray mouth. It was received when 1 was a boy by nsy falling from a barn loft upon a scythe, which lay upon the floor. The wound healed, leaving a purple seam on my visage, and sis I never had any beauty to spare, ibis accident in nowise improved ray personal appearance. As evening drew on and the lamps were lighted, 1 several times detected Mr. Bates regarding me with a peculiar stare. There was a look of pain and unhappiness in his countenance, that was at variance with his previous rosy nud uiiui/ncemed demeanor. After a little he moved hi* scat upon my right side, and simultaneously with his act I unconscious ly changed my attitude, so that I again brought my left cheek to his view. Sud denly his countenance became very pale, and laying his hand upon my arm he said: “Pardon the request I make, but I will esteem it a favor if you sit with your right side toward me.” “Ah! I see,” I.replied: “the left side of my face is more repulsive than the right. Certainly,” and I turned in my chair with a laugh. Hi* (teemed offended at my reply, and while the blood mounted in his cheeks lie quickly corrected me. “I should be sorry to think that you sould deem me capable of an act of dis courtesy. Believe me, your face has noth ing in it that in the least degree is repul sive to me, but that scar upon your cheek recalls one of the most bitter epochs of my life. So bitter, bo hopeless is the remorse X feel that I would he content when I sometimes lay down to sleep, ii I knew that I would'never more awaken to the pangs I must ever experience while I live. Oh !it is a fearful thing to have sorrow so deep and remorse so great, that they can 'Vrnot, they will not, be cast out by even a (fcontrition that grovels at the feet of Mercy in sackcloth aud ushea.” THE INDEPENDENT. I looked at my host with an air of amaze ment. 1 could scarcely believe 1 laid heard him aright. “What great crime can you liavo com mitted.” The words came slowly from my lips. I did not know I had littered them until 1 heard lijs reply. “Nothing,” ho said, “but what almost every man, woman and child over the entire South will tell you 1 laid a right to do. Nothing for which the law of the land can lay fingers on me, and yet God onlv knows whether I have not done that winch robs me of my peace in this life, and for which flic tortures of hell may be my portion in the life to come. But when this spell comes over mo (and it does so frequently), I must speak, or I think 1 should go distracted. Would you like to hear a story ? It may do you no possible good, for it contains no moral. Vet it may answer ono end, and that is, it will cause vou to remember me.” “Proceed,” I replied, “I am very mueli interested, and believe me, I sympathise with your distress; and here allow me to assure you that 1 use no set phrase or idle expression when I positively declare that my heart beats responsively to all sorrow, for 1 have -had my full share of trouble.” “Very well then,” he responded, listen, and you shall judge whether I liavo real or fancied griefs: "My father was a planter. This house audthefew acres that surround it is all that is left of a plantation nearly a mile square. The mansion where 1 unshorn was rndueed to a heap of charred ruins in the second year of the Rebellion. My father died some years previous. It was well ho was not. alive to see the havoc, for lie was a sensitive man, and never would have borne up under the trials that befell his children. My brother Edward and myself were joint heirs in the estate. He was my junior by seven years. He was n. thoughtful fellow, a great 1 took-worm, and very retiring in his disposition. “My father was a man who was very in dulgent to his children, and humored them in everything consistent with their welfare. It was one of my whims to be educated at Vale, and my father accord ingly took me to the land of pumpkin pies and left, me at the great institution to com - plete my education. Now murk how sin gularly my rliuiaetcr developed as com pared with my brother Edward’s, who, af ter my return home, went to a Southern college and staid there until ho graduated. 1 went to Yale with only moderate South ern prejudices (my mother was Northern born, and was very strong in her pro-sla very sentiments), and came out of it the Worst fire-eater in the class. No epithet was too bitter for me to apply to Yankees. 1 was glad to get home again, and had no desire to see the North any more. .! passed inv time in amusing myself, and occa sionally giving an ey e to the plantation when my father chanced to he absent. “Edward came from college a very dif ferent fellow from his brother. lie was eternally poring overbooks, and, to my horror, 1 one day discovered him in pos session of a pile of ant: slavery pamphlets. I will not relate my discussions with him. nor atop to inform you how -Mortified 1 was when 1 loond that his mind was deep ly imbued with the pernicious teachings. I reasoned with him, hut in vain; and when I found I could not produce a change ill his sentiments, 1 gave the matter up, aud new r w illingly referred to it again. “One day he was at a political meeting, and an incautious expression ho uttered involved him in n difficulty with u young planter named Styles. Edward was of a veiy peaceable disposition, and, although no coward, nothing could induce him to engage in a quarrel. I fueling was then fashionable among us, lmt ho would never countenance it. So when he was challeng ed by Styles lie positively declined to meet him. The consequence was that Styles watched lii.s opportunity, and made a personal assault upon him. Edward was a robust fellow, and soon gave his antag onist a drubbing, hut during the melee Styles drew a knife und stubbed niv broth er ill the face, leaving a scar very much I like the one on your cliook. “My notions were not so straight-laced I on the subject of the code. I went after Styles, found him, soon managed to get npa quarrel with him, the inevitable chal lenge passed, we met, and I shot him. Notoriety and satisfaction came to me the same day. “My brother was shocked at what I had done, and preached me a very sensible sermon on the occasion, though I didn’t heed it at the moment. Howard wasn’t again insulted, for the neighborhood con sidered me the fighting member of the family, and respected ray relatives. ‘ ‘l'll skip the intervening years of our lives, and come down to the period of ray sorrow. It won't cost your memory much |to recollect the troubles of '6l. Father j had not been long dead, and a heavy | gloom rested orer our house when the i thunders of civil war broke upon our ears, ] and added another pang to our hearts. “We had a good deaf of money owing |us at the North. Hi: lost every penny of ! it. The first calamity that we were forced to undergo, was to sell one lialf our plan tation. From that time it seemed that it went acre after acre, until there was noth ing left of it save what you see here and about you. “It was in the second year of the re bellion that my brother one night quietly saddled his horse and rode away. The following morning, finding he did not appear at the breakfast table, we sent up to his room to ascertain the cause of his absence. The servant returned, saying his bed had been unused. 1 sprang up stairs, and, true enough, it was so. On going to his bureau 1 found a note written with pencil, and evidently in haste. It ran in this wise: “Mi DeabMotheb and Bbothkk ; My country has need of all her children, aud I can no longer witness her woes unmoved. My action is not the result of impulse. May heaven protect you all in my absence. Should I ever live to return to you once more, I trust I may find the old affection you always bore me. Edwabd. ’ “This was p. bitter blow to my mother, and a source of very great disquietude to myself, for I loved Edward very deeply. His country and my country were not the same. I blush to confess it, but I consid ered every man outside the revolted States as lay enemy. A year later found me with a rifle on my shoulder, and a butter nut suit on my back. I never could hear where Edward had gone, but I knew he was among the Union forces somewhere. “Many a Yankee prisoner hud I interro gated upon the Subject, hoping i might find someone who knew my brother’s whereabouts* but all in vain. Twice I wu;: QUITMAN, G Y., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1873. taken a prisoner, but by good fortune I managed to escape, aud rejoined my reg iment. “The changes and chances of war at length found mo at Corinth. In all the scrapes l had engaged J never was wound cd until 1 stood up to tight there. “By some means, 1 do uot recollect how it occurred, but during the battle I discov ered that about a dozen of our follows and myself were separated from our regiment.. In our endeavors to get hack, we got en tangled in the Federal lines, and had to conceal ourselves. At length, however, wo were discovered, and the Federal* commenced to fire on us from alow stone wall where they lay. “There didn't seem to me more than twenty of them, so some of our boys pro posed that wo should charge through them. \Ye iustantly agreed to it, and in live minutes more wo were dashing for ward under their tire. We never reached them, for before we got half way nearly all our fellows were killed or wounded. "Two comrades and myself got behind l an old pine stump, and as an act of brn j vado, commenced to tire on our foes. There was a fellow in a blue blouse only a trilling distance directly in my front. 1 saw him j level liis piece at me, and before I was ■ able to ling the ground ns closely as I i should have dune, I got his musket-ball iu : my left shoulder. ‘“l’m hit,’ I called to my comrade, ‘and 1 I can't tell how badly, but I want you to steady my rifle while 1 wait for that Yank who has shot me. I’m determined | to leave my mark on him if possible. ’ As I I uttered those words my foe rose to my ! full view, and 1 pulled the trigger. He I staggered and fell, and as 1 gave a cheer 1 ! saw the Eedcrals running for us. A few minutes more and I was dragged within i the Union 1 tvs. "A surgeon soon had the ball out of I my shoulder, and while I was waiting to !be taken to the hospital, 1 thought 1 would indulge iu a little bravado. Ho J j inquired: “ ‘Where’s the Yank I shot?’ “A tierce, red-bearded fellow sprung in ; front of me. “‘Are yon the Johnny that shot Ned Hates, you infernal hound, ’ amt he would have taken me by the throat had he not remembered that 1 was a prisoner and wounded. “ 'Ned Bates,’ I screamed. ‘Tell mo, where did he belong ? Where is he ?’ “ 'Carried up to the hospital tent,’ re plied one of the Eedcrals; ‘but what’s that to you ?’ “'A great deal if lie eamo from Ken tucky,’l answered; 'for 1 have a brother by that name somewhere in vonr army.’ “‘By George !’ exclaimed one of the number, ‘I believe Ned does come from somewhere in the South. But here you are, you’ll soon find out. Jump in,' and 1 was tumbled into an ambulance and car ried off. “I had great pain in my shoulder, but a greater one in my heart. As soon as 1 got. to the hospital 1 wont to the surgeon in charge. He was a kind-spoken man, with a white head, aud glasses on Ids nose, I. stated my ease to him, and asked him if he would not allow me to go to the bedside of the man who had been shot. ‘“My God !’ he exclaimed, ‘this would be a horrible incident, if true, for the, sol dier you are seeking is already dead. Go, but I hope for the sake of humanity it may not be any kin to you.” ‘‘The firing bud ceased, the judo stars were coining out on tins evening sky, us with bowed head and hot, unavailing teal's, I knelt at the couch of a dead Union soldier, and held hi. hand within my own. Would to God I had died ere that hour, for then 1 could have gone to the grave with scarce a regret, and certainly without a brother's blood on my hands. Now, tell me, ” he added, “do you think a man like mo has cause for grief V” “Moat assuredly 1 do.” “And do you think I ever can bo happy again ?” he continued. "I do not,” I replied. He caught me by the hand, “You are an honest man,"hesaid. “(Lotus go to bed, for I feci very miserable.” Miscellaneous Items. —There is only one brewery in the large territory of Alaska, at Sitka. •—Baltimore is building the most mag nificent Catholic cathedral in the United States. The French Protestants number less than one million out of thirty-six million of people. - A platform philosopher says that a man falls in love as he falls down stall's— by accident. -When the policemen find a man full they take him to the station house and Ins friends bail him out. —A lazy editor in Ohio reads all his ex changes in bed. He finds it the easiest way to till up his sheet. —An armless musician has arrived iu this country from Europe who plays the fiddle with his toes. Wonderful feet. —A New York moralist thinks it is easier to run a needle through the eye of a camel than to hang a rich man iu New York. —Theodore Hook, once talking of a man just buried, said: “Yes, I was out that day and I met him in his private box going to the pit.” —Jenkins told liis son, who proposed to buy a cow in partnership, to be sure aud buy the hinder half, us it cat nothingand gave all the milk. —A silk blanket for a fashionable poo dle in New York city costs 81(5, and more than 30,000 laboring men and women thrown out of employment in that city. —An exchange says that a wife’s social position in Biain is so low that her husband can sell her or trade her for a yellow dog. But the husband himself is generally a yellow dog. —A consequential young fop asked an aged country sexton if the tolling of a bell did not put him in mind of his latter end. “No sir,” replied the grim old grave-digger “but the rope puts mo in mind of yours.” —A Dutch Congressman remarked: “Ven I vas elected, I thought I vould find dem all Solomons down here; but I found de.re was some as pick fools here as I vas mine self. ” —The editor of an Illinois paper thinks that fishing, as a general rule, doesn’t pay. He says: ‘ ‘We stood it all day in the river last week, but caught nothing —until we yut home. ” —An Irish paper concludes a biography on Robespierre with the following sen tence: “This extraordinary man left no i children except his brother, who was kill ed at the same time.” —A Western paper, iu describing an accident, recently, says, with considerable candor: “Dr. Crawford was called, and under his prompt and skillful treatment, the young man died on Wednesday night.” —A female lecturer in Boston said, “Get married, young men, aud be quick about it. Don't wait for the girls to become angels. Yon would look well beside an gels, wouldn’t you, you brutes?” A Saratoga Bello has put on deep mourning for the loss of her poodle. Home men ought to bo thankful that they have twelve children, and liavo to work for a dollar per day. —Josh Billings says: “I will state for the information of those who haven’t had a chftiieo to lay in sekrit wisdom az freely az I have, that one single hornet who feels well can break up a whole camp meeting. ’’ —“My Dkak,” said a husband to liis wife, on observing now red striped stock ings oil his only heir, “why have you made harbor’s poles of our child's legs?” “Be cause he is u little abn' - was the neat reply. —Cincinnati was listening so intently for the accustomed squeal of dying swine at her slaughter houses, that she gave a very meager reception to Theodore Thomas. Bristles have a premium over horse hair at Cincinnati. —A lager beer house in Hudson county, N. J., was formerly a church, The shrewd Teuton who now keeps it was about to erase an inscription painted over the door, but on second thoughts he left the last line untouched. It is; “Let him who is athirst come.” —As a lawyer was arguing liis case, the judge interrupted him, saying: “The court, is against you on that point, coun sellor.” “Very well,” responded the lawyer, “Ido not rest my ease on that point alone; I have several others equally Conclusive 1” —Mr. and Mrs. Crotis, of Bridgeport, Conn., who celebrated their golden wed ding recently, have beou remarkably for tunate during their married life. All their children and grand children were present, no <'■ utli having occurred in their family for ii fly years. A Missouri girl on her wedding day, sold her piano and bought a sewing ma chine and material enough for a suit for her husband and herself, and t, once set to work making them up. Her husband bloived it. Li two weeks her four sisters were all married. —“Wlnit do yon nsk for that article ?” inquired un old gentleman, of a pretty shop girl. “Five dollars.” “Ain’t you a little dear ?” “Why,” she replied, blushing, “nil the young men tell me so.” A Mr. Robert A. Cheosboro, of New York, bus issued a pamphlet in which he makes a singular proposal, it is to keep the canals open during tho winter by meshes of pipes conveying hot water along each side of them. A little sugar added to the hot water, with a “stick,” would make the proposal much more “taking.” At present we can’t s.vallow it. —A man was recently arrested in one of the St. Louis cemeteries under suspicion of being a body-snatcher, but he was dis charged when it transpired that lie was only a directory man, canvassing the tombstones for assistance in getting up a directory that shall lay Chicago’s 465,000 in the shade. St. Louis was unfortunate in publishing her directory first. —A certain lawyer had bis portrait ta ken in bis favorite attitude -standing w ith one band in bis pocket. His friends and clients all went to see it and everybody I exclaimed: “Out how like ! it's tho very picture of him !” An old farmer only dis sented- —“’Taint like !” Exclaimed every body: “Just show us W'hereit 'taintlike.” “ ’Taint—no ’taint!” responded tlie far mer. “Don’t you see, he lias got his hand in his own pocket; ’twonld boas like again if he had it in somebody’s else.” —Some captious readers of n South Carolina paper complained of the editor’s inconsistency in acknowledging the re ceipt of a milk-punch in one column, and publishing a “temperance department” in the next. But that gentleman, believ ing in a fair and amicable division of labor explains that ho “has nothing to do with what goes into the temperance column of his paper, nor have the gentlemen who conduct that department anything to do with what goes into the editor !” —The man who answered an advertise ment to tho following effefct says his curi osity is satisfied: “if you would learn how to make home happy, send a postage stamp and twenty-five cents to F. O. Box No.—, Cincinnati.” He did send tho necessary cash, and soon received the answer . “If you are as big a fool as wo think you must be for giving us your money, you can make home happy by leaving it and going West yourself.” —A justice of the peace in lowa, before whom a citizen bad prosecuted his daugh ter's lovers for ejecting him from his own parlor the Sunday evening previous, sol emnly decided as follows: “it, ’pears that young feller was courtin’ tho plaintiff's ga! in plaintiff’s parlor, and that plaintiff intruded, and was put out by defendant. Courtin’ is a necessity, and must not be interrupted. Therefore the laws of lowa will hold that a parent has no legal right in a room where courtin’ is afoot, and so the defendant is discharged and plaintiff must pay costs.” —A good anecdote is told of a well known and witty lawyer, who was in his younger days “one of the boys.” His father was a r Baptist minister and after sowing a great many wild oats the son was converted. Tlie day for .the baptism in the river was fixed, and on the occasion many of the lawyer’s old friends were pres ent. Ti. young man was taken down into the win r, aud the father, taking hold, of him i , the usual manner, before immersing j him said. “This is my beloved son who] was lost, but is found; who was dead, but j lives again.” “Yaast, ilominte.” said a] voice in the crowd, “and it’s my opinion of ye don’t put a hell around his neck ye’ll lose him again.” BALTIMORE CARD, QXIO TI I J 2V ii . C. M. BROWN, of Florida, —WITH WEILLER & BRO., 274 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, Md, auaL-hu BUSINESS CARDS. JAS.H. HUNTER, VTTO KX E Y AT LA W , QUITMAN, BROOKS COUNTY', GEORGIA. o WiUjirautico in the Counties of tho Rout-horn Circuit. Echols and Clinch of tho Brunswick, and Mituheil of tho Albany. ASrOffico at tho Court House. "feDt Juno2B-tf W. B. BUN NETT. B. T. KINUKDEUUY BENNETT & KINGSBERRY, Attorneys tat Law Q UITMA X, Brooks County, - Georgia. juno2B-tf EDWARD R. HAIDER. 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COBTSIGNMEiMTS OF BEEF CATTLE, MILCII COWS, SHEEP, HOGS, GAME, DRESSED MEATS, Ac., Ac., —ALSO— POULTRY, EGGS, VEGETABLES, FBCITS, MELONS, SUCIAR, SYRUP, HONEY, HIDES, TALLOW, Ac. RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. NUM HER 30. N. lI ’A XXAII Al> VER TISEMEXTS, „_i—.rtrr, j Wm. 11. STARK. H. P. RICHMOND. WE H. STARK i CO., Wholesale Urofrri, Commission Merchants and Cotton Factor! Corner if Day and Lincoln. Street*, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA., Asents Per E. FRANK COE'S BONE SUPERPHOSPHATE, Magnolia Light Draft Cotton (tin*, PRINCETON FACTOTY YARNS. ARROW TIES. Careful Attention (liven to Sales or Shipment of Cotton —AJtn— ALL KINDS OK PRODUCE, nvrLiberal ADVANCES made on Consignments* angl6-3m. J.N. IIGHTFOOT COTTON FACTOR —AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, 10(5 Bay SI., Savannah, Ga. Agent for the sale of * MEURYMAm AMMONIA TED BONES, Liberal cash advances made on consignments for Hale in Savannah, or on shipments to reliable corn-Hpondents in Liverpool, Now York or Phila delphia. oot4-3tn JAS. R. SHELDON, COTTON FACTOR —AND— GenT Commission Merchant No. 102 Bay Street, Savannah, ... - Georgia. Liberal Advances made on Consignments. BAGGING, IBON TIES and ROPE Furnished, Correspondence and Consignments Solicited. PROMPT RETURNS G UAKANTERD, op6#m -_ INMAN, SWANN & €O., COTTON FACTORS —AND— COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 96 Bay St., Savannah, Ga., and Cotton Exchange, 101 Pearl St., New York, Will make 1 literal cash advance* on cotton ship ments to either our Bavannab or New York house. Will buy aud sell futures on liberal terms. Qct4-:lm INMAN, SWANN k CO. N. FITZGERALD, (ESTABLISHED 1800.1 Manufacturin' and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in CANDIE S, CORDIALS, SYRUPS, Fancy Confectionary, &c. 180 Bryan St., Between Barnard and Jefferson Streets, Savannah, Ga. aug2-tf _ _ TO Tin: PUBLIC! SALOMON COIIEN Corner Huy aud Jefferson Sts., SA VANN All, GEORGIA, OFFERS TO THE PUBLIC THE LARGEST and best stock of Two ond Four Seated Buggies, ltockaways, Carriages, Express and Plantation Wagos, AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. —ALSO— ALL KINDS HARNESS AND WHIPS. Terms moderate. Enquiries promptly at ; tended to. Agent for the Btndebakcr Plantation Wagon, The same have taken the premium at the Fair at Savannah, (in. ■*' (WtA-8m BKKS.N AN’S EUROPEAN HOUSE, Nos. 156, 158, 160 and 162, Bryan St., SAVANNAH, GA. rpHE niOHRIETOR HAVING COMPLETED 1 tlic uoeowtary mldßiou. ami improvement*, cun now utter to Kin guoftfi ALL THE COMFORTS TO HE OB TAINED A T OTHER HOTELS AT LESS THAN HALF THE EXPENSE* A Restaurant on the EUROPEAN PLAN lias been added, where guests can, At teVll Hours, Order whatever can be obtaiued in the market. Kooiiis, with liuorri, $1 50 per day. Determined to be OUT DONE BY NONE all r can ask is a TRIAL confident that complete ; iat iafac t ioiivviilbu^^M!^■■■■