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THE SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES.
VOL. 6.—NO. 7.
BY CABLE AND WIRE.
CABINET TALK IN WASHINGTON.
The Chances of McClellan, Hunton, Gar
land, Vilas and Pendleton.
New Y’obk, Jan. I.—A speciil from
Washington to the World says : General
George B. McClellan has for some time
been quietly pressed for a position in the
Cabinet. Early in November, when his
name was first mentioned oy Cabinet goss'p
ers, it was connected with the office of Sec
retary of War. It is now known that Gen -
eral McClellan does not desire that position
but that he would be pleased to have the
Secretaryship of the Navy- As the reor
ganization of the navy and the strengthen
ing of our coast defenses are to be taken up
by the next Secretary of this department, it
is necessary that he should possess the edu
cation and experience of a great engineer,
McClellan is considered one of the finest de
fensive engineers of his time. From very
good authority here it is kuown that Gen
eral McClellan has been seriously consid
ered in connection with this office, although
no decision has been made. One of the
embarrassing features in connection with it
is the indorsement by the New Jersey Dem
ocrats of ex-Senator Stockton. McClellan’s
friends say that this should not stand in the
way of General McClellan, because the
General is more of a national than a State
man. \
In the division of the Cabinet offices it is
believed that of the twd* which are to go to
the South one will be given to the Western
part of this section and one to the Eastern.
If the Attorney-Generalship goes to Gar
land it is believed the Postmaster-General
ship will be given to the Eastern section.
General Eppa Hunton, of Virginia, is
developing a good deal of support for the
last-named office. Hunton was a General
in the Confederate army. He has served
for a number of years in the House and was
a member of the Electoral Commission. He
is ergaged in the practice of law in this city,
although he retains his residence in Vir
ginia. When in Congress he was Chairman
of the House Investigating Committee,
which brought out the episode of the Mulli
gan letters.
The West his had for a long time at least
three of the Cabinet places. Under the
next Administration, the South being rep
resented, the West will especially insist
upon having the Interior Department.
There is a movement among Illinois Dem
ocrats to press Congressman Springer for
this place. In case Vilas, of Wisconsin,
does not go into the Cabinet the Illinois
Democrats think that their State should be
recognized. They believe that with a little
help Illinois would become a Democratic
State. The Democrats there without any
help in the last campaign succeeded in tie
ing the Legislature and by so doing defeat
ing Gen. Logan for re-election. They think;
therefore, that this work entitles them to
consideration. The question of whether
Ohio is to be recognized, or not, is one that
interests the Western men very much. The
McLean influence, which is opposed to any
Cabinet selection from that State, is not
considered here one of very great weight.
MR. FRANK HURD
Thinks Cleveland Is a Free Trader.
Cincinnati, Jan. 1. —Frank Hurd, in
conversation here Tuesday, said that just
after the war a number of free trade Demo
crats and Republicans met in Bissell &
Cleveland’s law office in Buffalo and organ
ized a free trade club, the first one ever
formed in this country. Grover Cleveland
was its president, and is still. Mr. Hurd
declared that it has been a matter of mutual
agreement among the members of the club
not to reveal these facts lest their publica
tion should injure Mr. Cleveland’s political
prospects. He believes the President-elect
is a radical free trader.
ARTHUR’S LAST RECEPTION.
Tne Most Brilliant of His Administration.
Washington, Jan. I.—The fourth and
last year’s reception of President Arthur
at the White House to-day was perhaps the
most brilliant of any during his administra
tion. The White House was crowded from
11 o’clock, when the reception began, until
2, when it closed. The President was as
sisted by twelve ladies, arrayed jin brilliant
and rich toilets. An immense concourse of
people were present, and everything passed
off pleasantly.
INTO HIS HEART.
Result of a Long Feud.
Blountsville, Ala., Jan. I—A feud has
existed for years between the Stewart and
Wharton families here. Yesterday Wm.
Wharton met L. M. Stewart and slapped
his face. Stewart plunged a knife into
Wharton’s heart, who dropped dead. Stew
art was arested.
BUSINESS FAILURES
During the Old Year.
New York, Jan. I.—Bradstreets annual
report shows that 1884 was a disastrous year
in business throughout the country. There
were more failures than in any other year
since 1878, and 2874 more than in 1883—an
increase of about twenty per cent.
Fatal Collision.
London, Jan. 1. —An excursion train on
the Sheffield Road collided with a coal
train to-day. Four persons were killed and
thirty more or less injured.
Three Thousand Earthquake Victims.
Madrid, Jan. I.—lt is now estimated that
3,ooojpeople have perished since last Thurs
day by the earthquakes in Spain,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1885.
A NEW KING-KILLER.
Experiments With an Explosive More
Powerful than Dynamite.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. I.—A special
from Huntington, this State, to the Phila
delphia Times, states that a gentleman from
an Eastern city, who has devoted some time
to the investigation of the power and prop
erties of explosives, has come to the inte
rior of the State to further prosecute his ex
periments. He found it necessary to leave
the populous centres and to retire to ase
eluded and unfrequented spot where he
could handle and use his dangerous com
pounds without disturbing, and perhaps,
injuring others with violent detonationsand
the accompanying results. His exact location
is known to but few and he desires that it
shall not be disclosed, so that he may not
be interrupted during the week or two that
he may remain. He desires also that his
name shall be withheld from the public
until he has fully tested the comparative
value of a new explosive he claims to have
discovered.
Various trials of its effectiveness have
been made, all of which, he states, have
been entirely satisfactory and have proved
it to be more destructive than dynamite. He
says he can furnish the Nihilists a better
king killer than any they have yet had.
Three of the most important of these trials
have been made this week. A solid rock
protruding from the base of Fussey Moun
tain, of which 1,600 cubic feet, estimated to
weigh 85 tons, were exposed, was drilled to
a depth of six feet, more than half its thick
ness, and a glass tube, seven-eighths of an
inch in diame'er and ten inches long, filled
with the explosive, was introduced. The
rest of the operation was precisely the same
as blasting with dynamite and the result was
as complete a breaking up of the rock as
could possibly have been accomplished.
Nearly half of the exposed part was broken
into fragments that a man can handle, some
of them being thrown to a great distance,
and it was shattered and loosened for many
feet under the mountain side.
A sound white oak tree, three feet in
diameter, was perforated to the heart at a
distance of eight feet from its roots and a
small glass ball, containing the compound,
was inserted and exploded. The body of
the tree was split into kindling wood, the
roots were torn from the earth and no two
of the limbs within thirty feet of the ground
remained together.
A rifle was charged with powder and the
ball fired into a pine tree, which was pene
trated two and a half inches. The gun was
then charged with the same quantity of the
new explosive and the ball fired into the
same tree, the penetration being nearly five
inches.
The substance is in liquid form when
made, but may be solidified by mixing with
it another substance, which is itself com
| bustible and is entirely consumed in the
I explosion. It can then be broken into small
particles or granulated, so as to be in appear
ance very much like gunpowder. As to its
chemical composition no information can be
obtained, except that suggested by its name:
It is called nitro-petrolene.
ATI ANTA AFFAIRS.
The Number of Federal Offices at the Cap
ital-Discharged Convicts—A Set-up
Game and a Tame Affair.
Special Dispatch to Savannah Daily Times.
Atlanta, Jan. I.—The Constitution pub
lishes an articles this morning on the amount
of Federal patronage that will be obtained
in the Custom House offices here if Cleve
land decides to bounce the officials now in.
t is believed by many that only one or two
changes will be made here. Probably
Bryant will be the first to move. If they
all go, there will be the following warm
chairs: Bryant’s berth at §6,000 a year and
almost twenty subordinate appointments;
Speer’s place at §6,000, with practically two
appointments—one worth §2,000 and the
other at §1,200; Walter H. Johnson’s place
as Internal Revenue Collector, at §3,250,
with the appointment of about seventy
five subordinates; Postmaster Wilson’s
place at §3,300, and about 35 appointments
worth from §4OO to §2,200 a year. W. A.
Pledgers place as Customs Surveyor is worth
§I,OOO a year. A. E. Buck, the clerk of the
courts, gets §7,000 a year, and it seems to
be impossible to dislodge him. It is said
that all the United States officials have pre
pared to march, if Cleveland should give
the word, but it is considered by many that
only Bryant and Pledger will have to go
under Cleveland’s recent utterance on the
subject of civil service.
Captain John W. Nelms, principal keep
er of the penitentiary, has just issued his
list of discharges for January and February.
James Johnson who was sent up for two
years, is.the only Chatham county convict
who gets his walking papers. He will be
released from English & Murphy’s camp,
near this city on the 21st of January.
The East Point negroes who were charged
with counterfeiting, have been released on
their own recognizance, It is believed that
the whole affair was a put up game to make
witness fees.
The sensational attempt at suicide pub
lished here yesterday, turns out to have been
a very tame affair. The young man, J. R.
Barr, simply took some morphine to ease
the pain of an aching tooth.
FATAL AFFRAY
Between a White Man and Some Negroes.
Lexington, Ky., Jan. 1. —The news of a
terrible fight at Beattyville, Lee county,
reached here yesterday, in which K. F.
Hargis, a clerk, was killed. Hargis had
some difficulty with a party of negroes, and
after some words he drew a pistol and fired
several shots. One of the negroes dropped
dead. The firing was returned by the
negreo’s friends, and Hargis fell mortally
wounded, expiring in a short time.
The prettiest goods for men, youths and
boys in the city can be found at B. H Levy <S
Bra’s.
GONE TO CANADA
TO JOIN THE DEFAULTER’S CLUB.
Ewen Brother!-, the Cotton Merchants,
Flee From New York—A Number of
Swindles—Liabilities, 81,000,000.
New York, Jan. 1. —The office of Ewen
. Brothers, the cotton merchants, who failed
. last week, and one of whose members has
. been expelled from the Cotton Exchange
for mercantile misconduct, presents a
, deserted appearance. The desks are
all closed, and the only man in charge is
the assignee, David M. Pidley. Neither
John M. or Warren Ewen is to be seen,
nor have they been seen at their office since
Friday last.
The belief at the Cottou Exchange is that
they have left for Canada to escape crim
inal prosecution. Mr. Flag, the firm’s at
: torney, said he had not seen the Ewens
since Friday. They were not at their
office or at their residence, in Flushing,
Long Island. He did not believe
they had skipped to Canada, but
thought they had left to attend to some
of their interests out of town. Another
lawyer who has a case against the Ewen
Brothers, said he had heard they had left
town for Canada or Europe, “but wherever
they may be I will bring them back,” he
said. His case is that of a person who claims
to have lost a large sum of money in one of
the Ewens’ blind pools. The case, he said
had been brought to the attention of the
District Attorney, but as yet no criminal
proceedings had been begun.
It is said at the Cotton Exchange that it
was the knowledge of this fact that induced
the Ewens to leave town. Warren Ewen,
it is said, had to borrow the money with
which to get away. On ’Change it is said
that the claims of one lawyer amount to
§120,000. A gentleman called at the Ex
change Saturday and said that he had been
swindled out of §B,OOO by the Ewens. A
Broadway lawyer has in his hands thirty
five claims against the Ewens aggregating
§68,000. Twelve of the claims are made by
women.
Members of the Cotton Exchange es
timate that Ewen Bros.’ liabilities will
probably mount up to §1,000,000. The
assignee says that the books are very much
behind.
ST. JOHN.
How His Campaign Hurt the Republicans.
Philadelphia, Jan. I.—The Evening
i Bulletin publishes a special from Washing
ton, stating that a day or two ago four
members of the House were warming them
selves before one of the grates in the cham
.' ber, when they began to tell reminiscences
lof the recent campaign, touching upon,
| among other things, the effect of the pro
hibition canvass. All four were Republi
! i cans and temperance men from principle.
In each of the four districts they represented
that the Prohibition party had run a candi
date of their own for Congress. The result was
that in two of the districts the Republicans
failed of a re-election. One of the defeated
. ones said, in commenting upon the result: “I
have been a temperance man all my life, have
spoken in probably every church and school
house in my district on the subject, and have
given probably as much or more money in
aid of the cause as any man in my district;
yet the Prohibitionists ran a candidate
- against me and secured my defeat by draw
l ing from me the Republican vote. They
made it their boast throughout the campaign
that while they did not expect to elect a
man of their candidates, they hoped to split
’ up the Republican party so as to insure its
defeat.”
CLEVELAND’S INAUGURAL.
The Tickets and Invitations to the Grand
Ball Being Printed.
Washington, Jan. I.—The committee
having in charge the inaugural tickets and
invitations have awarded the contract for
engraving and printing some twenty thou
sand. The Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing were asked by the committee to com
pete for the work, but this they could not
do under the law,as they are limited in busi
ness. The Homer Lee Bank Note Com
pany, of New York, who engraved the Gar
field-Arthur tickets, have submitted several
designs and estimates for the work.
If the ceremonies attending the inaugura
tim of Cleveland are at all in keeping with
the elaborate designs followed in the for
mation of the committee on arrangements
for that event, there need be no fear that it
will be an affair of immense proportions.
The names of the members of the several
committees fill three solidly printed col
umns of a local newspaper.
Trouble Threatened.
Tombstone, Arizona, Jan. 1.-The Mayor
of Tombstone has telegraphed the Presi
dent that several American citizens are held
by Mexicans, in prison in Sonora, without
any charges, against them, and unless soon
released, trouble will oucur.
Probabilities.
Washington, Jan. I—For the South
Atlantic States decidedly colder, partly
cloudy weather, local rains, followed by
clearing weather, winds shifting to north
erly, increasing in force on the North Car
olina coast.
The Ice-Bouud West.
Fort Keogh, Montana, Jan. 1. —The
average range of the thermomater for the
past sixteen days has been 31 degrees below
zero.
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THE HARNETT HOUSE, SAVANNAH.
Visitors to Savannah, Ga., will find the
Harnett House a comfortable and desirable
stopping place, where the charges are mod
erate, while the uniform excellence of the
table is a subject of general remark-.-Chi
cago National Hotel Reporter.
BRAVE ELLA REED.
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A YOUNG GIRL'S ADVENTURE.
She Holds a Party of Kobbers at Bay
Until the Arrival of Succor—The Im
mense Strain on Her Nerves.
The Rocky Mountain News has the fol- ■
lowing story: Reed’s ranch did not differ
materially from hundreds of others in Col- .
orado—the same straggling, one-storied 1
structure, perfectly innocent of paint, with
out-buildings looking as if they were ready |
to tumble down. The family consisted, at ■
the time of this story, of Joe Reed, the pro
prietor, his wife and two children. Ella, the
eldest, was a rather pretty girl of eighteen
who for several years had relieved the tired |
mother of much of the burden of the house
work, attended to the duties of the dairy,
and was a good horsewoman withal, often !
accompanying her father in rough rides of j
miles when looking for stray cattle.
Suddenly sue heard the voices of men in i
the road near the barn. Listening and ,
scarcely daring to breathe, she heard the I
words that almost froze her with terror:
“The old man keeps bis money box in ;
the drawer of the old bureau, but the old I
woman carries the key.”
“How can we get at it?” said another j
voice.
“We can bind both women, and if they |
make any noice we can stop that.” For a I
moment the terrified listener was fairly :
paralyzed with fear; then she started up ;
and, running quickly round to the back of
the house; went to a closet and took from it
two revolvers, which were always kept
loaded for emergencies, concealing them in ■
the folds of her dress. Hastily rejoining I
her mother in the larger room, she was just i
in time to see two burly looking ruffians '
enter by the door. The taller of the two I
men demanded supper, “and let it come i
quickly, too,” he said, in a menacing
tone- The brave girl placed the food on
the table, knowing that the scoundrels
would satisfy their hunger before putting
their purpose of robbery, and, possibly, mur
der, into execution. She then sat down in
front of them and watched them. The
moment their meal was completed, she sud
denly thrust the muzzles of the pistols in
their faces, threatening to shoot if they j
moved.
Expostulations and protestations were in
vain; the heroic girl stood there with eyes
flashing and determined for what to her
seemed ages. The poor mother, as soon as
she comprehended the situation, had fainted
and was lying on the floor.
At last the sound of wagon wheels was
heard coming toward the house, and in a
moment the father and brother entered the
house in company with an uncle who had
arrived in Denver from their old Eastern
home in Pennsylvania, and by the mere ac
cident met Mr. Reed on Sixteenth sheet, in
Denver. As soon as they comprehended the
situation they compelled the ruffians with !
revolvers at their heads, to submit to being i
bound with ropes, and when daylLht came
they were taken to the county seat and j
placed in jail.
This brave girl, as soon as she was re
lieved from her terrible guard duty and the
horrible strain on her nerves was taken off,
went into a succession of hysterical spasms,
and it was for weeks that her reason, if not
her life, was despaired of. She eventually
recovered, however, and afterward married
a wealthy Denver gentleman, and is now
living in Queen City. The two men were
recognized as old offenders, in fact they were
fugitives from justice from a distant county,
and afterward served a long time in the
penitentiary in Canon City.
Business Marriages.
New York World.
The decision of Justice Brown, of the
Supreme Court,one of the ablest jurists in the
State, that a wife may contract a copartner
ship with her own husband, as if she were
a femme sole, for the purposes of carrying
on a trade or business, and that contracts
made by such a firm are enforcible against
the wife’s estate, has been looked for with
some anxiety by lawyers. It is a decision
quite abreast of the practical tendency of
the moment, and it shows with almost
startling clearness how this whole matter of
the relation of the sexes is getting away
from the old-time sentiment and beautiful
superstition which made man and wife
“one-flesh.”
Statutes and legal decisions are the out
come of social conditions, and the adjudica
tion of woman’s rights obligations in the
business world only brings us face to face
with the fact that woman is actively in the
business world, and nothing in the evolution
of modern society is so indicative of the
utilitarian drift of our times as this.
Those matters which our fathers relegated
to the exclusive domain of affection are now
regulated by statute; the relationship of man
and wife, which under the common law was
lost in the husband’s identity, is now a mat
ter of contract, specification, agreement and
personal rights.
It does not yet appear that this practical
improvement in matrimonial methods has
reduced the rate of disagreement or lessened
the lists of divorces, and it is jnst possible
that, after all, that union of the sexes upon
which the framework of society rests must
itself rest on something more than a busi
ness arrangement.
He Thought She Had.
Texas Siftings.
“Darter,” said old Mr. Jimplicute to his
eldest offspring, who had just returned from
Vassar, “ain’t them there Hot Springs down
in Ar-kan-sass?”
‘Uh, paw,” replied Arabella Cordelia,
“you should no' say ‘Arkansas,’ you should
say ‘Arkansaw.’”
“Should, hey!” replied the old man; “well,
let that paw. I s’pese you I’arnt that in yer
claw at school. Mother, just paw the apple
saw while Bellar goes out and looks in the
glaw to see if she hain’t made a jack-aw of
herself.”
“ROUGH ON CORNS.”
Ask for Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” 156
Quick complete cure. Hard or soft corn
warts, bunions.
GREETINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
What Our Contemporaries Say of the
“Times.”
We clip a few of the kindly greetings
from our exchanges, on the recent change
■ of the Daily Times from a folio to quarto:
A BRILLIANT EVENING PAPER.
j Jacksonville, Florida, Herald: “The
Savannah Daily Times has made an
other stride forward, and changed its form
] from a four to an eight-page paper, and
j presents more life and vigor than one-half
iof the boasted morning journals. It is now
j one of the leading dailies of Georgia, and
! will prove a strong competitor of the
Morning News, Savannah.”
PRETTY AND ATTRACTIVE.
Macon Telegraph: “The Savannah
' Times greets its patrons in a new and im
! proved dress, which is quite pretty and at
tractive. At the recent annual meeting of
j the stockholders of the Times Publishing
Company, the condition of the business was
I found to be so satisfactory that it was deter
l mined to increase the capital, that the
i greater facilities demanded by the necessi-
I ties of the growing business could be se
-1 cured and the paper’s sphere of usefulness
i enlarged.”
DECIDED EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY.
j Brunswick Breeze: “ The Savannah
i Daily Times reaches us in an enlarge!
' quarto shape. This is the third time the
j Times has been enlarged and improved in
: the last two years, and we congratulate its
I enterprising publisher upon this decided
evidence of prosperity.”
SUCCESS IN LARGE HUNKS.
Brunswick Herald: “The Savannah
Daily Times comes very irregularly. But
its Christmas issue—six column quarto
form—got in on time. It is the first after
noon paper in the South to adopt the
quarto form. Success in large hunks to the
Times.
MACON MATTERS.
A Romantic Elopement, Which Creates a
Sensation.
Special Correspondence Daily Times.
Macon, Dec. 31. —Living in Jones coun
ty, not far from the city, was a farmer named
I John Bush, who had a beautiful daughter
who he loved very much. She loved a
young man, her first cousin, named Alph
Speer. He was refused to be allowed to
see her. To prevent it the parent moved
to Florida, where he farmed. The young
man went also, and, disguised as a laborer,
worked at a neighbor’s. They met clandes
tinely. Monday she consented to run away
with him, and they left and came to Macon.
A telegram reached here before they did,
and an officer met the train. He saw Speer
and conversed with him. He was e’uded.
The young lady was slipped out of a side
gate of the car shed and taken to East Ma-
I con, wheere the young man followed soon
afterward. They were married by Rev.
' John N. Simmons, and went at once to the
i house of the groom’s parents, in Jones
' county. When he passed the line of the
city limits he raised up, and with a yell,
said: “I went a long ways for her, and 1
have got her. She is all mine.”
The elopement created much sensation.
Wynton.
How They Regard the Decision.
A San Francisco dispatch states ex-
Senator Sharon being asked what he intend
ed to do in regard to the decision in favor
of Miss Hill, or Mrs. Sharon, as Judge Sul
livan declares her to be, replied : “Fight
it the bitter end in all the courts and on all
sides. That decision is not sustained by
facts. The contracts and letters are forgeries
and that knowledge keeps me in the ring.
I shall appeal the case and oppose the de
cision to the last.” Mrs. Sharon is report
ed as saying : “I’m so happy I feel just like
a young kitten that has just been brought
into the house and set before the fire. The
poor, dear old ‘Sen I’ I’m sorry I beat the
old man, for I love him still. He’s a dear
sweet old fellow. Only for the principle of
the thing I would have compromised long
ago, but I was after his name, not his
money. I married that old man fully be
lieving he would act fairly. Our marriage
was on the quiet, but it was only done at
his request for fear it would scandalize his
relatives. lam glad that he did not com
promise by giving me his name according to
the offer I made in court, as I am now set
right before the public.”
Handsome and Creditable.
Baltimore Sun.
The Daily Times, Savannah, Ga., of
which Mr. B. H. Richardson, a former Bal-«
timorean, is editor and general manager,
has appeared in a new dress and in an en
larged form. It is now a handsome eight
page paper, the present enlargement being
the third within two years. The Times has
greatly improved as a newspaper under the
management of Mr. Richardson, and is now
a credit to the beautiful and thriving city of
Savannah.
Good News from Canada.
Philadelphia Call.
Canada Chief of Police—Any news to
day?”
His Secretary—Yes, 25 more American
cashiers have arrived.
“How much did they bring?”
“Two or three millions.”
“Good. That will help the holiday trade
a little.”
The Cat Disappearing.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
People take notice that twenty-five years
ago there were fifty house cats to every
single cat now in existence, but cat skins
are quite an article of commerce.
Doctor—But, dear madam, why let you
me not before be called? Ycur husband lies
indeed alreadyin the highest delirium. Mad
am—Yes, see you, so long as my husband by
his understanding was, would he nothieg to
do with a doctor have.—Flicyende Blatter
A Bargain.
We have got a fine lot of Lyon’s makeof
Silk Umbrellas, 28 inches; good size Gentle
men’s Umbrellas, which we offer at *3.50.
$6 00 A YEAR.
THE COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Manager Johnson Opens His Engagement
Book and Tells What the January
Attractions Will Be.
Although the theatrical season has so far
been anything but a financial success both
to the local manager and the companies
playing here, Mr. Johnson intends to give
the people a chance to see all the best
attractions traveling in the South. Among
the January attractions are the following :
Aldridge’s “My Partner,” which will
open on the Bth. This will be followed by
seven other companies, who will swell the
number of nights during the month to about
16. Atkinson’s “Peck’s Bad Boy” is among
the number, and is said to be a very funny
play. The“ Count of Monte Cristo,” with
James O’Neil in the leading role, will prob
ably draw a big house, as this is the best
“Monte Cristo” combination on the road.
Tnen comes John T. Raymond, too well
known to need more than a word of
mention. “Our Irish Visitors” is a funny
play and said to be replete with that best
of all wit—the Irish wit. “La Charo
bonniers,” —the coal burners—with Mrs. D.
P. Bowers,in the leading role is also said by
the dramatic press to be very fine, and Mrs.
Bowers is a card of herself. Mlle. Rhea
will give Savannah the benefit ot her talent
during the month also. The Madame
Rentz-Santley Female Minstrels will prob
ably play to an empty house during their
coming engagement of the present month, as
this style of entertainment is not at all
popular in Savannah. This closes the list
so far booked by Mr. Johnson, although a
few more companies may be booked during
the month.
A Use for Bustles.
Fall Mall Budget.
An amusing story reaches us from Paris.
On Friday last a lady, having paid her ho
tel bill, sent away her boxes on a cab and
sallied forth on foot. No sooner had she
departed than the landlord discovered tha t
the clock had disappeared from the mantel
piece of the room which his late lodger had
been occupying, though he remembered to
have seen it there subsequent to her trunk s
being despatched. Convinced that she
must be the thief he rushed out in hot pur
suit, and overtaking her, he charged her
with the robbery and gave her into cus
tody, the lady meanwhile protesting loudly
against the indignity offered her, and vow
ing vengeance against the traducer. She
was, however, taken before the judge d’in
struction, to wh >m she resumed her torrent
of indignant denial with the extraordinary
volubility peculiar t> the daughters of Gaul.
Her indignation was at its height when, lo!
twelve o’clock rang forth in clear tones from
the region of madam’s dress impr. ver. The
expression of consternation depicted upon
the fair pilferer’s countenance, together
with the oppositeness of the quaint phenom
enon, were too much lor the gravity of the
offie’als, who burst into a fit of uncontrolla
ble laughter. Five minutes la era female
warder returned the telltale timepiece to
its owner. Will Mr. Oscar Wilde still in
sist upon “the utter uselessness of that hid
eous monstrosity—the bustle?”
Sweet Gum and Mullein,
The sweet gum, as gathered from a tree of
the same name, growing along the small
streams in the Southern States, contains a
stimulating expectorant principle that loos
ens the phlegm producing the early morning
cough, and stimulates the child to throw off
the false membrane in croup and whooping
cough. When combined with the healing
mucilaginous principle in the mullein plant
of the old fields, presents in Taylor's Cnero
kee Remedy of Sweet num and Mullein, the
finest known remedy for coughs, croup,
whooping cough and consumption; and so
palatable any child can take if. Ask your
fruggist for it. Send two-cent stamp for
Taylor’s Riddle Book, which is not only for
the amusement of the little ones, who will
gather around your knee to hear the puzzling
questions, but contains information for the
aealth and welfare of every home.
Manufactured by Walter A. Taylor, propri
etor Taylor’s Premium Cologne, Atlanta, Ga.
Too Many to the Acre.
Our crop of Overcoats has been too plenti
ful for this season, and as the wealbtr proph
ets predict mild weather for next year—lßßs
and ’B6—we have decided not to burn our stock,
but to put them on the market, and ■sell them
for what they will bring. Our Overcoats must
be sold. It is only a question for you if you
will take advantage of our low prices and
supply yourself with an Overcoat, and save
money. We will sell you a good, strong 8U
Overcoat for 86, a 815 Overcoat for 812, and
the finest 830 Overcoat in Savannah lor 820.
Boys’ Overcoats, from 4 to 12 years old, as low
as 8-3, Youths' Overcoats, from 12 to 17 years,
from 85 up. We have plenty of fine suits on
hand which w*e will sell at greatly reduced
prices. Rememberaud buy of the “Famous,”
as we give a prize of half the purchase money
to every twentieth purchaser. “Famous ’
New York Clothing House, Hu Congress
Street. ,
Ridge, Mclntosh County, Ga.
Dr. J. Bradfield—Dear Sir: I have taken
several bottles of your Female Regulator for
falling of the womb and other diseases com
bined, of 16 years standing, and 1 really be
lieve I am cured entirely, for which please ac
cept my heartfelt thanks and most profound
gratitude. I know your medicine saved my
life, so you see I cannot speak too highly in
in its favor. I have recommended it to sev
eral of my friends who are suffering as I was,
Yours, very respectfully,
MRS. W. E. STEBBINS.
Treatise on the Health and Happiness of
Woman mailed free.
Bradfield Regulator Co.,
Box 28, Atlanta, Ga.
Just as Good.
Many unscrupulous dealears may tell yon
they have remedies for Coughs and Colds
equal in merit and in every respect just as
good as the old reliable Dr. Bosanko Cough
and Lung Syrup, unless you insist upon thia
remedy and will take no other, you are Hable
to be greatly deceived. Price 50 cents and 81.
lobbdy Osceola Butler and E. J. Kieffer.
This Idea of Going West
to Colorado or New Mexico for pure air to re
lieve Consumption, is all a mistake. Any
reasonable man would use Dr. Rosauko’s
Cough and Lung Syrup for Consumption in
all its first stages. It never falls to give re
lief In all eases of Coughs, Colds. Bronchitis,
Pains n the Chest ana all affections that are
considered primary to Consumption. Price,
5n cents ana 81. Sold by Oceola Butler and
E. J.{Kieffer.
YOUNG MEN!—READ HIS.
The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, Mich.,
offer to send their celebrated Electro-Voltaic
Belt and other Electric Appliances on trial
for thirty days, to men (young or o'.dl afflict
ed with nervous debility, loss of vitality and
manhood, and all kindred troubles. Also for
rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis, and many
other diseases. Complete restoration to
health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. No
risk is incurred, as thiry days’ trial is al
lowed Wnteior them at once for Illustrated
pamphlet free.