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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25
THIS LADY WAS A TENOR,

Miss Nicolai Sings Like a Man end
Has Double Register
New YORK, Nov. PA pure tenor is
like fawless diamond; there is nothing
rarer. Yet within the past week the
operate managers Of New York claim to
have discovered something even more re-
markable 1t is nothing less than feminine
tenor, with double register. The lady is
Miss G. e. Nicolai, native of Baltimore,
where she is well known, and moves in the
highest society. Wealthy, and passi onately
fond of music, Miss Nicolai has had every
opportunity for the cultivation Of her
voice. Some of her teachers in Baltimore
concluded that she had a contralto register,
but a famous New York professor who
trains pupils for the operatic stage and
who has lately had the lady under his care,
was not long in making the startling dis
covery that she had a pure tenor. The
only other cases of the kind during a period
of twenty years were those of Mrs Howard
Paul and Miss Minnie Briggs, both of whom
were considered phenomenal at the time
and excited comment among musical
people all over the country.
Miss Nicolai, who is very pretty, stylish
brunette, about 20 years of age, tells an in
tere5ting story of her struggles with her
voice, at time when it was puzzle to her
self and all her friends. She said:
my sister was also musicaliy inclined.
When we sang together as children |
noticed that she sang better than |, vet |
felt as though could do better, but did not
exactly know how or why | thought SO.
I attributed it to my bronchial troubles,
which 1 was then afflicted with. | liked
music, yet was dissatisfied with nv efforts.
with no remedy and no one seemed to be
able to suggest any improvements in
my studies. So, a few years afterward, in
taking musical lessons and singing in
church choirs in Baltimore, my home, it
was just the same. No one seemed to like
my singing. and did not like it myself.
My voice was neither contralto nor soprano.
but rather mezzo-contral5o, or more of a
tenor. &c. when | was singing in the choir,
| was placed as a contralto to which nv
voice was not so we'll suited, and | knew
could not do the role Justice, and those who
were familiar with music also knew it.
knew l could sing better, but l did not
know exactly what. Occasionally the tenor
was absent from the church and I sang
his music Yos, | suppose | sang that
music better than did contralto. | liked
it little better, and felt more at home in
that voice, so to speak. 1t was then that |
began to notice the popularity of my voice
So here | am with two voices-a tenor and
a contralto. Yes; it seems as though l
should receive two salaries, since 1 have
two voices. but, again, it seems, am placed
in the peculiar position of having no voice,
or, rather, no definite voice, concluded the
lady with merry tenor laugh.
During this interesting interview. the
flexible voice of Miss Nicolai varied in
tones, and at times mellowed into a sweet
tenor. Had not seen the lady while con
versing l would have felt sure that was
listening to man.
J. w. SCANLAND
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25

the New York clearing house, asking him
some pulling questions-that is, questions
which were open to dOubt-inquiries under
lie estimates of the total at 'uncounted
towns'-for which have rashly rushed in
and estimated, and he replies: L am unable
to reply intelligently to any of the questio 8
asked in yours of the 29th.' Even Williem
B. Dana, careful student of bank clear
ingS, writes: The question of clearings d S
gauge OF comparative trade is undoubt-
eddy very complicated one. Your own
suggestions indicate that"
Here voice was heard referring to the
sort of person best calculated to ask ques-
lions which wise men cannot answer, which
was lmpert1uentand deserved TO be ignored.
Admitting the estimates given as ap-
proximately fair, here come some deduc-
lions. There are about 100000 firms in
business in the United States, recorded in
BrGdStreet'S, but they comprise the more i'm
portant ones, relatively few of the insignifi-
cant stands, or enterprises concerning whom
credit cuts no figure being included. If q e
latter, throughout the length and brea It'll
of the country amount TO only two for each
one of these recorded. it may be said that
there Is total of about 5000, 900 business
enterprises large and small, of all descrip-
tions. Taking, as already noted. sos, 0OO,-
OOO,OOO as representing the aggregate of all
business transaction IN the course of the
year W Gnu OeC. Of, 1883. Tue inference Is
that an average annual business amounting
to $2l, 500 will have been done by each
OF course" l added, millions of dollars
worth of business is done by large firms
and companies and only few thousand by
others.'n
But the calculation gains its chief value,
as a measure of the volume of trade, and
here my figures are met by tests which cor
roborate them strikingly. When | say that
the volume of business of trade generally
has increased over II or IL Clio per cent.
this year, as shown by the clearings totals
for ten months-critics of these statistics
are wont to rise up with queries as to the
influence of speculation on the totals,
etc. In reply l would point to the in
creased output of domestic pig iron this
year as compared with last, about 1215 per
cent, to earnings by railway companies for
ten months of the current year, as COM
pared with 1888, which show an increase of
IL 2-10 per cent, and to the returns of our
foreign trade, wherein the gain of total
imports and exports for nine months ended
Sept. 30 last, as compared with a like
period of 1888, was exactly 10 2-10 per
cent. also. Furthermore" said l, looking
up, and noticing that there were no little
rings of smoke ascending from the ham,
mock
He had gone to sleep.
ALBERT G. STEVENS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25
sCRIVEN SUPERIOR COURT.
&. g Marsh Convicted of an Attempt
to Kill a Negro.

SYLvANIA, GA, Nov. 23-Superior court
closed here Thursday night. The case of
the state against Thomas Beard for the
killing of l.. NJ Comet, several weeks ago.
was continued by the state. Alfred John-
son, a negro, was tried for the murder of
another negro, near Millen, and was ac-
Quilted.
The case that excited most interest was
that of the state against E. s. Marsh, who
lives in the lower part of the county, for
shooting q negro. Some time during the
latter part of last year Mr.. Marsh, who was
then a constable, went to the house of the
negro, Anderson Brannen by name, to levy
on some cotton. After making the levy the
constable wanted to lock up the Negroes
house. The latter resisted and was shot in
the neck. The wound was a serious one,
but Brannen eventually recovered from its
effects. Last June, however, he died very
suddenly.
The negroes in that portion of the county
where he lived were much excited
over his death, believing that it was caused
from the constable's pistol wound. Drs.
S. w. Minis and J. L. Hull, of this place,
were accordingly summoned to hold an au-
topsy. This they did, and found that the
parts around where the bullet was lodged
were in perfectly sound and healthy con-
dition, and also that the ball was not in
vital part. This settled the question of
murder.
On Wednesday evening Mr.. Marsh was
put on trial for assault with intent to kill,
was found guilty by the Jury ana sentenced
by Judge Lumpkin to two years in the
penitentiary. The Judge complimented
the jury very highly upon the fearless
manner in which they had discharged their
duty. He said that it was the subhmest
verdict he had ever received from the hands
of jury. and that such verdicts would go
| further toward settling what was known as
the race problem than everything else COM
| bined.
In dismissing the grand jury Judge
| Lumpkin spoke in very complimentary
terms of the work. He said he had presided
over the courts in thirty-fve counties in the
state, and he could sincerely say that the
work of the grand jury and the verdicts of
the traverse Juries in Scriven pleased him
better than that of any county in which he
held court
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25
PUNTA GORDA POINTERS.
Dissolution of Partnership - Visiting
Railroaders.

PUNTA GoRDA, FLA, Nov. %. -Kolb &
Quidnan. the German cigarmakers, have
dissolved partnership, Mr.. Kolb retiring.
and will probably 60 to Barlow to start
factory.
Two thousand boxes of oranges were
shipped Thursday to New Orleans on the
Morgan steamer.
w. L. Hsldeman, president of the Louis
vile CourierJourndi, and Bennett Young,
president of the Louisville Southern rail-
road, both of the Naples company, are in
town. They are planting an experimental
tobacco farm of 100 acres, with Cuban
experts in charge, and are getting ready to
plant as many acres in vegetables
Driggers Bros g. Thomasson kstarted q
cigar factory last Monday, working Ameri-
can and Havana tobacco.
Thanksgiving will be celebrated by an
excursion in the interest of the Baptist
church and an auction town lot sale.
The city registration books have been re-
vised, and about twenty-five names
struck from the list.
Mrs S. p Hinckley and Mrs. f. Gold
stein are visiting in Barlow.
a new steamer is expected soon on the
Punta Gorda and Fort Myers route, giving
daily service. There are already two daily
hack lines
Frank w. Shelton. mentioned in your
columns, victimized this community two
years ago.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25
PERRY POINTERS.
A Doctor Shot by Accident-New
Buildings Going Up.

PERRY, GA. Nov. 2S--This morning
about II o'clock DR.. NJ. W. Havis was shot
accidentally by Hugh Lawson. The ball
went through the left hip bone. The shoot
ing was done with Smith & Wesson pis-
tol. The doctors probed the wound, but
could not find the ball. The doctor was
looking at the pistol, and handed it back to
Lawson, who took piece of cloth to wipe
1t. While wiping it the pistol was dis
charged. The doctor is resting easy.
The cornerstone of J. w. Clark's brick
stores was laid to day.
The Perry Loan aud Savings Bank build
ing is nearly completed.
Rev. Mr.. Porter, from Florida, is doing
good work here in the Baptist church.
Seventeen have joined the church.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25
LOSS OF THE MANHATTAN
Whether the Steamer Can be Raise
Still Uncertain

NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-The Merritt
Wrecking Company's steamer Rescue, ar
rived here tonight from the scene of the
wreck Of the Old Dominion steamship Man
haitian, sunk Off Fenwick Island, after col.
lsion with the schooner Agnes Manning
lass Wednesday morning. Captain Tucker
reports that, owing to the heavy gales and
sea, 1t was found impossible for diver to
descend into the sunken steamer and ascer-
tain if there was any prospect of raising
the vessel.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25

THOMPSON.-The friends and acquaintance
OF Mr. ana Mrs. W. j. Thompson are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral OF their
youngest daughter, LEILA, from their residence
80 ryan street, at $3.50 O'Clock THIS AFTER
NOON.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25
NOTICE OF COPARTNERsHIP
READTHE FOLLOMlNG CERTIFICATE


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Recommended by prominent physicians. and
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Price 81 per bottle If you cannot obtain the
"CorTector" from your druggist. send your
order direct. and it will be forwarded by ex-
press, freight paid.
The Press., 1889-02-14

''No rosin" in Brussels soap.
The Press., 1889-02-14
SPRINGS, CONN. FEBRUARY
THE SAMOAN QUESTION.

BISMARCK. I will ride the mild Pacific In a manner quite terrific, And will make myself the great and only ter
 TOT of the seas I will smash your silly treaties
 No matter how your fleet is, For Pm the Giascutis that will do just as I
 JOHN BULL.
 Ho! Ho! You blooming German So you think you will determine The complexion of the action that each one of
 us must take; Go and do your pleasure,
 In accordance with that measure, But ere you rake the ocean take good look
 at your rake.
 UNCLE SAM.
 By thunder, MT. Teuton,
 It seems to me you're shootin' On that island in 8 manner I would hint
 was slightly brash;
 And though Pve got no navy,
 I can tell you, sir, by gravy, have got what gets navy. that is to say,
 the cash.
 s'No rosin" in Brussels soap. >Azsimple, good servant girl who is valued highly by her employer, came to her mistress the other day to ask advice. She said she'd been wont to give another girl in service present at Christmas time for many years, and always received a present from her. This year she didn't know what to buy.
 "How much do you think of spending ?' her mistress asked. "I can afford about $2 ma 'am."
 "Then you take your g. and give it to your friend and ask her to buy present for herself. She knows what she wants better than you do" This struck the girl as splendid idea, and she carried it into effect. Her friend was delighted, too; so much so, that the next day she presented Mary, the girl who had inaugurated the reform, with g in like fashion, asking her to buy present to suit herself.
 Thus, not a cent changed hands, and two young women felt that they. had dem- onstrated their mutual regard in highly satisfactory manner. r.-Pitts6usg Dispatch. BucK1EN's ARN1cA SALvE.-The best salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 2E cents per box. For sale by E. K. Taft. Matrimonial bonds and railroad bonds gt together first-rate.
 No rosin'' in Brussels soap.
The Press., 1889-02-14
Edwfn FOrrest,s secret.

Edwin Forests Secrets
 The great tragsdian, Edwin Forrest had secret which everybody onght to learn and profit by. Said he, ''I owe all my success to the fact that everything have undertaken have done thoroughly. 1neyer neglect trihes." That's the point don't neglect trifies. Don't neglect that hacking cough, those night sweats, that feeble and capricious appetite, and the other symptoms, triHing in themselves, but awful in their significance. They herald the approach of consumption. You are in dan ger, but you can be saved. Dr. Pierce's Col den Medical Discovery will restore you to health and vigor, as it has thousands of oth- CTS. For all scrofulous diseases and consump- ton is one of them, it is sovereign remedy.
 Tourist in the Yellowstone region Are there any wonderful curiosities to be seen in this region, driver?
 Stage driver. Wonderful curiosities! We'll should say there were! Why, yon just drop rock down that gorge, come back in three days and you can hear the echo.
The Press., 1889-02-14
A BUDGET OF PARADOXES.

There exists, floating about the world in @ verbal form, and occasionally even ap- bearing in print, certain class of Propo- sitions or Queries, of which the object is to puzzle the wits of the unwary listener, or to beguile him into giving an absurd reply. Many of these are very old, and some are excellent. Instances will readily occur. Who, for instance, has not, at some period of his existence, been asked the fol lowing question 'If goose weighs ten pounds and half its own weight, what is the weight of the goose?" And who has not been tempted to reply on the instant, of course, twenty pounds. Indeed, it is astonishing what very simple query will sometimes catch wise man mapping. Even the following have been known to succeed
 "How many days would it take to cut up piece of cloth fifty yards long, one yard being cut off every day?" Or again:
 "A snail climbing up pest twenty feet high, ascends five feet every day, and slips down four feet every night. How long will the snail take to reach the top of the post ?"
 Or again .... #., "A wise man having window one yard high and one yard wide, and requiring more light, enlarged his window to twice its former size yet the window was still only one yard high and one yard wide. How was this done ?"
 l This is a catch question in geometry, as the preceding were catch questions ill arithmetic-the window being diamond shaped at first, and afterwards made square. As to the two former, perhaps it is scarcely necessary seriously to point out that the answer to the first is not 50 days, but 49 and to the second, ssot 20 days, but 16- since the snail who gains one foot each day for Is days climbs on the sixteenth day to the top of the pole, and there remains.
 In the wisdom of nature guinea pigs have no tails-and thereby hangs 8 tale. A South Minneapolis carpenter recently in- vested in dear little guinea pig for the ediication of his youngest boy. Before the wondering youth was presented with the animal the father gave him this admo- milton
 "Now, look-a.here, Johnny, don't you hold that pig up by the tail or it's eyes will drop out"
 The awe-stricken boy retired and soon rejoiced in the possession of his pig. He had not amused himself long with the pet before he convulsed the whole family by shouting out
 "Papa papa! somebody's been holdin' this pig up by the eyes l" ''No rosin" in Brussels soap.
The Press., 1889-02-14
{For The Press.) ,. ELEGY IN A STAFFORD CHURCH YARD.
BY REV. W. c. NEWELL.

Away from the sights of Stafford Springs, And the noise and rush of modern things, Tired and weary turn my feet .~ To the quiet road of Stafford Street. I forget awhile my. y..toil and care, And turn aside to church-yard rare; turn aside to the quiet hush Where the dead lie buried in the brush. T:love to boast of modern ways, Our art and science, and latest craze; Our great inventions, trades and stores, And latest news from foreign shores. But as pause and look around Upon this spot of sacred ground, see the past and present blend, And all my boosting has an end. @' Here long neglected lie the dead,-- More than hundred years have fed, Since some were laid beneath this sod, And went in hope to meet their God The storming clements and time Have almost blotten out the rhyme Which tells the christian life of those Who lie unknown in calm repose. Some tombstones scattered OCT the ground Lie with no sign to mark the mound Where once loved hands set up stone To mark the spot they called their own. An Huldah, wife of Sampsons Trask, This question would like to ask In youth and merry hearted prime. Did you look forward to the time, When through with. life, and time, and all, Your tombstone would adorn wall? A hundred and four years are past, Since loving friends have seen you last. As through the trees and bushes thick My onward way strive to pick, Upon tombstone on the ground A face looks up so large and round A face so crude in every part,
 Like Egypts hieroglyphic art.
 The eyes upturned to mine in gaze Alright me with strange amaze.
 John Willard,s history is told On a brown tablet large and old. For fifty years, the record reads,
 This man exceIled in noble deeds.
 The first in Stafford to proclaim
 From sacred desk the Saviour's nane,
 Around him saints and deacons rest,
 Gone to the regions of rhe blest.
 Our sires who drilled for Bunker Hill.
 And those who fought as heroes will In later wars to make us free,
 Do they not call to you and me:
 70 make our resting-plac less drear,
 And mark this spot as doubly dear"
 Shall sacred ground like this be lost,
 Or be redeemed at little cost?
 Staffordville, Feb. s, 1889.
The Press., 1889-02-14

INTERESTED PEorLE.-Advertising patent medicine in the peculiar way in which the proprietor of Kemp's Balsarn, for Coughs and Colds, does 1t is indeed wonderful. He authorizes all druggists to give those who call for it sample bottle FaHE, that they may try it before purchasing. The large bottles are 50c. and $1. We certainly would advise a trial. It may save you from con- sumption.
The Press., 1889-02-14

BE YouR OWN DocroR.--It won't cost you one-haH as much. Do not delay. Send three 2-cent stamps for postage, and we will send you Dr. Kaufman's great work, dne colored plates from life, on disease, it's causes, and home cure. Address A. P. Ordway < O., Boston Mass,
The Press., 1889-02-14
.sNo rosin" in Brussels soap.

A beautiful young lady became so sadly dis figured with pimples and blotches that it was feared she would die of grief friend rec commended Ayers Sarsaparilla, which she took, and was completely cured. Sine isInow one of the fairest of the fair.
The Press., 1889-02-14

Why should we seek to introduce the Ger man Sabbath into New England, asks Prof.
 Tyler of Amherst, when the wisest and best of the Germans are longing and hoping tc. in- many? Why should we be putting on their old clothes just as they are casting them of ?
The Press., 1889-02-14

EpocH.-The transition from long, finger ing and painful sickness to robust health marks an epoch in the life of the individual. Such @ remarkable event is treasured in the memory and the agency whereby the good health has been attained is gratefully blessed. Hence it is that 80 much is heard in praise of Electric Bitters. So many feel they owe their Alterative and Tonic If you are troubled with any disease of Kidneys, Liver or Stom- ach, of long or short standing, you will surely find relief by use of Electric Bitters. Sold at soc. and $1.OO per bottle at E. K. Tafts drug store.
The Press., 1889-02-14

"No rosin" in Brussels soal
The Press., 1889-02-14

No wonder there are 50 many unhappy marriages when the ''best man" never gets the bride.
The Press., 1889-02-14

Shilohs Cure will immediately relieve Group, Whooping Cough and Bronchitis. w. D. Heald, agent
The Press., 1889-02-14

That hacking cough can be quickly cured by Shiiohs Cure. We guarantee 1t. W D. Heald. agent,
The Press., 1889-02-14

Washington letter: There appeared in Washington paper the other day the fol- lowing advertisement:
 "Wanted-By gentleman and wife, old residents of Washington, half pew or two seats in St. Johns Episcopal church ; best of social references given"
 This willingness to give social reference to secure the privilege of worshipping at St. Johns church reminds me of story of President Lincoln. One day during the war young officer called upon him to se- cure an appointment in the army, and brought with him letters of recommenda- tion signed by all the F. F. V g in the Dis trict of Columbia. There had been no ap- plication for office before President Lincoln so strongly supported by the aristocracy, and turning to.the young man he told hum that he would give him the appointment, and handed him back his papers.
 "Don't you want to place the papers on file?" asked the office seeker. "I SUD- posed that was the custom"
 "Yes, that is the custom, said President Lincoln, "but you had better take them with you, as you might want to join St. Johns church"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-07-19
Interesting.

MIeTtSUHy.
The records at the County Clerks
office. show that Mr.. William Drew
was the first Clerk of Berkeley County,
was elected in 1872, and since that
time Clerks of the County have served
in the following order:
Moses Hunter from 1875 to 1877;
Henry Bedinger from 1898 to 1903;
David Hunter from 1904 to 1922
John Strother from 1929 to 1881; Har-
rison Waite from 1881 to 1916, when
he died and Norman Miller, his assis
tant, filled out his uneXpired term.
Jacob Van Doren from 1916 to 1851
f. G.. Albertus from 1851 to 1865. JAS
w. Robinson was recorder for short
while in 1865. Seaman Gerard was
recorder from 1865 to 1870, Bernard
Doll, Clerk from 1870 to 1873, when he
was succeeded by our efficient and
accommodating Clerk, Mr.. G. w.
Doll.
Judges of the Circuit Court have
served in the following order:
Judges Robert White, elected in
1909, William Brokenbaugh, John
Parker, Isaac r. Douglas, Richard
Parker, J. w. Kennedy, L. o. W.
Balch, E. b. Hill, Joseph Chapman,
E. b. Hall, John b. Hoge, Chas. j..
Faulkner, Frank Beckwith and Joseph
s. Duckwall-MartinS6urg Statesman.