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.1.11. ESTILL, Savannah, Ga.
Tom Ochiltree’s Independent party will
be powerful in the present Congress
powerful small.
If that supposed Texas man should gain ;
his suit against the government it will :
soon be proven that nearly every slave
owner in that State was desperately loyal
during the war.
It is the Republicans’ time to be ac
cused of blundering, and Keifer and Gor
ham and Frank Hatton—but bold —to go
through the list would require the print
ing of an eight-page extra or two.
It is not probable that the Republican
committee will select Saratoga as the
place for holding the Presidential Con
vention—Congress water does not agree
with them as well as it formerly did.
If the Republicans would pay the col
ored voters the 40 acre farms and mules
they have promised so often the race
would be benefited a thousand times more
than by the passing of social equality laws
to get them into trouble.
Secretary Lincoln has grown up to be
a right smart sort of a man, and the peo
ple have almost forgotten the youth who
eighteen or twenty years ago showed
strong physical aud mental evidences ot
being the precursor of the genus “dude.”
Marquis Tseng should now follow the
example of the Turkish Government and
make ar; offer to Dr. McLean to go over to
Tonquin and try his peacemaker guns on
the French. Jf that should not be destruc
tive enough, he might try liver pills on
them.
The Florida ship canal humbug is being
boomed again. There is no use for it, and
if there were, where are the millions
necessary to construct it to come from?
It is a waste of time and money, if there
is anybody using cash in the enterprise, to
hold meetings of directors of such a con
cern.
We can look out for be-lud in a few
days down about the Crescent City. The
2’i»ies-Zte»wc»’ai prints portraits of the
distinguished Mexicans, Gen. Gonzales
and President Diaz, representing them as
of a dark ginger cake color, and looking
as if they would cut a throat or scuttle a
ship on the slighest provocation.
An exchange suggests that David Davis
might consent to become a pedestal for
Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty. Before he
was married he might have been willing
to become the statue itself, but now Mrs.
D. would be awful jealous if David
should be caught in the position relative
to Liberty a pedestal would naturally be
expected to occupy.
Apropos of the prospective Texas slave
suit before the Court of Claims, the Re
publican papers will soon begin to fear
that Gen. Toombs will call the roll of his
slaves from the top of Bunker Hill monu
ment. As the General has said, there is
no law to prevent him from doing so if he
desired. Patriot Edmunds ought to in
troduce a bill on the subject at once.
It costs $9 76 per ton io make pig iron
in Alabama, including wages and every
thing, but unless the manufacturers can
have a protective tariff that will enable
them to sell it at from $lB to $22 per toll,
they, say the Democratic party is engaged
in a war on the wages of the laboring
men that will involve the country in dis
aster and blood. It doesn’t appear that
much of the iron tax paid by the people to
the manufacturers goes into the pockets
of the laboring men.
The authorities at Memphis are no re
specters of persons, not even of a steam
boat captain. Capt. Hicks, of the steamer
Frank, was arrested Wednesday for not
complying with the order of the wharf
master, which required him to unload his
boat below Monroe street, and sentenced
him to pay a tine of SSO. The captain,
however, has sued the Taxing District for
$25,000, and means to test the question
whether the ukase of the wharf master is
of higher obligation than an act ot Con
gress.
How sensitive are the business inter
ests of the monopolists. A few years ago
the sewing machine syndicate was clam
oring for an extension of its patents and
crying that they would be ruined if the
extensions were not granted. The manu
facturers were only making about 700 per
cent, on their machines, and now they
are just as anxious to sell them at S3O as
they formerly were at S7O. This is only
one instance. There are hundreds of oth
er monopolies that are enabled by the high
tariff to rob the people.
Thirty years ago there were few very
rich men in the United States, and scarce
ly any very poor. With the opportunities
for speculation offered by war contracts
at the North, and the advantages afforded
by the protective tariff, we are fast be
coming a nation of millionaires and pau
pers. Socrates once said: “There are
two things which the Magistrates ot
Athens will be careful to keep out of our
city—opulence and poverty. Opulence,
because it engenders effeminacy; poverty,
because it produces baseness; both, be
cause they lead to revolution/’
Alfred Tennyson, says the London
Daily News, is to be made a peer of the
realm, and it is said that this will be the
first instance of a subject being tendered
that distinction on account of his literary
attainments alone. The poet laureate is
now getting old, and his genius is wan
ing with the elasticity of his well culti
vated mind. The government is shrewd,
and the easiest and most delicate way to
stop him from stagnating English litera
ture with the overproduction of poetry, is
to put him into the House of Lords and
divert his mind into the prosy channels
of Parliamentary debate.
The newspaper correspondents at the
capital are already beginning the bi
ennial howl about the insatiability of the
office-seekers. They say from every nook
and cranny of the land hungry Democrats
have gone to Washington, anxious to
have a pull at the national teats, and
700 patriots are scrambling for 250
places. We can’t see anything to com
plain about in this, only the scarcity of
offices, and there is a fair prospect that
there will be more of them available in a
year or two. The rascals are going to be
turned out, ami from the number now in,
these Democratic office-seekers will have
a better chance after awhile.
Report of the Secretary of the Navy.
If the recommendations of the Secreta
ry of the Navy, extracts from whose re
port we publish this morning, meet with
the approval of Congress John Roach, the
ship builder, will probably have as much
government work to attend to as he can
do for several years. Roach out-bid all
other competitors for the steel cruisers
now being constructed, and doubtless he
will have whatever part of the govern
ment work in the future that he desires.
His facilities for constructing iron and
steel vessels are more complete than those
of any other <*iip builder in the country.
The Secretary advises the building of
at least seven new ships every
year for the next ten years. At
th& end of that period he hopes that the
navy will be a credit to the country.
The cost of the seventy new vessels
would be over $100,000,000. The Secre
tary makes another recommendation
which, if adopted, would require a very
pretty sum. It is that respecting coast
defenses. These two recommendations
are probably the Secretary’s plan tor get
ting rid of the surplus in the Treasury.
Being a man of ideas he doubtless thinks
that it is incumbent on him to contribute
something towards the solution of the
surplus revenue problem. It must be ad
mitted, however, that we haven’t any
navy worth speaking about, and that in
the event of a war with any one ot the
first class powers ot Europe our great
seaport cities and our commerce w'ould
be at the mercy of foreign cruisers.
If the Democratic House, however,
should undertake to carry out Mr. Chan
dler’s recommendations to their fullest
extent, the Republican press would exert
itself to impress ihe country with the be
lief that the Democratic party w’as ex
travagant and unlit to be trusted with the
control of the government. The Secreta
ry’s plan respecting an interior coast line of
water ways may have some merit, but it
will need a good deal of explanation be
fore the merit is apparent. Respecting
additional steel cruisers, it will probably
be as well to see what success John Roach
has with those he now has on hand before
giving him a contract for more. While
conceding the necessity of building
up our navy, it will probably
be well not to proceed with the work with
too much haste. The country has not for
gotten the millions that Secor Robeson
wasted, and the utter failure of the moni
tors built during his administration
of the Navy Department. It is ap
parent throughout the Secretary’s
report that he has his own
views about matters pertaining to his de
partment, and that he does not hesitate
to express them. He says there are too
many officers, and he advises Congress to
dispense with the services of some of
them. He also oblects to the course
which Congress has pursued in reinstating
officers who have been court-martialed
and kicked out of the service for miscon
duct or inefficiency. Congress can follow
his advice with respect to these recom
mendations, if it cannot with respect to
ejast defenses and new cruisers.
A Southern Outrage.
The Morning News being a Southern
newspaper and uncompromisingly Demo
cratic in politics, would not reasonably
be expected to wish to contribute to the
campaign literature of suclqrabid sheets as
the Chicago Tn'&Mne, Cincinnati Commer
cial-Gazette and Philadelphia Press; but
it cannot let a wrong or injustice pass
without notice and condemnation. What
ever unprincipled politicians may say, the
white people of the South are the true
friends of the negro race, and
the proofs of this assertion are
so overwhelming to any one who has
carefully and impartially investigated
the past and present relations of the
races, that the old slogan of the Republi
cans is now' regarded as mere clap-trap
that is not worthy of notice by the un
prejudiced people of the North. What
ever outrages may have been committed
in the South have been caused by the in
cendiary leadership of a few politicians,
w’hite and colored, in the pay of the Re
publican party. It was to their interest
to foment and manufacture race antagon- j
ism and troubles, and they fattened
and flourished on the contribu-
tions and votes of their deluded
follow ers, In many cases the poor blacks
have been urged to deeds of violence and j
riotous conduct, which have invariably j
met w’ith punishment. These leaders, >
however, almost always kept safely !
the rea’’ * * 1
and escaped to reap fresh spoils
Out of the false testimony they w’ere ca
pable of contributing or bartering to
those who w ish to use it to fire the North
ern heart, and thus prejudice the Northern
mind, so as to render fair investigation
and honest judgment all but impossible.
We desire to call special attention to the
action of an intelligent and repiesentative
body of colored men that met in this city
during the past week. It was the Execu
tive Committee of the Farmers’ Stock
Association of South Carolina, the
Farmers’ Industrial Free Will Company
and the Knights of Labor (all colored), of
Georgia. It was composed of honest, in
dustrious colored men, engaged in build
ing up their individual and material in
terests, and advancing the moral and
social condition of their race. After at
tending to the financial affairs of the
united committee, which were found in
a healthy and satisfactory condition, and
re-electing their Purchasing Agent, they
complimented their people for their
promptness in paying their debts and had
letters read from several prominent citi
zens. Then the following resolutions
were adopted:
“Whereas, The best of good feel
ing for the past five years has prevailed
between the whites and blacks; and
whereas, the prompt action of the white
citizens to relieve our people w’ho suffer
ed in the late fire in this city, is a bright
evidence of their friendship; be it there
fore
“liesolved, That we return our thanks
to them for their kind sympathy for our
people.
‘••llesolved, That w T e do recommend to
our people, lor the best interests of our
race, not to be tied to any political party,
and that they vote as they please.” '
This was not a meeting of paid politi
cians, but the independent, outspoken
representatives of the better class of
colored people of this section, and was
not secured by any persuasion or promises
on the part of the whites.
The colored people are beginning to find
out how’ they are deceived and injured by
Republican politicians, and are growing
lukewarm in their support of the Repub
lican party. As independent voters they
will be enabled to advance their condi
tion much more rapidly than as the ad
herents of the party they have served so
faithfully and unprofitable.
Important Florida Railway Im
provements.
The construction of the Florida South
ern Railroad from Newnausville to Gaines
ville and the extension of the Rowland's
Bluff Railroad to the latter place will give
a short line from Central Florida to Sa
vannah and the North and AVest. It is ex
pected that trains will be running from
Gainesville to Live Oak by the 15th of
February. A prolongation of this sys
tem to Tampa, via Brookville, and con
necting with the South Florida Railroad
with lines of ocean steamships, will give
the shortest and quickest route to Cuba
and other West India islands, and also
South America.
The South Florida extension from Kis
! simmee City to Tampa will be in run
ning order by January 15, 1884. It is 78
I miles long, and when completed will have
J been six months in course of construc
: tion, which is probably the quickest rail
l road building ever known in this part of
1 the country.
THE SUNDAY MORNING NEWS: SAVANNAH, DECEMBER 9, 1883.
Senator Beck’s Bill.
Senator Beck’s bill, to remove all po
litical disabilities on account of the late
war, has given some of the most bitter
Republican journals an opportunity to
throw a little mud at ex-President Davis.
The name of Mr. Davis will be honored
long after those who now vent their spite
upon him are forgotten. His duties to
the United States, as well as the Confed
eracy, were always performed energeti
cally, honestly, fearlessly. Mistakes he
•may have .made, but no man North or
South can justly impugn his mo
tives or his patriotism. The Southern
I people made him President, and he
should not be outlawed politically for ac
cepting and faithfully executing the trust
reposed in him. The question of seces
sion was settled by the arbitrament of
war, and now the Southern people have
laid aside all hope and desire for separa
tion, and w’ill live for and defend the na
tional government. As the illustrious B.
H. Hill said: “We are back in our fa
thers’ house, and w r e have come to stay.”
Impartial justice, and the genius of our
Constitution and law’s, required that Mr.
Davis should have been convicted of trea
son, or else be permitted to enjoy every
right of an American citizen. The gov
ernment authorities knowing he could
not be shown to be a traitor in the eyes of
| the law’, all charges against him were
withdrawn, and now but for the bill of
attainder passed by Congress, Mr, Davis
would be entitled just as much to every
right of a citizen as Ulysses 8. Grant.
Since his release from prison he has been
a quiet, peaceable, law abidiog man, ac
cepting the results of the war, but hat
ing the courage of his convictions, and
never “bending the suppliant hinges of
the knee that thrift might follow’ fawn
ing.” Jefferson Davis himself cares lit
tle what Congress may do with this bill,
as he is now seventy-five years of age, and
will never engage in political dissensions
again. It is believed the bill will pass
and that the President will approve it.
No Occasion for Surprise.
A great deal of surprise has been ex
pressed by the Republican press and by
the protectionists of both parties at the
moderation of Mr. Carlisle’s tariff views
as set forth in his speech w'hen he as
sumed the Speaker’s chair. A great many
went so far as to say that Mr.
Randall, if he had been elected,
would have expressed about the
same view’s. It is remarkable that there
should have been any surprise. Mr. Car
lisle w’as entirely consistent with his re
cord. His remarks were in harmony with
all his tariff speeches and votes. Those
who supported him knew perfectly well
what they were doing when they voted
for him. No man understands Mr. Car
lisle’s position on the tariff better than
Hon. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia. In
an interview’, a day or two ago, he said:
“Mr. Carlisle believes in a reform of the
tariff so moderate and gradual in its char
acter as to disturb no existing interest,
but to promote gradually a return to a
system by which the consuming interests
of the country would be protected against
greedy and unreasonable demands of mo
nopolists. A very large majority ot the
Southern members were in favor of
Mr. Carlisle, and in accord with
his views. His views and the views of
those w’ho voted for him were w r ell known
before the Congressional elections, and
many members have been returned on
these very issues.”
It is folly to say that Mr. Randall would
have made about the same speech that
Mr. Carlisle made. Mr. Randall was not
in accord with the great majority of his
party last winter when the tariff bill was
under His vote and his
speeches were in support of protected in
terests which amount to great monopolies.
Mr. Carlisle’s inaugural speech will
undoubtedly be the basis of his policy in
making up the committees and in admin
istering his office. In all probability it
will be the basis of the policy of the Demo
cratic party in framing the next national
platform.
Florida Homes.
A good homestead on government lands
can yet be obtained in Florida for about
sls for 160 acres, or less than ten cents
per acre. This would seem to be cheap
enough for lands in any country, and
especially for the productive lands of i
semi-tropical Florida, tl & o f lm . I
migration into tb at State w’ill soon close |
out all fb' rema inmg government lands: i
*1 met, nearly all the choice lands are I
already taken up, and except in few’ |
localities only the inferior flat pine and
wet swamp lands remain, though these,
in time, will become also valuable.
When we think of the cheapness of these
lands and others in that State, at from 50
cents to $3 per acre, with thousands ot j
acres in Southern Georgia at ab»ut the i
same price, and contrast these prices ;
with w’hat we foresee will be the prices
ten years hence, we are surprised at the
slothfulness and indifference of thousands
of people who desire homes aud yet do not
procure them. Every year the difficulty"
in their way will be increased —year by
year the prices will be higher, until finally
they will be beyond the reach of manj’ who
could now' purchase. They will look back
w’ith regret and censure their blind
ness. The supposed w’orthless lands they
could now’ acquire for trifling sums will
soon pass into the hands of syndicates or
speculators, and, of course, the price of
them w’ill be immediately raised. It is
always in order to purchase a home. A
farmer without a farm of his own is
scarcely entitled to the name, and the true
dignity of citizen belongs only to the lord
of the manor. All others are changeable,
and a community made up of them would
be as unstable in residence, as feeble and
uncertain in the work of progress.
Blaine’s Plan.
Mr. Blaine’s plan for getting clear of
the surplus revenue by distributing the
whisky tax among the States, has called
out a great deal ot discussion. Two emi
nent professors, Professor Edmund J.
James, ot the Wharton School of Finance
and Economy, an annex of the
University of Pennsylvania, and Pro
fessor William G. Sumner, of Yale
College, have expressed themselves at
length with regard to it. The views of
these gentlemen derive their importance
from the fact that they have made
financial and economic questions a
study. Prof. James enthusiastically
indorses the Blaine plan. He says
that it “is wise and far-sighted.”
He takes up three columns to show why
it is w’ise, and one of his arguments is
that the German Empire has adopted sub
stantially the policy that is embodied in
it. Prof. Sumner does not agree with Prof.
James. He says:
“Every proposition to distribute
amongst the States funds w'hich have been
collected by the Federal Government
seems to me to be vicious in the extreme.
It is bad political economy, bad politics
and bad law under the Constitution. Mr.
Blaine's scheme has all the general faults
of any scheme of distribution, and also
special faults.”
Mr. Blaine gets very little comfort from
the newspapers. The majority of them
condemn his plan. They are right.
There can be no plan devised that will be
fair and satisfactory. What is the use of
having any surplus to distribute? The
true plan is to cut down the tariff to a
point where only sufficient revenue will
be produced to meet the wants of the
government economically administered.
Although the colored troops fought no
bly, the Republicans want to curtail their
influence in the next National Conven
j tion. It is too bad for them to partially
j disfranchise the man and brother in the
very body that has u#UaMy clamored so
loudly for his right to vote—the Republi
-1 can ticket.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Better Posted.
Thomasville Enterprise.
It looks as if the Washington correspondent
of the Savannah News was much better posted
regarding the Speakership contest than the
ditto of the Atlanta Constitution.
What a Protectionist Said.
St. Louis Republican (Dem.).
The Democrat who ventured to sav, “the
| Southern Confederacy is in the saddle again,”
I was an enthusiastic Randall man. But we
I believe the Randall men are not suspected of
trying to bring on a new rebellion.
On a Boom.
Bainbridge Democrat.
The Savannah Morning News is much im
proved in its every department. The News
is running on a lighting schedule, without
the least fear of hot boxes. We love the
News, and are glad to see her on a boom.
A Good Word.
Albany News and Advertiser.
There has been a very perceptible improve
ment in the Savannah News of late. It al
ways was a model of typographical neatness,
and recently it seems "to have taken on new
life. It now has what is commonly called
“git-up-and-git” about it.
Not So Vicious After All.
Philadelphia Press (Rep.).
On the whole, it makes very little difference
whether John Carlisle did declare that the
government of the United States was a vicious
system. Events have shown that it is not so
terribly vicious but that Mr. Carlisle is willing
to accept the third important office under it.
Go Slow and Be Careful.
New York Herald (Ind.).
We advise the Republicans to take a lesson
from the past, and be careful not to carry
their opposition to necessary reforms too far,
lest the people, enraged, shall take them at
their word and strike down that abuse which
now the Democrats seek only, and justly, to
curb and moderate.
The .Extravagance of the Indians.
New York Sun (Dem.).
The Indians are constantly diminishing in
number. Gen. Sherman recently assured the
country the end of Indian wars had been
reached. Instead of decreasing, the expenses
of this service increase. One Indian now costs
as much to the Treasury as two and three
Indians formerly did.
Keifer’s Vindication Complete.
Boston Dost (Dem.).
The Republican members of the House have
not the slightest reason to complain because
Mr. Keifer thrusts himself forward as the
leader of the minority. Mr. Keifer would be
& fool if he did not look noon the nearly
unanimous vote cast for him by the Republi
cans on Monday as evidence of continued
and great esteem, respect, admiration and
confidence.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Flour is S4O per barrel at the Cour d’Alene
mines, Montana.
Vanity Fair is the only London newspaper
published at so high a price as 25 cents.
Tub Harpers spend SIO,OOO on the illus
trations for the current numbers of their mag
azine.
A large NUMBER of Mississippians who
have tried life in Texas, are returning,broken
down in health and fortune.
The water supply of Brooklyn is increased
10,000,000 gallons a day by systems of driven
wells in the suburbs, sunk to a depth of 47 to
90 fest.
During November 214 fires, causing in each
case a loss of SIO,OOO or over, occurred, and
the aggregate destruction of property was
$10,300,000.
Hartsville, Tenn., has gone demented
over spiritual manifestations. To be a me
dium is to improve one’s social standing in
that town.
Mr. Mackay, millionaire, now in New
York, says that the lines of his telegraph com
pany will be operating between New Y'ork and
Philadelphia by New Year’s day.
The result of the opening of the St. Go
thard Railroad, is shown to be that French
trade with Italy was $2,000,000 less than in
1881, and Italian trade with Germany $18,000,-
000 more.
The German army horse buying commis
sion have this year bought in 449 markets
7,054 horses, at an average of $l7O. The high
est paid was $350; the lowest, $75. Six thous
and six hundred and thirteen are three year
olds ; the rest older.
An enterprising showman once put Jum
bo into chancery, and Sir Henry Mildmay has
just done the same by a whale caught by Essex
(England) fishermen. The Chancellor de
cided that the whale belonged to the noble
owner of the fishery.
Messrs. Tyler & Noble have decided to
build a handsome hotel in Anniston. It will
be four stories and the shape of a Maltese
cross. The first story will be of granite, the
next of brick, and the house will bu finished
inside with California redwood, which has
been ordered from California.
In a recent speech at Liverpool, a member
of Parliament, advocating the emigration of
pauper children, said that 95 per cent, of those
sent to Canada by the Sheltering Home were
known to be doing well. The sending them
had cost $75 per head, while the cost of pauper
children at home was SOOO a head.
The American Government has prepared a
watch, valued at $(„(,, for presentation to
vapt. Roach, of Yarmouth, N. 8., fol' saving
the crew of the American schooner Nellie Bell,
in April. 1882. Unfortunately Capt. Roach is
not alive to receive it, as he "found a watery
grave a month ago on a voyage from Cape
Breton to Yarmouth.
Over forty tons of poultry in the hands
of Boston dealers soured during Thanksgiv
ing week, and three-quarters of it was pur
chased for canning houses, who claim that al
though it would not keep for many hours, and
was therefore unsalable in the retail market,
it was just as good as the dryest and freshest
after being treated to a saleratus bath.
On November 20 a fine branch of lilac was
gathered in a garden at Steep Hill, in the Isle
of Jersey. On the same tree were many other
branches in full flower. The apple and pear
trees were also in blossom, anti ripe straw
berries were plucked which had grown in the
open air. “The fact,” says the Debats “is
miraculous in the latitude of Normandy.”
Medical men have for some time arrived
at the conclusion that consumption is infecti
ous. The matter has been taken up in a very
practical way in the German army, in which
the disease is" stated to be very prevalent. All
soldiers suffering from it arc isolated, and, to
prevent any possible infection, on no account
are they to’be allowed to associate with pa
tients suffering from pneumonia or acute
bronchitis, while special means are to be
taken for the disinfection of the sputa in in
fectious cases.
Sojourner Truth's original name was
Isabella, but as she herself explained: “When
I left the house of bondage I left everything
behind. I wa’n’t goin’ to keep nothin’ of
Egypt on me, an’ so I went to the Lord an’
asked Him to give me a new name. An’the
Lord gave me Sojourner, because I was to
travel ud and down the land, showin’ the
people their sins an’ bein’ a sign unto them.
Afterwards I told the Lord I wanted another
name,’cause everybody else had two names,
an’the Lord gave me" Truth, because I was
to declare the truth to the people J’
A New York correspondent reports in the
AUgemeine Zeitung an astounding discovery.
He states that in the virgin forests of Sonora,
a province of Western Mexico, near Magda
lena, a pyramid has been found measuring
4,350 feet at its base and rising to the height
of 750 feet. A carriage road winds about this
enormous structure from base to summit.
The face consists of granite blocks carefully
cut and perfectly fitted together. Not far
distant stands a lull which, we are told, is
honeycombed with cells of various sizes, all
cut out of the solid rock. They are without
windows, several are on the same level, and
the walls are adorned with fantastic shapes
and symbols.
Alderman Bandhaur tells a reporter for
the Denver News the most prodigious of all
the Colorado mining stories.' The Aiderman
i says that after he had drilled to the depth of
' 433 feet with a drill 26 inches in diameter, the
drill dropped with such momentum as to snap
' the steel wire cable, and that when he de-
I scended to get the drill he landed on the floor
' of a cave about 75 feet in height, 2,000 yards
; in length, and 200 yards in width. Around
him were large rocks, worn smooth by the
action of waves, and there were bones of
whales and other monsters of the deep; but
even more numerous than these were chunks
of almost priceless ambergris. The story is
recited as solemn truth.
The Indians of the reservation in Polk
county, Tex., adhere to their ancient customs.
When they enter a cotton patch they pick
the entire week, and pile the cotton in one
I common heap. On Saturday they select some
white men in whom they can confide to weigh
all the cotton. After doing this he computes
the amount due the tribe, and after collect
ing that amount from the planter he divides
it equally among the members of the tribe.
Then the planter gives the chosen agent his
account against the tribe for provisions fur
nished, and the agent apportions the expense
equally among the Indians, and then collects
it pro rata from each. Settlement cannot be
effected in any other way. This is the In
dian way, and’no other will answer.
A London paper says: “The fashion now is
decidedly in the direction of wall lamps. Some
are of great beauty. Two of a set I have seen
are opal-tinted glass and two rose-colored.
The sconces in which they are fixed are fitted
m frames of mirrors, with beveled edges.
These, in their turn, are framed in brass,
beautifully chased. These lamps are placed
near the four corners of a pretty drawing
room, the opal-tinted and the red alternately.
As the wall paper is a pattern of daisies in
gold ami pink on a ground of warm cream
color, the effect is very good. Candles with
pink shades are scattered about the room in
pairs, ami at a table in a corner a low reading
lamp sheds a softened radiance upon books
and writing materials.
The Earl of Aberdeen and Sir Richard
Cross who have just been created “burgesses”
of the city of Aberdeen, are perhaps not
aware that they have had for a fellow-bur
gess no less a personage than William Shake
speare. In the year 1601 King James made
an application to Queen Elizabeth for her
company of comedians to be sent down to
Scotland, and after they had tired of His
Majesty and the people of Edinburgh the
King ordered them to repair to Abenfeen to
I amuse the citizens there with the exhibition
i of their “plays, comedies and stage plays.”
i They were commended by the King’s special
letter to the magistrates, and were under the
management of Lawrence Fletcher, who, with
William Shakespeare and others, obtained
the first license to play there. Thev per
formed several times in Aberdeen, were pre
sented with thirty-two “marks” for then
service, entertaincil at supper, and Lawrence
Fletcher, William Shakespeare and others
made burgesses. The extract noting this in
the corporation minutes is in doggerel Latin,
dated “Nono Octobris, 1601.”
BRIGHT BITS.
“Hands off, or you are a dead man!”
hisses the electric light cable.
It is the horse reporter that wants to make
an oat of everything.—AVic York Commercial
Advertiser.
Major L’Enfant drew the plan of Wash
ington, and the people there are infants still;
hard pullers; never been weaned.
When three-eyed Dick remarked, “Now is
the winter of our discontent,” he probablv
longed for some her.— Times.
The man who had both hands caught in a
haycutter knows what it is to meet disaster
on every hand.— Chronicle.
A MOLE on the nose indicates that a man
will be a great traveler—probablv to get out
of the way of people who make personal re
marks.— Lowell Citizen.
Mr. Gladstone, it is said, dislikes to put on
a new suit of clothes. Well. it is annoying to
have everyone you meet ask if it has been wet
yet.— Bismarck Tribune.
The most absent-minded of men is the pro
fessor, who, when he hears himself knocking
the ashes out of his pipe, will call out, “Come
tn.”— Galveston Neus.
Scientists say that the reason kissing is so
pleasant is because the teeth, jaw bones ami
lips are full of nerves, and. when the lips
meet, an electric current is generated.
“A young wife’s greatest trial” is probably
to find out whether it would be proper to
starch her husband’s shirt all over or only the
bosoms and cuffs.— Tall Hirer Advance.
A Western editor had the “writer’s
cramp,” not in his fingers, but in his jaws.
VV hile writing editorials his mouth followed
the motion of the shears, and in this way the
trouble is brought about.— Phil. Call.
An exchange believes that experience shows
that a book agent, if he understands his busi
ness, can make more than ordinary- wages.
He can. He can make a man hate him worse
than he hates the man who tramps his pet
corn. The book agent can make lots besides
ordinary wages.— Oil City Blizzard.
North Carolina’s new code of law fixes
the fee for a marriage license at $3. In very
many cases there are two souls with but a
single thought whose hearts will have to beat
for a year or so longer. Such an excessive
tariff amounts to a virtual protection of the
men of North Carolina.— Jowell Citizen.
Hint to waiters by a Chicago man: “Never
bring anything hot to a table. It might burn
the eater’s mouth. Never give him a napkin
till he asks twice for it. Never give him a
check for the right amount. Always add ten
or fifteen cents. That will give him a chance
to quarrel with you and you can ‘sass’ him.”
“Mt daughter,” said an up-town mother
to her youngest, a girl of 11, “I wish you would
not make up such faces every time anything
or anybody displeases vou; it isn’t nice or at
all pretty.” “Mamma,” earnestly pleaded
the miss, “would you take away from me the
only pleasure I have?”— New York Commer
cial.
When Lord Coleridge visited the New York
Stock Exchange the brokers sang, “God Save
the Queen.” His lordship might stay over
here 10,000 years and he would never hear
anybody sing “God Save the Brokers.” The
Americans are apractieal, hardworking peo
ple, who believe that the age of miracles has
gone by.— Burlington Hawkeye.
Judge Story once told a friend that the
J ustices of the Supreme Court were ascetics,
and denied themselves wine except in wet
weather. Then, bethinking himself that his
words were too severe a tax on human credu
lity, he added: “What I say about the wine,
sir, gives you our rule; but it does sometimes
happen that the Chief Justice Will felly tome,
when the cloth is removed, ‘Brother Story,
step to the window and see if it does not look
like rain.’ And if I tell him that the sun is
shining brightly, Judge Marshall will some
times reply: ‘All the better, for our jurisdic
tion extends over so large a territory that the
doctrine of chances makes it certain that it
must be raining somewhere.’ ”
“What are you paying for potatoes now?”
inquired a sharp-eyed stranger of a Front
street grocer. “Well, about 45 cents, I guess.”
“You’re satisfied with large profits instead of
small ones, eh? Potatoes must bring you at
retail about 90 cents or a dollar.” “Oh, no;
I’m willing to pay about 45 cents, and don’t
want to make more’n 10 cents a bushel on
’em.” “Is that so? That makes 55 cents a
bushel. Say, you send three bushels to my
house this morning, will you? Here’s my ad
dress.” "Young man, did you come in here to
sell potatoes?” “No, siree; I came in here to
buy potatoes, and I opened business by asking
you what you paid for 'em.” “Well, you’ve
stuck me this time, and rather than let this
thing get out you san have ’em for 55 cents, but
I’m blowed if I ever give myself away again.”
And he went in and marked up sugar 3 cents
a pound for two weeks for all customers who
paid by the month.— Hartford Sunday Journal.
PERSONAL.
Theodore Tilton is living quietly in Faris,
attending to his literary work.
Herr Lasker, the German Socialist leader,
called on the President and Secretary of
State Wednesday.
The life of N. P. Willis, in the American
Men of Letters series, will be written by
Prof. Beers, of Yale.
Col. W. W. Gates, the veteran editor of
Tennessee, is living in retirement at Jackson,
in that State, at the age of 72.
Mr. Tilden’s friends say that he is neither
going West nor South this winter, but will
pass the time quietly at Greystone.
Mary Anderson is a devotee of Dickens
and spends hours in hunting up the (few re
maining) London localities of his novels.
Governor-Elect Robert McLane and his
daughter, Miss Jennie McLane, of Maryland,
find that the Gubernatorial mansion at An
napolis is in need of repairs.
It is now asserted that William Y. Buttes,
“the cowboy poet,” was never on the plains,
that he is a clerk in the Department of State
at Washington, and that his name is Adee.
Senator Hoar has turned up in Washing
ton as the agent of a patent ballot box which
he proposes to force upon the general gov
ernment by act of Congress.— N. World.
The question whether Minister Lowell was
ineligible as an alien was discussed and settled
long before he was elected rector of St. An
drew’s, and all subsequent talk about it was
twaddle.
A most serious charge is brought against
Mr. Blaine. It is asserted that he ebtained
his idea of distributing the surplus whisky
tax among the States from a letter written to
the President by Mr. Dexter A. Hawkins.
Charles Sumner, Rufus Choate, Agassiz,
Longfellow, Everett, Charlotte Cushman and
Margaret Fuller are among the dead buried
in the small but beautiful cemetery of Mount
Auburn, in the suburbs of Cambridge, Mass.
Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, writes
from thejungles of Africa to acknowledge the
receipt of a gold medal awarded him by the
Swedish Geographical Society as a token of
its appreciation of his services to the world as
a traveler and explorer.
Sharfu, a wonderfully clever East Indian,
who confessed to nearly 100 crimes, was lately
sentenced to penal servitude for life. His
practice was to ingratiate himself with trav
elers, get them to eat with him, and then
drug, rob, and, if necessary, murder.
Queen Victoria and Mr. Gladstone are
said to have quarreled again, this time over
making a baronet of Dr. Andrew Clark, who
had never been called in to serve royalty, this
having been made a prerequisite to the honor,
according to custom. Victoria yielded.
The German corvette Olga, with Prince
Henry of Prussia on board, arrived at San
tiago de Cuba, on Sunday last. The Prince
was given an official reception. Preparations
are being made for festivities in his honor in |
Havana, where he is expected to arrive on
the 22d inst.
Luther’s memory has been fitly honored,
but it should be borne in mind that next year
will bring around the quincentenary of the
death of John Wycliff, the “Morning Star of
the Reformation.” The Wycliff Society of
England, is making preparations to observe
the event, and desires as far as possible the
co-operation of the Christian world.
Senator Hill, of Colorado, started out in
life as a professor of chemistry in Brown Uni
versity, at Providence, R. 1., and a few years
ago went to Colorado to assay ores. One day
a miner came to him with a nugget. Hill said
that it was gold. He wormed the location
out of the man and made haste to get posses
sion of the mine. It has made him a million
aire. ♦
Christensen, who for sixty years has been
the scene painter of the Royal Danish The
atre, which has been remarkable for its artis
tic effects, died the other day, aged 78. He
was Dean at his death of the Royal Academy
of Arts, and was the last of the brilliant band
of poets, actors, musicians and painters who
adorned Denmark in her greatest intellectual
period fifty years ago.
Speaking of the bonanza kings, a cor
respondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
says: “Flood, Fair and Mackey are brawny,
fuil-biooded men, with good color, heightened
by good living and drinking. They dress
carelesslj r and have all the California charac
teristics—free and easy in address, hail fellows
well met with all their friends. Sharon, on
the contrary, could sit for a picture of a good
Connecticut deacon. He is thin, angular, un
dersized, fiat-chested, with straight, lank hair,
whitened bv age, combed down smooth over ’
his small head; a pallid face almost destitute j
of expression, and a moustache that adds |
nothing to the countenance, When he looks ,
at you, however, you notice a pair of eyes as
sharp as those of a weasel, and the quiet ges- >
tures show that the small body has a good ;
deal of nervous energy.. He is one of the best ,
poker players on the Pacific Coast.”
MAGAZINE NOTICES.
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Anthony Trollope. Salvini as “King
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The December (Christmas) Magazine of
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that has yet appeared. It contains four
historical essays on Christmas and its ob
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America and among different nationali
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portraits of the Pages, Carys, Pendletons
and Nelsons of the “Old Dominion,” with
pictures of ancient churches and historic
houses; Norman McF. Walker, of New
Orleans, follows with a charmingly pic
turesque description of “The Holidays in
Early Louisiana,” among the Creoles;
John Reade, F. R. S. C., of Montreal, tells
us in a concise and pleasing essay of
“Christmas-Tide in Canada,” among the
earliest French settlers. There are many
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The American Naturalist. The
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splendid special articles, and an immense
amount of miscellaneous matter, notes
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Philadelphia.
The Southern Planter for Decem
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on agriculture, horticulture, live stock
and the household. It is now completing
its forty-fourth year, and is one of the best
agricultural works in the South.
An Elegy Written in a Country Church
yard. By Thomas Gray. Artist’s Edition.
Philadelphia: J. B.Lip’incott & Co., 1883.
Gray’s Elegy is admired universally for
its poetic beauty and charm of sentiment.
It calls up a series of pictures in the hu
man mind of the sweetest aspects and
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This is the most elegant edition ot this
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the most celebrated American artists.
The binding is appropriate to the style of
the work, and lovers of poetry and art
will find it a holiday present that will be
kept and appreciated.
MARIANNA’S DISASTER.
The Business Portion of the Town in
Ashes —Other Notes of Interest.
Correspondence of the Sunday Morning Neur.
Marianna, Fla, Dec. 7.—This week
has been an eventful one here. The scenes i
of the last six hours will not easily fade
from the memory of our town. At 4:15
this morning the barber shop of J. T.
Taylor was found to be on fire, and in one
short hour the larger part of the main
business portion of the town was in ashes,
black and smouldering. There were
seven frame buildings and one brick in a
row, and every one burned to the ground,
with the most of their contents. This row
contained the finest business houses in
the town, and the wind blowing steadily
from the east, spread the flames rapidly
from one to another until not one was
left standing. The fire is thought to have
been the work of an incendiary. The |
losses are as follows: Russ & Merritt >
$1,500, insured for $1,000; J. W. Russ sl,- j
500, insured fully; Theo. West $1,500, in- j
surance $1,000; J. H. Callaway S6OO, no j
insurance; Mrs. R. L. Myrick $3,000, in- i
surance $1,600; A. Merritt $9,300, insur- I
ance $4,000; Curtis & Stewart $1,500, in- i
surance $500; Lvnn & Mozely $250, J. T.
Taylor S2OO, Mrs. Ilentz SSOO, J. Ed
rehi $250, no insurance; Mrs. E.
J. Gamble $1,600, insurance $400; mak
ing a total of $21,700 losses, with SIO,OOO
insurance. The fires seem almost epi
demic,’, so to speak; only a short while
since Fernandina burning, and Ocala, in j
a few days, following her example. The I
damage to this town is almost irrepara- |
ble, and the calamity inopportune. Just :
as some life and spirit was given the town I
by the advent ot the railroad, this tire j
came and cast a gloom over everybody ‘
and everything, and I fear it will be many
days before the burned portion will be re- I
placed. The fire was discovered before it !
had made much headway, but owing to
the long drought and the consequent
scarcity of water, the flames could not
be arrested, though every exertion was
made by the citizens who were aroused
by the alarm of fire. The Dekle block,
Mr. Calhoun’s and Mr. Frank Phillips’
residences, were in great danger for a
time, as was also the post office.
Yesterday the municipal election was \
held, with' the following result: Dr. I
George F. Baltzell, an old resident and a {
highly esteemed citizen, was elected j
Mayor; T. P. Perry, formerly of Thomas
ville, Ga,, Marshal; C. W. Davis, M. L.
Dekle and B. F. Livingston, Aidermen,
and T. D. West, Clerk.
On Wednerday, sth inst., Mr. W. B.
Barkley, a prominent young merchant, !
was married at Campbellton, in’ this
county, to Miss Julia, daughter of Dr. R. j
B. Bellamy, of the latter place. The |
bride belongs to one of the oldest and best ■
Jackson county families. Weddings
seem to be the fashion. On last |
evening, the 6th instant, Mr. E. J. Black- I
shear and Miss Belle Milton, both of this i
place, were united in marriage. The
ceremony was performed at the Episcopal j
Church by Rev. C. A. Apple, and nearly ,
the entire population of the town were
present. Mr. Blackshear is a popular i
young gentleman, and his bride a beauti- '
ful and charming young lady, universally j
admired and beloved. She is a daughter I
of Hon. W. H. Milton and granddaughter ■
of the late Governor John Miltom the i
Confederate Governor of Florida. Many
friends wish them bon voyage along the
stream of time. Beau.
A Funny Story of Two Widows.
Rochester Democrat and, Chronicle.
A very laughable trespass suit was
commenced Tuesday, November 13, at
Geneseo court house, before Judge Mac
omber. Two wealthy and highly respec
table widows of Caledonia were engaged
in a dispute over a line fence, and while
the plaintiff's workmen were engaged in
making a hole for a line fence post the
defendant came and put her feet in the
hole to prevent them from wording, being
very careful to keep her body on her own *
premises so as to commit no trespass. '
Th* plaintiff then came and in passing by,
kicked her in the back. Among the wit- I
nesses were the two Irishmen who dug
the hole. These made considerable sport, I
Altogether it was as amusing a suit as I
has been tried here for some lime, i
VANDERBILT S GRAND BALL.
The Brent of Last Season to be Thrown
in the Shade. •
Correspondence of the Sunday Morning News.
New Tork, Dec. s.—Society here has
become very “general” and decidedly
■ ■ mixed,’ but the number of rich people
' who are forced to play the part of Moses,
and can only view the promised land,
i which they are never to enter, is never
i theless very great. You meet them at
every place to which money will purchase
admittance; they have a box at one or the
other of the opera houses, and always at
tend the first night of a play at any of the
theatres; they do everything to make
themselves conspicuous, and think bv so
doing that they will advance their social
ambition. It they fail to get themselves
noticed in the newspapers in any other
way, they invite persons whom thev do
not know to their entertainments, and
give the society reporters the invitation
list in place of the names of those who
attend. Very often, when all their efforts
fail of social success, their children, who
have had the educational and other ad
vantages which the parents lacked, will
achieve the success which the fathers and
mothers desired. Scores of instances
could be named where the sons and
daughters of some. rich man
are invited to houses to which
their parents could never be admitted ex
cept. perhaps, as guests of the butler, as
Parson Primrose in Goldsmith’s tale found
himself to be on one occasion, when he
supposed that he was being entertained
by the master of the house. Until re
cently an example of this could be found
in the Vanderbilt family. For a long
time, Cornelius and even “Willie” Van
derbilt were invited to houses whose
doors were closed against their father;
but the “old man” is gradually becoming
the social peer of his offspring. Just
now he is the social equal of anybody in
New York, as he gives a ball next Tues
day which will eclipse the grand masked
affair of the sort given by “Willie” last
winter.
THREE THOUSAND INVITATIONS
have been issued, and people who should
have more self-respect are moving heaven
and earth to get themselves added to the
number of the guests. The number of
those applying for invitations is said to
equal those invited.
The first step to secure slow but sure
social recognition in New York is to get
appointed a manager at the annual char
ity ball, which this year will be given at
the New Opera House, in place
of the Academy of Music, and
ill be the first to be danced
there, the date being January 3. It a
pushing woman becomes a manager of
the charity, or better still, Is made a
“patroness,” which merely means that she
must sell or buy several times as many
tickets, she has only herself to blame if
she does not in time become, if not direc
tress of the Nursery and Child's Hospital,
the institution for whose benefit the ball
is given, at any rate a benefactress extra
ordinary, and proportionately intimate
with the other directresses, who comprise
ladies in the highest social position. If
she plays her cards well and is not too
vulgar,in the course of time she will be in
vited to their houses, and thus will at last
be launched on the social sea.
A story is told of the wife of a nouveau
riche, who, by skillful pushing, had got
into a certain circle in society, and ob
tained a prominent place in it, while her
husband, who had no social ambition, re
mained unknown to nearly all her ac
quaintances. One ot the guests at a grand
entertainment, given by her, found him
self, when tired and bored, next to an in
significant looking little chap. To him
he said, in an outburst of confidence: “It’s
growing beastly dull, and I’m going home
Won’t you come with me?”
“I’d like to,” was the reply,“but I can’t.
I am the host.”
SPEAKING OF NEW RICH PEOPLE,
a more characteristic story is told of Mrs.
Flood, wife of the California millionaire,
who, when in this city comparatively re
cently, visited Tiffany’s and asked to be
shown the choicest and most expensive
necklace on the premises. The most su
perb of the Tiffany jewels failed to satisfy
her, and the firm offered to send to Paris
and import the handsomest necklace to be
found in the city. Mrs. Flood had re
turned to California by the time the
gorgeous ornament arrived, and the
necklace followed her to her Pacific home.
She refused to accept it, declaring it not
good enough to encircle her queenly neck,
and suggested that it should be offered to
Mrs. Stanford, wife of the Governor. Mrs.
Stanford was not so difficult to please as
Mrs. Flood. She purchased the necklace,
but only, as she was careful enough to let
Mr. Tiffany know, for “breakfast wear,”
it not being expensive enough to do duty
on more formal occasions. The cost of the
necklace was over $109,000!
The first ball of the season, that given
by the Family Circle dancing class, took
place on Monday evening at Dehnonico’s.
It was, as usual, as “swell” and select as
a subscription affair can very well be, and
was a fitting prelude to the round of fes
tivities which will last from now to Ash
Wednesday.
THERE IS A GREAT TEA-POT TEMPEST
raging in Calvary Episcopal Church. The
Rev. Dr. Washburne, the late rector, was
what is known as Broad Church, and the
congregation has always been Low
Church. Few of them kneel during the
prayers, and some hardly bow their
heads. Such a thing as making a genu
flexion during the Gloria is unknown.
During Dr. Washburne’s incumbency the
church was hardly ever opened for service
except on Sundays and in Lent. When,
therefore, Dr. Sa’tterlee, the new rector,
instituted a system of morning and even
ing prayer every day in the week, and
kept the church open in the interim for
those who wished to make their private
devotions in the sanctuary, considerable
comment was excited among those who
considered this new departure an imita
tion of the similar Roman Catho
lic practice. The sexton, however,
was the only one who open
ly grumbled, and he complained not
on sectarian grounds, but because he
had to do seven times as much work for
the same salary. Dr. Satterlee’s popu
larity carried him safely through with
these innovations, and his wearing a sur
plice at sermon time and turning toward
the altar at the benediction were even
tolerated, but the crushed worm will turn
at last. Dr. Satterlee last Sunday
intoned the evening service! Shade
of Washburne! why didst thou not inter
fere? You may imagine the horror with
which the congregation listened and the
indignation which the majority of its
members gave utteranne to when they
dispersed. Several declared that they
would attend the church no longer, but,
alas for poor human nature! Dr. Satter
lee has such a good voice and he intones
—perish the word—so extremely well that
1 fear his congregation, low church as it
is, will soon tolerate and will finally ap
prove of his latest and most unprece
dented innovation. However, I won’t
prophecy.
Speaking of matters ecclesiastical, you
may have heard that the Rev. Dr. Hunt
ington, ot Worcester, is to succeed Bishop
Potter in the rectorship of Grace Church.
He is a brother of the Bishop of Central
New York, who was formerly the Unita
rian Chaplain of Harvard College. Like
his brother, Dr. Huntington, of whom all
speak well, he was formerly a Unitarian.
EASTSIDE THEATRE-GOERS
are congratulating themselves that they
were not consumed in the Windsor Thea
tre when it was burned. It was the largest
edifice of the kind in the city, except, per
haps, the two opera houses, and had fewer
exits than almost any other. Had the
fire broken out while the audience was
yet in it, a sacrifice of life greater than in
the Brooklyn Theatre seven years ago
would have resulted.
I have still little to report that is both
new and good in the theatrical line. The
new play at Daly’s, which was performed
for the first time last evening, hardly met
with success, and the English version of
Orphenbock’s opera at the renovated Bi
jou, is so uncouth as to almost spoil the
effect of the jolly music. Mr. Wallack,
while preparing a modern play, has been
able to put on his stage, in the interim,
nothing fresher than the “Road to Ruin,”
which was not much of a dramatic suc
cess when it had the element of novelty.
D.
♦Far more valuable than those golden
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and beauty of Womanhood. Mrs. Pink
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preserves all these.
Advice to Mothers.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
should always be used when chilcli'en are
cutting teeth. It relieves the little suf
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sleep by relieving the child from pain, and
the little cherub awakes as “ bright as a
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lays all pain, relieves wind, regulates
the bowels, and is the best known remedy
tor diarrhoea, whether arising from teeth
ing or other causes, 25 cents a bottle.
prroottai.
I r | MIE party who took a '
1 Derby Hat from Scott’s Barher" h ,r,JWr '
left a high black hat. with name of
Co. ou inside in its stead, will oblige q n ‘ 11 *
mg an exchange at Scott’s Barber Shu?, ' t; '
lUaittib.
W ED, first-class boanL~bv'2"Z
p man and wife, who de-ir.. th '*
I of a home; best of references ch-Jn
fin'red. Address IIOM E. ear/of r- -
AV ANTED, several cash Loys.
— s CHRjt:{Ny-p <
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i ,nen ptSchuetzen Park on Tilt p<nVv rn “
| cetnber 20, when you can wm vour < h? ’
. I urkey for 2»5c. Oct vour irun i»»
tjculars later. y feun ' ,no «ier. p ;i ”
AV AXTtL).---A few boirii<>r
'' board and lodging, and also umi V 1)laj «
I at 53 Jefferson street.
AV ANTED, a Widow With Food ,
wants position as wet nurs,> f »
I orcaß at Wheaton st , 3d <ioor
\V ANTED, by responsible inrt v
i rooms; furnished or unfur, X l
have southern exposure, "end fm * M «
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Unit.
I RENT, Commercial linn"?'"
I A 158 and 160 Bryan street contaiu' 111 *’ 1
, bed rooms, nearly all southed from- 21
I dining room ami parlor, all in ar S e
; having been lately %imed Re nt g T o V r t r ’
I further particulars apply at the office of >r
” • M. Davidson
| 158 Bryan
i VOR RENT, a truck
| J acres; two miles from city, on he'd‘i n”
, Ground road. B. F. ULMEIf,No 17 r;. 1
i top street. “rough.
j P'OR RENT, two-storv brick hmTT ~
I Barnard and Gordon lane 1n,,, J* J
Jefferson street. Monday. ‘ n "i ~lr e 22
rpo RENT, desirable rooms.
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P<>R bent, rooms.
i -T e tl ,'yt’h every convenience. K-nt
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RENT, house,No. sHenrv st. betu
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X 8-room house, No. 92 Henn street b,
tween Abercorn and Drayton. An >] v
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Apply 172 Jones street. «uani.
poll KENT, house 152 Hull street, lietweeii
Whitaker and Barnard. Apply next door.
POR KENT, a piano in good order.
-1 dress 11. S., this office.
ror Sale.
POK SALE, two Indian Ponies, kind and
A gentle ; broke to drive double or single
Also one flue Saddle Horse, Pony Uarriaae
and a double set of Harness. Inquire of ’
TEXAS CHARLIE’S FAK WEST CO.
loet.
I OST, on Saturday, a Sorrel Horse, with
r i one . whl . te J,, nil foot and white star m
forehead; strikes slightly on left front foot. A
reward of $5 will be paid for his return to the
undeisigned on Anderson street, between
1 rice and East Broad. JOHN HOLMES.
PoarUtno.
A FEW boarders can be accommodated at
x A No. 89 lork street. Table boarders
wanted.
ijnliiian (»?cotio.
HOLIDAY GOODS
I am now opening a fine line of CHRISTMAS
PRESENTS, consisting in part of
Ladies’ Fine Dressing Cases.
Gentlemen’s Fine Dressing Cases
Cut Glass Bottles.
Nail Sets. Odor Sets.
Jewel Caskets.
Infants’ Sets.
Shaving Sets.
Smokers’ Stands.
Fine Perfumeries.
Fancy Candy Boxes.
French Confectionery.
AT
OSCEOLA BUTLER’S
DRUG EMPORIUM.
Too busy opening Xmas
Cards and Holiday Goods
generally to advertise. Will
be ready Wednesday morn
ing, December 5.
DAVIS BROS.
Drij
I WILL OFFER THIS DAT,
Camel’s Hair SiiiM
ALT, WOOL, at 25c. peryard, in Grey, Browr
and Illuminated shades.
Boys’ French Eihhei Hose.
In Mixed Greys and Browns.
Children’s French Ribbed Hose,
In all new shades.
A Great Bargain,
50 dozen Children’s Ribbed Hose
at 15 cents pair.
GERMAINE'S
132 BROUGHTON STREET,
NEXT TO FURBER’S
Silvrrnmrr.