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Some of the Chicago cemeteries are
mere way stations on the road to the dis
secting rooms.
Baggage smashing will soon be one of
the lost arts in England. The dynamiters
are accomplishing some good after all.
The Grand Army is suspected of being
at work in the interests of Logan, but the
Mulligan Guards have not yet declared
for Blaine.
If England wants a hostage for the
good conduct of America on the dynamite
question, O’Donovan Itossa might be tem
porarily spared. •
it is about time for Gen. Gordon to
change his base from Khartoum to Cairo.
If he waits much longer he may not have
any base to change. •
it is stated that Private Dalzell’s pen
sion has been increased from to $2 to ft!
per month. Is this a reward for his gal
lantry in congratulating Fred. Douglass
on his marriage?
The Chicago hotels are already begin
ning to raise the price of board. This
seems to l>e one of the main things to be
done in order to properly entertain the
great political conventions.
Gath, Eli Perkins and Keiter may be
greater weavers of fiction than Tom Ochil
tree, but all three of them put together
will never be able to create such a sensa
tion as the Texas Congressman has.
Mr. Conkling insists that the alleged
interview ot the St. Louis minister with
him was a Snyderfair, but some of the
newspapers adhere to the belief that there
is a great question of veracity involved in
the matter.
Sergeant Bates, says the Philadelphia
Pres*, declares that there is a dormant
rebellion in the South. The Sergeant’s
contribution box yvus evidently quite
light when he got back to the- tramp’s
headquarters.
Speaking of the Jeannette victims, the
New York Herald says: “To so die as to
Increase the Yvhole Yvorld’s respect for
manhood is a privilege seldom giantt-'
• -• -mat u is <v i>( jv itege
seldom desired.
Lieut- nliodes recently declined a re
ception to be given in his honor at New
Haven, on the ground that he had been
thanked over much already. The Lieu
tenant is right not to want a good thing
run into tlie ground.
The Duke of Westminster recently
buried his son in a plain coffin made of
deal boards, iu order to discourage costly
funerals. If he had been a poor man he
wouid probably Have bought the finest
easket in the undertaker’s shop.
It is suspected that the cause of Judge
Fonrgee’s temporary retirement from the
lecture field,is the fact tliathis old bloody
shirt anecdotes have become so stale
that it is absolutely necessary for him to
take time to manufacture a netv stock.
A Cincinnati paper backs up Tom
Ochiltree Yvith the assertion that “when
Bismarck is mere common clay the
United States will be living and flourish
ing.” The trouble is that Bismarck is
not common clay now. He seems to be
a regular brick.
rue reduction of the quinine surplus by
fire, and the destruction ot the big Phila
delphia quinine factory, appears to be a
lucky circumstance for the speculators in
that drug. The advance of price was
prompt, but is not likely to be permanent.
The principal loss falls on the insurance
companies.
Col. Quay has denied that he is running
the Republican machine in Pennsylvania
in the interests of President Arthur, al
though his personal preference incline to
wards that individual, lie may furnish a
iittle literature and lubricating oil for the
machine every onee in a while, however.
At any rate the machine is running.
It is to be hoped that Hon. Tom Ochil
tree is not at the bottom of our threatened
dynamite complications with England.
There seems to be a possibility that the
lion will turn his teeth this wayinstead
of his tail. In that event we can look for
twisters Robinson and Finerty to take to
their he- is, but if T. O. is in it he will never
take water.
Gen. Graham has begun his campaign
against the rebels with a handsome vic
tory. The Africans are at a great disad
vantage when they fight well armed and
disciplined white troops under skillful
officers. The English commander has
much difficult work before him yet, how
ever, for the Red Sea littoral, oi Nubia,
embraces an immense stretch of country,
and it will be by no means an easy task to
drive out the followers of El Malidi and
prevent their return.
The undertaker who furnished the
casket for the remains of President Gar
field has informed the Sergeant-at-Arms
of the House that his bill has not yet been
paid. The Cos umittee on Accounts have
reduced the undertaker’s bill for the
fUneral of Congressman Haskell some
$2OO. The undertakers claim that their
bills are bight because they are never
promptly paid. As they get some 1,000
per cent, interest on their bills it
would he a great misfortune to them if
they were paid promptly.
A good mauy names have been sug
gested for the northern portion of Dakota
iu ease the southern counties are admit
ted into the Union as a State. Among
them are Pembina, Mandan, Lincoln and
Isabella—the latter in honor of the Queen
of Spain, who encouraged Columbus to
undertake his voyage of discovery. N’o
one has suggested “ Triana.” The crown
had offered a prize of 10,000 maravedis to
the member of the expedition who should
first see the laud. On the night of October
11, 1402. at 10 o'clock, Columbus saw a
light, and it was also seen by Pedro Gu
tierrez, but Rodriguez Sanchez could not
see it. Four hours later Rodrigo Triana
first saw the new world. He was a sailor
on the Tinta, but the reward was ad
judged to Columbus on the grouud that
be had previously seen the light.
The Immigration Meeting.
We publish this morning a call for a
public meeting next Wednesday night in j
the interest of immigration. The object j
is to appoint delegates to the convention
of the Southern Immigration Association,
to tie held at Nashville this month, j
This meeting is a movement in
the right direction. The move
ment can be made to amount to
something if it is given the attention it
deserves. The appointment of delegates
is not all that is to be done. Some sort of
an organization ought to be effected that
would keep this immigration matter agi
tated until practical . results were
achieved. If the meeting next AVednes
dav adjourns without doing anything be
yond appointing delegates it may lie
quite a while before we shall hear
anything more about immigration.
Those who have taken this matter in
charge must go ou with it and endeavor
to get the city and State interested in it.
Of course there is a good deal of work to
be done, and it ought to be done earnest
ly, promptly and energetically. There is
a pretty well settled belief that Georgia
has advantages thot ought to attract im
migrants. These advantages must be made
known. There may be those who think
that if people want to settle in Georgia
they do not need to be urged. This is a
mistake. The great majority of people
who contemplate seeking new homes
don't know where they want to go. They
are influenced in their choice by what
they read and hear. The AVest gets
about all the immigrants now
because it is so well advertised. The
tide of immigration has been in that di
rection for a long time and no effort has
been made to change it. To show what
advertising and earnest work will do,
however, it is only necessary to point to
Texas and Florida. Both of these States
arc having a marvelous growth. Neither of
them hasgreater advantages than Georgia.
In both of them railroads are boing pro
jected and built in all direction, and new
towns are heard of every few days. F.ve
ry body knows what Florida was and what
she is' becoming. If anyone a quarter of
a century ago had predicted her present
i prosperity lie would have been laughed
i at. There is no reason why immigrants
| should not And Georgia as attractive as
j they And Florida. We want in Georgia
j the same class of people that go to F lori
j ,ia, and if we make the proper effort we
j can get them,
There are those who say that European
j immigrants do not seek the South because
j they cannot compete with cheap negro
labor. It is not expected that they will
j compete. It is expected that they will
| make themselves homes on our cheap
lands. We are not asking for laborers,
i but for those who are capable of culti
; voting the soil *for themselves. The Ger
| mans who have settled in this State, in
| South Carolina and Missouri never fail
j t 6do well. They do not compete with
j negro labor. Their economy and thrift
! enable them to become farmers, and, as a
I rule, very prosperous farmers. The
Wednesday night meeting will act wisely
I if it acts with the understanding that
it is just beginning a great undertaking,
j and one that will require years of eon
| stant labor and attention.
Alabama and the Tariff.
The idea that has been advanced by the
advocates of the high protective tariff that
the reform issue would cause the loss to
the Democratic party of three Southern
States is being strongly refuted. They
are fond of harping on Alabama and her
great iron interests,-but seem to forget
that nineteen out of every
people of that The auto
goods, ami
eeanng ot the monopolists is not
at ail calculated to strengthen their ir.-
flueaee even among their near neighbors,
and the evidence is daily accumulating
that the people of Alabama are over
whelmingly in favor of tariff reform.
Mr. Thompkins, Attorney General ot
the State, has been interviewed, and he
says that as far as the Democratic party
in Alabama is concerned its ranks will
undoubtedly be strengthened by the tariff
issue. It is said that the protectionists
well know this tact, and that as long as
the Republican party remains united no
side issue will break or weaken the Dem
ocratic ranks.
Only three of the Alabama members of
the House of Representatives voted for
Mr. Randall tor Speaker. They were Mr.
Shelley. Mr. Hewitt and Mr. Williams.
Of these the latter is a revenue reformer,
and he represents the sentiments of his
district. Mr. Shelley is said to be a pro
tectionist whose great personal popularity
elects him from a revenue reform district.
Mr. Hewitt represents the only protection
district in the State, and eten there the
voters are so near equally divided that he
had to bo elected on a platform Yvhich ad
vocated a reduction of the expenses of
the government to a basis of the strictest
economy, w ith only a sufficiency of taxa
tion to defray such expenses. The most
ardent revenue reformer could not ask for
r better platform. Ret’enue reform clubs
have been organized in Birmingham itself,
so it is stated, while the country people
are by no means in favor of a continua
tion of the war tariff.
There are two or three prominent iicyvs
papers in Alabama that advocate protec
tion, but so far as noticed not once have
they intimated that Alabama is for pro
tection, or that the tarifl’ issue would
jeopardize the Democratic chances in the
State, though this has frequently been as
serted by outsiders. Notwithstanding all
the bluff and bluster of the protectionists,
the reY'enue reform doctrine seems to be
the winning card in Alabama, as w r ell as
all through the South and YVest. The
Ways and Means Committee is no doubt
fully posted on this subject, and is not
likely to be intimidated by gloomy prophe
cies and threats at this stage of their pro
ceedings.
The Steel Cruisers.
Mr. Hale's bill authorizing the con
struction of seven steel cruisers, one steel
ram, two harbor torpedo boats and one
cruising torpedo boat, got through the
Senate by a much larger majority than
was generally expected. This large ma
jority encourages its friends to believe
that it cannot be defeated iu the House.
Two things, doubtless, contributed to the
success of the bill in the Senate.
One was the little disturbances late
ly in our foreign affairs, which
created a feeling that war was something
that a nation ought to be prepared for.
The other was Secretary Chaneler’s lob
bying tactics. He is a very shrewd lob
byist. Somehow or other he has succeed
ed in making himself popular with a gopd
many Democratic Senators, and without
being solicited in any way they do
not hesitate to lend him a helping hand
when they can consistently and consci
entiously do so. Our navy is in a
wretched condition. We could not
prevent even Chili from bombarding any
one ot our cities. Her war vessels are im
mensely superior to ours. It is admitted
that we must have a navy. That being
the case, why not begin building it now,
instead of waiting until some future
time? There is plenty of money in the
Treasury. In fact, there is so much that
Congress seems to be at a loss to know
what to do with it. It is astonishing how
much money has been spent on the navy
and how little there is to show’
for it. The amount is some
where near $1,000,000,000. About
half ot this sum was spent on war vessels
and half in pay of officers and men, and
for clothing, provisions and micellaneous
things. We have plenty of officers—more
in fact than there is any use for. There
are 1,768 on the active list and
enough on the retired list to bring the
number up to 2,108. There are also
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1884.
247 cadets in the naval academy. There
is certainly no lack of officers, but how
about the ships? There are ninety of
them in all, including the tugs and those
which have about beeu abandoned as use
less, They are a sorry lot. There are a
few good vessels among them, but they
are not suited for the naval warfare of the
present day. It is to be hoped that no
mistakes will be made in the new vessels.
Those which are in process of construc
tion, however, are being severely criti
cised. It they should turn out to be as
great and costly blunders as the Robeson
monitors, the people would feel like
giving up the attempt to build a navy*
Germany and Bismarck.
It the German Reichstag passes a vote
of thanks for the Lasker resolutions
Frince Bismarck will have something to
be mad about. The Chancellor is not per
sonally popular in Germany, and his il
liberal measures have almost destroyed
the influence he obtained ou account of
he successful result of the war with
France. There is scarcely a German
family of the middle classes but has mem
bers in the United States who are fully
identified with this country, and are
strong believers in Republican gov
ernment. Their influence is very great
in the Fatherland, and the growth of Re
publican ideas has been very rapid there
in the last decade. If Bismarck expects
to end the friendly intercourse between
the people of the United States and Ger
many by making a great diplomatic ques
tion out ot the Lasker resolutions the
effort may result in internal agitations
that will shake the Imperial government
to its very foundations. It is evident that
the German Liberals, whose power is not
to be despised, consider the incident as a
matter of much greater importance than
Yve do.
Probably a large majority of the Ger
man people have become imbued with a
dislike of the oppressive and autocratic
rule of their government. The recent
history of France has taught them that it
is possible for a great republic to main
tain its autonomy and dignity even in the
midst of the powers of monarchical Eu
rope, for the Germans do not hesitate to
learn ev r en from their enemies. It is
hardly possible that Germany will become
a republic for many years. Theestablieli
ment of a free government in the very
centre of Europe would be the precursor
to the early downfall of nearly every
throne on the continent, and the powers
would probably unite to suppress any
revolutionary movement in that direc
tion. It may be, however, that a crisis
will be precipitated in Berlin that will in
the end greatly reduce the absolute power
of the government and enlarge the liber
ties of the people.
Tlie Report of the Civil Service Com
mission.
The President makes no reservations in
his indorsement of the civil service law,
and the results of the work of the Civil
Service Commission. He is well aware
that the law is popular with the people,
whether it is with the politicians or not.
However, he could not very well do oth
erwise than applaud the workings of a law
that he approved not much more than a
year ago. It is very certain that the law
lias seriously damaged the yearly Eepubli
[ can campaign fund, because office-holders,
however good Republicans they may be,
will not part with their cash when
i they are not to be directly benefited. ' It
has not been made to appear yet, how
' ever, that the civil service law
proved the service . -=cie aie still a good
■ “ spots in it. It is, perhaps,
1 too soon to expect improvement of this
kind. It will take several years to bring
the service up to the high standard aimed
at. If the commission had given a. Rule
more time to their work and less to man
ufacturing a report it is probable the pub
lic would have been better pleased. What
does the public want with a report 167
pages in length? Who will read
it? The length of this report is
an argument a. ainst the fitness of the
commission for their positions. If they
had crowded what they had to say into a
dozen or twenty pages the country might
have obtained a pretty fair idea of what
they have beeu doing. If the commission
were unable to tell their story briefly they
ought to have hired someone to condense
it for them. Their defense to the charges
against them and to the criticisms of the
law will remain unheard, and the enemies
of civil service reform have a Clearfield iu
which to carry on their work of detrac
tion.
The Inter-State Commerce Bill.
The best opinion in Washington re
specting an inter-State commerce bill ap
pears to be that such a bill will be passed
by the House before the end of tho
present session. It is not believed that
the bill w r hieh the Committee on Com
merce will report will meet with the ap
proval of the House. It is pretty certain
to be greatly modified, whatever its pro
visions may be. Avery strong effort is be
ing made to have the bill provide only for
a commission to look into and report
upon abuses and unjust discriminations
without the potver to remedy the evils
they may discover. It has been found by
experience that commissions of this char
acter have rendered the public no service.
They have, howoY’er, been very prompt
and cateful to draw their large salaries.
If the House does anything in this matter
it is pretty certain to give the commission
authority to regulate freight and traffic
rates. It will not be an easy matter to
get an inter-Sjate commerce bill through
the House. The great inter-State rail
roads are rich and powerful, and they are
organized to defeat hostile legislation.
But if the bill gets through the House it
will have little chance in the Senate.
There is a large number of Senators who
are interested in railroads in one way and
another, and thoy are Hardly patriotic
enough to pass any measure calculated to
damage their interests. It will not be a
difficult matter to defeat the bill in the
Senate by delay. It has always been
easier to get legislation that was favorable
to railroads thffn to get that which was
unfavorable, but since the anti-monopoly
cry Yvas raised it has not been easy to get
eY - en favorable legislation.
CURKEN T COMMENT.
A Republican Misfortune.
Boston Post (.Dem.).
The Republican party isn't so well fixed as
it was when it had Uncle Hannibal Hamlin
and old Sime Cameron to plan its deviltry
for it.
The Outrage Machine.
Philadelphia Ledger ( fnd.).
If it was ever expected that the Senate in
vestigation of the Danville and Copiah elec
tion riots and outrages would amount to any
thing more than a machine f<*r making elec
tioneering capital that expectation lias van
ished.
A Fatal Stumbling Block.
Xaehville World (Pern.).
The revenue reformers are looking to giving
the working man the value of their earnings,
and not to laxmg the articles which those
earnings should buy. The tax on luxuries
will not be abolished until necessaries are
placed nearer the reach of the poorer classes,
and the internal tax on liquors, a constitu
tional, and just measure, will prove a more
fatal stumbling block to the party which tries
to abolish it, than to one which retains it.
Autlquated Senate Rule.
-Vsic York Herald (Ind.).
Someone has exhumed from a very old
journal of the Uhited States Senate the fact
that whenever a member was absent, even for
a day, his salary was deducted. It is not
stated when this sensible custom was dropped,
but the date may safely be set, in a rough
way, at the time when It became fashionable
to elect men to the Senate merely to talk poli
tics and distribute oßices. When such men
are absent the country is too greatly the
gainer to think of doing anything to compel
attendance.
Diamonds in Wisconsin, gold in Tennessee,
and all within a week. Those who will make
tne most money in either place will be those
who succeed in selling their land at fabulous
prices, and those who lose the most will be the
ones who buy.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ohio is the third State in the Union in re
gard to crime.
Ax Ohio physician is preparing a medical
lexicon in forty-two languages.
Brooklyn people are once more discussing
the advantages and drawbacks of annexation
to New York.
Fora kegs of powder were found in the
garret of a church at Canton, Ohio, and the
police arc trying to find out who put them
there.
A leading authority in the far West an
nounces that “the fashionable thing in female
beauty is n-shes-of-roses complexion, with a
slim waist.”
lx Washington Territory the women on
a jury which was deciding a case concerning
a disreputable collar saloon won the men over
to conviction.
Mbs. Gen. Lander writes to Forney's
l’hilrtdelqjiia Proarete that the New Pension
Office will he used for the next inaugural ball.
But a deal of bawling through the canvass
and election will come on first.
The Merv Gas's is a patch of irrigated
country about sixty miles square. 11 contains
a number of towns and villages, ami three
ruined cities which \rere built and abandoned
successively. Alexander is said to have
founded the first of them.
The Temple of Jerusalem, writes a special
Paris correspondent of the Pilot , is to be re
built by the combined efforts and contribu
tions of twelve American millionaires, two of
whom have already gone to Palestine to study
on the spot the most efficient means of putting
into execution their gigantic aud costly pro
ject.
Domino parties are fashionable entertain
ments in Boston, the ladies hut not the gentle
men wearing masks. At one entertainment a
young gentleman was flirting desperately
AVitti a domino, when to his astonishment tlie
voice behind the mask said. “Why, Bobby,
where did you learn such frightful things?”
The domino proved to be bis mother.
The present terminus of the Russian rail
way in Turkestan is Askabad. This ancient
town is the junction of caravan lines from
Persia to Khiva, and from the Caspian to Af
ghanistan. It is near Geok Tepc, the fortified
town captured by Gen. Skobeleff on Jan. 24,
tsst, in n battle by which the most warlike
of the Tekke Turcomans were reduced to Rus
sian rule.
Prof. Felix Adler is at present inspecting
the sanitary and the general condition of ten
ement houses and'their inmates in New York.
* Tltis is hut a preliminary step to his proposed
I plan of erecting improved tenement houses
I that will, by a systemof yearly reservedrent
i payments, secure to the tun an. s a gradual in
i lerest in the property. Twenty thousand del -
i lars have already been subscribed towards
j this reform movement.
A small piece of resin, dipped in the water
which is placed in a vessel on a stove, says one
who knows, will add a peculiar property to
the atmosphere of the room, which will giva
great rtsliu? Id pdi'sd’ns troubled with a cough.
The heat of the water is sufficient to throw off'
the aroma of the resin, and gives the same re
lief that is afforded by a combustion of the
resin. It is preferable to combustion, because
the evaporation is more durable. The same
resin may be used for weeks.
Paris is regarded as the foremost in the
absolute provision for manual training in
connection with primary schools. Oveva hun
dred schools in the French capital are now por
vided with workshops. At present they turn
out articles of wood from planing benches
and lathes. It is proposed soon to add iron
to the material to be operated upon. This
manual training is an addition, to the ordina
ry studies of a primary school; thelioyi ap
pear to like it. and it gives anew form of
activity to their minds and valuable exercises
to their muscles.
English society is successfully combating
the system of late-hour parties, which :u the
long run proves so detrimental to feminine
beauty. The London leaders of fashion have
introduced a series of entertainments railed
“Cinderellas,” which, being interpreted,
means parties that end exactly at 12o’;loek.
No matter what may be going on at the time,
whether a mazy waltz or a stately cotillion,
the rule is inexorable tnat the dancing must
cease when the clock sounds the hour ot mid
night. The festivities begin at an early hour,
no elaborate supper is spread, and with the
detrimental late hours and late repasts out of
the way, the English belles hope to preserve
their good looks.
Thbfjs Christian young women publicly em
braced the Jewish faith at the Plum Street
Temple, Cincinnati, on Friday evening last.
Two of them are engaged to he married to
Jews and the third is alreadv the wife of a
Jew. having married him about a year ago
against the wishes of her parents, who are
Roman Catholics aud represented to be very
religions. Her husband’s father nw nis fam
ilv mourned him as one dead after ms mar
riage, but he lias been reclaimed by them
since his wife expressed a desire to embrace
their faith, and she will hereafter he a mem
ber of the family and be looked upon as a
Jewess.
A Washington lady is credited with one of
the smarted sayings seen in print for some
time. The story goes that a gentleman who
is occupying his elegant leisure in wasting a
handsome fortune and leading his son into
wavs as vicious as his own, recently suggested
to his wife the necessity of retrenchment.
“We might rent one of our rooms,” he said,
“ft wouldn’t be difficult to tijid somebody who
would he out a good deal, and there is no need
for the neighbors to know anything about it."
"If we are going to rent a room,” his spouse
returned with cuttiug emphasis, “what do
you say to letting it to a milkman? He would
not trouble you at aU, for he’d go out in the
morning before you and Harry came in.”
A passenger on the train on the Colorado
Central Narrow Gauge Road, which was
blown bodily from the track by the wind on
Saturday morning last in Georgetown, Col.,
thus describes the event: “We had gone but
a short distance—say four or live blorks—
when the wind bore down on us with tre
mendous force. Tlie cars began to rock and I
told the conductor, who was standing beside
me, that we were going over. 1 firmly grasped
the seat, when I felt the carrise in the air and
then turn over. We came down so hard that
I lost my grip, and I found myself somewhere
in the rooting, with several others. The car
took lire, but all made their escape byscramh
lingout of windows and door*, and the flames
were speedily extinguished.” There were
fifteen passengers on the train, and all were
hurt, hut none were killed.
In illustration of the quality with which
Gen. Gordon has to deal, it is related that in
1821 Ismail, son of Meliemet Ali, the conqueror
of the Soudan, was ordered by his father to
collect the tribute due from the tribes of
Bedouins of Shendy on the Nile, half way be
tween Berber and Khartoum ismaii sum
moned a chieftain known as the Tiger, and
told him to furnish a large amount of forage
and fodder in lieu of a money payment. Next
morning Ismail and Ins troops found with sat
isfaction piles of the stuff demanded placed
around the camp, but their satisfaction was
short-lived. The stuff was soon set on lire,
and those not burned were picked off by men
lying tti wait behiud the burning piles. Me
hemet, to avenge his roasted son, razed the
town of Shendy, hut the Tiger made tracks in
good time into the fastnesses of the interior.
The printing world of London is much dis
turbed by the discovery of anew process
which enables any number of copies to he
taken of any book, even; the oldest, without
setting a line of type. A compound has been
discovered which may lie spread upon a page
without in tlie slightest way injuring the
paper, and which refuses to rest upon ink. It
can he easily removed to a stone, and there
becomes the matrix for stereotype, or can he
useu Tor tn,m Practical
printers are experimenting to see whether
they cannot save the cost of resetting old edi
tions, and, if certain practical difficulties are
removed, there will he a change not only in
the production of fac similes of old books, ’hut
in the reproduction of new ones. It will he
no longer necessary to kee-j type standing, a*
a proof will be as good as a stereotype plate.
The latest novelty in Faris is a private cir
cus, which is owned and managed liy M.
Melier. The arena, which is as large as that
of the public establishment or tlie same kind
in the Champs Elysees, presents the appear
ance of the square of some Spanish city, the
spectators occupying places at the windows
ami on the balconies of the surrounding
houses, and the effect is heightened when, as
on the first night, these balconies are crowded
w ith the prettiest women in the capital, es
corted to the evening’s entertainment by the
most distinguished representatives of’ tlie
Paris clubs. The troupe is composed of ama
teurs, professionals being excluded, and in
cludes a number of horsemen and horse
women, gymnasts and clowns, nearly all of
them M. Molier’sown pupils. The proprietor
himself rides the mettlesome horses that lie
has had the patience to train.
BRIGHT BITS.
Madam Semhkich gleefully informed a re
porter, the other day, that tier husband was
going to buy tier a jumbo to practice on. She
meant a banjo.
She sang: “I want to be an angel,” and he
declared that she was one already. To this
she blushingly demurred. Then he married
her. Demurrer sustained.
‘•Yea. sir,” said the member of, the Commit
tee on Prisons, “I am going in for making life
in State prisons a perfect luxury. And I be
lieve the House will pass it, for, as things
look novr, a majority of the members are go
ing to land in that institution.”
“Monsieur, I want to have a portrait of
my uncle taken." “I am at your disposal,
monsieur.” was the reply. "When do you in
tend to bring your uncle'?” “He is dead'?”
"Then you have a portrait of him that can bo
copied?” "No; but here is his passport, with
his full description.”— French Fun.
Mr. Ryan,” said a Chicago commissioner
to an applicant for the renewal of his liquor
license, "I thought you had resolved to quit
the business and devote yourself to the work
of temperance reform.” “It’s thrne, every
wurrud versayin’,” returned Mr. Ryan, "but
that was befool- I knew the convinshim was to
mate here.”
“Wadsworth,” said Charles Lamb, "one
■lay told me he considered Shakespeare
greatly overrated. ‘There is an immensity
of trick in all Shakespeare wrote.’ he said,
‘and the people are taken by it. Now. if I
had a mind, T could write exactly like Shakes
peare ’ ” “So, yon see," proceeded Charles
Lamb, quietly, “it was only the mind that
w as wanting.” —Public Ojdnion.
“Promise me, dearest,” pleaded the fair
haired girl, as she stood tiptoe to kiss her
lover (a rising voting statesman of Columbus)
good night, “promise me that you will not
seek the nomination for President this year.”
A shadow of pain and disappointment fell
upon his Alpine brow, hut he banished it by a
mighty effort, and said proudly: ”1 am an
Ohio man. Mazourka McMullen, hut my love
for you is greater than my ambition. I
promise you--provided John Sherman wants
it." Her face was radiant with joy, and as
she withdrew her lips from his the sound was
like tlie explosion of a ripe tomato against a
board fence.
A Lucid Explanation.—Endora—“What
in the world do these letters mean on Mrs.
Tomkins’ invitations?” Mamma—“They are
R. S. V. P„ are they not?" Endora—“Cer
tainly not. I know w hat R. S. V. P. moans.
They stand for ‘Rcpondez s’il vonr plait’—
answer if you please. These letters are A. I.
Y. P. What under the sun do they stand
for?” Mamina—"l am sure 1 don't know.
Must be something in French or Spanish, or
possibly Italian,” Endora—“Perhaps A. I,
Y. P. mean‘answer if you please.’” Mamma
“Impossible. Mrs. TBmkins would never use
such a common, vulgar language as English
on her invitations.”— Philadelphia Call.
Three Strikes—Out.
The clock strikes one,
They sit apart.
“I would that I were a bird,” said he.
And then he softly sighed;
“That f were love’s'white dove, ah-me!
To hover by thy side.”
“I would that I were a cage,” said she,
While her drooping eyelids hide;
“That l might a prison be for thee
To keep thee by my side.”
The clock strikes two,
With heart to heart.
“Would I were a gun,” the father said.
As he glided down the stair.
White dove grew red as h • mentioned bed
With a dark paternal glare.
The clock trices throe,
Arise—depart.
—Detroit Chaff.
PERSONAL.
Gen. Kilpatrick's friends at Newton, N.
J., are raising a memorial fund to present to
the widow.
Prof. Cvbcs Nortiirup is to leave Y'ale
College to become President of the Minnesota
University.
Mr. Irving's manager reports that the
gross receipts in America will aggregate
nearly 4100,000.
Mbs. Betsy 1.. Moody, who lives at Cape
Elizabeth, Maine, celebrated her 102d birth
day last week.
Ingersoli. is at present a Lincoln man,that
being a safe position from which to shift when
the time comes.
Gen. Cadmus Wilcox, a doorkeeper of the
United States Senate, was one of Lee’s favor
ite Major Generals.
Mbs. YV. YV. Astor. it is tjgw thought, will
recover from her present illness, although her
condition is still critical.
Maj. E. A. Burke, editor of the New Or
leans Times-Democrat, is a candidate for
United States Senator, to succeed Senator
Jonas.
Ellis 11. Roberts’ lectures to the Cornell
University students on Protection are to lie
replied to next week by Professor Adams, a
Free-trader.
Mbs. Stewat.t has sold the reconstructed
Stewart building in New York, extending on
Broadway, between Chambers and Keade
streets, to ex-Judge Hilton for $2,100,000.
Mbs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton lias re
turned to Johnston, in Fulton county, N. Y..
to pass the remainder of her days in the old
Cady homestead, where she was’ born sixty
eight years ago.
Tuk family of Minister Hunt, who died on
Wednesday in St. Petersburg, is widely scat
tered. Of his six sons, one is in the navy, one
is a lawyer in New Y ork, another is a civil
engineer in Dakota, and another is living in
Montana. Mr. Hunt's wife and daughter
were with him in St. Petersburg.
Pierre Michel La Pice de Bergondy,
who died at his home ou Latierdale planta
tion, St. James Parish, near New Orleans, on
February 17, at the age of 87, was the first
planter in Louisiana to produce white sugar,
lie was a leading Creole of the State, but a
native of San Domingo, whence hi- family
tvas driven by a negro insurrection in 1802.
He served with distinction in the Orleans
Battalion under Gen. Jackson, and was the
last surviving Louisianian who fought at the
battle of New Orleans. He owned seven or
eight cotton and sugar plantations in Louisi
ana and Mississippi. Seven years ago tie
v.isited the East Indies in search of a sugar
cane adapted to this climate, finding it in Java.
It has a great reputation now, being known
as La Pice cane
BOOK NOTICES.
Miss Littlejohn. By Miss Eleanor M.
.Jones. Morning News Library series.
Price 20 cents.
Miss Jones, the author of “Miss Little
john,” is the daughter of John W. Jones,
Esq., formerly of Liberty county. Ga., but
now of Newborn, North Carolina. The
story attracted a good deal of attention
when it appeared as a serial in the Weekly
Neyvs. The interest is well sustained,
aud the sketching of the characters shows
more than ordinary power and skill.
MAGAZINES.
The Current, published at Chicago, is
rapidly taking a tront rank among periodi
cals. It is first class in every respect.
The February number of the Art Union
is lull of good things. It must continue
to gnm v in faY’or. 12 College Place, N. Y.
St. Nicholas for M areli is a superb
number. The illustrations are Y’ery tine,
and the matter is excellent. Century
Company, N. Y.
The March Outinqand Wheelman comes
out with a charming snow scene for a
frontispiece, and a mixture ot winter and
summer in its contents, as varied as the
season. A light tennis sketch, by Arlo
Bates, with lively illustrations, has the
first place. There is a great deal of good
reading matter in the number. The best
fiction in the number is a breezy out-door
story, begun by President Bates, called
“The Masq’allonge.” Outing has a broad
and attractive field, and one that is
steadily gaining attention from tho public.
George Cary Eggleston’9 contribution
to the March Magazine of American His
tory concludes his brilliant and timely
essays on “Our Twenty-one Presidents,”
the curretit chapter treating of “ The
Last Eleven.” It is a marY'el of con
densation. Nothing extant in American
literature furnishes as much critical in
formation in brief on the successive ad
ministrations of our Presidents, and the
novel and original manner in which the
subject has been bandied commands uni
versal as few writers even of
history are able to draw the line between
truth and politics, or seek to enlarge the
boundaries of knowledge concerning our
rulers without descending into the vortex
ot dispute. Eleven striking portraits
accompany tlie 'article. 30 Lafayette
Place, New York.
Freddy and His Cliuni.
Sneaking of theatrical matters, says a
Now Vnrt ‘‘ r to the Albany Journal,
r, , , i’k 1 "'! ■ „ ’"iger the compan-
I teddy Gebhard is n.? „ ow t ,£ in „
ion of Mrs. Langtry, lie* i 8 ”
about town with his brotlier-in- ' aw > *' rCci '
dy Neilson. They are seen at the Ui77 tres
together and on the avenue arm in arm.
They lounge at the same club and not in
frequently Gebhard goes with Neilson
down town to his office to keep the broker
company while be indulges in what he
calls work. They are rather a handsome
pair of men. Neilson has the felicity of
being told that he resembles the Prince of
Wales, though in fact he is much better
looking than the head of the British
aristocracy. He is tall, well made and
agreeable. He is a member of the Coach
ing Club, keeps twelve horses in his
stable, employs ten servants, and lives
like a lord. 1 tell you this, not because
the man is intrinsically interesting, but
in order to add the fact tbat he got into a
state of affluence by good luck. Here was
a case in which, rarely enough, a society
beauty did not gain but gave wealth in
matrimony. A few years ago Neilson
was a dweller in a cheap boarding-house
in Seventeenth street. He occupied a
fourth-story back room, spent bis even
ings playing billiards in a neighboring
saloon, and all the fortune that he enjoyed
was in his mind. Then he fell In with
Freddy Gebhard's sister. He married
her within a lew months. The next
helpful thing that happened to him was
the death of the senior Gebhard, who left
his two children a million dollars each.
Mrs. Neilson is one of the celebrated
young-married-women-beautieß ot New
York.
A Rousing Campaign Fund.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
A few nights ago I sat in the company
of some very distinguished Republicans,
and the situation as to the Democracy
was being canvassed.
Said one: “Is Payne well thought of in
New York?”
“Yes,” was the response. “I believe he
will be the choice ot the New York dele
gation. I know three men in the church
of which I am a member, not strict party
men either, but business men, who would
each contribute $1,000,000 to aid in the ex
penses of a campaign with Payne as the
leader. He could raise the biggest cam
paign fund ever got together on this earth
to aid his election.”
THE DJSSECTING ROOM.
A Peep Into the I’lace Where the Bodies j
of the Taylor Family were Found— \
llow the Students AVork and Amuse
Themselves at the Same Time.
The prominence into which the Ohio
Medical College has been brought by the
awful Taylor tragedy, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer of the ‘2Sth lilt., makes news of
every character concerning the institu
tion read with the greatest interest. Dur
ing the past few days an Enquirer repre
sentative has made it his business to visit
the dissectiug room in which the bodies of
old man Taylor, his wife and daughter
were found and recognized by Marshal
Brown. A graphic description of the
manner in which subjects are carved by
tue young saw-bones was also obtained,
together with other interesting points
about the dissectir.g room.
To reach the apartment where thou
sands of bodies have been cut to pieces
for the benefit of science one has to climb
the stairs to the top (filth ) floor of the
college building. Entering the door, at
tention is first attracted to a long row of
tables on either side of the room, which
is about 30 feet wide by 40 feet long. Here
and there a table contained a “ point,” as
the medical profession term a body. In
the daytime the “points” arecovt red over
from head to toe with moist bandages to
keep them Irom drying up. The dissect
ing is done only at night, when the scene
is a busy one and much more interesting.
The room contains forty tables in all,
and often in the midst of the college term
each one is brought into use. The table
consists of a large slab formed somewhat
on the plan ol a woman's ironing-board,
only it is a little larger. Gutters are cut
an inch from the edge, and just deep
enough to allow the drippings to go into a
pan on the floor at the foot of the board.
The slabs are set on horses about three
and a half feet in height, with the head a
little the highest. On each side of a table
is a bench large enough to accommodate
two students. All of these are mov
able. There is another smaller
bench for the student who works
on the head. Small blocks of
wood are provided to place under differ
ent parts of the body to put them into po
sition. A small room adjoining is for pri
vate classes, and contains five or six ta
bles. As there are over three hundred
; students attending the Ohio College at
I present it is necessary to have at least
j forty cadavers for the course, which lasts
six * months. Each student at the com
mencement of a term pays $lO for a dis-'
secting ticket. This entitles him to a
fifth portion of the first body he w orks on.
After that he pays $5 extra for his share
of the subject. Five students work on
one body, and pay $5 each for the privi
| lege. They draw cuts as to ihe choice
j of portions.
The new student generally gets sick
and does not take kindly to the work at j
lirst. He is careful in donning a large
gown before he goes near the corpse, and
particularly careful as to where he puts ’
his fingers for fear of blood poison. When \
they finally get broken in they lose all ab- i
horrence of the work and sit and smoke j
and chat while they carve and pelt each :
other with different portions of the sub
jects. They play all sorts of jokes on each j
other. For instance, they will stick a j
classmate’s pipe in a cadaver's mouth j
and then tell him where he can find it. !
Woe betide the unlucky prolessor who is j
disliked by the students should he
appear in the dissecting room.
They will pay him sundry unpleasant
attentions and deposit in his pockets por
tions of the anatomy that are of the least
use. The dissection of the head is useful
only for the knowledge it gives of the
muscles of the neck and back. The stu
dent makes an incision about on a line
with the breast bones, and then such other
incisions that may assist him in dissect
ing back the skin with the least possible
damage to the tissues beneath. These he
investigates separately, locating the tnus
cles, his book before him, following the
course of the blood-vessels and nerves as
they appear to his observation. lie inves
tigates thoroughly to the windpipe, and ;
the only thing that escapes his knife is 1
the back bones going up to the neck.
One part of the head of importance is the
muscles around the jaw, nose, eyes and
forehead. The student has little use for
the top or the head. The brain, as a rule,
is dissected collectively. However, it is
not often in a condition to dissect. After
this there is little or nothing left but the
skull. Everything is removed. With the
arm much (he same course is pursued,
only more attention is given tto the mus
cles of the hands aud lingers. Every
thing is utilized, aud the same may be
said of the lower extremities. The chest
and abdomen are dissectetf collectively
bv the class, and generally with the aid of
the demonstrator of anatomy. After the
work on a body is completed nothing
remains but the bones. In the first case
these go to the college, and in the second
to the students. A skeleton prepared is
worth considerable money. Contrary to
all expectations the dissecting room is
rather a neat place,and although the odor
is not familar to every one, still it is not
so horrible as people might be led to sup
pose. It requires three hours’ work every
night for four weeks to complete the dis
section of a body by five students. The
bodies of people dying of consumption are
most desired for dissecting purposes, as
they have the least fat. Fleshy subjects
are at a discount. Students have little
choice as to sex. The body should be at
least fourteen years old, and those over
twenty are the most preferable. Old per
sons are not so good, as the arteries are
weak and break down, and will not stand
following. For the lecture room extra
material is held. For instance, a body on
which no post-mortem examination has
been made will be laid out on the table,
and hit on the head to produce a fracture.
This is to show the class how to attend
such a fracture, by elevating the bone or
taking out the fragments.
The pickling vats, made notorious by
the Harrison case, are near the old chute,
which is used so seldom nowadays. It
will hold Irom fifteen to twenty-five
bodies, and is used when there is an ex
cess of material. In it bodies will keep
for an Indefinite period. Asa rule, how
ever, pickled subjects are not so good.
The students do not like them, as they
are not fresh and the veins and arteries
don’t stand out well.
INTERRUPTING THE MOURNERS
A Husband Tries to Drag His Wife From
a Church Altar.
Revival services, says a Reading (Pa.)
special of the 28th ult. to the Philadelphia
Press, were held in Zion’s United Breth
ren Church last night. Fifteen mourners
were kneeling around the altar rail,weep
ing, praying loudly and shouting. About
them were a dozen men and as many wo
men, standing up and singing, and loudly
uttering praise and thanksgiving, and
cheering the mourners on to increased
earnestness in their supplications. The
churen was filled and the aisles blocked
with people.
Suddenly an elderly woman excitedly'
entered * l,e church aml elbowed her way
through the in the aisle U P to tbe
altar* among ‘ tbe mourners, where her
daughter was. She made au ttto.t todrag
her away. Just then loud po ' a w ,? s
heard on the front door of the 7 iar 9®’
which had been locked to keep out .7*
traders. The door was opened and in
rushed Janies Soheidt, the husband of the
woman at the mourners’ bench, whose
mother was Irving to get her awav. He
hurried up the aisle, where he was
stopped by the deacons.
For a short time there was considerable
excitement. The singing ceased, but
above the noise and confusion could be
heard the woman’s voice calling, “Don’t
let them take me away!” Police officer
Derr was called in and Mr. Scheldt was
arrested.
lie was given a hearing before the
Mayor this morning. The Mayor told the
accused if he did not want liis wife to go
to a mourners’ bench he ought to have
settled it at home. He was lined $8 JO and
discharged.
‘‘Another C.”
Editor Morning Sews: A correspon
dent in the News of this morning feels
worried because somebody’s effusion ap
peared in your paper over tbe ttom de
plume ofrtbe letter “U.” It is not to me
clear what are the grounds of his trouble.
I was and am under the impression that
the English alphabet is common property,
and that no man has an exclusive title to
any letter therein.
It would appear that this individual’s
name begins with a O, and he fears his
reputation will suffer and his character |
be compromised by a suspicion of his
affiliation with the “Irish question.” But
are there not other men whose cognomens
likewise begin with a C who have just as \
much cause to complain as he? Wonder
if they are all going to open a fusilade \
upon the unfortunate wight who has had 1
the sublime impudence to select for his ■
Horn de plume the letter (' v
Savannah, March 1,1884.
THE SENATE RESTAURANT.
How the Wise Men Eat, Drink and En
joy TheinaelYe*.
The Senate restaurant has become the
club room of the capitol, says a Washing
ton correspondent of the Troy Times.
With a colored man in charge, the Sena
tors now get the best cooking and atten
dance in town. Representatives go over
there to lunch, and Senators boast of it
outside. I was talking with John Francis
the other day. He is the colored man to
whom Mr. Edwards gave the restaurant,
with $6,000. or $7,000 a year. ‘‘Do the
Senators generally spend much money
with you?” I asked him. “No,” he went
on, “as a rule, they come down here and
eat crackers and milk. My milk is most
all cream, and they like it. Most of them
are here each day, although a few have
their lunch sent to a committee room.
Senator Morrill alwavs eats crackers
and milk; so do ' Senators Hoar
and Ingalls. Mr. Platt always
drinks tea. Senator Vest likes
to stand up to the oyster counter and take
a’dozen on the shell, with some ale. Perry
Belmont is often here eating raw oysters.
Gen. Logau is very abstemious. Mr. Al
drich generally eats a steak. But the best
of our custom is from the outsiders. They
eat more and higher-priced diuuers than
the Senators. Generous** Well, not many
of them. They do not come down to the
waiters very handsomely. The poorest
men are the most liberal. Mr. Frye is
kiud and always has a pleasant Yvor'd for
the waiters; so does Mr. Garland. Gov.
Vance has his pockets full of dimes, aud
throws them out liberally. Gen. Logan,
when he feels good, is liberal, but the tips
generally come more from outsiders than
Senators. A large closet full of bran
dy and wines stand invitingly in
plain view, notwithstanding the rule that
no intoxicating liquors shall be allowed.
They are sold to any one who calls, but
Mr. Blair's remark that the restaurant is
“the national groggerv,” was a good way
from the truth. Very tew Senators drink
to excess. Some of them have a bottle or
ttvo in their committee rooms. Mr. Hale
entertains his friends occasionally .with
wine spreads. Pendleton always has
some champagne aud makes a point to
hand ■it around freely when the Demo
cratic caucus meets, he being Chairman.
Up in the back room of the Senate Com
mittee on Printing Mr. Anthony has some
thing in store. You wall olte’n see him
and Mr. Edmunds coming from there tvith
Qn pleased expression, judge Thurman
was Mr. Edmunds’ companion of old.
When they went out together the Senate
blinked sympathetically. Don Cameron
invariably took wine with his nice little
lunch, served daintily in his private
room, Frye and Blair are the only tee
totalers in the Upper House. But drunk
enness is neY’er seen in these days. It is
in “bad form.” Ten years ago "wine bib
bing was very common. Old Willard
Saulsbury, of’ Delaware, brother of the
. present Senator, was a heavy drinker and
was finally obliged to give way to his
! brother. He and “Jim” "Nye, of Nevada,
were boon companions. Nye died in an
insane asylum. Although opposed politi
cally, they were great chums. Then there
teas' McDougall, of California, who drank
himself to death. I suppose he was one
S of the brightest men who ever came
1 to Washington. Why, he helped sur
vey the Albany and Schenectady Rail
! road before he* was eighteen years old
and was Attorney General of Illinois at
24. Many of his bright remarks are still
i treasured. one night he was
| unable to reach home. Some friends
: happening along found him in the gutter.
“What, is this you, McDougali?” they
said. “No-o,” was the prompt answer,
j “I—l am Seward.” McDougall was in
the Senate with Yates, who ruined him
! self with rum. Yates reformed time and
I again, only to fall still lower. The teu
! dency is growing better. Newspapers
| and the sharp public opinion against
much dri.ik.cg are doing their perfect
work. In the Senate to-day there is not
a man Yvho can be termed a hard drinker
to the detriment of his public duties.
FRUIT CULTURE IN' THE SOUTH.
Successful Competition with tlie West
Indies In Growing: Tropical Fruits.
Professor C. V. Itiley, Entomologjfff of
the Agricultural Department, says the
YV ashinglon Post, has just returned from
a trip in southern Georgia and Florida.
During his trip he was present at the con-
Y'ention ot the Georgia Mtate Agricultural
Society, at Savannah, Georgia, where ho
delivered an address. He also attended
the Florida State Horticultural Society
fair, at Jacksonville, Florida.
“What Yvas the chief object of your
visit South ?” asked the Post.
“I Yvent to consult with agents of the
department who have been experimenting
to obtain the best means of destroying the
Y arious insect pests that affect the orange
tree. Mr. 11. G. Hubbard, of Crescent
City, Florida, has nearly finished a spe
cial report upon the subject, which trill
show that methods for their complete des
truction have been discovered. The fruit
groYVers of Florida have already profited
by these discoveries. For instance, the
rust which is often seen on oranges and
which decreases their market value by
one dollar per crate is now definitely pro
ven to be the effect of a mite. Tibs mite is
very susceptible ! > : ulphur and kerosene
aud milk, which, if judiciously appikd
early in the season, "will preserve the
brightness of tin* fruit.”
“How have the orange tr es Yveathercd
the winter?”
“The severe frosts have not seriously
affected the trees on the St. John’s river
or around Crescent Lake, but the truit is
somewhat damaged.”
“Are the sou:hern people displaying
activity in fruit culture?”
“There is great activity in fruit culture
generally, and immense progress has been
made during the past two years in the
meteriul growth of the State. The growth
of the pineapple, bauaua and eocoanut
will become a vast industry, note that
there is a railroad from Sanford to Tampa.
The YY’est Indies will soon cease to com
pete Yvith us in these products.”
DOUGLAS AND LINCOLN.
How the Distinguished Illinolsians
Started OffAn Life.
“Know Douglas—Stephen A.? Y'es, in
deed. 1 knew him when he wa9 a young
man,” said the Rev. John Fisk, in a re
cent interview. “Heliadjustopened alaw
office in Jaeksonvile, 111., and I was
studying with him. One morning as I
came into the office Douglas stood with a
letter in his hand, and was gazing at it
intently, thinking about something. He
broke out finally with: ‘I have just got a
letter from Yandalia, saying that they are
going to*elect an Attorney General day
after to-morrow, If I had a horse and a
little money I would go down there and
see if I couldn’t get it.’ Yandalia was
then the seat of government: and was
seventy-five miles lrom Jacksonville. I
told Lib, “Well, there’s that old gray
horse of mine, 14 hd I’ve get jibout s*, and
if that will do you any good you’re, wel
come to the horse and nionev.’ ' He thank
ed me and accepted the offer. ‘Go catch
your horse and I'll go.’ So I got up the
horse and Douglas started. He had about
*wcnty miles to go before he struck the
uraiT**’ and thcu tbere was twenty miles
of* str-ii ht JTsirie. He had to ride
through this in tu . e darkness sf night, but
he wanted to get iu*® ’ hudalia as soon as
possible. Well, he n7 t onl >’ £°t there,
but he got elected. It wa7 the first office
he ever held. After that he _'Cpt rising
from one position to another, just. l * c 80
many steps going upstairs.”
This incident of Douglas’ early start
naturally brought up the name of Lincoln,
so closely associated with that of
Douglas.
“Lincoln? 1 was a member of the
Legislature two terms with him. He was ■
from the adjoining county. He had served i
one term already when I took my seat. I j
remember the first time I baw him. 1 !
thought he yvas the most awkward, un- |
couth young fellow I ever saw. He arose 1
in his seat with some document in his
hand, and as he addressed ‘Mr. Speaker’
and held the paper aloft in a bony hand
attached to a long, ungainly’ arm, his
whole manner was such that I wondered
to myself what in the world that countv
was thinking of to send such a fellow to
the Legislature.”
Their Only Fault.
“They are too cheap for the good they
do,’’ they say of Benson's Capeine Porous
Plasters. Price 25 cents.
SpotiQro.
A BEAUTIFUL LINE OK
LARGE BATH SPONGES
JUST RECEIVED AT
Strong’s Drug Store,
Corner Bull and Perry street lane.
pfroottal.
MONEY LOANED in personal propertv \
large assortment of unredeemed
and Silver Watches, and other Jetvelrv tor
sale very chfap at Licenced Pawnbroker
House, I>7 Congress street. E. MUHLKKKG
Manager. N. B.—Highest prices paid f.,r old
gold and stiver.
iUaittrU.
YI7ANTED, 410 per day, a live agent f< r
TV Wood’s Patent (.rate Shelf; bi~ ~-iv
Address YV. J, WOOD, ?7 YViuteliall struv't"
Atlanta, Ga.
WANTED, by gentleman and wife, two
v nicely furnished rooms for iight hutts,,.
keeping. Private family preferred. Ki fer
enees exchanged. Address L., Morning New*
office.
WANTED, a healthy colored woman as
tv YY'et Nurse, to take entire charge of
young infant. Apply corner Hall and Tat
uall streets.
W ANTED, I.POO dozen old empty pint ale,
11 porter. Appqllinarts or other minerai
water bottles. Highest cash price paid hv
CLAU3SEN BREWING c 0..
Charleston, s.
WANTED, ladies and young men wishing
t t to earn 41 to 43 every eßay quietly at
their homes; work furnished; sent tty mail;
no canvassing; no stamps required for reelv’
Please address EDWARD F. DAVIS A pij '
58South Main street. Fall River. Masu.
fit itnit.
IPOK RENT, a suit of three rooms, unfur
-1 nished, with privilege of bath; centrally
located; parties without encumbrances pre
ferred. C all on or address "L,” atUudden &
Bates*.
jJYOIt RENT, nicely furnished second story
front room, with board; southern us',
posure; good location; 172 Jones street.
Ij'Oß RENT, two and a half story Brick
JU House corner Barnard and llordon lane.
Inquire I*9 Broughton or 22 Jefferson street.
17*014 RENT, a house of five rooms, cselu
-1 sive of kitchen aud bath room; possession
fiven March 4th; rent |2O per month. C. 11.
IQBSKTT.
JjYOU BENT, two nice front rooms, second
door west ot Whitaker on Perry street.
rT*o KENT, three new two-story houses of
1 four rooms each, water, etc.; 412 per
month; opposite Tynan’s Machine Shops, In
dian and West Broad streets. Inquire of
JAMES CLEMENCE, corner McDonough
and Jefferson streets, or on premises.
for Salr.
L’Olt SALE, first class Bar and Billiard
a Room connected with the Barlow House,
Americus, Ga. Now doing a good business,
and in centre of business portion of the city .
YVill be sold at once and on reasonable terms
to the right party. Address B. LUKE, Amer
icus, Ga.
I7VR SALE OR LEASE, that desirable
x frame dwelling south side of Duffy street,
third door west of Whitaker street. Apply to
S. J. YVII EATON,'
102 Bay street.
JjYOR SALE.—Mirrors, Mirrors, Mirrors!
A tine Nlantel Mirror for 45 50. worth 410, at
NATHAN BROS., 186 Congress street.
StvatjrD.
REWARD. Strayed a week ago, a
VU Black Newfoundland Slut, in the vicinity
of Price and Charlton streets. The above re
ward will be paid on her return to THOMAS
NUGENT, 102 Bryan street.
STRAYED, on Sunday afternoon, liver
colored retriever bitch; no collar on; lit
tle white in her breast; quite fat. The finder
will i>e rewarded hv returning the same to
mv office, 83 Bay street, or 138 Perry street.
GfeO. SCHLEY*.
BfiarDittg.
13EOPLE going North will find first-class
accommodations at Mrs. MILES’, 27 West
16th street. New Y'ork city.
R-CfITaNZEsKAITiTHfANTonoiuaH il
Midwife, No. 35 Drayton streut, corner
President -tree:. Savannah’, Ga.
Cifitui, etc.
R E A 13
The cheapest place to buy Crockery, Glass
ware or House Furnishing Goods is at the
Crockery House of Jae. S. Silva.
It it i s .
gjGtflO.
ST. DENIS HOTEL
AND—
Taylor’s Restaurant,
Corner Broadtvay A Eleventh St.,
NEW YOKK.
EUROPEAN PLAN.
Centrally located. Prices moderate. Large
ly patronized bv Southern people.
WILLIAM T A Y I,OIL Proprietor.
LARKIN' HOUSE,
PALATKA, FLA.
Opens December 15,1883.
VCCOMMODATION3 for 300 guest-. En
larged during puet summer by an aiiin
tion of fifty rooms. Address by mail or tele
graph,
LARKIN A ALLEN,
PROPRIETOR 8 -
HARNETT HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, CA„
IS concetied to l>e lhe most comfortable Nr.rt
bv far the best conducted Hotel in avail
nah. Bates: %% per day nAUNKXX .
{jrauiotono, <£lr.
CRUSHED INDIAN
EMERALD OAT MEAL,
WHITE WHEAT,
WHITE OATS,
CASSAVA,
BHANUM.
For sale by
F. L. GEORGE,
COR. STATE AND WHITAKER STS.
Boltair Brito.
pSpHG
I%,IIJYES[Jt I
(BFFORF ) (AFTER-)
I’ LIICTKO-VOLTAIC BELT and other Electric
j Aituaxcks are sent on 3t> Pays Trial TO
MEN ONLY. YOUNG OR OLD. who are *uner
lng from Neutoi s Debilitt, L- st \itautt.
Wastiko Weaknesses, anil all those disease* of a
Personal Nature, resulting from Arise* anu
Other Causes. Speedy relief and cempleto
restoration to Health, Vigor and Mashooo
Guaranteed. Send at once for Illustrated
Pamphlet free. Address
fumbrr, CStr.
BACON, JOHNSON & CO.,
In addition to their large stock of
Planed Lumber, Shingles, Laths, Eft*.,
llarc a full stock of
DRY CYPRESS AND PINE BOARDS.