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The tail may wiggle until it breaks it
self off, but it will never wag the Demo
cratic party.
The Democratic party lias not blundered
bo far, this Presidential year. The blun*
ders of a few protectionists are not to be
counted against the party.
The opinion is growing day by day that
the Republican Presidential nomination
is not for Gen. Logan. “It’s a huckle
berry over his persimmon.”
It is hard to convince the Philadelphia
Time a and New York Sun that they are
not running the Democratic party. It
wouldn’t take them long to run it into the
ground.
The rate war between the Hast Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia and Louis
ville and Nashville is ended, and full rates
will go into effect on the pool basis on
Monday.
“Which Is Mr. Ochiltree?” is the in
quiry of almost every stranger who visits
the House gallery. The Hon. Tom will
soon become notorious enough to com
mand a tine salary in a dime museum.
No Forepaugh’s little white elephant has
reached America, while Barnum’s is still
on the briny deep. Mr. Barnum is out
done in enterprise, but be will make up
for it in hard blowing when his brute does
come to band.
New Jersey can have a first-class row
in her Legislature once in a while. It is
to be feared that some of the members
still possess a good modicum of the Beat
ty blood, or want to emulate the example
of John L. Sullivan.
The talk now is that the conference of
two hours and a half’s duration between
President Arthur and Gen. Grant, in
Washington Tuesday, was not altogether
an instance of “social and friendly inter
course.” It is claimed that the event
possesses great political significance, the
true bearings of which Mr. Blaine may
yet find out to his sorrow.
Capt. Eads w—*® lo advertise his jetty
system in a unique manner and at the
aatne time make money directly out of
his advertising dodge. He proposes to
charter the steamship Great Eastern, to
be fitted up as a hotel during the New
Orleans Exposition. Of course the pass
ing of the largest ship in the world over
the bar at the mouth of the Mississippi
would be quite a card.
The rumor is abroad that Blaine has
captured the New York custom house,
which is still quite a political power in
that city, notwithstanding the nominal
enforcement of the civil service rules.
It is stated that Collector Itobertson is for
Blaine, and that a copy of Blaine’s book
has gone into the hands of nearly all the
employes of the custom house without
costing them anything, and that the New
York post office people are to be similarly
favored. If President Arthur has any
thing he can hand around to the boys he
had better “ti x” them up without much
delay.
it is thought that the unanimity of
sentiment among the Republicans favor
ing Robert Lincoln for Vice President
leads to a strengthening of his hopes that
lie stands a splendid chance to get the
first place on the ticket. In case of an
obstinate deadlock in the convention, he
hopes that the presentation of his name
would cause an enthusiastic stampede to
him on account of the veneration of the
party for bis father. The same feeding
would doubtless now make him the most
prominent Republican candidate, but for
the fact that he is known not to possess
the qualifications to fill the position or to
sufficiently command the respect and
confidence of the people. If he will be
discreet and not take occasion to pose too
much before the country, be may get tbe
second place on the ticket, but the first
place is rather higher than he can hope
to attain.
The response which the call for aid in
establishing a home for Confederate vete
rans, issued by R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, of
Richmond, has met, both at the North
and in the South, does credit to the better
feelings of the nation. The aid extended
by the different posts of the Grand Army
of the Republic has been especially sig
nificant of the restoration of the era
of confidence and fellowship between
the sections. Gen. John B. Gordon
has enlisted in the cause of this
noble institution and is now at work in
New York in its behalf. His national
reputation and high character as a sol
dier. statesman and citizen will assure the
success of the undertaking. The Brook
lyn Posts of the Grand Army propose to
liold a monster mass meeting at an early
date iu the interests of the Confederate
Home, and others are contributing liber
ally to the cause. While our Northern
friends are extending their aid, the people
of the South should not be left behind.
Let every one who approves the object
give according to his or her ability.
The people of Florida appear to be ser
iously discussing the question of calling
an extra session of the Legislature to
make an appropriation to properly repre
sent their State at the New Orleans Ex
position. Florida has been a strong be
liever in the efficacy of advertising, and
has shown great enterprise in the past in
making known her advantages to the
world; no doubt her people will see to it
that a proper exhibit shall be made at
New Orleans whether the necessary ap
propriation is made by the Legis
lature or not. An effort has been
made to get the members of
the Legislature to agree to serve
without charge in case an extra session
stiould be called by the Governor, who
seems to consider it doubtful whether
such a session would be constitutional for
the purpose proposed, but less than a
third of them have responded favorably
to the appeal. It seems to be - pretty well
settled that no extra session will be call
ed, and that the representation of the
State at the Exposition will depend on the
private enterprise and liberality ot the
people, who have never been known to
>r ;;' liese u'JuliU?’; iii the past,
The Ohio Platform.
There is at present a good deal of talk
about the Ohio platform. The protection
Democrats say that it suits them exactly.
The followers of Randall in Congress
want it adopted as the tariff plank in the i
National Democratic platlorm. Are they j
sincere? Of course they are not. Their
opposition to the Morrison bill shows they
are not. What is the tariff plank in the .
Ohio platform? It reads as follows:
A tariff for revenue limited to necessi
ties of the government economically ad
ministered and so adjusted in its applica- i
tion as to prevent unequal burdens, en
courage productive interests at home and
afford just compensation to labor, but not
to create or foster monopolies.
It calls for a tariff for revenue limited
to the necessities of the government, with
incidental protection. Is that the kind of
a tariff that we have now? Of not.
Doesn't the present tariff foster monopo
lies and doesn't it furnish at least SIOO,-
000,000 more revenue, annually, than the
necessities of the government require?
The Morrison bill doesn’t destroy inci
dental protection, and, it is estimated,
only reduces the revenue about $37,000,-
000. Why then does Mr. Randall
and his supporters oppose it. The reason
is plain. They don’t believe in the Ohio
platform. They don’t want any reduction
in the present tariff. They believe in a
tariff that fosters monopolies. They want
to continue to deceive the people by de
clarations about a tariff which they do
uot mean to put into practice when they
have the opportunity and the power.
They profess to stand upon the Ohio plat
form. That platform, as already stated,
calls for a revenue limited to the necessi
ties of the government. The revenue is
now $100,000,000 in excess of the require
ments of the government. The Morrison
! bill is a step towards limiting the revenue
;to the government’s necessities. The
! Ilandallites oppose it. Are the people de
! ceived by their professions? Of course
i they are not. They know Mr. Ran
dall and his school of- Democrats stand
squarely with the Republicans for a tariff
for protection.
Primary Toc-lmieal Schools.
Probably nine-tenths of the poverty and
misery in the country is directly trace
able to the want of proper training in
early life. How small a proportion of
tradesmen, professional men, or those of
any avocation, are thoroughly posted and
efficient in tneir work! The country is
full of men and women, boys and girls,
seeking situations which they are not
qualified to till, while there are thousands
of places vacant for the want of employes
who know what their duties are and who
will perform them.
The impression is grow ing that the fault
is due, iu a great measure, to our system
of education. If a man or woman can
read, write, cipher, and knows a little
smattering of Greek and Latin, lie or she
is considered competent to become a
teacher. A large proportion of the teach
ers in the past have been men of visionary
and Impracticable ideas, having no knowl
edge of the conditions ordinarily requi
site for the attainment of success in any
business or avocation, and whose highest
aim was to carry the student through a
prescribed course of study with the ab
stract Idea of training the mind, but with
no definite application ot that training to
the affairs ot actual business in life.
The country is beginning to demand a
type of education which will carry out
the ancient idea of “teaching the children
that which they expect to do when they
become men and women,” in a more
practical manner than heretofore. Toch
ni,.oi are becoming popular in
many sections, not specially those schools
of teshnology where the bighci oranches
are taught, but primary schools in which
children even of tender age have the eye,
the ear, the mind, and the hand trained
with a special view to making them effi
cient in whatever avocation they may
choose.
Such schools have been established in
many cities and towns, both in Europe
and America, but they are as yet compar
atively few in number. One way to en
courage them is for tbe States, when
called on for appropriations to aid schools
of technology, to impose a condition to the
effect that all who wish to obtain a tech
nical education to become teachers in pri
mary schools shall have tuition free of
charge.
Schools, as at present organized, with
out special apparatus, might teach pupils
thousands of useful facts, which are ordi
narily only learned by the most tedious
and painful experience, and which would
be of great practical value to them all
through life.
Political Disabilities of Mexican
Veterans.
There are doubtless quite a number of
persons in this State, and in every
Southern State, who are unable
to take advantage of the recent act
granting pensions to veterans of the
Mexican war on account of their politi
cal disabilities. We received a letter
front Camden county yesterday, from a
gentleman who is seeking to have his dis
abilities removed so that he can secure
the benefit which the act provides. He
was a Justice of the Inferior Court of his
county, and left that position to enter the
Confederate army. Before accept
ing the office of Justice he, of
course, took an oath to support
the constitution of the United States.
All who took this oath and subsequently
served the Confederacy of course have
political disabilities, unless they have
been removed, which debar them from
receiving a pension under the Mexi
can pension act. Our correspondent in
Camden county has applied to Senator
Brown to introduce a bill for the removal
of his disabilities. A petition for relief,
signed by the applicant, must accompany
the bill in each case. Senator Brown ex
presses the opinion that there will be no
difficulty in getting these relief bills
through Congress, but it may take a good
deal of time on account of the crowded
condition of the calendars of both houses.
It would be well, however, to introduce
the bills at an early a day as possible.
Tammany Hall and the Tariff.
Tammany Hall Democrats endorsed the
Morrison bill Friday night. How could
they do otherwise? Is not the bill in entire
harmony with the declared policy of the
Democratic party ? Does not the Democrat
ic party of New York favor the bill? If it
does not it gives no sign of its opposi
tion. Probably it may be
thought that Mr. Tilden doesn’t
favor the bill. It is noticeable that
those journals which are opposing the
bill, but which are booming Mr. Tilden
for the Presidency, do not quote him with
respect to the bill. This is pretty good
evidence that he favors it. He could not
very well oppose it without being incon
sistent. About as far back as he
has any public record he has
been a tariff reformer, and if he
should suddenly declare himself against
the Morrison bill the impression would
be created that he is failing mentally as
well as physically. An argument that
the protection Democrats have persist
ently urged is that New York is necessary
to Democratic success in the approach
ing national contest, and that any agita
tion of the tariff question would certainly
cause the Democrats to lose that State.
It is beginning to be apparent that this
argument is nothing more than an as
sertion, and that as an assertion it hasn’t
anv foundation. The Democratic leaders
in New York are pretty well informed re
specting Democratic sentiment in that
State, and they are not only willing to
risk but invite tariff agitation.
The question naturally arises, who will
tlis Tilden boomers flop to now
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1884.
Tilden Out of the Race.
Tbere is scarcely a doubt that those who
have been so earnestly advocating the re
nomination of the “old ticket" will have
only their labor for their pains. The tidal
wave In favor of Tiklen and Hendricks,
that was intended to be raised to divert
the party from the tariff issue, failed. No
doubt Mr. Tilden possessed much inhe
rent strength, and would still command
strong support were his health sufficient
for the work of the campaign. Mr. Hen
dricks has little claim on the party, and
his renominatiou has not been thought of,
save on account of the supposed magical
influence of the “old ticket.”
Even in the midst of his infirmities, not
to say dotage, Mr. Tilden has been much
wiser than his supporters. He has uni
formly declined even to consider the ques
tion of his renomination, saying he was
not equal to the task that would be re
quired of him. He has been heard from
again, and his position is plain and un
equivocal. His last interviewer, so far
noted, is Col. Alfred Wilkinssn, a banker
and prominent Democrat of Syracuse,
New York, who visited Gramercy Park
one day last week. He is an intimate
personal friend of Mr. Tilden, and ex
pressed himself as anxious for the renom
ination of the old ticket. The sage
replied that he ‘could not be
made the Democratic nominee under any
circumstances, and that there were
younger and sturdier men who could be
looked for as possessing all the needed
qualities for leadership.” On being
pressed to express his opinion as t* who
the Democratic nominee should be, he in
timated that “a Democrat with
a gooff war record, a soldier of the Union
army, should be the man.” lie declined
to be more explicit, but it can be taken for
granted that he does not incline tow-ards
Payne, if this interview- lie correctly re
ported, as well as the one in which he
said, with a twinkle ot the eye, that
“Payne is four years older thau I am.”
It is more than likely, however, that
neither Mr. Tilden, nor any other man or
junta of men, will be able to dictate to the
Democratic National Convention. The
party has not got to that pass yet, and is
not likely to get there, and Mr. Tilden
knows it.
Bishop 11. 11. Kavanaugh.
Our dispatches Thursday morning last
contained a brief statement of the death
ot Bishop Kavanaugh at Columbus, Mis
sissippi. He was the senior Bishop of the
Methodist Church South. He was a great
man, and left a reputation that will not
be forgotten soon. What he was he made
himself. His energy was untiring, his
devotion to his chosen calling was never
surpassed, and his success was great.
He was born near Winchester, in Clark
county Kentucky, on the 15th of January,
1802. At the time of his death he had,
therefore, entered his 83d year. He re
ceived his early education in private
schools, and at the age of thirteen was
placed m the family of Rev.
John Lysle, a Presbyterian cler
gyman, as an apprentice to the
printing trade. He conducted himself so
well that Mr. Lysle cancelled his inden
tures two years before they expired. He
at once turned his attention to the study
of Methodism with the intention of
preaching the Gospel. His formal union
with the church took place when he was
15 years of age. His work began among
the colored people. The manner in which
he came to be invited to preach is inter
esting. The account is found ■ aU inter
esting article which -ppeared in the
Courier-Journo l ‘ ue day following the
Bishop’® -*cath. It is as follows: “It
the year 1822 before young Kava
naugh could get the recommendation of
the Quarterly Conference of the Mt. Ster
ling Church, and an exhorter’s license
for white people. He had been
supporting himself as editor and
printer of the Western Watchman , of
which James Armstrong, a Methodist
merchant, was the proprietor. This man,
with some other friends, got the young
man to come to a private room in Augus
ta, and then suddenly let him know that
he was there to preach a trial sermon. It
was the day when to open a Bible, with
eyes shut, and to preach from the first
text that the finger covered, was consid
ered the right sort ot ‘inspiration,’ and
when ‘the beaten oil of the sanctuary’
was at a big discount. The hunters of
that day used the long rifle, that few
modern men could handle, and the term
of almost unspeakable contempt was —'he
shoots icith a rest.’ For Episcopalians
also, the only men who then used written
sermons, the phrase was—‘Them fellers
that preach with a rest.’ Y'oung Kav
anaugh was not to have a ‘rest’ for
his mental and spiritual shots, either of
written notes or of preparation by thought.
Here was his little congregation and his
Bible, and he was told to ‘blaze away.’ He
did, and with such eloquence and earnest
ness that his critics first wept and then
shouted, and from that trial-room he went
forth, welcome to any pulpit, and a recog
nized power in the church of God.”
Notwithstanding his marked ability and
eloquence he wasn’t given one of the best
appointments in the gift of the conference.
He was put where he had plenty of work
to do, and where the compensation was
small. He was faithful in small things,
and was soon called to a wider field. In
1839 he was appointed by the Governor of
Kentucky Superintendent of Public Edu
cation, and did a great work in building
the foundation of the public school system
of that State. He was a prolific preacher.
Between the fall of 1832 and October,
1850, he preached 3,330 sermons, and after
1850 it fs said he doubled that number.
In ten months in California he preached
350 sermons. He seldom spoke less than
an hour. Few men could have endured
such unceasing and exhausting labor for
so long a period. He was a big man
physically as well as ment ally. For many
yea sof his life his average weight was
250 pounds. He was sixty-one years in.
the i iinistry and thirty years a Bishop.
Is it easy to match such a record? He
was ; vice married, lie left no children.
His second wife survives Jjim, and was at
his bedside when he passed from time to
eternity.
The United States Senate having started
the private secretary craze there is no
telling where it will end. Senator Hoar
now proposes that each member of the
Supreme Court shall have a $2,000 private
secretary. If colored messengers at the
White House are sent to and from their
homes in government carriages, why
shouldn’t the Supreme Court Justices en
joy the luxury of private secretaries?
This is the question that Mr. Hoar would
like to have settled at once. He pauses
for an answer.
CUKJiKNT COMMPINT.
The Old Cry Revived.
St. Louis Republican ( Deni.).
The Republicans in Congress are raising the
old cry against economical legislation. They
are raving about the Democrats crippling the
government. When the star route and whisky
ring thieves found the Treasury door shut in
their faces, they raised the same cry and the
country knows what it meant.
The Gloating Protectionists.
Xew York Poet {Rep.).
The protectionists at Washington are gloat
ing over the chances of a Democratic “split”
on the tariff bill, and are trying to frighten
Messrs. Carlisle and Morrison by reminding
them of 18*10, and the trouble that discord in
the ranks on another point then entailed.
This is merely the old “harmony” dodge in a
new and ridiculous shape.
The Idle Talk of a Split.
Washington Post ( Dem.).
It is idle, therefore, to talk of a fight or a
split in the Democratic ranks. At the meeting
soeii to be held, let it be called “caucus” or
“conference,” or stand without a name, a mo
tion will certainly prevail that the Morrison
bill is, in view of the law which it is intended
to alter, clearly Democratic iu principle, and
ought to receive unanimous Democratic sup
port. No other course could possibly follow,
or was intended to result front', the election of
Mi. Carlisle as Speaker,
Bill Chandler's Wants.
Boston AJcertiser (Rep.).
Secretary Chandler wants more money for
the maintenance of his alleged Navy Depart
ment. There is nothing strange in this, of
course, for the exceedingly smart Secretary
has always wanted all he could get and some
times a good deal more. But when he asks
for an increase of 16,500,000 above the amount
granted by the House appropriation bill, the
public may naturaliv be supposed to inquire
what he means to do with it and what the
country is to get for its money. And. if it is
to get no more in the future than it has in the
past, there will be a general disposition to
think that the House has been quite liberal
enough.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
During the last ten years the French speak
ing population of Canada has increased at a
much greater ratio than the English.
The salaries of English Deans were much
reduced thirty years ago, but they retain the
deanery houses of their more affluent prede
cessors, many of which mausions are vast and
utterly out of proportion to the salary at
tached to the oflice.
Nearly every citizen of Woodburn, lowa,
was fined by the Mayor a few days since for
neglecting to clean the sidewalks after a snow
storm. The amount in the treasury of the
town has been materially increased. The
lowest fine was one dollar.
Montreal people are apprehensive of seri
ous damage to their city by flood now that the
hnge banks of snow along the St. Lawrence
have begun to melt and are swelling the river
up to unusual proportions. Measures are
now being taken to withstand the flow of
water.
A Towel folded several times and dipped,
in hot water and quickly wrung, and then ap
plied over the seat of the pain in toothache or
neuralgia, will generally afford prompt relief.
Headaches almost always yield to the simui
tancous application of hot water to the feet
and the back of the neck.
The Chattanooga Times says that that city
is now really but nineteen years old. The
war left it a wreck. In 1867 it had not a
wholesale house. Iron mills and furnaces be
gan in 1871. In 1872 the population was 6,000,
now 24,000; manufactured capital m 1880,
42,789,000; in 1884, 41,000,000.
The Illinois statute book has a valuable law
known as the habitual burglar’s act. On the
third conviction for the offense the burglar is
sentenced for twenty years with which the
Governor cannot interfere. It is deemed as a
“holy terror,” and burglary, since its passage,
has greatly diminished even in Chicago.
A novel lottery scheme is in progress at
Boyerford, Carbon county, Pa. Twenty-five
young men have formed a co-operative society
to which each member binds himself to con
tribute one dollar a week for a year. Every
two weeks a flfty-dollar gold watch, con
tracted for by a local jeweler, is raffled for.
The three watches thus far put up have been
drawn by one man.
Prince CHlGt.one of the Clerical Aldermen
of Rome, has called the .itdbntlon of the police
to the fact that many children, wandering in
the streets of Rome, have been cruelly
abandoned by their parents who come from
the provinces and leave their children to take
care of themselves. Rome is infested by these
little ones, who make a living by selling
mutches and help to swell the ranks of the
vicious classes.
New attention is beiug given to the valu
able properties possessed by the species of
nettle known as rheca grass, and which here
tofore it has been a difficult thing to prepare
for the market. Recent experiments, how
ever, have helped to solve this problem so far
that it is proposed to form a public company
to acquire land in the territory of the Maha
rajah of Johore for the cultivation of the
plant. It is now possible to secure 21,000 acres
of freehold at A'l an acre.
The Reno (Nev.) Gazette made recently this
announctment: “By special requeit. Rev.
George W. James will recite Southey's cele
brated ‘Cataract of Lodore’ in the Methodist
Church. This is said to be the most difficult
lXM'in in the English language to memorize,
but Mr. James will recite it forward and
backward, give anv line asked for, or give
tbe number of any line that is read. Copies of
the poem will be distributed throughout the
audience, so that all may thoroughly test the
lecturer's memory power. Mr. James assures
i us that he has not given more than an hour
and a half to the mastery of this poem..’
Street robberies in London arelocaland
1 epidemic. A neighborhood is fount to pre
-1 scut special facilities, the thieving ground be
comes popular, and till the police at last in
terfere the public suffer. The public are jnst
new suffering in the Strand. Tie space
covered by the depredators is but a single
thoroughfare, and the period of their opera
tions less than half an hour. Some years ago
the happy hunting ground was the ‘Charing
cross platform of tho Underground Railway.
Mnro rcccntlj It Wiw tho tcbllLulc i it vl*c
Gaiety and still later of the Lyceum Theatre.
In all three instances, when the detectives
were in earnest, the thieves were dispersed.
A Bohemian observer, Mr. Robert Haensel,
of Reichenberg, has succeeded lu accurately
photographing a flash of lightning. His pic
tures, of which he has taken several, show
the light of the flash, under the form of long,
continuous sparks, traversing the atmosphere.
With the spark the landscape also is well pro
duced, and a means is given for estimating
the length of the luminous traiu, which iu
one instance is calculated to be 1,700 metres,
or more than a mile Wheatstone demon
strated by direct experiments of great in
genuity that single flashes of lightning do not
last more than a millionth of a second. Wo
may judge from this of the wonderful sensi
bility of the new gelatine-bromide plates,
which permit the- taking of correct views
under these conditions.
“Never was Boston in so lively a state of
culture,” writes a newspaper correspondent
at the Huh. “Nothing less learned eaters into
current conversation than comparative esti
mates of Arnold and Emerson, the importance
of revelation to natural religion; the views
held by Pythagoras, Plato and St. Augustine;
or the dramatic ideal as it is in Irving—an
ideal of which the purity is doubted by the
disciples of the drama as it is in Booth. You
go out to make calls and Madame at once in
augurates conversation by informing you that
she has been reflecting deeply over the inabili
ty of Mr. Arnold to fully comprehend Emer
son, and she has concluded that this defect in
him results from a note of hesitation in his
mental scale. Where Emerson would swiftly
and surely hitch his wagon to a star, Arnold
would be studying to find the star. The fact
is, Boston has not bad in years so much to
talk about in a purely intellectual and artis
tic way.”
BRIGHT BITS.
The Yassar girls' favorite Roman hero—
Marius.— Columbia Sj^eelator.
V* - ant of finish: “I shall really have to
l part with you, Susan, you’re so sketchy in
! your dusting I"— Punch.
j “Yes,” said Fogg, “I’ve met many successes
! in life. That’s the trouble, you know. Things
| a fellow meets are always going the other
: way ."—Pittsburg Telegraph.
' Professor —“What can you say in regard
ito the articulation of the bones'?” Student
(doubtfully)—“l don’t think they articulate
! very much.”— College Exchange.
“Yes,” said the dealer in erockeryware,
“send one of our circulars to Mr. Jones. He
is getting up a little in the world, and has
just hired a servant. We’ll have his natron
age immediately.”— Somerville Journal.
A temperance lecturer in Brooklyn ob
served that the idea of drinking beer in order
to get the nutriment out of it reminded him
of the cow that drank a barrel of swill to get
the one potato that was lying at the bottom.
“I believe,” said Fenderson, “that you
take me for a fool.” Replied Fogg: “I have
been called a skeptic, Fendy, but, bad as £
am. 1 still have respect for every man’s be
: Hef—including yours, Fendy, including
yours.”
Louisville grocers take right good care not
to lose a cent on any of their bargains. One
of these gentlemen charged a lady two cents
extra for a chicken because it laid an egg
every afternoon, and she wasn’t going to kill
it until the next day.— Peck'e Sun.
! The Mahrajah Runbeer Singh lias started a
| large Arm in India for the sale of Cashmere
| wines and spirits. It is somewhat singh-ular
fora Runbeer to run wines. No credit will
be given, wc presume. All transactions will
I evidently be for cash-merely
A Southern exchange has an Item of local
news which runs: “Mrs. Simmons, while cut
ting her corn with a sickle in the field the
other day, badly cut her foot.” The natural
inquiry is. where was “Old Persimmons,”
that he did not lend her his razor ?— Detroit
Free Preen.
A Weapon of Defense—Dumley was de
scribing at the supper table a narrow escape
he once had from the attack of a highway
man. “And ha 1 you nothing to protect your
self with?” asked'Mrs. Hendricks, the land
lady, very much interested, “a pistol or any
weapon of defense?” “Not a thing,” replied
Dumley. “I would have given a five dollar
bill for one of these biscuits just at that time.”
—Philadelphia Call,
They were standing at the front gate.
“Won’t you come into the parlor auusit a
little while, George, dear?” “No, no, I guess
not,” replied George, hesitatingly. “J wish
you would,” the girl went on. “It’s awfully
lonesome. Mother has gone out and father is
up stairs groaning with rheumatism in his
legs.” “Both legs?” asked George. “Yes,
both legs.” “Then I’ll come in a little while.”
—Philadelphia Call.
Mrs. B.— “Do yon know, dear, that I
haven’t a decent dress to my name?” Mr.
B.—“ Why, what has become of all those vou
had in your wedding trousseau?” Mrs. ft.—
“They are all worn out.” Mr. B.—“ Well,
dear, I don’t know what can be done unless
we separate for awhile.” Mrs. B.—“ Sepa
rate?” “Mr. B.—“ Yes, you go home and stay
a few months, and then I w r ill come courting
and we will be married over again.” *
M.ANYgood stories are told of the university
career of C. S. Calverley. the English poet
who died recently. While at Oxford the
master of his collep; summoned him one day,
and said: ”1 don’t know. Mr. Calverley, how
it happens, but whenever I look out of the
window I see you jumping over that wall.”
“Well, master,” replied he, “it certainly has
often struck mo as odd that whenever 1 jump
over the wall I see you looking out of the win
dow.'’
PERSONAL.
Mae Ben. Perlev Poore is now fully re
covered from his recent illness. .
Ex-Senator and Mrs. David Xavis
will shortly pay an extended visit to Wash
ington.
R. M. T. Hunter, ex-l’nited Statessen
ator, is critically ill from paralvsis at his
home in Essex co'uuty, Va. Mr. llunter is 74
years old,
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett says that
she finds play-writing pleasanter and’ more
profitable than story-writing, and announces
with great satisfaction that she has just fin
ished another play.
Col. William P. Armstrong, who used to
play the part of Prime Minister in the coffee
anJ-creani colored Cabinet of King Kaiakua,
has risen to a higher post in New Haven,
where he is interested in Connecticut oyster
culture.
Lord Lansdowne laughs at the newspaper
stories that he is constantly receiving threat
ening letters, and says it is no such thing. In
point of fact, since his arrival in Canada, he
hasn't received much of anything, not even
civil attention.
Gen. W. J. Palmer has written to the El
Paso county, Colorado, Aassessor, that he has
removed his residence from El Paso countv.
and that he does not expect to pay personal
tax there longer. This will reduce "the county
assessment $60,000.
I.ieut. COL. F. pe Winto.n, who was Mili
tary Secretary to the Marquis of lairue while
the’latter was" Governor General of Canada,
has received from the King of the Belgians
the appointment of Governor of the Inter
national Mission on tho Congo river.
Mr. Labouchere, referring to the new
Speaker of the House of Commons, says; “He
is a handsome gentleman of imposing stature,
but the effect of his full bottomed wig is
spoiled bf his beard. When sitting iu his
chair he looks exactly like one of the sculp
tured warriors of Nineveh.”
Colonel Edwards started the Argus in
Fargo about, the time that Dakota town was
founded. Fargo grew and the Argus blos
somed like a prairie flower. Having succeed
ed there. Colonel Edwards now comes East,
goes to Washington and asks the owners of
the yational Republican the oft-repeated in
quiry, “How much do you want for it?”
The announcement that Prince Krapotkine
was to be transferred from Clairvaux to a
prison in the south of France was premature.
He will, however, be removed as soon as the
new quarters that are being specially pre
pared for his reception are ready. Mean
while, it is positively affirmed on the high
est authority that the accounts ofKrapot
kine’s condition are grossly exaggerated.
POLITICS IN THE STATE.
Straws which Point to the Candidates of
the Coming Campaign.
Col. W. S. Ilolman has announced himself
at Athens as a candidate for the Legislature.
No candidates for legislative honors have
yet been discussed in the prints in Morgan
county.
Alex. P. Herrington, J. T. Hester, C. Wes
solowskv and N. J. Cruger are all iu the field
for Tax Collector of Dougherty.
William T. Lowry and Aleck Powe'l, both of
Tnon, and W. D. llix, Jr., of Subligna, want
to represent Chattooga in the next Legisla
ture.
Judge C. B. Wooten isspoken of in connec
tion with Congressional honors from the Sec
ond District, now represented by Hon. H. G.
Turner.
The Daldonega Signal favors Col. Candler’s
renominatiou in the Ninth Congressional dis
trict. It is said that he has the support of
thirteen out of fifteen papers published in his
district.
The following ticket will be supported iu
tbe coming municipal election at Madison:
For Mayor, P. .8. Burney. For Aldermen, J.
W. Bearden. J. H. Hunter, Dr. T. P. Gibbs,
G. B. Stovall. •
In Coweta eounty Hon. W. A. Post, Hon.
W. A. Turner. Hon. L. R. Ray, Hon. J. B.
Wiilcoxon and Judge L. H. Fc&therstone are
in the race for the State Senate. Four are
ex-members of the Lower House and one an
ex-Judge.
The Republicans of Muscogee countv. held
their County Convention at Columbus yester
day, for the purpose of selecting delegates to
the Congressional and State Conventions. The
Congressional Convention will be held in
Hamilton next Saturday.
The Henry County Weekly says'. “The color
ed Republicans of Henry comity held a con
vention iu McDonough'last week to select
delegates to the State Convention and also to
the District Convention. The District (on
vention meets in Atlanta on Tuesday next,
the State Convention April 9. The delegates
from Henry county are as follows: District
Convention—Dave Pate and A. J. Humphrey
delegates, Henry Tomlinson and Thos. Hol
land alternates. State Convention—l. W.
Pate an t Fred Carey delegates, Lee Nipper
and Robert Elliott alternates.”
MAGAZINES.
The April issue of the Electic Magazine
marshals a strong array of interesting
and well-selected articles, leading the
way with one by Cardinal Newman, en
titled “The Inspiration of Scrinture,”
which professes to give the view of the
Roman Church on this subject. Other ar
ticles bearing on the interest of religion
are: “The Christian Revolution,” by W.
S. Lilly, and “Christianity and Politics.”
from the Saturday lleview. A solni-re
ligious paper of remarkable interest is
bv the Bishop of Carlisle, and is called
“Thoughts About Apparitions.” There
are quite a number of other papers of in
terest, some scientific in their character,
and others of a purely literary nature. 25
Bond street, New York.
The Century for April is bright, full and
complete. It contains too many good
things to give them all a notice. A paper
on the late Sidney Lanier is very interest
ing. It gives him high rank as a poet.
There are two portraits of him; one, occu
pying a full page, shows him as a youth
of fifteen, and the other is of the poet as
he appeared in his last years. Miss Sarah
Freeman Clarke gives a second illustrated
paper on the scenes of the exile of Dante.
Besides their interest to lovers ot Dante’s
works, the two articles have a special
value to tourists in Italy. Mr. Walter B.
Hill gives the Southern view of “Uncle
Tom Without a Cabin,” and as a citizen.
The Century Company, New York.
The April number ot the Manhattan i:
a gallery of portraits of Edwin Booth,
presenting him in two scenes of “Ham
let;” in two scenes of “Richelieu;” as
“lago,” “Othello,” and “Lear,” the last
named being engraved from a picture by
Jervis MeEntee. The frontispiece is a
half length of Booth, engraved by Velten.
E. V. Smalley gives itis view of “Recent
Tendencies of American Journalism,”
pointlngout what, in his opinion, has been
the effect of the reduction in the price of
leading journals. Two short stories will
be read with interest—one, “Alt Auto
graphies! Romance,” by Julian Haw
thorne; the other, “An Easter Egg,” by
Mary E. Bradley. Manhattan Compauy,
Temple Court, New York.
A Livery Stable Keeper's Revenge.
Three agents of the Pension Office, says
the New York Times, went to Knoxville,
Tenn., a short time ago on business for
the office. According to a report which
has reached this city, the agents engaged
a carriage at the livery establishment
kept by a son of Congressman llouk, and
when the bill was presented they declined
to pay it on the ground that Mr. Houk had
charged them an exorbitant price. Learn
ing that one of the agents had expressed
a preference for Mr. Blaine for the Presi
dential nomination, and that another had
leanings toward Gen. Logan, the livery
keeper wrote to the Secretary of the Inte
rior, Mr. Teller, that agents in the em
ployment of his department were engaged
In working up Blaine and Logan senti
ments in Teanessee. The Congressman’s
son named the two agents whose polit eal
preferences he had discovered, and it is
stated that these gentlemen are now on
their way back to Washington, in re
sponse to a summons from Mr. Teller, who
is understood to be earnestly in favor of
the renomination of Mr. Arthur.
lia.se Ingratitude !
Mr. Howard Carroll, says the New York
Sun, has been telling a newspaper reporter
of President Arthur’s ingratitude, adding
that he opposes the President’s renomina
tion. He says:
“Mr. Arthur is an ungrateful man. If
any man can be said to have put Arthur
in the Presidential chair that man was—
Howard Carroll. Ido not say this, mind
you; others do. Why, when he was nom
inated at Chicago the whole newspaper
deputation came to my room and con
gratulated me on what they said was my
work. When Mr. Arthur went into the
White House as President I breakfasted
with him alone at the first meal he ate
there. With that natural modesty and
hesitation which one always feels in ad
dressing a President, however intimate
with him previous to his elevation, I con
gratulated him on his being there. He
impulsively held out his hand and said,
‘And I owe it all to you.’
“Yes,” said Mr. Carroll, impressively,
and after a long silence, “that man has
never asked me what I wanted.”
Cruelty of Blaine’s Enemies.
“The Hon. James Gillespie Blaine's
March” is the title of anew piece of music
published in Boston. It has a large por
trait of Mr. Blaine on the outside. The
inarch maybe pegged into all the hand
organs in the country, and will soon be as
familiar as “Old Hundred.'’ When Mr.
Blaine was told of it. and shown his pic
ture, he dashed down the proofs of his
book, which he was correcting at the
time, and asked in a tone pf "anguish,
“■\Yhat enemy has done this)''’
FIFTY|YEAKS AGO IX S 4VAXXAH
The Hotel* and Boardins Houses of
That Time—The Landlords and Their
Guests—lnteresting Incidents.
Correspondence of the Morning Mcica.
Atlanta, March 18.—My letter of Feb
ruary 5, relative to an event of forty years
ago, written because of the important or
interesting persons connected therewith,
causes me to recur to events of fifty or
more years ago, which tnav sustain a re
lation to those of the present Jime. Promi
nen* among such are the old hotels of
your city. The progress of events, or the
“gnawing tooth of time,” have finally dis
posed of all, so there is not one extant
now which had a name and a fame then.
The efforts to construct anew and a first
class hotel of sufficient capacity at the
site of the United States Barracks, re
minds me that of your three first-class ho
tels but one in its entirety w'as originally
built for a hotel. That is the Marshall
House. The old part of the Pulaski
House fifty and more years ago was Mrs.
Battey’s boarding house, and the old part
of the Screven House was Mrs. Platt’s
boarding house. These were two of the
many really first-class boarding houses
then flourishing in Savannah, Mrs. Bat
tey and Mrs. Platt were well known and
highly esteemed ladies of the city, and
their houses were the homes of elegant
ladies and gentlemen. The first named
was the mother of Alfred M. Battev,
a Meat Point cadet or graduate,
who afterwards became a Methodist min
ister and died at an early age. Mrs. Platt
was an aunt oi Rev. Hr. Platt, an emi
nent Episcopalian clergyman. She was a
lady of imposing presence, and would at
tract attention wherever she might be. I
give these ladies particular mention be
cause first class hotel accommodations
were then quite limited, and citizens and
strangers had to have recourse to board
ing houses. The two named were the
most central and prominent. I suppose,
in the course of nature, both of these use
ful and admirable ladies have long since
‘“rested from their labors,” and are now
enjoying that happiness which is the re
ward of the faithful. 1 never saw Mrs. ;
Battey as I can recall. There was a
memorable event connected with her and
her house. The house was that part ot
the Pulaski that was called the “Ladies’
Ordinary.” From there to Whitaker i
street, on both sides of Bryan, there were
wooden houses. In the house, a large
wooden one, on the northeast corner of
Bryan and Whitaker, a fire broke out on
Christmas (lay, 1833. It was about noon, j
Much preparation had been made for an j
extra elegant Christmas dinner. But that j
was one of the very few instances where j
a tine dinner was prepared that, in com
mon parlance, never “came off.” It was ’
of course a great disappointment, but there I
was abundant consolation in the fact that j
the house and most of tfie furniture were \
saved if the fine dinner was lost. That i
was really one of those occasions at a
fire we sometimes hear of, where fine
furniture was thrown from up stairs to
the street to meet the same fate it would j
have received from the fire —that is, des
truction. I will not assert that the tradi
tional looking-glasses and other glass or
crockery were so thrown, but 1 will as
sert that the servants and others were so
wild and panicked as to have done it. It
was said it was done. As it was Christ
mas day, it may be that beginning with
egg-nog early in the morning, and taking
other drinks' appropriate to the time of
day, may have added to if it did not pro
duce the demoralization. It at least
furnishes a fact ior a prohibition argu
ment.
At that time the only two hotel* in the
city were the City Hotel, on Bay street,
between Bull and Whitaker, and the Man
sion House, on the northwest corner of
Broughton and Whitaker, fronting on the
latter, and extending to the lane. The
first named was a small brick structure:
the latter was a large wooden one, with
double piazzas the lull length of the house.
The City Hotel was most patronized by
the wealthy and refined, and the Mansion
House bv those less so. They were both
for a period under the proprietorship
of Capt. l’eter Wiltberger. He then
had a monopoly in the hotel
business at Savannah, which he retained
tor many yoaro. Later be bought the
property from the northwest corner of Bull
down to and including Mrs. Battey’s
hording house. He put one or two sto
ries on the part from the latter named
to the corner, and up Bull street to the
lane, and called it all the “Pulaski
House.” There were two dining rooms.
The one on the west end he called the “la
dies’ ordinary,” the one on the east end
“gentlemen’s ordinary.” Afterwards he
reiinc-iuished the Mansion House, but I
think for sometime he managed them all.
He kept up the City Hotel for some time,
but aristocratic headquarters became
changed from the City Hotel to the Pu
laski House. Nevertheless the founda
tion of Captain AViltberger’s fortune was
made at the City Hotel, aid ior hospitality,
good cheer and conviviality I doubt if the
more pretentious Pulaski ever became
quite equal to the jolly little City Hotel,
under the management of Captain Wilt
berger.
SAVANNAH THEN HAD ONLY A POPILA
TION
of seven thousand. The extreme south
ern limit of the city was the north side
of Liberty street, but the little city had a
monopoly in the sea island cotton, rice
and lumber .ratio. The wealthy planters
of the Savannah (on both sides), the
Ogeecliee, the Altamuha, the St. Ilia, and
the St, (Mary’s rivers and the sea
islands, to the Florida line, very liberally
patronized the hotel. There were large
numbers of wealthy young men of the
city and from the counties of Bryan, Lib
erty, Mclntosh, Glynn and Camden who
passed a large portion of their time at the
City Hotel. An important feature of the
hotel, as heretofore of all hotels, was the
bar, where were dispensed a great variety
ol delicious but intoxicating drinks.
These we may call the bane, but the anti
dote was near. lna door or tw T o at the
corner of Whitaker was liyerson’s drug
store, and the transition from one to the
other, as choice or necessity required,was
easy. Ryerson was called by nis friends
Tom, and it is to be supposed he was a
good social man, who made a large profit
out of Peter Wiltherger’s refined and ac
complished guest 6. Besides the well
known drugs useful in such cases, he had
mineral waters most abundantly, Con
gress and soda. The soda water brewed
by Tom Ryerson was very fine. It was
the finest in the city. It was the finest in
the whole country.’ So fine was it it had.
like all other celebrities animate or inani
mate, a national reputation. The mere
memory of Tom Ryerson’s soda water
to a man who ever experienced the
luxury of drinking it is better than actu
ally drinking some ol' the stuff that now
goes by that name. The old men drinkers
of soda water of Savannah will tell you
there is no soda water now as good as
that Ryerson made. The art he had must
now add another to the list of lost ones.
A few old citizens can now recall the
many wealthy, stylish and accomplished
young men" who passed the most
or a large part of their time
at the City Hotel. They largely
helped to make Peter Wiltberger rich.
With a little study I could name a dozen,
perhaps twenty, the most ot whom died
the early death that ends a last life. Then
there were older, steadier men—business
men, who went North in summer, and
passed the business season in Savannah.
They were Northern men, sometimes
called Yankees. The large majority
of the merchants then of Savan
nah w r ere either Northerners or for
eigners. Among the former there can
be found no better style of men than
Loami Baldwin, Elias Reed, Elias Bliss,
George Hall. John W. Long, Wilson Ful
ler, Moses Eastman, Jonathan Olmstead,
Otis Johnson, George Newhali, Isaac W.
Morrell, the brothers Weed, Thomas Ry
erson, I). B. Nichols, Samuel Philbrick,
John Mallery, and many others whose
names do not just now occur to me, but
who, after living honest and useful lives,
have gone to their reward. These men
were born and reared before wnat’s called
progress had evolved the isms which warp
men’s minds and mar their peace. There
is nothing now left to show where the
City Hotel stood, and it has not been de
stroyed by fire or other agent of destruc
tion. [This building is uow occupied by
Kaytori & Herman, A. Haas & Bro., and
Smith Bros.—Ed.]
THE LITTLE GEM OF A HOTEL,
like some conspicuous military officer,
has been reduced to the ranks, but, un
like the officer, for no conduct “unbe
coming an officer and a gentleman.” It
has simply been used and cast aside for a
more pretentious rival. Its epaulets, and
sword and sash have been removed, and
it stands in the ranks until no one can
tell from observation where the hotel
began or ended. It has been put to com
mon uses, sadly in contrast with the high
life which once made it the abode
ot the grand and lovely of the
land. If those old and stained walls
could speak what stories they would tell
of a time when there was'no gas, no
steamships, no railroads, no electric
wires, no percussion caps, no Lucifer
matches, no tramways, but also when
there teas no adulteration of food and
medicines, no simulation in the neces
saries of life, when there was but little
fraud, trickery and dissimulation, when
friendship was not entirely a name, and
when some men and women could be
found who “loved their neighbors as
themselves.”
Capt. Wiltberger moved his headquar
ters to the Pulaski nouse and made it fa
mous among the hotels of the South. He
owned the building, the furniture, every
equipment, and all his “men and maid ser
vants.” Perhaps he was the onlv land
lord in the nation who did. It was a
grand piece of property, and was man
aged with clock-like precision. In his
earlier manhood he had followed the seas
and commanded a met chant vessel. To
this vocation he probably owed his suc
cess as a caterer to the taste of the re
fined. He was a very large man and had
a very large wife. Their joint weight
must have been 500 pounds. This large,
fine-looking couple had just one child—a
boy; and a boy of delicate health—a boy
reared like a girl is reared. The parents
both died, and left their handsome property
to this boy, then grown to manhood. He
was managing the hotel well, when the
war came. The result took away the old
servants, the house was no longer like I
itself, and the young master died. And j
thus the Mansion House, the City Hotel, ,
and the old-time glory of the Pulaski '
House, with that of their master and his
heir, have passed into history. The world
about Savannah comes and goes, but few
know, and the many neither know nor
care, about that history.
The Marshall House is comparatively ot
modern date. As I said, it is the only one
of the three large hotels originally con
structed as such. It is worthy of remark
that a woman is entitled to that credit—
Mrs. Marshall, the wife of Col. James
Marshall. On the site where it 6tands
there were many houses. Among them
was Mrs. Slebbins’ boarding house, an
other of the well-known and highly
esteemed boarding houses of the citv.
Mrs. Marshall is not merely entitled to
credit for this, but for building in various
parts of the city fine buildings in the
place of the old. many of them small and
dilapidated, ones. 1 had the opportunity
when a boy and a youth of knowing the
old, and therefore 1 can better appreciate
the new. Mrs. Marshall was a wonderful
woman. As far back as I can recollect
she attended in person to the renting and
building ot her houses. This would not
have been so surprising if her husband
had not been a good business man. But
he was, and yet the wife took upon her
self the management of their vast real
estate in Savannah.
Soon your city will have anew and
large hotel, and thus keep progress with
her growth from seven thousand to forty
thousand of population. “Down the
corridor of time” it too will have its
history, for then it will be old, and the
children of to-day, and those not yet born,
when on the sunset side of life, will relate
their memories of it, beginning with the
fact that it was once the site of the United
States Barracks. But it will not acquire
the fame of the City Hotel and the Pulaski
House in ante-bellum days, until this,
our new civilization, shall equal the old
in its men of honor and valor, and in its
women of virtue and refinement, which
will take a long time, and then I doubt if
it ever will be. Richard H. Clark.
THE HKWITT-BELMONT EPISODE
An Explanation of a Much Debated
Point.
Almost a month ago, says the New Y’ork
Times. Representative Abram S. Hewitt
attended a meeting of the Committee of
Foreign Affairs of the House of Repre
sentatives and made a statement cover
ing his connection with the now famous
O’Donnell resolution, and his explana
tion of that resolution to tho British Min
ister. It was reported at tbe time that
after makfjg his statement Mr. Hewitt
was taken in hand by Mr. Perry Belmont,
whom he accused of spreading the storv
that he had apologized to Minister West,
and reptimanded in a way that greatly
distressed him. It was understood that
young Mr. Belmont told Mr. Hewitt that
his action was undignified, and that his
communication to the British
Minister was a performance that
every member ot the House
ought to resent. The story of the inter
esting scene between the two Democrats
has been published all over the country,
aud also in other lands, and until to-dav
tbere has been no reason to doubt its cor
rectness. As the report spread, however,
its details seem to have been enlarged
upon, and when Mr. Hewitt received a
slip cut from a Paris paper, representing
him as having been humiliated by Mr.
Belmont, he concluded to break silence
and deny the truthfulness of the original
report. Mr. Hewitt declared to-day that
there was no truth whatever in the report
that he and Mr. Belmont had been partici
pants in a “scene” in the committee
room. He read the report, he said, to the
members of the committee on the day it
was published, and every one of them'de
clared it was false except Mr. Belmont,
who sat in his seat and did not open his
mouth. Mr. Hewitt’s denial, late as it is,
will be gladly made use of by his friends to
remove the impression many persons have
that Mr. Hewitt was “sat upon” bv his
younger colleague.
AN EXAMINATION IN LUNACY'.
A Widow Attired In Bridal Robes Ap
pears Before the Court in Pottsville.
The court house was crowded this af
ternoon during an examination in lunacy,
in which the subject was a middle-aged
widow named Airs.' Aiargaret Thies, says
a Pottsville, Pa., special of the ISth inst.
to the Philadelphia Press. She appeared
in court in a bridal costume. Her dress
was white and buttoned with silver but
tons. It was trimmed with white Spanish
lace and very green and frosted artificial
oak leaves. Around her waist she wore
a ribbon sash of the Prussian tri-color.
Across her right shoulder, falling upon
the floor on the left side, was a regalia of
red, white and blue ribbon. Her hair
was plainly dressed, but on her head she
wore a black crape bonnet, which was
hidden under clouds of white illusion,
which fell to the floor behind in the form
of a bridal veil. This was also liberally
garnished with oak leaves, fkimedifficul
ty was experienced in getting her into
court, but, by promises to send for a cer
tain physician ot Philadelphia, with whom
she is in love, and to allow her to make
a speech, she came in.
It was proven by neighbors that she
claims to be inspired by God, and that
she will shortly become the mother of a
second Messiah. She has written in Ger
man anew Bible, but cannot get it trans
lated into English. For this purpose she
had made six trips to Philadelphia. On one
occasion, while there, she was informed
by inspiration that’ the colored people
were badly treated, and she blackened her
face to make a personal investigation.
She says she Is to be married, and her
adornment to-day was for that purpose.
She made a forty-five minutes’ address
to the court, in which she explained her
inspiration and intentions, and denied
that she was a “crank or insane.” AYhen
interrupted by the court at the end of that
time, she said she had the planets still to
discuss, and that it would take her all
night il she kept on. The case was ad
journed until to-morrow.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIKE.
A Baroness and Count Made One in
New York City.
Baroness Nadine de Huppinann,
daughter of Baron Huppmann, of this
city, was married Friday afternoon to
Count Kolowrat Krakowsky, at St. Pat
rick’s Cathedral, says a New York special
of the 18th inst. to the Philadelphia Press.
The wedding was the most brilliant and
fashionable that has occurred ia this city
since the beginning of Lent. The cere
mony was performed by Archbishop
Corrigan. The bridal costume was of
white Sicilian silk, without any trim
mings except at the neck and sleeves,
which were trimmed with point lace,
corsage cut Pompadour, court train,
veil of tufie caught up with orange
blossoms anil diamond ornaments,
white satin slippers with pearl orna
ments, garniture of roses at the side,
hand bouquet of roses, lilies of the val
ley and maiden hair ferns. After the
ceremony at the church a reception was
held at the residence of the bride 's father.
No. 23 Grainercy Park. A wedding break
fast was served by Pinard. Small tables
were used, and tbe*silver service employed
on the occasion once belonged to the
Duke Nicholas of Russia, and is valued
at $50,000. It was purchased by Baron
Huppinan while in Russia. Tbe Baroness
is a young lady of rare-personal attrac
tions." The Count and Countess Kra
kowskv departed on an extended wedding
tour after the reception. They will first
stop at Philadelphia and then go to
Florida. The Count is an Austrian, and
is the sou of the late Count Krakowsky,
prroottal.
Mon ewtcTloan.— ~~~
. Address
X. h\,
Care General Delivery,
: ’ Post Olfii',..
MONEY TO LOAN.-A place
ran obtain a loan on personal properti
; Parties wishing to sell Diamonds and Jewelry
and those wishing to buy such articles sh.,-. '-
, caU on me. Cash paid fo’r old Gold, Silver ari i
mutilated coin. Office private; business co
fldential. CLEMENT SAL'SSY, Broker
Whitaker street.
Ulantrd.
W’ ANTED, two or three boarders, at
• Liberty street, near Drayton.
TY'ANTED, a young man who writes agr. <
' hand and is correct at figures. Addri
in own handwriting P. O. Box 6.
Y\ T ANTED, man to solicit subscriptions fur
’ valuable book specially for mereantiV
houses. Address A. B. C-, News office.
W’ ANTED, April 1, by a gentleman at ■;
' ’ wife, no children, room and board, cen
trally located; state terms: references e\
changed. Address V. O. Box 33.
Y\ T ANTED, ladies and young men wishin-'
“ to earn $1 to $3 every dav quietly at
their homes; work furnished; sent by mail
no canvassing; no stamps required for reply’
Please address EDWARD F. DAVIS A C<j.
FS South Main street. Fall River. Mass.
'll ■'ANTED, active, live, pushing, energetic
> > men to organize subordinate bodies of a
popular, rapidly growing, solid secret bene
ficiary society, with a brilliant record for
prompt parnient of death claims; initiatory
work captivating; experienced society men
preferred; special and liberal inducements
given. Address N. 6. BOYNTON, 5. R.K.,
Port Huron. Mich.
for licit!.
ROOMS TO RENT, with use of bath, for a
gentleman and his wife. Inquired York
street.
TPOU RENT, the long piazza home on Soutk
I Broad street fronting the Presbyterian
Church. Inquire at 146 Hull street.
TO RENT, a flat of rooms for light house
-1 keeping; also, large furnished front room
on first floor. 163 South Broad street, corner
Barnard.
TO RENT for meetings, etc., Nicolson'a
Hall, corner Drayton and HrougliOo
street lane. Apply to A. S, COHEN, 142 St.
Julian street.
IT’OU RENT, till November, part of the de
sirable residence 105 Jones street.
17'OR RENT, a house on Hall street, near
l Montgomery; the house contains five
room*, besides kitchen and bath room.
C. H. DOKSETT.
IOTS ON THE SALTS.
-j For rent, at S3O a year each, with privi
lege of purchase, six water front lots on Beau
lieu tract.
L. A. FALLIGANT.
for Sale.
1 NOR SALE, a good Milch Cow. Apple ai
’ No. 159 Gwinnett street.
JjMJH SALE.—Mirrors, Mirrors, Mirrors:
A fine Mantel Mirror for 15 50, worth 110, at
NATHAN BROS’.. 186 Congress street, oppo
site B. If. Levy & Bro’s.
_ (^Durational.
LESSONS given in Music, Mathematics.
J and German. Engagements for evening
entertainments. Terms most reasonable. Ad
dress PROF. S. B. FOX.
3* Charlton street.
IttiDnitfrrcj.
M US. FKAXZESKA DITTMAN. Graduated
Midwife, No. 35 Drayton street, corner
President street. Savannah', Ga.
Dtoturimtinu.
SAVANNAH
Volunteer Guards Battalion.
GRAND DISTRIBUTION
—OF—
FA SR PROPERTY!
A FAIR will 1,0 held in Savannah, Georgia.
on April 15th, to last for several weeks, to
raise a fund for the erection of a New Arse
nal or “Guards’Armory.” A i>ortion ol the
property contributed will be disposed of hr
the sale of Five Thousand (5,000) Tickets at
Two 12) Dollars, and the property will he set
apart and aggregated in two hundred and
fifty parcels of the value of Fifty-seven Hun
dred (5,700; Dollars, and the ticket holders will
be entitled to sai l articles and pieces of prop
erty as the same may l.e drawn by disinter
ested Commissioners." A detailed list of the
properlv set apart for the Distribution will be
posted during the Fair. The following is a
summary of the same:
1 prize, west half lot 28 Forsyth ward,
fee simple; value *1,301)
1 prize, west half lot 27 Forsyth ward,
fee simple; value ’ 1,20 u
1 prize valued at... 7 150
2 pirizes valued at |IOO each 20Q
5 do do 50 each 230
5 • do do 40 each 200
10 do do 25 each ... 250
2o do do 20 each 40*
40 do do 15 each 00*
65 • do do 10 each 654
100 do do 5 each 500
Total, 250 prizes, valued at $5,798
The Commissioners who will superintend
the drawing of said prizes and the distribution
of the same amongst the shareholders who
hold the successful tickets will lie General A.
It. Lawton, G neral G. M. Sorrel, Hon. Geo.
A. Mercer, Hon. Robert Ealligant, Hon. J. R.
SauEsy.
The Drawing and Distribution will take
place towards the close Of the Fair, on a day
to be announced hereafter.
Tickets can be had from any member of the
General Committee, or from the undersigned.
By order of the General Committee.
JOHN R. DILLON,
HERMAN MYERS,
JNO. B. FERNANDEZ,
Special Committee.
ffaotrr ffarPg.
ALWAYS ON DECK!
"V’’O matter how the wind blow? we are al
it ways found at our post, and notwith
standing’ the tremendous rush that still con
tinues for
EASTER CARDS
V.'e are equal to the omorgenev and keep (lie
stock full. No more l_ arcs to be ordered after
this week. If you do not step to the front at
once you are lost. The war on
ARTISTS’ 31 ATE RIA L
Still rages. We assist in tnrnioz out more
line PAINTINGS and DRAWINGS than any
two in our line of business in the city.
our stock of STATIONERY is full and
complete. JOB PRINTING done at short
notice, ottr usual popular low prices exist io
each department.
DAVIS HHOS,
Art Dealers, Booksellers and Sta
tioners,
42 and 44 BULL STREET.
Ssjortmrn’o ©OODO.
Attention, Sportsmen.
Come and Examine.
JEST RECEIVED
"‘Finest Breech-Loaders!-
r~Finest Revolvers !-•*
AT—
>.O. KESSLER & CO.'S,
174 BROUGHTON ST.. S\V ANN All, GA.
W. F. CONSTANTINE & C 0.7
Livery and Boarding
• STABLES,
95 and 97 York street, between Drayton an i
Abe room.
BOARDING HQRSES SOLICITED.