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The Gubernatorial bees in Georgia
buzzed briefly this spring.
Barking dogs seldom bite, and quarrel
ling Congressmen “hardly ever’’ fight.
J. E. Bryant has not joined the white
Republican party. He has taken the op
posite direction.
“Cincinnati is already bragging on its
new grand jury. Cincinnati will pro
bably soon b“gin to brag on its hangman.
For fervent patriotism Detroit takes the
cake. It is already making preparations
for the celebration of the glorious Fourth
of .luly.
'ijhe Indianapolis people object to the
playing of base ball on Sunday when an
admission fee is charged. The line has
to be drawn somewhere.
The Missouri Republicans send an un
instmeted delegation to Chicago. The
average Republican delegates love to he
unpledged and open to bids.
The Chief Justice of Connecticut de
nies that he fed shavings to ills cattle for
hay, and has sued the newspaper that
published the story for libel.
Mr. Ivor is now the only special counsel
remaining to aid the Attorney General in
the star route eases. It is not stated how
much be is to get per day for doing no
thing.
The leading clubs of the Union are
getting somewhat notorious of late. One
of the Governors of the Baltimore ClulS is
in hot water for assaulting the steward
for impertinence.
If reports are true, Mayor Carter Har
rison, of Chicago, is drawing a drag-net
for a higher office. He is said to aspire to
the Vice Presidency, the Governorship
and a seat in Congress.
Congressman Converse ought not to be
came embittered against the world be
cause he has suffered a reverse. He was
duly warned, but 6ome men rush in
where angels fear to tread.
Keifer is still possessed of cheek
enough to offer the House the benefit of
his counsel. Some men never know when
they are dead and laid out. Keifer is evi
dently utterly irrepressible.
About the latest idiotic talk is to the
effect that Gen. Butler will run on the
Greenback ticket—carry Ohio and Massa
chusetts and so throw the Presidential
election into the House of Representa
tives.
The people out West are agitated over
the report that Freddy Gebhardt is con
cealed in Mrs. Langtry’s palace car. It
is probably a mistake. The object seen
through the window may have been only
a glove stretcher.
The female suffragists ought to put in a
little vigorous missionary work in
Canada. It is asserted that Canadian
farmers have not yet abandoned the
ancient custom of yoking their wives up
with the steers in order to do the spring
plowing.
Gen. Logan’s friends have been assur
ing the South that in the event of his elec
tion this section need not fear any danger
or vengeance from him. It is just as well
f*r the South to be assured that it need
not fear Gen. Logan’s election to the
Presidency.
The inconsistency of politicians is fitly j
illustrated by the Memphis Avalanche: j
“The member who wants SIOO,OOO for a j
public building in his district is deemed a j
robber by the member who secured an ap
propriation for a similar purpose last
year.”
Secretary Lincoln, at last accounts, was
somewhat troubled at the magnitude of
his Vice Presidential boom, as there seems
to be an almost unanimous opinion that
he is not fit for the first place on the
ticket —the one for which his soul thirst
cth. There is one consolation, however:
He still has the support of Judge Tourgee ;
and Private Dalzell.
Tue horrible discovery has been made
that there is no ozone in the atmosphere
of the city of Boston since the defeat of I
General Butler. It is said that heat and |
noxious exhalations have the effect of j
destroying the ozone naturally abundant !
in the atmosphere. Perhaps the Tewks
bury investigation ha<j something to do
with the phenomenon.
The people must be very deeply in
terested in the subject of the tariff. It is
said that one hundred thousand copies
of Sunset Cox's speech on the tariff ques
tion have been distributed by members
through their districts. At the govern
ment printing office it is said no previous
Congress has in the same time printed as
many speeches at individual expense.
The Morrison bill is expected to turn out
an enormous grist of campaign litera
ture in the way of printed speeches.
Illustrative of the interest on this ques
tion, it is stated that Carlisle’s speech on
the tariff last session has already had a
run of 400,000 copies, and it is still in
such active demand that it is likely to
reach a round million before the end of the
campaign.
Forepaugh’s alleged white elephant is
the subject of a prosecution at the in
stance of the society for the prevention ol
cruelty to animals in Philadelphia. Mr.
Forepaugh has been charged with cruelty
in painting a common Indian elephant
white, in imitation of the sacred animal
of Siam. It is said that the proof will
show on trial that for three weeks before
the elephnat was shipped to-America it
was daily washed with a solution
of Paris white and size, while portions of
its body were painted a delicate rose tint,
and that the paint caused boils and erup
tions to appear, and will eventually prove
tatal. Forepaugh is charged with having
purchased three elephants of the same
size, so that if one died another could be
painted up and exhibited as the only orig
inal white elephant. Warrants have been
inaued for the arrest of Forepaugh and
his partners. Barnum, no doubt, is de
lighted, for his white elephant, not being
white by a good deal, is certainly not
Prospects of the Blair Bill in the
House.
The debate on the Biair bill occupied
nearly a month in the Senate. There is
reason to think that it will occupy much
longer time in the House. In the Forty
seventh Congress a similar bill was dis
cussed in the House, but it attracted very
little attention because it was not thought
that it would pass. The success of the Blair
bill in the Senate, however, has excited
the deepest interest in the House in the
subject of Federal aid to education. The
friends of the Blair bill are already can
vassing the House, and they feel confident
that it will meet with almost as much
favor as it did in the Senate. There is no
doubt, however, that it will en
counter determined opposition from
both Republicans and Democrats. Several
leading members of both parties have
already announced their intention to work
and speak against it. From present indi
cations they will not meet with great
success. They may delay the passage of
the bill, but they can hardly defeat it.
As already stated several times, the bill
appropriates $77,000,000 to be distributed
in eight years. Very nearly $50,000,000 of
the amount will go to thirteen Southern
States. These States, according to the
census of 1880, contained persons above
ten years of age who could not read and
write as follows:
Alabama .438.447
Georgia 520,416
Kentucky 348,382
Louisiana . 318,380
Maryland 134,488
Mississippi 373,201
Missouri 208,754
North Carolina . 403.875
South Carolina . 308,848
Tennessee .... 410,722
Texas 310,432
Virginia 430,352
West Virginia 85,376
Alabama has the largest per cent, of
illiterate persons and Nebraska the small
est. If the bill becomes a law Georgia
will get over half a million dollars the
first year, over three-quarters of a million
the second year, and over one million dol
lars tne third year. The fourth and each
succeeding year, until the appropriation
is exhausted, the amount will decrease.
If judiciously managed this money ought
to put the common schools of this State on
a very prosperous’ basis. That it will
be properly avid wisely expended there
is no reason to doubt. After the first
year the State, in order to obtain its part
of the appropriation, will have to increase
its school tax; but it can well afford to
do that, under the circumstances. What
is required now is that the Southern Rep
resentatives in the House shall support
the bill as earnestly as the Southern Sen
ators did.
Aguero’s Success.
Gen. Aguero appears to be having a
triumphal march through Cuba. Our
dispatches this morning say that his force
now amounts to 1,400 men. It has grown
rapidly since he landed on the island.
It is understood that he left Key West
with not more than twenty men. No
doubt Cuba is ripe far revolution. The
condition of affairs there is about
as bad as it possibly can bo. The price of
sugar is low and the taxes are remarka
bly high. The whole profit of the sugar
planters is not sufficient to satisfy the
demands of the tax gatherers. In th
meantime Spain is complaining that this
government is careless about looking
alter filibustering expeditions whose pur
pose is to make raids on Cuba. The official
organ at Madrid hits the Spanish Minister
at Washington some pretty hard raps tor
not keeping his eyes open, and requiring
the United States authorities to fulfill in
ternational obligations more satisfacto
rily.
The advisability ot this government
buying Cuba is receiving a little atten
tion, but not enough to warrant
the belief that the matter
will command serious consideration.
Spain offered to cede the island to this
country in 1825 in consideration of cer
tain commercial concessions. The offer
was declined. In 1848 President Polk
offered $1,000,000 for the island. Spain
would not listen to the offer. In 1858-5!)
Slidell, of Louisiana, proposed
that the United States should
buy the island lor $30,000,000. A
bill containing the proposition was in
troduced in Congress and was reported
favorably by committees of both Houses
A strong minority report in the House,
taking the ground that Cuba would be
an unprofitable acquisition, killed the
bill. It is hardly probable that any
proposition looking to the purchase of
Cuba would he popular in this country at
present.
Pennsylvania Democrats Dissatis
fied.
The tariff plank in the platform adopted
by the Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention does not, it seems, give entire
satisfaction to the extreme protectionists
of the party. It is not as outspoken in
favor of protection as they think it ought
to be, and some of them are protesting
vigorously against it. It is the tariff
plank that is in the platform of the Ohio
Democrats. Exactly what it means it
would be difficult to determine. It is a
mere jingle of words and presents noth
ing practical or substantial. It is a stupid
attempt to straddle the tariff issue, and is,
of course, a melancholy failure. The
Pennsylvania protectionists, however,
ought not to find fault with it.
Mr. Randall, who induced the Demo
cratic State Convention to adopt
it, does not mean that there shall he any
reduction of the present prohibitory du
ties. if he can help it, the great monop
olies built up under the present tariff are
not to be disturbed, lie wauts to stop all
tariff agitation until the country can be
made to believe that the internal revenue
system is iniquitous and ought to be abol
ished. If he can get clear of that system
he will feel that the war tariff is com
paratively safe. The surplus revenue
is something over $100,000,000 a year
and the receipts from the internal
revenue amount to $110,000,000 a year.
Without these internal taxes there
would really be a small annual defi
ciency. As long as there was a de
ficiency there would be no hope of
reducing the tariff. Mr. Randall’s pro
gramme is easily understood, it is a pro
gramme, however, that he will not be able
to carry out. The Democratic party will
never consent to make whisky free while
the necessaries of life are taxed from 20
to 60 per cent.
The prosecutions against Col. “Oklo
homa” Payne for invading the Indian
Territory are set for trial at Topeka, Kan
sas, to-morrow. The Colonel is confident
that he will he acquitted, and is sure that
the Territory will soon be opened up for
settlement by the whites. The removal
of Payne and his followers from the Terri
tory cost the government $170,000, and
there is a dispute between the Secretary
of the Interior and the Secretary of War
as to which department it shall be
charged to.
The man who defeated Bob Ingersoll for
the position of delegate to Chicago from
the District of Columbia is an illiterate
negro named Perry Carson. Soon after it
was announced that he had been chosen
he said: “I can’t read nor write, but I
know how to run dese niggers.” Inger
soll’s eloquence amounts to nothing in
conventions like those which nominated
Perry Carson. *o wonder the Republi
can party is beginning to think that the
colored brother is a pretty heavy burden
to carry.
Mr. Keely will doubtless have his
motor in working order by the time
Blaine is elected President of the United
States. The putting of two great frauds
to work at the same time would be very
appropriate. It is enough to say that
the events will not transpire in the
immediate future.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. APRIL 13. 1884.
Senator Jones and the New Cruisers.
Senator Jones, of Florida, does not agree
with some of the Senators who are ob
jecting to spending money in building a
navy because there is a Secretary of the
Navy in whom they have no confidence.
The impression among the objecting Sen
ators seems to be that any appropriation
for naval vessels only means an increase
‘in the already large wealth of
John Roach, the ship-builder.
[ The frequency with which John
! Roach’s name is mentioned in the de
| hates on naval matters shows that he is a
[ man of some consequence. It would be
i fairer to him, however, and to the public
i to specify instances of his wrong doing.
He ought not to be blamed for underbid
ding other ship-builders, but if be does
i not deal honestly with the government he
ought to be deprived of the right of bid
ding. If the Secretary of the Navy
uses his great office to give
. Mr. Roach advantages in bidding he
ought to be impeached. That is the posi
tion Senator Jones takes, and it appears
to be correct. He argues that the only
point to be settled by Congress is whether
the proposed new cruisers are needed.
If they are he tavors making au appro
priation for them at once, without regard
to who is President or who is Secretary
of the Navy. The prejudice against
Secretary Chandler is very strong.
He is thought to be slippery,
and by a few it is believed that he in some
way makes it possible for Mr. Roach to
under-bid all the other ship-builders. The
disappointed bidders, perhaps cautiously
and skillfully do what they can to in
crease the feeling of distrust with respect
to Chandler and Roach.
Country Hoads.
The importance of good roads to a
country cannot be over-estimated. Roads
are the arteries through which the cur
rent of trade and social intercourse flow,
and no country can be permanently pros
perous where good roads are not main
tained. In wealthy and thickly populated
sections the solution of the road question
is a comparatively easy one. There the
construction and maintaining of good
roads is only a question of dollars and
cents.
Hardin county, Ohio, a few years
ago, spent $1,500,000 in macadamizing 200
miles of public road, and the investment
was approved by the people as a good
one. In some sections near the coast the
best roads are made of shells, in other
places it is found best to cover the roads
with clay, while in others sand is re
quired. In some of the rich prairie coun
ties of Illinois it has been found econom
ical to cover the roads for miles with
sheds so as to keep them dry and free of
mud.
In some parts of Georgia there are
roads that are almost, and in some in
stances quite, impassable in wet
weather, while near by can almost in
variably be found immense sand-beds,
which could tie utilized in the construc
tion of excellent road-beds.
The country demands good road laws,
but road laws amount to littlf unless en
forced, and unless the work done under
them is directed with skill and intelli
gence. The highway commissioners of
Illinois hold an annual convention to dis
cuss the results of experiments and to
exchange views on road making. lowa
proposes to adopt the same method. A
large proportion of the roads in the latter
State are impassable tor loaded wagons
for nearly half the year, and improve
ment is imperatively demanded.
In no country, perhaps, can good roads
be more cheaply constructed and more
easily kept iii repair than in Georgia, yet
in four-fifths of the counties of the State
the complaint about miserable roads is
made by the grand juries year after year
with but littb.‘(llTect. Owing to mis
directed efforts probably one-fourth
of the work actually done on
the public roads is worse than
wasted. It would be a good idea for
the Road Commissioners of each county
in the State to have a meeting at least
once a year to discuss the state of the
roads under their supervision and the
best methods of improving them. A
little time spent in the study of road
making and in the interchange of views I
would bo most profitably employed.
New Kailway System. /
An invention of a Southern man, Capt.
Meigs, is how attracting great attention
in Boston, and it is claimed for it that it
will entirely revolutionize railroading,
especially for rapid transit in cities and
for short lines in the country. A lull de
scription of the Meigs system has not yet
been given to the public, although a
working model has been in operation lor
some time in the loft of a store In Court
street.
It is claimed that this railroad can he
run over a lawn and disfigure it but little,
that farmers can plow under it, and that
there is no expensive cutting through
hills or tilling In of valleys, while grades
are overcome without difficulty.
From the'brief outline of points given,
the new railroad appears to be on a plan
similar to one proposed some years ago,
in which the cars were supported by
means of double flanged wheels on a sin
gle rail. In this the rail was laid
on a beam which was well braced or
trussed and rested on pillars or posts set
into the ground. The cars were so con
structed as to be balanced on, or rather
suspended from the track in such a man
ner as to render derailment almost
impossible.
It is stated that Capt. Meigs’ model
consists of a real miniature steam engine
and one car. The model road is built
with very sharp curves and steep gradi
ents. On a recent trial the engine was
fired up by means of a spirit lamp in the
fire box, and with the train was run
around the track at an ungovernable
speed, making what was cc sidered the
sever. ->t test known in railroa ing.
Cap'. Meigs proposes, with the aid of
Bostoi apitalists, to build a short line in
or neai hat city to demonstrate the ad
vantagi -of his system, and he expects
eventually to form an immense syndicate
to extend his lines to all parts of the
country.
It is gratifying to notice the genius aqd
enterprise of Southern men, but Capt.
Meigs’ railway system appears to be
somewhat overestimated. It is not im
possible that it may prove useful in some
localities for light traffic or the exclusive
carrying ol passengers, but it is not like
ly 6oon to revolutionize railroading in the
world. The further trials of the new
system will be looked for with interest.
CT’IUtKNT COMMENT.
A Serious Omission.
Pliiladelphi'i Record ( Ind .'.
At the love feast of the Randall Democratic
wing of the Republican party at Allentown
there wna a neglect to indorse the action of
those Democratic Congressmen who attempted
to increase the duty on wcol. Why was this
overlooked when the sweetmeats were handed
around? Didn’t the sugar hold out? Better
reconvene the convention and correct this re
flection by default upon the noble band of
Pennsylvania Democratic martyrs!
Not the Very Worst.
Boston Pott (Dsm.L
“About the worst thing anybody can do in
Cincinnati,” says the Commercial, “is to vote
the Democratic ticket.” Oh, no! It is much
worse to follow the teachings of the Commer
cial and take the law into one's own hands,
burn property and destroy life. We do not
think our Cincinnati contemporary is in a
condition to pose gracefully as a’moral or
political guide, witn the present smell of
blood and smoke upon its garments.
An Unnecessary Clause.
Xeio York World ( Pern .).
The naval appropriation bill was up in the
Senate yesterday, and Mr. Beck suggested
that under certain circumstances it might lie
well to include in the appropriation for the
new cruisers a clause requiring them to be
built by John Roach. Such a clause is not
necessary. If the money is appropriated for
the cruisers. Chandler will see that Roach
gets the contract, and Roach will make a lib
eral donation to the Republican campaign
fund,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
From Rome comes the rumor that the whole
of the famous Torlonia Museum in the Vila
della I.ungara has been bought bv an Ameri
can.
No Greek play will, it is understand, be
produced at Cambridge this year; but in 1885
it is proposed to act the "Huntenides" of
.Eschylus.
Font hundred foreign doctors have de
cided to attend the August meeting of the In
ternational Medical Congress at CopenhagaD,
and have announced their intention of pre
paring communications on various subject for
that occasion.
M. Pasteur and his collaborators have an
nounced to the French Academy of Science
the fact that by inoculation they can render
all dogs absolutely proof against the effects of
rabies, in whatever way orquantilv the virus
may be administered.
During this abnormal winter ice has be
come an article of import in Switzerland,
which country, m spite of all its glaciers, is
actually obliged to order that commodity from
Southern Germany fot household, industrial
and sanitary purposes.
The Lancet informs a correspondent that
“the possibility, nay the certainty in many
cases, of flies lieing a medium oi infection,
especially in warm climates, has been re
peatedly pointed out, though perhaps the fact
is not sufficiently borne in mind.”
Di king the year 1882-83, says the Journal de
St. Petersbourg, the Russian distilleries have
produced 88,808,311 gallons of pure alcohol,
and during the present year 811,583,000. The
decrease of 767,184 gallons in 1882-83 is the re
sult of the closing of fifty-eight distilleries.
In the opinion of the Medical Press, most
physisians are very decidedly Hi favor of the
total abolition of corporal punishment in
schools. The editor asserts that the London
University College School, which is attended
by 500 hoys, has been carried on from the first
without corporal punishment, and is equal to
any school in England with respect to disci
pline.
Fair Parisiennes with whom money is no
object, and who aspire to everything that is
pschutt, diversify the flowers they wear ac
cording to the tiriie of day. In the morninr,
from 8 to 11 or 12, violets are the correct blos
soms; from 2 tos, mimosa is all the rage; hya
cinths or primrose are considered dinner
wear; unit at danceg, soirees, and, in fact, af
ter 11 at night, gardefiias, cape heaths, white
lilac, or roses are permissible.
Weston, the American pedestrian, who re
cently completed a 5,000 mile tour in England,
preaching the benefits of temperance, will
have to look to his laurels, for he has now a
rival in the field named Spencer, who is en
gaged in walking fifty miles evert- day. His
object is to completes,ooo miles.aiul prove that
it is possible to accomplish this on alcoholic
beverages. He is a man of 60 years of age,
and has already completed one-fourth of his
task. His liquid refreshment to consist of ale
or brandy, and no unmixed water to be taken.
A recent issue of the Pall Mall Gazette con
tains the following almost incredible record
made by a school girl; “A girl named Alice
Akerman, aged 14, daughter of a laborer, has
just completed her education at Langley
School, Bucks. She has never missed being
present since the school was opened in Oc
tober 4, 1875, and in completing her 3,451 at
tendances is 6a id to have walked 6,000 miles.
She has passed every standard successfully,
anil in the three subjects in first grade draw
ing obtained “excellent,” prizes in free-hand
and model, as also in the three stages of the
specific sunjects, literature, domestic econ
omy and animal physiology, and in one stage
in physical geography. Slic has also obtained
twenty-six other prizes, for good attendance,
sculpture, sewing, knitting, etc.”
The way in which General Gordon chose
his companion forthe expedition to Khartoum
is characteristic. When he came before the
Cabinet and announced that he was ready to
start at once, he was naturally asked whom
he would like to have as companion. Gordon
paused for a moment in reflection and then
said: “There is a man whom 1 have met a
few times at the club; I don't know Ins name,
but he is the man 1 should like to take with
me. If you will wait a liitte I will go and see
if lie can come." Thereupon Gordon left his
Ministerial audience, drove to the club, found
his man in the smoking room, explained the
case, obtained his consent, and was back in
Downing street under the half liour. The
man whom Gordon with instinctive insight
had chosen was Colonel Stewart, who probably
knows more of the East than any other officer
in the British army.
W. H. Johnston, the son of a white plan
ter of Waynesville, S. C., was Thursday
night, it is said, visited by two married
women of the neighborhood and given a good
flogging. When the ladies called Johnston
was in bed sound asleep. He was called up,
and when lie got into the presence of his visi
tors he was soundly flogged with a stout
shingle. His shrill cries were heard some
distance from the scene, but no one came to
his aid. His tormentors gave no heed to his
appeals, but continued to apply the board
with a hearty good will. Johnston had for
some time past been living oti the charity of
an old widow, although young and fully able
to support himself by his o\vn efforts. The
two ladies who introduced Johnston to the
patter of the shingle, it is supposed, are
granddaughters of the lady upon whose
bounty their victim had lived.’
Mexico’s dependence on other countries for
Its food supplies is well shown in the follow
ing experience of an American traveler: “At
the railway stations are great piles of com
pressed coal brought from Great Britain for
fue!, for ‘wood is very scarce.’ All of the corn
of Vucatan in this year ot scarcity and half
of the potatoes of Vera Cruz, instead of being
brought from the interior of Mexico, where
they are plenty, are brought from New York,
which obtained them by rail from Michigan,
lowa and our distaut West! A barrel of some
heavy stuff (black beans, probably) came
aboard at Progreso and was ended up w here
I was standing. I looked it over. II had come
from Havana and was bound for Carapeachy.
The head had beeu knocked to pieces and
stuck in again at random, so that the letter
ing was upside down ami bind side before, and
looked very crazy, indeed. But I made out
that it had once contained Hour, Minneapolis,
Minn.”
A boycotting movement, which will lie
rather grave if it be seriously followed, is
undertaken by the Moslems of Madras. It
appears that one of the faithful, converted to
Christianity, has issued a pamphlet dealing
with points of controversy. The moolvies
summoned a public meeting at the Triplicane
Mosque, and there urew up a fatra, signed by
twenty-three doctors, learned in theology and
law. This edict lays down that any Moslem
who engages in discussion, who reads a book
of controversy, gives lessons to a Christian
priest in the Koran, or any other sort of read
ing. or who sends his child to a mission school,
shall be boycotted with the utmost rigor in
this world and the next. It is believed that
fanaticism is not strong enough at this day
in Madras to compel obedience j.o such a
decree, but a certain proportion of Die faith
ful will submit doubtless. The number of
Mohammedan pupils in mission schools, or
schools directed by clergymen, is large, and
some of these will suffer. The harmless and
respectable class of moons liees also, who
teach the vernacular, will lose their em
ployment—since they arc forbidden to read
any sort of book with clerical Students, and
they could not afford to quarrel with the
moolvies.
BRIGHT BITS.
An exchange says mush has become a pop
ular dish in society. Nothing seems to take
in society like something soft.
The London 7¥mc tells sf anew contrivance
to make ladi.es taller. The ladies have con
trivances enough for making men short.— Oil
City Blizzard.
Connecticut has refused woman the
right of suffrage. She will still be permitted
to make wooden nutmegs for the heathen,
however.— Pittsburg Commercial.
Anew and dangerous bar has been discov
ered in the Hudson. If it is anything like the
bars on the Hudson river boats it will be sure
death for the man that strikes it.— Boston
Commercial Bulletin
Theodore Thomas’ orchestra and chorus
will "liddle and sing” Wagner's music with
great effect at Boston. There are forty tid
ulers in the former and forte singers in the
latter.— Lowell Courier.
An exchange says: “Even the dead may
well be pleased to go to the grave amid fami
liar scenes and with only their friends about
them.” A dead man who would manifest
displeasure under such circumstances doesn't
deserve to have a funeral.— Xorristown Her
ald.
“And so vour daughter is at the academy?
How does she get along?” “Splendidly; she's
studying all the higher branches.” Is she
studying the languages?” “Oh, yes, she has
nearly completed the language of flowers
and is now engaged in the language of per
fumes.”
“WiiY do you keep getting up ami going out
between the acts?” asked an unsophisticated
country maiden of a city cousin, with whom
she was attending the theatre. “Well, my
dear coz," was his reply, “I don't mind ttll
ine you that I am trying to combine the de
lights of the evening dram and the evcn.ng
drama.— Burlington Free Press.
"Look heah,” said old Andrew to Guiiea
NiggeMian; “who is yerwifeon dis present
'casion.'" “’Nervy Potter.” "Putty good
’oman?" “Does tolearable.” “Fetch any
thing inter Ue house?” “Oh, vas.” "Wall,
dat’s de kinder ’oman I’sc lookin’ fur. De
wimmen what I’se been in de habit o’ mr
ryin’ is so lazy dat da’d let or man starb ter
death.”— Arkansaw Traveller.
Three New Haven young bachelors were
placed in very hot wa’tcr the other day bv
being mado judges at a baby show. There
were 100 entries and only live prizes, and it
was inevitable that the 93 women who were
“snubbed” should make a great deal more
noise after the awards were announced than
the five lucky ones. The reporters seem to
agree with the woman who said: “Them
boys don’t know anything about babies.”
A Startling Contrast.—(Gymnastics for
girls is recommended by the Lancet).—Her
mione—“Yes, I’ve gone" in for gymnastics.
Up every morning at 6: dumb belle and In
dian clubs till 7; walk six- miles in the hour,
and come back to breakfast at 8. Take a
light breakfast of rump steak, kidneys, llsh,
eggs But am I walking too fast for you?”
Johnny (faintly)—“Er— yes—a little. Break
fasted off a couple of curried prawns and a
small soda, and—er—violent exercise doesn't
suit me after a heavy meal!” — Funny l
PERSONAL.
Sitting Bull, the Sioux Samson with shorn
locks, is on his way to Washington.
The Crown Prince of Portugal is going to
Madrid to ask the hand of Infanta Eulalia,
the only unmarried sister of King Alfonso.
M. Wsletzki, the Russian Consul General
at New York, is transferred to London, Karon
von Rosen, the Secretary of the Legation at
Tokio, taking his place.
Miss N hi,lie Hunt, daughter of the late
American Minister to Russia, is reported to
be engaged to a Russian nobleman, who is
one of the household officials in the Imperial
Palace.
Senator Cameron, it is announced in
Galignani't Messenger. has now completely re
gained bis health. He and his wife have just
returned to Paris, after traveling considerably
in Spain.
Cai*t. Richard H. Pratt lias gone to the
sail Carlos reservation, in Arizona, whence
he will bring to the Carlisle Indian School
fifty-two San Carlos Apaches and fifty Mes
carillo Apaches.
Col. Tom Ochiltree and Col. W. Hancock
Smith, one of Gen. Gordon’s staff. Confeder
ate States army, were the last Confederates
that crossed Mayo’s bridge, when Richmond
was evacuated in 1865.
Professor Richards and Gardner Morse,
Jr , of Yale College, will begin this week a
walk to Philadelphia and thence to Baltimore.
From Baltimore they will take the cars to
Philadelphia and walk back to New Haven.
Hon. John G. Thompson, of Ohio, late Sar
geant-at-Arms of the House of Representa
tives, who has been seriously ill for a long*
time, is now able to lie up and about the
house, with fair prospects of entire recovery.
The London papers are making compari
sons between Langtry and Fortescue. But
that is absurd. The exact difference is that
Langtry tried to get out of society into art
and couldn’t, and Fortescue tried to get out of
art into society and didn’t.
Mme. Modjeska and her husband will sail
for Europe in May to remain abroad a year
or so. It is their intention, however, when
they return to America, to settle permanently
in California. ’This will probably be Mod
jeska's last season on the stage.
Mohamed Tewfik was halted in the garden
of Ghezireh at sunrise not long ago, the
Tommy Atkins on dutv as sentry mistaking
him for an intruder. But Tewfik gave a small
coin to the seutry. “Thank you, Johnny,"
said the soldier. Tewfik gave a larger coin.
“Much obliged, sir,” said the sentry, making
a salute. Tewfik gave a gold coin.’ “Beg ver
pardon, yer ’ighuess. Present arms there’;” 1
John GhTbert, the actor, said to a New
York reporter: “I put Irviug on the same ,
level with Macready, not as a tragedian, hut
as an artist. Irving so combines skill in stage
management with power in acting that the
result is marvelous. Everybody may not ad
mire Mr. Irving, but who can'fail to appre
ciate his intelligence?" “Is your opinion of
Miss Terry high, also?” “Miss Terry is de
lightful. She is brimming over with artistic
feeling.”
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this that one gets an idea oi how much
work and what good work the author has
done. Mr. Lelancl is a master of dialect,
a specialist, so to speak, and the jargon
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Breitmanu has become a classical figure,
and his ballads are well worthy, for their
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and enduring form in w'hich they are now
presented to the public, and they will con
tinue to be a source of pleasure to thou
sands long after the incidents upon wbieh
some of them were founded have been
forgotten.
SIXTY YEARS IN CHAINS.
A Family Secret Revealed by Death—
The Love that Existed Between
Brothers.
A confinement of sixty years, which
was the result of insanity—a secret long
kept from the public—says a Huntington,
Pa., special, terminated here yesterday in
the death of Daniel Hawn, in Juniata
township, six miles from this city. He
had been confined since 1823 by his broth
ers, and was eighty-four years old. The
maniac was one of five brothers who,
when young men, worked together on
their father’s farm. His malady is said
to have been caused by drinking from a
cool stream while overheated in harvest
time. He was immediately confined
by his brothers, and was ever afterward
totally excluded from the world. But
once in the subsequent sixty years
did he regain his freedom, and that was
about fifty years ago, when he succeeded
in escaping from the house. lie was
soon captured and returned to his impris
onment. The room in which he was kept
was of small dimensions, with but one
window, and to prevent him from reach
ing the latter he was chained in an oppo
site corner. A stove was placed in a
small opening in the partition, with the
front lacing into the hall, so that fires
could be made without entering the room.
His brothers remained unmarried and
lived together, accumulating money and
property, which they held in common.
Two of them survive, and are the own
ers of 000 acres in the township.
A MYSTERIOUS EQUESTRIENNE.
The President Makes .Frequent Inquiries
About Her.
A daring, graceful equestrienne, says a
Washington special, daily attracts con
siderable attention, but her manoeuvres
are exhibited in the park south of the
President’s house, and the Chief Magis
trate has noted her particularly. She has
no hesitation in attempting feats of horse
manship that would create envy among
professionals, and she appears to be in
every way capable ot managing the hand
some bay horse which she rides, it is not
an unusual sight to see the animal going
at a rate of speed rarely witnessed on a
race track and urged to renewed exertions
by a persuasive whip. Since the pleasant
weather set in the unknown rider has
created considerable gossip as to her
identity, both at the Executive Mansion
and that portion of the Treasury Depart
ment which faces the south. A groom on
a handsome black horse stands sentinel
during the feats of his young mistress,
and when she and her animal are tired out
with the exercises, gallops alter her and
escorts her through Executive avenue
homeward. Frequent inquiries have been
made by the President as to the young
lady's history, but thus far no one has
been able to enlighten him.
UNITED AT LAST.
After Thirty Years’ Separation a Daugh
ter Finds Her Mother.
There was an affecting scene Thursday
last, says the Philadelphia Times, when
Thomasiena Tornes and her mother, Mrs.
Thomas Tornes, met after a separation of
thirty years. Thomasiena when but an
infant was adopted by a family in Edin
burgh, Scotland, when her mother sailed
for America, bringing with her two older
children. Mrs. Tornes had a hard strug
gle for the first few years, until the two
children with her grew up. Then she
wrote back home to inquire after her
youngest child, but received no answer,
and she supposed the child was dead.
Thomasiena a few months ago in some
way learned that her mother was still
living and was in this city. Upon learn
ing this she left Scotland to seek her, ar.
riving in Philadelphia oil Friday last.
This advertisement united the mother
and daughter after thirty years: “The
mother and sisters of Thomasiena Tornes,
of Scotland, will hear of something to
their advantage at 2331 North Tenth
street.
Sagging His Employer.
Texas Siftings.
Sampson Jennings, who always Basse*
hack, was a clerk for one day only at the
mammoth establishment of William Bob
son, Austin avenue. Bobson, although
very wealthy, is very illiterate. He was
writing a letter, when he looked up and
said to Sampson Jennings, who was at
the next desk:
“How do you spell inducement—with a
c or an s?”
“Damflno,” responded Sampson Jen
nings.
“All the clerks I ever had, except you,
knetV how to spell.”
“So did all the bosses I ever had, ex
cept you.”
The entente cordiale was spilled all over
the floor, and anew man stands at the
desk formerly occupied by Sampson Jen
nings.
r “Is YOUR mother in?” asked a visitor of a
little Mormon lioy who opened the door. “No.
ma’am,” the little boy replied, with tears in
his eyes (he had just been spanked), “but my
brother’s mother 13 in.”— Philadelphia Call,
SAVANNAH FIFTY YEARS AGO.
The Bench and the Bar—Some of the
Men who Figured Conspicuously in
the History of the Forest City in the
Long Ago—A Famous Criminal Case.
Correspondence of the Morning Mews.
Atlanta, Ga., April 10.—The law
courts, the court house and its appurte
nances, the Judges, lawyers and the
county officers ot fifty years ago should
be interesting subjects for a letter. My
first remembrance of a court house was
huge piles of bricks, in 1831, on t'je lot
where your present county court house
stands, which was said to have
been the bricks of the old court house,
torn down to build anew- one. That new
one is the present old one between Presi
dent and Y'ork streets, having its
front on Wright square and its
rear on Drayton street. It was not
ready (or occupation until sometime dur
ing the next year, but in fact my reirtem
brance of such only dates from January,
1833. The jail then stood and for many
years later on the commons and would
have been on or nearly on Drayton street
bad it been built upon that far. The city
proper then did hot extend bevond the
north side of Liberty street. This period
ante-dated the present United States bar
racks. All beyond Liberty street, lrom
Its intersection by Drayton, was an open
plain to the forest growth on the outskirts,
except as it was broken by the grim old
jail, surrounded by high, thick walls on
all sides, which presented a lonely and
desolate appearance.
To the right oblique, away beyond from
the same point, to be seen through the
small pines, was the old wooden barracks
ot the United States, aud about the same
distance, to the left onlique, “Fair Lawn.”
the home of Major W. P. Bowen. Both
of these structures relieved the view
made by the monotony of the commons,
and the horror ot the jail, with the shining
whiteness of the building and fences,
through the interstices of the evergreen
trees. The site oi the old jail (as in
formed )is now- occupied with the mansions
erected by Octavus Cohen and Andrew-
Low. The present jail, and possibly a por
tion of Forsyth Park, are where the old bar
racks stood. These barracks soon became
untenantable, which was at least partly
the cause for erecting the new one at the
junction of Liberty and Drayton. Fora
time during the transition the troops oc
cupied the theatre. Maj. Bowen resided
tor many years at Fair Lawn, and there
reared an interesting family of sons and
daughters. One of then was Gen. Bowen,
a West Point graduate, who, during the
late war, Gen. Pemberton dispatched with
six thousand men to Port Gibson, Miss.,
to dispute tly; lauding of Grant. It
proved disastrous and caused the loss of
Bowen’s life and that of Gen. Tracy.
DRAYTON STREET WAS THE SAVANNAH
‘‘BRIDGE OF SIGHS”
from the prison to the place of trial, the
court house. When a little boy I often
saw the disagreeable sight of a prisoner
passing along there in charge of the offi
cer, and possibly with “gyves upon his
wrists.” One I remember, and always
shall, who was being carried to be tried
tor his life. The officer was mounted, and
while they were engaged in conversation
the prisoner looked up into the officer’s
face and smiled. To my childish mind it
was astonishing how 'one so situated
could smile, but even I could dis
cover there was sadness in that
smile, which 1 can now see as vividly
as then, and it “haunts me still.” There
was a phase of prison life then that long
since has ceased to exist, and very few
now living have ever seen. It was that
of prisoners confined for debt. In my
boyhood there was generally someone so
imprisoned, if for only a short time, but
there were one or two instances that
lasted for one or more years, anil there
was tradition of prisoners who had en
dured many years of imprisonment. Per
haps even some of your young people
have seen at intervals on your streets
stones that might have served for mile
stones with the letters J. B. on them.
J. B. meant “jail bounds,” and that was
the limit of a debtor prisoner’s walk, who
had given bond and surety not to go be
yond the limits. If he did, his bond be
came forfeited to the creditor, and th e
debt was collected out of the surety.
Abolishing imprisonment for debt has ren
dered such as that now impossible, but
before its abolition imprisonment for debt
had practically ceased. During the build
ing of the new court house court was
held in the Exchange Long Room.
The first court I was ever at was
in that room. It was in the
month of February, 1832. 1 had not
reached my eighth year. Then there was
proceeding there a 'criminal trial of ex
traordinary interest. One of the most
prominentmerchants of the city had com
mitted a homicide, and he was "upon trial
for it. Alter tea my father went and
took me with him. I well remember the
scene. The Judge was presiding and the
prisoner was sitting in the dock, but
otherwise there was nothing to indicate
an exciting trial, and there were but few
persons in the court room. The Judge
was seated at the eastern end of the
room. Since, I infer atythat time, the jury
must have been taken out for supper or
other purpose, because I learned the case
was submitted to the jury at a late hour
thai, night, and resulted in an acquittal.
THE LEADING COUNSEL FOR THE
PRISONER
was Mathew Hall Mac Allister, who dis
tinguished himself by a great effort, and
when the verdict was received the friends
of the prisoner took MacA. ou their
shoulders and bore him down to where
they could celebrate the victory. This
ease established Mac Allister’s reputation
as the first criminal lawyer of the citv,
which he held to the time he changed his
residence, but it must not be inferred that
his reputation as a lawyer was limited to
this branch of the practice.
The Judge who presided in this case
was a man whose useful, virtuous and
pleasant life was spared up to a modern
date, and, therefore, it is superfluous to
say more. He was the Hon. William
Law. Judge Law’s first commission was
in May, 182!). His immediate predecessor
was Judge William Davies. As I never
saw Judge Davies it is to be presumed
that just before this he either died or re
moved from the city. I think he resided
at some time of his life at Mtlledgeville,
or the vicinity. Judge Law remained
the Judge of the Eastern Circuit until
November, 1834, but it so chanced I was
seldom in his court. He was succeeded
by Hon. John C. Nicoll. During Judge
Nicoll’s short tenure on the bench
of the State Court, though yet a small
boy 1 was quite often in his' court, both
iu Chatham find Effingham counties. He
was a serious, stern looking man with a
strong voice, and I was afraid of him.
When I got to be a man and a lawyer this
awe of him to some extent still remain
ed. During his official career as Judge of
the United States District Court, I had
occasion to appear in his court as sole
counsel for tlie plaintiff in a case of sonic
importance. The defendant’s counsel was
sure of gaining the case, ana two or three
friends at the bar of ability and
experience had given me their opin
ion that that must be the
result. I found a case to sustain
me in the 11th Johnson’s N. Y. reports,
and felt very confident I ought to win,
but felt uncertain as to the impression
I would make upon the Judge. The
parties in the case I cited were Erastus
Root, gentleman, vs. Elijah Beardsley,
gentleman. It was decided as far back
as 1811, and in these democratic times
such a statement of the parties would 1 e
entirely out of order. It gave me an
opportunity lor getting off a little humor,
but how would so rigid a man as Judge
Nicoll take it? Should Ibe lined or re
primanded, or both? But I could not
resist the temptation, and so 1 said your
Honor will perceive this case sus
tains my suit, and it is no
common case, hut was a contest between
gentlemen. In such a case the Judges
must have given the legal questions in
volved much more thaif the ordinary coi -
sideration. It was due to the parties as
gentlemen. 1 was awaiting my fate,
when, to my agreeable surprise, Judge
Nicoll said: “Yes, Mr. Clark, I knew
Erastus and know he was a
gentleman. I did not know Elijah Beards
ley, but I knew the Beardsley family,
and they were all reputed gentlemen.”
This made me feel quite comfortable,
and gave me some assurance of at least
a fair chance. When the time
came for the Judge to charge the jury, he
charged them the law as laid down in
Johnson’s report, and, as a legal and log
ical sequence, the jury found a verdict fh
my favor, to the great disappointment
and disgust of opposing counsel. The
verdict was signed John R. Johnson, fore
man. Through subsequent years I be
came better acquainted with Judge
Nicoll, and found him as affable and con
siderate as 1 had supposed him the con
trary. It is, perhaps, superfluous to say
he was an able jurist, and noted for the
extent and accuracy of his legal learning.
If I mistake not he succeeded Judge Jere
miah Cuyler on the Bench of the Federal
Court, w’bo was the father of R. R. Cuvier,
and of many other sons and daughters.
I often saw him in his old age when I was
a boy, but never in the court house.
IN DECEMBER, 1835, ROBT. M. CHARLTON
succeeded Judge Nicoll, and continued
the Circuit Judge until August, 1837. He
was one of the youngest, if not the
youngest, man on the circuit bench in the
history of the State, he being only 27 years
of age. He 'remained only’ on' the
bench a short time, for the same reason
that many now remain for so short a
time on the bench, or will not accept a
Judgeship at all, viz.: the meagieness of
the salary. During his Judgeship John
E. Ward was the Solicitor General. In
a few months after Judge Charlton
retired, Mr. Ward did likewise,
and the two tormed a partnership, which
continued for 12 or 14 years. Judge Chari
ton was an exception of a man from anv
point of view that embraced the good anil
the true. He was a lawyer and Judge ot
the first ability, but great as that was he
exceeded it in the perfection of his private
and personal character. He added to the
virtues and graces of the perfect gentle
man the unobtrusive piety of the true
Christian. He was one of the very few men
to whom the adjectives of sweet and
lovely, so olten used by one lady of
another, would apply. The gift of poesy
was his to make, yet more lovable his
other gifts and accomplishments. This
gift was consistent with all his
other attributes, and was no sur
prise to any one, as it may be of
men who have it even greater
than he, but in contrast with
many vices. He w-as also gifted with a
refined and generous liumor,which was
never used to wound, but always to heal,
or confer a pleasure. -
During the period of which 1 write the ;
Solicitors General of the Circuit were I
Joseph W. Jackson, from November, 1831,
to May, 1833, then William 11. Stiles un
til January, 1836, then John E. Ward un- ;
til March, 1838.
EACH AND ALL OF THESE GENTLEMEN
were personally, as well as by reputation,
well-known to me. It so happened that
each of them had to discharge for the
State weighty and difficult duties ir. se
rious and embarrassing criminal cases of
the grade of felony. Joseph W. Jackson,
after having represented the State in Con
gress from the Savannah district,
occupied the Circuit bench for a brief
period, and died ot the prevailing epi
demic some thirty years ago. He was one
of the several sons of Georgia’s very dis
tinguished Governor, James Jackson. He
was of a style and type of honorable and
chivalrous manhood that cannot now be
found. William H. Stiles also repre
sented his native State in the national Con
gress, and there won renown. He became
the Minister of the United States Govern
ment to the Austrian Empire. As an
orator he was noted for his faultless
rhetoric and elocution, and as a gentle
men for a grace and polish of manner not
to be excelled. Death, too, has long
since silenced forever that tongue of
eloquence, and that voice of music,
John E. Ward was for many years
a conspicuous figure in Geor
gia politics, and has been the
United States Minister to the Empire of
China. Strange to say, that these two Solic
itors-General, citizens from the same city,
should have been foreign ministers front
their national government. Yet stranger,
that another from the same city, and who
was in later years a Judge of the
same court, should have been like
wise a foreign minister—General
Henry R. Jackson. Mr. Ward is
yet living, but in the city of New- York.
He alone survives of the older and contem
poraneous lawyers of the Savanjiah bar
at the date of his admission. Judge Flem
ing, who is an older lawyer, and much
older man, was afterward a member of
the Savannah bar. What remains to be
said on this subject must be postponed for
a future letter. Richard H. Clark.
EASTER MORN.
WRITTEN BY A YOUNG LADY OF SAVANNAH.
A tangled mass ot trailing bloom
Fills all the air with sweetness,
A bird’s fresh note trills out above the gloom
Of night, that ling rs on the verge of day.
“Hail, liappy day! ye break too late!”
His voice rang out in gladness,
“For lo! the Master, waiting at the gate.
Cries ‘All the world th rough me is free.’ ”
“Sing! sing with me, my mate, to-dav
A song of love perfected;
Passed is the pussion, and the bitter way
He trod is left behind!”
“Break! break! ye tardy day!
The teardropson Earth’s cheeks are wet—
They niu-t be wiped away.
Break! break to do Him praise.”
The bird sang on in louder strain,
The Raster morn broke suddenly in glory,
The clouds rolled back, the sail refrain
Of fast and penance into joy changed.
The it aster rose in robes of light
A hove the generation vet unborn,
His hands in glorious might
11c raised to bless—the birds sang on.
THE GKEELY EXPEDITION.
Hurrying to Completion the Final Prep
arations for the Voyage.
As the time draws near tor the depart
ure of the steamships that are going in
search of the Greelv expedition, savs the
New York Ucrahl', there is a rapid in
crease in visitors to the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. The fact is that anything carrying
with it an assurance of peril and adven
ture possesses strange fascination for the
multitude, and as all who would like
nothing better than to be participants in
such dangers, with the chances of be
coming heroes if they are fortunate enough
to survive them, cannot go, the least they
can do is to get*if possible, a look at the
vessels and men that are going. Ail day
long dense throngs, therefore, line the
docks where the steamship Bear now lies,
and having seen alt that is possible hem
the crowd moves slowly to the dry dock
to sec the condition of the steamship The
tis. Manifold inquies are made after the
British steamship Alert, the remaining
vessel of the expeditionary fleet, hut all
that can be learned is that nothing has
been heard of her since she left the 'other
side on the 28th tilt., and that she is now
momentarily expected to arrive here.
All the stores ard supplies for the
steamship Bear have been received ou
board. There is a good deal to be done,
however, in the way of painting, furnish
ing and putting on the general finishing
touches, so that nothing shall be left un
done to make everything as comfortable
as can be for the officers and men in their
long and perilous search among the ice
barriers of the far distant polar sea for
the heroic adventurers preceding them.
It is expected that she will- get away
within two weeks, unless longer detained
by the non-arrival of tlie Spanish steamer
Wearra, which is to bring from Cardiff
1,800 tons of coal tor the vessels. Com
mon anthracite coal will be used until the
polar sea is reached, a fresh supply being
taken in at St. John and another at Loch
Maree. The reason for using Cardiff coal
is that it eliminates the dangers of spon
taneous combustion. On the Bear yes
terday everybody was in the best of spirits
and anxious to enter upon the voyage.
To visitors the officers are extremely
courteous. A more sturdy steamer for
the purpose could hardly be imagined.
Tne Thetis is being strengthened and
her apartments fitted to meet tne emergen
cies of a polar cruise. It is thought these
prelimiuary changes will be completed
and the stores received on board 60 as to
enable her to sail by May 1.
Mr. Bradford, the well-known polar
artist, is preparing to make pictures of
all the ships of the rescuing squadron.
The Ameriean-Berman War.
Burlington /Buckeye.
Act I. The Lasker resolution.
Minister Sargent, quoting from his
standard fifth reader, tor use in high
schools and academies:
“Hope for a season bade the world farewell
When Thomas Ochiltree and Lasker fell.”
Bismarck—She didn’t.
Sargent—She did.
B. —She didn't.
S.—She did. *
B.—Didn’t.
Did.
8.-Didn’t.
S.—Did.
IL—Didn’t.
S.-Did.
B.—Din.
S.— Did.
8.-Din.
S.—Did.
B.—’Nother!
3.—Fightin’ one!
B.—Fightiu’ one and dassent take it up!
(They clinch—in their minds.)
Act 11. The Emperor’s birthday dinner.
Minister Sargent—l never said it.
Prince Bismarck—l never said you said
it.
Minister—l never said you said I said it.
Prince—l never said you said I said you
said It.
The Kaiser of Kaiserville—Embrace me,
my children.
(They all feed. While they chew their
vittles white-winged Peace comes in and
broods over the crowd, like a Cochin hen
trying to cover six dozen eggs.)
They Relieve at Once.
“Henson’s Capcine Porous Plasters are
prompt, thorough and highly medicinal.”
—Dr. C. V. B. Kennedy.
pcrotmal.
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PGR SALE.—Mirrors, Mirrors, Mirrors!
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goar&ing.
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B. P. McKenna & Cos.
Will c>2cn this week 1,000 pieces of
White India Linens,
At from ii *e. to 50c. per \ ard.
TIMLI. shew also Handsome,Novelties In
it White Goods, and will open several
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White Piques ai sc.
TABLE LINENS,
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which we recommend for durability.
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We are offering a very choice lot of Summer
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Embroideries & Laces.
Thousands of yards of handsome Hamburg
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Hosiery, Gloves k Hand
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Ladies’ and Children’s Lisle Thread am !
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Ladies’ Black and Colored Jersey Silk
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Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s White and Colored.
Bordered Handkerchiefs, In a great many
Btvles and dualities.
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Art Dealers, Booksellers, Stationers,
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PEBIIiITYgg;
TJSicklv cured by the Cl VI AAR METHOD. Adopts, In !'.
tins HOSPITALS OF FRAN CSC- Prompt return of VIGOR
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