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SINDAV. jrXK I, 1884.
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It is suspected that the demand for the
coinage of a half cent piece was started
by llussell Sage.
The quairel between Plon-Plon and his
son suggests the idea that he has spared
the rod and spoiled the child.
"What the country now cries for is a bill
to retire and pension the re*ealcitrant offi
cers of the Fourth Ohio militia.
If Mr. 1 ilden's health continues to im
prove h" should have a tresh photograph
made “after taking the Democratic
nomination.
Another Gypsy Queen has died in New
Jersey at the ace ol 100 years. No Gypsy
camp is complete without two or three
ancient que* ns.
. Tammany Hall and Irving Hall societies
have buried the hatchet a* ain, but no man
can tell how soon one of them will get
mad and buy anew one.
Still Gen. Grant has nothing to say. He
is not play inr the part of a sphinx so much
now. as he is imitating the little boy that
was run over by the call.
The Republicans of Maine have already
renominated all their present Representa
tives in Congress. They know there's
small choice in rotten apples.
Gen. Butler probably will next scoop in
the nomination of the Woman Suffragists,
but the Prohibitionists will hold their
breath when his name is mentioned.
Nearly all the Southern delegates
went to Chicago via Washington city.
They probably w anted to see if the Treas
ury still occupies the same old stand.
Tne success of El Mahdi has demon*
strated that the False Prophet business
pays, and it is not surprising that compe
tition should liegln to spring up in the
Soudan.
No one. will believe the report that
President Aithur was mixed up with
Grant & Ward’s fraudulent operations.
The President has ordinary common sense
about some things.
The new Mahdi evidently learned the
art of vanishing when pressed by the
enemy from the Egyptian soldiers. That
Is the only thing they can do w ith accu
racy and dispatch.
The Covrur-Jtmmul says: “Gen. Grant
is now convinced that patents cannot lie
too eareful in keeping their children out
of the street.” Nor ought they be allowed
to get into deep water among the big Fish
until tin y learn how to swim.
Whipping as a punishment for crime
after legal conviction thereof is not allow
ed by the c< nstitution of Pennsylvania.
The police of Philadelphia have jurisdic
tion, however, to club prisoners before
conviction to their hearts’ content.
Gen. Butler w ants it distinctly under
stood that h>- is not an open “bidder” for
the Presidential nomination of any party.
If any <>f ti * to will advertise for '“sealed
proposals,” however, he will make an es
timate on tie job without much delay.
If all accounts are true, the traffic in
colored delegates will be quite lively in
Chicago tins week. Some of the most
eminent R publicans don’t think there is
any harm in hiring ignorant men to vote
as the eminent Republicans wish them
to.
Each one of the prominent candidates
for the Republican Presidential nomina
tion is provided with a private wire lead
ing' to Chicago. Some of them want also
an underground railroad that will enable
them to get away with some of Arthur's
colored supporters.
Lulu Hurst, it seems, has a rival in
Mattie Price, of Bartow county, Ga. She
is only 1-1 years of age and weighs only
ninety pounds, but she does the same as
tonishing tilings that Miss Ilurst does.
They ought to give a performance to
gether.
Some pf the Republican papers intimate
that Chairman Springer is getting sick of
the star route trial investigation because
a Democratic lawyer was mixed up in
the rascality. It is to be hoped the com
mittee will hew to the line, let the chips
fall where they may.
The Rev. Lewi3 Lampman, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church at Jamaica,
Long Island, recently told his congrega
tion that “an angel from heaven could
not convince him that U. S. Grant and
sons were not equally guilty with Ferdi
nand Ward.” Mr. Lampman said they
should not be called defaulters, but
thieves. Gen. Grant ought to call on
Parson Newman to make life a burden to
Parson Lampman.
So far fourteen States have chosen 280
delegates to the Democratic National Con
vention. Four of them having 114 dele
gates favor the Ohio platform, while uiue
having 158 delegates are for a revenue
only tariff. Among the twenty-four Slates
yet to select delegates there are not more
than two or three that will not give an
emphatic indorsement of the course pur
sued by the large majority of the Demo
crats iu the House of Representatives.
There appears to be some curiosity in
New York to know why John C. Eno, the
defaulting ex-President of the Second
National Bank, was not arrested. Al
though he acknowledged that he embez
zled $4,00d,000, no attempt was made to ar
rest him until ten days after his crime
was known, and then it was discovered
that he had taken his departure for parts
unknown. Probably those whose duty it
was to have him arrested wanted him to
escape.
It has leaked out that the largest cor
ruption fund distributed among Massa
chusetts legislators for many years has
been used during the present session to
influence the passage of laws in the in
terest of a gas company. Great excite
ment was occasioned in Boston Wednes
day by stories giving names and amounts
of bribes. The evidences ol corruption
appear to be overwhelming, and the in
vestigation now in progress promises
some dark developments. Massachusetts
evidently needs a few years more of But
leric rule.
The Business Outlook.
The financial situation is a great deal
better than it was a week ago. The res
toration of confidence in business circles
is steady but slow. It is predicted by
well informed business men that within a
month money will be plenty and cheap.
At present those who hare money are
disposed to hold on to it until they are
satisfied that the danger of a panic is
past. Prices of a good manv stocks that
sold well less than a year ago, and a few
less than a month ago, still rule very low.
The Gould stocks particularly do not
appear to be favorites. The truth is that
the stocks out of which the bottom ap
pears to have dropped are not worth very
much. Most of them pay no dividend,
and there is no prospect that they ever
will pay any. The few which
pay dividends are based on
properties which are bonded for about all
they are worth. Safe, dividend paying
stocks command very lair prices. They
suffered very little from the Wall street
flurry. The Comptroller of the Treasury
says that the reports he gets from the na
tional banks from all parts of the country
are very encouraging. He does not think
there is reason to apprehend any further
financial trouble. He expresses the opin
ion. however, that Congress ought to pass
the McPherson bill immediately. This
bill, it will be remembered, passed the
Senate a month or more ago. It permits
the banks to issue currency to the extent
of the face value of the bonds they
have deposited in the Treasury. The bill
is now pending in the House. Its passage
would at once give the country ten per
cent, more currency than it has at pres
ent. This currency is needed now, and
will be urgently needed next fall when
the work of moving the crops begins.
The currency is undergoing a slow but
steady contraction. Every bond call
takes from the tanks some of the bonds
which are the basis ol their circulation.
Some of the banks replace the bonds that
are called in, but others do not on ac
count of the high premium which the
bonds command. Congress ought cer
tainly do something to check the contrac
tion In the currency. Wise legislation
and careful business methods may make
this year, which two weeks ago promised
to be a year of disasters, a year of pros
perity.
-Confederate Soldiers’ Homes.
The Board of Directors of the Home
tor Disabled and Indigent Confederate
Soldiers of Louisiana has prepared its
annual report to be submitted to the
General Assembly of that State. The
Home w as established in conformity with
an a*t ol that body passed in 1882, and
$2,500 was then appropriated for the pur
poses of the Home for the
year 1883. In September, 1883, the
military of New Orleans had a
series of sham battles for the benefit of
the Home, and the admission lees of spec
tators to the fair grounds during the two
days the battles continued amounted f to
$7,087 50. Prior to this, however, land
had been purchased and the buildings
were being constructed.
The institution was formally dedicated
and named “Camp Nichols” on the 10th of
March last, and it now supports over
twenty indigent and disabled veterans,
while there is room for several more.
The report of the Treasurer shows that
the total amount received by him was
$9,903 "o—all of which has been expended
for land, improvements, furniture, em
ployes and provisions, except $947 24
which is still on hand. The present Leg
islature will undoubtedly make a lurther
appropriation for the support of the Home
for the present fiscal year.
This Soldiers’ Home is a commendable
charity. While there is nothing grand or
ostentatious about it, it furnishes shelter
and food for quite a number of needy vet
erans, and its success with a small out
lay of money proves that such an Institu
tion can easily be established in every
State in the South. There are few of our
cities that could not easily raise from
SIO,OOO to $15,000 for such a purpose.
In Georgia we already have a building
which, with slight modifications and ad
ditions, would be an elegant Soldiers’
Home—the old Executive Mansion at Mil
ledgeville. it can never be needed for
any more laudable purpose. No doubt
the Legislature would cheerfully turn it
over to a properly constituted organiza
tion under reasonable restrictions, and
assist in its refitting and maintenance as
a Soldiers’ Home. There can be no har,m
at least in discussing the matter, and it
is to be hoped that the people of Georgia
will not be far behind those of Louisiana
and Virginia in providing a comfortable
home for their disabled and indigent sol
diers.
A Long Session Predicted.
There appears to be a great difference
of opinion relative to the length of time
*hat the Republican Convention will pro
bably remain in session. Enthusiastic
Blaine and Arthur men talk confidently
about an early adjournment. ' The Blaine
men speak airily of nominating their
candidate on the second or third
ballot. The Arthur leaders appear
to have no doubt that their fa
vorite will be chosen very soon atter the
balloting begins. The opinion of neither
the Arthur nor Blaine supporters, how
ever, is regarded as worth much because
they talk only for effect. The uncommit
ted conservative delegates think it not
improbable that the convention maybe m
session a week or ten days. They base
their opinion on the fact that there ap
pears to be a determination on the part of
the followers of both Arthur and Blaine
not to abandon their candidate as long as
there is the slightest chance for success.
They hope to tire each other out
or to tire out those who are support
ing the less prominent candidates.
But will those who are not supporting
either Blaine or Arthur allow themselves
to be tired out? If they will not the
balloting may continue five or six days,
and perhaps longer. It is known that
there is quite a large number of the
delegates who do not believe that either
Arthur or Blaine can be elected. Blaine’s
record is against him, and the hostility
in some localities is so pronounced that
it has been threatened that in the
event ot his nomination another
Republican candidate will be put
in the field. It is doubtful
if several of the leading Republican pa
pers in New York would support him.
With respect to Arthur it is claimed that
lie cannot carry either New York or Ohio,
because of the bitterness engendered by
the fight that was made on Garfield's ad
ministration bv the faction to which Ar
thur belonged. Unless, therefore, either
Arthur or Blaine develops unexpejted
strength a long session may be expected.
The booming of the guns of Fort McHenry
waked the Baltimore jieople up the other
morning and caused a lively sensation. It
was not known whether the city was
about to be attacked by filibusters or
whether Prince Bismarck had sent over a
tew ironclads to beard the great American
hog in his den. The firing lasted an hour,
and was only the inception of anew sys
tem of practicing which has been decreed
by the War Department, and which will
be kept up for sometime, at least until
after the adjournment of the Republican
National Convention. The artillerists
may very properly call it the Lincoln
boom.
The Chicago Tribune thinks the South
ern delegates to the Republican Conven
tion are “loquacious, non-committal, and
waiting to see how the cat will jump.”
It might have added that their loyalty to
any candidate who would insure them
good offices could not be called in ques
tion.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JUNE 1, 1884.
Arthur's Lack.
It is said that those who compose the
committee of one hundred, appointed by
the Arthur mass meeting in New York to
visit Chicago and urge Arthur's nomina
tion, are not solid business men but law
yers and Wall street gamblers. It is
probable that the statement is very near
the truth: It is noticeable that Clint
Wheeler,Johnny O'Brien and machine men
81 that kind are prominent at Chicago in
Arthur'6 interest. They are the men that
he worked with when he was a ward poli
tician in New York and he cannot shake
them off. Jt may be that he doesn’t want
to shake them off. They are familiar with
the kind of politics that he knows the
most of, and doubtless he has more confi
dence in them than he has in politicians of
any other stripe. At this time it is a mat
ter that cannot fail to attract attention,
that i t was mere chance that gave Arthur
the Vice-Presidential nomination in 1880,
and that his present prominence as a can
didate is due wholly to the fact that he is
President, and has control of vast patron
age. He certainly does not owe his promi
nence to his ability or to anything that he
has done for his party or the country. He
was nominated for Vice President simply
to please Conkling and the faction that
supported Grant. He would not have
been thought of for the second place on
the ticket if there had not been a desire to
placate the leaders of the celebrated 306,
and without that nomination it is proba
ble he would not have secured a notable
place, either, in his profession of
politics. It must be admitted that his
administration has given very general
satisfaction, but there has been no call
for the exercise of statesmanlike abilities.
If there had been, it may be that Arthur
would have been found equal to the emer
gency. Very many, however, who are
qualified to give an opinion, think that he
would not. He is a conspicuous instance
of a man who has secured a great place
without having earned it, and without
having shown any of the qualities of great
ness.
Sam Kandall’s Fences.
New evidence arises nearly everyday
that Mr. Randall is not nearly as 6olid at
home ;,s has been generally believed.
Some of the Democratic organizations in
Philadelphia have come out boldly for
tariff reform, and since a young men’s
Democratic club led off in this direction
several weeks ago the tariff reformers
have been taking courage, and to-day it
would be very far from the truth to say
tb:* the Pennsylvania Democrats are
unanimous for protection.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of the Eleventh ward of Philadelphia, in
Mr. Kandall’s own district, incorporated
some strong tariff reform resolutions in
its creed last week. These resolutions, it
is stated, struck Mr. Randall as being
highly improper, and as soon as possible
after getting the news of their adoption
he hastened over to Philadelphia to try to
stop this indirect destruction of his politi
cal fences. Of course the committee
could hardly be expected to directly abro
gate its own formal action, but it seems
his idea was that another meeting should
he called at which resolutions approving
his course in opposing the Morrison bill
should be adopted.
Whether the committee will so far stul
tify itself as to thus “temper the wind to
the shorn lamb” remains to be seen. It
is more than probable that it uid not pass
the offensive resolutions without due con
sideration, especially of their bearing on
the course of Mr. Randall.
The fact that the tariff reform sentiment
in Philadelphia, which first found public
expression so recently, has already grown
to such proportions as to seriously alarm
Mr. Randall, is,to say the least, significant.
If its present apparent rate of growth
should be maintained, it might become
so formidable as to even jeopardize
his return to Congress. Mr. Randall
however, is a shifty politician, as his tac
tics at the Allentown Convention abun
dantly proved, and w hile he may not ac
tually fear defeat, he doubtless thinks the
preservation of the semblance of solidity
with his constituents is of sufficient im
portance to justify his absence from Wash
ington and consequent neglect of his ap
propriation bills for a few days.
Good Congressional Work.
Representative Thompson, of Kentucky,
is entitled to a good deal of credit for the
earnest and persistent way in which he
has worked for the reduction of the cus*
toms and internal revenue districts. It
was mainly through his efforts that the
Secretary of the Treasury, a year or more
ago, reduced the number o? internal
revenue districts one-third. It is estima
ted that the amendments which he was
instrumental in having made to the legis
lative appropriation bill, cutting
down the number of customs
and internal revenue districts,
will require the dismissal of at least 1,200
ofiiceholderSj and will save the govern
ment about $3,000,000 a year. Doubtless
the Senate will acquiesce in the amend
ments. In fact, it is not easy to see how
it can avoid adopting them. They are in
the line of economy. The officials that
will have to be dismissed are not
needed. There are now 141 cus
toms districts. In 54 of them the
expenses exceed the collections.
The reports show that in 21 of them
not a dollar has been collected in ten
years. Mr. Thompson’s amendments re
duce the number to 69, and reduce the
number of internal revenue districts from
84 to 43. Mr. Thompson has been work
ing at this matter for several years. There
are very few Congressmen who can say
they were instrumental in saving the
government $3,000,000 a year.
The Railway Age praises the Mexican
authorities for the prompt way in which
they punish train wreckers, but doesn’t
like their method of dealing with con
ductors, engineers and ‘rainmen when an
accident occurs. Thi is what it says:
“The Mexican autho I ties have done
nany unwise and illtb.ral things in re
ard to railways built by Americans in
eir country, but they are entitled to
c edit for their summary work with train
wreckers. No less than ten men who
were captured in attempting to wreck
trains have already been shot, and four
others, against whom proof was
difficult, were sent to serve in
the army, in a distant part ot the
country. While doing a good work
in protecting trains, the Mexican
Government should also cease its barbar
ous policy of arresting and throwing in
prison trainmen whenever an accident
occurs, no matter bow unavoidable. The
course which has been pursued in sev
eral cases of this kind has tended to re
flect deep disgrace upon the Mexican Gov
ernment, and, if continued, will not only
deter Americans from entering railway
service in Mexico, but will prevent
American capital from being invested in
the construction of railways to develop
the country.”
It is rather hard, of course, to punish
those who are not responsible for railroad
accidents, but it would be a good thing if,
in this country, the disposition to punish
those w r ho are responsible for accidents
were a little more marked.
The attempts of the Senate to bulldoze
the House of Representatives on the
naval and post office appropriation bills
are not likely to succeed. It is said to be
the plan of the House- Committee to get
all the bills in hand before going into con
ference on those In dispute. The indica
tions are that the House will not yield the
points in dispute should Congress be
forced to remain in session all summer.
The Senate can gain nothing but censure
for obstinacy in insisting on its amend
ments against all hope ? and it would dis
play wisdom in receding from them as
soon as possible.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Decline to Hoist.
Sew Orleans Times-Democrat (Dent.).
The leading Republican papers decline to
hoist Copiah and Danville at the head of their
columns, and eolvthe smaller fry will use this
campaign material provided for them by the
Republican members of-the Senate outrage
committee.
The Road to a Folger Defeat.
Sere York Times (Rep.).
There are thou*ands of Republicans in this
country, and not a few Chicago delegates,
whose hair is still standing on end about
James G. Elaine. Some of them will not get
over their Blaine scare, we fear, nntil Chester
A. Arthur has been nominated, and the- Re
publican party is on its wav to a Folger de
feat.
The Only Relief Possible.
Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
The only possible relief we can afford the
distressed manufacturers—and all protected
manufacturers are to-day in distre-s—is o en
large the free list, enabling them to eet their
raw materials on such terms as to make com
petition with foreign manufacturers possible.
Nothing ought to appeal so directly to all
classes us the demand for a reform of the tariff.
Butler Won't Wlilne.
Sew York Sun {lnd.).
We conclude, tnen, that Gen. Butler’s
chances are not very promi-ing at Chicago.
He will have supporters there, and support
ers of zeal and industry, but we suppose there
won’t be enough of them; and yet we here
record our opinion that Butler would make a
stronger candidate and a better President
than several of the more orthodox and regu
lar Democratic statesmen. But perhaps the
convention may not take any * f these old fo
gies after alii Nobody knows. But one
thing everybody may know: if Butler is
beaten, he will never shed a tear or whine a
whimper.
The Danger of Blaine.
Chicago Times ( lnd ,).
U Mr. Blaine should get to be President, the
probability is that he would attempt to rein
state tiie practice of Presidential party' leader
ship—that he would be, like Buchanan and
Johnson, a “my policy” President. And the
probability is that he would have, like Bu
chanan and Johnson, a lively and cheerful
time of it. For. all signs point to the conclu
sion that the country is not yearning for any
more Presidents of ihe “statesmanly" sort
whose idea of that office is a dignified head of
the nation and an undignified captain of a
party rolled into-me. Henceforth ihe Presi
dent, whomsoever he may be. that under
takes to fulfill that idea of the Presidential
offiee will fad miserably. That kind of states
manship is a lost art.
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ITEMS C*F INI i.REST.
Those in the. elieep business in Yazoo coun
ty, Mississippi, realize 75 per cent, on the capi
tal invested.
Guadalupe county. Texas, claims the
honor of the first conviction for fence cutting
under the new law. The fence cutter was
tried, convicted and sentenced to one year’s
iinprisonrueni in the penitentiary.
No effort is being made to develop, at pre
sent, the tin mine recently discovered at
King’s Mountain. N. C. The mine belongs to
a party who is able to hold it, and it may be
some time before active work begins.
Steam is said by a Berlin paper to be about
to be made a most useful agent for extinguish'-
ing fires. It is proposed to use it by means of
automatic stop-cocks which will open at a
given temperature and allow the steam to es
cape upon the flames.
The Denver (Col.) Seics of May 21 contains
this bit of information: “Among all the com
modities and securities quoted in New York,
silver is the only thing that has held its own
amid the crash of hanks and the wreck of
brokers. The gold bugs should take a tum
ble.”
Notwithstanding ihe military and politi
cal disturbances in Egypt, w hicli lower so
threateningly on the Eastern horizon, a work
of peculiar archaeological,and religious inter
est and historical importance is quietly pro
gressing in the Delta—the excavation and ex
ploration of San, the Zoan of the Bible. It is
under the ablest management, and a lietrty
support should be given :t.
The 17th of June has been deeided upon as
the day for unveiling the statue of Bolivar at
New* York. The Mayor, who is to receive the
statue on behalf of the city, has invited the
Secretaries of the Navy and War Depart
ments to assist in making the event a memo
rable one. and the former has already express
ed his intention of ordering the North Atlan
tic squadron to rendezvous in the harbor for
purposes of salute.
Catt. Welfare, master of the bark Oak
land, which arrived at l’ort Madison, Wash
ington Territory, from ban Pedro, tells the
following story as a fact: “When in lati
tude 35 degrees north, longitude 127 degrees
west, we captured a female shark that had
been following the vessel for some time. .Jills
shark measured 11 feet in length, anbs jpon
being cut open was found to contain iorty
seveu young sharks, each about one foot in
length, and four live suckers about ten inches
long.
Cremationists have gained a foothold in
Venezuela. A recent government decree or
ders the cremation of the corpses of yellow
fever victims, and the necessary apparatus
and an operator are to be imported at once
from Europe. It is not the unhealthincss of
burial grounds nor the objectionable devices
of those who trade upon" the sensibilities of
the bereaved that have prompted the Presi
dent to such a st* ]>. Cremation is claimed
simply as a protection against the spread of
infectious disease.
The New Haven Register says that Mark
Twain has several blank forms pinned over
the table on which he writes. One is a formal
declination of an invitation todinner; another
is-for declinations to give opinions (otherwise
compliments, Clemen* phrase* it) on literary
productions, and another is a blank for de
clining to send articles solicited by this and
that journal. If Twain didn’t employ some
system for answering the deluge of letters of
this sort he would soon find himself overrun
with senseless correspondence.
The late Richard G. Radway (of “ready
relief” fame) died iast February, leaving an
estate valued at about $250,000, leaving as next
of kin two grandchildren, both under 14, chil
dren of his deceased daughter. Recently a
paper, purporting to be lus will, was offered
for probate, but its admission was resisted by
the special guardian of the next of kin. on the
or*OU!'d mat the testator vne mentally Inm
pacitated from making a will, and that it was
not dulv executed. Thursday, however, the
Surrogate rendered a decision affirming its
entire validity.
There are in Shakespeare’s plays about
ninety deaths taking place either on the stage
or immediately behind. The modes of death
are various. Cold steel —the daager or the
sword—accounts for about two-thirds of the
whole; twelve persons die from old age or de
cay; seven are beheaded; five die by poison,
including the elder Ilamlet, whose symptoms
are so minutely described by Ihe ghost: two
of suffocation, unless, indeed, Desdemona
makes a third; two by strangling; one from a
fall: one is drowned: three die by snake bite,
and one, Horner, the armorer, is thumped to
death with a sand bag.
Irrigation is a matter of such consequence
in California that a State convention has just
been held to consider the subject. Irrigation
is only in its infancy in the State, and yet
there are from 200,000 to 250,t00 acres of irri
gated lands-in the San Joaquin Valley alone,
and there is no part of the State, except the
extreme northern counties, in which irriga
tion is not a live question. California, says
the San Francisco Alta, i more in need of the
fertilizing agency of artificial irrigation than
most of the countries in which the art has
been practiced since the beginning of histori
cal times, hut the matter of accomplishing it
is a difficult one, owing to conflicting interests.
In reply to the question whether there is
such a thing in real life among criminals as
the wearing of false beards, and that kind of
disguise, a detective is quoted as saying that
the make-up of the stage is not known to the
police in their dealings with rascals. But
there is a good deal of disguising, and it is
generally done by letting hair grow or cutting
it off, and changing its color. There are bar
tiers who do that kind of work at high prices.
They got into it in the old bounty-jumping
days. A man with long black'hair and whis
kers would enlist, get the bounty, and desert.
Within a dav or two he would turn up again
with red hair and whiskers a little shorter.
Next time, the hair might be yellow, and all
of it gone from his chin. And so on, if he was
provident with his stock of hair, he could be a
half dozen very different men before getting
down to a clean faeqand close-cropped head.
The Indian canals are a distinctive feature
of the country. They are splendidly built,
being intended principally for irrigation, al
though having locks so as to make navigation
possible. The largest and most important one
is the Ganges canal, which cost the govern
ment over £2,000,000. It is about 30b miles
long, runs out of the Gauges and proceeds
into the Ganges again. When the subject of
building it was agitated, the Interesting na
tives vowed they would never for an instant
tolerate it, tapping as it did the sacred river
of the Hindoos. Then wiien the work was
actually begun they changed their tactics and
gravely declared that water would not remain
in or flow through the canal. When the fal
lacy of this position was shown, they receded
from it and contented themselves with sol
emnly asserting that no native would ever
avail himself of the improvement. It is now
in full operation, however.
One of the last acts of the late Duke of
Albany was to sign the memorial which Is
being prepared at Cannes for presentation to
the French Government to pray them not to
sell the Island of St. Marguerite. A company
is being promoted to buy this beautiful island
for speculative purposes. It is proposed to lay
the place out in villas and shops, and to erect
restaurants and cafe-chantants. If this
wanton destruction of nature is allowed to be
carried out, the English residents will pro
bably go elsewhere and their villas will be
thrown upon a market which already con
tains more sellers than buyers. The island
itself may almost be called historic. Here it
was that the “Man in the Iron Mask” was
confined so many vears, and the same place
did duty as a prison for Marshal Bazaine
after the Fratico-Prnssian war. The last
use made of it by the French Government was
as a place of detention for the Arab priaouera
of war.
There art? 20,000 producing oil wells in
Pennsylvania, Yielding at present 60,000
barrels of oil a day. 11 requires 5,000 miles of
pipe line and 1,600 .iron tanks of an average
capacity of 25.000 barrels each to transport
anti store the oil and urplns stocks. There
are now nearly 38,000,00t’ barrels of oil stored
m the r giou in ranks. T he money actually
invested in petroleum production siuee 1861) ss
estimated to be more thans42i.ooo,ooo, of which
4200.000.000 was capital from New York city.
The speculative transactions represent more
than $400,000,000' annually. The lowest price
crude petroleum ever brought was ten cents a
barrel in I*6l. In 1859, when there was only
one well in existence. Col. Drake's Pioneer,
at Titusville, the price was $24 a barrel. The
Standard employs lOO.Ore) men. The product
of its refineries requires the making of 25,000
oak Parrels of fortv gallons each, and 100.(00
tiu cans, holding five gallons each, every day.
The first American petroleum ever exported
was in 1862. Charles Loekart, ol Pittsburg,
sent nearly 600,000 gallons to Europe in that
year, and sold it for $2,000 less than the cost of
transportation. In ISB3 nearlv 400,000,000
gallons were exported, for which $60,000,000
were returned to this country.
BRIGHT BITS.
The fame that comes from hanging is but
hemp-tie honor.
Wall street keeps the lead among first
class watering-places.— Boston Transcript.
As we base ball champions say, Mr. Blaine
is likely to be left on third. —Chicago Sews.
A Massachusetts editor has noticed that
the smaller the girl, lhe more ice cream she
will hold.
Never do a good deed and then talk about
it. The best way is to have a reporter write
it up in the newspaper for you.
The springing of John Sherman’s name on
the Chicago Convention would unite the
Republican party. The factions would be
frozen together.
It IS the custom in a certain Hindoo caste
for a woman about to marry to ha ve her third
and fourth fingers cut off at the first joint.
This accounts for the peculiar scratch marks
observable on the face of the Hindoo husband.
—Merchant Traveler.
Anew game, similar to hide and seek, is be
coming very popular in this country. It is
played as follows: A cashier in a bank takes
the money of the institution and disappears.
Then the detectives try to find him. If they
succeed, he comes home and has to pay for
feit. —Boston Pest.
Director—Don’t you think it’s rather reck
less to let this man have so much money? You
see he has had $550,000 within the last week,
and I am informed he’s speculating. Bank
Presid nt—Oh no, lie’s all right. Director —
But in these times we should be careful. Bank
President—Don't worry about that man. He’s
a Chicago hotel keeper, and when both con
ventions are over he’ll have enough money to
buy this bank and several like it.
A bumptious Englishman, Figaro says, was
dini> g vvi h a lady at a table d’hote in Bou
logne. Seated opposite to them was a tier
man, on whose hand were some rings. After
gazing at the German, the Englishman said to
his companion in a low voice: “I bate to see a
man with rings on.” A supercilious sneer
was all the German vouchsafed. After a little
time the Englishman again said to the lady:
“Do you know what 1 should do with a ring'if
I had one?” Before the lady could reply the
German leaned across the" table, and," in a
sulky growl, said: “Wear it in your nose!”
PERSONAL.
Judge Stanley Matthews is to address
the Tennessee Bar Association on the Fourth
of July, during their annual meeting on the
historic Lookout Mountain.
Mayor Martin, of Boston, lias selected
Mr. Frederick P. Vinton, to paint a three
quarters length portrait of Wendell Phillips
for Faneuil Hall. It is to be finished by July
1, and the price to be paid is SI,OOO.
Mrs. L. B. Barrett, the Secretary of the
Massaeliusett- Woman’s Christian Temper
ance Union, who recently died, was the first
and only Secretary of "the Massachusetts
union, having been in office since Us forma
tion ten yt ars ago.
Gov. N. G.crdwav, of Dakota, who was
formerly a resident of New Hampshire, is
suggesting to the people of Bismarck that
insteaiTof sending buck skins all the way Fast
to be made into “Plymouth buck gloves,”
they should tan and "make them up them
selves.
Gen. Ovami, the Japanese Minister of
.War. two other general officers in the Japa
nese army, and twelve officers of the staff are
iu Paris." They intend to remain some time
in France, and make a thorough examination
of French army organization, arsenals and
ordnance.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale has pre
sented to the United 8 ates revenue cutter
Samnel Dexter an extensive library of stand
ard books handsomely bound in heat cases.
Capt. GabrieUon is also in receipt of hand
somely engrossed resolutions of thanks to the
officer# and cew for gallant conduct on the
occasion of the Gay Head disaster.
In the revolution of 1830 a law student in
Paris was kicked by one of the King’s officers
for tearing down a copy of ihe ordinances
placarded <m the wall. The officer was armed,
the student was not; so the latter ran away
and lived to tight another day. The officer
was Patrice de McMahon and the If.w student
Jules Grevy.
Gen. W. w. Boring Pasha lias a cane, • the
large ivory head of which was brought from
the .Soudan bv Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of
Gen. Itobt. E. Lee. and present. *l by her to
G n. Loriug. The head is richly curved in
Egyptian style, and the cane itseif was cut
from a piece of malacea brought from Singa
jiore by another friend of the Pasha’s, also as
a present to him.
John Lawrence died in a poor-house near
MobiliT," Ala., on Sunday last. He had been
the Captain of a schooner that plied between
New Orleans and Pensacola, before the war.
On account of his knowledge of th coast, he
.was employed by Admiral Farragut as second
pilot at the battle of Mobile Bay, but it so
happened that he piloted the Brooklyn, the
vessel that led the assault. He was "said to
have behaved with admirable coolness and
courage in that terrific engagement.. And yet
the government he served did nothing for
him. He died a pauper, near the scene of ins
treachery to hisowu ])e<>ple l bereft of the sym
pathy and concern of tho,e about h m.
BOOK NOTICES.
The Son of Monte-Cristo. T. B. Peterson
A Brothers. Philadelphia, publishers. One
volume; 478 pages; paper cover; price 75
cents.
“The Son of Monte-Cristo” is the sequel
to “The Wife of Monte-Cristo.” and end
Of iiie continuation of Alexander Dumas*
celebrated novel of “The Count of
Monte-Cristo. Like its renowned prede
cessors, it contains many thrilling and
dramatic incidents and adventures. The
spell of fascination is east over the reader
in the opening chapter, and remains un
broken to the end. It deals chiefly with
the astounding career of Bsperance,
Monte-Cristo’s son, whose heroic devotion
to Jane Zeld is one of the most touching
and romantic love stories ever written.
Haydee’s experience in the slave mart
at Constantinople is particularly stirring
and realistic, while the episodes in which
the Counte of Monte-Cristo figures are
exceedingly graphic. That it will be
read with delight is certain, and particu
larly by those who have read “The Count
of Monte-Cristo.”
A History of the American People. By
Arthur Gilman, M. A. Illustrated. Bos
ton: D. Lothrop & Cos.
This volume begins with Platos Atlan
tis, tells the story of Columbus, Cobat and
the other explorers of the aborigines, the
French and Spanish settlements and Eng
lish colonies. It also brings the history
of the United States from the days of the
Revolutionary War down to the most re
cent events of President Arthur’s admin
istration. The book comprises nearly 700
pages and is neatly bound and handsome
ly illustrated.
Eustis. A novel. By Robert Aptliorp Boit.
James R. Osgood and Company, Boston,
publishers. Bound in cloth.
This is a well-written story of 36Q pages.
It deals with Southern life and scenes
since the war. The characters are well
drawn and the style is good. The story is
highly interesting.
Wii at and Why. Col. Albert A. Pope, Boston.
“What and Why,” is a tinely printed
and unique little volume upon cycling
matters. The contents are made up of
information which will doubtless create a
renovation among wheelmen, for within
the pages of the book is an ocean of mat
ter in a bucket. “Some Common Ques
tions” are catechetically answered in the
plainest and most concise language, ques
tions with answers which give a complete,
history of cycling, its growth, usefulness
and popularity.
MAGAZINES.
The Eclectic Illustrated Magazine for
June has quite a large number of superb
illustrations, besides the usual amount of
interesting reading matter. The article
“Two Centuries at Bath” is worth more
than the cost of the magazine. 112 Fourth
avenue, New York.
The June Magazine of American Histo
ry opens with an exquisite steel portrait
of Washington from the original minia
ture painted by Mrs. Sharpless in 1796,
never before given to the public. The
leading illustrated article is one of great
general interest, entitled “Defenses of
Narragaftset Bay, Rhode Island;” it is
from the ready pen of Gen. George W.
Cullurn, of the Corps of Engineers, U. S.
A., and gives a complete history of the
fortifications about Newport, with a dozen
or more excellent maps. The second ar
ticle gives a breezy and timely account of
the “Discovery of the Yellowstone Na
tional Turk,” for which every reader in
the country will be grateful to its author,
j Mr. P. Koch, of Bozeman, Montana,
i There are a number of other articles, a'l
j of which possess great interest, 30 Lafay
| ette Place, New York city.
CONVENTION NOTES.
The Republican Chances at Chicago—
What is Reins Said and Done by the
Politicians.
GENERAL HATTON'S TACTICS.
Chicago, May 29. —First Assistant
Postmaster General Hatton has been
on his feet all day, first at on*, hotel and
then at another, corraling the doubtful
Arthur delegates and working with
might and main to make new converts.
|A PUBLISHER'S ENTERPRISE.
A representative of an enterprising pub
lishing firm of Philadelphia was showing
around to-day proof-sheets of the lives of
the Republican candidates for President
and Yiee President. The biographies are
written in such a style that with a few
alterations and additions they will do for
most any of those mentioned in connec
tion with the nominations, and it is cal
culated that 100,000 copies of the book
can be put on the market in less than a
week after the nominations are made.
BLAINE'S BROKEN REI 'K
Whitelaw Reid, who came in to-day
wit h several assistants to work for Blaine,
insists that he is the only Republican
who can carry New York, but at the same
time he cannot conceal his dismal fore
bodings tor the fate of any Republican
candidate if Tilden should be the Demo
cratic nominee. A friend of Blaine from
Washington to-night says that Blaine did
not speak hopefully to him on his depart
ure, and remarked plaintively that he
had lost his best man when the late James
W. Baxter died. Blaine, he said, talked
as if he did not care who got the nomina
tion if he failed.
THE PROPHESY OF DAVID.
Judge David Davis, who arrived at the
Grand Pacific yesterday, said that Blaine
or Arthur be nominated within
lour or five ballots. If they fail to get in
in that time there will be a long series of
ballots. After the bars are let down for
the dark horses Judge Davis has no idea
who is likely to be the man.
AN ARTHUR COUP D'ETAT.
The greatest activity seems to prevail
in the Arthur camp*. The President’s
friends are said to he preparing for a coup
d’etat Monday or Tuesday. It is under
stood here, among other things, that the
Arthur organs are preparing an elabo
rate rehash oi Blaine’s past record. They
will go for his relations with Mr. Mulli
gan, his connection with the Little Rock
Railway, and into everything that has
been charged against the mau from Maine
since he became an important factor in
American politics. This will be sprung
upon the delegates just on the eve of bat
tle, and the evidence against Blaine will
be arranged in such a circumstantial and
plausible manner as to carry conviction
with it, they think, to the minds of the
timid and wavering. These articles will
brand Mr. Blaine as a corruptionist, a
bribe-taker and a thief. Another move to
be made will be the displaying of auto
graph letters from Secretary Lincoln and
Postmaster Genet al Gresham.
LINCOLN AND GRESHAM FOR ARTHUR.
Lincoln, in one of his letters, says that
he has done nothing to deserve the honor
of a nomination, and that if it came to
him he could not help feeling that it was
means more as a tribute to the memory of
his father than in recognition of anything
he (the Secretary) has ever done. He
says that his best friends cannot do any
thing for him which he will value more
highly than to use their influence, and,
if they be delegates, to cast their votes for
Chester A. Arthur. He considers that
Arthur has earned the nomination. He
has been a good President, Mr. Lincoln
says, and has harmonized the Republican
party as no other man could have done it.
Postmaster General Gresham say s he
does not want the Presidency. He would
rather not have it. His friends can do
him no greater favor than to work and
vote for Arthur, whom he considers one
of the best Presidents the country has
ever had. These letters, together with
the Blaine expose, are expected to kill
off the man from Maine and at the same
time improve the cause which the Arthur
men have in hand. The Arthur men are
evidently determined to make as much
noise as they can.
THE ARTHUR LEADERS.
Stephen B. Elkins, of New Mexico, is
one of the most conspicuous figures in
the Grand Pacific lobby. He is the em
bodiment of activity and ready at any
moment to assure his listeners that Blaine
is certain to win. He is regarded as the
leader of the Blaine forces. To a corres
pondent he said: “W. E. Chandler will
not lead the Arthur forces. Until last
week it was given out, and he himself let
it be understood, that he intended to lead
the Arthur forces, but for some reason or
other he has failed to come to the front,
and Frank Hatton, the Assistant Post
master General, will lead them, and he is
here now’for that purpose.
SOME IDLE TALK.
There has been a great deal of talk in
the hotels to-night about Gresham. There
seems to be a general impression that he
has been agreed upon as the heir to all
that Arthur has. To offset this there is
an apparent effort in the Blaine camp to
help on the boom for Ben Harrison.
EDMUNDS’ POLAR WAVE.
The Edmunds flutter seems to have gone
by the board, and down at the Leland
House, where the Yankee statesman’s
tents are to be pitched, there is desola
tion and weakness of spirit. The Leland
is out on the lake front, where the re
frigerating cyclones from Manitoba come
fresh from the waters and keep people
shivering. It is rather odd that Mr.
Edmunds should have pitched upon the
coldest spot in this unnaturally cold city
for his rendezvous. There are an unusual
number of men in this convention w ho.
imagine that they are going to be able to
do the Garfield business over on their own
account, [f they had dropped around to
the Grand Pacific Hotel to-day, however,
they would not have had their hopes
assisted to any extent. All the other
hotels in the city were practically desert
ed, and the big lobby of the Pacific was
packed. Everywhere in the crowd there
was Blaine talk. His emissaries seemed
to be everywhere and talking to every
body, and" they certainly had a wet
blanket effect on the delegates who be
longed to other camps, and who, un
encouraged by their leaders, who have
not yet arrived, were inclined to be
rather shaky.
THE NEGRO MARKET.
There w as a school of colored delegates
from the South about the place all.day and
the Blaine millionaires were feeling among
them most of the time. They are an odd
looking crew, these Southern delegates of
color. Some of them look like stablemen
and others are regular dusky dudes, w ith
big cuffs, high collars, and a wild afflu
ence of jewelry. The Blaine men very
early in the day began to pass the word
that the colored troops were fighting
nobly tor dollars, and it was pretty freely
understood that a good many of them
might easily be induced to see the disad
vantages of an Arthur campaign and the
profound benefit the country would be
likely to experience through the nomina
tion of Mr. James Gillespie Blaine.
Smith and Handy, of Philadelphia, and
Tom Donnelly were talking earnestly to
day with a number of the dark-skinned
men from below the Mason and Dixon
line.
BOB’S LITTLE BOOM.
Among the visitors to Mr. John C. New’s
room this morning was the Hon. Elihu
B. \V ashburne, wno came to secure tick
ets of admission to the convention and to
talk over candidates. He referred to the
wide division on Blaine and Arthur, and
then said: “Why not nominate Robert T.
Lincoln ? He is a line young man, honest,
capable, business-like and well known.
His nomination would give great satis
faction to the Republicans all over the
country. It would provoke no antago
nisms, such as are to be feared should
Blaine or Arthur, both very capable men,
be chosen. Why not nominate Lincoln ?”
Mr. New had nothing to say to this. The
political managers here are strangely
silent when Lincoln’s name is mentioned.
They are apprehensive that when the dele
gates arrive and discover that the nomi
nation of Arthur or Blaine will be equiva
lent to throwing away the electoral vote
of Massachusetts and New York, that it
will be impossible to keep Lincoln’s name
out of the mouths of delegates and that
it may happen that the prospects of
uniting the party with Lincoln and Haw
ley, or Lincoln and some other Republi
can, will set the convention in a whirl.
A VOICE FROM VIRGINIA.
John F. Dezendorf, Chairman of the Re
publican State Committee, has addressed
a circular letter to Chairman Sabiu, of
the National Committee, certifying to the
correctness of the list of straightout dele
gates to Chicago, and adding:
“The above named delegates-at-large,
alternates-at-large, and district delegates
and alternates from the State of Virginia
to the National Republican Convention,
which assembles in Chicago on the 3d day
of June next, demand that they be put
upon the rolls of and admitted to the said
National Republican Convention on the
ground that they represent the Republi
can party of Virginia, the same organiza
tion which has been represented by its del
egates in every National Republican Con
vention since the war, which organiza
tion has ‘been maintained intact to this
day, and in 1860 polled 84,000 votes for
Garfield and Arthur; that they are the
only delegates from Virginia elected by a
legally called Republican convention, that
they are justiy and legally entitled to be
placed upon the roll of delegates, and to
admittance upon the floor of the National
Republican Convention, with all the rizhts
and privileges belonging to all or any
other delegates, as much as in 1876
and 18®), when the party which they rep
resent was admitted by its chosen repre
sentatives to lull participation in the de
liberations of the party in national con
ventions, the party which they represent
having, in the meantime, done so act to
forfeit its rights as an integral part of the
National Republican party.”
DURATION OF THE CONVENTION.
Whether the contention shall la*t two
days or ten depend in some meas
ure, but not wholly, upon whether it shall
take two ballots or a hundred. The eon
yen tion of 1880 was protracted because
Jhirty-six ballots was necessary before a
choice was-made, but not for that
alone. Various important preliminary
questions demanded settlement. The op
eration of the unit rule was one that will
not now present itself to vex
but at the very start the contest in Vir
ginia will present itself, and the due con
sideration of the claims of the rival dele
gations for admission will necessarily
consume time. Whatever the report of
the committee, the convention itself will
divide, because it will involve the first tost
question likely to come before the body.
THE TRUSTED TALKERS.
It is understood that Martin Townsend,
of New York, will present Arthur’s name
in the convention. Ex-Senator Stewart,
of Pennsylvania, will present Blaine’s;
Senator Cullom Logan’s; Gov. Long, of
Massachusetts. Edmunds’, and Judge
Foraker that of John Sherman.
JUDGE MILLER’S CHANCES.
Col. Corkhill is here in charge of the
Judge Miller boom. Of course he doesn’t
expect to do much, but he hasn’t forgot
ten the 128 votes ready for Miller in 1880,
which the Garfield spurt got from him,
and doesn’t mean to allow a second chance
to slip. He is strong for Arthur first,
however. Frank Hatton looks rather
glum over the defalcation news lrom
Washington. There is universal regret
at the scrape which Gen. Grant is in, but
a very pronounced verdict that he should
never have exposed himself to such an
outcome.
Democratic Mass Meeting in Liberty.
Hinesvili.e, G aMay 30.—1n response to
the call of Capt. Win. Hughes, Chairman of
the Democratic Executive Committee of
Liberty county, a mass meeting of the De
mocracy was held this day.
Upon motion, Capt. Wan. Hughes was ma le
permanent Chairman, and D. 15. Daniell was
selected as Secretary.
Upon motion of A. S. Way, Esq., the meet
ing proceeded to elect delegates to the Atlanta
Convention to be held June 18th, and Hon. H.
C. Parker, Jas. B. Fraser, Esq., Capt. E. P.
Miller, and Dr. T. W. Gordon were duly elec
ted.
Judge J. E. Sheppard moved that delegates
be selected to the Gubernatorial Convention
to be held in Atlanta August 13, and the fol
lowing gentlemen were selected: James B*.
Fraser, Esq., B. F. Allen, Esq.. Johu A. Smi
ley, Esq., and Hon. Jesse Brewer.
On motion of W. O. Cassela, the meeting
proceeded to elect delegates to the Congres
sional Convention to be held at a time and
place, yet to be designated, which election re
sulted as follows: Capt. E. P. Miller, Hon.
Jesse Brewer, F. J. Deik, Esq., James Clark.
Esq., W. O. Cassela, Esq., A. S. Way, Esq.
Upon motion of Hon. H. C. Parker,* Capt.
Wm. Hughes was added to the delegation and
unanimously elected chairman of the same.
A. S. Way. Esq., offered the following reso
lutions, which were unanimously and en
thusiastically adopt. ■■!:
The Democratic pariy of Liberty countv. in
mass meeting assembled, do adopt the follow
ing:
Whereas, We believe that the standard
bearer of the Democratic party of the First
Congressional District of Georgia should be a
mau of undoubted political integrity, high
moral character, and whose public and'private
life is without spot or blemish, and believ
ing further that these qualities are happily
blended in ' he life and character of our fellow
citizen, Capt. S. Dowse Bradwell, with the
ability ami energy to fulfill this high and im
portant trust; and because of his long and
continued services in the public good; be
cause of his unswerving faith and adherence
to the great principles of Democracv; be
cause of the benefits accruing to this people
and the people of this district from the work
done by him; and because of those eminent
abilities which signally characterize him as
a fit representative of the present needs and
requirements of the people of this Congres
sional district, therefore
Be it respired, That it is the earnest wish of
the Democracy of Liberty county that Capt.
S. D. Bradwell he nominated as* the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress from the First
Congressional district of Georgia; and that
the delegates from this county to the Con
gressional Convention are requested to cast
their votes for him as long as there is auy rea
sonable probability of hi 6 nomination.
Hon. H. C. Parker offered the following res
olution, which was unanimously adopted:
Resected by the Democracy of Liberty county
in mam meeting assembled, That we heartily
indorse the administration of Gov. H. D. Mc-
Daniel, and trust that he will be his own suc
cessor in the office he now so worthily fills.
It was moved and adopted that the meeting
select delegates to the convention of the Sec
ond Senatorial district. The following were
elected: Fifteenth district, D. B. Daniel!: 16th
district, J. M. Smith; 17th district. Dr. A. B.
Daniel; 21th district, F. J. Chapman; 1,132d
district. J. P. Collins; 1,359 th district, John
Axtell; county at large, Judge J. E. Sheppard
and Capt. E. P. Miller.
It was moved and adopted that the Secre
tary furnish a copy or these proceedings to
the Democratic papers in this Congressional
district, with a request they publish the same.
After selecting anew Executive Committee
the meeting adjourned.
William Hughes, Chairman.
D. B. Daniell, Secretary.
She “Caught On.”
Chicago Herald.
“Now that the drop in wheat has swept
away our fortune,” said a sympathetic
and "sentimental Chicago wile to her bank
rupt husband, “we must, of course, give
up everything. Our house, our horses,
carriages, servants, diamonds, and all
must go, and we must begin at the foot of
the ladder and work our way up again.
Do you know, Algernon, that X sometimes
find myself rejoicing over our misfor
tunes. It takes me back to our early life
to think of living once more in a cottage
and being alone by ourselves. Let them
take everything, and we will be happy
yet.”
“You evidently are a little oil* your bal
ance, Maria,” said the bankrupt mer
chant, removing a three-for-a-dollar cigar
from his mouth. “I bought in your name
only this morning a $40,000 house on the
boulevard, and 1 have in the safe with
the family plate about SIOO,OOO in govern
ment bonds, which are yours, do you un
derstand? I have conveyed some other
property to my friend Jenkins, whom I
once helped out of a similar scrape, and
we are all ship-shape, I am glad to say.
We are busted in business, but not in so
ciety. No, no; we may come to want in
time, but not this summer. The giving
up everything and going to live in a flat
is what you read about. “It isn’t the style
in this town.”
“You’re an angel man,” replied the
fair one. “I think I’m catching on.”
Itomanee a Poor Young Girl.
A young Irish girl arrived here two
months ago, says a Trenton, New Jersey,
special ol the 24th inst., and obtained
employment in a store on State street.
Several times she spoke of a singular
incident that had occurred at Castle Gar
den. A young man, well dressed, and,
as she believed, wealthy, had met her
and promised to visit her here and make
her his wife. •
Yesterday afternoon a coach was driven
up to the State street store and a young
man showed his lace at the window.
The shop girl dropped her scissors and
apron and soon was seated in the car
riage. The couple drove to a clergyman’s,
were married and then returned to the
Trenton House for tea. They left for New
York during the evening. The girl did
not stop to get the balance of her week’s
pay from the storekeeper. The young
man is said to be a lawyer m New York
City.
A New experiment.
Philadelphia- Call.
Nervous Ocean Passenger— 1 “Could not
collisions be prevented if outward bound
vessels should take one route and inward
the other?”
“Careful” Captain—“ That would not
prevent accidents, as fast vessels would
run into the slow ones.”
Passenger—“ Well, how would it do for
each line to have its own route and stick
to it?”
Captain—“lmpracticable.”
Passenger “Perhaps electric lights
would ”
Captain—“No good.”
Passenger—“ Dear me! Well, I suppose
having a man on the lookout who wouldn’t
fall asleep ”
Captain—“By Jove, I never thought of
that. I’ll try it.”
Miss Annie Pixley has been recently
canceling dates for next season, with the
understanding that she intended to remain
abroad for a w hole year. It is now learned
that she wishes only to avoid the period
covered by the election excitement, and
that she will reappear in New York about
Christmas time, resuming her tour of
the country.
Money to"loan’.-, , JTrrr
on Diamonds, Gobi and --ivc.r w, t . a l e
•Jewelry, Pistols, f,ma. Sewing
Wearing Apparel, Mechanics’ Tooig pi,!,'.• *
etc., etc., at Licensed Pawnbroker f{ ol - ' }
Congress street. R iIUHI.BEHu. m ; ..
3ilver*‘~ mgbe#t p * 4ces paid u,r 01,1 Go ,
MONEY TO LOAN,—a place where r, -
can obtain a loan on persona! nropeftT
rarties wishing to sell Diamonds an i
and those wishing to buy such articles ~Vnld
call on me. Caen paid for old Gold, Silver
mutilated com. Office private; bu> -!<•>. r7.V
fidential. CLEMENT SAUsSY.Broket %
Whitaker street. r * li
itPantrft.
XT’" ANTED, an intelligent, sober and b
i .“ T new young man, with some caoit^;
I from SI,OOO to tl,soo—to come to my factor, -n
Atlanta. Ga., for a few month* sue iearn *
good-paying brwiness, without compr ‘t .-
the Southern States, ami with theca pi a..,,.'
a like business it? Savannah, Gu.. in p . , r
ship with myself. V will guarantee all *
as it is an impossiNlity to make a lo*. j • t i
business. The young man must lie of
nah. and I will not .notice any comm uric •
without first-class mercantile referet-
References exchanged. For particular*
dress ATLANTA WIRE WORKS \ (•
BIRD CAGE MANUFACTORY, N2 P,- a . Ltr.
street, Atl nta. Ga.
EMILIO E. CA\ ALERT, Proprietor.
yj ANTED, as a partner in a a.71 e- .
lished business, a comparatively young ui.v .
who is well known in Savannah, jtersona: v
pspiriar, full of business, and is not afraid of
outdoor exercise. Not much capital required.
Address X. Y. Z., Morning News office.
AT" ANTED, a first-class assistant bookkeep
' * er in the wholesale grocery busine-)-:
must be of good habi.s. yvith sr *o<’ references.
Address M.. Morning News office.
XXTANTED.—A gentleman de-;reo a fur-
* nished south room in quiet ue vhbnrhood.
with use of bath {with or without b- rd'. Ad
dress, stating terms, N. G. TANARUS„ care News office.
\\TANTED, a middle-aged white woman to
t t cook and wash for a smalt family; good
home for a reliable person. G. 8.. News office.
TNT ANTED, from July until October, a fur-
Tt nished floor for lady and gentleman.
Address E., Morning Neyvs.
TTT ANTED.— Good Canvassing A genii can
make Ai salary by applying to OHLAN
DER BROS., 210 Broughton street.
ITTANTED, a good cook foi a small family.
’ Apply No. 103 Broughton street.
\\* ANTED, a good cook, a nurse and a house
D girl; 14 Abercorn struct.
TTTANTED, ladies and young men wishing
v t to earn $1 to $3 every dav quietly at
their homes; work furnished; sent by mail;
no canvassing; no stamps required fur reply.
Please address EDWARD F. DAVIS & Cos..
C-onth Main street. Fall River. Mas*.
__ 2Fut* Elrut.
FOR RENT, nicely furnished rooms; every
convenience for gentlemen or light house
keeping; kitebenand yard;summer terms. 37
Charlton street.
TO RENT, Comfortable House of five
rooms, on Montgomery street, near Henrv
Apply to D. J. NAGLE.
r J*'o RENT, four rooms on first floor. No. 212
JL Liberty street, near C. K. R. depot. Ap
ply on premises.
TO RENT, the store now occupied by Jovce
& Hunt. 121 Broughton street. Apply to
A. R. ALTMAYEK & CO., 135 Biuugliton
street.
jp*Oß RENT, pleasant rooms, with or with
out board; 222 Congress street.
HUO RENT to gentleman, a furnished room,
X every convenience on same floor. Brough
ton street, second door east of Abercorn, south
•ide.
FOR RENT, cheap, at 15s State street, near
Barnard, several rooms, furnished or un
furnished, suitable for light housekeeping.
I?OR RENT, rooms in desirable locality,
furnished or unfurnished. Address F.
M.. News ofliee.
RENT, at the Isle of Hope, for the re
mainder of the year, a verv desirable
house, with seven rooms, kitchen, bath house,
vegetable garden and watermelon patch'
Apply to Mb. R< >'ENBROOK, on the island,
or Mb. PATRICK POWERS, No. 3S Lincoln
street.
JP'OR RENT, a flue house at Thunderbolt.
Apply to Mrs. MASTICK, Stall 46. Market.
TO RENT, at Isle of Hope, part of a house
for the summer months. Address SU
BURBAN, Morning News office.
iTOR RENT, two furnished rooms for gentle
men. Apply No. 8 Macon street.
Joy :smr.
I?OR SALE, a nice, new cottage at Marlow,
Central Railroad; 8 room*, 6 tire places,
the necessary outbuildings, -i never-failing
wells of good water; with or without the fur
niture. For terms apply at the Harnett House
for ten days.
17*011 SALE, a Ladies’ Phaeton, with top;
Kimball's make of Boston: with harness;
all in good order; also, Bav Mare, kind and
gentle, lady can drive; cheap for cash. Ap
ply to R. DeMARTIS.
IT'OR SALE, a fise and v, ry gentle cow,
_T with young calf, inquire at 'outhcast
corner Bull and Charlton street lane.
FOR SALE.—WiII sell such az Oil Paint
ings and Steel Engravings at such a low
figure that will aston-sh i v dv. At
NATHAN BROS.’,
Ist! Congress street.
foot.
IOST, between C. R. K. wharf and West
j Broad street, a dray book with name J.
L. JAMES written in red ink on both sides.
Finder will l;e liberally rewarded bv return
ing same to Mr. SHUPTKIXE’S Drug Store
on Congress street.
poarZtiiia.
rpHE VEKNOXJIOUSE. at White Bluff, is
X open for the reception of boarders. Any
one wishing a pleasant resort on the salts will
be pleased to know the bathing house b Urge
and in perfect order. Terras •;.*<:.:l. e.
MRS. E. M. CONVERSE, Proprietress.
JY O ARD can be obtained at the Park Place,
isjeof Hope.
/COMFORTABLE Summer Board at low
rates; in fine climate: livery convenient.
Apply toBCTLKi: A CHURCH, alt. Airy, Ga.
PRIVATE BOARDING, l.Oand K 2 White
hall street (directly on street eai route),
Atlanta, Ga. House newlv and elegantly fur
nished; gas. hot and cold baths. Address Mrs.
L. B. DAVIS, success >r to Mrs. s. B. Shaw.
Sulmrliati llatlroaDo.
SPECIAL SCHEDULE.
City and Suburban R’y,
Savannah. June 1, 1884.
r I' , IIE following schedule will be observed
1 THIS DAY (Sunday) on the outside line:
OUTWARD.
LEAVE I ARRIVE I ARRIVE
CITY, 'ISLE OF HOPE, j MONTGOMERY.
10:23 A. M. I 10:i5 A. M. | 11:25 A. M.
3:25 p. M. I 3:55 P. M. j 4:05 P. M.
INWARD.
LEAVE LEAVE I ARRIVE
13LK OF HOPE. MONTGOMERY.! CITY.
Bns A. m. 7:45 A. m” 8:40 a. m.
1:50 p. M. lyio p. M. 2:20 p. h.
6:35 P. m. 7:00 P. m. 7:00 p. m.
N. B.—Through speeial train to Alontgomerr
at 8:25 p. m.
J. IT. JOHNSTON. President.
SUMMER SCHEDULE.
City and Scburban Railway,)
savannah, June 1. 1881. \
ON and after MONDAY, June 2. the fol
lowing schedule will Iks observed on the
outside line (four through trains to Mont
gomery daily):
LEAVE arrive LEAVE j LEAVE
CITY. CITY. ISLE HOPE. MONTG’ItY.
*6:45 A. M. 8:40 a. m. 8:10 a. st.j 8:00 a. m.
10:23a.m. 1:30 P. M. 1:03 P. M. 12:30 P. M.
3:00 P.M. 4:40 i*. m. 4:10 p. m. 4:00 r. m.
5:00 p.m. 7:20 p. m. 6:50 p. M.i 6:40 p. m,
7:50 P.M. ■ 9:40 p. M. ifo .00 P. M.
N. IL— Ail freight must be prepaid and will
tie received for tlie 10:25 a. m. train only.
•For Montgomery only,
f From Montgomery only.
On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at
8:36 a. m., a train is run to Montgomery in
connection with steamer St. Nicholas for l)o
--l>oy. st. Simon’s, Cumberland Island and Fer
nmdiua.
For Sunday trains see special schedule.
J. H. JOHNSTON. President.
llotirro.
EARLY CLOSING.
\\T E, the undersigned grocers, hereby agree
1 to September 1, 1884, Saturdays excepted.
JOHN LYONS ft CO. BRANCH ft COOPER.
F. L. GEORGE. D. B. LESTER.
J. A. HIRSCHBACH ft CO.
. „r NICHOLAS LANG ft BRO.
A. M. ft C. W. WEST. A. 11. CHAMPION.
J. C. THOMPSON. JAS.McGKATII ft CO.
JAS. G. WATTS, KUSSAK ft CO.
11. MILLER, JOHN SULLIVAN.