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Webelt News, Sun Building. New A ork.
Neil'Dow’s prohibition boom appear* t 0
worry Blaine’s managers almost as much
as the independent bolt.
A Boston mania discussing the ques
tion “Which have the worst tempers,
blondes or brunettes?” Probably both.
The prohibition politicians are not very
numerous, but there appears to be enough
or them to constitute two very noisy little
.parties.
Cincinnati proposes to use granite
blocks for paving her streets. They have
heretofore been paved only with good
intentions.
Mrs. Langtry has put forth the declara
tion that the loverthe American people,
but she doesn't say which class she loves
best—the dudes or the cowloys.
The plumed knight threatens to invade
the solid South next week. He proposes,
with his wife and daughter, to visit his
cousin, Gen. Exin. at Louisville.
Some Chinese in Merced county. Cal.,
are engaged in farming, and arecultivat
ing the opium-yielding poppy. They hope
to produce the “cold pizen” ia large
quantities. ______
It is suspected that none of the white
Whig Republicans, except Gen. Long
street, has gone over to Blaine. Ferhaps
the others have climbed a tree or crawled
into a bole.
The cholera gives thousands of Ameri
cans a good excuse for not going to Eu
rope this season. It is to be hojied it won t
give them a good excuse for not stay
ing at home.
fien. Butler may be the workingman’s
friend, but he appears to have stood in
pretty well with some of the telegraphic
corporations from the way they have been
advertising him.
The usual number of collisions between
mules* heels and darkeys’ heads hare
not been forthcoming this season. The
darkevs have had higher aims—conven
tions and colleges—if fre mules have not.
The American hog and trachina have a
rival in lamdon. The hospital authori
ties of that city havs warned people
against eating mackerel at this season, as
they are said to contain a parasite inju
rious to health.
The more cranky of the cremationists
are rather pleased at the prospect of the
rapid spread of cholera over the world, at
least they almost wish something to occur
that will bring their favorite argument
prominently to the front.
A Sam Randall pajgr says “Pennsyl
vania furnished the last Democratic
President just twenty-eight sears ago.”
Yes, and it did not take the Democracy
long to peter out after that donation on
the part ot Pennsylvania.
A large portion of the Philadelphians
propose to extend the Fourth of July
through to-day and to-morrow, not so
much oqj of patriotism, perhaps, as on
account of the dull times and the desire
to get in three days’ rest or frolicking.
As Butler is the Presidential candidate
of the Greenbackers and the anti-monopo
lists. it is certain that he will not support
the nominee of the Chicago Convention,
lie ought not therefore to be allowed to
appear in the convention as a delegate.
It has already been announced that
chloroform and oxygen gas are sure cures
for cholera. It is now about time for the
men that cure every malady with kero
sene oil or spirits of turpentine to come
along and give their recipes to the auxious
public.
The Telegraphand Measenqer says:“Hay
ought to be cheap in Georgia this winter,
and half-starved stock ought to be a rarer
Bight than white crows.” So it ought to
be. but the trouble is that Georgia farmers
spend more labor and money in killing
hay than they do in curing it.
The New York Sun has now come out
squarely and declares “Sam Kanilall is
our first choice.” This sentiment, with
proper credit, would he a good epitaph
foi S. R.‘s political tomb, as it would be
not only a kind of tribute, but would hint
strongly at one cause of his demise.
A Philadelphia man went crazy the
other day beoause his better half pre
sented him with a pair of nice twin girls,
instead of a boy, as hedesired. He proba
bly did not have far to go, for no man can
be very sane who would not rather pos
sess a pair of twin girls than a thousand
boy*- 4
The county Democracy of New York
left tor Chicago yesterday on a train of
eighteen palace cars. The delegation set
out for a grand protracted Fourth of
July jamboree, having a full stock of pro
visions and refreshments, SI,OOO worth of
fireworks and two cannon on board.
They proposed to make the Cleveland
boom beard all along the road.
When Ben Butler goes to prove that
Bayard’s great-grandfather was a Tory,
someone will be ready to read the pro
ceedings of the Charleston Convention of
I£GO, in which B. B. voted fifty-seven
tj m e for Jefferson Davis. There are sev
eral people in the Northern States yet,
however, who believe Jefferson Davis
would make a better President than
Butler.
Sullivan saTS he is going to reform, and
quit prize fighting and liquor, and
President Gibbs, of New York,
has sent him a total ab
stinence pledge to sign. Probably it
would be as well for the eminent slugger
not to close in with Gibbs until he sees
how Billy McGlory's reformation reforms
when that worthy get* out of prison.
The Rev. Henry T. Plummer, who, a
dav or two ago, was appointed Chaplain
of a colored regiment. Is a colored man,
and in 1865 was a field hand in Prince
George’s county, Maryland. Postmaster
General Cress we 11 appointed him a mess
enger in the Post Office Department, and
he studied after office hours until he was
qualified to receive the degree of doctor
of divinity. He appears to have been
worthy and has received his reward.
The report* of the government expert
accountant who looked into the affairs of
the Union Pacific Railroad shows that the
road did not earn the dividend which it
paid last April and that it has no money
with which to pay the July dividend.
The question naturally arises why was
the April dividend paid? Clearlv for the
purpose of keeping up the price ol the
stock so as to altow those on the inside to
unload their comparatively worthless
stock on an unsuspecting public. The
ways of the millionaire stock jobhew are
indeed devious and dark.
Accept Their Help but not Their
Advice.
The Republicans are hitting George
William Curtis some pretty hard raps.
Mr. Curtis is a very fastidious sort
of a person, and the thought that be is
sn honest man and morally clean always
appears to give him the supremest joy.
His conduct at the Chicago convention,
as presented by the Blaine papers, isn’t
calculated to make him happy. When
the Tennessee man. Hawkins, offered a
resolution binding the members of the
convention to stand by the
convention’s choice, Mr. Curtis made
one of his eloquent harangues, in which
he claimed that the resolution was an
insult to every delegate, because it pro
ceeded upon the supposition that there
were those who would bolt, after taking
part in the proceedings. If the nomination
did not suit them. The intimation in the
speech was that it would be dishonorable
to bolt. Mr. Curtis not only took
part in the proceedings which
ended in the nomination of Blaine,
but he stayed until Logan was nominated
and the convention declared adjourned.
Mr. Curtis doesn’t appear to have acted
with the squareness that ought to mark
the conduct of a reformer. When he said
that the probabilities were in favor of
Blaine’s nomination, he ought to have
said openly that he would .not support
him. and when the nomination was made
it would have been in better taste for him
to have taken his hat and walked out of
the convention, because if he had no in
tention of indorsing its work, he ought
not to have attempted to shape its work.
Mr. Curtis is now doing his best
to influence the action of the Democratic
Convention. If the convention nominates
a ticket that suits him he may give it,
through Harper** Weekly, a lukewarm
supnort. If it doesn’t he will bend his
energies to getting together a third party,
which may tender him the nomination for
President. If that doesn’t suit him the
effort to suit him might as well be aban
doned. Democrats ought not to allow the
wishes of such men as Mr. Curtis to influ
ence their action at Chicago. Their help
isn’t so desirable that it is worth making
concessions for. When voting day comes
Messrs. Curtis, Schurz and others will not
have much of a following. While the
help of Mr. Curtis’ pen will not be re
fused if offered, Democrats will not forget
that at the Republican National Conven
tion he took occasion to say in a speech:
“We are confronted with the Democratic
party—a party without a single definite
belief; a party without any distinctive
national policy which it dares to present
to the country; a party which fell from
power as a conspiracy against human
rights, and now attempts to sneak back to
power as a conspiracy for plunder and
spoils.”
The man who holds these views re
specting the Democratic party is not the
kind of a man to be consulted in making
the Democratic national tu^et.
Pinkerton, ilie Detective.
The career of Allan Pinkerton, who
died in Chicago on Tuesday, is receiving
a good deal of attention from the news
papers. Allan Pinkerton was, in so*>e
respects, a remarkable man. His iife was
full of exciting Incidents. At the time of
his death he was 75 years old, and just
prior to his last sickness was quite a
vigorous man, mentally and physically.
He was a Scotchman by birth, and
Glasgow was his native city.
He sailed lor New York in 1842 and was
wrecked on Sable Island. When he finally
arrived in this country he was in a desti
tute condition. He settled at Dundee,
111., and engaged in the cooperage busi
ness. His first detective work was in con
nection with lorged checks on the Mil
waukee Fire and Marine Insurance Com
pany. His success in that case induced
him to devote himself to detective work.
He showed wonderful aptitude lor it,
and before many years his fame filled the
country. He was by all odds the greatest
of American detectives. One of his most
remarkable detective exploits was the
apprehension and conviction of Augustus
Stuait Byron, the illegitimate son of Lord
Byron by Mary Stuart, and a young man
named Napier, nephew of Admiral Na
pier, of the English navy. These young
men wrecked a train on the Michigan
Southern Railway and robbed the
mails of a large amount of money.
He was prominent in hunting down the
James boys in Missouri aud the “Molly
Maguires” in Pennsylvania. Many times
he came near losing his life, as he was
regarded as a legitimate target by all the
great criminals ot thecountry. Hewastke
author of a numberofbooks, which contain
details of some of the most remarkable
cases with which he was connected. It
will be sometime before the country has
another detective as able as Allan Pinker
ton was.
Knowing Independent Papers.
It is a remarkable fact that the Repub
lican papers which have bolted the Blaine
ticket appear to know more about what
the Democrats at Chicago ought to do
than the Democrats themselves. They
are very forward with their advice and
suggestions. They appear to think that
thecountry is waiting breathlessly to hear
what they have to say, and that if their
advice is not followed failure is certain.
They talk as if they knew all about what
Mr. Tilden wants the party to do, and
they appear to be perfectly willing to
take hold of and boss the entire,
campaign. It doesn’t seem to occur to
these papers that they represent nobody
except a few soreheads, and that their in
fluence won't amount to enough to be
worth considering in the campaign soon
to be inaugurated. The Democrats know,
or ought to, that they will have to depend
almost wholly on their own forces for suc
cess, and that the help they will get from
the Independents will consist in noise
rather than in votes. The Independent
palters are too lately out ot the enemy’s
camp to be allowed to direct the Demo
cratic forces.
A couple of weeks ago it was stated
with a great flourish by certain strikers
of Butler in Boston that a party ot vol
unteers, who-were to pay their own bills
anil who were to number anywhere from
150 to 250, were to go to Chicago by a spe
cial train and thei% do what they could to
aid in securing for Gen. Butler the nomi
nation for the Presidency. It has been
supposed that the number who would en
list in this enterprise would be very large,
that the special train would be magnifi
cently equipped, and that as it rolled on
toward Chicago the demonstration would
grow in popularity, and upon its arrival
there half the work of securing the nomi
nation would be accomplished. It is
noticeable that the party of volunteers
have not yet started for Cnicago. and it is
probable that the movers in the under
taking were unable to stir up the requi
site amount of enthusiasm. It may be
that the present stringency in the money
market made it impossible for them to
provide themselves with the necessary
amount of cash. * *
A Washington correspondent thinks
that he has unearthed a scheme to nomi
nate Randall ne says that a committee
of prominent Democrats was appointed
to wait upon Mr. Tilden and urge him to
accept the nomination, and that if he
refused the scheme is to nominate him and
have him word his refusal to accept in such
a way that the convention would willingly
nominate Mr. Randall. It is safe to
assume that there is no such scheme. Mr.
Tilden would not lend himself to such a
scheme; and if he should it would not be
successful. It isn't reasonable to sup
pose that the convention could be cap
tured by a scheme of that kind, or, in
fact, by any scheme.
Notwithstanding the enthusiastic way
in which the Courier-Journal has advo
cated “Old Saddlebags” for President, the
Kentucky delegation, it seems, favors
Bayard. If the convention should act up
to its convictions there is no doubt that
Bayard would be nominated by an over
whelming majority. Nothing but timidity
will defeat him. The Democrats have
been so long out of power that they are
afraid to act boldly and agressively; and
yet, it is only by acting In that way that
they can win.
Chicago will be full of white hats dur
ing the next week, though the wearers
will have no sympathy with the wearer of
the white plume of the June convention.
Not Sa*ifn< tory.
The Committee on Platform and Reso
lutions of the Chicago Convention will
have a very difficult task to perform in
making the tariff plank of the platform.
Avery strong effort will be made doubt
leas to secure a declaration in favor of
protection, and there will be an equally
strong effort to bring about the adoption
of a tariff declaration that will be ambig
uous and meaningless. There is reason
to believe, however, that the tariff reform
ers, hating a majority of the conven
tion with them, will insist upon
standing by the record of the
party. A tariff-for-revenue-only decla
ration is the only kind of * tariff decla
ration that the party can afford to adopt.
Any other would expose the party to the
charge of insincerity, and a charge of
that kind, well sustained, would have a
damaging effect. The New York Star
asks bow the following resolutions re
specting the tariff would do, and the New
York Sun pronounces them satisfactory:
Reached. That we favor a relorm arfd
reduction of the war tariff, to so graduate
it that it will lumish the revenue sut
ficient lor a pure and economical support
of the Federal Government rigidly admin
istered; that it will be helpful instead of
burdensome to American industry and
labor, and that it will not permit the ac
cumulation of an enormous surplus in
the Treasury, to become a corruption
fund for spoilsmen and demagogues.
Resolved, That we favor a tariff so ad
justed as to derive our revenue, whenever
jiossible, from luxuries rather than neces
saries, and which will discriminate judi
ciously in favor of our home industries
and manufactures.
Reaolred, That the maximum degree of
healthful protection is to be measured by
the difference in wages and the interest
on capital between this and competing
foreign countries.
Reaolred, That as reform, not revolu
tion, is aimed at, and as no violent or
radical disturbance of established trade
conditions is sought by any patriotic citi
zen, the excessive tariff duties should be
gradually and moderately reduced.
We do not think that they would do at
all. They are very skillfully worded, but
they do not mean that the tariff should be
levied solely for the purjioses of revenue.
In fact, they are about as strongly in fa
vor of protection as the Republican plat
form is. They are based on the principle
of protection, and when that principle is
admitted, everything is admitted that the
protectionists claim. As long as tariil
legislation is controlled by the protection
idea, the protected monopolies of the
country will be able to maintain a tariff
as nearly prohibitive as they desire. The
tariff reformers of the convention must
see to it that they are not bulldozed into
agreeing to a platform that commits the
party to a protective tariff.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Not Important —Only Silly.
Bo*ton Pott (Pent.).
The Worcester Time* savs the talk about the
New York conference, at which, by general
acquiescence, the sages settled upon Gen.
Butler, is important if true. But it isn’t true,
nor even plausible, so it ceases to be impor
tant and becomes only silly.
Lofan's Hypocritical Conversion.
y*w York Herald. ( Ind.).
Senator Logan does not dispute that his
pro-slaverv record is one of the toughest in
the country, but says that he thinks it “pretty
hard to persecute a man after joining the
church for sins committed before he was con
verted." This would be plausible if the Re
publican party were a cWtirch. But it is not a
church; and when Senator Logan joined it he
by no means “renounced the devil and all his
works.” On the contrary.
Value of Predictions.
Philadelphia Record (Ind .).
As the time for the assemblage of the Dem
ocratic National Convention approaches there
is a notable increase of gush in the newspapers
over the improving chances for the nomina
tion of Mr. Randall. This is a repetition of
the tactics which preceded the contest for the
Speakership. The value of present newspaper
predictions mav be ganged by a recurrence to
the newspaper predictions of that time.
Whatever opportunity Mr. Randall had for
winning the favor of his partv he threw away
bv his ojqxwition to tariff relorm. To nomi
nate him for President would be a concession
that the Republican position is right and the
Democratic position wrong.
Butler’s Heterogeneous Boom.
Chicago Time* (Ind.).
Butler is the greatest protean statesman of
the age. I-ike the gentleman mentioned by
the melancholy “Hamlet,” “he hath power to
assume a pleasing shape,™ no matter in what
sort of a political society he may find himself.
He is a high tariff man, a low tariff man. a
greenbacker, a hard-money man, a civil ser
vice reformer, a spoilsman, with equal facility
and success. His broad and generous mind,
like a general country store, is supplied with
everything, and if at first you don't see a set
of opinions to please, all you need do is to
call for it and the yersatile Butler will
promptly throw it down upon the counter.
Sueh a candidate might antagonize Blaine
where it was useful to antagonize him, fall in
with him whenever it woulu do any good 1 , and
veer and tack in such an adroit way as to
catch every politicalcros* wind.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Immense qrAXTiriES of charcoal are being
shipped from Stonewall, Miss.
Moke than 35,000 bales of cotton have been
compressed at Texarkana, Texas, this season.
It is reported that a fine mineral spring lias
been discovered near the Cowpens battle
ground, in Spartanburg county, S. C., which
successfully cures skin diseases and a great
many inward infirmities.
Tax half breeds in Alaska who are de
scended from Russian fathers are called “cre
oles. ’ Statistics show that they are slowly
but surely decreasing in number, the rate,
perhaps, being 5 per cent, a year.
Two Danes are now paddling from Alaska
to San Francisco in a skin-covered canoe.
The distance, following the shore, is nearly
2,500 miles. The canoe is 19 feet long, and
covered with the skin of sea lions.
Chinese misers in British Columbia are
said to be getting rich on their gold findings.
The grains found are as large as barley corns.
Perhaps, tf this luck continues, fewer of the
Johnnies will be smuggled by night serosa
Puget Sound into Washington Territory.
FURTHER reports are published in Russia
of brigandage in the Caucasus by Persians.
Near June I, a band of 60 Persian outlaws,
commanded by two notorious chiefs, attacked
a patrol of SO Cossacks, killing the commander,
and wounding three of his men. They subse
quently pillaged several small villages. She
inhabitants of which were compelled to leave
their homes.
AN Omaha dime museum had a young ele
phant tied to a stake in front of the tent,
which was lettered hugely, “Great Menag
erie.” Those who entered found a trifling
collection of not remarkable objects, animate
and inanimate, but no beasts or birds.
“Where’s the menagerie?” was asked. “Out
side,” was the reply. “The elephant a the
menagerie. How much d’ye want for 10
cents?”
In lSsl the manufacturing establishments of
Sweden produced articles to a value of 186,-
000,000 crowns, while in 1870 onlv 92,000,000
worth was produced. More than one-sixth of
this is produced by machine shops and other
iron manufacturers. More artificial '*
production of sugar, cotton and cloth. Then
follow tobacco manufactures and breweries,
and next the renowned Swedish match iac
tories and paper mills.
At the recent Health Conference in Lon
don Dr. Winter Birth read a paper suggest
ing that if we are to continue burying our
dead that we adopt a plan on the principle ef
the rotation of crops. He would make every
piece of agricultural land in the country take
its turn as a cemetery, and five years after the
plot is filled return it to cultivation. Beneath
the waving com, he argues, the remains of
the dead would be safe from desecration.
Japanese flowers are too heavily scented
or odorless. With each flush of bloom comes
the fete. Every one then goes into the country
to feter the laburnum, japonica, the camellia,
or the chrysanthemum, as it bursts into
flower, and returns home laden with blossoms.
Then the children go to breathe the country
air, families to meet and maintain relations.
No servant will do work on sueh occasions be
yond carrying a child on the back, and no one
will eat until the bantling on the back is
stuffed with everything it asks for.
The following good story comes from an au
thentic source: Some years ago the floods
carried away a bridge on the Michigan Cen
tral, and until it could be replaced there was
a suspension of traffic. Said the General Su
perintendent to the master bridge builder:
••You must put all your men on that bridge:
they must work all night, and the bridge must
be completed bv daylight. The Chief Engi
neer shall furnish you with the plan, and you
can go right ahead.” Early next morning
the General Superintendent, in a very doubt
ful frame of mind, met the bridge builder.
“Weil,” said the General, “did the engineer
give you a plan for the bridge?’’ “General,”
returned the old man, slowly, “the bridge is
done. I don’t know whether the picture is or
not.”
The methods of one of the foremost pool
sellers on American race tracks are described
as strictly business like, and he will not em
ploy men who have bad experience as game
sters. His clerks are taken from legitimate
pursuits. He prefers ex-bank clerks, because
tbev are expeit in figuring; but they must
come to him well recommended. No gone
wrong chaps will answer. A young man who
had for no heinous fault been out of employ
ment until he could no longer afford to be
super-sensitive as to what he did for a living,
was advised to go to him for cmplovment as a
seller of pool tickeU. “Where were you last
emplorea?” the gambler asked, “In the
bank,’' was the reply. “Bring a certificate of
honesty and eapacitv from the President or
Cashier of that bank, and I will give yon a
job.”- On presentation of the requisite docu
ment the fellow was engaged to go on a sea
son’s round of the race course*. He reported
at the end of the summer that he had never
been held to a more rigidly circumspect stand
ard of conduct.
SOME mesmeric experiment* in London of
Herr Carl Hanson, the Danish mesmerist,
have throw* the rivals Cumberland and Ir
ving Bishop completely into the shade. Os
one occasion, by a simple act of volition, be
drew . for it was literally nothing lees) a lady
frem the body of the hall up to the platform,
made her sing as if she was performing at a
concert, and then, in the twinkling cf an eve.
transformed her into a housemaid, busy with
a broom in her hand sweeping the floor. Again
there was a change in the spirit of her dream.
She was a ladv gathering flowers tn her gar
den. and the flowers which she graciously pre
sented to several of her audience and wore is
her bosom were pieces of paper which she
Sicked as flowers from tbc floor. At the bid
ing of the mesmerist the retired to her place
in the body of the ball, and when released
from the trance was tota'ly unconscious that
the had left her seat. On the *ame evening a
gentleman was rapidly mesmerized and made
to believe himself Sims Reeve*, the vocalist,
and. for a wonder, free from a cold. Believ
ing that be was called on to sine, he save “My
Prettv Jane” with great effect and was en
cored’. A red-headed Scotchman again de
claimed as Mr. Gladstone, and created much
amusement by declaring be did not want anv
policemen about him.
BRIGHT BITS.
The general tenor of that Ben. Butler inter
view is, “I’m your huckleberry.”— Pitteburg
Commercial.
Although a cyclone may take away the
roof of a house if has never been known to
carry off the mortgage.
The Texas delegates to the Democratic
National Convention, says an exchange, will
wear a uniform consisting of w hite hats. Thai
will be a pretty breeey costume even for Chi
cago.— Troy Time*.
“Prat, what's a bolter?” Johnny cried;
“I hear of boltem every day.”
“A bolter's one,” the sire replied.
“Who can't command and won’t obey.”
—SomerriUe Journal.
Ludlow street warden to new-coiner—
Sorry to sav, sir. I can’t give vou a room in
the cashier's or bank president’s corridor, as
they are all full, but I can give you a very
pleasant front room. “John! show this gentle
man to 49, and see that the champagne is put
in the cooler.”
“What do you suppose is the motto of our
new ladies’ society?” asked Mrs. Biobson of
her husband. “Give it up,” said Mr. B. “No
it isn’t!” said Mrs. Biobson, indignantly;
"It’s ‘never mind.’ ” “First-rate!” exclaimed
Blobaon. “Suppose you try it on once in a
while when 1 come home late from my vlub—
will you?” —Burlington Free Prtt*.
They were sitting ou ihe sofa in the front
Karlor aDd he wa* holding her little hand in
is own. Suddenly a though* seemed to strike
her and she asked sweetly: “Adolphus, are
vou a ‘bolter’ -” Just then the old gentleman’s
footstep sounded on the top stair, and as he
wildly grabbed his hat Adolphus answered:
“Yes. darling—good-by.”— Boton I‘o*t.
Deacon'S, had just completed his new house
an l was discussing with his wife the advisa
bility of moving into it at once. “I am a little
afraid,” she said, “that the walls and ceilings
are too damp for occupancy. It would be
very imprudent to move at present. I think.”
“Yes,” replied the deacon, “1 quite agree with
you; the house is altogether too damp. I
guess we had better rent It for six months."—
,\>m York Sun.
If you happen to notice a young man with
a merry light in his eyes, and a roll of manu
script under his arm, entering the office of a
newspaper, and shortly after emerging with
a haggard expression of countenance, but still
clinging to that manuscript, you can wager
vonr existence that he is a college graduate,
who was going to spring upon the public a
grand and moral theory, and also that the
theory had no spring in it.
‘ Heard the news?” asked a red-faced
youth of an elderly gentleman in a Chicago
hotel the other day. “No! what is it?”
“Why, New York has knocked Cleveland
out.” “You don’t mean it. Where did yon
hear it?” “Saw it on the bulletin board. It's
official.” “Well, that beats thunder; and
here fee been for the past week working in
the old man's interest. Jnst my luck. How
did it happen?” “I don't know exactly, hut I
think the new pitcher of the Cleveland had a
boil on bis arm ."—Graphic.
Friend—Ah! glad to see you. Blank. How
did your great lioat race with Swift, the
champion sculler, come out? Blank (cham
pion oarsman)—l won. “Glad of it; glad
of it. I was afraid he would heaCVou. Vf hat
time did you make?” “An hour and a half 1”
“Great Leonidas! An hour and a half! Why,
it’s a 10-minute course, and I have seen you
Uoitinß.” “Well, you see that villain Swift
sold out the race aud was bound I should beat
him. and he rowed as slow as he could.” “But
why should that affect your time? Why
didn't you spin over the course in 8 minutes?”
“Well, vou see, I had sold out, too, and
wanted him to beat me.” —Philadelphia Call.
See the maiden with a fan,
Flirting fan!
With its whirling and its twirling it’s enough
to madden man!
How it flutters, flutters, flutters,
In the balmy breeze of night.
While the merry maiden utters.
In a tone of calm delight,
Airy words, words, words,
Like the twitter of the birds,
While her lover looks and listens as he slyly
tries to scan
Every feature of that maiden, as she flirts her
fragrant fan!
O, the fan, fan. fan,
O, the fluctuating fan.
What felicity the fair sex finds in flourishing
a fan!
PERSONAL.
Nathaniel Nash, of the graduating class
of Harvard College, was married the day af
ter he got his diploma.
Vinton’s picture of Wendell Phillips,
which was ordered by the city of Boston for
Fanenil Hall, is finished.
The Prince of Wales’ health is not good.
He has taken a place near Dorking, in which
be hopes to lead a quiet life for some time.
Portland papers record that Mrs. Annie
Louise Carv Raymond has just forwarded a
check for $250, her annual subscription for a
free bed in the Maine General Hospital in that
city.
In Whitechapel Church, London, re
cently, an infant was actually christened Os
man Digna Smith. If that child docs not
grow up a rebellious youngster it will not be
the fault of its godparents.
The venerable Neal Dow, who, while a
Brigadier General in Louisiana, was charged
with stealing a silver pitcher from Braaish
Johnson, is now implored by his friends not
to proclaim Blaine as a Prohibitionist on the
ground thrt by so doing he is driving the Ger
mans out of the Republican party.
Miss Finney, stagcwise known as Fortes
cue, denies that she has compromised the
breach, of promise suit against Lord Garmoyle,
and insists that she still wants £30,000 to re
pair her heart damages, and more than ever
now that Lord Cairns, father of Garmovle.
has “embarrassed her” by offers of consider
ably smaller sums to induce her to stop the
action.
The distribution of prizes at the dog show
in Paris was marked by a pretty and thor
oughly French incident. At the moment when
M. Pasteur approached the seat reserved for
him. a salvo of cheers arrested the modest old
gentleman's steps. Turning to bow he saw
the President. SI. de Nieolay, who, in the
name of the society, presented a splendid
gold medal, and in a neat little speech gave
the thanks of all members interested in the
ganine race.
In recording the dangerous illness of Ward
H. Laroon, formerly Marshal of the District
of Columbia, in Denver, Col., from gangrene
in the feet, the Washington Star says: “A
few years ago Lamon had a ca.-U fortune of
$600,000. He went into Wall street determined
to make $6,000,000, and left a bankrupt. For
four years he has been in Colorado trying to
mer.d his broken health and fortunes, but the
seeds of disease had taken too firm a root.
His wife is the possessor of a comfortable
private fortune.
The banks and quays of the Seine and
Marne are crowded with anglers just now.
The catch is not very precious. Gudgeons
form the most abundant catch. The artist
Meissonier is a patient fisherman. He loves
to catch perch and roach. Jules Sandeau is a
clever fisherman, and loves the sport. Auguste
Maquet is half crazy on the subject. Ambroise
Thomas, Emile Augier, Alphonse Karr, and
Armand Sylvestre are all slaves of the hook.
Rossini is said to have composed the trio in
“Wi liam Tell” while playing a trout, and the
baritone Lassalle brings out hi* finest notes
when hauling in a gudgeon.
Mason’s New Cotton Gin.
Mr. Charles T. Mason, Jr„ of Sumter,
’ S. C., known to. fame as the inventor of a
cotton picker, has invented a cotton gin.
The S’ews and Courier thus describes it:
In place of the saws and ribs now
used in all short staple gins Mr. Mason
has substituted a hollow metallic cylin
der about four feet in diameter and vary
ing in length to suit any of the gin frames
now in use. The cylinder presents a
fluted or wave-like surface, the waves
being parallel to its axis, and about % of
an inch in width and 1-16 of an inch in
depth. The crest of each of these waves
is perforated by 6mall triangular aper
tures, about of an inch apart, and each
aperture encloses a sharp metallic tooth,
the point of which is depressed slightly
below the cylinder surface. The ar
rangement ot these teeth is very much
the same as in the picking stems of
the cotton harvester, the teeth being
protected or “hooded” by the sides of the
apertures in which they are set, so that
the surface of the cylinder is smooth to
the touch, the points of the teeth not being
felt. The cylinder revolves upon a shaft
similar to the shaft now used in the saw
gin. A steel bar called a. “stripper” is
fixed parallel with the axis of the
cylinder, and so adjusted with set screws
as to come within a small fraction of
an inch of the face of the cylinder.
The seed cotton is led in upon the re
volving cylinder just as it is fed in upon
the saws in the saw gm. The
little teeth then demonstrate their useful
ness. The cotton, being fibrous, sinks
down into the apertures, where it is
caught by the points of the teeth and is
carried under the stripping bar. The
seed, being too large to pass under the
bar, remains outside and finally, after be
ing thoroughly cleaned of all fibre, drops
out of an opening between the cylinder
and the box, just as it does in the saw
gin. The brush which cleans the cylin
der, and the condenser which delivers the
lint cotton in a roll, are precisely the
same as those now used in the saw gin.
Samples of short staple cottonj ginned
by the Mason gin, exhibited to exper
ienced cotton taetors, cotton planters and
cotton spinners in Charleston, have been
pronounced to be in extra fine condition
and the staple surprisingly long. In fact,
some good judges declared the samples to
be worth fully a cent a JAund mors than
the same class of cotton would be if
ginned by the saw gin. The Mason gm
also cleans the seed more perfectly than
the saw gins. Indeed, if the teeth are
placed close enough together and the
number of stripper bars is increased, Mr.
Mason is satisfied that the seed will be
cleaned by his cylinder just as perfectly
as ov the “linters” in the cotton seed oil
mills. He predicts that considerations of
economv will soon compel the cylinder
principle to be substituted for these tint
ing machines.
TWO BAD MARKSMEN.
A Lover and Hi* Prospective Father-
In-Law at FUtols.
An ardent young lover and an irate old
father, says a Baltimore special of July
I, had a lively duel with pistols this
morning in the northwestern section of
the city. It was not a duel after the
style of the Virginia cotie, but a regular
fusilade. It was all on account of tne
lather’s pretty daughter. Frank Bouchat
loved Ada Smelfcinger, and she returned
hjp affection with all the warmth of her
lb-year-old German heart. John Smel
zinger. the father of the fair one. how
ever, did not look with favor on Bouchat,
and also thought his daughter too young
to marry. Accordingly he forbade
Bouchat the house. The lovers continued
to meet, as lovers always will. Last night
they met and walked and talked till
late. When she returned her father
scolded her. Her lover's residence is
right opposite to her father’s house. After
scolding his daughter the angry parent
last night went over to the young man’s
bouse, saw him sitting dreaming on the
front steps and awokebim from his love
bliss by a blow on the head with a pistol.
Frank "was stunned by the blow, but re
covered and went into the house. This
morning early Frank bought a pistol. He
no sooner made his appearance in front of
the bouse than theduel began. Who fired
the first shot is not known. The father
stood in his doorway and blazed away;
near him was his pretty daughter begging
him not to shoot Frank and screaming to
Frank not to kill her father. After firing
several shots across the street at each
other, Bouchat retreated into the house
with a ball through his coat sleeve. He
ascended to the third story and then fired
down on the old man; but lucky tor the
two, although a dozen shots were tired,
m-itber of the bad marksmen was hurt.
They were overpowered by the neighbors
and both arrested, it ia reported that Ada
declares she will marry her Frank.
This was a matter of time and trouble,
for the men danced about the office and
talked Spanish so rapidly that they were
made stationary with difficulty. The flow
of the melodious language continued in
the cells.
Mrs. Flgueras, who was not included in
the Sergeant’s mandate, was aghast at
this turn of affairs, and departed to seek
the Spanish Consul. Mr. Santiago Alonzo
Barroeta, who also escaped the cell, went
away with the more rational purpose of
getting ball and an interpreter. At mid
night the gentlemen were still prisoners.
A YOUTHFUL FIRE-BUG.
He Applies the Match to Four Build-
Inga on Successive Sunday Nights.
James Murphy, a ten-year-oid boy, who
lives with his parents at 391 Nevina
street, Brooklyn, says the New Y'ork Sun
of the 3d mst., was arrested on Tuesday
on suspicion of incendiarism. That he
began active work as an incendiary tljree
weeks ago last Sunday, and continued it
on each successive Sunday, does not
admit of doubt. Each of the four fires
was in a stable, and all occurred along
the baaks of Gowanus canal, within a
comparatively small area. The losses
caused by the four tires were S4OO, $15,-
000, SI,OOO, and $1,200 respectively. On
Sunday, evening, June 22, he was seen
going into John F. Sclinedecker’s stable,
493 Union street. He whispered to
another boy:
“Wait a minute. I’m going to set fire
to the stable.’’
As he came out he said: “I set fire to
the hay,” and ran off toward his home.
In a few minutes the hay loft was in a
blaze, and the horses were rescued with
difficulty. It was remembered that he
had also been seen near the other
three stables which were burned. He at
first denied that he had set the stables on
fire, but soon made a full confession. Pure
viciousness and an idea of making money
seem to have inspired him.
As soon as he started a fire he would be
the first to raise the alarm, and would
bnsy himself in removing the horses. He
would then go to the owners, and ask for
a reward. Supervisor Wilkes, one of his
victims, gave him a few dollars. The
boy, who is short and stout, with close
cropped hair and a brown skin, was ar
raigned before Justice Welsh yesterday.
His guilt was admitted, and he will be
6ent to the House of Refuge. He was
one of the brightest lads at the public
school be attended, and no one was more
surprised than his father and teacher
were over the disclosures made.
REVISITING THE EARTH.
Miti Hatch’* Daily Presence After
Death in the House of her Parents.
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hatch,
the wife of Mr. A. L. Hatch, of Astoria,
L. 1., 6avs tne New York Sun ot the 3d
inst., occurred yesterday at 3 o’clock.
Her only daughter, a beautiful girl of
about 19 years, died in 1877, and in the
belief of the parents, and of many others,
her spirit appeared frequntly in their home
and went about the different rooms as in
the days of her life. So firmly were Mr.
and Mrs. Hatch convinced that they thus
enjoyed the presence of their dead child,
that’their grief over her death was greatly
relieved. Up to the time of Miss Hatch’s
last illness, her parents have not for a
moment doubted that she was frequently
and visibly with them, and Mr. Hatch is
still firm in that conviction.
Mrs. Hatch died on Monday last, and
the services yesterday were prior to the
removal of the remanfeto Vermont, where
they will be interred. A large number of
friends were present. On an easel at the
head of the casket was a large life-like
portrait of the deceased daughter, and
below it a smaller engraving of her as she
is reported to have frequently appeared
bending in misty outline over her mother
as the latter sat at a piano.
HONEST HENRY’.
A Washington Darkey Who Handles
More Money than Vanderbilt.
There is a venerable colored man in the
Treasury Department, says a Washington
letter, who has probably handled more
money than any person now living. No
body knows the amount that has passed
through his hands, and it cannot even be
approximately estimated. It must reach
up into the billions, and not a dollar of it
has stuck to his fingers. He is the mes
senger of the Register’s office, whose busi
ness is to carry bonds, bank bills, green
backs, checks, warrants and other papers
of value to and from the Register, whose
signature is required upon all of them.
During the days of funding operations
he carried tens of millions back and forth
every day. and he has been in the business
more than fifteen years. The express
companies receive so much per SI,OOO,
and if he was paid at the same rate he
would be richer than several Vanderbilts,
the richest man in the world, but he gets
only $720 a year and lives in a little cot
tage for which he pays $lO a month.
They call him “Uncle Henry,” but his
other name is Logan. He is a few shades
darker than another man of that name,
and his hair is curly and sprinkled with
gray.
Uncle Zeke and a Bicycle Man.
Philadelphia Ifetce.
Old Zeke came along where a party of
bicyclists, “nickel platers,” stood about
their machines. One of them winked for
some fun and said: “What have you got
there, old man ?”
- “Sassfrus, boss.”
“What’s it good for?”
“Hit good for med’eine in de luring,
boss. Take all dem pimples off’n your
face, sho’. Kin I sell you a bunch? Jes
er nickel.”
He didn’t sell any, and after hesitating
a moment spoke up:
“Kin I ax yer some’n, boss?”
“Go ahead.”
•‘What dat ar thing yer straddle uv jes’
now ?”
“Oh, that’s a bicycle.”
“Sah?”
“A bicycle—bicycle.”
“Yes. sah, boss, thankee, sah,” Then a
silence, followed ov: “Boss, what do you
do fur livin’ ?” This is evident trepida
tion.
JJq EDSWCr*
Then, actually retreating: “>Case ef
ver wuks es hard at yer biznes ez yer does
to run dat ’ar thing yer mighty quick ha’
—nuff to get a sho* nuff boss.”
The Sweet Girl Graduate.
Pittsburg Chronicle.
Somnolent lies the pickle in its briny
path, and in dreamy idleness the wad of
chewing gum lies on the window-sill.
Athwart the glinting sunbeams ia. their
lonely search the shivered corset steel in
trudes its sinuous length, while in the far
off delly dells of the brosky woodland
copse the curl paper flutters in sad-eyed
idleness for the bangs it nevermore will
clasp. A broken garter here, an undarned
stocking there, a few bent and scattered
hair-pains—they are little things, but ohl
how mutely, vet pathetically they tell the
hungry heart that the sweet girl graduate
has fled, and is now engaged in catching
beaux and freckles.
A Laughable Scene.
One of the most laughable things that
occurred during Mr. Blaine’s last days in
the Senate was a terrific sortie he made
on the Democrats, lunging down the aisle
straight for Judge Thurman’s chair, where
he stood facing the great Ohioan, and
shaking his fist in Thurman’s face as he
dramatically arraigned him and his
methods; to which Judge Thurman merely
responded:
“Sit down sir, sit down. Mr. President,
let’s proceed to business.”
The Senate roared with merriment, and
Mr. Blaine himself joined in. He after
ward described his feelings as those of a
whipped schoolboy.
LIGHTING A GAS WELL.
Tapping Nature** Great Retort at Pltts
bdr*.
A citizen of Pittsburg, named Westing
house, after drilling for twenty days, says
the New Orleans Tiatea-Democrat, re
cently struck a vein of illuminating gas
at a distance of 1,560 feet below the sur
face, from the sale of which he fully ex
pects to realize SI,OOO per day. The gas
is said to be better than any manufac
tured by artificial means. Other wells
of perhaps equal size have since been
discovered. The Westinghouse well, says
a correspondent, was struck shortly be
fore sunrise one morning, and there was
a roar like that of a whole squadron of
cyclones. Drill, machinery and engine
were overpowered and unshipped in
an instant by the awakened mon
ster. and a torrent of water, mud.
gravel, sand and other debris
rushed skyward in a mighty column,
probably several hundred feet high, the
well tube through which it belched forth
being five and a half inches in diameter.
Needless to say, there was a genera!
stampede of the'workmen. The flow of
water and sand continued for some hours,
and then gave way to a pure jet of gas. It
may be remarked, by the way. that water
invariably precedes gas. A dry well is
entirely barren. It was about S o’clock
on the morning of Thursday. May 2f, that
the well broke loose. The next day, when
there was only a flow of pure gas, some
of the visitors began trying experiments
with it. A chunk ol coal weighing seven
or eight pounds was tossed into the jet
just above the top <of the pipe, and was
whirled into the air like a feather in a
gale. A heavy spruce plank was shoved
across the aperture, and was instantly
snapped and splintered into kindling
wood. A ropgwas fastened to the derrick
and then swung into the jet, which forth
with carried its free end up and held it
there stiff and straight as a flag staff. The
lighting of it was an interesting scene.
The workmen lighted a torch made of rags
saturated with oil, and fastened it to a
wire rope wnich passed over a pulley at
the top of the pipe. Then the stop-cock
was opened, and the air quivered and the
earth itself seemed to vibrate as the gas
rushed out with a sound like that
of Niagara heard at a dis
tance. Then the men began
pulling at the wire rope, the lower end of
which was at the ground a considerable
distance from the foot of the pipe, the
pipe itself being some sixty feet high.
Slowly the blazing torch climbed the
aerial 'slope, coming nearer and nearer to
the top of the black pipe, and casting a
dimly lurid glare upon the skeleton frame
work of the derrick. It was almost to
the pipe, and every spectator held his
breath. Another pull at the rope; then
the torch stood still, there was a gleam
of bluish flame circling around the tip ot
the pipe, and then like a lightning flash
sent back from earth to heaven a pillar of
fire rushed with an added thunder roar
a hundred feet into the air. It was a foun
tain of fire that arose, but knew no fall
ing. At the base it was a slender jet of
blue, brightening into pale yellow, then
at the centre into dazzling white, and ex
panding into a broad flood, while at the
top it darkened into a dusky red. The
gas lamps in the city streets and houses
paled ineffectual fires beneath the lustre
of this stupendous torch, and the land
scape far around stood vividly revealed
amid the gloom of night. A mile away
one could "read the finest print with no
other light than that of the Westinghouse
well. This well was originally sunk
to obtain a gas supply for Mr.
Westinghouse’s private mansion. But
now its owner proposes to connect it with
street mains and give light and heat to a
large section of the city. It seems prob
able that gas may now' come into general
use as fuel m the manufactories of Pitts
burg, which will redeem that city from
its smoky and dirty environment. As to
the permanence of the flow from these
wells, there seems no reason for appre
hension. Some gas wells now flowing
freely as ever have been producing con
stantly for twenty years. Says an ex
perienced engineer of that city:
“You know how the gas is
made? Water from the surface of
the earth sinks down and works
its way into the bowels of the earth until
it reaches the internal fire. There it is
decomposed by the intense heat into hy
drogen gas, and this finds its way back
through crevices and caverns to the veins
which are tapped by these wells, 60 the
supply will last w liile there is water on
the earth’s surface and fire in its centre.*’
Several years ago a number of drove wells
sunk in’ this city emitted quite a flow of
illuminating gas. Might it not be well
for us to experiment a" little in deep dril
ling ourselves?
THEY COMPROMISED.
Bow He Sent Cuss Word* in a Cipher
Dispatch.
A man about 35 years of age, says the
Detroit Free Press, galloped down the
stone step leading to the Western Union
telegraph office yesterday and rushed at
the receiving clerk with the inquiry:
“Can I express my feelings in a tele
gram?”
“Do you mean that you want to use pro
fane language?”
“I do! I want to use some of the tallest
kind of it!”
“We can’t send anything of that sort.
There are no letters in the Morse alphabet
to stand for swear-words.”
“Well, then, I’ll have to let it go, but 1
wanted to telegraph to my brother that
I’d been robbed. I put my satchel down
to fight with a hackman, and someone
stole it.”
He went away growling and muttering,
but in about an hour he returned in still
hotter haste and exclaimed:
“Now I’ve been robbed ot my coat and
S2O in cash, and I’ve got to 'swear by
telegraph or bust! Hung my coat on a
telegraph pole while I was trying to out
jump a fellow, and someone gobbled itl”
“As I told you before, we don’t trans
* mit any profane language,” replied the
clerk; “you can notify your brother that
you have had bad luck.”
“And not express my feelings! Never!
He wouldn’t believe it was me. Make an
exception in my case, can't you.”
The clerk couldn’t, and the man said he
would do his 8 wearing by letter and make
it heavy enough for double postage. It
wasn’t half an hour, however, before he
reappeared, and this time he couldn’t
stand still as he shouted out:
“I’ve got to do it! Hadn’t been out of
here ten minutes when a chap in a shoot
ing gallery mopped me all over the floor!
Robbed—licked—mopped! Say! lemme
swear by telegraph! I’ve got a dollar left,
and I’ll "give it to you to send ten words
to Bay City!”
“You might get around the rule by
sending a cipher dispatch,” suggested the
clerk.
“Bully! I tumble! I’ll fix it in just a
minute!”
And he wrote and handed in:
“Robbed! * * * Licked!!!!
it! it! Send me S2O * * *!!!!”
“There she is.” he said as he paid for it.
“There’s robbery, meanness, arson, steal
ing, pounding, 'sentiment, profanity and
brotherly love all crowded into the one
thing, and you bet your life Ben will
catch on. I’ll now go out and get in jail
and wait for his answer.”
MAHOXE'S WHISKY.
How it Disappeared from His Demi
john.
Senator Mahone’s quarters at the Ar
lington, says a Washington special, has
always been a favorite place of resort lor
his Virginia constituents. It is no un
common occurrence for a score or more
of the followers of the Eeadjuster leader,
who are at the same time bourbon haters
and bourbon lovers, to be gathered around
him of an evening hanging on the utter
ances of his lips and wetting their own
lips from the contents of a demijohn
which Mahone never has permitted to be
come empty. The legitimate consump
tion of the contents of his demijohn is
necessarily considerable, but for some
weeks past Mahone has been con
scious that some unbidden guest was
helping himself with great liberality.
This was not a satisfactory kind of
readjustment, and the Senator yesterday
told his colored valet that he must catch
the coon who was stealing his whisky or
the principles of readjustment would be
applied to his case. The valet watched
ail day from a secure hiding place, and
was nnally rewarded by seeing a man
and a brother, in the shape of a bell-boy,
tiptoe into the Senator’s room, open the
wardrobe and fill a bottle from the demi
john. He pounced upon the culprit, ar
rested him in the name of Gen. Mahone,
and had the satisfaction of testifying
against him in the Police Court and seeing
him properly punished.
Brother and Sister.
.Veto Tort Sun.
“What did you want to make such a
goose of yourself for over that little
mouse T’ he said to bis sister as they
trudged home from an evening party.
“You danced about and serenaded until I
was ashamed of you.”
“I was afraid of it, George,” murmured
the girl.
“Afraid of it! Nonsense! If you hadn’t
had on a pair of new French shoes and
striped silk stockings you wouldn’t have
been afraid of it.”
She didn’t deign to answer him.
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York city.
LOOKING OVER THE FIELD.
What i* Said About the Different Candi
dates.
Representative Cassidy, of Nevada,
said to-night, says a Washington special
of the 2d, that the nomination of Cleve
land and Morrison or Cleveland and Mc-
Donald at Chicago was just as eertaiu as
that the convention was going to be held.
He said nearly all the opposition toCleve
land was in the newspapers, aided by Re
publican and protection Democrats,
neither of which could play any part in
the convention. He said that it was now
certain that the vote of New York would
be cast for Cleveland, as the opposition of
Tammanv had alreadv played itself out.
The New York special to the Washing,
ton Ercnitu} Star says: There is little or
no doubt that Mr. Tilden is opposed to the
nomination of Gov. Cleveland at Chicago.
The Cleveland men at Albany say that it
is quite clear to them that the New York
Sun. which for years has been close to
Mr. Tilden and represented his political
views, is opposing Cleveland because Til
den does not want him. The Cleveland
men are now only claiming 32 of the New
York delegation outside of Kings county
i Brooklyn Vbid it includes Kings in their
mil estimate, which, if correct, would
give Cleveland a clear majority of the
delegation.
The impression is growing here that
Cleveland will not get the vote of New
York at Chicago; but to whom it will go
is not known.
Reliable information comes that nearly
all the Kentucky delegates are favorable
to Bayard. This is a rebuke to Henry
Watterson. who attempted to commit the
Sthte to McDonald.
In the event ot a division of the vote of
the convention between Bayard. Randall,
McDonald, Flower and Cleveland, with
out any general concentration upon either
candidate, it is the opinion of some expe
eneed politicians that a compromise can
didate will be taken up and nominated.
Among the names thus discuss°d are those
of Justice Field, Gen. Hancock, ex-Sena
tor Stockton, of New Jersey, and Gov.
Curtin, of Pennsylvania.
It is urged in favor of Hancock that he
has already been.subjected to the severe
scrutiny of a Presidential canvass and
came out clean; that there is no danger
of any weak point being found in his
record, and that the contrast of charac
ter and military service with Blaine
would be immensely In his favor. It is
also believed that he would not, like
Cleveland, offend any element of the
Democratic party, but would unite all.
Field is deemed specially strong with
the capital and business interests of the
debatable States. Gov. Curtin and Mr.
Stocktorii are regarded as very popular
men with good records and ripe expe
rience in public service.
Then there is the dernier resort of nomi
nating Mr. Tilden by acclamation, which
many believe will’ be the upshot of the
present confusion.
CHARLIE ROSS AGAIN.
The Quincv Waif Tell* His Strange
Story to Mr. Ross.
A Philadelphia special of July 2 to the
New York World says: “I am Charlie
Ross, and I’ve come all the way from
Quincy to see mx father,” said a small,
neatly but poorly clad boy as he entered
the Central Station this morning. To the
Chief ot Police the little fellow, who is
very bright, related a circumstantial
story of his capture by two men, who
removed him in a wagon, cut off his long
curls and kept him a prisoner under
threats ot death if he attempted to escape.
He gave a most minute and apparently
straightforward account of his wander
ings until he escaped and made his way
to Quincy.
Shortly after his arrival the boy went
alone to' the residence of Christian K.
Ross, father of the long-lost Charlie, in
Germantown, where Mrs. Ross and Mr.
Ross looked at the boy carefully, and in
terviewed him for some time.
“Where were you taken from by the
men?” inquired Mr. Ross.
“Why from the back part of the house.”
“Can you remember how you were
dressed at the time?”
“Y'es sir; in dark clothes.”
“What color were your pantaloons?”
“I didn’t have any, I was too small for
pantaloons and wore a dark frock.”
“Do you remember anything about your
home
“Y'es, sir. There was a very large tree
just in front of the house.”
“Can you remember anything else?”
“I recall a colored boy named Dipps,
who made me a present of a bow and ar
row.”
“Who? what was that name?” eagerly
asked Mr. Ross.
“Dipps, sir, I think that was his name.”
“Anybody else?”
“Yes, a man named Allen.”
“Can you recall anything else about
your home ?”
“Yes, I remember that my father taught
me to sing ‘What a Friend I Have in
Jesus’ and -Happy Day.’ ”
“Unfortunately,” said Mr. Ross, “I
never sing.”
When the child had told his pitiful tale
Mrs. Ross sobbed and Mr. Ross’ eyes were
wet with tears.
“Do you think you are my mother?” the
boy asked, looking up into Sirs. Ross’ face
and addressing her simiewliat sternly.
“My little man,” answered Sirs. Ross,
in quivering tones, as she wiped a tear
from her eye, “your story is very inter
esting, but you are not my son.”
It is regarded as a somewhat singular
coincidence that this day nine years ago
i July 2,lß7s),Charlie Ros's was abducted,
tie would now be about the age of the
boy who reached here to-day. The little
fellow was then sent to a public institu
tion.
THE SEA SERPENT OXCE MORE.
Appearance of the Monster Off Our Coast
—Prof. Wood’s Theory Exemplified.
“On the afternoon of June 27, at about
4:20 o’clock, while coming from Mickin
ney’s wharf on Grape Island, and steer
ing on a direct course from the same to
Nelson’s cut on Hog Island, with a fair
wind blowing fresh, says the Georgetown
(Mass.) Advocate, a boat load of six young
men saw at a distance, variously esti
mated at from ten to sixty rods, an object
in the water which they first thought to
be seals chasing each other. Further ob
servation proved one to be a large seal
swimming with all his might, and onCe at
least jumping his full size out of the
water. The animal chasing swam with
great speed, with head and body about
three feet out of water The head was
larger than that of the largest seal;.there
was no narrow neck, but the
body increased in size until the
water hid the remainder. Behind
this for about fifty or sixty feet there was
a wake as distinguishable as that made
by a tug-boat. At one time, at a distance
of about thirty feet from the head, a fold
of his body was seen above the water, so
that daylight could be seen under it. The
wake behind made it appear to be in about
the centre of the length of the animal.
It was round and larger than at the neck
and head. The color was black, but a
narrow stripe of white seemed to run
down the throat. The motions of the
monster beneath the water, judged by the
movement of wake and loop in the
centre, was serpentine and rapid.
The seal appeared to be in great dis
tress {and swam for shoal water. The
serpent followed, and when on the flats,
with perhaps four or six feet of water
under him, made a tremendous splashing.
He soon turned into the deeper" water of
the channel, veered off toward Swal
lowbank, and was last seen mak
ing toward Cape Merrill. To sav
that the young men were scared and diil
not care to follow the beast, is stating the
matter just as it is. Every man in the
boat saw it* they all agree that it was as
stated; saw it going from them, make a
turn and describe a circle, saw the seal
swim and jump for his life, and all are
satisfied that it was a monster of the
snake species not less than 50 feet long.
They are sober, reliable, sedate young
men, not disguised by drink, not credu
lous nor easily excited, and did not see
some little thing and imagine the rest. It
was broad daylight, with no mirage or
fog to exaggerate objects. They related
their experience to Captain Johnson, of
Rowley,and to friends at home,thoroughly
believing their eyesight and that there
was no optical illusion. We have inter
viewed each separately, and all agree in
substance, but show a diversified judg
ment of the length of the snake, its size
and their distance from it. All describe it
as very large, swift and much too near to
be enjoyable.
He Knew He Was Right.
Boic Bello.
A gentleman called his servant one dav
and informed him he wished him to learn
the names of the first books in the Bible.
“Now,” said he, “I will tell you the first
one, and during the day I will ask you
what it is, to see if you remember. It is
Genesis.”
Later in the day Bob was called, but he
could not remember what it was. -
“Now,” said his master, “1 have a way
to impress it on your mind so you can’t
forget it. Now, Bob, we have an’old horse
in the stable; what do we call it?”
“Jenny.”
“Correct. And we have a little girl in
the kitchen, what do we call her?”
“Sis.”
“Very well; now put the two together
and you have Jenny-Sis —Genesis. I
think" you can remember it until to
morrow.”
“Yes, sir.”
The next day Bob was summoned to ap
pear before his master.
“Good morning, Bob; can you give me
the name of the first book in the Bible this
morning?”
“Yes, sir; sure.”
“Well, what is it?”
“Ah, ah! Can’t fool me this morning.
It is old hoss!”
yarlttt’g gottlt.
Swept into the Stream
One Thousand Acres of Land and
“Right Smart of Bears.”
On the deck of a big Mississippi steamboat
stood an aged Southern planter. Indicating
by a sweep of his arm the water* the boat was
passing over, he said to a passenger from the
North: “When I was li years old I killed my
first bear on anew plantation my father was
then cutting out of a forest that grew directlv
over the waters of this bend. That was a
mighty good plantation, and there was right
smart of bean there, too. But that one thou
sand acres of land west into the Mississippi
years ago.”
It is putting no strain upon the figure to say
that great forests of youthful hope, womanly
beauty and manly strength are swept in the
same way every year into the great, turbid
torrent of disease and death. Yet it should
not be so. That it is so is a disgrace as well as
a loss. People are largely too careless or too
stupid to defend their own interest*—the most
precious of which is health. That gone, all is
gone. Disease is simple, but to recklessness
or ignorance the simplest things might as well
be complex as a proposition in Conic Sections.
As the huge Western rivers, which so often
flood the cities along their shores, arise ifc a
few mountain springs, so all our ailments can
be traced to impure blood and a small group
of disordered organs.
The most effective and inclusive remedy for
disease is PARKER’S TONIC. It goes to
the source of pain and weakness. In re
sponse to its action, the liver, kidneys, stom
ach and heart begin their work afresh, and
disease is driven out. The Tonic is not, how
ever, an intoxicant, but cures a desire for
strong drink. Have you dyspepsia, rheu
matism, or troubles which have refused to
yield to other agents? Here is your help.
Carstnttr’ ®oolo.
WANTED.
Eyery Carpenter
IN SAVANNAH TO
Purchase His Tools
—FROM—
CORMACK HOPKINS,
167 BROUGHTON STREET.
Open Every Eveflini Until 7 o’clk,
AND ON
Saturdays Until 9 o’clk.
fitiUtnerti.
SI BONNETS
-AND—
C AJP S.
The largest and most varied assortment of
SUN BONNETS
IN THE CITY.
C A- P S
Of every size, style and price. Alao, a nice
line of
MILLINERY.
GOODS SHOWN WITH PLEASURE AT
Mrs. K. Power's,
168 BROUGHTON STREET.
ICE! ICE!
Knickerbocker Ice Cos.,
144 BAY STREET,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
KENNEBEC ICE!
Orders by Mail, Telephone, or
given to our Drivers, promptly at
tended to.
TELEPHONE NUMBER, 217.
f ooh groPweta.
OS HAND A CHOICE LOT OF
WHITE & MIXED CORN,
—ALSO —
Hay, Oats, Bran, Etc.
6-S.McALPIN
GEORGE SCHLEY,
GENERAL
Commission Merchant,
88 BAY STREET.
Consignments Solicited.
OF Hay, Grain, Provisions, Country Pro
duce, Rice and Naval Stores: also. Flour
and Bran. My customers and the trade can
always get Corn Eyes and Rice Flour, all
sacked and ready for shipping, at Rice Mill
prices.
triW powDcv.
BORAOINE.
Entirely Different from Ordi
nary Toilet Powder.
Prepared from Purest and Best
Materials.
IMPARTS a healthy complexion, and a
fresh, youthful, blooming appearance. Al
ways gives satisfaction.
Lae as a Bath, Nursery and Genuine Toilet
Powder, Prevents Chafing, Prickly Heat
and other eruptions.
Manufactured by the
Men Flower ftrluery Cos.,
SAVANNAH, CA.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
food.
tcTmothers"
JUST RECEIVED FRESH
MELLLIX’S FOOD.
IMPERIAL GRAXUM,
NESTLE’S MILK FOOD,
BERMUDA ARROWROOT,
GERBER'S MILK FOOD,
RIDGE’S INFANT FOOD.
AT OSCEOLA BUTLER'S.
book keep) nit. Address B. L, I>„ care nt
vannah Morning New*. nI *-
TvXnTED. cigar salesman for
, 'f’l" se " on commission to iot.ull
and retailers; state class of trade us L
of .ales; only reliable parties^Th SufiE*
references wanted. RUDD BROS
j ° bbCn *’ M W#rrcn
wbi ‘ 0T cotonsd, kb*
O'EA""”- is
•yyANTED, a ma!< CQMPEfkyr~To
TAKE CHARGE OF
and RUN
A TURPENTINE FARM.
Address P. O. Box 101,
Savannah, Ga.
WANTED, a cook, white preferred 7 t ,„7'
sham St ! ‘ outh ****, career Haßr
W ANTED, agents to sell the bandemw
and cheapest wrought iron fence ma.if
it is easily adjusted, is free from mi“rv L:
heat or cold; no trouble to sell; terms W™,
Tenn S ' l,lreSß HoX 10 *’ *-’ h sttanoog;
\\ T ANTED, everybody to
TV • gross fruit jars for sale, and
ALtdiV 165 ’Y Brou -- h,on street UEoflY*
for IlfWt.
LM>R RENT, two connecting roonis7"fui7
r mshed or unfurnished, with use ofn.H,,
and bath, at southwest corner of AU-ivor!
and President streets. “ ors
FOB lIKXT. a place suitable for TTnnk
r dairy, near Itattery Park; new houu.
arge pasture; splendid location: reasoaaffi
tenn* Apply to HERMAN STRUCK, West
Broad and ilcsry streets. ” e ‘ l
IMIE very desirable tenement house 34 1717
erty street for rent. Apply to A \
w ILSii.v, Internal Re yen ue office.
L'OR RENT, the fine store No. 151 ltrouTh!
* ton street, now occupied bv Mr. Damn
Hogan. Apply to EDWARD 1.iVK1.1..
ipOR KENT, the store No. 158 CongnTl
r street. Apply to F. S. LATHROP, lOßufl
street. 44
If OR RENT, a brick bouse on New HousiTi
street, between Barnard and Jefferson
streets. Apply t° w. p. CHAPLIN, No. la
Gwinnett street.
M for Sate.
\I , ' KS < SALE.—B good work mules,
F \I*?TT?¥ Apply Dk. georgk
E. it ATI IIEM .s’ \ etenuarv Intlrmarv. cor
■‘<T south Broad and Randolph streets.
WILL seH, remarkably cheap, such Z
’’ clocks, watches, roll plated jewelry
musical instruments, oil paintings, jdeture
frames, mantel mirrors, curtaiu cornice,
tinware, etc. Those who need these eood.
it will pay to call at N ATHAN BROS
Congress street, near Jefferson.
L**OR SALE, a Propeller Steam YarhtTw
I feet long over all; first class machines
in g<jod order; cabin handsomely np'iolstered
suited for lowing or pleasure, with a snecd
of 14 knots; draught of water 6} j feet Knr
further particular* apply to J. A. MeGI’IKE
st. Augustine, Fla. ’
REAL ESTATE.—Parties desiring to sell
| i or buy will find it to their advantage to
call on me, as I have inquiries for certain
classes of property, and am offering some de
sirable property for sale. J. F. BROOKS la
Bay street. ’
LV>R SALE, 100,000 No. 1 Pine Shn,Th>7Tt
X f.t per thousand, in railroad yard. Mr c
V. Snedeker has charge of my retail dewtrt
mont in the S.. F. A IV. R'y yard, next toCis
sels’ wood yard. R. B. KEPPARD.
jttonm to foait.
HONEY TO LOAN.
CLEMENT SAI'SSY, Money Broker,
No. 12 Whitaker street.
I OANS made on Personal Property. I)i.
\ j ruotids and Jewelry bought and sold oa
commission.
Mo.NEt lij LOAN.—Liberal loon* n.ade
on Diamonds, Gold and Silver *;<•(*■
fcwe'ry,- Pistols, Cun*. Sewing ll.ash ncs.
Wcsiisr Apparel, Mechanics’ Tola, cior-ks.
etc., etc., at Licensed !’:• w nbtokcr Mouw ltd
t ougreas street. E. Mt.ifLBERG, Manager.
N. U.—Highest prices paid for old Gold tad
Stiver.
(SHurattotuti.
Wesleyan Female College,
MACON, GA.
T'HE 17th Annual Session begins Oct. 1.
Most elegant building* in the south. All’
modern conveniences. Best advantages in
Literature. Music and Art. Special attention
to health and comfort of pupil*. Moderate
charges. Apply early to W. C. BASS.
Augusta Female Seminary,
STAUNTON, VA. J
Miss MARY J. BALDWIN, Principal.
Opens September 3, closes June, 1885.
UNSURPASSED in its location, in its
buildings and grounds, in it* general ap
pointaents and sanitary arrangeu ents. Its
full corps of superior and experienced teach
ers. its unrivaled advantages in Music, Mod
ern Languages, ElocuUod, Fine Arte. Physi
cal Culture, and instruction in the Theory
nd Practice of Bookkeeping. The successful
efforts n ade to secure health, comfort and
happiness. Its opposition to extravagance;
its standard of solid scholarship. For full
particulars apply to the Principal for cata
logues.
MRS. SYLVANVS REED’S Boarding and
Day School for Young Ladies and Ldtlc
Girls, 6 and 8 East Fifty-third street, New
York, between Fifth and Madison avenue*
(Central Park). Course thorough in Collegi
ate Department. Special students admitted.
Primary and Preparatory Departments.
French the language of the school. Begins
October 3, 1884.
Cl IVIL. Mechanical and Mining Engineering
J at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, N. V. The oldest engineering school m
America. Next term begins September 17lii.
The Register for 1884 contains a list of the
graduates for the past 59 years, with their po
sitions; also course of study, requirements,
expenses, etc. Address
yropooaio.
PROPOSALS.
Alachua Countv Court Hors* \
at Gainesville, Kla.,>
Gainesville, May so, 188*. S
SEALED proposals will be received at the
County Clerk’s office, is the city of Gaines
ville, Fla., until June 31, 1884, for" furnishing
of all material and labor required in the
erection, construction and completion of a
court house In the city of Gainesville for the
county of Alachua, according to plans and
specifications for the same bvH. J. Campbell,
Architect and Civil Engineer, of Palatka, Fla.
Plans and specifications can be seen in the
Clerk’s office. An early date for completion
of said building will be one consideration for
the Board.
All proposals mud be accompanied by a
certified bond in the rum of |i,ooo that the
bidder or bidders wi!: give a goes! and satis
factory bond if a wanted the contract. No bids
will be considered u i) los accompanied by such
a bond. The contractor will 1* paid ua month
ly estimates as the work progresses, and in
accordance with the s'atute ’aws of the Mate
of Florida, chapter 34**. No. 9, section t Act
of ISS3. All bids mu.t l>e in the regular form
of proposals. The Bom-I re erve the right to
reject any and all bids.
All bids and communications should lie ad
dressed to J. A. CARLISLE, Clerk Circuit
Court, Gainesville, Fla.
Bids must be indorsed on their cover “Bids
for building court house for Alachua county,
Ha.” J. A. CARLiSLE.
Clerk Circuit Court aud County Auditor.
The time for receiving bids for aliove
building is extended to August 4,188*. The
building material can be delivered within 100
feet of building.
Urlnrtro.
Ktdesase&sy p a with one per-
Till *prlDl
lengthen and shorten according to Ihewelght they
carry. Equally well adapted to rough country
I 0 *?* and A n ? drives of alties. Manufactured o 0
•old byall theleadlngCarrlageßuildersarid Deslvrs
Henry Timken, Patealw, St LotiU. ha
yatnto, <Stt.
JOHN C. BUTLER.
IVIIITE LEADS, COLORS. OITA, GLASS,
VARNISH. ETC., READY MIXED
PAINTS. RAILROAD. STEAMER AKD
MILL SC Pi’Ll ES, SA SIIKS, DOORS B LIN D
AND BUILDER* Ha RDW ARE. Sole Agent
forGEORGIA LIM E, CA LCIN ED PLASTER.
CEMENTS. HAIR AND LAND PLASTER.
ft Whitaker street. Savannah. Gh.
lumbrr, (Sir.
BACON, JOHNSON k CO.,
Planing Mill and Lumber Yard,
Keep always a full stock ot
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
SKINCLES, LATHS, et
Also. VEGETABLE CRATES.
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