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Massachusetts has" a Democratic poli
tician named Col. Drinkwater, but he
does not drink water exclusively.
{(the heated term will only relieve the
people of walking matches and base ball
for a few daya, It will not have been In
vain.
The movement to have the Democratic
Convention adopt the Republican plat
form seems rather unpromising just
now.
This week Gen. Butler will be bottled
up again. He will have little to console
and cheer him except the memory of his
little but loud-mouthed boom.
It is feared that Galveston is too small
a town to get the government to tackle a
scheme in which the bill of cost is to be
made out by so large a minded man as
Capt. Eads.
Several newspapers displayed great en
terprise in printing the “Star Spangled
Banner” on Independence Day, and two
or three went so far as to reproduce the
declaration itself.
Mo doubt a motion will be made at the
meeting of the Georgia l’ress Association
to discipline Editor Branham, of the tort
Valley Mirror, for writing poetry on a
base ball game. *
A distinguished physician once advised
everybody to keep their heads cool and
their feet warm. It is not very difficult
just now to keep one’s feet warm, but few
have cool heads.
A
Black Jack is not afraid to de
fend his son-in-law. When Black Jack
defends his son-in-law in regard to the
Zuni land business, nearly everybody be
lieves be defends himself.
It would be a good idea for the French
officials to stop quarreling about how the
cholera got into Toulon for a little while
and devote all their skill and energy to
getting it out of the country.
The toy pistol and many other patriotic
devices claimed the usual number of vic
tims on the glorious Fourth, hut beer and
barley-corn got in more effectual work
than everything else combined.
It’s rather heavy on the metropolis, but
a Philadelphia paper hints that thwconfi
dence men of New York are about the
only people in that city who show any
polish or interest in strangers.
It will be decided in a very few days
whether Editor M coin re. John Kelly.
Ben Butler, or the Democrats m run
ning the Democratic party. The latter
appear to have the inside track just now.
New York burned 910,000 worth of fire
works on the glorious Fourth. A good
many people think there is a good deal
more foolishness than patriotism in the
popping of firecrackers on great oc
casions._
Sketches of Gov. Hoadly, of Ohio, have
been going the rounds during the past
He is now pretty free of malaria,
/'however, and probably in no danger
whatever of beitfg struck by even \ ice
Presidential lightning.
The temale suffragists in England have
made rapid progress, especially in the
matter or petitions. They have presented
to Parliament duriqg the last fourteen
years 16,354 petitions, to which were ap
pended 2,542,102 signatures.
Some of the Congressmen who have
been postponing their biennial fence re
pairing will now have some good warm
weather for the work, and not be open to
the charge of having neglected the public
business in order to get to the work in the
cool of the morning.
The neglect of sanitary considerations in
the building of school houses adds thous
ands to the number of little graves every
year. There is an old fogy notion firmly
rooted in the land that children have no
rights any one is bound to respect.
Some dog fanciers claim that about the
best burglar alarm is a small flee dog in
the house. A little dog can certainly
make ten times as much noise as a burg
lar alarm bell, but nervous people do not
fancy a machine that is likely to be
touched off by a mouse or cricket just as
the proprietor gets sound asleep.
Mow that Senator Ingalls has been
made an LL. D. by Williams College as
a reward for his general cussedness, he
will probably be saucier than ever next
winter. Williams appeared to be oblivi
ous of the fact that the Senate sat down
flatly op Ingalls’ proposition to mutilate
Senator Brown's speech as it was deliv
ered and printed in the Record.
The boy who arrived in Philadelphia
last week from the West pretending to be
the long lost Charley Ross, has acknowl
edged that he is an impostor. Every few
months some precocious youth assumes
this role only to get a little notoriety and
go back to the slums from which he came.
These smart youngsters need a little
moral education with a rawhide whip.
Philadelphia has been somewhat agi
tated over the discovery of a large num
ber of human bones and fragments of
skulls on the open commons in the sub
urbs of the city. They had been carried
there by the dirt carts and had been col
lected from different parts of the city.
Probably ‘the Philadelphians have been
making an effort to get rid of the skele
tons in their closets. •
The medical society of Merlin finds a
large excess of short-sighted people in
cities and towns attributable to vanity,
and caused by the unnecessary use of
glasses. Eve-glasses were once thought to
i*dd to the dignity and importance of thft
wearer, but since they have become an
indispensable part of the outfit of the dude,
they are getting somewhat into disrepu te
at least, few people will wear them in the
future who do not find it necessary to do
so lest they be mistaken for dudes.
The sleepv Senators thought that the
President had played a joke on them last
. v . k W hen he sent the name of Mr. Frank
to the Senate as Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court ot Dakota. Mr.
Sperry is a diminutive gentleman, whose
eioerienee of public life is limited to that
-allied as Private Secretary and Stenog
rapher to Secretary Folger, and as a
worker for Mr. Arthur at Chicago last
month He is said to be a graduate of a
Sew York: law school, and for this rea
son it is supposed, he wiU wear the ju
dicial ermine with dignity. In Washing
ton he is more noted for his love of bread
-nd milk than tor anything else. His
appetite for milk, however, must not be
taken as an indication of his age. He is
Httle man, and it may be that he
make an excellent Judge.
f The Sit nation at Chicago.
special from Chicago this morning
indicates that there is a very unsettled
feeling among the delegates relative to
the best man to nominate. Two things
stand out prominently. The first
is that Cleveland appears to be
in . the lead, and the second is
that a majority of the Southern, and
a good many Northern delegates prefer
Bayard to any other candidate, but are
afraid that his speeches in the early part
of the war would be used against him
with damaging effect. Cleveland, how
ever. does not seem to be gaining
strength, chiefly because of the growing
doubt of hi# ability to poll the fall vote ot
bis party in Mew York. Several of his
official acts as Governor have tended to
alienate not only factions of his party
but also the working classes. It is not
known certainly yet whether he has a
majority ot the delegation of his State.
It is stated that Bayard will have
a large vote on the first ballot. In that
case the Southern delegates may over
come their timidity, and help to nominate
the South’s choice. It does not yet ap
pear whether Cleveland or Randall
is Tilden’s choice, and perhaps
his choice is a matter of very little
consequence. As expected, Butler looms
up as a disturbing element. It Is pretty
certain that he will attempt to
play a very conspicuous part be
fore the convention has made much
progress with its work. It is hardly prob
able that a ballot will be reached before
Wednesday, and the outlook at present is
that there will be quite a number of bal
lots before a nomination is made.
Defects in the Constitution.
In the third of a series of articles on the
constitution of Georgia Judge W. M.
Reese discusses the higher courts of the
State as at present constituted, the scope
of their business and the salaries of the
Judges. He argues that the'duties of the
Judges are too onerous and their salaries
too small. He alludes to the immense in
crease in litigation, consequent on the ne
groes becoming citizens, and shows that
while the first thirty volumes of the re
ports of our Supreme Court contain not
over thirty-five hundred pages, the next
twenty-nine volumes contain over five
thousand. The Supreme Court Justices,
he says, have to labor nine hours per day
lor more than nine months in the year.
He thinks that it is absolutely impossible
for the J ustices to take the time to con
sider their opinions and to make the re
searches that are necessary to bring them
up to the high standard evinced in the
earlier reports. He thinks the most satis
factory way to relieve the Supreme Court
would be to appoint two or more addi
tional Justices. The increased cost he
estimates at 96,000 or 9",000 a year.
Judge Reese next criticises the system
of appeals to special juries stricken from
the grand juries in the Superior Courts,
whieh was re-established by the constitu
tion of 1877. He urges the abrogation of
this provision of the constitution, a return
to the laws of 1868 on the silbject, and the
abolishment of distinctions between the
qualifications of grand and traverse
jurors.
In his two previous letters Judge Ileese
explained fully the amendments neces
sary to facilitate the work of the legisla
tive department of the State government.
While the subject is by no means
new, and while repeated efforts have been
made in the Legislature to secure the
amendments recommended, Judge Reese’s
letter will attract attention to the subject
anew, as the people are selecting their
representatives, and give the proposition
to perfect the constitution the weight of
bis influence. He does not propose
another convention, btit advocates amend
ments by legislative enactment, which
must, of course, be submitted to the peo
ple for ratification.
The amendments relating to the expe
diting of legislative business are of press
ing importance, and it is to be hoped the
next Legislature vflll do itself the credit
of adopting them without unnecessary
delay.
111 ai lie in Maine.
The latest accounts from Maine indi
cate that the plumed knight will not be
allowed to have a walk over even in his
own State. For the last few years the
Republican majority has not been very
large In Maine, and it has been overcome
by a union of the opposition. To say that
Blaine is not strong at home would be to
misrepresent the condition of affairs there.
He has for years been the boss of his
party, and his political power, wealth and
natural abilities, to say nothing of his won
derful so-called “personal magnetism,”
have given him a hold on the Maine Re
publicans which has perhaps been
equaled by no other man.
His very strength, however, is an ele
ment of weakness. During his career he
has had friends to reward and enemies
to punish in maintaining his ot* power
and party discipline. There are those
who have heart-burnings and who will
remorselessly knife him the moment they
see they can strike an effectual blow.
A dispatch from Augusta to the Boston
Globe says the independent movement
has secured a strong footing there as well
as in other parts of the State. In 1876
the Republicans had a majority of nearly
15,000 in Maine. In 1880 they were in the
minority by 713. In 1882 when the oppo
sition failed to get out their full vote, the
Republicans polled nearly every vote they
were entitled to and only carried the State
by about 7,000 majority. Many prominent
Democrats assert that Maine may be
clearly put down as a doubtful State. If
the Democrats nominate a man in whom
the people have confidence the opinion at
Augusta is that the opposition to Blaine
will at once organize, and if it does not
carry the State, will at least give the Re
publicans a contest that will be close
for comfort.
Harrison’s Advice.
Carter Harrison. Democratic candidate
for Governor of Illinois, says that the only
sensible thing for the Democratic Nation
al Convention to do Is to nominate Tilden
and Hendricks by acclamation and then
adjourn over for a day to see if they will
accept. Mr. Harrison is thought to be a
good deal of a demagogue. It is certain
that he has succeeded in getting himself
talked about more than any man
in Chicago. He has been able to
• have himself elected and re
elected to the office of Mayor of tUht
city because he has a strong hold on
the good will of the gamblers and saloon
keepers. His party would hardly have
given him the Gubernatorial nomination
if there had be m much of a chance for
the election ot a Democrat. Doubtless
there will be those in the convention who
will favor the nomination of Tilden —some
with the hope that he will accept and
others with the belief that his refusal
will help the candidates in whom they
are interested. It is hardly probable,
however, that the convention will consent
to fool away its time in nominating a man
who has declined to be a candidate, and
who would refuse to accept if nominated.
Such a course would be an acknowledg
ment of weakness. It would in effect
be saying to the country, “we think that
we can elct Tilden. but we have doubts
about electing anybody else.” The party
can hardly afford to pay Tilden the com
pliment of nominating him, only that he
may have the satisfaction of declining
the honor. Tilden would not have writ
ten his June letter if there had been any
circumstances under which he would
accept the nomination. He may be con
sidered not in the list of candidates,
and it may also be accepted as certain
that Carter Harrison’s advice will not be
acted on.
Mr. Spencer Bate, an English scientist,
says that the coming man will have no
teeth. His idea is that as man develops
the matter that now goes to make his
teeth will be used to make his brains, until
finally man will be toothless. It is to be
hoped that the beef in some localities,
which shall be nameless, will be much
tenderer than it is now when that time
comes.
The great need of the times is a society
to labor for the conversion of bank offi
cials and clerks. In some parts of the
country all the moral teaching these in
dividuals seem to have ever had is the old
thief’s maxim—“ Honesty is the best
policy.” No man can be thoroughly hon
est who is honest only from policy.
Developing the Country-
The people of the South are thoroughly
in earnest about developing the varied
resources of their section. The remark
able increase of our manufacturing inter
ests has often been remarked upon. It is
nevertheless true that manufacturing is
yet in its infancy in the South, and it is
probable that the next decade will show
a much more wonderful increase than the
last.
One thing that retard* the development
of the manufacturing interests of many
places is a want of appreciation of the
value and power of co-operation and the
inauguration of manufacturing enter
prises by many small stockholders. The
people are too much disposed to depend
on capitalists. Towns will often offer
large bonuses and valuable franchises to
secure the investment of capital in manu
factories, which when firmly established
are often used to the disadvantage of tne
towns which helped to build them.
There is scarcely a village of five hun
dred inhabitants in the South but should
have one or more tactories, owned and
controlled by the people of the village
and surrounding country. Almost any
community can raise 950,000 or 9100,000
with which to establish such enterprises.
Say subscriptions to stock are secured for
a 9100,000 enterprise as follows:
20 men take 91,000 each 9 SO.OOO
100 men take 500 each • 50,000
200 nieu take 100 each 20.000
200 men take 50 each 10,000
520 men 9100,000
Let It be understood that the stock is to
be paid for In easy installments, say 10
per cent, every four or six months. The
first installment ol SIO,OOO will secure the
necessary land—possibly a water power.
The next installment will procure the ne
cessary materials for buildings. By the
time the buildings can be erected the
third installment becomes due and a por
tion of the machinery may lie ordered,
and by the time it can be manufactured
the fourth and fifth installments can be
collected and the machinery ordered paid
for. The sixth call will pay freight and
for placing the machinery in position.
The seventh will secure material and
start the wheels to rolling with a healthy
cash working capital. The eighth,
ninth and tenth as they are
called in will add to the ma
chinery or buildings or other features
as may lie required. Thus, in from three
to five years almost any thriving business
town may establish a first-class manufac
turing enterprise without feeling that it
is burdened. A large number of stock
holders may pay their assessments in
land or materials or labor. The better
class of workmen might take stock, and
allow a percentage of their wages to go
in payment therefor.
One town or community might have a
cotton factory, another a woolen mill,
another a wagon factory, another a flour
mill, another a furniture factory, another
a fertilizer factoi y-. and another an iron
mill, each in accordance with its natural
resources and advantages.
The latest news from Virginia is that
the Blaine and Logan men, whether Re
adjusters or Republicans, are quietly or
ganizing for the November election. It
is stated that the whites and negroes are
forming separate clubs, especially in
what are called the white counties. In
the black belt the negroes are so much in
the majority that they have everything
pretty much their own way. The color
line is quite as sharply defined in some
counties as it is by the Democrats. It
seems that there is no great kitchen in
Virginia now in which the opponents of
Democracy may meet on equal terms.
* CURRENT COMMENT.
Somethiug Horrible Feared.
Worcester {Mass.) Spy (Rep.).
Every poet office in this State will lie in the
hands ot the Democrats next summer it we
falter now.
A Favorable Contrast.
New York Sun (Ind.).
The Senate, being unable to take a holiday,
on account of the pressure of public business,
<lirt well to give itself, by way of partial in
demnity, the treat of hearing the Declaration
of Independence read by the Secretary, fu
aoo-i t'.glisn ami sound doctrine this docu
ment contrasts greatly with some of the
speeches which the SenaUrs have made and
listened to this session.
No Indian’s Rights Respected.
Louisville CouriefkJoumal iDem.).
Senator I,ogan has doubtless been done an
injustice by those that charged he is one of
several speculators who have gobbled up large
tracts of government lands, hut it is pretty
well settled that he did his best to gobble np a
part of the reservation of the Zuni Indians for
iiis son-in-law. He confesses as much. Rut
then there is nothing in that. There is *o
wrong against an Indian,
The Very Best Man.
Mobile Register (Dcm.).
The Presidency of the United States could
not be conferred upon a purer man than Sen
ator Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware; In
statesmanship, learning, dignity and virtue
he stands pre-eminent. He is the first choice
of the best elements of the Democracy. He
would lie the first choice of the Chicago Con
vention were it not for the attacks made upon
his Dover sjieecb. The fact that nothing else
can he brought against him, and that the ac
cusation of disloyalty, when traced to its
source and true significance, fluds complete
refutation, constitutes one of the completed
vindications that any man could possibly
have.
Looking to the Democracy.
Baltimore Sun (Dein.). •
It is admitted by thoughtful Republicans
ami realised by every Democrat that success
it within the grasp of the Democratic Con
vention. A prudent demand for revenue re
form, and nominations which, while not of
fensive to any portion of the Democratic
partv, would not repel the great vote as yet
unattached, would bring that long deferred
change in the management of the Foderal
Government which, after a quarter of a cen
turv of strictly partisan rule, seems essential
to the public welfare. It is not wonderful
that under these circumstances good citizens
of all parties look anxiously, and most of
them hopefully, to the next Chicago Conven
tion.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
AT Lasselle Seminary two gold miniature
loaves were awarded to the girls who had
taken the highest rank in bread-making.
Lightning recently struck a tree on Gov.
Stanford’s California ranch, and the China
men etr ployed on the place could not be in
duced to piejt U P tbe debris, as they consid
ered that it was the work of an evil spirit.
A Kansas shoemaker stopped work, and
began to spend money freely. He was on that
account arrested on suspicion of having robbed
a stage coach. Then he had to confess and
prove that he was heir to an English quarter
of a million.
In Milford, Mass., about 1760, George Wash
ington tied his horse to a trqe while he went
into the house to get his dinner. The tree
has stood until a few weeks ago, when it was
cut down, as it was in the way of travel, and
sawed into memorial blocks.
In the Friends’ annual meeting at Newport,
one of the younger members of the associa
tion protested against the custom of men and
women sitting apart, but nothing was done
toward abolishing it, although the sentiment
of the meeting is said to have been strongly
against separation.
It is almost impossible to exhaust the lodg
ing accommodations here, writes a corre
spondent from the Holy Land. There are
four or five convents, besides several hotels,
in Jerusalem which solicit patronage. One of
these convents is accredited with havingcom
fortable lodging-room for 4,000 travelers, and
with being able to house 8,000 people on a
pinch.
Tub scale of prices for admission to a bull
lighten Mexico is regulated by which side of
the grounds the sun happens to be. Thus, at
a recent exhibition near the City of Mexico,
the follawing scale was charged: Boxes in
the shade, to hold eight, <8; half boxes in the
shade, to hold eight. $4; general admission,
shady side, ninety-nine cents; general ad
mission, sunny side, thirty-seven and one
half cents. v
A great library, according to Mr. Win
sor, the librarian of Harvard College, should
preserve every book and pamphlet printed.
The worthless tract of to-day may prove in
valuable to tbe historian writing in the year
2000. Two hundred years after the execution
of the great Marquis of Montrose, the account
books kept by his agent were discovered.
From these the biographer of the Marquis
drew much of the history of his hero’s early
life.
The oldest building in the ancient little
town of Heppenhcim on the Bergstrass. once
the favorite hunting castle of Charlemagne,
laker alternately used as a conventicle by the
Knights Templar and by monks as well as
nuns, in more modern days as a town ball, is
now metamorphosed into a cigar factory.
An idea of the age of the little town (by the
Romans called Hephium) may be formed
from the well auMenticated tradition that
Charlemagne was We builder of the Basilica
of St. Peter, in commemoration-of the fact
that there existed within it walls a Christian
in the days of the great apostle.
The Pali Mall traeett* discusses the ques
tion: “What ought a wife to call her husband
in speaking to a third person?” Should she
say “my husband,” or should she use the sur
name without any prefix, as Mrs. Carlyle used
to talk of “Carlyle," or should she adopt an
other plan of that lady*, and speak, as it
were, of “Mr. C.?” Perhaps it is a matter of
indifference in England, but in France a
woman’s usage in the matter is taken as a
test of breeding. In the provinces, it seems,
wives speak of their husbands as “monsieur,’
as if their particular “monsieur” were supe
rior to all others. Or perhaps they think this
style expresses an indifference indicative of
“bon ton.” “My husband,” they imagine,
would be vulgar. With the polite world of
Paris, on the contrary, “my husband” is ac
cepted as the proper phrase, subject to two
exception*. Avery affectionate wife may
speak of her husband by his Christian name,
while after a certain age any other style ex
cept the surname, with the prefix “monsieur,’’
is held to be ridiculous and a sign of “pro
vincialism.”
Political offenders and obstructionists
in Abyssinia are treated in a manner which
some other Christian countries may well take
into consideration for suppressing unparlia
mentary language and to insure calm debate.
The offenders are arrested, chained and placed
on • small table land on the top of Abba Sa
lama. a high, rocky and percipitous mount,
about thirty miles'from that city. So sheer
and steep are its sides that the prisoners are
drawn up by ropes. Their chances of escape
are nil, unless they dash themselves into
eternity on the rocks below. Thera is land
qu which they may grow grain, and well- in
which they find water. There is no Speaker
to keep order, and they may. if they choose,
abuse Prime Ministers and crowned heads to
their hearts’ content, but they return no more
to the ways of the world. As for the rebel
lions subjects taken in arms against their
Kina, they are often dispatched by that Chris
tian monan b in the most expeditious and
painless manner. Gunpowder is forced into
their nostrils, ears and months, a lighted time
fuse attached to either one of these useful
members, and when the explosion takes place
the result generally incapacitates the victim
from further intrigue.
Paris has found anew sensation in a bird
charmer, who has been astonishing the boule
vardiers with his powers. A bet was made
between him and M. Loizey, a gentleman who
was rather skeptical in such matters. The
conditions were thit M. Loizey should fur
nish a dozen birds, which were to be at the
disposal of the charmer for fifteen minutes.
At the end of that time M. Picard was to
open the cage which contained th*i and each
bird was to alight upon a certain arbutus,
brought upon the ground by him and placed
at a distance of 100 meters from the point
where they were liberated. For each bird
which did not obey the charm within a quar
ter of an hour, M. Picard was to pav
M. Loizey 50 francs, and for each bird
which did M. Loizey was to pay M.
Picard the same sum. When the time for the
test arrived so large and so curious a crowd
hail gathered on the Champs de Mars that it
was impossible to maintain the needlul space
of 100 meters around the spot where the cage
was placed. Forty meters was all the dis
tance that could be secured. The results,
therefore, were not accepted as determining
the bet, and another trial will be made. The
birds, however, released under these condi
tions. flew one by one to the arbutus and
jHTchcd on its branches, to the great astonish
ment, it is said, of the speo®tors. M. Picard’s
charm consists, it is believed, in impregnating
these branches with a colorless and mysteri
ous liquid, the secret of which is as yet his
own.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Five thousand molecules can sit comfort
ably on the point of a pin.” Herein the mol
ecule differs materially from man.—Norris
town llerald. #■
“What is the name of your cat, sir?” His
name was William,” saitf the host, “until he
had fits. Since then we have called him
Fitzwilliam.”— The Animal Kingdom.
Mary Anderson says she could not love a
man who did not possess the highest mental
attainments. Oh, come now, Mary, stop
hinting and propose. This is leap year.—
Philadelphia Call.
A Southern Judge decides that a husband
can “strike his wife three licks with a switch
and escape punishment.” He can do the
same in tfic North, provided he uses her own
switch.-W'hiladelphia Call.
“An American lady married to an Italian
prince a year ago has’ left him.” We suspect
her fortune became exhausted, and she was
too high-toned to go out scrubbing and wash
ing to support him. — Norristown llerald.
Dki.monico said: “Very few people under
stand how to cook water.” We should think
the best way would lie to boil it. Still some
people may prefer it roasted or fried. It’s
purely a matter of taste.— Philadelphia Call.
A Pennsylvania man fell dead a few days
ago while kneeling in front of a sofa. He
was probably looking for his slippers and the
shock of finding that liis wife had left them
where he put them caused his death,— Boston
Post.
“OH, I’m so unhappy!” exclaimed the re
cently married Mrs. Cuddlecup. “Why, my
dear. I’m astonished to hear you say so. Is
Mr. C. quarrelsome?” “No, that’s the trouble;
yon can’t get a quarrel out of him, and we
don’t have a single make-up.”— Pittsburg
Chronicle.
Mrs. A.—“Soyou have been to the circus.”
Mrs. B.—“ Yes.” Mrs. A —“ls it worth go
ing to sen?” Mrs. B.—“Oh yes, indeed, de
cidedly.” Mrs. A.—“ What impressed you as
being the most note-w orthy feature of the ex
hibition?’’ Mrs. B.—“ The smell.” Boston
Transcript.
Frauds have been discovered in the Bureau
of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy Depart
meut. It the “Treasury” is to be “bled” at
all, it seems eminently proper that the opera
tion should lie performed by the officers of
the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.—Nor
ristown llerald.
An Ohio man has just remarried the wife
from whom lie was divorced eight years ago.
He proved to her that he had quit snoring,
and she demonstrated that she had learned to
make good bread. Of course when the points
of their mutual disagreement had vanished it
was natural that they should try to live to
gether again.— Philadelphia Chronicle.
Mr. Woodall, in his excellent speech in
favor of female suffrage, spoke of marriage
being considered as woman’s “solitary”
vocation, at which some lion, members
laughed consumedly. Our one cynical con
tributor (who, entrenous, is henpecked—as of
course the brute deserves to be) says that “no
doulit many married men wish it were a
solitary vocation.” Mr. Woodall, of course,
meant “sole” when he said “solitary.”— Nun.
“Blaine is like Henry Clay of old,”
Says one who cannot feel
The difference ’twixt the common mold,
And pure Damascan steel.
When Blaine’s like Harry of the West,
Y’ou’ll never see the day;
But when lie’s dead and gone to rest,
He then may— turn to Clay.'
—Nashville World.
‘"O. wnat is that? O, mamma, see,
It squints its glassy eyes at me;
It nods, and grins, and twirls its sticks—
I do b*iieve the thing is sick!”
“Come, little dear, do not be rude,
Nor cling so closely to my side;
The thing is nothing' but a dude—
It couldn’t hurt you if It tried!”
—Philadelphia Call.
The robins know it, and the bees,
This idyl of the apple trees;
The sunshine and the laughing hours
Crowned all their hoary-heads with flowers.
Then drifted down an eddying mass
Of snowy fragrance on the grass;
The little flickering shadows went
This way and that, in sweet content;
And shimmering sunbeams touched with
grace;
Subtle anti tender all her face;
While softly as a wayward breeze
lie kissed her 'neath the apple trees.
PERSONAE.
C apt. Dkwitt Conkmng, who was drowned
near Sag Harbor on Thursday, was the cousin
and friend of the conspicuous Lawyer Roscee.
Edwin Booth has deserted his just built
Boston house and has gone with his daughter
to spend part of the season in liis hardly yet
finished cottage at Newport.
Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, an
expert angler, claims to have the most costly
and complete piscatorial outfit in the country,'
but generally the finest tackle catches the
fewest fish.
George W. Cable told a reporter recently
that New Orleans would always tie his perma
nent home, and the house he lately purchased
in Connecticut will only serve as his summer
residence.
Minister Lew Wallace has lived among
the Turks so long that he walks pigeon-toed,
stops and washes his feet when he sees run
ning water, ami when he loses a big pot on a
bobtail flush he simply grunts and says “kis
met.”
Bayard Taylor’s father and mother, still
living, up in the nineties in years, inhabit the
beautifulcgmntry house which Bayard built
years ago at Kennett Square, Pa., and which
since his death has fruitlessly been offered for
sale.
A privileged visitor in the palace of
Prince Frederick Charles is a white-haired
old organ-grinder, nicknamed the “Court Or
ganist.” of whose performance the Red Prince
is very fond, and who may be proud of doing
what few have done, viz., make the Prince
laugh.
The Duchess of Cambridge has received
the Star of the Order of St. Catherine of
Russia from the Czarina. The order is one
created especially for women by the Great
CffHierine. The star is worn on the left
shoulder, where it holds in place the ribboD
of the order worn en bandouuere.
Mahmocd-ben-Ayad, the Tunisian Gen
eral who died in Paris in 1880, left a fortune of
which the real estate alone was valued at
300,000,000f. His heirs are now disputing the
possession of it, and their number is con
siderable, for he had married one wife in
Paris and he had several wives in Constanti
nople.
The Duke of Argyll, once the champion of
Mr. Gladstone’s every act in the House of
Lords, now takes every occasion to criticise
his former leader’s policy; while Lord Derby,
who, as a colleague of Lord Beaconsfield, used
to pick to pieces the Liberal programme,
rises to defend Mr. Gladstone from the on
slaught of Macallum More.
Mr. Mather, th% Commissioner sent here
by the English Government to examine and
report upon the condition of technical educa
tion in this country, reports that there is gen
erally greater consideration shown here for
the comforts of the workers in iron “while at
work” than in England, but that the hours of
work are longer. He gives high praise to the
sobriety and the eflieiency of American work
men.
Going Mighty Fast. „
Detroit Free Prete.
We were going West on the Great West
ern division of the Grand Trunk, and the
night was chilly for the latter part of
May.
“Hi! porter,” said the commercial man
in the bunk overhead, “can’t you give us
another blanket? It’s deuced cool to
night.”
“Ain’t got another blanket, boss.”
“Well, just see what you can do for a
fellow,” said the com., putting his hand
out through the curtains with a quarter
in it.
“Dunn©, boss, but I’ll do what I can.”
There was scarcely a perceptible pause
in the porter’s measured tread as he
passed our section fifteen minutes later,
but the curtains parted and a blanket
went through the opening as if it had been
shot out of a cannon.
“Thought 1 felt somebody carrying off
part ot my bed clothes last night,” said a
passenger in the further end of the car
as he worked himself into his boots in the
morning.
“Dunno, boss; went mighty las’ last
night, making up time; probably run lrom
under ’um.”
AS OLD TIME PLANTATION.
A Day and Night In Southwest Georgia
—The Butxard Dance—An 8,000 Acre
Farm—Artesian Weils.
Ttie graph and Messenger Letter.
“Would you like to see the Buzzard
Dance?” said the gentleman whose lavish
hospitality I was enjoying.
“What the deuce is that?” said I.
“Wait a minute and I’ll show you,” he
replied.
We were seated on the broad veranda
of a Southern country house, built some
fifty years ago. In front of us a row of
giant magnolias, large as oaks, seemed in
the dim starlight freighted with balls of
perfumed snow. To our right a vast grove
of pines were softly soughing in the
summer breeze, and beyond them the glare
of the blazing knots, which lit halt a hun
pred cabins, proclaimed the presence of
the “negro quarter.” We were on the
Huguenin plantation, in Sumter county,
a modest farm of 8.000 acres, at present
owned by Mr. J. M. Johnston and man
aged entirely by Mr. C. C. Clay. Ere the
minute had elapsed, Mr. Clay walked to
the end of the veranda and gave a whoop
which would have invoked the envy of a
Comanche Indian and the prompt attend
ance of a Macon policeman. An answer
ing shout was heard, and in a few minutes
a long line of dusky forms came stealing
through the shadows of the pines and
ranged themselves in ®ront of where we
sat. The song began and the musicians
commenced to pat. Suddenly into the
centre of the open ring leajied the sable
dancer who was to personate the buz
zard. Though dancing in perfect time to
the wild but musical accompaniment, be
yet managed to imitate with marvelous
exactness every movement of the u ncouth
bird he bad chosen for his model. Its tot
tering, tip-toeing gait was faithfully _ de
lineated, as was also its sudden springs
from right to left, its timid approach, Its
ravenous peck and sudden retreat from
the craved but dreaded carcass, which,
in this homely drama, was represented by
a hat that looked indeed like the buzzards
had been after it.
After the dance a debate was held.
Sides were chosen and the relative value
to the world qf the farmer and the me
chanic were discussed with a shrewdness
and a wit unexcelled by the tariff debate
in Congress. There are as many as five
hundred negroes on this plantation. They
constitute a society in themselves, and
their number satisfies that instinctive
gregariousness which, from smaller
places, have drawn the negroes to town.
Whilethedance and songwere progressing,
a quarter of a mile away there were lrom a
church on the same plantation the prayers
and anthems of those who found their
pleasure in religion. And as I listened to
the mingling echoes of the sacred and sec
ular songs, I thought that the “old plan
tation,” dear to Southern memory,
had not vanished from the earth. The
marvelous management of Mr. Clay has
preserved the same implicit obedience,
the same light-hearted reliance upon a
common master, which characterized the
days of slavery. I was curious to s
the results ot tree labor managed as in
the days of yore. The next clay I looked
lrom the window of a lofty gin house!"
and saw them. Before me in one un
broken body lay four thousand acres in a
high state of cultivation. Leagues of
cotton and miles of corn, green and grass
less. The hare spots which ever and
anon appeared in this broad panorama
told whence had come the four thousand
bushels of oats, which, even in
this pluvian year, had been cut and
housed without a drop ol rain. I saw one
acre of corn planted for the premium at
the State fair. It is so luxuriant that at
a distance of twenty steps a man on
horseback is completely hidden from
sight. The great bulk of this farm is run
upon the tenant system, all the tenants,
however, being subject to the complete
control of the manager. A twelve-mule
farm only is run by hired labor. With
these twelve mules there has been vir
tually made this year, for it is all in
roasting ear, 5,000 bushels of corn,
and a cotton crop which, al
ready standing waist high over 300
acres, give promise of at least 150 bales.
Everything on this mammoth plantation
is perfectly systemized-, and works with
the precision of clock-work. Yet Mr.
Clay manages it all with the apparent
ease and with far greater success than
the average farmer runs a four-mule farm.
He has a muscular eloquence which car
ries conviction to the negro mind, an un
flagging energy which wrests success
from unpropitious seasons, and a quick
and comprehensive judgment equal to all
the emergencies oi his position.
A STORY OF VILLAGE LOVE.
How a Father's Obstinacy was Over
come by a Simple Shepherd Couple.
Paris Morning News.
For once, if you like, we ■will leave poli
tics out of the question. Indeed, it would
be difficult for me to do otherwise. lam
writing you in the midstof a forest—from,
this good old village of Vivario, surround
ed by honests folks, who think more of
their work than of politics. The latest
newspaper that I have read is seven or
eight days old; the most interesting news
travels slowly to this beautiful spot; the
inhabitants, who are too busy to gossip,
have a horror of chit-chat, and are
scarcely more talkative than the tall pines
and myrtle bushes. So I will tell you a
village story, and 1 am going to relate it
just as it \vas told to myself, scarcely an
hour ago.
As you may well imagine, a yoHng girl
and a youth are concerned in the story,
and consequently love is the theme. The
youth, a little shepherd of the forests of
Palneca, loved a young girl of Santo-
Pietro, the cool mountain village where the
fashionable ladies of Ajaccio go to spend
the summer. The young girl also loved
the youth. They had told each other so,
and had pledged themselves to one an
other, and 1 think from time to time they
kept their promise, for never in the mem
ory of shepherds were the flocks of Pal
neea so often grazing on the pastures of
Santo-Pietro. But the end of all this, the
upshot of all these promenades, was cer
tainly marriage. Thev believed so, at
least, as though since ttomeo and Juliet
the course of true love had always run
smooth.
At the first word of marriage the father
of tne young girl, the fated Capulet, flew
into a terrible passion, so terrible that for
several days after the flocks of Palneca
did not dare to wander near the hillside of
Santo-Pietro. But on the fifth day tne
young girl, who knew her classics, fell ill,
and then was repeated the great scene in
the “Rantzau”— the cruel father at the
bedside of his dying daughter, and far out
in the country the plaintive notes of the
shepherd’s reed-pipe. At last the father
relents;
“We will see about that,” he said, “af
ter he has drawn his conscript’s number,
and has served his time. I do not want
vou to have a husband who will be com
pelled to leave you as soon as you are mar
ried.”
How came it that in this country where
there is no telegraph the shepherd an
hour afterwards knew what had been
said ? The fact is that on entering the vil
lage, he had only one idea uppermost in
his head—escape from his term of military
service. The shepherds of Palneca are
not lacking in resources, and ohrs in
question was by no means stupid. The
next day, while cutting wood in the for
est, he, as if bv accident, gave his right
hand a smart blow with his hatchet and
severed three fingers. Now let the mili
tary examination take place! He went
home and tended his hurt as well as he
was able: and when the wound was
healed and he had been rightly and duly
exempted, he went to Santo-Pietro, pnd
bravely repeated his offer. VI
“I am not going to serve in the army,”
he said, “for lam sure they will never
take me. You can marry us now.”
But the lather stopped him by a word.
“Never,” he cried, “will 1' give my
daughter to one who is maimed.”
And it was apparent by his tone of
voice that he meant what he had said. In
spitsof his daughter’s illness he remained
inexorable. It was clear that this old
man did not like a maimed son-in-law. He
made but one reply to the prayers and
tears of this young girl.
“Never, you thoroughly understand,
never! And don’t let him come hanging
around here any more. Cripples ought
to marry cripples. Let him marry the lit
tle blind girl of Palneca, or the hunchback
of Sant’ Andrea.”
The young girl did not reply, and not
once during her illness did she speak of
her shepherd. When she was convales
cent she was seized with a longing for the
forest and the open air, and every day
took long walks by the hillside of Palneca
by the road that her .flocks knew so well.
One morning after a long search, she
again came across the little shepherd, pale
aDd haggard, like a shepherd tired of this
world.
“Show me your wounded band,” she
said.
He showed it to her bashfully, and pi
ously she pressed it to her lips.
“Show me,” she said to him again, “the
hatchet which wounded you.”
He took it and showed it to her. Then
raising it and placing her hand on a
stone:
“This is how you did it, isn’t it? this is
how the accident happened ?”
And before the shepherd was able to re
ply the hatchet had fallen, the stone was
reddened, and beside it lay the three
fingers of the pretty maid of Santo-l’ietro.
“Now, shepherd,” she said, “show me
how you healed your wound.”
And together they returned to Santo-
Pietro, he with tears in his eyes and she
radiant. What could the father do? Had
he not imprudently said that cripples
ought to marry cripples. He cursed them
and married them. The wedding was cele
brated two months ago; for I repeat that
this unlikely story occurred but yesterday,
as it were, and in our own sceptical cen
tury. %
Pike’s Toothache Drops cure in one
minute.
THE WEBSTER FARM.
Sale of the Historic Estate at Marsh
field—History of Its Or Urinal Purchase
by the “Godlike Daniel.'’
Renewed interest has been awakened,
•savs a tjuioey (Mass. > letter to the Boston
Globe , in the histone old Webster place at
Green Harbor, Marshfield, by the recent
announcement of its purchase by Mr.
Walton Hall,of this town, for $15,000 from
the surviving heir, Mrs. Caroline, widow
of the late Col. Fletcher Webster. Mr.
Hall comes into possession of the place,
which for the second time in its history is
owned by another than a Webster.
It is nearly 60 years ago, or, to be
more accurate, in the early autumn of
1824, that one of those old-tashioned ve
hicles, know as a “chaise,” was being
leisurelv drawn over a country road,
through the ancient town of Marshfield,
bv a sleek, well-conditioned beast. In
the chaise was a gentleman, accompanied
by his wife and children. The party were
en route from Sandwich, where they had
been passing the summer, to their home in
Boston. The gentleman was hone other
than the great statesman, Daniel Web
ster. As the party proceeded on their
journey, enjoying the beautiful scenery
and catching a glimpse, now and then, of
the comfortable farms, scattered here and
there along their path, a farm, more pleas
antly situated than any they had yet seen,
attracted the attention of Mrs. Webster,
and, at her solicitations, the party stop
ped to pass a few hours and refresh them
selves.
They were received with genuine New
England hospitality by warm-hearted
Capt. John Thomas and-his family, and
upon learning who his distinguished visi
tors were they pressed them to extend
tlieir visit for a short period; and, as a
result their tew hours merged into several
days’ sojourn. From this casual visit
there sprang up an intimacy between Mr.
Webster and Farmer Thomas, which rip
ened into a firm friendship, resulting in
the selection of the Thomas farm by Mr.
Webster’s family for their summer resort,
and for several ytars they passed the
warm months beneath Capt. Thomas’ hos
pitable roof.
In 1831 Capt. Thomas, who was ap
proaching the age of 70, felt the cares and
responsibility of the place becoming too
burdensome for his advancing years, and
disposed of the farm, which had been in
the family from time immemorial, to Mr.
Webster.' The estate comprised 160 acres.
The old house, which was built in 1765,
was a substantial, square old mansion,
such as was usually to be found among
the well-to-do New England people. It
had four or five good rooms and a spacious
hall on the ground floor, half a dozen
chambers on the second story, and the
usual office and sleeping apartments for
the servants. Mr. Webster made numer
ous additions to the old mansion from
time to time, as more room was needed,
and this building remained intact until
its destruction by lire a lew years ago.
The old mansion was replaced by a mod
ern structure by Mr. Webster’s heirs,
which was erected in 1880, and which is
now' standing. Capt. Thomas remained
an inmate of Mr. Webster’s family until
his decease, which occurred in 1837.
The Thomas farm formed the nucleus of
that vast estate which Mr. Web9ter accu
mulated from time to time by the acquire
ment of other surrounding property, and
which, at the time of his decease, twelve
years after his original purchase, had in
creased until the estate comprised 1,800
acres.
Here Mr. Webster spent his leisure mo
ments, when not actively engaged in pro
fessional duties, and it was here that the
eminent statesman passed the last years
of his useful life after retiring from the
world of politics. Many a distinguished
guest was right royally entertained upon
the Webster tarm during Mr. Webster’s
proprietorship, and in the-palmy days of
the old Marshfield estate the table was
amply supplied from the products of his
own farm and the wealth of the adjacent
sea. Ilis own beef, mutton and poultry,
fish which had swam the same morning
in the sea, wild fowl which had hardly
landed upon his broad domain, w'ith the
numerous luxuries of the vegetable gar
den and fruits in their season were placed
before his guests.
The estate has been considerably re
duced in area since Mr. Webster’s de
cease, in 1852, by sales, until at the pres
ent time the original homestead contains
only 160 acres—the exact number of (teres
purchased ot Capt. Thomas by Mr. Web
ster 60 years ago. The place has been oc
cupied by the surviving members of Mr.
Webster’s family during the summer
months, but now, for the first time in a
half century, the property comes into the
hands of a stranger.
An Arizona Amusement.
Chicago Herald.
“Oh, we ain’t entirely without amuse
ments and sports out in Arizona,” said a
passenger from the Southwest. “Of
course, churches and theaytrees and
circuses are pretty sca’ce, and there
hain’t ’nough level ground in the Terri
tory to play a game of base ball on. But
we has our fun all the same. In the town
where I live—mind you, we are gettin’
civilized out there and have towns now
instead of mere camps—in my town our
best sport is with a colored man named
Sam, He’s a big strong jack—that is, he
was. Poor fellow, he tempted fate too
often, and got took in finally. Sam made
his livin’furnishin’ fun for the boys. He
would draw a chalk line on the floor, get
down in front of it on all fours, and for 10
cents let any man take a big bag of sand
and crack him one from behind. If the
striker knocked Sam over the line he got
his money back.
“Well, this sport run along several
months, till one day a wicked looking
st-anger come to town. He saw Sam
takin’ in the dimes in the hotel barroom,
where the stranger was a pretty good
customer himself already. ‘Will ye let
me have a lick at ye for a dime?’he in
quired of Sam. ‘Sartainly, sah; three for
a quarter. Take a quarter’s wuth.’ The
stranger said he guessed one would be
enough. Sam got down on all tours. The
stranger then picked up the sandbag.
Sam lopped bis head down and grinned
between his legs at the striker. The sand
bag is raised high in the air, the wicked
looking stranger looks wickeder out of his
eyes,' and we get on to his powerful frame
and arms all of a 3udden. Like a stroke
o’ lightning down comes the bag—poor
Sam.”
“Did it hurt the nigger much?”
“Hurt him? Noboby knows. The fact
is, when he got down on the floor his head
was pointed toward the wide-open door
of the barroom, out of which we could
look down the mountain side. Sam cata
pulted out of that door and hain’t been
seen since. One o’ the boys said he be
lieved the coon had never stopped till he
got back to ‘ole Alabam’ ’ he useter talk
so much about.”
“Did you find out who the stranger
was ?”
“Well, I should say we did. His name
was Sullivan, a prize fighter, from down
East somewhere.”
ffuliruva RrmrUiro.
(jiticura
Miracles of Healing Unpar
alleled in Medical
History.
“I have been afflicted for twenty years with
an obstinate skin disease, called by some M.
D.s psoriasis, and others, leprosy, commenc
ing on my scalp, and in spite of all I could do,
-witn the help of the most skillful doctors, it
slowly but surely extended, until a year ago
this winter it covered my entire person in
form of dry scales. For the last three years I
have been unable to do any labor, and suffer
ing intensely all the time. Every morning
there could be nearly a dustpanful of scales
taken from the sheet on my bed, some of them
half as large as the envelope containing this
letter. In the latter part of winter my skin
commenced cracking open. I tried every
thing, almost, that count be thought of, with
out any relief. The 12th of June I started
West, in hopes I could reach the Hot Springs.
I reached Detroit, and was so low I thought
I should have to go to the hospital, but finally
got as far as Lansing, Mich., where I had a
sister living. One Dr. treated me about
two weeks, but did me no good. All thought
1 had but a short time to live. I earnestly
prayed to die. Cracked through the skin all
over my back, across my ribs, arms, hands,
limbs, feet badly swollen, toe-nails came off,
fingernails dead and hard as bone, hair dead,
dry ami lifeless as old straw. O, my Uod!
how I did suffer.
“My sister had a small part of a box of Cuti
cura in the house. She wouldn’t give up;
said. ‘We will try Cuticura.’ Some was ap
plied on one hand and arm. Eureka! there
was relief; stopped the terrible burning sen
sation from the word go. They immediately
got the Cuticura Resolvent, Cuticura and
Cuticura Soap. I commenced bv taking one
table spoonful of Resolvent three times a day,
after meals; had a bath once a day, water about
blood heat; used Cuticura Soap freely; ap
plied Cuticura morning and evening. Result,
returned to my home in just six weeks from
time I left, and my skin as smooth as this
sheet of paper.
“HIRAM E. CARPENTER.
"Henderson, Jefferson County, iV. T.
“Sworn to before me this nineteenth day of
January, 1880. A. M. LKFFINGWELL,
Justice of the Peace."
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National Board of Health Bulleiin, Supplement No. 6, page 33.
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. Prof. R. Ogden Doreinus, M.D., LL.D., College of the City of New York.
Prof. R. C. Kedzie, Michigan State College, Lansing, Mich,
Prot. H. M. Louis, Mo.
Prof, Charles C. Boynton, Brandon, Vt.
Prof. James F. Babcock, State Assayer, Boston, Mass.
Dr. Elias H. Bartley, B. S., Board of Health, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Prof. Curtis C. Howard, M. Sc. Starling Medical College, Columbus, O.
Prof. M. Delafontaine, Chicago, 111.
Prof. G. A. Mariner, Chicago, 111.
Prof. John M. Ordway, Mass. Inst, of Technology, Boston.
Prof. R. A. Witthaus, A. M., M. D., University of Buffalo, N. Y.
Ajnillion families that have used it lor a quarter of a century.
It is an old trick of the Royal Company to throw dirt, crying lime and potash,
transposing dates, parading black lines, and alleged Government Chemists, in order
to detract public notice from the disgusting drug ammonia iu their powder. They know
that Dr. Price’s does not contain ammonia, lime or potash.
Do not take our Word for it. Let every Housekeeper Prove it.
Place a eau of the Royal, top down, on a hot stove uutil heated, then
remove the cover and smell.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.
jPrroa C 60090, (Etc.
We Mean to Surprise You.
One-Half of Our Stock at One-Half
its Actual Value. •
First of all, Let Us Talk Hosiery.
117 E offer Gents’, Ladies’ and Misses’ Fancy
Vt Colored, Bleached and Unbleached Hose
at sc. a pair. You can’t buy them elsewhere
at less than 10c. and 12Uc.
One lot Misses’ Full Regular Bleached Hose
at Bc.; worth 25c. Ask for these in the Bazar.
A beautiful 25c. No. 7 Misses’ Hose, hand
some colors, at 10c.
A full regular made Misses’ Hose, in all
sizes, at 15c.; was always worth 35c.
Avery superior Misses’ Hose, some call
them Lisle Thread, at l*Jc.; worth fully 50c.
One lot extra line Misses’ Hose at 25c. Wc
used to sell them at 60c.
A lot Gents’ Cardinal Full Regular Silk
Clocked Half Hose at 17c..; wortli 35c.
One lot Ladies’ Solid Color Silk Clocked
Hose, fine gauge, at 25c.; worth 40c.
And any quanity of Hosiery in Silk, Lisle
and Cotton at equally low figures.
Now We Shall Speak of Handker
chiefs.
We have too many kinds in Silk, Linen and
Cotton to be enabled to enumerate and specify
each style, but this we assure you: we have
made immense reductions iu these goods; for
example, we offer a nice Fancy Bordered
Handkerchief at 2c.; a Pure Linen at 5c.; a
nice quality, all Linen, Hemstitched at 10c.;
in fact, you can’t afford to purchase Handker
chiefs elsewhere, for you would be losing
money.
We Will Now Tell You About Our
Laces and Embroideries.
At the prices wc have put -them we can
verily say we are giving them away. We offer
Hamburg Edgiugs at lc., 2c., 3c„ 4c., sc. and
so on as nas never been equaled; in fact, such
bargains you have never seen before, the same
holds good with our Lace stock, such as Laces,
All Overs, Curtain Laces, Fichus, etc.
Just Think, We Offer Our Elegant
Parasols at Half Price.
Yes, we have reduced our Parasols and Um
brellas just one-lialf, come and judge for
yourself. If they are still too high, we will
lower them further, for they must go. Now
do not come too late, when they are all picked
over, for bear in mind, we anticipate a great
rush and naturally they can’t last all the time.
It is Very Warm, So We Must Talk
to You About Fans.
We have all kinds, from the humble hut use
ful Palmetto Fan at lc. to the very finest style
and quality. These goods were purchased
this week from the Assignee of the importing
house of Nathaniel Bloom in New York at
one-third its actual cost, hence these unex
ceptional bargains.
Now a Word or Two About Onr Gloves
We have them in Silk and Thread, in Jersey
style, Foster Hook and Button, in black ami
in white, and every imaginable shade; also, a
full line of Silk Mitts, and have made prices
to correspond with the rest of our stock, very,
very low indeed.
bear in mind that these Goods at these prices will be sold only whilst they lqpt.
Wecannot duplicate them at these prices, and as we expect a very large rush, they can’t last
very long. If you do not wish to De disappointed call early, or else do not blame us if you
find the best bargains gone.
Ml WEISBEIN k CO.,
153 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ca.
CCrunho, etc.
Trunks! Trunks! Trunks!
THE season having arrived when the Traveling Public are in quest of reliable goods, we
wish to say we have a large stock on hand, are HEADQUARTERS for Good Trunks and
Traveling Bags, and solicit a share of the trade.
Also, in store and for sale cheap, a full line of
HARNESS, SADDLES & BRIDLES.
THE BEST MAKE OF
Rubber and Leather Belting Rubber Hose, Packing, Etc.
We sell the Spiral Cotton Garden Hose, the best in use; warranted to stand great water
pressure, and will not crack and leak from handling or rubbing on pavements.
Special attention given to Repairing HARNESS, TRUNKS, TRAVELING BAGS, etc., by
careful workmen, with dispatch and at reasonable charges.
W. B. ME LL & CO.,
Market Square.
E. L. NEIDLINGER, SON & CO.
TRUNKS, TRUNKS,
SARATOGAS, FLAT-TOPS, SOLE-LEATHERS,
Club Bags, Grip Sacks, Satchels,
IN ALL COLORS, SIZES AND STYLES. A FULL LINE ON HAND OF
SADDLES, HARNESS and BELTING,
CONCORD AND GEORGIA WOOL COLLARS,
LAP SHEETS. HORSE COVERS, FLY NET3.
GARDEN HOSE AT lO CENTS i?ER FOOT
-156 ST. JULIAN and 153 BRYAN STS., SAVANNAH, CA.
HARNESS AND TRUNKS REPAIRED WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH.
Heavy Saw Mill Harness Made to Order.
GROUND FEER
THE che&peat and best feed to use in warm weather. It fattens stock quicker than grain un
ground. Hard-worked stock fed upon it will always keep in good condition. It takes
less to a feed than unground grain. W e guarantee the “Chop” to be made from absolntely
prime grain. We are the only manufacturers of the feed in the city. Send for circulars and
price.
HARMON k REMSHART, Proprietors Enterprise Mills.
Every Lady Wears Corsets.
npIIEREFORE, we have made it a specialty.
A We have fifty different styles in all sizes
up to No. 30. Every style is a gem. Our 32a.
Corset is sold elsewhere for 50c., and 50c. Cor
set is really worth 75c. You can’t buy for $1
what we sell for 75c.; our dollar Corset we
pride ourselves to be unexcelled. We have
them also at $1 25, $1 50, $2, $2 50 and 13 apiece,
and remember if one style don’t please you,
we can show you forty-nine other styles. Do
you know why we keep so many styles? Just
because we wisn to please every customer, and
we do it. There is not a day when we sell less
than one hundred.
We Have Something to Say About Onr
Ladies’ and Misses’ Underwear,
Ulsters and Rubber Water Proofs.
If you should want a Hand-Embroidered
Chemise, Nightgown and Drawers, or an ele
gantly or plainly trimmed one, you will find
them in our Bazar at such low prices that you
can’t help to buy, for we sell the garment as
low as the material aline would cost you.
Linen Ulsters we have at 75c., sl, $1 25 and so
forth, all very cheap indeed. When you are
in want of Rubber Cloaks for Ladies, Misses
or Gents, please bear in mind that we have a
full line of them, good and cheap.
Only a Few Words We will Say About
Our Housekeeping Goods.
We have two yards wide, good quality,
Sheeting at 17c..and of very extra good quality
at 20c. Pure Linen Table Cloth at 17c. per
yard; 40-inch, all Linen, Towels at 10c.;
Toweling or Crash by the yard at sc; heavy
Undressed Bleached 4-4 Shirting at Bc.. worth
10c..; yard wide Bleached Shirting at
worth Bc.; Bed Ticking as low as usual
price 10c.; Gingham Checks at 5c., worth Bc.;
Merrimac Shirting Cambric at 5c., worth Bc.,
etc.
Listen to What We Have to Say About
Dress Goods, Silks and Satins.
We wish to close out our entire stock of
these goods and are willing to make any and
every sacrifice to accomplish it. Believe us,
we mean just what we say, and surely it can
not hurt von to give us a test call: you will
certainly find us very anxious to seU all these
goods, and, having reduced our prices so im
mensely, we are confident we will more than
please you.
What Do You Think About Jerseys ?
They are getting to be the rage more and
more. We have them as low as $1 to the
choicest kinds—plain black, fan-shape backs
with satin bow, braided and in all the new
shades.
Victoria Lawns, Nainsooks, Marseilles
And all other styles of White Goods, such as
plain and embroidered Swisses; Persia Lawns
in white,cream,blue and pink; Piques, Linen
de Ireland, French Welts, India Lawns, in
fact everything in that line will be sacrificed
for what it will bring, for we have determined
to sell these goods at any price. Just think!
Victoria Lawns at 5c., some merchants call it
Linen Lawn and charge 10c. for it: 40-inch
fine Victoria Lawn at Bc.; Lonsdale Cambric,
the genuine article, at 11c., etc.
bookkeeping. Address R. L. D
vaunah Morning News. ’ Are Si.
ANTED, A MAN COMpjj^^
TAKE CHARGE OF
and RUN
A TURPENTINE FARM.
Address P. O. Box 101
JJavannab, Ga. ’
YV ANTED, a cook, white preferred 7 •
sham “®° t ’° Uth Br ° a<l * trm ’ corD <*lu£W?
Ny ANTED, agents to sell the handTTTII
V V and cheapest wrought irou fen?elo”
it is easily adjusted, is free from
heat or cold; no trouble to sell; Urm.lol?
For particulars addre* Box l^Ch?
AYT ANTED, everybody to
V, 50 Kr,Ma fru,t I*™ for sale and
a'ILFN 1,1 A Hron * hton GKo #
for Jlrnt
lAOR BEST, two connecting room',"',"'
F Bished or unfurnished, with use of '
and bath, at southwest corner of iJ* rlor
and President streets. Abercors
ITHIR RENT, the fine store
-l ton street, now occupied bv m/ i, **'
Hogan. Apply to EDWARD LOVELL* “ ,el
U'f'R RENT, the store No, isg'77T~~~'
streST*' AW>ly to K ' S ' LaTII “o£SR
|? OR KKNT > brick house on New H„„ ,
r street, between Barnard and Jeff IS*
streets. Apply to W. F. CHAPLIN \n 12
Gwinnett street. ’ Jio - 'W
for Sale. ~~ -~
ipOR SALE, a Propeller steam iaThT ik.
* feet long over ah; first class machinJJ
in good order; cabin handsomely uphotsi w
If'ii'i f °l to ' vl,l * f “ r Pleasure, with hIiJ,)
of 14 knots; draught of water 6L feet K
further particulars apply t 0 J. A. McGCIR?
St, Augustine, Fla. a ’ u .
REAL ESTATE.—Parties desiring to „'U
; or buy will find it to their advantarau!
tail on me, as 1 have inquiries for ceruin
classes of property, and am offering sowed*
Bay st i rcei' POrly “k* J ' *' BR t>OKS, m
f&pSSiSUK&itt
sels wood yard. K. B. KfcPPABP.
goarbtttQ.
BOARDING. -Desirable south rooms, with
board, on second floor, convenient to th.
business part of the city. lU3 York street.
lilutiri) in Youtt.
MONEY TO LOAN.
CLEMENT SA USSY, Money Broker,
No. 12 Whitaker street.
I OANS made on Personal Property. Dj g .
1 i mends and Jewelry bought and sold on
commission.
VI u.NE \ TO LOAN.—Lateral loans uiaue
iVI on Diamonds, Gold and .Silver Watches.
Jewelry, Pistols, Guns, .Scwine Machines’
W caring Apparel, Mechanics’ Tools, Clocks!
otc.. etc., at Licensed Pawnbroker House 1
Congress street. E. MUHLBERG, Manager
N. B.—Highest priced paid for old Gold ami
Silver.
eturktional.
Virginia Femalelnstitute,
STAUNTON, VA.
Mr-. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, Principal. 4k*
next session of nine mouths begins Sent*
1884. Efficient teachers in every department'
Number limited. Terms reasonable. For full
particulars apply To the Principal.
Southern Home School for Girls.
197 & ISIS N. < HAULEs ST., BALTIMORE Mu
Mrs, W. M. CAREY, Miss CAREY.
Established 1842.
French the Language of the School.
The Hannah Ylnre Academy for Girls/
lIMFTKEN miles from Baltimore. Noted for
healthfuiness, thorough instruction, care
ful train'll*, and the refining influences of a
Christian home. Rev. AUiJIUR J. RICH
A.M., M.l>., Reister-town. M<l.
Augusta Female Seminary,
STAUNTON, VA. °
.Miss MARY J. BALDWIN, Principal.
Opens September 3, closes June, 1886.
Unsurpassed in it* location, in it*
buildings and grounds, in its general ap
pointrreuts and sanitary arranges ents. Its
full corps of superior and experienced teach
ers, its unrivaled advantages in Music. Mod
ern Languages, Elocution, Fine Arts, Physi
cal Culture, aud instruction in the Theory
and Practice of Bookkeeping. The successful
efforts made 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.
BELLEVUE HI (ill SCHOOL,
BEDFORD CO., VIRGINIA.
For Boys and Young Men. Prepares for
Business. College or University. Thoroughly
aud hand-omely equipped. Full corps of in
structors. Beautiful and healthy location.
For Catalogue, address
W. U. ABBOT, Principal, Bellevue P. O.
OANOKE COLLEGE, in the Virginia
Mountains. Two Courses for Degree*;
English Course; Freucli and German spoken.
Instruction thorough and practical. Library,
18,000 volumes. Best religious and moral in
fluences. Expanses for nine mouths (includ
ing tuition, hoard, etc.), $l4O, $176. or $204.
Increasing patronage from 17 States, Ind. Ter.
and Mexico. Thirty-second Session begin*
Sept. 17. Catalogue free. Address JULIUS
D. DUE HER, President, Salem, Va.
yropooiilo.
PROPOSALS.
Alachua County Court Horn i
AT GAINKSVUXK, FLA.,!
GAINKBVILLE, May 20, 1884. )
SEALED proposals will he received at th
County Clerk’s office, in the city of Gaines
ville, Fla., until June 21, 1884, for furniehing
of all material aud 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 by If. J. Campbell,
Architect and Civil Engineer,of Palatka, 11a.
Plans and specifications can Ire seen in the
Clerk’s office. An early date for completion
of said building will be one consideration for
the Board.
All proposals must be accompanied by a
certified bond in the rum of $2,000 that the
bidder or bidders will give a good and satis
factory bond if awarded the cointract. No bids
will be considered unless accompanied by such
a bond. The contractor will be paid in month
ly estimates as the work progresses, and in
accordance with the statute 'aw* of the State
of Florida, chapter3l2l. No. , section 2, Act
of 1883. All bills mu■ t lv; in the regulHr form
of proposals. The Boa, jre 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 “Bid*
for building court house for Alachua county,
Ila.” J. A. CARLBLE,
Clerk Circuit Court and County Auditor.
The time for receiving bids for above
building is extended to August 4,1884. The
building material can be delivered within 100
feet of building.
JtfoDa Ulatcr, <?tr.
MIKE T. QUINAN.
Manufacturer and Bottler of Belfast
Ginger Ale, Cream Soda, Soda, Sarsapa
rilla and Mineral Waters generally, is now
prepared to supply any demand. My goods,
being prepared from chemically pure water
and extracts,defy competition. Having ainp’e
facilities for filling country orders, 1 only ask
a trial from those doing business outof town to
demonstrate what I can do in shipping prompt
ly. Syrups of all kinds furnished. Order*
froih physicians for highly charged Siphons
for sick patients fiMcd at any hour of the day
or night.
Day—Factory, 110 and 112 Broughton street.
Night—Residence, 80 Broughton street.
Soda stands using fountain* will gave money
by ordering from me.
gee r-
He WiDDiDfi Ticket, 1884.
BUDWEISER AND ANHEUSER.
ANOTHER fresh carload received this d*)'i
Haifa, Kegs and Ponies.
I respectfully ask my friends and the pub
lic to call for these
Pure and Unadulterated Beers!
On tap at alt leading saloons.
GEO. MEYER, Sole Agent. 142 Bay street
grttien itlelio, <Stt.
Driven wells
put down and \ farfc
material for same fur
nished. Points i;., \ x /i -|]
and 2 inch of extra ?
quality and make al- ~&&& ll
ways on hand. Cu-rSjgbfrW; ** U,
cumber Pump and all’'" | ./'jjgj
other kinds and re-
pairs to same, at A. JL’jBL I
KENT’S, 13 West jjfMoggi f
Broad street, Savan- ns AlfT.;',
nab, Ga„ Horseshoe- Utc-yi j
mg. Carnage Palnii'ig ’ V
and Repairing Estab- ■**
lishment. Prices to suit.
{lamto, (Silo, ®tt. t
JOHN C. BUTLER.
PAINTS. RAILROAD, STEAMER AND
MILLSUPPLIES,SASHES,DOORS BLINDS
CEMENTS, HA IB AND LAND PLASTER.
6 Whitaker street, Savaiuwb Gm