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The Prohibitionists hope to put in some
of their best work and poll a very large
vote in Illinois.
Carl Schurz will begin to speak for
Cleveland in Brooklyn Tuesday night. Is
there no way to stop him before it is too
late?
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Candidate Logan’s fences are said to be
neither horse-high, bull-strong nor pig
tight. Illinois is looked upon as a doubt
ful State.
Anthony Comstock comes out for Cleve
land, and he will arrest the Republican
nominees as soon as they have their vicious
records fully exposed.
Gen. Butler is said to be a capital poker
player, but he does not brag much on
himself since he failed to bluff the Demo
cratic National Convention.
Columbia is an extravagant maiden.
She si>ent $1,200,000 of pin money last
year. That amount went principally for
coupling pins for railroad cars.
The New York Tribune now calls them
“dynamiteursf ’ and yet that paper is
first and foremost in speaking of its op
ponents as foreigners and dudes.
Gen. Logan is said to be one of the men
who tuck their napkins under their chins
while eating. This is a charge that ought
to be investigated without delay.
The man who is making tin battle-axes
for the Blaine clubs is said to be behind
in filling his orders. This may explain
why the enthusiasm fails to enthuse.
Hon. Sam. Randall went up to Ports-*
mouth to meet Lieut. Greely. His sym
pathies go out unreservedly to every one
who has suffered from an Arctic freeze up.
The United States Treasurer is getting
in another fresh supply of bright, crisp
two dollar bills. Chairman Jones can
now begin to get his money changed and
prepare for the election.
Republican politicians are very enthu
siastic over the possibilities of long dis
tance telephoning. It may be that in the
near future the boomeraug letter may be
dene away with entirely.
Some of the papers appear to be sur
prised at Cleveland's acknowledgment
that he had heard something his
nomination before the committee notified
him formally. There is nothing dudish
ft bout Cleveland.
The Republicans are somewhat fright
ened because the National Democratic
Committee is beginning to send campaign
papers to the post cffice by the wagon
load. They are pretty sure the Demo
crats are loaded.
Some parties now threaten to go up into
Kentucky and rake up some of candidate
Blaine's naughty love scrapes for use in
the Presidential campaign. Don’t do it.
The political record of the plumed knight
is bad enough for all purposes.
It is gratifying to know that the Presi
dential campaign is now too big a thing
to permit of the country being polled by
means of postal cards and circulars. It
is to be feared, however, that the rail
road train ballot fiend cannot be entirely
kept down.
John L. Sullivan having declined to try
strength with Lulu Hurst, it is stated that
she will return to New York and test her
magnetic powers against several athletes
of national reputation. It is to be hoped
that Miss Lulu will remember thst the
eyes of Georgia are upon her.
After all, Secretary Chandler has de
clined the kind offer of John Roach to sell
the government the yacht Yosemite to be
converted into a gunboat. The commis
sion appointed to examine her decided
that she was not fitted for the purpose.
Probably the committee failed to see the
good points in the craft on account of Mr.
Roach’s absence in New York.
The Italian laborers on the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad have been severely censured
for eating terrapins, toads, sheep and
chickens which died of disease. Of course
the fact that the contractor who owed
them lor their labor bas failed to pay is a
palliating circumstance, but there are a
great many people who think they ought
to starve, if they can’t find any old boots
or sealskin suits to eat.
The civil service reform bill has greatly
benefited the department clerks at Wash
ington in regard to campaign assess
ments. The Republican Committee now
assures the victims that those who “es
teem it a pleasure’’ to contribute will he
allowed to do so. This is certainly more
pleasant than the old “Your money or
your official life” style, if it does meam
practically the same thing.
There is a great deal of talk about
sanitary reform all oyer the civilized
world just now, and considerable work is
being done to improve the sanitary con
dition of nearly all cities and public in
stitutions. The magnitude of the work
demanded, however, is almost dishearten
ing. In the larger cities millions of dol
lars and years of unremitting labor will
be required to attain even approximately
the ideal condition of affairs.
Mr. Arthur and the members of his Cab
inet do not appear to be taking much in
terest in the campaign. It is perfectly
understood on all sides that the leading
officials of the administration are alto
gether lacking in enthusiasm for the tick
et, and this feeling is known to be rapidly
extending through all channels.
In spite of all the talk elsewhere about
an aggressive campaign and a certain
victory, the leeling among those in gov
ernment employ is very far from being
one of confidence.
The President ot the Buffalo Courier
Company says that the scandal that has
been published about Cleveland has no
foundation in fact. He says that the
story was manufactured by a man who
failed to get an office that he wanted when
Cleveland became Governor. The story
will be shown to be false in due time.
Will the Blaine papers publish the denial
when proof of the falsity of the story is
shown? The BJaine managers had better
take the advice of a Washington Demo
crat and call off their dog 9.
Blaine’s Statesmanship.
It is claimed that Cleveland has had no
experience in national affairs, and that as
a statesman he cannot be compared with
Blaine. It is true that Cleveland has had
nothing to do with national affairs, but he
has handled the affairs of the great State
of New York with remarkable ability.
His messages and vetoes show that he has
the capacity to deal with great public
questions in a way to command respect
and even admiration. With regard to
Cleveland the matters that are being dis
cussed are his acts since he became Gov
ernor. With regard to Blaine, what is
being discussed ? Measures that he origi
nated or advocated while a member of
Congress? Not at all. His record as a
jobber is the only thing in Blaine’s career
that is attracting attention. It is
claimed lor him that he is a states
man, and that in ability he stands head
and shoulders above any man in his
party. It is easy enough to make such a
claim, but why not support it with some
sort of evidence? What is there in
Blaine’s whole public life that stamps
him as a statesman? What measure did
he ever propose that attracted attention
or became a law ? Where does his mark
appear on the statute book? It would be
difficult for the most enthusiastic Blaine
admirer to answer these questions. While
others shaped the legislation of the coun
try, Blaine was laying the foundations of
his 'fortune. He was brilliant,
smart and noisy, and managed
to keep himself before the
country as one of the ornaments of the
National Legislature, but he was a showy
rather than a useful ornament. Blaine,
like Roscoe Conkling, won a reputation
for brilliancy but lacked the ability to un
derstand the wants of the country and
the need of the times sufficiently to sug
gest legislation. When he passes off the
stage of action his eulogists will not be
able to point to a siDgle public act of his
that will entitle him to be classed among
the great men who have figured in the
history of the country. Notwithstanding
Blaine's opportunities he has not
done as much as Cleveland
has in the line of statesmanship. He
made a most excellent Speaker. His re
markable memory, and his familiarity
with parliamentary law and usages
caused him to be regarded as one of the
ablest men who ever occupied the Speak
er’s chair. But Schuyler Colfax was as
good a Speaker as Blaine, and certainly
nobody will claim that Colfax is a great
man or a statesman. Before drawing
comparisons between Blaine and Cleve
land as public men, to the disparagement
of the latter, it would be well tor tne
Blaine organs to prepare themselves to
tell the public in what Blaine’s superiori
ty consists. Let them point out what
Blaine did in Congress beyond selling his
favor and influence to the lobby that at
tracted attention.
Cheap Sugar.
The modification of the tariff, coupled
with the influence of the enormous quan
tity of beet sugar made in Europe, and
competition among refiners, has made su
gar cheaper than ever before known in
this country, with one exception. The
best granulated sugar can be bought in
New York for a little over 6% cents per
pound, while raw sugar in Cuba goes
begging for purchasers at 3 cents per
pound. It is thought that prices in this
country will go lower yet, and the bears
do not hesitate to bet confidently that
granulated will touch 6 cents before the
end of the year.
While the price tends downwards the
market is not in the least depressed, and
the demand ior sugar and the consump
tion are greater than ever before. It is a
solid drop down on account of the in
creased supply of the commodity, and we
need hardly fear that the prices of a year
or two ago will be again reached in a long
time.
Of eoui*2 the low price bas an unfor
tunate effect on Ibn Sugar producers of
the United States, bouto of
forced to the wall, and all of them w'!,,
have to at least partially abandon sugar
planting and engage in diversified farm
ing, It would probably have been best it
they had done this several years ago. But
while a few are injured by the low price
of sugar the benefits to the millions of
consumers are such that they must at
once be felt and appreciated. The most
pronounced protectionist outside of
Louisiana would hardly dare now to pro
pose a duty on sugar that would restore
old prices.
Another important thing about the
present state of the market is that we not
only have cheaper sugar, but better su
gar than formerly. Raw sugar is cheaper
than glucose, and hence this adulterant
is no longer being used, and the terra
alba miners and marble dust dealers will
have to reduce prices if they get much of
their stuff down the throats of the people.
Even the candy makers might now afford
to unlock their doors and let the people
see “what they are giving us.” And the
glucose makers, poor fellows! The days
of 500 per cent, profit on the manufacture
of bogus sugar are perhaps gone forever.
Let us drop them a crocodile tear.
The Democratic Manager.
Senator Gorman, it is announced, will
manage the National as well as the Con
gressional campaign for the Democrats.
He is Chairman of the Congressional
Committee and Chairman of the Execu
tive Committee ot the National Commit
tee. He is a comparatively young man.
He is only 45 years of age, and doesn’t
look to be more than 35. He is credited
with splendid executive ability. Cool,
cautious and courageous, be will prove
more than a match for the crafty Elkins,
who is Blaine’s chief manager. He is
not a ready talker. He is a worker rather
than a speech maker. He listens well,
and arrives at conclusions quickly.
His chief characteristic, probably,
is his confidence in his own judgment.
He isn’t afraid to act. From his youth he
has mingled with public men. His boy
hood was spent in the Senate chamber as
a page, and as he grew older he held other
offices which kept him at the capital.
There is no occasion for apprehension
that Elkins will gain any advantage over
him. They will both show, however,
whatever capacity they have. Barnum,
the Chairman of the National Democratic
Committee, and Jones, the Chairman of
the National Republican Committee, will
play probably the part ot figuie-heads.
They will enjoy the honor of their posi
tions without interfering much with the
actual work of the committees. They
may do something towards raising cam
paign funds.
Pacific coast printers have been boast
ing that the printer who has stood longer
at the case than any other printer in this
country, lived in San Francisco and
worked in the Chronicle office of that
city. He has worked at the case a full
half century. There is, however, a print
er in Erie, Mr. Michael J. Quinn, known
among the craft as “Father” Quinn, who
has a longer “string” than the Golden
Gate man. As the insurance men put
down the printer’s life at thirty-two
years, the Erie disciple of the art pre
servative is worthy of note. “Father”
Quinn was apprenticed when a lad to a
printer in the city of Waterford, Ireland,
in 1830, and after serving his apprentice
ship got a “sit” on the London Times ,
and had several “fat takes” of the account
y of the Queen’s marriage. Coming to
America he got cases on the New York
Evening Post, which he held for seven
years. Turning his face westward he
went to Erie, Pa., and served nearly
twenty years on the Dispatch. He now
holds cases on the Daily Herald, and, al
though he is "0 years old, he is a rapid
and correct printer, and declares himself
capable of doing ten years’ more work.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY AUGUST, 3, 1884.
“Vanity of Vanities.”
Were Mr. Henry Bergh to cause the ar
rest of a hundred thousand respectable
and fashionable ladies of New York, if*
there he so many in the city, on the charge
of being accessory to the crime of cruelty
to innocent creatures, he would be almost
universally decried as a crank and idiot,
and he would be fortunate to escape be
ing mobbed. Yet every lady who wears a
bird on her hat is in a measure responsi
ble for the wholesale destruction of birds
for the purpose of obtaining theii skins
and plumage. The ladies are the cause of
the slaughter, and their consciences, and
some fashionable women have con
sciences, should reprove them, for were
they not to buy and wear the prepared
bird skins the birds would not be slain.
An exchange says that one enterprising
woman in New York ta9 contracted to
furnish a Paris millinery establishment
during this summer with 40,000 skins of*
birds for which she is to receive 40 cents
each. She pays hunters 10 cent 9 each for
the skins, and it costs, perhaps, 5 cents
each to dress and preserve them, so she
will make on her contract the snug little
sum of SIO,OOO in about three months,
time.
A great part of these birds, and thou
sands more to fill other orders from va
rious establishments, are being shot in
Chesapeake Bay, especially on Cobb’s Is
land, though many are obtained in the
interior of several Northern States.
The birds killed are gulls, cutwaters,
plover, blue birds, red birds, and other
varieties noted for the beauty of
their plumage, and many of them for the
sweetness of their songs. Scarcely any of
them come under the head of birds injuri
ous to crops, and many of them are in
sectivorous and are useful in a high de
gree to farmers and fruit growers. They
are not protected by the game laws of all
the Stales and are killed during the breed
ing season, when for every old bird shot
perhaps the destruction of two young ones
is caused.
The skins, after being shipped to their
destination, are dyed, stuffed and mount
ed, when they are sold at a great advance
on original cost. There is'money in
the business, and hence the dealers do all
they can to encourage the cruel fashion of
wearing stuffed birds.
Humane women in some parts of Eu
rope have formed societies to discourage
this fashion, which is somewhat analagous
to the Indian custom of using the scalps
of enemies as articles of personal adorn
ment.
It is to be hoped our American ladies
will follow suit, or it they form no socie
ties, let them quietly inform their millin
ers in advance, that they will not buy
bats ornamented with stuffed bird skins
this autumn. The cruel manufacturers
can afford to bear their losses, and thus re
ceive the punishment they deserve.)
The Squeezing Committee.
The announcement has been made
within the last day or two at Washington
that the committee appointed by the Re
publican managers to assess government
employes is ready for business. An ele
gant suite of rooms has been rented and
| fitted up in the style of a banking house,
and the employes are expected to
come forward promptly and pay
their assessments. On the first
day that the assessing, or
rather, squeezing committee began busi
ness about $l,OOO was received,
but very little has Deen collected since
then. The clerks leel that their places do
not depend upon contributions, voluntary
or involuntary, and they show a disposi
tion to let the committee severely alone.
Circulars have been sent to all em
ployes who have a salary of more
than $l,OOO a year, but care is
taken that the clerks shall get
the circulars at their homes, and not at
the departments. It is not easy to un
derstand how a party can advocate civil
service reform as strongly as the Repub
lican party in Its platform does while
violating the spirit, if not th§ letter of the
law, out ttlen everybody knows that the
party, in advocating civil service reform,
is not sincere. Even the department
clerks who are hesitating about
giving a part of their salaries to the
campaign fund do not believe that Blaine
will tie controlled by the civil service
rules if elected.
Asa rule government clerks are always
in debt and, unless they are forced to
make contributions, will keep away from
the squeezing committee’s banking house.
It would be rather sad for the committee
if it failed to get more than enough for its
own expenses.
Cooking Schools.
Miss Corson, of New* York, is still at
work endeavoring to teach something
about the almost lost art of cooking. She
is coming Southward, and Baltimore is to
have a cooking school under her superin
tendence on Oct. 1. Miss Corson is well
known as an author and lecturer, and she
deserves honor and gratitude much more
than most authors and lecturers who are
tolerated, if not encouraged, throughout
the land.
The future of a country depends more
upon the character of its cooking than
upon its statesmen and politicians. If
this be true, with what apprehensions
should we of the South, who are sustained
upon the incinerated or indefinable pro
ductions of the average cook, look to the
future. Our precious digestive organs
are submitted daily to the persecutions of
this uatural enemy, the cook, and thous
ands lie in pain through the long night
watches and bemoan their fate, and sigh
over an enforced servitude to their un
worthy servants that they have not the
courage to terminate. We go through
life with impaired health, with ruined
tempers and depleted purses, with scarce
ly a protest, and without once making a
firm resolve to better our condition.
It is to be hoped Miss Corson will not
stop long at Baltimore. She would be
hailed as a public benefactor were she to
devote a few months to a canvass of the
whole South. After properly presenting
the subject in each city she blight estab
lish normal schools of cookery, and the
good she could do might leave its impress
on generations yet unborn. It is in her
power now to become the great apostle of
cookery in America, and to send her
name “adwn the ages.” She should not
be content with a school in a $4,000
kitchen, even in Baltimore, when a
brilliant and profitable career is within
her reach. If, when the opportunity is
offered them, the cooks of the South re
luse to learn anything about cooking,
they should be shorn of their power, and
we should resolve to have our food
burned at public crematories.
The opinion seems to be gaining ground
that in case of the appearance of serious
epidemics in crowded cities, the old
Syrian proverb—‘‘two-thirds of bravery
consists in running away”—is very good
doctrine. This, of course, don’t apply to
those whose duties require them to stay
and face the danger, whatever the con
sequences may be, but to the thousands
of poor, who are crowded in the worst
sections of cities, and who only serve as
prey for the destroyer. Every place ap
prehensiye of the appearance of a pesti
lence ought to have a plan adopted for the
immediate and almost total depopulation
of infected districts. This is no small
undertaking, however, and, under usual
conditions, is all but impracticable.
The vessel designated for the use of the
President of the United States and party
during the summer vacation appeared to
be specially fitted for a journey up Salt
river. As soon as an effort was made to
run her up the Hudson in fresh water it
was found out that she wouldn't go, and
si the Executive and Commander-in-Chief
had to take to the eras.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Forgotten Butler's Pledges.
Detroit Free Free* (Dem.).
Chairman Jones, of the Greenback Com
mittee, has forgotten, apparently, that Butler
pledged himself at Chicago to support the
Democratic nominee.
It Can’t Be Wiped Out.
Galeeston 2fevc* {Dem.).
No amount of lies concerning the private
character of Grover Cleveland can wipe out
the fact that James G.Blaine received a bribe
of s>>4,ooo from the Little Rock and Fort Smith
Railroad managers for making a ruling favor
able to them while Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
False Charges Denied.
Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.).
The Republicans who are trying to defeat
Cleveland by asserting that he is running on
a “free trade" platform, are receiving mate
rial aid from the protective crank* in the
Democratic party who are trying to show that
the platform is for a nigh’protective tariff.
One is as false and injurious to him as the
other.
Bnry the Offensive Corpse.
Xew York World (Dem.).
Now in its old age the degraded party puts
in nomination for the Presidency a political
speculator who sold his services as Speaker of
the House of Representatives to railroad cor
porations. Let it die at the age of thirty of
Blaineism, in Maine, and please bury the
offensive corpse out of sight as speedily as
may be.
Dana’s Addled Intellect.
.Veic York Sun ( Ind.).
Whether Mr. Blaine will receive more votes
than Cleveland remains to be seen. If the
Cleveland electors receive the greatest num
ber of votes Mr. Cleveland will certainlv be
elected. But how about Gen. Butler? Gov.
Cleveland is an honest man, and in this re
spect he differs from Capt. Kidd. There is St.
John, too; he will probably poll a large Pro
hibition vote. Perhaps lie will beelected. At
all events politics arc very much mixed.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Col. Wm. F. Beaslev, who is working up
the North Carolina Soldiers’ Home project,
has already securedYtl,ooo of the SIOO,OOO de
sired to make the home a success.
To such a pass has the roller skate craze
gone in Omaha, that even the hotel waiters
elide around on “the wheels" in attending to
the r duties. The average of broken crockery
has increased alarmingly of late in Omaha
Uostelries.
A traveler in Mexico exclaims, “What do
you think of a country wlffire you have to
pay 25 cents for a ‘shave’ and yet good cigars
are only 4 cents each; and you can get all the
fruit you can eat at one sitting, mangoes, figs,
limes, aquacates, saiiodillas,' bananas, etc.,
for 10 cents!"
Of the ill sessions of Congress twenty-seven
have lasted over two hundred days, the last
one included. The longest was the first ses
sion of the Thirty-first—3o2 days, from Dec.
3, 1849, to£ept. 30, 1850. There have been
thirteen special sessions, nearly all short.
The Fortieth Congress held five sessions, and
is the only one that ever held more than three.
A Cape Breton man last spring shipped
five barrels of eggs packed in hay for Boston
on the slow sailing ship St. Saphire. When
he reached port he found that the hay on the
under part of the barrels had become so heat
ed that half the eggs were cooked. The re
maining half hatched out and subsisted for
two months on the roasted eggs. They were
almost ready for the market when they were
released from their prison.
The Crow Indians are taking kindly to
farming operations on the Big Horn, Mon
tana, aud appear greatly pleased with the re
sult of their labors. They exhibit the blisters
ob their hands, the result of working the plow,
with becoming pride. A number of them will
go into the business of cutting hay for sale.
Some of them are sharp enough to have al
ready located good claims, which they intend
to sell when that part of the reservation is
thrown open to settlers.
Gen. Stone, the engineer in charge of the
construction of the Bartholdi pedestal, re
ceived a letter from M. Bartholdi on Wednes
day. “The artist tells me,” said Mr. Stone
yesterday, “tliat the statue is being carefully
boxed and the pieces marked, so that they
can be placed iu order on the French war
vessel. He says that the statue will most
probably arrive in this country not later than
next November. We are building for all
time and a part of eternity,” added Sir
Stone, “and we want $120,000 more.”
Dk. W. J. Harris, a physician of St. Louis,
writes thus in the Globe-Democrat concerning
l)r. i’avy, one of the victims of the Greely
party: Dr. Pa vy’s constant dream was to en
ter the Arctic regions by way of Behring's
Straits, carrying a portable boat on sledges
over the belt of ice, and as soon as the Polar
sea was reached to launch the boat and sail
away to the pole, returning by way of Green
land te the Atlantic the following season. I
do not think that Dr. Pary ever had a shadow
of a doubt about the existence of an open
Polar sea. He has talked to me for hours, and
by many ingenious theories proved that such
a sea existed.
A poor English lady, .whose house on the
outskirts of London was overrun by black
beetles, which dwelt not only on
the walls, but in the beds,
applied the other day to a magistrate
to know whether she could be compelled, un
der such circumstances, to pay her rent. The
magistrate explained to her that the courts
were divided upon the question. A house
overrun with hugs had been pronounced un
inhabitable, but not with beetles. She would
hare to carry the matter to the House of
Lords. It is interesting and instructive in
these revolutionary times to read that these
matters can only be definitely settled by a
hereditary chamber.
During a recent tornado in Richland, Ky.,
a farmer’s wife Vasin the summer kitchen
preparing supper, and her daughter was in
the dining-room setting the table. As the
wind strucK the house the currents divided,
one carried the kitchen two miles up to an ad
joining county, and the other deposited the
main part of the house half a mile in the op
posite direction.' By a strange freak o> na
ture both houses were picked up by the re
turning current and set back directly in their
former places, as neatly as if the work had
been done by hand. The women were so
busily engrossed in their work that they did
not notice that anything unusual happened
until their attention had been called to a
crack in the roof.
A famous London institution has just gone
under the hammer. This is Wombwell's
menagerie, latterly known as Edmund’s,
which dates back to tlie time when lions were
kept in the Tower and in Exeter Change, and
was contemporary with the historic giraffe of
George IV. Despite the competition of the
Zoological Garden and various traveling
shows, the noted managerie was long a profit
able concern. It was famous for the number
and variety of its trained animals. There
were groups of performing hyenas, groups of
performing lions and leopards, a zebra, one of
the most unruly of quadrupeds broken to har
ness, a llama that would go through evolu
tions on parade, dromedaries that went in
harness, and a sacred Egyptian baboon of
equal rarity and value. The monarch of the
collection was the great elephant Emperor,
the largest of his species that ever traveled in
the British Islands, and who is only a few
inches shorter than Jumbo,
The Casual Observer was one day walking
up Broadway with a Wall street man, who
suddenly stopped near the post office, and
pointing with his stick to a man on the other
side of the street, said, “Do you see that man?
He will drop dead before he reaches Trinity
Church.” The Casual Observer met the man
who was to have dropped dead three or four
times after that on tne street, and although
he looked strong and healthy he could never
disabuse his mind of the idea that the man
w r as-doomed. He asked his Wall street friend
about the man after that, and he said: “I
merely wanted to give you an illustration of
bear methods. You will never see that man
again without thinking of my prophecy. So it
is in Wall street. A bad name is given to a
certain stock or property, and although the
whole thing is a lie, yet somehow it gets into
the minds of the people, and the property goes
down and down for no other reason than that
people think there must be someHiing wrong
with it because someone has sa^A.”
Two good stories are told Romanes
in a review of Sully’s “lt is
evident, from the number of original observa
tions which are scattered through the book
that Mr. Sully must himself have spent no
small amount of time and devotion at the
shriue (baby-worship). Here is one of his
experiences, in which *a little girl of i x /i
years once drove her mother to one of the
most difficult problems of philosophy.’ On
asking why a wasp could not hurt a window
pane with its sting, and on being told in
answer, ‘Because the window-pane has no
nerves, and so is not .able to feel,’ the child
perplexed the learning of the household bj
asking,‘Why do nerves feel?’ We quote this
little incident in order to cap it witn one of a
still more embarrassing kind, which we were
told a short time ago. Another little girl of
the same age was silently watching her
father write his sermon, and. after pro
tracted observation, put to him the somewhat
difficult question, 'Papa, does God tell you
what to write in a sermon?’ With some little
hesitation our clerical friend replied in the
affirmative, whereupon he was ignominiously
nonplussed by the further question, ‘Then,
papa, why do yon scratch it out again?’ ”
BRIGHT BITS.
The worst thing yet said about Gsn. Gor
don is by the Newark Daily Advertiser, which,
calls him a "bete noire."
A Mexican owner of nine drug stores has
failed, with liabilities of *285,000. Water must
cost money in Mexico. —Norristown Herald.
Said the dentist, “No doubt
Without pain ’twill come out,”
Said the man with a grin,
“That remark is tooth in.’
“I SHALL fight it out on this lyin’ if it takes
all summer,” remarked the political stump
speaker as he sent to headquarters for more
“doctored facts.” — Burlington Free Press.
ill you have salt on your eggs?” asked
the hotel waiter of the guest. “Oh, no, thanks.
They are not at all fresh.” Then the waiter
went out to consult the landlord to see if the
hotel had been insulted.— Merchant Traveler.
Ip you have noticed the happy expressions
on physicians’ faces the last few days tlie fol
lowing will explain them: South Carolina
has an immense crop of melons, and will be
gin shipments North in a few days.— Boston
Po*t.
’Twas midnight In the Quaker City. A
silvery sheen of moonshine bathed the vernal
beauties of Fairmount Park in a Hood of pale
and ghostly light; the tall steeples threw
long shadows athwart the adjoining buildings
—when all of a sudden, as if by magic, the.
Keely motor continued to refuse to mote.
History as she is wrote: In the New World
this persecution of the Quakers lasted far into
our own time. That a man of Whittier’s
ardent nature took up arms against it was
the rarest good fortune for Quakerism in
America. The net results of the poet's life
work would not be easy to compute. —London
Academy.
The storv is told of a Washington wit that,
some months after the Mulligan episode, he
saw Mr. Blaine sauntering down
Pennsylvania avenue with his hands
ands in his pockets. “Why just look
there!” said he, “Whoever saw'the like of
that? There goes Jim Blaine with his hands
in Am oxen pocket*.”
Pasteur's hydrophobia cure is nothing
but inoculation.’ He says if vou get bitten by
a very little mad dog and get over it, a bite
from a very big mad dog won’t hurt you. N.
B.—We don’t understand French very well,
and perhaps our translation is somewhat
mixed, but that is what it looks like anyhow.
—Phi ladelphia JJall.
Songs of the Season.—
Spring.
Breeze,
Trees,
Freeze,
Sneeze—
A youth and a maiden off a-Maying.
Summer.
A lake,
Sunbake.
Headache,
Mistake—
Big hotel bills papas are paying.
A uttu/m.
Twinkling stars,
Rustic bars, ,
Shrewd mammas;
“Ask papa's
Consent,” some pretty lips are saying.
Winter.
A crowded hall,
A fancy ball,
A stupid call,
And—that is all —
The same old gamo they all are playing
—Chicago Tribune.
PERSONAL.
Mr. Tilden’s destination in his winter
yachting course in the Viking is to be Ber
muda.
The father of Charley Ross has spent $60,000
in searching for his soii, and examined over
seven hundred cases of boys supposed to be
his.
Miss Phcebe Corziss is the first woman to
be sworn in as United States Deputy Marshal.
She will work as clerk for her father, who is
Marshal at St. Louis.
Ben Wade’s old home at Jefferson, 0., is
still occupied by his venerable widow and
one of his sons, C’apt. Henry P. Wade. The
famous Senator’s little office near by contains
all his books aud papers undisturbed.
Ex-Gov. Young, of Ohio, who moved to
Cincinnati in 1810. says he recollects Mme.
Trollope, author of a "liook on the domestic
manners of the Americans. She ran a bazar
in Cincinnati, and she was the first lady he
ever saw on skates.
Rev. E. B. Snyder, D. D., of Philadelphia,
has gone to South Florida to select.', tract of
40,000 acres of land, which will lie purc.iased
for the purpose of locating a colony thereon.
Fourteen families of Philadelphia have al
ready joined the colony, and others will join.
Mr. Cable, whose novels have made him
known the country over, figures in the follow
ing anecdote from the Baton Rouge Truth-.
“A few weeks ago we heard a member of the
General Assembly ask another. ’Who is that
man Cable they were talking about in the
Senate to-day while discussing the peniten
tiary bill?’ ’Oh, he’s a fellow who wrote a
piece about State prisons,’ was the answer.
‘Where is he from?’ again queried the first
wise law-maker. ‘He’s a New Orleans man,
I believe,’ responded the other.”
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, though now over
70 years of age, wears all her weight of years
and learning lightly. Her visits to the ’Con
cord School of Philosophy are always awaited
with the utmost interest when it is known she
will speak. A correspondent says of her:
“She is one of the few women of our day who
can appear on the platform without making
one wish she were a man. She never dies
anything unwomanly, but. observant as she
is of the forms of society, she is never compla
cently eon ventional: she dares to say what
she thinks. She says it boldly, gracefully,
with a certain fascination Ahat attracts the
closest attention.”
BOOK NOTICES.
Property in Land, a Passage-at-Arms be
tween the Duke of Argyll and Henry George.
Funk ,t Wag-nails. Lontlou, audio and 12
Dey street, New York.
The questions involved in this discus
sion, while they have not commanded 4 the
attention of the people of this country to
any great extent, are of growing impor
tance, and the high rank of the Duke, and
the prominent position occupied by Mr.
GChrge, will attract the attention of all
interested in the great political questions
of the day to this pamphlet. It will well
repay perusal.
“The Home in Poetry,” compiled by Laura
C. Holloway, author of “Ladies’ of the
White House,” etc. Funk & \Vagnails,
London, and 10 and 12 Dey street, New
York.
The title of this little volume indicates
its character. The compiler appears to
have appropriated the choicest gems re
lating to “home” of the leading poets oi
England and the United States.
A Year’s Work in the Institutions
Known as Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. J. F.
Shaw & Cos., 48 Paternoster Row, E. C.,Lon
don, E.
This is an interesting report of the work
ot this charitable institution for the re
lief ol lost and needy children.
MAGAZINES.
The Magazine oj American History for
August comes laden with a variety of
agreeable surprises. It will attract many
readers. The opening article, “The Story
of a Monument,” by S. N. D. North, of the
Utica Herald, is a timely production, and
of curious interest to the public in gen
eral. The illustrations add greatly to its
value, of which is the fine portrait of ex-
Gov. Horatio Seymour—frontispiece to
the magazine. The next article intro
duces a learned discussion of the new
and novel question, “Did the Romans
Colonize America ?” The author, M. Y.
Moore, foreshadows further papers, and
from the masterly skill with which he
handles the subject they will naturally
excite wide attention. The third article
is a graphic description of “Lee ; o Cam
paign against Pope in 1862,” with three il
lustrative maps, by Professor W. Allan.
Following this is a touching and appre
ciative sketch of “Charles Fenno Hoff
man,” by W. D. Keese, with an excellent
portrait’of Hoffman. There are quite a
number of other interesting articles. No.
30 Lafayette Place, New York.
The August issue of the Eclectic Maga
zine presents a goodly list of important
and interesting articles. Among those to
which special attention may be called, the
following may be designated: “Le Style
C’est l’Homme,” by Lord Lytton, is a
charmingly written study of the personal
elements which enter into good literary
work. Mr. R. Brook’s discusses “Poetic
Emotions and Affinities,” in a suggestive
manner. “The Poor Man’s Gospel,” from
the Contemporary Review, by Richard
Heath, is a fresh and pungent treatment
of a subject which in someone or other
of its many phases is now attracting more
attention than any other. The article on
the Princess Alice of Hesse, under the
title of “An English Princess,” sketches
a noble and sweet life, and is full of
pathetic touches. Mr. Justice Stephen
presents the argument against “Agnosti
cism” so powerfully advocated in re
cent numbers by Herbert Spencer, Fred
erick Harrison, and others, in a strong
paper bearing the title “The Unknowable
and the Unknown.” 25 Bond street, New
York.
It will be a person hard to suit who
cannot find something to interest him in
the August Manhattan, for its contents
present a wide variety of topics. The
leading article is on the Yellowstone
National Park, by Ashley W. Cole, who
has evidently thoroughly explored the
park, and writes about it graphically.
The illustrations are profuse and excel
lent. Another illustrated paper is “Paul
Delaroche and His Pupils,” by Ernest
Knaufft, with some beautiful reproduc
tions of Delaroche’s famous painting,
“The Hemicvcle,” now in the Walters’
Gallery, at Baltimore. Avery original
short story is “An Incident in the Life of
Dr. Jane Temple,” by Clara Lanza, the
daughter of Dr. Hammond, and a more
amusing negro sketch than “Tilly Bones,”
by E. W. Bellamy, of Mobile, has not been
printed in a long while. The first part of
Kate Field’s vivacious “Diary in London”
is capital summer reading. Temple
Court, New York.
St. Nicholas for August is fresh, bright
and entertaining. The illustrations are
especially tine. The number is interests
ing not only to children, but to people of
maturity. The aim of the publishers of
St. Xicholas seems to be to keep each de
partment up to a very high standard.
“ELI PERKINS” IN FRANCE.
The Impressions of a Trip from Paris
to Dijon—The Country Literally One
Large Garden—What Makes a Rich
Nation—The Farmer’s Loyalty to the
Republic—The Crops in Europe.
Special Correspondence oj the Morning Xexcs.
Dijon, France, July 19.—1n going
from Paris to Geneva, via Dijon, we pass
through the best portion of France. For
hundreds of miles every inch of land is
cultivated. The abrupt side hills are in
grape vines and the flat land in grain.
Here we see the phenomenon of double
crops—a crop of grain and vegetables
growing under a crop of trees. The Nor
mandy poplar trees are from an inch to
three feet in diameter. They are planted
thickly, but give no shade. They are
trimmed within six feet of the tops. The
boughs, which are cut off every year,
make faggots enough to warm France.
We often see men and women cradling
wheat or hoeing beets in the midst of a
wood giving no shade. When you look
across the country the tall boughless
trunks look like black streaks painted
against the sky. They make the view
very picturesque. Our farmers on the
prairies could plant black walnut trees
where they want fences, trim them to the
tops, preventing shade, and then string
barbed wire on the trunks for fences’. At
the end of fifty years the black walnut
trees on a man’s farm would be worth
more than his farm! Wood in France is
sold for a third of a cent abound. It is
worth as much as corn in Kansas by the
pound. So when the Kansas man burns
corn he is no more profligate than the
Frenchman who burns faggots. The
French farmer would never thiukof burn
ing wood to heat his house. He sits in
the cold all the winter long, only using
wood to cook with. The average farmer
does not know enough to buy coal or kero
sene yet. He does not Jive as well as the
poorest negro in the South. He has no
home comforts; poverty and ignorance
are his companions.
THE SMALL FRENCH FARMS.
France is literally one large garden.
Every inch of soil is cultivated. In riding
from Paris to Dijon—lso miles—we count
ed only 30 cattle. We saw no sheep or
hogs. The farm 9 have usually from one
to ten acres, aud some have as many as
twenty acres. They are usually from 30
to 300 feet wide, and 1,500 to 2,000 feet
long. There are no fences between them.
When I asked a French farmer how his
farm happened, like all the rest, to be so
long and narrow, he said:
“it has been divided up so often. When
a French father dies he divides his farm,
and each one of his children has an equal
share. He always divides it lengthwise,
so as to give each one a long strip. The
long strips are easily cultivated, because
we plow lengthways! These strips always
run north and south, so the sun can shine
into the rows.”
- “How large is your farm ?” I asked.
“My father’s farm was 300 feet wide
and 2,000 feet long. When he died my
brother had half. Now my farm is 150
feet wide and 2,000 feet long. It is quite
a large farm. There are many farms much
smaller than mine.”
“What do you plant in it?” I asked.
“See over there,” he said, pointing to
what seemed to be a gigantic piece of
striped carpet, “is a strip of wheat 60
feet wide. Then comes a strip of potatoes
25 leet wide. Then comes 40 feet of oats,
then 10 feet of carrots, 20 feet of alphalpha
(clover), 10 feet of mangel-wurzels,s feet of
onions, 5 feet of cabbages, and the rest is
in flowers, peas, currants, gooseberries
and little vegetables.”
“Can you support your family on a farm
150 feet wide and 2,ooofeet long?” I asked,
for the narrow strip seemed like a man’s
doorvard in America.
“Support my family?” he exclaimed.
“Why the farm is too large for us. I rent
part of it out now.”
“But your house,” I said; “where is
that?”
“O, that is in town. Five families of
us live in one house there. My wife and
I come out every morning to work and go
in at night.”
“Does your wife always work in the
field?” I asked.
“Yes. My wife,” he continued, point
ing to a bare-footed and bare-headed wo
man, at least six feet around the waist,
“she can do more work than I can. She
pitches the hay to me on the stack. All
French women work in the field. Why
not? They have nothing to do at home.”
This is true. The wife of a French,
English, Irish or German farmer has
nothing to do at home. They do not
“keep house,” like the wives of American
farmers. They have no houses to keep.
The huts they live in are like stables.
They live in the same building with their
horses, hens and pigs. They never wash
a floor. There is never a table-cloth.
They live like brutes. The handsome
farm-house, off by itself, surrounded by
trees and gardens, does not exist in
France. They live no better, and are
really no better off, than were the slaves
of the South before the war. French
farmers always congregate in little tum
ble-down villages, situated about two
miles apart. These villages may have
been built three hundred years ago. The
roofs are moss-covered, the houses are
dirty, and remind one of a county poor
house in New England.
LITTLE FARMS MAKE A RICH NATION.
There are millions of farms in France
containing from a quarter of an acre to
four acres.
1 find that about an acre and a half is
about all the most ambitious man wants.
The rent for land is always one-half the
crop. The land is wortli about S4OO an
acre, or, if in grape vines, S6OO.
This is why France is like a garden. In
England there are 227,000 landowners;
in France there are 7,000,000 land-owners.
The Frenchman on his two acres, with
his barefooted wife cutting grain with a
sickle by his side, is happy and contented,
because he knows no better. Such a de
grading life would drive an American
farmer mad. The Frenchman thrives
because he spends nothing. He has no
wants beyond the coarsest food and the
washings’ of the grape skins after the
wine is made. Yes, he is thrifty. He
saves money, too. The aggregated wealth
of 30,000,000 poor, degraded, barefooted
peasants makes France rich. The igno
rance of the French farmer is appalling.
I never saw a newspaper iu a French
farm village. Their wants are no more
than the wants of a horse. The French
man eats the coarsest food—about the
same as he feeds his horse. He will eat
coarse bread and wine for breakfast;
soup, bread and wine for dinner; and per
haps bread and milk for supper; he does
not know what coffee or tea is. The ne
groes of the South live like kings com
pared to a French farmer. Still, the
Frenchman is satisfied because he knows
no better.
When I asked a French farmer who w as
cultivating his farm (150 by 1,500) if he
saved any money, he said:
“O, not much.’ Igo to all the fetes. I
laid by 500 francs ($100) last year. I put
it in the Caisse d’ Epargne.”
“What is that?” I asked of the land
lord.
That is the Government Savings Bank.
The government takes the money of the
poor, up to 1,000 francs, and gives them
per cent, for its use. The peasant
farmers of France have nearly $800,000,-
000 on deposit in these savings banks.
These poor, degraded, half-led farmers
keep the French treasury full of money.
THE FRENCH FARMER LOVES THE RE
PUBLIC.
The French farmer loves the Republic,
but the people of Paris hate it. The Em
pire made Paris. Without the Empire
trade is bad in Paris; so Paris sighs for
some Louis XIV. or Napoleon 111. to come
and establish an expensive court again.
I asked a farmer near Dijon if he pre
ferred the Republic to the Empire.
“Yes,” he said “but we want most of
all peace. We are sick of war. If the
Empire comes they will want us to light.
We want to stay at home on our farms.
Frenchmen do not like to fight.
The Parisians want an Emperor who will
collect millions of dollars from the coun
try and spend it on opera houses and pub
lic buildings in Paris.”
I found Paris very dull. Trade there is
stagnant. The people there are dissatis
fied. I would not be surprised to hear
any day that the Republic was dead and
another Empire declared. All that is
wanting is the right man with old Bour
bon blood in him, and a few Generals in
the army. Dijon, Macon, Amiens and all
the provincial cities like the Republic—
but Paris is France.
THE CROPS IN EUROPE.
The crops in England and France are
good everywhere with the exception of
hops in Kent. Wheat in France is splen
did. The fields are so small that they are
reaping it with a sickle. A man and his
wife and three children can reap with the
sickle and bind about as much wheat as
one man can reap and bind in America.
In America the wife is attending the re
ceiving of society, and the children are at
school. In France the whole family is
in the field.
Indian corn is raised all over the south
ern hall of France. They plant one stalk
in a hill and hoe it by hand. The weeds
are all hoed out of the wheat, bar
ley and oats by hand. Wheat is
worth in Dijon $1 25 per bushel. Immense
quantities of American corn are shipped
to France to be made into spirit. The
French thicken their soup with corn
meal. American bacon can be bought
in Dijon for 10 cents per pound. The
French do not eat it much; they prefer
beef suet or cotton seed oil.
France and England will not take an
unusual quantity of American wheat or
corn this year; so if America raises 500,-
000,000 bushels of wheat it must lie sold
at a price low enough to put it into France
and England at or below sl, or stay in
America. America can drive out Indian
or Russian wheat, and break up wheat
raising in England and France by put
ting wheat into Liverpool and Havre at
sl. It would be a blessing to America to
do this once, and open the channels of
trade.
HOW TO MAKE WINE.
Dijon is the centre of the Burgundy
wine district. To make Burgundy wine
the grapes are picked, crushed and put in
a vat to ferment for thirty-six hours.
Then they are pressed and put in open
barrels in cold cellars where the ther
mometer stands at 35 above zero. If put
in a warm room the wine turns to sugar
as it does in America. After three weeks
fermenting the wine is drawn oft' into
clear casks and the settlings left. In the
second casks (always open) it stands six
months, when it is drawn into third casks.
Here it stays two years. Then it is bot
tled and fit for use after standing a year.
In making wine in America our people
could succeed if they would observe fer
mentation ot the crushed grapes and
skins for thirty-six hours and then keep
the wine in barrels with open bung-holes
in cold cellars, where it will not turn to
vinegar. Dijon, thS centre of the Bur
gundy wine district, has about the cli
mate of Akron, Ohio. Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri, or Kansas can make
just as good Burgundy wine as Dijon,
and will do it sometime in the future.
Eli Perkins.
CLEVELAND AND HENDRICKS.
The Distinguished Candidates Meeting
for the First Time—A Protracted Con
versation—A Savannah Alderman Con
gratulates Hendricks.
Saratoga, N. Y., July 31.—Ex-Gov.
Hendricks left Saratoga at 1 o’clock this
afternoon for Albany, and returned to
night. He went to visit his colleague on
the Presidential ticket, Gov. Cleveland.
As they had not met before, the meeting
was looked forward to with considerable
interest by both of the distinguished can
didates.
No demonstration of any kind took
place upon the arrival of Mr. Hendricks
in Albany; in fact, none was desired or
intended. Scarcely half a dozen persons
knew of the presence of the distinguished
visitor. When he alighted from the train
he was immediately escorted to a carriage
by Col. Daniel S. Lamont, Gov. Cleve
land’s private secretary, who had come
to the depot with a message of welcome.
The carriage was rapidly driven to the
Executive Mansion. Gov. Cleveland came
to the door to receive his guest. A warm
grasp of the hand and a cordial welcome
greeted Mr. Hendricks. Then both gen
tlemen, with Col. Bannister, retired to the
library, where they conversed privately for
nearly three hours. Mr. Daniel Manning
and Col. Lamont were present during part
of the interesting discussion.
THE GOVERNOR’S GUEST.
Of course full details of the important
conference could not be obtained. Sev
eral persons waited around the executive
chamber in the hope oi seeing Mr. Hen
dricks. but he did not leave the capitol
building, but dined with the Governor at
6 o’clock. Col. Lamont came to the exec
utive chamber shortly after 5 and in
formed some of the waiting newspaper
correspondents of the important fact that
the Governor and the ex-Governor had
met and shaken hands in the most affable
manner. The reticent private secretary
naturally enough could not be induced to
narrate any of the questions discussed be
tween the two distinguished Democrats.
RETURNING TO SARATOGA.
Mr. Hendricks returned to Saratoga
with your correspondent by the 7 o’clock
train,’ which arrived here a few minutes
before 9. On the return trip he sooke
warmly of Gov. Cleveland, of his pleasant
visit, and of the political outlook. “I was
much pleased and impressed with Gov.
Cleveland,” said Mr. Hendricks. “He
seems to me to be a frank, outspoken,
cool, clear bred man. 1 never had the
pleasure of meeting him before.”
“Was any plan of campaign agreed
upon or discussed?” inquired your cor
respondent.
“No. We merely talked on general
topics,” replied Mr. Hendricks.
“Any agreement entered into as to when
the letters of acceptance will be given to
the public?”
“No.”
“You had never met Mr. Daniel Man
ning before?”
“Never. The visit was very pleasant.
Gov. Cleveland is dignified, courteous in
bearing, incisive and exact in speech.”
“1 understand that you dined with the
Governor ?”
“Yes; Col. Bannister, of Indiana, was
also present.”
“Your discussion of political affairs
was general in character?”
“It was. I believe we both thought the
prospects of Democratic success were
bright. We were freely in accord upon
any questions referred to and well satis
fied to leave the the management of the
camjiaizn in the hands of the very com
petent committee that has it in charge.”
Two gentlemen from the South here
walked from one end of the car and intro
duced themselves to Gov. Hendricks.
“We are from Savannah, Ga.,” remarked
one. “This is my lriend, Alderman Han
ley,” (turning to his companion). “We
are both right glad to see you and hope
you will be elected.” The ex-Governor
shook them warmly by the hand, while a
group of correspondents sat around and
listened. People in the ear (the ladies
particularly) leaned forward attentively
when they heard the name of Hendricks
mentioned.
“LITTLE MAC.”
He Tells of His Removal from the Com
mand of tlie Army of the Potomac.
A short time ago it was my good fortune
to meet Gen. George B. McClellan, the
one time idol of the Army of the Potomac,
says a Pittsburg Dispatch gossiper. Not
having seen him for many years, the con
versation naturally turned upon the late
war. “I admit,” said he, “the order re
lieving me was a surprise. You remem
ber I assumed command just before South
Mountain, and fought the battle of An
tic tam. Shortly after that victory Presi
dent Lincoln visited me at my headquar
ters, and a pleasanter visitor I never had.
Woftallqtd over past movements of the
army, and, at his suggestion, I showed
him my plans for the future. He
expressed himself as being per
fectly satisfied at what had
been' done, and heartily approved of my
plans. Laying both his hands on my
shoulders, he said, with a smile that
warmed to the innermost soul: ‘General,
I fully approve of what vou have don*,
and like your plans for the coming cam
paign. Go on, and, depend on it,”l will
stick by you.’ Two days after I was re
lieved of mv command. I made inquiry
and found Mr. Lincoln had tried to fulfill
his promise, but, having little influence at
headquarters, he could not do as he de
sired. Stanton and others had taken a
political view of army officers, and had
c mpelied my retirement. Ineverblamed
Mr. Lincoln, and always thought that his
life must have been an unhappy
one, surrounded as he was by many who
could not grasp the broad views he
entertained.” “General,” I said, “you
have many reminiscences of the war that
would be extremely interesting to the
public, and more especially to your friends
who served under you; why don’t you do
as Sherman did, write a book ?” “Oh, no,”
said he, laughing, “there is time enough
for that. The tacts will be made known
some day. Probably after my death the
truth will be written, and then ” “Yes,
and then”—l replied—“you and those
who fought under you will he mustered
out by the man with the scythe.” At
the next station, with a kindly shake of
the hand, he stepped from the’ train, and
was greeted by those who stood on the
platform.
Edwin Bdoth and his pretty daughter.
Miss Edwina, are at the cottage he re
cently purchased in a quiet portion of
Newport. He will appear during the en
suing season, nearly at hand, under the
management of R. M. Field, supported
only hy the company of Mr. Field’s the
atre. The only engagement that he plays
in New York will be at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre, continuing four weeks.
New bangles have half of the hoop
studded with rubies, emeralds or dia
monds.
HJattttft.
T\ T ANTED, everybody to knowtn<!7,r,
W Photographs made by the new
neous process is reduced; Cards }i ■ l( r “v
nets $3 per dozen, i. N.’WILSON n 'SHI
street, opposite the Screven House. ’ ” ua
Ay ANTED by a young man
" drug store; not afraid of Work- t h?‘
years’ experience; best of referen-V
News laSt emyloyer ’ Ad<lre *s M* Morning
xyANiED by gentleman aTTTTitTTT'
II furnished south room* for li d,* „7°
priTaU ‘ American family;'
bath. Address, with terms, etc r Iz. °;
News office. ” Lare °*
YU ANTED, a situation bv a t<77777~
Y\ who has had eight years'experience £
cotton exporting house and is fami; ~
rice. A. B. COTTON. Box 10ft. wu &
\y ANTED, a white girl to assiTTThTT'T’
I I work, who knows how to sew “Tr
Mrs. R. 5. JONES, 42 Jones street t
doors cast of Habersham. ' “* re^
vyANTED, everybody to knowlhlTlw
II can get milk, cream, curds, et<- -I
Liberty street, between Abereorn and Lincoln
\y ANTED, situation by an AHiookklTJi!
quick and accurate. Satiafactok
reasons gwen for being out of employment
best of references given to la-t i '
Address BOOKKEEPER, thisofijee. ! Ter ’
wANTED, by a Virginia lady * 7
II . age), and a graduate of Norfo!k't e - all
College.a situation to teach the usual brv eheT
either public or private; reference n 7, t
and reference given. AddressMissA
ville, Essex county, Va. , U“M
WANTED, ladies and yonngir 1 v 777,
to earn $1 to $3 every day .
their homes; work furnished; sent i mail
no canvassing; no stamps required for rc-dv
Please address EDWARI) F. DAVI- v
iSSouth Main street. Fall River. Mas.-.' '
_ for Jlrnt.
PNOK RENT, tenement in Maj. A. lb. •,
row. fronting on Abereorn gtree> wn
doors south of Jones. Apply to H, .1 tip
ASSON, Real Estate anil Collecting w,,*
office Capt. H. Rlun, 110 Bryan street. ’
Ij*Oß RENT, two connecting rooms. f Hr
nished or unfurnished, suitable for light
housekeeping, with privilege of bath room ‘ md
parlor, at 37 Abereorn street, facing the
JT'OR RENT, two large connecting rooms
. with privilege of bath room. No. lvt m c *
Donough street, corner Jeffer-on.
TO RENT, a house suitable for a boarding
house; also a small house ami one of me
ilium size. Apply 61 Brighton street.
IT'OR RENT, Oct. L. residence 161 I ~r 7
street. Apply to D. B. LK-TKIt. 1
I NOR RENT, from Nov. 1 next, that de
sirable residence southwest corner dunes
anil Drayton streets. Apple to A.N. wi LON
Internal Revenue office.
TNOR RENT OR SALE, bouse No. 121 Gor-
X 1 don street, with all modern improvements
in perfect order; for sale on very liberal
terms. Z. FALK, corner CongVe-- and
Whitaker streets.
_ for Salt.
T)RESSE.S FOR SALE. —To make room for
Anew machinery, I offer for sale the
following Printing Presses: 1 Super Royal
Hoe Cylinder; 1 Medium Hoe Cylinder; l
Half Medium Liberty Press; 1 Quarto Me
dium Liberty Press. The machines are in
good order, and can be seen at work in
Morning News pressroom. For further par
ticulars, apply to or address J. H. ESTII.L,
Savannah, Ga.
I NOR SALE, two shares Workman's and
Trader’s Building and Loan Company;
six installments paid in. Apply No. 16 Dray
ton street.
YV'ILL sell, remarkably cheap, such as
11 clocks, watches, roll-nlated jewelry,
musical instruments, oil paintings, picture
frames, mantel mirrors, curtain cornices,
tinware, etc.; also, patent gas burners. Don’t
fail to call at NATHAN BROS.’, IS6 Congress
street, near Jefferson.
PoardittQ.
SEVERAL young men can be accommo
dated with day board at No. 170 Liberty
6treet.
SOUTHERN' Boarders wanted? first-class
Cc rooms, with or without board; central lo
cation; terms moderate. Address 218 and 253
West Twenty-fourth street. New York city.
Jottern.
r |'HIE~L)RAWI NG
1 OF THE
LITTLE HAVANA
WILL TAKE PLACE
WEDNESDAY),
AUG. 6, ISS4.
WHOtJte TICKETS $2; HALVESSI.
22,000 TICKETS; 808 PRIZES.
CAPITAL PRIZE. ?9.000.
iUonrij to Juaw.
MONEY TO LOAN.
CLEMENT SAUSBT, Money Broker,
No. 12 Whitaker street.
I OANS made on Personal Property. Dia-
A monds and Jewelry bought and sold o
commission. Cash naid for Old Gold, Silver
and Mutilated Coin.
Monk I TO loan.—Liberal loans made
on Diamonds, Gold and silver Watches,
Jewelry, Pistols, Guns, Sewing Machine*,
Wearing Apparel, Mechanics’ Tools, Clocks,
etc., etc., at Licensed Pawnbroker House, IST
Congress street. E. MUHLBEKG, Manager.
N. B.—Highest prices paid tor old Gold and
Silver.
ifubcc ScUroult.
DeKary-Baya Merchants’ Line.
TYBEE FERRY ROUTE.
ON and after SUNDAY, July 27.1854, steam
ers will run, on the Tybee Ferry Route,
the following schedule, viz:
Sundries l From city at 10 a. m. and 3P. x.
sunaays, ( t>om Tyfoe at 7a. m. and 7r. x.
Mondavs, from Tybee at 7 a. m.
Thnnsdava I From cit y at 10 A - and 3p ’
i liurstiajs, ( From Tybee at 7 a. m. and GP. x.
/ From cilv at 5 p. m.
Fridays, jc rom Tybee at 7a. m.
s „timlvs I From city at 5 p. u.
‘ Jtur a -'*’ | From Tybee at 7A. M.
Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Family
Excursion to Warsaw, via Bonavcnture,
Thunderbolt and Tybee.
Commutation tickets for Tybee Route and
Tramway on sale at office.
Freight payable here, and goods only re
ceived up to 15 minutes of departure of steam
ers.
JNO. F. ROBERTSON. General Agent.
Savannah, Ga.
W. B. WATSON. Manager. Jacksonville.
Suburban BaUroaDo.
City and Suburban R’y,
Savannah, Aug. 3,1884.
THE following schedule will be observed
THIS DAY (Sunday), Aug. 3, on the out
side line:
' LEAVE LEAVE
citv ARBITE ISLE OF MONTGOM
i'IIY■ CITY. HOPE. Ear.
6:45 A. m. 8:40 a. x. 8:10 a. mT 8:00 a. h.
10:25 a. m. 1:40 p. x. 1:10 r. m. 1:00 r. x.
3:25 P. M. 7:30 P. x. 7:00 P. X.
7:50 P. X. 7:10 P- M_.
Tide suits for bathing between 4 and i v. X.
J. H. JOHNSTON. President.
gatrlo #uD Sumrarr liroorte^
CATOOSA SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
4 Ll'M, Sulphur, Epsom, Soda. Magnesia,
i V Iron, Limestone, Freestone, etc., each in
separate Springs; also, many other mineral
waters here. Fine band of music: delight™
rooms; clean beds: $2 50 to $3 per day: fl< to
317 50 per week; special rates for longer time
or large parties. A. LEYDEN, Owner and
Proprietor. GEORGE M. TILTON. Manager,
formerlv Stevens' House, New York: Adam*
House, "Boston, Mass.; late Park View Hotel,
Florida. -
T'llE BRISTOL, Eleventh street and Fifth
avenue. New York, near Broadway, an
exclusively respectable family hotel: Amcn
ean plan; superior cuisine; libera! tame,
thoiough attendance; perfect sanitary ar
rangements; nine exits to the street; anipie
fire escapes; moderate terors—one week or
over at regular rates. Further particulars ai
the Pulaski House.
HARNETT HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, CA„
IS conceded to be the most comfortable and
by far the best conducted Hotel in savau
nah. Rates: $2 per day f ITAB NETT._
. IlnbrrtaUrr.
JOHN H pox,
Cabinet Maker and Undertaker.
I WOULD respectfully announce m?**
ready to build or repair office furn
pigeon holes, drawers, stands, tables, an 1
thing in that line; and having just re ■
from Western markets, and selected .i
stock of
UNDERTAKER’S GOOD'.
Would offer my professional services a*
Funeral Director. ir.-kets
Metallic, Wood and Cloth Cases andta
a Telegraphic Orders filled with dispatch.
Very respectfullv.
JOHN H. FOX.
Whitaker and Liberty streets, Sayann ,
Resilience corner Gordon and Lim-0