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Tuesday is the day set apart for the
work of turning tke rascals oat. Let the
work be done well and thoroughly.
If Ohio should new flop ovei into the
Democratic column it would he a splen
did joke os Blaine and the Republican
managers.
Somebody ought to have loaned ex
■ Gov. Moses a rope loag ago. It would
have been well if he had hanged himself
before the war.
Tuesday is the day for the battle of the
ballots, and R looks very much like we
might have a battle of the bullets also in
some localities.
It seems that no one is betting on Ne
vada, Oregon andCalifornia. The Pacilie
6lope will certainly do something for
Cleveland and reform.
Neither the Wall street bankers nor
the faro bankers appear to nave money
enough to buy Blaine’s or Butler's way
into the Presidential chair.
Butler has taken his eye off the Presi
dential chair, and now has it employed
looking for the man who “frowed dat
brick’’ that burst his boom.
Outrages by tramps on defenseless
women and girls are still ot almost daily
occurrence. It is time for the people to
decide that * the tramp must go.”
What are finical people going to do for
ice now? It is said that worms breed
and flourish in ice stored for summer us.
Nothing of the kind has yet been found in
fire.
Let every Democrat in this district
come out Tuesday, and cast his vote for
Hon. Thomas M. Norwood. It the Demo
crats will all vote there is not the shadow
ot doubt of his election.
Avery interesting question now is, will
the excitement abate or increase after
Tuesday next? That depends on how
much rottenness there is in the methods
employed to carry the election.
Coon bunting is now in order. The
colored citizen hunts the four-legged coon
and the Republican politician is on the
wild hunt lor the two-legged coon, and
so the hunter becomes the hunted.
‘•Father needs rest,” is what Walker
Blaine remarked when the menagerie
reached Sew York. It is probable that
the country will “give him a rest” next
Tuesday that will last him the res*, of his
liie.
The Republicans were to blame for the
defeat ot the will of the people of Florida
in 1876. If the electoral vote ot Florida
is counted for Blaine this year the Demo
cratic manageis of that State will be to
blame.
Remember that every Democrat who
stays away from the polls Tuesday casts
a halt vote for Blaine, Logan and Pleas
ant. Do you want it to be remembered
that you passively aided and abetted the
enemy ?
If Blaine should be elected the Repub
licans will be forced to pension the negro
Deputy Marshals—the saviors of the
grand old party. They will be considered
as of far greater value than the Federal
soldiers of the great civil war.
It is said that Mahone is the only
Southern Republican who has b“eu al
lowed to handle any considerable amount
Of the Republican campaign fund. He is
reported to have received $13,000 in one
lump from Sew York the other day.
It is said that Blaine’s only hope now is
to capture or steal the electoral vote of a
Southern State. Let the Southern Demo
crats be prepared for the mana-uvres of
the visiting statesmen, soap dealers and
bulldozers In every part of the South.
The Southern preachers are not dab
bling very much in politics or they could
never discuss the Darwinian theory of
evolution right on the eve of the Presiden
tial election. It is creditable to Southern
preachers that very few of them are petty
politicians.
A large number of political preachers
are praying to-day for the election of
Blaine and Logan. This shows to what
extent hi 6 Satanic Majesty may influence
the contest. It would be well for them to
put in a prayer or two for the salvation of
their souls.
The Republicans are trying to convince
themselves that, while John Kelly has
buried the hatchet, he still has in his
sleeve an open knife concealed for the
Democratic party. If he has a knife the
Republicans may look out for their own
vulnerable points.
The party that proposes to use thou
sands of negro Deputy Marshals to over
awe voters is the party that has always
tried to place the negro and his allies in
power over the people of the South. Re
member to be on hand Tuesday to help
crush this party out of existence.
The Massachusetts Republican mana
gers have tauen steps 10 distribute tickets
in certain portions of the State where the
Prohibition element is strong, having the
names of St. John and Daniel, followed by
the Blaine electors. The trick will doubt
less work something after the manner of
a boomerang.
Now that the friends both ol President
Arthur and Miss Tillie Frelinghuysen
have publicly denied the engagement re
ported a few weeks ago, people will begin
to believe that there was something in it
after all. There is nothing so convincing
in such cases as a square, flat-footed de
nial, and people of both high and low de
gree will prevaricate about matrimonial
matters.
A North Carolina Republican stated in
W ashington, Wednesday, that he was one
of a committee that went to New York
last week for the purpose of inducing the
Republican National Committee to send
$25,000 to North Carolina to carry that
State for Blaine, and that the committee
considered the matter for several days,
and finally concluded that it couldn’t
risk that much money on North Carolina.
Of course the Republicans who wanted
to spend the money are disgusted and
swear that there is not now the slightest
chance for the Republicans to carry the
State. There would not have been much
of a chance if the $25,000 proposition had
been accepted.
Ttw Last Card of the Blaine Mana
gers.
The Blaine managers are playing their
last and, perhaps, in their estimation,
their best card to-day. The selection of
the Sabbath for their nastiest work, and
ministers of the gospel as their instru
ments to accomplish this work, is in keeji
ing w ith their management from the be
ginning of the campaign.
The statement which appeared in our
dispatches yesterday that a circular cal
culated to blacken the character of the
Democratic candidate for Preside lit had
been sent to a very large number of min
isters throughout the North and West,
with a request that the people should be
warned from the pulpit to-day against
.-otingfor Cleveland on account cf his
alleged immorality, would hardlybe en
titled to belief if it were not known that
circulars of the same sort have been
scattered broadcast over the country, and
if such a method of conducting a political
campaign were not in keeping with the
characters of the men who are conduct
ing Blaine’s canvass.
Politics and religion do not mix very
well, and it is to be regretted that minis
j ters of the gospel have seeu lit, not as
i citizens, but as ministers, to step into the
political arena and attempt to influence
the decision of the people. How likely
they are, when speaking as religious
teachers outside ot their legitimate
sphere, to stir up strife, is shown by the
bitter comments which followed the in
temparate language of those of them who
called on Blaine at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel last week.
Doubtless there are Democrats in the
congregations of every one cf tho minis
ters who were conspicuous in honoring
Blaine, and the terms in which their party
was spoken of will weaken probably, the
confidence andsympatby which have here
tofore existed between them and their re
ligious teachers. In biinging religion in
to polities, particularly in a heated cam
paign, the cause of religion is much
more likely to be damaged than politics
is to be elevated.
if from a thousand pulpits to-day an
attack is made on Cleveland the injury
that will be done him will be infinitesimal,
because men of intelligence and character
have decided for whom they will vote;
but who can calculate the harm that will
be done the cause of religion? Feelings of
bitterness will be aroused that a year,
perhaps, will not i>e sufficient to allay.
The Blaine managers, however, evi
dently do not care whether their pro
gramme for carrying the election works
ruin to congregations and churches or
not. They aim at success, and to secure
that they are ready to employ any means,
however disreputable or reprehensible
they may be. Only managers like Elkins
and Clayton would have attempted to use
religious organizations to further their
schemes.
It is to be regretted that the campaign
was not fought on a higher plane. So
much personality and abuse do not
argue well for the future of
the country. It was impossible, how
ever, to avoid making the personal fitness
of the Republican candidate an isiue.
His own party organs, in 18TG and in 1880,
when he sought the position he now has,
impressed upon the country the fact that
he was a political jobber and not fit to be
President.
r lhey commented on the same evidence
of his dishonesty while holding a high
official position that has been used in the
present campaign. Cleveland’s fitness
has not been an issue, but his political
enemies, to break the force of the charges
against Blaine, have slandered him as no
other Presidential candidate has ever
been slandered; and the worst of it is the
aid of the pulpit has been invoked to
spread thes--" slanders.
An Assessment Law Needed.
Modern political economists have very
slightly improved upon the old system of
taxation. In Georgia, r.s far as taxes are
levied for State andeountypurposes.it
may be said that the science of taxation
is still in swaddling clothes. The partly
honest (if that virtue can be qualified)
and partly willing tax-payer bears more
than his share of the burdens of the gov
ernment, and the positively dishonest and
never willing tax-payer is com
paratively free from these inroads
upon his purse. The Legislature
about to assemble can do nothing that
will be of more service to the State tt an
to devise a plan for the equitable assess
ment of property. If they are honest men
and true legislators they will, as soon as
they have divided the political loaves and
Ashes, turn their attention to this impor
tant matter, and give to Georgia a law by
which all shall be made to bear their share
of the burdens of government according
to their ability.
A just system of taxation can only be
carried out where there are true and just
valuations of property. Taxes should be
based upon true values as near as it is
possible for human minds to fix them.
It is not a pleasure to be taxed, and
it is probable that from the earliest ages
when people first began to live together,
and the necessities of government
required each to contribute his share to
wards the general expense, that even the
best of men, the patriarchs of the tribes,
as it were, have endeavored to evade pay
ing their tithes. It is sale to assume that
it has always been a forgiveable sin to lie
to the tax-gatherer. While the tax-payer
has generally used his best endeavors to
pay as little as possible, the government
has done just the opposite. It has tried
to get as much as possible, but so long as
its needs were served and the money ob
tained it cared not whether the tax was
equitable on all property or not.
Let the law-makers of Georgia be true
t) themselves, even at the risk of dis
pleasing some of their constituents, and
give to the State a plan by which the bur
dens of government will be equitably dis
tributed.
This has been more than a u sually ex
pensive campaign to those who have taken
part in processions, and been prominent
in getting up meetings. The National,
State and county committees have not
been abundantly provided with funds, and
individuals have been compelled to
find their own uniforms, torches, etc.
The amount of money spent in the city of
New York has been very large. Persons
of a statistical turn of mind and who pro
fess to be expert at numbers have under
taken to estimate the cost of the various
open-air processions, torchlight and other
wise, in that city, with which last week
wound up the campaign. The calculation
is that the participants numbered about a
quarter of a million of men. The cost to
each for uniform, badges and other accou
trements is set down at $3 (which is prob
ably an underestimate), making a total of
$750,000, which is certainly a liberal out
lay in six days for a city that numbers
less than a million and a quarter inhabi
tants.
A canvess of the professors and stu
dents of Princeton College shows that
Cleveland leads all the candidates. Of
the 38 professors 13 are for Cleveland, 12
for Blaine and 13 have not yet determined
whether they will vote for St. John or not
at all. There are 72 students who have
the right to vote in Princeton. Of these
Cleveland will get 38 and Blaine 34. In
all previous campaigns the sentiment of
the college has been overwhelmingly Re
In Virginia, Tennessee and some other
States the Republicans are preparing to
issue counterfeit Democratic tickets with
the names of Cleveland and Hendricks at
their head, but with the names of the Re
publican electors printed below the cap
tion. There is no species of fraud and
corruption that the Republicans will not
resort to In order to carry the election.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS; SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, ISB4.
A Word of Warning.
The Morning News desires to put the
Democracy of Florida on guard. There
is every reason to believe that the same
tactics will be adopted by the Repub
licans in that State this year that were
60 effective in 1876. The Republicans are
claiming the State, and that looks very
much as if they think they see a good
chance for getting it in some way. The
vote of Florida nr.ay be absolutely neces
sary to Democratic success, and if it is
lost by bad management it will be a source
of never ending regret. Every Democratic
voter should be brought out and the polls
carefully watched to prevent fraud. Only
a few days remain in which to correct
any mistakes and supply any omissions in
the details of the programme for election
day. The reports are that the party man
agement in the State is inefficient. Let
it be proven Vy the result that
the charge is without foundation.
Hurrahing doesn’t win a fight. It is the
discipline and work of a party that tell.
The Republican leaders in Florida are
few in number, but they have heretofore
proven themselves to be wily and ag
gressive campaigners. They are desper
ate because they are fighting for the
spoils. Good government is something
that doesn’t interest them. They can be
depended upon to use every means, fair
and foul, to win the victory. It is proba
ble that they have been supplied lately
with campaign funds and instructed to
use it where it will do the most good for
the national ticket. The Democrats, how
ever, know the men they have to deal
with, and will see to it, doubtless, that
unfair means are not allowed to influence
the result.
Tlie Bishopric of Shanghai.
A cipher dispatch received at the
rooms of the Foreign Missions Protestant
Episcopal Church, New York, announces
the consecration of the Rev. William
Jones Boone, D. D*. as Missionary Bishop
of Shanghai, in that city, on St. Simon’s
and St. Jude’s day. Bishop Boone is the
son ol the late Rev. W. J. Boone, who
married a sister of the late beloved Bishop
Elliott, and is a brother of Rev. Thomas
Boone, Rector of Christ Church, of this
city. Bishop Boone is well known in Sa
vannah, having spent several months here
in 1879.
The London (England) Guardian of
Sept. 29, speaking of the then prospective
event, says:
The Bishop of Ohio writes to us that in
formation has been received from the
mission house in New York that the Pre
siding Bishop Lee, having the consent of
the dioceses and the bishops to the con
secration of the Rev. Mr. Boone as Mis
sionary Bishop of Shanghai, in China, has
taken order for his being so advanced at
that place. He has commissioned Bishop
Williams, of Tokio, In Japan, to act with
any two or more bishops of the missions
of the Church of England in the consecra
tion. It is understood that Bishop Mottle
has kindly offered the use of his
cathedral for this solemn office;
and it is probable that it will take place
on the festival of St. Simon anil St. Jude.
Mr. Boone is a son of the former Bishop
Boone, of China. He was born and bap
tized in Shanghai, has been a faithful
Missionary there for many years, and it
is peculiarly appropriate’ that his ad
vancement to the highest office of the min
istry should be confirmed in that city.
This event will be a happy corollary of
the principle affirmed by the Scotch Epis
copal Church 100 years ago; and it is be
lieved that it will be the first illustration
ol the practical unity of the church on
foreign ground.
The Deputy Marshal Business.
There is no doubt since the Ohio and
3Vest Virginia elections that Blaine, El
kins and company are brilliant organizers
and leaders. The grandest idea of the
campaign was the one that led to the
organization of the Deputy Marshal brig
ades. It has not yet been developed to
whom the credit for the conception of this
plan is due, but it seems to be strongly
suspected that it belongs to Powell Clay
ton.
The Southern people know how the Re
publicans have in the past used specially
appointed United States Deputy Marshals
to protect illegal negro voters and intimi
date Democratic voters and challengers,
but the employing of Deputy Marshals by
the hundreds, and even, it may be said,
by the thousands, is something new in po
litical tactics. These officials are paid
their traveling expenses and $5 per day
by the government, and being kept in ser
vice two days before and two days after
the day of the election, they doubtless
re anage to get from $25 to S4O each out
of the National Treasury. What a temp
tation was this to a Kentucky negro to go
to Cincinnati, or some other place, and
work for and vote the Republican ticket!
What a saving, too, of the Republican
campaign lund was accomplished by
charging the services of these Deputy
Marshals to the government! It is stated
that many, if not a majority, ol these
Marshals, who were ostensibly appointed
to preserve order and protect the ballot
boxes in Ohio, were not only imported ne
gro ruffians, armed with pistols and clubs,
and instructed to carry the day by any
means that might be found necessary, but
that many of them voted early and often
during the election.
There is now no doubt that the Deputy
Marshal business is to be repeated on a
much more gigantic scale on Tuesday.
It is asserted that North Carolina and
Florida are to be especially favored with
the services of these partisan officials.
No doubt other States and districts will
also receive similar attentions.
Let the people be forewarned about this
matter. Under the United States laws
Deputy Marshals have certain duties and
privileges, but these duties and privileges
are limited. Let it be seen that such
cflicials do not go beyond their duties,
overstep their privilegs and trespass
on the rights of the people. It
is important that the State au
thorities shall be amply prepared
to protect voters in their rights and to
prevent frauds and violence, even by the
aid of the illegal work of United States
Deputy Marshals. It should be remem
bered that the elections will be held under
State authority and the judges of election
will be appointed under State laws; and
not only the State constabulary, but the
United States Deputy Marshals also, will
be subject to their call. The Deputy Mar
shals have no right to override the State
authorities in any respect. Nor have
they a right to arrest any voter either go
ing to, at, or going home from the polling
place except for treason, felony, or breach
of the peace.
While the Democratic committees in
all parts of the South are organizing for
the election and urging the people to turn
out and redeem the country, let them not
forget to post them as to the duties of
United states Deputy Marshals and their
right to resist their unauthorized acts.
It is getting to be rather late in the cam
paign for figures, but here are some that
ought to make some of the conservative
Republicans hesitate about continuing the
Republican party in power: The Demo
cratic Campaign Committee at Washing
ton has prepared a statement, under the
direction of the National Committee, com
paring losses to the government by defal
cations under Buchanan's administra
tion with those under Grant’s first term.
The statement claims to show by official
records that the defalcations under Bu
chanan amounted to $2,000,000, while those
during Grant’s first term amounted to
$8,000,000. Thirty-five percent, of the loss
under the former was recovered. Only five
per cent, was recovered of the loss under
the latter.
The committee ought to present the fig
ures for Grant's second term, and for the
terms of Hayes and Arthur. They would
make as bad a showing, doubtless, as
Grant’s first term does.
The weather continues almost as dry
as one of Blaine’s high tariff speeches.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Dark Hint About Louisiana.
Washington Post (.Pern.).
Hades and the penitentiary hold a majority
of the scoundrels who sold Louisiana and
Florida eight years ago. This year there are
no returning boards advertising themselves
for sale—except it be ic Louisiana.
No Time to Think About Gabriel.
Chicory limes (Ind
Blaine was visited in New York by another
deputation of preachers, who exhausted the
adjectives of the language in his praise. If
Gabriel should blow his trumpet during the
campaign, he would find the Republican
preachers too busy j alaverirg over the Maine
demagogue to give him a decent reception.
A Vain and Foolish Boast.
A tishriUe American (Pern.).
Mr. Blaine boasts of the wonderful finan
cial wisdom of his partv in the management
of the national finances. An enormous ac
cumulation of surplus in the Treasury col
lected from the people, and millions more
than is necessary, is a substantial and glaring
evidence of their incapacity to manage the
revenues in accordance with the plainest
business principles.
Wliat the People Want.
Philadelphia Times Ind.).
The people want honest government, re
duced taxes, repealed Treasury surplus, pro
tected labor, dethronement of 'monopoly, and
an honest ballot; and if Mr. Blaine slim.ll be
defeated on Tuesday next, as now seemsmore
than probable, it will We because he has been
weighed and found wanting as the representa
tive of “government of the people, for the
people, by the people.”
ITEMS OK INTEREST.
Am elephant herd is always led by a female,
ne<*er by a male.
A government order is compelling the in
habitants of Sierra Leone, in Western Africa,
to dispense with all bamboo thatched houses
on account of their liability to fire.
The West Africa Reporter cries out
against the umbrella tree planted in great
quantities by the government. It says they
are unhealthy and serve to harbor thieves.
Tjie banking firm of Rothschild, in London,
employ women exclusively as coupon count
ers. and experience shows that they are far
more reliable and intelligent than male em
ployes.
Some of the teachers in the public schools of
St. Johnsbury, Vt., have been notified by the
school committee that attendance attheskat
ing rink will be considered equivalent to a
resignation.
Tiie clam is gradually propagating itself
all aloDg the California coast. It is only 10
years since the bivalve became common on
file shores of San Francisco Bay, and now it
is found as far down the coast as Santa Bar
bara.
The largest dog to be exhibited at the
New York bench show, a St. Bernard,
owned by G. U. Gilders’eeve, is 82 inches high
and 7 feet 2 inches from the point of the nose
to the tip of the tail, thus being larger than
Joe Emmet’s famous dog.
On the occasion of the festivities of Cour
bara Bairam in Turkey, the Sultan ordered
that a number of sheep killed iu sacrifice at
Y ildiz should lie sent to the different semina
ries of Stamboul for tlie use of the poor stu
dents living on the premises.
In digging a hole to plant a St. John flag
pole in Indiana the workmen struck a spring
ol' water. A hole was bored in the pole ami
it was transformed into a pump, where tlie
faithful can slake their thirst and show their
respect for the cause at the same time.
The forty-ninth annual convention of the
Baptist Association of Maryland was thrown
into great excitement because they thought
two ladies were going to take seats. It was
found, however, that they simply wanted to
make a report on some missionary work.
An old soldier writes to the London Truth
that the survivors of Havelock’s column,
which saved the Presidency of Lucknow with
the loss of GO officers and 700 men, have never
received a clasp. Truth asYs if this does not
contrast strangely with the medals and deco
rations “which have been lavished upon
troops in Egypt for putting to flight a few
trembling fellahs.”
The great Nadeau vineyard at Florence,
Cal., containing 2,000 acres of vines, 2% years
old, is doing remarkably well this year. Sev
eral tons of sugar have been imported at St.
Helena, Cal., by wine-makers to use in their
business, because of the absence of the usual
quantity of saccharine matter in the grapes.
The grape crop in upper Napa valley has been
remarkable this season.
A California man has discovered anew
way to “kill a cat.” Near Chico he treed a
large wildcat, and, having no fire-arms, set
his wits to work for means to kill it. He went
to camp and got a rope, founds, forked limb
that would serve as a pulley, passed the rope
over it, lassoed the cat and lowered him with
in a few feet of the ground, where he killed
the animal with a club.
Along the coast of the Alaska peninsula the
bears have been unusually plentiful and fero
cious this season. In the neighborhood of
Belkovsky one man was disemboweled in his
tent and lacerated to such an extent that the
remains had to be buried on the spot. An
other man had his arm crushed by the fangs
of one of these animals. Women and children
did not dare to take their usual share in the
labor of fishing along the river banks.
It is a common mistake to assume that Aus
tralia is a country destitute of large rivers;
on the contrary, it possesses ote of the long
est in the world, viz., the Darling, which is
navigable for 2,345 miles, placing it third in
rank among the rivers of the world, estimated
by their navigable length, and considerably
above the Nile, navigable for 1.500 miles; the
Danube, navigable for 1,700 miles; the Rhine,
navigable for 000 miles, and the Thames, navi
gable for 188 miles.
A certain clergyman, who would probably
classify himself as an “impressionist,” hap
pened to be passing a shop of a parishioner,
and. being desirous of emphasizing a great
moral lesson, bounds lightly in through the
door, emitting a wild whoop. Naturally the
parishioner starts. “You didn’t expect me—
you weren't prepared for mci" questions the
clergyman. ”1 vas not.” “Then suppose I
had been death—where would you have been,
eh'r” yells the clergyman, and vanishes.
“PniL” Armour, ihe pork king, has with
drawn from the firm of Plankinton & Armour
of Milwaukee, of which he has been a mem
ber for 20 years. It appears that Plankinton
is quite as remarkable an example of money
making as Armour. lie came to Milwaukee
in 1*34, doing business as a retail butcher in a
building which he constructed for the modest
sum of $1(8. Rot his fortune grew apace;
venture after venture prospered, and in 1880
he was a member of a firm whose business
amounted t 0512,000,000 annually.
Certain ingenious Parisians are experi
menting with an apparatus for utilizing solar
heat and using it in lieu of coal. To affect
this the sun's rays are concentrated by a re
flector, which so moves as to keep the rays
focassed on a vertical boiler, which is thus
heated, producing steam enough to drive a
press. Iu a recent experiment the sun-made
steam drove a large press, which struck off
several thousand copies of a specimen news
paper. Farties interested in thus obtaining
the cheapest attainable heat profess them
selves as well satisfied with ihe first test, and
arc in high hopes of soon being able to gener
ate steam without coal or any other mundane
fuel.
Vice Admiral Close, of the British Navy,
has offered a singular explanation about the
loss of the gunboat Wasp recently off the Irish
coast. There exists, it seems, a form of de
fective eight known as “moon blindness,”
persons afflicted with which are unable to
perceive a light shining in darkness. It is easy
to see the consequences of this infirmity in the
navigating officer of a ship. Admiral Close
says ne nearly lost the man-of-yvar Trident
once from this cause, ouly discovering in the
nick of time that his navigating officer was
unable to see the light of a lighthouse half a
mile distant. If “moon bliniiness" is an es
tablished fact in medical science, the sooner
provision for detecting it is made the better.
A Boulogne correspondent writes that
the cook at a school in the Gironde, having
gathered a quantity of poisonous mushrooms
in the vicinity, served them to the boys, 13 in
ntimber, for breakfast. The whole of them
were seized with most violent pains. Several
doctors attended them, but in vain. Eleven
of the children died. In cookiDg this treach
erous food it is generally believed that if a
silver coin placed in the saucepan is not dis
colored, the mushrooms are yvnolesome. The
test was resorted to on this occasion, but sig
nally failed. A month ago two little girls
■< re poisoned at Arras through a similar
misadventure, and a further case took place
near Lyons, when a yvhole family were
attacked—the father, mother and 5 children.
The dramatist, M. Sardou, has interviewed
and describes Mme. Bernhardt as really ill,
and her nerves are unstrung and prostrated.
Besides her artistic cares, she is subject to
money anxieties arising from frightful negli
gences of her pecuniary affairs. She exag
ferateseverthingin life, from grief to joy.
he deals in money matters in a breakneck
fashion, making her money fly to the right
and left. She has exhausting angers and
furious hates. M. Sardou visited her recent
ly. when he found her a prey to the most vio
lent excitement, twisting her body and rolling
about the carpet, biting the rug, sobbing, and
in a high state of exasperation. A domestic
drama had evidently just been finished; there
were blows in the air. M. Sardou expects a
speedy recovery of Mme. Bernhardt, and only
the magnetizing doctor is now permitted to
see her.
BKIGHT BITS.
The Philadelphia Record says that Gail
Hamilton eeems to have been an adept in
casting her rancor to windward.
In order to make an election impartial,
We swear in a thug and then call him a Mar
shal.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
During a heavy rain-storm a lady re
marked: “llow it pours! This must be our
equinoctial storm.” “Why, no,” exclaimed
another, scornfully; “we had that last
spring.”— Harper's Bazar.
“Yes,” said Mrs. Firegilt; “everybody
thinks my new furniture is spilendid. It is of
the Louis Carthorse pattern, you know.
Funny name, Mr. F. says, but I think it’s
vulgar.” —Boston Transcript.
In Vienna it is considered gratifvingly
democratic that Emperor Francis Joseph
shaves himself. And it is remarked in Russia
that the Czar has a pretty close shave when
ever be sticks his head out o’ doors.
A photographer in Greenwich, Conn.,
who put up the following notice on his door,
had a brisk revival of business; “In conse
quence-ef this being the anniversary of the
death of my mother-in-law, pictures to-day
will be taken at half price.”
The act came to a close, and the two gen
tlemen rose, left the r wives and retired to
the lobby to obtain the latest quotations con
cerning" lime juice. Mrs. Brown remarked
casually to Mrs. Smith: “Does your husband
often go out between acts?” '“No; but he
always comes in between drinks.”— San
Francisco Post.
“Where have you been?” “Just got back
from the East.”'“Did you see many New
Y'ork business men?” “Oh, yes; any number
or ’em.” “How do they stand politically?”
“All for Blaine.” “When did you leave New
Y’ork?” “I haven’t been to New York.”
•• Then where did vou see so inanv New York
business men?” “In Canada.”— Chicago Sews.
The truth is olten spoken inadvertently. A
French Bishop in the course of a talk with a
smart young man mechanically opened his
snuff-box and offered it to his questioner.
“Much obliged, no, monsigneur,” was the an
swer; “thanks to God, I have not this de
fect.” “Oh,” returned the prelate laughing,
“if it were a defect you would have it.”
Sweet is the voice of the maiden fair;
Bright is the glow of the rising moon;
Soft are the zephyrs that stir the air;
Loud is the blast of the tiombone’s tune.
The maiden will sleep ere the morning gray;
The glow of the moon will fade away;
The zephyrs will die when the night'is gone;
But the brazen trombone will still play on.
—Somerville Journal.
PERSONAL.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale is now con
ducting the morning prayers at Harvard Uni
versity.
The late Senator Anthony’s present of
6,000 volumes to Brown University is valued
at 425,000.
gißs Clara Barton, President of the
American Red Cross Association, has taken
out a permit for the erection of the associa
tion's first building in Washington.
Dr. Woolsey seems to have got out of the
Y’ale corporation just in time. Pretty much
every professor in the college has published
his intention to vote against Blaine.
„ Rev. John Brown. B. A., of Bedford, who
is engaged on anew biography of John Buu
yan, reports that the author of “Pilgrim’s
Progress " was in jail two years additional to
the 12 with which he has usuallv teen cred
ited.
Mrs. Matthew Webb, widow of the swim
mer swamped at Niagara Falls, complains
that she never has received the 43,000 known
to have been subscribed for her benefit by
friends of her husband in England. Seems to
be some tangle in this Webb business.
Mrs. Berckefeldt, the wife of Alexander
Berckefeldt, recently found in destitute cir
cumstances in Chicago, proves to lie a niece of
Richard Wagner, the composer of fame. Her
maiden name was Dorthea Brockhaus. Her
mother was Wagner’s youngest sister and her
father was one of the three Brockhaus
brothers, proprietors of the noted Leipzig
publishing house.
Gen. Clunie, the sagacious California
Democratic manager and orator, being upset
by u defective roadway while riding with
Judge Craig to a political meeting in South
San Francisco, dropped all national issues,
and made such an onset upon the street com
mittee of the supervisors, nearly all of whom
are candidates for re-election, that the equil
ibrium of the Pacific coast is ser ously dis
turbed.
In a cemetery in Fredericksburg, Ya.,
there is a red sandstone slab with the follow
ing inscription:
Here lies the body of
Edward Heldon,
Practitioner in Physics and Chirurgery.
Born in Bedfordshire, England, in the year
of our Lord 1342. Was contemporary with
and one of the pall-bearers of William Shake
speare, of the Avon. After a brief illness his
spirit ascended in the vear of our Lord 1618-
aged 76.
A REMINISCENCE OF THE AVAR.
Experiences of One Whose Home was
on Debatable Ground.
Written for the Homing Xeics.
Living, as we did, oa debatable land
during the “late unpleasantness,” our
experience was lively and varied—not
varied, however, in the way of loss, as the
visits of friend or foe were equally disas
trous to our larder, poultry yard, dairy,
and stable—with this difference, that we
would gladly have divided our last crust
with the Confederates, while", upon the
other party in the conflict, our hospitality
was grudgingly bestowed.
Our farm extended for some distance
on each side of the turnpike road from
Warrenton to Manassas—a road which
was a perfect highway for the troops of
both armies—along which the Confederate
army fell back from Manassas and Pope’s
command retreated to Manassas in 1862,
quickly pursued by D. 11. Hill’s division.
To give you an idea of the life we led
and the stirring scenes we witnessed, I
will briefly describe the events of a single
day. We awoke one morning to find our
selves surrounded by a large force of Con
federate cavalry, commanded by Gen. J.
E. B. Stewart in person. He had come to
reconnoitre the enemy’s position, as a
general advance of the’Federal army was
expected. Later in the morning a scout
ing party returned with the information
that Federal cavalry was advancing in
force. Gen. Stewart fell back a mile to
draw them on, and also to await a signal
from Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who was also
making a reconnoisance on the line ol the
railroad just a few miles across the coun
try from Stewart.
When the dinner hour arrived, our
friends were out of sight, and we were io
the midst of the enemy—tbe stars and
stripes waving over the spot where Stew
art’s flag had been planted in the early
morning. AVbile the hot dinner was
smoking on the table, and while the Yan
kees were enjoying the hospitality they de
manded as a right, the awful sullen sound
was heard of a cannon fired. One of the
younger members of the family sprang
up, exclaiming eagerly: “Fitz Lee!”
“F.itz Lee!” The Yankees left
in haste, and stood not oa
the order of their going. They had
need to make haste, for Fitzhugh Lee
was in their rear, Stewart in front of
them, and in less time than lean describe
it, the well known Confederate “yell” was
heard, and Stewart came charging down
the turnpike. The Federals made no fight
of any account, but put spurs to their
horses, and we non-combatants on the
piazza enjoyed seeing the race. In the
melee several A'ankees were killed just at
our gate, and my father had them decent
ly buried the next day. That night our
house was headquarters again for Stewart,
Rosser and other officers, and the Confed
erate flag was again hoisted in the front
yard. Col. Mosby, of guerrilla notoriety,
made our debateable land the scene of fre
quent raids and skirmishes.
In one of the skirmishes the celebrated
scout was badly wounded himself, and
his command forced to retreat. He rode
with his men as long as he could sit upon
his horse, then sought refuge in the house
ot a friendly farmer, who scarcely had
time to assist him into the family "room
before the alarm was given, “the A'ankees
are coming!” In a few moments more
they had surrounded and w ere searching
the house. Mosby hurriedly asked his
host not to betray his real name, but
merely to say “he was one of Mosby’s
men.” >v hen*the soldiers entered the room
Mosby was lying on the floor feigning to be
dead, and he might well have been taken
lor a corpse, so limp and pale he was from
loss of blood. With most remarkable
fortitude he endured their rough hand
ling as one past sensibility, and they left
the room convinced they had found naught
in their search but one poor, dead Con
federate.
After the A'ankees rode off Mosby tar
ried but lensr enough to have his wound
dressed and to take refreshment, when he
was carried back to the Confederate lines
for recovery. Had the Federals discov
ered his identity ho would have been
hung, and he knew they threatened him
with that fate.
After a midnight raid upon some un
suspecting camp, I have seen him with
his men galloping back to their mountain
fastnesses, and soon the A'ankees would
come dashing ijp, in hot pursuit, with
drawn sabres,' and would search the
house in the most thorough and business
like manner, opening cupboards and bu
reau drawers in their zeal to find a “dodg
ing rebel,” while the Confederates them
selves were speeding awav on their fleet
horses to the security of the mountains.
H.
A Capital Scheme.
Xeto York Sun.
“What do you do when people come in
and bore you ?” a warm personal friend
asked of a merchant.
“When they stay too long the office boy,
who is very bright and knows when to in
terfere, tells me that a gentlemen is in the
counting-room waiting to see me on im
portant business.”
“Ha! ha! That’s a capital way to get
rid of bores who don’t know—”
Just then the boy opened the door and
sang out:
“Gent in the countin’-room waitin’ to
see you on important business.”
WASHINGTON CHURCHES.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS CON
CERNING ST. PATRICK’S.
A Choir of Negroes and an Incident of
the War of 181*—Logau’s Bad Bargain
With Blaine, and How the Former it
Bitterly Kueing It.
Correspondence oj the Morning yeses.
Washington, Oct. 31.— The Roman
Catholic Church now has two very hand
some church edifices in Washington. One,
St. Dominick’s, in South Washington, has
been standing several years. The other,
St. Patrick’s, has just been completed.
Both are built on the same general plan
in the high Gothic style of graystone.
They are very handsome structures.
Neither of them is the fashionable Roman
church, though. This is St. Matthew’s,
an old church which ought to be replaced,
standing on the corner of Sixteenth and
H streets, diagonally across from Worm
ley’s. This is the church which most of
the members of the Diplomatic Corps at
tend. It was Mrs. Gen. Sherman’s church,
is Gen. Sheridan’s,and is attended by many
other prominent people. It is quite
fashionable, too, to attend afternoon or
vesper service at St. Augustine’s, the im
posing church of colored Roman Catho
lics farther up on Fifteenth street, and
still in the fashionable quarter. The
music at St. Augustine, where there is a
trained choir ot colored men and women,
is said to be the best church music in the
city. The present Miss Blaine, who is a
Roman Catholic, takes her father there
when they are iu town. This, of course,
does not prevent Blame from using a
rarely-covered old altar and a sideboard
iu his diDing-rcom. I wanted to say
something about St. Patrick’s, the oldest
congregation in the city. In 1794 Father
McCaffrey, who had charge ot the little
band of Catholics then living here, bought
some lots from the United States on the
corner of Tend and F streets, and bv per
severing efforts succeeded in putting up a
little chapel on one of them. That was
the first St. Patrick’s Church. In 1804
Father William Matthews, President of
Georgetown College, succeeded Father
McCaffrey, remaining as pastor until
his death, nearly 50 years afterward.
Although educated abroad, he wa9 the
first native American priest ordained in
this country. He was never absent during
his long service but once, and then only
for a week, when he was fulfilling a
church mission in Philadelphia. His suc
cessor wa9 Father O’Toole, and his was
Father Walter, the present incumbent,
who became pastor April 14, 1860. Father
Matthew s had no assistant for 20 years
after his appointment. He officiated
right through the war of 1812, remaining
at his post even when everybody else ran
away on the day the’ British
entered Washington. The good father
was saying mass that day,
when he observed some British soldiers
entering the church. They remained
through the service, and then’followed the
brave priest into his house. While he was
awaiting arrest and possible indignities
at their hands with the calm fortitude
of a man of God, one of them timidlv ap
proached him and said that he and his
comrades were of the Catholic faith and
had come for confession. The good
father, greatly relieved, led the way to the
confessional, where, ardent patriot as he
was, he heard the confession of the
enemies of his country and granted them
full absolution. From 1822 Father
Matthews had assistants. One of them
at least was famous. This was Father
Dubuisson, under whom some miracul-
lous cures were effected. The
moat celebrated was in the
case of Mrs. Mattingly, who
iu 1823 was dving from consumption. Her
physician said she could live but a few
days. At Father Dubuisson’s suggestion
a novena was made. At the close of the
novena, in which many friends united
with Mrs. Mattingly, mass was cele
brated at 2 o’clock in the morning. Here,
Father Dubuisson, taking the host just
consecrated, administered the communion
to the dying woman. From that moment
she grew better and lived for 50 years af
terwards, dying on the anniversary of her
cure. Sister Aftpolonia of the George
town convent, who was cured of con
sumption about the same time by the same
means, is still living and we’ll.* When
Father Walter, a little man with a
big head and a big heart,
came to the pastorate in 1860, the little
church and pastoral residence were
so dilapidated that he resolved to replace
them as speedily as possible. He has
been working with indefatigable zeal ever
since, and the result is an edifice of which
he and his congregation are justly proud.
He might have reached this result" years
ago if he had been willing to erect a" debt
at the same time that he erected his
church. But this he was unwilling to do.
A debt, he said, would put him in his
grave. When he had money he built—
when he had none he stopped. So, al
though the corner-stone was laid in 1870,
the church was not finished until 1884.
Mean while Father W'alter has built a
pastoral residence, a large hall known as
Carroll Hall, in which the congregation
has worshipped since 1870, and has leased
all the land on which the old church
stood for ?9 years. It is already covered
with a valuable business block, which
will, of course, revert to this church at
the expiration of the lease. 1 confess to
a great admiration for the plucky little
priest with his high ideas and his brave
achievements.
I DON’T WONDER THAT LOGAN IS SORE.
From his point of view he has been treated
shamefully. Last winter when Mr.
Blaine was writing history of a partial
sort with his right hand and waving po
litical visitors off with the left he
called one day sbetween chapters
on Mrs. and ’ Gen. • Logan. His
object in calling was to conclude a treaty
with the Logans, which ought to be as
famous as any iu political history. U nder
the terms of that treaty each was to do
all he could to get delegates in his own
interest to Chicago, hut neither was to
antagonize the other. Then at Chicago
he who should seem most likely of elec
tion should receive the full strength of
the other. AV'ell now, of course the Truth
ful James knew by that time that he
would have more delegates at Chicago
than any other one man, and that they
would lie political workers of the sort to
be depended upon. On the other hand,
the “brutally candid” Logan, who
hated Blaine quite as fervently as
Blaine despised him, blinded by
his own intense desire for the
nomination, which developed his ezotism
as it had never been developed before, and
that is saying a great deal, laid the flat
tering unction to his soul that he would
have more delegates at Chicago than any
other one man, and so would be the final
beneficiary of tbe little agreement just
concluded. Airs. Logan was sensible
enough to see that her thick-headed hus
band would not get the Presidential nomi
nation, but she hoped that under an un
derstanding supplementary to the agree
ment with Blaine that the latter might
secure “John” the A'ice Presidential
nomination. “John” held his peculiar
belief that he would be nominated up to
the afternoon of the day on which Blaine
was nominated. His friends in Chicago
bad telegraphed him the day before that
Blaine would probably be nominated, and
had urged him to authorize them to trans
fer his strength to Blaine, but Logan had
refused. Mrs. Logan had been laboring
with him all the day. At last, in tbe
afternoon, he allowed her to telegraph his
representatives to throw his strength for
Blaine, and so saved his A'ice Presiden
tial bacon. But he was a very angry, a
very sore man. His disappointment was,
in the words of his ally, “burning, bitter
and humiliating.’’ He’fumed and fussed
all afternoon, he fussed and fumed all
evening. His nomination to the A'ice
Presidency did not pacify him, although
it satisfied his wife, who had been work
ing for nothing more. To peo
p’e who called to congratu
late him Logan was curt and cross.
AValker Blaine called with his father’s
“ congratulations He was treated with
the same scant courtesy as the rest. He
was very glad to get outside in a very
few minutes. Meanwhile Logan wa’s
nursing his wrath, and when almost
everybody had gone he buret out like a
suddenly liberated bull of Bashaw. His
only consolation was that, to his mind at
least, Blaine owed his nomination to him.
“I nominated him,” he said again and
again. Naturally he expected some con
sideration at the hands or Blaine and his
friends in the campaign. He has had
none. They have ignored him not only
in their speeches, but, so far as was pos
sible, in their intercourse. They have actu
ally avoided communication with him.
Proud, and in his way sensitive, their
studied neglect has stung Logan to the
quick. He bites his tongue, he gnaws bis
moustache, when he thinks of it. He
does not hesitate to express his emphatic
opinion, with his usual profanity, that
Blaine’s National Committee are a set of
“nincompoops;” that the “Blaine hippo
drome” (I quote his own phrases) was
“a useless pageant;” that “Blaine and
his crowd” have been “a dead weight on
the campaign, wining and dining and
gallivanting all over the country while me
and my friends have been doing the hard
work in the field.” Y’ou can
imagine how a “candidly brutal”
impulsive fellow like Logan would talk
under such exasperating conditions.
Nothing that you could imagine him say
ing would be far from the fact. He would
dearly love to see Blaine beaten it he him
self were not so inextricably tangled up
with him. As it is, his disappointment at
this defeat will be tempered with grim
joy. He can stand It, and he knows Blaine
can’t.
A FUNNY FEATURE OF UNIVERSITY LIFE
in Washington is the quadrennial election
leave ot two weeks given by the law and
medical schools at this time every Presi
dential year. Most of the students in
these schools are employed in the depart
ments, and it is assumed that they will
all want to go home to vote.
The tariff-for-revenue views of Secreta
ry of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch,
which I telegraphed you when he was ap
pointed, are,’ I am happy to say, those of
President Arthur. I see no good reason
why they should not be expressed in their
respective recommendations to Congress
next month.
Allan Arthur’s fiancee is at last in
Europe. Allan is at last in Princeton, and
the President breathes freely again.
Bro’wn-Floyd.
THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER.
Incidents of a Trip from Fort Gaines to
Bainbridge.
Those who have never sailed down the
Chattahoochee river can have any concep
tion of the novelty of a trip from Fort
Gaines to Bainbridge by boat. The steam
ers are built so that they draw but three
feet of water when loaded. The boats are
stern-wheelers, and are exceedingly prim
itive in appearance. The river now is
lower than it has been for many years,
and navigation tries, not only the ingenu
ity of the Captain, the patience of the
traveler, but the durability of the stern
wheeler.
Shortly after our craft had left Fort
Gaines the high bluffs, verdant with the
overhanging willows, laurels and oaks,
grew more picturesque, with a peculiar
formation of limestone, washed into fan
tastic 6hapes. The tiny ferns creeping
out of crevices and ledges look as though
it had been some time since the current
had disturbed their roots. At each bend
in ttie river beautiful views came into
sight, like some new scene in a pano
rama.
As I sat upon the upper deck, enjoying
each new picture, watching the water
birds glide over the placid surface of the
river, rippling its bosom as they sought
some more sequestered spot, I wondered
if any other State or country contained a
more peaceful region than that which was
passing in review. All was quiet; even
the crew seemed to be sleeping, as they
lay stretched at full length upon the cot
ton bales. Nothing broke the languid si
lence, save the labored thumping of the
engine and the slashing of the wheel. The
volume of black smoke, as it curled from
the stacks, seemed to give this bright,
peacelul picture an ebony lratne.
I was brought back from dreamland by
feeling the boat strike upon something,
tremble and stop. Then followed an
appalling silence, perhaps for a few
seconds, but which seemed to me an
hour, fearing each moment that the boat
would turn upon her side and sink. It
was quite evident we had run into some-
thing; it could not be another boat, for
there was none in sight. It might be a
rock or snag. Could I swim to shore?
Had I better jump overboard before the
boiler exploded ? These and many such
thoughts passed through my mind.
I heard the bell in the engine-room ring.
With that sound came relief, because I
appreciated the fact that the Captain was
going to try and save the boat. I heard
the bell ring again, and the wheel began
to work vigorously, but still we did not
move. The engine wa9 stopped and
started backwards several times, but
without any apparent effect. I heard the
Captain give orders to get the small boat
ready. 1 had by this time sufficiently
recovered my equinimity to ask the mate,
who passed me, what was the matter.
“OH, NOTHING MUCH,”
he said, “except that we are on a sand
bank.” The small boat was lowered into
the river and manned by three of the
crew. A large coil of rope was passed
to them, and, as they drew away
from ns. the deck-hands let out the slack.
1 saw, as the small skiff approached the
shore, that the intention was to make the
rope fast to a tree, 1 interrogated tbe
mate again as to how long we would stay
here. “Can’t tell! May stick a few
minutes or we may be here all night.”
This was encouraging, but I concluded to
make the best of if. The rope was made
fast to a sturdy oak, the slack drawn in,
passed around the capstan, and the en
gine connected with it set in motion. AVe
were actually going to be hauled over the
bank by main force. This was ac
complished after much puffing and bell
ringing. Certainly this was a novel sensa
tion, and one that will not soon be for
gotten.
AVe glided on until we reached Co
s a large pile of cotton
awaited us. 1 made some inquiry as to
where mest of the cotton was to be
shipped. To my disappointment and sor
row I was informed to New Orleans. I
asked a man who seemed to be well posted
why it was not shipped to Savann’ah. I
was told that it was cheaper to ship it to
New A'ork than Savannah, as the Central
Road had a rate of ten cents a hundred
from many of the landings along the river
direct to New A'ork via the Ocean Steam
ship Line. I found that cotton is shipped
to New Orleans instead of Savannah for
several reasons. One is that the New
Orleans merchants offer planters more
liberal inducements in the way of ad
vances; another is that cotton is classed
higher there than in Savannah. These are
the reasons given me. AVbat the reasons
are I do not know of my own knowledge,
but those who deal in this product know
better than I do. It is a fact, however,
that much cotton is being shipped else
where that should be handled by Savan
nah.
THE FOLLOWING MORNING THE FIRST
OBJECT
that attracted my attention as 1 stepped
upon the deck was a craft similar to the
Amos Hayes, the boat I was on. Evident
ly the companion ahead of us was in
trouble. I soon discovered she had four
lines out attached to the shore, and de
cided she found it a more difficult task to
crawl over the sand bank she was on than
we had the night before. As she was
stretched across the channel, or rather
the place where the channel should have
been, it was an impossibility for us to
pass her. AYhen we got within conversa
tional distance I discovered the boat’s
name was the Thornateeska, the Indian
name for the Flint river, and that she was
going to Bainbridge. 1 informed the Cap
tain that I desired to go on board of her,
and he kindly sent the small boat for me.
All that day we kept running upon
sand banks, and passing as well as being
passed by the Amos Hayes. I amused
mvself by counting the skeletons ot boats
that had sunk at high water many years
before, but these frames, resembling
bleached skeletons, make the bed of the
river resemble the path used by the cara
vans crossing the African desert.
The scenery along the Flint river is as
beautiful as that of the Chattahoochee,
but one tiies of river Scenery after having
nothing else for two days, and I was well
satisfied when the Thornateeska reached
her wharf at Bainbridge. Snap.
Flow Napoleon Met Eugenie.
Munson's Weekly.
It was at a ball given by President Na
poleon at the Elvsee, some nights before
the coup d’etat , that Mile. Eugenie met
her future husband. A romance is con
nected with this meeting. Wishing to
avoid the crowded ball rooms, Louis Na
poleon. with the Duke of La Moskowa,
went into the Elysee gardens, where he
suddenly came upon a radiant, blushing
girl. She was tying up her hair, alone,
opposite a glass in the conservatory. Her
hair had come down during a waltz, and
the crowd was too great to admit of her
reaching the ladies’ dressing-room. She
had glided to this place, hoping to be un
observed. Tbis little circumstance or the
fall of her back hair led to her subsequent
elevation to one of the proudest positions
ever occupied by a woman.
An Anecdote of Judge Blacb.
Springfield Republican.
Once the late Judge Black, in examin
ing a witness who had been in the army,
said: “Come, soldier, tell us what you
know of this matter?” “I am no soldier;
I am an officer,” haughtily responded the
witness. Whereupon the old lawyer
calmly said: “Well, then, officer, who is
no soldier, tell us what you know.” The
vain fellow was crushed.
Unless the breath is like a spicy gale.
Unless the tee'h gleam like the driven snow,
Tnere is no dazzbng smile or tender tale.
Grateful to woman’s eye or ear, we know.
The tale woula lose its charms—the smile be
gaunt.
Unless within the spell of Sozodont.
ereonai.
(election) night, as thev will "Vo ™ i*
most complete and reliable telegrs™ f, the
every State in the Union. Jam/™®
UiaitteoT#
Wof Photographs^mase by the new?™?®*
taneous process is reduced: Cabinet.-™? 48 "
dozen; all work guaranteed first cl
particular. J. N. WILSON. U
YU ANTED, a few agents In city ITT,?"
'.LI:"(£ rpr ‘“ Bu “ cr,w ’"“
dress J. D. L., News office. BCes ' AiJ.
YU ANTED, a white woman
” and cooking. Apply log T a v ! r . rork
second door west of Drayton. 1S " or >ireet >
\\TANTED, at once, in a
woman or girt, white or™/>forr i *
particulars apply at loi Gwinnen i°™4" For
NV quaintance desires -i!?*?* 46 ’
drummer. Address C, !>.. Cit ?
\V ANTED, ladies and young“
it to earn 41 to 43 cverv s , hm ?
their homes; work furnished;
no canvassing; no stamps required for
4 lease address EDWARD F Davis
38South Main street. Fall River. mV.7 J CO,
gov litnt.
r ,J R RENT,
r street, south west corner Whitaker
yard and garden; immediate i rge
LAWTON A CUNNINGHAM, 114 llrv;,,'?'
HT O RENT, a house on
1 Apply to WM. BOUHAN,
Huntingdon and Mercer streets. tr 01
T? OR KENT, desira’le front ro^~'
J. or connecting; suitable for light hou£*
keeping; 163 York street. <n ’ Be ‘
OFFICE FOR RENT—Large uo'TTZ
office in Stoddard’s Upper Ranee
ply at once to JOHN SULLIVAN,Vi nL"
street. ua i
VOR RENT, dwelling with six
T small rooms; modern improvement- in
quire 53 Tattnall or 116*4 Bryan streets. ’
TO RENT, that desirable brick r< dence
No. 150 Harris street, third door west of
Whitaker; all modern conven enees■ p n -ses
sion given immediately. Apply to 1.. J i-rn’
MARTIN A CO., 120 Bay street. UL "
VOR RENT, large room fronting on e iU arc-
A boarders wanted; 89 York street.
FOR RENT, a suiteof rooms on second floor
southern front, with modern conveni
ences; board if desired. Apply at 1,6 I ihertv
street. 1
FjiOß RENT, to single gentleman, a oublc
room, partly furnished,near Forsvth Park
Address Y,, this office.
ijiOß RENT, furnished rooms, with the use
of hath, Jones and Trice streets; oon
venient to S., F. and W. Ry.
RENT, to gentlemen, several fur-
X uished rooms, with attention, gas and
bath; 153 South Broad street.
*TBO RENT, furnished or unfurnished rooms,
X at 58 Broughton street.
FOR RENT, flat of rooms: separate hath
and closet. Apply at 132 Taylor street
second door west ot Bull.
’VILE ROOMS, with board: convenient to
Ax business; also, two nice rooms to rent in
outbuilding; 156 State street.
IT'OU RENT, four-story brick residence No.
88 Abereorn street. Apply to c. C.
TALIAFERRO, 47 West Broad stre. t.
FOR RENT, that desirable residence south
west corner Barnard and Henry streets.
Apply to 1)K. L. A. FALLIGANT.
fpOU RENT, steam power, with room. \u
ply to JOHN H. RU WE, No. 71 Bay street.
IT'OU RENT, the store and three rooms at
tached at the corner of Wheaton and
Perry streets. Also, the comfortable brick
residence 52 Jones street, between Haber
sham and Lincoln streets; contains 9 rooms.
Also, two-story residence comer Hali and
Montgomery streets; contains 7 rooms.
C. 11. DORSETT.
L ( *R RENT, one large room on second floor
X 1 and two on third floor; furnished or ua
furnished; at 136 State street.
I j'Oß RENT, four connecting rooms. Apply
’ 42 Lincoln street.
IpOlt RENT, from Nov. 1 next, that desir
able residence southwest corner Jnnes
and Drayton streets. Apply to A. N. WIL
SON, internal Revenue office.
TAOR RENT OR SALE, house No. 121 Gor
i tion street, with all modern improvements,
in perfect order; for sale on very liberal
terms. Z. FALK, corner Congress and
hitaker streets.
IT' Oit RENT, the very desirable office 54 Bav
street, originally occupied by Andrew
Low k Cos., with warehouse attached. Ap
ply to WM. L. WAKELEE, 54 Bay street.
FOR RENT, a large, comfortable sooth
room, and a hall bedroom, at 1,7 Perry
sireet.
lor Sal?.
OYSTERS. —Families supplied with fine
fresh Single Oysters, opened every morn
ing and evening. Send in your orders for the
season; delivered to any part of the city.
Also, Ladies’ and Gents’ Oyster Restaurant
now open and served in first-class stvie at
RA DERICK’S OYSTER DEPOT, corner Bull
and Charlton street lane.
IT'OU SALE—
A DELIGHTFUL HOME!
A CHANCE FOR A SPLENDID INVEST
MENT!
That large fee simple lot, with improve
ments, on the southeast corner of Waldburg
and Jefferson streets; improvements all new;
location excellent. There are three tene
ments on the lane, which rent for S2B per
month, and the whole property would readily
command S6O per month or more. Apply to
J. L. WHATLEY, 105 Bay street.
f'OK SALE.—Walsh’s New England Bread;
stall 71 City Market; store corner Jones
and Montgomery streets; delivered by wagon
to all part3 of the city.
ORESSES FOE SALE.—I offer for sale the
X following Printing Presses: 1 Super
Royal Hoc Cylinder; 1 Half Medium Liberty
Press. The machines are in good order, and
can be seen at work in Morning News press
room. J. 11. ESTILL. Savannah. Ga.
IlliocrUauriiuo.
QSJ RICH FEATHERS cleaned, curled and
dyed in all the latest shades, by Mrs. L. I
HINMAN, 2J3 Congress street, second door
east of west By ad. Savannah, Ga. ___
JE. MADDOX, Manufacturer of Rubber
• Stamps of every description, Publisher
of the 141 page catalogue of St,nip Novelties,
Type, etc., mailed for 25c.; send for circular,
etc. White English Rabbits for sale; price
from $1 to $2 per pair. P. O. Box 53, Athens,
Ga.
Itlßtmj to loan.
MONEY TO LOAM.
CLEMENT S A USSY, Money Broker,
No. 142 Bryan street.
LOANS made on Personal Property. Dia
monds and Jewelry bought and sold on
commission. Cash paid for Old Gold, Silver
and Mutilated Coin.
MONEY TO LOAN.—Liberal loans made
on Diamonds, Gold and Silver Watches,
Jewelry, Pistols, Gunn, Sewing Machine*,
Wearing Apparel, Mechanics’ Tools, Clocks,
eto., etc., at Licensed Pawnbroker House, 187
Congress street. E. MUHLBKKG, Manager.
N. B.—Highest prices paid for old Gold and
Silver.
opartnero tup ff otin*.
DISSOLUTION.
Savannah, Ga., Nov. 1,1884.
THE firm of E. S. ABRAHAMS & CO. is
this day dissolved br mutual consent,
CHAS. E. 8T ANTON withdrawing and fc. n-
ABRAHAMS assuming the business.
E. S. ABRAHAMS.
C. E. STANTON.
COPARTNERSHIP.
Savannah. Ga., Nov. 1,1814.
Y\ T E have this day formed a copartnership
v v under the firm name of E. -■
ABRAHAMS A CO., as dealers in Huiw-
Wool, Bees Wax, Skins, etc., also a Liquor
“Keg” Depot, furnishing all kinds of Liquors
in quantities of 1 to i% gallons. Liquors for
medicinal purposes a specialty. Soliciting u> 6
patronage of friends and public general^.
EDWARD S. ABRAHAM'.
CHAS. A. DRAYTON. _
Copartnership Notice.
have this day admitted as copartners
in our business for the space of 1W years
Messrs- CASH AND ENTERPRISE. The
business will be conducted under the old fi rm
name of DAVIS BROS., at the old stand. 41
and 44 Bull etreet.
Thanking onr friends for their liberai pat
ronage in the past, we solicit a continuance
of the same for the new Arm.
H. C. DAVIS,
L. E. DAVIS.
SPOT CASH,
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE.
Art Dealers, Booksellers, Stationers anu
Printers.