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Howgate is a success as a Nebraska
nastier. Ween the detectives started out
West he promptly hustled.
It is charged that the wild man of Se
quachie Valley, Tenn., first lost his mind
through the medium of moonshine whisky.
5 The Texas towns are fast becoming
metropolitan in some respects. Even in
far off San Antonio the police have had
the pleasure of raiding an opium den.
The careful business man is looking out
for anew counterfeit five-dollar Treasury
note, letter A., series of 1875. The letters
are blurred, and the bill is not printed on
fibre paper.
If Gen. Sherman would acknowledge
just what he did say at the Blair G. A.
K. Post house-warming, the public could
come nearer telling how much he lacks of
being vindicated.
Another New York editor has married
an heiress with a million of cash and will
settle down as a respectable nonentity.
Nothing but dire necessity will bring a
scribbler up to the scratch.
Senator John Sherman is involved in an
issue ol veracity. Private Dalzell says
be voted against the arrears amendment
to the Mexican war pension bill after
promising to vote for it. Let the matter
be nettled at once.
The Sheffield, Ala., Land and Improve
ment Company has adjusted its difficul
ties and harmony now exists among its
managers. It is said that work on the
proposed city and railroad will be re
sumed in a few weeks.
There are strong grounds on which to
base the hope that the veterinary sur
geons will stamp out the hog cholera in
various sections of the Union. They do
not stop to discuss microbe theories, but
nave gone right to work on the hogs.
•01. ILK. Jones,of Pittsburg,complains
feat President Arthur did not contribute
1 eent to help the Blaine cause in the late
•ampaign. Perhaps Chairman Clapp
neglected to send the President one of
those wonderful squeezing circulars.
Kellogg says oneprecinct in Louisiana
which gave 958 majority against him was
ten feet under water on the day of the
election. This shows that the Louisiana
•?moerats will vote it they have to uive
jn. muddy water to find the ballot-box.
l trge number ot medical gradu
ated Will Ici-ye New York city in a few
• ays for China, where will practice
r profession. They will do bflSlneao
on their own account and will have no
connection with the French invaders.
Gen. Dumont, Supervising Inspector
General ot Steamboats, is about the only
bead of a department who does not clamor
,'©r additional clerical force. In his last
report he stated that the expenses of his
office could be decreased 30 per cent, next
year.
Charges against candidates are made
quite as vigorously in France as in this
country. Even President Grevy’s op
ponents say that he is a nonentity, and is
making all he can out of his high office.
It is considered doubtful that he will be
re-elected.
The weather did not warm up yester
day qtlte as much as Old I’robs led the
people to expect, but it must be remem
bered that the old gentleman is engaged
in trying to make it warm for some of bis
subordinates, and evidently got things
mixed a little.
It can't be said now that liquor never
does any good. A bogus deaf mute who
had been swindling the ladies of Itieh
rmon ?, Va., got drunk the other day and
cursed out the town. He will probably
start business somewhere else as soon as
he gets out of jail.
Gov. Bate, of Tennessee, has had nearly
400 applications for pardon during the
two years he has been in office, and he
has acted favorably on only about one out
of ten of them. It is thought, however,
tnat he has pardoned every criminal who
deserved executive clemency.
If the Indians should be enfranchised
what a daisy lot of deputy marshals the
Comanche and Sioux warriors would
make! Deputy marshals will probably
not wield very great political influence
in the future, however, nor will brigades
of them be needed on election days.
The State of Alabama has sued the Ala
bama and Chattanooga Railroad (or $3,-
000,000. The road was built by State aid,
and went into bankruptcy in 1873. The
suit is for damages occasioned by the al
leged mismanagement of the directors. It
is stated that Georgia will begin a similar
suit against that portion ot the road lo
cated in this State.
Police justice appears to be a grim
myth in New York. While a crowd of
boys were trying to cook some potatoes
in a coal scuttle the other night, they ac
cidentally tired a tenement house in which
-vo people were sleeping. All ran away
but one, who put out the fire at consider
able risk. He was promptly arrested and
locked up by the police.
Miss Maud St. Pierre, the rich and
merry maiden who has been startling the
Tennesseans by her huge land invest
ments, is said to be a granddaughter of
Airs. Myra Clark Gaines. She is building
a railroad to her mineral lands, and it is
said often rides round through the moun
tains with her saddle-bags full of money
She i6 not very fair or fat, and is only 35."
The Nashville American will shortly be
turned over to the revenue reformers ac
cording to the decision of the courts, and
the present management will begin the
publication of another protection paper,
to lie called the New South. The Ameri
can has long wielded great influence in
Tennessee, and it will be quite an ac
quisition to the tariff reform Democrats
of that State.
The Legislature yesterday adjourned to
meet in July. Several very important
measures were not acted upon. Appro
priations for the eapitol tor 1885 and for
18SC were made, and the work will be
begun and continued without interrup
tion. Nothing was done looking to the
use of Georgia marble instead of oolitic
limestone in the building. The advocates
of marble, doubtless, do not despair, but
hope fsr success in J uly.
The Treaty-Making Administration, j
During the late canvass the admirers of
Air. Blaine continually preesed upon the
attention of the public what they claimed
was his brilliant foreign policy when he
was Secretary of State. It is true that ■
they were not able to point to any par
ticular thing that Mr. Blaine did while at i
the head of the State Department that en
titled him to tee credit of having origi- !
nated a brilliant foreign policy, but they
felt sure that he did something, or intend- j
ed to do something, and that if he bad re- 1
mained in the Cabinet he would Lave done
something that would, have startled the
world and reflected great credit on the
government of this country. One of the 1
reasons advanced for his election to the
Presidency was that he would give the
country a brilliant ioreign policy.
The fact is there never was anything
very tangible to Air. Blaine’s foreign
policy. lie may have had some rather
misty notions, but a3 far as anybody
kuows they never assumed a shape that
was recognizable.
Mr. Arthur, however, who has never
been credited with a great deal of bril
liancy, or thought to have in a very
marked degree any of the qualities of a
statesman, appears to have a foreign
policy which is certain to attract very
general attention. The treaties that his
administration has succeeded in nego
tiating are of such vast importance, and
involve so many questions, that it is
doubtful if Congress will be able to act
on them for many months. Whether the
idea of these treaties originated with Mr.
Arthur or not, his administration is re
sponsible for them, and will get whatever
credit there may be attached to
them. At present none of them
appears to be viewed with favor and the
ratification oi all of them may be defeated.
But whether they are ratified or not it
must be admitted that as an originator of
a foreign policy Mr. Arthur is a long way
ahead of Mr. Blaine. Air. Arthur’s ad
ministration was without any distinguish
ing marks until a month ago. The canaP
and commercial treaties which it has ne
gotiated will cause it to be remembered as
the treatv-makiug administration.
A Word to Boys.
The number of young men either out of
employment, or working for wages barely
sufficient to furnish them with food and
clothing, in every city in the country is
very large. Said a well known merchant in
this city yesterday: “111 should put an
advertisement in the morning paper to
morrow for a bookkeeper or a clerk, my
place of business would be overrun by
applicants, and I would receive through
the mail more applications than I could
read in a day.” This same gentleman
also said that an advertisement for a
bricklayer, carpenter, blacksmith, baker
or a machinist would not, in all proba
bility, bring a single response.
This is certainly a very curious con
dition of affairs. Old men, and even mid
dle-aged men, can remember the time
when boys of respectable families did not
consider it beneath them to learn
Now, however, they don’t want to do any
thing that will soil or harden their hands.
They want to wear good clothes and keep
their hands white and soft. They would
rather lie a clerk at 75 cents a day than
to learn and pursue a trade at which they
could earn trom $3 to $1 a day.
Even boys who have no particular ca
pacity either for business or a profession
are constantly leaving their homes on
farms, hoping to get something easier to
do in the cities. None of them find any
thing easier, and the few who succeed
work a great deal harder than if they had
chosen a farmer’s life.
A farmer’s boy thinks he has a pretty
hard time of it, but be would not think so
if he were to change places with a clerk
in a store where business is brisk. The
road to wealth through a business or a
professional life is not easier than that
which a farmer or a mechanic pursues.
The country is full of those who have
nht succeeded in business or in the pro
fessions. Without means, and without
occupation, they become office seekers.
They don’t wait for the offices to seek
them; they hunt lor the offices. The
pressure on the incoming administration
from this class will be enormous. It will
not be greater, however, than it has been
under previous administrations for the
past quarter ot a century.
Boys ought to be taught that it is just
as honorable to learn a trade and follow
it. as it is to keep a set of books or meas
ure calico. A man had much better be a
good mechanic than a poor lawyer or
doctor. The boy who learns a trade has
as good a chance to reach wealth and po
sition as the boy who studies for a profes
sional career.
Parents make a mistake who do not en
courage their sous to stick to the farm, or
if they residq j n the city, to seek acquaint
ance with some trade or useful calling.
The occupations of clerk or bookkeeper or
salesmen, etc., are highly honorable, but
they are so crowded that only a few. com
paratively, draw prizes in them.
Woman’s Work ant! Wages.
The overworked and underpaid women
of large cities certainly deserve the sym
pathy and aid of every humane person.
Most women, however poor, are indepen
dent, proud creatures, who scorn any
help that looks like charity, and in many
instances they will labor and suffer and
perish rather than let their more fortu
nate relatives and former friends know of
their condition.
In New York city thera are thousands
of women and girls who eke out a scanty
living by making shirts at the shamefully
low price of 30 cents per dozen, or 2 y.
cents each, and making other clothing at
correspondingly low prices. The trouble
with them is that they don’t know how to
do anything else than sew, and are at the
mercy of their merciless employers, for
there are generally more of them seeking
work than there is work for them to do.
The cost of making shirts, as well as
other clothing, to the person who wears
them, is many times greater than the
price paid the sewing women. The mid
dle men make handsome profits, and
often accumulate great wealth. This
naturally suggests that if these women
knewhflW toCyt and fit shirts, etc., as well
as make them, their labor would be much
more profitable than it is. What
working woman need is tafit and
special training. Hundreds of theni
might support themselves with ease,
where now they can scarcely do so by the
mest fatiguing labor, if they only had the
benefit of a few weeks of instruction con
scientiously given.
The charitable, well-to-do women of
many cities are organizing to furnish in
struction of the kind indicated. They are
doing a noble work that will lienefit thou
sands of women who are suffering from
the stings of poverty.
The good Quakers of Pennsylvania have
determined to try anew plan with the
notorious Buzzard outlaws of Welsh
Mountain. Instead of pursuing the vil
lains with dogs and guns they are trying
the efficacy of prayer. Already several
prayer meetings have been held, and it is
stated that Abe Buzzard has been so
much touched with religion that he will
attend the next one and lead in the sing
ing. .It is feared that the leaders of the
meeting will show their want of faith in
the sincerity of the great outlaw by leav
ing their purses and best horses behind
when they go to the meeting.
They assert that Logan has again served
formal notice on Blaine that he won’t
play s?cond fiddle for the plumed knight,
or any other man. in 1888. It is quite
likely that both Blaine and Logan will
have to give up music altogether by the
time the next procession starts towards
the White House.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1634.
Pinching the Wheat-Growers.
The condition ot the wheat-growers in
the Northwest does not appear to improve
as the season advances. Alter having
made a magnificent crop the large ma
jority of them were forced to sell their
wheat at less than it cost them to produce
it, and they find themselves not only with
old debts unpaid, but with considerable
balances on the present year’s obligations ,
to be carried over.
At *0 cents per bushel, which has here
tofore been the minimum price of wheat
in the Sorthwest, there is a margin of
profit even when the crop is somewhat
short, but at 50 cents, which has been the
average price on the (arms this fall, the
larger the area in wheat the greater was
the loss of the farmer. Advices from Min
nesota and Dakota indicate that there
will be many failures among the large
farmers, who have been compelled to bor
row money at from IS to 24 per ceut. per
annum to make their crops, and a collapse
may be looked for in the wheat-growing
districts similar to that which took place
among the cotton planters just after the
war.
Up to this year there has been a seem
ingly well-founded belief that there was a
sure margin of profit in wheat growing,
and many of the farmers have enlarged
their operations every year, buying land,
stock, machinery aud supplies on credit,
and borrowing money wherever they could
get it, and the same causes which
l led to the disasters of the cotton
planters, viz,: debt and over-production,
j have brought these wheat-growers face to
face with the Sheriffs.
The newspapers of the Northwest claim
| that it will not take that section long to
| recuperate lrom the misfortunes cf the
| present year. No doubt the small farmers,
who owe comparative little money, can
I soon place themselves on a solid footing,
but many hundreds of large wheat
growers must go by the board. The indi
cations are that it will be years before
wheat will again be a profitable crop, for
it is hardly probable that the area sown
next year will be cut down as much as
the wheat growers would have the world
to beliave. Over-production will doubt
less continue, .hese growers, as were the
cotton planters, being lured on bv a hope
of a general reaction in the market.
There is a small class of farmers in the
: Northwest who are not so much affected
| bv the present state of affairs—those who
j amid all the temptations of the wheat
! boom have kept their heads and have per
sisted in diversifying their crops. These
j have plenty to eat, are generally out of
j debt, and, while they have made no money
this year, they are able to keep their
homes and to wait as long as may be ne
cessary for the dark clays to pass away.
The farmer who keeps out of debt and
plants a diversity cf crops is on the safe
side.
"Westward, H<, the Star,” Etc.
The steady movement Westward of the
centre of population in the United States
has been remarkable. When the first
census was taken in 1790 it was 23 miles
east of Baltimore, and in 1880 it was 8
miles west by south of Cincinnati. Dur
ing the first decade it moved west 41 miles
and 60uth 4 minutes. During the second
decade, or from 1800 to 1810, it moved w r est
30 miles and 4.0 minutes south. In 1820 it
had moved 50 miles west and 5.8 minutes
south. In 1830 it was 39 miles further
west and 7.0 minutes further south. From
1830 to 1840 it moved west 55 miles and 4.1
minutes north. Its velocity westward
during the next decade was exactly the
same, viz: 55 miles, but it moved 3 min
utes south. From 1850 to 1800,
owing to the California excitement,
the centre of population traveled
the remarkable distance of 81 miles to
wards tbe Pacific, and moved north again
1.4 minutes. In 1872 it was 42 miles fur
ther west and 11.0 minutes further north.
From 1370 to 1880 it went 58 miles further
west and again turned southward the dis
tance of 7.9 minutes. While it moved
nearly 8 y 2 degrees west in 90 years, it has
not varied over 10.5 minutes from the 39th
degree oi latitude.
If the centre of population should con
tinue to move westward at the same av
erage speed, it will be about 120 years be
fore it reaches the geographical centre of
the Union (not taking Alaska into consid
eration), which is somewhere near To
peka, Kansas.
The San Domingo Treaty.
The projected commercial treaty with
San Domingo has been made public. It
is much more favorable to this country
than the Spanish treaty is. Our wheat
and wheat flour are admitted free of duty,
and there are other concessions which are
valuable. Of course, this country agrees
to admit sugar free of duty.
Our trade wjtb San Domingo is not
lop £S. Ib does not reach $1,000,000 a
year, and there is not much prospect that
it would increase a great deal under the
proposed treaty. It has about three
quarters of a million of inhabitants. Its
annual exports amount to about $2,790,-
000, and its imports to about $2,556j000,
Notwithstanding; that this treaty is
more favorable to this country than the
Spanish treaty, it is not probable that it
will be ratified unless the policy of mak
ing reciprocal treaties with all the West
Indies and South American countries is
adopted. It would hardly do to make an
exception to a general policy in favor of
San Domingo.
Rice anti the Spanish Treaty.
Under the provisions of the proposed
treaty with Spain, now under considera
tion by Congress, clean and rough rice
is admitted free of duty into Cuba and
Porto Rico. As there is very little, if
any rice grown in those islands, this
provision of the treaty is favorable to our
rice-growing interests. Previous to 1861
there were large shipments of rice from
Savannah to Spanish West Indian ports,
and if the reciprocity business does not
allow the smuggling of Hawaiian rice
and East Indian paddy into this country
through Spanish ports, the treaty will be
of advantage to our nee planters by bpen
ing a near foreign market.
The impression is gaining ground that
Gen. Swaim was so unfortunate as to
get into bad company. There is also
something more than a suspicion that
Banker Bateman al6o got into bad com
pany.
A prima donna is not allowed to eat any*
thing whatever for four or five hours pre
vious to her efforts on the stage. This ac
counts for the rush she makes for (he
restaurant after the curtain falls.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Cold Comfort for Sogar Planters,
Cincinnati Times-Star {Hep.).
There are indications all around that the
country has made up its mind to have cheaper
sugar. If the Spanish treaty is killed, then
the duty on sugar will be radically reduced.
From Chandler Down.
A'ew Tort Graphic (Ind.).
The Tennessee, which is to be condemned,
has cost, according to the Sun's estimate, be
tween $3,5C0,000 and |3,730,C00. “Incredible as
it may seem,” adds the Sun, “this wooden
fraud, with the speed of a New Jersey canal
boat, and far less than the offensive power of
a Kennebec three-inaster, has actually cost
the people of the United States nearly as much
nioney as England paid for her enormous
iron-clad battle ships like the Inflexible and
the Dreadnaiight.” The rascals must go,
little and big rascals alike.
Well, Hardly.
A>u> Tort Sun (Ind.).
Is it expected that the Democrats shall re
tain in office men who have given their per
sonal efforts or their money, or both, to keep
the Democrats out of power? When the cor
rupt and incapable and the active partisans
among the Federal officeholders have been re
moved, not very many thousands of Federal
officeholders will be left in office. Even if the
number of the incapable and the corrupt
were as small as the most faithful Republican
cau suppose, the number of the active parti
sans is so large that a removal of all of them
would be a pretty clean sweep.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The spot where the gunboats lay when
bombarding Vicksburg is now a bank of sand,
the course of the river having changed ma
terially, and it is feared that the city will
soon be left inland, the old bed of the stream
close to the bluff having become a stagnant
ake.
A contractor has jnst arrived at San
lFrancisco armed with the commission and the
money to purchase materials for the new City
tHaii of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. The
same contractor built the King’s palace aud
the Honolulu Library Building, aud this
country furnished the materials.
New directions for making an artificial
dimple are available only to women with soft,
pulpy cheeks or chins. A spot is smeared with
colorless glue, and then the flesh is pressed in
with the point of a pencil. The stiffened in
dentation retains the shape of a dimple. Care
must be observed in smiling suddenly lest it
be fractured.
Thursday Edward and Frank Root went
to Erie, Pa., with three bears and a deer,
killed, after a desperate fight, in the woods.
Having wounded the deer they followed until
it fell from loss of blood, and while eating
their lunch by the carcass they were attacked
by tbe ravenous bears, that had followed the
deer's bood-stained tracks.
An Alabama lady recently tried the ex
periment of darkening the room in her con
servatory, in which she kept a beautiful
night-blooming cereus plant. The flower was
thus kept fresh until noon next dav, when the
light was let in and it immediately began to
wittier, and was, no doubt, much di-gu;led at
i ee'f for having been fooled.
The Turkish woman is superstitious in the
extreme. She believes in charms. She will
not live an hour bereft of her three-cornered
bit of leather which encloses the mvstic
phrase that is potent to ward off the evil eye.
she distrusts Tuesday as the mother of ill
luck, anti will not celebrate the birthday aq
btyersaries of her children, or even record the ■
date, lest some magician use it to cast a spell
against the child.
The skeleton of Payne, one of the men exe
cuted fur the conspiracy to murder President
Lincoln, was exhumed Tuesday at the Hol
roead Cemetery, near Washington, where it
was buried by Mr. Joseph Gawler, under
taker, it having been removed several years
ago from underneath the basement of the old
penitentiary buildiDg at the arsenal. The
skeleton was buried in a box four feet long,
ami in it was placed a small glass bottle con
taining a piece of paper, on which was wr.t
ten his name, brief statement of his crime,
execution, etc., but the paper was not to be
found when the box was opened.
The chair in which all the English sover
eigns for the past 500 years have sat
to be crowned, is a rough wooden affair, with
a Gothic back. It stands on the backs of four
wooden lions and has underneath the seat the
famous “Stone of Scone” on which the Scot
tish sovereigns, down to the time when there
were none, ki elt to be crowned. The stone is
said to be the same which Jacob used lor a
pillow when he had his well-known ladder
dream, but this part of the story need not
necessarily be believed. The throne in the
House of Lords is modeled alter the famous
old chair, which latter is kept just behind the
reredos in Westminster Abbey.
The band of bandits, which operates in the
region traversed by the Ismidt Railway, Tur
key, seems to be pretty successful in its enter
prises. On Wednesday last it carried off in
broad daylight four villagers who were work
ing in their Helds. After proceeding a short
distance with their captives they released
two of them, sending them back to the village
to say that if a sum of £5 was not sent to a
certain spot within three days they would put
the two prisoners to death, and burn the vil
lage after sacking it. The villagers, not being
able to help themselves, made up the sum de
manded and sent it as directed. The captives
were released, and the brigands went off
quietly to the hills.
The rage for wearing glasses has struck a
majority of the Western cities, and it is not
unusual to meet a round dozen pairs of coy
feminine eyes looking out through gold,
silver or shell rims in walkiag a sin gle block.
Opticians say they cannot account for this
sudden passion, but slyly tip the wink and
confide to their questioner that it is a fashion
t hat will line their pockets, and should there
fore not be discountenanced. “It gives one a
more intelligent look,” whispered a fair de
votee of the “pebble stone,” “and besides,”
slie modestly added, “one can hide one’s eyes
with them w hile on the street, andif you look
at any person while passing they never know
it and you are not accused of flirting.”
The Washington monument will not long
enjoy its preeminence as the highest structure
in the world. An iron tower of the astonish
ing height of 1,000 feet is to be erected in the
grounds of the French Exhibition in 1889. An
elevator, the safety of which is guaranteed,
will communicate with the summit, and vis
itors to the exhibition will be taken to the top
for a small fee. Those who have the courage
to make the ascent will enjoy an almost unin
terrupted view for nearly 100 mile- all round.
The tower will also be utilized for astronomi
cal and meteorological observations, for ex
periments in optic signalling, for the investi
gation of certain problems in experimental
physics, and for various other scientific pur
poses.
“I suppose few drinkers of whisky,” said a
wholesale dealer in the fluid, “realize how
little of original value they get for their mon
ey. The cost to the distiller of making the
best possible whisky is only about 40 cents a
gallon. Now, a gill is a fair quantity for a
arink, the charge for which at the most
stylish bar is 20 cents. That is to say, a thing
costing the producer a sixth of a cent in Ken
tucky is retailed at nearly forty times as
much. Of course, the government tax takes
some of the enormous profit, and the wastes
of storage another portion. The gains of the
haudlers remain astounding. I know of no
more solid temperance argument than the
ridiculously high prices charged for liquors
by the glass.”
There are living in New England upward
of thirty persons who are over 100 years of
age. Here are the names and residences of
twelve of them: Edmund R. Kidder, of
Berlin, born Aug. 17, 1784; Jeremiah Austin,
Coventry, Feb. 10, 1783; Mrs. Lucy Luther,
Hadlyme, Jan. 6, 1784; Walter Pease, Enfield,
March 29, 1784; Egbert Cowles. Farmington,
April 4,1784; Mrs. Eunice Hollister, Glaston
bury, Aug. 9, 1784; Mrs. Elsie Chittenden,
Guilford, April 24, 1784; Mrs. Eunice Saxtou,
Colchester, Sept. 6, 1784; Marvin Smith, Mont
ville,,Nov. 18, 1784; Mrs. Phoebe Briggs, Sher
man,' Nov. !ti, 1784; Mrs. Elizabeth Ruck,
Wetherslield, Jan. 10, 1784; Mrs. Clarissa D.
Raymond, Milton, April 22, 1782. So far as
age goes. Sir Moses Monteflore uoes not seq,a
to be such a remarkable man after all,
A coaß i.- n/ y > dent 0 f the London Telegraph
w r ith the Nile expedition has learned from a
refugee liow the Mahdi raises funds. From
time to time he appears before bis people and
says he has been commanded to part with all
his goods.evervthing he possesies-in short, must
go to the public treasury, or lo the “Bait el
Mai” (charity box). Proffers are made on all
sides to save him from stripping his house
hold, but all these lie resolutely declines, say
ing: “The coniinaud is for me, not vou.” Bv
and by their turn comes, when the Mahdi says
he has had a communication from “El Hadra”
that such a one i9 to give all he has to the
“Bait el Mai.” They have seen the Prophet
himself complying 'with these directions of
the “Presence,’’ and how dare any one else
disobey? Accordingly, making a virtue of
necessity, goods and slaves all find tlieir way
to the “charity box,” otherwise the Prophet's
chest. All disputes about goods or betrothals
the Mahdi quickly eettles by appropriating
the goods to the public treasury and the
women to his liarem. He courts the poor and
gives them free license to plunder, and snubs
the sheiks.
BRIGHT BITS.
The humorous market is dull. We quote
coachmen jokes, prime, at 5 to 6 cents per
million; ice cream jokes, no demand; bank
cashier jokes weak at 1 to lj£ cents per ton;
choice plumber jokes in demand atsl to $2 per
ton.— San Francisco rost.
Yes. my sou, it is a solemn, eternal fact that
“Truth crushed to earth will rise again.” And
in these days of awful carelessness Truth is
kept so busily engaged in performing her
grand rising act that she looks like a man
picking up inns.— Burdette.
After one of her lectures on the evils of
Mormonism, a gentleman congratulated Miss
Kate Field on the rare beauty of her enuncia
tion, Mr. Edwin P, Whipple, who was stand
ing by, immediately said: “I do not think
yogr enunciation is half so beautiful as your
and enunciation.”
When Mrs. Kiemm, of Dedham, died, her
husband, who was in good health, said: “I
will follow her in twd weeks.” He faithfully
kept his word. Some husbands would have
meanly violated the.r pledge, and been look
ing around for another wife in less than two
months.— A T orristown Herald.
The uneducated palates of a Wisconsin total
abstinence society did not detect the rum in
the lemonade on a festive occasion until gal
lons had been swallowed and visible intoxica
tion had been produced. The wicked mixer of
the beverage had told them that the peculiar
flavor was due to something new in sugar.—
Wisconsin State Journal.
“Have you got any more tender steaks like
that I bought the other day?” asked a man of
a butcher. “Oh, yes; plenty. Y'ou found it
to be good meat, eh?” “Yes, suits my pur
pose. I flta very much annoyed by dogs at
my house. I have chocked one to death and I
have mv eye on another one. Let me have a
half pound, please.” —Arkansaw Traveler.
The Tartary young man who breaks his en
gagement with his girl does so at his peril, for
he then has to eDgage himself to the next
older sister. If anything happens to her he
has to take the next one, and soon down. The
family that matrimonially catches a Tartar
doesn’t let go its grip until grim death has
been very busy. For Tartar families are
always blessed with a large bevy of girls.—
Waterbary A merican.
He had a crowd around him on the Campus
Martius, and when he had placed his tooth
ache cure on the board before him and got his
lamp brightly burning he said: “Gentlemen,
the last time I was in your fair city someone
hit me with an egg. X sincerely —” At that
instant a turnip, thrown by someone in the
outer circle, struck the man’s hat and carried
it ten feet away, lie reached out his hand
for it and continued: “Thank you! I was
going to say that 1 preferred turnips to eggs,
but would it be esking too much of you to
boil them first?”— Detroit Free Press.
PERSONA.^-
Senators Beck, Logan, Van Tv jck, Palmer
and Vance all wear 19-inch collars.
It is denied that Lieut. Rhodes is suffering
from injuries received at the Gay Hea<v dis
aster.
Mrs. Catharine Kearney, who died in
Newark, 0., recently, was the mother of the
noted Denis Kearney.
The eldest daughter of Charles Dickens
contributes to the Comhilt Magasine for Jan
uary an article entitled “Charles Dickens at
Home.”
Joachim Saraceni, butler to Gregory XVI.,
Pius IX., and LeoXIIL, died recently. He
had accumulated a Targe fortune, and was
highly esteemed.
Albert Hawkins, who has been coachman
for hll the Presidents since Gen. Grant's time,
was yesterday re-enganed for the same ser
vice under President Cleveland.
Maj. a. w. Edwards, the owner of the
Fargo Argus. enjoys di-tinctiou as the “big
gest" editor in the world. As Brother Dana
would say, he is a good man aud weighs 340
pounds.
Mr. Wilson, son-in-law of President
Grevy, of France, has politically “flopped,”
being now a Radical. His reason was not a
change of belief, but to keep a seat in the
Chamber.
John R. Lynch, colored, once a member of
Congress from Mississippi, and more recently
the Temporary Chairman in the Republican
National Convention, was married yesterday
to Ella Somerville, a teacher in the schools'
for colored children in Washington.
Miss Tillie Frelinghi yskn, who has been
a most efficient patronessof the Garfield Mem
orial Hospital, slipped on the wet grass at the
picnic on last Decoration day, which cele
brated its opening, and slightly sprained one
knee. Through neglect to employ immediate
surgical relief this sprain became aggravated,
ami she has been obliged to go this week to
New York to Dr. Sayre.
Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska, acts the
part of a bull in the Senatorial china shop. It
is his special delight to trample upon every
known form of Senatorial etiquette and tb
laugh a wild hyena laugh at every suggestion
of alleged Senatorial decorum. He has a
sharp, smooth-shaven hatchet face, sur
mounted by a tangled shock of iron-grav
hair. His eyes are a pale blue, his nose "a
drooping hook, and hie mouth a thin line curv
ing downward at both ends. His figure is
short and rotund, and rests upon a pair of ex
tremely bowed legs. He generally wears a
pair of steel-bowed classes well down upon
the end of his nose. His voice is rasping and
high-keyed. When he talks in the Senate lie
executes a sort of a war-dance in the way of
gestures. His straggling gray hair fat’s down
over his face as he yells and shrieks to a regu
lar jig step and time.
ROOK NOTICES.
Pretty Lucy Merwin. By Mary Lakeman.
Boston: Lee & Shepard.
This novel is perhaps the most success
ful effort of the graceful authoress of
“Ruth Eliot’s Dream.” It is dedicated
to all w ho have helped and comforted her
through life, and though she has been
deprived ot natural sight, her imagination
is vivid, and her stories have that deep,
calm, tender interest, devoid of sensation,
which so charms the sentimental and
cultured reader. “Ruth Eliot’s Dream”
is now in its second edition, and no doubt
“Pretty Lucy Merwin” will be equally
popular. The book would make a hand
some, and at the same time not a costly,
presentation volume.
Prince saboxi’s Wife, and the Pearl
Shell Necklace. By Julian Hawthorne.
Funk & Wagnalls, 10 and 12 Dey street, New
York, publishers. Paper cover, 15 cents.
These two stories well illustrate Mr.
Hawthorne’s peculiar power. Each is of
a tragical cast, and the latter especially
has at times a dramatic intensity that
becomes almost painful. Mr. Hawthorne,
as did his father, embodies his most trag
ical conceptions in such simple and di
rect language that the spell wrought upon
the reader does not pass with the readiDg,
but remains long after the hook has been
laid aside.
Farnell’s Folly. By J. T. Trowbridge.
Boston: Lee & Shepard.
Mr. Trowbridge is well known as one
of the most popular and widely read
American authors. His numerous stories
have probably been as extensively circu
lated as those of any modern writer of the
class to which he belongs. The youth of
tbe day are indebted to him for some of
the most attractive books and stories
which have been composed for them.
“Farnell’s Folly,” will be read by the
young aud the more matured with equal
interest.
Episodes of Mr Second Life. By Antonio
Gallenga. Philadelphia: J. 11. Lippineott &
Cos.
This volume contains an interesting
retrospect of the American and English
experiences of the author. It abounds in
sketches of travel, patriotic and senti
mental narratives, historical reminis
cences and humor, which make it a read
able book and valuable addition to the
library of light literature. It has some
sentiments that may, perhaps, be open to
criticism in the South, but its gossipy
style ana other attractive features will
no doubt gain tor it an extensive popu
larity.
Out of the Wreck; or, Was it a Victory?
By Amanda N. Douglass. Boston: Lee*
Shepard.
This well-known and popular authoress
has in this volume given the results oi
one of the happiest efforts of her busy life.
The story is fascinating throughout, and
while the plot is dramatic it abounds in
genuine sentiment. It is charmingly
written, and there is a power of expres
sion and a pure and elevating tone, which
cannot fail to gain the verdict of popular
approved.
Handbook of Blunders. By Harlan 11.
Bullard, A. M. Boston: Lee A Shepard.
This little book gives in a convenient
form for- reference,a number of useful
hints and suggestions to enable one to
iVOid the thousand blunders which are so
commonly made in writing and speaking.
It is a valuable book for the desk, not
only of the student but of every one who
wishes to use the right word in the right
place.
Walter H. Smith has sent out Vennor’s
Almanac for 1885. On the outside of the
cover is a picture of an owl, on the in
side is a picture of Mr. Vennor. The Al
manac contains a general prediction for
the winter and spring. Mr. Vennor died
June 8, 1884. The Almanac contains sev
eral interesting articles and a great deal
of valuable information. It can be ob
tained only by addressing Walter 11.
Smith, 31 Arcade street, Montreal. Price
20 cents.
MAGAZINES.
The January Century has in its War
Series papers by Capt. Eads and Rear-
Admiral Walke, on the Mississippi gun
boat service, describing the naval engage
ments at Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Don
elson, Memphis, and Island No. 10. The
next paper in the series, after Gen.
Grant’s “Shiloh” in the February number,
will be an account, in the March Century ,
Of the battle between the Monitor and the
Merrimac, told by Col. John Taylor
Wood, third officer of the Merrimac,
and now the senior surviving officer.
Col. Wood was afterwards commander of
the privateer Tallahassee, and at the close
of the war went to Nova Scotia, where he
still resides. Gen. R. E. Colston, com
mander of the Confederate forces opposite
Newport News, will contribute to the
same number an eye-witness’ account of
the famous battle, describing the spec
tacle of the destruction of the Federal
fleet before the arrival of the Merrimac.”
The Century Company, New York.
[ The January number of the £sle<;tiq
is a very faVoraole specimen of this long
established and excellent magazine,
which seems to grow better with its age.
This number being the commencement of
a volume, is embellished with a beautiful
steel engraving entitled “The Lesson.”
The first article is an interesting paper on
“Mountain Observatories,” and next we
haw a continuation of Prof. J. R. See
ley’s striking study of Goethe. A racy
and gossiping article is found in “Bygone
Celebrities and Literary Recollections”
by Dr. Charles Mackay. This number
begins anew volume. 25 Bond street,
New York.
The Sanitarian for December contains
a variety of very interesting articles. The
opening article is on “The Management
ol Epidemics.” It is by William K. New
ton, Health Inspector of Paterson, N. J.
“Cholera in Naples” is an interesting ar
ticle, and will be read with very general
interest. “Sanitation in the Mississippi
Valley” is well worth reading. “The
Last Scheme in Greely’s Tent” is a sub-j
ject that is well handled. '
Stories and Papers Is the title of a pub
lication under the management of Miss
Janey B. Hope. It is an interesting pub
lication, and will be found well worth
reading, Miss Hope won considerable
reputation as a writer as the author of
“The Rescue, a YHrginia Story,” No. 59
Freemason street, Norfolk, Ya".
The holiday numbers of the Cincinnati
Graphic and Frank Leslie's Illustrated
are fine specimens of art. They are well
worth seeing.
HIGH GROUND RENTS.
Some of the Extortions to Which New
Yorkers are Subjected,
Correspondence of the Mornina yews.
New York, Dec. 19.—Verily, corpora
tions have no souls! People who have
erected dwellings on land owned by Col
umbia College have dono worse than
builded their houses upon sand. The
ground rent, which' was nominal
when they began to build, has been stead
ily raised until, in some entases, it
more than equals the rent which they
would be obliged to pay for the entire
premises, if they did not own the super
structure. 1 know of a house owner who
has to pay $4,000 a year as rent of the
land which the house is builded upon.
The house is a handsome one, but one
equally as good, in quite as good neigh
borhood, could probably be rented, lot
and all, for that sum. When the interest
on the cost of the building and the taxes
are taken into consideration, the person
occupying the dwelling in question is
practically paying a rent of $7,000 a year.
Even in New York a house big enough for
a large lamily, in a fashionable neighbor
hood, may be rented for less than that,
and yet Columbia College has raised its
rates recently—when business is de
pressed. and all sorts of property are
yielding less income. The soulless cor
poration takes advantage of the fact that
non-payment of the ground rent involves
the forfeiture of the building, and it will
probably continue to raise the rent of the
land until that result is brought about
and it owns the dwelling as well as the
site. Then, probably, unless financial
affairs improve, it will not get for both land
and building what it is getting non' for
the tirst named alnoe. It should be added
that the college is not alone in its rental
extortion. The builder on rented ground
being at the mercy of the owner thereof
everywhere in the city has reason to renent
in sackcloth and ashes of his mbre than
toolish investment. Of one other instance
illustrating this fact 1 have personal
knqmedge. A store on Broadway, cost
injpsis,ooo, whi?h was built on ground
renting for SO,OOO a year, was lost by the
owner because he could not rent the
building for enough to pay the ground
rent and taxes.
THE SUBJECT OF GROUND RENTS RE
MINDS ME OF THE RHINELANDERS,
who own no small part of the land of
Manhattan Island. No end of stories are
told of the eccentricities of the family,
and the member of it who is now await
ing trial for shooting the family lawyer,
seems the best of the brood in one respect
at least. Avarice, in a degree savoring
ot insanity, is apparently the predomi
nant characteristic of many of the mem
bers ot this wealthy family. One of the
number, now dead, used to boast ot hav
ing, with an income of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars a year, spent but $52 in
side ot twelve months. He lived with a
sister and paid no board. The $52 went
for washing. The money from which he
derived so little pleasure, and which prof
ited others so little, became his sister’s
when he died, which is the reason he
got his beard for nothing. In
her hands, while it may give
more pleasure to the possessor,
it is of equally little profit to others. The
lather of the young man w r ho has been so
long halting between the jail and the lu
natic asylum is quite as mean as the rest
of the tribe. It is on record that for sev
eral weeks after his return from Europe a
lew' months ago, he got the woman who
had taken charge of his house fer a com
paratively small consideration while he
was away, to perform the part of maid of
all work. She required not only to
keep the large hofrse in order anti make
the beds, but to prepare the brevPast and
luncheon lor the entire family—they weDt
to a restaurant for dinner. Not a penny
did she get for her extra services! In fact
she was reproached for her rapacity when
she argued that a laborer was worthy of
her hire.
I HEAR FROM ONE WHO PROFESSES TO
KNOW
that nearly all the ready-made clothing
Stores in New York are operating under
one management. That is, trade was so
dull that they were threatened with uni
versal bankruptcy, and, for the sake of
mutual safety, they determined to pool
their issues about a month ago, so that,
with several conspicuous exceptions, the
clothing stores of the city form one mam
moth establishment. To one who knows
this the advertisements of the ready-made
read curiously. Firms whose
interests are identical denounce each other
in print as practically pickpockets and
pirates. The houses outside of the com
bination are naturally having a hard
struggle to hold their own, and some of
them have resorted to donating gifts of
greater or less value to those of its pat
rons whose purchases amount to a cer
tain figure. One concern gives a watch
to the purchaser who buys over sl2
worth of goods. The watcli is a stem
winder, is composed ot some tin amalga
mation, and is warranted to keep time a
year. The dealers who have organized
themselves into a monopoly cry down
this mode of doing business with most
virtuous indignation. “No gift enter
prise here!” “This is not a lottery!” is
displayed in huge letters on enormous
signs that cover no small portion of the
superficial surface of their establish
ments.
Quite a different story of another very
dissimilar clothing concern was told to
me the other day. Sewing societies, which
use needle and thread for the* benefit of
the poop, have been fashionable here for
several seasons past. One, to which
ladies of recognized social importance be
long, devotes itself to preparing garments
for the families ot small-salaried clergy
men. Comparatively recently its mem
bers heard that the daughter of a clergy
man in the West was prevented from
getting married because of the want of
proper clothing. They accordingly went
to work to prepare a trousseau. The
romantic object of their benevolence lent
them interest as well as industry, and
the result of their efforts was a bridal
outfit that for completeness as well an for
taste and ajiprnpHateness, WAS Such aS
the daughters of men in good circum
stances do not often enjoy. The young
bride was more than grateful for the kind
ness of her unknown benefactresses, and
she wore her wedding bravery with the
consciousness that it was a" gift which
blessed both giver and receiver. One
need not be romantic to consider the in
cident charming, and few sights could
have been more attractive than the one
which was presented when these rich
New York girls were filling, in a flutter
of sympathy and excitement, the bridal
box with their wedding presents for their
poorer sisters on the Western plains.
ONLY A PERSON BOTH BLIND AND DEAF
could walk the streets nowadays and fail
to learn that Christmas is near. Not
withstanding the hard times the side
walks aße crowded with shoppers, and
the more popular stores are so filled with
purchasers ot Christmas presents from
early morning until late at night that it is
equally injurious to one’s temper and
one’s clothing to enter them. The shop
windows everywhere are resplendent with
Christmas paraphernalia. Many of them
contain figures operated with wires w hich
move about among gorgeous surroundings
greatly to the delight of the multitude that
continually gazes upon them. The Christ
mas windows are not confined to any par
ticular quarter of the citv. In greater or
les9 splendor they exist in Grand street
and Third and Eight avenues, as well as
in Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street.
The last named thoroughfare is a specta-
I cle worth seeing at j"“t *noW. ! n
I addition to the public dispellers of dark
ness, nearly every store between Union
square and Sixth avenue boast an electric
light for a sign so that the street is as
light as day. The shop windows are re
productions of fairy land, and the proces
sion of sightseers numbers thousands.
The powder mill explosion at Secaucus
on Monday night, sounded very different
ly to different people. It shook the house
I was at in Twenty-first street, near Fifth
avenue, and the shock was accompanied
by a muffled roar. I supposed it was the
blowing up of gas works somewhere on
the island, and when I went out, I asked
a policeman on Broadway if he knew
what it was. “I thought it was a dry
goods box falling down in Twenty-third
street,” he answered, “and I went’ to see
what was the matter, but it wasjMt that.”
A newspaper friend who livesTn West
Eightieth street, or thereabouts, thought
the noise was produced by a fat German
addicted to hemorrhages, falling down
from loss of blood, in the flat overhead.
Few imagined, until they 6aw the next
finorning’s papers, that’ the explosion
'which caused the commotion took place
at a distance of eight or nine miles.
MAYOR EDSON RECKONED DECIDEDLY
WITHOUT UIB HOST
when he relied on the Board of Aldermen
confirming his appointment of Fitz John
Porter as successor to Hubert O. Thomp
son in the Commissionership of Public
Works. The explanation of the Republi
can Aldermen not carrying out their deal
with their Tammany colleagues is said to
be that they have made a deal with the
County Democrats to thi9 effect: If it i9
decided that the recent appointment of
Police Commission^ 1- £ re /?, ch t 0 BU *ed
himself, and of John McCluve as Police
Commissioner in the t. lace of oe W *
Mason is illegal, tbev a." e 7® ap
pointed by Mr? Grace'when he be^T es
Mayor, provided the RepubL." an . ,
men prevent Mayor Edson from aPP°‘nt
ing a successor to Thompson in
days lie remains in office. Even If noa v ' C J £ *
ion is rendered as to the Police Comm.’ 8 *
sionerships between now and Jan. 1, tbs.
Republicans are to retain their present
attitude, Mr. Grace having pledged him
self in that event also to carry out his
part of the bargain. In addition to these
political reasons, the Republican Aider
men are said to have received preconiary
inducements to keep Mr. Thompson in his
present position. Of course, this theory is
based on the supposition that Mr. Grace
will make Thompson his own successor as
soon as he takes office, and Tammany will
thus gain nothing by contributing to the
installation of the two Republican Police
Commissioners. According to the present
outlook, Tammany will not have a single
office involving any power and patronage
to speak of for two years to come. D.
SHOT AY HIDE ELOPING.
A Hot Chase by John Drake After His
ltunaway Daughter.
Bridgeport, Dec. 15.— John Drake, an
old farmer living in what is known as the
“Purchase district,” a tract of rough
broken country on the east bank ot the
Housatonic river, 30 miles above its
mouth, is at present searching for hi 9
missing daughter. Mildred, 19 years of
age. Drake lives in a lonely house half a
mile from his nearest neighbor, on a road
which is seldom traveled. He makes a
scant living from a few rocky, half cleared
acres, and ekes ojit his support by hunt
ing and fishing in the half wild w oodlands
near his home. Ilis family consisted of
his wife, a paralytic, and the daughter,
Mildred. The latter is a tall, slender girl,
ligbt-baired, with gray eyes. She was
considered the beauty of the region, but
ow’ing to her father’s suspicious disposi
tion was little known to the country
swains. Last June a young man giving
his name as Henrv G. Bogart and his
residence as Philadelphia went into the
hill country for his health, and secured
lodging at the home of a farmer living
nearly four miles from Drake. He de
voted much of his time to fishing, and on
one of his trips came across John Drake,
with whom, after some difficulty, he
established a sort of intimacy. On a few
occasions he visited Drake’s house, and
there saw the daughter.
By presents and flattery the stranger so
won Drake that the latter finally agreed
to take him as a boarder. Once estab
lished in the house, he had no difficulty in
gaining the affections of Mildred Drake.
In September he left the “Purchase,” but
returned last Monday to Drake’s an
nouncing his intention of starting a sing
ing school, if possible. On this pretext
he tramped over a great part ot the town,
and on Thursday night came home late.
Drake was forced to unlock the door and,
not liking the interruption to his slum
bers, agreed to leave it open thereafter till
his erratic boarder came home. On Fri
day Bogart returned early, but on Satur
day Drake awoke to find the door open
and guest and daughter missing. When
he realized what had happened, Drake
siezed his gun and started on the fugi
tives’ track. He followed their footsteps
without difficulty to a road half a mile
from the house. Then wheel tracks plain
ly showed their method of flight, Keturn
ing to his house Drake hastily harnessed
his horse to a light sleigh and followed the
prints of the carriage wheels. Bogart
and Miss Drake had driven as nearly due
south as possible, but owing to losing
their way did not cross the Housatonic
river at Southville till nearly noon, alter
making an unnecessary circuit of many
miles. Their vehicle, a buggy, w T as hard
pulling through the snow on the rough
roads, and as Drake, by his intimate
knowledge of the country, managed to
guess their point for crossing the river, he
reached the bridge just in time to see a
confederate of Bogart draw up the river
road to the north just as the elopers, with
a fresh horse and a lighter buggy, dashed
across the bridge. Drake paid no atten
tion to the confederate, but kept in pur
suit of Bogart. The fresh horse gained
an advantage on the bill at the end of the
bridge, but Drake eased his animal’s
burden by running byitsside, and the pur
suers and pursued reached the level not
more than 100 yards apart. Drake called
to the young man to halt, and, receiving
no answer, raised his gun and, taking
aim, tired. The ball missed its mark, and
before Drake w as ready for a second shot,
Bogart had turned into a road running to
the west. This was little traveled, and
the lather gained considerably. Several
times he had a chance to fire, but his
daughter threw herself upon her lover’s
neck, and so covered his body that her
father dared not risk a shot. ’ For over a
mile the two teams kept about 75 yards
apart, and at a turn in the road Drake
fired, again missing. Before he had fairly
loaded again the pursued turned into a
well-beaten highway, where the snow
was melted, and began to gain. Here
escape would have been easy had not the
music teacher chosen a wrong road, and
Drake, going by a short cut, passed the
Hawleyville station on theNew York and
New England Hoad in hot pursuit.
Bogart again missed his way. Drake’s
horse gave out, and the old man, leaping
to the ground, fired a last shot. Bogart
gave a cry and instinctively pulled up his
horse. Drake ran, on neglecting to load
his gun, and as soon as he reached the
side of the elopers’ carriage saw that his
prospective son-in-law had been shot
through the right shoulder. He clubbed
his gun to complete his work when his
daughter raising the heavy loaded whip
strutk her father a blow upon his fore
head, making him stagger, and before he
recovered himself the girl had grasped
the reins and, striking the horse, was out
of the old man’s reach. Drake continued
the pursuit on foot, loading his gun as he
ran, but an unlucky stumble caused him
to fall hopelessly behind. Still the in
domitable old man kept on i& pursuit,
although in five minutes the pair were
out of sight. Drake made inquiry along
the road, but lieaf the head of what is
known as Fountain Lake lost allitrace of
them. Believing the fugitives bound
for Brewster’s, as the nearest point in
New York, he made the best of his way
to that place, arriving late at night.
Learning nothing of his daughter’s where
abouts, he started, without stopping for
food or rest, for “The Purchase.” To one
man he said that he should sell what
little he possessed, lodge his wife in the
poorhouse, and devote himself to finding
Bogart and his daughter. In case he
succeeded,wi.l and good,it would be a very
sad day for the music teacher. Bogart is
about 5 feet 6 inches in height, with a
light complexion, and a slight defect in
one eye.
BURCHAIID AS A LECTURER.
The Reverend Gentleman Said to be in
Demand.
My fortune, says a correspondent, gave
me a chance to dine out with a New York
clergyman the other evening. Dr Bur
chard and his alliterative oratory came on
with the soup for discussion.
“It was a most unfortunate remark,
that ‘Rum, Romanism, and rebellion,’ ”
quoth one.
“Very,” assented the second. “Very;
it unquestionaly cost Mr. Blaine his
election.”
“Poor Burchard, sighed a third; “he
must feel dreadfully cut up over the sad
affaif. ,J
Then somebody laughed. It was the
reverend host. And this saiu he: “It
was the greatest hit of Dr. Burchard’s
life. It has given him a national reputa
tion, for one thing, and for another it
gives him a chance to swell his purse into
comfortable proportions.”
“How?’ ejulated No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3,
in concert. “How?” They were aghast.
Did this speaker mean to intimate that
Burchard, D. D., wa9 venal and had Deen
hired to put the Maine man in a hole?
“How?” repeated the preacher: “why
just this way: I know of three or four
lecture bureaus that are bidding against
one another to take him through the coun
try. He was offered SIOO a night to begin
with; he can get two or three times that
now, and for a long engagement, too, if
he would only consent.”
It is understood that the friends of ex-Gov.
James D.,Porter, in Tennessee and several
other States North and South, are making a
strong effort to secure lus selection as a mem
ber of President Cleveland’s Cabinet. Gov.
Porter stands very high in the estimation of
all who know him. He was nominated for
Governor several years ago, and was elected
by about the largest vote ever received by a
Gubernatorial candidate in that State. Dur
ing the agitation of the State debt question
he took high ground in favor of its settlement
at a figure satisfactory to the creditors, but
was unsuccessful on account of the repudia
tion sentiment which prevailed. A delegate
to the National Democratic Convention four
years ago, he wrote the plank declaring for
"the maintenance of the public faith, state
and national.” Two years ago he was elected
President of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis Railway. He retired from the posi
tion several months ago.
iPeraottal.
YES, little one, I did have my picture
bv Ha vjfg. and r.ot only that
large engravffl£>ou admired ho that’huii h *
the parlor. The ore yon epoke aho? t
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Dear kitti E ._ As i have 7rr~ —
citv at 10 to-morrow say to Havens
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WASTED, such of the cuizenT
W CK Presents to understand th
no more x u ‘ tab,e present can be obtained or
appreciate, 1 t . ba “ 8 fine Engraving, hand 1
somely framed- HAVENS. g ’ “ and
WANTED.- Carpenters wanted^
Pulaski Hi,w this morning before j
o’clock to J. A, W/>OD. 1 H
WANTED, person*. 1 to do writing at the~7
TV homes; good pay. Send io cents for n
per. etc., to J. H. NIC.HdLSON, 03 Clint,—,
Place, New York. ccll
W ANTED.—A good book keeper, who can
T v come recommended as to honesty and so
briety, can address 1,., care of th.s office
stating salary wanted.
W ANTED, men and women to start anew
v v btistness at their homes, casNy Jearacd
in an hour; no peddling; 10c. to 50c. aVhour
made day time or evening. Send 10c. r i
samples and a package ot goods to comdfmc
work on. Address H. G. FAY, RuUaaXVt.
YI7 ANTED, ladies and youngmenwishlpz
TV to earn $1 to 3 every day Quietly&T
their homes; work furnished; sent by mail
nocanvassing; no stamps required for renlv’
Please address EDWARD F. DAVIS A CO
58South Main street. Fall River. Mass.
for Jirttt.
IJOR RENT, a desirable house on Gaston
street, near the Park; thorough order
cheap to good tenant. Address GASTON*’
News office.
TJOK RENT, two-story brick house corner
X 1 Houston and Congress street?, containing
eight rooms; possession given Jan. 1. Annlv
to L. DUNN, No. 2 Bryan street.
FOR RENT, two furnished rooms, seperate
ly or together, with privilege of bath
room, hot and cold water. Address 8., this
office.
IJOR RENT, a Buite of three rooms, fur
nished or unfurnished; south front, with
veranda. Apply 214 Waldburg street.
FOR RENT, the premises corner West Bros''
and Olive streets; suitable for a grocery
and liquor store, or a wheelwright and black',
smith shop: property of the late James Heag
ney. M, J. DOYLE, Market square, Executor.
RENT, the desirable three story and
basement brick dwelling corner Drayton
and Taylor streets; possession given Jan. 1
1885. Apply to JOHN SULLIVAN &CO , Ilf
Bay street.
IJOK RENT, house on Broughton, near West
1 Broad. F. BLAIR.
TjtOß RENT, brick residence, two-story on
T basement, No. 13 Tattnall street, with .all
modern improvements. For particulars'ln
quire at A. Falk & SON’S, or at No. 3
Roberts street.
T?OR RENT, a desirable three-story brick
X dwelling; centrally located; in thorough
repair; with all modern improvements, in
cluding hot water; possession given at once.
Apply to J., this office, givipg name.
I f'Oß RENT, from Nov. 1 next, that desir
able residence southwest corner Jones
and Drayton streets. Apply to A. N. WIL
SON, Revenue office.
Jones street to let in flats; some
of them furnished. Apply to A. N. WIL
SON, Internal Revenue office.
RARE CHANCE.—A 100-acre cleared
farm, three miles from toll-gate, shell
road, cheap to a good tenant. Apply to Dr.
F. X. MOUSeEAU,S7 Charlton street.
IJOR RENT, No 38 Abercorn street, corner
President; in thorough repair; gas and
water on every floor; possession given at once.
C. C. TALIAFERRO. 47 West Broad street.
I poll RENT, that desirable two-story and
basement brick dwelling No. ISO Harris
street; tr.ree rooms deep, with all modern
convenience?, Apply to JOHN SULLIVAN
A CO , 114 Bay street.
RENT, the very desirable office 64 (by
street, originally occupied by Andrew-
Low & Cos., with warehouse attached. Ap
ply to WM. L. WAKELEE, 54 Bay street.
Jfor asalr.
ITtOR SALE, a set of Art Journals, by D. Ap
pleton A Cos.; new series; elegantly boaiffi
Addre-s s. JI., News office.
FOR SALE,'S shares Pulaski Loan Associa
tion stock; forty paid in.
M. J. DuYLE, Market square.
IJOR SALE, the desirable brick residence
(three stories on a basement) No. 21 Gor
don street, fronting Monterey square, in per
lect order, with all modern improvements, ca
very reasonable terms; possession given at
once. Z. FALK, corner Congress, Whitaker
and St. Julian streets.
TJRESSES FOR SALK. —I ofler for sale the
following Printing Presses: 1 Super
Royal Hoe Cylinder; 1 Half Medium Liberty
Press. The machines are in good order,
can be seen at work in Morning News press
room. J. H. ESTILL, Savannah. Ga.
foot. __
LOST, a Canvas Satchel, containing wear
ing apparel; dropped from a carriage last
night about 10 o’clock. The finder will oe re
warded by leaving it at northeast corner Bull
and Taylor streets.
fJoavdmo.
PERMANENT, transient or day boarders
accommodated with pleasant rooms and
?ood board at 156 State street; convenient to
jusiness.
BOARDING.— Two pleasant rooms to rent,
singly or en suite, with or without board,
at Mrs. W. It. SYMONS’, No. 168 Liberty
street, two doors west of Barnard, where,
also, table board may be obtained.
ilnuarD.
REWARD will be paid to any one
s?XV/" who will deliver to the barracks the
jarty that entered my stable and cut my
lorse in the throat. ISAAC ROOS.
fttoitrg to goßn.
MONEY TO LOAN,
CLEMENT SAUSBY, 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 Com.
VfONKY TO LOAN. —Liberal loans made
iVI on Diamonds, Gold and Silver Watches,
Jewelry, Pistols, Guns, Sewing Machines,
Wearing Apparel, Mechanics’ Tools, Clocks,
etc., etc., at Licensed Pawnbroker House, 187
Congress street. E. MUHLEERG, Manager.
N. B.—Highest prioes paid for old Gold and
Silver
educational.
SCHOOL
—OF—
Phonography, Type-writing,
Bookkeeping and
Telegraphing,
NO. 135 and 137 BAY ST., SAVANNAH. GA.
Mr. & Mrs. C. S. Richmond,
PRINCIPALS.
TERMS OF TUITION.
Three months instructions in Phonography
and type-writing (all the time necessary to
attain the principles and a speed of from 60
to 80 words per minute), $25.
months Instructions in telegraphing,
Three months instructions in bookkce;_U/g
(including type-writing), $25.
Three months instructions in type-writing,
sls.
PRICE OF TYPE-WRITERS, WITII IN
STRUCTIONS.
Anew improved So. 1 Caligraph, with
three months instructions In phonography
and type-writirg, SBS.
Anew improved No. 2 Caligraph, with three
months instructions in phonography and
type-writing, SIOO.
Payable in monthly installments.
Advanced students will receive special in
structions in the higher branebesof reporting.
SCHOOL NOTICE
MRS. ALICE G. HEYWARD has removed
her School for Children to No. 193 NEW
HOUSTON-STREET. School will open MON -
DAY', Jan. 5, 1885.
election
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tors, Receivers of Tax Returns,
Clerks of the Courts, County
Treasurers, Surveyors, and all
Others Whom it May Concern.
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