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The Confederate Documents.
We profile to publish on March 15 and
March 22 a;mo twenty-five or thirty let- i
ters, reports and telegrams of a most in- j
foresting historical character connected :
ith the last days of the Southern Con- ]
deraey. These documents cast an im- 1
irtan; light on questions that are still i
".settled. They include official com- |
ihications between the Governors of
south Carolina. Georgia, Alabama and
North Carolina, with reports of agents
and off :ers. and telegrams and dispatches
from Gen. Lee and President Davis.
There are also letters from private citi
zens of distinction like William Gilmore
Fimms and A. P. Aldrich.
There is no doubt about the authenticity i
of these documents. They will be pub
lished on th:* same days in several of the
leading journals of the country.
The trouble about that Macon oil wall
story was that it didn’t end well.
There seems to be no lack of confidence
in the jewelry trade, especially of mis
placed confidence.
Jeremiah O’Donovan the Reel’s adrnii
er6 begin to believe that the word dyna
mite is a contraction of the phrase “die
any-miuute.”
It looks very much like the Atlanta ar
siafc well will never reach “the pure and
nadulterated ale of father Adam.” No
onder some people in that city want the
ta on red liquor removed.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie says the iron
trade is not Improving, at least in Penn
sylvi. nla. lie certainly ought to know. !
The iron business is still flourishing in
tu South.
The Burlington Haickeye think3 the
most striking thing about a roller skat
ing rink is the floor. Tais is an error.
The floor is entirely passive. It patiently
submits to being struck by the heads of
the people.
*rne English Government has not yet
decided to turn the salvation army loose
on the followers of the False Prophet.
There is doubtless a large proportion of
the people ot Great Britian who would
rejoice to see such a plan adopted.
Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, is again
receiving unstinted praise from both po
litical parties for his veto ol the bill to
increase the number ot magistrates in
Pnila dt lphia. That city does not need j
any more magistrate*, but belter ones.
It is st .ted mat the aristocratic Knick- |
erbocki r family is ('escrMjed from a fan- i
Uy of clay manipulators in the old coun
try, anu the word Knickerbocker literally
means ‘ marble baker.” No one should
lie so indiscreet as to trace his ancestry
too far back.
“Die Walkure” as sung in the Metro
politan o;>tra llouse at New York, al
though the performance moves with great
swiftness, does not end until midnight,
and yet it so grand and entrancing
that none of the auditors wish it to die
before its time conies.
An eminent English eh rgyman 6aid in
sermon the othtr day. “I leave a house
s sonr. as l see a novel in it. Novels are
efate of the devil.” if one small agent
tB put him to flight, what would he do
were he to happen to come in col act with
his satanic majesty himself?
Alisa Mate Field is giving the Mormons
a short r: et, and is now lecturing in New
York iu tut or of cremation. She makes
out a pretty strong ease, but she does not
appear to get as much popular sympathy
as she did when she was telling about the
pranks of the Latter Day Saints.
The members ot the Sons of St. George
indignantly deny that they are British
spies, though they have 16S lodges in the
United States composed in the main of
American citizens of English birth. It is
a purely benevolent order, and doesn’t
want to have anything to do with the
dynamite business.
A Pennsylvania Judge sentenced one
wife-beater the other day to two and a
half years in the penitentiary and an
other to one year, and regretted that he
could not order that the culprits be
whipped within an inch of their worth,
less lives. The Delaware idea has taken
a deep hold in the Keystone State.
The New York legislators are lighting
r several census bills. The Democrats
:t the enumerator to be appointed by
cctanty authorities while the Republi
a want them appointed by the State
■.homo's. Under the Democratic plan
th parties would be fairly represented,
but the Republicans are determined to
adhere stricliy to the spoils principle.
Two boys came to their death by alco
hol Thursday, one in Philadelphia and
the other in North Carolina. In each
cise the victim was filled with liijuor in
order to decide a bet as to how much he
could drink. Each one died within a very
short time utter gulping down about a
quart of the stuff. The officers of the law
■ow propose to tum the joke on the sports
who were the cause of the deaths.
Prof. Tourgee, of the New England Con
servatory of Music, insists that piano
tnsing sha!l be a part of the course of in
struction. That is a great 6tep forward.
Heretofore it has not been considered
necessary in America that a piano should
be iu tune at all. When it comes to vio
lins, however, the country demands that
tuning be left out of the course of instruc
tion entirely. The rule with average
violinists is about two hours of tuning to
every five minute tune.
The tidiculous antics that are reported
almost daily, not only from State Legisla
tures, but from the National Congress, sug
gests that it is time to hurry the formation
of the moot Congresses which were hinted
at some time ago. There seems to be a
demand for special instruction. The next
generation of alleged statesmen ought to
be taught how to call each other all kinds
of vile names in a strictly impersonal
and parliamentary manner, or, perhaps,
what would be better, not to indulge in
blackguard language at all.
England's Policy n Soudan.
The English Government has deter
mined to pursue a vigorous policy in
Egypt. Ei Mahdi and the hostile tribes
are to be taught to respect England’s
power. There was no other creditable
course. When the news was received
that Khartoum had fallen and that Gen.
Gordon was either dead or a prt*oper, it
became necessary at once to determine
whether to advance or retreat. Tnat the
campaign for the relief of Knartoum and
the rescue of Gordon was a failure was
recognized. It was understood, of course,
that to advance meant anew campaign,
1 the purpose of which was to destroy the
' power of El Mahdi.
A retreat would be attended with great
danger. Indeed, it is doubtful if ft could
he successfully accomplished. Gen.
Wolseley’s army is scattered, and it oc
cupies a section of country that is almost
wholly destitute ol supplies. The tribes
that yet remain friendly are depended
upon for subsistence. But how long will
these trills remain friendly? Either fear
or force may make them the allies of El
Mahdi. The fall of Khartoum ha 9 in
creased the fame of t e False Prophet,
and doubtless has increased his strength.
Tribes that held aloof from him * hiie his
success appeared questionable, will hasten
to join his staudard new that his success
appears to them to be assured.
There is another thing that must be
taken into account. It is the fanatical
character of the False Prophet’s adher
ents. Tneir faith in their leader is
strengthened, and their willingness to
meet death in his service is increased by
his victories.
A retreat would be regarded by the ene
my as an acknowledgement of weakness,
and the fierce hordes of the Mahdi, in
spired by success, and believing that they
were doing the will of God. would throw
themselves upon the scattered army of the
English with almost irresistible force.
Retreat is out of the question. The
people of England would never consent
to it as long as the fate of Gordon is in
doubt. They look upon him as a hero
who died, if dead he is, trying to hold up
the standard of England in a hostile
country, in the midst of great difficulties
and surrounded by almost innumerable
foes. They are conscious that the gov
ernment is partly, if not wholly, respon
sible for the fate of Knartoum because
without reason or reasonable excuse it
delayed sending the threatened town re
lief for several months.
But if England could successfully re
treat from Soudan she could not afford to
do so. She would not only lose ber in- ;
fluence in the East, where it is absolutely
necessary that respect for her power
should be maintained, but the glory f
her arms would suffer a sort of an eclipse
in the estimation of the entire world.
England can odlv do what she has de
cided to do—that is, advance. She must
retake Khartoum and destroy El Mahdi’s
armies. She may not be able to accom
plish this work with the force that she
now has in Soudan, but that force can
hold the enemy in check until t ssistunce
arrives. England's triumph in Soudan is
the only thing that will satisfy the Eng
lish people.
Public Ronds Again.
The people in many parts of the country
are again almost cut off from their local
markets and isolated irom society by the
mi-erable quagmires, yclept public roads.
Thousands, no doubt, are abusing the
road laws, while proiane thoughts are in
their hearts, if wicked words do not find
vent by way of their lips. This seems to
be the proper season of the year for such
things, but the spring will soou lie at
band, anil the time for putting the roads
in passable condition so that they may
pass the inspection of lenient grand juries
will come with it.
It may not be amiss to again call the
attention of road commissioners, over
seers and citizens generally throughout
the country to the fact that merely tem
porary werk on the public roads does not
pay. A few days’extra work done on a
bad piece of road, in an intelligent man
ner, will save a vast deal of labor and
in the future. It is almost
useless to ttu"* a P !ne t°P 9 and a
little dirt in a gully ana J??*® it 60 that
will wash out and be worse than eve? ! , e
next heavy rain that comes. Koad offi
cials ought to study road building, and
learn how work done on the roads
may be made permanent. The great
point in securing good roads is drainage.
Water should not be allowed to collect at
any point on a road to do damage even
during the heaviest rains. A little work
done on properly drained roads every
year will keep them in much better con
dition than a great deal of work on roads
that are not properly drained or not
drained at all.
It is the custom to abuse the road laws.
No doubt they are defective, but if the
road laws were enforced with intelligence
there would be very little cause to com
plain ol them. If commissioners and
overseers would only learn their duties,
and perform them according to the letter
and spirit of the laws, and require road
hands to do honest work, as if they were
receiving wages in cash, the roads in
nearly all parts of the country would be
in pretty good condition at all seasons of
the year.
Not Up to the Requirements.
The Committee on Rivers and Harbors
does not appear to have managed fA-fuII
with tact and judgment. When the bill
was first taken up for consideration Air.
Willis, the Chairman of the committee,
proposed to rush the bill through In an
hour or two, but finding that the temper of
the House would not stand anything of
that kind he finally consented to allow six
hours for debate. The bill occupied about
the whole of last week, and received
blows which damaged it considerably.
The committee was forced to give up its
| plan of giving Capt. Eads the power to do
I about what he pleased with the Missis
sippi river and Galveston harbor irn-
provements.
The course of the committee does not
appear to have been very popular with
members of the House. When it was
making up the bill no opportunity, it
seems, was given Representatives to pre
sent the claims of their respective dis
tricts. A sort of star chamber policy, it
is charged, was'pureued, and only those
who were pushing big schemes like the
j Galveston harbor, Mississippi river, Ilen
! nop in canal and Sandy Bay refuge harbor
, schemes could get a hearing.
It seems that the Representative from
! this district couldn’t get a chance to say
j a word for the Savannah river improve
ment. The Savannah river was slighted
last year, and had it not been for Senator
Brown, after the bill reached the Senate,
it would not have got as much as it did.
This year the appropriation is only about
a third of what is actually needed.
The bill has been the occasion of more
ill-feeling among the members of the
House than any other bill that has been
considered this session. On Friday there
were bitter words between four or five
members during its consideration. The
River and Harbor Committee does not
appear to meet the demands upon it.
It is estimated that it will cost some
thing like $200,000,000 to destroy the pecu
liar microbe which makes its home
in the waters of the Schuylkill river at
Philadelphia, and which is only the one
thousandth part of an inch in length and
about the millionth part of an inch in
diameter. An immense plant of heavy
machinery is required, and it will be
necessary to use vast quantities of deadly
drugs and chemicals. And yet an or
dinary Philadelphia policeman has been
known to tell a boy three feet high to the
earth with one blow of bis club,
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, lESS.
Female Lawyers.
The news was flashed all over thecoun
trv the other day that Mrs. Laura de
Force Gordon, of California, had been ad
mitted to plead and practice law in the
United States Supreme Court at Wash
ington. and the public was reminded that
she was the second woman who had at
tained to that high honor, the first being
Mrs. Belva a. Lockwood, late candidate
for the Presidency, who has been practic
ing in that court lor nearly six years, or
rather who would have been practicing
for that length of time had it not been for
the fact that she has had no cases iu it
with one small exception.
The lailure ot Mrs. Lockwood to at once
acquire a large and lucrative practice is
not to lie attributed to her want of ability
as a lawyer, or to her extreme diffidence.
She has certainly been moderately well
advertised, especially during the past six
or eight monlts, and she appears to be
determined to be the leading female
lawyer of the bar of the country. Her
failure lu the comparatively unimportant
respect of practice is doubtless on account
of the fact that she has had no rival. She
has occupied anew field in the legal
world, and while there are other female
lawyers on the rolls of the lower courts,
they have not been able to approach her
exalted position, or to build up anything
more than a very limited justice court
reputation.
Mrs. Lockwood was peculiarly unfortu
nate in her first important case—that of a
handsome widow vs. a venerable states
man. for breach of promise of marriage.
She had men for opposing counsel, and, as
might have been expected,she did not make
out much of a case. Suppose Mrs. Laura
de Force Gordon had then been at the bar,
and had been employed for the defense in
that case, how different the result and
the subsequent career of Mrs. L. might
have been! She would, doubtless, have
shown the world what justice in its
last analysis is, and the bench and bar
would have been entertained, if not en
lightened, by some very fine specimens of
female forensic eloquence and logic. The
first breath of opposition by her female
rival would have put her on her metal,
and, though defeated at first, she would
have appealed from court to ccurt, and
would finally, perhaps, have been success
ful.
Ot course Mrs. Laura de Force Gordon
would have acquitted herself with credit,
and would have acquired a national repu
tation. Female lawyers would have soon
become a prominent feature.of the Wash
ington court?, and scores of fair creature?
who have been flattered and fascinated
bv some of the most eminent bald-headed
politicians of the land, would have known
their rights and would have dared to
maintain them in the halls of justice.
Mrs. Lockwood should persuade Mrs.
Gordon to locate iu Washington at once.
It is to be feared that the opportune sea
son has passed for suits of the character
mentioned. If, however, the female law
yers will apply themselves diligently to
their profession, at least until the next
Presidential campaign, they may make
their mark at the bar, and 6ome of them
may eventually attain to the b-?ucb, where
many notable musculine granies have sat
in judgment in times that are past.
Facts About Oklahoma.
A Fort Reno correspondent of Brad
street’ gives several columns of interest
ing information about that portion of the
Indian Territory which has been brought
so prominently to the attention of the
country during the last few weeks. It
appears that the popular idea that Okla
homa is a fabulously fertile country is tar
from correct. It contains some rich la: ds
along the rivers, and some extremely poor
lands on what is known as the divides,
which are barren and stony. In the
northeastern part of Oklahoma there are
thousands ot acres which are compara
tively worthless, the soil being very thin
anil thirsty, and the grass extremely
scant after midsummer. The western
portion is broken by ravines and gullies,
apd the southeastern quarter contains
much low, swampy, hut heavily timbered
land, cut up by lagoons and bayous, which
aie well adapted to the generation of
malaria. In the western portion there is
much good farming land, but it is no bet
ter and no worse than that iu the western
portions oi Kil—£“ ?.2d
The correspondent states that tho real
instigators of the various bands of in
truders are the members of a clique ot
swindlers who have been for several years
selling certificates of colony membership
to those desiring to locate lands in Okla
homa. It is estimated that at least 15,000
ot these papers have been sold at from $3
to $5 each, and a company of surveyors is
said to have made a great deal of money
out ot the deluded colonists by locating
and survey ing their pretended claims. It
is asseru and that a veiy large proportion of
the people of Kansas, living near the In
dian Territory, who have never joined the
parties of Payne and Couch, are holders
of these certificates, and consequently are
In thorough sympathy with the intruders.
It appears that the Oklahoma lands
were retroceded to the United States by
the Seminole Indians in ISG6 for the ex
press purpose of locating other Indians
and freedmen, who were former slaves of
the Indians, thereon.
The above facts given by the corres
pondent, who is a trusted contributor to
the worthy journal quoted, will help en
lighten those who wish to get all the in
formation obtainable about the section of
country which is causing so much agita
tion in the West.
An examination of the latest map shows
that Oklahoma is situated in the very
heart of the Indian Territory. It is sep
arated from Kansas by the Cherokee strip,
which is about fifty miles wide, and from
Texas by the reservations of the Chicka
saws, Wichitas, Kiowas. Comanches and
Apaches, which together are wider than
the Cherokee strip.
It has been announced that the so-called
’mers” will start back to Oklahoma
with their numbers largely augmented on
Alareh o. They seem to think that Presi
dent Cleveland will pursue a different pol
icy towards them from that of President
Arthur. They are certainly mistaken.
He can but cuforce the law, and there is
not the shadow of a doubt about the pres
ent status of the Oklahoma lands. The
prospeets that Congress will open these
lands for settlement in the near future
are not flattering. If they bordered on
one of the States or Territories it might
do so, but it is not likely that the policy of
allowing whites to settle in the centre of
the Indian Territory will be inaugurated
tor a good many years, at least not until
the present status of the Indian tribes is
changed, the lands assigned to the In
dians in severalty, and a territorial form
of government established. Oklahoma
will certainly not be opened until the
Cherokee strip can be acquired by the
government.
It would be nest for the “boomers” to
give up their hobby at once. Many of
them will become gray-headed before
they establish permanent homes on their
pretended claims. They will be wise if
they locate elsewhere, for if the territory
should be opened their claims would not
be recognized as euperior to those of sub
sequent settlers. They are a deluded set
of people and the quicker they realize
the fact, the better for them.
A graveyard insurance company came
to grief in a peculiar manner in Balti
more. Thursday. It was sued by the
speculative holder of a policy on another
man's life. The company gained its
case. The Judge threw it out of court on
the ground that it was equivalent to a
gambling contract. This victory of the
insurance company causes one to think
of the “apples ot Sodom,” which it was
said turned to ashes on the lips.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The I-awyers Ox at Fault.
Philadelphia Record ( Ind.)
Four men have been shot and hanged bv a
mob, but as the shooting and hanging took
place in lowa it was not a displav of lawless-
I ness—as it would have been in Alabama—but
merely a popular uprising to awe tae crimi
nal clas os.
No Dancer from Anarchists.
Baltimore Sun (Pen t.)
The right of revolution by means oi the bal
lot is the great safeguard of American liber
ties, and the ore specific for all political
abuses. The remedy has been repeatedly
used in this country, and alwavs with good
effect, and it is idle to talk of other and less
peaceful metho -s. involving bloodshed and
disorder, for righting political and* social
grievances, which can only arise th-ough the
neglect, the indifference, er the follv ol the
people themselves.
A Patent Political Paragraph.
Galreston Metes (Pent.)
Judge , who now holds the position of
President Cleveland’s! auguration there will
be a desperate struggle among the Demo
crats for the * salarv which he now
draws. After his retirement from the wor
ries and anxieties of a disinterested and self
sacrificing devotion to the service of his
country. Judge will retire to ,
where it is said he will engage in in
connection with .
Advice Free Gratis for Nothing.
Mew York World (Pern.)
No man should find a place in Mr. Cleve
land’s Cabinet who is not wholly independent
of corporations, resolved to elevate the char
acter of the republic to the purest standard,
and prepared to live on tho salary attached
to the position. No man should be placed
there who will not regard the ofliee as one of
grave trust, to be conducted faithfully for the
public good. There should he no fancy mem
bers who want the honor of the position to
gratify mere pride or help them in social am
bition There should lie no frilled shirts at
the council table. Mr. Cleveland has been a
hard-working Mayor and Governor, anil will
be a hard-working President.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Bible mentions 620 places in Palestine
west of Jordan, and 430 have been identified,
132 by the staff of the Palestine exploration
fund.
The University of Virginia has no pre
scribed course of study, no entrance exami
nation. no vacation except the summer one
and but six holidays.
Peairie chickens are more abundant in
Minnesota now than formerly, but the race is
changed; their legs are feathered and their
flesh, from fet ding in the wheat fields, has be
come a delicate white.
ArsTiiALia farmers are suffering from the
sparrow nuisance. The government last year
paid out 12,500 for sparrows' eggs destroyed,
with uo perceptible effect upon the number or
destructive ability of the pe-ts.
The railroads of Java are especially pros
perous, being able to declare a dividend of 3Y6
percent- and nay off part of their bonded
debt at the same time. The receipts per traiu
mile on the main line amounted last year
to f4 15.
TnE city of Brussels proposes to try the ex
periment of using electricity to drive its street
ca!S. One line, that of the Rue de la Loi, is
to be equipped with motors, and separate ac
connls are to be kept in order to g.yc the ex
periment a fair trial.
Koi'R years ago the United States Govern
ment purchased land at Two Lights, on the
coast of Maine, for a life saving station, since
when nothing furtherhas been done. Already
this winter there have been six wrecks in
that vicinity, the last one only a few days
since.
A steer was recently sold in Cincinnati
weighing 4,250 pounds. The animal was raised
near Decatur, iDd., is of fine form, perfectly
developed, six feet four inches high, girths
twelve feet, and measures twelve feet in
length. It is six years old, a beautiful roan,
and in perfect health.
At tho solicitation f the British Govern
ment President Lincoln looked after, person
ally, the copying and signing ot a second
original copy of the emancipation proclama
tion for the British Museum, and it is now
preserved among the great historic papers
owned by that institution.
Writing of coca extract, a drug said to
possess restorative power- similar to those of
tea in cases of great fatigue, exposure, hun
ger, etc., Dr. Watson Campbell stites that
when Weston, the pedestrian, w as exhibiting
in England lie was frequently deteett-d chew
ing somethi g which Ur a long time he kept
secret, but which he ultimately admitted was
coca leaves.
Tom Keep, of Maine, became entangled in
a knot of Democrats w hile leaving tiie House
of Representatives the other day. One of
tl cm asked hUn what he thought of the pros
pect for Arthur’s successor. “Wa-al. he
drawled in the na-al twang peculiar to Maine
Yankees, “this feller Cle-eve-land, he's a
goin’ to ha-ave a bell of a time —and he’ll
never know it.”
liEv. Hebkk Newton appears to be in much
the same mental state Douglas Jerrold was
once. A lady undertook to explain to him
the beauties of the five points of Calvan’sm.
Jerrold listened patiently until the doctrine of
election had been elucidat* and, when he ex
claimed: ‘ Well, if I hail known that I was
born to be damned, I’ll be damned if I would
have been horn.”
A New Orleans doctor calls attentioh to
a \erj- simple fact which merits attention
from medicine takers. If the medicine is
mixed wiih very cold water, and a few swal
lows of the waier be taken as a preparatory
dose, the i erves of the organ of taste become
sufficiently benumbed to make the medicine
nearlv tasteless. The method will not dis
guise bitter tastos but acts well in oils and
sal Hies.
George W. Childs has presented to the
Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts a num
ber of crayon and pen sketches that original
ly belonged to Benjamin West. Twenty of
the drawing- are attributed to that artist,
and the other twi nty-seven be'ong to the
French school, and were collected by him.
The most striking drawings by West are “Lot
anil His Daughter.” “Daniel in the Lion’s
Den,” “David” and “Noah E- tering the Ark.”
the collection was purchased by Minister
James Russell Lowell at the request of Mr.
Childs.
The manufacturers of and dealers in dyna
m.te in New York characterize as an idle
bo"-st O’Donovan Ros a’s statement that no
matter how Congress may legislate about it,
he will be able to secure it bv the ton should
it be necessary Thev say there are no store
houses for it o'n Manhattan Island at all; the
depositories ore iu the eoun ry, and they are
so thorougtdy protected that it would be im
possible for thieves to enter. Moreover, thev
are at particular pains to ascertain the char
acter of the parlies to whom they sell it, and
no contracts are executed unless their investi
gations in that *espect are satisfactory. They
cannot lie expected to know what noconies of
the stuff after it has passed from their control.
An article on orange peel m the Gardeners'
Chronicle show s that this product is a more
important article of commerce than most
people suppose. The quantity imported into
New York annually is valued at 112,000. “In
Amsterdam,” says the writer, “there is a re
gular orange peel mart, where saucers ful of
peels are set out upon long tables, anu testers
go among them selecting for purchasers.
Such experience have these men that they
can tell simply by breaking and smelling a bit
of peel just what part ol the world it comes
from, and that from Cnraeoa always com
mands a higher price than any other ” This
bitter orange peel, which i*produced mC'ura
coa, makes the aromatic liqueur which bears
the name of that island, but which is really
made by the Dutch in Holland.
A few DAt s ago a Democratic member of
Congress from the West desired to be absent
from his seat in the House for a short time, so
he paired. He paired, of course, with aRe
publican member. A copy of the Congres- I
sionul Rreord containing that day’s proce-d
--ings rre bed the handset one of rfiat mem
ber’s conetituents. lie read tuat his member
was paired on that day and paired with a
wel -k° own Republican. It annoyed that
constituent and be sat down anu wrote:
“When yon have to be absem Irom your seat
in the House and are compelled to pair, as a
fri.-nd I would advise you to pair with a Dem
ocrat. You know we have nothing to do with
Republi-. ans, and it looks bad to see you pair
ing with them in Congress, t’eople here will
think you are associating with them,”
A STRANGE Japanese custom hasjust been
brought to light by the working of the con
scription law. The head of a certain family
was instructed that the time had come for his
son, whose name appeared on the census list,
to undergo medicai examination prior to en
listment. The father lost ro lime in inform
ing the authorities that the individual re
ferred to. though bearing a male name,
was his daughter. He explained that having
lost two daughters, both about I year old. he
bad been driven to this expedient to keep the
third alive. In many dis nets of Japan peo
ple resort in their anxiety to prolong the
fives of their children to the custom of be
stowing upon their offspring names ordina
rily given to infant* of theopposite sex, when
ever death has made irequent visits to their
households.
bright bits.
In a billiard room uptown they have pails
of milk standing about for players to dip their
cues inio when they require chalking.— Puck.
HB—“lt’s a polka, but we can waltz to it.”
She—“Oh! not for worlds. I hate waltzing
to a polka; besides, l adore the polka step.”
jj e ••sorry; Ia nevah dance the polka; but
we can sit out this daucc, if you like, and I
will talk to you.” She—“Ob! good gracious,
no; let us dance it any way you like.”
Now the chilly days are here.
And no more the base bail sphere
Across tlie grassy "diamond” will be pounded,
thrown or spun—
Not until the coming spring.
Which another strife will bring
’Twist “League” and its big rival, the “As
so-ci-a-sfii-un.”
—Her chant Traveler.
It is related that many years ago a Mr.
Morgan, who represented' Westmeath in the
House of Commons, when on his first canvass
called on Father Mooney, an influential priest,
and asked him for his vote. The latter re
plied: ‘Sir. I’d rather give it to the devil.”
•‘But,” said the candidate, “in the event of
your friend not coming forward for the coun
ty, what then?” He got the vote.— Butfalo
£j-j>rese.
“Hfbbv, I’ve just been reading how Daniel
Webster improved bis memory.” “How was
it. my dear?” “Well you see. every night
when be came home he told his wi e' every
thing he had done during the day, whom he
had met, wbat he had said, every thing he
could thick of. By and by he got so he could
remember everything.” “Well?” “Nothing,
hubby, only I thought maybe you would like
to improve your memory that way.” “Dar
ling, do you suspect me?” —Chicago Metes,
Mrs Bidps—“Dear me. how queer! I
thought pianos always had pedals ever since
they were flr-t made, but I see that a man
n-me ■ Greener, of K mira, claims to have
been the original inventor of one of them.”
Mr. Budd*—“Thank Jortune! I’ll start at
once; please pack my satchel, and be snre to
put my pistol in it.” “Goodness me! Are vou
crazy! What difference can it make to vou if
this man Greener did invent the soil pedal
and ” “Oh, the soft pedal. was it? I
thought it was the loud pedal.”— Philadelphia
Call.
First College M an—“ Have you heard the
awful news about Princeton?” Second col
lege man—“ Princeton! Great Osar! Hasn’t
burned down, has it?” “No,not exactly; but
it has withdrawn from De Rowing As o na
tion ” “Oh! well, that’s not so bad. Such
a step was absolutely necessary in order to
give the students a fa'ir chance, you know.’’
•A fair chance?” “Y es; it is simpiy impos
sible for an educational institution to do full
justice to rowing without actually neglecting
base ball.” —Philadelphia Call.
Two Fables-The Viper and the File.—A
rapacious Viper being sadly in Deed ot Suste
nance, was wandering aimlessly alrout. one
cool April afternoon, Seekißg what he might
Devour, "When he met an mvitiug-looking
Fi e. upon which he resolved to Feed. “Go
it. Vipc, old man,” said the File, “you can
have all the Juice you can get out of me, and
Welcome: but I warn you to desist, as lam
almost as Mortalitacious as our cousin Cholera
Germ.” But the Viper, peisisting in his reck
less repast, Swallowed the File entire, and
Having done so, curled up his legs and died.
And no wonder. He had eaten a File of the
Congressional Record. Moral: Even Snakes
cannot stand some Things.— Puck.
PERSONAL.
Mr. Howells clicks off his fine character
sketches on a type-writer.
Mr. Gladstone loves to look in the
windows of a brie-a-brac store.
Sabah Bernhardt is said to receive SSOO a
month for her contributions to newspapers.
Henry Gf.orge is mentioned as a possible
Parliamentary candidate for Caithneshire,
Scotland.
11. 11. Warnee, the founder of the Warner
Observatory at Rochester, aspires to the Gov
ernorship of New Y'ork.
Senator-elect Hearts, of New -Y'ork,
owns a house but a few steps from the Senate
wiDg of the capttol at Washington.
Maj. Gen Irvin McDowell, I*. S. A., and
a party of friends have left San Francisco on
a visit to Mexico, and wiil return by way of
New Orleans.
Sir Arthvr Sullivan does most of his
writing musical composition, rather—be
tween midnight and sunrise. He selects that
time because it is so quiet.
CYltrs W. Field, of New Y’ork. has ismed
cards for a reception on Feb. 13 in celebration
of the 80th anniversarv of tho birthday of his
brother, David Dudley Field.
Miss Mack ay has sent to this country hut
sixty invitations to her forthcoming wedding
to Prince ColonDa. The ceremony wi.l take
place in historic Notre Dame.
Gen. Grant, President of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac, will establish his
headquarters at the Cari-Mlton Hotel, Balri
uiore, while attending the reunion in that
c ity.
George Alfred Townsend lectured in
Cleveland. 0., the other Bight, and the next
morning he manager of the lecture course
announced that, since up to that time he had
lost *l,lOO on the enterprise, no more lectures
would be given.
Miss Mary Ccstis Lee. daughter of Gen.
Lee, visited the National Museum a few days
ago to look at the Washington relics there
that she might identify those taken during
the war from Arlington. The relics were in
the Patent Office from 18S1 to I&S2, when thev
were removed to the National Museum. Miss
Lee .has a miniature of Martha Washington
which was buried dnring the war. It is the
one of which Mrs. Washington spoke in a let
ter written the last year of her life.
An interesting memento of Dr. Samuel
Johnson is still to be fund on the spot that
once was the site of Mrs. Thrale’s garden. It
is an oak tree, dead, but “tremendous still in
death.” Indeed, nothing remains but the
hollow trunk, about ten feet in diameter, and
within it a lusty young poplar tree is grow
ing: but it was once doubtle-s a veritable for
est king, dating its biith baok almost to the
Conquest, and within its shade the great lexi
cographer often sat, and growled, and moral
ized, and—drank tea.
BOOK NOTICES.
“The Revolution of ’B4 ” is the title of
the latest edition of the B. & O. Red Book.
The contents are of the most valuable
character, and embody about as complete
a review, statistical and otherwise, of the
late political contest as possible to im
agine. Indeed, the publication is in ad
vance of any of the Red Book series yet
issued, and forms a most valuable addi
tion to the political record of party tri
umphs and reverses. The book embraces
a hundred and t wenty odd pages. Copies
can be secured by enclosing a stamp to
G. K. Lord, the G. P. A. of the B. & 0., at
Baltimore.
The Sanitarian for January has anew
dress, which adds a great deal to its ap
pearance. It has a number of very inter
esting and valuable articles. The leading
article is “The Sanitary Responsibilities
of the Citizen.” by Albert L. Gibon, Med
ical Director United States Navy. It will
well repay the time given to its’ perusal.
“House Heating and its Dangers” is an
article that ought to be widely published.
It contains very valuable hints. 113 Ful
ton street. New Y'ork.
The Atlanta Midical Journal for Feb
ruary is a good number. Among other
things it contains, a report of a tobacco
poisoning case by L. G. Hardman, M. D.,
of Harmony Grove, Ga. ’ Death from to
bacco poisoning is not generally thought
to be frequent, but the report in this case
and the comments thereon is calculated
to create the impres-ioh that tobacco is a
more dangerous poison than is supposed.
James P. Harrison & Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
The English Illustrated Magazine for
February is up to the usual high stand
ard of that publication. The illustrations
are very fine, and the articles possess
both interest and literary excellence. 112
Fourth avenue, New Y ork.
SLY MR. EVA RTS.
How He Eluded Mrs. Hayes With a
Punch Bowl.
Evarts’ domination over the Hayes
family, says the Chicago Tribune, was
never shown in a greater degree than
upon the occasion of the first dinner
given at the White House to the diplo
matic corps. Mrs. Hayes started out
with the theory that no w ine should ever
be served on her table at the White
House. When Mr. Evarts learned that
this policy was to be maintained at the
first dinner to be given to the foreigners
he went to the White House and ad
dressed Mrs. Hayes in the same way as ii
he were making an argument in the Su
preme Court. He told her that it was not
her table, and that she was not the hos
tess. She merely represented the gov
ernment. It was the government’s table.
The representatives of foreign govern
ments had been brought up to have wine
on their tables every day of their lives.
Its absence from a table of ceremony
would be regarded by them as the very
reverse of complimentary. Mrs. Hayes,
in her wild efforts at reiorming Washing
ton society, had evidently included the
diplomatic corps as subjects ior such
relormation. Mr. Evarts’ argument con
vinced her, however, that she was wrong,
and so wine was served. But she never
yielded again. She gave no more dinners
to the diplomatic people. She used to give
them after that card receptions. Very
elegant suppers were served at these re
ceptions. They were fully the equal of
anything that has ever been given upon
similar occasions at the White House.
But no wine was served. Upon these
nights the diplomatic Evarts used to have
a great punch-bowl set up in his office in
the State Department. There everything
eatable and drinkable that one would
care to see upon a lunch-table was served
in great profut ion. Evans, on account of
his hospitality was one of the most popu
lar of Secreta Tr • oor foreigners
who were chil it w bv t! I
Hayes lemons
to the State D
to the brim wa :n
A WH4v 1..-a. .
went to a dru< -t . . i . . , - . .
DONT. The st
of that, but
good.” The
don’t,” and we *■
and got a bottlt ;i ' .-• ‘ u
WASTEFUL WASHINGTON.
LIVING EXPENSES GETTING BE
YOND ALL PURSES.
Social Demands on (lie Government-#
Official? Tco Much for their Balarle-r
Itajeathe Inaug j rat lon of Mammon’*
Adulatio*'—Snobbishness of One or the
Vulgar Queens.
Washington. Feb. s.— Nothing that has
been said or intimated by Mr. Bayard in
respect to himselt as the head of any de
partment in President Cleveland's ad min
istration. can be fairly taken as leading
up to the current remarks about the neces
sary expenditures of a Cabinet offi-er.
Nor can anything that Mr. Bayard has
said or intimated justify the inference
that be either has been or expects to be
invited to the State Department or the
Treasury Department.
But no thoughtful observer of the ten
dencies of social life in Washington can
fail to deplore the inconvenient relation
that now exists between the salaries of
heads ot departments and the yearly in
creasing cost of maintaining a respecta
ble household in this city One cau ap
preciate this who Inquires about the >-uin
to be paid as rent for even a modest house
in Washington, to say nothing ol a house
large enough tor such receptions and din
ners as certain people expect the head of
a department to give. Nearly every one
is beginning to see that either'cfficial sal
aries must be quickly and greatly in
creased, or that the exactions in a social
way made upon officials must be dimin
ished. Washington is a very different
place from what it was before the war. The
enormous expenditures made by the Fed
eral Government in the erection of public
buildings, in the improvement of streets,
and by the erection of many new houses
by private enterprise, have tended to
make YY'ashington a very popular winter
residence. An important element in the
popularity which brings visitors to Wash
ington from every part of the country is
the ease of access to receptions and other
social entertainments given by official
persons. Even the rental of a house suf
ficient for snch entertainment in a very
quiet wav will not be less than some
$3,000 per year, and may go as high as
twice that sum. It only needs to exhibit
this condition of things to demonstate the
need of some sort of a remedy or reform.
Twenty or thirty years ago very few
members of Congres’s or Senators owned
the houses in which they lived. Tuat con
dition of simplicity is now quite reversed !
so far as Senators are concerned. Wash- j
ington is rapidly imitating the social cus
toms and pecuniary extravagance of ex
penditure which characterize the very ;
rich people in London and New York. All :
of this may be well enough, and not be de
plored, if confined to private individuals;
but it becomes a public calamity when of
ficials in YYashingtou feel bound to imi
tate such social display.
MONEY A FACTOR IN' WASHINGTON SO
SOCIETY.
It is only recently that money has be
beeome such an important factor in
Washington society. For a long time
money alone was not enough to give one
standing in Washington. Probably there
is no place yet in the country where men
ot brains, education and talent occupy so
good a position without the support of
money as here. With the older class of
public men money counts for very little.
But it is easy to see its influence is grow
ing year by year, and it threatens within
a very short time to abs ilutely dominate
all other influences iu YY'ashington lite.
This will entirely change the character of
YY'ashington society. YVhere it has been
simple and natural in the past it promises
to be snobbish and artificial in the future.
Rich people began to be attracted here
about the time of the discovery that they
could come here and live practically free
from taxation. It has become through
this migration of rieh people a fashiona
ble winter resort. The coming here of un
official rich people would not have had
much effect upon general YVashington so
ciety if their coming hacf not stimulated
other rich people to reach for the official
places at the capital. The creation ot a
money-bag standard for admission to the
Senate has created here a wealthy class of
high officials who regard money ’ and its
possession as the touchstone of merit.
The growth of this element has been
farther encouraged by influences around
the White House. Grant was a worship
er of money. Ho eutertained and gave
preference to rich people. This was par
ticularly true when he went out of the
YVhite House to pay visits.
HAYES’ WORSHIP OK RICH I’KOPI.E.
Hayes’ adulation of people with money
was only equaled by his careful saving of
his own pennies. "His worsnip of ricn
people was never more clearly shown than
at tiie last diplomatic reception given by
him at the White House. The
diplomatic people were his guests
of honor. Ail of the other
gursts present were invited to meet them.
Sir Edward Thornton was the dean oi the
Diplomatic Corps at that time. He was
giveD precedence over all his associates.
These gentlemen are the greatest possible
sticklers lor etiquette. Any man with the
slightest knowledge of the world or toe
commonest notions of politeness would
have been very particular to have ob
served every requirement to contribute to
their pleasure. When the hour lor going
to the refreshment-room was reached
there was only one thing for the Presi
dent to do, and that was to give his arm
to the wife of the principal guest of the
evening. Sir Edward Thornton had al
ready given his arm to Mrs. Hayes. Mrs.
Asto’r happened to be present in chr-rge
of policemen who were guarding her extra
ordinaiy display of diamonds. Tae glit
tering vision of this concentrated wealth
oming under the notice of the President,
he immediately dashed forward and in the
most unctuous manner asked the priv
ilege of escorting the diamonds and black
pearls to the dining-room. Lady Tuora
ton was left without an escort. She re
sented this as an insult, walked up-stairs
to the dressing-room, ordered her car
riage, and with her two daughters went
directly home.
Arthur is just such another worshiper
of money, tie associates only with rich
people, and while he goes out in society
more than any ether President who ha*s
ever held the office he never yet darkened
the door of any of the houses of any pub
lic men waose poverty compels them to
}iye in a moderate fashion. He goes out
more than is compatible with the dignity
of the office. He is seen with great regu
larity at the houses of people wno have
nothing but money to recommend them to
the notice of any one. From the time that
he first cam.* *nto the White House. Gen.
L3gau was very friend” He did all that
he could to uphold him. The General Was
frequently at the White House and his
opinion was freely sought by Arthur. Yet
with all his gaddings about as a society
man President Arthur never called upon
Gen. Logan, probably because the latter
lived in a boarding-house in much more
humble quarters than are occupied by
some of the chiefs of the government
bureaus. The President has run after
rich people. Take the case ol Senator
Miller, of California. Senator Miller is
a man of no public record. He secured
his seat in the Senate with the proceeds
of a share of the profits of the Alaska
Seal Fur Company. Yet the President
has run after the-Millers as he has after
other rich people of a kindred character.
WASHINGTON SNOBBISHNESS.
I noticed an instance of Washington
snobbishness last night in one ot the
leading groceries of the capital which
well illustrates the character of one class
of our high-toned court society. I was
waiting to buy some little things and a
very pretty arid modest lady wasstanding
at the counter watching the clerk do up
some packages for her. Another lady,
the wife o! an old Washingtonian, was
also waiting, as I was, when Mrs. Gen.
, a leader of the capital, and one of
the newest of the nouveau riche, came
strutting in, dressed in velvet and seal
skin. She was a tall, angular woman,
witn a nose which seemed to turn up at
everybody and everything. She had an
eye-glass attached to a long handle in her
right hand, and this she presented in front
ot her right eye and began looking super
ciliously" around the store. Ail ot the
clerks were as ousy as they could be. But
in the most arrogant air ehe turned to the
one above spoken of and said:
•‘Do you not 6ee, sir, that I am wait
ing?”
The clerk dropped the bundles he had
and rushed over to ner. She then pointed
with a majestic air to a lot of tomatoes
marked 12 cents a can. She said:
“I will take one of those cans of toma
toes ; you may carry it out to my car
riage,” and with that she swept out of the
store in the same regal way in which she
had entered. As she did so I noted a
smile ol contempt on the countenance of
tne old Washingtonian, who has tne blood
of some of the riiost noted lamilies in the
country in her veins. She quietly waited
until her turn came to be served, and tak
ing her purchases, which amounted to
many times that of the snob who had
pushed into her place, in her arms, she
said : ”1 thank you, but I can carry these
out myself.” She took the bundles in
her arms, and going to the door stepped
into a finer carriage than that of the fe
male snob, and was driven quietlv away.
It is no wonder that some of the old
j Washington ladies object to the rude ways
! of those who in part compose our great
! court circles.
i Y'ou meet many persons in YVashineton
society whom you would not think of in
viting' to vour dinner-table at your homes.
Official position to a large extent deter
mines a social standing, and many a fami
ly which moves in the second or third
rank in the society of their own States are
elevated to the first rank here. Some of
them have been socially ostracised for
their scandalous actions in their native
towns, but YV ashington never bothers it
self about the skeletons in its Inhabitants’
closets, and Lucifer himself will be wel
come here if be will dress well, keep his
hoofs dressed in patent leathers and his
tail out of sight. It is curious bow peo
ple go up and down in YVashington socie
ty. Senators and the sort of Congress
men who can come here for life if they
want to are the only ones who have any
permaueneb. The party in power and its
friends regulate the standard, and a
change'of party means an almost entire
change of society. Two years ago Mrs.
Keifer was the great laoy of the capital.
Now you can hardly hear uer name. Last
year Mrs. Speaker Carlisle took ber place,
and YYashington snobbishness bowed to
her as did the courtiers to Queen Eliza
beth. Next year there will be anew lady
in the White'House.
THE SPEAKER’S POSITION MISUNDER
STOOD.
Speaker Carlisle, like many other
Speakers before him, finds that bis official
station and power are greatly misunder
stood. Persons who know little or noth
ing about the Speaker’s powers seem to
labor under the Impression that he has
only to demand office, appropriations,
legislation, and other difficult and val
uable things to be obtained and he can get
them. Mr. Carlisle, since his election, has
daily received letters asking for all sorts
of ungivable things. A closet in the
Speaker's room is quite filled up with
some of the most curious of these letters,
while many more have been dropped into
the waste basket at the side of his desk.
Some of the letters received arc amusing,
some are bold and impertinent, and
occasionally one is opened that tells a tale
of suffering protracted and keen. A day
or two ago one oft he bold sort was opened.
A man in Minnesota wrote requesting the
Speaker to secure for him an appropria
tion to buy him a sleigh. He had none,
wished to have a good turnout, and after
prescribing of what wood it should be
built, bow many strings of bells he want
ed, and how thick the steel runners
should be, he urged the Speaker to secure
the appropriation for the purpose at the
earliest possible moment. Ol quite a dif
ferent sort was a letter opened a few days
ago. Inclosed in the envelope that
brought it was a white satin apron, oi the
kind worn by Masons. It was old, almost
yellow with age, in fact, and the sym
bolic temple and other devices, wrought
in gold scales, were tarnished badly. As
a perusal of the letter which enwrapped
it proved, it bad been preserved with af
fectionate and reverent care, and while
the necessity which brought it to Speaker
Carlisle ajipealed strongly to a tender
spot in his heart, he knew that he could
do nothing but return it to the person who
sent it, with assurances of his sincere re
gret at his inability to offer anything but
sympathy in replvl
THE IXAUGUBAL BALL.
Grand Preparations for the Inaugura
tion of President-elect Cleveland.
Preparations for the inauguration ball,
says a Washington special, continue with
unabated vigor. It is how certain that
the affair will be the very grandest of its
kind ever witnessed in this country. It is
not only that this is the first Democratic
Presidential inauguration for twenty-five
years, and that the joy and gratitude of a
great community are seeking appropriate
expression througn the attractive medi
um thus presented, but that facilities for
a grand display are more numerous and
convenient now than ever before. The
pension building is the creation of the
past few months. It is not complete as
regards the purposes for which it is de
signed, but complete enough lor the pur
posvs of the inauguration committee.
Arrangements are already far ad
vanced. The 10,000 yards of canvas re
quired for the temporary room are now
stretched, the supporting stringers and
wire cables are in place, and in a day or
two the roof will be fastened In position.
Pipes for lighting and heating are being
rapidly laid, and as soon as this is com
pleted" the floor will he put down, and
then the work of decoration begins.
This is to be the most elegant and elab
orate. No money will be spared to make
the interior worthy of the occasion.
There are twenty or thirty handsome re
ception and retiring rooms, the vast bal
cony running entirely around the danc
ing hail, supper-rooms, etc. The build
ing is to be lighted by gas, using the Sie
mens burners, some 50. some 100, and
some 200 leetgapaeity. The whole will be
as brilliant as noonday.
No such enthusiasm has ever been man
ifested in Washington before. It looks like
a renaissance. Money is pouring in
abundantly, and the resurrection of the
Democratic party will be celebrated with
a lavish splendor beyond description.
There is some talk of negotiating for the
Mexican band, now at the World’s Expo
sition, New Orleans, and if they could be
spared for the few days necessary for the
trip and th-* event, the committee will
probably m ike overtures. Their fame has
reached Washington, and His thought th
presence ot such an organization will
lend added brilliancy to the event.
The beauty and tne chivalry for hun
dreds of miles around are furbishing up
their armor for the silken fray, and if the
procession and the ceremony are to beim
pi essive, the culminating gayeties will
be harmoniously magnificent. Washing
ton intends to speak for the whole nation
in expressing the thanksgiving ot liberat
ed millions, and will do so in accents of
music and color and rejoicing, that will
not be forgotten in the lives of those who
hear.
A TA LK WITH JEFFERSON DAVIS
His Visit to New Orleans and His Views
of Public Men.
Jefferson Davis, as is well known, ac
companied the Philadelphia party with
the Liberty Bell to New Orleans, and dur
ing the ride to the city the Baltimore Sun
correspondent had an agreeable chat with
him. His mindis clear and Still active, but
there afe Bigu2 of physical break-up in
his appearance. lie is i£ years old, hav
ing been born in Kentucky in June, IBoS.
He is very severe on Gen. Sherman, and
will in a short time present to the public
an article on the subject, which is ex
pected to be a very vigorous document.
He says Gee. Sherman is not worthy of a
reply, but in justice to his (Air. Davis’
frierida and the cause he represented he
will shortly give to the public a
complete vindication of his course
while serving as President of
the Confederacy. Mr. Davis
says Gen. Sherman has not furnished any
proof to support his accusation that he
(Davis) contemplated the establishment
of despotic power in the South during the
wai, and denies in the most emphatic
terms that he ever wrote a letter upon
which such an accusation can be founded.
Alost persons, and Gen. Snerman included,
are laboring under the impression that
Air. Davis lest or had captured or stolen
from him during the late unpleasantness
ali of his private papers, letters, etc., but
this is not the case. Air. Davis informed
the correspondent that he has in his pos
session copies ot all the letters he wrote
during the war, including his messages.
These valuable records were saved for
him by a Catnollc priest, who recovered
and hid them for him until after his re
lease from prison. Mr. Davis’ answer to
the charges of Gen. Sherman will con
tain several extracts from them.
On being asked who was the greatest
man he ever met in public life Air. Davis
answered:
“John U. Calhoun. He was a noble,
genial, warm-hearted gentleman withal.
Gen. Jackson was a greater man, if we
judge by results, but be was not learned.
He was a safe man, and'had more sonnd
common sense than any man 1 ever knew.
Gen. Taylor was also a great man, and
one of the best friends I had in the world,
but I did not support him for President.
John Quincy Adams was also a great
statesman, and perhaps the best equipped
man 1 ever knew.’’
To the question as to who, in his opin
ion, was tne ablest General in the Con
i tederacy Mr. Davis unhesitatingly au
| swered:
“Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston was the
! ablest man, either civil or military, that
j was in the Confederacy. Had he lived he
i would undoubtedly "have annihilated
i Grant’s army at the battle of Shiloh.”
A school of forestry is to be established
. in connection with the University of Ed
j inburg.
UJanirfi.
\V ANTED, SA I.E>M
f crgetic salesmau for Savannah, on ralarr
only one with firgt-rlass reference# as to
qnalifb-ations, honesty and Integrity, and
willing to !nv *t 1100 in the stock of the com
pany may address, with full particulars an •
references, the EDDISOV ELECTRIC Fh'i
EXTERMINATOR COMPANY. 161 Broad
way, N Y.
YV' ANTED, everybody to know that Cahi
> v net Photographs made by the new inatan
taneou# proeesa are 13 50 jht dozen, a I
work guaranteed first-claas in every particu
lar. J. N. WILSON. 21 Bull street, opposite
Screven Honee.
I \\T ANTED, a reliable white woman as nnrse
* * for a sick lady; one used to the manage
ment of children pref rreil. Address at once
T. N. J., care News office.
WANTED, a situation as lady’s maid and
Tv plain seamstress for traveling: good
reformers. Apply 54 Habersham street.
W7ANTED, liy two young gentlemen, nice
v v south front room convenient to bnsine *
Address Vf. N., Box 273.
V\ T ANTED, a small boy to assist at house
work. Apply lf.l Gwinnett street.
\\ T ANTED.—A machinist and engineer de-
I v sires permanent employment, either i n
the shop or would take charge of a stationer*
engine. Address M. H., this office.
Yt? ANTED, a white woman or girl as cook
D for a small family. Apply at corner of
St. Julian and Abercoru streets.
\\T ANTED, ladies and young men wishing
tv to earn |1 to $3 every day quietly a;
their homes; work furnished; sent by mail
no canvassing; no stamps required for reply’
Please address EDWARD F. DAVIS 4 CO.’
b S South Main street. Fall River. Mass.
for llrnt.
f'OR RENT, at Isle of Hope, bouse witii
garden and a good supply of fruit—pears .
grapes, figs and peaches. Address SUBI'H
BAN, Morning News office.
FOR RENT, a nicely furnished room, wit),
piazza: rent moderate; 37 Charlton et.
L?OR RENT, three connecting rooms, with
I bath room and piazza, fiO per month:
52 Broughton street, corner Habersham.
U?OR RENT, a flat of four rooms; 106 Taylor
-U street, corner Drayton.
JTiOR RENT, medium-size house, frontin ’
south, six rooms and kitchen, Henry,
tween narnard and Jefferson streets. Apply
on premises, or to G. O. RENTON, No. I*l
Broughton street.
RENT, that desirablebnckdwellini;
No. B#Congress street. Apply to ED. F.
NEUtVILLK, Real Estate and Insurance
Agent, No. 2 Commercial Building.
I7HIR RENT, house No. 83 Broughton street,
1 southeast corner of Abercorn, the third'
story of which is occupied; possession given
at once. Apply on premises between 2 and t
o’clock and after 7 o’clock P. m.
JT'OR RENT, furnished room, with gas and
1 water. Apply at 72 Liberty street.
1 7*oll RENT, premises No. 6S South Broad
7 street; possession given at once. Applr
to C. C. TALI \FERRO, 47 West Brood street.
J7*OR RENT, one 6-room house, besides kiteh-
JT en and pantry, on Duffy street, near
Whitaker; possession given at once. V. II
DORSETT.
17'OR KENT, the store and dwelling,
V Broughton street.
for asaie.
TT'OR SALE, lot of Horses and Mules jusi
A arrived from Kentucky, suitable for
plantation purposes. Aiply'at FKEI.JiY*
SAVANNAH SALE STABLES, corner West
Broad and state streets.
HOB'E KOUMI.-Any person who mar
have lost a Bay Mure ismall', with Saddle
and Bridle, can b arn of the same by appljins
to VAN K. WINKLER, Esq., Montenh tin
lion, paying all expenses and proving prop
erty.
jUrdtcai.
DR. A. J. HAILE, 150 south Broad street,
ruros Piles without pain; bo detentan
from business. No pay until cured.
? ottevtj.
I-'HE IrttAWINtT
OF THE
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY
WILL TAKE PLACE
TUESDAY",
FEB. 10, 1885.
WHOLE TICKETS,SS; FIFTUS.fi.
CAPITAL PRIZE. 175,000.
jriit.iint iu loan.
MONEY TO LOAN.
CLEMENT SAUBSY, Money Broker,
No. 112 Bryan street.
LOANS made on Personal Property. Dia
monds and Jewelry bought and sold on
commission. Cash paief for Old Gold, Silver
and Mutilated Coin.
VfONEi TO LoAN.—Li beral loans made
• on Diamonds, Gold acd Silver W atones l ,
Jewelry, P-sto'.a, Cans, Sewing iiaerunea.
Wearier Ar<parel, Mechanics’ Tools, Clocks
etc., etc., at Licensed Pawnbroker House, IST
s on gross sii-oet. E. fdUHLBERG, Manager.
N. It.—Highest nri.-er uaid for old God acd
J>* urance *talrment.
35th Annual Report
MANHATTAN
LIFE INSURANCE CO,,
OF NEW YORK,
Nos. loti aud 158 Broadway.
ORGANIZED IN 1850.
President, IIENRY STOKES.
First Vice Prosideut, J. L. HALSEY.
Second Vice President, H. B. STOKE?.
Secretary, 11. Y. WEMPLE.
Actuary, S. N. BTEBBIM*.
GROWTH OF THE COMPANY.
Net Assets, Dec. 31,1883 f 10,416,SO:) M
Income Accounts, year 1884 2.035 530 M
Total. *12,402,039 7i
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid Claims by Death,
Matured Endowments
and Payment of An
nuities f 060,284 83
Paid Dividends 274,520 64
Paid Pnrchascd Policies 182,909 26
Paid Salaries, Office,
Agency, Real Estate,
Commissions, Taxes,
Medical Department.
Advertising and other
Expenses 298,266 35—1.4D.951 M
Balance. *11.040,0*2 74
LIST OF ASSETS.
Cash on Hand f MSB
Cash in Bank and Tru.t Company 310,'-<l3
Bonds and Mortgages 2,0 0,108 t-
Loans on Policies in Force . . 1,221,015 4i
United States and N. Y. Stocks,
market value 1,793.597 02
Real Estate at Cost 913,912 91
Premiums Deferred and in course
of Colieelion aud Transmission 147,595 l*
Loans on Stocks and Bonds .... 3,547,090 6!
(Market Value of the Securities,
14,526,3*5).
Intere;,t Due ami Accrued, and
all other Property. 110,95 PM
Gross Assets *11,04f,0*2'•
Reported Claims,
awaiting Proof, etc * 230,646 CO
Dividends Unpaid and
other Liability 128,182 07
Reserve on Existing
Policies, calculated
by New York Insur
ance Department... 8,403,560 00— 8,75i.*f5 ♦
SurplusbyaboveStandard(T'z:
Amer. Ex. 4J4 per ct.) J2.253,®' 4 M
R. H. FOOTMAN, Agent.
118 Bay street. Savannah,
References.—Col. Kobt. D. Walter, ties-
Win. W. Gordon. Geo. ('■ Freeman. F-s'b -
llortraito.
JAS. P. FIELD,
aiitist.
w!5 SkTSSS
“”X"WcS.NOEEB3 STREET.
nah. G<c
/Cheapest variety" “jTtTire. -
sold at sc. and 10c. beats every one. •
Steel Engraving Pictures will be given a
- those that buy One Dollars' worth. “
will be delivered to everynody. Call a ,
at NATHAN BROS’.. 186 CangTiM *'D.
near Jefferson. Old gold and silver boos •