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S,One of the Pennsylvania legislators
cannot use his bands, and his wife acts as
amanuensis for him. There is one mem
ber in that honorable body who does not
carry on correspondence with the girls in
the gallery.
The tall hat parade at Union College,
Schenectady, N. Y., which is to take
place on April 7, promises to be a very
tame affair. The laculty threatens to Gi
f' 1 every student who shall be convicted
anil fined in a police court.
The Pennsylvania man who tried to get
aaead of his mother-in-law, who was on a
visit to his house, by robbing her of $450,
■will not do so any more. She only gave
him a chance to spend a small portion of
it for rum. and then turned him over to
the Sheriff.
The disease called “pink eye,” which
was so common among horses a few years
a.o, has appeared as an epidemic among j
the students of Yale College. The Uar- |
vard boys will soon be inquiring it this j
d.seise has ever been known to attack j
donkeys before.
Misuari and Kentucky have been by
no means over-modest in asking for offices
at the hands of the new administration,
but they have had very lew of their peti
tions granted. They say they still hope
they will be allowed to sit on the fence
•tt.d st-e the procession pass.
A Chicago milkman who accumulated
a fortune of $150,000 in a lew years now
aspires to be City Treasurer. lie would
doubtless make a tine President for some
of the great Western railroad companies
which have large blocks of watered stock
to be thrown on the market.
Notwithstanding the law prohibiting
the making or selling of oleomargarine
in New York, there are three large fac
tories at work turning out hundreds of
kegs of the vile stuff every day in New
York city alone. The proffcietors have
bees repeatedly indicted, but they have
plenty of money and are able to easily
evade the penalties of the law.
A good-looking Germau in New York
was very much amused the other evening
when he w as kissed and embraced by two
pretty girls, who blushed and said they
though it was Charley and ran away, as
any girls would do under the circum
atanees. He didn’t stop laughing until
In discovered that they had also made a
mistake and fingered $275 out of his
pocket.
Some of the Republicans are now dar
ing President Cleveland to send a Mug
wump's name to the Senate. It remains
to be seen whether he will take the dare,
ll h shoebl nominate an honorable and
competent Mugwump for an office the
Senate would have to confirm him or the
Republicans acknowlege in this era of re
fmi that they are controlled by jKilitical
bia- and prejudice alone.
In preparing for making a model for a
bronze bust of Whitelaw Rekl it was
discovered that one side of his face is
longer than the other. The unevenness is
-upposed to have been caused by the
fforte • f Mr. Reid just after the Presi
dential election to keep the Republicans
in - 1 beast uutil the tiual count in New
York was completed. He tried to appear
exultant wish one side of his lace while
the other was obliged to take an elongated
form.
The New York Assembly, by a very
large majority, has passed the bill to con
vert the American side of Niagara Falls
Into a public park, and there seems to be
no doubt that the Canadian Parliament
Will si on take the same action in refer- j
ence to the Canadian side. Terhaps the
next step to be taken with reference to i
this great natural and national curiosity !
will be tc check the system of legalized |
brigandage that has long been carried on |
by the hackmen of the village.
The park on Point Lookout has been
c’. ved to all visitors by Mrs. Whitesides, j
tai owner, on account of the passage of a
bill by the Tennessee Legislature pro- ;
hibiting a monopoly of the transfer busi- j
i! ss by certain parties. In the meantime '
the mstitutionality ot the law is to be j
tested. The back business in Chatta- j
nooga is not worth muea while the park j
is closed. It is probable that the law
will : e evaded by one hack line being '
granted the especial privilege of driving |
iut > the park.
The Pennsylvanians complain that the
people of Washington city gave the 7,000
tn. ps sent from that state to the inaugu
ration the character of ruffians just be
ivu.se a lew disorderly fellows robbed
some peanut and fruit stands of about
s7* wor’h of stud. It does look rather
i.,r t for good men to be censured lor the
of a few bad ones who belong to
the same command, but unless the guilty
parties are exposed by their comrades the
responsibility for the outrages will neces
sarily rest on the whole body. The ques
tioi now is. will the innocent expose the
guilty?
Just as the country was getting to be
lieve that Ludlow street jail, Sew York,
was one of the most delightful of winter
res rts the World comes out in the fol
lowing paragraph: “Ludlow street jail
is a blot upon our civilization, and it
should be abolished. It belongs to the
era of slavery, whipping-posts and duck
ing-stools. it deserves to perish like the
Fp n-h Bastile.” Perhaps the jail is a
govd enough place of its kind. The World
doubtless wants to have the laws by
which debtors may be cast into this
jail repealed. A debtore’ prison is a
novelty in America in this progressive
age. ~
The recent survey of the sources of tie
Croton water supply, made at the in
stance of the New York Board of Health, j
is r t very reassuring to those who used j
t consider this water as a standard of J
purity. It is stated that the drainage
from the barn yards of a large area of
country liads its way into the streams
le:id:g into Croton river, while the pollu
tion from several large factories is dis
charged directly into the river. As yet it
has not been decided whether Croton
water is better adapted as a germicide or
for the slaughter of human beings. The
tjoard doesn’t seem to take much stock in
the theory that running water purifies
iteel* but it is difficult for it to decide
wr’d is going to do about it.
The Question of the Hour.
The question which is being asked ev
erywhere throughout the civilized world
is, will there be war between England
and Russia? An answer is anxiously
awaited. There is as yet. however, noth
ing positive. One day war appears to be
certain and the next day there are signs
that a peaceful solution of the difficulties
will be reached.
The diplomatists are &till busy, and
they may succeed in removing the pre
text for war. Whether they will succeid
or not will depend upon whether there is
a sincere desire to avert war on the part
of either nation. There is no longer
occasion for regarding the little strip of
country on the Afghan frontier, about
which the two nations are disputing, as
the real cause of the threatened conflict.
That is only a pretext. India is the real
cause. Russia wants India. She has
coveted that rich possession of England
for a long time. It is probable that she
regards the present as a favorable time
to strike the blow that may give it to her.
If England is ready for the conflict she
will allow the Afghan boun
dary question to be the pre
text for it. If she is not ready she will
so far yield to the demands of Russia
with respect to the boundary as to make
that impossible as a pretext. In that
way she may succeed in delaying the
struggle. The delay, however, cannot be
very long. The conflict is inevitable and
must take place in the near future.
It is a question whether Russia will
persist in her purpose if England main
tains a bold front. It may have been her
original intention only to get a step nearer
to India, and to strengthen herself for
the final step by getting a foothold in
Afghanistan. If she is not fully prepared
to advance in view of England’s defiant
attitude she will readily find a way to
avoid war.
The intentions ol the two nations can
only be inferred from their own actions,
and even their actions may not mean
what they appear to mean. They are
both making preparations for war. Rus
sia is pushing troops towards Afghanis
tan and is in the market as the pur
chaser of fast sailing steamers. England
is increasing her military forces, and is
purchasing provisions and ships.
It is certain that both nations regard
war as probable. Tucy do not trust each
other. They consider that engagements
made to-day may be broken to-morrow.
While, therefore, they are exchanging
dispatches, and are, apparently, trying
to reach a settlement of their differences,
they are pushing forward their war pre
parations.
If war occurs, it will be a great war.
England and Russia are two of the great
est nations of Europe, and they have vast
resources. Thirty years have passid
since they met in the Crimean war, and
it is probable that they are both stronger
now than they were then. A war be
tween them would be a war of giants, and
it might not cease until the greater part
of Europe was drawn into it.
India is a great prize. Although Eng
land has taken from it untold wealth, it
Is yet a rich country. Its great agricul
tural resources are just beginning to be
developed by the building of railroads.
England cannot afford to give it up. She
would be willing to double her debt, and
thus double the burdens ot her people,
before yielding so great and so valuable
a part of her empire.
The whole world is interested in this
threatened war, because the whole world
is affected by it. The markets of Europe
and this country feel the effect ot every
movement that looks like peace or war,
and when war comes, if it does come,
they will respond to every movement of
the contending armies.
Rowdyism in Legislatures.
There is too much leniency shown to
rowdies who succeed in getting them
selves elected members of legislative
bodies. Instead of expelling them as
soou as it is discovered what sort of men
they are, there is a disposition too often to
excuse them. Last Wednesday a mem
ber of the Ohio Legislature was guilty of
conduct that would not have been tolera
ted even in a gathering of the lowest
rowdies. He charged certain members
with having been influenced by improper
motives, with having accepted bribes, and
with having lied to the House. There
came very near being a free tight. As it
was the House was so excited that it was
unable to do any more business during
the day. The rowdy was denounced by
leading members of both parties, and he
may be expelled. He had been guilty of
like conduct several times before, and
had beeu excused on the ground that he
did not know any better. His surround
ings in youth, it seems, were bad and
his education was neglected. From
this it appears that he is not fit for the
place he occupies and ought not to be
allowed to retain it.
A couple of weeks ago there was a dis
graceful scene in the Texas Legislature.
Two Senators engaged in blackguarding
and insulting each other. They became
so violent in their language and actions
that it was with difficulty that they were
prevented from engaging in a rough-and
tumble fight on the floor of the Senate.
These are only two ot many instances
that are reported in the newspapers. The
wonder is that men who do not know
what is due to their positions and to those
with whom they are associated, are per
mitted to occupy places that ought to be
filled only by those who know how and
are willing to conduct themselves in a
manner creditable to themselves and to
those whom they represent.
Even in Congress there are sometimes
disgraceful scenes. Members who know
how to behave themselves indulge in lan
guage that they are ashamed to permit to
go before the country in the published pro
ceedings. There ought to be a standard
of conduct established in legislative
bodies, and all who fail to come up to it
ought to be made to suffer the disgrace of
expulsion. There would then be less
blackguardism in the halls of legislation.
Liogan’s Prospects.
Tue struggle in the Illinois Legislature
over the Senatorship still continues, hut
the prospect that Logan will be elected
becomes daily less promising. As they
say in the West, it doesn’t appear to he
ou the cards that he shall has
made a good many successful political
fights, but it is probable that the time for
him to retire to private life has come.
Gen. Logan has many strong friends in
Illinois, but there isn’t enough of them,
apparently, to return him to the Senate.
It is hardly probable that the plan that
was mapped out in the beginning, to
prevent an election and give the Governor
a chance to appoint Logan, can be
executed. The Republican members are
not sufficiently attached to Logan. If a
Republican other than Logan can be
elected it is pretty certain that the
Republicans will abandon Logan. It
begins to look as if ex-Congressman
Far well, of Chicago, were the coming
man. lie has money, and the impression
appears to be that it will take money to
break the deadlock.
If Logan is beaten he will doubtless
drop out of politics altogether. He is not
a man oi sufficient ability to survive a
few years' retirement at his age. The
new men who will come to the front as
60on as he is pushed aside will probably
remain there for awhile. Notwithstand
ing that Logan has been a prominent po
litical figure for many years, his retire
ment will not perhaps be greatly re
gretted.
The country is gradually coming to un
derstand that we are really going to have
' a Democratic administration.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1885.
The Riel Rebellion.
Canada has a little rebellion to look
after which may prevent her from assist
ing England in putting down the rebellion
in the Soudan. The half-breed, Louis
Riel, has succeeded in collecting a very
considerable force ot half-breeds and In
dians to sustain him in defying the legally
constituted authorities in Northwest
1 Canada.
If the distance were not so great, and if
' the difficulties to be overcome at this
! season of the year in order to reach the
scene of the disturbance were less, it
, would not require much time for the
! Canadian Government to put an end to
Riel’s pretensions.
Of course Riel knows that he has not
I much chance of gaining even a tempo
j rary success, and it i6 therefore difficult
' to understand what he hopes t>. accom
plish. It is probable that he has not a
very clear idea of what his purposes are.
He is one of those restless sort of persons
who are guided by impulse rather than
judgment.
Without doubt there is a good deal of
dissatisfaction in Northwest Canada, both
among the half-breeds and the Indians.
T.ie half-breeds think that the lands which
j the Canadian Government is disposing of
belong to them, and that they ought
to have absolute control of
them. The Indians complain that
they are robbed by the government agents,
and that they get only a small percentage
of the supplies intended for them. Riel
and his half-breeds hate the Canadians,
and insist that they have no right to ex
ercise control over the territory which is
the scene of trouble. They want the
j country for the l.seles, although they
would hardly know what to do with it if
! they had it. It is in some respects quite
i attractive, and is being settled by a very
j good class of immigrants.
There is no reason for thinking that the
rebellion wdl amount to much. The best
information is that Riel has about 1,500
men under his command, but it is not
likely that he will receive any considera
ble accession to his forces. There may be
some fighting, but the battles that may
occur will hardly be more than mere
skirmishes.
The present occasion is not the first
time that Riel has attracted attention in
the section of country in which he is now
operating. Fifteen years ago he was the
leader of a similar revolt. At that time
he, and those who were associated with
h'm, set up a provisional government at
Fort Garry, and seized hundreds of thou
sands of dollars’ worth of property. The
slight resistance which the few English
settlers were able to offer was quickly
overcome.
Lord Wolseley. who was then a Lieu
tenant Colonel stationed in Canada, was
directed "io smash Riel,” and he had
a much more rapid success than he ap
pears to be having in his attempt “to
smash the Mahdi.” On the approach of
Lord Wolseley to Fort Garry with his
militia Riel and his followers beat a hasty
retreat.
Kiel was born in Manitoba. His
parents were French, with a little Indian
blood in their veins. He is well educated
and is bold and daring, in 1873 he was
elected to Parliament as a delegate from
Manitoba, and went to Ottawa to take his
seat. The feeling against him was so
bitter, however, that he thought it wise to
leave the city. He was soon expelled
from Parliament, and never afterwards
made his appearance at Ottawa.
The scene of the present disturbance is
Prince Albert. The town has a popula
tion of about 800 and the settlement
about 4,000. The French, Scotch and In
dian half-breeds outnumber the settlers
from other parts of Canada. Riel and his
followers are not the kind of men to be
allowed to control atfairs anywhere. They
would not know how to use power judi
ciously if they had it. The present rebel
lion will come to as inglorious an end
probably as did that of 1870.
Arbor Day.
Gov. Martin, of Kansas, in his procla
mation urging the people of that State to
observe next Thursday as “Arbor Day,”
makes some statements that are worth
while eoiv-idering. He says: “The cus
tom of appointing an Arbor Day now’ pre
vails in eight States of the Union. Too
people of Kansas went to planting trees
as soon as they began to plow, and in
creasing millions of shade, fruit and
forest trees are planted every year. The
love of the Kansan for tiees has shown
itself on every farm and village lot, in
city parks and the grounds of the
church and the school, and the
God’s acre where our beloved ones
sleep their last sleep. This feeling is
equally strong in the minds ol the old and
young—in women not less than men. It
leads to practical results in increasing !
the value of land, and in ameliorating the
asperities of our climate. That there has
bee an increase in the rainfall of Kansas
is fully proved by the statistics of our
oldest meteorologists, and it leads to uses
ot beauty in adorning our homes and
making them scenes of loveliness, the re
membrance of which will follow our chil
dren to the last days of their old age. The
State which the pioneers found treeless
and a desert now bears upon its fertile
bosom more than 20,000,000 fruit trees and
more than 200,000 acres of forest trees, all
planted by our own people.”
There are those who can remember
when the plains of Kansas were almost
treeless. The absence of trees gave the
impression that a longtime prevailed that
Kansas was a desert, which would never
be worth anything for agricultural pur
poses. How erroneous that impression
was is shown by her present prosperous
condition. In a few’ more years the plains
will have almost disappeared. The entire
face of the State will have undergone a
complete, but most gratifying, change.
Tnere will be a happy combination of
forest, field and orchard.
Avery interesting fact to which the
Governor calls attention, is that the an
nual rainfall lias increased gradually
since the tree-planting system was inau
gurated. Once Kansas was subjected to
great droughts. She is much less sub
jected to them now, and the time is not
distant, perhaps, when she will not be af
flicted with them at all.
The experience of Kansas ought to be
heeded by States that are permitting their
forests to be destroyed to the extent of
hundreds of thousands of acres annually.
The destruction of forests in this State
is simply frightful. At the present rate
of destruction there are those now living
who will see the State almost as bare as
was Kansas a generation ago. There is
no such a thing as systematic tree plant
ing, and there would be no need of it if
care were taken to preserve the forests.
But, notwithstanding the fact that the
danger of wasting and destroying the
forests is understood, no voice Is raised to
avert it. We may expect disastrous
floods and droughts it we do not heed the
lesson which is taught by the experience
ol Kansas.
Chang, the Chinese giant, says he is
engaged to be married to a girl in Kansas
City, Mo., who is a giantess, and who is
worth over $200,000 in her own right. He
says that he intends to open the largest
tea store in America when he gets mar
ried, and will petition the authorities to
allow him to vote. He thinks that he is
so large even a Cincinnati deputy mar
shal couldn’t bulldoze him.
The time is spoken of in prophesy when
seven women shall cleave to one man. A
Pennsylvania girl. Miss Addie Kurtz,
who is deputy sheriff of Franklin county
in that State, carried seven male convicts
to the State prison one day last week, and,
strange as it may seem, she showed no
disposition to carry on a flirtation with
any of the unfortunates.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Stopped by Cleveland.
Hartford Tima {Den.)
The disgraceful and too often corrupt work
of devoting several months mainly to appoint
ments ami rewards for party services which
have marked the beginning of each Republi
can administration, has been stopped bv
President Cleveland. This is a good “point."
Provided He will Come.
Hashrille American {Don.)
We must recognize the negro as our politi
cal equal. We must give him a voice and a
place in our party councils. A true Demo
i krai should be better pleased to work with an
! Tionest, courageous Democratic ne. ro than
with some lily-fingered Republican masqne
radieg within the lines of our party organiza
tion.
The Profession of Politics.
Hew York Graphic (Don.)
It is as legitimate to be a politician as a
lawyer—indeed more so, for the i>olitician
who advocates what he unmistakably knows
to be wrong can win no respect, no matter
how much money he gets for it. and if he
champions the cause of a confe sed scoundrel,
with or without fee, he sacrifices all the in
fluence he has.
Democracy Not of Narrow Compass.
He w York Sun (Incl.)
Mr. Pendleton has invited the opposition of
various members of h's party ou account of
his altitude towards the civil servie.e. but it
is a mistake to say that he has lost his fellow
ship ou that account. Democracy is not of
such narrow compass that it can be covered
over and smothered by a petty, nr.d. we trust,
a temporary scheme to establish a bureau
cracy of officeholders.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
In the fifty-four years of which there is any
record the river Hudson opened six times in
February, forty-one times in March and
seven times in April. The latest was in 1843,
when it was almost the middle of April be
fore there was a chance of navigation to Al
bany.
Public Printer Rounds believes that the
type-setting machine lately invented by a
Ualtimore Gerinan-Ameriean. which he pro
nounces practical in every way. will, within
the next live years, revolutionize the art of
printing in the United States and throughout
the world.
The old time notion of one immense central
engine to furnish power for an entire large
establishment is getting out of date. The
change is to independent engines for eacli de
partment, so that one may be stopped for re
pairs or from slackness of work, while an
other may be run without carrying the load
of the connecting shafting and pulleys.
The Minnesota Legislature has adopted a
resolution asking that a strip of land in Doug
las county, VVis., m the viciuitv of the river
and Ray of St. Louis and the Bays of St. Louis
and I*u uth, be ceded to Minnesota. A com
mission has been appinted by the Minnesota
Legislature to meet a similar commission to
be appointed in Wisconsin to consider the
project.
The Eng’isli university constituencies in
clude the whole mass of graduates who
choose to keep their names upon the books—
the lawyers and the physicians, the'squires
and the parsons, the bankers, merchants and
writers—men of every trade and of every
rank in educated E-gland. Oxford has 5,400
such electors, and (Jambridge about a thou
sand more.
Vermont boasts of a profitable gold mine—
the Kooks. From an annual report, it ap
pears that the mine produced from Septem
er. I.NNi, to .January. 1885, $68,070 in gold, and
paid four dividends aggregating s*o 000, the
yield varying between $33 #8 and SSO 79, while
the cost declined from JIO 15 to $7 20 per ton
for mining and milling. The mine is located
at Plymouth.
The mother of a family consisting of two
grown-up daughters, living in Goffstown, N.
11., recently died, and when the undertaker
came to perform his duties the father was
a ked the name of his wife. His reply was,
“Mother.” No other name could he remem
ber, and the daughters were equally igno
rant, having never known their parent by any
other name than “Mother.”
We hardly credit the report, says the
Philadelphia Press, that ex-Uov. Glick, of
kan-as is to be made Commissioner of Agri
culture. It is improbable. Glick is vastly
ignorant of farming, his sole experience in
that industry consisting of the dismal failure
of a pet scheme which he once devised for
raising succotash by planting sweet corn and
Lima beaus in the same hill.
It is strange, but nevertheless a fact, that
genuine Perique tobacco only grows on a
ridge situated about one mile from the
Mississippi river, in St. James parish, 1,a.. and
that said ridge is only about two miles wide
and i-eveu miles m length. Tobacco will
grow in any part of the State, but it is on
this patch only that the famous Perique is
cultivated. The average crop is about 75,000
pouuds.
Two new steel steamers for the fruit trade
between the United States and the West In
dies are now being buit on the river Clyde, on
American account. They are to he 600 tons
net and about 1,000 gross, guaranteed to have
a speed ol twelve knots per hour. One of the
steamers will arrive early next month. The
reason given for their being built abroad is
that the Scotch shipbuilders contracted to
build them on two years’ time.
A young Secret aby of Legation, whose
duties required his attendance at a recent
White House reception, was so unwilling to
lose a moment of the opera, with Theo in the
cast, that he left the theatre, changed liis
evening dress for his diplomatic costume in
the carriage while driving to the White
House, saluted the President, and returned as
he had come to the opera. He was absent
from Die theatre just thirty minutes.
An item is going the rounds of the medical
press that forty years ago Dr. Wilkinson King
studied oue thousand autopsies at Guy’s Hos
pital. London, to ascertain the proportion of
persons who have 1 itent cancer or cancerous
growths, but who die from other causes with
out a suspicion that they have the hidden
germs of that disease. He found that “of ail
females who die at about 40, nearly one-half
have cancers; of males, one-eighth. Of mules
above 65. one-fifth of all are cancerous.”
The depopulation of France has been re
ceding much attention from the Pads savants.
M. Luuier proposes that the government take
legal steps to facilitate marriages, to search
out the paternity of infants, to accord prizes
or immunity from taxation to parents having
more than two children, to guarantee secrecy
to any mother who may wish to leave her
child at a foundling hospital, and to extend
the protection of the State to all children
“morally abandoned.” Since the year 1800
the French birth rate has fallen from 32.9 to
25.5 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Amos T. Atwater, Secretary of the Na
tional Cattle Association, who lias been mak
ing a tour of Texas, estimates the loss of cat
tle there this season at from 3 to 5 per cent.
The closing of the old trail north will compel
the owners to throw much of their surplus
stock on the market, which will depress the
price of bee . The Texan ranges are over
stocked. Last year at this time over $1,060,-
000 worth of contracts were held by Texas
ranchmen, but this year not a dollar, owing
to the closing of the trail. Mr. Atwater
thinks the day of free grazing in Texas is
aboutover. lu the near future stock ra sers
will have to pasture their herds on their own
lands and cultivate ground enough for fodder
to carry their cattle through the winter.
A Virginia churchyard on Sunday resem
bles more a race course than a sepulchral
ground. The ladies come to it in carriages
and the men on horseback, who, after dis
mounting. fasten their steeds to trees. But
the steep.es to the Virginia churches are more
for ornament than use, as the bell is suspend
ed to a tree a few yards from the church. I
was a-tonished on entering the churchyard to
hear “steed threaten steed with high and
boastful neigh.” Nor was I less stunned by
the rattling of carriage wheels, the cracking
ol whips and the vociferations of the gentle
men to the negroes who accompanied them.
But the discourse of Mr. Weems calmed every
perturbation, for he preached the great doc
trines of salvation as one who felt their power.
A YOUNG couple who went to a Methodist
church in Selby, England, to be married
found to their great disappointment that the
ceremony could not be performed until two
uays afterward, owing to the neglect of the
Kcgistrar in not forwarding the required no
tice in time. The young couple had taken
and furnished a house, the wedding breakfast
was prepared, and all their friends, many of
whom had come long distances, were present.
The mortification was increased when, after
two days, the bride-elect and the bridesmaids
attended the chapel and the bridegroom failed
to appear. WJien the minister, sympathizing
with the young woman, drove to the residence
of the young man, lie found that he had dis
appeared, leaving word that he had changed
his mind and would not marry.
A case with a novel defense to it took
place before Major Reinkamp, in Aurora,
0., Wednesday. “Aunty” Hill, as she is
familiarly called, caused the arrest of Wil
liam Swango, Henry Wilman and Lew Carr
on the charge of breaking out her windows.
The defendants are all small boys of from 10
to 12 years of age, and possessed of the aver
age American boy’s idea of fun. W hen the
trial proceeded the fact of the windows being
broken bv the boys was developed, but the
further fact was shown that Dick Ray, the
grandson of Mrs. Hill and of about the same
age as the other boys, has a fondness for chew
ing tobacco, and had proposed to the defend
ants that if they would accommodate him
with a chew of tobacco he would grant
them the privilege of throwing 25 times
at the glass in his grandmother's win
dow. The bovs accepted the proposal and
furnished the young hopeful with his wished
for tobacco, aud then began the fusilade of
stones on the old woman's windows, while the
grandson stood bv counting the throws and
chewing his tobacco with a satisfied air. So
accurate was the aim of the young snorts that
21 panes ol glass were broken in the Si throws.
When the court had heard all the facts in the
case he dismissed the suits against the boys,
gave them a proper lecture, and then directed
the parents of the defendants to pay their
proportionate share of the broken fimlow*.
It would occur to the mind of an outsider
that the old lady could avoid similar trouble
in the future by laying in a sufficient supply
of tobacco for the use of her promising and
speculative grandson.
BRIGHT BITS.
The longest petition does not alwavs take
the persimmons.— Boston Post.
If a Henry county Democrat doesn’t see
what he wants and can’t reach it, he needn't
fool away any time in asking for it.-How
castle (Ind.) Courier.
The inability of George Washington to tell
a lie left a gap in our national system that his
feilow-countrymen have used every exertion
to HU.— Pittsburg Telegraph.
It is said that bees and wasps will not sting
a person whose skin is smeared with honey.
This, of course, mai be perfectly true, but the
trouble with tiie blarsted insects is that they
won t always wait until a fellow can smear
himself. — Judge.
First Policeman—“ Arranged any plans for
next summer?” Second Policeman—“Oh,
yes; I shall spend the entire season among the
breakers.” "The entire season! You don’t
say so?” "Yes, among the law-breakers.”—
Philadelphia Call.
Winter seemed to have forgotten pome
thing.—Boston Post. Forgot to shut the door,
thinking there was a spring on it. — Boston
Commercial Bulletin. Autumnatic spring,
probably.— Marlboro Tones. The above sum
mery includes all the possible jokes in this
line. — Lowell Courier.
Caucasian Tramt—“My colored friend,
please lend me a quarter. 1 fought, bled and
suffered four years inthc Union army tomake
you a free man.” Colored Gentleman—“ Yon
did your duty, sah; but ’bout loanin’ you dat
quarter don't keer. sah, to revive de bitter
memories of the wall.”— Texas Siftings.
First Bos'on girl—Going to vocal practice
this morning, Minerva? Second Boston girl
—No. my dear Calliope, I have a bad cold and
am quite hoarse. First B. G.—Ah! been ex
posing yourself to the weather? Second B.
G.—Y es; I went out yesterday and forgot to
put on my spectacles.— Boston Courier.
“Now, there’s Mr. Crimsonbeak,” said the
boarding-house mistress in a low tone to the
new boarder next to her, “he always talks on
some live subject.” “Where did you get this
cheese, Mrs. Shavepenny?” shouted Crimson
beak from the other end of the table as soon
as that lady had got the words out of her
mouth. The new boarder needed no further
proof that what Mrs. Shavepenny had said
was true. — Yonkers Statesman.
String, spring, “booteful spring!”
What cold, icy comforts you wantonly bring;
Is this the warm weather you promised to
show
When winter had gone with its “booteful
WOW?”
An expert in matters and questions like these.
Try as hard as he would and as much as you
please,
Could scarcely determine when toasting his
sliius
Where winter leaves off and springtime be
gins. — Chicago Sun .
A warm, warm wave is wanted,
To make sweet songsters sing
And show the world
That winter’s hurled
From out the lap where he lies curled,
The stumbling-block of spring.
We’re weary now of winter,
We hate his icy breath.
And when he dies,
With mirth-lit eyes
We’ll shout enough to shake the skies
And glory in his death!
—Hew York Journal.
PERSONAL.
Julius von Payer, the Aret'c explorer, is
m almost h -pelessly poor health, and will
probably never regain full nse of liis eye*.
Tee late W illiam Batchelor, of Baltimore,
was the oldest and most conspicuous member
of the now almost extinct Association of Old
Defenders.
Key. Dr. Geobge E. Ellis will probably
succeed Robert C. Winthrop as President of
the Massachusetts Historical Society. Mr.
Winthrop has held the office just 30 years.
Mgr. Capel has no intention of leaving the
United States this season. He was recently
and scribed by a well known Roman Catholic
ecclesiastic as the “genius of proselytism.”
The anxiety at Washington for an extra
session is flue to the wish of an army of poor
office-seekers who want the h ated so
that they can have a comfortable lounging
place.
Lons Kossuth, now living at Turin, has
completely recovered his health, and pro
poses, no doubt, to devote the entire summer
to reading his obituaries, lately printed in all
languages in all civilized countries.
James 11. Berry, the new Senator from
Arkansas, to succeed Attorney General Gar
land, s a fine looking mau about 50 years of
age. He is nearly six feet in height, erect and
vigorous, with black hair, black eyes and a
brown beardjslightly sprinkled with gray.
Hon. Albert G. Jewett, the famous “War
Horse" of Maine Democracy, is now 83 years
old, and is probably to be classed among the
very few members of his party who are not
now seeking office. He lives lii Belfast in re
tirement and feeble health, scarcely able to
go out of doors.
Hon. W. L. Scott, Democratic member of
Congress from the Twenty-seventh Pennsyl
vania district, is the owner of houses at Scott
Ilaven row occupied by 150familiesof miners,
who are out on a strike. They were given
notice to move unless they went to work
again, but it is understood that they will not
for the present be lurneu out in the cold.
Arrangements have been finally com
pleted for the ermanent establishment of a
“Gospel Temperance” Church in Pittsburg,
of which Francis Murphy will be the pastor.
This eminent and successful advocate of com
mon-sense temperance seems to have been
made only more popular by tncmalignant at
tacks of some of J. P. St. John’s followers.
It is understood that Mrs. Lilia Pavy,
widow of Dr. Pavy, of ihe Greely expedition,
intends taking a trip to Godhaveu, Greenland,
where her husband lived six months, and
from there to Cape Sabine, to search for
papers and souvenirs which may have been
buried tiiere. Among the letters returned to
Mrs. Pavy, it is said none were addressed to
her or intended for her.
Senator Pendleton has given great atten
tion io the question of the rights of German
naturalized citizens. He is sari to have
drawn the plank in the Democratic national
platform on that subject. Germany has
claimed that her former citizens naturalized
here are still subject to military duty there, a
doctrine that affects great numbers of Ameri
cans and makes the post at Berlin an impor
tant one.
liOOK NOTICES.
“ Chinese Gordon, the Uncrowned King,”
is the title of a handsome ribbon-tied
book, by Laura C. Holloway, which Funk
& Wagnalls have just issued. It is the
compilation from Gordon’s private letters
of his sentiments regarding life, duty, re
ligion and responsibilities. A portrait of
Gordon, in mourning border, adorns the
cover. 10 and 12 Dey street, New York.
MAGAZINES.
An informing and timely article on the
“Framers of the Constitution,” with
twenty or more portraits, is the opening
gem of the beautiful Magazine of Ameri
can lli atari/ for April. It is the first in
stance in the historic literature ot Amer
ica of tne successful grouping of the
whole fifty-five of these remarkable men in
one vivid pen-picture. The editor has per
formed a service that will be gratefully
appreciated by hosts of students and
writers, and by readers of all grades and
ages the country through. 30 Lafayette
Place, New York.
Outing for April has its usual excellent
list of contents. Among its most inter
esting articles are “The Charcoal Burners
of the Green Mountains,” “Across Ameri
ca on a Bicycle,” “Football in America,”
etc. This magazine isconstantly improv
ing, and its illustrations are unexcelled.
Wheelman Cos., 175 Tremont street, Bos
ton.
ARMY MEN IN WASHINGTON.
No Changes Yet Considered—How Er
roneous Impressions Regarding the
Officers Get Abroad.
It is learned that no active steps are
being taken yet towards sending a num
ber of army officers who are on duty in
this city back to their regiments, says the
Washington Star, although Secretary
Endicott undoubtedly believes in rota
tion, and will eventually carry out that
policy. In reply to a question on that
subject this morning by a reporter, the
Secretary said that he had not yet taken
the matter of changes under considera
tion, having more important matters to
attend to at present. An army officer
who holds an important office said to a
reporter to-day: “It’s a mistake to sup
pose that so many more army officers are
on duty here than are needed for
the transaction of military business.
Some of those who are now assistants
to the chiefs of bureaus, or who are on
duty under them will naturally return to
their regiments and make room for others
who ought to have a change, and such a
course would lie pursued under any cir
cumstances. The idea that has gotten
abroad that many army officers are kept
in Washington that they may have a good
time, arises irom the fact that army offi
cers, like everybody else, are fond of
Washington, and many of them spend
leaves of absence, to which they are enti
tled, in this city, ns they have a right to,
and a great many when retired take up
their residence here. For these reasons
the army contingent is largely increased,
and things look worse than thej T are.” It
is learned that with the exception of the
line officers who are detailed for duty in
the signal corps in accordance with law,
there are not more than three or lour on
detached service in Washington.
There’s not a charm that lights the face
With no ineffable a grace,
As sweet, pink lips and ivory teeth;
And nothing now, beneath the sky,
Can beauties such as these supply.
Save SOZODONT, that wears the wreath.
DEMOCRACY’S FIRSTLADY
MISS BAYARD CLAIMING HER
MOTHER'S PLACE.
What Course the Wives of the Other
Cabinet Officers Will Take Still Uncer
tain—Brewster’s Successor His Oppo
site in Personal Appearance—The Cost
of Living at Washington.
Washington, March 26.—The question
of who is the first lady of the land, or the
ranking woman in the Cabinet line, is
already a momentous one. Miss Catha
rine Bayard is at present the most promi
nent young woman in society, and one
hears her name or its echo in every draw
ing-room. Her mother is a great sufferer
from neuralgia, and seldom goes out of
her own house during the winter. Asa
representative of her mother, Miss Bay
ard now claims that matron’s place in
the line of Cabinet ladies at the White
House receptions, and there were many
astonished countenances the other night
when Miss Bayard came down on the
President’s arm and the married ladies
followed after her. At all ceremonies
where precedence is considered the Cabi
net officers rank according to the order in
which they were established, the State
Department coming first, next the Treas
ury, the YVar, Navy, Post Office and In
terior, and last the Department of Jus
tice. The wives of these officers rank
accordingly, but, by all the canons of eti
quette and propriety, an unmarried
daughter whose mother is living can
hardly precede married ladies of the same
rank as her mother.
SECRETARY BAYARD MADE THE POINT
THAT HIS DAUGHTER
should have her mother’s place, put what
points Mrs. Manning, Mrs. Endicott,
Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Vilas will make
in return remain to be seen. It is hardlv
possible that Mrs. Manning, whose social
ambition was the chief reasons for her
husband’s acceptance of a Cabinet post,
ehjoys going in after the unmarried
dt lighter of one Ol hi? colleagues. Mrs.
Endicott, who has the bluest blood and
the oldest name in Massachusetts, with
wealth and the highest social position,
will hardly stand the anomalous condi
tion of things, nor is it expected that
Mrs. Whitney, with her wealth and
social ambition, will accept the situation.
These three ladies, who are already
marked out as the leaders of official
society, are expected to assert themselves
on the next occasion, and their followers
and disinterested people are waiting to
see how this first Cabinet question of the
female side will be settled.
For the first time since many could re
member, the decoliette corsage appeared
in the line of Cabinet ladies receiving
with the President at on evening recep
tion. Mrs. Hayes’ disapproval of that
style of dress was so well known that few
but foreigners went to the YVhite House
with uncovered shoulders, and the ladies
of the last Cabinet wore anything but
high gowns. Miss Cleveland, Miss Bay
ard and Mrs. Whitney were in full even
ing dress the other night, with dresses cut
low and sleeveless.
AS FAR AS CLOTHES AND TASTES ARE
CONCERNED,
Garland and Brewster are as far apart as
the poles. Garland pays no attention at
all to his personal appearance, and it will
not be surprising if he is found during
the summer attending to his business”
amid all this art, in bis shirt sleeves and
slippers. He has no ruffles on his shirts,
and he wears the old-fashioned kind which
button in front, and have the wristbands
attached to the sleeves. His collar is a
turn-over one, and that soft silk necktie
of plain black was evidently tied with
his own hands. Senator Garland looks
the Democrat all over. His hair is dishev
eled, and his spectacles he wears on the
middle of his nose. He has a broad, low
forehead, over which his hair falls while
he is at work, making it look still lower.
His hands and feet are very small, and on
his left hand’s little finger he wears a big
seal ring, which, with the exception of a
hair watch chain, is his only jewelry. His
wife died at about the time he came to the
Senate, but his mother keeps house for
him here, and Garland is a widower. He
prefers to spend his time with her and his
children to loafing about the hotels.
When not in his office he may be found at
his pleasant home on Massachusetts ave
nue, engaged in work or play. He likes
good living as well as Bayard, but he is
not so dainty in his tastes. He has the
sweetest tooth of any man in Washing
ton, and when in the Senate used to be
always eating candy during a session.
He is a great friend of Dan Voorhees,
and the two have been called the Damon
and Pythias of the Senate. They sat to
gether, lunched together, and laughed
and swore together as the occasion
seemed to demand while they were in the
Senate. Voorhees was very anxious to
have Garland appointed Attorney Gen
eral, and was delighted when it occurred.
Senator Garland is a very approachable
man, and liis good fellowship has made
him the friend as w ell of Republicans as
of Democrats.
HE IS OCCASIONALLY COAXED OCT TO A
GENTLEMAN’S DINNER,
but beyond that he is never seen any
where. He will not consent to change his
quiet method of life since he has become
Attorney General. His mother, Mrs.
Hubbard, is as plain and old-fasbioned as
her son. Last Wednesday, w’hich is the
day when the families of the Cabinet offi
cials receive, a number of fashionable
ladies called at Mr. Garland’s plain house
upon Massachusetts avenue. Instead of
being received by a servant at the door
Mrs. Hubbard came herself. She was
very dignified and self-possessed. She
showed the ladies into the parlor and sat
down and talked with them in the most
matter-of-fact way. She seemed to have
a good knowledge of the politics of
Washington, and was more familiar with
the sayings and doings of public men than
with mere social affairs, Every time there
was a ring at the bell she would excuse
herself and go to the door to admit new
callers. After a time a bright-faced old
colored woman came up from down stairs
and said: “Mrs. Hubbard, I will ’tend
door now lor a while.” All of the ladies
who called were very much pleased. They
found as much pleasure in their call at
this house, and perhaps more, than they
did in the houses where they were re
ceived with more ceremony.
MR. LAMAR IS PERHAPS FONDER OF GEN
ERAL 80CIETY
than Mr. Garland, but he is equally quiet
and simple in his tastes. He takes no
pleasure in a general reception. He likes
little dinner parties and a limited circle
of congenial friends. He has great dig
nity and self-possession, but has no small
change in the way of light conversation.
He therefore finds the society of strangers
rather irksome. I do not believe he will
attempt to set up any establishment here,
at least for a year or so. His daughter,
who is here, is a young miss just out of
school, and her lather does not desire to
put upon her the burden of taking charge
of a social establishment.
IN WASHINGTON ONE MAY LIVE IN A
FAIR OR EVEN GOOD STYLE
cheaper thah in almost any other city in
the laud. The population ot the capital
is composed so largely of government
employes, pensioned officers and retired
politicians, people of limited, fixed in
comes, who, as a rule, possess education,
cultured tastes and some leisure, that
they demand and obtain the best value
for the least money. Asa result, the mer
chant who has the best and cheapest
goods, whether it be store merchandise,
or meals or lodgings, is patronized. Good
rooms in the heart of the city can be had
for 50 cents a day for
transient, and for $1 50 tog $3 per
week for permanent lodgers. Good meals
can be had in a number of places for 25
cents each, with a commuter’s rate of 19
to 22 cents. For this price not all the
delicacies of the season in fruit and game
are furnished, nor are the steaks porter
house or sirloin, but there is plenty ot
wholesome food in good variety, and it is,
as a rule, well cooked and neatly served.
Of course not all the restaurants are as
low priced as those I have described.
There are swell places, where high
charges are made, for wherever are people
willing to pay are found other people
more than willing to ask big prices,
SOME OK THE SENATORS ARE VERY
ANGRY
j because the members of the new Cabinet
i do not give them precedence over every
body else. They say that the new Cabi
! net people do not understand the relative
j importance oi the Senators. They make
! shem stand in line to be received. There
I have been occasions even when a plain
American citizen who has business with
a Secretary and who has reached his room
i first, has been given a hearing in advance
of a Senator who has arrived after him.
The Senators are used to walking
straight up to the Secretaries, crowding
back everybody else, and giving way to
no one except associate Senators. They
have done this upon the theory that their
; time was of more importance than that of
1 any one else, and that the subjects pre-
I seated to them were more worthy of con
sideration. The new Cabinet people find
that all their callers, Senators included,
harp upon the one string of office-beg
ging. It is no wonder, then, that they
put all of their callers upon nearly an
equal footing.
The turn of the Senators will come
next winter. I heard one stalwart Sena
tor yesterday swear, with clinched fist,
that when the ides of next December
cit tno fie would summon before his com
mittt v of the Senate the proudest and the
stifl'est-necked of the new Cabinet, and
teach them that a Senator is too powerful
and haughty a person to be trilled with
with impunity.
$30,000 OX A QUARTER RACE.
Georgia and South Carolina Pitted
against Each Other in the Fastest
Ever Made in the United States.
“Uncle Dick, you are a lover of horse
flesh and have owned some good horses in
your day. We would like to know if you
have ever seen much racing when you
were dealing in horses?” said a reporter
of the Athens Banner- Watchman a day or
two ago.
“I have seen the fastest quarter race
that was ever run in the United States.
1 can’t exactly call to mind the year the
race was run, but it was years before the
war. The race was between the Stamper
mare and a horse owned by a man named
Jones, of South Carolina. It was Georgia
against South Carolina, and each State
backed its horse for what they were worth.
The race was run in Augusta and
large crowds gathered there from each
State to see the race and place their
money. Mr. Stamper was from Talbot
county, and to show what confidence he
had in his mare he went to the Bank of
Columbus and mortgaged 30 negroes and
his plantation for money to back his flyer.
The night before the race there was a
large crowd gathered in the old United
States Hotel and each man was ready to
back his horse. Mr. Stamper walked
through the hotel with rather common
looking clothes on, and the South Caro
linians, who were better dressed, laughed
at the old man and rather made fun of
him. He saw that the boys were making
fun of him, and he pulled out au old greasy
pocketbook and said, ‘I will bet SI,OOO
that there will be money offered On the
Stamper mare to-morrow that will not be
taken by the South Carolina party.’ This
bet was immediately taken, as the South
Carolina crowd thought that they were
able to cover all the money offered. The
betting then commenced in earnest, Mr.
Stamper taking every bet offered. The
South Carolina' party got out of money
and commenced betting tneir watches and
chains. Mr. Stamper would put up SIOO
against a gold watch and chair.. The
next day the crowd gathered on the race
track, the South Carolina boys had re
plenished their pockets, and Air. Stamper
still continued to take all that was offered.
He got up on a box and
drew SIO,OOO from his pockets, and
says: “I will bet SIO,OOO that the Stamp
er mare will beat the South Carolina
horse. This amount could not be cov
ered. and Mr. Stamper took down the
SI,OOO, put up the night before that there
would he money offered and not taken by
the South Carolina party. The race was
run, and the Stamper mare came out
ahead about 30 feet, and I never have
before or since seen such excitement.
Men were wild over their success, and
others were looking desperate oyer their
defeat. One young fellow from South
Carolina, w ho had just come in possession
of his patrimony, lost it all and laid
down on the ground and cried like a
child. Mr. Stamper w’as loaded down
with money, and he had at least a hun
dred watches and watch chains around
hi 9 neck. “I bet on the Stamper mare,”
said Uncle Dick, “and had to loan the
balance of the crowd that went from
Athens money to get back home ton, as
ttaay had backed the South Carolina
horse. After the race was over, the own
er of the South Carolina horse went to
Mr. Stamper and asked him to price his
mare, and negro boy Josh, the ridtr, and
he would buy them. Mr. Stamper
told him that he was getting old,
and expected to quit racing, and if he
would give him $3,C00 that he could have
the mare and her rider. The South Caro
linian gave him the money, and Stamper
left for home about $30,000 ahead. 1 have
seen some fast quarter races since that
time, but I never saw a man who had
such unbounded confidence in the speed
of his horse as Mr. Stamper had. He
seemed to know that she would win the
race, and was willing to place the earn
ings of a lifetime on the result. This race
is often spoken of as being the biggest
quarter race ever run in the United
States.
TITLES IN AMERICA.
A List of Vain Degrees Common in this
Free Country.
It is an old taunt, says the Pall Mall
Gazette , that there is no one like your full
blown republican for love of titles. Even
Americans are no exception. They are
indeed superior enough to titles of nobili
ty, but they make up for it by’ excessive
partiality for titles of learning. It seems
from a list compiled by a writer in the
North American Jlevieic that there are 10
different “Doctors’ ” degrees, 0 “Mas
ters’,” and 22 “Baehelo. s’ ”. The letters
“M. A.” do not argue very high in attain
ments in England, but in America they
mean still less, since they may stand
either for “Master of Arts” or “Master
of Accounts,” just as “B. A.” may mean
either “Bachelor of Agriculture” or
“Bachelor of Arts.” Even the venerable
letters “D. D.” may be a little misleading
in the States, where gentlemen have
passed for eminent divines on the strength
of being “Doctors of Dentistry.” As for
the title of Prolessor, we know something
ot w’hat that may mean in England, for
has not Mr. Matthew Arnold told us how
in the old days when he held the chair of
poetry at Oxford he was “always shy of
assuming the honorable style of Profes
sor, because he shared it with so many
distinguished men—Prof. Pepper, for
instance, Prof. Anderson, Prof. Frikel,
and others—who adorned it, he felt,
much more than he did.” In oue respect
American precedents in these mat
ters might be found useful
over here. The admission of women
to all university degrees is only a mat
t r ol time, hut there is a good deal of
idle ridicule to be lived down first. Silly
fellows are constantly poking fun, for in
stance, at the insult it would be to an un
graduated husband to be married to a
“master,” and at the incongruity of giv
ing clever but otherwise marriageable
girls the title of “bachelor.” The Ameri
cans have cut the knot in their usual
practical fashion, and talk of Miss Blue
stocking not as “Bachelor of Arts” or
“Bachelor of Science,” but as “Maid of
Philosophy,” “Maid of Science,” “Maid
of Arts,” while a girl who has taken de
grees in all the faculties is, we suppose,
called a “Maid of All Work,” what in
this aristocratic country is a badge of
servitude being in the free democracy of
the West a prize of intellect.
SCANDAL IN LONDON.
Some Move Incidents In the Lives of
Noblemen.
There has been a scandal within the
last ten days, says a London letter,
which, though not yet taken up by the
press, has created a whisper sensation
and slightly 6tirred tea circles. Col. Fitz
George, a sin of the Duke of Cambridge
by his morganatic marriage, has allowed
judgment to go against him by default as
co-respondent in a suit for divorce by a
brother officer. There are three ot these
young men in the British army, and they
are generally regarded—two of them were
tor some time in Canada—as rather good
and gallant fellows. Their mother, Miss
Fairbrother, was a very beautiful girl,
specially remarkable for the magnificence
of her locomotives, when she attracted
the admiration of the then Prince George,
and has since the alliance been remark
able for the loyalty of her love and quiet,
feminine virtues, qualities which have
won for her the respect and
regard in private ot her royal rela
tives. When the late IHtke, she often
told, heard or the alliance, he drove to
her house in Bolton street to see her, and
when she with some hesitation entered
the room, asked her brusquely: “Do you
know who I am ?” “Yes, your Royal High
ness?” “Do you love my son?” “Yes,
indeed.” “Does he love you?” “I hope
so.” “Well, lam not surprised. Come
j and sit near me and kiss me. Always
1 kiss me when 1 come, and if George lie
! haves badlv came and tell me.” He was
a most singular old fellow, and used to
give intense amusement to the attendants
| at St. James’Chapel in Germyn street,
| where he was to be found in his pew as
regularly as at his box in the opera,
where he always accompanied the sing
ers in an audible hum. When the clergy-,
man at St. James’ said, “Let us pray,” he
always broke in with “Certainly —by all
means,” and when be asked in the Lord’s
prayer to “give us our daily bread,”' with
“and butter.”
prrwoftal.
Excelsior, la., Marrh
HatenH— Dear Sir* Thi*
all safely, and am m uch nr . r i vod
Have Phown it to tta wr i 0 nf 8 ViI|Wlth 1 | Wlth >*.
have expressed intent calling t , !2 <ra ‘
when next m Savannah. you
AAN ME l. McCLEsKEY.
Office of Roundtree a Gykbut i
Midville, Gy
Mr. llareas Dear Sir : You may ni
Photographs right away; ttw !
wita tliem. Yours, truly. * Phased
JOHN .1. ROUMitrkb;
iUantra.
S Kl>MuT^uive^travenr.'g T
i v I solicit orders for the Universal Self
strnctor, a matchless liook of reference a,!',!’?
ed to the family and the business man nuoL
all whose tas'e and inclination leads them f*
acquire information of universal inters.
Address G. McGAKVEY, IWA BrvanatoSi’
Monday after 9 o’clock. * ’ n Btrw b
Ylf ANTED, the public to knowTlhiirThT
M new instantaneous process nranWrt.
me lias revolutionized the l’hotograldds V 1 Jy
ness, and the day has pas 8 “d
people will give 48 or $lO for a dozen Cabins
Photographs. J. N.WlbSux, !j *
\\T ANTED. —tf you want to see the i-'
Y> collection of Picture Frames forcrav?
of the new spring designs, call at Have
First-clase Crayons and Bhotogranhs mu,!
this establishment. ‘ graptis onl - t
\y ANTED, two strong boys to make Th.
V selves generally use-ul; must bebr
an ’ active. A it. ALTMAYER ft CO
W A ?I El> V competent
’’ lady with two children. AddreJ
once G. TANARUS., Morning News office. n
W A , NTKD ’,? seamstress to do plain sew
*?r small family. Address B A !
care this office. - a - ,
rpEACIIER WANTED —We are 1
1 securing the services of a No
teacher for Jefferson Academy \i,,n„ :
Fla. Address the undersigned ' Wvwi c’
ences. J. T. BUDD, PresgWM
\\ ANTED, ladies and young men tvisht
YY to earn $1 to $3 every day
their homes; work furnished; sent bv ml
no canvassing; no stamps required for nS?
I’lease address EDWARD F. DAVIS A? ’
&BSouth Main street. Fail River, Mass.
Wor Hmt.
lAOU RENT, one nicely furnißhed~r^
I room, suitable for two gentlemen ut
pnv lege of bath room and parlor; also l
unfurnished room, at 37 Abercorn street o
ncr President. ’
lAOR RENT, a floor of three rooms on T
£ with of bath r*;
No. 29 Drayton, near Broughton ami Bulls!
terms *ls per month. Apply at th premise',
F'°a-. E F? T ’ h “ ÜBC on Huffy, fmirm^s^:;
1 Whitaker street, from April l: lZt
yard, with fruit trees. 8. C. STFVVaht
Agent, 160 Gwinnet, street. ' ’Alii,
KENT, one store, 20x60. imdTTTthil
± Ilall, on Macon street, next door i.7u„
Kcnn i ft Welsh. Apply to G w , ? 1 ,
MANY. 118 Bryan Uriel. W ’ Gaß ’
IAOK RENT, one flat, suitable for JjX
1 housekeeping; also, one furnished slccd
mg room; possession given April G. Apnivtt
Abercorn street. a!
L>OR RENT, premises No. 172 Liberty
U four doors irom Barnard; '
April 1. Apply to C. C. TAMAFEKkDT
West Broad street. ’ ll
I>OR RENT, furnished and unfurnished
1 foomf., No. 89 Congress street, second dw
west of Abercorn. w
RENT, large south rooms, furnishel
1 or ve. n . U U’ lßtlC ' l ' A PP‘J' J3 State etree
near Whitaker.
RENT, rooms suitable for li s ht hou7-
f keeping. Apply at S!i York street, cormr
Abercorn. ’ "
I?OR RENT, rooms, at northeast contr
i South Broad and Barnard sir. eta.
IpOR RENT, parlor floor and basement. K
Taylor street, corner Drayton.
TO RENT, at Isle of Hope, house, eight
rooms, kitchen, statiles, servants' rooms,
garden with fruit trees, grapes and figs, bath
hous<% etc. For particulars address LANb
LOUD, Morning News ofliec.
for Salr.
IJOK SALE, an established ami paying gre
-I eery and liquor store in East Savannah,
with live years’ .ease: dwelling andontbouse
on premises; reason for selling owner wants
to go North. Inquire 171 St. Julian street.
foot,
IOST, on Monday, March 23, a Receipt
-J Book in form of a payroll. ThetimJer
will be compensated by leaving it at 15(j Hull
street.
poarOutij.
IJERMANENT, transient or day hoarder!
JL accommodated at 156 state street.
Jilumq to § oar..
MONEY TO LOAN.—Liberal Loans made
on Diamonds, Gold and silver Wttcliee,
Jewelry, silverware, Fn ruiture, Carpets,
Household Goods, Wearing Apparel, Sewing
Machines, Clocks, Merchandise, Tools, and on
almost anything which is of any value, at
Licensed Pawnbroker House, 187 Conaresa
street. E. MUHLBEKG, Manager.
N. B.—Highest prices paid for old Gold and
Silver.
Money to Loan.
Vour Fricud Uncle Joe Manager- Sign
3 Big Balls, 120 Broughton st.
.Y\7 ILL lend you more money on Diamonds,
TT Jewelry, and other personal property,
titan any other pawnbroker in the city. Ha
plei tv ot ir oney to loan.
f oitevt},
ThFdKAWING
OF THE
LITTLE HAVANA
WILL TAKE PEACE
WE DNEDAY,
APRIL 1, 1385.
WHOLE TICKETS, $2; HALVES, sl.
15,000 TICKETS; 733 PRIZES.
CAPITAL PRIZE. 56,000.
Slioro atifc Sato.
SHOES. SHOES.
SOMETHING SPECIAL
I will offer for the next
1 5 DAYS
* LADY’S KID BUTTON at *2 50, worth
$3 00. ~,
A GENTS’ HAND-WELTED SHOE atss,
worth $6.
Agent for JAMES MEANS’
#3 OO SHOES.
Full stock of MISSES' and CHILDREN'S
SPRING HEELS. . ■
GENT-.’ EMBROIDERED and GOAi
SLIPPERS for CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
HATS.
I have a full line of GENTS’ and BO' s
SOFT and STIFF HATS from 50c. to. „
STETSON’S celebrated STU'f and son
HATS from $3 50 toll.
A. S. NICHOLS,
fuinmirc iiolioij. „
Easter Sandaywill stioa be Here
AND as everybody is getting thin** in*j|*P?
for this Great 'Festival of the Chu™. ■
will be well to purchase some of
The Excelsior Furniture Polish,
which makes your furniture all
and have your houses in order so ai •! ptc
keeping with your new
Everybody who his used it is dehghtea
it. For sale by W. J. LINDSAY, sB!
MACHINE AGENTS and my Gn***” *
Salesman, and wholesale and reran uy
CLEMENT SAUSSY,
yortruito.
JAS. P. FIELD,
ARTIST.
ORDERS for Portraits in Oil,
Crayon solicited. Will tsk* *
number of pupils. 9vW
Studio, 147*4 CONGRESS STREET, *'
nah. fit.
gte <f tea
R A D ERICK’S
ICE CREAM & WATER ICES.
Pure, rich, delicious and alwa>*
Try them and you will use no o
-
Cotton f artovo.
M. Y. and D. l. Maclntyre,
Cotton Factors
—AND—
Commission Merchant 8 *
No. 71 Bay street, S*WU*S.