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Pianos and Organs—Davis Bros.
America’s Best Beer—Geo. Meyer, Sole
Agent.
East Indian Corn Paint— Osceola Butler.
According to the amount of money ex
pended Georgia has about one-tenth of a
BiW capitol.
“Time and tide wait for no man.” They
will carry a fellow along with them, how
ever, very often when he doesn’t want to
fe'b-
1 1 It is not every season that we can have
’the luscious 17-year locusts for food.
Perhaps the canning factories will take
the hint;
It is seldom that plumbers are beaten
in the size of their bills. It is pretty cer
tain, however, that the Macon mosquitoes
can beat them.
The melon season will soon be open In
earnest, and every melon grower expects
to be agreeably disappointed by selling his
crop at good prices.
Oysters are just as good in the summer
time as they are in winter. There is a
considerable difference, however, in the
•Uimuchs of the people.
Complaint is made that vegetables
shipped North are over-ripe when they
reach market. A good many eggs
shipped South seem to have the same fail
ing.
Most of the Republican office-holders ap
pear to bo resigned to whaiever late may
overtake them, but very lew of them
seem disposed to resign or elude the de
cree of lute.
Ma’. or Grace is being talked about as a
probable candidate fur Governor of New
York. It is thought that even the Tam
many braves could bo induced give
liitu a hearty support.
The melon crop of the Soudan doesn’t
benefit the railroads and commission
merchants In the leust, und yet the melon
farmers ol that country are considerably
burdened with false prophets.
Since the completion of the Savannah
artesian well little has been said about
the excellence of Ponce de Leon water.
A lew more artesian wells will make this
city the most desirable summer resort in
the State;
Secretary Bayard’s Democratic enemies
seem to he determined Ui malign und mis
represent him until they make him the
most popular man in the country. The
jieople will love him for the enemies ho
has made.
While the Kev. Sara Junes bus been giv
ing the various social clubs fits, he has
not yet baid anything against policemen’s
clubs, yet some ol the jiapers say he wages
un InU’serlniinatC wur on dubs aud all
other sorts of trumps.
'l’li're is plenty of money In the country.
Over siiil,(HM,(Wo were lying idle in the
New York bunks Thursday. The good
natured legis ators in the interior of the
Btate who loaned out their railroad passes
and had them taken up hy tho conductors
can borrow enough money to pay their
fare to Atlanta next month if they ean
put up the right kind of collateral.
The work of making ehauges in the
Federal offices iu Georgia has begun.
Mr. J. W. Nelms was yesterday appointed
Man.hul of the Northern district, it is
probably tho best Federal office in the
Hut. Mr. Nelms hud the support of
9 nators Brown and Colquitt. There was
sum# opposition to his appointment, but
Hie opposition to an applicant for an cilice
who has the support of both Senators of
b K ate tnuu b# pretty strong to defeat
h in.
The National Oonferenoe of Charities
ami Correction.
The attendance at the twelfth annual
National Conference ot Charities and Cor
rection at Washington is fully as large as
was expected. Between 400 and aOO dele
gates are present. Avery deep interest
appears to he taken in the various mat
ters that are presented for consideration.
It is pretty clear to those who have
given the question of the best methods of
dealing with convicts the consideration
l it deserves that there is plenty of
: room for improvement in the methods at
present employed. In New York and two
;or three other States there has been
marked progress within the last few years
, in the construction of prisons and the
management of convicts,
j Much more importance has been given
to the reform idea in those States
than it has ever before received.
I The aim has been lo chock to as
great an extent us possible the increase
in the number of criminals, and also to
reclaim those who have not become so
wholly committed to their downward
course of life as to make a change for the
better practically impossible.
in some of the prisons in the State of
New York the prisoners are separated
into classes. Those who are charged with
heinous offenses are not permitted to as
sociate with those who are guilty only of
petty crimes, and great care is taken to
keep boys away from old and hardened
offenders.
It is a well-known fact that those who
have had great experience in the commis
sion of crime take pleasure in teaching
those they meet in prison, particularly
young men and boys, all they know of
criminal matters. They expect at some
future time to avail themselves of the aid
that those young men and boys may be
able to render them.
There is another objection to permitting
the worst criminals to come into contact
with those whose offenses are not such as
to shut them out trom the hope of soon re
suming an honorable place in society. It
is that the hardened convicts, when they
have at last secured their liberty, olten
hunt up the minor offenders whom they
have met in prison and blackmail them
by threatening to make known the story of
their shame. Instances of this kind are
not infrequent.
There is one thing that State and coun
ty authorities are not as careful about as
they ought to be. it is the selection of
those who have control of the prisons. A
few years ago the jail of the District of
Columbia was commented on as being
one of the best managed institutions ot the
kind inthe oountry. The chief jailer was
changed, and almost immediately a
change for the worse in the management
of the prison was noticed. The prison
lost its fresh, clean appearance, and the
rules and regulations that had added so
much to the health and comfort of the
prisoners were no longer enforced. From
a model prison the institution became a
very dirty and badly regulated jail.
The system of working convicts outside
of the prisons and in gangs has been very
severely criticised for several reasons,
but chiefly because it has a tendency to
brutalize ihe convicts and to increase the
number of criminals. There is nothing
reformatory in the system, and those
States which have adopted it on the
ground of economy may not find it
eventually so very economical. If it helps
to make criminals and does not reform
any the time may come when the States,
In which it is practiced, may have more
criminals than they will know what to
do with. The cost of securing the convic
tion of those charged with the commission
of crimes will then be so great that it
will be a very serious burden.
This matter of the proper treatment of
convicts, and those charged with criminal
offenses, is of especial Interest in this
community at this time. This county is
about to build anew jail, and the jail
ought to be in keeping with the most ad
vanced of the approved ideas of prison re- 1
form. Whatever will tend to keep down
the number of criminals will serve the !
highest interests of the community.
Epidemic of Suicides.
Any one who will glance over a half
dozen leading newspapers on almost any
day will see the reports of from eight to !
twenty suicides. It is fair to assume
that there are many suicides wbien are
not reported to the press at nil. The sui
cides in the United States for one year
may lie numbered up in the thousands.
Olten three or lour are reported in one
city on the same day.
The suicides are from overy walk of life.
Here, one who seems to tie able to gratify
every wish tires of the cares that beset
him or her. There, one ot the middle
class is disappointed in love, or is defeated
in some loug-cherlshed enterprise. A
poor invalid gives up to despair. A
pauper seeks to fly from want aud abuse.
Often un aged man puts an end to his
already short lease of life, and occasion
ally one not beyond the years of childhood
voluntarily ends the life that has just
begun.
There are a thousand things that ap
parently lead people to commit suicide,
yet not one of them is sufficient to justify
the deed. It has been said that no one
with a sound mind in a sound body was
ever known to take his or her life, hut
this is hardly true, l’liysical suffering,
depressed spirits, a disordered bruin,
makes iieople seek to end their ills and to
find rest ami peace in the grave. Many
seem to realize that it is more fearful to
live than to die.
I’bilosopbcrs.pliiiunthropists and states
men hnve devised plans for preventing
people from taking their lives, in many
countries laws have been made providing
for the exposure of the bodies of suicidi s
to the public, or their submission toother
supposed punishments or indignities.
Those who make unsuccessful attempts
to tuke their lives have been punished or
threatened with punishment. All these
measures bnvj been of no avail, and it
seems that the suicidal mania is steadily
increasing.
it is as much a question as it ever has
been, how shall this munia lie treated?
It is itnpossible to eliminate from life all
the apparent causes ol suicides. It
seems that the only effectual remedy is to
teach people from tho pulpit, through the
i press, in schools, und by u!l available
means higher concept lot s of the duties
and responsibilities of life. The eoward
; Ice. meanness, if you please, the crimi
nality of suicide, should lie impressed on
all, especially on the young. Parents
should teach their children that it is their
duty to bear up under the sorrows,
tho troubles, the tUsappolntmeut*
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1885.
of life, and that death by one’s own hand
is not only in the highest degree discredit
able and reprehensible from a human
point of view, but that it is a foolish in
sult to that Providence that rules over
the destinies of men, and a mortal sin
against the Creator, who has commanded
“Thou shalt do no murder.” When these
lessons are properly taught to mankind,
no one who is morally responsible will
ever put an end to his or her own life.
Miss Cleveland's ltook.
Miss Elizabeth Cleveland is occupying
more space in the newspapers, perhaps,
than is altogether agreeable to her or to
her brother, the President.
Blie is a lady of considerable literary
ability, and has led a very active, and,
there is reason to think, a very useful lile.
Nothing was heard of her, however, out
side the rather circumscribed limits in
which she moved until her brother be
came a candidate for the Presidency.
The newspapers, however, have spoken
of her very kindly over since sne has been
an occupant of the AVhlte House. They
have contained much that was very com
plimentary to her. When it became
known that she intended to publish a
book there was great curiosity to know
something of it. It is, as everybody now
kuows, a volume of essays on various
subjects, written doubtless by Miss Cleve
land during her hours of leisure. Ex
tracts from some of these essays have
been published, and sentiments expressed
in two of them have been the occasion of
considerable criticism, of both Miss
Cleveland and her brother, of a rather
hostile kind.
The essays which excited these criti.
cisms deal with the liquor question and
with conventual life. These are questions
that are calculated to excite feeling, in
whatever way they may be discussed.
Miss Cleveland is a strong opponent of
the liquor traffic, and she has no sym
tiathy with conventual life, which she re
gards as a stupendous sacrifice of energy
j in vain.
Miss Cleveland’s opinions stand out
i very clearly in her essays, and it is ex
tremely probable that so far as her re
ligious views are concerned she inherits
them, and shares them with her brothers
and sisters. She docs not express her
thoughts on religious subjects like one
having newly-acquired convictions. She
speaks as If she believes just what her an
cestors believed. /
No one will question Miss Cleveland’s
right to entertain the opinions she does
on the subject* to which attention has
beeu directed, but there are those who
have doubted whether she has shown
judgment in publishing them while occu
pying the position of mistress of the
White House. There are many whose
position or whose duties bring them In
contact with Miss Cleveland who will
feel some constraint in her presence, per
haps, because of thy very pronounced
position which she has takeu on matters
which they regard differently, and there
arc others who will use her opinions for
the purpose of attacking the President
and his administration. But whether it
was good or bad judgment that induced
Miss Cleveland to publish her book at this
time, it is pretty certain that it will have
a large sale.
Financial Affairs of tlie Exposition.
Tho New Orleans people seem deter
mined to reopen the exposition next No
vember. Tho refusal of the government
to permit the government exhibit to re
main for tlie reopening had a dishearten
ing effect, hut it was not sufficient, it
seems, to cause the movement in favor of
reopening to be abandoned. At the meet
ing at which the reopening was decided
upon it was shown that sit>o,ooo
had been subscribed, and it was held
that this sum was sufficient to
justify tho announcement that the exposi
tion would be opened again in November.
The Times-Democrat speaks of the matter
as settled.
There appears to be a hitch somewhere
in the payment, of tho claims against the
exposition held hy parties who do not
reside in Louisiana. Congress, it will be
remembered, agreed to pay this class of
claims, and appropriated $335,000 for the
purpose. A few days ago tlie exposition
managers forwarded to the Secretary of
the Treasury a statement of the amount
of these claims. It was $307,318. It
seems that the amount was the occasion
of sonao surprise. When the appropria
tion was made it was stated by those who
were supposed to be familiar with the af
fairs of the exposition that there would
be over SIOO,OOO of it remaining after the
payment of all outside debts, and an ef
fort was made to luduce the Attorney
General to modify his opinion so as to per
mit claims held by Louisianians to be paid
out of it. The Attorney General refused.
It is very natural, therefore, that the
Treasury officials should bo surprised
when it turns out that the claims of those
entitled to be paid out of the anproprla.
tion, instead of being only about $'200,000,
amount, in fact, to nearly $500,000. It is
true that the managers of tho exposition
only admit claims to the amount of $304,.
318, which is $02,318 more than tho appro
priation, but there are claims amounting
to $72,752 whlob have bysn rejected, and
which, doubtless, will he carefully ex
amined hy tlie Treasury officials before a
dollar of any of these claims is paid.
The whole indebtedness lo parties out
hide of liouisimm appears from the above
luures to.be $470,070. What is the amount
of the duiius of resident* of Louisiana?
It is uot so large, perhaps, but still there
is reason to think that it ia a good den]
larger than (he managers would like the
public to tbiuk that it is.
it Is said that the Secretary ol the
Treasury has called for the vouchers of
all indebtedness which the government
lias to pay, and that there lias been a
great deal of delay ia furnishing them,
iu fact, one ol the strong rcusons that in.
duced the Cabinet to decide not to permit
the government exhibit to remain after
the* eloso of the exposition on the last day
of May,was the belief that the government
would be made responsible for tbe pay
ment of whatever additional indebtedness
might he incurred.
It would not bent nil surprising if
tbero should he an attempt next winter
to induce Congress to make another ap
propriation to pay the claim* that will
remain unpaid alter the amount now in
the Treasury to tbe credit of the exposi
tion is exhausted. It is not unfair pur
haps to say that the exposition was ns
great a failure financially a* it wan a
success as un exhibition of tho wealth,
resources aud Industrie* of tho country.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Old, Old Story.
Galveston Xew* ( Dein.)
The old. old norv. When the Apaches se
cured all the scalps’ they needed in their busi
ness for the time being, they skipped to Mexico,
and. as usual, there were no soldiers on the
trail to intercept them. The management of
the Apaches is criminally luuny.
A Loose Screw Somewhere.
Philadelphia Record (firm.)
We have a high protective tariff; millions of
accumulated cash inthe hanks; and two or
three hundred thousand idle lalsirers who arc
thrown out of employment in protected indus
tries. Those concurrent conditions do not go
to prove that protection protects. There is a
screw loose in the argument.
A Democratic Administration.
St. Louie Republican (Deni.)
There ia but one constituency the President
can look to—the Democratic party. The
mugwumps helped in the work of electing
him, and are entitled to the President’s good
will; hut tho mugwumps have declared they
want no offices, and that the administration
must bo Democratic. Democratic, then, it is
to be—and, with the object of making it so,
the President will soon begin to replace Ku
pu> lican office-holders with members of the
party on which be depends for support of his
administration and policy.
The Business of a Congressman.
Xeio York Sun ( /rid.]
The Hon. John J. hleiuer. of the First
Indiana Congressional district, is going to get
some offices tor bis constituents if it taites ail
summer, lie means to stick to Washington,
undismayed by ihe excesses of the mercury,
and to "make the rounds of the department
every day in order to get what he can for iiis
constituents;’’ and we nope he will get all he
want-. It’s tlie business of a Congressman to
do all he can for the people who stood by him
at the polls, and. In spite, of the soggy efforts
of civil service reformers, people want office
and want their Congressman to help them if
he cau.
BRIGHT HITS.
The revised version w ill, no doubt, have a
great effect on modern sheology.— Puck.
“It is really wonderful to see how well tho
men keep step.” He—Bah, that is nothing!
When I was a soldier I used to keep step bet
ter than all the rest put together!”— La Ve
detta.
Friend—“ You don’t mean toaayyou under
stand French, Tommy'''’ Tommy—"Oh, yes,
I do: for when pa and ma speak French at
tea I know I’m to have a powder.”—Ex
change,
“Is land high in Vermont?” asked a specu
lator of an old Green Mountain farmer.
“You just bet it is!” was the reply, “if the
trees wasn’t so stunted the clouds couldn't
get by at all.”
An up-country editor in Pennsylvania,
writing about V ictor Hugo, satd he was the
author of Leo's Miserable', "a very graulnc
description of the surrender at Appomattox.”
—Chicago Herald.
Ellen Terry, the actress, has hud three
ex-husbands, and expects to marry again.
This ought to set forever at rest iho state
raeut that men are not appreciated as much
as they used to bo.—Puck.
An Arizona man has stopped taking an
agricultural paper. He wrote to the editor
asking how to got rid of gnats. The answer
came in the next issue of the paper, "Kill
them.” —Xew York Tribune.
A Sullivan county man caught a nine
pound trout, and while in mid.ilr it w as seized
by a hawk aud carried off with the tiv aid
fifty feet of line. Such a little difficulty as
fixing the weight of a fish before it islanded
can’t swerve a Sullivan county liar from ins
duty. —Bingham Record.
The “Riverside Parallel Bible” is an
nounced, the old and new versions being
printed side bv side in parallel columns. One
might suppooe that ihe execution wrought
last fall during the campaign by the “deadly
purallel columns” would deter a publisher
from engaging iu such auenterprise. —Xorris -
town Herald.
“f>. sty. ma!” exclaimed g bright little girl
at the Hoffman House w hile at (tinner, “hasn’t
that, man over there got awful lug ears?"
“Hush, child! ilie gentleman might hear
you,” cautioned the mother.
“Well, ma,” retorted tho precocious young
ster. "if he couldn’t hear me with those ears
he ought to haul 'ciu down.”— Xew York
Journal.
"Full many a flower is born to blush un
seen.” Oh, no, Ariadne, not much it isn’t,
unless llie flower is quite conscious that some
body is looking at it, it does not waste its
time in idle blusnes. It attends stricllv to
business, holds up its bead and briskly asks
the next lice that comes along to step in and
examine its new stock of doraettiesand im
ported pollen before purchasing elsewhere.—
Burdett.
Mrs. Minks—There it is again. Tobacco,
always tobacco. What will vou do when you
get to heaven, where there are no spittoons?
Mr. Miuks—Perhaps there will be some
there.
Mrs. Minks—ludeed there won’t. The idea!
Wliat will you do then, Mr. Minks? Just an
swer that.
Mr. Minks—l really don't know, my dear,
unless we cau got seats near tha edge.—Phila
delphia Call.
In the Bernese Oberland a parrot one day
made ,ts escape and perched on the rain
trough o; a farm house in the neighborhood.
The farmer, who had probably never been out
of ids native village, brought a lander to cap
ture the strange animal. When he had
reached the top ami was reaching out bis
band, the parrot called out: “What do you
want? What do you want?” The a atom shed
peasant at once took off his cap and said: "O,
1 beg your pardon, 1 thought you were a
bird 1” Slitaeiheilt.
‘ Why, I am so delighted to see yon,” was
the cordial welcome. "And you have vour
new brocaded mantle." "Yes, Cicely, dear.
I thought I might as well. You haven’t yours
yet, l believe.” "Mine? Vo, uulpe i. 1 read
they were going out of style as rapidly as au
tumn leaves.” “Then I should think you
would have one. You know you al ways buy
on a falling market.” Thus it is that femi
ninity lias it little "set-tos,” aud they are
really enjnj able—to the one that gets the best
of it .—Bariford Post.
PERSONAL.
Gek. Crook, tho Indian tighter, knows what
he is alto til. lie wears his hair cropped close.
Mask Twain’s brother, Orion Clemens, is
jtn lows farmer, happier, healthier and more
eoniente t than Mark.
Ben HuTbEß’s favorite flower at this season
of the year is said to lie a fragrant pink. His
buttonhole contains one every nay.
William H. Vanderbilt bus leased the
Pavilion cottage at Sharon Springs, aud with
Ills family will spend too season there.
Kx-President Aktiii h denies that there in
tiny troth in tbe rumor reeeutly pul afloat
tli il no is.iillioted with Bright's iltseuse.
Di ke Gwik, of California, though aged, is
still halo aud hearty. He was it prominent
politician when Jackson was iu the executive
chair.
Susan B. Anthony will spend the summer
with Elizabeth duty .Stanton working <io t|i e
third volume of their "History of Woman
Suffrage.”
Jlas. Nettie H. Hringhuust. the youngest
daughter of Bam Houston, of Texas,’ is now
living in New Orleans, a very earnest worker
in tne S\ oiiieu’sChristlan Temperance Union.
Tub Tykoon who was dopon and iu favor of
the present Mikado, of Japan, by it rotoltttion
which cost 100,00(1 lives. Is living quietly in
Sidsuoktt. a small Japanese country town,
lie is 65 years of age and comparatively poor.
THE Corporation of lavmlon wl!l present
Ex-President Artliurnn i.eoress and n gold
casket upon bis expected visit to i.ondon and
the lavrd Mayor will give lino a banquet. Tlie
casket will resemble that given to ex-Prcsi
der.t Grant when he was a visitor in the same
city.
The Prince of Wales will doubtless got a
grand ovation next Wednesday w hen ins son
conn sto tlie Bench of Ihe Middle Temple. A
distinguished company will i.* present. In
eluding the Primate, Lord Salisbury and iatrd
Randolph Churchill. Mr. Gladstone w in
vited but declined.
Daniel T. Murphy, the B*n Francisco
millionaire, who died on Wednesday morning
in New York of Bright's disease, several
years ago had the title ol Marquis ronfrrred
upon hint by Pone Pius IX. ills eldest
daughter is the wit • of Btr l.buries Wolseli y
and lives iu I i.gland. ]le leaves a widow
and seven children.
Prop. Mommsen, walking the street* of
Berlin, recently Was accosted bv a little hov,
aud pleased with the poliic attention,he patted
him on the heed und Inquired his name.
"Why, papa, don't you know roe?" cried tlie
amazon little fellow, who was indeed the Pro
testor's sou. It'* a wise father that doesn't
know bu own sou; in this ctute al uuy rale.
The Revised Edition.
From the Sew York Sun.
Featherly was making an evening call and
the revised edition was Using discussed.
•Tn the new Bible that pa brought home,”
said Bobby, joining the conversation, "sister
is four yearn younger than she was in the old
one. Is that what Is meant by the revised edi
tion?”
Getting Things Mixed.
From the Xew York Sun.
Her head was pillowed ou his breast and
looking up in a shv way she said:
“Do you know, dear George, that ”
“You mean dear James, I tuink,” he inter
rupted, smiling fondly at her mistake.
“Why. yes. to he sure. How stupid I am !
I was thinking this was Wednesday evening.”
A .surprised Man.
A surprised man is J. B. Uam, who went to
the New Orleans Exposition to care for
Maine's interests. lie writes to the Lewiston
Journal that ruin simps are plenty and tee
totalers in the minority, but in the whole six
months of Ins residence there he had not seen
six drunken men within the city’s corporate
limits. Mr. Ham. who is a prohibitionist, does
not attempt to explain this singular fact. He
says: "It maybe in the quantity orthequality
of tlie beverages drunk, and it may be in the
climate.” But lie leaves the solution of the
problem to a longer-headed philosopher.
He blissed Her Fair Check.
From the OMongo Tribune.
Tho other day a pretty gir! appeared in the
Berlin Kvo and Ear Dispensary, asking to be
treated for the loss of hearing in one ear.
When asked how she had lost her hearing, she
explained, after some hesitation, that some
time ago her lover, ou his return from a jour
ney, had embraced her and kissed her with
such energy on her ear that she immediately
felt a strong pain and had not been able to
hear in that ear sinco. An examination of
the ear showed, indeed, that tlie tympanum
ha been torn and that the surrounding parts
were badly inflamed. Here is an illustration
of the dangers besetting impetuous lovers.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson to Equip
Traveling Singing Hands.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, who is so widely
known for her charities, aud is now living in
Stamford, Conn , is contemplating an original
scheme for doing good. On the theory that
tlie old and stirring religious hymns which
were familiar in childhood, and from which
many people in later years drift so far away
that barely an echo of them remains in the
memory, would, if heard again, stir old recol
lections and reawaken religious sentiments
long dormant, she proposes* to send musical
organizations through the country which will
render the religious music uot only in concert
halls, hut in public places where masses of
people congregate.
Mrs. Thompson intends not only to organize
bands of sacred minstrels to travel from place
to ill ace, but desires to get together local com
panies of young people, under good nmsi al
direction, who will give sacred concerts. .She
is very much in earnest, and is fully deter
mined to try the experiment.
Higgins’ Jibes.
From the Xew York Sun.
Tho mejestic meditations of the mugwumps
continue to be disturbed by Higgins. That
objectionable being* lias not yet succeeded in
his fell dtsign of turning out the Republicans
in the Treasury Department; but he is mak
ing life for them, if the account of
ins proceedings given by our esteemed con
temporary, the Evening Post, is correct. Ac
cording to tliis authority, “messengers, labor
ers, and others complain that he goes about
corridors drawing his forefinger signilicantly
across his throat to indicate the process of de
capitation, and muttering: ‘You will have to
go;’ ‘The Republicans must go.’” This sort
of thing naturally makes the Republicans in
the Treasury nervous.
Higgins is a well-looking man, and nothing
in his lineaments indicates that he has an un
feeling heart. We cannot believe that lie
jibes at these poor fellows, tlie Republican of
ficeholders. They have been pigeon-livered
aud chicken-hearted since March 4. and it
would he wrong to play upon their apprehen
sions. But if Appointment Clerk Higgins
worries them, they should get out of the
Treasury. It will be better for them to have
their heads off at once than to be frightened
to death |by Higgins. There is a g >od deal of
sound sense in the mutterlnga of Higgins.
Before and After Taking.
From a Washington dispatch to t/te Courier-
Journal.
It is marve'mis what a change it makes in
the mind of a Democrat to get an office. I
wrote you a paragraph several weeks since
about an Indiana Democrat complaining
about Mr. Cleveland going so slow, aud ex
pressing his fears that this was a "1> n
mugwump concern.” Well, that Indiana
Democrat got a pilace a short time since, and
going home the other evening I met him in
Lafayette Park looking ashappv asa lord, and
evidently delighted witii the world. After
shaking hands 1 asked him how he liked his
new place. “Oh, the best kind; it is a nice
position.”
“Many more like it in the Treasury?” I
asked.
“Yes, a dozeD or more. Why do vou ask ?
Waul one of ’em?”
“Vo; but I have some good Democratic
friends I would like mighty well to see take
the places of the Republicans iu there. Seems
to me the President and his Cabinet officers
are going mighty slow, lam afraid the con
cern is too mugwumpish.”
“Oh, no; you are away off, old hoy. I tell
you the changes are being made just as fast as
they can. You see, it won’t do to he go sud
den about making changes. It might cripple
the public services; nothing of the mugwump
order about tnis admin stratum. I know Uiut
everything will lie all right in a short time.
You bet the President and Dan. Manning
know w hat they are doing Just wait, and
you will see all the Ruts walk tlie plank.”
This is a case of before taking and after tak
ing an office.
The Kind They Raise at Yale.
From the Cleveland Leader.
“I have another card story,” continued
M'tj. I'alkin-, “and Senator Jones, of Nevada,
is iny authority for it. He says tlie iueident
actually happened in one of the little mining
town* of his State. One night at the leading
saloon of this little* town a party of u half
dozen were playing poker. Among the
players was u very nice young fellow, n grad
uate of Yal College, and a man wtio had been
quite successful at mining, and had at the
same time made him-oir popular wiili nis
fellows. Another member of the party was .t
one-eyed stranger, and the rest, was made up
of other honest miners about the camp. The
play went on from early m the evening until
about midnight, and all this time the one
eyed man seemed to get all the good hands.
Several times the college graduate thought tie
saw that the tnan was cheating, hut he did
not appear lo nolle* it.
“At midnight the college graduate rose up
end quietly raid: ‘Gentlemen, we are all
tired playing, an I some of us are about broke,
i propose now that we take a recess, and have
some oysters and champagne. After we are
through we will thrown a wav those curds, gel
anew deck, and see if our luck don’t change.
We will set out to play a squ ire game, mid,’
(here he looked hard at the one-eyed stranger
as he put ids hand on the revolver at liis belt)
‘and the first man we ealeli cheating we will
shoot out Ids oilier eve.’ Wed, the motion
wo* carried, the oysters wore eaten, and Un
link did cnauge." The one-eyed man h>t
every cent o Ins winning' and as daylight
broke through the dirtv pane-of the saloon
windows lie arose declaring himself dead
broke.” ____________
Y'ictor lingo's Last Hours.
From the .Veto York Tribune.
The Parisian journals to Hand, up lo M:tv 2i,
give full details of the last hours of Victor
Hugo. Shortly before Ins death he exclaimed:
“I see light, dark light.” His force and en
ergy cont lined lo tie extraordinary, lie
raised himself on Ills knees every moment to
arrange ills pillows, pretending that hi- bed
hud not been properly made. It was with
considerable difttcuiiy even that he was pre
vented leaving the bed altogether, and in this
end M. Vscquerie, Dr. Alix mid Mine.
Loekrov had as much ns they could do. A
crisis more terrible than the others at length
arrived. So violent became his sufferings that
It was every moment feared he would lie
stifled; his pulse grew weaker and weaker,
and the nervous exeiteutmt continued. Then
his struggles to raise himself in the lied
grew weaker, and twisiing the clothe* be
tween hts liamls he tossed his head from side
to side us if trying to catch breath. At length
a temporary relief rams. His itrengih ap
peared for a momeut suddenly diminishing
and a spoonful of quinine mixed with mix
vomica was let down between hts lip*. As
this is known to lie a very active medicine it
produced iu the patient ionic convulsive
shocks, and finally rod red him to a heavy
sleep. When lie awoke M. Igickroy ap
proached him and asked: “Would you like a
drink?" "Y*S,” replied Hugo in a distract
voice. "Well, we Me going lo give vou nil
American drink." “Ah!" ejaculated the
dying poet. "An American driuk. Thou it
is also a Republican drum.'' A moment later,
he turned lo Mine. Loekrov and kisse l hot’
hand. Kveu to the Inst lie nought to reassure
those surrounding hint. Clasping to his breast
Ids granddaughter, who waa crying, he said
lo her: "Be quiet. Jeanne; hi* quiet, my
child. There is nothing to cry shunt. lam
keeping up as well as possible." And then,
In a still weaker tone: “You are causing your
mother trouble.”
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
The St. Louis Century Club, the leading
' litenury society of the city, has six men and
three women on its board of directors.
Three-card monte men, thimble riggers,
and bunco sleerers are punished by public
whipping in Delaware. Twenty lashes is the
average dose.
Hamilton Cole, the New York lawyerwbo
bought a copy of the Guttenberg Bible for
s',ooo at the Brinley sale in 1881, has just sold
it for $15,000.
The new theatre being made out of the old
Masonic Temple in Philadelphia will be the
largest place of amusement iu the United
Stales, seating 3,900.
The dies from which the first United States
cents, those coined at New Haven and called
the Franklin, were cast are now used as pa
per weights in a counting room at New
Haven.
Secretary Whitney’s proposal to change
the color of the white helmets aud leggings of
marines and soldiers to brown, because less
conspicuous as a target for enemy’s rifles, is
pronounced very sensible.
The carnivorous plants known as utricu
laria are to be extirpated from the ponds of
the United State Fish Commission. It was
found that they caught and destroyed in large
numbers the recently hatched fry.
A California physician claims that the
bruised pulp of eucalyptus leaves, which he
had been in the habit of applying to his very
bald head for the cure of headache, hail
brought out anew and abundant crop of hair.
Asa result of the Niagara reservation hill
the proprietors of mills on Bath Island and
along the shore are preparing to leave. In
dian curiosity shops and unsightly b.oths will
soon be swept away, and haekmen are plot
ting to become friends with the commis
sioners.
A New York letter says the profits of the
restaurant in the rotunda of the Astor House
in that city have averaged SSOO perday for the
last five vears. The restaurant is largely
patronized by those who have not time to go
up iown until dinner, and by a large class of
politicians.
Mrs. Ohm, who professes to cast out devils
and perform other feats commonly regarded
as snpe:human, resides near Laketon. Ind.,
and is eguliirly consulted by persons who be
lieve themselves under the influence of a ma
lign spirit. Shelias been at least enabled to
amass a snug fortune.
Tiie Harvard facul’y, wishing to encourage
vacation study, authorizes any instructor to
announce to his class a course of reading or
nvestigation suitable to be pursued privately
during the summer. Every such course shall
l>e calculated to occupy a student of ordinary
ability not more than six hours a day during
a single month.
Bitter opposition has been shown in cer
tain parts of bt. Louis to the closing of the
wells, which was adopted by the authorities
as a sanitary measure. At a groat mass meet
ing, comprised mainly of Germans, inflamma
tory speeches wore made, and the street com
missioner who executed the obnoxious order
was huug in effigy.
The ancient castle of Dank warderode, near
Brunswick, which was the original seat of
the Guelph family, is to be restored and con
verted into a museum for the display of his
torical relies. Tlie Brunswick Chamber of
Deputies has voted *BO,OOO towards the pur
chase money, and the German Government
will lurnish the rest.
The fruit dealers in Arkansas observed
Thursday as “Strawberry day,” and donated
the fruit gathered on that day to inmates of
the Insane Asylum, the School for the Blind,
Deaf and Mute Institute and State Peniten
tiary. The children picked the berries, the
owners gave them, the merchants paid fur
tho crates, aud the railroads handled them
free.
A woman in Springfield, 0., has invented
and patented an overshoe of cloth, which can
be made nearly as small as the ordinary shoe,
Tlie sole, shank and heel are in one piece. The
shoe is light, comfortable and warm. She has
also invented a screw wit a four pointed heads,
which screws into the sole and prevents ail
danger of slipping, either ou the ice, car tops
or elsewhere.
A letter from London conveys the wel
come intelligence that tight pantaloons went
out of fashion many months ago. which ex
plains the recent eruption of wider hags in
our streets. This summer the “proper caper”
in trousers will be a width at the knee and
bottom of from seventeen to eighteen inches.
People in tlie interior, however, will still
cling to the skin-tight trouser legs.
The officers of the Cleveland and Hendricks
War Veterans of Brooklyn have commenced
a suit against G. M. Huutindon for the return
of $250 paid him as agent of the steamer West
moreland for the conveyance of 250 mem hers
of the association from Baltimore to Wash
ington in time for the inauguration. As navi
gation at the tiaie was impossible, owing to
the ice in the rivers, the veterans went bv
railroad.
The gardens of the Tuileries at Paris have
just put on their summer garb, and notwith
standing the recent spell of winter weather,
which froze six persons to death in Vienna,
the orange, myrtle and pomegranate trees
have once more left their winter quarters in
the conservatory. Some of thesoutnern plants
winch summer after summer adorn the ter
races are very old. Among them aretwomvr
tles. which boat an age of no less than two
centuries; an orange tree has seen more than
380 years, and a pomegranate is nearly as old.
Pettitt is tlie third foreigner who has
wrested the supremacy of tennis from an
English holder during tho present century.
Mar tosio. a great Italian playerfrom Turin,
tient Cox, the best Englishman of the day, in
iS'U. and in 1823 Cox again had to play second
fiddle, this iuno to the celebrated Barre. By
many good judges Lambert has been eonsid
, crod the tlnc-t plnyer that ever went on to a
j court, and hy beating him so early in his
I career Pettitt iwis marked out for himself a
glorious future, to use the language of en
thusiasts, which all tennis-players undoubt
edly are.
Matthew Arnold made a mistake in giv
ing London as the authority for pronuncia
tion. There are many words pronounced
differently hy different people iu London.
The House of Commons has always been rec
ognized and accented as authority, though
rot infallible, and most of its leading men
were educated at Oxford, where Wicker is
regarded as tho host authority for pronuucia
tion. lint even in the House of Commons
there have been differences of pronunciation
among the leading men. Both laird John
Rus-ll and O’Connell always lironminced
"uitlier” “ither,” and “obliged” “obleegcd.”
A Carson (Nov.) man has gone and Invent
ed a machine to avoid the anti-treating law,
which has been a dead failure thus far. A
huge chuuk of iee is slung iu the centre of a
revolving table, and beverages, beer, whis
ky. etc-, are placed ail over it. The citizens
draw up their chairs all around, cal! fur their
driuks.and the garni l commences by the twirl
ing of the revolving wueel or table. What
over -tups in front of each one’s chair he must
drink, aud whoever fails to do so has the whole
circle to pay for. Tlie excitement grows
more aud more intense as the game pro
gresses. and many a substantial Carsonito
goes home to boil drunk.
AN idea of the value of the fisheries and
the active wealth produced to a country by
the culture and preservation of fish can he
gathered from tho facts given Ml a recent
meeting in London. It was stated from rs
liali c statistics that tho daily supply of fish
al I lie London mar net* was 580 tons. A ion
of fish was equal to ZS sheep. 50(1 tons to 14.000
sleep, as a dally supply of London. Taking
the supply oi I. del.m as being one-third of
that of Hie kingdom, the amount of fish used
in a year hi England was equal to 11,600,0C0
sheep. Tins eu rtnoua amount of food \vn*
derived fr mi wliat was otherwise of no use
for mlHration and saved an enormous amount
of laud for other food production.
Tuesday afternoon Martin Peterson, who
reside* iu tho vicinity of the Orpbaus’ Home,
near Galveston, Texaa, while airolllug on the
beach hud his attention directed to a huge ob
ject some distance out in tlie surf. As the
surf washed It near it hr mine apparent that
a fl'h of unusual proportions wa coining in
►horn, and Peterson divested himself of part
or ids garments, and wil ting out was astou
idiu i in In bold a gigantic sawfish, which,
with the usdstaure of a companion, he suc
ceeded In drugging ashore. According to
Peterson, the fish l the largest ever caught in
those waters, tlie total measurement bring 10
feet from end to end. The bo ly proper
measures 15 feet, whlie the saw is Billy 5 Let
in length, the widest part about ti Incites. It
appears that the flah was wounded tn some
manner, probably w I th a harpoon or the stroke
ot a hatchet, and 4t the time of iUcspture waa
feebly battling with the wave*.
WANTED, A WORD WITH TfTr.iFnuF
V T -The new instantaneous process practiced
by me has revolutionized the Photograuhio
bus.ness, and the day has passed when sensi
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uet I holographs, when they cau get the finest
work ever produced in this city, put on fi„i
beveled gilt-edge cards, for 3 50 per dozen, at
aißullstreet’ opposite the Screven Hons..
All work guaranteed first-class in every i,n r ’
AnJ 1 w >li it distinct y understood
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FOR RENT, desirable dweliing~soidheiuit
corner Montgomery and Duffy streets
containing seven rooms ana kitchen, with
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