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4 Else |l|<trniug Hews. 2 WHIT A KICK STUKBT, SAVANNAH, GA. I t DAY. JIJNB I<. lUjbUrrd at th* Pont'Office in SuvjnnaA <w fecund 01*14$ Mail AlutUr. Tin: Mobmiko News every <iay in the year iby mall or carrier) • 00 The Mousing NEYsevory day fore ix . iiiunUn (by mail or carrier) * ®° Xhr Mobbing Mews Mon'lav*, Wel -ncatluys aud \ rlda> *, r Tuesdays, TborJe\o aud Saturday* (by mail) £ The Wekki r News one year - ©° 'lilt Moh.MMJ Nhv*r i* f rved in the City bv newmioaler# at cent* per week. Single copied b eei ts. ADVERTISING. Ten lines make a square —a lire averages seven words. Advertisements, l cr houare, , one insertion, $100; two inftertion*. $1 Reduced ranon continued :i Ivert.t* iiients. j liocal or Keadii.g Notices double rate*. 1 Auction adv* rUsctucnts, Marriages I uliterals, o Meetings and Special Notices $1 00 per . tquaro each inecrtion. "Wants, Boarding, Tor Bent, Loft wild Found. 10 cents a line. 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Amusbmisnts—Ford Dramatic Association Entertainment; Music at Battery Park. Auction s ale—A Chance for a Cheap Cot, by 1.1). La Hoc lie’s Sons. Steamship Sohktum.e—Baltimore Line. tV ants—laical Salesman; to Rent a Medium Sized House; Wet Nurse; Woman to Cook; Five Carpenters; a Situation to Mind Chil dren. To Rent—Flats with Water and Gas; Five room House. For Sale—Sawmill Engine, etc., by G. W. Haslam. Lottery—Drawing Ixnisiana State. Board—At 68 West 38th street, New York. Aurora Watches, etc.—Samuel P. Ham ilton. Bananas, etc.—T. P. Rond. Medical—B. 8. S;. B. B. B. Notices—Of Application to Legislature for County Commissioners. llig Bear continues to be the bugbear Of the Canadians. They do not seem to care to chase him to his lair. There are now scores of free bathing houses in New York and Philadelphia. The masses ot these cities still belong to the ranks of the great unwashed, however. The free baths are only wetting, and not cleansing. The Republicans in the Tennossee Leg islature were like the Irishman’s flea when they were wanted “they were not there.” And some of the Democratic members appeared to tie in the same fix, be it said to their discredit. Mrs. ItelvaA. Lockwood is said to be creating a great sensation out West,where she is lecturing. It seems that she has not yet determined to follow the example of Dr. Mary Walker and become an at traction in a dime museum. Some Philadelphia newsboys have been arrested and held for trial by a magistrate for shouting false news in order to induce people to buy their penny papers. If they had teeu financiers trying to float a few millions of watered stock they would probably have lieen allowed to shout false news until doomsday. The Canadians claim that the number of defaulters from the Dominion who take refuge in the United States is about the same in proportion to population as those who fly from this country toCanada. The Montreal papers are clamoring for a re vision of our extradition treaties more loudly than the papers this side the border. The Bartholdi statue has been at sea in the steamer lsere tor a little over three Weeks. She has been expected to arrive at New York every day for the past week. Jin fears are felt for her safety, however, as it is understood that the ship was to make the voyage almost entirely under sail, and she may have been deluyed by advelkie winds. The idea that the Chinese can’t light appear* to have been exploded by the stones that come to us from the recent war in Tonquln. Perhaps the American people had better begin to treat the Celes tials as if they were human beings. Sup pose tbe Emperor was to take a notion to land a few million troops on the Pacific coast and march across the country! It is too bad that K 1 Malnll and bis rival raise prophet are carrying on their civil, or rather uncivil war, away ofl in the desert where the newspapers can’t get any bulletins to amount to any thing. Very little news has been received from the Soudan for some weeks, even by grape vine. Watermelon vines do uot Sts m to be good conductors of wnr rumors. The report that no member ol the royal family of (icrmuny is to be invited to the Princess Beatrice’* wedding, If true, In dicates that the English Government is pretty well convinced that Germany sym pathises with Kussiu, anil w ill turn a cold shoulder to England in the event of an Auxlo-ilussiiin wnr. The royal European cousins do not constitute such a happy lumlly as many suppose. The Republican journals and politicians, after having abused Secretary l.ainnr for two months because the flag of the Inte rior Department was lowered to half-mast out ot respect to the late ex-See rotary Thompson, hare Just been Informed that , the suggestion thut the flag should beset at hull. mast on that occasion cainu to Mr. Lamar from an officer of the Inte rior Department, who, by custom, attends to such matters, and this officer is not ouiy a Republican, but was a gullunt I’nloa soldier, who bears on hit body the , murks of several wound* received in battle. you up, aenresw I A Matter of Interest to the Cotton l’orts. I Now Orleans is alarmed about her local cotton trade, and she has excellent rea sons. She is losing it at a rate that indi cates that in a comparatively tew years she will have so little of that it will not be worth considering as a matter of much importance. Every year the percentage of cotton that is purchased and compressed in the in ter or, and shipped directly through New Orleans, is larger. The leading New Or leans cotton factors at last acknowledge that they are threatened with the loss of the greater part of their business, and they are very anxious to discover some way to restore the satisfactory condition of affairs that existed a few years ago. Can they restore it? That is the question they are now discussing. In LPBO-81 the per cent, of the cotton crop of the country which New Orleans handled and stored in her presses was •21.4; in 1881-82 it was 20.2; in 1882-83 it was IB.fi; in 188.3-84 it was 19.3; and in 3884 80 it will be about 17.6. From these figures it will he seen that New Orleans is steadily losing her local trade. The reason is that cotton is handled more cheaply in the interior, and it is cortain that, other things being equal, it will all he handled eventually at the points where the handling costs the least. Of course, Savannah and other cotton ports are suffering in this matter just as New Orleans is. In 1883-84, for instance, the total receipts of cotton at this port were 655,784 hales. Of this number only 315,000 bales—not quite naif—were han dled in our market apd stored in our presses. One of the leading New Orleans cotton factors says that the facilities for buvingi compressing and shipping from interior points are multiplying, and that the rail roads are showing a growing disposition to discriminate against New Orleans in favor of through business. Is not this true with respect to ibis port? But the ports do not appear to be making any particular efforts to regain the trade they have lost, or to protect themselves against further loss. Some of the New Orleans factors favor a confer ence of all the interests connected with the cotton trade with the view of making such reductions in charges as will de prive interior points of the advantages they now possess, but they see the diffi culties in the way of reaching an agree ment. The factors think the compress charges ought to be less and the press owners think the factors ought to make a reduction in tbeir charges. The samplers, weighers and draymen would object probably to accepting less than they now get. But there is a very large part of the population of each of the cotton ports > outside of the factors aud the owners of cotton press property, that has a deep in terest in this question ot the loss of the cotton trade. In this city there are com paratively few manufacturing interests, and there doesn’t seem to be a promising prospect tor remunerative employment for those who now get a living out of the cotton trade when that trade becomes of so little importance as not to require their services. The money that is now earned tn the cotton trade sustains a great num ber of people who have no direct connec tion with that trade. Assuming that the cotton trade is gradu ally leaving the cotton ports, would it not lie wise ior those at the ports who are in terested in that trade to lake some steps to stem the current that is ruuning against them ? And would it not be wise ior the people of the cotton ports who are not directly concerned in cotton to begin to lay the foundation of industries that will afford employment for the population of their respective cities when the cotton trade shall become located at the interior towns? A Hu truest ion to the Council. Would it not be a wise move for our city authorities to take into consideration the advisability of having the law which ex tended the corporation limits amended so as to give the city the right to tax the property iu the new addition, and thus provide funds for opening and improving the stteets recently laid off ? A tax of one-Ualf ot the amount levied upon real estate in the old part of the city would provide a sufficient amount to reimburse the treasury tor all improvements. This plan was the original idea of those who were the most earned in urging the ex tension of the city limits, but was ignored by those who had the matter in charge. The present condition of affairs is in jurious to the interest of the property owners, and is of no benefit to the city. The city authorities will not open the streets, as they do not feel authorized, und very properly, to expend money in a part of the city that pays nothing into the treasury. *l'his matter will come up at the expiration of 10 years from the pas sage of the present law and will then have to be considerred. Why, then, should It not be considered now ? Tho true policy would appear to bo to take “time by the forelock” and do wbat should he done at once. The present condition of affairs is retarding the growth of tho city, by in fluencing parties against improving their property. The remedy for this state of affairs is for the city to open the streets and meet the cost by taxes upon the profierty in the addition. Home of the newspapers want the government to get Lieut. Howard, the fighting commercial drummer, to go after the Arizona Indians with his (istiing guti. His gun would not amount to much used against the Apaches. The Indians coo Id he killed easily enough with Spen cer rides, If the troops could only gut them in a hole like the one Kiel’s rebels were in at llatouche. This Gatling gun business reminds one of tho tramp who for a night’s entertainment promised to dear a farmer’s premises of rats. When reminded of his promise, as he was about to dvpart, he seized a club, put his back against tho barn, und told his host to bring on his ruts. It Is stutud that the wife of a foreign ambassador in Washington sent a re quest to the son of a Western Congress titan to return the invitutlon to a recep tion sbo had sent him a day or two pre viously, and informed him that he need not come. This wits done because he ap. pcarod at a social eiitertaiiiDiout recently not kttowiug whether he was himself or some other tntin. It seems that drunken dudes will no longer be tolerated in the best society at the nuliouai capital. SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 18S5. Points in English Politics. It is rather remarkable that the ques tions which attracted so much attention in England a couple of weeks ago appear to have been almost forgotten. The news papers have very little to say about the Soudan matter or the Afghan trouble. Their whole attention now is absorbed by domestic politics. The Liberals do not appear to regret thoir loss ol power. In fact, they seem to think that their d'-feat was the very best thing that could have happened to them. Tho Liberal Ministry was divided on the question oi coercion, and although Mr. Chamberlain and Sir Charles Dllke had agreed to permit Lord Spencer’s views to he adopted as the policy of the Liberal party, it is well known that they did so under protest, and with a sort of present ment that something would happen that would release them from their agreement. It remains to be seen what the Conser vatives will do with the coercion ques tion. It is a well known fact that they are almost as badly divided with regard to it as are the Liberals. Some ot the Con. servative leaders want to give Ireland a great deal more liberty than it has en joyed lor many years, while others, in cluding the Marquis of Salisbury, favor a renewal of the coercion act. In fact, it is stated that the Marquis of Salisbury insists that if he undertakes the task of terming a government the Liberals shall support him in renewing the coer cion act. Of course the Liberals will not undertake to give the Conservatives sup port in any matter that will tend to help them out of an aetual or threatened diffi culty. The gossip about Gladstone's perma nent retirement from the leadership of the Liberal party is very conflicting. He ap pears to be about as popular with his party as he ever was, and an extraordi nary effort is being made to induce him to continue in the position of Liberal leader- It is argued that the Liberals under his leadership will be victorious at the ap proaching elections, and that the Con servative government will find itself in such a hopeless minority in the new l’ar liament that it will be forced to resign. It certainly will require a very cool head to keep the Conservatives on top for any considerable length of time. Fast Ocean Steamers. Very naturally the wonderful speed of the little yacht Stiletto, that beat the Mary Powell, the famous Hudson river steamboat, a few days ago has started the inquiry whether a vessel as large as those which compose the principal European lines of steamers could be built on the plan of the Stiletto that would equal her in speed. Steamship builders and owners will never be satisfied until they shorten, very perceptibly, the time between this country and Europe. The fastest steam ers not only get the malls, but the larger per centage of the passengers. There isn't much doubt that the dangers of travel are Increased in proportion as the time occupied in crossing the ocean is shortened. This increased danger is, to some extent, provided against by in creased care and caution. But, however great the care and caution may be they cannot insure safety in fogs and among icebergs. Several times within the past few months European steamers have been in great peril trom icebergs and togs and, although both can be avoided by taking the southern route, steamers stick to the northern route because it is one hundred miles shorter, and because the water being colder the condensation of steam is easier and the consumption of fuel is, therefore, much less. It appears, therefore, that safety is sac rificed for speed and eoonomy in fuel, and it is pretty certain that if much greater speed could be obtained, even at the ex pense of safety, steamship owners would not hesitate about obtaining it. In Memory of Cot. Win. T. Thompson, A neat monument has been erected in the family lot in Laurel Grove cemetery over the grave of Col. Wm. T. Thompson, the late editor of the Morning News, who was its founder, and until hU death, a period of thirty-two years, its editor. This tribute to the memory of one of Geor gia’s most gifted sons was erected, by those who knew him tiest, and loved him for his many noble qualities, a few days since, without any ceremony or display. The work was done, under the direction of the proprietor of the Morning News, by Col. R. D. Walker. Col. Thompson needed no marble monument to keepalive Ins memory. His unblemished lire aud his many virtues are a nobler aud more enduring monument than can be carved by the hand of man. The western face of the stone bears the following inscrip tion: To TIIK MKMOKY OF WILLIAM TAPPAN THOMPSON, Author and Journalist. 3 Born August 81. 181$. ; Died M arch 21, I*B2. ; Dedicated by the Savannah Morning News To its Founder and during tliirtv-two years Itsfnithfut and aide Editor, : And by the Georgia Press’ Association To a distinguished aud lamented member. The last Legislature of North Carolina so reduced the appropriation tor the * up per lof the I tisane Asylum that the pa tients are allowed hut 3 3-10 cents for each meal, a sunt which tho Superintend ont says is “less than the smallest amount charged in the cheapest soup houses for outdoor paupers.” Probably the next Legislature will investigate tnc Hu pertntendent on the charge of starving the inmates. While the members of the last Legislature were so disgracefully stingy with n worthy charity, not one of them, so hr ns heard Horn, failed to draw his full amount ot per diura and mileage. Economy seldom begins at home. Here is a little circumstance recorded by the New York Commercial Advertiser oon tier ted with tho finishing of Gen. Grant's book: "Oon. lliuloau wus pres, ent, und when the last word was written he reached forwurd, threw his arras around tho old hero, and exclaimed: •Dear, dear General,’ uml kissed him twice." Neither Gen. Grant nor his took was to blame for this scene. It was on tlrely due to Gen. Kudcau’s gushing nu lure, aud won’t injuro the sale of the book. A paragraph is going the rounds to the effect that snakes are rapidly dying out In this country. It is noticed that there is no diiuinition In the mutter of snake stories. The prevaricators are evidently not dying out. The serpent may go, but his trail will long remain. CURRENT COMMENT. Dana’s Hayes’ Iron Still Hat. Xew York Sun (Ind.) Tlie future safety of this country requires that the brand of fraud on the forehead of this wretched man should be burned In bo that it can never bo effaced. Will Roach Prove Ungrateful. h'eur York World ( Derm .} Mere gratitude should now impel John Roach to devote himself to the repajr of Chandler. The ex-Secretary is in political dry-dock ami likely to remain high and dry for some time. No Reform for Republicans. Philadelphia Meus (Rep.) The easily successful caucns renomination of Senator Blair in New Hampshire; the party convention reuonii nation ot Judge Fnraker, as the gallant standard hearer of the Repub licans in Ohio; the election of Senator Logan in Illinois, from a notification to the coun’ry that while the party met with a reverse at the Presidential election, the shock was not severe enough to cause failure. The fairly estab lished bu-incss of the old reliable Republican party will be continued at the old stands un der the same names and auspices. A Post Mortem Examination, Mete York Ti ne* (Jfug.) Senator Sherman, having reached Oregon, has unburdeued his mind on the now not very recent election. He thinks tho “defeat last fall was uot a party defeat.” But we beg 'o assure hint that that is just what it was. The Democratic victory was not a party victory, but tho defeat of the Republicans’was dis tinctly due to ihe failure of tho party ma chinery to turn out a candidate worthy of general support. Wo mention this matter at this time because it would he unfortunate for so prominent a leader as Sir. Sherman to lose sight of the truth as to the last election, and its obvious bearing on the next one. in which lie may be assumed to have at least a general interest. * The Oligarchy Overthrown. Louisville Courier-Journal ( Dent .) A Republican oligarchy lias been over thrown aud the Democratic leaders do not propose to establish another with anew name. The idea is abhorrent to all the hopes which were awakened in the mlnda of the people by the overthrow of the Republican parly last November. The office-holders held for eight years the balance of power. The people’s servants had become their masters. It is this abuse of public trusts against which Mr. Cleveland has consistently entered his protests. It is this abuse which this adminis tration will largely reform. The reform means something more than a mere change of persons, or it means nothing at all; but it im plies a change of persons to begin with. BRIGHT BITS. Wife—“ Don't bothermenow; untwist your own suspenders; we surely will tie late. It’s time now for the first dance, and I am now only half undressed for the ball.”— Exchange. “The tendency to do wrong increases to wards night,” says a well-known clergyman. I think this is very likely to be true, for when Adam ate the forbidden fruit it was near Eve. Boston Times , Henry M. Stanley told the Baptist Mis sionary Society that a dead missionary was of uouse. It is just on this point that the high est cannibalistic authorities differ from Henry M. Stanley. —Detroit Free Press. Paragraph from a story in Chamber*' Journal-. (“I may here state for the benefit of the uninitiated that throwing one’s hand up is a sign throughout America that one doesn’t intend to draw a pistol and shoot.”) It was an Indiana office-seeker whoapplied for the position of ‘'sexton” of the Post Office Department building iu Washington. lie probably thought that a sexton was a good man to have around to bury the dea 1 letters. — Exchange. A little girl aged !> called her father to her bedside the other evening. “Papa,” said his little diulomat, “I want to ask your ad vice.” "Well, my dear, wbat is it about?” “What do vou think it will be best to give me on my birthday ?”— Ej>. “It has always seemed a very curious thing to me.” said the lady at the theatre, and then she paused. “Well,” said her husband a little impatiently, “what is it that always seemed such a onnous thing to you?” “Why. that baldheaded men should care to sit so near the flies.” —Good Cheer. “Are you at all icsthetical in your tastes?” she asked in a sprightly manner, as she moved toward the piano. “Well, a little,” he an swered. “I’m .-esthetical to the extent of having an admiration for unsung songs.” There is now a deep gulf between them which nothiug can bridge.— Boston Journal. Counsel (to witness;—How tall was the boy? Remember yon are npon oatb. Witness (wholias been badgered)—Well—er —I hardly— Counsel (smiling at the jury)—Come, come, no hesitation. Wits he three feet, or four feet, or five feet tall? Witness (with a sigh)—Yes, I should say he was. —Mac York Sun. “But I tell yon he’s a good man.” “I don’t care if he is, I shan’t vote for him." “Why?” “He tries to put on airs.” “In what way?” “Why, b'gosh, he wears two suspenders ’n carries his terbaoker in a box. and he never thought o’chuckin’ his pants into his boots till he wanted the nomination.”— Chicago Odder. Never heard ot Sheet: First Chicago Man— “l heard something very remarkable to-dy about the revised edition of the Old Testa ment.” - Second Chicago Mnn—“Old Testament? Oh, yes; I know what that is. What did the re visers do?” •'Why, they have left out the wont ‘hell." ” "Indeed? And whst did they substitute?" "Well, I don't know; St. Louis, I guess.”— Philadelphia Call. she played and she played, and she played. Finally she got through. There was a verv enthusiastic applause. They were bo glad it was over. “Miss Jenkins plays charmingly, don’t you think so?” said a lady to a gentleman stand ing tiy her. t “Ya-ss. What was that pretty thing she played?” “1 am not unite sure. Something, I think, by Opus."—Nin Francisco Chronicle. The child that on a car pet-tack. Left in the hotel hall, Sits down, you bet will never speak, But simply howl ! Eye-ball. A cow stood gazing in a fleld, With many other cows. An” as she gentle chewed her cud, She muttered thus— Eye-brows. The robin, when the ground is white And wintry zephyrs blow. Winks with its bleared and watery eyes, And softly says— It's nose. The bee, that flies from flower to flower And sweetest honey sips, Sings, as he floats upon the wing, The single Word- Two Ups. —Philadelphia Herald. I'KHHONAIj. Ms*. McDowell, wife of the late General, will take up her permaucut residence In ban Francisco. John Bright has been staying in Wales of late, and hi* lienlth is now better than for several years. Joseph B. Fokakeh. who was so badly beaten In Oh o two years ago, and who will try it again next fall, has not yet seen his 39th year. • Dr. Oliver WKsnsu. lloniMht.s just sent a handsome, complete set of hie printed works to the Corpus Chrtrti (Tex.) “Holmes Literary Club.'' Frank A. Carnahan, of Ohio, who was ex polled from West Point some months sun, „ last hoard of aful'-fledged Colonel in theGua tmnutau army. Prof. Bracner, of Cornell, for six years connected with the Brasilian Imperial Sur vey has been elected to All the chair of geology in tho state University of Indiana. PrkhipenT CLKVKLAND sings a beautiful tenor, hut a malicious musical critic who has not yet -needed iu making an arrange ment pronounces the same sweet voice a "tat falsetto.” The Ameer of Afghanistan, provided he has been murdered at reported, has at lesst escaped a milder torment, lie wus about to have his teeth extracted aud had ordered two seta ot false ones from a Calcutta den-Ist. Tut Emperor of Austria lias acquired for the Imperial Numismatic. I’nldnet the famous collectlou of coins struck during the reign of the Roman Emperor Pmhus, and until re cently the property of the late Dr. Alexander Miesong. Jits* Cleveland visited a New York kin dergarten school where Italian children are i taught, and on her return to Washington ; wrote a letter urging a friend to visit ihe ' school, as there was “so much to learn from i those wonderful, utterly neglected, beautiful, clever, dreadful, airly little things.” They are too Fair, From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. The Rev. John W. Scudder, of Minneapo lis, preuched to young ladies Sunday, and said: “The daughters of America are as fair as any on the glob", andiumy opinion some of them arc too fair. A milk-white com plexion may be artistic, hut it is also a sign of weak blood. None of your white-faced damsels for me. nor one whose face is red with a consumptive or hectic flush. Give me the nut-brown girl who abandons her sun bonnet, who can climb a tree with any bov, wno prefers good bread to chocolate caramels, and baked beans to angel cake. The kind of an angel for me weighs 140 pounds.” Bob Ingersoll is With l T s. Washington Special to Cincinnati Enquirer. “I believe in turning every office-holder out,” said Congressman W. D. Hill, ot Ohio, to Gen. Muidrow, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, in Mr. Muldrow’s office this morning. “I believe In the same doctrine,” echoed the Assistant Secretary of the Interior; "but we hadn’t ought to talk in the presence of the en emy,” pointing to a large, smooth-faced gen tleman sitting on a lounge just back of Gen. M ti Id row’s desk. The smooth-faced gentleman, who evidently had heard Mr. Hill’s remark, laughed and. rising to shake hands, said: “My Ohio friend is correct; the offices should he filled with friends of the administration. It is right, and wonhl he for the good of the public ser vice.” The large, smooth-faced gentleman wus Col. Bob Ingersoll. Two Sentences. From the Memphis (Term.) Appeal. There are two sentences in Grant’s memoirs that uncover the heart of the man and prove him great indeed. He says, on meeting Gen. Lee at Appomattox: “I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe that had fought so long and gallantly and had suffered so long for a cause which I believe to lie one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and for which there was not the least pretext.” Aud again he says, speaking of his interview with Geu. Lee:’ “Our con versation grew so pleasant that I almost for got the otiject of our meeting.” No spirit of fanatical revenge could have lurked near the heart of the man who could thus be taken out of himself aud away from the great business affecting an ererlasiiug truce, that had brought him and Lee together that day. “ Show the Colonel In.” From a Washington Special. A good and perhaps true story is told of Col. Robert Ingersoll and Secretary Lamar. Robert called at the Interior Department and asked to see the Secretary. “De Secretary, snh.” said the colored mes senger at the door, “won’t see anybody at dig hour but Senators and members, sab." Robert waited for a moment with his hands, in his pockets, then he pulled out a half-dol lar and dropped it into the janitor’s hand, after giving a few whispered instructions. A moment later the messenger walked into the Secretary’s room, where a large number of Senators and members were assembled, and addressed the Secretary; “Mr. Sectary, Mr. Ingersoll am at de doah. He says be understands that dis am de time when you won't see any but members ami Senatahs. and he wants to know when you re ceive gentleni“n.” “Show the Colonel in.” said the Secretary. Hugo’s Punishment for Ba/.alne. From the Paris American Register. All his life long Victor Hugo has protested against the penalty of death. In his novels, in his speeches, in his letters, in France, in England, everywhere lie has combated the law of blood, and raised his voice against the gibbet aud the scaffold. One night, at his house, this question was discussed on the oc casion of the commutation of the sentence of Bazaine into perpetual imprisonment. Sev eral politicians who were present blamed this commutation and maintained that no one hail ever better deserved death than Bazaine. "No," said Victor Hugo, “I would uot have loaded chassepots for him; hut if 1 had been President of the Conned of War this is what I should have done. 1 should have convoked to the Champ de Mars the National Assembly, all the troops of Paris, all the peo ple; and there In the presence of that crowd, in nresence of that army, in presence of the representatives of the nation, I should have had Bazaine brought forward, dressed in all the insignia of a Marshal of Frauce. Then the President of the Assembly would have read aloud the judgment declaring Bazaine a traitor to his country, and condemning him to degradation. Then the senior subaltern officer would have torn off his crosses, broken his sword, trampled his epaulets under foot, and, the ceremony over, would have said to the degraded man: ’Now, M. Bazaine, go! you are free!' ” No one can deny the grandeur of this conception of moral and exemplary chastisement. The Granger’s Summons. From the AUa California. A tall, lank, weedy-lookieg olil granger stepped into a Third street car yesterday, fol lowed bv a woman as lank and weedv-look mg as himself. There could be no mistake about their relationship of husband and wife. But they exchanged no words, the woman peering curiously at the window, and the man cracking his finger joints with remarkable success, for each explosion was almost as loud as a pistol shot. At Clay and Montgom ery the man got up and walked to the rear platform. Tne wife, not noticing him, kept stariug out tbe window. Tbe granger put his forefinger between bis lips and gave a loud, shrill whistle, which made the 1 ortly conduc tor jump as if a bullet had struck him. The woman got up briskly, and followed her lord, who stalked along the street still grim ami taciturn. “That’s the way with some of those country folk." said the conductor. “They’re ashamed to call out in a car. and when they want to bring any of their women folk to attention, thev whistle at ’em like they do to their dors. Well, sir, I saw the funuiest thing the other day. A granger, not unlike the rooster who just got out, got into mv car with Ills wife, and I’m blest If lie didn’t forget the old woman altogether. She rode to the end of the line, and wlu n the passengers all quit she savs, •Where's John?’ “ ‘He got out, ma'am, six blocks up,’ savs I. “ ‘Don’t you lie to me, young man,’says'she. ‘He never got out of Ins own accord Some of those smart elty thieves have drugged him and too* him away tc rob him, and you're m the plot.’ “Now, what could you do with a woman like that? She id she'd give me in charge, and she was winking such a terrible racket that a crowd began to gather, ud I was going to start mv car right off, though the lime wrgs not up, wlu-u I heard along, shrill w histle, just like that other fellow gave. ‘“Whatever you did with him he escaped,’ says she, ‘for that's tils whistle,' and off she trotted to where the big galloot was piercing the ears of the whole neighborhood. That taught me a lesson, ami you hot un granger forgets hie wife iu my car again, if 1 know myself.” Cowboy Fun, From the St. Paul Olobt. “1 shall never forget an experience of mine in Montana a little over two years ago," s lid ltrnkeman Schultz of the Northern I’sciflc. “There were Andrews, the conductor: Wylie, the engineer; Colby, thn fireman, and myself running No. 3 passenger on the Montana di vision, and one night about dusk we were get ting out of Miles ( ity when a red light was seen by the engineer, nDd he slopped the train. Just as it stopped about a dozen row hoys, togged up iu full uuiform, tuir.h with a brm-e of revolvers Iu his licit, gat into Urn coaches, while a few more guarded the cn tlne. 1 knew trouble was coming ns soon as I saw them get on, and 1 took a seat among the pass, tigers. The conductor did not ap pear at first to realise that anything was wrong, but went to the forward nart of the coach, when half a dozen of the Iniekskin clad boys grabbed him and sei bun upon the coal box. He protested, but the Isivs paid mi attention other thsn to tell him not to move h finger, as thev were golug to shoot the heels of bis bools off. i rather enjoyed the fun. though I lay mighty close, fearing that they would notice uie. but Ihcy didn't before tbe conductor was short the heel*of his Units, He whs whit" a snow Make, but be held up bravely, fearing a miscalculated shut. Then thev caught me, ami tied up- and a passenger hark In hack and set us over a seat, und then commenced bettlug among themselves which would pull the other over. The stake* were put up, and then two of them got prongs an.l begun touching us up with them. The fellow I had pitted against me was a Swede, and neither of us had nnv show to pull the other over. Then I resorted to n stratagem, and when they gave the Swede a prong, amt he Jumped stout a foot. 1 puMed hard, snd he earns flying over the seat, and went so far over that lie near broke iny hack. We were loosened tliun, and thev took the Swede's boots off ami stood him on Ids head, and then played the hastlnndo ou the soles of his feet. Well, VOU'd died laughing Pi hear that fioor fellow bellow, entreat, pray and run* those oowlaiys, and although my legs were smarting from some danees I got I just roared. After they had dons enough nil-midst they shot out the light* and left the train.” ITEMS OF INTEREST. The assessed valuation of taxable property in the city of New York is $1,175,052,885, or $55,419,799 higher than in 1884. The sole is the favorite fish in England, yet absolutely nothing has been learned of its habits, what it feeds upon or how it may be cultured. The last Vice President preceding Mr. Hen dricks who attended the Yale commencement intro meed there the custom of buttering watermelon. Yesterday the sacred caravan set out from Constantinople for Mecca and Medina, tho holy places of Islam. It bears, as usual, many presents to the sanctuaries. The oldest collection of Scotch tunes extant is known as the Skene manuscript and is the property of the Faculty of Advocates of Scot land. It contains 40 Scottish airs. An erroneous plea is prevalent that all waters used for drinking contain a large amount of living organisms. Pure spring water contains scarcely any or no organic forms. Two noises one hears in every Mexican street, the jingle of the piano and tlie clatter of the American sewing machine, or its Ger man counterfeit shipped from Hamburg. The sewing machine, like the horse car, is everywhere in Mexico. Indian villages near Bombay are afflicted with the ravages of wild hogs to such an ex tent that a pig-sticking club has been organ ized among Bombay sportsmen, and the pork ers are succumbing iu large numbers, aud after the most approved scientific methods. Freemasonry was introduced into China by an Englishman about sixty years ago, and among the Chinese in America about fifteen years ago. The ritual has, of course, been translated into Chinese, and in China thirty two degrees are administered, but in this country only three are allowed to be con ferred. There are 30,C00 Chinese F’reemasons in America. There arc two sorts of ice in Mexico—the ice brought down from the ravines of the vol cano Popocatepetl, or that made oyer at To luca, on the National road, by the artificial process. The price is three cents a pound, and the average weekly supply of a Boston family would there cost from $B to sl2. The dryness of the air favors the “keeping” of things sweet, although milk sours readily. The venomous hoop snake, which takes its tail in its mouth and rolls along like a hoop, and the blow snake, the breath of which is deadly, exist only in the imagination. The idea that serpents sting with the tongue is erroneous. An impression prevails that the number of poisonous snakes is great, but in North America there are but three—the rat tlesnake, the copperhead or moccasin and the coral. The inhabitants of Cochin China prefer rotten eggs to fresh ones. The Tonquinese and tho inhabitants of Madagascar prefer locusts to the finest fish. In Australia a good fat anII would be preferred to anything else; in the West Indies a largo caterpillar found on the palm tree is esteemed a luxury, while the edible nests of the Java swallows are so rich a dainty that the ingredients of a dish would cost several dollars. Prof. Douglas, after many years of re search, says China has no such teeming mil lions as are usually credited to her. Two hundred and fifty millions he thinks about the right estimate. Many of the hill peoples of China at the present day are not Chinese at all. The Chinese civilization and culture are not purely of native growth; their elements were brought from Western A6ia—perhaps from the netghliorhood of the Aral—by the Chinese ere they set out for China. The domestic arrangements of the Mexican household revolve around the patio or inner court yard. Here it is that one’s cook re ceives the itinerant vender of berries, eggs and fruit. Here also twice a day come the bare-legged lechero, or milkman, with a huge can carried oil his back and adjusted to his head with a band of leather about bis fore head. Here, too, comes the aguador, or water earner who. in the cities of Mexico, take the place of your invisible iron pipes. The uniform of the famous “Black Watch,” of Scotland, cousists of a white helmet and veil, red plume, black cliin-strap, red tunic, with blue collar and facings, tartan kilt, white gaiters, eporrau of white badger-skin, with black ornaments, brown cloak, with white equipments. A French military jour nal recently printed a cut of a Black’Watch Highlander in this garb, and added that he “100 ed altogether like a most ill-conditioned ruftian,” for which remark several Scotland papers are now calling the average French man hard names. A Chicago narootST puts his brethren to the blush as follows: “Pineapple,strawberry, raspberry and other essences are made from butyric ether, which has a very fruity flavor. Butyric acid is the oily limpid fluid contained in all fats. If that is distilled in alcohol you have butyric ether. (Enanthic and acetic ethers also make excellent fruit essences. All these eihcrs are made by distilling alcohol with acids. The fact is there is no such thing as essences of apricot, apple, banana, pine apple, strawberry, raspberry, cberrv. quince, pear, blackberry and such like, made from the fruit.” When the will of Peter Van Damme, of De troit, Mich., was opened a few days ago, an extraordinary mistake was discovered. Van Damme hud made a will leading his property to liis wife, and the latter executed her will at the same tune, leaving her property to her husband. The wills were in the same hand writing, and each signed the other’s will. The wills were made six- years ago, but the mistake was not noticed until after Van Damme's death. All of the heirs unite in a petition to Hie Probate Court that the will signed by Mrs. Van Damme be admitted to probate as tbe will of her late husband. The amount of Vau Damme’s property Is about $13,300, The wives and families of the Peruvian army always travel with them like theequaw H and papooses of the North American Indian. In camp the women do the cooking; on the march they carry on their hacks and beads a great part of the camp equipage, and in battle they nurse the wounded and mb the dead. They arc poor, miserable, degraded creatures, just one degree above the dogs which follow at their heels. Their powers of endurance are extraordinary. Olteu it is the case that lljey will march twenty or thirty miles a day over dusty roads, carrying a child on their backs, without water or food. Wheu the latter is scarce they cat thcleavesof trees which, when mixed with lime, are said to be very palatable and nourishing. Each soldier and each woman carries a little bag of lime around his neck. Into which be dip* kit wet finger and draws out a few grains of |>owder to leaveu the lump of leaves he is constantly chewing. Ijom M vitt: stands first uinong our native woods in pow er to resist “Indcutatlbn," which means iu the census tests compression in a Hue perpendicular to the fibre. A punch one centimetre square was used and tbe force re quired to press this into the wood to a depth of ISi millimetre* was recorded. With lig. num vilic this force was 7!13 kilograms. 3 lie next 10 species arranged in order of their power of resistance, belong, as does the first, to semi-tropical Florida, and the first wood on the list which is commonly known in tin- Mid dle Staten Is the persimmon, ranking No. 32. The hardness of persimmon wood as com pared with lignmn vita-, however, is only as :i ‘l In 7WH. O.ago orange offers a resistance of 303 kilograms; mahogany,3 0; sbagbark hick orr, 271; sugar maple. 267; black birch, 220; white oak. 211; black walnut. 10.1; black ash. lid; while maple. 1M; while ash. 1*1; Ameri can elm, 170: liquid amber, 1R1; tain-truck. 112; Hiniglas fir, loo; hardy catalpa. Nil; tulip tree, N2; aspen. SO; redwood, 77; white piue, 74; bass Wood, 63, Hkazii. Imysfrom the United State* $5,000,- 000 to $6,000,000 worth of flour In a year- American exporter*, when floor la cheap, as it Is now, occasionally send largely increased quantities, and expect that a market will be made for it. ft* cheapness. how< vor, seems hardly to make a difference In the quantity consumed. Home ko.ooo barrels a month aro consumed nt Itio audita dependent markets, and it seems almost impossible lo Increase this consumption. At Kin the bread Is all made by bakers; It ta of a good quality and I* eaten by ad classes. The great obstaolo in expanding coiisuiniitlon is the lack of internal traiisiKirtatbm, and 'he fact that the mast of the people have never been accustomed lo use flour, they being satisfied with the flour made from the raanlooa root, and which they halo uullv oat mixed with their slewed black beans and dried Imof. A large part of the interior population produce and buy hut little. 1 hey live in a primitive munuer. In cheap dwellings with thatched roof* and earth flcsir*. sleep Iu hammocks, use but the •cantieat article* of furniture, amt oven finger* lhe ' r foO<llo th * lr JUtt*** wim 'heir UJoniffc. AVT ANTED, Local Salesman, by an Inisurt' V ing House, for Savannah, to sell on ( , mission full line Castile Soaps, Olive and k, sential Oils,Perfumes. Flavoring Extracts Address, with references, “8.,” Box sbu York city. WANTED to rent, by Oct. Ist, a T T sized house with modern improvement.’ Apply at 140 Broughton street. “’ TIT ANTED, bv a settled white T T situation to mind two children; wUh'n, to go away. Apply to Gordon street. * WANTED, five Carpenters at one; J. McGINI.EYd York street, nea!- Bulb WANTED, Wet Nurse; apply corner uim v v and Perry. Wf ANTED, A WORD WITIITHtt PUkuT t t -The new instautuneous process practices by me lias revolutionized the Photograntm. business, and the dy has pasted when sens ble people will give $8 or $lO for a dozen'( ’ net Photographs, when they can get thelinso work ever produced in this citv. put on ii,, beveled gilt-edge cards, for *8 iio per dozen ki 21 Bull street, opposite the Screven llon.n All work guaranteed first-class m even ticular. And I wish it distinctly nnde’n.tnmi that 1 have in my euiplov the finest retouch ers that have ever practiced in this citv t N. WILSON, Photographer. } ’ \Y, r ANTED, a woman to cook and assoTTi housework. Apply at 71 Gwmuct street. Jar Pent. FOB RENT, Flats, with water 1 Jones street, between Dravton and Run" for particulars apply at 1(17 Hall street. ’ FR RENT, a five-room house on Ywk street, between Lincoln and Habersham streets, 0. H. DORSETT. “® LBOR RENT, delightful BroaTsfr^t. 6 ™ 8 Very lOW - At *<2 lAOR RENT, new 2-storv bouse, six room 1 gas and water; northwest corner Moop g inery aud Taylor streets. W. H. DOO.NEk! liMjR RENT, a bouse in Blues' Runge n DOBSETT*'’ po “* Stion B lven unce. " IAOH RENT, large furnishcdTnoiTi : nuheri X front; gas aud water. 72 Libertyjtreet. FOU PENT three (3) stores hT “The Arse' nai doing; possession given Oo.i l WILLIAAf GARRARD, Chffi Building Committee. jar Saif. FOR SALE, one Saw Mill Engine, ivitkl 14x20 inch cylinder; 4 Cylinder Roilen. 30-incli diameter by 80 feet long; l .sm„ii e .’ stack, 40-inch diameter by 40 feet long-1 steam Pump and Injector, Steam Feed'Steel Saw Arbor, Boss Dog. Reppard Roller, I'atett Saw Glimmer, aud all appliances of urd class saw mill, which was in successltd (men tion ui> to June Ist, PGS. Sold for no fault The owner having purchased another mill it the only reason for disposing of the above. I Will lie sold cheap and on reasonable tsrmj,| Apply to GEO. W. HASLAM, Savannah or I Naylor, Ga. I FOR SALE, a large lot of Planed No. 1 1 Flooring, Ceiling and Weather-lwardiif I at $8 50 per 1,00) in yard; 40,000 feet of 3.\P101 at $8 60 per 1,000 in yard; Boards at f- per I < l in yard; Scantling at $7 per l.ouU in varil Lumber yard Tavlor and East Broad elrtm I REPPAftD A CO. I Paarftuifl. I NEW YORK CITY BOARDTeT West stk| street (Murray Hill): superior hoard;* moderate prices; private hath; highest rel'er-1 cnees given and required. I Board on Brooklyn heights. opJ posite New York city and overkiokiajl the bay; convenient to the Bridge ami Cinejrl Island. Rooms can be engaged in advance by* addressing Mrs. E. ROBINS. 187 Coluiiibitl Heights. Brooklyn, N. Y. Reference-VV. Bj STURTEVANT, Savannah, Ga. I iotm. I r r H E extraordinary drawing”""! 1 OF THE I LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY 1 WILL TAKE PLACE I TO-DAY, I TUESDAY. I JU.N E 10, 1885. ■ WHOLE TICKETS. $0; HALVES,SS, I FIFTHS, $2; TENTHS, sl. I CAPITAL PRIZE. $150,000. I iitanrD iu £aun. I MONEY TO LOAN.—If you are in neefiofl money, and want a liberal loan on *! j most n> thing of value, and if vou don't wan® to be seen by your friends when you get it. have remarks made that you Hre in neelo® money by crowds of people promenading ntfl passing the pawu9hop and w atching ywi xfie® you go in or out. then call at the old relinbM Private Pawnbroker House, 187 Cmuiraß street, where very few people pasa, ami noH body will know your business. E. AIL’ULH BERG, Manager. ■ Jllantrii. I County Scrip Wanted] AT UNCLE JOE’S.I Q 7 ” A(\ WORTH OF JURY SOBil 9? •• 111' I wanted at once, at I SOUTHERN PAWNBROKER SHOP, I 120 Broughton r-treetj llarietti ?tore. I CHEAPEST VARIETY STORE, also* and sc. goods in great variety. Don't to attend our bargain sales. Oil slot**. 1 J foolers and tee Cream Churns, which wj I Mm sell st ustoniKhing low Of ures. At ftATHAm BROS’., 186 Congress, near Jefferson. H jUiaoif (Tlfattrv, PtiltoiiJglf- B FRANK J. TBOMFSON, I 52 WIIITAKKK STRKKT, - SAVANtGB.a® Household speualtik-.-i announce that I tm putting up the lowing specialties, wlieh are guarnna* equal to any similar good* on the iu artel- Magic Cleaner,in 4-ounre boxes proe box: equal to Electro-Silicon lorpi tieptng cleaning silverware, tic. Magic Compound, in large packages, price 36c. makes washing easy and is a necessity holisrcleaning purposes. Magic Stove I in 2-ounce boxes, price 15c.; self-sliiniia'M entirely tree from smell) one box wifi V xvork of 4or 5 ordinary cakes. Mazi' 1 Extractor, in rt-ouuce battles, pro e removes grease and pamt spots, clnsnr embroideries and knl glfives to lis'k Magic Furniture Polish, in ti-ounce price 25c. each; an orll nal amt preparation; give It a trial. I am als"K f ' agent for Florida, Georgia und South t** liuu of Arnold's Automatic Steam < " article of great merit. A large imßi'fJßj these Cookers are already in satisfacUiff* iti Savannah. Also am sole agent in Stales for Matchless Meti.l Polish, f"r ing all kinds of metals; kidor-ed bv amt stfumlHial oßglneeb*. lire delea gun amt hardw are dealer-, bsc.vd•!•'. organizations, merchants, livery *'■ housekeeper* throughout the country to Central Railroad, ,?,4W. K'y 1 ' van nab Fire Department and Augu-m Department. Sisu-ial terms to tin: tra'i” H LOCAL AGENTS WANTED. M StiMitilm-nro. Fins Strawl® RECEIVED EVERY DAY —AT— GEORGE & GOODMAN Corner State and Whitaker sir**, Cahrri). . New Baker] I HAVE REFITTED THE > IA K 1 ner Jefferson amt Cl ; ,rlten streets. now prepared Lo far'd o the I’Uj'' , kinds of BREAD. CAfi IMt and Ilf aonable prices, llespet ifUID ()|) H( pol I’. B.—Families deslr og STEIN’S bread can g rt 1$ c cither from my baton or wa;;" ■