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IHDEI TO NEV ADVERTISEMENTS,
Meetings— Excelsior Lodge No. 8, K. or P.:
Chatham Mutual Loan Association; Georgia
Connell No. 2. R. and S. M.; Savannah Lodge
No. 1153, K. of H.
Special Notices—Ulmer’s I,lvor Correc
tor; Protracted Meetings at the lirst llryan
Baptist Church: As to Crews of Br. Steam
ships Grlpfast, Prydin; State and County
Taxes. 1S85; Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union.
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore lane.
Auction Sales—Furniture. Crockery and
Fireworks, bv J. McLaughlin A Son, Sun
dries, by I. D. Laßoche’s Sons; Moat and Po
tatoes. by I>. R. Kennedy.
Wants—Three Canvassers; Three Carriers;
Family to Take Care of Farm.
Fok Kent—Rooms, Furnished or Unfur
nished.
Fob Sale —Three Unlimited Tickets to
Jacksonville and one to Thomasville; A Busi
ness.
MILKEBS-lt T>. Cox’s Stork Lots.
Wanamaeeb Suits Thos. McKay, 6>4
801 l Street.
Holiday Presents—Tos. Rosenheim A Cos.
Knox’s Hats—Collat Bros.
French Made Corset—Heilner A Strauss,
New York,
Ball's Cowkts—Chicago Corset Company.
Pure Nitrous oxide Gas—l>r. Best.
Webster's Dictionary—G. AC. Merrtam
A Cos., Publishers. Springfield. Mass.
Wo JD —K. A, Fulton; Blackjack, at Hen
derson’s.
Oranges—T. P. Bond A Cos.
Fruit Cake—Acosta A Einstein.
Fine Plush Robes, Etc.— At McGlashan’a
Saddlery.
Harness and Saddle Repairing—At Mc-
Glashan’s Saddlery,
Fancy Boxes. Etc.—At Raderiek's.
Hay, Corn. Etc.—G. 8. McAlpin.
Christmas Cigars, Etc —At Gazan’s.
It seems to be a question nearly every
where about now whether the saloon men
shall run the country or the country run
the saloon men.
It is said that John Sherman disagrees
with the Supreme Court of Ohio, and it is
also believed that the Supreme Court of
Ohio disagrees with John Sherman.
It would be interesting to know how
many Georgia farmers have failed this
year to pay the interest on their mort
gages made to foreign loan corporations.
Since that shower of fish has fallen in
Maine the people in the vicinity are long
ing for a shower of carbolic acid or some
other good disinfectant. The fish were
smelts.
Some of the Virginia colorod Legisla
tors have given offense to the MahoaisU
by unthoughtedly alluding to “what re
mains of the Republican party” in that
State.
It is said that a good deal of Gen. Lo
gan’s time and (talents is employed just
now in trying to keep bis regiment of rel
atives safely tethered to the public feed
troughs.
Pennsylvania is trying to emulate the
example of Massachusetts in the days of
witchcraft. A band of religious fanatics
in Venango county stoned a dissenter the
other night.
It is said that all the members of the
Elkins lamily exoept Stephen B. are
Democrats, and are poor but honest.
There seems to be a black sheep In almost
every flock.
Ex-Financier Ward has been promoted
from the stove shop to be a book-keeper
in Stng Sing prison. It Is not believed,
however, that he will become a “Napoleon
of Finance” in that institution.
It is claimed that the new book of the
Hon. William Waldorf Astor is “a his
torical romance founded on lact.” It is
believed that Gen. Logan’s new book is
“ahistorical romance founded on fiction.”
The champions of Eads’ proposed ship
railway do not appear to be very nu
merous In Congress, and it is surmised
that the plan to secure government in
dorsement for it will not be successful
this session.
Now that Congress is in session and all
eyes and ears are turned towards it, civil
service reform and Eugene Higgins do
not seem to be attracting as much atten
tion from the Republican papers as they
did a few weeks ago.
St. Louis is the toughest place Rev. Sam
Jones has yet struck. At last accounts
be was sick both at the heart and at the
stomach, fit. Louis consciences seem to
be as indigestible as St. Louis hotel feed.
(Jueen Natalie of fiervta has bought
forty American sewing machines and put
them Into use iu providing doming for
the Servian army. Milan and Natalie ate
rot having such a picnic as they started
cut. to enjoy a f**w weeks ago.
There ars indications that the present
Congress will not be a favorable occasion
for the manufacturing of new States out
of half civilized territories. Population
it. not the cnly qualification of a territory
to entitle it of admission to the l r,ion.
Forty thousand more statuettes of tbs
!*tatueof Liberty Enlightening the World
must be sold to place the goddess upon
her pedestal. Those who want the souve
nirs should plank down the cash at once.
The opportunity is rapidly passing by.
Mr. Ram.nil should be more considerate
tnan to Irlghten Congress bv threats n t
to take the Chairmanship ol tbs Appro
priations Committee unless he is allowed
to dictate the rules of the House, lb r
h ips, however, Congress Is not as easily
frightened as the protectionists think
It is.
|A llii ecu it of Information Needed.
Georgia is not nearly so well advertised
| in. Florida, but there are few States, never
theless, about which so much is hoard be
yond their borders as ihore is about Geor
:-in. Her newspapers, daily and weekly,
do a great deal to keep her before the pub
lic. There appears to be more strange
happenings in Georgia than in any other
s tute, and those, by the aid of the local
jin sa. find their way into about ail the
newspapers of the country. And then
thore are the Rev. Sam Jones, who al
ready has a reputation that is not limited
by state lines, and Lulu Hurst and Mat
I tie IV ice, the electric wonders, and Blind
Tom, who is known all over the world.
I These wonders, together with the prohi
bitionists and the patent medicine men,
have given Georgia a vast amount ot free
advertising without really intending to
Jo so. In looking arter their particular
Interests, however, they couldn’t help
giving tbe State a boost. The consequence
is that there are a great many inquiries
about Georgia lands, and il there were
the least encouragement, there is every
reason to think that the immigration to
l the State would soon grow to very respec
table proportions. The immigrants would
be composed of an intelligent and well-to
do class of people.
What is needed, and needed badly, is a
sort oi bureau of information to furnish
such facts and statistics about the lands
in different parts of the State as people
who are thinking about seeking new
homes want. There are no facilities for
obtaining such information, and the only
way it can be got is by visiting the differ
ent counties. It is apparent tnat to do
anything of that kind would require too
much time, and would cost too much
money.
There ought to be some means adopted
to bring those who have lands into com
munication with each other. There is
any quantity of land throughout the
State which can be had all the way from
25c. to $25 per acre, and that which can
be had for 25c. is by no means worthless.
Indeed, some of it is very excellent land,
and a great deal of it is covered with
timber that is certain to be very valuable
in a few years. There are many plan
tations which can be had at
prices t hat are surprisingly low. Some of
them, containing from 500 to 6,000 acres,
can be purchased at prices ranging from
$1 to $2 per acre. A few weeks ago a
tract of 5,000 acres, the greater part ot
which is heavily timbered pine land, was
sold for SBOO to close up a business. There
is a fine plantation of 800 acres, 300 of
which is cleared, having a healthy and
pleasant location in a county adjoining
this (Chatham), which can be had for
$2,000. It is on a salt water river, where
fish and oysters can be obtained in
abundance without difficulty. There are
a great many such places as this, and
they would find a ready sale if they were
brought to the attention of the public in a
proper way. The number of people in the
New England Slates and the bleak North
west who are anxious to get homes in a
section ot country where the climate is
mild and healthful is by no means small,
and if they knew what Georgia has to
offer them it would not be long before
some of them would be located within her
borders.
IVhy should not the State Agricultural
Department have a bureau of information
attached to it? Such a bureau would do
the State far more good than is being
done by the department at present. Ad
mitting that its labors with regard to the
crops and fertilizers is appreciated, it is
not doing as much for the State as it
would be if it were locating thrifty farm
ers upon the vacant lands.
One man could do all that is necessary
to be done. Wbat is wanted is a list or
all tbe lands in the State that are for sale,
with descriptions of them together with
the prices. With the list the officer in
charge of the bureau could answer all
questions of those seeking farms or lands
in the State. He wouldn’t undertake to
make sales, but only to put the land holder
and tbe land seeker in communication.
Being an officer of tbe State those who
have lands to sell and those who are
seeking lands would not be afraid to trust
him. This is a matter that ought to
engage the attention of the next Legisla
ture.
An Illinois Critic Answered.
A few days ago the Morning News.
in answer to arguments against prohibi
tion which appeared In a Northern jour
nal, stated that one of the strongest rea
sons why prohibition was gaining such a
foothold in the South was the demoraliz
ing effect of whisky upon the negroes. The
statement was made also that whisky
was causing the negroes to deteriorate
morally, intellectually and physically,
and was rapidly making them worthless
as laborers.
The article in which these statements
appeared was reproduced in various parts
of the country, and has brought to the
Morning News several communications,
one of which is trom Samuel Vinton
Casey, a colored man of Springfield, 111.
fianiuel Vinton Casey does not believe
that whisky hurts the negro as a laborer,
now more than it did when he was a slave.
He has written a communication to the
Illinois Slate Journal on the subject, aud
if he were as able to think logically and
clearly as he is ready to rush into print
about matters of which he knows nothing
he would not have bothered the State
Journal with his views. The following is
an extract from his communication:
To show how utterly inconsistent the
Savannah News is, I assert, as an incou
testihle 'act, that whiekv was universally
used in the South during the reign of the
slave oligarchy, li sambo got a little
wet his master invariably dosed him in
side and out with whisky. It lie had the
eli'ils or, in (act. any kind of sickness,
ins master gavi him frequent potations ol
wijisky, “ns a limiter of self-protection,”
bee,'.use the master was under the delu
slon that it was I lie very best thing ho
could do. The negro was'theii a chattel,
hence “sell-interest” prompted hitu to
give the poor, ignorant negro whisky tor
)l his si I logs. Secondly, to make him
I bykicnlly stronger; in short, to make the
“nigger” work better.
.Now, tic News says whiskv keeps him
from working, o. how utterly iocouvist
i nt is the eminent philosopher of the
News. If whisky was go and for ■-umbo
bet e tin W Hr, as bis muster thought,
andasth great philosopher of the News
• good foi him now.
Ing to their manner oi reasoning, I think
It ws s had thing for him as a slave and
bid for liim a • a Iren man, and a curse to
too race m general. It seem* a little stu
g .lai teat i he Nkvvs throws ail the
v. i*g . drill king on the, pour ••••fro, and
*m - not a word about tins, tetri fils habit
mining I'm* so-called “superior class,”
, ini* w'liicn, woo have taught the
i deluded uygro to driuk vvhlaky, and now
K \ VANNAII MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1885.
1 denounce him for having learned so well
and practiced so fuittifully the lesson
taught them by their superiors. But the
negro as a free roan is progressive, and
has learned that whisky is doing more to
deteriorate and keep back his race than all
the other evils, and has determined to take
a hand in the great moral revolution, that
will sooner or later be the means of ele
vating his race out of the terrible habit of
whisky drinking to a higher, a grander,
and a nobler plane ot manhood.
It has not been denied that the negro
was given whisky by the planter during
slave times, but It was given him under
certain conditions—under the very con
ditions in fact that Samuel Vinton Casey
points out. He didn’t have free access to
it as he now has, and he had no chance to
become a drunken loafer. A certain
•mount of whisky was given him, but he
had to work, and care was taken not to
give him enough to injure him. But
what ts tbecondition of affairs at present?
At every cross-roads and at out-of-the
way places on every plantation are grog
gertes where tbe negroes are invited to
waste their wages. The vilest kind of in
toxicating liquor is sold to them, which
quickly creates an appetite that cannot
be controlled, and soon makes drunken
loafers of its victims.
Does Samuel Vinton Casey think that
in slave times the negroes were permitted
to hang around groggeries half of their
time, or that groggeries were permitted on
plantations or in the vicinity of them? It
he does, a little Inquiry will convince him
that he is mistaken. Now, however,
when a negro gets his week’s wages he
makes his way (as a rule) to tbegroggery,
and invests in enough whisky to unfit
him for work for several days, or hangs
about the place and perhaps becomes noisy
and disorderly. When he becomes so de
graded that he would rather steal than
work for money to get whisky he makes
raids on the cotton and corn fields of the
planters; and yet Samuel Vinton Casey
thinks that bis race is slandered, and the
Morning News is inconsistent because
of the statement that whisky is ruining
the negro as a laborer.
But what does this colored man himself
say about the effects of whisky on his
race? Does he not say that the “negro
has learned that whisky is doing more to
deteriorate and keep back his race than
all the other evils.” Is it not difficult to
understand what Samuel Vinton Casey
does mean? Is it probable that he him
self knows what he means? His contra
dictions seem to indicate that he does
not.
Among the negroes there are not a few
just such pretentious nimeompoops as he
is, and they are stumbling blocks in the
way of their race. To gain a little noto
riety they pretend to see an intention to
slander their race when the only
purpose is to benefit it. There is no one
who has sufficient information to form an
intelligent opinion who does not know
that, so far as the negroes are concerned,
the evil effects of whisky w T ere infinites
imal in slave times compared to what
they are now. In slave times whisky
was furnished the negroes in moderation,
and they were kept at their work. Now
they can get all the whisky they want as
long as they have money to purchase it,
or can steal anything to barter for it.
This Samuel Vinton Casey doesn’t ap
pear to understand, that every argument
for prohibition is for the good of his race
He would rather see his race destroyed
than to miss an opportunity to point out
that in his opinion the race is being slau
dered.
It is true, that white men drink whisky,
and that under its influence they oomnitt
horrible crimes, and become drunkards,
loafers, tramps, and outcasts from home
and society; but what has that to do with
the statement that one of the reasons that
the prohibition sent inient is so strong in
Gsorgia is the demoralizing effects of
whisky upon the negroes? Nothing,
absolutely nothing: and if fianiuel Vinton
Casey will give this matter attention until
he understands it, he will see that it
hasn’t. Of course, it must be understood
that all the negroes do not waste their
money In whisky. Many of them in
every community are good citizens, hon
est, sober and industrious.
English Politics and Home Rule.
The political situation in England i
lull of interest. The meeting of the new
Parliament is looked forward to with con
siderable anxiety by all classes. The re
sult of the elections is not what either the
Liberal or the Conservative leaders ex
pected, but is just about what Mr. Parnell
aimed to secure.
The present ministry cannot carry on
the government without the assistance of
the Parnellites, or of a faction ot the Lib
erals. This is fully understood. Neither
are the Liberals in a position to assume
control of the government. Roth the Lib
erals and the Conservatives are bidding
for the support ot the Parnellites. It may
he assumed as certain that the Parnellites
will ally themselves with neither party
unless they get what they want, or some
where near it. What do they want? In
a word they want home rule as fully and
completely as Canada has It. This Is
what thoy have been struggling for, and
it begins to look as if they were almost in
sight of It.
It seems from the cable dispatches that
Mr. Gladstone is ready to grant it. He
would like to get back into power just'
long enough to crown ms remarkable
career by glvlog Ireland a parliament,
with authority that would make her prac
tically tree of England. Rut would bis
party follow him to the extent he would
like to go? A part of it would and a part
of it would not. Already he has heard
such vigorous protests (rein the rank and
file of his following as to male* him hesi
tate and paitly turn back. It is lmpussi
ble to say. however, wliat changes will
take place in public sentiment before
Parliament meets.
The present government is willing to
grant to Ireland a legislature which shall
have control of purely Irish affairs—that
is, affairs that are wholly local, suoli aw
county boards, local rates, docks and
matters of that kind, hut would never
consent to give an Irish Parliament au
thority that would practically make Ire
land a separate kingdom. That is what
the Parnullites want, however, and that
is what they are demanding.
When the test comes, Lord Salisbury,
the bead ol the present government, be
lieves that to sustain his government
against the demuuilsot the Parnellites, he
will have large accessions from the Lib
eral ranks, lie has some grounds for
thinking so. In any event he will not re
sign the government without an appeal to
tiie country on the ipiostion ol absolute
home jule tor Ireland.
Rapid changes are taking place in pub
lic sentiment in England, and there is a
chance that he would not be sustained,
although there doesn’t seem to be much
doubt that at present his position with re
spect to Ireland is that with which the
majority of the English people sympa
thize.
CUKKKNT COMMENT.
Dr. Gregory’* Grog.
From the New York Tribune (Hep.)
All reasonable people will indorse the Presi
dent’s rucommendaiion that tlic salaries of
the Civil Service Commissioner* be increased.
They should have enough to be able to stand
a little g nger ale occasionally, and in moder
ate quantities at their own cost.
Why They Squealed.
From tbs New York Sun (Ind .)
Bnt when there was a Republican Presi
dent, Republican Senators thought it tile pro
per thing to go to him and squirm or squeal
over appointments made by him which inter
fered with their plans for the distribution of
the patronage in the r respective Stutes; and
such appointments,and onlyaucb, were deem
ed objectionable.
Condemning Ourselves.
Front ths New York. Star ( Dem.)
We are fond of ridiculing the weaknesses
of Kings, and there is nothing that arouses
our scorn so much as imbecility, yet in the
pretensions of our foreign policy and in our
absurd and pitiful inability to rea ize them
against the most insiznilloant opposition we
rival that most minute of monarchs, Thcbaw
of Burmah, and contest with him the distinc
tion of iii-nislung the most absolute apothesm
of imbecility.
The Bourbons of the Present.
From the Cleveland Plairtdeater (.Dew.)
The Republican leaders, with their faces to
ward the setting sun. living upon the memo
ries of the past, anrl proposing nothing for the
future, may imagine that the Democratic,
party will refuse to follow the President in
the path of progress upou which his feet are
set. but they dream an idle dream. There
will be no movement backward, and the party
will not lag behind. The President has shown
the way, and the party will follow where he
leads,
BRIGHT BITS.
As chaplains have usually shut their eyes
to the misdoings of ( digress, no great narm
lias been done by the election of Jlr. Milliurn,
the blind preacher, to the House chaplaincy.
-Courier-Journal.
Brother Smith (who intends to give a win
dow to the church in memory of his wito —"I
think, Mr. Goodman, that if the matter were
suggested to Brother Brown, he, too, might
want to do something of the kind.”
Minister (dubiously) ••Possibly, but you
see. my dear friend, that while your wife is
only recently dead. Brother Brown’s wife died
over a year ago.”—Pack.
Country Editor : "Yes the infernal jury
ouvicted me of Mi I and aw arded Sawback
*8 • 1 'Of -I him.’’
•‘How do you mta i ”
••,. ay, the court ruled that I
aau tlie right to give sawback credit for the
amount on back subscriptions, and T did it.
That's the only way I could ever get the ac
count settled.”—.Veie York 7Vines.
Miss Ci.aba—“Brother Jack told me of a
ovely compliment paid me by young Mr. De
Lvle.”
Miss Elnel—“lndeed! What was ity”
Miss Clara— “He said that I c.tn as beautiful
as a dream. Wash’; that nice in him '”
Miss Ethel (with a little cough)—“Very.
Was it the day after Thanksgiving that Mr.
Lie Lyle made the ri mark?”— Tid Site.
First Tramp—“l -ay. Bill, have yersecn de
paper dia mornin"-
Secoml Tramp—"l cs.”
First Tramp—“li-’W’s stocks?”
Second Tramp—“Dey was way up. yestcr
dav.-wld prospecks of furder advances ter
day.”
First Tramp—“lt s coin’ our way, Bill. You
mke B-oad street au v l’ll take Wall.”-Acte
York Sun.
Having just laid a font of nice new accented
types, we have instructed our confreres, em
ploye*, an i attaches to be more recherche lu
their use of the English language hereafter.
The litierateursot tins paper are now pre
pared to chronicle in the most distingue style
-lieu resumes of ad debutes, matinees, soirees,
and seances in salons and cafes where, with
•Imiming naivetee, debutantes make their
entree decollete as the proteges of the elite
and the creme de la creme.— Chicago Seen.
Suspicious Circumstances.—Sam John
■Mng has b en suspected of stealing dogs in or
der to obtain a reward. A conversation he
usd with Judge Ponnybunker encourages the
idea that he is none 100 honest. “Kf a man
was ter steal dat fine pointer dog ob vourn.
how much reward would you gib ter get him
hack, Jedge?” “About $5.” “Boss, gimme *i
and i’ll jess luff dat dog alone. IL w am
special rates which 1 ain't offering de zcneral
public, liar’s a cirrus a-comiug, and I’sc got
ter hah money.”—7t.ro* Sijtinge.
An automatic horse has been constructed
which is designed to bring the salutary effect
of horseback motion to those who are pre
vented from ii-ing the live animal. As tie
innnal is stationary when in motion, it will
not fill a long lull want. The man who takes
a horseback ride for health and exercise
wants an animal endowed with sufficient in
teliigeuce to stop at the several taverns gen
erally found along the road ill a ride of three
miles—not necessarily for water, but as an
evidence that the hurse was once owned by a
prohibitum urAtor oorristoeen Herald.
The Fault of the Buns.—
Within the dimly lighted room,
She sat and mused alone;
Her brow was dark, and In her soul
Mad ■ .rrnw made its throne.
A deep remorseful pensivenesg
Was in her dreamy eyes;
The sadness that oppressed her heart
Breathed fortli in dreamy sighs.
The woe that clouded that‘young life.
At morn so bright and free.
Was six dyspeosia-lireeding buns
'That she consumed at tea.
—Bneton Gazette.
I’KI'.SON AL.
Gem. M< Ci.ki.i. an is to be honored in a me
morial meeting of Chicago veterans.
Mu. Sri hueon, who has a record of twenty
conversions a week, has gone to Mentone.
Preston Powers is likely to settle at Den
ver, Col., whore he will open a school of sculp
ture.
Tailato Wiothrop Watson Gilman in 1835
bought for 12,000 lots in Milwaukee which are
now worth ti,000,000.
A. P. SINNkTT, noted as an English author,
is to visit Boston, where there arc enough
Tbeosophlsis to lionize him mildly.
.lames Gu.KII.i.aN, who would own a stack
of greenbacks a mile high, could he call to his
uersnual u.e all the five, ten a* I (wcnty-dol
lar bills that bear his signature, is now si the
head of a bronze foundry.
Stvott Don AREi.aKnoZEi.AYO. Viee-Pras
idem and Minister of Finance of the Republic
of Houdnras. accompanied by Henry T. Pant
ing, arrived in New York. Saturday from
Honduras on a government mission.
Representati vk Warner, of silver Idll no
torlety. is, physically, one of the biggest men
in I ongress, oe,ng more chan six feel tall.
He is Oesi rlbed as looking like a stalwart
Presbyterian elder, rather than a lawjer and
soldier.
Giving up the District of Columbia M.ir
•lialsbip to Ills successor, Cos . Morion MrMi
chttci returns to the sanctum of ins venerable
S’uith An.rtca*, in Phi I adel pit* a. It is re
marked ihat lie found the marshal’s olMce a
w hitewashed cell, amt left it a frescoed and
tapestried boudoir.
On* Seth Kinman. the famous California
hunter, who presented curious ohairs to I‘rra
ldvnls liiieiianuii, l.mrolii, Johnson and
Hr. ■, :is u current item runs, “will next
•pruig honor President Cleveland in a similar
manner. This chair is mime of eik horns. Mini
tacuriously ami elaborately constructed.''
Phi i.i ir I). Akmoi r, the “world's butcher,”
ns ii (due igo paper terms him. Is ot medium
height. iß'l hear., but not fat. His face Is
lull and round, without fluhhlnrsa. He speaks
rapidly, and makes eonalanl nan of favorite
expressions. Iluugu is 50, amt lie is a stranger
tollmen*. In manner lie is plain ami kindly.
He does not know what style is. lie lives in
a plain bouse on Prairie atomic, end keeps
fewer horses and servants than manv men
whose for unes am not cqu and to his monthly
Income, lie is from Watertown. N. Y„ won't
to Cnlifornta “urn's/, the plains," remaining
until isf*, when he returned to Milwaukee,
and engage I iu lhe grain Hnd warehouse
business, lie msde u moderate fortune dur
ing the war, and at its close operated largely
lor a fall in | rices, lie made 32,000,0H0. Ih
keep. 5.000 men employed, an i sold in lxs
330,000,000 worth or fond product-. The ,00
clerks who are employed iu Hie Chicago office
work under his own eves. He rises at r>,
breakfasts a Kami at 7is st Ins ileik.'There
lie r mains till li in the ailernoon tie dines
at 0:30. and Is in bed by V.
Sam Jones on Propriety.
From the St. Louie Republican.
A preacher once told me that he prayed all
night until ihe breakfast hell rang. 1 assert
him if it dirl any good, and he said no. Then
1 told him if it had been me I would have
prayed until 2 o’clock ia the morning and
then gone out and rang every door bell in the
e.i y, telling the people they were being
damned in sections and battalions by God.
Then he whimpered, “But they’d mink 1 was
a fool.” Ah, that's the trouble He was afraid
to be a fool for Christ’s sake, i have a great
contempt for this nineteenth century pro
priety. What ts it? Go down town and look
in the millinery stores, and see the hats on the
racks, mashed, twisted, warped, so as to lit,
the fist as well as the head. Thai’s seme of
your nineteenth century propriety. Many a
woman would have been a good Christian to
day bnt for propriety. She, was afraid of
what some other women might say ot her.
The Value of an Eyelash.
From the Washington Hatchet
A Washington financier, who is well ac
quainted with Col Lew Washington, the teil
t r of Lewis Johnson & Co’s, bank, said that it
was at the close of business hours, and Col.
Washington was pouring and persptriug over
a long column of figures on the balance sheet.
The sum total of the column should have read
*11.090 Instead of that amount, however, it
showed a total of *6,990, or *9OO more than he
could account for. The vexatious mistake
ranged the colonel to scratch his head vigor
ously and wonder whore the excess was in the
column of agonizing figures. While going
carefully over the column for the twentieth
time he discovered the error, and it was one
that would hardly occur once in a thousand
years. One of the colonel's eyelashes had fal
len on the balance sheet and adhered to the
first oin the line of figures *I,OOO, making a
perfect figure 9of the nought and increasing
the whole amount to*ti,99o instead of *0,090.
In goingdown the column the twentieth lime
lie brushed the e' ela-h away with his forefin
ger. Hereafter, Col. Washington says, he will
go over his balance sheet with a street scra
per before he begins to add the columns.
Three Cow-tail Power.
From the Kingston Freeman.
George Hauck, the brewer, spent a week
tost summer at a hotel in Hunter. Greene
county. One day, on his way to his hotel
after a long ramble through bush and briar,
lie stepped at a neat-looking farm house for
the purpose of getting a fresh glass of milk.
The kitchen door stood wide open. Mr.
Hauck, after knocking, walked in. He saw
no sign of life in the room except a sleeping
baby in a cradle, which was being rocked to
and fro by some unseen power. A closer ex
amination revealed the fact that a stout cord
whs fastened to one of the rockers and run
through a hole in one side of the room. Mr.
Hauck resolved to follow up the cord and see
what ihe other end of it was fastened to. The
search led him to a small barn conuected with
tno house. l.n it stood three cows, to the tails
of which was tied the cord, it beipg ily time,
the animals kept up a constant switching
with their tails, thus accounting for the
rocking of the cradle in Die kitchen. It was
a novel means of putting the baby to sleep,
but it worked well. The rest of the family
were at work in a field about a quarter of a
mile from the house, and Mr. llauck had
considerable difficulty In attracting their at
tention. He finally succeeded, and obtained
a glass of milk.
Mrs. Kriss Kringle.
From St. Nicholas for December.
Oh. 1 laugh tohcarwbat grown folk
Tell the young folk of Kriss Kringle.
In the Norihtand, where unknown folk
Love to feel the frost-wind tingle.
Y'cs, I'laugh to hear the grown folk
Tell you young folk how Krißs Kringle
Travels ’round the world like lone folk,
None to talk with—alway s single!
Would a grim and grave old fellow
(Not a chick nor child to care for)
Keop a heart so warm and mellow
That all children he'd prepare for?
Do you think, my little lnaulpn.
He could ever guess your wishes—
That vou’rt find your stocking laden
With a doll and set of dishes?
No; the truth is, sonic one whispers
In the ear he hears the “best with.
What to suit ihe youngest lisners,
Boys and girls, and ail the regl with.
Some, one (ah, you guess in vain, dear)
Nestled close by old Kriss Kringle,
Laughs to see the prancing reindeer.
Laughs to hear the sledge bells jingle.
Dear old iartv, small and rosy!
in the nipping, Christmas weather,
Nestlod cjose, so warm and cozy,
These two chat for hours together.
So. If I were in your places,
Rob and Hal and Kate and Mary,
I would be in the good graces
Of this lovely, shy old fairy.
Still I laugh to hear the grown folk
Toll vou young folk how Kriss Kringle,
Travels ’round the world, like lone folk,
None to talk with—always single!
Torpedo Scandal In Northeastern Asia.
From Engineering.
A correspondent of the Faroe Tremya at
Vladivostock has provoked a sensation in
Russian naval circles by disclosing the fol
lowing incident: A few weeks ago the Ger
man steamer China set out for Fort f’ossiett.
unaware that the harbor was closed bv a
louble row of torpedoes, which had been
placed there during tbe war scare in the
-pring. On its arrival, the boat st ikioned to
.warn off'vessels was not in its place, and the
German captain did not observe the red dig
hoisted on shore, where aKo the naval picket
was absent. Two or three people, observing
the danger into which the vessel was running,
shouted out, “Mini! mini!” (“Mines!-mines”)
but the captain did not, realize what, thev
meant until close to the first torpedo barrier.
1 1 was then too late to reverse the engines,
and, am id a panio among the passengers on
board, he decided to trust to luck and steam
full sliced ahead.
A terrible pause followed, succeeded by a
feeling of astonishment when the steamer was
seen to have traversed both rows of submarine
mines, and to be calmly making her wav imo
tbe harbor. The torpedoes,were supposed to
lie of the best quality, received from Ru si t
last spring, and thev were laid down by ex
perienced officers, who hart reporter that it
was Impossible for even the smallest fishing
smuck to enter tho harbor without being
blown to pieces None the 10- thev proved a
dismal failure when tested by the China, amt
the Russian admiralty have lolcgraplierl that
Hie most searching investigation shHll be
made into tbe affair. At St. Petersburg it is
not believed I hat the officers bungled in lay
ing them down, but that the mishap was due
to a repetition of what occurred more than
once with the submarine mines Russia u-e t
against Sir Charles Napier in the Baltic.
Failing to check that gallant officer's opera
tions. they were hauled up and examined,
when it was found that tho rasuully officials
alior*' h*q purlmneii the gunpowder amd re
placed it with sawdust.
Two Hundred Millions.
Fro nt the Sew York Times.
Mr. Vanderbilt was worth tfon.coo.ooo. It
wc say that he ws- worth $.300,000 nno, or f 100.-
000.00 ft, do we gel a percenttblv different im
pression shout the hulk of his fortune - Most,
people do not. To Hie average mind, ine eon
caption of enormous wealth iamueh the same,
whether it be reckoned in hundreds of mill
ions, or vigiutlllions. The iiuuisu nilud can
not grnp these great sums, or edourly appro -
* late tne difference between luO,ouo,uoo ami
300,000,(100,
bet u trv and describe Mr. Vanderbilt's
great fortuue in terms* of linear, square, and
■ übic inea-urcmcai and of weight. Every
Ignly umlerstan Is these lerrns, and they make
adeiliute impression on men's minds.
If this sum of 3200,000,000 were in standard
silver dollars it Would prevent such features
as this:
Put lengthwise, dollar after dollar, it
would s retell a distance <>. 4.H72 miles, max
ing a silver streak from New York across the
ocean to Livernnol.
Piled up. dollar on dollar, it would reach a
height ot Vm tulles,
I.aul Hat on the around, the dollars wottld
cover u space of neurly 00 acres.
The weight of this mass or silver would lie
7,100 tuna.
To transport it would require 3,38 ears,
carrying —:i tons each ttlus is the rapacity of
th. strongest freight ears) and making a
train Just about,? 1 , miles loug. •
On ordinary grades it would require 12
locomotives to haul this train. On roads of
steep grades und sharp curve*, is or so loco
motives would be needed.
Inal bills this 32ue 000,000 fortune would as
sume such shapes as thi-:
The bills stretched lengthwise would extend
2i,H74 miles, or neurly iho circumference of
the earth at the equator.
Piled up one on another, close ns leaves In a
new hook, they would reach a height of 12
miles.
fipread out on 'be ground they would cover
74H acre*, or yearly the whole surface of ( en
irHl Park, innlading ponds and reservoirs.
A safe deposit vault to nonlnln these bills
would require to be *3 foet long. 22 !eet wide,
sod tv foet high.
ITEMS OE INTEREST.
Uncle sam’s liquor bill last yearwas *553,-
000,090.
M. Pasteur has seventy-three cases of hy
drophobia in hand.
The Kir-KATisa New York sketch club,
with a membership equal to that of Ali Baba’s
band of thieves.
Dechimtk or vanadate of lead and zinc has
beeu discovered in Montana. Ore of this na
ture is worth *IO,OOO a pound.
In Portugal nowadays the ballot takes
place in the churches, and the box generally
stands between a pair of saints.
“It is absolutely impossible,” said Lord
Rosebery in a recent address in Scotland,
“that in the future war could ever take place
between the (jailed States and England.”
American cheksem akers are not the only
sufferers from the low price of their product.
In France, Germany, Italyjand Holland prices
range from 20 to 25 per cent, lower than they
did last year.
One of our American sojourners in a Ger
man university town was startled the other
day to hear this question seriously put and
hotly debated by a parly of students: "Was
Shakespeare drunk when he made his will?”
A California rancher has discovered an
easy way ot snooting rabbits, which, in that
State, as in some parts of Utah, are quite a
pest to growing vegetation. He goes out at
night with a lantern and a shotgun, and the
rabbits arc attracted by the light and easily
shot.
“This is a wonderful city of over 350,000
souls, and a revelation to me,” writes Min
ister Hanna from Buenos Ayres. "There is
more money here than in any place I ever
saw, but just now they are havirg our green
back days over again, gold being worth 41’ j.
It is the most extravagant government on
earth.”
A r the sale of a collection of old plate, which
took place a few days ago at a country house
in Bedfordshire, the extraordinary price of
SSs. per ounce was paid for a pair of old Eng
lish sconces dated 1718. Nearly as much was
obtained for a true Queen Anne loving cup,
with double handles and cover, dated 1713. A
quaint oi l heater, with gridiron, dated 1679,
realized no less than £6B.
A iack train passingalong a cliff near the
Newmai. Col., the other day crowded one of
the burros over a precipice. The animal must
have fallen sixty feet perpendicularly, and
then struck on its hack, the ore with which it
was packed serving to turn its feet heaven
ward. The packers looked expecting to see
the auimai broken into three or four sections,
but he got up. snorted once or twice, and
struCK out for the valley.
It is noted that the advanced *1 59 per
ton in the price of pig iron has set all the
furnaces of Tennessee and Alabama a going
on full time. Indeed, some of the Southern
iron masters are far behind their orders. The
difference between North and South in cost of
production is about *6 per ton in favor of the
latter. There are too many furnaces North
and too few South, but it will not be long ere
the latter section’s advantages are better ap
preciated. as they must be as they become the
better known.
The brewers of Western Germany are just
now, like their beverage, in a ferment. It is
the founding of the “German Maltose Stock
Company” at Cologne which hasexcited them
to tills extent. Maltose is the brand-new title
of anew ingredient to be introduced largely
into the manufacture of beer. According to
the prospectus of the company this stuff con
sists of 36 per cent, of maize and 14 per cent,
of so-called green malt. The brewers intend
to petition the Imperial Government to forbid
the use of any substitute for brewing pur
poses.
Last summer Stiles H. Whiting, of Bridge
port, Conn., secured two skate fishes and,
with the aid of some of his friends, twisted
and arranged the dried carcasses so that they
have a dose resemblance to mermaid as that
mythical creature is portrayed bv pictures on
the front of dime museums. Mr. Whiting
sent ihe bogus mermaid to a friend in Syra
cuse, N. Y. Several articles published bv the
New York papers during tbe last few weeks
have described tho strange creature with
much elaboration, and styled it. if not genuine
mermaid, as a marine mystery past finding
out, amt so high an authority as a professor
conuected with the High School in Syracuse
would not s*y that the specimen was not a
real mermaid.
M. Jean Dollfus, president of the as ocia
tlon for building workmen’s dwellings at
Mulhausen, states in his report for the current
year that 20 new houses have been built within
the past 12 mouths, making a total since the
association was founded of 1.060, out of which
775 have been purchased outright by theiroc
cupicrs, while the occupiers of the 235 others
still owe £ 6.738, and the total amount re
ceived from the occupiers has been £170,440,
of which about two-thirds lias been for pur
chase money and the remainder for interest,
registraiion fees, insurance, etc. The baths
and wash-houses are much appreciated, and
during the past twelve months 8,936 persons
nave taken baths, and 18,764 persons have
usad the wash-houses.
President Grevy's life at the Palace of the
Elysee, Paris, has been a monotonous but easy
one. His daily routine is about this: He rises
at 8 and takes for breakfast a roll and a cup of
chocolate Then he goes down stairs and re
ceives visiters in ihe great East parlor. He
receives them, seated in a capacious cushioned
chair. If the weather is cold he is seated
close In the fire, with his feet buried in a
huge fur rug. At neon he has a plain hut sub
stantial lunch, sometimes with a few friends
at table. Alter thi- he repairs to the bill ard
room and siv-nds an hour or two at ins favor
ite game. The rest of the afternoon he de
votes to his priva'o business affairs, talking
with his agents in the garden—if the weather
is pleasant. Then comes dinner, and after
that the President reads an hour or two and
goes to lied before 9.
Anew book has appeared in Paris which
may give rise to a mild sensation of the
sort e.reateit br “John Bull et Son He,” al
though it is by no means equal to that clever
volume It is written in a style similar to
that assumed bv Max O’Uell, and is entitled
“l.a Musique an Pays des liroui Ignis,” bv
I'elix Itemo. It purports to be. and is inn's
way. an exhaustive, description of the musical
life of England, “the country of fugs," and
embraces every department of musical ex
pression, from the street to the court. It
contains numerous inaccuracies which are
extremely laughable, such asde-orihing Mury
Anderson and Miss Fortescuo as leading
mu-ieal stare of Great lintaiu. These errors
are too absurd to arouse any fooling but riui
eule. ami 'he book is altogether very amusing
and instructive
In cunningly systematic, robbing which
has been going an for sotuo tune past at Chi
cago, Jack Flatters, a teamster in the employ
of Boos. Henshaw A Cos., butterine manufac
turers, was supported by Tliomaa Parker, a
butcher on West Taylor street, Hkrrv Evans
and John cur.in. Roos, Henshaw A Cos. have
a contract with the international Packin'.
<'ompuny, of this stock yard , for 10,000 pounds
of lard and beef a day. It has beeu Klnlior's
business to drive out to the stock yards and
bring in the dally rnns'gnmunt of lard. To
prevent crooked work ihe lard was weighed
m the stock vards and re-weighed on the
city Houles. Stopping overv day on his wav
back from ihe vards at Parker's butcher shop.
Matters took out between 300 an . vco pounds.
Evans ami Curtin doubled themselves up in
Urn hole ihu made in the load, and were ef
feet ally cone,e Jed hv the heavy tarpaulin
thrown across the lop of the wagon. After
the weighing, iho wagon was then driven
'round the corner ami the men crept out of
lluir greasy quarters. They have all con
fes ed, but profess inability to approximate
the amount tlielr elealings represent.
As olfioinl notification from the Danish
Ministry of Murine announces that Denmark
is m: h poor by the ION of an Island and of an
interesting natural olfioct. South of the island
of Suderoe, one of the Faroe group, a nuuhtv
cllfl' rose sheer out of the sea to a height of
from no leet to 100 feet. Izioked at sidewise
from a distance at sea. it resembled a great
ship in full sail: but seen from Hndcroe, It
pros* nii'ii the appearance of a monk, whence
li received from Ihe Farooec the name of
MunUon. Ihe Monk was not nierrlv x pic
ture-line object, It was also a valuable land
mark for sailors, warning them against a dan
genuis whirlpool which swept around Its
liiise. hut it is now only a thing of the past.
Int-d year a portion of Ihe c-lifT fell down, an t
tills year all that remained was broken off
Jiit below the water line, leaving in Its place
a dangerous reef, which is covered even at
low wnier. Fortunately. It was uninhabited,
so no lives were lost. The occurrence is note
worthy a> proving that the continuous wash
ol the sea, aided probably in the winter bv
the act on of driving ice blocks, is able to
saw through immense masses of rork conslsl
iitg "f hard basalt, rutting them clean across
ill iiiu water * cUcc.
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Cocoanuts, Bananas, Bananas,
I Cocoanuts, California Pears, T
|C. K. Apples, E. It. Potatoes,
Onions, Cabbages, Tnrnins
Beets,
FLORIDA ORANGES
Turkish Prunes, French Prunes,
Fard Dates in 10 pound boxes,
Persian Dates in boxeg,
Frail Dates, Canned Goods,
.Tellies, Preserves, Mine* Meat,
LEMONS.
Citron, Currants, Nuts of all hinds.
K. POWER
(SUCCESSOR TO J. B. REEDY
Wholesale Grocer A Importer of K rilj| .
FRUITS, ETC
apples.
ALL GRADES arui KINDS.
Onions and Cabbage.
PEANUTS
pbi-nks. RAIBIN8 ’ k,us * , M
POTATOES.
Three hundred barrels New York and p,.
Mgr Ear * K&Bc - Rt " ,s ’
Rutabaga Turnips.!
Bananas, Red end Yellow, I
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