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Currency -ent l>y mail at risk or 84 1'. -r* rt* nn ’ telegram* should l>e add reeled niuHMNO St:ws, Bavanuah, (4a.” Ad erming rates made known on applica tion. —— 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. | _ fruit, ®tr. FIREWORKS 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 1 1] good order, not green or chilled. I COCOANUTsI RICE, RICE, RICE. 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