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iionnceni' iit of Change in Agency Western
Assurance Company of Toronto,
Steamship Sciiedilk-Ocean Steamship
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Am sempnts— Grand Easter Hop of J. B.
Social Club on Monday Evening.
Railroad Schedule—Soutli Florida Rail
road.
Wants—Salesman for Southern States; A
Partner with *s,ooo or * 1 >,000• Ladies and
Gentlemen for Light Work; First-Class Shoe
maker; v Turpent.ne stiller.
For Rent—Large South Room; House on
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Book.
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vannah. Florid i uni Western Railway. .
Executor's Peremptory sai.k—M. Thom
as ft Mon-. Auctioneers, Philadelphia. Pa.
Whole KonedQi’ah.— a. M ftU. W. West.
Application to Amend Charter—South
ern Mutual Loan A sociaiion
Furniture— M. Boley & Sou.
COLEUS—A’ Parse s.
CouxTitr Cured If ims—At D. B. Lester’s.
Somethini; New Every Week-At G. M.
Hcidt A Co's.
Crockery, Glassware, Etc.—Mathews
Bros.
Confederate Notes Wanted—Dixon A
Murphy.
Southern Pine Lands—C. H. Dorsett.
Milch Cows—At I>. Cox’s Stock I.ots.
The Knights of Labor have thousands
*f false and tin wise friends within as well
ns outside their assemblies. They may
well exclaim: “Save us from our friends,”
as well as from our enemies.
Commenting on tbz proposition to boy
cott the butcher who supplies the lamily
of Mr. Hoxie, Jay Gould s St. Louis lieu
tenant. with beef, the Philadelphia Times
argues that “by and by no doubt the boy
cotters will boycott the man who built the
house in which Mr. Hoxie was born.
That would be just as sensible as to boy
cott the dealers who supply bis family
with food.”
The New York Seventh regiment has
fust celebrated with a good deal ol gush
and bug juice its celebrated march from
Annapolis to Washington in IStil. when
It was confronted with the terrible rumor
that “500 rebels in disguise as citizens,”
would dispute its way. It is to be hoped
that impartial history will not allow
Thermopylae Balaklava and Bunker Hill
to be forgotten.
The aged actors and actresses at the
Forrest Home, Philadelphia, complain
that the superintendent treats them with
discourtesy by alluding to them as pau
pers, and the Superintendent rejoins that
he is the servant of the trustees, but when
he is to become tne servant of the inmates
he wants to leave. He will probably be
asked to mend his manners toward the
aged beneficiaries, or be freed from his
servitude.
Fickle Frank Hatton is said to have
grown tired ot his paper and to long for a
return to politics. Mr. Hatton is a
much better editor in many respects than
be was a politician, but no doubt rat ions
are scarce-in the wilderness of Chicago
journalism, especially when he is forced
to compare the income from his sprightly
little Mail with the flesh pots of the whole
Post Office Department under a Republi
can administration.
There is nothing connected with agri
culture in which the farmers of the South
ought to feel a deeper interest than
grasses. There is reason to believe that
there are grasses suitable for pasture and
hay which can be cultivated profitably in
the South. The work of Dr. D. L. Phare*
of the Mississippi Agricultural College,
on grasses and other forage plants, con
tains a vast amount of information that
Is valuable to Soutnern farmers.
Romance as well ae history often re- '
peats itself, but, the repetition is rarely 1
lo the letter. Every school hoy of twenty- i
five years ago remembers the tragic story ■
of the chief o r Ulva and l.ord ruin's
daughter, in which theelopingcnuple and
the bdhtinan were eneulled in the angry
waters of Loch (iyle. The other day Dr.
Dutton, of Middlesex county, Va., and
Miss Amanda Towell, daughter ol a prom
inent Baptist minister, while fleeing from
an •‘angry father,” hailed the steamboat
Weems, at a landing on the Rappahan
nock. The Captain took the couple aboard,
and hastened to steam away, just as the
Irate clergyman appeared in sight. The
happy couple weut onto Baltimore and
got even with the old gentleman by being
married by a Methodist minister.
A New York doctor believed that the
moral faculties of the negro could be de
veloped by trusting him, and a vear ago
he employed a good looking colored man
as a valet for experimental purposes. In
about a week the valet atole the dootor'a
team and a suit of clothes, and started
for Canada, but was arrested, convicted
and sentenced to the penitentiary. The
convict was so penitent and made such
fair promises that the doctor secured bis
pardon and reinstated him as valet. In
less than two weeks he packed over $3,000
Worth of silverware, jewelry and line
clothing in a trunk, and moved in a first
class carriage to a colored hotel where he
took a nice suite of rooms. The detectives
caught him, and he is booked for Sing
Bing again. The doctor’s faith In hit pet
kfceory u not aa strong as It was.
Mr. Pos ilcrly’s Testimony •
Mr. Powderly, in Ids testimony before
the Curtin comluittee, talks like a man
who wants to do only what is right. He
j very frankly udinits that it is
i not always possible to control the Knights
I of Labor organizations, and that very
j often members of the organizations com
mit acts of lawlessness.
Tuere is no doubt that the great majori
ty of the Knights of Labor have a very
imperfect idea of the purpose of their or
ganizations. They have not had time to
inform themselves with regard to it, and
a very large percentage of them will never
seek infmmation about it. The most of
them think that the unions tni-ati nothing
more nor less than that, uuiteu action
will force from capital any concession
which labor may d< matul, without, regard
to the question whether the concession is
just or not.
If wise aud conservative men were al
ways at the head of the organizations it
wouldn’t make a great deal of difference
whether the Knights, as a rule, were edu
cated up to the lull meaning of their or
ganizations or not. In too many in
stances, however, tne leaders are witnout
judgment. They are pushed to the front
only becau-e ot their ability to make
themselves conspicuous. They are sim
ply demagogues who hope to make their
positions advance their interests in some
way. This being the case, means ought
to be employed by those who are in earn
est in promoting the interests of working
men, through labor organizations, to im
press upon each individual member of
them what the real aiui of the organiza
tion is.
Mr. Powderly says very trulv that it is
as much to the interest ol employers as
employes that all business and enter
prises which depend upon labor shall be
prosperous, because if thev are not pros
perous workingmen cannot earn fair
wages, but they cannot ne prosperous if
they are constantly nagged and obstruct
ed by ill-advised demands, strikes and
boycotts. The Knights o! Labor claim
not to encourage any ot these things, but
to arrange the relations between employ
ers and employes by intelligent arbitra
tion. II they succeid in doing what thev
claim they aim to do even capital will be
ready to applaud their work, because
nothing is more to be desired by capital
than peace and contentment among work
ingmen.
The Knights ought to be extremely
careful not to attempt to regulate matters
with which they legitimately have no
concern. If they do attempt anything
uf that kind they will not have tbe
approval of public sentiment, and with
out such approval they can accomplish
nothing. That has been demonstrated so
olten that it will hardly be denied.
The efforts the Knights of Labor are
now making to compel the employ
ment of only Union men has nut
the approval of public sentiment
and will fail. It is a denial of liberty.
What is more tyrannical than for one
workingman to say to another: “You
shall not earn bread for your family un
less you join the organization to which I
belong and obey its regulations?” or
for an employe to say to an employer;
“You shall employ only those whom 1 am
willing to have employed under penalty
of having your business ruined?” There
are certain things which workingmen
have a right todemand, and in demand
ing them they will be sustained, and there
are certain other things wbiohtbey have
no right to demand, and they will not be
sustained in demanding them. Common
sense draws the line, and when working
men cross it they become the oppressors.
Persistence in crossing it must bring dis
tress to labor and ruin to capital.
The Gladstone Gaud Bill.
There are drawbacks to the legislation
which Mr. Gladstone proposes tor 1 reland
which are beginning to be thrust to the
front. It will he remembered that when
the land purchase bill was introduced
into the House Mr. Parnell and his fol
lowers did not receive it with any great
amount of enthusiasm. Mr. Parnell said
that he would do his best to help to make
it acceptable. The truth doubtless is,
that while the land purchase bill is
necessary for the success of the home
rule bill, everyone sees that it Is hedged
about with ail sorts of difficulties.
One of the largest of the Irish landlords
in a recent letter says that the interest in
the home rule bill in Ireland is small in
comparison to that in the land purchase
bill. The latter bill touches the pockets
of every class. If the twin bills become
laws the landlords will disappear of
course, and the farmers will, in a meas
ure, take their places. Under the land
purchase bill the rents of the farmers will
be reduced 20 per cent., but they will
have other burdens to bear that will be
greater thau this 20 per cent, reduction.
They are hardly able to pay their reßts
now, and what will they do when they
are called upon to bear even greater
burdens?
The landlord in question then calls at
tention to the laborers. What, he asks, is
to become of them F Under the new sys
tem the farmers will not have any more
use for thorn than they now have. If so
much. The landlords have been furnish
ing the laborers with a very large part of
tbeir living. The only thing left for many
of them to do will lie to emigrate.
Attention is also directed to the artisan
class ol the small towns. It is certain
that their taxes will be lar heavier than
! they now are and their ability to increase
i their earnings will not be greater. The
J conclusion is that they will have to erni
| grate by the thousands.
There is another thing that cannot bo
| overlooked. It Is that around every lit
j tie demesne In Ireland there la a great va
-1 rlety ol dependent#. What is to become of
t hem? Will new wavs ol earning a living
| be opened to them ? ilia possible but nut
probable. At present tt looks very much
as It they would have to seek bomss out
side of Ireland.
This may be a gloomy picture and one
not justified by the tacts. It Is the pic
ture, however, which an Irish landlord
presents for the consideration of Parlia
ment, and particularly for the Irish mem
bets. It may be that the land purchase
bill can be so modified that without sacri
ficing anv of the Important things, for
the accomplishment ol which it is neces.
nary, it may be made more acceptable
i than it is at present.
It is not iiuprobablo that the committee
which has charge of it nmy succeed In
relieving it of lutun of its must objec
tionable features, and may even make it
acceptable to all clauses of the Irish
people.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. APRIL 22, 1886.
Farming in the South.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, President of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College of
M ississippi, furnished a correspondent at
Washington a few days ago some inter
esting facts about agriculture in Missis
sippi. In that State, it seems, the farm
ers are getting rid of the Idea that there
Is profit in nothing but cotton and corn.
Very many of them are now cultivating a
variety of crops, and they find themselves
much better off financially than they did
when they gave their entire attention to
cotton. President Lee, however, is
especially enthusiastic over the success
that has attended efforts at stock raising
and dairy farming. He is firmly con
vinced that Mississippi is soon to take the
lead among the Southern States in the
raising of fine stock, and the production
of butter, cheese and milk.
Only a little more than a year ago the
first creamery in the State was establish
ed by the Agrleultui til College atSiark
ville. Now there are over thirty creame
ries in the State and they all have more
orders than they can fill. The demand
for their products comes trom New Or
leans, Memphis, Mobile, Vicksburg and
other cities, and is far greater than the
supply.
There was a time when it was thought
that good butter could not be produced in
Mississippi. That time, however, has
passed, and it can be said with truth that
as good butter is made there as in Illinois,
lo'.va or Michigan.
For a long time the great obstacle to
stock-raising in Mississippi and in other
Southern States was the want of grasses.
This want has at last been, to considera
ble extent, met. Japan clover, Bermuda,
Johnson,crab and other grasses are grown
successfully, and these, supplemented
with certain varieties of sorghum, afford
excellent food for cattle.
There is no doubt that changes are
gradually taking place in the agriculture
of the South, and that these changes are
in the line of improvement. While the
aggregate cotton crop will doubtless
slowly increase from year to year, it is
pretty certain that a very large percent
age of the annual increase in the South's
agricultural wealth will be in stock,
dairy products aud crops other than
cotton. The agricultural colleges are pr.
titled to some of tiie credit for bringing
about changes in Southern agriculture
by demonstrating that many of tho notions
that have been entertained relative to the
impossibility of producing certain things
in the South profitably are erroneous.
Prohibition in New York.
A bill is pending before tbe Legislature
of New York which makes the politicians
of that State a little uneasy. It provides
for submitting to the people an amend
ment to the constitution prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors in that State.
There are a good many prohibitionists
in New York and they are mainly Repub.
licans. The Republicans, therefore, are
more disturbed over the pending bill than
the Democrats are. It is not believed
that the proposed amendment to tbe con
stitution would be adopted if it were sub
mitted to the people, although, since a
similar amendment was unexpectedly
adopted in Rhode Island tho other day,
there are not a few in New York who are
sanguine enough to think that the amend
ment would stand a good chance of being
passed in that State.
The vote for St. John was not very large
in New York, but it is admitted that his
vote did not begin to measure the pro
hibition strength. The strength ot the
prohibitionists is in their earnestness.
They are sincere, and that counts for a
great deal in any sort of political con
test. If the proposed amendment goes to
the people as a non-partisau measure it
will, doubtless, command an extraordi
narily large vote.
Perhaps the wisest thing for the New
York legislature to do, if there is really
a strong prohibition sentiment in that
State, is to pass a local option bill. With
such a Dill the counties in which public
sentiment is strong enough to enforce
prohibition could then wholly suppress
the liquor traffic within their borders.
It the coustitution should be so
amended as to prohibit the manu
facture and sale of intoxicating liquor in
the State the law could hardly be effect
ively enforced in New York and other
large cities of the State. The sentiment
buck of It would not tie strong enough,
and the sale of liquor* would be con
tinued on about as large a scale as it is
now That sort of thing would do in
calculable barm to the cause of temper
ance. Local option promises better re
sults than prohibition in New York.
The Savannah and Dublin Hoad.
The Savauuah, Dublin and Western
railroad is in a fair way to become a fact.
There are still, however, some doubting
Thomases. The managers of tho enter
prise speak of Birmingham, Ala., as
though it were alroady within a
few hours of this city over
the proposed new air line to
the West. It is expected that with the
$.'{,500,000 of bonds subscribed for in Eng
land it will be possible to reach that city.
The contract for the first forty miles
from this city has been let, and the con
tractor Is here preparing to begin work.
The starting point in this city has not yet
been determined upon, and the work will,
therefore, begin at a point a few miles
from the city. Contracts for $200,-
000 worth of machinery have been
given to well known locomotive works.
With the completion of this road to the
coal and iron regions of Alabama there
must be an immense increase in the com
merce of Savannah, to say nothing of
the additional business that will flow
this way from the lumber und cotton
sections of Georgia. Norfolk is now
reaping a large trade from the Virginia
coal fields. A gentleman from that city
stated a few days ago that one da; this
month seventy coal schooners wore In
Hampton roads. Such a trade as that,
with the business Savannah already has,
would soon give this city a population of
1110,000.
‘•l’m o’er young to marry” Is a common
complaint among love-sick youths and
maidens in this country, but people here
never get too old to marry. Tne other
day a retired Russia!) Major, aged til, was
sentenced to three days’ arrest at KictT
tor marrying too late in lilo, contrary to
law.
It seems that Atlanta wants to control
a $70d.000 railroad with a subscription of
$|(HMMhi. It may be able to do so if it cau
get enough genuine tide-water with which
to dilute its share of the capital stook.
CURRENT COMMENT.
All Donbt Cleared Away.
From the Washington Pont (Dem.)
As there was nothing to establish, the in
vest (ration has eetalilidled nothing. Mr. Gar
land's testimony ha* tlnally cleared away
from every hon< *t min! any stahJa >f doubt,
mistrust or misapprehension which could pos
sibly exist.
A Perfectly Prank Statement.
From the Now York Star ( Dem,)
Attorney General (i irland made a perfectly
frank and straightforward statement before
the House committee vesterday. He stated
cl arly his connection with the Pan Electric
Company, and his reasons for reiusii g to
bring suit against ,ne Hell * ompany. There
ih no run-on vv..y this statement ehonid not
pi '-ve perfectly satisfactory to every unpreju
diced person.
The Pl(ii;cH Mu*i be Kept.
From the Boston Herald i Mug.)
The only possible change now is in the direc
tion of Treeing raw ma • u aid Having done
tin-, the ehatjges in the future will he toward
modifying and gradually reducing those cus
tom- taxes that are nor, essentially 01 a revo
nue charact# r. "I his is what the Democratic
party has pledged it-elf to do, and it will be
fa-c ro its trust if it fails to cirry such a
measure through that branch of Congress
over which it has control.
A Question uf Chivalry.
From the Cincinnati Tt meß-Star.
Hasn’t, tdm Macon (Ga.) Telegraph strained
a point on chivalry? It scums to have brought
coivalrio notions into ridicule by inveighing
agamst the report of Secretary Lamar’* inar
r age with ala ty uf that town as a ruthhss
•‘wounding of the sensibilities of a modest
and much honored woman.** While the cir
culation of the story is to he deprecated, if it.
tins no f 'imdaiion, putting the denial in this
shape is calculated to wound the sensibil ties
of Secretary Lamar. He is an eligible widow
er. of fine parts, ami with a notable pedigree.
Par bleu! What lady ot the south t-liould turn
up he l, nose at the poet and philosopher of the
Cabinet?
BKItUf l BITS.
Speculators are said to tie “hearing” the
Delaware peach crop. What are the trees
doing.— Bur ington tree Prens.
“Bridget.” said a Hartford housewife,
* have the dinner put in the oven to warm;
Mr. Skimmerhoro will be late to-day.”
cs. mum; sure, tne dinner’s been in the
oven a 1 the morn in’, mum: 1 alius roasts beef
in the oven, mum. Duz vcz want the rare
part rared again V'—Uartf >OP„Ht.
Jay Gould is worth SIOO,O 0.000. We freelv
give Mr. G uild our ••uniniuiiis' l •$; 25 of this
muutUccnt sum, merely stipulating that he
shall regard it as charity and use it for the
best interest of the human race. It has been
remarked that all is not Jay Gould that giit
ter-, but. we prefer to look upon that as a rad
ical mistake, —The Judje,
The following lines were composed bv a
little 10-year-old girl of tins city, who had
houn shown a pigeon’s egg' in wh eta
a little fledgling, although well developed,
had failed of being hatched out:
Here lies birdie for whom we mourn;
Birdie that flie<l before mil* was “oro:
O what a horrible Cling u death.
When it com h ttef..re you go vour breath.
A>ui tlrlea ... Times. Dem era!.
The wreck of the Oregon has developed
startling things. The records,bow that less
than I.UUO persons to k passage, two-thirds of
whom were ol the steerage persuasion, vet,
up 10 the hour of going |.<> press, nearly 16.000
people h ive testified to being the ast to leave
the vessel, and they po-e-svd personal effects
aggre ating in value more han the entire
transatlantic fleet. A remarkably well-to-do
Mint prolific lot, that.— Dirghuutton Hepubli.
can.
A LITTLE ADVENTURE of the Duke de Bra
t-'anza. the prospective husband of the Prin
cess A npdia, of Orleans! "1 was traveling in
Spain.” -aid the Duke, “and had reached a
miserable little village, it was 1 a. m
Knocking at tho onlv hostelry in the place’
a gruff voice called out: 'Who’s there'-’
‘Dom Alphonse-Kami re-.I uan-Pedro-Carlos-
Krancisque-D uninique de Itoxas de lira-*
ginza.’ -Drive on,’ was the renlv; I can’t
accommodate so many people.”'— from the
French.
Wipe (putting down a novel)—l wish that
1 could speak some foreign language; I
wouldn’t much care which one.
Husband—l find it to beau advantage.
Wife—Whai ?
Husband—Speaking a foreign language of
course. •
wife—You speak a foreign—
lliisnaud—s es.
W.fe—l didn’t know it before. What lan
guages
Hu.,band—English. England is a foreign
country. Wnai’s the matter with you.—
A t lean a tio Trtt veer.
Girl at Golden Gate.—
As Peer sat at heaven’s gate,
A maiden sought permission.
And begged of him if uoi too late,
To give her fr e admission.
“Wliat claims hath von to enter here?”
”e cried .villi earnest mien.
••Piea-e, sir, and s-nd sh-\ ’t-ixt bope and fear,
“I m only just sixteen.”
“Enough,” the hoary guardian said,
Amt tip-gate wide open threw;
“That is the age when every maid
Is girl and angel too.”
—Detroit Free Press.
When Rev. S. L. 15. Cha-e was a pastor in
Rockland he one dav e saved to treat the
sundav school to a blackboard exposition of
the lesson. So for a starter, amt in 4he wav
of graphically illuminating Ins remarks lie
took a bit of chalk and slowly and somewhat
painfu ly sketched on t lie- b'm-kbo.ar Ia repre
sentation of two human hearts j ined
together. “Vow, then,” he said, turning lo
'ho school, “who will tell me what I have
drawn?”
“I know,” called a verv little boy on the
front seat
“Well,” the pastor kindly said, “what is
it? ’
And the very little boy on the front seat
shrieked out.“A termarter!”— Kochlanil .He.)
Courier .
PJBKSONWIi.
Gov. Alger, of Michigan, will not be a
candidate for re-election.
Gen. Terry's bachelor home at Chicago
will be presided over bv his sister.
The Dru or Bucclkech intends to give
up lus fox hounds—the beat appointed pack in
the kingdom.
Mas. Jamhs Brown Pottir will go to
California, and then get even with Washing
ton society liy writing a novel.
I)r. Oliver Wendell Holmes nails for
Europe 10-dav. tie says ho is not going to do
anv workover there; he goes for impression
not expressions.
Proe, Kili.roth, of Vienna, recently re
ceived a fee of 6.000 for performing a single
operation mon the person of a banker ai
Alexandria, Egypt.
Mr. Whistler was recently invited to an
evening parly In London bv a shoddy funily
whose head fancied that he really derived his
name from being an accomplished whistler,
Fk EhK Kb K Dm glass will deliver a 'ec.
f'treon Wedne-da.v. Aorii eg, (ll a , l( oflhp
tree Ulgill schools of Ihc District of ' o'liinhll
llis subject will lie "Mi ol lections of A tin
Slavery Time-.”
Miss Marik Van Zamit is still vert 111 ut
Dunnes, and tt is stated that tier life'is ,h*
.-paired of Nho was taken ill in ltiissiunnd
was moved bj easy stages to Cannes, where
she is now under luc besi physicians.
A SERIAL story, with Hie verv appropriate
title oi •■l,i ing or Dea bv Hugh Donwav
has been running tor some time ui an lira her
of newspaper . Living or dead Hugh ( on
way appears equally pro Inetive. But it
turns out now that he is re Ally .load and that
fills posthumous story is written by C'omvns
Carr
SKNORiTA .Tone Maniel, the daughter of a
Congressman and member of ouo of the
wealthiest families in chili, is said to be de
cidedly clever and European rather than
i lillian. with decided view- a'imt marriage
mid education she Is very beautiful, the
dues of her figure (icing perfectly statuesque
and tho pose of her head an absolute copy of
Clytie.
Bryant Water, a patriot of tat*, is now
In Washington, expres-ly to sea Democratic
President and to urge thena-sageof a private
elaini. lie stated that for the last forty four
veers he had not been sick a day. though he
lived in a swamp In North Carolina whi h ia
considered the bn eding ground of disease.
Failing eyesight Is the basis of his claim tor a
pension.
The i,ate attempt to kill Juice Verne ro
esllsMii attaek with ni'irdefouA Intent that
was mademi Alphonse Karr, which that vete
ran Is still f did of referring to. It was made
in tin* days id h's youth bv an excited woman.
Krr disarmed her ami next week In Ids
salirieal Journal, /,-s f.uspcs. published a rdc
lpresque account of the affair, emnelishid
wiili a drawing of the rarviug-kutfe which
prominently figured therein.
COMPULSORY PRAYERS AT
HARVARD.
The Hardships of the System as Illus
trated by a Sophomore.
Fram the -Veto York Sun.
Boston, April 17.—The campaign against
compulsory praters at Harvird is being
waged vigorou-ly by the studeuts. One of
them tells this incident to illustrate the hard
ships of the system:
“The prayer cut is busted,” said a sopho
more when his gir! asked him last night to
come with his bicycle and join her with her
tricycle for a morning spin. “I can’t come.”
“The wh wliat is busted?”
“The praver cut. Don’t you know what
the prayer cut is? It's cutting the morning
prayers. Don’t you know? Not going to
chapel.”
••And you’ve actually got to go to the chapel
every morning?”
“Yaas, got my prayer warning yesterday.”
"Anil whitV a prayer warning?”
“Oh. it’s a thing about so long and about so
wide, and looks something line a postal card,
or something trilling like that; but what is
your horror when von take it up after awhile
to And that it i- a warning that you have ab
sente i yourself from praiers all that is per
nutted, and that your attendance at chapel
w.ll be required hereafter.”
“And you ve got to go to prayers after
this?” •
"I regret to say that I have. You can only
cut pr i vers just so much, and I’ve used up my
cut, as Isa and. Oh. I tell you those involun
tary prayers ure the one tyrannical survival
of barbarism that disfigures the otherwise fair
and pieas ng aspect ol the nineteenth centu
ry. They have got to go.”
Hand on Anuder Sister!
Prom Harper's for Man.
There was a grand baiuiz ng oue Sunday in
the Gulf, and Hr thcrJcff, Wi’son preached
so long and eloquently over Sister M’ria Gib
son that a great wave carne and was' ed her
away. Great was every one’s consternation
when, oil recovering her bodv, it was found
to be perfectly dead. Brother Wilson wis not
in the lea-t daunted, however, and finished
his oration with the following words: “De
Lord hab gib, and de Lord hab tucken away,
bressed be de name ob de Lord. Rand on
anuder sister here, afore dis yer water gits
100 high.”
Looking After the Mock.
Prom Harper's for Hay.
A circus was expected at the 1 ttle village
ot O .and the mhahuaats we>e as wild v
ex died over the event as the inhabitants
of small towns usually are. The colored pop
ulation weie particula lv eaihusia-tic, but
their preacher, the Rever. n I Pete Jefferson,
was loud iu his exhortations again-t it. He
went so far as to thre deu to expel any of his
congregation who dared spen I their money in
-o sinful a way. Strange to rela 6, when the
eventfu l nigh arri veil, ihe most conspicuous
person theee was the violent parson.
"W liy. Uncle Pete, what are you doing
here?” inquired one of his w hite friends.
"Law! Mnrse Henrv, I htles it miahtily,
sail. Bull’s de shepherd, amt I’s’bl'ged to
look arier my flock. I got my eve on ebery
lust one ob dose onchristian, pop-eved niggers,
and you see if I don’t make ’em smelt tire aud
brimstone on Sunday”
A Tom Corwin Story.
From the Hew York Tribune.
Stories of Tom Corwin, of Ohio, are being
told again. I ret ail one that I heard years
ago in a college town in Ohio, where Corwin
struggled with Greek roots and Latin coniu
gati ns for a winter or two. it was. like
many of the college towns in the West, a reli
gion ; centre, the institution being supported
bv denominational contributions. There were
the usual winter revivals, when it was the
extreme effort to bring in all the new stu
dents asc nverts. Corwin was swept in with
the tide. In four or five weeks he back-lid
One of tile fathers of the church wem to him
to counsel him, and in the course of their eou
fercnce wanted to know why Corwin had
fallen from grace. Corwin had an enormous
m unh, which, when it was opened, was as
huge in its wav as an alligator's He said he
had been insulted by Ideacou Km th The
good brother asked for further explanation.
ell,” said Corwin, “when I stood up at the
hack of the lecture room to relate my experi
ence ami opened my mouth, D aeon Smith
rose up in frout and says, ‘Will some bn-the
please close that window and keep it
closed?’ ”
Wanted the Telegram* Sent.
From Harper's for May.
Last winter, while visitiegoneof the quaint
little Cre le village* of Southern Louisiana, I
chanced to learn many amusing stories con
cerning the negroes there. One really pa
thetic incident occurred at the telegraph of
fice, which had but recently been established.
An obi w man, clad in the deepest black,
called one morning upon the operator. II r
bole bearing was very grief-stricken, and in
her hand she carried t slip ot paper around
the edges ot which was di awn a broad line in
lead pencil. “Please sah.” sh" said, in broken
accents, "dis yer is er telergrvph ter my dar
ter at "-cort station, er tellin’ her dat her
brodder Joe is dead; and, sah, will yer please
ter sen’ ii in mou’nin?”
Another lime an old negro came in with a
telegram, and the operator, after sending it,
huiu itie paper on the hook at h's -idc. Some
time afterward he perceived that the darkey
was still standing In the doorway, and he in
quired of Inin why he was wailing.
“f's waitin’fer yer ter sen’ mv telegraph,”
he answered.
“But I have sent it long ago,” was the re
ply.
“Oh, no, boss; dis yer nigger ain’t no fool. 1
sees dat paper a hangin’ on ae nail yit.”
A Hugged Pair.
From fend it Hand.
He stood in fierce despair—gaunt, hollow
eyed.
With murder whispering in his tortured
ear.
No work! His baby’s cry broke down his
pride.
His sick wife’s pleading brought the horror
near.
They heard his tale, and carelessly they threw
A golden coin as if thev thought the sting
That drove his soul Crime’s hated portals
through.
Would weaken at the money’s golden ring.
Hi* thin face settled in a hateful frown;
The sneering charity unheeded lay;
They wri t had idly crushed his* manhood
down
Will wouder at his dark revenge some day.
A man with coat as ragged as his own
Held out his hand aud spoke brave Wordsof
cheer.
And lo! The dark, stern face has gentler
grown,
And in the hollow eye there shines a tear.
Forgotten are the hideous thoughts that filled
His soul, the wav seemed brighter thau be
fore.
A newer courage all his life has thrilled,
And thrown a gleam of sunshine through
Hope’s door.
He gives the most whobravelv lends a hand
T > help his brother in rh ■ hour of need
God keeps the ree.ord—lie cau tin ler-taud
And of our slightest service will take hoed
Fnrtuimt* Mr. C eveland.
From th rhilatloli>Ma rr #.
The fo'lowing personal Uescr'pMon of M ss
Folsom, given by a young lady who washer
schoolmate at .tui ora, agrees with her ap
pearance as observed at Miss f'levelan l's
Blue Parlor reception the week following K a „.
ter of lasi year, when she stood in line w Mi
herat 'T. Folsom’s right; "She is tall and
Juno-like in out tne, withs ift brown ban
ned her light nor dark, which -he wears
combed leo-elv bark from her fare and colled
liigll on her bead. She has a steady ie\ ure
of-kin au Ia complexion of tvnrv whltenes
aM the red on low f glowing m her lul and
beautiful lips. Vio’ei blue eves, full round
chin, a we I-Shaped and a Hoc profile
complete the pic ure of her who was admitted
to bo one of the handsomest girls In the r,o|.
lege, Die other I Mis* Kale Willard of l| -
inois, now in Germany, studying vocal music
The two were devoted friend-, and Frankie
has passed much of the winter with her
there.”
Miss Folsom is not a dressy young laity, but
in the white sa'in gown of her graduating
day, “she looke I,” says my young ladv friend,
“more like a goddess than a woman.”
Nlie was kind to xll her schoolmates, an l no
tably so to the new girls, helping them lo feel
at home. In this respect, and by her general
conselentloiisness and deep religions feeling
shewus a great assistance to tier teachers
and much iieloved by them ns well as by all
tier schoolmates. She is In her Ti l tear, and
was next to ihe youngest in tier cla-s li
grew lo be an Mcepted thing among Die girls
that she was destined to tm a White House
btido, and they though! Mr. Cleveland would
be vc y fortunate together. A large portrait
of him always stood on an easel in hernrtvn e
room, and the girls knew it as "I'ho Gover
nor,” Die name bv which she always spoke of
him. even utter he became President. Many
of his New Vera friends continue to do that
here. A camnot photograph of Miss Folsom
adorns the President’s dressing case In his
ehainber ut the White House.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Two whiskies cost a pound and a half of
beefsteak ; two beers a dinner of mutton chops;
one cocktail a dish of fresh salad or head of
caulillower.
I)r. Siemens and Postmaster General Ste
phan, of Berlin, have made electric lighting
more general in Berlin than in anr other city
on the continent at a very moderate tax to
consumers.
As THE cuallevger was crossing the Pa
cific in August, L 75. a flock of about 20 swal
lows alighted “n the rigging of the vessel
wnen she was almost 400 miles from the Japa
nese coast.
Chaplain Milburn’s definition of prayer as
an address to tbe nation recalls the occasion
when Dr. ft. S. Storrs of Brooklyn, was re
ported to have made the most polite prayer
ever addressed to a Boston audience.
The next International Sanitary Congress,
which should have been held in Vienna. Aus
tria, this year has been postponed until 1887,
in order to allow sufficient time to make
preparations for wliat, it is hoped, will be an
ttnusti dly large and interesting meeting.
A Baltimore importer has received from
China an antiquity in the shane of an idol 430
years old, representing P.uddih. The idol jo
from an old tempi"; it is four feet high, of
wood, elaborately carved and gilded, it lias
a diamond iu tho forehead and a crystal lu its
bead.
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who now has
a large practice and much influence in New
York, is 6aid to have been the fir-t woman in
America to take a medical dezree. She is
n >w in her 85th year, but as full of life, indus
try and enterprise as she was at the outset of
her honorable and exemplary career.
The male guests at a little dancing party
given iu a Gramercv Park home tho other
night were rather astonished to find this no
tice posted conspicuously in the dressing
room: “If gentlemen feel obliged to smoke
during the evening cigars ami keys to the
park wi’l be furnished on application to the
servants.”
The first railroad ever huiit in Maine was
between Bangor and Oidtown. About the
time of the Aroostook war. in 1830, the first
train of cars si arted early one morning from
Bangor for Oidtown. a run of about 12 miles,
ft. was a red letter day for Bangor ndft far
short of the modern Fourth of July celebra
tion
L. W. Morris A Son,of New York, received
from Ireland a large Irish harp packed in a
huge wooden box 7 feet high, which is intend
ed for exhibition at an Irish concert to be
given for the benefit of the Parnell Bind. The
harp Is severa l hundred years old, and was
the last instrument pNved before the Irish
Kin vs. It is valued at? 5.000.
One thing that Chicago does not brag about
is its university. Steven A. Douglas left land
for the institution which would have become a
fine property if let alone, but ambitious plans
and expensive buildings came, and now the
trustees are mak nsr a la-t desperate effort to
save the property from going on a mortgage.
But the baseb ill ground is well supported,
und the city’s reputation is safe.
The Electrician states that at a recent meet
ing of the Berlin Society of Electricians Prof.
Kuh'man proposed that the German govern
ment be petitioned to define legally the elee
-1 rival units now In use. and to establish an
office for electric measurements where a legal
standard of resistance should be kept and
used as a Basis for standardizing resistances
supplied to the public* The proposal was
seconded by Prof. Foerster and Dr. W Sie
mens, and unanimously adopted.
Fritz Metiler, the famous banker of
Frankfort-on-Ihe-Main, has lately celebrated
his soth birthday anniversary. It is remarked
that the oldest b nking firm in that city is
that of .T. Mertens. established in liiOS, fol
lowed in chronological order bv D. A J. de
Neufville. esiablished in 16 7; Johann Goll &
Sons, in 1*10; B. Metzler, Son & Consorts, in
1674; Brothers Bethmann, in 1148; M. Avon
Roth-chil ' & Sons, in 1771; Fh. Nic. Schmidt.
In 1773; Brothers Meyer, in 1796 Brothers
Sehusier, in 1780. and Em. Mueller, established
in 1799.
W. G. Meier, the wealthy tobacco buyer
for the German government, who last week
bought VictorNewcomb’s handsome residence
at Louisville, is mentally incapacitated for
business He pureha.-ed altogether lasi wees
real estate costing $70,000. He asked an archi
tect to prepare plans for a w arehouse lo cost
$250,000. Another vagarv was that he was
going to buy a place on the Hudson, where
he would want a coach and four. He will
probably betaken lo the sanitarium at Clifton
Springs. N. Y. The purchase of the New
comb property may be annulled.
Before Sir Henry Taylor retired from offi
cial life be resided at Upper Sheen, and here
he. was almost the neighbor, and became the
close friend, of Mrs. Julia Cameron, the dis
tinguished photographer, in many wavs a re
markable woman, who resided at Putney
Ilealh. The intimacv was continued after
the lady’s removal to Freshwater, and her
husband, S r IT-nry. and the Laureate formed
the most remarkable trio imaginable. 1 heir
rambles over I fie downs after sunset, strange
ly bearded and most wild in their attire, were
the eonstantthemcof tbe bewildered villagers
ami occasionally the scare of the tourists who
happened to encounter them.
It is time to call the roll of the noted Board
of New York Aldermen. Arrested last week—
Charles Ji. Reilly. Arrested in the great haul
—Thomas Cleary. Michael Duffy, Patrick
Farley. Frederick Friuck. Rudolph A. Full
erin' Francis McCabe. Arthur J. McQuade,
John O’Neill. Henry L. Sayles,ThomasShiels,
and Louis Wcnilel. Arrested before—ll. SV.
Jaehne. H . H. Muller. William P. Kirk, ami
James Pearson. Missing-diaries Detnnsey,
Robert E. DeLt.cey, and Thomas Rothman.
Dead—Patrick Kenney and Michael p. Mc-
Laughlin. Mate’s evidence—Charles B
Waite. Voted “no” on the Broadway job—
Hugh J. Grant aud John C. O’Connor.* Jr
I otal, 24.
A delegation from the Lee Association, of
Mobile, went to Beauvoir, Miss., the other
day to invite ex-President Jefferson Davis lo
j deliver a lecture for the lienefltof these mines
j monument. After a pleasant run they ar
rived at Beauvoir, and found Mr. Davis'tired
out ironi a long business ride, bin alter a brief
delay he rc.-cived them. The purposes of the
visit being made known to him, tic responded
in the most hearty manner, and fixed the time
for the mouth of M ay. He read the address
ottered him without g asses, but put the n on
when a delicately-written one was offered.
His grasp was strong and heartvand tua *pir
iis lush, although he received his visitors in
his bedroom whin-he reclined. Each of the
committee cordiahy thanked him. and witli
the best wishes tor ms recovery, relumed to
the station, where Hie extra train awaited to
return them to the Gulf City.
George Moore, the clerk of the Hotel
North at Augusta, recently had a dream that
Is worth telling. Andrew Jock, the veteran
railway postal clerk, boards at the hotel, and
us lie goo-out on the early morning train he
lat uiv lit e aver an order to he called at 4:311 u.
; in. by Hie p rier. Mo re baa been aeeu-loiueii
to put and w n tins order at n ght wheihr Jerk
leu it, or not line night Moore dreamed that
: he bud failed to put oowu ibis order. In lig
I wsion lie *uw Jerk urri ing -t the station jut
| a* 'be hsn w s going out. H ■ -aw him Dag
gering Hlod/ With nil Ihi me osu load of mini
bugs on his Shnu'ders amt wii h great beads of
sweat on lit- forehead, painfullvriinningafter
| tne train on Die track trting vainly to catch
"■ Wii h m jump Moore awoke and s-ked him
self whei her he had failed to put down Jock's
call. Ho could rot remember, nut. h sti y
slipped into his clothes and went down stairs
b’ see. The on! r was not on the hook.
Strange to <v the hands of Min cl ick pointed
dir etlv to 4: i. Moore went up and called
Jeek himself on time
Hearing that a Master Workman of the
Kntghi* of Labor was among the militia, a
HI. Louis reportsr set out to investigate.
After a ■ liori search lie found his man, who
proved to be Thomas Tny’or, Muster Work
man of Assembly No li.ltM o( Newton, 111.
”1 ea, sir." replied that gi nlleinan, “lam a
.Muster Workman of the Knights of Labor.
" < are making a hard and earnest light, and
I think that by arbitration we will win. Vc-.
il la true, I aiu W' aring Gould clothes (look
ing at his brass buttons] and protecting
Gould's property, hut that is mv outy us a
mllill.im.in mid an old soldier, f re|iondrd
like Die ol tiers to tho drsf call for niuii . nd
that Is Die reason I am here. No, I do not
consider it taking up arms agn'nst the
Knights or Labor. It la not the Knights ths
are bin ning the cars. Who is ity Well, J t
don’t know why you ask that question, for I I
don’t know who you are, but it is my candid
opinion Dial Ju) Gould burned those cars, or
at Icasi liMd it done by In oHums to gain a
noun-namely, the allopathy of the people.
No, I dcu t care totulk about either Powder
ly’s or Gould's late letters. I think that all Is
for the best, and that the Knights of Labor
will gain the day .”
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A Job Lot of Wide H AMBUKG EDGINGS
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A Job Lot of Medium Width HAMBURG
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A Handsome Line of Parasols
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Crown Shirts, $1 00.
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Hals and Bonnets for ladies
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Hat and Bonnet Frames,
new shapes, 15c this week.
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