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*" , H.BDAT, MAI 18, 1880.
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Meetings—(hathim Mutual Loan Associa
tion; Bond Commissioners for Chatham
County; Savannah Yacht Club; FordjDra
niailc Association
special Notices-As to Crew of Norwe
gian Bark Walie; Wil' ors t od Liver Otl and
Litnc; To PetitJurors City Court; As to An
th 'fluid Agent. Sleyer Mendel.
STEAMSHIP SCIIBBTLE— SaiIing Hays of
the Steamship Maseotlo for Tampa, Etc.
ra.sk ball—Amateurs vs. Central Rail
road.
Motion Salks—Sundries, by I I>. La-
Roo lie’s Sons; Clotliing. Etc., Unclaimed
|ght. hyt . ti. Dor.-ctt.
Health in the B*kad—Royal Baking
r order.
cheap Column advertisements—Help
Wanted: Emp oymont Wanted; For Kent;
Fop Side: Lo t: Boarding; Miscellaneous;
J’errooal.
GfABDS’ ARSENAL CONFECTIONK V— F
Uooksvn.
Estimate# for Plastering—Morning
Sews Office.
. Pianos and Organs— L. AB.S.M. H.
The Morning Nkws is under obliga
tions to Sen - ..n Joseph E. Brown for Vol
ume XV of the official records of the
Civil war.
It seems probable that Atlanta will
toave to postpone building the proposed
railroad to artesian water until the politi
cal campaign is over.
It has been judicially decided in New
I'ort that a boss detective is more apt to
fell the truth than a boodle Alderman.
This is believed to be the result of any
army of detectives keeping the jury and
jury fixers apart.
Senator Colquitt made powerful prohi
bition speeches at Raleigh and Durham,
C., last week. The local option elec
tion takes place in those places on June 7,
and the campaign is said to be an ex
tremely warm one.
Those people of Georgia who keep
Moderately cool during the campaign will
have just as good a Governor as those
who worry arouml and perspire all the
colors out of their suspenders aud destroy
the elasticity of these usolul contrivances.
Pennsylvania prospectors have leased
Tti.ooo acres of land near Chattanooga, on
which they propose to expend $50,000
boring for natural gas and oil. They say
they are confident that they will find otic
or both these products in paying quanti
ties.
Inventor Kcely’s secretary says that
the parts of the great “locomotor” could
not be gotten together In time for the
promised trial trip Saturday. This is no
reason, however, why anyone wanting
motor stock should not be allowed to pur
chase ad libitum.
Week before last “Arbor Day” was
Celebrated in Pennsylvania, and last Sat
urday was whipping post day in Wilming
ton, Del., and twelve petty criminals re
ceived the rod of correction. There is an
old adage that says: “As the twig is bent
au the tree is inclin'd.”
Mother Sbipton’s prophecies are begin
ning to appear in the magazines. Poor
•Id lady ! She died nearly 250 years be
fore the magazine editors found out that
hier productions had literary merit, aud
that her name would be a good advertise
ment for their periodicals.
The New York Coaching Club swells
are said lobe at, dagger’s point over the
question of wearing white or black hats
while oa the road. It is hinted, though,
that only white silk lieaveis can be worn
if-the me in tiers of the club want to lay
•ny claim to being “English ’'mi Know.”
If the account Gov. Swineford, of
Alaska, gives about the boundless weal! b
t>l gold lying around loose in that, de
pendency of the United State* ia true,
there is reason to believe that gold will
•on go further below par than silver is
now. 1, t nut the silver bugs go to jump
ing at oonclusio: however.
A lot of bov bank thieves Irom Lowell,
Silas#, were captured in Montreal the
other day and brought back to the United
Stales. Bay Stale hoys ure not as pre
cocoius as they are reputed to be, or they
would have followed the example of the
wen bank thieves and pilfered in #ucb a
manner that they would uot have come
under the extradition treaty.
Tiis free wool question doesn’t *eem to 1
be bothering tlie Texans. The San An- '
toma wool markel i very active, and
over t.tk’O bugs ol 2tKi pound* each were ]
•old one duy iat week at 10 cent* per
pound and over. The spring clipot th"
Ban Antonia region i*estimated at nearly
10,009,000 pounds, of wnicli only about
one-third has been hauled to market.
The conviction of a round doxeu negro
Women of pension fraud* at Vicksburg
•bow* that the colored troop* fight as
hard ror the reward* of patriotism a* they
did for freedom and bounties during the
war. All of the pensioner* were widows
i>f colored soldiers, but they had married
Again aud had forgotten to state the whole
truth wbeu they applied for pensions.
Ihe Chi'ago lnter-Oocan says editor!-
ally that a Socialist procession marched
through that city the other day “currying
tffie red Hag aloft and trailing the Ameri
can flag ill tho dust.” The same paper
•iso contained •ome allusions to the “re
newai of the reoeliion in the South.” It
failed to notice that wuile the disloyal
Chicago mob wa* doing it* work ex-
President Davis, of the Boulbern Confed
eracy, was in Savannah, making patriotio
speeches under Uis#hadows of tho stars
ut'd strides.
j I'ogus Butter Men Alarmed,
j Congress Is being burdened with peti-
I lions for and against the bill to stop the
! manufacture and sale of imitation butter.
It is staled that over 500 petitions were
received by Congress last week. They
were sent from all parts of the country,
ami were signed chiefly by members of
! agricultural associations. The Knights
j of Labor, it seems, have taken a hand in
| the matter, hut as their hand appears
! both for and against the bill, it is hardly
j probable that they will have much influ.
[ enee.
The kind Of a bill that Congress ought
to pass is one that would provide a heavy
punishment for selling imitation butter for
the genuine article. If people want oleo
margarine ami butterine let them have it,
but let them know what they are buying.
Avery large percentage of those who buy
butter is imposed upon. People pay a
big price for what they suppose to be but
ter, but which, in fact, in many instances,
is only a very unwholesome imitation of
that, article.
The imitation butter manufacturers
are making extraordinary efforts to de
feat the hill, and may succeed. The sen
timent in Congress at present, however,
is that the bogus butter business must be
conducted on an honest basis.
It is a matter of little consequence in
the discussion of this bill whether the
imitation butter is manulactured out of
wholesome materials or not. The only
question is whether oleomargarine and
butterine are put on the market under
false preteuses, and, if so. whether it
isn't the duty of Congress, in the inter
est of public health, to compel the manu
facturers of these articles to make known
to the public just what their stuff is.
There is no doubt that the sale of bogus
butter has reached enormous proportions.
The people who use it seem to like it.
Tnere are physicians who have lately
said, however, that it is dangerous to
health. If it. is, the bogus butter busi
ness cannot be cbecked too soon It is as
important that the people should have
wholesome food as it is that they should
have good laws.
If imitation butter is as good a food ar
ticle as its manufacturers claim that it is,
there ought to be no objections on the part
of those interested in it to having it put
on the market for just what it is. Let
them stamp its true character upon it,
and nobody will then undertake to sup
press it. It is the deceit, which is prac
ticed with regard to it which excites the
greatest opposition to it. The sale of it.
would doubtless fall off very considerably
if people knew exactly what they were
eating for butter.
Campaign Points.
Gen. Gordon and Maj. Bacon have ar
ranged for joint discussions every day
tills week, it is hardly probable that
there will be anything new in their
speeches. They will simply present the
same ideas in a different dress. The
joint discussions, however, will increase
their audiences and assist, to some ex
tent, in arousing greater enthusiasm in
the campaign. The State is getting
pretty well stirred up ever the
Governorship issue, and doubtless many
are beginning to wonder whether, alter
all, the two gentlemen who have
presented themselves as candidates for
the nomination are entitled to as much at
tention as they are receiving. Perhaps
the question presents itself whether there
are not other gentlemen in the State, a
little more modest, perhaps, but, of marked
ability and high character, who are bet
ter fitted to till the office of Governor than
either of ihe gentlemen who are making
such extraordinary exertions for it. It
is, or course, customary for candidates
for Governor to make known their ambi
tion liefore the meeting of the nominating
convention, but it is seldom that such a
canvass as is now being made in this
State is seen.
Some of our State exchanges say that
this is not a year for dark horses. It may
not bo. but if the candidates at present
in the race keep up their present puce
thev may travel outside of the respect
and good will of the people before the
convention meets.
The discussion of the two-thirds rule
has begun. Isn’t this discussion rather
premature? It may prove to he a trouble
some rule, but there is no occasion for
anticipating trouble. It would be much
more to the point now to have the ques
tion, whether any of President Cleve
land’s anpolntees in tins State are taking
an active part in the campaign, definitely
answered. If the President insists upon
keeping in orti :e in this State men who
are not. protected bv the civil service law,
he ought certainly to insist that his ap
pointees snail respect his civil service
policy.
The Home Rule Measures.
The present week promises to be a very
exciting one in England. It is expected
that th.' question whether Mr Gladstone’s
home nil" hill shall be read a second time
will lie settl and.
There doesn’t appear to be any reason
for doubting that the bill will not reach a
second reading. The opposition to it in
Mr. Gladstone's own party is so marked
tiiat there i* believed to be no hope for it.
If a second reading is refused, Mr. Glad
stone, it scams, proposes to demand an
immediate dissolution of Parliament.
Englishmen will then have a chance to
decide upon the course they will pursue
with regard to Ireland. It 1* certain that
It will not !• possible to continue to gov
ern Ireland a* be is being governed at
present. The great majority of English
men udmitthut. If Mr.Gladstone’s home
rule measure* are defeated other measures
wiil have to be proposed, Ireland is
bound to have home rule of some sort.
Some other statesman may frame the
measures which will give Ireland some
thing, If not all, of what Bbe is demand
ing, but .Mr. Gladstone will have the
j credit of having been the first English
i statesman to make a move towards doing
t Irelandjustioa. TUatla something that
j cannot be taken away from him. He may
not live to see a Parliament at Dublin,
j but the one that assembles there will owe
j more to him than to any other English
! man.
, Gladstone may have some surprises
iu store. He Is a man full ot resources,
and it is not probable that he intends to
let his great measures fail in a way that
will reflect little it any credit upon him
*e!f. The events of the present week in
England will, therelore, be looked for
| with deep interest.
I It looks very much like cotton is still
I king, and not ouly king hut the worst sort
' of a tyrant.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. MAY 18,1886.
| Bishop Potter and Labor Troubles.
Bishop Potter, ot .New York, has issued
a letter to the clergy ot that diocese in
which he makes some admirable observa
tions on the labor troubles, and timely
suggestions which the ministers of his
denomination are requested to utilize in
speaking from the pulpit to their congre
gations. He believes that the lack of
harmony between capital and labor
presents for careful consideration some
very grave questions, and while he does
not. hesitate to say that in his opinion the
violent methods adopted by some labor
organizations to force compliance with
their demands will fall, and that in con
tests between labor and capital there is
not much doubt that labor will, as a rule,
he defeated because the great majority of
people are certain to range themselves on
the side of law and order, he does not
hold capital free from responsibility for
tlie present condition of affairs.
It may be that workmen have made
unreasonable demands, but if they have
it has been because they were influenced
to a great extent by the spirit of retalia
tion. They have seen capitalists, feeling
confident of their power to do pretty
much what they pleased, show a con
temptuous indifference to the just de
mands of workmen that was irritating
and exasperating. Labor questions have
been dealt, with by employers in a way
that indicated utter ignorance of their
real merits, and an entire disregard of
the rights of wago earners.
The Bishop is confident that the wage
payers will have to recognize tne fact
that the wage earners are not to be
treated as if their services were a mere
commodity, the price of which is wholly
controlled by the demand and supply.
The wage earner, when he asks for
justice, must be listened to, and his an
peal, to the extent that it is possible,
granted. In the main he asks for only
fair and fraternal dealing and a recogni
tion of his manhood.
Wage earners are paid more to-dav
than they were, says the Bishop, thirty
years ago, blit their wants are greater.
Education has changed their ideas re
specting the comforts of life, and what
satisfied them once no longer satisfies
them, They are better able to judge of
the rewards of capital now than they
were then, and these rewards, in many
instances, are so much greater than those
of labor that they feel that they are not
getting all they are entitled to.
The Bishop points out that “the growth
of wealth among us has resulted not in
binding men together but in driving them
apart. The rich are further from the
poor, the employer from his workmen,
capital from labor now than ever before.”
This being the condition of affairs there
is, of course, less spmpathv with the poor
and their struggles for subsistence than
ever before in the history of this country.
There ought, therefore, to be no occasion
for wonder if there is hatred between
those whom fortune has favored, and
those who sec no chance for ever becom
ing able to command more than the nec
essaries of life.
The only way to bring about a better
understanding between the favored
classes and the wage earners is for the
former to abandon their indifference to
the interests ol the latter, to think less of
their ease and the indulgence of their
appetites and passions, and to endeavor
to get a clearer idea of the relations of
men to one another.
“A nation whose wealth and social
leadership,” save the Bishop, “are in the
hands of people who fanev that day after
day, like those of old, they can ‘sit down
to eat and drink and rise up to play,’
careless of those who earn tne dividends
that they spend and pay the rents of the
tenement houses that thev own, but too
often never visit or inspect, has but one
doom before it, and that the worst. We
may cover the pages of our statute books
with laws regulating strikes and inflict
ing severest, penalties on those who or
ganize resistance to the individual lib
erty whether ot employer or workman;
we raav drill regiments and perfect our
police; tne safety and welfare of a State
i* not in these things, it is in the content
ment and loyalty of its people.”
There is a way, the Bishop thinks, to
bring about contentment, to heal grave
social divisions, and it is not by making
statutes or increasing the military.
The new play by Mark Twain and W.
D. Howells is said to be a dramatic fail
ure. It was to be put on Ihe Now York
boards this week. The play is called
“The American Claimant,” and it is
stated that the “character” is so much
overdone that not even the gallery gods
will laugh at him. Twain gotupa com
pauy and rented the Lyceum Theatre, but
has decided to pocket his misfortunes
with as good grace as possible, and try to
reconstruct the play next winter. The
impression is growing that Twain some
time since,pumped his well of humor dry.
The cry of “school butter” would raise
a riot very quickly a quarter of a century
ago. Now the complaint is made that the
steward of one of our American Dothe
boy’s halls, the Chester Spring (I’a.)
school lor has been feeding the
children on the cheapest kind of oleo
margarine, and selling the compound to
his neighbors. All who ate the stuff were
made ill. The steward baa been prose
cuted for selling the bogus butter, but
there is no law under which he can be
punished tor feeding it to the orphan*,
and they did not have spirit enough left to
rebel against the bogus school butter.
“Well, Hrudder Pompey,” said deacon
Cuphl \V hlte to elder l’ompey Jones, “dat
wus a fust rate aarmunt you gin us on de
Lord's prabr; but you needen tuck but
one verse uv de prabr lur yo’ tox’.”
“What dat, BrudderCupid?” “Why,dat
un what says sumtiii about leadin' u*
inter temptation, Brudder Pompey. 1 tell
yer. If a nigger cum along de paf en sew
a chicken roos’ln’ down low, be ain’ goin’
ter bed bongry, aho’s you bobn.”
Colonel Cbauncey Depew is said to bfl
an a*pirant tor the Republican guberna
torial nomination in New York. Hi*
chief claim to fume rests on the (act that
he confidentially told the country last
summer about nn after-dinner Speech of
General Grant’s in which Ihe Hero of Ap
pomattox hinted darkly that be (the H.of
A.) bad criahed out a whole rebellion
since the war without disturbing the
country or letting anybody else know
anything about It.
Tbs Soudan is said to be a very barren
country, it cannot be denied, however,
that it has very fertile soil for tbs pro
duction of false prophets.
CDRRENT COMMENT.
Tim Right* of Workingmen.
Prom the Bouton Poet (Dim,)
The right of men to associate therosolves to
, gctiier for legitimate purposes is indubitable;
ami equally It is the right of others to decline
to (to 80. It is we,l that this fact Stjoill'l ne
generally recognized, ami we believe that It
i is. The labor organizations are entitled to
j respect and consideration when they are
I wisely conducted and serve to aid their mem
bers In reasonable and necessary demands,
i But the individual workingman, standing
alone, commands the same consideration and
we are inclined to think that he will receive
it.
Effect]veness of Eloquence.
From the Few York Tribune (Rep,)
They are contrasting two different styles of
oratory in Congress, as illustrated by Con
gressman Everhart and O’Neill. Mr. Ever
hart, In a recent speech on the river and har
bor bill, talked about the Gordian knot, the
Serbonian bog. Jupiter and Lanai, the tabu
lous shores of Calypso and Atlantis, the im
primatur of the Elzevirs, and the Palimpsests
of the Vatican, ending up with a reference to
Ezekiel swallowing the roll. Mr. O’Neill, on
the other hand, got up ami said simply that
the bill looked like a steal, tint that he was in
favor of it provided St. Louis got her share of
the pork. This is the sort ot eloquence that
St. Louis appreciates.
The Right to Protection.
From the Chicago Mean (Pnd,)
.It will not do to say that the public lias the
right to purchase preserved eggs, if for any
reason one prefers them, for that Is a blow at
a great industry which should Vie protected.
We have not at hand the statistics as to the
number of hens and henroost# in theUuited
States, for the Census Department in its re
port stops at sheep and wool, but owners of
beet beds aud cucumber patches need not lie
told that there are several hens in every coun
try village. This great industry is threatened
by the preserved-egg business, which is
wholly against nature and ihe c.ivine rights
of hens. Let it be suppressed before the
chirks now in various old barrels become ap
prenticed to the egg-producing industry.
Protecting the Treasury.
From the Few York Star ( Dem.)
We are glut to see that Senator Vest, of
Missouri, had thecourage to oppose one of the
numerous pension jobs now pressed upon
Congress by vote-seeking demagogues. Sen
ator ltlair, of New Hampshire, author of the
most sweeping and reckless of these devices
for depleting the Treasury, questioned the
right of ex-Confederates to oppose such
measures, it is time for the Southern Sena
tors to rreat such suggestions with the con
tempt ihey deserve. The men who represent
the Southern States in Congress have just the
same rights, duties and interests as other
members. Extravagant expend! tures increase
the taxes of the Southern as well as of the
Northern people, and it is incumbent on the
Representatives from all the Stales to join in
opposing schemes to bankrupt the Treasury.
The very object of the war was to restore the
Southern Slates to the Union, and now that
they are restored they are the equals of all
Others, with similar duties and responsibili
ties. Let the men they send to represent
them at Washington show that they habitu
ally appreciate this fact, and resent with the
indignation it deserves each attempt to ques
tion their right to vote according to their own
convictions on every question coming before
Congress.
BRIGHT HITS.
Supply and Demand. “Antiquarian
Gent—Got anv old —ah—Roman Weapons or
(lottery lately?
Dealer—’Xiiee.t ’em in nex’ week, sir— ’aint
quite finished rustin’ yet, sir—about Toosday,
sir.— Punch.
“You told me, Arthur, that, your doctor ad
vised you to drink whisky. Has it done you
any good?”
“Well. I should sav so. I got a barrel of it
two weeks ago. aud I could hardlv lift it, and
now I can carry it about the room.”— Good'
Cheer.
A couple op visitors from a rural dis
trict in the House gallery were trying to pick
out their Congressman on the floor. “1 can't
distinguish him,” said one after a hopless
visual observation. “Of course not,” was
ilie honest reply: “hecan’t even distinguish
himself.”— Wae/Unfjtnn Critic.
When John Graham was defending Gen.
Sickles, indicted in Washington for the mur
der of Barton Key. I'had Stevens dropped
into the court room one day to hear the dis
tinguished counsel. After the adjournment
somebody asked him what he thought of Gra
ham. and the old commander frankly an
swered, “I think he is a peppery little cuss.”
E&chanae.
The Typographical Union at Reading has
demanded of one of the newspaper proprie
tors that he shall either discharge his female
com ositors or pay them union prices. The
proprietor refuses to do one thing or th*
other. The tynos should settle this dispute
uy marrving the girls. This would bring
them int i the union and mtke everything se
rene.— Philadelphia Record.
There is an old lady in the annexed dis
trict who makes frantic efforts to keep abreast
of the times. Circumscribed, however, in her
social sphere, and with limited opportunities
of development, ibis is difficult, and she is
compelled sometimes to resort to her imagi
narion. Vain the effort to tell her anything
she docs not already know, or startle her with
information. A few evenings ago she went
to a ehnrch sociable, and as she entered the
room one of the young ladies said: “Good
evening, auntie: 1 am very glad you came.
We are going to have tableaux this evening.”
“Ye-, I know. I know,’ replied the old lady;
“I smelt ’em when 1 flrstcame in.”— Up-Town
Few*.
A Burglar was going through a house in a
Dakota town one night and discovered an ex
ceptionally large roll of money. Curious to
know whether lie had broken into an editor's
house or that of some other variety of capi
talist he turned to the owner, who had just
awakened, and said:
“Excuse me. Colonel, but I would like to
inquire bow you came by such an unu-ually
large wad of wealth?”
“Sir!” replied tlie moneyed man, “I am a
member of the Terri tori alLegW at lire."
“A thousand paril >ns!’’exclanncd the polite
burglar, dropping the money, “,-liake! We
never steal from me in her# of the nrofessiou.
Good-night!”— Eeteiline (Dak.) 8011.
I’EKSONAL.
Sarah Bernhardt is whiling away the
time on the voyage to Kio by trying to write
a play.
M. Bkrtant. physician of Garibaldi, and a
leader of the Italian Radicals, has just died of
apoplexy.
Tim late Lionel Tennyson had started in to
make himself a specialist in the drama. He
put much time to the study of the i’ersian
play.
Word conies to Baltimore that Dr. Clapham
Pennington, of that city, now residing in Vi
enna. has been made a Lieutenant Colonel in
the Servian army by King Milan
The new Chair of Oriental Language* at
Yale college ha# been Anally accepted by
Prof. VV. It. Harper, of the Union Baptist
Theological seminary at Morgan park.
Lady Maude Ooilvy, an English woman
who oan “pop a deer at #nn yards, or break a
bucking horse,” I# crossing ihe Atlantic to
visit her brother on his ranch in Colorado.
The flue Draper inodaj, the first awarded
by the National Academy of Sciences, lie
stowed upon Prof. S. P. Langley, of the Al
legheny oli-erTiitor\, i now to lie seea in one
of the vaults of a Pittsburg bank.
Mr. Waknkr’h bronze statue of William
Lloyd Garrison rep'oeenls Mr. Garrison a#
seated, looking lo tlie right. His right hand
ro-tsuu bis thigh and holds H roll of manu
script and 111* left arm is resting on the arm
of ihe chair. The head is uncoverel. Ills
features Indicate benevolence and firmness
of will. 1 lie pose is easy and natural. The
statue is “colossal” in slse. The figure would
measure nine feet If preot,
Damon Y. Kilgore, Esq.. (Saturday took
advnntnge of the rc ent lin Psion of All wife,
Mrs. Carrie Burnham Kilgore, to practice as
an attorney in the .Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania bv rooviug for her sbuilmloii In
Common Picas Courts No#.! auditor Philadtil-
I phiu. Judge Biddle was alone itpou tlie bench
in Ihe firmer court, and held the application
un'i r advisement, being in doubt who her the
recent act of asaetnbK making it lawful lor
! any attorney ad in I nod In the Supreme Court
] tube admitted in me Common Pleas made
l the admission obligatory nr only discretionary
i with the latter courts. In No. *Mr Kilgore
presented the certificate from the I 1 [iroßg)
j Court uml a eertifl-ate of good morul cliarae
i ler (roni President Judge Thayer, in whose
court Mr*. Kilgore was admitted a your ago.
Judge Hare said that In his npiu.on Dio act
I of a-acmbly made her a Innsslun to the Com
mon Plana a merely ministerial duly, which
his court would unhesitatingly perform He
did not consider that the act left him any
discretionary power. He at the same time
expressed the opinion that the admission
would not lead to nitv very eorioue ooa*e
queucus. Tlie c.erufioain of good moral char
acter ho declared entirely unnecessary.
Playing a Trick on Mr. Wilkins.
Dispatch to the Ind ianapotie Journal.
There arc a number of members in the
House who are passionately fond of n aching
coin-. Among the nn in her is Representative
'Vllkins, of Ohio. He is remarkably lucky,
too; indeed, so dicky that many are afraid to
try their luck with him. However, the other
day two members put up a job on him.
They agreed to match with him and each to
hold a "head” or a “la 1” at every match.
That, is, both to endeavor so that one would
always match him, and then to dhile their
winnings. The first member ai preached
Mr. Wilkins and asked him if he wauled to
match him for aquarter.
"That’s too small,” replied Mr. Wilkins.
"I’ll match you for a dollar.”
Just then the second conspirator ap
proached. and lie, too. asked to join in. as
three made it livelier. They matched, and
Wilkins lost. Five times the Mchcmc worked,
"Now I match you for 15.” said Mr. Wil
kins; “i lose all or get en a.”
They matched. He lost again.
“Try for 5 1n,” he said.”
They matched. Wilkins lost again.
“Twenty dollars,” cried Wilkins. He lost
again.
"Try flO,” said one of the conspirators
“No,” said Wilkins, “but I’m going to see if
I really have lest my luck.”
He rushed into the lobby, and the first per
son lie met was a friefid who was a stock
broker. “You buy me 100 shares of Erie,” he
exclaimed. Wilkins had not lost his luck, for
he cleared $l5O off the stock above the money
he lost matching. The conspirators now don’t
know- w hether to refund the money they won,
or invite Wilkins to a wine supper,
Wken the Circus Cum to Town,
From the Chicago Newt.
Yon kin talk o’ your circuses nowadays.
An’your railroad shows, aud sich,
An’ th* wonderfal things the riders do,
An, your managers gettin’ rich,
Fer it tetches a lender spot, an’ sometimes
A tear starts tricklin’down.
As I think o’ home an’ the village green,
When tUe circus cum to town.
I remember well how we’d skamper out,
Long afore the break o’ day.
An’ how one'd collar a waterin’ pail
An’ t’other a bunch of hay.
An’ with carryin' water an* feedin’ th’ hav
An’ doin' odd jobs aroun’,
We all stood in fer a topmost seat
When tlie circus cum to town.
An’ I can’t forgit how my heart’d thump
At the sudd n turns thev made,
As we stood an’ watche I ’em drive in line,
Fer the “dally street parade.”
An’ I tnink how we’d all fall in behind,
An’ foller ’email aroun'.
Till my heart boats fast as it used to do
When the circnscum to town.
I kin see them rings on the village green.
With the sawdust ’rouu’ inside.
An’ the house on the top o’ the elephant’s
back
Wber’ the 'hammedins used to ride.
I kin hear the crack o' the master’s whip,
An’ the shriek o’ the striped clown.
As we set on the highest seat an’ laffed.
When the circus cum to town.
An’ arter the show was done we'd Stan’
Aroun’ where the hucksters bake.
An’ in silence gaze with hungry eyes
At the chunkso’ ginger cake.
The-e things come back an’ ther’ ain’t no use
A tryin’ to keep ’em down.
Why. I never thought o’ doin’ thechores
When the circus cum to town.
— Janie* A. Park*.
They Saw Washington.
Hewburyport Letter in the Boston Transcript.
There is a lady In this city who has passed
her 99th year. Her faculties are bright. She
is a lovely woman—Miss Phoebe Hanod. She
was 3 years old when Washington visited this
city and remembers biin distinctly. It was an
event which would impress itself upon the
memorv of a bright child, for he was received
with the discharge of cannon and bands of
music. A baud sung, standing before him;
"Hecomos! hecomes! the hero comes!
Sound, sound your trumpets, beat, beat your
drums;
From post to post let eannons roar,” etc.
The lines in this verse winch call for the
beaiing of drums and roaring of cannon were
instantly obeyed after tlie pronunciation of
each word. There was a feu de joie fired as
he entered the house prepared for him (now
our Public library), and rockets and fireworks,
in the evening. Noise and rejoicing enough
to make a child of three remember the t-venr.
Another litilclnctdent may be interesting
in this connection:
Mrs. Bradley, wife of the distinguished
William C. Bradley, of Vermont, and
daughter of ihe Hon. Mark Richards, told
very shortly before her death that she had
clear recollection of Washington. He called
upon her mother, then living in Boston, when
site was a little child. She sat listening to
him with veneration and de Ight. When he
rose to go. and making his adieu, she slipped,
unseen, tieh.nd him, and laid her little band
upon his coat sleeve. She said she was im
pelled bv a feeling of admiration to do this.
She told me tliai he was stalely in his man
ner. and dignified and polite in his address.
We recall ano'her old lady, Mrs. Morris,
wife of Gen. Lewis Morris, who was, I think,
a nephew of the Morris of Revolutionary
fame She told me that she visited Sirs.
Washington at Mount Vernon when the piace
was in its early beauty She spoke of Mrs.
Washington's good management in the affairs
of the houahoid. She had a personal super
vision of the nlacc. Mißß Curtis, then a young
lady, came into the room and asked if she
might liny a thread lace bertha for the ball
which was to take place soon.
"No, my dear,” said Mrs. Washington, “I
cannot indulge you in such extravagance;
you man deny yourself this bertha.” That
was sufficient. Her word was law, and the
young lady said no more.
A Witch Hazel Rod of Value,
From the Few York Sun.
In the year 1864 a man named Smartwood
made his appearance in M'tchell county,lmi.,
claiming to point out buried treasure by the
nee of a divining rod. Several farmers em
ployed him lo go over their lands, but he
failed to turn up anything. 1 here was then
in that county, paying a visit to his married
sister, a young man named Abner Mills, who
had served fortwo ears in an Ohio regiment
aud bad been discharged on account of tlie
loss of his left arm. His home was uear
Urbana, O. He had about S6O in money, and
of this sum he gave*B mart wood s3sfor switch
hazel rod aud set out to look up buried treas
ure on his own account. When the transac
tion came to be generally known lie was the
laughingstock of ihevicniiy, and the ridicule
finally became so strong that lie had not tlie
moral courage to appear among a crowd who
knew him. lie afterward asserted, however,
that he had strong faith in the rod from the
outset, and that ho looked upon ll only as a
question of time when it would lead him to a
fortune.
One day, after he had tramped over fields
and through the woods for a month without
any luck, and when ten or twelve miles to the
north of Salem, he sal down on the bank of a
creek to rest. The rod began to point to the
mirth west, and after awhile he followed the
dreek down toward the Ohio until he came to
an old saw mill in ruins. He entered this
place to find beam# rotied and roof about to
fall in. As the roil refused to point to any
particular corner of the building, lie laid it
down, look off Ids coat and began a search.
Fortwo hours he hunted up and down, spy
ing out every nook and hiilim place, and was
about to give up his search when he discov
ered. on the plate between two rafters, a roll
of cloth. That the roll had been there for
some months was evident from >t# mildewed
eoudition. When it was unrolled Mills found
himself possessed of a leathern wallet con
taining $1,600 in greenbacks, a gold watch, a
locket set with diamonds, and several val
uable diamonds which hail evidently Iweu re
niovedfrom their sellings. The entire find
was worth to him over $l.O K),
Believing that he had fallen upon the pro
ceeds of a robbery, Mill# went to Louisville
and uotHied the proper authorities. They In
turn notified all the important towns along
the river, hut not a trace of the owuers of the
property was discovered. By putting this
and that together, however, a conclusion was
dually arrived at. About ten month* pre
vious to the arrival of Mills in Mitchell coun
ty, several soldiers enlisting from tliut county
had I wen home on furlough. Among them
wereseveral hard cases, aid it was believed
that the properly found in the old mill had
been brought home by one of them and hidden
away against tlie date of his disc targe from
the army. The Jewelry urns probably the re
sult of some foraging expedition at the front,
and Ihe greenbacks might have been acquired
bv gambling or rohbary. After it few months
Mills raine into legal possession of everything
and the sum was sufficient to give the crippled
veicran a good start in life. ' Ithougli the
rod for that one time certainly led hlui lo a
treasure, he made no nse of it afterward,
much to the dlagn tot acquaintances, who be
lieved that fortune had taken him in tier keep
ing.
"CouT-v-oav-psuia-r-roNY” was solemn
ly chosen a few days ago by .signor ssechi, a
member of the Common Oouneii of Pavla, as
the uamn of his new-born child, a little girl.
Signor Sacehi ha leading free binker, and he
was anxious that Ills daughter should la:
called by a name winch no one could poaalhly
suppose to be Christian, but the authorities
interfered and she has been wwned Pavia,
alter her native city.
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
M. Drummont asserts that the Jews in
Paris, now 80,000, have doubled during tlie
last eight years.
A number of literary men smoke simply to
make an income. They have learned that
with a pipe in their mouth thoughts not only
come more readily, but in better order, and
that while it Is often difficult loget tlie proper
word if they are not smoking, it rims to the
point of the pen the moment they “light up.”
The educational influence of Mt. Holyoke
Seminary, which is soon to celebrate its semi
centennial. may be appreciated from tlie fol
lowing figures: Out of nearly 8.000 graduates
thirty have become physicians, 1,800 teachers,
180 foreign missionaries, a much larger num
ber missionaries in the South and West, and
610 have married professional men.
The United States are the chief home of
the English speaking population of the world,
for in all their extent English is the language
of 80,000,000 people. Canada stretches along
their border; a straight line from England to
Australia would cress their domain. New
foundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
llank them on the east; the Bermudas, and
the Bahamas are anchored near their doors.
After the roadlng of a plav of Moliere’s
by Prof. Bocher, of Harvard, in the pretty
little audience-room which goes by the
metropolitan name of Chickering Hall, an
unexpected shower came up. A ladt looked
out serenely on the fast-falling rain, then
walked calmly into the music store below
and got a large sheet ot light brown wrap
ping paper. She made an old-fashioned
“shaker” of that stiff paper, put it on ever
her bonnet, and actually trotted off up Tre
mont street with it on.
A week or two ago a bibliophile passing
through Edinburgh purchased an interesting
little volume of pamphlets out of a box of
threepenny books, at a shop in Frederick
street. Among the contents of the volume
were a curious copy of “Cadenus and Va
nessa” of 1726. the date of the first edition,
and a “Duneiad,” with rough fore-edges, of
the third issue of Ihe first edition, the “C” of
Mr. Thoms’list. Mr. Crossley’s copy of this
issue of the “Duneiad” was sold last year for
£5 os.
The books due to the printer’sand engrav
ers art are in point of size headed by a copy of
Napoleon’s “Egypt,” which formerly belonged
to Louis Phillippe. When the first Napoleon
invaded Egypt he took with him a body of ar
tists and scientific and literary men, to wb m
he intrusted the task of compiling this great
work with practically no restrictions as to its
cost. Ihe result was the thirty-three enor
mous folio volumes which will soon be offered
for sale Three of them are larger than the
so-called elephant size and measure nearly
four by three feet.
An amusing story comes from a diocese not
a hundred miles distant from a seaport town.
At a recent ordination the right reverend
prelate in dismissing the candidates after
their examination gave them an injunction to
communicate with His chaplain on matters of
business, had then proceeded somewhat
fiercely to reprimand them for spoiling three
towels in the episcopal lavatory by drying
their inky fingers on the articles in question.
This black offense had, his lordship said, been
brought under his notice by Mrs. Bishop and
the housekeeper, and the trembling candi
dates were duly cautioned, and, it is to be
hoped, were also duly penitent.
The babv that was born to Mrs. Grenn
Gunn, colored, of Tullahoma, Tenn., a few
niehts ago is gradually growing while. At
first it was as black as coal; it is now a light
mulatto in color. There is an impression of a
bullet :■ tlie back of the child’s head. This
mvstery is explained by Mrs. Gunn. She
says that on the night of the Bun robbery a
neighbor came to the house aDd insisted on
her husband joining the robbers. Gunn re
fused. whereupon he shoved an ugly-looking
revolver into her husband’s face and made
him go. She says the fright and fears that
the man would shoot her husband caused the
impression in her then unborn babe’s head.
A Belgian publisher has just informed me
that Emile Zola's latest novel, “L’tEuvre,”
ha# already reached the enormous circulation
of 889.000 copies! The other romances of the
same author in his series of “Rougon-Mac
qn irt” have been also highly successful. One
hundred and fortv-nine thousand copies of
“Nana” were sold, and new editions of the
same story are appearing everv year. "L’As
somoir” reached 111,000, “Pot-Bnuille” B'qOOO,
“G' rminai” 61.000, “Page d’Amnur” 5.1,000.
and “Au Bonheurdes Dames” 55,000. None of
Hugo’s or Dumas’ novpt# reached the circula
tion of “L’fEuvre.” Zola is, therefore, the
most, popular romancier that France has ever
produced.
Edwin Web*r, an employe of the Wason
car works, at Chattanooga, and his wife had
a narrow escape from being killed last Friday
afternoon. They had been out to their farm
on Missionary Ridge in a buggy, and had
started back to the city when the accident oc
curred. Mr. Weber was driving slowly down
the steep road, when his horse stumbled and
fell. In attempting to rise, the horse stumbled
again and the next moment pitched forward
over a high embankment. The buggy was
overturned, throwing the oceopant9 far down
the hill, and a second la'er both the horse and
buggy went rolling down the hill, the vehicle
falling on V eber and his wife. It was a mir
acle that they were not killed, but fortunately
neither were seriously injured.
Billiards were first invented, says a good
authority, by a pawnbroker. About the mid
dle of the sixteenth century there was one
William Kew, a pawnbroker, who during wet
weather was in the habit of taking down the
three balls, and, with the yard measure, push
ing them, billiard fashion, from the counter
into the stalls. In time the idea of a board
with side pockets suggested itself. A black
letter Ms. says: “Master William Kew did
make one hoarde whereby a game is played
with three balls, and all the voung men were
greatly recreated thereat, chiefly the young
clergvmcn from Bt. Pawles. hence one of ye
strokes was named a Canon, having been l>v
one of ve same clergymen invented. This
game is now known by ve name of Itillvard,
because William or ‘Bill’ Kew did first playe
with his yard measure. The slick is now
called a kew or kue.” Tt is easy to compre
hend how “Bill yard” has been modernized
into Billiard, and the transformation of
“kew” or “kue” into cue is equally apparent.
Ex-Postmaster General Thomas 1,.
James paid a high tribute to the good quali
tiesof the Catholic priesthood in a talk .Sat
urday. Said he: ”1 was brought up with a
feeling that the Catholic priesthood was to be
distrusted. It was hard to overcome hut
long experience lias taught me that they are
true and honest men. It was a Catholic priest
who came to me several years ago to warn
me of the Tompkins Square riots, and through
his warning I was enabled to fortify the Post
Office building against the attack. In mv ser
vice in the Host Offico there frequently 'arose
trouble Rlioiit the payment of money orders
They were always paid to the person present
ing them. Sometimes it was the wrong per
son ; the order had been lost. With an igno
rant loreigner it was a regular row, of course
We could do nothing, but could not make
them understand it. If they were Catholics
I could always settle the matter by asking
them tosend their priest. He never failed to
cnine and never failed to settle the matter I
have had the same experience in banking and
have come to have high respect fori he good
qualities of the Catholic clergy generally."
Old-Fashloned Politeness,
From tkt houinilU Commercial.
About noon one day I was in my favorite
haunt—the bookstore. There was arustie „f
robes ana the sweet voice of a dear old lad v
“Ilonev,” said she to her much younger com
pantmi, “what day of the mouth is this?”
The voice was very Southern, anti 1 knew
before I saw her lovely face that she had been
reared among the blossoms of a land tar south
of ours. Her dross suggested the Southern
ladv of fashion before the war. It was a loose
wule-l!owlng silk gown, with a velvet waist
elaborately trimmed, and over the lionnet a
black veil of real (lowered lace bung in grace,
tul folds.
Her hnlr was white and wavy ami ar
ranged in little puffs with most scrupulous
'•arc around her bright, rosy laec. She was
a woman of graceful mien and gentle words
She spoke to .he gentleman who waited on
her as if he was a king, not simply a clerk
more used to bluntness than such old-fash
toned courtesy, she noticed his pallor ami
could not have askod more anxiously 'after
Ills health, even if he had been a friend or
many years. It was her goodness of heart
and kindly consideration for the comfort of
others. Surely isnlteueas brings Its own re
ward, and a civil word In kindness spoken
appeals to the heart. I mav never know who
shs was. hut she made that store bright with
Iter presence, and the hearts of those who
saw her face and heard her words glad ann
more willing to tight the hattle of life. ’
A Wire Precaution—Servant maid to lee.
man: “If you'll jist hould this umbrella over
the Ice so as the sun don’t strike U, we mi.
have some of U lift by the time we get it in
tbe bouse—so we mav V'-Tul-BUm. * “
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