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- dress.
lee cream has doubled up more people
this summer than cucumbers and water
melons combined.
The Republican papers are disposed to
encourage the negro anarchists of Arkan
sas. So much the worse for the negro
anarchists of Arkansas.
Dr. Felton has retired to private life
fcgain. The doctor’s private life lias
always been more successlul and Inr hap
pier than bis public career.
The campaign organs are tapering off
by abusing the base ball umpires. It is a
poor umpire who does not have a foarful
array ot charges made against him.
Senator Edmunds seems to be waiting
anxiously for the explosion or the mine
that Senator Beok is said to have run un
der the great land grant railroad lawyer’s
record.
The dudes of Pittsburg are wailing be
cause a morning paper in that city has
published a list ot judgments in favor of
tailors. Some very tony names appear as
defendants.
It is stated that Col. Gilder is still de
termined to nail the American flag to the
North pole. He will eclipse Sergeant
Bates if it takes several summers and
winters also to do it.
There seems to be a question w hether or
toot the Southern Georgia District Attor
neyship is goitig begging. Let Congress
adjourn and give the administration a
chance to turn its eyes in this direction.
The Ohio Republican editors experience
all the emotions ot a scotched snake since
they have been defeated in their labori
ously concocted plan to help steal the Sen
atorial seat now occupied by Mr. Payne.
The New York brokers engaged in a
tough and tumble, scbool-boy struggle the
other day over the stuffed skiu of a bear.
The bulls attacked aud the bears defended
the effigy, which was pretty roughly
handled, but, like the brokers, It was
pretty tough aud held together iu very
good forai.
If the English Tories think they can
buy Air. l’arnell or destroy his influence
by offering him the chiel secretaryship of
Ireland, a place from whiob he ooukl be
kicked out any day, they probably greatly
underestimate the great home rule lead
er’s patriotism aud iutelligeuoe. If they
4o this iu the light of the history of the
last two years, they show a woudertu) de
ficiency iu brain power.
If the South cannot raise its own butter
supply it ought to be able to mauulacture
Us own oleomargarine, and to put the
product ou the market under its own
name. It is not oleomargarine that the
people object to, but bogus butter. The
present Slate laws ou this subject ought
to be enforced, and if amendments are
ueoessary there ought to be no ditfioulty
in securing such amendments without
unnecessary delay.
The Republicans have not yet aban
loced their scheme to regaiu complete
control ot local affairs iu Richmond by
using the workingmen's votes, but the re
cent set back tbev received in the City
Council has somewhat discouraged them.
The truth is the most intelligent aud in
fluential workingmen iu every Southern
city are Democrats, and they will not
consent to become cat’s paws tor the Re
publican managers.
It would not be a bad idea for our gov
ernment to buy a few first-class lumen
■utile rifled cannon ot large calibre just
lodeicrinine whetheroruot weeae rel) ou
bome-inado guns iu case of war. This
might bedoue without materially increas
ing' the appropriation or discriminating
against American manufactures and arti
sans. Indeed, the comparative tests
might develop tacts that would he invalu
able to those who will make our great
guns in the near future. It is to be re
gretted that Air. Randall, in all things,
shows a disposition to carry prelection lo
•silly extremes.
Blaine is said to be preparing his key
note speech, to be delivered within two cr
three weeks,probably at Augusta. A good
deal of curiosity is felt us to what issue
he will make the burden of his magnetic
oration. He tried protection during the
campaign ot last, and found thut it did not
magnetize well, and the bloody shirt was
only effective in w hooping up the igno
ramuses of the Western reserve oI Ohio,
He dare not touch heavily on the prohi
bition question, and be will hardly make
a severe attack on the administration,
lie is as full of resources, however, as he
Is wanting in principle, and he may be
expected to make an interesting, though
perhaps not a convincing, speech.
Southern Mon Slandered.
Tha New York World, beiug uuable to
say anything more against Mr. (iurlund
that i new and interesting, is now on- j
paged in its Washington correspondence
in trying to bring all Southern men in
public life tula disrepute. In a late
Washington dispatch the statement is
made that when Mr. Cleveland became
l’resideut he determined to recognize
the South to the fullest possi
ble extent In order to bring
about a more cordial feeling between
the North and the South. He thought
the time had come for sectional talk to
cease, and he wanted whatever sentiment '
of a hostile character that might still ex- j
Ist between the two sections to disappear ;
during his administration.
There is nothing objectionable in this, |
and it would doubtless pass unnoticed if
it were not connected in the dispatch
with the following rather remarkable
statement: “The President has been bit
terly disappointed In attempting to carry
out this policy, from the fact that the
principal officials selected by him from
the South have been so lamed and dis
credited in public estimation by the Pan
Kleotric scandal. This has discouraged
the President to a great degree. He naid
the other day, when asked to appoint a j
Southern man to the office ot Solicitor j
General, that he should go now to the !
North.”
The failure of the World and some of j
the other New York newspapers to drive i
Mr. Garland out of the Cabinet has so an
gered them that they are now disposed to j
slander all the public men of the South,
it is sate to assume that the President
nasn'texpressed himself as disappointed
in Southern men, and that he has not said
that be would now seek a candidate for
Solicitor General at the North. It is un
just to the President to put him
in the position of entertaining
doubts about the integrity of
Southern men, and It is an outrage
upon Southern men to insinuate that there
is none among them who can be trusted,
if these insinuations had appeared in a
Republican journal of the bloody shirt
type they would not attract attention at
the South, but that they should be pub
lished in a journal which professes to be
Democratic and friendly to the South, is
something which Southern people canuot
understand.
Mr. Goode had nothing to do with Pan
Kleotric stock, and the rejection ot his
nomination for Solicitor General had no
connection with that stock. Mr. Garland
holds some of the stock, but it has never
yet been shown that he came by it cor
ruptly, or that he has done any wrongful
act because of his possession of it. Hut,
assuming that he has done something
w rong, is that any reason why the honesty
of all Southern men of prominence should
be questioned? How many public men of
the North are there whose public records
would not stand an Investigation, and yet
it is not doubted that there are plenty of
honest public men there.
Asa matter ot tact the President is not
looking lor a Northern man to succeed Mr.
Goode. The beliel is that he will oiler the
Solicitor Generalship to Hon. Randolph
Tucker, of Virginia, and il' Mr. Garland
were to resign a Southern man, doubtless,
would he appointed to succeed him.
There is every reason to think that the
President thinks as highly of Southern men
now as he did when he was inaugurated.
Unfounded and unjustifiable statements
like this 111 the World are calculated to
neutralize any efforts the President may
make to bring about a feeling ot complete
uariuouy between the North aDd South.
Sir. Sherman anil the Payne Case.
Senator Sherman, in his speech in the
Payne bribery case, said that be did not
believe the charges against Senator Pay ne
were true, but he wanted them investi
gated simply to show that they were lalse.
This is a rather curious position for Mr.
Sherman to take. It looks very much as
.f he were afraid of the Republican edi
tors of Ohio, and that they had bulldozed
him into taking it.
lie is a standing Presidential candidate,
but without the assistance of the Repub
lican editors of Ohio he couldn't get the
delegation ol his own State. It would ho
a very happy ooudition of atlairs if public
men had the courage to act in accordance
with their convictious on all occasions.
Senator Sherman is a man of great
ability, and has had a prominent part in
the politics of the country for many years,
and yet he dure not always do what he
knows to be light.
Why should a committee of the Senate
devote weeks to investigating charges
which have already been fully investi
gated and shown to bo without founda
tion? As far as it is possible to
see the only thing desired by those
who urged the investigation was 10
get before tlie public a lot of inferences
and irrelevant matters for political effect
in Ohio. They ought not to have received
any euoouragemeut whatever. The Sen
ate would have more business on it 6
bands than it could attend to U it per
mitted itself to be used to further the
schemes of designing politicians. Tbs
action of the Senate yesterday in refusing
to investigate the flimsy charges against
Senator Payne will he generally approved.
Senator Sherman made bo capital for him
self by advocating an investigation while
admitting his belief in the falsity of the
charges.
The able and discriminating; Homo
Courier fails to see wherein Morrison’s
tariff bill is any more a “free trade”
measure than that of Randall. It says:
“Both provide for the abolition of the
duties on a lew articles—raw materials
and to this extent only, m which they
stand on the same looting, does either
make an approach to ‘free trade.’ Roth
propose some reductions in the duties,
the difference being that Morrison’s bill
would reduce the tariff on a tew of the
necessaries of life, while Randall's reduc- j
tions would be made In the interest of
manufacturers, as well as some higher 1
duties which he* proposes.” The cry of j
“free trade” is somewhat like the cry of j
“wolf” in the fable, but It is gratifying to '
know that it is not deceiving anyone now
except those who want to ne deceived.
The person who cannot sec the difference
betwecu Democratic tariff reform and free
trade is either a fool or a Republican par
tisan, though he may wear a very thiu
disguise.
There soems to be general gratification j
felt all over the country at the prospect
for the early adjournment of Congress.
Congress has done a great deal and
neglected to do a great deal that fatigues
the indignation of the people.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. JULY 24. 1836.
Primus, First.
Primus was first in the days of the
Caesars, and so tar as producing the first
bale of cotton in Georgia is concerned,
< 01. Primus W. Jones, of the county of
Raker, has been tbe winner for lo these
many years. Now he has pressed the
season so as to surpass even Texas in
soonness.
The first bale this year was shipped to
Atlanta, and that city seems to be very
proud of being so bonced. Primus used
to send his first bales to Macon, nut after
the novelty of the thing wore off the Aia
con buyers began to hurt his feelings by
insinuating that his cotton was a little too
previous. Then ho sent it by way of
Albany to Savannah, but last year the Sa
vannah Cotton Exchange boldly charged
that this first bale was pulled betore it
was ripe. It is said that one incautious
cotton man had his finger scalded by pok
ing it in the gimlet hole from which the
sample, or “plug” rather, was taken.
Atlanta now lakes its turn in this first
bale business, and receives the alleged
honor with gratitude, but not with hu
miliation. It announces tbe event from
the house tops, blows a great blaston the
gush horn, and triumphantly proclaims to
the world the conclusive proof of its own
verdancy. “Tbe early bird catches tbe
worm,” and Primus is now, no doubt,
gloating over his success in capturing
the great green caterpillar of the Chatta
hoochee.
Col. Jones, however, is an early man.
He has early land, plants early seed, uses
early guano, buys none but early mules,
and hires only early laborers. He is
really one of the most progressive, en
ergetic and intelligent planters in tbe
State, and can send in tbe first bate of
sure-enough cotton in Georgia two years
out of three, if he could only be cured
of the first-bale mania, he might enjoy an
even more euviable distinction than he
now has, but whether this can be done or
not, he is to be congratulated in that be
has found a place where bis first bale can
hopefully plead:
“Don’t view me with a critic’s eye
But pars my imperfections by.’’
New Business for Savannah.
Charleston is rejoicing over the com
pletion of the Spartanburg and Asheville
railroad because it brings tier within ten
or twelve hours of the Mountain City on
the other side of the Blue Ridge.
Savannah has a closer connection with
Spartanburg by way of the Central rail
road and its branches than Charleston
has. The roads which make this connec
tion were completed very lately, and the
route between Savannah and Spartan
burg hasn’t been opened for business long.
The work of building these connecting
lilies was accomplished so quietly* that
the public was hardly aware of their
existence until attention was called to
them, and to the country tributary to
them by a correspondent of the Morning
News In a series of interesting letters.
The region which is penetrated by these
new lines of railroad is wonderfully at
tractive. It has advantages that ought to
make it oue of tbe most prosperous sec
tions of the country. The soil is fertile,
and when properly cultivated produces
abundantly. Too much cannot be said
in favor ot the climate. It possesses great
equability and is healthful. The water is
excellent.
From the territory opened by these new
connections of the Central Savannah may
reasonably expect a very good business.
Her merchants are already sending drum
mers to it. They propose to have their
share of its business.
There Is one thing which should be
done, and it is understood the Central
railroad proposes doing it. A fast train
should be put on the route between Sa
vannah and Spartanburg, so that travel
ers leaving here in the morning may ar
rive at Spartanburg in tbo afternoon of
the same day. A train of this
sort would benefit Augusta as well a*
this city. In tact, Augusta would receive
a double benefit, because stie would then
have a fast traiu in misdirection—which
she has long wanted—as well as in the di
rection of Spartanburg.
Cape <lolm It. Baird.
The Washington Post, among its illus
trated sketches of “Men of Prominence”
at. the national capital, has one of Col.
John It. Baird, a gentleman well known
to the military of this city, who remem
ber him for his exertions in their behalf
while Adjutant General ot the State. Tbe
Post says: “Col. John It. Baird, Chief of
the Dead Letter Office of tbe Post Office
Department, is a native of Georgia, being
boru lu 1850 at Columbus. He was edu
cated at and graduated from the Universi
ty of Georgia at Athens, and has followed
the profession of civil engineer from time
to time since then. At Atlaiitu, in 1871,
he begau the practice of law. and six
years laier was appointed Adjutant Gen
eral aud Superintendent of Public Works
ol Georgia, the duties ol the t wo offices be
ing combined in one. Six years later be
accepted the position of Auditor of the
Georgia and l’aclfic Hailroad, and after
tilling that position acceptably lor a tune,
he was appointed Superintendent of Con
struction under Geu. Gordon ot the In
ternational Steamship Company ol Flori
da. He has also acted as superintendent
in building several lines ot railroads, and
has had that experience with men which
develops the ability to control and man
age them successfully. He was recom
mended for his present position by all the
executive officers of the State, Senators
Brown and Colquitt and the Congression
al delegation.”
The Executive Committee of the Four
teenth Senatorial district nils the honor ol
having taken the first lonual step towards
securing the election of delegates to
Democratic conventions In Georgia on
the same day, or as near the same day as
practicable. Mr. Bishop, of Kastman, the
chairman of the committee, Is an
earnest and one of tue earliest
advocates of tills reform, which was
suggested by the Morning News some
time ago, and which has sluce been In
dorsed by the press and prominent Demo
crats in nearly every part of the State.
The aotionof the Executive Committee of
the Fourteenth district should be an
example to those of other districts, and it
is to be hoped that in the future the State
and Congressional committees will adopt
tbe suggestion.
It is said that Houk's recent grand
drunk is demoralizing the Republicans ol
Tennessee, and that bis return to Congress
Is a matter of considerable doubt. After
all, the spree may turn out to be a bles
sing lo the whole couutry.
current COMMENT.
Trying to crush l-ogan
From the yew York Herald t/nd.i
When some Ohio Republican managers
railed to make a case again-t >ooator Paine
i ncy determined at all events to make a case
against Gen. Ivogan. They are not making
headway in that even, and Ohio Republican
voier* who read Logan’s speech will prefer
[uni lo the foolish Blaine men who are abusing
him.
The Power of Confiscation
From the A tiehville A merican < Hem.)
The power of appropriation Is tlie measure
ol the power of taxation, and defines tbe pur
poses for which taxes are imposed. The nn
restnclod power to levy taxes means the
poser of confiscation, of destruction. The
aiiiisc of the taxing power Has given rise to
more evils m the history of nations than any
other one cause. Jn lliis cmmlrv the removal
of all constitutional restrictions would sub
ject weaker sections of the Union to the un
controlled domination of a stronger.
AVliy tbs Tariff Stays.
Front the JBouineitle Journal.
“We must protect our laboring men from
competition with foreign pauner labor,” say
(be professional philanthropists.
“Granted. How shall it be dene?” asks the
amateur.
“lon pay me 47 percent, more for your suit
of clothes than you would have to pay m Eu
rope ”
Very good; and what will you do?”
“I will pay lo per cent, of it to my laborers
and keep the rest ”
This is exactly w hat occurs. The manufac
turer has to bid for labor, not against the
English, but against the American farmer,
lie has on thisaccount to pay a little more
than his English competitor, and so we have
a tariff, not to protect 1-ibor, but capital.
That is why the tariff cannot bo reduced.
All for *ll a Week.
From the Button Poet.
The Puritan instinct of our people is not
quite dead. The following extract from a
letter written by the chairman of the school
committee of a town not 20 milos away from
Boston to an applicant lor the position of
teacher of the high school, has a tone like that
of a past generation instead of to day. After
announcing the salary as, “per week, 111 dol
lars. ihe outside,” I he letter continues: “llow
old are you? flow tali'? Have you a family?
Do you attend church constantly'- Can you
lead our children lo he Christians'- Please
answer and oblige Yours Respectfully. ,
eh. Sch. Com Despite the solicitude that
the high school dominie should alien'd church
constantly, aud be able lo lead lb.- children to
be Christians at sll per week, there is in the
query as to his stature a decided intimation
that tie may have to resort lo methods more
stalwart than moral suasion.
BRIGHT BITS.
An amphibian is an animal that lives on
laud anil water. The Socialist is not an am
phibian. because he lives on land and beer.-
Puck.
Lady (to servaut whom she Is about to en
gage)—These are my conditions; do they suit
you?
Servant—H'm! I’ll see. 1 always take ladies
on trial.— French Jokt.
A I.ITTI.F grl lately wrote to her friend:
“Yesterday a little naby sister arrived, aud
pap tison a journey. It was but a piece of
luck that mamma was at home to lake care of
it Phikulrlphtu Cull,
Docbtfid, looking guest—“ Landlord, have
you a lire escape in this hotel?”
Experienced landlord—“ Yes, sir; but we
generally keep the bull dog chained at the
bottom of it.” —Merchant Trnce/ler.
“is he a man of much calibre?” said a Con
necticut avenue girl to a Dupont circle belle
abo,ut a certain gay and giddy Congressman
“< in. ves,” was the confident reply,-‘lie’s the
greatest uore lever saw.”— IV<inhiii,jton Critic.
As Senator Ingalls passed along the line of
the reception at the White House, mopping
bis forehead on which the heated atmosphere
had drawn out. great beads of sweat, he
stopped before Mrs, Cleveland with this re
mark: “I am glad, indeed, to have the
pleasure of meeting you, but 1 mustsav that
vou Democrats are making it very hot for us
Republicans to-night.” As quick as a flash
came this retort: “Would you have us treat
you coolly, sir?”— h'ew York Tribune.
Room INC up the business interests - Houston
and Galveston are commercial rivals, hence a
resident of either city may commit any crime
with impunity as long as lie does it with the
intention of advancing the interests of the
place.
Recorder—“ You have been drank again.
XV hat’s your excuse now?”
"Your honor, I was only celebrating the
great natal day of American independence.”
•■Yes, but yesterday was not the 11th, not
ttie fourth.”
“I know it. but I did not have capital
enough on the fourth to celebrate the da\ in
a manner worthv of the great city of Galves
ton, the queen city of the gulf, the gem of the
sea, tile—the—great eotton marl of the South,
so I got tight yesterday instead.”
Recorder whose local pride is touched)—
the ease isdlsmissed. We must do what little
we can to help boom up Die business interests
of our greatcitv, compared with which Hous
ton iaapuere hamlet.’’— Ttra* St/zings.
A You Nil I.APY xv ho calls herself “Mtlli
ceut ” writes us a letter inquiring the meaning
of the word “opus.” f-be lias been attending
the Thomas concerts, and she is much puzzled
by tlie frequent occurrence of the words
“opus” amt “opera” in the programmes. We
have questioned Mr. Thomas on this subject
and have received a very satisfactory expla
nation. “Opus” isa Latin word, meaning fi
work, and ••opera” is Die pintail of “opus”
and thereforo means works. We asked Mr.
Thomas if there were no such tilings as
“opuses.” and he said that he believed there
were, but, as for himself, he bad never bad to
deal with them. Subseqnenl.lv we learned
lliat “opuses” was purely a Chicago word,
coined liv Chicago composers who believed it
to be the plural of “opus,” and who applied it
to their owneompositinns, Isv tins we are led
to believe that, while Beethoven. Bach, Han
del, Haydn, and tho-eother dreary humorists
of media-val times may have written opera
and probably did so, it takes a Chicago com
poser lo give birth to genuine, reliable, and
unmistakable opuses.— l'bicag • AVw*.
I’KRSON All.
Tiik Empress of Austria iiaving been rec
ommended by her doctors not to ride am
nion- lias decided to break up her large mid
j tine stud.
Mmk. Senri./.E-OKLiTCSon. widow of the
famous political economist, was burned to
death in her house near ISeritn, owing to a
candle she had forgotten to eitiuvuish setting
fire 10 the bed. R
MK.s.ri.rvKi.Axn, it is remarked, prefers
the society of old men to that of young ones
Sena'or sawyer, of Wisconsin, is one of her
f.a\uritos, and so is Representative Curtin of
: Pennsylvania.
Musar c.oi.dk.v, who calls himself Texas
Harry, and claim* to lie the half-breed son of
White Cloud, an Indian Chief, has joined the
Metliudisl church m Richmond, Vj , and is
drawing large audiences gs a revivalist.
PruiNi. August the British Minister, Sir
Sackvtlle West, will remain at Newport
Baron de struve, 'tic Russian Minister, ami
M. Roust.n. the French Minister, will also
visit the place wail others ot the Diplomatic
Coi ps
Tiik "tie baby that is said to have been born
in the White House and ohristeued “Henry
Walker," is now 10 rears old, sml live* in
Montgomery, Ala. ills mother, a niece of
Pre-ident Polk, was visiting her uncle when
1 leury was horn.
us Ills i uirnev through Paris to St. Peters
htirg, llerr Rubinstein. it is said, informed a
friend that his net profits in the 106 “bigiori
eal ' :iud other recital* which he has given
sinee las October amounted to, in round
HUmbets, t*ll,ooo.
PR.itiov anni Srrci, the African explorer,
claim* U: have made a most remarkable dis
eoverv. lie has turned up m Africa a liquor
winch renders Hie human body independent
of food and drink. It is said that Dr. succi,
after drinking a lew glasses of this wonderful
bever age, fasfed for ten days.
(.in iihnok I* at r isos astonished the natives
of l.obauon, Pa., by his howling in the Mount
tirotna howling alley last week- lie downed
thirty-lire puis wlili throe balls, although
thirty Is Hie highest possible run that can tie
counted. The play was made this way: The
llrst hill ma lea strike, the second the same,
the third the same, the ball rebounding on
the op]iosite alley and striking down live pins
more.
.1. K. PANCTit'g ease is Interesting. An ex
pert innpur , lie might have made a fortune
had he expended in uionet-making Hie same
quantity of pers dial force Mint he spent in
h e cause of science. Careless of money, this
noted Manc.hc ter inventor made improve
men! after improvement, invention af cr in
vention—in or'-copio. photographs, the sier
•osi'opic eamera with tw in len*r.. the “eon
traet-hroakor," used in every inihmtion c ol
in the world, and the like finds hun-elf, a'
t lie age of 7, poor in the world's goods ed
growing blind. Nat ore, the London weekly,
isheliun • along a scheme of subscriptions io
buy Mr. Oaucur an annuity.
Woman’* Pet Oath.
From the Chic, go Sewt.
Tbe study of oaths and expletives ia very
interesting. We have never yet met a per
son who was not addicted to the use of oaths,
though uianv people use them unwittingly.
The ladies, for example, hare a pet oath in
the words "Rear me.” They think it means
“l>ear I, ' hut it doe.sn’t. “Dear me ’ is a cor
ruption of “Dio mm,” meaning “My God.”
Another Beautiful Miss Folsom.
From the Lnjfnlo C Qtt-rier.
I have iust returned from Folaomdale,
where 1 visited the late Colonel’s manor house,
apd I want to tell you that all the lieautv did
not leave it when the President married Tran
ces and took her to the White House. My
son, you should see the rav ashing vision of all
that is lovely that fairly took iny breath away.
It is Mrs. Cleveland's cousin, a daughter of
John Folsom, and she is a marvel of all that
is rare in enebaulingly beautiful womanhood.
I can 6hut m.v eyes and see her as a dream of
all that is radiant. When she makes her ap
pearance at Washington foreign diplomats
wiU indeed have something to rave about.
A Congressman's Dilemma.
From the Xew York Tribune.
I hear that big Benjamin Lefevre, the Ohio
member of Congress, has decided to follow
President Cleveland’s example and get mar
ried. His bride is said to be a wealthy young
woman of New York who has wist sailed
abroad for the summer. A story is told of
her response to the General’s wooing. It
seems that they had been acquainted for a
number of years, the handsome bachelor In
the meantime being elected once or twice to
Congress. When he finally pressed his suit
a short time ago he was met with the lady’s
reply that she would like to be a Congress
man's wife. "So you will be,” was Ben’s gal
lant reply. “Why. no,” said she. "1 could not
think of marrying before fall and the session
will then be’ over and you will be just
going out of office. You ought to have asked
me before. Now to punish you for your dalli
ance, if you come to me re-elected for the
next term yon may set the day.” The
General hasanofferof a line position as mana
ger of a railroad line at SIO,OOO a year and has
been feeling for several years that he was
wasting his time in Washington. He is now
in a quandary what to do.
A Pointer for New York Tailors.
From the San Fraticieco Poet.
Young James Blank, whose father is among
the millionaires, lounged Into 'a tailor shop
some weeks ago and ordered a suit of clothes.
The suit wan sent to the young man’s hotel,
but of course ihe tailor got no money for it.
A few days ago, as Master James was passing
by the ta'lor shop, the bland proprietor hailed
him with a smile :
“Why, Master James,’.’he said, “that coat
is horribly wrinkled; come in and we will
press it for you.” Unsuspectingly be entered
and surrendered the coat. Then something
was wrong with the vest, and that, too, was
taken down-stairs fur treatment. The tailor
next declared that the trousers might lie un
proved upon. They were given up and the
youth accommodated with a seat in the dress
ing-room.
••-Now,” said the wily tailor, “you will have
to send a boy to your room for yonr other,
clothes, for I am afraid we cannot let you
have this suit again unless you liquidate the
bill in full.”
Y'oung Master James begged hard for his
clothes, but the tailor was inexorable, and
much to his disgust he resumed his winter
garments and departed.
Daisies on the Farm,
From T ova Sifting* .
She painted them on canvas
With a rapt, arcstic air.
She wore them hi her bodice,
And in her raven hair.
She thought farm life idyllic,
And said its greatest charm
Was lent it by the daisies,
The daisies on the farm.
•‘Do you not love the daisies?”
To the farmer’s son she saith,
But all the praise he uttered
Was underneath his breath.
It sounded energetic,
But she felt a vague alarm
That he did not love the daisies,
The daisieson the farm.
She read to him a poem,
A pastoral complete;
He seemed unsympathetic,
Though her voice was very sweet.
With some repressed emotion
His face grew dark and warm,
For it’s Imrden was ihe daisies.
The daisies on the farm.
Soon the charming summer boarder
To her city homcroturned.
For a soul of higher longing
Her aesthetic nature yearned.
And the farmer's son. undaunted,
With lus scythe upon his arm,
Went to battle with the daisies,
The daisies on the farm.
Barrios. th Guatemalan Dictator.
From JfaonUUan'a Mogoeine.
Some Germans, whom I know well, owned
a coffee estate in the north of the country an t
wished to plaut some new ground. Immedi
ately lievond their estaio was a large tract of
unoccupied land, which they supposed to be
waste and unowned, and they occupied and
planted it after the usual formalities required
for taking up waste lands in the country.
The tract they had taken, however, had been
part of the property of the church, aud on the
sequestration of church lands had been
granted to a man who had no especial use for
it, and had left it idle for man ,- years. He
had the right then of giving notice<tf his own
ership and of claiming Ihe land witlun a cer
tain time from the moment of their occupa
tion. In this case the owner let the required
time slip, and gave notice a motitn or two too
late, so that by strict law lily German friends
had the right to retain the land. However,
aa it had been clearly his, they did not like to
take what they considered to be miiair advan
tage of a technical point of law, so as usml
they went to Barrios and laid the case before
him. He asked a few periinent questions, so
as thoroughly to master the and. tails of the
case, and gave bis decision at once.
•‘You have planted the land in question
with coffee trees winch are now old enough to
be of great value?”
“Yes.”
“Is there any more waste land in the neigh
borhood? ’
“Yes, there is plenty just beyond the land
we have taken.”
“Then.” said Barrios, “you shall keep the
land you have planted, and the former owner
shall have assigned to him a track of equal
area from the other unoccupied and unowned
lands.'
And so it matter was settled in a few min
utes and without expense which might have
dragged on through the law courts for mouths
or years
A French Professional Bully.
From London Life.
The most terrible man on the boulevard has
passed obscurely away. You could not jostle
against him without having his card thrust
into your hand, and a "meeting” arranged
for the next morning This celebrity—for
such ho was during a score of year* or more
died a few days ago in a miserable lodging,
which was his last refuge after a life of in
namerable duels. A good fellow at heart, he
was always ready to pick a quarrel. You
could not refuse him a loan of menu fraucs
—aud the request was not an unusual one—
without his begiumug to roll lus eve and
seeming to clutch at an imaginary sword. He
was the terror of convivial parties at our sup
per houses, and was often to he seen In the
small hoars watching the oxit of 'uckv
gatnblers from those fashionable hells
which Parisians style clubs. Hubert hud
solved the difficult problem of living In Paris
on nothing u year. He was a -pong' r of a
really original type The voting man from
the country, who allowed himself lobe de
ceived by his title, found lam jovial and good
natured at first, and then made acquaintance
with his anger ami efforts at Intimidation. To
all outward appearance he then “slept on
brambles till he killed Ins man.” lie hid re
duced spousing to a system, the last p.dnl of
which was invariably a elullenge. Ho fenced
no better than most men, but lie had a theory
that a hostile mectiiig only conics off once out
of five quurrels. and i ouo'of Ills duols termi
nated, it should he added, fatally. The num
ber ot seconds that he used up during his bel
licose career was incredible. When you saw
him seated alone at a table In a cafe between
.‘i and ti in the even.ng. and asked him what
ho was doing, the invariable reply was,
“J'attends mes temoinsl” lie was to cross
swords next morning, he.expwtcd, sometimes
because someone had looked askance ai
him, sometimes,because a “lad” had jostled
him in the street, but generally because a
“fKlend" had declined to lend him t wenty
francs! But be was always on the lookout
for seconds. I have been told ‘llls consump
tion of leniotus amounted to TO or SO a year.
YVbeu ho felt Ills last hours approaching ho
sent for a priest, ljke a faithful Legitimist, as
he boasted himsvlf to be. The rlergyinau
made some observations on Ills past lifo which
and id, hot please him, and was at ill on the stairs
when Hubert said to. the servant, “Note down
the address of that ecclesiastic. He has
spoken jn a lone which offuutts me. and If I
recover I shajl tend my seconds to him!” But
he died; anil Ins rosy face and burly figure
will lie missed for a few weeks on the boulc.
v rri until thpy pass out of memory. Pa
risians forget quickly and are os quickly for
goUoa.
IT3MS OF INTEREST.
A swarm of Dakota grassuoppers stopped
twenty reunites for refreshments and ate up
a 50-acre lier near Fargo.
“Mathildl' is the name just given the
small planet licked up in the vast of heaven
by Dr. Palisa’tsky sweeper on Nov. 12 last.
A mas workkg ina California saw mill the
other day was aru<A in the throat by a piece j
of sleel that cut b'l windpipe open and fell
down Into it. I,e ouglied it up and is doing
well.
At Gkknapa, ti the West Indies, on Aug.
29, the moon will hut off the sun’s rays for
four full minutes, lo astronomers are sailing
thither, expecting great things from the
eclipse.
Seven- THoesAXinine hundred and ninety
one relatives of at families of the English
aristocracy have sice iB>o held 13.598 offices
and have drawn rora the public treasury
salaries amotinliujlo $'43,073.;60.
Thf. leading citizns of Taney county, Mo.,
have organized a nw sort of yigilar.o'com
mittee for the purpse of whipping those of
their fellow citizemwho persist in ffshir.g in
stead of turning to pme more energetic and
truth-provokiug aveation.
A citizen of Peterorongh, Canada,anxious
that his children sh a learn to swim, has made
a box thirty feetlous nine feet wide, and four
deep, and sunk it in he river near the shore.
It is so arranged tha the bathers can raise or
lower it to suit theimonvemence.
In a country whrh hardly requires to be
mentioned eggs are ometimea served on Sun
day in the inns to gesls wbo, on account of a
certain act of l’arliment, dare not call for “a
drink.” Thcseeggsare full of whisky, the
meat having liecn bl>wn out and the whisky
put in its place. Tfcn the egg is hermeticallv
sealed ana ready fo;use. A Scotchman never
tires of eggs.
Mrs Mabcei.la iooper, queen of the gypsy
tribe of Somerville Mass., has been arrested,
charged with oiffauing during the last four
teen yearssU,ooo from Mrs. Charles Rink, of
Boston Migidands. under pretense of deposit
ing the mousy wim a wealthy Boston hanker
who paid unusatlly high rates of interest.
Mrs. Cooper says she lost the mouey in busi
ness transacton*.
Josisn Kiuii.of Mettacahouts,lister coun
ty. N. Y., hast cat. This cat, sleek and com
fortable, was languidly eating its dinner,
when a mouse,apparently- born and bred is a
church, so iearit was, tiinidlv sneaked to the
d'sh and also ae. The choek of the mouse so
disconcerted tie cat ibut it did nothing hot
blare at the litle fellow, who, having got his
dll, went in peice.
The latest hiih-life innovation in fashiona
ble marriages h Paris is the display of the
bride’s weddin; outfit on dummy figures
ranged on a platform, as was done at the late
reception for iht stgnincof the marriage con
tract of the datif liter of the Countessde P —.
A-sistants from .ae dressmakers who had pro
duced the toilettes attended to point out the
beauties of their creatiou.
A post-mortem examination intothe death
of a child in Vaoceboro, Me., established the
fact that a doctor lanced a small boil that did
not need lancing tud carelessly cut an artery.
The child was lileniing to death, w hen the
father succeeded in stopping the bleeding.
Then, it wa* testified, the. doctor put the
mild in a warm bath, which started the flow
of blood again, ant tne ehildbled to death.
A very valuable consignment to the Louvre
Museum reached Paris recently. It consists
of 215 packing cases, containing the fragments
of the decorations of the palacesof Artaxerxes
and of Darius at Susa, in Persia, and the ob
jects of ancient art discovered by ihe mission
sent to Susa, under thedirectionof M. Dieula
fov. A vast salle, situated on the first floor of
the Lon\re, has lieen prepared for the recep
tion of these precious vestiges of antiqnitv.
Farmer Kroll, liviDgnear Hastings, Neb.,
got drunk on a quart of Alcohol, and scared
his family nearly to death with his revolver.
His brother-in-law appeared, and, when
Kroll flourished the pistol, slapped tho drun-i
ken man’s face sharpb with his open hand.
The man dropped as if shot, and never stirred
again. The Coroner’s jury thought the blow
"sent the blood and alcohol to Kroll’s brain,”
and thus killed him.
Prentice Mvlfoxd thus describes an old
Boston blue blood : "He dresses in black broad
cloth winter and summer, wears a stove-pipe
hat, a atandup collar of the style of thirty
years ago, carries a cane, never walks faster
than one mile an hour, attends the new Old
South church, carries his revolutionary an
cestors always iu his memory, and never for
gets them. He regards this universe as fin
ished only in the. proportion as Boston is
finished, and in his secret soul is somewhat
disposed to criticise Deitv for not taking up a
permanent residence in Boston.”
Not many years ago there was a clergyman
In Lynn, Mass., who made a contract that he
should have a salary of about $4,000, but he
would make the society “a present” of 41,000
of it! The latter part of the statement was
not intended for publieatisn, but with an evo
to business, the first part was industriously
disseminated by he ingenious, jolly green
papers. The resnlt w hich he desired was ob
tained, for a society in Connecticut, if we re
member rightly, seeing tie lour-thousand -
dollar label, eonclu led that he must be “good
goods,” and “went” the Lynn socletvthOO
better, taking the prize.
The Russian Empire contains 884 peniten
tiary establishments (at least that is the num
ber of which th; Administrator of Prisons
publishes any account). Their occupants on
Jan. 1 last year numbered !H,i)Psof both sexes,
an excess of nearly S per cent, above the re
turns of the preceding twelve months. Of
these persons i he ordinary housesof detention
contained 68,000, the convict orisons 6,500, uie
reformatories B.COO and the prisms in Poland
8.000. The proportion of women was less lhan
Hi per cent, of the nmole, hut in the kingdom
of Poland toe women amounted to 16 percent
of the incarcerated (probably owing to their
participation in political agitation). Nearly
three-quarters of a million arrests take place
tu the year.
At.erei) N.s Marcus, a Boston diamond
merchant, lost a package of diamonds worth
$5,1100 in the Tremont House on July 2. The
ttev. O. \V. Scott, of Greenwich, It. 1., found
the gems, and was, as he says, “so dumfound
ed that he kept them three days.” Then he
determined to find me owner, but, fearful of
being arrested lor theft, advertised under a
false name. Mr. Marcus went to Greenwich
but of course w-s not able to find a man hear
ing the name given. Then he went lo the
newspaper office lo get the manuscript of the
advertisement, compared it with the hand
writing in the Tremont House register and
decided that il was wiltien bv Mr. Scott’ He
communicated with the clergyman, who at
once went lo Bn-ton with Iho diamonds and
turned them over to Mr. Marcus. Mr Mar
cus gave the minister and his wife each a sil
ver watch aud SIOO,
A romantic marriage occurred in Chatta
nooga Wednesday, ( apt. Thomas Wilkey and
Miss Lou Owen being the contracting parties.
The parents of the young lady were opposed
to the match and watched her closely to pre
vent elopement. Bile managed to elude them
and lied t i the suburbs, where she was not
known, aud rented a room, paying lor it with
li a- jewelry. Great excitement prevailed
since her disappearance Moi day. and ft ars
were entertained that she hud met with foul
play. ( apt. Wilkey joined in ilie search p r
Ins affiant-, and bride, amt Ins delight was great
when Miss Owen managed to semi him a note
telling of her where .lathis. He quick v pro
cured a license ami minister aud nail the
ceremony performed beiure anv one of her
family knew she had found.' Miss Owen
remained in tho room without a morsel to eat
tor forty-e>gin hours iu order that no ouo
himu hi Bee her.
The fashion of fantastically decorating beer
saloons and restaurants and disguising the
waiters Is ou the increase in Parts. In the
“Apothecaries' Inn'* the winters appear In
the costume of the surgeons of Muliere’s time;
in another the attendants are in the attire of
monks. In one enterprising establishment
the guests are waited on by tho Queens of
France; and the “Brasserie des Heines de
r ranee of course gave rise to a rival beer
saloon where Francis I. presides at the bur
and Henry I\ responds to the call ot the
thirsty. Sole by sole with the “historical”
8 noons Oourtsh those that appeal to the ora
ting for tho grotesque and the horrible. At
the sign of "The Hell” the waiters are devils;
at the Chateau d’lf,” hare walls, chains,
cells, etc., rival! Ihe famous prison near Mar
seille*; and at the "Taverne du Bagoe” the
waiters apiiear either as Utters or in prison
garb, wbb an iron ball attached to the
Toot, while the guest- arc supposed to be gal
lev slave* and are addressed a such. Somoof
these saloon keepers, as the proprietor of
"Taverne du Bagne,’’ are former actors, who
put their know I vine of stage effects to profit
able ao Lb their mw n noises*.
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