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dress. __
It seems that there was no oscillatory
exercises over the Queen’s hand when
Mr. Gladstone stepped down and out as
there was when he went into office the
last time.
It seems that the Republicans have very
little hope of carrying New Vt 'k in the
fall elections. It bus b< ; r , ..i.-o*, deter
mined not to go to the ti ■>• ole oi v aiding a
State convention this su.i m?r.
A Kentucky doctor oiaims to have
cured lock jaw with tobacco. This is
rather remarkable. Had he claimed to
have cured it with whisky nothing would
have been thought of the matter.
The elephant market is overstocked,
uccordiug to the latest reports from New
York, it seems that a great many peo
ple have elephants on their hands, and
are glad to get rid of them at any price.
Every once in a while some Republican
paper or politician rises up and says that
there is a good chance to break the Solid
South this fall, but they do not repeat the
old story as if they believe it themselves.
Gen. Grant has been dead a year and
only |130,000 have been subscribed to erect
his million-dollar monument. Less than
the amount in hand has built good enough
tombs for better meu in some respects
than Gen. Grant was.
A Bombay physician asserts that a
gradual increase in the size of the skull
among the natives of India is taking
place, which change he ascribes to the
effect of civilization. In this country they
call it getting the “big head.” Generally
it is not intellectual or moral advance
ment that increases the size of the skull,
but an abnormal developuieutof the bump
of self-esteem.
This looks like Jeffersonian simplicity
after all. Ttie Philadelphia Press rather
spitefully says: “The new cook at the
"White House is an old colored woman from
Virginia, who manages the frytngpan
with a certain magic art wmoh blossoms
Into fried chicken, hominy cake and
brown gravy, which Mr. Cleveland will
never dare to veto. The South is in the
kitchen, and there’s no doubt about it.”
Without derogating anything from Mr.
Harris, it may be said that the Fourth
Georgia district has not worsted itself by
nominating lion. Thos. W. Grimes, of
Columbus, for Congress. Mr. Grimes is
one of the ablest young men in the State,
and he has just enough ol experience in
public atlairs and the energy of youth to
make him a very efl'ective Congressman.
If the district will keep him at Washing
ton a few terms no doubt the whole State
w ill he proud of him.
The Chicago News has this kind of con
solation for the distinguished Senator
from Illinois: “When Senator I.ogau
rises out of the slough of partisanship
and comes up into the better and purer
atmosphere ol Mugwumpery he makes a
very much more pleasing appearance,
end, speaking from the honesty of his
heart, makes a much more lasting im
pression. The Senator should never go
back into the party wnose nominations
Dhlo has done, and will probably con
tinue to do, so much to control.”
The bootblack or news biA-eher that
propped from tho Urouklyn bridge Friday
fid not exclaim as he let go the cable.
Sic ilur ad astra.” lie made himself a
kaine, however, that wiil go down w ih
the name <of Sam Patch, Capt. Webb, Bob
Odium and a good many other lunatics
and cranks, hut, fortunately for hlm.be
will be able to make his name available
as capital for awhile in a dime museum
In which he has accepted a plane at SIOO
per week. It it better to coin fame by
dropping off a bridge, however, than by
the use of dynamite bombs.
And still there are people who boast
b! their want of confidence in banks.
Here is one ol the numerous class of
cases: “Three months ago Patrick Ryan,
an oil tank gauger of North Clarendon,
N. Y., was killed while walking on the
railway track. Ufa widow received $2, 000
insurance money, $l,SdO of whioh she
placed in a glass jar, and, putting the jar
inside a piece of iron oil well tubing,
tuned it in the ground near her house.
A. few days ago a neighbor of Mrs. Ryan
tired a man named Edwards to dig a
litch for him. On Wednesday it was dis
jovored that tho laborer while digging
lad found Mrs. Ryan’s jar of cash and
lad fled with It to Canada.” The clay
tanks seem to bo very much less safe than
Ihu savings banks.
Teaching Business.
The necessity for a more thorough edu
cation in business methods, involving both
generalities and mat ters of detail, is be
coming more and more appreciated every
y at. The better class of business insti
tutes are well patronized, and thousands
of young men are acquiring in a few
muni us. by means of tne systematic in
struction afforded at these institutions,
valuable knowledge that It took years of
cosily experience and patient drudgery to
acquire a few years ago.
Bankers, merchants, factors, brokers,
indeed nearly all classes of what are
known as business tnen, go into business
now under many and almost insuperable
disadvanta.eß, il they have not received
special training in some business college,
and the probabilities are that these insti
tutions will receive a largely Increased
patronage in the luture.
The instruction iu many of these insti
tutions not only embraces bookkeeping
and the technical mastery oi the pecu
liar atid complicated systems of modern
business, but practical training, which
makes the technical knowledge acquired
at once available without the necessity of
the debutante in business going through
along apprenticeship in some commer
cial house. Besides, the courses in com
mercial law and political economy prove
oi immense benefit to the students all
through their business careers.
The idea has been suggested that in
most of the business schools of the day a
very limited amount oi attention is paid
to the adaptation of moral science to busi
ness methods. All of them, perhaps, lay
much stress on the old maxim “Honesty
is the best policy,” but they might and
ougtit to go further and teach that honesty
is a high principle that should bo adhered
to without reference to policy.
It is true, however, that dishonesty is
the rare exception among the better in
formed class of business men, but many
do not seem to realize the dangers of a
certain kind of speculation that leads
men who mean well into positions that
compromise them, if they do not place
them at once and forever beyond the pale
ot confidence and respect. It cannot be
doubted that young and enthusiastic busi
ness men are frequently ruined, not be
cause they are at heart dishonest,
but because their teachings and sur
roundings are such as to tempt them to
take risks that involve not only ready
money hut character as well. There are
legitimate speculations, and there are
those that are not legitimate. A man may
sometimes invest in speculation money
that he can afford to loose. When he
jeopardizes the money that should enter
into his regular business he does a very
foolish thing, and when he risks the money
of others he stakes his character, and
more frequently than otherwise loses it.
Local Option in Vicksburg.
The local option elections in Mississippi
have been extremely interesting. Nome
of the most important counties in the
State have voted on the subject of pro
hibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors,
and several are to hold elections in the
near future. The result in Warren coun
ty, of which Vicksburg is the county
seat, the other day was rather unpleas
ant though not unexpected lor the tem
perance people, the “wet” ticket carrying
the day by a majority of over 2,000 votes.
The temperance people accepted the
verdict, but quietly reorganized their
forces as a kind of Law and Order League
and notice was given all persons con
cerned that no pains or expense would
be spared to enforce the liquor laws as
they stood. Asa consequence, last Sun
dav there was not a saloon open in Vicks
burg, and the people enjoyed the tirst
quiet Sabbath that had been observed in
the city for several years.
The eleotlon was ordered on the petition
of the liquor men, with the intention of
crushing the prohibitionists, but it seems
that the result has been to arouse them
and show them just where their power is.
They are now determined to institute a
great reform era even under the license
laws, and they seem to have the power to
do so. In the first place they propose to
enforce the laws in reference to obtaining
licenses. This, it is olalmed, will result
in the closing of many of the more disrep
utable saloons iu the city. Then they
have arranged to break up the system of
favoritism which has permitted a number
of gang bosses to sell liquor without any
city licenses at all. They propose also to
enforce rigidly the laws relating to dis
orderly houses, the sale of liquor to
drunken men and minors, ami gambling
iu liquor saloons, as well as the Sunday
laws.
The temperance people are joiued by
jnauy who voted against prohibition in
this reform movement, and they think
they can do away with the worst evils of
the liquor traffic. It is a question why
they nave not resolved to enlorce the laws
before this. Where no earnest attempt is
made to enforce the laws regulating tho
rale of liquor, there is small chance that
a prohibition law would be enforced were
it to be adopted.
There is a man in Arizona who runs
quite a spicy personal newspaper, but he
might get a few points by reading the
New York Star and tue New Y ork World
at the preseut time. The editors and pro
prietors ol those two prominent journals of
tue metropolis are just now throwing mud
ateachother. Dorsbeimer, the star man,
is a JOO-pounder, and Pulitzer, of the
World, is a light weight,tipping the scales
at about 140 pounds, but the heavy weight
doesn’t seem to have much the advan
loge of the light weight. The Star editor
is referred to hv the World as “Bilk
Dorsbeimer. a bankrupt and ignoble tool
of venal and designing men—the social
parasite, journalistic prostitute,” etc.,
etc.; while the star states that “Mr. Jo
seph Pulitzer qualified himself for the
Legislature of Missouri bv paying lax on
a dog,” and in an editorial article entitled
“Apropos of Polltzer” charges this latter
gentleman—who spells his name with an
“j” it seems—with being “a pauper ernl
grant and a mercenary soldier,” “a de
serter,” an iuciter to murder, and Unally,
“a rascally and vicious tramp.”
Tho Boston Herald says: “Francis
Murphy sums up the philosophy of tem
perance reform in saying: ’Nobody can
keep you from passing a prohibitory law
lor yourself.’ But the trouble In this
matter, as with statutory attempts to
prevent intemperance, is to enforce the
law. Many a poor fellow, like many a
blundering State, has ‘passed a prohibi
tory law’ only to have It fall into a state
ol noxious desuetude.’'
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. -IDLY 20. 1830.
Maj. Bacon’s Better.
In a lengthy letter, addressed to his
friends in the Democratic party, and pub
lished yesterday in daily papers of the
State which support him, Maj. Bacon
Bays that idle not his purpose to prohibit
his name from being presented to the
State Convention which assembles at At
lanta on Wednesday. This, of course,
means that be does not wish Gen. Gordon
to have a unanimous nomination. In
the course of his letter he makes the fol
lowing rather remarkable charge:
The stake for which my> adversaries
played was the control of the state road,
and oi the claim of $2,000,000 for bet
terments on tie same; also for tne control
of the convict lease, and <>! the issue of
$1,500,000 oi Mate bonds, as well astbatof
the annual revenue ot the State. It was
an immense stake, and they played for It
desperately and skillfully.
it is gratilyii g that one of the journals,
the Augusta Chronicle, which gave Maj.
Bacon a very hearty support during the
campaign, dues not indorse the charge,
The Chronic!.!, in an editorial article com-
menting on the letter, says;
We take no Block in the charge that
Gen. Gordon and his friends intend to
inak* money out of the State road, and
we do not intend to discount (fen. Gor
don’s udniini Bra tion, or disparage it in
advance, simply because we supported
Maj. Bacon. If Gen. Gordon was
disposed to do wrong in the man
agement of the high office which will be
commuted to ais trust, which we do not
for one moment suppose, he will have to
call to his aid ttie General Assembly
elected to protect the interests of the
people. We snail give to Gen. Gordon’s
administration a fair and impartial sup
port.
II the Chronicle, which was such a
warm advocate ot Maj. Bacon for Gover
nor, “takes no stock in the charge” it can
hardly be expected that many of those
who supported Mij. Bacon during the
campaign will. Tthat being the case,
would it not have been better for him not
to have made it? 1r view of the fact that
nearly three-fourths of the delegates are
instructed for Ger.. Gordon, it will be said
doubtless that he was led into making it
by disappointment at his defeat.
Tile Law’s Delays.
Thejiapers have begun the periodical
discussion of tho law’s delays. It is not
very difficult to locate the responsibility
for such delays as are not unavoidable,
but it is by no means easy to accelerate
tne course of justice. So far as ordinary
civil suits are concerned, suoh delays are
more a matter of interest to the parties
directly and indirectly affected by them
than to the public at large.
There are apparently no good reasons
why nine out of ten criminal cases should
not be given a speedy trial. Only occa
sionally is there a ease that should be de
layed until prejudice and public excite
ment abates and the doiug ot justice is
rendered more certain.
Judzes can usually secure the attend
ance of witnesses and ttie reasonably
prompt trial ot cases when they are de
termined to do so. There are not a few
judges who Immediately see through the
thin excuses given for the continuance of
cases and use their power to compel the
attendance of witnesses wisely and with
wholesome results.
It used to be a common practice, even
among reputable lawyers, to defeat the
ends of justice by securing the continu •
ance of cases from term to term, until
witnesses died or were scattered, or until
the prosecution lost vitality by lapse of
time. There has been a great reform in
this respect of late, thanks to
the righteous zeal ot the large ma
jority of our judges and the im
proved ethics of the better class of law
yers. Probably the largo majority of in
excusable delays In the administration ol
justice that occur now are due to mis.
trials.which result (rotn the incompeteney
or perversity of jurors. The aterage
juror is very often the great stumbling
block iu the way of justice. ,
Some of the New York papers are very
much interested in educational matters
at the South. The New York Independ
ent favors the Blair bill granting national
aid to education, and a day or two ago
said: “The Savannah News is on tho
right track in spurring up the Sjtate to do
more; but it will not succe and this year
nor next, nor lor ten or twenty years to
come, in persuading the State to provide
actually for six months o' schooling, to
say nothing of building school houses, of
which it has had the most beggarly sup
ply.”
The New York Evening Post in answer
said; “All that is needed to give Georgia
an equally good educational system as
Arkansas has is a readiness on the part
of the people to tax themselves in the
same way as the Arkansas people do, and
that will come as soon as they make up
their minds that the rest of tho country is
not going to give them the needed money.
Fortunately there is growing evidence
that tho majority of them nave already
reached this conclusion, and, despite the
independent’s incredulity, we have per.
feet faith that in much less than ‘ten or
twenty years’ such papers as the Savan
nah Nkvvs will have succeeded insecu.-
ing six months of schooling in good
school houses.”
Mr. James L. Foster has been elected
Captain of the Mclntosh Light Dragoons.
Capt. Foster is tue Vice President of the
Hilton Timber aud Lumber Company,
and Is well known in this city, where he
grew to manhood. He is a first
rate business man, which, in
time of peace, is u very good
qualification for theheadof any organiza
tion, military or otherwise. He is also,
though still a young man, a votorau sol
dier. He was a member of the Ogletnorpe
Light Infantry, was present at the battle
of Fort Pulaski, and was captured with its
garrison. He was afterwards an officer
in the Confederate Navy, t apt. Foster's
u gentleman ot commanding figure, and if
he rides as well ns he lights he will bo
the beau ideal of a dashing dragoon.
Tho Chattanooga Times says: “We
have to say in response to the Nashvlile
Union’s Knoxville dispatch and its edi
torial on the subiect, that the facts of Col.
Honk’s spree in Chattanooga and his con
duct have not only not been exaggerated,
but the half has not been told, Tue last ca
per he and MoCarron cut at the hotel was
of such a sickening and borrifylngeharac
tor that oo hint could bo given of it in
print.” Th- Times Is to be congratulated
on not exaggerating the matter—ln (act,
on not telling the whole truth. By the
way, what kind of a town is Chattanooga
that such things as llouk and McCairon
did there wero not visited with severe
punishment by tho officials?
CLHBENT COMMENT.
Satan Reproving Bln.
Prom the Sew York World Pern.)
A poor, half-witted, offiae-hunting fellow
attempted to push himself into the presence
of President Cleveland, at Albany, on Thurs
day,ami was promptly arrested Immediately
a lot of half-witted newspapers attempted to
create a sensation by portraying the crank as
another Gniteau. The newspapers engaging
in this business displayed less sense than the
poor Kingston office beggar.
A Commendable Kilkenny C *t Fight.
Frahn the Philadelphia Torre i/nd.)
Venator Logan has killed off Senator Sher
man and the Ohio gang for 1888, and the work
seems to have been done with malignantoom
pleteness. Senator Sherman and the Ohio
gang have killed off Senator Logan for 1888.
and their work has been done to relentless
perfection.
Between Senators Sherman and Logan they
have killed off Field Marshal Halstead for
Senator in :BSB, and there seems to be nothing
wanting in the fiendish fulfillment of their
contract.
Next!
The President's Magnetism.
From the Brooklyn Eagle (Peru,)
Grover Cleveland is the President of the
I'lain people. Ills honesty and simplicity are
ties that bind him strongly to them. They
approach him without fear or restraint, and
address him in those unconventional phrases
which are the natural language of aflection.
The greeting of the Jersey City gannn on the
occasion of bis last visit to New York, “How
are you, Grover?” is matched by the hearty
salutation of the old Delaware county farmer
in Albany yesterday, “Well, this is Grover, is
it?" When you kick against a President who
inspires this cordial feeling in the bosoms of
the plain people, you kick against the pricks.
Wise Democratic Policy.
From the Few York Star ( Pern,)
The accumulation of a vast surplus in the
Treasury is obnoxious to the fundamental
principles of Democracy. It is antagonistic
to the purposes and pledzes of the party to
exact from the people any tribute beyond
what m needed fora proper and liberal sup
port of the government economically admin
istered. It is not in accord with Democratic
ideas of statesmanship to impose taxes r or the
purpose of creating a surplus. Treasure
hoarded in that way is doubly objectionable.
In the first place it is so much needlessly taken
from the people, and in tho next place it fur
nishes a constant .incentive to corrupt or
extravagant legislation.
Mr. Morrison’s resolti'i n. therefore, is in
full accord with Democratic policy—essen
tially a Democratic measure, in fact; and we
fail to perceive the ground upon which Mr.
Fairchild can view it as a hostile overture, if,
Indeed, he has done anything of the sort.
BRIGHT BITS.
Wn at is more pathetic than to see the sim
ple faith with which a bald beaded man will
buy au infallible hair restorative from a bald
headed barber?— Detr oit Fi ee Press.
Clocks are if ’made with luminous faces,
so that the time can be easily read at night.
The clock can no longer make the statement
that it can not see its “hand before its face.”—
Yonkers Statesman.
Qua hammock papa chanetied to blunder.
Where'twas swinging in a leafy niche;
A*d Wieji'ld man paused awhile to wonder
.Whichwas which.
'< si ‘ —Merchant Traveler.
**Tf?fS W just the weather for my cotton
crow*’ ’ said the State street man on Tuesday.
."Very likely,” rejoined his perspiring
friend; “hut why 1 should lie roasted to help
cook your antton, I don’t see.” —Boston Beacon,
Bam Jones’ latest epigrammatic remark:
“A person with more sense than religion is
generally a rascal, and a person with more
religion than sense is generally a fool.” We
fail to remember just at present whether it is
his religion or his sound horse sense upon
which Mr. Jones especially prides himself.—
Kansas City Journal.
Louise Michel, the French Anarchist,says
she hope* to conte to America after death,
when her sonl migrates. If she doseu’t come
belfore we shall not object, ff the male An
archist, Niniliit and .socialist would follow
Louise's example and resolve not to come to
this country until after death, Americans
would hare a better opinion of them.—Eor
rist toon Herald.
Returned Manuscript.—First Editor—
Did you receive my challenge?
Second Editor—Yes.
First Editor—What do you mean to do about
it?
Second Editor—Nothing.
First Editor—Nothing! Do you mean to ig
nore me entirely?
Second Editor—You should have sent a two
cent stamp if you wanted your manuscript
returned, — Tid-Bits.
"What is a contin. int fee?” asked a liti
gant of a well known attorney the other day.
“Well,” sail! the legalitc, "if I take your
caip and lose it l get nothing.”
“Yes, yes; that’s all right.”
“But if J wiu the caso yhu get nothing.”
"Sow's that? How’s that? Idon’tthinkl
understand you.”
Tho attorney calmly repeated his state
ment. The still nonplused ligant persisted:
“If T understand you, in neither case I get
anything?” .....
“Well, you know that’s not my fault; but
that s tne meaning of a contingent fee. shall
1 bring suit? What did yon say? No! Well,
I am very sorry. Good morning,— Pittsburg
Press,
Dr. Jeter was once informed that a
preacher, in deriding bapt*sir, had said that
he (Dr. Jeter), when he lived down in the
Northern Neck, led a few dozen candidates
for baptism far out into the Rappahannock
river, and that just then, berore he had bap
tized them, a shirk dashed by, and Dr Jeter
and all the eandidntrs broke for the shore,
and, as they were hurrying in, the choir on
the banks struck up—
“ Bull tor the shore, brother;
Boil for the shore.”
The old doctor replied: “There is not a
word of truth iu it. That byma had not then
been written, and no shark had ever appeared
In that river. Il is a lie. sir; it is nothing but
a lie.”— B.ehmvnd Religious Herald.
Song or a Yacht—
A white-winged yacht;
It's name was tiaclit:
He sped to asequcs.ered spacht.
The day w is hjrbt.
Exceeding haelit,
Ksotigh to roast a Hachtentacht.
Of skill he’d nacht
A single jaclit,
Bijt like an arrow out he shaeht;
He knew not world
Would be hit; lacht,
Boil his sailboat went topacht.
Now, in his csclit.
All is ablacht—
He’ll never go again, I wacht!
Tid-Bits.
PBKSONAIj.
Frank JonkS’ tax in Portsmouth, N. H„ Is
s7,4s2—four times that of any other person or
corporation.
Gen. LonostrbSt, Gen. Couch and Gen.
William F. Bmiiji * ill toll about the battle of
Fredericksburg in the Century for August.
At HI ST Bki,M nt, of Now fork, is to build
a chapel in Island cemetery at Newport, It,
t„ in memory of his daughter buried there.
Mr. llhuivii.l-Puilups has come into
possession of some documents whi- h are de
scribed as "of interest in their bearing ou the
life of Shakespeare,”
Tilt: late Archbishop Guibert. of Paris, ob
served his vow of poverty to the end oi bis
life, and never slept on anything better than
a coarse straw mattress in a barely furnished
roam.
Übv Stonk, who commanded the Massa
ehuselts troops on the upper Potomac early
in the war. and who was deposed without
being told why. is now in charge of the
bronze statue of Liberty in New York bur
bor.
Mr. Ci.KVF.nANb once asked Senator Voor -
bees: “Who i Judge Tarpie?” “A citizen of
Indiana,” was the reply, “to whom 1 feel like
apologizing every th.ie we meet.” “Why'"”
“For the reason that I ion In the Senate of the
United States and lie is not.”
Mrs. Catharine M tTii.PA Van Coi rt
l.ant Filtn. who died in Now Vork ou Thurs
day lasi, had built two ebifrohrs, one at, Ford
liain, for the inmates t>f the Home for Incura
bles, and llta other at Vsrkuvwn, N. Y. She
had many curious heirlooms of her Amster
dam ancestry.
Dr. Dpi gi.ass, Gen. Grant’s friend and
physician, is sounding the su/mnor quietly tu
Now York in his lint ip the Bella apartment
house, flu w.is beuelMcd hj lus trip South
last spring, hut has not yet e itirely recovered
from the strath endured throughout Gen.
Grant's .ong illness.
Sarah Bkrnuardt’s face was slapped by
Mine. Notrmontln n little spat in Rio a few
weeks ago, and In the seufllio that followed
Mme. Parah’s soft-palmed friends took her
part. They got poor Mine. K.lutoa corner,
they say, and smacked till thp rouge bepow
dered me at ueradUcent airJ
Dolly.
From the Somerville Journal,
Dolly ig plump anti Dolly is fair. .
Dolly has brown eves andsoft, wavy hair,
Dolly is witty and Dolly is pay,
Laughing andsiuging is Dolly all day.
Dolly is comely and Dolly is neat,
A voice, too, lias Dolly that’s tender and
sweet;
Dolly is saucy, sometimes,'l confess,
Dolly is witchingly chicle in her dross.
Dolly at home Is the light of the house,
Dolly can cook—never screams at a mouse,
Dolly is brave, andj Dolly is kind :
Another like Dolly you never could And.
Dolly is courted by suitors a score,
Dolly tells each of them he i a bore,
Dolly I worship, but what is the use?
Cruel and fair, Doliv go to the deuce.
What Henry Wstierion Thinks of Eng
lishmen.
From Wattererm's European Letters,
Thev are hospitable to the last degree, but
their hospitality is much in their own conceit,
and lacks the sweet aroma of true generositv,
which is at once welcoming and unconscious.
They have a winning way of making them
selves disagreeable. It comes natural to them
and they prefer it. They are an honest peo
ple and a brave people, with big bones and
sinews and appetites. The brute is strong
within them. They love to eat and drink, to
argue and browbeat, to swagger and bully.
Beaconsfield, who was a Jew and a gentle
man, understood them perfectly, and when he
started a policy of jingoism he knew that he
was representing a nation of jingoes. The
lines—
“We do not want to fight, but, by jingo, if
we do.
We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, and
we’ve got the money, too,”
tell the whole story, and leave little more to
be said.
I truly believe that in a single-handed con
test, England could whip any other nation,
the United States alone excepted, and, as
matters stand, she could batter down and
burn all our seaport cities before we could
fairly take the field. Her resources, save
only as to food, are enormous. On the land
and on the sea. she is equipped for every
manner of enterprise, either of war or of
peace, and she is our enemy and rival. Lord
Randolph Churchill, who Is personally a
blatherskite and blackguard, derives no little
of his undeniable popularity from his out
spoken abuso of the Americans.
In Days Gone By.
From the San Francisco Fost.
When Mark Twain arrived in this city from
the Sagebrush State he was in his, at that
time, chronic state of impecumosity. lie had
furnished some correspondence to the Call
and at once made a raid on that office for
funds for immediate use and for a position on
the local staff. He wore a ragged felt hat, a
blue soldier’s overcoat, pants which had
formed a passing acquaintance with the top*
of his boots, aud the latter were guiltless of a
knowledge of even the name of a blacking
brush. George Barnes, who was at that time
city editor of the Call, told him to come to
work the next day, and gave him an order on
the business office for money enough to make
himself look respectable. The next day
Twain took possession of his chair, and for
six weary mouths Barnes tried to get some
work out of him.
At the eud of that time, in his good-natured
way, he tried to let Mark down and out easily
and politely by saying:
“Mark, don’t you think you are wasting
your time and talents in doing local work?”
“What do you mean?” said Mark.
“Why. I ttiink with your style and talent
you could make more money writing for first
class magazines than in such work as you are
doing now.”
“That means that you don’t want me any
more. I suppose,” and he put bis feet on the
desk and smiled blandly at Barnes.
“Well. 1 think you are better fitted for that
class of work.”
“The fact is, you have come to the conclu
sion that I am not the kind of man you want.”
“Well, if you’ll have it,” said Barnes, “you
are not. You are the laziest, moat shiftless,
good-for-nothing specimen 1 ever saw around
a newspaper office. I have tried forsix months
to get some work out of you and failed, and I
have come to the conclusion that It Is useless
to keep you any longer.”
“Barnes,” replied Twain, in his most placid
manner, “you are not as smart a man as I
thought you were. You have been six months
in finding that out, and I knew it the day I
came to work. Give us an order on the office
lor three days’ pay and I git.”
A Picture of Riddleberger.
From the Few York Tt met.
Senator Riddleberger continues to make
himself very conspicuous in the Senate. I
saw him the other day rising nearly every
five minutes, interrupting speeches, putting
funny points of order and doing everything in
h s power to shock the dignity and decorum
of the Senate Riddleberger is rattle headed,
often incoherent and makes himself very ob
noxious, but he has a strange faculty of near
ly always getting on the right side of every
question, and while some of his points may be
foolish, yet he has uttered a number of very
disagreeable truths on the floor of the Senate
in regard to its methods of conducting busi
ness. When Riddleberger stood on the floor
the other day, in comparison with the grim
decorum of his associates he presented a
striking picture. He has a very broad, full
topped, long head. He is nearly bald. His
hair is still quite dark; his face has the
red flush of a man who liyes well.
His eyes are full and heayy; his nose
is large and stratght. aud a long
brown moustache and thick beard fall upon Ins
breast. He wore a close btittoned-up frock
suit, buttoned at its two lower buttons and
left open in such a way as to give the appear
ance of a very expansive chest. A small yel
low daisy was in his buctou-hole. His trous
ers were gray and strapped over very tightly
fitting, highly polished boots; his voice is rich
and deep, while his gestures were extrava
gant and thoroughly exasperating in their
lack of dignity. The Senators, for all the
world, look like” a pack of nice, discreet, timid
old women, who were obliged to sit in a room
and listen to the talk of a very bold, bad, rep
robate young woman who had no respect for
proprieties. All of the Senators looked as if
they were ready to pick up their skirts and
run, screaming with protests of propriety,
iuto the modest recesses of the cloak rooms.
Riddleberger is ignored by all of the Senators
with a grimness of shocked propriety that is
very funny. Not one of them will reply to a
single point he makes, and it is very rarely
that he is noticed by any of them, and then
only when lie absolutely forces himself upon
their attention.
The Doctor’. Tale.
From the Omaha Fee.
“I was living in a little Missouri town.”
said the man of medicine, "struggling along
as best 1 could against adverse fate and the
disgnatiug healthiness of the community.
Horse-thieving was a very common thing in
that part of the country, and some of the resi -
dents of the county in which [ lived bad
formed an anti-horse-ihief-aesocmtion. When
a horse was stolen it became the duty of every
member of the association to thoroughly arm
himself, mount his steed, and start in pursuit
of the thief. One day one of the members of
the association lost a string of three valuable
horses.
"Within less than half an hour after the
loss had been discovered a band of thirty
members ot the association were in hot pur
suit of the thief. At 7:30 o'clock in the eve
ning we ran across him in a thick clump of
hushes, the horses staked about him. We
closed in, and in lass time than it takes to tell
It the lior e thief was under arrest. A ‘court
was organized without a moment's delay, aud
atrial lasting not longer than fen minutes
followed. The follow was found guiltv and
sentenced to die. 1 felt sorry for the catnip
tried to intercede in Ins behalf; he was a
young fellow with whom I had been ao
quatnled for some time, an I whom 1 knew to
c one from highly respoctcd parents in Illi
nois. ltwasol no u-e. lhe captors insisted
Unit he mu-l die. and only laughed at my en
treaties. To add to my disgust, I was selected
as the one to shoot him.
“•Say your prayers, boy,’ said one of the
men to the young fellow, who had been tied
to a tree.
"The poor cuss didn’t know how to prav
and nske I me to help him. I didn't know
anything hut the I-ord's prayer, and tried
that. It went so well, and seemed to relieve
the poor fellow so xiiuoh, that I repeated It
several times,
"lust as 1 rose from my knees the details of
a plan whereby I might save the man’s life
flashed Into my mind. 1 whispered them iuto
his ear, and his grateful lpok, as hone was re
vived In his heart, 1 shall never forget. It was
growing dark aud the men were becoming
impatient, so that I determined to
hurry matters to a crisis 1 had a double
barreled muzzle-loading shotguns; and under
pretense that the loads were not fresh 1 fired
them off. | reloaded them, not with shot, but
with some very small pills which 1 happened
to have with me. I ivsspretty well watched
and trembled Inwardly lest f might be de
tected. Rut I wasn't, t measured off a good
ly distance on the ground and tired, taking a
low ann. The borse.thlef fell over apparently
dead. Tlie vigilantes mounted their horses
an ! drove aw a , leaving me to bury the. vlo
tlm. In leas than ton minutes the oorpse was
free and making a bee line for Kansas. The
dose of pills had not injured him In the least.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Australian colonies are all legislating
against the Chinese.
The Trans-Caspian railroad is now open to
traffic as far as Mcrv.
Venezuela has been favored with ble and
rose colored hail stones.
Tns first silk hat is said to have been made
for a French sea captain in China, fifty years
ago.
Jlelocipede is the new name of a musical
bicycle so fashioned that the rider can kick
out melodies, waltzes aud reels as he travels
aiong the road.
English railway companies have successful
co-operative banks of their own. In one
company the employes have deposited oyer
£227,000—a remarkable illustration of thrift.
A curiosity of engineering, in the form of
a tiny steam engine, has bean made by an in
genious olockmaker. It weighsonly about fif
teen grains, and is entirely covered by an or
dinary thimble.
The publishers say that the publication of a
work in cheap form lessens very little the sale
of a better edition. At first authors were
averse to the experiment, but the result was
both surprising and gratifying.
A man in Bloomington, 111., discovered a
twelve-pound turtle on the sidewalk during a
heavy thunderstorm, and thinks it must have
fallen from the clouds. Its head was almost
severed from the body, but it was stiil alive.
A Brooklyn man expended 130,000 in fitting
up a liquor saloon in clse proximity to the
Sands Street Methodist church, but the church
and temperance people generally made such a
strong protest against this invasion that the
Commissioner refused a license for the place.
Dk. W. C. Doane writes from Maniton,
Col., to G. B. Merrill, of Lock Haven: “Bring
your fishing tackle and come out here imme
diately. The fish not only bite, but follow
you out of the stream. Sometimes you have
to drive them off ol yourself with a club to
get a mouthful of fresh air. My lord! it is
grand, old boy.”
The first female clerk employed by the gov
ernment was Miss Jennie Douglass, who was
appointed in the Treasury Department In the
summer of 1862, upon the recommendation of
Treasurer Spinner, and was put to work trim
ming the first issue of legal tender United
States notes. In the fall seven ladies were
appointed as counters.
The mountain range which divides Ver
mont physically also divides it politically. It
is a rule which has grown into an inflexible
custom that the offices shall be apportioned
equally between the two sides. Senator Ed
munds is on the west side of the mountains,
Senator Morrill on the east. The governors
are taken first from one side and then from
the other and so with all thooffices of any im
portance.
Wm. Forbes, of Morrisonville, 111., is a
wheelman of more than local celebrity. He
is a somnambulist as well. A few nights ago
he arose in his sleep, put on his hat and
clothes, bestrided his bicycle, and struck out
at a prize winning rate through the streets of
the slumbering village. He was headed off
by the night watchman, who was not afraid
oi' ghosts on wheels. With difficulty he was
awakened from his dream as the champion
wheelman of the world. Once awakened he
speedily abandoned the turf and hurried
home.
A newspaper in Illinois recently brought
suit against forty-three men who would not
pay their subscription, and obtained judg
ment in each case for the full amount of the
claims. Of these twenty-eight made affida
vit that they owned no property in excess of
what the law allowed them, thus preventing
an attachment. Then, under the law of Con
gress making the taking of a newspaper from
a post office without paying for it, theft, thev
were arrested for petit larceny and bound
over in the sum of S3OO each All but six
gave bail, and the others went to jail.
M. Pahaut, the leaderof the Belgian quar
rymen, who during the recent labor riots in
that country exercised his influence on the
side of order, enjoys the unbounded respect
and confidence of the laboring population.
He is often called King Pahaut. and on his
way to his recent conference with the Gover
nor of Liege was followed by an almost royal
escort. He rode at the head of 500 quarrv
men, a heavy hammer in bis gloved hand, and
bowed graciously in response to the enthusi
astic shouts of the populace. Pahaut. who is
52 years of age, is said to be very intelligent
and a giant in strength.
The son of the former Servian Premier Ris
tics, who is a Russian cavalry officer, was re
cently challenged by a Polish nobleman of
Kalisch for his ultra-Russian sentiments.
During the duel with swords which followed
Ristics made use of such questionable prac
tices in fencing that lie was chastised on the
spot by his antagonist’s seconds, who after
wards called the attention of the military
authorities of Kalisch to his behavior. Ristics
was dismissed from the army, but at the In
terference of the Governor General of War
saw, Gen. Gurko, he was not only reinstated,
but his opponent, M. Kobierzycki, was ar
rested and “transferred” to a post in Siberia.
A Southern Illinois editor who went to
hear Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley a
month or two ago says ho has “refrained until
now” from giving his “real opinion” of the
two men, through fear that It "might seem to
be inspired by hasty impulse;” but having
taken plenty of time to ponder his words and
weigh his criticisms he now declares: “We
wish to say in the most calm and dispassionate
manner that Bill Nye and Jim Rilev are the
two most ungodly ugly men on the surface of
the green earth to-day—especially Riley.
This gifted poet could turn the Amazon river
up stream by siandlug at its mouth and 1 .ok-
Ing at it. We have no prejudice against Rilev.
We admire his genius. VVe have wept over
his poems, but we never really knew what it
was to weep until we saw him.”
Another trial was made Thursday even
ing on the Carrollton Railroad, New Orleans,
of the ammonia motor invented by Mr. P. G,
McMahon. The special object of the trip was
to give the members of the Streets and Land
ings Committee of the City Council an oppor
tunity to see the workings of the machine.
This committee have under consideration an
application to allow the running of the motor
on the St. Charles Avenue Railroad to Canal
street. The distance from Napoleon avenue
to Carrolton was made in thirteen and
a half minutes, bnt the speed could
have been easily increased. The car
operated by the motor is run to Carrollton
several times every week, aud the machine
is found to work better at each trip. The
principle involved in the motor is the expan
sive power of the highly condensed ammonia
gas, which is applied to motive machinery
much in the same way as steam. The great
difficulty first experienced in the use of this
agent was the freezing action of Ihe ammo
nia, which interfered with the working . f the
machinery. This difficulty nas been obvi
ated. The ammonia is carried in a lank un
derneath the body of the car, and is connected
with a simple arrangement of niaton. throttle
and brake, which en hie the engineer to con
trol with ease the nun ements of the car from
his stand on the platform.
There are in the United States some ten
colonies of Russian, Polish and Hungarian
Israelites, most of whom have come hers
within the last five years. One of those, In
the suburbs of Vineland. N. J., has an inter
esting history. At first it was feared that the
tract ot land chosen was a mere waste, but
In the course of a few years, by constant aud
incessant labor and perseverance, it has been
made productive, ho that more than sixty
families are maintained on the vieldings o'f
the ground, such ns potatoes, corn, berries,
etc., which bring a very fair price in the
market. Mr. Michael Heilprin, the distin
guished cyclopa'dlst and linguist of New
fork, has superintended the colonization
worn for several years, and ia untiring in his
efforts fur the ueL-hcing of ti.e different set
tlements. That gentleman, in company with
the Rev. S. Morais, of Philadelphia, liusre
turned from a visit to Alliance, which is the
name given to the Vineland colony. They
are greatly satisfied with the state of affairs
there and fatly believe that the inhabitants
intend remaining permanently as tillers of
the soil. Among the people there were found
many cultured par-ons and a number of those
who had tied from Russia by reason of the r
complicity m Nihilistic p ots. Suino of these
told their story and pictured graphically the
designs of their follow-conspirators, and the
thrilling escapes they themselvrs made when
the plots were made knowu to the authori
ties. One man, who was compelled to leave
his whole family in Russia In order to cross
the frontier before fresh discoveries had been
made, gave an interesting narrative of his
career and showed likene-ses of several noted
Nihilists, with whom he claimed to have been
in league. All the colonists are now well
settled and they, as a rule, are fully satisfied
with their present lot. Thev live in neat
houses, hulk of wood, which are sold to them
at a sui 1 11 coat. The entire colony occupies
from 1.200 to 1,300 acres of ground, and the
climate Is salubrious and healthy.
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$135 a yard.
Black Silks,
LOT 1.
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inches, sl, $1 25, $1 50, $1 75, up to $3.
LOT 3.
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to cut in the least, or to pull apart on any
ordinary strain. These goods run from 18 to
22 inches, and will be sold during the coming
week from 40c a yard to $1 50, a reduction of
25 per cent, under former prices.
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