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jSDEI TONEtf ADVERTISEMENTS^
Meeting--Chippewa Tribe No. 4, 1.0. of
R. M.
Special Notices—As to I>r. Brandt’s Prac
tice; Caution a* to Lost < he< k.
Daily Excursions to Warsaw — Via Coast
Line Railroad.
Auction >ales—A Cheap Suburban Home,
A Snug Farm n*ar the City, A Comfortable
Home, by C. H. Horsett; Household and
Kitchen Furniture, by Kennedy A Mallette;
100 A’res of Land, by I. D. La Korin** Sons.
Gk aok Bull C alve.4 — Kstill A Vincent.
Em v ATHN al —Pantops Academy, near
Charlottesville. V.i.
oTE vMsuip scheucle—Generale Transat
lautique.
t.HKAP COLUMN A DYKRTIPF-M ENTS—HeIp
Want i: Employment Wanted; For Kent;
M "cellanc us.
Cm.rage. Etc.— W. D. Simkins A Cos.
Fin a NCI aL —Kissimmee < Lty Bank.
< in: ap Cos ai.—l). It. Thomas
Potatoes, Etc.—John Lyons A Cos.
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to mention the old as well as the new ad
dress.
After all It may truthfully be claimed
that “might makes ‘Wright.’”
Bryan, Chat uara and Ktlingham coun
ties are all “Wright” on tbe Senatorial
question.
A great many cotton planters are sadly
afflicted w ith “hay fever,” and only heroic
treatment can effect a cure.
There is more genuine Democratic har
mony in the First Senatorial district .just
now than there has been in some time.
So it seems that Gen. Boulanger,French
Minister of War, has made himself fa
mous by his blundering use ot the der
ringer.
The aspirant for political honors who is
beaten out of his boots would be wise to
imitate tbe boy the calf run over—have
nothing to say.
It President Proudht would only get
John L. Sullivan to aot as umpire at
Macon, there might be some fun for dis
interested spectators in the mob act.
An exchange rightly insists that the
Chicago anarchists ought to be hanged.
They have already been “drawn” about
and “quartered” for nearly three months
at the public expense.
The politicians constitute the laboring
men who have been very much over
worked this summer. It seems that tbe
people are ooming to the conclusion that
it is about time to give the poor fellows
a rest.
Huff will probably go to the General
Aesetnbjy from Bibb county, and, if he
does, he will be heard from. Huff notonly
has hiatus but a longue, and he generally
manages to let people know when he is
about.
The King of Greece wou’t resign, but
he is going to let the oountr/ run itseli
lor a month or two. From the way things
appear to have been going at Athens of
late it would seem tuat he will not be
missed.
Some Democratic papers appear to fear
that Ben Butler is to he resurrected po
litically, as a quasi Democrat. There is no
occasion for fear. Tbe hero of Ship Island
and Bottled Gap has been permanently
retired to a kind of uneasy semi-private
lile.
The royal princes ought to leel plaguey
mean to have been caught in a very fla
grant case of plagiarism. They perhaps
think that it was a very elever thing to
get one readable passage in their book. It
would have been nobler it they bad
courted fame by jumping off a bridge.
Connecticut and Rhode Island are In
another dispute over the boundary ques
tion. The Rhode Islanders will perhaps
object to a resurvey of the line, as a very
slight deviation in tbe magnetic needle
might abolish their little State and its
oligarchical form of government together.
It is not probable that this country will
lump Into a war with Mexico until it has
time to investigate the question whether
or not editor Cutting is a rather pestifer
ous patriot, who in the matter of journal
istic criticism went even beyond the
recognized South western limits ot liberty.
Hoboken, N. J., reluscs its hospitali
ties to the New York gamblers who took
refuge across the Hudson and opened
their establishments. The pool rooms
were raided Friday and the crooked fra
ternity put on notice that they would
have to move on or abandon their busi
ness enterprises.
As an addendum to his lecture Prof.
Drr gives the school statistics of Georgia
for IKSS as follows: Enrollment of white
children IflO.oifi, of colored 119.245, of both
races 309,594. The per centum of attend
ance is as follows: White 72, colored 49,
white and colored til. The total of ex
penditure for schools was $722,008 29.
Mr. Dupont Guerrv, •( Amerlcus, who
was yesterday nominated by the Presi.
dentfor United States Attorney for this
district, is one of the ablest and most
promising young men in Georgia, and he
is none too young either. Should he be
confirmed, ana there is no reason to be
lieve that he will not he, he will Gil the
lmportaut ofbee with honor to himself
and with benefit to tbe district. The
President has made a good beginning in
the Southern district. Next!
Make it Unanimous.
The State Convention meets to-morrow,
and the indication* are that it will <1 its
work quickly, (ien. Gordon will be nomi
nated for Governor. Ibe occupants of
the other State office* will, doubtless, be
renominated. They have performed their
duties in a wav that has given general
satisfaction, and the impression seems to
be that better men could not be found to
fill iheir places.
(ien. Gordon’s nomination ought to be
made unanimous, not because ho has
tbree-lourtha of the counties and three
tourths of the delegates, but because
such a nomination would tend to harm
onize the factions and cause them to for
get the personalities and slanders which
were so Industriously circulated during
the campaign for the Gubernatorial nom
ination.
The Morning Nkws did not support
either Gen. Gordou or Maj. Bacon
for reasons which are well known. One
of the reasons was that the kind of a can
vass they were making tended to disor
ganize the party. The people have said
by an overwhelming majority that they
want Gen. Gordon for Governor. What,
then, is the use of keeping up the tight
against him? Although the Morning
Nkw s has not been his advocate and sup
porter it does now say that it would be a
wise and graceful thing to do to give the
people’s choice a unanimous nomination.
There is nothing to be gained by casting
a few votes against him. There Is, how
ever, something to he gained by paying
him the compliment of a unanimous vote.
There will be a better feeling in tlie party,
and when he becomes Governor be will
not be conscious of an effort to avoid dis
criminating against those oounties which
opposed him.
Maj. Bacon’s wishes in the matter
ought not to betaken into consideration,
because he is no longer in a position to
expect anything. He carried his case
before the people, and the verdict was
against hint. The welfare of the State
and the interests of the party are the
things now for the delegates to consider.
Maj. Bacon desires, apparently, to keep
up the fight agaiust Gen. Gordon as long
as there is a chance to do so. He does
not show a spirit to be admired, and the
time may come when he will regret
the charge which he made
against his opponent in his letter
published on Sunday. Whatever may
have been his motive in making it, there
is no doubt that it will be attributed to
the bitterness resulting from his defeat,
and if nothing should occur to substanti
ate it during Gen. Gordon’s administra
tion, it will prove an obstruction to auv
political aspirations which he may have
in the future.
N o doubt the great majority of the Bacon
delegates would rather drop Maj. Bacon
as a candidate since he has no chance for
the nomination and make Gen. Gordon’s
nomination unanimous, but attempts may
be made to influence them not to do so.
If they determine to vote for Maj. Bacon
they will do so knowing that their action
will be liable to be interpreted as mean
ing that they, in a measure, indorse the
charge which ne has made against Gen.
Gordon. That this would be Hiifortunate
it will be generally admitted.
Sliadfi Trees.
The Interest in this city in shade trees
is very general. Indeed, the interest at
the present time is greater than it has
been for years. This, perhaps, is because
of the protest that was made against the
destruction of the treos on Broughton
street, and the inquiry inaugurated by
the Chairman of the Committee ou Streets
and Lanes relative to the trees best
adapted to this locality.
It is gratifying that there is a re
awakened interest in this city in arbori
culture. The city’s chief beauty is its
trees, and it is important that this beauty
should not be permitted to disappear
through neglect or the want of judgment
in selecting trees to replace those which
are destroyed hy storms and by decay.
In a Washington paper a few days ago
there appeared an interview with the
Superintendent of the Botanical Cardens
of that city on Washington shade trees,
it will lie admitted that the national capi
tal is tno most generally and artistically
shaded city in the world. The trees have
been selected with judgment and planted
with the view of making them a source of
comfort as well as beauty.
in the course of the interview the
Superintendent spoke of a tree that, per
haps, our authorities might regard with
tavor. it is known as the Carolina pop
lar. “There is,” said the Superintendent,
“a tree of this kind in the west end of tho
Botanical Uardens. It was bought
twenty-five years ago in Baltimore and
from that tree in that time we have pro
duced 2.000 Carolina poplars, and the tree
is still hearty and healthy, a magnificent
specimen. This Carolina poplar, with a
species ot oypress, will he used very ex
tensively in South Washington and in ma
larial districts, as they are both absorbers
of malaria, root and branch. Their use
fulness from a sanitary point of view is
wonderful, in the malarial districts of
the South, along the odges of swamps and
morasses, they grow and attain a magni
ficent growth.” Would not this Carolina
poplar be a good tree to plant in this city ?
it might, at least, be worth while to make
some inquiries about it as au absorber ol
malaria.
Kditor Dana believes in good liquor,
but he is not a
of-a-man. He says: “We are glad to ob
serve among the Democrats of I‘eunsyl.
vania a disposition to make high license
ono ol the planus ol their platform in the
approaching State election. High license
is a safe, constitutional andoil'ective way
of regulating the liquor tartir, and it will
bo in the right place in any Democratic
platform.”
The sweet potato crop may prove to be
an unusually valuable one in Georgia this
year. The tact is it has beeu ail impor
tant food crop in this section of the Union
ever since Gen. Marion invited the swell
British ollioer to a banquet at wnich this
excellent esculent roasted and water
were the only things that appeared on tho
menu,
Now the Washington doctors are b
ginning to disagree ms to whether there is
any reliable way ot telling butter irotu
the bogus article. It is not stated whether
the butter used in the tests was from
Senator Warner .Miller’s factory or not.
Blaine is said to be loading his cam
paign gun with a heavy charge. He
should make abundant preparations lor
the recoil-
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. JULY 27. 1836.
The Senatorial Nominee.
The nomination of Col. H. G. Wright for
Senator from this district was made with
out any wrangling or delay. The conven
tion decided quickly that he was the man
to nominate, and there is no reason to
tfiink that it made a mistake.
Col. Wright, although not very gener
ally known in the district, is a man ol
ability aud integrity. He has had some
experience as a legislator and, hence, is
not wholly unprepared for the duties
which he will be called upon to dis
charge.
The country oounties ot the district
have long wanted the Senatorship, and it
was given to them without a struggle.
There was a little justice in complaints
tney have been making for the past few
years that < batham did not treat them
fairly in the matter of the Senatorship,
although the interests of Chatham were
so much greater than theirs, that It
seemed that a Chatham county man ought
to have the place. However, there is no
reason to fear that the interests of Savan
nah will not be fully, faithfully and ably
cared for by Col. Wright.
The convention deserves a word of
praise lor getting through with its busi
ness so promptly. The delegates seemed
to Know what they went to Eden to do,
and they did it without circumlocution or
wasting time in useless talU.
Prohibition in Co\vtitles and Thomas.
The prohibitionists have met with a de
feat in two counties in South Georgia
lately—Lowndes and Thomas. These are
prosperous and progressive counties, and
the people who inhabit them are enter
prising ami thrifty. That they should
have refused to takejsides against whisky
is greatly to be regretted. So many of tbe
counties of the State have taken sides
against it that it is a little remarkable
that, the two counties named should have
declined lo do so.
One reason for their course, probably,
is that they have not suffered as greatly
from tbe evils arising from the intempe
rate use of whisky as other counties have,
and another reason may be that the ques
tion of prohibition was not sufficiently
agitated before tbe vote was taken.
It is folly to be too hasty in this prohi
bition business. There is no use under
taking to vote whisky out until public
sentiment is ripe for prohibition. It
will not do to advocate prohibition
and not practice it. In order to make
it effective, public sentiment must be
strongly in favor of it. M who have
sous who are inclined to be dissipated
must stop drinking whisky themselves tf
they want to shield them from the danger
of becoming drunkards.
Doubtless Lowndes and Thoruas will
eventually join the prohibition counties
in opposition to whisky, but it is cleat*
that before they do so there must be more
work done in them in behalf of prohibi
tion than there has yet been done. The
people must be made to see much more
clearly than they yet havb seen how much
to their interest prohibition would be.
It is a mistake, which the prohibition
ists sometimes make, to demand a vote
on the whisky question before there is a
reasonable oertaintv that prohibition can
be carried. A prohibition defeat weakens
the cause of prohibition and puts off, if it
does not defeat, a prohibition triumph.
The time for the prohibitionists to demand
a vote is when they teel certain of obtaiu
ing a victory. There are a few counties
in the State with regard to which such a
certainty does aot exist,, and is not likely
to exist very soon, unless the prohibi
tionists in them are much more active
and aggressive than they are at present
or have been at any time since the local
option law was passed.
It seems that there are religious cranks
in Washington as well as in Cincinnati,
A prominent Washington surgeon says
that there is in Washington a lady, the
wife ot a well-known man of wealth aud
standing, who believes she is also the rep
resentative ol Jesus Christ and that he is
constantly sending communications
through her to a suffering world. This
surgeon said that several months ago he
was called in to examine her. sho told
the surgeon that if he would wait in her
presence till a certain hour or that even
ing she would cause Jesus Christ to bo
materialized in human form by her side
for the purpose of explaining to him that
she was truly his representative. The
pbysiclau waited, but was not disap
pointed. He expected nothing, and re
mained until the hour named, simply to
please his patient. This lady is sane upon
all other matters aud manages to conceal
from all except members of uer own
tumily her insane delusion.
A big lot ol trade dollars wore eolcl in
New York Friday tor 75 1-lOe. each. It
seems that some of the Philadelphia peo
ple who have been buying them tip for
speculative purposes, expecting the gov
ernment to redeem them at par, are suf
fering by the continual decline. The
Record, of that city, says: ‘ When heavy
weight trade dollars are sold in bulk they
bring but 75c. each. There have been few
discounting operations undertaken in
American financial circles that have pre
sented a less defensible aspect than this
misuse ot the trade dollar. Philadelphia
merchants have been ueavv losers by the
government policy of inaction with re
gard to the discredited coin. One business
man was loaded with 160,000 of the big
dlsos, on which his eventual loss was
over $10,000."
It has long been a question whether
witnesses have any rights bullying law
yers are bound to respect. Judge Garev,
of t'bicago, declares that witnesses under
the protection of his court must be treated
with as much courtesy as they receive
under their own protection elsewhere. If
he enforces this rule, says a St. Louis pa
per, it will he a strange departure from
the established usage under which a law
yer may bully a witness in court as be
would not think of doing—would uot dare
do—elsewhere.
The elm has been known as one of the
most beautiful and durable shade trees in
this country, it has been noted tor Its
freedom from disease and Insect enemies,
but now a beetle has appeared on it in
Now York, which is destroying the leaf,
and w hioh bids fair to do immense dam
age. It was imported from Euro|>e,
where its ravages have been unchecked
lor years.
A Washington paper says all classes of
men and women in that elty carry pistols.
If this is truo they are guilty of a very
foolish practlco. It tyould soera. however,
that they do not kuovy how to t.se the lit
tlo guns.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Another Democratic Outrage.
From, ih e Cho ag > .Vsic# Ind. ,
The Chicago ReooMtcans are a good deal
put out at finding that Mr. Porter, the new
agent of the government secret service in this
city, was a I man soldier. Republican argu
ments will soon run out if the administration
keeps putting Union soldiers into responsible
places.
Untaxed Imported Labor.
From the Boston Herald. f /nd.)
The number of immigrants who reached
this country in the year ending June 30 was
about ;il 0,000, against about st.OeO for tbe pre
vious year. aud78x,892 in 1881-2. Though these
figures show a decrease, there were enough
new eitizeus in the lust year to make a re
spectable Slate, or to afford constituencies for
two members of Congress. These irnin grants
swell the supply of labor, and ou labor there
is no duty.
Mr. Powderly s Bottle Breaking.
iro.u the Detroit Free Frees.
On this principle au incendiary is not a
criminal, but a public benelaetor; and Mrs.
O'Leary’s cow, whose kick tired Chicago, was
a great philanthropist. The french, who are
the moat thrifty and prosperous of people,
owed largely to their powers of saving, not
of destruction. If Mr l'owderly s principles
are sound, the world has been acting on a
false principle from time Immemorial, llis
motive recalls the old story of the scotch sur
geon who found a man breaking Ilia windows,
and angrily rebuked turn “It’s all far the
glide of my trade.” said the man, “I'm a
glazier,” “And that’s all for Inegudeofmy
trade,” said file surgeon, bringing his cane
down on the glazier’s head, “I’m a surgeon.”
If people generally should adopt Mr. f’ow
derly Veslienios, houses and shops would soon
be empty, nobody anywhere would have
any accumulations to show for their labor.
The Feather that Broke fils Back,
Fro.u tho Chicago Mail Rep j.
The Governor of Michigan has put his foot
in it, metaphorically speaking. It's* all on
account ot a private railway car. The Wol
verines have no special objection to private
cars or for their Governor traveling in that,
wav. None whatever. A roan-cart or wagon
or wheelbarrow is good enough formally ot
thorn, but they rather enjoy the distinction of
having a chief magistrate who can move
about without being comaminated by the
contact of the common herd. Hut it is one
of the attachments of this car that has raised
their ire. The editor of the official prohibition
organ of the State Pas discovered that Mr.
Alger has been indiscreet enough to have a
wipe-locker built in said private ear And
now tbe prohibitionists are on the warpath.
'I hey have declared war against the Governor
and the parly he represents.
BRIGHT HITS.
A I. A roe government taxon oleomargarine
might be. devoted, under the management of
Mr Blair, to the cause of education. Mr.
Blair would scorn to heed tbe cry of “School
butter 1”— ()uu rier-Jnu> nal.
The Queen Is said to tie hugely pleased with
Tennyson’s latest ode. It will be remembered
that the ode advises “Britons to bold their
own”—and the CJueen has been hoidiug her
own—aud more, too—for a good many years.
It is not surprising, therelore, tnat the ode
pleases her. —Sort istoicn Herald.
A Harvard Professor and his wife were
guests at a reception in London, which had
been given in their honor. A hundred men
and women had been invited by the hostess to
meet them, But there were no introductions,
and llie Harvard Professor amused himself
during the evening by talking to bis wife.—
Harper's Weekly .•
Blaine’s speech for home rule is about on a
level with Kurchard’s speech lor Blaine.
While on this unpleasant subject, we wish to
tell Mr. Blaine that S. C. Griggs 2fc Cos., of
Chicago, have just printed a. hook that ought
to be interesting to all who have been sun
slruck, entitled “solar Heat, Gravitation and
Sun-spots.”— Fuck.
Mil l)—Mr. Allround is a sort of universal
genius, isn't he?
Mabel—Yes, be is exceedingly clever.
Maud-He is something of a lawyer and
something of a musician. What is his profetv
sion?
Mabel—Well, the lawyers rail him a musi
cian, and the musicians call him a lawyer.—
Chicago Rtttnbier.
A musician hoarding at an up-towu hotel
suddenly disappeared ana au acquaintance
earnc io see the proprietor about him.
"He was quite a musician, 1 understand,”
sal l the inquirer after some preliminary
talk. “O. yes," readily assented the proprie
tor. “Did ho play wet! -” “You bet he did,
He played (he piano, and me cornet, and the
tiddlo, atnl the banjo, and me and the clerks,
and went away owing a board lull or $57 60.
That’s the kind of a player he was, confound
him.”— Tid-Bite.
A Bi.ithksone Grasshopper danced and
sang the Summer through, and pul in Ills
spare Time disregarding and jeering at the
Advice ot a Laborious Elderly Ant, bis Uncle,
who warned him that his Bourse of Conduct
was not getting the Baby dressed. Winter
came, and simpson aud o. stared the
Thoughtless Insect in the Face. But just
then the Ant died of Overwork and Insuffi
cient Nourishment, leaving the Grasshopper,
tils Sole Heir, to revel in his Hoarded Wealth’.
We learn from tins Fable uot lo despise Pa
tient ludustry—in our Elderly Relatives.-
Fuck .
The other evening a patrolman found a
well dressed woman sitting in an open hall
way, next door to a marble shop, and think
ing she might be a stranger in trouble be ac
costed her with:
“Anything wrong, madam?”
She came out to him and replied: “No, sir’
nothing w rong. I’m watting for my’hus
band.”
“And he?”
“lie is in the marble shop figuring on a
tombstone.”
“And you don’t want to go in on account of
the gloomy surroundings?”
“The gloomy surroundings wouldn’t affect
me at all, sir, but I hope I know what be
longs to the proprieties. He’s in there tig
ering on a tombstone for his first wife, who’s
been dead three years, and I presume you can
appreciate the occasion.”— Fetrnii free Frees.
PERSONAL,
Democratic simplicity is the rule in Gen.
Butler’s Washington law office, even to un
carpcied floors.
Miss Farkar, a London spinster, recently
left stuo.oo.i to tin applied in granting pensions
to aged widows and spinsters.
Mrs. Bayard Taylor, who lias been ab
sent in her native country, Germany, for
months sailed for home yesterday, she was
recently elected a member of ‘lie Goethe So
ciety or Weimar. Her daughter nas been
studying art in Munich.
Pai l Miiinkt, the actor, being "carried
away" by his part as “Macbeth" ai Bordeaux
the other night., threw himself with such vio
lence on the “Word of “Macduff’’ as to cut an
an cry. •Mmheth’’fainted from 10-s of blood,
hut recovered, so that now,all is well.
(iit sst.riNA Morlacchi,thedansense,dead
to the public fora numoer of years, is now
dead io tier friends. Her demise has just oc
curred at Hast Bellepea. Mass, she achieved
considerable distinction in Loudon and me
continental cip.es, and was successful for
three or four years in America. In tsrtishe
was married to J. B. Dmohundro (Texas
Jack).
Kev.Chari.es H. A. Dali., whose death at
Calcutta lias been announced, i.cgan las mis
sionary labors in St. Louts, where lie worked
with and lived iu the family of tho Key. Dr.
•Shot, "ne day the Eliots had Just sat down
to dinner when Dali rinded in, exclaimed’
"The worst case yet!” snatched the dish of
roast meat from tlie table and rushed awav
.‘gain, to give it to a poor family be had dis
covered.
G' ken Victoria once being at aa impor
tant ceremony In a North of England city, a
pp"r wan drought to her for her signature.
if course slits inscribed it as usual, “ v le.toria!
It.' i I." Then llcr favorite daughter's sig
nature yvas desired and duly written
••Beatrice.” Final.y the wife of the .Mayor
wan railed to sign the paper, and, not to be
outdone bv any mere royalties, she unhesitat
ing wrote "Mary."
K. V. V A lent ink, tlie ltichmond sculptor,
has nearly completed a model <J a class e
group which is attracting much attention, tt
represents Andromache sadly musing lifter
the departure of Hector for battle, w ljj e p r
child i-vainly trying to catch her eve. An
dromache's expression n tfie feature of the
work which excites mo t admiration, and this
the sculptor Is said to have copied from the
lace of his wife, P"W dead.
S. D W xnpy, Q. C„ elected to the House of
Commons by a Lincolnshire constituency to
support Mr. Gladstone, Is one of ihe i,*st
known lawyers of Lon ion. Hois famed for
his ability In the court mom, whether < gam
bling a witness or pleading before the tury.
Bow lawyers can so well as he is stern, insih
n a ting. Indignant, pv hello, sarcastic at will
And then when Sunday comes around he can
go into tho pulpit and prese.h ns good a ser
mon as almost any of his Weslevan brethren.
He has been frequently elected to Parliament
from a large and varied assortment of consul-’ I
uuuules.
USmptjr Neati.
Mrs, Jsums Jones Cunningham,
year’s nests hang empty in th* trees,
Th*ir birds of song have flown away;
Swift wings hate crossed the sullen seas
There’s silence in my home to-day.
The birds will flit, and children roam.
And both forsake the mother's breast,
Through azure space, o'er ocean borne,
Their courses lie from east to west.
For God, who gave the thistle wings,
1 he need that seeks the desert sand,
Implanted in all living things
The will to rove by t?ea or land.
“Goforth!” is Nature’s stern decree.
But still in love and kindness given;
Where’er your pilgrimage may be
Obey and work—the will of Heaven.
Bigger Than Sam tfoues.
S. W. Wesley, the cowboy evangelist, is a
bigger man than Sam Jones in the great
Southwest. **l was born,” he says,
•*iu Missouri, but when I was a
three-year-ole I riz to the enormity
of the fart an’ weut to Texas. One-dark night
1 saddled a gray tilly an’ rodo out into Texas.
Yes, sir, it was my third birthday. I was
brought up on the frontier, an’ until a year
ago was a cowboy. Everyone knew me. I
was branded all over with the devil’s irons;
yes, sir. onedav, a year ago, things bein’
corpse-like on the frontier, 1 dropped over
into Anderson county, jest to get a swalter of
civilization, r hail several, so to speak. Hap
pened into meeting one night, and there was
Slaj Penn, an evangelist, tirin’ red-hot Bible
into the crowd. Before that I’d been & sort
of Maverick, knockin’ around without no
owner; but that night the Lord jest lassoed
rr.e, branded me, an' says: ‘Now you caper on
my ranch,’ an* I've been adorn* the \er> same.
Why, a year ago r didn’t know Matthew* from
Mordecal, but I*ve sorted things out. If any
man can jump a quotashun from the Bible
that I don't, know, why. I’ll—l’ll swaller my
hat or eat him blood-raw, jest as lie likes.’*
Like the Old Story in the Reader.
From the St, Louis Glob?-Democrat
Nfw Orleans, July 16 —The British steam
shin Humboldt, from Rio de Janeiro to this
port, with a cargo of coffee, has come up to
the city from quarantine station, ( apt.
Grines and his officers rela’e an account of a
marine combat witnessed bv them on the
morning of June 10 off Nan Salvador. The
attention of officers and crew was attracted
by a furious commotion of the waters a short
distance ahead.
A* thev neared the spot they saw that a
terrible combat was going on between mons
ters of the deep. The sea was lashed into a
seething foam . It fairly boiled within a cir
cumference of a hundred yards, and myriads
of mad whitecaps floated away beyond this
circle. Moving closely up and slowing down
they stopped to watch the battle. It was one
to the death. A swordfish and a thrasher had
attacked a tremendous sperm whale. The
strength, size and force were with the broad
back sperm, that, wheeling round and round as
if workingon a swivel,swung its huge tail with
mighty power. It would raise itself alpft
clear out of the water, blow spray through its
nostrils and make frantic efforts to annihilate
its foes; but science, skill and manoeuvring
were on the side of Its enemies. The thrasher
is supplied with a “mucker” that enables it to
stick to whatever it attacks. The tactics
adopted by the pair were successful. The
thrasher, springing upon the back of the
whale, clung there, at the same time lashing
the unfortunate creature with its tail, actu
ally whipping it to death. Tue great sea ani
mal, with Its most gigantic efforts, was not
able to cast It off. There it held and lashed,
while the swordfish drove his sword time after
time into the side of their big antagonist.
The waters were dyed with the blood of the
leviatnan. ami in the course of a short time
he had succumbed to the effects of the best
ing and the stabbing, and floated upon the sea
a lifeless mass. The vessel, at the termina
tion of the conilict. steamed on its way.
They Htarted In Literature.
it Gath ’’ in Cincinnati Enquirer .
That youth is the only ideal time of life can
be confirmed by the fact that all our foremost
speculators were of literary beginning. I
hold in my hand Jay Gould's history of Dela
ware county, published in 1856, when hocould
not have been more than 20 years old. He
commenced life with a strong local patriot
ism, which made him revere the founders and
leaders of his native country, and he went
through that wild, half-mountainous region
making maps of it to accompany his literary
work. Like nearly all literary-minded people
in America, ho soon found that he was throw
ing away his time upon a people who regarded
worldly success as the end of all well-balanced
minds.
Mr. Ru°sell Sage, though not so much of a
literary spirit, took a hearty puolic interest
in tlie affairs of the city of ’Troy, was one of
its Aldermen for years and its Treasurer for
seven years, and while in Congress, repre
senting that district for two terms, he started
an agitation for the government, instead of a
woman's society, to buy Mount Vernon,
which last proposition savors of both senti
ment and love of country. this man, who
is now 70 years old. found no more fitting oc
cupation for hoary hairs than to sell puts and
• alls, or be a bookmaker for theyoung betters
in the street.
Cyrus W. Field, another notable speculator
of our time, came out of a clergyman’s par
sonage, of a family of editors and writers,
and although he went to business in New
York city when a boy, he was seen at only 84
years of age becoming a foreign traveler,
with a predilection for books and study.
Thirty years ago he formed the Atlantic
Telegraph Company, the experimental be
ginning of what seems to many persons at
present nothing but a war of speculators and
monopolists.
So Samuel J. Tilden, who is about 73 years
of age, or soino eight years younger than
David Dudley Field, commenced his life
writing newspaper aud literary contributions,
which finally took the direction of corporation
and interested advocacies, until he graduated
into politics aud became a leading speculator
nearly at the same time.
Ludi(’ Gallery of Hirrors.
From a Munich Lrttnr to the London Daily
Jfe-ire.
The front of the middle building of the
palace built by the late King Ludwig in imi
tation of Versailles with its twenty-two win
dows lielow, opening upon a narrow balcony,
and its twenty-two windows above, is entire
ly taken up by the large gallery of mirrors,
which is Hanked by two halls having six win
dows at the side, that are separated from the
gallery by high columns only. That the hu
man mind should have conceived a hall of
such dimensions seems well nigh incredible
even to those who have pared to and fro in it.
Notwithstanding the euornious space.it does
not look empty or desolate. The celling is
arched, and the paintings, which commence
on the walls gradually pass to the ceil
ing, where pictures in rich harmonious
colors alternate with bronze reliefs or a
pale green color, both framed in rich orna
ments of gold. Opposite the twenty-two
windows are ns many mirrors, and the space
betwcenl'vindows and mirrors is taken tip by
tall g it metal candlesticks eight feet high.
In front of every mirror and in trout of every
window stands an antique vase ol silver live
feet high, and beneath it a canopy in carve l
wood gill, covered wim bine velvet, upon
which five rows of gold embroidered lilies an
inch high produce a marvelous effect im
agine all this repeated forty-four times over,
and add to it the wealth of color In the paint
ings on wall and celling, from which more
over descend tlnee rows of candelabra of gilt
liron/.e, with fifty candles each, in eight
niches slaud white marble copies of the
noblest works of classic art, the Venus
of Milo reduced to natural size,
the Medicls, Diana and Niolie.
Or columns of malachite are placed
busts of the French Generals of the seven
tec nth oenturv, no heed being taken that their
viclortcs signified as many defeats for the
country whose King has placed them in his
gallery. The subjects of the pictures all treat
of the life of lands XIV. His great nnd small
deeds are immortalized by the brush of the
painter, and it is a wonder that the King’s
self-immolation did not go so far as to picture
even the devastation of the Palatinate While
gazing on high I was afraid tuy eye would
meet ilie astleof Heidelberg, a’ it’ is being
destroyed bv the French scourge, which near
ly reduced it to ashes At either cud of the
linll the pictorial art on the ceiling passes over
into the plastic, and many figures arc half
painted and hair modeled: it scherzo which is
copied from the French Renaissance In its
le- desirable forms. The rooms at either
cud of fhc gallery of mirrors
contain marble chimueys, one surmount
ed by s colossal marble relief, the olher
by a painted portrait of Ixiuis Quutorze. That
famous King’s most autocratic opinions,
winch our democratic days scoff at. seem to
have been held in high esteem by the Bava
rian Bonis, for there are idealized purtraltsof
the French King with inscriptions below,
such as *’B’otnt e’est moil I.e rot gomerne
par lui meme 1" words which at Horrenchlotn
see it cost me no little effort to believe King
Bouis repealed while he gazed at his portly
form in one of the thousand mirrors there.
Before h aving the gallery I wdl add a few
figures which will prove lltat my astonish
ment Is brd upon sound foundations. The
ha l isjsu Bavarian feet long, list feet broad,
and 46 feet high. It takes 2.500 wax candles
to light it. The floor is of light brown rose
wood, Inlaid with Jar* laurel wreaths and
the lily of France; the windows are hung
wi|h solid white lacc, and concealed behind
wnite blinds.
ITEMS OJ INTEREST.
Honey making ls become a profitable
branch of industry gnong the women of Can
ada.
The latest oathin: dress is a French novel
ty which admits cf more bathing and less
dress than its predteeasore.
Gilman Hoyt, o: Ncw.ngton, N. H., has
sold 15*' bushels of siravberries this season
from less than one acre cf land.
A woman’s labor unoa has been incorpo
rated at San Franciso for the purpose of
manufacturing wearlu: apparel, establishing
laundries, eating homes, restaurants aud
reading rooms.
The undertow of thi surf at Long Branch
is so strong that go-fl swimmers are often
overcome by it. Prcatitions are taken all
along shore; boats ire stationed, ropes are
run along the dange' line, and notices are
posted.
Sixteen Belgian and Norman stallions,con
signed to the WabaSi Stock Company,arrived
at New York Wediesday on the steamship
Switzerland, on Heir way to Wabash, Ind.
The animals ranfeu in weight from 2,100
pounds upward, aid cost their owners in Bel
gium over $3,000 atch in gold. They came in
free of duty, belnf intended for breeding pur
poses only.
TiiEKEisa Russian who keeps a saloon in
Detroit and he is fonu of caviare. As he al
ways insisted tlat the caviare sold there could
not compare will what could be had In Rus
sia. he finally wiote over to Russia and asked
his friends to read him a can of the caviare
that was most jopular at that timo in St.
Petersburg. Afte: a long interval the caviare
arrived. On tuktig off ihc wrappings he saw
on the label of the;au that it was put up by a
canning company in Detroit, and was war
ranted to be made of the best roe of Lake St.
Clair sturgeon.
An unusual event took place during the
voting at Harwell.in the British Columbian
elections, illustratve of the free and easy
wav they conduct affaire in the uutrammeled
What. The contest in the district was be
tween Baker, the government candidate, who,
like the majority f his colleagues, was suc
cessful, and Brown. Thero were on the list
just seventy-six voters, two of whom were
held in durance vile in the local prison, for
Imbibing too freily of Pacific coast liquor,
aud these were luly brought to the polls by
the aceommodutng’ jailer, and cast their
ballots for the Literal standard bearer.
An incident o much interest arose out of
Mr. Irving’s visii to Oxford. In his address
at the Universityhe spoke of the last days of
Edmund Kean, who died without a £lO note.
A few days after.Mr. Irving received a letter
from Mr. Robert Browning, inclosing the
purse—of slightlyfaded green silk— found in
the pocket of thegreat actor after his death,
“without a fid. therein.” it was given by
Charles Kean lojohn Forster, and by him to
the poet, who nov sends it to the actor in due
succession. “How can I more worthily place
it.” gracefully writes Mr. Browning, “’than in
your hands, if they will do me the honor to
take it, along wifi all respect and regard?”
Millionaire Russel Saok got tired of
recreation at Niratoga Thursday and was
down in Wall strvet when the Stock Exchange
opened for the day’s business. And here is a
part of what a nu.ll worth $50,00(1,000 or so did
in one day: Attended the meetings of four
boards of dtreoton, received visits from two
dozen Wall street men on business matters,
lunched with .lay Gould, looked over his bro
kerage office accounts, dictated a score of let
ters aud wrote three or four others himself,
talked a straight la If hour with a horseman
about a tpam or trotters that he is thinking of
buying, and—found fault because the day was
joo short.
A correspondent of the Chicago Advance,
speaking of the nijht hawk and the manner
In which it produces the peculiar noise made
in its swoop, says: “I think the noise is made
by the wings, for tie following reasons: TUe
noise is not made in descending, but in turn
ing to rise again. When the bird wishes to
descend it springs upward a few feet and
throws the wings back, forming a sharp tri
angle, and when tlie point below is reached at
which the bird wishes to rite, the wings are
thrown sharply forward 60 that the points of
the pinions are thrown nearly against the
wind, making the whirring noise heard.
Often the shrill cry is uttered at the same in
stant that the whirring noise is irade; both
noises could not be prouuced by the mouth at
the same instant. 1 have noticed a bird do
this had a dozen times in succession. If any
thing occurs to disturb the balance, so iliat
the position of the wiugs is changed, the noise
is not produced.”
They did things well fifty or one hundred
years ago. The oldest shingles on a house in
Connecticut cover the roof of the old Dow
homestead, in which the eccentric preacher,
Lorenzo Dow, lived at Oxoboxo Lake, eight
miles west of Norwich, in t.ho town of Mont
vi le. l.oronzo put the shingles on himself.
He drew them n his ox cart from ti e Cor
necticut jriveri They were rived and planed
andjolmed by hand, and the marks ol the
clamps in which they were held while they
wure being prepared are plainly visible on
tnem yet. Mr. N. B. Vars, who dwells in the
Dow house, says that the shingles apparently
are just as sound as on the day when they
were naded to the rafters, sixty-five venr
ago. Not one is missing, and none Is rotten
or ptiuky. He says that they will last tor
sixty or seventy years longer. Lorenzo liked
good work, and after lie had put them on he
said to his neighbors that “they were going to
last to the day of judgment, or thereabouts.”
Tne Dow house Is somewhat decrepit; it is
shaky; the guides have sagged and the walls
arc weather beaten. It is on the shore of
Lake Dxoboxo aud it looks desolate and for
saken.
The genealogical record of st m • of the first
fumiliesof New York is threatened by an ex
posure which may make some wince, hut no
true American will be ashamed of a humble
origin. In fact, there is but little room for
boasting among the New l ork millionaires.
Peter GUsey began as a journeyman piano
forte maker, and the founder of Cooper In
stitute Urat appears in the dirtcory as "Peter
Cooper, machinist.” The Brevooris were
market gardeners. Alderman Carman, who
left a round million, was a house carpenter.
A. T. Stewart began by teaching a small
school. The millionaire Veruulyes were the
sons of a sexton of a downtown cnureii. Cvrns
W. Field first opened trade as a dealer in
rags. Lawyer Hummel began as an errand
boy in the same office in which he Is now part
ner, William Libbey, formerly of
A. T. Stewart & Cos., and now a
retired millionaire. was the son
of a Newburg carpenter. The first Astortliat
came to America was a butcher and had a
stall in Fly Mamet. Rufus story, who is row
the millionaire veteran of Front street, began
as a hard-worked boy in a cheap grocery,
•lay Gou and wns in early life a clerk in a coun
try store, and felt that he was doing remark
ably well when he peddled maps in Delaware
county. Why. even the, Spoffords were shoe
makers, the Meyenses kept tavern, and the
Wolfes can be traced back to a gin null. Let
th, genealogical fiend do his worst, he will
still Hud that wealth, like charity, covers a
multitude of sins.
Thebe is a conglomeration of sexes in the
water ut Ocean Grove that is a feature of the
place. Says a correspondent: “The young
men and the young women go down to the
sea together and march into the
surf hand-in-hand, or arm-in-arm. It is a
rule, with few exceptions. They spend much
tune in the water holding on tonne another;
yes, and in lulling nn tin;-uud for an hour nr
so afterward. If I was not convinced of the
decorum and strict propriety of everything
Methodist I would not hesitate to sax that 1
think it toe most lax and improper place on
the American coast. Where the parents of
the young people are. or shut they arc think
ing of. Is more than 1 rau imagine! •Pretty
is that pretty doss is a homely old saving,
but a good many nf these girls prove that the
proveru won’t stand upsetting so ns lo real:
•Pretty dues tl.ni preiiv i*.’ l heard or a
strung! thing the first day I was there. A
bevy ot raw country girls worn sutnowliere in
the puie forests came on an excursion. They
wanted to bathe, but they declared iliey
would nut appear in the suits tliuv saw all the
other women wearing. They wanted it un
derstood that they would myr dure to look
at. their faces ip a glas again if they were
ever seen In such immodest attire. 8n w hat
ini patience’s name do you suppose tliev did?
iliei went down the beach to a shanty wiih
whoso minutes oho of them was acquainted,
and presently reappeared clothed from heads
to feet in linen wrappers. They thought it
unnecessary to have anything under theso
garments. In that garb they took the water,
fortunately for Hjeui It happened that there
were not more than twenty men and boys at
that part, ot the beach, but the wh.ole twenty
rau after them, laughing and hooking at
t 'em when they emerged from the water,
with those paper-like wrappi-is -ticking to
their oodles like so many suits of adhesive
plaster. Rome of them looked very much
like artists' models, and some (those that wore
calico with a big patera printed on it) looked
more like tattooed sisters of that Greek who
travels wub Bariium and whose body resem
bles an aninnit'ad .erf'-e of s frescoed wall. J
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Colored Silks
There are nearly 3,000 yards COLORED
GROS GRAIN DE LYON SILKS, ia all
shades, goods that every other store in Savan
nah charge 60c. a yard for, marked down to
FORTY CENTS.
2,000 yards HEAVY COLORED GROs
GRAIN DE LYON at 00c and 75c per yard;
goods that have been reduced from 85c and $1
per|yard.
One lot 27-lnch COLORED GROS GRAIN
SILK, COLORED SURAH SILK, COLORED
MERVEILLKUX and BLACK SURAH
SILK at sl. The actual value of this loti!
$135 a yard.
Black Silks.
LOT 1.
GARNET, both Cachemire de Soic and Grot
Grain, well known and popular Silk, 20 to 22
inches, sl, $1 25, $1 50, $1 75, up to $3.
LOT 2.
GIRAUD, Gros Grain, 22 inches, fromtl 50
to $2 50 per yard.
LOT
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of equal value. This Silk is guaranteed not
to cut in the least, or to pull apart on any
ordinary strain. These goods run from IS to
22 inches, and will bo 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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One of the landmarks of the Georgia drug
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guinn’s Pioneer blood re-
NEWER, but what nave been
satisfied, and I find it the best
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Tonic
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