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IBDEI TO NEVXdTBSTIsEHERTS.
Meetings—Planters’ Re* 1 Mill Company;
the German-American Mutual Loan and
Build'ng A—or ation.
Special Notices—Dr. Falltganf Resumes
Practice; All Saints’ Day; Dr. Elliott’s Re
turn; Noli”, Wi'liam McNeil: Dr. R. J.
Nunn’s Return; Dr. Lanier Resumes Prac
tice.
Diamonds, Watches, Etc.—S. P. Hamil
to
Legal Notices—City Marshal’s Sale; Ap
plication to Sell 'took; Notice iu Admiralty;
Application for Divorce.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted: For Rent;
For 9 de; Boarders; Personal; Lost; Miscei
lane us.
Fine Groceries—At Strauss Rrns'.
AUCTION Sales— A Fine Building Lot. by
C H.Dor-etc. Elliott Ward Property, by Dan
iel R. Kenm dy.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Educational—Prepara tor ySc‘noo!,Princc
ton, N. J.
Savannah Bonds Wanted—John Flan
nerv. Chairman S. F. Commission.
The R chmood Knights of Labor are to
be congratulated on the withdrawal of
their Congressional candidate and the de
termination no longer to be the cat’s paws
of the Republicans.
It ie stated that betting is even that
Massachusetts will elect the Democratic
candidate for Governor to-day. A Demo
cratic victory in the Bav State at this
time would be a paralyzing blow to Radi
calism.
The approach of the Russian ironclads
seems to weaken the oourage of the Bul
garians. but tb-y will be pretty apt to be
themselves again as soon as some of the
anti-Russian powers show that they pro
pose to do something betides protest
against the Russiamzation of Bulgaria.
The wealthy Hebrew landlord at San
Antonio, Tex., whoevicted his non-paving
tenant by burning the house. Is having a
ehanoe to learn something about law, as
well as common sense. The quickest
way of accomplishing an object is not al
ways the bes% and sometimes it proves to
be anything but the quickest.
The Taylor brothers returned to their
home in Jonesboro, Tenn.. Saturday, hav
ing concluded their campaign, and they
were welcom“d by several thousand
neighbors, a great many of whom were
much the worse off ior the over indulg
ence in ardent spirits. There was a great
opportunity for a temperance speech or
two.
While there are a great many people
who do not doubt that B ;v. Sam Small’s
religion is pure gold, they are sorry ibat
he didn’t try to get along awhile longer
with a nickel-plated watch, or like
Brother Sara Jones, take a squint at the
sub when he wants to know the time o’
day, instead of buying a gold repeater on
& credit.
The Lo tion press is discussing seri
ously the French proposition to tax bach
elors, and strange to say, the bachelor
edi’ora ol that city leave the impression
that they would not be willing to piy a
farthing for the privilege of enjoying the
state of slogle blessedness. Surely they
are very penurious or very unapprecia
tive creatures.
If the dumb brutes could only compre
hend the Importance ot financial support
to the societies for the prevention of cru
elty to animals, they would rejoloewith
Mr. Henry Bergh, of Sew York, on ao.
pount of his success in gaining the law
auit in wh’ch his society gets nearly $290,-
000 trom the estate of the late Mrs. Wel
don, of Waterburv, Conn.
There are two snort lines of railway
which, if built, would be of incalculable
benefit to Savannah and the railroads in
terested. One is a direct line to Allen-
Jale, 8. C., or some other point on the Port
Royal, South Carolina and Western rail
way. The other is to Eastman or some
other point on the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia Railroad.
It ie stated oy a Republican correspon
dent at Washington that the President
was assessed by the New York Dem
ocratic Campaign Committee aud tnat he
paid the money, and now they want him
to remove himself for offensive partisan
ship. if the store is true, this ie probably
one of the least offensive things the Pres
ident has done, trom a Republican point
Ot' view.
The Mormons nave act'd shrewdly in
ebangine their port of import for dupli
cate and triplicate wives from New York
to Philadelphia, as a great many lone
baobelors had learned that Castle Garden
yi as a great place to go to for wives after
they had failed to find better balves ot
Amerioan nativity. However, the same
trouble may soon be enoountered at the
City of Brotherly Love.
It is getting to be a rather dangerous
thing to discharge a Republican from the
New York custom house, in our dis
patches tills morning it is slated that ti e
burveyor of the port, Mr. Beattie, dis
charged an inspector a few days ago for
pome violation of the customs laws, and
tne fellow attempted to murder him yes
terday. The Surveyor was shot twice, but
leitber wound is likely to prove fatal.
The New York Tribune of Sunday had
k dispatch from El Paso giving a rumor
Io the effect that United States Consul
’orcb bad been removed fr on office by
.tie administration for participating in
ibo Sedgwick indignation meeting at
tin c*, and the Tribune corespondent
iredl'a the story. The Tribune, hiw ver,
lacks a grant deal of being accurate when
ftoaHng with matters concerning Li.mo
*rUe olhoiul*
! A Cotton f’lanfjng Combination.
There is a movcmeD* among the cotton
planters of Arkansas, Mississippi and
Louisiana to organize a great company
to control the products of their planta
tions and to protect them against
m nopolies like the American Oil and
Trust Company. Col. Sam James, the
lessee of the Louisiana convicts, is at the
bead of it, and be appears to have confi
dence that it will 1e a great success. He
is bimseif a cotton planter, and it is
probable that he proposes to utilize bis
convict laoor in the great scheme about
which be talks very freely and frankly.
He says that the planting interests at
present are in a very depressed condition,
owing, principally, to the very high rates
of interest which planters have to pay for
money with which to carry on tbetr plant
ing operations. They are also compelled
to bear very heavy charges in marketing
their cotton and cotton seed. The scheme,
of which Mr. James appears lo be the
spokesman, will, if put into successful
operation, furnish ail the money desired
at a rate not greater than six per cent.,
and w ill make tbecest of handling cotton,
from the time it leaves tne plantation un
til it is sold comparatively insignificant.
The scheme is to form a great company,
like the American Oil and Trust Com
pany. The planters will sell tbeir plan
tations to the company and receive their
pav in the stock ot the company. They
will be members of the company and each
one will manage his plantation for the
company for a salary. All the cotton and
cotton seed will belong to the company,
and the proceeds, after the payment
of all necessary expenses, will be
piaid to the stockholders as dividends
on their stock. The company having
credit will be able to borrow all the money
it wants at very low rates—from 6
to 6 per cent. This money will be loaned
to planters who want it at the same rates,
but will be used cbiefiy in working the
plantations in the combination.
It is clear that this idea of organizing
the planters grew out of the operations of
the American Oil and Trust Company.
That company, as is now well known,
aims to control the cotton seed oil busi
nese. It has already secured about all
the cotton oii mills in the country,
and it proposes not only to say what the
planter shall accept for his cotton seed,
but also what the consumers of the oil
shall pay for it. In other words, bv
means of a huge monopoly It proposes to
oppress the planters and take what it
pleases from the pockets of the consum
ers. The proposed organization of the
planters is intended, in part, todefeattbe
purpose of the American Oi! and Trust
Company.
It is barely possible that this movement
among the planters may succeed, but it
doesn’t appear as if it would. It is easy
to see ho* a few dozen oil mills were
forced into a combination, and how the
combination can be made successful anu
profitable, but it is difficult to see how
tboueande of planters, scattered over an
immense territory and having widely dif
ferent views respecting tbeir rights and
the value of tbeir services, can be brought
into a combination such as Col. Ham
James proposes. The more the thing is
thought of the more does it appear like a
day dream that is destined never to be
realized,
1 he I lectious To-l Jay.
In some of the States to-day—those In
which State as well as Congressional can
didates are to be voted tor—a pretty large
vote will be polled, but in States where
there are only Congressional elections the
vote, except in close districts, will doubt
less be small. A few weeks ago there was
some little exeitemeut respecting the Con
gressional elections because of the state
ment of the Secretary of the National
Republican Congressional Committee
that the Republicans would certainly
secure a majority ot the next House. It
was soon ascertained, however, that he
bad nothing on which to base his state
ment; that it was, in fact, intended only
to spur up tha Republicans in tbeir
respective districts to work a little harder,
with the hope that the Democratic
majority would be reduced. All the in
dications justify the conclusion that the
Democrats will have as large a majority
in the next House as they have in the
present one.
There is more Interest, apparently,
throughout the oountry in the municipal
election in New York city than in the
Congressional elections or in any State
election. Thia interest is due to two
things. One is that the workingmen’s can
didate, Mr. George, is a Socialist, and his
success would give Socialism in this
country a great boost; the oth#r is that if
Mr. Hewitt is elected by a good majority
he may be a very strong candidate for the
next Democratic Presidential nomination.
This municipal contest in New York has
brought Mr. Hewitt very prominently to
the front, and given the whole oountry a
much better view of him than it ever be
fore bad. The view has not been at all to
his disadvantage.
Our dispatches to-morrow morning will
give a pretty fair idea, doubtless, of the
result ol the elections, but It may be sev
eral days beiore It is known exactly how
the House stands.
The idea of Dr. Felton slipping into the
Congressional shaepfold on the sly while
Jud. Clements is deliberately unlocking
the door with his latch-key, is enough to
tickle the people of the Seventh district.
There have been rumors in the district
lor several days to the effect that secret
steps bad been taken to bring out tne In
dependent and Republican vote and elect
the Ibxitor to Congress, while the Demo
crats were taking things easy, and Mr,
Clements was congratulating bimseif on
1 his walk over the field on which he won
| his first glorious aud effective victory,
I eclipsing the Democratic record in the
SeVeotb. Mr. Clements was so impressed
with the importance of the minors that
he issued a notice to the Democrats of
the district Monday exposing the
scheme, and urging them to come out and
give a full vote. If the Doctor aud h's
friends were soft enough to think they
| could play such a trick as that they will
I l>e very apt lo discover their mistake to
day. They ought to know by this time
that it is not an easy matter to catch
Clements napping.
The great hunters are In a snarl about
tbe biggest moose ever killed m Maine,
I The evidence so tar brought forward
; seems to show tbst Cspt. A. A. Clav, of
| Pennsylvania, is entitled to tne prize, he
| having killed a bull moose two years h,o
| that stood (i feet lo inches high, or 20>,'
i hands, horse measure.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS; TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1886. ,
A Question of Veracity,
The New York World now says that
Mr. Julian Hawthorne waited upon Ex-
Minister Lowell as the representative of
the World, and interviewed him for pub
lication. The World further states that
Mr. Lowell was tully aware of the tact
that be was being interviewed, and that
what he said would ho published. This
raises a question of veracity between Mr.
Lowell and the World. Mr. Lowell pub
lished a card, iu wnich be stated that his
confidence and hospitality had been
abused by Mr. liawtborne, because he
pubiisbei a private conversation.
Mr. Lowell stated that be did not know
that Mr. Hawthorne represented a news
paper and was interviewing him. On the
publication ot Mr Lowell’s card Mr. Haw
thorne was very generally condemned by
the press of the country. The correctness
of Mr. Lowell’s statement was not ques
tioned. particularly as Mr. Hawthorne, in
replying to it, took the ground that he
supposed that Mr. Lowell knew that he
was interviewing him, although he gave
no satisfactory reasons why be thought so.
If the World’s statement is correct Mr.
Lowell hasn’t any particular ground for
complaint. It may be that he did not ex
pect to see in print the fact that he said
that the Queen of England is a “tough
one” or that he referred to the Prince of
V- ales as being too fat for beauty. It
would be well for Mr. Lowell to say
whether the statements in his card are
entirely wiihin the bounds of truth. If
what the World says is true, judgment
with respect to Mr. Hawthorne’s conduct
has been unnecessarily harsh.
Benton’s I’rotest.
The little auburn-haired United States
District Attorney, Macenas E. Benton, of
Missouri, whom the President suspended
a day or two ago for violating the order
prohibiting office holders trom taking an
active part in politics, promises to give
the administration some trouble. He
doesn’t propose to submit to being pun
ished for working for his party without a
protest. He has already enlisted the
Missouri Senators in his interest, and
they have made a plea in his behalf. If
Mr. B -nton is not restored to his place
the Missouri Senators will lead an assault
on the President’s policy with respect to
office holders, and they may have consid
erable assistance.
The only thing for the President to do is
to stand firm and keep big backbone stiff.
If he weakens in tbe Benton case be
might as well withdraw bis order alto
gether. Mr. Benton is about forty years
old, and is a pretty good stump speaker.
He is probably a fair lawyer, but he
no doubt cares more for politics than
law. He was anxious for an office for a
longtime before he got one. Mr. Cleve
land gratified him in that respect aud he
ought to have respected Mr. Cleveland’s
wishes. If be loses bis office be will have
it impressed upon him that it is always
best lor an officer to obey tbe order of his
superior.
The so-called Free State of the Congo
would not stand much ol a showing in a
war with Russia with her millions of sol
diers—in fact, it may aimost any day be
practically wiped off the map, for a time
at least, by some small African tribe.
Tbe King is safely housed away off in
Belgium. According to a leading Bel
gian paper Gen. Jaussen is at the head of
affairs as a kind of dictator. He shares
his authority with an Executive Commit
tee, consisting of a Judge of Appeals and
the Directors of Justice, Finance, Ma
rine, and Communications. The Congo
State is divided into a number ot dis
tricts, at the head of each being a com
missary, who is responsible for the public
safety. The police is mainly supplied by
the Congo fleet of nine steamships, very
small ones, doubtless, five of which are
stationed on the Upper Congo. The mili
tary consists of 2,000 black troops with
twelve guns and two mitrailleuses, under
the command ot Belgian officers. The
Free Stale is evidently’not much of a State,
and til* re is probably very little freedom
about it.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart’s will, which was
opened yesterday, makes a very liberal
provision for her relatives. Doubtless
some of them wonder why it is that
Henry Hilton is given so large a share of
the estate, in view ot the fact that he was
very liberally provided for in the will ol
A. T. Stewart. He not only got $1,000,-
000 from the Stewart estate, but he ex
changed the $1,000,000 with tbe widow
soon after Mr. Stewart’s death tor the
immense business which the great mer
chant lelt, and which was estimated to
be worth $10,000,000 or sls 000,000. Mr.
Hilton appears to be a very lucky person.
The anarchists of New York city will
be closely watched to-day, and tbe part
they take in the election will be care
fully noted. There is a strong cord ofs.vm
pa hy evidently among them for Mr. Henry
George. Anarchy aud Socialism are
closely allied, and it is to be regretted
that thousands of honest but misguided
workingmen in tbe large cities are being
carried irresistibly towards Socialism,
Workingmen who are wise and influen
tial should exert themselves to confine
the labor movement to its proper and le
gitimate channels.
With tbe Columbus and Western rail
road completed to Birmingham, Ala., Sa
vannah will be what Norfolk has become,
viz: an important coal shipping port.
Special freight steamers, which can also
be used lor cotton when necessary, will
doubtless be built to carry coal nud iron
from Savannah to Northern ports, aud if
the grain of the West is turned this
way in the winter, when Northern routes
are closed, there will be a large addition
to our loreign steam tonnage.
An exchange suggests that If Mr.
Henry George wants to begin dividing out
the land be bad better settle in Louisiana
where he can get a thousand acres iree on
certain easy conditions. Mr. George
doesn’t want to go away down there tor
his share. He would just us leave take a
thousand acres on Bioadwuv, New York,
where the land is worth several thousand
dollars a loot,. He Is doubtless not so
very anxious to divide out that 10c. an
acre lund.
It is slated that a son of Judge Hoar,
of Massachusetts, has openly announced
bimseif a Mugwump, ami will vote to
day lor Andrews, the Democratic candi
date for Governor of that State. Ths
Boston 11,*rald Is cruel enough to remind
tbe truly loyal Hoar family that the elder
Hoars thsinselvis were Mugwumps In
their younger days, tbe original Maasa
cbuseetls Mugwumps being the Whig*
whs deserted tbeir party 40 year* ago.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Great Haeri tires for Nothin*?.
From the Philadelphia Lt ljtr ( In and A
S'atu quo ante helium is the position 1 >r all
the strikes, srikers tml -lull- owner*. Great
nation- have to com ■ to that after they have
slaughtered tbeir huudred thousands, and
wa-led .heir th us*iril*of ml tons of money.
Whv not get into the same position without
war or any war sacrifices?
A New Firm Kilns An Old G.me.
From the Xeu fort Star ( Dtm.'t
Among r he documents most extensively cir
culated bv the George-B’atne campaign is
one signed by Edward .1. Rowe, who was
quite notorious iu the same capacity in behalf
”f Blaine in 18G It 1* the old business, con
ducted by the old partners, at the old stand,
under anew llrm u*me The firm, then
Blaine k Butler, now seems to be Blaine,
Miller & George.
Free Passes and t he .Tudlclary.
From the Chicago Stic* hid.)
On the very day on which one of the con
demnation suits of the We-iern Indiana Rail
road Company was on trial before Mason B.
Loomis, sitiing as Judge of the Cook County
Court, that gentleman sect a messenger to,
the Grand Trunk railroad office with a de-’
inan.i for free passes for his w ife aud sister
io-law from Chicago to Montreal and return.
The Western Indiana railroad ts simply ihe
terminal corporation ol the Grand Trunk,
and it was nracticallv the Grand Trunk
wlio-e interests were being adjudicated upon
by the gem leman who demanded aud received
a favor from the said eompanv of the mone
tary value of *75 or $lOO.
The South and the Tariff
From the Button Pont (Bern.)
As is well known, the South, before the
war. was opposed to toe principle of protec
tion because it was principally an agricultu
ral region. Its only manufactures were of
cotton yarns and cloth, which the natural re
sources of the section developed. Since the
war, however, there lias been given a great
impetus to the production of irou and other
articles, and to a diversity of labor, and
naturally there has grown a greater leaniug
tow ards this doctrine uy those who think that
government istho Hercules to lift them along,
and high protectionists look to the South for
a growing influence in their favor. Now, let
u see who it is thatdeeircsthlsstimulusto its
"Infant manufactures." Is it the laborer, that
vast mass of ignorant and depressed col
ored people, of whom Mr. Blaine talks so
much? No at all. It is the capitalist class.
It is this, and not the laboring class, who de
sire the increase of profits by the taxation of
the tariff. The eapnalit-ts do not seek high
protection to enable them to pay higher
wage- to their . peratives, but to increa-e
their own prolils and secure their own mo
nopoly. This is a fair illustration of the
motives of the Northern high protectionist.
It is protection to capital and not to labor
that he wauts; to mass the rich richer that
makes him oppose any modification of the
tariff. Do the men who seek lo t>e elected to
Congress from the North with a purpose to
defeat any enlightened legislation in this
direction imagine that the growth of "infant
manufactures’’ at the South through high
protection is going to help those older and
riper ones at the North winch a readv suffer
for want of larger markets? This is the most
shallow reasoning.
—a4 r oy- r
BRIGHT BITS.
An exchange sajs: “The average man gets
enough of prohibition lectures at home.”
Thai’s the reason, probably, that be takes so
much license away from home.— Bouton Poet.
We have forgotten the poet’s name who
wrote, "This why still, unceasing, ever tired,
do they wind.” "But we have, an idea that he
must have at some time Been a man with a
Waterbury watch. —New Haven He we.
Friend (to young artist)—lsn’t your shirt a
little ragged, Charley?
Young Artist—l’m afraid it is.
Friend—Well, why don’t you change it?
Young Artist—Because the other one is
ragged, too. —.W w York dun .
One boy in Springfield, Mass., is so bright
that he has got into Ihe newspapers. The
brightness consisted in asking his school
teacher howlar a procession of the Presidents
of the United States would reach If they were
placed in a row. W hen she gave it op he an
swered: "From Washington to Cleveland.”—
Exchange.
A noveust makes his heroine throw $lOO,-
000 of her own money into the sea so as to re
lieve her lover of the suspicion of being mer
cenary. She should have given the monev to
her lover to start a paper Intended to fill a
long felt want. She would have lost it just
the same and it would have been a little more
natural.r-Oftig Haven Xetce,
Manager—What is the meaning of this
Item lor "bafilware; $50,” in your expense
account?
Traveling Man—Let me see. Hardware—
hardware. Oh. yes; that is for poker. I
thought it better to tone it down a little by
generalizing. It isn’t well to be too specific
about some things.— Pitteburg Dmpatch.
Irate Parent—“ Well, sir, when I was a
young man I never squandered my father’s
money in such a scandalous way as you are
doing.
Son (who knows his father’s weakness for
cards;—No, perhaps not; but you have been
making up for it by squandering my father’s
money at a furious rale ever since you were
a young man,— Bumbler,
A vvaek Into the woods just now is a ram
ble into a realm of bronzed beauty. And
when a young fellow happens to see a pretty
girl laden with autumn leaves walizing to
ward the umbrageous shade in which he is
resting and smoking and enjoying the deli
cious golden-tinted scene, he can easily shin
up a tree out of danger and defy her to follow
him. — ball Hirer Advance.
Lucre vs. Love.—
Biidsume, dashing,
Maiden smashing.
Youth, inteligent and smart,
Wooes sweet Mary.
Sprightly fairy,
Wins the pretty maiden's heart.
But, poor fellow,
Shiners yellow
He lias none, nor house, nor laud,
Silly noodle.
Lots of boodle.
Wins the pretty maiden's hand.
—Boston C our Ur.
"Yes, the Lord has sorter seemed to smile
on me this year.” said the deacon, aa he stuck
the cornouiler into the fence. "A big apple
crop—heaps of 'taters—fine yield of wheat
and oats— Dig hay crop, and corn A No. 1.
Yes, I feel as if 1 had been blessed.” .lust
l lien the deacon’s boy came from the house
and whispered something in the old man’s
ear. "Two dollars for a pair of shoes!”
shouted the deacon, as he raised his head.
“You tell your mother she can’t have no two.
dollar shoes. We’ll be luck' if we git through
the coming wiuter without having to sell
the bosses to buy meat and flour.”— Wall
Street Betot.
PKHSONALa
Walt Whitman has been in failing health
for a week or more.
(iftN. Boui.anoek lias decreed that French
soldiers must rest from duty on Sunday.
Mas. CHANDLER, widow of the late Zach
Chandler, has become a leader of society in
Detroit.
The late Baron Meyer Karl Kolhschild was
the Ilrst Jew lo sit in the Upper House of
Prussia.
Dr. William Dean, after service for fifty
years as a missionary m China, has just
returned to Portland, Me.
John l>. Rockefeller is thought by the
Boston Journal to be the richest nia i In
America. His ilgures are said to be f 1 14,000,-
000.
Chari.es F McLaughlin, of South Wash
ington, looks so modi like President Cleve
land that whenever be appears in ihe vicinity
of the oapilol or the While House lie is be
sieged by office seekers humous to shake Ins
hand.
KbMfND Yates still personally conducts
the World ( London), but Is said to euutnbute
little to its pages. Lie lives at Brighton and
seldom visits the metropolis. Jir, A. M.
Itroadiey. tlm defender of Aram Pacha, istbo
leading spirit ot the World,
t,Fs. Booth, Commander-In-Chief of the
Salvation Army through ot ih- world, has
arrived at Chicago, lie is ac om ianii and by
li e staff, ‘ oiniuissiouer Smith, of Neiv York
city, who lias charge of the American Army,
aud Col Dowdell, of England.
GKN. GEORGE A. liowKß. brother of Fred
A. Gower, lias just returned o Providence j
from Pans, aud denies Hie story about ins
brother ociug in India. He sa>s lie lots heard 1
nothing from him, an i that the whole mutter |
remains us much a mvslery as ever.
SsMI'EL I’aVTiin. grandson or < nmmodnro
Perry, was \eslerduy discharged from Ihe
prism at lackson, Mich., ills seal ears of ilvc
years for a Detroit burglary having expired,
lie is said 'luring his lie areeralion to live
been left a f rliilie of ll.gj.ood. lie has been
employed as the prison physician's bonk
kevuer. ,
AN AGKICCLTCRAL AMAZON.
A Woman Work* a Farm Hand for
35 Tears.
From the Minneoit >H* Journal,
In the Circuit Court at Jeffersonville, Ind.,
Louis Bottorff was granted a decree of di
vorce from Elizabeth Bottorff. It was also
decided that Bottorff must pay the woman
$l,OOO alimony. Bottorff is the wealthiest man
in Clarke county, and since the proceedings
for divorce were instituted he has become to
tally blind. Mrs. Bo torff is a w .raan with a
history. She is 5# years old and her husband
is past 76. Forty years ago she lived with her
parents on a fine farm near Selierai urg, and
was considered the handsomest girl in the
county. I overs she had uv the score, and her
parents spent a small fortune on her educa
tion. She fell in love with a poor schoolmas
ter. however, and when she ran awav and
married him her parents cast her off, and told
her never to darken the door of the old home
stead
Ins little cottage near the farm upon which
she was born the youny couple lived happily
for about five years. Two pretty l ttle daugh
ters were born to them, and there was no
brighter fireside in the whole coun'ry. About
this time the young husband took sick and
died, leaving hie young wife, who had never
been used to hardships, to care for the chil
dren and earn a livelihood. The small stock
of monev she had soon dwindled awav, and
sue found starvation staring her in the face.
Her parents refused to heed her supplications
for aid, and when she on her bended knees
begged for food for her starving children they
turned her coldly away. She was a woman
of indomitable will, and at once set about to
secure employment.
She could uot get housework to do, and the
fancy articles she had learned to make were
■ot in demand. At length, in despair, she
hired herself out as a common farm hand, and
worked in the harvest debt. When winter
came she mauled rails and did all sorts of
menial work. At *he end of her day’s labor
she would go home—she had constructed a
lit.le shanty in a secluded spot on the hanks
of -diver Creek—and gather enough firewood
to keep her ohihlren warm during ihe day.
No Spartan mother was ever possessed of
more heroism. Instead of pining away, she
grew strong, and her muscles were as well
developed as those of any man in the county.
For thirty-five years "she worked in this
manner, and barely managed to #ke out a
miserable existence. Her parentsbought the
groimd upon which her domicile was built
and comnel'ed her to move. Mr. Louis Bot
torff kii and y gave her permission to live in a
small outr ouse on his fa m. Two vears later
his wife died, and In a short time he married
Elizabeth Wnalling and took her children,
whs had now grown to womanhood, and cared
for them as bis own.
Tins was five months ago. The new Mrs.
Bottorf fully appreciated her position as the
wife of the richest man in the county, and
soon begau to hold herself above her former
a-Bociates. Atiout two months ago Botiorff
accused his wife of infidelity, and she kicked
him out of the bouse. He applied for a di
vorce upon the grounds above stated, and ob
tained legal separation.
SCIENTIFIC IfKIBK TAREKS.
Professional Analyses Worthless to
Consumers.
From the Atnerican Analyst,
An amusirgstory is told of a certain promi
nent manufacturer here who, wanting a
chemical indorsement of the quality- of his
wares, applied to a certain professor for an
analysis of the goods, for which he paid a
specified price. When he received the certifi
cate it was found only to contain the analysis,
not the expected indorsement. He applied
again to the professor, who tod him he
thought he only warned an analysis; if he
wanted an indorsem-nt it would cost him
$lOO more. This was paid, and tue indorse
ment followed. A few days later some
one suggested that he ought to get the
professor to add all his official titles to
his signature, whereupon he was informed
that an analysis and indorsement, signed witli
titles cost $lOO more. He paid this, and now
having paid so much he thought he would de
rive some benefit from his investmeuts by
using the revised edition of his analysts in tu
advertisement. He had it printed, blit was
surprised by a visit from his professor, who
bluntly informed him that if he wanted the
analysis for an advertising analysis H would
cost $lOO more, or he would have to repudiate
it. To avoid trouhle he paid this too. Now
he felt that at last he owned the analysis
both per se and for whatever purpose
he might want it. Naturally supposing that
so exp-nsivf a professor's analysis must have
great w-eignt with the public, he had it hand
somely painted on an up-town fence, headed:
“WbatProf. savs about these goods.”
In a few days he received another cal! from
the Professor, who informed him that for a
fence analysis he must have $lOO more. The
manufacturer paid this also, and is noiv try
ing to devise some new method of utilizing tils
much-paid-for analysis without incurring a
uew bill for the Professor, who apparently is
an insatiable searcher after fees.
The Finding of the I.y re.
There lay upon the ocean’s shore
What once a tortoise served to cover
A year and more, with rush and roar,
Idle surf had rolled it over,
Had played with it and flung It by.
As wind and weather might decide it.
Then tossed it high where sand drifts dry
Cheap burial might provide it.
It rested there to bleach or tan,
The rains bad soaked, the sun had burned it
With many a ban the fisherman.
Had stumbled o er and spurned it;
And there the fisher girl wouldstay,
Conjecturing with her brother
How in their play tbe poor estray
Might serve some use or other.
So there it loy, through wet and drv,
As empty as the las' new sonnet.
Till b and by came Mercury,
And, having mused upou it,
‘•Why, here,” cried he. "this thing of things
In shape, material and dimension 1
Give it but string-, and. In, it sings,
A wonderful invention!”
So said, so done; the chords he strained.
And, as his fingers o’er them bovertd
Toe shell disdained a sonl had gained.
The li re had been discovered.
O r.muty world that round us lies,
lead shell, of soul ami thought forsaken
Brought we but eyes like Mercury’s
In thee what songs should wagon!
.lambs Rcsam.i. Lowki.l.
A Ilarvard Student’s Wine.
From the Button Record.
One of the most absurd instances of igno
rant BiiiDg of English customs on record
comes from Harvard, where au amb'tious
student sent out mvltalions to a "wine.” hav
ing heard, it is to be supposed, that such fee--
tiviles were the proper thing at English uni
versities. and regaled his gue-ia solely and
uniquely upon iced sherry. Certain com
ments, however, were brought to his knowl
edge which seem to have awakened in his
brea t a doubt whether he had compassed
the heights of the possibilities open
to him in this line. ami once
more be issued cards for a “wine.” Thirty
guests had assembled, and on this occasion
the ehp. r consisted entirely of brandv. De
termined to do his full duty as host at all
hatard*. the ambitious student bagan with
great deliberation drinking with each guest
separately. So far below the nobility of his
intentions, however, was the strength or his
wits, that before he gol half way round the
olrcle he so far confused his “wine" with a
torch.ight procession that he poured a glass
of brandy upon bis hair and set it on lire!
The party at once resolved ilaclflntoan ama
teur fire brigade, with some difficulty extin
guished the no*t, put him to bed, and'sent for
a doctor. The incident, despite Its brilliant
nature and the originality It displayed, csst a
gloom over the festivities, and the company
dispersed with very little regard to the order
of going. __
Mrs. Cleveland’s Modal Assistants.
From the I finnenpnlit Keening Journal.
Mrs. Cleveland will have some lovely yonng
ladles inside the Cabinet circle to assist her In
recap 1 ions this winter. The Misses Bayard
will appear very seldom m pub ic, but their
places will be Ailed by tbe Misses Manning.
Bndic.ott, Viius and ha mar. Mis- Vilas is
hardl. a dehmaute vet. hut will be allowed to
take part in tbefestlvitlea In a limited (barer.
Mbs Manning, the Secretary's daughter,
who Is ■’Justout,” isqulte attractive. She as
sisted her stepmother at her receptions last
season, and was quite popular. Miss Endicott
is u full flown society lady now, and is very
elegant and stately in her manner and move
ment.
The prettiest one of them all is Miss Jennie
Lamar, the debutaute daughter of tbe Missis
sippi secretary Her mother died over two
years ago, and she has been living with her
married sister in Memphis, Ttinn., until this
fall.
She Is IS, tall, graceful and bright. Her
hiii Is golden and her eyes a rich hum base).
She has the gentle ways and tender, poetic
expression of the eunny South She will be
the belle this winter, and will present a
charming contrast In b oude points to Mrs.
Cleveland as they alaud iu line to receive
Uleir ttdlu w caucus.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A resident of Portsmouth, Eng., owns a
quadrilateral pyramid composed of the
eighty-four guineas found in Xelaon’s posses
sion wiieu he fell at Trafalgar.
Prof. Hcxi.ky has written three papers
which he calls “A Study in the Evolution of
House Building,” and in them he traces in a
manner which even a young reader can un
derstand the development of architecture
from the most primitive dwelling to the Ho
man Pantheon.
Twenty years ago a woman borrowed S2O
of Alderman Hartman, of Pittsburg, and
failed to pay it. The other evening she at
tended church, heard a sermon on the subject
of doing as one would he done by, and the
next day surprised the Alderman by paying
the dtMt with interest in full.
At first the watch was about the size of a
dessert plate. It had weights and was used
as a “pocket clock.” The earliest known use
of the modern name occurs in the record of
1553, which mentions tuat Edward VI. had
•’one laruin or watch of iron, the case being
likewise of iron gilt, with two plummets of
lead.”
Herr Hutschefrecther, of Wurzburg,
the father-in-law of the Bavarian Premier,
Huron yon Lutz, recently committed suicide
by shooting, his mind having become de
ranged in consequence of the constaut perse
cutions on the part of the government to
which Bavarian editors have of late been ex
posed.
When Prince Alexander was elected to the
Bulgarian throne he had no other income
than that of an officer in the German army.
His uncle, the late Czar Alexander 11., fitted
him ont as a ruler. The Bulgarian Parlia
ment gave him $120,000 a vear and he is now
said to be worth at least *300,000. This is the
accumulation of seven years.
There is pretty good evidence that Celia
Monroe, a colored woman,who died ltr Kansas
City a few davs ago. was 125 years old She
was the mother of sixteen children, the four
youngest of whom are living at the ages of 74,
Hi. 58 and 50 years. Her second husband died
fifty year* ago. A week before she died she
was about the house sweeping.
Several years ago a citizen of Lewiston,
Me., became very angry because the soldiers’
monument was not built where be wanted it.
Consequently he stopped work on a building
he had nearly finished and vowed that it
should neither be finished nor torn down, but
remain as a blot on'he oily. And thus it re
mains, a tumble-down old shell.
A CAT”at Galena, 111., climbed a tree and
attempted to pounce upon a group of English
sparrows which were sittinc ou a branch.
The sparrows attacked their en-my with their
bills and soon it was surrounded by hundreds
of angry birds. The birds compelled the cat
to jump to the ground. They pursued it,
pecked out its eyes, and finally killed It.
It is said that when the first number of the
Jimplecute, published at Jefferson, Tex., wa*
about to be printed, the proprietor, who had
not yet decided u*on a name for his paper,
picked up a handful of “pi” from the impos
ing stone, ami set the type thus taken at ran
dom in his composing suck. The result was
the word, “jimplecute,” which he adopted as
the name for the newspaper.
The chief of the Constantinople fire brig
ade, Szechenyi Pasha, or, as he was formerly
called. Count Edmund Szechenyi, nearly
perished in the flames during a recent lire in
that city. The fire originated in the street in
which he lived, finally spreading to hie own
house, and he arrived on the sceue barely in
time to rescue, at the risk of his lue, his
daughter and her maid, both of whom were
already half suffocated.
Some years ago most of the orchestral
parts were accidentally discovered at Dres
den of a lost symphony by Wagner. From
those parts the lost score was reconstructed,
and the work has been several times publicly
performed. Wilhelm Tappert announces in
the lastest number ot the Musikalische
Wochenblatt that the draft of a symphony in
K major, by Wagner, has been loumi in Ihe
Wabnfried archives at Bayreuth. It was
composed In 1834, at a time when he was
musical director at Magdeburg,
Seven weeks ago John Delanty.of Easton,
Pa., married. Louise Montague, the SIO,OOO
circuo beauty. Both were with O’Brien’s
show until it failed, and Delanty had loaned
O’Brien quite a sum of money, about which
he worried until his mind gave way. His
wi'e brought him to this city to consult Dr.
Hammond last Monday, but he escaped from
her, and. alter searching for him in vain, she
returned to Easton. The next afternoon De
lanty was found near Flemington, N. J., fa
tally hurt by a locomotive of the Lehigh Val
ley road. It is said that he had placed his
head on the traok with suicidal intent.
Though the Empress of Austria is no
longer allowed to take horse exercise, she is
using her returning strength to make exten
sive pedestrian excursions in the neighbor
hood of Ischl. Her household finds it difficult,
in fact, to fall in with tbe.r imperial mislre-s'
new ways, for she not only walks long dis
tances, hut gets up at abnormal hours in the
morning to start on her journeys. Recently
she was up just after 4 a. m., in order to start
for the Liu- de Grand), and only got back to
Ischl about 8 in the evening. If monarchs
of the period mean to go on in tnis way
intending courtiers will soon h:< vn to pass an
examination in athletics, including the walk
ing of a measured mile.
In his report of the operations of the geo
logical survey during September, Director
Powell says that while encaged in geologic
work in the Atlantic division Prof. Slialer
discovered a point of much interest in its
hearing on the nature of the recent changes
ol the level of the New England coast. It is
that tie rivers which flow from south to
north have a great amount of marshes in their
valleys slid hardly a traceof alluvial terraces,
while the rivers which run from north to
south are not bordered with swamp* and all
have distinct terrace*. He offers a* an expla
nation the theory that the shore lias ail been
tilted up to tho northward, thus partly de
stroying the drainage of the rivers which
flow northwardly.
ONE of the most curious statistical records
recently compiled is that of Dr. Salzmann, of
Essling, in Wurtemberg. he found, on going
over the ancient records of Essling, that is
the sixteenth century the average duration
of life among Ihe physicians was 36.5 years
in the seventeenth, 45.8; in the eighteenth’
86.8; while, at the present time, the physi
cians of Wurtemnerg reach the very favora
ble average of 56.7 year*. It would appear
that this very great increase in longevity was
due to the disappearance of the pest and the
great diminution in the number of typhus
epidemics The biaok deatn, or black pest of
the fourteenth century, decimated the prac
titioners ot that epoch. Guy de Chaullao suf
fered from it twice anil recovered—Chalin de
Vinario succumbed.
Kaiser Wilhelm is economical. He uses
asecond time nearly all the envelopes of the
doouments addressed to him. One of these
lieariug his autograph superscription was rc
cenilvseenby a correspondent of the Con
cordia. who wrlies about it as follows: “Privy
doc Util- nts sent to the Emperor from the Min
isters and Imperial officers are put unfolded
into the envelope,which bears the inscription:
*Ta His Majesty the Emperor and King.’ The
name of the sender appears in small letters
iu the left-hand lower corner of the cover, as,
for instance,‘Foreign Office,’ eic. The flap
of the one in question was closed with red
scaling wax. In opening it the Emperor had
carefully torn it open close to the wax. and,
after perusing the couieots, lie had folded the
flap so a* to make It long enough to oover tne
original seal, rcsealcd it with his own hand*,
chunged the word ‘to’ into -from.’ crossed off
the address of the sender, and directed it to
•Privy Cabinet Councillor v. W .’ This
economy is one of the characteristics of the
Huhenzoilorii family.”
A Chicago editor says: “The last time I
went hunting I witnessed a scene which I had
often heard of but never seen, it was tho
dunce of the sand-hill crane. My companion
was a well known huuler, and, though be is
a physician, he finds much time—be lives in
>ortiu rn lowa—to study the ways and liaunis
of wild fowl. ‘Now.’ sai l he, •! will show
you within sn hour the famous danco of the
sand-hill ersnes.’ We swept over the prairie
in a way which I shall never forget; the two
pouies seeming to enjoy the outdoor sport.
At last we oume In sight ol a crowd whose
noise had saluted our ears for n hour. They
were on a slope w hich came down m ar to a
lags. All at once two stepped ont from the
crowd, raoed each other and began clapplhg
their wings, jumping up and down as Indians
do for a war dance. All this time they were
uttering cries which laivs would understand
eery soon to lie cries of merriment. Their
companions greeted them with shouts of
seeming laughter, and the one Jumping htgli
est and longest was acknowledged ehampfsn
of the day. When those two bei ante exhaust -
•and, two others won through the same per
formance. We watched mean tor aliotitan
hour.”
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