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INDEX TON G WADYERTISEIENTS.
MEETINGS— Haupt Lodge No. 08.1.0.0. 1-..
Georgia Hussars; So omou’s Lodge No.l, F.
A. M.; Republican Biues; Workman’s and
Trade's’ Loan and Building Association.
Special Notices—Bills Agamst lir. Steam
ship Hartburu; Notice, John Westerman,
Beal Estate for Sale.
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PUBLICATIONS— Harper’s Periodicals.
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Medical —French Hospital Remedies.
Steamship schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Notice—Pony, Saddle and Bridle at Auc
tion. fc ______
The new year has given us a terribly
cold shoulder so far. It Is to be hoped
she is reserving her smiles lor a more in
timate acquaintance.
Senator Vest says that he is gratified
With the work of the administration.
The Senator knows good work when ho
•ses it, and good whisky, too, perhaps.
It is worth noticing that the Czar never
denies the stories about his intemperate
habits. Perhaps the national drink ot
Russia is different In its efiects from the
wicked mescal of Mexico.
Tho venerable ex-Gov. Curtin, of Penn
sylvania, says that the President is be
coming stronger with the masses every
day in his Slate. And so he Is in every
State, and the star-eyed goddess will
make a mistake if she lorgets it.
Railroad and sasters are becomiug ex
tremely frequent, and deatn by burning
appears to be the dire fate of many of the
victims. Why not beat ears by steam
from the engine and dispense with the
stove entirely ?
It Is announced that the battle of boodle
has begun in California. For lear there
may be some wbo do not understand this
announcement it is explained that the
rich men of California are engaged in try
ing to capture the office of United Slates
Senator from that State.
The Journal de St. Petersbourg denies
that the Czar is either insane or a drunk
ard. The editors of the Journal would in
cur the penalty of an enforced trip to Si
beria by an admission of the imperial
weaknesses. Very great perspicacity is
needed to safely run a newspaper in
Russia.
The Boston Herald tbs year is trying
the plan of sharing its profits with its em
ployes. Alter paying all obligations ami
a reasonable on thojHfct the
profits will a •.i *
ers and regular lorce o,tue 'HE\ A
little Letter work all round iW3(?d a
handsome sum to eaoh man's saiT^f*
Again it is rumored that SecreKK
Manning will resign before the end
present month. It is also asserted tha*
ex-Gov. Hoadly, of Ohio, will succeed
him. The country will be sorry to lose
Manning, but if Hoadly is his successor
be will be succeeded by an able and hou."
est man.
Senator GorbanxTgls done his best to
defeat the renc/uaation of Supervising
Inspector At last accounts there
aas doubt Wfffetber or not he bad suc
ceeded- When Curran’s place is filled
[here will no longer be delay probably
n filling the office ol inspector ol this
district.
It is announced in a Republican paper
that the President doesn’t intend to freezi
cut Attorney General Garland.. The
President is too dignified to encage in a
game of freeze-out. it he wanted the At
torney General to go ho
o. uotwl hstandmg lypi’ n—j!tjfwinv
iorm policy.
Don Piatt, in the North American Re
view, thinks that the “Author Rich
mond,” who wrote the attacks on Seer#-,
lary Bayard and the President, has ,r
much better opinion of his own abllUid
;han the country has. There is no dmft
that “Autoor Richmond's” open letter to;
the President showed that the writer ha
more malice than brains. w
Senor Castelar, in a speech In the Span
ish Parliament recently, made a strong
Argument in lavor of universal suffrage
nd denounced the Russian Czar as the {
greatest revolutionist In Europe. Castelar
# a great admirer of the United States,
ind regards American institutions as the
panacea for ail the politioal ills of his own
Country. But physloians always grad.
‘Jjelr medicines to suit the particular con
Itltution ol the patient, and a peonle must
be educated by degrees ud to the point
when the responsibility of popular gov
sruinent may be safely intrusted to them.
Ol the population of Great Britain re
lent etatistlcs show (hat one In every
thirty ie a pauper. Every year'at least
ISO,OOO persons are arrested lor drunken
ness. Tuere arc 360,000 barmen and bai •
maids, and 150,000 saloon keepers atu!
beer sellers. Tho annual expenditun
lor drink is $730,000 ot>o. Nevertheless.
England expendss7,ooo,ooo per annum i
missions to the heathen as a set-off to be:
Itinr comings, against only $.">00,000 spen
by Germany for the same purpose, sßo,oo<
by France, or $1,000,000 lor tho entir
continent ol Europe. It is a very pooi
exhibition, it is true, and as soon a
U.io e Bam has swept bis own door step
quite clean be ought to look into tbemat
ter with a view to •ome^^micmicikw.
Republican Tariff Tinkering;.
It is stated that next Monday tbe Re
publicans will introduce into the House a
bill reducing the duty on sugar 20 per
cent., and repealing the lax on tobacco
and on spirits used in the arts. This bill
will amount fo nothing. It will, ot
course, be referred to tbe Ways and
Means Committee and will never be re
ported trick to the House.
It is probable that the purooso of Intro
ducing It is to keep tbe Republicans in
different parts of the country quiet, wbo
are clamoung for a reduct.on of the rev
enue.
1 1 is rather significant, however, that
it should be proposed to out down the
sugar tax. It shuwstne Louisiana sugar
planters what they have to expect
from their Republican allies.
When the motion to take up the Morri
son bill was before the House at the be
ginni: g of tbe session nearly all the Lou
isiana members voted with the Republi
cans against it. They thought they could
rely upon them to let sugar alone in any
legislation for the reduction of the reve
nue they might propose. They were mis
taken.
It is apparent to everybody that the
revenues must be reduced. For the gov
ernment to collect $120,000,000 a year
more than it can economically distribute
means ruiu to all business interests A
reduction must be made, and tbe Repub
licans are not going to permit the manu
facturing monopolies to be disturbed il
they can help it. They are ready to sac-
rifice sugar in order to serve these monop
olies.
Perhaps the representatives of the su
gar interests know what they are dolug.
They have been warned frequently that
their interests would be safer in tbe
hands of the tariff relormers than of the
protectionists. They have not heeded
this warning, however, and it begins to
look as If they have made a grave mistake.
II Mr. Randall could have his way he
would repeal both the whisky and tobacco
tax. While he will not admit It, he wants
to tax tbe necessaries of life and make
whisky and tobacco free. The common
sense of the country will not permit him
to do that, even thouih he has the support
of the Ilupublican party. Tbe
whisky and tobacco tax should
he the very last tax repealed.
Those who smoke and chew tobacco and
drink whisky are noteomplaining. Why
then should Mr. Randall be so concerned
about them? If the wbisky and tobacco
tax were repealed It would still be impos
sible to get a drink of first-clasß whisky
lor a dime or a good cigar for a nickel.
Tho Doctrine of Probation.
The recent trial of the Andover profes
sors and tbe shaking up which the Ando
ver creed is getting are calling from the
pulpit a good many expressions of opinion
respecting the question of piobation after
death. Mr. Beeober, who, perhaps, is ad
mitted to be one of the ablest preachers
of tbe present day, had something to say
ou this subject |at Sunday.
Releyring to the Andover trial and the
chief of the Issues which are being dis
cussed by those engaged in it be said:
“Men are up in arms over the problem o(
probation after death. Wbat a schoolbov
question! What a piokaninny matter!
We shall find after death that we are all
imperfect; that death is but a step for
ward in the great life. Over beyond the
grave God is preparing rules for us. We
may be fitted lor tbis life, but there are
changed conditions there to which we
must conform. That we must be taught
at some intermediary place, some half
way house between this world and final
immortality, there is no doubt. People
say they want proof of this, but 1 cannot
, —ye itk Therefore I
W. IVY hA It****
another nKiA. ® r " ■
1 firmly believe. Vhe
only live wffrld. The k not all
lazy, and they will send Mwbpeople into
the kingdom of God. They will not be
My c us. God has not limited His fertility
W Ls" making of mau. But wbat will
these multitudes of people be like? Tell
me if vou can. We must kill the old idea
of mechanical dying, after which a man
goes direot to heaven, perfect and angelic.
Heaven is net a place where angels
stand around like wax figures and
sing hallelujah. Death Is a swelling ot a
seed which lay upon this earth; it is the
bursting of a bud in April; it is the enter
ing upon summer; it is the going out ol a
prison house. Christianity, alter 2,000
vears, ought to have taught men that it
is going to everlasting peace. Don’t
drape tbe hero in black, or the dead child
in sombre hues. I( you know of some
poor wretch who has gone to bis death,
put on black lor bim; but don’t wear it
for your father, or mother, or child. You
say you fed better in m liming. Perhaps
[s ou do, but you should not.”
E-A well-known Catbolic Bishop is re-
said lately that it looked
a ®Vh>*r' o ' the l’ rotßß lh ntß were trying
the purgatory of his ebureb,
\l'“Mather may not be aiming at any
thing ot that kind, hut, doubtless, his
views respecting an intermediary stage
are rather more liberal than many, even
of his own admirers, have beeu accus
iturned to. His ideas about the wearing
tk i mourning will strike many as being
Mery sensible.
-1.-..—..1 I.— -■ .. ■■ 1 I I. !■
objection on the part of the Knights
JRjjWr fO pay Mr. Powderly a salary of
,2>,*30 per annum is quite consistent with
what appears to be a salient dogma of the
orderfKtial auy occupation, other than
is not labor at all. As well
might th¥si amen detach the rudder from
a ship ancUpast it adrift as useless, as for
labor toward brains as a valueless fac
tor in its organization. Quite recently
Mr. Powderly was re-elected tbe chief ol
die Knights. He must possess ability, oi
lie would scarcely bare received so pio
nounced an indorsement. He was cer
tainly re-elected with reference rather to
uis brains tbnu bis musole. Wbat, theu,
among the Knights, is to be the market
value of bruins.
It is said that Judge OrotraMMA writ
teu a letter deciarlug It to
nat Blaine will be nomioaleiniV Isms.
Blaine couldn’t give uis Doom a bigger
loost than to publish it. To be Indorsed
>y Judge Oresuam is almost enouAi to
uducu the Mugwumps to givemiun
mother inspection to see if they bawii’t
>een laboring under some mistake with
regard to him. 1
The people of contriWted
- golden tbroue jubi-
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JANUARYITtSBTI^
An Insignificant Appropriation.
It seems that only $4%000 is to oe ap
propriated for the Savannah harbor at
Ibis session of Con less. That will uot
be sufficient to compl te the im-rove
uients under tbe existing survey. The
last appropriation was a small one—al
together too emu!], if it is desired that
the improvement snail be completed with
in a reasonable time and for a reasonable
amount; and now it is proposed to sup
plement that with a picayune appropria
tion that would be exhausted mouth# be
fore another river and harbor bill would
be passed.
It is remarkable that Congress is so
short-sighted. Tbe cry is that millions
are wasted on rivers and harbors, but
whose fault is it? Dies not the blame
rest upon Congress? If a sufficient
amount were appropriated to push lor
ward the work on each improvement
vigorously and continuously, better re
sults would besecured for half tbe money
that is now expended on rivers and har
bors.
There is no better illustration of this
than the Savannah harbor. The appropria
tion made by the Forty-eighth Congress
was exhausted long belore tho appropria
tion made by the Forty-ninth Congress
became available. Work was stopped,
and for months nothing was done. Tbe
improvement was injured and the river
shoaled rapidly. It will, doubtless, re
quire thousands of dollars to place the
river in as good a condi iou as it was
the appropriation was exhausted.
And now the same thing is to be re
peated. Assuming that no more than $45,-
000 will be appropriated at tbis session,
there will not be another appropriation
available, in all probability, beiore a year
from next September. For months the im
provement in our harbor, that is ap
proaching completion, will be virtually
abandoned, and will, perhaps, suffer a
greater damage thau can be repaired by
theexpenditureof au amounteven greater
than it is proposed to appropriate for the
present year. Two things which Congress
appears to stand greatly In need of are
courage and common sense.
Holman for the Senate.
Judge Holman, the great objector, has
Senatorial aspirations. He is being led
to think by admiring friends that he cau
succeed Senator Harrison in the United
States Senate. Tho contest in Indiana
for tbeSeuatorship is going to be a very
close one between tbe Democrats >U
Republicans. Both parties think they
have the Legislature, and while there is
no doubt that the Democratsiiiii'e A legiti
mate majority on joint ballot jtbe Re
publicans are planning to unseat enough
Democrats to give control of the Legisla
ture to their party.
In the kind of a contest that Is
promised, Mr. Iloiman would, perhaps,
be the best man the Democrats could
select for a candidate If there are waver,
ing Democrats or doubtlul Independents
in the Legislature Mr. Holman,on account
of his recognized honesty and thorough
sincerity, would probably command their
support.
Mr. Holman would be missed in the
House. Doubtless there are many there
who would gladly miss him. He keeps
too sharp a look out (or jobs to suit them.
There are occasions, however, when his
objections are harmful rather than bene
ficial. He hasn’t always time to make
bimself acquainted with measures for
which appropriations are asked, and his
objections, often interposed without good
reason, delays or defeats them. He
seems determined to maintain bis
reputation as an objector, however, even
at the risk of making a mistake now and
then. In t'iikii^fP**'''* 8 objections could
o(jn more easily than
-SfT House, where tUe rules
JoL -xTort) t apparently, for obstructing
Viute'*t&an facilitating business.
John 1 loach’s Cancer.
The opinion prevails quite generally
that the cancer from which Gen. Grant
died was caused by excessive smoking.
That opinion may be correct, but if it is,
wliat caused the cancer from which John
Roach is suffering, and which is ex
pected to cause hi# death wituin a very
few days.
John Roach’s cancer is located in the
roof of his mouth, and is exactly the same
kind that Gen. Grant’s was, which was
located in his throat. Gen. Urant was a
great smoker ot strong cigars, and his
cancer was quite naturally attributed to
his smoking habit. John Roach, however,
has never smoked either a cigar or a pipe.
It is asserted that he has never used
tobacco iu any form. It is pretty certain,
therefore, that his cancer does uot have
its origiu in the tobacco habit. The
conclusion is irresistible that the kind ol
cancer from which he is suffering can he
caused by some hing else than the
smoking ot cigars, and a legitimate in
torence is that it is never caused by It.
John Roach has had his cancer cut out
once, but only a temporary relief was ex
perienced. In a lew months it reappeared.
Its progress has not been rapid. It, has
been very perceptible, however. Doubt
less the worry tuat Mr. Roach endured in
connection with the dispatch boat Dol
phin, wbich tbe government #t first hesi
tated to accept, helped to develop his dis
ease. In lact, it may have caused it.
Worry, which causes a strain on mind and
body, is doubtless the cause of many dis
eases. There are no doubt, oases of can
cer, of the kind which killed Gen. Grant,
and which will kill John Roach, occur
ring all the time. Tbe Victims not being
prominent, are not heard of by the geuerul
public.
The failure of a great ranch company in
Texas, not long since, is rather a matter
for than regret. It is not
good pjpicv for the people to encourage
the of immense bodies of lard
by syndicates or individuals for purposes
or speculation. The small farm system,
with tne land brought up by skillful and
ftcicntilic farming to the highest point 01
productiveness attainable, is the policy
to encourage as leading, by the most di
rect road, to general prosperity. A cor
ner in land has all the ohj ctiouuble
features of a corner in wheat, arid
tends directly to the Injury of tdoso whoso
(arms adjoin the monster ranch.
The plumbers just now are radiant.
They can afford to be. They flourish
to some extent on tbe misfortunes ol
their neighbors, nml their smiles,
to the victims of “busted” water pip s,
are regarded as the revelations of n
cvnioal s.ilrit. It is an Hi wind—(rom
the
CURRENT COMMENT.
Negntive
From tbe Baltimore A <>>e icin (Ind.)
Cali no uiMii nappy u' til he is dead.
Hint to Til o D'icil C'HMliltf.
From the WanUinvt' n Poet (D*m,)
In pome hundred message* and letters of
condolence add re*o I to ors. Logan, uhich
h ive been pmdished in tho papers, only two
iia-i an> allusion?* whatever to the Supreme
Being or 10 the constitutions of relizion.
15j T i lr Own Crp*il.
From th* C’erel md ( O .) Plain Dealer (Dem.)
Th stand ml of the Christian iruth in the
i ongrugational Oh*#h i* the C- ngregaiional
freed, and if what the Andover pm feasor*
le.ti n i-? not sanctioned fov tout ceed tin y are
guilty of hei esy, noinutter whether what they
teach is in itself true or ial c.
A Or##n*y Subject.
From the Philadelphia Bee rd(Dett .)
The huines-* of inak iie old butter into new,
which was interrupted y ilu* o > -margarine
incursion, will now be renewed, liit* a well
e-tablished fact that the supply til good dairy
outter is entire! V inadequate for the home uc
mand. A return to the grease of former flays
is au unpleasant tiling i think upon. If good
•leomarganue was delusion and a snare it
was at least a pleasant delusion by compar
ison with the reality wc may look forward to
in place of it.
BBIGHT 1U l.
“Wocld you say the poultry is very tender
•r the towl’irt very tender?” a-ked the hoard
ing house mistress of one of her victims at
inner.
“Neither” was the reply.
••What-, then, would you say?”
* I’d say tne chicken is migluy tough,” came
rom th- boarder with emphasis.— Yonks e
Staten in n.
Clergyman’s wife 'at an evening party:—
I am so glad to see, my dear, that jou do not
lance.
Omaha Maid -I nm afraid to.
‘ Yes, indeed, I w u dn’t take such a risk
for anything; when did you determine to
stop?”
••When 1 found my bustle was loose!”—Om
iha W tld.
“However did you get the heels all scraped
off your shoes?” asked Cora.
“I was at a too (ggaumg party last night,”
replied Mm one.
" \ nd didn’t you know what to do with your
feet?”
• Why, of course I did,” was the scornful
response; “but tho gen Mem n in fron of me
was a minister, and 1 thought lie might be
offended iT I put them in his lap.”— lnden.
Omaha Man—So you are getting up an
opera c -nip my, eh? Who is your soprano?
1 mpresano—Miss .Jones.
Omaha Man—And your tenor?
Impresario—Mr. smith: and I have secured
Brown lor basso and Miss Green for contralto.
Omaha Man—Triat is doiug well. What do
you i itend to call u ?
The Grand Italian Opera Company from
Maarid— Omaha Wald,
“Did vou spill the ink on the new sofa?”
isked Mrs. Verger, angrily, of her little son
l orn my.
“Yes, ma,” w s the reply.
‘•Wei l ,l have a not on to tell your father
when ne comes home, and have him whip you
within an inch ofvour life. That sofa will
• ■■ok nice when we have company.”
“That ink spot don’t amount to anything.
You can sit on it when your visitors call.”—
Tex ih Btfiin<j%.
First Chic ago an—How’s your wife?
Sec nd Clucagoa —llaveu’t got any.
“Wh.v; divorced?”
“Yes.”
*• Wii>. vou are the third husband she's been
div *••• and from.”
“Yes.”
“ •• - quite literary, isn’t she?”
•*Y'es
“W nut Is she doing now?”
“She’s writing a book about ‘How to Make
Home Happy.’ ”—5 *t n c> u ier .
“I'm go ug from you now, dear John,”
Her voice was weak and low;
“I always worked t > help you on,
But now I have to go.
* I’ve tried to do the best I could,
To be a model wife:
l always sawed and split the wood,
Wmle going through this life.
“f sewed your b ittons, stockings knit,
I was nocostlv buyer.
And you, dear John', can but admit
1 always lit the Are.”
“Yes, wife.” eab! John, “to that I’ll swear,
lon were in ail thing* right;
Be comforted, vou’re going where
You'll have uo fire to light.”
!’;> Record •
PERSONAL
Secretary Lamar is tho best swordsman
in Washington.
Dr. Mary Walker is beginning to show
the effects of age.
The Prince of Wales amuses himself by
playing on the banio.
Farjeon. the novelist, is a son-in-law of
Joseph Jefferson, the actor.
Thomas a. Edison is now reported to be
beyond alt danger lrom bis sickness.
Ferdinand Ward is th n and haggard and
shuns the eyes of ad visitors at Bmg Sing.
When a southern girl loves she turns her
heart into a sale and loses the couibin Hion.
Lord Randolph Churchill declares that
at 60 years ot age tie expects to lead Europe.
Andrew Carnegie is on his feet again, and
his healih may be better for many years thau
it nas ever been.
S ; \ ator Maxky calls a Mugwump “a pes
tilent ebudiiion.” The Mugwumu is expect
ed to subside at once.
Princess Beatrice is so terribly taken up
with thai bles-ed baby that even royalty is
compelled to stand around.
Lfoy McKkonb Stapleton is the poetess
wlio sends nut the sweetest verse# written in
the Rocky Mountain region.
POPZ Leo XIII. has appointed Mgr. Ra
cine, Bishop nt sherbro k ■. Canada, as as
sistant at tbe Pontifical throne,
Mr. Gladstone, according to Mr. Laboti
fhero, is at present eng iged On a work con
nected with the Olympian religion.
It is stated that Ben Butler's portrait
hangs in the xeraxlio of the sultan, but we
doubt it. Tho mi Ban is too jealous a man.
The five Arab horses given to Queen Vic
toria l>y the -u ian of Muscat are valued at
417.5>0. but lie* presents tent to him in return
only cost 47.•’>.i0.
Miss Elsie DeWolfe is a New York lady
upon wlio-e shoulders, according to a New
York paper, “the nuuileof Mrs. James Brown
l’otter ecin to have lallcn.”
SENATOR STANFORD, of California.
to lie lh‘ George Vt . Childs of
lies ers in ihi* city savih.il lie
410.0' 0 ou presents for tne poor.
Miss Tii.lik Martin, who is to receive 1
with Mrs. Cleveland inis winter, is a fair aiul
slender gill of 20. She is ihc daughter of Mr.
Henry J. M iriiu, of New York.
Browning, the poet, may write bulldozed
verse, but li knows a good pdaeo when lie
-e s one. us In pro od When he
r. .ecled the l’aiuzto oa the Grand canal at
Venice.
lUruDKTTE, tie humorist, dale, his jokes
from Bryu Mn>vr \\ e must caution him
against ilia; capital “M" a “tv ” People
m ghl imagine lunl U stood for brandy and
water.
1)K. Ruchiro Naini. a surgeon in the Japa
nc-e navy, is nhout to utility iiieillclue in the
Umv rsitvof Peiiiisv.vania. The American
method ot culling U legs differs from tuat of
Japan.
Rev. Dr. J, C. Hidden, of Lexington. Ivy,,
who has boon called to the William street
tl.ip: Ist t hurett of Now lie Her i, M. 0.1,, i,
puicd to he, ou# of the most brilliant orators
m tbe Mouth.
Mark Twain said to a fri 'nd me other dav
thai he del uo like to oome to Now York
with his wife. ”8h is v< rj anxious to have
very one llnnK sie dre-ses ke a New
Yorker.” hesaiil. ’’.and yet wh neveraho l uvs
anything in a store in I Ills citv the cl rg ‘ e
nf( '• sk, ’W hat hotel shall 1 send this to,
ma'am?’ ”
Julius L. stkwaht, tho voting artist
whose handsome studio ► an Is in the Rue
( opernlc. lias jn 1 (inis 1 *il a si 1 ••riciai.d por
ir.pl-of som ol lll’’ pro
Mine, and N'"rm i. . M e, m
I a .11 iw dress ng in si a well
contrived to#i 1 off hur and irk o ant^pin
(lunzhonrg. 't he last named lady’s tins i.>ml
dijecl* to lit- wile’s ps>; ran being exhibited.
The politic will, therefore, be deprived of the
ol nsure of admiring one ol ftp* serte.utihe
(rivals exhlhi lon. which wt I probahly lie
II id in the early soring at the Mirliton Club.
1 Is a charming por>ralt. in gray evening
gtapp. with a posy of gotten flowers on the
America’# ftlgeest Diamonds.
From the Rochester Union's New Y >rk Letter .
The largest diamond in the coitntrv is saut
to be the one worn oy Mini ie PalmCM II is
called “the President Cleveland.” The next
largest is owned by Tiffany, and is on exaibi
tion at bis store. The. third largest is in the
possession of Charles Lew. the proprietor of
a Centre street cate. He brought it from the
South African mines. When first cut it
weighed 152 karats. It has since been trimmed
down to 55 karats, aud it is now said to be one
of the finest -tones of its size iu the world. It
is valued at 440.000. These figures show that
the diamonds of to-day iar outstrip in value
those worn in Tweed’s tun •. Jim Fisk’s g( eat
i oadlight cost only 418,000, 80-s Tweed’s was
never vauted at more than 420. 00 and Judge
Barnard’s kicked the beam a $7, 00.
Retirement ot a Veteran Printer.
The Charleston News and Courier an
nounces the retirement of that veteran
printer and amiable aud honorable
gentleman, Mr. William L. D .ggett,
who for twelve years had been the bead
of its job departments. Mr. D.igeett
was foreman of the old Charleston Courier
thirty years ago. Just after the close of the
late war tie was connected with its reporlorial
and job departments. Previous to his late
engagement with the News and Courier he
was superintendent of the Morning News
job de (Mrtuieut*, which position he resigned
tu return to his old home. Char e-ton.
The employes of his department made him
a haudsome prese it as u token of their e.-teetn.
and the News and Courier in a
quarter of a column editorial says
-uch things about him as few meu
ever have the pleHsure of reading übou
themselves. The Morning News joins with
is contemporary in its good wishes, ami
agree# won it when it says: “Di every phase
of his business life the appreciation of li s
employers has accompanied him, and their
e-leern and regard go with him.” It hopes
that Air. Daggett will be spare many years
to enjoy that rest which fifty four years of
life in newspaper office entitles him to.
Sympathy with Due lug iu Prussia.
* mm the London Times.
Berlin, Dec. 14.—Y esterday’s sitting of the
Reichstag was devoted to a discussion of
• luring—a matter wbich occupies either the
Prussian or the Imperial Parliament every
year, in some form or other, with no other re
-uit than to leave the question precisely
wnere it was.
Cabinet orders and other forms of legal pro
hibition have been issued from time to time
within the last sixty years in Prussia against
tbe practice of ordeai by battle, but alftne e
edicts have beeu iu variably administered with
a laxity amounting to positive indulgence,
aud there is still uo sign of an earuo t desire
on the part of the go’ eminent to rescue them
from the desuetude in which they have so
long lain.
Yesterday’s discussion hinged on the motion
01 a Clerical Deputy to insert a clause in the
criminal code against the practice of so cal ed
American due.mg, as we 1 as to beg the im
perial govern ment to take energetic steps to
w rd suppressing the growing practice of
dueling in the army and at the universities.
But it was clear from the debate that this
proposal did not eujoy tne hearty sympathy
of the majority 01 the House, Uiough it •
referreo to a select committee for detailed
consideration.
Perhaps tne sense of the majority tvai best
expressed by Herr von Puttkamer, Prussian
.Minister of the Interior, who, claiming 10
speak as a merely priva e person, sai l that in
tile motion and resolution belore the 11. use
ho merely beheld what would presumably
prove an unsuece-siul attempt to solve a
great problem, which past centuries had al
ready vainly tried to aoive.
lire Le-rued Sister.
/>■ m the San Francisco Post.
Lady Lawyer (to witness) -You have been
an intimate friend of the family, haven’t
\ ou ?
“Yes ”
“Yon have seen tho defendant hero ill use
his^—”
H ’ Lawyer—l object. The question is im
proper,
luo court—Objection sustained.
Lady Lawyer—Haven’t you seen the de
fendant
He Lawyer— Ibjec; same ground.
The Court—Same ruling.
Lady Lawyer—Well, th n, what I want to
know is, hasn’t his wife, my client, been
shamefully ill
He Lawyer—lbjec.
Court—Jectiou stained.
Lady Lawyer— I’lease state, then, what you
know about the cruelty of the man to
He Lawyer—lbjec.
Court—Same ruling. Ask the witness,
madam, to te l what he knows.
Lady Lawyer—Well, tnai’swhat I’m doing!
Now, sir, teil us what you kuow.
Witness—About what?
Lady Lawyer—Why, about the cruelty
He l,awyer—lbj< c.
The Court—Jectiou stained. No more of
this, madam.
Lady Lawyer- Very well. Now, then, wit
ness, tell us what you know.
Witness—Ask me questions and I’ll answer
’em.
Lady Lawyer—Why, just, tell 119 how vou
have seen him abuse—Oh, dear mo. I forgot,
Weil, tell us-Oh, Judge (breaking do u in
tears), he knows perfectly well what I want
him to say!
The Court—Rece9s for half an hour. Our
learned sister can employ the tune in com
posing herself.
Soottkiug siy. uj> lor c wtniyi.
From the Mundan Pioneer.
The Northern Pacific train from the West
came into this tow n a few day* since wi h
1 wenty.fi• e or thirty cowboys, bouu 1 for Fori,
Worth. Tne festive cow punchers had taken
pos-ession of the emigrant sleeper. Kvery one
•if them had a huge revol er smug t > his bell,
a I of Ihem were lull of bug juice, each man
sporting a bottle of forty-rod w hisky When
the Dakota division conductor came into the
car for their tickets they refused to produce
1 heir pasteboards, drawing in-mad their bot
tles of clia 11 ligi.tuiua, a.id insisted on the
ticket puncher drinking witu them. A quiet
old German passenger who had been much
annoyed by the hilariousness of the wild
riders of the Western plains, took the con
ductor to one side and said:
••tf I were conducior of this train I would
expend a half dollar at some convenient drug
store for opium, aud slip 11 into their bottles. ’
On reaching Bismarck the conduct r acted
on this happy suggestion, and sent li s brake
m.mto a drug s.o.e lor 50c worth of tne
quieting drug. The In akemau went into the
oar and accepted their generous . fl'er to im
bibe. and. w line preten dug to drink, qnietiy
slipped a .mail quantity of tne southing dra
in each b itUe. Quiet -00 ure gued a here bc
r re a 1 had beeu pandemonium These deni
zens of the wild, rowdy (V est were soon sb m>-
mg sounder than th • Cardiff giant. The
exultant conductor rolled them over i|g e |..g*.
went throug i their pockets, punched the r
tieke's. and rolled them back m their berth.
A more peaceful ear ol pa singers never
traveled over the Northern P.cdlc-in fact
the train load of deaf mute excursionist- of
the past summer were hilarious when com
piled with the quiet Texas cowboys. They
were turned over 10 the conductor of tne
Minnesota division at Fargo, with tho re
mainder of the unexpended drug to use if au
.emergency should arise belore reaching bt.
t’aul.
A **o'*g of LDo.
Ry R hertOjden Pow er.
Tslffe worth living? Life is sweet, men say,
But life being sad, far sweeter is while
Death
Who sets Time as a watch upon our way.
Until our bauds are breath.
What help is here? fW’irs' fa
hold?
The old gray earth with all Its hours and
years,
It's change*, day and darkness, heat and cold.
A Utile laughing, pam aud parsionute tear .
Tho God-borno Ocean ever that abides.
With all her gu Is and straits and salt-sown
sands.
Her mighty, yearning, quivering, trembling
tides,
Uplifting ever to God her dripping bands.
Whal does life hold? The burden of child
bearing.
A grievous burden, and love that wears to
shame;
In pain brought forth, in pain we too forth
bring.
Fulfilling, suffering, Borrowing in God's
name.
What help Is here for him whose eves revert
Back through tho devious way* wherein he
trod?
Whose living sonl hath suffered grievous
hurt
Quivering beneath the intolerable rod of
Go<>;
Who suffers sore fo be made one with death,
To him, lif>’ is a bitter, barren thing;
“I have gone softly all inv and ys,” lie scith.
And mournelh with sad. wistful sorrowing.
Wliat help Is here? Give up, go down, lot be I
What hope is here, or or
nirtb? :
LI Vls nore grids--., V*tiilhe sail-down S#a
Or any hitter htossffwtf^f**^**
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A ckm ENT very ranch used at the present
day in China and Japan is made from rioe. It
is only Deceasary to mix rice flour intimately
with wa er and gently simmer the
over a clear fir*-, when it readily tonne a dgF"
irate and durable cement.
Miss Amelia Hand, of Cape rafja */
House, N. J., was a great city" j
in health. Now' that she ia
has established telephone cqrf'*V'J Jll- P'i
wp/ra 8 :4o pm
her room and the Mcthodt X
transmitter is on the pulpit ct!4X ** p
Hand can h ar everything thac *
also the singing. X."* .
It is said thit a corapauy of well-to-do
San Fraucisco gamblers propose to add to the
excitements of the coming legislative session
at Carson, Nev., by opening a furo bank with
$50,000 in the drawer. Any one entering the
place will have to buy S2O worth of cbeoks.
Should he not see lit to play he enu return the
checks on going ori ami receive his money.
Paul Williams, the 12-year-old son of G.
B. Williams, of Meudon, Mass., has neither
arms nor legs—only stumps iroin his shoul-
about two inches long, and stamps,
about eight inches long, for legs. Yet he i* a
(l ie wr ter, holding a pen or brush betweeu
his chin and one eliouidor stump, and moving
It with his head. He is a good artist, and is
a pupil o£ high standing in the MenUon high
school.
John Penzel, of Jackson, Mo., an aged
German, has made two sound and serviceable
c> iliu-. one for himself and one for his wife,
and they t-tand in his house ready for use.
When Ins own whs fiuisned he tried it on, and
b und that he hadn’t allowed for his left leg,
which is bent ai the knee and stiff, so he made
anew eoyei. which permits him to ue c m
for ably iu the eofliu after it has been closed
properly,
Sam Temple, a colored citizen of Mont
gomery, sent hi3 8-year- Id boy for a jug of
whisky. On the way home the boy thought
that wha was good for his father must be
g 'od for him, and he took a pull at t
I’ben he took several more, and whe
nome was stupidly drunk, iiis niflwT r ..
him to bed, and he was undisturbed until the
next morning. Then when she called him he
was dead.
Prop. Udson, a violinist, of Warren, 0.,
was engaged to Miss Jenny Thompson of
Copenhagen, when he quit that city for
America. A few weeks ago he sent for her.
and the day after Christinas she arrived in
.New \ork with her grand piano and many
trunks She was met by her lover, who took
her directly to W irren,wnere three days later
they were married at me institution where
the husband teaches music.
A young Irish sailor nsmed Welch, in
the United States navy', is ere lited with hav
ing invented a remarkable an 1 complete life
buoy. It is a ciroular belt in which are
mounted six verticle hollow tube*. These
re e eh filled with, Jirst, Greek tire in suffi
cient quantity to burn fifty seconds; second,
Uo nan cmdles that explode every ten sec
onds, and third, wi h a sort of rocket to u Inch
are attached life lines. The e, as the rocket
explodes, are projected in six different direc
tions, giving the drowning man os many
chances for nis life.
A writer in the San Frau cisco Chronicle
tells of a glass roadbed in the Yellowstone
Park. In a certain part of the park volcan c
glass, or obsidiau, abounds, auu to make a
carriage vay fires were built along the pro
posed route, and then when cold water was
dashed upon the heated surface, thus cooling
itsu demy the glasGf broke into fragments,
which w reut-ily TebibvM. until thus a road
was formed. The Cos freeze dent writes that
tile glass <ozes from tjne<j*i*',ks like gum from
a tree. It is aiDK**t b ank, quite opaque, and
the edges f it, when qlpppsd vff at a proper
angle, areas-,snarp^ Of it the In
dian* fashioned wif bi ds, weapons and
tools.
A well at Yjtkpfcsk, has been a
standing puzzHi to lists for many years.
It was began in 18^8,given up at 30 feet
because it wtvt still m frozen earth Then the
Russian Acancmirof continued for
some mouths the worfcof deepening the wel ,
but stopped when lr had reached to the ex
tent, of some 882 feet, when the ground was
til ill frozen a-* hard as a rock. In 1844 the
academy h id the temperature of the excava
tion carefully taken at various depths ard
*/r m the data thu-* < b aned the gr mud was
estimated to he froz n to a depth of 012 feet.
As external cold could not freeze the earth to
such a depth, even in Siberia, geologists have
concluded that the web has penetrated a
frozen formation of the glacial period which
lias never thawed out.
In r recent lecture before a London institu
tion. Dr. B. W Richardson elated that the
work of the heart in a healthy man is equiva
lent to the feat of raisin* 5 1-5 tons 1 foot per
hour. 125 tons in twenty-four hours, The use
of eight (••nice* of alcohol causes the heart’s
work to show an excess of twenty-four foot
tons. Illustrating this powerful engine's
performance by anew calculation, he as
sumed that the bo*od is thrown out by an
■u erajre or sixty -nine sr. hi s per minute, and
at the force of 9 feet to each stroke, which
would give the mile; ;re of the blood through
the body as 207 cards tier minute, seven miles
per hour, b 8 mites per day, 01.220 tubes pet
tear. or 5.150,8*0 tabes m a Itle Ime of 81 years.
In this same lon* life the great jottrnev of
the blood would be Hie result oi the grand
total of 2,860,770.000 heart neats.
Lkihtning flashes have sometimes been
observed which, starting at oito point, have
ended in several. Some- markable forms of
Hash have been lately described bv Herr
I.evst, . f Pawlowsk Observatory. In one case
a Hash went a certain distance in a north
easterly and ret ton, then divided, the two
branchs- forming an angle of al>ont. 75 degg.
When these bid retched about 36 deg*, from
each other, they turned nrd united again in
one line. The path of the lightning (hits
formed a quadrillion'.■' figure. It win further
observed that Ihc lightning fla-hed back iu
the same path, as if there were in •scillating
discharge. Itt another interesting flash, the
path wns n ‘t n crooked line, but a wavy band,
whielt was :,t uji four times in succession with
equal brilliant;;'. The time between the sec
ond and third . nd the tiiird and fourth fl ishes
seemed longer tnan that between t' C flrst and
second The thunder which followed lasted
alnult eighty seconds.
Thb w ater power of [he falls of the Mis
souri is marvelous. At a low stage. Saint
Anthony’s, at the head of navigation of the
Mississippi, has a flow of ah >tr. 1,000,000 cubic
feet p r minute and about IS >.OOO horse pow
er, while Gieat Falls, at low stage, hits a fl >w
of iib.int un."o i cubic feet per minute and
nearly 2,b1’0.m)0 hors•• power. St. Anthony's
nae a fa I of ah nr 10 feet: Great Falls and the
-mailer one* re it fa lof nv< r 100 foci. wt.
Anthony’s has lint one fail and little room to
build ini Is. Croat Falls bus tyve ve fulls,
ami extend a distance of seven miles. Bt.
Anihmty’s lound.it! >n is eofl limestone, and
r-qnires great expense to keep it in place
Ureal Falls'* of sand t ote, and has not va
iled perceptibly in eighty v> urs. St. \n
,th ttv’s is in dry se non-very low. The lb w
at Giut.it Falls never fails In volume. In
addition 10 litmli"r and wheat, tlm country
ar> und Greet Falls lias inc.xhsuatible rc
sonrers and facilities for supplying wood
cool iron, tit to ra *. stmd., unit h I the raw
mi male conducive to a rapid and jicrutauen
inuuufacturtug growth.
In avk a gteat belief in the efficacy of Are
engines against a mob. remained nu officer.
Wile otheadamp ardor; fuv men are brave
when void and w et; and this fact is so well
known that a certain French politician .tving
in Paris dti' ing the period of excitement was
In ttin habit, a l"on its he rn*e, . f looking out
of tho 1 Indotv, and if he f .utvl that tt was
raining would win m wifi n >'rv of relief;
••No revolution to-day.” We also learn ilia!
yvtie’i Louts l’hlll ppe was rcnUcng ,V tpo-
I eon's slat lie on the enlumn In the Place Ven
ilottie t he Napoleon lets n--cmMe I onttuunl t y
in excited crowd* round the pedestal. The
crowds yyoro. however,'! sper-ed ttv copious
streama ■ t water being pumped o them.
I’lte materia' effee 1 of a -Iream nf yyater pro
jected front a lire engine thmuth a hose i
eons durable. No ma t can stsnd uea.nst it.
Betides, on the principle that the mishaps nf
otticis afford human b ongs avert iin amount
of sat shu tion, the mem ers of a crowd are
sure to laugh at seeing their compani its
yvettod, and a crowd which b'gins to laugh
•eases to be dangerous. I would, the eforc.
suggest that whenever a serious dls'iirlmucp
is anticipated a feiv lire engines should he
placed at the tllsposal nf the po ice.
“So vor woulil like an olliee, my frlcndf ’
sapl the President.
•• Yes. sir," replied the applicant.
“Your roc "iutnendattoti say you haye'lone
some effucilvu work at the polls. In what
wav'" _
of my regular business, sir."
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