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Brooklyn is a model city. Beer can bo
bought there on Sunday in any quantity,
,’but no candy is allowed to be sold.
Lent is indeed a blessed period. While
Jit lasts the country will not be compelled
/to read column accounts of Washington
Society events.
Senator Joseph E. Brown seems to be
jin earnest about placing his house in or
der against the day when his earthly ea
jreer will be ended.
Those who fix up political slates are
iJiot unlike spiritualist “slate-writers.”
(Generally it is the intention ot both to
/deceive the public.
'The expatriated bank cashiers of the
/United States seem to have exhausted
their funds. Canada is Hooded with
/counterfeit money.
“By-tbe-by,” said a Savannah lady to
iber husband, “the papers Mrs.
(Clevelanddresses magnificently.” “Yes,”
he replied, “she does— by-tbe-buy.”
Editors ot Boston newspapers no longer
Tret their souls over essays on “The
'"Wnlobness Of the How,” and similar sub
'Jects. Toey devote all their time to study
ling the base ball situation.
In a nutshell, Henry George’s doctrine
}is this: *4 don’t know that 1 understand
•exactly what it is I believe, but all you
ithat don’t believe what 1 believe arj
Hand and tvrants,”
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Ten per cent, ol toe convicts in the Ten
nessee penitentiary are boys and girls
tinder 15 years of age. They will bo sen:
.tolPhouse of Industry. Georgia is sadly
In need of a similar institution.
The announcement is made that or the
teighty-seven doctors who graduated from
Chicago medical college iha other day,
twelve were women. Well, why
•bouldu’t women be permitted to dissect
something besides character?
The Kentucky Prohibitionists have
placed a full State ticket in the field. The
potion was unwise. It would have been
ynuch better if they had concentrated on
•the Democratic candidates. Prohibition
tougbt not to be made a political issue.
Charles W. Ward, ol St. Paul's
.Episcopal Church, Englewood, N. J.,
who attempted to assassinate bis wife
and then shot himself, will be prosecuted
by her relatives. It turns out that he
treated her with great brutality for a
number or yoars.
Mrs. Mary G. Green, the mother-in-law
'of Ferdinand Ward, has lost her reason
itbrough grieving over theilisgraoe caused
by his dishonesty and subsequent punish,
ment. This is a sad illustration of the
that crimo causes others than the
criminal to suffer.
Edward Kuehl, ol Omaba, Neb., who
died the other day. left a will directing
that bis body be or mated and his asbes be
placed in an urn over the bar oi a popular
baloon in that city. It will be rather
•trange for one so “dry” to be in a place
too “wet.”
Prof. Moses Coit Tyler, of Cornell L’ui
fkersitv, N. Y., says: “By the books the
{President of the United States is a Demo
crat, according to the principles avowed
by Jefferson.” The best evidence that be
Is a Democrat is the fact that the Repub
licans don’t like him.
The Leeislaturs of Indiana has become
•o those members who
sure preachers have been demoralized.
'The other day one called another a liar,
and tbefe was so muoh truth in the epi
thet that nobody thought it worth while
to offending membor to order.
in a bad way. James
Russell says that ha d'dn’t
write Richard 111., and there aro
others who say that ho couldn’t write
tots own name. One thing is certain:
Btaakespesre, or whoever It was, know
•what he was about when ho wrote of.
'•‘the bubble reputation.” •
Newspaper reporters have attracted the
t Utter hatred ol the Anarobiste. At a
| meeting in New York the other day one
L-lhuß expressed himself: “We will hang
Fyou jet. We will give you the rope for
I {your reward. We will not put you to
•jSeatb one by one; oh, no! We will hang
•jp ou all together.” The reporters were not
They merely sharpened their
and silently went ou with the
npr k of placing before the public tne
■ Mery utterances of the foolish eiuidnlateß
tU'j gallows.
Temperance iu Now York.
The temperance qnestiou is command
ing an unusual amount o! attention in
New York at present. A Will wnicb fixes
tin* beer license at SIOO and the whisky
license at SI,OOO is pending In the Lagis
ture, and the Prohibitionists and the ad
vocates ot a high license are having a
very lively light over it. The Prohibi
tionists, led by Rev. Dr. I. K. Funk, op
pose it, and the high license people, led
by Kev. Dr. Howard Crosby, favor It. The
chances are that between them they will
defeat it, and that neither a prohibitory
nor a high license law will bo passed. If
It were not for the opposition of the Pro
hibitionists, it is probable that the high
license bill would become a law.
Tnere is no doubt that the l’rohlbitlon
sts are sincere tn the course they are pur
suing, but it seems strange that they
icannot see that high license is much bet
ter than no restriction at all upon the
liquor traffic. A SI,OOO license would
close a very large percentage of the low
groggeries of New York city, and in pro
portion to the number closed the evils
which are due to whisky would cease.
Statistics show that these groggeries are
responsible for at least two-thirds of the
crime, intemperance and poverty of the
city. Why not, then, get rid of some of
them, if it is possible to do so, by means
of high license?
It is not denied that a SI,OOO license will
force many of them to close their doors.
The Prohibitionists oppose high license
because It will not close all the saloons.
They argue that high license is a com
promise which will stop the temperance
agitation and make prohibition impossi
ble. There is a little reason in their po
sition, but it is doubtful if they can sat
isfy anybody but themselves that they
will be able to accomplish wnat they aim
at inside of a century. It is a
question whether prohibition wouldn’t
bo reached much sooner by
the high license road. Before
a prohibitory iaw could be enforced, even
if It were possible to get such a iaw
passed In New York, the people would
have to be educated to a point wuere
they would sustain it. A law that hasn’t
the support of public sentiment is seldom
enforced, and a community is better off
with no restrictive liquor law at all than
one that is not enforced.
A high license law is in the interest of
temperance, and a step toward prohibi
tion. When a community sees the bene
fits arising from it it may be willing to
take another step—a step that will bring
it to prohibition. Asa rule, probilibion
has been very successful in the rural dis
tricts. The reason is that there public
sentiment is sufficiently strong in (avor
of it to compel the enforcement of the
law. In the cities it has failed because
public sentiment is against it, and agita
tiou alone in favor if it is not likely soon
to change the sentiment. High license
and agitation combined may change it.
Agitation alone having failed, why not
try the two together, not only in New
York but elsewhere.
Hour’s Attack on Carlisle.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, suc
ceeded in getting himself noticed during
the Congress which ended on Friday. He
put the government to an expense of
$25,000 or $30,000 for an investigation of
the alleged political outrages in Texas.
The only thing of importance brought out
in the investigation was that the people
of Washington county, Tex., endured for
a long time, with remarkable patience,
the wrongful acts of a lot of Republican
officials who have rathbr unsavory repu
tations. The Senator's aim was doubtless
to get campaign material at thu govern
ment’s expense.
Being disappointed iu the outrage busi
ness he attempted to make campaign
material in another way. On the day be
fore Congress adjourned he made an at
tack upon Speaker Carlisle. It is so un
usual for a member of one branch of Con
gress to attack a member ot the other
branch that, bis speech excited very great
surprise. Tho Senator said pretty plainly
t hat Mr. Carlise, in hie capacity of Speak,
er. had usurped powers so extraordinary
as to threaten a revolutionary ohango in
tho constitutional methods of tho govern
ment. Of course he was sharply an
swered by the Kentucky Senators, but
the most crushing answer was
made on the following day
by Representative lieed, of
Maine, the leader of the Republicans in
the House, who off-wed a resolution,
which was unanimously adopted—the
members rising—and which recited that
the thauks of the House “are tendered to
Hon. John G. Carlisle for the courtesy,
ability and fairness with which he has
presided over the Forty-ninth Congress.”
The Republicans would not have voted
for that resolution if Mr. Carlisle were
the sort of a man that Senator Hoar pic
tured him.
There was a yellow fever scare in
Brooklyn Friday. At noon the steamer
I’ortuneee, Capt. Fred Hughes, arrived at
Martin’s stores, near Fulton ferry, with
William Colligraan, fireman, dead, and
Thomas Gerkecs, another of the crew, dy
ing. The vessel sailed from Pars, Brazil,
Feb. 18. On reaching Brooklyn toe deutb
of the fireman was reported, as was also
the illness of Gerkens. The news spread
rapidly that both men bad been attaoced
by yellow fever, and word was at once
dispatched to the Health Department.
Drs. Matnon and Conkling, of the hospital,
both said the men bad yellow fever. The
Coroner and bis able assistants, however,
decided that the casos were pernicious
bilious fever, and tho alarm subsided. It
seems that the quarantine officer passed
the vessel because he did not think there
was any yellow fever on board. The sea
son of the year is approaching when quar
antine officers cannot be too careful.
It is said that James Titus, tbejauitor
of the ilackettstown (N. J.) Methodist
Institute, who was convicted or the mur
der of Tillio Smith, the kitchen maid of
the institute, has made a confession. He
choked her, it is said, to prevent her from
telling his misdeeds, but did not Intend
to kill ber. He hopes to have the sen
tence of death pronounced upon him com
muted to imprisonment for life.
The fishermen of Gloucester, Mass,, ap
pear to bo very belligerent. When they
beard that tbe President had signed the
retaliatory hill, tbty hung the Canadian
premier, Sir John McDonald, in effigy.
Notwithstanding their present warlike
spirit, however, it Is by no means certain,
in case thoy are oalled on to tight, that
Trill wot prefer to JO a-fUbipg. y
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1887.
>loro Than a Century Old.
It Is difficult to imagine a more inter
esting incident tban tbe visit, the oiher
(lay, of John H. Lester to the offloa of the
Governor of Georgia. Trembling under
the weight oi 118 years, te entered, and
said to one of tbe clerks: “I—am —here
—to—see — tbe—Supreme —Court—and—
the Governor. Who is—Governor—
now?” When the Intormatlon besought
was given him, and he wa9 requested to
make known his ousiness, be replied: “I
—want—him—and —the -Supreme—Court
—to—get— me—back—my—land. Sher
man—run—us— out—and— no w—they’ve
—got—my—land.”
The pathetic story of the old man made
tbe incident Interesting, but bis great
age made it still more so. He was born
in 1709. lie saw the light of Independence
Day and was a contemporary of all the
patriotic men who formed the govern
ment under which we live. He witnessed
the struggles of the government to sus
tain itself, and beheld it, through those
struggles, gather strength. He lived
through all its wars, foreign and domes
tic, observing its strength increase
as the years passed, until now it stands
the matchless power of the world.
What tvonderlul growth In population
and still more wonderful progress in art
and science and industry the old man
has witnessed. From a narrow strip
along the Atlantic, he has seen the peo
ple spread themselves to the Pacifio, and
from tbe great lakes to the Gull o( Mexi
co. Ha has seen art and science unite to
make the steamboat, tbe locomotive en
gine, the telegraph, the telephone, tbe
electric light, and ten thousand other
things meant to lighten the labors ol men
and to add to the comforts and conven
iences of life. He has seen industry take
such strides as were never dreamed ot
when he was a boy.
When such a man presents himself,
those who behold him feel themselves
for a moment vastly bis inferiors. They
see in him the embodiment o! ail the
wonderful progress ol 118 years. It needs,
however, but tbe faltering question,
“Who—is—Governor—now?” to dispel
reverence, ard the old man who was
beru before the Republic becomes scarce
ly more tban a curiosity. He has not kept
upon the topmost wave of progress. His
very age has stranded him, and it is in
the past, not in the present, that be lives.
'i hoSe Oil Mills.
There are Wall street indications
which are calculated to rais“ a doubt
whether Armour and his millionaire
friends will, after all, carry out their
published scheme of building cot
ton seed oil mills at different points
in tbe South. The certificates
of the American Cottou Seed Oil Trust
Company, which now has a monopoly of
the business of manufacturing cotton
seed oil, have advanced in price within
tt>e last day or two, and it Is alleged that
the advance is due to a proposition mide
by the Oil Trust to Armour and his
friends to supply them with all the oil
they want at a price satisfactory to them,
and that tbe proposition is being con
sidered.
If this is the true condition of affairs,
may not the publication of the Armour
sc’ieme have been intended to bring the
Oil Trust to terms? If Armour and his
friends can getcotton seed oil at their own
price it is hardly probable that they will
care to enter into a competition with the
Oil Trust. It is possible, however, that
this story about a proposition to Armour
and hi ß friends bas been put out for tho
purpose of booming tho price ot Oil Trust
certificates and enabling their holders to
unload them upon the public, Tho ways
of Wall streetnre full of mystery, as tho3o
who invest their money there frequently
find out.
It‘will be a great disappointment to
cotton planters If the Armour scheme
falls through. They will, in that case, re
main in the hands of a monopoly that will
pay only what it has to for cotton seed.
The establishment of a strong rival to the
Oil Trust, as the Armour syndicate prom
ised to be, would insure to planters some
tbiug like a fair price for cotton seed.
Protecting the fnaliy.
From the Y“nkere Hamate.
“Have von an auction at your house to-day.
Mr. 81y?”
“No, sir!”
“Then what’s the meaning of that blactt
and red fl ttj living in your front yard?”
“Small-pox, sir!”
“Small-pox? Good heavens! You don’t
mean lo tell me—”
"There, don’t alarm yourself, Mr. Shiveriy,
I don’t mini tel iug you. Tta s trots of it D,
that my Bible clas, has threatened me w ith
surprise party, and. as President of the Board
of Health, I’ve taken the liberty lo quaran
tine my famil,
Librarian NpolVord’s Memory.
Letter t > Memphis Appeal.
It is commonly said that Mr. Spofford. tho
Librarian of Congress, knows somdhing
about the contents of every volume in ihe
library. This moans i hat he lms slowed away
in a ruoderaie-slzi a bend 600,000 volumes of
various sizes and bindings. A member ol
Coi gress facetiously said: “I don’t read
hooka. I read Spofford.” In that way, ho ad
ded. he got iho whole library at one g ance.
A figure of speech, hut not as broad as it
sounds. If a member or a Senator wants a
quotation that cannot be found in anv of the
“Familiar IMiotalions." and tsof yery obscure
origin, he goes to Mr Spofford. If he wants
tho liest authority on any subject, or. Indeed,
if be wants to learn anvthmg thai may bo
found in any of thoec thousands of volumes,
he goes to the same source. Memoers seldom
think of looking at the catalogues.
Marriage of a Ship Load of Slave*.
According to a letter from Alexandria a
Turkish slave ship was captured the other
day by an Kngil-b vessel, and the * uves It
contained, consisting of seventy women atd
leu men, were liberated. The men volun
teerod into the Egyptian army, but It was
more difficult to dispose of the women, as they
have no notion of liberty, ami if left to tliern
•oives would have been drafted, without
making any resistance, into some Mussul
man’s harem.
Under ihe treaty concluded between the
English government and tho Khed vo the iin -
por atlou and the exportation of slaves arc
forbidden; hut tho detention ot slaves In the
country is permitted for about six year*
longer In Egypt, ami eleven year* In the S >u
ibin. Several officers, accordingly, ca ne to
thePasnauf tho district wiih offers to buy
aoino of tho female slaves, hut tho Pasha de
clared he would not part with them unless
thoy got married.
Ho then announced that any soldier nr
civilian wishing to marry one of tho Mare*
would havo to pay eix thaler* for her dowry,
but that the women would be ullowed to
choose their husband* from among those who
should present themselves for the purpose.
A great number of mem, chiefly soldiers, as
sembled on the day appointed for tho selec
tion, Tho women wore so shy mat they
“huddled together like a flock of sheop,” and
could not ho induced to move.
At Inst one of them, inking courage, ad
vanced slowly to a bla ■ Kgyutiau Sergeant,
who wns Anything lint young' and handsome,
and put her baud on hi* shoulder as a sign
that ho was the man she wl-licd to marry.
Her example was instantly followed hv the
other women, who rushed forward to choose
their husbands as if they feured to bo too
late.
It was now tho men’s turn to say whether
they accented the selection. All wi re satis
fied but Dye. ami even ihe five women who
were consequently obliged to choose again
, ui.itupiofy provided wHfi husbands.
BRIGHT BITS.
It i* the empty heart that aches. The head
is cl) ft Grouts—AVic o.Lau,h Picayune,
“W it eke la the Idea! wife?” asks a promi
nent lecturer. in the cellar splitting kind
ling. most likely.— Philadelphia Call.
“M hy should not women lie. hanged?” aka
Henry Ward Beecher. What? Ail of them?
shame ou you, Mr. Beocher.-.Vem Y tk
Graphic.
Dude—What are you looking at mo that
wayl r? Do you think I’m a f.,01?
Barkeeper—Oh, no: I never judge people
by their looks. Appearances are deceitful.—
7fov/ sS’ fling*.
He—Vou don’t sing or ptav? Tbon. I pre
sume, you write or p dot?
Bhe—O, no; I’rn like the young men vre
meet in society—l simply sir around and try
to look Intelligent.— Ua< p r'e Bazar.
Mas. Ram’s nephew did not get through a
college examination. “He was all right,” his
aunt said, “as long as he was writing Ihe
answers to printed questions, but he failed
when it came to the vice versy ."—Punch.
“Who Is the god of battles?” asked a teacher
of the class in my ihology.” “Mar,” answered
little Johnnie Henpeck. “Mars, vou mean,
Johnnie,” corrected the teacher. “No. I don’t
nel her. I only got one unar.”— Aaehinaton
Critic.
Heard in society: He—l be gyonr pardon,
mis*, but I don’t admire your last name?
Nhe—Great heavens, man. haven’t I done
everything In my power io change it? Must
I knock a man down with a club?— Waehina
tnn Critic ,
‘•Don’t you think.” said Mrs. Keeper, “that
when Adam realized the vastness of the world
into which he had been ushered he must have
had a great, deal on his mind?” "We I,” re
sponded Mrs. Blunt, "from the photograph I
have seen of him, I should say that whatever
he did have on must have been ou his mind.”
The Judye.
“You know a scene occurs in ‘Hamlet’ in
which Polonions asks the prince what ho is
reading, and receives ihe reply, ‘Words,
words, words,’ ” said a literary traveler lo a
friend.
"Yes.”
“Well, what you suppose Hamlet was read
ing?”
“The Congressional Record, I reckon.'—
Menh 'nt Traveler.
“Now, young lady, you may take the stand,”
said the lawyer in n case in one of the jus
tices’ courts the other day.
"Yes, air,” she replied, with a beaming
emile.
“That does me up!” whispered a man on
one of the benches; “I’m her husband, and
she’s 49 years old, but the sugar on that law
yer’s tongue will cost me S3O for millinery be
fore Mav 1 ” — Detroit free Crete.
A guest who was waikingout of a Chicago
hotel a lew morning.:ago absorbed in a news
paper he had just bought stumbled and care
near falling over somebody who was down on
the floor.
“Hello! what's this?” ho exclaimed, hastily,
as he lecovered himself.
“I’m a t-crublady, *ir?” replied a bedrag
gled hut proud female, who ro-e io a kneel
ing posture, scrubbing bru-h in hand, and
looked at nun witna withering glance.—Chi
oci(/o Tribune.
i. obntryman (iu Mepsrs. StoDepath’s ware
rooin-i—tlow much is that pi inner. Mister?
Clerk—Five hundred and twenty-live dol
lars.
Countryman—Thunderatlon! Is there a
foldin’ bed inside of it?
Clerk—No, that’s a combination we don’t
m ike.
Countryman (positively)—Well, I wouldn’t
think of pa> in’ any suen moner jest for a
planner. If you had ’em with fo din’ beds,
we might make a dicker.”— Puck.
Bobby (io young Featherlv)—Will vou
please pass mo the cake basket, Mr Feath
erlv ?
Mumma—No. Bobby,you cannot havo anv
more cake.
Bobby—Why not, ma?
Mamma—Bee mee l have said no. Yon will
have lo take no lor an answer.
Bobby (resignedly)—Well, I’m no worse off
than Mr. Featherly.
Mr, Featherly (amused)—How so. Bobby?
Bobby—Bi ter Clara says you will have to
take uo for an answer.—A euj V ..> k Sun.
personal.
The wife of Senator Jones, of Nevada, is
the principal mover in the establishment of a
home at the capital for abandoned babes and
children.
President McCostr, of Princeton, and Drs.
Talmage, storrs and Hodge are to address,
with other sneakers, an anti-secret s ciety
convention In Chicago about March 20.
SECRETARY Bayard, if a nameless Ohio
Democratic Congressman mav be 'elieved.
“has a burning anxiety to he President,” aod
wants lo be transferred to me Treasury De
partment in the hope that it may increase tus
popularity.
William J. Haynes, or Bt. Louis, who
will be 100 years old if he lives until Decem
ber next, was on tile staff of Gen. Jackson at
tho battle of New Or eans. was engineer of
the tin: steamboat that arrived at st. Louis
from tile South, and run the first locomotive
that ever left St. Louis for the West,
Mbs. Burnett, the novelist, recently re
ceived a letter from "the Last I or ! Fauntte-
I'oy,” a* he terms himself, in which mat
nobleman says ne is au unmarried man. the
last of his lino, and asks how the authoress
pilciiod upon his name for a hero He in
vites her to visit the Faualleroy estate in
England.
W. Caspar Stewart, au employe ot a
Pittsburg firm of glas3 maiiufactnrers, who
traces his ancestry hack to the Stuarts of
Scotland and England, lias heard that au ns
ato of over s6o,bOi),batl is awaiting a branch
of that family iu Great Briiaio. So far
twelve heirs have been discovered in Ameri
ca. Mr. Stewari is said lo have received in
telligence from the English Consul at New
York that he is one of the fortunate one*.
Capt. Paul Boynton’s next exploit will
be of a rather novel kind "Just as soon as
the ice breaks uo in the Hudson,” he say.*,
“1 am going to get into the water at Albany
and paddie down the Hudson river io New
York. 1 wish to show Col. Gilder’s brother
i hat my way is ihe only feasible wav to reach
the North Pole, as it solves tho question of
crossing the ice-laden sas It will be my
U% voyage, and I expect it will be a lively
one."
The Dn*hes of Edinburgh is much pleased
with her recent visit to Naples. The Duchess
lived ou board 11. M. H. isururisc. the Duke’s
dispatch boat, which was anchored off the
port. The ox-Empress Eugenie lunched w iih
h r at tne beaulilul vi laof Da ia Haute, near
I’osMippo. The Duch *s visit and Capri and
Pompeii, where a sp< cull excavation had been
made for her benefit. The Empress of Ru-sia
and her so ■, the Czarowitz, are to visit bo
reuto In the spr.ng, prelerruig it to Nice.
Spinsters.
from the Providence Journal
The thin May moon, a thread of gold,
Hung in the primro-e sky.
Am thro' the fragrant lanes we went
Together, she and I;
Amt all the air about was filled
Wii h springtide’s SUuto -pell.
That flushed the cheek with sudden warmth
And made the bosom swell.
Then from the past faint memories
Ot long-forgot romance
Came creeping bark to thrill and stir
In every smile and giance,
Till silence on our lips replaced
The trifling tales we told.
And in my own I felt nor hand
Grow still and icy cold.
Alas, for all tho tender hopes,
The sweet, une rtam fears
That woke once more wl'.hin the hearts
Where they had slept for years!
What booteu they? Tho plowhoy sighed,
As through the length’uing shades
He met us. wandering aimlessly—
“ There’s lots ot them old maids!”
A Conscientious Individual.
from the Bridgeport Standard.
About twenty years ago there resided in
this State a queer, eccentric genius by the
name of Andrew Green, and an equally as
eccentric lawyer hy the name of Brown.
Green had inherited about S.O )00, nnd being
oulv impressed with tho Importance of the
matter determined—llko all men of wealth—
-1(1 make his will. Accordingly he called In
Lawyer Brown for that purpose. The will
was drawn and left In 'he possession of tho
lawjo r. About six mouths after Green called
OU the lawyer and rsqussied to see the will.
It was handed to him, when he asked Brotvn
to road it to him. His request was complied
with, he giving strict attention while it was
being rend. After the reading tv as tiuielied
Green, with a solemn face, turned to the law
yor nnd said:
‘■Brown, have I given my soul to God In
lb .t will? ’
The lawyer, in looking It over, could not
find that lin; ortunt provision, und replied to
him 'hat lie nnd not.
“Then,” said Green, “tt ain't worth a
The will wua torn up ami Green Indignantly
IvU Uc wffivO,
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
Judge Ghat, of While county. Ark., was
putting on his wedding clothes Ihe other Jay
preparatory to marrying Miss Nannie Patty,
when be complained of a pain in his right
arm. calleJ for water and then almost imme
diately died.
Kichakd 11. Dana west to sea on account
of trouble wi h his eyes. life r turned cured
and wrote “Two Years Before the Mast” out
of his experience.. He receive I less than
SI.OOO for the story and the jiuoUshers made
more than $50,000.
A Pious young lady in Louisville has just
been fatally burned while at prayer. The
room being cold she kneeled by the lire and
her clothing became ignited and was in
fiarnes before she realized it. Her graceless
companions . scaped unharmed.
TiiKhousoiu which Jefferson Davis lives
at Beauvoir is a epacious square-shaped
wood( n structure, enerfclod bv a broad-cov
ered veranda, with a flue view of the gulf.
The grounds in the victmlv are covered with
mairnolias aud live oaks, whoso unfading
greer. lends a charm to the place.
Joseph O’Brien, of Cleveland, says that
he once examined a swallow’s nest, in which
were two young birds. Around the leg of
one of them horse hair had been closely
wound, Mr. O’Brien removed the hair aud
found that the leg had been broken. He thinks
that this was a genuine case of bird surgery.
When a farmer in Washington county. 111,
the other and .y went into a smoke bouse which
had not been opened for six months, he was
surprised to find about fifteen bushels of
wheat piled up in one corner. It had been
brought there by rats from the bin of a neigh
boring farmer, whose wheat was fifteen
bushels short.
Howard Holmes and Ella Tucker were re
cently married near Terre Haute, Ind. They
are first cousins, and in Indiana such a mar
riage is illegal, and the person performing
the ceremony may be fined SSOC. Ella’s par
ents have taken her away from Howard, who
will bring suit to get his wife back, and the
justice who married them is trying to prove
that he didn’t know their relationship.
The Duke of Leinster, whose death took
place last week at Carton, near Maynooth,
was the most popular nobleman in Ireland.
He was a kindly and unassuming man, being
a distinct exception to that curious rule by
which the majority of dnkes hear such strong
resemblance to pompous family.butlers. In
deed, to most of the rules regarding his class
lie was a distinct exception; he spent the
greater part of Uts tune in Ireland, and de
voted himself, according to his light, to pro
moting the welfare of Ins country and his
countrymen.
The Y'ale News has inquired of the acad
emic and the scientific freshmen what the
occupations of their fathers are, and the
answers show that “merchants, lawyers,
physicians and laborers send the greater per
cent, to the academic department, while
general business men, manufacturers, bank
ers, clergymen, teachers aud mechanics f v* r
the scientific school. The preference given
to the scientific school by clergymen and
teachers, men who have received a classical
education, is especially noticeable and would
stem to augur web for the future of the
school.”
Andrew Lang, to whom Rider Haggard’s
“She” is dedicated, prefaces a signed review
in the Academy very aptly with these words;
‘•There are stories which, like the murder
applauded by Toad-iu-the Hole, you can
saiely •recommend to a friend ’ fine would
need to know the friend very well before rec
ommending to him ‘SI-.e.’ Nothing, says
George Eliot, is more destructive to friend
ship than a difference of taste in jokes. But
a difference of taste in novels is nearly as apt
to poison affection, I have acquaintance to
whom I dare not mention Thackeray, others
wih whom ‘Huckleberry Finn’is a tabooed
subject, and one who does not like ‘Pick
wick 1’ ”
Mmii. Bernhardt travels in her own spe
cial train, consisting of two baggage cars,
one passenger car for the servants, assistants,
etc ,one parlor car and two Pullman sleepers.
The first of the two last named cars Is occu
pied by the troupe proper, the last, the Fran
cisco, being devoted to Mme. Bernhardt; her
son, Maurice Bernhardt; her niece. Mile.
Sarah Bernhardt, daughter of Mine. Bern
hardt’s sister. Jeanne; Mme. Guerrard and
two maids The trout e numbers thirty-five
people In all, personally supervised by Mr.
Grau and controlled by the general mana
ger, Charles Joliet, aud is well disciplined off
as well as on the boards The leading spirt
of the o inpanv has changed for the better in
appearance. Her cheeks are fuller, her eyes
brighter and her step tinner than they have
been for years.
IT is printed that recently when a yonng
man asked Philips Brooke, the great Boston
clergyman, what he would do if ho was asked
by the artist for his opinion of a picture
. which was not commendable, the clergyman
said: "I would sa, just. what I do to mothers
who bring their babies to me to be admired.
I always oay. ‘Oh, that <* a babv!’ leaving the
inoih iconvinced that it is the only babv in
the world, and myself utterly uncommitted.”
This recalls a recently printed anecdote of a
Boston critic, who, at a night in n
theutre was expressing great contempt for
the play, when the author rushed up and
asked what he thought of it. “My dear fel
low,” said the critic, without an instant’s
hesitation, “if I had written that pi ,y !
should be so proud of it there would be no
living with me.” Asked afterward to justify
such an apparently outrageous lie, the critic
said: “I enly told him the truth. If I had
been fool enough to write that stuff 1 should
be fool enough to be unspeakably proud of it.”
A Pittsecro electrician named Bowth
offers Jiie world a boon in the shapeof adumb
telephone. Surely ibere is wealth and a place
in the gallery of fame for Inventor Bowth.
unless his offering is a false hope. The new
telephone, as described, ha, no transmitter,
conversation being carried on by means of the
receiver alone. Attached to the receiving
tube, which is of different shape from that
generally in use, is a single wire, to 'lie end < f
wh ch is a small and very sensitive appliance
which presses agaitist the larynx ami glance
of the necK, and as the jaws are moved i
conversation the motion sends ‘the wor's
spoken a'otig the wire as or more distinctly
than they are sent by ti e tele) hone now in
use. The story of the invenx ras to how he
conceived the idea of hisie eohone is most in
teresting He declares that some years ago,
in a small New England town, he saw two
deaf motes currying on a conversation by
placing the tipsof iheir li'urersoti eacho'her’s
necks in the precise localities touched by the
sensitive part of bis invention.
In answer to the old question, “Is ninety
nine a hundred?” a writer in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch says.j “No, ot course not: but
the year we call the ninety-ninth is ready
the one hundredth. He, and others holding
his view, forget that by custom we call the
present year ly the number of years that
have pa-ted away. We are now In liie rear
1888 of iho Christian era. but we wl l continue
to write il I“H7 until 1888 tears shall be com
pleted, which will b“ on the last hour of
Decemberßl, 1 87. We are now in the nine
teenth century. but we will continue to write
1890 until the ‘ nd of 1890. when we will say
ninetenigfcfc— n** are completed. And at
the enand
eth century will have oecn completed.
The year called 1999. whmi completed,
will finish the twin icth century.
The year 1999 will be so called after Ihe year
that will have pa-sed—as we now call this
18.57, after the year that has ea sed away,
when it is really the 1888th year, and 1999 will
bo really the 90 Oth year of the Christian era.”
Daniel B. Bucas, tho newly-appointed
Senator from West Virginia, was born iu Jef
ferson county, then a portion of Virginia, in
ISSP, and ranks among the ablest lawyers m
the State. He graduated from tho University
of Virginia some twenty years later, beingMie
Class poet in his grad listing year, aim subsc
quenily read law under thelate Judge Brock
enbrougli at Bexington. After his admission
ho practiced his profession in Charlestown
and Richmond, marrying In the latter place
a daughter of Henry B. Brooks, one of the
leaders of the Richmond nar, In lain. He
has always been prominent in the
councils of Ills party, where his
name has become synonymous
with the growing oppo-ition to cnrportuinn
power. For ton yaais he has been the bi icr
eit political opp neut of the .Mandat'd Oil
Company in bis State, and three times when
he. was mo choice of his district for Congress
the rai road and standard Oil < om.ianv’s in
fluences are siud to have secured his defeat.
He was a Pi aaidential elector tr on West Vir
ginia In the Greeiey, Tlldon and Cleveland
campaigns and is oue of ihe nio-t finished
orators in the Mouth. In 1880 Gov. Matthews
appointed him Judge of ihe Thlrironth
Judio .il Circuit emit, but the appointment
was declined. Tho University of West Vir
gin a in 1888 conferred upon him the degree
of BL. U-
CabittQ §J crofter.
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Stains or Grease 'pots iu. to which the Savan
nah dust sticks “closer than a brother,” when
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Whitaker and Wayne streets.
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PRICE 50c.
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