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SELLING WHITE MEN.
Kentucky’s Peculiar M Mhod o r run
ishing Vagabonds.
Fr an the .Veto York Herald.
Locibvii.le, Ky., March Ift.—Within
the last week two meu have been sold into
slavery in Kentucky. They were put up
St auction and knocked down to the high-
Ust bidders in the presence of largo
crowds.
Both men are white, married, and have
families, in one case the sale was made
at the request of tho prisoner.
The names of the degraded beings are
Henry E. Dodson, of Brookvilie, Bracken
couatv, a*d Henry Hurt.ot J.ngsn county.
The sales oocurred lust Mondav.ln front <>f
the court house door* in ltivok ville and
Russellville respectively, the latter town
being the county seat of Logan county.
The sale Of Dodson excited the most
comment, as it had been frequently men
tioned in the press. He whh arrested
near Brookville.where ho had h. on living
with his familv in the utmost misery and
depredation. Being taken before a magis
trate he was hound over to answer in the
Circuit Court on the charge ol vagrancy.
To save lying in jail some time he asked
for an immediate trial, and this being
granted he wns convicted and sentenced
to have his services sold tor the period of
seventy-five days.
BOLD FOR A DOLLAR.
Large crowds were in attendance. The
auction was begun promptly at. noon by
Sheriff Irwin, who seemed to feel bi posi
tion much more keenly than did Dodson.
The words rather stuck in his throat
When he began the crying, and when no
bids came for some time he grew- dis
couraged. At last someone offered 250..
and then bids were offered rapidly tiil
800. was reached. Interes’ died out then,
but it was revived after a little, till at last
Wailtr Metcalfe made the generous offer
i M fl, for which the vagrant was k nocked
i down.
i Dodson did not take the matter at all
1 kindly, but was as much astonished as
the crowd when Mr. Metcalfe announced
that he could not bear to see a while man
in slavery, and he would therefore re
lease his properly.
A hubbub arose among the people, who
freely expressed their indignation. Their
excitement seemed to restore some
semblance of manhood to Dodson.
Mounting the doorstep lie shouted that
he bad not been treated fairly, and bit
terly denounced the jury before wnicb he
had been tried. He was hissed and
hooted down, however, and forced to
leave town by the indignant citizens wbo
threatened an application of tar and
leathers.
Dodson is 47 years of age and Is a
chronic vagrant. He and his wite and
four children bavo been liviug tor years
In a little but near Krookviile. fiis neigh
bors relate a terrible story of their shame
and degradation, and charge him with
the most wanton cruelty to au imbecile
■on.
Mrs. Dodson aud her family were re
moved last week to the County Infirmary,
aud tor the first time in years were com
fortably clothed. Tho sudden prosperity
was too much for iho youngest child, a
mere inlant, which seemed on tho point
of dying from starvation when admitted
to the infirmary. It was thoughtlessly
given too much food and talteued rapidly.
The third day it died, it is supposed from
the effects of the too liberal allowance of
food.
Dodson talked very freely about himseli
the morning of the sale. When asked if
he would work after he was sola ho re
plied that he would, but that alter bis
seyenty-five days were out it would not
be healthy for bis purchaser. #le has not
been seen sinoe his abrupt departure upon
being given his freedom.
YOUNG, BUT LAZY.
Henry Hart, the other vagrant, is a
young man not more than 24 or 25 years
of age. He is a vagrant by nature.
Hart was arrested about a week ago,
and on his trial the sentence of the oourt
was that bis services he sold for the
period of sixty days. The auction took
place on County Court day, at Russell
ville, and an immense crowd had gath
red around. Hart was led outof jail and
ok his station by the side ol the auc
tioneer, wbo began by announcing that he
bad for sale “one stout buck, white,
sound in all his parts."
Tho “buftk” grinned good naturedly at
“the words. He wore a broad brimmed
slouch hat and a red bandanna was tied
around his neck. Avery soiled shirt and
ragged pantaloons thrust into the tops ot
rough boots completed his uninviting at
tire. During the bidding he smiled with
insolent indifference, and when a lull
came would whistle merrily.
The first bid offered was but a nickel.
This was raised slowly, 60. at a time.
When 60c. was bid the most persuasive
efforts of the auctioneer could do no more,
and Hart was knocked down to Mr, J. H.
Small, a wealthy farmer, who imme
tdiatelv took him out to bis home, about
Ifive miles from Russellville.
■ A SATISFIED SLAVE.
W Your correspondent drove out to m-
Herview Hart this morning. The vagrant
Fwas found sitting upon a woodpile near
Qfhe house, whistling merrily. Au ax lay
Bpgainst a log In wbioh two or three slight
Brashes bad been made.
J “How do you like your slavery?”
W queried the reporter.
f “It’s boss; beats anything I’ve struok
yet," answered Hart, boldly.
“Do you feel no humiliation at being
Bold into slavery*’’was asked, after the
reporter bad regained his slightly shocked
composure.
“Humiliation 1” enorted Hart, In an
parent surprise. “What’s ter make a
man feel bad when he’s gettin’ his vittles
v*Sind clothes and a dry place to sleep?"
“Would you liko to live this way all
your life?”
“Don’t want nothin’ hotter,’’ he re
sponded, and added In 'reply to another
question that he guessed somebody would
take care or his family, if not, they
could take care of themselves, aud then
he went back to whistling and refused to
answer further questions.
Mr. Small was afterward seen by the
reporter and asked how he liked his pur
chase.
“If 1 get my 60c. back I’ll be satisfied,"
be answered. “1 think It is as uunutural
for Hart to work as lor a fish to lire out
of water.” •
Hart is a native Tennesseean, and
loesn’t know exactly whether he Is 24 or
26 years of age. He was reared In Rob
ertson county of that (Rate, aud oomes of
a depraved family. A sister is serving a
two years’ term in the penitentiary for
child murder, and he was given to petty
in early childhood. He has a
tt wife and two children, with whom he has
been living in a miserable hut in a little
glen, a mile from any other habitation.
Their furniture consisted of a battered
coffeepot, a bed ol straw aud a few quilts.
Their was neither chair nor table in the
but. The wife and children made a liv
ing by begging, while Hart did absolutely
nothing but eat what they brought in.
Such oases ut vagrant sales are fortu
nately rare in Kentucky. Many years
ago a white man named King was sold at
Russellville, and was bought by a negro
for 50c. Five or six ysats ago two
depraved white women were sold at
Glasgow, Barren county, and were bid
den in by negroes for $2 apiece. Those
are the only cases that tbs correspondent
can Isarn of.
Tennis has become enough of an instl
tution to bavs a special fabric brought
•ut devoted to Its use. Tbs new stuff is
alUmaclotb, with quiet hut effective
blending of tones; eiearn, yellow, elec
tric and red, coral, blue snd mouse, sky
gray and cream being plaited together in
ebecaa. It Is a IlgnuwsitfDt <y.ih, and
will b picturesque on llie tennis field.
THE EDITOR AND HIS SOS,
Bill Nyo Relates a Mournful Inci
dent in Journalistic Life.
From the Sew York H' rid.
1 liava been thinking for several weeks
over what a great contributor to the
World recently said about turning night
into day and day into night. The more I
think about it the more I think he is
right. Sitting up nights until away along
into the shank of the evening in order to
bathe one’s immortal sou! in champagne
and tell anecdotes and make speeches ami
dutch at the labio cloth and drink a ela-.s
of oil and vinegar that someone has sub
stituted lor your own, and then go home
and sprain your ankle trying to mount a
skittish bed, is injurious and pernicious
ami 1 have about decided that, when I get
to beau old man I am goiiig to do differ
ently.
Your contributor is right when he says
that this kind of work wears out its gen
eration and compels us to bring in a gen
eration of farmers’ sons and village boys
to replace it. Then the farmers’ sons and
village boys do the same thing and ap
parently enjoy it.
But it is not alone the late dinner and
the recoil of Mr. Mumm’s celebrated in
fernal machine that is wearing out a
largo army of our brightest and best met.
It Is wearing aud destructive on
the tissues, of course, to sit through the
majority ol the nighteating sweet cake
and trying to laugu at anecdotes that, you
have (requuptly heard before; but people
who do Itiis do it from necessity; they
cannot evi.de it. But if we call this dam
aging and deplore H in them, what shall
we say ol those men who do it volun
tarily? What shall we say ol the news
paper man who sleeps all tho forenoon
in order that he may dawdle about the
office of a morning paper all night, think
ing thoughts and pencilling them off for
the public, or pawing aroubd over a wad
ot “manifold” and wrltingstartling heads
to dull telegrams half the night, while his
wife, who has taken time by tho forelock
and done her work during daylight, is in
bed.
I know that there are men who have
been connected with journalism tor years,
who maintain that it is not a habit, but
that with them H is absolutely necessary.
For this reason X consulted Mr. James
Migglesqn, of Asheville, wuo edits the
Daily .)iiuplecute, a morning paper of
this place, and learned from him that it is
not necessary nights m order to
run a morning paper.
So the wives and mothers of morning
journalists and primers of New Y’ork
should not longer bo deceived by this
time-honored fraud upon their trusting
natures,
Mr. Miggloson says that a rattling good
morning paper can bo worked off the
press by supper time, and the evening re
served for soeiul intercourse.
And yet I know a pale, studious news
paper man, with silver iu his hair, a mau
in whose mouth butter would scarcely
melt, wbo has, for twenty years and
more, bamboozled his trusting wife and
grown-upson with this transparent fraud.
He told me only a short time ago, with
genuine pathos, tnat the first time he had
seen his own son by day light was last
fall. He said that bis son came of age
last October, and through the courtesy of
a mutual friend (the young man’s
mother) he had the pleasure of meeting
him on election day aud forming an ac
quaintance which he says may yet ripen
into a strong friendship.
I have another acquaintance who as
sists iq editing a morning paper, but he
does not. believe in allowing ms children
to utterly forget him. He does not want
his boys to think they are orphans just
because he is not always at home. He is
a man of very strong will and a strict
disciplinarian. So he gets a holiday ev
ery two weeks in order to go home aud do
up hia punishing.
Due tune he found that his eldest or
oldest son—l do uot know wbioh, because
I am away from home without my libra
ry-had violated the rules of tho house in
a sad manner.
As near as 1 am able to come at the
facts, the boy bad taken a quart of corn
and sewed a long thread through each
kernel, showing great patience and per
severance iu so doing. He had then tied
the ends of the threads all together JDto
one knot and scattered the corn where a
large flock of geese bad been in tb#4iabit
of associating and pooling for mutual
profit and improvement.
A man who came along that way about
dusk said be saw about thirty geese
standing around in a circle looking re
proachfully at each othor and trying to
agree on some method by which they
could go all home together without turn
ing a part of their crowd wrong side out,
while behind a high board (enoe there
was a boy who seemed to he enjoying
himself in a small way.
The incident was reported to tho boy’s
father, who came home aud plac and his
son under a large dry goods box in the
cellar, after which he piled three or lour
hundred pounds of coal on top of the in
verted box. He then made a few re
marks lor the boy’s good, which were
iollowed by the smothered remark:
“Rats!” from tbeinsideol the box. Alter
ordering that tbe box should not be dis
turbed till his return, my friend put on
his coat and went back to his work.
This was just as the returns began to
return in the autumn of ’B4. My friend
did not go home lor two weeks, and forgot
ail about toe boy tiil it came time to do up
his punishment for the fortnight.
When tne truth flashed over hun he was
filled with the keenest remorse, and went
home as soon as be had sent in tbe last
proof, but when he went down the cellar
he found the box empty and the following
note written on it with a p*. ncil:
“Dear l’aw do not weap for me i bavo
went away from my happy home where i
•as ouot so gay and free do Not useassa
nate maw becuz she Bride up the box
with a stick Of cord-wood yesterday and
fed Me she left the box So i could Bust
4tn 1 am gonejrar Far Away do not weap
for me it is better for me anil you to be
Apart, ennybow it Is better for Me to be
apart I like being Apart a Good dual bet
ter 1 think i will take a hum and gar of
Preserves of which I am pashlonately
fond but i will Kenutnerate you some Day
as heaven is my jug so No m ar at Pres
ent from your nroddigle Sou Henry.”
Attheoille, S'.C.,March *. Bill Nth.
New England’-, lililiiignishod Quar
letM.
From the Sutton Advertiser
Whittier, in au interview, once said that
Hawthorne, Emerson, Longfellow and
himself had always been friends. There
were no jealousies, ami each took a pride
in the work and successes ol tho others.
They would exchange notes upon their
productions, and if one saw a kindly no
tice of the other it was always cut out and
sent to him. Hawthorne was liy the others
regarded as the greatest master of the
English language. Whittier des
eribes himself as unlike any of
the rest, for he never had ' any
method. When be felt like it he
wrote, and neither had the health nor tin*
patience le revise bis work atterwnrrt.
It usually went a it wa* orgioally com
pleted. Emerson wrote with greal care,
and would notonly revise his manuscripts
carsiully, but frequently reword lie
w hole on Ihe prool-kiiect-i. Loi./bblow.
too, wee s very careful writer. Ho would
lay his work oy ami then revise lie
would often consult with hi* Irntuils
about bis productions belore they were
given to the world.
"I wss not so fortunate, "says th*-(pinn
er poet. “1 have lived mostly a secluded
Ilfs, with little putloiiue to draw upon,
aud only s low friends for associates.
Wbat writing i have done has been for
tbe love of It. I have ever been timid
of wbat I have penned. It le really a
msrv| to me that ] have gathered any
literary reputation iipm my produc
tl'oie.”
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1887—TWELVE PAGES.
RIOT AT TUI. BULL EIGHT.
"
Mazzantini’g Bloody Debut in the
Ar ena in Mexico.
From tho Seto York Titvea,
San Rafael, Mf.x., via El Paso,
March 17. Y esterday was a holiday in
the capital and for a hundred miles on
cacti side. The occasion was the debut
of Luis Mazzantini. the lamoti* matador.
Puebla captured the hero by sending a
representative to Havana with $16,000 in
gold to secure his services. Tne man-
Hcer of the I‘uetda Piaza, real
izing that Mexico could fill any
pla/.ain which Mazzantini would exhibit,
entered into a special contract with the
owners of tbe Plaza I>e San Rafael,
whereby the I’uehla company, consisting
of tbe Governor, be nor Mendizabal, and
others, carried back to the City of Angels
tbe enormous amount realized at to-days
oorida, so that the enterprising I’uebla
company has made all too money con
tributed by tbe citizens ol the republic
tor tbe "pleasure of witnessing Muzzan
tini’s skill.
Tne rush for seats began hours before
the sport began, and fully 60,000 people,
circled by a cordon of Federal troops, oc
cupied the piaza when Mazzantini ap
peared. Thu first bull, a heavy, dark
one, was received with great cheers. A
signal attack by a picador, however,
proved the worthiessness ol the bull, for
he was not quick to ciiarge, and the
crowd yelled "A luera!” (“away with
him!”) The bull stood still, and acted
entirely on the defensive, and at last
threw a horse and rider, throwing the
horse over his bauncliVs and on top of the
rider. The bull jumped the outer barrier,
which circles a ring smaller than that ol
I’ueblu, so that the brute could scarcely
turn, and immediately returned to the
arena, where the planting of the bande
rillas elicited enthusiasm. Mazzantini
now took tue sword and gave the first
thrust, it went clear to the hilt. With
2>j feet oi steel in nis body the Hull rushed
around the arena close to tbe barrier,
and one ol the spectators withdrew the
sword, but it was soon after plunged to
tbe blit again by Mazzantini. But the
bull still gavo battle, and the chumpion
was at last obliged to sever the spinal
cord, which he did by a single touch be
nind the horns.
The second hull was equally worthless.
The bauderillas were planted and I’rieto
Diego, in a uniform of vermilion red and
gold, advanced with sword and cape. The
thrusts were given, hut the hull did not
charge, and exclamations ol disgust were
given by the spectators. The hull would
uot leave the barrier and died w hile cir
cling it.
The horse whose abdomen was pierced
entered the ring for a third encounter.
The abdomen had been sewed up and
enormous swellings appeared. The crowd
yelled with indignation, but the horse
and rider remained. The horse was at
tacked by the black and white bull which
hud entered, and at the second aitack
tho seams were torn open and the intes
tines again protruded. The horses were
called by the judge, the bauderillas were
planted, and Mazzantini, amid expres
sions ot the extremist disgust from Ihe
crowd, who were dissatisfied with the in
terior quality ol the bull, thrust the sword
deep into the lungs. Blood rushed from
the mouth. The bull leii on his breast,
hut turned round aud round on his hind
legs to meat his adversaries by whom he
was surrounded, aud at lust settled down
aud died.
The spectators voioed their disgust
freely, and it increased as three other
bulls were proved to bo poltroons. They
hissed the matador and management;
they hurled chairs at tbe bull. Luis
took one ot tho hundreds of chairs flung
into tbe arena and hit the bull on the
head. Then the crowd jumped into the
arena and pursued the bull with chairs
and llagstafls, breaking them into (rag
men ts. The bull was killed, aud a rain
of chairs succeeded. The crowd iu the
upper galleries began to tear the wood
work to pieces and fling it Into the
air, and the wildest confusion pre
vailed. The soldiers with drawn
bayonets were deployed around the am
phitheatre, while tho officers rushed to
and iro, vamiy trying to suppress tne ex
citement and quell the disturbance,which
had now become general. Dn top of the
gallery a company ol soldiers promenad
ed with drawn bayonets, hut there was
no ohance to charge ou the crowd. Sev
eral arrests were made by the officers who
were mingling with the crowd and close
ly watciiing the movements of individ
uals. As quickly as possible the bayo
nets cleared the benches, and tnen the
soldiers wore deployed into a triangle in
double file inside the entrance.
Here and there chairs were Hung from
the galleries, not now into the arena, bui
among the soldiers, and officers with
swords in their handsrushed up the stairs
to arrest the offenders. The crowd hooted
the. ottioers and demanded the release ol
the prisoners, but the latter were borne
away, despite the loudiy uttered pro
tests. Detachments of cavalry with
diawn sabres blocked the street cross
ings and the bayonets ol tiie infantry
glistened in the red light of tue charcoal
liree kept burning by the street vend
ors. ihe ladies had uot yet been ablo to
escape and were hemmed in by the
crowd. Suddenly there was a movement
Horn beyond, where the crowd v.as the
thickest, aud men aud women were
separated by a charge ol the mounted
troups, to which someone had given
offense. The culprit and some of his
companions were struck with sabres aud
placed uuder arrest, aud again the sol
diers resumed tbslr positions. |
Tbs mob howled aud raged, and cries*
of “Muera Mazzantini, muera il impre
sario!” were heard far and near. The
soldiers charged the crowd gathered in
tne streets, and hundreds of heads were
slashed with sabros. Flually the troops
were in sole possession.
The prices ot admission were enormous,
$8 being tbe lowest rate lor reserved
seats. Toe estimated receipts were $150,-
000.
A Chinese Maiden’s Devotion.
tram the Fekina Oaeelte.
Tbe%ovenor General ol Hzechuen re
ports the following case of maiden devo
tion wuicb has n -en brought to the notice
of the magistrates of iiua-yang Hsian by
toe literati ol that district. Miss Ch’un
Lien, or "Spring Lotus,” who wus 111
years of age. lived with her parents In n
village some eight miles from the district
town and had been betrothed in her child
hoop to a literary graduate culled Liu, the
•on ol neighbors of her lather. The
graduate died on June 16 last, out tbe
fact was concealed trom his betrothed.
The secret was, however, let out a month
later bv her aunt. When she heard of It,
Miss Spring Lotus kept down her tears
and said not a word. Tne next day she
washed her clothes and the day ufterthat
she put her mother’s box ol clothes in
order, w ashing some and mending others.
Hhe always slept with her grandmother,
aud on tbw morning of July 17, as she did
not get up, her grandmother told her
ei make haste and get mil of oed, but
she replied that she (lid not feel well or
inclined to eat, and begged to he left alun#.
When tbe family meal was over some of
flu* household went to see her, wheu they
found tuat she had hanged herself, after
dressing hersell hi white. Her eyes were
lull of tears, and lor more than a day her
face retained the appearance of a live per
son. Tbe family was in mourning tor her
grandfather ut the time, and Ihe married
women were still wearing the white
j chignon, so, when Spring Lotus was put
| ting her mother’s box in ordor she ab
stracted onu ol these chignons and put It
jon before she hanged bersutf. the parents
l of the girl and her betrothed, being
j touched l>y her devotion, agreed to adopt
a child as the hell to the pair, and had the
i coffin brought to the home ol Lin, with
whom bpnug Lotus was ulitinuiuiy
j bulled.
THE PERENNIAL DOG DAYS.
The Effect, of a Craze That Has
Seized Some People.
From Bur deft**
As we sailed down irom Syracuse I
fell asleep, but the old gentleman sitting
beside me grew so restless and iidgety that
he roused me. In the seat in Iront of us
a lady and gentleman were carrying on
one of those intellectual conversations
that are evidently intended for the whole
car, and tend to make travel such a rare
pleasure to a man who has just escaped
Irom the asylum. X lost the opening chap
ters of the dialogue, but It was evident
that the lady wanted to buy a “dawg,”
and the gentleman knew all about
“dawgs.” She wanted a setter.
"Iteii or liver colored?” he asked.
“Uh,” she didn’t caru; just so it was a
handsome setter. “1 do so love a beauti
ful setter. And I never had one, and I
just long for one.”
“Well,” he said, “there are beautiful
dogs. 1 couldn’t live withoutdogs. There’s
somvtning so loving about a dog.”
“So human,” she said,” “so more than
human. There is nothing in all ibis
world so devoted as a dog’s affection.”
“That’s so. A aoz’s love is periectly
unselfish. If you feed him, he loves you,
if you heat him, he atilt loves vou.”
• Oh!” she cried, “how can anyone beat
a dog! 1 hate a man who can he oruol to
u dog.”
“So do I, I’dshoot a man In a minute if
1 saw nlra kick one of my dogs. 1 have
seven (logs
“Oh! how happy you must be.”
“Y’es, and there isn’t a room iu my
house too good tor those dogs, and they
know it too. Y’ou know my big black
Newfoundland, St. Augustine Le Claire?
1 paid SIOO for him. Well, be sleeps in
my room and often he climbs right up on
the bed and sleeps there.”
“Oh 1 isn’t that too cunuing for anv
thing?”
“Yes, my dogs live all over the house.
Then my wile has three dogs ol her own,
that makes ten altogether. It seems like
a good many.”
“But yet you couldn’t spare one.”
“Oh, no. The house would seem lonely
without them. They always welcome me
when I come home; they’re always
clad to see me. Last spring when my
Siberian bloodhound, Charlemagne, died,
1 thought my wife would go wild, sue
cried herself into hysteria, and went to
bed; cave up society, put on mourning and
locked the piano. 1 couldn’t eat anything
myself for days. 1 felt as though 1 had
lost a soil.”
“Y'ou iiave children, haven’t you, Mr.
Keanelltborpe?
“Oh, yes; l have three, two boys and a
girl—no, two girls—no, uo; what am 1
thinking oi ? They’re all glris.”
Here the old gentleman collared me and
dragged me furiously into the smoking
car, where he backed me up against the
the wood box and held me fiercely by the
collar.
“That’s the cause of hydrophobia,” he
howled. “That’s the kind of stuff that
makes a man mad! The bite ol a mad
dog is hca’iug balm aftersueb rot as tbatl
One hundred dollars for a dog I Buy all
the curs that ever yelped I I can buy
100 dogs lor sl, and then I’d only keep one
and I’d kill him! Am I right?”
i feebly said, “Amen.”
"Y'ou are saved,” he said, relaxing his
hold, “and now let us sit down and smoke
one of the train boys non-combustible
cigars, for l must nerve myself to a deed
of awlu! justice.”
••Whatis’t you’ll do?”
“I am going to kill that mau when be
gets off thu train, aud at tne same time
you will kill the woman, or 1 shall kill
you 1”
But when we got to Utica they rushed
the old gentleman off' and took him to the
asylum. And I was the only mau on the
train who kenw what jjrove him mad.
lfritiisii I'rinces at the Play.
Frm the Putt Mall Gaaette.
I happened to be at the Opera Cotniquo
on Saturday evening, and, like the other
loyal Britons then and there present, 1
ave a great dial more attention to tile
royal box and its occupants then to the
stage. 1 should have done so in any case,
for is not the world comedy far more in
teresting than any possible stage comedy,
and are not Princes the leading come
dians? My interest was heightened, how
ever, by the recollection ot your recent
article on “What Hoyaltv Has Dine for
the Stage,” and your readers may be in
terested to learn wh it royalty did for the
stage on that particular evening. It might
be instructive to inquire into the influen
ces which moved the Prince and especially
the Princess of Wales, to do Miss Kate
Vaughan, late of the Gaiety, the some
what unusual honor of grazing her first
night vvitli their presence. Waving the
question of motives, however, 1 pass on to
facte. The royal party arrived very iate
(well on in the second act), and for some
time after entering their box made not the
smallest pretense of attending to tho play.
1 he interest with which the British pub
lic watched their movements seemed to
he cordially reciprocated, for the Prince’s
theatre glass carefully swept the stalls
and circle time after time, while Prince
Albert Victor appeared equally desirous
of learning to know by sight as many as
possible of his future subjects.
Little by little the princely pat
rons of the drama awakened to
tho fact that something was happen
ing on the stage, and at last (to do him
justice) Prince Albert Victor evidently
concentrated his whole mind upon the
task of discovering what tho play was
about,. Every now and then his father
would attempt to explain one of the jokes
to him, clearly without success. For a
long time he was as smileless us his an
cestor Ilenry Beauclero and. Indeed, the
whole party aeetned to see very little in
Sheridan’s wit. At last came a passage
which broke the ice. Sir Lucius O’Trig
g< r dictates to Bob Acres a letter com
mencing thus: *
“To prevent the confusion that might
arise both addu sslng the same
lady” ; and the tradi tlonat “gag” is
for Acres to misunderstand Sir Lucius,
and write “undressing” instead of “ad
dressing.”
This struck the royal party as the very
acme of wit. The Princess of Wales 1
could not eeo; she was hidden behind her
bouquet; but the two Princes shook and
writhed with prolonged laughter.
Kailroails in IM4O.
f'rpm the London W^rld*
1 have seen a veritable curiosity. It is
the tirsteditlon of the popular work affec
tionately known as Bradshaw, though Its
original style and titlo, at formal length,
is “Bradshaw’s Kailway Companion, con
taining the Times of Departure, Fares,
etc.,of the Railways In England.” At the
timo of its publication the railways In
England were the London and Birming
ham, the Great, Western, the South
western, tho Croydon; and the Eastern
Counties, each with its terminus In Lon
don. Then there were tho Liverpool
and Manchester, the Lancaster and
Preston, atul other promising young
lilies in Lancashire, and there was
the Grand Junction line, with its budding
branches and extensions. Tho first
Bradshaw, published In IN4O, is a beau
tifully neat and simple affair, and might
lie hurled with ease in the deep waistcoat
pocket of a traveling suit. It measures,
In fact, 4 inches by ft. and is of no thick
ness at all to speak of, oven with its still
and serviceable boards, which were the
more necessary, inasmuch as the little
book, prim Is., was not intended to he
Issued monthly, though “O, Bradshaw
would feel particularly obliged by an In
timation being forwarded to him at 27
Brown street, Manchester, of anvolisnge
In lares or times of departure on any of
tuo lints, In order that the correction
may bo liimiedialelv msdo iu tho work.”
POLLY W \\r \ COFFIN?
Polly's Ownei-n answer the Ques
tion Affirmatively.
From the Sew Y'>rk Timet.
A poll parrott unlucky enough to die
and lucky enough to he embalmed and
laid to rest in a miniature rosewood cas
ket, lined with pink satin and fitted with
an embroidered pillow—on a whits dais
in the office of a Bond street factory yes
terday rested this remarkable combina
tion. _
Tbe solid, highly polished rosewood cas
ket is 16 inches long, 7 inches deep, and 6
inches wide. The lid is fastened with
gold screws. The wood is artistically
carved, tbe work occupying a skilled me
chanic six weeks. The opening is fitted
with a thick bevel-edged piece of plate
glass. The satin lining is tinted and the
pillow is as dainty a hit ot needlework as
was ever seen. ’I he embalmed pet lay on
its left side, an object to be envied. So
bewildering was tiie sight to two pretty
and stylish young iadies who dropped in
to see the curiosity that they could only
ejaculate, “How lovely!”
“We had carte blanche on that order,”
said a member of the firm, “and it will
cost the bereaved relatives—uo, I don’t
mean relatives—family—just S2OO. The
order came from one of the wealthiest
ladies in New York. You must not ask
me her name, because 1 can’t mention it.
She lives in the vicinity ol me Filtn Ave
nue Hotel, and at her request the parrot
Is to be buried tvith her when she dies.”
Somebody took a mental observation
from the Fifth Avenue Hotel and ask' and
if tho lady with the peculiar whim did
not live on Madison square, and if she
was known for her benevolent deeds.
“Oh I really, 1 cannot sav who she is,”
was the reply. "The secret cannot oe di
vulged. The bird was a great pet and
died several months ago. It was taken
to a taxidermist, and our order came
through a Broadway undertaker. I un
derstand that tho parrot was imported
from lnilta. It was au uncommonly
smart bird, and once saved a lamily from
assassination. While in India tbe bird
was disturbed one night by hearing
prowlers in tbe house, and very wisely
alarmed the household by pulling a bell
cord banging on the wall. Tfie plotters
were caught and punished.”
The undertaker who had the case was
not disposed to talk about it, but referred
the inquirer to the taxidermist. He was
found amid a large collection of birds,
parrots, cockatoos, pigeons, dogs, mon
keys, and various other “remains.” “J
know very little about the parrot,” he
said, “except that it was ot the king royal
species, and died of pneumonia after 1
bad performed an operaton in removing
an enlargement of one ot the neck glands.
Tho bird was thoughtlessly left in a cold
room over night, ami caught the fatal
disease which ended its career after a se
ries ol heart-rending convulsions. There
v> as great grid in the household, and both
the lady and gentleman mourned like
parents who had lost a child. They are
very prominent aud wealthy people, aud
X am bound not to made public their
names.”
The taxidermist expects to exhibit the
embalmed parrot in us casket this week,
and if permission Is obtained from tbe
owuers he will issue invitations to 200
or more cf his patrons. Tne lady who
wants to be ouried with her pet is uot
averse to the idea of a piivate exhibition,
but stipulates that it cannot take place
until sue has first tbe casket with its
precious contents. The lady’s husband
is opposed to a suow of any kind. Event
ually the novelty will be an ornament in
tne owners’ parlor, au object ot admira
tion for their trlends.
Burmah’s Kuby Mines.
From the London Timet.
The long renowned ruby mines of Bur
tnab bavins; now become British property,
a not unnatural curiosity has been aroused
as to their extent and probable value.
Two circumstances, moreover, have in
an especial degree conduced to keep the
subject before the public. Some mourns
ago the reported probability o a conces
sion to work the mines being granted to a
French company gave rise to the idea that
a valuable possession was about to pass
into the hamlsof foreigners, while latterly
interest has been whetted by tbo tele
graphic reports that a British column is
now on the road to take formal posses
sion. Under these circumstances no
apology is perhaps necessary for giving a
short account of, tirst, w hat is actually
known about these mines; and, secondly,
what is likely to tie their value. judyiDg
by analogy, if worked under Britisn man
agement,.
There Is not a work of any repute on
precious stones which does not refer to
what are spoken of as the ruby mines ot
Pegu, but the facts giveu are, generally
speaking, very antiquated, and have been
much modified by their travels through
the hands a succession of compilers.
Tavernier’s account of the mines, which
was derived from hearsay, as giving an
epitome of what was known ot them in
tne middle ot the seventeenth century,
aud as the source of the principal pan of
the information to be fouud in mop of the
subsequent writers, may heie be quoted.
He says the place where tne i übies a r e
obtained “is a mountain twelve days’
journey or thereabouts from Siren (l. e.,
Sirlam ) toward tho northeast, and it is
called Capelan (i. e.. Kyatpyen). It is
the mine whence is obtained the greatest
quantity of rubies, spinelles or mothers
of rubies, yellow topazes, blue and white
sapphires, hyacinths, amethysts and other
stones of different colors. * * * Siren
is the name of the city where the King of
Pegu resides, and Ava is the port of the
kingdom. From Avato Siren youasoend
the river In large flat boats and it is a voy
age ot about sixteen days. You cannot
travel by land on account of the forests,
which abound with lions, tigers and ele
phants. It isor.eof the poorest countries
in ihe world; nothing comes from it but
rubies, andeven they are notsoabundsnt
as is generally believed, seeing that tne
value does not exceed 100,000 crowns per
annum. Among the multimde of these
stones you would find It difficult to meet
with one of good quality weighing three
or lour carats, because the King does not
allow any to tie removed till they have
been seen by him, and he retains all the
good ones which he finds among them.
This is the reason why, in all my jour
neys, 1 have earned a sufficiently large
profit by bringing rubies trom Europe
Ituo Asia, and the story of Vincent le
Blanc is much doubted where he says he
has tne palace ot the King
as largeasegg^
Visitors to Mandalay have afforded
some further information as tho result of
their inquiries mude In the capital. The
majority of the rublos found are loss than
a qiiartor of a carat in weight, and the
larger ones are generally flawed. Sap
phires, though relatively rate, are gene
rally of larger size, stones of nine to thir
teen carats without a flaw being found,
while rubiesol that size are seldom seen.
The revenue from the mines, which con
stituted a royal monopoly, amounted
thirty veara ago to trom £l2.dooto £19,000
per annum. Such are the principal lads
at present available, aud, no doubt, to
sanguine minds the prospect may appear
templing, and it may lie thought mat,
with proper mining appliances ami under
British management, theso minus might
be made to yield a rich return. It may
prove to be so, but experience In India
and in Ceylon under moro favorable cir
cumstances ol position does not justify
that conclusion.
At a hotel table yesterday tilts rcnumt at
tracted iitieiitiun: ••Say, pan, gim’nin some
wat." It was addressed to the waiter by a
booster, who gate Ins order In Hus style;
* til’ine some sal’ trout, eorn* beef end e.ih’.
some lurk, ant’lop’. some fngy-ra.seed cluck
seid point, ” As tlm waiter moved ifl he
railed out; “Her . purd, I ring me some
•hut’." What strange tluugs you hear in a
hate* any way.— Mu goto C ''fee „
Stiuift’o Spfrifi*
Steffi s pe ii|
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SAVANNAH. GA„ JAN. 8, 1887.
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