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MDEITOKEW iDTEBTISEMENR
Meetings—Stockholders Savannah Fire
find Marine Insurance Company; Planters’
Klee Mill Stockholders; Savannah Cadets.
Seeciai. Notices —Bananas, .1. S. Collins
* Cos.; To Tax Payers iu Arrears; As to Baffle
of Gold Watch; Chatham Square Drugstore;
Dr. Weichselbaum's Bemoval; Straw Hats.
W. A. .Jaudon, Agent.
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eons.
Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship
Company.
1 Choice Groceries—Strauss Bros.
Speciai. Grand sales—D. Weisbein.
Groceries. Ktc—K. Power.
WOOD—D. It. Thomas.
Railroad Schedule—South Florida Rail
road.
Furniture, Ktc—Freeman A Oliver.
aVction Sales—Household Furnlture.Etc.,
by I. D. Laltoclic's Sods; Engines, Etc., by
C. H. Doreett.
Proposals—For Furnishing Light Wagon
and Set of Harness.
Mules for Sale—E. Moran.
Lecture—" Reasons of Jewish Organiza
tions."
The Salvation Army baßs drum is the
only instrument of the kind thathas a re
ligious tone.
“The Growth of Protection in the
South” is a familiar headline in Republi
can newspapers. Well, protection is
growing in the South —protection against
Republican ideas.
< The New York Freeman, which calls
itself a “Negrowump newspaper,” says
that the negro owes no political party
eternal allegiance. This will be startling
news to the Republicans.
Henry Wright, whom the Rome Courier
calls “one o[ Sam Jones’ converts,” has
tieen arfested in Alabama lor horse-steai
jng. Tbis’is rough on—well, it jfl rough
on both Joses and Wright. .
More murders are committed iu Michi
gan than in any State except Texas.
What she lacks in murders, however,
Miohigan makes up in dance houses,
where young girls are treated as slaves.
The people ol Cincinnati gave Senator
Sherman a public reception in order “not
to be outdone by their Southern breth
ren.” If the people of Cfncinnati were
in full accord with their Southern breth
ren the reception was courteous but cold.
The parents of a Georgia infant claim
that it has learned from the angels that
the world is to come to an end on the first
Saturday in December, 1887. It is a pity
that the end oouldn’t be postponed until
the Democrats have had another oppor
'llloll7 of snowing the Republicans under.
Rev. Dr. McGlvnn has written a bonk
of poems. Ueirv George assisted as critic
and collector ot words lor difficult
rhymes. When the hook is published the
country will tackle the problem as to
which is worse: McGlynn and George as
land reformers, or McGlynn and George
as makers of verse.
Ths revival ot religion now in progress
in Atlanta is remarkable. Many mer
chants close their stores during the day
jirayer-meetingw, which are he’d in dif
ferent parts of the city, and they and
libelr clerks attemfetbem. The members
Mot the Salvation Army claim that the re-
Hvival is due to their efforts.
It Henry George thinks the cause of eo
fiialism in this country is progressing
■ finely. He regards New York city as
J socialism’s stronghold, and claims that
the workingmen there iook upon land
confiscation as a “fundamental issue.”
Chicago has been regarded as socialism's
stronghold in this country, and George’s
declaration w ill excite surprise.
The finances of Canada arc in bad
j,hape. The Finance Minister rerortsthe
public debt to bo over $290,000,000. The
United States hold $60,000,000 of Cana
dian bonds, Kngland $100,000,000, Ger
many $10,000,000, and France $5,000,000. |
Canada doesn’t seem to have improved
her opportunities. She oueht to have j
Dade the defaulters of toe United States
who have fled to her lor protection pay ;
duties.
General Master Workman l’owderlv is
angry wito the press. He says that it bus
Dot treated bun fairly, and that it wants
to bound him flown, lie Is jfcrtieularl}
-angry on aocouut ot what tbo press has
fnaid about the tialace be and bis fellow
Officers occupy in I’hlladelphia. The
general Master Workman should be calm.
The press has given the news about that
“palace, and has commented a little on the
jjood time its occupants are having at the
expense of the laboring men of the coun
try, but this is no reason why the General
Master Workman should be angry. Ho
ought to rejoice that be is of sufficient
Importance to attract the attention of the
press.
Mayor Hewitt, of New Y'ork, ia not a
musician. He was recently asked if be
thought that “Sunday oratorioa would
oouduoe to aid or weaken ihe caime of !
Sunday morality in Ni w York.” In re- 1
ply, be aald: “As lam not an expert in
muaiu 1 ought not to have been asked
this queatlon, hut 1 should say on general
priuciplee that It would depend upon the
obaraotor of the audience, if the music
were bad aud the audleuce intelligent 1
should think it would not conduce to
morality on the part of the audleuce. If
the idublc wet* good und the uudlcuce
bed 1 fancy they would be awfully bored
by the performance.” When a man la a
wit be is tbe excused tor not being a
ausioUa.
The Convict Question.
The statement of the Governor of this
I State a few days ago that there are 600
applications of convicts for pardon await-
I ing his action, and that he is sat
-1 isfled that there are among the
j convicts some who are Innocent of the
! crimes of which they were convicted, and
j others who ought to he pardoned because
tlieii sentences were too severe, is certain
to bring iheoonvict question squarely be-
I lore the Legislature at Its summer ses
j sion. Indeed, It is difficult to see how
j the Legislature can longer shirk its duty
1 with regard to it.
The GOO applications ought to be con
sidered without unnecessary delay. If
the State has done any of its citizens the
wrong of convicting them of crimes
of which they are Dot guilty, it cannot toe
quickly repair it to as great an
extent as possible. It Is clear, however,
that the Governor oannot pass upon these
applications asjiromptly as they deserve.
He could not examine all of them care
fully before the end of his term if he
should give his whole time to it.
The Legislature, therefore, as soon as It
meets ought to provide for a speedy ex
amination of the applications, and then it
ought to set to work to find some way for
taking care of convicts that would give
more satisfaction than the present one.
There is no public question w ith which
Legislatures have to deal that
presents more difficulties than
the one relating to con
victs. It is necessary that convicts shall
be employed for two reasons. First, that
taxpayers may he relieved of the burdeu
of maintaining them, and, second, be
cause it Is brutal to keep them confined
in idleness. Hut how shall they be em
ployed? Workingmen protest against
being forced to compete with convict
labor. They say that the burden of
maintaining the convicts should not fall
upon them, and it does fall 011 them, to a
certain extent, when convict labor lorces
duwn the price of their labor.
In New York it was proposed some
time ago that no prison-made articles
should be sold for less than the prices
such articles commanded in the open
market, la this way it was thought the
objection of workingmen to the employ,
ment of convicts on contract work might
be avoided, but the plan Is not satisfac
tory.
At the last session of the Legislature
of this State the Governor proposed a
plan for caring for convicts which was
very favorably commented on by the
press, hut tue Legislature did not find
time to consider it. Probably it will do
so during the approaching summer ses
sion.
New Y’ork, in three of her great prisons,
has now 2,1t)0 convicts idle, and toe bur
den of maintaining them is a heavy one.
In all of her prisons and reformatory in
stitution* she had over 12,000 prisouers
last December.' Sho is beginning to won
der whatfc'e 19 to do with this growing
army of criminals.
A writer In a late issue of the New York
Herald suggested that the convicts of the
fvhdle coi*utny should be transported to
Alaska. The suggestion is not anew
one. In fact,lt has been very generally
discussed, sud in time it may take a much
firmer bold of the public mind than it hns
now. ’ it does, however, the ques
tion, W’ba,t shall be done with the con
victs? #ill continue to force itself upon
public attention.
The Southern States could very advan
tageously utilize them in making public
improvements of one kind and another.
There is not a county .in this State that
could not well afford to bear the expense
of guarding and maintaining many more
convicts than it sends to the penitentiary
in return for the privilege of using them
to improve its roads and drain
its swamps. The benefit that tha cliain
gangbns been totbiscounty is very great,
and it promises to be still greater. The
oounty could use a large number of con
victs in making public improvements that
would, in a few years, make the lands of
the oounty far more valuable than they
are. When the Legislature takes up the
convict question let it consider the ad
visability of distributing the convicts
among those counties which desire them.
■V Noted New Torker’s Death.
Mr. William R. Travers, whose death
at Bermuda was announced in our dis
tiatches yesterday, was not a noted pub
lie man nor a great man, but the regret
expressed lor his death will be more gen
uine than that expressed for the death of
most of the prominent men wno have died
recently. He was one of the best known
men in New York city, and he had
friends and acquaintance in every part
of the country. His witty sayings and
bright little stories made him very popu
lar, and gave him a reputation such as no
other man in New York enjoyed, it is
'.'fated that even when be bud been in
formed that death was very near to him,
and that there was not a single chance
for his recovery, he continued to joke
with those or his friends who were per
mitted to see him and to entertain them
with bis anecdotes
He went to New Y’ork from Baltimore,
where he made a fortune and lost it. Be.
ing an excellent business man he soon got
a start in the metropolis and accumulated
a great fortune. His estate is valued at
several million dollars.
Mr. Travers strove to get as much hap
piness out of Ule as possible, and hie
way of making hie own life happy was to
make others happy. He never ruluacd
a helping hand to the deserving,
and was particularly noted for his readi
ness struggling young men who
wore honest and showed a disposition to
make a bravo fight for success. He will
1 be greatly missed In New Y’ork, and many
j an amusing story of bis will be repeated,
not only because ot its merit, but also as
; a sort of tribute to his memory.
The Republican press is howling about
tbo refusal of that Birmingham hotel
keeper to allow Senator Sherman to re
ceive a delegation of negroes in bis room
at the hoiel while ho was in the “Magic
City.” Tue hotel keeper acted foolishly,
perhaps, but he did nothing more than
hotel keepers In Northern cities have
done. A Georgia Benutor was once pre
vented from receiving a delegation ol ne
groes in his room at a hotel iu Washing
ton.
Some of the members of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union in the South
say that prohibition will never prevail
until women are allowed to vote, le this
n acknowledgment that women are
losing their influence over men?
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1887.
lialtimore on the Anxious Seat.
Baltimore is rather uneasy at the pros
pect of losing the greater part of her
trade with Brazil. As is well known
that city exports a great deal of flour to
Brazil and imports a very large amount of
coffee. Of the 750,000 barrels of flour ex
ported to Brazil from the United States
last year 500.000 went from Baltimore,
and of the $35,000,000 worth of coffee im
ported from Brazil during the same
period Baltimore imported so large a part
that until recently she controlled the
coffee market of this country. It seems
that the flour manufactured at Balfimore
stands the climate of Brazil better than
that manufactured elsewhere, and, al
though her merchants make nothing be
yond expenses on flour, owing to the
Brazilian import duty of 75c. a barrel,
they do make quite a handsome profit on
the return cargoes of coffee.
An English syndicate now proposes to
erect mills in Brazil, and in that way
avoid the Import duty on flour, there
being no import duty on wheat. The ob
ject is not only to control the flour trade
in Brazil, but also to carry the wheat to
that country ami the coffee to this iu Eng
lish bottoms. The carrying is now done
in American bottoms.
The English syndicate has the money to
carry out its scheme, and will doubtless
carry it out unless something is done to
prevent It. The question is, what can be
done? Baltimore cannot afford to lose
her profitable trade with Brazil, and she
doesn’t intend to if she can help it.
Several things have been proposed. One
is to subsidize an American line of steam
ers; another is to establish American
flour mills in Brazil, and the third is for
Congress to threaten to put an import
duty on coffee with the view of forcing
the Brazilian government to remove the
duty on flour. ft will take a long
while to put anv one of these things iu
operation, assuming that there are no
difficulties in the way of any one of them.
It will be rather hard lines lor Baltimore
If the English syndicate succeeds ia de
priving her of her important Brazilian
flour and coffee trade.
Prof. Proctor and the Sea Serpent.
Prof. Richard O. Proctor, In an article
in the April Forum on “The Reality ot
the Sea Serpent,” doesn’t sa/ that he be
lieves any of tne numerous sea serpent
stories which have from time to time
found their way into the public prints,
but he leaves the impression that it is
not improbable that there is some truth
in them. So many strange things
are all the time being discovered that it
will not do to assert that there is no such
thing as a sea serpent simply because
one has never been caught and thoroughly
examin ed.
The professor thinks the public prints
make a mistake in holding up to ridicule
those who claim to have seen the sea
serpent, because it prevents scientists
from obtaining very important data.*He
says that he has known as many as half
a dozen prominent sea captains who said
that if they were to see anything that re
sembled a sea serpent they wosild say
nothing about it on shore. The sea cap
tains are very careful of their reputation
fur veracity.
There is no doubt that there was some
foundation for most of the sea serpent
stories which have appeared in print, but
it has not yet been satisfactorily shown
that a genuine sea serpent has ever been
seen by sailor or land lubber. The im
pression has got abroad that those who
claim to have seen a sea serpent have a
very vivid imagination or lack a proper
respect for iruth.
Prof. Proctor quotes the following state
ment of Agnisez in support of those who
claim to have seen the sea serpent: “If a
naturalist had to sketch the outlines of
an ichthyosaurus or plesiosaurus from
the remains we have of them, he would
make a drawing very similar to the sea
serpent as it has been described. There
is reason to think that the parts are soft
and perishable, but 1 still consider it
probable that It will be the good fortune
of some person on the coast of Norw ay
or North America to lied a living repre
sentative of this type of reptile, which is
thought to have died out.” Backed by
the encouragement offered by Prof. Proc
tor it would not be surprising ifa few more
of those who think they have seen the sea
serpent should entertain the public with
their observations of that, as yet, mythi
cal creature.
Secretary Lamar fully concurs lif the
opinion of the Attorney General recently
published, in which he laid down the law
as to the rights of the several parties iu
the case of the Northern Pacific railroads
against Guilford Miller. Secretary Lamin
in his decision ol the case follows the
law as enunciated by the Attorney General
and which w as favorable to the railroads.
It Is a matter worthy of note, that in a
rough draft, Secretary Lamar, on the
questions of law involved, bad written a
decision in this case, which reached ex
actly the same conclusion as that arrived
at by Attorney General Garland. The
papers w hich have been calling the At
torney General a hireling of the great
railrqfd corporations, on account of his
opinion in this case, will now, perhaps,
make him a suitable apology—that is if
they do not desire to do the Attorney
General an injustice.
Lord Lansdowne, Governor General of
Canada, is being violently attacked by
tbs Montreal I’ost. The Dost says that
Lord Lansdowne lives in luxurious idle
ness at the cost oi SIOO,OOO a year, “paid
by the mass of tolling fools who go by the
name of the Canadian people.” The Post,
which Is an Irish organ. Is incensed
against Lord Lansdowne because he has
evicted some of his tenants in Queen's
county, Ireland. The Canadian govern
ment intends to prosecute the Post, but
the prosecution will only serve to unite
tbe Irish iu Canada more firmly. A day
of wrath is coming lor Kngland because
of her treatment of Ireland, and the Irish
in Canada will aid to haaten it.
Maurice Thompson has been lecturing
in Nashville. In speaking oi noted
Southern literary people, he could remem
ber but ten, including himself. It seems
that he has no acquaintance among the
lilerary people in Georgia who telegraph
those charming political novels to North
ern newspapers. Maurice should pur
chase an excursion ticket and visit Geor
gia ut once.
It ia said that the Chicago boodlora will
not mind a few .years In prison. Perhaps
they think they will enjoy their ill-gotten
gaina all the more when their terms ex
pire.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Why Thfty Are Interested.
From the Mntgomery A deer titer (Dem.)
The .South and West are the sections inter
ested In the lone and short haul clause of the
in'erslnte commerce lull One wants low
freights on what she buys to eat, and the other
on what she sells to eat.
Th Country Wants to Know.
Fro at ths Ne w York Herald ( Ind .)
The labor party of Michigan has nominated
a full Mate ticket. It has rolled up it-* sleeves
and proposes to plow the old politicians un
der. Ail right, gentlemen, go ahead. The
country will be glad to know what you want
to have done and how you propose to do it.
The Acme of Snobbery.
From the Baltimore Herald ( Rep.)
Perhaps the acme of snobbery is attained
by those refined members of Washington so
ciety who, when Mrs. Cleveland fails to ap
pear in her accustomed seat at church, walk
out at once without disguising the fact that
they came to see the President's wife and not
to hear the Word of God.
Republican Insincerity.
F>om the Chicago News ( fnd ,)
It is a curious commentary on such speeches
as these, which the Ohio statesman is uow
delivering, that ever since certam Southern
sections have been exhibiting progress in iron
and cotton manufactures, the Northern sec
tions in which these manufactures had ob
tained a powerful foothold have been doing
their level best tocrush out their infant rivals.
A short time since not only the cotton manu
facturers or New’England, hut the iron manu
facturers of Pennsylvania and otf .Senator
Sherman’s own State, brought all their pow
ertul influence to bear upon the Southern and
Southwestern railroad lines in order to fore©
them to discriminate against the transport of
.Southern iron and Southern cotton, and in
favor of the transport of central State iron
and Northern State cotton.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Who was Caiu’s wife?” Hanged if we
know; but when wo see a dude caressing the
head of a cane we think there is considerable
affinity between the two sticks.— tall River
A dvonce.
A description of an intant’s feeding bottle
wavs; * vvnen the baby is done drinking it
must be unscrewed and left iu a cool place,
sav under a tap.” If they are going to sub
ject infants to such treatment, few of us will
cure to be “born again.”— Norristown Mer
abi.
Reporter—What do vou think of the inter
state commerce bill’s effect on the drama?
Tragedian—l don’t know, but 1 think it
woul 1 elevate it.
Reporter—Elevate it?
Tragedian—Yes, sir, Knock it eky high.—
Tid-Bits.
One day Nora was away and mamma had
the ironing to do. Nelly watche i her with
miD’h interest. “What makes ’ou do vat?”
she asked after a time. **i iron the clothes to
lake wrinkles out.” minima answered
Three-year-old Nelly was silent for a mo
ment. Then she burst forth, “Well, ven.
why tan’t ’ou iron on dreat-dramma’s f ace?”
Youth's Compani n.
“ I’ve got a joke on said a man a few
days ago. “You know, the rich old chap.”
* * What is it?”
“He was out at a dinner party the other
night, and it was very swell. There were six
knives and six forks, you know, at each plate.
After the soup the hostess observed that
was not eating. ‘You are not eating. Mr.
she said. *Do you not like ?’ ‘ldo/
said he, ‘but to tel! you the truth, I’m waiting
to see what knife to begin with.’ "—.\in rrun
due • Ch> onicle.
A LITTLE 6-year-old liov said to the Rev. H.
W. Brown, the evangelist, who is now preach
ing for Brother Smith, iu Lynchburg: “That
Kerraon you preached last niirhi is the best I
ever beard. It’s grand, sir.” The evangelist
smiled complacently !he still ha* a Rule hu
man nature about him ; aud asked: "What
was it in Ihe sermon that pleased you so
much, my little man?” "That bear story,”
replied the little boy. The evangelist had
not aiked the boy any other question up to the
time wc last heardJrom him.— Miehmuna Re-
Uyi u* Herald ,
Omaha Man—So you are an emnloye of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany? a
Pennsylvania Youth— Yes, I help clean the
engines. Our wages were recently increased
15 per cent, without asking.
“Well, that’s encouraging.”
“Yos, I feel a good deal Richer. The first
week’s raise i gave to a poor beggar, who said
lie hadn't had anything to eat for a week.”
“LHd you know the follow?”
“O. yes! lie is one of the stockholders.”—
Omaha World.
Miss Bikdik MgTlenxipin is one of the
belles of Austin Her intellect, however,
does not tower into the sublime heights
reached by Susan ii. Anthony, but. to use the
void language of truthfulness, she is very
much ihe same kind of a young ladv that Gits
Desmith is a young man. Not long since ho
proposed matrimony. He proposed in good
faith, in a solemn, impressive manner, upon
which Miss Birdie in uignra ed a giggle, until
d'l" "• > verv much dieitt. and. and arising
from his knees his anger found vent in words.
He was mad, too mad aliuo-t to *peav ”ali-s
Henmpln.” he finally ejaculated "with me
this is no laughing matter. Hhv should you
seq anything ridiculous about it ?”
"You must excuse mi*. Mr. DeSmith—reallw
yon muse, for I am uot laughing at yon;
really, uow. I am uot. Ma’a so funny, you
know Really, she’s just too funny for any
use. Yes, I was laughing at ma.”
“At your ma?”
"Yes; you see ina told me only thi- morning
•Birdie, you are so green that some aonkev
will take vou yet.’ a 1 and here you oome ”
But he was gone. He was’in the pa-t tense.
It was he who banged the door r-o violently.
”1 wonder,” said the suddenly deserted
Birdie. "I wonder now, really, if he is
offended at what ma said? But then ma al
ways was too awlully funny forauv kind of
use.” —Ttx is Sifting..
PERSONAL,
A. K. Cutting claims that his eves were
injured by confinement in the Mexican prisou.
Tue first life-size portrait made of Stephen
Girard siuce his death is now shown in Phila
delphia.
The Czar of Russia receives the largest
salary paid anv ruler on the face ol ihe earth
and still be ia not happy.
Gen. Boulanger has received from acom
mitteeof Russian admirers a valuable sword
inscribed: "tjui vive?—La France et Bou
langer.”
William Bad, a wealthy man of Mel
bourne. Australia, spends half of his income
even year in relieving ihe needs of deserving
people. Good for bad.
Ambrose Thomas, the Director of the Paris
Conservatory, has recently written a grand
ballet with choruses, which will soon be pro
duced at the Grand Opera.
The poet laureate has his jubilee ode, for
the Queen's half-century celebration in Jfine
all ready, and Macmillan's Magazine has
purchased It for its April number
Comments are made upon the fact that
while Indianapolis has not succeeded in rais
ing money for a monument to Thomas A
Hendricks, it has readily secured enough tri
buy a base ball club. ‘ °
A few days ago the historical works of Ihe
late M. Mich det. the French historian, were
put no for sale at the price of $30,000. They
were finally knocked down to the historian's
widow Tor the sum of J4H.000.
MBS. CLEVELAND’S portrait is now on ex
hibition in the pirt ure Mores of London and
Paris, and a Washington photographer re
ccived an order from Vienna for oue dozen
portraits of the lady "without bonnet or
scarf on her head.”
Miss Helen Dakragh is completing a life
size portrait of Gen, Grant, to he presented to
the West Point Academy bv George W.
L'hlltls. Mr. Childs has written to Mrs. Grant
and Col. Fred Grant inviting them to inspect
Hie purtruit before it is scut u wav.
It seems that the statement that Mrs.
Cleveland wan studying French and German
during Lent wan unfounded. Mrs. Folsoui
nays: "My daughter speaks both French and
German lluoutiy now, and except to read the
standard hooks m these tongues, is uot study
ing them, 1 know.”
Benges J. A. Moili.A and < . Juarez, Mexi
can Civil Engineers, uro in Philadelphia for
the purpose of'buying railroad iron. euor
Juarez says that Mexico is growing wondor
lully, and American* are getting rich there.
He says that railroads will soon he built
through to the Pacific coast.
Tue artist Uugllardl, of Rome, hu* been
engaged to pntnt a portrait of t ardlual Gib
bous. The picture will Iring beside that ot
the Pope in the cardinal's titular church.
The oout of arms assumed by Cardinal G h
bohs have In the centre a picture of the Im
maculate Conception on a green background.
The shield is surmounted by a cardinal's hat
with live row* ol tassels depending from Iho
sties.
UUsBAND OKAKBKKS PUNISHED.
The French Theory that They Have No
Kfghtd of Any Kind.
From the Pall Mall Budget*
A much more remarkable aociological de
velopment, and one that is much less defensi
ble is the theory that husband grabbers may
be killed as legitimately a* seducers. A hus
band grabber, it should be explained, is a
woman who marries a man who has pre
viously had children by another woman,
without having the consent of his deserted
mistress, a very remarkable case tried iu
France last week shows a tendency to regard
husband grabbing us a capital offense. An
officer m the French army, alter living
for several years with a mistress, by
whom he had three children, a sorted
her and married another. He made his cast
off mistress an allowance; which, after some
time, he ultimately stopped. The discarded
one, savage with jeaiou y and suffering from
actual destitution, sent her 12-year-oid sou
with a revolver to kdl the woman who had
taken Ins mother’s place. He tram red to
town and arrived in rags with bleeding feet
at his father’s house. His father received
him kindly, fe-i him and ptothed him. The
hoy waited his opportunity and tired shot
after shot into his lather's wife. He wounded
her seriously, but not fatally. On his arrest
his urnthcr wrote: ••He has not killed her.
That I regret. He hail tried to do his duty.
I give hitu inv blessing. I demand to share
in the punishment for the vengeance
which f devised.” Thev were tried
for attempted murder. The facts were
clear. Neither mother nor son attempted
lo disguise their guilt. But the jury ac
quitted them unanimously. The reason is
obvious, fn the eves of the jurors a husband
grabber has no rights. She is as a land
grabber in Ireland—an outlaw—hostis hu
mani generis, whose removal by her evicted
predecessor is no crime. The analogy is very
close between the ethics of husband-grabbing
and land-grabbing. The deserted mistress
and the evicted tenant have been far more
cruelly wronged by the faitiile i husband and
the ruthless landlord than by ttie new wife or
the new tenant, but it is against the latter,
not against the former, that vengeance is
usually directed. A dumb Instinct guides
them iu both cases, and the net result of their
action may possibly be the legal recognition
of rights which are at present but unre
dressed wrongs.
A HUMOKOCS METHODIST CLERGY
MAN.
How He Corrals the Mlrtli of the Digni
fied Presiding Elders.
From the New York Evening Sun .
The Rev. Dr. M. S. Terry, for many years
a favorite pastor in the New York M. E. Con
ference, but now professor of Hebrew theolo
gy In the Wesleyan University at Evanston,
111., will attend the meeting of conference in
April, and then make a trip to Berlin, where
he will dig up a few Greek roots and take a
look ut some mneient Hebrew manuscripts.
l)r. Terry lias much dignity of manner in the
pulpit, and treats serious matters In % serious
way; but lie dearly loves a good joke, and as
dearly loves to tell a good story. Presiding
elders are very careful not to indulge in un
timely mirth. When they see anything funny
they store up the laughs they would have
laughed, and when a good joke comes al *ng
in a good piace these old laughs come popping
up like minute guns. Terry likes to lasso a
drove of these presiding elders and touch
them off. His last story is this:
A brother of the Indiana Conference, a very
estimable man and able preacher, has an in
curable habit of always annexing the pro
noun “he” to the name of any person to whom
he is alluding. This habit even follows him
iuio the pulpit, sometimes with ludicrous re
sults. Tins waa particularly the case one
Sunday, when, before a large congregation,
he arose and announced his text:
“The devil he goeth about like a roaring
lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
Looking impressively over his gold-bowed
spectacles, he began:
“Biethren and sisters, my subject natu
rally divides itself into three heads: First,
Who the devil 1h is?
The congregation was slightly startled, but
preserved due decorum.
••Secondly, my brethren, where the devil he is
going?”
An old class leader put his head dowa.
and stuffed a baudanua in his mouth. The
choir shook, and a little girl in the gallery
tittered,
‘•Thirdly, mv brethren, what the devil he is
about?”
This was too much for the congregation,
and for once there was a peal of laughter in
tnat church. The quarterly conference dis
cussed the matter at its next meeting, but
the pastor still sprinkles his pronouns pro
miscuously.
If 1 Should Die To-Night.
From LittM'i Living Age,
If 1 should die to-night.
My friends would look upon my quiet face.
Before they laid it in its resting-place.
And deem that death had lett it almost fair;
And Saving snow-white flowers against my
hair
Woulu smooth it down with tearful tender
ness,
And fold iny hands with lingering caress,
Poor hands, so empty and so cold to-night!
If I should die to-night.
Sly friends would call to mind, with lotting
thought.
Some kiu'iiv need the icy hand had wronght,
home gentle word the frozen lip had said;
Errands on which the willing feet had sped
The memory of my selfishness and pride,
Sly hasiv words would all he cut aside
And so I should be loyed and mourned to
night.
If I sheuld die to-night.
Even hearts estranged would turn once more
to me,
Recalling oilier davs remorsefully.
The eyes that chill me with arert.ed glance,
Would look upon me as of yore, perchance.
Ana soften in tue old familiar tvay.
For who would war with dumb, unconscious
cay?
So 1 might rest, forgiven of all to-night,
Oh, friends, I pray to-night,
Keep not vour kisses lor iny dead, cold brow
The way is lonely—let me feel them now. '
Think gently of me; I am travel-worn.
Sly faltering feet are pierced with many a
thorn,
Forgive! oh, hearts estranged, forgive, I
plead!
When dreamless rest is mine I shall not need
The tenderness for which I long to-night.
Major Polk’s Vs'usble Adjutant.
From the I Voohnigton Pott,
“When Maj. Polk (brother of the President
of that name; arnvcd at Ins headquarters in
Mexico, he knew nothing whateverof mili
tary matters,” said Geu Vicie. recently, n,.
was ordered to lukc command of a regiment
of which I waa adjutant. Hefore doing so he
got a friend to write out all the orders he
would have to g've. When he appeared upon
the scene he called out to 'the orderly to send
the adjutant to hint. ‘Hero are in y orders’
suidPoik. handing them ovgr to mo. ’Have
them published!’ They weye uublisued ac
cordingly.
“The next day Maj.'PelV was ordered to
form a squadron. He. said to me, ’.My spur is
off; 1 wish to put it on. Give the order to pul
the aquadrou in motion.’ I did so. ‘Continue
to give orders, sir!’ shouted the Major. The
next day he began to read noon military tac
tics. He read the first page and took a urink.
The* ixmUlie second page aud took an
otnerdrink. > ,_lly he thraw down the hook
and exclaimed:
•“Adjutant Viele. 1 don’t know a d—d thing
about it. My brother is President of the
United States. You Slick by me and tell me
what to do. and I’ll see that you get quick
promotion!’
“It is needless to add that I stuck to tho
brother of the President.”
She Kissed the Whole Twenty-One.
From the Wereuter Telegram.
The big police officer, as well as the em
ployes of the union station, in tho course of
the year witnesses some ftinuy sights, but
the banner one of las 7 was witnessed just as
the 8:23 train rolled into the station from Bou
ton Wednesday evening. When the gong an
nouncing the arrival of the train was sound
ed, there emerged from tho ladles’ waiting
room a modestly dressed young woman of 20,
who was accompumod by a young .nun, Fol
lowing them were ju-t an evAu twenty per
sons, the mujorliy being young ladies. Asthc
crowd passed through tbs door lending to
the train-house and the condiiclor caught
sight of them, he wondered where he was
going to put them all, as the tram at that
time was already well lllled. Tho young lady
reached the Wagner sleeping car and then
stopped, ho did tho crowd. Then it was
guessed that the first couple were gomgoffon
a Wedding tour. ICI tliev were uni. .lust
oho minute before the tram was scheduled to
start, thu young lady started at the head of
the column aud kl.-sod the entire twenty-one,
amid the laughing and chuffing of not only
those up n me Irani, but the big crowd in the
station, after which she quloflv retired j.o her
sect ion in the car and.
UuvsL ,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The average age of those who enter college
in this country is 17. A century ago it was it.
There are said to be more beggirs in Bir
mingham, Ala., than in any other city in the
South.
When a Dakota minister gives out a no
tice of some church meeting he adds to the
traditional formula, “God willing.” that
words “and a blizzard not preventing. H
Over 12:1,000,000 has been contributed to !>|j
colleges of this country by twenty men. I hr4a
of these twenty—-tephen Girard, .lolins HoiM
kins and Asa Darker —gave over $14,000,000,
New York proposes to spend $5,000,000 in
the improvement of the streets, $1,000,000 to
be spent each year until the work of furnish
ing tiie ci<y with entirely new paving of the
best material is finished.
D, Montz, of Louisville, liss been Superin
tendent of a Methodist Sunday school there
for thirty years, and has in that time been
absent but five Sundays. During the last
twenty years he has been absent but one Sun
day.
At the reunion the other day of the family
of A. S. Htinier, of Marshall, 111., there were
present Mr. and Mrs. Hunter, their twelve
children, one daughter-in-law, five sons-in
law, and fourteen grandchildren, Mr. Hunter
is 72 years old. liis eldest child 41, and his
youugest 17.
A man working in a lumber camp near
Florence, Wis,, falls into a trance about 7
o’clock every Saturday night and holds
imaginary conversations with a woman in
Green Bay, whom he savs has bewitched
him. He frequently talks to her half the
night, repeating her replies for the benefit of
his companions.
Out of :!88 names of women on the voting
lists in three wards of Burlington, Vt., en
titled to vote for school officers in the recent
March election, only one woman availed her
self of the privilege to vote. At this rate the
country would be glad to know how long it
will bo before woman suffrage in Vermont Is
to become an established fact.
In British Columbia a white man carried a
keg of whisky to an Indian camp, hoping to
sell it at an advantage to tbe simple children
of the forest. But apparently they were pro
hibition red men, lor they bound the man.
forced him to sit on the keg three days and
three nights, and then sent him home, first
knocking in the heads of the keg and letting
the good liquor soak into the ground.
That the practice of using kerosene for
kindling fires is not confined to household
kitehens is shown, says a correspondent, by
the case of a soldier of the Fourteenth In
fantry, who adopted it in a washroom stove
at Vancouver barracks. The offense is evi
dently punished more severely in military
than in domestic establishments, since the
imprudent soldier wiio had thus disobeyed
orders was sent to prison for two years.
Asa railroad train rounded a curve near
Bristol, Conn., the other morning, tho engi
neer saw a large black Newfoundland dog
standing by the side of the track. He waited
until tne engine was within a few yards of
him and then deliberately stepped upon the
track, and. trembling all over, with tail be
tween his legs, head turned away, waited for
the death stroke from the pilot. The engineer
says that if ever any one committed suicide
that dog did.
Judging from the programme 'just pub
lished by the Berlin University of the lectures
for the coming summer semester, that insti
tution represents a perfect Tower of Babel.
The following are the language? to be taught:
Litm, (.reek, French, English, Italian, Span
ish. Portuguese, Danish. Polish. Russian. Hun
garian, Slovenian, Sanskrit, Syrian, Assyr
ian, Babylonian, Semitic, Aranuean. Arabic,
Turkish. Ethiopian aud Chinese. The new
Oriental seminary about to be erected is
likely to addsome more languages to the fore
going list.
An old Alabamian, who discovered the
Birmingham ore away back before the war,
took some specimens of it to New York and
displayed them to Peter Cooper. “We can
take that ore right off tbe ground.” said the
Alabamian proudly. “I dou’t believe it,”
replied Mr. Hewitt, the present Mayor, who
was standing by in the capacity of Mr.
Cooper’s son-in-law. "Why Dot?” asked the
discoverer of ore. * 'Because if you can,” said
Mr. Hewitt, who was younger and a little
plainer of speech then tbsn now, “why the
blazes don’t you do it? There le money in
every ounce of it.”
The post office in India is regarded as so
miraculous an agency bv tbe more ignorant
natives that in some out-of-the-way places
the very letter boxes are worshiped. In one
case a man posted his letter in the box and
shouted out ils destination to inform the pre
siding spirit whom he supposed lobe inside.
Another native humbly took off his shoes as
he approached the box, went through various
devotions before and after posting big letter,
and finally put some coppers bofore the box
as a propitiatory offering, retiring in the
same attitude of humility.
If Mr. Henry Lake’s information be indeed
correct, the year 1887 will be known as that
of the rediscovery of the lost violin varnish,
and the mystery of “Cremonas” will be
cleared up. Ole Bull would nave been most
delighted by this discovery. He gave l.sco
acres of land on which Pdtsbnrg now stands
for a Stainer Cremona, and for many years
the chief interest of his life lav in working
with tlic well-known maker, Colton, of .New
York, to reproduce the old varnish. Now,
somebody has found it by accident, and the
secret goes buck toClunee Ingenuity and the
Jesuit fathers who brought it to the West.
It is said that wrinkles are due to the grad
ual wearing away of the flesh underneath the
skin because it has too little or the wrong
kind of exercise. \Vriukles of the face usual
ly take a downward course, due to washing
and wiping the face; therefore, wash nd
wipe upward. To il 1 out cheeks that are
growing hollow this is recommended: Take a
piece of soft leather—kid or chamois skin will
do-aod put the end of it between the teeth'
then chew gently upon it for several minutes'
taking care not 'o raise the teeth from the
leather. This exercise, it ia claimed, will re
store 10 youthful plumpness the most boliow
cheek.
Tiik story which was put into print in a
W asliingt.on paper to the effect that President
Arthur received*Sissistance from his Cabinet
officers in the signing of bills at the close of
the sessions of Cm gross In order to get the
work finished, is indignantly denied by Ch s.
E. Coon, who was Acting Secretary of the
Treasury when one ol Hie lession- of Congress
during President Arthur’s administration
came to an end. Said Mr. Coon: "t can re
fute that story In the most positive manner
because I was at President Ari bur's side and
handed him the hills as they were ready to
receive his signature, and saw him affix it to
every one.”
At a dinner in Albany, N. TANARUS., the other
day the lion. Andrew S, Draper told this
story of Lincoln: "Immediately after the bat
tle of Gettysburg Lincoln sat down aud wrote
a peremptory order to Gen. Meade to inter
cept Leu in his retreat, give him hiitile, and
by this bold stroke crush the Confederate
army and end the war. The order was ac
companied by a friendly note, in which the
great patriot said to Meade; ‘The order I in
close is not one of record. If yon succeed you
need not publish the order. ft you fail, pub
lish it. Then if you succeed you will have ail
the credit of the movement. If not, I’ll take
the responsibility,’ ”
An old Siamese teacher in trying to mas
ter English wroto a list of definitions, from
which the following are selected: Wig: hypo
crite hair. Flattery: a gooii kind of curse
word. Whisky: sin water. Gold; a very good
thing. Blew: a wind verb. Kick: a foot
verb. Bow: a salute verb. Hop: a frog verb.
Liar: a had aujeotlve of boy. Modesty: a
good adiectlve of girl. Vine- a string tree.
Cunning: a good word of philosophy m n.
Daughter: a girl-son. Uullei: a son <>r a gun.
Sponge: wider foam. Angel: God's bov.
Large: an adjective of preacher. Preach: a
missionurv verb. Comfort: word of mother
to crying child. Adulterate: a bad adjective
of lying man. Admonition: word of Bible.
ONI id Hie latest of the Pall Mall Gazette’s
prize compelitions calls for candidates for
Paradise, Purgatory and Hell. Tho popular
vole put Gordon at the head of the first list,
with Mr. Gladstone second, the late Lord
Shaftesbury third. Florence Nightingale
forth, the Queen fifth, and Hie Is o Cos and
Iddesleigli sixth. Cardinal Newman aid
laird Beacon-field were respectively twelfth
and thirteenth, laird Randolph Churchill,
Mr. l liuinhcrluin and Mr. Giud-tonu run
about even for Hie first place in Purgatory,
und Were a long way ahead of ail others.
The first on the list of the damned was a pres
ent member of the House of commons, the
second a present lucinoer of the House uf
>. tni-dt e-
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