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IMIIEI TOHEff ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Golden Rule Lodge No. 12, I.
,©. O. F.; Oglethorpe Light Infantry: The
Merchants’ and Mechanics’ Loan Association;
Pulaski Loan Association; Savannah Floral
'and Art Association.
Special Notices— Election for City Mar
shal; To Agents, Connections and Shippers
'Savannah, Florida and Western and Charles
ton and Savannah Railways.
Lottery— Louisiana State.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help
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For Sale; Found; Miscellaneous.
Soap, Starch. Etc.—Strauss Bros.
Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship
Company.
Three suicides occurred in New York
ity on April 10. In each case the cause
was apparently trifling.
The discussion about the interstate
law brings this consolation:
Jt shuts off the talk regarding war in
Europe.
A New York man who shot his mother
in-law twice was imprisoned for two
lyears. His term has just expired and he
fis makings nuisance of himself by oom-
Igpialniug that bis punishment was too se
vere for so trifling an offense.
Two hundred thousand people in St.
(Louis and vicinity proposo to sign a pe
tition to President Cleveland to visit that
icitv. In the South everybody wishes to
wee him, and there are reasons to believe
fthat he tvill come this way before the
]year ends.
The Central Labor Union of New York
Stas held a meeting and decided that Sec
retary Bayard is a fool because he fa
vors the new treaty with Russia. The
Labor Union doesn’t know, appa
rently, anything of the merits of the pro
posed treaty.
That negro who was forcibly ejected
Ifrom a train on the Western and Atlantic
(railroad, at Dalton the other day, proposes
Cos see what virtue there is in the interstate
commnrce law. He claims that a prin
ciple of the law Is that the same payment
shall in all cases secure the same service.
A short time ago 110 negro men went
from Virginia and North Carolina to
Orange, N. J., where they expeoted to
obtain remunerative work. They were
and now they are anxious
Cos return to their homes. The negro fares
fcetter in the South than in any other part
f the country.
The mysterious murder at Rahway, N.
J., has brought out the fact that more
than eae hundred women have recently
disappeared from New York and its vi
cinity. The fact is a reflection upon
Somebody, but whether upon the police or
■upon the parents who had the training of
Che women is a question.
In addition to presenting her magnifi
cent collection of pictures to the Metro
politan Museum of Art of New York, the
iate Miss Catherine Wolfe bequeaths
200,000 to maintain and increase the col
lection. The museum is fortunate. First
ft was enriched by the liberality of Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, then of George l.
Beney, and now of Miss Wolfe.
Ciesar A. Taylor (colored), who claims
Alabama as the State of his nativity, is
engaged in an attempt to enlighten the
Baltimoreans as to the exact location of
eheol. He says that the orust of the
earth is fifty-two tniies thick and that
tfust below is a molten lake which is the
ibeol described in the Bible. By a math
ematical process be figures out tho area
ofsbeol to be 2.00,542,093,858 cubic miles.
He may be right as to the location, but
lie is wrong as to the area. Tue number
of cubic miles he mentions wouldn’t
furnish room for all who appear to be
anxious to go in that dlrectiou.
Ex-Assistant Postmaster General
Brady is attracting some attention in the
Horth just now on account of bis mar
riage with a widow He was on his way
ito Europe when be met her, but her
aarms caused him to postpone his jour
ney indefinitely. Tha funny thing about
)lho affair U that the New York papers in
sist that the widow at the last moment
reused to marry him, while both his
• Friends and hers insist that they hare
been married several days. Doubtless
<Jon. Brady and the widow know more
About It than the papers.
The result of tbe recent elections In
Western cities seems to have emboldened
tho United Labor party. Benalor Kenna,
f West Virginia, Senator Hawley, of
'Connecticut, Senator Sherman, of Ohio,
And other loading politicians think thut
flbe new party will certainly have a
Presidential candidate In ths field in
JIBBB. General Master Workman Powdoriy
la the strongest man that could be put up
to represent the labor Interest, but unless
be has lost all his prudenou ho will de
stine to be a candidate. Tbe United
J-abor party ia not strong enough to elect
A President, and probably never will be.
Advices from Washington are to the
affect that the Britten government Is not
disposed to make concession, in the fish
arise dispute between the United States
And Cansds, because British statesmen
think ths United Htates will not resort to
harsh measures on account of the do
fen seises condition of their seaports. Tim
British government will find out Its ml*-
Laks a* soon -• tbe ocoaslon presents
Itself. Tbe United Htates hsve an ad
eniaistrailon *h-.t does not believe m tern
p<onslg, wMßbei Ike stations ar<‘ do
baseless nr not. If tbe British gov* re
■*•! doesn't west a lively raw It woujd
Jhyf tl' In fa flwli, /
Home Opposition to Mr. Kant! all.
The hostility to Mr. Randall is increas
ing, not only outside of his State, but also
in It. it is no secret, of course, that
prominent Democratic members o( Con
gress have lately said that they would
not support Mr. Carlisle for Speaker un
less be promised not to appoint Mr. Ran
dall chairman of an Important commit
tee, and they are doubtless in earnest.
They are tired of seeing a man honored
who does so much to prevent the party
which honors him from acting harmoni
ously.
Just now Mr. Randall is having trouble
with his Democratic constituents. On
Saturday night, at a meeting of the
Young Democratic Battalion, of Phila
delphia, which the Record of that city
says is a very active and influential
political organization, steps were taken
to prevent further disintegration of the
Democratic party of Pennsylvania. There
were ovei 200 members of the battalion
present, many of them being men of
prominence in local politics. Mr. Randall
was charged with having wrecked the
Democratic party of the State. The sen
timent of tbe meeting appeared to bo that
he and his little clique should be rele
gated to the rear. In fact, In the estima
tion of some of the speakers, Randallism
Is more objectionable than Republican
ism. A committee was appointed to see
what could be done toward bringing
about a better feeling in tbe party and re
storing the harmony which Mr. Randall's
eftorts have destroyed.
It seems to be quite evident that unless
Mr. Randall changes his course he will
have great difficulty in being re-elected
to Congress, lie Is steadily losing ground
in his own JHate, and his popularity
throughout the country Is not near so
great aB it onoe was. It he has hopes of
seouring greater political houors he
might as well abandon them. The sus
picion that he would feel more at home in
the Republican party Is steadily growing,
and there are perhaps those who will be
surprised if he does not eventually be
come a member of that party.
It is said that he and the President are
no longer friends. In proof of this state
ment the fact Is pointed out that lately
several anti-Randall men have been ap
pointed to Federal offices in Pennsylva
nia. It Is not strange, ot course, that the
President should not desire to strengthen
Mr. Randall, or to render him any assist
ance in the way of appointments. One
of the things which the Democratic party
is pledged to do is to reform the tariff.
It has tried lo keep this pledge, but its
efforts have failed because of the oppo
sition of Mr. Randall and his Tew Demo
cratic followers in the House.
The whole country has applauded the
President’s pension vetoes, and yet Mr.
Itandal! joined with the Republicans in
trying to pass the most iniquitous of the
pension bills over the President’s veto. It
is not to be wondered at, therefore, that the
President and many Democratic leaders
question the advisability ot the Demo
cratic party further honoring Mr. Ran
dall.
A Noble Georgian Dead.
In the death of Col. John A, Stephens
the State loses a valuable citizen. He
was not what is called “a prominent
citizen,” but he was an honest, high
minded gentleman, and tbe duties allot
ted to him were fearlessly and faithfully
discharged. As Adjutant General under
Govs. Stephens and McDaniel he did
all that the limited resources at bis com
mand would allow him to do for the vol
unteer soldiery. He repeatedly appealed
to tbe General Assembly to take some ac
tion looking to the better organization
and equipment of the State troops, and if
ever such a step is taken it will doubtless
be upon the line of his suggestions.
Col. Stephens was but 49 years old. He
was born in Hamilton, Harris county.
Very early In life he became closely at
tached to bis distinguished cousin, Alex
ander U. Stephens, and his character
became closely assimilated to that of the
great commoner. Col. Stephens was
without guile. He was perfectly frank
in all bra dealings with men, and there
was never any difficulty in determining
exactly what his position was on any
given question. lie was devotedly at
tached to his native State.
To him its very name was
sacred. He believed in his State’s great
ness. past, present and future, and al
though he had traveled extensively In
other States he regarded none of them as
the equal or Georgia. He frequently said
that it was better to be a Georgia craokor
than to be the richest man that lived In
any other State.
Col. Stephens was a delightful story
teller. lie was familiar with many of
Georgia’s great men, either personally or
by tradition, ami his fund of reminiscen
ces and anecdotes concerning them was
inexhaustible. His friends often sug
gested to him that he ought to write a bi
ography of his cousin, because no other
man, perhaps, knew the great commoner
so well. But Col. Stepnens w;ut a very
modest man, and be shrank from under
taking a task for which he considered
others better fitted.
Noiwlihstandin' his quiet life, Col.
Stepbuns will be sadly missed. He was
one of the last of a family that made
Georgia known and respected even be
yond tbe limits nl the United States He
was gentle, sympathetic aud charitable,
without enemies, aid true to his multi,
tudo of friends. May the sod rest lightly
auove him.
Ex-Gongrussman Frank Jones, of New
Hampshire, has bo< n visiting tho South,
Ue savs that the South is booming in
every direction and oilers good induce
ments to men w(*h ni”ney to invest. He
also says that tho South will semi a dele
gation to the next Democratic nomi
nating convention solidly In favor of
President Cleveland. Ex-Congrussmsh
Jones is a close observer aud knows bow
to tali the truth.
Missouri Congressmen appear to be a
warlike set. Congressman Glover, of
that Stale, is ou the evu o( fight lug a duel,
a .and Gongrevsmaa Jehu J. O’Neill, or the
Eighth district, has just h.td a rough-and
tumble fight at 81, Lotus wuh J. J. Me-
Gariy, a prominent politician, The lat
ter was knocked out Iu the Aral round.
UuiulHiraol the Fiftieth Congress wth do
well not to ottvttd “the geblluiuaii from ■
Mieeourt.”
Henelor Mbenaea anhouncee titmeelf !b
favor of *a exira see*-Be el Cow grsee.
end eaye that the PreelAeet should by git
mesus eat| eae, Wnat as dee the hena.
M *>|#v 4>*rtM*. *
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1887.
Minister Strung’ Quick Departure.
Sir. Oscar S. Straus, the new Minister
to Turkey, is already on his way to Con
stantiuople. It is not au unusual thing
for newly appointed Ministers to linger in
this country several weeks, and even
months, after their appointment enjoying
the honor that has been conferred upon
them and receiving the congratulations of
their friends. Mr. Straus’ early depart
ure for his post ol duty indicates that he
is a man or business, and that he does not
go to Constantinople with the idea that
he will have nothing to do but draw his
salary. His course is in harmony with
the wishes of the President, who does not
believe in public officials drawing sala
ries while they are enjoying themselves
away from their post ol duty.He intimated
that he did not want to hurry Mr. Straus,
but that it would be agreeable to the ad
ministration it he would not delay going
longer than was absolutely necessary.
The President has shown, ever since he
has been in office, a strict regard for the
rights of the people in small as well as
great matters. The people pay the taxes
and he does not believe that a man who
draws his salary from the government
should have any more favors than one
who .draws his salary from a business
firm. He wants each official, whatever
his position may be, to earn what he gets.
Although Mr. Straus is not a citizen ol
Georgia, great interest is felt in him in this
State as a representative of the govern
ment abroad. His early youth was spent
In Georgia towns, and the foundation of
his education was laid in Georgia’s
public schools. That he will be an honor
to both Georgia and Now York, as well
as to the nation, in his new position, there
is no reason to doubt.
Sunday in "Washington.
Washington, tbe nation’s capital, Is
pretty thoroughly stirred up over the an
nounced purpose of tho Commissioners of
the District of Columbia to compel a
proper observance of Sunday. They have
been trying for a year or more to stop the
sale of Intoxicating liquors within the
city’s limits on that day, but without
success. Finding all their efforts in that
direction ineffectual, principally because
public sentiment is not actively in favor
of a strict observance of Sunday, they
concluded to see it there was not some
authority somewhere that would reach
other violators of the Sabbath besides
liquor dealers, and they discovered an old
ordinance or 1843, which proves that
Washington must have been quite a Puri
tan town at that time. This 1843 ordi
nance requires all eating bouses, news
stands, cigar stores, barber shops and
other places which are now open to the
public on Sunday to be closed on that day.
It has been determined to enfore the
ordinance on next Sunday, and the Com
missioners are at present overwhelmed
with protests and petitions. The New
York newspapers particularly are op
posed to it, as it will prevent the distribu
tion in Washington of their large Sun
day circulation there. It would seem as
it the Washington people would have
acted wisely if they had seconded the
efforts of the Commissioners to close the
saloons on Sunday. With their help it is
probable that the police would have been
successful in that matter. Their indif
ference, however, has brought on them a
punishment which, doubtless, it will be
generally admitted, they deserve.
\V omen’s Kiglits.
Mr. William Swinton, who has made a
wide reputation both as a newspaper
correspondent and as a writer of text
books for schools, thinks that if King
George had yielded to all of the demands
of the colonists this country would still
have freed itsell from monarchical rule.
He thinks the very largeness of the
country was conducive to independence,
and that it was foreordained
that the greatest freedom consistent
with the safety of society should be the
distinguishing feature ot whatever gov
ernment the people might establish,
.’hose who are familiar with the history
of the country will doubtless agree that
Mr. Swinton is right. Ever since the
declaration of independence the work of
emancipation has been going on, and now
Indians and women are the only ones
within the jurisdiction of the govern
ment against whom the laws make any
discrimination. The lormer have never
been recognize i as oktizeos, and as they
have almost disappeared, it is perhaps
not worth while to consider them. The
latter are making rapid progress toward
equality in government affairs with men,
and there are those who claim that the
day is not tar distant when the laws will
take no notice of women as a separate
class.
As to tbe right of women to vote, she
may already exercise that privilege under
certain circumstances in a number of
States, and in at least one Territory she
may exercise It as fully as men do. The
question is continually being agitated,
and every year the advocates of woman
suffrage increase in number.
'ue of the best evidences that woman's
Held of action is becoming lar :er is tho
changes in the laws relating to the rights
or married women. In tho last twenty,
live years these ohanges have been very
great. There was a time when the mar
riod woman completely lost her Identity
In that of her husband. This is no longer
the case, and in some States she is almost
as independent as her husband.
Li Ohio, perhaps, tue married woman is
mnr independent than she is in any other
Star . The last Legislature enacted a
law xvl.; h gives her; with tho single ex
ception of tho right to vote, the same
privileges which a man has and imposes
U'ion her about the same burden*.
While the Ohio law may deserve com
mcndation It does not follow thut women
would be ban a titl'd by buying the right
to vote or mat the country would bo
butter off if they exercised taut right.
Notwithstanding the statement that
Mr. Blaine’s rcount illness was slight,
bts friends are touch slutitiod shout uis
eond lion. He is liable, they sav, lo die
of apoplexy lit any moment, and they do
not think that be can survive tbe oxoilu
matof another Presidential campaign.
If tbuy are rigbi they should Induce Mr.
Blaine to ooii 11 as himself to writing
boost, or aoiuu other employ muni less
exciting than politic*.
feenutor Hie nu.ni professes not fa its
eupiDuden account of the Dsmotiralle ■
triumph la Übode Island. The Heaaier
always was imUil far hiding hie real tea*
lUkewia, except whea tb eit blent ol tbe
• ski) l Was tty lar bieuusvi#*.
The Historical Society Library.
Avery decided inoreasoot public inter
est in the Georgia Historical Society is
visible, and the only curious thing about
it is that an institution, having such a
splendid start as this has in its hall, li
brary and art academy, should reraai n
apathetic so long. There is no reason
why Us library should not be twice as
large and many times as useful. Of
course, books cannot be bought without
money, and money cannot be had in such
a society from other sources than mem
bership; but with the right of entrance
without fee, and au entire cost of $5 per
annum, it is extraordinary that the mem
bership is not double its present number.
Still, a library of 12,000 volumes is a fine
foundation, and we trust that the authori
ties will avail themselves of the evident
willingness of our people to extend it by
large and liberal measures. Savannah
can have a magnificent library without
appealing to public charity or private
munificence, and a city which prides
itself upon its refinement and oulture
will not be laggard in sustaining the so
ciety in making its library the finest
within six hundred miles.
CUKKENT COMMENT.
In the Hind* of Discreet and Able Aten.
From the Hew York Star (Vent,)
The serious complications that attend the
work of the commission are already apparent.
It is fortunate that the good sense of the
President has placed it in the hands of dis
creet and able men.
He Needs Kelt.
From the Hew York Herald (fold.)
We hope that Mr. Blaine will soon recover
his usual health. His temporary illness was
probably caused by rutining too hard for the
Presidency. He is an overworked man, and
needs a few years’ absolute rest.
Praise From m Competent Critic.
From the Albany Hews and Advertiser (Dem),
The old reliable Savannah News keeps up
with the procession, and, taken altogether, is
second to no paper published m the iiouth. It
is Southern and Democratic to the core, and
is enterprising and newsy without being sen
sational.
The Situation in Rhode Island.
From the Philadelphia Times C Dem,)
It is not pretended that this revolution in
Rhode Island is a Democratic party victory.
The Republicans simply gat so tired ot ma
chine rule that they broke the traces and
smashed the machine; hut if general suffrage
shall he carried, Rhode island would become
a doubtful State. Under iter present anti-
Republican constitution,little more than one
half of her people who would be voters else
where can vote at any general election.
BRIGHT HITS.
There is no bonnet without a ~B " in it.—
Puck.
Sarah Bernhardt drinks a bottle of stout
for lunch every day. Extremes still meet.—
Life.
Lady (in grocery store)—“Let me have a
pound of butler, please.'’ Clerk (who used to
attend in cigar store;—"Mild or strong?”—
Harper’s linear.
The Washington Critic says: “If we call a
king ‘His Majesty,’ what should we call an
aee?” You should never call aces at aii, ig
norant contemporary /uck.
Ixissaidof a great man, just dead, that
“ho. began life a barefooted boy.” Come to
think we boys all began that wav. and bare
headed, too. — San Francisco Alto,
Sorrowful child to the pastor—Mr. B„
mother sent me to tell you that fatheris dead!
Pastor—ls he? Did you call a doctor?
Child—No, sir; he just died of himself.—
Boston Journal.
It takes three weeks to perform a marriage
ceremony among the upper classes in Japan,
and we don’t see bon the editor of a daily
paper in that country finds tune to got "uni
ted in the holy bonds of wedlock.—Horris
t rum Herald.
“MR. Keatherly,” inquired Bobby, not
withstanding the injunction of his father
that little children should be seen, not heard
“Have you got holes in vour feet?”
“Holes in my feet!” exclaimed the aston
ished young man, “Yes; pa savs you must
have, or you couldn’t drink all the liquor you
do.” —-Ye Yor k Sun.
Two Bohemians are seated in a cabaret:
“Uarcon, some water,” cries one ol them!
“Some water.” exclaims the other. "Why
what will you do with it?” "Drink it.” You
must have lost your bead, old man. Why,
when you only get your feet wet you catch
cold. Think of the consequences of getting it
into your stomach!”— french / un.
Omaha Dame—There now. The Woman’s
Journal says women are more reliable in
positions of trust than men are.
Husband—How do they make that out?
• Prom statistics. It u known that where
100 men abscond not more than one woman
can be found who is in the least dishonest.
Now explain that if you can.”
“Well, the women have no extravagant
wives.” — Omaha World.
nuiiMF.Y —What makes you look so down
in the mouth this morning. Popinjay!
Popinjay—l guess you’d look down in tho
mouth il you’d just litted up your house with
the most approved style ot burglar alarms
aud then had a miserable sneak-thief sneak
in at the cellar window and make off with all
the clothing, jewelry and eatables in the
house.— ttii’ Linjton free frets,
*•1 want you to notice that butter dish,”
said the landlady to her boarders, think a
great deal of it. It’s an old piece of china—
an heirloom, you know.”
••Yes,” said Potts, who was the oldest
boarder, *’l can certify to the truth ot that
statement. 1 have often seen a hair loom up
iu it.”
Hereafter Potts tvlll have to pay his board
in advance —Elmira Gate te.
I'KIiSONAU
Prof. Kk H.tmn A. Proctor will observe
the total solar eclipse of Aug. is in Germany,
aud spend tee rest of the summer iu England.
< oust Von Moi.tk* u the oldest member
of the German Kctchstag, though twenty-four
ol his colleagues are more thau seventy years
old.
Bridgman, the American artist whose pic
ture iu the Paris salon lias attracted so much
attention, a •uiotiines works lifteen hours out
of twenty-four at his canvas.
Mknj. P. Bctlrr is laboriug under another
disappoinunen.,. ite failed to rent las gran
ite houses opposite the capitol at Wash
ington to the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion.
The notorious Gen. Cluserct, in turn a
Garibaldlan. aide to Gen. McClellan, Fenian
and Communist cut-throat, 1 now occupied
with instructing Parisian Anarchist# in tlic
line arts of arson and murder.
A Son of Charles Kingsley is living iu New
i Haven, Conn. He has a charming wife.
Kiigllah by hlrtli. and ilin e handsome chil
dren, Mr. Kingsley Is a civil engineer. Hi
is a tall man with sandy hair and whiskers,
lie aud lu wife tie very popular In .New
Haven society.
M.NATOII-BI.K’T Quay has an especial
fnii’ y tor pruemus atones, aud the cements of
ins wile’s jewel casoa are likely to areme a
s' ns, ion in VVatliingtnii novt win tor. .she is
S Id to pouteas a necklace of singular splendor
conn oped of l anioud-. carbuncles, emeralds,
lopii/' s, . ardony vs and amethysts.
i'u* friends an 1 admirers of Wilson I'.ar
r.dl in Com! m arc i mug of building anew
i heat re for him in O ibii and street, u,ar the
Princess' Hies ire. The capital I, ready
Killy lll'' "•< mi'll IS needed and it is nelieti.il
uow Unit the desired site can be seeiirod, Mr.
liurrel will return to Couduu in May.
KriuAttb ■ log*s lies for his law yxrs ( 01.
lligersol . I ousting amt ollicn ils inrieidaoiip
besides but lug the Hoffman House, be is (he
to.i iijut n| Jlr. Macksv's telcgn.pi. mter
cit, ues dei tln- Hankers aud Merchant*
whit II he owns. He Is a vet * busy man, and i
il is tboul aad ltlcult In get die minute- huii. |
him as it IS with iii Prceldeut of the In lied
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military infallibility.
Strango Significance of the Sunset Gun
—An Anecdote of tbe Late Col. Scott.
from the Xow York Herald,
A contemporary things tb at the recent or
der of the Secretary of War for discontin
uing the tiring of the sunrise and sunset guDS
at Governor’s Island and other military sta
tion.- is very hard on the army, as it forces
the men to consult the almanac to ascertain
when the sun rises and sets.
This recalls a good story that is told of the
late Col Robert N. Scott, woo died recently,
leaving unfinished hiß important work of ed
iting tiie War Records. Alter tho war lie
was stationed at some small fort iD New York
State over a aarrisouof less than twenty men.
and there was very little work to be done
other than performing the military cere
monies and keeping up the garrison farm and
garden.
An amateur astronomer in the vicinity
took considerable interest in timing the
morning and evening guns, and became se
riously disturbed when their irreguarity
caused ins chronometer to appear to vary.
He had too much respect for the military
regulations, which said the guns should go
oIV exactly with the sun. to doubt that the
error was at the fort Ho made the calcula
tions for that meridian and tound his chrono
meter correct But his respect for the gov
ernment outweighed even his reliauce on
his ligures; so he sent his tigures for venfioa
tion to the Dudley Observatory at A bany.
On getting them hack with the Observatory
indorsement of their correctness he was
startled aud shocked, and saw no way but to
lay the facts before the commandant at the
fort. Col. Scott received him with affable
dignity, and listened to his tale of per
plexity. Haying heard him through the Col
onel said:
•‘Aly dear sir, I think I can enlighten yon
on this niattar. The man that tires' that gufl
is the ordnance sergeant. He is also the or
derly sergeant, commissary sergeaut. Quar
termaster sergeant, sergeant major and hos
pital steward, and he likewise milks my
cow. Now. his orders arc to fire that gun as
soon as he has milked my cow, and w hile
there may be some uncertainty about your
timing the sunrise autTsunsetby the report
ot that gun, vou may feel mighty tolerably
sure that my cow has been milked!’’
First Love,
I remember
Meeting you.
In September
Bixty-two.
We were eating.
Both of us.
And the meeting
Happened thug:
Accidental,
On tbe road;
Sentimental
Episode.
I was gushing,
You were shy;
You were blushing.
So was I.
I was smitten
So were you.
(Ail that’s written
Here is true.)
Any money!
Not a bit.
Very funny.
Wasn’t it?
Vows were plighted
Then aud there.
How delighted
Two hearts w T ere.
But your father,
To be sure.
Thought it rather
Premature.
And your mother,
Strange to say.
Was another
In the way.
What a heaven
Vanished then!
You were seven,
1 was ten.
That was many
Years ago.
Don’t let any-
Bodykuow. —Anon.
A Fat I.sdy Work* Her Way to a Plat.
form of the Elevated Road.
From the Hew York Evening Sun.
seventy-one business men of assorted ages
and variegated temperaments met one fat
woman on the stairway of the Sixth avenue
elevated station at Fifty-ninth street yester
day, and were worsted at the fli s: onset. The
fat woman began the ascent of the stairway
on the uptown sideats;ls p. m. She bore
two large satchels, and carried one in front
of her and the other liehind her, for her enor
mous proportions and voluminous skirts com.
pletelv Ailed the space from rail to rail.
When she was half way up, at 5:20 p. m.. she
met the first of the seventy-one men who had
just alighted from a train.
A big crowd always alights at Fifty-ninth
street, which is in the heart of a thickly pou
ulated section, and the fat woman soon"found
that she was stemming a tide of very impa
tient men. No. 1 was a thiu man. He tried
to pass her, without success. The womau
looked breathlessly down the stairwuy up
which she had so laboriously loiled.
“I won’t go back,’’ she said grimly.
There was a long pause, aud finally the thin
man passed tne word back up tiie stairway.
The crowd slowly receded upward and out on
the platform. The fat woman followed afier,
and when she got up to the top she said very
politely: “Indade, O’m sorry to trouble yez.
Much obliged, gintlemen.’’
Gay Old Hannibal Hamlin.
From the Portland Preii.
Hannibal Hamlin is not a man of wealth.
No boodle has ever stuck lo his hands. H*
lives plainly, unostentatiously. On every
public occasion on which he appears he is
plainly the favorite, if oncers and hearty
greetings mean anything. He is seen in the
streets of Bangor on the coldest days of win
ter in his claw-hammer coat, without the ne
cessary adjunct of an overcoat. He walks
miles at a stretch with the alacrity of a bov
just for a “constitutional.” Ho Is found in
the huts of the poor and humble smoking an
old T. I>. pipe in company with the head of
the household He knows everybody and
everybody knows him. On the load of toe
lumberman he is olten seen mounted, ebat
ting merrily with the driver, woo is so proud
of hie compauionship that he will ta k about
it for years afterward. He never forgets a
face and rarely a name, and generally can
tell you more of your family history than you
know yourself.
llis chief relaxation is in fishing. He em
ploys the old-fashioned angle worm for bait,
aud discards all the new-fangled appliances
for capturing the finny tribe. He is exceed
ingly gav in the ha I room. At the legislative
reunion last winter he participated In every
dance down on tiie order, and then went
home in the morning with the prettiest girl
on the lloor.
Th-* Intellectnal Maid,
R ston Letle to the Pr nd nee Journal.
A lady living on the Back Bay has one of
those servants to whom is just v to he applied
the terra ••superior" in its most elevated
meaning. W lnle the I’aiut and Clay Club ex
hibition of paintings wa open tills superior
young woman informed her ml tress I hut she
had a ticket and requested a special evening
out in order to attend the show. For aught
1 know lo the couti ary it may have been the
evening of tho opening reception, when 1 am
sure the servant element wis prettv gener
ously represented; hut at least the fact re
mains that at one time or anouier the girl
saw the exhibition. On her reiurn home-lie
sought her mistress at the first opportunity.
••Here,” she said, extending her ticket,
which chanced to he a “season,” "you must
go and see those pictures. 11 is the fineet ex
hibition 1 ever saw. You'd heller go right
off. bee .•use I shall want to use the ticket again
myself.”
Her mistress has a keen i use of humor. she
took the tick't, mvil dhe inoil ur.stocratic
acquaintance and visred the exhibition on
the girl’s ticket. It certainly seems as if there
was small danger of a decline in Boston cul
ture w line Hie servants thus watch over tho
intellectual good of the>r em plot era.
Beer In Him (fhnreli Cellar.
From the /loess (,V. //,) A
Apropos of the lieor stored under Ist. .lohn '
church, Portsmouth, there is a good story told
oi one of be former |it le* of the parish. II
was disturbed by the fact Ihul Hie church w„a
heated by stoves, and a-Led one of the ward
eus why they did not put in furnace. 'I no
warden replied Hint they could net on ac
connl of the graves in the collar. Tue pastor,
being of no aik'quango turn, took a ln ern
one day and sialic 1 on A lour of inspection hi
Hud ’Thai graves." Pushing open with and fli
euilv a door in the re nr. he f.m i I, not wuat
lie sin If hi, I'll bnei barrels. Itrlirniig. ho
looked up tho waf den. sa l withs twink e in
lilt >e b said : "You have a queer wav uf
Purring your deani yno pick's tn* ia, t see.”
A visiroa to the p*uit< unary at /wag
V[ * 1 “ **' l ******* ' y loosing thioug] -HA
issl-i ill *op | ssi was a. 'ltsesiver* 4 in on* • J (a* i
•and .soears a Profiler of his whn had mi. • S
how home a. th. I 1 yes re, tel we
osd J ".ste-sM MMtt.ie aiti.'M-iiH
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There has not been a grog-shop in Atkin
son, N. H., for fifty-one years. The town has
expended nothing for tnc gupport of the poor
for the last eight or ten years.
In one of the counties of West Virginian
noveity in caucusing has been devised which
might help “practical politics” here. Instead
of holding a primary meeting a man goes
from door to door and gets the preference of
each citizen.
Eighteen months ago Bertha Plngre,
against the wishes of her parents, came from
Germany to marry a coachman. William
Wuudrum, of Hock Island. Her husband tins
just heard of the death of his father, whereby
he inherits a fortune of 5500.000.
Those who ought to know say the pretty
purple inks used on typewriters nowadays
are aniline inks, and will fade away in a few
years. This is no objection to Uieir use in
ordinary correspondence, but might cause
serious trouble in the case of a contract or
legal document.
In Philadelphia a church organization is
trying to raise money enough to build a
church by means of a lottery. The promoters
are selling tickets at 50c., and there are 50
prizes to be drawn, from a 1500 government
bond and a handsome rosewood piano down
to prizes of little vaiue.
Artist John Hendrick, of New Haven,
has sold his painting of the “Two-Dollar
Bill” to a New Yorker. The prioe paid was
5000. Before the sale was made the purcha-er
had to bo convinced that it was a painting
and not a photograph or a genuine bill at
tached lo the background.
The ever-vexatious subject of dissections
for medical purposes has taken anew form in
the Connecticut Legislature, where a bill is
pending which forbids dissections, unless by
the express permission of tiie dying man.
Tilts law would cut oil' the medical fraternity
from the use of the bodies of the unfriended
poor who die in public institutions.
An Omaha doctor became engaged in a fight
with a man whom he finally knocked down
with a heavy china pitcher. The man re
ceived an ugly scalp wound, which the doc
tor sewed up. One would naturally suppose
that the victim would not be called upon to
pay for ihe surgical attendance, but the uoc
tor presented a bill for S2O aud got the money.
Since Byron wrote “’Tis Greece, but living
Greece no more,” the famous little kingdom
has brightened up considerably, and now it
is very much alive. According to Prof. Sey
mour, of Yale University, the country is en
joying a positive ‘’boom.” The population of
Athens has increasedduringthe century from
10,000 to 100 000, and the city has now steam
and horse railroads.
AN old German, of Salem, 111., well edu
cated and perfectly sane on all subjects but
one, thinks that he is continually surrounded
by witches, and wears a belt filled with
chunks of lead to prevent them from flying
away with him. He also weights his ankles
to such an extent that it is difficult for dim to
walk. His house is crowded with bottled
toads, lizards andothcrcir ious objects, which
he keep* lo protect him from witches:
Thomas Graham,of Augusta, II!., dreamed
one night recently that he was standing at
the grave of his father, who lived in a distant
city, and whom he had not seen for years,
Ou the following night the dream was re
peated with startling viridness. Early the
next morning he went to the telegraph office
to send a dispatch home, hut before he had
tilled out the blank the operator handed him
a message announcing that his father had
died suddenly the night before.
The Princeof Wales is now almost entirely
bald. The back part of his head and around
his ears is nearly white with a fuzzy growth
of retiring hair, which shades down into a
reddish-brown tinge toward the base of his
skull. Hi* forehead is full, his eyes are bold
in their expression and seem dead blue in
color. Ilia nose is a cross between straight,
and aquiline. The lower part of his face is
hidden by a short, reddish-brown moustache
and beard. His color is very high. He is not
a distinguished looking man in plain evening
dress.
Charles Warner, the popular London ac
tor, waif told by someone the other day that
a certain fashionable shoemaker had forsaken
his wife and eloped with another woman;
"but we hope,” said the gossip, "that he will
return to his wife, who is ready to forgive
him.” ••No,” said Mr. Warner, “he ought
not to do so; a cobbler should stick to his
last.” The same evening a famous London
doctor complained that a patient whom he
had cured of a dangerous disorder had ab
sconded without paying him. "Oh, but
think,” said the actor, “of the many who
have paid you without being cured.”
A "laughing plant” grows in Arabia,
with seeds producing effects like those of
laughing gas. The flowers are of a bright
yellow, and the seed pods are soft and woolly,
wtule the seeds resemble black beans, and
only two or three grow in a pod. The natives
dry and pulverize them, and the powder, if
taken In small doses, makes the severest per
son behave like a circus clown or a madman;
for he will dance, sing anu laugh, and cut the
most fantastic capers, aud be in an uproari
ously ridiculous condition for about an hour.
When the excitement ceases, the exhausted
exhibitor of these antics falls a-deep, and
when he awakes he has not the slightest re
membrance of his frisky doings.
Gov. Routt lias had an eventful life. Af
ter the war lie became Sheriff of his county
in Illinois. It was overrun with despera
does, and he made himself noted by arresting
several and driving the rest out of the coun
try. On Gen. Grant’s accession tolhe Presi
dency he made Capt. Routt Postmaster at
Bloomington, 111., aud later he became As
sistant Postmaster Genera!. He was ap
pointed Governor of Colorado, and was the
occupant of that position when Colorado be
came a State, By election he became the
first executive of Colorado on its entrance
into the Union. The Governor’s great ambi
tion lor years was to become Posl muster Gen
eral. His interests in Colorado are in mining,
cattle growing and land improvements He
i- one of the wealthiest men of his State, and
intends tog to the Senate if things shape
round for him properly.
Mrs. J. G. Blaine, Jr., is an, uncommonly
handsome woman, very tall and spirituelle,
with a phenomenal voice—a pure tenor, some
thing unusual in lovely women. It runs the
lull leuor register, and lias vet the deepest,
lowest notes of a contralto, she is a wonder
ful ballad singer. , Mrs. Blaine, for all her
gentleness, has no little force of character,
shortly after her romantic marriage In r bus
hand counseled her to see no reporters dur
ing a brief aii-ence of his. A certain irre
pressible reporter all reporters are irrepres
sible—a sine qua mm of t'.o profession; sem
up his card seven times in less than hair as
mauv hours. Each time word was brought
hun tliai Mr. Blaine was out, A reporter,
like truth, "though crushed to earth will rise
aguiu.” This intrepid scrihb er finally sent
up a message saying that if Mr. B alne did
not ci me down he '.llie reporter) would i ome
up, quite after Hie manner of Mahoim t and
ihe mountain. Mrs. lilaine ip iiiiied lor
answer: "Mr Blame Is out. Mr*. Blaine
is at home and wi 1 see him if he comes tin
but he will regret it.” He did not come up’
He doubiles* mentally decided it would oe
well to see her later, if ever.
Thirk are all kinds of sensational stories
Homing about Johnsonville, N. Y., ou account
of the alleged returning to liloof Mrs. John
Baker of West Hoosick. On Wednesday of
last week Sirs. Baker, with her daughter,
drove ir.'m West 11 osick to Hoosick Falls,
that afternoon, while returning. fUr*. Baker
was driven home rapidly by her daughter,
alter arriving she did not speak again, and
about 10 o’clock the same evening she wa-.
supposed to In* dead. Prep .rations were at
once made fur the funeral, which was set
down fur Friday morning at 11 o'clock. The
corpse was aken into Hie church si
Wost Hoosick at the hur mentioned, hot ou
accuuntof Uic iai d:lies of relatives in arri
ving the service did u .1 begin ti I l p. m.
During these two hours many or the women
in the church were whispering about tlm
burial follow mg so closely after Hie supposed
dea h.somu saving tlini Mrs. linker was ouly
inn trail e. However, shout 1 o’clock tlm Rev.
tir. Ui'Aiu.of W inic Cieek, began Hie .ervioi s.
lie was slid lenly interrupted by a cracking
noise in Urn coffin. I'ne giuaiest consterna
tion pervaded tlm audience. 'I he undertaker
uxsmioed the stools upon which His coffin
rcsiiii, hut 'oiiud uotlung wrung, aud Hie
services proceed*'!. Th, racking was Imard
lbr> lime* durioit the service*. end the hiue
’teurc>t columned uii* pm Pi tune*, a Her
jiiiNtclimg (be uii<i*nbfct r opened tiie weed
< >vi*r iig of the ooftin. There * ro no .ihm*
of life, ihil Die body Km turned on it* idtv
Tbe eodteiu# we* luilD'd lo vie ur th# -
HiHiUm, |>Ut li A aM! tlic> uurivl t*l I I lilMf (.(ID
rotilu. Dirivpinuis win Utefa (u (lie
• * * -# • ■*'oitii eli # *#*r*’ p# lit
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A WORD OF WARNING,
The Fearful Dangers or the Present
Season and How to Avoid
Them in Time.
Mr. Wilton R. Palmer, of New York citv
received the best wishes of the season fr„™
all the friends he met on his birthday, and
lieved that his future life was to tic long am
joyous. That evening he felt atickling ln th ,
throat, a slight pain across the chest, and h!
coughed once or twice. The next day h .
nostrils were inflamed, his throat sore and hi!
lungs all filled up. The day following he wi
in bed, with physicians shaking thejr head's
and the third day he was dead from pneumo'
ma, which he failed to take in time. Their
are ten thousand men and wotneu in America
to-day in just the same condition as Mr
Palmer was. Thetr throats are sore their
lungs are irritated, and they are on the verge
of pneumonia and death, but they do not
know it. *
This terrible disease, pneumonia, has be
come the Monster of American life. It u
sudden, severe and fatal. It comes without
warning aud strikes down without mercy
Physicians say it must be thrown from the
system on the start, and that there la nothing
equal to pure spirits for this purpose. Pure
liquors are absolutely necessary when pneu
monia is coming on, and from the careful m
vestigations of the best chemists and physi
cians we are convinced that no liquor now
known to the world is equal to Duffy’s Purs
Malt Whiskey for pneumonia or any othet
pulmonic trouble. This whiskey is put up
solely for medical purposes, and sold ouly m
sealed bottles. It is a stimulant to the organs
that have been congested by cold. It arouses
the tissues to fresh action. It wards of dis
ease, aud containing no fusel ml, it does not
iDjnre nor intoxicate.
Mr. B. W. Roswell, of Washington, D. C
related his experience as follows- "I hail
hemorrhages and was examined by a phisi
eian who thought my lungs oiilv slightly con
gested. In August I bad three more hemor
rhages and lost a quart of blood. Another
physician said I was in the last stapes of con
sumption. and finally 1 gave up all hone. I
obtained Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey and took
it. I have gained health and strength rap
idly, and am completely restored.”
This rcmarkaole whiskey, which is sold bv
all first-class druggists (and the secret of
wuose manufacture many have in vain
sought to find out), deserves to tie kept in
every household, not only to be used ln cases
of emergency, but lo assist in prolonging life
and bringing health aud happiness
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