The Savannah tribune. (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, November 06, 1886, Image 1

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Site 'onvnniinli gjibunc. Published by the Tribvnb Publishing Co > J. H. DEVEAUX, Maxaokb. t R. W. WHITE, Souoitob. ) VOL. 11. JOYCE & HUNT 31 'Whita.lcer Street, Savannah, Groorgfia —Exclusive Dealers in thisTerritery for the Incomparable— lew feme Sewiig Machine The only Machine that has a Perfect Automatic Bobbin Winder. Which enables the operator to wind a perfect bobbin without any aid from the operator. —ALSO AGENT I?OJR, The ffheelock anil Uw Eeglanfl Pianos, AND " Kimball, Clough & Warren Palace Organs. The Plans to Say lb lest Goods for tie Least Money -is jArt’— < TEEPLE & CO.’S, 103 and Broughton CALL AT OUR STORE I If you want Furniture, Mattings, Window Shades, Refrigerators, Bed-Springs, Mattresses, Cooking Stoves, or anything in the Housekeeping Line, it will pay you to call on us before buying elsewhere. New Goods Constantly Arriving. TEEPLE * CO., PRICES PARALYZED! Popular Prices Preach Profitably. CHOICE CLOTHING. OCEANS OF OVERCOATS- Examine our stock of Clothing in Cassirneres. Worsteds, Cheviots Corkscrews, Diagonals, etc. Gents’Suits, Roy,’ Suits, Youths’ Suits and Our Big Specialty, Children’s Suits. We open the season with Low Prices, and Guarantee our Clothing First-class in every respect. Neckwear in variety indeseribable ; Underwear in plain and fancy goods ; Hosiery and Gent’s Furnishings, All the fashionable shapes in Hats. BROUGHTON ST. Abrahams & Birnbaum. Facts Overlooked. An English periodical, reviewing General Grant's Memoirs, says that “Grant was the son of a farmer, who gave him a much better education than he had himself received;” that “the civil war obliged Grant to become a soldier, in which capacity he served for fourteen years, when he again took to farming, which he had to relinquish on account of ill health;” that “he then be camo successively estate agent, clerk in a store, Senator ar.d President.” It is a little strange that the English reviewer should have overlooked the fact that Grant was also a steamboat captain, manager of a comic opera opera company, pitcher of a baseball nine, and Governor ol Brooklyn.—.Vrr 18$'?wn Herald, Not So Remarkable. One day a solemnman entered a Wash ington saloon, and asked: “Is this the saloon where Booth got a drink of brandy before killing the Presi dent? ” “Yes, sir.” “Have you anv of the same brandy left? ” “Yes, sir.” “In the same decanter?” “Yes, sir.” “Give me some of the same brandy out of the same decanter.” It is given him and he puts down the fifty cents and the liquor. “Is that the same brandy that Booth drank that night? ’ “Yes, sir.” “And when h * went out and shot the President? ” “Yes, nr.” “I don't wonder. One drink of that would make a man go out and Still his grandmother.” I Takes Life Easy. I “See that man across the street?” ' “Yes.” “Well, he's one of those men who take life easily.’ “He is! Why, he looks like a hard working man.” “Well, so he is. He's a butcher, and a good one, too, they say.”— Pitfaburg | Dupat-.'i. SAVANNAH GA.. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 6,1886. • » i ww- » •««» . - • ■ **■— A Chapter of Aceideuls. ■■ *'a- « y- ~ J Peggy VVeg stood on one leg. And whirled herself around; Bobby Lob leaned o’er the fence ' And tumbled on the ground. Bessie Guess fell in the brook That runs across the lane. And Billy Still be jumped so high He ne’er wa< se-.-n again. —Harper's Young People. Abandonml the Idea. “If I were in your place.” he remarked to his friend as they came down on ar. elevated train, “I would go boldly to Ethel’s father and tell him that I earned twelve dollars per week, and ask him for the hand of his daughter.” “Up to yesterday that was my owr idea.” “And why have you abindoned it?” “Why, she gave me a hint that her bills for taffy and caramels never run less than fourteen dollars per week, and I am wondering what we would do for opera tickets."— Wall S'reet Nncs. Tom's Copybook. Tom Anjerry, a student at the univer sity of Texas, blots his copybook when ever he attempts to write in it. “Is this your copybook?” asked Pro fessor Snore, gazing severely at the blots. “Yes, sir.” “Well, Thomas, these dark spots in your copybook through a bright light on your slovenly habits.— Siftingn The Übiquitous Thistle, 1 here is uo weed fveeMtor or more übi quitous than the common thistle. In paradise, it is true, if we may trust John 1 Milton apd the Sunday school books— wise, ns usual, beyond what is written I there were no thorns or thistles: the cre -1 ation and introduction of the noxious tribe upon this once nnocent and thorn? i less earth being a direct consequence of the fall of man and astern retribution for ‘| Adam’s delinquency. But since then the thistle has manag 'd so to diffuse it self over the habitable globe that there hardiy now remains a spot on earth without its own local representative of that cver-intrusive and conquering gen- , i us. Wherever civilised man goes, there the thistle accompanies him as a matter j of course in hjs various wandering-?? It : | adapts itself to all earthly environments- Close up to the arctic circ.ie you find it ! defying the indigenous reindeer with its prickly wings. Under an equatorial sky you may observe it accommodating it | self most complacently with a sardonic smile to tropical existence, and with the prickly cactuses and the thorny acacias, to the manner born, for its fait share of the dry and arid uplands, liven ' ' nettles are nowhere in competition with I it; in spite of its valuable and irritatirfg sting, the nettle has not the plasticity and adaptability of .constitution that mark the stout and sturdy thistle tribe. Garnered and harvested yearly, with the farmer’s corn, its seeds have Deen grat- 1 uitously.distributed by Us*efleniy,man, in j all climates; ana whey ‘once it gains the > slightest fo^othql’l, < its winged down en ables ifdiffuse itself ad infinitum through the virgin soil of yet uncon- ; quered ' and uttthjstly continents.— i Longman's Magazine .MmSSii! A Flue Family of Daughters.* " , A gentleman travelling through the mountainous and thinly settled-districts ' I of North Carolina was overtaken by a ' storm. As he was on horseback, and ■ I therefore quite unprotected, lie beheld with delight a log cabin in the distance, ! I and speedily betook himself thither. I The old farmer greeted him with true ; Southern hospitality, and he soon found I himself seated at the dinner-table beside j “the old ’ooman,” as his host designa- I ted his wife, while one by one a seem ingly endless file of daughters entered I I the room. Turning to 'the farmer, he ; ' mildly observed: “You have a fine I family of daughters, sir.” “Well,” said the old man, mourn fully, “we’ve been kinder unfort’nato j with our darters. The chimbly | fell in and killed all but nine on ’em.” | The historian dares not guess , how many there were at first. — Harper's Magazine. Whistling Barometers. In the village of Meyriu (canton ot i : Geneva) Switzerland, some disused | wells, it is said, have been hermetically scaled to serve as barometers to the people. An orifice about an inch in di- i ameter is made in the cover of the well, by which the internal air is put in com- ' munication with the external. When the air pressure outside diminishes on the approach of a storm, the air in the , well escapes and blows a whistle in con- 1 nectiou with the orifice, and in this way notice of a storm’s approach is given to i the inhabitants. If, on the contrary, the pressure increases, a different sound • is produced by the cbtry of the air into the well, ami the probability of fine ; j weather is announced.— Scientific Ameri can. M A Chance to Save Money. Patient —Then you think rny finger will have to be amputated, doctor? Surgeon —Yes, it will have to come I off. Patient—How much will tin: job cost? Surgeon—Fifteen dollars. i Patient —Is that the’best you can do, ' doctor? I’m a poor man. Burgeon—Yes, fifteen dollars is the , • best I can do for one finger, but I will ' cut two of ’em off for twenty-five dollars. ; —New York Times. A wise man ought to hope for the best, ■ be prepared for the worst and bear with , equanimity whatever may happen. f Booth’s Weapons. I saw the other day, says a writer in the Washington Herald, two of the most curious and interesting relics of the ; greatest tragedy in American history. They are the pistol with which .John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln ami the dagger he held in his hand when \ he leaped from the box to the stage of the theatre, crying "Sic.semper tyrannic.’’ These relics are preserved in a bureau of one of the great departments Os the gov ernment, and with them is the bullet that struck Mr. Lincoln down. The pis tol is the most interesting of the lot. It is one of the kind known as the derrin ger, made in Philadelphia, which was very famous all through the South ami Southwest thirty years ago. The one in question is of beautiful workmanship. Ils barrel is only two inches in length, and the bullet weighs about a quarter of an ounce. 'Pho entire length of the weapon is but four inches. Its mount ing is of silver, and the lock is one of the finest and most perfect pieces of 1 have ever seen, even in •these weapons, which are very expensive, ami elaborate. The bullet is much bat i tered, and was evidently driven into the muzzle (for the pistol i.s a muzzle-loader) by the use of a mallet and iron loading rod. Considering the heavy charge of j powder under the bullet before it was fired, the latter must have been only half i an inch from the muzzle, and could cast- t ly have been touched with one’s little * I finger inserted Mito the barrel. The I i marks of the rifling in the barrel are clearly visible on the bullet, which was ; very much flattened from striking the j skull. Altogether, a more interesting I and ghastly curio I have never seen, i While handling the pistol I looked al Lie end of (fie breech. 1 found there a I reccp aclc for percussion - caps, which ; had evidently been overlooked, and on ; opening it I found a solitary cap, which i Booth had evidently put there himself, j intending, if by any chance the one on I the tube of the pistol exploded without ' firing it, to have another ready to his ’ hand. The Famous Eureka Springs. The Eureka Spring are hidden t among the Ozark mountains, in the northwestern corner of Arkansas. A writer for the Boston 'Trawler says: At Eureka it was my good fortune to meet Col. Bondi not, whose father was an Indian chief of the Cherokees, and in ! conversation with him he related the in cident that led to the discovery of the springs. For a long time their virtues had been known to the Indians, but they kept the knowledge a profound secret. It was left for the Yankee mind to discover and appropriate their commercial value. An Eastern man afflicted with sore eyes visited the land of the Cherokees, and one day chanced to bathe his eyes in the cooling water of a spring. It seemed to give him relief, and for several days the process was re peated.’ He found after a few weeks of the treatment that his eyes were com pletely cured. Then followed the Yan kee acuteness. He bottled up the spring water and sold it to the whites for miles around. His eye-water became famous, and he realized quite a sum from its dis posal. But finally his secret wai dis covered, and the springs became com mon property. The afflicted of all kinds flocked there, and since that time there has been a continuous influx of health seekers. Despair Turned to Exultulion. A life insurance policy may not cover a multitude of sins, but it seems to con done some minor one’s in a widow’s eyes, according to the Chicago Tribune: “A young widow in Waukesha, whose busband had been dea l for a month, and whom she had always supposed to be free from small vices, was overhauling his clothes the other day. She found a large plug of tobacco in a coat pocket. “Oh, George! George!” she exclaimed despairingly, “you and I will never meet in the good world!” In another pocket she found a life insurance policy for $5,- 000, of which she had before known ' nothing, and she burst forth exultantly: I “Oh, yes, we will! we will! Heaven will forgivJhiin his uocllitlle fault!” £ e' - I—RW M Par Annum; 75 ernt* for Six Months; 50 cents Three Mouths; Single Copiex ' 5 e»ut» In Advance. HETTA GREEN'S GOLD. she 4m :i««r< Thirt y llililou Dollars and lira »e»l« It iu Railroad Steck. S A special from New York, says: Mrs?'| Hetty Green lias secured the control ot the Georgia Central railroad. She is a!sk| closely identified with the Louisville ang Nashville railroad, owning a lartW amount of its stock. She is a remaAJ ble woman. She is the wealthiest in® 1 United States. Mrs. Hetty Green is worth thirty 1M I ions of dollars She is rather of robust build, about fifty years of with iron gray hair, strong keen, penetrating eyes. She is Oi daughter of a New Bedford whaler, left her .$!».000,000. not long after an aWB died and bequeathed her more. With the $13,000,000 she O credited with making $20,000,000 mor® Yet. she feels poor. On one occasion’ several years ago, she came down to banker's in Wall street, in a stage with® valise containing several hundred thtflff >and dollars worth of securities. •'Why did you not come down inß caniugU” expostulated her banker >,l' “I can’t afford it,” was her reiualkaW answer. NORTH CAROLINA’S FAIR. ’’ I Ixliiblls Fine and Atteiidnnca Large - Mx< ciiryiou of Nortbrrn Editor*. Tiie twenty-sixth annual fair of thf North Carolina State Agricultural society began at Raleigh on Tuesday. It wai opened by Governor Scales. The attend- T ance was very largo and the exhibits, I partienlarly of cuttle, were superb. Thel» • t state department of agriculture makes a ■ remarkably tine and complete display, ■ which fills a very large portion of the ex-, : W position buildings and contains many.cß thousand articles, including ores and-IB minerals, woods, gems, and all kindrW crude products. Tuesday evening a larO ’’ ® nnmber of northern editors arrived anl IF were welcomed by Governor Scales anU I j Mayor Dodd, of that city. They merei| with the convention of northern-bor|l I ■ settlers in this state. Wednesday nigh«l L the city of Raleigh gave a banquette the » , northern editors. || i FROM At•nrs-i-t T(J < H VFTIAOOi; j ~ Ihe contract for grading the August! Kt j and Chattanooga railroad to Gainesville ! has been closed. It is awarded to Messrs, ly W B. Lowe A Co,, of Atlanta, and they; mF i will begin operations at once. From F Gainesville to Chattanooga the work willv be begun at the earliest possible monoent. 1 j 'lliis impyptant road will be completed in i. due Hum l :lnd will give Augusta another | wQj.tißtJ railroad The Lstance from 1 Augfista to Chattanooga will be twqjj hundred ninety miles shorter thanjij by any other route at present, in opera-1 ■ tion. 'BIm —. „ I AN OPPOSITION TRAIN. The Nashville and Chattanooga rail road in conjunction with the Western and Atlantic and Georgia Central, will put on a cannon ball train to run to Jacksonville, Fla., to compete with the ; Kirt Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia s system. A lively war is anticipated, and there is talk of a renewal of former hos tilities between the East Tennessee and the Western and Atlantic. A BARGS SEIZED. United States Treasury Inspector Mc- Hale seized the Canadian steam bargfe Isaac May at Chicago for towing the schooner Severn between Chicago and/ South Chicago. A foreign vessel towingf another between two American ports is. subject to a penalty of fifty cents per toaj of her tonnage. BANK ( IRC! EAR. AN EMPORTA^tfFDE CISION. ; C Attorney General Garland has - given an opinion to the secretary of the Vreaa- h ury that national banks must deposit in terest bearing bonds to secure GuStr cir- .4 culation and that the called threeNner | cent bonds cannot lie used as a basis S circulation. r. tb BUSINESS FOR CHATTANOOGA. Advices from St. Louis staU.thst the I mammoth pip: works of Shinlde. Harri- B son and Howard will surely in | Chattanooga, and that work wiltbe com.- I menced in a very short time. ” f Mcavenkera of lawportauce. Next to the bowels, or rittber in-ciHi jinction with them, the kidneys and bladder are tho rno-t important scavenger? rif the aystt-m, They purify the blood and parry off il«. refuse, preventing rheumatism, dropsy, Bright’s dis- I ease and diabetes by their active ciewaaUM* i work. Hixtetter’s Stomach Bitters, when tbo I kid neys evince a tendency to relax the activity- I <>i their important function, renews it, and . t!.:i-ave'ts renal n-aiadie:, the m> st dinlculfc t • cope with, and wh(ch supetindtue tt. fright. I ful loss of bodily tfesue, -tamina and riesh When the renal organ- exhibit tiie-.iishtja^’i svn.ptoms of inaction, they should at Jr- ceive the needful stimulus from this sF ini surest and piraeantest dlnre.iw. co* /> tever. dyspeps.a. constipation, hvt-rM Slid debilit y are »'■»<> remedied 'py it. mF' / W > ... ■ ' NO. 3.