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T> tiers and telegrams s.iould bo addressed ‘ H Morning Xewr, Savannah, Go." ... Advertising rates made known on application ■MO TO NEW ~ ADVKHTISKMKMS. ■k Fpcciai, Notices—Rananas, J. S. Collins <£ Bo.; A Fine Lunch, etc., at Graham’s; As to of German Bark Juno ami Austrian Bark * Steamship SoHEDCLK-Ooean Steamship Cos. Artist Materials —L. & B. S. M. H. BE Cheap Colimn Advertisements Help Want ptpd; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale: lljPersonal; Miscellaneous. I Late news from Washington is to the ■flert that the Whitney liaby is still alive ■tel kicking. The “turn” the employes of the Pan Han Hp> route had suggests that the name of the B§> wte ought to lie the “Organ Handle.” ■ It is said that the new Senator from West has a Backbone like the letter S. If® e do ibtless has trouble in stiffening it. Thomas W. Keene, the tragedian, is again fSfcal! enough to act. He is not a great actor, ■<it he is a good one. and he has many friends l*h the South who will lie glad t > welcome Hiip ba"k to the stage. BT.ip Governor of Rhode Island rejoices gjju-d >r the title of “Captain General of Rhode hi.cl and Providence Plantations.” It is Htl or high sounding, hut not too much so H.r che Democrat who now weal’s it, Minnie Bond, a negro woman 1:> years ■i, was buried at Palls Church, Va., on lit. Of course she rememlierod George but she deserves a monument ■ •cause she denied being one of his numer pfcv - nurses. H It is claimed in lowa Unit one effect of the law in that State lias been to di *lll a large quantity of com from the dis ’ Wleiy markets and to send it to the public ■rough other channels. If this lie true 9®wa should congratulate herself that she ' a prohibitory law. |j® There are times when Sam Jones, the W ongelist, utters a sentenee of rare olu Here is a sample: “The most lieau- Hffnl sight in the world is to see a family Bound a cheerful fire, with the head of the reading his local newspaper, which ‘pße has paid for in advance. ■ The Mexicans are said to be rejoicing he- Hp'isa Secretary Bayard yielded to the de Blands of their government in the Rebecca States to remomlier that Sm-retarv ■yard is not infallible, although he has •ven but littie cause for complaint against ■Ex-Speaker Carlisle says that Democrats miuld be unworthy of the name if they anv number of reverses to ills them. He thinks the growth of the party in the last twenty-five IBi's has beau wonderful, and that its in the years to come will lie still More woiiu. pSsMt* ftittw HrauapPotter thinks the press Hf the VMM I*#** has not treated her fWvly. (Rhe objects to being condemned on a first |XTW and thinks she is now en titled to more favorable criticism. Perhaps she is. The determination she expresses to achieve success, if hard work will bring it, certainly deserves commendation. There are 980 railroads in the United States, and under the requirements of the interstate aimmfivr law it will cost t hem $’.14,500,000 to print the si die Biles of their ifassenger and freight charges. It seems after all, therefore, that the railroads will lose on printing l.ills about what they will gain by the abolishment of free passes. ' Representatives of the Society of Friends, of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware called oil President Cleveland the other day and protested against the execution of the retaliation hill. It would have been better if they had called on the Canadian govern ipeiit and protested against that Canadian cruiser's unwarranted firing upon a Cm tod States fishing vessel. Mr. George William Curtis thiuks that while it is probable President Cleveland will he renominated he cannot l re-eleoted. Mr. CJurtis thinks the Democratic leaders will antagonize the President, If Mr. Curtis liver; long enough he will find out that he is mistaken. Not only will the President lie r ‘nominated, but he will be re-elected by a larger majority than he had in lsst. t Reports from Afriea air to tin* elfeet tliat BUmley will have great difficulty in making headway with his expedition The supply of food and water along his l-oute has almost Ween exhausted. He lias fSOO men with him, but it is thought that he will be able to ob ttin transportation for but 150. lie will be jjmtunate if he reaches Emir Pasha before too expiration of eight or ten mouths. ? The Pension Bureau ought to be more ■ftreful in announcing to jiensioners that applications for pensions, or increase at pensions, have been granb-d. Wednes oay, in New York city, a blind and shut tered veteran was notified that his applica tion for back pension, amounting to *i;,000, l|*d been granted and that his (tension had bfreu increased to (72 a month. He was so overcome with joy at the intelligence thnt tlio excessive beating of his heart caused a rapture of a blood vessel, and the (ioor fel low fall dead. Who says joy never kills; It is Mid that the first mass meeting of Nihilist* ever held in the world was whn Bp.irtyof them aaaeinbtod in New York the other night and denounced President. < Teisianii and BeersHary Havant for eon dialing n treaty with Russia which pro* vkli for a free delivery of dynamitors and conspirators to the * Kussisn government Two thousand Rushans ami Poles were pr-sent, in#rr of them hring women, hfesrtte# war* mad* by a Dr Aarouwwi. ]e- ijartman ami a CM. HiuUci Itesoßi Inn. *n adopted upon the braul# to f w* (It* tpe Not Seeking the Truth. Tli < ' New York Tribune docs not want to lui bfish the truth respecting political matters relating to tlw tvmth. It gladly publishes anything which appears to place the South ; in an unfavorable light, and, that too. vvith -1 out seeking first to find out how much, if i any, truth there is in it. bt its Thursday's ! e litem it publishes a communication en ! titled “The Georgia Plan. The ‘New South’ I as it is in Fact.” Tho article pretends to show that a plan has been agreed upon in this State to prevent the polling of the full vote. It would not be worth noticing, lie cause it is evidently written by one who is ignorant of the things ho writes about, or who willfully avoids the truth, if the Tribune had not indorsed it iu ail editorial article. The “plau"to which attention is called, and which is pointed out us the new method for preventing a full and free ballot, is the limiting of {silling places so that all who want to cannot vote. The two places select ed to show' what is accomplished by tfc® plan arc Savannah and Atlanta. It is as serted that Atlanta has only two polling places and Savannah only one. It is as sumed that Atlanta lias 1:1,(XX) voters and that each set of election officers is expected to handle fi.ooo votes. The impression in tended to be conveyed to the public is that (i,OOO voters cannot lie accommodated at one (lolling place within the time designated by law, and that, therefore, thousands of voters are prevented from voting. The attempt of the Tribune's correspond ent to convey a false impression is so plain that no editor who has a love for truth and justice would indorse it. If there are voters, white or black, either in Savannah or At lanta who, are deprived, in the manner in dicated, nr in any other manner, of the privilege of voting, is it not fair to presume that the whole country would quickly lie made acquainted with the fact; That there has lieen no complaints by voters, Demo cratic or Republican, is ample evidence that no ground for complaint exists.) It is true that Atlanta has only two poll ing places and Savannah only one, but there is more than one ballot box at each polling place and more than one sot of election of Heel’s. In Savannah the number of boxes is regulated by the comparative importance of the different elections. At general elec tions there are enough boxes provided to ac commodate all the voters in the county, ami at county and city elections enough to ac commodate the number that will probably vote. While, therefore, there is hut one {loll ing place voting goes on at several boxes at that place. The same is true with respect to Atlanta. Nobody in this city finds fault, with the voting arrangements provided by the County Commissioners, and the presumption is, therefore.that everybody is satisfied with it. The polling place is in a convenient locality, and it is doubtful if any more votes would lie cast if the ballot boxes were distributed over the city instead of lieing in one locality. Probably the Tribune thinks that the pur pose of having only one. polling place in this city is to keep the negroes from voting. If it does it is mistaken. The city has a very large colored population, anil the colored voters are at the {mils early in the day and vote steadily until they get through. The hulk of the negro vote is generally east be fore the white vote. In the country dis triets us many polling places are provided as the people seem to desire. If the vote in Georgia is not as large as the 'tribune thinks it ought to he it is because of the in difference of the people. There is one thing, however, that, is certain. It is that the ne groes do their full share of voting when they want to, and they want to whenever they think their interests are involved in an election. The Tribune should get at the facts before indorsing such stuff as the cor respondent who furnished the “Georgia plan” palmed off on it, or else frankly ad mit, that it is not seeking the truth where the South is concerned. The Case of Ex-Senator Jones. Before the Florida Legislature met there was some expectation that ex-Senntor Charles W. Join s would be a candidate for re-election. This expectation was based ujion statements furnished by himself. No body, however, thought tint he had any chance of getting the nomination, and it is probable that he himself never seriously con templated seeking a re-election. It really looks ns if lie never intended to return to Florida, although it is impossible to make any sort of a reliable guess about the course n man who has acted as Mr. Jones has will take. It is doubtful if there is a case in the political history of the country that is simi lar to that of liis. As far as any one ap{ioars to know he had no cause to absent himself from the Senate during an entire session. He was rather popular in the Senate and enjoyed an excel lent reputation for ability and close atten tion to his Senatorial duties. He does not appear to have had any mental trouble that unfitted him for the discharge of his duties. His sudden departure for Detroit, therefore, and his remaining there without any regular employment are mysteries which no one pretends to know anything about. It is clear that he has not lost any of his mental vigor. A speech on the tariff question which he mode a few weeks ago shows that his mind is as dear as it ever was. It is assumed that he is held in Detroit bv the bonds of love, and that, although he knows that there is no prospect for him to win the consent of this lady to a marriage with him, lie hasn’t the necessary will power to leave the city in which she lives. If this lie his actual condition there ought, of course, lie a great deal of sympathy for him, though not of the kind that would insist on giving him another term in the Senate. That his case is a {teculiar one no one can doubt. The newspaper man who succeeds in finding out the true cause of his strange conduct will earn u reputation that will give him a high place in his profession. There is no doubt that Mr. Jones still has many warm friends in Florida, and that they would gladly sis’ hitn back in his law office in Pensacola determined to make the most of the balance of his life. Dorman B. Eaton, the late Chairman of file Civil Service Commission, deliverisl a “Free Talk on Civil Service Reform" to about tliree dozen peiwons ill Washington tile oth er day. Among other things he said: “Com mon school education hn* r.s-eivsl no such reinforcement from any other cause os from the cause of civil service reform, (If 20,000 persons who have now IK*c:l cxniuiiesl for the Federal service, more tlmn Hi per cent, havi Iss-n edm-nted onlj in the puhlie school*," lie thinks theeouutry jour nals uimw- tile reform Iks-hii-. ■lt dmiinidiet thu-r Ut#n ' * blt H>sf sars there is no new r. ith |*i "ielJis the fnil hu never l*u i- fcfissd a ooni field town In AlsU.ms 1 hi(j Mh*tort-l l.i thtrt#nrr~;l c-tetc J*s i p earns dav. SAVANNAn HORNING NE'E'S: SATURDAY. APRIL 18, IS7. ; Ministers Discuss the Liquor Question The liquor question bobs up constantly in all parts of the country and in all sorts of pile 's nowadays. In one place the fight is for high license and in another for prohibi ted. Iu most places the temperance people arc divided on the question whether or not high license promises ln-tter results than pro hibition, and in others there are grave doubts whether or not the liquor question ought to he kept out of politics. The Methodist ministers of the New York East Conference at Mount Vernon, in that State, a Jay or two ago had one of the live liest debates ever listened to on the liquor question. They were very good humored throughout the discussion, hut it was appar ent that not a few found difficulty in keep ing cool and confining themselves strictly to courteous language. The discussion lasted four hours, and finally ended iu the adop tion of resolutions upon which the Rev. W. H. Boole commented as follows; “You might as well take a man and cut out his heart, then stand him up ami call him a muii as to call these resolutions prohibition resolutions.” The resolutions were certainly not calcu lated to create much enthusiasm, either among Methodists or temperance people generally. They were so mild as to justify the suspicion that some of the powerful deacons of not a few of the churches repre sciiti’d at the conference are inclined to take a little wine for the stomach’s sake once in a,while. The truth is, however, there was such a diversity of opinion among the as sembled ministers as to the best method of advancing the cause of temperance that it was impossible to pass strong resolutions. All were united in declaring that the liquor traffic is a great evil, but they were far from lieing united respecting the remedy for the evil. The Prohibitionists couldn’t see any good in high license, and those who favored high license thought that prohibi tion in the cities did more harm than good. There were advocates of a prohibition party and then’ were those who were certain that wherever the liquor issue was made a politi cal one it got a black eye and a set -back. If all of those who favor the temperance cause could lie induced to work to gether harmoniously they would tic a great {lower. Their differences rob them of their influence. They expend the greater part of their strength in trying to convince each other as to the proper way to destroy the liquor traffic. But when ministers find it impossible to agree upon the best way to fight the battle of temperance harmonious action is not to be expected from laymen. The Sawdust Game. It is remarkable that the “green goods” swindlers fimj so many victims in all parts of the country, in view of the fact that their swindling operations have been printed so often in all the newspapers. Can it lie pos sible that the dishonest dupes do not know the character of the men who offer to sell them counterfeit money, or do they think they are smart enough to get the best of the swindlers' It was thought when the Texas real estate dealer killed the notorious “green goods" swindler, “The” Davis, in his den iu New York, that the business of this class of swindlers had received a blow from which it would never recover. But the business, it seems, is more flourishing than ever. Victims are found by the score who are will ing to buy counterfeit bonk bills. In New York on Wednesday a gorgeous “green goods” place was raided by the (Hilice, and a very large quantity of stuff connected wifli the business was captured. It was locate! immediately opposite a police station. The swindlers perhaps thought they would run less risk of exciting the suspicions of the police by operating right under their eyes. Among the plunder were 30,000 stamped envelopes addressed to .pun ties in different, parts of the South and West, all of which contained circular letters well calculated to excite the cupidity of dis honest men. A great many packages con taining old paper and sawdust were also found. These packages were all ready to lie scut by express to customers who had already paid their money for so much coun terfeit money, or who would {iay it when they received the packages from the expri>ss office. The swindlers had evidently been doing a very flourishing business They were fiving luxuriously and were dressed in fashionable attire. Many letters which had liset) re ceived from dupes were found, and from these t hp’ police got glimpses of some queer phases of human nuture as it displays itself in the average rogue in the country. Of course all who answered the letters offering to buy the counterfeit bills knew that they intended breaking the law, and that they were as great rogues its the men who offered to sell them the Isigus money. There appears to tie some doubt respecting the relations which exist, between Russia and France, but there is still greater doubt as to what the policy of Russia is. The Russian foreign minister, M. de (Tiers, says it is one thing and M. Katkoff says it is another. This latter gentleman is the edit or of the Moscow Gazette, and it is noticed that he says pretty much what he pleases in his paper. The press is not free iu Russia, and many editors there have been sent to Silxa ia or locked in dungeons for much less than M. Katkoff lws done. He has lieen commanded time and again by the foreign minister to pursue a different course and not antagonize the government, but he has not seen fit to obey. In view of this condition of affairs, the question is being asked in diplomatic circles in Europe who is govern ing Russia; The Czar must lie sustaining M. Katkoff against his foreign minister. There once li vis I at Rome, in this State, a Justice of the Peace, who, because he owned a dug-out on the Coosa river, was calhsl “Commodore Perry.” He knew no law, and in order not to show partiality to the lawyers who had cases in his court, he adopted the following plan: He decided in favor of the lawyers in rotation, and kept a tally shret in order to lie sure that he didn't decide in favor of any one of them twice iu succession. His plan worked like a charm, and when he died he had the reputation of being tlio fairest Justus' of the Peace in the State. Tile Intel-State Coalmens' Comniis sioiiers, by adopting Couiniodore Perry's plait, might find an easy way out of the troubles that confront them. I<et them de i.'ide alternately m favor oft ho railroads uud tiie |siple, and keep a tally slieet in order to Is- mire that they do not decide in favor of either twin: m *u-corkioii. Wall street o| visitors estimate thut many (liillions of dollars have lett New York during the spring for invest omit in retd estata In the Mouth. Tin- is a whole bundle ol straw-show mg winch n) tlio winds of pi'Oß| city ivi'e blowing Tlse rolllO-rmeiit of Mirntui'n f.ineolu's remains alTords a flue opini-t unity for tb ri'siu iwlwiti of John W iIIc-m iiaofh When* bis the rrnsn ot war sunMf CURRENT COMMENT. But Perhaps Wo Will. From the. Xetr 1 ’ ll'rald (i)era.) Mr. Chapleuux. the I ..uadiau Secretary r>f State, complains that --.o have net reciprocated Canadian corrli.ili: i. We h: re not reciprocated i (Canadian gunboats eitl • r The South’s Advance. From the Ro< / , >Horning Herald. The advance of the s- eh from the poverty stricken v. aste “v.as ' w ' ’ real's ago Is a won der, even in this country of'marvellous growth, during the next two ile. .ies lie South is bound tc. press on, from year to year, in geometrical progression, until those w iio to-day know it well, will find it. an empire a- great industrially as territorially. The ‘‘Notorious Gallantry” of South ern People. From the Son Francisco Examiner (Deni.) A Georgia colored girl, who claims to have been clothed entire in the mantle of prophecy, announces the coming o another earthquake, and now everybody in iiie district where she lives is praying for gr i Thin illustrates the notorious gallantry of mr Southern fellow eiti zens. They would rah, pray for grace than call even a colored girl;r The Exodus from the Farms. From the. Boston Advertiser (Rep.) The exodus of young men from New England farms ha.- its counterpart in a similar movement at the South. The Savannah News reads young men a lecture on the suhjec: of contributing to Hie prosperity of the farming interesl. The cities and manufacturing eng. cements in the towns have drawn heavily on b e rural districts. A re action, North and South, may se! iti which will make ouce more profitable farms now almost deserted. i BRIGHT BITS. When open cars are seen upon the tracks, ‘Tis time for girls to shed t he sealskin sacquos. -Boston Courier. Evanoelican clergymen say the best fire es cape is a correct like Boston Commercial Bul letin. Agootnamb vas more worth as a barrel of gold. Look pooty veil on It when vou put a name on (ler baby. Curl Pretzel's llVeWy. A sensational, head liner in a contemporary writes: "The people sit down on them in than der tones." It make- a I'eUo.v feel fiat to have “the people sit down mf him. but to do so in “thunder tones" is a heaw set.—Chicago Inter- Ocean. The average man will manipulate Indian clubs until he is ready t" ,1 op from exhaustion and never complain: but if h” is obliged to carry a scuttle of coal up two Mights of stairs his fam ily will not hear the last of if for several days. Wherefore is this; Toll! ts. “She's such a vulgar woman,” said a high official’s wife to a companion as a lady passed t hem in a store. "\\ by do you think so, you don’t know her do you;'’ "Oh, no, but then yon know she isn’t in our set.” —Woshinaton ('nfic. ‘‘Did you ever so" such disagreeable weather?” said one Philadelphia Indy to another. "Well, I don't mind it.’” was the reply. “I’ve had a lace liedspread hanging out for three days and ii isn’t dry yen. Bui 1 have this satisfaction: 1 know ail the neighbors have noticed it and are envying me.'* —FitiladclpUia Herald. Mamma—Gome, Bobby, take your medicine now. und then jump into bed. Bobby—l tin not vvaut to take any medicine, mo. Father (who knows Iniw to govern children!- Robert, if you don't take your medicine at once you will be put to bed: without taking it at all.— Harper's Bazar. Omaha Dams—Of all things.' Mr. Blank, the dry goods man, has bought that beautiful house across the way. Omaha Mon—He ckii well afford to. He is worth a mil lion. "Why. who left it to him?" “Nobody. He rr.ai’ rin his business.’' “I don’t see how. H- - ahvavs selling goods below eont.”— Omaha 11. . M. “Now. yqiijpav. ’fr -it fw Duff iron stood out,, side, anil, having over the fcntf> saw the de fondant here strike Mr Smith?" "Yes, sail.*' "How tall are you, Kolby?” “ 'Bout five foot six, -ah.' “Then tell me, if you please, how you can stand und look over a nine-foot fence?” "1 stood*.n mtfwuies. sahr'j /.</< The Si.-I, I‘tihiisfisys-I lector/r > professional nurse! Well, how isT.fi this ft/.rning? Nurse Weaker, doctor. Been very low all night. and looks now like he was comatose. r>..(gh>r FTor. is bis t.-mpi-mtu:" Nurse i ine hundred und two degrees. Doctor How’s ids circulation Patient .with a fearful yelb-Biggest in New York: Bigg.-st in theuniversel Want an affi davit?- AV.r V fij.'itg. Enough is a Feast.—Countryman (confiden tially to a restaurant proprietor)— I say. mister, taint often that 1 drink this ere champagne water, blit Ik’hi; tills is our wediiin’ trip I guess we’ll try a tittle. Proprietor- Ail, right, sir. Here, waiter, some champagne, mil bring <jt, in.me of the new pa iK Country man iin consternation)- Urent Scott, mister: We can’t drink and hull pail full; that's ’tnitigh fer a boss. Sew York Sun. It's an awful thing, force of habit. It’s ac countable for a great deal of misery and a great deal of happiness. Most things ure done from force of habit. Swearing, drinking, loving, hating, all become habits, and can't be got over. A fellow goes courting, amt it’s awfully pleasant. U 11 rst it's novelty and fun. then it becomes habit, and they think it is love. The girl goes away fora month. He pines for a week, and when she coup s back she s got out of the liai.it, and he’s got into the habit of courting another girl, and it’s all up.—. San Francisco Chronicle. At the tailor’s. Snips (insinuatingly) Now this pattern, Mr. C’ublelgh Cubleigh (contemptuously)—Hay? ('awl that a pattern? Why, it's a weglaw fweak, cuss me if it ain’t. Snips (apologetically)—lts the newest thing over, sir. Prince >f Wales pattern we cal! it. Cubleigh (interestedly)—Hay: Wales, hay? Hoes be wean it? Hnips (unnliishiugly)— He wears a suit of it, sir. Cubleigh (resolutely)—Make me faw.-■ Taira Topics. PERSONAL. Chai m kv M. Pei-k.w is frequently mistaken for Adam Forepaugli. The Prim-ess Beatrice writes music and plays the piano and organ with marked ability. After making a million, poor Raymond left but S:>O.(XXI, most of which was his life insurance. T. C. Craweoru describes Lady Colin Camp bell as a very beautiful and self-possessed woman. Speaker Peel, of the British Parliament, is to be made aU. C. B. when the jubilee honors are dispensed. The Prince Regent of Bavaria has granted the medal for art an- silence to Frau Pauline Luccu, the distinguished cantatrice. Mils M. H. Pack, “the witch of Wall street.’’ has cleared jJ’.'i.OKi to jSO.OiXI in six months in stocks of the Gogebic iron range iu Wisconsin. ITioTiiiiiiAriiEii Bell, who took the first phn. t Ograiihs of Mrs. Cleveland which win for sale has more orders for them yet than he can fill iti months. A newspaper correspondent named Kane says that lie possesses positive proof that Wash ington lrviug. and inn John Howard I’nyn.-, wrote “Home, Sweet Home." Walt Whitman is not the “veteran of seventy six years” whom some of the (aqs-rs have lately described, lie is just sixty seven, the same age as .lames Russell Lowell. Thomas .leit krson was probably the first cut nail niatmla.-;mer in the l nited Stab’s, his nail works liemt; on his place at Monlieello. ami producing eighty (sitiuils of nails each w orking day. Mrs. Cleveland In quoted as saying that so many halites have been named for the l*resi dent that he says he is afraid that la twenty years the penitentiaries will Is- full of Grover Clevelands. Jniok HoaNaii.wt’R. of San Francisco, fur iiishes -till am it her Illustration of the truth thut "there's nothing in a oarae “ lie Is one of the quietest ami hardest working mntilioni of the lieiii-lt on the coast. Knurr l.ocT Ai iaashs.h TANARUS, likan, Fourth I uiUsi si.ii"-. raiulrv. hiis ts'i'ii found guiltv of lhe chart •'ni.-.'ltm Hlaeksiuftb tirigoleit ton jams "r iiio|v by a liirtat tied around his body and fs toned til a hor-s*. Mist* . it i'cmmisos, how Ihe llhrartan of the Dep.iriiiieul ot .fustier at Washington Is ,i dung lit. I t|| „ fortnei Justice of theKupreme <>mi i nl 1 i nsyUnnis unit Is ii-guidsd in. onti of bfiii Miillioiitlfift mu liiM IfiHikuln Dip cVMitilfj', hTKFu.s A j><H <ll4*. mii of tlie‘ little(iutrif," t* .i impUditip for the *>fU< • of *ai poruHun f SfNltiM'l nf Ciijqmfu uti l*r rl* iiUHtniiVit mimm ilrii?inii Uh*‘4fofmH <lm i i-AinliMiii li\#r ) urii inn Cl flr-lu |Wl<. Ipdplil ii#- Ijiif. I***!, lot®l from All Mtlofitf drink* ai.d tm* t:ym uomw uinM i*r* *1 Mr ¥l*‘*V*o • fitting. SALOON-KEEPERS COMPLAIN. They Do Not Lilie the Way the Wash ington “Blue Laws” Are Avoided. From Washington Letter to the Chicago Fetes. The saloon-keepers complained to the police yesterday that liquor was lieing sold at the clubs. The District Attorney advised the police that a man's club-house was his castle, and liquor could be legally sold to mt-Aibers of such organizations. Therefore this morning theW* was a boom in clubs. At cvei’y bairoom in io> 'n a book was opened for signatures to a constitution and by-laws of an organization for social and moral improvement: "the initiation fee was 10 or 15c, and every man who paid it was entitled to a drink of his own selection.*’ Tne payment of the initiation fee and placing of his signal ure to the constitution gives a man all the privileges of the club until further no tice. Toward evening most of these clubs applied to the Register of Deeds for a charter, which he was per mitted under the law to give them upon their • filing a copy of tin* constitution anti by-laws. In each ca.v- the list of incorporators was com posed of the proprietor of tir* saloon, his bar keeper, his waiters and attendants, with now and then a friend of the family. The constitu tions and by-laws filed were generally stolen copies of t hose of the fashionable clubs in town, in which the name of the organization and list <>f officers only were altered. High-sounding titles were adopted, such as the Empire Club, the Indepeiiaeuce Club, the Imperial Club, the Royal (liib, the (ioodfellow- hip Club, etc., etc., and one of the affairs announces itself to l>e organized for the purpose of promoting a public sentiment in opposition to the Sunday laws. It is a question whether there will I** in these organizations the relief that is sought. By (i o’clock this morning every old bum in town had joined a club or two and was reioicing, but it is claimed that the court will hold that the law cannot be evaded in this manner, and that when a saloon-keeoer who is arrested pleads the club racket he will be made to show his hand, produce the records of the or ganization, and prove that it is a genuine affair. Some men of prominence in political life were foolish enough to sign the constitutions of some of these clubs to-day, but it is feared they will regret it. fur the police, when they get hold of the book of signatures, will be very likely to call them to the witness stand. Drawing* Lots for Death. From Xotes and Queries. At the first reference is a note signed J. S., giving an accouni of the drawing lots by the officers of tin* English army during the Ymeri ein war In decide who should be surrendered to General Washington, to suffer death in re taliation for the execution of a rebel captain by a Royalist officer. The writer givea a list of the British officers who drew lots on that occasion, and among the names is given thal of "Sir Charles Morgan.”' This Sir Charles Morgan was my father. His name, however, al that time was not Morgan, as lie did not assume th** name of Morgan tiLl 171 U. H** was then < aptain Charles Gould, of the Coldstream Guards, and I have often heard him narrate the circumstances of the case, which are just what are here reported, ami having recorded them, I will give a copy of my noies. which I mode at the time. Capt. Charles Gould, afterward Sir Charles Morgan, second burouet. was gazetted ensign in the Coldstream Guards, Nov. 21. 1777, lieutenant and captain, March *J2, 1781: captain and lieuten ant colonel. May 14, 1700, and retired Dec. 4, 1792, when he assumed the name of Morgan. He left England for America Dec. 31. 1780, and on Uct. 10, 1781, he was, with 5,000 of the British army, taken prisoner at Yorktown, and after eight months his family were able to procure an exchange for him. and he returned to England. He mentioned the circumstance of the drawing lots, but, so far as I can recollect, onlv men tioned t he names of three officers of the Guards, Asgill. Ludlow and Perrin, who drew lots which should be shot by the French Americans. The lot fell on Asgill, and Capt. Gould was, on his return to England, the bearer of the sad intelli gence to his mother. Lady Asgill, who was very intimate with his family. On arriving at the house of Asgill he was shown into a room where Asgill and another lady were seated, and when he made the sad communication lx>rh ladies swooned away and fell, as it were, lifeless on the fl>or. The surprise and horror of the servant, who was immediately summoned by Capt. Gould, may well be imagined when, on entering the apart ment, he found the two ladies apparently life less on the floor, thinking that Capt. Gould had murdered them. Assistance, however, and re storatives wrre quickly at hand, but the shock was necessarily very great. It fortunately hap pened that Lady Asgill had great influence with the Oueon of France, who succeeded in prevent ing tne sentence being carried into execution. Sir Charles Morgan was born in the reign of Genrge 11., and died in 1847; and there is. there fore, no clear generation between the reign of George 11. and myself. Octavius Morgan. An Erudite Maid. From Puck. Helena Halstead Herrick was an erudite young maiden. Who lived in Boston, where, ’tis said much en id it ion grows; With a weight of wondrous learning was her youthrul mind o’erladen. And, to her. a bloom meant Botany, and not a simple rose. She translated Greek and Sanscrit, and she “did undo the Persian;”’ Carlyle and Herbert Spencer helped to feed her hungry brain; Wliile for trashy, flighty writers she professed a great aversion, And turned her Grecian nose aloft with infi nite disdain. She explained with perfect clearness all her views on evolution, And told with modest pride about her first ancestor’s birth. His pre-Adamite and globulite and airy constitu tion When first he formed himself to live upon this sordid earth. She entered a Chautauqua class to stuff herself with know ledge. And studied many mouldy books she could not understand; And all the brilliant graduates from Yale and Harvard College. Declared she was the brightest girl throughout their Yankee land. Indeed, when all the world was dark her beacon burned most brightly; What think you she was coming through the secret midnight hours? Why, the novels by The Duchess, most frivolous and sprightly, Where the love talk and the nonsense and the kisses came in showers. Maude Annulet Andrews. Jurymen in ‘The Gilded Age.” From the JVVv r York Graphic (1875). “There have l*<*n several amusing incidents connected with the piece,” said Col. Sellers, laughing; “enough perhaps to recompense for the far from cheerful atmosphere which sur rounded its early days. One night in Troy twelve students volunteered to act as the jury, and I had them put in two private Ikjxck uiot jury boxes stage l>oxes) to wait until the last act. The courage of one of the number oozed away with the progress of the piece, and when • the time came we hud to go on with eleven jurors. But w* got a verdict. Another time the Mayor and some of the Council of the city where we were playing I Ixdieve there was a judge among them, too- volunteered to act us the jury. ‘Don't give us away, Raymond.* they bogged. But the audience T gave them away’ with three rounds of applause in recognition, while to add to the tumult the platform on which their chairs were placed gave way, and down came the honorable body, who there and then made their first disappearance on any stage. Again, one night the foreman of the jury rendered the verdict, ‘Not guilty,’ where upon an excited iuror shouted 'guilty’ at tb* top of hi* voice. The stage manager went pr cipitately to see why this juror disagreed so very loudly. ‘What did you do that for. sir/’ he cried. “Coz said the youth, 1 believe she was guilty anywav.’ The boy bad the true spirit he said; liis identity even in such a minor part as a juror. But such realistic acting didn’t pay.” The Story of a Letter. Mom the Chicago AVe> Springfield Is having n Ueurty laugh tit tlu* •v -pense Ilf it* new postmaster, >luj 11. \\ t’len 'l"nin Ir mm I hut deader, in wanted a free pass from one of the local railway olllriuls a short time ago, uud so he wrote otit’n formal re. quest and sunt It to thot functionary Imniedi atrly upon receipt of the letter the railway off cial filed out a pass in comidianre with there quest, inclose I It hi an envelope, and addressed the envelope to the “Hou 11. W. Oleodenin. Springfield, lii To make sure that the plus ..ulil reneb Its destination promptly, the sender walked to the post ofth e and mall ei the letter In propria persona About a week there,Out this official nt,|iies| to meet Maj ('landenin on the street, and was shocked to notice Hint llte major acknowlegtled hiseortllalsalutation with a istld, repellent nod "Hold on here, (Tendenliil" i cried the t all way man. “Whst's the matter with your" "I wrote you a letter, ami you liadn t the I manners to acknowledge g' susw • rad Mai ( , lemie.t,m, in an icy, rasping lone, nuinully •tuyetiiive of the filing of a lack saw Tiw isliwsy man *s postulated. and the two I went to Ui* |sa>t office njgotner to invraaugate the inaUar Tlie inasm to uueaUaa was found 1 a a sung Hat sdtciuaed Igtlata. 1 ITEMS OF INTEREST. There are 1,000 convicts in Sing Sing prison and it takes twenty-one barrels of flour to make bread for them every day. A club of girls in Dorsetshire, England, are under vows to make their own clothes and never to allow a servant to make their beds or dust their drawing-rooms. A family of suicides is described in the Pall Mall Gazette—a. father and four of his children had each committed suicide while laboring un der attacks of temporary insanity. A small boy in Oil City, Pa., is credited with having trained a pair of big Cochin China roos ter-; to drive double to harness. He hitches them to a little wagon, and it is said that they draw it easily and willingly. Tiie elder Agassiz learned something one day in Chicago. He saw a workman place five bricks in a pail even full of water without caus ing a drop to run over, and the great naturalist handed the man a s:i bill and made a note of the circumstance. For some time past builders in Germany have resorted to the use of a composition of cork, sand and linn*, molded into bricks, for the con struction of light partition walls. This is said to exclude sound better than ordinary brick work, while being light and a good non-conductor of heat. A concert hall pianist in Baberton, Cape Colony, recently, on a wager, played the piano for twenty-four consecutive hours without "breaking harmony." During that time he drank a little beef tea and smoked an occasional cigar. He finished in good shape, with lots of playing power to spare. The Empress of Germany gives a golden cross to every servant in the empire who has re mained over forty years in her present position and whose character is good. More than 1,300 have already received the cross, of whom a large number have remained over fifty years in one place. How many servants in this country would get a cross under these conditions? A “dandy from Leadville,” as he announced himself, went into a Buffalo (N. Y.) restaurant and, pistol in hand, directed everybody to sit down. After he had enjoyed himself in this way for a while he went out followed by the proprietor, who was also "a dandy,” it seems, for he gave the cyclonic Leadville visitor a fear ful thumping and had him committed to jail. Mrs. Ruth Smith, of Bridgeport, Conn., dresses in blue silk, w ears blue spectacles, has her meals served on blue glass dishes and lives in a blue glass room, which she has not left for more than 10 minutes at a time for eight years. A saucy exchange remarks that as soon as she gets thoroughly seasoned, so that she can wear '•lce stockings, she is going to move to Boston. A claim for damages having been brought by relatives against a company of lynchers for having hanged a murderer, in Aurora,lnd., their attorney has brought forward the plea that "Watkins* whole natural life was forfeited and dia* to the State of Indiana, and no other person under heaven than the State had any legal es tate, right or title in or to the same, and the same was no pecuniary value in law to his wife or children.” Two German tobacco buyers of New York went to a Connecticut fanner and wanted to buy his tobacco. lie asked a price which they said was too great, and than they talked with each other in German, agreeing to take it at the price asked if they found that they could not beat the farmer down. His son. a good German scholar, beard all this, and let his father know; and the old man thereupon calmly held out for half an hour, until the buyers came*to his terms. . A harrow-shaped flock of wild geese, the Waterbury (Conn.) American says, went north ward over the city recently. They seemed to attend sharply to the business of traveling until they spied one of the numerous kites the boys in the northern part of the city were flying. This kite was uncommonly high in the air and the geese objected to it. At least they circled about it two or three times, and then four of their nutnljer, seemingly delegated for the pur pose, attacked the kite and tore it into shreds and went on their w ay. When W. G. Browning, of East Greenwich, R. 1., went to feed his cow one morning she was not in her accustomed stall. He had found the barn door locked, and was at a loss to know w hat had become of her. After an unsuccessful search about th* premises he went up to the Ray loft for hay for his horse, and there stood the cow quietly filling up at the mow. Bhe had broken loose in the night and climbed fourteen steps to the loft. It took a carpenter and an in clined plane to get her down. There is a passage in Count Be list’s memoirs which will interest Americans. Referring to his after-dinner speeches he says: “I was not,” says Count Beust, " quite a novice, for the sym pathetic envoy of th* United Stab's, Mr. Jav, gave two banquets annually at his house In Vienna, one on the anniversary of the Declara tion of Independence, and the other on Wash ington’s birthday, at which the Chancellor of the empire had to be present to reply. ‘Mr. Jay has trained you,’ said Lady Bloomfield, wife of the English Ambassador at Vienna, to me in London.” Buildings for nine different colleges are now going up in Wichita, Kan. Apropos of which the Eagle of that town emitted the following scream the other day: “Now what has Topeka and Lawrence got to soy, with their measly little State university and female academy? Wieliita has got the business and has got the enterprise, and she is going to have the education—or bust a flue. Let them antiquated villages in the Kavv river bottoms hold their peace Wichita, with her nine colleges, her sorghum sugar fac tory' rvnd her seventy-six wide open drug stores is the metropolis of Kansas, and there isn't no getting around it.” The Russian government has announced its intention of founding a great convent between Erzeroum and Bayazit. It will resemble the Russian Convent of Mount Athos. Four of the most active seminarists of the Convent of St. Pantilimon, at Mount Athos, have been in structed to proceed to Erzeroum to organize the foundation of the hospital and superintend the construction of the building, which will com mence in a few weeks. Several young Armeni ans. well Acquainted with the Russian language and familiar with the customs and usages of the Armenians of Anatolia, will be attached to the convent as secretaries. The representative of a co-operative life in surance company called at a tenement bouse in New' York, during the obsequies of one of the men recently killed among a dozen others who fell from the elevated railroad side pedestrian track used by the employes, and soon discov ered a tierce superstitious sentiment in opposi tion to insurance. His particular victim had !>een a member but a few' months, and his widow’ was paid $2;500, but the visitor was assured on all sides by the women mourners that if the de ceased hadn't been so foolish as to get insured he might have b*en alive to-dav. The man didn’t undertake to argue, but. lieueving the old adage that discretion is the better part of valor, beat a busty retreat, followed by many impre cations. A RECENT incident in Paris has, curiously enough, given the public a peep behind the scenes of the "Greatest Show' on Earth.” one of Banmm’s great attractions used to be a female snake charmer, who wos advertised under the name of Nala Dawajonti. a native of Hindustan. The bills stated that she had been taught the art of snake-charming by "a Hindu dervish.” A lawsuit in which she became en gaged in Paris comindled Nala Dawajonti to re veal. though with much reluctance, that her real name is Emilie Pompon, that she is a native of France and lias never.been in India, ami that she learnt her ail from her husband, an acrobat named I’aimer, and not from a Hindu dervish— which last piece of information is somewhat superfluous, as no such thing-as a Hindu dervish exists. Or i'NAM'l.tehated impudence and cold as sumption the coachman of the millioned upper thousands in New York provide the most nearly perfect s|s>cimens to Ist found In the United States. They appear to think that common ve hicles un<t is'opla on foot have no rights In the street So they halloo at pi* l I'M nans wlm are about In s-et i n the way. and rattle across streets with indin'erenee as to who or what may be cm the crossing. Anna Dickinson is a heroine. It wuH ut Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue, in a (Tecnl rain storm. The avenue was crowded with vehicles and rrossliig was difficult Anna had dodged In and out successfully, but she found when near the faither sidewalk that she had to wait a few seconds for n wagon load ed with long pieces of lumber to ixtsa An she shied there a carriage containing the wife and daughter of a ten-millionaire came dashing up aim some inarticulate w hoops from the driver warned her to get out Out she didn't she el * sxl as raaolutrly as If she ii*d been on tic lecture platform, and Jehu hail to slacken the |iacc of fus horses, though In* 1.1 them walk up almost ogamet her audit looked as If It was his iiiUMd ion to drive over bet Hut she shook an umbrella in the faces of the beast* Iwo or three times and appar>nliy made him lielleve thul she would sttek file '-nd It into their eyes if liar right* wise lloLraesj uji/m mm li tan tier And be, looking vrff uiui'h dis gusted, eloppi'd shod Bui • look >f triumph was spiaiul ovei Alina a laatme* as ahi stepped Upon the sola walk. 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