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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings—Magnolia Encampment No. 1, 1. O.
O. F.; Golden Rule Ixxlge No. 12, 1. O. O. F.;
Landrum Lodge No. 4K. F. & A. M.
Special Notices—Election for Commissioners
for the Town of Warsaw: Change of Name of
Town of Lincoln to Rosedew.
Watchmaker, Etc—August Krieger.
Cnr.AP Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed; For Rent; For Sale; Boarding; Lost; Per
sonal; Miscellaneous.
Excursion The Tenth Annual Excursion of
S., F. A W. and C. &S. Rys. E. M. R. Associ
ation
Flour Hecker’s Superlative.
A Card—Prof. T. F. Collins.
Notice—For Act of Incorporation.
Auction Sales—General Sale, by D. R. Ken
nedy.
Attractive Baroains—D. Woisbein.
It will not be long before the Georgia
watermelon will respond to the farmer's
thump with a sound curiously like ‘’dollar.”
The solicitously paternal tone of fte In
terstate Commerce Commissioners’ fulmina
tions suggests that there are no bachelors
among those distinguished regulators,
George H. Sheridan characterizes
as "a moral and intellectual
' The distinguished infidel will
object to the characterization.
kjjSwator Sherman," says a Western pa
delighted with the South.” The
campaign next year will afford
.if
H. announced that I): Nnrvin Green.
Pwßfcent of the Western Union Telegraph
"Company, isn’t in first-rate health. Per
haps the water in his company’s stock doesn’t
agree with.him.
Lord Alfred Tennyson says that he doesn’t
object to the adverse criticisms of American
newspapers as long as American poets ac
knowledge the beauty of his recent verse.
Lord Alfred is rough on the poets.
Last Sunday, in New'York, 156 liquor
sellers were arrested. It is rumored that
the side doors of the barrooms will be closed
next Sunday, so that those who warft drinks
will have to enter by wav of the skylights.
At a recent ball in Paris the drinks con
suinod included 60,000 glasses of lieer, 2,500
bottles of champagne and .‘l,OOO punches. It
is not recorded how many dancers required
the aid of the police in returning to their
homes.
Large numbers of negroes are being car
ried from Virginia to New York to work
on the new Croton aqueduct They claim
to be “Nights of Labor,” but it is feared
that the K. of L. assemblies will repudiate
them and that trouble will result.
When a Western Congressman was told
could no longer tie obtained in
on Sunday, In* exelaiuesl:
then, wii.-tt lie use..:' being a
lt is probable that lie f.ry ••
|§H.i e could still draw his salary.
; g*r. -or * ,i; ■
allowed to wear cap and gown wid'**
in M-h*>!:v.tic d'M •- They ii.tr*t
They already wear cap and gown
JMffglit, and they ouglit notobject to wear
ing different apparel during the day.
A Georgia cracker who named his last
baby “Arethusy Naiuanthy Ann Frances
Cleveland Yum Yum Jones,” without at
tracting the attention of the press, can’t
understand why so much fuss was made
whe.n Secretary Whitney gave his last baby
“sech a puny name as Dory.”
It is stated tliat. the greatest achievement
of the Paolo (Kan.) Natural Gas Company
was effected in running the rolling mills in
that town twelve hours on less than nine
ounces of gas. What a saving to the coun
try it would lie if the Paola company could
he induced to undertake the job of running
Congress.
A young lawyer who hangs out his
•hingle in a Northwest Georgia town hopes
to live to see the timo “when the General
Assembly of the State will be composed of
men under the age of lit) years.” He will be
disappointed, unless he lives to see the time
come when no man will live longer than
thirty years.
Mr. George Hiddle, an actor who fuiled to
meet with success in Boston, says that he
hojxss to exist without the approval of a
city “whoae damnation is purely local.” This
is dreadful. No other man has dared to say
such a thing of Boston, and it would not bo
surprising if that city should send its cham
pion, Col. Jobu L. Sullivan, to annihilate
Mr. Kidd!**
The murder of the unknown girl at Hall
way, N. J., has led to the discovery that
fifty girls aro missing from the great cities
near by. It lias also brought out the fact
that girls are missing from many small
towns in all part* of the country. Perhaps
it might Ik* well to establish a bureau at
anno central {Kiiut charged with searching
fur the missing,
A New York gns-er says that the plan of
advertising what he has to sell by placing
wimples on the sidewalk near the door of
his store is very costly. People who pass
by frequently help themselves to whatever
they fancy, and u heavy loss is sustained by
such jwtty thefts. It may also Ik* said in
opposition to tlie |ilun that the samples
crowd the sidewalk and thus become a nuis
ance to pedestrians.
In New York, on Mun>lay night , Henry
George lectured on “Tile Crime of Poverty ."
Hpcokiug of lalmr, In* said: “Then* soemt t/i
be a surplus of labor looking tor employ
meet This ma y be tru in sum* of tie*
large cities, but then- is plenty of work out
■de of them There would Is lit tin am
plaint of a “sui’|ilu of labor” if men would
go s way from the cantm* of p*>|HilsUoti atef
•ass employment in kswilUos wbeue tin
Wiaus ars not m orowded.
Florida’s Common Schools.
The report of Hon. A. J. Russell, Flori
da’s efficient Superintendent of Public In
struction, shows that educational advan
tages have contributed greatly to the
growth and progress of that thriving State.
One of the first questions asked by those
prospecting for a desirable place for homes
is. "What are your educational advantages.'"
It is the good fortune of Florida to be able
to give satisfactory answers.
Florida has now 3,000 public schools in
operation. This gives an average of fifty
one schools to each of her thirty-nine coun
ties. "Estimating her entire jiopulation at
250.000, she lias a school for every 175 in
habitants. This is fully up to her present
needs and indicates tliat those in charge of
her educational matters are in entire sym
pathy with the most advanced sentiment
in favor of education.
Tlie number of schools in the State in 1884
was 1,504: in 1885, 1.734, and in 1881). 1,919.
The attendance in 1885 was 02,337 and in
ISSO, 70,997. Three hundred and thirty
five thousand dollars is annually expended
for public schools, making the expenditure
for each child between 0 and 21 years—the
school age—ss 01; for each child enrolled
$o 37, and for each child in daily average
attendance §7 37.
The Legislature appropriates a sufficient
sum for holding annually normal schools for
two months at Tallaliassee and Gainesville
for the benefit of negro teachers, and for
conducting institutes in the various coun
ties. Th" institutions of higher grade, under
the control of the State, are the West and
East Florida seminaries at Tallahassee and
Gainesville, and tlie State Agricultural Col
lege at Lake City. There is also a blind
and deaf mute institute at St. Augustine.
Superintendent Russell makes an earnest
appeal for the establishment of industrial
schools, where the youth of both sexes can
be trained in the use of toois. Schools of
this character will almost certainly be estab
lished in Jacksonville during the approach
ing summer for the benefit of the negroes,
who have been assured of assistance from the
Slater fund, as soon as certain conditions
have been complied with.
The people of Florida appreciate the im
portance of common schools, and no jxirtion
of the taxes is more willingly and promptly
paid than tiiat for school purposes.
The common school fund is steadily grow
ing. Last year the interest of it amounted
to $24,318, or 41c. per capita. A bill pro
viding for a poll tax of $1 as a pre-requisito
for the right of suffrage is pending in the
Legislature. It is expected that it will pass
and that the proceeds of it will go to the
public schools.
Florida is to lie congratulated upon the
creditable condition of her common schools.
Her wonderful growth and development ai e
largely due to them.
The Gullibility of Men and Women.
The disappearance of Mrs. Howe, the
Boston banker, with $50,060 deposited with
her is made the occasion for discussing the
question whether women are more gullible
than men. Not very many months ago
Mrs. Howe was arrested as a swindler, and
sent to the House of Correction. She pre
tended to do a legitimate banking business,
and offered to pay enormous rates of inter
est. The feature of her business was that
she received deposits only from women.
She is a very benevolent looking woman
and a plausible talker. Women deposited
with her cautiously at first, and then more
freely. When she hail accumulated a large
sum her true character became known.
All the facts connected with
her business, her arrest and her
conviction were widely published. About
everybody in Boston must have heard of
her swindling operations and of her im
prisonment. She no sooner regained her
liberty, however, than she resumed her re
markable banking business. She promised
to pay 8 per cent per month on deposits,
and, strange as it may appear, there were
women who trusted her.
It is difficult to understand how women
of sense could have believed that she meant
to deal honestly with her customers. Those
who entrusted their money to her must
have heard of her previous swindling opera
tions, and must have known also that no
legitimate business would justify the pay
ment of such enormous interest. It may
be that they did not think that
Mrs. Ilowe was engaged in a
legitimate business. In tliat case they are
entitled to no sympathy. They aro not
much better morally than Mrs. Howe is.
Each probably thought she was shrewd
enough to protect herself against loss, and
that the other depositors would lie the
losers.
With respect to the question whether
women are more gullible than men, it may
be urged that men would not have risked
their money where such an enormous in
terest was promised, because they would
have known that it was impossible tor any
honest business to pay it. But did they not
risk their money with Grant & Ward*
Tliat firm did business on pretty much the
same plan tliat Mrs. Howe did, and yet
some very good business moil put their
money into it. Like Mrs. Howe's custom
ers, they, of course, came to grief.
A day or two ago a lot of “green goods”
swindlers were arrested in New York city,
and the correspondence found by the police
in their rooms showed that there were hun
dreds of people in the South and West who
were anxious to deni with theiti. It is
hardly probable that all, or even u majori
ty, of those applying for the alleged coun
terfeit notes hiul not read of the swindling
operations of the “green goods” men. Why
wits it, then, that they were so eager to take
the chances of being swindled! Were they
not just as gullible as the women who de
posited money with Mrs. Howe?
Women do some very foolish things
where money is concerned, but there is
ample evidence to show tliut the men do
things just about as foolish. Mrs. Howe
and the “green goods” swindlers have a
pretty thorough knowledge of human
nature. It is even probable, in view of the
success that other convicted swindlers have
in**t with, that Ferdinand Ward will re
eitnbli.h his banking business on the old
piau as soon as he is released from Slug
King, and that, too, wall a fair prospect of
meeting with encouragement.
Anarchist Most, who is Haiti to be “month”
personified, delivered all •ldr*ss in Phi la
delphiu Sunday tou small audience. Among
other tilings he wild: “IsthiH a republic, (his
Ani'rien? LUs'rty is a lie: your govern
ment is on Infamous swindle. tt H* threat
etc*d the r‘port •i - * with death, iv.iled the
church, and ‘lwlurad it no crime to kill po
He Indorsed tic* (‘nicago An
archisu, nicl umciuicil that "capitalists,
i up*, aid all dinting order* of **i
eiety were m*l* -tuned " Tii p. iiiti nlurv
In tlei l***t place for a fellow like Most, aid
it !*• pity tliat tic llln-rty enjoyed mills
country permits turn to be at hug*.
THE MORNING NEWS; WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1887.
Senator Coke’s Letter.
Senator C’oke, of Texas, takes a wist*
eour>e respecting the prohibition issue in
that .State. He was asked to sjieak at the
State Conv* ntion of Anta-Prohibitionist;, to
lie held in May. and in a letter refusing he
says that he thinks it would lie suicidal for
the Democratic party of the State to either
favor or oppose prohibition. He might
have gone further and said that in no other
way* could the cause of prohibition be dam
aged so much as by bringing it into politics.
However, he i not interested in promoting
prohibition. He does not believe in it, and
can be depended upon to oppose the adop
tion of the prohibition amendment to the
constitution, w hich is to be voted on in Au
gust
Senator Reagan and ex-Senator Maxey,
while not in favor of making prohibition a
party issue, have written letters in favor of
the prohibition amendment, and their influ
ence will Is* thrown in favor it. The letters
of these three prominent public men on the
prohibition question have greatly increased
the prohibition excitement throughout the
State.
The friends of prohibition would make a
very grave mistake by permitting the issue
to become a political one. They’ would lie
certain to be defeated and the temperance
cause would receive a set-back from which
it might not recover in years.) At the last
State Democratic Convention a resolution
was adopted declaring that prohibition was
not a fiolitical question, and if it were now
forced into politics the masses of the Demo
cratic ]iarty would vote against it and
would, of course, defeat it. Senator Coke
says there are tens of thousands of Demo
crats in the State who favor it, which is
true, but they do not f rvor it to such an extent
as to be willing to see it bring disaster to
their party. The next three mouths will be
exciting ones in Texas.
Thoughtless Handling of Weapons.
Fatal results from the careless handling of
deadly weapons are occurring all the time.
There were two on last Sunday, one near this
city and the other at New,Orleans. The vic
tims ill each instance were young men oc
cupying good social and bitsiness positions.
In the case in this locality the playful but
1 bought! e* handling of a rifle by one of a
small party who were enjoying an exclu
sion down the river resulted in the death of
a member of the party. In the New Orleans
case two young men, belonging to promi
nent Creole families, having en
joyed with others a . wine supper
on Saturday night concluded to
give an exhibition with foils. Midnight
had passed and Sunday had come, and all
the party were in a joyous mood from the
effects of the wine. It is true that buttons
were on the foils.but the faces of the fencers
were unprotected with the masks worn on
such occasions. The sport had not pro
ceeded far before one of the swordsmen
thrust his foil into an eye of the other.
When the church bells rang, calling the
people to divine service, the wounded young
Creole was dead.
It is probable that these fatal accidents
from the thoughtless handling of deadly
weapons will continue to occur. People
will not appreciate the danger there is from
the careless handling of weapons. Men
fence with swords without proper protec
tion. or point guns at each other, not mean
ing to pull the trigger or believing them
to be unloaded, and seem unconscious of
the danger to others or themselves, notwith
standing the constant occurrence of fatal
accidents resulting from such conduct. Ac
cidents of this sort affect not alone the vic
tims of them. Those who are responsible
for them, particularly if they are of a Sensi
tive nature, are for the rest of their lives
burdened w’itli an ever present sorrow for
the consequences of their acts.
When Senator Sherman left Nashville on
his way home from his visit to the South,
lie discovered that his railroad passes had
expired. The conductor told the Senator
tliat he would have to pay fare. A minor
official of the Louisville and Nashville rail
road, who w’as on board the train, rushed
up to the conductor and excitedly whispered:
“Great Scott, man Don’t you know who
that is* That’s Senator Sherman. Take
his pass and it will be all right.” “I don’t
care if it. is the Lord himself,” replied the
conductor, “the pass has expired and I must
collect fare.” The Senator paid, but the
railroad authorities found fault with the
conductor upon the ground that he was dis
courteous. Some railroad authorities seem
never to have heard of tlie wt rd “consis
tency.” _ L
Mr. Jay Gould says that he thinks that
the interstate commerce law shoukl have
hiul a “thorough test before suspending any
of its features. It would have been more
satisfactory to the public to havo first de
monstrated that the long and short
haul feature should be suspended than
to suppose it would, and to suspend
it on a supposition.” Doubtless the
su-pension that has been granted is against
Mr. Gould’s interest. If it benefited his
interest the chances are he would think it all
right.
Mr. Algernon S. Sullivan, one of the
leading Democratic jioliticiansof New York
city, says that the statement that there is
great dissatisfaction amid Deni K-ratic lead
ers in that city with President Cleveland is
not true. He says that the President is
stronger with the Democratic masses than
when he was inaugurated. In the face o£
this testimony tlie growlers will havo to
shut up or furnish proof of their statements.
The Now York Sun concludes that the
Hon. John G. Carlisle Ims no chance of Ik>-
coming President because his State—Ken
tucky-owing to the reported discovery of
immense iron and coal deposits within its
limits, will soon favor protection. The Sun
will cease to shine before Kentucky declares
for protection, and it is pretty sure that the
S mi‘.s light will not lie less bright for many
years.
The effect of the enforcement of the Nun
day law was very noticeable in Washington
last Sunday. On th<* previous Sunday—tho
law was not then enforced—there were
twenty-five arrests for drunkenness. On
last Sunday there were only nine. There
would liuve Imssi no arrests at ull, probably,
if it had not tesui that whisky was obtain
able just on tie* outskirts of the city.
The prohibition <• mtest in Texas is already
having dreadful results. One of the iimst
harrowing is the anti-prohibition jgjetry
printed in sour* of tit" newspaper*. Here is
a sunp'" from tlie Hoirton /*?.*
"it erotiiliuliiii i.ally mhmls to pioliilat
ll must V 'irk lu a :* .übulshle *> *>
I*' be’ lll"li ea> Mid ilrillW ~li UUH
N'atar** msjii a***rislsT sway.”
Tin* Jute William 11. Vai**i*TtiiJt was blind
in ote eye, lint lie was careful to kx*p tlie
Imi*< from tie* |nil<lie M* protnibjy (bought
that If b wise Isle*v**d la* couldn't am* well
aUsU|4 to get tlie liettss Of bun 111 iMUgaiU*
would I m more ii*quint and ysoatatvut.
CURRENT COMMENT.
• :
The Truth by Implication.
From the Sew York V'orld Oem.)
“Protection,"’ sav* th*- Tribune. “is the wedge j
that will cleave open the solid South.' It is re
freshing to be totl. even by implication, that |
the soliility of the South is not preserved
through the suppression of the negro vote.
America for Americans.
Form the Washington Post 1 Deni.)
There is no reason whv aliens should lie al
lowed to own afoot of soil bid ween our two
oceans. By prohibiting it absolutely we should
lose little foreign capital, and we should gain
enormously in that local feeling and ]>atriotic
interest which are invaluable.
A Great Idea Grasped.
From the Missouri Republican (Dem.)
Mr. Terence V. Powderly grn ps a great idea
wh-n he declares that th* "Labor party to suc
ceed must lie thoroughly American." Having
progressed thus far, he is fairly on the road to
the conclusion that while it remains a class
party it can never be a ••thoroughly American”
party.
Trying to Do Too Much.
From the .Veto York Herald (Ind.)
It Is an American fault to try to do too much.
The suicide ot‘ poor young * iatewood. a cadet of
tile Naval Academy, on Friday at Norfolk is a
sad case in point. A similar one occurred a few
months ago, and several other instances of
brain trouble have occurred within a year or
two among the students of the Naval Academy,
arising from the„same cause. There is no poorer
economy conceivable than that of overstudy.
Diligence is a good thing, hut like all good
tilings it may he exaggerated. It is better not
to burn the candle at all than to bum it at both
ends.
BRIGHT BITS.
The Presidential Bee
0, give us a rest from tiie buzzing bee,
The bee that bothers our great men.
It never rests: "tis the greatest of ix’sts,
And addles the brains of statesmen.
There's a big difference between a traveling
salesman and a drummer. The drummer sells
car loads of goods and gets his salary raised,
while tite traveling salesman doesn't earn his
salt- and gets discharged.— Somerville Journal.
“Sav. do you ever read the letters that are ad
dressed to your wife? "
(With indignation) “Never.”
“What, you have absolute confidence in her?”
“Oh. it is not that. lam afraid that I would
And something in them that might be disagree
able for me to know, and I adore her.” —From a
French Patter.
“James." said the high school girl to her
brother. “I wish you would elionize my jiedal
integuments for me.”
“Oh. I'm no dentist." replied Jim.
“A dentist! I oniy want you to black my
shoes.'"
“Then why don't you talk I'nited States and
say so?”— Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Visitor (in penitentiary!—My good friend,
what brought you to this place?
Convict—Bank burglary, sir.
Visitor—And you look back on your past life
with regret and shame?
Convict—Well. I dunno, sir. Ten years ago I
was nothin" but a common sneak thief, an' now
I'm up for liank burglary. Nothin’ to be
ashamed of about tbht. —Kansas City Times.
Foer-year-old Serif, had done something
wrong, but her mother had forgiven her anu
promised not to tell her pa.
"Oh, ma!” she exclaimed as a thought struck
her. "when r>a dies will the laird tell him what
I did?"
“Yes. I think he will." said the mother.
“Well” said Susie, after another long pause,
“I think he is a regular tattle-talv, don't you?”
—St Paul Herald.
“Lost time,” said the pastor solemnly, “is
lost forever.”
“So is anything else* that you lose," said the
new boy from Bitter Creek."
“Oh. no," replied the pastor: “you may lose
anything else and And tt again.”
“Then 'tain t lost,” said the new boy, and
somehow the minister didn't just exactly know
how to go on with the conversation. And yet
he had been warned against that very boy.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
He had been going to see her for a loug time,
but would uever state the object of his visits.
Last night he mustered up sufficient courage.
“Will you be my wife?” lie asked simply and
earnestly.
“Yes, Henry, I will." she replied, all in a
tremor of blushing excitement.
“Ah, thanks," he said. "I bet Ohollie Brown a
package of cigarettes you would say yes.' Do
you smoke? It’s quite the thing, don't you
know. Washington Critic.
“What do you think of allowing a woman to
vote.”
“I’ll tell you what I think of it. You know
what poll parrots women are—how they'll talk
for hours about nothing? Why. last week mv
wife went to town to buy two or three yards of
stuff, and I’ll be hanged if she hasn't been enter
taining her friends in recounting her momen
tous adventures ever since, and she’s likely to
keep it up for the next six mouths s faras I can
see. Now. if women were allowed to vote, of
course they’d run for office. Think of a Legis
lature of women! Why, man alive, they’d talk
a thing to death and we'd never get any more
laws."
"Think so? Perhaps it wouldn't tie a bad idea
to have a woman suffrage, after all —Boston
Transcript.
PERSONAL.
Prof. Wayland, of Yale, will build a Sd.ooo
Baptist mission chapel in New Haven.
Mr. Drixkwateu was a candidate for member
of the Denver (Col.) City Council recently.
Senator Hoar thinks, with "Little Robert
Green," that tobacco is a filthy weed, and says
he will never, never use it any form.
Senator Edmends is said to lie very partial to
a particularly Hue brand of old rye, and seldom
drinks wine ivheu there is any toddy around.
He also smokes and chews.
Miss Alice Jordan, who took the degree of
Bachelor of Laws at the Yale Law School last
June, lias just been admitted to practice in the
Superior Court of Michigan.
Reskell Cox. of Holdemess, X. 11.. who is
ninety years of uge, is suffering from a severe
attack of whooping cough. His mother, who
died recently, had the v.hooping cough when
she was 101 years of age.
David Urqehart. Mrs James Brown Potter's
father, is a tine looking old Southerner, with a
white moustache aaid pleasant face. His man
ners arc cordial and polished. When in New
York he lives at the Brevoort.
Jins. Dinah Mclock Ciuik thinks that women
Winded to bad husbands ought for their chil
dren's sake to leave them: not by divorce,
which only enables the bad men to make cither
women unhappy, but by judicial separation.
Rev. O. A. Glazetirook has withdrawn his ae
ceptauce to the cull to Holy Trinity I’. K.
Church. Harlem, ami the Rev. Dr. Himline, presi
dent of Kenyon College, lias been chosen in his
stead. It is confidently expected that he will
accept.
It is now understood that Mr. George M. Dili
man. of Chicago, will decline the decoration
and title recently conferred upon him by the
King of Italy, not deeming their acceptance
consistent with his principles us a citizen of a
republic.
Henry 0. Lea has at last completed his “His
tory of tlit* Holy Inquisition,” the labor of
years. Only two histories 'of the Inquisition
have issm heretofore published, and both of
them are limited, covering only a part of the
Acid. Mr. Leu's work will be in three volumes.
Lee Meriwether, whose “Europe on Fifty
Cents a Day" has uttracted general attention,
bus just completed a careful Investigation into
the work and wages ot working girls of New
Orleans for the Federal Lalior Bureau, anil is
about to begin the same inquiry in Philadelphia.
Postmaster Mowry, of Charleston, S. (!,, is in
luck. At the o)M-niug of the forty-ninth Con
gress he was apisiinted clerk to the Committee
mi Public Buildings anil Grounds at a sulary of
Sl’.OiW per annum. Recently the I‘iesldeut ap
pnliitod him Post muster at Charleston at a salary
of jM.edu. Under the recent de Ision of the
I'nited States Supreme Court he will draw both
salaries until December next.
Sidney Wihii.i.ett, the elocutionist, lias are
uiurknhje ini-’iior-y. A friend in England once
lei him Dial he .. uilti not walk from Richmond
to l/Jiidou, a distance of twelve iiules, in less
t lut'i four hours and commit to memory a |ss-m
SO that lie could rejieut il at the end of the jour
bey Ti e | is 11 sets ted was isHti’fellow's
• King Itoln-it ot Sicily," which is composed of
nearly *lO Ini.-, Wmillett walked tin- dl*itni.v
111 tln ee hours and tweutv Are minutes mid
wa* dead letter |s-rfect before he readied Dm.
don.
Mrs Mi.iuki Daviit, who is an American,
and who was uiuied during her im lwii l s re
cent tom in \, njo received a royai Welcome
‘ ti id in ns land The Ie st, j* ,p,c pre
ti t\it , , • iwifiiiiinf % ill, uiit*' mite* irtti
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THE FATHER OF BILLIARDS.
Mr. Cochrane, of Chicago, Whom Every
body Likes to Talk to.
From the Chicago Herald.
An old gentleman with whit* 1 chin whiskers
and a jolly smile on his face trotted nimbly into
George Slostton's place the other day. He
glanced around him with a smile while a dozen
voices said: “Hello, Mr. Cochrane,“ and a dozen
hands were stretched out to grasp his George
Slosson took him over into a corner and told him
about t he big game and showed him anew cue.
and John Thatcher got the “short ston" medal
out of the cigar case, brushed a si took of dust
from the riin and held it where the sun would
strike it and Mr. Cochrane could see it to ad
vantage. Mr. Cochrane is “the. father of the
hillianl players.” He somehow seems out of
his element at first, a sedate looking old gentle
man among a lot of youngsters, but after awhile
one ceases to notice'the disparity of ages and
thinks only of the old gentleman as one of the
boys.
“He is,” said a billiard player, ”a fine old gen
tleman. Ho has been a lover of the game for
fifty years—he's close on to 75 now—and he has
seen every big game in the country that he could
reach. Even at his present age he would travel
miles to see a good coutest. He is wealthy, a
bachelor and an owner of plenty of real estate,
and billiards is about his only amusement. He
is even more a lover of the game than Judge
Gary, who likes billiards more than anything else
under the sun, unless it is to sit down on fresh
lawyers 31 r. Cochrane has a table hen* and
another one in a Michigan summer resort, and
every good player in town has a standing imi
tation to go to one place or the other and play
billiards with the old gentleman. Most wealthy
old men are more inclined toward billiards than
any other pastime. It has an aroma of old
fashioned respectability about it that few of the
other sports possess. Judge Lyman Trumbull
plays a stiff game even now, and his sons are
•letter than he is. One of them. Perry, used to
be considered about the best amateur player in
the country.”
A Pistol Duel Across the Table.
From Dueling Days in the Army.
A few days after the battle of Waterloo a Mr.
Trevor and a certain captain, while at a dinner
party, quarreled about a lady. The Captain
being a splendid shot and Trevor almost blind,
the latter demanded that they should fire at
each other across a table.
Someone secretly suggested that the pistols
should le loaded without ball, and this was
done. The two adversaries, who believed their
last hour was come, were as pale as death: but
if thev were a prey to deep emotion, not a
l.mscle trembled. “Who will give us the sig
nal? “ asked the Captain. The person who un
dertook to give the signal said, with a trem
bling voice,"Raise your pistols.” The muzzles
touched the breasts of the combatants. “When
I count three, tire. One—two—three!” They
fired and recoiled from the shock. “What’s the
meaning of this?” exclaimed the two com
batants. “Who has dared to make fools of
us? There are no Kails in the pistols!” “Honor
is satisfied,” exclaimed the friends around
them. Trevor ground his teeth. “The remedy
is easy enough,” said the captain, pointing to
some swords suspended from tne wan. He took
down two. measured them, and presented one
to his adversary, who seized it eagerly. “Now
there shall be no trickery!” he exclaimed.
“Stand off sir.” They stood face to face and
the blades glistened. The contest was short. One
of them soon fell—it was the captain. He ex
pired without a groan. “Oh, my God!” ex
claimed Trevor, “What have I done? Is all
this a reality?” and in terrible despair he Hung
himself upon the corpse of his rival, which he
shook convulsively, as though to bring it to life
again.
Lirtle Jim.
Our little Jim
Was such a limb
His mother scarce could manage him.
His eves were blue.
And looked you through,
And seemed to say,
“I'll have my ay'.'’
His age was six,
His saucy tricks
But made you smile,
Though all the while
You said: “You limb,
You wicked Jim,
Be quiet, do”’
Poor little Jim 1
Our eyes are dim
When soft and low we speak of him.
No elatt'ring shoe
floes running through
The silent room,
Now wrapped in gloom.
So still he lies,
With fast-shut eyes, •
No need to say,
Alas! to-day,
“You little limb,
You baby Jim,
Be quiet, do’.’’
—George R. Sims.
Good Case of Absent-Mindedness.
From the Chicago Herald.
“The worst case of absent-mindedness I ever
knew of." said a hotel keeper out at Elgin, "oc
curred in my house a few weeks ago. The per
petrator was my night porter. 1 was at the desk
one night when a man came in so drunk he
couldn't sign his name. He was a traveling man
whom I knew, and so of course I decided to take
good care of him. ‘John,’ says Ito the porter,
take this man up stairs and put him to bod. ana
put his valise away in the check-room.' Just
then I was called away by the sickness of a
member of my family, and I thought no more
of my guest nor of the porter, whom I saw at
tending to his usual duties an hour or so later.
But next morning a strange discovery was
made. The chambermaid on the second floor
reported that in the bed of room 10 she had
found a valise, and that there were no signs of
any person having occupied the room during the
night. It flashed over me in a second that that
porter of mine, who was a queer sort of a fellow,
had made some blunder, and 1 went up stairs to
investigate. There was the valise, sure enough,
but no sign of the traveler. I hunted all over
the house without success, and had al>out given
up in despair, when I happened to go into the
check room for something, and then* lay my
trawling man asleep on the floor, with valise
check No. 03 carefully tied around his neck."
The Falling Out of Friends.
From the London Truth.
There has been some talk this week about the
split between M. Taine and the Princess
Mathilde, of whose salon he has long been a
habitue. While at work on his book on Na
poleon M. Taine told the princess that he was
afraid that sh** would not read his judgments
with pleasure. The princess very kindly re
plied that she naturally could not judge Na
poleon so severely as M. Taine probably would,
for, had it not been for the great Emperor, she
might have been selling oranges in the streets of
Ajaccio instead of receiving her friends in the
Hue dc Bern. “Nevertheless," she added, "I
trust to your tact and good taste." Well, since
the publication of his two articles in the Remit'
den Deujc Monties M. Taine has not appeared at
the princess' receptions, and. irritated at his
neglect,the princess has deposited her card with
I*. P. <\ in the corner, in the safe keeping of M.
Taint**# concierge. The story runs that, at the
Academy last Thursday. Taine opened his soul
to M. Kenan, and said: "I shall never cease to
regret having lost so old a friend on account of
a book.”
“.Won am/," replied M. Kenan, “in order to
have the right to s|)eak freely mv thoughts I
broke with a greater lady than the princess.”
“What lady?" “The church.”
Spared No Expense.
From tlic Arkannaw Traveler.
Boston father (to newly-graduated daughter)
—I am glad that your mind has taken such a
turn towards art. for you know that more is ex
pected of you than if you lived in Chicago’
Daughter— Yes, father.
Father—And I hope that you will distinguish
yourself in more than one way.
Daughter- Yes, father.
Father I distinctly desire thut you become
noted as an essayist
Daughter--Yes father.
Father-I liave spared neither pains nor ex
pense in your education thus far, but not with
standing this Immense outlay of time and
money, if yon can think of anything which you
lielleve will add to your equipment for the ca
reer which you are alxnit to begin if you can
suggest some other way of refining your taste,
please do so. Do you know of any tiling else?
Daughter Ye* father.
Father What is it > speak out; never mind
the exfieiiMo.
I daughter Well, father. I’d like to go this nf
ten loon and see Prof. Sullivan thump that yap
from the country.
The American “Olt.”
KnyliMh fiirln in 1/ouUm Truth.
What ad* light fully umfitJ expression is the
American “(Jit |t emu*** aliimsf as handy as
tie* Herman ’ Ho," which can lx* used tu Midi a
variety i#f ways that it emulates those patent '
medicine* which are advertised to cutw every
thing from a hi•>*♦*.i i*g to# ciiilMtin I <mi>
line tong to le aid*- to say “y\\ " Imt | have
y*>t dated hit instance. alien * nun
)**** clmiiay compliment, it w<*jldt** d*d|c*o’ a ,
it 'lim‘4aeert him with a mtutrnlnl 'lilt," or, j
* fw*n he talk# m ae niMniii aixmf *onu -thing
' thritUug him lent gha't'/u# If amiki I w t- ei
him io*4( in the uirror *if a * oui* mfrfuou* litiU* j
' 4 di, gu, “ mui awe what no au< > h u 1
reaJ)> thudi J muM Imm any ihi U woapj j
iw tfU ms wnnrlui hUi* 1
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Tnc AVtrr, of Neoga, 111., publishes the fac
simile of a letter written to its editor by Mrs.
Susan Johnson, of that town, who will be 70 years
old in June, vrho never went to school in her
lift*, and who first tiegan to learn to write three
months ago. The writing is very plain, and bet
ter than that of the majority of women of her
age; the spelliug is correct, and the only no
ticeable errors are in capitalization and pune-
I tuation.
A prominent junk dealer recently received an
order for 10.000 old tomato cans. The dealer
explained that much of this kind of tin is used
for corners and edge pieces on a low grade of
trunks, while many people use it for flushings
on roofs. The deafer m obliged to melt toe
solder off. straighten the cans out into flat
sheets, pack the pieces in flat bundles for ship
ment, and only gets about $lO per ton for his
trouble.
In Philadelphia the school rule requiring
scholars to bring physicians' certificates in case
there is any sickness in the family is certainly
enforced. The other morning a teacher saw a
doctor enter the home of a pupil, who appeared
in school soon after without a certificate. “Go
right home,” said the teacher, “and don't re
turn until you have a certificate from the doc
tor.” The* child disappeared, but soon after re
turned. gleefully approaching her teacher, ex
claimed: “Please, ma'am, but it's a little boy
baby—and the doctor says it isn't catching!*'
There is a cheap restaurant in Now York that
feeds 8,000 jieople a day! It is never closed, nor
night nor day, and has three different re!aj*s of
waiters, cooks, cleaners, cashiers and other
hands. It is not noted in the city, but is famous
in all the country towns and villages in New
York State. New Jersey and Connecticut, which
are its chief source of patronage. How many
reservoirs <f soup and how many tons of beef it
consumes daily are matters for the considera
tion of metropolitan correspondents of country
newspapers. But the figures are astounding
and interesting without sensational elaboration.
The picturesque castle of St. Angelo at Rome
is no more to be the scene of those annual fire
work displays for which it has become famous.
A commission appointed by the Minister of Pub
lic Instruction, who has jurisdiction in these
matters, in consequence of the castle being “an
ancient monument—i. e.. Hadrian's mausoleum
has reported that the fixing of the great set
pieces inflicts great damage on the building, and
that last year great holes were knocked into its
walls by the pyrotechnics. So the Minister has
forbidden its further devotion to rockets and
squibs, and the municipality is at its wits' ends.
“Long John" Wentworth, of Chicago, is
erecting an immense granite monument for
himself. When asked the other day what
epitaph he would put on it he replied: “Nothing;
not a word. It's going to be just like me, a
plain, unsophisticated monument. Then a
inanil come along and say, ‘Whose monument’s
that?' and somebody'll say. ‘Wentworth.' Then
the man’ll say. ‘Wentworth? Who's Went
worth?’ And lie'll go and buy a biography of
me aud remember it. If I had a big inscription
on it a mail'd say, ‘Wentworth, humph! Went
worth, eh!’ and go on aud forget all about it be
fore he got out or the cemetery.”
A correspondent from Nanking, China, under
date of Feb. 10. says: “One of the missionaries
had occasion to send for an official on the night
of Feb. 14 to disperse a crowd which had gath
ered at his gat** clamoring to have him come out
and clear away the fog. which was very dense,
and which they claimed he had brought on.”
The shunpao mentions that on the night of Feb.
13 the city of Nanking was enveloped in a dense
fog, and the street lamps, which were 100 feet
above the ground, were invisible. On the fol
lowing night the fog was accompanied by a
smell of sulphur, which caused the inhabitants
to fear that there was a conflagration. It, how
ever, disappeared in about two hours.
Astonishing as the statement may appear, it
is nevertheless a fact that there are within
the borders of the State of Colorado the wealth
in coal of two or even three States like Pennsyl
vania—coal sufficient to meet the demands of
the nation, even for many decades, if not cen
turies, to come. For the* vast trans-Missouri
country, eastward even to the valley of the Mis
sissippi, Colorado is the great present and future
storehouse of the fuel which the demands and
necessities of its varied commercial and indus
trial life will require. Many generations hence,
when Colorado shall have l>ecome an old State,
when the frontier days shall have been forgot
ten. when gold and silver mining shall have
ceased to be profitable, even then will the coal
fields of Colorado be yielding their hidden treas
ures of fuel to supply the demand.
The handwriting of Attorney General Garland
once seen would ever after be recognized. It is
distinctly the worst in the Cabinet, and is a
series sf scratches to the uninitiated. His signa
ture can never be developed into A. H. Garland
even by his intimates. * He writes A. H. and
Ark. very plainly, and the Ark. goes with every
signature, so that those who know his initials
and the State he hails from can guess at the rest.
The Garland is written as though it spelled
Earle, and it has frequent y been so deciphered.
A friend of the Attorney General in Arkansas in
reply to a letter from Mr. Garland addressed it
A. H. Earle, and it took no little time to con
vince the law adviser of the Cabinet that the in
correct spelling of the name was not for the
purpose of ridiculing his signature. The At
torney General thinks he writes his name legi
bly.
The players whose dead comrades are buried
by the command of a resistless sentiment from
“The Little Church Around the Corner,” in New'
York, upon whose quaint presentiment Joseph
Jefferson invoked God’s blessing, frequently
complain of the provoking indistinctness of the
service, save the choral feature. The reading of
the Scriptures and the intonation of the sublime,
form sanctioned by the episcopacy for funeral
observances are generally most incoherent and
leave no more of intended impression on the un
familiar than if recited in a foreign tongue.
The cause of complaint is attributed to tb** age
and infirmity of the venerable and beloved
rector, but the help of a vigorous young assist
ant, with just elocutionary pretentions, could
readily be secured. “All!” was the recent com
ment of an old actor, “if they would let one of
our profession be selected for the purpose! You
remember the story about the elder Booth re
citing the Lord's Prayer. Jt was a revelation to
the listening ministers!”
Senator Hkarst, of California, is a big man
of generous nature, fond of companionship and
exceedingly cordial to his friends. He has been
in New York frequently of late, making his
headquarters at the Hoffman House. It is re
j>orted that within a short time he has become
associated with two or three other wealthy Cali
fornians, who made their money in gold mines,
ami a syndicate of New York capitalists to oper
ate in the mining of gold on tue Pacific coast
in South America. The gold belt is said to
stretch all the way from Alaska dowu to Peru
on the Pacific coast, and Californians are begin
ning to look up and down the coast in both di
rections for new fields of mining ven
ture. In a chat with friends the other
day Senator Hearst said that he an
ticipated a revival of activity in gold mining
within the next year or two. Senator Hear t’s
wealth is estimated at as much as $8,000,000.
His education has been classical A story is
told that two Californians engaged in a dispute
one day over the proper method of speaking.
They agreed to leave it to the next man they
saw , who happened to be George Hearst. He
was seated on the stoop of a hotel with ids feet
on the railing. One ot the gentlemen stepped
up to him and said: “Sir. my friend and I nave
l*een having a dispute about a matter of speech.
We have agreed r• leave it t< the nest men we
meet. Are you a grammarian?” “A what?”
naked Senator Hearst “A grammarian?” was
the repeated inquiry. “No, sir. Not by a long
sight,’ was the emphatic response, “I am a Mis
sourian.”
Tiik Empress Eugenie is going to pay a visit
to her native land. She has not lieen in Spain
since 1803, when she went there with a double
object. One was to bring the Spanish govern
ment to send art army corpa to Rome to protect
tbe Pope and so enable tnc French to corno
away. The other was to Influence the Spumsh
< 'oiirt of Api>eal, before which there was a long
pending suit brought by the relatives of the
Empress Eugenie on the Montijo side against
her miiierial majesty If the suit were decided
against her there would he a stigma placed up
on her birth. Notwithstanding tier efforts, and
iM'ihafis ticca uni* of the attempts of tin* J>u<* do
Mont jiennie.- to f runt rate her, she lost, and them
was. therefore, much smvaMii spent upon her
Kfh in Paris and .Madrid. All that, however,
is now very ancient history which will ***rtulnly
i not lx* reiiienjlicrcd when slje
is In Spain The K|*4idiirds will only
in her a countrywoman who lias tasted of
tlie sweets of existene** tmd then of mII the hit
ler* sate that of poverty. She was uu intensely
proud woman, and she ha* been hiinjhhM to the
du*t Hut although so l*T*ave| and w* hleiied,
her life in not an gloomy us might Is* suppos'd
j At Nniiks she received iimrit company, and her
genei.il ness I was cip *rf id Tie** bright ski** <>f
Italy after tie- lowering skies of Los kind wern
mil of exhilaration, and }# rgoijf v iheuniaHstii.
w Inch conies of list nulrHlA- a diet for tie* little
i*A*reis* she takes wus untdj less ocuie thou
Vkheu mite \ at i Oldsnougb Aff“rt4oli*le
relative* to l* )jj for f Mill
row de*i when was m lnd>
hpr daughter SVitgw
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