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Special Notices— As to the Sale of the Dil
lon Tract; Grand Excursion on Steamer Pope
Catlin; Dr. Nunn.
Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos.
Auction Salk—Receiver's Sale of Furniture,
by C. H. Dorsett.
New Spring Butter— A. M. &C. W. West.
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Charter of Savannah, Vernonburg and Rosedew
Railway.
It appears that Henry George makes his
■hade of anarchy pay. He receives $75 for
an hour’s talk.
If Henry Clews owns any of the spurious
Virginia bonds a prolonged howl from him
may be expected.
Germany's attitude toward France sug
gests that Prince Bismarck is pining for just
one more fight before he dies.
There is room enough in this country for
all the Europeans who want to work, but
there is none for idlers and political agi
tators.
As far as the Governor of South Carolina
and Georgia are concerned, the prospects
are that it will be a long time tietween
drinks.
The Houston Post wants to know if the
Morning News considers Texas a Southern
State. Yes, for it has the Southern ear
mark —a boom.
The London Times, otherwise known as
“The Thunderer,” will find that it will take
lightning to kill the influence' of Charles
Stewart Parnell.
A daily paper devoted to the interests of
base ball has made its api>euranoe. Now
let’s have one devoted to the interests of
mumble-the-peg
C. P. Huntington, the railway magnate,
wants to go into t e hote business. He has
already equipped himself with a colored
neck-tie and a diamond pin.
The weekly press of Georgia manifests a
disposition to force Republicans who are
masquerading as Democrats to disclose
themselves in their true colors.
Canada, Japan and Mexico are all mak
ing faces at the United States. In spite of
his pacific intentions, Uncle Sam may yet
lie forced to go on the warpath.
•—Atlanta is disposed to plume herself l>e
gjiMßclii' is no longer the “umpire” city of
the South. The Southern Base Ball League
comfortable on account of the
.’Tjib United States refuse hospitality to
and jumpers of Europe; why not
{SRjPt hospitality to the upholders of the
* Wcnkg who find their way across the At
lantic?
The Boston CUobe thinks the fact that
Harvard is to have anew drinking foun
tain is suggestive. Parents who have sons
nt Harvard will doubtless wonder why the
fact is suggestive.
A* far as Chattanooga is concerned the
■war is over. The ex-Union soldiers of that
city are giving valuable aid to the fair held
in that city for the benefit of disabled cx-
Coufederate soldiers.
Adam Smith said: “Man is the animal
that make 6 bargains; no other animal does
this; one dog does not change a bone with
another.” New York and Chicago might
find it profitable to elect dogs to i ifllce.
In justice to A. B. Corliss, the Dare town,
N. J., teacher recently accused of teaching
his pupils to play jioker, it is proper to state
that they playod the gome with “historical”
cards. A good deal was learned about kings
and queens.
G. W. Smalley, the Ixindou correspondent
of the New York Tribune, writes that Mrs.
James Brown Potter is steadily improving
in her dramatic work at the liny market
Theatre. American pluck will toll, even
among the “blarsted Britishers.”
London, Ky., conn's to the front with the
■trangost case on record. A few days ago
a man named Perkins was tried in the
Police Court of that town for using profane
language in the presence of drummers, and
was sent to jail for thirteen days.
The press of the country, Democratic and
Republican, has offered many explanatioiLs
of the Republican defeat in Rhode Island.
The explanation is of no importance. The
only thing that should attract attention is
the comforting fact that a Democrat is now
Governor of tlint State.
Edward Atkinson says that the into estate
commerce law is a measure “to obstruct
free commerce among the several Hue*
uudTurritorios of the Union.” It is stange
rslimMNtthoo sind and one objections to tiie
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Alderman Bogart’s Amendment.
Alderman Bogart’s proposed amendment '
to the city charter is entitled to very care
ful consideration. It is intended for a re
forin, and it is for the people of the city to
say whether in their opinion it is a reform,
and if so, whether they want it. They are
the ones who are interested, and as it will
come before the Council for its action in a
couple of weeks it is time for them to be
thinking about it seriously. It is much
1 letter for them to express their views with
regard to it now thay to wait until the Coun
cil lias acted upon it.
Its aim is to have always in the Council
men who are familiar with the affaire of the
city, and, also, to increase the chances of al
ways having a Council that bo devoted
to the city’s interests.
There is no doubt that the proposition to
give the Mayor the veto power is a good
one. Asa general rulo the Mayor can be
depended upon to act in accordance with
the wishes of the majority, and to
do what he believes to be
for the general good. Being the hoad of
the government he naturally fools a greater
degree of responsibility than an Alderman.
If the government is bar! he has to bear the
most of the blame, and if it is good ho gets
the credit. He very naturally exerts him
self, therefore, to give the city a clean,
economical government.
There is another thing to be considered.
It is that more care is exercised in selecting
a Mayor than an Alderman. The jieople
want a man at the hend of municipal affairs
of proved ability and recognized qualifica
tions for dealing with public mattors. There
is not much reason, therefore, for thinking
that anything but good results will come
from clothing the Mayor with the veto
power.
But the proposition to elect only lialf the
Council every two years ought not to be
adopted hastily. It nuiy lie a good one, but
the people ought to be satisfied that it is be
fore assenting to it. It is certainly advisable
to have men in the Council who are
throughly acquainted with city matters,
but is there not danger that
the six holding-over members might
manage so as to perjietuate their power ? It
the Mayor were in sympathy with . them
they could do pretty much what they pleased,
and for four years, at least, they could have
everything their own way. Of course it
would tie a rather remarkable state; of
affairs if the holding-over six and the Mayor
should agree to burden the city with debt or
do some other thing obnoxious to public
sentiment, but similar agreements have been
made elsewhere, and they might be made
here.
Under the present charter an entirely new
Council is elected every two years, so that if
the people are dissatisfied they do not have
to wait long to put the city in charge of new
men. If the members of the old Council
have proved themselves worthy of public
confidence they all stand a chance of being
re-elected. Some of .them are generally re
elected, so that the new Council is not often
without experienced members. Of course the
choosing of only half the Council every two
years would not lessen election expenses.
The cost of electing six Aldermen would be
as great as that of electing twelve.
There is much to bo said for and against
Alderman Bogart’s proposed amendment,
ami those who are interested in the city
should think of it carefully before deciding
for or agaiiLSt it.
The Street Hucksters.
The Council is determined apparently to
drive the hucksters from the street. The
proposed ordinance requiring them to pro
vide themselves with badges will have that
effect, and that is the effect doubtless that it
is intended it shall have. The street huck
sters are a deserving, class of people. They
are very poor, and work hard for all they
earn. If they are forced to purchase badges,
however, it is probable that the most of
them will give up their calling altogether.
There is very little to bo said against them
anil a great deal in their favor. There ore
a few jieople who object to the noise they
make in the early morning in crying their
wares, but it is doubtful if there iR much
complaint against them on that account.
Housekeepers appreciate them. It is not
always convenient to go to the market for a
few vegetables, or shrimp, or a little fruit,
and if the hucksters arc forced off the street
people will have to go there, however insig
nificant their wants may be. There is an
other thing which the street hucksters do.
They keep prices for such articles as they sell
within reasonable limits. Remove them
and the probabilities are that the
prices of fruit, vegetables and certain
kiiuls of fish will advance at once. The
poor classes of people are interested in get
ting food articles as cheaply as possible.
There is very general complaint that living
is higher hore than in any other city in the
South. Dear living, of course, operates
against the city. It keeps people from
coming here.
Those who rent stalls iu the Market want
the selling of food articles on the streets
prohibited of course, liecause it interferes
somewhat with their business, but they all
appear to be getting along quite comfort
ably, and the little the street hucksters soil
wont ruin them. The Council should aim
to legislate so as to make the necessaries of
life as cheap as possible.
The drummer generally looks out for him
self. In Eatentou not long ago the Putnam
Rifles had a fair for the purpose of raising
funds for new uniforms. One night four
teen drummers were present. One of thorn
was prevailed upon by a young Italy to auc
tion off certain goods which seemed to tie a
drug on the market. He agreed to do so
after having first conferred with his brother
drummers. Next day it was discovered that
all the articlos auctioned off had brought
big prices. It was also discovered that
while the drummers had been lively bidders,
nothing had Is-en sold to them. It finally
leaked out that the auctioneer had agreed
that if his brother drummers would run
the bids iiji he would make it convenient to
kins k down the articles to unwary bidders
from the town. Drummer* are not us jsip
ular in Hutonton now as they once were.
Tin* Rhode Island Legislature is deter
milled that railroad ivtssongeiK iu thaiKtab
slmll I** properly protectisl. It has just cn
a<-ted a law requiring that every passenger
ctr on the railroads of the State slmll carry
two clietnleal lire extinguishers, with printed
instructions for use and a set of wrecking
tools, mid forbidding tie* use of kerosene,
lump* iuul stoves. The railroads will now
l* tmi|*'ll*l to attempt Mm solution of tin
problem of wife lighting and heating of cars.
If tli cannot solvi It traveler*till lUk**'
Island m <t winter will have tv '■••■tenlf With
It-fill I’old mid dmkuiv- e'
Tie- I'.'ini.yhttHlu lAgl-Iflttire lifts nlril j
tele*J tie pal tax iu tad Mtats. "Manfvi’sl
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TTTE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1887-TWELVE PAGES.
Curious News Items.
The average newspaper reader does not no- ;
tiee what may be called the curiosities of the j
news. The news feature of an accident or a ,
suicide or some other thing alone interests i
him. There are, however, a good many cu- j
rious things to lie found in accounts of the
occurrences of the busy world from day to
day.
For instance, when a novel murder, or
suicide, or other deed that has marked pe
culiarities of an original character is pub
lished it is very apt to be duplicated in a
day or two. A week or so ago there was
widely published an account of the suicide
of a convict in Mississippi. The convict’s
death didn’t attract much attention, but the
unusual way in which he sought
death did. His sentence was for ten years
and lie was quite despondent. He was one
of a gang engaged iu felling timber, and as
a large tree was about to fall he placed him
self directly in its way and was crushed to
death. On last Saturday at Austin. Ind.,
J. W. Middleton, with his two sons, was
engaged in felling trees on his farm. An
unusually large tree hail been chopp'd u util it
was tottering, when the young matt sought a
place of safety. On looking to see what had
become of their father they wore horrified
to find him standing with folded arms and
smiling face directly in a lino with the fall
ing tree. He was killed of course. Doubt
less he had read the account of tho Missis
sippi convict’s suicide.
A few days ago the girls employed in the
woolen mills at Monasha, AVis., struck lie
cause the foreman ordered the windows of
the factory facing the main street painted.
They could not, of course, satisfy their cu
riosity about what was going on in tho
street, and they decided to quit work until
the foreman consented to remove the paint
from the windows. This is a rather cu
rious item in itself, but it would not be at
all surprising if there should be other
strikes shortly for similar reasons. Those
curious features to be found in the news
columns of the press furnish interesting
subjects for the investigation of metaphy
sicians.
Anarchists and Police.
It is noticeable that the Anarchist rarely
fails, in the course of his harangues, to urge
his fellows to kill the police. Sometimes,
as was the, case in Chicago, the advice is
followed. Asa rule, however, when a col
lision accurs between Anarchists and the
polico the former quickly yield, and no
blood is shed.
The hatred the Anarchist entertains for
the police is largely dire to fear of the latter.
Most of the Anarchists who mako this coun
try tho theatre of their ravings and mis
deeds are natives of Russia or Germany. In
each of those countries tho police exercise
great power. In Russia they may arrest
any person whom they suspect of either
penal or political offenses, and they are
therefore a constant menace to Anarchists.
In Germany the power of tho jiolioe is not
so great, but it is sufficient to keep the An
archists in subjection. When the latter take
up their residence in this country they are
unable to rid themselves of their fear of the
police, and they therefore lose none of their
hatred of them.
A ludicrous illustration of tho Anarchist’s
fear of the police was given in New York a
few days ago. A follower of Most, the ex-cou
vict, was standing upon a plat of grass m one
of the public squares, breathing curses upon
capitalists and defiance to the law. He was
surrounded by a smail crowd of eager listen
ers, some of whom sympathized with him,
while others were merely curious to hear
what he had to say. A one-armed police
man, charged with tho care of the square,
approached the crowd and exclaimed:
“Come off of that grass!” The Anarchist,
who had but a moment before declared that
he wanted to lend a general crusade against
the police, stopped his harangue and slunk
away like a whipped dog. A block away he
recovered himself sufficiently to shout baric:
“Down with the police, curse.them!” His
hatred came to the surface close upon his
exhibition of fear.
The polico reciprocate the Anarchist’s
hatred with interest. It is, perhaps, fortu
nate that this is true, for whatever failures
the courts may make in dealing with the
Anarchist, it may be considered certain that
tho police will always do their duty in deal
ing with him.
Secretaries of the Treasury.
The New York Times lately published a
very interesting article on “The Nation's
Financiers.” The purpose of the article
was to give a few leading points about each
of those who have occupied the |i.-irion of
' Secretary of ttie Treasury. Alexander
Hamilton was the first Secretary, and at
the time he was appointed was only 82 years
of age. He was the youngest and perhaps
greatest of all the Secretaries. There have
befen thirty-eight Secretaries in all, includ
ing tiie present Secretary, Mr. Fairchild,
who is 44 years of age. Only four of tho
Secretaries wore ns young as 40 years at the
time of appointment, and only twelve under
SO. The oldest was William Duane, of
Pennsylvania, who was 78.
Seven Secretaries have been appointed
from Pennsylvania, four from New York,
and four from Ohio. Several of flic States
have f urnisho 1 three each, and about a ih izeu
of the other States have furnished the oth
ers. Hamilton was born in Nevis, one
of tho West India Islands. Gallatin, the
fourth Secretary, was born in Switzerland,
and Wolcott, the second Secretary, was born
in the Island of Jamaica. Gallatin hold
ollice for nearly twelve years. Crawford
served eight years and four m<intlu. Wood
bury remained in oifiee six years and eight
moutht. Hamilton served five years and
five moutlis,J and his successor, Wol
cott, held office five years, and f u
mouths. No Secretary since Woodbury has
held over tho term of tho President who
first appointed him. McCulloch served four
years and four months, and was the only
Secretary uncalled to office after other Sec
retaries had held tile pkic? nml retired. The
shortest term was that of Secretary Philip
Francis Thomas, who was called in by Bu
chanan when Howell Cobh resigned,and who
held U,< o!!i"o just one month uu<l two days.
Gen. l)ix, Thomas' successor, held the place
one month and twenty-five days, and
Gresham held it, one month an I four days.
Dexter was in oillo four months. Ewing
held th' Secretaryship six mouths, and
Duane was only four months in office. Kol
g r wm two yeara and uiiie months S.iere
t try, and Manning completed hi t second
year with g'S’d mwMurc.
hill's* I4NU tie' number of iltlL'i-ste cbll
dri ll ill MiwsnchU'i'tt* tins increased Ho
flu thy.onfi i'U,is. assigned is that Vt is.su
'ffiite tteiMtvutst.il. • morelnteHMt in athletic
•|> ttn mi I prize lighting to in iu ••Ineati'Si.
.Chaplain limvira, of lho MoAsuriiuwita
Htato jmi*oii, thinks IJixl ill* liarg'-d |it**s
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CURRENT COMMENT.
Tho "If Is Unnecessary.
From the Boston fjlobe. I Deni.)
Hr. Cleveland will riot refuse a renomination,
nml a renomination he can have if his adminis
tration during the next twelve months is satis
factory to the Democratic party.
The Answer to Senator Sherman’s
Speech.
From the Missouri Republican (l)em.)
Our Republican friends need not fret beimusc
no one ls answering John Sherman's Tennessee
speech. That State will newer it at the polls
with the usual Democratic majority.
Arbor Day.
From the Austin Statesman (Drill).
Nowhere is shade so much needed as in the
South, where tiie summer sun sends down such
scorching rays. And a day most suited to the
planting of trees should lie selected, and that
day, all over the State, should, if not made a
holiday, lie the occasion of universal planting
of trees that will promote comfort and secure
beauty.
A Timely Amendment.
From the Boston Advertiser (Rep.)
The Bn u declines to join in the crusade of
Rev. Dr. Fulton for the overthrow of the Church
of Home. It: suggests instead a union of all
churches for the purpose of breaking down in
fidelity. After this task is satisfactorily com
pleted, it, will then consider the question whether
there is any Christian church that should lie
broker, down. Tho bun's order of proceedings
is a timely amendment. It shines for all in this
matter.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Why do yon make that knot in your hand
kerchief:'”
"Oh. so that I shan’t forget that charming
melody,” —German Payer,
Mistress (to new servant)—We have break
fast, generally about R o'clock.
New S t-vant—Well. mum, if I ain't down to it
don't whit, —Harper s Bazar.
Young Physician (who has just lost a patient,
to old physician)— 1 “Would you advise an autop
sy, doctor)" '
Old .tjto'aioiajl- “No; I would, aqyvsb an in
quest."—Puck.
Anxious Oraniimaxm i (watchful of widowed
•and coquettish daughter-in-law)—Johruy, go
down stairs, and if Mr. Brow n Ls with mamma
tell her 1 want to speak to her
Literal rendition by Johnny—Mamma, grand
ma says if Mr. Brown is here you're to come
rigid up stairs. Accident Kews.
A young lady went into a store to ptu'chose a
diary, and had about concluded to secure one
shown her, when she changed her mind and
said; "I guess I'll take a purse for the diary.”
An old lady standing near, and who only par
tially heard the foregoing announcement, went
over and said in a loud whisper: "Miss, don’t
you do it, take blackberry cordial ßoston
Budget. *
Mrs. Brimmer — l don't see when a man has a
good trade why he should prefer to lie a burglar.
Mr. B—Who are you talking about ?
Mrs B -That man who was caught breaking
into a store last night. He’s a machinist.
Mr. B—Who told you that ?
Mrs. B—The paper Says that while be was at
the station house and the officer was making
his report the burglar made a bolt for the door.
—Boston Budget.
Stranger— What in the world are those great
embankments for?
Omaha Jlaii—They were left by grading the
street.
"But don’t they cave in?”
"Sometimes.”
“And they must kill people wl-.o happen to be
under them?”
"Yes, but if the streets weren’t graded it
would kill the horses."— Omaha World.
Miss Gushington— Wbat! Europe!
Mis'* Lushiugton—l didn't mean to say it, but
it’s out now.
Miss G.—Well, misery loves company. We are
going there, too, this summer.
Miss L.—But you have u place at Newport.
Miss G.—Pa had to si H it.
Miss L.—l don't sec what's got into business.
My father announced last evening that every
thing had failed, and lie couldn't even afford a
cottage at Long Branch. We’ve got to sail as
soon as the season opens,—New) Orleans Pica
yune.
A story is told in regard to a christening in
the lower end of the city. Mother, father and
infant were on band. Also the godfather. The
good old priest proceeded with the ceremony
until it was necessary to name the child. The
godfather, as usual in such cases, had written
the name on a card, and when the ceremony had
reached this point he dived into liis vest pocket
and handed out one. The priest took it and a
look of horror came over his face. The god
father turned a fiery red, went down in' Lin
pocket again, reached out another card, handed
it to the priest, ami received in return the one
he had first given tiie good man. and the cere
mony proceeded without interruption. The one
he hail first handed to the priest read: "X am
somewhat of a liar myself.”—Pro rat Transcript.
Omaha Paterfamilias (reading)—Mourning
dinners are the latest Parisian folly. Twelve
young ladies, dressed in the deepest mourning
and heavily veiled compose the party. Tito
dining-room is drnped in black, silver wreaths
and tombstone! take the place of pictures. The
chairs are shaped like coffins net on end and
hung with immortelles. Knives and forks have
bones for handles and the champagne is served
in skulls. The dinner is eaten in silence to slow
music.
Omaha Daughter—Are they given by people
who lost relatives?
“No. The paper ; say it is only a whim, but I
don't see how the guests can keep from laugh
ing at tho ridiculousness of it.' 1
Maybe, papa, invitations are only issued to
voting ladies whose fathers have refused them a
new dress. —Omaha World.
PERSONAL.
f'aiMK ill-mannered people who live in Massa
chusetts say that George W. fable is a better
Sunday school teacher than author.
The house of the Hartford defaulter, Bar
tholomew, has been leased by the Rev. Mr.
Dive. The whirligig of time plays curious
pranks.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Howells will sail for
Europe in June, to lie absent a year. Mr. Alex
ander Agaasiz will go to Alaska in May for a
year's absence.
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Queen Yil-okia has received enough jubilee
gifts to fill a storehouse as bjg as Windsor Cas
tle. MenV of them have to -be given away lor
want of place to put them. ■
M. DtiHlt/iwiTZ. the famous Paris correspond
ent of the London Times, recently gave a din
ner in the French capital, at which MM. Jules
Sinicin, Do Lessops nml Lock toy assisted.
Kino Leopold Uhk had four children, one son
and three daughters. The Princess Louise was
married to tile l>nk ■ of Snxi'-t'ohurg. Princess
Stephan!" to Prince Rudolph of Austria, aiid
Princess Clementine, unmarried.
The Duke of IS won dure, lather of the Mur
qtlis of iim tingtou, is sola t> Ik- seriously ill.
If is death irould lie an event of considerable po
litical importance just now. its It would elevate
tiie Marquis to the House of Lords.
Nathaniel Lheene, of Newport, R. 1., is a
grandson of the famous Revolutionary General
of the same name. He is u prominent citizen
of Rhode Island, and President of the .State So
ciety of the Cincinnati, a ixmltlon which his il
lustrious ancestor first fillisl.
Prince Roland Bonaparte is at present vis
iting Austria, whence lie will proceed to Kervia
and Uuunittnia. Before leaving Paris the Prince
gave a rich present to the Ethnographical Mir e
tint ol t.'io Trooadero, containing a precious col
lection ul'objects, milling them the sceptre of
Queen Pomure.
Prince Victor Napoleon, exiled, now resid
ing in Brussels, .holds weekly receptions
Among his regular visitors are a numlier ,>l the
Boimpartlst meads)r c.f the ('liumber of |mjm
ties, wlio make a weekly pilgrimage to Bel
giui'll" pay their respects to the representative
of the house of Napoleon and to try to bolster
ti)i its "lost cause.’'
Guv. Church, of Dakota, tells this story: A
year or s<• ago. when 1 was making a journey
lytq the Black Hills, the train stopped ju the
prairie, ami looking cut I saw a solitary house
1 lie roniJuclor eliaiieel to i mile along nrd I
asked who lived there "Tbal," said I Is
wlmo • Mi livei and prints ids pajs-r '
'I 'tv wasn't another house within a liuudicd
mile
Ex Mayor Hurra, Ilf rllUodelphul, sent copies
of ids message last year to ail parts of i|„.
world li Mayor iif eu-It large riri m ihi*
cu'ißtry received a copy of th • pri eb its docii
merit, so I it* Hayo s' of .lisldo. Japan, and
o* ( onsLtnUuoi lc. torse,, were iiia-wi.o h'*n
ori'd. Adltius Lx press Company now eelL on
tpo city ot Philadelphia to puy #ltf,
ou th" copras s ui out
Coi ST Itoerr. m ill* gitbiiate hr itber id king
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DID THE DOG OV/N THE GIRL ?
A Photographer on the Unpleasantness
of Taking Canine Pictures.
“No. I do not like to photograph dogs," said
a well known photographer to a reporter of the
Detroit Free Press, “not even if I am paid
double for the work. What kind of an cxxires
sion can I get on a dog's face? And just as I
am going to have an impression he moves, and
knocks the whole thing into a cocked hat. Now
look at that object."
The object was a white, silky, flossy little ani
mal that, like Grace Greenwood's little boy in
his new pants, could hardly tell whether it was
going to school or coming home. Its bangs
covered its face, but on close iusiiection a piair
of eyes were discernible.
It sat up on a hassock, crossed its front paws
in obedience to the dictum of its young mis
tress, had a blue ribliou bow adjusted, and was
taken by the instantaneous method.
"All the ki vis seem to lie having their pic
tures taken iately," observed the photographer.
“They don't cry the way babies do, but who on
earth wants the iiieture I if a dog?"
The man of Chemicals had evidently not much
acquaintance with the Landseers, Beards and
Bonheurs of the animal kingdom. lie retired
grumbling into his den w ith the pictured poodle.
As the representative of tho hr or Press left a
round-eyed pug with a snub nose am I -a har
ness ot lielU was on his way up. He was ac
companied by a pretty girl, whom he evidently
owned.
"Come, Toby, dear,, that’s a dear dog—come
up now! You’re going to have your picture
taken."
l’erhaps the possibility of a bench show, when
ell the “darling dogs" of the community will be
offered fur prizes, has something to do with the
sudden demand for dogs’ photographs.
LIFE OF WILLIAM PENN.
A Much Misunderstood Man Set to
Rights in the Public Eye.
From Texas Si ftings.
After having studied at the public schools he
was sent to the University of Oxford. By close
application he developed his intellect to such an
extent that he could smoke Allen & Guiter s.
cigarettes all day long and never turn a hair.
Even liefore lie graduated he was thoroughly
imbued with the idea that everybody else was a
fool. While at college he was very extravagant
in everything except attendance a: prayers, and
his favorite tipple w as Perrier Jouel.
He graduated with honors, but having a
wealthy father, the celebrated Admiral Penn,
he whs not obliged, like most college graduates,
to whack a st reet ear mule for a living, or to sod
grass at tWc. a day and find himself. His hats
were all made to order by Dunlap, of New York.
About this time he attended a Quaker meet
ing and was converted. He swung around the
circle preaching sermons, and they must have
been pretty tough, as he was arrested and
locked up.
About this time Charles the Second made
Penn a present of tho .'iiuiy,r>i Pennsylvania for
an old debt. How lie came over to this country
in one of the Canard Line steamers and founded
the city of Philadelphia is well known. He was
accompanied by Frank Siddall, who afterward
invented soap.
It was upon the condition that he took this
mob with him that King Charles gave him the
land to settle on. After this England flourished
greatly, and King Charles and tiie people of
England were very grateful to Penn for the
greiff services he had rendered the country.
They presented him with ten pounds of Hecker s
Buckwheat and a bottle of Boker s Bitters.
Rhyme of the Rail.
Crashing down embankments,
Rattling off of ridges,
Shooting off of arches,
Tumbling off of bridges,
Splashing into rivers.
Burning in the dale —
Bless ine! it is pleasant,
Riding on tbe rail!
Newsboys at the stations,
Through ttie car well-filled,
Crv "Another horror!"
"Fullest list of killed! 1 ’
High ami lowly people.
Birds of every feather,
Buy ami read in silence,
Nervous grow together.
“Sixty killed and wounded'.’’
"Fearful holocaust!"
“Six cars full of people
O'er a bank are tossed!”
“Rescuing the victims l"
“A survivor's tale!”
Bless me! it is pleasant,
Riding on the rail!
Throw your paper from you,
Look out at the pane—
That is doleful reading
Riding on a train!
Looking out will cheer yog,
At the muddy yards.
Till you pass a high bridge
Lacking any guards!
Turning from the window.
Calm your nervous soul,
Sleeping till awakened
By tbe rattling coal
That, with a deal of clatter.
An honest brakeiuun hove—
Meanwhile whistling gayiy—
Into a red-hot stove!
Rumbling into darkness
Go the rushing cars.
Night will hide the (lunger
That your comfort mars.
No bridge; no. nor high bank
Now vour spirit damps,
While the cheery brakeman
Lights the oil-fed lamps!
Crashing down embankments,
Rattling off of ridges,
Shooting off of arches.
Tumbling off of bridges,
Splashing into rivers,
Burning in the dale—
Oh. it's very pleasant
Baling oil the rail!
—C. M. Thompson.
Humors of the Jubilee.
From the Liverpool Mercury.
Talking of the Jubilee—Oh. the Jubilee!—
there are some good t;t<>rios about the Jubilee
collections in Birmingham hidden away in the
Moron College Magazine. A lady iu the birth
town of the caucus, having spent several hours
in collecting for the women's fund, in a not very
fashionable part of the town, with the magnifi
cent result or tl-sb was delighted at last to meet
with a good natured old dame who unhesita
tingly proffered 2d. “But mind.'' she said,
earnestly, “It mustn’t go to a statoo. Them
statoos ain't truthful. There's t'un of George
Dawson; I've Vard i;n preach many's the time,
and "e alius won- a dower iu is button'ole, and
'ail trousers on as fitted ’im.”
Klch and poor alike seem to look with con
tempt upon the people who go about collecting
money for the Queen A lady was on one oc
casion shown into a fashion.il.lt- drawing room,
and had the misfortune to disturb some kind of
social function. Tim hoste.v,. indicating the
hapless intruder with n patronizing wave of iim
hand, remarked, with crue! sooni, to her guests,
"Tins is a Jubilee person, I suppose. " Birming
ham can cheer tin* Queen, nut "evidently does
not believe very much in Jubilee memorials.
They have not Tennyson's desire for something
“regally gorgeous.” ,
A New “Col. Sellers."
From the New York Time*.
John T. Raymond is dead, but “Col. Sellers"
still lives, in one of the private parlors of the
Fifth Avenue a miniature road with wooden
tracks lias Ihm*ii built for the purpose of illus
trating the practicability of a bicycle railroad
car. A k!tittle t rack underneath mul one over
bead is all that hi necessary according to the
plan. Two wheels above urul below the car an*
sup[K>H4Hl to bo Hiubciont to hold it In pirn* while
it is indue pulled along at the rate of 100 miles an
hour. The man who is reKpor.rohlo for tin* bicy
cle cur is very outhuniaatic ovor it. H** was fig*
wring on its prospective value while talking with
a capitalist whom he wanted to interest in tin*
••chenie to the extent of &>i. *1 will give you
S?HJO,(XiO worth of slock outright," lie went on.
“aud an option on s|,arvukih at |*ar. "jlow
much do you estimate it will Is* worth in six
moutli*?" inquired the mao of m<>uoy. A linn
dn* tto one, M ws the reply. “Every dollar of
lock will lx* worth a hundred. M “let me m**\“
"•aid the capitalist “if 1 look |IOO,<Wh now ilia*
i " uld Is* si.www.diiOth. ti. Suppo .• i call'd my
i option on of atock at p.u\ That would
Is SJOO,ixi.(XA). making me worth $100,010,000
in six months. J guess I'll invest s.*) um a
flyer. M
lie Huddenly Kerri umbered.
Front th< Sew York thy Ijinni* l ltinnirlr
A merchant doing biiiu< *• m u** interior la
said to no remarkable for his utter aleteut* j
min ioducfss Ufioii '#<'>ti*fu Koi/i<* yeu n ago. I
while visiting tins city to make his usiail nfirffi ( j
purchase*. n vi/.ja*<i >iie owning a onthl*- -
uptown tiwatre in the 1 our* t*f Um* |*U>.
amcii a as* 1 i*dod< unut. tia- I*er-mia got inu.t a !
very b* I • rap- and Cn men boot wmaxaudj
if •** ted iltHi la# uA-itiaiiy shed L*,r* Joef at
that loot lieu* w|w n <4m • *i|y a ansi* in t in* J,< u*m
• ' of f|M t 1 ► I i|i 1 ,1
nofe *n * 4isU i*nfi tor nit ioafant Slid is niuiod
si" i* o b. n ying hk oaod dowfi imiu rebound ;
Uifc slap ihi hi* i&imh* in 1 uiilo 1 that
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The most uncommon names in English are
those which begin with X. There are none in
the New York directory. Philadelphia, how
ever, presents the names of Xaviers, Xander
and Xandry.
During the past winter Mrs. Mary Miller, of
Hillsborough, N. H. (where the season still lin
gers), fed daily eight gray squirrels, which came
to her door from the woods every morning and
departed after having had their breakfast.
Young chickens, the Microscopical Society of
Sun Francisco fears, are filled with the seeds of
consumption and may communicate the disease
to people who eat them, but this trill hardly
bear the market for broilers to any extent.
At Athens an archaic statue of Athene has
been found, composed of two plates of brass
nailed together, each plate showing the same
face. It is supposed to have formed part of a
piece of furniture, and shows traces of paint.
Joliet, 111., reports the case of a woman who
has been lying three months in a trance condi
tion at her home in that city. It is stated that
the only signs of life she has exhibited have
been when attempts wore made to put liquid
food in her mouth. She would then close her
jaws rigidly, and her eyelids would at the same
time be tightly compressed.
Washington Territory Indians, when they
find a drove of deer in the woods, take a lot of
well-worn blankets and fasten them at short in
tervals on the bushes until a long line is thus
decorated. Then they surround the deer, driv
ing them toward the bushes, and when the
frightened animals smell the blankets they run
along the line, refusing to pass it, and are then
shot down easily,
A little story comes from India which shows
how deftly modern science and modern appli
ances lend themselves to carry on rites and cus
toms celebrated on the Ganges a thousand years
ago. A sepoy died a long woy from his home
and country and his caste fellows duly cremated
him, and, having done this, they went to the
telegraphic office and wired as ’follows to his
En rents: "Binda Persod died last night. Bones
y post.”
A native Persian lectured before a Sunday
school in New York lately, and a published re
port states that the young ladies of the audi
ence laughed when Mr. Neesan told how the
Persian youth was allowed to take one kiss from
bis future wife on the eve before their marriage,
provided he could find her in a dark room full
of other ladies. They were silent and sympa
thetic when he told how, although he was en
gaged for three years, he never got one kiss in
all that time.
A gentleman interested in the commerce of
the great lakes says it is going rapidly to large
hulls. Twenty years ago a propeller that could
carry 50.000 bushels of grain or 1,000 tons of coal
was considered a monster, but there are many
now in the trade between Buffalo and Chicago
and Cleveland and Duluth that carry over 100,-
000 bushels of grain in a single cargo. The
Onoko, one of our great iron propellers, takes
120,000 bushels of oats in a single cargo. These
large vessels are fast crowding the smaller pro
pellers and sailing vessels off of the lakes.
A New York lady, who wears a beaver hat,
tells a correspondent how she keeps the nap so
smooth and shiny. Siie says: “First brush the
hat thoroughly, so as to get all the fibres
straightened out in one direction. Then take a
silk handkerchief and pour into the middle of it
about a half-teasjioonful of salad oil. Hub the
handkerchief in your bands until the oil is thor
oughly distributed through it. Then go
over your hat time after time with the silk thus
prepared. Lay the handkerchief aside, and use
it every day upon the hat, without, however, re
plenishing the oil more than once a week. The
hat in this way will be kept in perfect order,
and even an ordinary wetting will not disturb
it.”
Theodore Stanton says that M. Hector Pes
sard, the well-known Parisian journalist, has
many revelations to make concerning great peo
ple, of both the past and present in bis spicy rec
ollections now appearing in the Revue Bleue. It
appears that in 1865 Gumbetta paid a visit to the
Count of Paris, who was then, as now, in exile.
During the conversation the great-grandson of
Philippe Egalite, he who voted for the death of
Louis Capet, exclaimed; "It is a mistake to con
tinue any longer to defiantly throw in the face
of the world the head of Louis XVI.” “But that
ought not to bother you very much in your
house,” interrupted Gambetta, with a loud
laugh. The Count of Paris, like a polite host,
pretended not to see the point of the joke.
A startling discovery was made the other
day by a lady liviug iu the Rue de St. Charles,
Paris. She had been absent from Paris for a
fortnight, and on returning to her apartment,
which had been untenanted during her sojourn
in the country and carefully lock's!, she discov
ered in her bedroom the dead body of a man.
She immediately rushed terror-stricken out of
the room and ran down the stairs calling out for
help. The police having come to her assistance,
the body was removed and examined by a doc
tor, who stated that tb deceased had succumb
ed to an apoplectic stroke. The calling of the
dead man was made easily evident by the dis
covery in his pocket of a burglar's jimmy, a
pair of knuckle dusters and a long sheath knife.
The Persians have one never-failing subject
of conversation; that subject is their health.
The pleasure of talking about the weather is
denied to them; for, as 11 months out of the
13 are fine in Persia, the subject does not present
sufficient variety. But a Persian to whatever
class of society he may iielong, is never tired of
talking about his ailments, real or supposed.
In his eyes all Ferringhis (Europeans) are doc
tors, and the European doctor is the very best
of all. For many years at Shiraz there lived
an old Swede wh had walked into Persia in
his youth. He knew nothing of medicine
on his arrival: but, finding that the
natives constantly solicited his advice, he
bought a few medical books and
literally acquired a certain amount of knowl
edge by carrying out the good old principle of
“Fiat experinientum in corpora vili.” Happily
the Hakim Sahib also believed in the “vis medi
catrix nulura.-.” Asa rule his drugs were harm
less. “I have different colored liquids," said he,
“and as long as then-is bread and water to la'
had, lam never at a loss for a pill." The pills
were floured for the common people and gilded
for the rich. At 70 yearn of .age the Hakim
Sahib died. He held the position of physician
to the forms of the province, and was deservedly
respected by natives and Eiirt>i>eans.
Gen. R. Nicholson, in the St. Louis Globe
Democrat, relates that in 1870 he was a member
of the Yale College expedition which Prof. O.
C’. Marsh took across the plains. One peculiar
ity of the professor was that lie was a very
nervous and rather timid horseman. He was
C ontimudly talking to his horse, checking it and
exclaiming, "whoa! whoa!” in loud tones.
After we had been out a couple of months we
fell ill with some friendly Indians, one of whom
we hired as a guide. The professor hud a great
ambition to impress these children of the wild
erness, and we Knew that nothing would please
him so much as to receive some name from them
indicative of the character of his pursuit. The
Indians certainly were impressed by him. hut
not ill the way he exiHNited and desired. One
day a member in our party came to the pro
fessor and said: ’Professor Marsh, Indian Jim
has given you n name.’ Marsh drew himself
up. and. with a good deal of suppressed eager
ness, asked wtint it was, expecting to bear
something like the White Chief or'Big Medi
cine Bone .Han, - referring to Ids fossiliferoue
pursuits. 'Jim rode with you yesterday and
noticed the way you uuinag'sl your horse, aud
you are now known to the Indians as the ’Keaji
Whoa Man.' The profossor said not a word,
hut el! through tiie day preserved a most mo
rose and gloomy aspect, and to this day there
is no means hy which ids ill-will can so certainly
be secured us by calling niin the ‘Heap Whoa
Man ’ ”
Tint Berlin Deutsche Iluutlurhau continues its
series of recollections of Wagner ami publishes
for the first time many of the grout musician's
private letters, Several of them are devoted to
singing t lie praises or Ids protector, the young
King of Bavaria. Ludwig II who, It will Is' ie
nieiiils-re I, conimil t'sl suicide lasi summer. "At
tin- moment when 1 was finishing at Lmvni.my
* ’I rial an,’ *' writes Wagner; "when I was exert
lug su|s'iliiiinr.o i :.o: if to make it to
establish luyw If on German soil; when, ills,-our
ag"d ami m <l>p:iir. 1 finally turned toward
Paris and luuiich.'d out uin> eolcrprise* repug
u nit to iny nature, at licit moment tldi young
man of 15 wits pr>w t,t a:, t he [lel-formamv* of my
IsiiiengriM. and ausso pr if. m fully ulfocte i by (f
that he lieoime Ottiitivafud Willi lit) works ami
flame, -figin look#*.! upon no as his only muster,
lienor, ielimle l lus to ever) lusty as well ns Ui
me laUsi Ills father died, and my guardian
angel i me* to tile throne si an hour when (hud
ulucot l"s! sil hois- Th” Kings envoy finds nut
In my lo iguig*, Invito* tie to court utal is or
<lrred to fake '/.id tohlrri/Vsl mael-r some
souvenir of me a pened, a pen, something "
Tins cut fuel from another letter is s rent e\
tea*again!* V‘eieehi) ** ei. /11igitg yum
fe-Uig mails ready forgiving the Nil* Unigea, |
•as si dmrl oy the m*i Miloos el e o 7 this
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