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2 SUMMING AT OAK VIEW HAPPY RUSTIC LIFE OF THE PRESI DENTIAL FAMILY. Mrs. Cleveland’s Love of Flowers— Relief from the Social Duties Incident to Life at the White House a Great Luxury - Talk About a New Hotel Again Heard. Washington, April 3-I. —Tlio Presidential family has already gone into summer quar ters at Oak View, the President’s country home, over which Mrs. Folsom has presided for several months past. Even the White House chef, M, Perm, lias left the stately mansion for the less palatial hut more lively gastronomic department of a fashionable hotel, soon to open at one of the popu lar summer resorts. The cnlunary regions are, in the meantime, in charge of an unpretentious family cook, who will en deavor to see that the President doos not go hungry when he dines at the White House from time to time during the season. All social entertainment at the Executive mansion, even informal drawing-rooms or “at homes’’ have ceased, so that for the next 6ix months, should Congress be called in October, or otherwise eight months al most the entire time of the Presi dent, except when engaged in his official duties, will Vie [Missed at iiis country seat. Despite all the stories afloat detailing the'trios he is to mate during the summe r and fall, the President, as a matter of fact, has made no arrangements for the summer except to remain quietly in Washington, dividing his time between his official duties and leisure hours at ()ak View. It is not im probable that he will make atrip late in tho summer or early in the fall to the North west, but there is no authority for saying even that as yet, as iiis present thoughts are wholly wrapped up in the peaceful life and happy household in the modernized old farm-house in the picturesque hills over looking the capital. Mrs. Cleveland is in her glorv in the country, and is often seen by people driving along the road, or out among her flower-beds with her face shaded by a large-brimmed sun hat and her hands incased in a pair of garden gloves. Mrs. Cleveland undoubtedly feels that she has earned a good long rest, and is taking solid comfort out of the peaceful surroundings of her country home with her mother. She is passionately fond of flowers, and during the winter gratified her taste for them with daily visits to the White House conservatories. At “Oak View” she takes much interest in the arrangement of the grounds around the house, and in superintending the gardeners in planting tulips and crocuses and getting the flower beds ready for the summer growth of flowering and foliage plants. The President lias not had much experience in the line of bucolic pursuits, but lie enjoys the surroundings of country scenes and the pleasure of watching the “daily changing processes of vegetable growth and panorama of landscape effects from the high point of vision occupied by his rural retreat. Mrs. Cleveland also finds delight in the relief from social duties afforded by her country retreat. At the White House she was under the almost incessant liability of being obliged to entertain callers. While at Oak view she has declined to see a great many callers, which caused some hard feel ings by a few who misunderstood the Presi dent’s purpose in providing himself with a private resilience. Desiring to have the public start right with Oak View, and to nave it understood that it is not an official residence, it has been necessary for protection to do something to indicate that if was really intended for a retreat. At the AVhite House there is scarcely an hour, night or day, in which someone “does not appear with an out-of-town friend who wished to pay his respects before leaving the city. The extent to which this good-natured but still exhausting attention has lieen car ried cannot be appreciated by thoso who have not seen it. These well meant inten tions even followed Mrs. Cleveland to Oak View, but they have been uniformly and courteously declined. The result is that she is already recovered from much of the weariness entailed by these duties at the AVhite House, and is in much better health and spirits than when the social season for mally closed at the beginning of Lent. CONGRESSMAN DAVENPORT’S MARRIAGE. Congressman Ira Davenport, of New York, is to marry Miss Kitty .Sharpe, of Kingston, on April 37. Kingston is a pretty little town on the east side of the Hudson river, nearly half way between Albany and New York, and Miss Sharpe has long been looked u[mju as the belle not only of her own town, but as a young lady of great popu larity in New York city' and Albany as well. Congressman Davenport will lie re membered as the unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York in 1885. Previous to his gubernatorial candidacy, however, Mr. Davenport laid filled the “State Comp trollership for two or three terms, and was widely known and popular in the political and social circles of his State. Ileis a good looking bachelor, just turning 45, and the possessor of a hand some estate which he inherited at the death of his father. Having been re-elected to the coming Congress, and being favored with an apjtendage in the shape of a society-lov ing bride, he may lx? counted on to take a prominent part in the guieties of the next season at the national capital. Mr. Daven port is a gentleman of irreproachable life, and has kept bouse during his two winters here in Lieut. T. 15 M. Mason’s handsome residence, near Mr. Blaine's. No lady rela tive has chaperoned iiis establishment, and his hospitalities have lieen restricted to din uer parties to his Senatorial friends and brother members. These have ix-eu elegant affairs, and are the only way in which he has asserted hiinselt as a positive force at AVashington. The marriage ceremony will be jierfomied In an old historic Dutch church, where the eons and daughters of the Hollanders sit and listen to the preaching of ltev. Dr. Vnn filyke, who will officiate on the occasion. The arrangements, as perfected so far, indi cate that there will lie many unique features attending the marriage, one of which will be that the prospective Mrs. Davonixirt will hold a reception all day long. Miss Sharpe and her parents were friends of the late President Arthur and were several times guests at the White House when Mrs. Mc- Elroy was its presiding genius. DOWNFALL OF AN EX CONGRESSMAN. AVashington may truly lie said to lie tho pitfall of many brilliant men. A night or two ago, when the avenue was filled with the youth of Washington in all their glory und spring dresses and everything seemed calm and serene, a small, but rotund man, with a round, smoothly-shaven fact*, that, at a distance, looked like Bob Ingorsoll'R, stood in the middle of the roadwuv right opposite Willard’s so dazed by liquor that he seemed unconscious of where lie was. One of the hangers-on who decorate this vicinity kindly went to his aid and assisted him to it neighboring barroom. The drunken man was a representative from ln diuna in the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, and would have bein 'in the Fiftieth, but he was too drunk to att< ml the Congressional Convention, o another man received the nomination and was elected. He has been on one continuous “toot” since the lust of January, lie has some money now furnished him fiy friends,but it will s<kui lie squandered away and he will then join AA usliitigton’s hotel brigude of former some things. TIIE NEW IJ'ITKL TALK, The |rio>iieitl out in lot ill Mint the prospect* of n nmgiuliecnt new hotel for this city in ugsiii hoard. Humor hus it Dun John l(. MeUan, the wealthy editor of tho Cmcm Hall Em/uiii r , hnx dofliutoly made tin his mind to build u hostelry on Ins valuable i T. ■ u, ’ al th** IbggH House ami TrettMiry building 11s hu, long boon urged to anV L lw > “***’ . purpisc, win nan niHavs inclined favorably to Ut unal In tbs ln*t phvv, um ! custom here for a first-class hotel would be | extensive. The sessions of Congress grow J longer and longer every yeur. Tho wealthy people who go South every season would stopover in Washington indefinitely if the hotels were good. The new hotel will com bine features like apartments for wealthy public men, who can be served privately, a cafe on tiie Delmonico plan, and large rooms for receptions, bulls or private busi ness. It is talk about town that the Boni- | faces of Washington prevented anew hotel j from lieing built this summer. Whether | Mr. McLean was behind the project which they nipped in the bud, however, is not known. They are, of course, bitterly op posed to any competition. Legislation of some kind is required from Congress to per mit the building of anew hotel. A company askisl for such legislation for a structure to l.e known as the Windsor hotel. The hotel proprietors persuaded the owner of a small anu insignificant hostelry to rename iiis house the Windsor. Then, at the last moment, while the bill was under considera tion in the House, the objection was raised that a hotel named the Windsor already ex isted in Washington. The objection proved fatal. The framers of the next application for a permit will probably be sharp enough not to name their proposed hostelry in ad vance, or to give the Bonifaces of the city a vulnerable point to attack. THE NEW YORK UNDERTAKERS. Extravagance of the Poor in the Matter of Funerals. New York, April 23. —Tho other day as I was passing through the poorer quarter of the city, I met an uncanny little white hearse, driven by a tough-looking citizen who wore a black stovepipe but, smoked a cheap grocery store cigar and diffused a general air of toughness and rum. Inside the hearse was a tiny white coffin that was pitiful to look upon. Ten carriages followed the hoarse, and were filled with Italian laborers dressed in their blouses and overalls. They smoked pipes and lolled out of the windows. The baby, I learned from a policeman with whom I fell in conversation, was ex actly one day old. Ills mother was a rag picker. The cost of the funeral was not less than SIOO. The poor of Now York are the most extravagant people in the world in the management of their funerals, though they are reasonably careful about other ex penditures. When a death occurs the hawks descend upon the house in flocks. The rich est undertakers are in the tenement house districts, anil they have agents and wires innumerable. Many of them count their fortunes in six figures, though they live in squalor and apparent poverty. They own livery stables, grog shops anil tenement houses, and every tenant, em ployoand political “heeler” is expected to work for the undertaker who patronizes him. The manufacturers of mottoes, wreaths, shrouds, memorial pictures, wax flowers, texts and all the other catchpenny devices and schemes that hang upon human woe are in close accord with the undertaker. They manage to milk the teat with a ven geance when they once begin. The under takers extend their lines across the river and out to Calvary cemetery on the out skirtsof Brooklyn. Here the tenement house dead are buried coffin on top of coffin till as many as six liodies rest in one grave. All along the dusty road to the graveyard are rum shops and lieer saloons —mere speculation on the part of the undertakers. Their drivers stop at these places m turn on the way to and from tiie grave, and thus keep business booming. As many as 150 funerals a day pass over the Thirty-fourth street ferry on the way Ho this burying place of the dead. An average of ten carriages a funeral and counting four “mourners” and the driver'to each carriage, make between 7,000 and 8,000 people a day for the undertakers and their agents along the line to draw money from. AV hen a death occurs in the family of one of the local politicians the funeral takes on the air of a festival or picnic, and the whole ward turns out to do honor to the dead. The rich un dertakers of New York are legion in the poorer districts. Uptown it is the custom to conduct funerals with extraordinary privacy, and when the ceremony can be per formed in a country house the dead is con veyed out of town without any formalities at all. The one idea of poor New York is to make a show of the dead, while rich New York abhors it. Blakely Hall. FORT MEADE FACTS. A Successful Cantata—soo Acres in Orange Groves. Fort Meade, Fla., April 34.-—Mrs. G. AY. Black’s “Cantata of the Flower Queen” on last Wednesday night was a tremendous success. The opera house was crowded to its utmost capacity with tho most appre ciative audience that ever assembled to gether in Fort Meade. A special excursion train was run from Bartow. AVithin the corporate limits of Fort Meade there is something over 500 acres in orange groves, of which there is fully 300 acres in full bearing. This makes “our little town” one of the most attractive places in Florida. The tax liooksof the town show that there has been added SIOO,OOO to town improve ments within the past year, and as property is given in for taxation at only about half value this shows that somewhere in the neighborhood of $200,000 worth of new buildings, etc., have been erected in these short twelve months. The uir is still thick with railroad rumors, but we won’t get “jolly” over them until they are fixed facts. Considerable property has changed hand.-, within the past week and our contractors are busy making figures for several new residences. Messrs. Hyer and Horn, of Orlando, bought to-day from J. E. Robeson forty acres of rich hummock land just within the corporate line, near the river. They will make a model truck farm of it. Brunswick’s Band Fair. Brunswick, Ga., April 34.—The band fair closed last night after a success uupre <indented in Brunswick. Excitement almost to fever boat sprang up over the contest for votes on the most popular fireman and policeman, and when the final result declared 1 nun Mundy, of the Oceanic hose reel, the winner of a handsome bodge, iiis comrades essayed to oarry him round tne Hall shoul der high, hut the boys (Hose Reel No. 1,), ! although defeated in their candidate (Ous I Middleton), were not to lie denied |iartiei | [luting in the fun, and to show that ulthough their young establishment had not all the voting [tower they hud some muscle und heart to appre ciate valor, they seized Tom and literally ran around the hall with him, holding him high aloft. Marshal Dart secured the prize for tho policemuu—a handsome pistol. A. M. Hay wool was voted the most popular Knight of Pythias. The total receipts of the fair liave exceeded s2,Ulld, and it is not too much to say that the baud und all concerned are wild with joy. Dublin Drift. Deni.in, Ga., April A telegram was receivnl yesterday by Thomas 11. Hicks, of this place. of the death of Gainer Hicks, his brother, at Mtlledgcville, Ga. He was an entlnmhle young nutii of tiii vainly attend ing college there, a win of Hr. Henry Hicks, of Laurens county. He wu-s alsiut r io veurs old. This morning Mr. William Hush, who re sells! east of Duhlin three mile,, who for three years lias I wen paralyze I, dual sudden ly with puiolysis. If) wiu nearly *0 years out. Throw Op Hl* Honda and Kaintod. \l ariN. Tkx., April'.‘l. Patrick ,M. )|.■„ nisty. a prominent and formerly wealthy merchant of (inhesion, in tisl us herg 'Ulil at-Amis <if the Hiatt' Hetiate, which an jnunied April 4 He wa-dnmj|*"l, cbargwl with forging •undiy vouchers, }f. wa< in dieted by tliogruud jury and vester.lm ism vietod in tie liMriet Gnuil and wa -n '• M'ln tWo >ISO'S 1111 l IMI-Illieul \\ 1,, I tin • 1 : i leie il' lUl'.*/ UUi'SU!! Ills ‘.ail is .del '.OuUsC TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1887. AN OLD NEW YORK DETECTIVE. Experiences of Thirty-Seven Years in the Service. | New York, April 33. —A man of about the medium height, (52 or fiS years of age, j with a flat nose, in a derby hat and very I plainly dressed, is one of the figures daily seen entering the sub Treasury, the stately building with Doric pillars in AYall street on the site of tiie old hall in which AVash ington, in brown small clothes, white stock ings and silver-buckled shoes, took the oath of office as the first President of the United States. The plain old man who attracts so little attention in the busy throng of Wall street and who sits quiet as a stone in the tomb-like treasure house, lias bad an eventful life. It is Capt. Thomas Sampson, the sub-Treasury detective. His present position is almost a Sinecure, though tie looks carefully after whatever duties devolve upon him. He made a name for himself as far back as the days of Alderman Jacob Hayes, the first Sheriff of New York, or High Constable, as the office was then called. This was in the period extending from about 1830 to 1845. Hayes was the first officer in New York to go about detecting crime systematically, using iiis experience as a Sheriff and his per sonal acquaintance with criminals. He died about 1830, and then Thomas Sampson be came the famous detective of New York. In 1854 (he celebrated pugilist und ruf fian, Bill Poole, was killed. Poole was an American and tho champion of the American roughs of the city, as John Morrisey was the leader of a similar gang of Irishmen. Both political part ies protect ed these ruffians because of the service which they performed on election day. They were tiie “plug uglies” of old New York, a disgrace to the city and tiie terror of respectable citizens. AVhen not gouging out eyes, biting off noses and ears, or engag ed in rough and tumble encounters or prize lights, they were carousing in the low saloons of the day. Bill Poole hud fought prize fights, but had won no particular dis tinction in this direction. Ho was tall and powerfully built and he was better adapted for rough and tumble en counters. He was bold and aggressive, and Dio feud lietween the Americans and the Irish oceanic so bitter that some of Morrisey’s heelers determined to murder him. Poole was generally accompanied in his travels around the city by a crowd of his followers; but one day, late in 1854, he happened to be nearly or quite alone on one of the North River piers, and some of Morrisey’s men picked a quarrel with him and inflicted a fatal wound. He died a few days later, say ing: “I die a true American.” Now came an opportunity for Detective Sampson to further distinguish himself. Tiie gang that had attacked Poole concealed themselves until a vessel could be chartered to take them to the Madeira Islands. Sampson, by some mysterious means, learned their flight and their destination and tiie Mayor there upon sent a fast vessel in pursuit, which overtook the other craft about 1,100 miles out. Uapt. Sampson, who was on the pur suing vessel, arrested Lewis Bator, an actor, as the principal assailant, mid brought him back to New York. He was tried, but it was impossible to prove that he committed the murder, and lie was accordingly ac quitted of this charge, but was sent to prison as an accomplice. After bis re lease Baker became quite prominent as a tragedian. Mr. Sampson’s repu tation steadily increased until about 18(50, when he resigned from the police force, ilav ing been engaged by New York bankers at a salary of $5,000 a year to protect their in terests in Wall street. He has recovered millions of dollars’ worth of stolen securities for financial institutions. He arrested Edgar Gray, the forger. He went twice to London to secure this remarkable criminal, whoso talents would have won him perhaps a fortune of millions if he could have de voted himself to some honorable business. Few men have received more testimonials of confidence and esteem than this large hearted old detective, who might have been wealthy to-day if he had not lieen over-lib eral in iiis benefactions to the needy. He has more than two dozen watches presented to him by bankers and enough gold and sil ver plate to set up a small jewelry store. For some years he has been in the service of the United States government. He arrested John Surratt, charged with • complicity in the murder of President Lincoln. Surratt was just entering his mother’s house in AVashington dressed as a workingman, with a pickax over iiis shoulder. Seen on the street the veteran detective might be taken for an old clerk in a mercantile House. Oscar AVilloughby Riggs. THE LAST ANARCHIST OUTRAGE. Arson Added to Assassination—Greek Fire Surpassed. New York, April 23.—“ When all other means fail to liberate us from the crushing and cruel weight imposed upon labor by the soulless capitalist and his hireling myrmid ons the next stop is the infernal machine and the dynamite bomb, and then the torch!” is one of Johann Most’s favorite sentiments. During the past week it was again put in practice by some unknown fanatical fol lower of the apostle of sanguinary free dom. This time the victim was not n cruel and soulless capitalist, but an inoffensive liewsimpor, the AVic Yorker Zritung, which dared to oppose tiie revolutionary doctrines. The journal in question is a clean, well written and influential German daily, which circulates among the reading classes of that nationality in New York and the neigh boring cities. While in favor of co operative enterprises and similar social and industrial reforms, it lias always opposed and with dignity and force the ultra radical factions of all tne parties. For this reason it, lias been repeatedly denounced by the stump-sjieukers of the Socialistic, Nihilistic, Communistic and especially the Anarchist sections. Their threats were laughed at, and not until four unsuccessful attempts had been made to tire its building did the proprietors and editors believe that there was any danger to lie guarded against. The filth and last attempt on Sunday morning, just bet ore sunrise, was a complete success, and teaches I with tiie sufferers and the American public of what promises to lie a brilliant it not edifying feature of future municipal life in tiie United States. Tiie arson was undoubtedly effected by one of Herr Most’s “scientific property de stroyers.” The rapidity of its spread, the immediate intensity of the heat evolved and tiie flaming gasses and vapors seen by witnesses indicate some jiowerful combinn Don of chemicals. The distinguished caudi date for the noose has utilized applied and theoretical chemistry and has formulated sonic eight or nine combinations, all of which are cheap and easily mode, and all of which are warranted to work. Of then\ one depend* on the property of metallic potawiium breaking into the Humes wlioii it touches water; another upon the •pontanoous combustion of phosphorus when either hot or dissolve*! in some li.piid solvent. Tlio latter makes a destructive eom]Kiunnd, more formidable than (.'reek lire. Either potassium or phosphorus input in a wido-mouth vial with U nzine, gasoline or lii- ulphide of earlsm. A vial or bottle of the pa o.siuni lion/.iiie, if thrown un corse 1 into a pail of water, explodes and Illls a large room full of intensely ho; Haines. A Isittle of the phosphorus-bisul phide of cor!m>ii, if left uncorked, will burst into iluni", e-;p* sir, produce a Mist volume of blue and yellow li'inies iunl till a building with a deadly gns hdiidar to that produivd b> i burning m/iteli, into which no lireman eould venture a stssind. Johann Most is making a roeord which all ;;isi e.ti/ens lioui l Issir carefully in lliimi lb" t aenoi.about iufciT.nl ina el.pie. mid !> numib- bore Irmt in tie* Clii -1 ag • liorro!’, t!n* Milwaukee .incut' and a d<./.*ii smaller riots and disturliailc.w; while taos.'iip'ii • Ins'k lire and other ‘‘civili/jul'* and civilizing pyrotechnics have roblsi In Mirmn'l i san | am a of an unknown amount * 'I money, have scut at lowa four men to Hia . prison, and hat in.br .and ignorain ZJWllots to malic twenty umni'ssswful and at leiMk t*ai sin.• ini aitemjgg u t muni. A w.ij know a in- irim. v o|*i*ui; aaiu tone* lllt> Week ; ‘' i U'lltl'.l Lew I this Msajllf.vi Afost has cost our companies at least $500,- ,000 since he began his infamous 1< cturw on how to destroy property and rob the rich. The number or fires charged to unknown causes is almost twice as large as ever before in the history of American insurance. These fires occurred in the homes of those who were affiliated or acquainted with Most arid iiis lieutenants. The two Slavs who were sent to Sing Sing last fall for arson were recognized members of an Anarchist section. They were shrewd anil but for an accident would have succeeded in their last crime as they did in five others, of which we now have evidence. An ordinary incendiary who uses kerosene, shavings and a candle to burn his property and rob the insurance company is detected once in two times and is then easily convicted by the evidence of the materials employed. AVhen he is instructed by Most., ho has re course to powerful chemicals, which do tho work thoroughly and rapidly, which cannot be extinguished by tho firemen and which whether they hit or miss leave no trace nor clue behind. I have had five cases ill the [lust three months that 1 was morally sure were arson, but despite the investigations of our best agents and detectives we could prove absolutely nothing. If things keep on this way we shall lie, compelled to take measures for our defense. In fact I may say without breaking confidence that we have already begun the work. William E. S. Fales, CLEVELAND THEIR SOLE HOPE. George William Curtis on Presiden tial Candidates. l-'rom the JVeio York Times. The views imputed to Air. George AViliiam Curtis ‘in regard to the prospects of Presi dent Cleveland’s renomination by the Dem ocratic party next year, in au interview with that gentleman recently published in the Cincinnati Enquirer, have naturally been widely copied throughout the country and have given rise to a good deal of comment of one kind and another. Mr. Curtis’ position among Die reformers in the field of politics gives a marked interest and significance to liis opinions regarding Mr. Cleveland and his administration, and it is important that his views should iic care fully recorded. A reporter yesterday saw tho gentleman in his library at AVest Brighton and asked him respecting the interview in Cincinnati. Mr. Curtis said: “I had a very pleasant and prolonged con versation with a gentlemen representing the Enquirer, who listened to what I had to say, but took no notes, and after leaving me wrote out in perfect good faith iiis impres sion of the conversation. Naturally when his views and my own somewhat agreed he blended the two, and in some cases without discriminating as to qualifications of opin ions which I had made.” “AVhat do you think of President Cleve land's prospects for a renomination?” asked the reporter. “Air. Cleveland is incomparably the strongest candidate that is available for the Democratic party, and the party cannot re fuse to renominate him without inviting de feat. So far as those interested in civil ser vice reform are concerned, I think, with the league, that Mr. Cleveland’s administration is tin be judged by the two years yet before it rather than by the two which have passed. To refuse to renominate the President would be to reject the general position which he has taken on this subject, and that would alienate the entire independent vote whivh supported the Democratic can didate in 18*4, and, I think, elected him. That the Democratic party' cannot afford to do. In addition to the independent vote, which supported him before, the President by his course has won for himself a general confidence throughout tiie country inde [icrident of party. Air. Cleveland if he is re nominated will be his own platform, and will be supported by a very” large vote with out regard to his party, as he was in 1884. “The unfavorable part of his prospects,” cont inued Air. Curtis, “Is in the undoubted hostility of a certain portion of the Demo cratic machine of this State, but that hos tility will probably lie overborne by the ir resistible sentiment of the party and the necessities of the case. There is, in fact, under the circumstances, no candidate for the Democratic party except Mr. Cleveland. His views, especially those re garding the civil service, are not the cus tomary or traditional views of the Demo cratic party, and that is the subject on which Die prejudices of tiie party arc most easily excited, but the prejudice will have to give way if the party wants to retain any hope of success in the campaign.” “Do you think that Air. Blaine will again lie the leader of the Republicans?” “I think that Mr. Blaine will lie decidedly weaker as a candidate in lsss than he was in 1884. I see no reason to believe that he has gained votes in any quarter, while the greater confidence in Air. Cleveland which nis administration has inspired will lead a great many to support him next year who voted for Mr. Blaine in 188 k There is, I think, a very strong feeling among the Re publican managers that the icnominaDon of Mr. Blaine would be an act of very doubt ful party policy, for the reason that while their personal feeling for him may lie un changed, they are unable to see that he will lie any stronger in 1888 than lie was in 1884. The more sagacious of the Republican man agers, I think, feel it to be very jlesirable to make a nomination that may tend largelvto recall tho Independent vote which deserted them in 1884, and for that reason I think that the Republican nomination is in great doubt. As to the probable result of the election, assuming that Mr. Cleveland will be the Democratic nominee, it is altogether too early to express a confident opinion.” Silversmiths in a Bad Boat. New York, April 23.— There are signs that the locked out silversmiths of this city my weakening. They are affiliated with District Assembly No. 4U, of the Knights of Labor, and the chairman of the arbitration committee, A. B. George, lias advised the men to submit to the bosses’ terms until such time as they arc in a position to break their agreement. This ha* caused much dissatis faction. and the probability' is that the silver smiths will withdraw from the Knights of Labor and go to work on tho bosses’ terras. The locked out silversmiths met to-night, when delegates front tiie Boston, Provi dence mid Philadelphia unions of the same tradesmen npiieured and [dodged to aid the men financially, so that they could main tain themselves for months t > conic. Glass Mixors to Strike. I’lT l Bfßii, A) nil ;‘d. —The demands of the glass inixers and teasers for a 10 jier cent, advance in wages was indorsed by District Assembly No. and, Knights of l,ul*>r, now in session here. A strike of the glass workers is now probable. The manufacturers have refused to make uny concessions. The strike, if ordered, will all’ect d.tiJO men, and cause h suspension of work in lifty western facto ries. A Mill Shut Down. Titov, N. Y.. April Harmony Cotton Mill No. I. at Coho, s, .shut down to-dny, throwing <lOO hands out of employment. The proprietors say the mill was shut down !.- causo the employes attempted to dictate to the n who should lie eniployid. The other mill. of the Harmony company ure ij]| running. !t is well known, of course, that America bos | long been celebrated the world over in the Irene of enormous crystals, and the pm* J dlxious speelin' im of apatite, Ise-y] e.i'.l other iiiUii'l’iilh lull.- tie. *ii Ihe subject of won |e| .•a-n, ti ll among Hv** lh" crystals ; s|. tnnion • brought to view by Ibe e*. 4VIII (Oils 111 til- Jit.l 1 lie mil." ill Pi'iinlugl .a . nmly. leu, . r l„ | Heir I 1.. I. • ..itlu>,n ,i rival will. rr’|s- i lo m/, | A ting lo 11,,- re) 1.1. el Ur - .1.; .. 1 |,y IVni Hlake It a|>|s-ais llial on. of lb- vervsluls '<• -ill teat In lr:.si ;p i.. a slr.il, rhl I 11. and fjoia I Iloif. el 111 tllicslloMi Tb" I'asliO" |. ; ala l Straiglit bill tile lateral and Icunmai planes I ure lie... r.ls'.l as I**ing riba'iin' Tiliiwv 9un r.v, u**v. U*Aa y <m> !•> Im* in j !/*•" Aii r |cs ii ’Uitly, fui Ii s m ’'iii i li**y } Will IN f T ||| >liHMl|ii ♦.lf! k*i|.|4r!| * * * * ¥f*mktvmm uni l'*w |*JWT |#l*>lUJ#tty HI utlU Mi I ( VVgrkl** i)i]irllVii A ,V|* tfa l4 f \ g | s iui•At, Mmij *4lt*t t \ Y. UP A HIGH STEEPLE. How a Pianoforte Maker Attached a Flag to St. Stephen’s Cross. fYom the Philadelphia Sews. Vienna, April 21.—The latest Viennese lion L a daredevil young pianoforte maker’s apprentice, aged 17, named Johan Richter. Ho has just accomplished the senseless but startling feat of climbing 433 feet to the top most point of the great tower which is the crowning glory of the grand old Cathedral of St. Stephen’s. Richter’s head had been slightly turned by reading of a similar as cent made by a man named Pireher a few months ago. Pircher's example was conta gious, for two other workmen tried and failed to clamber up the tower. This was too much for Richter. He vowed lie would succeed or perish in the attempt, and tlia very next night he executed his project. No moon was shining as he stole to the foot of the tower, and, watching for his op portunity while the Stephens platz was de serted. he strapped a black and yellow flag on his back and began to climb up the lightning conductor. Ere he had got half way up his clothes were torn in a dozen places, his boots were split and the blood was streaming from his lingers. Hut he hung on like grim death, taking advantage of every chance protuberance, and after heroic exertions actually reached the suifunit. The slightest head swimming or the slightest nervousness and lie would have been dashed to pieces. Happily lie never hist his presence of mind, and in the morning, when the Viennese looked up at the cross of the old “Steffen,” as they affec tionately call it, to their amazement they saw tied to it a tiny black and yellow pen non fluttering in the breeze. Meanwhile Richter, who had seen enough of the tower from the outside, had stolen down the staircase inside and given himself up to the watchman. He was promptly walked off to the police station. After a few hours’ detention, however, he was re leased. HE IS A POLISH COUNT And Once Fought Under the Little Corporal. From the Washington Post. An old man whose face is nearly enveloped in a snow-white beard, and wearing a di lapidate suit of clothes and a white felt hat, artistically decorated with turkey feath ers, was locked up at the First Precinct sta tion house last night for living drunk. When asked his name lie said he was Count Za waski, of Poland, and the officer, who laugh ingly recorded the name on the books, evi dently thought the old man a harmless idiot. Nevertheless, from papers found on his per son, there can be no doubt that the old man’s story, though remarkable, is strictly true. He was born at Warsaw in 1791, and when but a youth took service in the French army, and served under Napoleon in the campaign which terminated so disastrously at Moscow. After Napoleon’s ultimate de feat he became a conspirator against the Russian government in Poland and was exiled. AVhen Kossuth, the Hungarian pa triot, came to this country Count Sawaski accompanied him and took up his abode in New York. His long military service had made the Count an excellent soldier, and he was appointed drill master at West Point, where he remained until the outbreak of the war, but as soon as the first guns were fired the Count’s ardent spirit could no longer bo restrained, and he left a note say ing “1 am off to the wars,” and took French leave. Enlisting in the Tenth Pennsylvania, he served throughout the war with great bravery and distinction, and is now an ap plicant for admission to the Soldiers' Home. “I have just been in your village three hours," said the Count, in fairly good Eng lish, hut with a pronounced foreign accent, “and I don’t admire your treatment of strangers.” Notwithstanding tills assertion, however, tin- Count was gloriously drunk, and the police hail to take charge of him merely to keep him out of trouble. Ho will probably be sent to the Soldiers' Home. Weather Indications. Special indications for Georgia: RAIN Local rains; slight changes in tem- perature. For Georgia, Western Florida, Alabama and Mississippi: Local rains; northerly winds, becoming variable; slight changes in temperature. The height of the river at Augusta at 1:38 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time) was 7.0 feetr—a rise of 0.1 loot during the past 24 hours. Comparative statement of temperature at Savannah April 24, 1880, and 1S87: 1886.1 1887. 6:36 a.m GO 0:30 a m 04 2:86 p.m 81 2:36 p.m 08 9:36 p.m 70 !):S6p.m 06 Maximum 82 Maximum To Minimum 03 Minimum . 02 Mean temperature Mean temperature of day 72 of day Rainfall O.OU Rainfall 0.00 Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. Savannah, April 21, 9:30 p. m., city time. Temperature. Direction. J Velocity. | | Rainfall. Name of Stations. Norfolk ! GO s E ..' '(Hear. Charlotte fix' .V ]■; .... dourly. Wilmington no X E,..; .OfCloudy. Charleston fill S (i ...Cloudy. Augusta enisw Cloudy. Savannah Mi Sn .... cloudy. Jacksonville CSSW ..Cloudy. Key West 77 S K 9j.... Cloudy. Atlanta 56 NW 7| Cloudy. Pensacola i 68 X E 8 . ir2 Light rain. Mobile i 5!l X o . x'i Heavy rain. Montgomery ! (it N ;Cloudy. New Orleans ... 01 N K ()! UO fair. (ialveston 07 X K'lt! . . Cloudy. ('orpus Christ!.... 67NK9>.... Clear. Palestine 50 E : 8 ... Clear. Browiiesville 00 X ..I. ..'Clear. ltloUrande 70 E i 8 .... Clear. G. X. Salisbury. Signal Corps, U. S. Army. In General Debility, Emaciation, Consumption and Wasting; in Children. Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with llypophosphites is a most valuable food and medicine. It creates an appetite for food, strengthens the nervous system and builds up the body. Please read’: - ‘l tried Scott's Emulsion on a young man whom physicians fit times gave up hope. Since lie begun using liie Emulsion ins cough has ceased, gainol ti<“ It und strength. and from all appear ances his life will lie prolonged many years. ” —John Sci.i.ivan, Hospital Steward, Mor gunzu, i’a. At Estill’s News Depot. •Savannah Daily Morninu News. National 1 tally Base Hall Gazette, Sjiorting Life, American Field, Jl(ii|ier's Bazar, litir -1 fee's Montliiy foi'May, Americau A trieul tiuist for May, Popular HoieucaMonthly for May. The Genesis of Science (Herbert Sj u eef'l, Spofting News, Sjiortiiig Tunes, Peek's Him, family Story J’n|sT, FiresideCoinjMfli lou, Ha; uniat .Night. New York Ledger, New S on. VY\ lily, ii.*ulit r Weekly, Arkail -I’rnveler. Merchant Traveler, I'liiladfd phia I'all, H ' tui lierukl, Iks,toil Ulols', PliiLdehfUi i Times, Kvetiiiu; .Star, Phil udi'lphiu i’lie.N, liohiiiloi. Hun, I'll! tlliloi e Aluerieryi, ‘a ,v Vork Ilf raid, \\ orJil. T ll lie- tm . han, TANARUS, 1 1>iiiio, (irapliie, 1 londfi Tillies I,'nioil, N&stiviiic ill. 1011, Ju' ksi ivi ijoriung News, N* w Orleans 1 lilies 1' . 1 1| > Ij'al, AY a Or. ‘.llls P'l itlfie, Mms>!i Pi. graph, Augusta I iiroii' 1 , I'm • ■'•iiiii 1 j i < /iiiiii**r<'t(il I tmrk un l t 'otii *i, AtUuc# * ftii UUitunt %II- M< 'll Af* i \Mi i> hf tutuii k *I , At * <1 ■ MU'J ~11 iMttf tU 111 UnMUkv Hint ji .ijulu#, it<o * Jui*i t *. t H |>l *# llirtlj f‘J|‘ i Ml tM! .4 at i*. NLWJ> I'KiM iN‘i M.. # \Kut' k* Mil. ‘irf FUNER VI. INVITATIONS. CULKIN.—The relatives and friends of Mrs. Bridget Calkin and her son Luke Culltin. end of Mrs. Mary Lynch and Mr. James Clotty and family, air respectfully requested to attend the funeral of Mr. Luke Culkin, from his late resi dence, Price street, 3d door from Huntingdon, at 3:30 o’clock THIS AFTERNOON. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. Hall of 1 Savannah Tvpoouaphical Union, No. 183. v Savannah, Ga.. April 24, 1887. ) Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God in His infinite wisdom to remove from dur midst our late brother and co-laborer, FRANK OLDHAM, After a lingering and painful illness; and Whereas, We sincreely mourn his untimely death anil deeply miss his cheerful presence and upright character; therefore. Resolved. That we most deeply sympathize with his relatives in their sad bereavement, feel ing that their's and our s is a Oommon loss, and commend them to the kind care of Him in whom he so devotedly trusted for support and found comfort m his lost hours. Resolved. That we hereby extend our heart felt thanks to the Sisters of Mercy, who so de votedly and carefully ministered to his wants during his illness. Resolved, That as a token of respect for our departed brother, our charter be draped in the emblems of mourning for thirty days, and that a copy of these resolutions be presented to his nearest relatives. Resolved, That these resolutions lie published in the Morning News, Evening Times and Even ing Call, of this city, and the Craftsman, of Washington, D: C. William E. Hamilton, - , M. J. Farrier, William M. Bairman, Committee. 31EETINGS. ik'KAUI LODGE VO. *, lO.OLIX A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8 o’clock. Second degree will be conferred. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers are cordially invited to attend. By order of J. S. COLLINS, N. G. John Riley, Secretary. CALAN'TIIK LODGE AO. 28, K. OF P. A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held THIS EVENING at 8 o’clock. W , Sister Lodges and transient Knights M are fraternally invited to attend. G. H. MILLER, C. C. vSfca/ William Falconer, K. of R. and S. R AILROAD HEX AND THEIR FAMILIES. MISS JENNIE SMITH Will hold a special service for the Railroad Men at Trinity Church TO-NIGHT at S o’clock. All others who desire to come are invited. Revival Service at 4 p. m. and 8 p. m. every day this week Young people specially invited. tSFCaII copy one time. SPECIAL, NOTICES. SAVANNAH C VDETS " Headquarters Savannah Cadets, / Savannah, Oa., April 34, 1887. \ TUESDAY, 26th inst., being Memorial Day, you are hereby notified that there will be NO DRILL on evening of that day. By order of H. M. BRANCH, Captain Commanding. R. P. Lovell, First Sergeant. EPISCOPAL ORPHANS’ HOME. All interested in the Episcopal Orphans’ Home are respectfully invited to be present at the lay ing of the corner-stone of the new building, cor n:r of Liberty and Jefferson streets, on MON DAY, the 'A,t h inst., at 5 O’clock in the afternoon. E. F. NEUFVILLE, Secretary Building Committee. EPISCOPAL ORPHANS' HOME. The ministers of religious denominations are respectfully invited to be present at the laying of the corner-stone of the new building of the Episcopal Orphans' Horne, corner of Liberty and Jefferson streets, on MONDAY, the 25th of April, at o o'clock in the afternoon. E. F. NEUFVILLE, Secretary Building Committee. CONGREGATION AIK KVA ISRAEL. The Annual Rental of Pews and Seats will take place at the Synagogue on MONDAY EVENING, 25th inst., at 8 o’clock. I. A. SOLOMONS. Secretary. VEGETABLE SHIPPERS Will please take notice that they will have until 6 o'clock p. m., 86th inst., to deliver freight to the steamship WILLIAM CRANE, for Balti more. JAMES B. WEST & CO., Agents. NOTICE. All bills against Russian bark “Alma’’ must be presented at our office by 12 o’clock u., MON DAY, 25th inst., or payment thereof will be de barred. STILLWELL, PIKE & MILLER, Consignees. DIVIDEND NO. 6. Office Mutual Gas Lioht Company, i Savannah, Ga., April 18th. 1887. )’ A Dividend of ONE AND ONE-HALF PER CENTUM has THIS DAY been declared from earnings of last quarter, payaljje at this office on ami after MAY 16th next, to stockh<ld,us of record this day. • LEWIS C. LILLIE. Secretary. :xh ywiversary OF THE 1.M0.Y SOCIETY, licthcsdn Orphan House, Vr'ill Ih! celebrated at BETIIESDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1887. The anniversary address will he delivered by Rev. L. \V. BACON, D. D., Of the Independent Presbyterian Church, The meeting will be held at 1 p. m. Members and their families and friends, and those who have been Wards of the Society, and tiie public, are cordially invited to join in the celebration. A Band of Music will be in attend ance. and rooms in the Orphan House placed at the disposal of those who wish to dance. Railroad fare from Anderson street depot to Bathesdn and return, 50c.; Children and ser vants half price. • Tickets can lx: procured from the :Managers and Stewards of the Society and at the usual places where tickets are sold. State op Weather. imssoli rio.v The Arm of FETZKK & SAX BERG is THIS DAY dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Robert l\ Fctwr withdrawing. C. E. Siwibergr assumes all the liabilities and will collect all accounts due said firm. ROBERT C. FETZER. CHARLES E. SANBERQ. Savannah, April 14th, ISH7. In withdrawing from the lute firm of Fet/.er A f rtsk for Mr. Sanlxirg a continuance of ill*' lib'ivil patronage bent owed ou the Into firm, lie* lHvirully, ROBERT C. FETZER. 1 will continue thi* business of Fetzcr & San- C.irrin.c •. lluggy and Finn Wagon Munu j t;u*furi’.; r . C UTwigr. Bug;:y and W/igon ivpair- I iu^ r , B.iimiiitf and Trimming, at the old stand, i corner West Broad aud Dully ntnwt and ask a | coniinutino* of i to* ljt Till patronago lx.stowed on the latcflnn. it'tj'ully, cii.ifM-lH E. SAN BERG. vmi i; in m u notu. op i vfni r-ioi k'i i anu v% Ofncio 1 JviMiEH t ||4i HAH I HI MTV. <.i;hU|A : . 411, (A . April iWli, !►< \ Ilf Mf! AM, H| l| < * M'tl (f |>! | lIGS Ix-'ll lii'ldc (if |j.j < •• ii'uid-i*miffs if cimfham Coiitifv him! t*\- * .liuhfek fora iisrt r *xt< > i'<fitia |/a<>rt iMib (torn U i!. n*road caalward li* it* Hkld * o*ii I'mi J (#ii IP iioiualary iim* )x*l wiv-ii lb*’ Iji lof Anoo*H *l*i oinlack and Herman h!i’a'k, *la*'ii uppic tiion ha !>• * ii dyjt' ap l**'o%i-1, ml Mild roal i<nrk**d oof i#vihi I *fio t**do|n in. 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APRIL 26th. $4 FOR THE ROUND TRIP, lUIE Charleston and Savannah Railway Com . pany will sell round trip tickets on April goth and 20th, good to return until April Beth Tickets on sale at Bren's Ticket Office ami Passenger Station. E. P. McSWENEY General Passenger Agent Charleston and Savannah Railway k 3ST ational DRILL AND EMIIBI AT WASHINGTON, D. C., May 226 to 27th. SPECIAL EXCURSION RATE OF sl2 05 PER CAPITA! Savannah to Washington and Return. Will he given to parties of TWENTY-FIVE OB MORE traveling in a laxly on a solid ticket.' TICKETS ON SALE MAY ISth TO MIDDAY MAY 221, Good only when presented for passage on day of sale. Not good after departure of 12:15 p. m. train May 221. Good only TO RETURN when stamped and signed by Ticket Agent Pennsylvania Railroad at Washington. t'fr EXTREME LIMIT JUNE SIXTH. Jtl For Tickets and organization of parties, call on WILLIAM BREN, Ticket Agent, Bull street, E. P. McSWINEY, General Passenger Agent. DRY GOODS. SUCCESSORS TO B. F. 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