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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want
ed; For Kent; For Sale; Board; Lost; Per
sonal; Misellaneous.
ArcTioN Sales—Household and Kitchen Fur
niture, Elegant and Costly Furniture, by D. K.
Kennedy; Underwriter's Sale, British Bark
Pohona, by J. McLaughlin & Son.
Amusements—May Party- and Ball at Guards
Yrntory May 3.
Medical—Tansy Pills.
OWioiAL—As to sale of Dillon Tract; Quaran
tine Notice.
Wines, Liquors, Etc.—A. 11. Champion.
Tlie Memphis Avalanche is leading in an
effort to erect a monument to the memory
of Gen. N. B. Forrest. Such a testimonial
would be simple justice to one of the bravest
and most skillful officers that served the
Confederacy.
Mr. George Bancroft, the historian,
doesn’t credit the report that President
Cleveland has declined to be a candidate for
renomination. He hopes the President will
not only be nominated, but that he will be
re-elected.
Gen. Charles E. Furlong, of New York,
has returned from his fifth tour around the
world. He says that America is the only
land where life is really worth living. The
General is right, and it may be added that
■the South is the best part of America.
There are books on “English as She Is
Spoke,” “English as She Is Taught,” and
“English as She Is Translated,” and now a
Texas cowboy is to write one on “English as
She Is Cussed.” He says he obtained his
material from mule-drivers and Congress
men.
George C. Gorham, of California, made n
speech in Washington the other day, in the
course of which he anathematized John C.
Calhoun as “the Judas Iscariot of history
who desecrated humanity and defied his
God.” The country is i ired of Gorham,who
is a two-ply politician noted solely for the
width of his mouth.
It seems that the coli .iial magnates who
were at the St. Michael and St. George’s
dinner at St. James’ Palace, London, the
other day, were not only compelled to [iy
$lO each for what they ate, but ait addition
al $5 for putting the kitchen range in order.
Queen Victoria is evidently determined to
make her jubilee dinners pay.
Mr. Lynde Harrison, of New Haven, who
was Chairman of the Republican Commit
tee of Connecticut in 1884, says there is no
doubt that the Mugwumps intend to sup
port President Cleveland again. If Mr.
Blaine is renominated the number of Mug-
Ipps will be greatly increased, which is
ct Mr. Harrison seems to have over
r;
hi t hern cities are willing to entertain
humerous conventions which meet from
■to time, but they refuse to show hospi
vto a convention of loafers. The latter
k borne out by the remark of a tramp
Jhas just returned to Philadelphia by
cross-tie route. He said to a reporter:
“Dey ain’t no room fur tramps m de Sunny
South.”
Tho Northern and Western States are
gaining an unenviable reputation by allow
ing frequent brutal prize fights to take place
within their borders. Such fights are a dis
grace to civilization. They don’t occur in
the South, a fact which is respectfully com
mended to tho attention of those Massachu
setts papers that see nothing but “bar
barism” in this section.
A Mormon elder named Winfrey has just
left Scott county, Tenn., in a great hurry.
The young men of the county thought he
was “too popular among the women,” and
they induced him to leave by threatening
to give him a coat of tar and feathers. He
was not of the stuff of which martyrs arc
made, or he would have remained and ac
cepted the coat. Perhaps, however, he
thought that a change of garments like that
proposed by tho young men would destroy
his influence with the women.
Officer McMahon was one of the police
men injured in the Haymarket riot at Chi
cago last year. He was wounded in both
legs by fragments of a dynamite bomb.
For nearly a year he has suffered intense
agony, and it is now feared that he will die.
The law's delay was never better illustrated
than in the case of the condemned Chicago
Anarchists. They ought to have been bung
long ago. As it is, they will probably live
to hour of tho death of another of tlteir vic
tims. and it is by no tnctins certain that
they ever will receive the punishment they
justly deserve.
It is said that Mr. Blaine's visit, to Chicago
was for-the purpose of “fixing" Illinois. He
wants the delegates front thut Htato to the
Republicani nominating convention, uud
there are reasons to Itcdievo that he will get
that a Itoche, the new Mayor of Chicago, is
controlled by George It. Davis, ti strung
itininc |iartisrtii, and it is thought that they
have ngeend to use their mfiuenco for tile
Maine stah(small. Mr. Blaine is afraid that
llie Olfio delegate, m ill supisirt Henator Miter
in')!!, and he v. lilies to coutibH'liutams? their
vntc* uud influeiKO by I lie votes and infiu
an>-o of ttui Illinois dclegau*.
Gun. Klewidao. who is In New York, aayw
flHk tlx it for Um* purpose of ‘ shupplug
exaunmng some silk sock, mu liy
*t<iru in Ibe day of bis arrival la* gave
luforeiatioti aliout the army
S ’ ui"tol"ui hu-ti etdii,D>l. 'll,"
t. I ixaapieumnt of Uvs mmy is Wi.tru. but
are uot permitted to ei.li-t s man ue
is • t*ir y Cm* r ir aiwuy* a otsr
gTT )rft K a tie elm of (Im* luntutry tin
mi my i* wuali Wo ought to hsvs at toast
Ut,iw mi" Tht <i"iauaJ may U rigid
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tjaWk VSWO Ot ps ftp Ul.
The Maxwell Land Grant.
it is expected that the Holland syndicate,
which owns the Maxwell land grant in New
Mexico, wilt soon begin proceedings to
evict the settlers ii]X>n it. or to force them to
buy, at a good price, what they claim, The
number of settlers Is very large. There are
several towns upon the land and a dozen or
more small villages. In our dispatches a
few days ago the main points of the decision
of the United States Supreme Court, in
which the claim of the Holland syndicate to
the grant was recognized, were given. The
facts, however, upon which the claim was
based were not stated.
Nearly half a century ago Charles Beau
lieu and Gaudaloupe Miranda obtained from
the republic of Mexico a grant of land in
New Mexico on condition that they would
settle upon it a colony of French Canadians.
What the extent of the grant was has never
been satisfactorily stated. Beaulieu and
Miranda took possession of the grant,
but they did npt perform their part of the
contract. New Mexico never saw the colony
of French Canadians which was to be the
consideration for the grant. Beaulieu and
Miranda lived upon it very comfortably,
however, and, in the course of a short time,
Lucien B. Maxwell came into possession of
it by inheritance. He lived fast anil
spent money so rapidly that he
became overwhelmed with debt and was
forced into bankruptcy. The grant was
sold by Stephen B. Elkins, as agent, to a
Holland syndicate for $1,400,000. This
seems like a large sum for a tract of land in
New Mexico, but it must not be forgotten
that this Maxwell tract is about as large as
the States ef Rhode Island and Delaware
combined.
The title of Beaulieu and Miranda was as
sailed se\/i)tf4l times licfore the question of the
right of Hip Holland syndicate to the land
was raised in the Federal courts. In 1841
an American, named Bell, claimed that the
grant infringed some pasture right which
he possessed, and the Governor of New Mex
ico suspended the grant. The succeeding
Governor, however, withdrew the suspen
sion, and Beaulieu and Miranda, were recog
nized as the rightful owners of it, which, at
that time, is supposed to have included only
alxiut 100,000 acres.
By the treaty between this country and
Mexico in IH4B it was agreed that all Mexi
cans in New Mexico should have their claims
respected by the United States. In 1854 the
general land surveyor of the United States
was instructed to report upon all claims that
existed prior to the cession of New Mexico
to the United States. In his report to Con
gress he decide* l the claim of Beaulieu and
Miranda to lie valid, and in 1800 that body
confirmed the report. It was expressly
stated in the act of confirmation, however,
that the United States simply gave up what
ever right it might have to the land. The
claimants were not guaranteed a good title.
As the parties to the suit, lately decided by
the Supreme Court, were the United States
and the Holland syndicate, it is plain that
under the law the decision could not have
been different.
It is asserted that the grant is covered all
over with fraud, and that the thousands of
honest settlers upon it, who expected to buy
their claims of the government at the price
charged for government land, will suffer a
great wrong by being evicted. As far as
tho facts are known there are only two
reasons for this assertion. The first
is that Beaulieu and Miranda never
obtained a title to the grant because they
did not comply' with the conditions imposed
upon them by- the Mexican government.
The second Is that in some mysterious way
the grant grew from 100,000 acres, which is
believed to have been its original extent, to
2,000,000 acres, which was about the size of
it when Stephen B. Elkins transferred it to
the Holland syndicate. It seems that Mr.
Elicins was more successful in han
dling a land grant than he
was in managing a Presidential campaign.
It may be that he had the lieneflt of .Mr.
Blaine’s advice when he was making the
big deal with the Holland capitalists.
Something more will be heard of the
Maxwell grant. When tho work of evict
ing the settlers begins it is not improbable
that more will lie known about tho fraudu
lent features of the grant, if there are any,
tlian has yet appeared in print. Scenes
similar to those in Ireland may be witnessed
in New Mexico.
An Explanation Needed.
A great deal of nonsense is getting into
the public prints in connection with the
statement that the President had about de
cided at one time last winter that he would
make an announcement which would put
him out of the list of candidates for the
Presidency. Tire latest phase of this non
sense appears in the Washington Stav, which
always pretends to be better informed than
it really is. The Star says; “What the
President’s sentiments were in January last
are pretty well known to a number of public
men with vrhem he spoke at that time. The
question ot ,t second term for Mr. Cleveland
was not at that time being talked of os it is
now. It came up only incidentally. The
matter which then concerned the President
and other prominent men in the party
was the failure of Congress to do anything.
The matter was spoken of between the
President and Democratic members of both
the House and the Senate, and regret was
freely expressed by the President at
the inaction. It was sometimes sug
gested that there were Presidential
aspirants in Congress who blocked
legislation because of the fear of advancing
Mr. Cleveland toward a second term. In
answer to this suggestion, the President said
patriotically that if fear of his getting a
second term was preventing Congress from
] Kissing legislation that the good of the
country demanded, it might lie well for hint
to relieve them of this four by stepping
aside. It was in this way that Mr. Cleve
land referred to the question of a second
term in speaking to several public men in
connection with the inaction of Congress.
Ho probably sjiokcto Mr. Dorshcfmer in the
same view when he culled at the White
House,”
It is very djiuhtful if tiny member of Con
gress ever blocked legislation iu order to
lessen the President's popularity, and thus
defivtt liisivnoiiiluutioil, iiinl It is also doubt
ful if anybody of sense ever suggi*s|i*l any
thing of tin* sort Hince it is admitted that
the President did suy (lint lie I Insight uliout
iiummin'lng that he would not aeci jit u i
iniiuiiiutioii, It might Lo wll foi iliini p> let
Col. lximont led t!u* nclvsp.ijs r c.im >|H)u.i
cuts tint in .i.oii xvjmdl •• I him to think
of mdiiiig (list anmejnceui. nt. \ fair,
srpitu'e nUD'iilont from hs I'lqil irtci> Mould
pul t khiji to a gissl deal id tlic silly stutf
that l now Iwuq |Njblish>sl uliout tUc I’resi
debt Ultd S raMMltllluU'/U.
A .'< •>* V ii'k wamsit sent i amis to Ins
tru-u lx lllhs'llllltj Uetli of Mr ilbixm. It
•re* in* way of (4.ur.j ni iiiurtu t<tL rra*
loJuj Vs t.j * niSist I- ii.s mad
TIIH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1887.
Educating Washington People.
The testimony which Mr. C. P. Hunting
ton gave before the Pacific Railroad Com
mission on Wednesday in New York shows
what has become <>f some of the money of
these roads. Tlit roads have never respected
their contracts with the government, and in
spite of the efforts of Congress have failed
to pay the interest on the bonds loaned
them by the government. Their complaint
has been generally that they' could not make
expenses and meet their interest, but there
are good reasons for thinking that they used
the money that ought to have gone to the
government in ways that they' would not
like to have made public.
It has always been suspected that they'
spend a great deal of money to influence
legislation at Washington and eLsewhere.
The testimony of Mr. Huntington would
seem to strengthen this suspicion. He says
that the lawyer who is retained bv the roads
at Washington is paid a salary of $20,000,
and is allowed $30,000 or $40,000 a year to
be applied hv“exp!aining” wiiat the roads
want, and in “educating" the people to a
point where they can see that what the
roads propose will be for their interest!.
This idea that the roads are expending
thousands of dollars annually at the national
capital to educate the people there with re
spect to their needs must have amused the
Commissioners.
Although Mr. Huntington denied that the
reads had ever bribed any members of Con
gress. it would not be safe to assert probably
that no Congressman ever borrowed money
from them. It is certain that both Repre
sentatives and Senators have partaken of
costly dinners at the expense of the roads,
and it is probable t hat at these dinners many'
a Congressman has been led to do just
what the roads wanted him to do. The
Commissioners cannot be too searching in
their investigation. If they' are persistent
and skillful the chances are that they will
discover evidences of corruption that will be
startling. There is at least one of the Com
missioners who has a record that inspires
the confidence of the public in his integrity.
All of them may be honest men and tieyond
the reach of any of the influences which the
roads liave found so potent at Wasjjjngtou,
but they are not all well known to the
public.
The Long and Short Haul Problem.
Asa rule the people do not know whether
they want the long and short haul clause of
the interstate commerce act enforced or sus
pended, because they do not know what
effect its enforcement will have upon differ
ent interests. There are some who think
that the enforcement of the clau3o will
benefit them, and others who are certain that
the enforcement of it will seriously injure
them. It is probable that there are some
shippers who are able to determine pretty
clearly what their interests require, but
even they disagree. If suspension benefits
one it is pretty certain to harm another.
It is a very difficult thing for a city to
determine whether it wants the clause sus
pended or not. Its enforcement will help
some kinds of business and injure, if not de
stroy, others. The two trade bodies of this
city have asked that the law, as it stands, be
enforced until they can determine by ex
perience whether they want it enforced or
not. This is a plain admission of doubt as
to what the effect of enforcement will be.
There is no doubt that if the opinions of
business men of the city could be obtjained
some would condemn the course taken by
the Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade,
and others would approve of it. Bach fac
tion would be controlled by self-interest, and
not, perhaps, by what it regarded to be for
the best interests of the city.
The Mobile Board of Trade wants the long
and short haul clause suspended. It thinks
the enforcement of the clause will ruin its
trade. It is a port, as Savannah is, and yet
one of its trade bodies regards as harmful
that which Savannah’s trade todies are in
clined to think will be beneficial to this
city. It is difficult to see how the commis
sion is to get at an understanding of wliat
the interests of the majority require. It
cannot, of course, enforce the clause as to
some interests and suspend it as to others,
in the same localities, and it cannot enforce it
as to some towns and suspend it as tootheers
Such a course would involve the commis
sion in no end of trouble, and would cause
general dissatisfaction and irritation. The
more the commission studys the long and
short haul problem the more difficult does
its solution appear.
Senator Reagan, of Texas, has written a
letter 011 the interstate commerce law.
Among other things he says: “The reasons
for increasing freight rates and for predic
tions falsely made of the danger of ruining
the commercial business and other interests
of the country are the basis of the argu
ments by which it is intended to alarm the
country and befool the commission into a
course which would substantially annul the
law, sacrifice the host interest of the coun
try, and probably force Congress to harsher
and more vigorous legislation for the pro
taction of the interests of ttie people.”
Senator Reagan, it must be remembered, is
one of the authoi-s of the interstate com
merce law.
Soon after (Jen. Greely was appointed
Chief Signal Officer he became the father of
a little girl. A few days later he received a
letter without date or signature, inclosing a
check for SSOO. The writer of the letter de
sired the check invested for the benefit of
ttie little girl, and also that she should lie
named Rose. It was not ixissible to com
ply with the latter part of the request, so Gen.
Greely tried to discover the donor, in order
that he might return the check, lie was
unsuccessful, and lias now invested the S.VX)
in his little girl's name. Gen. Greely has no
reason to believe that republics urc un
grateful.
Henator John Sherman and his brother,
the General, have been on a visit to the
graves of tlieir forefathers nt Woodbury,
Conn. The former was interviewed by an
enterprising reporter concerning the twin
•Sheruiuu Presidential boom. Tho Senator
said that as far o he was conocrned lie was
not trying to work up n boom. It will lx*
mneinton-d, however, that Mr. Blaine once
hel|ied his Ixxini by visiting a graveyard.
The keeper of tin Kodenil cemetery at,
Anderson villa plueksl (lowers from the
graves of Union soldiers and sent them to
Aneriou on Memorial day, to to u*d in
ilee 11 at nig tin* graves of (.xiuredoruta sol
diers. Republican organs will d'xibthsx
regard tli" art a- another Southern outrage.
G"ioc;d Mme *r I! It, Timm I*, *>f the
It" IfMiond Turin led lima, say- Di it llju coil
xoiahßioii of railroad* iu the South int i
Urg* systems In only just I sign a It is
also tru* that tho budding f rail roads in
llk* H/t|tii lujt miJy Ju *1 Im <*ii 9 •.
It las and. I Din liulJUi y s lxx ls in Giir
g ais oi) l.n iii cliiie Tlua is nut Ml inii
cot ton that Georgia l#y t*u aci minia > ,
**4. * *uv t<.<Mi 01
CURR3NT COMMENT.
The Not Result.
From the Xeto York S‘ar t Bern.)
The net result of tile d;.-*:u- • oc. wsionod by
the false report altont a t 'l’cv l.csl Uter of re
utmciatioii of the e,,‘i.'!'lu. v foi K-—' is the de
velopment of a surpriai i in niiiniitv of (enti
ment iu favor of tue re .-1 vii iof the President.
The Memory of a Groat Statesman.
From the Xcw York U". ' I i Deni.i
Wliat a character for tly admiration of true
Americans! Yet because Join: C. Calhoun was
a Southern man, the eann-: .id.-o.'.ite of princi
ples in which he was roared n:n! educated, a few
small partisan politicians, nearly forty years
after his death and fmire Hi.ui twenty years
after the peaceful reunion of the sections, are
ungenerous enough to revile tie' memory of a
statesman whose chturu-ter clav, Webster and
Wiuthrop extolled!
Jones, of Florida.
From the Missouri HepuMican (Deni.)
There are many amusing fret ires in practical
politics, liut if Jones, of l>"troi: .hula happen
to he re-elected Senator from FI ~ ! da. as some
people predict, il would lie verging on the ludi
crous. Yet if Jones should mekt a visit to Talla
hassee before the fight is finished, there is no
knowing what may happen. Because Jones did
not succeed iu charming Miss Palms is no reason
for supposing tliat he is not able to comb the
hair of a Florida Legislature.
It Has! It Has!
From the Boston Globe I Dan.)
Does it ever occur to you that Mr. Blaine is
quite numerous and noisy in the papers? Mr.
lilaiue is going West; Mr. Blaine passed through
Chicago; Mi'. Blaine is visiting his daughter;
Mr. Blaine is sick; Mr. Blaine Is seriously ill:
Mr. Blaine is better; Mr. Blaine has arrived at
Chicago fully restored to health; Mr. Blaine's
brother has died; Mr.mlainc will not. see anyone
to-day because he is depressed: Mr. Blniue is—
was—has—is—going -coming will-will not—
ding dong, dong, ding, dang, ding, dong!
BRIGHT BITS.
Love in a cottage means simply a life-long
course of plates for two and daily bread for one.
—Puck.
No, Lo the poor Indian has no car for brass
music. Have we not heard . f his un-toot heard
mind? —Marathon Independent.
The man who lives on cake and pie
Will be dyspeptic by and by.
—Boston Courier.
He was a cynic, of all men
A moist unkjtid suspect or;
He hated fun, and so lie went
And bought a j'est protector.
Washington Critic.
Two newspaper men have purchased “an en
tire town in California" Some towns iu Cali
fornia consist of three saloons, a blacksmith
shop and dwelling house, but we can't conceive
why two newspaper men should want a black
smith shop.— (forriatown Herald.
Pretty soon the clerk win > has to be excused
of an afternoon because he is too ill to sit at his
desk at work will be found sitting'for three
hours in the broiling sun oc the hard side of an
unplaned board seat, shouting like a madman
when bis favorite ball team is getting whipped.
—Boston Post.
Where the English speak of “shop,” Ameri
cans say “store,” and where the former speak
of “lifts” we speak of "elevators.” To be con
sistent we should henceforth refrain from re
ferring to the pickers up of unconsidered trifles
as “shopßfters,” and us" instead the more ele
gant appellation of “store elevators.”— Boston
Transcript.
He had taken her to hear Patti at S' a seat,
and afterward to Delmonico's, where the two
together ate up $9 To worth. As he reached for
his hat later that same night she said: "I am
sorry. Mr. Sampson, if my refusal will cause
you pairr. np pgineni you highly. -its an escort,
and in tltiiy' fip'i.yly I 1*1(11 snfdfisfbe a sister to
you. but your tvi?G I cannot die. You are too
extravagant.*'—Adtc York Him.
“No George,” she said firmly, but gently, “I
cannot be your wife. Father is old and feeble,
and since mother's death lias had no one to care
for him but me. If it were otherwise,” she
went on in a lower, softer, sweeter tone, “and I
were fre. • to listen to—but ah, no,” she finished
with a sigh; “it cannot be—it cannot be!”
“What's the matter with waiting, dear?”
responded George, with infinite tenderness and
hope; “perhaps the old man may skip soon.’’—
Puck.
On the door of a Parisian tobacco shop is the
legend, “Gentlemen are requested not to smoke
inside the shop,” which reminds us of a similar
sign in an apothecary shop where cigars are
sold. "What (to you syll.ojgara,for,” asked a
customer, “if you do not allow buyers to smoke
them here?" Said the apothecary: “I sell soap,
but for all that, you’d scarcely expect me to
permit purchasers to utilize my establishment
as a bathroom.— ljoston fl^ranscript.
Archdeacon 3yflinuv. in a recent account of
his life-long experiences as a missionary among
the Indians in British Columbia, remarked upon
the extreme difficulty of making them compre
hend the simplest scriptural teachings, and
illustrated it by saying that he gave a series of
lessons pn each of thf commandments separate
ly to a class of ytjing Alaskan braves. He
dwelt especially upon the principle involved in
the sixth commandment, explaining to them
clearly what murder meant, and what a dread,
ful crime it was in the eves of God and man.
To test their comprehension of what he had
said, he then asked all those in the class who
liad committed murder to stand no. Only three
arose. He was very much surprised, as he knew
they had all been on the war path repeatedly,
and boasted of their scalps. Ho went carefully
ever the explanation onco more, and again asked
them to arise. The same t hree came to their
feel. "Why, surely," he said in despair, “this
can't be all that have committed murder."
After a moment's reflection, "W ill all those who
have tomahawked their mother-in-law please
stand up?" Nineteen arose. -Editor's Drawer
in Harper's Magazine for Map.
PERSONAL.
Tnn health of Mr. Daniel Manning has much
Improved.
Mr. Leiteb, of (liieago, paid SI,OOO for a Bible
at a recent took sales •
Gaii, Hamilton has temporarily injured her
eyesight from over reading.
Gov. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, will sign the
woman suffrage bill if it reaches him.
Paci, nc (,’uaii.i.v, the well-known African ex
plorer, has arrived in Paris, from London.
Wilkie Collins says Mrs. Jamen Brown Pot
ter Is a much better actress than Mi's. Langtry.
Dion Boccicaclt is said to have lately ex
pressed his intention to write 1111 autobiography.
The first choice of the Indiana Republicans
for President is Bwnjaruin Harrison. He is the
biggest Republican 111 the State.
Sometimes the sun snine on the Boston
critics. Fanny Davenport lias written a letter
tbunking them for their kind treatment.
A oRAPHir pirrt'RE of Emerson when young
is that of Rufus Dawes, who remembered him
“as a very spiritualised boy in blue nankeen."
Ex-Gov. Robert K. Path son has accepted the
presidency of anew national bank about to l*
established on Chestnut street, in Philadelphia.
Nat C. Goodwin, the husband of Eliza Weatb
ersby. says tin* death of his wife .is simply
scientific murder, and he refuses to pay the doc
tor's bill.
A committee of veteran volunteer officers in
('llk .1 go is elide ivoring to get ex Senator 1: seo ■
('onklmg t*> deliver in th.il city un oration on
Gen. Grant.
The late Franklin A. Coinly, President of the
North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, wax d**-
xcondei! from llen-v and Joan t.'oiuly, who cam*!
over with William Penn.
The JUnuK he Lorink is at the head of a
French syndicate formed for the purpose of
buying the Roacii shiny,mi nt Chester and the
iron works iu New \ork. The price nskoil is
JlkM.OUll.
Victor ITroo’s will bus !>"*n admitted to pm.
b it" in Endmiil Ills prop Tty In England m
valued at t'.l.'.om His daiigat'r and grind
••ful lr> n him ih" sol" li si's. Vn annuity of kldo
Is |.*ft U) the widow of his on Charles.
Tim I'hrrnnlog! it in abroad. II • lias made two,
start!., ig [roll isllioaa of late. One Is li tie 1
elfcci ta.i: John I. Sulfi an s coinhathcness |,
small, and the ot,he tii.e ' Da' . w,d ~o , i .n.-f
of the fluid Knohljers, is exceedingly religious.
Da. Kcssmaci,. a celebtuied St r-burg pin-si
clan, rnci'iitiv cnr.sl Itaron Heivhx' son of
liiieiimoiiis by of las fcbrliugi. call-sl
le'ctorih I* in dud,i dot-ex of Iwcn'v Id.* grams
'I'll" Piifis tni ’ito‘,9 Mays tile roll as ly i, ~|
fallible 1
(•1,11 Joms VitjUAix ix-hges that nx a tilth nuf
lie wis tx.. a f y \nx m.,tle. lo Old! tq, SI tii"
l eu f're- 'i* of Hie fli. il ai ulnini fur
dm-lii s!.i. M Mill ah slid Hint -o'. a
tliliikihg n ni giug up ti n > u ss an srtM
iUd:." Ismg him up chluUMy sweep,'*
•4iu i'u Ma ijh
Aisran. it iv-mayVA fh* lu-ok.*,
lioa a mroaiiij Mroiwii S' J Hr
*!•'>'* a ij’iiii'*f •-1 ra*r IH#* , i%r u, I
•arr> *m .fj .yi|, ni** *ffrt* * I*# iii •.* fill r| 1,., t ,, ,
lur Isr L Is mg hmi dtis of i iuu isirt *s sM. h i
*JSIUI. .I Iheimm,. Mel |S',.*'. ./•' Ur
Is Ikni iSiei, sok ho Irsnuu'l B ,toud iuwJ of
Immmlhw ■ wiuiooi ■■■‘■pfr'g is tsmi iite.
MR. BANCROFT’S RETURN.
Back From Tennessee With Enthus
iastic Impressions of the New South.
Washin'/ton Letter to the .Veto York Herald.
Mr. George Bancroft began his usual routine
of life promptly on his return here. Ho called
on the President, but as it was Cabinet (lay. did
not sec him, and he asked for Mrs. Cleveland,
who was not at home. He called on Sir Edward
Thornton, with whom he was well acquainted
while,the latter .vas here as British Minister, and
saw him.
Mr. Bancroft is enthusiastic in speaking of Ills
Southern trip. He says he went for pleasure ami
recreation mid to see the development of the
South and t> understand the state of feeling
there, and he was delighted with all lie saw and
heard, and thinks the South is progressing in all
re si >cots in the roost encouraging manner. Of
this he desired to make i report to the Presi
dent, omj he will try again to see him for that
purpose. He believes the President is very
strong with the people, wherever he (Mr. Ban
croft) has been, and he is glad it is so, for lie
thinks the President deserves the confidence
placed In him. Mr. Bancroft says he gained in
flesh and strength while traveling, but had no
time for work, and could not have consulted any
liapers in Mrs. Polk's possession during his visit
to her. for the time was too brief, and his
friends were so good to him that he had no op
port unity to do so.
Of Mrs. Polk he speaks with great enthusiasm
as a lady of wonderful mind, exalted character
and most charming manners. He says she
seems as young in manner and vigor of intellect
ns he remem'ners her to have been when he
knew her in Washington forty years ago. Her
husband. President Folk, died so soon after he
retired from office that his widow has never felt
disposed to return to Washington, and has
never been here since March, lift!).
When asked as to his intention to write of
certain features of Polk’s administration to
which justice had never been done in history
Mr. Bancroft would neither adlm or deny that
he would do so, but spoke of three of the great
measures accomplished during that administra
tion -the reduction of the tariff, the acquisition
of California and the separation of the public
funds and those of the banks, in consequence of
w hich the government’s money was deposited
in the United States Treasury.
Mr. Bancroft expects a uew riding horse soon.
It is to come from the South, but ha has never
yet scan it, having conducted the negotiations
by latter. When it comes he will resume his
daily rides.
A CURIOU3 ADVENTURE.
In a Hole With a Colony of Root-
Diggers.
From, the Salt Lake Tribune.
While dashing furiously along I suddenly felt
myself sink into the enrth up to my armpits. At
the same instant I heard down in the ground the
shrieks of human beings—women and children.
1 feit hands clutch at my legs and naked human
bodies pressing against them. I uttered no
sound—l was too much frightened. I held my
breath and shrank within myself. Every instant
I expected to feel a knife or a spear thrust into
my body. My feet were on the ground, and,
without knowing what I was doing, 1 gave a
strong push with my breast. Finding that
something was giving way, I plunged forward
and up a steep slope of- or 3 feet, when 1 found
111)01011' bounding like a deer across the level
meadow with a great contrivance of basket
work suspended from my hips and extending a
yard or more on all sides. I looked for
all the world os if I had donned a huge hooped
skirt. While making a momentary halt, in
order to disengage myself from the singular
machine hanging upon me, I cast my eyes back
ward and saw an old woman and three or four
naked children scrambling out of the hole from
which 1 had just made my escape. Veiling at
the top of their voices, they dashed aw ay as fast
as their legs would carry them, making for the
nearest hills. By the time I had pushed my
basket skirt down to my heels and stepped out
of it. I saw' a dozen or more black heads emerg
ing from the earth in my immediate neighbor
hood. Seeing the shaggy heads popping up all
about me, I darted away at a pace that must
truly have astonished the natives. 1 think 1
must have left the village at least five miles be
hind before I halted. I then threw myself upon
the ground too much exhausted to even load my
gun.
"Was it one of their houses that you had
jumped into, uncle?” here asked a small boy,
who had been listening with "all his ears.”
"Yes, boy. the roof of one of their huts. You
see these miserable root-digging, frog-eating
devils live iu holes dug in the ground, just like
so many woodchucks. They make a kind of
basket work,dome of willow, which they place
over the hole and cover with grass and earth by
way of roof, and in hot, weather they some
times strew this roof with green leaves as an
additional protection against the heat of the
sun. The one into which I plunged was so cov
ered, and the framework, being old and rotten,
I pop]>ed through it easily enough.
HER FAITH IN GARRETT.
A Pretty Story of the Baltimore and*
Ohio Deal.
From New York tetter to the Baltimore
American.
The revival of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road deal talk recalls an example of the business
grit and determined energy of a Baltimore girl,
brought about by this same deal. It is unneces
sary to give the name, except to say she
comes of one of the best families, and is a
cousin of President Robert Garrett's wife. She
holds a comfortable block of 400 shares of Balti
more and Ohio stock, and she fully appreciates
their value. Her permanent home of recent
years has berm Paris. When the first news of
the proposed Sully deal came to her she cabled
to Mr. Garrett, giving him a sixty days’ option
on her block of shares at 170. Knowing Mr.
Garrett as Ultimately as she did, sue naturally
and correctly had full confidence in his entire
willingness aud ability to take care of her
stock. The days went by. and no news come of
the deal. There was no time for a letter to come
to her, and she was too keen a business
woman -or business girl, more correctly—to
trust the cables. So slie showed an energy and
pluck that none but an American girl is capable
of. One Friday morning she made up her mind
to run over to Baltimore and sec Mr. Garrett.
An hour later her passage was engaged on the
French steamer Normandie; in the afternoon
her trunks won' packed, and she was ready logo.
Saturday morning she was in Havre, and that
afternoon she sailed - loss than forty-eight hours
after she iirst made up her mind to go. The
following Monday week she was in Now York,
and that evening she was in Baltimore. The
next morning she consulted her trustees, sow
Mr. Garrett, arranged all her busiuess satisfao
torily. and then she granted herself the i st ot
the week to see her old friends in Baltimore,
where, before her original departure for the
Continent, she had been a popular belle. The
next Friday she was in New York, sailed on
Saturday for Havre, and by this time isproimhlv
back in Paris, in plenty of time to enjoy the
rare spring bonnets aud gowns she had received
only just the night before site left, and one or
two of w hich she had neon able to bring with
her. Who will say now that it takes a woman a
year to make up her mind?
The Family Man.
I've crept around the house till 1 feel like a
rogue.
A rascal, a villain, a thief!
To give a loud yell and jump from the stairs
Would bring nv unbounded relief.
No wonder I'm frami and dare not to move,
As prowling on tiptoe I go,
With n voice always raying: "Oh, John, do be
sliil:
You're waking the baby, I know!"
On the street, at the office, it's always the
same,
I w hisper. 1 motion, I speak.
Lmiil talk Jars my nerves I cry out: “Be still!"
Atid shudder to hear a door screak.
Ab ! little they know who look at me so,
With wonder and signs of dismay,
Wfui wonts rack my brain tilf I’m nearly
insane,
Expecting to hear someone say -
"Ob, John: bush your noise! don't speak out uo
I aid.
Don't whistle, don't stamp nbout so;
Don't rutile your pn|ior lieuuiet. I pray!
You're waking ttic baby, 1 know
Ai .ua 1';. miivrrtn ItAvnnx.
B’.islne.sH Rivalry.
From the Detroit Fret Dr ext.
in the last days of March two windmill agent •
called on a Wayne county farmer nt filename
tmi> , and undci the cireunistane-s encii fell n
I lUCUilltient Oil hint to do tils level best 1 > link'
a sale, (me talked, and then the other talked,
and th ui isrth miked at once, and each talked so
v* “it lout lie fiu loci could not make lip Ins mmd
bn h mill lo t ike He finally said;
“Genii. :i eu, 1 see only <nir way to do. You
• '■•ls'Oid. ill of a mid you • sui come oui
oi e i'.c |i'*-l uIT your eoals and go si It. Tic
• a,l * :IO li'-; make- I) isje,”
Th a/ ills agisssl. ntid m s few inlfiulcK wrr ■
lie id hi It They iiimU the faulting mil), smash
‘ I m i lie grsnsry urns', broke He- hind eqatiig of
tbs tamity ni iisi'ii, sod fright*iu*l sy<sing calf
tlcu fll s si I lie) thruebod amulet slid is th *
ail lieesi wsieet alld i to- sun began to go down
s'htui.if < ifi*e insii giving 111. ifv farmer who
war ro 'Slug ttu tie- Igy mow fug safety , called
"ii’iuifMiisu, (tie rifenss Iloct-h * tin* fight s
draw, end yuakm ws,o ,gf ih teams' t gieuw.
i imis i haul IMS MlsStsaiPs US day, ausf fi V* .
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Albany, If. V., is one of the three great tele
graphic centres of this country, having over 2W)
wires. New York, which stands first, has 600
wires.
“Jbsi's Godhblp” is the somewhat startling
name on a card which a New York drummer
plaiv-s before hi: customers on his periodical
rounds.
Rirnnnisx, according to a correspondent in the
Boston Transcript, is becoming the fashionable
religion among the ultra blue society of that in
tellectual city.
A I’autv of twelve Fredericksburg hunters,
with thirty-five dogs, recently spent several days
fox hunting in King George county, Va., and
captured eighteen foxes.
About the first thing that hereafter will strike
the eye of the stranger in Butte, Mont., will be
the sign "licensed gambling house,” which will
be stuck up ou a dozen buildings on Main street.
A regard ring is one set with stones, the
initial letters of which, when set in a certain
order, spell the word regard. They are as fol
lows: l, ruby: 3. emerald; 8, garnet; 4, ame
thyst; 5, ruby; 6, diamond.
A New York hoor-keei-er has succeeded in
writing on one side of a postal card seven poems,
containing 3,120 words. It took him nine hours
to accomplish the task. The letters are about
the size of "diamond type.”
A woman led her 6-year-old daughter to Dr.
Bushenow, of Jersey City Heights, N. J., last
week saying that she thought the childwas suffer
ing from measles, and three more of her children
were at home sick w ith the same complaint.
The doctor discovered that the little one was in
the last stages of diphtheria, and hurried the
woman home. Within an hour the child died.
Five minutes after a second of the children died.
The other two little ones were not expected to
live.
Mr. Rcskin doesn't like bicycles. “I not only
object,” he says, "but am quite prepared to
spend all my best ‘bad language’ in reprobation
of hi-tri-nnd-4-5-6 or 7-cycles, and every other
contrivance and invention for superseding hu
man feet on God’s ground. To walk, to run, to
leap and to dance are tiie virtues of the human
body, and neither to stride on stilts, wriggle on
wheels or dangle on ropes, and nothing in the
tr.vning of the human mind with the body will
ever suix-ivcde the appointed God's ways of
slow walking and hard working.”
A foreion correspondent tells the following
story: There was an Englishman ou board,
the younger son of a lord. who may be said to
represent a type of husband much sought after
in certain limited circles in the United States.
This Englishman married, several years ago, the
daughter of a wealthy Boston gentleman. He
spends three months every year in Boston with
his wife and the other nine months in England
alone. He has never taken his wife over with
him to his own home. He was asked by a friend
on this trip why he did not bring his wife.
"Oh." said he, "she is kept at home by a baby,
I believe, or something like that.’’
Mr. Labocchkre relates this story of Bishop
Wilberforce, which lias not before, he thinks,
been printed. The Bishop was riding in one of
the old-fashioned broad gauge railway carriages
and was seated at one end of it, when he i.rard
a truculent voice at the other end exclaim: "I
would dearly like to meet the Bishop of Oxford.
I will be bound I would puzzle him.” “Very
well.” replied the Bishop'to the speaker, who
had not perceived him, "notv is your time, for I
am that person.” The man was rather taken
aback, but quickly recovering said: "Well my
lord, can you tell a plain man a plain way to get
to heaven?” “Certainly,” replied the Bishop;
“nothing is more easy, you have only to turn at
once to the right, and go straight forward.”
“A woman” thus writes to the Fort Worth
(Tex.) Gazette: “My homeless friend, you say
you have for years longed for the free, inde
pendent life of the farmer, hut have never been
able to get enough of money together to buy a
farm. But that is just where you are mistaken.
For several years you have been drinkinga good
improved farm at the rate of 100 square feet a
gulp. Figure, it out yourself. An acre of land
contains 43,560 square feet. Estimating land at
§43 56 per acre, you will see that is just 1 mill
per square foot "and lc for ten square feet. Now,
pour down the fiery dose and imagine you are
swallowing a strawberry patch. Call in five of
your friends and have them help you gulp down
a 500-foot garden. Get on a prolonged spree and
see how long it requires to swallow a pasture
large enough to feed a cow—3o cows.”
Consternation was caused in a Louisville
household on several occasions lately by unac
countable sounds, which, it was noticed, were
only heard after all lights had been extinguished.
An attempt to fix the locality whence they came
was made successfully, and a clue found that
warranted the setting of a mouse trap. Shortly
after a click was heard and, the Courier-Journal
says, on examining the trap a small gray mouse
was found a prisoner. “In the dark, for many
hours thereafter, the little rodent whistled and
saner. This was the cause of all the mystery,
and when the mouse was examined a curious
one he was found to be. His head is terribly de
formed, the eyes being where the mouth should
be and the mouth between the front legs. The
strange noise is made by the animal in forcing
air in breathing from the lungs through the
ears, that being the only outlet.”
In Hartford, say local papers, “several promi
nent physicians have been investigating the
new French treatment of consumption by the
injection of sulphurretted hydrogen gas. In
fact, experiments were made by Dr. Johnson, of
tins city, somewhat earlier than those at the
Philadelphia hospital. The experiments have
been continued, principally at the free dispen
sary, by Drs. Johnson and Root, the former hav
ing devised an apparatus for making and ad
ministering the gas, from descriptions given of
the French method. Several patients have been
under treatment, and with encouraging results.
The physicians above named said that, while
they had every reason to be satisfied with (be
results, they did not feel like heralding the
treatment as a sure cure. Their patients have
been under treatment only two or three months,
and. before speaking positively ns to the efficacy
of the work, treatment should be contiuneil
much longer— perhaps a year.”
A correspondent of the Boston IVatchman
pictures the perils of American students in Ger
many. “VThen it is known," he writes, “upon
what waves of unbelief the student in a German
university is compelled to ride, what tides of
rationalism he must stem, an 1 what billows of
|> is..ivc infidelity he is to encounter, it behooves
him and his friends to look well to the Imat
with which he starts cut. It will not do for him
to begin to middle with the our of ‘higher criti
cism,’ or rely upon the steam of ‘New Theolo
gy" to carry him through * * One young
man, after a few months in Germany, said that
we,should pray. ‘Oh, God, if there "lie a God,
save my soul, if I have a soul” lie cam- here
as a theological student, and had so rapidly
fallen to this state of Infidelity. It is rather a
difficult problem, sometimes, to tell the causes
that lead to these results. A friend of mine
uiggesled that it really seemed n.s if many
young men had borrowed their religion from
t heir friends at home, and never had any of
their own.”
Marriaok receives scarcely more attention
amons; the Turks than birth and death, says a
writer in the April Cosmopolitan , and there is
but little embarrassment from the
tiv,* fonn.ilities that ureeede and accompany
this solemn act in the West. There are no
bans, no announcements, no rep^i^trations. A
man obtains a wife just ns he would buy a bou
(iiot: but neither the buyer nor the seller, nor
the intermediary, asks for a receipt. As it is
loi*hid(i"u a mun to enter the harem of another
"•veti if lie were a near relative of the latter) to
a yoiimt woman and talk with her. there are
n* nmrriuKos for love and no engagements.
< hie lather meets another father mid says to
bi;,i: **You have a son and I have a daughter,
il the mother of your son knows my daughter,
let us strike a iuirgain; if she does not know her,
W : them v • each other, and then let ns close* ut)
the. bn iin*ss.“ The conditions are discusser!,
t lu* dowry haggled over, then all the arrange
ments ictween the neirents are made, and tne
young people Introduced to each other.
Ok the mountaineers of Daghestan (in the
mouutaiim of r’ancasiis), writes a letter pub*
lihhed in the London '/Vmej; “On my arrival at
K••iiroush. ano f of the Lenghians hidden away
imi l rx ks, I w**nt to some pains to find a
marked tv|* of the ppil iiion. From atiun-
Ihrttpologuail p • nt o( view the InliabitanU of
tlv Samiir Heights are a mixed |x*ptilul lon
irown hair is most eoniinon • in both m**#**. and
iigiii gray eyes are very ruddoni mm n ainotig
tlitn Moth men and women have very thin
1m of hair, and tin* iimm not only slmieth'Mr
*i'•**!**, t m iit fhe l lid a* an to leave only two
narrow strip on either side off lu* rhiu. The
Jewish type, which is ultnoM Cotittnon in the
plant of Munur, is not to is* nut with Lift,
The women dru*o iiks tlielr Tartar
-dntjfa “ They take |art! niUtr iirul# In the r
di'W*. which are eiiiijr*'trierail of <lltfrmni coio
•i ud i inir i'Ji>*d with gold thread and in
iiii'ide eo/isi'lff"* them s** pretty end nrlgmai as
to d>'M*rve a hs)k lo Tlm* higher
am gure iu Ih* n-tr>ui M ai** the greater hi tie*
labor tinowfi <hj the wotnan, mid tit* more idle
il's-s Hi* 1 man leoHM* Inning Um* *b* t n iux
at h*lo# •as many u/■ rt) men were always
tjj is* ton mi shvpiug (oiiHiuitil) In fnsit of hi*
leMiM* (nnu uegniag titiMVMUUiir Tha male isai
tidera Imlhj# dlsie <imi aide to his wi Tie lit#
tfUmo wumh'm ttif at a iik tiuiu autsti av to sui*
.■Mi. iU k* ■■• mm tm-u Uhw ktiiMiug iiaumm
MEDICAL.
DISEASES OF THE LIVER*
Biliousness,
Dyspepsia,
Constipation,
Headache.
These disorders, which always follow the f a n
tires of the Liver and Bowels to perform the I
proper functions, can be conquered at once u
the use of Simmons Liver Regulator. *
An Efficacious Remedy.
“I can recommend as an efficacious renH.
for diseases of the Liver. Headache, ConsthS
tion, and Dyspepsia, Simmous Liver Regulator-!
FffiSphia. VITNOKR ’ ASSiStant
ONLY GENUINE has the Z trade mark on
wrapper, J. H. ZHILIN & CO., Sole Propr’s. °
/.ON WEISS CREAM.
MRS. GENERAL LOGAN'S
DENTIST.
TWO DISTINGUISHED CHEMISTS.
Prominent Ladies and Four Dentists of Balti
more Agree upon one Thing.
A discussion recently arose among som*
prominent ladies of Washington and Balti
more, relative to the chemical neutrality
Cand solubility of Zonweiss
Cream for the teeth,which was
referred to Dr. E. S. Carroll
of Washington (Mrs. General
Logan’s Dentist), and four of
the leading Dentists of Balti.
more, for whom the article
was analyzed by two well
known Chemists, Prof. j.
Morrison of Washington, and
Prof. P. B. Wilson of Balti.
more, both of whom pro
nounced it soluble and free from anythin?
injurious to the teeth. Dr. Carroll savs
it is the most perfect
dentifrice he has ever ' "jjjWuaL
seen. Zonweiss is a white I \ yrfjr*
Cream, put up in a neat / \ | /-I
jar, and applied to the /Ak
brush with a celluloid ?Y
ivory spoon. It is very, -~-~Y
very far superior to any other dentifrice
the World has ever known. Price, 35 cts.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON, Operative Chemists,
S3 Cedar St.. New Tori:.
For sale by LIPPMAN BROS., Lippmani
Block, Savannah.
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