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4 Oc||tornm(t3Tctos O 0 4 -' O Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga FRIDAY, AUltlL SO, tBB7. Registered at the Post Office in Sen-annah. The Mobkino Nkw* is published every lay in flie year, and is served to subscribers in tin- city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own a< count, at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 0U for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by nun!, one month. $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months. $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning Nnvs, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue*, three months, $2 00: six months. $4 <*> one year. $8 00. The Morning News. Ti i \V<*ekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; nix months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 v!5. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah. Ga/' Advertising rates made known on application. 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 I gt H would m>nm thM (#*.;* mw ii *mi) 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. 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