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SATURDAY, APRIL SO, 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings— Catholic Library Association; Sa
rannah Lodge No. 217. I O. B. B.; Zerubbabel
Lodge No. 15, F. & A. M
Special Notice— Policy Holders of the Ala
bama Gold Life Insurance Company.
Legal Notice—Libel for Divorce.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
Circular No. 88—Change in Classification,
Georgia Railroad Commission
Cheap Column Advertisements -Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Strayed or Stolen; Raffle; Lost; Found; Miscel
laneous.
Auction Sales—Church Building, by R, 11.
Tatera; Household Furniture, by J. McLaughlin
It Son.
It is to to hoped that May will be less
boistroos than April It is time for the
winds to give us a rest.
Georgia and South Carolina are again at
peace. A policeman forms th link which
unites the two in amity.
It is said that tiie number of good artists
in the country is increasing. The public
would doubtless like to see some of their
works.
Having succeeded in strengthening his
memory, Mark Twain is now lookiug for a
recipe for strengthening bis humor. It is to
be hoped that he will find it.
Senator Sherman thinks the Southern
boom is well enough, but the boom that
pleases him most is of the Presidential vari
ety and it is lutoled “Sherman.”
Jay Gould says: “Stocks ought to go up
now; only artificial causes can keep them
down.” Wall street brokers are wondering
if Gould considers himself one of the “aiti-
ficial causes.”
Compared with the figures of last year
railroad earnings are decidedly on the in
crease. Perhaps they will continue to in
crease if Congress will pass a few more laws
“to regulate,” etc.
Col. W. P. Canaday, Sergeont-at-Arms of
the Onitod States Senate, thinks the Repub
licans will cany North Carolina next year.
The Colonel has been rather weak-minded
ever since that horse fell on him.
The editor of the Butte (M. TANARUS.) Mine)
has written a book entitled: “How She
Pelt in Her First Corset.” Asa set oil
somebody should write a book entitled;
“How He Felt in His First Trousers.”
A New York druggist complains that
when a man gets beastly drunk in that city,
somebody takes him to a drug store for
treatment. In Savannah when a man gets
beastly drunk he is put in “the cooler.”
P. Blauvelt, of New York, is persecuting
Sarah Bernhardt. He follows her wherever
she goes, and sends a dozen letters to her
every day. He has oilered to marry her,
but as he is 55 years old she scorns his offer.
The Columbus Enquirev-Sun declares
that the Salvation Army is undoubtedly
doing much good in that city. It is reas
onable to suppose, therefore, that the En
quirer-Sun does not look upon the members
of the army #> tramps.
The number of female students in the ool
of this country is said to be 180,000.
should all graduate at one time,
the surplus in the United States
cover the exjiensc of providing
graduating dresses?
C. Ives and his W all street col
leagtics are said to have paid President Gar
ret AOOO,OOO on accoun. of their Baltimore
and Qliio railroad option. This would in
ntt’afie thut railroad options are luxuries
which only the rich can enjoy.
Lillie Mai-tiu, a comely Chicago girl, has
taken out a license to marry Wong Wing, a
Chinaman. The groom told a reporter that
Lillie had done all the courting. Her course
Indicates that she lielieves the way to re
deem the heathen is to marry them.
Charges liave lieen preferred against a
New York broker for matching quarters.
They ought to lie pressed. No broker
should be allowed to engage in potty gamb
ling. He should lie made to understand
that he mast play only in big games.
Miss Abigail l*odge, better known ns
“Gail Hamilton,” has finally been persuaded
to deny that she is the author of the “Arthur
Uichntoitd” letters. Mr. Blaine also says
that lie is ignorant of their authorship. Thus
tlie public is at least partiully relieved.
Gov. Tnylor, of Tennessee, has Is-gun to
strike hack at. his enemies. He admits that
attempts were mu ie to bribe him, but he
says h< indignantly repelled them, lie
ought to have kicked the parties who made
the attempts into the middle of the stra t.
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Col. W. If. Gilder, who start'd in a whit •
flannel suit on a ramble to the North Pole
last, August, is preparing to ramble in that,
direction again. It is said that his first
imnihie was a failure because he couldn’t
Induce the polar hears to use English as she
is spoken.
The voting women of Newton, N. J., have
formed an “anti-vice society." The mem
ber* are pledged not to receive attention
from young men who useuhsiholic liquors or
tobacco. L’uless the eoehly disband* Nett
U>n, one of these days, trill lie filled with
JBUiidr and eats.
The Atlanta Heflin nr, a negro organ of
Unsavory reputation, warn * tin- UepubjieuMs
to tpnnlueUi Robert T. IJlb'oln foi IVesi
deni* The /teflanre says that if be should
be itauuulol “tail* would Is* •u**h cry
for **uir Boli' tlml ’we r roining Falb**r
Ale-ahum, fiUD.bOff m*>u Would sliakc Uuu
The Friend of the People.
In the case of Guilford Miller the Preident
bas furnished another conspicuous instance
of his independence, self-rviianee and will
ingm-ss to accept responsibility. His letter
11 the Secretary of the Interior in this case
will do as much to increase his popularity
with the people as his veto of the dependent
pension bill did.
The President is strong with the people
because he Is in harmony with them rather
than with the politicians, o irporations and
monopolies. When a question is presented
for his decision he asks, On which side is the
right? In what way can the people to ton
otited? He does not want to know how he
can increase his popularity, or how he can
favor powerful friends or rich monopolies.
In his Calhoun oration Secretary Lamar
said tiiat the President had been found
fault with because he insisted upon keeping
his promises to the people. The President
ought to welcome criticism of that kind be
cause it proves that he is faithful to the
trust which the people elected him to ad
minister.
The Guilford Miller case has attracted a
great ileal of attention because the parties
to it are the Northern Pacific railroad, a
powerful corporation, and a poor farmer in
Washington Territory, and, also, because
there are a great many other similar cases.
The Northern Pacific railroad w as chartered
in 1 564, and was given a strip of land 40
miles wide extending throughout its entire
length. This magnificent grant includes
50,000,000 acres. The only condition im
jiosed upon the company was that it should
complete its road in twelve years. It has
not completed it yet, but it still holds its
great through the indulgence of Congress.
As some of tho lands within the
40-mile strip had been occupied
by settlers under pre-emption and home
stead laws the company was given permis
sion to go outside of it and select lands to
make up the amount to which it is entitled.
This selection, however, bas never been
made, because the company does not yet
know the amount it ought to have outside
of its strip.
In 18T8 Guilford Miller settled on a quar
ter section, 50 miles from the line of the
road. He w r as 10 miles outside of the com
pany's strip, and felt that he would be safe
in making improvements. In 1883 he en
tered his land as a homestead. It seems,
however, that at the solicitation of the
railroad company, and in pursuance of
the policy of favoring great coi-porations
which characterized the Republican party,
the Interior Department had in 1872
withdrawn from tho operation of the land
laws millions of acres of lands outside of the
40-mile strip in expectation that they
would be needed to make up the full amount
of the grant of the company. Guilford
Miller's homestead is on these withdrawn
lands, and there are thousands of other home
steads on them.
In 1885 the company demanded Guilfurd
Miller's homestead. He appealed to the In
terior Department. The officials there
differed on the question whether the land
was his or the railroad's. The department
had permitted the homestead entry to lie
made and it had also withdrawn the land
tor the benefit of the railroad. The Attor
ney General’s opinion was ask>d. He de
cided in favor of liie railroad. Guilford
Miller thou appealed to the President who,
in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior,
holds that as the railroad company has
never selected any lands outside of the
40-mile strip, and as it doesn’t
know how much it is entitled
to outside of it, Guilford Miller
ought to have his farm, and that all the
other farmers who claim homesteads on the
land which the railroad wants should have
their farms. He thinks that the railroad
can get all the land it is entitled to without
driving Guilford Miller and other farmers
from their homes.
The President's letter will make him
friends all over the West. It will make him
friends in other parts of the country, because
it stamps him a* a friend of the people and
the champion of the w eak and oppressed.
Pistole and Politics.
The warlike words with which some of
the Now Orleans editors are assailing each
other may lead to pistols. The indications
are, however, that the present trouble will
l>e fought out with pen and ink. There are
throe parties involved, all of whom have
had more or less experience with pistols at
ten paces, and nil have reputations for the
sort of courage that is required for affairs
of that sort.
The trouble tognu with a publication in
the New Orleans Pi err i/u no about the suit
begun by the Attorney General of Louis
iana against tile American Cotton Oil Trust
Company. That journal published a brief
sub-editorial approving the suit, and on the
following day an editorial appeared in its
columns condemning it. It was explained
that the first article appeared without the
editor’s knowledge.
Au afternoon paper, the States, took
occasion to criticise the course of the Piea
yunr rather harshly. A good deal of blood
curdling language followed in each journal.
It is said, and perhaps truthfully, that as
these journals represent the opposing
factions of the Democratic party in Louisi
ana, this war of words over the Cotton Oil
Trust suit simply indicates that there is
going to be a hot light for the ixilitical con
trol of the State. The Picayune represents
the reform element, of which Senator Gib
son is leader, and the States the faction
which now luri control of the city and State.
A Governor Is to be elected at the nest elec
tion, and a Legislature that will have the
choosing of two United States Senators.
This toing the condition of nffaii-s, and the
fight having been opened so early and in
so dramatic u fashion, it may reasonably to
oxjiectcd that the newspaper editoi-s of New
Orleans will furnish the jieoplo of tliut city
considerable entertainment during the long
and hot summer.
The Depew Story.
The story telogrnpiied a day or two ago
tiiat if Mr. iilninc couldn’t get the Presi
dential nomination of Ids party he would to
able to control it for Mr. Chnuncey M.
l)‘|a'W, 0/ New York, does not ap|M<ar to
have hud any foundation in truth. It mav
lie considered as ■ ertain that Mr. Illaiue
isn't going to control the muni tuition for
anybody, lie is lor Illume first, last and ail
the time. It lie can't get the nondimtiou he
will not help anybody else to It. He isn't
tue sort ol 11 muii to help imoihur in a mum
where the pel /,<• is mi great.
N 'twiflisluh ling all I lei talk about All.
win uiid Mliei nun 1 and ttolr Imini* it Uulsait
certain lluit Mr. Wains will be the Itopuhli
• ■un rtnidhbito lie l working for I to ii-uni
nation, mil th*M# wto rontiol Die |*grtv
rntflf- “• ‘f if 1 "' • lut’Uof the Country
m tor Mm. iwy saktaWsu.ke,
I rw*(P**rta I<W ■,<*
TIIE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, APRIL 30. 1887.
Sir Edward Thornton's Mission. j
Sir Eiward Thornton, the representative '
of British holders of Virginia bonds, is at j
Riciur.oad, and will soon be able to learn I
pvhaps what the Virginia legislature is
willing to do towards the settlement of the
claim which the British capitalists have
against that State. It seems somewhat re
markable that this distinguished diplomatist
should have accepted a mission of this sort
unless he has some other purpose in view
than that which appears upon the surface.
A sensational Washington dispatch sug
gests tiiat. instead of being the agent of the
British bondholders, he is the representative
of tho British government, and that if the
Virginia Legislature will not agree to a
satisfactory settlement, there will he a de
mand upon the national government at
Washington to make good this claim which
British subjects have against the Virginians.
While there does not appear to he much
ground for the suggestion contained in this
dispatch, nevertheless there may lie some
foundation for it. The troubles with which
the Salisbury government are now contend
ing at home are very serious, and it may
have decided upon an aggressive policy with
respect to British interests in this and other
countries for the purpose of directing tlie
attention of the British people to other mat
ters than domestic affaire. In support of
this view it is urged that, lately, the British
government made a demand upon the Hay
tiau government for $1,000,01)0, which it
owes British subjects, and also upon the
government of Venezuela for the $50,000,000
which it owes in England.
The Salisbury government understands
that if it should call on the government at
Washington to assume the indebtedness of
Virginia to British bondholders it would do
a great deal to draw attention away from
the struggle that is now going on in the
English Parliament over the Irish problem.
It is hardly probably, however, that this
government would entertain such a proposi
tion. There is, of course, more reason for
asking the National government to pay tlie
Virginia debt than any other State debt
because the National government deprived
Virginia of a very large amount of taxable
territory when it created the State of West
Virginia, yet that is hardly a
sufficient reason. If the National govern
ment should pay the debt of
Virginia it would pretty certainly be called
upon to assume the debts of other States,
and if a precedent in this matter were once
established States would lie continually run
ning into debt with the expectation that the
national government would come to their
assistance when pay day came around.
In this connection it is worthy of notice
that a resolution was introduced into the
West Virginia Legislature a day or two ago
proposing that that State should assume
$3,000,000 of Virginia’s debt, which is sup
posed to he somewhere near $45,000,000.
West Virginia should certainly pay some
part of Virginia’s debt. The fact that she is
not now a part of Virginia ought not to he
an excuse for not doing so. She was a part
of that State when the debt was contracted,
and she ought to pay the part she would
have had to pay had she remained a part of
Virginia. All that Sir Edward Thornton
does at Richmond, in connection with this
bond business, will he watched with keen
interest.
In the fervid language of the Hot Blast.
Anniston, Ala., is about to “astound and
astonish” the people of this country into
“speechless wonder at the sight of a most
magnificent and unparalleled undertaking.”
The undertaking in question is intended to
advertise Anniston. A train, consisting of
an engine, a fiat car, a gondola, a freight
cur, a stock car, a mail and baggage oar,
an express car, a passenger coach, a
buffet car, and a boudoir car, all made in
Anniston, of material found in the neigh
borhood, will be ran from Anniston to New
York, and thence to Canada. Detroit, Cin
cinnati, Louisville, Nashville, and then back
to tho starting point. Tho cars will be
painted red, and besides a number of distin
guished guests, will contain samples of
Alabama products. A representative of the
Hot Blast will go along, and will distribute
100,000 copies of that paper. At Washing
ton a stop will be made in order to allow
President Cleveland “and his beautiful
wife” to inspect “this gorgeous and unpre
cedented undertaking,” about which “in no
way is there the wild Utopian fancy of Ori
ental dreamer, whose castles and palaces
and grand and beautiful achievements ever
float away from jxissession or enjoyment
like the mirages of the desert.” It must be
admitted that Anniston’s scheme is ahead of
Atlanta’s Gate City Guard advertising tour.
Speaking of President Cleveland's alleged
refusal to accept a ivnomiuation Senator
Vest says: “This is all there is of the mat
ter —that, if President Cleveland consults
liis own personal wishes h does not desire
to be a candidate for President. Personally
he does not wish a second term. He is not
seeking a renomination at all. lie is never
theless the present choice of his party, and
if the convention should be held to-morrow
would be unanimously renominated. His
personal wishes have nothing to do with the
question whether he will run again or not.
In the present state of things he could not
refuse.”
In New York, a few days ago, a young
clerk borrowed sc. from a friend for car
fare. Looking out of the window a moment
later, he saw Mr. Astor walking briskly to
word his office. Mr. Astor was robust and
briglit. The clerk wav thin and sallow. It
w ill not only be money in your pocket,
young man, but walking will also lie good
for your health. Try it.
Washington liarkeepers are appealing to
Webster's unabridged dictionary as a legal
authority. The law forbid* them to keep
their bare o]H'ii on the Sabbath, and they
claim that the dictionary defines the word
as tho “Eleventh day of the week,” or Sat
urday. Unfortunately for the barkeeper*
the courts refuse to accept tho authority to
which they up|>ea!.
Mr. James Brown Potter says that his
wife will make her debut in this country nt
Washington “lielore the President.” Sin*
desire* to havi the highest social and Intel
lectual recognition, mid she thinks she enn
obtain it only in Washington. What a sad
blow to Boston and Chicago!
In Philadelphia, the oilier d<iv, Thomas
P. Coleman, agisl 111, former city editor
of the Isrtyer, married a young woman ag<*|
MO. II" win at the ti'ii" lying ill iiel very
ill. Coleman is rich, which U the rea
whi, perli|M, why lb" young woman ism
m iii si to marry him
It may tea lie duo <• the int ivlat. <snn
ineiiie fit*, but It U a fact Hint lii.oiy m ws
|it;*>r* u*i l*airr |-imt irili"i*l |*isofuii*
Imbjs • p* utllt tin* of country new*
istunl i is patiently u m ait big the
i4Ni'&uuo I übuwt Pi ukwit ul Clavetuial. I
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Mean Insinuation.
From the Mrmjuiis Avohi/ic\e ! T>emA
The mean ipsi 11110110110* several of the Repub
lican newspapers that the >rdrv of }'resi<l**iu
Cleveland’s int ntldtt t > w rtf • i I fter< ‘cliniug
to become a candidate f 4 r w-eleciion, and re
fusing to allow his naiii • t .lv used in any con
nect ion with the Presidorwy oi 'BS. was a mere
“feeler, 11 thrown out: t<s airerr-.du the jopular
sentiment, is too ridiculor - for a moment's con
sideration.
Quite Rig-ht.
From the Chicago Tribune {Rep.)
Taking a bird sey * - vi,*w nf Southern senti
ment as portraved in the expressions of opinion
iriven by most "of tin - lehdpig journals between
the Ohio river ami the Gulf Mexico, we are
constrained to sny that the* apiare of Senator
Sherman by a I,and of brigands would
have heeu regarded bv the j’ "f that sce
tiou as a calamity not won li n.eutioning in com
parison with the frost on the early tobacco.
The Second Term Canard.
From tlir Houston Pwf ( Lem. >
While the leading and most tm.-twortliv Dem
ocratic papers of the country appeared consider
ably cast down so long es there <vas a probabili
ty of the truthfulness of the report, the
Republ.can journals were, ' the other hand,
correspondingly jubilant. TTitt means a great
deal, and to people in this seetiMi of the conn
try. fur removed from to 1 great political
centres, no better evidence can be obtained upon
which to base a judgment.
An Immigration Solve Needed.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Lem.)
The fact that pauper-,, lunatics, criminals. An
archists and Mormons are coming here from
Europe in numbers out of all proportion to the
j respectable immigrants ought to suggest to
Uncle Sam the purchase, at, once; of a big im
migration seive. Our own native wickedness
and thriftlessness are quite enough for one con
tinent, ami if these things are to lie doubled or
trebled on us, the future of tit-- United States
will lie as dismal as the narrow est monarchist
could wish.
BRIGHT BITS.
A Pole was arrested in New York for stealing
a lot of needles. Perhaps lie was the magnetic
pole and the needles stuck to him.—Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
After a midnight lunch on mince pic, a South
End citizen complained of having horrid dreams,
in which he was chased by pirates “Mince
pirates. probably,” calmly responded his wife—
Boston Transcript.
lle fat dinner)— May I assist you to the cheese,
Miss Vassal’?
Miss Vassar (just graduated', -Thanks, no: I
am very comfortable where l am! But you
may assist the cheese to me, if you will!— Pu-k.
"Beloved, dost know the news? Dost realize
that my flinty-hearted father has purchased a
fierce and bloodthirsty dog? And that this dog
is even now prowling about the house and may
appear at our trysting-place at any moment?
But thou dost love me, dues thou not, dearest?
I await thy answer.”
But he had already dusted.- -Pittsburg Bul
letin.
“Did the great chief of the Wang-Wangs see
any evidence of tlie decadence of onr race in tlib
East ?" asked a Western Indian of the chief who
had been on a mission to Washington.
"Yes,” replied the doughty warrior. “•Te
are fast disappearing. Figures of base bail
men now stand in front of cigar stores—places
that, onr ancestors have occupied for centuries.”
—Tid-Bits.
“i may not be so eloquent ns some of them,
said the Senator from Mid itei.u-k, “but when I
make a speech nobody is able to answer it.“
“Very likely,” replied file honorable Senator
from Mampsex. “Did you ever hear of an echo
to nothing?”
The Senator from Miildlefork is still wonder
ing what the honorable Senator on the left was
driving at.— Boston Transcript.
“Gesklkr! Who is Gessler?” said Mrs. Beck
ram to her husband.
“He was a tyrant, my dear, and also a life in
surance agent”
"What do you mean bv such nonsense?"
'There is po nonsense Venn it. Mrs. Beckram,
I assure you, Does iit William Tell’say to
•dossier' in the third act: 'Ha. tyrant, hast thou
not given me assurance of my life?’ Your hus
huud. madam, never makes a statement that he
is not prepared to support by documentary evi
dence. '' — Texas Sigt in </.>.
A Brsixjss max of Detroit has just discharged
a clerk for being too facetious. It is to be hoped
the lesson will be heeded by other young men
inclined to be funny. The employer sent out
to purchase a blue led pencil. When the boy
returned with the pencil the clerk remarked
gravely: "That expense might have been
saved, sir.”
By w hat means?” demanded ids employer.
“Any ordinary pencil can be made to write
blue.”
“Indeed.” said the gentleman becoming in
terested. "how would you manage it ?”
"By simply writing b-1 u-e. Detroit Free
Press.
Mottier —Tommy, how are coming on at
school?
Tommy—First-rate. ina.
"Mention the names of some of the domestic
animals.”
"The horse, the dog. the pig.”
"Mention some more, Tommy."
“The goose, the lien, and the duck.”
“Yes. I was thinking of four legged animals.
What animal is that which lives mostly in the
house, but which often makes a dreadful noise
so tiiat people cannot sleep?”
"Four-legged animal?”
"Yes.”
"Don’t let people sleep?”
"Yes.”
Tommy (triumphantly)—The piano.— Texas
Siftings.
PERSONAL.
At the great anti Coercion meeting in Hyde
Park, London, a huge coffin bearing Mr. Bal
four's nam** was paraded about and finally set
up tx-hind Mr. Stxfou as a sounding Isxird dur
ing his address.
Sir Annum Sullivan lias paid a recent visit
1 1 Berlin. He colled on Bismarck and was cor
dially received. Bismarck is sad to ne very
fond of the music of "The Mikado,” mid quite
taken with the character of "Pooh-Bah."
MoxuviiE I* Conway writes to tlie .tthenerum
that Walt Whitman is engaged, >n a biographical
essay on Elias Hicks, the founder of the Hick
site Quakers. Hicks and Whitman were both
born in Brooklyn.
A. G. Sr.\ :.!mno. President of the Chicago Base
Bail Crab, is said to be worth over >O'. It,,
has made his money from his sport ing goods
business. He has a big factory in Michigan,
which turn* out hull bats by the million
Te Hen Hen bax presented to the New Zeeland
government fora public park the “wonderland”
of that country, incl'iiling the volcano T niga
riro. the volcano Ruapehu. Mount N/a
ruahoe. and the ho: lake district. Te Hen Hen
is a great chief of the Ngatutawbaretoa Maorie*.
Sigourney Butler, the n Second Comp
troller of tlie Treasury, paddled down the Su-.-
qiiohamei in a earns' along lth B*,y|e ti’Hcilly.
atnl Mr. Mos“ley. the new clerk of tie Interstate
Commerce Commission, ]stddl"d down th" Mer
man*' wit li Mr. I VReilly, i >n the u hole. -u_t s the
Boston llerol l. we advise nn> ambitious young
men to piste,ire a canon uud cultivate Mr.
O'Reilly's u,quaint, mu*'.
In the Democratic primaries held hi Keutucky
last Saturday ii was practically decided that
(b'n. Simon It. Buckner, ot Hart county, would
be tho next Ireviuuor ut the State, (nit ot the
817 delegate* elected 375 were elected by his
triends. and a irnmlxT of others have since an
nouie 0,l thut they will suppurt, him In the con
vention State Senator Bryan livid, for Lieu
tenant Governor. Tile other Contests are still in
doubt.
The National Academy of Sciences is a very
conservative bMy. Year after year il has black
balled Director Powell, of the lleologiual Sur
rey. altliougli lus name is fatuous in the world
of science The academy is very shy of govern
ment official*. It is now in n state of excite,
meal over the proposition to admit I Jen (freely,
"blrf of t lie signal service. Many of Hie m*m
ts'rs mail,tam that lire*'ly'* KuHtnlflu at ton
inents are not t reat enough to entitle him to
membership Ip Ii fl)c present time, however,
be has not Inmti official!) reject" !
The lab'Mrs <‘utlirriue Yun Itenxsela t Hale,
I Mobile, Ala . was the last surviving grand
daughter of Hen*-raj I'tiilip Schuyler L'l tan
■ rp iuii In eliildb sit* uas adopt".! by her
aunt, Mrs U* xund*T Hamilton, and after the
lltt*l llatiiiltnu Iturr duel she went to live with
ber uncle, 111" Patrrsffi Stephen Van Rensselaer
The Patissni. -m usd to relate, would let the
voting folks it,'tv, tivqMenl eiitertaiuments In lbs
mansion, but he ouH xuy: ,Mv children, I
■ ami't give \ou p'lniiisston to aane<i, for too
iiiuii) pr.ncr have liarn ofl’erssl in these room*. ”
Ti.k injur* t*i < art Ncliunc. winch was made
i'gllt of wllrl! |r ■ Sirred lias prosed 1,1 la* seri
ous. Ite lu* ise-ii a-'*l srseial weeks ami wtfi.it
m **id, is* Ha re several months ncire. with a
IMl.lful |*,el of I All,"ties * ben te- does pet
•if* He e*ilTereJ a h*d |iii|-seu fooler* of the
me)* lusviiirr. B„t( as lie* breaker • ,g the
,'r> *' Ibp Isue* under Hie the k lever* uf lines LSI
'V*- I
1 * “ I* T**i|jr <4lll <H Mt* >**'% WiftJto* 3MIUM I
isenlsu** S reurw* tie* fre* iuis* mwi. The
leuu >4 He i.iltiui end of tavululiUt) luoUoa
U W) •*.*•.
MR. BIRD’S LITTLE JOKE.
Why the Dauntless Let the Coronet
Come in Ahead.
London. April 21.—At the dinner of the Cork
Yacht Club iu honor of the Dauntless and Coro
net people. Mr. Bird, the Secretary of the New
York Yacht Club, established himself as the wit
of the party. There was nothing elaborate in
the way of speechmaking with the wine, but
rather an informal chat on the features of the
race and yachting matters generally. In the
course of the chat one of the gentlemen put the
question to Mr. Bird:
“Will you tell us frankly why the Dauntless
came in'so far behind the Coronet? There is
none of those reporters here now t forget tin gone
or two), and we would like to know what came
over the old craft. - '
“Mr. Bird saw his chance, and immediatefy
assumed a niysterioua air. “Gentlemen, lie
said, rising. “I could a tab* unfold, but 1 am
afraid it would leak out and compromise my
position as guest on the Dauntless."
“Oh, we ll keep it quiet,"* shouted the others.
“Then you will pardon me. gentlemen, if. as a
sort of collateral, as it were, for revealing the
true cause of our defeat. I shall demand a
solemn promise from you all to never di\ ulge it
m all your lx>rn days. *
“We certainly will not.”
“You swear?'*
“We swear!” and down came the glasses to
emphasize the oath.
“Will Admiral Smith Barry instruct the Sec
retary to record the oath?*' said Mr. Bird, sol
emnly turning to the representative from Hunt
ingtonshire, the wealthy Admiral of the Cork
Yacht Club.
The oath was recorded.
“Now I may unburden myself,” said Mr.
Bird. “The fact is. gentlemen, that l*m a
Christian mon. Sos Colt, so's Staples, so are we
all Christian man. And recognizing the fact
that we were coming into a Christian port of a
Christian country, we were w illing to stand in
glorious defeat rather than violate your sense of
religious decency by coming up tne harbor on
Sunday like those heathen Coroneters. Really,
gentlemen, we were in sight of Fast net light on
Saturday afternoon, but we stood off and on,
waiting for Sunday to come and go. that we
might come up the coast like respectable yachts
men, and ”
The party saw* the point, and sent up a shout
that brought the steward out of his ante-room a
very scared man indeed.
Lightening 1 the Burden.
From the Xew York Ledger.
“I/*t me carry your pail, my dear,
Brimming over with water?”
“No: 1 11 take hold, and you take hold,”
Answered the farmer s daughter.
And she would have her own sweet way,
As her merry eyes gi*ew brighter;
So she took hold, and he took hold,
And made the burden lighter.
And ever}’ day the oaken pail
Over the well-curb slipping.
Was upward drawn by hands of brawn,
Cool, and so softly urippii g.
And every day the burden seemed
Lighter by wing divided;
For ne took hold, and she took hold,
By the self-same spirit guided.
Till by and by they learned to love
And each trust in the other,
Till she for him. one twilight dim,
Left father and left mother.
The wedding bells were rung at morn.
The bridal blessings given,
Ami now’ the pair, without a care,
Entered an earthly heaven.
When storm and sunshine mingled, they
Would seldom trouble borrow’,
And when it came, they met the same
With a bright hope of to-morrow.
And now they're at the eve of life.
While the western skies grow brighter,
For she took hold, end he took hold,
And it made the burden lighter.
M. A. Kidder.
Peerless Patti’s Early Experience.
From Interview in Hart ford Times.
“How old were you when you made your first
appearance?"
“I was 7 years old, and the occasion was a
concert at Tripler Hall. I was so small that I
was put ui >oll a table near the piano. 1 sang
‘Una voce' and ‘Casta Diva. 1 1 made a success,
and my parents, who were in want, through the
dishonesty of an operari# .ynanager, made
money. I was really a merephtyd, 15 years old,
when 1 made my debut in ‘Lucia' at the Acad
emy of Music, on Nov. jM, 1859. Ullman had to
be urged to allow me to appear. He thought I
would not amount to much. The performance
was the evening of Thanksgiving day.
Mrae. Anna Bishop was advertised to
appear at the matinee. Underneath it said:
In the evening, debut of Mile. Adelina
Patti in “Lucia di Ummennoor,” supported by
Brignoli and Amodio. How proud I was of that
advertisement! Next year 1 sang in Boston,
Philadelphia and other large cities of the I'niterl
States. In 18(11 I went to Europe." Mine. Patti
also said that Elsa, in “Lohengrin," she con
sidered the most exquisite of all operatic hero
ines, but that she did not dare to sing Wagner's
music for fear ot injuring her voice.
“l)o you sing ‘Home, Sweet Home’ from senti
ment." I asked, “or merely for effect? Pardon
the bluntness of the question, but mauy jieople
say you .sing the air merely for effect. 11
“1 was born in Madrid Feb. 19, 1818. My
father was a Sicilian, my mother a Roman, hut
we came to New York in 1844. and the first lan
guage 1 spoke w as English, and, as 1 said before,
my only home was that of my childhood here.
Hence, I sing ‘Home, Sweet Home* for its senti
ment.. 11
“What was the first opera you ever heard?"
“I suppose 'Sonnambula. 1 My mother sang it
in Madrid on Feb. 18,1848."
In Spite of Prohibition.
From the Boston Transcript.
Speaking of l>eer, I amvremind<*d of an inci
dent of >* living trip I made to Kansas, Ordi
narily. it must be confessed, it is rather difficult
to get liquors of any sort there; but your hotel
proprietor will provide them when he*finds that
you arc “all right.’' The ding stores will sell
them cautiously. I fell in at one city with a
Chicago lawyer who wanted to show me “the
way to get a drink in Kansas," arid, purely as
an investigator. I decided to go with him. He
was an odd individual, and ha i a lisp that made
his speech picturesque. He took me to a corner
drug store and made a sign to the apothecary,
who began t<* catechize us.
“It ith nethethary," my friend explained to
me, “togiveon’th name and rethidenth. Your
name ith John O. Blank, and you live in Both
ton. My name is Thilath Tbcudmore and I live
in Thyicago. Now, Mr. Druggitht. go ahead."
“The name?" asked the druggist.
“Thilath Q. Blank more," said the Chicagotu
“Residence?"
“Botheago."
“Disease?”
“Lathitude."
“Beer or whi— 11
“Whitlikey."
“How much?"
“About five oimtheth—eh. Mr. Blank?"
“I told i1 im that I though five ounces would
certainly Im* sufficient, and a liberal allowance
was poured out on our “prescription." The
form of the law was doubt less observed and the
apothecary hail a valuable record of the “case!"
The Great Big Bird.
From the Boston Transcript.
Eveiy newspaper man knows that there is a
great difference ftietween the speech spoken and
the sjmms’li printed that the cruditi**'; and cor
ners which even the In’st speaker pTmit* to es.
- ajM* him are tiolished down bv the reporter and
the proof reader. Apropos of this, to the jour
nalist well known, truth, tin* IKu*ner heard a
story which is worth telling and has the addi
tional advantage of being a Concord utorv, which
makes it all 1 he more aceeptable in the latitude
of Boston. When Kossuth spoke in Concord lie
wisht*l to compare the course of Austria with
that of the desert bird, that in hiding its head
think* it conceals its body.
“What you call your great big bird?" whim
pered the great Hungarian *to those who aat
about him.
“Eagle!" nald one.
“No. 110; not eagle. 11
“Ostrich," quietly explained Emerson.
“Ah! yes, trie ostrieh, that's it." gratefully
exclaimed Kossuth; and continuing from the
point where his English had for the moment
failed him. plunged into a noble peroration on
the short tfigiiteduettM of tli* House of llapstiurg,
using that souoroua English of which lie was so
ready a master.
The Rule Did Not Work Both Ways.
From the Ban Frunc.im'o Fast.
Mr. (\ V\ { Inrke, of (’incinimfi. w*U a passen
ger on 11 recently arrived Atsirilinu sterner,
It wa* on Himday tlmt the gentleinan readied
Sydney, and without losing time he made for
the hotel bar There he ua K roti/routed by a
decidedly antique iNirinald. who plaeidlv iitu
very firmly p 'nrmed him that it was ugumst
the law of trie colonh * towdl liquor njs.n tin*
Kahiiath unless M could l*e shown that the npph
• *4tit Inul aetuiilly tiaveled fifteen mil*-. u|*ii
(hat day The landlord was finaliy in to
nulmtaiMiat* the tact, that the pleader at the
bar had Just eonie ail the way from Hanl’ian
cUm'o Hu* duns wan funkromnig, but alum
>1 * hose U'gait to leasoii that If a uiauwhu
lias traveled fifteen nillm l* entitle I Uiinie nruifc,
tieatiolias mm' * \,*ht tuilee ought to have a
many drink* n* 15 is c uM t i.sd In f *0)0. timli the
luij i s* 1 and tin* Ismlkir4 turitJ |al* although
cam her wMihl manna y Um imtw of Uii mat hr
ma 1 ival Wga .
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
IT was a Boston woman who refused Jto buy
some sugar-cured hams the other day on the
ground that she never bought anything that had
been diseased. “For you know, ’ she said, “that
even if it has been cured some hidden germs of
disease tnay still linger in it."
There are two Knights of the Iron Cross now
living in Berlin who took part in the war of lib
eration against Napoleon Bonaparte. One is
the Emperor. The other is an ex-tax collector
named Friedrich Willie, a jovial old fellow, now
in his both year. Martin Pindor. who died early
ii March, was another veteran of the anti-Napo *
conic wars. He claimed to be 103 years old. A
few days before his death he was acting as a
railway servant.
One of the colored porters of a parlor car
company was tried before Justice Henderson, of
Meridian. Miss., recently, ou an affidavit made
against him by the Meridian Temperance Re
form Club, charged with selling liquor in the
cars contrary to law. The accused was fined a
small amount and imprisoned for one hour.
The company has instructed their employes not
to sell any more liquor in the cars in the dry
counties of Mississippi.
A youth of tender j ears, who, it would seem,
had his lines fall in pleasant places, was asked
the other day what he preferred to be when he
grew to be a man. Without loss of time for
idle thought, the observant youngster replied:
“Why. a letter carrier, of course. He is the
happiest man about; everybody smiles at him;
every bodys waiting for him and says something
pleasant to him. and be is always sure of a nice
Christmas present. My mind's made up, and
I'm going to be a letter carrier .
Here is a story of childish precocity, illus
trating the way these little ones puzzle their
elders. The incident took place only a few days
ago in Boston. Pater familias, in a spirit of
mischief, was attempting to eontound the
knowledge of bis 6-year-old by asserting that the
face of a clock was not a face, because it did
not have eyes; but:in 1 alphabet was fresh in the
child's memory, and she immediately upset her
parent’s argument by pointing triumphantly to
the Roman numerals II upou the dial, with a
convincing, “Oh, yes, they have; there are two
Is."
The Interstate Commerce Commission is an
interesting body. Little Judge Cooley sits at
the head of the table and presides with calm
dignity. He is a small man physically, with
gray hair and l>eard, and wears gold-rimmed
spectacles. Morrison and Walker cannot sit
still for any great length of time, They are the
humorists of the body. They have struck up a
great friendship. Bragg ami Schoonmaker are
solemn and stately and remain quietly seated
opposite Judge Cooley for hours without
stirring. The Commissioners have so far shown
a great? capacity for hard work and do not hurry
over details.
“A sober, intelligent man, and not inclined to
be superstitious,” and who acts as a watchman
on the Boston and Providence railroad at the
point where the bridge disaster lately occurred,
rushed into a police station the other night half
(lead from fright to escape what he believed to
be a long figure, like that of a woman, which
bad pursued him with a gliding, noiseless mo
tion from his post to the police station. Ho
says that when be first saw it he determined to
“tackle it,” whatever it might be. until he ob
served that he “could see the street lamps shin
ing through its body like a window.” The
watchman was confined to bed next day from
the fright.
The following has often been told as a joke,
but it really happened in a down-town cigar
store the other day. A gentleman whom we
will call Smith was buying a 10c. cigar when a
seedy acquaintance who may be called Brown,
came in and was invited by Smith to have a
cigar. He of course accepted the cigar and
Smith laid down 20c. in payment. At this point
Brown got in his fine work. Turning to the
dealer he asked if the cigars just bought were
not sold at the rate of three for a quarter. Oil
the dealer replying that they were, he fished out
a nicltle, and laying it on the counter remarked:
"Well, then, I'll take the third cigar, if it is all
the same to you.” And he did, to the unspeak
able astonishment of Smith and the dealer.
German papers call to mind that Kaiser
Wilhelm in his 90 years has survived no fewer
than seventy-two reigning sovereigns who were
his contemporaries, viz.: Fifty-two kings or
queens, eight emperors, six sultans and six
popes. Of these three were Kings of Prussia,
Frederick William 11.. Frederick William 111.,
Frederick William IV.; two were Kings of Han
over, two Kings of Wurtemburg, four Kings of
Bavaria, three Kings of Saxony, one King of
Westphalia i.Jerome Bonaparte), one King of
Greece, one King of the Belgians, three Kings
of Holland, three Kings of England, three Kings
of France, five Kings of Sweden, four Kings of
Denmark, three (or four) Sovereigns of Portu
gal. five Sovereigns of Spain, five Kings of Sar
dinia, six Kings of Naples, two Emperors 'of
Austria (one of whom was the last of the former
line of German Emperors), two Emperors of
Fiance, four Czars of Russia. He lias also
survived twenty-one Presidents of the United
States.
Miss Maida Craioex, says a correspondent,
has again figured as an actual heroine on the
stage in a part not down onV he bills. In “A
Scrap of Paper,” at the Boston Museum, she
plays the role of “Mathilde. and makes her
first entrance in a riding habit, running merrily
in from a door at the back of the stage. “At
this point last evening.” says a Boston Pont
writer, “she tripped at tbe doorway and landed
almost in the middle of the stage with a violence
that must have been in the highest degree un
pleasant. There was just an indication of a
giggle from the audience at her mishap, but it
was instantly drowned in a burst of applause
as Mira Craigen rose, bowed and went bravely
on with her part. The whole incident (showed at
once the courage of the actress aud the good
breeding of the audience. 1 could not help recall
ing at the moment Miss Craigeu's brave act on the
opening night of ‘Harbor Lights,' when she ran
in from the wings to extinguish a lamp that had
fallen on the stage, and the thought occurred to
me a woman of so plucky a spirit as hers could
not but succeed in the career she has under
taken.”
The zither (pronounced tzit-ter) is an instru
ment which has of late been engrossing the at
tention of quite a number of people, and bids
fair to become popular in fashionable circles.
In European cities it has attained unusual prom,
inence. and won well-merited distinction.V idle
in Uvs oo'iutry, for luck of good teachers, it has
failed to r**c*ive projjcr attention. Its name is
derived from th*- (rreek (Kithira). the precise
shape of which is not known, but it is supposed
to have resembled the lyre in construction. It
has l*vn said that Fran/. Liszt was very fond of
the in-triiinent. It has Ik*.*u wonderfully im
proved within the last half century, and to-day
is as complete as any instrument of its kind
known to the world. Its qualities are rare,
having a degree of refinement and deli
cacy possessed by no other instrument ex
cept the human voice or the violin. It, like
other musical instruments of th* higher order,
has its technicalities, l>eing capable of portray
ing a variety of emotion and expression if man
ipulated hya first-class performer. Its advanta
ges are many, being small in comnass. easily
carried from place to place, esp “dally adapted
to parlor amusement, and furthermore com
prisin' In *♦ ;“lf melody, lass and accompani
ment. According to the form of to-day, tiie in
strument has live melody-strings, tuned in
fifths, comprising in th** chromatic order a
range of four octaves and two or three semi
ton* .> and twenty hv* or more boss anti aceom
jMtnimeni strings. aim- tnx*l in fifths, compris
ing a range chromatically of two octaves or
more, ft has created quito nn interest among
the ladies. being well adapted to leisure mo
ments. and will in a short tune become a favor
ite among men.
The habit of smokiug cigarettes among pub
lic official* is alarmingly on the increase. It js
due, no doubt, to the fact that the cigarette
affords a means of satisfying an Appetite or
craving f, r tobacco and affords enough pleasure
to th** smoker to lust for the time it is wanted.
“A cigar >r a pipe is too much of u smoke,* 1
said nu official talking to a bn l( mere .imrrn'an
nqiresenlalive About the matter, “in the office,
when* you ■ *r• liable to be called **n at a mo
ment's u<*tie** by a lady or Mimmone<l into th**
in M*nce •#t u superior. In ai emergency of the
kir and tin* htti** thing ean be (hrovwi aside. The
cigarette \<-u m ■*. is cheap. A good cigar less
than Ide. in thrice is nu? considered tie* tuing to
Is keen in tie* month ef an official with Home
authority. Tie cigarette also afford* a little
pleasure, and if i' verv convenient. 11 The yanic
argument was found to prevail among all the
officials who were h-**;i using the little article.
Army officers us a iule v,er* notic'd to b ad*
digits] largely 10 the hah t of imiug the cigar
ette. Tb* y tbi'l it diiMier in the long rim
(hun errors. It nas now Im*coiiio common
among them to offer friend a cigarette. If
refused the iiMtly is, "Well, I lined to smoke
cigaix. irtil I flu I tiiat (he cigarette U more
convenient." Nearly all the young men arid, in
U* t. n*t a few of the old men in high social life
ran hr Meet! smoking them At any of then*
c.*ptjofiit MCUHi'imary now Op sec growj<*-f
lie ai in i tic gentlemen's ru*iii puffin' sway
rig irouslv on tie* "little delight " It (a a
ranty to ms* a cigar on *urh
A large toiac * •aas' hers h''* I In < auvAgMil on
t #d*> ilia* tie* wal*? of c*gaj*u*m aa* eoormou*
Idlme “ fc ||r ilAled th*2 ILm- 4sSu
leuight largely <4 them tf l they **u*Mi*lr*d it
imal* f* r them to u* miihs sly *Witg
HOTELS.
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GREENWICH, CONN. ’
Will Open Saturday, June 18th,
Address WM. H. LEE
Grand Hotel, 81st street and Broadwiv v
Vork. - ' -vew
NEW HOTEL TOGNi;
(Formerly St. Mark's.)
Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla
r pilE MOST central House in the city
i Post Office, Street Cars and all Ferries 641
New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Ron.
Baths, Etc. 50 to S3 per day. BeUs >
LEON' HOTEL
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TALLAHASSEE, - - FLA.
M. L. OGLESBY, - - Manager,
Winter Resort.
Open December to May. Daily Rates—&
HOTEL SAN SALVADOR
ST. GEORGE STREET,
ST. AUGUSTINE, - - . FLa
THIRST-CLASS in all its appointments This
1 New and Elegant Concrete Hotel is ] lanr i
somely furnished throughout, anu has all tbs
modern improvements—Electric Bells, r;K
Baths and perfect Sanitary system. Rates: s;> ?)
to S3 per day. Special terms by the week'or
month. G. N. PAPY, Proprietor
HOTEL VENDOME;
BROADWAY & FORTY-FIRST STREET
NEW YORK
\ MERICAN PLAN. Centrally located, yi
1 V the latest improvements. Cuisine andsex
vice unexcelled.
Special rates to permanent guests.
I. STEINKELD, Manager.
DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE.
r rHIJS POPULAR Hotel is now provided with
1 a Passenger Elevator (the only one in tka
city) and has been remodeled and newly fur
nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase
is also the owner of the establishment, spares
neither pains nor expense in the entertainment
of his guests. The patronage of Florida vict
ors is earnestly invited. The table of the
Screven House is supplied with every luxury
that the markets at home or abroad can affori
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SAVANNAH, - . GA.
/ t EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of
\ T the Metropolitan Hotel. New York, and the
Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen
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est accessible by street ears constantly passing
the doors. Special inducements to those visit
ing the city for business or pleasure.
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One of the Largest Boarding Houses in tha
South.
A FFORDS pleasant South rooms, good board
; V w ith pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit
those wishing table, regular or transient accom
modations. Northeast corner Broughton aud
Drayton street.- opposite Marshall House.
STOVES.
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DANGLER VAPOR STOLE
IN OPERATION.
Freeman & Oliver,
192 BROUGHTON STREET.
Gasoline fov Sale.
ONE MILLION IN I'SL
Manufactured for Fifty Years.
More ACORN STOVES are to-day in
use throughout this country than
any two other makes
combined.
LOVELL & LATTIMORE
Control the Sale of these famous Goods
in Savannah.
Oil & Gasoline
STOVES.
A FULL LINE OF THE BEST MAKES.
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General Hardware.
Cotton Hose. Kedzie Filters.
Hose Reels, Ice Cream Churns.
Plain and Spray Nozzles, Fluting
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