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THURSDAY. MAY 5. 1887.
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Meetings—The Brush Electric Light and
Power Company; Solomon's Lodge No. 1, F.
and A. M.; Policy Holders ot Alabama Gold
Life Insurance Cos.; The Workman's and
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tioneer.
Legal Notice— Citatiou From the Court of
Ordinary.
The Kniglits of Lalior of New York are
talking of boycotting Henry George’s ]>aper,
the Standard. This is the irony of fate.
Nobody has yet departed so far from the
truth as to deny that each one of the legion
of Republican candidates desires a first term
as President.
What this country needs is a commission
to regulate buncombe. Otherwise the time
may come when buncombe will be the death
of free institutions.
It is said that Jay Gould is preparing to
make his son President of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company. It is a greedy mill
ionaire that fails to provide for his son.
Benator Colquitt seems to want the United
States to stick a finger into European affairs.
It is to be hoped that he is willing to wait
until Secretary Whitney builds a navy.
A Philadelphia crank says that Chicago
beef is made of Chinamen. This is doubt
less a mistake. No Chinaman was ever as
tough as anything that comes from Chicago.
The Massachusetts Railroad Commission
ers declare that “preventible accident is a
crime.” The question is: Who is to decide
•what constitutes a “preventible accident?”
The latest concerning the Baltimoi-e and
Ohio deal is that the Richmond Terminal
people continue to hold quiet conferences
with President Garrett. Hoinething may be
scooped yet.
Hon. S. S. Cox says that President Cleve
land will not decline a second term. Of
course not. The President will continue to
give the people good government four years
longer after March 4. ISB9.
President Keep, of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad Company, has not
had a vacation in fourteen years. Perhaps
he thinks “Keep at work’ a more profitable
policy than “Keep at play.”
The Boston Globe has moved into its
magnificent new building and has also ar
rayed itself in a handsome new dress. The
Globe is a representative American journal,
and it fully deserves its success.
Wall street, New York, has lately lieen
flooded with circulars offering counterfeit
money cheap for cash. Ls the fact to be
taken as a reflection u)>on the honesty of the
operators in that thoroughfare?
The Hon. Charles Denby, United States
Minister to China, wants his salary increased
so that ho can give “superb” entertainments
to the residents of Pekin. There are a good
many representing this country who have
the same sort of a want that Minister Denby
has.
Bhadea of the forefathers! Think of a
protectionist Congressman representing a
Georgia district! Kuch a thing would cause
the graveyards to give up the sacred dust of
many a good Democrat who spent his life
fighting monopoly in the interest of the
people.
The Montgomery Advertiser says: “Sa
vannah has lost four straight base ball
games with the Mobile club. May tie t his is
the first sign tlmt Mobile is going to get
hack some of the trade t hat the railroads
have diverted to Savannah. Lucky at base
ball, lucky at trade." Stuff!
Kit Carson piloted Gen. Fremont across
the Rocky Mountains on the latter's first
exploration. Mrs. Fremont now proposes
to write a history of Kit’s life. She is just
the [>erson to do it. Everybody would on
joy reading the history of so remarkable a
man written by so remarkable a woman.
Mr. IVallwe P. Rtxxi, of Atlanta, is to
write a history of tlmt city. Mr. lteed is
one of the most accurate and graceful
writers connected with the press of this
country’. His modesty may be described ns
monumental, but it will not prevent his
writing a history that will be well worth
reading.
Capt. Dawson, of the Charleston News
and Courier, reaches! itew York on Sunday
from France, where he had been to visit his
family. On looking over the New York
Sun he discovered a jiaragrnph which was
anything but complimentary to him, and,
it is said, he proposes to sue the Sun for
SIOO,OOO damages.
President Garfield's widow w ill soon visit
Washington to attend the ceremonies inci
dent to the unveiling of her busliand’s statue.
Hhe will be the fifth “ex-lady of the AVhite
House” to visit Washington since Fob. 1.
The others were Mrs. Grant, Mi’s. Tyler,
Miss Rose Cleveland and Mrs. Dandridge,
President Taylor’s daughter.
Republican papers are filling space and
boring their readers by suggesting Presi
dential tickets for next year. While liiey
are thus engaged some of them ought to
offer the following for sacrifice: For Presi
dent—Dr. Mary Walker, of Now York,
Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.
For Vice Preside^—Col. John E. Bryant,
of Maine and Georgia.
Mr. Carlisle's Tariff Talk.
There arc several points in the interview
with ex-Bpeaker Carlisle, published in our
dispatches yesterday, which are worthy of
much more than a passing notice. His
hearty and unqualified indorsement of the
President Ls good evidence that the Presi
dent has the Ann support of the Democratic
]>arty, notwithstanding the efforts of a few
Democratic critics to make the country
think otherwise. No one doubts Mr. Car
lisle’s Democracy or his popularity. He has
lioen elected Speaker twice and doubtless
will be elected again. Where he leads no
Democrat need fear to follow.
Mr. Carlisle feels confident that the tariff
will be reduced during the next session of
Congress. He gives two reasons for thinking
so. The first is that the revenues will have
to be reduced to get rid of a surplus which
is already large and threatens to reach dan
gerous proportions. The second is that
although the Senate Ls a Republican body,
there are signs that Republican Senators
from the Northwest will vote for a tariff re
duction measure. The Northwest is uot a
high tariff section. For a long time the
sentiment there has been growing in
favor of tariff reform, and the
Republican leaders have had great
difficulty in keeping their party
solid on the tariff issue. The North
western Republicans understand that they
would lie greatly benefited by a very con
siderable reduction of the customs duties,
and they cannot lie held together much
longer in opposition to their interests. In
fact, Mr. CarlLsle points out that the num
ber of Democratic Congressmen from that
section is gradually increasing. Next winter
Western and Northwestern Republicans
will be found supporting a tariff reform
measure, and the umnber, in all probability,
will be large enough to overcome the pro
t *ctionists, even if they have the assistance
of Mr. Randall and his following
Mr. Carlisle does not think that the in
ternal revenue taxes ought to lie disturbed,
and about all the tariff reformers agree
with him,’ He says that at the West
many Republicans do not favor re
pealing any of those taxes. Almost the
whole of the internal revenue receipts comes
from the whisky tax, and nobody but the
protectionists wants that tax either re
pealed or reduced. The protectionists are
clamoring for its repeal because they hope
by that means to save the monopolistic fea
tures of the customs duties. *
Mr. Carlisle says tliat to get a tariff re
duction measure passed it may lie necessary
to repeal the whole or a part of the tobacco
tax. The tariff reformers should never con
sent to the repeal of that tax until it is do*
tennined beyond question that its repeal is
necessary to secure the success of tariff re
form. The tobacco planter would be
benefited very little, if any, by the removal
of the tax, and as for the consumer he
isn’t growling. Neither the man who
smokes nor the one who chews would notice
much difference in his tobacco bills if one
half, or even the whole, of the tobacco tax
were to be removed.
1 Whether the present Congress passes a
tariff reform bill or not depends largely
upon the Ways and Means Committee, and
as Mr. Carlisle, in all probability, will have
the selection of that committee, he will be
come more closely associated in the public
mind with the tariff issue as the summer
advances and the time for the meeting of
Congress approaches.
Bainbridge’s Enterprise.
Tbo citizens of Bainbridge arc showing a
great deal of enterprise in securing railroad
facilities for that city. They have just raised
$50,000 to build a railroad bridge across the
Chattahoochee river, and that brings to
them the Alabama Midland railroad. The
Savannah, Floridunnd Western railway has
agreed to build a bridge across the Flint
river, and will, of course, connect with the
Alabama Midland at Bainbridge. The Mid
land will run in a northwesterly direction to
Goi-don, Ala., and from thence to Troy and
Birmingham. The country tributary to it
Ls a magnificent one, and is well settled with
prosperous farmers.
Bainbridge’s $50,000 has been well in
vested. It will bring a handsome return to
her. It will restore her former prosperity
and make her un important business centre.
Her trade will increase rapidly and her popu
lation will keep pace with her increase in
business. Already real estate within her
limits has advanced 100 ]>er cent, since it lie
cainc known that she would have a connec
tion with the Alabama Midland, and the
demand for that sort of property isduily be
coming more marked.
A Chance to Discharge a Duty.
The Fogarty case is set for to-day, and it
is probable that it'vill be tried. The mis
trial which occurred a v oek or so ago has
directed public attention to it in a very
marked manner. The entire community is
acquainted with the facts of it, and there i>
a general desire that a jury shall lie im
panelled to try it which will leave no room
for criticism. Doubtless there is b good
panel from which to draw a jury, and there
will In' no great trouble, perhaps, in ob
taining twelve satisfactory men, provided
there are not too many who will plead that
they are exempt. Every citizen owes it to
the community in which he lives to help
enforce the law’s. Those who are the first
to take advantage of the chance to escape
jury duty are generally the ones who are
the quickest to complain of juries and
to criticise those who are un
able to nvail themselves of the
exemption laws. If any are called to-day
who are exempt let them waive their right,
and, if acceptable, take their places in the
jury lx>x and discharge a duty tney should
never shun. Mws which afford citizens an
opportunity to get rid of serving on juries
are grave mistakes. Jury trials furnish
abundant proof that they are.
Bishop Henry M. Turner, of Atlanta, is
well known as a leader among the negroes.
In New’ York, a few days ago, he told a
Star rejsirter tlmt the negroes in the South
were favorably disposed toward President
Cleveland, and that their friendship for him
would be substantially manifested in ISSB.
He also told the reporter that the negroes
hail tired long ago of Republican promises,
misuse and hypocrisy. The white people of
the Mouth know tlmt Bishop Turner told the
truth.
The Georgia Press Association has ac
cepted an invitation from the Brunswick
and Western railroad, and the Brunswick
and lnlund Steamboat Company, to visit
Brunswick and points of inten*st between
that city and Femanilina, on the adjourn
ment of the animal mewling, which takes
place at Valdosta on May 1!. The excursion
to Tyliee will take place later.
The wife of ex-Mayor Carter H. Harrison,
of Chicago, died on Saturday last. The ex-
Mayor’s enemflHHH|teced for u time, at
luaßt * wßm
THE MORNING NEWS; TIU RSDAY, MAY 5, 1887.
Washington’s Royal Visitors.
A ripple of excitement has been caused j
in Washington, which has been rather quiet |
since Congress adjourned, by the arrival of j
Her Majesty Queen Kapiolani, of Hawaii.
She will remain there only long enough to \
visit the chief points of interest, to take a j
trip down the river to Mount Vernon and
to dine at the White House. By Saturday
she will be ready to start for Boston. It is
understood to lx- her intention to visit Eng
land before returning to her home!
Tlie Queen is 53 years of age and if; said to
be quite line looking. She certainly dis
charges the duties of her position gracefully
and with great good sense. Her first hus
band was Natnakeha, who was prominent
for no other rea >n than that he was related
to the late Queen Dowager Emma. She left
school to marry him, and soon after his
death she married Kali'kauri, the present
King, and thus became Queen.
She is a niece of that Kapiolani who is
known in Hawaiian history as the Great,
because of an act jierforoied over sixty
years ago which destroyed a superstition
with which the natives were burdened. The
volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands were re
garded by the natives with awe, and some
of them confess that they still have that
feeling with regard to Kilaua. They be
lieved that the goddess Pele dwelt in the
volcanoes, and that she was very revenge
ful and had to be appeased with sacrifices.
They never thought of passing a
spot where there was lava
from the volcanoes without a feeling of
terror, and their regular practice was to
propitiate her by offering sacrifices. Kapio
lani, who about 1820 became converted to
Christianity, determined to show the people
that there was no such goddess as Pele, and
that, therefore, they had nothing to fear
when approaching the volcanoes. One of
the beliefs was that no one could throw
stones into the cratef of Kilaua and live.
Kapiolani announced her determination to
perform this act, and thus prove to the j eo
ple that their fears were without reasonable
foundation. With a small party of adher
ents, and accompanied by a missionary, she
ascended the mountain until she reached t he
summit, 14,000 fret above the sea. There
she met an old woman who figured as the
priestess of Pele, and who warned her to de
sist from her purpose, as death would be her
portion. She was not alarmed, however,
and with the missionary descended a
little way into the crater nnd
threw stones into the seething lake of fire
1,000 fret lielotv. At the same time she
asserted that Pele was no god, but that if
she were she might convince the people of
the fact by some manifestation of her power.
Of course there was no manifestation, and
Kapiolani had the satisfaction of seeing that
what she tiad done was not without its effect
in removing the terrible superstition with
which the people were oppressed.
Queen Kapiolani is accompanied by Her
Royal Highness Princess Lydia Liliuokalani,
who is a sister of King Kalakaua, and who,
if she outlive him, will succeed him as the
ruler of Hawaii,’ Bhe is 41? years of age,
and is the wife of Lieut. Gen. John O. Doini
nis, who commands the forces of toe king
dom. He was born in Massachusetts, but
was educated at the Royal School of Hawaii,
and possesses in an eminent degree the con
fidence of the King. The Qurev'j-and. ;l?pr
party are receiving a great deal of attention
at Washington.
The Land Grant Business. JO
If the President succeeds in changing
some of the long established notions of the
Interior Department relative to tiff’ Port
lands he will have accomplished somethin
for w’hich the whole country will have
reason to thunk him. His letter in the
Guilford Miller case calls attention to the
favoritism that has been shown in that de
partment prior to the inauguration of the
present administration. Decisions were
made and regulations established which the
present head of the department has not dis
turbed. because of the doubt as to whether
there is any legal power anywhere to
disturb them. The President, however, has
dissipated all doubt, not by consulting pre
cedents, but by taking counsel with his hard
common season He saw that millions of
acres were closed to settlement in order that
sometime a great railroad corporation might
have the opportunity of picking the best of
them. He saw no law in the way of home
steading these lands, and yet the department
sain they could not be homesteaded. The Re
publican officials years ago tied them up in
onler to save them until such time as their
railroad friends were ready to grab them.
It is a good thing for the country tlmt
Guilford Miller Appealed to the President.
If he had not done so he would have last
his farm, and hundreds, and perhaps thou
sands, of others would have lost theirs. The
powerful and greedy corporation would
have evicted them and taken all their im
provements without paying them a cent.
If the President had time he might look
into the grants of some of the other land
grant roads.' He might get sufficient in
formation to justify a recommendation to
Congress that some of the grants be for
feited— turned back to the public domain
and opened up for settlement.
fit is doubtful if there is a more disgrace
ful chapter in the history of the country
than that which treats of grants of lands to
railroads. It ought to be sufficient to con
demn the Republican party in the estima
tion of all honest men.
A grandson of Alfred Iverson, an ante
bellum United States Senator from Georgia,
is preparing a brief biography of him, which
will lie published by a New York firm.
Senator Iverson was ouo of those whom
Harper's Magazine was pleased to eali
“the arch conspirators” that brought ntiout
secession. Six months or more liefore South
Carolina withdrew from the Union he made
a speech in the Senate suggesting secession
as the proper course for tho South to pursue.
Robert Toombs, his colleague, walked
across to his seat and said to him: "My
God, Iverson, do you want to ruin iisl”
Senator Iverson dropiwd out of jxilitical life
during the war. The biography already
mentioned will contain letters never liefore
published, which will let the public into
some interesting secrets. It will perhaps lie
six months, or more, liefore the work will
be ready.
Jay Gould lias sent flowers from his green
houses to lx* planted on the grave of his for
mer Hirst lieutenant, H. M. Hoxie. It will
he remembered that Iloxie won the Missouri
Pacific labor fight last year, but killed him
self doing it. Hereafter even Gould’s ene
mies will have to admit that ho is not alto
gether devoid of heart.
Ex-Gov. Thomas A. Osborne, of Kansas,
former Minister to Brazil, wishes to see tiie
Republican party reinstated ill power.
Alas! wishes are not always easily realized.
In this case the ex-Governor might as well
wish for the man in the moon to send him
down a piece of green chouse.
CURRENT COMMENT.
His Personal Interests in View.
From the New York Herald Gad.)
We have constantly assart",l that the worst
thing Mr. Blaine oomd <i'o would t" to enter tii
nolitica! field as a candidate in 1 ***•*. We have i
had in view, of course, Mr. BHiue'* personal in- |
terests only.
What Gen. Sherman Seeks.
From the Philadelphia Rerord '/ban.)
No doubt Gen. VVoLselev's praise of Gen. lee
is •so enthusiastic as to be cxasjierating. but
Gen. Sherman should tread cautiously in his ef
fort tocritieisethe Englishman'sworfc. By so far
as the soldiership of iJen. L- is exalted beyond
the ordinary level the credit is increased of the
soldiership which brought him to terms To prove
that he was destitute of military genius would
be to show that the Non t in Generals who
opposed him with superior ford' were Murder
ers. Perhaps this is what Gen. Sherman seeks
to do.
Their Hours of Work.
From the New York Bvening Sufi (Ind.)
“Nearly all of Vour wives work fourteen hours
a day.” Mr. Edward Atkins. told the audi -nee
of laboring men who had gathered to hoar him
ill Boston last night Indeed they do. and hard
work and weary wprk it is for the most part,
too. No eight-hour iuw can reach these- wives
and mothers who do the (,nidgery of l.fe so
jiatiently. And yet no clout.:. lew workingmen
there are who do not feel tli is as keenly is Mr.
Atkinson, and the reason viiy many o;. them
hope lo bettor, themselves is that they may re
lieve their wives of this irk some labor,
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BRI GHT BITS.
“I hear that old Curmudgeon is sick. Is his
illness -rally serious?"
"To him. ]x*ssibJy; no* to the rest of the
family. " —Boston Transcript.
An Austin man sent $l in answer to an adver
tisement which promised for that amount to tell
"Why 1 became a mason,” and he received the
reply, "Because J didn't want to be a shoe
maker.”—Texas Siftings.
“O, Dear!” exclaimed Cousin Jane, “my
throat is so raw I can t sing any more. Doesn't
singing make your throgt r;rv, fincle Charles*”
"I think.” was III* gftardojl reply, “that it has
a tendency to make those rtnv who hear me "
Boston Transcript.
Governess— Good morning, Mrs. Jenkins.
Your son see mu to lie getting on famously at
papa's. And hc'squice turned the heads of both
cook and housemaid
Mrs. Jenkins Quite a ga.v Lutherian, ns they
say, I s'pose —New York Mercury.
He entered a Woodward nvenue grocery with
hasty step, called the proprietor aside, and hur
riedly asked: "Let's see. now I want to re
member something, b begins with: "In the
bright lexicon of youth there is—is’ what?”
"Is it Excelsior?”
‘Oil. no! Can t yourememberthequotation?”
“Don’t think I ever saw it.”
"But you must.”
“Never did. The only thing of the sort lever
use is ‘No Trust,' and I stick right to it. Might
inquire next door, —Detroit Free Press.
Little Dot- I don't like to stay in the house
this way. What makes it rain so hard?
Omaha Mamma—So the grass can grow and
the flowers come ont, dear.
“Does the angels send down all this wet just
for the grass nnd flowers?”
‘ I suppose so.”
“Well, what do they slosh it all over every
thing for* There isn't any flowers in the
strecta.”
"It can't be helped, I guess. ’
“I guess, maybe, they are hired angels, and is
used to washing windows.”- -Omaha World.
A Fashionable Wedding -
Minister— Wilt thou lake this brown stone
front,
This carriage, these diamonds.
To be the husband of thy choice.
Fast locked in the bond of hymen;
And wilt thou leave thy home ami friends
To ix l his loving wife
And help to spend his large income,
Bo long as thou bast life*
Mai cl —"I will,” the modest maid replies,
The iove light shining in her eyes.
Minister— And wilt thou take this w aterfall,
This ostentatious pride
With all these unpaid milliners’ bills,
To be thy chosen bride?
And wilt thou love and cherish her
While thou hast life and health.
But die as soon as possible,
And leave her all tny Wealth?
Mon —“l will,” the fearless man replies,
And eager waits the nuptial ties.
Min inter —Then I pronounce you man and
wife. . . 4
And what I join together
The next best man may disunit *
And the first divorce court sever!
[Relative to the above, a correspondent asks:
“Will you oblige one of your readers by stating
who the author of above poem is.”]
Perhaps Bill Nye,
Or may be Twain.
If a loHa.l poet.
Why, do it again.
PERSONAL.
Gladstone and Buffalo Bill have become
warm friends
They are talking of erecting in Paris a monu
ment to Alfred de Musset.
Georc.e Gould has just been elected President
of three of his papa's Southwestern railways.
Mrs. Secretary Whitney or her children will
probably fall heir to the dozen or more millions
which her bachelor brother Oliver owns.
Lieut. Hess has a curious ha hit when signing
bis name oh a hotel register. He inscribes him
self as hailing from the "yacth Galatea.”
Princess Beatrice's iiaby did not object to
the ill smelling .lordan water that was brought
especially for its lienefit from the Holy Land.
The venerable Bishop Kip, of California, has
for some time lieen in precarious healihand
quite incapacitated for work; buthe is now
steadily mending.
The Mrs. Wallace who is lecturing in Ken
tucky on woman's l ights is not the operatic
singer, but Mrs. Zer.ilda G. Wallace, the mother
of Gen. Lew Wallace
C. W. Couldock. the veteran actor, lias never
visited England since he came to this country.
Now lie is Ta years old,-Amt has no thought of re
tiring from tne stage.
Emma Abbott makes a very sweeping state
ment when she says that passing the interstate
commerce law was the most foolish and wicked
thing Congressmen ever did.
Ex-Envoy SEdo wick's brother in-law, W. E.
Darwin, is about r>o, w ears side-whiskers and is
as quiet as if his father hadn't lieen the famous
originator of the "Origin of Siiecies.”
Paul Fkvab, of Paris, wrote 183 love stories
which were published in novel form, and yet
when he died there were only two carriages and
less than a score of people at his funeral.
The Princess of Wales in having her daugh
ters taught dressmaking lias determined that
they some of their own gowns Jos an
example (8 poor, but proud gentlewomen."
M. Adrien ijc Marquand. the inventor of the
pneumatic sewerage system used in Paris, is
traveling in this country. He called on the
President a few days ago. He is one of the
most prominent civil engineers in France.
Count Kuoene Steiner iie Mom.erabcro. from
Frnnklort-on-the-Khine, has lieen arrested in
Washington for petit larceny. He must be great
ly lacking in ambition. His title should have
won lum an American heiress without much
difficulty. •
Marx Twain ma L a speech nt the Trinity
College athletic meeting, in the course of which
he said that he had had a clerk who went into
athletics and afterward stole $30,000. Under
the circumstances IH is was considered extremely
witty- by Stark Twain.
Mrs. Sophia I.aforest, who, sixty-three years
ago. made her debut as one of the singing
fairies in "Cherry and Fair Star," is the oldest
occupant of the Forrest Home for Decayed
Actors. She is 74 very fertile, and the curtain
will soon lie rung down" for her.
Dan Rice, the old clown. Indignantly denies
that he is either u drunkard or a poor man. lie
says: "If to own 300.000 acres of land In Texas
and New Mexico, and 1,000 in Calhoun county.
Miss., and 1,000 in Lincoln county, Ark., is to be
abjectly poor. then I am poor indeed,”
Knurr principals of the company that Col.
Maple.il lll lias engaged for his season of Italian
opera in I-midon are American- Emma Nevada,
Mine. Hastreitcr, Marie Engel, of Chicago:
Minnie Hank. Louisa Dotti. Lillian Nordica,
I’eresina Adam and Vetta, of Philadelphia.
Edward F. Bingham, who this week took his
sent as Chief Justine of the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia, is going back to Ohio
next week to attend the wedding of one of his
daughters. He will hring to Washington with
him Ms youngest daughter, who is pronahlv the
only member of Ids family who will live with him
•here. He has two sons, one sftidying law in
New Hampshire and one in a railroad office at
Pittsburg. His wife died last year.
'lhe present Cabinet possesses som - fine pub
lic speaker- Vilas is probably the mi ft finished
and ehiuueut among t hem . though Lamar is not
far'behind him. Bayard is, of course, a good
talker Fairchild Is an interesting, though not n
great speaker, (i.irland is by no meaes elo
quent. Iml I-. u brilliant logician. Whitney Is a
quick, nervous talker, like ex-rtecrrtarv Chan
dler. l.ndicett is ihe onirmember of the Cubi
nut who has no # uubUe speaker.
He Went Himself.
From the Philadelphia Record.
President Lincoln's Commissioner of Agricul
ture. Newton, of Philadelphia, is the )>eg on
which all bad spelling stories are hung in
Washington. lie wrote English ns she's
spike, without regard to the arbitrary rules of
orthography, and the result was often amusing.
<me day, according to the latest story, Gen.
Sickles, then lying in a hospital here badly
wounded, craved fruit, grapes particularly. A
friend, not b iag able to find them elsewhere,
went down to the Department of Agriculture
and asked Commissioner Newton for some.
"I haven't any grapes." replied Newton; "I'd
give them to you in a minute for Gen. Sickles if
I had; but 1 11 give you atiythmg else we've
got " "Well," said the friend, "what other
fruit have you?'’ "Why.” said Newton, "Ithink
we have some nectarines, and you're welcome to
some of them.” "They'll do very well,” said
the friend; "lust write me an order to the gar
dener for some, will you?” Newton said he
would, drew a sheet of paper toward him and
Ijegan to write. The dateline was all right, for
that was printed; but after that his trouble
began. "Give bearer," he wrote, “as many
and then he stopped, for he, couldn't spell nec
tarines. and hfe knew it. He thought over it for
a full minute. Then he threw down his pen,
picked up his bat and said: "Come, 1 11 go over
with you myself.”
To Save Trouble.
From The £arth.
While oil business in the offlee of a Park Row
printing house the other day, a thin, tired-look
ing man entered, and approaching the proprie
tor said: "I want to have a list printed, sup
pose you write it down as I tell you.”
The proprietor made ready and the man
said:
"Yes, I’m sure that I locked the front door.
Have you got that ?”
"Yes, out I don't understand.”
“Never mind, don’t interrupt me till I finish.
Are von ready?"
“Yes.”
“1 no'ned out the light in the bathroom.”
"All right. I’ve got it."
“The kitchen windows are fastened.”
“Yes.'’
“The dog is in the cellar.”
“Yes.”
“I did not forget to put ashes on the furnace
Are.”
"Yes.”
“The servants are all in.”
“Yes."’
“The stable door is locked.”
“Yes.”
“No! the water is not running in the bath
room.”
“Yes.”
“The kitten is out doors."
“Yes.”
“I turned off the drafts of the range.”
“Yes.”
“No, I do not smell smoke.”
“YeST"
“I do not think I hear anyone trying to get
into the house.”
“Yes.”
“No, that is not our dog barking, it's the one
next door.”
"Yes.”
“it s not necessary to go down and see if the
cellar door is fastened; I know it is.”
“Yes.”
“That is nobody; only the wind rattling the
shutters.”
“Yes.”
“Well, I think that's about all. You see my
wife asks me those questions ever}’ blessed night
just as I am getting into .bed, and if 1 had a
printed list I could show to her, it would save
l*ts of trouble and besides that it injures my
lungs to answer them. Have the list as soon as
possible, please.”
“Mustered Out.”
There’s a lonely grave in Virginia.
And a nameless sleeper there,
That fell when the tide of battle
Rolled over fair laud so fair,
No costly marble marks the spot,
Where he fell ’mid war’s stern rout,
[•Jut a rough-hewn cross ami the simple v wrds:
“A soldier mustered out.”
There are graves in the “Old Domiuio ‘
Where her heroes lie at rest.
And piles of bronze and marble
Stand above each sleeper’s brea.-
But none are there among them all
That fleck her hills about
With a tomb so grandly simple
As the soldier's "mustered out.”
It stands in its solemn beauty
By the ever moaning sea,
Ami the passing schooner proudly floats
The flag he (lied to free.
The white-capped billows bow their heads,
And all the waters shout
Anil fling their foam wreaths round the grave
Where he sleeps “mustered out.”
Those waters on that dreadful day
Had seen him fighting fall.
And mingling with the battle's smoke
Had made the soldier’s pall.
No arms reversed, no muffled drum,
But shot and groan and shout—
These arc the sounds that tilled the aic
When he was "mustered oilt.”
No music of soft requiems,
No church hell tolling low;
But clash of arms and cannon's boom,
When he was called to go.
His shroud a blood-stained, tattered fla
His hvnm the victor's shout.
His knell "Cumberland's” last gun;
When he was "mustered out.”
All heroes sleep not 'neath tall shafts
Nor monuments of stone;
For many graves are marked, alas!
With one short word: "Unknown;”
There sleep who fought as those
For whom the millions shout,
Till the Lord of battle gave command
Aud they were “mustered out.”
But He who marks the sparrow's fall
Knows where each hero lies,
And humble blood for justice shed
By Him is not despised.
And when in the last reveille
The dead ranks throng about.
Foremost among the just shall stand
Those soldiers “musteredout."
—UNIDENTIFIED.
An Inquisitive Acadian.
From the iVeic Orleans Picayune.
He was a tall, strapping fellow straddled upon
a small “paint" pony. His hair was intensely
black. It grew long and straight, and was
somewhat coarse like that peculiar to lndiaps.
Probably he was of Indian descent. It was in
the early part of winter when I saw him. As
the weather was quite cold his ears and cheeks
were sheltered beneath a remnant of an old
blanket, the ends being tucked under his broad
brimmed hat. The overcoat he liad on was
made of some light homespun stuff, and seemed
to lie patterned after a lady’s polonaise. Ii had
considerable skirt, and was somewhat inflated
in the rear He had small, piercing black eyes.
Although there was a shy look about him he
scanned me from head to foot, and everything
else his keen vision could discern around him
“Mornin'. sir. You live here?” he asked, edg
ing up a little closer to me.
"Yes, sir," I replied
“You bought dis place?”
“Yes.”
“You goner make lectle crop?”
“Yes."
“You bin here long time?”
“Not long.”
“Whore (lid you come from?”
“I came from the city.”
“Somebody tole me dat. Dat place where you
come beau people, eh?”
“hots of them.”
“Heap houses, too, eh?”
“Yes.”
“Heap ‘brutes' (lore? No, hey?”
“< )h, yes; a heap of brutes there,•too.”
“Say, you got one wife?"
“No."
“Ah, you fool wid me, you ees,"
“No, sir, I'm not fooling you.”
“Don’t you tink you git pooty ole for not have
one wife?”
“Maybe I am.”
“I bin got wife once, but rue my wife don't
'gree well tergedder. Eh, me! she make too
much mouf wid me, so I divide wid her. Say,
who live wid you?"
"Some of my folks.”
"You ole mudder leve here?”
“Yes. my mother lives here."
“How many brudder you got?”
“1 have several."
“How you call 'em?”
“I generally call them by their names.”
‘■Hat’s funny. Say, somebody tole me you
kin read lectle hit. Hat so?”
“That is certainly so,”
“It don’t wuss nuttin’ to know for read leetle.
T bin to school for u whole months. It don’t do
nuttin’ for me. I kin git long widout dat.”
At this juncture the talkative Creole ceased
quest inning for a moment, probably from sheer
want of breath. He glanced about him and
spied an electric battery which I had been
handling previous to his arrival.
"What's did ting?" he naked.
“Oh, that’s not lung much."
"keninut see, eh?"
"Bet off your horse and you can look at it all
you want.” 1 want's! him to fool with the bat
tery and receive a shock.
He alighted from his pony, went toward the
gallery and Unit his curious eyes upon the eh*c
inral machine, suddenly lie pressed the knot
and was unexpectedly shocked A pallor over
spread his countenance. He dropped the Imt
tery, sprang upon his horse, and in a sneering
sort of tone lad me good-by. I reckon the man
with the “gift of gab" wonders to this day what
hit him. Btvmv BicaoosujUw.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The first letter the new Postmaster at Semp
ton. 111., had received in six years was the one
containing his commission.
An old ladv in New England, who recently
went to an Episcopal chuivh in which there was
an “eagle" lectern, said to the sexton as she
went in, "I'm a little deef; won't you give me a
seat near the faowl?”
A Belgian glass blower at Meadville. Pa.,
accomplished the feat of driving a locomotive
and train of cars with gas manufactured from
crude oil. The device, which occupies a small
space on the tender aud is connected with the
furnace, is very simple. •
John Finley, an Indian trader, was the first
white man to cross the mountains west of North
Carolina and enter Kentucky. This was in 1T67,
and it v. as the glowing account given by him on
his return that induced Daniel Boone aud four
< >thers to accompany him on a trip of explora
tion.
A German man of science has taken four
heads of hair of equal weight, and then pro
ceeded to count the individual hairs. One was
of the red variety, and it was found to contain
I*l.ooo bail's. Next comes the black, with 103,000
hairs to its credit. The brown had 109,000 and
the bloude 140,000.
In a recent address to the graduates of the
Maryland Faculty of Physics, Col. H. Kyd
Douglas said: “A young physician's first pre
scription should l>e for himself—a wife—to be
taken immediately. Doctors must be sober and
serious, and there is nothing so likely to make
them so as an early marriage.”
A halibut weighing thirty-four pounds and
measuring forty-one inches in length was cap
tured recently in the lower Potomac, near
Colorial Beach. This is the first authentic case
of a halibut in fresh water. Hitherto it was
supposed that the vicinity of Long Island was
the extreme southern limit of the habitat of
this fish.
C’apt. Samuel Chester Reid, a brave and
skillful naval officer during our second war with
England, was the designer of the present form
of the United States flag, and inventor of the
signal telegraph that communicated with Sandy
Hook and the Narrows. He, was born at Nor
wich, Conn., Aug. 35, 1783, aud died in New
York, Jan. 28, 1801.
A St. Paul newspaper, speaking of the execu
tion of a Polish woman there many years ago,
says that one of the schoolmates of her children
reinemberts that on the day preceding the event
the little ones went to the teacher and asked to
be excused the next day, and when asked for a
reason they said; "We want to see mother
hanged to-morrow.”
At Oak View the President owns twenty acres
of land which cost him SI,OOO an acre. The
ground is of little value, except as a lawn. Upon
the house he has spout nearly SIO,OOO. Alto
gether he has made the place very attractive.
He could undoubtedly sell it at a good profit, as
real estate in that neighborhood has gone up
rapidly since it received the sanction of Presi
dential preference.
The otld fact is recalled that Patti gave a
“farewell concert” in Willard's Hall, Washing
ton, on March 31, 1860. She was assisted by
Strakosch. Brignoli, Susini and Amodio; seats
were S3, and the list of the distinguished men
who invited her to come here would make half a
column in minion Vice President Breckenridge
was at their head. Almost every one of the
Senators is dead, and of the members. Lamar.
Reagan and Windom remain. But the little hall
must have been packed with song!
A shrewd piece of swindling is reported by
the French papers as having occurred at the
races. Two men, apparently cf the bookmaker
profession, had managed to pocket several hun
dred francs on lietting, when an official-looking
person caused them to be taken and led off the
ground, tp the evident regret of the bystanders.
It was not long, however, before it was found
out that the pseudo policemeu were in league
with their supposed victims, and had only dis
appeared to divide the easy haul with them.
Bishop Haven used to tell some good stories,
including one at his own expense, about his per
sonal friend, Dr. Newhall, at one time President
of a college at Newark, Del. The doctor was at
one time very ill, and for some days he thought
himself immortal, and refused to take any food.
The Bishop visited him aud tried to prevail upon
him to take some nourishment. “No, Ido not
want anything,” said he. "1 am immortal. lam
in heaven. This is heaven.” Then pausing for
a moment and looking at his visitor with a
troubled air, he said: “Butfceaven, how iu the
world did you get here?”
M. Berthelot, the Minister of Public Instruc
tion in France, proposes to establish a great
school for brewers in the old university town of
Douai. In this way, he explains, Douai will
sustdy France with generations of brewers,
wh*;se beer will drive the German article com
pletfly out of the field, aud atone for the havoc
wrought by the phylloxera. If this project is
carried out the good people of Douai will prob
ably have uo reason to regret the departure of
their literary and legal faculties. The joyous
brewers will put new life into the old town,
whose streets will run with beer.
Thebe has recently been invented in Paris a
small press which will enable blind people not
only to print the raised characters which they
art* able to read with their fingers, but also the
ordinary characters on the game sheet of paper
A system of writing for blind people has. of
course, already been invented by Braille, but it
only permitted them to communicate with each
other, whereas the new mechanism enables
them to form letters which can be read by
everybody. Henceforward, therefore, blind
persons will be able to communicate by letter
with their friends, without being obliged to
have recourse to the assistance of ot hers.
Few people, obsei ves the Washington Star,
realize the ioad that a thoroughly equipped sol
dier is obliged to carry. C’apt. Taylor, of the
Ordnance Department, has leeently made a
computation, which shows that the weight car
ried by a soldier equipped w ith rod, bayonet,
ride and cartridge belt, three days’ cooked
rations anil 100 rounds of ball cartridges and
complete “kit” of clothing, is 53 pounds 2.58
ounces; with Springfield rifle, bayonet, scab
hard, cartridge boxes and leather belt, clothing
and ammunition, etc., is 54pounds, 1.85 ounces;
with Springfield ritle, bayonet, scabbard, cart
ridge belt, clothing, ammunition, etc., is 53
pounds 15.1ri ounces.
When Daniel Webster was told, at Washing
ton, in June, 1852, that the Whig National Con
vention at Baltimore had nominated Scott and
Graham, he paused a moment, and then, with
out moving a muscle, beyond showing a playful
smile upon his face, exclaimed, "Graham and
Scott! Scott and Graham! Tar and Feathers!”
Mr. Graham was remembered as coming from
the great Tar State, old North Carolina, and
Scott was remembered for his military chapeau
and tall plume. The sarcasm was not intended
lor Mr. Veoster’s colleague in the Cabinet, Mr.
Graham, for he esteemed him highly, and ga>e
very palpable evidence of his respect for, and
eoniidenee in the Secretary of the Navy. Nor
did Mr. Webster entertain any but kindly feel
ings towards Gen. Scott. One of the most do
quent speeches made in the United States Sen
ate was in commendation of Gen. Scott's brill
iant and humane campaign in Mexico.
There is a haunted engine on the Southern
Pacific railroad. It is No. 79. and was run into
the Sacramento shops recently for repairs.
Three men have been killed by it, and the
bravest engineer on tile line is afraid to venture
out on a trip with It. One story is told that the
locomotive was crossing the desert beyond Mo
dule several months ago. when the driver spied
a white horse with diluted nostrils, flying mane
and erect head, in front of the engine, running
along at an easy canter. He blew the whistle,
but tuc horse would not leave the track. The
safety valve was opened to make a screeching
sound, but this frightened the steed as little us
the whistle, and a full headway of steam was
put on to run the equine ulba down.
Bat with apparently no effort on its part the
horse maintained the lead. The englne-r grew
deathly pale, and the fireman scrambled isick
over the tender and into tlie baggage-car. Ter
ribly excited, the driver forgot to stop at the
next station, determined to rue the animal
down. Just as he was fainting lie shut off
steam, applied the air brakes and stopped at a
station.
The suicide of Cornelius Griswold, the Boul
aer Valley (Montana) ranchman, recalls a story
that got abroad some years since, when his first
wfle died. Home ten years ago Mr. Griswold
was bereaved of the partner of his early joys
and recipient of his young affections. What
their married life was is unknown, hut its serene
felicity is said to have been occasionally dis
tuned by tile actions of his wife, who is reputed
to have been of an excessively nervous tempera
ment und at times almost in me. A day or two
before Mrs. Griswold died she Induced someone
to procure her a hatchet, for what purpose no
one knew. This implement she secreted In tile
bed. Before dying she summoned her husband
who knell at her bedside. Whilst In that atti
tude she bid liim farewoll anil conjured him
never to marry again Suddenly she drew tiie
hatchet from under the coverlet and struck the
unsuspecting man a blow in one eye, destroying
the organ of vision and disfiguring him for life,
at the same time avowing her secret, purpose to
so mar his appearance that no other woman
woul 1 have him. Anti that is how Griswold got
hU gloss eve
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