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4 Cklllflrniitglfctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THURSDAY. MAY 5. 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Mor Vlno News is published every dajr in Ihe year. and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week. $1 (K)a month. K* dO for six months ami $lO Od for one year. The Morning News, by wait, one month. $1 00: three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; out 1 year. §lO 00. The Morning News, by wait, six tunes a week (without Sunday issuei. three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $8 (X). The Morning News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs day* and 'Saturdays, three months, SI 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The SrxnxT News. by mail, one year. ?2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, 81 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Hemit by postal rder, check or registered letter. Cur rency seat by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. Wm TO NEW ADVERTISKMKNTS. 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 Trader's Loan and Building Association; Geor gia Tent No. 151, I. O. It. Special Notice—.Vs to Turning on Artesian Water. Armox Sales Handsome Household Furni ture, by I. D. Laßoches Sons; Assignee's Sale of Crokery, Glassware, Etc., by C. H. Dorsett: Fine Steel Engravings, by J. McLaughlin <St Sou. Cheap Colvmn Advertisements —' Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Personal: Board; Miscellaneous. Imported Cigars A. M. &C. W. West. Mason & Hamlin Organs—L. &B.S.M. H. Realty For Aij.— Daniel R. Kennedy, Auc 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, -x Y v 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 CUTICURA REMEDIES eczema And Every Species Cf Itching and Burning Diseases Cured. ° by Cuticura. 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