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4 Cjf JFlarning Hctos 'Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. FRIDAY. MAY O. 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morn Ino News is published every day lu rhe year, and is serves! to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Mornino News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months. $2 SO; six months, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Mornino News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $0 (>0 one year, $8 00. • The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Tburs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 20; six months, $2 50; one year, $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mall at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah, Ga " Advert ism g. rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings— Savannah Rifle Association; Lai; drum Lodge No. 48, F. & A. M. Special Notices —Robinson’s Sticky Fly Pa per; To Petit Jurors, Chatham Superior Court. Legal Notices —Application for Incorpora tion; As to Sale of Remaining Blocks of Dillon Tract. Cheat Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Stolen; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. Assignee's Sale —S. Elsinger, Assignee of M. Birabaum. Steamer Pope Catlin’s Schedule— For Grand Excursion, For the Yacht Race, Family Excur sion. * Legal Sales— Guardian’s Sale; Temporary Administratrix's Sale. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos. Fancy Wool, Etc. —K. Power. Ooftee. Etc—K. Power. Auction Sale— Fine Engravings, Etc., by J. McLaughlin & Son. The accounts of the earthquakes in the Vest suggest that Joe Mulhat.ton is in that neighborhood. Another citizen of Georgia has invented a •perpetual motion machine. It is time to call the previous question on this sort of thing. Three Queens visited Washington this week. They were Kapiolani, of the Sand wich Islands, and Patti and Emma Abbott, of the realm of song. The clerk of the Police Court at Great Falls, N. H., is a woman. She must be a little more strong-minded than any other member of her sex. Merchants in the metropolis are beginning to date their letters, “Reformed New York." A foot note ought to state that the reform was brought about by a Democratic Mayor. An autograph letter of Napoleon Bona parte, written when he was First Consul, was sold in New York the other day for $l5. Mkere was a time when Bonaparte’s signa w alone was worth a kingdom. ■Xiiere are no indications that Sherman Blaine have decided t<> pool then- issues. !!■ loriuer'-amionn.-' inent Ht he is for harmony. The truth is the has effectually destroyed Kepub- harmony. ■f the young Democrats of Georgia really to have a candidate for Governor at next election it may Unexpected that the Uv will do a good deal of during the summer session of the Assembly. Hn old lawyer complains that anybody ovtais a copy of the Georgia Code and can borrow s(>, can gain admission to xjßhar in this State. It depends altogether what bar is meant The possession of is the only requirement for admission to ■■ bar. iV hen Congressman W. C. P. Brecken ridge said at the State Democratic Con von tion of Kentucky, “let us find some com mon ground to stand upon that shall be a national ground,” he doubtless had in view “Cleveland for a second term and good gov ernment for the country.” The first negro to be employed as conduc tor on a street car in New York began the discharge of his duties last Tuesday. He is compelled to work at night, perhaps because the darkness harmonizes with his complex ion. Owners of New York street car lines ure nothing if not (esthetic. It is announced that Queen Victoria thinks Lady Colin Campbell was shame fully treated by Lord Campl>cll and his •relatives. She has informed Lady Camp bell that she will be pleased to receive her at court. The Duke of Argylo and Lord Campbell seem to have played a losing game. The races for the America’s cup between the Scotch Thistle and an American yacht, yet unnamed, will take place on Sept. 27, 29, and Oct. 1, if wind and weather permit. The difficulties in the way of the races have sil been removed. Patriots with money to bet will, of course, put it on the American yaohh It is a sad thing to do, but it is once more Decenary to resurrect Lucy Parsons, the wife of the Chicago Anarchist. In a speech, the other day, she snid: “The experience of last summer levs taught me that the statute law is a humbug.” If she will wait long enough, perhaps the hanging of the Chicago Anarchists will convince her that she is mistaken. Chaunoey M. Depew, of Now York, lias started on a Western trip. When asked if ho intended to swing round the circle on a tour of Presidential observation, he replied: “No: the man who attempts that will find that the circle will swing him around.” Other Republicans would do well to heed the wisdom of the reply. Senator Cullom, following Senator Rea gan’s example, lias written u letter concern ing the interstate commerce law. He docs not apprehend a collapse for it. He thinks Its defects will lie corrected, and that ulti mately it will effect all the good its friends iosirc. Unlike Senator Reagan, Senator Cullom doesn’t attack the newspapers. Recent advices from Cuba confirm the report that luuidits had arranged to kidnap Senator Sherman while he was visiting the island. The bandits were led by Matagas. Ihe most celebrated and boldest of the Cuban outlaws. Senator Sherman, no doubt, will rejoico tint ho was permitted to return to this country. If he hod lieen kidnapped his political fonges would prol>- been dctnolMMd ty#n;ie of the s&§£ f afiSWSEp* l The Kentucky Platform. If tee platform adopted by the Kentucky Democrats at their State convention which assembled in Louisville on Wednesday rep resents thrir sentiments they are not in har mony with the administration on the silver and civil service reform issues. The plat form commends the President for giving the country a national, clean and economic ad ministration and for vetoing pension bills, but it does not approve of his silver and civil service reform policies. It remains to be seen how man}’ other State conventions will agree with that of Kentucky before the meeting of the national convention. The Kentucky convention may be considered to be the first of the State conventions which will have a direct influence on the national campaign, and its utterances, therefore, will attract great attention. Of course it could have said nothing less about the President. Even Republicans do not deny that he is an honest President, and they ore willing to admit that he has giveti the country a safe and an economical ad ministration. But are the Kentucky Demo crats quite sure that the planks in their platform respecting the currency and civil service reform will meet with the approval of the National convention? The civil ser vice plank means that they are .in favor of going back to the spoils system, and if they possessed the honesty and frankness which they accord to the President they would have said so. Their declaration that “we favor honest civil service reform” doesn’t deceive any body, especially when they distinctly an nounce that they are opposed to the present civil service system. There is nothing more certain than that the reform of the civil service which the President is trying to carry out has come to stay. Neither the Democratic nor the Re publican party will dare to announce in its national platform that it favors the repeal of the civil service law. The main reason why the President is so popular with the people is because he has enforced that law. If he is renomi nated it will be largely because he has en forced it, and because, if re-elected, he will continue to enforce it, notwithstanding the opposition of the politicians. Congressman Breckcnridge stated in his speech before the convention that although Mr. Cleveland was not all that every Demo crat would have him he was better than the best Republican who ever lived. By that he meant to say that the politicians would oppose his renomination if they thought they could elect anybody else. The Democratic party is largely responsi ble for the civil service reform law. The people demanded it, and their demand had to be acceded to. They do not want it repeal ed. On the contrary, they want it enforced, and it looks now as if they intend that the next President shall be a man who will en force it. The currency plank of the platform is not a frank expression of opinion on the silver issue. The issue is evaded. What is said may mean one thing or" another. In view of the fact, however, that the convention was guarded in its indorsement of the Presi dent it is fair to presume that its purpose was to go as far as it dared in the direction of favoring silver. The Kentucky platform will hardly be taken as a model by Demo crats of many of the other States. In a Nameless Grave. The body of the girl who was murdered at Rahway, N. J., several weeks ago, and concerning whose identity the whole wun try has been more or less interested, was buried Tuesday in the Presbyterian ceme tery at Rahway. Hundreds of people were present at the funeral services, nnd several rather curious incidents occurred. The Rev. Mr. Gray conducted the services, and, among other things, he said: “For weeks this mutilated body has been the focus of many eyes and the subject of patient and protracted investigation. But the shrouded form is nameless, the assassin still skulks in the gloom, while those who loved the living are not here to pay their Inst tribute to the dead." The efforts made to discover the identity of the murdered girl were extraordinary. All of the great New York newspapers had re ] Kirters at work upon the cast', and many and various wore the stories they furnished. The IFor/ci-published a statement a week or more ago to the effect, that the girl was Ana Christine Larson, and then' seemed to be no reason to longer doubt that the mystery hail been solved. Further investigation, how ever, showed that the World was mistaken, and the day aftor the funeral that journal admitted that Ana Christine Larsen was alive and in Now York. The Herald also claimed the credit of identifying the girl, but its story was not satisfactory. At the funeral one woman appeared in mourn ing, claiming that the dead girl was her sister, Mary Domnn, and another went into hysterics. The latter insisted that the body was that of a dearly loved friend named Maggie. No attention was paid to these claims, as it was believed that they were mode for no other purpose than to ob tain the reward of $2OO offered for satisfac tory identification. The girl sleeps in a nameless grave, and the mystery which shrouds everything con nected with her life and death must be left to time to clear up. Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, of Virginia, has written a letter to Maj. Holmes Conrad, of Winchester, regarding Gen. Phil Sheridan’s contemplated visit to the Shenandoah val ley. Among other things, he says: “Gen. Sheridan has done nothing since the war to atone for his cruel barbarism during the war. We have not forgotten that during l:is reign in New Orleans lie asked that our fellow citizens of Louisiana might be pro claimed lvinditti in order that ho might set the dogs of war on them. I have forgiven the brave men of the Union armies whom I met in honorable buttle, and who finally triumphed over us in the great struggle. Among them I can now name many of my warmest and truest and most priz'd friends. They are good and true to me and think none the less of us for having fought them. Indeed they esteem him highest among us who fought them the hardest. iShoridan is not one of this kind, nnd ho has never accorded to us that poai'c which Grant proclaimed. 1 now say to you, my dear Major, and to our gallant comrades who are now in the vnl loy, tliat I hope you will allow this man to make his triumphant, ride up the valley in peace, hut have him go like the miserable crow, carrying his rations with him.” Now, then, listen for the shriek of “another South ern outrage." There are indications that the Fourth of July this year will bo celebrated witfupitr brtlum fervor in the South. at should be, gtel,Ut.lnunujh' L il ' I THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1887. Philadelphia’s Example. While other cities suffered great loss on j account of labor troubles last year, Phila i delphia was almost entirely free from such I disturbances. Among the causes assigned for the ab sence of disastrous differences between capi tal and labor in that city are two which de serve consideration. The Philadelphia branch of the Peace Society interferes when there is a prospect of a strike and generally induces the disagreeing parties to submit their differences to a board of arbitration. The board’s decisions are so fair that appeals from them are rarely taken. In this way interruptions to busi ness are prevented, and neither capitalists nor laborers lose money. ‘The other cause is the practical application of the principle of profit sharing. It is alleged that Phila delphia capitalists, in no inconsiderable number, believed that the offer of a share of their profits to employes would excite in the latter an interest in the success of the business they were engaged in. Trial proved the belief well founded. Profit-sharing has been introduced into quite a number of manufacturing und commercial establish ments, securing more vigorous service upon the part of employes and almost entirely removing the risks of labor collisions. 1 The wisdom displayed by the capitalists and laborers of Philadelphia has not only prevented loss by reason of labor troubles, but it has given the city remarkable pros perity.' Industrial establishments have increased rapidly in number and are operated to their full capacity. A feature of the increase is the large number of sinull manufactories. These for the most part are owned by small capi talists and former laborers who have set up for themselves. Another evidence of Phila delphia’s prosperity is the fact that more than 20,000 houses are under contract for erection during the present year. 1 Other cities would do well to imitate Phil adelphia’s example. Labortroublesandpros perity do not ga hand in hand, j The Florida Contest. There is a slight prospect that the Florida Senatorial contest will be settled in a day or two. The hope is expressed that the Demo cratic caucus will select a candidate to night. It is certain that both the Legisla ture and the people are tired of the contest, and would gladly see the end of it. The other business of the Legislature is retarded by it, and it begins to look as if the end of the session would be reached before legisla tion that is both important and necessary is accomplished. It is doubtful if any of the letters which have been published to injure Bloxham have cost him a vote. His answers to those which concerned him have been prompt and satisfactory. The efforts to injure Perry*by charging him with using the pa tronage of his office to advance Ids canvass have been without effect. The fact is that both men are so well and favorably known that if either wins it must be on his merits. If the caucus does not make a choice to night it would not lie at all surprising if both Bloxham and Perry should be dropped. The party cannot afford to waste so much time in a deadlock that shows so few signs of breaking. There are good Demckirats besides Perry and Bloxham in Florida, and if the caucus cannot make a choiqe to-night it would act wisely by see king? from among them. ——■ n , f—l, —-. till Charles T Parsons, of Northampton, Mass., seems to have forgotten that slavery in this country has been abolished. Jtpeeins that he makes a business of selling Immi grants. His plan is to go to New York and induce immigrants who have no money to sign “cast iron” contracts by which they agree to work for a specified period at wages less than half the ruling rates, and to for feit everything duo them if they fail to comply with their agreement. He then sells the contracts to New England farmers, gen erally clearing S4OO a month. A circular issued by the scamp says: ."We would rather have tue immigrants ignorant of our labor, for such wisdom proves foolishness to their employers.” He deals principally in Danes, Bohemians, Poles, Russians and Swedes, refusing to have anything to do with those who can speak English. Four years ago a lovely Southern girl, whose home is in Central Alabama, secured a clerkship in the office of the Fourth Audi tor of the United States Treasury. Her salary was barely sufficient to support her self and her widowed mother. A short time ago she received a letter from a Birm ingham bank, asking the lowest cash price she would tako for n farm of 100 acres near that city. She made inquiries and discov ered that coal had lieen found on tho farm. She wrote to the bank and offered to sell for SIOO,OOO. Her offer was promptly accepted, and now she provisos to whirl a while in fashionable Washington society. It goes without saying that she will enjoy herself. Gen. T. M. Logon, of Richmond, who is described as “the quiet little financier who engineered the Richmond Terminal ileal,” thus expresses himself about tho interstate commerce law: “The effect of tho law has not yet lieguu to show on the earnings of the railroatls. From what study I have given tho matter I have concluded that there will be no direct interference with the railroad earnings. Whatever change there may be in that direction will come gradually from the unsettling of the business of the entire country. As business is unsettled it will naturally affect the railroad business, and so cause large injury.” It is said the reason Mr. Rlaine is going to Kurope is to keep “out of the way of the party strife that is bound to nriso in the next year. He proposes to stay over there until after the national conventions have met and chosen their candidates, and if the Republicans see fit to call on him while he is in a foreign land to take the leadership he will undoubtedly respond.” Of course he will respond, but the chances are that that his wire workers will spare no effort to se cure his nomination. Ex-Senator Stephen W. Dorsey has just returned from a trip to Europe. Ho says that he is out of politics, hut that he is in favor of Blaine for President. He is confi dent of Republican success in 1888. The ex- Henntor once carried Indiana for the Re publicans w ith “soap." Since he is out of politics he will not try to carry it again. His confidence in Republican success next year means nothing. A New York dude, who is supposed to drink nothing but champagne, carries beer from the saloons to his home concealed in a music case. He denies that he is a former citizen of Atlanta. Where, then, did be get the music case trick if r-< a politician who "ill deserve CURRENT COMMENT. Deduce the Surplus. /■’rout the .\Vtc York World (/>*:.' The reduction shosdd be made in October, instead of six month* Inter Vn extra session then might save the do .nly the payment of $75,000,(5>f) in unnec.-ssaK taxes. Praise from One ot the Brightest. From the Memphis Arnlanche (Dem.) The Savannah News, in its pretty new dress, is one of the best representatives of the “New South," a phrase, by the wav entirely too hack neyed to use in coiufHn u with that live jour nal. The Replies Nearly All In. From the Herr York Star (/lent.) Mr. Carlisle's hearty advocacy to the renomi nation of President Cleveland, and the convinc ing reasons he assigns for the conclusion he has reached, nearly complete the unanimous affirma tive response of leading Democratic statesmen to the roll call on the quest ion of the hoiu*. Politics at a Tedious Ebb. From the Washington Star ( Dem.) Politics must tie at a tedious ebb when a meet ing between Col. Lamont dnd Gov. Hill in New York city causes live newspapers to give up col umns of space to an ounce ol description und a pound of conjecture. No one overheard their portentous conversation, und there is very little material for the reporters and detectives to work upou: but it is understood that when they breakfasted together Lamont poured maple syrup upon bis buckwheat cakes as a token that Cleveland would run again, and Hill promptly ordered shad as an indication that ho had other fish (than the Presidency) to fry. BRIGHT BITS. Lint Is full of disappointments, and a man realizes It a While after lie has planted some bird seed with the idea that he was going to raise canaries.— Somerville Journal. Young Wife—l took great jiains with that cucumber salad, John, and 1 hope you enjoyed Husband (anxiously)—l’m afraid, my dear, that I took great pains with it, too.— New York Sun. A French ambassador to the English court paid a neat compliment to a peeress who had been talking to him for an hour. The lady said. “You must think I am very fond of the sound of my own voice.” The Frenchman replied, "I knew you liked music.”— Exchange. A gentleman Was looking at some pleasant rooms, but the noise from the street was deaf ening: “It wouW be impossible to sleep here,” said he to the landlady “Oh!” answered the landlady indifferently, “our lodgers never notice it after’a month." "Well, then I’ll come back after a month.”— Tid Hits. Sick Husband— Did the doctor say that I am to take all that medicine? Wife—Yes, dear. fiiek Husband—Why, there is enough in that bottle to kill a mule. Wife (anxiously)—You had better be careful, John.— Boston Herald. Old Lawyer (to young partner)—Did yon draw up old Moneybag’s will? Young Partner—Yes. sir, and so tight that all the relatives in the world cannot find a flaw in it. Old Lawyer (with some disgust)—The next time there is a will to lie drawn I’ll do it myself. —Providence Telegram. “So you’re makiug an art collection, old man?” "You bet! Got over 200 already.” “Nice lot, eh?" “Well, they Ought to be. The man that fur nished my house picked ’em out for me and if they don’t match the furnitnre it ain’t my fault.” —Town Topic. /Esthetic Came (at the club, after the thea tre)—Can you imagine anything more utterly solemn than the denouement in “Romeo and Juliet?” Two lovers, both dying in the same vault! What fate more weirdly tragiccould Cynical Old Bachelor (who has evidently never read the play)—Um—’s no knowing. The au thor might ’a' married ’em .—Punch. In variety of catechism some of the school committees rival the Civil Service Commission. One of the questions asked a teacher by the committee at an examination in a Maine town recently was: “What would you do in case of a drowned man?” The teacher promptly an swered: “If the than was actually drowned I would make preparations to bury him as soon as possible."— Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Omaha Merchant—Wliat. has become of that pioe of velvet I left here? Clerk—Mrs. De Million “Great Caesar! It had the wrong price mark on, and you have let it go at less than half the cost. Mrs. De Million will never give it up I know.” “She was not here herself. Her husband took a fancy to it and bought it for her." “O! Her husband selected it. That’s all right. She’ll bring it back."— Omaha World. Decidedly Alluring.— Heppner (Oregon) Gazette. BANG-UP BUSTLES! Are made out of copies of the Heppner Gazette, and it is a favorite among front iersmeu for lining their lonely cabins. ’Tis a rag that cheers but not inebriates, and it prints a map and description of Morrow county, eastern Oregon, where much vacant land still lies (some stands) out-doors. It also shows some scenes of life in the wide, wild West, and a copy of it and tbo timber-culture law. ARE MAILED FOR 25 CENTS. PERSO . AL. M. Bartholdi is receiving much attention from members of both houses of Parliament of London. Sir Michael Hicks Beach is steadily regain ing health and ihe cataract, has stopped its progress. Theodore Mungeh. of Detroit, claims that he, and not George Westinghouse, invented the railroad air brake. The death of Mrs. Isaac Osier bout, of Wilkes barre. Pa., places that town In possession of a public library fund of nearly $40(1,0U0. Millionaire Mackav has had Ills name placed on the candidate list of several prominent Lon don clubs. He hopes to get into two or three. Word comes of the death of Mine. Igicordaire. widow of the professor of zoology at Liege amt sister-in-law of tho famous Dominican preacher. The late John K. Owens’ farm near Towson town, Met., containing 217 acres, is offered for sale, and will probably be laid off in building lots. Ma.i. Kossuth, son of the celebrated Louis, is a very, extensive railroad manipulator in Italy, cnntnJlling the entire network of Western Itul tan roads. The Duke of Devonshire, now in his 80tb year, enjoys robust health and thinks nothing of walking a mile and a half to church and home again every Sunday. Pluses Napoleon, who is now living in Switz erland, is occupied with his long-neglected work on Napoleon 1.. which is to be a refutation of the damaging uttacks of Lnufrey and Tame. The reigning beauty of the Italian court this year is the Duchess Canevaro di Zoagzi, wife of the new Peruvian Minister at the (Julrinal. She is * Peruvian, but has spent much of her life in Paris. Is an interview Mr. George Alfred Townsend says that Washington city is destined to be the literary centre of this emintry. Mr. Huuting tou says, "1 rare not who furnishes the liter* ttiro In Washington so my uiau is able to ex plain things.” Mb. Mini, ion, of Newark, N. J . has branched out ill anew field of meterolngioal science, and thinks there an 1 millions in it. lie advertises to furnish fair weather for Istlls, picnics, or excur sions weeks or mouths In advance, the cash to accompany the order. It will he remembered that Frank Vizetelly, the artist, was supposed to have perishod in the ill-fated expedition of Hicks Pasha, v Syrian Greek who has arrived nt Cairo says that among the European prisoners at Khartoum Is a “short, stout man. with a full beard, w earing glasses. There is every reason to suppose that this man is Vizetelly. Tine interesting historical problem as to what kind of clothes George Washington wore at his inauguration has lieen settled. His suit on that occasion was made of cloth from the Hartford Woolen Manufactory, the first woolen mill in America, established in GHN. The color of the cloth wax ita.-k brown. The President wore white silk stockings, also of Aniei'ieun manufac ture. There was no Anglomania in George Washington's make-up. The birthday of Georg*' W. Childs occurs on May 13. bast year Mr. Childs and Mr. prox<, united in a gift of SIOAOO to the International TyiHigrupliloa) Union. The Journeymen printers east of the Mississippi river will therefore cele brate May IZ by presenting Individual contribu tions io tile fund thus startl'd. The truxh'es of the fund are August Donat li. of Washington one of the editors of the Craft emon ; James J. Dailey, foreman of the I’hilad-lpliU Ledger com posing rrsiin. and Frank b. Pellou, a prominent punter of Chicago. A Good 3tory About Schoonmaker. From the Xew York Evening Sun. Ex-Judpe Schoonmaker, one of the Interstate Commissioner)], is always a prominent stump speaker in Ulster county in political campaigns. Ite probably will never forget how he was once broken up. He had got as far along in his sjieech as the candidates on the other side, and was skinning them as though they were eels. “As for the Republican cahuidate for As sembly, Mi-. B said he. "I don't know him ’’ He wasn’t allowed to finish the sentence, for in a flash came from one of his auditors, "I do. lie stole a calf from my father!" The audience broke into roar after roar. Abbey’s Dance. From the Baltimore American. Everybody knows of Edwin A. Abbey, the clever artist whose drawings for Uarjier's of “She Stoops to Conquer," “Sally in Our Alley,” and this month of “Kitty of Coleraine," are so much admired. His friends say that, it is one of Mr. Abbey's little eccentricities that whenever some piece of good work just finished partic ularly pleases him. he gives vent to k , feelings in some utterly unconventional way. Not long ago a lady called on him just while he was fin ishing the best of the Kitty of Coleraine pic tures—“ The Devil a Pitcher was Whole in Cole raine." He was just in the working mood, so lie begged her to sit down for a few minutes until he had finished. She sat down, and presently Abbey forgot all about her. He worked and worked, and finally he completed the picture. He stepped hack, took a good look, then gave a long-drawn whistle or satisfaction. The next moment the whistle brighted up into a rattling melody, and Abbey “did" a first-class jig tliat would have done honor to a professionel. The lady, sur prised, but not to be outdone, commenced to "pat,” but that recalled the artist to himself, lie turned and saw the lady, flushed slightly, and apologized. But the apology wasn’t neces sary, for it isn’t every one who nas the honor of seeing one of America’s leading artists doing a little “pas seul.” His Calling- Cards. From the Youth's Companion. A man’s very simplicity may betray him in his efforts to deceive. A Chinaman who desired political preferment as cook in the Interior De partment restaurant* at Washington had the badge of the. Grand Army of the Republic en graved on his calling cards. Visiting an official, whose influence he wished to secure, Yum Lee sent in his decorated cards with a great flourish. The following conversa tion ensued: "I heap likee cook.” “I can t help you. A lady manages the res taurant, and she has colored sen-ants.” "I heap sabee. I cook fo’ yeah in San Fran cisco; I neap sabee hashee; I heap sabee codflish baw'; 1 heap sabee evly ting!” Then showing a Grand Army badge with pride, he added, "Me Gland Ahmy Lepudlie, you see?" “I see you are a fraud,” said the official, sternly; “and if you don’t look out you'll bear rested for a misdemeanor." Mr. Yum Lee had no idea what a “misde meanor" was, but he understood “arrested” very welll indeed; so rising hastily he mur mured, “Goo by!” and rushed off, his pig-tail trembling with emotion. Looking from his window the official observed Mr. Yum Lee tearing lip the guileful calling cards, and scattering them to the four winds. A Foolish Suitor. From Washington Letter to the Baltimore American. That “the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee" has almost a daily illustration. The particular instance referred to is the cose of a young Washington blood, who, for a number of years, has laid siege to the heart of a young lady whose father is one of the wealthiest men in town. The old gentleman looked approvingly on the satisfactory progress that the young man was making, but thought it would be well to see whether it was the daughter or the money that he wooed so ardently. So one bright day he called the would-be son-in-law to him, and told him blandly that he was not averse to the marriage, but that when it was con summated he must take care of her himself and not expect her to take care of him, or, in other words, that he could not support them. This was done solely as a blind, for the pater familias doubted not that the boy was sincere in his affections. And so they parted, the fond lover avowing his unutterable attach ment, and his entire willingness to shoulder the responsibilities of his prospective new life. But the old gentleman experiment worked like a charm. The young man has never showed up from that day to this, and now “all bets are off,” as it w ere. The young lady- and her father are congratulating themselves at the narrow escape the bank nccount has made, and the booby is lookingurouud fora hole to crawl in. Meantime, another fellow, with good hard horse sense, came along and married the girl, and the generous father-in-law gave them a goodly pile of boodle. He Went Back. From the Dakota Bell. He was a little fellow, not over 12 years old, and he was sitting liehiud a box over at the Omaha depot the other morning softly crying and looking very dirty and forlorn. “What's the matter?” we asked. “Hain’t nothin’ the matter.” he said defiantly, sitting up straight, hastily brushing away his tears ami pushing back his jacket a little so as to display the handle of an old revolver in his pocket. Then he looked off across the river at the strange buildings and lost his bravery, and buried his head again and sobbed through his tears: "Oh, mister, I’ve been a-runnin’ aw-ay, an’ I want ’o go home.” “Wliat made you run away?” “I thought it would be nice, hut it hain’t, no ithaint.’and he rested his face in his hands and looked the picture of woe. “Dick Dagger had a heap o’ fnn, hut I hain’t had a bit.” "Who w-as Dick Dagger?" “Didn't you ever hear o’ him? He was the boy scout of the Rockies, an’ I wanted to be like him. There hain’t Indians what’ll hurt a feller round here, is there?” “No." "1 wouldn’t shoot ’em if there was. Dick shot ’em, but 1 don’t want to. I want to get back koine, but mebby I never will again;” and once more his tears flowed. “Where did you live?” “Oh, I lived down at Marion, in Illinois, and it just about killed me riding in that old freight car. nn’ 1 hurt my knee, an’ I'm cold and hain't had no breakfast, nor supper, neither 1 wish I’d never heard of Dick- I don't see how he got along so well and If I ever get home again and see my-itiy -my—ma—" but the thought of his mother was too much for him. "I don’t want to hunt Indians or bears or nothin’ nor rescue no maidens, an' I’m tired of that old thing!” and he pulled a rusty revolver' out of his pocket that hadn’t been fired for ten years and threw it across the track. “Please mister, get me something to eat an’ I’ll work ali day for you,” and he looked up pitifully and straightened his little cap oil his CHriy head. We took him along and he ate three or four meals in one, but even after that he didn’t sav a won! about exterminating the Indian. The next day a grave looking father arrived looking for a very homesick boy, and they went back to gether. So the government lost another scout but an anxious mother got buck a bov who will never run away again. Hia Second Wife. Charlotte W. Thurston, in Harper's Magazine for May. In silence she raises Her low drooping head To list while he praises The wife who Is dead; And ever he echoes the old refrain, "Oh! that wits life With such a wife. Poor Susan Amanda Matilda Jane?* 1 She never was idle, She never would tire; Her temper could bridle Ufcr servant* inspire. Am ever her virtues he gang agair* "No one could be, Hike her to me, Poor Susan Amanda Matilda Janc•.'. , She never spent money, \ Was ever content; ,-•? To have anew bonnet J Would never consent; Yet summer or winfer, or shine or rain, Would never stay From church away. His Susan Amanda Matilda Jane! Was never too early, Was never too late; Her dinner was ready, Or ready to wait. But ah! he never should see again With mortal eyes Such |ieerlesK pies— Poor Susan Amanda Matilda Jane! Conld sew on his buttons. Darn. back-stitch and hem, Each button a picture. Each darn was a gem, A vision of beauty, a pearl without stain! When she was there His woes to share, J- Poor Susan A immda Matilda Jan In silence she listens. Till sudden there lies An ember that glistens Peep down to her eyes. “To praise her yet furtlier to me Is vain; fin on*," tpietli she, " Hnaeets tike me , Poor Susan Amanda Mutiliki Jane:" ITEMS OF INTEREST. Two of the wealthiest Episcopal churches in New York, Grace and Trinity, have determined to make their pews free to the public. The longest continuous railway run now made is said to be that of the new Saratoga limited, from New- York to Troy (.148 miles) without stop. A mountain hat, 10 inches high and about a foot long, captured on the Island of Trinidad, has been added to the Central Park (N. Y.) menagerie. Tire skull of an Indian child, with a string of copper beads about the neck, was recently un earthed mi the beach at Ipswich, Mass. The teeth in the under jaw- were perfect. Whalers at New- Bedford, Mass., say that a result of the interstate commerce law will be a resort to the old method of bringing cargoes of oil and whalebone from San Francisco around Cape Horn. A party of young brutes at Belleville, Can., compelled a reformed drunkard to drink liquor, his old appetite overpowered him, he was ar rested, and died very soon after recovering from his debauch. A. S. Batchellor publishes a card in one of the Littleton, (N. H.), papers to the effect that if the party who borrowed the first volume of his six-volume history of Rome will send him his address he will give him the other five volumes, as "it seems a pity that the set should be broken.” At the opening of the church at Cannes, built in memory of the late Duke of Albany, the priest who read the lessons wore a moustache. The Prince of Wales, to whom he was introduced, observing the hirsute appendage to the clerical upper lip, suggested that the ornament should be removed. The suggestion was carried out. Here is an excellent example of the manner in which the British tax payer is looted on all sides. Two years ago the government paid $20,000 for huts and timber at Port Hamilton. Recently, on our abandoning that station, all these materials were sold to one Tab Lee, a Chinese merchant, for $250, including free de livery. The Martinez (Cal.) Item says: “Bob Lee’s black bear at Port Costa got loose Saturday and mode a break for the barber shop, seated himself in the chair, viewed his proportions hi the mirror at all angles, and then made a break for the barber’s bed and turned In for a nap. His slumbers were rudely disturbed, and he was returned to his den. While a man named Roger was washing linen on the Quai des Tuileries on Tuesday he fell into the river and was drowned. A pierman of a steamboat company jumped in to save him, and at the same time found another body, that of a man wearing the uniform of a bank messenger, which appeared to have been in the water for a week or two. A pew years ago, duriiig the construction of the Bar Harbor branch of the Maine Central railroad, on* of the bosses shot and killed an Italian laborer. He was arrested and a revolver was taken from him, but later he escaped from jail, and nothing was heard from him till the other day. when the officer who made the arrest received a letter from the shootest, dated in Canada, ask ug for the return of that revolver! The coal beds of China are five times as large as those of all Europe, while gold, silver, lead, tin, copper, iron, marble and petroleum are all found in the greatest abundance, Owing to the prejudice of the people the mines have never been worked to any extent, it being the popular belief in China that, if these mines are opened, thousands of demons and spirits imprisoned in the earth would come forth and fill the country with war and suffering. They never have any breach of promise cases in China. A future Chinese belle is not three days old before her parents have betrothed her to some acceptable scion of a neighbor's house. When she is old enough —and she does not have to be very old; if she were in England she would be still playing with her d<Ml—she goes to the home of her affianced and marries him. She weeps and wails all the way there, as if her idea of matrimony was not exactly a cheerful one. There is always mourning at a Chinese mar riage, while at a Chinese funeral there is always a band of music and rejoicing. I)r. Mary Walker is becoming übiquitous. She has some’niug of a law practice in Wash ing besides b- r practice as a doctor. In Buffalo she has a branch office and a partner, and in Oswes j she occasionally looks after a few pa tients. Besides, she has time tt> run around the country and drop in at Albany to see her old friend, Geti. Husted. Dr. Walker does not be lieve in half-way methods of dress reform. She thinks woman will never be properly recognized as the equal of man until she dons the garments of man without qualification or compromise. Her present apparel is some two years behind the fashionable requirements of the man about town. A REMARKABLE ILLUSTRATION Of the puzzling . migratory habits of the herring has just been observed on the southwest coast of Norway, at the so-called Jaederen, between the towns of Stavanger and Egorsund. This district used to be one of the richest herring-fishing grounds in Norway during the spring, but about tw enty five years ago the fish suddenly and completely disappeared from the coast. Last month enor mous shoals once more came under shore, first "striking land" at the same spot as in former times. The quality of the herring is exactly the same as it was twenty-five years ago, anil the shoals were accompanied by numerous "her ring” whales. A “redoute,” or masked ball, was given re cently at the Hotel Continental, in Paris, by the young men of the aristocratic clubs in compli meut to the fastest women of the theatrical world, and others no less fast who are not on the stage. A considerable number of ladies of quality got themselves invited, and kept on tneir masks all night. At 3 in the morning there was a farandole in which all went dancing off to the Francis I. gallery, where they supped in parties of ten. The cotillion was an opportun ity for presenting costly tokens to pretty dan senses. and danseurs availed themselves of it to do so. The great object of the young club men was to bring about a return to the sort of dissi pation which flourished under the empire. For some time there have been rumors of a revolutionary conspiracy widespread among the aristocracy of Russia, having for its object the removal of Czar Alexander 111. and the crown ing in his stead of the eldest son of Alexander 11. by his morganatic wife, the Princess Ilolgo rouki. Failing in that, the efforts would be cen tred on putting the young Dolgorouki in suc cession to the t zar instead of the present Czare vitch. the last named Prince being both an in valid and an imbecile. Young Dolgorouki is a lid of splendid character and attainments, who would at once give Russia a liberal constitu tional government. In the eyes of the people there is little or no blemish on his parentage. The Dolgorouki family is one of the oldest and noblest in Russia, its memliers having been great princes before the Romanoffs were heard of. The present Czar is a liolstein-Gottorp, far more German than Russian. A noon story Is told alien! an amiable gentle man who once represented this country at Lon don In the capacity of Consul General. It is not necessary to give his name, but it is sufficient to say that he was appointed by Gen. Grant. One of the members of ids family was a young snip of a boy just out of school. The Cohsul General desired to find gome employment for the youth aud not: wishing to give him a place in his own office had him attached to the American Lega tion at a nominal salary. In a little while the young Ilian began receiving social attentions from which the father wes disbarred. This con tinued until the boy knew everybody in London worth knowing, while the father, so far as social distinction went, wns a practical nonentity. Finally the Consul General iiecaifte so annoyed about it that lie removed his son from the lega tion and sent him liack to the United States He said it was more than he could stand to sup port the youngster and then to lie snublied hi turn by the very people whose acquaintance the boy hau made through his generosity and In fluence. Odessa papers report that in the village of Obodny, in the Government of Podolia, a peas ant, reputed to be very wealthy and to have money hoarded in his house, rseeived a visit lately from throe venerable looking men, dressed in garments of a somewhat clerical fashion, who informed him that they were Christ and the Apostles Peter and Paul. The sham Christ said to him; "I have given you great wealth, but you have omitted to exercise Charity, so I have come to reckon with you Give me your money.” The terrified peusant fell on his knees, begged for mercy, and gave over ,v*l sliver roubles, declaring It was alfthe money he had ill the house. 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