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MONDAY, MAY lfi. 188 7.'
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Meetings— Railroad Loan Association; Clin
ton Lodge No. 54, F. &A. M.; Tattnall Council
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Special Notice —Closing cf Shoe Stores at 7
o'clock p. m.
Mammoth Millinery House—S. Krouskoff.
Steamship Schedule —Ocean Steamship Cos.;
General Transatlantic Cos.
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Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Lost;
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Legal Notices—Petitions for Incorporation
of Tybee Beach Company; Harmonie Club of
Savannah.
Washington hotel keepers are softly smil
ing. The time for the national drill to be
gin is near at hand.
Mr. Blaine has been ominously silent for
more than a week. Something dreadful is
in store for the country.
The man condemned to death, whose case
has been apixialod to the Supreme Court,
never objects to the law’s delays.
The American eagle is the only bird that
is respected in all parte of the world—that
is, of course, when it is on an American dol
lar.
The school children of Pittsburg have
struck for shorter hours. Their parents
and teachers ought to strike for better dis
cipline.
In Camden, N. J., donkey parties are the
rage. Down South such jiarties are gener
ally confined to the towns in which the Leg
islatures meet.
The Hon. J. Warren Keifer has been re
stored to the grave of obscurity, and it is
pot probable tlmt he will again be disturbed
by body-snatchers.
Texas expects during the present year to
lay a thousand miles of railroad track.
Texas is ’way down South, but it means to
keep up with the march of progress.
The Mexicans want to whip the United
States. The quickest way to do it would be
to bring the United States under the influ
ence of the famous City of Mexico Jockey
Club.
Henry Ward Beecher didn't like palmis
try. He once wrote: “My father used to
practice palmistry, but under afflictive cir
cumstances which disgusted me early with
this science applied.”
Georgia plays on important part in the
legislation of every State in the Union. The
Georgia peanut is eaten by the members of
all the Legislatures. Without its inspiring
aid laws would doubtless cease to lie made.
The Chicago variety of walking delegate
is not different from other varieties. Those
who ordered the strike in the Lake City last
week rode in street cars to their various ap
pointments. The men that struck paid the
fares.
Life says that “Henry George is the first
man we ever met that doesn’t want the
earth. He only wants what is on it.” There
are indications that he doesn't want that, if
he has to work for it.
It is exjiected that the new United States
Treasurer Hyatt will file his bond and take
possession of his office this week. Mr. Hyatt
has a good record as a bank examiner, and
is backed by some of the staunchest Demo
crats of New England.
The New York Times' expedition to
Alaska doesn't seem to have resulted in ob
taining much information about the geogra
phy of that country. In Washingoon in
ftyirics were recently made ns to whether
Alaska was surrounded by water or land.
Menator John Sherman has accepted an
invitatiou to address the Republican mem
bers of tlie Illinois Legislature on national
politics. The time fixed is June 1. The
Senator is solid with the Ohio Republicans,
and the outlook is that he will soon be solid
with those of Illinois.
In Western lowa, last week, a bank
ca shier stoic SIO,OOO and fled. In a note he
left behind he explained that his downfall
■was due to f the interstate commerce law.
The directors of the bank think of suing
Senator Culiom in order to get even.
The trial of the alleged briber of the
boodler Aldermen of New York, Jacob
Bliarpe, will, it is expected, begin in that
city to-day. He is not anxious to be tried,
but the prosecuting attorney thinks he hat,
waited for him to get ready for- trial about
long enough.
The country doesn't manifest much entlrii
eiam over the suggestion of a Southern man
for Vice President. The truth is, the subject
is an mi interesting one. Perhaps in ten
years a Southern man may be nominated
for President and then the enthusiasm will
be unbounded.
Mrs. Mcßride, of New York, who is try
ing to got a divorce, says that her husband
abused ber on the very day they were
married. Commenting on the fact, on ex
change makes the bullish suggestion that if
he had abused her the day before she
wouldn’t have married him.
Joseph Howard, Jr., has finished his life
of Henry Ward Beecher. It makes a vol
ume of (151 pages. Howard dictated to a
stenographer three hoars a day, three days
a week, for three weeks. The rapidity with
_ which the life was written was almost equal
to making biography by electricity-
Points About Petroleum.
Anew oil field is about to be opened. It
is in Burmah, the country lately acquired
by England in India. The oil field is located
on the Irawady river, less than a hundred
miles from the terminus of the Rangoon rail
way. Oil lias also been discovered in Assam
and in a couple of islands off Burmah’s
coast. A geologist who has inspected these
new oil fields expresses the opinion that they
are capable of producing enough oil to sup
ply the world for the next half century.
The existence of oil in Burmah has been
known for a century or more, but its value
was unknown by the natives. It is proba
ble that England will now become the com
petitor of this country and Russia in the
markets of the world as an oil producer. In
the markets ol India, Australia and some
other countries she will have ad
vantages over her competitors, and
in a few years, perhaps, will
have a monopoly of those markets. The
Russian wells at Baku arc wonderful pro
ducers. It is only alxmt twelve years since
they were opened, but in that period they
have yielded many millions of barrels of oil.
One has produced 1,800,000 barrels and
twenty-two 7,(500,000 barrels. The average
depth of the wells is about 500 feet, the
shallowest being about 200, and the deepest
about 1,000 feet.
Baku is a walled city and formerly be
longed to Persia. For many years, how
ever, it has been under the jurisdiction of
Russia. It is located on the Eastern shore
of the Caspian sea, and is nearly (500 miles
from Batoum, on the Black sea. The wells
are eight miles north of Baku where the re
fining is done, and to which the oil is con
veyed in pipes. The territory in which
they are located is desolate. The wells do
not occupy more than four miles square, but
it is believed that there is an immense
region that will produce oil and
only awaits development. There is a
proposition to run a pipe from Baku to
Batoum to save the heavy railroad freight.
The cost would lie about $8,000,000, but
capitalist* are afraid to invest in it. They
do not feel certain that the wells will bo per
manent.
The oil of neither the Russian nor the Bur
mah wells is as valuable as that found in
this country. From 100 gallons of crude
Pennsylvania oil 75 gallons of refined oil are
obtained, while from the same amount
of crude Russian oil only 30 gallons
are secured. The Burmah oil is not so good
as the Russian. v The American oil, there
fore, may be able to hold its place in the
markets of the world unless a change in the
kerosene lamp is made.' The Yankee now
makes the lamp for the world and it is in
tended for the high grade American oil. A
lamp could be made, though it would not be
so convenient, to burn a low grade oil.
The light would be just as good
but the lamp would lie open to several
objections. If a lamp of that sort were in
troduced the refiners of the Burmah and
Russian oils would be able to realize (50
instead of 30 gallons of oil from 100
gallons of the crude material. It is
not improbable that within the next few
years there will be some very marked
changes in the petroleum business owing to
England’s entrance into it as an oil pro
ducer.
Immigration to the South.
The question of immigration continues to
excite interest in Georgia, due, no doubt, to
the attention which the press is giving to
the subject. The suggestions which the
Morning News has made regarding the
proper way to induce immigration to the
Htate have caused considerable comment,
most of it of a commendatory nature.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun calls atten
tion to the fact that within the last fifteen
years 5,421,000 immigrants havo sought
homes in the United States, the greatest
number being Germans and the next great
est being Irish. The number of English and
Scandinavians is also large. These, with
their descendants, the Enquirer-Sun thinks,
must now number about 12,000,000, or one
fifth of the population of the country.
Compared with other sections the South
has received but little benefit from this im
migration, a fact which the Enquirer-Sun
seems to think is not to bo regretted. The
Mousing News is of tho opposite opinion.
The growth ami prosperity of other soctions
is largely due to immigration, and however
rapid the South’s development may have
been within the last few years, it can never
lie as rapid as it should be until a large part
of tho immigrants come in this direction.
The Enquirer-Sun doubts tho advisability
of encouraging any but Germans and Irish
to come South. These two classes are among
those that the Morning News regards as
desirable, but why shouldn’t the English and
Scotch be welcomed also? It is not often that
immigrants of the four nationalities men
tioned become paupers and consequently
burdens upon the States in which they set
tle. On the contrary, the vast majority
add strength to the communities in which
they find homes, and in the course of a few
years they become so thoroughly American
ized that they deservedly rank among the
better classes of citizens.
There are those who think that this coun
try has hail enough immigration. It is
certainly true that the country would be
better off if certain foreign elements had
been denied citizenship. It is not likely,
however, that this government will take
any stejis to check immigration, and as long
as this is true the South ought to share in
whatever lienefite flow from immigration.
The Chicago Tribune, says that a photog
rapher of that city became much interested
in the subject of composite photograph} - , as
illustrated in the March Century. A few
days ago he took a negative of a Chinese
idol, by way of experiment, and by succes
sively super-imposing thereupon the nega
tives of a rhinoceros, a donkey, a King
Charles spaniel, a pelican, a gorilla, a Flat
head Indian and a Dutch cheese he secured
a pretty fair photograph of a Mfigmump.
It is such little pleasantries as this that serve
to make good Democrats out of tho Mug
wumps. _____
Rhode Island will inaugurate her Demo
cratic Governor on the last Tuesday in this
month. It is proposed to make the occasion
a grand one. President Cleveland and his
Cabinet have been invited to be present,
and distinguished Democrats from all parts
of the country have also been invited.
Rhode Island may well afford to rejoice,
and it is to Is- hoped that all those that liavo
been invited will be present to rejoice with
her.
General Master Workman Powderly has
issued an official circular addressed to the
' Knights of iMibor in all parte of the Lniterl
States recommending that they celebrate
the Fourth of July this year in honor of the
foundation of the republic. He also enjoins
the Knights to use only one flag—the stars
and stripes. All right, score oue in the
i General Master Workman's favor.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MAY 16, 1887.
Tho State Fair.
Macon is 1 tending all her energies to make
the approaching State Fair a success. She
ought to have the co-operation of ail Geor
gia, if there is a well-settled determination
to make the fair a jiermanent institution.
Several counties havo announced their in
tention to coiiqiete for the prize offered for
the best comity display, and most of the
towns and cities are also preparing exhibits.
The State Agricultural Society has ceased
to be a political machine, and is now di
rected by gentlemen whose sole purpose is
to make it a means of accomplishing good
for the fanners. The committees that have
charge of the various departments of the
fair are composed of enthusiastic farmers,
and their plans liave been so well prepared
that there is no doubt of their being success
fully canned out. Tiie Commissioner of
Agriculture, lion. J. T. Henderson, who is
interested in ail agricultural matters, will
no doubt lend valuable aid.
The section of tho State w r hich is immedi
ately tributary to Savannah ought not to
neglect the opportunity which the fair will
afford of making known the advantages
peculiar to the timber region. It is under
stood that extraordinary efforts will be
made to bring representative citizens of
Northern and Western States to Macon
while the fair is in progress, and they ought
to be given an adequate idea of the the
timlier resources of South Georgia. Mobile
is preparing to build ships. The country
around Savannah alxiunds in material suit
able for shipbuilding, and a proper exhibit
at the fair may draw attention to it.
The timlier interest, however, is not tho
only one that should be represented. South
Georgia is an importanrttgrieulturalregion,
and the a; r'cultural interest should by all
means be represented. Through Savan
nah all the principal markets of
the world are easily reached, and
a complete exhibit of the agricultural
products of South Georgia, together with a
proper explanation of Savannah’s advan
tages as a port of exiiorts could not fail to
make a favorable impression upon the
Northern and Western visitors to the fair.
When the immigrant is invited to settle in
a particular section of the country he natu
rally asks: “What inducements do you of
fer?” The State Fair will afford a fine op
portunity for answering tills question as far
as the region around Savannah is concerned,
ami the opportunity ought to be utilized.
Happy Valdosta.
Valdosta, the metropolis of the
wire-grass section of Georgia, is
contented in her prosperity. Her
merchants are satisfied with their business
for this season of the year, and regard their
prospects for the coining season as very
bright. Their prosperity is mainly due to
the cultivation of sea island cotton by far
mers who make Valdosta their market,
but their energy and push con
tribute ’a great deal to their success. It
is expected that one or more of the new
railroads which are being projected from
the upper part of the State toward tho
Florida line will touch Valdosta, but if they
do not there will be no great disappointment,
as every citizen apparently is friendly to the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway,
and has nothing but praise for its manage
ment. There appears to boa feeling that
the interests of the town will never
suffer at its bands. Valdosta not
only has enterprising lAerchante
and able professional men, but she has first
class hotels, and one of the best conducted,
well edited newspapers (the Valsosta
Times) in the State. One of Valdosta's
gifted orators, at the late press banquet, iu
speaking of the prosperity of the town, said
that to no one was more credit due for it
than to Capt. C. R. the editor of
the Times.
Another citizen of the United States
languishes in a Mexican jail. His name is
J. D. Garcia. Ho writes from Sahnasipa
that on the third Sunday in April he was
asked by the Prefect of the district to vote
for him in an election then being held.
Garcia refused on the ground that he was a
citizen of the United States, and the Prefect
at once sent him to jail, where he has been
ever since, with just food enough to prevent
starvation. Secretary Bayard should send
down another special envoy.
Vlginians are discussing a rumor to the
effect that the British bondholders of the
State will give ex-Senntor Mahone the
money with which to elect a Legislature
next year. In return he Is to sec that the
Legislature passes a bill that Anil divert
money now given to the public school
fund ami the “maimed Confederate”
fund to pay the bondholders what they
demand. The scheme is a very nice one, but
the Virginians are not likely to let it suc
ceed.
Some of the Republican organs are of
fended lx 'cause Mr. Jefferson Davis sug
gested, the other day, that if the Union is
ever divided again the Southern people
should take no part in bringing about the
event. The organs regard the suggestion ns
evidence that Mr. Davis has been recon
structed, and they are angry because they
lun-e lost an Issue. They now have but one
left—Gen. Rosser's attack on Gen. Sheridan
—and that is likely soon to wear out.
Henry Ward Beecher’s body still lies in
the receiving vault at. Green aa oml Cemetery,
Brooklyn. Recently the authorities of the
cemetery were informed that an attempt
Avould be made to steal the body. Two po
lieenion Avere nt once detailed as a special
guard at the receiving vault to assist the
regular watchmen to keep off vandals. In
the next few days the body will bo interred
in the Beecher lot, which is in the south
eastern part of the cemetery.
An Atlanta man, avlio boards nt the Kim
ball House, stopped a reporter the other day
and inquired: “Who is this fellow Comity
that the Governors of Georgy and South
Caroliny are kickin’ up such a row about f”
The reporter said that Comity AA-as a leading
Prohibitionist “Is that so?’ exclaimed the
Atlanta man. “Well, I’vo always said the
Prohibitionists would git Georgy into a
row!”
If the Gate City Guard’s proposed Euro
jx>an tour was intended to give the company
notoriety, success has been the'result The
pawl's all over the country arc printing
funny things about Queen Victoria's refusal
to allow the warriors to land in England.
There is a whisper in Atlanta that if tlio
Guard doesn’t compromise on an excursion
to Big Shanty it will disltand.
There are men whose souls are so full of
music that they are charmed by every sweet
sound. They can never know, however,
what it is to be entranced by a sweet sound
Aintil they bear a member of the Salva
tion Army play “Hold the Port” on a con
certina, while another member pounds an
, obligato ou a bate drum. |
CURRENT COMMENT.
Coleman, of California.
From the Philadelphia Press IRcpt
The Presidential boom of William T.K'olenrin,
of Calif' irain, is gradually working its way
Eastward. So far it has found the walking very
fair.
It Is a Pity.
From the PliiladelplHa Times tied.)
The labor war in Chicago promises to suspend
ali building operations in that city for an indefi
nite period. The contest, if long continued,
cannot fail to Is; disastrous to all concerned, in
cluding not only workmen and employers, but
every business man in the city. It is a great
pity that so much time and money must Iw
thrown away nowadays in these wasteful aud
destructive contests between capital and labor.
One Will Be in the Field.
From the Boston Herald (Ind.)
Some of the papers are discussing as to
whether there wili Ia labor candidate for
President iu the field next year. We venture a
confident guess tlmt there will be. It is not at
all sure that there will be a popular call for such
nominee: but the same parties that were smart
enough to put Gen. Butler into the canvass in
IMS4 will be equal to the coming exigency, and
will be equal to paying the bills for it, too.
One Way to Abolish Poverty.
From the New York Wot Id (Item.)
- Near the little town of Rising Star, in East
man county, Tex. a curious secret society lias
been organized. The object of the order is to
suppress idleness and make everylwxiy work.
When mi able-bodied man is found to be habit
ually idle he is warned by a committee to go to
work or leave the community This society is
said to have converted the southern pari of
Eastman county into a perfect lilvo of industry.
It is an unlawful organization, liut it seems to
be fining some good in the world. One way to
aliolish poverty is to abolish idleness.
BRIGHT BITS.
The proof reader's wife was the girl who first
ran a tyi>e Tighter.— Boston Commarial Bulle
tin
“Why, Esther! What have you done with the
rest of it, anyway* I gave you a SSO bill, and
you have bought the bonnet for $27.”
‘Gly tlear boy. how am Ito know? You know
I never can count change.”— Town Topics.
Teacher—Now we have had the Stone Age,
the Brow n Age, anil so on. Who can tell me
wuat the present age is? Johnny Harris, you
are holding up your hand. You can tell me.
johnny (who reads the papers)—'The age of
steal ma’ra.— Pittsburg Chronicle.
Omaha Doctor—Ah, little one. tell your
mother I have come to vaccinate the baby.
Refined Child—l’m afraid you can’t see baby
now. Mamma is giving him a bath.
“That won t matter. Jt won’t take but a min
ute.”
“Y'es, but he’s entirely decollete.”— Omaha
World.
About this time the country aunts and cous
ins begin to receive affectionate and highly per
fumed letters from their city relatives, who have
been too busy to write all’ winter. They want
to know if the farmer man has planted any of
“those nice fresh eggs we had last summer,”
aud if the dear old cow has liegun to set on the
fresh butter.— Springfield Union.
Little Eddie, 3 years old, had an attack of
croup one night. The next evening, when he
kneeled down to say his prayers, his mamma
told him he must thank Goa for making him
well. So he said, “I thank thee, O God, for
making me well, but my nose goes this way
vet"- here he sniffed several times to show that
he still had a cold in his head .—Babyhood.
On the Avenue— “ Been to the Brunswick?”
“Yaa^i.”
“See coach awf?"
“Yaas.”
“Jolly pawty, hay?”
“So, so. But theah wasn’t a heliotwope scawf
among all the men. Pon honaw, thali wasn’t.”
"Gad! I'm glad I didn't book faw the twip."
—Town Topics.
“I see, pa," said a young Hartford hopeful,
“that a member of Parliament the other day
said ‘the honorable gentleman is a liar.’ ” “And
very properly, too,” was the patronizing reply.
"Now, now can ‘an honorable gentleman’ be’a
liar?”
“Simplest thing in the world. Now, I'm an
honorable gentleman—”
“Hold on, pa. Your logic will trip you up if
you're not careful.”— Hartford Post.
Teacher—With whom did Archilles fight at
Troy;
Boy—With Pluto.
1 "Wrong.”
‘‘With Nero.”
- “Wrong.”
“Then it Avas Hector,"
"What made you think of Pluto and Nero?"
“Oh. I knew it Avas one of our dogs. Their
names are Pluto, Nero and Hector.— Frankfurter
Zeitung. ,
The train hands on the Boston and Maine,
when a train is entering the Boston depot, call:
“Boston: this train goes no further.” This is a
thoughtful provision that prevents passengers
being carried by Boston. That it is not uncalled
for is shown by an incident that happened the
other day when an elderly traveler asked of the
conductor, in apparent good faith: "Does this
tram stop at Boston?” The conductor said it
did when they had passengers for that station.
—Boston Transcript.
“I aai going to starta magazine in the South,"
said a shrewd speculator.
“Do you think that it Avill pay?" someone
asked.
“Pay? Why, it can't help hut pay. You see,
I Avill make it pay by selling out.”
“But will any one buy you out?”
“Of course. All I have to do is to publish a
few Avar articles, then the proprietors of the
Eastern magazines will offer me a fair price for
my establishment, oh, I tell you, there is
money in It." —Arkansaw Traveler.
PERSONAL.
Elia Wheeler Wilcox hopes to publish a
new volume of poems in the fall.
Rider Haggard has received but £lB from the
sale of his books in this country, so he says.
Don Carlos has gone to Brazil with a suite
consisting of two servants and an interpreter.
Dr. Coma is his nom du A-oyage.
Lady Lyttos’s ciraa'e in Shirley ChurchA'ard
is an unmarked grassy mound. Friends have
recently purchased the adjoining plot and
erected thereon a monument to her memory.
The Duke of Norfolk, avlio so recently lost
his young wife, is already Icing regarded with
longing eyes by every British matron of high
degree possessed of a marriageable daughter.
Gov. Daa’is. of Rhode Island, has appointed
his staff officers. There svere thirty appli
cants for the six positions. Darius li. Davis,
a brother of the Governor, is one of the appoin
tees.
The late Rev. Dr. J. 11. McFcrrin. of Nashville.
Tenn.. Itook agent of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, was in the ministry more than
sixty years, and was also for eighteen years an
editor.
Mr. Hyatt is th second United Stales Treas
urer from Connecticut within a few years,
•lames Gilflllan, who was Treasurer under the
late President Garfield, was a native of Con
nect icut.
Georoe Alfred Townsend, who has just com
pleted a charming country home in the moun
tains of Virginia, Avill taken little relaxation in
Europe this summer. He expects to sail some
time in June.
John W. Mack ay says in San Francisco that
Mrs. Mackay is sujxwvising the education of her
two sons and their schooling will not be com
pleted in a time short of three years. She is
very Avell satisfied with her residence abroad.
3, Ahmoy Knox, of Texas Siftings, who is
commonly called Armory because he carries two
revolver* anti a bowk knife, in the ablest coin
matcher in the country since John T. Raymond
died. He has a lucky quarter with which he has
won over S3OO this month.
While Kapiolani is in Boßton looking at the
Institutions and people of the New England
capital, a young New Englander is at work
under her very rooftree, making her palace
more pleasant than ever bv putting electric
light into the mansion. The youug man is W.
O. Faulkner, formerly of Lyun.
The time Is near at hand when James
O'Rourke, catcher on tlio New York League
nine, will present himself nt the Vale Law
School to stand examination for the dogive of
LL. B. O'Rourke is said to be rather uncertain
as to his success, and may have to wait another
year for the desired parchment.
Poor Mr. Raskin! ill an advanced English
school tlie question wns asked in examination,
"What do you know of John Ruskin?" One re
plied that lie was lately Prime Minister, an
other that be was editor of Punch, and a third
that he Avas a gentleman tvho tvrote for the pa
pers and ust-d lia l language.
Diplomatic circlkh in Washington are gos
siping about v hut i- suiil to be a slight to lYuice
Leopold of Germany by tbe United States gov
ernment, Tlie Prince did not go to Washington
as he had Intended, and it is said that the eatise
of his change of plan lay in the fact that the
government took no notice of his presence in
this country. After the jubilee reception given
to Queen Kapiolani the neglect shown by the
'government to Leopold seems especially pe
culiar.
AN IDYL OF THE WAR.
The Heroism of the Wife of Gen. George
'E. Pickett.
From Washington letter to the Baltimore
American.
The recent recovery, in this city, from a severe
illness of the widow of the late Gen. George E.
Pickett, recalls one of the most interesting
stories that comes hack to us from the war. Its
chief interest is her unflagging devotion to her
husband in allthehoursof his hardship and dan
ger. Privation, sickness or suffering of any
kind only served to bring out more beaut ifully
her heroic and womanly nature. During the
closing year of the war site followed him cn the
battlefields, lived under canvas, and went
through camp life like a soldier, being rejieat
edly under lire and making narrow escapes, yet
still remaining faithfully by his side. When site
married him she was but 15 years of age, beauti
ful in face and form, gifted in intellect and gen
tle in nature. She was, too, a petrfect and fear
less rider. When the war was over an effort
was made to take from Gen. Pickett the
privileges given hint- by the Grant-Lee
cartel, and they went to (iVmada. There they had
no friends, no money, and no prospect of
either, with a young child to care for. But her
bravo nature never faltered. With that indom
itable courage which never deserted her, and
aided by her superior education, she obtained a
professorship in belles-lettres, and took care of
the family until Gen. Grant insisted that the
cartel should lie kept, and they once more re
turned totbeir home. Gen. Grant then tendered
(ien. Pickett the position of Marshal of Virgin
ia, but he accepted a position in an insurance
company, with a handsome salary attached,
Though all, then, seemed bright, the worst sor
row was yet to come. In a lew years Ger . Pic
kett died, and she was left to her own resources.
It was then that her heipless condition aroused
tbe sympathy of the South, and a subscription
was stai ted for lier, headed with $3,000 by one
State. Stic firmly declined to receive this, upon
hearing of it. anil shortly afterwards secured
a small government position, sufficient to sup
port herself and family. Among her friends
and visitors hero arc : mne of the leading society
and official people, whom she occasionally en
tertains in a modest but dignified way.
CAN SIZE A MAN UP. *
President Cleveland’s Method in Mak
ing Appointments.
From Washington Inciter to the Boston Post.
Appointment Clerk Hassler, of the Interior
Denrtment, talking about the newspaper stories
In regard to President Cleveland’s desire for a
re nomination, said to-day: There is one thing
that can be set down as absolutely certain about
the whole business, aud that is the fact that
Cleveland is not trying in the matter of appoint
ments to “fix” himself for renomination in the
political sense. He does not appoint a man be
cause he is a ward politician, who can Ire de
pended upon to vote for him at the next elec
tion in return for liis appointment. The main
idea in all the appoint ments which Cleveland has
made has been to secure an honest man who
will be capable in the best sense of the word to
fill the position for which he is chosen. Cleve
land is a great man for seeing the men he thinks
of appointing before committing himself,
for he says he can "size a man up" much better
by a few minutes’ talk with him ilian he can by
a whole pile of recommendations. He, how
ever. d6es not throw aside the letters and in
dorsements which are filed with the papers of
applicants, but no matter how many of them
there are, he examines each one carefully, and
sometimes spends a whole day in picking out
the best. Then he will go through the list of
indorsers and examine their characters, so that
it is a matter of considerable time to decide
upon every single appointment. That he does
not shirk his work is shown by a very significant
fact. This administration has been iti office u
little over two years, and during all that time
not one of the persons appointed by the Presi
dent has been found deficient, dishonest, or In
any way has brought scandal uj >' in the adminis
tration. That is a record which cannot be
lieaten or even approached by any previous ad
ministration.
Advice to a Young Man.
Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
My boy, when you meet a good hearted, genial
fellow, open-handed and generous, who spends
money freely when he has it, who "doesn’t know
the value of money,” who only esteems it for
the good it can do, who believes in the lively
shilling, aud always does his best to make if
lively, who can’t hoard up money for the life of
him, who gets it and spends it, and then gets
more to spend, so that all of us may get a little
of it, who doesn't put down every cent he lets a
friend have, as though he was a money lender,
who, if he has only $1 in the world let you have
90c. of it if you ask for it; a good, whole-souled,
generous fellow, who knows no more and cares
no more about money than a pig does about
Greek, and he is ' a little hard up,
and wants to borrow $lO of you for
a few days—my troy, don't you lend him a
cent; don’t lend him a cent. Eh? Do I want you
to be mean, close fisted, stingy, weighing all
friendship and good fellowship on the scales of
the money lender? Oh no, my hoy, I didn't say
anything of the kind. I said, and repeat it,
“don’t lend him a cent.” I don't want you to
be mean, 1 only want you to be business-like.
Give him $lO, if you have it to subscribe and feel
like it: give him what money you can spare, and
your heart and head justify you in giving, but
never lend that kind of a man a dollar. Only
lend money where there is at least a remote pos
sibility of its being paid hack. That's all. You
may go, now. By the way, I took care of that
note of Jack Merrihart's that you didn't tell me
anything about; it's all right now. only don't
lend Jack any more than you can afford to give
him. A man who has no Idea of the value of
his own money has just as little comprehension
of the value of yours.
The Wretched Wren’s Wild Wail.
From the Audubon Magazine.
The following: charming story comes to us
from Warner, 111.: “Close to my office window,
a.i I write this. I see a wren's nest. Three years
ago I drove some nails in a sheltered corner; a
pair of wren's built their nest there. The old
birds often come into my office and sing. One
of them lias repeatedly alighted on my desk as
I have been writing, saying plainly by his ac
tions; ‘You wmi’t hurt me. We are friends.’
A few years since, in a knothole in a dead tree,
near a path from my office to my house, lived a
family of wrens, with whom I had formed a
very’ intimate acquaintance. One day while I
was passing in a hurry 1 heard the two old birds
uttering cri<*s of fear and anger, and as 1 got
past the tree one of the wrens followed me, and
by its peculiar motions and uries induced me to
turn Imek.
*T examined the nest and found the young
birds all right; looked into the tree's branches,
but saw no enemies there, and started away.
Both lards then followed me with renewed cries,
and when 1 was a few yards away they (lew in
front of me, fluttered a moment and then darted
back to the tree. Then one of them came back
to me fluttering and cryifig, then darted from
me near to the ground under the tree. I looked
and there lay a rattlesnake, coiled ready to
strike. I secured t stick and killed him. the
wrens looking on from the tree, and the moment
I did so they changed their song to a lively,
happy one, seeming to say ’Thank you’.' in every
note. W. W. W.”
Maying Time.
From the Boston Budget.
Backward goes my memory straying
To the merry, sunny past.
To the day we went a-Jlaying—
Days whose brightness could not last;
Well the joy do 1 remember
Of that May-day long ago,
Hecllection keeps an ember
Of th'Hileasure still aglow.
Twenty years have told their story,
Brought their gladness and their pain,
And to-day the old-time glory
Beams upon the nilml again;
Called by mem'ry's hock'ulng finger.
Backward down life's path 1 tread,
And again raid scenes I linger
Known in days long past and dead.
Foolish dream I We're somewhat old;
Earth is older, too. we know;
Climates change and blood grows colder
After twenty years or so;
Ne'ertbeless, I'm off a-Maying—
limit the fields for flowers: -Oh, no!
To the florist's shop I'm straying,„■
There's, now, where the May flowers grow.
A Slight Confusion.
From Ihe Detroit Free Prrxa.
“Boss. Ize a bit confused "bout suthin',” said
one of the negro whitewash*rs nt the market to
Detective Webb the other day.
"Well, what is it?”
"Wliat does per annum meant”
"Per year, of course.”
“.V hull yiir!”
"Ye;:."
“Can’t be no mistake V
“No, sir.”
“If I horry ?a of Abraham Johnson an’ agree
to pay ofta. per annum dat means 20c. a y’ar
does it?"
“It does."
"Hul Car’s gwlne to be do biggest row in
Kaintuck to-night you eher heuru * *P of "
"Atxnit what?”
“About dat tier annum. I borryed f t of de
pusson tneushunod at tf) per cent, pcrltnnum.
an’ fur de Ins' fo'teen mouth he’s bln collecting
Stic, a week as regular as a clock. Stuck right
to it, he did, dat per annum meant ebery Satur
day ulgbt. law : but when I gits dose paws on
him won’t per umium lake a flop ! ”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A French art joras.u. states that there are
in France alone 22.357 painter-, acid that of that
number kDJOO have had opportunities of dis
playing their works at exhibitions.
Oscar B. Faknum, of Boston, tired of life, took
a big dose of laudanum, tied his necktie tightly
around his throat, hung himself thereby to the
chandeli-a*, turned on the gas and tried to da*.
The necktie broke, the poison didn't work, he
was discovered before the gas killed him, and at
last accounts was alive.
An Athenian newspaper relates that a mer
chant named Kosts Staggos, 100 years of age,
recently undertook a two days' journey on horse
back in order to see his old home once more. He
owes his health to the pure water and air tor
which his present home, Kissiora, which lies m
a high, mountainous region, is famous.
Col. Richard M. Hoe collected a fine library
upon the subject of the history of printing, in
cluding in it all the medals that could be found
that had been struck in commemoration of the
art, over 130 in number. Col. Hoe talked of
giving this library to the public, but he died
without making any detailed plan, and now the
books, etc., will be sold at auction.
West Virginia can qoyv boast of having the
two youngest members of the Senate. Senator
Kernut was born in 1848, and is consequently
less than 10 years of age, and Senator-elect
Faulkner first saw light about the year 1846.
The only other Senator who might be classed
with these two in youth is Spooner, of Wiscon
sin, who was born in Lawrenceburg, lad., in
1843.
New York business signs present some curious
coincidences. Taylor & Cutter is a clothing firm
in the Bowery. A dealer in curled hair is named
Willcome. A Bleeker street sign reads, “I. Gcd
love.” Of metropolitan milk dealers, one is
Well and another Water. Currie & Rice do
business together. Manhelp is a name on a
sign next to one bearing the name of Godlove on
Broadway.
Last February- William Brown, of Somerset,
N Y., asked Eleanor Pierce to marry him, and
when she refused shot her. When- the girl re
covered from the wound she visited him in jail
and offered to lie his wife as soon as he could lie
released, ami Tuesday she went into court aud
pleaded for his pardon. Luckily the judge hail
not a tender heart, and sentenced the man to the
penitentiary.
Amono the attractions of the convict settle
ment of Noumea is an orchestra which is said
to be the best in Oceania. It is composed of 120
instrumentalists and is conducted by a former
musician of the Paris Opera, who is under a life
sentence to hard labor for murder. On Sundays
and Thursdays this baud plays for three hours
on the public square before an assemblage of
the authorities and principal tradesmen.
Yesterday morning, says a Vienna dispatch
to the London -Vet rs, Kreitter, the mendicant
who stabbed a gentleman close to St. Stephen's
last November, because he refused to give him
alms, was hanged. He showed great stoicism
to the last and burst out laughing while the rope
was put around his neck. His last request was
for a pair of new boots, as he did not like to ap
pear in shabby attire before the uistinguished
public that would witness his death.
Ex-Senator Tabor, of Colorado, the million
aire mine owner, has just built anew opera
house in Leadville, meant to be finer then the
one in Denver. A few days ago Tabor employed
an artist to fresco the wails, While tie >vas at
work on a portrait of Shakespeare. Tabor en
tered the building and asked who it was the
artist was painting. “Shakespeare” was the
reply. “Who is he?” "The greatest dramatist,
poet, etc.. that over lived.” "Ever done any
thing for Leadville?" “No; I think not," replied
the artist, sadly. “Then paint him right out
and put me in."
It is said that a syndicate of capitalists have
secured the right to introduce the telephone into
China. They don't know what trouble they are
bringing on themselves. In the Chinese
language delicate shades of meaning are given
to the same word by a very- slight inflection of
the voice, and it is doubtful if the telephone will
register or convey these inflections. If, for in
stance, a Chinese merchant wanted to have a
lunch sent into his place of business, and gave
the appropriate order '‘Wang wang” through
the telephone, it would very seriously disturb
his equanimity if the telephone people thought
that he ordered a large and ferocious bull pup.
Referring to the statement that he had called
Mr. Pitt England’s greatest peace Minister, and
yet was now drumming out of his ranks all who
would not combine with him in talking of the
blackguardism and baseness of Mr. Pitt, Mr.
Gladstone writes: “I think that Mr. Pitt was,
and promised to be, our greatest peace Minister,
but Mr. Goldwin Smith has well said there are two
Mr. Pitts beside Lord Chatham. I have never
praised the Mr. Pitt of 1752-1806. In condemna
tion of the proceedings which were used to
bring about the Union, I once used the word
blackguardism in a private letter, but I did not
apply it to Mr. Pitt. To divide and bring home
the responsibility to persons, as I showed thirty
six years ago about the King of Naples, is be
yond my power or duty.”
The forthcoming report of the Department of
Agriculture on the English sparrow will be a
very interesting document. It will contain
about 400 printed pages, in which will appear
the experiences of about 3.200 people with this
destructive biped. Dr. Merriam. the ornitho
logist of the department, who has charge of the
preparation of the report, says that the indict
ment against the sparrow is a terrible one, and
it has scarcely a friend in the whole country.
Farmers who devote their time to the cultiva
tion of grain report t’.ia; the sparrows, wherever
they are thick, do frightful uemage to cereals.
Market gardeners and the raisers of small fruit
in the vicinity of cities say that since sparrows
began to multiply the profits of market garden
ing have almost vanished.
It is proposed to have at the Paris Exposition
of 1889 a captive balloon of the enormous vol
ume of 60,000 cubic metres. The maximum alti
tude for the ascensions will be 1,000 metres, and
it will be possible to take 100 passengers, a wind
ing engine of 600 horse power being employed.
In the construction of this balloon, the follow
ing point is of some interest: The surface of the
balloon must always lie tight in order to prevent
the damage which otherwise a strong wind
might cause To preserve tightness, notwith
standing variations in temperature, another
small balloon is placed inside the large one, and
the volume of this small baloon, which is filled
with atmospheric air, can be increased or dimin
ished by pumping in or exhausting air by means
of an air pump, worked by an electric motor on
tbe car, the current being supplied by u twin
cable from a dynamo on the ground.
The Cleveland Leader , speaking of the wed
ding-historic in Ohio—of Kate Chase and Gov.
Sprague, says: “Chief among the guests, smil
ing, witty, and everywhere honored and wel
come, was seen the tall form and winning face
of Abraham Lincoln, President of the republic.
Carefully dressed in plain evening attire, he
reached the house a few moments after the
ceremony had been performed. Stepping
directly up to the bride and kissing her' in a
fatherly manner, he extended his hearty con
gratulations to both the young people, and then
asked if it were really tine that the marriage
ceremony had actually taken place before his
arrival. Upon being informed that it had, he
expressed his regret at his late appearance, and
said: “Well, if it is so, I must submit as grace
fully ns possible. 1 suppose you can’t burn that
gunpowder twice even for a President.”
“It really looks as if the milkman may, after
all, be a grievously wronged individual,” says
London Truth. “In a milk adulteration case at
Cheltenham the other day a sample of ‘babies’
milk,’ sold by the defendant, was proved to con
tain 10 per cent, of added water. At the re
quest ef Ihe defendant, however, the cow re
sponsible for this sample was milked in the pres
eueo of the inspector, and the bull;, in legal
phraseology, proved to correspond exactly- with
the sample 1 have always urged that, to deal
with adulteration effectually we must go to the
fountain bead: but, under these circumstances,
the question arises, what are we to do w lien wo
get there? The analyst in this instance said
that it was the worst sample of genuine milk on
record, and that he should report on thecae,.;.
Hut what then? A cow capable of producing
tobies’ milk wit h 10 per cent, of added water
cl'iarly dov flves no mercy: but can she lie dealt
with under the food and drug act?”
So nervous and irrltablo has the Czar barome
that the causes of bin troubles must never l e
mentioned to him In any way. J.n order to obey
his wishes in this iesj*ct, the very newspapers
he reads have to be specially prepared. He uoyv
receives no other papers but those expressly
printed for him; the veriest penny magazines of
old, containing at best a few inoffensive dis
patches. tlie rest being made up of society gos
sip and theatrical notes, with at best a leader or
two thrown la, recounting Ihe blessings of his
autocratic government. w-lthout an over-strict
adherence to truth In their enumeration. The
editor of this special sheet, to which the Czar is
the only subscriber, and w hieh appears in a sin
gle number, saw no harm in inserting the re
ports of the festivities on the (si-anion of Km
jsM-or William's 90th anniversary, which caused
the Czar to exclaim sadly: “1 shall never live
to reach fourscore years and ten, and have the
benediction of millions of ray subjects showered
upor my head.”
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