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4 CftcjHornmqHctos (j \Z>s -* v —i Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. FRIDA V. M AY SO. 18S7. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning Xews is published every day in tin* year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their urn ■ count, at 'Si vents a week. $1 00 a month. $5 (X) for sis mouths and fill 00 for one year. Tli ■ Mon. vino Xrws. by mail, one month, 1 00: three months, $2 50; six months, $3 ft); one year. $lO ft). The Morning News, by mail, six times a 'reek (without Sunday issue), three mouths, $2 00: six months. $ 1 00 one year. $8 00. The Mormxu News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, lliree months, $1 05; six months. $2 50; one year, $5 00. The Sunday News. by mail, one year, {3 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by festal order, cheek or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “ Morning News, Savannah. Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO Ni:W ADVKIITISKMKNTS. Meetings— Pulaski Council Xo. 153. R. A.: Myrtle Lodge Xo. 6, K. P.; Landrum Lodge Xo. 48, F. and A. M. Special Notices— As to Parochial Duties of Christ Church Parish; Limited Partnership, A. Einstein's Sons; To Jurors City Court; Grand 6unday Excursion per Steamer Pope Catlln; Apples, Oranges, etc.. J. S. Collins & Cos. Official— Proposals Wanted for Plumbers’ Work. ■Water Coolers. Etc.— Clarke & Daniels. Cash System and Cheap Music —L. & B. S. M. H. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Situation Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost, Miscellaneous. Auction Sales— Furniture, Dry Goods, etc., by 9. McLaughlin & Son. Amusements— Base Ball To-day; Excursion to Warsaw by the Y. W. C. T. L T . Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos. if Legal Notice —Demands Against and Claims ■I Favor of Win. Harris' Estate. ■The Morning Newa for the Summer. leaving the city for the summer Ktn have the Morning News forwarded by ■te earliest fast mails to any address at the ■kt<- of 35c. a week, $1 for a month or $3 50 pjr three months, cash invariably in ad- Bjnce. The address may he changed as (Hen as desired. In directing a change care Hould be taken to mention the old as well $t the new address. ■Those who desire to have their home paper Homptly delivered to them while away, Bould leave their subscriptions at the Busi ■tss Office. Special attention will be given ifeimake this summer service satisfactory and M forward papers by the most direct and ■lickest routed HAftcr all, Mr. Blaine has decided that he ■I visit Europe early next month. He is ■hi to be much alarmed about his health to believe that nothing but a sea voyage ■HI benefit him. Perhaps Mr. Blaine is Kng to take a sea voyage merely as a pre ■ratory step to a trip up Salt river next attention of the Philadelphia Press to the color line as it is drawn in Forty members of the Social Club (colored) went to Beth ■pem, Pa, the other night to attend a and were refused accommodations hotel. Will the Press howl just a B man in Providence, R. 1., is issuing Bjbusands of fae-similes of the Vicksburg paper which was issued by Gea. soldiers after the capture of the city, sell rapidly at a good price. The fur Hfr off from the war we get the more prof- Bpblc becomes the business of manufactur ■jt relics of it. WeSS Sam Jones, the evangelist, is to be bc ptoved, Rome, the beautiful Mountain City Georgia, is uncomfortably Bill. He said, the other day; “Old Rome BKf run on now until she is within a half ■Be of hell.” The Romans should pack up JpP come to Savannah, where the sea breezes fee)) the weather delightfully cool. Another marriage insurance association has failed. The Equitable Marriage Asso ciation, of Reading, Pa., has collapsed, and there is much grief in Pennsylvania in con sequence. The Secretary and Treasurer have fled, and the policy holders cry aloud in vain for the return of their money. The only marriage association that deserves con fidence is one composed of not more than two people. June 2is the anniversary of President Cleveland’s marriage. A Washington man, who is quoted as an authority on the sub ject of matrimony, says: “It is not often that a man pleases himself in marrying and pleases 00,0(K),0(X) jjeople at the same time, as the President ol this great nation of free men bus done.” The President and his wife ought to be very happy, if the good wishes of the people uro worth anything. A London dispatch says that while the Archdeacon of Winchester was showing some ladies over the grand old cathedral, the other day, ho crawled into one of the pqies of tho organ in ordor to demonstrate its size. lie stuck fast, and if some workmon had not come to the rescue, lie would have been compelled to stay in the pipe all night. B"fore trying to crawl in again it is pre sumed that he will grease himself. It is announced that the strike of tiie em ployes of the Pennsylvania (Salt Works at Natrona has had a <lnmagir.g effect on the Methodist H-undoy school of that place. The preacher in charge is a non-union man, and rather than allow their children to rooeive spiritual food from him, the strikors have deckled not to send them to Sunday school. This is the tirst instance of a boycott’s being directed against a Sunday school. At a meeting of the Young Men's Demo cratic Club, of New York, tho other night, Mr. Richard M. Henry rend a papvr entitled “Who Shall Havo the Offices?" “Political parties,” said Mr. Henry, “are necessary, and cannot exist without politicians. A politician, when he is death becomes a states man. Ho Is a caterpillar while ho lives, a butterfly when he dies. Politicians are the men who vote often—once at each election; who join a political organization; who at tend the primary; who spare a few evening hours during the year to public uffairs, and who contribute regularly a small sum toward tho necessary expenses of politics." Mr. Henry doclnred that be did not believe in a non-partisan government: the offices, national, State and city, should ho filled from tho dominant party. The paper was not discussed, but the fact that it was loudly applauded seems to indicate that the mem bers of tho club ure not in l'avyr of civil ser *c > juiurui. * Mr. Lamar's Allotment Scheme. When Mr. La::mr was made Secretary of the Interior it was said by many that his appointment was a mistake. It was con re led that he possessed great ability, but his fitness for the kind qf work required of the head of the Interior Department was ques tioned. He is making, however. a very suc cessful Secretary. The qualities ho is dis playing are those not only of an executive o/lieer but also of a statesman. The Indian question has been for a long time one of the most troublesome with which the government has to deal. The Indians are not satisfied with the reservation system, and it has been alwut impossible to get honest Indian Agents. The cost of maintaining the system and the Indian Bu reau is between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 a year. When Mr. Lamar became Secretary of the Interior he took hold of the Indian problem at ouce, with a firm determination to solve it. The result of his efforts was the enactment of the allotment law by the last Congress. Mr. Lamar is now preparing to put this law into ojieration. The effect of it will be to wipe out of existence the rotten Indian Bureau, save to the government the millions now paid out annually for the sup port of the Indians, and place the Indians on a footing with the citizens of the country. In all there are now about 360,000 Indians who are the wards of the nation. The allotment law applies to 350,000 of them, and it will make all of them not only comfortable but rich. Those to which it docs not apply aro the Cherokees and nine other tribes which occupy a part of the Indian Territory, and the Senecas in the State of New York. It gives to every head of an Indian family 160 acres of land; to every unmarried person over 18 years of age and to every orphan eighty acres, and to every “single” person, under IR.liom liefore the allotment is made, forty acres. These lands cannot be disposed of for the term of 35 years. The Indians now' have 135,000,000 acres of land. The allotments will take but a small portion of it. The balance is to be sold to actual settlers for homestead purposes, and the proceeds are to lie invested for the liene fit of the Indians. The Indians have now, in invested funds and unsold lands in the market, about $18,000,000. The have also annuity's and personal property in horses, sheep and cattle to the amount of many millions more. The Secretary estimates that, valuing their lands at $1 per acre, they have in protjerty of all kinds fully $175,000,000. This is a very handsome sum, and places them far out of the reach of want. There is no doubt that they will be much better off under the new system. They will cease to be a burden to the nation, and will have a strong inducement to turn their attention to civilized pursuits. The progress which the Cherokees and Creeks are making is proof that they can and will improve their condition if given the right Sort of a start and proper encouragement. Of course Secretary Lamar’s scheme is an experiment, but there is every reason to think that it will prove to be a successful one. If it is successful it will greatly in crease his reputation as a statesman. Lord Lansdowne. A few facts respecting the family of Lord Lansdowne may not bo uninteresting. Edi tor O’Brien is saying some hard things about him and invites him to deny them. Ho refuses to accept the invitation, which, by many, will be accepted as an admission on his part that they are true. The founder of the house of Lansdowne was William Petty. He was the son of a clothier at Ramsey, in Hampshire, England, who was in very humble circumstances. He was bom in 1623, and appeal's to have hail a pretty hard time of it during his youth. He apprenticed himself to a sea cap tain, and, not liking a seafaring life, did something in the way of peddling. At one time he was a student of medicine in Paris and assisted at dissections. It is related of him that he was so poor that many a time he was without the moans to purchase a dinner. Ho was a shrewd man, how ever, and getting into trade finally succeeded in accumulating a large fortune. His eldest son succeeded to his estate and was created Baron Shelburne. Tho estate in creased with each generation, and the pres ent Lord Lansdowne is a very rich man. It seems that none of the faraily were noted for their charity. They believed in getting 1 they could and holding on to all they got. Editor O’Brien may not succeed in making 'Lord Lansdowne deal more justly with his tenants —that is not his purpose—but he may succeed in making it so uncomfortable for him in Canada that he will not find it pleas ant to stay there. The Florida Senator. The choice of Hon. Samuel Pasco for Senator by the Florida Legislature gives very general satisfaction in that State. An outline of his career was published in our dispatches yesterday. He is 53 years of age, and has been a resident of Florida for about twenty-nine years. He is an Englishman and succeeds an Irishman, but he is an American in sentiment and aims, ns waa Mr. Jones, his predecessor. He knows Florida thoroughly, and is devoted to her welfare. No interest of the State will suffer in his hands, and if his record indicates any thing it is that he will not consent to Flor ida's being neglected at Washington. The Senatorial contest was a long one and seriously obstructed the business of the Legislature Doubtless there is general re joicing throughout the State that it is out of tho way. The result of it was a surprise to many, and perhaps there were few of tho members of the Legislature who had any idea what its outcome would be until there was an interchange of opinions after tho withdrawal of Messrs. Blox ham and Perry. Mr. Pasco’s honorable coutto in withdrawing from tho con test when it was thought that his with drawal would help to break tho deadlock undoubtedly had mu ii to do with creating tho kindly feeling toward him which made his election possible when the opportunity presented itself. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who is now on the Isle of Wight with his wife, is to be highly honored when he visits Edinburgh. The corporation will present him with the free dom of the city, and he will be requested to lat the foundation stone of the public library which his magnificent gift was mainly instrumental in providing for the Hootch capital. Mr. Carnegie deserves all the honors that may bo offered him, both in Scotland and in this, his adopted country. Gen. Viscount Toni, the Japanese Minis ter of Agriculture, arrived in Washington on Sunday. He called at tho White House, and wus much disappointed because he failed to soo Mrs. Cleveland. He gallantly said tliat his purpose in (aiming to the United States was to seo the President’s beautiful wile. It is u pity that he was uot gratified. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MAY 2P-, iso'. Tho Jacob Sharp Trial. Tho work of getting a jury in tho Jacob Shari) case in New York lias begun. It will he a long and tedious work. There are very few, if any, of the intelli gent men who arc liable to be summoned as jurors in this case who have not expressed, an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant. Only a few months ago a legislative com mittee made a lengthy inquiry into tho Broadway surface railway franchise busi ness, and all tho testimony of impostar.ee was published. There was some pretty strong testimony against Mr. Sharp. All of the New York newspapers were against him then, and they are against him now. They have succeeded in working up a feeling that is very hostile to him. It will be extremely difficult to get a jury that is not prejudiced against him. The trial is looked upon as the most im portant since that of Tweed. Sharp has not been an officeholder, but. it is alleged, he was as extensive a buyer of legislators and aldermen as Tweed was. Ho h.os used his hoodie so freely that he has become notori ous for the use of it. The people are deeply interested in hav ing Sharp convicted if he is guilty. To per mit a criminal like he is alleged to be to go unpunished would be equal to offering a premium foi the commission of the kind of crimes with which he is charged. Many of the men who get into prominent places in New York now are so corrupt that thinking people there are beginning to wonder what is to be the outcome of the corrupt condition of tho city’s municipal affairs. If men like Sharp are not punished the timo will soon come when it will be difficult to find an honest man in tho city government. Sharp is making a hard fight for liberty. His money procures him the best lawyers, and detectives doubtless furnish his at torneys with full information respecting the men summoned as jurors. Tho selection of a jury has almost reached the position of a science. The time may not be distant when there will bo experts who will make the selection of jurors their sole business. In criminal cases tho choosing of the jury 's regarded by many as the most difficult and delicate of all the duties a lawyer has to per form. ( Mr. Sharp’s lawyers will doubtless do their best to get a jury that will not con vict even if the testimony shows that their client is guilty. “Extra Billy” Smith. Ex-Gov. William Smith, of Virginia, whose death was announced in our dis patches yesterday, was in several respects a very remarkable man. He was bom in King George county, Va., in 1797, and, until within a few months before his death, was in the enjoyment of excellent health. He was Governor of Virginia more than forty years ago, and was elected to the same office in 1863. He occupied that position at the close ot the war. He was Colonel of the Forty-ninth Virginia, and to his popularity as a gallant soldier he owed his second election. He was neither a student nor n statesman, but as a skillful politician he had few equals and no superiors. He was twice an unsuc cessful candidate for the United States Sen ato, being beaten once by R. M. T. Hunter and once by James M. Mason. At one time he thought California offered him a better opportunity for securing political prefer ment than Virginia, and he tool; up his resi dence in that State. He did not sucqeed as well there as he expected, bit^vcr*. 1 {uid re turned to his home in Fauqijitin 1 txxmty to repeat his old-time political successes. Asa member of the Virginia Legislature and as a member of Congress he made his influei ce felt. Being a man of great force of charac ter it was impossible to keep him on a back seat. -He was widely known as “Extra Billy” Smith. He got this title from a claim against the Past Office Department for ex tra compensation for carrying the mails. This claim he prosecuted with great per sistence and vigor. The route over which ho carried the mails extended from Wash ington to Milledgeville, Ga. Many anec dotes aro told of him, some of which are well worth repeating. 'J'he sale of a collection of autographs which belonged to the late Lewis J. Cist, of New York, has been in progress in that city for several days past. As an evidence of the popularity of tho persons whose auto graphs have b(s'n sold, tho following will lie interesting: A historical military letter written by Na]>oleon Bonaparto to his brother-in-law, Marshal Murat, brought s3l. while a letter written by Napoleon 111. while in prison at Ham brought sls. Other autographs of the Bonaparte family brought prices ranging from sl3 to 15c. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s autograph brought sl6, while that of John B. Gough was knocked down for sl. Other autographs sold as follows: James Fennimore Cooper, $8 50; Washing ton Irving, $9; George Bancroft, $2 25; Heury W. Longfellow, $5 50; Charles F. Brown (“Artemus Ward”), $11; Samuel L. Clemens, $1 13 1-3; Ralph Waldo Emerson, ss. The autograph of George William Cur tis, chief of the Mugwumps, brought 25c, It seems that evictions are uot confined to Ireland. Since April Ift tho miners em ployed by J. S. Wentz & Cos. ut their mines near Hazleton, Pa., have lieen on strike, Wentz & Cos. refused all offers of arbitra tion, and on last Saturday commenced tho forcible eviction of the strikers under cir cumstances of peculiar hnrdship and oppres sion. Helpless women and children were forced to leave their houses, and were com jwiled to spend nights on the hillsides in the open air. It is alleged that Wentz & Cos. arranged so ns to prevent the strikers from receiving assistance from the villagers. Much indignation is felt in Pennsylvania on account of the cruel evictions. A few days ngo the Birmingham Press Club sent an invitation to Murut Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial Ga-.rflr, to attend the meeting of tho Alabama Press Association in the Magic City on May 25. Halstead replied declining the invitation, and at the same time expressed his gratifi cation that the “Southern people are think ing about something besides the old provin cial platitudes of conceited interpretation, which was perversion of the consti tution of tho United States." He failed to send an explanatory chart of his letter, and now the Birmingham Frees Club is wondering what in tho world lie meant. Prominent members of the Knighta of Labor order in New York say that General Master Workman means to huve bis way or destroy the order. They claim til at ho has made a bargain with Cardinal Gibbons to bend the Knights to the wishes of tiie Catholic church, and that he will sus pend nl! those who refuse to accept the bar gain. There iuu so many things said nlwut Powderly that it is difficult to tell which of them arc true. CURRENT COMMENT. Wo Hoar No Shriok. Vtom the Kew York World ( Den.) The hotels RtHt. Paul. Minn., and Bethlehem, Pa., have refused accommodations to colored people of unexceptional!!'- character. And yet •xo hear no shriek from Father Hoar. Can the unusual silence be uue to tin- fact that Minne sota and Pennsylvania are Republican States) A Suggestion to Congress, From the Washington Post (Denv.) A Brooklyn paper holds that "the law ought to fix a limit to the at ,iount of property that any man may acquire. " A good idea, That will give tile rest or us a chance. Lot Congress pass a law that every man who is at once frugal, industrious and smart, shall have one baud permanently tied behind him. Immigrants and Immigrants. Prom the Philadelphia Times (hid.) The immigrant who comes with money to in vest In a home and who settles down to agricul ture or any of the mechanical arts, aids to ihe wealth of the country, and also adds to its law abiding citizens- but the cheap iaiiorer who is ready to take the place of striking or dissatisfied labor, speedily learns to interpret the freedom of our free land as license to take anybody's property at will, and knock down and drag out any owner who protests against it, That class of immigrants, as a rule, imitate the Indian in readily acquiring the vices of our civilization, with an ever-growing repugnance to its virtues. Tho Luscious Watermelon. From the New York Tribune ( Rep.) The colored people of Georgia may well put a cheerful courage on. There is a rosy future Just ahead of them. Thct amilla Clarion reports that the watermelon vines arc blooming, and that "the stand is rather better than usual.” The editor of the Clarion would seem to be partial to watermelon himself. For he con cludes au account of the present appearance of the I'icious fruit with the significant remark that "the Clarion's latch-string will be hanging out for the first fine melon of the season in a very few weeks.” It is to lie hoped that as soon as may be consistent with the full ripening of the melon the latch string may be rewarded. BRIGHT BITS. “I say. my man, arc those grapes fresh?” "Oh yah, schust picked." "Well, now, how about the chickens?" "Dent is schust picked, too ."—Harper's Bazar. Mr. Przybylowicz is a prominent politician in Leavenworth, Kan. If he were to take the kinks out of his name by running it through a clothes-wringer. he would be a more pronounced success. —Norristown Herald. “So your father was in the war?” said he. “Yes, he was killed at the battle of Bull Run,” she replied. "Where—or—was he shot?” "He wasn’t shot at all. He broke his neck running down the hill. War is an awful cruel thing, don’t you think sot"—New York Mail. An Irishman, writing to his wife, who w-as still in “mild Ireland,” began h;s letter bv making the following surprising statement: "It ,a foine counthry. Budget, an no mistake. I've this duy put phwat they cell an inshoorance on me loife, an’if I’d fall down a ladder wid me hod an’ break me neck to-ntorrv. liegorra an’ I’d get $25 a wake os long as I’m (lead. It's a foine couu thry; that's phwat it is ."—Detroit Free Press. When President Hayes occupied the White House Mrs. Hayes saw ii little girl gazing about in the East Room one morning, and went up to her with outstretched hands, saying: "What is your name, little girl?" "Dora, was the reply. "Well, Dora,” said Mrs. Hayes, "I am very glad to see you.” “You'd lie gladder,” said the child, "if you knew I was from Ohio.” Mrs. Haves enjoyed the joke as much as any one.— Boston Budget. "How's cotton now, boss?” called a Mont gomery negro, from his wagon to a broker on the curbstone. “Very steady, Joshua—very steady.” “Hu I Don't she go up or down?" "No. It's a ,-ery st'-ady market.” ‘ ‘Hu! When 1 sold dat ole mule an’ bought cotton fuchers, de staple bobbed up one day an' bobbed down de next, an" at last I was bobbed out of de last shillin' 1 lmd. Mighty eurus dat as soon as I was dun cleaned out all de bobbin’ stopped short off.”— Wall Street News. An effort will be made to secure the passage by the Legislature of a hill restoring the whip ping post for tli" punishment of wife heaters. Up in B a good many years ago anew family moved into a house on ah isolated road. They bad had the benefit of city culture, and some of their ways seemed peculiar to their new neigh bors. One dav "Aunt Eunice,” a good old soul whose life had been spent in single blessedness, went to call on the newcomers, but did not stop. As fast as her feet could carry her she hastened to the house of the town squire. “Squire Sim, there's awful carrying on at 's. You must go right down.” "What's the matter, Aunt Eunice?” “I dunno, Squire, but I see him throw a kettle at his wife, and I come right after you.” "Lord a massy. Eunice, they all do that, they all do that,” was Squire Sim's curt dismissal of the case. — Concord (N. H.) Monitor. Now melodious and brazen toots the “little Ger man band,” Now “Buy a lob:” or “Hol-i-but!” resounds throughout the land; The organ grinder grindeth and the base ball ciuli is seen. Likewise the tender violet and dandelion greens. Now blow the cherry blossoms and the lilac 'gins to bud. Now flow the patent medicines for cleansing of the blood; The poet poetizes upon the gentle spring. Both bicycle and tricycle are now upon the wing; Now brand-new maple sugar from another season's stock. And now the liccr too-tonie, which the bibulous call “bock,” Now tho sunlight daneee gayly upon ocean, lake and river, But whether life is worth living now depends upon tho liver. —Boston Globe. PERSONAL. Dn. 11. T. Peck. Professor of Latin and Greek in Columbia College, is barely 30 years old. Since her marriage Ella Wheeler Wilcox gives all the mouey she earns by writing poetry to the poor. Robert .1. Burdette, the genial humorist, has been elected deacon in his Baptist church at Lower Merion, Pa. Mozart's piano and Haydn's baton, more re cently the property of the immortal Liszt, were willed by him to the city of Vienna. Oi.r Bull's son, Alexander, predicts for tho new star, Anna Kirliet, n brighter place in the operatic Armament thau that which Jenny Lind oiks- held. Nobody will lie asked to contribute to the Ar thur monument. All subscriptions must lie spontaneous. The gentlemen who are at the head of the movement are confident tliat the $30,000 needed wifi lie readily contributed. Anurbson Critciiktt, the celebrated London surgeon, war, recently offered a fee of $35,000 probably the largest medical honorarium on record—to go to India to treat one of the native princes. After consideration lie declined the offer. Bio Ben Ltl'evrk, (lie Ohio cx-Congressman. has struck a better thing than a seat in Con gress, or the Boris Consulship, for which lie wus an applicant, lie has been made Oeneral Manager of the Brice X Thomas railroad syndi cate at a salary of $•-’O,OOO a year. Rodeot JIn.UAHn. who, it is said, wiil play leading man for Mrs. James Brown Potter :hiring her American season, is a Brooklynite and nas ouee President of the Amaranth Club. He is now playing the role of the gambler, with great success. in McKee Rankin's "Golden Giant." PaiNCR Victor Napoleon wrot • recently to M. Albert Purdy, thanking him for a sketch of Nupol'on Bonaparte which nppeaiv-l in t'iiinm (Paris), ami adding: “Napoleon created modern France. Cod?, Concordat, University, Bank, legion of Honor, administrative, judicial and Ihmneisl organization -everything dates from him and comes from liim.™ Count Kai.noey is known In St. Petersburg as ninnn of few words, not uccus’onied to threaten or bluster, but certain to do what he says. He dislikes publicity, but he mingles a great deal In society and goes severd times a week to the opera, lb. i. particularly cooerful in company, is a brilliant on venation ilixl and linguist, speaks most irivpruaeluvble English ami has great charm of manner. F.x-Oov. Alger, of Michigan, who recently returned from a try> South of the Kill Grande, said lb-* other day: "There are two tilings that Mexico requires to come up to the world’s average. These are rcpopiilatlon and water. riii* is all they need in Hades,’’said Uriah Painter, the old Washington correspon dent, who was standing near by, ami the Mexican subject watt dropped. Tub new BriMsh Consul ut Baltimore has an Interesting record. Capt. William Francis Kc grave entered the British army iis ensign In l**Fi. He served actively in the Crimean war. in India during the mutiny of IKib-f>:i and u gal list, the Hill Tribes in IWW Hr has lss-n C onsul (it Stockholm, Sweden, and at Nantes. France. Capt. Segrave is a member of the Kovai Geographical Society. He has just reached Baltimore and w ill enter upon the discharge of Lin duties ut once. FL3BCING THE GULLIBLE. How a Quack Relieved Portlanders of Several Thousand Dollars. From the Lewiston Journal. “I wish Gov. Bodwell had seen the quack doctor who has just skipped out of Portland, leaving his hotel bill unpaid," said a prominent Portland 31. D. the other day. "I don't txlieve he would have vetoed Dr. Sleeper s medical registration bill if he had.” "I think he was the most unprincipled quack I ever saw. He came to Portland about six months ago, engaged a suite of rooms at one of the hotels, and stuck out his shingle. One of the first things he did was to button hole a Portland attorney, and get him to write up an advertise ment that would astonish the dear people. The lawyer told me the other day he had skipied without leaving any greenbacks to console him for writing the advertisement. The quack couldn’t write his own name. He was a perfect ignoramus. He didn't know as much about medicine, as I do about the Fiji islands But he had plenty of brass, and a wonderful faculty of looking wlse. when anybody called to see him. He owes his tailor a little matter of 630 for the claw hammer coat that lie always wore. He advertised himself as a great speci alist. Consultation and treatment free, and all that sort of thing. For the first three months he had all the business he could attend to. “They tell me he drained Portland people to the extent of several thousand dollars. Last month people began to suspect he was an im poster, and commenced to let him coldly alone. Several law suits began to be imminent. The quack got wind of it somehow, and the other night he packed his trunk and skipped by moon light, leaving the hotel proprietor, his tailor, his lawyer, and {tome of his patients a tritle out of pocket,. ’ I went to the drug store yesterday, where lie used to get his drugs, and the proprietor told me how he worked his little scheme." “He never brought in a prescription in his life." said the pharmacist. “He used to come in almost every day and say, ‘l've got a patient that's so and so. Give me anything: I don't earn what it is. I don't want, to kill the poor fool, that's all.'" "V, lull ili.it fellow was here I cleaned out all my old stock of patent medicines that had laid on the shelf for ten years, and nobody ever called for. He would take a little vial, pour in a few drops from one patent medicine bottle, and an other and another, and tell bis patient to take a few dro[>s every morning just ‘before breakfast and every night before retiring, or some similar dodge. I use* 1 to make sugar pills for him by the pound, with nothing but sugar in them for all tne world. “But nothing suits the dear people better than to be humbugged, you know.’’ Bernhardt’s Pet Snake. From the Minneapolis Journal. Several piercing shrieks following each other in quick succession echoed through the corri dors and rotunda of the West Hotel at B:3d o'clock this morning. A porter was dispatched to the rooms just vacated by Sarah Bernhardt. He found a chambermaid lying on a sofa in a semi-fainting condition. "For heaven's sake, look into that bath-tub,” said the frightened girl. The porter did as requested. In the bottom of the bath-tub, which was half filled with wa ter, lay a dead water snake about I'd inches long. In the tub ' divine Sarah bud performed her ablutions. The snake in question was one of her many strange pets. It bad been presented to tier in South America. She made a special pet of *t. it is said. She would let it lie on the bed wit i 1 e • and would let it crawl about her neck, an t would fondle it as a child would a doll. “Site must have laid on it and killed it acci dentally," said Clerk Hyser, in explanation this morning. "She was an eccentric woman,” lie went on. “She was the strangest guest we've had in the house yet. Why, the chambermaids were frightened to death of her. They feared to go near her apartments. She bad a whole museum of wild and uncanny pets in her room. That tiger cat, for instance. It was a terror. No one could touch it or go near it but her. She could pet it and handle it like a kitten. When she left the room the cat had to be put in the cage and it would snarl and spit at every one who entered. Then it would cry when she was absent from the rooms. The girls are hap py this morning because the Frenchwoman and her queer pets are on their way to Omaha.” The water snake is on exhibition in the bag gage room of the West. The wonder is why the Bernhardt did not take it along with her and have it stuffed. The President’s Shrewdness. From the Few York Sun. A Western Republican Senator, who lias come to Washington to have the plans made for the post office building in his town, relates a pleasing anecdote showing the President's shrewdness. “I got my bill through Congress." said the Sena tor, "and went to the President to see if he was going to sign it. It called for SWO.iwO, and our town has about 15,000 population. 'Are you going to sign the bill, Mr. President?’ I asked, i haven't signed it.' lie said, ‘but I will if you will give me your word that the building shan't cost the tinned States a cent over SWo.iXX).’ T couldn't do that.' 1 -aid. ‘Mebhe SIOO,OOO won’t build a suitable building. I will agree that the site shan't cost over $10,000.’ ‘That's good,’ he said, 'but go and see Bell about the building, ami let me know if he says be can’t give you a good building for $20,000.’ I went and saw' Bell, 111" Supervising Architect, and he said he conid put up a very pretty and convenient modernized brick huilding for the money. Then I went to the White House again and reported. ‘Well,' said the President when I got through my story, •will you promise the building and site shan't cost over $100,000? I want your word; that's good enough for me. If I sign this bill your people will get some other Congress to increase the appropriation. If you will veto that I won’t veto this.’ ‘lt’s a bargain, Mr. President,' said I, and that's how I got that bill through when so many others were vetoed, although they were just as meritorious as mine. I made our folks at home chip in $5,000 on the site, and Uncle Sam paid only SIO,OOO toward it. If the build ing costs over SOO,OOO my neighbors and I will give our check for the excess. The Irony of Fate. Oyes, 'tin sweet to lie and hear The rain upon the roof! Particularly, when you're sure The think' is waterproof. As patter, patter go the drops, There steals a blessed calm Into your soul. You’re once again A boy upon the farm. Once more you're in the dear old nest High in the attic-room. Embosomed by the feather-bed In all its bowery bloom. And patter, patter go the drops Thro’ all your happy dreams; The world and you r.re young again, A paradise it seems. O patter, patter go the drops! Each one is like a lciss— A mother’s, sister s, sweetheart's, too — But, great snakes, what is this? You're wide-awake. Can these be tears Upon your brazen cheek? By no menus -miracles don't work— The roof has sprung a leak. —M.N. D. How Long is a Woman Young? From the Oregon Ant. When does a woman cease to be young, or rather to lie entitle! to that epithet? This is the deli'.ate question which a French Prefect nas undertaken to answer. Some years ago n certain will left the sum of KtCbif., the interest <if which nuts to be given annually to a young, unmarried woman of the working classes, who, by her capacity and good conduct, should lie in a iKisition to marry witli the it dp of a little money. In carrying out the rill, it became necessary for the Prefect of the Seine to deter mine the exact significance of the words •■young worn tin," and he lias decided that they include the |ierlod between 21 and 30. At 30, then, an unmarried woman may bid adieu to youth nud resign herself to be an old maid. Tins extremely ex-cathedra pronouncement may win a feigned or forced assent from tin candidate* for the liar bet liatifol prize, as thin kind of prix Monthyon is called, but it will moat with only contemptuous rejection from the sex at large. t least that portion of it which has passu! the fatal limit. A woman is as young as she looks. Just is,.. mun is as young ns he feels, and a really capable womun Ls never 30 until she is 40 or married. He Got “Kinder Scart.” From the Concord Monitor, Up In a neighboring town a fen years ago a good deacon on his wav to church one Sunday morning crossed the culvert over a well-known trout brook just as a young man emerged from the alders, fishpole in hand and with n goodly string of beauties. Ho was not over and above intelligent, no the deacon drew rein on his horse and said solemnly: "Cb tries, do you know who saw you catch those trout this holy Sabbath morning?" "No, deacon, 'twan i Henry Ferris, was it?" “('lmties, the Lord saw you." "Wall, wall, deacon, Von kinder scart me when you first spoke. I don't care about the J/inl, hut 'twouldo’t do for Henry to mm me, battue I've hired out to him for hayin', and he'd gi* somebody else If lie knew I go troutin' Sue- The tloooon drove on, and mode a powerful plea in the missionary concert of the bunday school for the poor Ucathou in Indio. ITEMS OF INTEREST. It takes the tusks of 75,000 elephants per year to supply the world's piano keys, billiard bails and kuUe handles. The average age of F.uropoau girls when they marry, according to a German statistician, is 26 years, while that of men is 2S years. Two hex were seguing in a pasture field, with only a goat for an audience. In reply' to a state ment of one the other said: “I know. But —” The goat took him at bis word and the argument was continued on the other side of the fence. Some of the Sioux Indians in the Wild West show appeared on the first Sunday morning after their arrival in London at the chapel in West King-ton. When the congregation sang "Near r. My God. to Thee" in English the Sioux Indians sang it in their own tongue. Ax old house was burned at East Chester, Westchester comity, N. Y'., last Wednesday, and since then, while rummaging among the rains, a man and a boy unearthed $23 in Spanish coins 200 years old. a well preserved bag containing twenty-three Spanish gold pieces worth S2O each and fifteen worth §3 each. Throwing egos at a darkey's head is one of the sports of Texas. A sheet with a hole in the centre is fastened tightly to posts on either side, and through this hole the negro puts his head.. Five eggs are sold for 10c., ana if the marksmen bits this negro’s sconce three times out of five he gets $2. Sambo is allowed the privilege of dodging, and not many eggs collide with his cranium. William Carlson, a temperance advocate liv ing in San Francisco, was recently arrested for cruelly beating his liorse on the street. His de fense was that the animal insisted on stopping in front of every saloon and tavern, and that lie bitnself was subjected to much ridicule and an noyance in consequence. The ease was dis missed by Judge lloniblower, w ho had evidently driven an animal with the same depraved habit. It is said that the younger female class of Chinese in San Francisco areodeptint American habits, costumes and religions. The Chinese mniiten of the period bangs her hair, weal's lx n nd boots, and compromises the costume of her Celestial congeners in every way possible except by discarding it outright. The change has been brought about by the association of young girls with American children in Sunday and week-day schools. “Old Johnny Eii-ple,” a well-known charac ter of Ogle towmship, Somerset county, Pa., is dead, aged 87. When in his prime he could kick tinware from a store coiling 11 feet above the floor. Once, when quite a young man. he was rafting on the Monongahela river. The raft was wrecked and he escaped by jumping over 25 feet to a rock, from which he was rescued. He would place four or five hogsheads iu a row, jump out of the first into the second and so on to the last, then jump backward to the first, with apparent ease. A Boston sea captain, so says Hub Gossip, visited Hawaii in 1830. He anchored his ship off Honolulu and had his masts and spars well varnished in honor of a royal visit which w s expected. The King anil the Queen of the Sandwich Islands swam out to the ship in cos tumes scantier than seemed consistent with their high position. When they reached the ves sel they showed their agility by climbing to the spare and perching thereon. Varnish, however, is no respecter of persons, and the royal pair had difficulty in leaving their lofty seats. Sol Smith Russell, the actor, v.lth his wife and three children, left Boston last Friday for Minneapolis, 3linn., where he is building a fine house. Mr. William T. Adams, better known as “Oliver Optic,” after his return from Europe, will reside with Mr. Russell, who has said fare well to the stage, and at the close of this season will establish a connection with a steam-heating company. When asked liis main object in leav ing the stage he replied: “I desire to rid myself of the vagabond existence that an actor has to live. My life on the stage has always been a pleasant one, but for the fact that I am away from my wife and three little ones for weeks at a time, and I have a natural desire to lie with them always. The life of an actor has both its pleasant and unpleasant phases. I love the art. but the jumping, traveling part of the business has been distasteful to me for some years.” The late Lord Longford was an old Wykeha mist, and remarkable as a schoolboy in several ways When at Winchester as the Hon. W. L. Pakenham he was always extremely well dressed, and Dr. Molierly. who bad thirty years' experi ence as head master, said he was the most im pudent boy he ever knew, a statement perhaps founded upon the following facts: Pakenham on one occasion appeared in school with a large bunch of flowers in his buttonhole. “Paken ham,” said Moberly, “I do net object to one flower in a well-dressed boy’s coat, but I cannot jiermit boys to come into school with nosegays.” ‘‘Very well, sir," said Pakenham. Two days after he came into school with a gigantic sun flower fastened into his coat, “Pakenham, what is that?” said Molierly. “Only a flower, sir,” said Pakenham in a very mild voice; “you said you did not mind my coming into school with a single flower in my coat." “Two days ago,” says a correspondent of the London World , 'Rossini’s ashes were taken for reinterment from Pere la Chaise to Santa Croce, at Florence. The process of identification, rigorously' observed on many other occasions, was not gone through in this case. Whether this is quite unnecessary the following few words will show. After Rossini's death his body was put by in the vaults of the Madeleine until the funeral at Notre Dame de Lorette took place. Every morning at 8:80 a mass was read for the repose of the dead, and so it was done on the very day when the coffin was to be trans ferred to the Rue Laffitte. Nobody' assisted of all bis friends except Count Pillet Will, bis intimate friend and banker, and your humble servant, When, after the mass, v.e went down to accompany the coffin contain ing what remained of our old friend, we were about half way, when after us rushed the Suisse of the Maleleiui'. and shouted out: ‘Eh, la, has. vous preset mon Naples,’ meaning a coffin which had to go to Naples, and which had beer, carried off in mistake for Ros sini's. Had that not been found out, heaven knows who might have lieen buried with all the honors due to the great genius, and thus trans ferred to the Basilica of Florence.” "The first thing that strikes the English visi tor to the French ‘Ministere de la Guerre,’" re marks a Pall Mall Gazette writer, "is the con trast it presents to the English War Office. The latter is a little squat and dirty double house a dozen yards back from Pall Mall, resembling in its interior both in condition and construction a huge rabbit warren. The former is a magnifi cent new stone building, with brood flights of marble steps, filled with frescoes and paintings, seal let and gilt furniture, and suites of imposing reception rooms leading one into another through large mahogany folding floors. Into the last of these suites I was shown to await the now famous French Minister. The mo ment he entered the room one saw clearly how mistaken is the common conception of his personality. He is a short man, rather stoutly liuilt, with brown hair, brown beard, rather a red face: above ail tilings quiet-looking almost to common-place ness. His mother was an Englishwoman, his aunt is living at Lewes, and except for the slight point at his heard he himself would betaken for an Englishman any where. He wore the ordinary French civilian's dress of block frock coat and trousers, with oniy the single red spot iu his buttonhole. This, by the way. was also the dress of half a dozen gen erals, who seemed to iierform a sort of special duty by Mug present about the ‘Ministere.’ In manners Gen. Boulanger is not more strlring than in appearance. He speaks slowly, like most soldiers, but without much gesture, and without much force cither of voice or language." The first wife of Gen. Buckner was Miss Kingsbury, a New England girl, living at Lyme, Conn. They were married, says the Hartfoiil Times, in the old Champlin House, still stand ing. Old residents who attended the ceremony say Lieut. Buckner was a dashing appearing young fellow, mid in his new uniform looked every inch a general. Just as the officiating clergyman pronounced the final words of the service there was nn alarm of fire; a neighbor's house was burning. The bridegroom threw off his coat, mid with the minister and guests ran to extinguish the flames. Lieut. Buckner ren dered efficient service and bravely rescued an aged colored servant from the burning house Then he returned, recoated, kissed liis bride and received the congratulations of his friends The young officer took ills bride to ills Ken tucky home, and nearly every' succeeding summer until the breaking out of the civil war lie came on and spent a few days at Lyme, bringing his wife with him. When it became evident that trouble was to ensue be tween the two sections of the country. Mrs Bin .nor made over a large amount of the reai estate she owned In Chicago to her brother, then u lieutenant in the regular army. This course was adopted because confiscation was feared and with the understanding that Lieut. Kings bury held the property iu trust. Lieut. Kings bury was afterward made Colonel of a Connec ticut regiment, and was mortally wounded on the field of battle. Witt-almost ids hist breath ho recalled Ids trust and willed his property, not to his sister, hut to her husband, it. was claimed by bis mother, however, and when the war ended the caw was fought in the courts for years, hut finally the nuncupative will was admitted to prolxate. The cost of the long suit war. very heavy, aud it is said tliat Gen, Buckner paid bis iouunwc counsel the sum of SlW.unu. GREAT BARGAIN Wg PLATSHEK’S, 13S Broughton Street, Will place on sale this week a mammoth lot of goods from the recent large auction sale of Field, Chapman & Fenner, New York, compria ing the following: White aad Colored Embroidered Dress Robe^ Cambric Edgings, Nainsook Edgings, Swiss Edgings and Colored Hamburg Edgings, Egyptian Laces, Egyptian All-overs, Egyptian Flouncings, Colored Oriental Edgings and Flouncings to match. All-overs in Every Make, Black Chantilly Flouncings and All-overs, Black Spanish Guimpure Flouncings and All-overs, Valenciennes Flouncings, Laces and Aik overs. G-rand Special. Parasols! Parasols! Parasols! In connection with the above grand offers we place our entire stock of Ladies, Misses' and Children's Parasols on sale this week at unheard of prices. This will afford the chance to buy Parasols at fully 50 and 75 per cent, less than elsewhere. P. S.—Country orders promptly and carefully attended to. WHISKY. (LAWRENCE, OSTROM k CO.’S Famous “Belle of Bourbon" (Is death to Malaria, Chills and Fever, Typhoid * Fever, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Surgical Fevers, Blood Poisoning, Consumption, Sleeplessness or Insomnia, and Dissimulation of Food. lO Y E -A. R S OLD. Absolutely pure: no fusel oil. in PP.ODUCIKG OURfe; BELLE Of BOURBUIf' Vff US€ OHLY THE FtIHTT 0* HOMINY FNRT Of THE CRAII THUS FREEING IT Or BEFORE II IS DISTIUEB THE GREAT i&PJUETIZJGR Louisville, Ky , May 23, 1886. This will certify that I have examined the Sample of Belle'of Bourbon WmaxY received dfi-oin Lawrence, Ostrom A Cos., and found the same to be perfectly free from. Fusel Oil and all other deleterious substanoes and strictly pure. I cheerfully recommend the same for Family and Medicinal purposes. J. P. BarNum. M. D., Analytical Chemist, Louisville, ky. For sale by Druggists, Wine Merchants and Grocers everywhere. Price, $1 25 per bottle. If not found at the above, half dozen bottles in plain boxes will be sent to any address in the United States on receipt of $6. Express paid to ail points east of Missouri river. LAWRENCE, OSTROM & CO., Louisville, Ky. At Wholesale by S. G COKEN HEIMKR & SON, Wholesale Grocers; LIPPMAN BROS., Wtol* sale Druggists, Savannab^Gtk^^^^^^ ZON WEISS CREAM. MRS. GENERAL LOGAN'S DENTIST. TWO DISTINGUISHED CHEMISTS Prominent Ladies and Four Dentists of Bait! more Agree upon one Thing. A discussion recently arose among some prominent ladies of Washington and Balti more, relative to the chemical neutrality Cand solubility of Zonweiss Cream for the teeth, which was referred to Dr. E. S. Carroll of Washington (Mrs. General Logan’s Dentist), and four of the leading Dentists of Balti more, for whom the article was analyzed by two well known Chemists, Prof. J- Morrison of Washington, and Prof. P. B. Wilson of Balti more, both of whom pro nounced it soluble and free from anything injurious to the teeth. Dr. Carroll says it is the most perfect dentifrice he has ever seen. Zonweiss is a white A Cream, put up in a neat /J \ jar, and applied to the ‘vtf brush with a celluloid V ivory spoon. It is very, very far superior to any other dentifrice the World has ever known. Price, 35 cti SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. JOHNSON & JOHNSON, Operative Chemists, S3 Cedar St., time York. For sale by LII’PMAN BROS., Lipl*"**' Block, Suvanuoh. -a POROUS PUASTBRS. mil iiD<t >ll XoUM rflaltatlnnv anrt-r