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Now that the New York Tribune has a
stoned Wall of its own, it will probably
have some respect for the memory of the
South’s Stonewall.
In Georgia politicians make hay at agri
cultural fairs. In New York they make
hay at funerals. The Georgia plan is a
little more enlivening.
Mr. Blaine will sail to Eurojie from New
York. The Tribune frill doubtless see that
Rev. Dr. Burchard is not permitted to wish
him a pleasant voyage.
The Spanish pretender, Don Jaime do
Bourbon, the anly son of Don Carlos, has
gone to Egypt to recover his health after a
severe attack of typhoid fever. %
It is reported that Editor O’Brien is nearly
worried to death by insurance agents who
want him to take out accident policies on
his life. He ought to carry a gun.
The Treasurer of the Brooklyn branch of
the Clan-na-Gael has run away, taking with
him $40,000 of the order’s money. It is
stated that the defalcation has seriously
crippled the society.
The almost unanimous sentiment of the
Labor party leaders in Cincinnati is in favor
of the nomination of a farmer for Governor
of Ohio. It is about time for Htates other
than Ohio to give the farmer u chance.
On June 23 Queen Victoria will review
80,000 poor school children in Hyde Park,
and will present each with a jubilee China
mug. If she wants to make the 30,000 hap
py she should fill the mugs with gold coin.
A pious resident of Houston county, in
this State, prays every morning that the
Lord wiii induoe “the rulers of the land to
knock the protective tariff into a cocked
bat,” It is a prayer that ought to prevail.
“Does quiet prevail in Georgia?” asked a
trembling New York Republican of a re
turned traveler, the other day. Well, yes,
She cowhides have all len taken out of coat
sleeves and put away upon the top shelves.
It is stated that the English government
refused to let the Gate City Guard land in
England because ('apt. Burke recently took
a prominent part in an anti-coercion meet
ing in Atlanta. Sad! sad! The Captain
ought to have remainod at home ou the
score of “a previous engagement.”
Sam Small is only a neck behind Sam
Jones. In Home, the other day, he mid:
“There are men in Rome, C!a., ton lay from
the city of Atlanta, whose souls if dropped
into hell would create a moral consterna
tion." Can't Georgia afford an “evangelist”
whose stock-in-trade is something else than
coarse language?
Some time ago Miss Eulab Wilcox,
daughter of a depntv sheriff at Paducah,
Kv., was suddenly bereft of speech. Just
as she was about to lie overrun with offers
of marriage her tongue once more tiegun to
do duty. It goes without saying that there
are many sad young men in Paducah.
Mr. Blaine's friends announce that when
he visits England he will join Mr. Glad
stone and make home i-ule speeches. After
waid he will go to Ireland and gush a little
for the buucfit of poor Pat. The scheme is
quite a good one. but Mr Blaine shouldn't
forget that he is well known at home, lie
should remember, too, tliat. his friend, tho
Rev. Dr. Burehnrd still live. - .
T. T. Coyle is the editor of the Southwest
Chronicle, a Catholic pajs-r published in
Ban Antonio, Tex. The other day he wont
into the Alamo and with a sledge hammer
smashed n statuette of Ht. Theresa lwoau.se
there was a Masonic emblem, consisting of
square and compass, on the breast of the
image. Coyle ought to be shut up in a room
with tho Masonic goat.
Charles Hcmmingor, of Great Neck, L. 1.,
did something the other day that was prole
ably never done by anvliody else. He
loaded a double-laurelled shotgun, and after
ramming down the wad over tho charge
filled tlie barrel* with water. He then
placed the muzzle of the gun under his chin,
pulled tlie bigger* with a string, and shot
his head off. The unti-prohibitionists in his
neighborhood are now charging tliat water
• uum ikL<aMiu Cum. u liislv.
Remarkable Immigration.
On Thursday night a Parnellite called at
tention in Parliament to the remarkable
emigration from Ireland and asked the rea
son of it. Col. King-Uannon, Parliamentary
Under Secretary for Ireland, said the reason
was the lack of employment and the disin
clination of the people to join societies. The
societies referred to are those which are
hostile to the English government.
The reasons given by the Under Secretary
are not entirely true. There may be a lack
of employment, but why? There was a
time when Ireland contained twice as many
peopie as at present, and they were
better off than the people now. The
truth is that English rule has destroyed
Ireland's industries, and the grasping
landlord system has • greatly reduced the
producing power of the land. Without
manufactories and with poor land it is not
to be wondered at that the people are leav
ing the country as fast as they can. There
are those who cannot understand why there
is such a constant demand for reduction of
rents. The reason is tiiat tenants cannot
make a living and pay even the rents that
have been fixed by the judicial tribunals.
For a long time crops have been taken
from the land and little or nothing has lieen
put ttpon it to fertilize it. The landlords
have refused to provide fertilizers and ten
ants havi not been able to do so. The con
sequence is that the land, though naturally
rich, is really very poor. The tenants, strive
as they may, cannot respond to the demands
"of the landlords. The emigration from Ire
land is as great now as it was in 1549 and
1850, when famine forced the people to
leave the country. Thousands are arriving
at Castle Garden, New York, every week.
Up to May 1 there had arrived in this
country this year, of different nationalities,
133,177 immigrants. Thus was nearly 45,000
more than for the same time last year.
A special effort is being made by Irishmen
in this country to bring their relatives and
friends here, and that is one of the reasons
why the Irish immigration is so very much
larger this year than Inst. It is estimated
that hundreds of millions of dollars have
lieen sent from Irishmen in this country to
those dependent upon t hem in Ireland. The
greutor part of this money has found its
way into tat pockets of the landlords.
Tliose who received it us<>d it to pay their
rents and save their h'lmes. Irishmen here
have, therefore, concluded that it is a much
wiser plan to bring to this country those
dependent upon them, w here they will soon
be able to make a comfortable Bring for
themselves. All this year money has been
forwarded to Ireland, not to pay rents, but to
meet the expenses of coining to this country.
At the present rate of emigration it would
not take many years to depopulate Ireland.
That, however, will hardly be the solution
of the Irish question. All Irishmen are not
going to leave thoir native land, and the
fight against England is bound to go on un
til England concedes to the Irish people the
management of their own affairs.
Here and there in the press the feeling is
cropping out that this country is receiving
.too many immigrants, and the fear is ex
pressed that they are coming in such num
bers as to tlireuten to change the character
of the American people. There is no occa
sion for fear of that kind A well-known
writer says that when danger of being
swamped by too much immigration was
suggested, to the late H|kry Ward Beecher
he made light of it by saying: “When a lion
east a lamb the lion does not turn into a
lamb, but the lamb tiecomes a lion.’’
Ex-Secretary Manning's Views.
Ex-Secretary Manning, at present in
England, has recently expressed some views
relative to political matters in this country.
He keeps well informed about what is going
on hero, and his remarks show that he is as
clear headed, and as capable of forming a
sound opinion relative to public affairs, as
he ever to.
He does not think that the President ever
said that lie would not accept a renotnina
tion if it were offered to him. He thinks it
very probable that when he was harassed
by public duties, and harshly criticised
when lie had done tho liest he could, lie
might have said tliat he wished he were rid
of the Presidency and its cares, but that was
no indication of his real purpose with re
spect to a second term.
Mr. Manning is extremely anxious tliat
there shall lie harmony in the next national
convention of tlie Democratic ’ pail}'. On
this point he quoted what ho said to Gov.
Hill last fall, when tlie New York leaders
were canvassing their candidates for the va
cancy in tho Court of Appeals. The quota
tion is as follows: “\Y r e should have no fac
tioual differences now which would devel
op into marked division in the Presidential
year. It will not do for the New York del
egation to go up to the national convention
divided u]Hin the subject of the renomiun
tion of the President, and then have his nom
ination crowded down our throats by outside
delegations. The Southern and Western
States are for Cleveland because they te
]ieve*that they can win with him. These
States are not any too well inclined toward
New York, and if our own delegation
should go to the convention divided, they
would make haste to show their desire for
the renomination of the President in such a
way as to force Now York into tlie line.
The Slate would therefore lie in a much
better [Kisition to accept his renomination ns
a matter of course rather than to have it
come from the outside seats.”
Mr. Manning said that he still entertained
these views. It seems, therefore, that he
has no doubt about Mr. Cleveland's renomi
nation. His suggestion that New York had
better accept tho nomination without pro
test than have it forced upon her by the
South and West is a wise one. Prom
present indications the two sections men
tioned have decided to renominate Mr.
Cleveland. It is probable that New York
will offer no objection, although tho New
York World , in which journal tho Man
ning interview appealed, seem'- to think
differently,
The Houston Host says: “Tho Savannah
Mornino Newh is authority for the rumor
that Mr. Joseph Pulitzer will establish a
branch of the New York World at some
point in Texas, probably at Galveston or
Houston. Some people will lie mean enough
to suggest that then* is a good opening at
either place.” Opening! Why, of course.
Mr. Pulitzer may find anopeningany where
in the country into which to |k>iu*JjUmoney, j
Col. Fred Grant is devoting all his time to
tlie compilation of his fathers pu|>ers and
]mbllc document*. Gov. Hill, of New York,
lms nominated him for Quarantine Commis
sioner, hut the Republicans in tho New York
Legislature will probably reject him because
a Democrat nominated him.
Mr. Gladstone announces tliat he cannot
visit tho United State*. Then he will never
know what a genuine ovation is.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, MAY 21, M,
Tr.e Georgia Imflr.uary.
The movement to enlarge and improve
the Georgia Infirmary, and make it a first
class hospital, is a good one. The Indies
who are directing it are entitled to hearty
encouragement anti generous support. The
Infirmary is the only institution in the city
to which colored people who are suffering
from diseases of any kind, or from injuries,
and who cannot be treated properly at
home, can be sent. As they comprise a very
large portion of the population of the city,
and as there ore comparatively few of them
who are so situated that they can have the
care and medical attention they ought to
have when sick, the hospital set apart for
them should uot only be well equipped with
everything needed in an institution of that
kind, but should be made so attractive that
they would have no objection to going there.
It seems that man}- of them have a strong
prejudice against the place now. That is
due, doubtless. to a feeling that they will
not lie as well canal for there as at their
homes, although homes may be pro
vided with scarcely any of the accommoda
tions that are ne:*ded by sick people.
Of course considerable money will be re
quired to carry out the plans which the
ladies have in view, but it is probable that
their appeals for aid will be responded to
promptly and generously The people of
Savannah have never been slow to respond
to the calls of charity. When the colored
people lost their homes in the Ya mac run
fire several thousand dollars were quickly
raised for them. Indeed, more was con
tributed than was really needed.
The colored people themselves might do
something for the hospital. As they are the
ones who are to be benefited they ought to
be willing to contribute something towards
it. They spend many thousands of dollars
in the course of a year for quack medicines
of one sort and another. They could not do
a wiser thing than help build up an institu
tion where they can receive proper medical
treatment when they need it.
There are excellent hospitals in the city
for white people and there should be at least
one good one for colored people. The ladies
who have the matter in charge are
thoroughly in earnest, and if there efforts
meet with the recpgnition they have a right
to expect the Infirmary will become an
honor to the city.
Mr. Garland and the Vacancy.
In the discussion that is going on in the
public prints respecting the candidates for
the vacancy in the Supreme Court at Wash
ington it is noticeable that the prevailing
impression is that Attorney General Gar
land will be the successful one. It is also
noticeable that his appointment would be
very harshly criticised by Democratic as
well as Republican papers.
It is pretty evident that the President has
not lost confidence in Mr. Garland on ac
count of his connection with the Pan-Elec
tric telephone business. It is also evident
that Mr. Garland wants to lie a member of
the Supreme Court. The President, under
these circumstances, may determine to ap
point him, although knowing that the ap
pointment would be an unpopular one.
It is said that the Supreme Court Justices
are very much concerned about the selec
tion of a Justice. They not Only want an
able man for an associate, but. they want
one who will be in all respects agreeable Jo
them. Of course they will not be consulted.
If they should be, it is said that they would
not favor Mr. (tarland. This may,be unjust
to the Attorney General, but it is ihe goFqp
of Washington. The Justices have hot
shown any hostility to him, but they do not,
it seems, have as high an opinion of his
legal acquirements as they had when lie was
appointed to his present office. His argu
ments before the court have not, it is alleged,
been of a character to sustain tho reputation
he hail of being a great lawyer.
There is no doubt that Mr. Garland would
lie confirmed if he were appointed. The
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee, Mr. Edmunds, is his warm personal
friend, and as the nomination must go to
that committee for a report, there is no rea
son to doubt that it would be reported fa
vorably. 11l fact, about all the Senators re
gard the Attorney General with kindly feel
ings, nnd though some of them may think
he was indiscreet in having anything to do
with the Pan-Electric telephone, it is doubt
ful if any of them believe that he was guilty
of any intentional wrong doing.
The Baltimore Herald is of the opinion
that “revivalism” does not pay. It says
that when Sam Jones and Sam Small were
in Baltimore last year their services were
attended by great throngs and many persons
were converted. It is expected that Sam
Jones will soon revisit the city, and con
servative ministers of religion express the
opinion that lie will find most of liis con
verts traveling the wrong road. Experi
ence seems to prove that the money spent
on “revivalism” would cause more satisfac
tory and lasting results if expended in sup
porting regular church services.
The Philadelphia Record has this: “If
Henry George had ever felled trees, pulled
the stumps and grubbed out tho roots on an
acre of ‘new ground’ he would have an in
finitely clearer view' of the land question
than he can evolve out of his inner con
sciousness.” Of course, but Henry prefers
to “talk and talk” nnd take up a collection
when he gets through.
A rumor is current in New York tliat Mr.
G. W. Williams, of Charleston, has deter
mined to pay nil the debts of Williams, Bir
ney & Cos., a firm which failed in New York
in 1ST! 1 . The indebtedness of the firm is
aliout $3,500,000. Mr. Williuins is an honest
niun, and his proposed payment of Williams,
llimey & Co.'s debts is commendable, but
he ought to call on Birney for assistance.
A Washington correspondent hints, that
the British holders of Virginia bonds will
demand payment of the United Stab*. The
same correspondent intimates that. Mi.
Blaine favors the scheme. These are things
it will lie well for the people oi the "wintry
to remember.
- - Mi
l'he Sun Francisco Alta wants to know
what is the initiation fee in the McGlynn-
Gcorge Anti-Poverty Society. It dqiends
upon circumstances. The society will tuke
all it can get in fees, great or small, and
never fails to send around the collection hat
besides.
The Galveston, (Tex.) bar wants Judge A.
H. Willie t<> fill the vacant position on the
bench of tho United States Supreme Court.
It is a pity to disappoint the Galveston liar,
but a Georgian will lie appoint**!, and then
th ) court will sing: “Oh, Willie, we have
missed thee.”
A New Orleans man whose enemy kicked
li in across the stmt into n molasses barrel
o irefuliv extricated himself, licked his lips
and cheerfully remarked: “Bwoet are the
usew of adversity.”
CURRENT COMMENT.
Which Eye is Meant.
From the Missouri Rejmblican 1 Dent.)
The New York Herald reports that Mr. Theo
dore Roosevelt has "an eye on the Presidency.”
The country will never lie satisfied until it learns
further whether it is the one he screws his eye
glass in.
It is Unequally Distributed Every
where.
From York World (Dun.)
The recent evictions in Pennsylvania make it
probable that our high protective tariff is cither
too high or too low. The protection enjoyed by
Peansylvania seems to be very unequally dis
tributed. since a small percentage of the people
get about all of it.
McGlynn and George.
From the Nashville Vnion (Dem .)
The printelmovers in the Anti-Poverty Society,
Dr. McGlynn and Henry George, are commenc
ing early to practice what they preach. A col
lection is an invariable featur- < f their lectures:
they live in good style, and are p tting fat. The
softest berth known Is that ol die sharp trick
ster who preys on the credulity of his fellow
men. McGlynn and George are’ getting out of
the woods of pwyerty at railroad speed.
Why Not?
From the: Boston Herald (Did.)
On the whole, why would it not !s> bettor for
the United States aiid Canada to unite and be
come me country Thar would give reciprocity
of trade and settle the fishery disputes and re
move all the official barriers which separate a
homogeneous people. Under our system each
Canadian province erected into a State would
enjoy local self-government, and the flag of the
free would wave over all. Why not?
BRIGHT BITS. '
Miss Catherine lleathoi.nl. known as “the
maid of Kent." has just celebrated her 103d birth
day. The maid of Kent seems to be made of
iron.— Boston Transcript.
Magistrate to a Witness— What is your pro
fession?
A lawyer.
Well try to fbrget it while giving your testi
mony.—Baris Figaro.
Madame to Maid—Francoise, why do you
clean my boots with a toothbrush?
Maid to Madame—Madame, the fact is, the
other brushes are so large, and madame s boots
are so small.— lsmdon Globe.
The widows: Speaking of the dear departed,
one of them remarked with emotion: "I shall
never, never forget the date of his death, such a
terrible blow it was to me! "How long ago did
he die? Two or three year* '—Paris paper.
Smith— Here you are beastly drunk again!
Don't you feel ashamed of yourself after swear
ing off so recently ?
.Jones—My dear bo—hie—oy. I don’t want ter
be a slave to that swearing utT habit.— Tid-Bits.
Speaking about the artist who painted fruit
so naturally that the birds <qime and pecked at
it," said the fat reporter. "1 drew a hen that was
so true to life that after the sage threw it into
the waste basket it laid there.— Peabody Re
porter.
“A young married woman In lowa takes long
moonlight strolls with the ghost of a former
lover." No doubt if her husband was to be ap
prised of her actions he w< mid say "it’s immate
rial.” You couldn’t specter to . Butgnome
matter. — Norristown Herald.
Seance of Hypnotism- The operator has ren
dered his subject insensible. He then drops
molten tallow into each of his eyes, places a
lighted match in each ear and then pours a bot
tleful of asafetida into his mouth. “Tell me
what you feel now.’’ he asks. “Unspeakable
joy!’’—Boris Figaro.
“Johnson, who do you take after in height,
anyhow?”
"W'y. I doan know, I'm suah. Hain’t none
ob my folks tall ’cept ilat oldes’ boy ob mine,
an' recon I mus’ take arter him."— Harper's
Bazar.
First brave bank burglar—What's become of
Bill?
S< ond brave bank burglar—He’s one of these
’ere politicians. <
"Does he get his swag that way?”
“Yes: puts up jobs on the tax payers and sich
things.”
"Well, he allers was a kind of a sneakin' cuss."
—Omaha World.
“I’ve got the most money!” he shouted across
the street, as he held up a nickel.
“I don’t keer for that. My father has been
arrested.”
"So'.s mine.”
“But they took mine down in a patrol wagon
and your's had to walk.”—New York Witness
“That’s not a bad landscape—the new one
there, I mean. Who painted ft?”
“A young chap named Sincere.”
“Has he studied abroad?”
“Yes, indeed. Why, he was a favorite pupil
of Raphael, or Michael Angelo, or some other
old master: though I don't exactly remember
which it was.”— Town Topics.
In the morning gray and early,
When a man feels mighty surely.
Comes the ily,
Pretty fly!
And it wakes him from his sleeping
With its innocent bo peeping.
With its buzzing and its nipping,
With its biting and its skipping,
Prevents his morning napping.
Wears him out with constant slapping!
Does the fly'
Pretty fly!
Drat the fly!
—Merchant Traveler.
PERSONAL. ,
Tai.magk will lx- the Decoration day orator at
the Academy of Music in New York.
Tm: wife of Supreme Court Justice Strong,
retired, is in seriously failing health.
The Empi-ess of Austria walked twenty-five
miles the other day without taking a rest.
George ArorsTrs Sat.a, who has been 111 for
a year, has regained his health by a sojourn at
Rome.
Secretary Whitney denies the report that he
intends to- sell ‘'Grasslands" to the Vanderbilts
or anybody else.
It is said that the Czar of Russia has a photo
graph album containing pictures of all the men
who have tried to kill him.
The opera house at Northampton, Mass., is
always crowded on Sundays at the Bible read
ings of Mr. George W. Cable. .
“The Mission Bells of Monterey” is the title
of a new song by Bret Ilarte. The music was
composed by Charles Gounod.
John Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, will de
liver tin- oration before the graduating class of
the Yale Law School, June at.
Mr. Abell, of the Baltimore Nun, with $20,-
000.000 or more at his tack, is said to be the
richest newspaper man in the world.
K. S. Cleveland. Charles tludloy Warner, and
Robert Colt are the committee on tbe Nathan
Hale static to he ei-eted hi th topitol at Hart
ford, Conn., next autumn.
Robert Bonner, of the New York Ledger,
lives in a square, brown stone house which is a
copy of hundreds of others In New York. He is
worth $5,000,000 or $0,000,000.
President Cleveland has received an invita
tion for himself and Mrs. Cleveland to spend the
month of June at Fauquier Whit- Sulphur
Springs, instead of remaining at Oak View.
Ct-own Prince Ri'ooi.ph, of Austria, during
three days at Berezeneze, recently shot with his
own .gun forty-seven bond of roebucks, a feat
unprecedented in the annals of Kuropean sport.
The insane Duchess of Cumberland remem
bered her mother-in-law's birthday. She sent
the aged Queen of Hanover a bouquet of lilies
of the valley, with a message that she sent, as
many kisses as it contained blossoms. The
Queen shed tears over the loving token.
Joseph K. Shcltz, a well-known farmer of
Lancaster comity, I’a.. has just completed sales
of his tobacco crop, showing a total yield of
S!WO (>er acre for last year The census makes
Lincaster the richest agricultural county iu the
Union.
Anna M. Longshore Potts. M. 1),, is the name
of an American Quakeress who is lecturing on
physiology and hygiene to London auditors.
Site boldly asserts that the human media not
descended from monkeys, ami that the lvgula
t ion dress of men anti women is ridiculously mi
heulthful. She possesses a strong vein of
"American humor ' ami it drawing large houses
Fifty years ago the Rev. S. F. Smith, now of
Boston, wrote "My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.” On
Monday night this gentleman, now 79 years of
age, but still remarkably hearty, was entertained
b.v the ladles of the Grand Army of the Ropub
licnt their pcrlotu in ChlgSgo. Though Hie Iv
or pi ion was also in honor of the reverend post's
w ire, she was not present, owing to 111 health. A
very enjoyable evening w as spent.
"Geohoe \V. CHILDS owns the Philadelphia
Ijfrig’-r, and-1 ms e not toll men of ordinary In
formation,'' says Joe Howard, “that Mr. Childs
who never luvepted a public office in his life;
that Mr. Childs, who could have been Minister
to England; that Mr. -Child-. who w-us offered
re) statedly a rent in our national cabinet, has I
iever had the fnei.d.ibip. the esteem, the confi
dence of the Preeidi-nt of tbe United butce.be i
he Demccrut or Republican " J
Legation Bloods on a Tear.
From Washington Letter to the Baltimore
American.
The escapades of the young scions of the for
eign legations here would term interesting and
readable chapters if written out a-s related about !
them. There is one thing that can be said to
the credit of these young bloods, and that is.
they don’t ever charge their little misdoings to
‘malaria,’' as many of the statesmen do. They
frankly admit that. Washington beer and whisky
get the better of them, and causes their blood to I
get livelier than their own native drinks would
do. Washington people have got used to the
pranks of the youngsters and let them go ahead
unmolested, unless they should come across
some hard-fisted American who gets upon his
• ear” at some affront, and the boys get a tum
ble. The boys, however, take t is- tumble with
out a murmur, and should they show up a
black eye, a post ov nn accident answers as a
blind to stop the girls from, being over-in
quisitive as to the cause. About 2
o’clock this morning a number of the
voung men connected with the Portuguese and
British legations felt like they ought to
do something funny, very funny, that they
might talk about to the boys, you know.
Young Nogueiras and his British friend per
suaded a night-liner to rent out his hack at that
hour of the morning to them for a little fun.
The conditions were that, the “Jehu” was to sit
in state in the hack and Nogueiras and his
friends were to mount the horses, while the
third man of the legation party was to occupy
the driver’s box. It took some talk to get tne
•‘cabbie" to consent, and it was only after a
guarantee was made that all damage to horse
flesh and the hack would be paid for. The party
took their positions, and with a war whoop the
equipage started from Seventh street and Penn
sylvania avenue, down Pennsylvania and return,
then down Seventh street, and in the aristo
cratic part of the city. Policemen stopped them,
but they could do nothing Jwith the frolicsome
youths: they were "legation” men, you know,
and they wanted to have fun, and they did have
it : but the risks they ran startled many sober
sided people who saw them. The "cabbie" en
joyed tne fun, as he impersonated "royalty",
and got well laid for it.
Mr. Evarts Got a Reply.
From the American Magazine for Mag.
A correspondent who has been reading the
anecdotes about Senators in our last number
was an eye-witness of the follow ing occurence:
At New York city, in the fall of ISS—, a iause
was tried before Judge Sutherland, in which the
law firm of Evarts. Southmayd & Choate
appeared for the defense. Mr. Evarts made the
concluding argument, and the fame of the
great counseler secured for him a considerable
audience of lawyers from neighboring courts,
in addition to many persons who had more or
less interest in the'proceedings.
Mr. Evarts had been speaking for some hours
and was evidently nearing his peroration. He
began to sum up his arguments and asked im
pressively whet answer could be made to them.
Again he placed the points in lucid array, and
again asked a similar question. Then a third
time he restated his cnj with vivid eloquence,
and once more, in louder tones, wound up with:
"What is their answer?”
He paused. You could have heard a pin drop.
Suddenly the door of the court room opened,
and a peddler, sticking his head and a feather
duster into the opening, cried out:
“Brooms!"
In a moment the room was ringing with un
controlablr laughter, in which everybody joined
—even the Judge on the bench and the orator
himself. Mr. Evarts, however, kept on his feet,
and was the first to recover composure. With
his hand raised to command attention, as the
roar subsided, he said, solemnly:
"That was not, indeed, the reply which I ex
pected. But you may rest assured that when
you do get their answer you will find it equally
frivolous and inconsequent.”
It Stopped Their Boom.
From the Dakota Bell.
“Having a boom here?” asked a stranger as
he put his head out of a car window at a Dakota
station.
"Naw!” replied a native.
“That’s strange—thought every place had one
this spring.”
“They lie, mostly,” and the man sighed and
leaned up against the depot.
"Then why isn't this tow n having one?”
“W'y, you sec, stranger, it was owin’ to a
little mismanagement. We platted a big
Brighton Beach boulevard addition over on the
lake j’inin’ the town, and you know the land
there is just a little bit soft like. Well, the first
spectator that come along the boys got too fast
and took him down to it. and he started to walk
off across the lots and I'm blamed if he didn't
stick there and we couldn't git to him to pull
him out.”
"How long ago did it happen? ’
“’Bout two weeks."
“He must be dead, then?”
“Oh, ves, I reckon he's dead nil right enough
but before he sunk out o’ sight he hollered to
other buyers that we took down and warned
them ‘bout the place and somehow- capitalists
kinder got prejudiced ag’in' our real estate and
we haint havin' no boom a-tall. I’m goin' to
move.”
A Military Dancing School.
From St. Nicholas for June.
One of the morning duties at West Point is
the dancing lesson. Each class has an hour a
day allotted to it. The dancing master calls
dance, the pianist strikes up n lively tune, and
the cadets revolve and gyrate in couples about
the room. They can hardly fail to become good
dancers when all enter into the spirit of it with
so much heartiness. The dancing master is the
jolliest of short, tat Frenchmen.
“Attention, cavaliers I" he calls. “In ze valtz
ze right foot es advance, so; zen ze left, and ze
right brought up, so! Now—.me, two. tree;
one, two tree!” and ho sways his body and half
closes his eyes as he chants the numbers, while
the whole roomful of boys moves as he directs.
Suddenly he sees a cadet leaning against the
wall, and he darts across the room to mm.
“Ah, monsieur, vy do you not dance?”
“Can't get the step,” is the reply.
“Oh, et is verry easy! I vill get you a part
ner.” And away he goes to another, who also
has difficulty wit h the step, and. panting and red
ir. the face, brings him to the scene. "Now. Mees
Fisher, allow me to introduce Monsieur John
son; now you will dance.” And “Johnson and
‘Mees’ Fisher" bow. and redden at the laughter
around them, and then try again.
Gone After Him. .
From the Dakota Hell.
A stranger was riding in Fall River county.
Dak., when he met a small boy returning from
school in the forenoon.
‘What are you going home for this time of
day?” he asked.
“No school to-day,”
“Why not?”
“Teacher went ’way on bns’ness.”
“What kind of business?”
“Oh. he's gone with the other boys.’*
“What after?”
“Ye know Doc Thompson?”
"No.”
“Alec Fiddler?"
“Never heard of him.”
“Well, they was boss thieves and the bovs
lynched ’em on a cottonwood tree at the
Cheyenne crosssng, ye know.’’
“All, yes, I see; and now yotir teacher has
gone with the rest of the committee to get the
lienee of the gang.”
“Naw, they're after the man what cut down
the tree. The pop’lnr feelin’ in this country,
stranger, is ag'u choppiii’ down trees what have
lied the distinction ol holdin' up a citizen by the
neck.”
The New Baby.
What strange little man can this be,
So weird and so wizened and wise?
What mystical things has he seen
With those wide-opened, wondering eyes?
What treasures untold, from what lands
Do his soft baby-fingers enfold?
Wbnt word does lie bring from afar,
The stranger so young yet so old!
Does he bring us some message from spheres
Unheard of, from words we know not,
Starry countries we dwell in mayhap,
As babies, and now have forgot?
Who can tell what he knows, what he thinks?
He says not a word but he looks.
In a minute, more wisdom, I’ll swear,
Thau shut in the biggest of books.
Slary Norton Bradford.
Mr. Powderly as a Cowboy.
From the Denver News.
While the part y were walking up Sixteenth
street Mr Powderly’s attention was attracted to
a big cowboy’s hat. elaborately trimmed with
beads and bi-aids, lie stopped and regarded It
fora moment and big Alderman JfcUilvray
went Inside und bought it. Ho caste out w itti
it in his hand and gave It to Mr. Pujrderly,
telling him that ir vas n souvenir of Denver.
"All right; I'll wear it.” said Mr. Powderly,
nod he did. lie walked half u block in it, hut
the remarks of pedestrians on the contrast !*•-
tween the hat and Mr. l’owderly s neat broad
cloth suit ant! intellectual countenance was too
much for him, anti he took refuge in tilt; Mc-
Clelland block.
An enterprising photographer spid hint ami
asked permission to take a photograph, which
request was granted
Mr. Beans (leading English history)—The
Prince of Wales In 179 t) -
Mrs. Boggs (interrupting)—The Prince of
Wales iu 17118! Goodness! I didn’t know the
ITutce of Wales was such an old wan us that!—
Detroit Free Frees.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
About the latest is a glass-bottomed boat,
used, according to a correspondent of the Inter-
Ocean, to gaze down tipon the beauties of the
bottom of the sea at Nassau.
A Chinaman recently sent the following tele
gram to a Pacific coast railway odlcial: "I ship
pee you two car load hog. No eatchee pass.
Wbattee matter. Ah Fook."
Greenfield, Mass., having voted not to grant
liquor licenses, its thirsty citizens are now culti
vating a taste for hard eide?\ which is said to be
“literally flowing into town."
A New Orleans banker, who was fond of
using Latin to enrieh his conversation, was
asked one evening by a young lady in a hotel,
where he hail been. “On! just outside in the
cupsadore, walking pro and con,” he replied.
Excessive hope jumping has already begun
to send the little ones prematurely to their
graves. The death of a girl in Pittsburg last
week was ascribed to it. and also is the pre
carious condition of another child in the same
city.
An advertisement in the shape of what
seemed to be barrels filled with Treasiu-y notes
in the window of a Providence, R. 1., store, at
tracted the attention of a thief, who broke the
windows, captured and got away with two Si-0
notes.
A curious incident in police court annals oc
curred in Chicago. A policeman arrested his
own son among some small boys who were
caught playing pool at night, and bailed him
out after a little conference in the family resi
dence.
Josiah Whitney, a very active citizen of
Nukomis, 111., has just celebrated his 91st birth
day. The entire Whitney family assembled on
that occasion and gave the venerable head of
the house a birthday cake of ninety-one layers,
each child, grandchild and great-grandchild con
tributing a layer.
Another miser has passed away. He lived in
a town near Denver, Col., and, as Is not gen
erally the case, left a will iiequeathir.g his entire
fortune. The latter can't lie found, however,
and the heirs are busily engaged night and day
in ransacking his late home in hopes of recover
ing it,.estimated at between $25,000 and $50.(100.
The possibility of Gen. Gordon still being alive
is still discussed occasionally in London. The
Academy lately gave space to a letter from
Trieste, reporting the testimony of a youth to
the effect that it was a Turkish soldier who re
sembled Gen. Gordon that was lulled. As to
where Gen. Gordon, if 1 alive, has been all this
time nothing is said.
An English lady has hit upon a novel mode of
obtaining jubilee subscriptions. She asked her
laundress to contribute. The woman said that
she had a large family and could not, so the lady
informed her that a trifle would be deducted
each week from the washing bill, and that if she
were not prepared to agree to this the Washing
would be taken from her.
From the roofs of houses and other command
ing eminences people in Burlington.Vt..watched
through field-glasses last Friday a groat com
motion on Lake Champlain, about four miles
from there. Some say it was a squall and
water spout, others some kind of a large fish,
while one old captain stoutly maintains that it
was only a flock of geese.
Two Boston boys ran away from home last
week, carrying with them a large sum of money
and a couple of ferocious-looking revolvers.
They got as far as New York when a couple of
other lads took their pistols and money from
them. Without further desire to look for beam
or Indians they were then in meek mood anxious
to get back home. Police officers took charge
of them.
The Queen Regent of Spain is a most ener
getic and skilled needlewoman, and, as her even
ings are exempt from state ceremonies during
her deep mourning, Dona Christina spends most
of her spare time in embroidery. She has just
finished a magnificent flag for anew ironclad
named after her, the Reiua Itegente, the stand
ard being over eleven yards long and six and a
half wide.
Says an advertisement in a medical journal:
“Skeletons have ruled firm and active through
out the year, with prices unchanged. We have
been able to supply the demand for the common
varieties promptly, but the finer grades were
scarce, and orders for deformities could uot
always be filled at once. In this regard the
market is still unchanged, although our broker
in Paris has orders to buy everything offered at
the usual rates.”
Royal yachts cost high in England. The
original cost of the Victoria and Albert was
about £136,000, and she has since had spent on
her over £300,000. The Osborne’s original cost
was about £100,000,a ml she has had about £112,-
000 expended on her. The Alberta's original
cost was £27,000, with a subsequent expenditure
of £68.000. The Elfin’s original cost was £6.000,
the subsequent ex[ienditure being over £40,000.
Besides these interesting items the annual pay
of the officers and crews of the royal yachts is
close upon £50,000!
Someone has thus figured on the ingredients
of a ton of coal. Besides gas, a ton of gas coal
will yield 1.500 pounds of coke. 20 gallons of
ammonia water and 140 pounds of coal tar. De
structive distillation of the coal tar gives 69.6
pounds of pitch. 17 pounds of creosote, 14
pounds of heavy oils, 9.5 pounds of naphtha yel
low, 8.3 pounds of naphthaline, 4.75 pounds of
naphthol, 2.25 pounds of alizarine, 2.4 pounds of
solvent naphtha, 1.6 pounds of phenol, 1.2
pounds of aurine, 1.1 pounds of analine, 0.77
pound of toludine, 0.46 pound of anthracino and
0.9 pound of toluene.
Some remarkable work has been done in the
way of preparing type-writer copies of the tes
timony at the Standard Oil conspiracy trial
now going on before Judge Haight, at Buffalo,
N. Y. Over 700 pages of evidence have been
tnkpn during the week, which means 140,000
words. Four type writer copies are made for
the attorneys engaged in the case, and when
court opens each dav the testimony of the pre
ceding day is always ready for their use. Hat
urday even better work was done, and when
court convened at 2 o’clock, the printed evi
dence of the case up to adjournment at 12:30,
an hour and a half before, was lying on the
law’yers’ table,
“Barry Cornwall,” in his autobiography, re
lates the following of the author of “The
Pleasures of Hope:” “Campbell had mentioned
that some pigeons w hich frequented his house
deserted the place soon after his wife fell ill and
have never since returned. On the day of her
death, in the place of the pigeons which had
flown away, and which were a blue or gray or
some such color, came two pigeons perfectly
milk w hite and settled on her ttedroom window.
After remaining there some time—much longer
titan is usual with birds where there arc persons
moving to aud fro Hi a room—they also flew off.
She expressed n wish that they should return.
’But atthmtgfr Tcannot have them, I have you,'
she sail!, turning to her husband. In a minute
or two afterward she died."
The French are discussing a question in Lon
don. A Frenchman in London, from the fre
quent pawning of his watch, learned that
pawnbrokers test the watch by touching an
acid to the knob. He inherited 15,0tX) francs,
and immediately went to Geneva, where he
ordered 2*Xt watches, the cases of copper (heavily
gilt) and tbe knobs of pure go and They cost him
40 francs each. He went to Lond n. and in a few
'lays pawned the 200 watches. The pawnbrokers
tested the knobs, and advanced him 70 francs on
each, a gain of over 80 francs on the cost. Then
lie walked about the streets and dropped the
pawn tickets here and there, and the persons
who found them, ail lining dishonest, went next
day und redeemed the watches. Thus the tjnwn
brokers lost nothing, and the dishonest finders
of the tickets paid 70 franc* for 10 franc
w-atehes. As only the dishonest persons who
found the tickets were victimized, the French
moralists an l uncertain whether to condemn the
shrewd operator as a swindler.
Writino of the statesman who Is commonly
looked tipou as the successor to-lie of M. de
Giersin the Russian Foreign Office, a correg
pont of Figaro, Paris, remarks that his sixty
years sit lightly on Count Ignatieff. Tall, pow
erfully built. he is physically not inferior to
Prince Bismarck. He wears his hair in a pecu
liar way, the parting being just above his left
<vr and the hair nil brushed ucross the bead to
ward tbe l ight side. His moustache is short
and thin an 1 bangs down on both sides of his
mouth Notwithstanding his recent illness he
appears full of strength ami energy. The Count
does not love i’rincc Ricmarck and gives the fol
lowing account of (he present schemes of tbe
German Chancellor with regard to France: "Ills
only object is to make other nations suspicious
o! France, since he can no longer plunge her
into some adventures iu which she would 10. e
tn r military security. He will do anyth ng
to compromise her. He will held Belgl in, up
he;, .re her r.ud preserve Holland for her If the
French government will warrant him the peace
tul posscHsisn of Alsace-Lorraine, and if bv a
mischance you east an eye toward Belgium', if
only to laugh at the proposition, he will at once
say to Europe: ‘ljOok at this. France! title is al
ways the siime; she is still carrying about one
Idea. Here she is trying to violate the neu
trality of Belgium. Europe oulurt to make se
cure against this!’"
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GREAT BARGAIN WEEK.
PLATSHEK’S,
139 Broughton Street,
Will place on sale this week a mammoth lot of
goods from the recent large auction sal? of
Field. Chapman & Fenner, New York, compris
ing the following:
While and Colored Embroidered Dress Robes,
Cambric Edgings,
Nainsook Edgings,
Swiss Edgings and Flouncings,
Colored Hamburg Edgings,
Egyptian Laces,
Egyptian All-overs,
Egyptian Flouncings,
Colored Oriental Edgings and Flouncings to
match.
All-over; in Every Make, Black Chantilly
Flouncings and All-overs,
Black Spanish ’Guimpure Fiouncings and
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Valenciennes Flouncings, Laces and All*
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Parasols! Parasols! Parasols!
In connection with th( above grand offers we
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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
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Age brings infirmities, sucb as sI'HP
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MANHOOD S
ng Premature Decay, Nervous Debility, Lost
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