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4 /ClrcPoriungßctus Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. TUESDAY. MAY 24, 1887. Rcmsterrd at the Post Office in Savannah. Tho Moiucimg is published every day in t'uo year, and is served to sntiecrihers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week. Si 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and 810 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, SI 00: throe mouths, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six mouths, $4 (X) one year. $8 00. The Morning News. Tri Weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. 82 50; one y'ear, 8-' 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1 85. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, cheek or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters atid teleprams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah. Ga.” Advertising; rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings— Chippewa Tribe No. 4, 1. O. R. 51. Steamship Schedule— Baltimore Steamship Cos. Ckf.ap Column AnvEßTisEMEicrs— Help Wanted; Kmployment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Summer Resorts; Personal; Lost; Miscella neous. Grand Special Sale— D. Weisbein. Removal—Nicholas Lang. Akg and Stoves—Cornwell & Ohlpman. Notice— Mrs. H. Y. Cohen. H. B. Plant. Lawn Tennis —D. W. Granbert & Cos., New York. Summer Resorts —Brookside Farm, J. A. Royce, lanesboio, Berkshire Cos., Mass. Auction Sales— Crockery, etc., by C. H. Dor sett; Good Investment in Real Estate by I. D. La Roche's Sons; Grocery Store; Sale of Furni ture, etc., by J, McLaughlin & Son. Gas Fixtures —John Nicolson. Pearl Top Lamp Chimneys -Macbeth & Cos. The Morning New3 for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have-the Morning News forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, 81 for a month or $2 50 for three months, cash invariably in ad vance. The address may be changed os often as desired. In directing a change care should be taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while away, should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. Mr. Blaine will find that running a cam paign by proxy is as profitless as getting married by proxy. Who is to pay for rejiaving the streets of Canadian cities tom up by the mobs that have tried to kill Editor O’Brien? The Philadelphia Base Ball Club ttalks of paying the Detroit Club 818,000 for three of the latter’s men. The anti-slavery societies will have to be reorganized. In New York, the other night, a Miss Thompson, whose homo is in Macon, Ga., heroically prevented a serious fire. The Georgia girl is a whole team at home or abroad. The most significant commentary on the MoGlynn-George Anti-Poverty Society is the fact, that industrious men refuse to have anything to do with it. It is the loafers that join the society. Having failed to arouse enthusiasm by nominating Southern editors for the Vico Presidency, the New York Herald will probably try some Western man who is in terested in natural gas. The suggestion has been made that Wash ington shall be considered the national mat rimonial exchange. Many a disappointed mamma, who lias vainly tried to got rid of her daughters at Washington, will reject the Suggestion with scorn. The statement of Mr. E. T. Shubric, As sistant Keeper of the Penitentiary, that many discharged convicts seek and obtain work from the lessees, is interesting. It is evidence that the convicts ore well treated. Mr. Shubric is of too high character to mis represent the - facts, The sea tried to gobble up Clara Louise Kellogg at Halifax, the Other day, but Maurice Strakosch rushed in and pulled her Dut. She was trying to get a seaweed and slipped into the water from a rock. Let us be thankful that Clara was saved. She is no of the few American singers who have act taken an Italian name. Frank Boynton, of Bar Mills, Me., com mitted suicide the other day by throwing himself into a small pond of water near his residence. He had been summoned to ap pear before a grand jury to testify against a neighbor, and rather than obey he ended his life. He deserves a monument. Too tnnny men are only too willing to do their neighbors harm. Mr. George W. Williatus, of Charleston, is said to be greatly annoyed by the state ments made in New York papers nbout his sonnection with tho failure of Williams, Birnie & Cos. He says that he docs not con ifer himself respoasiblo for the gambling debts of his partner. Ho claims, also, that he paid $1,400,144 51 for losses incurred by Birnie in speculation in cotton futures. At Buffalo, N. Y., indignation on account of the way Editor O’Brien was treated in Canada is at fever heat. Regarding the treatment of the reporters who were with Editor O’Brien the Mayor of the city ex presses himself in very plain terms. Ho thinks the United States government should rail on Canada for reparation. Editor D’Brien would accomplish more than he in *nded if he should become the cause of trouble between this country and Canada. Girls whose years are “swiftly gliding by” Might to pac k up and goto Forgo, Dak. The editor of the Argus says: “Weare living in one of the finest climates on the American rontinent. Wo have good farms, school louses and churches, but still our future oks gloomy, for there are no girls here to make us wives. There is one girl living in our district who had eighty offers of marriage within two months, flow there are four more girls in the district. That will leave about seventy-five men, mostly young and middle-aged, who don’t know where to get wives. (Mu’ wealth ranges from S2OO to SB,OOO. In religion we are considerably divided. All denominations are found here, and in general we ore of a good, moral cliar icter. Will some girls kindly correspond with us? We shall be glad to answer every letter faithfully.” McGlynn’s Case Sottied. Tho letter of the Pope to Archbishop Cor rigan, which we published in our disjmtches Sunday, indicates very clearly that the head of the Catholic church does not pro pose to show further leniency to Dr. Me- Glynn. He must choose at once between his Socialistic teachings and his allegiance to tho Catholic church. He cannot longer advocate the Henry George theory that ownership in laud is robbery, and retain his priestly office. Dr. McGlynn has all along contended that, the Poi>e had not investigated Henry George's land theories, and that when he did he would find in them nothing inconsistent with the teachings of the Catholic church. The letter, however, leaves no doubt that he has examined them and that he con demns them. In this connection it is worthy of notice that the effort to induce the Pope to con demn the Knights of Labor failed. No good reason appeared, when their case was dis cussed at Rome, why the church should in terfere with an organization of workingmen which had only legitimate purposes in view. The Knights of Labor organization, how ever, is a very different thing from the land confiscation scheme which Henry George and Dr. McGlynn are advocating. The purpose of the former is the improvement of the condition of workingmen, though various causes may prevent that purpose from being accomplish ed. The effect of the latter, if it were car ried out, would bo to overthrow society and substitute chaos for order. Of course tho church cannot permit its teachers to advo cate a scheme so hostile to its best interests and the interests of society. The approval of the course of Archbishop Corrigan,which is very pronounced in the let ter of the Pope, is the strongest kind of con demnation of Dr. McGlynn and those who have sided with him in his disobedience. Dr. McGlynn knows now that he has been shown all the consideration that is likely to be extended to him. He has been dealt with kindly and has been given every chance to repair his error. If he still persists in his course he will be excommunicated. He may continue to teach Socialism, but he will not do so as a priest of the Catholic church. Coroners’ Juries. The death of Green Riekerson in the Bibb county jail recalls a case which must be of interest to all those who watch the proceed ings of coroners’ juries in this Stated One Sunday morning upon the Central railroad track, near Mercer University, in the city of Macon, a negro man was found dead. Several trains had passed over him, and his body was fearfully mangled. By his clothes, however, lie was identified as a well known hack man. Most of the Coroner's jury were of the opinion that the hackman had had been killed by a train, and such would have been the verdict if a police officer and a newspaper reporter had not made objec tions. These two made a careful examina tion up and down the track near the spot where the body was found, and discovered a pool of blood which indicated that the unfortunate hackman had been killed and afterwards placed upon the railroad track. Upon the suggestion of the officer and the reporter the jury spent sev eral days investigating the case, and the result was a verdict charging Green Riek erson with having murdered the baekman. Rickersou was arrested, tried and convicted, and but for his death would undoubtedly have suffered the penalty of his crime. One of the results of the painstaking work of the jury was that the Central railroad was saved a suit' for heavy damages. , Another was that succeeding coroner’s juries in Bibb county have made it a rule to discharge their duties leisurely and with the object of getting at the truth. The inefficiency of coroners’ juries in Georgia has passed into a proverb. The sit tings are usually short, the examinations hurried and superficial, ending in the ex jienditure of the State's money without compensating results. In most cases the verdict amounts to nothing more than this: “We, the jury, find that the dead man now lying before us is dead.” Coroners, in common with other officers of the law, have an important duty to dis charge. Whenever it is necessary to sum mon a jury they ought to see that the in vestigation in hand is a thorough one. Otherwise the ends of justice may be de feated. It would be better to spend a month upon a single investigation than to let a crime go unpunished. A cable dispatch to the New York World tells an interesting story of tho Emporor William’s escape from death by the prank of a cat. The Emperor generally regales himself in front of his bedroom fire with a supper of fried fish before retiring at night. With his usual keenness for economizing time tho old man cats his supper seated on a patent steaming apparatus ordered by his physicians. A small boiler is placed over tho fire, and from this an India rubber tube conveys steam into a small cell under the patient’s chair. While the Emperor was eating his sup ]>or and enjoying the moist heat of the steam, a puff of smoke and soot came down the chimney and mode him start so violent ly that the tube was disconnected ajid tho boiling water poured all over tho room. The Emperor’s luck did not desert him, however, and he escaped without a scald, to find that a cat attracted by the smell of the fried fish, had attempted to descend the chimney and hail got stuck in tha flue, thus causing the puff of smoke and soot. Hero after the Emperor's guards will doubtlees keep a strict watch upon all stray cats. The Travelers’ Protective Association, which was in session at Cleveland, 0., last week, indulged in a heated discussion of the interstate commerce law. One delegate told tho correspondent of a New York paper that the traveling men had resolved to make themselves felt in politics during the next Congressional campaign, with a view to electing representatives favorable to the re peal of the law. The delegate in question said of tho law: ‘‘lt is outrageous robbery in these days of railroad conijietition. In fact, it destroys all competition ns far ns we are concerned.” The Travelers’ Protective Association has a membership of moro than 10,<KK), and a singlo traveling man coil easily out-talk half a dozen candidates for Congress. The other day Mayor Knrcheval, of Nash- , ville, received a letter from Philadelphia notifying him that a plot was on foot to de stroy all monuments to tho Confederate dead throughout the Southern States. The letter stub*! that agents had already started for Nashville, New Orleans, Charleston, Columbia and Memphis. It is hardly prob able tliat such a plot is really on foot, but if it is the agent* sent South to carry it out would do well to muko their wills without delay, ,* THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, M^ra"lßß7. Sherman’s Effort in Ohio. Evidences are multiplying in Ohio that Senator John Sherman proposes to make the great effort of his lifo to secure the Presi dential nomination of his party next year. It is stated that his managers have been trying to purchase the support of an influ ential Cincinnati newspaper, and have failed. They regard an organ in Cincinnati as a necessity, but there doesn’t apptar to be much prospect of their getting one. The fact npiiears to be that Blaine's friends are stronger than ever before in Ohio. It is even hinted that Gov. Foraker stands a chance of having more of tho delegates to the national convention than Sherman. The Governor is the leader of the young Republicans, and is very popular with them. He has an idea that the Presi dential lightning may strike him. Of course if Shoi-man cannot get the solid delegation from his own State he will stand no chance of lining nominated. Indeed, he would have to decline to permit his name to go before the convention. He is. a very shrewd politician, however, and may sur prise his enomies so far as his own State is concerned. Sherman hopes, if he can carry his own State, that the Southern delegations will flock to him. It is not improbable that ho has some hope of getting the colored dele gates. His trip through the South a couple of months ago had for its object the stirring up of the npgro voters. They don’t know much about him, but if their preachers favor him hocan depend on them to work and vote for him, , If Mr. Sherman isn’t nominated in 1888 it is not probable ho ever will lie. He is now quite an old man, and his popularity is declining. He has been a Presidential can didate a long while, and the rank and file of the party are getting tired of him in that capacity. If he fails next year ho will Ini eliminated from the Presidential possibili ties. • The Surplus Problem. No plan for disposing of the Treasury sur plus that appears to be generally satisfac tory has yet been suggested. A day or two ago the Secretary of the Treasury gave no tice that he would pay all the outstanding 3 per cents, on July 1. The amount of these is about $20,000,000. When they are paid no more bonds will mature for several years. If any are paid they will have to be pur chased in the open market, and a pretty high premium will have to be given for them. There is not much probability, however, that the government will purchase bonds. But what is to be done with the surplus which is already large, and which will ac- • cumulate much more rapidly than ever be fore after July 1? There is a great deal more money now in the Treasury than there ought to be. To continue to draw the money into the Treasury, and to store it there, will certainly produce financial trouble. There is not more in circulation now than is needed. There have been several plans suggested for disposing of the surplus, but none of them seems to meet with general approval. Some of it might be spent on coast defenses, but the amount which could lie used that way would not greatly lessen the surplus.i The only thing that can be done that will meet the difficulty is to reduce the tariff, and if that is done any time within a year there will have to be an extra session of Congress. The President appeal’s to be averse to calling an extra session, but some of the leaders of the party favor it. The President may see the necessity for it be fore the summer is over. Look After the Drainage, There have been a good many eases of ty phoid fever in this city within the last few months, and some of them have been of a very malignant type. A physician who is in a position to speak with authority said yes terday that in almost every case the cause of the disease could be traced to bad drain age. : There is without doubt a great deal of de fective plumbing in the city. It is impossi ble to have healthy homes if sewer gas is permitted to escape into them. It is not always possible to detect the presence of this gas, and the occupants of a house into which the gas escapes, may suffer for a long time from it without being seriously ill. Sooner or later, however, some of them will be taken down with diphtheria, typhoid fever or some other disease which is produced by bad drainage, and then the cause which lias been undermining their health begins to be suspected. It would pay the head of every family to have his premises thoroughly inspected at least once a year by a competent sanitary engineer. The saving in doctor’s bills, let alone the benefit to health, would many times more than pay tho cost of such in spection. Asa general thing, however, we a/e inclined to think our premises are all right until we are led to believe otherwise by the appearance of diseases which are caused by poisons from closets and sewers. Responsibility of Quarantine Officers. The quarantine officers along the Atlantic coast have a great responsibility resting upon them. Tho cholera has not disap peared from South America. On the con trary, the reports show that it is steadily making its way northward. Only the utmost vigilance can keep it out of our ports. There have been reports of its ap pearance on the Isthmus of Panama and in Cuba, but these reports have not been verified. The cholera was introduced into Buenos Ayres through tho negligence of the quaran tine officer of that port, and thousands of lives were destroyed by it in that city and its vicinity. Doubtless it will claim thousands of other victims in South America liefore it leaves that country. If tile scourge gets a foothold in this country it will bo through lax quarantine regulations or the carelessness of quarantine officers. The health authorities of tho whole country have had fair warning of the threatening danger. Henry Chapman, Jr., of Philadelphia, is the owner of a silver dollar made in 177(1. It is of the first issue of coin by tho United States, and is said to lx> tho only one of the kind now in existanco. On the side bearing tho value and date appear the inscription, “Continental Currency,” the representation of a sun-dial, and the motto, “Mind Your Business.” On tho other is a chain com posed of thirteen links, each link containing tho name of one of the original States, the whole forming a circle underneath which is the inscription, “We Are One.” Chapman values the dollar at SI,OOO. No wonder there is a demand for a return to “tho dollar of our daddies.” The Buffalo, (N. Y.) Aries has at the hood of its editorial columns: “Lincoln for Vice.” The News doubtless means Lincoln for Vice President, but there are people who will be mean enough to insist that it does not. CURRENT COMMENT. The Eoya Don’t Believe It. From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Bern.) MV are told that Mr. Blaine is going to Europe this year for the purpose of carrviug this coun try for the Presidency next. This may be the way to run a campaign. Put the boys don't be lieve it, They want the candidate nearer home in cases of emergency. The State Bar. From the Boston Advertiser (Rep.) High-minded lawyers all over the country will be glad that the Georgia association is seek ing to make it more difficult to enter the pro fession and to maintain a good standing in it, that thus it may be counted a distinct achieve ment to tie reckoned worthy of membership iu the State bar. The Answer He Would Make. From the New York World ( Dem.) “What answer could President Cleveland make,' inquires the Tribune, "if Great Britain should urge payment of the Virginia bonds and Virginia should refuse to pav? " President Cleve land would probably tell'Great Britain that Uncle Sain is not a collector for J. Bull. But if Mp. Blaine were President he might say. as he does in his history, that the United States gov ernment itself should pay the debt of Virginia. Fortunate O’Brien. From the Boston Herald ( Ind.) str. O'Brien, like President Cleveland, is fortu nate in his enemies. They have helped to make his Canadian mission a notable success. Ns the only effect he could hope for was amoral oue, the opposition of sticks and stones to his plain ,story was the best thing for him and his cause. If Lansdowne has any other answer to make, he had hotter make it without loss of time. He is on trial before the public opinion of America, including Canada. BRIGHT BITS. I know there's a crost about Noah's blue eyes, But that fact me love cannot smother; For her eyes are so pretty I No wonder they thry To U; gazing 'round into each other. —Washington Critic. “The barn-1 of the toy pistol is a maker of graves," exclaims an excited exchange. Why not call it a bier-barrel, tor short?—Bingham ton Republican. A poem called “Farewell to Nature ” has lieen written for Longman'a Magazine. The author is probably preparing to cuter society.—.Veut Orleans Picayune. The only thing which will cure a girl who wants to go on the stage and become an actress is to be run over by a freight train loaded with railroad iron.—Detroit Free Press. "The trouble with business, my dear fellow, is that people don’t spend enough. What we want to do Is to put more money in circulation." “I'm sure I’m willing. But where is the money to come from?”— Totvn Topics. Visitor (to Flossie) —And how is the baby to* day, Flossie? Flossie—Mamma thinks lie is a little I letter. Visitor—Then he is not much better? Flossie—No ma’am. He couldn’t be very much better, you know, Ix-eause he is such a lit tle bit of a baby.— New York Sun. “Mamma," asked little Edith, “is difficulty a real nice medicine?” “Why, Edith, what put such a ridiculous idea into your head?” "Uncle George said last night that his little boy's life was saved with difficulty, and I was wondering if it was any nicer than the nasty stuff you made me take when I had the measles. ” —Boston Transcript. Detroit Child—lf she’s from Chicago I guess you better not introduce me to her. Omaha Child—Why not? “I’m 'fraid she wouldn't feel coinf'table if she knew I was from Detroit.” “I don’t see why." “Why, our club always l?ats the Chicagos, you know."— Omaha World. Friend (a recent American-English milady)— And so you are going to be married, I hear. Do tell me the happy man. I hope he is one of “us." La Fiancee—Oh. no, indeed. I shall be plain American Mrs. You see, f was'afraid this rage for everything English might pass away, and then what in the world could Ido with my husband?— Harper's Bazar. Omaha Miss—Yes, (fear, I shall always need your aid and protection. Women are poor, weak creatures at the best, and I am. glad that I have found in your love a safeharb(?r of refuge. Successful Suitor—You told me yet how your parents fee! about duf engagement" “Well, pa says he will see me in my grave before he will allow me to become your wife." “Merciful heavens!" "Oh, dou t bother about him. Ma says I can marry you."— Omaha World. A man from Pine Knob stood watching a per formance on a slide trombone. Suddenly seizing a companion's arm, the Pine Knob man excited ly exclaimed: “For the LawVl sake! Look thar, Lige." “What’s the matter?” “Itook thar; he done it agin.” “Done what?" “Why, he crowded mor'n ha’f that blamed ho'n into his mouth. Did you see that ? Wall, I'll sw'ar."— Arkaniau) Traveler. “Mt dear, I have been trying to think of something lovely to give you for a birthday firesent," said a fond Plymouth avenue wife to ler devoted husband recently, “You know there are so many things that, it is hard to se lect, so I have made out a little list. Just glance over it and cross off anything you don’t want and add on anything nice which has not occurred to me." This was the list: "A canary bird, a willow rocker, a King Charles spaniel, a carpet sweeper, a subscription for llarpar's Bazar, a plush-covered perfume satchel, a box of monogram society stationary, and u Turkish rug for oiy bedroom." The wretch read it over and returned it with the following additions : “A new bustle, a pair of diamond earrings and a ladies' work basket.”— Buffalo Courier. PERSONAL. Emperor Francis Joseph has sent 8.5,000 for the relief of the victims of tho fires in Hungary. Curs Spreckei.3, the ’Frisco sugar king, in tends to purchase a lot and build a villa in Paris. Miss Hf-len Cooper-Parr, a niece of Feni more Cooper, the novelist, will shortly appear on the English stage in anew play. Gov, Ames, of Massachusetts, lives in magnifi cent style. It casts him fully $50,000 a year to keep up his Boston establishment. The people of Aix-les-Bains were shocked at “Queen Victoria's dowdy black dresses and Princess Beatrice's slovenly toilets." Sir*George Philippo, Chief Justice of nong Kong, and Lady Philippo, are now in this coun try on (heir way home to England on a leave of absence. It is a striking fact that of all those who have jumped from the Brooklyn bridge Odium, the only professional athlete among them, was the one to lose his life. A new plunger has arisen in the English ra- v cing world. Mr. Bepzon such is the gentle man’s name is credited with a little fortune of something like .£600,000 more or less, and be has embarked on the full tide of speculation. A column has lioen erected in Rome on Monte Pindowith this inscription: “The neighboring palace, once the property of the Me-fieis, was the prison of Galileo, who was guilty of having seen that the Earth revolved round the Sun. ” A few years ago Joseph Brown was the Mayor of St. Louis, rich and ambitious to enter the United States Senate. A local newspaper now records the fact that Mr. Brown has (list accepted a small municipal office worth $l,BOO a year. He is referred to as a "Political Back Number.” Such aro the mutations in a large river town. Some of the country seats near Washington an* very beautiful. Secretary Whitney's "times-, lands" cost him $50,000, and he lias spent $20,-’ 0i more in fitting it up in princely style. Among those who own handsome places outside or Washington am Senator Cameron, Adjc. Gen. Drum, Ex Secretary McCulloch, Gen. Beale and many others. The rivalry between Senators Fearst and Stanford, of California, Is growing very pro nounced. The former contemplates establish ing a magnificent racing stud on one of his California farms which shall equal that of his colleague, Stanford. The competition lie tween these great money kings is so pronounced, it is said, that no one would lie surprised to hear that Ilearst Intended to found a university. Rev. Herat o. Pentecost, of Newark, N. J. who has just lxron blackballed by a social club composed of clergymen, for his adoption of Henry George's theories, is u brother of George 11. Pentecost, the famous revivalist. Hugh Pentecost married Ida Gatling, the handsome and fascinating daughter of l>r. Gatling, in ventor of the famous revolving gun. Both the Pentecost s are eloquent speakers and possess a remarkable amount of personal magnetism. The 15t. Rev. Dr, Walker. Episcopal Bishop Of Dakota, ho* an enormous dii-ee.se It com prises more territory than all New England. When lie went there throe ami a bull years ug / there were only four Epfecopal churches in tie diocese. Now there Hre sixteen. The popula tion is comj-osed of enterprising young men from the East, native Indians, {Scandinavia na and Icelanders. Bishop Walker is one of the youngest of the Episcopal Bishops. He is a fine specimen of physical manhood and an eloquent preacher. * IN A COMATOSE CONDITION. Strange Case of a Boy Suffering From a Nervous Shock. A dispatch from Detroit, Mich., to the New York Times says: David Oppenheini, 15 years old, is lying at the home of his parents in this city in a condition which puzzles some of the best medical talent. He has been employed for some time as a night messenger,and is spoken of by his employers as a faithful and intelligent lad. The hoy's duties usually kept him up until after daylight. An elder brother who occupies the same room with David remembers that about 1 o’clock Sunday morning the latter re turned home and crept shivering into Vied. His brother asked what was wrong, but received no answer and soon afterward fell asleep. When the family awoke in the morning David was found with his head covered under the bed clothes, apparently wide awake but uncon scious of anything goiDg an around him. When s]H>ken tone did not answer, but lay staring wildly about. He remained In this peculiar condition until the afternoon, when a large dog tielonging to one of the neighbors came into tne house. As soon as the boy saw the animal he uttered a loud shriek anil once more covered his head with the clothes. When his mother rushed to his side David exclaimed: “The dog, the dog, for God's sake put it out ” After the dog had been ejected the boy became more quiet, and when pressed by his mother to tell what was wrong, ho told in n broken voice that at about 11 o'clock the night before he liad been sent to take a message to a house on one of the principal residence streets. When he reached the house a large black dog jumped from the gateway and suapped at him. In nis fright the boy ran, never stopping until he reached his home. After telling this much David relapsed into his comatose condition and has remained so ever since. He spends the entire time in a sort of doze, only waking sufficiently at long inter vals to take a little food, and is unable to answer any question in a rational manner. A number of leading physicians in the city have been called in, and all agree that the boy has received a severe nervous shock, evidently resulting from fright, and that, the case is one of the most re markable instances of nervous shock ever com ing under their notice. GOV. POINDEXTER’S LIMIT. An Interesting Game of Poker Which Bested Three Gamblers. Fi-om the IndianapoHs Journal. A game long talked about on the river was that played by Gov. George Poindexter, of Mis sissippi. At one time he was fund commissioner, or something of that kind, for Mississippi. ■ He had business in New York to negotiate money on bonds, ostensibly for internal Improvements in Mississippi. He was returning from that city, and had a large sum of money with him. He left Louisville on a small stern wheel boat, and three gamblers took passage on the same boat. They knew Poindexter's fondness for cards, that he would play high, and they made up a plot to clean him out, In those days they played poker with twenty cards—the ace, king, queen, jack and ten of each suit. Tlie boat was several day l in getting from Louisville to Cairo, and Poindexter and the three sharks were busy at play. Then they usually played without limit, and the result was the gamblers, having played their fish long enough, were about to take him in. They had all their money on the table. Two of the gamblers dropped out, and the other, making a heavy bet, piled up his last dollar. The Governor said he didn't nave money enough there to call him, but he thought he might be aide to borrow. “Very well,” said the gambler, “I'll give you just ten minutes to raise the money.’’ Poindexter went to his stateroom, where he had an old carpet sack with a trusty servant guarding it, - and returned to the gaming table, followed by the darky with the carpet sack on his shoulder. “Now,” thundered Poindexter, as he threw open the sack, which was stuffed full of bank notes, “I will see you and go you $300,000 better! And I’ll give you an hour instead of ten minutes to raise it!” The faces of those gamblers would have been a picture for a painter. They got off the boat at the first landing place wiser and much sadder men. There was about SIO,OOO on the table, Named for Their Grandparents. From Harper's Magazine for June. The attention of parents with children to name is respectfully called to the melancholy paragraph which follows. Mr. J——, being on one occasion belated in the mountains of Georgia, stopped at a little cabin and asked a night's shelter of the owner, who was sitting at the front door in all the luxury of shirt sleeves and a rush-bottomed chair tilted well back against the wall. It was hospitably accorded. A supper consisting of bacon and corn-bread was set before him; and the conversation turn ing upon the fine pasture lauds of that section, Mr. J modestly insinuated that he would have supposed it possible to keep a cow for ttie benefit of the two children whom he saw playing about the room. "They don't need it; they are all right as long as that thar lasts,” said the father, pointing with a jerk of his thumb to a barrel of whisky sitting in one comer. Properly horrified. Mr. J expostulated, but in vain. “It keeps ’em screwed up like a fiddle all the time.” explained the fond parent. This incident led to some further talk about the little ones, and Mr. J affably asked their names. "This here one” (here the mother dragged for ward a sharne-faced youngster in ‘butter-nut’), hopin’ you’ll excuse his looks, was named for my paw-Joseph Edward Malcolm Norton Gun ter.” It was rattled off as one mouthful in a sing song voice, and Mr. J , to whom comment was difficult, said, “and the little girl*” “Mary Josefine Rhody Catherine Benjamine Frank line Palestine Gunter. She was named for my maw,” was the reply. , Song of the Rejected. .S'. IF. Foss in Detroit Free Pi-ess. I will no longer sue my Sue, My suit is spurned and oft denied, The same slim prude is lovely Prue, And Mollie is unmodified. Delia no more with me will deal Although she holds my heart in snare, I cannot make Ophelia fuel The darts that she has planted there. Mabel I’m able to be free From you, no more 1 am your slave, And Grace, unless you smile on me, I shall go graceless to the grave. My Flora's heart will not o'erflow To my half-crazed appeals to all; Aid Minnie's most emphatic “No," It strikes me like a minnie ball. And although Dora I adore, Yet she for me will never care; Though Cora pierced my bosom's core She will not heed my suppliant prayer. And Maud is modest when I'm near, My presence she cannot abide, And in regard to Clara, dear. My mind is still unclarified. And Winnie I can never win, And Carrie's heart w on't carry n-e; And Mary, though with constant din I plead, will never marry me. A Lost Opportunity. From the American Magazine. Mr. George Washington Cole, of Chicago, didn't come homo one evening at the usual time, nor the next day, nnd Mrs. Cole, becoming alarmed, begun a search for him. Mlie was not successful, and after several days, as a lust re sort, visited the morgue The keeper listened to her.descrlptlon, and then said he thought he had a subject that answered to it. The wife de sired to look at the body, and she was shown into the dead-house. After viewing tho subject pointed out to her very intently for several minutes, Mrs. Cole burst into tears and declared that the I tody was that of her late husband. But in order to as sure henelf that she had made no mistake, she requested tho keeper of the morgue to turn the body over, and see if there was a large scar on the back of the neck. As he proceeded to do so, a sot of false teeth fell out of the mouth of tho corpse upon the marble slab. "Stop!” exclaimed Mrs. Cole, wiping away her tears; George never wore false teeth." "You blamed fool!" growled the keeper of the morgue, addressing the corpse, as he roughly threw it buck in place and picked up the falsi! teeth; "if you had only kept your mouth shut you might have had a decent burial.” A Sensible Princess. From St. Niehola* for June. For n person of only seven years’ experience, the good sense shown by the child princess Charlotte was really remarkable. Her music teacher, who was silly enough to think that a princess without Mattery was like a duck without water, once highly commended her execution when slto herself knew that it was faulty and deserved no praise at nil. Tbn room was fUled with other j>er(plo who h;ld similar opinions about princesses nnd dicks; and all, when she apiiealed to them, declared that her roval highness hod played in a manner to ravish the ears of angels. She knew better, but said no more at the moment. When noisier teacher came next morning for a lesson, however, lie found his pay and a discharge ready for him; also u piece or advice from her little highness, that "he should never indulge error in a pupil where he was employed to perfect the unskill ful." Thus Charlotte showed her power of reasoning and her mastery of the English lan guage, rebuked a flatterer, and procured for herself a very pleasant little vacation—the find ing of another suitable teacher being a work of *"UO and deco British deliberation. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Accorpixo to the Louisiana Sunday law liquor stores, cigar and barber shops must he cl' sed on that day, but theatres may remain open. Thus far no Christian has been allowed to enter the Sidon tomb temple in Palestine. Mos lem officials enter freely. however, and mam- of them mutilate and carry away portions of the statuary. W. H. Parkinson, of Mineral Point, Wi.sA while sowing oats, found a gold ring on the po'iH of one of the seeder teeth. The ring was about thirty years ago by a young lady in ing over the farm. The people of Bronson, Mich., draped the lamp posts in mourning the other night and sus pended paper lanterns from them because the village authorities say they are too poor to furmsh street lights. A calf belonging to D. B. Stevens, of Cass ville, Wis., was picked from the track by a pass ing train and carried on the cowcatcher to a point opposite the stable, when it jumped off, not in the least harmed A man in a car on a Maine railroad thought that he felt a bug crawling on his neck and grabbed for it. Then there was a scream, and the man found himself clutching the back hair of a woman who had been sitting behind him with her back to his. A Pittsburq somnambulist walked off a bal cony the other night, fell about 30 feet, was picked up and carried into the house, and then after a time he awoke. The shock of the fall, which sprained his foot and bruised him gener ally, did not rouse him from his sound sleep. Fifteen officers of the garrison of Gran, in Hungary, were recently obliged to fight duels with as many civilians of the town in the course of one week. Two of them were killed and most of the other fejlows were badly wounded. This very large anokigh-tonded row was all about one lady. St. Joseph, Mo., now claims to be. the only genuine Simon-pure railroad centre in the United States. It has also adopted as its nom de plume the high-sounding title, -‘The Queen City of the Missouri Valley and the Gateway to the New- West.” And, of course, like every other West ern city, it has the biggest boom in creation. In the most recherche circles of Zanzibar the ladies wear gold dollars on rings' inserted in their noses, and the more gold dollars a woman wears the more exclusive she considers herself. A.woman who can string twenty-five or thirty gold dollars on her nose ring is acknowledged to be an aristocrat from away back, and can snub her less favored sisters with impunity. At Jersey City one Sunday evening, as a woman who was returning from church stepped on the top of her stoop, the stoop gave way and she fell into the area. Her son-in-law went to her aid and fell into the hole on top of her. His cousin started with a similar purpose and met with a similar accident. The two men escaped with a few scratches, but the woman was seri ously injured. The Milwaukee Museum possesses a valuable collection of American birds’ eggs. The eggs wehe gathered by B. F. Goss, of Pewaukee, who spent vears of travel in the task. Mr. Goss worked on a luxurious system. He shot the birds himself and had his assistant climb the trees, in this way he made a collection worth SIO,OOO. Some of the best setsof eggs vary from S3O to SBO in value. It is told of a young man who had been hang ing around Washington trying to get a $1,200 clerkship till his money was all gone, that he received an offer of SSO a month to go to Bir mingham, Ala., as tally clerk. A friend loaned him SIOO to pay his board bill and get out of town with, and he went. In a few days his “boss’’ at Birmingham loaned him money to buy a lot of land with, and a week later he sold it for upward of SI,OOO advance. Mr. Webster was dining one day at Col. Sea ton’s, at the commencement of a session, when the conversation turned upon the number of new members in the House of Representatives. “Were I called upon to address these neophytes.” said Mr. Webster, “I should quote the remark with which Abernethy startled anew class of students at the commencement of a term by vehemently exclaiming; ‘Good God, young gen tlemen, what will become of you all!’ ” Many of the towns In the great Western land are curious, and sound strange to oid country ears. Here are a few: A. B. C., Axle, Accident, Beef Hide, Big Bug, Big Fool, Braggadocia, Chicory Coffee, Cow Boy, Crab Tree, Dammit, Dirt Town. Door Way, Froz.en Creek, Good Land, Good Night, Good Luck, Gunpowder, Hatton, Hat Off, High Up, Hobbie, Inglenook, Jingo, Johnny Cake. Jump Off Joe, Macplielah, Mad Indian, Matrimony, Nine Times. Number One, Obligation, Our Carter, Oz, Pat s Store, -Patta Gumpus, Plevna (several), Quiz Quod, Rabbit Hash, Rat, U Bet (You Bet). In Mexican hotels the “chambermaid,” who is usually a man, does the work about this way: He takes possession of the key, unlocks the door and disappears. After awhile he comes back, turns down the bedclothes ami goes off. The next time he comes in he partially com pletes the bed making, hut leaves in a great hurry, as if he had suddenly remembered some thing. After the sixth visit the Mexican retires with his dust brush, and it is pretty safe to wager he wiU only come back once more, and that to bring a clean towel. After he has done this for an hour or two, he is so worn out that he spends the rest of the day in taking a siesta. A new ground for suit against a railway com pany has just been established in France. A painter named Board while traveling on the Paris-Lyons road was attacked by a robber and seriously wounded. He sued and got damages, the company being held responsible because the construction of the cars did not afford suffi cient protection. The judges decided that there was a genuine contract between the passenger and the company, the ticket constituting the written instrument, and that the railroad peo ple were bound by it, not only to bring the man to his destination, but also to afford him protec tion during his journey; and they refused to entertain the question that the company were obliged to conform to the rules of the adminis tration in regard to the model of the cars. England is doubtless the centre of civilization —at least according to English ideas—and Eng lishmen are wont to speak with much scorn of the bull-fighting of Spain and the cock-fighting of the United States. Yet England tolerates dog fights. Ten days ago one of these disgust ing matches was fought at Cardiff, the contest ants being a pair of rival bull terriers, which had been victorious in many a battle. After twenty njinutes one of the dogs was in a dying condition, but his frantic backers insisted upon having him driven into a final bout, 'l’be poor, mutilated beast had no fight left in him, and re fused to face the other dog. The angry owner whipped out his jack-knife, cut the animal's throat from ear to ear and flung the carcass into a ditch. No arrests were made, and the shock ing scene was described in the local and London press. Tiif. strange manifestations of ghostly spirits in Shelby county, Minn., have excited the good farmers living there, and one of the wealthiest of them, Lorenzo Powell, is preparing to aban don his homo because of the disturbances Something over a year ago his daughter, to please her father, married a man slio despised. While the lover to whom she had givlh tier heart was forbidden the hon e. Recently she died in childbirth, and ever since the sound of shrieks and groans has proceeded by night from tho room which she occupied, and at times the spirit of the voung woman has come to the bed side of the old farmer and with heart-rending sobs upbraided him for his hard-hearted obsti nacy. Powell s wife left Die house some time ago, and he himself, unable to endure tin- strain any longer, is getting ready to seek relief in a new home. A Cuban iiotf.i, is a curiosity to strangers. The dining-rooms here face the street, and they are as open as though no wall separated them from it. The office counter and the writing table or writing room are at tho end of the dining room, and eating, writing ami business go on inside of the same walls. This room, however, is a large square one. and there is no confusion. The din ing tables are of all sizes, so that one can dine alone or a party of a dozen or more can eat their d’hote together. As to decoration the l>rlgbt“st of colors are used In the interior (taint ing of the hotel, and in some rooms frescos pre vail, Red and sky-blue are seen everywhere and the floors of the chambers and hulls are pared in marble and red tile. I write this letter in my bedroom. There is no plaster on la. ceilings of these hotels, and the groat rafters ..bove me ureas bluetts t lie bluest sky. Tits windows are almost as large as the side of tie- room and theyure kept open day und night. Tito Vied is of iron, ar:d the mattress was never made of feathers. A framework ex tends on every Cuban bed, and we sleep in cages of course luce like that used for curtaius at home. Most of the Cuban beds have no mat tresses. The sheets are stretched on wire springs, and Gen. Brice told me had great trou ble because the sheet, which was not bigger than a napkin, would work out from under him and leave bis bare legs upon the naked wire. 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