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THURSDAY. MAY 26, 1887.
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Meetings—German Friendly Society; Savan
nah Yacht Club: Georgia Hussars; Teutonia
Lodge No. 7, K. P.
Special Notices—To Water Takers; To City
Court Jurors; To the Public.
Special Excursion Kates- Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway.
Look! Look!—At LaFar’s.
Fob EvERYnoDY—C. H. Dorset t. Auctioneer.
Simmer Resorts— Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga.; Cliff House, Tallulah Falls, Ga.
Feed —G. 8. McAlpin.
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Henry George is sound on at least one
question. “For myself,” he says, “I am in
favor of free trade.”
It is said that New York is taking the
lead in the manufacture of beer. Chicago,
Cincinnati and other Western cities will
object to the statement.
If the old world continues to pour its popu
lation into the new it will not be long be
fore the typical American will speak noth
ing but broken English.
If Dr. MeGlynn does not go to Rome
within forty days he will lie excommuni
cated. He refuses to say what he intends to
do, but his friends believe that he will not
go-
There ought to be a strong bond of sym
pathy between Mr. James Russell Lowell
and the Canadians who tried to kill Editor
O’Brien. They don’t like newspaper re
porters. _
Senator Sherman doubtless wishes now
that he had not gone to Cuba. He didn’t
know that it would bo fashionable for Re
publican Presidential candidates to go to
Europe.
The position of the Governor of South
Carolina with reference to the Blackwood
case is about this: “I'll make a fair swap,
Gov. Gordon; give mo McNally and I’ll
give you Blackwood. ”
It is expected that during the coming
summer 1,500,000 tons of ore will be sliippod
from the Gogebic iron region in Wisconsin.
This is a pretty good indication that the
iron business is in good condition.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, says that ho
is looking for an angel to appoint as Fire
Commissioner. Them are angels of heaven
and angels of the other place. Mayor Hew
itt is doublcss looking for an angel of the
Other plane.
The New York World says that but two
Philadelphia journalists in recent years havo
tried to get into society, and their efforts,
to the general satisfaction, havo been un
successful. The World doubtless does not
intend to reflect upon Philadelphia newspa
per men. The latter generally go where
(they please
The Montgomery Advertiser has this: “A
lady in Birmingham wrote to u lady friend
in Montgomery to come up and spend a
week with her. Among the other induce
ments held out was this: ‘You can sit at my
front window and see seven funerals go by
every day.’” The Advertiser evidently
moans to widen the breach Is-tween Mont
gomery and Birmingham.
Col. Scott Thornton, the eminent Atlanta
tragedian, will soon make his debut •ns
“Richelieu.” ‘The Capitol says that he will
be assisted by his great beauty, an Atlanta
lady, and by the Atlanta Dramatic Asso
ciation. The Colonel’s “great beauty”
ought to be enough to make his debut a suc
cess without, the assistance of “an Atlanta
lady ” anti the Dramatic Association.
Queen Victoria's birthday on Tuesday
seems to have been quite generally noticed.
That was doubtless because this is the jubi
lee year—the fiftieth year of her reign. She
is 68 years of ape. ami promises to live sev
eral years more. There are only three Eng
lish sovereigns who had longer reigns than
Queen Victoria’s. The reign of George 111.
was the longest, being fifty-nine years.
The widow of the late Alexander Mitchell,
of Milwnukeo, Wis., will contest his will.
Ho left, nearly all of his property to his son,
John L. Mitchell, Mrs. Mitchell Icing
granted an income of $50,000 a year during
her life, $'510,000 in cash, and tho use of a
Mjatlaiinl home in Milwaukee. Mrs. Mitchell
Bli Florida. It is not known why she will
OOBtest the will. The lawyers very naturally
her intention with great favor.
Berry Wall and half u .dozen other New
9j?p‘k dudes are visiting Boston. The tiny
■ftr-r they arrived the corridors of the hotel
at&rtnch they stopi>ed were filled with Bos
ton dudes eager to catch a glimpse of Berry.
He, however, refused to show himself, say
ing that “Boston is so fearfully provincial
that one must really be exclusive, don’t you
know, or the whole town will be calling on
him.” It is presumed that the bean-caters
Expensive Economy.
Tho Legislatures of some of the States do
not have a proper appreciation of the im
portance of a well-organized militia. The
Legislature of this State, for instance, has
not shown the liberality in dealing with the
militia thaf it ought. The appeals which
the militia organizations have made for as
sistance have not met with a generous re
sponse.
Missouri is now without an organized
national guard. A few months ago she bad
five regiments. Now she hasn't any. All
have disbanded. They asked the Legislature
to give them sso,tkK) a year to help meet
their expenses, and it refused. The amount
was certainly small enough. It would not
begin to meet the actual expenses of the five
regiments.
When the militia bill was first rejected by
the legislature the regiments indicated what
their course would lie. The Governor ap
pealed to them to wait and see if a recon
sideration of the bill could not be obtained,
and a different result secured. The appeal
was granted, and the Legislature discussed
the wholesubjeet again. A second time the
bill was defeated in the lower branch of the
Legislature—the last time by only three
votes. The regiments decided to serve no
longer a State which had so little apprecia
tion of their services.
Has not Missouri made a mistake, and a
very grave one? It has only been a few
months since there was a great labor riot
within her borders. Other disturbances
are not improbable. The time may come,
and, that too, very soon when Missouri
merchants and property owners will call
loudly for help to enforce the laws anil pro
tect their business and property. They will
have to hire men to give them the needed
protection They will then wish, perhaps,
that they had instructed their representa
tives in the Legislature to pursue a less
parsimonious policy.
The last Congress more than doubled the
appropriation for militia purposes, and the
indications are that the national policy with
regard to the militia will continue to grow
more liberal. The States, therefore, which
refuse to aid their own militia to an extent
sufficient to keep the military organizations
together not only make a serious mistake,
but are guilty of folly for which there Is no
excuse whatever The majority of the
Missouri Legislature must be made up of
men of very small calibre. Their economy
may prove to be very expensive.
Vigilance Necessary.
Surgeon General Hamilton, of the Marino
Hospital service, does not think that the two
or three cases of yellow fever which have
occurred at Key West within the last few
days need occasion any serious alarm in that
city. If the proper precautions are taken
to get rid of the disease it may not spread
beyond the'houses in whieh it has made its
appearance, but if it is not handled properly
an epidemic may follow.
It is said that there is no doubt that the
fever poison was brought to Key West re
cently from Havana in some bedding. If
this be true it shows how very necessary it
is that the greatest precautions should lie
taken to prevent the introduetion of the
disease from infected ports. People who
have tteen exjiosed to yellow- fever or cholera,
and many masters of vessels from infected
ports, will evade the quarantine regulations
if they can. The bringing of a little in
fected bedding from Havana may cause the
loss of many lives at Key West and pnra
lize the business 'of the city for months.
Already there is a feeling of great insecurity
there, and many have left the place.
It will bo remembered that the cholera,
that is now carrying off the people by hun
dreds in South America, was introduced into
Buenos Ayres by a vessel from an infected
Italian port. The Captain of the vessel
knew that he had cholera on liis ship, be
cause ho had buried more than thirty of its
victims on the voyage. He happened to
have a rather imj>oi'tant person on board,
who was anxious to land ns soon at possible,
and so the fact of the existence of cholera on
tho ship was concealed.
The health officers of the different ports
on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts have a
great responsibility resting upon them, and
if they fail in any respect in the discharge of
their duties their negligence may open the
way for a great calamity. The infected
bedding that was taken to Key West from
Havana was doubtless worth only a few
dollars, and yet it lias already caused adani
ago to that town of many thousands of dol
lars.
Every time anew Treasurer of the United
States is appointed all the money in the
Treasury lias to lie counted. Mr. Hyatt,
the new Treasurer, took possession of his
office yesterday, and a committee has been
appointed to make the count, which was
lx-gun Tuesday. The committee consists of
Mr. E. B. Daskain, Chief of the Public
Moneys Division, who represents Secretary
Fairchild; Mi - . A. T. Huntington, of the
Secretary's office, who represents Mr. Jor
dan. the retiring Treasurer, and Mr. Charles
H. Noble, of Connecticut, who represents
Mr. Hyatt. The examination will involve
an actual count of $ L1T,000,000 in paper
money in the l-esorve vaults, $05,000,0(X) in
the cash vault, $00,000,000 in standard silver
dollars, $25, 000,0)0 in gold coin, and a
smaller quantity of fractional silver. The
committee in making the count will have
the assistance of seventv-fivo persons, in
cluding expert counters. The count can
liardly Is- finished inside of two months.
Evangelist George A. Barnes preached a
sermon in Louisville on Sunday last, in the
course of which he had much to say of
“Jesus as a courtier.” The irreverence of
some of the so-called evtfhgelists has becomo
nauseating. They are as familiar with the
name of the Deity as a eat is with its kittens.
It is about time for church-going jieoplo to
boycott tho mountebanks who travel
through the country bringing reproach
upon tho cause of Christianity by the out
rageous lilierties they take with its founder.
Mr. L. S. Robertson, of Boston, says:
“All tnat there is of the New South to-day
is Birmingham. Atlanta and Chattanooga
are prosperous, but the growth is not to lie
counted as a )>art of the development of the
New South.” Mr. Robertson lias settled a
perplexing question. Many people have long
wanted to know the geographical position
of the New South. If he is right, Birming
ham is the New South and Atlanta, Chatta
nooga and other Southern cities, together
with the country districts, aro the Old
South. All right, the Old South will try
and worry along.
The New York Graphic has found a
white-haired Georgian who says that Presi
dent Cleveland is a “mighty fine fellbw,”
and that while he has made some members
of his party hot because he will not allow
himself to be led by tho nose by them, be is
winning with the people every day. Tho
white-haired Georgian is a sensible man.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1887.
Cable’s Southern Lecture Tour.
Some o’ the North Carolina papers do not
view with favor Mr. George W. Cable’s pro
posed lecture tour through that State. The
Raleigh .Yea's and Observer thinks that his
writings show a hostility to the South, and
atti flutes this hostility to a desire to gain
favor at the North. The Asheville Citizen
is of the opiuion that, having cast his lot
with the Nayth. he would show wisdom by
staring away from the South.
Mr. Cable Is not os popular in tlio South
as he was when, as a resident of New Or
leans, he first began to be known as a writerj
His first stories, published under the
title of “Old Cleole Days,” were well re
ceived throughout the country. ( His subse
quent and more pretentious literary work
shows that his reputation as a writer is well
deserved, but much of it appears to have
been intended to suit Northern readers rather
than to present truthful pictures of South
ern character and affairs! It may be that
Mr. Cable is sincere in all that he writes,
and that the charge that ho panders to
Northern prejudice for gain is not well
founded. If he is sincere, but mistaken, he
ought to be more zealous in trying to dis
cover the truth. Being a Southern man
what he writes about the South is accepted
much more readily than if it were written
by a Northern man. Asa Southern man
his portrayals of Southern character and
his statements of Southern affairs are ac
cepted at the North as true, and if they are
not true it is but natural that the Southern
people should feel unkindly towards him.
The Creoles claim that nothing like his
Creole characters can bo found among the
Creoles of Louisiana, and it is certain that
some of his statements about the treatment
of colored people in the South have been
shown to lie not well founded. The aged
Creole writer of New Orleans, Mr. Charles
Gayane, is reported to have stated recently
that Mi'. Cable admitted to him that he had
never known intimately any of the Creole
families of New Orleans, and hence cannot
know much about the character or home
life of the Creoles.
In articles discussing the penitentiary sys
tems of some of the Southern States Mr.
Cable drew comparisons between the sen
tences imposed upon white convicts and
those upon colored, leaving the impression
that judges dealt much more harshly with
the latter than the former. The idea ap
parently which he wished to bring out was
that the colored people can’t get justice in
the South. Several writers, at the time these
articles appeared, pointed out important
particulars in which he was mistaken.
Mr. Cable has left New Orleans and has
located in a Massachusetts town. The sur
roundings there are doubtless very con
genial to him. There is no fault to be found
with him for making his home with people
who sympathize with his views, but he
ought not to expect that the people of the
South, who feel that ho has misrepresented
them, and hence done them an injury, will
accord him a warm welcome when he comes
among them asking them to patronize him
as a lecturer. He will, of course, be ac
corded courteous treatment, and his reputa
tion as a writer may secure him fair audi
ences, but it is doubtful if he receives many
evidences of friendship or popularity.)
Not a Candidate.
•
Attorney General Garland isrgit a can
didate for the vacant place on tile Supreme
Court bench, and would not afeejst at* ap
pointment to it if it were offered to him. He
does not underestimate the importanoeotf the
place nor the high honor which attaches to
it, but he says that he has made up his
mind to retire from public office at the ex
piration of his present term as Attorney
General. The President knows of this
determination, and hence, will not consider
him in selecting a Supreme Court Justice.
The fact that the President offered the
Attorney General a place on the Interstate
Commerce Commission shows that he still
has the utmost confidence in him, notwith
standing the bitterness of the attacks made
upon him for his connection with the Pan-
Electric business. There is no doubt that
Mr. Garland would moke an able Judge,
and that he would appear to better advant
age on the Supreme bench than he did in Hie
Senate or has done in the office of Attorney
General.
The attacks upon Mr. Garland on account
of his connection with the Pan-Electric Tele
phone scheme must have caused him much
mental suffering. He is a proud and sonsntive
man, and any reflection upon his integrity
wounds him deeply. He pretends not to
notice the bitter attacks which some of the
newspapers have made upon him, but it is
probable that pretty much all of them have
been seen by him. That lie was indiscreet
no one will deny, but that ho was guilty
of intentional wrong doing in accepting the
Pan-Electric stock only those who
hate him for other reasons be
lieve. Ho will not succeed the late
Justice Woods, however, and his enemies
will not have the opportunity to try and
defeat him for that place by systematic
attempts to blacken his character.
Bath, Me,, is disturbed about the question
of time. Payson Tucker, manager of the
Maine Central railroad, adopted standard
time, and, following his example, the Mayor
of Bath ordered the city clock to l changed
to suit the railroad time. Indignant pro
tests arose on all sides. The citizens hold a
public meeting mid unanimously resolved
that they would stick to “the Lord's time
and not to Payson Tucker’s.” The matter
was referred to Chief Justice Peters, of the
Supreme Court, who decided that Tucker
and tiie Mayor were right. The citizens now
pro] xwe to ask the legislature to interfere.
Bath ought to adopt Savannah’s plan,
which, though rather confusing to both
strangers and home folks, leaves no room
for anybody to rise up and howl.
Senator John H. Reagan, of Texas, has
been suggested as a candidate on four differ
ent Presidential tickets to be put into tho
field next year. They are tho following:
Democratic ticket —Grover Cleveland, for
President; John H. Reagan, for Vice Presi
dent. Anti-Railway Corporation ticket—
John H. Reagan, for President; Shelby M.
Cullutn, for Vice President. Labor ticket—
Henry George, for President; John 11. Rea
gan, for Y'ice President. Prohibition ticket
—John P. St. John, for President; John H.
Reagan, for Vice President. Tho Senator
will doubtless hold on to what he already
has.
A member of the General Assembly of
Georgia wishes the State to erect a monu
ment to the memory of Christopher Colum
bus. “For,” says this Georgia Solon .“Co
lumbus wai the one father of liis country
that never told a lie, and a monument to his
memory would remind the young thnt
‘honesty is better than an insurance policy.’ ”
By all means let the monument be erected,
and alongside of it let one be reared to the
memory of George Washington, who dis
covered how to make an egg bland oc end.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Accepted With Reluctance.
Prom the Missouri Republican (Dem.j
The interstate commerce law has been a god
send to lowa. The Republican newspapers up
there now have something to talk about liesides
Southern rebels and Northern copperheads.
They accept tho blessing, but with evident re
luctance.
Lincoln’s Little Boom.
From the Philadelphia Press ißep.)
The Presidency boom of Robert T. Lincoln
still abides in its native State of Georgia, and so
far it has wrought no destruction to the straw
berry vines or asparagus sprouts. If it ever at
tempts to move North vegetation will be so far
advanced that no damage will ensue.
“Rebel Jurists” and “Rebel Judges.”
From the New Yoi-k Herald find.)
Rut there arc no “rebel jurists" nor “rebel”
judges now. The war ended long ago, and long
ago its results were accented in good faith by
the South. There has been no complaint and no
ground for complaint against the judicial prin
ciples generally affirmed by the Federal Dench
in the South. Tho appointment of Southerners
to that bench has been regular and proper; the
appointment of Northern carpet-baggers would
have been an abuse.
A Double Benefit in Prospect.
From the Washington Star Und.)
Unflinching adherence to the pian of a general
revocation of railroad indemnity land-with
drawals, to which Secretary l.:imar is now com
mitted, will open up to settlement a great body
of public land which has long been improperly
withheld from the people for the ttossible pros
pective benefit of the railroads. If the settlers
who are tempted to invade Indian Territory in
advance of proper and necessary negotiations
and agreements will permit themselves to be
diverted to this newly opened territory, a double
benefit will be gained.
BRIGHT BITS.
Scene, grammar school. Dialogue between
teacher and Johnny. Teacher—What is the
future of “he drinks” ? Johnny—He is drunk.—
Harper's Bazar.
Some old dinner customs still prevail. The
Romans used to recline at their banquets, and
the habit of lying at public dinners still prevails.
—Boston Commercial Bulletin.
“Her cheeks are ruddy as a rose
Her eyes are pretty, hut—her nose!”
“To that you hardly should refer;
It was a birthday present, sir.”
Harper's Bazar.
“My son,” said a father in Mich.,
“I’d rather not have you go fich.”
But the lad went a-iishin’
Without his permission.
And thus he defied his pa's wich.
—Chicago Tribune.
Angling is a gentle pastime; but when two
fishermen sit on the same log and one gets
nothing but nibbles and devils’ apron strings,
while the other pulls In the fish as fast as he can
drop his line, it is impossible that there should
exist between these two anglers a feeling of en
tire and unstrained cordiality. —Boston Tran
script.
“Hullo, Harry! what's the news?”
“Oh. nothing particular I was just reading
about the burying of 150 miners in a British Co
lumbia coal mine. What do you get?”
“They say our nine has got a whitewash!”
“Thunder! you don't say so! But that is bad!’’
—Boston Transcript.
Omaha Lady—Dick, you haven’t told me all
about that new !>nby.
Little Dick—l don't know much about it yet.
It only got here this morning.
“But you haven't even said whether it is a
sister or a brother.”
“Well, it looks like a little brother, but
mamma says he is goin’ to lie a sister an’ I sup
pose he will.”— Omaha World.
Kennedy (to Simpson, who lives in Brooklyn
and does business in New York)—What’s that on
your finger?
Simpson (with gratitude)—Thanks awfully,
old fellow. I’d almost forgotten about it. That
is a string my wife tied there to remind me to
bring something boajuS
Kennedy-—Bring hfliae what?
Simpson—By George— er—l'll be switched if I
haven t forgotten what. —New York Graphic.
Little Dot (laughing)—Why, Dick, what’s the
matter?
Little Dick—l’s most dead. I just took some
awful stuff.
“That what your mamma put on the table?”
“Yes. she left it there in the cup an’ told me
not to touch it 'cause it was for pudding, an’
when she went out I took a great big swallow,
an' it's castor oil.”
“Yes, she said you ought to take some, an’ I
told her how to fix it.”— Omaha World.
The celerity with which a second marriage
follows a divorce in many cases calls out con
siderable comment. A Maine judge is credited
with the following story: He was holding court
at Machias when a man brought him a letter
from a woman who had a divorce ease pending,
asking when her ease would come on. The
judge, thinking the man appeared anxious, also,
said to him, jokingly, “I suppose you are going
to marry her, ain’t you, when she gets her di
vorce?” “Yes,” replied the man, candidly, that’s
the calculation.”— ljewiston (Me.) Journal.
“Got the cholera in town?” asked a Nankin
farmer who was on the market yesterday.
“Why, no!” answered the person interro
gated.
“Heard so out at my place yesterday. Heard
there were twenty-six cases."
“Oh, that’s all iionsense. Are your neighbors
much excited?”
“Not a bit, We began down there with the
measles and whooping cough last October and
we are now tapering off with catarrh in the
head and a ringing in the ears. Excited! Why,
I come in to get a case of the cholera for a
change!” —Detroit Free Press.
PERSONAL.
Christine Nilsson Is In London with her new
husband, Count di Casa Miranda.
John W. Keely, having, as he says, completed
his great motor, is at work on an improved tele
phone.
Patti is said to be brave enough to conceal
the great disappointment of her lire—her unhap
piness with Nicolini.
Editor llai.ziell’s Truth sa3’s Mr. Walters, of
Baltimore, paid only about $12,000 for the
famous peachblow vase.
There are. It in- said, no photographs extant
of Senator George, of Mississippi. He is thus
unique among public men.
Cyrus W. Field began life at S2 a week, and
is now worth $20,000,000. He doesn't drink, and
never struck for eight hours or a Saturday pay
day.
Secretary Eotmcott has decided to do away
with the practice of making military prisoners
carry heavy logs for punishment. lie considers
the custom barbarous.
In a recent column letter from Joe Howard
was this piece of news: “Sly Beecher book is
selling like hot cakes, audit ought to.” 'The
rest of the letter is unimportant.
Mas Folsom will not go to the Adirondacks
with the President and Mrs. Cleveland, but will
remain at the President’s country , home, not
earing to put up with the discomforts of camp
ing.
Mme. Patti, who was a passenger on the
steamer Umbria, which arrived In Liverpool
Saturday, had a pleasant voyage. She has re
covered from her illness, She expressed herself
a delighted with the reception accorded her in
America.
M. Chevrevl, the centenarian chemist, has a
remarkably keen sense of smell, which extreme
age has not in the least imruinml. He tells his
pupils that if they want to rifltl him in that
respect they must do us he has always done,
drink water and rigidly abjure tobacco.
The Czar will be represented at the Queen’s
Jubilee by the Grand Duke Michel. He would
send instead Ids brother, the Grand Duke Serge
but for tile fact that that worthy might not be
received, owing to his infamous conduct toward
his wife, the Princess Elizabeth, of Hesse.
William T. Coleman, whose name has been
mentioned in connection with the Democratic
, Presidential nomination, is strongly commended
by the Sail Francisco Call for the Very able anil
judicious manner in which he controlled the
famous vigilance committee in that city about
thirty years ago.
Thk sons nf the late “Extra Hilly” Smith of
Virginia, were fond of adventure. His oiliest
non. William Smith, was n midshipman in tho
navy and was lost in the Indian Ocean. Austin
Smith, the (treat bowie-knife fighter, was killed
at the battle of Seven Pinos, fvter Bell Smith
was uecidenti lly klli.-d by a pistol soon after t lie
war. Jamest'alrh Smith atrl Ool.'lll sna- smith
figured prominently as duelists. Of "Kxtra
Hilly's” children nut tJree survive him, a daugh
ter. 001, Thomas. Smith aid (.’at t. Fre ieri- k
Smith, of Now Mexico.
(•KN. OgOROR A. SHI'RIOAN is no relative of
I-ieut. (ieu. I’hlliip A. Sheridan. P|nin thlssub
ject lie once Raid In a political speech: lam
constantly asked what relat ion I am to Oca. Phil
Sheridan. Ist me answer tliat question so there
can Is' no possible misunderstanding I am not
ills brother, nor his cousin, his father or his
mother, his uncle or his aunt, nor his wife's
aunt's sister's raotherindaw. In fact, 1 am no
possible relation of the great soldier. He has I
hod quite a number of misfortunes in life, but
being • relative of mine is not one of them." 1
SHE RODE FOR EARLY.
The Story of a Brave Southern Woman
as Related by a Scout.
A dispatch from Reidsville, N'. C., to the New
York World says: "She was a beautiful woman
and I have always wondered what mission she
was on.” The speaker was Mr. Reid, who was
a scout in the war under Gen. Early.
“One morning in the valley,” he continued,
“I was ordered by Lieut. Atwood, who was
chief t cout, to report to Gen. Early for orders.
1 rode at once to headquarters, where I found a
finely comparisoned steed with a lady's side sad
dle on standing in front of the tent door. Gen.
Early came out and simply said: 'You will go
as escort to a lady; obey her orders.'
"Soon a beautiful woman tripped forth, and
leaping on the charger, set out in a gallop. I
followed. We galloped fully eleven miles. Not
a word was exchanged. That evening, when
within a mile or two of the Potomac, I saw a
large white farm house over to the left. Here
the first word was spoken. Reining up she mo
tioned me to halt, and said:
“ ‘I will dismount and go to that house. Take
the horses and conceal them in the woods; feed
and curry them, and come to the house for your
supper.’ She went on to the house and I did as
I was ordered. After we hail supper she sig
nalled me to leave, and I was soon out and hail
the horses ready and waiting In the bend of the
road. She was promptly on hand, and as be
fore set off in a galiop. We rode all night long,
silently, swiftly. As day dawned we left the
public roads and took across the country. About
9a. nn, while going across an old field, my fair
companion halted beside a broad, deep ditch
and beckoned me to her.
“ ‘Place these horses in that ditch and get in
yourself and stay here until I comet to you,’ said
she. She dismounted and I occupied the ditch
as directed and saw her disappear through a
thick sltirt of woods that fringed the edge of the
field. I judged we were in the locality of Boons
boro, Md. Tired and worn out I sooy fell asleep.
It must have been late dinner time f when I was
aroused by what seemed the very gifiund in a jar
and rumble. I sprang from the ditch and crept
to the woods and discovered that a plank road
ran just parallel and that a very large force of
Federals, artillery, w’agons, etc., was passing
down it. I soon got back to the ditch, dreading
discovery by bummers or stragglers, but I was
ready to take care of them if not more than one
or two had come. But none appeared. There I
laid full an hear, when a light stop and the rust
ling of a dress caught my ear, and looking up,
there she stood.
“ ‘Quick, bring out the horses,’ she said.
Which I did. Then, mounting her own, she
handed me a message sealed up in tissue paper,
and said: ‘Give that to Gen. Earl}'.’ And away
she went. That is the last of her I ever heard
or knew, sometimes it crosses me as a dream
in fairyland, and I wonder who she was and
where she is—but that is all. I took my time
getting back and drew a long breath of relief
when I st ruck the Virginia side. When I sa
luted and handed her message to Gen. Early he
read it and said to his orderly: ‘Give this man
something to eat and have his horse fed.’ ”
True, Though Remarkable.
From the Dakota Sell.
“Yes, I’m from Dakota,” he said meekly, as
he got into a conversation with a man on an
Eastern train.
"Ah, is that so? lam thinking of going out
there myself to invest in some farming land.”
“We have some very fine land."
"So I understand—but are not some of the
stories they tell of its fertility exaggerated?”
“Why, my friend, I am sorry to say some of
them are downright untruths.’’
"That’s what I thought. Now, what is the
most remarkable instance of the fertility of Da
kota soil which ever came under your observa
tion?”
“Well, I believe the case of my pump might
go at the head of the list.”
"What was it?”
“I dug a well about forty feet deep the first
season I was there and put down a wooden
pump. It happened that it was made out of a
small cottonwood log which was a little green,
and the soil at the bottom of that well, forty
feet from the surface, was so fertile that that
pump took root, and it also grew up and
branched out, and, now, while my children play
in a swing attached to one of the branches I
pump w ater through the hole which still re
mains in the t rank.
“Do you tell that for the truth?"
"Why, certainly sir, I never tell anything but
the truth.”
“Are you engaged in farming or the real
estate business?'
“Why I’m engaged in neither, my friend,
neither. I’m a preacher. I w r ent out there as a
missionary seven years ago, and though ray
wort; has been humble I trust it has had a bene
ficial influence on our people.”
Knight George M. Pullman to His
Squire.
From Tid-Bits.
The King of Italy has conferred the order of
knighthood upon Mr. George M. Pullman, the
maker of parlor cars.— Current Note.
Button my visor down
Over my knightly crown,
Hitch that suspender on
’Neath my habergeon—
I’ll paint the town.
Bring me my lance and spear,
Bring me mine armor here,
Bring me my coat of mail;
Put the big iron pail
Over my ear.
Pad out my sturdy chest,
Pull down my iron vest.
Put on my brazen casque;
Put in the little flask —
Thrice welcome guest.
Fasten my corselet o’er—
There goes two buttons morel
Don’t let that gorget rear
Way up beneath my ear,
Makes my neck sore.
Button my visor down
Over my knightly crown,
Hitch that suspender on
'Neath my habergeon—
I’ll paint the town.
Grasping the Point.
From the Boston Transcript.
It was in a Boston public school, and the
teacher had been reading a story or two, which
the pupils, as a literary exercise, were to retell,
in writing, from memory. One of the stories
was the tale of Robert Bruce atid the spider,
and the teacher read it as follows: "Persever
ance. It is said that King Robert Bruce noticed
a spider near his Ited try six times unsuccess
fully to attach liis thread to a balk, falling down
each time it tried, and said: ‘Now shall this
spider teach me what I am to do, for I also have
failed six times.’ The spider made a seventh
effort and succeeded. Brace also succeeded,
and never afterward sustained a defeat of sny
moment, seeing how foolish he had been to
despair even at repeated failure." And one of
her pupils thereupon proceeded to write her
version of the story, which was as follows:
“Perseverance. King Brace started out to do
some great thing and didn't succeed. So he
tried and he was thrown down every time he
tried to get up and he could not, he tried five
times at last lie got up. An l a spider came
along and jumped around him when he was
down and the spider stood around him all the
time until he got up. The King said to himself:
What u foolish thing he was.”
He Knew All About It.
From the Boston Transcript.
A story Is told of the Hon. Janies N. Bnflfnm,
of Lynn, who celebrated bis 80th birthday
Monday, which, if it is not true, is “well found/’
os the Italians say Rome yea rs ago Mr. Ruffum
attend 'd a political 'convention at Worcester,
and, like all earnest delegates, went up the night
l>efore. She gas fixtures in the room assigned
to Mr. Buffum not being in a satisfactory con
dition, he went down to the office and requested
to lie supplied with a candle The cleric, after
somo time had lieen spent in hunting up a can
dle, patronizingly explained the ois-ratlons of
lighting and extinguishing the gas.
“You turn the thumb piece toward you," said
the clerk, "when you light it, and then apply
the lighted match to the rllt. or little hole In the
cap of the burner, when you wish to put out
the gas turn the thumb piece hock. But never
blow out the fiaine."
"Thank you." rejoined Mr. Buffum, as he took
the candle, which had now arrived. “Your di
rections aro very clear, and I’m much obliged.
They are not part icularly novel to me. however,
for I have been for many years a director of a
gas company."
A Retort by Archbishop Hughes,
From the Philadelphia Fews.
During tlje war llots in New York Archbishop
Hughes, the then Catholic prolate of the dio
cese, was untiring in his efforts to assist the
city -i restoring order and this *.•••
vice met with distinguished recognition. He
one day enme upon a crowd of young men who
were being incited to violence oy a rotund fe
male with a waist as big as an elephant. The
clergyman made a glowing speech to the men.
remarking that tnelr place in that hour
was on the battlefield, fighting for their coun
try.
“Yes." shouted tne corpulent woman, "and
leave us poor wotnon to starve!"
"Woman, ' answered the prelate, pointing to
his wasted form, "who looks most starved—yon
or I?" A mar of laughter followed and the
crowd dispersed. One of the Archbishop's tiarty
complimented him upon bis ready wit. ‘‘l de
serve no urai<s” was his answer. "It is history
repsatlng itself. An Incident exactly Use this
once hauntuied to Napoleon-"
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Either Yankton county. Dak., is very moral
or the laws are poorly executed. The county
jail, used for both county and United States
offenders, has not a prisoner within its walls.
TnE Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany is having built at its shops 100 iron tubular
cars. These are said to weigh less than wooden
cars of the same dimensions and to have a
carrying capacity of 60,000 pounds.
There are said to be about sixty Protestant
communities in Spain with 14,000 openly pro
fessed Protestants, and hardly a large town
without a regularly organized church. It is just
eighteen years since the first Protestant chapel
was opened in Madrid.
The parchment commission of President An
drew Jackson to Com. Charles Stewart (“Old
Ironsides ’), grandfather of Charles Stewart Par
nell. has been received by the Irish leader lrom
Pay Director Cunningham, of the United States
army. The first initial of the President's signa
ture is said to be three inches long.
A Boors United States army officer has been
flourishing in New Bedford, Mass., where he
gave numerous orders to tailors, shoe dealers
and other merchants to have goods delivered to
various places, and gave as security fraudulent
drafts on army paymasters. He even began to
recruit a gang of men for work on a fort, and
from one of these he received $2 change on a
, bogus check.
Sixty-eight years ago five English gentlemen
in a tavern at Baltimore organized the order of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. To-day
it numbers in the United States over 500,000
members. It has disbursed since its organiza
tion §41,000,000 in relief to members, and ex
pended in various ways for the prosecution of
its work §110,01X1,000 and has never been more
prosperous than now.
A Texas editor announces himself as follows:
“We were born on the Texas frontier, have
been reared on the broad prairie; have plowed,
herded cattle, kept store, ran a mill, practiced
physic, lectured on phrenology, eclifea a news
paper and ran a drug store, but we have never
been whipped, and when any person undertakes
it he will be pretty certain to regret it till he
dies, ‘plase God, ’ as the Irishman said, ‘that he
lives that long.’ We can be slandered, cursed,
abused and ridiculed, but we draw the line at
being whipped.”
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has decided
views upon the appearance of the portraits of
authors and prominent persons in newspapers
and magazines. To a correspondent who recent
ly solicited a copy of a portrait of herself for
publication in a magazine, the authoress wrote:
"Thcx-e Is nothing more painful to contemplate
than a picture of oneself in a book or news
paper. If one is a beauty one’s reputation is
instantly destroyed, and if one cannot afford to
have any perccentage taken off ones good looks,
the consequences are that one’s secret hopes are
blasted, and one’s most timid aud modest confi
dence in oneself forever a rain.”
Gov. Larrabee, of lowa, recently declared
that prohibition had worked a wonderful im
provement in the moral and material condition
of the people. The official compilation of crimi
nal returns for 1880 7 made to the Secretary of
State tells a different story. In the entire State
last year the number of convictions all told was
1.839, this year it is 1,645. Last yearthe number
sent to the county jails was 139, this year it is
188. The total amount of fines imposed by the
District Court last year was $75,581 43: this year
it is $117,624 40. Total expenses on account of
criminal prosecutions (including District Attor
neys' fees) last year, $139,582 09; this year,
§452,618 18.
The steamships Arizona, of the Guion Line,
and Servia, of the Cunard Line, which left
Queenstown about the same time, May 8, ar
rived on Monday in New York within an hour of
each other, During the entire voyage the two
kept constantly in sight of each other. By night
each other’s lights could always be seen, and at
day either the spars or smoke of one vessel
could be seen from the decks of the other steam
er. The passengers on the Servia were constant
ly watching the Arizona, which they hoped to
leave behind, while the people on the rival boat
regarded the Servia with similar interest. Such
close rivalry between ocean grey hounds during
a voyage has never oceured before.
Reducers are sometimes rather queer, but a
remarkable queer specimen visited Fair Haven,
Conn., Monday. He was a little Englishman
and was selling dry goods. The lady of one,
house refused to buy from him, when immedi
ately his face lengthened and he set up a dismal
howl. At first his antics made the lady laugh,
but he kept up his howling until she offered to
buy 10c. worth in order to get rid of him. No,
he wanted her to invest 25e. and no less, and he
again began to bawl and kick like a spoiled
child. He refused to compromise even on 20c.,
and the lady, seeing that arbitration was impos
sible, was finally compelled to buy a quarter’s
worth. The i>eddler then [lacked up and left.
The following is the analysis of an orange
purchased in the Boston market and analyzed
for the Journal of Chemistry: The skin weighed
67.5 grams, which is 23.53 per cent. The seeds
weighed 6 grams, which is 2.84 per cent. The
pulp weighed 182 grams, which is 73.83 per cent.
The skin contains in 100 parts: Water and vola
tile oil, 78.00; organic matter. 21.30; ash. .84.
The seed contained in 100 parts: Water. 90 90;
organic matter, 8.88; ash, .83. The pulp con
tained in 100 parts: Grape sugar. 4.3; cane
sugar, 4.2: in free acid. 1.0. The free acid con
sists of about equal parts of malic and citric
acid. The ash constituents of the orange were
as follows: Potash, 38.9; soda, 7.6: lime, 23.0;
magnesia, 6.5; feric phosphate, 1.7; sulphur,
2.9; silica, 9.2; phosphoric acid, 14.1.
Twenty-three years ago Sam B. Putlow, a
resident of Southampton county, Va., caught a
catfish measuring 7 inches in length, which he
put in a well on his premises used for watering
his horses. The catfish has been living there in
that well ever sri :e until a few days ago, when
he was found dead floating upon the water. He
was drawn up and measured again by Mr.
Putlow,measuring at this time inches. The fish
has had no other sustenance than what animal
cule was in the water. During his stav in the
well he has been drawn up several times by the
bucket and put back again About two weeks
ago a young lady living in Mr. Putiow’s familv,
sympathizing with the fish, knowing his need of
food, began to feed him with bread. It has been
said by some that this (giving him bread) caused
his death.
Joseph Pareau, a Frenchman, who left his
family in Norwich, Conn., that long ago. has
just found his wife and children in North
Adams, Mass., where they moved twelve years
ego and by working at the shoe factories "man
aged to make a living. Two of the children
have died during the twenty years, anil the
family gave lip all hopes of seeing the father
again. Pareau went to sea and has been a sailor
ever since on vessels belonging to the Royal
Steamship Company. He wrote frequently to
his family at Norwich, but his letters never
reached them, and he had given up all hope of
seeing them again. White in Montreal this
week he saw the notice of the funeral of one of
his old acquaintances at North Adams and de
cided to attend the services. He then learned
the whereabouts of his family..
On M. Eichniger’s farm in the township of
Clear Lake, 8 or 10 miles from Gary, Dak., were
several small mounds, suppesed to be Indian
graves. A few days ago one of these mounds
was opened. A human skull was found and a
bronze medal bearing on its face naval emblems,
and apparently once worn by a marine. The
I ace side of the ■ medal is block, and embossed
on the face were an anchor and cable, wound
around the stock and shank, and across and
behind the shank a large cannon. The medal is
nearly square, with elongated comers, and
measures from comer to corner 11$ Inches. The
back is a bronze color. These mounds will in
I lie near future Is: opened and examined. They
art* not near the route taken by Little Crow
when be was driven by the whites in 1801 from
the gulch on Florida creek to the Little Crow
woods,
Some time ago the Massachusetts Legislature
appropriated SIO,OOO to provide for the erection
of a monument to Crispus Attucks, Samuel
Gray, Jonas Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, Patrick
Carr and other men who were killed in Boston
on March (1, 1770, on the occasion known as the
"Boston massacre.” It was done at the request
ib' cert m:i promii -d colored men, who laid that
the colored people wanted tills "recognition.”
They got it ns far as the Legislature was con
cerned. Then tli Massachusetts Historical So
ciety must put Its nose in, and ut u recent meet
ing it was declared that the proposed monument
was a waste of the public treasure; that these
men were rioters, not patriots: that a jury of
Boston citizens acquitted the soldiers, who were
de"ended by John A lam < and Josinh Quincy.
The society voted that it heard with regret of
the proposal to erect tbe monument, and said
that li believed that nothing but a ntisapprlhen
siou of the event styled the Boston massacre
could have led to classifying these persons with
t hose entitled to grateful recognition ut the pub
lie expen-e. A committee of live then oski and
< lov. Ames to veto the bill. But there are sotn< -
thing like B.ooocolored voters In MasKachusetts
and the (Inventor b-*s:tates to hurt the Ir feelings.
His said that he said: “If i send in a veto I shall
lose the colored vote of the State.” The propose j
tion now is to have the Legislature retail the j
resoUltli n from the Governor, and take the re
suotisi'jUitr of killing it- 1
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S)t worse, and the doctor could not cure him
is whole head, face and left ear were in a fear"
ful state, and he suffered terribly. I caught the
disease from him, and it spread all over my face
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PLATSHEK’S,
138 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, compri*
ing the following:
White aDd Colored Embroidered Dress Robes,
Cambric Edgings,
Nainsook Edgings,
Swiss Edgings and Flouncing^
Colored Hamburg Edgings,
Egyptian Laces,
Egyptian All-overs,
Egyptian Flouncings,
Colored Oriental Edgings and Flouncings to
match.
All-overs in Every Make, Black Chantilly
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Black Spanish Guimpure Flouncings and
AM-overs,
Valenciennes Flouncings, Laces and All*
overs.
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In connection with the above grand offers we
place our entire stock of Ladies, Misses' and
Children’s Parasols on safe 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.
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