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4 Chcfftorningßchis Morning News Suilding, Savannah, Ga FRIDAY. MAY 2 7, 1887. Registered at the l*o.st Office in Savannah. The Morninu Nets is published even' day ill the year, and is nerved to subscribers .'n 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 $lO 00 for cue year. The Morxixo News, by mail, one month. $1 00; three months, $2 50; six mouths, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morxixo News. t,y mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue!, three months, $2 00; six months. $1 00 one year. $3 00. The Morninu News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays Thurs days and Saturdays, tfiree mouths, $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year, $5 00. The Sunday News, ba mail t one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advanee. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters aiid telegrams should be addressed “Morxixo News. Savannah. Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—City Taxes: Savannah Rifle Association; Removal. Dr. Montague L, Boyd. Picnic—Of Wesley Sunday School. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Personal; Boarding; Found; Miscel laneous. Flora—Hecker's Self-Raising. Auction Sales— Wagon and Mules, Furni ture, Groceries and Hats, Blocks of Lots. Cor nerLot, by D. R. Kennedy; Hardware Furni ture, by J. McLaughlin & Son. The Morning News for the Summer, Persons leaving the city for the summer can liave the Morning Nkws forwarded by the earliest fast malts to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, $1 for a month or $3 50 for three months, cash invariably iu ad vance. Tbo address may be changed as jßften as desired. In directing a change care afeouid be taken to mention the old as well as the new address. HR'hose who desire to have their home paper Sfomptly delivered to them while away, jiould leave their subscriptions at the Busi i(sss Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and tIQ forward papers by the most direct and ■Slickest routes. ■ The military spirit in Georgia is quite active just now. Perhaps the troops intend to make a midsummer attack upon the Hon. Fotiphar Peagreen. Charles Reimer, Boss Tweed’s old partner, died in Brooklyn on Saturday last. His end was peaceful, for, unlike Tweed,'he never defrauded anybody. In Buffalo, N. Y., 00,000,000 jxiunds of soap are manufactured every year. It should be explained that it is not the kind of soap used by the Republicans to carry elections. The best evidence that the Prohibition contest in Texas has excited bad blood is the fact that the leaders of the two factions no longer address each other as “Colonel.” It is stated that Mr. Blaine is the favorite of a majority of the senior class of Brown University. But, then, the senior class of Brown University doesn't elect the Presi dent of the United States. The Philadelphia mint has prepared a number of “peace medals” to be presented to the Indians. The best “peace medals” that could be offered the Indians are bullets shot out of some army rifles. It is feared in Massachusetts that if the men do not stop emigrating to the West the State will soon be in the hands of the women. “Her Excellency, the Governess of Massachusetts,” wouldn’t sound so bajJ. Buffalo Bill has begun a course of lec tures for the benefit of the people of London. It is to be hoped that he will succeed in convincing them that every American is not born with a revolver in his hip pocket. Houseowners in the vicinity of New York appear to have a bitter antipathy to chil dren. They instruct their agents to rent to none but childless people. The New York Herald suggests that house-hunters will have to murder their children if they wish to obtain shelter. The town of Shenandoah, Pa., is without r postmaster, although the office is worth $1,700 a year. It seems that nobody in Shenandoah wishes to hold office. If some enterprising showman c6uld arrange to transport the town about the country he would make a fortune. The London Times, sometime ago, stated that 4,000 convicted felons were at large in Texas. The news) lari's of the Lone Star State declare that the consular agents at Galveston are responsible for the falsehood. The Times ought to know that the felons of this country who escape imprisonment gen erally go to Canada. Mi's. Hannah O'Brien, of New Haven, Conn., celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday in rather a novel manner. She decorated her house with mourning emblems, and at night burned a life-sized effigy of the Queen. The O’Briens seem to be determined to prove their loyalty to Ireland. A Kansas jiaper is authority for the state ment that Senator Colquitt intends to re move to that State. The reason assigned is that the Kansas Prohibitionists wish to run him for the Presidency, hut will not do so unless ho becomes a their State. The story is too thin to resist a summer breeze. At Pittsburg the other day the chief offi cer* of the Salvation Army held an im portant meeting. It was resolved to erect a number of large tents throughout the South ern States, to take the place of barracks. It is to be regretted that it was not also re solved to forbid the Army to use bass drums unless they were without heads. The Atlanta Capitol asks this question of the Morning Nbws: “Isn’t it the right thing for a preacher to deal in futures and. speculate upon them if* It may be right for him to deal in futures, but he should never engage in speculation. The success of his mission requires that the futures in which he deals shall have no suggestion of uncertainty about them. P lion. Samuel J. Randall is said to be feuch displeased because the President re- Buaed to appoint his man United States ■tnrshnl for the Eastern district of Pennsyl vania. Too bad! Perhaps, however, the oHon. Mr. Randall’s displeasure may cause him to think seriously of his political sins and result in leading him away from his RopubUqsm high tariff alii os. The John Vanderburg Case. There is no part of this country where lynch law is just iflable, and there are very few places where there is any excuse for it. In any community where there are reputable citizens enough to lynch an alleged criminal there are enough to create a public senti ment that will insure' the strict enforcement of the laws. Iu nearly every case of lynching there is great danger of punishing an innoeont man. There is not a thorough investigation, and impressions and guesses are accepted as evidence. A ease in point is that of John Yandorburg, of Bates county, Mo., mentioned iu our dispatches yes terday and to-day. A pretty and popular yotntg girl, the daughter of a prominent citizen, who was alone in her home, was brutally treated by a stranger who stopped at the house for a drink of water. John Vanderburg was arrested for the crime because he was found in the neighborhood, and was unknown. He was taken before a justice of the peace and the young girl claimed tb recognize him as her assailant. The Justice determined to hold the alleged criminal for trial, and had just announced the amount of his bond when two brothers of the injured girl shot the prisoner to death. It appears from our dispatches this morn ing that there are grave doubts whether the assasinated man was guilty. There can to be good reasons for thinking that he was not. He had friends, and they have ap peared and announced their determination to prosecute the brothers. There is sympathy for the brothers, but there is no excuse for their deed. They were terribly excited by the crime from which their sister suffered,' and they felt certain'- that the man they killed was the guilty one. They had no right, however, to take the law into their own hands. When they did so they took the risk of killing a man who might be innocent. If John Vanderburg were innocent his friends are right in demanding the punish ment of those who killed him. The fact that the girl was the victim of a horrible crime is no reason why an unconoicted man should have been shot to death by her brothers. John Vander burg was in the custody of the law, and, that too, in a well organized community where the law is faithfully and promptly administered. If ho had been guilty he would have suffered the penalty of his crime. Vile was killed without a trial, and if it can be showed that he was guiltless public opinion in Bates county ougnt to and no doubt will demand the punishment of his slayers. Florida’s Convicts. The report of a committee of the Florida Legislature indicates that the convicts in the convict camps of that .State have very little to complain of. They appear to have all the food they require, and to be well supplied with blankets and clothing. The percentage of those who are sick is not large, and the medical attendance is all that the law requires.) The only complaint mode to the commit tee was that the punishment for miscon duct was too severe. No statement is made in the rejiort reflecting the nature of the punishment inflicted, but the fact that one convict wus shot by a guard, and died a day or two ago, is sufficient to justify an in vestigation into the methods of punishment. It may lie that in this particular instance the convict attempted to escape, and re fused to surrender when ordered to do so. But, whatever the facts in the case were, they ought to be presented to the Legisla ture for the consideration of that body. It is not the wish of the jieople of Florida that the convicts of the State should lie subjected to cruelties of any sort. There may bo occasions when it is necessary to punish convicts severely, and even to use deadly weapons to compel obedience, but great care should be taken to prevent tho infliction of punishment that is greater than the offense deserves. Cruel and unjust punishment brutalizes those who are the victims of it, and prepares them for the commission of othor and still greater crimes wheu they are given their freedom. It seems that the Florida convietsare now not a burden to the State. The lessee takes them as fast as they are sentenced by the courts, and bears all the expense of main taining them after they pass into his posses sion. The committee thinks, however, that they can be made to yield a revenue. In some of the States in which the leasing sys tem prevails they yield quite a largo reve nue. If the lessee can secure constant em ployment for them he can afford to pay the State a good round sum for thorn, but if he is coinjielli'd to maintain them, or any considerable part of them for weeks, and even months at a time in idleness the profit of his contract will not lie large. A sharp com mittee .of the Florida Legislature could easi ly determine whether the convicts of that S|ate ftmld be made to yield a revenue. Lord Lansdowue has at last been heard from. In a Njieech at Toronto he ridiculed Editor O’Brien’s attacks upon him, and de clared that ho was perfectly satisfied that the Canadians abhorred “the methods of , those who seek to achieve by intimidation und persecution what they know could not be obtained by legitimate courses.” There is a very general impression that Lord Luns downe and his friends have used intimida tion and persecution to gain their ends, while Editor O’Brien and his have merely attempted to use free speech. “ ’Twas a perfect day. The balmy air seined to exert itself to be still more balmy as -the warning ‘toot!’ ‘toot!’ of the iron horse gave notice of the departure of the train liearing the President and his lovely wife to the rock-ribbed heights of the Adi rondack*. ” N. B.—The foregoing is not the opening of a summer novel. It is simply a sample of the beginning of the dispatches of Washington correspondents announcing the departure of President Cleveland and his wife from the capital on a fishing trip to the Adirondack*. Just before the corpse of John Bute Holmes was lowered into the grave at Plain field, N. J., the other day, seven women ap peared, each claiming to be his lawful wife. Holmes was not a Mormon, but his tenden cies wore in that 'direction, woqUhjwe died in jail if "jt. hadp’t been tliat he had “political influence.” 'NieMrtW sfert if in- 1 fluent lias prevented many another rascal from suffering just punishment. Mr. Adolph 8. Ochs, of the Chattanooga Times, told a reporter of the New York World the other day that a negro employed by him at a salary of $6 a week invested his savings in a lot in the suburbs of Chattanoo ga, and cloarod by the subsequent ul it $20,000. When a Tennessee newspajiej man starts out to tell a story he tells dno t hat is calculated to make other newspaper men’s eyes bulge. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1887. G-en. Boulanger’s Influence. Gen. Foulanger doesn’t object to being interviewed. Indeed, he appears to lie rather anxious to talk to the public through the newspapers. He is a boastful talker, and the French people appear to like him all the better for the way in which he pushes himself into prominence. Ho has never shown any considerable ability as a soldier, but somehow or other tho belief exists that if- the opportunity presents itself ho will prove himself to be a great leader. In our dispatches yesterday the statement was made that he considers that whatever effectiveness the army and navy' of France possess to-day is due to him. He said that fifteen years ago lie found France asleep, and that he awakened her. It is a re markable fact ttiat the people of France trust him and appear to be ready to follow his lead. President Grevy has been for quite a while trying to form anew Cabinet with Gen. Boulanger left out. Thus far the effort has not lieen a success. The President is hostile to him, and believes tliat his aim is to lead France into war with Germany, not for France's good, but to advance his own am bitious schemes. Tins belief may do Gen. Boulanger on injustice. He says that it is all nonsense to assert that he has put the army on a war footing with the idea of bringing on a war with Geraiauy. His aim has been, and is now, to bo ready if, war should come. If he is not included in the now Cabinet he will go back to his place in the army. If ho is not included in it a revolution may follow, though not through any effort of his. Gen. Boulanger appears to think that he is a man of destiny, and may be he is, but he has as yet done nothing to justify his elevation to the high place to which ho aspires. The peace party may succeed yet in organizing a Cabinet without him, and if it does it will soon be seen whether he will quietly return to the army, and consent to remain in obscurity as long as France is at peace. He is undoubtedly a man of ability. Hemaynever prove himself tobea greatsol dier.but he lias shown that he thoroughly un derstands the French character. He inter ests the people, and as there is nothing against, him it is not strange that he is pop ular with them. He has plenty of vanity and likes to produce a wmsation. He has shown himself to be a first-class politician. Ho has yet to prove, however, that he is either a statesman or a great soldier. Kapiolani’s London Visit. Queen Kapiolani’s visit to England is not so much for the piu-pose of being present at Queen Victoria’s jubilee celebration in June as to arrange a little business matter. The Hawaiian government sometime ago ar ranged for a loan from British capitalists of of $1,000,000. Somehow or other there were two sets of bonds printed, one representing the loan in dollars and the other in pounds sterling, and both sots were signed by the King. Only a small part of the loan has been forwarded, owing to this bond compli cation. It seems also that the Queen is dis satisfied with the commission charged by those who effected the loan. It is 10 per cent, of the whole amount. She hopes to fix up this little loan matter find' tfing the balance of the money lack with her. She also wants to arrange with the British ship owners for a line of steamers frOiji Hawaii to the Pacific coast terminus of thef'anadian Pacific railroad. She has her hands full of business—so full indeed that she may have to give less attention to shopping than she would like to. Claus Sprockets, who has long been known as the sugar king of Haw aii, also sailed for Europe on Wednesday. He states 1 before he started that ho intended to keep his eye on the Queen, and see that she didn’t waste her money. Mr. Spreckels owns about half the sugar plantations of Hawaii, and is, of course, very much interested -in the way the islands are governed. He says that the present government is unpopular, and that there is pretty certain to boa revolution there before long. Mr. Sperekels isn’t having everything his own way there now, and perhaps that is the reason of this ill-natured criticism of The main reason, however, why he wants to pre vent the Queen from wasting her money in Europo is that the Hawaiian government owes him about $750,000, and he expects to get it out of the loan which the Queen is to get in England. If he gets what he claims is due him there will not be much left for tho Queen to go shopping with. j The New York Socialists had a njeetas in Union Square Monday night. Lawrence Gronlund, a Dane by birth, announced that the subject to be discussed was “How to Abolish Poverty.” He said that the condi tion of the workingmen to-day was worse than that of their forefathers 400 years ago. The cause was the wage system, under which the workingman got only about one-half of what he produced, the other half being gob bled up by the capitalists. The latter did not use all their money, and consequently there was a lot of richness lying around loose that Gronlund thought ought to lie utilized for the benefit of ev< -yliody in gen eral. The crowd howled appi\ -al. Another speaker got off the following gems: “The object of our commercial centres is to tench clerks how to get for $1 something that is worth $2.” “The theory of the survival of the fittest is illustrates! by Jay Gould ami his crowd, who sit in a big trough like hogs, crowding each other out, the survivors getting all the grab.” “Rich [irople say that your condition is God's will, and so you can’t kick.” “I know that there uro some honest men in the country, because I have found them in tho poo" - house." Verily, immigration is not an un niixed blessing, for it brings us too many people who want to “abolish poverty” by stirring up discord rather than by hard, honest lalxir. Rev. Olympia Brown Willis, of Racine, Wis., is suing the inspector of elections in her waid for SIO,OOO damages because he refused to accept her ballot at a recent elec tion. If the court decides in her favor 500 other women will also sue the poor inspec tor. When a Western woman makes up her mind to vote she means business, and “man, the beast,” might as well lot her have her way. _ ■“When France whip ze German,” said a Frenchman the other day, “I hope she come an’ whip ze Americaine. It make me seek , to hoar ze insult to Gen. Boolongzhay by ze Americaine who call him ‘Ueu. 8001-lang ger. ’ ” If the wish shou Id bo realized Amer icans will no longer have to ask: “What’s in a name?” Russian students neglect their text books te shoot at the Czar. In this country stu dents SWilPtiines neglect theirs to play base ball or to tttke part in boat races. The Rus sian student's sport is more exciting, but not as safe a* that of the American student. CURRENT COMMENT. Only Its Nurse. From the Gal vest on yewslDem.) The Charleston Xews ar.uj Courier speaks of Senator Reagan as “one of the many fathers of the interstate commerce law.” Is not this a re flection upon the legitimacy of the offspring? The Senator only claims to lie Us nurse. Evangelists, So Called. from the ChattanooiM Times [Oem.l We sliall not attempt to say which is the greater sinner in the matt-r of meddling, the newspapers or the evangelists; hut all are clearly of opinion that the Utter should quit wholesale back biting and idiotic abuse of innocent uniuse ments before they attempt to reform the man ners of the press. A Significant Event. From the. New York Herald (hid.) When President Cleveland fills the vacancy caused by the death of dust ice Woods it will be an event of uncommon significance. It will not only be the first appointment by a Democratic President to the Supreme lieiich in m</re than a quarter of a century, but it is very likely to be the beginning of a Series of appointments that will soon elptng ■ that tribunal from a Republi can to a Democrat ie body. Commendable Anti-Poverty Societies. From the Cincinnati Times-Star (Rep.) Here in Cincinnati we have more than 300 Anti-Poverty Societies, only we call them Build ing Associations. The beauty of them is that they have been tried for many years and are known to work successfully, while the future of any new organization tliat is hampered by George and McGlynn theories is. at. the .best, ex ceedingly doubtful. Our Cincinnati Anti-Poverty Societies’ principles are as old as the Pyramids, and they will last for ages after Henry George shall have been forgotten. BRIGHT BITS. A vouxn lady at a ball called her escort an Indian because he was "on her trail" all the time.— liartford Sunday Journal.. The Seabrook (N. H.) Selectmen have decided that a hen is hot an animal. Wonder if they reckon her as a vegetable because of her crop?— Lowell Courier. “Ail : good evening, Mrs. Brown. Is your card full?” “No, Mr. Suvythe, put my escort is, and if you would kindly take me home I would be so much obliged. “—Life. How near akin laughter is to tears was shown when Reubens, with a single stroke of his brush, turned a laughing child in a Diluting to one cry ing; and our mothers, without Wing great painters, have often brought us, in like manner, from joy to grief by a single stroke.—-Veil) York Telegram. “Are you doing any tennis yet, Miss Mabel?” “No, we haven’t begun.” “But the weather is really beautiful.” “Yes, it is quite too lovely. But you see our tennis suits have not come over from London yet, so we haven’t been able to open the season.” —Town Topics. That was a vivid remark of an unmarried lady living in Cambridge, who was being chaffed about her state of single blessedness. "It's nothing to b ashamed of, being an old maid,” said she to her tormentor; "but to be an old bachelor like you is a disgrace in Massachu setts.”— Somerville (Mass. ) Journal. “May I ask what the middle S in your name signifies, Miss Bullion?” "Certainly, Mr. D'e Crashhe. It stands for Shazzar.” "Sliazzar?” “Yes; I was named after an eminent woman mentioned in the Scriptures—Belle Shazzar.”— Tid-Bits. Anarchist— What's that I see on you? A clean shirt? Good heavens: I thought you were one of us. Visitor—So I am. But I took this shirt from a workingman’s clothes line. Anarchist—Well, you seared me for a minute. Please pass that bomb till I shorten the fuse.— Omaha Bee. I like my Irish servant very well,” said a French lady who speafa English like a native. “I like Bridget v ery well if she woul'd uot try to educate me. She knows lam a French woman, and she will persist in correcting my English. For a year she has made a point whenever I have made any allusion to asparagus, to say: “Sparrowgrass, ma’am, av you please.”—San Francisco Chronicle. In some families cleanliness is.next to godli ness by several blacks. A Virginia woman, named Mrs. Miller, who had been suffering from a debilitated spine, or something of the kind, publishes a card, in which she says: “After taking thre bottles of the Alleviator I did a large washing which I had not done for three years before.” A woman who was as lazy as that needed medicine of some kind.—Texas Siftings. Mrs. Howe had a “perfect treasure” sent from the “old country.” The first month passes. Treasure—No, ma’m, I find no fault with the char-woman nor the bye that tinds the furnace, but the slitairs is very hand, m’m, as ye say itself; me back is broke wid them. Sirs. Howe—Poor girl! Well; I think we shall take a flat in a month or two, and let the house. (Three months later.) Treasure—The washing is so heavy, ma'm, I’m afraid I’d not be able to take it anoder mont, wid the t’ree fires to make every day. Mrs. Howe—Oh, I intend to put out all the washing and burn gas stoves in the parlor and dining-room. (Six months later.) Treasure—Yer wrruk, ma'm, is too harrd for a delicate gurrl. I think I‘ll be lavin’. Mrs. Howe—tVhv. Treasure, what can Ido to make it lighter for you? Treasure—Well, ma’m, if ye was to sind the slip of a gurrl to bourding-slcule, and yerself and the master take yer males out, and yo cud have mine sint in.— Harper's Bazar. PERSONAL. The widow of the late Henry Ward Beecher has taken up her residence with her daughter at Stamford Conn. The death of ex-Mayor Palmer, of Boston, was owing to a cold he caught at the reception given to Queen Kapiolani. The graduating class at Princeton this year will plant a slip of ivy sent them by Mrs. Cleve land, the President's wife. It is said that the President and his wife are not pleased at Miss Cleveland's intention of again assuming the roll of school-teacher. It is actually behaved in Berlin that were it not for the Strict prohibition of his doctors the Emperor would dance at every ball he attends. Prince .Napoleon’s secretary writes "The persistent report* of the serious illness of Prince Napoleon can only bo explained by a malicious calculation.” The warm weather has received official rec ognition from the President and his wife. Mr. Cleveland has donned * high white hat and Mrs. Cleveland wears , a white straw sailor hat trimmed with white ribbon. Secretary Whitney is the only Cabinet offi cial who keeps his ow n carriage, horses and coachman. His footman and driver are Eng lishmen. They wear a handsome dark green livery mid gloves, of a bright tan color. Q' kkn Victoria and the Pope are personally acquainted. They first met at Brussels at a banquet given l>y the King. Cardinal Pecei was Nuncio there and dean of the diplomatic corps, and he sat by the Queen and liau a long conver with her. Afterward he had an audience with her in London. The engagement of Miss Lillian Taylor, the accomplished daughter of the late ' Bayard Tuylor, to Otto fl. Th. Kihiani has just been an nounced. The young lady is now in Germany wuu her mother. The happy man is a clever young physician, and is connected at present with the famous University of Halle. Charles A. Dana, says Truth, is to retire from actin' service on the Sun at the close of t he year, and that he will be succeeded as editor in-chief by his son Paul on Jan. 1. Also that Leander Richardson's mission to London is not simply to establish a bureau of the World in that city, but to feel the way for a regular Ixm don edition of the paper. Mme. Emma Nevaoa and her husband Dr Palmer, have a pretty little 8-months-old I laughter limned Jlignon. The child was Ixirn in France, her mother is an American and her father is an Englishman. Moreover Mme. Ne vada will talk French to her. Dr. Palmer AviU talk English, and the nurse will speak only Ger map. so the Rule one bids fair to be quite cos mopolitan. It is reported that Sir Charles Young is fatally ill at his home in Chelmsford, Eng For years Sir Charles has been trying to win success as a dramatic author. He has written play after ploy which mo one would accept. After a long struggle to bring “Jim the Penman” before the public the author had the satisfaction of seeing his play score a marvelous triumph. And death stares him in the face just as he has reached the goal of his ambition. The survivors of the Oreely expedition are now six in number. Gen. Oreeiv is chief of the Signal Service; David L. Brainard is Second Lieutenant of Cavalry at Fort Walla Walla; Jute* RdMnfenck is slcl: and crippled at his horn* iaJMHi<|>apoiis; Henry BiwWbeck is a Agricultural Bureau at Wnh "ip'HWI Connell Ml pnv.it* *.| the Sig n'd (oid Francis Lurg i a SurJw& < rfL4|tl£i£uul Corns. How She Knew He Was Failing. From the Boston Courier. “You are not as strong as you used to be, John," said a fond wife to ber husband; “X think it is about time you were getting some insurance on your life."’ “insurance on my life: What are you talking about? lam as healthy as I ever was. Insur ance, indeed!” “Well, my dear, I only mentioned it. you know, out of respect for yourself. I thought you were failing.” “And what in the world put it into your head that lam failing? Me failing? Why. I am as strong as a horse, and can run up three flights of stairs without taking a breath.” “Well, it may lie so. But lam afraid you are deceiving yourself.'' “Deceiving myself ! Goodness, gracious, wo man. what do you mean?” “Don't be so impatient. What makes me think you are failing is this: When you were courting me you could hold me on your lap throe hours. Now you cannot hold the baby on your lap three minutes." He Got Even With Them. From the Albany Argus. An amusing occurrence took place up in State street the other day. Two men, both pretty well under the influence of liquor, one a little more so than the other, came ambling along. Near hake street some children were at play in the gutter. The sight of the men at once sug gested anew form of amusement for then!. Quickly making some small snowballs, the chil dren commenced throwing them; one hit the man nearest gone, and angered him. But then some men when intoxicated and angry are so cool that their anger w ould be hardly noticed; so with this man. He said nothing, but stepped into a little store af hand and the following took place: "Got any—hie—tomatoes?” “None except those in cans,” replied the woman behind the counter. “Got any eggs?” . “Yes.” “Gimme two.” The eggs were given him, he paid for them, and quietly stepped to the door and threw them at the children. Both eggs took effect, and then he called for half a dozen more. Again he stepped to the door and commenced throwing. Only one of the half dozen had he thrown when an officer interrupted his revenge and carried him off. I could not but admire the cool and complete manner in which he executed his ven geance. An Incentive to Genius. From the Arkanmtv Traveler. “It is socially dangerous to express such an opinion,” said an old; man, “but did you ever notice that the most successful men in nearly all depart merits of life are reformed drunkards?” “I nave noticed that a great many of them are,” someone replied, ‘‘but that is no argu ment in favor of intemperance.” “Oh, no; but, on the contrary, it is an argu ment in favor of reformation.” "But unless a man has been a drunkard how can he reform?” “We won’t go i.nto an argument of the finer points of the case. I make the assertion that the most successful men in business, law and literature are reformed drunkards. It seems that when a man drinks until he becomes thor oughly convinced that unless he changes his course he will never amount to anything, he is moved by a power which sober men never feel, and that he calls to his aid an ability which men who have always been temperate cannot sum mon. He has to build up his character and his business at the saxpe time; and building up one seems to help the other. Now, there was Hor ace Greeley —” "He never drank.” “What, Horace Greeley never drank?” “Never took a drink in his life.” “Well, we'll take Daniel Webster.” “Webster didn't reform.” “What, Daniel Webster didn’t reform?” “No, sir.” “Well, then, we’ll take—hang it, we'll take a drink.” Sailin’ Down Do O-hi-o. O-yeave-ho! Let ‘if hawser go; Haul abo'd de gangplank, Stan’ from off de sno’. O-heave-ho! [y*t, de whistle blow'. Pick de banjo sailin' down De O hi o. Chorus—Dancin’ in de moonlight, 1 Steppin' heel an’ toe, Sailin’ down to glory on De O-hi-o. O-yeave-ho! Ladies in a row; Chalk de dogs, old darkies, Strike de tune up slow. O-yeave-ho! A leetle faster go! Wake de midnight echoes of De O-hi-o. O-yeave-ho! Canter to and fro! Lissen to de talkin’ ob De liddle an’ do bow! O-yeave-ho 1 Gwine to glory, sho’; Heaben is a-drappin’ on De O-hi-o? Chorus—Dancin’ in de moonlight, Steppin’ heel an’ toe, Sailin' down to glory on De O-hi-o. —Emile Pickhart. Count Smith and McWhacker. From the San Francisco Post. While Count Smith, of the palace, was lying ill recently Rev. Joel M*Whacker, of Tombstone, called at his room and offered to bestow the last consolations free of charge. The act so touched the Count that on his recovery he gave instructions to the colored attaches not to bounce Mr. McWhacker should that clergyman amiear in the office of the hotel. Last evening his reverence ventured boldly in, and with an ingratiating smile, said to Count Smith: "Well. I’ve come to say good-by.’’ “Going back to Tombstone?” Brother McWhacker nodded and observed: “I see they’ve had an earthquake down t here, and that a volcano had broken out. I’m not surprised. I’ve expected something of the kind ever since I left. I see now that I was wrong in departing. Providence hns gone to considerable trouble to awaken me to a realiza tion of my duty, but a bint is as good as a kick to a man of my intelligence. There is a wide field of usefulness for me there.” “Will you take a drink before you go, par son?" ask the hospitable Count. “Well—er—l’ve jnst had one, but I don’t mind, though; if it’s all the same to you, I should not object to a small flask to relieve the tedium of the homeward journey.” “That 's ail right.” cried the Count, leading the way to the barroom, “two of ’em if you like.” “Count Smith,” said Brother McWhacker with emotion, as he trotted at his reconciled friend's heels, “you have a large heart, and one that, I am happy to see, is not insensible to the importance or missionary workl” Buying a Bonnet. From the Boston Transcript. “Did I tell you,” asked Fogg, "how Mrs. Flim got ahead of Billy? No? Then l must tell you. You see that Billy and his wife, had hud a good deal of talk about shopping. Billy said a woman didn’t know any more about laving out money than a hen. Billy's wife is a quiet sort o’ woman, not a bit given to wrangling, and so she said: “ ‘Billy. I'm going to buy a bonnet this after noon. If it isn’t too mueh trouble, can't vou go to the milliner's with me and give me the ad vantage of your experience?’ “Well, Billy fixed himself and trotted down with Sirs. Film. The milliner showed them two bonnets. One of them was a plain, dowdy affair —that's what Mrs. Flim told mv wife—and the other was perfectly lovely, so Mrs. Fogg says: “ ‘What’s the price?’ asked Billy. “ ‘This one,’ says the milliner, taking up a pretty one, is $10; but perhaps you want some thing nicer. Now, here’s one, just out, im ported, this I can sell for slB—a real bargain.’ And with that she held up the plain bonnet. “Billy looked first at one and then at the other. Then ho whispered to his wife. Said he: ‘This cheap one is a good deal handsomer than the other.’ ■ “ ‘Do you think so, dear?' said Mrs. Flim. “ ‘Of course' it is,’ said Billy. ‘l’d rather give twenty for it than five for that, other one.' “ ‘Would you, dear,' mid Mrs. Flim. ‘Well, just as you say, dear. I should prefer the $lB one, lmt if you think the other—' " ‘There's no comparison between them,’ in terrupted Billy. That thing I wouldn't give $8 for. This one's a beauty, and cheap nt $g.V “The bonnet was bond-boxed ami Billy carried it home, as proud as a jieaoock nt the big trade he had made. And he coulduT help reminding Mrs. Flim every now and then what a foolish bargain she would have made if be hadn't been with her. “Next day Billy came home from the *shop raving. ‘Look here!’ he exclaimed. That mil liner's a cheat That bonnet, that neat, pretty one, thut we didn’t take—you know I advised you to buy that one—(the lying rascal)—ls In tho window marked s(!.’ “ 'ls It?’ asked Mrs. Finn. ‘But then what do we care? You said you'iwouldn't give S3 for it, you know; that you would rather give $25 for the other one. ’ “Billy hadn't a Wbnl twwsy. tint m.v wife says: ‘ITow he wrmld bounce and sputter If he only knew that Sfys. Film and tho mUUnerf bad it all mode up between them how they'd fool the old fellow.’ ” < ITEMS OF INTEREST. A workman in a vineyard in Napa valley, Cal., committed suicide the other day by jumping into a cask of wine and drowning. The Yonkers Gazette tells of an artist who re cently went among a herd of wild cattle to pur sue his profession, and who found that the cattle were just as anxious as bo was to pursue his profession. The artist compromised the matter by getting on the other side of the fence. Italy, a writer in tho Fortnightly Review thinks, is making moi-e rapid progress than any other of the great powers of Europe with the exception of Russia. A vast advance has been made of late in education, in manufactures, and by the suppression of brigandage, and while a great deal remains to be done, more has been done in Italy in the last sixteen years than is generally acknowledged or believed. Camden is undoubtedly the Gretna Green of New Jersey. Tho clergymen of this town who do so much marrying arc the Rev. J. Y. Dob bins. Methodist: the Rev. J. J. Sleeper, Episco pal; the Rev. J. ,J. Heisler, Methodist, ana the Rev. Isaac W. Bagley, Baptist. Mr. Dobbins averages 140 couples a month, and as his aver age fee is $4 a couple, he makes about 58,720 a year. Mr. Sleeper unites about 60 couples a month, receiving about the same average fee. But as he has had a diagram lithographed, showing the most direct route from the ferries to his house, he will probably soon be doing a land office business. Altogether the clergy of Camden must make fully $25,000 a year out of the marriage business. The return of Ras Alula's released Italian captives of course was an affecting event at Naples. Among them was Count Salimbeni, and another was the 12-year-old son of Mayor Piano. The little lad came home not a whit daunted by his long and strange imprisonment, during which he w r as always chained hand and foot to an Abyssinian boy of about his own age. Women's hearts are always in sympathy with childhood in Africa no less than in Europe, one is glad to know, and the daughter of Ras Alula showed whatever kindness she could to the little Italian boy, and did something to soften the rigors of his imprisonment. Young Piano shows with some pride a gold cross which she gave him, saying, “Think of me when you are in Italy.” A rock which the Sioux Indians near Fort Yates, D. TANARUS., have worshipped for generations as the petrified form of a young squaw, was formally unveiled the other day and dedicated to peace and plenty. It appears that the white sc! tiers in the vicinity have long supposed that this specimen of nature's art work exerted a re straining influence on the Indians, but of late the rock has been removed from its original resting-place, and it was feared that with its re moval its charm had disappeared. So the sug gestion was made to Sitting Bull that the statue be placed on a permanent pedestal and unveiled with appropriate ceremonies. This pleased the' ehieftan, and 5,000 Indians assembled to take part in the strange medley of Christian and pagan rites by which the unveiling was accom- panied. One of the most original and bast known characters of Cologne, the hangman, Leonard Lersch, died this month, at a green old age. He was an eccentric but otherwise good-natured jack-of-all-trodes, who, during his long public career, had been dog-catcher, reporter, healing artist for man and beast, detective and execu tioner. He had, moreover, been the only one of his colleagues who, on the strength of the Code Napoleon, introduced and since maintained in the Rhenish provinces, enjoyed the privilege of the guillotine in the performance of his supreme functions—a privilege which, in point of costli ness of transportation, loss of time and extra labor, sorely tried his patience. For upwards of twenty years he kept uis coffin in his chamber, and in it a span-new black suit, in which ho de sired to be, and was, buried. Kate Claxton is the best traveler on the road. All is grist that comes to her mill; whether it be sitting up all night on a freight car or getting out of a burning hotel at 3 o’clock in the morn ing, she thrives on it. She does not care how long the “jumps” are (i. e., the trips from one "show town” to another) nor how draughty the theatre. She is alwmys jolly, prettily dressed, fresh, natty and well, though her dressing room floor may be flooded with water from a broken steam-pipe, or her breath freezing on her mirror till she can't see herself. All that sounds very nice, hut the professional mind would at once per ceive the disadvantages of being associated with so heroic a spirit. Miss Claxton’s advance agent is never hindered by her from getting up schemes of hardship and money making, and the company naturally share more in the one than the other. Bessie Miles, aged 8 years, a daughter of a blacksmith living near Harrod’s creek, Ky., was on Saturday night the victim of a cruel joke which caused the loss of her reason. On the night in question the little girl’s mother took her to the residence of Mrs. Herman Grandt, w here a private spiritual seance was being held. Tho girl was very much frightened and frequently begged her mother to go home. The company laughed at her, and finally a son of Mrs. Grandt, in a spirit of mischief, crawled behind the girl’s chair and gave utterance to a dismal groan. The poor girl fell from her chair in convulsions. Everybody was now thoroughly frightened and the girl’s mother was nearly distracted with grief. There was no physician near, but every thing that could be thought of was done. The child remained unconscious until Dr. Bubby, of Louisville, arrived there, at 4 o’clock yesterday. Then she opened her eyes, hut there was a wild, unnatural light in them, and the doctor thinks her reason has been dethroned. The shock was also so great to her nervous system that she may not recover. M. Pastecr recently wrote to a friend at Cambridge, Mass., from Arbois in the Jura as follow-s, according to Science: “AVe have just purchased 11,000 square metres of land, and the subscription, has reached the sum of nearly 2.000.000 francs; it, is, however, very insufficient, foaif we spend 1,200.000 on land and buildings, the income from the remainder w ill be much too small. Oh, if only some American millionaire were inspired with an enthusiasm for this work! I hope that when we are incorporated, and this will be soon, we shall be better endowed. We shall then lie able to receive legacies. To pro ceed suitably and with full independence, we should have, according to my estimate, 8,500,000 francs. I am confident. The future is ours. The prophylactic treatment of rabies continues to do well. Very, very rarely are there failures, and all in cases where exceptional circumstances appear. There has been but one failure since Jan. 1, and more than five or six hundred cases treated, a multitude having been most severely bitten. If we could only attack diphtheria, phthisis, etc., with success. AVe are going to attempt it. It is at least a step toward discovery to have confidence, and to hope in the result of obstinate labor.” The Forestry Division of the United States Department of Agriculture have issued a circu lar to those interested In educational matters, requesting information as to the observance of Arbor day in the various States. In the circular they state: The forest area of the United States seems to be less than 450,000,000 acres, of which more than 10,000,000 acres are yearly destroyed by fire, and to supply the needs or fuel, ties, lumber, etc., it is estimated that certainly not less than 10.000.000 acres are denuded, altogether an area of over 00,(0) acres pci- diem, the product representing a value of more than $700,- 0011,000 per annum. The consumption of the forests in supplying our railroads with ties is enormous and increasing with the rapid extension of tho roads. It is estimated that the building of existing roads has taken the available timber from an area as large an the States of Rhode Island and Connecticut, and that to keep them in repair by replacing decayed ties with new ones requires annually the yield of more than 500,000 acres. In 1858 the forest area of Ohio was 55.27 per cent, of the proa of the State. In 1881 it was but ‘USB nerbent. A similar rapid consumption of the forests has taken nlnoe in other States. lii many cases the flow of streams has been lessened or made Ir regular by the removal of the forests from their vicinity. A writer in the Kansas City Journal relates' this aneedot" of the late John G. Saxe and his favorite daughter, Sarah. It was the custom of the family to spend much of each summer at Saratoga. Ono summer it was decided that Sarah should remain at home in charge of the younger c-hildreu instead of accompanying her )>arents, as had lx‘<-n her former custom. This decision roused the wrath of the young lady and awakened all that latent obstinacy which her father claimed for her: in vain she re monstrated; her best clothing was put under lock and bey, and her eareifis departed, charging her to p a good girl am! to content horsdf until their return. The season was at It* height, and many persons brilliantly conspicuous in literary circles were gathered under the flashing of the watering place chandeliers. Saxe held-hi* court at one end of the saloon that August evening, and sat conveniently facing the entrance door, when a servant announced “Miss Saxe.” The poet raised his eye-glnss to behold Sarah, a miss of 1(1. haughtily sweeping down the grand par lors, dragging after her her mot her's best winter gown of velvet, and glittering with her mother’s trinkets. 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GREAT BARGAIN WEEL PLATSHEK’S, 13S Broughton Street, Will place on sale this week a mammoth lot of goods from the recent large auction sale of Field, Chapman & Fenner, New York, compris ing the following: White and Colored Embroidered Dress Rohes, Cambric Edgings, Nainsook Edgings, Swiss Edgings and Flouncings, Colored Hamburg Edgings, Egyptian Laces, Egyptian All-overs, Egyptian Flouncings, Colored Oriental Edgings and Flouncings t match. All-overs in Every Make, Black Chantilly Flouncings and All-overs, Black Spanish Guimpure Flouncings and AM-overs, Valenciennes Flouncings, Laces and AIL overs. Grrand Special. Parasols! Parasols! Parasols! In connection with the above grand offers we place our entire stock of Ladies, Misses’ and Children's Parasols on sale this week at unheard of prices. This wall afford the chance to buy Parasols at fully 50 and 75 per cent, less than elsewhere. P. S.—Country orders promptly and carefully attended to. WHISKY. ILAMEIE/mOMT Famous “Belle of Bourbon” lls death to Malaria, Chills and Fever, Typhoiq * Fever, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Surgical Fevers, Blood Poisoning, Consumption, Sleeplessness or Insomnia, and Dissimulation of Food. lO YEAR 3 OLD. ABSOLUTELY PURE. NO FUSEL OIL IN PRODUCING QURtreELLE orBOURBGf - W USE ONLY THE FLINTY OR HOMINY RUT OFTHE Gl THUS FREEING IT Of FUSEL OILBEFOREIT IS DISTILLED THE GREAT APPETIZER Loiusville, Ky., May 22. 1886- This will certify that I have examined tee Sample of Belle or Bourbon Whisky receiraj from Lawrence, Ostroin & Cos., and found tae same to be perfectly free from Fusel Oil and su other deleterious substances and strictly pure. I cheerfully recommend the same for r and Medicinal purposes. J. P. Barnum. M. IL Analytical Chemist, Louisville, M* For sale by Druggists, Wine Merchants a. Grocers everywhere. Price, $1 25 per bottle- If not found at the above, half dozen bot iu plain boxes will be sent to any address in m United States on receipt of #O. 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