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4 ffJeSftflrning Httos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. TUESDAY, MAY 31. 1887. Registered at the Post Office, in Savannah. The Mornino News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city , by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ae count, at 85 cents a week, ?1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO (X) for one year. The Mornixu News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three in oaths, s'l 60; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The MoaNi.vo News, try mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $8 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 85; six months. $2 50; one year, $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail ; one year, $2 00. . The YYeekly News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions pavable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Fetters and telegrams should be addressed "Morni.no News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Congregation Miekva Israel. Special Notices Savannah Volunteer Guards: Another Lot of Summer Clothing, Jau don: Grand Entertainment Masonic Temple; Notice as to Local Bills. Change of Schedui.e—City and Suburban Railway. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Found; Summer Resorts; Miscellaneous. Black Silk Grenadines, Etc.—Daniel Hogan. Removal—F. Gutnmu. Auction Sales-Broughton Street Property, Pine Horses, by T. I>. I.aßoche's Sons. The Morning News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning News forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for throe months, cash invariably in ad vance. The address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should be taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while away, should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service sat isf actory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. Secretary Lamar is spoken of as likely to get the appointment to the vacant place on the Supreme bench. He would fill the place. An agnostic cannot be a witness in cer tain cases in Washington. In that respect he is not as much of a citizen as an unnatu ralized Chinaman is. Miss Lamar, the daughter of Secretary Lamar is said to he the prettiest girl in the Cabinet circle in Washington. The South is bound to lead in beauty as well as in many things. ■Bfo lierc is tall; of the formal ion of an “ \fn>- National League, ’’ Its purpose in. be to enact laws in the' Southern Slates will favor the negroes. It will never BWeceed; its name will kill it. Ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald, of In diana, says that his opinions regarding politics are not worth much. His modesty is refreshing. Most ex-Senators think their opinions on any subject of incalculable value. Mrs. Chiara Cignarnle, who was con victed of murder in New York last .week, was the first woman ever convicted of a capital offense in that city. An effort, will be made to save her neck from the hang man’s noose. A keeper connected with the State prison of Connecticut says that Charlie Ross is in that institution serving a term of imprison ment. Charlie Ross’ father does not place much faith in the story. There is little doubt that the boy was killed soon after he was kidnapped. The firm which furnishes the government postal cards turns out more than 2,000,000 every day. The demand for them is said to be on the increase. Chicago, St. Louis, and Atlanta have been made sub-postal stations for the distribution of the cards. This week 25,000,000 will be sent to Chicago. Ex-Senator S. W. Dorsey says that three fourths of the money contributed for politi cal purposes during ctunpaign excitement is stolen by the men in whose hands it is placed. The ex-Senator ought to know, for it is said that he has directed the distribu tion of large sums for political purposes. Henry George didn’t make $75 last Sun day night. He was announced to deliver a lecture on that night for the benefit of the locked out hog butchers of New York, the price of the tickets being fixed at 35c. AVhen the hour appointed for the lecture arrived there were not twenty-five persous in the hall. George was on handy but the small audience caused him to postpone the lecture indefinitely. Col. Robert Ingersoll is telling anew story. “A Georgian," lie says, “came up to Illinois after the war and wanted to sell his uniform. He asked around at several places, ‘Do you want to buy a uniform P Finally aonie one asked him what grade of uniform it. was, when he suid; ‘lt was a private’s uniform in Georgia, but I reckon it mout do for a Colonel in Illinois.’ ” CoL Ingcrsoll deserves thanks for having discovered at least one Georgian who was a pri vatc during “the late unpleasantness.” Henry Blocker, of Chester township, liid., died lest week. He was a very eccentric character. Some years ago he liegan lend ing money at exhorbitant rates of interest, receiving 15. 20, and even 83 per cent. The condition was made in each case that if the interest was promptly ]tid, the obligation should cease at Blocker’s death and the notes be canceled. It is said that many per sons in all parts of Indiana were relieved of financial embarrassment when their eccen tric creditor died. The statement* made that an adventurer named Merina nas a scheme on hand tor mortgage the Hawaiian Islands to sor/ie government that will guarantee King Kala knua a big yearly income. The matter was at one time in u fair way tol bo brought to the attention of the Uniti/mlo qes govern ment, but something <>c<V r ' : l ‘! l P' prevent it. If is said that the Itffh f *'jLJ| s j'ujpent favors the scheme. It seems t/j n u jt, He Kalakaua is always running Bug Judge jLum, getting into debt, ai.#, ] would tii' glad to •’'OKm . *■ HflUnt'lUlH fcllW.iWU a i car. f Two Weak Reasons. Among the reasons which the protection ists give for repealing the internal revenue taxas, there are two which they thrust to the front very often. One is that an army of spias is required to collect them, and the other is that the people aro led into becom ing violators of the law in their efforts to avoid them. It must be admitted that they are not very strong reasons, though they are calculated to create a prejudice against the taxes in the minds of the thoughtless. T 1 le some reasons might be urged against the customs duties. A small army of spies is maintained at New York and other ports to detect frauds on the revenue, and consuls are sent to all the commercial cities of other countries to prevent undervaluations of exports to this country. Notwith standing the spies and consuls, however, the government is defrauded to the extent of millions of dollars annually. The im porters become, just as the moonshiners do, lawbreakers in their efforts to evade the payment of customs duties. As far as the moral effect upon the people and the spies are concerned, therefore, the argument in favor of repealing the customs duties is just as strong as that in favor of repealing the internal revenue taxes. But the protectionists say that the people don’t like to be harrassed by internal reve nue officers inquiring into their business af fairs. Those whose intentions are honest do not object to such inquiry, but those who try to evade the laws do. The same is true with respect to the importers. The honest ones submit without protest to the enforce ment of the tariff laws, but those whose pur pose is to cheat the government are always in trouble with the customs officers. The amount spent in preventing internal revenue frauds is not anywhere near as great as that spent in detecting customs frauds. If, therefore, the internal taxes were abolished Jor the two reasons specified, it would be difficult to see why the tariff tuxes also should not be abolished. f The truth is that there are no reasons for repealing the internal revenue taxes which are as strong as those for reducing the tariff taxes. There is not even a general demand for a repeal of the internal revenue taxes as there is for a reduction of the tariff taxes. The protectionists alone are hostile to the internal revenue taxes, not because they think those taxes are more burdensome than the tariff taxes, but because they believe their repeal will prevent a reduction of the tariff. They are wholly selfish in the mat ter. Neither the good of the jieople nor the interests of the country influence them in the least. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that they are steadily losing ground. Thay find it uphill work to try and convince people that it is better for them to have free whisky and tobacco than to have cheaper cotton tits, agricultural implements and clothing. Population in the South. The Public Health Conference, recently closed at Louisville, Ky., was perhaps one of the most important meetings of the kind ever held in this country. It was cei'tainly one of the most interesting. Among the papers read at the conference was one by Bishop C. C. Penick, entitled: “The Colored Race as a Problem in Sanita tion.” The Bishop claimed that the negroes load degenerated in a very marked degree since their emancipation. lie quoted statis tics to prove that they were dying off 50 per cent, faster than the whites, and that the death rate among them was much larger than the increase. His conclusion was that unless the whites did something to prevent the mortality of the negroes it would be but a matter of time when the race in the United States would become extinct. When the result of the census of 1880 was made known, much comment was excited by the apparent rapid increase of the negroes. Indeed, there were some who lioldly declared that the time would come when the negroes would not only outnumber the whites in the South, but when they would by their superior numbers drive the whites out or drag them down to their level. Of course, their dismal prophecies were foolish. The English-speaking race, when once it effects a lodgement, never succumbs to any other. But the proph cies so confidently made caused careful inquiries to be instituted as to the relative increase of the whites and negroes. The re sult was indisputable proof that the census of 1870 had not been properly taken. The negroes, at that time, were situated so as to make accurate enumeration of them almost imjwssible, and in consequence their numlier was declared to bo smaller than it really was. The census of 1880 was more carefully taken, showing an apparently great increase in the negro population. The increase was, however, not greater than that of the whites. The mortuary reports of Southern towns and cities show that the death rate among the negroes is greater than that among the whites, and that the increase of the negro population is loss than that of the white population. This is doubtless due to the ne groes' mode of life. They lack, to a great degree, the comfortable surroundings which the whites enjoy. Nevertheless, Bishop Pen ick’s conclusion is erroneous. The negroes in the South will not become extinct.' They learn to take better care of themselvs every year, partly on their own motion and partly because they are compelled to do so by the sanitary laws enacted and enforced by the whites. It is not probubl t that the negroes will ever outnumber the whites, but it. is probable that the relative increase of the two races by births will continue what it is now. Immigration to the South, which must gradually increase, will place the whites largely in the majority. At Richmond the friends of Hon. J. Ran dolph Tucker are getting up petitions asking the President to appoint him to the vacancy on the Federal Supreme bench. Mr. Tucker’s enemies are looking for documentary evi dence to show that when he was Attorney General of Virginia ho rendered an opinion to the effect tha., the United States mails could be searched for written and printed matter that taught opposition to rights of property in slaves. By going back so far, his enemies confess that his record is a par ticularly good one. It is said that ex-Honator Jones, of Florida, who is still: in Detroit, is beginning to see /nic bottom of his purse. Miss Palms, who is believed to have been the attraction for him at Detroit, has gone to Europe, and it is wondered whether the ex-S*>nntor will fol low her there. Would he not do a wiser thing by going to Florida and engaging in the practice of tho law ! At Canton, 0., the other day, a man named Dansizen horribly mutilated his wife in an attempt to murder her. He gave us aujaruso that the Salvation .Army had THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1887. Tho New French Ministry. There is a strong impression loth in Paris and London that war between Franco and Germany is only a matter of a compara tively short time. It is believed that an attempt will soon bo made to overthrow the ttouvier ministry that has just been announced, and there are not wanting those who are in a position to form a very correct opinion, who say that the attempt will be successful The new ministry favors peace, and if it is sustained tho peaceful ralations between France anil Germany will be maintained. The ostensible issue on which the Goblet ministry was overthrown was one growing out of financial matters. The receipts from tho revenues were less than the expenditures and the ministry proposed to make up the deficiency by additional taxes. To this the Clianibers objected. They said that he trouble should be cured by a reduction of the expendi tures. On this issue the ministry was beaten, and was, of course, forced to resign. Everybody understands, however, that tho real trouble was not a financial one, but one invaliding war with Germany. Gen. Bou langer dominated the ministry, and he wns spending immense sums on the army and navy. If it had been clearly understood that war was the thing aimed at, and that the outcome of the enormous expenditures would be hostilities, it is not improbable that the Goblet ministry might have held on a while longer. But nothing of the kind was claimed. On the contrary, it was distinctly asserted by Gen. Boulanger that there was no intention to attack Germany. He wanted to be ready, however, he said, in the event that war was declared. Tho peace party could not see the necessity for additional taxation for military purposes unless war were regarded as inevitable. Gen. Boulanger has asked for a leave of absence from France on the ground that his health needs a change of climate. He is out of the Cabinet, and, therefore, not in a position to do much to bring about a war between France and Germany. If, however, he is the scheming, ambitious man he is represented to be, he will not stay out of the Cabinet very long. The war party is a very strong one, and he is one of the leaders of it. The chances are that his health will very soon improve greatly, and that he will make an active effort to regain his old position of Minister of ihe War Department. Some of the French journals announce that the new ministry will go to pieces within a very few days and that the ministry of which he was a part will doubt less be recalled. It will not do, however, to be too certain about this. The peace and war parties nppear to be pretty evenly balanced and unless some unexpected event to stir up the war feeling occurs it is by no means pertain that the war party will get the upper hand. A few days may deter mine what the chances are for a continu ance of the Rouvier government. The Thistle. There is no doubt that the Thistle, the yacht, that is expected to carry off the America’s cup this year, is a much better boat than either the Genesta or the Galatea, the yachts which were beaten in the races for the cup last year and the year before. In the channel match on Saturday, from Southend to Harwich, which opened the reg ular English yachting season, she easily beat the best of the other nine yachts which took part in it. The wind was light and, therefore, the time made was nothing remarkable. Some doubts are expressed about the Thistle’s nbility to do good work in rough weather. There does not appear to be any ground for them. On her trip from the Clyde, some days ago, she had rough weather enough— so rough, in fact, that she suffered consid erable damage—and the testimony is that she behaved beautifully. An American yachtsman who was on board of her during the race on Saturday expressed the opinion that she can beat tho Mayflower, the winner of the international race last' year. It is probable, however, that American yachtsmen will have a boat ready to meet her by the time the contest is to take place. The Thistle is 135 tons burden, is 85 feet in length at the water line; 20.3 feet beam, and 16.1 feet in depth. She has all the fea tures, it is suid, of the Mayflower and Puri tan except their stern. That she is a very powerful boat there does not appear to be any doubt among yachtsmen. The contest for the America’s cup is looked forward to with deep interest. The United Labor party of New York, more fitly designated the George Labor party, will hold a convention at Syracuse on Aug. 17. Candidates for State offices will be nominated upon a platform, the essential planks of which will bo the abo lition of private property in land and the issuance of United States Treasury notes to represent the accumulating surplus. The loaders of the party are making an earnest effort to unite tho workingmen in its sup port. A circular which is being distributed in large numbers says: “One and one-half millions of people in the city of New York ure tenants to 40,000 landlords, and should unite against the old parties, of which the landlords and other monopolists are the wire-pulling leaders.” The progress of the new party will be watched with great in terest. Mr. Chauncey M. Depow, of New York, says that he has made enough after-dinner speeches in the last, twenty-five years to fill ten or twelve large volumes. The New York Star says that he laments that people will not consider his serious efforts as they do his fun making, and, like the genial Sunset Cox, sometimes thinks that, after all, Tom Corwin’s injunction to lie “a sol emn ass” is the road to permanent success. If Mr. Depew wishes the people to consider his serious efforts, lot him induce tho Re publicans to nominate him for the Presi dency. It wouldn’t lie long before he would wish that he had never made a serious ef fort. Boston is agitated over the bills for the en tertainment of Queen Kapioliani upon the occasion of her visit to that city. They foot up 818,000. One of the largest items is $4,500 for flowers. Another item is the cost of the reception to the Queen at the Victoria Hotel, Only 100 persons wore present, and the bill for liquors shows that each must have drank one gallon of liquor, for the bill says that 100 gallons were con sumed. It is probable that somebody Ixv sides the Queen had a royal time while she was in Boston. In answer *■■ the inquiry, “What makes a Statef” the Mobile Register says: “Real !t in tlliH Part of the world at I jjf* *t takes pa trnitwmm jmi wwas:i, Nfpv< < n - i, ,i CURRENT COMMENT. No Coldesa Between Them. I'roin the Mobile Registers. Dcm.) The fact that the President and Mrs. Cleveland will pay Gov. Hill, of Ne,. York, a visit is evi dence that all the talk at mt coldness between tho two gentlemen was imaginary, Canada’s Idea of Reciprocity. From the Few Yorl: llerald {lnd.) Canada favors reciprocity, but, in Hibernian phrase, she wants it nil on one side. That Is to say, Rlie would like to have the United States do the square and generous thing, and then, for herself, she will reciprocal*' by doing just as she pleases, Blaine the Strongest Man. From the Birmingham Age ( Item.) We still hold to the opinion that Blaine Is the strongest man for the presidency in the Repub lican party. But Blaine has suffered in health ax well an prestige since the last campaign, aud will be much easier to heat in 1558 than ISB4. He will have to bear the burden of fuur years of de pletion. Needs Repairs. From the Philadelphia Record ( Deni.) So vast and complicated is the tariff system that the Treasury Department is kept constantly employed iti settling questions that daily arise under the provisions of the tariff laws. A Bos ton firm recently appealed from a decision of the Collector at that port in regard to the ap praisement and assessment of the duties on steel hillets. In other isirts the assessments of duties are made In a different way. After twenty-five years of tariff tinkering this model American protective system is sauly in need of repairs. BRIGHT BITS. Those who wish to paint the • town red on Sundays must use water colors,— Life. How seldom you hear of a woman fainting anywhere else than in a man’s arms.— Boston Transcript. A phrenologist has examined John L, Sulli van’s bumps. We suppose he found them on the other fellow’s head.—Ran Francisco Alta. “Women are not backsliders as men are.” says a writer. No, but they would be if it wasn't for their bustles. — Binghamton Rejmb lican.' “How much are these flowers?" asked a hand some, well-dressed gentleman. “I want them for my wife.” “Really, for your wife?” ex claimed la marehande, astonished: “then I’ll throw off 50 percent.”— Texas Siftings. Curate (to old man who is beating his donkey) —Fie, tie, my good friend, do you know what happened to Balaam once? Old Man—Ees, sure, zur—the same as has just happened to me, zur—a ass spoke to him— lrish Times. “He’s gawn to the dawgs, paw fellaw, he has, I assuaw you?” “Good gracious! I hadn’t noticed it.” “Gad! Whenw aw youaw eyes! Haven’t you seen how tight his bweecbes aw and the cussed colaw of the ewavat he weaws?"— Town Topics. Herr Professor—You haf a remargaply bowerful foice, my vrent!” Basso—Yes; do you think it will fill St. James’ Hall? Herr Professor—Fill St, fha-mes’ Hall! Ach, my vrent, it vitl not only fill St. Chames’ Hall— it vill empty it!”— Punch. Miss Waldo (of Boston) —You sometimes have very warm weather in Chicago, do you not, Mr. Breezy? Mr- Breezy—Occasionally; but last summer the weather was delightful. I don’t think I sat down to dinner without my coat on more than two or three times during the entire season— Pack. “And what kind of a man was your husband?” a weeping widow was asked. “Well, I thought he was an angel before we were married, but 1 found I had made a great mistake. He wus just the reverse. But he got religion before he. died and I guess he’s an angel now. That’s some consolation.— Boston Cour ier. There is no longer any doubt that Chicago is the literary centre of the country; Adam Fore pa ugh says so. “I had three times as many people under my canvas every day last week,” says he. “as I had in Boston, and I turned away about 8.000 people every night. 1 know what Pm talking about when I say that for genuine git-up-and-git culture Chicago' beats the world!” —Chicago News. Omaha Girt,-- Have you read “She?” Chicago Girl—l haven't had time vet. I've become a- fully interested in "Bloody Billy, the Gulch Gallante,” though. “Horrors!” “Yes, indeed, it’s delightfully full of them." “The idea of reading those vulgar dime novels!” “Oh, this is all right, dear, it’s bound in cloth with gilt edges.”— Omaha World. Little Ben’s grandfather was afflicted with a very lame leg, and the small grandson was wont to pray for it every night. After awhi!-, however, be evidently grew tired of it. and one evening arranged matters in this way: “O, Lord,’* he prayed ns usual, “bless grandpa's lame leg." Then, struck with a happy idea, he settled his obligations once for all: “O, Lord, bless everybody's legs)” Ameu.— Harper's Mag azine. A younosteu of the mature age of 10, captain of the Boomer club, a base ball nine in n neigh boring city, recently received a challenge from a rival club to play, which he accepted. Before the game took place, however, lie prepared two reports for I he local papers, either one of which could be used as occasion demanded. One set forth in glowing colors a victorious result for his nine. The other merely left a space for the Score, with this concluding comment: “The game was lost by the Booiners<hrough bad um piring.” This was taking time by the forelock indeed.— Boston Herald. 1 PERSONAL. Mas. Langtry is to spend most of the summer in the Yosemite Valley. Gen. Grf.ely is now framed in a suit of white flannels. He supports his own weather. Ex-Postmabteb General Hatton is booming Roscoe Conkling in the New York corridors It is said that SJrs. Blaine objects to having her husband make another fight for the Presi dency. The Emperor of Brazil is still in feeble health, although the contrary is asserted by the court physicians The testimonial performance given this week to John T. Ford, the theatrical manager of Bal timore, celebrated the close of his thirty-third year in his business. On a road leading from Greville to Landemer, near Cherbourg, in Normandy, stands the hovel in which .lean Francois Mellet was horn, still inhabited by one of his brothers, who has turned it into an inn. Lord Lyons, now in his 70th year, will not resigu ins [lost as Ambassador to Paris for two years. This promise, according Jto the Paris American Rcr/isler, has been given at the spe cial request of the Queen. The wife of Senator Sawyer, of Michigan, is an invalid, and the Senator gives Dr. Kempster, formerly manager of the Utica Insane Hospital, J'.'i.ddfl a year to attend her. Her slightest wish is always gratified, no matter what the expense may be. Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond sculptor, has coin [ leteil the statue of John (’. Hiss-kin ridge in c'Ay lor t he capital square at Frankfort, Ky It Is Ilf heroic size, and Senator Beck, who was Breckinridge's law partner for ten years, pronounces it an excellent work. Tub Pnbliehei-g' bulletin, anew weekly just started in New York, says that Dr. Taltnage will soon begin to write a weekly syndicate letter for a number of newspapers. His sermons are al ready published by a large syndicate of news papers. und arc said to have a circulation of 5,000,000 a week. The Emperor of Austria appears to be very accommodating. The other day a committee called on him, begging him to Is- present, at the unveiling of the Haydn monument, on May HI The Emperor replied he would be delighted to come, und on I-ring asked what hour would best suit him he replied, “I shall be happy to come at uuy hour that suits you." Lord IVolsklkv made his maiden ascent in a lialloon at (.'hat ham the other day. lie went up in an an-ial machine containing 10, um feet of compn-ssed gas. nearly as much ok has ts-en given out by ids Journalistic p ilfers since bis Ashantee campaign. It was a 'captive” balloon, which, from a w olselsjrstandpoint, is suggestive. Ms). Esdile, who as<-ended with the (Sen crab observed that had Iwlloons been thought of in the Houdan campaign it would not have lasted as many weeks as it did months. Tile Major will doubtless bo promoted for this sage-facto discovery. Mrs. t iti.iA Tuaxter, whose most charming poems are those of the sea. Imd a stran-w- girt hood. Her father, a Mr. lalghlon, who was a thorough misanthrope front various disappoint ments. left boston when she was a child and bought the l lr of Hhoals, and lived in that lone Ivspnt, which m those days was quite cut off mint tlie world. Thera his daughter was brought up In uttr Isolation. And it was but natural thut when some young Boston men spent a shot! time on this scclu'jMLjaauu y.MSiniiuier t i 1 M,C w*ii- - :• 1 1 ■ ito jury him.''amt * O’l! I' see Mil Id. OOsdfc 'll® 'rw-R-So. BEN; PERLEY POORE’S HOME. A Remarkable Old Farm House With Sixty Rooms. The Iferald has the following description of the home of Beni Perley Poore, the veteran Washington correspondent, who died at Wash ington last Sunday morning: MaJ. Poore's home, near Newburvport, Mass., is probably one of the most remarkable and in teresting old homesteads in the country. The farm takes its name from an eminence upon it wl(gre the owner lot his quaint fancies manifest themselves in various ways. From its summit the American flag has never failed to float in houorof national anniversaries or to celebrate important events. National and political vic tories —the Major was a staunch Republican— wcrq announced unfailingly by the blare of the bonfire at night. And many a time have the sides of the lull been bright with the uniform of visiting military organizations and Masonic bodies, to both of which Mai. Poore was always ready to extend a hearty hospitality. Ho was himself a Freemason of high degree. - On the southern slope of this hill is a flue piece of woodland, started a little more than a quarter of a century ago by the Major himself. Every seed was planted by his own hand. This remarkable instance of arboriculture was re warded by the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture with a prize of 81,000. The rambling old mansion that Maj. Poore called home covers ap immense area fora farm house. It i.i not more than two stories high in any part, and yet it contains upward of sixty rooms. There are ancient looking halls, old fashioned stairways, broad fireplaces, mediteval galleries, chambers full of suggestion and all kinds of peep boles in the shape of windows, and of sally ports in the shape of doors. The place is a veritable museum of antiquities. Relics of the past are found in every nook and corner. Ancient pictures hang on the walls; antique books throng the library shelves. Arms and armor, tools and implements, uniform and cos tume, old furniture, old utensils and every kind of thing that can suggest lie- long ago is there, and to those interested in mementoes of the past hours at Indian Hill are easily melted down into ujpments. Among the curiosities ure arms and equipments of Revolutionary times and subsequent wars; chairs, tables, lamps, crock ery, etc., formerly owned by Washington, Jef ferson, Lafayette, Webster, Lincoln, Sumner and other notables; the printing press and type cases used by Benjamin Franklin when an ap prentice boy in Boston; Indian relics, weapons and tools of early settlers; ancient dishes, tools and utensiis, and many souvenirs of nota ble persons and places gathered in foreign lands. 3Taj. Poore’s home was a favorite re sort of antiquarians from all lands. A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING. A Senator’s Daughter and a Journalist Married. The most interesting social event in Washing ton last week, says the New York Sun, was the really beautiful wedding of Senator Dolph’s daughter and Richard Nixon, of the New Orleans Times-Democrat. There has been a good deal of interest in this wedding for several reasons. Miss Dolph’s beauty has never been disputed, and she has been an acknowledged belle in official society, where t lie re are always prettv young women each season. She has been bappy in the number of friends, and has been termed a popular girl. Some of her girl friends have frankly expressed surprise, because, as they said, she did not marry money or position. One young woman, more outspoken than the others m her set, exclaimed: “Oh, Agnes, why do you marry a poor young journalist? Why don't you wait and marry a Senator, somebody worth while?” Miss Dolph, though “finished” in a fashionable New York school, still holds to the breezy, Western prairie off-hand maimer of the Oregon-born girl. Few "Washington journalists have married daughters of men in official life. Young men often called newspaper men are too busy to give much time to society. Asa rule they- are not in the “set" of society men, and have no opportunity to meet society girls. Several years ago Howard Carroll married Mias Starin. whose father was a member of the House at the time. Later I. C. Crawford married the daughter of Representative Joyce, of Vermont. Miss Joyce was a beauty, not unlike Miss Dolph in the Style of being tall and a brunette. As Mrs. Crawford she is still a flne-looldng woman, and clever, too. Miss Dolph has much Independence and strength of character, that will serve her well as the wife of a "poor young journalist,” "Marry a Senator!” she retorted, with vim in her voice. “Marry a man as old as my father, and one I don't care for! You know Senators are old men, or fliost of them are. Young men don't get In the Senate. When my father and mother were married he wasn't a Senator. His chances were no better then than Mr. Nixon’s are now. No; you may wait and marry an old Senator if you want to. I'll take the poor young journalist now, and we will wait together for the Senate or any other good place we can get.” Then, in a graver tone, she added: “You see, Mattie, I care more for him than for money or position. ” Selling’a Farm. From the Dakota Bell. “Your price is too high,” said an Eastern speculator as he rode over the farm of a Dakota man living near Fargo. "I can’t pay $5,000 for such land as this.” “It’s worth it, though,” replied the owner. "Why. look here, it's all low, flat laud.” “Yes.” “Covered with water half the year." “Yes, just about.” “The soil is heavy and cold.” “Yes, middling heavy and cold." “Then how do you rpake out its worth $5,000?” “My friend, do you see that hole over there back of the barn?” “Yes—dig ring a well, I should judge.” “Supposed to be, but it has a deeper meaning thaii that. That hole Is down sixty feet and I have two dead dogs in the bottom.” "Well, what's the scheme?" “Why, you buy the land for $5,000; dogs begin to smell good and strong in about a week, ex pert sniff’s around and pronounces it natural gas, Fargo papers full of it, farm sold tor $25,000 inside of two days, clear profit of $20,000! See it?” “Y-e-s, the plan appears feasible, but why don't you work it yourself?” "Me?” Why, you see I'm a minister and the people of my church qre getting so very partic ular that I don't want to try it. But I’ll let you have the place at those low figures, uud preach a powerful sermon the next day after the expert is here and point out that natural gas in the Red River Valley is prophesied about away back in Deuteronomy.” Love’s Tender Signs, By Mm. 31. A. Kidder , You say I am happy. Pray how can you tcllf The heart of a inaid Is as deep as a well! She often will smile With a heartache below. And when meaning “Yes,” She will likely say “No.” Ah. yes, my own darling, Some maidens, I own. Their heart-secrets keep In a casket of stone. But when some fond swain A sharer would lie, If looked on with favor. Love tenders the key. A suitor who loves As I, dear, love you. Can wait for an answer From lips that are true. Your gentle blue eyes That look Into mine. Each day tell the story My heart would divine. A Parisian Dentist’s Suicide. Par in Letter, to Loudon Telegraph. A Parisian dentist, about 50 years old, has just committed suicide in very tragical circum stances. He hail fallen desperately in love with a rather good-lookms woman, who was it singer in a suburban cafe concert. She did not return his affection, although she continued to frequent his surgery. She went there yesterday to have, ns she said, one of her teeth stopped, nud the dentist renewed his protestations of affection; but, as she refused to give him any encourage ment. ho suddenly locked the door of the room, sat down and scribbled a few lines on a piece of jiuper, and deliberately shot himself While dying, according to the woman's statement.be caught her in Ids arms and passionately cm braced Inn - . Tills accounted for her clothes being covered with blood. The neighbors state thnr, besides the report of a revolver, tbev heard sounds of an altercation in the surgery. The dentist was a married man, but had lived apart from his wife for many years. The Zephyry Spring 1 of ’Bl. From the Flmidreau (Dak.) Herald. “You have some wind in Dakota,"said a land seeker to a Flandreaulte last Saturday. "Oh, yes, it blows some here, but nothing like it did In’Si. I knew a man that spring who sowed a twenty-acre Add to oats, and the wind began to blow the next day after they were dragged and kept it, up three days. . After tiie wind emptied lie happened along on the north wide of the field and there in the grass lay every oat sown three days before in n regular oat drift. Hiring some boys anil girls to pick them up, lie realized about forty bushels of his seed. It so discour aged him that he took them to town, sold them at 50c. • a bushel, paid his taxes on the land, and turning hts horses out tq <qrasa, lived on bullher.de. lho rest of the summer. We bad some wind that year." ITEMS OF INTEREST. The people of the Holy Land are becoming civilized. Bethlehem's sti-eetsare lighted with g:ts, Nazareth is the headquarters of big olive oil speculators, and Cesarea is having a building boom. Buffalo's malt business is enormous. The annual product of the malt manufacturers there is 7,090,000 bushels —an amount exceeding ly nearly 2,000,000 bushels the combined product of any other two American cities. Eevbex M.Wkst, a negro barber, who recently died in Richmond, Va., aged 88 years, was once of the most prominent men of his race in the State, chiefly owing to the remarkable fact that he had about $20,000 invested in the African slave trade. A. T. Soule,* of Rochester, N. Y., who built at his own expense a canal nine miles long for irrigating purposes in Kansas at an expense of $1,000,000, has announced his intention of extending it so that 1,000,u09 acres of laud will always yield a full crop. A when built its nest in an old fruit can nailed to the gate post of A. J. Diehl, of Normal, HI. The nest was destroyed, but was renewed twelve times on twelve successive days, having been pulled to pieces each time as soon almost as built, The bird was then left hi undisputed possession. Englishmen are advised by Consul Ricketts not to emigrate to Brazil. They may get land cheap, but will And that work under a tropical sun is dangerous. There is a lack of communi cation with the interior, and the natives are hostile to the English. For these reasons there are few British settlers in Brazil. Two Brockton (Mass.) men claim to have in vented a machine with which two men and a boy can last 200 pairs of shoes a day, and do it more cheaply than by the present process. 'The machine will not strike, and if the two men and a boy can be depended upon, the, last of the lasters’ strikes seems to be near at hand. The only woman cab driver in England has just died. Visitors to Epping Forest will recall, as one of the peculiar institutions of that vicini ty, the female Jehu, who for many years wore conspicuously the badge of a driver, and held the reins in skillful competition with the men, who, no doubt, vociferously denounced at cab stands and railway stations this demonstration of a woman’s rights. Maky McLaughlin, who has been appointed postmistress at Lake Forest, 111., Is a young Irish seamstress who has been sewing among the families there at $1 a day. This appointment will give her $1,500 a year, and she must have been astonished when a telegram reached her from Senator Farwell that her name had been sent to the Senate. She was not a candidate and probable never dreamed of such a thing as being postmaster or holding any other office. Not long ago, the Secretary and Treasurer of one of the largest street car lines in Pittsburg was taken ill, and his daughter undertook to manage his business. She kept the books in good shape, attended to the collection of money, paid the employes, and bought feed and stock for the company. She did so well thut when her father died, the company elected her to fill the position permanently—but we are not told that she draws the same salary. Bikthday boxes are among the new inven tions for raising money., and are used by some Hudson River churches. These boxes are placed in prominent places in churches and Sunday school rooms, and upon the birthday of ang member of the church or school that person puts into the box as many pennies as he or she is years old, and continues this practice each year. The boxes are opened every six mouths, and in this manner quite a snug sunf is realized. At the close of the recent session of the Con necticut Legislature that body, as has been its reprehensible custom, voted to the newspaper reporters sums of money for “special services.” William F. Clarke, of the New Haven News, re ceived S2OO. The proprietors of the Weirs dis charged him upon his refusal to turn the money into the State Treasury, and then sent their own check for S2OO to the State Treasurer. This the Treasurer has returned to the paper, saying he lias no authority to receive it, and that lie can not take it without a special vote of the Legisla ture. 'A steamer which arrived at Philadelphia from Antwerp the other day had among the passen gers eight children, ranging from 2 to 14 years qld, whose father had not been seen since he put them on board the vessel at Antwerp. Just be fore the ship left Antwerp the father made some trifling excuse to get ashore for a few mo ments and cud not return, and the children were carried here unprovided for and without the ad dress of any friemls. The eldest boy said that his father treated them very kindly, and had a great deal of money about his person when leaving the ship. A Son Fraxcisco drcmmer visited one store to make a sale, but was told that no dealings could be had with him as long as he stopped at a boycotted hotel. Thereupon he went back to the hotel, paid his bill and left. Subsequently in another store, he was toki that they could not deal with him because he left the hotel; and to “square" the matter he returned to the boy cotteu hostlery. He was a very perplexed drummer indeed. A tailor’s assistant was board ing at a boycotted house. The tailor w as warned that he ran the risk of boycotting if he per mitted this, and he thereupon caused the young man to change his quarters. The boycotted hotel man then got even by countermanding the order he had given the tailor for a suit of clothes, and inducing a friend to countermand another order. A Dakotas and a Texan who met in Chicago were disputing about the greatness of their re spective districts, and among other things traded marvelous stories about the work of the wind in each locality. “How fast does a Texas norther blow?” asked the Dakotan at last, “How fast? Well, the only thing that will measure it is lightning, When a Texas norther is coming they telegraph ahead, so peo ple can ®et under ground, but when It gets under good headway it will just about run a ueok-aud-neck |raoe with the telegram. How fast’s a Dakota blizzard:” “Oh, you can’t measure a blizzard. There’s nothing like it. I've seen a blizzard skin a telegraph message right off the wires and carry it on ahead. I never saw but one the speed of which could be measured. There seemed to lie something the matter with that one. It went rather slow, only 'bout 1,000.000 miles a second, and we couhln t tell what was the matter with it until it w ent by, when we found it Was dragging one of those infernal Texas northers along behind.” “There has been such a rush of American ladies lately, all panting to be presented to the Queen,” says London Truth, “that a most un compromising circular has been issued from the American Legation, in which Mr. Henry White announces that there can be presentations from the diplomatic circle only under special circum stances, i. <.. when the lady is a person of genu ine distinction, whose position in the United Slates justifies her attending the drawing-room under the auspices of her Minister. It has be come absolutely necessary to take steps to re strict the number of American ‘ entree ’ presen tations, as it is not the custom for any of the foreign ministers to present officially unless under special circumstances, The ' feverish yearning to ’bend the knee’ at Buckingham palace, which possesses so many American ladies, arises from an extravagant" notion that attendance at a drawing-room will inevitably produce an Invitation to the jubilee entertain ments; but there art: some Americans now flaunting about London who could assure their countrywomen that it is one thing to attend a drawing-room, but unite another to get an invi tation to the palace. The bo.nb-ridden Czar of Russia beguiles the interims of time while he is not dodging Nihilis tic missiles by playing on the French horn, with which instrument he is an adept, says Strakosch to an Interviewer. On one occasion, while he was the i 'zarowitz, he glayed a French horn ob bligato to a song given by Mme. Nilsson. 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