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4 Of?Horniitg|}ctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. WEDNESDAY, .TUSK 1, 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannak. The Mornin r. News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count. at 26 cents a week. $1 ft'n month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month. $1 00: three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News. In/ mail , six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00: six months, $4 (id one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri- Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, Si 26; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, nv mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance.' Remit by postal oilier, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. 1 .otters and telegrams should be addressed "Morning News. Savannah, Go." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO " NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Georgia Chapter. No. 3. R. A. M.; The Equitable Loan and Building Associat ion; Road Commissioners of Chatham County; Savannah Y’aoht Club: Magnolia Encampment, No. 1, X. O. O. F.; Golden Rule Lodge, No. 12, I. O. O. F.; Congregation Miekva Israel. Special Notices—As to Removal, F. Gutman, Mr. Bale's Cyclopedia; Partnership Notice, Malcolm Maclean; Oranges. lemons, and Pota toes. J. S. Collins & Cos .; As to Local Bill. Summer Resorts—The Whitlock House, Marietta, Ga. C'eeap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For 6ale: Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. Legal Notices —Citations from the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary. Steam snip Schedule —Ocean Steamship Cos. OmciAL—City Ordinance. Calves' Feet Jelly—A. M. &C. W. West. Auction Sales—Valuable land, Yamacraw Property, Country Property. Securities, Cheap Suburban Home, by C. H. liorsett: House and Kitchen Furniture, by X. D La Roche's Sons. Peaches —A. H. Champion. Oscular No. 35 Railroad Commission of Georgia. Millinery at Fire Prices -At Krouskoflf's. Bust Tabue Butter —Strauss Bros. 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 erf 25c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 If or three months, cash invariably in ad- Ivance. The address may be changed as ■often as desired. In directing a change care ■should be taken to mention the old as well p the new address. s Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while away, should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. Senator Pugh, of Alabama, bets SIOO that President Cleveland ifill be re-elected. It is a safe bet. In Tennessee, a youth of 19 years married a widow' of 50. Tw r oof his neighbors have lost their minds trying to discover why he did it. The South has no reason to be dissatisfied with the part taken in the national drill by her volunteer soldiers. They bore off the lion’s share of the prises. Recent disclosures regarding the jewels worn by actresses suggest that the petted darlings of the stage are almost as familiar with paste as is an exchange editor. A negro at Scottsboro, Tenn., sings relig ious songs as he makes his crop. Ho claims that the singing causes the crop to grow. He would prove a boon in a drought stricken region. The Presidents that were re-nominated and re-elected were Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln and Grant. The next one to be re-noniinatod and re-elected will be a Democrat. The National Brewers’ Association gave a large sum of money to defeat prohibition in Texas and only a small sum to defeat it in Tennessee. Perhaps the gifts were made in proportion to the size of the States. A professor in the State University is quoted as saying that tho students would never cause trouble if they were all young men. He says that some of them are ‘‘mere children.” The university, then, is a sort of nursery—of learning. The Canadian officials are charged with acting in bad faith toward foreign immi grants. It seems that the half-breeds in Northwest Canada are on the verge of star vation, and threaten another rebellion. The official; have concealed the facts, in order not to deter immigration to that section Edwin Blackburn, Treasurer of the Friends’ Lombard Street Meeting, of Balti more, has been deposed, a deficit of s(l,tkX) having been discovered in his accounts. The case is interesting, because it is said to tie the first of the kind that ever occurred in the history of the Society of Friends in this jountry. It Ls said that Theodore Roosevelt, of Now York, believes that there is a jHissi bility of his being nominated for the Presi dency by the Republicans. If tho possibility should become a reality he would he con fronted with another reality in the shaj* of overwhelming defeat by the Democratic sandidatc. The Detroit Trihum says: ‘‘There Ls no doubt that the nomination of Lincoln would make the Bourtons in several Southern States feel dizzy as long as the campaign lasted.” If there are any Bourbons in the South it would require something more powerful than the nomination of Lincoln to make them dizzy. There is a 15-year old girl near Anniston, Ala., who does the cooking, housekeeping, shopping and dress-making for a family of eight, and who, moreover, is said to be vivacious, pretty and remarkably intelli gent. Khe would put money in Bamuni's pocket if he could induce her to become one of his circus attractions. The reports that Mexioo is agitated by political plots are denied. In government circles it is said that the country was never more peaceful. Railway construction is active, English capitalists are making heavy investments in mines,.and the banking facili ties of interior towns are being extended. In other words, Mexico is too busy for revo lution. Republican institutions are leading the cl uni ry loAvtu’d and onward 1 The Proposed Presbyterian Union. It is probable that the Southern and Northern Presbyterian churches will, in the near future, find a satisfactory basis for union, or at least co-operation. The com mittees appointed by the Southern Presby terian General Assembly at St. Louis last Saturday, to meet a similar committee of the Northern Presbyterian church, is com posed of very able and fair-minded men, who are sincerely anxious to do whatever promises to advance the Presbyterian church, North and South. There Is hardly room for doubt that union would be beneficial. United, the church would be stronger and more influential. About all the reasons which brought about sejiaration in 1801 no longer exist. The war issues have been eliminated. from politics, and why shouldn’t they be eliminated from the church! In the debate in the General Assembly at St. Louis on the question of union the Rev. Dr. J. M. P. Otts, of Alabama, made some re marks which are very well worth the consid eration of the Southern branch of the church. After pointing out that the time is ripe for an arbitration of the issues between tho two churches, and for the establishment of closer relations between them, he said that the invisible church was one and there was no insurmountable obstacle in the way of the visible church becoming one. He intimated that if the two bodies did not become one by some act of thoir own they would eventually become one in another way— the stronger would be absorbed by the weaker. There is, of course, some ground for this intimation. The Northern body is not only growing stronger at the North, but it is also planting churches all over thjß South. Northern wealth and Northern jieople are pouring into the South. Many of these people are Presbyterians, and they are establishing the Northern Presbyterian church on Southern soil. In many of the new towns that have sprung up in Tennes see, Alabama, Florida and Texas the North ern Presbyterian church is found, and its influence in the South will continue to increase as immigration from the North to the South becomes greater. On the other hand, the Southern body has no foothold at the North, and is not likoly to get any. The Southern Presbyterians who locate there an; not strong enough to establish churches of their own, and they very soon become members of the Northern church. This condition of affairs may not be altogether gratifying, but it nevertheless exists, and it would only lie folly to ignore it. There is considerable friction between the two bodies, and it is a hindrance to the growth to both. It seems to be admitted that the removal of it will he beneficial North and South. Why not remove it, then, by uniting the two bodies? The aim of both should be to do what will confer the greatest benefits upon coming genera tions. A Board of Pardons. Gov. Gonlon’s rather free use of the par doning |>ower is causing some unfavorable criticism. So far the Morning News Ims failed to see anything to criticise in the par dons he lias granted. He is liable to make mis takes, however, esi>ecially qs so many cases are pressing ufion his attention. He himself has suggested that he cannot make the care ful examinations which these cases require, because his other duties will not allow him to do so. Tho General Assembly ought to come to his assistance, which it can do by creating a board of pardons. Two recent occurrences suggest that if such a board is created it might be well for : it to have the power, not only to grant pardons, but to respite condemned criminals or to commute their sentences. Ashorttime ago the Governor commuted the sentence to life imprisonment of a wife murderer who had been condemned to death. The action caused surprise and adverse criticism. More recently ho respited Smith, the Hoard county murderer. Smith’s crime was a dastardly assassination, and the people of Heard county were very indignant because he was uot hung at the appointed time. They held a mass meeting, and adopted resolutions vigorously condemning the Governor’s action. It was also plainly inti mated that if Smith’s sentence were com muted he would be lynched. Of course in both these cases the Gov ernor’s action was in accordance with what he believed to ho his duty. The Franklin Mews, published at the county seat of Heard county, charges him with trying to make political capital, but there is no evidence to substantiate the charge. U should lie borne in mind that action in all such cases is taken after considering the representations of reputable persons, who, however, are preju diced in favor of the criminal." A boar aof pardons, with power to act where a respite or a commutation of sentence is sought, would have more time to inquire carefully into all the circumstances of a ease. In this way the danger of making mistakes would lie diminished, thus giving little or no ground for dissatisfaction. The General Assembly would act wisely if it should create such a board Four thousand people uttended the meet ing of the McGlynn-George Anti-Poverty Society in New York Sunday night, and as many more were tui?ied away, because there was no room for them. Dr. MoGlynn delivered an address. Ho admitted that the society wanted the earth; that is, the land. The collection amounted to $215 15, which Henry George declared was uot enough to meet expenses. It will take a long time to Abolish poverty if 4,000 people contribute such a small sum to help do it. Chicago means to get ahead of Washing ton if it is possible. Who proposes to have companies from all parts of the world take part in her international drill next yeur. That is, sho wants companies from every where except Massachusetts. Massachu setts is barred, Itccause a citizen of that Ktato recently said: ‘‘The denizens of Chi cago are a vile undergrowth of the human forest, a dwarfish, stunted, frost-bitten set, who are a terrible example of mental and moral abortion.” The Council of the Fenian Brotherhood of New York accuses O’Donovan Rossa of embezzlement. It is charged that he re tained money contributed for the benefit of Dick Short, who two years ago' tfied to kill Capt. Phelan in Roush’s office.**- A A-arch was made for Rossa on Saturday, hut" he could not le found. He ought to be pun ished. Philadelphia Republicans lio|h* to ft>vivo interest in their party through the medium of clubs. When a thing is once dead neither I clubs nor anything else can revive interest j in it. The IxMt thing Philadelphia Republi- I cuu doiis to cofifess the error of their til|j|Hk salvation by becoming Demo- THE MORNING NEWS : WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1887. The Water Supply. What is the matter with the water works? For two weeks or more the people of this city have been complaining of an insufficient supply "f water. On Monday night the fir(> department was unable to get enough water with which to fight the large fire which destroyed more than $150,000 worth of property, and the same condition of affairs existed at the fire in the southern part of the city a little over a week ago, when nearly a dozen buildings were de stroyed. The people are very patient, but they are getting tired of this condition of affairs. They are taxed pretty heavily for water, and they have a right to what they pay for if it can be had. If there is any good reason why it cannot lie had it ought to be stated. Twice within a few weeks the supply has been cut off entirely, and on one of these oc casions the. city was without water for twenty-four hours. We have the artesian wells and the river to draw a supply from, and there is no doubt that an ample supply can be obtained from the two sources. It has not been stated that there is anything the matter with the water works machinery, and as far as known there is nothing the matter with it. What, then, is the trouble! Is it expected that the city will go on from day to day and week to weok with an insufficient witter supply? What is being done tortnerease the supply, if anything? These are things which the people would like to know. It may be that neither of the fires, to which attention has been called, could have been rendered less destructive if the water supply had been ample, but there are doubt less many who think otherwise. It is cer tain, however, that tiros are likely to reach greater proportions than they would if there were plenty of water for the use of the fire department. If there is any defect in the water works it should lie remedied at once. It is the duty, not only of those of the Aldermen who have especial charge of the water works, hut of the entire Council, to take hold of this water qhestion at once, and settle it to the satisfaction of the public. The two big fires within two weeks are two warnings which ought to be heeded. It would be a very grave mistake to wait for another warning before taking action.) The water works management claim that there was plenty of water during Monday night’s fire, and that the pressure was un usually heavy. They suggest that the trouble was with the fire engines—that they didn’t have steam enough. Ought there not to be an inquiry to find out where the trouble was, in order that a recurrence of it may be prevented? Not Good Reasons. The New York Sun gives a few reasons why it thinks Mr. Cleveland will not be a candidate in 1888. One of its reasons is that the “Democracy are not satisfied with him.” This would be a very good reason if it were true. There may be some Democrats who are not satisfied with him, hut they are not the Democracy. There are not enough of them to make their influence felt in the councils of the. Democracy, They are mostly disappointed office seekers, or poli ticians who have not been permitted to have their wnv in matters in which they were in terested. If the Democracy were dissatis fies! with Mr. Cleveland there wouldn’t be a ghost of a chance for liis renomination. What makes his renomination about certain is that the Democracy are very well satis fied with him. The Sun has mistaken a few disgruntled politicians for the Democracy.) Another of the Sun's reasons is that “ex cepting only Lincoln and Grant, no Presi dent since ‘ Andrew Jackson has been able, with all his efforts, and all the machinery of the administration, and all the zealpf the office-holders, actual and pro spective, to obtain for himself a second election.” But Ls this a good reason? Quite a number of Presidents have been re nominated, and re-elected, and it would lie nothing strange or very unusual if Mr. Cleveland should be added to tho number. It doesn't appear, however, that Mr. Cleve land is seeking a second term. Nobody is authorized to say that he wants it. The weight of testimony is that he doesn't care for it. He certainly is not using his office to secure a renomination. Tho truth is, Mr. Cleveland will lie re nominated and re-elected because the Dem ocracy want him. The rank and file of the Democratic party recognize in him a leader with whom they can win. They know him to he an honest man who is disposed to ad minister his great office for the good of tho whole* country. It is not an easy matter to get another such man, and the Democracy will hold on to him for another term at loast. Of the narrow escape of tho wife and daughters of Gen. Meredith Read at the Opera Comiqno fire in Paris a dispatch to tho Philadelphia Neics Rays: “Their dresses were almost completely torn off in the crush. It is estimated that it will take nearly a fortnight to clear away the ruins." The dresses were evidently of a kind not known in this country, for not oven a whole dry goods store would make such colossal ruins. Senator Sherman will address tho Illinois Legislature on general political topics to day. It is understood that the address will bo the formal public opening of his cam paign for the Presidency. The private opening was made some time ago. It, is thought that tho next few months will show whether the Senator is stronger than Mr. Blaine with his party. Editor O’Brien, in speaking at Boston of the probability of a change of English feel ing toward Ireland, said: “We are not fighting England this time. We arc simply lighting London. The tradespeople of England are with us in this fight.” If Editor O'Brien is correct it is only n ques tion of time when Ireland will get her rights. There will to no more fuss about the Blackwood case. Gov. Richardson has decided to honor Gov. Gordon's requisition for him, and he will to taken to Augusta and trii“l for forgery, the offense with which he is charged. Of courge, the “dignity” of Georgia ami .South Carolina has toen fully protected. One day last week, while Miss Annie Jordan, of Youngstown, 0., was walking along the track of the Pittsburg and West ern railroad, she was overtaken by a train and hurled over a fence. The large bustle she wore saved her from 1 icing killed. Here after let nobody abuse the bustle. Every Frenchman in this country, who has publicly expressed himself regarding the new French Cabinet, regrets that Gen. Boulanger was rejected. They arc of the opinion that he w ill soon to prominent in French affairs again. CURRENT COMMENT. They Must be More Tolerant. Prom the New York Tribune (Rep ) The Kanucks will have to lx* more tolerant at free speech tofore they are iu a fit condition to compose an American State. As It Aims to Be. From Monday's JaeksonniUe Herald. The Savannah Sunday Morning News of yes terday ivas as fine a paper as was ever issued in the South. It was metropolitan in every re spect. The Dark Horse. From the Boston Herald (hid.) If there is any Democratic dark horse for the Presidency he is the most carefully secluded animal that was ever heard of. There have really been but two totally unexpected nominations for the Presidency for fifty years—Polk and Fierce —though perhaps Garfield may be added to the number. This next year there is not at ail likely to be any nag of the atove named com plexion trotted out by either party. Candidates for the Bench. From the Philadelphia Record (Pam.) The newspapers throughout the country ap pear to to making the most of their opportunity for placing in nomination candidates for a place on the bench of the United States Supreme Court. Luckily, a newspaper nomination does not cost much and does not count for much. Some of the persons suggested might do well enough in umpiring a base ball match or in hold ng a stop-watch for a horse race. War Taxes Forever. From the New York World ( Dem.) The Republican party is rapidly committing itself to the policy of perpetuating the war ta*es forever. Senator Sherman favors the spending of the surplus, to it more or less. Mr. Blaine s organ in this city proposes to reduce the revenue by increasing the tariff nearer to the prohibitory point. And this is the Republi can alternative—to maintain the taxes and squander the surplus, or raise the taxes to pre vent it. BRIGHT BITS. Every cat has its night key. It keeps it in i ts voice.— Burlington Free Press. Men will spend $1 at the bar while deelaiming against the outrage of charging 25c. admission to a temperance lecture.— Texas Siftings. A million girls roiled into one would not have a tithe of the vanity of the man whose youth is past and whose old. age has not liegnu. —Philadelphia News. A wise man has just rushed into print to declare that Jonah was sw’allowed by an earth quake. O, yes: that's reasonable enough; in stead of a fish it was a fissure.— Burdette. A tramp recently told a Detroit sergeant of police that he was so hungry for something to drink that he hadn’t sufficient clothing to keep himself warm. He was given a hath.—Detroit Free Press. Nervous lady passenger in tho train, after pissing a temporary bridge --Thank goodness, we are now on terra firma. Facetious gentleman—Yes, ma’am. Less terror and more firmer.— The judge. Break, break, break, On thy cold, gray stones, O sea, Broke, broke, broke. Is the song that you sing to me. —Courier-Journal. In the early days of the Territory, when there was prairie everywhere, we have seen the wind get started a little under the corner of a county and keep Working in till pretty soon it peeled the whole thing off and roiled it away .—Dakota Bell. Anna Jones, of South Bend, Ind„ Was an overgrown, tall thind, Her tongue was so bitter Her friends they all quit her, And they called the poor girl Wind. —Chicago Tribune. This is the kind we pay a Dalliaferro: “A Roland for your Alliaferro,” Said witty Mr. Talliaferro Concerning one Who made a pone About the famous Balliaferro. -Life. “Nothing but trials and tribulations and dis appointments. lam disgusted with it all.’’ "And what are you goiDg to do about it?” “1 am going to quit the earth." (Horrified.) “You don't mean you are going to commit suicide?” “No, lam going to take a sea voyage.”— St. Paul Pioneer-Press. “Mrs. Hendricks," said Dumlpy to the land lady at breakfast, “will you allow me to criti cise your coffee?” “Certainly, Mr. Dumiey.” “It's too strong and hot.” Then Mrs. Hendricks beamed upon her board ers, and later, when Dumiey said he was sorry to disappoint her, she told him pleasantly that anytime before the first of the month would do. —New York Sun. “That ean't to Augustus,” said a wife to her self, as she sat up in tod at 2 o'clock in the morning. She trembled as a soft step was heard on the stairs, and in a moment more a figure stepped into her room. The sharp re liort of a pistol in her hands, and the husband lay mortally wounded. Augustus had failed, for the first time in fifteen years, to come home intoxicated. It is not strange she took him for a burglar. Tid-Bits. On the Lansing train the other day an old man shoved up a window as the locomotive whistled for a crossing and stuck half his body out to see what the row was about. The brake man happened to pass through the oar, and seeing the situation, he said: “Better take your head in, sir." “Why?” “Because you might strike a post or switch.” “Y - e-s. that's so," muttered the man as he pulled himself in and sat down, “and the rail road would hop on to me for damages. It's bet ter to to on the safe side.”— Detroit Free Press. PERSONAL. Andrew Carnegie gives his wife $30,000 a year for pin money. It is said that 1,500.000 copies of George W. Peck's “Bad Boy” books have been sold. Wilson Barrett's reception on his return to London has emphasized his popularity as a man and an actor. John 11. Finch, Chairman of the National Committee of the Prohibition party, is going to Texas to stump the St ate. Chatncev M. Depew says he is completely satisfied witli the interstate commerce law—it does not affect bis pass in the least. Swinburne, who seems to have forsworn his Republicanism, has completed a patriotic jubilee ode which will appear in the Century for June. Mrs. Langtry's theatrical wardrobe has been levied upon in jiart at the instance of several in dignant managers whose contracts she relent lessly violated. George L. Converse declines to boa candi date for the gubernatorial nomination in Ohio, and says the Buckeye Democracy must nomi nate Thurman by acclamation. A well-known Confederate brigadier, living near Columbus, Miss., is unfortunate enough to bear the name of Jacob Sharp. He is much re spected in his neighborhood, however. M. WAddington. French Ambassador in Lon don, is the most favored of all the foreign rep resentatives at the Court of Bt. Janies. He is frequently invited to dinner by the Queen and Princes. George Gould talks of building a yacht for ocean travel, lie says he lias settled on the name “Edith,” but can't quite make up his mind whether it would lie a “white elephant” or uot on his hands. Osn> Feldman is the name of a Russian mind reader who has set all Paris agog. He finds hidden objects without coming in physical eon tact with any of the persons having a knowledge of the secret. Mrs. Elizabeth Proctor, President of the Salem Seamen's Orphans' and Children's Friend Society, has just celebrated her '.kith birthday. She i;< a much more wonderful old lady than the Queen of England. Congressman Guenther, of Wisconsin, is about 10 years of age. has u molasses candy moustache, light blue eyes and a rosy complex ion. He has n soft German accent, and remarks with it that John Sherman is the man. Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain is now staving in Paris, where she will reside for a month, pre vious r her departure for a Spanish or German watering place. It is said that she is spending money at the rate of about 3600,000 |>er annum. The Mnrchim*e of Lansdowne is ;he daugh ter of the late Duke of Atoreorn, twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. She sue married at the same time and at the same altar as her sister, the unfortunate Duchess of Marlborough, or, as tlie latlei lady calls herself since her divorce, Marchioness of lilandford. The Grand Duke Paul is the only member of the Russian imperial family who still lives in the Winter Palace. The Emperor makes use of the state rooms, but the Empress has had a horror of it since she witnessed the death of Alexander 11.. so the sovereigns always sleep at tlie Amtchkof Palace when they sojourn iu Bt. Petersburg. FRIGHTENED BY PILLS. V Curious Story Told by a Man Charged' With Cruelty to Animals. Front the Philadelphia Pi-ess. Bartholomew Burnett, a middle-aged man living in Bellevue, was before Magistrate Dur ham yesterday charged with cruelty to a dog. The complainant was Sarah W. Campbell, a neighbor. She charged that on Monday the ac cused brutally kicked a shepherd dog belonging to her *‘l didn't intend to hurt the animal,” said Burnett in his defense, “but I was frantic with fear.” “What frightened you!” asked the magis trate. “Some years ago I was attacked and bitten by a rattlesnakeTn Pike county,” answered the prisoner. “The wound healed, but since then, at irregular periods, I’ve suffered from attacks of nervousness.” “What has that got to do with kicking the dog I" inquired the court. “I'm coming to that, ' said the prisoner. “On Monday last I was in a clump of woods near my home, gathering wild flowers, when suddenly I was startled by the sound of a rattle. It was identical with that which 1 had heard in Pike county, and I stood rooted to the spot. The noise ceased and I began walking slowly In the' direction of the road. In a moment 1 heard the rattle again; this time close tome. I fled in terror. The sound increased notwithstanding that I seemed to be fairly flying over the ground. I was afraid to look behind, and ran to my house Just as 1 was about dashing up the steps of my house this woman's dog got in front of me and began barking. Unconscious of what I was doing, ! kicked the dog out of my way.” “What became of the snake?” asked the court. “It wasn’t a snake after all,” sheepishly ans wered Burnett. “You see on Sunday I bought a box of fever pills and placed them in the tail pocket of my coat. I had forgotten that they were there and the rattling of the pellets in the box produced the sound that 1 mistook for the rattle of a snake.” There was such a tone of sincerity in the prisoner's statement that he was discharged. Neighbors of the man testified that they had seen him dash along the road to his house with a speed which would have done credit to a pro fessional sprinter. MARIANA IN THE MOATED GRANGE Ella Larrabee, tbe Fair Convict, and Her Little Romance. From, the New York Herald. “He cometh not,” she said. That’s what Mariana Ella T,arrabee might have said yesterday when ’Warden Green turned the big key and opened the big door and released Mariana Ella from the moated grange of the Kings County Penitentiary, where Maiiana Ella has been a prisoner for nearly three years. Ella I-arrabee is a young and pretty shoplifter and burglar with blonde hair, innocent blue eyes and a plump figure. She will be recollected as the heroine of a queer romance. Shortly after she was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of three years and a half for burglary and grand larceny in September, 1884, Daniel Shagrue, a C n t rticut farmer with a snug income, fell in love with Ella’s personal charms from a beautiful word picture of the fair burglar. He came to New York on an express train, rushed over to Brooklyn, visited the penitentiary, made himself known to the prisoner and wanted to be married to her right off. Ella laughed at her impetuous lover at first, but he kept up his visits, seeing her as often as he was permitted to do so by the prison rules, and Ella finally consented to marry him when her term expired. For two years Shagrue sent glowing love let ters, overflowing with pretty sentiments and anticipating a happy union this month. He also made her many presents. Suddenly, it is said, Shagrue lias not written so frequently or so gushingly, and his ardor to wed the fair convict seemed to have cooled somewhat. But in his last letter he distinctly promised to meet her at the prison yesterday morning when Ella was re leased. But Shagnie was not on hand and Ella went away with Chaplain Bass, who has secured her a situation hi the country. Ella’s conduct in prison was exemplary, and the chaplain hopes for her reform. DOWN IN NANAIMO. Tortures of the Miners Who Scrawled the Record of Their Agony. From the Victoria (J?. C.) Standard. The suffering of the imprisoned miners in their awful position can lie imagined when it is learned that many of them lived for hours after the sad catastrophe. The following is a copy of the handwriting in the mine on one of the sup porting posts of the roof where yesterday's lot was found. The writing was made with a finger oil the timber, which, from the nature of the mine was coated with a damp, grayish covering susceptible of a good impression. “Thirteen hours in misery —John Stevens.” Below on the same timber was “1, 2, Bo'clock.” On another piece of upright timber ap peared “William Bone, 5 o’clock.” An amount of Chinese writing appeared, not yet deciphered, as’no Chinamen went down. A Puzzler. Avery characteristic story of men who run to brains is told of the Rev. Philip D. Sehaff, who about thirty years ago was preaching in Mereers burg. Pa. The reverend doctor up to that time had never been married, nor had he kept house. Bv the charms of one of the sisters of his flock he was persuaded to do tbe former, and, as a matter of course, the latter followed. He and his wife had not been long domiciled when the perplexing question arose how to get rid of the kitchen refuse. The doctor was advised by a neighbor to buy a .small pig, and the. advice was accompanied by an offer to sell him one. Accordingly the pig was purchased, and immediately another prob lem came up to lie solved, vis: how to get a pen for It. Casting about, tbe doctor discovered a large dry goods box in which some of his house hold effects had been received. He set to work with saw and hammer, and with pieces of boards from the box he soon constructed a pen, which was only a little larger than the pig itself. In a few weeks the pig grew so that it hardlv had room to turn around, and another difficult question had to be settled. The doctor studied over this matter several days; meanwhile the pig was hourly getting larger. He finally decided to go over to the neighbor from whom it was purchased, and ask if he would lie kind enough to exchange evenly and givo him another small pig for the huge one that hud outgrown its pen. Tae lady telling this story. Miss Emma C. Cook, of Washington, D. 0., then a child of 10. says she sat in her father’s wagon, while the good doctor told her father in fall seriousness, now kind his neighbor was to give him a small pig for his large one, without charging any differ ence. The Plnlc-Eyed Pittsiey3. f'rom the Brockton Gazette. Scattered through the several country towns and villages of Rochester, Freetown, Lakovijle, l.ong Plain, Acushnet, and Myrieks is a peculiar race of people that stick closely to their native backwoods, but on rare occasions emerge from their seif-chosen retirement to tin- neighboring more populous towns of Middleboro and Ware ham, and sometimes are seen on the streets of New Bedford, Taunton and Fall River, the observed of all beholders. Their local appellation that follows them to all places is Hint of “Pink-eyed Pittsley.” Their peculiarity is pink eyes and' perfect ly white hair. This striking singularity is said to have at first made its appearance in a family by the name of Pittsley in Freetown, a century or more ago, and spread through succeeding generations among the offspring of those who intermarried with the members of the family, until many of the residents of this section of a variety of family names in well as that of Pittsley have members marked by this peculiarity of the eyes and hair and accompanying facial expression that is odd in the extreme. The old man Merchant Pittslev was pink-eyed, and he had nine children. All five or his sons had pink eyes and white hair, and one daughter was marked the sauio way; hut the other three girls had as fine black eyes and dark hair as anv girl in town. They married, all but one, anil had children, and some of their children hod pink eyes and white hair, but not ail. Disenchantment. From the Journal of Education. I knew that she wa* pretty, And I thought that she was bright, She seemed to me quite witty, And her wit was never trite. She had a fair complexion, Aud her cheeks were tree from chalk; She won my fond affection In a single evening’s talk. I deemed her quite a wonder, And it seemed to me. If fate Should cut our lives asunder, I should be disconsolate. But. alas! was o'er a maiden Quite perfect and Complete? Now my heart is heavy l idea, For X have seen her cat. ITEMS OF INTEREST. i Gordon Cumming likened au African jungle to (forest of fish hooks relieved by an occasional Itch of penknives. V x Arkansas man made a bullet out of a Ye of plug tobacco and shot it through the Vof a wild cat. The animal died. \e first baby born iu South Sioux City, -a was given a serenade by the hand and r'Yxtcd with a comer lot in that promising tot <Yts at the leading New York hotels fre quti. fl ut i circular letters in the boxes offering to •fish trustworty guides if they desired to see %am by gaslight. The price is $lO and expet . i )n h the most eccentric suicides of recent oeeuny. was that of a Steuben, Me., man namedYj !o y w jj o went to the river, drove a stake, V] ’himself to it with a rope and Urowrie(\ rise if_ A REP<\comes from Dresden, Saxony, of a steam ony USi which it is intended to run reg ularly ovAh e country roads. It is managed by two mri and carries forty-six passengers, with consi&ble freight. A CniNEsV ER cHANT of ready wit, who has had an EurA al education, inscribes his tea chests "Tu which is the second person singular oft Verb Meo doreo, to tench, and when transla* becomes "Thou tea chest.” Ei.licott CV Mb., has a confirmed smoker who is only 2 la-s old, and still attended by a nurse. He smWl a cigar recently for an hour or more and sited no signs of sickness. Thu little fellow ha>ntraeteu the habit from his older brother. I lx a Rhode Isld factory town a certain em ployer recently id out to 1 is employes on Sat urday night STOi new bills that had been si - cretly marked. Ii the following Monday s<ldi> of these marked lls were deposited in the bark by the salconkeets of the town On the day, in k, that King Arthur won a great victory oveatie Saxons, Dewi, or David, afterwards Archblop of St. David's, ordered the Welsh soldier* place a leek in their caps. It isto this circutrlance that the leek’s selec tion as the emblenpf Wales is ascribed. A swarm of BEelooking for a place to light settled upon a spat jf mules as they were draw ing a plow near H itgomery, Ala. The mules kicked and plung and this excited the bees, who began using telr stings-So savagely that soon the mules dro led dead. The driver saved his life by running Kay, after a vain effort to drive the bees mules. A fkw years agotjgentleman of Washington bought an old t nml*t an auction sale for 25c. It was filled with rupish, and the buyer sent it home intending to jive it cleaned out. This was done a few daw ago, and the trunk was found to contain a slid silver shield, which ap pears to have beeJ on the coffin of George Washington. The j’.ate from the casket has been missing ever Sloe the attempt to steal the remains in 1837. | A little daughtrf of Mrs. Rhodes, of Leroy, 111., fell into a veil twelve feet deep and half full of water. Wton he mother discovered tl e child it was lyiig u conscious on its l ack on top ol’ the water. She h al!i‘d her 8-year-oid ilaug ter, and takingaerby the feet held her down headforemost thtil she could reach the baby, and then pulleabotl out at the same time. Tl e ba.by was restor'd to consciousness and is new doing as well as;ould be expected. John Marden, a mechanic, of Phoenix, R. 1., took home a pie-e of beef the other day, and his wife put it ii the big dinner-pot to boi>, throwing a handfil of flee in with it. A few minutes later the pot Exploded with great violence, injuring John. Who was sitting near the stove smoking a pipe, and throwing the steaming beef plump into Rs wife’s lap. The explosion is supposed to havev t . s ulted from the gas generated by the rice, xvbisji was found to have been burned on the hottoD of the pot. A Tishomingo (I. TANARUS.) writes: “A few miles south of the mouutijn is a station on the railroad known as 'Se\yn Hundred Ranch.’ It has a rather interesting history. A short time back a number of the ctftxens of the Nation, wealthy cattlemen, met herd in a tent to play a game of poker. There were six in the party, and the ante was S7OO and $1,400 to draw cards. For some time the game continued, until over $500,000 had changed hands when it broke tip. Ever since this point has been known as ‘Seven Hundred Ranch.’ ” A few weeks aoo, while the snow was still •jn the ground in Minnesota, Charles Moore, qf Chatfleld, was loading his sled at the granary, which stands on higher ground than the house, when it got away from him and began to move rapidly down the hill. He failed to stop it., and away it went toward the house, gathering speed at every foot. When it reached the house the sled was going like a shell from a mortar, and the heavy tongue was jammed clean through the wall and into the sitting-room, where Mrs. Moore was sewing. She was frightened out of her wits, but was not injured. The side of the house, though, was badly wrecked. Ike Sessums, who owns the grocery at Ses suins Station, near Starkville, Mins,, has lost a good deal of stock dining the spring by the depredations of burglars. last Monday night he set a trap for the rascals by charging his double-barrelled gun heavily with buckshot, cocking it. and setting it in such a position that the first man who attempted to open the door was bound to be shot. Tuesdav morning he came down to the store as usual, and forget ting all about the gun. unlocked the door and opened it. Both barrels were discharged as if by clockwork, and the entire load entered his body. At last accounts he was lingering ltetween life and death. Pens at Cc. the gross; two dozen fora cent! Who would not learn to write? The figure named is the price at which the cheapest Ger man pens cau be produced. The dmtnran Register, of Paris, describes, as among the in teresting industrial establishments of Berlin, the steel pen manufactory of Heiutze & Blankertz. With the exception of one in France, it is the largest on the continent, and one or two in Eng land are larger. The Berlin factory produces monthly about 80,000 gross, equal ‘to 1,000,000 gross per annum, or 144.000,000 pens. Of pen olders upward of 7,000,000 are turned out an nually. The factory employs upward of 500 people, mostly women. In the village of Meyrin, in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, some disused wells, it is said, have been hermetically sealed and devoted to the novel purpose of serving as barometers to the people. In this arrangement an orifice of about one inch in diameter is made in the cover of the well, by means of which the internal air is put in communication wi h the external. When the air pressure outsideVliminisbes on the approach of a storm the air in the well escapes and blows a whistle in connection with the orifice, and in this simple way notice of a storm's anproaoh is duly given to the inhabitants. But if. on the contrary, the pressure increases, a sound of a different and well understood char acter Is produced by the entry of the air into the well, and the probability of fine weather is announced. An Indian pupil of the Hampton school sup plied his teacher with thus unique piece of nar rative writing: “One day. bright day, and a lit tle bird happy and stood on a log and sang ail daylong. That bird doesn't know anything about cat. She thinks nobody is near to her. But behind the near log one sly old cat is watch ing. She want to eat for supper, and she thinks about stealing all the time. The old cat, came very slow, and by and by she go after the little bird, but she does not see him and sang aloud again. She sang just like this: ‘I alwavs try to do wlmt is right: when I ever died 1 go‘ to heaven.' That bird said these all words, and I shall not forget the bird what it said, and these all words it said and after two three minutes go died; that eat jumped and catch and kill, oat all up except left little things from bird, wings, legs, or skin, and that birtl is glad to die because she is very good bird. That little bird has last time sang and very happy was the little bird after that. I think the old oat have good dinner and happy just same as the bird was at first time." "A marked feature of the Cazenovia Seminary anniversary," says the Utica Herald , "will be the presence and address before the alumni of Charles Dudley Warner; not only on account of his world wide reputation a- a brilliant author, but from the fact that in 1812 he, with his mother and younger brother, came to Cazenovia, where his grandfather and uncle resided. Mrs. Warner’s home was opposite the IVeslry tenon church, in whst in known as the Tyler Cross house, ami her sons made a very decided im pression at that time. Charles graduated from Cazenovia Seminary at the age of in and went to Hamilton College, receiving hi* degree In 'sl. Among those who were impressed by his pe culiar physiognomy and magnetic manner was that superior instmotor, the late Mary A. Daw son, who used laughingly to tell of walking with the boy Charlie IVarner one evening when the sky was emblazoned with northern lights. She, thinking of n little orphan gil l who had recently returned to her home in a Northern town and who laid been :favorite in the seminary, called bis attention to the display in a way to embarrass him; liut with characteristic coolness he replied. 'O, yes, I see; and don't I know who I light* thtmr’" j BAKING POWDER. 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