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4 C|e fronting |Tctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. WXDXISSAT. JTJS* 8. 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning New? is published even- day in the rear, and is served to stdworibers in the city, bv newsdealers and carriers. on their own ac count. at 25 cents a week. $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Mornsto New--, by mail , one month. 00; three months, $2 ou; six monllue, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning N'rrs. ly mail, six times a week (withold Sunday issue), three months, $2 00: six months. $4 00 one year. $8 00. The Mousing News. Tri Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six tenths. $2 50: one" year. $5 00. The Sunday N ews, bu mail, orth year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. Si 25. Subscriptions parable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed ‘ Morning News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. •Meetings— Subscribers to Capital Stock of Pioneer Steam Brick Cos .; Pulaski Loan Associa tion; The Merchants' and Mechanics' Loan Asso ciation : Irish Jasper Greens; Oglethorpe Light jifantry. Special Notices— Chatham Real Estate and Improvement Oo.; Election Notice Citlxens’ Mutual Loan Cos.; Watermelons, A. H. Cham pion. Summer Resorts— Daggers White Sulphur Springs. Botetourt Cos., Va. Auction Sales—Positively the Last Sale of Crockery, Etc . by C. H. Dorsett.; Old China, Silverware, Etc., by L D. Laßoche's Sons. Summer Wear— A. Falk & Son. Rustless Iron Pipe —Weed & Cornwell. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed! For Rent; For Sale; Personal; Miacenane ous. Eastern Hay, Etc.—T- P. Bond A Cos. -fcwATEAMsHip Schedules— Ocean Steamship Oo.; ■■ftimore Steamship Cos. J S. Collins. Urhe Morning News for the Summer. leaving the city for tlio summer Hi have the Morning News forwarded by earliest fast mails to any address at the of 25c. a week, *1 for a month or $‘J 50 three months, cash invariably in ad- SBice. The address may lie changed as as desired. In direct ing a change care IfHbuld lie taken to mention the old as well Htthc new address. [jßprhosc who desiret<> have their home paper delivered to them while away K^Buld leave their Miliscriptiou-at the |; Office. Special attention w ill lie given tli.-Mimnici • •rvi- • -at .-fa.-torv and papers by the most direct and routes. war is over. Even the mackerel are South to help enrich the people. rose h.as its thorn,” and every frolic has its mosquito, as President has learned by t his time. say that Buffalo Bill is by bii-th a BmUsd. Perhaps this is the reason why BHBEnglish are making such a lion of him. title of anew novel is “The Button Shirt." Many a man will sympathize tthe hero without taking the trouble to Tffe story. a little man in this country is ■■ilig that some college will hit him with P. or an LI.. P. Indore the commence Hit season is over. ■Hhe demonstrations in honor of Mr. (Bad Hr indicate that the Welsh have not for Hen the traditions of their fathers. They in home rule. ■■he Augusta Keening Xcicx pleasantly iJM truthfully says; "The Savann ah Si n Morning News is one of the best Betters ever issued in the South.” Lamar is reported to be in poor good water and pure air w ill doubt ggH restore him to his wonted vigor. It Hi is announced that the New York dudes wearing corsets. Perhaps they wear to keep themselves from falling to Warm weather is very likely to things as soft as dudes. Panama a rumor eome- that a com- has been formed in Europe by -Vflßch the capital required to finish the HpU is insured. Humors from Panama arc as conflicting as rumors about the probable Franco-German war. It is announced that brokerage houses on Wall street, New York, with Southern con nections, have been doing tho biggest stock investment business of this year. Evident ly Somebody in the South has been makiu g money out of the booms. The graduating class at Vassal' College this year numbers thirty-five. Tho South is not represented. The class is said to be unusually bright, and the graduating essays all deal with weighty subjects. Tho fact is, the Vassal- graduate is a weighty subject hertself. A Western weather prophet says that sometime In-fore Sept. 1, “a tornado will wipe Georgia off the face of the earth.” • The prophet doesn’t say how the hole that will be left is to be tilled. Perhaps he knows that it would bo useless to try to fill a hole made under such cirruinstances. Georgia, in the language of the native, is a “mighty big Stab 1 .” Ex-Postmaster General Frank Hatton does not hesitate to say that the prospect of Republican success in 1888 would bo practi cally thrown away should Mr. Blaine tic re nominated. lie favors Senator Sherman. “IV Republicans,” he says, “are growing tirfcd of aoda water fizz-bong statesmanship administered by Blaine 's backers.” Tho llt tlei'ows in tho Republican camp are amus ing. but they are of no importance to tho edfintry. Republicanism, as administered by Mr. Blaine’s liaekars, or by any other tnmnljer of the gono old party, is a deud itsue. The Masonic fraternity in Missouri is much agitated by a decree promulgated by (ho Grand Master, to the effect that at the meeting of the Grand I/dge in 1889 it was decided that the Business of selling liquor was uumasonic and should not be tolerated. The decree warns all Masons who are in any way connected with tho liquor traffic that they are liable to suspension or expul sion. It seems that quite a number of Masons in Missouri are engaged in selling liquor, and they are very indignant over the action of tho Grand lodge. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Luiou boil* the licence - vita delight. A Mistake Acknowledged. Indications are cropping out that the Re publican leaders are not such firm lielievers in negro suffrage as they onre were. Mr. Ingalls, of Kansas, one of the ablest of the Repub lican Senators, is credited with this remark; “I have no hesitancy in saying that grant ing the right of suffrnge to the colored peo ple has proven an absolute anti unqualified failure.” The Senator does not say why he thinks it is a failure. There was a time when he pre tended it was an excellent thing for the ne gro and for the country. Has the fact that the negro is no longer of any benefit to the Republican party had anything to do with the change in his views! When the carjiet boggers had control of the South, and the colored voters were bullied, coaxed and de ceived into voting with the Republicans, no Republican leader thought of condemning negro suffrage. The negroes are better able to take care of themselves and to vote intelligently than they were when they were granted suffrage. Then they did not know, at first, what the ballot meant. None of them had any property to protect. Wholly ignorant of their responsi bilities as citizens, and without any incen tive to use their newly acquired power for the enactment of good laws and for the put ting of good men into office, they easily be came the dupes of the designing men who acted in the South as the agents of the Re publican party. The unhappy conditioner affairs which was brought about by their misuse of the ballot is a matter of history. Why did not Mr. Ingalls say then that he thought a mistake had been made in giving the negro the ballot! The reason is that at that time the negro was useful to the Republican party, and Mr. Ingalls and other Republican leaders thought that he was going to continue to be so. Asa rule the negro is not yet prepared for suffrage, but he is much better prepared for it than he was when the Republican party controlled him. He is more intelli gent and has a better appreciation of his duties. Thousands of his race have acquired more or less property, and they are as anx ious to protect it as they, at one time, were willing to assist the carpet-baggers in get ting possession of the property of the white people. The negro, therefore, is beginning to think how he can use tho ballot for his own good, and he finds that it is not to his interest to sustain the Republican party. In liis Springfield speech Senator Sher man said that there were "five Southern States which ought to give Republican ma jorities. The reason they do not is perhaps because the negroes are not giving the Re publican party a hearty and unanimous support. No doubt Senator Sherman thinks with Senator Ingalls that negro suffrage is a failure. The truth is, the Republican leaders have never cared whether or not negro suffrage was a good thing for the country or the ne gro. They judged it from a party stand point, and declared it was a good thing as long as their party was benefited by it, and they condemn it now because it has ceased to lie of use to their party. Tho Future of the Negro, The question of the future of the negro in this country is one that will continue to nt trari attention. Dr. Corson, in his lecture before the Historical Society on Monday night, took tho ground that the negro will eventually disappear. The mortuary statis tics of the Southern cities show that the death rate of the blacks is double that of the whites. The blacks are also degenerating physically, and are becoming the victims of diseases from which, in slave times, they were almost exempt. But miscegenation, Dr. Corson thinks, more than any other thing will bring about their disappearance. The stronger race will absorb, as it wore, the weaker one. In Monday’s New York Sun there is an article from Abbeville, S. G\, in which the writer expresses about the same views as those of Dr. Corson. He differs with him, however, in this: He does not believe the negro is dying out. He does believe, however, that miscegenation is working the extermination of the black race. He says that there are very few genuine black faces now. There arc colored faces, and they are of all shades from the almost black to the light pearl. The Abbeville writer predicts that in fifty years “a black negro will be a rarity; in a century a curiosity.” The race problem writers at the North, who contend that the time is coining when the negro at the South will be in the ascend ency, or that he will have a portion of tho South as his own territorj-, do not have ap peared to have studied the race problem very thoroughly if what Southern writers have to say about it is correct; but assum ing that the miscegenation theory is the correct one, it will be many generations be fore the crystal lake, of which Dr. Corson s;>oaks, ceases to show traces of the muddy stream which, according to his simile, is pouring into it from the South. Here is a temperance lecture, short, but pointed: At Erie, Penn., on Sunday last, Coroner Swalley was called to holdsni in quest over the body of John Lyons, aged 75 years. A frightful scene mot his official gaze. Lyons lay on tho floor whore he had died the day before, while drunk. Near him lay his ugod wife in a drunken stuimr. In a shed lava little 4-year-old grandchild dying from jioison. It had lieon sick for several days, and in its extremity hod eaten a poisonous weed, which grew near the shed. The grandmother, finding it in convulsions, gave it a heavy dose of whisky. The child's mother at the time ||us in jail on a charge of drunkenness. Denying tho story tliat lie intends to re move to Anniston, Ala., Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, says: “Tliore is no truth in tho story whatsoever, 1 will impress tho fact iiottor, perhaps, by relating a little story. A friend of mine, Dr. Bnrchard, then Director of the Mint, said tome: ‘I undei-stand, Judge, that you are not going to run for the next term.’ I answered: ‘I siinll always lie a candidate from the Fourth Congressional district until I am a sufferer from paralysis* or lunacy.’ Sunset Cox, who was passing at the time, said: ‘Your exceptions are too broad. Lunacy is no bar to u man’s getting a seat in tho lower House.’” __ T ' ' The report that .Jay Gould is aiioiit to cap ture the Southwestern fi-eight trafliodoosn't seem to cause surprise among New York financiers. A Wall street authority says that Gould means to make New Orleans a rival competitive point with Now York for transcontinental transportation and foreign trade. This authority does not believe that New York will lose the supremacy, but is of THE MORNING NEWS; WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1887. A Notable Address. Among tho orations delivered on tho Federal Decoration Day, tliat of Gen. S. G. Griffin, at H.t/Hey, Mass., will cause pleas ure at the South. Gen. Griffin was one of New Hampshire’s soldiers in tho war between the States. He was afterward a republican member if Congress. The subject of his oration was “The South of To-dny.” The Boston Herald reported liri speech in full, and from tint journal the following condensation is taken: Within the last ton years, Gen. Griffin said, we are told that 1:1,000 miles of rail road have been built in the South, and more than $500,000,000 has liecn expended on railroads in the Southern States. The assessed valuation of property has increased during that time about 81,500,000,000. There is $'200,000,000 more capital invested in the South in cattle alone than there was ten years ago. The cotton mills have doubled in number and in capacity in the last four years, and cotton oil mills have quadrupled in the same time. The nation is familiar with the great increase of iron produc tion in the South, and knows that she has the largest deposits of coal aud iron in the world. The iron mines of Northern Alabama, Gen. Griffin said, which ten years ago might have been bought for $50,000, to day could not be bought for $50,000,000. The city of Birmingham, Ala, to which at tention has often been directed, has grown up in that time. To show how the iron in terest of the South is increasing, it is stated that from 1880 to 1881 Virginia, Alabama, and Tennessee increased the product of pig iron 300,000 tons, while in all the rest of the United States the product decreased 9,000 tons. Gen. Griffin has rqado frequent visits to the South aud is familiar with business operations in this section. He bears testi mony to the cordial gopd will of this section for the North, Considering the fact that Gen. Griffin was ail officer in tho Northern army during the war, and since a Republi can member of Congress, his statement ought to be convincing. It is such addresses as that of Gen. Griffin that make all sections of the country really one. The people of the South are in the Union and they mean to stay there. All they ask is that their protestation of loyalty to the government shall be accepted in good faith. Roads Needed in Florida. Railroads are being built very rapidly in Florida and soon all of the most thickly set tled portions of the State will have their chief towns connected with the great rail road systems of the country. There is a kind of railroads, however, which tho State needs badly, and which can only be builix perhaps after there is a very considerable increase in wealth and population. The roads referred to are those which would en able the fruit and vegetable growers to get their products to the main transportation lines quickly. The great majority of the farmers now live many miles from a rail road, and are compelled to haul their prod ucts at considerable expense to the nearest railroad depots through very heavy sand. The material with wliich to build good dirt roads is not at hand, and to bring it where it is needed would cost about as much as to construct very light railroads. On some of the large sugar plantations of Louisiana there are in use cheap railroads which answer admira bly the purposes for which they are intend ed. The road lieds are thrown up quickly, and the rails are very light. AVhen it is necessary to change one of these roads from one part of a plantation to another the change is made quickly and at very little expense. Some such roads as these—a little better jierhaps—are what are needed in Florida to aid in getting the products of the farms and groves to market quickly and inexpensively. The cost of hauling their products in wagons through sand a foot deep is a pretty heavy burden on Florida farmers. The New York World credits Mr. Theo dore Roosevelt with a brilliantly original idea. He believes that riding to hounds, with or without a fox, should be encouraged, because it creates a military reserve, ready to lie turned into cavalrymen whenever the trump of war shall sound. Congress ought to vote a medal to Mr. Roosevelt. Those who generally accompany him when he rides to hounds are the pale and listless soci ety young men of New York, together with a contingency of petted maidens to lisp words of encouragement. From such material a wonderful corps of horse soldiers would be evolved. If the Macon correspondent of tho At lanta Constitution is worthy of belief, a re markable thing occurred the other day while Gov. Gordon was on his way from Macon to the railroad picnic at Montieello. The correspondent says; “As the Governor’s train wont bounding over the hills, his ex cellency himself held the throttle, and the people knew that all was well when they saw the knightly form of Gordon at tho helm.” A train that goes bounding over the hills and which possesses a helm ought to Ik) caught and put on exhibition at the fall fairs. A prominent Republican says that when the force bill was liefore Congress the Now York Tribune, Mr. Blaine's personal organ, advertised for a man to assassinate Presi dent Grant. Perhaps when the Tribune acted so strangely it was in the same un happy condition that befuddles it when it abuses the South—it was not responsible. Some of the brokers and speculators in New York are dissatisfied with the Saturday half-holiday, and want to return to the old business hours. Tho half-holiday was in tended for bard-worked employes, and it is not likely tlint tho brokers and sjxa-ulators will be able to induce a return to the old horn's. Sam Jones, the evangelist, is not meeting with uninterrupted success in Tennessee. During a speech the other day some ques tions put to him by a man in the audienco so angered him that he denounced tho man as a liar. The evangelist doesn’t seem to believe it his duty to bo meek and lowly. The world’s fair, to be held in New York to celebrate tho 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, will be called “Tho Christopher Columbus Kx|*osition of 1802.” The name Is pretty enough to draw a con 'siderabio surplus-reducing appropriation from Congress. ' _ “Steve” Klkins will not visit Europe this year. He has an engagement to stay at home and observe the growth or collapse of the Presidential booms that are trying to crowd out Mr. Blaine’s boom.. Good-by, Mr. Blaine. Bo sure you hold on to the duplicate boom you are taking sway with you. Tho ono you are leaving behind is liable to collapse. CURRENT COMMENT. The Land and tho People. Prom the New York World (Dew.) Yes, “the land belongs to the people”—that la, to the people who have fairly bought and honestly paid for it. A Bankrupt Party. From the, Galveston NewsiDem.) Mr. Robert T. Lincoln does not propose to lend his name as an indorsement of, lespecta billty for the Republican Presidential ticket. He lias declared very decidedly that be is through with public life, and ' the party must look elsewhere for the tail of the ticket.” Since, the party cannot even yet the use of a great name as an issue in tho next campaign, it will be In a condition of bankruptcy to start with. Getting Even. From the Baltimore American (Rep.) Californians said they would get even with the Eastern Congressmen which defeated tlie bill prohibiting Chinese immigration. They are carrying out their threat. A dispatch states that the exodus of Chinamen from the Pacific coast appeal's to exceed that of any previous year, the through trains bringing in regularly every morning from fifteen to twenty of them, en route from San Francisco to. New York. At tliis rate, it will not he long before the Mon golian population of Gotham will equal that of California, O’Brien Teaches a Lesson. From the Nev) York Times (Rep.) Two days ago the persons who attended the Union Square meeting would not have tolerated even a moderate and respectful criticism of Mr. O'Brien’s Canadian mission. Now they set no bounds to their denunciation of him. They “want no more of O'Brien.” This sudden change of sentiment occasioned by Mr O'Brien s exercise of the right of private judgment will serve to show those of our public men who are prone to the ways of demagogy how slight a thing may rob them of the favor and support of classes wnose interest in them is exactly meas ured by the interest they are able to feel or show in the objects those classes are seeking to attain. BRIGHT BITS. “No, I am not a tax payer," a citizen said this morning; "I'm a victim of grand larceny."’ —Atchison (Kan.) Globe. We never saw a walking match, blit we hare Bren a man whose hair was so red that fie would be taken for a walking candle.— Burlingt on fr'ree Press. i Cor.r.FjcTOß lam losing a great dgal of time trying to collect this bill from you. Debtor—Don't worry about losing time. lam going tq, pay jsouin time.-r Texas Siftings. A Texas exchange announces the marriage of one James Hall to a lady of the same name, and notes the fact that ‘ the groom is the tallest, man in the county and the bride one of the smallest ladies.” What possibilities in the way of long and short Hall chestnuts this opens up. —Omaha Republican. • ”Iss yer either been vacksinnated, Uncle Uphill?” “No, Clayburn, Ise nebber bin vacksinnated, iss vou?” “Yes, Uncle. Ise been vacksinnated dis mornin’ in de back o’ de neck.” “What foah?” "Four cents.” "Foah sense! It didn't take, did it '"—Boston Beacon. A baby sister has lately come to a Boston household. The children, bearing that the baby was to be called after a friend of the family whom they have always heard addressed as Miss Agnes, give the title to the baby. “What is the name of your baby sister?” asked a lady, on the street ear. "Her name is Miss Agnes," said Jack gravely. “And how old is she? " the lady went on. “Oh, she isn't any old; she is all new. Don’t you know about babies?’’— Harper's Young Peo ple. Two new railroads coming here, I under stand," said a Dakota man to another resident of the same place. "Yes, ana there came mighty near being three.” “How’s that?” “Why, five of us organized anew company yesterday with the intention of running tracks out of tins town likefipokes out of the hub of a bicycle wheel, but we ti led all day and couldn't raise the $8 necessary to get incorporated. We hope to make it up this afternoon. Look out for three columns in to-morrow morning's pa per."— Dakota BeU. Two mothers sat opposite each other in a car on a Michigan Central train going to Toledo the other day. Each had a baby about a year old, and each baby came in for a share of the ad miration of the passengers. This seemed to make the mothers jealous, and after thinking the matter over for a while one of them leaned across the aisle and said: "I feel it my duty to tell you to go into the car ahead with your child, as mine has the whooping cough.” “Oh? has it? Thanks for your kindness, hut mine is all over with the whooping cough and is now coming down with the measlns. Perhaps you had better go into the car behind '."— Detroit Free Press. “I had a rather amusing experience of an Irishman's idea of finance the other day,” said a pleasant-faced gentleman to a comrade on the cars this morning. “I know him very well. We met on the street yesterday and he asked for the loan of a quarter. I gave him one, and he then invited ni to take a drink. Each drank whisky. He threw down the quarter and re ceived five cents in change. 'Begorra.' said he, ‘I wanted to get shaved and I hov only foive cints left. lend me another quarter, well ye?’ I did so. and again he set 'em up. On receiving his five cents change this time his face bloomed into a bouquet of smiles. 'Ah:' said he, [ knew there was some way of getting them tin cints.’ ” — Philadelphia Call. PERSONAL. The Prince of Wales is'said to have “dropped” a comfortable fortune on the result of the last Derby race. Gen. Henry B. Carrington, who ascended the Washington Monument Feb. 22, has written a book about it. J. D. Pehrins, the Worcester sauce maker, who died recently, leaves a fortune of $3,325,010 to his wife and children. Henry B. Payne, of Ohio, is lightly referred to by the irreverent paragraphers as “the sar dine Senator," because "he is so deep in oil.” The Young Men's Democratic Club of Hudson county. N. J.. has organized a movement to secure funds fora monument to the late Gen. McClellan Ma. Stanley's Arab adjutant's real name is Htftnedben-Hamed. He is called Tippoo Tib because of a twitching of the eyelids to which he is subject. Emrkiioii Francis Joseph and Emperor Wil liam are certain to meet at Gastein this year, according to the Vienna correspondent of the Loudon Standard. W. K. Vanderbilt is expected to sail in his steam yacht, the Alva, to Scotland, and lake possession of a shooting preserve which he has rented for the summer. The Grand Duke Nicholas, heir to the Rus sian Imperial throne, who last week attained his nineteenth year, possesses a tenor voice of re markable tom 1 and coinnass. Mmk. Tcssaud now exhibits Queen Victoria's first doll, fli-st shoes and first gloves and various other mementos of the roval nursery; also a piece of her majesty’s wedding cake. The Princess of Wales has presented Mrs. James Brown Potter with a handsome gold bracelet, net with sapphires and diamonds, ami an autograph letter filled with expressions of friendly regard. StoNon Nioouni declares that he and Ma dame Patti will both be glad “when we settle in Graig-y-Nos, and sing no more, except for our friends who visit us.” He expects to give his undivided attention to billiards. Thk Crown Princess Stephanie will not ac company her husliand to London next month to attend the jubilee. It is given out at Vienna that her health is too poor to allow her the jour ney, but gossips say that she has not yet for given Rudolph for his latest escapades. Thomas A. Edison, the electrician, has a keen appreciation of humor. During bis recent ill ness he was constantly annoyed by having his nurse take his temperature at frequent intervals. One day lie sliupedf the thermometer into a cup of hot tea. The nurse soon after attempted to measure his tcni|>eraturo and was horrilled to And.that Mr. Edison was apparently burning up with the hottest fever a man ever endured. Mb. Wilson, a native of Cork, is the chief leade r writer of the Isjndon Time* ami .writer of all the Irish anti-Irish articles. An irishman, Mr. (luinej. occupies file same position on the fWohe. anil Mr. I ludjibban. anoiher Irishman, HUI.-eciit* tlx .-Wanda rtf. The DnUy IViyfran/i. too, has an Irishman In the same o'Hal!or*n:and ths JWomfiip Pint has for a chief of the same nationality, Mr. Dun- Liny Cicely flume, who was recently married to Lord Cranhorne, Lord Salisbury's eldest son, wore on her wedding-day a gown of magnificent Ivory dnehesse satin and point d'Aleneon lace, trimmed with small sprays or orange blossom; tulle veil surmounted by a wreath of orange blossom. The bridesmaids pad tiaiekaof white silk with souave In slice* and lace ru files, and white lace bonnets trimmed with lilies of the valley. A DARING THREE-YEAR-OLD. Baby Harry Fitch Steals a Ride and Terrifies a Conductor. From the Cincinnati Enquirer■ Harry Fitch, a precocious 3year-older of Fern Bank, enjoys the distinction of being about the youngest traveler on record. His journey is all the more remarkable when the fact is consid ered that it was entirely of his own volition. Tuesday the child teas taking a walk for his own amusement, when the passenger train or. the Big Four halted for a minute at the Fern Bank station. The youth saw his opportunity, and clambered on the rear platform of the last coach. At least he is supposed to have done so, for when the train reached North Bend the con ductor, having occasion to step to the platform, found tile little fellow clinging to the brake, his hair full of cinders end his eyes shining with de light. The conductor was dazed with fright, but the boy wasn’t. By dint of questioning it was found that he was the son of George Fitch, of Fern Bank, and that he had got on the train "tos he wanted to go ljy-by." The conductor, intensely relieved, placed him in charge of one of the men on the Cincinnati-bound train, ard lie was returned to his mother's arms beforehis absence bad caused serious alarm. He is one of the boys who can go on a trip without making much ado over it. A Composite Maiden. From the Philadelphia Press. When Delia on the plain appears Awed by a thousand tender fears. —George Lord Lyttlcton. Then like my shadow close yet free The thought of her aye follows me. —Dinah Maria Muloch. Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair. —IV. Wadsworth. Imparting in its glad embrace Beauty to beauty, grace to grace. —Whittier. For on her cheeks the glow is spread That tints the morning bills with red. —Bryant. Robes loosely flowing, hair as free— Such sweet neglect much taketh me. Ben Johnson. Doth more bewitch me than when art Is more precise in every part —Robert Herrick. A fleeting moment of delight I sunned roe in her cheering sight. —Johanna Bailee. Or lingered in the falling dew. When looks were fond and words were few. —Allen Cunningham. As if the soul that moment caught Some treasure It through life hail sought. —Thomas Moore. But, O, the change! the winds grow high. Impending tempests charge the sky: —Matthew Prior. The flowers do fade and wanton fields. To wayward Winter reckoning yields; —Sir Waiter Raleiqh. For when awhile the wanton maid With restless heart had played; —Cowley. Then high she held her comely head, “I cannot heed it now,” she said. —Jean Ingelow. “I loved thee once, I'll love no more; Thou art not what thou wast before." —Sir Robert Ayton. A heart that stirs is hard to bind. A hawk's keen sight is hard to blind. —Charles Lamb. You known when mom exultant springs, When evening folds her drooping wings. —Thomas Hillhouse. The lovely toy so fiercely sought Has lost its charm by being caught. —Byron. Robbers Using 1 the Lasso. Paris Dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph. Some of the miscreants who infest the bar riers of the metropolis, rendering night horrible to those who are hurrying at a late hour to their homes in those localities, have hit on a brilliant expedient, for decoying and then rifling the pockets of tardy wayfarers. On arriving at one of the most deserted spots a peaceable citi zen, taking a hasty survey of the*position, saw, as he believed, three policemen walking side by side with measured step. Quite reassured, he pushed boldly on; but he had scarcely passed the guardians of order when he felt a lasso playing round his neck, and in a trice he was on the ground and gagged, while was he divested of whatever cash and other valu ables he happened to have about him. The men whom he had mistaken for policemen were ruf fians of the deepest dye, and their attitude and steady march were merely- intended to disarm the suspicions of the solitary pedestrian. A regular banc! has been at this work from 10 o'clock in the evening till the small hours of the morning, and several victims have been captured In the most skillful and methodical manner with the lasso. List night the Police Commissary of the Snlpetriere Quarter swooped down upon a whole gang of these miscreants as they were dividing their ill-gotten spoils in a lone public house. It is to be hoped that the campaign against the garroters will be promptly followed up, and this "terror that walketh by night" will soon be effectually suppressed. Sir Charles Russell Gets Mad. From the St. James Gazette. It is certainly somewhat startling to a barris ter to be introduced personally to the scene by a witness whom he is cross-examining. This happened y esterday during the progress of the libel action brought by Dr. Pankhurst against Col. Hamilton. The defendant was in the box. and being challenged by- Sir Charles Russell, who was cross-examining him on behalf of the plaintiff as to whether he had ever been told that Dr. Pankhurst was an atheist, declared amidst much merriment, In which the learned Judge joined, that it was Sir Charles himself who was his informant. Whereupon counsel be came extremely angry-, and proposed to "take his wig off and go into the box" in order to give an absolute contradiction to the statement, and a very pretty little scone ensued during the progress of which many harsh terms were used. In the course of a trial which took place a few y-ears ago the late Serjeant Ballantme asked a witness if he had ever seen a single individual go behind the scenes at a certain theatre. "Yes, Serjeant,” was the prompt reply, "I have seen you.” ‘-Don’t you dare to introduce me into this matter,” cried the Serjeant, in a voice of thunder, and the unfortunate witness subsided into his boots. But Sir Charles Russell, though a “harbttrary gent," did not succeed in over awing his opponent so easily. Preparing for Any Little Emergency. From the Chicago Herald. “I'll tage two of those largest revolvers you showed me yesterday," said a young man with false teeth in a State street gun store yesterday “Self-acting?" asked the clerk. “If you please; and just throw in three boxes of cartridges.” “Anything else?" “Yes; I want a long knife with a broad hilt." “Anything else?" “Keep hand grenades?" "Yes; how many do you want?” “Half a gross of the largest size." “What else?" “A steel breastplate if you have it, and you might toss in a small hand-ax." “Must be going to hurt somebody, eh?” “Not. necessarily. And while you are about it. just wrap up a repeating rifle with a gross of explosive bullets. ” • “(doing after O'Brien?" “No; no. Got any torpedoes?" ‘•Don't keep ’em. What are you going to do with all of this truck?'’ “I’ve just hired out as umpire in the South western Ease Ball League.” said the man with the false teeth, “and I want to prepare myself for some close games.” Love’s Youngr Dream. AY om the Omaha World. Lovely girl (at a restaurant)—My dear, order what you please for both. I don’t feei hungry a bit. Affianced Young Man—l can’t oat a mouthful, m.v darling. “Nor I. I haven’t eaten anything hardly for weeks. By the way. what was the rent of that house we were looking at?" “One hundred dollars a month." “That's just your salary’, so that won't do." “No. The other one alongside of it is §80." “Let’s take that." “But S3O won’t buy coal and pay a girl’s wages." "A girl’ Dear me, I forgot all about that. We must gel a cheaper house, because there must be enough oyer to buy something for the girl to eat, you know." Too Gallant to Bet Her Bight. hYom the Albany Journal. The popular Major Friest of the New York Central road, very much resembles Dr. Burton, of Fultonvllle. The other day a lady en’m-ed a car In which the Major sat, and stepping up to him said: “Doctor, my husband Is not so well to-day." The Major understood the situation at once ami inquired: "What seems to Ire the difficulty?'' "Well,'’ said the lady, "he seems to be more nervous than he was." “Oh.” said the Major, "that is all right; give him three more trills.” “I will," said the lady, and with that the Major departed. Wlrat the result of this prescription will be remains to be easn. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The beadle of the church of Montarlot, near Fontainebleau, in France, stole an antique gold collar from a statue of the Virgin in that edifice and pawned it in Paris. Hearing that he was to be arrested he hanged himself. Stays wero quite unknown in Russia un'il Peter the Great danced with some Hanoverian ladies on his journey to Pomerania. Quite as tonished. the monarch exclaimed to his suite after the ball: “What confoundedly hard bones these German women have!" It is said to be a fact that after a couple of dogs had 5. jght savagely for a little while in Belfast. Me., the other day. a cat that had been watching the combat suddenly jumped between the dogs, and by scratching and y elling vigor ously separated them, and drove them av.ay in a hurry. Tw-o young men of New Haven each drank ten glasses of beer on a wager as to which would down the liquid first. The winner drank his in one minute and flfty'-flve seconds. Then the lose}- challenged hint to try on five more glasses, and this time the challenger won, drink ing his beer in fifteen seconds. PnnTTY Josephine Mallison, of Philadelphia, who quit a home of luxury- in Philadelphia to run away with and marry a seedy fortune teller with a hare lip, has run away from him, declar ing that she was either bewitched or mes merized wheu she married him, but now has entirely recovered from her infatuation. A miROLAit entered the house of John H. Rich ardson, of Waterloo, N. Y., the other night, and in so doing awoke Mrs. P.ichardson, who jumped out of bed and knocked him down with a chair. The burglar managed to get up and escape, but not before he hit the plucky- woman on the head w ith a sand bag. The blow was not serious in its results. A Maryland authority say-s: “If you want to get a peanut at its best you should eat at half an hour after it has been roasted. People who are disposed to be dyspeptic should not eat many— it would be better if they- did not eat any at all. Properly- roasted peanuts are healthy for healthy people. The ordinary peanut eater eats one a minute, which is too fast.” This is a copy of a circular recently issued by the Salvation Army in a Kansas town: “Smiling Belle, from Wichita, Kan., the girl who jumped out of a two-story w indow to get salvation, will ~be at -—’s rink, Monday, April 18,. at 8 p. in. Cy-clones of salvation! Tornadoes of power! Gales of grace! Celestial breezes! Collection at the door to defray expenses." The other morning Will Piping, of Genesee. 111., saw a little dead bird dangling below a bird box under the eaves of his house'. It proved to be a wren, suspended by a horsehair. The, little thing had its nest in a box nearly com-' pleted and was putting some finishing touches on it with horse hair, when she mauaged to get tangled in it, and hanged herself. A builder in Ncwburg, N. Y., who is tearing down a building to make room for anew one, is putting the old brick and mortar to a novel use. He has contrived a grinding machine, iato which he feeds the old brick and mortar, and it is ground into powder, or rather into building sand and cement, and the material will be used in setting brick in the now- building. Says the Boston Budget: ‘"The other evening at one of our theatres, between the acts, a young gentleman suggested to another that they go out to the foyer for a few minutes, where upon a Hibernian who sat near apd partially heard the suggestion, turned to his companion, evidently his wife, and said: ‘Let’s go, Mary: faith, if there’s a foire, we’d better get out be fore the rush.’ ” A New York gentleman, after a farewell din ner party at bis club, joined his wife on the steamer that was to sail in the early morning, taking the upper berth. Suddenly his wifet in the lower herth, and those in the adjoining state rooms were alarmed by his exclaiming in drunk en tones, “I’ve got ’em! I've got'em! Black things are craw-ling all over me P’ “Go to sleep and you’ll be all right." sternly- replied his bet ter half; but by- this time he fiad risen to a sit ting posture and was hurling to the floor black, squeaking objects, which caused his wife to ex claim, "Steward! lights! lights!" Steward and lights arrived and disclosed the fact that the ship's cat had deposited a litter of kittens in the berth occupied by the gentleman, whose pres ence between the’sheets nad caused them to in vestigate the surroundings. A popi LARcheap restaurant in New York which has been written into publicity by some literary patrons is the favorite resort for breakfast of the swell waiters In the fashionable cafes and restaurants before going on duty-. Asa rule, it may be observed, waiters seldom care to tak e their meals in their own places. Some of the. "outsiders" who frequent the place mentioned for dinner thought they would try the midday dejeuner, when they found the tables occupied by those whom they recognized as waiters at the fashionahle up town resorts. It was noticed that there was no table bells—it was assumed out of deference to the patrons—but one of the party- of outsiders happened to have one in his pocket that he bad purchased for home use, and suddenly sounding it half of the guests instinc tively- dropped their knives and forks and rose to answer the summons before they remem bered they were not on duty and resumed their seats, some rather amused, but the majority evincing unfeigned disgust. Charlotte Walter has just celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of her engagement at the Royal Burg Theatre, Vienna. She was born, says the London Daily Hews, at Cologne in 1834, of poor parents, and had to overcome many- dif ficulties and battle through hard times before obtaining the recognition her talent deserved. She now occupies the undisputed place of first among German tragic actresses, and only her objection to play in foreign countries prevents her name from being of world-wide fame . In 1873 she married Count Charles O'Sullivan, but family considerations obliged her to keep the marriage a secret for many years. Not only- Vienna, but all Austria may be said to be at her feet. The Emperor sent a message expressing his recognition of her great talent and merits, accompanied by a splendid diamond bracelet, and presents from several of the archdukes were also received by h r. in addition to hundreds of gifts from coupe pies, friends and admirers. The Mayor of Vieni S deputation* from literary and art societies, representatives from the Vienna and provincial theatres, and all the ac tors of the Burg Theatre crowded to her house to congratulate her. Paris is making preparations for a special jubilee of her own. A few weeks hence it will be fifty years since the first train steamed out of Paris and reached the suburb of St. Ger main. The guard of that train is still alive, and has strange accounts to give of the journey and of the preparations for it. The engine was English, and the driver and stoker were English too. The engine ran on four wheels, and was a singular contrast to present locomotives, hut the first-class ear rtages were almost of the same pattern as that still in use on the line. The second class were open, furnished with curtains to keep off the sun, and beyond the curtains nets were stretched to prevent too curious travelers from losing their balance and their lives. French taste asserted itself in the departments of cos tume and niusle. The guards had a uniform of blue and gold buttons, and were supplied with hunting horns. Great imporance was attached to the horns, which were to represent the cor nets used by the postillions of the mail coaches. For a week before the first journey the guards carefully rehearsed a fanfare, which was to be played with great spirit on the departure end just before the arrival of the train. They ha ve chunged many things on French lines in flftv years, ami among others have substituted rail way whistles for hunting horns. Tnr croupier who acted os accomplice to the persons who lately won the sum of 800,(MOf., or £13,000, from the tables nt Monte Carlo, has been tried by what is called the higher tribunal of Monaco. The name of the accused is Gar dam, and he is a young man of good antece dents. Great Indignation is caused among the numerous denouncers of the gaming tables be cause the authorities of Monte Carlo did not bring forward independent witnesses. It is even asserted that the itersmis who bribed t he croupier to allow them to put the extra cards on the trcnte-ctquarante table are thoroughly well known. Gardani, however, was offered tip as the victim, the managers of the Casino being said to be afraid of revelations and scandals ir others were proceeded against. Be this as it may, the report of the trial is amusing if not in structive reading. The President (M. do Lattre), for instance, accused Gardani ’ of having once before hen Taught using a packet of rtrepartyi cards The prisoner ad mitted the fact, but added that the managers of the Casino had told him not to say a word about the matter, and hod even Increased his pay. In his defense Oardini energetically protested that he did not know tiini prepared cards were used when the 800.000f. were won. lie continued to “cut" with complete fait h until the hank broke. The Advocate General contended that the curds wore soiled and thumbed with use, and that Gardani could uot have help'd noticing this. Gardani was eventually condemned to eighteen months' imprisonment. 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