Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

4 C|e|UonungHctus Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. FRIDAY, JUNE XT. 18S7. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. MorniNci News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city , by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac- COunVat 25 cents a week. $1 00 a month, $5 00 for si* months and $lO IX) for one year. The Morning News, hr/ mail, one month, fl OOi three months, 50; six months, $5 (X); one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issues, three months, $2 00; six months, $4 00 one year. $8 Oil. The Morning News. Tri weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 35; six months. $2 50; one year, $6 00. The Sunday News, by mail , one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Sulrscriptions payable 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—Myrtle Lodge No. 6, K. of P. ; Pu laski Council No. 153, R, A.: Landrum lodge No. 48, F. &A. M.; Stockholders Piqnecr Steam Brick Company. Special Notices—As to Crew of Br. Schooner lolanthe; Paris Novelty Stock, A. S. Cohen. So. cial Entertainment. Amusements—Base Ball Between Savannah end Amateurs. Educational—Augusta Female Seminary, Staunton, Va. Notice—William P. Bailey & Cos. Summer Re*drts— Mountain House, Cornwall Heights, New York. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Board; Miscellaneous. Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship Cos. Auction Sale— Hay, by D. R. Kennedy. Hardware, Etc.—Edward Lbvell & 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 35c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for three 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 a way 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. The Morning News will begin the pub lication next Sunday of a very bright and intensely interesting story, entitled “Nora of the Adirondacks,” by Anne E. Ellis. This story was written for tho Morning News, and it will be found to be well worth read ing. It contains thirty-eight chapters, and grows in interest with each chapter. The President’s annual fishing excursion to the Adirondacks lends new interest to that sec tion of country, and a story in which some of its features are described can hardly fail to be appreciated. The Houston Post predicts that the ma jority against prohibition in Texas will be 68,276. The wish, no doubt, is father to the prediction. This is the time of year when the man who lives with his children in a boarding house sadly exclaims, “What is home with* out a big back yard!” George Gould has bought a yacht. If he can’t be independent of his father in busi ness, he at least means to be independent of him in sailing the briny deep. William Salmon and Joseph Trout are two constables in Belleville, 111. Notwithstand ing their fishy names they are never caught, but frequently catch other people. Within the last few days they have had frost in Northeast Georgia. It was doubt less the result of a conspiracy among the proprietors of the summer resorts. “What is war for?’ asks the Boston Post. It is to make privates scarce. The lost war In this country made them so scarce that when one is found he is regarded as a great curiosity. The statement is made that churches iu this country increase at the average rate of ten a day, and saloons at the average rate of forty a day. If this is true it doesn’t tpeak well for the morals of the country. John A. Mackay, the famous bonanza, millionaire, says: “There is nothing like mines to make a fortune.” Quite truo; nothing like mines to make a fortune for the man who has mining stock to sell, as is the case with Mackay. Gen. Lucius Fairchild, Commnnder-in- Cliief of the Grand Army of the Republic, says that the pension bill drafted by the committee appointed by the army provides pensions for all dependent persons who were in the enlisted sendee of the government, kheir widows or orphans. The amount to be paid is |l2 a month. It is estimated that there are 15,000 dependents. Trust to the errand Army of the Republic to irduee the mrplUi. Secretary Lamar is again at his poet in Washington, to all appearances much re freshed by his visit to Georgia. Despite his Katement that the President lias had no conference with him regarding the vacancy on the bench of the Kupreme Court, the Opinion prevails in Washington that the place is practically at his command. The se -retary will return to Georgia soon to ielfver an address ut the Emory College kommencement. Irishmen in New York propose to hold a neeting at Cooper Union on the dny of Queen Victoria's jubilee. The meeting is lot, to be devoted to congratulations to her Majesty, but, us the call tor it announces, It will be held “to commemorate the dead of ■he Irish race who have perished on the leaffold, in the dungeon, by famine, or eviction, during the fifty years of Victoria’s murderous reign.” The call is printed on a black-bordered card. United Btutes Consul Strickland, who is at Goroe-Daka, Africa, makes an intermting report to the State Department concerning the progress of civilization on the dark con tinent. New England rum and alcohol nro Uiippcil to Goree-Daka in quantities of 1,000 barrels, at a time, while the Germans have eight steamships carrying rum, gin and alcohol to the place in enormous quantities. These liquors may yet civilize the Africans BIT ILe face of the earth. The Interstate Commerce Decision. It*is doubtful if many of the railroad companies were disappointed by the decision of the Interstate Conmieree Commission not to permanently suspend the fourth section of the interstate commerce act They had no strong reason to cxjKX't that the commission would take the responsibility of suspending it, although they presented some very con vincing arguments in favor of its suspen sion. No doubt an effort will lie made to induce Congress to repeal it, and in order to secure facts upon which to base a request, for its repeal it is probable that no attempt will be made to evade it. If there are railroad companies which cannot comply with it and maintain their solvency—and it is asserted that there are a great many of them —Congress probably will grant them relief by modifying it, or re pealing it altogether, but before Congress does anything of that kind it will have to be satisfied by facts, drawn from the experi ences of the complaining companies work ing under the law, that the interests which the fourth section threatens to destroy are far greater than those which it promises to benefit. In view of the fact that the railroad com panies entertain very different views as to the meaning of the interstate law, and as these views are of a necessity not in har mony with those expressed by the Interstate Commission, it is probable that the near future will witness quite a large crop of lawsuits. The railroad companies are told that they must depend upon their own in terpretation of the law, and take their chances of being hauled up before the com mission or called into the courts to answer complaints of violations of it. Up to the present time there have been few, if any, complaints, because there has been a sort of tacit agreement to wait for the de cision of the commission on points pre sented to it, but now that the decision lias been received and the railroad companies are informed that they must act on their own judgment and responsibility, it would not be surprising if complaints, both reason able and unreasonable, were heard on all sides. If Congress doesn’t interfere, it is safe to predict that it will tie a long while before railroads and shippers reach an understanding upon which the transjxirta tion business of the country can be con ducted without great and constant friction. Grain Gambling. No doubt many of those who were the principals in the recent “corners” in coffee and wheat suffered heavy losses. Nobody sympathises with them, and the public wouldn’t experience any feelings of regret if they lost every dollar they possessed. Gam bling in articles of food, making it more difficult for the poor to supply themselves with the necessaries of life, is not to be com mended. It is to be condemned, anti the capitalists who combine to levy a tribute upon toiling millions are public enemies. The price of June wheat dropped at Chi cago in one day a bushel, showing that the price to which the ring had forced it was fictitious. The claim that gam bling in grain helps the farmer is without much foundation. A few farmers may get the highest price to which speculation forces it, but by far the greater part of a crop is sold at the lowest price which the grain reaches after a “comer” in it is broken. For instance, no wheat was ob tained for export for weeks before the Chi cago “comer” was broken, because the price was higher in this country than in Europe, but the very day the “corner” was destroyed a half million bushels were bought for for eign account at 73>£c., not at !>2o. at which the ring held it. If it had not been for speculation it is probable that the farmer might have obtained coasiderably more than 731£c., because when a corner is broken the price generally falls below its natural level. Grain gambling is injuring the farmer in another way. It is turning the attention of wheat importing European countries to other sources of supply. England is open ing up the wheat fields of India and Austra lia, and a large part of her supply conies from those countries now. Russia is becom ing a large exporter of wheat. If grain gambling continues the farmer may find himself without a market for a very large part of his grain crop. Of course these grain “comers” interfere with many kinds of business. They check transportation, interfere with the manufac ture of flour and prevent the exjiortation of both flour and grain. While there does not , appear to be any way to stop grain gam bling, there is not a little satisfaction in knowing that the grain gamblers frequently descend from affluence to poverty in a very few days. Police Justice Jacob Patterson, of New York, thinks that when once a man gets the Presidential fever he never gets over it. “Let him once get the Presidency,” lie says, “and he never wonts to let it go. Poor Arthur literally died of disappointment. The fact is, there is nothing left for a man after he has been President. I remember going to Gen. Grant, once, from the State Committee to endeavor to induce him to ac cept a position on the electoral ticket. The vacancy was occasioned by quarrels among the colored men as to who should represent them on the ticket, ami as they could not agree we thought it would lie a good way out of trouble to put Gen. Grant on. I re member how emphatically, but quietly, ho saij: ‘No; I have been President, and 1 can accept no subordinate jxisitiou nfter that.’” The Washington correspondent of the Bal timore Sun tells rather a funny story about the way two government clerks didn’t light a duel. Thtwtwo clerks, one in the Treasury and the other in the Post Office Department, one from the North and one from the South, met after offieo hours and became engaged in a religious discussion. The discussion quickly developed into a red-hot dispute over the Immaculate Conception, and words anything else than religious, passed I n't ween them. Finally the Southerner, deeming himself grievously insulted, challenged his opponent, to tight u duel. The Northerner retorted by telling the Southerner that if ho did not retract the challenge he would bo reported to the District Attorney for violat ing the anti-dueling law. The duel was not fought The Episcopnl cathedral to be erected in New York city is to cost $f1,000,000, and it is proposed to make the interior like that of Westminster Abbey. Why not devise a thoroughly American plan for the building, inside and ouU Is there no originality in this country! Must there be an everlasting following after things foreign! The New Orleans IHcayttnc says; “A ‘pol ished' gentleman is expected to shine in soci ety; but no one knows what a ‘jtyjjshcd' gentleman can do.” Perhaps not, but there is something that can be done to him: He i cun be buried. TIIE MORNING NEWS; FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1887. Traveling by Tricycle. A New York theatrical manager, whose name is not divulged, snaps his fingers at the interstate commerce; law and tho railroads, and declares tliat he will take his company on the road next summer at much less ex pense than heretofore. His scheme is novel and plausible, and, as it contains a sugges tion that may be of value to some outside of the theatrical profession, a brief account of it may not be uninteresting. The nameless manager’s company com prises fourteen people. Ho has purchased fourteen tricycles, built to withstand the wear and tear of rough roads, and each IS provided with an attachment for the trans portation of baggage. Of course, all heavy baggage wiil be transported by the .-ailroads. The members of the company are now Wming how to manage the tricycle, so that when they start on the road each will know just what to do. In order not to lose time a route has been mapped out by which the towns to be visited will be brought within six hours of each other. It is claimed that the tricycles will easily cover the distances in the time mentioned. If the nameless manager’s scheme proves a success the tricycle will probably be come a dangerous rival of the railroads. Cei-tain classes of travelers thut flit about the country with baggage as light as a [taper-collar box, will no loiter patronize the railroads. There are the commercial tourists, for instance. Quite a large num ber of them carry but little baggage. They could roll through the country at little expense to their houses and much less to themselves. To give a practical illustration, suppose that a com mercial tourist representing a baking pow der house should Vie provided with a tricycle and then be instructed to make the most of his opportunities. He could pack his linen in a grip and his samples in a tin can. With so light a burden he could scurry through the country in a manner to put Father Time to the blush. Seriously, there is no good reason why certain classes of commercial tourists should not “make” their towns on tricycles. It is claimed that the tricycle will easily traverse twenty miles in five hours, provided the roads are in fairly good condition. If this be true, there are many towns that could be easily reached in this way. In Middle Geor gia, for instance, there are seven important towns situated in a circle, tho distance from one to the other being not more than twenty two miies. The roads are always in fairly good condition. The other ways in which the tricycle might be used are too numerous to mention. One thing, however, should be pointed out: The free use of the tricycle would develop and strengthen the muscles of many who now complain when they are required to walk up not more than two flights of stairs. It is to be hoped that the nameless New York manager will make a success of his scheme. A. K. Cutting, who was imprisoned by the Mexicans in the summer of 1386, has • turned up in New York. He claims to be the chairman of the “Executive Council” of the “Annexation League,” which wants the United States to annex Mexico. If the an nexation scheme proves a failure, then the league wants to gobble up Mexico and make a ne\y republic of it. A convention will be held in New Orleans, in July, to further the league’s sch ernes. Cutting says that delegates have been elected in Guaymas, Mex.. Mani toba, New York, Missouri, Ohio, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, California, Arizona, Chicorra, New Mexico and Texas. If Cutting is not cardful he will again bring up in a Mexican prison, and he will not find it easy to get out. John McMackin, Jeremiah Coughlin and Michael Walsh, the committee in charge of the petition to the Pope for the restoration of Dr. McGlynn, says the Now York Star , have issued the following official declaration: “It has been decided to abandon the project of sending a petition to Rome in reference to the ease of Dr. McGlynn, the doctor and his friends having expressed their strongest approval of this step. Tho petition sheets should be destroyed and no more signatures solicited. No further signatures will be taken with the sanction of any authorized organization or committee.” It is supposed that Henry George, who has constitued him self Dr. McGlynn’s guardian, interfered to prevent the petition’s being sent. Mr. S. J. Loniso was appointed postmas ter at Temple, Ind., President Cleveland. He had many competitors for the office, and when he secured it they boycotted him. He tried for a month to rent a building to be used as a post office, but failed. Becoming disgusted he went to Louisville, Ky., the other day, surrendered all stamps, postal cards, money and effects belonging to his office to the Louisville postmaster and then resigned. He will not go back to Temple to live. The postoffice at that place ought to be abolished. Michael Callahan, of Chicago, took a mean revenge upon his sweetheart, the other night. He was under the influence of liquor when he visited her, tunl she ordered him away. Finding the house raised up on jackscrews preparatory to removal, Michael got a handspike and commenced work on the screws along the front. The result was that the house toppled over and the inmates had to crawl out of the cellar door and down on tho underside of tho building, using the joists for steps. Next day Michael was lined $2. The Thirteen Club of New York took its annual dinner on Monday night at Mdrelli's. Thirteen men sat at each table, thirteen courses were served, with thirteen different kinds of wine, and thirteen, speakers spoke thirteen minutes, telling why they didn't belive in old superstition generally, and m the “thirteen” and “Friday” bad luck espe cially, and thirteen candles flickered with the applause that went up. Dr. George Vaaoy, the botanist of the Agricultural Department, hits just pub lished an official bulletin on the “Grasses of the South.” The subject is one iu which the .South is very much interested. The South, in the near future, will raise all the hay she needs. It is estimated that more than 100 amend ments will be offered to tho interstate com merce bill when Congress meets. It will cause sadness when it is announced that none of the amendments look to the altera tion of the situation regarding free passes. The dime novel has caused the death of another man. Charles E. Morre, a retired tailor of New York, read dime novels until he lost his mind, and then committed suicide by hanging. The fashion papers aunounce that purses are growing in size. The reason, no doubt, is that silver dollars aro becoming more plentiful and small bills iue disappearing. CURRENT COMMENT. Blooming Idiots. From the S T eto York Star (Pern.) Christopher Columbus: If the minor from London turn America was really discovered by Icelanders in 983 lie true, what a lot of blooming idiots we've been making of ourselves for the last 400 years A Disregarded Opportunity. From the St. lent is f/lobe-Democrat (Rep.). There is an excellent chance for some railroad company to distinguish itself by demonstrating that the interstate commerce law does not for bid the reduction of passenger rates; but we regret to say that the opportunity is being dis regarded with most perse-tent and provoking unanimity. They Ought to Run. From the Washington Post Deni.) Henry George and McGlynn declare that they do not know whether they shall run tor the State Legislature or not. They certainly ought to do so. * According to their theory relief can be ob tained only through statute law. and they ought to go for it in behalf of the millions who want their poverty abolished, and who ought to have it abolished, if it can be. The Lincoln Boomlet. Front the Boston Herald (Itul.) The solitary boom for Mr. Robert T. Lincoln as a Presidential candidate still goes on in a news paper of the city of Atlanta, which illustrates Lord Dundreary's paradox of "flocking all alone” to his end. “Our Bob” is the endearing, but somewhat familiar, term applied to the son of his father, who, by the way, is an excellent gentleman, much too clear in the head to afford room for any ambition of this kind to find a place there. BRIGHT BITS. The interstate commerce law hasn't affected the undertaker. He carries as many deadheads as ever. Philadelphia Call. You can get more wind out of a 10c. fan than you can from a SSOO one. It's the same way with a 10c. man.— Yonkers Statesman. “Women are not backsliders as men are," says a writer. No, but they would lie if it wasn't foa their bustles.— Binghamton Republican. The society writers are all busily engaged in describing "new fads.” A “fad" is usually nothing more than a faddle.— Cincinnati Com mercial Uazette. Anew style of hose has been imported, in which there is a receptacle for each toe. The agricultural papers note this as anew corn cul tivator.—Buffalo Express. Edward Payson Weston, the once famous pe destrian, is now said to be a reporter on a New York daily. It is supposed he writes the foot notes.—Norristown Herald. Countryman—Guess I'll try some of these here vegetable oysters. Waiter—lfes, sir. Countryman—And, say, waiter, bring ’em in on the half shell.— Tid-Bits. Charlie—There, now, Em, Mr. Blunt’s hat ain't a bit bigger than pa's. Emma—Well, Charlie, what of it? Charlie—You said last night that Mr. Blunt bad the thickest head you ever saw.—Boston Beacon. After writing sentences one day the scholars exchanged work for correction. A small boy marked an error, and then at the foot of the paper made the following explanatory note: "He didn't begin Massychewsits with a cater piller."—Harper's Bazar. Visitor— Whet a magnificent copy cf la Fontaine! Bibliophile—Gorgeous binding, isn’t it? Done over in Paris by some fellow or other. I don't know his name, but he is way up in his prices. Do you remember, by the way, who was la Fontaine? My wife was asking me this morn ing.— To wn Topics. “My dear,” said her lover, “I am fired with an ambition to win your hand. May I consult your father?” "Yes,” she softly murmured. An hour later he was again "fired," but it was not with an ambition to win her band this time. There was more foot than hand about it.— Drake's Magazine. Saw Miss Spinster (no longer youthful. when she heard that her friend Miss Marriwell was going to wed: “Well, let those marry who wish, out for my part t never yet saw a man 1 could care enough for to lie his wife.” “That is tft say, aunt,” remarked Kate, very demurely, “you never yet saw a gentleman after your own heart."— Boston Transcript. First Politician—There's something about this school board election I don't like. Second Politician—What's that? First Politician—Why, I mean in relation to women voting. You see, I thoughtlessly bet a hat with my wife on her candidate,and she won. I've just discovered that the hat she picked out costs $35. 11l lie more careful with my next liat bet. — Omaha World. They were having a heraldic discussion in the Faubourg St. Germain. Said a marchioness a ia mode, whose title is of this century, to an elderly marquis, whose title was given to the family when the megatherium and the masto don innocently played together on the plains of France: “I see, dear marquis, that our coat-of-arms are almost the same; we have each barrels in them.” "Yes, madnme, but mine contains barrels of gunpowder, while yours contains barrels of powder for your charming face."— Town Topics. PERSONAL. The Boston Papyrus Club has contributed SOOO toward building Walt Whitman a cottage. Gen. Boulanoer was nearly suffocated with smoke while escaping from the Opera Oomique tire, in Paris. “Lav ante," the alleged posthumous poem of Edgar A. Poe, recently published, is repudiated in critical circles. Mu. Alma-Tadema is said to be designing a Greek costume for Mrs. James Brown Potter, which she will wear in a play soon to be pro duced. Rosooe Conkling keeps a record of his daily personal expenses, and its pages show that he paid $295 tor street cur fore in the last twelve months. Samuel Minturn Peck, Alabama's favorite poet, is preparing his second volume for pttbli cation. His “Cap and Bells” found a ready sale throughout the entire South. Sarah Bernhardt remarked while gazing at the porfonuane - in the Chinese theatre at San Francisco: "It's a theatre for children, and it makes one feel like a child to lie in it.” It is a curious coincidence that during their respective terms of office Presidents Pierce and Buchanan were absent from Washington the same number of days, namely, fifty-seven. The Lee Memorial Association has erected at Lexington, Va., a mausoleum costing $30,000, which contains the remains of Gen. Robert E. Lee and two female members of the Lee family. Gen. Rosser is now a rich man, having, since the war, made a large fortune in the Northwest us engineer of the Northern Pacific road and by speculation. lie lives in Charlottesville, Va., where he has built a fine residence. Ex-Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, who will be 78 in August, fissures his friends that he feels like a healthy mau of 50, and is' constantly counting hack under a vague feeling that a mis take has been made in estimating his years. John Nixon, of Philadelphia, one of the Revo lutionary leaders, was the first person to read the Declaration of Independence in public. His granddaughter, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hemsley, recently died ill Philadelphia in her ninety-sec ond year. The Paris journals announce the approaching marriage of her highness Princess Murat with Don Joseph Curracciolo, Duke of Lavello,Prince of Torella ami Grandee of Spain of the first, class. Princess Eugenie is the eldest daughter of his highness Prince Murat and Ids wife, nee Princess of Wagram. Slip is a sister of Count ess Goluehowsku and of Prince Joachim Murat. Gov. Hill was asked not long ago what he did to occupy his mind on summer evenings when “everybody" is outof town. “I lean back in my chair on the piazza," answered the Governor, "and reflect. The reply is a good indication of tlie Governor's character. He is a steady and earnest thinker and he never takes a xtep of the slightest importance until he lias weighed its lull significance ut his leisure. The late cx-Vlce President. Wheeler hod a great reputation as a political prophet. Ho foretold ttie panic of 1873 and even went into minute details which were afterwords verified. He prophesied the nominations of Tllden and Hayes in 1878. He snidtw Blaine Just before the Cincinnati convention: "Brother Blaine, don't set your heart upon the Presidential nomina tion The u|-xt candidate of the Republican party for PrAident is now Governor of Ohio.” Tennessee is beginning to win prominence in the literary world. It is a fact not generally known t tint Miss Murfree (George Egbert Crad dock) has a brother who is making his mark in fletlon under t he no mitt phi ms of William Perry Bronn. Another Tennessee name which lias l eome somewhat prominent in the same line of late is that of Miss Willie A. Dromgoole, who it one of ttie winners in the Youth's Com ixisios prize comis'titlon last year. .She lias been engrossing elerk for fib' Tennessee legisla ture for two sessions. She is very clever ui de picting life iu kho Tciuicbsec mountains. AN INDIAN'S SHRUNKEN HEAD. A Relic of the Lost Arts—Hair That a Broadway Belle Might Envy. From the Few York Evening Sun. Over 300 years ago an Indian chief, who ruled over a tribe on the Nopo river, near the head waters of the Amazon, died. In accordance with the custom of the tribe his hea-.l was cut off and the skull split up the back. All the bones were then removed from the bead and the eyes were taken out. By some process known to the Indians of that locality at that time, the head was shrunk to one-tenth of its original proportions, the face retaining its color arid the flesh becoming as hard as stone. By reason qf the shrinkage the hair becomes matted so closely together that it is impossible to part it sufficiently to reach the scalp. One of these heads was shown to a re porter at the store of the Scott Stamp and Coin Company, on Broadway, this morning. A cor respondent of the firm'in Ecuador recently sent the head to this city. The correspondent says that the knowledge of how to preserve the (leads is not known to the Indians of the present day; that is one of the lost arts. The hair upon this miniature head is black and lustrous, and about fourteen inches in length. The lips protrude aud are punctured with holes, from ’which hang a bunch of twine. A piece of twine is fastened to the top of the head, which was evidently used to hang it up tn the dwellnigs of the Indians. These heads are worshipped by the natives as gods, and they can rarely tie induced to part with one. This specimen is the second that has been secured so far, and it is the only one in the United States. The other one is in France. The head is valued at S3OO. It is intended to put the head on exhibition soon. That the specimen is genuine there can be no doubt, as the expression on the face has been wonderfully preserved, and the cut made in the back of the bead and the stitches with which the incision was closed are plain and distinct. The hair is very flue, and apparently as glossy as when its owner passed over to the majority. Arbitration Among the Sandwiches. From the Few York Tribune. Two sandwich men met in Broadway and stopped to converse. One was a little man with a seraggly beard, the other was a tall man and bearded also. The little man bestowed green hand bills on those of the passers-by who would accept them. “This summer weather is varry try in’ between the boards,” said the tall man, wiping the pers piration and dust out of his left eye with a sec tion of calico, “and the half holiday racket doesn't seem to hit our perfeshion at all." “We’re going to get a show,” said the little man emphatically. “The man wot does the Queen of May on I'ulton street was telling me yesterday that the Queen of the Sandwichers is here." “You don't say so," said the tall man, with much interest. “I didn't know there was any sandwich wiinmen, though the Bowery Sand wich Men's Protective Union has been doin' some tall organizing lately," “My plan, said the lit l l- man, skilfully ram ming a green hand-bill in the packet of an old man who was passing, “is to rave the Queen call upon some of the principal Arms as employs sandwich men and do a little arbitratin' for ns while she was here* The best artists in the sandwich perfession can scarcely make a livin' nowadays, and new dodges pilin’ on us all the time. The two fellers-wot does the wild Injun act on Nassau street told me they had been or dered to give warwhoops. one every ten min utes tjurin' bankin’ horn s. They want 15e. a day more for whoopin', and there it is. I tell yer the whole business needs arbitratin', and the quicker the Queen gets in her work the better. I say.” and the little man tightened up his boards and started down Fulton street to see if there was any change in the warwhoop deadlock. Effect of a Child’s Tears. From Washington Letter to the Baltimore Sun. The divorce case of Emma V. Clarke vs. Ju lius Y. Clarke, came up before Judge Merrick, in the Equity Court to-day, upon a rule against Mr. Clarke to produce in court his two daugh ters, one about 14 veal's and the other about 3 years old. whom lie had carried off from the orphan asylum, where they had been placed by their mother. Tho return of the husband was that the children were his own, and that as his wife had refused to live with him. and had nut the children into an asylum, he had taken them in order to give them a proper home. This was denied, and Judge Merrick said he, would have to hear testimony before making a decision, and he would fix Friday next for the hearing, and in the meanwhile, as the children were in the custody of the father, and as he had the legal right to the care of them, they might remain w ith him until further orders. The 3-year-old listened attentively, and putting her arms around her mother, declared she would never leave her The court urged upon the, mother the need of submission to the law, and she ottered no objection, but. the girl still clung with tears aud cries to her mother, and the scene excited much feeling in the court room. Finally Mr. Cook, counsel for the hus band, said tbe father had consented that the eldest child might go with her mother. The mother and girl were moving off when the little 3-year-old “Tot,” seeing her sister going away, set up with her tiny voice an argument as loud as had ever been heard in that court, and quite as effective; for Mr. Cook at once con sented to let the child go w ith its mother “if it would only stop crying;’’and so the voice of nature proved stronger than the orders of the court. The mother took both children, and the case was adjourned until Friday next. He Wanted Snails. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. “Aw. hnwve you any snails?" asked a dys peptic looking youqg man with a falsetto voice and an eye-glass, at the Union liepot restaurant. The colored gentleman who wins waiting on him opened his eyes until they were in danger of falling out, as tie gasped; “Any whn-at, sail?” "Any snails, me good fellaw?" “I dunno, sah, whether we'sgot any oh dem or not. I’ll see," replied the waiter, as he started for the kitchen. "Dah's a gen'nian wants some snails. Got any ?” he asked of the steward. "Naw; tell him he'll have to take treetoads on toast,” said that disgusted individual, and the waiter had to go back and acknowledge that snails were among the very few things not on the bill of fare, Pittsburg is not much of a customer for edi ble snails. The proprietor of Fulton market, when asked about them, said: “We couldn't sell a pint in five years. I never heard but one or two i>eople speak about them. There are men who acquired a taste for them in France. If I had any call for them I could get them easily enough by importing them di rectly from France.” When Jay Gould’s private car Atalanta passeq through the city some time ago, it was held at the station a couple of hours. The cook was found out on the platform and asked about the story thut Jay was feeding upon snails himself at present. “It's a lie, sah." said the Henagambian. “Use his cook, an' I reckon I know wlpit he eats, an’ he doan’t touch any of dem things. Some of dem New Yo'k report'ahs done make up dal story." That Miserable “If." From the Columbus Dispatch. She has grace, And a face That attention attracts. And she socially plays the first role; And no one would be So happy as she lf she could only hide thu’ oig mole! It. He has wealth, He has health, ■F And can have, at command, Anything that his fancy may please; And no one would be So happy as he ll his pants didn't bag at the kness! 4 t We are nil— f Short and tall, Young and old, rich and poor— Yes, we’re all of us in the same skill; How happy we’d be ’Tis easy to see— Were it not for that miserable “If." Saved by a Rattling Jig. From the Chicago Journal. "Speaking of jumping board hills," said a theatrical advance agent to me, “I have seen a good deal of that. But the funniest experience was once when I was a member of Emilio Mel ville’s company. We struck one of those juv towns so plentiful throughout Wisconsin, anil played two nights to audiences of six one night and thirteen the next. Well, we were all broke and a big board bill due. We managed to get our baggage to the depot, but Just ten minutes before train time the constable arrived on the scene with a writ of attachment for our baggage in lieu of our board Irfll. We were pretty badly seared, but a happy thought struck Cassello, the jig dancer. He began u jig in the depot, nml was instantly surrounded by the gaping grangers, among whom was the constable, the most Interested of all the spectators. Well, while the Jig proceeded we were not idle, hut. with the help of the trainmen, we soon hustled the baggage aboard the train, and when the lxll rang for ’all atmard' we were all safely seated inside, and (’osaellostfil kept on danctng till the last ear moved along, when he tossed a kiss to the constable and jumped aboard. * ITEMS OF INTEREST. A robin has built a nest in the mouth of one of the Parrott guns that ornamert the burial plat of the Maquokeca (la.) G. A . post. A new use for the tobacco ph*nt has been discovered. Its stems and waste, it is claimed, are equal to linen rags iu the manufacture of paper. The Western Watchman , a Roman Catholic journal of St. Louis, is responsible for the state ment that there is ndt one negro worshipper in all the eighty Protestant churches of St. Louis. Mrs. Annie Macpin, of Gasconade county 7 Mo., is a well-preserved woman. She is 9S years old, can walk two miles at a stretch, aud seventy-two grandchildren rise up and call her blessed. Thirteen undertakers were on the train of thirteen cars that formed the Bt. Louis express that had a smash-up on the. New York Central railroad at Spuyteu Duyvel (N. Y. ) last week, but there was only one man injured, aud he not seriously. Some Pennsylvania men have started a couple of skunk ranches, one at Little Corners and the other at Miller's Station. Good skunkskius sell readily at $1 apiece, and the idea is to keep the market well supplied with the black and white pelts without breaking down the price. A large mastiff tried to pull from the rails an elderly unknown woman he .was accompany ing. some days ago, as she walked on the track of the Concord aud Portsmouth, N. H.. railroad. The engineer of an approaching train saw this quite distinctly and whistled repeatedly. Tho engine struck and instantly killed the woman, and after the accident the dog howled piteously, and refused to leave the body. When Capt. Thomas Phelan, of Kansas City, Mo., was stabbed in O'Donovan Rossa's office, in New York, two years ago, he had an accident policy for $3,000 in the Travelers' Insurance Company. The company refused to pay the money on the ground that Phelan had provoked the assault by going to Rossa's office. Phelan sued the company, and was on Saturday award ed judgment for ttie full amount. The other day a letter came to the North Adams (Mass.) post office, addressed as follows: “To the State of Massachusetts where North Adams nestles mid the hills peaceful and fair, there put in the post office, safe under lock and key until calls and asks 'ls there any mail for me?’ ” All over the face of the letter was written the words "rata " and “chest nuts” inscribed by the different mailing-clerks through whose hands the letter had passed. Theke is a community of Finlanders in Klika tat county, W. TANARUS., and they are a most industrious folk. When there is anew addition to the community from Finland the settlers gather together, and in a few days build a house and fence a farm for him. There is no season in which they are idle. During the run of salmon they work at the canneries and fish wheels. When winter comes they are in the timber, cutting rails, posts and fuel. It is the custom among the poorer classes in Panama to hire coffins to transport their dead to the grave, after which the body is deposited in the earth and the coffin brought back with the mourners. The following is the form of a Panama undertaker's advertisement: "From this date hearses will lie hired from our estab lishment at the following rates: $2, $.!, sl3 and $lO. Coffin will be sold at lowest possible rates. Coffins hired out for ONE DOLLAR, including bench on which to carry deceased to the grave.” The Courier-Journal, of Louisville, de scribing a thunder storm at Hopkinsville, Ky„ says that while the storm was raging there were incessant volleys of thunder and flashes of lightning. A horse, without saddle or bridle, galloped down the street, A dazzling blaze and deafening clap occurred simultaneously. The flying steed seemed to stand in a halo of flames, and both shoes were wrenched off and buried through the air like blueing coals. Ttie horse galloped away and tfle,shoes were picked up un injured. .... . William Oakey induced Lois Fritz, of Erie, 111., to elope with hira'.f They tried to get a mar riage license at Mbrrisou, but failed because Lois was but 17 yeans old. Then they went to Fulton, and there a license was refused. They started for another town, but just about this time the angry father overtook the young couple. The would-be bride promptly threw her arms around his neck ami pleaded her cause so well that the old gentleman not only forgave her, but helped them to get a license and a preacher to tie the knot. \V. J. Florence, the comedian, in a letter to a Louisville subject, wrote this suggestion: One gallon of whisky costs about $3 and contains about sixty-five toe. drinks. Now, if you must drink, buy a gallon and make your wife the bar keeper. When you are dry give her 15c. for a drink, and, when the whisky is gone, she will have, after paying for it, 75 left, and every fillon thereafter will yield the same profit, his money she should put away, so that, when you have become an inebriate, unable to sup port yourself and shunned by every respectable man. your wife may have money enough to keep you until your time comes to fill a drunkard's grave. Alfred Motte, an inhabitant of Roubaix, France, who died recently, made a peculiar pro vision in his will. He bequeathed the sum of 425.000 francs to the municipality, though the benefits are not to be realized yet. The name of the benefactor is to be immortalized a century hence, as a clause in the will directs that the' legacy is to be invested in rentes and accumu late till 1087, at compodnd interest. Whether or not Roubaix will continue to be the flourishing manufacturing city it is fast becoming, M. Motte's foresight will have produced 20,000.090 francs, which sum is to be spent in constructing suitable dwellings for the artisan and working, classes. ‘ Says a St. Louis bookseller: “There is a mania abroad for ‘Western Americana.’ and I have a line of customers who purchase only such works. I feel safe when I have a ‘Rey nolds' Illinois,’ ‘Hunt’s MorniSn War,' ‘Lewis and Clarke's Travels,’ or a last volume of the ‘Western Journal and Civilian,’ an old publica tion, now very rarq. Two that are eagerly sought for are a ‘Mormon Bible’ and ‘The Ex empts of .St, Louis,’ or the parties who claimed foreign protection during the war, many of whom, by the way, have since become citizens, voters and officeholders. Most of the other books sent to a second-hand dealer are rubbish that, only an accident will sell ” “Beer,” said Bismarck not long ago in the Reichstag, “is, comparatively speaking, the beverage of a well-to-do class; but spirit is the drink of the famous ‘poor man,' and spirit is thus a drink which the laborer cannot always dispense with. Boer makes one lazy instead of exciting tne nerves. It has. moreover, a draw back from the economic stuudiiomt -it is a time killer. With us Germans perhaps nothing kills time so much as beer drinking. Spirit has hi no way this effect, and if you lot the workingman choose between -.vine, beer and spirit he v. ill re ject wine. I have never found that the laborer when he found his work hard refreshed himself witli Bavarian beer. The poor man needs spirit —certainly to a moderate extent, but still a small quantity daiiy for uournishment.” An early friend of the Hon. Allen O. Thur man recalls that the Ohio statesman's father Pleasant Thurman, was a carpenter of shiftless habits, but of a religious turn of mind. Now and then he preached, and in aid-fashioned Methodist “revivals’’ he was a great shouter Allen was a slender tow-headed boy. pale and delicate, and quiet in habits. He was not noted for brilliancy, but was careful and industrious - Before lie wins admitted to the bar he was a sad dler, and while working at that trade he met a Miss McArthur, daughter of a man of wealth and social rank. He asked the privilege of es corting her home from the gathering where they first met, but she rather haughtily refused hini not wishing to associate with “a mere mechan ic-” But she afterward changed her mind and became Mrs. Thurnittu. A dispatch from Vassar, Mich., says; “Last fall Mrs. Albert Brooks, of Juniata, Tuscola county, went to Denver to take possession of SHU,OOO in cash and real estate left her, she said, by an uncle. She reached Denver safely, re ceived the money and made arrangements for the management of the projierty. Since that time nothiug has been heard of the woman, and several weeks ago Mr. Brooks wont West to un ravel the mysteryif possible. He reports t hat no clew was found to the missing woman, and t hat he placed the matter in the hands of detec t'ves A sister of Mrs. Brooks, who ulso re ceived 980,000 from the uncle, has put $10,(100 in the hands of Denver officers to be used in find ing her. Hi nee Mr. Brooks’ return home he has received a letter from his wife, mailed at Bos ton, hut Indorsed try the post office authorities ns having been forwarded from California for I w IK'1 K ' J!‘“ r ,t4 T is , 11 . r'ca f °r help. It says that she (Mrs. Brooksi is held call ive by a gang of men. who have already secured SBO,OOO of her money and an- determined to have it nil The woman's captors tortured her in every imagin able way. She i.oes not say where she is held a prisoner. Last week a Denver detective at work tipon the case wire 1 Mr. Brooks that he haddis ltie v. b “ l i tll "K in which Mrs. Brooks is Imprisoned, hut hud not been able to communi cate with her. To add to the mystery T. North a vaasar bauker recently received a package of letters written by 1 uscola county people to Mrs brooks, but no reason is given for sending them BAKING POWDER. pf rife f j SPECIAL I (aS I fiMte NkiN@ I @ ! jj| NA flavors IT j mST PERFECT MADE Used by the United States Government Endorsed by the heads of the Great Universities and Public Food Analysts as Tbe Strongest. Purest,aud most Healthful. Dr. Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia. Lime or Alum. Dr. Price’s Extracts. Vanilla’ Lemon OraDge, Rose, etc., flavor delicioualv PRICE BAKING POWDER COMPANY." DRY" GOODS. liili Mourning Goods! Crohan & Dooner, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKenna & Cos., 137 Broughton Street. We have just received another invoice of Priestley’s Celebrated Mourning Goods iu ALBATROSS CLOTHS. NUN'S VEILINGS, CLARIETTE CLOTHS, CONVENT SUITINGS, BATIST CLOTH, RAVIANNA CLOTH, FEAR WEIGHT SUITINGS. NUN’S VEILINGS in Silk and Wool and All Wool, suitable for Veils, from $1 to $3 per yard. BLACK CASHMERES, in Blue and Jet Blanks, from 50c. to $1 50 per yard. COURTAULD'S ENGLISH CRAPES AND CRAPE VEILS. Misses’ Black Hose. In Misses' BLACK COTTON HOSE we are offering excellent values at 25c., 35c., 40c. and 50c. a pair; all sizes. A full line of MISSES’ BLACK BRILLIANT LISLE HOSE from 25c. to $1 a pair. LADIES’ BLACK COTTON AND BRILLIANT LISLE THREAD HOSE, all sizes, from 25c. to $1 a pair. Ladies’ Black Silk Hose, In Plaited and Spun Silk, from $1 to $2 75 a pair LADIES' BLACK LISLE GLOVES, LADIES’ BLACK SILK JERSEY GLOVES. 6 and 8 But tons. Ladies’ Mourning Handkerchiefs In Plain, Fancy and Embroidered Borders from 10c. to 75c. each. All new- patterns. Mourning Parasols. We are now showing a full line of 24-inch MOURNING PARASOLS, In Twilled and Puri tan Silks, Ebony Handles, in the latest styles, from $2 25 to $4 80 each. Also, a' choice assortment of SILK LINED MOURNING PARASOLS, In Plain Crape and Tape Fringe Trimmings. These have to be seen to be appreciated. ■Mill ZONWEISS CUE AM. MRS. GENERAL LOGAN’S DENTIST. TWO DISTINGUISHED CHEMISTS. Prominent Ladies and Four Dentists of Balti more Agree upon one Thing. A discussion recently arose among some prominent ladies of Washington and Balti more, relative to the chemical neutrality 5 A and solubility of Zonweiss —, 51 / Cream for the teeth,which was referred to Dr. E. S. Carroll * of Washington (Mrs. General I \ Logan’s Dentist), and four of ( the leading Dentists of Balti more, for whom the article JD was analyzed by two well yj known Chemists, Prof. J. 41 SS Morrison of Washington, and Prof. P. B. Wilson of Balti more, both of whom pro nounced it soluble and free from anything injurious to the teeth. Dr. Carroll says it is the most perfect dentifrice he has ever f 1 JfL | seen. Zonweiss is a white A Cream, put up in a neat /j \ 0 jar, and applied to the / N a) brush with a celluloid 5J ivory spoon. It is very, ~f very far superior to any other dentifrice the World has ever known. Price, 35 cts. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. JOHNSON & JOHNSON. Operaliva Chemlils, “74 Cedar St.. Feut York. For sale by LIPPMAN BROS., Lippman’l Block, Savannah. MEDICAL. __ For Imperfect Digestion, Disordered Stomach, Let Travelers round this world of care, Without delay themselves prepare, Against the ills that may arise From ill-ro <ked meals and lengthy rides. A sure defense is at their call, „ For 'mill W I ’H HKLT/iKB conquers alt__ CURE tSDEAF IJECK’S PATENT IMPROVED CUSHION® 1 EAR DRUMS perfectly restore the hearing and perform the work of tne natural drum, i" visible, comfortable and always in position. A conversation and even whispers heard dtstinn ly. Send for illustrated book with testlinonlj* FREE. Address or call on F. HIS COL ” Broadway, New York. Mention this paper. . AT)ITT VI snd v RISKY HABITS ‘‘lll >| at home without pain. a** 4 ? V ~ !■ Particulars sent FREE B- •\ \vT)O!,/.EY, M D„ Atlanta, Go. Office Whitehall street.