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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— The Chatham Mutual Loan Asso-
j >n; Order of Iron Hall; Oglethorpe Savings
and Trust Cos.; St. Andrew's Society.
Special Noticed- Ocean Steamship Cos.; To
Commercial Travelers.
I Public Ki/tick—Prof. W. J. Burton, Artist,
Jlecorator, Etc.
S Cheap Count* Advertisement* Help
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kittle; Lost: Miscellaneous
1 Am-nox Sales Sundries, by I. I>. Laßoche's
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' A 815-a- week-clerk in Wall street pocketed
♦>.loo profits on the decline in coffee the
(fcther day. He now thinks that he will soon
|be a millionaire.
} It is probable that the President will not
seriously consider the advisability of calling
kn extra session of Congress until after the
knd of the present fiscal year.
} Tb* experiment with crude petroleum as
fuel for locomotives lias proven a complete
pu'-ress. Is the day of wood and coal as
fuel for locomotives about over?
,
I It should not be forgotten that it is much
■safer for a man to have a cabbage leaf in
his hat these sweltering days than a brick,
and yet how many seem to prefer the brick.
It is probable that Texans after they have
prohibited the sale of whisky in their State
will turn their attention to train robbers.
{Would it not be well for them to attend to
the train robbers first.'
J Cardinal Gibbons dedicated the new
chapel of St. Paul at Washington on Sun
day. The Cardinal is a very modest man.
He went to Washington unattended, even
carrying his own satchel.
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1 Explorer Stanley ought to be certain that
the world will not adopt Henry' George’s
land theory before he starts his real estate
boom on the Congo. It would be too bad if
he should have all hit trouble for nothing.
I It Ls alleged that it is a lack of business
and not neuralgia that keeps Jay Gould
away from his office in New York. Wall
street seems to think that Gould is a'sick
man, and it is, therefore, keeping an eye on
him.
The latest current pilot chart of the North
Atlantic shows mflpv dangerous wrecks in
the Gulf Stream drifting from the Baha
mas towards Hat terms. Captains of steam
ers, therefore, cannot watch too closely for
these dangers of the deep.
I The impression continues to prevail that
Lamar will get the vacant place
on the United States Supreme bench. Ex-
Congrcssinan Hammond's friends, however,
are pushing him for the place with all the
skill and eloquence that they possess.
It is said that the health department of
New York city has become alarmed at the
■stent of the arsenic eating practice among
the young women of that city. It seems the
Women would rather have a handsome com
plexion and die young than to have a bad
complexion and live to a ripe old age.
Henry C. Bowen is preparing to make the
Fourth of July celebration this year at his
place in Connecticut, the biggest thing of
the kind that he has ever iswsevl. Wood-
Mock, the name of his place, has become
quite famous for the Fourth of July cele
brations which have taken place there.
Some of the Republican papers are be
ginning to sneer at Robert Todd Lincoln
because he was modest enough to say that
he was not a candidate for any office In the
gift of the Republican party. The average
Republican cannot understand how it is
possible for any one not to desire an office.
The coercion bill which will lie reported
to the House of Commons next Monday ap
pears to be a rather crude measure. It Is
iouVitful if the government finds it to be
til that it expects to. It wouldn't bo sur
prising If it gave the government more
Double after it Ls passed than the govern
ment has experienced in passing it.
The Indejiendeut Presbyterian church
•rill present a very handsome api>earanee
When the trustees have completed the re
pairs and improvements they have plunned.
if it had not been for the opposition of the
congregation to any marked changes in the
building, it Is probable that the lieauty of
the <4surch would have lieen increased by
handsome colored glass windows.
: Mayor Hewitt aud Secretary Buyard
propose to prevent any more assisted immi
grants from being landed at New York.
The Mayor lias written a letter about the
hiatter to the Commissioners of Emigra
tion. and the Hecretary has spoken his
blind to the British Minister at Washing
ton on the subject. England and other
European countries must keep th’elr pau
pers at home. The people of this country
have os much as they can do to take core
of their own pauper*.
The Beginning of the Jubilee.
Queen Victoria's jubilee celebration,
which has been in progress for several days,
really begins to-day. the date having been
fixed by an act of Parliament. The Queen
is entitled to the congratulations which she
will receive from all parts pf her vast em
pire. In the fifty years of her reign Eng
land has made wonderful progress, and,
with the exception of the Crimean war. has
enjoyed peace with Europe. The nation
during the period has had conflicts, of
course, but no one of them rose to the dig
nity of a great and exhausting war. There
have been colonial disturbance, troubles
with Ireland, armed resistance in the
dependencies, and wars wjih China
and with half civilized peoples in
Asia and Africa While some of these were
costly, both in men and money, in nearly if
not all of them advantages were gained in
the way of an increase of territory.
Throughout the whole of Victoria's reign
England’s power' has steadily increased.
Her arms and her diplomacy, judged by re
sults, have been as successful as at any other
similar period of her history.
While the empire has grown, the power
of the people of England has steadily in
crease*!. When Victoria ascended the
throne in T%57 they had comparatively little
influence in ptfblic affairs. To-day, how
ever, nothing important can be done with
out their consent. Suffrage has been
gradually extended until it is a question
whether any more power can be granted
them without stripping royalty of all
power. They have not gained what
they have without conflicts, but
the conflicts were peaceable ones. In each
succeeding Parliament of the twelve that
have existed in the fifty years an increase of
their power has been noticeable, and doubt
less during this jubilee season the question
whether their power will continue to in
crease until royalty disappears will present
itself to many minds.
Victoria was 68 years old on May 34.
and it is worthy of notice that only
three of her predecessors ruled longer than
she has, arid that two of these ascended the
throne at an earlier age than she did.
Henry 111. reigned fifty-six years and began
his reign in his tenth year, and Edward 111.,
who occupied the throne fifty and a half
years, was crowned in his fifteenth year.
Both of these Kings were younger than Vic
toria is at the time of their death. Henry
having died at 60 and Edward at 65. Vic
toria's grandfather, George 111., who was
crowned at 22, reigned fifty-nine years.
The Laurens Trouble.
It Ls probable that the excitement in Lau
rens county, 8. C., caused by the alleged
hostile attitude of the negroes in that lo
cality. has a solid foundation, but it is
doubtful if the situation is as alarming as
the reports indicate it to be. Doubtless
some white or colored demagogues have
been talking to the negroes, telling them
that they are not paid as much for their
work as they ought to be, and that if they
organine and make a determined stand for
higher wages their demands will be com
piled with.
The danger is that if the negroes organize
secret societies they will be led into com
mitting acts of lawlessness. Incendiary
speeches will be made to them. and. as they
are easily influenced and exceedingly credu
lous, they' may cause a great deal of trouble.
The Governor of South Carolina is a cool
headed man, however, and may be depended
upon to take such steps as will allay
excitement without increasing the
danger of an outbreak. No doubt
some of the leaders of the negroes have in
dulged in threats that are calculated to make
the white people uneasy, and they may have
done this w-ithout having any settled pur
pose of putting their threats into execution.
It seems that the white people of Laurens
have taken measures for self protection, and
doubtless they acted wisely in doing so. It
is better to be prejmxed even if nothing oc
curs to disturb the peace.
It would be unfortunate for the farmers
to have anything to happen at this time
that would tend to disorganize labor. The
cotton-picking season Ls rapidly approach
ing, when every laborer will lie needed in
the fields. It is to be regretted that those
who pretend to be the friends of the negroes
have so little regard for their interests as to
involve them in troubles which can result
in no benefit to them, and it is also to be re
gretted that the negroes themselves ore so
easily influenced into adopting advice which
4 hostile to their welfare.
The Comptroller of the Treasury, Dur
ham, makes a good many enemies by his de
cisions, but thus far it is quite evident that
he is only doing his duty. A good many
men would like to put their hands into the
Treasury, and if the Comptroller would let
them do it they would pat him on the hack
and call him a good fellow. When he ob
jects, however, and demands that all ac
counts shall be honestly rendered, he Ls
called a fool and an idiot. A siiecial to the
Baltimore Sun says that Mr. B. W. Bell,
one of the United States commissioners in
Alatamn, whose accounts were razed by
the Comptroller, has just addressed him an
open letter, which, in vituperation and de
nunciation, has scarcely ever been excelled
in communications from one government
official to another. Mr. Bell charges that he
has been robbod and insulted by Judge Dur
ham; that his methods are unlawful, arbi
trary, cowardly and contemptible. He
calls the first Comptroller un imbecile or a
fool, whom it is folly to discuss questions of
law with, and says that be has not sense
enough to lie a knave.
In answer to this attack tho Comptroller
says: "The United States Commissioners
have been in the habit of trying all sorts of
cases without using any discretion whatever,
and in consequence foes were piled up to a
great amount. I determined to break up
the practice. There were jieoplo who mude
a livelihood as professional witnesses in
revenue cases brought liefore the commis
sioners. The cases were trival, and a ma
jority of them were dismissed. The com
missioner’s income depends upon the num
ber of cases lie tries, and, in consequence,
commissioners rather encourage the
work of the men who file
complaints for no other purpose
than to lie retained as witnesses and receive
their pay for such work from the govern
ment. Mr. Bell, I think, was one of the
worst of these. 1 started in on him when he
presented a claim of $1,584 50. After due
deliberation, I concluded lie was entitled to
no more than $530 70 of this amount.”
Just now all the papers are saying that
the Panama canal is a doomed enterprise.
It is certainly doomed unless M. dei*estseps
gets u good deal more money than he has
any prosjiect of getting at present. M. de
* Lesseps has done wonders in his time, but
if he gets enough money to finish the euual
he will accomplish something that will l>e
I regarded a* almost equal to a miracle.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JUNE 21, ISB7.
A Ee mar Stable Casa
Some daring train p >bberies have taken
place in the West, and it is not improbable j
that there will be others quite as daring.
It Ls difficult to understand how two men
can successfully rob a train, as is sometimes
done, but the victims are generally unani
mous in declaring that it is easy enough-
The suddenness of the attack, and the un
certainty as to the number of men making
it. no doubt cause trainmen and possengeis
alike to be seized with a panic. But
whether this is the reason or not. it is not
often that an attempt to nob a train fails.
Near Cincinnati, a day or two ago. a re
markable case occurred. This was an at
tempt to rob a train filled with church peo
ple who were going on an excursion. The
train consisted of engine, baggage car and
seven coaches. To reach the objective point
of the excursion it was necessary to pass
through a long tunned. The train reached
the tunnel between 0 and 10 o'clock in the
morning. Just as the engine and baggage
ear emerged on the other side the tram was
suddenly stopped by the air brakes. At the
same instant two young men. who had con
cealed themselves In one of the coaches,
rushed among the excited excursionists. Li
the middle of the aisle, just as the two young
men were preparing to begin operations,
one of them was recognized. He lost
courage and ran to the platform and jumped
off, followed by his companion.
In this case the robbers evidently lacked
experience. If they had been old hands at
the business of robbing trains they would
not have tried to steal from a party of
church excursionists; for such excursionists
do not, as a rule, carry much money or
many valuables with them. It may be
said, however, in favor of the robbers that
they had wisdom enough not to make an at
tack upon the baggage car. They doubtless
knew that they would have found in it
nothing but very weak red lemonade.
It seems that after the excursionists
reached their destination the robbers again
showed themselves. They were not captured,
however, but they were chased down a hill
by a party organized for the purpose. At
the bottom of the hill pursued and pursuers
stopped and engaged in a war of words. The
pursuers said; ‘‘We'll tell the police.” The
pnrsued replied: “We don't care if you do.”
During the day the robbers got close enough
to the excursionists to steal a lunch-basket
containing 15c.
It has been said that this was a remark
able case, and so it was. It was remarkable
that an attempt should be made to rob a
party of church excursionists, remarkable
that the robbers lost yourage and ftotjpind
still more remarkable that they were not
captured when they sliowed themselves upon
the picnic grounds. In Cincinnati, how
ever, the case caused no surprise, for the
people of that city, like those of other West
ern cities, expect a rough to be guilty of any
crime, .and they are more afraid of him
1 than they are of the most brutal Anarchist.
If Miss Irene Hoyt, who made such a
scene at Englewood, N. J., the other day is
not insane, She Ls so near insanity that it
might not be unwise to put her in an insane
asylum. She has the income of *1,260,000,
and yet she seems to think she cannot live
upon that. Her effort to get the whole of
her father's estate of $10,000,000 was a
failure, notwithstanding the fact that
Roscoe Conkling and Ben Butler were her
lawyers.
Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, says
that there is no truth in the story that he
has been consulted about going into the
Cabinet if Secretary Lamar is made a
Justice of the Supreme Court. There is no
doubt that Mr. Ransom is very sincere
in what he says. It is quite probable
that if a vacancy were to occur in the
Cabinet Senator Colquitt, of this State,
would be asked to fill it.
Doubtless the youth who shot his step
father on Sunday in this city already sin
cerely regrets his bloody deed, and if he
could would gladly recall it. The only way
to check crimes of violence is to enforce the
laws vigorously. There will be fewer mur
ders and murderous assaults when the im
pression gets firmly fixed in the public mind
that the punishment of crime is certain and
swift.
The people who suffer the least from hot
weather are those who do not fret and worry
over all the little matters which make up
the sum of every day life. They do not fill
themselves up with ixer and all sorts of cold
drinks. They just go about their every-day
duties in the usual way and accept the hot
weather as something that must lie endured.
The Blaine organs are trying to make it
appear that in England Blaine is regarded
as the greatest living American. Not much
is known there about the Mulligan letters
and Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad
lionds. The honors Blaine may receive
abroad will have no influence on tho esti
mation in which he is held in this country.
There is no occupation in Europe which
pays so well as that of catering to the wonts
of Americans. More Americans are going
to Europe this summer than in any previous
summer. It Ls estimated that 60,000 will
visit Euroi>e this year. No wonder England,
Germany and France find it so profitable to
run steamships to this country.
It Ls said that the governors of the New
York Hbx-k Exchange are by no means har
monious. Some of them want to increase
the number of members, while others think
the number is large enough already, It is
proliahle that there are more wolves than
lambs in Wall street, and that that is the
cause of the lack of iiarmony.
The Republican organs are circulating a
story to the effect that Secretary Endi
cott will have to get out of the Cabinet on
account of his connection with the tattle
flags incidental The organs don’t know
what they are talking about. It is proba
ble that Mr. Endicott will remain where
lie is for the present.
Money is mighty scarce at the West. At
Kansas City g(x*l paper is discounted at 15
to 18 per cent., and at Minneapolis com
mercial pa|>er rules at 10 per cent. It will
lie still scarcer in the very near future if
Congress does not take immediate steps to
stop tho increase in the surplus of tho
Treasury.
President Cleveland’s figure is a liard one
for a tailor to fit. After Mr. Cleveland be
came Governor ho began to take a greater
interest than lie had before in his attire. He
found a tailor in Albany who was able to
satisfy his taste, and since then he has had
this man make ull his clothes.
The Boston Herald says that at Faneuil
Hall feast on Thursday every Confederate
whipped two Yankees with the tongue and
knife and fork. Yes. the Confederates arc
as much nt home at table as they were on
tile battlefield.
current Comment.
"Bloody Bhlrt” Fairchild.
From thr Sew York Herald < Tod. Item I
Gen. Fai-vhill made a very (nod record in the
war. and he is an ortuor <•( no mean ability.
He will, however, be known hereafter as the
gentleman who carries about with him three
kinds of palsy and a bloody shirt.
Infant Industries.
From thr Missouri Repaidten n (Dem.'t
If there are infant indudnes in this State that
cannot struggle along through the teething
period without a protective tariff as an adjunct
of railway management, the quicker they suc
cumb the better for the State and the country.
The Flags and Political Flag Polos.
From the PkiUulelpu'. Sort t ßep.)
Gen. Averill wants the flags returned: the
most prominent soldiers aud ax-Secretary of
War Lincoln himself think they might lovot
away into dust where they are. But the men
who fought and fight wit/, their mouths want
to hoist them on political flag poles.
The Andover War.
From the Boston Pott i ltem.)
The conflict on Andover Hill promises to be
century long. There has always been an
Andover and another Amlover. It began in
compromise and olds fair to end in schism.
The purpose of the men and wflmen who gave
their money to found iT.iihpe Academy was
simple em sigh—merely to e*Sucate young men
of promise and of piety for the Christian min
fcflry. But the minute the theologians prnt their
hands upon it "the earth o*gaa to shake with
the straggles of the giar.ts."
BRIGHT BITS.
The cultivated smile is one of the latest fea
tures of Eastern society. It is imported from
Kent ucky, and has a decidedly Bourbon flavor.
—Exchange.
Spring in Greenland does not open until June
1. They call it spring then because a barrel of
whisky left out of doors does not freeze more
than half way through. -Detroit Free Press.
Mas. Xocvzxr Rickf -Aw, yes, that's very
pretty. but I don't like the title “Common
Prayer." Haven't you—aw—any other kind? I
don't care how much I have to pay.— Harper's
Bazar
"Marie,” said a fashionably dressed woman
from the porch of the Grand Union Hotel at
Saratoga to her French bonne. “<>ui, madame,”
replied Marie. “You mustn't let Lulu run so.
The poor child will git all het up."— Harper's
Bazar.
“Mr. Walker.” said*the clerk, “the 12c.
prints at the remnant counter are going fast
and are about sold out."
“All right. I'll attend to it. Mr. Anawan, cut
a lot more of those 7c. prints into remnants and
send them over to the bargain counter.”—
Brooklyn Eagle.
Mary Hodges, of Elton. England, who reached
her Roth birthday recently, "drinks rum and is
an inveterate smoker of tobacco.” This para
graph should be suppressed before somebody
undertakes to draw a lesson from it. It Ls be
lieved that she wouldn't have been 50 yearn old
to-day if she had smoked cigarettes instead of
tobacco. —Norristown Herald.
Mr. Brown, your dog has broken his chain
and has bitten your neighbor's little boy.”
"What! that .Smith brat?”
"N'o. the Jones hoy. "
“Oh. you don't know how you frightened me.
That Smith boy is as full of scrofula as an egg
is full of meat. I would not have anything hap
pen to that dog for money.” —Boston Tran
script.
Tommy—Does your mother allow you to Mss
the nurse girl*”
Johnny—O, I guess she don't care. Does
yourst
Tommy—l don't think she does. I never asked
her, but you'd a died to hear her lay down the
law to pa when she saw him do it one day, an’
she lets him do lots o' things she wouldn't let
me,” —Pittsburg Dispatch.
"Who is that gentleman—the one who is so
expensively dressed!”
"Oh, that is Mr. Graphite, the great artist.”
"Artist? I always supposed that artiste were
shabby in their dress." "Hat h*! Very good:
But he's not one of that kind, you know. He
has all he can do drfwung pictures for soap ad
vertisements. Irameisfly rich’ and lives like a
nabob."— Boston Transcript.
“She's a peerless mare,” said the man from the
East;
“She came from bevo#l the brine;
But I'll trade you mine Arabian for
Your share in the Arabian mine.”
“ 'Tis a bargain." said the Nevada man,
And he deeded then and there,
His mining share to the tenderfoot
In trade for the shining mare.
—Chicago Tribune,
Schoolteacher—Your boy was not in school
a week this term.
Omaha man—l gave up sending him
won’t study.
"Have you sat him to work?”
“No; he’s too lazy to work.”
“But, my dear sir. what will he do for a living
when he grows up?”
“O, don't worry about that. He can be a
politician or a walking delegate.”— Omaha
World.
Philadelphia Man (at a social seance) —The
curse of poetry is poverty ; it is at once the in
spiration and the ban. Think how many noble
thoughts have heeu crushed with tne pangs of
hunger: It iif true some are, successful, and
after long years of bitterness they rise above
th—er —earth and soar up to the—that is—er—
you catch my meaning?
Boston Girl—perfectly. You mean they get
there with both feet. I have known several
such cases.— Philadelphia Call.
Missing a Point.—
“You men are so lucky,” a fair maiden said,
Discussing the question of dress ;
“You’re neer burdened with petticoats, corsets
Oi' shawls,
Which to us are a source of distress."
“Yes, I know,” said tho youth, who waiting
had been
An argument ready to seize;
“What you've said is all true, yet there’s one
point you miss—
Your pants never bag at the knees,”
—Champion City Times,
PERSONAL.
Tambermk, the'ex-tenor, is now a gunmaker
in Madrid.
Lillie Lehmann is to be Mapleson's prima
donua in London.
Coi LDocK anil Joe Jefferson are catching fish
in New Engluud waters.
Mrs. C’oßNEurs Vanderbilt takes a Central
Park drive every clear day.
Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, sailed on
Saturday for an extended European tour.
Chari.es Keades favorite evening delicacies
in the summer of 1877 were shrimps and novels.
A statue of Mlrabeau, by Granet, is to be
dedicated on June 23 at Biguon Mirabeau, Loi
ret, Frauce..
Prof. Spencer F. Baird is gradually recover
ing. He will go to Wood's Hall, Mass., early
next month.
Miss I’arloa has given up her New York cook
ing school and will spend the next year lectur
ing, probably in the South.
John D. Lacbermax, of Philadelphia, has
given $1,000,000 fora German hospital to lie un
der the charge of Lutheran deaconesses.
The Marquis*! cle Mores, who used to be Miss
Iluttou, aud is now the wife of the Marquis of
cowboy fame, is a talented artist iu black and
white.
Mrs. Cleveland has written several pretty
little notes of congratulation to Washington
girls whose engagements have recently been
announced.
Anothf.r of the “six hundred" is gone. Ser
geant George Wilde, who died a fort night ago
at Norwich, Eng., had three horses killed under
him in the famous charge at Baiaklava.
Miss Charles Egbert Craddock, says Life,
was recently compelled to decline the request of
a little girl for her autograph, because there
were but two bottles of ink in the house.
Carl Sciicrz, who about three mouths ago
broke his hip, is slowly recovering. For tue
last few days he has Ixn-ti Uc to take short
walks in Central Park with tho aid of his
clutches. .
The aged King of Holland still perseveres in
tils hoiiliy "f collecting harness, r-ins, bridlM,
saddles, whips and spurs that have a famous
history. es|>eclally those used in the fields of war
in the dark ages.
Don Carlos, of Spain, says that his visit to
this hemisphere lias nothing to do w ith politics,
lie is how in South America. The object of his
visit is to obtain a better acquaintance with
Spanish America and to carry back to bis coun
trymen the truth about many matters which
are not understood in Spain.
Mme. Josephine Ocampo de Mata recently
died in the City of Mexico. Hhespenl two years
in Washinglon in 185 it and iB6O, as the wife of
Gen. Jose Maria de Mata, Mexican Minister to
the United States. Mine, de Mnta ntarle many
friends in Washington by her brilliant intellec
tual qualities, President Buchanan showed her
marked attention. x itt vv vr
It is saiu in. London that Marshall P. Wilder
was approached recently and sounded as to
whether he would accept the portion of Queen's
Jester during the jubilee Tear. The stalwart
lilt la American decline the honor on the ground
that he could not sacrifice bis patriotic feelings
sufficiently to enable him to accept an office
under the British government.
At Queen Victoria's recent State ball Prince
Henry of Battenburg. at first appear"! wearing
black glove*. These were seen to le&ve marks
no the white dress of the Princess Victoria.
Then the Prince of Wales approached him and
whisperer! in German. •• English etiquette pre
scribes white gloves.'’ Prince Henry soon
slipped out of the room, and when he returned
his hands were Clothed in white.
Mr. B. Bets no More.
From the Pittsburg Chronicle.
Two of our prominent citizens were standing
at a hotel door on Sunday morning, not long
ago. when one. whom will we call Mr. A., said:
"I believe more colored people than white pass
by here.”
“Oh, no, certainly not." replied Mr. B.
“Well, lam willing to make a bet on it. Keep
a record for half an hour and see. If the white
people are in excess I’ll give you a dollar apiece
for as many or, there are in the majority. If the
colored people are in excess you pay me a dol
lar in the same way.
•'All right," said Jlr. 8.. and the count com
menced.
The half hour had nearly elapsed, with a
record of three or four Caucasians ahead, when
a band was heard coming up the street.
"What's that;" said the counters, as they
gazed at the advancing throng.
It was the funeral of a colored man who had
been a member of several secret societies, and
all his brethren had turned out to assist at the
obsequies.
Mr. B. makes no more such bets now. - ’
Giving: a Signal Unintentionally.
From the Oil City Derrick.
I beard a little story of Col. Markbrett. ex-
Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Cin
cinnati, that is worthy of the types. The
Colonel is one of the principal proprietors of the
Volksblatt. a German newspaper of influence
and respectability. Under the Volksblatt office
is a beer saloon, which the reporters and clerks
about the establishment seem to have been in
the habit of patronizing occasionally. A knock
on the counting room floor was a signal for the
man of beverage to send up a glass of beer;
two knocks indicated two beers, and so on. Col.
Markbreit came into the office late one night.
It had been raining and the Colonel had no um
brella. He stamped about on the floor to knock
the rain off his boots and clothing, and in less
than no time a leer-jerker made his appearance
from below with twenty-seven schooners of beer
on a tray.
•‘Where are you going with that stuff?" de
manded the Colonel.
"Here,” said Gambrinus: “it vos ordered."
“Who ia thunder ordered it?”
“Veil, I suppose it was yoursellef."
“Veil, I suohose it vasn't myseLleff," retorted
the Colonel in indignant imitation.
“Veil, anahow, Mr. Markbreit. I saw you in
the office komin’ and heard you on the floor
stamp twennty-seven dimes.”
The Colonel compromised by drinking three
cf the schooners and paying for all of them,
but at the same time warning the beermonger
never to do it again.
Doan Laugh.
From the Arkansaw Traveler.
Oh, de she b'ars come wen ole 'Ligy blow’d his
ho'n,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd,)
An' da grahbed up de chillun like er haug eatin’
co'n,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o' de Lawd. )
Go up. old baldy, "lowed the freckle face chile,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o' de Lawd, >
An’ den er ba'r grabbed him wider mighty
bread smile,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd,)
De po' chile hollered an’ tried to get loose,
i Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd,)
But de b'ar drug him off like er varmint vid a
goose.
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o' de Lawd.)
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd,
young man,
Doan yer laugh at de prophet in de lane.
Fui*de b’ars mout come from de woods, young
man, „ .
An’ eat yer up ’gardless o’ de pain, pain, pain,
And eat yer up 'gurdiess o' de pain.
Den praise old Ligy and praise Mars Saul,
An’ we ll dance wid David roun’ de ark in de
hall.
Oh, yer better be keerful w'en yer titters at er
man.
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd,)
Fur yer Inout strike de prophet o’ de Jorden
river ban", ,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd.)
An' it mout be de case dater pusson wiaout
h'ar
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd.)
Hab got er awful 'fluence wid de hallelujah b ar,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd))
An' den yer eyes is open w'en its dun too late
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd,)
Dat yer hab crooked yer finger at de wrong
sorter pate,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd.)
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd,
young man.
Doan yer laugh at de prophet in de lane.
For de b’ars mout cum frum de woods, young
man.
An' eat yer up ’gardless o’ de pain, pain, pain,
An’ eat yer up gardless o' de pain.
Den praise old Ligy and praise Mars Saul,
And we ll dance wid David roun’ de ark in de
hall.
Mrs. Elliort’s Burglar.
From the Detroit Free Press.
Mr. Elliort had eaten his supper, and as it was
yet early in the evening, he thought he would
go out and get a cigar.
"I won't be away no more than an hour,” he
said to his wife. “I'll run into the barber's and
have my hair cut a trifle, and be back before
you can say Jack Robinson.”
Mrs. Elliort did not w ant to say Jack Robin
son; she preferred Jack Elliort.
"Don't go off somewhere with those horrid
boys,” she said with a pout. “I shall expect
you home at 8 precisely; no respectable and
Well-behaved married man—”
But Mr. Elliort hail snatched a kiss and the
sentence never was finished.
The hour soon passed.
The girl had finished her work and gone out.
Mrs. Elliort was alone, but she did not mind it,
as she now expected her husband every moment.
The clock struck 8.
Mrs. Elliort was startled by a ring at the
front door.
Then she remembered that Mr. Elliort had
said he would ring, as his latch-key was in his
other coat.
So she hurried to the door expecting to see
her handsome husband—Mr. Elliort was a sort
of Adonis with brown curling hair, hazel eyes,
white teeth and a 10-v-e-ly moustache, parted in
the middle and curled at both ends, w hile a gen
erous beard fell in luxuriant waves over his
shirt front.
Hoping to see this vision of manly beauty,
Mrs. Elliort opened the door, and after one
look—saw that she had admitted a stranger.
For the man—it was a man—stepped into the
hall, and only that she barred the way w ould
have gone into the parlor.
“Sir:" she demanded in tones that she tried
to make stern and steady, “wjiat means this
intrusion ?”
"I came to beg of you—”
“I have nothing to give you."
—"That diamond ring!"
Oh, heavens! It was her engagement soli
taire.
She looked at the wretch while all the
thoughts of a lifetime crowded into that brief
moment, with thin idea the most prominent:
“How shall I Identify hhn if he does not
murder nn^jk'
Then sh<Algan taking nqL-s while she tem
porized wfßrnim.
“I sh i JjA>t part with this ring while I have
life. Om 1 word—(the wretch has a dimpled
chin) Jp ild bring my husband, who bus a
sevenAkaoter ready cocked (shaved skull, looks
like ■Myrict) and you would at once be given
ove#v >ne authorities (the wrete'.i has recently
sIaJK-ytractf of a mustache). If you will go at
onjPT will make no outcry (what a h . fish ex
pression) and I do not want roy husi .md's
(muds imbrued in your blood (the wretch ac
tually grinned i nnd von will never. n*ver, never
possess yourself of my diamond ring. (Oh,
heavens: why doesn't Jack come!")
"Madam," said the wretch, “I can not loiter.
My pals are waiting fur me around the corner.
Give up the ring without more ado."
"Never, base wretch; take that, and that, nnd
that,” and she laid on blows fast and furious,
with an umbrella which she had secured by a
backward motion of the hand.
“Jenny," said a calm voice ns the umbrella
was coolly taken out of her hand by the turn of
an athletic wrist, “are you going to give me that
ring?”
"Jack-are you that wretch*’’ and Mrs.
Elliort dropped on the lowest stair, as limp as a
rag doll. "What on earth have you Ixs-n doing
to yourself?"
“Getting tny hair cut and my spring shave
on. Perhaps you don’t like It?"
“W-w-h-erea your mustache?”
“At the barber’s.”
"You look just like a murderer, nr—or- a
burglar!" cried Jenny, who discriminated in
the profession, "1 took you fore—"
"Lawyer, doctor, lieggarnian, thief, as we
useu to say when we were children. Well, they
said my liest friend wouldn't know me,” laughed
her husband.
“C-o-m-e In," said Mrs. Elliort reluctantly.
"I suppose I must give you house-room, but if
ever there was a bare faced swindler you are
one. Jack." /
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Mant el Noel, an aged French Canadian, re
siding at Laconia. N. H.. feasted on a pound of
raw beefsteak oa Wednesday and died within
half an hour.
A little cat 'outer of Trial Justice Kyser. of
Lexington, sv. allowed a silver quarter of a dol
lar. Dr. Hendrix made efforts to extract it, but
only succeeded in recovering 10c.
Asßmv Pare. N. J.. has anew beach super
intendent. her ex-post master, whose duty it
-will be to see that indecorous bathing costumes
shall not be worn during the season.
Mrs. Magdalena Boggs, of Milton. Ind., was
born in Lancaster, Pa., Dec. -IDS, and is
therefore nearly 104 years old. She is in pretty
good health, but her memory is weak.
A gray eagle was shot near Frankfort the
other day at the outlet of Crystal lake. When
shot the bird was skimming over the water for
fish, and its mouth and throat were crammed
full. The bird measured seven feet across from
the tips of the wings.
At Touks, France, next month all the moth
ers of the Little Sisters of the Poor will meet
the founder of the Order. Rev. August Le Pail
lour for consultation. Cardinal De Rennis will
preside, and the superiors of 38b societies are
expected to be present,
A lady by the name of Trimmer has sued the
Louisville, New Orleans and Texas railroad for
*IO.OOO on account of damages which she claims
to have sustained from buffalo gnats at Lula,
Miss., where she was detained over night
through the neglect of the road.
A cow at West Monroe, N. Y., refuses to own
her offspring because of its very uncalflike ap-
Eearance. It is only half the regulation size.
as wool, with occasional spots of long, silky
hair, its head and tail are those of a sheep and
it bleats like a lamb, while only its legs and feet
are bovine in look.
An insurance paper has been collecting the
statistics of suicide in the United States. Among
the most singular and perplexing things is the
fact that "the classification by condition shows
a greater proportion of suicidej among the
roamed than the unmarried, which is contrary
to the accepted theory.”
At a recent service ia Trinity church. Pitts
burg. a baby just big enough to stand alone
stood on a seat and crowed, and laughed and
chattered, and clapped her hands, and no one
objected, for no one was disturbed. The con
gregation were deaf mutes, and the service was
conducted in this sign language.
In the town of Harrison. Wis.. last week, an
old lady was arrested for pasturing her cow in
the road and fined $3 and costs. After she had
paid up she produced a basket of rotten eggs
and proceeded to pelt the man who complained
of her. The man tried to get away, but the old
woman followed him up and plastered him all
over with the rotten hen fruit.
The famous cow Electa, for which her owSer,
A. J. Cowan of Venango county. Penn.. once re
fused SIO,OOO. has been sold by- him to an Oil
City butcher for S3O, having been ruined by over
feeding. Alt hough this cow stood at the head
of milk producers in this country a few years
ago. her pedigree was never known. She came
to Cowan's farm as an estray, She was a fa
mous prize winner.
The Boston Budget tells this story of a Boston
school on exhibition clay: The teacher gave
out the word “hazardous” for a boy to spell,
and to her great surprise he promptly spelled it
“hazardtss.” Thinking that the definition
might jog his memory in regard to the ortho
graphical blunder of which he was guilty, she
asked him to give the meaning, whereupon her
astonishment was intensified with the reply: "A
female hazard.”
Col. Beach, of Kirklin valley, Ari., is the
owner of a three-eyed colt. Each eye is in pos
session of an upper and lqwer eyelid, delicately
fringed with eyelashes* but while the two in the
customary locality diminish gradually toward
the outer edges of the mead. the lids belonging
to the middle eye look, when closed, like the
segments of a circle. 1 In addition to three eyes
the colt sports a double set of nostrils, both of
which are perfectly defined.
A costly widow's cap is to be sent to Queen
Victoria as a jubilee gift from the Queen Regent
of Spain. It is made of priceless old Spanish
lace, with an embroidered veil at the back hang
ing almost to the ground, and a pearl diadem in
front, the jewels being embroidered on the lace
by Queen Christina herself, who is an accom
plished needle-woman. The cap is copied from
an old portrait which Queen Christina found in
the palace of Madrid, representing a widow of
the Spanish royal house In the gala costume of
three centuries ago.
A doy riding a horse in a race at Ogden, Utah,
passed the winning post, and after running a
short distance turned sharply and ran into a
wagon which was standing by the track with
the brake set. The foot-bar of the brake was
on a level with the boy’s ear. and upon this bar
the boy was caught. The upper portion of his
ear was penetrated and the iron ranged back
ward along the base of the skull. The horse
passed from under its rider, who was left dan
gling in the air. He is expected to die of con
cussion of the brain.
A conference was recently held in London to
consider the advisability of forming a national
prohibition party in Great Britain. The hundred
or so of delegates who were present were unani
inous in believing that the time had come for
organizing such a party, but its proceedings
were hardly noticed by the great metropolitan
journals. No people of any prominence at
tended the conference, with the possible excep
tion of Mr. Axel Gustafson, who is busy agitat
ing this question in England. A “religious
journal, the Christian Commonicealth , is vig
orously advocating prohibition for Great
Britain.
“The condition of Carlyle's house in Great
Ckeyne Row," writes the London correspondent
of the Leeds Mercury, “is a positive scandal.
It has not been occupied since the death of the
sage, probably because the owner has put on a
fancy rent in consideration of the fame of the
late tenai#. Bui whether occupied or not occu
pied. the house might, as regards its exterior at
feast, be k xpt in a state of decent repair. Pil
grims from all partsof the world continually visit
it, and they must be shocked to sec the broken
windows, the decaying woodwork, and the
kitchen area filled with old boots, huts and
other abominations.”
So many ladies now want to ride on the out
side seats of the Fifth avenue, Now York, stages
on pleasant evenings that it is impossible to ac
commodate them all. Many of the ladies who
are fortunate enough to secure the coveted
seats*ride up and down the avenue two or three
times, much to the disgust of others v. ho are
waiting along the line for a vacant seat. Ti\e
company have provided a ladder for the accom
modation of ladles at Fifty-ninth street and at
Ninth street, but many of the ladies scorn to
use theoi, preferring to mount just like raeo,
aided, of course, by their escorts. The smokers
who are In the habit of sitting on these outside
seats feel that their rights are being infringed
upon.
Seven letters, written by the Duke of Kent,
father of Queen Victoria, were sold at the Hotel
Drouot, Paris, the other day, for a sum of £4O.
In one of these, dated August 17, 1819, occurs
the following statement about the Duke s Infant
daughter, who was afterwards to be Queen of
England and Empress of India: "Her first name
is Alexandria: victoria, by which name she is
always called at home, is her last, being that of
her dear mother. The first she liears after her
(pxlfather, the Emperor of Russia. As to her
resemblance to both of her parents, I may tell
you that her mouth and her hair, which last
promises to be dark brown.are like her mother's.
Everybody says that her eyes and nose are
mine. Yesterday she accomplished her twelfth
week, and. what is remarkable, she is ns strong
as a child of five months, and already shows
symptoms of teething.”
The American register of Paris says that the
former residence of Charlemagne, the imperial
palace at*%,gelheim, will soon be but a pnrely
historical reminiscence. What is left of it inNie
dcr Ingelheim, near Bingen on the Rhine, oppo
site tlie proud Germania monument on the Nie
dervvalk. are the remains of the castle, which will
lie connected with the name of Charlemagne for
ulI time to come, and In which Frederick I Bar
barosso, resided, and where Henry IV was de
clanvl to have forfeited the German imperial
crown. During the Middle Ages the nobleold
castle was destroyed; frequent sieges and storm
mgs left their traces, and finally the myrmidons
o. Louvois put an end to Ingelhoim's splendor
an they did to Heidelberg Castle, leaving mere
ruins on the site of the ancient palace, which
were carried off peaccmeal. Its magnificent ma--
ble columns went to Paris, Mayenoe, Wiesbaden
aud Heidelberg. The last owner but one, Here
de Bary, of Hheimas, had the ruins levelled to
the ground, and began to rebuild It anew; his
death in 1813 stopped the work then and there
In April last the barren site was purchased bv
the burgomaster of Nieder Ingelheim and a con
tractor by the name of Struth, who did their ut
iiiost to preserve the venerable remains- but in
vain. The IVussian Ministry, to whom they ap
piled expressed regret at being unable to do
anything for them, os the proierty was in Hen
siantereltory: the Hessian Ministry likewise r£
fused to entortalu the lia of buving it. The
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