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Morning News Buiiding, Savannah, Ga.
WEDXMSDAY. JUNK **. 1887.
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INDEX' TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Rule Lodge Xo. 12, I. O.
OF.
Special Notices— lmportant Notice of Pa
tapsco Guano Company of Baltimore; Dividend
Brush Electric Light and Power Company;
Special Notice, John Wright.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Strayed; Lost;
Miscellaneous.
Steamship Schedule —Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
Railroad Scheduls- Central Railroad.
Auction Sales— Lemons, by I. D. Laßoche's
Sons; Furniture, Groceries and Millinery, by D.
R. Kennedy.
Base Ball— Grocery Clerks vs. Amateurs.
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Mr. Blaine is unfortunate. He ought not
to have gone abroad until after the captured
fogs episode.
The Knights of Labor say that the Anar
chists must go. The Knights of Labor have
never said a more sensible thing.
The man who is obliged to travel on the
railroads during these hot days, understands
•how a chicken feels in an incubator.
Cincinnati has a secret society for pro
viding poor girls with pretty dresses. Of
course it is composed of young bachelors.
The way to prevent ill-treatment of con
victs is to punish those who are guilty of it.
Resolutions 0 f condemnation do not pre
vent it.
A patriot thinks that the government
ought to pay the expense of all delegates to
political conventions. That surplus will be
reduced, after awhile.
If the weather in London yesterday was
95 hot as it was in Georgia, Queen Victoria's
jubilee was warm enough without the aid of
dynamite and other explosives.
The fiery Republicans who weep because
they can’t fight the war over should be
placed in coolers. Otherwise they may dis
appear by spontaneous combustion.
The Clerks of the Superior Courts will
hold a convention in Atlanta next month.
It is understood that they wish some alter
vtions made in the laws relating to fees.
■ Mary Anderson, the actress, doesn’t in
tend to return to America until she is “old
and ugly.” If she is to decide when she
loses youth and beauty, she will never re
turn.
Ex-Gov. Bullock insists that the bogus
Georgia bonds ought to be paid, the ex-
Oovemor understands that they will not be
paid, however, for he says that he doesn’t
own any of the bonds and never expects to
own any of them.
Ben Butler raves and snorts over the
proposition to return the captured Con
federate flags. Perhaps he is afraid that
the next proposition will be to return the
spoons and other valuables taken from
Southerners during the war.
The Washington correspondents are pre
paring another holiday for President Cleve
land. They say that ih July, before he gods
West, he will visit the mountains in West
Virginia. He will not do any fishing, but
will stay in the shade and try to keep cool.
At the Ivy City race track, Washington,
the other day, Miss Eustis, daughter of the
Louisiana Senator, gave an exhibition o{
what she could do on a horse. She took long
water jumps without the slightest hesita
tion, and the fences and ditchos in splendid
style. The spectators concluded that the
“languid Southern girl” was not so languid
after all.
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Mr. H. L. White, of New York, writes to
the World, indorsing the sentiments ex
pressed by Gov. Gordon concerning the
proposition to return the captured Confed
erate flags. Mr. White isja veteran of the
Union army. He says that the Governor’s
sentiments signify a generous mind and a
heart actuated bv noble impulses, in strong
contrast to the jiosition taken by the North
ern Governors.
Preparations are lieing made to present a
grand spectacle on Staten Island, N. Y., to
Is? called “The Fall of Babylon,” On
Sunday last, the Tower of Babel, which
forms part of the scenery, was struck by
lightning and badly injured. The original
Tower of Bubol hail much worse luck, but
its destruction didn’t cause lamentations
much greater than those over the injury to
the Stateu Island tower.
In a paper read lie tore the Liverpool
Astronomical Society, W. H. 8. Monck
suggested that the puzzling climatic varia
tions recorded by the rocks may have been
produced tty the near approach to the earth
of intensely hot stare. If he meant theatri
al stare he was doubtless right. When
they get hot because of compliments paid to
other members of their companies, they
generally cauto clupiges in the Climate.
Georgia's Convict System.
The convict system will doubtless occupy a
large share of the attention of the Legislature
at its session next mouth. The report that two
convicts were shot at Oglethorpe camp 011
June -V because they refused to work on
Sunday and attempted to escape, should be
thoroughly investigated, and if found to bo
true the contract of the lessee should be can
celled. There is no law which permits a
lessee to compel convicts to work on Sun
days, and there is, therefore, no excuse for
shooting convicts who attempt to escape be
cause they are forced to work on those days.
There is an impression in Georgia that the
convicts in this State are very kindly
treated, and that the laws for their protec
tion in camps are complied with. If this
story of a tragedy at Oglethorpe camp is
true, however, this impression will undergo
a speedy change, and the demand for the
termination of the lease system, or at least
a marked modification of the laws relating
to it, will become much more imperative
than it has heretofore been. Doubtless one
of the reasons why the Legislature has been
so slow in legislating for the convicts is the
belief that they are being about as well
treated under the lease system as they
would be under any other, but if evidence
is forthcoming that they are being whipped
and shot without sufficient cause, and that
they are being brutalized in ways that are
known to heartless taskmasters and piti
less guards it cannot act too promptly.
Of course it will not do to assume that
this Oglethorpe story is true, or that in
other camps the convicts are inhumanly
treated. The lessees should have a chance
to meet whatever charges are brought
against them, but they should lie shown no
special consideration. They have every ad
vantage in defending themselves, and the
convicts have no one to present their side of
the case. The Governor, it is true, is ready
to act energetically when he is assured that
there is necessity for action on his part, but
it is not an easy matter for him to get at the
truth respecting the actual state of affairs
in the convict camps.
The special committee of the House which
is now engaged in investigating
the convict system and its alleged
abuses, should make every effort
to get at the bottom facts. The people of
this State, while they want violators of the
law punished, do not want them subjected
to cruelties of any sort. They want them
cared for in acoordance with the humane
laws which have been enacted for their pro
tection. It seems that some of the members
of the special committee have visited the
camps without making known their official
character, and have gathered some infor
mation that will be valuable
in aiding the committee in
framing its aeport to the Legislature. They
were induced to take this course, doubtless,
by the belief that if it were known that they
were members of an investigating commit
tee the time condition of affairs at the camps
would be hidden from them. The convicts,
in the presence of their guards, would be
afraid to make complaints of abuses, and
they would be terrorized to such an extent
that they would make statements showing
their treatment to be satisfactory
us have the whole truth respecting
the convict business, and if it is found that
the lease system is a bad one, and that it
tends to make convicts more hardened than
they are, let some other system be ■substi
tuted for It. It is difficult, it is true, to find
a system to which there are not serious ob
jections, but doubtless it is possible to devise
one that will tend to reform convicts which
are callable of being reformed and will not
make the hardened criminals worse than
they are. •
Turning the Tables.
The action of the Cincinnati Board of
Public Affairs in turning out of office all
Democratic employes under its control has
waked up the Cincinnati Democrats. The
Duckworth Club, a leading Democratic
organization, held a meeting the other
night, and adopted a resolution calling on
Democratic officials in the city to dismiss
all Republican employes under them.
The preamble to the resolution sets forth
that the Democratic party is in control of
the Federal'Offices in the city. This condi
tipn of affairs, continues the preamble, was
brought about by a most desperate fight,
conducted for a long so: ies of years by the
rank and file of the Democratic party
against fearful odds and opponents, who
resorted to any means to accom
plish their .ends, even to the “un
lawful use of the officeholders and
the United States troops.” It is then point
ed out that men have been appointed to the
heads of departments to represent the I >em
ocratic party, and that therefore Demo
crats have a right not only to exiiect, but to
demand recognition. As to the qunliticn
tious of mon, it is urged that “no man is so
competent but that liis equal can be found.”
Good men, however, the preamble says,
should not be dismissed from the public
service to make room for incom|>etent men.
Nevertheless, ,if possible, none but Demo-
crate should be on watch.
The resolution is ns follows: “Itexol red,
That it is the sense of the Duckworth Club
that all Democratic officials who retain un
der them Republican employes, or allow
their subordinates to do so, to the exclusion
of honest, willing and competent Democrats,
are deaerving of censure; and that, accord
ing to our ideas of party loyalty, all Repub
licans should be turned out and Democrats
put in their places.”
(Jopies of the resolution were ordered to
be sent to all Democratic public officers,
with the respectful request that Democracy
be mado one of the qualifications for ap
pointment to, and retention in, office.
The action of the Duckworth Club was in
tended to turn the tables on the Blaine Club,
which induced the Board of Public Affairs
to dismiss Democratic employes.
The more Democrats thero are in
office the better for the country, for the
Democratic party is pledged to give the peo
ple honpst government, and it is faithfully
carrying out every one of its promisee, but
it is hardly probable that the request of the
Duckworth Club will bo complied with.
The Democratic jiarty is engaged in giving
cavil service reform a fair trial, and the
present outlook is that the people will sus
tain it.
Congressman Blount, of the Sixth Geor
gia district, thinks that it is time for Con
gress to take steps looking to the erection of
anew executive mansion. For a long time
he was opposed to expending money for im
provements in the White House, but last
winter, while attending a Presidential re
ception, he sat down on a chair witli broken
springs. He then and there resolved not to
oppose future efforts to refurnish or re
model thp White House He wishes the
present building to lie preserved as far as
possible liecauae of its historical associa
tions, but he' will cheerfully advocate the
erection of anew Presidential dwelling that
will bo creditable to the people.
THE MORIN US G NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1887.
The McGlynn-George Combination.
It is nbw clear that Dr. McGlynn dos not
intend to go to Rome. He could not get there
within the time to which he is limited unless
he were to start at once. Doubtless he ex
pects to lie expelled, and it is probable that
he wants to be. He has attracted so much
attention since assuming his present posi
tion that ho no doubt thinks he can get
along without the church. He has become
puffed up with the idea that he is a very great
man, and perhaps thinks that if he contin
ues in his present course he will make for
himself a name and place in history.
It is not yet clearly determined whether
he has a real following, or whether the
crowds which gather when he is announced
to speak are drawn by curiosity alone. In
a great city New York there is a very
large dissatisfied element, and from this ele
ment are drawn the supporters of McGlynn
and George. It is not improbable that when
McGlynn’s relations with the Roman Catho
lic Church are severed ho will cease to be
an attraction. A good many Catholics are
now among his followers, but when he
< ’cases to lie a priest of that church the
chances are that his following will quickly
become very much smaller.
Both McGlynn and George are being
watched with a great deal of interest by
those who find the study of social problems
and revolutions interesting. They arc’curi
ous to see what the outcome of the agitation
these two men have inaugurated will bo.
It must be admitted the McGlynn-George
o mibination is a rather strange one, and
that the extent of the support it gets in
New York affords food for reflection.
Mr. Randall’s Complaining Friends.
Some of Mr. Randall's political friends
are complaining that there is a disposition
in the Democratic jiarty to persecute him.
This'is a mistake. Nobody wnnts to perse
cute him or to drive him out of the Demo
cratic party. All that is desired is that he
shall not obstruct the Democratic party in
making needed and promised reforms.
There is a pretty general demand that
Mr. Randall shall not be given the chair
manship of the Appropriations Committee,
or of any other important committee, and
why? Simply because he will use the power
thus Conferred upon him to prevent the
Democratic majority from reforming the
tariff. That is what he did in the last
Congress, and that is what he will do again
if he is given the opportunity.
The Democrats have 155 members in the
House, 1 and of these 120 favor tariff reform
and 35 are protectionists. Mr. Randall
leads these protectionists, and, acting with
the Republicans, is able to prevent the 120
Democrats from doing anything in the way
of reforming the tariff.
The position of those who condemn Mr.
Randall’s course is this: He claims to be a
Democrat, and yet refuses to act with the
great niajority of his party upon the most
important issue before the oopntry. Ought
he to be placed in a position which will
enable him to assist the enemies of his party
in carrying out thoir views with respect to
this Issue? Democrats say no. They claim
that if he cannot act in harmony with his
party his hands should not be strengthened
to oppose it. He must be treated, so far as
the tariff is concerned, as an enemy. This
cannot be construed into a persecution of Mr.
Randall. It is only protecting the party
against him. Mr. Randall has been promi
nent in the House for many years, and Mr.
Carlisle, if he is elected Speaker again, will
dislike very much to ignore him, but as
between Mr. Randall’s feelings and the wel
fare of the Democratic party, he ought not
to hesitate a moment. His duty is to look
after the interests of the party.
Capt. W. P. Black, senior counsel for the
condemned Chicago Anarchists, seems to
love dogs as much as it is said he loves the
dynamite throwers. At his home in Park
Ridge, 111., he and his family made a hospi
tal, into which halt, lame and bruised dogs
were gathered and fed. At first the neigh
bors simply laughed, but when the collec
tion of dogs grew to be about fifty in num
ber it became a matter of serious concern.
The children of the neighborhood were in
constant -danger of attack, and the con
tinued barking and howling disturbed the
quiet to such a degree that emphatic pro
tests were made. The protests being of no
avail, open war was finally declared, which,
after many weeks, culminated in the passing
of an ordinance by the Park Ridge trustees
making it an offense for any, one to keep
more than seven dogs. Forced, therefore,
to dispose of his pets, Capt Black hired a
druggist to poison forty-six of them.
Congressman Blount, of the Sixth Geor
gia district, is in Washington. In an inter
view with a New York Star reporter ho
said that he did not believe Senator Col
quitt would accept, the position of Secretary
of the Interior, even if the President should
offer it to him. Regarding the alleged
growth of protection in this State he said
that the doctrine was making no headway.
A number of newspapers, he continued,
were pressing it, but it was not thriving.
The Georgia delegation in Congress were
unanimously in favor of tariff reform, were
elected on that issue and pledged to its un
compromising support. Congressman
Blount is right with regard to protection in
Georgia.
The New York Times notes a fact that
has boon known in the South for some time.
It says that the representative Southern
business man is a much more frequent
visitor to New York this year than he has
been at any time since before the war. It
isn’t on sightseeing nowadays that the
Southern visitor is bent; the absorbing
prosperity of the South has given him a
new purpose, and in every department of
Northern trade the man from Dixie is to lie
met driving bargains, making investments,
or arranging for the development of some
new “go-ahead" scheme that shall further
enrich and upbuild his section.
“Buck” Taylor, Buffalo Bill’s cowboy who
dislocated his thigh a short time ago, is be
ing lionized by the Londoners. They send
him quantities of good things to eat, and his
condition is bulletined every day. This
treatment of “Buck” leads a London j>aper
to sny that the three luckiest things that can
happen to a man are to be an
cowboy, and to have one’s leg broken, re
may now be expected that the American
snobs who visit London hereof tar will claim
to be cowboys and use a crutch.
During the summer session of the General
Assembly a member of the House of Repre
sentatives will introduce a bill which he be
lieves will solve the convict question. His
plan is to concentrate the convicts at some
healthy jioint and put them to manufac
ing guano. The State is to sell the guano to
Georgia farmers at $ a ton, and to all
others for as much as can be obtained. The
objection is that persons now engaged in
manufacturing guano will not quietly sub
mit to convict competition.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Tone of the Southern Press.
From the .Yew York World (Bern.)
The renqierate and patriotic tone of the
Southern press in regard to the flag episode
ought to bring a sense of shame to some of the
le-s case-hardened of the Northern ranters for
political effect
Let Us Hope Not.
From the .Veto York Star (Dem.)
Is it possible that there is another Butler cam
paign in the dim distance? The Butler Club at
Boston has blossomed into sudden activity un
der the guardianship of the same ola Col.
Plympton who was so bumptiously confident
with respect to the immense vote Butler would
poll in 18S4.
Curious Changes Predicted.
From the Yew York Herald (Ind.)
But now that labor hft3 come to the front and
asked the people some pretty tough questions,
why the people are bound to answer them, and
that brings out the firing all along the line. The
working classes have made us all think, and the
man who lives twenty years longer will see
some mighty curious changes in this old world
of ours.
But it Will Never Come to Pass.
From the Memphis Avalanche(Dem.)
Should it ever come to pass that Blaine occu
pied the Presidential chair with Fairchild as
Secretary of War. Sherman Secretary of the
Treasury, Tuttle Secretary of State, Chandler
Secretary of the Navy. Reid Secretary of the
Interior, and Murat Halstead Attorney General,
it will be about time for the people of the South
to emigrate to the south pole.
BRIGHT BITS.
The laziest man in the country has been dis
covered in Connecticut. He has’s I,soodeposited
in the savings bank, but prefers to live on cold
victuals rather than go to tbe exertion of draw
ing enough of his capital to buy a square meal.
—Burlington Free Preen.
It was something like a breach of etiquette,
the other day. when Lady Churchill asked Red
Shirt if he liked London, and the slaughter house
fiend replied: “Gimme two bits—me raise h
And Lady Churchill replied: “Ah. you poor
thing—so like Randy.”— Omaha Bee.
“It’s no use talking, old man. It would be
simple folly for me to try to make up with her.
She 11 never forgive me no matter what I say,
for I told her her new tailor-made suit did not
become her.”
"Humph: 1 didn’t know it was as serious tut
that.” —Trrtcn Topice.
The editor of a French journal, iu discussing
an alliance between his country and Russia,
said: "For more than fifty years the burning of
Moscow caused a coldness on the part of Russia
towards France.” The freezing of Napoleon's
retreating army gave rise to heated expressions,
we suppose. -Texas Siftings.
Mbs. Buckrum—How’s dat baby ob you’n?
Yo’ wife was a-sayin’ tudder day ez how she
hadn't named it yit. Reckon she call it arter
yo’, ob course.
Mr. Hodge Crabtree—Waal, no’m, only pa'tly.
She goin’ call "im Willyum Crabtree, Willyum
arter her brudder Bill, and Crabtree arter me.—
Harper's Bazar.
Two of our little folks were seated by the
table a few evenings since, watching a moth
which was fluttering around the lamp. They
said nothing till it flew into the flame and was
scorched. "0 Berty,” cried the younger, “it
hasn't any eves, has it?” "I ’spect not,” said
Berty “Why didn't God make him some?”
“Oh, spect he forgot it, or else it jumped about
so he couldn't fix ’em in.”— Our Best Words.
House-hunter (to agent's clerk) — But this
house faces due north. Mr. Smart told me it
had a southern exposure.
Clerk—Did he? Well. lam sure he thought he
was telling the truth. He's not the man to de
ceive anybody. You see, he is a patriot; that’s
what he is. He knows no North and no South,
and, between you ana me, I suspect he's a trifle
shaky on East and West.—Boston Transcript.
Miss Gushington—Do you go to the moun
tains or the shore this summer, Mr. Foog?
Fogg—Well, really, I haven't thought much
about it, but I shall most likely go to the moun
tains as usnal.
Miss Gushington—Oh, I should think you’d
rather go to the beach. Do you know that I
think the sea-beach is perfect paradise ?
Fogg—Yos: the style of dressing at the beach
does remind one of the fashions prevalent in
paradise. —Boston Transcript.
Omaha Man 1 -I see that Corcoran, the phi
lanthropist, has been stricken with paralysis,
and has slim chance of recovering.
Chicago Man—Well, that's too bad: but he has
not kept up his record lately; I told him he
ought never to have loft Chicago.
Omaha Man—Left Chicago I Did Corcoran, the
banker, ever live there?
Chicago Man (in disgust)—Oh, I thought you
meant Harry Corcoran, who used to pitch for
the Chicago nine.— Omaha World.
“Do you understand about note3 of hand?”
asked one of the market whitewashers of a
stand keeper the other day.
“I think so.”
‘‘Wall 1 had a feller’s n*te for S2O. It ain’t
due ‘till de Ist of July, but last nite he paid me
half of it.”
“And you indorsed the amount on the back of
the note?”
“I did, hey? Was dat de way to do?”
“Of course. How did you do?”
“Cut de note in two and gin him half‘'’—De
troit PYee Press.
PERSONAL.
Charlotte Cushman was the daughter of
poor people.
Tne Empress Carlotta is improving in health,
and it is thought will soon become entirely
sane.
Dr. Talmage thinks the nickel is glorified in
this country at the expense of the men who
make newspapers.
Georoe W. Smalley writes that Mrs. James
Brown Potter's excursions into the Provinces
prove a great success.
Okorqe Bancroft, the historian, never fails
to pass an early hour of the w arm weather
umoug his rose bushes.
Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks preached on Sun
day his last sermon in Boston prior to sailing for
England for a vacation.
Col. Robert O. Inoebsoll considers Joe Jef
ferson the greatest living American actor, and
he is not far out of the way.
Anew Swedish singer seems destined to
create a sensation in the musical world. Her
name is Sigrid Arnoldsen. She is only 22 years
old.
Charles Scribner is at the Hotel do Hollands
in Paris. He has been making arrangements
for L serial story in his magazine by Robert
Louis Stevenson.
Fanny Davenport has left the stage to write
a book, and the heathenish Chicago Mews re
marks in a low twitter that "literature loses as
much as the stage gains.”
By the death of the late Dr. Perry Mr. Wil
liam R. Sever, of Plymouth. Mass., became the
oldest living graduate of Harvard. Ho was 96
years old one day last week.
Tre junior Senator from Kansas. Preston R.
Plumb, was a printer’s devil in Ohio, where he
was (torn. He cast his lot in Kansas thirty-one
years ago, and has achieved a moderate compe
tency.
Walter Besant's acquaintance with Mr.
James Rice began with the chance contribution
of an article by the former to Onre A Week, the
periodical of which Mr. Rice was owner and
editor.
His trial is said to be costing Jacob Sharp,
of New York, over OKI, and it is added that
the amount will bo increased to nearly $."00,000
should he have to carry the case to the Court of
Appeals.
Minnie Hack's father was a German ami a
shoemaker, In the most straightened circum
stances. Her voice early attracted the attention
of one of New York’s richest men, who had it
cultivated.
Ex-Gov. Pattibon's portrait is to be placed In
the State gallery at Harrisburg, Penn., by the
side of those of his predecessors. It was painted
by Mr. Bates, of Philadelphia, who was a school
mate of Mr. Puttison.
Tfierk is a farmer named Bill living near Say
brook, Conn. This of itself is not a remarkable
circumstance, but the fact that his full baptis
mal name is Kansas Nebraska Bill iR worthy of
notice. He is called Nebby for short.
Prof. David Swing advocates the building of
two large cathedrals in Chicago, namely, n
waif’s mission tmlldiog and oj large hotel for
working girls; and in these eathedrals he would
like to see Benevolence installed as the presid
ing bishop. .
There are hopes in San Francisco that Lord
Aberdeen will tarry on that coast long enough
to !k‘ present at the celebration of the Queen's
Jubilee, which will there be elaborately con
ducted. Lord Aberdeen was perhaps the most
popular British Viceroy ever sent to Ireland,
unri as he journeys through this country the
American friends of home rule will remember
that fact and give him cordial greeting.
James 11. Macdonald, the new Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, has ap income of $40,000
a year on an investment which cost him lem
than sß*o. When (Apt Moore discovered the
Oolby mine in the great Gogebic iron range he
bol-Tu third interest to Macdonald £*- •> iw del
lars. The land is now worked by a company
which pays a royalty of 40c. a ton. The roy
alty for the present year amounts to SiS',-
000, a third of which goes to Lieut. Got. Mac
donald.
Content to Try One.
From the Philadelphia Call.
A man with a purple nose was fishing for
porgies off South street wharf last Saturday
and suddenly fell into the water. A fellow
fisherman of benevolent aspect promptly hauled
him out. laid him on his back, and then began
to scratch his head in a puzzled way.
"What's the mutter*' asked the excited by
standers; “Why don't you revive him I"
"There are sixteen rules to revive drowned
persons,” said the benevolent man, "and I Knew
'em all. but I can't just call to tniud which
comes first."
At this point the drowned man opened his
eyes and said faintly :
"Is there anything about giving brandy in
the rules?"
"Yes.”
"Then never mind th* other fifteen."
The Vanderbilts and Temperance.
From the Cl&xfatcA Leader.
I have recently seen it stated that Mr. Corne
lius Vanderbilt, of the Central railroad, has re
fused to let a room in a large building near the
Forty-second street Grand Station, New York
city, for a saloon, and wished there were no
saloons within an eighth of a mile of a station.
This is very creditable to Mr. Vanderbilt. For
a man of his millions he is one of the most active
men in all Christian work and charities.
When his father was president of the New
York Central, the nephew of a friend of mine
rented the eating house at Utica at 88.000 a
year. A short time after he took it Mr. W. H.
Vanderbilt came along and asked him how much
rent he paid. He told. Mr. Vanderbilt said:
“You sell liquor?" "Yes sir.” “Well if you
will not sell them you shall have the place at
sl,looa year." “Agreed!" Mr. Vanderbilt was
wise. He did not want spirits sold where the
men who had charge of the trains could’step in
for drinks.
Why She Married a Poor Man.
One of the greatest belles and heiresses in
Philadelphia, and a beauty besides, married
a rather good-looking young man without
business or a penny. She had been courted
assiduously by one of the greatest beaux in
town, a rich young man, with fortune, pres
tige and everything back of him except that
he was gay and had sown an immense crop of
wild oats. He sent her the most expensive
presents, which she would not accept. Scores
of influential friends tried to help on his
cause, and the most skilful female diplomats
tried to induce her to discard the young man,
who had nothi*: and no friends but herself.
Her own family, with an exception, did every
thing to induce her to prefer the rich suitor.
Young as she was, and with all society making
a pet of her, she gave up everything—gave up
society, gave up home, gave up every luxury
and fascination that women are .supposed to
hold dear—and married the man of her choice.
And she is happy—far happier than many who
are “in the swim.” When someone said to her:
"Why did you make the choice you did ? Why
refuse so much that mo3t girls value dearly?"
she replied: “I married for two things charac
ter and morality. My husband had them both
and the other didn’t. I loved and respected one,
the other I could jot."
A Stage Incident.
FVo m thf Boston Courier.
“I saw something in New York the other
day," Miss Covington observed to the editor,
‘ 'that made me almost reconciled to being plain. ”
"That would mean little in the case of one
with your good sense and small reason for being
discontented with your good looks,” he replied
with rather a ponderous attempt to be gallant.
M iss Covington waved .her hand in deprecia
tion of any such bald flattery.
"It was on a Fifth avenue stage," she said.
“There was a lovely girl sitting next to the door.
She was really a remarkably pretty girl, and
she had on a beautifully fitting gown. One of
the passengers who was’at the other end of the
stage, got up to go out, aid when he came to
the door he put a hand on each side of the door
way, as if he wanted to steady himself. Then
he stooped down as though he were going to
step out, and as he did so he suddenly turned
his head and kissed the pretty girl. Of course
it was done, and he was out as quick as a flash. "
“And what did she do?”
“Why. she was completely dazed. She said:
‘Why, that man kissed me!’ and she hardly
seemed to know what had happened to her.
It was the most outrageous thing I ever
knew." f
"And all the women in the stage," the editor
observed, “were indignant at the ruffian.”
* "Of course they were!”
"And not at all of the opinion that the girl
was at all to blame?"
“Of course not! If you think in your horrid
cynical way,” Miss Covington continued with
increasing warmth, “that we were jealous of
her good looks and so blamed her, you are sim
ply wholly mistaken, and that is' all there is
about it."
"And you were glad, I understood you, that
you were plain?"
“Well," Miss Covington replied, “it made me
reconciled, that is all."
Omnia Vincit Amor.
I met a girl upon the street—
That is, 1 think she was a girl,
And yet I am not sure, for tho’
Her eye was bright
And step so light,
The hair that o’er her brow did go
In bang and curl,
In wave and flow,
That fell about her face so sweet,
"Was white as snow.
O was she young or was she old?
Was she a grand or a maid?
I swear I’d really like to know,
For when she spoke,
Some chord awoke
Within my heart, and thrilled me so
I’m half afraid
That Cupid's bow
Has twanged and yet you have been told
Her hair s like snow.
O was she sixty or sixteen?
Was she still in the market, or
Upon the shelf ? A rosy glow
Was on her cheek
Where dimples seek
To hide from sight, yet plainer show
Themselves therefor,
While brighter grow
Her eyes, altho Y tbey shine, I ween,
’Neath locks of snow.
What's that? White hair is all the rage.
And young and pretty girls now bleach
Their tresses till a "holy show"
They make of youth.
Well, in good sooth
I'm glad you told me, for—speak low—
t No use to preach—
From top to toe
I worship her, and shall, till Age
Brings its own snow.
M. N. B.
At a Low Ebb.
From the Arkansaw Traveler,
“J. Ableson Peters,’’ said the managing editor
of a great daily, glancing at a card which had
just been hapded him. f'fthevy him up."
A few- moments laterm man so conscious of
bis unimpressiveness that he made painful
off orts to he impressive snapped into the room.
He was dressed like an undertaker, and, bowing
to the editor, presented him with a sort of pair,
bearer's smile.
"You have, of course, road my paper," said
the visitor, as he lifted his coat tails and seated
himself.
"What paper do you represent?"
"The Hoganville Forum. I urn the humorist
a Of course you have road ex
not." the editor cruelly replied.
Ilarnplke Pebble republinued an
B this week. Believe I've got a
v."
a small sheet, flirted the creases
pointed to an article headed "A
n Our beading Merchant." "I
e other night while my wife was
. I can always write better when
I am alone.”
"So can I, and I have considerable work to do
at present,'' the grgat editor renlled.
,r YeB, much better," the humorist replied.
“I am growing out of foolish dialogue and ain
getting down to sententious merit. I think that
every smile should be accompanied by a health
ful suggestion; every laugh by a thought. As I
make progress in this direction I find that ray
work is road by a more select class. I used to
write for minstrels and circus men. but now I
write for philosophers. Now, to show von how
tar above my former self 1 am getting I will re
late a little inftdonb”
“You’ll have to excuse me—”
"Only take me a minute. This morning I
went over to the circus ground and applied for
admission, but, do you know, sir. that I was re
fused? I had gotten so high above the circus
that the fellow, to ret even w Ith me, refused to
let i*c look at his show. Then a good idea oc
curred to me. I thought that I would come
(around and let you interview me on the subject.
Capitol, don't you thtuk ?"
1 ‘‘Capital effrontery, ye*. You must excuse
me, pr rather I shall be pleased to excuse you."
“Got a circus ticket about your clothes any
where ?
"Close the door after you, please."
"Give me a circus ticket and I'll send you an
article. No? Got none? Is It possible? Sitting
right here almost within sight of the tent and
got no tickets? I must say that journalism in
this town Is at a low ebb."
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
Addisox Csmmack, says the New York Times.
was one of the well-known New Yorkers who
profited by the smasli-up of the Chicago clique
wheat deal
Although the net annual income of the
government on imports from Canada is nearly
$8,000,000, vet in the Dunkirk. N. Y„ district it
cost sl2 to collect sl, and in the Montana dis
trict it cost $l6B 27 to collect sl.
The dudes of Chicago appear to possess more
originality of conception and vigor of execution
in the matter of dress than dudes in general.
A newspaper of that city lias discovered one of
the inane fraternity who decorates his whiskers
with scarlet ribbons.
The stories of the success of Buffalo Bill in
London, both theatrically and socially speak
ing, have not been one whit exaggerated. All
the letters from London are in the same vein.
One letter from Cody himself tells of his future
plans. They embrace a fail season in Paris and
a winter season in the ruins of the Coliseum in
Rome! Imagine the cowboys of the wild West
cavorting about the huge circle in which the
Roman gladiators fought. Buffalo Bill has en
gagements for three years in Europe, each of
which is worth a half million in profits.
The right to manufacture and sell the proprie
tary medicines owned by the heirs of the late
Dr. John Bull, of Louisville, Ky.. was purchased
at public sale Wednesday, in Louisville, by a
leading patent medicine firm in Cincinnati for
$70,000. The income from these medicines was
at one time between $75,000 and SIOO,OOO. Day
ton, 0., Nashville, Tenn., aDd New York city
were represented atthe sale. Louisville was the
next highest bidder at SOO,OOO. The large sum
realized was a surprise to the heirs, who fancied,
it is said, that only about $20,000 would be
realized.
It is said mahogany was first known to Euro
peans through the fact that Sir Walter Raleigh,
when at Trinidad in 1595, used planks of it to re
pair one of his vessels. The samples thus car
ried to England were much admired, but for
over 100 years it was put to no practical use.
In 1720, h'owevr. a Dr. Gibbons, of London,, re
ceived a few mahogony planks from a friend in
the West Indies, and employed a cabinet maker
to work them up. From that time to the pres
ent the wood has been a staple article of com
m?ree. So far the supplies have practically all
come from Spanish America, but there is some
possibility that other sections may contribute to
the supply. Mahogany, though of an inferior
quality, has been snipped from Africa, and cer
tain parts of India have proved to be adapted to
it3 growth. Mdhoganyis of slow growth.
The Paris correspondent of the Lancet writes:
“It is somewhat ghastly that one of the official
medical advisers to the administration of the
Opera Comique should be the Professor of Pub
lic Health at the School of Medicine. Perhaps
this calamity will prompt him to ascertain
whether there are any other duties attached to
the post than those which consist in applauding
the actors once or twice a month, and occasion
ally prescribing orange-flower water for a' lady
of the troupe suffering from her nerf.i. The
papers published a note upon an examination of
the blood of the victims, said to have been made
at the morgue bv M. Brouardel, and which
would show that death occurred in three differ
ent ways: (1) from fright: (2) from asphyxia by
carbonic acid: (8) by asphyxia from carbonic
oxide. Apparently no one was crushed to death,
which is scarcely likely."
The German poet Bod ens ted t. relates in a re
cent article that he first met Turgeneff at
Munich in 1860, and found him a most genial
man. He was anxious to be introduced to Paul
Heyse, with whom he subsequently corres
eonded. nnd in subsequent visits to Munich he
ecame acquainted with most of the literary
tribe in the Bavarian capital. The Russian nov
elist, was pleased to find that his German col
leagues were familiar with translaions of some
of his works, but he was singularly free from
vanity. He spoke of his first poetic efforts,
which had no success, which did not come to
him till he turned to prose; and he regretted
that he could not have succeeded as a poet, be
cause the highest things are inaccessible to
prose. For instance, be said, we could, not con
ceive of Goethe's masterwork in prose. "Faust"
was his favorite noem. and the first part of it he
knew almost entirely by heart.
A brilliant wedding which took place in
Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, was that of Mr.
Bland Ballard, son of the late Bland Ballard, of
the United States Circuit Court, and Miss Adele
Shreve, youngest daughter of Mrs. Belle Sheri
dan Shrevp. who as Miss Belle Sheridan will he
remembered as the famous Louisville beauty of
ante bellum days. The bride's costume wSs an
elaborate one of white satin and lace, with a
veil of beautiful old lace. Mrs. Shreve, the
mother of the bride, is still a beautiful woman,
and belongs to a family of beaiftiful women, of
which her daughter, the bride, is a perfect ex
ample. The young couple have gone on a
bridal tour to the East. A notable wedding
took place in Louisville on Tuesday, the con
tracting parties being Miss Susie Brent Haggin
and Mr Horace Cade Prince, representatives of
two of the oldest and proudest families in the
South.
CApt. Wynn, who commanded the Sumter
Light Guards, was killed at the battle of Gettys
burg. One morning, says the Americas (Ga.)
Recorder, the one after that battle, his wife,
who lived in this place, entered her parlor,
where upon the wall had hung a handsome
painting of her husband. As she glanced up she
was horror-stricken on seeing that the painting
had fallen from the wall, and, in doing so. the
face had been pierced by a chair post which
stood beneath where it had hung. Rushing from
the house, she went at once to a neighbor and
related the occurrence, adding that she firmly
believed the Captain had been killed in the fight
of the day previous. On the arrival of the train
news of the battle was brought, and among the
first names in the list of those killed was that of
her gallant husband. The strangest feature
about the killing, however, was that he had
been shot in the face in the identical spot where
the cl) air-post had pierced the canvas.
Mention has been made by us more than once
of the invention of a cable by M. Fortln-Herr
maun, of France, by which telephonic commu
nicatidli can.be had with distant points. It was
over the newly-invented cable that the King of
Belgium was able during the winter to hear at
Brussels the rendering of an opera at the Grand
Opera House in Paris. The agent of M. Fortin-
Herrmann has suggested to P. T Barnum to
join in an enterprise by which the Grand Opera
performances can be transmitted nightly from
Paris to New York. The estimate for the coble
is $15,000,000. The company proposes to charge
200 persons the sum of $5 for each act of the
opera given, and to use the cable during the day
for ordinary business betwren the countries
The Bridgeport (Conn.) Standard, which print;!
the agent’s letter to Mr. Barnum, says that the
veteran showman has instructed his Paris
agents to investigate the affair. The story
smacks of certain advertising methods, but is
given by us for what it is worth, and as it ap
pears in the Standard.
A manuscript of great rarity and interest was
sold the other day at the Ilotol Drouot for a
high price. It was an essay written by the great
Napoleon in his college days. It bore this date
and the occasion of the composition, having
been written in 1788, when young Bouaparte
was passing his summer holidays at Ajaccio
The essay was a history of Corsica, and it occu
pied eight pages of close MS. It is full of bad
grammar, and abounds in instances of bad
spelling, and is, moreover, written in fervid ad
miration of the Jacobinism which was then
prevalent in France. This student's theme was
ultimately knocked down for 5,500 francs
Autograph collectors know how rarely well
authenticated Napoleonic MSS. cornea into the
market. Bonaparte wrote a crabbed, illegible
hand, and even at the zenith of his power had
never quite mastered the language of the ueo
le he governed. His grammar was often de
fective. and he was too autocratic to respect
the rules at orthography. M. Bourrlenne did
niost of his writing, and from long practice
Jcnow how to accurately reproduce his direc
tions.
As I stood by giving a telegram to the young
woman employed os operator In one of the great
hotels at a noted summer resort, says a writer
iu the Boston Post , I wondered what must be
the state of mind of this class of workers at the
While I Stood beside tho
mac ; ll , ne - waiting my turn to be
5S B *R , " tOP , “5 P al ’<* wrote on a
blank the following legend which the patient
oix'rator read aloud very carefully and dis
tinctly: There is no goats In M.'" No smile
, her Impassive countenance. She
showed no sign of curiosity to know the sequel
or preface to the quaint message. She made no
comctioiM of gmilunar, but simply ticked off
the letters contained in the six words. W bother
t ““ lf ‘ c '’ ntr °l W,VA the result of long
schooling or the Indifference horn "JS
knowing a little of everybody’s husine*'
who sent a message over her wire [
k v. < ii W ?° ' c ul<l hut admire her self-control
"“'e l w<>"dered still what could betheobjSc
to y°h innocent, inoffensive animals'" as
goats. My curiosity was rewarded the next
famiitsrfor!n*n# “ nlve<la *• containing the
iuinmar tonn of a nanuic ifoat looiriiur n
r-7 ot^ kS.'.f rery
bewildered and awkward and not very haonv at
being transported to this goat less town
gwt “hc whoh? mv U ? rNe nnrt h,11,y follow, 'd the
i 1 “?<“• mystery was unraveled. Per
to Kiow ho vTi,! with that lady
to know how that telegram read when It reached
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