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2 LIVE GOTHAM TOPICS. WHAT CAN BE SEEN IN AN ORDI NARY WALK. Where Thirsty Now York Gets Its Drink— Absurdly Exaggerated Values of the “Art Galleries ' A Reaction Against the Enforced Laws. Julian Ralph, in a letter from New York to the Philadelphia Press, says: “Let me •how you one of the new-fashioned places.” is a phrase that now very often accompanies invitation to take a drink in New York. These new-style places have not invaded the residence districts but are quite numerous down-town. The stylish name for them is “Buffets,” a title obtained from the controll ing article of furniture with which each place is embellished —in plain English, a sideboard. These take the pin e of the bars in the old-style saloons, and are mere tiers of shelves rising above closets topped by a broad marble counter on which there i a central well for water faucets and a wash trough. In each place the sideboard is against the wall and the room is all open, with i>erhaps a table for free lunch opposite the wall, or a few tables and chairs scattered over the carpet. The bartenders, in white itarehed linen coats (without any display of diamonds, which now’ are considered vul gar). move up and down in front of the sideboards, which are usually towering tiers of polished hard wood, paneled with beveled mirror glass, aud having the shelves up)'eld by slender carved or turned pillars. Often these shelves are mere ribbons .of wood scalloped so that the glassware can lie fitted into them as on shipboard, but whether thev are racks or shelves it is the fashion to load them with delicate cut glass, very little of which is ever used, and which cast, in one place on Church street, morn than half as much as the ornate buffet itself, or $1,500. These new drinking rooms are of course elaborately fitted in all respects, usually with heavy carpet or mar ble tiling on the floors, and the most expen sive metal surfaced paper on the walls and ceiling. It is a question whether these buffets are going to be permanent or numerous. The comment of a Yankee friend of mine as he stood in front of one of these palisades of class is the verbal expression of what occurs Fo most tipplers. “I don’t think I like it,” said he; “a man does not merely want a drink. Ho wants to hold up the bar, to rest a little, so to speak. ” The bartenders do not like them at all. They feel helpless. They can’t protect their wares or feel that mastery of position which they had behind the old fashioned counters. THE “ART GALLERIES.” Gorgeous as the new places appear, they do not cost as much as the bar-aud-back-bar establishments upon which the Germans led the way a few years ago in a craze for prod igal expenditure. You hoar of some of these double drinking counters that cost $7,500, but figures freely furnished to the public arc always to be taken with a number of grains of allowance, whether they represent the cost of putting anew play upon the stage or of procuring the latest Bowery museum freak —the gentleman who lost his head in the recent Rhode Island accident and gets along finely with a mere stump of his neck The probability is that no saloonkeeper has spent more than $5,000 on a bar and hack bar in this city yet, and that some of the showiest cost ' only $1,500 to $2,500. The some exaggeration exists with rogard to our “art galleries,” as we have slangily named the places that copy the Hoffman House bar room by exhibiting costly paintings in them. Take t hat noblest exhibition as a represen tatis’e instance. It is customary to estimate the value of the art treasi. in this drink ing plaee at SIOO,OOO to $120,000, and this sum is made up by putting the Correggio canvas (“Narcissus”) at $50,000, the Gobelin Tajiestry at $5,000, and certain carvings in wood and marble at SB,OOO and $5,000. The fart is that the full list of such figures con tains items often nonsensical and often con ditional. For instance, it is not proven that the “Nareerus" is a Correggio. If it is there is no doubt of its worth, but its value until that is proven is conjectural. Some of these ornaments were bought at prices and under condi tions that would cause the sale of all at even $75,000 to bring a great profit. Not one cost more than one-half tne princely sums that the hotel, keepers expended in building and fitting the great saloons in which they are exhibited, that is to say, $20,000. though Bougereaa’s “Nymphs arid Satyrs” would probably fetch more than •it. This is not said to depreciate the coi tion, but to show how the public has ex aggerated the cost of this method of attract ing a liar trade. The collection sjxiaks for itself, and many of its parts not only can not be lessened by a criticism which would have to be ignorant to con demn them, but would bring great prices if sold. Mr. Beniamin Constant’s great painting in Wildey’s saloon doubtless cost $20,000, but when $35,000 more is added by correspondents to cover agents’ commissions, the customs tax ana the mounting of the pictures, the calm and philosophical listener lius a right to suspoct that the figures are exaggerated or that the owner parted too lightly with his money. When you have passed the really valuable Art treasures of the Hoffman House, Wildey’s, and perhaps one other place, and come to coldly investigate the claims of other saloon keepers who pretend to have galleries or museums valued at from $50,000 to $30,000, it will be with difficulty that you can comprehend that anyone could hope to impose on the public with such nonsense. There isn’t any greater poppy cock talked or written uoout New York than the tales about these so-called drink ing palaces. There are only six or eight art gallery saloons in all, and certainly half of that number boast collections which are in the main either cheap or fraudulent. Artists of unquestioned knowledge tell me that some of those aggregations are col lections of trash, full of “copies” or works by men either unknown or occupying n low rank in their profession. Elegant frames, the presence of two or three real masterpieces of small size and moderate cost, and the surroundings of a beautifully 11 tbs 1 saloon impress the mass of visitors and make them imagine themselves in the presences of Monte Criston treasures of art. It has l>een estimated that in the half dozen saloons that we call art galleries there are triumphs of paintings or carving worth $350,000, hut, if it wore proper to do so. I would not feel unwilling to wager money that no expert would value the whole lot at much over SIOO,OOO. PRINCELY ORDINARY IIARR. Far more princely is the sum repri*seiitoil by the cost of thos-> drinking places that do not boast of paintings, statues or curios. It is estimated that, on the Bowery and the Third and Kixth avenues there are at least 300 liars that cost about $2,500; 400 that cast SI,OOO and thirty that cost $4,000 or over. One seen in these reasonable figures, repeated over and over again on scores of thoroughfares and through the list of 10,000 saloons, what a formidable amount of capital is lock id up in the liquor tratll. One perceives how natural it is that the dealers should interest themselves in politics in a community like this where the laws arc all aimed bnvarils restricting the business, and one is able to imagine whut a force the trado can exert if stirred as at present, when its management is under discussion in the State Legislature, under iron restraint by the local officials and threatened by a powerful uprising of the temperance ele ment all over country. The drink question is the most important Wie we liftve to consider in New York. It so delicate a problem that I have lately met. two men of great political ambition and promise who toll me that they will not run tor the Mayoralty of their cities (one is , r,rfcp r 11111 * onß > s a Brooklynite) until the laws have been changed satigfac rtHi ’• U S m aj°i’ity. There is a great ,TT_°[ drinking here, a great deal more we are justly to he credited with and in" ourselves, for wo entertain a couple of hundred thousand strangers here every day, many of whom come here on purpose to have a good time and throw away their money. Then, on our own account, we have a large population of people from what might be called the drinking countries of Eurojie. At present, for the first time in our history, our layvs are being generally enforced, and this enforcement has shown us how unsuited to a cosmopolitan commu nity they are. Their enforcement has aroused a deep dis cussion of the subject of reforming them, and with very interesting and curious ef fects. The advanced and liberal thought on the subject, as represented by Mayor Hew itt's views, is that we should allow drinking places to tie open lietween and after church services on Sunday for the benefit of our foreign population, which sees no harm in drinking light wines and !>eer, and will sell them and drink them, no matter what the laws ure. It seems to lie decided also that the best system of dealing with the saloon tratltc is the high licenses—at SI,OOO, or, at least ssoo—so as to enforce responsibility for obedience to the law and make the dealers interested in closing unlicensed and improper places that, get the advantage of them. But the Prohibitionists, the small hand-to-mouth saloonkeepers and the koep ei-s of disorderly places have joined hands, and are working side by sido against the proposition. Their combination suits the countrymen in the Legislature, who make till our laws and most of our official absurd ities and troubles. , The saloonkeepers of New York are an ignorant and stupid lot, ns a rule —a harsh assertion, but one justified bv knowledge, and that will be corroborated by the more intelligent, ones in the business. The enor mous profits of a business that can lie started with S2OO to SSOO, or with nothing at all but the backing of a brewer, and t hat affords a margin of :i between the pur chase and selling price of a glass of beer at tracts the stupid and the lazy; while the social bon under which the trade rests in the dominant Anglo-Saxon mind fails to keep out only the morally callous man of that particular nationality. This is true mainly of the whisky trade. The beer business is practically controlled by Gor mans who used to keep corner groceries with barrooms in the rear. The law obliged the two businesses to lie divorced, and the ma jority of the grocers, seeing the immense profits in the drink trade, abandoned the groceries and opened saloons. “The main trouble with our business,” said a leading and law-abiding saloonkeep er to mo the other day, “is with the men engaged in it. They do not look ahead. They temporize with bribes and evasions. A score ot us have tried again and again to organize the saloonkeepers, but the only organizations that hang together are kept intact for social purposra, for drinking bouts, dances, picnics and good fel lowship generally. There is thunder in the air for the liquor trade all over the country, and the lightning bolts can only lie escaped in those commu nities where the liquor dealers are known to be interested in compelling obedience to the law* awl rooting out the bad characters in tiie business. But there ure other troubles. The main one is with the brewers. They are such stiff competitors in business aud are so greedy for gain that they are to lie found backing almost , all the immoral and illegal resorts in the city. The other trouble is with certain officials. The trade has tecn so used to getting favors and protec tion by a gift of a little money here and there, where it will do the most good, that when we talk high license ot a meeting a seorre of men are sure to shout ‘No; no. If we pay SI,OOO for a license somebody around the cornet will get along without any license at all by arranging with the excise inspec tors and the police.’ It may not be so, but that is w’hat they think.” We have now the most virtuous and strictest excise board within our memory and it is ruling the trade w ith on iron hand and squeezing it in the bargain. Excise Commissioner Von Glaiin tells me that the licensee from hotels, barrooms and stores where liquor is sold wall amount to $1,200,- 000 during 1887. He and his colleagues have raised the fees to s‘lso for a first class hotel, to S2OO for a second-class hotel, to S2OO for saloon licenses, SSO for ale, wine and beer, and SBO for ale and beer. For store keepers whose stock is not drunk on the premises, from $250 to SSO is levied, ae cording to the receipts of the plaee. There are now 9,167 licenses, 7,000 of which are for barrooms, and they returned $827,3:20 last year, and $882,345 the year before, so thnt wo are aliout to make an unprecedented revenue from the trade. Julian Ralph. Two Opinions. From the Dakota Bell. . Mr. Julius Plugoff, a Democrat of Gosh City, this territory, was recently appointed to the office of clerk of the District Court. Of the appointment “the Gosh City Peo ple’s Palladium,” a Democratic paper, says: “The appointment of Col. Julius Plugoff, of this city, to the honorable office of clerk of the District Court givos universal satisfac tion. Though Col. Plugoff is comparatively a young man and recently come to Dnkotn, it is a recognition of the young Democracy in the Territory and declares that, the here tofore accepted belief that a man, to obtain office in Dakota, must have moved hero be fore the war and slept under a gum wee-1 and ate jerked buffalo meat the first ten years, is dead and buried beyond the hope of resurrection. Give the young and vigorous a chance; down with the old moss-grown and driveling one-horse politicians whose only recommendation is that they were compelled to leave their homes in the East twenty-five years ago.” In its issue of the same date “the Gosh City Walloper,” also Democratic, prints the following: “Jule Plugoff, the dude politician of this city, has lieen appointed clerk of the district court. Whitt is the party coming to in this territory? This man Plugoff is a tenderfoot and a carpetbagger. He has not been in Dakota long enough to tell a wheat field from a jackpot. He would still have been in Wiggleville, Delaware, blaeking boots if he hail not first got an appointment in the territory. lie is no more entitled to the of fice than the man in the moon. Matters have come to a pretty pass if the old wheel horses of the party— those who came here in an early day, endured the hardships of a pio neer’s life, settled in the wilderness and made it blossom ns the rose and were Demo crats when it meant scorn and derision and no hope of office —if those, we say, are to bo ignored for such importations from the ef fete East ns Jule Plugoff.” Yesterday on the Turf. New Yoric, June 22.—The jockey club races at Shoejishead Bay were as follow*: 1' itisT Kace -Three-quarters of a mile. King Fish won. with Torchlight second, and Guar antee third. Time 1:15. Second Hack Three-quarters of a mile. Stuyvesant won, with Harry Kimsell second, uiid N’okomis third. Time l:l4ti. Tumn Kace -Seven eighths of a mile. Lag gard won. with Ordtvay second, and Stripling third. TimeLZRU. Fomra Rack One mile and a half. Ken AI walked in last, having burst a blood vessel Kxllo won, with iloaz second anil Ten Booker third. Time 8:8#. Fieri! Race -One and one-eighth miles. Adrian won. with Favor second and Tin Strike third. Tune 1 Sixth Pace —One on 1 three-eighths miles on the turf. Judge Griffith won, witii Sam Brown second and Schoolmaster third. Will 1 lav is and Hairy Man foil. Time 8:41. Advice to young ladies about to graduate: Be just as sweet as you can. The man who doesn't like In look upon n sweet girl grednale is a villain— or married. Tie your essay with a blue ribbon, und be practical hi the choice of a subject. We suggest ‘‘The Coining Man.” Ad vice to young men about to graduate: Don’t mind the newspupers. Whoop it up for ail you’re worth on the Commencement stage about ‘‘The Scholar in Politics,” “The Ideal Republic,” and “The Political Ikutiny of Patagonia.” About five years from now read your oration over to yourself slowly. - Buffalo tlx press. Moot Remarkable In its effects and useful in its application, the fragrant SOZODONT has become the most pouul.ir dentifrice hi existence. ’Tis ti : rab.e 1 by everybody. TIIE MORNING NEW%: THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1887. TIIE BIG WHEAT DEAL IT IS SAID TO HAVE COST THE CLIQUE $4,000,000. Inside Facts on the Origin of the Cor ner The Cincinnatians Undertook Too Big a Task—Kershaw & Cos. Go Under At Last. from the Chicago News. “I think I know more about that wheat panic than any other man not directly in terested in it,” said a Board of Trade man Saturday. “I noticed this Cincinnati crowd long before they began active operations in May wheat, ami 1 believe now that, they, or some of them, were trading in this market before the close of 1886. I don't think they then coil ban plate 1 cornering May, but as it was the active option they liegan to accu mulate it in largo quantities, aud when they saw how unfavorable the crop reports be gan to come in they conceived the idea of running a corner in May, taking the limit of the storage capacity of the city ami the expected short crop as their basis of opera tions. “ About this time there was talk of a corner to lie ; in by the Nevada Bank pen jile, and I learned shortly afterward that the directors of that institution did have an account here with Field, Lind ley & Cos. ami with Maurice Rosenfeld & Cos. The t alk about, the Nevada Bank and the attend ant excitement in May wheat drew the Cincinnati people into the swim to stay, and, the thing Incoming talked over in the Queen City and Lincoln clulw of Cleveland, several heavy capitalists of that town were drawn in with them. They kept adding to their lines of May until the latter part of April, when they say that they had only 18,00.1,00(1 to 15,(XX),000 bushels of cash wheat bought, when in order to corner the thing successtully they should have enough to fill all of the storage room in the city arid have 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 bushels of wind sold to them by the crowd besides. “It, was decided then, I think, to carry it over to June, and in the last few days of the month their whole crowd of brokers ran like a flock of sheep and filled Up on June. In the meantime two other deals wore in progress. “ i’ho Nevada Bank party, comprising a class of people who speculate habitually in mining stocks, was running a wheat deal in San Francisco and also began running a little side-play in wheat here. They kept adding to their lines until I know positively that they held here from 6,000,000 to 8,000,(XX) bushels, which they closed out about the middle of May at a profit averaging from 6c. to Bc. a bushel, and I am assured that their only reason for pulling out was that they had on their hands nearly all of the cash wheat in California, besides what they called their ‘side-play’ in Chicago. Since that time I notice that they have devoted all of their attention to the San Francisco and Liverpool markets, and 1 lielievo their profits from cornering the San Francisco market and in the Liverpool export trade have been even larger than in their Chicago deal. “So much for California. The other out side deal was the Galveston affair. This was a little one on the side, and was inde dependent of any of the others. Kauffman Si Range, a big Hebrew banking house down there who speculate in any and every thing that is active enough to promise a quick return, saw that there was a lot of money behind wheat mid they started an account with George C. Walker Si Cos. In the course of time they owned quite a line of wheat, and they applied to the Cincinnati parties for a section on the ground floor m the clique ojierations. They were told that if their wheat was for sale they could offer it in the pit. They did so, and when Walker Si Cos. sold it out, Irwin, Green & Cos. wore the buyers. All of this time the outsiders were wondering who were running the deal. The talk was strongest of the Nevada Bank, but Kershaw was receiving large ordeii froiix Cjpcimfriti right along, and attention%a* being directed to him. About this time Armour started on his trip South and West, and as he stopped at Cincinnati, Galveston and San Francisco, which were the principal points talked about, his name became connected with the deal. He was not in it, though, as I found out later. “The number of different parties in the deal and their dissimilar tactics puzzled the public m#e than a little, and the impression went out several times that they had changed front and were going to abandon the deal. They did not think of this for an instant, and had it not been for the heavy receipts of cash wheat, the action of the board of trade directors ui makjng additi tioaal storage room regular, and the atti tude of the banks, they would probably have carried the deal forward to a success ful conclusion. The personnel of the Cin cinnati contingent was Joe Wiltshire and Howard Eckert. The amount of stuff held by them before they collapsed was 10,000,000 bushels of cash wheat and 21,000,000 in un settled June options.” Rosenfeld was not at first identified with what turned out to he a Cincinnati clique, but is credited with having come into it in a peculiar way. Johnny Slmiv was buying heavily on Cincinnati orders, taking at one time nearly 1,200,000 bushels m a lump. One day, at 11:45 a. m., ho wired to Cincinnati for additional margins. At 2:15 the answer came back that it was too lato to do any hanking business, but the next day would see their margins good. Shaw immediately wired back to them to transfer their account to another house, as he did not want to do business with men who mode and broke promises. The account was turned over to Rosenfeld & Cos., and from that time they were, next to Kershaw, the largest pur chasers of May options. The outcome, as recent developments show, cost the clique about $4,000,000. Thus far the outsiders’ profits are yet to be real ized, and much depends on the outcome of many of the suspended firms whether any profits nt. all will he credit'd to accounts for deals made on the break. TEXAS TRAIN ROBBERS. Bloodhounds and Officers After Them -Jim White. A Houston (Tex.) special to the Missouri Republican says: It is altogether prolm ble that some of the road agents implicated in the Southern Pacific train roliliery near Flatonin will lie under arrest within forty eight hours. No act in the criminal calen dar of Texas has excited more profound in dignation than this recent train hold-up. By dawn this morning three posses, armed to the teeth aud well mounted, were following the woke of hounds. At a point not moro than a mile from the scene of the robbery the gang split up into three divisions. The hits' rains made the trails perfectly discerni ble, and they were followed without any trouble. Your correspondent accompanied one party about ten miles from the trestle where tlie rolilicrv occurred, and numerous trail's of the thieves were encountered. Just prior to leaving the pursuing posse tno reporter espied an empty can which had contained deviled ham. The condition of the can’s remnants showed that the rascals could not be far ahead. Each posse is captained by a man who does not not understand the word fear and who is thoroughly acquainted with the country. Fayette county is aroused, and when a capture is made it is not unlikely that Judge Lynch will take a hand in the proceedings. The engineer und fireman in charge gave Fayette county official* minute description* of those of the gang they saw. The detec tive fom\of Houston are on the alert and the man who fails to give a satisfactory amount Of himself is liable to lie given quarters in the calaboose. No means arc I lieing neglected to run the robbers down. JIM WHITE. If the train robbers Imd known that Sheriff “Jim” White, of El Paso, was on hom'd the train they pro|>o*cd to rob would they have mad" t.ie assault! that’s a ques tion. in IKS) the Mayor of Ei Puna wcutrto the cu t, "u 1 , i-e and begged Wlut". Who was then a mounted inspector, to go up to El Paso street where three or four men were lying dead and half a dozen more were lying wounded, and put down a gang of desperadoes who had “taken the town.” Tho streets were deserted save by the “bad men,” who were settling a difficulty in true Texas style. Hannah Burns, a washerwoman with a Billingsgate tongue, was the only person who dared to speak her mind and tell the leers what she thought of the proceedings. With arms akimbo and her tongue in full motion she stood in the street and defied the 'killei-s. They would not shoot ht;r; they could not silence hor, and so they let her alone. No one else dared to oppose the des perate fellows who had already killed sev eral people. The local police were power less, and the Mayor, or some of the citizens, called on White. He suddenly appeared on the street with a big “gun” in each hand and called out: “Jim White will do the rest of the shooting; get off this street,” and the battle was over. A few years before he was traveling in a stage coach when one of the passengers in sulted a lady. The mild-mannered man who sat opposite the lady called to the driver t<> stop the coach. He took the blackguard out, tied him to a tree, stripped him ami gave him AN UNMERCIFUL LASHING with the stage driver’s whip. He is tall, well-bred, gentle and brave; a Texan gen tleman with a blue eve and a habit of shoot ing quick and straight, with a “gun” in each hand. He wears collars and cuffs, aud brushes his clothes and keeps his boots pol ished. If he were to walk down Fourth street he would be taken for a contracting freight agent of one of the fast lines, or per haps for the general agent of an insurance company. He was made sheriff of El Paso county in 1884, and has (held the office over since. lie has a record for bravery unsurpassed on this frontier, anil is universally respected. He is not “a liad man,” not a desperado; he is simply a fearless man who iu an unsettled condition of society has often found it neces sary to keep the peace by fighting for it. If Jim White was ever held up before there is no record of the case. If heads were ever broken with six shooters, anil innocent peo ple. robbed in his presence by desperadoes who escaped unhurt before the train rob bery the Texan reporters have failed to chronicle the event. Yet, the dispatches say that White was in the sleeper, which was rifled, but did not shoot. True, he was not robbed himself, for the bandits left the coach before coming to his berth; but that makes no difference. The fact remains that a train lias been rifled when one of the nerviest men of Texas was on board, one of the quickest shots, one of the bravest sheriffs “with a record.” And what does it all prove? Simply this, that those people who talk about resisting a systematic and well planned “hold-up,” and think if they had been there they would have headed a suc cessful attack against the robbers, don’t know what they are talking about. Men who have been held up tell strange stories about the diameter of the gun muzzles they looked down. They astonish us with the descriptions of the eyes of robbers, and how “determined” they looked. The simple fact is that “hands up” In Texas means “hands up,” and when Jim White lies still in his berth and listens to a conversation in Span ish between his wife and a Mexican lieuten ant, who is subsequently pounded over the head with a six-shooter and does not show fight, it is because he knew that in such cases discretion is the lietter part of valor. ARE THEY MUMMIFIED AZTECS? Strange Discovery by Miners in a Tomb in New Mexico. A San Francisco dispatch to the Now York World says: There is a stir in scien tific circles over the advent of five mummi fied Aztecs, supposed to have been buried GOO years. Tho groUp comprises two men, two women and a child. They were discov ered some months ago by two miners, Dasty and Morris, in a hermetically sealed cave in the canon of the Gila river, on the bound ary line between Arizona and New Mexico. The miners were prospecting and noticed a place closed by human hands. They ques tioned the Indians, who declined to give any information, and were opposed Li any ex ploration. Watching their chances the prospectors removed the obstructions to the cave. Huge boulders, bound by excellent cement , had to bo pried out of place. A search for treasures was unsuccessful, but twenty feet from the mouth of the cave they found an Aztec mummy in a sitting posture, the legs bent up after tho custom of the race. The hands were folded over the breast in the posture of alteration facing towards the East. A further search revealed other bodies. A mother and child were nestling together in a loving embrace. The bodies were removed to this city. They arc in excellent preser vation, not disembowelled, and were evi dently mummified naturally. The skin is tanned. The women retain their long, flowing silken hair. Measurements by Dr. Paolo de Vecchi, of Turin University’, and Dr. C. M. Richter, of Berlin, made yesterday conform to the historical descrip tions of Aztecs, and the general appearance and mode of burial, and the surroundings identify the mummies with the ancient race. The bodies were covered with highly colored clothes, which crumbled on exposure. Three kinds were saved, two of a roar so material and one a deep blue, woven in diamond shapes. No implements or utensils were found. All the Consuls here and many scientific men inspected the mummies yesterday. Among those present were Henry A Ward, of Rochester, N. Y.; Kate Field. New York; Dr. Darkness, Academy of Science; Joseph Leconte and John Leconte, Dr. Bazet, Dr. Hcscit, Historian Bancroft, John T. Graff and Edward Lewis. A GHASTLY JOKE. What a Cleveland Undertaker Did When He Got on to a Case. Fum the Cleveland Plaindealer. “My God, Jim, there’s u man hanging to the telegraph pole,” was the startling ex clamation made early Friday morning by one or two men who were walking along on Canal street, near Seneca. And, sure enough, susjH'ndisi in midair, was the form of a man, who to all appearances had delib erately committed suicide by hanging. Hastily crossing the street, the inon noti(lei parties in the hide and pelt warehouse of Thompson & Herrick. Mr. L. A. Thompson telephoned to Mr. W. E. Heffron, a West Side undertaker, and said: “ Bill, there’s a man hanging to a telegraph jiole in front of the store! Looks like a case of suicide.” “Shall I come over for him? 1 ’ inquired Mr. Heffron. “Do ns you like.” remarked Mr. Thomp son, and ue ran off. The distance from Mr. Heffron’s under taking rixmis to Canal street is something over a mile and a half, but the dead-wagon made it in about 3:08;-,. Mr. Heffron man aged Ihe reins himself, and it is but justice to say that, presuming the call to bo one of necessity, he n's|side‘l ns quickly as possi ble. Arriving at the telegraph'ix>lh Mr. Heffron was surprised atvl .hocked to find the supposed suicide merely a stuffed man of straw, and not a corpse. Later develop ments in the case (mint to Mr. Thompson as the originator of the “joke.” It is said Mr. Heffron will present a regularly made out bill for the trip made. Man’s inhumanity to woman makes count less thousands mourn, would lie an appli cable rendering of Pope’s line, in view of the indignities she has suffered aud fniins undergone at the bands of unskillful physi cians and quacks. Naturally modest she suffers on until forced to consult a physician regarding some female difficulty which she well knows is sapping her strength. All this embarrassment cun he avoided and a cure effected by purchasing Dr. Pierce’* “Favor ite Prescription” of your druggist, ami tak ing as directed. Price reduced to one dol lar 1 ANYBODY BUT AMERICANS. Bitter Publication Against “Yankees” by a Mexican Paper. A dispatch from the City of Mexico to the Missouri .Republican says the recent actfcm of the government in granting im portant concessions for colonization, public improvements, etc., to Americans and American companies, is the pretext for an assault on the administration by the organs of the church party. The National, a prominent opposition journal, will, in a leading article to-morrow, take a strong stand against the Diaz administration for granting concessions to Americans. “Each of these concessions,” says the Xacional , “is one link more which ties us to that ‘pacific American conquest,’ as it is termed by American jour nalists within and without the country. With this ‘pacific conquest’ there will lie no war, there will be no armies of Americans invading Mexico, and no battles null be fought. We shall not see ourselves subju gated by our national enemies by force of arms, but, on the other hand, the business men and financiers who come from the United States, and to whom our govern ment officials give concessions, will create American interests, will make themselves the owners of great manufacturing, mining, railway and agricultural enterprises; will acquire extensive* territorial properties: will exercise by their wealth decisive influence in the country, and the (lay will arrive, if things go on as they are now going, when they will control the elections, will become deputies and ministers, and will decide who shall be Pres ident of the republic. The Catholic religion will then give place to Protestantism, to Ju daism, to Mormonism, and a thousand dif ferent sects which exist in the United States, and the English language will replace the Spanish. In that day we shall no longer lie Mexicans —we shall be slaves in our own land, and will occupy the wretched place which descendants of Mexicans now occupy in California, Texas and New Mexico, who have not assimilated with the Yankee race. If foreigners are needed, let Europeans? be welcomed; let Spaniards, Frenchmen, Eng lish and Germans come, hut not Americans.” The writer goes on to say that Europeans will aid the Mexicans to resist American in fluence and overcome the Yankees. “To admit Yankees,” continues the article, “is to seat at our table our mortal enemies. Already Americans control the contracts of the National and Sonora railroads, many of the systems are in their possession and soon there will lie banks of discount and all our wealth will pass into their hands be cause our government obeys the fatal error which inclines it to them. The future means Yankee absorption, the disappearance of the Mexican race in history, and an increase in the num ber of stars in the hated American flag. If we Mexicans wish to prevent this terrible fate, it is necessary that public opinion should not only declare itself rosolutely anti-American, as it is already, but show itself so in all its acts.” The tone of the clerical press continues strongly anti-American and bitter in its op position to the policy of the Diaz adminis tration, which favors protection and en couragement of American capital and en terprise. “Good gracious, Jane, why didn’t you marry a monkey, and be done with it?" “Oh,” smiled Jane, "I thought you might want to marry some time, and 1 wouldn't take your last chance."— Washington Critic. The tanal) Weekly News. Sixteen Images. For Saturday, June 25, 1887. NOW READY. CONTENTS. First Paoe —Priority; Nora of the Adiron dacks, an original story; Whither Are We Drift ing; An Unsuspected Suggestion; Stroll in Central Park, illustrated; A Progressive, Dinner Party; Things One Doesn't Like to Hear. Second I’aoe About Florida Towns; A Sen sational Case; Wesleyan's Commencement; Oil in Wilkes County; Chipley Dots; Wheat Hold ing Its Own; Girls, Control Your Tempers; Will Maloney Return? Col. Ingersoll’s Jug of Whisky; Will Not Be Suspended. Third Page -Those Silent Banners; Bunker Hill's Shadow; Bishop Stevens; Gordon's Noble Words; Loss of the Vidette; Gov. Gordon’s Mother Dead; Yellow Jack's Victims; Gov. Per ry's Vetoes; A New Railroad; A Live Florida Town; Suicide in Charleston; Hair Oil and Hair Dye; Curious Jubilee Plans. Fourth Page— Georgia Hemp in Use; Judge Loehraue Dead; Amazed Augustians; De Fitni ak's Prospects; Dun's Weekly Report; Four Million Dollars Involved; Georgia Railroads Complain; Steamer Champlain Burned; A Brave Young Man; Death Laden Zephyrs; Two Assassins. Fifth Page— Sailing Round the Moon; Lon don in a Whirl; After Many Days; Lynn’s Hearty Reception; Washington Pointers; Like Father Like Son; The Reichstag Closed; Cupid s Sly Pranks; To Assist the Militia; Female Colleges; An American Woman’s Jewels; Busy American Bandits; Nerve and Gold. Sixth Page— Gay Girls of Gotham; Baked Beans; Instinct or Reason: Insane Delusions; Cleveland’s Secretary; Advice for the Minister; Queer Hotel Hauls; Tragedy. Seventh Paaoe— Agricultural Department; Manure and Grape Rot; About Weeds; Effect of Clover on Soil; Covering Seed; Rust on Pears; A Bath for Fowls; An Early Peach; Household; Farm Notes. Popular Science; Washington Notes; Theatrical News; A Tramp's Story; Tremendous Meteor. Eighth Page—How to Save the Cities, Tal mage Discourses on Municipal Corruption; A Maniac's Ferocity; Emory College; The Cadets at Work; New Yorkers with Big Salaries; Trouble in Honolulu; When to Wear Jewels. Ninth Page— Fifty Years a Queen; Britain's Grand Tribute to a Beloved Sovereign; Streets Thronged and Windows Filled With Spectators; Westminster Abbeys Blaze of Scarlet and Gold; A Most Imposing and Gorgeous Parade; Full Details of the Proceedings. Tenth Page- The News of Georgia Gathered from ('orrespondents and Exchanges; England's Proud Queen. Ei.kvkniii JtaoE Round About In Florida, the Nw.< of Told in Paragraphs; At tho I ni' < Lmmoncemenl ; President Cecil D JHf Twe^^HVie— Editorial: The Battle Flags; A Remarkable Case; The Ui" Jubilee: Continuation of Eng 9ieen. Tihrteenth Page—Local Department: Mer cury Climbing High; Neptune's Daughters; Shot Dead in His Sh-ep; The Havana Mails; Linked With the Sea; Slain Because of a Dug; A Seri ous Collision; Tho New Fertilizer Works; A Marvelous Escape; Dr. Bruner's Report Fourteenth Page Tho Georgia Watermelon; How Cathedrals are Built; A Society Incident; Powderly on Rum; On the Congo; Old York shire. A Race of Nondescripts. FirszENn Page Mr. Kecly's Invention; A Romance of Crime; Bitter Creek's Dad Man; "Who the Dickens Kissed Me?" The Scripture 1/eaaon for the Day; He Wanted Snails; Too Thin: Vividly Recalling the Incident; Current Comment; Bright Bits; Personal; Items of in terslF Six rxENTH Page Review of tho Financial mid General Markets; Middle Georgia's Collage Com mencomont; Exercise* at Emory; K.ight Lives List ; Why the Fever Increases; Glass Factory Burned at At ita; Trouble at Waycroaa; Ad vertisement*, Just the paper to Bend to your friends. Single copies 6 cents. For sale at Est,ill's News Depot and at the of fice. 8 Whit, titer street, FU N ERAL IN VI TAT ION S. PACF.TTI.-The friends and acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Pacf.tti, John Pacetti and Mrs. C. E. O'Sullivan are respectfully in vited to attend the funeral of the tormer from his late residence, corner Gaston and Price streets, at 4 o’clock THIS AFTERNOON. GASTELLO. —The friends and acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. Frans Ca.stki.ij> are requested to attend the funeral of the latter from St. Phil lips' A. M. E. church at 10 o'clock THIS (Thurs day) MORNING. SPECIAL NOTICES. CITY HIGH SCHOOLS. The graduation exercises of the High Schools will be held in Hunter Hall, Chatham Academy, on FRIDAY, 24th inst., beginning at 9Jd> a. m. Patrons of the school and friends of education are invited to be present, W. H. BAKER, Superintendent, CHANGE OF SAILING. The steamship JOHNS HOPKINS, for Balti more, previously appointed to sail THURSDAY, 23d inst., at 7 p. m., will not sail until FRIDAY", 24th, at 8:30 a. m. JAMES B. WEST & CO., Agents. POTATOES! POTATOES! JUST RECEIVED ONE CARLOAD OF EXTRA FINE TENNESSEE POTATOES. For sale cheap at J. S. COLLINS & CO.’S. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. Southwestern Railroad Company, i Office Macon, June 14th, 1887. f Dividend No. 67 of THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per share will be paid the Stock holders of this Company on and after the 22d inst. Stockholders receiving their dividends in Macon will be paid at the Central Georgia Bank of this city—those at Savannah at the Central Railroad Bank of that city. W. S. BRANTLY, Sec. and Treas. SPECIAL NOTICE. From this date and until further notice the STEAMER KATIE will be withdrawn from the Savannah river, for the purpose of general over hauling. Due notice will be given of the re sumption of her route. JOHN LAWTON, Manager. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR. This vegetable preparation is invaluable for the restoration of tone and strength to the sys tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot be excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul mer’s Liver Corrector and take no other. $1 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist, Savannah, Ga. ~DR. HENRY S COLDIXIi, DENTIST, Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. ELECTION NOTICE. CITY OF SAVANNAH, 1 Office Clerk of Council, Savannah, Ga., June 10th, 1887. j Under and by virtue of a resolution adopted by Council at meeting of June loth, 1887, Coun cil will elect at its next regular meeting, that is to say on WEDNESDAY. .June 29th. 1887, a Cor poration Attorney to fill vacancy occasioned by the resignation of H. C. Cunningham. Salary $1,500 per annum. Applicants must hand in th-ir applications to the Clerk of Council at or before 2 o’clock u. m., WEDNESDAY, June 29th, 1887. By order of Council. FRANK E. REBARER, Clerk of Council. "fuel. COAL AND WOOD, ALL KINDS AND SIZES, PROMPTLY DELIVERED BY H). IR,_ T'lb-oxxi.as, 111 Bay Street and West Broad St. Wharves. ~ TOOTH PASTE: FORTHE TEEm ORIENTAL TOOTH PASTE. Cherry Tooth Paste, Charcoal Tooth Paste, Shiffield’s Cream Dentifrice, Lyons' Tooth Tablet s. Arnica .Tooth Soap, Thompson's Tooth Soap, Caroolic Tooth Soap, Tooth Powers and Washes all kinds at STRONG'S DRUG STORE, corner Bull and Perry street lane. HOTELS. WASHINGTON HOTEL 7th and Chestnut Streets, PIT ILADELPIIIA, PA. JOHN TRACY, PROPRIETOR. RATES, DO T*EITi, ITAY. Centrally located, only a short walk from Penn'a and. Reading Depots. New Passenger Elevator, Electric Jiells, New Dining Room and all modern improvements. Polite attendance and unsurpassed table. NEW HOTEL TOGNI, (Formerly St. Mark’s.) Neuman Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla. r IM IE MOST central House in the city. Near 1 Post Oflice, Street Cars and all Ferries. New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bells, Baths, Etc. $2 30 to $3 per day. JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprietor, s. a. UPSON, Manager. DUB'S SCREVEN HOUSE. r | ’'HIS POPULAR Hotel la now provided with 1 a Pnnsenger Elevator (the only one in tho citv) and has l***n remodeled .and newly fur nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase is also the owner of the establishment, spares neither pains nor expense in the entertainment of his guests. The patronage of Florida visit ors is earnestly invited. The table of the Screven Hour• is supplied with every luxury that tho markets at homo or abroad can afford. MARSHALL HOUSE, SAVANNAH, - - GA. f ' EO. D. HODGES. Proprietor. Formerly of V I the Metropolitan Hotel. New York, and tho Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen tral. All parts of the city and plsces of Inter est accessible by street cars constantly passing the doors. Special Inducement* to tlioso visit lug the city for liusimtss or pleasure. THE MORRISON" HOUSE. - One of the Largest Boarding Houses in the South. \FFORDS pleasant Hout h rooms, good hoard with pure Artesian Wafer, at prices to suit those wishing table, regular or transient accom modations. Northeast corner Broughton and Drayton street*, opposite Marshall House. SUMMER RESORTS, MOUNTA IX ll< )I fsik Cornwall Heights, New York, ( VN slope of Storm King Momtaln: elevation ' ' I,‘JIIO fee!. Now open fur reception of guests Climate positive cure for maluria. Healthiest summer resort in United States; IL. hours from New Vork by West -Shore railroad* S!i by Mary I'owcll. Dancing In grand fsvvlilon every iilgat. Electric bells, new Isiwling alley, billiard parlor, tennis court, horseback riding. Refer- to Anstiu K. Mvres, of editorial staff Savannah Morning News. Address J. W. AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATRE* Hun! idm! At Special Request of Everyone The Fords WILL SUBSTITUTE PINK DOMISOS! Their last season’s Greatest Success, for MISB CHESTER. See Larry Doyle In his great characterization J*osfcin- Tix'b'bs The performance to take place WEDNESD AY THURSDAY, and THURSDAY MATINEE’ Prices as usuaL BASE BALL! Grocery Clerks vs. Amateurs, AT BASF, BALL PARK, Thursday Afternoon, June 23, at 4 O’Clock. Admission 25c., including Grand Stand. Ladiei cordially invited free. SUMMER RESORTS. WARM SPRIKCrS, Meriwether County, Ga. WILL BE OPEN JUNE Ist., with first class * ' accommodations at reasonable rates. Warm Springs are on the north side of Pine Mountains, 1.500 feet above sea level and sur rounded by beautiful and romantic scenery. The climate Is delightfully cool and dry. No mosquitoes, dust or mud. Tho Spring one of Nature’s wonders, flows 1,400 gallons of water (90 degrees temperature) per minute, affording the FINEST BATHING in America. The baths are Rix large pools tea feet square, two to five deep with CLEAR. FRESH, WARM WATER unlimited. This water is a sure cure for Dyspepsia and most cases of Rheumatism, Skin and Kidney Diseases. There is also here a fine Chalybeate Spring. Amusements of all kinds provided. Good Livery Stable, Bar and Billiard Saloon, Fine Band of Music for Ball room and Lawn. The Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad, now running two daily trains from Columbus to Warm Springs, will, on the 15th of June, be completed to Griffin, connecting there with tho Central Railroad for ail points North and East. Two daily mails and Telegraph. For further information address CHARLES L. DAVIS, Proprietor. UIH "ARLINGTON; Open the year round. This popular hotel, having a commanding and central location, is a brick structure, in modern style of hotel architecture aud In completeness of ap pointment is second to no hotel in North Georgia. The commodious oflice. with an open arcade, dining-room on first floor, and large, airy rooms are newly and handsomely furnished and fitted with all modern conven iences throughout. In the hotel is located the post office, barber shop and a first-class billiard parlor. The cuisine is unequaled, and the ser vice in every respect is in keeping with that of the best ana home like hotels of the larger cities. Under a most liberal management every effort will be made to provide for the comfort and enjoyment of its guests; with this in view, Wurm's Celebrated Orchestra, of Atlanta, has been engaged to furnish music diudng the months of July and August. The grand open ing will be given Thursday evening, July 7th, 1887. Any information regarding climate, water and the advantages of our “Queen City" as a summer home will be cheerfully given on ap plication. Special rates to families. Address WINK TAYLOR, Proprietor, Gainesville, Ga. MONTVALE SPRING^ Blount County, - Tennessee. rpms Health Resort wC. bo (men May Ist, 18S7 1 The most celebrated Dyspeptic Water known. Elegant Hotel and Grounds. Excellent Table. Telephone connection with KnoxviUe. Itates: $1 per day ; 525 par month for May and June; $2 per day, $lO and sl2 jier week, $33 and S4O iier month for July arid August. Half rates for children. J. C. ENGEL, Prop. The .Niagara of the South. TALLULAH, FALLS, GA„ ON the Piedmont Air Line, in the Blue Ridge- Mountains, 2,000 feet above sea level. CLIFF HOUSE AND COTTAGES, Open from June to November. For full part tieulars address F. 11. & F. B. SCOFIELD, Proprietors. Late of Hotel Kaatuskill, Catskill Mountains, N. Y., and Loland Hotel, Chicago. Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, VIRGINIA. -SEASON 1887. OPEN JUNE Ist. First class in all its equip ments. Terms reasonable. Special rates for families and large parties. For particulars address GEORGE W. FAGG & CO., Montgomery Springs P. 0., Montgomery county, Vo. POPULAR PRICES. Congress Hall. SARATOGA SPRINGS, Accommodat es 1,000 persons. Rates, $3 per day for rooms, except those on parlor and first floors. Open from June 18 to Oct. 1. CLEMENT A COX, Proprietors. H. S. CLEMENT, Manager. _ THE KENSING-TOnT Union Avenue, opposite Congress Springs Park, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. OPENS SATURDAY, JUNE 18th. For particulars address 229 Broadway, Room 18, N. Y., or 420 GatPs Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. PAUL C. GRENiNG. Proprietor. LONG BRANCH, N. J. United States Hotel, A Select Family and Transient Hotel. OPENS JUNE 23, 1887. LAI RI) Ac v AN CLSA /l A PON SPRINGS AND BATHS, Alkaline V IJthia and Superior Iron Waters, Hauip whin* countv, \V. Ya. This celebrated mountain r\sort for health and pleasure; Baths or nnf temperature; a summer climate unsurpassed; ® eluirmintf summer home with its many improve ments, acrommodalliik HOO gueata, opens June Ist. Send for circular aud rate sheet (for nunn* col and other teatimony). WM. 11. SALE, Pro prietor. _ r |U i K WATAUGA ID iTI'.L, blowing Rock. H. ■ 0. lu the mountains of North Carolina* 4,000 f*ot above the sea. Easily accessible. Meai* cnl Knulimtc on the premises. Terms the low est in North Oarolllift. Opened June , lß t_^. r T sr? season. For information address WATAUGA H< n KLO Blowing; Rock, Yr. Mountain lake, giles county#*™; Elevation 4,u00 feet. Pure, cool air . water. No liny fever or mosquitoes. Of* scenery. Unpolluted attractions. Rides I - S4O to SSO. Writ* for pamphlet- a dress MANAGER. 'THOUSAND ISLANDS. .Westminster Hotel, * Westminster Park, Alexandria Bay, N . “Unquestionably the tinost location in l . Thousand Island*.”— Harper's J laaazin*, “O'■■ 1881. Send for descriptive pamphlet- *• *■ U'CTU" \rt.T. Pronrk'to;-.