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The fact that the farmers are not grumb
ling is evidence that mother earth is doing
her fluty.
If oil has really been found in Wilkes
county, Georgia millionaires will cease to
be curiosities. •
Perhaps the Atlanta glass works were
burned by some indignant citizen who
didn’t believe in substituting glass-blowing
for horn-blowing
If the Washington correspondents tell the
truth,the President is going to visit all over
the country between now and November. If
he does the people will lie gratified.
Among the graduates of Cornell Univer
sity this year Anarchist. American
institutions of learning seem to lie willing
to educate and graduate anything that
walks and talks.
Senator Sherman manifests a disposition
to withdraw the bloody shirt from pubi c
view. It is too late. The exhibition he
made at Springfield, 111., has effectually
shelved him as a Presidential jif*ssibility.
It is said that the pension office at Tope
ka, Kan., disbursed #341,5*90 87 during the
past quarter. There are 38,072 honorably
discharged soldiers on the roll. The pension
is one “relic’’ of the war that will outlast all
the others.
Regarding his failure to fiay the #SOO
directed by his mother to be given to the
Little Sisters of the Poor, Dr. McGiynn ex
plains that when she died she left no prop
erty. The doctor’s friends say that he paid
some of the smaller jiersonal legacies with
his own money.
The statement tlrnt the jieople at the
London hotel at which Mr. Blaine is staying
took him for u dynamiter, gives the Repub
lican papers great pain. They doubtless
thought that the Plumed Knight would be
, instantly recognized as the “Great Ameri
can Statesman.' 1
At Boyertown, Pa., last week, Mrs. Mary
Gehrig died at the age of 1)1. She was the
last of seven sisters, all but one of whom
lived to be over 90. Hannah died at 1)7,
Nancy at 96, Kate at 93, Betsy at 94, Susan
nah at 92 and Sarah at 88. No particular
reason is assigned for their long lives.
The managers of the recent national drill
at Washington are by no means happy.
They are out of pocket to the amount
of $20,000, and have levied an as
sessment of 40 per cent, on the stock
holders. The promoters of prize drills
are beginning to recognize the fact that
such things are not money-making institu
tions.
The color line is causing trouble at Asbury
Park, N. J. Ex-Mayor James A. Bradley,
owner of the resort, publisher! rules exclud
ing the negroes from the walks anti pavil
ious. The negroes jiaid no attention to the
rules and the ex-Mayor has called on the
police for protection. Republican pajx-re
dismiss this bit of news in four lines. If it
was from the South instead of from Asbury
Park, it would have been spread over at
least a column.
A steamship and two sailing vessels which
left Kan Francisco for Honolulu, the other
day, carrier! 9,<XK) rifles, 66,000 cartridges,
23,000 primers, 0,000 bullets, 2 caw* of shot,
and 4 cases of revolvers. The consignees
are W. G. Irwin & Cos., who are the brokers
for Spreckds ami a number of the so-called
missionary planters who have fallen out
with King Kalaknua. Those shipments
loem to confirm the rejxirts of n proposed
revolution in the Hawaiian Islands.
From JBHI to 1885, inclusive, 148 persons
were sentenced to death in France. Hewn
were women and seventeen were between
the ages of 16 and 20. Woventy were agri
cultural laborers, which show s that crime
is not conn mil to cities in France, as some
lielieve. Among the remaining number
forty-eight were workmen, fiftren commer
cial employe*, eight servants, one was a
notary and one was a private gentleman.
Of the total number 113 could read and
write.
At New Haven, Conn., the other <lay, the
standard liearer of aG. A. R. jxwt entered
a saloon and left his standard, a United
States flag, in •’are of the bar-tender. When
the G. A. It. man returned from n visit to a
friend, the standard had disappeared and no
truce of it could be found. Tills incident
wggests that the G. A. R. sometimes care*
tew about “t,he old flag" than about the oap
tured Confederate flag*. General Lucius
Fairchild ought to let hUnaelf loose on the
’ Mbject,
Holman and the Labor Movement
Congressman Holman was asked in
Washington a day or two ago what effect
he thought the labor movement would have
upon the two great political parties. He is
reported to have said that, in his opinion,
the movement was a groat political prob
lem. and that nobody could foretell wljatits
infinence wonld be. He said that he thought
that the Democratic party was in a good
shajie, and that the administration was
strong with the people, because it was sin
cere and honest in guarding the interests of
the people, but this labor movement, he
admitted, "may upset all calculations."
The politicians of bn#i political par-tie
ure watching th' labor movement easeful! v.
They all seem satisfied that the labor part v
wiil make a -how of strength next year. In
localities it will make a show of its strengt h
this year. Although there are dissensions
among the labor organizations, and the
number in them is not as large as it was a
year or so ago. there is, nevertheless, a
growing disposition among them to take a
prominent part in politics. There are am
bitious men in them who intend to use them
if they can to advance their political for
tunes.
One of the reasons why Mr. Powderly is
not as popular as he might be is his opposi
tion to the Knight s of Labor becoming a po
litical organization. Already quite a strong
combination has been formed to go to the
convention which meets at Minneapolis to
antagonize Mr. Powderly, the men who
stand by him and their ideas.
It is noticeable that there is the utmost
harmony between the latior organizations,
the followers of Henry George, and Dr.
MoGiynn's Anti-Poverty Society people.
Steps have already been taken to unite
them all for political purposes. Canvassers
have visited the tenement quarters in New
York city and pledged the voters found
there to support a Labor ticket. It is said
that between 50,000 and 75,000 pledges
have been obtained. This looks as
if the labor movement would have
a strong support in that city. Doubtless
the same programme will be carries! out in
other industrial cities next year. Indeed, it
is not improbable that it may be inaugur
ated this year, because those who are man
aging this labor movement are impatient to
achieve reshits. If they cannot exercise a
potent influence in national affairs they at
least hope to control the labor of the coun
try mid manage municipal matters in the
larger cities.
It may be thought that Congressman
Holman attaches too much importance to
the labor movement, but it will hardly be
denied that the facts already disclosed with
regard to it are sufficient to arrest the at
tention of the leaders of lioth the Demo
cratic and Republican parties. If it proves
to be as formidable as it at present promises
to be one or the other of these parties will
suffer a very considerable loss of strength.
It is hardly probable that one will lose
about as many votes us the other. The in
teresting question is, which will be the
heavier loser?
programme of the Protectionists.
Senator Sherman, in his Springfield
speech, advocated the total repeal of the
sugar duties anil the payment of a bounty
to the sugar planters of this country as the
most satisfactory way to reduce the reve
nues of the government. Several of the
Republican )W]>ers agree with the Senator,
and also favor the repeal of the toliaceotax.
The proposition to repeal the sugar duties
and pay sugar planters a bounty Ls not a
new one, but it seems to meet with more
favor from the protectionists than ever
before. They are determined that the
duties upon clothing, agricultural imple
ments and many other articles wiiich the
people are compelled to have shall not be
reduced, ami they will, therefore, make an
extraordinary effort, when Congress meets,
to carry out tiie programme which Senator
Sherman lias mapped out. They have very
little to say now alxiut reducing the tax on
whisky. The prohibition sentiment is so
strong that they are afraid of offending the
Prohibitionists by advocating free whisky.
The revenue from sugar is about $51,000,-
000 a year and from tobacco atxiut $20,000,-
000. There are several objections in the
way of carrying out this Republican pro
gramme. In tho first place the sugar duty
is a revenue duty. The amount of sugar
that is produced in this country is so small
that it is an iasignifleant (uirt of tho total
consumption. The duty, therefore, unlike
the duties on many manufactured articles,
goes into the Treasury. It is by no means
certain that the reix'ul of the sugar duty
would make sugar cheaper to the consumer.
The chances are that an oxjxirt duty would
be placed upon it, as in the case of coffee,
and the revenue which now goes into our
Treasury would go into foreign treasuries.
It would also be difficult to determine the
amount of bounty .which ought to be paid
to the sugar planters. It is pretty certain
that, those who cultivate wheat, cotton,
oats, etc., would object to paying a bounty
to sugar growers unless a similar provision
were made for their benefit. There are plenty
of cotton planters who claim that they can
not raise cotton profitably at the present
price of that product, and doubtless there are
farmers who cultivate wheat and corn who
are ready' to say' the same thing. If an at
tempt were made to assist one class of
farmers there would be trouble at once.
The only plan for reducing the revenue
that will give general satisfaction is that
proposed by the tariff reformers. Their
purpose is to benefit all classes. The pur
pose of the protectionists is to liencfit a
few, and these few are chiefly thoso w hom
the protective system has made rich.
It is reported in "Washington that Mr.
C. A. Dana, of tho New York Sun, has
gone to Europe to fight a duel with Mr.
Joseph Pulitzer, of tho N t -’ w York World.
The report is based on an alleged dispatch
received from u United States consul at
Pottzdorff, or Rottendorff, or some other
place in Germany, asking the State Depart
ment what should be done to prevent tho
intended conflict. Nolxxly in the State
Department will admit that such a dispatch
wax received. If Mr. Dana and Mr. Pulit
zer are really'going to tight they will fur
nish a very interesting bit of cable news.
i
A cook in Fall Hiv<>r, Mass., named
Ernest K i ruler fate r, has fallen heir to a for
tune of $500,000. If he does his duty he
will pay the doctors’ bills of the unfortu
nates who suffer from dyspepsia by reason
of eating his pies.
The Washington I‘ost says: “Jay Gould
says his yachting trip to Washington did
him ‘a great deal of good.”’ No doubt; it
was on that trip that he opened his purse
and made the country u present.
The young tubes of the senior class at
Handy Creek Academy, N. Y., graduated
in calico gowns. They set an example that
deserve* imitation, provided, of course, the
gowns were blylishly made.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1887.
New York’s Car Heating: Law.
The New York papers very generally
commend the law recently enacted by the
New York Legislature, and signed a day or
two ago by the Governor,making it unlawful
for any steam railway to heat its ears by
moans of stoves. Tiie penalty for a viola
tion of the law is #I,OOO. It is expected that
preparations will be lx?gun at once by New
York railroads for heating their cars by
means of steam. Experiments have proven
that the heating of cars by that method is
feasible.
If the heating by steam proves to be a
silver in New York the railroads of other
States doubtless will adopt the system, and
if they are stow to adopt it appeals will be
made to the legislatures for laws requirin'.;
them to do so. Asa very large percentage of
the Pullman cars pass over New York roads
that company will be put to considerable
trouble mi's- the railroads of other State,
f, th>s- of New York in adopting
-••■am. If it continues, however, to run its
'•nr- across State hues it will, for the time
being, have to g provide its
cal's with both ' ifoves and
-Tu.m heating apparatus, TO the Static
where stoves are used it wifi have to depend
upon stoves, and in New York it will have
to lie prepared for steam. As other cars
than sleepers are run from other States into
New York it is apparent that the New York
law wifi cause some trouble until steam is
very generally adopted. It may lie that in
the very near future some better way, than
by either steam or stoves, will he discovered
for heating cars. The inventive genius of
ihe country has always lieen found equal to
every emergency.
An Expensive Commission.
The Interstate Commerce Commission al
ready begins to talk about the need of more
money for its ex]enses. The appropriation
for the present year is $100,(MX), two-fifths
of which are required for salaries of com
missioners, two-fifths for traveling ex-
Ileases and one-filth for clerk hire. The
Commissioners say that they must have a
great many more clerks than the present ap
propriation permits them. It is probable
that the next thing that will be suggested
will be an Interstate pom merce Bureau, ard
finally there will be a movement to have a
department of the government, with a cab
inet officer at its head, to manage the rail
roads It i remarkable how commissions
develop into bureaus, and bureaus into de
partments.
The Agricultural Department started in a
very modest way, and without accomplish
ing much for the farmers as far as anylnxly
can see. has grown into a pretty big institu
tion, and doubtless will soon have a Cabinet
officer at the head of it. The Executive
part of the government will soon be a'
pretty cumbersome nort of an affair if it
keeps on spi-pading out. The buildings it
occupies cover a very cousiderable portion of
Washington now, and the need of other
buildings has been suggested. There are so
many people who want an office, however,
that it is not to be wondered at that Con
gress is all the while hunting for ways to
gratify them. Probably it would be well
for the Interstate Commerce Commission to
prove that it is doing beneficial work before
it begins to talk about a bigger appropria
tion and more clerks.
For many years the good Sisters of Char
ity at New Orleans have done a noble
work in the Charity Hospital of that city.
Strangers who are brought into contact
with them are impressed with the sweetnes
of their dispositions and their fidelity to the
trust re) nisei lin them. A Cincinnati lady
who visited the hospital thus speaks of
them: “To these plain-habited women, so
quiet and so fearless, New Orleans has ten
dered the freedom of the city for all time.
No money is asked of them on the bridge or
boat; they alone, of all the throng, ride in
the street cars without paying fare—
their habit is tlieir jiassport every
where. Ladies bow to them us they
pass along the streets, gentlemen lift their
hats, and under those white bonnets I have
seen faces so sweet and saintly that I have
thought they were fashioned thus pure be
cause so many dying were to look at them
throughout the years; because they had so
often symtiolized mother, sister, God, to the
wrecked and homeless and plague-stricken
of the land. There was one sister to whom
I talked in the charity hospital, and who
took me over the immense building, whose
voice was the sweetest I ever listened to.
Even her cheeriest talk had in it that little
quiver of sympathy that is like the minor
tones amidst harmonious chords of music.”
John Tobin, of Kansas City, is about to
institute suit against Salt Lake City for
property valued at $1,0(X),000. He alleges
that in 1808 lie was obliged to leave Salt
Lake City, with the penalty of death hang
ing over him should lie return. Just before
John D. Leo was hanged for the Mountain
Meadow massacre he confessed that he had
been ordered by Brigham Young to murder
Tobin. He had, in fact, attacked Tobin’s
family and killed several of its members,
but had only succeeded in wounding Tobin
himself. At the time Tobin fled he owned
considerable property in Salt Lake City,
which has increased in value until it is now
estimated to be worth #1,000,000. The case
will excite much interest, for it is said that
it will bring to light more than one crime
committed by order of the Mormon leaders.
A gentleman of Richmond, Va., has of
fered a prize bf $25, or a gold medal of that
value, at the option of the winner, ns a
special premium for the best essay on the
subject of “Self-supporting Employment
for Indies in the Southern States,” Tho
award will be made at the Virginia State
Fair by a committee of three Judies and
three gentlemen, to be appointed by the ex
ecutive committee of the Agricultural So
ciety. It wouldn’t be a bad idea for some
body to offer a prize for a similar essay to
lie read at the approaching Georgia State
Fair.
E. S. McDonald was tho first of the
Chicago IsKsllers to bo convicted. On Mon
day- last his little son had a terrible fall,
which fractured his skull. Efforts were
made to obtain permission for McDonald to
Ixi present at the bedside of tile little suf
ferer, but they failed. The hoy died in n
few hours. When McDonald was informed
of tho death of his son he said nothing, but
placed his head lx.'tween his hands and wept
as if his heart would break. The way of
the transgressor is hard.
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Rev. J. H. Barrett, of Allegheny City,
Pa., preached a sermon against the Young
Men’s Christian Association of Pittsburg
last Sunday for holding a field meeting for
athletic sports llev. Mr. Barrett is the
clergyman who brought himself into notice
last year by preaching against l>ase ball.
He should join forces with the Georgia
clergyman ho spent, two horn's preaching
against that dreadfully wicked game—
cro.net.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Glorious Fourth.
Front (Ac lftmawri Republican {Drin.)
Money comribnted to niake the Fourth of
July celebration a success go > :o keen alive the
Jeffersonian principles ot liberty and indepen
dence on which this government was founded.
Help tc make the Fourth glorious.
Carlisle and the Speakership.
From the Philadelphia HecordiDeut).
A few so-called Democratic organs in the
South are industriously assailing Mr. Carlisle in
the vain hope of forcing him into a surrender of
Democratic principles’ am inticy. Though
these organs may not t>- aware of it. the
Speakership is nut of such value to Mr. Carlisle
that he would stoop to secure it at the sacrifice
of his honor or h:s party.
A Futilo Effort.
From the .Vw York Ttn.es t'Bepl
Proofs accumulate that th- mass of the Union
veterans an* not in sympathy with the violent
demonstrations of noiay <jere i ; ‘uues like Gov.
ForakeroramMtiouapartisan- like Gen. Far
child over th'incident of the battle flags. No
sol<li**r of patriotic feeling end seLer sense has
any fear that this or any other
will do anything to make the ,4p*ults of the
Union victories less secure or lessepermanent.
The Knights of Labor.
From the Chattanooga Time* iDemi.
The Knights of Latxyr an- going to pieces in
the North very rapidly. Tile radicals got con
trol: the order became too large and unwieldy I
there were too many openings for extremists
and demagogues; there w ere too many interests
of diverse character associated. It was doomed
to fail. Mr. Powderly has declined further
service as chief, and when his conserving in
fluence goes. the whole that is valuable in the
order wiii follow him into another mid lietrer
association. We are of opinion the Knights
have done great good in it negative way by
showing that such an association of all trades is
impracticable, and does more harm than good
inevitably.
BRIGHT BITS.
Eve never bothered Ailam about the spring
fashion, hut che was the first woman to adopt
the fall style.— Poston Gazette.
Honesty is more precious than gold, although
it cannot equal gold in opening the way into a
fashionable city church.— Whitehall Times.
In a Bowery Lodging House: Guest—Say. boss,
dey -a bloke snorin' so In dor next suite I can t
sleep.
Pri iprietor—Yer don't expect us to show folks
how to breathe for ten cents a night, do ver-
Tid-Bits.
"L.i'-rtA.” said Mrs. Parvenu, on the hotel
Piazza to her daughter. “Laura, go and ask the
loader of them orchestras to play that ‘Sympa
thy from Meddtojohn' over again. It’s such an
awful favorite of mine and your father's, too.”
— Exchange.
Wife (to late husband i—What time is it. John'
Husband (consulting his watch unsteadily)—
One o'clock, Benedict's time.
Wife (reproachfully)— No, it isn't, John; that's
Imehelor's time. Benedicts' time is not later
than 9 o'clock.—.Vetc York Sun.
Eminent Scientist— The planetary indications
give assurance that there will be no rain for the
next three days.
Man with a bunion (smiling with lofty supe
riorty)—There will be rain, sir, in less than
twelve hours. And there vox.- Boston Beacon.
Yoi-no man (to messenger boy)—What did
'he voting lady say w hen you gave her the
flowers?
Messenger boy—She asiced the young feller
who was sittin’ on the porch with her if he
didn't want some for a buttonhole bouquet
-V ew York Sun.
“All the witnesses in this case may consider
themselves discharged till further notice." called
out the court crier.
“Be gob,” said an Irishman who had given
testimony, “an" it’s just loike my luck. I never
could kape a pleasant, agreeable job more nor a
day or two."— Washington Critic.
Omaha tiiim —O! O!
(hicago girl—What's the matter?
"That man winked at me.”
“That handsome man over there?”
“Yes, the hrufc.X
“Unto! I should oy he was a brute. He
didu't even look atfEje?’— Omaha World.
“Theodore. I don't believe you love me any
more, "said a K street girl plaintively as her
best fellow pulled her hastily past an ice cream
saloon.
“Oh, don't say that dearest.” said he re
proachfully. “Why, I named fourteen post
offices after you last week."— Washington
Critic.
“Why are you so cold and distant to night,
dear?" he asked. “Have I offended you in any
way?”
“All is over between us. George." replied the
girl firmly. “I cannot trust my future to a
man who possesses such wretched judgment. 1
saw you umpire a game of base ball to-day.”—
New York Sun.
Some fifty yf.ars ado the programme of a
concert, given during the Norwich (Eng. i musi
cal festival, read as follows (it can scarcely lie
regarded as overloaded with punctuation
marks): “Comfort ye Mr. Hobbs, But who may
abide Mr. Balfe, Behold a virgin Mr. Young,
Behold darkness shall cover Mr. Philips, Rejoice
greatly Miss Birch, He shall feed Miss Hawes,
Come unto me Mine, Stockhausen.”— Musical
Items.
“Father," he said, as he ceased dusting off
some of the garments hanging at the (lour. “I
see dot der Treasury Department has called in
all der outstanding threes.”
“Moses, you look at me,” replied the father as
he came to the door. “If der Treasury call in
some bonds vve can't help it. If you let a man
go by dot wants some second hand pants you
iloau't get some oafereoat nor undershirts next
winter.”--. Wall Street Daily News.
PERSONAL.
Queen Victoria has offered a considerable
sum for a collection of letters of the late John
Brown, written to an humble Scotch acquaint
ance.
Allan Podwouth, who is in Europe, says that
over there, in a ball room, every one dances with
every one else without an introduction. He docs
not approve of the custom.
The library of Henry Ward Beecher, now in
the keeping of the American Art Association,
contains very lew novels. There is not even a
copy of Mr. Beecher's "Norwood.”
The presentation to the Sultan of Mr. Strauss,
the new United States Minister to Turkey, has
I av 11 postponed until after t he approaching cele
bration of the feast of the Bairam.
Cabin* have lieen engaged for Mr. Irving,
Miss Terry, and party in the North German
Lloyd steamer After, which is to leave South
ampton for New York on Thursday, Oct. 20.
At the Tammany Society Fourth of July feast
"talks" w ill be made by Gov. Lee. Secretary
Lamar, Senators Vance and Blackburn, Speaker
Carlisle. Henry Watterson ami Messrs. Randall
and Morrison.
Mrs. Alexander Mitchell has kindly con
sented not to contest her late husband's will, and
will try to sernpe along with #209,000 cash and
#50,000 annual Income. There 13 weeping in the
tents of the lawyers.
I'niLlP D Armour is a pretty good man to
have for a father. The son who lately came out
of college has been taken into partnership and
fitted out with a little, bafik account of bis own
to the tune of $1,000,000.
Thu. Armour, it is stated, will bo the next
millionaire owner of a traveling steamer. He
talks of having a yacht built similar to Lord
Brassey’s Sunbeam, and for the same purpose, a
voyage round the world.
Count Tolstoi not only wears peasants’
clothes, but he makes shoes for tils iieasants
and sends his own daughters to help them in
haying. Georg Braudes, the Danish critic, calls
him the "Russian Rousseau."
Trinity Colleoe, Hartford. Conn., this year
celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of the grad
uation of its first class .in IKgT. But one meni-
Ixsrofthe class survives--Itev. Oliver Hopson,
of Modalin. Dutchess county, N. Y.
Ohandos Fulton, oue of the directors of the
Lotos Club In New York, ordered and paid
for his own coftin several years ago, and keeps
it in his room, not as a memento mori, but as a
closet for choice liquors and cigars.
Albert Menier, the heir of the late French
chocolate manufacturer, who iR traveling In this
country, Is spending his hugefortun* very lib
erally. For awhile he was a private soldier in
the French army, and had to help clean out a
stable every morning.
Mrs. Livkhmore has delivered more than 800
temperance addresses, nearly 1 00 of these in
Boston. For many jeers she lias lectured five
nights n we-k for five months in the year; she
1 travels yearly 25,000 miles, besides working 1 ite
into the night to maintain her immense eorres
pottden****
A lit Lr. m California Mrs. Langtry will make
her headquarters in Oakland. A small house,
prettily furnished, will serve ns a home for the
Lily during the summer, ami she intends to
leave a large twirl of her wardrobe and n few
servants at Oakland when she visits the Yi Sem
ite. Mrs. Langtry will give two performances
la Oakland during her sojourn there, but her
visit will lor the most port be devoted to rest
uiid rvoreaLoa.
SIZING UP THE MUGWUMP.
An Apt Story That was Told at the
West Point Dinner.
Says a Washington dispatch to the Louisville
Courier-Journal: Among the members of the
Board of Visitors to West Point this year was
Dr. William Everett, of Massachusetts. He is a
bright, clever man. and a son of the distin
guished American orator. Edward Everett. At
the banquet given to the Board of Visitors dur
ing the closing exercises at the academy, tne
doctor took occasion to inform the guests that
he was a Mugwump, and wanted everybody to
know it. This statement brought Mayor Court
enay. of Charleston, S. CV. to his feet, and he
said it reminded him of a story. About
the time the mugwump first sprung into exist
ence. an English lord was visitin'; this country,
and devoted much attention to the study- of our
institutions and manners. The constant use of
the term “mugwump'' during the political cam
paign attracted his notice, so or.e day he made
bold to ask an American friend what the word
“mugwump” meant. “A Republican who votes
the Democratic ticket,' was the reply.
“And what do you call a Democrat who votes
the Republican ticket?” next inquired the curi
ous Englishman.
“I'd call him ad nfool!” was the friend's
prompt response.
The guests are said to have indorsed the hit
immensely, with, perhaps, the possible excep
tion of the mugwump from the Bay State.
Scandal Mongers.
From the Xecc Orleans Picayune.
Do you hear the scandal mongers
Passing by.
Breathing poison in a whisper,
In a sigh?
Moving cautiously and slow.
Smiling sweetly as they go.
Never noisy- gliding smoothly as a snake—
Slipping here and -lifting there
Through tiie meadows fresh and fair.
Leaving subtle slime and poison in their wake.
Saw you not the scandal monger
As she sat.
Beaming brightly neath the roses
im her hat?
In her dainty gloves and dress
Angel-like, and nothing less,
■Seemed she, casting smiles and pleasing words
about,
Once she shrugged and shook her head.
Raised her eyes and not hing said.
When you sjxike of friends, and yet it left a
doubt.
Did you watch the scandal monger
At the hall?
Through the music, rhythm, beauty,
Ijght and ail.
Moving here and moving there.
With a whisper light as air.
Casting shadows on a sister-woman’s fame—
Just a whispered word or glance,
As she floated through the dance.
And a doubt forever hangs upon a name.
You will fiiid the scandal mongers everywhere;
Sometimes men. but often women.
Young and fair:
Vet their tongues drip foulest slime,
And they spend their leisure time
Casting nuid on those who climb by work and
worth!
Shun them, shun them as you go—
Shun them, whether high or low.
They are but the cursed serpents of the earth.
How Miss Wolfe Moved Two Trees.
Xeirport Letter in the Boston Herald.
There are two trees in the grounds at Vine
land which were brought from the country seat
of Miss Wolfe's fathers coming up on the’ Hud
son.
“Can it lie done?" she asked of the landscape
gardener who had undertaken to make her do
mails what ihev ought to lie in the matter of
trees and shrubs. She referred to the trans
planting.
The landscape gardener was astonished.
“Pray, madam.' said he. hesitatingly, “have
you considered the cnormons’expense of carry
ing out such a whim? It would cost at least—”
His questioner broke in impatiently: "That
has nothing to do with it.” sh- said. “I did
not ask you what it would cost, but if it could
be done. I repeat, is it possible?"
“Yes," answered the landscape-maker, “it is
possible."
"Doit then." ordered the lady, “and let the ex
pense be what it may. I want those trees in
Newport.”
And the trees came to Newport. They were
taken up carefully, laid upon canal boat’s, car
ried down the Hudson and along the Sound,
making the entire journey by water. What
riiust have been the astonishment of the sailors
who saw- the remarkable spectacle of what
looked like a forest moving on the face of the
deep, Dame Gossip saith not. It was only a
modern instance of BirnainWood and Dunsinane.
But the operation was successful. The much trav
eled trees are flourishing with great vigor in
Rhode Island soil, and never seemed a bit the
worse for their long and remarkable journey,
which cost about $1,500.
A “Very Prominent” Brother.
Picked up by the TJetroit Tribune.
The Central Mirror, published by the pastor
of the Central Methodist Episcopal church in
Detroit, tells the following story of a rebuke
given a “very prominent member of another
denomination in the southern part of this
State.” He was always prominent at conven
tions, and usually presided, being a man ot fine
presence and ability One day when on the
train, and so far from home he thought he
would not lie known, lie engaged in playing
cards, hut he was recognized by two gentlemen,
one of w hom w-as an equally prominent man in
. the same denomination, and ho decided to
severely rebuke the card-player. So he went to
him and said:
"Are you not Mr. A. of the church in the
city of J—?”
The answer was, “Yes, lam."
"Well, lam Mr. B. of the city of 1, , and as
I take a great interest in all the churches of our
denomination and knew you were very promi
nent in your church. I thought I would’ ask vou
if you had had any extensive revival of religion
in it recently?"
The sarcasm was biting, and with blushes the
victim had to confess that there had not. He did
not relish the game after that, and as word of
his actions reached bis town he Las not been
made prominent as a leader since.
Stella Surprised Him.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
It was at the play of “Princess Andrea," at
the Bush Street Theatre, last week. The piece
is a quiet 011 c of the emotional order, and it be
gins with but little sign of interest of that kind
usually credited as being specially attractive to
the people in the front rows of the orchestra.
The old gentleman sat down close to the stage,
and finding the first act of rattier an unpictur
esque character, he calmly allowed himself to
sinx into a gentle slumber. He slept peacefully
for a long time. The second act of the play
takes place in the dressing-room
of the ballet dancer, and of
course site's in costume. Tiiis act was in pro
gress, when some noise awoke the old gentle
man. He jump'd. The first things his eyes
caught was the figure of Stella in beautiful pink
tights and decollete costume, and Stella in this
case Is remarkably attractive. The old gentle
man stared a moment, then he rubbed his eyes
vigorously, found Stella still there, and a look
came over liis face that told everybody that he
was saying to himself:
“Great Scott 1 I wonder how much of this I've
missed?”
He was widely awake well into the third act,
and then he saw that Stella wasn't coming on
again, and he went peacefully to sleep and slept
till the curtain fi ll."
The Teacher Didn’t Know it All.
1' Fhihifit lphin Record.
Short kinds are at a premium in
! Wall of course quick methods of
I con studied there with grr.il
mk-0.-si her day a lad in Hoboken cam -
liomc r with a cumbrous method of
learned o' school. The
father Mm how to do the thing in one
tenth the lad came home the next
day with this message from Lin* teacher:
“Tell your father that he is wrong.'
The boy went to school next morning with the
message from his father: “Tell the teacher I'm
right.
The schoolmistress suppressed a reproof and
said: “What is your father's business 1"
“A bookkeeper in Wall street," answered the
lad.
That night the bookkeeper received a note
from the schoolmistress hogging that he send
her a full exijosition of his method that she
might teach it to her pupils.
An Extremely Clever Boy.
from the Pittsburg Vis/latch.
Officer Mike Carr marched a stumpy, crying
hoy into tin- Mayor's office yesterday afternoon.
The boy carried a tray of cheap jewelry - . Carr
stated that four times during the week the youth
set up a shout that he was robbed, and would
sit on the iuink steps along Fourth avenue Iso
wailing his loss. Of course, he attracted a big
crowd, and the shekels fell fast into the bands
of the grief-stricken rifltbed kid.
Yesterday he tried the dodge and said he had
is - - n robbed of $1 9Q, The crowd came around,
ami so did Carr, who promptly collared the
youth. He was so scared when Drought before
Mayor Met'allin that he could hardly s|ieak. lie
said finally that he came from the old country,
that his parents were dead, and that he lived
with his aunt and did the “robbed boy" act to
pay for his hoard. He was told to go and not
no likewise again, and a crowd of gamins es
corted him to lus haunt*.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The new university at Upsaia. in Sweden, has
a building that cost about $1,250,000.
The ox-cart is still used as a conveyance in
some of the Mexican towns and cities. The oxen
draw by their horns, after the old method of the
Egyptians.
The cultivation of the bamboo for fencing
material has been begun in California. It is
said that an acre will produce pickets enougn
.each year to make six miles of fence.
The postmaster of Grass Lake, Mich., has be
come famous, not because he is the oldest or
the youngest living postmaster, but because he
recently ate twenty-three bananas at one sit
ting. i
No frown of fortune can stop the Ohio people
when they feel like rejoicing. On the very day
that the natural gas celebration was held,
$359,090 of paper went to protest in Findlay's
hanks.
The widow Jane A. Manly has sued Burrell A.
Oluey, of Hartford, Mich. She is plump and
comelv and 50, and he is 80 years old and worth
$300,000. Tiie widow wants $50,000 for her dam
aged affections.
Willie Woo is the title under which the Os
coda, i Mich.) washee washeo hamrs out his
shingle, and he has prospered so well under it
that he has taken a partner, who is also a na
tive of the squint-eyed empire. The sign now
reads: "Willie Woo, He Will.”
Judge Thayer, of Philadelphia, sustained the
position that the Women’s Christian Associa
tion building, hi which there are a home for
young women, an employment bureau, a res
taurant. a lecture room and a free library, is
for charitable purposes and therefore exempt
from taxation.
The abuse of alcohol, tobacco, opium and
quinine seriously affects the sight, but tea has
not been eonsiden*d liable to have such infiu
enct. The greatest of Russian tea merchants,
M. Molchanoff, has, however, been seeking
treatment in Paris for weakness of vision in
duced by the prolonged practice of tea-tasting.
It is estimated that more than 100,000 em
ployes received a half holiday in New York on
Saturday by the operation of the new law. As
tne law does not close dry goods stores Satur
day afternoon, many fashionable ladies are
signing a pledge to only patronize those stores
which grant their employes a half holiday once
a week.
A convivial Buffalo printer went to sleep in
a second-story window. He fell out and would
undoubtedly have received severe injuries had
he not been lucky enough to fall squarely on
two reporters. They were knocked down and
badly shaken, but ivere able to get an ambu
lance and send the unconscious .ypesetter to the
hospital.
Workmen digging on North Clark street. Chi
cago, the other day found a silver coin im
bedded in the sand and clay about 20 feet below
the surface of the street. It is an Austrian
piece, worth about sl. and bears the image and
superscription of the Archduchess Maria
Theresa. It was coined in the year 1780, the
year of her death.
A medical journal says that the body of Ed
ward 1., who died in 1307. was found 4fi3 years
afterward a little wasted but not decayed.
Canute died in 1017, but his body was fresh in
1700, as were those of William the Conquerer
and his wife in 1552. Three Roman soldiers dis
interred from a peat moss near Aberdeen, Scot
land. were found but little changed after
years.
A chicken thief has recently been arrested
at Xenia, 0., who seems to be at the head of his
profession. He operated with a two-horse cov
ered spring wagon, and was always careful to
do his stealing out of bis county. It is known
th.U his profits '-an as hierh as SIOO per week for
several months. He would drive to the scene of
his depredations in the night, and would some
times capture as mauy as 300 fowl.
Among the visitors at the Yassar College com
mencement was a graduate who has made $lO,-
000 in a unique manner. I’pon her graduation
she was promised hv her father a dollar for
every cent she earned by working at anything.
She accepted the offer, and, entering* factor) - ,
where she obtained $0 a week, kept on working
until her father had pai l her SIO,OOO, and broke
the contract because his little joke was becom
ing too costly.
Danbi ry is rather fond of its 1A year-old girl
bail player, but her parents are not. She is
said to catch with perfect ease, grace and ac
curacy, even the highest fly being captured
with rare judgment. She does not throw over
handed like girls in general, but puts it in from
the shoulder in the true style. Her parents
have punished her in various ways for playing
ball on the street. It does no good, as her pas
sion for it amounts to a mania.
The agent of the S. P. C. A. in Detroit was
shocked at the receipt of the following message
by telephone: “There is a horse in front of
blank Michigan avenue that hasn't had anything
to eat nr drink for two days: it might be well to
look after it." "All right, sir," replied he; "I'm
much obliged to you for calling my attention to
it; 111 r.o right up." The agent found a wooden
horse in front of a harness shop at the number
given, but he saw no occasion for official inter
ference.
V. hen the Czar visited the Don Cossacks, two
whole regiments of boys, about 1,400 strong,
from 9to 14 years of age. took part in his re
ception. Mounted on lean, shaggy native
horses and wielding huge swords, bigger than
themselves, and lances eight feet long, they
formed th“ most wonderful infant cavalry ever
seen. These boys can already ride at a headlong
pace, cling on to their stirrups like monkeys
and pick up handkerchiefs from the ground as
they careen along.
A citizen of Albany and his wife, wearied by
the prosiness and long sermons of the |>astr- of
the church that they attended, decided to change
their place of worship. So on a recent Sunday
they attended a neighboring church to see how
they liked it. Hardly were they seated when
their pastor entered the pulpit. He hail ex
changed pulpits for that service, and that morn
ing preached an unusually lung sermon. At the
close of tin- services he met his two parishioners
and thanked thei* very heartily for feeling such
an interest in his preaching as to follow him to
a strange church.
The managers of Bellevue Park, at Pittsburg,
recently bought seven fine deer in Michigan and
had them .shipped to the park, where a nice big
yard with a seven-foot fence wns waiting for
them. Tiie boxes were carefully placed in the
yard and opened anti the animals came out one
by one. Tie n the biggest deer turned her large,
dreamy eyes toward the seven-toot fence, and
in a moment made for.it, followed by the other
six. Those who were present were willing to
swear that that dreamy-eyed animal leaped
twenty-live feet high over the fence if she
cleared it at all, and she certainly cleared it, as
did the other six. A reward is now offered for
the Michigan jumpers.
A hygienist writes at last in favor of the
bustle. This comes in a letter, but it is good
enough to print: "A bustle is the outward and
visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace—
that of modernism anti mental braced-up ness.
I used to have my doubts about the hustle i
have tiie in. still in regard to tiie huge ami
hideous ones, but I find in practical life that ihu
woman to he depended upon in affairs Is not
disilninful of a bustle. It may be very light- it
biigld to he very light and fashioned to the un
derwaist instead of strapped around (he waist
ami allowed to 'lop.' lint the hustle with a street
cs cannot he gainsaid. Depend upon bouffant
draperies for the house If you like, but remern
liei- that tile bustle la the juatifler of the plain
street r,uit."
As interesting literary secret is out. Early
ill the year Roberts .Bros, published a little book
called “Through the Gates of Gold." It was a
philosophical treatise, mystical in its nature,
and the extraordinary beauty of its style and
the unwonted and daring quality of Its thought
caused many conjectures ns to the identity of
tut* author, \vhos* name wah not riven. The
fact that literary criticism in, as a rule mor*
generally a matter of individual temperament
than of well-conhi lored judgment wan striking
yconllrmed by the various comments which
this book received, ranging from the most en
thusiastic commendations to the bitterest de
nunciation, and it was noteworthy that 1 lie
favorable and unfavorable verdicts were not
drawn on liberal and conservative lines of
thought, hut that while some radical nnd Uni
tarian writers called the book mere nonaoiixe it
was heartily praised by some orthodox
journals whence praise would he least
expected. Anew edition of the book Is now
announced with the author's name on the title
page and the name proves to lie that of Miss
Mallei Collins, who also proves to lie the owner
of the initials M.C. signed to those two re -
markable thoosophieal works, “Light on the
Bath “ and "Thl Idyll of the wide
Ttie former Is regarded by man*os a classic in
its way: It has been translated into several lun
guages. Oriental as well ns European, and has
had an Influence beyond what am generally
known as tbeosopbleal circles. Miss Collins is
in' IISif 1 engaged in journalistic Work
in London, and is a daughter of llie late .Morti
mer C011,.*, the novelist. She has written *v
eral novels poodar In England, and also an ad
mirable life of Madam* Modjesk*.
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