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~~ TUESDAY, JUNE 88. 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings -Oglethorpe X/xlge No. 1, I. O. O.
F ; Knights of Pythias Mass Meeting; Chippewa
Tribe No. 4, I. O. R. M.
Special Notices—To Administrators, Guar
dians, Etc., Hampton L. Ferrill, Ordinary; Po
tatoes, J. S. Collins & Cos.
Bath Tubs, Etc.— lxivell & Lnttimore.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; For Rent: For Sale; Strayed; Lost;
Miscellaneous.
Publication- The Report of tho Seybert Com
mission on Spiritualism.
Auction Sales - Sale Bedding, Furniture,
Etc ,by J. McLaughlin * Son; Six Brick Dwel
lings, by D. R. Kennedy.
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If Jupiter Pluvius doesn't call a halt sooll
prayers for dry weather will be in order.
It is stated that at the summer resorts
there is a demand for nails. They are not
to be used in repairing hotels, but are to be
thrown into the alleged mineral springs.
Ilf Senator Colquitt becomes Secretary of
the Interior, the present General Assembly
of Georgia will have plenty of statesmen to
keep it company during the approaching
session.
Gov. Taylor, of Tennessee, made a speech
the other day, and was rewarded by being
presented with a flue new fiddle. He is
now fully equipped for another successful
political campaign.
It is said t hat Mr. Bayard is not a candi
date for President in 1888, and that Dela
ware is, therefore, very much surprised. As
Delaware is a very small State the surprise
is necessarily not great.
The “superfluous jiopulation” in the coun
try is said to be enlisting in the United
States army. It is doubtless meant that the
tramps are seeking to have tho government
feed and clothe them.
Since Craig Tolliver is dead it is probable
that there will be no more trouble in Rowan
county, Kv. The desperadoes who belonged,
to Tolliver’s gang are leaving for Wisconsin
and other States in the Northwest.
New York State Fish Commissioner
Blackford insists that sharks and devil-fish
are good articles of food. Ho needn’t make
a fuss about it. Nobody will object even if
he should eat sharks and devil-fish three
times a day.
When a Middletown, Fa., lumberman
tnarried his fourth wife, he displayed the
following over tho doorway of his house:
“If I survive, I’ll marry five.” He did not
survive, and now his widow is looking
around for No. 2.
The statament is made that the election
of Senator Htockbridge, of Michigan, cost
bin $70,000. No wonder the Senate is com
posed almost entirely of millionaires. A
poor man could not afford the exjiensive
luxury of a place in that body.
Sam Jones, tho Evangelist, says: “If a
man lives on Bible principles in this country
he’ll lie in the poor house in no time.” Con
sidering that Stun is not only not in the poor
house but that he is not likely to be, it is fair
to presume that he cloes not live on Biblfe
principles. _
There are no fewer than five monument
funds now under way in New York and
Brooklyn—Grant’s,Peter Cooi>er's,Beecher’s,
Brooklyn soldiers’ anti Nathan Hale's. Pres
ent indications suggest that they will con
tinue under way until the angel Gabriel
sounds his trump.
The preliminary performance of “Civil
War,” Mrs. Brown Potter’s new play, was
given at the Brighton Theatre, London, on
Saturday last. The house was crowded,
and Mrs. Potter was favorably received.
She has gone to work in earnest, and if there
is anything in pluck, she will succeed.
It is announced tiiat Prince Albert Victor,
eldest son of the Prince of Wales, is planning
a visit to America. If he comes, Ameri
cans will have an opportunity of testifying
their appreciation of the favors shown by
loyalty to “the Hon. the Col. Buffalo Bill,
member of the American Parliament.”
In Bt. Louis on Sunday lust the “blue
laws” were enforced. That is, tho front
doors of saloons, beer gardens, theatres,
stores, and other places of business and
amusement were kopt closed. The back
doors, however, stood open all day, aud the
police made the usual number of arrests.
It is stated that the ablest newspaper in
terviewers fail to induce Gon. Joseph E.
Johnston to talk. The General is one ot tho
Pacific Railroad Commissioners, and doubt
less understands that his position demands
■rtion, not words. It may be added that a
similar understanding stood him in good
■teai 1 during the war.
The daughter of Presidenrßockofeller, of
the Standard Oil Company, is a Vassar Col
lege student. Her eyes being weak, she car
> kt. on her studies by the help of an attend
ant, who reads to her. One of the numerous
young men in search of rich wives, would
dimbtlew like to serve her as attendant for
‘'ttaalnder of her life.
Little Panic.
Tho New YorE market does not ap
pear to have fully recoverevW the little
panic by which it was disturbed last week.
Buyers were not plentiful yesterday, and
there was a disposition to let the stocks which
dropped so suddenly last Friday alone.
There is considerable speculation as to the
cause of the panic, but no satisfactory ex
planation has been given. It seems to be
admitted that the sudden and extraordinary
drop in tho stocks in which Jay Gould is in
terested has a mystery of some sort con
nected with it, but just what it is puzzles
Wall street. Of course there aro plenty of
rumors which attribute it to Jay Gould.
One report is that Mr. Gould wanted to
prevent the consummation of the contract
which, it is understood, Messrs. Ives anti
Staynor have with Robert Garrett for the
purchase of the Baltimore and Ohio prop
erty, and which, it seems, was to have been
completed on Saturday. It is alleged that
he hoped to accomplish that by calling in
all bis loans and thus making it difficult to
raise a large sum of money. It is certain
that money became suddenly very scarce,
and that it could lie had only by paying a
very high rate of interest. Another report is
that Mr. Gould was aiming to cripple Mr.
Garrett, and o]s*n a way by which he could
get control of tho Baltimore and Ohio Tele
graph line. Still another rumor is that
Gould, Sage aud Field, who held 150,(XX)
shares of Manhattan stock ns partners, and
who had been supporting the stock, dissolved
their partnership last week, and it was feared
that a greater part of the block would be
thrown upon the market.
Rumors are not accepted as facts, and it
may be that none of these respecting the
cause of Friday’s panic is well founded. The
truth doubtless will soon be known, how
ever, and it may appear that neither Gould,
Sago nor Field is responsible for tho
“break” In the market. The fact, however,
that a panic occurred without any apparent
reason, and, that too, when everybody
was predicting an increase in prices
and a period of unexampled
prosperity, justifies the conclusion that the
talk which emanates from Wall street does
not always show the real state of feeling
there. Often when it is said there that the
strongest confidence in the advance of
stocks exists, there is little or no confidence
whntever. There certainly was not a great
show of confidence on Friday. The attempt
to back up the talk about higher prices was
exceedingly weak.
The Sharp Trial.
Jacob Sharp’s trial is on the home stretch,
as it were, and Jacob Sharp himself appears
to be making pretty good speed along the
home stretch for the grave. The prosecu
tion rested and the defense began yesterday.
How strong the defense will be no one, of
course, outside of the defendant’s lawyers,
knows. Tho case which the prosecution
made out is a pretty strong ono. Not one
man in a hundred, probably, who has fol
lowed the ease closely, would hesitate to pro
nounce the defendant guilty, although the
evidence was almost wholly circumstantial.
The testimony for the defense may clear up
some of the points which bear strongly
against the accused, but it is doubtful if it
will.
It is probable that Jacob Sharp hasn’t
much longer to live whether he is acquitted
or convicted. He is 70 years of age, and is
suffering from a complication of diseases.
His physical condition now is such that he
takes conqiaratively little interest in the
trial. The worry which he is undergoing
doubtless aggravates his diseases, and it
would not lie surprising if he should break
down entirely before the end of the trial Is
reached.
There is, no doubt, considerable sympa
thy for him among his friends and acquain
tances, but there is no reason why tho pub
lic should regard him in any other light
than that of ail enemy. He may escape a
prison, but he cannot escape the popular
verdict of guilty. Enough has been proven
against him to show that he has corrupted
legislators and aldermen. Such men as ho
is nre the ones who create a doubt in the
minds of thinking men as to the stability of
a government like obi's. Tho permanency
of free institutions depends upon the vir
tues of tho people. The Jacob Sharps des
troy these virtues with their gold.
Baltimore’s Example.
A Baltimore court yesterday sentenced a
lot of ballot-box manipulators to two
years imprisonment. They acted as
judges and clerks of election at the city
election last April, and were subsequently
convicted of fraudulent practices in connec
tion with that election. Their conviction
and sentence surprised their friends and
startled the small politicians of the city.
Doubtless there are others who ought to be
in jail with them. Baltimore has long had
the reputation of being ruled by corrupt
)K>litirians, and there ought to lie general
rejoicing there that justice has at last over
taken some of them.
It is probable that in all the large cities of
the country there aro frauds of a more or
less extensivo character committed at every
eleetioiL There are reasons for thinking
that in Chicago and Cincinnati an honest
election has not been held for years. The
reports of fraudulent election practices there
would make a good sizisl volume. The diffi
culty of holding a perfectly fair election in
either New York or Philadelphia is so great
that it is safe to assert that such an election
never occurs in either city.
In view of this condition of affairs it Is
strange that such men as Senators Hoar and
Sherman, who seize upon every little local
squabble in the Southern States to sustain
their assertions that a free ballot and a fair
count cannot be had in the South, do not
turn their attention to the fraudulent election
practices in Northern cities. Why is it that
they do not, from their places in the Senate,
condemn their Republican friends in Phila
delphia and Cincinnati for preventing a free
ballot and a fair count! The reason would
seem to be that their party is bonefltted by
the frauds.
No punishment is too severe for those
who tamper with the ballot box. When the
jieople get an idea that a fair election can
not be had, they lose interest in eloctions,
and when they reaclt that condition of
mind there is groat danger that inferior
and corrupt men will be chosen to make and
execute tho laws. Let the example set by
Baltimore be followed in other localities
where attempts are made to defeat tho will
of the people by fraud.
It is hinted that Mr. Bayard would like to
boa Justico of the Supreme Court. With
two members of his Cabinet willing to fill
tho vacancy on the Supreme bench will the
President go outside of his official family for
a successor to the late Justice Woods ?
Down in Toxas the Anti-Prohibitionists
charge train robberies to tho Prohibitionists.
The fool killer ought to find plenty of work
to do in tho Lone Star State.
Wim MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. JUNE 28, 1887.
Prosperity Without Booms.
Six months ago the word '‘boom” was on
tho lips of nearly every man in the South.
Now it is seldom heard. The cause is this:
Most of the wild cat schemes have been
killed by the judicious exposures upon tho
part of the newspapers. The “boomers”
have been made to understand that the
South's progress in the direction of pros
perity must not be checked by speculation
based upon nothing more substantial than a
paper town.
A prominent New York manufacturer
who recently visited Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee, says that the new fields of busi
ness venture in the three States in the way
of coal, iron and marble quarries are all
right so long as they are managed as legiti
mate business investments. By this he
means that if the people of the three States
who control the properties mentioned devote
themselves to creating a product which will
sell at a profit they cannot fail to realize
great fortuues. It is only in tho speculative
direction that they may be tripped up.
The manufacturer has a correct under
standing of the situation. If the enter
prises in the South aro to be of permanent
value to this section, they must be managed
as Investments. As has been said already,
the “boomers” have been made to under
stand this, and in consequence all kinds of
business in the South are on a sounder basis
than they were on six mouths ago.
As to Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee it
is gratifying to note what progress is being
made. New railroads are being constructed
in all directions. Twenty new iron furnaces
are being built, and eight others have been
projected. Considerable progress has been
made in agriculture. The cotton stalk for
the present year is said to be finer than for
many years past. A great deal of wheat
lias been planted, and more attention is
being given to the rotation of crops. With
favorable weather an abundant harvest will
be reaped next fall, and a long step in the
direction of prosperity will be taken. All
that the people need to do is to work with a
will and let wild speculation alone.
Mr. Blaine has emphatically set at rest
the rumors that he intended to make home
rule speeches while in England. He is
quoted by a correspondent as saying:
“Once for all, I shall not say a word about
either home or foreign politics while here.
No consideration could tempt me to make a
speech or publicly express any opinion on
the Irish question.” It is announced, also,
that Mr. Blaine will not go to Ireland on
account of the importance that might at
tach to the visit and the disagreeable gossip
that would ensue. He doubtless behoves, in
the matter of the Irish question, that discre
tion is several lengths ahead of valor.
Some time ago, a New York gambler
said that every time he saw a red-headed
girl, he was certain to see a white horse in
the vicinity. The papers in the North and
West have been testing the matter, and
claim that the result proves that the pres
ence of a red-headed girl is a sure indication
that a white horse is close at hand. So
much excitement on the subject has arisen
in Chicago, that a gentleman writes to the
Mail that the poor girls who had nothing to
do with choosing the color for their hair
will be compelled to disguise themselves
with wigs, or remain indoors, if the excite
ment does not soon subside.
Prof. T. L. Baldwin, tho aeronaut who
created such a sensation in San Francisco by
jumping out of a captive balloon 1,000 feet
High, is a citizen of Quincy, 111. He has just
completed at that place a monster balloon.
He will make an ascension on July 4, under
the auspices of a committee having in charge
a grand celebration. He will let the balloon
go up 2,000 feet, and then, with a parachute
attachment, he will jump to the earth. Af
terward he will make a voyage in the bal
loon, and expects to eclipse the trip made by
the New York World's air-ship. He might
risk his life to better purpose in some other
undertaking.
Some of the Knights of Labor in Wash
ington have again refused to accept General
Master Workman Powderly’s suggestion to
celebrate the Fourth of July in a fitting
manner. They object to the celebration
unless they are permitted to carry An
archist flags in a procession. Their action
ought to result in their prompt expulsion
from the order. It is shameful that men
who live in peace and security under the
United States government should display
sympathy with a cause as disreputable as
that of the Anarchists.
An ex-Alderman and prominent citizen
of Racine, Wis., has invited 150 of his
friends to attend a “celebration” of the
death of his wife. She died early in last
spring. It is stated that tho ox-Alderman
has purchased SSO worth of fireworks to be
used in the “celebration.” The county
judge has determined to appoint a commit
tee to exumine into the man's sanity. Mon
have been known to rejoice at the death of
their wives, but never to celebrate the
event with fireworks.
Philadelphia’s “old fashioned” Fourth of
July celebration is to include two balloon
ascensions, a regatta, a military parade,
fireworks, and music by a dozen brass bands.
It will cast SIO,OOO. Already the statis
ticians ore pointing out how many mission
aries might lie sent to the heathen for that
sum, and the croakers nre crying dismally
over the “useless waste” of money. There
are people in this world whose patriotism
never amounts to much when money is to
be spent.
The Franklin county delegation to tho
Ohio State Democratic Convention intends
to apjKiint a committee to wait upon Judge
Thurman anil endeavor to obtain a decided
answer from him as to whether or not he
will accept the nomination for Governor if
tendered to him unanimously by the con
vention. Tho Democrats of Ohio are confi
dent that if he will accept the nomination
they can easily elect him.
Ben Butler claims to have returned all tho
property he took from tho South. A cor
respondent of tho Bangor (Me.) Commercial
writes, however, that “ho must have for
gotten a church bell that was sold to the
Baptist Church of Wayne, in this State.”
It is difficult to determine which deserves
the severest condemnation—Butler, for
stealing tho boll, or tho church for buying it.
Preparations for tho reunion at Gettys
burg of the Philadelphia Brigade and Pick
ett’s Division continue "to be made on a
grand scale. Tho Brignde is raising a large
fund, which will be used mainly to entertain
tho Division. Much good feeling is evinced,
and there is no doubt that the reunion will
result in good.
Gen. Spinola, who is a martyr to rheu
matism, is trying his forty-third remedy for
the disease. The fact that the use of o
many remedies has not killed him suggests
that the General is tough enough to be a
base ball umpire.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Perhaps He Did.
Prom the New York World (Dem.)
Dr. McGlynn says that he did net, as reported,
freely admit that he was the Luther of the
nineteenth century. Can it l>e that what he did
intend to freely admit was that Luther was the
Dr. JtcGlynn, of the sixteenth century.
The Greatest Curse.
From the Missouri Republican (Den t.)
The “Patriotic Order of the Sons of America"
has held a national convention and adopted a
fair-sounding platform; but if it were really
patriotic it would not be in existence. The con
trol of politics by “orders” and secret organiza
tions would be the. greatest curse that could
come upon the country.
Senator Sherman’s Eyes Opened.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem).
Senator Sherman sees that when it comes to
swinging the bloody-shirt there are several
lusty and long-winded demagogues who can
give him many days the start and beat him.
He therefore finds it convenient to change his
tack, and he now speaks with touching gener
osity of “our late gallant enemies” aud or "the
duty of lessening the animosities of the war.”
Nothing but the friendly reunions of veterans
who were once foes could have extorted this
language from a champion of the bloody-shirt.
They Can Afford It.
From the Boston Herald (Ind.)
We have not been asked to aid the movement
of the Protective Tariff League to raise a fund
for the propagation of protective tariff
doctrine, but it ought not to be a difficult mat
ter. The benefits of the protective tariff are en
joyed by a comparatively small number of peo
ple, and are easily estimated. Under its oi>era
tions thousands are taxed to enrich one. If it
cost the thousands $1 each, the favored one gets
SI,OOO. If free traders want to raise a fund,
they do not find money in pickets so capacious
and well filled. It would not be difficult to find
100 men in New F.nland to whom the tariff
means millions in the aggregate every year.
They can afford to come down handsomely.
BRIGHT BITS.
Always prepared for death—the undertaker.
—Life.
f'apt. Nutt, who was so prompt in pursuing
the revolted Apaches of Arizona, probably has
the elements of a kernel In (aim.—Life.
A young couple* who proposed visiting the
summit of Mount Washington registered at the
Glen House as "Two for ascent.”—Boston Com
mercial Bulletin.
“Why do not women get bald?” asks an ex
change. It seems to us that any one ought to
be able to answer that. It’s because they don’t
have wives.— Yonkers Statesman.
If some of the men who have been talking
about those Southern Imttle flags are not mis
taken in saying that they talk as they shot there
must have been a great deal of very wild shoot
ing during the war.— Chicago News.
“Why so silent, George?” she asked.
“I just saw a shooting star and didn’t want to
speak until I wished something," he said.
"you’re just as mean as you can be! Why
did you not tell me and then we could both have
wished together.— Judge.
Col. H., of Virginia, had an old negro known
as Uncle Ned, who, upon being urged to finish h
bit of plowing before sundown, said; “OTong;
w’at's de use er hurryin’ so? Dar's ernudder
day ter-morrow dat ain't eben been teched yit?”
— Harper's Magazine for July.
On the Avenue.—A father and daughter out
walking, when two young gentlemen pass and
bow.
Father—Who are those gentlemen?
Daughter—George and Charlie, pa. Isn’t
George just too good-looking?
Father—Sly minx! You love Charlie.— Toum
Topics.
Before a spanking wholesale breeze
The yacht glides o’er the sunlit seas;
The skipper, silent, grim,
Walks to and fro upon the deck
Until he sees a shining speck
Upon the horizon's brim.
“Bring up a glass,” the skipper cries,
The ship’s boy to the cabin (lies,
The locker searches through,
Then lightly to the deck he springs,
And to the waiting skipper brings
A glass and bottle, too,
—Boston Courier.
Last night two more passengers embarked in
the ship of marriage and, under circumstances
and surroundings of the most auspicious and
favorable nature, commenced their long voyage
on the sea of matrimony. In the days of child
hood a courtship was begun which last night
terminated in the wedding. United were these
young hearts with the silken, yet adamantine
bond they had so earnestly sought for. And as
if to shea lustre upon the scene and gild the oc
casion with the radiance of the nineteenth cen
tury, the electric lights, one of which is near
the residence of the bride, burst forth in all
their glittering beauty and shed all around the
splendor of the fabled fairyland.— Port Jervis
Gazette.
The more uneducated negroes show a strange
inability to understand what the simplest pic
tures even are intended to represent, aud their
interpretations of more complex pictures are
strangely ludicrous. In the family of Mr. S.
was a negro servant named Aunt Lucy. One
day Miss Florence showed her a small picture
of Niagara Falls, and asked her what she
thought it was. After holding the picture in
every possible ppsition Aunt Lucy Anally said:
“Dat sure am Miss Eva; it sure am.” Miss Eva
was another daughter of the family. “Is it a
good picture of her?” asked Miss Florence. Re
garding the picture with a Hage air Aunt Lucy
replied: “I tfnk it favor Miss Eva jus’ a bit.”—
Harper's Magazine for July.
PERSONAL.
John Donahue, the Boston sculptor, Is making
a life-size statue of John L. Sullivan.
S. 0. W. Benjamin has written about almost
everything of the Shah’s except his corns.
George MacDonald, who has eleven children
is the author of “Annals of a Quiet Neighbor
hood.”
There is a plan afoot to build in Philadelphia
a memorial church in honor of the late Bishop
Stevens.
Gen. Buckner, who will probably be the next
Governor of Kentucky, was at one time an edi
tor in New Orleans.
Memorial tablets have been put on the houses
in Paris in which Mlrnbeau died and. Admiral
Coligny was murdered.
Hev. Dr. Dix, as rector of Trinity church, New
York, received 830,000 a year. His assistant
priests were paid §5,000.
Queen Victoria's favorite dish is tapioca
pudding. She is a sturdy cater and a fair
drinker of claret and red wines.
M. S puller, French Minister of Fine Arts and
Public Instruction, in his younger days was con
sidered the best dancer in Paris.
Judge Hilton’s park at Saratoga now com
prises 1,000 acres. It is said to be the hand
somest private park in the country.
It is said that Solicitor McCue, of the Treasu
ry Department, has made $150,000 in real estate
in Washington in the two years during which lie
has been a resident of that city.
William D. Howells says that Tolstoi is the
greatest writer of notion the world ever saw.
This judgment is the more remarkable, as
Tolstoi does not lay the scene of his novels in
Boston.
TnßouoiioiT England and even In Parliament
Mr. Parnell’s name is usually spoken as in this
country, with the accent on the second syllable.
But lie and his closest friends accent it properly
on the first syllable.
Allen O. Thurman was recently the guest of
Robert C. Winthrop at Brookline, Mass. Mr.
Thurman and Mr. Winthrop were colleagues in
the Twenty-ninth Congress, which held its llrst
session in December, 1845.
Among the veterans of the Mexican war who
celebrated the anniversary of Palo Alto at San
Francisco recently was C D. O'Kelly, who Is 80
years old, and is a veteran of the Texan war of
independence. He was a comrade of Sant Hous
ton and Davy Crockett, and he bore the news of
the fall of the Alamo to New Orleans.
Secretary Wiiitnev is the athlete nnr xctl
lence of the Cabinet. Ho is an enthusiast in
regard to sports. He is actively pushing a
scheme for tj&e establishment of a large riding
school in Washington. He has recently become
an active member of the Columhia Athletic
Club, the most prominent organization of Its
kind at the capital.
Gen. Moses Cleveland, the founder of the
City of Cleveland in 1798, is to have a bronze
statue in that city. The figure stands seven
feet and six incites nigh The General is repre
sented standing erect, with a staff and an old
fashioned surveyor's level in his hands. He is
bareheaded, and is dressed in the ordinary out
door garli of his hint*.
Victor Hugo relates in his posthumous vol
ume, ’Cboses Vues,” that when Talleyrand died
the physicians embalmed his body, and having
fluisned their task placed on the table the brain
which had originated so many thoughts, had
Inspired so many mortals, erected so many
buildings, led two revolutions, and deceived
twenty kings. After they had left a servant,
entered and saw the brain. “They have forgot
ten something,” he exclaimed, took tne brain
and threw it Into the gutter. “Finis rerum.”
Two Giants Have a Bloody Fight.
From the Ismittville Courier-Journal.
AKiio.v. 0., Juno 19.—A shocking killing and a
sudden death were the occasion of great excite
ment last night in Peninsula, a village on the
Valley railway about twelve miles north of here.
For six weeks past W. 11. Ann field, a giant. SO
years old, standing 6 feet 6 inches, and weigh
ing 270 pounds, has been about the Peninsula
quarries. He was formerly in the Confederate
army. He lias been a frequenter of D. A. Gar
vey's saloon, and has been known as a jovial
fellow, with the strange notion, when intoxicat
ed, that he was a detective. For some time
past Armfield and Garvey have had a dispute
over 80c., which the saloon man claimed Arm
field owed him. Last night Armiteld again
went into Garvey's saloon and the dispute was
renewed, when Armfield challenged Garvey,
who is also a perfect giant in strength, to come
out into the street ana fight him. Garvey de
clined. Afterward the men met in a neighbor
ing saloon, and the quarrel was renewed.
Words led to blows, and Garvey, seizing a
blacksmith’s chisel, beat Armfield in a shock
ing manner. The first blow fell on Armfield'*
right hand, which bears a deep cut the shape of
the chisel. The back of his left hand also has
two chunks cut out of it*. The nose is terribly
cut, and a frightful holerraps open behind at
the lower point of the left ear, in which the
doctor stuck a probe fully two inches, both
shells of the skull being penetrated by the blow.
Three of Armfleld’s ribs are broken, and he will
die. Garvey was placed under arrest.
A Salutary Earthquake.
From the Virginia Enterprise.
A Comstoeker who yesterday returned from
Waller's Hot Springs says there was a lively
time the night of the earthquake among the
"old rheumatic stiffs.” He says the shocks at
the Springs were simply terrific. They were
rough at Genva, and racked the court house and
other buildings badly, but were a mere shiver
compared with the big thumps that made the
hotel at Walley’s dance jigs. He declares that
had such shocks visited the Comstock, not a
brick building in Virginia, Ne.v., would have
been left standing. There was the wildest con
sternation among the patients. Men who had
been limping about for days, hardly able to put
one foot before the other, and men who thought
they could not navigate at all, except on
crutches, bopped out of their beds as nimbly as
youths of 16. Cramped and crooked legs were
straightened out in a hurry. Not a man remem
bered that he had ever had rheumatism. He
says that even Johnny Cullen, the well-known
Comstoeker, who for days had been carried
from one bed to another, hopped up as lively as
a cricket and beat all the rest at getting into his
clothes. He says Johnny may have done some
lively dressing as a fireman in early days, but
on this occasion ‘'he just flew into hiseloth.es!”
It is the opinion of our Comstoeker that the shak
ing up did all the patients good. In his own
case, he is sure that it almost made him well.
As regards the effects of the shocks on the
springs, the flow from them has been about
doubled, and the water is twice as hot as before.
Remember.
Whate’er the future may unfold,
Whate’er the word Time's pen may write,
Although we two should drift apart
And all our bright day end in night,
Will you remember?
You say that you will never change,
That you’ll be ever true; and yet
We cannot see the journey’s end,
And it is easier to forget
Than to remember.
O, when the cares of life press hard,
With heart and brain in need of rest,
Then shall I lay my weary head
In peace upon your faithful breast?
Will you remember?
When wrinkles mar my once fair brow,
And when my dark hair fades to white,
Then will you iove me just the same
As when mv youthful eyes were bright?
Will you remember?
The stars shine clearly o’er us now,
The sky above is fair, serene.
But in the tempest and the storm
Can I upon your strong arm lean?
Will you remember?
Ah. shall we ever live to know
That time but strengthens love like ours!
In that bright land, the stars beyond,
Amid everlasting flowers
Shall we remember ?
Isabel Hotchkiss.
New York’s Rising Generation.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
A lady had the bad luck to step on her dia
mond bar pin and break the fastening. She
rang for a messenger, and sat down to write a
note that the boy could mail on his way to the
jeweler. As she was directing the envelope the
boy entered.
“Take that,” she said, extending the pin, and
never looking tip, as she finished the superscrip
tion, intending to add "to the jewelers at the
corner and wait for it.”
But the small tough, not much higher than the
table, broke in before she could finish her sen
tence, with "How much do you want to get on
it.”
The astonished lady looked at the little mfflian
in amazement. “How much do I want to get
on it?” she repeated.
“Yes; you wants me to pound it, don't yer?”
“Pound it? Mercy, no. I just stepped on it
and have broken the pin.”
"That don't spile the sparkle. I guess yer kin
git twenty cases on it.”
“Why, boy, what are you talking about?"
“Oh, come off! Der yer waut me to hock it,
or don’t yer? What's yer racket?”
The lady called for help. She had heard that
the insane possessed unnatural strength, and
though this young cub didn't weight ninety, she
couldn't tell what he might do if he was as crazy
as he talked. It was not until the servant acted
as interpreter that the hoodlum was made to
understand the brooch was to go to a jeweller to
be repaired, instead of a pawnbroker's shop;
but the boy explained that most all the ladies
who sent such things by him “was spouters,
and was raisin’ the wind on their supers and
sparkles. V
Formidable Hog Stealers.
“I took him plump between the eyes, and be
curled up as beautiful as anything you ever
saw.”
"Wbat was that?” asked one of the San Fran
cisco Examiner's young men, overhearing the
remark from one of the two men at the Russ
House yesterday.
“A bear,” said the man, “and the place was
in the foothills of Sutter county, about nine
miles from Sutterville, where I live. My name
is Hobson—John Dobson. It was last Tuesday
night that 1 killed him. This is the fourth one I
have killed since January.
"The biggest one 1 got was during the middle
of February. He must have weighed close to
1,000 pounds. This other one would weigh
about TOO, and the other two about 600 or 800
each. They were good, soggy fellows, all of
them.
"What had they been doing? Stole my hogs.
I had a lot of six shotes all cooped up in a pen
under some pine trees. The beats kept getting
them, one by one. In April one night I heard a
terrific squealing, and, looking out, saw Ilruin
climbing the fence and making off with one in
his arms.
“Fool like, I ha<l lent my gun that day to Tom
Nickerson, a neighlwr of mine. There was
nothing to do but grin and bear it, as I saw
him making away.
"Then I missed another one, and there was
but one more left. Pork was getting to lie
pork. 1 said to myself; ‘This business has
about wound itself to a close'. I’ll have the
next bear that comes here after meat, or my
name isn’t what it used to be.’ As I said, I had
got several of them along in the winter, but I
just wanted the ono who had the audacity to
come and steal my last hog.
“1 sat up and Monday nights,
but nary hear, wife said the animal knew 1
was on deck, come at all. 1 stuck
it out, 1 Just before midnight the
next night niy p'ii door a dark ob
ject come along with his ponderous,
yet, I thouwhat cautious trend.
“1 had a in, and I waited until he
reared poise himself on the heavy
rail fence. Hfot him have it. A prettier
shot you never Mw- He gave one loud--almost
human—shriek, fell straight forward and col
lapsed as pretty as could be.
! ‘Tln; lone hog gave a triumphant grunt, as
much as to say that it had got to lie a very had
time of the year for hears. I think now that I
have pretty well t hinned them out, This was
the only one I have been able to track around
them for some time.
“But about the growingest and most promis
ing nuisances in the upper country now are the
red foxes. They are getting to he a genuine
pest. A few years ago there were almost none.
Now you see them everywhere, but they are the
thickest in the grape-growing districts of the
foothills. They are getting to be destructive,
and 1 think the only way for the State to suc
cessfully get rid of them Is to offer a bounty for
their scalp.
"If they keep on increasing in the same ratio
for the next two years that they have In five,
they will lie very formidable—a little like the
Australian rabbit, about which there was much
in all the papers a short time ago."
Said an old bachelor: “After boarding in a
good many different heusea I have come to the
conclusion that where the table is wretched the
People are amusing and Jovial. Ws*.o it IN good
the boarders ure apt to be more than ordinarily
stupid and uuinteresting. 1 account for the fact
on the well-known physiological principle that
a full stomach makes a stupid brain, - ’ “What
a full stomach vours mult he then,” said his
landlady s daughter, who chanced to overhear
his remark.—Philadelphia Newt.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Mrs. Cora Buzzard, recently taken to the in
sane asylum at Independence, Kan., lost her
reason because of the extreme loneliness of farm
life on the prairies of Kansas,
A Deadwood woman ran into a hornets’ nest
a few days ago, but the enraged insects were
unable to puncture her anatomy, and the whole
swarm stung themselves to death in disgust.
A New York girl bus given a jeweler an order
for a silver belt in links. Instead of Roman
medallions on the linked plates, however, she
wants the featues of some of her young male
friends cut in bas-relief, and has furnished tlio
photographs.
The importation of oleomargarine last year
into England from Holland alone amounted to
83,396,700 pounds, or more than half the quan
tity of butter imported into England from all
countries. A great deal of this oleomargarine
was sold as butter.
The burning of the Paterson iron works is
attributed to the English sparrow. The spar
rows have been noticed carrying straw and
other inflammable stuff and building their nests
among the girders, and it is believed that the
sparks lodging in these nests caused the Are.
The ghost of Mrs. Roxaiana Druse, the Her
kimer (N. Y.) county woman who was hanged
for the murder of her husband, now pays
nightly visits to the cell in which she was con
fined, and frightens all the jailers by moaning
from midnight till dawn. Or so the jailers say.
May 14 Charles Sage and Catherine Brest, of
Duncansville, Pa., were married. All went well
until the other day. He sent home a piece of
veal and a keg of beer. The rats ran off with
the veal and all the beer leaked out of the keg.
Then he put on his coat and abandoned his wife
and home.
Is repairing the Presbyterian church in
Hoopeston, 111., the steeple, which hod long
been a home for innumerable English sparrows,
was cleaned out. The straw- that the little pests
had carried into the steeple for nests amounted
to nearly enough to fill a wagon box, and it was
taken out and burned. *
A yearling calf worth $6 became the subject
of a lawsuit in Fort Worth, Tex., a year ago.
The case has been tried several times and moved
from one justice’s court to another until the
costs now amount to akout S2OO. Whichever
way the case is decided it will be appealed, and
the costs go on piling up.
The eight longest rivers in the world, accord
ing to the calculations of Maj. Gen. A. von
Tiblio, are as follows: Missouri-Mississippi 4,194
miles, Nile 4,020, Yang-tse-Kian 3,159, Amazon
3,063, Yenesei-Scanga 2,950, Amur 2,950, Congo
2,883, Mackenzie 2,868. The length of the Mis
souri-Mississippi is taken from the report of
Messrs. Humphreys and Abbott. Kloders esti
mates it at 3,658 miles.
A yoitno New Orleans woman is preparing to
go into the house-decorating business, and this
fall will offer her services for graining wood
work, for wall and ceiling painting and for deco
rating fireplaces. This artist recently painted a
wisteria vine in full blossom around the frame
of a bedroom door. The vine sprang from
the molding of the wall and clambered up the
iamb, showing delicate tendrils and clusters of
bloom on both woodwork and wall.
They drive horses very rapidly out West. To
a reporter quite recently Col. J. W. Dwyer, of
New Mexico, said: “We think nothing of
driving sixty miles a day. I have driven a span
of horses seventy-five miles in a single day with
out seeming to weary them. There is some
thing about the air and atmospheric conditions
that permits the lungs of animals to work just
right all the time. My ranch is thirty miles
from Senator Dorsey’s, and three hours is con
sidered ample time to drive over there.”
In one of the battles of the Mexican war
Lieut. |George 11. Derby was wounded, and the
Commander-in-Chief, being near, rode up to the
group surrounding him, and, finding that the
injury was not dangerous, started away with
the parting salutation: "Good-day, Leftenant
Darby.” "Good-day, General Scott, ’’ responded
the party addressed, sufficiently loud for his re
tiring superior to hear. “The General's name is
not Scatt,” said one of the group. “No!” was
the response; “andneither is my name Darby.”
Col. “Pat” Donan sees great possibilities in
natural gasr Hear him sling adjectives about
it: “With a sewer-sized main run into the
National Capitol and smaller pipes into all our
State houses, court rooms, city halls and edi
torial sanctums, every shaft, and spindle and
loom, every cogwheel, trip-hammer and hand
organ, every buzz-saw, wheat comer elevator,
scissors grinder, whirligig and merry-go-round
in our peerless, four-ocenn-washed empire of
liberty, can be run without cost, free-gratis-for
not hing-without-a-cent. ’ ’
A private letter from Mexico reports what
seems to have been an attempt to assassinate
the Rev. J. W. Butler, the well known Methodist
clergyman attached to the Methodist mission in
the city of Mexico. While riding recently in a
railway car a bullet, apparently aimed at hint,
passed through the window of the car, and
would undoubtedly have struck him had he not
a moment before slightly changed his position.
The same writer, who has been a long resident
in Mexico, and is well qualified to express an
opinion, also writes: “It is a truth that a
Protestant missionary’s life is not safe if he is
known, save in the larger cities and a few other
places.”
It is said that M. Pasteur has once more modi
fied his method of anti-rabic inoculations. For
simple wounds he has returned to the first sys
tem of mild attenuated virus. For bites about
the face and head and severe bites about the
body more virulent medulla: are used, but'these
do not at tain the virulence indicated by M. Pas
teur in his last communication. The last three
deaths are: Ph. Hydram, aged 56, bitten on
Oct. 5, and treated from the 10th to the 21st of
the same mouth; died on April 21 of rabies.
J. B. Gachet, 25 years of age, bitten on April 4,
treated from the 10th to the 20th, and died on
May 2. J. Hayden, aged 8, bitten on April 16,
treated from April 22 to May 15; died on May 18.
Prof. F. N. Crouch, author of “Kathleen
Mavourneen,” tells how he has come to be elected
a Fellow of the London Society of Arts, Letters
and Sciences. That society got acquainted with
him through a series of articles he wrote for
"The Folio,” in which he gave his reminiscenses
of English musicians. The first thing he heard
from tbe society was an invitation to join it,
and with the invitation came seconding notes
from several royal personages. After his elec
tion he sent to the society with his acceptance
the original manuscript of many of his works.
As soon us he has finished writing his own life,
on which he liar, lieen engaged for a long time,
ho will send copies of it to the society and also
to all members of the British royal family.
He will he 87 years old next month. Most of his
twenty-seven children are still living.
The business men in London are great friends
and admirers of the Prince of Wales. The
Queen's absence from London is a constant sub
ject of unfavorable criticism from the city
men; they charge much of the business depres
sion and dullness in London commercial affairs
to tho character and administration of the
Queen. They say that if the Prince of Wales
could only become King London would be one
of the gayest cities in the world. There would
be one round of royal entertainments after
another, which would attract hero strangers
from everywhere |with plenty of money to
spend. The city men seem to regard the royal
family as a means of attracting business to
London. The failure to have plenty of royal
entertainments is considered by them the most
vicious feature of a bad administration.
Col. Phociak Howard, the Illinois gentleman
who is the alleged recipient of the fraudulent
letter from Jefferson Davis touching the battle
dag issue, is a character. He was once a peri
patetic printer, but he now has u frog farm near
Danville. He is a large man with a plethoric
abdomen, and lie usually wears an old-fashioned
shad-belly coat with brass buttons. He also
affects a wide brimmed slouch hat. He writes
a good deal for the newspapers, talks a gnat
deal in a loud voice about himself, attends all
gatherings, from funerals to national conven
tions, and when he has lubricated his vocal
chords with the oil of corn he can come as near
imparting a vermillipn tinge to a small town as
any man of his lurid on the prairies. His inti
mate friends speak of him as “Old Phosb.’’ In
the days when the (Iranger party threatened to
overwhelm Illinois Phoclon warm great man.
The other day a working jeweler named
Simpson, In Prince Albert street, Brighton,
Eng., met with a strange picee of luck at an
auction in that town. A picture of a negro in
an old and dilapidated frame, was put up ns a
lot, ami was knocked down to him “for a
mere song," amid the jeers of the brokers
mid other attendants of the rooms. On
the buck of the canvas, however, Mr
Simpson had noted, when the pictures
were on view the previous day, the words
“Dr. Johnson's Servant," and his curiosity being
stimulated thereby, he referred to “Boswell”
and to the “Life of Reynolds," when he found
that Sir Joshua hod painted tt t least one portrait
of John n illiams, the black servant who w as so
long in the employ of Johnson. The stylo of
minting struel; several amateurs as rather in
the style of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and that view
has since been continued by one or two experts
who have given their opinion that the portalt Is
cither an original painting of Reynoius, or else
a remarkably good copy (possibly a replica) of
the iiortmit which the great master uuiuieU for
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