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4 OcHtormngTlctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THURSDAY, JUNE 30. 1887. Registered at the. fust Office in Savannah. Tin- Mousing News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers t'n the city, by newsdealer* and carriers, on their own ac count. at 25 cents a week. $1 00 a month, S3 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. 'Hie Morning News, by mail, one month, $’ 00: three months, $2 Do; six months, $5 00; one vear, $lO 00. ■flie Morning News, by mail , six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 ot>; six months. $4 00 one year, $5 00. The Morxino News, Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, throe months, ’sl 23; six Months. $2 50- one year, $3 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The IVjkkly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings —Haupt Lodge No. 6ft, I. O. O. F. Special Notices— Schreiner's Music House, Sole Agent for Ernest Rosenkranz, Dresden, Germany; Coupons and Bonds of Marietta and North Georgia Railroad; Drs. Lanier and Cub bedge, .Dentists; As to crew of the Belgian Bark Brabant. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous. InlandJßoite— Steamer David Clark. Notice to Contractors —Committee of Offi cers First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia. Base Ball—Orientals vs. Warrens. At Butleb’s Pharmacy—George B. Ilawkes, representative of Hawkes’ Crystallized Looses. The Morning’ News for the Bummer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning News forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, fl’for a month or $2 50 for three months, cash invariably in ad vance. The address may bo changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should be taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while away should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. Jay Gould has gone yachting again. He itook his doctor with him, although he per sists in declaring that he is not sick. Twenty divorces were granted by one court in Atlanta on one day. living on the Piedmont escarpment doesn’t seein to be conducive to conjugal felicity. The City Council showed good sense and good judgment in the selection of a city atto-ney last night. Mr. Adams is an able lawyer, an honest man and a public spirited citizen. Gen. Meade’s monument in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, will bo dedicated on Oct. 18. It is to be hoped that the orator of the occasion will decline to harass his hear ers with allusions to the captured flags episode. Henry Clews, the New York banker, In tends soon to visit the home of his youth in England, which he has not seen for thirty one years. He will doubtless take with him a few bogus Georgia bonds to remind him that it isn’t always safe to bolster up a fraud. David Foutzat, of Jefferson, N. C., who murdered his father the other day, says he committed the crime liecau.se his father com pelled him to wear a hickory shirt. Per haps if the old man had laid the hickory on David’s shirt often and vigorously the young man would have been a better son. In addition to their inability to find the will of the late Judge O. A. Lochrane, his fjpmily are troubled about certain stocks, bonds and insurance policies that are miss ing. It is supposed that they are in some safe deposit vault in the North. Judge Lochrane was like many other lawyers— careful about everybody’s business but his own. Some of the Morning News’ State ex changes are giving their readers a glimpse of this slate. Senator Colquitt to succeed Secretary Lamar, Gov. Gordon to succeed Senator Colquitt, President of the Senate John S. Davidson to succeed Gov. Gordon. The slate doesn’t cause much excitement. The truth is, it. is too warm just now .to worry about politics. In New York, the other day, the wife of Prof. Haines went to police headquarters and said that her husband hud deserted her. Soon after she left the Professor turned up, greatly excited, and declared that his wife had deserted him. They had become sepa rated while about to depart for Baltimore. When they found each other it goes without Baying that a lively scene ensued. Washington specials continue to convey the impression that Secretary Lamar” will be appointed to the Supreme bench and that he will be succeeded by Senator Col quitt. No doiibt Senator Colquitt would make a good Secretary of the Interior, but does be want the position? If he should be come a member of the Cabinet who would sueceod him in the Senate? This is an in teresting question in this State. The news comes from Chicago that Dr. McGlynn intends to join the Knights of Labor and to work, hereafter, in the inter est of that organization, with a view to dis seminating Henry George’s land theories. Some of the Chicago Knights express pleas ure at the prospect of having the doctor in their ranks, and declare that they will run him for the office now held by General Mas ter Workman Powderly. If the doctor means to turn the Knights of Labor into an anti poverty society, similar to the Kc- Giynn-George concern, he will soon firt himself boycotted. The Knights of Labor are not fools. The family of Craig Tolliver, the Ken tucky desperado, who was shot to death by a Sheriff’s posse in Rowan county a few days ago, are rejoicing that he did not die With his boots on. It was always predicted of him that he would die with hi* boots on, and when ho win about to make his desper ate run for the railroad from the hotel where he had been bolding the posse at bay, he remembered the prediction, and ho quick ly unloowsl his shoes and kicked them off. hen killed only his socks were on his feet. T).d he believe In the prediction, and did ho tUmk that bv taking off hW shoes he would the bullet* ot the posse? a Tfißk >T " -f Canal. About ull from tho Isthmus of Panama respeefingtho progress of the canal are unfavorable. The latest report, that of M. Arthur W. Roudier, who held for ten months an official position un der the f’anama Canal Company, and who reached New York a few days ago, shows that the work on the canal is being pushed forward very slowly. There has been a great reduction of the working force, and there is considerable dissatisfaction among the laborers on account ot the irregularity with which they receive their wages. Tho death rate is very large from tho Chagres fever, and there is also at the present time an epidemic on tho isthmus of yellow fever and small pox. From the very beginning of the enterprise there has been a great waste of money, owing chiefly to tho placing of incompetent men in responsible positions. The same ineonqietency is notice able now that was apparent in the earlier stages of the work. Tho great need at present, however, is money. With plenty of that the canal may be completed within ten years. There are competent engineers, however, who say that if all the money that is wanted is promptly furnished, and if an entire change is made in the methods pur sued in carrying on the work, it can, under tho direction of engineers qualified for their duties, be completed within five years. There is not much probability, however, that the conditions for finishing it within the shorter time mentioned can be secured. The stockholders and directors will have a meeting in Paris, within a few days, and it will lie determined then perha)>s how more money is to be raised. IV it bout money, and plenty of it, tho company will soon go to pieces, and tho enterprise will be aban doned, at least for the present. There is some complaint in this country that M. de Lesseps has not received the en couragement that he deserves, and that it is apparent that* there is a desire that the enterprise shall prove to be a failure. Doubt less there are some who would rejoice if tho canal should be abandoned either because they want to see a canal constructed on the Nicaragua route with American money and under American direction, or because they predicted at the outset that the Panama undertaking would be a failure and want their prediction to bo verified, but it is probable that tho great majority of Ameri cans, especially those who have given tho subject considerable attention, would like to see it a success. The comments on the progress of the work have not, as a rule, been favorable, because the reports have not been favorable. They have received their coloring from the reports and it will hardly be denied that the reports have contained very little that has been encouraging. This country is deeply interested in having the isthmus pierced. A canal would not only greatly benefit our commerce, but would bring about a very considerable re duction in freights between points on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Tho fact that Americans have put no money in the under taking does not prove that Americans have no interest ill its success. They have not invested in it because the Panama Company is a foreign one, and they were not willing to trust their money to men about whom they know nothing, and who might waste the company’s capital without securing any definite results. All things considered, this country has given the canal about as much material and moral assistance as oould reasonably be ex pected of it. If de Lesseps’ company fails Americans may take hold of tho canal and complete it. A Washington Sensation. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore American says that there is a secret organization of Democrats, with head quarters in that city, whose object is to de feat the renomination of President Clove land. According to this correspondent the headquarters of the alleged organization are over a fancy goods store on Pennsylvania avenue, and ho furnishes a paragraph from a pretended circular which he alleges is being distributed by tho organization, in which it is declared that the administration is controlled by Mugwump Republicans. There are good reasons for thinking that there is no such organization, and that the report that there is such a ono was set afloat by some ono anxious to creato a political sensation. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, who doesn’t take much stock in sensational reports until he finds that they have some foundation, asked several Democratic Congressmen who are at present in Washington, whether they had hoard the report. All of them said they hail not, and expressed the opinion that it was wholly unfounded. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, characterized it as ab surd. The curious part of the report is that which makes Southern Congressmen respon sible for the organization. There is no part of the country in which the President is more popular than the South, and Southern Congressmen are not likely to form a secret organization for the purjxxe of defeating his renomination. There has been a marked tendency lately on the jrart of Republican papers to attack the President, and they miss no opportunity to try to lessen his popularity. Why is this? The reason is that the Republicans believe that if he is renominated it will bo about impossible to prevent his re-election. What they are aiming to do, therefore, is to pre vent his renomination. They understand very well that he will draw a larger vote from the Republican party in 1888 than ho did in 1884, and their only hope for success is in defeating his renomination. They are using the incident of the battle flags against him for all that it is worth, and they are doing their utmost to impress upon Democrats that the Mugwumps arc having more to do with shaping the policy of the administration than the Democrats are. Although their scheme shows con siderable shrewdness it is not at all probable that it will be successful. Mr. Cleveland, from present indications, will be renomi nated, and that, too, with very few dissenting voices. The Democratic party is too wiso not to choose us its candidate a maa whose election is assured. The Demo cratic loaders understand that the President is not only very popular, but thut his popu larity is steadily in<reosing, and they also know that the cause of his popularity is his unquestioned integrity and his watchful care of the interests of the whole country. No one denies that he is administering the government wisely and economically, and that he is giving general satisfaction. The Democratic party, therefore, is not likely to abandon him for another candidate of whose election there might bo considerable doubt. The jubilee yacht race in England was rather a failure. The course was not liked, the best yachts were not entered, and no body accrued to care anything about the result. The Genesta won a thousand guineas by her victory, but very little honor. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. JUNE 30, 1887. How to Know the South. The Northern pooplo are getting a much better understanding of tho Southern peo ple front letters written by Northern men and women, who are living in different parts of the South, to their friends at home than they get from the talk of their politi cians. The Boston Herald, a day or two ago, published an extract from ono of these letters. It was written by a Indy who is a member of ono of the abolitionist families of Massachusetts, and who is now teaching in the South. She is said by the Herald to boa lady of high culture and rare refine ment. The lady is living in an inland Southern town. Her letter was a private one to a person in Boston, and if she sees it in print she doubtless will be greatly sur prised. The following is the extract: One cannot know the South by any rapid tour through it; one must live in its houses and hear what the people think and feel, and understand why they think and feel as they do. Tho South is happier than the North; people here are less restless; le6s goaded by competition and envy, and there is a purer democracy, fewer social lines founded upon merely external advantages. The spirit of brotherly love is more obvious here, and much is real lovo between them selves. I do not even exempt the colored man, for I believe he gets as much sympa thy here as he does at the North. Expressions of this sort,which are genuine and true, tend to bring closer together the Northern and Southern people, and to neu tralize the bitterness excited by tirades like thoso of Massachusetts’ senior Senator when ho thinks he has got hold of something which he can exhibit to the country as a fresh Southern political outrage. Sharp Convicted. The celebrated trial of Jacob Sharp is ended and the defendant is convicted. A half dozen of the sharpest lawyers in New York couldn't prevent a verdict of guilty. The twelve jurymen, who were selected with so much trouble, required less than fifteen minutes to make up their minds respecting tho guilt or innocence of the accused. The time occupied in securing a jury was not wasted. The fact is, there was practically no de fense. Some exceptions were taken during the trial, and the usual effort will, of course, be made to secure anew trial. The State’s attorneys proceeded carefully, however, and it is doubtful if they made any serious mis takes. The penitentiary will receive Jacob Sharp, unless death claims him before he can be placed within its walls. The press is largely entitled to the credit, not only for the prosecution of the boodle Aldermen, but also for that of Jacob Sharp, who furnished tho boodle to bribe the Aldermen. That both Sharp and the Aldermen are guilty of the crimes of which they have been convicted there is no doubt. The effort of the press was to protect the public against such men. Their conviction will be a warning which will be heeded for a time at least. If such men were permitted to go unpunished bribery would become so common that only men willing to become criminals could obtain concessions from officials and legislative bodies, and an honest man in an office would be a curiosity. A Color Line Flurry. Millionaire Bradley, the owner of the temperance village known as Asbury Park, on the New Jersey coast, near Long Branch, is having rather a lively time with the col ored folks who gather at that resort in the summer season. Mr. Bradley is willing for tho colored people to find employment at the hotels and boarding houses of the town, but he wants them to keep away from the beach when the band plays and the white folks are out to enjoy the sea breeze. He has issued an order excluding the colored folks from the board walks and pavilions along the beach, and they are denouncing him in a way calculated to make him lose his appetite. They think they have lioen insulted, and arc, therefore, making just as much noise as if they had been. Asbury Park is noted for its religious meetings, at which there is a great deal of singing and praying. These meetings the colored people like, and that is why they find Asbury Park so attractive. They would rather work in the hotels there for nothing than for wages elsewhere. The town is overrun with them, and they threaten to crowd the white people out. Mr. Bradley see* that his place, which has been built up at an outlay of millions of dollars, is losing popularity, and that he will either have to make it a resort for col ored people or deny them the privileges of white people. He has chosen the latter course, for the very good reason that as a colored folks’ resort it wouldn’t yield enough to pay taxes. Mr. Bradley isn’t to blame for not want ing his place monopolized by colored people, and the colored preachers and school masters who are denouncing him ought to have sense enough to see that he isn’t. The white visitors of the place are the ones who object to the presence of the colored people, and Mr. Bradley can’t make them see that their prejudices against any sort of social equality with the colored people is a foolish one. He might tell them that they are always ready to condemn the Southern people for their refusal to accept the colored people as social equals, but it is doubtful if they would be able to see any inconsistency in their conduct. After all, it is rather interesting in this locality to watch the color line squabbles that appear to be more frequent at the North than at the South. Mr. Bradley is a Republican, and probably the majority of his ]>atrons are Republicans. They ought either to share the Asbury Park beach with the colored folks or cease insisting on wiping out the color line at the South. The 'Washington correspondent of the New York lferahl says that a long, lank West Virginian named Brown presented himself at the Pension Bureau the other day to furnish evidence in a landing claim. It was learned upon inquiry that his mother had borne thirty-three children. Twenty were boys, sixteen of whom served in the Union army. Two were killed, leaving fourteen survivors. Each of the latter draws a pension from the government for disabilities received while in the service. The death of the two boys entitles the mother to a pension also. Gen. Black told the corresiKindent that the files of the bureau failed to show anothor record where the sixteen sons of the same father and mother served as soldiers in tho late war. Commenting on the demand for an artistic improvement in American coins, the New York Herald says: “What tills country needs just now is a half cent made of brass. On one side should be the head of Gen. Fairchild, and on tho other the three palsies that he prizes ho highly.” The objection is that the three palsies might unfit the half cent for use in the contribution box. If the school book* on physiology are authority, it is a lucky child thut inherits nothing from its parents but mono. CURRENT COMMENT. The Man With the Rapid Mouth. From the Boston Globe (Dem.) Civilization trembles in her fastnesses at the sight of the Man with the Rapid Mouth. The greatest menace which threatens our institu tions is the man whose mouth goes off before it has established connection with his brain. The Mourners Will Not Increase. From the Washington Post (Dem.) The Republicans of Allen county, 0., the first in that State to take action, have just voted down, by four to one, resolutions pledging Ohio to Sherman next year. Blaine and Forakerto f ether will always is) found too heavily loaded or John Sherman The latter is certain to be sold out in 1888, just as be was in 1880, and there will be no more mourners than before. The Plain Truth. From the New York Herald (Ind.) Well, if we were to tell you the plain truth bluntly, we should say that the Republican party has done its work and now lives on its past record, with nothing to do in the future that can’t be better done hv the Democrats. It was born to abolish slavery. Slavery has been abolished. And now the party has taken a tumble from the top of a bold, aggressive statesmanship to the bottom of a political machine. Mr. Randall and Tariff Reform. From the Philadelphia Record (Dem). Ex-Congressman William R. Morrison ex presses his despair in the matter of a satisfac tory tariff revision in the next Congress. He says the Democrats have tried to compromise with Mr. Randall several times, and have found him willing to accept nothing but a repeal of the Internal revenue taxqs. Formerly Randall made a pretense iu favor of tariff reform, and introduced elaborate bills on the subject. But he now openly declares his hostility to any form of tax reduction except a repeal of the internal revenues. He and his faction in the late Con gress were evident ly only fooling when ostensi bly seeking conferences with members of the Democratic majority in order to effect a com promise on the tariff. BRIGHT BITS. It is not justice to put one lawyer on the bench at a small salary ana allow other lawyers to talk him to death and mllect large fees for doing it. —New Orleans Pitmmune. An old-fashioned Fourth makes surgeons, un dertakers. glass-eye makers and cork-limi) ar tists look upon the dispensations of Providence with a resigned air .—Oil City Blizzard. A man named Oyster registered at the St. James Hotel last Sunday. Although out ot season the courteous clerk could not refrain from greeting him with “R" there!”— Hotel Mail. „ One extra Strom? minded woman has re marked that an old bachelor is a man who through selfish motives has refrained from making some women wretched.— Shoe and. Leather Reporter. ‘‘Where did you get all the fish. Johnny?” asked a little urchin of his chum, who had a big basket on his arm. “Down at the market, to be sure,” returned Johnny. “I'm going to take them out in the count ry and sell them to the fishermen coming hom a."—Judge. A Vermonter, attending a prayer meeting in Massachusetts, heard an elderly gentleman ex press his feelings in the following manner: “And we should all, my dear friends, bless the Lord that we arc not born in Africa, nor Ver mont, nor any othr dark corner of the earth.” — St. Allxins (Vt.) Messenger. Two business men wt r? talking the other day about the inefficiency of their assistants. One expressed himself warmly upon the subject. The other quieted him by saving: “Wait a min ute. Did it ever occur to yoi i that if those peo ple were as smart as we are they would not be our assistants?”— New York Ledger. Seedy party (to bartender) —Your refusal, sir, to trust me fora paltry drink of whisky fills me with astonishment and indignation. Bartender—All right, sir; you can fill yourself up with astonishment and indignation and it won’t cost you a cent; but if you want to fill up with whisky you will have to have cash!— Puck. A boston servant, like many of her class, does not know her age. She has lived with one family eleven years, and has always been 28. But not long ago she read in a newspaper of an old woman who had died at the age of 106. ' Maybe I'm as old as that meself, said she. “Indade, I can’t remember the time when I wasn't alive.”— Harper's Magazine. A Vermont farmer met a patent medicine fence decorator in Burlington the other day and Invited him to come out. “I'll give you leave to pulut your signs on 600 rods of fence along the main road," said the farmer. Next day the sign painter hired an expensive livery team and drove out. The farmer gave him a warm wel come and invited him to look over the farm. After a while the painter asked to see the 500 rods of fence. '“Oh, I forgot to tell ye in town,” said the farmer, “that air fence is wire.” —Burlington Free Press. “We are all slaves,” said an English socialistic orator, as he pounded the desk on the platform. “Not all of us,” said an old man, rising. "Yes, sir,” answered the orator, "every one of us. We may sing Britons, never, never, never shall be slaves,’ but we are slaves for all that," ■‘Some of our mechanics are free, you’ll ad mit?” "Who are they?” “The Free Masons.” Then the orator sat down.—Boston Courier. PERSONAL. —3 July 21 will be Mrs, Cleveland's 23d birthday Patti has bought another absolutely farewell piece of real estate. The late Mark Hppkins bore a striking resem blance to Mr. Gladstone. Justice Field reached San Francisco last week after an absence of two years. Ex Gov. St. John is in New York waving the prohibition flag in the faces of his foes. President Grevy, of France, is added to the long list ot notable people who are sufferiug from neuralgia. The Rev. George Lawson Rogers of Bullitt county, Kentucky, has been preaching ever since 1818 and Is 100 years old. The Interesting rumor has gone forth that ex- Senator Jones, of Florida, intends to forsake Detroit and settle in New York. Buffalo Bill is introduced to a lord or duke as “probably the most famous man in America to-day and a candidate for the next Presi dency." Queen Victoria was presented with a silver crucifix by an English monk with whom she conversed for some time at her receDt visit to the Grand Chartreuse Monastery. W. L. Trkniiolm, United States Comptroller, of Currency, is a tall, lithe man, with dark eyes, gray hair and gray moustache. He is a pleasing conversationalist and has cordial and attractive manners. Washington gossips assert that the eldest daughter of Minister West is soon to marry the secretary of some legation, who has procured a leave of absence to go home and secure his parents’ consent. The committee in charge of the McCullough Memorial have instructed the sculptor to pre pare a full portrait statue in place of the bust with which it was designed to mark the grave of the distinguished tragedian. This was President Garfield's opinibn of the late President of Williams College, whom tbo students called "Mark, the perfect man:” “A log with Mark Hopkins at ono end and a young man at the other would be a university.” 1). W. Dorc.HKp.TV, son of the Hon. Daniel Dougherty, recently caine near losing his life at a bull light at Baragosa,Bpain. Tho hull escaped from the pit and charged among the spectators, and Mr. Dougherty narrowly escaped his horns. Capt. n'Ai.MKinA, a naval officer of Portugal aud member of the Chamber of Deputies at Usbon, bit the Minister of Marine a blow on the nose during u heated debate in Parliament. He l was at once arrested and confined in one of the war ships in the harbor. Walter Mcriiay Hibson, the American Pre mier of the Hawaiian kingdom, 1* said to Ih not only the power behind the throne, hut ambitious to mount the throne Itself. Ho persistently de clines to be knighted or decorated, and is likely to be the leader In the anticipated revolt against King Kalakaua. A month knt to the Emperor Alexander I. of Russia is atjout to lie erected on the bank of the Danube, tie! ween Renl and Ismail, at the place, close to the St. Therapont Monastery, where the Russian I coops crossed the Danube in PW. The monument consists of a bronze obelisk, oma mooted with Turkish arms and Russian im perial eagles. At the four corners the cannon arc placed which were taken from tho Turks In 18117. li is sAin that even If a revolution should suc ceed in Hawaii a republican form of govern nient would not be imposed. Kalakaua would be succeeded by his sister, the Princess, a young girl IS yearn of age. the idol of the English rest dents. She is a daughter of “Arable” (leghorn, a Scottish Australian. Her mothfr was ine late Lilcelike, sister of Kalakaua. The English and the Kipls, or rebels, are very anxious to place the little girl ou the tbrono. THREE LADIES IN A BOX. The Grisly Sight Seen in the Ruins of the Opera Comiquo. 3lrs. Crawford's Paris Letter in London Truth. "Look up there,” said the Colonel. I did as he told me, and beheld in a liox that held on as if by a miracle to the wall, three ladies with blackened visages. One was in black velvet. Another had a jet cuirass. The third was in pink and white, and had flowers in a mass of frizzed fair hair. Her mouth was opened, as if gasping for hreath; the lips were greatly curled back, and two rows of white, even teeth were laid bare. The others leaned back in their chairs quite quietly, and one of them held a fan on the ledge of the box, They formed the most awful sight I think I ever gazed upon. The probability is that, despairing of escaping in the fearful torrent of human beings which tore in the dark along corridors and stairs, they re turned to their seats and quietly waited to be burned or suffocated. Death came upon them in the form of suffocation. It was impossible up to the time I saw them to get near them, and so they remained in their conspicuous posi tion for several days. Who these ladies are no body has an idea. A Fortress of Criminals. It seems scarcely possible that in any part of the habitable globe there should be a natural refuge wherein criminals can openly defy the law and where it is impossible for crime to re ceive punishment. However lax we may be at times in our judicial proceedings, says the San Francisco Call, still we know it is impossible to lay hands on the evil perpetrat ors even though we desire not to punish them. In the lisland of Formosa, however, nature herself has formed a fortified home for bloodthirsty criminals. For mosa is an island about ninety miles off the coast of China, from which country it is separ ated by the channel of Fokein. It was un known to the Chinese until the year 1408, and in 1034 the Dutch established" a settle ment there, but after twenty-eight years of peaceful residence they were" expelled by the famous rebel Coxinga, whose successors ruled the island until 1082, when the Chinese took full possession. Then the population was 2,000,000 to 8,000,000; now It has dwindled down to little more than 190,000. Although 250 miles long and 80 miles in breadth, nothing is known—by civil ized beings -of the interior portion, for it is en closed by an enormous volcanic range, and it is within this space that all the aborigines now herd together. These natives have a slender form, olive complexion, long hair, and blacken their teeth. They have no written language, and their religion is confined to a superstitious belief in demons and sorcerers. No wonder, then, that they are easily governed by some of the more advanced descendants of the rebel Coxinga, many of whom have taken up their abode with them, and a wild and desperate life they lead. They take advantage of the asylum offered by this belt of country to make organized expeditions therefrom for purposes of pillage, and even go so far as to arrange defensive operations against the dwellers on the seacoast as a pretext for the levying of tribute. More than 1,000 cases of murder are committed by these people every year, and the Chinese authorities are completely set at defiance. The mountainous nature of the country and the large numbers to be dealt with preclude all success of the Chinese soldiers against them. The brigands know every loop hole and can get outside, whereas the others are unable to get in. The policy of the present government of Formosa seems to be to draw all the natives outside and away from their asso ciates. This plan has partly succeeded, but there are still at least 100,000 natives leagued with the brigands, and nature’s lofty volcanic walls still remain a fortress impossible to storm, but easily defended by these red-handed des peradoes. My Love Goeth Forth. Soft is the sky, and the joy of birds Breaks from the copse on the budding brae. And the air hath the dream of the peaceful herds Thut graze in the fields to-day. And the brook hath a tum in its wavering strain That steals to my heart like a passionate thought; The phantoms of evil assail me in vain. And I set the world’s wisdom at naught. For my love goeth forth, and her robes are white, White Uke the clouds at the break of dawn, Fnir, fair, and a madness doth burn in my sight Lest the vision shall be withdrawn. My love goeth forth and the lingering air Lifteth up the soft tresses that shadow her eyes: ’Tis an angel, I say hath been drawn by my prayer To come down from that land in the skies, it. What envious hand doth lay The keen blade to the grasses? What blight hath turned to gray The powering woodland passes? hi. Dull is the sky; the mingling joy of birds Sounds from the dell, nut music’s balm hath fled. I heard the lowing of returning herds. But hope and love are dead. The brook's soft wave doth murmur at my feet. Like some lost voice that calleth from afar; The withered leaves sail like a mournful fleet Which cotneth back from war.'’ For my love goeth forth, and her robe is white, White like the snow in the cleft of the hill; My love goeth forth with the king in his might, And her hands are orossed and still; My love goeth forth, and my wild despair Cannot lift the soft lashes which shadow her eyes: 'Tis an angel, I say, that in spite of my care Goeth back to that land in the skies. —Robert Bums Wilson , Pleased With a Battle, Tickled With a Btraw. From the Chicago Tribune. One of the favorites of London this season in an amusement way is a man with the very at tractive nameof Corney Grain. He is an enormous man—tall, with a tremendously powerful body. His shoulders are broad and exceeding thick, and, as he stoops badly, it makes them look still more gross anu awkward. He is a mouse col ored blonde, with sallow complexion, dull, sleepy blue eyes, a large mouth, and thick pug nose. His forehead Is low and retreating, but he partly hides it by a loose ware of hair. This man is considered the great wit in London at present, and his appearance is the signal for a laugh before be opens his mouth. I think it would l>e easier for Americans to laugh at him before he had opened his mouth than after. He Is simply a diluted music-hall singer- -a music ball singer with all the fun and dash left out. He seats himself at the piano and the audience laugh. I heard him at a concert the other day at which all the music was good and classical. This man closed the entertainment with one of his songs. The audience consisted of some of the best jieople in London -people who are among the representative cultured society of the city. Yet there was no part of the pro gramme which received such applause and at tention os the shrieking of this course elephan tine humorist. He sang a vulgar song, without wit or originality, of a Scotchman’s coming to London and seeing the sights and describing them afterward to a friend at home. The great point of the song was that a!! of the women f liat lie saw wore very low-necked dresses, ami if his wife did the same he would heat her and send her to lied. The audience fairly shouted with appreciation of this delicate satire, the women enjoying it as much as the men. A friend told mo that this Mr. Corney Grain was invited to Marlborough House to sing to the Prince and Princess of Wales last Sunday even ing, and among M|hers he sang this same song. The Prince ofm/ales went into such fits of laughter ovojJ®s.hat, he nearly fell otf of his chair. thut, I can account for the Knglish Airing such stiilf is that they are so that theyseiio upon is labeled funny in order Marries a Pair. fVam the London Globe. I have found a place in the Nebraska Legisla ture, I have been in the cattle business, acted as hunter to the Grand Duke Alexis, and per formed a marriage ceremony. This last feut is not without Its humorous aspect. X had been elected a magistrate for the State of Nebraska, and was one evening astonished by the visit of one of the Sergeants of the post who desired to be married. There was no clergyman in the country, and I as the representative of the law was therefore empowered to tie the loving couple together. There was one awkward point, however. I had never j erfomiod a civic mar riage or even assisted at one. and the statutes of Nebraska contained no.hing in the way of form of direct ions. I therefore had perforce to rely upon my ingenuity on this occasion, and felt somewhat confused. The time arrived, and with it the pair of lovers. I turned to them and said to the bridegroom: "Do you take this woman to bo yotir lawful wedded wife, to support and love her through lire?” "I do." replied the man. “And do you," I said to th bride, “take this man to be your lawfulfwedded huslmnd?" “1 do," said the woman. "Then join bands, and know that I pronounce you two to beman and wife, and whomsoever Buffalo Hill Joins together let no man put asun der." It was not perhaps strictly formal, but It did well enough The pair were married and were contented, and I believe lived very happily together ever after. ITEMS OF INTEREST. John Conklin, a Grand Rapids (Mich.) city charge, who has chewed tobacco for eighty-flvo years back, is getting ready for a centennial celebration in August. He’s hale and hearty at 100. A Sturgis (Mich.) man placed $lB in green backs in his stove for safe keeping. The usual result followed—his wife built a fire in the stove a few days later and the money was burned. A German mathematician has calculated that the snowfall of central Germany from Dec. 19 to 23 weighed no less than 10,000.000 tons in the area between 50° and 52.5° north latitude and between 7° and 18° east longitude. A London omnibus conductor who was dis charged fifteen years ago has just sent the com pany a letter saving that he bad defrauded the company Gf about- SSO while in its employ, which amount he intended to repay in small in stallments. A writer in the Boston Ploughman holds that the briars, thorns, thistles and weeds are an actual blessing rather than a curse, because they exert a powerful influence in dissolving the nutriment contained in the rocks and soil and preparing it for plants of a higher and more useful nature. Apoplexy, induced hy excessive laughter, was given at the inquest as the cause of the death of a young woman, in Sheffield, Eng., lately. She had been highly amused at the predicamen into which a neighbor got. and broke into a fit of laughter which continued until she fell to the floor unconscious, death following shortly af terward . The Baris Theatre Commission, has resolved on requiring all scenery and decorations to be made incombustible within a month, the Pre fecture of Police affixing its stamp on them. It has also decided on requiring that an iron drop shall be fixed in each theatre in projecting ma sonry, so that when it is lowered the stage may be entirely cut off from the auditorium. Edward King writes from Paris that he knows personally that all the rumors concerning Gen. Boulanger’s appointment as Ambassador to St. Petersburg, or to some other prominent diplo matic or army position, are entirely groundless. He says: "Boulanger desires nothing more than he has had; he wants to work for the gen eral good; he is a true patriot, and too much of a gentleman to truckle for favor; altogether, his record is one of the cleanest and most per fect that any French politician has had since Gambetta's time.” At Mount Vernon, N. Y., a few nights ago, a young woman gave Michael Schwartz.a burglar, a pass key to the house in which she was em ployed so that he could enter at night and rob the premises. Schwartz was caught while endeavoring to escape with a lot of plun der. He told the officers now he had obtained the pass key and Justice Edmunds, of that place, before whom the two delinquents were arraigned, without consulting them as to their wishes married them then and there, and then sentenced both to Albany penitentiary for four months each. Says a Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Telegraph: “Henry George has a goodly number of converts in Washington. It is a fertile field for missionary work, and the seeds McGlynn dropped by the wayside are already bearing fruit. Many government clerks have become firm believers in the economy of Mr. George, and a movement is on foot to form an Anti-Poverty Society. The prospects are that the membership will be large. Men who have grown musty in the service and never ac cumulated anything but large families have tired of reading the standard worksfn political economy, which seem to furnish no cure for their case, and are drinking in George like a draught of fresh air. Some long and animated discus sions occur at lunch times, and even the women are interested in the question.” Tom Corwin used to tell in his inimitable way a story about a Mr. Jones, who was running for Congress in an Ohio district, and who, while fill ing his round of appointments, made a speech, at the close of which, bv way of commending him self to the “bone and sinew," the “regular sov ereigns” of the country, he said that he was a self-nmde man of "obscure birth and humble origin;” that in fact he was sprung from "the very dregs of the people.” "Why, fellow-citi zens," said he, warming up and elevating his voice, “my parents were so poor that when I was 18 years old my mother had to tie me to the bed post to keep mo from falling into the tire when ever she went to the spring for a pail of water." Of course he Intended to say eighteen months, and Mr. Corwin, who was present, cried out: “Oh, Jones, Jones, what a thumping big baby you must have been!’’ The crowd saw the point of the joke, and Jones broke down at once amid their jeers, Extract from the London Court Journal: “Hon. W. F. Cddy (Buffalo Bill) was a close companion of a man named Boone, who dis covered Kentucky in 1869. Mr. Cody married a granddaughter of a distinguished gentleman known as Sitting Bullfrog. Cody was twice Governor, of Chicago and was at one time Mayor of the Arkansas Legislature. He served in the Confederate army, in the command of Gen. Butler, who so gallantly defended New Orleans against the threatened invasion of the Federal Gen. Longstreet. After the war Mr. Cody went to Congress from the province of Detroit and introduced a measure far the relief of the citizens of Buffalo, which gained for him the name of Buffalo Bill. He has contributed largely to the Atlantic Monthly , a newspaper edited by Mark Twain and Uncle Tom Cabin, a man who is mainly noted for his negro dialect sketches. Mr. Cody has a ranch of many acres in St. Louis, where he keeps a large lot of In dians and ponies constantly on hand.” C. T. Ward, of San Francisco, has lately re turned from a several years’ residence in Chili. Among the South American curiosities Mr, Ward brought bock with him is one of the eyes of a Peruvian Inca, which was preserved with the embalmed body. These curious specimens of the preservative art are very rare, and are very valuable when they are found entire. The specimen in the possession of Mr. Ward has the shape of a piece of wax that has been cast in a thimble. It is translucent and of a bright golden color, looking something like colored glass. Few people who see it for the first time would !>e able to discover from its appearance its true character. But even to them It would lie sur rounded by some mystery which they would tie anxious to have revealed. It is related that a Poruvian lndv had a collection of thirty or more eyes of this kind, valued at $30,000, which she had mounted and wore as ornaments at a hall in Paris. Efforts have been made to discover the secret of the art by which the eyes of the Peruvian monarehs were preserved, but up to this time no chemist has been able to make it his own. It is believed, however, that gold was one of the materials used, which would account, perhaps, for the color of the specimen. The Indianapolis New Record says June 14 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordina tion to the priesthood of Bishop Obatard. of the Diocese cf Vincennes, but because of his absence in Europe no demonstration would be made of the love and honor in which he is held in his diocese. Bishop Cbatard is a son of Dr Ferdinand Chatard, of Baltimore. His father says he has not heard from him since May, when he was to have left Rome, which he has probahly done, and he is now in some other part of Europe. The Bishop went to Romo on church business, hoping alßo to obtain Some rest and recuperation. He was horn in Balti more, Dec. 18. 1884, was graduated at Mount St. Mary's Emmitsburg, in 1853, and then adopted the profession of medicine, following his father's and grandfather's example. But after pract icing a year ho became an ecclesiastical student at the Urban College, Home, and was ordained a priest in Pentecost week. 1862. The next year he was made a doctor of divinity, and became vice rector of the American College at Koine, afterward becoming a rector. He was also private chamberlain to Pope Pius IX He was made Bishop of Vincennes in March, 1878, and his diocese is one of the most, prostierous and well regulated in the United States. 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