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TIU KsDAY, JULY 7, IHB7.
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President Cleveland’s letters are short, but
when he writes on questions of tho day he
writes to the point .
They are beginning to call Mr. Blaine
“The Sphinx.” Is it because “The Plumed
Knight” was a failure l
Georgia is always ahead of her sister
States of the South, and Primus Jones’ first
bale of cotton isn’t needed to prove it,
either.
The New Orleans Picayune says that lib
erty and liquor go hand in hand. Yos, but
it is always the wrong kind of liberty that
goes hand in hand with liquor.
An English physician ailirms that under
certain circumstances people can be driven
crazy by the playing of a piano. It is not
necessary to live next door to a school for
girls to obtain proof that he is right.
One of the New York papers says that the
Fourth of July was more generally cele
brated in the South than in the North.
Well, the South luul a good deal to do with
making the day one hi be remembered.
On the rocks overlooking the West Shore
railroad in New York somebody has paint
ed in big letters; “Prepare to meet thy
God.” He evidently knows that tho win
ter is coming and that no suitable substitute
for the reel hot car stove has yet been dis
covered.
The Prohibition election in Floyd county
takes place on Saturday. It is believed that
the Prohibitionists will win by u handsome
majority. Tho ill-feeling that has been
caused by the contest will last a long time.
Unfortunately, this is one of the results of
•ueh contests that cannot bo avoided.
The other day in Columbus, tin., a gen
tleman died leaving it tvife and three ilnugh
ters. The oldest daughter, not yet 20 years
of age, is successfully continuing her fath
er's business. The blood of the proudest
families in the Btate courses through her
veins, but she is not above work. There ai-e
people who might think over this ease with
profit.
Philadelphia’s “old fashioned Fourth of
July” was much like the modern celebration
of the day. The record of the day’s work in
tho police and fire departments shows that
there were seven fires, three murders and
one accidental death. The numlier of smaller
casualties was very large. Liquor and fire
works made the day one to be remembered
by some with regret.
Memphis doesn’t send flowers to mur
derers. as Louisville did in the ease of the
brute Turner, but she treats such criminals
with distinguished consideration. The other
day a murderer was permitted by the jailer
to attend a picnic in one of the suburbs of
the city, escorted by a guard of ono man.
H< had a good time, and no doubt the peo
ple were inspired with deeper respect for the
laws.
A man and three little girls arrived in
Tnllahoma, Tenn., the other day, having
tramped all the way front Texas. They
were returning to their home in the eastern
part of tho State. The muu carried his
family to Texas some years ago. He lost
his all, and then his wife died. He hopes to
rebuild his fortunes in the home he left.
This case is but one of many. Texas doesn't
prove a land of promise to all who go there.
Henry George addressed ti.ooo people in
Cincinnati on the Fourth of July. Ho said
that the movement headed by hunself and
Dr. MeGlynn was growing and would sweep
everything before it. A resolution provid
ing for the holding of a national conference
in Octobor was adopted. While George
professes to see success ahead of his move
ment, there are not wanting those who de
clare that next year he will sell out to tho
highest bidder.
In addition to emptying fifty-five jails, ns
mentioned by the Morning Nkws tho
other day, Prohibition in lowa has so di
minished crime that for the first time in the
history of the State the penitentiary at Fort
Mudison is without a sufficient numlier of
convicts to enable tho authorities to fill con
tracts made upon the basis of the usual sup
ply. It may he said, also, that in every
State where prohibition has had anything
like a fair trial the business of tho crimi
nal courts lws boon greatly decreased.
Southern Sentiment.
The Courier Journal published on July
■1 letters and dispatches, which it had solic
ited, from Southern men prominent In
politics, showing the present political senti
ment of the people of their respective
States. They are very interesting reading,
and prove that in the South loyalty to the
Union and constitution is strong; that the
pride in the country's prosperity and great
ness is as marked as it is in any other sec
tion, and that should it become necessary to
repel a foreign foe Southerners would lie.
among the staunchest supporters of the flag.
A few extracts from the dispatches and
letters may not lx- uninteresting. Senator
Brown of this State, said: “That the Stars
and Stripes may continue from generation
to generation to wave over a great, prospor
ousand united jieople, is, I believe, the ear
nest wish of the inhabitants of all the States.”
Senator Morgan, of Alabama said; “I
think that our people, having no present or
prospective ground of complaint toward the
government, are restored to their love of
the Union and the Constitution, and are for
tified in the faith thafthey will yield richer
blessings to generations that will follow us
than we or our fathers have enjoyed.” Sen
ator Fastis,of liouisiana, said: “Thesenti
ment to-day ill the South of devotion to the
Union is stronger than it has ever been since
the foundation of the government ” Gov.
Hughes, of Arkansas, said; “We have
long since recognized in Arkansas that the
war is over; that fraternal union and peace
are of more value than keeping alivo tho
unkind feelings and bitterness growing out
of tho war. The periodical revival of un
pleasant reminiscences and tho recollections
of the bitter consequences of our late un
happy struggle can, in our opinion, serve no
good purpose. Wo look to tho future, more
bright with promise, for the rehabilitation,
development and improvement of our whole
country, to which we are devotedly at-'
tached.”
Gov. Perry, of Florida, said: “The loyalty
of the Southern people, whose nature and
training incline them to prefer principle to
policy, and honor to profit, is of sterner
stuff than self interest, and will prove her
staunchest stay should storm assail our ship
of State.”
Gov. Lee, of Virginia, after referring to
Virginia’s withdrawal from the Union and
the pride which every Virginian felt in the
courage and heroism displayed by her troops
in defense of her construction of the Federal
constitution, said: “The sword decided the
question against her, and to-day she is not
retiring into a corner to indulge in dumps,
but is industriously devoting herself to the
development of her great resources, and to
doing her share ns a co-equal American
State toward the peace, happiness and pros
perity of the whole country.”
Tlk-hi' few selections express the sentiment
of the South. The Southern people are at
tached to the Union and constitution, are
loyal to the flag and are proud of the
country’s growing greatness. They silently
acquiesce in tho fact that the issues of the
war were decided against them. They re
gard those issues as dead, and of no further
importance in connection with the present.
They do not seek to revive them in any
shape, and they do not admit that they were
in the wrong with regard to them.
There are those who doubt that the South
is sincere in her expressions of loyalty to the
Union andof a desire for fraternal feeling
because she does not acknowledge that the
cause for which she fought was wrong, and
they seem surprised when the attempt to
force such an acknowledgment is resented.
They refuse to be satisfied with the South’s
acceptance of the situation in good faith
and demand a confession of wrong doing.
Tlmt they will never get. When the at
tempts to convert the Southern people from
the convictions for which they sacrificed so
much cease—convictions which in no respect
interefero with their devotion to the Union
to-day—then there will lie no further excuse
to doubt tho sincerity of the expressions of
loyalty of the Southern people.
A Mistaken Orator.
About tho only one of the Fourth of July
addresses nt Woodstock, Conn., which Ims
attracted much attention is that of Mr.
William Windom. whose subject was “The
Saloon in Politics,” and it is probable that
it would not have been accorded more than
a passing notice if it were not for the part
that prohibition is now playing in polities.
Mr. Windom furnished some figures to
show the extent of the liquor traffic, and
the amount of money absorbed by it. As
these figures appear to have been gathered
from sources not wholly reliable, tho
conclusions which he draws trout them
cannot lie regarded us very valuable. It is
his conclusion that “wo arc to all intents
and purposes a rum-ruled nation” which
challenges attention. He reaches this con
clusion by assuming tlmt in most of the
cities autl towns the drinking saloon is tho
central power around which politics re
volves, and that it dictates the candidates
and the party policies. To illustrate more
fully what he means ho says that the State
of New York sometimes decides a national
contest, that tho city of New York controls
the State and that the saloon controls the
city.
There is no doubt that the saloon plays an
important part in politics, but it is a mis
take to assume the part is a controlling one.
Tho men who shape tho destinies of the
country and who dictate tho policies of
parties and their candidates do not get their
ideas, nor do they have thoir purposes
shaped, in saloons. While it is true that the
saloon exerts considerable influence in elei<-
tions, it must notin' forgotten, as Mr. Win
dom seems to have done.t hat the saloon power
is not all on one side. One party is aided
about ns much as the other hy it. In the
city of New York, which he cites as an
illustration to aid his argument, the influ
ence of the Republican saloons Is perha|w
about os great as that of the Democratic
ones. If it is not it is only necessary to go
to Philadelphia to find it greater. Taking
the country over it is probable that, so far
as politics is concerned, the Republican
saloons about offset the Democratic ones.
If this lie true Mr. Windom’s statement that
this is a rum-ruled nation is without sub
stantial support.
No, the people rule in this country and
they ai-e not influenced in their course by
whisky. There are plenty of demagogues,
ward bummers, henchmen, etc., who make
the saloon their headquarters, and who de
pend upon it for assistance in electing or de
feating this or that candidate, but the sa
loon does not control tho |iolitic* of the
country.
Tho story telegraphed from Washington
that Secretary of War Endicott had ten
dered his resignation proves to have been
another unfounded Washington sensation.
The Washington correspondents ap|x*ar to
take very little trouble nowadays to And out
whether rumors have any truth in them or
uot.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1887.
The Birmingham and Atlantic.
The air line from Savannah to Birming
ham, while one of tho longest, is unquestion
ably one of the most important railroad
enterprises that has ewer been projected in
the South.
Savannah, with twenty-seven feet of wat
er on her bar, and a river channel that is
to bo deepened to t vventy-eight feet, enjoys
great natural advantages which have been
considerably enlarged in recent years. She
is tho largest shipper of naval stores in the
world, the second of cotton, und the second
of timber. The fruits and vegetables of
Florida pass through her gates, and the
great current of Northern travel into
Florida flows through, her doors.
But Savannah has too long been contented
with her present environments. Her opu
lent merchants, naturally in possession of
an extensive and rich territory, have not
pushed with their full power into distant
fields and captured their productions.
Birmingham, young, athletic, and full
of energy, conscious of her own
ability and lier superior mineral ad
vantages, has, with her own inherent
strength, placed herself foremost among the
industrial cities of the South. Tho Birming
ham and Atlantic air-line will give her the
shortest ami most direct outlet to
the Atlantic. Alabama’s coal, iron, marble,
gold, lead, tin, talc, etc., will seek the ocean
through Savannah and through her doors
will pass the corn, wheat and meats of the
great Northwest. This road will cheapen
living in Savannah, for it will not only
materially shorten the distance to Birming
ham, but it will be a powerful competitor
for western freights, thereby insuring a
minimum instead of a maximum rate of
charges. Cheap living, it is well known,
is the greatest factor in a city’s prosperity.
As surely as the straight line is the
shortest distance between two given points,
so surely will this railroad prosper. It is
the shortest line that can bo built from Sa
vaimah to the coal and iron’ fields of Ala
bama mid to the granaries and
meat bouses of the Northwest. What
is needed now in its formative
stage is the support its merits entitle it to
from Savannah, Birmingham, Macon, La-
Grange, and the other cities, towns and
counties through which it is being built,
and which it will serve to develop and
prosper.
An Opening for a Shoe Factory.
In former years, before tho days of regu
lar steamship lines and rapid transit by
rail, there weqe in the South numerous tan
neries and shoo factories. There are still a
number of tanneries in tho South, one of
which, located at Chattanooga, is said to be
tho largest in tho Union. Tho product of
its vats, however, is not manufactured into
shoes at home, but is all sent to the New
England States. Millions of dollars are
sent from tho South every year to pay
for shoes. If this money could be
kept at home it would add largely
to tiie prosperity of this section. A few
years ago a small shoe factory was estab
lished in New Orleans, and now there are
about 100 employing from 20 to 200
men each. It requires but a small amount
of capital to purchase the machinery for
making shoes, and the shoes made at home
meet with a ready sale for cash. Tho sue
cess of a small factory in Putnam county,
in this State, proves tho truth of tho latter
assertion. This factory is situated seven
miles from the county seat. It is worked
to its full capacity, and its product
is almost all bought by merchants
of towns close by. There is an
excellent opening in Savannah for such an
enterprise, as there is an abundance of just
the kind of lalior, boys and women, that
can lie utilized in a shoo factory, and there
is also a large city and country trade to be
supplied. Is there no enterprising shoe
maker or shoe dealer who will take the in
itiative step in establishing such ft factory.'
Thirty years ago Savannah had a large shoe
factory', and the time is now propitious for
another and more successful one.
Johann Most and his Anarchist followers
in New York celebrated the Fourth of July
according to their own peculiar notions.
They had a p italic in one of the parks.
Most mounted a barrel and delivered a
characteristic address? Among other things,
he said that tho flag of the United States
was the standard of liberty in years gone
by, but now it was the flag of the upper
10,000 only. It was no longer the emblem
of Republicanism, and t herefore the work
ingmen bud good grounds to choose a flag
of their own, and that should he the red
tlug. He concluded by saying: “To-day we
will be happy; let us drink, sing und dunce
to-day. To-morrow lot us progress in our
preparations for the great social revolu
tion.” Most doubtless did not remember
that nowhere except under the flag of the
United States would ho and his followers lie
permitted to escape punishment for their
seditious utterances and misdeeds. He
ought to be sent back to spend the re
mainder of bis life under tho flag of hfs
native country. He would then better un
derstand the blessings of freedom.
Just now it appears to bo the fashion to
attack the West Point Military Academy
and to abuse the officers who graduated at
that institution. Gen. James S. Robinson,
Secretary of State of Ohio, a loading Re
publican and Senator Sherman’s right hand
man, says: “Nearly every great movement
for the protection of the Union at the outset
of the war was perfected in opposition to
tho West Point clique. Tho Ordnance De
partmont was so backward that orders hml
to Ik? given over the heads of its chiefs.
They rejected the Spencer rifles, and refused
to manufacture them until higher authority
compelled them toadoptthem. I had charge
nt one time of sixty miles in front of Wash
ington, and knew that tho general officers
in the regular army were constantly aiding
their Southern friends to go through the
lines.” The General ought to ask Congress to
uliolish the Academy. He will admit, how
ever, that West Point graduates did some
little lighting on both sides during the war.
Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, is
getting ready to introduce his educational
hill as soon as Congress meets. The bill Was
first introduced six years ago, and provided
for a distribution of $105,000,000 in ton
years. Three years afterwards the Senate
reduced the amount to $77,000,000, to be
distributed in eight years, and passed it.
The following year it added 000,000 with
which to build school houses. Neither the
Blair bill nor the Willis bill, which was a
substitute for it, ever passed the House.
Senator Blair can bo depended upon to push
the bill as long as he remains in the Senate,
hut it is by no moans certain that he will
succeed in getting it passed.
It is predicted that the heavy rains will
make watermelons larger this year than
they ever w ere liefore. Tho consumer will
not object, provided the price is uot in
creased.
CURRENT COMMENT.
As Good as an Exchange of Battleflasrs.
BYom the Sew York World (Dein.)
Gov. Fitzhugh Lee. of Virginia, made a de
cided impression at Tammany Ifall yesterday.
It was his first public appearance in New York
since he rode in the procession to Gen. Grant's
tomb. Gov. Lee is a judicious man and a rising
man. It is as good as an exchange of b.ittle
flags to have him come North occasionally.
Others Would be Safer Candidates.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dan).
Whilst Mr. Sherman is destroying himself by
injudicious speech Mr. Blaine is r constructing
hirnv. If by profound and painful silence. But If
Mr. Sherman should get very sick, and Mr.
Blaine get very well, there would still bo hun
dreds of men in the Republican party who
would make safer candidates for the Presi
dency.
On Gettysburg Field.
From the New York Herald (Ind.'s
What happened there may be regarded as the
seal upon a compact reconciliation. We know'
how true was the amity, how absolute the ef
facenieut of bitterness !xt ween the North and
South before, but nothing could so affirm this
cordial relation as the clasped hands and friendly
♦•yes that met each other yesterday on the spot
where Pickett charged, and where the Stars and
Stripes still llew as they flew twenty-four years
ago.
As Unnecessary as They Are Cruel.
From the Washington Post (Dem .)
Importations of Iron, steel sugar, glass, doe
and spelter were much larger lost month than
in June of last year. Tiie duties collected
thereon go into a treasury which cannot get rid
of the money it now has, and their imposition
enables home producers to add the* amount of
the duty to their selling price, the consumer
paying all the taxes, as well those added by
home producers as those imposed upon foreigu
importers. These burdens are as unnecessary
as they are cruel.
BRIGHT BITS.
An {©rolite weighing two tons fell in Indiana
the other day, and a small loy who was hoeing
potatoes yelled with shrill excitement,“Muffed.
—Burlington bYee Press.
One of those surly old bachelors that need
killing says that the reason why a woman is
called a “duck" is because the dressing is better
than the bird. —Miliraukee Journal.
Many young ladies seem entirely fitted for
legerdemain seances. They reject their lovers
so often that they become perfect in the art of
sleight-of-hand. Hartford Sunday Journal.
An inquirer asks: “Should the young man
kneel when he makes the proposal *'' This in
quirer is evidently a poor specimen. He will
prol>ably have to get down on all fours and
grovel.— Puck.
“I say, Fritz, did you see those boys stick out
their tongues at us?"
Second student “Yes, and it does me proud.
They evidently take us for full-fledged doctors."
—From the German in Texas Siftings.
Blobson (indignant)—l declare, that band is
trying to play. I would like to kick myself for
subscribing to the thing.
Mrs. 8., rushing to the window—No, 'taint the
band! It's Sprigg’s tin-peddler cart. The horse
is running away.— Burlington Free Press.
Yocno Man -Mr. Weeks, why don't you shin
gle your barn?
Old Farmer—'Cause it's rainin'.
Young Man—Well, why don't you shingle it
when it Isn't raining?
Old Farmer—lt don't need It then.— Life.
Mrs. De Million—Horrors! I will never have
my picture minted in hot weather again.
Friend Why, it's splendid, dear.
“But the artist has painted the perspiration
and all.''
“Oh. I see. You are looking at it in aside
light, dear. That's only the reflection on the
paint."— Omaha World.
Col. Bowlbos- leath and furies! who has
been at my meerschaum?
Julius (the colored servitor)—Ain't seen no
body handlin' it, sir.
Col. Bowlegs—Confound it! it seems to be full
of debris.
Julius (alarmed)—Fore de Lawd, kunnel, I
confess, I smoked 'em, but T didn't use nothin’
but Lone Jack. I wouldn't put no such stuff us
‘daybree’ in any geu'leman's pipe.—Philadel
phia Call.
“Darling," he whispered, as they were enter
ing her house after having attended the show at
the dime muHeum in full dress, “why do you re
semble this knob?"
With a fitful smile she gave it up, and, like
an interlocutor at a minstrel show, asked.
“Why?"
“Because you are something to adore."
When she nad colored up and coldly hurried
into the house, lie realized he had overaou© it.—
Washington Hachet.
Mrs. Baoley—William, it will be necessary
for vou os treasurer of this firm to shell out $lO
to the disbursing agent.
Bagley— Meaning you, Busan?
es. William; I wish to invade Eighth street
this afternoon."
“Confound it, what an unreasonable thing a
woman is! Only the other day I bought you as
handsome a i>ocket-book as a woman could
wish, and now you want money to put in it.
There don't seem to be much use trying to sat
isfy you.*’— Philadelphia Call.
Why does the strong man tear
his hair
Why does he corrugate his
brow?
Why does ho scowl
on all things fair?
Why does he act as iu despair?
What is his trouble now?
The strong man has been a
frolic,
And, sad result, he now has colie.
—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Mrs. Botta— who was a Miss Lynch, by the
way— is very fond of having literary jieople
around her. She has ceased to receive large
assemblies during the hot weather, her recep
tion to Miss Mur free (Charles Egbert Craddock)
and her sister being the last. Miss Jlurfree.
imitating Walt Whitman, who set the fashion of
a lion sitting to be admired, did not rise from
her sofa. She is unaffected and uupivteutious.
She was guilt.v of one pun the other night
Somebody said: "What a blind life people must
live in Tennessee. You are tired of it.
She laughed and answered: "Dully When I
am inTenneessee, then I see."
She apologized.— .Veto York Star.
PERSONAL.
Berry Wall's father was a Brooklyn Con
gressman.
Ex-President Hayes' first cousin was one of
the Sharp jury.
Don.v Wheeler, the artist, has come out in
favor of "court dress" for men.
The remains of M. Thiers have recently been
removed to u new grave at Pere I*aehalse.
Edward Everett Hale thinks there is noway
of "seeing life' equal to being a schoolteacher.
James K. Keene had a "want of confidence”
in the late wheat ring, and, as a result, cleared
$75,000.
, John Koch, once one of Now York's million
aires. now keeps a little beer shop in the me
tropolis.
A moncment has been erected by the heirs of
Leopold vou Bunko at the great historiuu s
birthplace.
Miss Ober. tbe Boston opera manager, has
left the business and will return to it uo more.
Her success has been phenomenal.
Likct, Oov. Honey, of Rhode Island, is an
Englishman by birth. He will speud the sum
mer in Eurolie, and will have a sweet time, of
course.
A Wasiunoton milliner has successfully in
troduced anew stylo of summer hat. which she
has named Dorothy Whitney iu honor of the
i naval Secretary's baby girl.
Lewis Morris, the assistant, poet laureate
for the jubilee occasion, is the author of the
"Epic of Hades." lie owes his elevation to the
partiality of the Prince of Wn'os.
A memorial service In honor of Charles
Francis Adams will be held July-1 in the Uni
tarian church at Quincy, Mass. The address
will lie delivered by Dr. William Everett.
Erastvs Corxino, of Albany, N. Y.. an
nounces that he has Invited I'residrnt Cleveland
and Mrs Cleveland to visit him at his new resi
dence at Bar Harbor iu August, and that the
invitation has been accepted Mr. Coming's
cottage is one of the finest at Bar Harbor.
While dining at a hotel in New Haven during
the recent Soldiers’ mid Sailors' Monument
festival, Oov. Isnmsbury, of Connecticut, was
offered a glass of w ine by a waiter. The Gov
ernor turned red and angrily exclaimed: "You
have given me the worst insult I ever received.”
The astonished water rapidly retreated and is
hut slowly recovering from the severe shock Ida
nervous system received*
The bonnet which her majesty Queen Victo
ria w ore on Jubilee day was simple, fashionable
and becoming to her round face. ”lt Is com
posed of very line old point d'Alenron, with full
black velvet front, forming a coronet. It has a
Marabout aigrette, tit. ped with mother o’ i*arl.
An exquisite dmnionu ornanvut with pendants
nestle* in the full laee at the iKiek of the l>omiet.
A smaller diamond ornament listens the lace
string* ui the bide vt the trout.’’
HE WAS CURED BY FAITH.
The Happiest Man in Allegheny—A Re
markable Case.
From the Chicago News.
A faith cure which is attracting considerable
attention in the Fifth ward, Allegheny, is that
of Mr. Thomas Bedow, who resides on Beaver
.avenue. Some three years ago Mr. Bedow
began to lose the proper use of his lower limbs,
and, a physician being called, the ailment was
pronounced paralysis. From that time for
ward every remedy was tried to effect a
cure, but in vain, and last year the attend
ing physician. Dr. Stewart, pronounced
Mr. Bedow incurable. Mr. Bedow then went
away from home to consult with other physi
cians, and to try advised summer resorts as a
hist hope. He returned to the city in the fall,
no better in condition. The paralysis increased
and two weeks ago Mr. Bedow could only move
about in a painful fashion by grasping hold of
the backs of eiiairs. A few days before his cure
he again consulted Dr. Stewart, who told him
that all that could lie done had been done, that
Mr. Bedow was incurable, and not only that,
but thatt he increasing paralysis would produce
death in the course of two, or at the outside,
three years.
Mr. Bedow felt much discouraged, and on the
eve of the cure felt that it were useless to even
try to move about any more, and that on the
morrow he would resign himself to the inevita
14e, and attempt to stand upon the poor, para
lyzed limbs no longer. But on retiring that
night the thought came to him, “God can cure
me.” He had just read of the Faith Cure Con
vmitiou at Christ church, and he bowed his head
and prayed for a long time. The next day, in
stead of giving up, as he had intended, he sev
eral times made his way across his room by
'clinging to the chairs and furniture, and, as he
imagined, with less pain and difficulty than
for several weeks past. He felt encour
aged, and that night he prayed with all the
earnestness and faith of which he was capable.
He afterward slept soundly until morning, a
thing he had not done for over a year. He
sprang from bed. danced about the floor, jump
ed into his clothing and ran down stairs, shout
ing for joy. Before stopping his antics he ran
about the yard several times to test his new
found strength. Since then there has not been
the faintest sign of a relapse.
Mr. Bedow, who is a locksmith, went right to
work, and is now the happiest man in Alleghe
ny. Several people have called on Dr. Stewart,
but the only answer he gives is:
“I pronounced the man incurable; I know he
was incurable, but now he is well. That is all
there is to it.”
BLUE EYES AND SOFT VOICE.
Phoebe Couzins Captivated During- an
Interview With the President.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A reporter called on Miss Phoebe Couzins yes
terday, at the United States Marshal's office,
and questioned her in regard to her interview
with President Cleveland while in Washington a
few days ago.
“Yes,” said she, “I saw President Cleveland
immediately after his return from the Adiron
dacks. He looked a little sun burned, but I
didn't notice any fly bites or other indications
that he had been having a hard time in the
woods.”
“What did the President say about coming to
St. Louts ?”
“He said that he certainly intended to come.
In his own words he ‘could not refuse so mag
nificent an invitation as had been extended him
by the people of St. Louis.’ He remarked that
•he would be very much pressed by business at
the t ime, but he intended to make the visit any
how. "
“Then you are sure the President will come?"
“I am sure of it unless something happens to
prevent. He told me so. and Ido not think I
am violating any confidence in repeating what
he said."
“Will Mrs. Cleveland come also?”
“I think so, but am not sure. Idid not see her,
as she had gone to Oswego to visit some school
friends. I remarked to the President that I
thought the ladies of St. Louis should have been
represented on the committee which invited
him to visit the city, so as to make sure of Mrs.
Cleveland accompanying him. Ho replied that
she would probably come with him anyhow. In
reference to the unpleasant things which have
l>een said about his visit to St. Louis, he said
that he would pay no attention to them.”
Speaking of President Cleveland's manners
Miss Couzins said:
“I like to talk with him; he is so unassmning
that one feels perfectly at ease in his presence.
He has all the polish of President Arthur, and
is genial and pleasing In his conversation. He
has a tine blue eye, which has such a kindly ex
pression when he looks at you: but what I ad
mire most, is his soft, well-modulated voice."
Hi re the conversation turned on other topics,
and In referring to herself Miss Conzlns salu:
“I am tired of political life, and long to go
bade to my literary work. There is no humanity
in polities, and there never will be until women
have an equal say with the men. The more I
see of law and politics the more 1 am convinced
that woman’s presence is needed In both.”
A Plain Understanding.
.From the Detroit Free Press.
Close by a railroad junction in Alabama,
where we bad to wait sometimo for the other
train, was a general store, and several of us
Went over to se how business was done. Tire
■proprietor was a little old man with a benevo
lent face, and his clerk was his son, who was a
hawk-eyed, sharp-nosed young man with no be
nevolPnce about him. Tha customers were prin
cipally negroes, aud there was a great run on
■ some new tin coffee pots just unpacked. The
one hung up for a sample was marked Zoo. on
the bottom. Every time a darkey asked the old
man for a coffee pot he was referred to "Wil
liam,” and every time William was asked for
calico lie referred the customer to father. We
saw this go on until our curiosity was aroused,
and the Colonel finally asked the old man for an
explanation.
"Stranger?” queried the old man in reply.
“Yes.”
“Don't live about here?"
“Oh, no: just waiting for the train."
“Well, then it’s just this way: William has
the conscience to ask 40e. for a 25c. coffee pot,
aud as he's a leetle set in his ways I let him tend
to that line.”
"But about the calico?”
“Well, try as hard as I may, I can't ask over
18c. for 10c. calico, and as William knows how
rigid my principles are he never interferes with
my side of the store.”
My Little Girl’s Bright Eyes.
Yes. I have gems that do outshine
Your diamond. Does the truth surprise?
Then place your bauble here above
My little girl’s bright eyes.
Ah, better than the shining stones.
My rich and purse-proud neighbor buys.
Those gleaming jewels dark and deep,
My little girl's bright eyes.
Oh. when she laughs they are so bravo
And beautiful! And when she cries
Goleondu s mines are dimmed beside
My little girl's bright eyes.
Sweetest of all they shiug thro' tears,
For then 1 see the soulthat lies
Deep hid, a sacred shrine, beneath
My little girl’s bright eyes.
Oh. when I gaze into their depths.
My trembling heart sees hope arise!
Lore's in the lode star of my life,
My little girl s bright eyes.
What care I tho’ I never win
Glory or gold from time that files?
1 am content, if fate but leave
My little girl's bright eyes. M. N. B.
Logic.
From the Boston Transcript.
Little Nellie, 5 years old, went to walk on Sun
day afternoon with her poreuts. The party
strolled along the bank of the reservoir, con
cerning tho use of which Nellie usked many
questions. While they were there they wit
noMed an exciting episode a small boy’s straw
liat was blown off his head into the reservoir
nltd fished out with no little difficulty with tho
aid of a long pole.
That evening at supper, os Nellie was drink
ing water from a glass, she asked:
"Is this water the same as tho water up in
the reservoir?”
"Yes, dear."
Nellie smacked her lips In an experimental
wav, and with a slight expression of displeasure.
“Well," she said, “I think it tastes some of a
straw hat!”
Tho Irishman Was Ahead.
From the London Truth.
At a certain debating society an English doc
tor recently argued that the Irish were natur
ally a depraved and dishonest race, and in sup
port of his position he adduced his own experi
ence. He remarked that he had at Manchester
800 Irish patients on his hooks, and out of this
number only thirty paid him his fees.
An Irishman rose when the doctor sat down,
and said: “Sor, there is never an effect without
a cause; there is never a phenomenon which
dot>*not admit of an explanation. How. sor,can
we explain the extraordinary phenomenon to
which the doctor hna called our attention? He
finds an explanation in the natural depravity of
the Irish nature I, sor, huve another explana
tion to offer, and it is this: "That the thirty
patients who paid him were the oniv ones that
recovered.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Don M. Dickinson of Detroit, promptly
chopped down an electric light pole which had
been erected in front of his house during his ab
sence.
A white crystal, nearly ten inches in diame
ter, spherical in form and said to be without a
flaw, has lately been offered to the principal
foreign curio firm of Yokohama for §20,1)00. The
Mikado has one of the two finest ones known.
Joe Buck, who lives about three miles north
east of Bushnell, 111., lost a horse in a singular
manner last week. The animal jumped forward
in such a manner as to run the tines of a pitch
fork full length up its nose, and died instantly.
A Pentwatkr (Mich.) school teacher was out
fishing when he suddenly caught sight of a rat
tlesnake about to spring on him. He pulled his
flask from his hip pocket, took a long draught,
and reached for the fish. The snake saw the
point and slunk away.
Tue English red tape army and navy officials
do queer things. Not only do they send canned
meat to Australia, where the woods are full of
meat; rice to India, and sugar and rum to
Jamaica, but on a recent occasion they literally
sent coals to Newcastle for some war ships on
the Tyne.
One of the leaders of the bricklayers’ strike is
a man who left Prussia for that country's good
and who has been in Chicago seven years with
out doing a stroke of work to earn an honest
shilling. As he sits in a saloon with free beer
before him he feels that “us bricklayers must
have our rights.”
States adjacent now fear that the newly en
acted law in Connecticut imposing a twenty-five
year term of imprisonment on criminals con
victed for a third time—no matter for what
offense—will flood them with the offenders, and
are anxious that some means be provided to
stave off the rush.
Mrs. Magdalene Boggs was born in Lan
caster, Pa., Dec. 22, 178a She arrived in In
diana in 1845, and has lived with her children in
• Milton. Ind., and Bennett, 111 . ever since. She
is small in stature, but well preserved for one
who has seen so many years. At present she re
sides in Milton, Ind.
The fiftieth anniversary commemorating the
first introduction of the service of the Protes
tant Episcopal church in lowa will be cele
brated in Trinity Parish, Davenport, la., July 15.
The Rev. Dr. Louderbaek, as the oldest living
rector oi Trinity church, will by invitation
preach the sermon on that occasion.
It is stated in Newberg, N. Y., that in a ship
yard at that place there is being constructed the
first vessel to be propelled by electricity ever
built in the United States. It is a yacht 37 feet
long 7 feet wide aud five feet deep. It is to be
run by stored electricity. It Is building for a
Newark, (N. J.) electric company, aud will be
run between that city and New York.
Ch i ness are slowly but gradually gaining a
stronger foothold in Victoria, B. C., and are now
ten times stronger numerically than they
were three months ago. One of the tyhees is
building a long row of cabins near the Royal
City Mills, and it is reported that he has pur
chased the laud on which he is building, thus se
curing all the rights of a landed proprietor.
If the concentric rings in trees are a correct
index of their age, that mysterious structure
near Manchester, Coffee county, Tonn., called
the Old Stone Fort, is of a very ancient origin.
The trees growing on the rude stone walls that
(surround the old structure show, by their rings,
fully 500 years growth. These trees, now being
•cut away, are the only witnesses to the age of
the stone work.
Here is a French post office story: One day
(there came to the Paris post office a letter ad
dressed (in English) "Postmaster General,
Paris." The clerk to whom was referred the
-doubtful aud Illegible superscription, deceived
by the word “general,” wrote across the envel
ope an order to try the war office. It was sent
there and soon returned with the indorsement
that General Postmaster was unknown.
Mrs. Ruby Mantel, of Keeler, Mich., has been
lying ill in bed for eighteen months until the
other day, when she suddenly rose and dressed
herself without assistance. She now feels per
fectly well, whereas previously she had not been
able to drag herself around the house, Mrs. Man
gel says that she prayed for recovery from the
'time she was taken ill, and that her prayers just
ibetore her restoration to health were no more
• earnest than they had been.
~ A CnicAGo woman who has had some success
"in the Christian science faith cure made an
astonishing cure lost week in the case of M. F.
Potter, an lowa man, who injured his spine ten
ago. and came to look on his condition
■as hopeless. Nine doctors treated him for six
mouths and then gave him up to die. The
•Chicago woman cured him in two weeks with
tout administering a drop of medicine, and he is
now so well that he can walk a mile at a brisk
gait without the sightest Inconvenience.
Herrmann, lately deceased, once performed
before the Sultan Abdul Aziz, says the London
Times, and threw a valuable watch of his ma
jesty’s into the Bosphorus. There was a great
outcry, which the conjuror checked by conjur
ing up the watch again into the Sultan's pocket.
For this he received a present of 500 Turkish
pounds. It seems, however, that he really did
throw the Sultan's watch into the water, and
that the one which he conjured back was a
replica duplicate, obtained before hand from
the maker of the original timepiece.
A SSOO clock which * pipes thirty-six Italian,
French, German and American tunes with
wooden flutes, besides telling the hours and
minutes in silvery chimes, has been placed in
the vestibule near the dining room at the
Executive Mansion at Albany, N. Y. The time’
piece is of natural carved oak and was pur
chased at Berlin. The flutes are said to be
over a century old. aud were presented by Fred
erick the Great to a favorite lady of his Court.
Three years ago the music box was placed un
der the hammer at Berlin, and an enterprising
jeweler combined the mechanism with that of a
clock.
Mrs. Walter Meade, the wife of an Adrian,
Mich., drayman, had been confined to her bed
for several years with chronic diseases. A short
time ago an internal abscess began to sap her
remaining strength and her case was abandoned
as hopeless. At last the physician told her that
at the utmost she could live only two days. Mrs.
Meade prayed earnestly that night to be restored
to health and awoke refreshed. New life seemed
to course through her veins and she grew
stronger every hour. The abscess dried up and
disappeared, the other ailments departed and
Mrs. Jleade is now well. Besides that, her hus
band, long a scoffer at religion, is now a devout
church-goer.
The Mayor of a Dakota town recently called
upon the editor of a St. Paul paper. As soon as
he caught a glimpse of that individual, he broke
out as follows: "See here, you galoot, what do
you mean by snubbing our town?” • 'Why, my
dear sir,” replied the editor, “I have never
snubbed your town." “Ye* yon have,” said the
Mayor. "Didn't you print a dispatch in your
paper the other day about the new hearse we
nave just got for our town, and didn’t you fail
to add. 'great enthusiasm prevails?' Now, we
can’t have any more of that. You want to bear
In mind that great enthusiasm always prevails
over anything new in Dakota. And if you don’t
run it in every time it will be wuss for you. You
hear me."
The Queen'? English, the clean’s English ard
the newspaper Euglish have received full atten
tion. Why. asks the Quincy Herald, should not
railroad English come in for a share? Passing
by the unintelligible shout with which the
brakeman reinforces the other noises nftho
train, wo can find some choice selections, meant
not for the ear, but the eye. For example, it is
within the memory of the oldest inhabitant and
many of his juniors that a prominent railroad
company issued its pocket time table with the
"arrival at and the departure from of trains at
the station in Boston." Another company
plants signboards near crossings with the alarm
inc admonition: “Notice to the public: AU per
soiis are reminded of the danger in, and are
hereby forbid walking upon, the track or road
bed of tin's railroad company." After readi: g
that the most intelligent tramp would bo too
much bewildered to get any benefit from It be
fore the next train ran him down.
“The Empress of China," says the corre
spondent of the I/mdon Daily Scu\s at Peking,
"desires to provide for herself a pleasant home
when she retires from the government. a vast
army o f laborers are still at work preparing the
West Park. There is no intention to demolish
the Catholic Cathedral. It will remain as an
ornament, and from its towers the beautiful
view of the lake with the freshly
puinted buildings around it covered
with yellow and green roofs of glazed
tiles will no doubt lie appreciated by the
ladies of th palace. Hills and grove s are not
wanting to increase the loveliness of the scene.
Here i he Empress has each year sacrificed to the
founder of the silk manufacture and spun and
woven silk, and tended the worms as an exam
pie to the women of the empire. All China will
wish her to enjoy her well-earned repose when
she leaves tne helm of the State finally In the
hands of her imperial nephew It was specially
provided that the largo collection of stuffed
birds. Insects, snakes and quadrupeds which the
nhle zoologist, Pere David, had left in a hail at
> the Cathedral -'alee, should remain there."
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