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Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. letters and telegrams should bo addressed “Morning News. Savannah. Ga." Advertising rates mad** known on application INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. AMI'SKMKNTS Base Ball, Savannahs vs. Warrens. Cheap Column Advkrtiskmknts Help Want ed: For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis cellaneous. Publication—The Wilmington (N. G.) Star. Summer Resorts—The Whitlock House, Ma rletta. Ga.; Salt Spring. Austell, Ga.; College Hill House, Asheville, N. <!. Steamship SciiKnuut—Ocean Steamship Com pany. Auction Salk—New Household Furniture, by D R. Kennedy. Jvst Received- At the Mutual Co-operative Association Store. 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 'Sic a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for three months, cjish invariably in ad vance. The address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should he 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 Bust ness Office. Special attention will he given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. President Cleveland writes as good a long letter as he does a short one. Gen. Fairchild’s three palsies, like chick ens, will come home to roost. It was a long time waiting till the clouds rolled by, and now t.h.c tiiey are gone it is to be hoped that they wi .i not return until they are needed. In New York, the other day, a tramp wearing four pairs of trousers was arrested. He had evidently profited by a visit to the ant and was providing against the cold of next winter. Gen. William Mahone, of Virginia, is said to resemble an animated toothpick. He doubtless feels like one—a second-hand one— that has lost its usefulness and has been thrown away. Policeman John Phillips, of New York, known as the giant of the Broadway squad, has heen twelve years on duty at one point. He must be “the good policeman” who is oc casionally heard of. That was an apt answer given by a South erner in Chicago the other day to the ques tion, “What is your idea of lonesomeness'" He replied: “The most lonesome thing I can think of ju7 now is a protectionist in the South." There is a woman in New York natnod Iwen. The other day she assaulted her bus Land, intending, he claims, to kill him. She has had five husbands, and doubtless wanted a chance to marry a sixth so as to make the number even. Now that the opening of the summer ses sion of the General Assembly is so near at hand, it is to he hoped that somebody will find the thirty-nine railroads chartered dur ing tho last session and put them on exhibi tion in the cnpitol. Congressman Herbert, of Alabama, says that it is nonsense to suppose (hat there will be a break in the Democratic solidity of the South. He is quite right. Senator Sherman and certain meniliei’s of the G. A. li. have effectually prevented a break. General Master ’Workman Pmvderly an nounces positively tliat. ho will not hold office after this year. He is in poor health, and to discouraged by the attacks that have been made upon him. Considerable wire pulling is going on by those who wish to succeed him. Erastus Winan and Ben Butterworth seem to he meeting with success m then efforts to induce the Canadians to consent to commercial union with the United States. If such a union should lx? consummated the two countries would be drawn much closer together in other rosjs'ets. In New York, on Thursday, three eases of suicide were reported. In each tho victims were young men, one 1 eing 22 years of age, another 25 and the third 3(1. The only cause assigned was that the self-murderers had the “blues.” There are no freaks as strange a those which lead men to commit suicide. The Republicans in New York are quite free with their suggestions to the Democrats. The New York Tribune declares, for in stance, that a ticket, composed of Hill, of New York, and lg*e, of Virginia, would sound well on the ear in 1833, The Demo crats are able to take care of themselves, as the Republicans will find out to their cost next year. Here is a bit of political news from Mis souri that will be interesting: Ex-Congress man E. O. Btanard, of Bt. Louis, says Mis souri Republicans have not yet mode any decided expressions of choice for President. They were pleased with BUerinan’s Nash ville speech, hut he lost the gcxxi impression by his Bpringfleld oration. This would seem to indicate that Bhorman would do well in the future to eschew orations ami confine himself to speeches. When the General Assembly was called to order on Wednesday last a communication was read from General Manager K. B. Thomas, informing the Senators that passes issued for the winter session over tho Rich mond and Danville railroad and over the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail road would lie good for the summer session. It will thus be seen that tho interstate com merce law has no terrors for the Georgia lawmakers County Jails. The Governor in his s|ieeial message, which he sent to tlie legislature on Thurs day, called attention to county jails. He doubtless has good reasons for thinking that in many of the counties the jails are not fit places in which to confine human beings. If he had not good reasons lie would not have drawn the attention of the legislature to this sub ject. A few weeks ago quite a sensation was produced throughout Florida by a state ment respecting the condition of the jail at Jacksonville. The statement was tine in every partieulai. It showed that the lending city of Florida confined its prisoners j in a place where either comfort or decency j was about impossible. Men and women, | hardened criminals and those guilty of minor offenses, wore crowded together in a space so small as not to admit of a reasonable amount of breathing room. The jxxiple of Jacksonville do not appear to have been aware that their jail was a disgrace to their city. Their attention perhaps had never been called to it, and so they were uncon scious of tho fact that one of their institu tions was of a character to bring their city into disrepute in tho estimation of all civilized people. When the truth was brought home to them they went to work energetically to build anew jail. It is prol in hie that, there are many jails in this State that are ns deserving of con demnation as tho one at Jacksonville. The Governor says that convicts received at the convict camps are, in ninny instances, in un enfeebled condition, and some ore com pletely broken down in health. No doubt a great many of those who are confined in jails and are finally declared innocent of crime anil released, are in the same pitia ble condition. It is not only unworthy a Christian people, but it is inhuman, to lock up people in damp, badly-ventilated and badly-drained jails for weeks, months, and sometimes years. It makes no difference whether they are guilty or not of the charges lodged against them. They are all presumed to lie innocent in the eyes of the law until they are proven to he guilty, and a very large percentage is never shown to l> guilty; but even if all of them were proven to be gililty that would lie no excuse for robbing them of health and strength. It is not the purpose of the law to deprive those who fall into its clutches of health as well as of lib erty. The Governor thinks that existing county jails ought to be examined by a competent commission, and improvements ordered where they are needed. He also thinks that jails to be built should be constructed in ac vordanee with a plan outlined by the Legis lature. His views aro correct, and command the approval of every right-thinking jierson. They ought to, and doubtless will, com mand the approval of the Legislature. The new Savannah jail might be adopted as a model. The American Party’s Platform. There is a great deal of sympathy with that part of tho platform ot tho newly formed American party of California which deals with the question of immigration. According to our dispatches the American party is opposed to the admission into this country of the paupers and criminals of other countries, and to tho importation of laborers under contract. It wants the nat uralization laws repealed. and objects to non-resident aliens owning lands in the United States or receiving the same by in heritance. Within tho last few years public senti ment with respoet to immigrants has lieen steadily undergoing a change, due largely to the fact tliat objectionable political ideas, doctrines and methods of foreign countries have been transferred to this country. The great majority of the immigrants adapt themselves to their surroundings and quickly become thrifty and good citizens. They are satisfied with our laws and institutions, and aim only to make for themselves com fortable homes. There are many, however, who never become Americans in sentiment, and who are not only agitators and dis turbers of the peace, hut want to force the people of this country to adopt tho crude and dangerous political docrines which they have brought with them. They are An archists and Socialists who want to overturn tho existing order of things, but who have no clear idea of what they want or what ob jects they ha ve in view. Not being permitted to carry out t heir programme in their native land, they seek to carry it out here, where they are permitted much greater freedom of speech and action. They have introduced dynamite and tho boycott, and are ready to use any other means to bring alient a con dition of affairs which they pretend to tie lieve is necessary for their happiness. The country would be much better off’ without them, and public sentiment would sustain any pixiper effort to keep them out of the country. There is already a law against the imjior tation of laborers under contract. Those who were imported before the law went into effect were a very degraded class and utterly incapable of understanding our institutions or of profiting by them. They were im ported by the coal and iron kings of Penn sylvania, who are the chief support of the protective tariff system, and who pretend that they advocate that system not so much for their own benefit as for that of American workingmen. How much they eared for American working men was shown by their course in bringing the most degraded people of Europe here to compete with American labor. Bo far from caring for American workingmen they would force them to work for just enough to keep body and soul together if they could. It is n question whether it would lie wise to repeal the naturalization laws. Bueh n thing ought not to he done unless it becomes apparent that the gixxi of tho country re quires it. Tbe most of those who become naturalized develop into goixl citizens, and it would Ihi hardly just to make the well disposed suffer lus ause there are those who abuse their privileges as citizens. The ques tion of repealing the naturalization lnws, however, or at least of limiting them to those who can be safely admitted to citizen ship, is one that will attract a great deal of attention in tho near future. ’lt is announced that Secretary Lamar’s daughter, Miss Jennie, will soon wed a gentleman of the same name residing in Washington. Tho gentleman in question is Mr. W. H. Lamar, Jr., formerly of Alabnnm. While connected with the coast survey, he accompanied the expedition that rescued Gen. Oreely ami his com panions from the Arctic regions. He is now practicing law. Mr. Lamar has many friends in Georgia. Ben Butler professes to believe that if the Labor party nominates a candidate for President npxt year he will lie elected. What Ben lielioves is of very little imjxirtauce to tbe country. :THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JULY 0. 1887. I Sincerity of the Mormons Doubted. Tlie constitution which the Mormons are engaged in framing at Salt Lake City, with the ex[ieetation that Utah will be, admitted j into the Union as a State by Congress next | winter, does not, it appears, meet with I much favor from tho Gentiles of that Ter ritory. The provision to which exception is taken is that relating to polygamy. It is so framed, it is alleged, that instead of pro hibiting polygamy it will protect it. There is not any reason for thinking that the Mormons intend to give up polygamy. They have never shown any di-js>sition to do so, and t lie most stringent laws have thus far failed to suppress the institution. They don’t like the Edmunds law, however, not only because it is very troublesome to them, hut also because, if strictly enforced, it will have the elfect of causing a good many of them to abandon polygamy altogether. The movement in favor of securing the admis sion of the Territory into the Union has for its main object, doubtless, the getting rid of this law, and of all interference from the national government with polygnmy. The provision of the proposed constitution which relates to the peculiar institution, while pretending to abolish it, does not, it is claimed do anything of the kind. It is so skillfully constructed as to leave the Mor mons to do pretty much as tiiey please with regard to the evil. If Utah is admitted with this constitution, or any other framed by Mormons, it is about certain that tbe peculiar institution will flourish with more vigor than ever before. The Mormons are making a mistake, how ever, in thinking that they can get Utah admitted while a single loophole is left for the preservation of the polygamous evil. The people are opposed to it, and Congress would not dare to admit any Territory which had a constitution which could lie construed in favor of the evil. There are men in Congress who have been fighting polygamy too long to permit the evil a chance to gain a firmer foothold than it now has. What the Salt Lake convention must do before it can hope that its work will be accepted is to make polygamy impossible. They may continue to frame constitutions and make declarations ngainst polygamy, but they will meet with no success, so far as getting into the Union is concerned, until the sincerity of their expressed intention to abandon that institution is placed beyond question. The South’s Future. Some days ago the Boston Journal called attention to the statement that Georgia has 62.84 per cent, of all her children of school age enrolled in her public schools, and pointed out that the percentage of tho average attend ance on this enrollment is 70.32. The Jour nal, in commenting on this showing, said that Georgia led every other Southern State in educational matters. The Boston Herald noticing the statement and the comment said: “Yet Georgia was the first State of the South in which the Republican party was put out of power, and is the State of all others in which Democratic rule has been uninterrupted and undisputed. When our esteemed neighbor talks of the wrongs which such things have wrought, it will be well to keep in mind the sort of statistics shown above.” It is a good tiling for the South to have a friend in Boston to put in a good word for her once in awhile. The Bos tonians mean right ns a general thing, but where the South is concerned they do not always see things just as they are. As great as the advancement is which the South iias made in tho last t wenty years, it would have been greater if Democratic rule had prevailed in nil the Southern Stab’s during that period. The South did not make the progress she ought to have made during ttie carpet-bag jieriod, because the carpet-bag governments wore a greater bur den than she could successfully carry. How ever, the South is in good hands now, and in a very few years she will give Boston oc casion for greater surprise than that city has yet experienced with regard to Southern advancement and development. Not many years ago a celebrated Massachusetts states man said that within thirty years the South would lie the richest section of the Union. It is beginning b> look as if he had a correct understanding of the South’s future. Among tho immigrant* who arrived at Chicago from New York tho other day, was a middle-aged couple in Norwegian dross. The man was loaded down with baggage and the woman was almost as heavily laden, as in addition to her bundles she carried a little baby boy. They sat down on their luggage to rest, when suddenly the woman began fo shriek. Tho crowd that pressed around her quickly discovered that, the little baby she had nursed so closely to her bosom was dead. A street wagon was called and the little Ixxiy was taken to the morgue. The next instant the bells rang, tho whistles blew, and the hired herders of immigrants drove them aboard tho train, and in tho rush tho be reaved parents drifted until they were born© away into the Northwest, where they were seeking anew home. Tho incident illus trates the hardships of immigrants. In the United States District Court forth© Western district of Arkansas an Indian is on trial for killing his sweetheart. His name is Della Hoinliy, and he is tho son of old Bursa Chu-Fuer, head chief of the Cherokee Nation. His victim was the daughter of one of tho chiefs of the Choc taw tribe. On account of the murder the tribes have on several occasions had a hard fight, and it is estimated that at least 100 warriors have been slain. When Della was arraigned he entered a plea of not guilty, and then broke out in loud lamentations and began to sing his death song. He will probably lie hanged. If he were a citizen of Louisville, Ky., he would doubtless be over whelmed with (lowers, besides reaping a harvest of nickels by exhibiting himself to the populace. Howard Williamson ton farmer who lives near Mount Sterling, Ky. Six mouths ago he noticed that the fleshy part of lijs left leg seemed harder than that of his rigid. Hinco that time tbe hardness has grown more and more perceptible, and though Williamson has had the attention of excel lent medical skill, tho limb is now like a piece of marble. He suffers no pain, but finds locomotion very difficult. 'Hie dime museums threaten to worry him to death by offers to exhibit him. The protectionist organs in the South are amusing themselves by attacking Congress man Blount, <f the Sixth Georgia district. The same sort of thing has lioon tried before, with the result of so solidifying his sup porters that the opposition to him had the life oriished out of it. The people are with Congressman Blount, and there is no reason to doubt that he will lie re-elected noil year by an increased majority. CURRENT COMMENT. The South Owns a B!tr Original Chunk From the Fh ikyieUth io Record (Item). The people of. th<j South, deem to have celt* brated Inaependendfc tiuy with old-time vim and heartiness. A hi* origin; and dumb of the Fourth of .July belongs to our Southern brethren, any way. Tho Commercial Spirit in Politics. From the Sew Ynrk Sfai (Deni.) Ft was this “commercial Spirit” that elected Grover Cl*veland President. The merchants of the country, and especially those of the great seaport cities, were determined to rid tnem selves of the exactions and impositions whiHi they suffered under Republican misrule. They rose in their nlight to secure a fair trial <f democratic methods. The result Inis satisfied them. The Demagogue and tho Disturbers’ Vocation done. From the Philadelphia Times (hid.) Even fools as well as knaves who play their selfish parts in the ranks of the honored vote rans of the land should learn from tin* hearty reunions of the Blue and the < Jray, not only at Gettysburg, hut at various'Other places North ami South, that the vocation of the demagogue and disturber is gone and gone forever. The soldiers who honor the name are at peace; the the people an* at peace, and lie tween soldiers and jieople the sectional brawlers will be sud denly squelched every time they come to the front. Should Not Be Repeated. From the Missouri Republican (Deni.) When the Treasury overflowed upder Jackson, the Whigs claimed that * the course of foreign trade was carrying the country to disaster,” lust as the Republicans are claiming now, when they want an extra session to manipulate the surplus for Wall street The administration has nothing to do with foreign trade, and it cannot go out side of its constitutional duties without inviting trouble for itself and for the country. Tim sur plus has been used once in the history of the United States for the declared purpose of pro moting foreign trade, and the result ought to prevent a repetition of any similar attempt. BRIGHT BITS. It is but a stop from the sublime to the ridicu lous, and the Sunday night young man is apt to take it when her father comes in ini|>etuously at 11:30 o'clock.— Journal of Education. A young man on board a yacht Said: * I am so awfully hacht, I would like to take a l>oer. But it makes me feel oueer. For I always do take such a lacht." -Life. There was a young man of N. Y.. Who ate his ice cream with a fy., He went to la., Invented a ma., And made a large fortune in py. —Life. “I see,'* said a friend to the editor of a Da kota daily, “that you call these papers you are printing now the second edition how do they differ from those, you were running oil half an hour ago?" •‘Wo. nave stopped and oiled the press." and the journalist reached for the lever again.— Dakota Rett. It is claimed now that the telephone was in vented in 1685. It did not come into general use. however, because the word “hello** was not in vented until some years after. If you will just try it a few times you will understand why it was utterly impossible to run the telephone by saying "Prithee, friend," or "Odds boddikins, man," or “Give thee good morrow, sirrah." No wonder the telephone was a failure.- --Burdette. Omaha Philosopher Want to join our anti poverty society? Anarchistic Citizen Been waitin'to join the anti-poverty society ever since I heard of it, but I ain't got the sl. “Don’t cost A cent. All you have to do is to sign your name to this paper." "Murray! Gimme a paper. What does it say?" "It's a temperance pledge."— Omaha World. ‘*l have spent a most delightful evening. Miss Breezy," remarked young Mr. Waldo, of Boston, who is in Chicago on business. “To a gentle man faraway from horn**,an hour or two such as l have just passed is fieculiarly grateful and refreshing." "Thanks, awfully." responded Miss Breezy. “‘As it is quite earlv," went on Mr. Waldo, “I would be very gkid if you and your mother would go with me for a dish of ice cream." “Thanks," said the young lady, brightly. “I presume mamma is agreeable, and as for my self, Mr. Waldo, my mouth is always wide open for that sort of thing." Sew York Sun. Some sixty years ago Billy Patten was a cur rier in Hoxbiiry. Leonard B. Harrington served his apprenticeship with him. “Old Billy," as he was called, was a queer fellow. Having lost considerable money by giving credit, he finally determined that be wouldn't trust anybody. Silas Alden, of Randolph, had made a contract for a large quantity of calf hoots. As he couldn't find such skins as he wanted to make them of in Boston, and having heard that Billy Patten could supply them, he went to see him. Billy had the stock to suit him, and they agreed upon tho price. "I suppose you will give me some time on this purchase.’, says Mr. Alden. "Oh, yes," says Billy, "half cash down, and the rest when you take the skins." Alden accepted the conditions and went to Boston to get the money.— Shoe and teat hr -Reporter. PERSONAL*. It is said that there is no living relative of Tom Moore, the poet. Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London, has just celebrated his 53d birthday. William T. Adams, (Oliver Optic) the author, has just returned from Europe. William Worthington, of Rockford, 111., owns a looking-glass which came over in the Mayflower. Prince Albert Victor, of Wales, recently went to Gibraltar for a month's stay and took with him thirty tons of baggage. Gov. Thayer, of Nehraska. Lias appointed ns State Secretary of Labor Statistics Mr. John Jenkins, a mechanic, of Omaha. W. W. Corcoran is slowly growing stronger at Deer park, but he will in all probability never walk again, lfis mental faculties are as vigor uu i as ever. Francis Hondo, the Wisconsin pioneer, who died last week at Fond du aged more than 100 years, is said to have left 454 descend ants in three generations. Robert Lons Stevenson will come to this country in Septemlier, for a year, in the hone of building up his early shattered health. While here he will raneh it in the South and West. Secretary Whttney*h picnic on tho Fourth at “Grasslands," % tendered the employes of the Navy Department, was a great success. It was largely attended and everybody seemed to have a good t ime. Gov. Hughes, of Arkansas gets two suits of clothes a year regularly from Georgia, the ma terml being woven and his clothes being made up in that State. He has just received liis sum mer outfit from the Goober State. It is made of checked cottonade. Mayor Hewitt says that it is within his per sonal knowledge that Victoria was asked to join with the French government in the re cognition of the Southern Confederacy, and that she refused to do so. He personally carried the message to this effect from Minister Dayton to Minister Adams. Secretary Whitney is actively pushing a scheme for the establishment of a large riding school in Washington. He has recently become an active raeuilier of the Columbia Athletic Club, the moat prominent organization of its kind at the capital, and manifests an increasing interest in athletic doings of all kinds. Walter Murray Gibson, Premier of the Hawaiian kingdom, is a man over 70 years of age, hut hale and vigorous. Miss Howard St. Clair, a handsome CaMfrriiift book agent, claims that the Premier has failed fo keen a promise of marriage. aiuV that the snn of SIOO,OOO will w t alMMit quiet the throhhings of her more or less broken heart. The illness of John Boyle O'Reilly, of Boston, is cause for general regp*t. His ceaseless on orgy and industry have Jifnught on temporary insomnia, and be will I•% obliged to take a long and thorough rent He is surely entitled to au extended vacation, lie fens worked hard nnd successfully In the pasfl, and has won a high place in the literary ami journalistic worlds. IT has been mid that Mrs. Langtry was the first woman to hike out papers of American citizenship. This is a mistake. Mrs. Bracken ridge, of Brackonrtdge is a native of Germany. Some years ngtrshe wished to be tvwneone of the Incorporators of a ferry com pany. It was decided by legal authority that it was necessary for her* to take out papers of citizenship, which she did on Dec. 16, lWtt. She heads the list. The Rev. Oeorok W. Woodward, who died in Chicago lost w eek, was a direct descendant of Capt. Miles Stand ish and a grandson of the first professor in Dartmouth College. His father was also a professor t here at the time of the celebrated lawsuit in whfeh Daniel Webster pleaded so eloquently for the college: and his wife. assists! by their son, just deceased, hid the Important “document* in the case" in an oat bin until Mr. Webster could come on from Bos ton and take charge of them. THE VIRTUE OF TOBACCO. How It Stood the Test in a Fight with a Grizzly. We heard the following conversation at the Johnston House barroom the other day, says the Lasser Mail. The old fellow told it for the truth: “Talk'bout terbakker bein’ injurious!" said the old miner contemptuously as he discharged a mouthful at an apple core under the stove, “ "taint no such thing as regards human folks, but is a leetle troublesome to bars sometimes.’ ' How’s that, uncle?" we asked. “Wall, yer see in an airly day me and Fike— Pike was my pard we wore on the South Fork prospecting. Pik" was a cuss to travel, he was, so one daypie was away ahead of me when I heart! a noise in the brush close by, and lookin' whar the noise cum from I seed a big grizzly makin’fur me. I jest dropped tny bundle ami made for a big tree, which I dumb mighty quick, and I hollered for Pike what for I don't know, as neither of us bad a gun. But. as 1 was sayin,’ 1 made a mistake in the size of that tree, for when the cussed bear cum to tbe tree he just commenced climbing like a coon, and, dura me, I couldn't remember a single prayer I used to say when I was a kid. But wliat was Ixdter, I had a big chaw of terbakker and had furgot to spit, I was so excited; so when he got purty close ter me I let a mouthful drive at his eyes. He jest let go to wipe ’em and drapped. He wuz madderii thunder and as soon as he cud see he cum fur me agin. But I hed tuck a fresh chaw, and hed my mouth loaded up; I repeated —so did he. “Wall, me and him kept it up until I found my terbakker growin’ short; but jest as I put in the last chaw I saw Pike cum back to see what war up. I jest told him to toss me a fresh plug, and when I got it I give it to that bar strong, and less nor five minutes he'd rubbed his eyes out and I and Pike killed him with our knives. Fact, by thunder, and don't talk ter me bout terbakker not bein’ good for Christian white folks." Gen. Twiggs’ Swords. From Washington Letter to the Baltimore Sun. There are now in the Treasury Department here three swords “captured" by Gen. Benja min F. Butler at New Orleans, \vhere they had been deposited in a hank for safekeeping, which belonged to Gen. Twiggs. They were seized by Gen. B. F. Butler in 1862, while the latter was in command of the Union forces at New Orleans. At the last session of Congress a bill was passed authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to return the swords to such person or legal repre sentative of such person as was the owner of them at the time they were captured. Senator Hawley, in reporting the bill favorably from tbe Senate Military Com mittee, said: “These are some presentation swords given to Gen. Twiggs before the war. They are among the captured property of the government. Nobody cares to put them in a museum or to sell them, or anything of that sort. It is the wish of the Treasury Department and others who have looked at the subject to return them, but controversy has arisen as to who are the owners. The hill proposes to sub mit the question of, fact to the Court of Claims, and we report in favor of it.” The bill wae re ported to the Senate without amendment, order ed to a third reading, read the third time and passed. The “Congress sword” was presented by the President of the United States, agreeable to a resolution of Congress, to Brig. Gen. David F,. Twiggs, in testimony of the high sense enter tained by Congress of his gallant and good con duct in storming Monterey. Resolution ap proved March 2, 1847. The scabbard is solid gold, and set with topaz, diamonds, sapphires and aqua marine, and the blade is of the linest Damascus steel. Value£2o,ooo. The "State sword" is from the State of Geor gia, to Mai. Gen. David E. Twiggs, "as a tribute to his gallantry in Mexico in 1847- Palo Alto, Resaca tie la Palma, Monterey, Vein Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Chapultepec, Mediae del Roy and City of Mexico. Thescabbard is silver,'with gold platings, and has one large emerald in the nan ale; value *7.000. The "city sword" is from the citizens of Augusta, Ga. The scabbard is silver, with gold plating and trimmings, and is set with rubies, diamonds and amethysts. There is also a silk belt, with gold embroidery; value $B,OOO. _ What tho Neighbors Said. From “Samantha at Saratoga ." The neighbors received the news that we wuz goin’ to a waterin’ place coldly, or with ill-con cealed envy. Uncle Jonas Bently told us he shouldn’t think we would want to go round to waterin' troughs at our age. And I told him it wuzn't a waterin’ trough, and if it waz, I thought our age waz jest esgood a one es any, to go to it. He had the impression that Saratoga wuz a immense waterin’ trough where the country all drove themselves summers to be watered. He is deef as a hemlock post, and I yelled up at him jest as loud as I dast for fear of breakin' open my own chest, that tho water got into us, instid of our gettin’ into the water, but I didn't make him understand, for I hearn afterwards of his sayin' that, es nigh es he could make out, we all got into the waterin’ trough and wuz watered. The school teacher, a young man with long, small lims, and some pimpley on the face, but well meaniu’, he sez to me: “Saratoga is a beau tiful spall." And I sez warmly, "It ain’t no such thing, it is a village, for I have seen a peddler who went right through it and watered his horse there, and he sez it is a waterin'place and a village.” ‘ Yes," sez he, "it is a beautiful village, a modest, retirin’ city, and at the same time it is the most noted spah on this continent.” I wouldn’t contend with him for it wuz on the stoop of the meetin’ house, and I believe in bein’ reverent. But I knew it wuzn't no "spah"— that had a dreadful flat sound to me. And any way I knew T should face its realities soon and know all about it. Lots of wimmin said that for anybody who lived right on the side of a caenal, and had two good cisterns on the place and a well they didn’t see why I should feel in a sufferin' condition for any more water; and if 1 did, why didn't I ketcli rain water? Solace for the Aged. From the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. One of the laments of age is that no new friendships are formed. It is a rather mourn ful fact that most persons who pass fifty years lose the gift of pleasing. The spirkling eye, the merry laugh, the hearty speech, the syin pathetic manner are all gone, and in place of these a guarded hearing and a sober habit of thought and judgment. Good looking young people, with their pleasant faces and enthusiasm, win friends offhand, but the saddened and mature man gets more and more isolated. Those of his own kind give only what they re eelve, ami the young shrink from him. He has lost the glow of youth, and the conquer ing vivacity of youth. He estimates the pur suits of life with frigid skepticism, and those who still delight to collect the dust in the race course art' offended at him He may be ever so just and kind, hut his exterior bears the sears of pain, and the average man or woman instinc tively draws away from an invalid. If he he wise he will fall hack upon books and a Ashing rod in season and make friends in heaven, for his chance of making any down here is decided ly slender. Good tobacco and u clean briar root pipe will also he found an excellent substitute for human affections. Estranged. FVom the Rontcm Globe. A harrier hath risen between Thy heart and mine, O friend. I ween— Cruel and strong, though all unseen? We made that bonier, thou and I, And strengthened it as days went by; Ah, mo? I scarce know how or why! Mayhap some promise made and broken, Some word unkind, though lightly spoken; Then, hearts that grieved but gave no token. Farewell! O loyal heart and true, How wouldst thou pity if thou knew The mares that 1 wander through. As wider, wider, every day, our paths diverge 0 friend, I pray That thine may be the sunnier way! I in my lone lot scarce could pine While thou wert quaffing life's red wine, E'en though its bitterest cup was mlnel A Quail Attacks a Cat. From the Chico ( Cnl .) Enterprise. Iu tbe yard of A. A. Bruner dome quail from the Rancho Chico have taken up their abode ai'tl built, their nest. A few days tie > there was a pretty little brood hatched oiit, ami the mot her qiinll was proud of her progeny, and took pleas ure 111 caring for tbeui Mr. lirunrr encouraged her in providing for the wants of the young family by putting within reach soft, feed suitable for the baby quuilH. Last Sunday a Maltese cat belonging to Harry Puller made its appearance in the yard on a foraying expedition, and watching the opportunity tnode a dash at the female quail, caught it. and was taking it, prisoner i his own domain, there to devour his prey at leisure Tbe cry ami noise made by the struggle of the bird was soon noticed by tho male, who came to the rescue, and a regular buttle ensued. The mole bird made a vicious attack upon the cot. peeking with the beak and striking with the wings until he forced the cat to surrender and release the female The two birds got upon the fence and watched the re treating form of the cat with evident signs of pleasure and satisfaction, and no doubt con gratulated each other in bird lingo. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Wesleyan Missionary Society has been in existence for 100 years. When Queen Victoria ascended the throne fifty years ago, it had 51 missionaries in foreign lands; now it has -fc-4. Then it had 51 Sunday school teachers and local preachers: now it has 3,651. The “Jinrikisha," of Japan, which l>egan as a cane-seated chair with shafts, has now by the gradual process of evolution become a neat, comfortable and thoroughly national vehicle. There are about 180.000 of them used in Japan, of which 30,000 are found in Tokio alone. A new method of making car wheels is in use in Wilkesbarre, Pa., by which three men who formerly made eighteen car wheels a day can now make one every minute or 720 a day. A steel case is used instead of one made of sand, and when removed the wheel is at once ready for the axle. Dennis Clark, of Niles township, Berrien county, Mich., has lived there twenty-five years, and during that time has never been over four miles away from home. The other day he wanted to call on a neighbor who had lived within two miles of him for years, and actually had to inquire the way. A Roscommon county (Mich.) farmer owns a rooster that chums with a big black snake. The two hunt together for their food and assist each other in securing it, frogs and insects being their particular nivy, and the fowl doing most of the hard work. Whenever he runs across a particularly fine, far frog he will strut about it. ruffie his feathers, aud cluck in order to call his sinuous friend. A Glasgow engineering firm has constructed what is said to be the largest planing machine in the world, especially intended and designed to be employed in connection with the prepara tion of steel plates for the girders of a railway bridge in New South Wales. The weight of this vast machine is said to lie some thirty-five tons, and it is capable of planing the edge of a plate 35 feet in length by 5 feet wide. Isaac Tucker, an almost helpless cripple, whose hair and beard have been whitened by 69 winters, was found in the Grand Central passen ger station at Cincinnati, and taken to the cen tral police station. There he displayed a deed for a lot in the St. Andrew’s say Company's grant in Florida, for which he had paid sl. and he had hobbled all the way from New Castle, Ind.. to verify a rumor that the company was a fraud. A short time ago a Basuto of South Africa, while plowing up what used to be the camp of the Cape Mounted Ritles at Morosi's Mountain, found a bottle of French brandy which had l>een buried and forgotten by some over-provident trooper. It is needless to add that the Basuto promptly drank the contents of the bottle, atul with a faith that is almost sublime he buried the empty bottle in the ground again with the hope or getting a crop of full bottles next year. The Geneva Town Council is agitating for the institution of a crematory furnace for the Can ton. on the scale of that so successfully worked at Milan. M. Empevta, tin* chief mover in tin* matter, has put forth a defence of the practice against common objections. Mineral poisons, he maintains, are as easily detectable after cre mation as after burial, while premature erema tion is avoided at Milan by sending the corpse to the furnace not sooner than eight daj r s after death. T. H. Mi lane, proprietor of the Moore House at North Branch, Mich., has a dog that goes up stairs and rings at every door along the hall, and should some drowsy guest fail to reply he hangs the hell against the door and harks until he gets a response. At noon he takes the bell through the village to notify the boarders that it is time to eat, and whenever he comes across a boarder he will not cease ringing until he hears the “All right, Turk," for which he is waiting. The dog also does much of the mar keting. The people of Beaver Canon, Idaho, had a picturesque celebration of the Fourth. John Hancock read the Declaration of Independence and Henry Clay delivered the oration. In the procession the States were represented by thir tv-eigbt young women in white mother hub bards, mounted on black horses. One hundred wood-choppers marched four abreast, carrying their axes, and the city fathers rode iu a big lumber wagon drawn by twelve yoke of red oxen, driven by the Goddess of Liberty. In the evening there was an exhibition of'fireworks with a savage war da net* obligato performed by 10U Shoshone and Bannock Indians. “Tiie biggest missionary enterprise on record," said Ijondon Truth, “has been accom plished by the Rev. George Muller founder of an orphanage at Bristol, who has just returned from a preaching tour round the world. The indefatigable evangelist has been absent ten years, during which time he has traveled over 130,000 miles, extending through the United States, New Zealand. Australia, the Malayan Peninsula. China. Japan and the journey home through Europe. Wnat makes the feat really extraordinary is that Mr Muller is now nearly 82 years of age, and is reported to have finished in splendid condition. His united congrega tions during the tour amout to over a million persons." It is related that Eugene Delacroix, the famous painter, thinking that the head of Baron James Rothschild would make a splendid head for a lieggar, asked the eminent financier to sit as a model. Consent was granted. While the artist wns engaged on the canvas, one of the pupils entered and told Delacroix that that was an ideal beggar. When Delacroix was not look ing, the pupil, in a gx>d hearted manner, put a coin in Rothschild's hands, for widen the hanker nodded his thanks. He learned that the young painter had very little money, and so he wrote him that the coin he had given him bad borne interest, and that if he called at the Rothschild banking house he would receive 10,000 francs. . There is a suit at present on trial in a Balti more court under the majestic and impressive title of “William 11. Perkins, Worthy Ruler of St. Thomas' Lodge, against Augustus Thomas, Grand Royal King of the United and Consoli dated Order of Brothers and Sisters and Sons aud Daughters of the Knights of V ur Men and the Members of the Supreme Grand Royal House." The suit grows out of the suspension of St. Thomas’ Lodge, and it is assorted that tho dusky king when he suspended the lodge de clared that his edict was like that of the Modes and Persians, irrevocable,and that he “wouldn't take baek one word of it, not even for President Cleveland, or even* if Grant would come out of Ui.s grave" to make a formal appeal to him. A prominent British officer, says Life. Lon don, dining recently at Hawarden for the first time, ventured to traverse a very erroneous ver sion of recent occurrences which fell from the lips of his host. Thereupon Mr. Gladstone's once remarkably fine, though now haggard and restless eyes, begun to glare, he knit his brows and surveyed his audacious guest with a glance of withering contempt. But ore his anger could find vent in words an intimate friend of the family averted tin* impending storm by inter posing with an adroit explanation of the visitor's “obvious misconception, as he chose to term it. While th;* explanation was still in progress a footman slipiied into the guest's hand a scrap Of paper, on which Mrs. Gladstone had hastily sen holed the words. "I regret r hat I forgot to forewarn yen that Mr. Gladstone is never con tradicted In this house." The Cologne Gazette publishes a communica tion stating that “the English are now construct ing anew strategical route lietween India and \fghanistan by th** Sakhi Sanvar Pass, opposite Dem Gbazi Khan. The works are directed In a German, Baron Bibru, who has taken for his model the celebrated Alpine roads in Austria. It is hoped that in the coming autumn this new road, ton miles long, will have been completed across the Suleiman, hitherto deemed inaccessi bit*. The road has a slope of 1,100 yards in three and one half miles, or about one in five. The highest point of the road is about 5.200 feet, and the surrounding heights are 7,000 feet. The se curity of the route and the adjacent country will be intrusted to a militia. This has hitherto numbered only 500 men, but now all the male population from Peshawur to Sciude are to Ik* drafted into it. This is now possible through the people having settled down, and now, con cludes th** Cologne paper, “The passes will be come as safe as the high roads of India." Dthino the oliservanco of the holy commun ion at the recent Protestant Episcopal Diocesan Convention, at Indianapolis, Rev. I)r. McLeod, pastor of tbe Second Presbyterian church, came in and occupied a seat near Dr. Bradley, netor of Christ church. Mr. Bradley invited* tho Doc tor to commune with them, which he did. After the communion service was over and the con vention duly organized Bishop Knickerbocker called the attention of the convention to the fact that a distinguished member of the Pres byterian church, in the person of Dr. McLeod was present. His presence was acknowledged by the convention rising to its feet. Dr Me lifod rescinded to tht? compliment by saving that to b>* so received by such a gathering indi cated that brotherly filing that should prevail In all churches, for no matter what one or the other believe they are all working for the same end. It was an indication of things that are to be, as well as of things that are; nf the coming of the kingdom of Curuit. for which all pray and which all pre*irh. whether Episcopalian. lYesbyteriun nr what not. When the Doctor sat down, his remarks were received with great applause. ‘ Anot her evidence of fast Aimroidt rns church uuitjr." mm L ® J fjAKINg [®J taafljglt I Extracts .MOST PERFECT MADE Used by tho United States Government. Endorsed by the beads of tbe Great Universities and Public Food Analysts as The Strongest, Purest,aud most Healthful. I)r. Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Dr. Price’s Extracts, Vanilla, Lemon, Orange, Rose, etc., flavor deliciously PRICE BAKING POWDER COMPANY. 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