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quickest routes.
Hanging a man in effigy has about the
game effect as firing feathers at him at a
distance of 100 miles.
Waiting a year before challenging a man
to mortal combat for some insult, fanciful
or real, is more humane than the old plan.
It gives the offender ampletiinrtto put him
self in a proper religious frame of mind.
There is an old sting which gives the inter
esting information that “ The elephant
danced a jig.” Present indications suggest
that the State’s elephant, the Western anti
Atlantic railroad, will make somebody else
dance a jig.
An irreverent critic speaks of Rov. T.
DeWitt Talmage’s month as “a predefined
aperture for clams.” There is one species of
clams—the human species—which is not
disappearing very rapidly in that “predes
tined aperture.”
By the failure of tbo Fidelity Rank, of
Cincinnati, the United States has lost SI,BOO
deposited in the institution to pay a coal hill
It is sad to reflect that Vice-President Har
per’s patriotism did not prevent him from
gobbling up Uncle Sam’s money.
It is said that no great reform is ever
accomplished without the exhibition of
much bad temper by those engages! in try
ing to bring it about. If this be true, then
the attempt to reform the convict lease sys
tem of Geoi'gia ought to succeed.
The New Haven A tews says: “Wall street
has fallen into that odd condition of sjiecu
lative fear where every declaration of a
dividend knocks several points off a stock.”
Perhaps Wall street knows that a dividend
is not always drawn from earnings.
This country sadly noeds a moral revolu
tion. A Savannah icecream vendor gat here
in many a nickel hy crying: “Here’s your
ice cream cakes, two for sc. a piece!”
Youthful buyers patronize him under the
impression that they are saving money.
The proposition of Hon. G. J. Orr, Com
tnissioner ot Education, to reduce the num
ber of public schools in Georgia ought to
have the favorable consideration of tbo
General Assembly. Under the presont ar
rangement a large part of the school fuud is
wasted.
The employes of the Reading railroad
have been notified that they must abstain
from intoxicants, whether on duty or not.
The other railroads in the country should
follow the, Heading s example. The railroad
employe that drinks is always liable to
make mistake: tliat may result in the loss of
life and property.
Mr. Henry Wuttereon, of the Louisville
Courier Journal, announces himself in
fat or of President Cleveland for a second
term. He declares that he believes the
President will not only lie renominated, but
that he will ho reelected. Mr. Wiittorsoii's
conversion brings him once more in accord
with the Democracy.
The palsy has not, yet claimed President
Cleveland as its victim, and it is likely that
ft will lie a long time before lie will need an
amanuensis to write his letters. In the
meantime it, i3 to he hoped that Gen. Fair
child has cooled oil’, it would he a dire loss
to the comic papere if ho should go off hy
spontaneous combustion.
An escai>ed Russian Nihilist declai m that
thi* country is the headquarter* of the Rus
sian ftihilist organisation. "It is only in
this free country,” lie continues, "aiid under
your glarious Stars and Stripes that wo are
at liberty to conspire with the view of ulti
mata liberation of our country.” If the
Oar hpars of this utterance it isn’t likely
that lie will regard the Stars and Stripes
with much favor.
Says the Now York Sim: "A fashionable
hotel at the North which venture* to re
ceive even the most beautiful mulatto os a
boarder would speedily lose every one of its
white patrons. How, then, can we justly
assail the South for continuing to draw the
color line/” Tho Republicans, who are re
sjionsibln for such assaults, do not consider
the question of justice. With them the
question is merely one of i>olilics, und very |
Cud polities, too.
Lot the State Road be Sold.
The present Legislature must determine
what shall l>e done with the Western and
Atlantic railroad. The Governor lias given
very good reasons in a special message why
it will not be advisable to leave the matter
to be disposed of by the next Legislature,
and the President of the road, speaking for
the lessees, says that if thus Legislature does
not indicate the purpose of the State witii
regard to the propn-ty, steps will lie taken
to put it in aliout t he same condition that it
was when the existing lease was made.
What that condition was the President ex
plains. Assuming that his explanation is
correct, and there doesn't appear to be any
good reason for questioning it, there would
be some difficulty in leasing it for the rent
now received for it, or in selling it for any
thing like the amount the State ought to re
ceive for it if it were reduced to the condi
tion it was in when the lessees received
possession of it.
It would seem as if the Legislature could
not avoid taking definite action with regard
to the property’ in order to protect it from
partial ruin. It is true that the lessees
might hesitate aliout wrecking it in the way
suggested by President Brown, if the pres
ent Legislature failed to reach u decision
relative to the disposition to bo made of it,
but it is a question whether it would lx? ad
visable to take any risks in the matter.
The lessees say that they don’t
want to lease the road again
but that they do want the State to compen
sate them for the improvements they have
made, and for certain taxes they have puid.
If President Brown's letter is not misunder
stood they intend that the State shall recog
nize their claim, or they will make out of
the road, while it is in their possession, what
they think the State owes them.
Assuming that the legislature will deter
mine what shall lie done with the road the
question which presents itself is this: Shall
the. pro|ierty he sold or leased? The Morn
ing News has always contended, and still
contends, that the road ought to be sold. It
will always be a source of trouble and
contention if retained by the State,
and the chances are that event
ually it will pass out of the State’s
hands without tin- State’s receiving much,
if any, compensation for it. It is in a good
condition now, and will bring a good price.
There are several railway systems which
want it, and doubtless will pay for it all
that it is worth. Let the money received
for it lie used for the liquidation of a por
tion of the State’s debt. The interest money
that will tie thus saved can lie applied to
the purposes to which the rent of road is
now applied. The State will lie in as good,
if not a I sitter, position than it is now
and will not he bothered with a piece of
projierty’ of a kind that a State should not
own. Who can say that the road at the
end of another lease of twenty years would
boas valuable as it is now? Competing
lines may ruin it, or it may lie mode a part
of a system which would render it practi
cally valueless to any other system, and
which could, therefore, obtain it on its own
terms.
Now is the time to sell the road. There is
a market for it, and it is in such a condition
as to command a largo sum. Whether the
lessees have a valid claim for betterments
and taxes is a question which the Legisla
ture! must determine. If they have, let
them be settled with justly and fairly,and if
they haven’t , let them lie made to understand
that the State will not permit the property
to he injured in any respect. If there are
issues between the State and the lessreis let a
committee of the ablest members of the two
houses fie appointed to rejsirt ujion them.
The State wants to do only tvhat is right,
but she wants all ttiat belongs to her.
There is doubtless considerable specula
tion relative to the amount of the claim of
the lessees. It is hardly probable that it is
equal to the value of the road. If it should
bo the prediction of the Morning News
when the road was leased would lie fulfilled.
The chances are that the claim will not ex
cite surprise on account of its smallness.
Not a Dignified Business.
Jacob Sharp's leuding lawyer, Mr. Albert
Stickney, appeal's to be trying to earn his
fee hy influencing those who composed the
jury in the Sharp trial to ask the Judge to
let his client, oft’ with a fine of SS,OCX). This
is not very dignified business for Mi - . Stick
ney to tie engaged in. A lawyer who fails
to win a verdict in favor of his client ought
not to plead with the discharged jurymen
to do something to help him to save his
client front punishment after the verdict
has lieen rendered.
There is nothing morally wrong in what
Mr. Stickney is doing, lint his conduct is
hardly what might tie expected of n lawyer
who holds a leading place at the bar.
It is doubtful if the Judge would consent
to make the sentence only a fine if all those
who were jurors in the case should ask him
to do so. Ho understands very well that
these men now feel very little responsibility
resting upon them, and that strong influ
ences have been brought to boar upon them
to induce them to ask mercy for Sharp. He
knows also that a very great effort is being
made to excite sympathy for Sharp by
representing that if ho were sent
to the penitentiary ho would live
but a few days. Sharp is a very old man
and, there is no doubt, a very sick one, but
the Judge, while taking those things into
consideration, Had leaning to the side of
mercy, should not allow them to influence
him into doing anything that would destroy
the moral effect of the verdict. If Sharp
were sentenced only to pay a lino it would
be said that there is one law for the rich
man and another for the poor man. To sen
tence Sharp to pay a fine of SS,<X)O would lie
no punishment ntull. To convict him doubt
less cost the county of New York 550,000. If
the men lie corrupted are punished hy impris
onment in the penitentiary there is no good
reason why Sharp should not tie punished
in the same way.
Joseph Lutz,-of Now York, tried to com
mit suicide, the other day, to rid himself of
two Maltese cats, which lie claimed traveled
around Ijis nock in opposite directions with
their tails tied together. Certain little red
devils also annoyed him by trying to slip
ropes around his neck. When it was ex
plained to Joseph that he was the victim of
the great American disease, the jitn-jams,
ho concluded to sober up and try life u while
longer. As an antidote to jim-jams sober
ness is much hotter than suicide,
The numiier of deaths in New York and
Boston last week was very large. In the
former city 1,27(1 were reported, an increase
of 252 over thq preceding week. The num
ber had not been exceeded in nny ono week
since 1880. In Boston the deaths numbered
26.", 1 icing more numerous than for nny
otlfer week since August, 1885. In Isitli
citi\ the heat is awrilxxl us the cause of the
unusual mortality. The loss in population
wcj* for greater than the gain by births.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JULY 12, IKS7.
Strikes Losing Favor.
Prominent Knights of Labor, it is said,
are beginning to realize that strikes are nut,
as a rule, lieneflcial to their organization.
The losses which they inflict ujion working
nieu are much greater than those they in
flict upon employers. At the Minneapolis
convention next fall an i ffort is to l>e made,
it seems, to secure the adoption of a rule of
some sort that will greatly lessen the num
ber of strikes. Hitch a rule is certainly
needed. The amount which strikes cause
workingmen throughout the country to lose
in the course of a year must reach millions
of dollars. Btatistics showing the extent of
these losses in some instances have recently
been published, and they are rather start
ling.
While it is true that various reasons are
alleged for strikes, the main one is a refusal
of an increase of wages. In some instances
a strike is successful, but in a majority of
cases it is a failure. After being idle for
weeks, and sometimes months, the strikers
return to work without gaining the point
for which they struck. They not only have
the humiliation of a defeat, but they have
the fact forced upon them tliat they have
suffered heavy losses in wages. There are
comparatively fciv workingmen who do not
need immediately every dollar they can
earn. When a strike occurs, therefore, the
great majority of the strikers realize that
they and their families are hound to endure
a great deal of suffering if the strike is a
long one.
If a reliable comparison between the gains
and losses of strikes, so far as the strikers
are concerned, could be made it would
doubtless appear that the losses are many
times greater than the gains. What, then,
is the use of continuing to rely upon the
strike? It promises no better results in the
future than it has produced in the past.
There may lie here and there an instance in
which the strikers gained a substantial vic
tory, and other such victories may be
gained, but the number of them is not great
enough to justify a strike whenever work
ingmen have a grievance which they can
not have settled to their satisfaction at once.
The Minneapolis convention will have it in
its power to bring about a substantial re
form with regard to strikes, and it w ill not
do its whole duty if it does not condemn
both strikes and boycotts. It need not take
Into consideration the interests of capital,
or the harm which strikes do the business of
the country, in order to find out what course
it ought to pursue with regard to the mat
ter. It is only necessary for it to keep in
view the welfare of those whom it repre
sents.
It is estimated that the coke workers of
Pennsylvania, who struck several weeks
ago, have already lost 8S00.IXX) in wages.
If they should succeed in getting an ad
vance in wages, and there is not much prob
ability that they will, they would not lie
able to make up this loss in many months.
Even if labor differences cannot always be
settled by arbitration it is folly for work
ingmen to resort to strikes to secure a settle
ment when experience proves that the
chances are that by doing so they will only
increase their difficulties and burdens.
The New York Times says that Gen.
Tuttle, of lowa, continues in an unhappy
state of mind. “He was very angry over
the battle flag order, madder yet over its
revocation, disgusted because the President
had been invited to St. Louis, and is now in
an unutterable temper because of the
friendly reunion of Confederate and Union
soldiers at Gettysburg.” Gen. Tuttle seems
to be afflicted with lunacy. In explain
ing the cause of his ire he says: “I
consider that the Southern people
hold just as bitter feelings toward
the North as they ever have. I can repose
no confidence in the pretenses of the Sout h
so long as it remains solid. All that is
needed down there to create another rebel
lion is an opportunity tliat will lead them
to believe success is certain. The old spirit
is there, and some time it will break out
again.” Perhaps, if Gen. Tuttle’s friends
will take up a collection and send him down
to get acquainted with the Southern people
his lunacy may bn cured. Nobody in the
South will injure him.
In Philadelphia, the other day, a grand
jury found the following indictment: “That
Lavina Ehrline, on June 21, 1886, and on
each and every day thence continually until
the day of the finding of this indictment
wa< and is a common eavesdropper, and
then and there continually and on each and
all of said days and times did listen about
the homo* and under the windows and
caves of the houses of the citizens then and
there dwelling, hearing tattle and repeat
ing the same in the hearing of other per
sons to the common nuisance of the citizens
of this commonwealth and against tho
peace and dignity of the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.” This is tho first indict
ment of the kind ever found in Philadel
phia. Perhaps if the offence of eavesdrop
ping were punishable in all the States
there would be less gossip and slander.
The li<vird of Directors of the Panama
Canal Company has decided to issuo 500,(XX)
new shares at 440 francs, 1 tearing t>o francs
interest and reimbursable at 1,000 francs in
forty-eight years, by bi-monthly drawings.
The subscription will open on July 20, for
one day only, in Europe and America. The
President of tho company declares that,
with tin' sum of 000,000,000 francs, author
ized by the government, the canal will lie
finished. It is to bo hoped that M. do Los
seps’ great enterprise will lie saved from
what scents to lie imjiending failure.
Senator Allison, of lowa, is to make a
tour of tiie West. He will visit the impor
tant cities in Dakota, Montana, Washing
ton, Oregon, California, Arizona, the Indian
Territory and Missouri. It is announced that
while the tour will ls> ostensibly ono of
pleasure, its real object will lie in the inter
est of Mr. Blaine's nomination for the Presi
dency in 1888. It is stated, also, that if Mr.
Blaine should fail to receive the nomination
Senator Allison is to havo it. This new
union of forces will be a hard blow to Sena
tor Sherman’s boom.
The Panama Star and Herald publishes
a statement to the effect that natives of Co
lombia an< being captured oti the upper
tributaries of the Amazon, end aro subse
quently sold into slavery in Brazil. This is
rather strange, considering that only a
short time ago it was announced that Brazil
was preparing to emancipate her slaves
more rapidly than already provided. Por
hnjis, however, she means to free the no?
grot's ut the expense of another race.
Not satisfied with throwing them into
prisons the Mexicans have taken to murder
ing American citizens. Joint's 11. Duvall,
formerly of Georgia, was shot and killed
near Santa llosa a few days ago. When the
time comes for Mexico to jmy her debt
to this country, she will find it difficult to
do so.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Perhaps It Was Burchard.
Prom the Sew York Herald lied.).
At tic* presentation of the freedom of the city
of Edinburgh to Sir. Carnegie Mr. Blaine nr
riY-vl at tli** Town Mall late, and the janitor re
fused to let him in. The janitor's name was
not reported hy cable, but the ease with which
h*- "shut out" Mr. Blaine raises tiie presumptlou
tliat it was Burchard.
The President Sustained.
Prom the Hartford Times (Dem.)
In regard to the disgraceful conduct of Tuttle
nn*l other Grand Army officers concerning the
President's acceptance of rtie St. Igmisinvita
tion, the voice or the Independent press is very
significant of the popular feeling. We invite
attention to these quotations. Some of them
are from straight Republican papers. They
show tliat the Grand Army of the Republic men
who have made this shameful exhibition, under
the active prodding and stimulus of a set of
baffled pension agents, havo made a woeful mis
take, and one which is hurting the organization.
Mr. Blaine Has a Great Head.
Prom the Philadelphia Record (Dem).
With a simplicity that verges upon sang-froid
Mr. Blaine In bis jonrneyings through the
British Isles is liearfiig aliout with him the coat
nf-arms of tin* State of Maine. His attitude to
ward the emblem is as easy as his attitude to
ward his hat. lie probably hangs the coat-of
arms on a peg. Mr. Blaine as a representative
democrat (with a small fli is showing Ihe aristo
crats that in America we take coats-of arms as
matters of course. We chuck ’em on the floor
when we come home o’ nights; and. upon occa
sions. we have not hesitated to use ’em for spit
toons. Mr. Blaine has a great head.
The “Explaining” Tendency.
Prom the Boston Hera'd. {Did.)
Politicians who bavefso much to explain as
does John ShermfM), don’t become Presidents.
Mr. Blaine began with a heavy capital of that
kind, and he added so much to it last year that
it was r wise step In him to leave the country
for a period. This explaining necessity is the
worst symptom In a Presidential candidate.
Good men have suffered from it as well as had
ones. Henry Clay “explained" the Presidency
away from himself when he wrote his second
Texas letter in the midst of the campaign of
1844. Letter writers almost always fall into un
necessary explanation—a fact, or which Presi
dent Cleveland, in our day, may well bear in
mind. .
BRIGHT BITS.
Tar susceptible youth is like the mosquito.
There is little hope for him after he gets mashed.
—Boston Transcript.
A Manchester grammar school miss recently
defined “sinister” as a “female sinner.”—Man
chester (X. //.) Union.
The motto of the faithful book-keeper who
sticks to his work should be; "‘I add here.”—
Charleston Enterprise.
The reason the political stump speaker is so
fond of using soft soap is because there is so
much lit* in it.— Charleston Enterprise.
Waterfalls know how to do the cataract,”
says an exchange. Are we to understand by
this that they fall over a caterwaul l—Sew
Hu ven Sen's.
“Why don’t you mend your clothes?" asked a
gentleman of a very weather-beaten tramp.
"Cos,''was the reply, “I’ve got it from the
Scripter tliat it don't pay to sew tears. Was
hington Critic.
Urchin No. I —How much have you got left,
Jtie?
Urchin No. B—Two t“*nts.
Urchin No. I- Alas! how quick a nickel goes
when it, is once broken. -Golden Bays.
Two young men got up ns dudes are going
through the country beating hotels. Look out
for them. The motto is: “Two souls with but
a single thought, two chumps that beat as one. "
—Burlington Free Press.
A Coroner’s .icrv at the inquest of a man
killed " bile walking on a double-track railroad,
brought in a verdict of “Accidental death; de
ceased Iteing cross-eyed, was unable to tell on
which track the train was coming.”— The Epoch.
Head of Firm— lf our collector has been rude,
sir, lam sorry. I assure you we will give him
no countenance.
Aggrieved Party He doesn’t need any—he's
got face enough now for anything.— Harper's
Bazar.
“I never can enjoy poetry when I'm coook
ing,” said an old lady who dropped in on a
neighbor recently. “But when I step out to feed
the pigs and hist myself on the fence, and throw
my sou! into a few lines of ‘Wait Till the Clouds
Roll By.’it does s**ein as if the earth was made
to live on after all.’’— Sew York Ledger.
Mosk ScHAfMBERG was caught by his Austin
avenue rival in business tearing down the lat
ter’s pis tens announcing the arrival of anew
stock of goods.
“What do you mean hy destroying m.v pos
ters. you scoundrel?'’ asked the rival, threaten
ingly.
“Hot's vere you vas fooling yourself,” replied
Mose. badly scared. “I vas so much bleased
mit dot hostel* I choost pulled him down to see
if there was any more reading matter on de
udder side.”— Texas Siftings.
PERSONAL.
Gov. MARMAnrivE, of Missouri, has appointed
a number of women as notaries public.
Clara Morris says she would dearly like to
take a long tour oti horseback through the New
England States.
The late Bion Bradbury was wont to say that
the best Democratic campaign document was the
Life of Andrew Jackson.
The death is recorded at Philadelphia of M.
11. de Mareil. formerly editor of Le Messager
Franco- .4 niericain. He was about .2 yea re old,
a native of Paris.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is aging very per
ceptibly. She lives a quiet life in her modest
home at Hartford. To a friend she said recent
ly: “No, I write no more, i have done, I have
done, I have done.”
J. R. Whipple, proprietor of Young's Hotel,
Boston, has recently taken out $500,000 insurance
upon his life. Of this SIOO,OOO is a life policy,
SIOO,OOO is twenty years endowment, and $300,-
000 is fifteen years endowment.
Alex. R. Shepherd, known as the Washing
ton Boss, who lias been mining in Mexico for
several years, has reach* *d Chihuahua on his
way home. He met with an accident in one of
his mines recently and his health is very poor.
E. Thompson Gale, who died in Trov, N. Y.,
Monday, left an estate valued at over $2,003,000.
His wife, who died in 1804, was Caroline DeFor
est, daughter of Benjamin DeForest, formerly
one of New York's most promineut merchants.
It is an interesting fact that hot it Stag ;, the
famous Yale pitcher, and Caldwell, stroke of
the winning ’Varsity crew, will devote their
lives to t lie ministry. Their influence as clergy
men will be all the greater from their success as
athletes.
P. T. Barntu celebrated the TTtli anniversary
of his birth on the Fourth of July at Waldtnere,
v\ here lie gave a clam bake to about thirty of his
children, grandchildren and great-grandchil
dren. Mr. liartium appeared to be iu remarkably
good health.
Accoriuno to Edmund Yates Mine, l’afti
looked “her former self ” when she sang in Lon
don the other night, “The crowds flocked to the
temple of their goddess ready to stand the
crushing heal. Nobody moved'until the last
note was heard.”
Meauvillk (l’a.) Theological Seminary has
conferred the degree of Batchelor of Divinity
upon Marion Murdock, par-tor of tin* Unitarian
church at Humboldt, la. This is the first in
stance of the kind In America. She is about 30
years old and a very eloquent preacher.
The Weekly Dispatch, printed in Wine Office
Court, Fleet street. Loudon. K. i\, calls Mrs.
Cleveland the “ITc side) it ess.” That, says the
New York Nim, is not a title recognized by the
constitution, or by any law of etiquette', dipio
many, etymology or common sense. Neither is
the wiily in question Mrs. President Cleveland.
She is Mrs. Cleveland.
Ttu: oldest daughter of the late Gen. Worth
has been removed recently from a clerkship In
tin* Vuurtermaster G Herat's office in Washing
ton Miss Worth is about tX) years of age, quite
foehl-*, and she lias l*een in the government
service a great many years. Blie has no means
ot support, and it is understood that her re
moval Is serious blew to her. Her father was
one of t lie loading figures in the ar of 1812 and
in the Mexican war, '
Wti.Li am Wayne, a descendant of ' Mad \n
thony” Way ne, presided at the annual meeting
of tiie Society of the Cincinnati whioh was held
In Philadelphia Monday. The society has In Its
possession a fund of $ Irt.tXlO for the erection of
a statue to George. Washington. The site for the
statue is on a hold promontory overlooking
Girard avenue bridge where iL crosses the
Schuylkill. George W Childs has been elected
nn honorary memVr of tiie society.
President Clev llano lunches at 2 o'clock
every afternoon. From the lunch table he goes
buck to his office utid remains until 5 o'clock,
working literally with his sleeves roiled up, and
disposing of the hustiMurt which has accumu
lated during ttie morning. At *5 o'clock the
President amt his wife take a drive, usually
going out to Oak View. Dinner is eoried at the
While il Rise at 7 o'clock- (k'neiallv the Presi
dent six*.ids It's evenings at hts desk uud never
retires before midnight.
PLUGGED BY A PLUG.
The Calamity That Befell An Elderly
Lady and a Pale Young Man.
From thr LetvMon Ga zcttc.
Throe young ladies, daughters in a family re
piding on I’ark street, gavo a party the oiL r
evening. Having, like a great many other
people, tasres far above their means, they spent
all the afternoon in arranging the rooms so that
they would present the best appearance possi
ble. No'**, owing to the dearth of room, it bo- 1
came necessary to utilize what had formerly j
be**n a kitchen, and which yet contained a re
minder of those days in the shape of a large
sink. This sink wan an eye-sore to the ladies
and they brought all their womanly tact and
i esthetic schooling into play, but the sink held
its own. Finally, after all the ‘‘resources of j
civilization” had been directed against it they j
decided to cover it over and use it for a side- j
board, and the faucet being in the way they
took it off and drove in a pine plug to take its
place.
About 8 o'clock the guests began to arrive and
soon all the rooms were full, including the one
with the marked battery.
Everything went on smoothly. Oranges and
bananas were passed round, forfeits played. and
then someone called for a song. After the usual
amount of skirmishing an elderly unmarried
lady, who sat with her back to the pseudo side
board, was elected. She gave them “The Fire
in the Grate” with much freedom and abandon
for one of her years, but the night l**ing warm
and the room close the audience did not take
very kindly to the thoughts of a Are in a grate
or a fire anywhere else, and this caused a lack
of sympathy bet ween them and the singer.
A dry goods clerk volunteered for the nex t
song, and now the sympathy comes in. He
sang “Showered Again” and got along nicel}’,
only stopping once to clear his throat, until he
reached the second shower, when, without the
slightest warning, that plug came out, and after
that the deluge. It did not come out slowly or
cautiously either. It struck the hair belonging
to the before mentioned elderly lady (which bhe
wore detached, “it was so convenient nights
when her head sweat”), taking it along as a sou
venir until it reached a pale young man with
surprised eyebrows, where it left it sticking
like a huge sea spider to bis dripping face. One
of the ladies rolled down on tin* fU>or. another
tried to climb on top of a small centre table,
while the rest darted for the doors and win
dows, utiering piercing whoops.
After the first shock was over the unfortunate
vogiig man, to whom the hair adhered, bowed
nis head in meek submission, and like the boy
on the burning deck, he would not stir. It was
at this time that a young member of one of our
military companies, with valor in his breast and
a table cloth on his head, made a dive for the
pipe and thrust one of his fingers into it. This
only varied the entertainment, however, by
causing the stream to scatter, striking the ceil
ing and other parts of the room before un
touched.
Tiu* water was ankle deep on the floor: the
wall paper hung in flabby festoons; bric-a-brac
of every description was lying around promis
cuously, and thr‘ “nearer waters rolled” until a
plumber living in the next house and hearing
the uproar went in and turned the water off.
A Strange Meeting.
From the New York Evenina Sun.
A portlj’, prosperous-looking gentleman sat
in a Sixth avenue elevated car
on Monday evening. The conductor
had just shouted “Umteenth street”
and banged the gate. Another j>nrtly gentle
man came in and sat down. There was a re
markable resemblance between the two men.
A journalist nudged portly party number one
and said: “Beg pardon, sir. Do you see your
counterpart sitting opposite?”
“By Godfrey: he's the image of me.”
Then leaning over he tapjx*d the image on the
knee: “Excuse me, sir. You are my double.
Will you oblige me with your card?”
Mhe image looked up, seemed l>ewildered for
an instant. “I haven't a can! with me, sir, hut
my name is Waddell, of Murray, Idaho.”
“Waddell, eh? Where is your native place?”
“Manchester, Eng., sir.”
“Your father’s name James?”
“Yes, sir. Oblige me with vour name, sir?* 1
•‘Certainly. Jimmie. You don't know me, do
you?”
“You look like a Waddell. Are you my
Brother Smallwood?”
“That's what I am.”
The two brothers shook hands for about a
minute, exchanging inquiries. An explanation
revealed the fact that the elder brother, Small
wood, had l*ft England two yearslxfore James
was born. He had been in Peru thirty-two
years and had not heard from home in twenty
years. James was in business in Murray, Idaho,
They climbed down the Twenty-third street
stairs arm in arm and a moment later were cel
ebrating their meeting with a bottle of Ro
ederer.
Her Choice.
Blue eyes, you say you favor? Oh yes, dear, so
do I.
Frank s eyes are just bewitching blue! They're
bluer than the sky:
His hair is perfect sunshine, just the color I
adore,
(Do you know he said last evening that he'd
never loved before).
But then there's something taking in a brow n
eye, after all
You remember Harry Allen who went with me
last fall '
His eyes were large and melting, full of love,
and fire, too.
My! but wasn’t he just raving when I said he
wouldn't do;
You'd have known I didn't mean it, but he
couldn't take a joke,
I just cried autl cried a fortnight, till my heart
was well-nigh broke.
Then I met that dear Joe Ferrand—he's the one
you liked, you know;
His eyes? Gray and cool aud steady. After all,
there's none like Joe.
Where's he gone? Why, don't you know, dear,
they all say I broke his heart,
But he hadn’t uny money, and I knew we'd got
to part.
Don't you breathe a word now, will you? Frank's
as touchy as can be,
I'd be mad enough to kill you if he got put out
with me. Mae Judson.
She Thought George Too Previous.
From the Boston Budget.
There is cue prominent furniture establish
ment in this city, the clerks of which were
treated to an amusing incident the other day.
A couple that had evidently made up their minds
to sail forth on the marital ocean dropped in to
select furniture. The lady had evidently been
deludedintotbeidea that her prospective fel
low-voyager was possessed of some ready
means, therefore she was somewat taken aback
when he inquired as to how much money was
required to be paid down upon such a bill of
goods and how- favorable their terms were in
regard to the payment of the remaiuder. With
out waiting tor the salesman's compre
hensive elucidation of the firm's liberal provis
ion for such contingencies she turned upon her
would-be lesser halt and, with a voice that sent
a chill into the very marrow of his bones, said:
“Look here, George, do you mean to say that
you have not the money to pay for this furni
ture outright?" George reluctantly admitted
that his exchequer was not sufficiently plethoric.
“Then I guess you had better wait awhile, for
you will have no immediate need of the furni
ture so far as I am concerned,” and she waltzed
out of the store, leaving the crest fallen target
of her indignation to his own sad thoughts and
the consolatory offices of thesympatliet ic sales
man. ~
Bill Jones' Mean Trick.
From the Oil Cit/f Blizzard.
“It was awful hard that winter at Tidioute
when the Triumph Hill excitement broke up,"
■aid an old operator. “The boys wars 'most
starved, and it did scent as if were never going
to pull through to dandelion time. What set us
crazy every morning was to see Bill Jones set
ting out for the wells with a paper bundle under
his arm and a pair of chicken's legs sticking out
of one end. The idea of that fellow having chicken
to ent when we were skirmishing for beans
broke us nil up. The boys watched
him day after day passing by with a
chicken under his nrm and a self-satisfied
look on his face until they could stand it
no longer. They held an indignation meeting,
and resolved to come down like a wolf on the
fold and make Bill divvy up his chicken. Next
day Bill turned up smiling with the paper bun
dle under. Ills arm, the chicken legs sticking out ,
and nodded to tho Ixiys. The next minute half
a dozen held him fast, but he made no resist
anoe, and looked on with a quiet smile while the
hungry mob investigated lus dinner. What do
yon think they found?”
■'Chicken legs?” '
“Yes, aud stuck In a piece of liver that he was
going to eoolt in his sliantv ft was a smart
Aleck that would piny that day in and day out
before suffering fellow men.”
Not a Contemptible Tell-Tale.
From the Boston Courier.
A small boy not far from Boston was the
other day guilty of so mo outrageous mischief,
which in- performed alone In a closed room, but
which was quickly brought to his door. When
his mother neiuotist rated with the youth he met
her ieproof by the bold assertion;
“You didn't sis- me do it ."
“No." she replied, “hut God did."
"Well." the urchin retorted, with an air of
contemptuous superiority, "I guess Clod ain't
going round giving away all he sees in this
hoiiM*.”
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
A SAN 83 years of age lias just been liberate.!
from the galleys iu Italy after having served
out a tern?of fifty-seven years. His trim., was
homicide.
! apt Williams, of the New York police force,
sailed his yacht for the first time last Thursday.
Stopping at Cos Cob. the hawser was cast ashore
Olid la id for two hours by a dog. The faithful
animal was an iron dog, anchored securely m
the pier.
A Torso German showed would-be suicides a
neat, cheap way in Central Fark the other day.
He fastened his foot in the crotch of t limb and
hung head downward until death came. It
didn't even cost him the trouble of stealing an
old clothesline.
A Dußi i}i’E grocer named Scott offered to let
a woman named Taylor strike him with a cod
fish for 25c. It was all a joke, you know, but
she paid the money, gave the codhsh a whirl
or two, and when it hit grocer Scott it broke his
jaw and tore off part of his ear.
The people of this country spend annually
over $2,000,000 for singing birds. All the war
bling in Italian and German from behind the
footlights does not equal in cost therefore, the
twittering of the feathered pets in their gilded
cages. N*early 500,000 birds are imported luto
this country every year.
The rarity of a lump of ice in a tenement
house suggests to a writer in a New York news
paper that the flower mission should be followed
up at this stage of the season by an ice mission.
“The sweetest music I ever heard,” once ex
claimed a convalescent fever patient, “was the
jingle of the broken ice in the pitcher of water
that the nurse was bringing to ray bedside.”
The pretty little village of Cambridge, N. Y.,
has a fire company of great theological ability.
Its foreman is the Rev. Mr. Beattie, its assistant
foreman is the Rev. Mr. Zwcifel, and its chap
lain is the Rev. Mr. HorsfieM. and they “run
wid de machine” when the occasion arises just
as though they were one of the boys. Asa pro
hibitory tariff of $lO is levied on all “cuss
words,” exceedingly few of them are used.
The strawberry, a correspondent of the Bos
ton Transcript thinks, takes its name, not as is
erroneously supposed, from the original custom
of sending the harries to market strung on
straws, but from the old English “streow-berie,*’
or straying-berry, from “streowou," to stray,
referring to the straying habits of the runners
of the plant. Latimer, in one of his sermons,
characterizes those clergymen who were dis
posed to spend their time away from their flocks
m pursuit of pleasure as “strawberry parsons,”
or straying parsons.
There are about 3000 shooting and deer for
ests iu Scotland. The number of persons per
petually employed in connection with these may
be moderately estimated at 0000, allowing an av
erage of two to each. During the season the
number is considerably increased, and may be
stated at 18,000, or six individuals to each sport
ing ground. Hen* are some of the rents receiv
ed by owners in different shires from sportsmen:
Aberdeen, £77,211: Argyll. £72,957: Forfar, £58,-
065; Inverness, £145,802; Kirkcudbright, £19.015;
P-rth. £110,729; Ross, £100,249; Sutherland,
£28,627.
A new species of night-blooming plant is the
Chinese evening primrose. Like the moon
flower, it never blooms until after sunset, but,
unlike the moon flower, you can see the Chinese
plant in its evolution from a long, slender bud
to a full-blown primrose, and all within a few
minutes. It bursts the bands of green with a
little snap. Then leaf after leaf of the canary
colored flower unfolds itself slowly to the light.
Unlike the moon flower, the Chinese evening
primrose is hardy. It is a free bloomer. The
moon flower is a climber, while the primrose is
a bush, but a rank grower, and immensely at
tractive plant in a garden, Some of the flowers
will measure four inches across.
Despite the talk about diamoud fields in Ken
tucky. but few gems of any sort have been found
in the limits of the United States. The most
celebrated diamond beds are in India, Brazil
and South Africa, although single stones have
occasionally been picked up in Virginia and
North Carolina. Mexico furnishes many gems,
particularly opals, but North America, while
rich in gold and silver, appears to be poor in
precious stones. North Carolina has furnished
some interesting stones, particularly the hid
denite. a grass green gem allied in chemical
character to the topaz, but of color previously
unknown. It occurs in Alexander county, in
the foothills east of the Blue Ridge, and was
named for its discoverer. Hidden.
Statistics show that 53,(100 wells have been
drilled in Pennsylvania and New Y’ork since the
discovery of petroleum, at a cost of $200,000,000.
These wells have produced .310,000,000 barrels of
oil. which were sold at the wells for $500,000,000.
This represented a profit to the producer of
$1100,000.003. The amount of oil exported is
placed at 6,331.102.923 gallons. In the pool in
Washington county alone $3,200,000 has been ex
pended in machinery and drilling. This does
not include the many millions that are repre
sented there in the natural gas industry. Inde
pendent of the oil business, there is about
$50,000,000 invested in natural gas plants in
Pennsylvania. These are majestic figures, and
serve to show the magnitude of the oil and gas
business.
The Chinese are to have anew coinage, and
ninety coining presses and all necessary ma
chinery for fitting up a mint in China will be
ready by next April. The presses, which are
being prepared in England, are noiseless and
automatic, and are capable of producing 2,700,-
000 coins per day of ten hours. The coins are to
be $1 pieces ard three sub-divisions, a half, a
fifth and a tenth in silver, as well as the “cash”
or •mills,'’ equal toouc-thousandth part of $1 in
rolled brass. The silver $1 is equal to five shil
lings English money. Of A tie $2,700,000 coins
which arc to be struck per day, 100,000 are to be
(if required) silver sl. The extent of the order
may be estimated from the fact that the royal
mint in London is only furnished with sixteen
presses. Tbe value of the daily coinage of Eng
lish motiey is £23,000.
A case is reported, in the Sei-i-kwai, a medi
cal journal of Japan, of the resuscitation of a
woman apparently dead, by the hypodermic in
jection of nitro glycerine. Another case is also
reported in this country, where the physician,
after exhausting other means, was about to
abaudon tbe case as hopeless, when it occurred
to him to try nit.ro glycerine, lie injected ten
drops of the solution of the substance into a
vein. A minute elapsed before his patient gave
a slight gasp; in another minute this was fol
lowed by three or four gasps; and after ihe
third and fourth minutes the pulse was felt, aud
the heart was distinctly heard. A flush came
over tho face of the patient, the "eyes opened,
the muscles, which had assumed the rigidity of
death, gradually relaxed, aud she became con
scious. In a few days the woman made a good
recovery It is suggested that the hypodermic
injection of nitro glycerine should lie tried in
other cases of collapse, as from overdoses of
chloroform or shock from surgical operation.
The secretary of a library in England, obsei v.
ing that there was a great demand for Charles
Kingsley's works, and an equal demand, from
about the same persons, for John Ruskhi’s
works, wrote to the latter author asking him
how it was that so many people were led to ad
mire such widely different writer*. "That two
such opposite authors should take hold of the
same minds.” replied Mr. ltuskin, “is entirely
prohabl" if tj’. opposites arc Ix.tli a pari of the
world and its sky. Kingsley liked east wind; I
like west. Kingsley stepped westward—Yankee
way. 1 step eastward, thinking tbe old star
stands where it used io. There was much in
Kingsley that was delightful to raw thinkers,
and men generally remain raw In this climate,
lie was always extremely civil to me and to
Carlyle, but failed in the most cowardly way
when we had the Eyre battle to fight, lie was
a flawed—partly rot ten, partly distorted—per
son, but may lie read with advantage by num
bei s who could not understand a word of me,
because I speak of things they never saw or
never a. "tided to. I extremely dislike Kings
ley's tragedy nivself; 1 nit if other people like
bearing of girls lieipg devoured or torn to pieces
that is their aitair.”
Accenting to the Berlin Centrnlblatt der Bau
verwaltun.'i. some disagreeable and unexpected
results have followed the electric lighting of the
Winter Palace at tit. Petersburg, bieh was de
scribed in a recent note, the intense brilliancy
of the light having been fotmd to cause dire de
struction among tbe ornamental plants used for
the decoration of the banqueting halls. It ap
pears that the complete illumination of the
rooms for a ingle nlghi is enough to cause the
leaves to turn yellow and dry up, and ultimate
ly to fall off. Tbe damage to the celebrated
collection of palms at the palace is especially
serious. It is supposed that the injury is
principally due to the sudden change
from the sunless days of the north
ern winter, and from the subdued light of the
plant him s s to the blinding light of the lian
uueting hubs. It has been shown beyond a
doubt that the rapidity of the Injurious action
and its amount ore directly proportional to the
intensity of the illumination, and plants stand
ing in niche* or other pluces partially shielded
from the light are found to remain uninjured.
There is no doubt that the Injurious effects of
the lights are greatly intensified by tbe dry, ar
tificially heated atmosphere of the rooms, ami
that they would lie minimized, if not entirely
obviated, if the plants could lie surrounded by
n steamy atmosphere, such aa that in which
tkcv are grown.
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