The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, July 12, 1887, Page 4, Image 4

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4 C|c|fiorninoflcfos Morning Nev.'s Bn.’ding, Savannah, Ga. ’ITESDAV, Jl I.V 12, 188 7. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. ’'tSoMorsisg News Is published every day in tfc,. venr. and is served to suhscribers m the city. It newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count. at 2T* cents a week. $1 00 a month, 00 lor six months ami $lO "' for one year The Morxino News, t’U mail, one month, $1 00: thre-- months, $2 DO; six mouths, $3 00; one rear. $lO 00. The Slossisu N'rws. by matt, six times a week (without Sunday issue!, three months, s•„’ 00: SIX months. ?d 00 one year. #s 00. Xhe Morxino N fws. Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs day, and Satimlayw, three months, $1 25; six months. *- SO: one year. $5 00 Tlie Si vnaY New>. by mail, one year. 52 01. The WEESI.Y News, hy mail, one year. Si 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters arid telegrams should be addressed ‘‘XJornino News. Savannah. Ga. " Advert sine rates mad‘- known on application. IMirA To NEW ADVERTISEMENTS MEETtxos —Chippewa Tribe No. 4.1. O. R. M.; Ancient Landmark lo*dg No 231. F. A. M. Special Notices -Itental Notice. Dr. E l’ar aons: New- Crop Turnip and Cabbage Seed, J. T. Shuptnne A Brn : To Petit Jurors City Court; Stockholders Metropolitan Savings and Loan Cos.: Not ice to Shippers pee Steamer Swan. Base Ball—Jesup vs. Amateurs. Stumer Resorts—The Columbian, Saratoga Springs. New York. Cheap Odu-hx Ar vERrtsr.WETTs Help Want ed: Employment Wanted; For Sale; Personal; Misceltaoe*uK Steamship Schedt-le— Ocean Steamship Cos. Notice or Dissolution—Freeman & Oliver .trains Sale — Valuable Lot, by I. D. La- Jtoebe’s Sons. Edicational— Bellevue High School, Bedford County, Virginia. The Morning News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning News forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for three months, cash invariably in ad vance. The address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should be taken to mention the old as well as the netv address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while away should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. 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. BAKIXG PQWDEK. ’ £ I SPECIAL L © |akiHo \\M i J KOST PERFECT MADE Used by the United States Government. Endorsed by the heads of the Great Universities and Public Food Analysts as The Strongest, Purest,aud most Healthful. Dr. Prices the only Baking Bonder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Dr. Price's Extracts, Vanilla, Lemon, Orange, Hose. etc., flavor deliriously PRICE BAKING POWDER COMPANY. DRY GOODS. 11l 11 Daniel Hogan WILL OFFER DURING THIS WEEK 50 Saratoga Trunks At One-Half the Regular Price. 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