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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1887.
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INDEX TO*NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Golden Rule iAxlgo No. 12, I. O.
O. F.: The Merchants 'und Mechanics' Loau As*
■ociation; Pulaski Loau Association.
Special Notices—'To Tailors; A Festival,
Tvbee Island -Schedule for Wednesday.
The Longest Pole Knocks the Persimmons—
U * B. S, M. H.
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ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Strayed or Stolen; Miscellaneous.
Steamship Schedule —Ocean Steamship Cos.
Lottery—Louisiana State.
Cabiiaoes, Potatoes. Etc. —T. P. Bond & Cos.
Educational —Vanderbilt University.
Notice—Savannah Street and Rural Resort
Railroad Company.
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The man who never consults the ther
momoter is the coolest.
It is understood that the next Prohibition
fight under the local option law will be in
Columbus. All good citizens will wish suc
cess to the right sido.
The venerable historian, George Bancroft,
is again seriously ill. He is at Newport,
R. I. It will he difficult to find a capable
person to go on with the historian's work
when he dies.
It will lie a bad day for the State Univer
sity when it is again placed in the hands of
politicians. The University’s experience in
the past ought to kill the “Senatus Aeadetu
icus" project.
The Georgia cracker who said, “This here
feller New Bill seems to be ’tractin’ con
sid'ble 'tention in the Gin’ral ’sembly,” was
more than half right. “Now Bill” is an im
portant personage.
Tlie bill of Representative Glenn, of
Whitfield county, to compel the separation
Of the races in the State schools ought to
pass without op|iosition. It is based upon
sound public policy.
Out of eighty-eight persons who died of
summer diseases in New York on Saturday,
seventy-nine were babies. Tho sun’s
slaughter of the innocents in that city
seems to grow worse every day.
Even the most patriotic citizen wants pay
for his services to tho State. After it is
agreed to pay tho Board of Visitors to the
University #4 a day, perhaps those who at
tend tho commencements will also want re
muneration.
Secretary of tho Navy Whitney appears
to lx* a rather lucky buyer of Washington
real estate. Two years ago he purchased a
farm of 100 acres in tho neighborhood of
Washington at S3OO per acre. A year ago
ho sold 25 acres at $1,500 per acre, and now
he has sold the remaining 75 acres for $75,-
000. A good many fortunes are being made
in Washington real estate.
In France General Boulanger is the hero
of the hour. TLo populace declare that he
must return to the position of Minister of
War. The powers that ho, in the meantime,
are trying to get him as far out of tho way
as possible. If a war wifi. Germany should
O X'ur, and under the leadership of General
Boulanger the French should not lie victo
rious, ho would quickly havo proof of the
fickleness of the people who now almost
■worship him.
The invitation to President Cleveland and
his wife to visit St. Louis Ims become a State
instead of a city affair. It is projxisod that
*vu-y county in Missouri shall Bend a repre
sentative with the St. I<ouis delegation to
Washington. Tho number of counties is
115, so that the delegation will he increased
to 200. Men of all }K>litical parties will bo
included. The invitation will be a triumph
of lue engraver’s art. Misssouri evidently
and >cs not imlorso tho mouthings of Tuttle
and his foolish G. A. Tl. as.xx-iates.
Tho Marquis do Leuville, who was re
ported a year or two ago, when ho was a
well-known figure in Now York city, to be
engaged to Mrs. Frank Leslie, is making
lifo rather unpleasant for that lady in Lon
don. Mrs. Leslie and a lady friend,
under tlie escort of a Russian Prince, were
riding in Hyde Hark, London, a day or two
ago, when the Marquis rode up and slashed
tho Prince across the face with Ins riding
whip. If Mrs. Ixmlie wants to avoid notori
ety she will do well to avoid the society of
prince;: and marquises.
Mrs. Pickett, widow of Gen. George E
Pickett, has written a letter of thanks to
Pickett's Division for courtesies extended
her upon the occasion of the recent reunion
ut Gettysburg. Among other things she
says: “Asa result of tho reunion the Lit
te: nesses of the post are buried and the
brave and loyal hearts of both North and
South are firmly cemented under the old
Stars and Stripes, the emblem of our
fathers, in defense of which at liome and on
foreign land tho sons of the South have
fought as valiantly us under our lovod and
cherished Stars and Bars, now laid uwny
sacred only to memory.” Tlie war is over.
The rabid Republican warriors who insist
upon keeping up the fight aro too insignifi
cant to count.
The Claim for Betterments.
The claim of the lessees of the Western
| and Atlantic railroad for compensation for
: 1 let torments very naturally creates some
surprise. Tho impression has prevailed that
at the expiration of the lease the road, just
ns it is, with its equipment, would pass into
the possession of the State, and, that too,
free from any claim of tlie lessees. The
letter of President Brown has destroyed this
impression, and it now appears that the
lessees expect to lie paid for all the im
provements they have made, and for all tho
rolling stock they have purchased beyond
what is necessary to leave the road with
about tlie same amount of rolling stock it
had when they came into possession of it.
It. is, of course, impossible to say whether
the Legislature will admit that the lessees
have a just claim for betterments. If it
does not admit that they have, their purpose
is doubtless to appeal to the courts.
The Impression gained from the lease is
that, the lessees arc to lie allowed nothing for
betterments. All that is said in that docu
ment on that point is that the lessees shall
return the road to the State in ns good con
dition as they received it. This clearly
menu;? that tho property should not be per
mitted to go to ruin and become practically
worthless, and it also contains the implied
obligation to make till necessary improve
ments and to increase the rolling stock to
any extent that might Iks necessary to meet
the demands of business.
If tho understanding of tho State and
the lessees was that additional rolling stock
and improvements were to be paid for, on
tho termination of the lease, it would have
been so stated in the contract. The fact that
there is no such statement would seem to be
quite conclusive that the lessees expected to
put the'property in a condition to meet all
the business demands upon it, and to keep it
so without tiny compensation therefor. Un
less they had improved tho road and its fa
cilities they would not huve been able to
make the rent out of it. It would have been
a burden to them instead of a dividend
yielding property.
President Brown says that when the les
sees took tlie road the freight cars had onlj
lmlf the capacity which the present freight
cars have, and that the engines were worn out
and generally unfit for service. From his
statement the entire rolling stock has been
renewed, and it is now first, class in every
resjiect. Well, when the lassies took the
road did they not expect to renew the
rolling stock, build new bridges and make
such other improvements ns their busi
ness demanded? Why did they expend
so much on betterments? Clearly lie
cause it paid them to do so. They
have not spent a dollar that they were not
absolutely obliged to spend. They knew
that the road would pass back to the State
at the end of a stated period, and that there
was no agreement that they should lie paid
for improvements. Hence they cannot
justly ask to be paid for doing what they
Were obliged to do.
There is another light in which this claim
for betterments may be viewed. It is this;
When the lessees received the road it. was in
a condition to do all the business that was
offered to it. That is its condition
to-dny. Tho business of the road
has increased, and the traveling
public has become more exacting. If the
road were to be stripped of its betterments,
as threatened by President Brown, it could
not accommodate its business nor meet the
demands of its patrons. It would not,
therefore, be in as good condition as it was
wheu the lessees obtained possession of it,
and if returned to tho State in that condi
tion the terms of tho lease would not be
complied with.
Doubtless every dollar spent in better
ments has returned two dollars to tho les
sees. Every improvement made has in
creased the public confidence in the road
and brought it business. The improvements
also have made it possible to do the business
of the road at less expense. The lessees,
therefore, were only consulting their own
interests when they spent money for better
ments, and It is rather remarkable that
they- should now want, pay for what has
ulready paid them so well.
If the lessees had purchased any more
cars and engines than wore absolutely nec
essary to handle the rood's business they
might reasonably claim pay for this extra
rolling stock if the State want'd it, but no
such claim as that is set up. The road has
only what rolling stock it needs, and that
was about its condition when the lessees
took it. Unloss President Brown makes
out a better case for tlio lessees than he has
in his letter the chances are that the Legis
lature will not allow tlioir claim. Tae
Morning News has already said, however,
that if the lessees are entitled to anything
they ought to have it. The State only wants
whut belongs to her.
Debuting- With Himself.
On Sunday night in New York, at the
meeting of the Anti Poverty Society, Dr.
McGlynn boldly defied tho Pope and the
Catholic church. A largo audience hom'd
him and enthusiastically cheered him. With
regard to his future career and intentions
Dr. McGlynn said: ‘‘By kicking me in the
mouth, ns they have done, they have left me
froeasair. I can do anything now. 1 suppose
1 shall continue to go up and down through
the land preaching the doctrines of the new
crusade. It is not unlikely that I may end
141 by preaching in Italian from the
tale end of a cart in tho Pope's own domin
ion ; for 1 can speak in Italian quite ns flu
ently as in Kugllsh I havo all the freedom
now that any private citizen enjoys.’’ Rela
tive to accepting the nomination for a
political olHco I)r. McGlynn said: “t do not
see that there is anything which could logi
cally prevent my adopting any mode of life
I choose. While I was a clergyman, actively
employed in ndminstcring the affairs of my
parish, my allegiance to my Bishop would
naturally have prevented liie from embrac
ing any other duties, political or otherwise.
Now, however, it is different. I am no
longer a clergyman, but a private citizen,
and as such free to choose what employment I
think best . At the same time, as I have never
considered the matter of holding jiolitical
office. lam scarcely prepared to say that I
would do so if such on opportunity were at
forded mo.” It is yet too soon to predict
just what effect excommunication will have
upon Dr. McGlynn. It is not probable,
however, that he will ever hold a political
office of much Importance. Much offices do
not go to men holding views as impractic
able bis.
Senator Rufus Blodgett, of Now Jersey,
appears to bo a popular man in his State.
It i- said that ho has hud more babies named
after him than any other man in the coun
try in the same brief space of time.
Up to Juno I twenty of his namesakes wore
squalling in different parts of the .State. Ho
intends to visit them all in the fall, and no
doubt will eclipse Gen. Sherman s efforts in
the kijoiiig line.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1887.
The Increasing Strength of Prohibition.
The temperance cause is making steady
progress. It is doubtful if ever before in
the history of the country was the liquor
question so generally agitated. In one
place prohibition is adopted, and in another
higli license. There is no doubt that there
is a determination all over the country to
so limit tlie liquor traffic as to rid
society of its gravest evils. It is not
probable that prohibition will become gen
eral very soon, but it now appears to be
certain that temperance laws of some kind
will lie quite generally adopted in tho near
future outside of the cities, and as the tem
peranre sentiment grows in tho country
districts tho efforts to restrict
the liquor traffic in the cities will
become more marked. It will lie a long
time jierhaps liefore public sentiment in the
great cities will lie sufficiently strong to sup
port stringent laws limiting the sale of in
toxicating liquors, but it certainly begins to
look as if even there the opponents of liquor
would eventually prevail. Recently, when
the law against selling intoxicating liquors
on Sunday in New York city was enforced
the decrease in the number of arrests for
minor offenses was so marked as to attract
a great deal of attention in that city, and
to raise the question in the minds of many
thinking men there whether it would not lie
u good t hing either to prohibit the sale of
intoxicating liquors within the city alto
gether or at least place it under such re
straints as to deprive it of many of its worst
features.
Tho high license law that is now in force
in Pennsylvania appears to tie working sat -
isfactorily. It has had the effect of increas
ing the demand for prohibition, and it would
not lie surprising if the prohibition senti
ment should, in future elections, manifest
itself more strongiy throughout the State
than it has yet done. The contest in Texas
is lieing watched with great interest, and if
prohibition should lie adopted by that State
it would be urged in all parts of the country
with more vigor than ever before.
The prohibition contest in Floyd county m
this State last week was a notable one, and
gave the Prohibitionists great encourage
ment. They are certain to follow up their
victory there by efforts to bring the few re
maining counties of tho State, which
have not adopted prohibition, under
prohibition rule. Rome, the county seat of
Floyd county, was carried for prohibition
by a handsome majority, and some of tho
scenes which were witnessed in that city on
tho day that, prohibition was voted upon
show that the temperance cause has taken a
vory strong hold upon tho people there.
One good thing in connection with the
temperance movement in this State is that
it has been kept free from politics. This
has undoubtedly contributed to its success,
tiecau.sc it has not only made votes for tom
peranee, but it has insured a sentiment
strong enough to enforce prohibition where
it has lieen adopted.
Avery few years ago the prohibition
movement was laughed at by the great ma
jority of peoplo, and the prediction was
freely Viado that it would never amount to
anything. It is not laughed at now, and it
is admitted that it has already amounted to
a great deal. What its future will be it is
impossible to say, but if the number of its
converts continue to increase as rapidly as
it is now increasing it will not bo long be
fore it will be in a position to defy attacks
of any kind.
The Hawaiian Revolution.
Queen Kapiolani will doubtless make her
way to Honolulu as fast as steam cars and
steamships can carry her. She arrived in
Now York from London on Monday, and
was met by Mr. Carter, the Hawaiian Min
ister, who no doubt quickly informed her of
the unhappy state of affairs in Honolulu.
Her presence there may have a good effect
upon the King, who appears to have com
pletely lost his head immediately after her
departure to take part in Victoria's jubilee
eelel iration.
This government has sent a war vessel to
Honolulu to watch the revolution and to see
that American interests do not suffer. It is
not probable that any interests will suffer,
ns the foreign element appears to be in the
ascendency, and the aim is to put tho gov
ernment iu such a shape that evory interest
w ill Vie protected.
The King has never been much more than
a figurehead, and whut little power he had
will now be taken from him. The Hawaiian
army, which consists of 140 soldiers who
aro not at ull bloodthirsty, lias sided with
the revolutionary party, and tho King cun
liot do otherwise than to accede to the
wishes of the revolutionists. He would lie
deposed altogether, doubtless, if it w ere not
for the fear of interference on the part of
foreign powers. To depose the King would
offer mi excuse for interference. A more
change in the Cabinet, however, offers no
such excuse, and nothing lias been done be
yond that. The readiness with which the
King dismissed his old Cabinet and accepted
the Ministers suggested by the revolutionists
shows that he has no supjiort whatever, and
that he realizes that his position is a pre
carious one.
There has been dissatisfaction with him
for a long time liccause of his extravagance
and his indifference to the welfare of his
kingdom, and when it became known that
he hud accepted a bribe of $71,000, and had
repudiated his promise to the man who
brilx'd him, the people thought it was time
that ho should bo made to understand that
such disgraceful conduct would no longer
be tolorntod.
The Queen will probably give the King a
curtain lecture when she reaches home. It
is doubtful if a half-dozen curtain lectures
would cause him to reform.
Tho Tampa Quarantine.
Dr. Duncan's letter on tho efficacy of tho
system of the Havana and Tampa steamship
lino to prevent the introduction into this
country of contagious or infectious disenses
deals with tlie subject very fully and care
fully. There is no doubt that the lino takes
every possiblo precaution against
the introduction of yellow fever, and
that all its rules and regulations for
that purpose are not only based upon tho
best obtainable medical authority, but aro
conscientiously enforced. Notwithstanding
its compliance with every reasonable re
quirement, however, it is still hampered
and obstructed by exactions which, it
thinks, do not secure greater immunity
from danger than the system which it en
forces and lias found to bo so satisfactory.
Dr. Duncan in his letter makes several in
teresting |x lints and reaches the conclusion
that tho steamship line is doing all that, hu
man intelligence can do, if intercourse is
permitted ut ull, to guard against the intro
duction of infectious diseases.
Chicago is u city jieouliar unto itself. On
the wall of n saloon on a prominent street is
this sign: “Pocket Pistols for Picnics.”
Pistols and whisky must make Chirago pic
nics charming affaire.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Sunk Into a Faint, Weak Whisper
•Warning to Randall.
From the Missouri V.rpv.bl iron (Peru.)
If the Hon. Samuel Jackson Randall adheres
to his purpose to resist revenue reduction os
stubbornly as he has resisted tariff reduction,
lie may wake up some fine morning and find
himself a kind of Democratic Dr. McGlynn.
From the Philadelphia Pres* (Rep.)
The demand for an extra session of Congress,
like the demand for an extra session of the
Pennsylvania Legislature, has sunk into a faint,
weak whisper. The howlers are almost as
weary as the people who have had to listen to
them.
Let It Goto the Wash.
From the New York World (Dem.)
It may not tie approved by the volcanic Mr.
Tuttle, or the eruptive Gen. Fairchild, but the
general feeling is now that after t he Grand Army
of the Republic shall have painted St. Louis
with fraternity and given plights of eternal
troth, that bloody shirt might go to the wash.
Dr. McGlynn’s Case.
From the New York Herald ( Ind .).
Dr McGlynn has committed no crime. He
has preached certain doctrines not approved.
That is all. He has been asked to go to Rome to
explain. He has, however, no explanntion to
make. He simply says: "My belief is mine.
I have a title to it in fee simple.” Ail right.
That is manly. When told that he cannot re
main in the church he replies: "Then I will go."
That is the whole story. He is personally ready
to take the consequences of his freedom and no
one can blame him.
BRIGHT BIT3.
At Delmonico’s, the day after Blue Friday.
“Got any champagne on ice?"
“Yes, sir.”
“Weil, that's a good place for it. Bring me a
glassof beer.”— Town Topics.
Little Dick—l don't want to do that.
Omaha Mamma—But you must.
“Why*”
“Because I say so."
“What's the reason I have to mind you? I
ain’t your husband.”— Omaha World.
Stately Old Gentleman (newly arrived at the
summer hotel)—Will you please tell me howl
can get down stairs, my little man?
Rude Boy—Well, yer can roll down; yer can
jump down; yer can slide down the banister, or
yer can take the elevator.
Stately Old Gentleman falls down in a fit.—
To ten Topics.
Mrs. Foshay (to pros)etive nursery maid) —
You are fond of children, of course ?
Applicant Fond of'em? I should say I was,
ma’am. If I hadn't a been I wouldn't a nursed
my sister's nine young ones that was down with
scarlet fever till every blessed one of them died,
ma'am; and buried the last of ’em a week come
Friday.— Tid-Bits.
Sardonicus—l should think there would be
more embezzlement in summer than in winter.
Ukerdek—A ml why ?
Sardonicus—The weather is so much nicer in
Canada.
Ukerdek—Yes, but the jails are a great deal
more uncomfortable in warm weather than in
cool.— Detroit Free Press.
“Can't somebody stop that runaway,” yelled
a stranger in Detroit, excitedly, as a call came
tearing down the street at breakneck speed,
driver and passenger both apparently frantic
with terror.
“That ain't no runaway," said an old resident,
carelessly; “it's an umpire getting away from
the base ball ground. The boys must have got
beat.”- Chicago Tribune
C'ARniE—Oh, Frank! Tillie has been telling
me about composite photographs. How are
they made?
Frank—Very simple. You draw the portraits
of any number of persons on thin transparent
paper, and then place one upon another, right
eye upon right eye, left eye upon left and mouth
upon mouth—
Carrie—But, Frank, can't the thin paper be
dispensed with ?
It could and was.—Boston Transcript.
You go upon the board of trade,
Where margin merchants meet
And take some little options
On January wheat :
You watch n little ticker.
Till the hands swing round the ring,
Then you find your little boodle
Has gone a-glimmering
That's business.
You go into a faro bank
And buy a stack of chips,
And watch the cards come from the box
Which the dealer deftly Hips;
When your head is dull and aching,
At the breaking of the day.
You see that fickle fortune
Has gone the other way.
That s gambling.
—Cincinnati Telegram.
There’s something aliout a lawyer that gives
him away all the time. You can’t mistake a
lawyer even for a book agent. The ingenuous
and unsophisticated cowboy knows him, and
the hardy miner, who may have spent his life
under ground, will recognize him even in the
dark of the lower levels. A well known leg of
the law, I mean limb of the law —the policemen
are the arms and the lawyers the legs of the
law went up into Modoc county He had with
him a patent india rublier bed, w hich he filled
full of air when he. wanted to and made it com
fortable to lie on. This was on entirely new
fangled thing tothecowboys, and tliev inspected
It with great curiosity. the lawyer explained
the whole process to them, how lie inflated it.
and all about jt. One of the cowboys listened
thoughtfully, and then he said: Well, it does
seem kind o' natural for a lawyer to sleep on
wind.’’—-Via Francisco Chronicle.
PERSONAL,.
The Prince and Princess of Wales will cele
brate their silver wedding next year
Tuna: are fifty persons named Bernhardt in
the New York directory. There is no Sarah
among them, however.
Jri.ES Verne is M, and, with the exception of
a stiff knee, caused by a shot from an insane
nephew, is halo and hearty.
Lawrence Barrett, Edwin Bootli and T. B
Aldrich will cruise along the Maine coast in a
steam yacht later in the summer.
Vai.ENTIRE Baker Pasha never drinks any
thing except brandy and soda. He says it kept
him ulive in tils Egyptian campaign.
Tiie Pope sent an autograph letter to King
Kalakana, of the Hawaiian Islands, expressing
his regret at the news of the recent death of the
Princess Lilrcllko.
Dost Pedbo, of Brazil, will take the waters at
Carlsbad for a month. His majesty does not
expect to return to his dominion until the last
week in September.
'lns Mac kaY has presented her tiny grandson,
Prinee Colonna, with a magnificent dressing
ease, all I lie appointments being gold, richly
encrusted with jewels.
Prince Wii.i iam, eldest son of the German
Crown Prince, has one arm uiisymmetrical with
the other, a deformity which is carefully con
cealed by the tailor's urt.
W ii-l.lah Wai.ter I’nnnps' son, John J., the
skipper of the yacht Brunhilde, which lias just
completed a two years’ cruise around the world,
has as handsome a Ivang as Ills father.
Oursr in Mariei.ori. sou of King
Victor Emmanuel, is one of the greatest
wine makers of Italy. His vineyards
at Lucca cover nearly 7,000 acres.
The rooms of the late Mrs. A. T. Stewart at
the Grand I nlon Hold. Saratoga, are tenant
less. They will be kept vacant all the season
out of respect to the memory of their occupinl
for so many summers in the past,
W. Ci.ark Krssr.u,,*t he author, gave a corres
pondent of the lietroit Free Press the other day
this account of his e\|ierieDcu as a sailor: “I
suppose I took to the sea os most boys do. In
order to sre the world nud meet adventures.”
Senator-Erect Favi.knkii, of West Virginia,
recently called at the White House, lie is a
stout, square faced man, with gray eyes and a
hluek moustache and goatee. lie never bun’s
nor tishes, and does not knowhow to play poker.
Van Pho.n Lee savs that “Van Phou” signifies
“Wealth by Imperial Favor." It appears, how
ever, that Yan has obtained his wealth bv ma
trimonial favor. His wife is worth #llXl,nod.
The couple now register at seaside hotels as Mr.
and Mrs. 100
After many years' absence from this coun
try, the Rev In Abel Stevens, the Methodist
historian, lias arrived in California oil his way
around the world. He happily reuehed there
Just In time to congratulate Ills sou, a well
known journalist of Loh Angeles, on his recent
marriage.
Tin: eloquent Indian woman “Bright Eyes,”
who is now Mrs Tibbies, is making arrange
mollis for a series of lectures in London on the
wrongs of the North American Indians She
has well chosen her time. The Wild West show
has awakened interest in England in the rednien
of this eontinenf.
A kkw pays ago Freilerr von Faber, the
founder of the lead pencil firm of A. W. Faber,
o! stejn, ill Germany, celebrated his Toth birth
day, lh‘ lias changed the village of Stein inear
Nuremberg) luto one of the tlnest, in Germany,
founded the famous Germanic Museum in Nu
remberg. ami will lie remembered fur many
other chanlubio bequests.
A MOUSE SINGING SOLO.
The Cobra Which Was Listening Might
Have “Graveled” a Man.
From Wanderer's Life.
I was visiting at a friend's bouse in Calcutta,
arid was on this evening sitting at dinner alone.
The table had been some time waiting for the
host, and I bad at last received a note that he
was not coming home, so 1 sat down alone. I
had finished/]inner and was still lingering at the
table when a little mouse ran up on the top of a
bowl with a sort of basket-work cover on it. I
should not have thought that of itself very
singular, for the “tribes on our frontier" made
most unexpected incursions. But when he did
get perched on the cover of the bowl the
little fellow rose upon bis hind legs,
with his hands before him, and be
gan to entertain me with the funniest little
mouse song you can imagine. “Chit-chit, cheep
cheep-chit, he whistled, and kept it up before
me in a most unembarrassed and self-possessed
little way. I must have been a trying audience,
fori leaned back in my chair and roared with
laughter. As I looked at the little performer I
gradually became aware of a shadow, a some
thing strange gliding out from behind a dish
toward the mouse. Silently and slowly it neared
the mouse. In another minute a beady snake's
eye glittered in the lamplight.
My hand stole softly for the carving knife.
The snuke reared his head level with the mouse,
aud the poor little fellow's song, which had
never ceased, became piercingly shrill, though
he sat rigidly erect ami motionless. The head
of the snake drew back a little to strike. Out
dashed the carving-knife. The sjxdl was broken
instantly, for the mouse dromn-d and scampered.
The snake was wounded, ror there were spots
of blood on the table cloth, and it was writhing
about among the dishes and plates. I could not
make a bold stroke at any part of it for fear of
breaking the crockery, and whenever I made a
dig with the point it was like pricking the gar
bs*. I would not have believed, until 1 had seen
it. how much of himself a snake can stow away
under the edge of a plate. At last I saw the end
of his tail projecting out from under a dish. A
snake hold by the tall and swung rapidly round
can not turn back and bite. I grabbed the tail
with my left thumb and finger and drew him
out out until I judged the middle of his body to
l>e under the knife, then I cane* down and cut
him in two. He was another cobra —a little one
about two feet long, hut quite long enough to
settle a man with a single bite.
“RATS HEZ GENIUS."
An Olcl and Truthful Miner Tells Some
Stories About Them.
From the New York World.
“Wur you a-sj>eakin' abaout rats in coal
mines?*’ Inquired an old miner, who never tells a
lie, up in Hazleton, Pa. “Wal. naow, I kin tell
ye they’s almighty pow'ful critters, ’n don't you
make no mistake. Big ez cats, they is, an'
pow’ful smart, smart as operators, b'gosh!
Ye've got ter git up almighty early in the
mornin* t ’ ahead of them rats.
"Wat brings ’em thur? Why cussedness, I
reckon; thet an’ the grain w'ich goes daown the
mules. They scrapes a livin' somehaow. Ef
they can t git anytning better, w'y, they eats a
miner onct in a while. Many a miner has gone
to git his dinner out of his box only to find the
rats bus been thar tofore him, gnawed a hole
in the box 'ithout askin’ no questions an’ toted
off the grub. Thet’s common, tbet is.
“Naow, don't ye believe tbet story aboout the
mule tenders flndin' three feet of (lead rats be
hind the mules in the mornin', where the mules
hez kicked 'em to death. Tliet's chestnuts. But
ther's somethin' you kin lxdieve, an' I seen it
with my own eyes’a hundred times Ye know us
miners hez to take a can of ile with us to work
with. Naow, them rats is pow’ful fond of ile,
but as the ile qn has a narrer neck it takes
genius to git at it leastways fur a rat. Wal, do
ye think a rat gi to discouraged? No, sir: He
jes* sets strarldlewise of t het 'ere can's shoulder,
dips bis tail into the ile an’ then purceeds to
mastercate thet tail. Fact! Any miner of
’sperience *ll *‘ll ye so.
“Course ye know haow rats steal eggs. Hat
No. l takes an egg in his paws an’ lays on his
back. Hat No. 2 lie lays holt of rat No. l's tail
an' hauls him along, egg an' all, to his hidin’
Elace. I tell yeou, rats hez genius—that they
ez.”
A Tragic Love Story.
From the Overland Magazine.
At about this time, October, 1859, a white
mao, named Bland, was killed by the Wylackies
under the following circumstances, as stated in
the official military report of that date:
One day this man, in his rambles in the moun
tains after game, came across a young Indian
girl and fell in love with her at first sight. He
carried her away from her people by force: but
she escaped from him and came to the reserva
tion. One dark night, soon after, having ascer
tained her whereabouts, he came and forcibly
carried her away again from among the Yuka
women, where she had been placed while wait
ing the arrival of her people. The officer in
command of the small detachment of regular
troops stationed iu the vicinity, gave orders to
arrest him, but Bland escaped and could not be
found. Very soon after this the girl again es
caped from him, and this time got back to her
people; but Bland searched the mountains for
months, harassing and annoying the Indians, in
his endeavors to repossess himself of the
woman, until one day ne met what was in all
likehood a well merited death. He came across
a large party of Wylackies one evening, and
after a desperate resistance he was overpowered
and burned at the stake. < loeof the finest moun
tains east of the valley has borne his name ever
since on account of its proximity to the sceue of
bis death. Bland Mountain is one of the best
known landmarks in the vicinity of Hound
Valley. Although characterized in the reports
of the army officers as a lawless ruffian. Bland,
like all the men of his stamp In those early days,
had many good points about him. and to his
utter fearlessness he added an inexhaustible
fund of good humor and reckless jollity.
To Apple Pie.
From the San Francisco American
Delicious ration.
Rare combination
Of fruit preserved by Eve;
Should I tell it to thee,
All that is due thee,
Half, thou would'st not believe.
Half of my pain
Is owed in main
To sheltering thee at night;
Half of my pleasure
To generous measure
Of thee at seasons right.
Crusty replies,
Dcen quivering sighs.
From my neart's inmost core
Sins I've committed.
Good deeds omitted,
All owed to thee—and more.
Yet. do I love thee,
And naught above thee
Or on this earth below.
Shall ore induce me,
When friends produce thee,
To answer to them—No!
Record this vow
Henceforth from now
And ever from this night.
Her most I’ll prize,
Whose um>lew>ies
Can fill me with delight.
Frighted at a Ball of Fire.
A dispatch from Detroit, Mich , to the New
York World , says: A curious and frightful
phenomenon occtired yesterday afternoon dur
lug a rain-storm. It was in the shape of an in
tensely brilliant ball of electric fire, and greatly
terrified the family of Capt. J. T. Patten, of
No. 88 Hancm-k avenue west Hearing a
strange noise, Miss Patten entered the
darkened sitting-room just in time to a
blazing toll of tire, which she subsequently de
scribed as larger than a cocoanut, hurst through
the wall-paper from the chimney. Mrs. Patten
saw it at about the same time. The toll floated
slowly around the room with the buoyancy of a
toy balloon, emitting a hissing sound and throw
ing an intense glareon the surroundings. Clouds
of Noot burst out from the chimney with it and
floated in the blinding glare. The Indies, l ull of
terror, placed their hands over their eyes and
turned from the sight.
Just then Mrs. Frank Frisliee, who lives across
the st reet, ran over for a short call. She opened
the door and a draught was created, and the blaz
ing visitor darted out. Mrs. Frisliee, almost
paralyzed with fear, dodged just in time, and
the ball, with a loud hiss, swwiped out the door
and disapi>earod One side of Mrs. Frisbee’s
face was blackened by the soot or discolored by
the ball as it ]>assed her.
The Court for Him.
/?// Carl Pretzel.
A railroad switchman had been devoting his
spare time to the study of Blackstone, and
when he had considered himself well versed in
legal lore, he sent in his resignation to the
company.
The vardmaster met him one day and said:
“Well, Johnnie. I set' you have been admitted
to the tor?”
“Yes,” replied Johnnie. “I have l>eon success
ful in getting through all right, and I will hang
out my shingle as a lawyer in a few days.”
“I suppose you will soon to board from in the
courts of tlif* country defending great crimi
nals?”
“No, slier.” replied John, “1 shall confine my
practice to courts that hear evidence in divorce
matters, for in that court. I believe I shall ie
eminently successful, because I tovo had so
much experience in uncoupling.”
For more than half a century In use. The
Kmine Browu's Ginger. Frederick Brown,
iladolDhlo. 1888.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
All the stores at Evart, Mich., close at night
when the “curfew bell” is rung by the secretary
of the Business Men’s Association at 8:30.
A Drk.srm-\r.eu in Portland, Ore., got mad at
a neighbor in the room beneath, and cutting a
hole in the floor, doused the other woman, while
i:i tod, with hot water.
A woman whose age was stated to be 103 years
was before the Ilarlem Poljce Court, N. Y.. for
drunkenness on Sunday, and she’s said to be an
old offender in a double sense.
Among the queer names in the Chicago direc
tory for 1887 are the following: Woggow, Smrz,
Smairkivolez, Smuczvnski, Hep, Wow, Yshick,
Yskia. Zwierzchouska, Szclniochowski and
Trjnak.
A Detroit citizen is building a novel toboggan
slide for bathers at his bath-houses. Toboggans
on rollers will carry the bathers down the slide
into the shoal water, giving a plunge that must
be taken to be appreciated.
An owl attacked a Jersey City man the other
evening and fought for several minutes before
it was frightened off by the noise of a passing
milk wagon. Shortly after it renewed its fight
with another citizen, who choked it to death.
A San Francisco man who bought a lot in a
cemetery on the suburbs and then made known
his intention of setting up a drinking saloon on
the site has been notified by the trustees that a
cemetery is a place for bodies, not spirits, and
he consequently abandoned the enterprise.
The women will be interested to know that
the bustle is of Persian origin. Nott, iu his
notes on the “Odes of Hafiz,” defines the
“refaighfc” as a kind of bolster which the ladies
fix to tne under garment to produce a certain
roundness, thought by them to be becoming.
A London dog once saw a performing beast
of his own species at a fair. The tricks and lau
rels of the performing dog did not permit him
to sleep. His master missed him often, and one
day found him practicing his steps by himself
in an empty room. When he thought himself
perfect he had an “at home” and exhibited be
fore the dogs in the neighborhood.
Last week there was celebrated at the Aca
lares rancho, in Contra Costa county, Cal., the
90th birthday of the Hon. Elam Brown, one of
the earliest pioneers who crossed the plains and
founded homes in California. He was born in
New York State in 1797, the year that John
Adams was inaugurated second President of the
United States. He danced two hours ou the oc
casion.
The Centrablatt Elektrotcchnik announces
that the Edison German Society has constructed
an electric kettle in which the source of heat is
constituted by a bobbin of resistance, placed in
a recipient placed exteriorly by a circular pro
tuberance in the form of a cushion, with a hole
in the middle, and on which the kettle rests.
With this apparatus a liter of water can be
made to boil in fifteen minutes.
Married women at Kaufman, Tex., are said
to frequently take in the sights in male attire.
A young girl at Dallas was sent home by the police
while masquerading in male attire. A Waco
girl was photographed in her brother’! spring
suit for fun. aud tlie picture has raised a pretty
scandal. Marion Biggs, a Cass county farm
hoy, has turned out to be a farm girl. She wore
trousers for a year before discovery.
Parisian street hoys have invented a new
topical game—“carrying off the commissary.”
They divide themselves into two bodies and
enact the recent capture of M. Schnaebeles at
Pagny, on the Alsatian frontier, which caused
such serious agitation. A chalk line marks the
boundary tot ween France and Germany, and
the lads take turns to represent the obnoxious
Teutonic officials who drag M. Schnaebeles over
the frontier.
Walter Webster, of Hamilton, 0., while
calling on Whitehead asked her for the
sixth time if she would marry him. This she
refused, saying they were too young. Then he
asked her to promise him that she would marry
him when she was 31, and during that time she
would not keep company with any other young
man. Again she refused. On leaving the house
h* asked her for a good night kiss, and on
being refused he drew a revolver and shot him
self dead.
Marshall, Miss., boasts of a toby 11 months
old that whistles. Battle Creek has got a baby
boy 3 years old that spends all his pennies for
cigars and has been known to smoke five in one
day. He will steal a pipe and beg passers for
smoking tobacco. The bov has a perfect mania
for tobacco that developed itself before he could
talk, when the youngster would crawl up to his
father's clothes and steal cigars out of his pock
ets to smoke. He wears dresses, and is small
for his age.
There is a place in New York where the finest
of wedding trousseaus, even down to the shoes,
stockings and everything else, may to hired for
a The owner of the place says that
prominent society women get. married in suits
furnished for the night. When asked by friends
after the marriage why they do not wear the
dresses they tell them that they intend never to
wear them after the first night. Men are also
rigged up in wedding finery for $3. The ladies
pay from §7 to S4O for their outfits.
The remains of an ancient Gaulish burying
ground have been found at Adamville, near
Paris. An architect superintending road-mak
ing operations in the district noticed that frag
ments of old )>ottery, etc,, wen* dug up, and so
began careful researches. He has now uncov
ered flfty-two tombs containing twelve skeletons
of ancient warriors buried with their arms, and
the remains of numerous women and children.
All wen* covered with heavy stones. Bronze
ornaments, iron weapons, and pottery lie scat
tered around, but no coins to fix the date.
Sir John Lubbock, M. P., has succeeded in
teaching a black poodle dog “a little light read
ing.” He took pieces of cardboad and painted
on them the words “food” “out,” “bone,” “tea,”
and so on. Then by associating food in the ani
mal's mind with the card hearing the word
“food,” he succeeded in getting it to pick out
the card bearing that word. Again when
asked if he wanted to go out. he fished “out” the
card toaring that word, and so forth. Pub
lic Opinion, of London, says: “The teaching
took a long time, and. though to a large extent
futile, it shows what may to done with some
dogs by proper methods of training.”
Thousands of young German girls are
ing the death of their favorite novelist, “Mar
lift”--whose real name—Eugenie John—is
known to few of them. She was tom iu 1835,
and as a young girl made an attempt as an
opera singer; but her bashfulness and an ear
disease prevented her from winning success iu
this direction. So she settled iu a lonely village,
where she si>ent the remainder of her life writ
ing stories tor the weekly Gartenlanbe. As the
author never had anf experience of life, these
novels are of the most naive description, but
they appealed to the taste of young girls, and
“Marlut's” fame anti fortune was soon made.
The still form of a little toy lay in the coffin,
surrounded by mourning friends. A mason
catnc into the room and asked to look at the
lovely face. “You wonder that I care so much,”
he said, as the tears rolled down his checks.
“One t ime I was coming down by a long ladder
from a high roof, and found your little toy
standing close toside me when 1 reached the
ground. Hr? looked up into my face with child
lull wonder, and ask to frankly: 'Weren't you
afraid of falling when you were up so high?’
and. before I had time to answer he said: ‘ Oh, I
know why you are not afraid; you said your
urayers this morning before you began work!'
I had not prayed, but I never forgot to pray
from that day to this.”
Gen. S. N. Southard, formerly of the Four
teenth Vermont, was among the veterans who
Attended the reunion at Fairhaven, in that State,
a few days ago. On the day before the reunion
ho and his family had celebrated the anniversa
ry of hia marriage. There is a little, romance
connected with the General's family. 110 was
at Gettysburg, and lost one leg and j>art of the
other foot there. Twelve years after the battle
he received notice from a law firm in the South
that a Confederate soldier, named Cecil Mont
gomery, had left in trust $15,000, payable in
yearly installments of SI,OOO, to the first male
neirof Sidney N. Southard (who had saved his
life), when such heir should reach the age of 15
years. The year following Mr. Southard met
Miss Lydia A. Wright, whom he subsequently
married. They now have two daughters and
one son, and the son is named Cecil Mont
gomery.
A conspicuous leader of Athenian society is
Miss Sophia Tricoupis, sister of the Prime Min
ister. She is a slender, fragile looking old lady,
who lives surrounded with iluwers. Her broth
er's friends, knowing her fondness for them,
send her dozens of bouquets every day. Sho
never “goes anywhere,” but receives from 10 in
the morning until midnight. At Athens she is a
power Asa correai*>ndont she is indefatigable,
writing dozens of letters in us many different
languages every day. When she lived in tondon
with her father, the Greek Minister, she made
the Acquaintance of Miss Husau Duilas whoso
father. George M. Dallas, was at that time
American Minister to the Court of Ht. James
An Intimacy between the two girls ripened into
friendship, and they have correspond to at in
tervals ever since. Miss Tricoupis never mar
ried. Her heart, it is said, is buried in the grave
of a hero, hut she is the most devoted and af
fectionate of sirfNMf|4ftnd much of M. Tricoupis*
success is of her inakiug
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