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4 lliclHontingllcliis Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. MONDAY,JULY 18, I**7. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every rlay in the year, ami is served to Kid***ribers in the city , iiy liewtwlealers ami e arners, <*n their own ae Count, at 25 rents a w***k. Si l^l ' month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. r l*he Morning News, by mail, one month, £l 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; or.e year $lO flO. The Morning News, by mail six times a wtvk iwithout Sunday issuet, three months, ft* 00; six months. $4 <i) one year. $H 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or 1 ursdavs. Thurs days and Saturdays. thr**e months, cl 25; months, jSO; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. s'2 Off. The Weekly News, by mail, one yea.*, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance*. Remit. by postal order, check or r<*gisten*i letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. liCtters ami telegrams should bo addressed ** Mornino News, Savannah, Ga." • Advertising rates made known on application INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings —Clinton Lodfn*. No. 54, F. A. M.; DeKalh Lodge, No. 9,1. <> O. E.: Railroad Mu tual Loan Association; Georgia Tent. No. 151, LOR.; Attention Turners; (ierman Volunteers. Cheat Cou sin Advertisements- Employ ment Wanted; For Rent; Miscellaneous. Educational —St. Mary s School for Girls. Lottery—Drawing of Louisiana State. Steamship Schedcles Baltimore Steamship Cos.; Ocean Steamship Cos.; General Transat lantic Cos. The Morning: News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning Mews forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25e. a week, $1 for a month or t~ ‘>o for three months, cash invariably in ail vnnee. 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 new addri 'S3. • 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 In' given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by ilia most direct and quickest routes. St. Paul, Minn., was visited the other day by a storm of bugs. The inserts covered the streets and obscured the electric lights. Hereafter hug storms may lie considered another inducement to young men to go West Senator Wade Hampton, of South Caro lina, who is in New York, says that Presi dent Cleveland is popular throughout the South, and will lie solidly supported from this section for renomination. The Sena tor's prophecy is a safe one. At Carbondnle, 111., on Friday of last week, Mrs. John A. Logan, widow of the General, was thrown from a buggy and seriously injured. It is believed that the accident will cause a long delay to the literary plans she lias in view. The Boston Advertiser thinks that a daily paper in New York devoted to the interests of the South would not succeed. The other papers in that city, the Advertiser says, would combine and crowd out the Southern organs. The Advertiser is doubtless right. Judging by President Cleveland’s ex|ie rience, when the chief magistrate of this country leaves the Capital to take a few days rest, it means that he is going some where to stand up and shake hands with people. There is no real rest for the Presi dent. A prominent Wall street man says: “Mark this prediction: Before this Balti more and Ohio deal is consummated the Pennsylvania road will lie found to lie the most influential factor in it.” No doubt the Pennsylvania would like to get possession of its rival, for the former’s business would be injured if the latter should succeed in getting into New York. Carl Srhurs has so far recovered from the injuries he received by a fall last winter as to be able to walk aliout on crutches. Greatly to his discomfort, however, he is still unable to play the piano. In the mean time his friends doubtless hope that his affliction will so chasten him tlmt he will agree to give up piano playing when he shall have been restored to his wonted good health. It is said that Edward Gould, Jay Gould’s younger son, stooi 1 in the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange in New York, the other day, and sold his father’s Specialties by wholesale. He pursued the same tactics just before the recent shake up on Wall street, and, it is understood, Clean-1 $50,090. He is just 31 years old. All the Goulds seem to know how to make money. Statistical reports of the Sunday Schools in the United States at the late International Convention held in Chicago, showed an in crease in the membership of all the schools since ISM of 305,645. The American Sun day School Union deserves much of the credit for the increase. A careful estimate places the entire memliership of the Sunday Schools at (1,743,K01, hut there are 3,000,000 children still unenrolled. It is believed by some in Now York that Dr. McGlynn will bring a civil and criminal action against Archbishop Corrigan on the ground that excommunication is boycotting. J)r. McGlynn refuses either to affirm or deny that such is his intention, but it is said that Henry George, his adviser, is in favor of taking the case into the civil courts. In the meantime some of Dr. McGlynn’s old parish ioners continue enthusiastically to support him. Ex-Senator Mulione, of Virginia, is still in New York. Ho is interested in the rail road and telegraph consolidations that have been going on in the South, but it is said that ho will withdraw from business in the fall and try to carry the Virginia Legisla ture for the Republicans, in order that he may bo returned to the United States Seu nto. To avoid disappointment it would be 1 >iter for him to remain in New York and devote all bis time to business. Home year* ago a number of- negroes emi grated from South Carolina to Litieria. It Is now stated that letters have been received from them in which woeful tales are told of tliclr condition in that country. Somo of the emigrants bog for money to pay their expense* bock to South Carolina, offering to <voi k for the remainder of their days for any person who will aid them. It seem* j that most of the emigrants are about to Itarve. Perhaps their fate will lie a warn lug to others who are thinking of going to Liberia. America is the best place for the imgroes born and reared here- The Pension Sharks. The {tension sharks at Washington are re sponsible for a great deal of the hostility of the Grand Army of the Republic to the President. They have carried ori a bitter war against him ever since he began to show a disposition to keep pension legisla tion within proper Itounds. They pretend to he patriots, and to have only the interests of the ex-Union soldiers in view, but the truth is that their sole aim is to fill their own pockets. The richest and most influential pension shark at the national capital is the proprie tor of the National Tribune, a weekly publication which itj devoted to working up sentiment among ex-Union soldiers in favor of pension schemes. If it were not for this paper, which circulates almost exclusively among the ex-soldier element, there would not have been one-quarter as many pension bills before Congress during the last ten years as there have tieen. The pension shark who controls it sees a way in which he can enlarge the jiension list, and he at once begins to advocate it in his ]i>er. He tells the ex-soldiers that they have boon badly treated, and that they are entitled to a great deal more in the way of pensions than they have received, or are likely to receive. He insists that they shall petition Congress to oppose the* new scheme, and in a little while petitions reach Congress by the hundreds. Congressmen who never seethe National Tribune sometimes wonder what tho influence is which has so suddenly caused ex-soldiers to become active in se curing additional jiension legislation. It they knew the truth they would not be so quick to act favorably upon the petitions. The owner of the National Tribune, who is both a pension claim attorney and a intent lawyer, does not make much money out of his paper, but the work that {taper does for him pays him immensely. It brings him clients by the thousands, and from about every one of them he gets from <>lo to siis as a fee for getting a pension claim allowed. He is already n very rich man, but the more his wealth increases the more anxious does he become to increase it. When the President vetoed the dejiendent (tension bill he was mad enough to do some desperate deed. His paiter was full of at tacks upon the President, and he sought to make the ex-soldier believe that they hud suffered a great wrong. After tho President had accepted the invitation to go to St. lx uis it attacked him viciously, and was chiefly instrumental in bringing out the hostile feeling which prevented him from going there. It is now actively engaged in keeping alive that feeling. It did not want the President to go to St. Louis, because it thought that bis presence then* would inter fere with the plan of the pension sharks, which is to adopt strong resolutions in favor of a dependent pension bill similar to the one which was vetoed, and which the {ten sion sharks intend to present to Congress next winter. It was an unhappy day for the Grand Ar my when it fell under the influence of these sharks. They will use the organization for all that it is worth to promote their plans, even though they bring it into disrepute in doing so. Already the people are liegin ning to show a lack of confidence in it, and it is now in danger of lieing regarded ns a disturber of the peace and a nuisance. It claims to be non-political in its its charac ter, but it will hardly lie denied tliatit is get ting to play a very important part in poli ties. Railroad Foreclosure Sales and Receiv erships. The linihvnij Aye contains an interesting and instructive summary of the foreclosure sales of railroads for the first half of I—7. To this is added a list of railroads which went into the hands of receivers during the same period. It appears that nineteen railroads with’a bonded debt of $117,163,000 and a nominal capital stock of $30,770,00 ), making a total of nearly $157,001,000 of securities, have been sold under orders of courts and passed into the hands of new proprietors. These are large figures, but they are small in com parison with those for the corresponding period in 1886, when, although the number of railroads was less by two, the mileage was 5,193 miles, or more than two and a half times that of the last six months, and the apparent capital investment was $393,- 000,000. Of the nineteen railroads included in the Railway Age's summary six are located in the South. The remainder are in the North and West. Quoting the words of the Railway Age, “If the record of foreclosures for the first six months should lie taken as an indica tion of what is to he expected for the entire year it would still lie far from gratifying. But while there are many roads still in the hands of receivers, their number and the amount of liabilities involved have l>ecn so steadily decreasing that the sales for the re maining six months of the year are not like ly to equal those already reported.” It is proper to add that the foreclosure sales which are now occurring owe their origin to financial troubles dating back several years, and, therefore, do not indicate that railroad operation at the present is necessa rily unprofitable. The number of new receivers appointed during the jiast six months was very small. The total was five, only one Southern rail road lieing affected nnd that of little im portance. For the same jie&od in lsst; the number of railroads which passed into the hands of receivers was seven, the mileage 1,384, against 438 miles this year, and the liabilities over $45,000,000 against $18,0(10,KUO ill the last six months. Compared with the record for the first half of ISB|, when thirty six railroads, with a total of 6,539 miles and nearly $348,- (XX),000 of capital and debt were turned over to receivers, the Railway Age regards the sliowing so far this year as very en couraging. The financial outlook of the railroads is encouraging, and there is every reason to believe that “the black and disgraceful records of bankruptcy,” through which, during the past twolvo and a half years, 393 railroads, with a mileage of over 3!),000 miles and a nominal capital stock ami bonded debt aggregutiug almost $3,310,000,000, have been sold undor foreclosure, will not be repeated. Judge Thurman having pwitivrly refused to boa unndhlate for Governor of Ohio, Con gretwnan James E. Campbell has consented to hare btt> mime go liefore tho Democratic nominating convention. To succeed, the Democrats must have a strong candidate, nnd such it is believed Congressman Camp bell would prove. Leonard Swett, of Chicago, the former law partner of Ahrahant Lincoln, was mar ried on Thursday night to Miss Marie A. H. Decker, his confidential clerk and book keeper. Hereafter the lady will doubtless keep the gentleman us straight as she kept bis books. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 17, 1887. Work for Women. The attention which is just now being given in the South to work for women is a healthy sign. Since the war the numrier of j occupations open to Southern women has in j creased, but it is not yet as large as it should | lie. The present agitation of tho matter j ought to result in making it possible for any Southern woman to earn her own living. It was announced, a short time ago, that a famous Georgia college for women would have in operation next term a technological department. It is understood that teleg raphy, typewriting, and kindred arts will be taught. The departure from the old plan of teaching women nothing but la.ii j guages, a little natural science, a little I geography, history and literature, and just enough mathematics to enable her to count, rounding it all off with a smattering of music, deserves success. After a course such as has tieen indicated it is difficult to imagine how a woman could he made more helpless. Unless she subsequently under takes to educate herself more thoroughly and more with a view to doing something for herself, marriage is her only recourse, and it is very well known that this does not always prove satisfactory as a means of livelihood. It is a matter for congratula tion, therefore, that a Georgia college in tends to take the lead in preparing South ern women •to take rare of themselves. The only objection to the school which this college proposes to establish is that it will not be comprehensive enough. The occupations for which it is intended to jire pare women offer but small remuneration, and they are already crowded. A greater variety of subjects ought to be taught. Why would it not bo feasible, for instance, to teach designing, engraving, photography and other arts entirely suitable for women? There is no reason why women should not become architects, or why they should not excel as engravers and photographers. Per haps a careful study of the institution founded by the late Peter Cooper, of New York, would result in valuable suggestions to the projectors of the Georgia Techno logical School for Women. Whatever be tho plan of tho Georgia school, however, it will be tho beginning of an important and much needed revolution. A young woman said, the other day, while discussing her lack of qualifications for business; “I wish there were a school within my reach in which I could obtain the training I need. 1 want to earn money for myself. 1 want just once, if never agaiu, to enjoy the independence of sup porting myself.” She doubtless voiced the wish of many others of her sex. Men of wealth could do no wiser thing than to give a part of it to make the Georgia school of technology for women what it should bo— an efficient and comprehensive institution in which young women may be trained to earn money for themselves. Gen. John G. Walker, recently appointed Consul General and Secretary of Legation at Bogota, is well-known throughout the South. His record in tiie Confederate army was an honorable one. He entered the Uni ted States army from Missouri in 1846, serv ing first as lieutenant and brevet captain in the Mexican war. In 1861 he resigned his captaincy in the Mounted Riflemen and en tered the Confederate service under Gen. Holmes. He served two years in the army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Lee, and was promoted to Major General in the lat ter part of 1863. after the Sharps burg campaign, in which he commanded a division. Afterward he wps transferred to the Trans Mississippi Division, under Gen. Kirby Smith, and placed in command of the military division of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. After the war Gen. Walker was connected with Tom Scott and the Texas Pacific railroad. Six or seven years later he engaged in mining operations. Recently he has been living in Winchester, Va. He was indorsed for the position to which he has bt-en appointed by the Texas delegation and by many prominent Congressmen from other States. A strange case of marriage by proxy is reported from Boone Court House, W. Va. A correspondent of the New York W’o rl<l writes that Thomas Harless and Let ha Hal stine were to have been married, but after the prospective groom had purchased for his prospective bride her wedding trosseau she refused to be married. The disappointed lover got possession of the t rosseau, which he sold at reduced rates to John Kirk, who was himself about to be married. Kirk gave it to his prospective bride, and then bought Harless' marriage license. After Kirk was married and he and his wife were at tout to start on their wedding tour, Har less claimed that the couple were proxies for himself and Miss Hnlstine. Miss Halstine, however, declines to understand the situa tion that way. The statement is made that the American residents of the Hawaiian Islands favor an nexation to the United States. They assign a- a reason that annexation would lie advan tageous to this country. It is claimed that whoever has the Sandwich Islands can com mand the North Pacific ocean. There is no jKirt to compete with them as a naval sta tion, so that with a foreign war mid the Sandwich Islands in the haifds of other powers the commerce of the United States on the Pacific Ocean would have no show. There are reasons to believe that England understands this, and that a contingency might arise in which sho would act for her own benefit. The Boston Journal is authority for the statement that seventy-five organizations known as “Know-Somethings” have been formed in Massachusetts since the row over the celebration at Boston in honor of Queen Victoria’s jubilee, for the purpose of oppos ing the element which caused the disturb ance. The organizations are really akin to “Know-Nothingism." It is not likely that they will accomplish much, liecauso it istoo late to prevent tho immigration of foreigners into this country. That the way of the transgressor is hard is aptly illustrated by the case of Jacob Sharp. His greed for money led him to violate law, and now that punishment has overtaken him he does nothing but sit and weep. His appetite has deserted him, sick ness has seized upon him, and it is believed that he will die long before his term of im prisonment expires. It Is again reported that Secretary Lamar declares that he is very much surprised at the newspaper talk about, his being ap pointed to the bench of the United States Supreme Court. He insists that so far the President has not uttered a single won! to him on the subject. Perhaps tho President has signaled his intentions to the Secretary. A society paper gives the following astounding information: “When a lady and gentleman walk on tho street the lady should walk inside the gentleman.” Such a spectacle would draw a larger crowd than a I circus. CURRENT COMMENT. The Trouble with the Mormons. From the Philadelphia Record I I)em.) The trouble with the Mormons is that they want to march into the Union three or four abreast. But the gateway to Statehood is not wide enough. They roust march in pairs—one husliand and one wife—after the Christian fash | ion. Their Common Business Interests. J-Ytrm the Xashville .-ti eeriran l/Vr,i.) There is no use trying to keep down the grow ing feeling that the'N. .rth and the South have common business interests. The prompt way the hat tinting incident and the insolence of the i Grand Army men wen- relegated to an obscure comer la the best evidence lately that the busi nessmen of the country will have none of this nee sense. Fair Play to Negro Passengers. From the Chattanoooa Timer (Dem .) The general principle all agree upon—that a railroad's officials have no l ight to sell a mail a first class fare and then, solely on account of his race, force him to put up with second or third-class accommodations. That is an injus tice against which every instinct of fair play re volts, and no railway directory can honestly, or even decently, iiermit its servants to conduct business in such a way. The Leadership of the Republican Party. From the Xew York Herald (Ind.). The leadership of the Republican party, there fore, so far as it is here voiced by public opinion, rests with James G. Blaine, John Sherman, Robert T. Lincoln and William B. Allison. Mr. Blaine, Mr. Sherman and Mr. Allison are poli ticians pure and simple who entered public life as poor young men and are now rich, as is be lieved from the opportunities of public life. Mr. Lincoln is a name, a patriotic and noble memory. He is a colorless politician, a placid Secretary of War—but a Lincoln. Mr. Depew is anew sensation, an orator, a gentleman, a railway president, who has never written letters which his correspondents w ore desired to burn, He is, therefore, a useful name on the season’s cards. Three rich politicians, a season's sensa tion and a memory —that is all BRIGHT BITS. An enterprising physician in Australia adver tises: "I will pay- one-half the funeral expenses in case* where I am not successful.”—Philadel phia Call. There is a Kentuckian ninety year* old who has never been a candidate for office. If our sister Ohio had a man with a record like that, what scallops she would put on.— Louisville Courier-Journal. Life is short, and women are many. Most men have not time for more than a superficial examination of each one of their fair friends, and to her who crowds her best goods into the showcase is awarded the highest prize. Hebrew Standard. Buobron—What makes you look so cheerful to-day, Dumpsey-? Duiiqisoy .My daughter left the window open during the thunder storm yesterday, and our piano was struck by lightning. You can t im agine what a relief it was.— Burlington Free Press. First Mosqttrro—What a queer smell! Won der what it is. Second Mosquito—Guess somebody is cooking cabbage. ■‘Oh, I see now. He! he! This fellow is smoking so as to drive us away.”—Ornate World. "Making good resolutions and then breaking them ruin a man's character,” said Bjenks, philosophically, “and I'm not going to rum my character in that wav any more.” “O, my dear,” said Mrs. Bjenks I'm so glad to hear you aay that. You won't break your good resolutions after this, will you my dear?” "No, my darling.” said Bjenks, heroically, "I won’t. After this I'm not going to make any.” —Journal of Education. “And what did you do at the parsonage, Augus tine.- asked mamma. "Played croquet,” replied Augustine. ‘-And say, mamma, 1 was the only one in the game who played honest and fair; all the others cheated. “That v iis like my own brave little boy," said mamma,st. ipping t. > kiss the broad, hiinest brow. "And why did my little boy play fairly?” “Had to,” replied Augustine, a cloud of dark discontent settling down darkly upon the brow liereinhefore mentioned. "Had to; every time I tried to cheat 1 got caught.”— Hurdette. ‘-Father! father!” shouted the son of a Pennsylvania farmer, as ho rushed into the house, “it's come!” "What?” “Natural gas.” ".Sea? Wiuutm, don't you lie to me.” ‘‘But we've struck it—me aud Jim-—down be hind the burn." "Well, shet right up, or the old woman will hear you. Not a word to her, William-r-not a whisper! Time we struck ile I ha t to buy her two calico dresses, and when we found coal she stuck for a pair of shoes. If she hears of this she'll want a $2 shawl and, like enough, a pair of red stockings. Mum is the word. William.” Mill/ Street .Y errs. PERSONAL. It is said that Sarah Bernhardt invested the hulk of the money made here last season in American real estate. I-ord Lucan, who has just been made a Fieid Marshal, is 87 years old, and has served in the British army seventy-one years. It is raid that Mol lie Oarfleid, daughter of the late President (iartield, will soon wed ,J. Stanley Brown, her father's private secretary. The King of Sweden has appointed a Swedish State agent to live in Manchester, for the pur pose of extending the sale of Swedish dairy produce in England. John Bcskin says that Scotch is “the sweet est, richest, subtlest. most musical of all the living dialects of Europe." John must have been brought up on oatmeal. John G. Whittier is actively engaged in the preparations to celebrate on July 27 the 78th birthday anniversary of Rev. Edwin Thompson, the pioneer anti-slavery agitator aud temperance advocate. The most popular woman in the diplomatic circle at Athens is said to lo Mine. Bakhmetiew. wife of the first secretary of the Russian Lega tion. She is the daughter of (Jen. Beale, of Washington. Rev. Dk. J C Enntriu., who lias been elected Bishop of Nova Scotia, lias a high reputation as an eloquent preacher, and is well known in Hali fax. where he has s rved lor years as garrison chaplain. He is an ultra High Churchman. Thomas Harrison, a brother of ex Mayor Car ter Harrison, of Chicago, is spending tiic sum inerat Martha's Vineyard. Many years ago he was known a tlie "hoy preacher. " and acquired a considerable reputation foreonJuctiug church revivals. It is announced in the Louisville CnunVr- Jnurual that Henry Watterson lias been direct ed by Ills physician to cancel all his engage ments for public K|.eukiiig in the Kentucky campaign. He will spend the summer with lii's family at Block Island. M. de Qcatrefagks and H. M. Chevalier have given their adhesion to the theory, which is taught as to the Aryan race in its earliest records, that the migrations of peoples in re mote antiquity Were provoked by the gradual increase of cold in the Northern regions. Count von Moltke recently wrote to a coun tryman a basket maker-who bad expressed Ills reverence for the Field Marshal in rhyme: "Esteemed countryman, I thank you for the pa triotic poems and 1 ho]>e you may live to make baskets aud write poetry tor many years.” The engineer of the first locomotive that ever left St. Iymis for the West, and the engineer of the first steamboat that ever arrived at St. Is mis, was William .1 Haynes, of St. Louis, who is Just closing a century of life. He was ou the stair of Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Or leans. Wir.UAM (it.KNN, the wholesale grocer, of On einnati. though I>7 years of age, is one of the in.vst wideawake business men in town Mr. Glenn comes from a family noted for longevity' Hi* uncle. James Hubbard, living near Indian apolis, is 103 years old and still bright aud chipper. Gen. Francis F„ Stinneb, formerly Treasurer of the United States, is greatly enjoying life in bis tent boipe <>n Rabin Roach, Fla. Atm years of age he is us genial and lieartj- as ever and welcomes host* of-visitf<rs. |p-is % particular ly successful flshormao, and enviftus rival* say that, w hen worms are acarce he uses hia signa ture tor bait. "The will of Samuel Jones Tilden,” says the rail Hall (iv.fltr. "who was • candidate for the Presidency of t he U nitedStatea, late of Grey st one, Yonkers, eouuty of Westchester. State of Non- York, counsellor at law. who died on Aug. I last, was proved in London on Juno 18 the value of the personal estate in this country amount ing to over t Pis,non /< A i*non deal of fun has been made recently over Roseoe Conkling s desire to lve considered a young man. When entertained by the Grant Club at Chicago the other day he said: "1 first saw Chicago thirty years ago. You know how young I was then a good strong nurse lielil me up in her anus and said: That's Chicago.'” Mr . Conkling was a bouncing baby of twenty fight years when the nurse in queatiou held him in her arms. A NERVOUS WOMAN. She Was Afraid a Smash-Up Would Occur While She Was Asleep. From the Arkansaw Traveler. A nervous woman on board a railroad train in Missouri called the conductor and said; “I would like so much to take a sleeper, for I've been up three nights hand mimin', but I am afeerd." “What are you afraid of, madam/’ “Why, I'm afeerd that the train mout run off the track." “But will your staying awake keep it on the track?" “Wall, do you know I hadn't thought of that? Why, my settin' up here with my eyes open I.am t have tht3 slightest effect upon the train, can it?" “None that I can see." “Then, if you was in my place you'd go in the sleeper an' git a good night s rest?" “i certainly should." "Well, I will, but whenever you think there's any danger of the train runnin’ off w'y I wish you'd have ine called." She went into the sleeper. About three hours later while the condueor was passing through the train he found the woman sitting on the seat which she had occupied during the day. “Why. madam, I thought you liad taken a sleeper." i did," she replied, "but the fetch-taked train kep' a-threateniu' an' a-threatenin' to run off the track till I thought the safest plan would be fur me to git right out an' set here where I ken watch everything: but do you know that when I got up that fetch-taked nigger in then* had tuck iny shoes and sloped off with 'em? Well, he had done that very thing an’ I had the hardest sort of work gettin' 'em back again, fur the cussed rascal had put a little dab of black in’ on 'em an' wanted to charge me 10c. I paid the conductor $2 for the shelf—or berth, as he calls it—hut I reckon he'll give it back to me in the morale*." “He won't give it back." “He won't?" "No." "Not if I te'i him I am a pore widder?" "That won't make any difference." "Wall," bouncing up, "I*ll jest go back there an' lay them waitin' rur the train to run off, fur I II he bound fx I'm goin' to be beat out of my money thater way. Whenever the train starts to run off you mout call me, an' if you hear a awful rumpus in there you may know that the uussed nigrer is alrter my shoes again, an' that I'm defend in’ my lights." A STRANGE COMBAT. A Rabbit, in Defence of its Nest, Gives Battle to a Blacksnako. A Peoria, 111., special to the Chicago Tribune says: The keeper of Springdale Cemetery, just north of Peoria, to-day was witness of a strange combat. While engaged in his usual business of attending to the graves his attention was arous ed by the strange antics of a rabbit. It seem ed to lx* jumping up in the air and acting alto gether in a crazy manner. Proceeding to the spot, he was astonished to see that the rabbit was giving battle to a blacksnake about five feet in length. The rabbit had a nest near by, and in it were its two young. The serpent was several feet from the nest, aud as it tried to approach the rabbit would jump fiercely on the snake, biting it near the head, and then jump back before the black snake could get it in its coil. When the snake showed a disposition to remain coiled the rabbit would make a feint and get it to strike, and then quick as lightning would jump on the snake's body. The rabbit had api>arently lost all fear of the presence of man. as the witness of the strange battle stood within a few feet of it. After a few minutes the snake made up its mind to get away badly worsted, and found safety in a brush pile into which the rabbit could not penetrate, although it made efforts to do so. It is the opinion of the keeper that if tho fight had occurred in the open ground where the snake could not have sought concealment the rabbit would have killed it. Are Blinders Necessary? From the Hartford Times. The majority of people probably do not re alize how much and in how many ways the eyes of work horses are injured by the use of blind ers. Scarcely a day passes that Mr. Thrall, agent of the Connecticut Humane Society, does not ask someone to have a loose blinder re moved or mended in order to save the eye of a suffering horse. It is sad to not ice how many cart and draught horses have defective eyes. In hot weather the heated leather worn close to the head during many hours isa serious evil, not to mention the pain and disease which would re sult to the eye of any animal from having its vis ion continually impeded bv a near object. In con nection with this subject the following incident was related to us by Air. Thrall. Seeing a horse passing along on a sweltering day with a loose nlinder knocking against his eye at every step, Mr. Thrall said to the driver: “Pat. suppose it was a pretty hot day, and you didn't feel very comfortable anyway, and t here was a big piece of hard leather flapping into your eye— ’’ “ne gorrah! ye're right I Don't ye say anoth er word your honor—l'll fix ’em.” Early the next morning came a knock at the door of the Humane Society office, and when Mr. Thrall looked up there stood the man beam ing with satisfaction. ' The top o’ the mornin’ to ye! An’ will ye stiii out an' take a sight at him, if ye plase?” Mr. Thrall went outside, and there was the horse, also satisfied, for lie had had an extra feed and rub-down, and his blinders had been cut off. Mr. Thrall says that he frequently meets with this readiness of comprehension and willing ness to act humanely as soon as the slightest in timation of unkindness is given, which proves that a great many really well-meaning persons are cruel through thoughtlessness; and as soon as their attention is called to their mistakes they are thankful to remedy them. We hope there will soon be a fresh confirmation of this undoubted fact in the large number of “eman cipated horses’’ which will lie seen on opr streets rejoicing in their freedom from unnecessary re straint. Already many horses are driven with out blinders; but the number of those that are relieved in both directions is still comparatively small. We w ish all persons who have adopted this humane method of driving, and all who may do so, now that the subject has been brought to their consideration, to know that there is a tide of sympathy and approval (low ing toward them from every direction—a tide of humane feeling, of love for those low orders of intelligence which it is the duty of man, su preme in power and wifi, to develop and pro tect. The Fate of the Children From the XeK York Sun. Oh, the children! Oh, the children! How they suffer, droop and die In the close ana crowded city, when the days are hot and dry! How they gasp and groan and murmur, in their ceaseless, voiceless prayer For a bit of God’s great bounty, for the blessing of the air! Knnms Anri houses (lacked and reeking hold the children day ami night. Shutting off the healthful breezes, with the sun shine and the light; Only noxious odors roach them, that can enter everywhere. All the gases of the garbage, all the fever-laden air. Then the dark Death Angel fans them, watching well their failing breath. Holds them, folds them in his arms until their even are closed in death. Oh, tne coffins nightly tilled, and oh, the hearses that by day Through the city's narrow, nasty streets are driven fast away! Breezes blowing all about them, blowing freshly here and there. All the glory of the ocean, all the sweetness of the air: But the children cannot reach them, trout the freest blessings barred, And we do not need to wonder that their lives are brief and hard. Sad Moments. From the .San Francieeo Chronicle, We have nil some sail moments in our lives, sad secrets dial are not immoral nor criminal, or anything like that, but simply moments of unhappy ncoident or painful stupidity. Don't you recollect, for Instance, the time when your lies! girl wanted you to take her to the theatre, and you wrote to her you were sick and confined to your bed. and her younger brother told her next morning he hail been out at a prise tight with you? Don’t you n-me.roher and kick your- Siflf when you thick 'if it. the time you wanted to show her the pretty letter you had front your toolbar about her, and you gave her a dunning cofci from the jeweler for the handsome btlu-elet you gave her ns a preeenf the Christmas llofort? There are worse conif temps than that you recollect -occasionally, I know, but they would not look pretty in print lam reminded of the subject by the absent mindedness of a fellow who dressed himself up iu bis lies! and went one evening to call upon the pretty daughter of u rich man, upon whose fortune ho was building great ho|**s of future happiness. He ruug the hell au-l was shown into the |wrlor. In a minute the old gentleman himself came down with the card in his haul “We are very glad to see you, Mr Jones, but I don't think you intended this card for us." It was a pawn-ticket. When you go to the mountains, he sure to place in your portmanteau a bottle of Fred, brown's Jamaica (linger. Philadelphia, jaa. ITEMS OF INTEREST. England is said 10 have one cow to eight and a half persons, France one cow to three and one third, and America one cow to one and t third persons. America is ahead on tne< A kind of jubilee exhibition is being planned in which we shall see systematically arranged the changes in domestic decorative art which have taken place since Queen victoria crowned. David Thurman, of Fremont. 0., did on July 1, as sworn and subscribed to before a Justice of the Peace, drink one full gallon of butter milk in the space of seven minutes, ana tuerecy won an accordion valued at $3. In the window' of a boarding-house in a XX ast ern town the following notice is posted: “ 1 his ain't a Boardin’ House: it's just an ornery plain hash house. But don't pass It by on that ac count; for there ain't no better in the null aig gins." The Latin ode which the Eton boys sung at their jubilee celebration was composed, words and music, by Dr. Warre while dreaming. While Warre has no scientific knowledge of music, musical experts declare that the tune is an excellent piece of recitative. The cost of the British medical army staff is .€2*10,000 a year, but, in addition, there is an item of £200.000 a year for pensions to retired doctors and surgeons. 'The medical officers retire from the service at 45 years of age, and receive pen sions for the remainder of their days. Thx Chinese law requires every householder to hang at his front door a list of the inmates of his house. It seems as though it ought to be easy to make an accurate census. By one which the officials of the empire have recently afforded, the population is 450,000,000. A standard THERMOMETER is made with a dial upon which the figures are as easily read as upon a clock. In this instrument strips of metal, which are equally acted unon by heat and cold, are soldered together m the form of spirals; the action of the temperature is mul tiplied by delicate wheels and pinions. Victor Hugo did not know the amount of his fortune until some friends, in 3854, inquired of the Rothschilds. They discovered that he had nearly 0,000,000 francs deposited with them, and astonished him greatly when they Acquainted hi ru with the fact. He was then getting yearly royalties from his works of 40,000 francs. So says the Paris Figaro. Tiie public lands of Mexico is still an un known quantity. A survey has lx*ec in prog ress for two or years, which has resulted in mapping out 20,000.000 acres. The survey has not yet comprised the entire area of two of the twenty-seven States of the republic. These lands, as last as they lire surveyed, will be thrown open to colonization. Rev. I. C. Bagley, of Camden, N. J.. was called upon by a stylish looking couple who desired to be wedded. There l>eing no impedi ment, the pastor soon made them one flesh. Then the groom handed the clergyman a large official envelope manted “A present, with thanks." Upon opening the envelope Mr. Bag ley found inclosed the sum of 10c. It is amusing to see that in future the Indian pilgrims to Mecca, will by agreement with the government, be in charge of the European tour ist agency. Tickets are to l>e issued at all the Mohammedan centers and the pilgrims wil/ren dezvous at Bombay, where the great tour agents will take charge or them and be responsible for their safe conduct to the tomb of the prophet and back. There is a firm in Berlin that employs 300 girls w'ho manufacture little bundles of anti septic dressing material, with which all German soldiers are to be supplied in future, so that they may W able to dress their own wounds in the absence of a surgeon. The girls an* all dressed in white linen cloaks, and are strictly forbidden to bring victuals or anything else into the room where they work. The University of Kings College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, is the oldest of all the British American colleges. The royal charter under which it was founded in 1788 explicitly provides that its academical habits shall be the same as those of the University of Oxford. And its enceniajs conducted every year with all the pomp and ciroumstance of an Oxford eneenia. The Rev. Dr. Isaac Brock, Oxon., is the presi dent. The editor of the Webster (N. C.) Weekly thus apologizes for the appearance of so much original, grave matter in a recent issue of his paper: “Our shears are sadly in need of sharp ening. The rivet is loose, arid when we try to clip an article they wobble through the paper like a turkey-gobbler with a sunstroke, and grate with an unearthly sound. The process of cutting has become so disagreeable that we have been forced to put in more original matter of late.” The length to which blind credulity will go has just been illustrated in the case of a man in Frankfort, Ky. He had been a sufferer from asthma for years, and on beingtohl recently by a friend tiiat if he would swallow a few bird shot everyday for a few weeks he would lie cured, he promptly began to do so. After he had swallowed about four pounds violent symptoms of lead jMiisoning were developed and the man was obliged to go to a physician. His life was saved, but he still has asthma as bad as ever. During the last fifty years, since Queen Vic toria was crowned in Westminster, the French count up the reign of Louis Philippe down to Feb. 34. 1848; the republic from Feb. 34 to Dec. 10, 1848: the Presidency of Louis Napoleon Bo naparte to Dec. 2, 1851; the empire from No vember, 1852; then the downfall: next the gov ernment of National Defense, on Sept. 4, 1870; then the Presidency of M. Thiers, in 1871 until May 24, 1873; next that of MacMahon, to the month of January, 1879, and lastly, the republic of President Grevy. A bank vault expert says in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat that there are not exceeding half a dozen first-class safe robbers in the couii try, and that he knows them all by their work. One of these men might almost as well leave his name behind him as a mark of his work, and he can t very well destroy all trace of it. The following is given in illustration: “I remember one ease I was called on to investigate in Ohio. Hooked over the work and remarked,- ‘Well, if I didn't do this myself it was my old boy.’ He had learned his trade under me, and I knew every mark he had made. The detective worked the case up on that clew, ho was arrested, found guilty and is now serving a twenty years’ sentence in the penitentiary.” The vaults now living built, it is said, are so difficult to enter that it would not be worth the risk. Too much time is needed. A Ri-Mott got loose in San Francisco the other day that Mr. Frederick Gebhard was in that city, where Mrs. Ltngtry is now playing, but the Alta investigated it and found it baseless. “It came," says that journal, "from a brake man on one of the overland cars. He had mys teriously hinted at seeing a man in a long duster and with a bundle under his arm, which re sembled a hat-box, riding on the brakebeam under the Langtry car as it was whirled across tiie plains. The brakeman, it is said, even went so far as to say that this was the infatuated Freddie, and that upon his arrival here he dropped the duster, disclosing a rich broadcloth suit, and resurrected a shiny plug hat from tho depths of his bundle. He then registered at an obscure water-front hotel. This rumor was quickly laid by a co-worker with tiie brakeman who coldly asserted that the story was a fabri cation as far us the refugee under the ear living Freddie was concerned. He stated that the rider upon the Langtry brakebeam was an eccentric Italian nobleman who was enjoying Ids vacation in his own peculiar way, aud who was bent upon investing a small ’part of his colossal fortune in a chestnut plantation.” M. CograuH will, it, is said, rejoin the com pany of the Theatre Francais after his return from his American tour. He means to spend the next few months in some quiet spot ia the country, and to devote himself to the composi tion of the treatise on acting which he ban long been meditating. “L'Art dii Cainedien," as it is to tie called, will contain everything that the actor's experience and his ‘'constant and pas sionate study of the masters" have taught him and he starts with the assumption, which it will tie the main object of the work to establish that acting is a purely conventional art’ Amongst the other illustrations which he will' cite in support of his thesis will be found a rather amusing one (so "Parisis” of "The Figaro" says). derived from a recant, experience of his own. He was playing the part of "Annf t.al" in ■•L’Aventuriere*' In a provincial town some little time ago, and when ho came to the scene In which "Anaihal" is supposed | 0 f„u asleep, the actor, who happened to be --xirermiir tired that evening, fell asleep lr> good enrnest He slop! heavily and "snored like a bellringer ’’ When he took up the local papers noxt day lie found that while praising Ills performance In general, they all condemned his simulation of the phenomena of sleep as ridiculously stagy and unnatural. ' Dramatic Critic ) can't Imagine how you CMnuppear to h- so carried away with your part when, according to your own admission, you do not feel a word of it. Great Actress—l liecame quite proficient in that art by a long course of training before I went on t be stage. "At a dramatic school?” “No: I was a salesgirl in a millinery store nnd when customers were around 1 had in admire all the new bonnets,"— Omalm World. 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