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THURSDAY, JULY -1. 1887*
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetinoh—Stockholders Mutual Co-operative
Association; Oglethorpe Litflit Infantry.
Special Notices lir. It. B. Harris' Absence;
Melons, J. S. Collins A Cos.
AmcsemsoTs Base Ball. Amateurs vs. Orient
als.
Old Time Pcrto Rico Molasses— A. M. .t C.
W. West.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help Want
ed; For Rent; For Sale; lost; Miscellaneous.
Vinegar, Lime Jitce. Etc.—At Nicholas
Lanp's.
Medical —Cuticura Remedies.
Eoccational Salem Female Academy,Salem,
N. a
“JrsT the Thing for Tm: Boys"- L. 4 H. S.
M. H.
Legal Notices City Ordinance.
Notice For Kent, John Lynch, rjrocer.
Auction Sale Damaged (iroceries, by R. H.
Tatim.
The Morning' News for the Hummer.
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ran have the Morning News forwarded by
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promptly delivered to them while away
should leave their subscriptions at the Busi
ness Office. Sixtcial attention will lie given
to make this summer service satisfactory and
to forward papers by the most direct and
quickest routes.
People who are ordinarily cool and col
lected are warm and scattered just now.
The Republican party ought to change its
shirt. The bloody shirt has been worn out
by too much waving.
The politician that needs an indorsement
is losing his power. It is this that makes
Senator .Sherman sad.
President Cleveland doesn’t like special
trains. He is right. The President ought
to travel just as other people do.
The Empire State of the South is still
ahead. Smithville, Ga., takes the palm as
the hottest place in the United States.
The hot weather is not without its charms.
A veracious citizen of Savannah says that
the cats have suspended their midnight con
certs.
H. Rider Haggard’s last book is abused
by the critics and read by the millions. lie
ought to feel very friendly toward the
critics.
It is said that the dude is disappearing. He
ought not to have any tiifliculty in doing so.
He is small enough to get out of sight
quickly.
Nothing is more axasperaliug than the
eKort of a “cool wave” to materialize while
the mercury iu the thermometer is high up
in tho nineties.
The Sultan of Turkey has turned editor.
Perhaps he thinks firing pajxir balls at Eng
land inay be more effective than tiring ctui
nou balls at her.
The wino room, as operated in Atlanta,
appears to be an active recruiting agency
for the chain-gang. Tho wine room ought
to be suppressed.
At Middletown, N. Y., the other day, a
girl met her death while eating |ieanuts.
Members of the General Assembly {should
heed the warning.
Small men are generally the first to ex
press themselves on public qnestlons. They
knr >w nobody will listen to them when the
giants of the country liegin to talk.
It is time for Henry George to make
another convert. Without some such sensa
tion the dollars will ooa.se to flow into the
coffers of the Anti-Poverty Society.
European affairs am becoming more in
volved every day. It is not unlikely that
Germany and France and England, Turkey
and Russia will soon be engaged in war.
It is hinted that Gen. Fairchild and his
three palsies are jealous of I)r. McGlynn.
Asa sensation the latter proves to have
better staying qualities than the former.
Roscoe Gonkling seems to lie more popu
lar in New York than ever before. When
ever he makes a law speech, even of tho
most trivial character, people crowd to hear
him.
Just before leaving New York for the
Catskills mountains, the other day. Jay
Gould invested fl‘J in fishing tackle. No
doubt he will fish for suckers, just os ho has
boon doing all his life.
Mile. Aimoe. once well known as an opera
•xmffe singer, lias been suffering with a severe
affection of the lungs. Hhe doesn't mean to
quit the stage, however, as long as she can
kick and Americans nave dollars.
Tho Presidential candnlato who finds it
necessary to go to Europe in order to at
tract attention is what the preachers call a
man who doesn't attend to his church
duties. He is a “weak brother.”
It is ol*er\ed that many North Geor
gians arc seeking the coast to ovoid tho heat.
They are quite right. Tho mercury lias not
yet climbed up us high on the coast as it Ims
in North Georgia. Halt air, too, is healthy
all the year round.
Fourteen iron companies in the Gogebic
Iron range of Wisconsin, have leoii consoli
dated. Now-a-days consolidation is tho
order in all interests. The advice of Dennis
Kearny, the once famous sand lot orator of
Han Francisco, to “pool your issues.” is
being accepted by capitalists os well as
laborers.
The Color Liuo in Schools.
Representative Glenn’s bill requiring
white children and colored children to lie
educated in separate schools is attracting
considerable attention not only in Iho State
but outside of it. That the bill is n K*x*l
one there is no doubt, and that it ought to
become a law will be generally admitted. It
jssssesses nothing new. It simply provides
I the machinery for carrying into effect tho
organic law of the State.
The public schools although notns good as
the people would like to have them, are
steadily improving, and in the course of a
few years they will compare favorably with
those of any other State. They are support
ed almost wholly by the white people anil
are willingly supported. They would
lie greatly improved at once if the
people could afford the means to improve
them. It is a source of satisfaction that
they have so strong a hold upon the good
will of all classes, and that the sentiment in
favor of steadily improving them is
strengthening. The importance of main
taining the present harmonious and favor
able feeling with regard to them is apparent
to all sincere friends of public education.
If the impression once gets abroad that the
outcome of the public school system will be
the education of white and colored children
in the same schools a hostile feeling to the
system will at once manifest itself, and if it
should not prove to be strong enough to de
stroy the system there is good reason for
thinking that it would seriously cripple it.
Efforts would Ixi made to withhold Slate
aid, and to bring the system into disrepute.
The colored people have two universities
at Atlanta which are aided hy the State,
and which arc well patronized. They are
satisfied with them and are taking ailvan
tage of tho educational facilities which they
offer. They do not ask admission into the
State University where white youths are
educated, and there is no reason why white
students should be thrust into the colored
universities. They have not attempted to
cross the line of separation between the two
races which the constitution draws, and the
white people ought not to lie permitted to
cross it.
It seems that the students which have
1 ccu admitted into.the colored universities
are children of the professors of those uni
versities, and the excuse they give for
placing them there is that they wanted to
have them under their own direction and
influence. The excuse is not a good one.
They knew that the policy in this State,
clearly defined in the constitution, was to
keep the white and colored students sepa
rate, and they ought to have respected it.
If their views were contrary to that policy
they ought to have resigned and sought em
ployment where a policy prevailed that was
in harmony with their approval.
Representative Glenn’s bill does not dis
criminate against tho colored jieopli'. It
simply means that for the good of both the
white and black races, the children of the
two races shall lx educated in separate
schools, and that the educational facilities
provided for one race shall be as satisfactory
as those provided for the other race. No-
Ixxly can pretend to s)x>nk for the far fu
ture, but tboso who control the affairs of
the present are clearly of the opinion that it
is wise to make the line of demarkatiqn be
tween the white and black races very dis
tinct.
Prohibition in Kansas.
Quite an interesting discussson is going on
between the anti-Prohibitionists of Kansas
and the Governor of that State as to
w hether prohibition has bellied or hurt the
State. The anti-Prohibitionists lately pub
lished a statement showing that prohibition
hail greatly increased the burdens of the
tax payers without restricting the sale of in
toxicating liquors, and that, in consequence,
immigration hail fallen off and investments
in certain kinds of improvements had ton
great extent ceased. The Governor meets
these statements with an emphatic denial,
and insists that the State w as never so pros
perous as at present, and that the saloon
business has practically ceased to exist.
- It is more than probable that the Gov
ernor state's the situation correctly. It may
be true that the drug stores sell a groat deal
more whisky now than they did before the
saloons were closed, but it will have to bo
admitted that there is a noticeable absence
of drunkenness in the State and t hat crimes
which can lie traced directly to whisky are
much less numerous than liefore the adop
tion of prohibition.
The fact is that the great majority of
those who are addicted to the use of intoxi
cating liquors arc ready to admit that the
drinking habit is a very harmful one, and
that it is pretty certain to lead to poverty
and misery. If it were not for their ability
to get yhisky whenever they want it
they would soon abandon the habit alto
gether. When whisky is brought to their
very doors, as it were, they cannot resist
the temptation to drink it. It is probably
safe to say that the most of the Kansas
whisky drinkers are glad that prohibition is
in force there, and they would lie glad, also,
if whisky were not placed within their
reach by druggists. Tho parties in Kansas
who are trying to make it appear that the
Stats- is going backward because of the pro
hibition legislation will, eventually, have to
admit that they were mistaken. They uro
mainly saloon keepers, doubtless, who are
trying to get up a sentiment in favor of the
repeal of the prohibition law. They will
find they have undertaken a much
greater task than they hail any idea of.
A few days ago a statement was widely
circulated that the city of Atchison, Kan.,
had cut off the city’s water supply, turned
off the gas and reduced the police force be
cause, owing to the loss of revenue from sa
loon licenses, it hadn’t enough money to
maintain these things. The Mayor of Atch
ison denied the statement aUmt the gas and
the water, but admitted thut the police force
had been reduced. Tho reduction of the
force, however, was due to the fact that the
Rulixins having been closed there was such a
decrease in crime that so large a force was
not needed as when whisky was free.
Prohibition will attract, not drive immi
grants away feign Kansas. It means more
school houses and church houses, and the
best class of immigrants always go where
these things are to lie found. The assertion
that prohibition is ruining the State is cer
tainly' a grave mistake, and it is also a mis
take to assert that the burdens of tho tax
payers are greater now than they were
before prohibition went into effect. The
suloous no longer exist, but the lurgo sums
which they paid into tho treasury
are more than equalisl by the
saving that has been brought about
by tho decrease that has been effected in the
cost of convicting criminals. The criminal
record is small and unimportant in com
parison with what it was before the law
against the froc sale of whisky was enacted.
The people of Kansas apjiear to know wlmt
they' are about and they are pretty certain
to stick to prohibition.
THE MORNING NEWS: TITERS DAY, JULY 21, 1887. ,
Tho Sentiment All One Way.
There is no division of sentiment at tho
South respecting the advisability of renomi
iiatiug Mr. Cleveland, and there appears to
oc hut very' little opposition to his ronomi
nation at Va North. A day or two ago
Henry Wattew/n, or Kentucky, iu an in
terview in the Herald, said that as far as
he was able to judge the South was solid lor
Mr. Cleveland, and Senator Eustis, of
l/iiiisiana, in ail interview in the Boston
!U raid last week, declared that every South
ern delegation would be for him.
Not many months ago Mr. Watterson had
a goixl deal of fault to find with Mr. Cleve
land in the columns of his pajxir. but he
soon discovered apparently that his fault
finding wav not appreciated, and he is now
one of the President’s most pronounced ad
rnirers.
Senator Eustis also was hostile to the
President until within tho last few months.
The ground of his hostility was his failue to
control any of the Federal appointments in
Louisiana. The Democratic party of that
State is composed of two factions, and they
are rather bitter toward each other. Sena
tor Eustis is a leader of the stronger faction,
and he was very much aggrieved because
tho President gave all the
offices to the weaker one. He
did a good deal of talking that was not com
plimentary to the administration, but he has
nothing to say against the President now.
In fact, he gives him an emphatic indorse
ment,. Tho Senator is a man of marked
ability and great influence, and his changed
tone towards the administration will help
the President at the North as well as at the
South. The present outlook is that Mr.
Cleveland will be renominated without op
position. anil that he will stand upon a plat
form so emphatically in favor of tariff re-,
form that thero will lx? no chance for the
protect ionists to construe it so as to favor
their views.
No Color Line in England.
The World's London correspondent says
that colored people are apparently popular
in England. He has not been able to see
any prejudice against them there. The few
that he has seen were in company with
white people and associating with them on
terms of equality. lie saw a coal black ne
gro girl leaning upon the arm of a fashiona
bly dressed Englishman walking along Re
gent street anil the Englishman appeared to
be enjoying himself. He also saw
white women, respectable in appearance
and dress, leaning upon tho arms of
negro men. This correspondent does
not appear to have heard of the refusal of
the King of the HolgiaiLs to take Kapiolani,
the Hawaiian Queen, in to the jubilee din
ner because she was black, although not a
negro.
No doubt there is very little prejudice
against the negro in England because only
a few are seen there, and those of the most
refined type, but it is probable that preju
dice would crop out if about a million col
iiris 1 folks from the cotton fields and tur
pentine farms should make their appear
ance there. As they improved the preju
dice might ilisapjxiar, but it is pretty cer
tain they would be discriminated against
at flint.
Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, thus ranks
tho Republican candidates for the Presi
dency: Blaine, of Maine, first; Sherman, of
Ohio, second; Allison, of lowa, third. There
are a few dark horses, but they have not yet
been sufficiently groomed to be trotted out..
Of course Senator Sabin has reference to
the favor with which the candidates he
names will lie received by tho nominating
convention. He is too wise to lielieve that
any of them has a chance to be elected.
Mr. Travis Van Buren, a grandson of
President Van Buren, is figuring quite
prominently in New York society. He
backed Pierre Lorillard’s Iroquois to win
the Derby, and taking the long odds of
40 to 1, he landed 5510,000 on the event. Most
of his associates won their money in Wall
street but they feel that Van Buren is a
gentleman, nevertheless, for they are aware
that gambling is gambling, whether at a
horse race or in Wall street.
Mr. B. W. Wrenn, General Passenger
ami Ticket Agent of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad, tolls a re
porter of a New York pai>er that all tho
Southern railroads are prosperous, and their
business is continually on the increase. He
thinks the l mom of tho Southern railroads
will greatly benefit Virginia, North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
and Tennessee. Mr. Wrenn sjieaks by the
card.
Says the New York Times: "The hopeful
contingent of Southern Brigadiers that has
been cutting more or less of a figure in the
stock market for the past year or so Ims
organized a little bobtailed bull pool in
Richmond Terminal. The prospect is that
they won’t have much difficulty in accumu
lating what stock they want to operate on.”
Georgians will wonder what the Times
means.
At Plymouth, Mass., the other day n hotel
register bore the following unique inscrip
tion: “Mrs. A. P. Wyman and grandson,
grandson’s aunt, aunt’s sister, sister’s
brother-in-law, brother-in law’s daughter,
daughter s aunt, aunt’s sister, sister’s broth
er, and brother’s wife.” The hotel clerk has
doubtless become a lunatic trying to de
termine how ninny wore in the party.
The Secretary of Wor seems to bo under
the impression that the volunteer soldiers of
Georgia can l>o crowded into fifteen tents.
His mistake, no doubt, is duo to the treat
ment of the soldiers by tho General Assem
bly. That body’s neglect of them quite
naturally creates tho impression outside of
tin* State thf.t they aro too small in number
to be of any importance.
The New York Tribune has a corre
s|H)iident in Atlanta who is distorting the
Governor's message about the co-education
of the races at the Atlanta University to
suit Republican campaign purposes, it is
distortion that tho !Tribune wants, for the
truth would injure its party’s prospects.
The Athens Ba nner-Watch man an
nounces that elections under the local option
law will be held in Savannah. Augusta,
Macon and Columbus next winter on the
same day. This may !>e a mistake, but
there is no doubt that the Prohibitionists in
tho cities mentioned are quite active.
In marrying, Secretary Lamar’s daugh
ter follows tho good example set by her
father. She doesn't change her name, since
her husband is a Latnar, but in this she also
follows the example of her father. Geor
gians will unite, figuratively, in throwing
the proverbial old shoo after her.
Tho Now York "Times says: “All the
Southern stocks show new life.” Of course
they do. Everything connected with tho
South is showing new life. Even the old
fogies are keeping one eye open and occa
sionally moving forward a little.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Country Is Prosperous.
From the New York World <Dem. )
The people have seen that under a Democratic
a/1 ministrati on the country is prosperous. The
bugaboo of Democratic treason and destruc
tiveness is laid at rest forever.
As To Preachers.
From the Boston Herald ( Ind .)
Tho New York Sun remarks that “Grover
Cleveland was really born to be a preacher."
This is because the heathen rage at him so. we
suppose. He has read the Sun some hard ser
mons. for which, if it had a better heart, it
would be grateful. Hut tin* Sun has not liked
preachers since the day when, according to its
own testimony, a preacher was tie* means of
defeating the candidate whom it hoped to have
elected to the Presidency.
Tired of Dr. McGlynn.
From the Philadelphia Record(Dem.)
The McGlynn literature is heginniug to 1*
tiresome. Tho church has excommunicated Mc-
Glynn for disobedience of the command to go to
Rome and explain himself. He avers, on the
contrary, that he has been pushed aside for the
promulgation of political principles of which the
church does not approve. A dispute in which
the disputants do not agree as to the main facts
is liable to l>e endless as well as useless. The
public are already surfeited with this matter,
and are looking ahead for something newer and
livelier.
A Suggestion to the Postmaster Gen
eral.
From the Washington Star (Ind.)
While the Postmaster General is doing his
summer thinking iu preparation for liis winter
campaign, he might address his mind to the
subject of an international special delivery sys
tem. If arrangemenus could be made with all
the countries in the postal union to provide for
the instant delivery of letters bearing a part icu
lar stamp, it would be a great convenience to
the business community. At all events, our im
mediate neighbors on Hie north and south
might he brought into a convention of this sort
with marked advantage.
BRIGHT BITS.
Mrs. Langtry, who applies simultaneously
for citizenship and divorce, thereby demon
strates t hat she Is thoroughly acquainted with
the customs of the country. - Judge .
As in my bed at morn I lie
I listen for the old church clock;
The reason simple is. for I
Have put my watch and chain in hock.
—Charlestown Enterprise.
“Where are vou going to spend the summer!”
asked Alpha of < >niega.
4 [am going to spend it where there are uo
mosquitoes,’’ replied Omega.
‘‘An, yes; I see. You are going to stay at
home."— Norristown Herald.
It is reported that two Baltimore lawyers set
tled a ease with their lists a few days ago. This
practice should be strongly encouraged among
lawyers, for clients would then at least have
some fun out of a law suit, even if they got
nothing else—except, of course, the usual ‘pro
fessional charges." —Charlestown Enterprise.
The girls who go into ecstasies over anew
pattern for knit lace, who grow enthusiastic
over making paper flowers, who read novels
galord, who go to the opera whenever they get a
chance, who wear boots a size too small for
them, who say •’awful" forty times a /lay, etc.,
make just as good wives as the other kind, and
don’t you forget it.— Puck.
Mrs. A. (who is taking French lessons).
"Now, Bridget, when Prof. Blanq'ue comes you
must s‘Entrez’ to him, and he will know what
you mean and come into tin* parlor.” (The hell
rings, and Bridget goes to the door. It is the
Professor). “Ontario," says Bridget. “Wudye
walk into the nairler. sur?" (The Professor
walked in, and Bridget reported her triumph to
the cook.)—Harper's Bazar.
Two Chicago men on a street car. A woman
enters and one of the men hastily gives her his
seat. The other one looks on in astonishment,
and when the woman gets oil says; “You are
growing strangely polite."
“How so?"
“Why, you gave that woman your seat just
now. I never saw you do anything of the kind
liefore. You must have been struck by her ap
pearance."
“< )h, no. You see, I owe her husband, and she
knows who I am."— Arkansaw Traveler.
“Hello. Janes! What’s become of your
plumes?" was Mr. Gladstone’s jovial introduc
tory remark to Mr. Blaine.
“William," replied Mr, Blaine with gravity,
“at present they are a little out of place, and I
have put them in a little box, along with the
battlellags; but I expect the boys will insist
upon their resumption in 18N8."
“Same here, sanu* here!" exclaimed Mr.
Gladstone, thumping his chest. “These things
are not everyday ornaments, and it is a good
thing to know how and when and where to wear
them."— Judge.
A Dakota horse was picked up by a little af
ternoon zephyr out there the other day, carried
half a mile and left in an unrecognizable mass
by the side of a ravine, and on the headstone
which her kind master reared he inscribed these
words:
This old family steed
Now no more we shall feed -
Iu life there could nothing go faster—
She was born at Hoboken,
And died all windhroken
By a breeze that couldn't get past her.
- Duluth Paragraphcr.
Titk little busy bumble bee
Is buzzing on tin* wing.
With polished point put carefully
Upon his steely sting.
The small boy loafing on the lea
With hat in hand will try
To bother the busy bumble beo,
And Hick him on the tiy.
The 1). b. b. will simply smile—
He won't a second waste—
But that boy'll be heard about a rnile
As he humps for home in haste.
--Charlestown Entreprise.
PERSONAL.
The Marquis dr Leuville is as mad as a hatter
at being called the soil of a hatter.
Jlsir.. Christine Nilsson owns two buildings
ill first.ill that are assessed at SI&],OUO. It must
not be supposed that this property was bought
for a song.
The horse' (ton. Sherman rode on his march to
the sea lues her a sold in Madison county, Ohio,
for ?l? .">0 and was considered dear as a relict at
tleit price,
A I.ktpsic paper states that among the papers
of a lute professor at Jlalle a large number of
letters by Leibnitz, hitherto unknown, have
been found.
Tin: Earl of Desart, ex-husband of the Count
ess who rail away with the actor Snydeii, has
published a novel entitled, "laird and Ladv
Piccadilly.”
Tim restive horse Thunder, that threw the
Marquis of Lome during the royal procession
on Jubilee day, was sent to the “Wild West”
and was ridden and tamed by Arizona Jack
Prop. E. S. Morse, of Salem, Mass., now has
a collection of more tlian 4.000 pieces of Japa
nese pottery, nil historically classified and rep
resenting every era in the development of the
art.
Count Kuroda, special adviser to the Japa
nese cabinet. who lately returned from a Euro
pean tour, is engaged in the compilation of a
work nhieh will contain the observations made
during Ids visit.
Queen Kapioi-ani and suite were entertained
by the Mayor of San Francisco while they were
in that city on their way hither, at public ex
punne. The hill lias now been reported. It
amounts to $! 113.
When his children are settled, (ien. Sherman
hopes to locate on Lake Cueur tie Alone, in
Idaho, a sisit he has picked out ns among th*
loveliest places in the world. Ho is 07 yritrs old.
For fifty-one years he hits been in the army.
Prop. Henry Drummond, who accompanied
I/ird and I sidy AisTdtvn on their American
journey, is a Fellow of the Koyul Society and
the author of a work on natural causes in the
spirit ual world. He is a great crony of Lady
Aberdeen.
The collected stories of Richard Malcolm
Johnston will soon lie published by Harjier <S
Brothers. Mr Johnston lias been before the
public for thirty tears as one of the liest writers
of humorous Southern stories, although writing
has never Warn his main occupation.
Tub death recently occurred at Washington
of Miss Anna K. Waviand,"list survivor of the
six children of the late Francis Wayland. One
of the brothers was the late Rev. Hr. Francis
Wayland, Jr.. President of Brown University.
She was for years at tho head of u school for
girls at Saratoga.
J. (’. J accuses, a famous brewer, recently
died at Copenhagen, lie studied his vocation in
England. Austria and tterman.v, and having
conic to tlie conclusion that the art of brew ing
was civ]>nhlc of further improvement, he estab
lished a laboratory, on which heexjieuded U.000,-
(Ml crowns, and in which many important dis
coveries were made. He was a great admirer of
art. and always ready to assist young artists in
tlnanelal straits He also s|sMit large sums in
building a scientific museum and in charitable
bequests When lie built his brewery in IMA it
yielded 3,000 hectolitres J -sst year the yield
wui> IXVjXKb
Remains of the Old Merrimac.
A Richmond dispatch to the New York World
says: The barge Lizzie Wallace arrived at the
Richmond and Danville dock on Friday with 200
tons of old iron consigned to the Old Dominion
Iron and Nail Works. This iron is what may i><*
called the remains of the Confederate gunboat
Virginia, formerly the United States steamship
Merrimac, which encountered the Monitor in
Hampton Roads during the late war, causing
one of the most memorable naval engagements
of modern times, The Monitor was disabled and
hauled off and the Merrimac returned toward
Norfolk, but was never in active service after
ward. She was afterward named the Virginia.
The armor plat** was laid aside at the Gosport
navy yard m Portsmouth, after she was blown
up by the Confederates, and remained there
until a day or two ago when all of it was placed
on the Wallace to b* brought to Richmond. It
was sold recently its scrap iron to a Northern
gentleman who subsequently sold it to the Old
Dominion Iron ami Nail Works. It will be taken
to Belle Isle and converted into nails. Much of
the armor plate shows signs of having passed
through a severe cannonading and there are
numbers of small pieces well suited to be pre
served as relics of the celebrated engagement.
The Maiden in the Frame.
BALLADE.
Right above the rocking-chair
Hangs the portrait of a maid,
Who had sunny, golden hair.
And a manner somewhat staid.
In the picture she's arrayed,
Not in print or calico.
But in silk, inclined to rade—
She who lived so long ago.
Dorothy was sweet and fair;
By her name that is conveyed
To my mind, for I declare,
By a name I’m somewhat swayed 1
When the day was done she played
On the spinet, soft and low,
Some old song or serenade—
She who lived so long ago.
You may le inclined to stare.
And to doubt it, I ni afraid,
When I say the maid up there.
With soft eyes and silken braid.
Long beneath the flowers has laid;
My own grandmamma, you know,
Who was quite a belle, they said—
She who lived so long ago!
ENVOI.
Grandpapa, I'm sure, displayed
Great good taste in wooing her, though,
And his love she quite repaid—
She who lived so long ago.
Henry Talcott Mills.
Daniel Webster’s Advanced Ago.
From the Boston Post.
Guest (dining “upstairs at Revere House to
English waiter) —Daniel Webster has dined in
this hall. He has made speeches here.
English waiter (anxious to keep up a pleasant
conversation and earn a tip) -Yes, sir;
there was some talk of him here this morning,
sir.
(luest—lndeed! What was said of him ?
English waiter (considerably taken back, ami
exciting the guest’s suspicion that his remark
had been a bold, venturesome mendacity)—
Well, sir, 1 don't know as I could tell you
what was said —but there was some talk of him,
sir.
Guest devotes himself to his tenderloin and re
mains silent.
English waiter (distressed by the miscarriage
of the conversation, starts on a new* tack)—Mr
Webster must be getting along pretty well in
years now, sir.
Guest (“catches on”)—Yes, I shouldn't won
der if he dropped off very soon.
English waiter (delighted at the auspicious re
newal of the conversation) —Yes, sir: yes, sir,
all the great men are dropping off nowadays.
Guest Have you heard anything recently in
regard to Mr. Webster's health?
English waiter (doubtfully)—No, sir; nothing
except what I set* on the bulletins. When 1 get
off at 3 o'clock I will see the bulletins again.
Guest—You must Ik* sure to keep an eye on
the bulletin. Mr. Webster is a great man, and
his dropping off this year will create a great
sensation. ,
English waiter—l know it will, sir; I know it
will.
Waiter scores a tip and guest departs with a
beaming countenance, which legitimately ac
companies the bestowal of a lieneraction.
Laughing: at the “Boulanger” March.
From the New York Tribune.
He was a German musician, and he smiled as
helistened to the “Revenant de la Revue" at
Coley Is laud yesterday. “Wliat a happy hit,”
he said, “so like the hero that the French glo
rify in singing it: An opera bouffe air, no better
anu no worse than a hundred marches that have
gone before it—a silly chanson such as you can
hear any night in the cafes of the Champs Ely
sees. Talk about a national hymn?- why a
bar, any bar, of *La Marseillaise’ is worth a
mountain of such rubbish. But the tune is
catchy, and it will become a nuisance even here.
And such a nuisance! Fortunately it can't last.
The people who sing and whistle it once will l>e
haunted by’ it for a day, and then it will make
them sicker than ever ‘Punch Brothers' made
Mark Twain. It's worse than an emetic; you'll
see people running away from it soon. The ‘Song
of tlie Colonel’ in Li Femm a Papa' is a mira
cle of music compared with it. Wnat a poor re
frain! the music even worse than tne words!"
“Then why do you call it a happy hit?”
“Because it reflects the Boulanger movement
to the life. It's all silly comedy, all the un
thinking noise of the ignorant rabble. There's
no horn* or sinew in it. When a patriotic people
have a cause at heart they don't sing variety
show couplets. leur sang impur abreuvo
nos sillous” ‘Nourjr pour la patrie. e'est le sort
le plus beau, le plus digue d' envie!'--that's the
sen t of sentiment for uprisings of pith and mo
ment. The popularity of ‘ln Ravenaut' is a
ghastly joke on Boulanger. Last year he hail
an official version of ‘La Marseillaeis' issued so
that it might be played alike all through the
French army, and then he formally adopted the
hymn of the Girondists, ‘Mourir pour la Patrie.’
as a national song also, lie wanted to use music
to stir up the French against the Germans, and
now his supporters forget the songs of the Red
Republican, and rush about Paris singing:
‘D’abord moi i'portnis les pruneaux
Avaituu tet de veau,
Ma till' son chocolat
Et ma soeur deux oeufssur le plat.
“And they fancy they can frighten ]>eople
who sing “Dio Wacbt am Rhein.' Isn't it funnier
than a circus, funnier even than Boulanger s
duel?"
The Pourboire.
Ports Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Some Americans when they first- come over
“kick against the pricks," but that is all non
sense. If you want to be made uncomfortable
you have only to avoid the custom. It will soon
be known that you are resisting local customs.
Then the gurcons will keep you waiting, will
serve you flat beer, cold soup and tough meats.
If you uegiect the pourboire at the barber's I
advise you never to go then* again. If you do
you will be shaved with a dtdl razor, your hair
will be badly cut and your whiskers ruined. As
for the Pans cabman at best he is the worst
brute on the face of the earth, li" knows noth
ing uliout horses and soon destroys their use
fulness. He is a communist and hates all men
who can afford to ride in carriages. If you trv
to put him off with his exact fare you'll make a
discovery as to the wealth of the French lan
guage in abusive blackguard terms that are apt
to astonish you. Kveu if you do not under
stand all he Is saying you will feel he is swear
ing at and reviling you, and woe be unto you
if you attempt to jaw I sick in your
own language. A crowd will collect
around you. and you will be denounced as a
John Bull, who is attempting to take the bread
out of poor people's mouths. You will lie
hooted and groaned at. and hoots and groans
are the same in all languages; SO you are sure
to understand that part, of the mid-air confer
once in which you are playing a dirty rolo.
Finally, very angry and much annoyed at your
self for ever having cotne to Paris, you slip
past the proprietor mid domestics of the hotel,
who have lieen listening to (he rultlan abusing
you. and when you reach your room you say to
the wife of your bosom, Ihe mother of your
children and the endurer of your nightly snor
ing:
“Catharine, I'm dee deo'd If I don't wish we
had never eome abroad, and If you'll get ready
we'll start for home to-morrow."
Then will the dear, good woman reply unto
you:
"John, dear, don't you think it will save us all
that trouble if you’ll only give the cabman r>c.
extra the next time one of them fetches us liaek
to the hotel?”
"But the principle of the thing, my love; I ob
ject to ft on principle.”
"Yes, 1 know you do, dear; but we didn't come
abroad to air our principles, did we? Wo came
to Paris to enjoy ourselves "
"Yes, blit ”
"Please don't interrupt me. As I was saying,
to enjoy ourselves. We have been to the Louvre,
to the Louxetnbourg, to the Hotel Cluuy and to
other places, and renllv we have been very
happy since our arrival."
,! Yos, that is true, Kate. [Kisses her.] For
give my petulance. Hereafter I'll give every
body a pourboire for everything. Wo are in a
country where the custom is a flxotl one, and wo
must put up with It."
A few minutes later, when they are abed, and
just before the suorltig machinery is set a going,
the dear little wife says, very softly anil l*er
suasively:.
"I say, dear, the next time you get angry and
fall to using bad words, will you please to and
a mv dressmaker?"
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A gamin in New Y T ork, who was cut w ith a
w'hip by the driver while “catching behind” a
loaded furniture car, waited his opportunity and
cut the rope that bound the load, permitting a
portion of the latter to drop into the street.
A butcher in Flemington, N. J., owns a dog
whose barking at night disturbed the guests at
a hotel, the proprietor of w hich got out an in
junction against the butcher. After vainly try
ing for a couple of nights to make the dog
respect the injunction, the butcher has sent the
animal away for the summer.
A brick that is said to have fallen 300 feet
from the top of a shaft in the great aqueduct
ir the course of construction in New York,
struck Savora Sidrialia, who was at the bottom,
on the head, and though it fractured his skull,
did not kill him. At last accounts he was being
attended to in St. Francis’ Hospital.
From Niagara Falls it is reported that since
the new’ law went into effect “all unsightly
buildings have been removed, and it is now dis
covered that, for the first time in many years,
some of the best views of the river and falls
are attainable. The bazars have been abolished,
the hackmen have been tamed, and every
visitor is free to go about as he pleases."
There is an anti-treating society in Boston
composed mainly of members of the St. Botolpli
Club. The anti-treaters are men who are mod
els of hospitality in their own houses, but who
frown upon the growing American habit of
treating upon any am l every occasion. The
members bind themselves not to treat one of
their number for the space of a year, and they
call themselves “The United Order Little Broth
ers of St. Botolph.”
A novel bath was recently witnessed in Los
Angeles. A father had stationed his whole
family of children on the front lawn in order,
from the shortest to the tallest, each of the
youngsters clothed in a big towel, and when all
was ready the hose was turned on, while the
youngsters danced with delight. After fifteen
minutes’brisk application the herd was driven
to the rear of the Louse, where they were dried
and redressed. “Yes.” said the pater familias,
“that's the way I do it, and you see it saves an
immense amount of scrubbing.’*
A Newton (La.) man was picking apples re
cently, w’hen an old cow r ran up to him and
then away, acting very strangely. Knowing
that she was air unusually intelligent cow, ho
suspected that something mut be the matter,
and coming down from the tree followed her.
She led him to a cow in another part of the
orchard that was nearly choked to death with
an apple. After he had relieved her the old
cow fairly cried for jov and licked the sufferer
profusely, and when the latter was driven into
the barn-yard, where she would be out of
danger, refused to leave her.
The attorneys for Hugh M. Brooks, alias
Maxwell, the St. Louis murderer, are fighting
desperately to save their man, ancl purpose car
rying his case to the United States Supreme
Court. The father of Brooks, who is a cultured
gentleman and head master of a school in
England, is now on his way to St, Louis. This
will bo his second visit to his unfortunate sou
since his arrest. The testimony against Brooks
is overwhelming, and it is supposed by some
that the attorneys for the defense simply wish
to delay the execution till Brqoks shall die in
jail. At present the hanging is fixed for Aug.
2t>. and a strenuous effort will be made for a
stay of execution.
Henry Wynn, a bachelor from the West, who
was recently visiting his brother at Owen Sound,
Out., expressed the desire one clay to get married
before his return. The day of his departure had
already l>een set. and to expedite matters he
offered his brother's wife a deed to fifty acres of
land if she would get him a wife by the Satur
day following the date of the offer. After ex
ploring the town without success for several
days, on Friday Mrs. Wynn met a Miss Melrose,
who was willing to accept the offer. She was
introduced to her prospective husband on Sat
urday evening, just before the boat was leaving.
A consultation was held, the pair were married
on the spot, Mrs. Wynn was handed over the
deoil for the fifty acres of land, and the bride
and groom steamed away for their prairie home.
A sweating sickness that has broken out
sporadically in many parts of France is describ
ed by the Paris correspondent of a London
journal. The disease, he writes, has always
existed in a mild form, and is ordinarily re
garded as a mere summer heat rash of the*
miliary kind: but this year it is accompanied
with violent perspiration of a most weakening
kind, and a pimply eruption covering the whole
body, which has in some cases a blistered ap
p*aranee. The Black Prince died of a sweating
sickness, which used to be a scourge in the time
of the Edwards and Henrys, when the English
armies were in occupation of a part of France.
It is announced officially from Bourges that,
although the sweating sickness is rapidly spread
ing in that town and its neighborhood, the mor
tality attending upon it is rather upon the de
cline.
11 f. was trying to raise money to build anew
church. It was greatly needed, but his congre
gation was made up of persons in moderate cir
cumstances, so he was making appeal to bis
wealthy brethren in larger cities. "I am sur
prised," he sadly said, "at the lukewarmness of
the rich men and women I have talked w ith on
the subject. Here is an opportunity to advance
the interests of our denomination, and they are
so absorbed in their worldly affairs that they
hardly give it thought." "When you go to
B replied his friend, "you had better call on
Mr. Blank. He is rich and childless and has a
reputation for great liberality." "Oh, I don't
think ho will give anything. I won't mention
the matter to him. lie has been giving away
money all his life, and I think he ought to save
what he has left for his nephews and nieces."
The speaker was one of the nephews.
Henry Clay was honored by a farewell dinner,
given on the night of April 9, 1842, at Brown's
Indian Queen Hotel. It was attended by about
150 gentlemen, including many members of both
houses of Congress, strangers and citizens. The
sentiments and speeches were of much interest,
and manifested a strong devotion to Mr. Clay.
At the time it had lieen remarked, perhaps with
justice, that tin- tone of tin" meeting was in
llueneed more by the recollection of disappoint
ment than by the prospect of success. It was a
meeting of friends, who] had long co-operated
with their distinguished leader in a great politi
cal object, and for the purpose of bidding him
farewell. Mr. 8. N Prentiss, of Mississippi,
made otic of his unequalcd dinner-table
s|ieeches, Mr. SaltnnstaN, of Massachusetts,
made some remarks which were well received,
and Mr. Clay's words of t hanks were well chosen
and effective. It was remarked that Mr. Tyler
could not attend alter Mr. Clay's Alexandria
letter, in which he had spoken of the ailminis
tration as “weak, vacillating and faithless.”
Mr. Clay plainly intimated that heexp-eted the
Whig party to retain him as its Presidential
candidate, and ho spoke savagely of ail intima
tion that Gen. Scott was to be brought forward.
Yet there were those who “dippedWith him in
t lie dish" at this dinner, who had determined that
they would never again support him as a can
didate for the Presidential chair.
Jt’DOE C. C. Goodwin, editor of the Salt Lake
Tribune , warned his hearers at the Crete, Neb.,
Chautauqua Assembly against too imaginative
w riting for the public press, and related as a
case in point an incident in his own experience.
“A good many years ago," he said, “I was min
ing in a camp in Nevada. The smallpox broke
out in the camp. It was very fatal, for in that
place there were few of life's necessities or con
veniences, much less comforts. Among the
victims was a young man who had been work
ing for myself ami partners several months.
When he was taken ill a young woman of the
town, a'soiled dove,’ young and pretty, went
and took cn; a of him, remaining until he died.
Tli>> morning after his death one of my partners
came into my office with a slip of
paper in las hand, containing the
young man’s name, nativity and age,
and asked me to fix it for publication. 1 made
the notice as death notices are generally worded
in the newsii|ierN, and handed it back. ly
partner looking itt it said: M—worked for
us a long time; ho was a good man; can you not
write something more?’ Thereupon I wrote a
brief obituary at the rlos ■ of which, as nearly as
1 can remember. 1 added these words: 'Ami fi >r
her, the poor woman, who, braving the danger
of the pest ileuce, went and sat at the feet of tie
man she loved until he died: for her, though lie
fore her garments were soiled, we know that
this morning, in the recording angel's hook, it
is written that they are white as snow.’ The
next morning I went into a restaurant to get
my breakfast. It was a little structure
about as wide and about lw-thlrds
us long as u Pullman ear. There was
a row of tallies ou each side and a narrow
aisle between them. 1 took a scut at one of the
tables, while two men sat at tbe table directly
opposite. They are what am called in the
M i st 'check guerillas,’ which has the same re
latiuu to a thorough gambler that a camp fol
lower has to a real soldier. One was eat lug, the
other was reading a morning paper. Finally,
the one who was reading, looking over the pa
per. said to th'* other: ‘Have vou seen this
about that man who died up at the Jackson fur
naces?’ Tbe other said he had not, und asked
what it was. ’lt's wayup,, was the reply. ‘But
what Is it? lead it I' said the other. The first
speaker threw down the paper, and picking up
his knife aud fork, said: ’Oh, it isn’t much after
all It savs that woman who went tip to take
care of the man got her clothes dirty, hut since
he died die has changed her clothes, and she is
all right now.’”
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