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Now parties rise anti flourish inunetlmtoly
before a Presidential election. They die im
niediately after.
A burning question this morning is: If it
is too warm to go to church is it cool enough
to go o:t an excursion!
There are 100 natural gas companies in
Kansas. Of course they do not care
whether Congress is in session or not.
It seems that there are convicts and con
vjets. Those that are allowedtogo a-fishing
whenever they please are doubtless the hap
pic-t.
To. addition to being ill, it is said that Mr.
Blaine has lost it is temper. Well, there are
good many things worrying Mr. Blaine,
and perhaps he is excusable.
While they are dismissing the future of
tho State University its friends should not
forget- that an easy way to injure the insti
tution is to place it in the control of poli
ticiatia.
The yacht Thistle sails for New York to
morrow. She itus a crew of forty men, said
to be the pick of English sailors. ('apt.
Birr is her skipper. The approaching race
is exciting interest in all parts of tho world.
The Hon. S. J. Randall, of Pennsylvania,
appears to regard himself as bigger than the
Democratic party. The day is coining when
tbe knowledge of his mistake will so com
pletely overwhelm him that he will never
recover.
Jay Gould’s son Edward continues to a
tract attention in Wall street by his strange
tactics. Resells his father’s |x>ts—Missouri
Pacific and Western Union—naif there were
good reasons for getting rid of them. Per
haps his father uses him to unload.
The statement is mode that the officers of
One of the di visions of the so-called Ameri
can Party in California are all foreigners.
The American Party wants to restrict for
eign immigration in this country. I noon
eisteney and politics are often interchange
able terms.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, denies that
he has a Presidential boo in his bonnet. He
also denies that ho favors Gov. Hill for
President. Mayor Hewitt is a man of
sense. He knows that the Democracy will
triumph next year with President Cleveland
as its candidate.
Since Griffin had her unhappy experience
with a “developer,” it is said that strangers
who visit that city can induce nobody to
talk “business” with them without first ex
hibiting certificates of good character.
Griffin had to pay for her lesson, but sho
even j.' to have learned it well.
Thom two Atlanta lawyers who had a
fight in court last week made rather a
tacrwl thing of the affair. A Bible was tho
principal weapon used. It would be well
for tho belligerents to study the book with
■which they pounded each other It con
tains some valuable lessons on poaeo.
An unprecedented mortality from alcohol
ism is repor'J from Kansas City, Mo.
Fl'ty deaths from that t-enro have occurred
within sixty days Investigations by the
Coroner showed that tho victims drank
“Vnrrel-houw whisky,” a vile concoction
soltl at sc. a glass. Men who t ell such
jWi “".gut to le - verely punished.
Ex Gov. Hoadly, now of New York,
thinns that Morrison, of Illinois, will try to
oL’rr.n tho set -uo place on the Democratic
national ticket next year. It was said a
th-'- tiu -j ago that Morrison intended next
year tv U a ennJidate for Congress. Ho is
.-cuh >inocrn‘, ami would do good ser
vice either as Vice I‘resident or Con give.
man. It is proba e, however, that he will
tot', lint" v> occupy the position he now holds
o.i tho I titer-tot.' Commerce Commission.
Cos Thutsd.-y a man ..atnod Ilotho Frei
i.ijii* vo.i Ehetutoin arrived 1 1 Castle Gar
den, No* York along with other immi
grtt.iw. Ho told tbe interpretin' that to
was a P. .vtiiau Count, nnd formerly held .
co'nmisaion in tbo Prussian army, but. fitia.ii
rid rewses compelled him to rer.igu his
II shod only fU In his pos
•cn'on. Ills destin'.c'ou wes a small town
m Nc-si. Caroline, wit re ha intended ti
esgajt. in farming, l’herois plenty of room
•o thi* country for *u*h co "its, hut there
e, .vut-e for lha Lo. i, variety.
Cleveland 13 the Party’s Cboico.
Outside of New York there does not ap
pear to bonny opposition to Mr. Cleveland’s
re-nomination. In all the interviews with
prominent Democrats in different parte < f
the country which have appeared in puliiio
prints lately there has been but one senti
ment with regard to his re-nomination, and
that has been favorable. Tho Ohio Demo
cratic convention last week unanimously
and enthusiastically endorsed his aduiinin
trill ion, asi 1 it is reasonably certain that
••'cry oiber Democratic convention which
meets Ibis year will do tho Kimo thing.
Even the no bead Democrats, who, during
the first year of ike administration, had
only barr.h words for the President, now
piidur e him heartily, and freely exjircss
tiio oniitiou that tl:cro is no other man so
well It*tod am! ro crrtaiu to tend the party
to victory in 18SS.
Tr. New York citv there isa little hostility
to him, but it is nd of such magnitude as to
attract a groat deal of attention. There are
a few prominent Democrats there who pre
tend to think that Gov. Hili is the only
Democrat who van carry New York in
DCiS, and hence they improve every oppor
tunity to piece him before the public. They
have a grievance of some kind, and would
liko to see Mr. Cleveland beaten for per
sona! reason.'; nlono. They do not receive
any cnccuragonlent., however, and are ap
parontly about ready to acknowledge that
it is useless to ojipose Mr. Cleveland farther.
It is about certain that. Gov. Hill is not
looking towards the Presidency at present.
He understands the political situation too
well to oven hope to have his name men
tioned in tho next National Convention.
He is undoubtedly aiming at a second term
for Governor, and that there is every reason
to think he will get.
There are some who regard Mr. Cleveland
as only a lucky man, but those who have
had the best, opportunities to study him are
confident that lie is a statesman of fine
ability, and an extraordinarily shrowd pol
itician. For a man who had no experience
in national politics until lie went to Wash
ington he lias made very few mistakes,
indeed, he has made tio mistake that is
likely to ho remembered long. The opposi
l ion that ho encountered during the first
year and a half of his term was almost
wholly due to his inability to give every
body an office who applied for one. Now
that the main part of the patronage has
keen distributed, those who criticised him
the most harshly are loudest in their praise
of him.
Mr. Cleveland’s success is due to some
thing more than luck. A study of his
career shows that ho is a keen student of hu
man nature, and that, lie has seldom failed
to take tho right course when success
depended upon tho course to lie taken.
Thorough acquaintance with tho great prob
lems of government lie probably has not , but
his strong common sense and sound judg
ment sorvo bins better than the learning of
many of those who have made the science
of government the study of their lives.
Another Woman’s Work.
Avery bright woman complains that the
newspapers entirely overlook one occupa
tion which is open to her sex. She says that
the occupation to which sho has reference is
by far the most independent of ail those
purstKsl by women, ami that it is much less
confining am! a great deal more healthful.
Perhaps an account of what she calls “mak
ing bread and butter for self and fam
ily” will be of value to some other woman.
Hhe lives in a small railroad town in this
State. Several years ago her husband died,
leaving her five children and no income. He
did leave her, however, a house, six acres of
laud and a cow. It was not convenient for
her to teach, nor was it jiossible in the town
in which she lived to obtain a situation in a
store or business office Milliners abounded,
and so there was no opening for a profitable
business in supplying other women with nr
Melos for the adornment of their persons.
In fact, she soon discovered that none of the
occupations generally regarded as suitable
for women w-as open to her. Then sha
thought of her cow. The animal was a fine
one, and yielded an abundance of milk.
With the aid of one of her children
she established a dairy on a small
scale. She readily found purchasers for her
products, and, as her milk and butter were
always fresh and rich, in a few weeks she
found that she could not supply the demand.
After considering tho matter she determined
to enlarge her dairy. Hhe sold one of her
six acres and with the proceeds bought an
other cow. The other five acres she planted
in grain of several varieties, so ms to avoid
tile necessity of buying food for her cows.
At the end of a year sho cast up accounts
and found that while she had lived hard
she was free’froin debt, and that sho and her
children were blessed with good health.
“Such,’’ to quott* her own words, “was
tlio beginning of a business which now
yields ino not less than $1,500 a year profit.
1 have now fifty acres of land, fifteen of the
finest cow r s in Georgia and all the buildings
and appliances that a dairy needs, I find a
ready market at home, and in not less
than three neighboring cities. I mn my
own mistress. I am, indeed, as independent
myitis possible for a human being to bo. My
children are receiving the best educational
advantages that our State affords. My oldest
hoy will graduate next year, and I shall then
take him into my business as a partner.
Never talk to me about clerking, or tele
graphing, or typo-writing' I ant sorry for
the poor women that have such work to do.
It is a pity, too, that more women do not
do as 1 am doing. There are certainly many
that, might if they would."
No doult it is true that keeping a dairy
would be >• pleasant occupation for a large
numb-* of women. Several in Georgia, in
addition to the one whose experience lias
been giren, the Moksixo Nkws knows are
making it pay. It may also bo freely nd
mitted that it is both healthful anti inde
{•endent.
At a meeting of the TiJeGlynn-Gcorgo
Anti Poverty Society in New York on
Thursday night last Dr. McGlynn said that
the United Labor party would make no
compromise with any party, but would
nominate a full ticket at eaeli election, in
cluding candidates for President and Vico
President of tlio United Status in 18*8.
When ho said “Ff.idout" there was pro
longed applause, and somob"'ly shoutssl
“McCllynn fer President.” The doctor took
no notieo of the cry, b:' the applause was
renewed. “McCHrnn for President” would
serve to coadn-'.a his no* riety for awhile,
btit even*nolij' it would cause his collapse
and the failure of li'r reho.nc3 to Ik- all the
move ••otnplot*. Men are t ot elected Presi
dent of this country uocu a plat’orm of
moonshine.
The Cttmoeniu o* Ohio have gone into
the State catnimign to -n It is ♦ >beho]icd
.tint toey w'l. • tieefsl. <' r i 3 i.- 1 - si great a
Stab' to be dyaifiutod i y tlw ItoLiUbiiewi;..
MIL M( >K.MMt INK VVS : SUM) AY, JUL V 2-1, v
At - . Unwise N*.sviie.
The action of the House on tlm M >.!y
bill was a general t>iuprise. It was not
thought jjossiblo tl*l :t could bo ii.du te< J . to
pass a measure *..hieh lias so little reason in
it, and which is so inimical to tie- interests
of fertilizer deal cm a o.i farms r . Tile
Senate sho*ld kill it, ami, that, too,
without wasting any time over it. Surely
tho farmers don't want a law that v.-;! ! in
create thoi ost of fertilizers, and which can
be of tic benefit to them.
Wlmt does the bill prop*we* Why, that a
farmer who lias puivhOHod a fertilizer on
credit may refuse to pay for it if he thinks
that it is not what it v.as represented to be.
To any suit, brought against him for the
purchase price of a fertilizer he has only to
plead a want of consideration, uml the
dealer must show that his goods were what
he represented thorn to lie. How is the
dealer to do that? There is only one way,
end that is to furnish the certificate of the
inspector who inspected the goods. That,
however, is furnished now. Tho inspector’s
certificate is on all fertilizers, and the
farmer knows just what he is buying.
It may !>o said that tho in
spector’s certificate is not always cor
rect. If that is true, the
State ought to see to it that competent men
are employed as inspectors. The farmers
certainly pay enough in the shape of inspec
tor’s fees to secure first-class men. If an in
spector’s certificate, therefore, is evidence of
the quality of tho goods, and as all fertil
zers are inspected, tbo fanner will gain noth
ing by tlie Brady bill, and may be put to a
very considerable expense for lawyer’s fees
and costs of court.
Another feature of the bill is that all
notes giver for fertilizers must have that
fact stated oil their face. That, together
with the right which the makers of the
notes have to plead a want of consideration,
oven whore tho notes have passed into the
hands of third parties, destroys their nogo
tiability. How is the fertilizer dealer to
got money to carry on his business? Ho
could not'have the notes discounted, nor
could lie pledge thorn for loans, because no
bank would take them, involving m they
would tlie risk of a law suit with the chance
of being held worthless.
Of course if this bill becomes a law fer
tilizers must be sold for cash, or if sold on
credit the prices must lie advanced so ns to
cover the additional risk of losses. It is cer
tain that tho dealers would protect them
selves and tin? farmers would have to bear
whatever cost would bo incurred in securing
protection.
legislation, such as is proposed in Brady’s
bill is bad for several reasons. It opens the
way for dishonest persons to avoid the pay
ment of their debts, and it is a temptation
to become dishonest. If this Dill were to be
come a law a dishonest purchaser of fertil
izers would try to benefit by it even if he
had no reasons for doing so, and weak men
might try to make themselves believe that
they had been cheated by the fertilizer deal
ers with the hope of getting rid of their ob
ligations. There certainly would be an im
mense number of lawsuits if the dealers con
sented to sell their goods on credit.
If tho Brady measure is deemed necessary
there is no reason why there should not be
legislation of the same kind with respect to
other things than fertilizer's. There is just
as much reason for excusing a farmer from
1 laying for flour, sugar, hay, corn and other
supplies which ho may think do not come
up to the proper standard of quality as for
excusing him from paying for fer
tilizers which do not produce the
result; that he liiul hoped for; but it
is apparent that if such legislation were ex
tended to all articles it would pretty effectu
ally check business.
If it is believed that thero are fertilizer
dealers who sell worthless goods, let the in
spection laws he made more rigid and
searching, and let tlie dealing in worthless
goods be made an offense punishable by a
severe penalty. Let the punishment for
dishonesty lie inflicted iqion those whode
serve it. It is unjust to honest farmers to
make their burdens heavier. That will be
the result if Brady’s bill becomes a law.
Tho Rahway Mystery.
The murder of a young girl at Rahway,
N. J., which attracted so much attention a
few months ago remains a mystery. The
authorities and reporters, however, are still
tr3'ing to solve it. Every few ilavs some
thing appears in the jiapers which serves to
keep alive public interest in it. Murders
are being committed in different parte of
the country all the time, but they are
quickly forgotten outside of tho locality in
whicli they occur lieeause all the circum
stances connected with them are known.
Tlie Rahway ease is different. The mur
derer has not been found and no cause for
the crime hits been discovered.
Within the last few days it is thought
that a clue has boon found, but it is not by
any means certain that it will lead to any
thing. One of the Coroner’s jury, a few
ilays ago, stated that a basket, exactly liko
the one that was found with eggsfn it lie
side the murdered girl, was seen by him a day
or so before the murder in tho grocery
store of Stewart Baker. When he saw it
Mrs. Baker was mending it with a piece of
twine, and remarked to him that the lvisket
lind bad onion peelings in it. The basket
found beside the murdered girl iiad a few
oniou peelings in it ami had been mended
with twine. The Bakers, when their at
tention was called to this statement, said
that there never had been such a basket ii:
their store. Tlie statement, however, is con
firmed by an old and rosjjcctable gentleman
named Osborn, who happened to be present
when the man who makes the statement
was Micro. With this cluo it ought to lie
possible to trace the Imsket into tlio posses
sion of tho murdered girl.
John 11. Langston, of Virginia, is onoof
the lending negroes of the country. In an
interview, tho other day, on the subject of
the nomination of a Southern man for tho
Vice-Presidency by the Democrats next
year, lie said that it certainly would boa
most desirable thing to witnrrs sneli progress
itt tlie regenerated public fooling of the
North and l# tho South as must !,e im
plied in the proposition, and oerttuuly in its
acceptance, to nominate, oven on the
jiurt of tho Democratic party, to tho
Vice-lTesidency of the United States
a high minded, liberal and saga
clous strtesnmn of tho South. Ho
thinks that it would afford intelligent, pa
triotic citizens generally no little pleasure
to know that Gov. Fitzhugh Is*e, through
his judicious, kindly management of every
Stale and general interest, had so far won
the applause uud approval of the pernio of
the country as to secure him the high honor
connected with the nomination to the Vice
-I‘residency of the United States. Consid
ering their source, tin so aro notable utter
unccs, Lut it does not appear a, it is yet,
time 1■ > nt t iitpt to make u Sou them man
VKV-Prciiuvnt.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Bun Randall Is Not ni£iit.
From the Wilmington C.) Star <Dem.)
The Democrats must either lv their
principles, or. abandoning All pretensions to
principles, go nvrr at i-nco 10 to** Republican
camp, if Randall is right, then the Republican
j arty is right in striving to keep up to nearly 0
percent, the most grinding tax that v.-aa ever
levied upon r. free people ia a time of profound
\n*ace.
Not Badgos of Slavery.
From the New York Evening Sun (JndA
She is no liss a good American citizen, and
an honorable girl, who can look with self re
sist in the ey.v> of any fellow-citizen Ivcause
she w ears a cap and apron. In fact, she can he
consoled by the reflection that slio is worthily
supporting herself, and faithfully serving those
who employ her. as all true American?; aim to
do, while her employers have been willing to
adopt foreign custom:;, some of which are far
more rcprtmcnsiblc than the putting of pretty
caps and aprons uj>on their nurse girls.
Modest Correspondents.
From the Boston Herald (Ind.}
It is estimated in various quarters that those
Americans whom Prof. Tyndall soys have writ
ten to him ii. condemnation of Mr. Gladstone's
policy have not tho courage to proclaim their
convictions at home. It is a fact, indeed, that
people holding such views if any t here arc—are
mighty modest about giving them expression,
and yet the character of Prof. Tyndall is such
that there can bo no doubt he had such cor
respondents. How much weight they hare here
is more qucstiouc.ble. Very likely wo shall
never know.
Randall and His Littlo Faction.
From the P/i iladelph ia Keen > *l v hrm .)
It is not <.n the tariff question alone that Ran
dall and his little faction of so-called Democrats
are at war with the Democratic party and tbe
Administration. When the indigent pension
bill was before Congress and the Republicans
had made a party question of the President's
veto of that flagrant job, Randal! and ;t few of
his followers went with the political enemy ami
well nigh succeeded in giving the Republicans a
victor; over the administration. The indigent
}H*nsion bill is to be brought up again before
Congress, and Randall and his faction will have
a fresh opportunity to show their hostility to
the party to which they profess to belong.
BRIGHT BITS.
The old chaps who won? armor were the first
mail carrier...— 09scon Post.
A corpulent Torn:st seldom makes the as
cent of a mountain on fool The elimb-ifc doesn't
hr roe with him. -Detroit Free Pres*.
“What do the ladies wear nowadays, any
way?" asked aeynickil bachelor, eyeing a scant
ily arr tyecl beautroit a hall.
“Oh." replied Hi a companion, “they put, on
P>ts ,f style—-that's ill."—Burlington Free
Press.
It is complained that the Missouri River water
used in Omaha is fit.for nothing but mud pies.
Instead of drinking'it the unfortunate people
chew it. and even then it raises an internal sand
bar that has '- he kept enveml with Milwaukee
beer.— San Fr indsro Alfa
there once was an ichthyosaurus.
Who lived when the earth was all porous,
But he fainted with shame
When he first heard his name,
And depart*! a Jong time before; is.
Phila(l clph ia Press.
“ \ tie von fond of poetry, Mrs. Foeparfc?"
“Indeed I am, Miss Port; especially pastoral
poetry."
“Pastoral poetry*' Have you. a volume of it?"
"To be sure: th“ hynuud. you know: its made
on of verses by ill the panel's ot* our church."—
Yonkers Gazette .
“Build a little fence of trust around to-day,"
says an advisory poet. Very good advice it is
too. no doubt, but what if a fellow has got all
the stories in his neighborhood in such a condi
tion that he has to go so far away that his pound
of steak spoil* before be can get it home for
breakfast? — Somerville Journal.
First Blase Youth (much demoralized)—By
Gwage. C'holly I’m completely exhausted; just
assisted in saving -aw—young woman’s life.
Second Blase Youth Brave fellah! But I
didn’t knotv yon could swim, Fweddy.
First Bln/*' Youth—l cawn't. Another fellah
did that part. I stood on shoro and seweamed
for help.— Harper's Weekly.
“Why, Bessie, child, vou'r-3 looking ill,
A eftfse of Ineaslcs 1 11 be lxuind,
Or scarlef fever, which is -woi'se;
They tell me it's a-going around."
“I think I know whit's wrong, mamma,'*
Tlve chiln with rare demure ness said;
“The chicken-pox is what Fe got
I found a fodder in my bed,"
Exchange.
“What is the meaning of (he saving that a
man shall earu his bread in the sweat of hig
brow?** asked a boy in a New York school.
“Have you never observed a man working on
n warm dav aslinrl Uie teacher.
“No, don't tTiink I over saw one."
“What does youi’ father eld on a right hot
lav?"
“He gfx-s in bathing out at Coney Island."
“What is your father's business?"
“He is a walking delegate. Texas Si/tings.
Connecticut Man. Yes, sir, trades unions
are necessary now in every branch of business.
I'm lYesident of one myself, and we’ve just
struck for $lO.
Omaha Man Ten dollars a day?
“No. Ten dollars a certificate."
“Certificate?"
“Yes. Our business is oatchin' consumption
and such diseases, and then gettin' cured by
patent medicines. Wt used to furnish certifi
cates at $5, but wo want $lO now." — Omaha
World.
PERSONAL.
Ben Tajoitx, an Arab, has writ top music for
ft comic o(>eratie version of the “Taming of tho
Shrew."
Prince Alrert Victor of Wales has become a
member of the Guild of Merchant Tailors of
London.
It is whispered that the Crown Prince nnd
Crown Princess of Austria have quite got over
their tiff.
Buffalo Bill and his entire troop of Indians
attended church in London the other day m full
w ar paint
Miss Amelia Rives, the Virginia author,
smokes, rides to hounds, aud recently oaiuted a
nude portrait of herself.
Mr. Chamberlain is seldom seen in his fa
miliar haunts now He complains of “breaking
down" and “growing fat ."
Miss Margaret Ortiiaur, whose father came
to America ?us private secretary to Maximillian,
was recently married at Oshkosh, Wis.
Quf.en Victoria wore glasses in public for the
first time last week. The lenses were uo large!*
than a quarter dollar piece, and set in a plain
bit of tortoise shell.
The Marquis of Salisbury takes great interest
in electricity, nnd is employing it on his estate
Mt Hatfield to work the elevators lor building
the hay and corn stalks.
The important announcement is made that
Senator-elect Blodgett, of New Jersey Ims dis
carded dark neckties for dainty light scarfs,
and thus looks fully ten years younger.
CoNOTinssMAN Phelan, of Memphis, Is tho
youngest member of the Fiftieth i’engross. He,
will not Im* 31 when he takes his seat, ('ougress*
nuiti Vamlever, the oldest incinb*T, is 71.
A Miss Judah, of Kansas City, caught twelve
four pound block bass and eight five pound pick
erel at Luke Minnetonka, Minn., ono day last
"■eek. It was the lurgest catch of the seoson at
that point.
TnK coming Jenny Lind is said by a T/vndon
convsjKmdent to l>e Mile. Sigrid Arnoldson, of
Sweden. Her soprano voi<*o is said to be per
fect, and sin* is as handsome as was Nii.sson
twenty years ago.
Thirteen members of the family of John
Brown live nf Ijiis Cacitas. in tlw S/in Gabriel
Valley, Southern California. They arc almost
owrshadowed bv the mountain wldch has been
named Brown's Peak.
The richest woman in Baltimore is Mrs. O. M.
Hutton, wlio inherited $80,000,000 by the death
of her father, the late Thomas Yt inans. Mrs.
Hutton will divide the rummer between New
port and the Thousand islands.
Justice Field, of the United States Supreme
Court, dt San Francisco, decides that Mrs. Lmg
try must api*enr in court in person there if she
desires to j>erfect her citizenship Her former
declaration was mode at her residence.
Garrison W. Gamektt, Robert Garrett, Jr.,
and John W. Onrrett. sons of Robert Garrett.,
of Bnlrimcuv. are studying American geography
in a pleasant manner. They left Baltimore In
May with their tutor, and have traveled on a
special car through Mexico. Texas, Colorado,
and other jxirts of I he country. They recently
passe* 1 through Utah on their way to California.
51 n. Blaine had come fun at tho expense of
Scotch photographers on Tuesday. Several of
them endeavored to take him in a good |M.sitior.
ni the unveiling of the monument to Alexander
HI., but his nimhlencMs of jietveption defeate<l
them. He itiov 1 ftbmt from one position to
u* ther directly on m*eing a camera leveled at
1.. • uutil the outer*risiu£ wUIU .u\u ul in dc
HE WANTED SOME REST.
A Tramp Who Walked From Virginia
to See Hi3 Sister.
From the Brooklyn Engle
Pet/'r Drown is a white tramp with a nepro
dialect, who walked into (Jney Island yesterday
al! the way “from Petersburg, Perkinny." He
is a)K>ut lit years old, and when he went into
police headquarters was so encased in dirt that
liis real color could not be distinguished. By
th urgency of Messrs. Ryan and Murphy, he
was able, utter an hour's hard scrubbing, to re
lease himself from his environment of lilfli an 1
show a shining face, iie is nut over height, and
his head boro scars to show some boating.
“1 cum from Petersburg. Ferginny, t<. see my
aisiah. 1 did, for shuah. I dunno wh.ir she am,
but she mout Ik* in New Yohk. ley tell me deys
lots er fohks in New Yohk," said he. “1 wahked
all de way from Ferginny I did, cept wen I
rested and dey had me in de cells. I'se ready to
wohk, I is, ’case I neva*. did liuttin **is*,''
Through sympathy <llerk R}'an offered intake
caitJ of him a season on his premise to saw
some wood. On the way to Mr. Ryan's house
Pete wanted to know if his host h*.d any cont rol
over any part of him but his hands, and Mr.
Ryan asked why.
“ Case I don min’ yo 1 hittin’ my ban's. ’case
dey's use to dat, but I can't stan* it on my hea l/'
Mr. Ryan promised not to hit liis 1 ead and at
the house gave him a hearty mom and leading
him out to the waiting wood pile, left him.
When Mr. Ryan returned about nve hours later
he found P -te Brown slumbering sweetly on the
soft side of tiie uncut fuel, and tilling the air
with the reverberations of his snore.
Mr. Ryan shook the young man into wakeful
ness anil asked why he hadn ? kept his word.
“Look heah, boss," said Pete reproachfully.
“You wuzn’t going to make me wuk all de time,
wuz yeh. 1 tought I wuz goin to have some
rest."
Pete was given a chance to rest for three
months when -Justice War'ng sent him to Crow
llill this morning.
Gen. Boulanger's March
NOW SUNG IN PARIS.
A happy family-man am I!
And, for some time, it seemed I ought to
Take my wife, my sister, try daughter,
To see the review of the i llh July.
After a little morning sip.
With homely crust, wo got “all square,"
The ladies in front did merrily skip.
While I played “gallant" to “la Belle mere!"
Eacli had something good in hand,
Something nice for the “inner man"—
As for me. the prunes 1 bore.
My wife, with barns, marched on before,
Daughter with chocolate, “Sis" eggs to fry,
BeUe-radre the dainty calf's head pie.
Gay and happy wo!
We walked along so Le*\
On the way to Long Champs!
Our hearts were lignt.
Our spirits bright,
As gaily we went
To see and compliment
L’Armee Fruncaise!
Soon of Long Champs wc tread the green grass,
And now ’gin to make ourselves “chc : nous,"
I uncork the bottles, spread out the “sass"
With sausage and meats, without more ado.
Sudden they cry out, “Vive la France!"
“La Revue: " Ah oui! they’ve opened the dance!
Upward I <‘11011) in a chestnut tree,
My wife, with the back of the “carrier" makes
fret',
My sister, who loveth the firemen bold,
Catches one up in her fervent hold.
My little wife claps her tender hands.
When proudly pass by the Saint Cyrians,
Mother-in-law shouts merrily
As gaily defile the dread Spabis.
For me, I'd eyes for none that day
But our General bold, our Boulangor.
Gay and happy were we!
All so full of glee
To find ourselves at Champs!
Our hearts were bright,
Our spirits were light,,
So gladly we went
To see and compliment,
L'Ann6e Franyaise.
On the way back, some soldiers I bring
To taste a “wee drap" of “gin sling."
Now, by dint of licking the glasses,
See my family all, a set of gay busses!
I give up the arm of Madame Belle-mere,
I seized the plump waist of a gay cantemero,
In the evening gray, when back we repair,
We re cosily fixed off —pair Impair.
My sister a little “How-came-you so."
Brought proudly back a Grenadier
Daughter, a “little gay," you know,
Had charmed a gallant Cuirassier.
My wife made eyes
At a drasnon of size,
Madame-mdre ha work—Oh!
To keep step e TTti a Turco,
Gay and happy we!
We walk along so free
On the way from Long Champs!
Our hearts were light.
Our spirits were bright,
For gaily we
To see anti compliment
L'Arinfe Franeai.se.
J. C. H.
The Divining Rod.
From the Quiver.
<me of the most recent triumphs of the divin
ing rod in Britain has behn at the Avonmouth
docks. The company owjtfng the docks having
received an intimation U*t an American com
pany proposed establishing a sugar factory near
the (locks provided a good water supply could
lie secured, a certain Mr. Laxttence who has
the reputation of consideranlosmvessasa water
finder was engaged to exauitne the neighbor
ing ground. In this case th* rod employed was
a piece of spring steel, which was lient in the
shape of a horse shoe, as tire searcher, holding
his elbows close to his side/}, .began to vv;uk
slowly over the field After a while the steel be
came so violently agitated, and twisted itself
with such force, that one of -Mr. Lawrence's
lingers was cut: He directed the company to
commence boring at the spot tlius indicated by
the shedding of his blood, and the work was ac
cordingly commenced. At the depth of 107 feet
water was struck, and has since flowed at the
rate of 1,000 gallons per hour.
in New England also the location of wells is
saitl to be frequently decided by the aid Of the
water-twig. And, moving wditwnrd, we un
told that the Southern Pacific and 1 (' -ntral Pa
cific Railroad Companies have, in crossing arid
plains, be.en glad to avail themselves of the
services of tho divining rod in order to success
fully locate their artesian wells.
Doubtless ere long, this seemingly mysterious
power will be scientifically explained, l-’or the
present, however, it remains among tho number
of unfat homed mysteries, of which a few still
remain, to puzzle our wisest men, and to pro
voke the contemptuous sneers of those who
(forgetting how little our great-grandparents
knew of tho forces of stenfii and electricity and
how certain it is that nature still holds many a
secret which science has as yet failed to dis
cover) believe that w hatever is beyond their
own powers of understanding must necessarily
be foolishness
A Maine Woman’s Horse Trade.
From the Portland, (Me.) Press.
I-ast Saturday Mr. H. F. Thompson, the Cum
berland street livery stable keeper, paid Silt) for
a horse and carriage. He bought the team of a
woman who said sue had no further use for it.
The woman first came to the stable without the
team and proposed the trade. She said the
horse anil carriage were up on Fox -drool. out Mr.
Thompson need not take tho trouble of going tin
there, as site would get tho team etui drive
around to the stable. In about an itotu- the wo
man returned, driving a good-looking liay mm,
and the salo -va? made. Hut the team
had not come from Fox street, for instead of
going there the woman had gone to Haves'
stable,on Plum street,anti there bimltlie leant
Mr. Hayes naturally suspected something
wrong when Ills property was not returned and
notified the authorities that the team was mis
ing. Of course the supposition was that the
team had Iteen driven out of town, but vester
duy Mr llayes was surprised to learn ifiat it
was still in Utis city, and Mr. Thompson was
probably not so agreeably surprised when in
discovered the facts in the case. Mr. Hayes got
his team, hut tho woman and the $llO are
missing. The woman gave the name of Annie
O'Neil. She is about 85 years old, weighs proh
altlv 130 (tounds, is of medium height and light
complexion. Site war. well dressed and said that
blu had lived near the park.
A Story of Topi Moore.
t\om the Poston Courier.
on old lady who used to in- much in London
society relates a touching story of the poet
Moore. On otto occasion when the once brilliant
wit ntid writer was in his old age losing his
memory, the American was asked to sing for a
small contjumy of which he was one Site com
piled with the request and sang: "Believe mo
if all those endearing young charms." The poet
listened with evident pleasure to his fa is and
charming piece, and when the singer finished,
he said with much earnestness:
"Will you please tell me who wrote that beau
tiful song*"
"Why. Mr. Moore," she answered, “you cer
tainly can't expect me to believe that you have
'nrgethm your own work. - ’ The old man re- j
► aided her an instant w ith pathetic look, the j
consciousness of bis infirmity and broken mind 1
evidently forcing Itself upon him Then he |
buried his face in his bands and hurst into tears, j
Tent Moon*, th brilliant, fiery favorite of i.on
'■"it society, could only weep for what hu wasui j
i'i>Mi<uiJirlur 'tuA*. lie L'*l L***av
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It If estimated that there are more than .*>o,-
000 families i>. i/ondon with only oiw room each
to live in.
Tim Knights of Labor Co-operative Clothing
Company. <f Cleveland, lias been incorporated,
with $90,000 capital stock
An old well near Ravenna. 0.. is attracting
attention by blowing hard enough to sound a
big whistle or sucking air in as it takes a notion.
From the May salary c* a New York city
school teacher, who reeciv.es $7OO a year, tbero
was deducted on*, cent liecaus*.* she had one day
been Lardy two minutes.
a real estate agent in Southern California
ic cntly posted tne following notice on a piece
of land: “For Sale Cheap. The Rest Climate
on the Pacific Coast. The Land Thrown In."
The tempe-attire 1.000 feet in Oelauy's cave,
Fayette c unity. Pa., was 17“ while outside
at the same time it was 90° and the w ater from a
spring in .Lo cave was at the coldest
spring water in the country.
V bottle was pi' ked up on the New Jersey
coast the other day which contai eri this sad
message: “bi... miles from shore. John insists
upon a kiss. We cannot float iua*y minutes
longer. Farewell to the world. John insists
upon another. A last farewell.*'
Alaska with its 577.390 square miles, was pur
caa ’ed of Russia in 1807 for $7,290,000. This is
our latest territorial acquisi im. Within eighty
four years we wave obtained by purchase, treaty
and annexation, 9.752.723 square, miles of terri
tory, costing $52,200,000 in cash direct, not con
sidering the cost oi war.
A patriotic ren of tho Lansrshan persuasion,
belonging to Dr. W. If. Richards, of San Lu.s
Obispo, distinguished herself r nd celebrated tho
Fourth of July by successfully presenting her
proud owne* with two eggs on that same day.
The doctor has secured an affidavit of the f u ts
fixu.i the fowl, and proposes to paint her rtd,
white and blue.
The lake in the cave near Beef Slough, Wis.,
was explored recently by C. A. Ward and com
panions. They rowed around the borders of it.
They think they traveled at the* rate of two
miles an hour, and they occupied sixteen hours
making the trip. The lake is fed by a water
fall, whose source is so high that it could not be
seen by the light of the torches.
The walls of a ruined Mexican church at
Grand Quievera, N. M., are three feet thicker at
the top than at the base. It is matter of tra
dition that when the Franciscan friars ab:ui*
boned the pueblo during the revolution of RicO
thev buried the bells and the church treasure,
and up to this time they continue concealed
from the rye of tho treasure-hunter aud the
archeological fiend.
The new high license law of Minnesota has
gone info operation, and the number of salooi s
in Minneapolis is said to have been reduced al
ready from :50 to 150. while the revenue is greet
lv increased. It is too soon to determine as y*t
whether there is more or less dnmkemicss
under the new law than under the old law, but
judging from the results of similar laws else
where there is much less.
An old boarding house mistress, talking at her
table recently about tho household pests, said
that in the caso of flies she uses a ncarecrow.
“Flies," she continued, “are timid, and seem
always to be on tho alert like cocksparrows.
Now, you must have noticed that bread scare
crow -that piece of crust thrust into the butter.
I generally make it three or four inches high,
and stand it up like an obelisk. Flies never go
near a plate of butter so defended."
John Derwixk saw a curious sight up the
bay on Y’riday. says a Quincy (111.) exchange.
He has been here for years and never saw it be
fore. It was some 300 big buffalo fish, each
with its head protruding above the surface of
the water. They remained stationary. Mr.
Derwine thinks that the temperature of the
water was so high that the fish were driven to
seek air to prevent suffocation. This is a good
fish story: all the better from the fact that it is
strictly true.
A STRANGE STORY COITICS ft'OTTl NcwtOU. KflS.
Last week a man with both legs missing ap-
Iwared on the streets begging. He is an old
soldier who has been searching through long
years for the surgeon who amputated his limbs
so that he could secure a pension. Dr. Coleman,
of Newton, noticed the man. and in questioning
him it was discovered that the doctor was the
longiiearched-for army surgeon. The man was
taken care of and will now probably be able to
get a pension.
A 10- year-old boy at Greenwood, Ark., be
came enraged with his mother, went at sunset
to a grove nearby, cl ini lied a tree, and declared
he would roost there all night. His mother
tried in vain for an hour to persuade the kid to
come down. Then she threatened to cut the
tree down, and finally sent for the Town Mar
shal. who climbed thetreei placed a rope around
the youngster's body, and lowered him to the
ground. So great was his yearning to play rac
coon and sleep in the tree-top that he had to be
kept securely fastened in the house all night.
The example set by the University of Penn
sylvania in establishing the Wharton school of
fingfiee and political economy is beginning to
be followed in the South. It is proposed to es
tablish a chair of political economy and social
science in Washington and Lee University,
ington, Va., with ex-Congressman John Ran
dolph Tucker as its occupant. Mr. Tucker wa
at the head of the law school in this institution
when first elected to Congress in 1874, and con
tinued to l>e a member of the faculty througjv
out his twelve years of continuous servic# m
Congress.
The Boston Transcript tolls of a little sehool
boy—a foreigner, who was unable to work a
single exercise that was given to tho whole
school. He was much chagrined at his inability
to handle enough of English to work the exer
cise, and said that he could do it easily enough
in his own language. The teacher told him
with a smile, that he could do it in his own lan
guage jf he preferred. Whereupon he proceeded
to cover both sides of his slate with two alleged
solutions of the exercise, one being written on
one side in Hebrew and the other on the other
side in Russian. The teacher marked him per
fect—at a venture.
In the city of Rennes, in France, they recently
erected a statue in bronze to the great Consta
ble Montmorency. There was no particular rea
son why the good citizens of Renres should
honor the memory of the dead cons*able. The
fever which prevails in France for erecting all
sorts of statues Load sorts of people is catch
ing, and this is the only explanation given. Re
cently it was discovered that the constable was
a strict churchman, and a good deal of an aris
tocrat. A solemn council was held, and they
were about to vote for its removal when a wise
fellow suggested that Rennes had no statue of
Bertrand Duguesclin, a red Republican of the
most, approved sort, and that with another in
scription this statue would answer every pur
pose. The suggestion was adopted, and tne old
statue with anew inscription was duly reinaug
urated.
Whiting from Tashkent! on Juno 12. Jtr.
Wilkins says that the city of Vernoje was com
pletely ruined by the earthquake of Juno !).
More than Hot) is slit's have been excavated. "The
disaster," lie. says. "is beyond description. Mud
ami water are said to thu’v abundantly from the
disturbed mountains to the soeue of the catas
trophe and many crevasses are noticed in tho
ground. Tl| exact time of the tremendous
shock is gbWt nl 4:85 local time. At fits (Tash-
Itend local time) on the some morning, wo felt
here a flat wave which set in motion suspended
Objects. Taking into account the difference of
longitude, bet noen Tashkent! and Vcmoje and
the constspient difference of time. It appears
thal I lie wave traveled in o straight line more
than IlHi miles in the short time of 13.5 minutes,
crossing on the way, in a diagonal direction, the
w hole western half of tho Titian Shan range."
A Frknch writer who know s it all has Iteen
giving his fellow-countrymen some insight into
American politics through that eminently re
liable journal, the harm Fignro, In this fashion:
“The President is now accused of trying tobrihe
the South. Tile most uhsurd siipposiuons are
freelv circulated. Tun removal of the Misistcr
of War has been demanded, and It in the opinion
of every one that this affair will injure,"i\
Cleveland, who has next year to submit i *e
election. The truth ia that tho tiag incident is
only e. pretext. The people are discontented
with Mr. Cleveland not so much an I'resilient,
but as a private individual. This gray haired
statesman Is in love with his wife. The Ameri
cans say that 111 this ho exceeds his rights.
Miss Cleveland, ids sister, last ye at left the
White House I localise young Mrs. Cleveland
had introduced, or rather reintroduced
strong drinks into the Ihvsidentml dining
room. All tile teetotalers then passed
over to file opposition. But this year the Presi
dent has nude other blunders. He lias gone
carp-fishing with Ills wife In a retired corner of
the Mucky Mountains. It is true, however, that
111! the reporters 111 tho United Slates were at
his hwl. Tin* public read every morning in tho
New York papers the place ana hour when the
President last eiubraml his wife. This wan too
much. Tlu> Americans might have pardoned
Mr. (Vwla'id lor having taken eight days'
io.ive tgo \u*p filling Carp can be eaten and
• v °lu. But.to take eight days' ieitve for the pnr-
I***' of fondling his wife in the own air is ron
sid.Ksl utiinopvr for the Chief Magistrate.
1 here is a tinthing?;, and tho Prescient
1 /t* v* . iglit to pUot> hu vulire days in amoixua
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